The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, July 10, 1901, Page 3, Image 3
ODD BLUE M
Rugged I-?ike the !M
William B. Curtis, i
V/AsijuwTOM, June ?0v-The moan
tai neera of the Blue Ridge aro a race
of themselves, in many respeots unlike
all the other communities that make
up this great Commonwealth. They
partake of the rugged ?nd -sombre
character of the mountains in ?which
they live, and have inherited the
habits and customs, as well as the
cabins, of their grandfathers and
great-grandfathers, who got that far in
the westward march of empire, but
could go no iartbor because their
teams were tired and the mountain
roads were impassable. There these
pioneers settled down, oleared little
spots of land in the forest and began
aa unending struggle with nature,
which has been only partially rucoess
ful, and, continued from generation to
generation, has produced a hardy peo
ple who live comfortless lives of labor
and privation, and yet are not unhap
py. Their politics, religion, morals
nod superstitions are .unchangeable
and of the severest kind. Their poll
ues is based on liberty, as their re
ligion is based on brimstone. He..oe
they are Moonshiners, hard-shell Bap
tists and shouting Methodists. They
resist the revenue offioers because
they believe the Government is de
priving them of their liberties. Their
preachers pioturo the torments of the
damned in lurid colors, because it re
quires something strong to arouse
their emotions, and their mortal lives
are so full of misery that a mild form
of perdition would not seem an ade
quate punishment for sin.
They are dull in book learning, but
tenacious of memory. This is due to
their empty minde, and their lack of
knowledge and experience. They
have lived in stagnation. They?>have
few events to remember and the im
pressions left by the trifling incidents
of their lives and the little informa
tion they gather are never effaced.
The mountaineers are illiterate in
secular learning, bnt you seldom find
a household that is.not well posted in
Scripture history. While they may
not be able to read the text, they can
quote passages from the Old and New
Testaments without number, are eager
for theological controversy, are power
ful exhortera and fervent in (prayer.
Some of the most effective preachers
can scarcely tread or write. 'iTheir
language is rude, but inspired by deep
emotion. Northern people have told
rae that the most eloquent prayers
they ever listened to were offered by
uncouth, uneducated mountaineers.
This is a matt jr of j vide with them.
Men who can pray eloquently and car
ry ou theological controversies with
credit are quite as highly esteemed as
those who excel in the use of the rifle
or io athletic sports.
Coe day a boy who had . been taken
up by a charitable faraidy ?to beefed
and olothed and educated in a proper
way waB being discussed with some
visitors. Forgetting that the ohild
was present his benefactor described
the squalid home that he came from,
thc poverty, the ignorance and the
privations of his parents. The boy
was DOA without pride and loyalty to
his own family, and, looking up with
a determined apirit, he asked:
"Mrs. Phillip., did you all ever
hear my father pray?"
"No," the lady answered in sur
prise; "doea he pray well?"
''Well,'' replied the .boy confidest
ly, "I reckon be ean pray better'n be
can do anything else." j
There are few words in their vocabu
lary because they do not have many
ideas or much information to com
municate. It is said that no civilised
people have so barren a language, but
their dialeot ia unique and philolo
gists find in it a close relation to the
Scotch, which waa the tongue of their
ancestors. Perhaps their limited .vo
cabulary is a part of their poverty.
?They may practice economy tin lau
se as in the other necessities of
j life, but their virtues are equally con
spicuous and they are famous for their
hospitality. No mountaineer ever
'"-ued a stranger from his door unless
he suspected him of being a revenue
agent, and then he followed him.down
the road with a shotgun.
( They never look np anything. They
thave nothing to pteal, and honesty
?iii a recognition of tho rights of
others are the fundamental principles
jj their morality. Charles '.Egbert
"raddoek has given ua graphic pie
ces of their customs and habits, and
thone -ho kaow them best say that
her sketches are accurately .drawn.
They care very little what is going
88 in the outside world, and while
fhey do not resist civilization, that ia
fessing closer and closer around
*eo?, they are indifferent to it. They
refnse to adopt labor saving machine
nt although tho icdustrial schools es
jhlishcd by tho benevolent people of
he North for tho hands and minds
a~
IDGE PEOPLE
ountains in Midst of
bey Xiive.
w?he Record-Herald*
are gradually breaking through the
crust of their conservatism.
Not along'I visited one of these
schools near the Hot Springs of North
Carolina, which was founded by a
Dartmouth College man named Luke
Borland, who ??ont derra there immy
years ago for his health. As he wan
dered over the mountains, studying
the lives and habits of the people, he
was most impressed by their abomina
ble cooking and started ? scheel in his
kitchen. He could accommodate but
few pupils, whom he selected from
among the brightest girls in the neigh
borhood, but the field was wide and
tho school kept growing until it now
consists of several departments, whioh
are under the supervision of the Wo
men's. Home Missionary Sooiety of the
Presbyterian Church. At Asheville
there is a similar industrial sohool,
where 100 girls from 12 to 18 years
old, are being taught housework, cook
ing, sewing, gardening and other prac
tical knowledge. It costs only $75 a
year to educate one of these girls and
I ?do not -know where money oan be
better invested. .There is also a nor
mal school where the brightei minds
are trained to teaoh others what they
themselves have learned of tho house
hold arts, and 130 young missionaries
aro being fitted to go into the moun
tains to preaoh the gospel of order,
neatness and comfort among the primi
tive homes of the mountaineers. At
the little village of Denmark is a farm
school of .400 acres where 115 boys are
being taught thc use of modern ma
chinery and economical methods and
tho rudimentary principles of agricul
ture.
Tho Borland Institute, at Hot
Springs, like the other schools I have
named, is under the care of the wo
men's home mission board of the
/resbyterian Church, but is support
ed directly by individual churches,
societies and benevolent people, who
pay oertain sums every year to sustain
scholarships. . There are now fifty-two
girls in the institute, who can be edu
cated in the art of boueekeeping for
150 a year, whijh is the cost of a
scholarship. This a possible because
the teachers try to make the sohool as
nearly self-supporting as possible. In
looking over the list of contributors I
Found the names of Mrs. William H.
Reid, of Chicago; Mrs. Grace Reid
Nash, of Lake Forest j Miss Lucille
Hitt, of Campbell Park; Mrs. M. S.
Lesbeur, of DeDanville; Mrs. V. C.
Harbert, of Jerseyville; Minerva G.
Titterington, of Rook Island; Mrs.
Jessie Fisher, of Peoria, and several
)Mier good women tff (Illinois. The
'Gleaners," of Po erm. and several
ither-Sunday Sohool organizations and
Christian Endeavor sooieties are also
sontributors.
tfihe pupils in this sohool are select
id from the most intelligent girls in a
ongdist of applicants, rfor it oan ac
lommodate hut a small proportion of
those who wish to attend. They all
tome from tho cabins in the uioun
ains, and the brightest ones are
ihosen on the theory that the^greatesfc
;ood can be accomplished using the
?est. material. They are taught to
ew, to .cook, to make gardens and a
umoient amount of book learning to
nable them to read, write ano! keep
ccounts. 'If a girl proves too dull of
ntellect to comprehend the simple
lurpoaes of the institution she ib sent
tome and her .place is filled rey anoth
r of greater promise. The course is
bree years, at the end of whioh
raduating exeroises are held with
onsiderabje ceremony to impress the
athers ind mothers and the neigh
ors with the importance of educa
ion. Most of tke girls marry at once
f ter leaving the school, because the
oufag men appreciate the advantage
f .having a wife who is trained to
?ake s, good housekeeper.
. An ox-eyed girl with a freckled faoo
nd a long, awkward fi-ame sat sun
ing herself by thc roadside, her long
;gs being gathered up under her
Irfrts and her calico sunbonnet having
?Hen .back of her towsly auburn hair,
ho seemed full of the confidence and
idependent spirit that is called
pertness" down in North Carolina,
if ter a while I asked her why she did
ot attend the industrial school in the
i Hage.
"Helpin* ma," was the laconio re
ly.
"If you aro helping ma, why don't
juno and help her, instead of ait
ng out herc on the roadside?" said
ie of the ladies.
"Am helpin'."
"How arc you helping?"
"Totio' wood"-and we found by
irther inquiry that her mother had
mt her into tho forest to gather an
mful of fagots fer the kitchen fire.
"What do they teach down thore at
tat school?" I asked.
"Prayin', cookin' and ho'swork,"
(?? thc answer.
Strangers always wonder where th*
mountaineers get their clothing
Much of it is home-made, like th'
furnishings of their houses, whiot
show the lack of what Harriet Beech
er Stowe calls "faculty." They can'
not adapt things like the Yankees
They can make a tomato can serve th<
purpose of a teapot, but their inge
nuity goes very little farther. Th<
most surprising and mysterious prob
lem is the origin of their hats, and
although I have asked the question di
everybody who ought to know, I have
been unable to get the slightest satis
faction as to the source of supply
The women wear sunbonnets made ol
calico with wide frills, but the mei
have the most remarkable variety anc
patt??u uf headgear worn aoywhen
else. You cannot find their like ii
any other part of the civilized world
and they not only last a lifetime, bu
are handed down from generation t<
generation. They tell a story of ai
old man whose hat blew off as he wa:
crossing a bridge and floated down th?
stream. Tho neighbors rallied to th<
ory of distress and sought for day
with as much r.eal as they would hav
shown in recovering a human body
But it was a failure, and from tha
date the old man weet about bare
headed. He waa too old to buy a ne\
hat, he said. A meroiful Providenc
could not be expected to spare hin
many years longer.
If anyone is curious to-know wha
heoomes of the old clothes that w
send to the home missionaries h
might spend an interesting hour i
the store room of the Borland Inst!
tute. There is a collection of nonde
script garments of all sises and fast
ions and materials which would su?
gest another essay by the author c
"Sartor Resartus." These garment
have* been reoeived from time to tim
in missionory boxes from benevoleu
people in different parts of the coui
try, and are spread out according t
size and quality, as in a second-hao
clothing store, and supplied to th
families of the mountaineers in?]
change for vegetables, eggs, butte
fowls, fuel and whatever else the pu
chasers are able to offer. Nothing
given away. The price of a pair <
shoes may be only 10 cents; sn ove
coat may be exchanged for a day
labor, a warm woollen dress for a pa
of chickens or a basket of eggs, or
full suit of clothes for a load of woo?
and by such barter the school is suj
plied with the necessities of life.
Stopped at her Station.
Members frequently regale tl
cloakroom habitues with stories eith
originated or told, or both, by ex-Go
ernor Robert L. Taylor. Here is 01
oerdited to the governor, and wheth
b deserves the credit or not it is go<
enough to have originated in his witt
brain:
"There was a nervous wo mac?n
passenger train. She inquired fr
quently 0/ the conductor as to wh
time she would arrive at a certain st
tion, and the train did not regular
stop there. Bnt her inquiries, shr
of conductor, porter, brakeman ai
passengers awakened the .interest
every one in thc coaoh. Finally tb
came to the station, and by soi
mishap .went two or three miles b
yond without stopping. The condu
tor rang the bell, the great engine 1
versed, the train baoked slowly to tl
platform, and the conductor, foroit
[lia way Lt rriedly through the crow
sd car,ifound the woman and said:
" 'Como on, madam. Here is yo
itation. I will help you off!"
" 'What!' responded the woma
I don't want to get off!' And, reao
ng for a slick, blaok satchel, said:
44 *I only wanted to take a pill wh<
fe reached that station!'"
Cares Blood and Skin Troubles.
TRIAL TREATMENT FREE.--IS yo
>lood poor ? Is it thin? Nose bice
og and headaohe? Pricking pains
ho skin? Skin pale? Skin feel h
,nd swollen? All run down? Is yo
dood bad? Have you Pimples? Eru
ions? Scrofula? Eating Soxes? Itc
og, burning Ezema? Boils? Ulcer
/anoer? Scaly Eruptions? Skin
loalp Itch? Blood, Hair or Skin h
aors? Tired out with aches and pail
n bones and joints? Have you h
editary or contracted Blood Poisoi
Hoers in throat or mouth? Swolh
lands? Rheumatism? As tired
lorning as when you went to bed
lave they resisted medical treatmcn
f you have any of the above tronbl
?.B.B. (Botanic Blood Balm) shou
e taken at once. B.B.B, has apeo
lar effect-different from any otb
lood medicine-it drains tho impui
ies, poisons and humors that cause 1
hove troubles out of the blood, bon
nd entire system, healing every soi
sstoring to the ukin the bloom of pc
sot health and making new. ri?
lood. Trial treatment of B.B.l
ree by addressing Blood Balm Cot
any, 380 Mitchell St., Atlanta. G
?escribe your trouble, and we will i
Indo free'medical advice. B. B. ]
ever fail? td cure quickly and perm
ently, after all fails. Thorough
sstcd for thirty years. Over 3,0
oluntary testimonials of ourea '
i.B.B. Hill-Orr Drug Co., Wilhi
I Wilhite, and Evans Pharmacy.
- mm m- mm?
- Every married man should jo
ime good society-tho eoeiety of I
ife and children for instance.
The Best Prescription For Malaria
hills and Perer is a bottle of Grovt
astelcss Chill Tonie. It is simp
on and quinine in a taseless fer
o euro, No pay. Price 5Qc.
II ? III! ifii i'i II.imiaaiiiiiiliMwr iniiiiiiaiJiiii
Fell In a WeB: Saved by a Snake.
WAYCROSS; GA., June 29.-Willio
Blades, sen cf Mr. Winiam Bladen,
dairyman, who lives near town, fell
into a well yesterday and was saved
by a mere incident.
Willie is about 12 years old and he
sud Charlie Hart, who is 15, were
sent to the field to work. About ten
o'olook they went to an old well on
the plaoe to get some water. They
had a ropo and bucket and in drawing
the water, Will somehow lost his bal
ance and tumbled into the well head
foremost. His companion was a brave
boy and instead of running away for
help he began to try to get the buoket
1 and ron? do??s to his friend, but when j
he looked down into the dark shaft 40 1
feet deep, Will had disappeared be
neath the water. For several min
utes he did not reappear, but by good
fortune the old battling biook had
so tuc ti mc previously fallen into the
well which was out of use and Will
had lodged on this, lt had gone down
under the momentum of the fall, but
had buoyed up the boy's half dead
body again to the surface. Will was
seriously hurt by the fall and proba
bly would not have stirred from his
dazed condition for some time, but for
the faot that he beheld a huge mocca
sin staring him in the face from one
corner cf the well.
This was stimulons enough and
Will had no desire to disputo the right
of possession to the well and he called
manfully to his companion to let down
the buoket. Charles complied as
rapidly as he could and soon had Will
riding to the surface as rapidly as his
slender rope would allow. When res
cued Will was very much disfigured
and badly unnerved. He says the big
snake scared him worse than the fall
hurt him._
Heartburn.
When the quantity of food taken is
too large or the quality too rich, heart
burn is likely to follow, and 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 hoirs 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.
- York county, Pa., the home of
many people prominent in state poli
tics, boasts of a white man whose
name is Michael Andrew Jackson
Johnson Donelson Fillmore Deokman.
- There are now a quarter of a mil
lion troeps ia South Africa. The war
is costing more than a million dollars
a day, and recent Boer aggressions
suggest indefinite protraction.
During last May an infant child of
our neighbor was suffering from chole
ra infantum. The doctors had given
up all hopes of reoovery. I took a
bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy to the house,
telling them I felt sure it would do
food if used according to directions,
a two days time the child had fully
recovered ? The child is now vigorous
and healthy. I have recommended
this remedy frequently and have never
known it to fail.-Mrs. Curtis Baker,
Bookwalter, Ohio. Sold by Hill-Orr
Drug Co._
Owns 1.250,000 Acres.
Major George W. Litilefieid, of this
city, is probably the largest indivi
dual land owner in the United States.
His ranch and farm hidings in Texas
and New Mexico aggregate about 1,
250,000 mores. This inoludes a tract
of 284,000 acres of ranch land, which
he recently purchased from the State
Capitol syndioate.
The lands of the latter corporation
embraced 3,000,000 acres originally,
and were given it by the State for
building the State Capitol. They are
situated in the extreme northwestern
part of Texas and cover several large
counties. Major Tiittlefield's r?verai
purchase inoludcd 5,000 Hereford
cows of pure breed and the samo num
ber of Hereford oalves; 340 Hereford
bulls and a large number of horses and
mules.
I Major Littlcfield cannot tell within
?vc or ten thousand of tho number of
head of cattle he owns. Tho total
number is estimated at from 70,OUI)
to 80,000 head. Ho has sold many
thousand head of beef cattle in tho
lact few months and his ranches are
now short of stock cattle. He takes
great pride in his now ranch of 280,
000 acres and gives it much attention.
He paid $790,000 cash for the prop
oity, including the cattle and othor
domestic animals thereon. Theranoh
is well fenced and is well supplied
with water from forty-two wells. The
water from forty of these wells is
pumped by windmills, and two of the
wells afford a never-falling supply of
Artesian water. The soil is rich and
much of the land is susceptible of irri
gation!
He also owns what he calls a little
ranch near Austin. It is situated in
Macon County and embraces 120,000
acres. It is well stooked with cattle
and has many substantial improve
ments in the way of ranch buildings,
wells and fences. Of ail his lauded
possessions he takes tho greatest pride
in a farm of 1,200 acres in Spring
River Valley, New Mexico. The farm
is ali ia a high state of cultivation,
and brings in a big annual revenue.
AU tho crops are raised by means of
irrigation. On this farm there is a
sixty-five-acre apple orchard just come
into bearing. Largo orchards of other
fruit trees have been planted and will
be producing abundant crops before
many years.
Major Littlcfield is 57 and a native
of Texas. He served through the
civil war as an officer in the Hangers
regiment, which was made up of Texas
frontiersmen who favored the Con
federate ?side. He oame ont of the
war without a dollar and started to
make a fortune for himself out of the
cattle-raising business. His fortune
is now estimated at from $5,000,000 to
$7,000,000.- Austin, Texas, Special
Nieto York Suit.
You Know What You Are Taking
When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill
Tonio because the formula is plainly
printod on every bottle showing that
it is simply Iron and Quinine in a
tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay. 50o.
-m 4? mm -
. - It does not follow that every fool
is self-made because most men make
fools of themselves.__*_
DUE WE8T FEMALE COLLEGE.
OFFERS A. E., B. S., Normal, Music, Expression, Art and Butin?es courses un
der experienced teachers, and the best moral, social and rellgloua environment, in
an ideal College community. The purest tubular well water. Home comforts and
restraints. The last year waa most successful, every room in the building being
occupied. Applications should be made early for next term. Terms low.
JAMES BOYCE. President.
June 19, 1901-oct I Doe Wost, 8. C.
GELESR?TEO
AcmePaint and Cement Cure.
Specially used on Tin Hoofs
and Iron Work of any kind.
For sale by
ACME PAINT & CEMENT CO.
Reference :
F. B. GRAYTON & CO.,
Druggists. Anderson, S. C.
D. AND [V ER. J. J. MAJOR. E. P. VANDIVER.
Vandiver Bros. & Major.
If you want a Fine, Medium or Cheap
Buggy
We can sell it to you and save you money. Wo have the nobbiest line of
Paney Young Men's Buggies to be found, and want to show them to you.
We have a large stock of "BIRDSELL'S and "WHITE HICKORY'
Wagons
rVt lowest prices.
We seil the PL?N? MOWER and BINDER, and want you to
iee them.
Your trade appreciated.
VANDIVER BROTHERS & MAJOR.
LYON S French Periodical Drops
Strictly vegetable, perfectly hax nles's, sure to accomplish
DESIRED RESULTS. Greatest known female remedy.
PBIITinU Bowaroor coniUerfelta and Imitations. Tho ?ena I no ls put np only in p*M<>-boaril Car?*
UHU IlUn ton with fao-hlmllo nijjnutnro on Mil.? or tt.C i.oUic, Um?: &y^<?t^F2r?J**\
iona for Oirv.m-r ts V/ilauAiia ?iru. co.. Solo ARcr.t.s. Cleveland, Oblo. -g*r?v-- ~*-^>*~f ^*
JTox? Salo l>y. KlvaBi? Phurmaey, Anderson. 8. CL
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Reward
With Proof to convict the man who said wo
were GIVING AWAY
PIANOS AND ORGANS.
WE are selling BO LOW and on such EASY terms that there was some
reason in the report. But we must insist that it is, to a certain extent, a
mistake.
Nest time you come to town drop in and shake hands with us.
You know wo handle SEWING MACHINES aUo.
THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE.
WE WANT
YOUR WIPE
To see the pretty new arrivals in
our China Ware Department.
CAN WE
Not sell her a new supply for
Spring ?TOur*[prices fare ven' low.
At least
HAVE HER
Come in. She will e^joy looking
at the 'pretty .and novel thiDgs for
the year 190,4
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A Well f urnishedYHome
Is not necessarily 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 a reasonable profit on
really good articles of Furniture.
Our best witness is the Goods them
selves.
Yours truly,
G. P. TOLLY & SON?
The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, 8. C.
Now ls the Time to Buy You a .
w Cookin
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 bea
Stoves on the market.
Now we just want to speak to you one word about our
HEATING 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 woura
not have anything else. And just look at the price-thav cost almost noth
ing-only $1.75 up to $6.00.
We want to call your attention to our big Stock of
Tinware, Glassware and Crockery.
Now we have just got too much of this and it must be sold, so we iu
want you to come and look and let us price yon 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 TO VS vou ever aw
We want you to come round and bring the children and let them see a grand
Bight 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.
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OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR.
ATE 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
nly Oat that will positively stand any kiud 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
ogs, and it comes much cheaper than auy.other teed and is much be?er.
Yours respectfully,