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The Great Old VV I ; ? i i Rat. ?. 0?: Bro wi 1 II ?rnrJoit writing to pleaeo o/wlf. If you do not fool Uko tarryiug nora to read, why pass ou, weet soul, and leave; me. alone. I don't know that others may feel a.i I feel, cor' $a?? quito ssro that my writing will he in accord with tho huth of history aa others seo, it ; but, then?- what o? that ? The great old world is coving on. Faces, forms and features chango and each day some mystical hand seems io give the kaleidoscope a turn and ? new scene'presents itself.' If we are not mindful o? those passing events we shall find ourselves in the midst of a new nod unknown environment be fore we know it. They are felling the foresto, bringing new aeres to the har row, digging ditches, setting up cot* tages, and the yery face of the world is changing all about us. The ?'aajjg of the forest king tells us of a day not far away when there will bo no forest and the children by and by Will wonder at grandfather* s strange stories of how this country used to look in the good old days when life was worth living. Some things I miss already, and I don't see how tiiey are ever to come back. I miss the scraggy old plum orchard at the foot of tho hill that used to look golden with "yaller" plums in June, out of. which: a boy could get more genuine satisfaction than some men can get out of their millions. I remember bow I used to climb and shake cha trees, and the fall of the pluma was like music to my soul. It might be that in that very night I had some disturbing patos, but a boy was never so siok G ?hose days that mother could not Set him up again with just a spoonful cf pepper mint, or some mild medicament that only she knew bow to ?x. I am sure that I'd bo willing to run the risk of those passing maladies, just to be al lowed to tear my pants and aoratoh my freckled faoo once moro in a tree that boro "yaller" plums. But some rude hand bas abolished the orchard. The little piney-wood? pig walks about now as if he had lost his last friend, and the sorrowful east of countenance ?observable to those who look closely at pigs is the result of his cogitations over the gloomy fact that the plum orohard has vanished into the irre vocable past. I wish we could have sort of a> renaissance in this country like that we read of in the books, and my first move would bo to ro-ostabliah the plum orohard. that bore the "yaller" plums. And the mookie^ bird has about gone, too. Many a pilgrim ina far away land has regaled his spirit with think ing, in the huBh of the evening, about the land where "the mockingbird sang mo to sleep every night." O, dear wanderer, ho sings for us no more. We haye become essentially and radi cally English, you know, end now the English sparrow has assumed the place of our morning, and evening wirblor. All tho air is full of deso lation, and you cti. listen half a day in the woods or down hy the branch ? where the song was wont to be heard, Band yet no sound of singing. The S mooking bird has taken his long flight; Bl envy the good land to which ho has ?gone.'' His song used to come in ? through tbs- latt?ca at morning and ? led my mind away from .sorrow when I H suffered, and away from pain when I ?was smitten with sickness. He was a aB'eritable 'will-o'-the-wisp, a msgiaiari Sthat irs?w how td charm away tro? 8 bles whioh wore'dissolvedinhisliquid ?song. When I think of t?ow I once gk?robbed his nest, or destroyed the ?young, I feel like taking a pilgrimage ?to his new home, it ho has found one, Ito tell him of the sorrow that dwella io my bosom at the thought of ?Ms going away and at the remembrance Wjt my cruelty. How true it is that Blessings brighton as thoy take their I And the old crane bee gone from the 0, aMtohc?. It used to hang like tho arm ilnfij^ * gallows, pushed back now against ^?fcho brios? ?sd thea palled out te re g? fteiye o? deliver lia burden. It grated sssBm ita bearings and was covered with >' ftoot, but it served >i good purpose in .I ghose d?ys .when ;/re had much to eat RS0^ *N ?PPO^to *aat kopt up with our k'3APPJJeBr Tho misorsble old stove or ??lhe pr?tentions range had not yet j^Joraa int? gensrai use, and, ia tfcoao ?4 ?ood.o?d days, a man could soil when jr w?o was eating bread and when meat ; Udlot eaoh was cooked separately and ?? ??d a t*sta and.flavor all its own, a . frsto that could be' neither baned nor L%#or/owed. The honest old da*|ej| K'; o'raing in at evcaiog from his task, yod thc old orano ?nd ito pendant pot > f nd his soul wa* rejoiced over thc fact htt it bad liquor and greens, and ?V laybo a piece of meat. *horeint or ^S^^^^uicy old bam ^j^* ^? "i " .. >rld is Moving On. inColafflbiaSfctto. king who had sense "fcaengb to know ? good thing at eight. But tho' crane ia gone I ? or&ky old stove sits noir in M.?? middle of the floor. Onions sad squashes and tomatoea all tatt? alike, and tnt generations yet to he born stay as well stay whore they are, unless ia j the new renaissance some philosopher can bring back the old crane that used to hang in the Ir i toben hearth. The old marama has gone, too-3he ?rho used to make curtsy with the grace of a queen--the dear cid soul with the red bandanna kerchief about her head, and a soft, far-away look in her eyes that were weak with age, and never, with weeping. He* walk was .more of a glide than a step, and no matter how stout she was she never made herself disagreeable in thc sick room, nor odious anywhere; Tho red bandanna set her head os and gave her an air of distinction above what, silk or satin might have done. The; babyW hands olawed at her head gear and pulled it awry, but still she was patient and gentle, and waa a luxury never to he knows s gain under the set ting sun. It woG?u be worth half of one's kingdon. "<o ha able t? T?a!k again through the "quarter" and catch the' "Good evsoin',, massa," or see the graceful sweop of m auras'8 skirt ns she gave the blessed salaam of the long ago in her own peculiar way. Tho Standard Dictionary defines R&BurtBy" as a downward movement of the body by bending the knees, and quotes Mary Somerville advice to a" friend : "Young lady, if you visit the queen, you must make three curtsies, lower, and lower, and lower, as von approach her." This ts the way it reads iu a book, but if you want to see the thing in ita glory and beauty, just step aside, young lady, and let old Aunt Peggy come np and do the act for you. You couldn't look at a queen for ieoking at Aunt Peggy. But the curtsy is gone. What under the roll ing sky of blue can ever take its place? And the old rail fence ia gone. I have climbed it many a day-got up on top of it and walked for twenty panels before I fell and skinned.my knee. Skin or no akin, I feel as if we had been robbed. The old rail fenoe, With the orooked worm, used to run right down through the world of my chi ld hood'sf ano?, and I thought that where it disappeared yonder over the hill was about half way around the earth. The fence corners were full of blackberries and black snake!) and wasp nesta, and the timid partridge laid' her eggs and reared her yoting, unleee, perohanco, we boyo came.upon her before she completed her task. The fence kept the colts in the pas tures and a fellow didn't have to go to the end of the world chose days to fetch bailie the cowa that lowed in the late evening. Tho fences kept tho fields from : getting mixed, and made the children bold When they heard the old black bnll bellow and paw the dirt with his front feet. The fence show ed that somebody lived "high abouts," Ba$ the saying was, and ? traveler never felt alone and forsaken as long as he could travel between two lines of a frjit?i fence. But we don't have rail fences now. The saw mill man has cut down the trees that once were fit for nothing but making rails, and a isisersbls little wire string runs down and abent the neighborhood, with all the pretentiousness of a genuine, bona-fide, ante-bellum rail fenoe. As for mo, I am set dead against the thing, and if I Can find a country by and by where the old rail fence is in vogue, I want to take my stand right there, and there abide through 10,000 millenniums. I lift my voice for peace and for the old rail fenoe with tho crooked worm. Well, the negro "quarter" is gono, too, and the melting melodies of the other and better years, and the o)d World just seems to be sobbing itself to sleep. The little pickaninnies hang no longer on the fence by the road whilo the "quarter" rings with some thing more than Bscred-"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot-;', or "I Want to Dip ISea dc Solden gea." To hear one of these negro melodies now on some Sommer Sunday afternoon would make s i??? think he Lau lighted np?" ? new world where tho singers had caught the airs of the white-robed throng who sing in tho upper temple. But the worid movet, on, they toll The ^quarter" and the songs havsr gone. The happyrgo-lucky crowd have become free?born American citizens. Thc women wear . corsets and veil plumes of feathers, while the men Ho around trying to dodge a job. "Unele Tom's Cabin" bas filled the world with lies, and.the <^tieenth amend mer t mit wrenched ihtt whole hs^a? fabric ont. of iointv I say the truth when I ea> I do not want any more slavery-55 of thc black, not of the arbiie mal?4 hut I'd give a handful of sbinhjj shekels to hear once again sonio negri ? coming un to tu?i big hon? from ?he k-quarter." f ?no Cora Stalk Question. Have you settled it ? If se, on wMch side do you stand ? Aa a farra a /on must raise/ CDJT^?EI?S. TO* cannot raise eora without thom. So they ooat you nothing to raise. They aro strictly a by-product of growing ?ora. Now, thea, having these ata?ks have a value. How much they ar? frorth depends upon how you dispose pi them. The old way waa and is te pull ott the fodder and leave tue utaifc to rot in the field or to bo bureed next spring. '? .'$bis i? 'a very losing way to use them. It <osts as much tb save tba fodder aa it is worth. Very often more. Why, then, do we pull fodder? Before, we learned to grow hay for horses and ?mules we needed the fodder as a rough food. But we have loamed that the entire stalk is good for hay. We have- oho learned that the fodder blades' are needed to help the grain fill out. That we cannot pull the fodder without making the grain light er. The minute you take off the blades the corn Oeasoa to fill. Hence more is loot in the weight of the grain than the fodder weighs if the foddei be picked a little green, as ?soften thc case. ; I We haye learned that the entire 8talk is good for hay. If proper); prepared a took will eat it freely, ont do aa well as upon any other hay. i . We haye learned that it as cheap, ii not cheaper, to cut and shred th? stalks as to harvest, the corn in th? old way. it - We a*y have learned these things They are no longor doubtful ; so man: .experiments have been made and sue! success has attended them that w? may safely say they are practical!; settled. ; We do not mean to say that ever; one has succeeded. . Bi any have fails to be pleased at first, but there ba always been some sufficient reason. ^The shredding was not prop erl j done, or the corn was damp or som ouch trouble. Cattle have been a little slow t take hold freely in some oases. Get orally this was because the work: ba not been properly done somewhere. ! 'Shredded cornstalk, when well mad* has proven about equal to other ha] The stover about equals in value tl grain. That io, if you get twent bushels of corn you get a ton of ha; The hay will Sell in the market for i much ai tho corn. Now, is it good business to thro ?away one-half you make ? We thic net. If you have made tjlOO Worth.< corn yon have $100 of stalks. It not ? question whether you shou make these stalks. : You were coi polled to make them to get the corn. The real question is what will y< do with them now that you have ma? them ? Will you use them or w you loBe them ? Tho wiso man ?;?* use them, the foolish man will lo them. If you are running n two-horse foi you should plant at least twenty aos in corn and mako at least twenty to of stover, worth $300. This added the income of your year's work w make quite a difference in the yea; business/ - So if you are a good bu ness man you will save what you ha rando. Do not wait until the last day toa tie this /question, but settle it no and begin, to mako your ?rrangemei in timo. Shredders are not expensive. I if yen do got feel abie to. invest one alone, join with your neighl and got one. Or seo that soma c in your community has one to tra around and shred just as they tra and thresh grain. Wait until the fodder is well j lowed, a week later than you would pull thc fodder. JFhen shocfc froni 100 to 400 at? in a shook and tie them firmly so ai resist windstorms. To do thia ge piece of 2x3 scantling about 12 S long. Fut two logs about 3} to 4 i long on one end. liest tho Other < on the ground. . Three feet from upper end bore an inch and a qua: auger hole. Make a pin four feet 1 Ito go through this. Set your h< where you wish the shook, put in pin and place the cora ia the four gles. Get on the horse and ha\ plow lino with a ring tied 'to ono f and throw thia around the corn pnt the rope through the ring draw tight. Thea with ? piec< twine ti? ino corn firmly. Got dc 'pull out your pin, yoke your bors< the upper end and go to the next p you wish a shock. The shredder will take the earl land shuck them and cut the st Joto fino hay. Some of the moro pensive machin?s will shell the i and ssek it. 1 Do not let your old habits or j ^prejudices or your lasinoss pre pon from saving your corn stalks. would notr think of throwing ; colton seed away. Your corn st arc worth more than your cotton s g?vo inem, shred them, feed t io \ your cattle, sell thc cattle mako money all round. When it t all. jof your cotton to pay your d your con? stalks will givo you mi to blythe comforts of 'lifer-3o ern (XulUvator. ;-r ,.. S.GO.O0Q Dug ap at Eaos?e t. I Sixty thousand dollars waa aooideat* i ly discovered at Paoolat buried in the ; sands along the banks of Paoolefc river I recently, but it waa ootton and not gold thst constituted this -valuable treasure. A party waa prospecting on the ?wac of the recant flood disaster along the river banks not far fro* tho site of the warehouse at Paoolet when a email bit of white cotton waa noticed stiokicg ont of th? sand. Investi gation followed at once and the white bit of cotton turned oat to be patt of a bale which in turn was ooo of a lot of nearly,ene thousand bales of ootton which were lying burled beneath the sands all unknown to the workmen who had hundreds of times passed .over this veritable mine of wealth in buried ootton. The single bala was quickly exoevatedfrom the sands and all about ti buried some feet under the surface in the sand wes saen ootton bale after cotton bale, lying well protected and almost uninjured under the weight of sand. The scene was soon the arena of busy life and many workmen? were oalled upon to aid in getting out the buried ootton. When every bale was dug out and an inventory taken it was found that nearly one thousand, bales of cotton valued in round numbers at about $60,000 had been rescued. The incident is one of many of this kind showing the strange freaks whioh the storm and flood played, concealing goods and cotton in many instances in such a manner that they are found with difficulty. The discovery of the ootton waa a source of great gratifica tion to the mill people.-Spartanburg Journal._ .? Rise of a Straggling Boy. Alfred H. Smith, of Cleveland, Ohio, who beoame general manager ol the New York Central, and Hudson River railroad yesterday, is a living example of what a man ean do if hi has tho brains and the energy and thc determination to succeed. He .start ed life a quarter of a century ago, with ont eduoation or experience, but h< did: not lick for ability sud he wai not afraid of work. Ho found thc ladder and he olimbed it. Today h< is oeoupyicg a position, whioh, whilt on a different line, is none the less ex acting than that of a man who is gnid lng the destinies of the nation. When he was a mere, strugglinj boy, there wes no bright future befon him. '.pi's eduoation Was in the' rail road shop. He did not have any ele Vating surroundings, and there wa none to encourage him to greats achievement. While his boyhoo* companions were complaining beoaus they had to attend oohool, this youn man.was out on the highways, drivin spikes. He never lost heart, and al though his lot was hard ho wa? nc discouraged and he made it a rule t perform every duty faUhxuiiy an well. In time his Utforts were appre ciated, he went to positions of highc responsibility; and by honest effoi and merit he at last reaohed the top. -There is a lesson for every pooi straggling boy in the rise of Genen Manager Smith, It should give 01 some ray of hope to every toiler in th shop and in tho mil). Those boy who emulate his example and who ai determined to command success fa deserving it, will have to remembe that they cannot follow this diffiou p?th without hard work and the mo oar of ul devotion to duty. There ai hundreds of important offices todi Which are tilled by men who carne their first wages by sweeping floor Time will eventualey render them ni fit for service, and the talent of tl man who does likewise will be reooj nixed and rewarded. Any great rai road oompany suoh as the New Yoi Central shoitld be proud to claim general manager, who worked his wi from.>he bottom^-Greenville News. Stops Cough aid Works off the Celt Laxative Bromo-Quinine Table oure a cold in one day. No Core, 1 Pay. Price 25 cents. - TAS in Austria and Hungary, in Russia, the past winter will be i membered for the vast quantities wolves whioh came ont of the fores and mountains and preyed on the v: lages. In one district in eastern Rt Bia over 16,000 head of cattle we lost. In the governments of Npvgc od, Tver, donetsk, Archangel and Finland it was necessary from time time tc cal! oat the soldiers tc rou: them., up i and shoot them dow Thonssnus were disposed of in tl way. . _ <g> tU mSf O 3HL 3C J?L. m. Beawti* ^^^^^^j^^^ -, . '?m \ ?? - In or'u.V.heHowe Islands, < Australia, a banyan tree has been d covered, the branches and trunks whioh cover nearly seven Seres. -' A toothpick mnohine whioh cu perfect picks from the wood at t rate of 1,000 a minute, a different a vertisement being printed 6sun pno, will bo a feature in the M ohiocry Building at the World's Fa - Wigg-Every maj has some s( of hobby whioh ho rides. Wagg Well, it's ill right for him to ride I ^j||^i>ut ho needn't deride his neig A Fattie. A mao who had stolen a half million dollars onoa went to a lawyer for ad vice. - l4Wiere ie the swag?" asked the lawyer. "Alas," said the thief, "lander took to comer the onion m&rket and it proved too atroog for me. The dough is gone. I have just $1.83 ia my gar ni**!?. I squandered tho money as fast as I stole it, though my wife may haye saved a oonple of simol eons." . .1 "You are craay, or else a fool," saip the lawyer. "Or may bo a luna tic Perhaps all three. You certain ly are not sane. But you have no money to hire experts, so you bad better plead guilty and beg for mercy. You will get of! with a sentence of perhaps eighteen years in prison. Next time have seose enough to save what you steal." ^he next day another thief visited the lawyer. "I have grabbed off $800,000," he remarked cheerfully. "Where is it?" asked the a'.tor noy. "Buried," said the thief. "Buried deep. But not so deep that it cannot be dug up." "How much of it?" "AU, and more, too. I invested it so well that it has grown. Not a oent bas been wasted. I livod on my sal ary and no one suspected I was be coming wealthy." "You are a genius," said the law yer. "You oertainly have the keen est intellect I ever witnessed. Let mo shake your hr?-d. We will hire experts, prove that you are orasy, that you always were non-oompos, that every one knew it, and in a few months you will be oat of legal trou bles." Moral : It sometimes takes money to prove a'palpable fact.-New York Sun. _ _ Repartee In Church. The friendly and familiar atmos phere of the average small rural wes tern ohureh sometimes gives rise to embarrassments. Dr. David is a prominent man in a little far western ohuroh, and he generally takes a quiet little dose during the sermon. Sister Sarah is an elderly, long-winded wo man, who likes to "exhort" after the preacher has concluded his remarks. Not long ago, at a night service, Sister Sarah arose and discoursed at great length. The listeners became visibly restive. Dr. David arose and said, bluntly : "Sister Sarah, it would be au impo sition to detain this congregation any longer." ." 'Taint no imposition to you, doo tor; you've tuok your nap," said Sis ter Sarah. Then the clergyman, with uplifted hands, said: "Let us be dismissed." -Indianapolis Journal. , - A New York City Judge was re cently called upon to deoide that a man ninety years old has a perfeot right to fall in love and get married. After a man has lived ninety years he ought surely to know his own mind. - It's no credit to a man to he good at the point of a gan. Executors' Salo Beal Estate. BY virtue of the last Will of O. H. P. Fant, deceased, I will sell at Anderson C. H., S. C., on Saleday in August next, the "Mountain Viow Plantation" of said deceased, containing 1693 actes, more cr less, comprising Beveral Tracts, to be sold OH a whole, situate partly In Ander son and partly lu Ooonee County, lying on the East aide of Seneca River, adjoin ing lands of Mn. J. W. Stribling, W. A. Simpson, Mrs. Jane A. McCrary, and others. Tern? % of Sale-One-third cash, balance on 1st January next, Interest after ma turity at 8 per cent annually. Possession given January 1,100-1. Bent or the present year reserved. Purohassr to pay extra for papers. H. B. PANT, Executor. July 15,100? _4 3 Valuable Beal Estate for Sale. WE OFFER for sale the entire real es tate belonging to the estates of Col. W. O. Keith and Mrs. E. M. Keith, consisting of the following: described property: 1. The realdeDoe of the late Col. W. O. Keith, together with the fifty-acre farm in the town of Walhalla. There is on this farm good residence and outbuild ings, Bermuda grasa pasture, a stream of clear water, about ten aorea ot good up land and about ten acres of excellent bottom land, fine orchard of young trees. 2. The farm on Keowce river known as the Elliot M. Keith place, consisting of abont six hundred and thirty-one acres. Well watered and good buildings. 8. A farm on Keoweo river containing fonr hundred and seven acres, with good river bottom land and good upland. ?4. A farm ort Keoweo river containing one hunor?i sod eigheeen acres, being the tract of land known as the Kyle binds. 5. A tract of land adjoining tract No. 3 above and No. 0 below described, con taining one hundred acree,. more cv leas. Contains excellent bottom and Upland. 6. One of the most desirable farms in Ooonee County, containing one thousand aorea, wall watered, woodland well tim? bereu, good residence and outbuildings, excellent bottom lands and uplands. Well suited for ?rowingcora, cotton and stock raising. 7. A very desirable farm'near Chap pell's, In Newberry County, containing fonr hundred sad fifty ac MS, good resi dence, exosllsnt bottom and uplands; well watered. Tracts 3, ? and 0 adjoin and are located about one and a bait miles from Newry, (the Courtenay Cotton Mills) nine miles from Walhalla, and about six from Sen dos. If thinking of btiylnrr a home cr farm lt will pay joa to in vos tl gato. For Tull information call on E. L. Herndon. Attorn;? st I?W, Walhalla, S. C., or write him or us. SAMUEL R, KEITH, Execator of Will of Wm. C. Kelih, IDO? Gregg St., Columbia, 8. C. MRS. MAY KEITH HARRIS, Executor *f Will o? Mrs. E. M. Keith. 2410 Eleventh St, Meridian, MUs. THE WELSH NECK HIGH SCHOOL was opened nine yeera afro, and bas grown steadily in its popu larity, numbers, equipment and thoroughness, until it is now hy fe? the krgoat and best equipped co-cduca tional boarding school in the Carolinas. It will be well for you to investigate these claims. Send xor our illustrated catalog whether yon expect to patronise us or sot. : J. W. Cr AIRE?. Prin,, Hartaville, S. C. McCormick Vertical Lift. Mower. The McCormick Vertical Lift Mower, a view of which is presented here with, is specially designed for cutting on rough and stumpy ground, hut ie* also well adapted for general ute. This machine combines all the essential features of the most perfect grass-cutting machine. By virtue of its achieve ments on rough and uneven fields, as well as on smooth and level meadow lands, the Vertical Lift Mower is generally recognized as being the best alli Surpose Mowing Muchine manufactured. The McCormick is equipped withr evices by means u? which the cutter-bar can be raised to a vertical position?, and lowered by tho driver, the machino being thrown in and out of gear au tomatically without stopping the team. This form of construction tia found invaluable, as it enables the operator of thn McCormick Vertical Lift to cut close up to tree, stump or rock, and lave all the hay. The cutter-bar is easily raised for paaaiog any obstruction, and the >" * chine is thrown out of gear automatically, without any loss of time < would otherwise be consumed in operating an ordinary machine under ?a. a. adverse conditions. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. Special attention is invited to a new shipment of ACORN STOVES AND RANGES !" 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