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? SARGE P The Sound of the Th Lt I _____ Atlanta I The sound of the thrasher is now in the land; and there'll be dumplings for the chicken and crust for the berry pies without running to town for the flour, j No man in our neck of the woods I__ -: -1> ? In /inmnUtn Tl. ?j >o 11 u a au j ? -o - - ?.??.-.j..-.-. - -.** one time that a good wheat crop does not mean a sorry oat crop-this sel dom happens, and so the most ohronio grumbler finds it bard to find any ob jection with the seasons of 1901 up to the presont writing. The truth is that the present harvest has seemed to have more of the good old times in it than anything we have noticod for years. Even the girls hunted for .par tridge eggs along with the reapers and some of them got their aprons ! full. One pretty girl that wo know found eighty-seven eggs in one nest and this was something like old times. Of course all the girls did not find eggs, hut these joined in lamenting over the passing of the birds from what they used to be and secured tho promise that hereafter they would give no en couragement to the destruction of birds, either for plumes or otherwise. And those failing to find a.patridge nest was most sure to sidle up to one of the reapers now and then with an apron full of nioe large dewberries, and before she returned to her hunt after nests you could sea tie young man with her hand in his trying to pick a briar or treadsalve from one of her fingers. Perhaps this sort of thing delayed the work of harvesting just a little, but it went to spice the occasion with a sweetness that must be felt to be understood. As old as 1 am, I can look back and say that there are pre cious few Bweeter things than to hold a pretty girl's hand and pick out a briar from her finger. The signs are all good in this neck of the woods for girls and boys to soon understand that a life on the farm is not the hard and pleasureless thing that they heard it was. Of course a few fools will still insist that "opportunity" lies in the towns and respectability in the profess ions, but these fools will go and low er the inteileotual standard of the professions and raise the intellectuali ty cf oountry folks by their absence till the world will look for the man with the hoe and the .girl of the ooun try home, when it .is out in search of brain and brawn of the highest and most precious quality. This is oom iog to be, and it will be quicker than you imagine, when tobe a farmer is the highest title of a gentleman, and tho women of these.oountry homes will be the "ladies ' of the land. But the thrasher--even ?now I hear the zoon of one of Brown's and the whistle of the little engines are sound ing far and near. Ic'on'tJike these little old engines. It strikes me as something irreverent to God's great plans to have one of these little old engines tooting around on the hot and barren hills drawing custom from the cool and inviting water mills that sit in such delightful nooks along the streams. So it is-give one of these engineers a barrel ox water and a cord of wood and he will grind more corn and furnish more power than the prettiest mill sites in Georgia, aad the smallest among them can make more fuss than the1 falls of Niagara sod not half try at that. Things all work in God's own way,. I reckon. Sf you had told a farmer fifty years ago that a wheat crop could have been thrashed j$a? carried to mill without the use of oxen he would have thought you crazy. An or was s big thing in the olden harvest times. A yoke of oxen was absolutely indis pensable in getting the wheat out of the field and away to some ginhouse where the thrashers were then located. Bless you, a common old Georgia ox is only fit for the poorest peopio of thc towns to eat now. 1 venturo that ther? hasn't been a piece of Gcorgia rai.sed beef eaten on Peachtree street in Atlanta in twenty years. Bich folks turn up their noses Et a Georgia Or in this day, and there is no use for him in other ways, and eo he is a thing of the past, just as the mule and tho horse are doomed to be. This is wonderful for an old man to contem plate, but it comes easy with the young. Tho change has been made seemingly so easy that our old-time ?nys seem but a joke to the yoothfn;. A few of the younger set have a pot horse or c pet mule that imbues the feeling that the horse is a noble aoi m?-l and niau owes him a debt cf grati tude, but we old-timers had carpets among the steers and we little thought then that our affections, much less our business interest, would ever find entirely indifferent to th? f*t? of oxen, but so it has cornr and so will ?orne the fate of the mulo aod tho horse. While, wo old folks say "noth >ng about these things that have slip ped away, yet wo,think, abont it, and Ml IN Rh I I, irasher is Heard in the md. lonat?tution. the world is no hotter from the change, but I am not one of those. ?I can remember when people only had bisouit-once or twiee a week. If children in old times got wheat bread on Sunday for breakfast, they were doing pc?crful Now ?hey get it threo times a day if they want it. This all evens up. The children now don't care for biscuit and must have other things to hire it along. In old times when they did got it on Sunday it was such a treat that they didn't need anything to hire it along. It was enough by itself, and so wags the world, till, at last, I am of the opinion that it is not what we used to be nor what we are going to be, but what we are right now thai should agitate our consideration and should call for our best effort lo bring peaoe and pleasure to those among us and prepare the way for the great hereafter, where our changes will cease and all fickleness be gone. So far as the thrasher is concerned, we have nothing to say against it. Its coming, as they do oome now, is an agreeable change from the other farm work, especially with the children. We know it was to come very soon, hut we dident know exactly what day nor what hour-it might come fifteen minutes before dinner, breakfast or supper, or at midnight. Its coming ?B very uncertain-and its going away is not about the hour of meal time, unless they know their ground and aro sure of getting a better meal at the other place-verily these thrashers do have an eye for the stomach cravings. But me and Brown profited by the un certainty of their coming. We were pretty sure of the day, but thought they would be there for break fast, and so wc got a thrasher's break fast. Then we were sure they would be on hand for dinner, and so we got a thrasher's dinner. But they did come in time for supper. The child ren were out in the road watching for them and just before me and Brown had got our tooths on the supper, here came the children crying that the "thrashers are coming." This was not ezaotly aa Brown and I would have had it, but we knew that we would get a good breakfast besides the sapper ?nd BO we joined the rest in the wel come. 1 h rashers are workers as well as eaters. They were stirring early in the morning. The rattle and burtle of getting ready was only an appetizer, or so thought the cook, and me and Brown were there. The cooks tried to ?get us to wait till the thrashers were through before we ate breakfast, but you may know that we were en tirely too stn&rt for that-we eat with the thrashers and eat as much as they and then we took pains to leave thc dining . room along with them-we knew better than to stay, at least Brown did. But all is well that ends well-the wheat is ready for milling and we all thank the Lord for a year's bread that is in it. SARGE PLUNKETT. Cursa Blood and Skin Troubles. TRIAL TREATMENT FREE.-Is your biood poor ? Is it thin? Nose bleed ing and headache? Pricking pains in the skin? Skin pale? Skin feel apt and swollen? All run down? Is your blood bad? Have you Pimples? Eruc tions? Scrofula? Eating ?ores? Itch ing, burning ?zema? Boils? Ulcers? Cancer? Scaly Eruptions? Skin or Scalp Itch? Blood, Ha ir or Skin hu mors? Tired out with aohes and pains in bones and joints? Have you he reditary or contracted Blood Poison? Ulcers in throat or mouth? Swollen glands? Bhenmatism? As tired in morning as when yon went to bed ? Have they resisted medioal treatment? If you have any of the above troubles B.B.B. (Botanic Blood Balm) should be taken at onco. B.B.B, has a pecu liar effect-different from any other blood medicine-it drains the impuri ties, poisons and humors that cause all above troubles out of tho blood, bones and entire system, healing every sore, restoring to the skin the bloom of per fect health and making new. rich blood. Trial treatment of B.B.B, free by addressing Blood Balm Com pany, 380 Mitchell St., Atienta, 6a. Describo your trouble, and we will in-' dude free medical advice. B. B. B. never fails to cure quickly and perma nently, after all fails. Thoroughly tested for thirty years. Over 3,000 voluntary testimonials of cures by B.B.B. Hill-Orr Drug Co., Wilhite & Wilhite, and Evans Pharmacy. - Carrie-?'The time Fred called he vas very tender. He assur ed me I w?s his first iove.:; Bess "That's something, to be sure, but last evening he told me I was his latest love." . - Women are Buoh a puzzle to men because they are so much of ? puzzle to themselves. You Knew What Toa Are Taking When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonio because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle showing that it is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless .'orrs. No Cure, No Pay, oOo. The Story of HQ O?d Grecavi?fc Tragedy. "There still stands in Main street, G ree n vii) r , S. C., the ancient red brick oonrt house of Greenville coun ty, in whioh the immortal William L. ( Yancey was tried, cou vio ted and sen tenced for the manslaughter of Rob ertson Earle, then the head of the famous Karie family of South Caro lina. That occurred about fifty years ago, though I forget the exact date, and I haven't got DuBose's 'Life of Yancey' within reach at the moment," said a traveler last night. "While I was in Greenville recently a member of the Karie family, a learn ed young lawyer modestly proud of his illustrious race, related to me what i accepted as a family version of that famous tragedy, and he said it had never been in print. ?s the story ran, Yancey, then a practicing lawyer, was at that time a taciturn but snmnmiioi high-iempcrcd and impetu ous man when aroused, and was easily aroused at all ti mu s. His friend Earle's son, a young boy, one day offered Yancey very offensive rude ness in the publie street, and Yan cey thoughtlessly struck the boy a mild blow. "In a moment Yancey regretted the act, though feeling that he had just cause for it, and he sought Earle and told him the circumstances, saying that he was greatly provoked. His sense of propriety, he said, required him to seek the father of the boy and tell him the story in person. "Earle answered in friendly spirit and said it was all right with him; that he could easily understand how his son's conduct as related by Yan cey might provoke a gentleman. Thc two men separated on most amiable terms. That occurred in the morn ing. "At noon Earle went home to his midday dinner, according to custon: that prevails still in Greenville, anc to his astonishment he found Mrs Earle in a high state of excitement The boy had gone home and told th( mother about Yancey having struol him, and she was passionately angry It seems that at first Earlo sought tc soothe his wife, but she played upon his feelings and soon got him wrought up in anger against Yancey. Finall; his wife demanded that he should g< down town and have it out with Yan coy. He armed himself and went Nobody ever yet doubted the eour ago of an Earle. "Earle found Yancey at a famoui tavern within a few paces of the cour house, on the site now occupied bj the Greenville Daily News building and a violent quarrel arose at one Almost instantly Yancey drew a pic toi and shot Earle dead. "It was ono of the greatest sense tiona in the history of a State famou for sensational tragedies. Yance was indicted, tried and eonvioted c manslaughter, and sentenoed to a teri of imprisonment. After getting ou of his trouble he removed to Alabami settling in the neighborhood of Moni gomery, and almost at once began the extraordinary career of political acth ity whioh more than any other indiv: dual force caused the disastrous wi between the States, the result of whio he was not to live to seel "The old courthouse in Greenvill is a small two-story structure of re brick, and with ila walls four feet i thickness it is as substantial now t it was when built more than a oentur ago. ' '-Birmingham Age-Herald. The Best Remedy for Stomach and Bowel Troubles. "I have been in the drug busine? for twenty years and have sold moi all of the proprietary medicines of an note. Among the entire list I hav never found anything to equal Okas berlain's Colic, Chol?ra and Diarrhoe Remedy for all stomach and bow troubles." says O. W. Wakefield, ? Columbus, Ga. "This remedy ourc two severe oases bf cholera morbus i my family, and I have reoommendc and sold hundreds of bottles of it I my oustomers to their entire satisfa tion. It affords a quiok and snre eui in a pleasant form." For sale t Hill-Orr Drug Co. - O?T of the latest inventions is a imitation vaccination soar that ye can paste on your arm and thus fo the health officer. The scar 'costs dime. If your brain won't work right ac you miss thc snap, vim energy thi was once yours, you should tal Prickly Ash Bitters. It cleanses tl system and invigorat e both body at brain. Evans PharL.aoy. - Tho largest Bible in the world said to be one in the possession of German lady. It is too feet six i nein long and 20 inches wide. It is ov< 200 years old. Dc you want a sound liver, vigoroi digestion, strong healthy kidneys, r gularity in the bowels? Take Prick Ash Bitters. It has the medical pro er ti es that will produce- this resul Evans Pharmacy. - Love is tho only universal thing in the world. It is what a youth looks forward to and all a; looka hc.??L- AI-?. During last May uu infant child our neighbor was suffering from ehol ra infantum. The doctors had giv< np all hopes of recovery. I took bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Chole and Diarrhoea Remedv to the hom telling them I felt sure ii would < good if used according to direction In two days timo the child had ful reoovored. The child is now vigoro and healthy. I have recommend this remedy frequently and have nov known it to fail.-Mrs. Curtis Bak< Bookwalter, Ohio. Sold by Hill-C Drug Co. The Boy That Was Scalrt O' Dying. Once there was a boy that was dreadful scairt o' dy in'. Some folks is that way, you kuow; they ain't never done it to know how it feels, and they're so air t. And this boy was that way. He wa'u't very rugged, his health was sort o' slim, and mebbe that made him think about s cob th in 2? more. 'T any rate, he was terr'ble soairt o' dyin'. 'Twas a long time ago, this was-the times when posies aad creatures could talk so 's folks could know what they was say ju'. Aud one day, as this boy, his name was Reuben-I forgot his other name as Reuben was Settiu' under a tree, an ell um tree, cryin', he h cered a little nit of a voice-uui squeaky, y?u k?O?, but small and thin and soft like-and he see 'twas a posy talkin'. 'TWPB one o' them posies they call Benja mins, with three-cornered whitey b!???th? with a mite o' pink on 'em, and it talked in \ kind o' pinky-white voice, and it says, "What you cryin' for, Reuben?" And he says, "'Cause I'm scairt o' dyin'," says he; "I'm dreadful scairt o' dyin'." ! Well, what do you think? That i posy jest laughed-the most cur's lit tle pinky-white laugh 'twas-and it says, the Benjamin says: "Dyin' ! Soairt o' dyin' ! Why, I die myself j every single year o' my life." "Die yourself!" says Reuben. "You're foolin' ! you're alive this minute." " 'Course I be," ssys the Benjamin; "but that's neither here nor there I've died every year since I can re member." "Don't it hurt?" says the boy. "No, it don't," says the posy; "it's real nice. You see, you get kind o' tired a holdin' up your head straight and lookin' pert and wide-awake, and tired o' thc sun shinin' 10 hot, and the winds blowin' you to pieces, and the bees a-*akin' your honey. So it's nice to feel sleepy and kind o' hujg I your head down, and get sleepier and I sleepier, and then find you're droppin' I off. Then you wake up jest't tho ? niocst time o' the year, and como up and look round, and-why, I like to die, I do." But someways that didn't help Reu ben much as you'd think. "I ain't a posy," he thinks to himself, and mebbe I wouldn't come up." Well, another time he was settin' on a stone in the lower pastur' cryin' again, and he heered another cur'us little voice. 'Twa'n't like the posy's voice, but 'twas a little woolly, soft, fuzzy voice, and he see 'twas a cater pillar a-talkin' to him. And the cat erpillar says, in his fuzzy little voice, he says, "What you cryin' for, Reu ben?" And the boy he says, "I'm powerful scairb o' dyin', that's why," he says. And that fuzzy caterpiller he laugh ed. "Dyin' !" he says. "I'm 'lottin' on dyin* myself. All my fam'ly," he says, "die every once in a while, and when they wake up they're jest splen did-got wings and fly about, and live on honey and things. Why, I wouldn't miss it for anything!" he says. "I'm 'lottin' on it." But somehow tba. didn't chirk up Reuben muob. "I ain't a caterpil lar," he says, "and mebbe I wouldn't wake up at all." I Well, there was lots o' other things ! talked to that boy and tried to help I him-trees and posies and grass and crawlin' things, that was allers a ? nether line of Sample To arrive tais week, See them, for if ' Shoe at a small cost. HEAVY LINE STAT SHOES, I At the closest price* you ever bought tl FLOUR, COFFI We won't say what we can do for you, self. We are Yours w D. V. NDIV HR. J. J. \ Vandi er Br If you want a Fine, Medium o: Buf We can sell it to you and save you moi Fancy Young Men's Buggies to be foui We have a large stock of "BIRD! At lowest prices. y SST We eeii the PLANO MOW! eoe them. Your trade appreciated. VANDIVBR B am PENNYRQYA of menstruation." Thej womanhood, aiding de known remedy for won A becomes a pleasure. S: ?*" liv rirnmrj&M^ DIL. ??( Wo*- f?al** tty SZ^raxxs. r=?i dyin' atid livin* and livin' and dyin'. Rc ul ou thought it didn't help him any, but I guess it did a little mite, for he couldn't help thiokin* o' what they 9very one on 'em said. But he was soairt all the same. And one summer he began to fail up faster and faster, and he got so tired he couldn't hardly hold his head up, but he was scsirt all the same. And one day he was loyin' on the bed, and lookin' out o' the east winder, and the sun kop' a shinin' in his eyes till he shot 'em up, aud fell fast asleep. He had a real good nap, and when he woko, he went out to take a walk. And ho begun to think o' what the posies and trees and creatures had said about dyin' and how they laughed ?t lus bein' ???i?t ul ti, aud he says to himself, "Why, someways I don't feel so scart to-day, but I s'pose I be." Aud just then what do you think ho done? Why, he met an angel. He never seed ooo afore, but he knowed it right off. And the angel says, "Ain't you happy, little boy?" And Reuben says: "Well, 1 would be, only I'm BO dreadful Hcairt o' dyin'. It must bc terr'ble cur'us," he says, "to be dead." And the angel says, "Why, you be dead." And he was.-Annie Trum bu.ll Slosson in Story-Tell. Lib. Resented lt. Two men zigzagged unsteadily down Long street the other night. It was a case of "united we stand, divided wo ?all." At length No. 1 came up against a pole and held fast. No. 2 tried in vain to pull him forward. Then No. 1 became impatient at the other's ob stinacy and spoke very frankly: "Shay, you're-hie-you're a shump -thash whut you are! I've sen worse men in-hio-you in jail!" This was more than No. 2 could stand. He felt that his honor as a gentleman had been sullied, and, bracing himself stiffly, he replied with spirit: "If you shay you've-hie-seen worse men 'n me in jail, why-hie you'ro a liar, thash what you ara!" - Ohio Stair Journal. -m m> mm - Heartburn. When the quantity of food taken is too large or the quality too rich, heart burn is likely to follow, an ? especially so if the digestion has been weakened by constipation. Eat slowly and not too freely of easily digested food. Masticate the food thoroughly. Let six hours elapse between meals, and when you feel a fullness and weight in the region of the stomach after eat ing, indicating that you have eaten 'too muoh, take one of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and the heartburn may be avoided. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co._ - Eve probably made the snake mighty mad, only he didn't let on, by telling him she knew he had a good heart, even though he pretended to bc suoh a cynic. When you want a modern, up-to-date physio, try Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price, 25o. Samples free at Hill-Orr Drug Co's, store. - When a man hates another man the worst, it is for the least reason; when a woman loves a man thc best it is when he is the least worthy. To Cure A Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to oure. E. W. Grove's sig nature is on each box. 25o. ? Shoes we have your size you can get a fine 'LE DEY GOODS, ?ATS, ftc., hem. If you need SE or TOBACCO but ask that you call and see for your ith regards, VANDIVER BROS. IAJOR. E. P. VAN DIV KR. os. & Major. r Cheap y . ney. We have the nobbiest line of id, and want to show them to you. 3ELIVS and "WHITE HICKORY' ?OnS ER and BINDER, and want you to ROTHERS & MAJOR. L|||I I ft They overcome Weak 1*1 ^'ness. irregularity and I ILil*w omissions, increase vifr or and banish "pains r aro "LIFE SAVERS" to girls at velopment of organs and body. No len equals them. Cannot do barm-lifo LOO PER ?OX KY MAIL. Sn!* ix.T;5 CHEMICAL. CO., Cleveland, Ohio, armacy, Anderson. S. C. 3 With Proof to convict the mau who said we were GIVING AWAY PIANOS AND ORGANS. WE are selling EO LOW and on such EASY terms that there ?ras some reason in the report. But we must insist that it is, to a certain extent, a mistake. Next time you come to town drop in and shake hands with us. You know we handle SEWING MACHINES also. THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. WK WANT YOUR WIFE To see the pretty new arrivals ia our China Ware Department. CAN WE Not sell her a new supply for Spring ?^Our*f prices fare very low. At least HAVE HER Come in. She will enjoy looking at the 'pretty '"and novel things for the year I90JH r A Well ir'urnished^Home Is not uecesftt?ily an expensively furnished one, as at TOLLY'S hand some, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay, Not that we deal in knocked-together, made-to-sell sort, but because we are content with 4 reasonable profit OIL really good articles of Furniture. Our best witness is the Goods them selves. Yourc truly, Ot. P. TOLLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, 8. C. Now is the Time to Buy Ton a . . . 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 $7.75. We have a big lot of IRON KING and ELMO STOVES which you know are the beat Stoves on the market. Now we just want to speak to you one word about our HEA.TI3ST& STOVES, Especially about our Air Tight Heater, which you know is the greatest heater on earth. If you would see one of them in use or try one of them, you woum not have anything else. And just look at the price-they cost almost uoth ing-only $1.75 up to $6.00. We want to call your attorn ion to our big Stock of Tinware, Glassware and Crockery. Now we have just got too much of thia and it must be sold, so we m want you to jome and look and let us price you through. We. have some of the prettiest pieces of Odd China you ever saw. Would make nice Wedding, Birthday and Christmas Presents. Now we are just opening up the biggest line of TOYS vou ever eaw We want you to come round and bring the children and let them see a grand sight in Toys. And remember that all of these Goods 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. SH M 2 m p-j 0 52J RS a fm 0 - w 0 !>. M pa . ? Z O < GO O M ? CG ? < > a O M W ? d 8 2 H ? U M 2 2 so 2J C H % co o o ? es ea OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for all KINDS of GRAIN. Three Thousand Bushels of TEXA8 RED RUST PROOF OATS. One Car of that famous HENRY OAT (or Winter Grazing Oat.) The only Oat that will positively stand any kind of weather. *+? Ha70 just received Two Cars of linc FEED 0\TS at lowest prices. Have just received Three Cars of RICE FLOUR for fattening your hogs, and it comes much cheaper than any other feed and is much better* Yours respectfully, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. MM , 1,1....