The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 11, 1894, Image 4
<E>ur fhimlij Storij.
AN OLD l.OVH AFFAIR.
The wind was blowing briskly
straight froiu the mountains. Tho
gaunt pear t"eo growing at tho door
of tho little old woather-worn house
was in a whirl of flying blossoms.
The cramped front yard and, further
out, the sunken wooden planks that
UO.PVimI fill* wiflnu'ull/ urnttn "
.v? m, i vj ik aj'tu ullu
white with them.
Behind the house, its one stable
shining sharply against it, a bluzo of
satYron rovoalou tho April sunHot.
In all tiie long stroot only two persons
wore vlslblo. One was a rosyfueed
woman toiling up from tho
grocery store below with her arms full
of small packages ; the other, a lank
tall man, middle-aged, like herself,
who came slouching along from tho
opposite direction. They met at tho
gate of tho littlo houso house.
" Well, Kachol."
" Well, Bill."
" How are vo' gittin' 'long now ? i
ain't seen yo' fo' near two weeks."
"Well, only tolor'blo. Mother's
been ail in' more'n usual, an' I've been
kop' pretty closo. She's bettor now.
You look woll, Bill."
" Yes, nothin' ever happens to mo."
Ho leu nod his arms upon the palings
before him. "Want any wood chopped,
Knchol, or anything heavy moved, or a
nail put in somowhores?''
4 No. Bill: I'm real comfortablo jist
now."
" This fence needs fix in'." Ho shook
it roughly and a piece of paling broke
olT in liis hand. 44 Ouo strip of timber
and u half a do/en nails'd make it all
right again. It's rotten, tho"; ho shook
it once more.
44 Yes, it's old, Bill, like most everything
'bout hero is. A now ooat o'
whitewasli'll make it bettor, 1 guess."
44 I won't be hero to put it on fo' yo.'
Kachcl ; I've got a three-months' job
down to Kidor' at Haversham. I'm
goin' down tho road a piece an' git a
lift in his cart. He's wuitiu' fo' me."
44 I'm real glad to hoar It, Bill."
41 A good throe months' job. Hidor'u
daughter's goin' to git married, an'
he's goin' to give her a house, and I'm
to build it?sort o' cousin o' mine yo'
know." Ho pulled himself away from
? !./> t 1 I. _l i > i ? ""
uiiu iuuuu uuu lie 111 Olllilllri 11111 HI. " VO 11
have U> do without mo for awhile,
Rachel: good-bye."
"Good-bye, Hill."
Ho lingered yot uuothor minute.
" No show fo' mo yet. oh, Rachel V"
She shook her head. Sho looked
young as sho smiled up ut him. With
that smilo on hor faco sho lifted the
luteh and lot herself into the little
green yard. A daffodil was blossoming
at tho foot of tho poar tree. Sho
stooped to pull it, and, carrying it like
u little candle in her hand, made her
way hack to tho kitchen. A blaze of
sunset blinded her as sho opened tho
door. Sho groped hor way across to
tho tahlo in tho corner, and dropped
hor packages in a heap upon it.
Two people wore speaking in tho
adjoining room. Shocould hear every
word that was said. With bonnet in
hund sho stood listening.
" It is fifteen years ago to-day Hineo
Hill Tipsdalc shot my Tom,|Mis' Simmons."
" Yes, 1 remember all 'lxiut it, Mis'
Fullor."
" An' I a'n't novor boon able to git
over his doin' it, ueither. An' when
ho como hero an' wanted my Rachel,
I jist says: Vs'o; no girl o' mine Is |
goin' to marry into a fam'ly where
thoy are sieh fools they p'int loaded
guns at their noighlxirs.' An' ho says:
' Yo' know I didn't do it o' purpose,
Mis' Fuller.' An' i says : 'Purpose or
no purpose, yo' ain't goin' to git my
Rachel.' An' I ain't over felt like
savin' anvthimr <lhYm?<?n? "
1'ho old woman turned her guzo to
tho wall. There was no sunset light
in this room ; tho only window opened
toward the east and tho piko road. It
was light enough, however for hor to
see a face that stared down upon her
from its time-worn frame on tho
bureau. It was u crud, boyish, unsatisfactory
face, hut it had been that of
hor idol. A shot from Mill Tipsdalo's
gun had shattered him. She grudged
tho very grass its privilogo of growing
over him.
"To-morrow's Saturday," Uachol
wont on, "an' I've got to git up early,
an' stir 'round an' work. 1 haven't a
day nex' wook I e'n call my own. I'm
goin' up to tho Turner farm to help
with the Spring clean'in,' and then tho
Methodist preacher's wifo stopped mo
down on tho pike, an' asked me to
come an' help her with hor sowin'."
" Umph."
"I don't remember ovor soein'tho
trees so full o' bloom. They'ro just
loaded down. Yo' can soo by the poar
tree in our garden."
Tho shrill old voice ealled from tho
bed : " Yo' o'n bring mo in my dish
of tea, Uachol, and some o' them swoot
rolls, 1 think I'll oat my supper."
Tho dalTodil in tho glass on tho little
table and a few of its kin still ldft unpullod
in the neighboring yards woro
soon all that survived of tho April
bloom. A stoim raged tho next day;
Groon Meadows was swept clean of
its white. May came. Juno Hashed
down nhnn t.hn hillu lorwl ?
.rw ?.w iuuui xuu ijunuut)
that walled in Bill Tipsdalo's little
pardon wero heavy with roses. Many
a time on her way back and forth
Rachel pulled a handful to put in tho
cracked Japanese pitcher on tho
kitchen shelf. They soeinod to bring
her uncouth lover nearer to hor. Tho
year took a groat stride toward
Thanksgiving. There were scarlet
berries instead of roses on Bill Tipsdale's
long bushes.
On Sunday afternoon Rachel broke
off a sprig from an overhanging branch
as sho passed by on her way from
church.
"Yo' haven' seen him lately, have
yo'. Rachel ?"
Sho turned and faced Mrs. Simmons.
"No, not fo'mor'n sevenitnonths, Mia'
Simmons."
The older woman stood silent a
moment and looked, first at Rachel
and then at tho barred, smokeless
house standing in the thin November
light, and back at Rachel aguin.
"They're hardly any o' thorn?
hardly any man?worth romeraberin'
in that way," nodding toward tho
berries.
"They're protty," said Rachel rather
stiffly.
" Re ain't as nice as you think ho is,
Rachel," laying a hand on hor arm.
" Don't you ovor hear any news from
Haversham ?" i
" No; what is tho matter, Mis' Sim- i
mons ?"
" Bill Tipsdalo's married to Hester i
Rider. They'vo been married moro'n
a month.
" How do yo' know he's married to 1
Hester Rider ?"
" Folks at Haversham all say so, an' 1
Simmons asked old man Rider an' ho 1
said yes ; and that same day he set n
him and Heater walkin' down tho street 1
together." i
7l It's strange fo' Bill Tipsdale to do 1
a thing Uko that, Mia' Simmons." <
\
"It's ti shuttle an' a sin, ltaohol.
Stlckin' to yo' so long, an' then not to
know any bettor'n to marry a girl jlst
half's as old us he is."
" 1 don't Beem able to bellove It at
all."
"It's an truo an that I'm stunditr
bore toll in' vo' an' yo'ro stand In' here
listenin'." Uachol stopped and picked
up the bunch of liorrles that had
fallen out of hor hand. " Don't yo' go
worryln' 'bout it, Itachol. Yo' wore
too good fo' him, anyhow."
Itachol starred steadily Into Mrs.
Simmon's face. "There Isn't anything
to worry about, Mrs. Simmons.
I've always had my mother to tond to,
an' sowin' an' cleanin' fo' other folks,
an' I'll jist keep 011 doin' as I've ulways
done. I ain't a baby to go an' knock
my head against a stone wall."
She tramped homeward erect and
stern. Once she stopped and ilung the
rose-hips far out into the middle of the
road. A little cloud of dust rose up
and hid them from her. Shu felt as if
she had Hung away the last shred of
her vinit.li
,7
" Whore are yo' goin' Rachel ?
asked hor mother an hour later.
" What yo' puttln' yo'r bonnet on fo'V
Seems to mo yo' jist come in an' then
go out again."
" I'm goin' to run down an' toll Mr.
Simmons to stop fo' mo to-morrow
mornin' with his express. I might's
A'ol 1 go to llavorshain to-morrow an'
do mj Fall shoppin' as nox' week.
When its done it's done."
" Yo' didn't say anything 'bout it
this mornin'."
"No, 1'vo just mado up my mind
since 1 oouio from church."
The old woman eyed hor over a cup
of hteaming tea.
" I bolievo Bomothin's tho mattor,
I vac hoi."
Out of tho fog that shrouded tho
dawn of tho following day rattled a
curiously colored vehicle?a glare of
yellow and splotchy crimson?and
drew up in front of tho Fuller house.
A mutiled ligure waitod at tho gate.
" That yo', Miss Rachel?"
" Yes, I'm hero, Mr. Simmon." lie
helped her up carofully to a seat.
"Only got yo' an' tho letters this
mornin." Chilly, ain't it ?"
Tho last house on the streot had
been but lately built. It's white paint
was void of ago and weathor stain : its
shingles fresh and yellow. It had no
guruci), simpiy u strip of grass divided
by ii brick wall that ran up to the
door.
Ltachol had her hand hold out to the
latch when a step sounded behind her.
A young woman with her sun bonnet
pushed hack olT her face and a kettle
in her hand stopped at the gate. She
was tall and had an abundant of very
fair hair that curled about her brows
like that of a baby's ; her eyes were
blue.
" Are yo' Hill Tinsdale's wife V"
" Yes m'm." 1'he young woman
gazed curiously at the blunt middleaged
one.
" How long havo yo' been married to
him V"
" Most two months. It'll bo two
months to-morrow."
" I heard so, but 1 jist come in from
Green Meadows to-day, an' 1 thought
I'd ask."
" I've got some folks livin' in Green
Meadows, an' it sooms like I ought to
know yo'," said lloster Tipsdale.
" Won't yo' come in an' rest awhilo ?"
" I hope yo'll bo happy," she said
slowly.
The gabled houses swarm out of
siylit. Hhe could smell the lute roses
in the little gardens as she stumbled
along ; but she was half way down the
street before the fence stopped wavering,
or the rose bushes were more than
a blur of crimson. It was a shadowy
vehicle driven by u shadowy Mr. Simmons
that rattled toward her as she
waited on the corner.
" Yo' look mortal pale, Miss Uachcl.
Heard anything while yo' went'round
doin' yo'r shoppin'?"
"No; I'm tired, Mr. Simmons. I'll
fool all right when we're movin'on the
wind blow in', 1 guess."
They bad traveled nioro than half
the distance to Green Meadows and
were in the heart of the hill country
when Mr. Simmons turned upon his
companion with tile saute question he
had asked her in llaversham.
" Heard any bad news to-day, Miss
Rachel V"
"No, none u'tall."
" Now, don't yo' git frightened, Miss
Rachel, but I'm goin' to tell yo' 'bout
something that happened in Green
Meadows this mornin'."
" What, Mr. Simmon?"
" Well, then, yo'r house burned
down this mornin'."
She caught his arm? in u grasp
that made him winoo.
" And what's come to my poor old
mother, Mr. Simmons?"
"Sho's safe an' sound, an' not a
scratch on her. Bill Tipsdalo was
passin' an' lie rushed in an' carried tho
old lady out through the blaze an' took
her up to his house an' laid her on the
ecu, an went oaoK and helped to save
the things. Kverything'd boon burnt
up if Bill hadn't been sostirrin'."
Down they plunged into a hollow ;
anything that Kuehel had to say was
lost in the clatter that followed. Thoy
climbed up to the lovol again; tho
mountains w(*ro closing in about them.
" Can't yo' go faster, Mr. Simmons ?"
A cloud of dust rose up, and wont
before and behind them. Tho little
naked birches along tho pike looked
silver like and ghostly through it.
Thoy beckoned, but the two truvolcrs
rattled on. It was through this cloud
of dust that Rachol caught a glimpse
of the blackened walls of her old homo.
A little after sho stood at Bill Tipsdale's
door.
There was a lamp burning in tho
front room. That and tho logs on tho
hoarth flooded it with light.
The old woman, propped up in tho
bed in tho corner, rose on her olbow as
Kuehel came in. Iler face wa? as vital
as over.
" Go git Bill Tipsdalo. Go git him,
right now."
" Mother "
"Go git Bill Tipsdalo, 1 say."
Bill thrust his head in from tho
blackness of the outer room.
"Comoinhoro, Bill Tinsdalo." lie
lumbered forward. "I don't lovo yo'
any bettor'n 1 over did, Bill Tipsdalo,
an I don't over expect to, an' 1 don't
think yo'vo got more sense than yo'
had before, either; but yo' saved mo
from bein' burned up this mornin,' an'
I ain't goin' to forgit it any moro'n
I'm goin' to forgit some othor things.
An' if yo' want Kachol, yo' can havo
hor."
"I guess Iiachol'll have tr?
that, Miss Puller; but if she'll have
mo. I'll bo glad to have her."
''But yo'r marriod to Hester Rider,"
said llachol.
Bill took a stop or two toward her.
"How do yo' know I'm marriod to
Hostor Rider ?"
"The folks all say so, an' to-day,
when 1 wont to town, I went an' askod
her."
Bill became radiant. Ho hold up
his loft hand, with all its five flifgers
spread out as far as possible, and with
the for linger of his right cheeked olT
j&oh statement ho rnado.
" f ? 1 \
"William E. Tipsdalo?that's me. |
William C. Tlpsdalo?that's a nophow ,
, of mino. Will Tipsdale thoy call him,
not Hill, an' he looks like mo, too. only
, younpor. Ho's married to Hester
Hidor. Didn't I toll yo' old Uldor's
1 dauphtor was poln' to pot mnrrlod, an'
I was poin' to nulld a house fo' h!inv"
Hachol was dumb.
" I puess that's why folks have boon
i foolin' mo all day long."
I The old woman ehainpioned him
from hor pillows.
"Yo' must have forpot that Bill
Tinsdaln'H imi\ <?' Un> i
Ituchol."
"No; 1 novor thought yo'd boliovo
thut o' ine, Ituchol."
" I don't know how I could have boliovod
it. oithor," sho ?ai<l.
Tho afternoon of tho following day
thoy walked together to tho parsonage
and wore married. Coming hack
through the church yard Bill pointed
toward a little sunken grave or) tho
odgeof tho winding walk.
" IIo's kep' us waitia' a long time,
Ituchol."
" l'oor Tom ! Mother loved him
bettor than all tho rest of us put to1
gethor."
They let themselves out into tho deserted
lane that ran on one side of tho
church, and strolled along like two
children, haud in hand.
Pungent smells wore in tho air ; tho
sun was mellow. A girl in one of tho
back yards was pulling linen off a line,
and as she pulled and filled her arms
, she sung.
"1 guess yo' all think I'm tho kind
thut lives from hand to mouth, without
any euro fo' tomorrow; but there's
whoro I'vo boon just a little smarter
than yo' think. I know I ain't worked
hard enough to hurt myself, ltachol,
but T'vo been savin' an' savin,' an'
thero's a right smart sum o' mine in
Havorsham bank. I thought that
maybb some day yo' an' me could havo
a cnaJbco, an' so I "kop' on savin.' Wo
can lA'gin huildin' to-morrow, Uachel."
"We'll talk it over first with mother,
Hill."
?
HOI Till:KN WAIt HlSTOltY.
The AcliicvcmcitiNof'tlie Confederates
Are Ignored and Ndjglectcd.
Hampton Guardiuu.
The neglect or failure or omission?
or whatever else it may be named?of
these States of the South to have authenticated
and issued an organized
chronology of the military actions of
their commanders and troops in the
American civil war, anil to have done
so within tho generation of its immediate
survivors, will become a regret,
doplorablo and irrepurablo in all fu
ture iimo. No otlior people in the
world's history would over have submitted
to the oblivion of their martial
glory, and no other people over so
wonderfully evinced such vital and inherent
capacity for the duties of war
anil the tests of battle. Differing in
ancestry and tradition, divided in pursuits,
in policies, in creeds, in climate,
in customs, they might have been?
but in military action they were a unit,
a symmetrical and eoneoto body aliko
in every component.
Nor should their famo have been
cherished and venerated alone for their
genius or generalship, the invincibility
of their legions, and the devotion and
sacrifices of their women, but as well
beeauso the military faculty of the
Southern people promptly devised resources
of otTvmse and defense that
since have transformed the armaments
of the world. Gradually the credit
for many of these innovations has
passseil to spurious claimants, and in
half a century tlio origin of tho others
will have boon sealed forevor in falsehood.
This boause Southern war inventiveness
made 110 sign for the knowledge
of posterity, liow many of the
thousands who sail past that grim ruin
at the gato of Charleston are aware
that with four inferior guns ingeniously
shielded from harm hut terrible for
repulse, that same work successfully
dolled the naval power of the ..United
Statos to the bitter end i llow many
have oven a vague conception of the
wonderful historical, and especially
valuable military, intorest which illuminates
that dreary surrounding?
There the torpedo and the torpedo boat
lirst asserted their successful uses as
destructives; there the rilled cannon
lirst in record rent tho air in actual
war ; there tho iron-clad land battery
and thoro tho iron-clad Heating battery
lirst took part in hostilo action;
thoro, on a nearby island, was devised
and thrown up a defensive work tho
diagram of which is today an authorized
study for military ongiueors at West
Point. All theso woro Southern war
exploitations that must perish from
renown because tho Southern people
wilfully have ignored tho need of correct
and .indelible history.
The mammoth vessels of tho world's
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armored rams. The carl lost metalarmorcd
was tho Virginia (or Morrimuc),
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" throo " propellers, and tho Amorican j
navy is applying this power to its
greatest ship ; and yet thirty-two yours
ago, on his capture of Now Orleans,
Admiral Porter, U. S. N., ollicially reported
tho soizuro of tho unfinished
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having threo propelling screws,
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tifty years all thoso wonderful contrivances
and tho aptitude that earliest
adapted and utilized them will bo
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WEDDINGS AND HAPPINE88.
ifllili A HI* IHSCOUIISKS ON MAR*
UIAOK.
Ho Talks About the ExpnnHo of Other
People's Weddings ami the Happiness
of His Own.
Oh, my country. I thought that
when mo and my wifo or my wifo and
I had raised our ten children and turned
them loose wo would havo a rest
and our remaining days would all bo
calm and aorono. LJut these grand- 1
childron koop coming on and cvory
now one that comes has to havo a silver
cup or a silver spoon or somothlng 1
by way of remembranco. it used to be
cups, but it lias got down to spoons 1
now and 1 reckon will get down to
safety pins after while. My wifo is a
maternal ancestor and is proud of her
grand-children and these little meinon- ;
toes have got to come, money or no
money. And thero are Iho birthdays
that keep on multiplying and she
knows every one and wants something
for tliein. "Just a little something, 1
sho whispers, us she follows me to the 1
door. It is these little somethings that,
keep mo on a strain, but I'm goiug to
keep on that lino as long as I can. She
{has been telling me for a month that i
I ought to havo a new suit of clothes,
especially as there was u wedding to
como oil in tlio family very soon and i
would havo to escort the bride adown
the long drawn uishi in tlio presence of
a multitude. And so 1 tried the clothing
stores in Atlantu for a suit with
the tarilT olT, hut I didn't llnd it. That
kind liasent como yet, und so I shall
brush up my old ones for the occasion.
Nobody is going to look at mo nohow,
for thero are to bo ten beautiful bridesmaids
and as many groomsmen and a
church full of witnesses and tlio wedding
march is to ho played, and 1 could
just dropout of it and never ho missed.
Hut I did buy my wifoa?sllk wedding
dress and she is as proud as site was at
sweot sixteen, when she stood up by
mo with her Augusta clothos on. Sho
dident havo but one bridesmaid, eitlior,
and tlioro waseut much fuss mado over
it. Thoro were no presents at all, but 1
a few days after we went to housokeep- 1
ing so von likely darkies came tramping
up to the house and sat down on
tho front stops until I came from the
store. My protty young wife was sit- 1
ting at tho window pretending to sow.
She hud a mischievous smile on her i
faco as I stopped in front of tho smil- i
ing darkios. " What aro you all doing
bore ?" said I. " What havo you como
after, Tip?you and Mary and all?''
And Tip said : "Old mastor sont us
up hero to Miss Ootavy and hIio tele us
to sot down hero twell you eoino. Old ,
master tolo us wo all b'long to you and (
Miss Octavv now."
Well, I novor felt oh helpless in my
lifo. What to do with thorn I didn't
know. I hud no plantation and no
negro houses and it novor occurred to
mo that I could hiro thom out. 80 after
coiiHultation mo and my wife or my
wife and 1 Hont thom all hack except
Tip and Mary and bogged tho old gentleman
to keep thoin until later. Ho
onjoyed tho ioko and said ho only
wanted to mulco a delivery of them,
for thoy had long declared that when
Miss Octavy got married thoy wore
14 gwiuo wid her."
No, we didn't liavo our sharo of wod- 1
ding. My wife cost mo just $11.50?$10
to old Brother Patterson, tho preach- (
or, and a dollar aud a half for tho
license. Cheap, 1 toll you. A good ,
wife is tho cheapest thing in the
world, for she has done boon raised ,
and clothed and schooled whon you
get her. Old Jacob had to work four- (
teen years for the girl he loved, but ho
got some of that back by cheating old J
man Labon in the cattlo trade. But (
nowadays a wedding costs as much as
a funoral?costs old folks 1 mean.
From tho way things are going 011 at
my house it looks liko tho whole family
are to bo married, even down to tho '
little grand-daughters, who are to bo 1
dressed up as cherubs and mingle 1
with the angels. It takes dry goods I
and lace amazing. And tho kinfolks <
are coming and some dear friends, and <
all have to come in bridal array, and <
tho euko baking business has begun I
and old Aunt Ann is as much excited <
as if she waste bo married too, and do- 1
clares that 14 nobody's cake ain't gwino 1
tor boat" her cake. 1
The house has boon swept and gar- '
nishod?not a cobweb or a speck in it. '
The rooms in the cabin have been *
cleaned and carpeted, and for a while 1
one of them was assigned to mo, but I <
am ruled out now and will have to hang '
up somewhere or sleep on tho hay in 1
the barn. It is a mignty big thing, I 1
tell you, for our baby girl is going to (
stop off and leave us?going off after a '
young man who is no kin to her and f
never did anything for hor but givo *
her a ring and a book and some French <
candy now and then. But it is all 1
right and according to nature and wo 1
can die more happily if tho girls are
happily married boforo wo go.
But our time will como yet if wo t
live four years longor. Wo will havo
a golden wedding?no silver in ours, j
Wo are for the gold standard right
now in advance. Just a gold dollar
from each of our friends will do, for '
wo are goldolators now in anticipation.
Wo don't want to break nobody. Thoso
silver wedding presents from tho genorous
donors are mighty nice and highly
appieciated by the happy dunees,
fait (!,/?. tV. 1.1 I
uuw vuujr w tnuuiu iuii\n um?i mean
tho paternal ancestors who has to foot
tho bills. If an old man has a popular
son or daughter who has to play bridesmaid
or groomsman to somebody throo
or four times a yoar Its as aggravating
as town taxes. I know a handsome
bachelor over in Rome who died insolvent,
and it was making wedding presents
that broke him. He wanted to
marry to got out of tho business,
but couldent make up his mind,
and all his sot of girls married while
ho was making up his mind and ho
had to givo evory one a beautiful proacnt.
At last ho died and not one of }
thoso girls went to his funeral. J
Hut it is tho fashion nowadays to t
mako wedding presents, aud it i"s all t
right if thoy como willingly and don't .
strain tho old man's pookot. It is a *
sort of tax on income that has to be c
endured. In our young days wo dident I
Sot presonts, but wo had as tine a wed- f
ing suppor as can bo had now, and
next day wo had an infair, that was as
lino as the supper. Tho infair was a
swell dinner at tho houso of the groom's 1
father, and both families and all their s
kindred woro there. That ended tho
show. There was no London or Paris j
or Now Vftrlf nr Wnvu f rvr.n <n I* *1?
-- ? w. II/, fjUl 11115
young oounlo went to work. Mo and 8
my wife?that is to nay my wifo and T
?did go to Tallulah falls about tbo I
close of the honeymoon. Tie honey* j
moon is tho first month aftor marriage,
and it closos about tho time tha young
man quits calling his wifo honey. We
went lp an old-fashionod carriage that (
swung high and had folding stops in
the casing of each door and had a high
dickey seat for tho drivor and a placo
behind for a little pig tq stand op.
Old Virgil was oho carriago driver,
and was proud of his vocation. Ifo was
then over fifty, and is living yot, as
gray as a rat and blind as a bat.
Yos, wo went to Tallulah when it J
was a bowling wilderness. Nobody
lived thoro but a man by the name of
Beall, who was in the war with Mexico
and had numcd his two bovs Churubusco
and Monterey and his little girl
Bucua Vista. TaUultth was then awfully
magnotic. 1 reckon it is vnt. r
hold on to uiy pretty young wife doBperately
when she ventured a look
over the uwful preotpioo. I read a few
f ears ago about a beautiful bride losng
her consciousness right there and
in a swoon she fell over the brink und
down, down, down until she was gone
from sight and her husbur.d bccamo
almost insane, und the people ran
down there in horror and despair? and
as they descended by tho winding and
dangerous way to And her mangled remaius,
they saw her hanging in a
thornbush that grew from out the
rocks, a hundred feet down. She was
alive, and they got ropes and rescued
her and found that she was saved by
the strength of a hoopsklrt that she
bought at Dougherty's store, on Peanh
tree street in Atlanta, and it coat only
11.75, Jind ho had plenty moro of tho
name nort loft. That carriage rido to
the falls and froiii thoro to Toccoa and
back homo was a delightful episode,
and 1 continued to call mv bride honey
and sugar and darling, ft boat a railroad
car whoro every envious fool is
looking at you and pointing you out,
and these nowspapor gimlets tiro their
little squibs at you and think it smart.
Tho wedding, the marriago,tho nuptials
is tho biggostthing in a man's life,
especially a woman's. It is biggor
than being boru or dying. Wo look
hack and wonder at tho eagerness with
which wo took the risk, tho peril of
happiness or misery. Tho very word
wedding moans a hot, a wager, a
ehanco. Nuptials means a veil, a covering,
as though a man couldent soo
what kind of a wife ho was getting,
and conjugal means a yoke, and tho
law tolls of tho chains of mutrimony.
Novortholoss, tho young folks muko
tho leap as though thoy would fall on
a bed of rosos and all their frionds, old
and young, look on with smiles and
congratulations. There is uo weeping
or wailing. That comes later; if it
comes at all. Hut marriage is nature,
and nature is tho safest guide of all
I would marry ovory timo. I would
rather have an uncongenial wife whoso
chlldron loved mo than no wife at all.
It is tho woman who takes tho
greatest risk and sho had hotter remain
singlo than be bound to u had man
who will entail misery upon -herself;
,^.wl V ,.1.11.1 A -
iuiu uur uunurun, too.
Bn,l., AttP.
A Tax on Skiivants.?The French
Government proposes to take the tax
dIT windows and doors and make up
the dotleit by a tax on house rents and
on servants. The window and door
tax bears hardest ou the poor, who
havo more windows in their houses
than the rich. The new law will shift
the burden on to shoulders better able
to bear it. When a tenant take possession
of a house, the law asks :
" Have you servants ?" If the answer
is anirinative, the rent tax is augmented
forty per cent., but if thoro is ouly
one servant it is twenty por eent.
Invasion of this law will turn on the
definition of a servant. A servant is
defined as in general any nerson exel
usively and permanently in tho sorvieo
of another, exclusive of industrial,
commercial and agricultural work.
But the law does not eonsidor as such
a woman oinplyyod by tho day to do
general housework, and it is by this
exception that people of small moans
hiring one domestic will be able to
creep out from tho tax ; for it is very
generally i true,, in Franco, that such
women urn iniirfln/1 o ?wl ?
. .X.V4 UUU IIUVU ilWIllCb
jf thoirown to which tiicy goat night..
Women and the New Tariff.?
Women will in many instances profit
jy the new tariff ratOH. Ostrich tips,
Feather boas and all trimmings composed
of feathers are reduced fully 10
por cent. Luces of the cheaper grades,
ispecially eotton ones, ribbons, flowers
and all millinery goods not made
up, are noticeably reduced. On imported
bonnets and hats, trimmed, or
in any ready-m&do imported garment
requiring hand lubor; there will bono
reduction. The cheaper grades of
table linen, of bod linen and towels
will be from 10 to 15 percent, loss than
before. On higher grades, requiring
skilled labor, the reduction will not
bo over fivo per cont. On handkorihiefs
the reduction will bo quito
marked. On Hootch and French ginghams,
tho reduction will be from 10 to
15 nor cent. Everything in tho way of
Jhiuoso and Japanese goods will bo
'educed from 15 to 25 por cont. On all
grades of china and cut glass, importid,
thore will bo an averago reduction
)f 15 por cont. On imported soaps and
lorfumos there will bo a reduction of
15 to 20 per cent.
?Tho career of a veteran recently
leeoasod is epitomized thus : " In
jolitics ho was a Democrat, in reigion
a Universalis!, and by profession
md practice an honost man."
m
IN SELF-DEFENCE
roti ought to keep your flesh up,
Diseaso will follow, if you let it get
jelow a healthy standard. No mater
how this comes, what you peed
s Dr, Pierco's Golden Medical Dissovery.
That is the greatest flesh>uilder
known to medical scienoe
ar surpassing filthy Cod liver oil
ind all its nasty compounds. It's
mitod to the most delioate stomach,
t makes the morbidly thin, plump
md rosy, with health and strength.
The "Discovery" is sold on trial*
n every thing that's claimed for it,
ts a strength-restorer, blood-cleanscr,
md fiesh-maker, if it over fails to
)enefit or cure, you have your
noney back,
. t
t7'A* kay to ths situation
'?if you suffer from Catarrh,
you'll find in Dr.
Sage's Remedy. No matter
how bad your caso may
bo, the proprietors of the
medicine promise to pay
$500 if they can't cure
rou. You'ro ourod, or you're paid,
??????
JThousand^
| of Women \
V Buffer untold mlMrlM from a aenae of doll- ^
? cooy they cannot overcome. S
} BRADFIELD'S Bym-iuto?
< Female Regulator, $ |
J ACTS AS A SPECIFIC. C
/ It cauaes health to bloom, and joy to 1 #Um ?
) throughout the frame. r j
S It Never Falls to Cure. ? ,
"My wlfo has boen tinder treatment of S '
1 loading pbyflclftna three years, without bono- /
\ ill. After lining three bottles of ltradtlold'a }
J reunite Itojfiilator nho enn do hor own C
f cooking, milking and washing." / i
1 N. S. BKVAN, Henderson, Ala. J
I BBAD FIELD KEGULATOR CO., Atlanta, (ia. ? (
C Bold by drugglataat91.00 per bottle. \ (
ft t
?The most remarkable grindstone |
on earth is owned by Mr. J. J. Patter- (
...vox .V# IT-. M1 ~ V'.. T A 1 * *
own, wi uiv?v*j?vnil?, '^-y. 'mis noon ill
uso on his farm since 1851*. It was
mado from stono on his farm : it is
used by his entire neighborhood and
wears with the times. In good times
it sheds its grit llborally, but in hard
times it becomes as Hint. This year
the sparks from it have put out the
eyo of a boy who was turning it and ?
set (ire to a pile of straw fourteen feet j
from it. 1
That oily and rough skin cured and c
the face and hands heautiiied by Johnson's
Oriental Soap, medicated and .
highly perfumed. Sold by Carpenter ,
Bros., Greenville, S. C. *
. 6
Japanese Liver Pelle* ures bilious- ]
ness, sour stomach and all kidney and
liver troubles. Small and mild. Sold '
by Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S. C.
?
Kov. O. S. Springflold of Wakefield,
N. C., says: Five boxes of Japanese 1
Pile Cure cured mo after 12 year's suf- j
faring." Sold by Carpenter Bros., |
Greoenvillo, S. C. ,
?An English scientist, after caroful
experiments, find that when potatoos
are cooked without removing tho skins f
they lose only three per cent, of nutritive
quality through extraction of tho
juice. When the skins wore removed
before boiling tho loss was fourteen
per cent., wliich makes tho proces of )
cooking tho potatoes without their
jackets an exceedingly wasteful one.
?A story of Scotch honesty comes i
from Dundee. A small boy had taken
tho prizo for an exceptionally welldrawn
map. After the examination,
tho tcachor, a littlo doubtful, asked
tho lad, " Who helncd with this map,
James r" *' Nobooy, sir." 44 Come
now, tell me the truth. Didn't your
brothor holp you ?" 4,No sir, ho did
it all
SURROUNDED BY MYSTERY!
A Great Mistake. x 1
A recent discovery Is that headachy *
dizziness, dullness, confusion of tho mlud,
etc., are duo to derangomcnt of tho nerve
conlers which supply tho brain with nerve I
force| that tndlgoatlon, dyspepsia, neuralgia,
wind In stomach, etc., arlso from tho doranga- 1
ment of tho norve centers supplying those or- '
cans with nerve llu U1 or force, This Is likewise {
.. v.u v,. u<*u] umi-imusoi mo nourt una lungs. 1
Tho nervo system is like a telegraph system, I
as win bo^ seen by tho accompanying I
the nerves which C8B|B
convey the nerve J
nor centers ^to
elect rlc^trronUa '
small. Ordfeory jl J
Ing the norve'cen- BLW/iESf * 1
tors for t he cause JnVH
arising therefrom aUw j
peelal 1 st and .<oJ0Hp
student of nervous diseases, and author 1
of many noted treatises on the latter subject. long
since realized tho truth of the first
statement, and his Kostoratlve Nervine
Is prepared on that principle. Its success
Iq curing all diseases arising from doranger
Fneut of the norvpua system 1? wowlerul,
as the thousataas of unsolicited testimonial*
In possession of the company manufacturing
the remedy amply prove.
Dr. Miles' RestorAtlvo Nervine Is a reliable
remedy for ull nervous diseases, such so
headr.che, nervous debility, proetratlon,
sleeplessness, dlzainess hysteria, sexual debility,
8t. Vitus dance, epilepsy, oto. It Is
sold by all druggists on a positive guarantee,
or sent direct by the Dr. Miles Medical Ca,
RIkhart, Ind? on receipt of price, tl per bot?
tie, six bpttlss for S6, express prepaid.
Restorative Nervine positively contains n#
plates or dangerous drugs.
Sold by Carpenter Bros., Druggists,
Greenvilio, S. C.
CA/fTTTT'O
oivi uno 1
VULCAN !
OINTMENT,!
SURE CURE FOR c
I *
| Piles, Rheumatisnj, ^
| Catarrh, Neuralgia, L
Corns and Bunions, *
r u
i Burns and Old Sores, p
Scald Head and Ringworm,
Caked Breast and Sore Nip- J
pies, Weak and Sprained
Backs.
>
A special ointment in mad? ? >''
? MUU OU1U
for Itch and Itching PIIob, which is
guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Every box of SMITH'S VULCAN I
OINTMENT is sold with fcho under- t
standing that tho money will be refunded
if not satisfactory.
Highest testimonials furnished as to
its efficacy in Piles, Rhoumatism, Neuralgia,
&c.
Sold by dealers in medicine everywhere
at 25 and 50 cents per bo;:, or
mailed to any address on rocelpt of
price in postage stamps or curronoy.
Sample boxes free,
W, J, Smith, Sole Proprietor,
Greenville, E. ?u, i
ftf'Mentlon this paper in ordering. * O
ZZZ^miLU. - -in- ' dgP
" Ma," said a discouraged urchin,
" I ain't going to school anyraoro."
"Why, dear?" tenderly inquired his
mother. "'Cause 'taiu't any use. I
Ban never learn to spell. The teacher
keops changing the words every day."
?The meanest thing we can think of
just now is the one who will road a
uewspaper for two or throe yoars without
paying for it and then have the
nrwif moof a*? tw,4 i f4lw, tm hi SuIioh 4a ofnn
i'uovujiiovvi uut/iijr ti(%J }Juuiiouui wv owj/
Itch on humari, ?nange on horses
Jogs and all stock, <%red in 30 minutes
by Wolford'a Sauitary Lotion. This
never fails. Sold by Sloan Bros., Druggist,
Greenville S. C.
? i tm
English Spavin Liniment removes
all hard, soft or calloused lumps aud
blemishes from horses, blood spavins,
rnrbs, splints, sweenoy. ring-bone,
jtiiles, sprains, all swollen throats,
soughs, etc. Save by tho use of
one lx)ttlo. Warranted tho most wonierful
blemish cure everknown. Sold
by Sloan Bros., Druggists, Greenville,
i. C.
I H JOHNSON'S
MAGNETIC OIL!
1ft' intUnt Klllarof Pain.
Internal and External.
\V AubB Ciuaa RHEUMATISM. NEURALV
I.111UO Hack, Hpralna, Jlrutoe*.
SUIT JoliiU.OOlilO aud
lnxtnntiy. Cholera M 'rOroup.Dlptheria,
Sore Throat,
APACHK. ns If by mttflo.
ruC UODQC DDAUn Especially propared far
InC nUnoL DnANU, Kt,?-k, Doubla Strength,
he moat Powerful and Panetrnttngl.tniuiantfor Man
r DcostIn existence, l,arg ?1 tire 76o., 00a alxe400.
JOHNSON'S ORIENTAL 80AP.
Medicated and Toilet. The Great Skin Cure and |
ace Boautlflar. Ladles will find it tba moat
lellonte aad highly perfumed Toilet Soap on
he market. It la absolutely pure. Make* the I
kin soft aad velvety and restore* the loet com>lexlon|
to a luxury for tlie Bath for Infanta,
t alaya itching, eleanaea the acalp and yctNUOteS
lie arowth of hair. Prloa 76o. For aala ky
^ARPF.NTBR BROS . OUKENVILLK, S O
WACGAMAW LINE STEAMERS.
The Steamer will leave her wharf
it Con way ert ry Monday and Wednesday
norning for Georgetown at 4 o'el. ek, touchii^
all intermediate nnintA. Ai <1 will l?uvo
ier wharf m Georgetown every Tuesday
uid Friday morning for t on way at 4
iV.lock, touching all intermediate points.
I).T. M'NKIL, Gen't Ag't and Tress* Conway,
H. C. v j
II A. Ml'NNKKLYfiL, Agent, Georgetown,
i, O. w
Soheduie of Local Mail Routes.
LiOUTK NO. '20273.- From GalivAiits Ferry
to Conway, iuail arrives 1.45 p in, on Mondav,
Wednesday and Friday: leaves at 9
2.20 p m on saute days. Mail closes at
ROUTE NO. 20280.?From Conwfty to Blrewav,
N. O* mail arrives at 4:30 p ni on
Tin sday, Thursday and Ha urday; leaves
Mt 5 p ill on same* days. 51 ail closes at
4:55 pill. V
;tOU TK NO. 20281.?From Conway via JR
Forpey, JordanvIUe, Gideon, 1 nlmna aad
return, mail arrives at 7 pni on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday ; leaves at 6 a m ''y
on Monday, Wodnesday and Friday. Mail
closes at 9 p m. iJI
UOUTK NO. 20282.?From ( on way to Litt'o
River, mall arrives at 5 p m on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday: leaves at7 M
u in Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ;|i
Mail closes at 0 p m. W
iOUTB NO. 20282?From Conway to Port I
llaiTclsou, mail arrives daily at 12 m;
leaves daily at 1:45 p m. Mail closes at
1110 p m.
IITTl UT\U"IV\M .-.n .
_. 4limivyiiAumjUKJN ?fc
VV Conway K. U. Passeugor and <9
Freight daily, excopt Sunday. B
SOUTHHOUND.?NO. 46. * J
jV Hub 8 16am fflg
jV I lions 8 30am
\i Cbadbourn 0 00am
.,v Cbadbourn 10 10am ||S
..v Clarendon 10 40am
...vMt Tabor 10 65am SB
jv Loris 11'20am
..v Saiiford 1187am
a Hayboro 11 47am HB
jV Piivettrt u 67am HH
jY A drain 12 02pm . i
Vr Conway 12 80pm rfB
NORTHBOUND?NO. 44.
iV Conway 2 00pm ;'-tB
jT Aarain 2 30pm ($$?
jY Privetto 2 86pm B|
.v Hayboro 2 15pm 1
a ruu'iford 2 65pm j^B
Vr I.oi'Ih 3 20pm JH
VrMt Tabor 3 55pm HH
a Clarendon 4 20pm BH
tr Cbadbourn 4 60pm
.v Cbadtmui n 6 15pm
,t 11 ion 6 46pm ftBI
lr Hub 0 00pm
ATLANTIC COAST LIM W.IL- '?jj[
?\ mington, Columbia k, Augusta R. B
t. Condensed schedule, in effect Dec
TRAINS C01NG SOUTH.?NO. 65. i
.v Wilmington 8 20pm
,y ChadlKJuro 6 50pm 1? B
,y M arion .. 6 50pm I* ]H
vr h lorenco 0 60pm a WVi
jT Florenco n 1A*^*
_ _ i iv|fui
ir Mimtcr 8 '28pm BaH
,v Sumter 128pm ai||
tr Columbia 10 00pm dBH\
y ko. w. vn
iT ffl^reace 7 45atii A Ham
k.r Suuoter -i-tOam )*g^Um
WO. ft).
,v Sumter 0 63am
tr Columbia 11 05am Jm ^H|
twains going north.?no. 61.
. Columbia 4 30airl*#|
\.r Sumter 6 ManiT^j
?v Sumter 6 67am MM
ir Florenoo 7 15am f^E '
,v Columbia 4 20^1^. jmW| *
irSumt-r El
NO. 69, / f HB
t Sumter 6 IV
iT Florence A .... * ?.jpm II
. Florence 7 40am ^1^
,v Marion 83am EM
v < liadbaum 0 20am Km
.r Wilmington 1010am ^HK
No. 52 rune through from < bar'e? ton via AMR
Central Wail road, leaving Lanes S.44 a m, H
tanning u '2* a in. H fl
No. #*runa through to Charleston, 8. C.? EIJ
la C?k#Pttl E. R.. arriving Manning typm* HI
,?nrH 8.40 p in, Charleston 10.40 p m. ' H
Train on Manchester A Auguata H. R. HBy
lavea Sumter, daily ?xcept Sunday 10.10 a RBg& I
i, arrives Rimini 1140 a n. Returning EH5
ave Rimini 1280 p m, arrive Sumter 1.40 fy u
m, ^Vv._.T
Trains on Jlartsvllle R. B. leave Hart** J yV
llle, daily except Sumter, at 5 am, arriv- H
ig Floyde 6,2a a m. Returning, leave H (
loys 0.45 p m, arriving at fiartsvillo 10,16 H j
,T. F. Divine, Gen'l Supt. V M J
J. R. Kinly. Supt. Trana. ? I
T. M. KUKDbCU Ca^II ? * - -
?.?%/?! I vfOU A i Ml. AgODl. I f
Mouldings tf
WEATHERBOARDING, f
\rid Base Boards, J
Sash, Doors 1
Blinds. I
M
Now is the time to put up ydur wire f J
reon doors and sash. We are Boiling I I
torn cheap. m \
T. C. GOWER & SON. 1
Itjr Warehouse, - - Wreonrills, ft. O Hl
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