Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1_ ; ^ ■ w mw] slat" 1 ►-MkJ ' r THE DYING CENTURY. OH «ontnrr. tottering to thy rest. All vainly dost thou boat thy breast; A new dawn gilds the mountain croat. The glory of thy wondrous day, E ith atl Its glitter and display, i twilight shadow dies away. Almost the i>oet. In whose rhyme Thy praise Is sung in verse sublime. Begins his lay "Once on a time.” Strange fancies ill! thy time-worn brain} Thou drearaest thou art young again, With battle orr on land and main. And a dread turmoil of unrest Embroils the Orient and the We?'- Alarums sound at thy behest. E’en Israel’s children. In thy throes, Imagine o’er again their woes; And many a hope toward Zion goes. The world Is mnd—men shout and cry— Beholding wonders la the sky, Renewing faith in prophecy. Old century, we love thee well. Thy fame the chronicler will toll When long forgot thy tunoral knell. For many a noble thought hath sped To nohlor action by thee led. And many a high-souled word was said. New happiness came In thy wake. Righted was many an old mistake; An age-worn thirst thy springs did slake. Rest thee—new hopes begin to play; They drive thy death-born fears away, * And usher in the newer day. Rest thee, brave requiem shall be thine. Whose lustrous deeds will long outshine The strange vagaries of decline. —Felix Gerson, In Philadelphia Ledger. A CHANGE OF PURPOSE ESy THOMAS P. MONTKORD 3ovbuo'ii6o'i50o'ouo\ialoo6o\>ucr66ovj jov> joouoNbijo'buoouS'o r, HE day Silas llyan, the pro prietor and man ager of Ryan’s Ranch, set his e mp loyes at work, fencing in a large body of the best Gov ernment land in Houtheru Kan sas, be stirred up a good sized hornet’s nest, and brought the insects buzzing angrily about his hea l. He had no shadow of right to the land, and naturally the settlers and home-seekers, resented his cool appropriation of it to his own use. There were men who wanted it for homes, and who were entitled to it under the laws, and these men looked upon Ryan’s conduct as a base infringement on their rights and were not sparing in their denunciation of him and his order. Near Ryan’s Ranch there was a little town know ns Prairie City. It was an insignificant place, with less than two hundred population, but it gave pro mise of great things in the futnre. Its inhabitants,fand the a^ttlers on the prairie about it, believed that in time Prairie City would become one of the leading towns of Kansas. Unfort unately, however, the hopes of those people were never to be realised. A railroad was soon after built through that part of the country and it missed Prairie City by jnat two miles. The result was n now town on the railroad and the deatlli ofthe cpd one. Prairie City went the wayVof hundreds of ether Kansas towns. Its population took up their possessions, including their houses, and moved aoross the prairie to the railroad. In Prairie City's halcyon days, how ever, it boasted of a newspaper, the Prairie City Eagle. It was not much of a paper, being small and poorly printed, but it was quite as good ns its atronage justified. Its subscription ist was extremely limited, and its ad vertising business was dwarfed to one eolumu of display matter and a few lines of pay locals. The Eagle, as a matter of course, stood by the town people and the set tlers, and when Ryan set his men to feuciug in the public lauds for grazing purposes, it came out with a strong oditoriul denouncing him in the sever est terms. It pronounced his action dishonest, ns he was stealing the peo ple’s rights. It went further and said that it was the lowest and most con temptible species of dishonesty, since by it he was stealing the homes from poor, struggling men amt their wives and children, thereby robbing them of a chance to earn an honest living. “It is the duty of the homeseekers," it went on, “to protect themselves against the encroachmonts of this « cormorant, who, for the sako ling to his illgotten wealth, would starve even the innocent, un- conscious, helpless babe in its moth er’s arms. Tt is the duty of the sel lers to band themselves together, to teke the law in their own hands, and cut the wire that abuts them out of thehr own. Tear down the fence, drive off or kill the usurper’s cattle and give him to understand that if the Government won’t protect yon, yon can and will protect yourselves.” A copy of the paper containing this editorial fell into'Ryan’s hands. Ho read it and boiled over with wrath and indignation. He was forced to ad mit that there was much truth in the article, but it was nouo the more pala table to him for that. He swore ven geance against the Eagle and its edi tor, and vowed that not another issue of the paper should be published. At dinner time he read the article to his employes as they sat at the table. They were six in number, recently emigrated from a ranch down in Texn?, and bad a reputation for being tho hardesfand most reckless dare-devils that over rode the range. When Ryan hu 1 finished reading he said; “What do you think of that?” •*I think it’s blamed big crowing from n mighty litlle rooster,” one of the cowboys replied. “If tho settlors want, to take that •Jitui 's advice and try if oa about entting the wires,"another said, “just let them. They'll find before they get through with it that they’ve got into the hottest and most unhealthy job they ever tackled.’’ “Then yon boys will stand by me?” Ryan questioned. “Of course we will,” one of them answered. “We’re paid to work for you, and we’ve not got any love for settlers. We’ll see that your fence is not ent and that youj cattle are not bothered.” “That’s all right,” Ryan said, “but there is something else I want you to do.” “What is it?” “I want this-paper squelched.” “We’ll squelch it.” “I want you to ride over to Prairie City to-night and clean tho thing out root and branch. Burn the office, smash up the old press and chase the editor out of the country.” “We’ll do it.” Just after supper that night tho cowboys loaded their pistols carefully and buckled them about their waists. Thou they brought out their horses, saddled and mounted them, and rode away in the direction of Prairie City at a mad gallop. Just before they reached the town they came to a halt. One of them said: “Now, boys, we don’t want to take any reckless chances in this business, so we had better be a little cautious. I guess that editor is a spindle-shanked, goggle-eyed old rooster from the East, who’d drop dead at the sight of a pistol, but still he may be a raiment of a different color. For. all wqi know he may tarn loose and go to pumping lead into ns at the rate of about sixty bullets a minute. It will be safest to kind of slip up on him and take him unawaares." The others agreed to this proposi tion, and accordingly they rode quietly into town, dismounted and tied their horses, and noiselessly approached the Eagle office. A light was shining through a window of the little one- story box building, and by one com mon impulse the cowboys stole cau tiously forward to this window with a view to peeping into the room to see how tho laud lay. On one side of the room they saw a rickety old typestand containing a half dozen cases of type. On the other side stood an old army press, while in the center there was p zinc-covered goods box which answered in the place of an imposing stone. Up at the end of the room was a small tablo at which was seated a woman. The woman’s elbows rested on the table and her face lay between her hands. She was sitting directly in front of the window, apparently look ing straight at it, so the cowboys had a good, square view of her features. They saw that she was young and pretty, not much more than • child, nnd very sad. There was a deeply troubled expression ou her face, and once they saw her brush tears from her eyes. “The editor's wife or daughter, I reckon, "one of the cowboys whispered. “Guess so,” one of the others re plied; “end like as not the old whelp’s been abusing her.” “I’m going in and talk to her,” the first speaker announced. “Ton chaps wait outside till I come back.” “A good idea,” another agreed. “We want to see a little more into this business before wo do anything rash.” The cowboy walked around to the door and entered the office. He passed across the fioor and stopped just be fore the little table at which the wom an was sitting. He took off his hat, made an awkward bow, and said: “Good evening, lady, I hope I find you well.” A shade of fear passed over the woman’s face and a startled look came to her eyes when sho saw tho man’s huge pistols and noted his cowboy at tire. Still, she answered calmly and bravely enough: “I am quite well, thanx yon. Is there anything I can do for you?” “Why, I don’t kuo#. I reckon maybe I’d like to sec tho editor of this paper.” “I am the editor.” “Well, but I wont to see the man- year father, or husband, or whoever he is." ' There is no man here. I am all alone." “You don’t mean that yon are run ning this paper all by yourself?” Yes, sir, except for tho help of a boy, who manages the press for me.” The cowboy whistled, then stood staring at the woman in amazement. At last he ejaculated: “Well, if that don't stomp me! A woman running a paper all alone, with no men folks to help her! Gee, bat it must be lots of hard work!” “It is, bnt I don’t mind that. I’d be willing to work night and day if I could just manage some wayjto keep the paper going.” “You’re not figuring on stopping it, are you?” “Yes. I’ll have to stop it. I can’t g«l enough money to buy any more paper. My mother is sick and I have to buy medicine and things for her. Poor mother! I don’t know how I shall provide for yon now.” The girl’s voice trembled and her eyes filled with tears. The cowboy looked on a moment, then paced rapid ly two or three times across the room. Finally he said: “You f'yait here for mo. I’ll bo back in t few minutes.” He hurried out to his companions who were waiting at the door. Ho drew them to a safe distance from the office and then told them all he had discovered. They heard him to the end. “So that woman,” one of them said, “wrote that piece about Ryan.” “She did.” “Then, if we kick up a fuss with anybody, it’s got to be with her? “It has.” “In that case I guess wo won’t kick up any fuss. “Not if I can help it. It’s all right enough to pile onto a man and squelch him, but it’s a different thing when it WORDS OF WISDOM. comes to a poor, lone woman strag gling bravely to support her sick mother. ” “The paper is going to quit any how,” someone remarked, “so it’s ail right to let it alone. It can’t do any more damage.” Tho man who had come from the room was silent and thoughtful for a moment, then he said: “I reckon the paper’s not going to quit, either. > I’ve got money enough to tide it over a few weeks, and—” “I’ve got enough to tide it over a few more weeks," another said, and he was promptly followed by the others with like propositions. The upshot of it all was that a minute later a roll of money was pat into the girl’s hands, and before she had re- oovered-fttm her astonishment the cowboys ware ou their way back to the ranch. I “Wonderj what Ryan will thifik?" one of thqm remarked as they rode along. “Don’t matter what he thinks,” an other replied. “We didn’t hire to him to make war on women. ” Thanks to the aid given by the cow boys, the Eagle lived; and when Prai rie City mcjved to the new town the Eagle went (with it, and there it grew and prospered and in time became a prominent paper. Bnt its editor never knew the trne object of tho night’s visit that was paid her by the cowboys of Ryan’s Rinch. Whether she would have thought any the less of them if she had knqwn is a matter of doubt. Naturally] Ryau was displeased with the*action of his employes; tho moro especially since tho Eagle kept up its fight on him. But there was nothing he could do pave submit, since he had contracted with his employes for a year, and he could not discharge them for refusing to do an unlawful net. He was entirely helpless and when the settlers cut : his fence and took up claims on hii range he had to qnietly give way to them and seek grazing lands elsewhere.—Detroit Free Press. The otility of life is not in its ex tent; it is in the employment of it. A man may live long and live little.— Montaigne. The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or at least the most worthy of respect. The one is the age of innocence, the other of reason.—Joseph Joubert. Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State. As the beams of a house, so is order to all things.—Robert Southey. Good literature is as necessary to the growth of tho soul as good air to the growth of the body, and it is just as bad to put weak thoughts into a child’s mind as to shut it np in an unventilated room.—Charles Dudley Warner. Stand and shine! Lift up thy face to the divine airs. Reflect the light. Perchance only this is required of thee. Prove thy willingness to serve, and that thy service is a labor of love, and broader opportunities for the more interior action of the spirit will open out to thee.—Trinities and Sanc tities. The present consequences of our conduct are not all we hive to meet. The lines of moral and spiritual law must run on throngh all worlds and states of being. Tho change which is made by dropping the body cannot ar rest the effect of deeds done in the body. So far as those deeds were done by the mind and will, they work their results in the mind and will.— C. G. Ames. The man who goes about with pre conceived ideals as to how other peo ple should treat him is foredoomed to misery. The man who holds ideals as to how he shall treat other people, or better yet, who, in the spontaneous glow aud ardor of his love and enthu siasm, shall not consciously think at all of his generous impulses, will be happy with a happiness that noth ing can affect to much extent. The souls that would really bo rich er in duty iu some new position are precisely those who borrow no ex cuses from the old one, who even es-- teem it full of privileges, plenteous in occasions of good, frequent in divine appeals which they chide their grace less and unloving temper for not heed ing more. Wretched and barren is the discontent that quarrels with its tools instead of with its skill.—James Martineau. Tb« Office He Held A man who for some years has been engaged in the service of a large tele phone corporation in Greater New York was recently asked by an ac quaintance to name the title of his position. The telephone man re plied somewhat as follows: “I hardly know myself. Whenever there is any little task requiring some tact, or when an unruly customer has to be pacified, or when a situation requir ing a little diplomacy arises, or when any kind of work that no one else wants to do'ootnes along, your hnmble servant is called npon. I have asked several times to have my position de fined. The nearest I have to it is that I am a special agent. I have about decided to take a title for my self, and I think it will be ‘First Aid to the Injnred.’”—Electrical Review. Pineapples In Florid*. Net profits from each acre of pine apples on the Indian River, $300; from six sores, $1800; from ten acres, $3000, and so oa up to thirty, forty, fifty and even sixty acres. These are not imaginary figures, bnt actual re turns from the crop of the present year. Tho authorities on pineapple culture on the east coast of Forida consider $300 an acre a very conserv ative estimate of net profits per an num if the fruit is raised aud handled with ordinary care and prudence. Home growers during the past season have realized as much as $400 per air a.—Jacksonville Times-Union. Ants That Took a Ship. When a vessel recently arrived in Liverpool with a cargo of logwood everybody on board, from captain down to cook, rnshed frantically ashore, as though pursued by some unseen enemy. As a matter of fact, the vessel was literally swarming with hordes of hnngry Jamaica ants. The little pests had invaded the lookers and dived headlong into the sugar barrels. After finishing tho contents of these, they proceeded to bore holes through the supply of hard lack, and ate everything before them, until it was feared that the stock of provisions on board would run short. There was a cessation from their at- lacks when the vessel was caught in a West India hurricane, which flooded the cabin and drenched everything be low. It was supposed that the in truders had all been drowned, but after tho storm had passed away they began again with renewed energy. The captain who commands the ves sel stated that there are millions of the insects still on board, and he thought that the cargo must have come from tho vicinity of ant hills, for which Jamaica is noted. He stated that tho ! ants were in all parts of the vessel, i and that in all his experience at sea i he had never before jpet an attack such as the newcomers waged againsthim.— Pearson’s Weekly. Uor.<e Flesh as a Delicacy. ” The ancients considered horse meat as a delicious food and offered it to ' their gaests as a mark of honor. I j Pliny says that the ancients killed their horses and ate their flesh raw. The Sarmations, when hungry, never t hesitated to cut a vein of the animal ' pn which they were riding, drink his I blood and then bind the wound to lave the precious fluid. An embassy sent by the King of France on a mission to the Khan of Tartary ate delicionsly smoked horse sides at his Excellency's table. While horse flesh was eaten generally among Germans Until the days of Charlemagne, it was regarded with aversion by the early Christians. At that time there was a ernsade against this meat becanse of being “unclean, unwholesome and un fit to eat. ” The present revival of the Yse of horse flesh concerning which the French papers have had so much to say, is the result of a movosient among prominent men, tho p* r '.dcipal ■ object of which is to add to (he food resources of tho world. Woman's Higl-.^ in Turkey, Tho Turkish woman is marriageable at tho ago cl nine years, aud by Turkish lav, at that age, if married, , she is competent to manage her prop erty »t.d dispose of one-third of her ( fpr-tuc. Tho law .allows her to aban- ! doa her hnsband’s house for jnst cause, aud will protect her in so doing. She cannot bo compelled to labor for the 1 support of her husband* Oregon Indlahs are said to complain that whereas they are sentenced t to spend thirty days in jail for Intoxica tion, a white man guilty of the some offense gets but five days in Jail The Indians have within their reach a sim ple remedy for this injustice: they caa atop getttns drunk. The fact that a Brooklyn judge granted five divorces in thirty minutes is being extensively commented on by the Eastern press. It is remarkablo only because it took place in the East. A Western judge cannot understand how a man with conscientious Ideas would fool away so much time. It U stated that James G. Blaine, Jr., is now on the reportorlal stall of tho Now York Tribune. Lift- Isn’t Worth Living to one who sufforo the maddenlne scony of Brznma. Tetter and sui*h irritating, itching skin disease*. Every roughness of the ekln from a simple chop to Tetter and Ringworm even of long standing is completely, quickly snd surely cured by Tettertne. is comfort worth SO cents to you? That's the price of Tettertne at drug stores, or by mall for price In stamps from J. 1 • bhuptrtne. Savannah, Ga. Sogland consists of 87,000,000 acres. Soot- laud 19,500,000 and Ireland 30.500,000. - —— About Vaccinating. Smallpox is getting to be the terror of the city, and Mormoniem is getting to be tha terror of the country. Vaccination against, the one is jn^t as important as the other. A S ure mild remedy that will Insure safety ia te best in each case. Perfect Vacctea- tior against Mormon ism can be had foroaly I cents, or 00 cants a dozen, by mail. Only & pages, good type, neat cover and perfectly harmless. Enclose stamps or Po. Money Order to-Ruv. J E. Mauaffet, Cheater, 8. C. Bicycle manufacturers who assigned don’t have to retire. How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollirt Reward for any ca e of Catarrh that cannot bj eared by Hall's Catarrh Cute. F. J. Che.vey <fc Co., P.ops., Toledo, O. We. the undersigned, hare known F.J. Che ney !or the la 115 years and believe h m per fectly honor dde in all bnsiness t'an action* and llnancially able to curry out any obliga tion m de by their firm. West Sc TauAX.Wholerale Druggists, Toledo, Oho. Waldiro, Kirn-an Sc Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall s Catarrh (hue is taken internally, not ing dir ctly upon the blood nnd mucous Mir- f. bold tacos of the system. Piic-, 75c.pe bottle. ~~ D.uggists. Testimonials fit i’s Family Pills are the best. If a man never takes the first drink ha will never die a drunkard. Pres. McKinley vs. Free Silver. A battle of giants is going to take place thin summer on SO 000 farms la America, not in talk or votes, but in yields. Saber's new potato marvels are named as above, and he offers a price for the biggest potato yield, also t400 in gold for suitable name for his corn (17 inches long) an J oat prodigies. Only seedsmen in America growing grasses, clovers and farm seeds and selling potatoes attl.50 a barrel. The editor urgea you to try Salwr’a seeds, and to * Sbkd This Notice wits 10 Cis. n Stamps to John A. Saber Seed Co., LuCroase, Wls., for 11 new farm seed samples, worth QMiMtH to get a start, and their big catalogue, a. a * If the pockets are deep enonght a bay's first pair of trousers always fit. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine.Tablets. All Druggibts refund moneyjf it fails to cure. 85c. If some men had to eat their words they would soon die of indigestion. Fits permanently cured. 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