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' BARNWELL SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, 0 GEORGIA VETERANS' HOME. A Day With the Old Soldiers Who Once Wore the Gray. The following article was written by Capt. J. C. Stnbling, of Pendleton, giving an account of his recent visit to the soldiers' home near Atlanta, and which was destroyed by fire on the 30th of September, only a few days sifter { his visit there. In view of the agitation for a soldiers’ home in South Carolina, the article • it' repfod need in our columns: About four miles from the heart of the city of Atlanta, at the terminus of the street railway, is a beautiful hill covered with primitive forests ; upon the highest point of this hill amid large oaks is nestled a grand, a beaut i ful building, built there in 1891 by the efforts of Henry Grady and the gow and patriotic women of Georgia for a Soldiers’ Home. After thus writing down their senti ments and venerations for the grand old heroes who wore the gray in a tan gible way at the cost of $45,000 invest ed in 119 acres of land and this grand edifice by pi ivate subscriptions, they tendered this building and land to the State of Georgia to bouse her indigent soldiers in, if she would feed and care for them. But the politics of Georgi<i were then like they are here in South Carolina to>day, and the Geoigia Leg islature refused to accept this grand bequest,and gave her indigent soldiers pensions, ranging from $5 to $100 a Supplied with range and other fixtures to ceok for 200 inmates. XANAOKMENT. The board Is controlled by a Board Trustees; all of these, as of eleven well as the ether positions in the Home,'are filled by old soldiers. The following are the salaried positions that are appointed by the Board Superintendents’s salary.; 1500 00 Matron’s (a soldier’s widow).... 300 00 Steward 180 00 Surgeon . 200 00 Night Watchman .« 420 00 Head Cook v . 240 00 Second Cook 150 00 Two Waiters ($120each) ....... 240 00 Two Laundry Women ($120 each) 240 00 Two House Maids (1120 each) ... 240 00 Negro Man Nurse 180 00 year, or about $60 a year where we give $19.60—and told the old soldiers it was better for them to take this and live among their friends at home. But after tea yean experience it was found that $60, or even $100, would not half board and clothe them and pay some one to attend to the decrepid or tick soldiers, and on the first of Juoe, 1901, the Home was occupied and formally possessed by the State with au appro- Or total coat of each inmate about S93 28 Among the errors that Georgia has made and that South Caroliua rn;iy profit by are : 1st. That\he building for the Home should have an elevator jof n one story bnilding for indigent, decrepid old people who can’t climb steps. 2nd. The hospital should be detached from the sleeping rooms, as the groans and disturbances of one pa tient will interrupt the sleeping and real of the whole house. 3rd. Instead of investing $15,000 in 119 acres of land, South Carolina is offered two splendid, healthy locations for the Home without the" cost for the land, and it is likely that many locations ill be tendered for the Home when the time comes to locate. 4lh. Geor gia has f*ai«l too much for her building. Being familiar with the cost of suclf buildings, I venture to say that South Carolina can to-day put op such a building for about one-half of the orig inal cost to Georgia, which is said to be $.‘10,000, but as South Caroiiaa has ■t 1 1. i mBW occupied py vo iumalM, The tight of which 1 wish every member of our South Carolina Legislature could look upon that his heart, if even of stone, would soften and be would at once be converted to the truth that do treasury could bold dollars enough to repay these old veterans (or their pat riotism that has deprived them of the ese of limb or body ; some of them hobbling around on one leg, some with heeds bowed low down with suffering from wounds or rheumatism, while yet others are iu bed never to nee again. No soldier with a heart of doth, who has ever grappled with the dogs of war or eiponeucod Its viriaeilodes, can iook upon this gathering of the relics of our great army without feeling a choking Tamp me in his throat. A’ben news was spread through the Home that an old Mouth Carolina sol dier was at band oo a mission to In spect the Home, the gathering ar.Hiod and . the eagerness of the old boye to hear the news and give information during the war (for Georgia is to-day in fruot on duty for b«r <>14 soldiers, and Koulh Carotin* is in lbs rear), svinced itself, and after a heartv band shaking from the official head down to the old army nurse, I was invited to a breakfast that would have been con sidered good enough for Geo. Loo or Pres idem llavis during our army days. Tbeoe old veteraos oiled queetioos and queries about their Mouth Carolina comrade# faster than throe men could snswar, and among the questions was one that 1 had rather took a whippiug than to have answered, vii: What syrt of a Soldiers’ Homs have you in South CarolioaT My reply, was that South Carolina had at least two locations of- fared her fur a . $2890 00 Cost of attendance each Inmate...$41 28 Approximate commissaries for each inmate 21 00 Clothing bill for each inmate 26 00 Incidentals ... 5 00 rivers of-hlood in au effort to subdue a free people and get possession of their gold mine! 1 don’t believe that any of this is God’s will. Greece and Home and Carthage and NapOleon ail came to grief. Offenses must needs come, but woe unto those by whom they come. I don’t believe that any war of aggression has the favor of God,- but sooner or later the aggressor will reap whal he has sown. John Brown was backed by Heuiy Ward Beecher and other preach ers who thought they saw the will of God in an uprising of the slaves against their masters, no matter if it resulted iu murder and arson-and other out rages too horrible to mention. He was as much an anarchist as Czolgcsz, and his infamous scheme a thousand times more horrible; but last year they removed bis bones to Connecticut and reinterred them with honors and a monument. No, l am still the same old rebel—unreconstructed, unrepen tant, and 1 am incredulous of any real or lasting harmony between the Norih and the Sooth as long as the pension grab goes on and gets bigger ewry year and we have to pay a third m it for being conquered, if peace and love and harmony prevail, why bleed us forevei? Why take our hard earn ings to support the children and grand children of Union soldiers, one-tbtrd of whom were Hessians and hirelings who were fighting for $10 a month and ations, with no thought of patriotum? From that imported class, no doubt, sprang these anarchists that breed dis cord and discontent among our people. Czolgotz was no foreigner. He was ^)prn in Detroit, went to school tbefe, earned bis trade there, and bis elder brother was a soldier in the Union army and he is just as much an Amen- cjm citizen as 54 per cent of the pojiu- atiou of New York city—native born, but of foreign parents. | The seed of anarchy was sown lonir ago, and it it too late to drive'it out by anv legislation. The Yassins of our A GREAT AND GROWING EVIL Need in the South for the Labor o: ‘ All Able to Work. p Two editorials were published in the same column the other day by the Co lumbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun. In one of them was tho statement, *' Many complaints have been made by differ ent communities in Georgia this spring and summer about vagranls, idlers ant loafers. * • • Columbus has more than her share of this very undesirable citizenship.” In the other was the statement, “ There i,s hardly a mill or manufacturing industry here but needs more labor, and there is work in these industries for a thousand or more peo ple that can be had for the asking.” About the same time, with the com plaint coming from every industry in its section of a scarcity of labor, the Magnolia (Miss.) Gazette published vigorous editorial denouncing the ne gro parasites infesting the towns of that State, and demanding that author ities should enforce the law against vagrancy. It clearly pointed to the means whereby these vermin are en abled to exist in these words : “ The mystery of his existence is not such a mystery after all when we be- to investigate it at "short range a thorough parasite. He lives OT Others. 'Like the ancient Indian wdo hunted and fished and battled with his enemita while his squaw tilled the earth and fed hi u, so this parasite lives on the labors and thefts of his woman.’ For him she robs tho pan try ; gives him, not crumbs, but whole leaps of food from the rich man’s table, and to him she caniea her week- y wage. Indeed, his syslenrhas be come so exteusnfc'tlmi very prob able that the majority of white families who employ cooks in this county are feeding one or more of these gentle men of leisure day after day.” Observers iu Northern cities, such as I’hiladelphia, New York, Chicago and Fitoburg, in which the negro gin tc He is eyiOd $8,060 wruld equip and run the Home for the first year, in cluding the clothing kill fur 40 inmates. It will be well for all who oppose the Soldiers’ Home movement to bear in iniixl that the Homo is pro|ioeed for the botneleea and friendless iaffigeut I ^11 soldiers, who have no fiiends who are | able to take care of them, for the Mate cannot afford to hire a nurse, pay dor tor s bills, board, etc , for each oid sol dier thei is on (he lift or may be at any time. It took ten yean wrang ling in political turmoil for Georgia to cope to ihe pracuc *1 thing about tak ing care of brr indigent soldiers ; can't . in South Can Una profit by Geor gia's experience end with one great and grand movement raise our pen al ms in r lasers A and II to $60, and C* to f JO.-wnd allow them all op tion of drawing their pensions and liv ing among their friends, or forfeit their pensions and live at the Home t An analysis of the trial in Georgia, we think, will point out the fact that the forfeited |>eneioae will pay 70 per cent, of the running exncnee* of the Home, and might be made to do better more experienced managnornt. J. C. StTum.imi, Camp 1,006, U. C. V., 1’eouleloo, S men of idly w Gate tie'm recognize the uuth <>f ihe observation, and it is only to glory in j ncceeeai j to squint lowaid the book- ) hirh is setting the pie there are to be found such abnormal mind ai kitting a President. As Kooeeveli said, I Earning a President must lake hi# chances. I »fen« r alion of negroes nth C •ILL ARP ON PRESIDENTS. ita Cardihxa^wooiQ at the next meeting of our Legislature step to the front and provide a Home for her wornout soldiep that would be second to ttone in the South. The Home building ot Georgia is three elonea high with veranda after the style of the health resort hotel, and contains 65 rooms, 10 of which are mnstly large rooms for memorial hall, library, drawing room, dining room, kitchen, and for each office for super intendent, matron and steward, and basement rooms for laundry, gas gen erator and storerooms and commissary ? 55 rooms are made for bed rooms, with 2 single beds, 2 rockers and 2 arm chairs, 2 bed rugs, 1 bureau and wash- stand, towel rack, etc., all of which cost about $60 for each room, and eveiy room’s furniture, that is now furnished and occupied, has been con tributed by some individual or society o$ ladies or genllemim, whose names are whiten in large letters above the djors of the rooms they have fur nished, such as Chapters of the Daugh ters of the Confederacy, Memorial As sociations, Camps of U. C. V’s., etc. But the most touching of all was a do nation for furnishing a room from the Atlanta Camp of the Grand Army Republic—our once enemies in war— while the merchants, manufacturers, firms, etc., kave filled all the other rooms, hails and closets with all the necessaiy'flxturea and appliances. Me morial hall is used for ail the gather ings, preaching, prayer-meetings speak ing, etc., and is well furnished with nice seats and an organ. Over the door of the large drawing room is the name of Henry Gin — * in, or gan and guitar. The library is also well furnished with cases, chairs, books, weekly and daily ' newspapers. The dining room has" modern hotel ta bles for six people, and is equipped witk the latest fittings. The kitchen is He West to School With R ooc- velt’a Uncle —McKinley Wan n Good and True Cltlaen. The public grief has awmaged. The shock ibet made tbs nation tremble peseed away. Editors and preach •re have had their say and the wheels of government roll oo in their eeUb- paid regard to th* time- “ U iiL-asy lies the heed that wears a crown.” Why that wretch shouhl | h a kind-hearted and I I nnselfieli a man as Mr. McKinley pans- «th eomprehdhsiou. * If be was jealous I of power or great wealth, why didn't he pursue Morgan or Rockefeller or j i Carnegie? uh, the pity of it! An I uoeeliLh, great-hearted Christian jgeoiUaian. No wottder the women. } are helping to buikl the Atlanta monu- I meat, for Mr. McKinley »•« a model | l husband, tro* to his marriage vows, • and ever tboughiful of bis loving wife. | Ever in apprehension of bla fate he j .urged $100,000 of life iosuraace, aw-1 it waa all for her—yes, all for her whom be loved better than fame or wealth ot power. And n • w comes 1’residrnl K-«ee- vtlt, the first lYmideot from Georgia st ck. 1 like the s'art he has made, l and I believe he will he as much the (’resident as was Andrew Jackson. If we had a United Si ales bank be woukl close Hand remote the dt|M»ita. Yes, I know the slock from away hark. When 1 was a school-boy 1 visited Roewtll, where the Kings and Dun- wood)* and Itufiocbs and Pielta and Hands all lived in elegant seclusion. Dan Klliutl was one of my compan- iocs * mischievous, black-eyed you'll of 16; 1 went to school with him. He was half-brother to our 1‘residect’t mother. Yea, 1 know the stock and mat be I can gel some little office with good pay and little work—something like a sinecure or a sine qua non— something that _would suit using in the South on ihe high road to the cha'n gang, the jail and the penitentiary to recognize the origin of the growing curse. It is not cob lined to Georgia, to Missisaippt or the South It is found in every large city in the country where negro women havu found the means to earn an honest livelihood, and where the great majority of them woukl continue to earn it wen- it Dot for the hi ark pars •itrs who follow closely up«m their heels, amt who uci only bold them ap regularly for the greater portion, kfuol ! the whole, of their wages, but who suggest to them the petty pilfering, the insolence and ahiflleeanras which have become the bane of many a patient ‘ housewife. There is need in the South for the | labor of every man or woman, black jcf white, able to work. There la no reason why anyone should be a loafer I or a vagrant. Thg remedy la not dif n At ft ‘ i A Nativ* ad© f' 't 'A Farm: V 46 The Benn , the Atlanta t ^ Boartl lowing sketch » Uowed by of Blenheim, 8* go farmer and con 4 quite notable : ^ Jalf Alexander Jain heim, Marlboro t hna, is in many most remarkable t. lbev He was born in thi<« ve ' r and his father Donal. a native of AUadaU. xd came to this country Q : man, and was ft lawyer. A. J. Matheson, on acco. between the States, was finished education, but his general information superior pa a manager.* Like many Southern boj A Place of Importance in the Hal cyon Days of the Paat. “ The Idler,” a contributor to the Spartanburg Journal, gives tjyt foh lowin;' reminiscence of Old Uiekens- ville, which will be relished by our readets: One old Southern institution, how ever, has departed for always. TbT chang js of the manner of life, the de velopment of the country, the concen- Iralion of amusements and organiza tions in the towns, large and small, are the reasons for its going. That the muster. It is gene but not was older Irish its meuories. 1 have heard the peopli talk of musters and my blood has been raised by numerous re miniscences. I have heard old men financier an^j of the great cr0 wds, the gay dress, .16 gorgeous drunks and the glorious hts that used to be features of the turned from the war pemf^^nga al the general muster brave, patriotic and determi ;)un( j 9 j„ t hc up-country. The militia at once entered upon his fat T pr i dc 0 f the State and it was v&stated farm, endeavoring w j t h generals and colonels and the damages wrought by and there was vast pride in army, at the same time eke out. an ,i the minor offices, and the for biiu-elf, father and sister. ^ 0 f epaulets and titles “ did In 1809 he accepted a position After the reviews— a prominent planter in MuriouCoUf the governor—the tun would in this State, as foreman of his fai-e. The neighborhood bullies In 1870 he worked for the same ge.against each other and “ fist lieman, operating a three-horse fare'\ghta” ensued thick and fast receiving a portion of the crop as com-vdiy to use a knife or pistol pensalion for his labor, doing the hard est kind of manual work himself. During thp year 1870 he married a most estimable lady, Miss Ellen Jarni- .gau. of Marion County, and Mr. Msth^ •on admits that much of his succcs^^ due to her cooperation and wise coun sel. They have bad nine children, five (laughters and four sons. In 1871 Mr. Matheson rented a small fat in and operated a limited merran- U> find. Georgia itself has a law which |>crails anyone io arrest a vag rant, who shall be punished by the county court or bound over for ene year for service to sotne one. The law, as the Enqnirtr.Sun p .ints out also de fines vagrants in uuaiistakable langu age, as follows: ”1. I 'ersous wandering or * slrolhog about io idleness who are able to work and have no properly to support them. ” 2. I’ersous leading an immoral, idle or pr> fiigate life who have no prop- eity to support Ihtm, and who are able to work and do not work. “ 3. All persons able to work, hav ing no prone* 4 and visited many sections lieyond the diMiasippi river, but-being unwilling io locale in that country, he returned home, with renewed energy and deter mination. He again emerad the tner can tile business and from the begin was succrnsfunmaking money^gfodiy. In I87T he purchl&o n twenty-five- •e cotton plantation, among the finest lands in Ihe IVe Dee section, going in debt for tbe a< st of the amount,. He continued bie mercantile business, amassing wealh with amaz ing rapidity, and year after year pur- • basing large plantations, his ttMMfu rial rating all thc time growiag. Later on, Mr. Maibeeoo moved to Itleobeim. a small town seven mils* south of licuoettaville, where be put- chased property and continued the mer cantile bualOeee, his lr«de extending many miles in eveiy direction. He hna reared a cultured and intelligent family, having given nil of bis children, w bo are oid enough a collegiate educa tion to prepare them for tbe rugged bailies of life. He is the largest real estate owner in Eastern Carolina, and bis lands are fertile and vaiuahlo. Among bis large plantations are ” Brown's Creek,” “Aitadale,” “ l«oodoo,” “Arcadia,” and “ Egypt,” besides many smallei places. He operates about two hun dred plows and last year made on his individual farms about 1,600 boles of cotton. All of his plantations are pro vided with telephonee, artesian wells, retail stores, modern barns and im proved ginneriee. He has a three- story back mill bouse at Egypt oo •Crooked .preek, roller patent process, with a ca|iacity of 50 barrels of (lour daily. . . ilia n who did lost bia social c ^andy and honey was the j a ge and the result of the otn seductive draught with me jy sun and militant am- ..raird Vo imagine. Csler reti** were delight of ^f at nt and great article* ol' • i in i«re mighty fighters in WU h n stage-bouts of The • uuuter day scrap Haity Hits.—So mat neglecting business to nu in parades that tbe womei to be proud of themaelvee. This is the season whei taken inCO tbe cellar, and rave over the rows ot jars and pickles. A town doesn’t lose its country entirely until the young ttvit stop giggling in the [Hiblic entertainments. The merchants complain that 6' woman who retarns from a trip < to tell them how mnch cheaper things are away from home, end they are getting mad about it. Whe i a man has had bad luck, end takes his wife to live with his son-in* law, there is great indignation for the son in-law, bat never notice any indig nation when a young man takes his family to live on his wife’s father? Anything that eftn bo piled onto an old man seems to be all right The most severe enttes old-fashioned people have are girls between twelve and twenty yean of K*« It is a rare girl who does not alien ate her teal friends by being too much of a princess from slxteen.to twenty. When it la announced that a woman will entertain informally, it means that she will buy things ready-made at the baker’s. Mo many women think they have done their whole duty toward a man If they pat a wet cloth’ on his head when he has a headache. When a man’s wife flatter* him, it may coat him the price of a hat, but when other women begin il, it may coat him everything he has.—Atekium (ilohe.- ' • A Good Joke on iURar.Lr —The Philadelphia Ledger says that the ax. ceediogiy. andreo r*,"! by a fiddler was nnfoiff f«-t»»res of the lime Uml W m memory be^_ yd goat was clan r an Angora go* quisilae of ^ satisfactorily tha* . serve tbe there was abundaotq appointment which 4 the I man would ever think of is telling a story on hsrself long ago a woman cf fpahi very elaborate luncheon. 4 doing l. Nc were tbe they were | Senator's wife She ot very gave a more than vs. en- we, which almost c .inside ration In !*6.V Davis goats w Kiehard 1‘eters the exception Irove if . vear* tbe bu ’•re of A if one St* pnrob* off her gloves she noticed that beside her sat a stout, elderly person, obvious ly wealthy, obvV»o-lv .Ire-ad by one who didn't know and Just — obviously uouaed to the ways of polite Indeed, she presently turned to Menator’a wife and confessed it “ 1 gueee yours is the only face 1 know, except Emdy’s there,” tu- , dicaling the boeteee. “ She'* —{ I — Hut I knew you the minute I < >ii*- ianC owu*. Wade Ilamptoo, of Mouth by Mr. Daveo|i< n, «>f . one by Mr. Osborne, id New ^ t Later C«4. Peters im|*orted others. 00 *,,^ they did uot prove sattfactory. rcaeraliy looked upon — tbe real, , sunder of tbe Angora goat induitry * ¥ * r in tbe United Male*. Oilier importa tions occurred from time to time up to 1876. In 1881 the Multan alualulely prohibited the exportation of Augur as, and this prohibition is still in effect. A few animals have been imported from Cape Colony; Nuteithstandiflg tbe prohibitum of exportations from Turkey, Dr W. C. Bailey, of Man Jo—, Cal., viti'ed Asia Minor during tbe earl) months ol this year, and in April succeeded in chipping out four goats. The** arrived in New York in April and left quarantine then for their California home oo May 9. “ The Angora goats of these several importations found their way ' into maov of the Moutheru and Central Males, but for niece, nut t anew vou th. set eve# oa you. 1 eats to tayuoif. •There’* Mrs. Meoator Bleak,' and 1 • DO» it.” v “ Perbaiu you’d 1 think you are fro— —J I’.d's Mate, are you not?” 1 -u,” admitted the aft mu you picture Io the ltd the Meoator’s wife, |M u Dep*' io* darned to tbe eo* | for the sapp for ' In ere —att>s of ntoprrty, $3 for stotkhob 'the atockhc per cent, some stocks pay and some pay so two per coot, la the ai As showing what down aud paid regar honored maxim, ” D* mortuis nil nisi iKHtiim say nothing but good of the dead. Even the yellow-jouraala stopped their cartoous and gave tbeir readers a rest. But one extreme al ways follows another aud so idolatry diegan as soon as the President was as sassinated. He would have lieeu saint ed if tainting waa revived. Now that he is dead he is every body’s President. But rime is a good leveler, and history is beginning to be .made. Mr. McKinley waa no demigod nor will he be writlen down aa a great atatesman. He was a Chris tian gentleman—a better man than his party—but waa carried along with it info an unjust war that will not bear the scrutiny of time. He had to fall into line with the greed of commerce, anil the consequence is there are thous ands of widows and mothers silently mourning for husbands and sons kilkd in battle or died in hospitals in a foreign land. There is no lamentation over them. But as Governor Oates said, what are we going to do about it; nothing? Some preachers say it is the will of God and the way to&prngd t.he gospel. I don’t believe it; and I have not much regard for the preacher who does. It takes more faith than I have got to see the hand of God in any war for domin ion or the acquisition of territory. For more than a hundred years Ireland has been held in vassalage against her will. Mo were theu American colonies held until tbe earth and our fathers re belled. Napoleon coveted the earth and our government coveted Cubft and give if to me liecause I went to school with his half-uncle Dau or his uncle half Dau. That's reason enough. * But my time is.up, for my wife says she is going to take an evening nap and I must look after tbe two little granddaughters, . Jessie’s children. There is a brand new little boy there now, and the little girls are staying with us till their little brother gets ac quainted. Before long 1 will have to b^ish up my old baby songs again and sing that boy to sleep. They keep on working me as long as 1 last. When I die I reckon the women will build a monument to me and say on it: u He was a faithful husband and father. He nursed tbe children and grand-children at long as he*lasted.” Bill Arp. eeiling her starving people, but never fed them. Then our cofniriercial greed cro—ed the ocean to the Philippines and bought them for a song with ten millions of negroes thrown in. Eng land coveted Mouth Africa and has al ready spent millionb of money and Atlanta Always 44 In It.”—The Man from Macon listened intently for half au hour to a group of Directors of the Southern Inter State Fair, which is nearly at hand in Atlanta, expatiate upon the greatness of Atlanta. 44 Nothing important ever happens anywhere,” one of the Directors said, 44 but what there is an Atlanta man there. If Atlanta hasn’t a man there she has some one there directly con nected with Atlanta. It all goes to show what a big city Atlanta Is. 44 Now, look at the unfortunate death of our President,” he continued. 44 When he was shot down there was an Atlanta man beside him who struck down the assassin; now I see that Emma Goldman has relatives in Atlanta.” 44 Yes, ihat’s true.,” said another. T .“4. Petsous having a fixed *5od,', who have uo visible property to sup port them, aud who live by stealing or by trading in, bartering for or buying stolen properly. 44 5. Professional gamblers living in idleness.” Those Mutes which possibly may not have such provisions should make them as soon as possible, and should vigor ously enforce them. The curse is too widespread for one Mtate to be expect ed alone to suppress it. There must be ^ widespread, united plan carrried out promptly and strenuously. It is a curse which not only acts as an imme diate drain upon the thrift of a com munity, but it also tends to demoralize tbe workers, and sUnds as a block in the way of immigration of industrious folk to the place where they would have liberal rewards —Southern Farm Magazine > Ch V* ’ can J “men"every~ wherci” The Man from Macon snorted. “Yes,” he finally exclaimed, “when I die and go to Hades I expect to find that Matan’s chief cook and bottle jy&sher is from Atlanta.” There waa a thoughtful pause. Greatest Horse Ever Bred.— Among the anecdotes current in Wash ington i<» one about Menator Blackburn, of Kentucky, and Colonel Pepper, of whiskey making fame. The. Senator aud his valued constituent were dis cussing horses, when Repremfctetive Crain, of^exas, entered. “‘What are you talking about?’ asked Crain. “‘Horses,’ said Blackburn. 44 4 Oh,’ remarked Crain, ‘why don’t you talk about something worth’while? Why uou’t you discuss literature or something to improve your mind ?’ ‘Literature ?’ said Blackburn 'What kind of literature do yon re»nm mend ? “ ‘I like poets.’ answered Crain. 4 I am particularly fond of Tennyson and Longfellow.’ “ ‘Longfellow ?’ interrupted Colonel Pepper, suddenly taking an interest in the conversation. 4 Oh, yes; I know Longfellow. He was the greatest horse ever bied in Kentucky 1’ ” nils tban any other one man in tbe Mtate, is liberal, affable and optimistic, carries his own insurance and has not a dollar on hi* life or,property. He has traveled extensively in Eu rope, having made several visits to his lather’s old homestead in Mcotland. Last year he and his daughter visited the Paris Expositum and made an ex tended tour throughout the different countries of Europe. Iu 1876 Mr. Matheson purchased valuable real estate in tlje town of Ben- nettsville and erected a very large two- story brick store house on the tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, in which be has since conducted a grocery business under tbe name of the “Marl boro Wholesale Grocery.” This enterprise succeeded from the beginning, owning its own warehouses cotton sheds, seed scales, etc. Before Mr. Matheson established this whole sale business another firm was conduct ing, most successfully, 9 similar busi ness, but only two months ago the old linn sold out to the 44 Marlboro Whole sale Grocery ” aud the two businesses are now combined, suppljing a large territory and employing quite a num ber of salesmen. • In August of last year Mr. Matheso formed a copartnership with C. Exum in the wholesale business, r this year the business will sell th: quarters of a million dollars’ wort> goods, and this rapid increase 5 ’ X :'uu" xr CAR0UNA, business. Mr. Exi”- of much expert-" Carolinian.ac . X $ ca*.«unarj- -r -- r about ah me goals cf this b that remained in this country were iu* the Southwestern States, principally u> Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Cali fornia. Within the last few year* they have gone into Oregon in large num bers, and quite recently sever* 1 thou sand have been taken into Iowa and Missouri. At the present time it can safely .be said that they may be found in every Stale in the.Union. An in terest is manifested in them such as has never been known before, and it is believed that this interest will result in^estaklishing permanently an indus try that will extend to every part of the country.” The goats are increasing rapidly on Folly island and on other islands about Charleston, and their breeding will wm be an important and profitable in: stry of this vicinity. ■ \ the , ave all rflilf ty mills mile on 1900 was about railroads make they formerly madl creased capacity, more economically ever before and roads ap coudi n ess-like way. Tb give first of all a fir then to pay as large sible to tbe owners | honor of thak-n longed, /t6 Admit A cetiain judge, who once presided over a cmuinal court, was ‘famous for one of theVmost compassionate men who eve r BrOWV' Dch ' His soft ness 0“ f * 1 no t prevent him f 1 !'idge > . A m™}- i. Vo nrrlvt* V. 1*. II. K KM BRICK, Cashier. i Knott’s Conscii Ex-Governor Proct Yerkes were discc Sampson-and Schle smashing Cervera at Yerkis took tbe grouuM lor memufTotomac dmiral SiunfBorial indicted to entirely igfioflident Schley’s pan in (he affairJL B. The Governor hstftnet^iftl companion had fiotrhed that characteristic twin! raid: 44 My dear sir, gratifying to me to heaitter to position you have in HQk . like a balm to my conrcie ties a point that baa worrowns LeayaAts! day. I was walktDfckOa *s ’ ' T' c ,^1, fHls once with a boy frynrch “ l.uun iiV.,we saw a rqbbit ranteket 8[>iirtanlmijr..... -dD®** u tMluda ftftor Hend«‘n<u:villo.. 11 l ' 7 Ti~y■i^or cent •pP^Mdont of 7.05 ar Xa ot r, it iaJbtee- AsbevfHe. A-:ivo purchpaea- Jr., J. W. 00NE bales of cot Matheson ton comp prepare c< P 0 j£ r * r *e n c r al banU» Dr.J. L. FOLK, M. F. BRABHAM, ] W. P, BYRNES. r Sliw illo.... Mpartaiiliiirg tilrnn Krtrini “ r.rrirvlit*.. f.a.iirenrtI'Jd 4 . 44 Andenae .. Arrive i;r< 4 *nwo<*il.. 44 AutfUKta .... S and exchange oiiklnev*. ‘.ltd hiirglarqiroot.vault!., wuli rim** lock-, f^ern'Ingenuity and *•' Equipnod with wuli tlm** lock-, in-111 lug every proteo . leiiee can ik-»•>*. dA# of firm-, individual), and corporations solicited. All bn«lne«* In tis sill reedy? prompt and caretp' attention, and every facility and dalion consUient with sound banking piInciptra eill be extended to AVIXGft lYEPAltTM l iXT t; - . v - ■Lffi • a* ~ < frwM< l/MVe Aiiguxl* .. Arrive Aik-ndale. . 44 Fairfax..... 44 Yemas-e*... 4 * ;• Beaufort,.,. 44 W»rt Itoiul.. Dave Pert Kojial... Beaufort,..*. Testa*—*;.. Fairfax ... Afi-ndaie.. Ml a.... *■■" ■.