Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BOYS AND A. Contemporary to Quitt] The South baa missed many of its boys during the past jflf teen ox,twenty years. They have | drifted to other parts of the country, principally to cities, and in their BUOCOBSOS have contributed to tho upbuilding of com munities far away from their homes. It is time for thia program to be changed. The South is offering creat or and greater opportunities tc ita young men. But the chango'will not take place unless the leaders of publio opinion in t!fe South induce the boye to take the right view of the situs* tion. The newspapers of the South aro beginning to agitate the matter, and an interesting contribution to the discussion is the following from the San Antonio Gazette: ' M .??-il "A contemporary advises yoe cg men not to quit the farm, but to stay there and reap the reward of fruitful industry. Advice of that sort comes with better grace from ? one who has demonstrated his preference for tho farm by devoting' himself to agricul ture than from ono who sits in a stuffy office in the city and writes of the de lights of the country life moro from imagination than from actual expert rience. "The young man who has aspira tions for something higher and better than mere plodding maybe ever so much attached to childhood's happy home down on the farm and all the scenes and associations by which it is endeared to him, but he has no sooner quit school than the allurement of the ci?/y cresco a. ?cr?ging ?c? thc mutti i field of effort and the quicker returns for labor which ho is persuaded the city offers. "The humdrum life of - the farm is too dull and prosaic for the young man of mettle and spirit to plod through when he contemplates the bustle and activity, the ceaseless round of gaiety and the dazzing opportunities for ac cumulating wealth and for rising in the scale of business and social dis tinction which the city is supposed to afford. "After the farmers boy has been educated he begins to look upon farm labor as beneath his dignity and far less renumerative than the gen tel em ployment oT whatever sort to be found in the oity. And so when he strikes out for himself, the farmer's boy who has ambition seeks the busy haunts of industry to become a lawyer, a doctor, a derk or anything else that will ena ble him to live in the city and enjoy life. Of course it is all a mistake, as many a farmer's boy has learned from sad experience in the oity, where labor is congested and where the strug gle for existence imposes hard condi tions, unknown in the country. The temptation, to vice and immorality may be escaped, hut the temptation to extravagance ia not so apt to be. The larger wages may come tc the oity boy, bat the greater saving is with the farmer, and at th? end of the year the latter boa the most to show for his in dustry. "Nearly all the great men of the country in literature and in statecraft have come from the farm, and the country air seems to have a special fit ness for developing the stronger intel leot, as well as the higher virtues. But proper efforts have not been made to render farm life idea!. Bad roads make the distances too long between neighbors, and there is not suffioicnt effort to form attractive social ciroles. The farmer boy might have his bicy cle and his pleasure vehiole, but the roadB are so nearly impassable during a great part of the year that it is no pleasure to travel over them. So the chances aro that he keeps neither a bioyole nor a buggy, and though he lives only a few miles fram town, he would hardly think of driving in and out for an evening's enjoyment in town, whick he might easily do under moro favorable circumstances. "It is easy to see hdw farm life miqht be made far more attractive than it now is; how - neighbors might be brought closer together and social circles formed by improving the facui ties f or travel which virtually eliminate distance. Rapid transit has built np the suburbs of the cities, and may do as muoh for the most remote country districts, especially when cars on elec tric railroads run at the rate of HO miles an ^our, as is proposed by tho new road vhieh has been chartered between Liverpool and Manchester. Then, perhaps, everybody will desire to live in the country and only have business location in tho ? city. Bot even then will the educated farmer boy still bo content to live on the farm, to follow agricultural pursuits and to apply his education to. the higher development of tho farming in terests aqd the conduct of the busi ness oa business principles? "Witt agriculture reach the dignity I o?'a sftf?^Qj requiring ?B much iatol I ligent thcr.ght and nurposo as any THE FARM ...... :y : ? I ises Young Mien Not b.e Farm. I otuer line of industry, and agricultur ist toke the rank to whioh he should bc entitled in the social scale? Not until the farmer ia1 educated for the farm and takes pride and glory in be ing a farmer." Very wisely, the Roanoke Times says: "There are comparatively few oity beys who drift ia the country, while the number, which find their way to the city is large. A minister address ing a large auuiefiee at Buualp the other day said that a very great per cent of the successful men in'the cities were those whose early lives had been spent in the country, and who had drifted td the oity in search of fortune. If this is true, and it is true, as most anyone will admit, all the moro credit is due these country boys who find so much of temptation and glitter awaiting them when they come to town. There is no doubt about the hardships the country boy has to put up with when he reaohes the etty. He is usually a very lonely individual. He lives in a dingy boarding house, follows a regular rou tine of work and has little comfort. When he gets through with his day's labor there is nothing for him to do but to go baok to his lonesome room and go to bed. He arises the next morning and goes over the experience cf the day before. . Every day is the same. It is small wonder that many of them yield to the allurements that tho city presents at night and find CG?jp??iouship among chose who are not good for them. Yet those who do stiok to the determination thai brings them to the oity always succeed. They have to struggle harder than they would in the country, but their opportunities are larger and the fruit of their labor more valuable. Bring ing with him the freshness and vigor of the country atmosphere the coun try boy is able to impart more energy to his work and to give more earefnl attention to his duties. "The city-bred boy going to the country to live usually finds it a bore. He is used to excitement and some thing to occupy his mind, when he is not at work. His evenings are more of a burden to him than those of the country in the city. He rarely stays long, and if he does remain he is often heard to complain of the hard fate that has condemned him to such a life. The surroundings may be comfortable to him, but they are different from those he bas had in the city, and they do not appeal to him. Getting up early in the morning and retiring early at night are new to him, and furnish a revolution in his habits that ho is unable to adapt himself to without much inconvenience. Of the two olasses the country boy coming to the oity is the more contented. It is to be deplored ihat ao many should leave the farms and seek a living elsewhere. The country needs, not the boy who comes from the oity, but the boy rais ed in the country. It would be better if his vigor and fresh energy were di rected in building up the resources of his native neighborhood. This is his natural heritage, and ouc that ho ?B better fitted to develop than the boy from the city. Yet the cities would soon miss the country boy and his im press upon their affairs were he stop joining foroes with them. The ohanged conditions for the boy in the South are sketohed by the Charlotte Observer, with the addition of some good advice, as follows: "In the time before the civil war it was not necessary for parents to worry about what their sons 'would do when they grew up. Outside the profes sions thp great occupation was raising cotton, and the average youth got a moat excellent training on th? planta tion or farm. This training together with a common soho ol or college educa tion, turned out a young man ot twen ty-one years of age who was capable of going immediately to work planting and producing cotton or tobacco, occu pations that were amply respectable, and whoo attentively followed, rea sonably profitable. For those who had no taste for the professions o? law, medicine and the ministry there was always this unlimited opening, and in growing up tho boys were always sufficiently in contact with it to qualify them to successfully con dun ita operations. 7 u ?he new conditions that have developed sinoo the oivil war th* situa tiou of tho youth as to future occupa tion is very materially changed. It has become important for parents to Concern themselves while the son ic yet young as to what he is going to ] prepare himself to do in after life. Education alone does not qualify a yonnir niau* to matfl * living, With Or without education, experience and practical training are also necessary. W,uoh ?f this experieaoe and practical Paning could bo acquired at an early age if some caro waa taken to help a [ hey decido what he proposed to pre- j pare himself to do tad he was brought into some sort of contact with lr work while he was yet a boy. - "Even if tho boy should afterwards oonolade to chango hit first purpose, the practice and experience had in his first selection would not he lost. The contact of the country boy with farm life and his experience sud training on the farm is well known to give him preference in the oity over the oity boy with no training at all in almost any competition fora job. <(It io pitiable the number of well instruoted youth tho colleges are turn ing out who have selected no particu lar occupation, and who at twenty-one years are, in many cases, more help less in a matter of actually doing something than farm boys twelve years old. "In saying this there is no purpose to disparage education. On tho con trary, the room for further develop ment of education is practically un limited. But the number of college graduates who each year start out hunting 'positions,' who aro willing to undertake 'almost anything,' but who are actually qualified to get no full or valuable rs su lt in any way, would be very materially reduced if the boys could be induced to make some effort to get some idea of the praotical side of his future occupation while yet young. Such apprenticeship or other work of training would put to profitable use much time that the oity boy now spends in idleness or puts to worse use. Tilt? boys of the South are usually of the most excellent mp terial, and with a little judicial aid in boyhood to help them prepare for a life occupation it might be made muoh easier for them to prosperously em bark at about twenty-one years of age on their life's voyage." Why Sparrows do apt Migrate. WA ar? paVa^ ^?hy it is that the English sparrows do not migrate Beeb warmer climate when winter comes. It is the question of a food supply which largely determines the migrations of birds and not because they are not hardy enough to endure the eold of tho winter. Thus, all wild fowls have their food supply entirely shut off when the lakes and rivera freeze up, while the death or hiberna tion of all insect life compels the de parture of all insectivorous birds. The sparrow is just simply a scavenger, hie main food supply being obtained from the partly digested grains in the offal of tho horse, and so it comes that wherever horses aro kept there will the sparrow be able to winter. Then, it is a very hardy bird and one whioh more than any other bird has the ability to adjust itself to almost any climatic condition, A hailstorm in July will kill ten times as many spar rows as a blizzard in winter. - An up-to-now young man walked into one of tuc leading hotels in a Missouri city, took a seat at the table and ordered an elaborate dinner. There was no milk brought him, so he ?hus asked for it: "Landlord, please pass the cow thia way." To whom the landlord thea reported: "Waiter take the eow down there where the oalf ia bleating.*' And the young man actually got mad and left. It is very strange that some people will get offended when they are called by their right name. - Mrs. David B. Stamp of Finoh ville, N. Y., who celebrated her 108th birthday recently, lived at Fishkill, when Robert Fulton's steamboat made its first trip. She remembers the in cident well and enjoys telling of the excitement the spectacle caused in tho village. - A shiftless nan is always boast ing of what he would do if he had money._ Mr DISEASED^! BB ?*IB#I?Z.1.<J9 I Cause more deaths than j . ! : mullets. Their Symptoms 9 are not alarming, hence) they are neglected and I 9 Quickly become dangerous, EH 1 Prickly I 1 Bitters 1 Is a kidney medicine of I ?H i ?rc?iv v?*t??? ?t strengthens I the kidneys, auays inflara- j H maxton, eases backache and S H arrests the progress of th<9 fl Hgj disease. It ia an honest g remedy that con be depend- H VB ed on. 1 AT ALL DRUGGISTS* I ft PRICE, ?UOO- m Stasis Pharmaoy, Special Agents. Engineers' Superstition. I ii - *? ') Railroad engineers arc inclined to 1 be superstitious. They hesitate to i admit the troth of the assertion, but, ! like all men who are constantly ex- i posed tc danger, they come to expect disaster to be preceded by a herald. "No, I am not superstitions," said one, "but my wife is, and J have never been in a wreok sines we were married but what she predicted was going to occur. I remember that I was running out of Salida, on the Rio Grande, that by her insistence of the truth of a dream she saved my lifo. I was to have taken out the freight in the morning, but she awakened me soon after midnight. 'Oh, Jim,' she said, 'X have had snoh a dreadful dream. I thought I ssw 404 (that was my engine) plunge into another engine. I heaid tho crash, Jim, and tb? his? of ccaping steam, and tho r.ries of the poor fellows pinned under ?he Wreck. \'ou must not go out in tho morning. I know you will be in jured.' I laughed at her and told her to go to sleep, that she was ner vous. Sho protested, but I was tired and was snoozing the sleep of tho just. When I awoko at 6 o'clock sho was palo and haggard, and I Baw that if I went out sho would be a nervous wreok beforo I returned. I deoided io give in for once and fixed it up so that another man took out my train. Thoy had a collision up the line. My substitute was killed and the other engineer and both of tho firemen bad ly injured. I pay more attention to my wife's dreams now, but I consider it cowardly to attempt to act upon them. If my engine is going into a smash-up ? will be at the throttle and the little woman at home must de pend upon her prayers to save me." "You may call it superstition if you like," laughed Charlie Frye, the veteran engineer ou the Rio Grande, "but I have come to regard the nuni le illj'i.i _J.l. _ - 1. "? per vuirtCcu *r*?u ? cernais aiuuua? w. awe. To show you how it is inter woven With the tragedies of my life: On July 13, 1901,1 was pulling train No. 7 out of Denver. At thirteen minutes past 12 I struok a wagon con taining Max Wagoner and his thir teen-year-old boy near Petersburg. The boy was killed. I reported the aooident from the Littleton office and was delayed just thirteen minutes. At Palmer Lako the conductor casual ly remarked that we had juBt thirteen passengers in the sleeper from Crip ple Creek. Tom Lofus, of the Colorado and Southern, looked serious when the subject cf engineers superstitions waE broached. "Well, I have an unlucky day," said he, "or maybe, it is a lucks day, for, although on that day I have so far escaped injury, it is the last day of the year. When I climb inte the cab on December 311 always say '.Now, look out, Tom, old chap.' Ter years ago the coming December 311 waa pounding along on a double-head er from Trinidad to Denver. We wer? making about thirty miles an hom through' a blinding snow storm. Yoi couldn't see fifty feet ahead. Be tween Be jares and Hu?rfano we crash ed into another double-header, whioi waB making about forty miles an hon: in the direction of Trinidad. I sav the other train in time to reverse ant jump. I eseaped without serious in jury, but one of the firemen oh th< train bound south was killed and th rest of the engine orew .vero bunge< ap. It was ali caused by a fool opera tor, who forgot to give me an order. Se fled the oountry. After that something always happens on the au adversary. Once an engine wheel snapped off and went whizzing aoross the prairie, hut I stopped before any damage was done. Another time I dropped a pair of trucks before I got three blocks from the station. So it bas gone. Some day it will bs serious, [ suppose." The Difference of an Inch. D, At ono of the reunions of the Army of the Cumberland sevoral former of ficers of the Union army fell to dis cussing tho wounds they had received during the oivil war. At last one of their number turned to Colonel B., a tall, fine soldierly-looking man, who had remained silent, during the dis cussion, and said: "Well, colonel., you seem to be the only one of the party who escaped un injured." "Oh, no, I didn't," auswered thc oolonel, quickly. "1 was shot at An tietam. A bullet went through my nose, taking tho gristle out." Ho wriggled his nose from side to side to iprove the truth of his statement. "Ah, well, you wcrequitc fortunato after all," said Major M., consolingly. "If tho bullet had struck half an iuoh further in, your soul would have been launched into eternity." "Ves," said tho colonel, "and if tho blamed thing had gone a half iuch fur ther out it wouldn't have hit mc at all.' ^ _ For Stomach Troubles. "I haqe taken a great many differ cot medicines for stomach trouble and constipation," says Mrs. S. Gei ger, of Dunkerton, Iowa, "but never had as good results from any as from Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.' ' For sale by Orr-Gray Drug Co. _ g&a - Thomas Estrada Palmer the first president-elect of Cuba, is th; scendaut of a distinguished Castilian family and has been called the "Frank lin of Cuba." Palina at ono time conduoted a school for boys at Cen tral Valley, Orange oounty, N. Y. When you lack energy, do not relish your food, feel dull and stupid after eating, all you need is a dose of Cham berlain's Siomaoh and Liver Tablets. They will make you feel like a new man and give you an appetite like a bear. For sale by Orr-Gray Drug Co. - The marriage of first cousins is forbidden by lrw in Pennsylvania, the statute of prohibition going into effect January 1, 1902. The man who was "born tired" should use Prickly Ash Bitters. It makes work a necessity to give vent to the energy and exuberance of spirits generated by functional aotivity in the system. Evans Pharmacy. - A man may be known by the company ho keeps, but he is seldom found out until about six months after the wedding. Stops the Cough aid Works off the Cold. Lsxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents. - Pretty girls can see no reason why other people should not judge by appearances. - True art lies not in concealing art, but rather in selling it for a good price. To Core a Cold ID OOO Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab ets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to eure. E. W. Grove's signature on every box. 25c. Virginia=Garolii\a Chemical Company, CHARLESTON, S. C. RICHMOND, VA. ATLANTA, GA. Largest Manufacturers of Fertilisers in the South. Importers of .'. . Pure German Kainit, Muriate of Potash, Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate o?? Potash. It is important in buying your fertilizers, not only to buy goods of established reputation and high grade, but to buy where your wants of every character can be supplied. We are in position to furnish all classes of goods and in such quantities as buyers desire. It will pay you to see us before purchasing. Wrest uirginiasCaroiina Chemical Co., Charleston, S. C. : -nd (or Vlrelnla-Carollna Almanac. fie? (ot ihc ?king._, OW A FEW DfivS TO CH R? ST MAS ! WE h?ve a nice lot of Rockers, Pictures, Mirrors, as well as a large lot of Bed Room Suits, Parlor Pieces, Hat Racks, Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, La dies' Desks, all of which would make a nice XMAS PRESENT. We realize the hard times and have made prices to suit. We want you to come iu, take a look, buy if you can, but if you can't it will be all right. Very truly yours, PEOPLES FURNITURE 00. mr COFFINS and CASKETS furnish?! at any hour, day cr eight. 3 8. VANDIVER. B. P. VAN UIVER VANDIVER BROS., MERCHANTS, ANDERSON, 8. C., JASUABY 8,1902. 0 THOSE INDEBTED TO US : WE ore cc m pel led to collect what ?B owing to us in order to pay our debts, and if you owe us, either Note or A ccount, we must have the money or some satisfactory arrangement iu the next few days, or such claim will be placed iu tho hands of our Attorney for collection. Yours truly, VANDIVER BROTHER8, and VANDIVER BROTHERS & MAJOR. NEARLY EVERY Piano We Sell SELLS US ANOTHER, WHEN you look over the li?t ol' famous builders wo represent, and the ong list of actual and delighted buyers-men and women famous throughout ho South for their acknowledged artistic, culturo and social and political lauding-you will know the reason. If you need a 3ee our largo etoek. We represent as good as tho world has produced. S?, GRAPHOPIIONES and Supplies also. _THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. Liver and Kidney Pills. DIRECTIONS-One every night. 25c. By mail. EVANS PHARMACY. Attention, Farmers ! We have just received one Car Load of Fancy Winter Grazing Oats. Come quick and secure some of them before they are all sold. O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. Slightly Disfigured hut Still in the Ring ! YES, we have diafiured the Hayes Stock considerably the past six weeks, but still have some Bargains left in Shoes, Hats, Pants and Notions of all Kinds. I am adding on a Stock of Groceries, Sugar, Coffee and Flour. Try a Barrel of Bransford, Clifton or Spotless, and I am sure you will bo pleased. White Wine Vinegar 25c. per gallon. ; ? ;_J_ C. M. BUCHANAN, Masonic Temple. LANDRETH'S Fresh Onion Sets, FOR FALL PLANTING, AT Orr-Gray & Co. o ? aw g Ba ow M Sd > < _ fe 0 M % 2? ? Ht* tl ts co ?S o *3 ?y ^ ? ? S S Z L t? ogg w CELEBRATED Acme Paint and Cernent Cure Specially used on Tin Roofs and Iron Work of any kind. For sale by ACME PAINT & CEMENT CO. Reference : F. B. GR AYTON & CO., Druggists, Anderson, S. C.