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BROWN BESS.
Mil BrowM
•be
■ "I with I ooald
■aid Sa«7 Rom riming
bed juat washed.
"Oh, Susy I* cried her brother.
" What la the world do yon want to
•all Brown Bees for?" her mother
aeked, looking op from the dough she
1 1 ooald go to the academy, mother,
for two more terms,'’ woe the answer.
"Then perhape I could—get the school
at Corners."
" Noasenee, Busy. I need you to help
me," her mother said. "Keeping
school Is a thaaklem business.”
“It’s money,^ said Susy, " and I do
long to help myself, and you, too.
Money will ao everything that needs
to be done."
" Yes, that's a fact,” spoke up Tom,
"and there’s lots want* to be done.
Fd like to clear that Uve-acre lot for
potatoes and corn, but I can’t do It.**
"Andtho houM wants shingling,’’
her mother said, plaintively her care
worn countenance taking on another
shadow.
M The front door’s got a crack all
the way across," Tom spoke up again,
"and there ought to ben fireplace In
granny's room. Then there’s the
barn; It's all we oando to keep the hay
dry."
know all that,” said Susy
know the house Is getting to be
scarecrow, and the barn Is worse, and
that's why I want to be earning. As
for thcshlnglM, I should think you
ooald put thorn on yourself, Tom ; yes,
mm! mend the roof.
"Where's thesblngUs?" Tom asked,
In bis matter-of-fact way. "Where’s
the nails? Where’s the hammer?
Hie old one Is broken past mending.
And where’s the money to get them
with, I should like to know ?“
" Sure enough " Mid Susy, " unless
I could earn It. That's why I want to
•ell Brown Bem."
" And If you do sell her you won’t
get much.’’ Tom said. " She’s *9 full
of her tricks—the oraslest colt I ever
"I
a
fa
" I’m more and more afraid to have
ride her,” her mother said. " But
you should sell her, there’s the mort
gage to be paid In October."
“If I sell her.” Mid Susy, quietly,
" it will be to finish my education.”
" That’s always your cry,” her moth
er went on, - le plaintive tones; " no
matter what’s needed ; but I s’pose we
must give la. Bad as the roof Is, It
shelters us. What would we do with
out a h juse over our heads ?''
" I’d Mil the cow,” put la Tom.
"And then grandma would just
about starve," the mother supplement
ed.
Susy turned away from the table,
angry and grieved, but she said noth
ing, only ran upstairs to her own room
After helping her mother about the
house she donaed har sunbonnst and
ran into the barn. Tom was rubbing
down Brown Bern, whoM bright, glomy
cent shone Ilk# Mtin.
“ Much M I can do to take earn of
her," Mid Tom. "She waste a regular
groom who would break her of her
aaety little tricks. See how she throws
her heed up, and look at bar eym flash
lag fire. Are you going to tbn store ?
Mother waste sugar and molasses and
vinegar—and I’ve got to go In the
"Yes, I’m
I dread '
Brown Bess that’s thn first thing
pay.”
That and the mortgage." said Tom.
" Well, I’ll naddle old Dick."
Bust mounted to the bock of the
slow old cart hone with gloomy fore
bodings. It wm a warm September
day. Even in thn midst of her anxiety
thn beauty of the ride to HUlston
soothed and delighted her. Every de
tail of the way wm familiar to her,
yet when she came to Silver Ledge
falls and mw the white spray iMplng
ilta rooks and dancing among
> nhe stopped old Dick nod
ring thn scene ns If she had
It before.
a voice said be-
, I’m going,” Mid Susy, “though
It, the bill Is so large. If I Mil
Bess that’s the first thing I’ll
porulng,
lie T she exclaimed, with
didn’t hev you comlnp."
The falls are so loud. I mw
and followed. Going
70a at thn band
to town ?"
" Ym, Charlie," she made reply, and
la spite of herself her voice held n cu
rlews tremor. . -
"You’re worried over something,"
he said, the keen lover’s nynn noting
the shadows,
"Yse, Charlie, a little—the same
old trouble. I want to Mt things to
rights—and—It’s hard work," she said,
la n low voice.
"I knew It. Why won’t you leave
nil Umm matters and oome with me *
The houM Is waiting for you—and no
am I. Susy, darling, make up your
Be held out his hand, n look of unut
terable love making his rugged face
beautiful.
" If father had only lived," she said
" But you know It Is Impomlble now
Charlie. I oaa’t leave mother—not yet
—and I must finish the course at the
B nondemy, and keep school at least
a year before I get things straightened
out.’’
He gave a long, low whistle, then
urged oa his hone, but stopped again
till Susy oame up with him.
"You know I’ll wait for you, Susy,
as long as you naj. but It’s rather hard
oa me, as Pm forehanded and ready to
marry. Sasy, oome, make up your
mind. My house is a large one. I’ll
taka your mother and granny. Tom
own run the old farm, and—”
"What! Let you support me and
thn dually, too? NeverP and her
"I would never permit
olpeted a quMtioe of that sort, but
she answered, after a moment's Inde
cision : ' -
" She Is fond of tbklng her own hand
(ometlases. No, Mir. Lee, If I find If
hard to manage her. she would never
do for your little girl.”..
"Ah, Fmnorrj for that, Mias Susy,”
mid‘the storekeeper. "But I known
a turn who wants a spirited horse.'
What would you Mil her for ?” J
"I leave that to th« purohaeor,”
Susy made answer. "Papa paid 175
for her more than a year ago, and I
wouldn't waat to take less than that,
(or I need the mqaey very much," she
went on, "and if you will be so kind
as to take aa Interest la the matter—"
She stopped, hereyM wistful.
" Why, of coune I will,” the grocer
responded, "m send my boy to your
house with the groceries, and he can
bring the horse back with him. If
anything Is done In thp.way of a sale
1’U let you know at once. - *'
Susy thanked him and went on her
way home. As she came la sight of
the houM, an old-fashioned, two-story
building, where dilapidation was ren
dered plotureeque by a profuM growth
of Ivy that covered the front porch and
much of the exterior walla, she felt
more ooaifortable m she thought over
her prospects. In Imagination she
had her mother quite reconciled to all
her plana, her sonool life amured and
all things going on swimmingly. For
who knew but that Brown Bom jplght
bring her !li<X),.she was so splritedAnd
handsome?
Work and home aMmad brighter.
The grocer’s boy oame for the none,
and though It wm hard parting with
the pretty creature, Susy, la expecta
tion of reeults, bore the separation
bravely.
" Can’t we take a little of the money
you getyto shingle the roof?" her
MOtheif asked as ths hone wm led
away
'"And you still thinking of going to
school ? Ain’t you too old ?"
" I’m not 18 yet,” wm Susy’s aMwer.
" Many girls go to school till they are
20."
" And there’s olothM, to think of,
dresses nod bonnets and shoes.”
" Oh, they’ll be provided," SMy Mid,
with a little laugh.
" An’ winter’s oomln’—aa’ It’s. two
or three mllee to the ’cademy,” her
mother went on, each time throwing a
more plaintive cadence into her voice.
" Tom’s qjothes are* terribly patched,
an’ mother needs flannels. I ain’t so
MBS. AmP TABMi A VACATION
BILL TELLS ABOUT MSB TRIP.
His Wife HaA a Pleasant Time Until
the News Game that Ha Wae Sick
-Her Visit Was Shortened Thereby.
My wife, Mrs. Arp.hadent been away
from home for two.yean. It Is said
that a setting hen never gets (at, but
theM human hens do, and so the girls
thought their mother ought to rouM
up and go somewhere and take a rest.
It wm a great undertaking to get her
off. It took a whole wMk to get her
apparel In fint-olasa condition tor she
waeent raised on common olothM and
wonH'WMr them now, especially when
•he goes abroad or to church. We
finally got her off, though the train
llkad to have left her while she wm
My Inf goodby and kissing all the little
graoAhlldren. One of the girls went
with her, but I wm to sootier around
at home. Two weeks wm the time she
gave henelf, for she says that Is m
long m anybody ought to stay any
where on a visit, for sonH times folks
wear out their welcome and don’t know
It. In foot one week Is the MfMt. She
went to Home, where our oldeet boy
and his family live and where she lived
for twenty-Mven years. Some of her
early friends are still there and they
oame to see her, of course, and talked
about the dear old tlmee until their
eyes got teary and they drew their
Chairs a little dOMr and were merry
and sad by turns m they talked of the
living and the dead. On Sunday she
went to the Mine old church and sat
In the Mme old pew and drank In
music from the Mme old organ, but
the preacher and the choir were
changed^ After Mrvioe she wm forced
to hold s reception In the vMtibule,
where old friends and their children
and grandchildren gathered around
her, the friends to greet and their
chlldrefi to look upon thels matron of
the olden time of whom they had
heard. Yee, this wonderful woman
who so gently dominated her lord and
iCMtar and kept him so sweetly sub
dued that he llxed the subjugation.
She spent a delightful wmx and the
programme for another wm already
arranged when on Saturday some bird
of the air told her that I wm sick and
•he oould hardly wait for the evening
train. I had been sick, very sick, but
the orlsls had paseed and for fear she
might hear It and cut short her stay
1 wrote her that I wm getting well and
to finish her reet. She Is not that kind
young m I wm onoe, but I ain’t sayla’+of a woman or wife, and sure enough
•bout myself, on y it g kind
spare you," and the Hum In
ir« weak face deepened.
rlsh you oould see It m
1 to the academy,” Susy
ever goln' to gat 1100. 1
than lucky if youjget 160
1, mother,” said bney, de
busy, desper-
3, Pll “ '
anything 1
o’ bard to •]
har mothei
" Mother, I wish
I do. I must go
made reply. It's the opportunity of
my life. Bull tall you what I will do.
If I gat 8100 for Brown Bom I’ll dlvlda
nvnn. Fifty dollara would go a long
way, wouldn’t ii ?*’
“ Wall, yee, 160 would get every
thing wn need," wm the reply. " But
K u’re never golb’ to gel 1100. You'll
more
"Well, u
ntely, " if 1 only gel $60, I'll divide
even. It will be 830 00mmg In n^nry
month If I only get the school."
" I don’t sm’s there’s any chance of
that," said her mother, with a woe-be
gone face.
Day after day Susy waited, but ao
word oame about Browa Bees. Tom
declared that he believed there wm no
prospect of Mlllng her, but one day
Charlie Grant drova up to tha houM
his face (airly baamlng.
" I thought I’d bring you the news,
he said, as he oame in the bright
living-room.
"Have they sold Brown Bom ?" Busy
Mked, her voloe trembling in Her ex
cltemenl to bMr.
" Well, yee—that is, If you’ll take
the price they offer," Charlie made
answer.
n Oh, I hope It’s a hundred,” sale
Susy
" A hundred !" laughed GharUe. "Is
that what you value her at? Lucky
for you that I wm In at thn bargain
That hone will be worth thousands of
dollars before long. The man who
bought* her trains horses for the race
coune. He bM discovered remark
able qualltlM In Brown Bom as
trotter, and Is willing to give you 81,000
for her."
A thousand dollan ! Susy stood for
a moment llk^ a statue; then she flew
Into the kltcbfcn, where her mother wi
r
"Well,
wllllngneM
would lot
you
Susy, I’ve declared my
to help you, If only y<
me,” said Charlie, “ bu
won't, don't look so si
and worried, my daring,' It's worth
■•rving and saving for Mven yean if
I can only win you at ImI for my
wife."
" Oh, Charlie!" she said, brokenly,
"your love is prloeleM. Only bn pa-
M IH try, and keep on hoping," ho
•aid, and they parted at the store.
Tha grocer mat har with a smile.
Everybody llkad SMy. No girl more
gonial than sha under ordinary olroum-
•tanoer bat to-day har
»• har maaaar preoccupied.
" Mr, Lea, I have made up my mind
80 sail Browa Boao,* aha said, after
•be needed. "Do
that wants a
80 sail Browa Bom,'
getting tha things •!
jot^know anybody
Ha l Going to noli Browa
Wall, I wm thlaklay of baying
for my Allot. D nhesafn
na, do you think T" thn
pula, fehe had aot anti-
making the dally batch of bread
claiming :
" A thousand dollars, mother! we’re
rich! Brown BeM Is sold for a thou
•and dollara I You won’t have to work
hardtbls winter. Tom can get two
suits 01 olothM If he wants them, and
buy the flve-aore lot.'' Grhndma'can
have all the fire nhe needs; the roo
•hall be shingled, the mortgage paid
off and—and—’’
What am I to have?” Charlie
Mked, m she stopped, out of breath
he having followed her Into the nltchen
She turaed round, and, blushing
beautifully, held out her hands. He
clasped them both and drew her to his
bosom.
"What do you think of this mother?’.’
he Mked of the glad-hearted woman
at the bread pan. " Susy Is to bo my
wife."
“ Why, I think it’s n good deal better
than keeping school, ” snn said.
Not a Wkloomb Addition.—A
couple of tourists who were journeying
on noneback In the rural district of
the South had ridden many miles when
they oame to a small log osbln, out of
hloh children of all sixes and agM
oame swarming out like bees from a
hive. •
The tourists were tlrod and raven
ously hungry. Hailing an old negro
at the cabin gate they told him that
they had oome to take dinner with
him.
" Ye* Is weloum, gemmen !’’ he said.
" I ain’t got much to eat, but Fll do the
ve’y bM’ 1 kin fo’ you, gemmen.” _
en raising his voloe to a shrill,
yell, he Mid : __
HI, yo’, JudM Iscariot, 70' run
catch a chicken (m’ es yo* lalgs can
carry yo.”
" What do you oall that boy ?” Mked
one of the tourlste.
" JudM Iscariot, sab.”
" What did you ever give him such
a name m that for ?”
" Dat’s a Bibla name, sab, an* it hM
a moanin’. All de Bible namM hM a
moanin’ sab. I’m got fo’teen en dey’s
all got Bibla namM, oMe de Bible
name* bM a moanin’, tab."
" What Is tha meaning of JudM Is
cariot ?*’
The old man wm ittj reticent about
giving further Information, and it re-
ivlred a good deal of persuMion before
finally said: *
• Wall, 1 11 tell yo’ sab. Hit's like
dis: Yo 1 see I’d had fo’teaa ohllun
befo’JudM Iscariot wm hewn, an’
fo’
teas chlllunls a mighty big fam’iv
fo’ a po* man tar raise en keer to,
thoutbabln’ nolmo’nowhen JudM Is-
oaHot oame erlong I gib Tm dal name
m you know da Bible say it’d be
batter fo* JudM Iscariot If he r d aebber
bewa.”—Detroit Free Pr—
by it wl
like the
Aad 1
phla R
quillty
more Is
get
■rful
about 0 p. m., I happened to look out
of tbe window and mw her oomlag up
the lawn Ilka sha feared I would die
before she got here. Thea I bad to
tell her m bow I wm taken down oa
Wedneedny, for my namn old kidneys
got belligerent again and wrMtled
with me and threw me, aad I had vertl
go and lumbago and embargo and my
eye balls ached and how the doctor
treated me heroically aad scandalously
and dosed me with something every
two hours—all different-and nobody
can tall what cured me.
But all’s wall that ends wall, and now
I am in for another lease. Df coune
an old wagon will break down ever
and anon aid hM to be patched up and
kept greased, or It can’t go. By and
111 ail collapse and turn to dust
the ooe-hoM shay.
Aad now here oomM Tha Philadel
phia Record just to disturb my traa-
eod aggravate me Into using
Dguage oa those Yankee edi
tors. I have already used up all my
adjectives on Boston and never dreamed
1 would need any for the Qtaker City.
Tbe Reoord pretends to be a Demo
cratic paper, but it hM got a whole
column about the Andersoovllle prison
and Its horron, which It says have
created a sentiment that #111 last as
long M time, and how the poor creat
ures were shot down like dogs and
starved, and had to dig wtlls twenty-
five feet deep with their bands anti
scraps of shells in n vain effort to
water to drink, etc. Well, It Is nw
to read, hut I would like to know
where those shells came from—must
have fed tbe boys on oysters.
Ym, Blaine charged all those hor
rors upon us In n terrible speech, and
Ben Hill replied to him >d one of the
greatest speeches of hli life nod re
futed every charge nod did It from the
war records and proved to the wcrld
that Grant aod Stanton and Lincoln
were responsible for every death and
all the distress that occurred at Ander-
soavllle. They utterly refused to ex
change prisoners with us when im
portuned to do so for the sake of hu
manity, for Grant said that our men in
Northern prisons would go back to fight
ing again. We begged them to send us
K tlons and medicine for their men
d told thepi that both might be dis
tributed by their own officers and sur
geons. They refused to do this, and of
course, their men died like sheep, for
we had no medicines and our own ra
tions ware corn meal and salt pork.
But those prisoners had just what
their guards had. Ask the guards who
still live. Ask Captain Hudson, of
Marietta, one of the bMt of men, and
he will tell you that the prisoners had
everything that he did and there wm no
inhumanity, but pity and sorrow for
them and indignation at the heartleM-
neM of their government Read Percy
Gregg’s chapter on this Andersonville
and you will wonder that such indif
ference to the misery of their own sol
diers oould be found In any government
upon earth. Mr. Gregg declares that
If the gfeat powers of Europe had
have known it they would have been
horror struck—that the authorltiM at
WMhington were really the murder
ers of thnir own soldiers and they had
the kindred of these sol-
a scape goat of ’ poor
hanging him after a mock
trial.
And yet a man who signs himMlf an
Atlanta Yankee wrltM me an Insulting
letter and tells me to hold up awhile
and let the YankeM alone, for the war
Is over. Well, then, let him oall pff
ils own dogs and write to his people
to stop their Um about Andersonville
and about the negro, and let us alone.
will quit when they quit, and until
they repent and apologise I will cry
aloud and spare not. Solomon says
that a slanderer Is a coward and I
wouldent reply to their slanders If it
wm not a maxim of the law, that silence
under accusation Is a partial confeMion
of guilt.
And let me tell you, my brethren,
>hat tbe fire still burns la the
boeoms of the Confederate veterans
and their children, and if dlsMter and
conflict oome again to the people of
the South It will not be saved by the
politicians or the mongrel money-lov-
people of the olUM, but by the
oro vt #UBir vwai 1
to appease the 1
diers by making 1
Wirt and bangle,
S
him.
Bat enough of this for this time. I
see advertised a medicine that is war
ranted to overcome that tired feeling
which sotnetioBM overcomes a man,
aad I’m going to buy a bottle and try
It, for tneM Northern slanders make
me tired half say time. And m I read
"them I unconsciously' w htaper that’s a
He, that’s another lie and another.
David said: I* And I said in mine
hMte that all men were liars." He
might have said It at his leisure If he
had lived up North till. now and read
the Northern daily papers.
And we spe that McKinley hM ap
pointed another negro postmMter in
Alabama. Tried to shove it on him,
but the negro wouldent aooept It.
That’s the man our bootlickers were
slobbering on while he wm matching
through Georgia. May the Lord have
mercy on us and protect us from our
own politicians.
Bill Arp~.
P. 8 —A poor old woman of DallM,
Tex., wants Information of her brother,
Lucius Marcellas Campbell, 6f Bullock,
County, Georgia, who volunteered in
1861 and wm mustered in near Savan
nah and served four years In General
Wheeler’s cavalry. He died some
ears ago in Texas and his little chll-
ren are entitled to a pension under
the laws of T«xm. My old friend, Gen
eral Cabell, begs me to v see if I can find
any living proof of this soldiers, ser
vice. If he hM sny comrade who knew
him, let him write to me. B. A.
YORK'S CHAMPION WHBAT FARM
One Thonsand Bushels Raised on
^finety Acres—Dry Weather Ont
Down the Yield.
The Yorkvllle correspondent of the
News and Courier says h
Probably the largest quantity of
wheat ever raised on one farm In York
County wm threshed iMt week, on the
farm of Mr. F. B. McClain ; and, while
the average yield per acre bM often
been exceeded in this section, still the
result Is very encouraging when ail
the circumstances in councution with
the preparation of the land, the
weather, etc., are taken Into considera
tion. *
Last year almost the entire farm
wm planted In cotton and corn, and an
extra large crop wm made, but owing
to the low price of cotton the profits
of the year’s work were not satisfac
tory to Mr. McClain, and he concluded
that he would try wneat. The stalk
crops were not finally gathered until
about the 1st of December which Is con
sidered full late for wheat sowing, but
nevertheleM the land wm prepared,
and the seed wheat pvt in the ground,
the work not having been completed
u#tll about the middle of January,
owing to continued wet weather, which
rendered It ImpoMlble to proMeute
the work of seeding without interrup
tion.
Ninety acrM In all were sown, end
the yield, meMured, was »13 1 2 bush
els. The standard weight of e bushel
of wheat is 60 pounds. A number of
meMured bushels were weighed and
each oee tipped the beam at 66 pounds.
On this bMls, and It is the commercial
one, there were 60,181 pounds of
wheat, or 1,000 bushels, which makes
the average yield per acre 11 1-9 bush
els.
Tbe varletlM sown were "Virginia
red chaff" and "purple straw. A
number of experts have pronounced
the quality m being m (1 ne, If not tbe
flnesi, they have ever examined. One
special patch yielded at the rate of 40
bushels to the acre. The ground was
carefully measured with a tape line,
and the wheat with a standard half-
bushel measure. There was a smell
fraction over'threa : fourths acre of the
ground end 31 1-2 bushels of wheat.
The fraction over three-fourths of an
acre wm not sufficient to have pro
duced more 1 1-2 bushels.
Pert of the 90 acrM wm good lend,
part average, and ten to fifteen acres
poor. On tbe latter Mr. McClain did
not expect to raise over seven or eight
bushels to the acre under favorable
conditions, and did not realize over
five, his object in sowing It being to
place himself In position to sow peas
on it after the wheat wm harvwted,
and thus improve and build It up. He
said to your correspondent, In discus
sing the matter, that he reasoned this
way : " That land will not pay mu#b
if town In wheat, but If L do not sow It
tbe chancM are that 1 will put It in
cotton, therefore, I will sow it In wheat
and follow with peM. In the end tbe
land will be better and, while the
wheat may not pay, the Improvement
■TATH NHW8 AND MOTHS.
Political and Industrial Hon of Value
to Our Readers.
—Spartaaburg County Is to have her
twenty-fourth cotton mill. -
The second artMian well hM been
dug at Oamden 626 feet deep, moetly
through solid granite, and a good sup
ply of water obtained.
—The contracts have been given out
for the erection of the buildings for the
oil mills at MeCormick and LowndM-
▼llle. Both mills will have about
twenty tons capacity.
, —Constable 8. T. Howie, who hM
been stationed in Columbia recently,
hM been transferred to CharlMton,
where he will have charge of the con
stabulary In that city.
—Adjutant General Floyd calls at
tention to the fact that nearly-all the
military oompanies are effleered by
Citadel graduates, and that this should
have a wholesome influence.
—It Is currently reported that tbe
purchMer of the Highland Park prop
erty In Aiken is Mrs. A. M. Richard
son, and that her reason for buying
wm to prevent the erection of a hotel
In front or near her cottage.
—The city of Marion, 8. C., is one of
the most progressive towns In tbe
South. Its banks and corporations are
flourishing. It hM an Immense tobacco
crop, and It hM not a store, dwelling,
or house cf any cla»s vacant.
—It is stated that the executive
committee of the Haihpton memorial
fund has purchased for 81,500 a third
of an acre lot at the corner of Pendle
ton and Barnwell streets in Columbia,
on which to build the home for Gen.
Hampton.
—Hon. Francis H: Veston, of Colum
bia, who,is Gen. Bonham's successor
m division commander, is making pre
parations for the coming Chester con
ral pop-
gifted
Id the
common people—the honMt, (ear 1cm
yeomanry who make up our rural
ulatlon. Dr. Andrews, that
and noble Northern man, toll
people of Chioago aad again at New
Orleans that the Supreme Court of
the nation had decided that every
irlnolple we fought for wm just aad
egal aad justified by the/,constitution,
and Percy Gregg says they dldeet
dare to try Mr. Davis for treason, for
they knew that no court would convict
y a
of the land will.
In regard to the net profits on this
crop your correspondent is not pre
pared to make an accurate, detailed
statement, but will give an approxl
mete estimate which will cot miss the
exact coat materially one way or the
other. Tbe total cost wm mot far from
8425, which amount includes expense
of preparing the laqd, fertilizer used
seed, sowing the same, harvesting
twine, hauling, fuel used by engine h
threshing, etc. On this basis the net
profit' is at least 8475, m the wheat
will readily bring $1 per bushel.
Three-fourths of the straw was acci
dentally burned by sparks .from the
engine used In threshing. Its com
mercial value wm in the neighborhood
of $100.
There wm no rain of sufflcleut
volume to wet the ground on which
the wheat grew thoroughly after April
10, and ft Is generally estimated that
this cause alone decreMed the yield
not only of Mr. McClain’s wheat, but
of all In this section, not less than 26
per cent.
The Texas Flood —The weather
bureau hM Issued a special bullefDt on
the recent flood in tbe Brazos River
district, TexM. The bulletin is accom
panled by a map and tables showing
phenomenal rain falls.
Prof. H. A. Hazen, in an introduct
ory article, says : " It must be said that
after allowing for all the conditions we
still have a most serious difficulty in
accounting for such rains, which are
analogous to so called cloudbursts,
about which almost nothing is known.”
1. M. Cline, the Toxm forecast
official, says In his report that In places
the river wm more than twelve mllee
wide. The damage to crops hM been
very great. There wm a large acreage
in cotton, corn, sugar cane and other
orope. Cotton planters have suffered
most. Sugar oane plantations in the
Bresoe bottoms hnve suffered much.
In some places half the crop hM been
destroyed. Farming Implements, stock
aod many of the small tenant houses
in the bottoms have been wMbed away.
Total losses judging from reports and
other available Information, will ag
gregate nearly 810,000,000.
Aotloo hM already been taken by
some farmers to plant other crops
where cotton and corn have been de
stroyed. Some cotton will be planted,
but to what extent cannot be even ap-
S roximated. It Is dMired to make tbe
letriot self-sustaining m soon m pos-
who have InterMts
River consider thfa
pursue.
out n circular letter to the camps in re
ference thereto.
—Mr. Frank L. Littleton, speaker of
the Illinois house of representatives,
hM written tbe seretary of State for
Information concerning tbe history of
the Hanna family which lived on the
Pee Dee during the revolution. One
of them, John Hanna, an ancestor of
Mr. Littleton, moved to Illlno<i In 1806
Tbe family built Hanna’s mill on the
Pee Dee. *
—Capt. Thomas Moorman, of Com
pany L, Second Regiment; will receive
a lieutenancy In tne regular army. He
Is a son of Mr. T. 8. Moorman, librarian
of the Supreme Court, who received a
telegram announcing that Captain
Moorman had been decided on ai one
of the lieutenants. He Is considered
to be a very fine soldier and wm very
popular with his men In the regiment.
—Governor McSweeney hM received
the offer of an appointment of a bene
ficiary to the School of Industrial Art
and Technical Design for Women, an
Incorporated school in New York city.
It may be such an opportunity m some
poor woman wishes, and if any one
wishes the appointment U would be
well to communlrste with Governor
McSweeney. The scholarship does not
include board or materials.
—Governor McSweeney refused to
grant a pardon to Joe Llsenbury, of
Chesterfield County, who was convicted
of bringing l.qnor Inte the State, and
who pleaded that he did not know tbe
law. Goveraor McSweeney also re
fused the pardon of L. F. Shuford, who
wav coavlcted In July, 1896, of attempt
ing to ravish a six teen-year-old girl In
York County. He wm sentenced to
six years In the penitentiary.
—Rev. J. L. Vavs' family moved last
week to Belton, where they are to re
side In future. Mr. Vms recently pur-
c^aseed a homo at that place. Mr.
V a*v hM not made public his plans as
to tbe future, but It Is understood that
he will remain In charge of the or
phanage at Greenwood until the meet
ing of the Baptist State convention in
December, when he will again tender
his resigBAllon as superintendent and
will Insfot upon lie acceptance.
—The State Farmere’ Alliance will
hold its annual met-ting In Columbia
on the 26th and 27tb of July. The
county trustees and the board of direc
tors of the State Exchange will meet at
the same time. There Is nothing
special to come up at this session of
the State Alliance, except to consider
what can best be done to revive the
interest in the Alliance. President
Wllborn hM applied for reduced rates
for delegates to the Convention.
"LEND A HELPING HAND."
Mr. J. B. Blake, Jr., lecturer of U»e
State Alliance, delivered an intereat
ing address of an hour’s length at the
Atlimce rally at Seneca oh the 4th
Inst, on the subject, "Lend a Helping
Hand,” of which the following Is a
brikf synopsis: - ‘
After expressing his grateful ap
preciation of the nouor of address
ing them, he congratulated the audi
ence on the fact, that the occasion
which convened them wm held under
the auspices of the Farmers’ Alliance,
and that all classes and professions
wore extended a hearty welcome to
commingle together in social inter
course and thus with words of glad
some greeting, to lighten the cares of
life and strengthen the bonds of hu
man sympathy which makes the world
akin. The occasion forcibly demon
strated some of the objects of the
worthy organization, which were the
cultivation of that hanponious frater
nity of spirit, that earnest-sympathy
and devotion which obliterates all prej
udice and animosity and cultivates a
loftier and nobler conception of the
duties of life. It is an Alliance of the
people and-for the people—an Alliance
for the uplifting of humanity and the
refinement of home—an Alliance for
the purity of society and the mainten
ance of government—an Alliance for
the protection of the weak, against thg
oppression of the strong—an Alliance
for the advancement of all that is
grand and worthy in social and na
tional life. He paid a generous tribute
to the fidelity of the farmers of Oconee
County, who had been the earliest ad
vocates of the order and who had
ventiou and will in a lew^Aays seqij^ through all vicissitudes^pioven true to
its principles. These principles did
not interfere with the rights of others,
nor had the Alliance sought to raise
any prejudice between themselves and
those engaged in other occupations. .
The social, fraternal and financial
features of the organization would uot
be discussed hy him, as its past his
tory wm familiar to all ; but as those
principles underlie the success of the
agricultural interest, which constitutes
the basis of our national prosperity, so
trom the standpoint of patriotism and
statesmanship he emphasized the fact
that it was not only the right but patri
otic duty of every Amencan cilizeu to
lend a helping hand in advancing the
interest of an organization fraught
with such vital codsequences to society
and the country.
The great social, economic and in
dustrial questieus now confronting the
people, deserve the serious considera
tion of every thoughtful citixen, and
upon their proper solution depend the
perpetuity of our government. These
issues will test our virtue, our patriot
ism and our appecialion of self-govern
meat; and the history of all countries
have proven that the preservation 01
that equipoise between the induslna
interests of the country, between the
prominent elements of civilUstion, is
essential to all natioual prosperity.
And no one of these interests can doin-
nate another with safely.. In our
country that equilibium is seriously
threatened with destruction. While
our Tail road and manufacturing inter
ests are undergoing marvelous devel
opments, and cities and towns are
rapidly springing np in every direction,
agriculture, "the art of all arts, the
science of all science, the life of al
life,” is languishing and decaying.
While such is essentially the case wifih
the cotton producer of the South, it is
also applicable to the grain producers
of the West. This condition of affairs
could not be the result of ortrproduc-
lion, when millions of people are suf
fering for food and clothing, the neces
saries of life, hut is the result of
legislation of Congress, and the monop
olistic combination of the money
power. While diversification of Crops
should be practiced, and all farmers
should make the farm self-»usbiining,
aod- raise their own hog and hominy,
yet such a course is uot a panacea for
all the ills that confront us, for under
the present iniqqitous financial legisla
tion, the population is tapidly dividing
into two classes, the extremely rich
and the extremely poor, a condition of
affairs dangerous lo ihe life of any re
public. The country is drifting into
the hands ol trusts, monopolies and
combines, whose tendency is to sub
vert the law of supply and demand,
and consolidate capital in the hands of
a few who exercise Uie power thus
given them, to coqtrol all our Amer
ican industries, and exact tribute from
every consumer with no limit but their
own arbitrary will, and no measure
but their unbridled greed and daring.
No product of lanor escapes their ra
pacious grasp. Food and raiment,
earth and air, aU are tributary to its
power, and when the people of this
great country enter theirsolemn pro
test against such criminal exaction,
they are told "it is business, help your
selves if you can.” Ills to meet these
conditions that the Alliance has formu
lated certain demands which are famil-
to all, and which if enacted into
MONEY IN THE GOAT.
There may be a great future for the
goat in this country—and outside the
pages of the comic papers, too. The
Department of Agriculture has taken
the goat up seriously. It says there is
big money in him. He can feed him
self in summer on uplands worthies
for any other purpose and in
few years he #111 have cleared
the ground of
bushes, briars,
Fortune for Mrs. Talk age.—
After little more than a year of wedded
tllss, ihe Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
finds himself the opulent husband of
woman with a brand new check for
8180,000. The check bears the signa
ture of officials of the big hoop trust,
and represents Mrs. Talmage's Interest
lb the Lindsay & McCutckeon cotton
tie mills. Several weeks ago Thomas
G. McCutcneon and James H Mo
Cutcheon, active members of the plant,
were approached by agents of the hoop
combination, who offered 8660,000 for
the concern. Then and there the deal
wm settled. Mrs. Talmage's partln
the transaotion rests upon the fact
that she Is a daughter and heiress of
James McCutcheon, who wm the
founder of the old firm. She it a sister
of James B. and Thomas G. McCutoh
eon. When she married the well
known divine she wm the widow of
tbe late Charles Collier. The wedding
took place in Allegheny over p year
ago. The Rav. W. J. Robinson offi
elated, and it wm the social surprise'
of the year. Now Mrs. Talmage
brings to her clerical husband a for
tuns.
I
—In his 4th of July oration at San
Antonio, Tex., Hon. Joseph Balle;
•aid: " If William McKinley woul
step down from the presidency and
William J. Bryan take his place at the
helm of the nation, ..the war in the
Philippines would stop in forty-eight
hours and there would be no excuse
that destiny made It necessary for us
to take forcible possession of an alien
people and rule them with a military
despotism against their will. A peo
ple sufficiently civilized to fight for
liberty are entitled to enjoy it, and
William J. Bryan would not rob them
of this God-given right.”
—The attendance at the teachers’
meeting at Loe Angeles, Cal., was
15,122, the largest In the history of
the National Educational Association.
—The timber on 30,000 acres of hard
woods at Atgoma, W. Va., is about to
be cut at the rate of 35,000 feet per day.
It is estimated that five years will be
spent in finishing the tract.
—Los Angeles draws Its electricity
from a turbulent mountain river ninety
miles away. The 12,000-horse power
runs street care and machinery, and
supplies the city with light and heat.
—Colonel N. M.. Dyer, who com
manded the Baltimore at tbe battle of
Manila, did net graduate from the na
val academy, but served six years on
merchantmen before^ entering tha
United States navy.
that
tbe
inr
law would remove the dangers
threaten us, aod it has shown in
past what can be accomplished by co
operation and united effort.
The gemle snowflake that falls upon
the mountain is liarmless and helpless,
till it accumulates and forms the mighty
avalanche, which carries havoc in its
downward rush to the valley below.
The little rivulet trickling from the
mountaiif side, makes the mighty wa
ters which carry upon their bosom the
commerce of the world. So it is with
united strength and numbers. Napo
leon said, "God gives victory to the
heaviest battalions.” With the efforts
of ten million patriots, true and tried,
united by a common interest and ac
tuated by a common purpose, the great
heart of the nation would again throb
■with renewed life and vigor, and move
the mighty engine that w.opld set to
music the wheels of industry that
would bring peace ana joy and glad
ness to every Amencan home. Then
to every lover of home aRa country,
he would appeal to stand in one solid
phalanx, and lend a helping hand to
the Alliance in the accomphshment of
this worthy end, that, we may again
become a grand and glorious and
people.
happy
The agricultural schools of the United
States have 30,000 pupils.
all the undergrowth,
mullein,/ dock, iron-
weed. etc., leaving it ready for the
timotny and. clover. In winter he will
thrive on cornstalks. He 4s a much
hardier animal than the sheep, the
Department of Agriculture says, and
much less trouble and much less ex
pense.
All the farmers who have gone into
goat raising are contented" and even
enthusiMtic over the results. Dry i
tskin is in brisk demand in the
ew York market at 40 cents a pound.
The Angora goats are "good milkers,”
their fleeces bring a good price, their
flesh is good eating. "I have raised a
ewe goat,” writes a South Carolina
man lo the department, "that will give
foul quarts per day of as good milk as
any cow on my plantation, and the
feed of one of my cows will keep
twelve goats.” Like reports come fsom
Texas, Missouri, Kentucky and other
States. "To a person who hM never
seen the results of the presence of An
goras on brush lands,” writes an Iowa
goat raiser, "a ride through my pas
tures is a revelation. Where, three
years ago, the ground was densely
covered , with undergrowth of hazel,
crab tree, oak, bnckberry and other
brush, it is now growing the finest
blue grass. I have over 600 acres
jrhtch have been reclaimed, and the
value of the land hM been enhanced,
at least $10 an acre.” One of the de
partment’s correspondents smacks his
lips over (Angora) gout flesh, pro
nouncing it finer than mountain mut- *
ton. t — , M
A Good Plan For Students.—The
Secretary of Agriculture has about per
fected a plan whereby graduates from
agricultural colleges can come to the de
partment and do poet-graduate work.
Many of the agricultural colleges
throughout the country are turning out
every year good meu, who are often pre
vented from continuing the valuable
hops of special work which they pursu
ed while in college through inability to
continue their studies', 'llie Secretary’s
plan, which hM received much careful
thought aod consideration, will make
it possible for such young men to spend
a year or two la Washington, working «
under the direction of the hands of
scientific divisions. It is not expected,
says a correspondent of the Now York
Sun, that they shall undertake any
original work, but carry on such inves
tigations m may be amigned to them^
It is proposed to pay men of this kind a
nominal salary, barely enoghh to cover
expenses, the pay being not so much to
induce them to go to Washington as to
afford an opportunity for deserving
youug students to advanve in the spe
cial fields they have chosen while in
college.
Farmers in Madison county, Ind.,
are having great trouble in securing
harvest hands to take care of the wheat.
Leading farmers are offering $2 par
day and board for help in the fields.
The price named is tbe largest offered
for like help in 20 years.
The De la Vergh Refrigerating Com
pany, of New York and Chicago, hM
been awarded the contract for building
the $500,000 ice plant for the troops at
Manila.
The pint cloth of the Filipinos is
made from the fibre of the pineapple
leaf, and the cloth is very expensive.
What
.. Tbs dreadful
headaches
which wames
safer mesa
niaeteea *
oat of t
that there _
more tremble
than headache.
There is priv
ably eome aa-
healthy Mad!'
ttoa of the del
icate offaatssi
of womoollooo
aad often added t# this the digestive fsaa-
tiona are oat of order; these two conditisai
cause nearly all the headaches beta which
women safer.
There are two great remedies specially
adapted to these aihuenta inraatca by the
chief consulting physician of the Hseoot
Invalids’ Hotel sad Surgieal Insdtata of
Buffalo, N. Y Dr. R. V. Pieree. Hi*
world-renowned “Favorite Prescription"
is the most successful medicine ever
known for the care of distinctly feminine
ailments and his "Golden Medical Discov
ery” is the one enpremely effective cure
for digestive difficulties. '
Taken in conjunction they
rejuvenate the nervous system
and debilitated wotacnc giving
strength and capacity tethe nerve-centers;
renewed power to the bleod-msking glsade
and energetic force'te the entire *
A lady living In COehoctoe Co., Ohio,
T. Stanton, of Blissfield, writes: “ ‘ *
WMk nets very had for nearly three
dragging down pains in snd shove my hiss
men dreadful pains ia the back and toe of
head (iueras though someone was HI" '
the hair). Had no ambition,-would 1
a few day* then would have to lie ti_ .
loag time. No tongue can txprras the i
I endured. I hao much paio al
1 doctored moot of tne time with aa good
a physician as there is ia the state, but had no
ease on 1>.when 1 was quiet and off my Mt and
iugluuiT™ p ‘ inin - ,?rh ** d - WUm
impounda, 1
twelve bottles of the ‘ favorite PrstcripUeo'
and seven of theXpolden Medical Discovery.'
completely
n oT weak
ng health,
-ve-ceot#
.bio. irs.
I had ftmalo
jwnrs. Rag
»r hire aid
nd top of my
liftiag me hy
Id try ls work
le bed fora
the seiktiag
monthly pe-
in my hea
r. Pierce's medicines I weighed
res very pale and weak. I tack
' favorite
tisthroug
Ail medicines that I am cu
Where constipated col-..
Pierce’s mild snd agreeable
lets ” should be occasionally ni
Motion with the “Prescription.
.FOR ALL PAINS
Sent by prepaid ftxpreM on receipt of Me.
ALLIGATOR LINIMENT OO.
Charleston. II. G.
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