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.7 ; VOL- XXIV- . BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER U, 1900. BII/I/ ARP 18 AT HOMR AGAIN HAD TROUBLE QKTIINO THERE Blocked Another The Railroad Gate* Were ' and He Took PaaMge on Dine. Home ajrnin and happy. Children and grandchildren met me at the de K t and escorted me home, where a untlfui supper was awaiting, and I asked the tame old blessing that 1 have been asking (or fifty years, only it was with unusual gratitude, for I had been In perils of wind and water and escaped them. I was weary with long travel, and now I could rest. 1 left New Al bany at midnight, reached Birming ham at daylight, only five minutes late, and had five minutes’ time to buy a ticket for Pell City, and from there I was to board the blast and West for home. How happy I was.. But alas 1 for human hopes. How soon they can vanish into despair. There were about a hundred big, blade, greasy neg-o preachers phead of me at the ticket office. Their Baptist convention had been broken up, and they were going home on tha southbound train, and had an hour to go on, but they would not let me advance an Inch.' I hurried back to the gatekeeper and beggeu him to let ate In, for my train was wait Ing, and l pointed to the crowd of ne groes and told him It was impossible for me to get a ticket. He said he was sorry, hut be had bis orders. I hurried back to make one more effort, but a big square shouldered preacher, with a bac*. as broad as a barn door, had dropped a dime on the floor and half a dozen were down bunting for It. ! 1 hailed the ticket man. but he. never heard or heeded me. Frantic, 1 rushed tack to the :rvo and saw my train slipping offTTice a soaae In the grass, and that official automation would not lot me pass. “ 'lielnsl or ders," he said. B.achstoee says there is a remedy fDr every wrong, but there were no railroads la bis day. or be wouldn’t have written tboee lines 1 bad no remedy, aad there is eoee. Wbucould I do * No train for Pell Ctlv for twelve boors, aad eoae from Pali CUjkfttr my home for tweaty-four boors. 1 was sc I tired and so disappointed that 1 sal dowa to ruieiaau ua my valise 1 pa* weak and and aad pltirnl, for there Is J no disappointment so dlstreeaing to me i n« being Infl by a train when going! boms. Just than n drummer. God 1 Maes hi* ■ came up aad spona to me Id, ”My friend. I am urctly ach la the same fli you are. but w« I go by CbnUnauugn, for the Ala-1 Groat Houtbvrn is an l tbit morning. It’s schedule 1 barn thirty minutes before •< nut ll bes not come yet. and half an boor to get our ticket preachers are nearly ail out u n a ro ihoun- rd, and been built and more are being built. Bountiful springs from* the mountain side furnish abundant pure water for everything. There is a dairy farm near by and vegetable gardens, and everything moves like clocawork. Professor Lowrey Is a man of untir- aLU>g energy and says that work is his ,4i best recreation. He took me on a ro ptnantic drive to the top of the tain and the village graveyard when we returned be called for his four little children, Including the baby, and took them to ride. I liked that. It does not take me long to diaguose a good husband and kind father. There was no barber in the village and be brought to me his fine lawn mower razor that cost $.*>, and when he saw bow awkward and nervous l was, he said, "Ob, let me dq that," and be mowed the gray stubble off In a minute. Ever hear of a college prualdett doing that ? 1 was specially interested in a young man, Ernest Guyton, the only boy iu college. He is totally blind, but is getting a first-class education through his ears. He listens eagerly to the recitations, keeps up with the foremost and is now studying Latin. JiU mother or sister reads to him every night and the family are all proud of him, for he is not only bright mentally, but cheer ful and handsome. He told me that oeing blind . never distressed him and he was happy all the time, for every body was so good to him. How kind Providence is to the affi.cted. Those Mississippi woods are full of Georgians Sctfres of them sought me and with a natural and earnest pride told me wfiere they came from in the long ago, or where tneir fathers came from aod who they Were km to. I was amused at ouo 01J wan who said he came here from Cass County he fare the war. and be asked me where Harlow County was. He had never hear j that the oams of old Cass was changed to Harlow In honor of our General Bar tow, who was kitlpd at Manassas An unknown fr.end has - sent me a poetic gem called " The Change in j Farmer Jde," by bbe.Uoo dioddard. 11 • lab that it cvuld be read by every baa bead In the land, for it vet is in I life! ver-n bow Jo* had loag put -1 id moony for money s sake and gave I .ovmg, loeg surf snog wife few mno- te aad aooe of the iuiurte* or oraa j ots that brighten upa womans borne I r years sbe bad from time to t MILL MEN And CHILD labor. IMPARTIAL VIEW OK AFFAIRS. The Observations of an Intelligent Visitor Among the Cotton Mills o! the Piedmont Section. Mr. N. G. Gonzales, the editor of The oeaw - Is* ihm\ • brf • DO I room > *w AVf our 1 to I arrived, ■e have l Those I the way iw shat si »r oae id im r tbs •U patched icd aad thr wefo *1 ju.UB Ift* id late and The poem g M •upp« bV tf a new ma noti it. I saw bow ll was lose oe.J oae hour is e my heart I revived, ibltuemd. " Mice* the I* We got oar tickets. »ur boars were teCbetteeaoga. telegraphed my wife. I rose to my fm aad that I would getting borne. 1 aad --ke Be* id ■ Lord, O my seal, aad la fi where 1 telegraphed my wife. " Uolo the fort; Fm coming. ’ Aod *0 " Alt’* well tbat ends well." and no thanks to those who manage tbat iroo-bound pee at Birmingham But 1 found the cutest little narrow gauge railroad la Miseiselpt that I have seen la many years I dldn'i know there was oee left.' It le called the Gulf and Chicago railroad, but they began to build. It In the middle many year* ago aod built sixty mile* aod quit. You can ride all day do It for 11 AO. It doesn’t seem to have any achedule. and the folks along the Hnr just wait for Hand seem content. They say, '* Well, It’s our road ; It ail we've tut It to an. >1 u iau De - • .it car ae bad beaten Sara, aad out. But ;t, ana be 1 nccumu • bow by ed a tear a oa her ttilOS.bg that tear the loag aod how u and the State, has given his impressions of the management and policy of the cotton mills in Greenville and Anderson coun ties as obtained in a recent visit to some bf^be largest mills, where every facility'was given him to form a just conclusion and obtain a fair Insight as to the problem of child labor and as to the facilities for educating the child ren of suitable age. His statement-of tho situation is as follows : In this State there are not lacking cotton manufacturers of broad views and progressive spirit who realize that the time has come for the regulation by law of the labor of minors and the prohibition of child labor In our mills. They not only perceive that the issue presented must be solved bqt they are, willing to contribute to the solution of it aod they realize the fact that great public interests require the education of the generation which in a few years more is to control the destinies of South Carolina. L.n»t week the editor of The State re turned from a visit to the Greenville and Anderson mill districts where he was given the opportunity to see what had been done for the betterment of con ditions In the mill villages aod the education of the children aod to leare mat whatever might be the abuses elsewhere there ws# at least one group of cotton mills i»South Caroline where the duty of employers to the employed apd ike responsibilities resting upon manufacturers for tbe future of the chlldreo of tbe factories were fully real zed. It le not possible to go Into great detail la ae article ilk* this, but It can be said that tbe revelation of Interest lu tbe cblldrei oe the part of these manufacturers ws* gratifying. At tbe Piedmont milts, a community of some J uyu psjple, tbe-property of which le owned aad controlled abeo- latelv by tbe menu fee luring oompasy. Col. James L. t»rr, tbe president vi ta Ibt led with justifiable pride tbe two graded school* established aod male- in- s*h1 by tbe corporation for tbe cbll- dree of tbe operatives. Tbe practical ewry-day work for tbe schools es sees showed tbat tbo vblldreo were «s#U taught as oell as wall housed aad tbat tbe atteadaece un to tbe IS year olds was targe. Col. ' *rr said tbat It was hie ear Best endeavor to beep children ued«r IS out of tbe mills, but tbat bte effort* bad eot heca full* successful by reason of m I sre or esse tail oee as to age made by tbe parcels of some child res. • <> iidrvo who seemed cbc*AiBtered The > main tales for its free circulating Wh ig one of the finest in the State, but is not yet in operation. Its pillage and surroundings are laid out with Excel lent taste and already form an attrac tive picture. A fine school building is about to be erected on the property. At Greers Mr. Parker’s company has built for the mill operatives a graded schpol building which would be an or nament to any town. Ills handsome and tasteful within and without, and is equipped with special features em bodying the most advanced ideas. A well appointed kindergarten is con ducted lu connectlOD with the school, a pretty church is attached to it, and there is a large hall overhead which wilt be used for free lectures of an in- struetlve nature for tbe benefit of the operatives—a feature, by the- way, which has been provided for at Pelzer as well. A number of other mills were seen, but these were the most advanced in the matters here under consideration. At the Anderson cotton mill President Brock took special pride In the quality and appearance of his operatives, which were indeed exceptionally good. The ages of children seen at work varied in the different mills; some managers were by no means as careful as others in excluding tbe small ones and in supplying them with ample educational facilities—but everywhere there was recognition of tbe fact that the labor of tender children in tbe mills was an evil to be deprecated and remedied end that samurai obligation lay upon mill owners to provide feclll ties for their education and if possible to enforce tbe use of these facilities. . We have reason to believe that when tbe Legislature shall meet It will ba found tbat progressive manufacturers will meet half-way tboea who are aax Uhm to abolish child—or rather, lafeal —labor la Iheoottoa mills aad to pel tbe attea-iaooe of mill children the public schools la truth, It le no lees for their Interest than that of tbe operatives themselves that there shall he a law on this subj set; for tbe hu mane and public spirited manufacture^ who earrtse out si considerable cost bis | plaas for the be tier meat of mill ooadt* tioav is now at a disadvantage compar ed with those who neglect such provis ions What old mills aad sew mills in I the Graeavllla district can do af their , own volition, believing that it Is right aad ex pad Inal to do, out mills aad raw mills sUs*here caa (airly ba required to do. We are ooavlsoed that some ^ jaipj.s..^ai at law should be pet upon operative# to seed their little child rea to tho school* provided for thorn «feay dt. these ch lid rea ary from the moualaie districts of this aad other HER LIFE ENDED WITH CENTURY CONFKDRATK AERONAUT.' Worker 'In the Pint Cotton Mill Established in South Carolina. Anderson Daily Mall. •' / Mrs. Mary B. Pickrell died at 3 o’clock on Friday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Kate Norris, at Broyles, in this county. She was the widow of the late Jonathan Plckrellf Esq., who died five years ago at tbe age of H7, and herself lacked till the 10th of February of completing her ninety-fourth year^ She had been sick hat a short time and her death was due solely to the infirmities of extreme age. She suffered but little and passed away without a groan or a struggle. Notwithstanding the great weight uf years her strength of mind and body was remarkably well preserved, and the fire of her religious experience burned brightly to the end. Only n few day* before her death she caught the hand of her daughter who was ministering to her and pressing it warmly exclaimed with rapture, " a* seeing Him who is invisible,” "Glory be to God : praise HU holy name !" She had been a member of the Metho dlst church seventy-five years, pro bably longer, and during that ion time—a much longer time than is a lowed most people to serve in the church militant—ehe was uniformly loyal to tbe church of her fathers, con stantly exemplifying the sound nee and saviog power “ e’en down to oM age" of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ. Mrs. Pickrell was born on Nantucket Island, off the coast of Massachusetts, aad was a daughter of Abraham Coffin al«o a native of. Nantucket, aad owe of the first persons of lbs Ulead to sob oreos Methodism when the old religion with n new and consuming »*el swept the deed nnclestektlctsm of New Keg' tend es a prairie Ore. Her mother 1 father, William Bunker, n Baptist, was caught by the tide of Methodism, as her father’s prop a, who ware Pres bjterlaae, bad br< l aad be gave the land upon which the first Methodist I church on Naatuakst was balit W baa sba was tea years of j beard the celebrated evangelist. La- 1 rea 10 Dow, preach la Providence I Rhode Island where her father itviag at .the time, aad to her dying day the kept fresh la mind her Impre* I sloes of tho mas aad his amaaar. The preacher was oaweil aad after servtea In the eoert hands there then no Methodist charch la the city ] decided lo reel there till the evening leppoialmeal During the Interval a The Attempt Made to Destroy Grant’s Army by Means of an Air Ship. A few days ago a person who had been reading an account of an experl- ment trip of Count 2 ippelln’e air ship remarked that in a few more years people will travel in air instead of on the solid earth. Iron and eteel rails will lose their yalue because railroads will go out of use. The new mode of travel will be more pleasant, for there will be no dust and, by rising higher, as necessity may require, the happy traveller may keep cool. Travelling in Abe air by means of balloons U not of very remote date. he first successful experiments in this Hoe were made In France about 1783, when the balloon sailed acroes tbe Seine and a part of Paris, remain- ng in the air twenty-five mloutee. A balloon was used for military obeerva tlon at the battle of Fleurus, fought in 7M. A great deal concfroiog aerostation can ba found In books and newspapers, but there Is oae experiment that seem* to have escaped the notice of the cu rious, and of which there is no record sj fares tbe writer knows. In the winter of 18H4 4& Gan. R)bart F. Lae aod bis army wore dafsading Petersburg. Virginia. Tbe troops were stretched out eioeg the line# perhaps at the rate of oae to every 00a hundred yards. Halloas were scarce clothing scant, aad there ware irons, bat the spirit ,v'V\ without Potash. Supply enough Pot ash and your P'SltlWB.be laige; without Potash your crop will be “scrubby.” IW bnaA*. tsllinc ahnirt r«s«*naa(ms *f I • silsiawl k» all cro|n. «r«- Irs* lu ail 1 CUM AN k 41 I WORKS. *4 tyMMu £*.. Mss VoaS INDUSTRIAL AND —There In a Bo*toe for the ereotli to Edgar Allan Poe, the public gardens, historic i on holla to bo pat aa wL -Mrs. J. L Jaaghvar of U will sail moat of kh lief fond Iveta titales, where edacaUoeal facUlllee I ,** 1 **_**, *** T.**^** have been lacking, aad they do not “•♦l* his ladisposlUoe. broaght him realise as the majority do tho vein# of i ***** refrt-shmeats and suhstqeeatiy thit ifuUocuoo W» lh«lr chlldrva I" ail Oii.io le ■ Oiler otfe a uol coani* Mertlivoo i Of* tho t» ii! oo i .Auic i Ule OL lb 11 > sol >«0 lie me Li »b irov eat, aad they, i The owners an ■L_ > i are clever men wait on you half ao hour If you phone them. They are verv accommo dating. especially going South, for they have no connections to make. 1 boarded that train at Blue Mountain at 4 p. m. for Pontotoc, where 1 was to lecture that night at 7.30 o’o ock. ft was only thirty miles, but we dldn\ get there until 845 o’clock, and my audl ence didn’t give up tbe ship. They said it was their road—their ouly road—and they knew lu peculiar ways. We stepped when within three miles of town, and after half an hour or so 1 asked what was the matter, and was told that the steam had given out. Before that the train stopped in the woods somewhere and then began to back. I ventured to ask what was the matter and was told that the brake man had dropped his cob pipe and they had gone back to look for it. But it was a railroad and*l had no right to complain, for I remember when there was not a railroad in the United States. When I was seven years old 1 came from Boston to Georgia overland in a carriage with my father and mother, 1,200 miles, and we never crossed a railroad, for there was notone to cross; and now there are 19<>,000 miles in these United States. No, I am happy on the way on any railroad, even if it is thirty miles short and four hours long. It beats the old stage coach a long ways. I tried a buggy team from Bipley to Blue Mount, only a six mile drive and like to have got drowned. I got fundamentally and distressingly wet. I shall wait for tbe narrow guage next time. Oh, that cyclone. 1 haven’t quit telling about It yet. Next morning a man who was in it and under it and on top of it said he went out to shut his mules up in the staole, and before he could say Jack Robinson, it picked him up and turned him a thousand somersaults, and while he was turning he heard his mules a braying in the air above him. "Gentlemen," said be, "that area fact, if 1 ever told It ; and the thing just let me down In Jinny Jones's pota to, patch as easy aa a woman lays her ^•aby in the creelle.” . , That college at Blue Mountain is a marvel to me.. It was founded.twenty- five years ago by General Lowrey, a greqt big-hearted rnsn, who, like Ben Adhem, loved his fellow men. It was at first a high school for the bent lit of , the poor girls la the neighborhood and expanded into a college. When be died his eons and sons in lan too* I charge aad ooaUaeed to expand, and there are 300 girls there ; ever 3J0 j of them are boarders at M2 par month live ia cottages near by aad I > iA' ad alii tele years i s', n [tUio sick and eeurhed ti ds>. buddsaiy h« •topped hi* mule 1 roe aad hurried h tbe buggy aad wi «a* going for the d< * nice carpel aad < other comforts and Jehu and lumh.cd lu door. " Here. Sally your dear heart you more ” Aod be Lurried hack cornfield Well, I llkod that, aod 1 feet now like going to town aad buying a new carpet for my wife. We men forget that a woman ha* to slay at Dome all the time. Sne loves oraa- meots, for God made her so, and If •be can’t have these thing* her hou*e ’niww; pbi f » ml Ibou nine m#tr acti * IV Tb m tb home all at tan f me here, t •han’t cry IKc oot an average of Dually. Of tbs of i'ledmoot It i >i volumes eg matter, varying i to tbe entertain f patroa raged to lake hooks 1 are permitted to a fortnight at a time, at this library •hoe# i UUU volumes read an uwpie church fasllltles aot accessary to speak. ll U bast for all I a teres led that stale shoa.d establish as nearly i caa soom ui. >>raity of obi i gal mm of opportunity, ao that those who are ua worthy shall not profit to the detri ment of tho worthy Let the question . ba considered • iIboul pwjedloe or CoBe. Mrs. assessed of a know ledge. an became bis wife. Dense the year Iklk Mr Pickrelis father, a maa p wide rang* of practical decided, la slaw of the beslasss gloom that bang over the Eastern ttietr* aa a result ef the war of 1812, to remove to Ifijalh Carellaa. Hi# d b* tba i b**l aad the sotulloa. wa are sera, I rvaiUuUos to noma Soeth was -.n ^ |o permeaeat advantage of ! A)** “* 1 * 1 *“**.°*. 'r ro: i m ip Weaver, who had ei- wm*> Mouth Carol Isa aad AUoUl OOMi KKM4M ►. > ‘ sot far from Battery 45 (or Fort) aad near where the great dam was balit. Oae ooid. raw day the bri gade was ceiled oat. without arms, lo aoar a speech from a scientific person ago who was laired need ae " PiiM M B ask The old soldiers oroadad eroeed aad took their seats ta the I Omlm cold ground, aad bs enfolded his sohama for demoralising aad driving away Great’s army. He had Jaat Is vented | hd»a aaai 7s 1 '•hep* II was somsthlaw like el kls art bird aadlor the! reason be had aailpd *«• *> ll " Artis Asta.l er "The Bird ef Aft. I inhaled walck was the meaelag uf Ihe two hkhaaw Latin words. The treses wee made of | —The J hoop iron aad wire. It was save with white aek splits ll was la ran by a Hroraa power khglas aad oao feaatloa II la maa to each bird woaM ba esHMset. | sabjaat to aa Tba engine was to ba to the body of the bird aad to teraloh power tor keep 1 means of a lag Ua etagi to motion A smaU dear —4 York at the ehonlder was bF^ad or stossd charged a toe of WJ to ooatrol tho dlreeiloa ef Ua Bird at ommm vbe ceymeet of Ark A (tear seder tba^Uroe^• es I .icted ce tie scTed and a door ao tap of Ua abaft whaaUa operator wished lego Makar. There wee machinery bv whieh the tell oeato he spread eot er atotoA lal wa« of the bird there was roam I ^ 4 -. *• John J00 Mrs air I too lor a ana tar by toaahlag ooeie drop them shells aad Ua opera I “girt- to Us Uaks i spring wtUkie fc** reseat.y cs .t,rated ha* spaa ua enemy from 1 J** l Jr i iaaiaT South Caroline u lOKIt.M till ll Aemdotwe To id by 1 Wb» Have hwrved be Penny le any the BlU. Aki* 1 —The cornersUtae of the Charleston exposition building will be laid on Dec. 11. The exgrcues on the ground# will oegin at 2 3U p. m., wLh aa nddres* oy Cnpt. F. W. Wngeoer, president of ibe exposition coaipaav, Who will si the close of hit remsrx* request the Hod. J. Adger Smith, mayor of the city, to preside. Addresses will be madji by Goveroor Mcbweeaey, Gov ernor Candler of Georgia and Senator Tllimsa. Grand Mugler Orlande Shep pard will conduct tbe Masonic exercises st 4 p. m.. T«k Jackson Coat of Arms —In the modes; home of Osknuid, Aiken, S. C., bungs the Juckson cout of arms, as the ownerof bolh is. a descendant of the same ancestor us Stonewall Jack- son. They were painted by a Pmia delphla artist, sister of tbe owner, and the record on the back gives this his lory : "This family, of which our mother was a lineal descendant has been traced back prior to tho Norman conquest and we have tho direct record for seventeen generations. This Coat of arms was confirmed to Richard Juckson in 10)3 and has been possessed by twelve generations. On the j „./58th of June, 156G, Ralph Juckson, with 12 others, suffered martyrdom at the stake for bis religious principles. The royalty is prtfelaimcd by the crown and ermine (whlqh ouly royalty could wear), and the' "three suns in splendor’’.are tbe same biszaning to which Gloucester, afterwards Richard III. referred, when, unseeing Edward IV. (who was on the English throne 22 years), coming'to bis aid in battle ex claimed “ Now ,1s the w,lpter of our discontent made glorious summer by the Sun of York.” This also tells the side our ‘ancestors were on in the war of Roses—the White Rose of York— and it was here Edward IV. dis tinguished himself by his bravery and The motto " Foremost, Tbe property of the t'sixer Manufec- ! luring com pun v constitute* a veritable irlaopaitty. The completeness uf the town of I'elzvr, every acre and build ing of which is owned by the corpora tion, has been written of so often.of te that every newspaper reader In South Carolina must .know what a unique and remarkable place it is. illy ( puiar A Few Mem green. Nothing so tor Daalai's popularity as tbe fact tbat ia bis first race for tbe ben ate be bad for ae opponent Geaeral FiUhugb Lee, aod, having won tbe coo test over oae of tbe royal families of Virginia. It was plain to ba saaa tbat nobody could beat him. so he bat beea twice uaaal mous.y re-elected, nobody thinking it worth their while to rua against him. ready 00c established a little cot too tea burg County • Accordingly. Mr. Co Ha sailed altk bis fan. il Frovlaaaea that year aad reached Char lee too after a stormy voyage of three weeks The*" were met la Char la* too by Mr. Weaver’s wagons aad conveyed to tbe little mill up la 8 par tan burg, aad tons Mrs Pickrell becam* aa operative la tbe first cellos mill established to boetb Carolina. j A few years later Mr. C0H0 rsmovad toe similar mill 00 Reedy Ktver, a few miles below Graeavllla, aad from there . went about a safe die' Tba ” Profi oae bird aad made a tost of its spaed, aad baa It oeeid work. He tied It to a fiat ear, wkleb was oogpled to a fast eagtaa It tba let oar wlib a Tba word was gives aad tba railroad oaf laa •terted of at great spaed. Tba '• Bird of Art" did tba same sod bad ao tree Me to keeping up witb tba Iron horse without palling aa tba rope. Tba M Professor “ concluded bin re mark* by saytag ba needed a little be never missus a day, tarns swfia toll eeto of work, ^mpeuag witb gfito ixty yearn bar jeator. Mississippi sat New Tart eqi month# It was s slva bsardar, a Now. be*aver, I! I It to to a posad 1 wa moony to mekt birds esouga to •troy Great’s army, aad asked tba 1 soldiers to ooelrlbete one dollar ch to Many of d*d of a pm aad Lerr.og oat's leak Is la wkleb U k —Tba lari -or 14 lowfc oat by tba to rab ItoalL deal of the great corporation with its four mills aod 120 UUU spindles. Is per haps the best exponent this side the island of Guam of a "benevolent des potism." ills great interest in thoffel fare ol the community over wBicn be preside* and his minute attention to its needs must Impress every one who makes the rounds of the institutions of Pelzer. There is a fine new graded school building, spacious and admir able arranged, a lyceum, open all the week, with iu reading room, game room and facilities ffor wholesome social intercourse, a Jcindergnrten and several churches which would be cred itable to a large city. That Capt. Smyth fully recognizes the importance of educating the children of the mill communities and of prohibiting their employment in the factories until they have acquired the bases of a good com mon school education is shown by the follbwing form of contract which he requires to have signed by the heads of all families taking employment with the company .and occupying iU dwell ings. There is a hook full of signatures to this agreement: uf Whruxas, 1, with my farally, intend to oc cupy one of the dwelling bouses belonging to the Pelzer Manufacturing Company, in the tow n of Pelzer, 8. and Intend to enter into the employ of said company; and whereas in doing so it is desired to express the agree ment ticiween myself and the paid" company. Now, therefore; 1 do agree upon the follow ing: 1. ThataU children, members of my family, between the ages of 5 and lz years, shall enter tbe school maintained by said company at Pelzer. and shall attend eiery school day iluriug the school session, unless prevented by sica ness or other unavoidatde causes. H. That all children, members of my lamllv, alHjve twelve years oTiTshall work regu arly -lil the mill, and shall not be excused from services therein, witb ut the consent of the superintendent, for good cause. 3. That neither 1. nor any member of my family, thall quit the employment of the said compaqv without g ving two weeksnotice nor shall said company be at liberty to termi-. imte said employment without giving two weeks notice, except for cause. In case f receive notice to quit, I agree to give up my dwelling house at the end of two week*: but In case lam discharged for cause 1 agree to aiirrcnder it wltLin three days. “ ft. I agree to comply with all the rules of ~due~n thl TnLuu Manufacturing company. ni i CM, tiM oecn vcriucu OOWlr The for*§oiog Rirr rment toa^be**! through the generation!, although bj war of the spirit against wroqg and -oppression, rather than with carnal weapons, many of the descendant* being members of the Society of Friend# or td lakera." . > or by me and 1 fu.ly understaad It. Wit Deli bos oa the affection* the Old Dominion, John Wise tails this •torv : • _ •* When Filxhugh Lee was Governor Ol Virginia, 1 caHed ee kite see morn- Ing, aad while wa ware engaged In a social chat a servant came Into tbe room to tell him that a Chinaman named Wun Lung craved for an au dience with him. " Governor Lee jumped up and with an air of mock coaster nation, exclaim ed ; " Why, now, I can’t allow Wun Lung to walk up here with tbat laun dry. I’ll go down and get it.’ ' Ah, Governor,' said I, ’Wun Lung has no right to your patronage, any wav. Wah Lae has done more for you than any one else. He made you Gqvernor of Virginia.’” Hon. William H. Wallace, of Kansas, City, tells the following : " At a church in a rural community one time, while tbe deacons were tak- □g up the morning collection, one of hem, becoming suddenly demented, walked out of the door with the money he had collected in his hat, leaving the audience too thunderstruck to move or utter a sound. Finally the preach er broke the solemnity, os he gazed at the absconding deacon. " If he walas off with that money, he will be damned,’ whereupon an old deacon exclaimed, 'well, is he hasn't already walked off with it, I’ll bfe damned.’ ” Hon. Jasper Talbert, of South Caro lina, told the following to illustrate bow Republicans stick to their party " Dowc in South Carolina,’’ he said, “ there was a rich man died, and they gave him a great funeral. On the way to the cemetery tbe band marched be hind the hearse playing the ‘Dead March in Saul.’ Suddenly the boss violin croaked out a tremendous ear- splitting discord that drowned all the other music and frightened the hoarse horses so that they ran off and threw the corpse out, and that scared the other horses so that they ran off, and there was the very otd harry to pay everywhere. Tbe bandmaster has tened back to the bass viol and ex , claimed r- * Have you - gone crazy ? iss'i to ^Why in thk world did discord?' ‘Well, Interest In a small yam tbe Rev. Levi Garrison, father of the late dienry Garrison of thle ooeaty, hod established oo Little Beeverdem cretk one-fourth of n mile below what if now known as Broyles Mill. It was hare that M"#. Pickrell wan married January 15, 1828, the Rev. Mr. Garrison performing the ceremony. She was the mother of thirteen child ren, ten of whom grew to maturity. One of her tons, a promising young man, was killed in battle at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, ns a member of the Second South Carolina Rifles dur ing the civil war. Four of her child-'' ren, Mrs. Kate Norris and Mrs. Edrew Cromer of the Fork; Mrs. John C. Gantt, of Hartwell, Georgia ; and Mr. William B. Pickrell, of fexos, survive her. The Rev. Henry Bascom Browne, a prominent member of the South Carolina Conferende, and Dr. Walker G. Browne of Atlanta, Georgia, distin guished in tbe profession of dental sur gery, are her nephews. Mrs. Pickrell’s body was interred yesterday beside that of her husband at Smith Chapel in the Fork, in which church she had held an unbroken membership for a period of seventy- five years, the like being probably without a parallel in the State. 1 have No doubt many of the survivors forgotten this lacldsat, bet not loag ago tba writer met John W. Butler, a commercial traveller, who belonged to the 14th 8 C. V., in 1844, end asked him: " Did you evar near of the ’Artlt Avis?' He replied : " I oertalaly have heard of It, for I gave a dollar to It." Robert K. Hemphill. Abbeville, NoVemoar 28. at. 1 mr to mi We are 2 OM.OM etawa- lar Ua vL «u*a seat oat eaea year. Tto •words aad similar ^^ , sooh toys Is ulvarsal, though to sorts there la mors or tons vartofi tbs taste of ohlldraa. —It to j , As Sue Described It.—It was the first day of school. The bell hod tap ped and the little children of the sec ondary primary were sitting upright in their seats, hands properly folded aod with round eyes fixed on the new teacher, taking a mental inventory. She was a bit nervous. It was her Prlier. B. C ; U A similar agreement is required of all employes of the Belton mills, of which Capt Smyth is also the presi dent—ths only difference being tbat I tba chlldrea ora required to attend the j you play such a sir,' said tbe bass viol, T didn't mean no harm ; wouldn't have done any harm for the world if I could have helped it, but the way of it is this : Yon see, sir, a horse fly lit.on my note-book, and I thought it was a note, and I played har. ,n -—The boundary line between the United States aad Msiloo has receally 1 *• public school at’ Belton," which Is been resurveyed aad marxed oy stoce A pj l ) to he a graded aod excellent one »oa uni sets in the form of obelisks. I Capt. Smyth's progressive nee# la ahowt fire sii.ee apart. Toe these matter* Is emulated by Mr. •hafts are tea fool high 04 the top. ■ Lewis W. Parker, prasldaat ef foa aria Does 1*0 to*t •soars. Victor above the sar- •abarha of Or -Miss Clara Barton, bead of the Rad Crone Society, ha* placed with a firm at Ktttreii, N. C., ao order for 1.000.000 Straw berry pleats These ptaats will be distributed among the kill at Greers aad the i frail grower* of Texas, who suffered mill jest balit to the » severely from the villa Thle latter mill 1 storm. great Only Thru Ora tors —George R. Feck le hum, whicn le not a fact, of great importance, bees use he comes to Washington frequently, but it Is use ful ae a peg to bang a story on, says the Washington oorrespondence of ths Chicago Record. Last winter the Hon. Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, sat la a retired corner at Chamberlain’s— drinking high balls, so they say—when Senator Thurston walked over to his table. "What is the matter. Watterson ?” he Inquired. " You look down In the mouth." " I was thinking,” said the great ed itor, "of the decay of oratory in this country. Years ago we had many notable orators—Clay, Calhoun, Web ster. and others, but to-day you can count them on the fingers of one hand. Why, Tburstom I know of but three men In nil the United States who are entitled to be called orators.” " Who are they ?” inquired Thurs ton. "Yourself, myself and George R Peck.” The Senator from Nebraska smiled contemptuously and remarked “ What in thunder is the use of le sold that during tha towrtoM which Praaldaat MeKlalay spaat l> * <, ^ *"* m * a4 algore by tha in Coagram I 37,000 oigoro. While this to a Urge number it repronaato on avs of but seven a day, which to ao tnoa a groat many lag hie ear vice to Ooagreee < daot always bought hie aigi box, bat Uft tha box at t hU purchases ware for thorn ae ho aaads —A divorce petition filed to at Hutchinson, Kan., recites tha story of on extraordinary oourtehlp. Tho woman eayt sho didn't want to her husbeind, bat oe*** his slater got her into a baggy aad drove about tho ooaatry all Bigot, the first school. Tbe children made her. , , „ . "fidgety,” they stared at her so hard | {■’‘^ng George Peck in? He is not * nere. »• and watched her so narrowly. She began to feel like a mouse that is within the clutches of a cat. She cast about wildly in her mind for some occupation to begin the first day. She regretted bitterly that she had not ar ranged some definite plan of campaign. Then her fac«) brightened She would find out what the children already * new. Question followed question, touching un diverse subjects. —V —When young Stonewall Jackson, one of the must awkward,' .ungainly and seemingly unpromising youths that the South bos produced, heard of a vacancy at West Point be imme diately went to Washington, deter mined to get the appointment, and he got-lL Ween he reached West Point "Now, who knows what a skeleton is f” asked the teacher, smiling coox- inbly. The he little girl wearing the pink gingham apron and occupying the back seat waved her hand wildly aod worked her mouth in frantic endeavor to get " teacher " to look at her. * Wall, what is It r " A skeleton, " eald the tot, twiytlng her apron la her fingers, " Is a man «he baa bis Insfdss outside aad bis " -Denver Times. the other buys laughed at him, but one of them, witb more penetration than his companions, said: " Tbat fellow look# like he’s come to stay." He did stay. He worked hard, economized and saved enough from his cadet’s pay, after covering all expenses, to buy his sister a silk dre«« outsides off. —D. A. Laytoa’s brick worcs ia Martoa Oouaiy prod sea 25.000 par day. Newberry received aa Invitation which was anoouuoad Kaliana, WatktkL or 4,000 toat to tba Sand bride is pair taking taros ia pleading wttft to consent to tha marriage. Al ‘ near daylight, aha ooaaMtod shear exhauslloa; aod withoai her b chance to repent, ihe 1 her back to Hutohlosoo aw bar. —A wall kaowa authority oa baetort* ology s.ys that all kinds of diseases may be traced to the eating of ia- 4 washed fruits aad particularly of un washed grapes. After washing mom hich hnf grapes which had stood for a loag ttma In n basket on a fruit stand, tha maa of science found that tha talned tubercla taelll la quantities to kill a guinea pig days. Two other guinea pigs Were inoculated with the fee ted water died within six in two loft In- Even with fattening hogs it is bettor to feed n variety, >js S* OUR GRKATRST For 80 years Dr. J. ee that he Is acknowledged today to 1 at the head of his ■retosstoa to thto His txelusivt method of tnefMB Varicocele and of knife or cautery cone all ooeeo. In the Vital Foreee. Ns aad Urtni