Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BILL ARP< j^rp Talks of .A: Wow Tol< Atlanta Cot Aj the poet Browning said : "I thought the jlie waa dead, and damn ed," but it GcofflB not. Anderaonville j,ag broken out again. "We thought that our general-Senator Hill-had < killed that whole Anderaonville buei- i oe?S in his masterly reply to Blaine gorae twenty-five years ago. He prov- j ed from the h'ederal records that the ; suffering of thoir soldier boys in that prison was the sin, the crime, the i shanie of Stanton, who refused to ex- , change with us and refused to send medicine and supplies for their sick. We did the very best we could and < gome honest Northern soldiers have go written and published in Northern i papers. But ever and anon the same old lie breaks loose again, and now j they have started a new one about a i gpring-the V Providence spring," I whioh they Bay gushed forth from the i ground just in time to save their sol- i di era from perishing for lack of water. Arid they are spending money in in? closing and beautifying the grounds around the spring. The contemptible i liars. Seores of .good old men still live < who knew of that spring away baok in ; the 40's when Andersonvilio was a wilderness and the spring was known a a deer stand. YOB,, it was a Provi dence spring? for Providence oreated ; it, and all the other aprings when . He made the continent and tho rivera and mountains. Andersonvilio never lacked water and was selected for a prison because of the abundance of water, and that little spring was of no consequence, for it ran only about thirty gallons an hour, which -would be les H than half a gill a day to the prisoners. The spring was covered up by the hands when ditching for the ?toekade and its water found some other-channel and broke out again af ter a big rain and that's all there is about it. No Providence spring 1 Those everlasting liars are Just hunt ing np some more devilment. This ?pring business is another Barbara Frietchie delusion gotten up to keep . the Northern heart in tune and.fire up Goldwin Smith to write some .more historio lies about the South.. But v "whom the Lord loveth .He obaston . eth," and our faith ia that He doves . ?ar people very much or . He would . sot chasten us so rauoh and ao long with these vile slanders. "Aod ? laid in wine haste all men aro .liars," said David. If he had Jived up North in oar day he might have said it at his j irisare. We are getting so accustom ed sad so hardened to their e^a?gor?- '< .tico and prevarication ah&t ^vge ^pn't believe thea when they tell the ?'-v?ith. History says that israel Putnam mwled io a eave and killed a wolf. I ?HSed to believe that, bat 1- doubt it aow since Goldw?n Smith has set up Benedict Arnold as a hero. Provi dence spring- what a lie! Bat our veterans are elearing up this history business sad our tesohers had better be very careful what they teach. I never did understand until recently why Maury's geography was mied out of so many oohools and Frye's was put in. There is some bribery in this school book business. Money is paid to school commission era, or teachers, or some outside law yers for their influence. Last year a teacher high in office at Knoxville waa expelled for accepting a bribe and I have heard it charged that a lawyer in Atlanta got big mon *J for booming a book into the public whoo!*. Mouey rules the roost in ?wry calling, and there is a money lob behind the Anderaonville bust' oe?a. Providence spring! Oh, my country, what does providence have to do with thoae fellows oxcept to loC them ruo their oourse. "I have seen ^0HflHQHSR8H&flH9^Hli8HBEB I This is WICKLE - Maje also ^ ?fi ia foer j ?a W larger sizes. 8 I 'Sold I i i fit* *?? > LETf ER. I adersonville Stories 5 fl ? >f0MM? - U: i st i tit don. ' " the wicked prosper ' like a green bay tree," says David. AD old darky heard me say, "I wonder what makea the Lord smile OD old Jim Wilkins so. Jim is as meau as a dog, bat every trade he makes and everything he touches torus into money. He "is getting richer and richer every year." The old darky Baid: "Why, bsBS, de Lord hain't got anything to do wid Jim Wilkins. Lord haint notioin him. Lord duo. "Ive him up lang time ! ugo. Dat'a why he gittiu rich-old debil ar runnin him." Providence spring. But it is migh ty strange to me that the Northern people will let G old wi a Smith scandal izo the founders of our government. I thought that everybody North and South idolized Washington and Jeffer son and Madison and Monroe. I thought that everybody outside of Massachusetts was prond of Patrick Henry and Randolph and Henry Clay. ? didcot know that Benedict Arnold had an admirer or an apologizer North or South or in Eoglaad or anywhere. I dident know .hal Goldwin Smith was such a conspicuous historian un til this last history .appeared. It ap pears that he is a great favorite in England and Canada and ia a contri butor to the leading magazines and co editor of an English cyclopedia. But we are making progress. Prov idence spring! Those yankees say that just in the nick of time when hope was nearly gono and despair had set in for want of water. Providence uphoaved the ground and the water gushed forth like it did when Moses struck the rook with his rod. Mr. Pillsbury, of Amerieus, an honorable veteran, was there on guard and says the whole thing is a made up lie, and it can be proved so by many old citi zens of Sumter County. Wo will have to nail that And /Bonville lie to a board and put it up at the forks of the r -ad. We will brand it when we meet at Memphis. 1 want to meet Colonel John Cussons there and thank him for his little book. I want every v?t?ran to hav.e one. The price is only 25 cents, and it is worth ten tiroes that much to have it in the house and refer to it sometimes when we get cassia mad. Providence spring! I'm .going to see if I can't,heat my nabors, Cary and Yarbr'ough nud Corley and Mrs. Piclds, raising tomatoes. ?Mr. Corley has i put out only sis: plants and says shay will give:him twenty bushels of fruit. Mr. Yarbrough, the,preacher, bas six planta- Ho dog six wells about two feet deep and.filled them ap with all sorts of fertile and says he will have a wagon load. Last year he had eight on one stem-all touching eash other, and the eight weighed twelve pounds!! I've seen .tue photo graph. I've got out 1U0 .plants and am not done yet, and they laugh at me, hat I want a load or two to give away. My garden must keep me busy. It won't do to sit dova and brood over trouble and slander and lies. I pick strawberries every day, but I'm not fond of the basinesn. Have to stoop too much anditgives me the bookcoho. I'm the only boy left and my folks keep me very busy. BliUL AlRP. CASTOR ?A For Infants and Cki&fren. . Tba Sind You Hara Always Bought Bears the Signature of - Rhode Island tums out about one divorce tn avery eight marriages. the Sma FiaroeOlL Wisdom of the Hen. A fresh egg has the yelk perfectly balanced in the middle of the white. Uoless it remains thus baluuced the chances are decidedly against ita hatching. Brooding hens\ind?W-Htand that. When filling the; n?sV a hen turcs over.nil the eggs in it before abo quits it after layingnew one. ..' ^ She knows, two, that in hot weather the sun will addle her eggs, so s?ie cheeses a shady nest spot.. 'But in winter a nest is often mado where' thc fullest, aunshino streams into il. Brooding ia throughout fall of quaint surprises. Eggs will hatch if kept at blood heat, 98 degrees. Bot they hatch more certainly and tnrc out stronger chicks if the temperature IRA iiflffrpo nr ;n highs?. Just h G VT ?* is done, nobody koowa, but mother hens some way contrive to niau the normal heat of their bodies to the requisito, pitch. Further, they a tri j iuu whoie breast nf feathers, so the eggs may have tho benefit of full heat, twice a day they torn over every egg in the nest, cuddling them separately up underneath their, beaks, making little soft half fretful chuckling noipef the while. Hens are mest uncalculating egg stealers. All eggs in'' sight will be drawn into the nest, though the stoles eggs may crowd out those legitimately there. Still, in a way, hens take stock of what they brood;' With feT eggs, they sit prim, with trimly fold ed wings. With too many'they sprawl all over the neat, wingsTdoao enough to let light between the feathers, and frequently tarn themselves about roce hing for uncovered eggs and draw ing them underneath the breast. A hen of average size oannot profit ably cover more than fifteen eggs. In oold weather thirteen is a bettei limit, although in midsummer thc Bame hen might brood and hatch twenty. Left to themselves, the un checked instinct of egg stealing witb he?8 is apt to result ibi a nest full ol spoiled eggs, with maybe one or two feeble chicks. Twenty-four hours of brooding makea hardly a perceptible change in an egg. Sometimes in warm weathei there ia the least reddish tinge beside the whitish clot in which tho germ lies. After thirty-six hours the olot shows a well-defined drop of very red blood. In two days the blood drop has spread to veins and arteries. At the end of ten days the head is fairly well formed, though the trunk is still ragged. In two weeks the chiok it recognizable as a ohiok, and if thc shell envelope ii broken will quivei all/through and feebly move the head. It has, however, no vestige of thc downy coat it will wear a little later. The coat forms rather rapidly. The period of i no uh -a? ion for a ohiok en is twenty-one day & and for two dayl before leaving the shell the yonnj fowl is practically perfect. Yet it would not live were the shell f orcibl j removed. It spends the last two dayl gathering vital force to .mak? its owi way ont into the worid. It lies anuj -within the shell, the head bent opoi ? the breast in suoh a position as brio j the beak full against tbs shell. The beak is armed with a tiny de tachable piece of horn, flint hard ant set upon thc very tip of the uppei mandible. At fnll hatching tim? tu o chick presses this triangle again s .the brittle shell and breaks a triangh hole in it, possibly a quarter of ai inch,aer?se. An hour later the chick having turned itself slightly, presset the break against a new spot and makei a fresh break. As more air comes ix the little creature grows stronger. I writhes still more strongly in its pris on, taming always from left to right in two hours or ten it breaks tho shel in two and slips out into thc nest, i wet and weary sprawler. Egg prrduotion varies enormously A hen's capacity is about 400 eggs divided pretty equally through th? first three years of her existence. Neto York Sun. -- A wife ' is either a man's <bes ; posession or his very worst. The Transmission of Pow*. Thc utilization of thu vast power of Niagara Fails, saya the Boston Her ald, is a feature of the first interest ot the Buffalo Exposition. The power i? employed at short rango, but proves what oau bo achieved in the transmis sion of ?force. ' Tho consumption of coal in generating electricity ia extra vagant, and the more sd when the fuel . has to bo transported long distances for uso. Water takes its place at Niagara and tho supply is not only less expensive, but is literary inex haustible. It is not diminished in ' any degree;- by use. In California, , again, there is an interesting demon stration of how far power so obtained can be carried for economical use. At , Oakland the stfee? '?irs are now oper ated by electricity generated by the Yuba River-140 miles distant-and it is stated that the loss in tran a tn i s I sion is"not moro than 5 per cent." There would obviously, tho Herald auggests, be a vast saving of electric ; power instead if coal could be carried r from the coal beds generally of tho ; country to the places where coal is i now burnt to develop its power, and this appears to be feasible, and there I is no prospect of exhaustion of tho i beds for many years; but it is better i yet, because economical, to utiliee t the power of rivers where the force of i their current and other conditions r makes this practicable. That source of power, doubtless, I will be more and more utilised every i year and to the fullest extent in time. 1 Many falla and ahoalshave been "hor ; nessed" already and are driving thous ands of wheels more or less remote from the riversides, where the electric . current is generated and sent on its , way to translate the roar of the rapids' > into the hum of machinery. The ex > perts are thinking and working night i- and day at the problem of economical - transmission to longer and longer dis i ?anees, and their success is running f oars in Oakland by farce derived from i a river 140 miles away, shows that they have thought and worked to good ; purpose. Their success at Oakland, we may coufidentally believe, does not . measure the limit of their possiblo achievement. The 140 miles will i presently be stretched to 200, 300 i 500-possibly a thousand. The effect i ive range of gunpowder force has been > extended in a few years from two or , three miles to twenty miles. Who r shall limit the raoge of the subtler and I more po werf uL.f orce? i The present practical view of the ? matter is of as much interest, however, f as the theoretical one. If electric power can be transmitted in large i volume 140 miles in California so eco nomically as to make it available for industrial uses, it oan be so transmit . ted in other parts of the country, i And in such conditions every oity or j town in the country that can command - the power of a considerable waterf ul r within 150 miles of its limits will i have a source of cheap and unfailing i power that will be forever available r for its servies, development and en I riehment. Such a power as that at r Columbia, for example, would be as -Triable for service in Charleston - ? less than 150 miles distant-as in Co I lumbia itself, the loss in transmission r being enly 5 per cent. With the ex ? tension of the electric range to only t 300 miles, any great aster power in 3 *A\e State would be practically brought i to our doors for industrial uses. , We suggested, some time ago, that it might well prove to be to the in terest of Charleston if its capitalists and business men would take steps to obtain and bold control of ono or mere of the great water powers far in the interior of tho State. Tho report of Oakland's experience with Buoh a power, and the comments of the Boa ton paper thereon, go to show that the suggestion was amiss.-Xe iv s mid Courier. Kindheartedness. The gingham-shirted boy had made a break to pass tho tioket seller at the circus entrance, but that gentle man had caught him and rudely thrust him back. "INjor little devil," said a seedy looking man in thc crowd. "Tf T h nd tho money I'd buy him a ticket my self." Tho crowd looked sympathetic, but Haid nothing, while thc boy sobbed as if his heart would dissolve. "I've only got a nickel, little feller." went on thc seedy-looking ono, "an' that wont do you no good. Say," he continued, turning suddenly to the orowd, "lets do oue good aot in our lives. Leta buy him a ticket." It looked for a minute as if a col lection was to be started, but a benev olent-looking old gentleman nipped it in tho bud by slipping a half-dollar into the hand of the boy, who prompt ly disappeared into the tent. "? thank you a thousand timos for that kind aot, tir,7 said the seedy-look ing man. "You seem to take, quite an interest in the little fellow," remarked the benevolent man. "Well, I should think I ought to," answered the seedy looking man, proudly. "That's the only son I got!" .Exchange.. - Women as a rule are willing to shut up when money gets ready to talk. *** AN ECLIPSE Ot the 6un throws.? dirk shadow orv 'th? cann. So it ts with the human body when disease shuts out the Jight of health and happiness. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS |a an antidote for all diseases which attack the Sud my?. Liver, Stomach or Bowels. lt drives out constipated conditions, restores, functional activity and regularity. MAUI?. ?ure Stood, woos) Digestion* People who have used it say it ts their mein reliance for keeping the body healthy. < SOU) AT CRUCCItTt. Prico, ?i.OO. ancux mon. . wwi) a? inwnMM>?tim? a? ft* aaa OMI* ?aa M aw? a* . ?rta?. li ki oat MMN Evans Pharmacy, Special Agents. Why not Enjoy Riding When You Go ? You cauuot do it iu an old, rattling? r ?ugh-riding Buggy, but you can enjoy it when you ride ou the wings of the celebrated GOODYEAR TI rv E. You have no noiee. no rough roads when you have E/UBBEB TIRES. Why not join the many who now enjoy the pleasure given them by using the Rubber Tires. Call ou us and let us show you the advantage of ming them Church Street. Opposite Jail. _FRANK JOHNSON & CO. M. Li. CARLISLE. L- H. CARLISLE COTTOIT I .Will soon be ready to thin out, and we want to remind you that we have got the best line of HOES that you ever used, made out of the best Trowel Steel. We have contracted for enough of them for every man, woman and .child in Anderson County. Come to sec us beforo you buy. Side Harrows, Terrill and Roman-take your chorno. Patent Sweeps and old-fashion Sweeps. Heel Bolts that will not strip, (?rain (.'radica with the best Steel Blades-Counts and'Josh Berry- none better. Don't forget to look at our Buffalo Pitts All Steel Spring Flexible Hull Bearing Disc Harrow. We are still selling Patent Flour at $4 00. Sugar, Coffee, Bacon, &c, at the market price. Try a 10-gu?on Keg of our Georgia Cane Syrup at $3.50. CARLISLE BROS , Anderson. H. C. LYON'S French Periodical Drops Strictly vegetable, perfectly harmless, sure to accomplish DESIRED RESULTS. Greatest known female remedy. f AllTlfltJ Beware of counterfeits and Imitations. Tho jennine la put op only lo paste-board Car WaWIIVn ton with fac-slmlle altrnature on bide of tho bottle, thus: -^o>? <W>&>^KM> Bend for Circular io WILLIAMS HFO. CO., Solo Agonta. Cleveland. Oblo. ^W???g5qpBg^y Fox* Sale B>y Wvans 2?li.n.x*mrvoy. Anderson, ts*. G. Piano purchasers I I have a new lot of the latest style?. I can s-we yon from 875 00 tn ?100.00 in the pureba** of a Piano. ORGANS from $27 00 up. NEW HOME SEWING WAr HINES from 828 50 to 830.00. tt*T* Remember the place-next door to Peoples Bunk. After you have tried around get my prices. ' You will eave money by doing this. . ]TI. 1,. WILLIS. With Proof to convict the man who said we .were GIVING AWAY PIANOS AND ORGANS. WE arc selling eo LOW aud ou such EASY terms that there was eome reason in the report. But we must insist that it is, to a certain extent, a mistake. Next tinie you come to town drop in and shake hands with us. You kuow wc handle 8EWING MACHINES also. THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. WE WA KT YOUR W5FE To seo the pretty new arrivals in our China Ware Department. CAN WE Not sell her a new supply for Spring ? Our prices are very low. At least HAVE HER Come in. She will enjoy looking at the pretty and novel things for the year 1901. A Well Furnished Home Is not necessarily an expensively furnished one, as nt TOLLY'S hand some, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay. Not that wo deal in knocked-together, made-tosell sort, but because we are content with a reasonable profit on really good articles of Furniture. Our best witness is the Goods them selves. Yours truly,. Gk F. TOLLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Taepot St., Anderson, B. C. Stove WE can give them to you at any price, and any kind that you want. We have a good No. 7 Stove with 27 pieces of ware for 87.75. We have a big lot of IRON KING and ELMO STOVES which you know are the best Stoves on the market. Now we just want to speak to you one word about our HEATING STOVES, Especially nb.ut our Air Tight Heater, which you know is the greatest heater on eerth. If you would see one of them in use or try one of them, you would not have anything else. And just look at the price-they cost almost noth ing-only 81.75 up to 86.00. We want to call your attention to our big Stock of Tinware, Glassware and Crockery. Now wo have juBt got too much of this and it must be sold, so we lus want you to come and loi?k aud let UH price you through. We have nome of the prettiest pieces of Odd * hina you ever saw. Would make nice Wedding, Birthday and Christmas Presents. Now we are just opening up the biggest line of TOYS y?u ?ver saw We want you to come round nnd bring the children and let them see a grand sight in Toys. And remember that all of these Gooda must be sold at some price be tween now and the 25th day of December. Come now while you can get a good selection of everything. Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE. OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR, WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for all KINDS of GRAIN, Three Thousand Bushels of TEXAS RED RUST PROOF OATS. One Car of that famous HENRY OAT (or Winter Grazing Oat/) The only Oat that will positively stand any kimi of weather. Have just received Two Cars of fine FEED O VTS at lowest prices. Have just received Three Cars of RICE FLOUR for fattening your hogs, and it comes much cheaper than uny other feed and is much better. Yours respectfully, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO.