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HE EO STEPEOPLE'S J VOL io.---NO. 6. PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, MAKRII 8, 190O. ONE DOLLAR A BUNCH 0F GRASS. In the quiet dusk of a summer even ing half a dozen men were seated in front of a ramehacaile old building that bore this sign : :STORE AND POS'r OPiici.: One of the men had been telling a story. " This man that went down to LPresno," he was saying, " felt mighty bad because the girl wouldn't marry him, and did all he could to boom the liquor business. One day he ran into a fortune teller, who told him he must steal a hair from the tail of a blue roan horse, between midnight and day light, and carry the hair in his vest pocket. Then he would have good luck for a year, and any girl he fell in love with would marry him right away. "Now, blue roan horses are not so plenty, but one day the man sees one and thinks he'll get good luck in stanter. So he holds out a twenty-dol lar gold slug and asks the man driving the horse for a hair out the horse's tail. The man that owned the horse catches his breath after awhile and allowed that he couldn't spare a hair out of that horse's tail ; that new hairs didn't grow when old ones were pulled out; but maybe he might, as a favor, spare a small one, if the man would come up with another. So the man got the hair, but I guess it didn't bring him much luck, because it wasn't more than a month afterward till he had a difference of opinion with the Sherif of iresno, and the Coroner said the Sheriff was right. " So, you see, that's what he got for buying the horse hair instead of steal ing it, like the fortune teller told him to do. " You ain't going already, are you, Will ?" the speaker asked, as a tall young man, Will Markham by name, rose and stretched himself. " Yes," the latter replied. " lIve a good twelve-mile ride, and I guess I better start." le went to the fence for his horse, mounted, waved his hand to the group in front of the store, and then rode out into the deepening shadows of the night. And all through the long and lonesome ride he kept wondering if I there could be any virtue in carrying a hair from the tail of a bluo roan horse. * * ax a * * Irly in the morning two men were conversing In Sheriff 1louston's spare r-oom. The muscular and portly Sheriti, or Squire, as most far western Sherilis are called, had been speaking earnestly to the other man, who was seated in a massive arm chair, one of those old-fashioned concerns built for durability and comfort. "How long do you reckon it'll be. Squire," asked the younger man, " be fore ym-" lie seemed at a loss for a word to properly express his idea. "Not more than a couple of hours," said the Sheril, anticipating him. "We must have witnessee, you know." " Oh, yes, of course. But being as it can't be done legally more than once, and as it's to last forever, you might say-1 thought that-" " Never mind what you thought," interrupted the Sheriff, as if his au thority or ability was being questioned. " I can tie the knot as tight as any other man, can't I ?" " Don't doubt that, Squire." "Then don't think any muore about it. As for your being a little nervous, that's natural ; bcen that way myself. 1 Why, I remember the night I got married, I was so skeery-" " I ain't nervous or skeery, squire," objected the younger man, as he straightened himself in his chair. " Then don't say anything more," said the Squire, decisively. " You arec in for good now, and there's no back ing out. That settles it. Would you like a drink of water ?" " Wouldn't mind Squire." "8heriff Hlcuston went into the next room and returned presently with a half-filled tin dipper, which lhe held up to the man's mouth, tilting IL rent ly as the contents diminished. rlhen he placed the dipper on the table, crossed the room, looked out into the yard and said : " Well, I've got to feed my stock. Hope you won't weak en whie I'm gone." "No fear of that Squire." The young man leaned back in his chair and became very thoughtful of the deed about to be performed, lie was thinking, thinkIng, thinking. The big clock over the fIreplace ticked off the seconds, and his thoughts kept time to their beat. A rooster crowed lustily in the doorway, atbd he frowned at the interruption. The big clock toiled the hour, and he counted the strokes without looking up, then fell again to thinking. Finally he was half aroused by a voice asking " Where did you come from ?" He raised his eyes and saw a little girl of nine or ton years, clad in a calico sllp and minus shoes or stock ings. He noticed the freckled, tomboy face and tousled hair', but made no reply. The child eyed him closely for a moment and then blurted out : " You're a horse thief I" A hot flush of shame spread over the man's face as he shook his headI. "Then what have you got those on for ?" And shie pointed to the hand culfs that fastened each wrist to the arms of the heavy chair. The man 's head drooped upon Lie breast. Tro have been caught in the act, andl be forced to Alt there and wait for the hangman was bad enough, but to be taunted by a talkative child seemed too much to endure.. Trho little girl now saw she had hurt his feelings, and realized that, no mat ter what tne man's crime had been it was wrong for her to mock him. She sought to make amends by changing the subject, and coining closer, whis pered, as if telling a secret, " I can write." The man came back to life slowly. "lBet you cant." "Yes, I can. I'll show you." And she ran to get a pencil. " But I ain't. got nogriting paper." " That's too bad. IoIer puit youir hand inside my vest. 'rhere's a letter there; you can write on the back of the envelope.'' " What shall I write ?" she asked, imiss. Iteceiving no reply she hastily lecided. " I'll write my papa's name." Bhe leaned on the table, and after anany motions of her head and hand, aboredly scrawled this sentence Squiiu-: HOUSTON, Sherilf of Itedstoue: " That's justsplendid," said the man, is she hela It up to his face. " It's as :)lain as anything." " Do you like secrets ?" "No." Believe in fairies ?" she asked. No answer. Wishing to impress upon him that ier contrition was complete, the child :ame and leaned against tihe chair. I ilke you," said the child coaxingly. 'I like your big, black eyes, and your lice mouth, and your white teeth, and -and-and-" Ilere she pulled his ,oatsleeve down as far as it would go, )ut not, being satisficd with the result, 1he covered the band of glittering tcol with a fold of her dress, and then .ontinued : " And your strong brown ands. Won't you please tell me a tory ?" Peosons in extreme positions are >rone to good resolutions, and this nan resolved to quit the world better or at least one action, though it be so mall a niatter as telling a story to on ertuin a child. " Yes," he said with mn elfort. " Listen." lie looked at, the letter in his iana led hand, then at the little girl as she wined her fingers around his. Then ke told her this story in a husky, Im Iressive voice: " Once there was a litt!c bow-lcggd Id man, all gray-haired and humpback d, asked a little girl for a drink of eater : and she got it for him, just as Ice as you please. And then he asked ier if she wou~dn't like to get a pre ent, and she said yes, if it didn't cost ,nything. And then tae little old aan laughed and laughed and laughed. 'hen he told her who he was, that he eas the king of the fairies, and if she vanted to get a present she was to do ust as he said. So lie told her how to end a letter to the fairies. She musn't ay a word about it to anyone, but, avly in the morning she was to write ter wish take three steps backward nd three foi ward, and then go out nd cut a hazel switch. Then she was o find a tree that had been struck by ightning, and if there was a horse led there she was to go up to him roni the right si-le and place her let or gently, but very snug and tight, mnder the saddle girth. After Joing his she wa- to take the stirrups ol' I lie saddle and hide them in the hol ow tree. Now she must pat the horse in the nose, and when lie put down his icad she was to tuck his ears back, ar back, under the headstall, so he ouldn't hear any evil spirits calling o him. Then she was to unbuckle lie reins at the bit, lead the horse to he road, and ture his head to the sun iso, where all the fairies live. Last if all, she must hit him right hart vith a hiizel switch and say, 'Good lines never laot, bad news travels last,' bnd the horse would gallop off as fast rs ho could to the fairies. " So the little girl did just as the >ow-legged old man ha'd told her, and vhat do you think ? Why, it wasn't a ,ear afterward till she got her pre ent, which was a great big beautiful loll, with green eyes and red hair and , pug nose, and it had on leather shoes vith real laces, and a new calico dress, vith polka dots in it as big as wal auts." If the child had had any doubts as o the truth of the story, its climax lioroughly dispelled them. Her eyes vere wide open with astonishment for 6while ; then she closed them to let ier imagination draw a better picture >f the wonderful doli. Presently she aid: "I know where there's a tree hat's been struck by lightning." The man seemed much surprised. "A nd I'm going to try it," she said, leterminedly. " Try what ?" "Sending a letter to the fairies. But ain't got no letter-. May be if I take uour's it'll do. Hle sought to dissuade her, but she ook the letter from him and hid it, in ier sleeve, ie watchedl her take bhree steps backward, then thi-eo for yard, and heard her call to himii frnom lie dcor : " Do you reckon I'll re ally ind a horse down there tied to a ree Y" But the man miade noe reply. Several hours aftoarwar'd Sheiif [houston, his two deputies, and the nanacled prisoner, were standingi he shade of a larg.e hIckory. gi " There's no need of a trial, Squire," neisted one of the deputies, as hie un wisted a coil of rope. " You caught ,he man in the act v-ourself. and he lon't deny it, so that's all there Is to t. Let's get through as soon as we ~an : i've got live miles to go to din. "Let the law take its cour'se," said ,ho Sheri tf, gravely. " But b~efor-e aarr-ying cut the law the court will utate the facts in the case, which are these, to wit : That, late last night, or ver-y early this morning, this court rad occasion to go to its barn : that it saw a man light a match and lay hold >f a certain horse, which hor-s' Is a blue roan, and the special priide aind p~roperty of this said court ,that this aourt, dIrew its wveaponi and mappmre hended saidl man as a hor'se thuiei : and tinally, that this said man, apprehend ad by this said cour't, is here identiiiedi as the prisoner' at thme bar. "Now, gentlemen, the pisonmer re fuses to speak, which Is his privilege: but the cour't asks yo~u to reoview thbe nvidence. is an honest man afraid to tell his name, wher'e he lives or where lie was going ? is an honest man ciaught, at, midnight in a stranger's bar'n? Does an honest man r'ide nio horse, have no dust on his shoes, and yet wear a spur on h Is heel? The court, '.hinks not. For the last, time, Mr. Prisoner, the court asks your namne." No answer. " lFor the last time the cour't asks where you live y" No answer.. "[Have you anything to say as to why this cour't should not, pass sentence upon you ?" Tihe prisoner' raised his head, and lookIng the Sher'iif squarely In the eye, answered : " No." " Then the court will pronounce this sentence : T1hat. you be hanged by th neck until you are dead : which sen tencO shall be carried out inunediate "4 Willilams," con tintied the Sheril i addressing one or his deputies, "throv the end of the rope over that branch that's it. Pull it all thu way over 8( the noose will hang about live fee frOm the ground. Just hold the noost there while I take the end of the ropi and step ol' how many paces till It getE taut. I'lI make a mark here with my foot like this. And see, I'll make another mark over here, six stepi farther away. Tie this end of th< )ope in the middle of that wagon stake with a strong knot, one that you're sure won't slip. That'll do. Bring th gentleman over here. Is there any one you wish to send a message to Shall I notify them that-that you diet on such a date ? No? Any rcquest t( make ?" The prisoner gazed languidly at thi long rows of hills to the eastward drew a deep breath of the soft sunmeit air, and then raised his eyes to heaven for one last look-and lowered the n Instantly. Almost overhead a buzzard was sail. ing lazily in a circle. " Yes," be said quietly, "cover my face with my hand. kerchief, and bury me as soon as in dead." " Ali right,sir. Where is the hand kerchief ? Inside your shirt, el i l'retty one, too; hand embroidered, with an initial W worked in the cen ter. You want to be buried with il covering your face? Very well. Now, sir, hold your head a little to one side, like this : so. Here, boys, stand side by side, and hold the wagon stake against your bodies. Grip it tight with both hands. That's tile idea Lie's a heavy man, and it will take a stitong pull. Walk slow until you comt to the first mark ; by that time tilt rope will be taut. Then, when I firt my revolver, step lively, but with a steady pull, and when you reach the second mark brace yourself and stand still. Now, both togetier : steady, steady. Go." lie stood calmly, with his revoliver raised. Secretly lie admired the nail courage, and wished he mlight put it bullet through his heart and spare himi the shlaIie of death by the 101). lint the law-the great unwrittel Iw which says that a horse thief shall hang-must be carried out: for if tilt Sherilf obey it not, who thien shouk heed it? The mell started with an even step and tile rope let out kink after kink then gradually grew taut. As the. reached the first mark the Slieri I1 fired, and the prisoner rose steadily i tile air till the noose almost touchet tile liimb-when an1 acident happened At the lifth stelp one of tile mllen slippet on a bunch of grass, and !n trying U recover himself tripped the other onie As they plunged sidewise they let g. the rope and the man's body cami back to earth. " icre, boys," tht SheriT' cried, " we've got to do it ove again. Qaick, now while I hol( hin up. Start even. Steady, steady. ant when--" Tihe report of a rilIe startled them Over tile crest of a hill a horsemnar was coming. Tne reins were hanging loose, and he was swinging his hat a: a signal. Bofore the blue smoke ha cleared away a number of men wer galloping down the hill, Cheering wildly. They came to a ragged froni a few yards from tile trees, with theii Winchesters at rest, when their leader quickly dismounted, lifted tile hand kerchief from the prisoner's face, ant said : This is the man we want." (n Christmas Day a wedding wat celebrated at the iomie of thU post. master of Whitlield. After suppe the host was telling an expernience o his new son-in-law to several of Lhb guests. "\ou see,"' said the postmlaster, a lie Ii nished the tale, "' about nIln o'clock that morning a riderless horse without stirruns or bridle, galloped u] to my door. Ihis ears were under th hecadetall, and stuck thriough the girt] was a letter written by my daughtecr t Will Markhlam, In which shle bent hiin a handkerchief to remem~fber her by but told him not to call any more, be cause shle bad made up) lher mind tha sh~e would never, never', never marr: anybody. On the back of the envelope wr'itten inl pencil, were tile word: 'Squlro llouston, Shleriff of ltedstone. Oii course tile horse wanlted somleon' to loosen his ears, and having becoml so wvell acquaintecd with this Iliaci when WVili was courting, I suppose05 b came hern because it was nearer thai going homle. As soon1 as Ii'recogniz.e the horse I concluded something wa wvrong. So I gathleredl a posse0 an~d go pver to iedstono as fast, as 1 couild and we ( didnI't get thiere anIy too so)on. "Nor any too late," observed Squir llouston, whlo had performed tile wed ding ceremony. " I would like to bet that tibe littl girl who sent the letter Lto the fairie gt, her present tis morn1in lg," sai one of the guests. "So would I ," agreed anothler. "Say Will,'' jokingly cal led a thIird "trying to stueal that halir fromi tile tal of a b)luo roan hiorse got you into a awful scrape. It doesn't seem to hlav mbrouight you any more luck than It di, tile man I was telling you about, whl went to l''resno and b)ought." " Didn't it, though ?'' cried Lii gr'ooml. "1It brouigiht me1 the girl loved for a wife. Why, it was th luckilest, thing inl tuhe world for mec." Tw which a eyniiical deputy from lIe " I thlough t the lutck iost Ling i Lb world for you wats thlat bunchl of gras I sli pped ton when we hlad you in tlh --Th'ie vahie of tile egg crop~ of Lb St~ate of Alissouri exceeds in amoun tihe value oif the cereal crop of tha Stateo0( tsolo tile mlarket. -Treasurer A. 11. Smlithl, of Coilleto County, (lied on the 'm. CASTOR IA For Infants tand Cildreni. The Kind You Have Always Dough Sigature oi O'RICLL ON AMEMIlCAN HO iFILS The Noted Frenchman Wonders av filo Eating Custouns om tie Aliwai cans--The Negro loy avid tin Miracle. F-ron the New York Junrnal. When Europeans travel they go to hotels because they cannot carry blhi, homes with them. They put up al hoteis because they are obliged to pul iup with hotels. Americans go to ho tels because they like hotel life. once heard a party of ten or twelvk Americans, mnen and women, give oi another their impressions of a l-ro pean, tour which they had just toln eluded. They were not, I iust say relined Americans as I know ;o muaniy but, no doubt, well-to-do people. WeI I so far as I could judge, their remini-s conces were not of the old castles and catithedrals, the landscapes they hadl seen, the plays they had been to, but the hotels they had stOplitd at, the merits of which they discussed a:- they compared them to the hotels of A mileri ci. I was once insido the heautiful banqueting hall in the old ruined lleiaelberg castle in Germany. Sem( Americans were there at the time. A young girl detached herself froim the party, went against tL'. wall and Imea ured its length with he0- feet. Whon she returned she said: " I knew I wa. right : it's three feet longer than tl dining room at the Grand P'acilic hotel in Chicago." And Chicago feet, too What appeals to an. American ;I a hotel is the size, the large dim!ensions of everything--large haills, large rooms, huge menu. Tihe America n has bigness on the brain : tlii I thiik, is explained by the size of the conti nont he inhabits. It must ho admitted that fortcoifort, case, luxury, there ik no such a land of pienty as a good A ierican hotel. But the mnu Oh, that Aierican: menu: Will there be one (lay a plucky American hotel proprietor who will daro bring it to a decent proportion without running the risk of being ac. cused of mcannessS, that most hated de feet inl A meri-3a ? I never look at Americans leaving the di-iing roonm alive after going through that mneini without t,hinking of the little negrc boy who, being told at Sunday sebool that it is related in the gospel that liv' people were once fcd with lifteeni thousand loaves and lishes, and , asked where the miracle was, answered : " 03 miracle was dat dey didn't bust. I nlow linderbtalld the u10e of tile sierl bet to be founmid in the middle of an American menu. It was explain med t me by a bibihop at wlhe--e side I wa once sitting at a dinner inl Il'hiladel phia. " Yes." he said to .c, "it coob you and enable-i you to go oin." Tliai bi ishoup WaS congrIatu lated by m1e (n ,ht fact that he lived in tiies walell cook ing had improved since the days of thit laord's Last Supper. I could not helI telling my bishop friend that, w hil we took a sherbet to "cool ourselve; and get aile to go Ol," pI'lerlaps in tIll next street there wias some poor moth er having nothing but, milkless breasti to olfer to some starving babe. Hlow I ever, let us not dwell on these frignt ful contrasts of life. The most, objectionable sight that I know of, the one that has al way. struck me as, perhaps, the most--well I was going to say revolting-is tc watch at hotels Americans order soup, fish, two entrees, three kinds of roast meat, poultry or gamile. tLhIree or foui vegetables, two or three ;weets, jus take a mouthful of each and send it ill away. This very morning at my hotel there was at my table a man who did not look as if at home lie could ailorc two tqlare ileals a day. lie orderet for breakfast oatmeal, bacon and two eggs, lamb stew, steak, lpotaitoes am11 bunckw heat cakes. lIe ate one . egg m 1es( ed the tish and the batcon witLii hi hwIk. had onel bite ILt the steak: in fact (lid not ue one0-Lw entie(thI of Lib quantity of food he had asked. maintain, without any fear- of beOinl contradicted, thatt thiere is enouogl feod, good food, wastedl in the hlotel of every American city to feed, an amply feed, all the pIoor people wh< dwell in it. In the hotels oif the small towns Lhb men~iu is nbot printed, and the waiti-es: recites it to you in one long wor-d o forty or lifty syllablcs. As she gen orally turns her hack to you during the recital,- you don't, catch (one won( of it. and you say : "' h-ing me th( lot."' She brinlgs it (on a big tray ani Iplaces, orI r-ather- deals, Ii fteen orI mlort little oIvaitli ilhs around111 your pl~ate When that deail was done to mel foi the Iirist Lim ilOIicOl remeber 0 e. eliimod ' llell, what's LIrumpll .'" Hut thai waitr-ess was (lot, Lto be tri lled withb aniii t I will nieveir try it algain. And how I doI adirel~t that lig mus tached, mlagii hcent potenutate (of 1 head waiter who iles ill wait, for- you ia the enltrancIe d(oor. low lhe strikes mll with awe as lie ordersr lelto myi seatici I have spent LIhreec years (of myl life l Ameiia. I never Once saw an Amoei can s(o daring as nolt Lto accept, thai seat. The11 head waiter- is so thoroug(h ly p~ersualded that it, would never elite my head not to follow him ilhallt hi Inever looks r-ound Lo see if I am1 thier close behind him. Why, lie kn(OWs am there. uit I aml niot. I somimeLII get a little innouenit, amuilsement (Jut, ( him. I let him11 go to tne end (of ti room. WVhen 11e stops, imoves ai chalir jand realized that, I have takeni ia sea Onl lmy ownI book anrd iecspnislibility, hi face is aL study.- ie comlen back to m and11( orders mo off. TJ.hen I sIle 11 mf says : "' No, L1hankI. I dloI't .vant, constitutIonal wilk just now : doni a troubhle abioult mle, I am11 all r-ighit here. lIe looks at, lme wvllI amnd goes away absolutely iuntiielied I am11 IL eranIk. (Inc in St. L ou i , at Li: e 'IantLers' ho CtelI when I ari-ived near the dining roomII 3 LIhe hleadl waiter came to me1 and said ''"NM r. O'I-3ll, where wold~ you like i tsit, ?" I stood aghast. "' -:xeuse mec. I said, "' let lml have Limeii to Lake i a and realize it,. D~o you me-an LtI tel that, ina this hotel I am goinig Lto cluos liy seat.? "-''Ce rtiinly," h'le irep! I pointed Lo ai table neat- the wi ndov and lhe took me there. When I lef thle dininlg room1 1 mlet somre ne'vspapec men~f hn thle haill and I told them mll newv experiemnce. The1 next, (liy thi paipers du Lly reported thIe ineiident,, wit] ai(0 dlicious heading, "' .\lax .'it s Wh len' Sl~e L.ikes." The Amerlricani i-s the pInc o10(f goot fellows. lie possesses in a1 suIpremui dmei-e that divin 111 onur ig orae n hii or. Lie fools that If he loses hi s temper he looks ridiculous. li is an angel of patience, and he submits like a lamby to tihe little tyrannies of atll tle petty autocrat* of America, iail way coullictolrs, licati waiters, etc. I once heard an lngl'shman In tho hali of an American hotel grumble and swear at everything. "1 Where is the proprietor le ej aculatcd. The , oprietor' wa s behn111 thle countor, ,Imoking his higar ad qiuietly enjoy ngthe -cenek. Are vou the bos of this show shouted the EIigl ishmnan, who thought he had a good conmnatn of the Amenri can lang uaie. *i Well, repliaet the proprietor, withmu'. taking his cigar from his Itoith. " I thought I was till you ealle.' Phe \me r ic:L n did teore over that, longliaiman. MIA~x ()'Ii.i~. I" ii C l-IANIlt8s OI i NA I." Ali Ailiallio lJoSS o' Kij't in the Strug glo of the Sitiies. The -'re:derickshurg ( V.) i'ree Iance give a tmost int'resting suinmary of the lo:sises in hattie du ri ing Lbe war he tweein tle l'deral and Confederate aiiL itd especially in th1e four great hatttles w1hi1h ocCureTd in the County of Spottsylvaniat, of which lt'red erlekshurg is the County seat. 'Ile ar tie-le is as follows : The Washington, 1). C., 'ost Al mainae gives the entire losses of the war IStil-', as over 0sou,oo. It also says that there were three million and twelve thousand men enlisted in the lnioi armies, and six hundredt and ninety thousand in tie Confederate armies. It further gives the loses on the Spottsyivania hattlelieds as fol low .: .\ I V-redeIcri 1,k shIurit% i 'nii I0- -.... .... .......... I -........... .......... Ai I harwellr- ille l'i n -........... .. ......... ...1. ; 4 ...ed e r e...... .. .. .... . :: Ii n o..s ............ .........o;.,:; A iton Iede r e Co: tI...........i'e we me lve r ..... .......... ' . .. .. .. -.. : vt.\ S i i\ a ettha 'ori s li..u l i 'O e in Liiene four .. ..e.. htte were ...,..'_'..v; 'on f d era - o .................... ., o lt? a l . . .. .... . .. . . .. . . . . . .. .U . Inl Spottsylvania the Iotal losses il thoes inhts rwre . ThPlost, reckons- that there were. OVierate hnn tl driin arieat hattle ion that war. And the ilosse, in th id-' county in tliese four great hattles waere, nearly Soie-sixth of the entire Theses of' Wldernes s e V greter lights were greater thanl if) anly other hattle of tWhe loaser. if the studunt, ill tlitary tfairs wiskher to laethe o war wel hr else can it ate faith fuly daugat. for accordini. the l'ocr, lhe hses of the Wildenless wee grlteater even W, tile losses at Gettysburg in thitgreat, thre days' ligaht. \irginia has been clilled " The eelandeis of the War :" and wel tlte old Stat'e atay be so d si g 1 gated, for Of the S00,000 o moe dOSSes durieing tihe watlr, eer '.'90,000 occure ti \il Virginia. Tle losses ivn Spottsylvania were over I 25.00 or ore than the Co bi ned loss es ait, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Chat tanooga and Shiloh, each of which, by net of Cell ,hayts bueel recte d into al nattional gavrk. P the eigitv-two ia tional caetries of the Wniteid Seates the onle here aot i'rederi(Ieehurg is the fourth inl size, being Sinalierf only thanl those lyt Nashville, Tenan : \'ikshuirg and Aritnde T dead burie in the I rederickshuree Cleteries are from athe sottsyelvaniavlicds alIone.SThoe onteelothrfl emtrhsae loe ofany whol frf yieaso ~ewaad The emeater a~t tGetgbrea contman gns :ahi gtrs aThesoe were t gres battles in whie Wheydere and -ticly onte tea I \layI :,', a'L,~ hernd onde aMay 18,i ic0 hand itcbi lotlses >to (f our't. thes credhtin of thel i:isare nll lupoe goihve toe 7iii.Iavor oe-leiventh~ d of all pheintssa ifl t'he PR wholtifou ea'erstn of the war alldein oft'he gra~t g the gr~ ea' comman, 'aait. c ah itheru, adihpseawre te rentest t s jin awhich ter wee pslo -Stn arn, the graloft paine, waiii'- the neo of aih st.or whichi thofend.e tldi ofg othes. but, the crdi ofr witch theust'tilye given theox him. laiong accepied a11 (omisi n fromti anotabre pitr reprhei' en t ~tingt" hiei Cildr~ ten vance, and, i alisuLt 211 diapearh' e't -rhavy asjoyu tie, veiy patrn haintg i as foeeln ha plensureeip welnh' return I tok pIe a daoinfo to eenorpas. rft'swardtewaloft.s'iea a n o omuchee nA bee 1,ouei Stc een mpl pa I\inte it a recigtired al oe r." W hatI o i s iii'?"ini kti hslealtoni 'hed n.pe ira e mterwhchat li Thau," frpuied Steen, "emiofThreChiblretitfandrael the' Israe~li'LR :"11 laite exs jiielot n.t T e whrc tiv e."was th le al'nwer. "i Whrett al~vr th( l Ii ptian': "i iThey-n lie undrper" firis ..H-I i ~ --attThre who aecit woman whoe pasor re-Kil fo amen, a t erey heath 'iir repyit tos "Ir feetla veryg. welltbu LI alwayst feelr(115 11 blien ti fee well, ho daue il knowt i am goeii n t fee wore I'l)(M'l'S 0P' A.(10NTURtY. The Woitter'l Uhian in the Con. liti on of the I0l'oure Classes it the Ulniteil Statem. Tihe followingv article i., taken from Mchlastcr's llistory or the i:nited States : There can he no doubt of a wondor ful amielloration having taken plaec sinco the beginning of the last century In the condition of the poor. Their houses wero meaner, their food was coarser, their clothing wats of cotimon or stuff, theIr wages wore, despite the deprecittion ,hat has goine oil inl the Valiu) of moiney, lower by one-halfI than at present. Ai man who performiicl what would now he called unskilled labor, w ho sawed wool. wVlto dtg ditches, who Itentded riotd:., who mixelI iortar, who ctirried board to the entroenteri and brieks to the inatuon Or heliped to cut hay it tiCl harve.t tite. uisually re ceivedt as tlhe fruit of his daily toil two llillings (ahot Wu eente.) Sometimtles whei th.-e labtorers, wore few It: was paid nore, and beCitne the envy of his fellows if at the enId of a wee I le took to his fatily I:, s hilling s, It Stun nOW greatl exceeded by $I. inl sueh a pittnctee it w as Only h)y tihe strictest econoimy that a meehainie leplt i Is childr:'n frthom star valtiotn and him self from jail. In the low and dingy rooms which he called his btotite were wanLing imany articles oI adollmeli, amlid of use now to he found in the dwellings of tit poore't of his class. Sand sprilkled on the iloot did douty as a carpet There was nto tulans oil h is table, ther. was 11 china ill hi ciuphoard, there were'u It( prinlts oll bis wall. \Vhat, it StoVe wits Ie did nit, kIow, coal bte lad never seel, lmalches ite had neve i heartd Of. O ver a lire of fragmuelts of boxes and barrels, whi hie lit, fromtt the spark" struck from a lint or wiLliteb live coab brought from a neighbor's leairth, lis wife coitked iul) a rude mtieal, and served it in Ip.ew Lt' dishtes. lie rae13' tistad fresi itcat a Often as otice in a week. antd Iid fr it at Ii iich higher price tIhain hi posterity. I':verything, indeed, which ranked as a staple f life wats very Costly. Corit stiold at thrce ,hlillinlts tiahout IO cenLt) the hushi, whcattt at oight, and Sh -i 0itn (:1t u.I .l .'u l1an a1 si,-.e of btieadl wast fIttiip:uiT it a tliotidt of saltL pork wa., tenlIWneC. nimy otilt'r emtll ilii. ; now to bek -ee1 ot th' tabtle, (if the p)oo' weire eitlher (iuite' unknownM1 01r far h1"yond tite rearnI Of hli:; sc nty eanls. I'nen~l vialile i; ti lot. of that ian who etnn not, in the lh iht, of tihe seasoni, wlent the VItharVyes andil(! ma'ket- are haCIelIed with ha.skets and crates of t'riit. spa't :. cents for a pottitit of g rai'. or . cet: for an inanly 1weauthet. Or when Snda cOits rOultndl intlh'lge Ii:, fautnily vitil dired yearsi- agl) the wretched ot-rp was, thet only kiind that found it., way to mrket. and was tl.he hixury of Ltt rieb. A itong tibe fruits atil vegetahle: of witich no on; had Lien even heart atC can teluIIeS, imanlly varii 'tii's 0i peacles and peart.s, tomiatoes and ihIi harb, sIweet corn, the cauilillower, th< egg-pilanut, head lettiit" and okra. If the iwood of ito artisani woli id to, ho thouglit uotrse, hit h clotles woul he thought abominable. A patir of yellow huckskin ()r leatheni breecelis, a clecked shirt. a red tlaiunet jacket, a 'ustLy felt hat, cocked up1 aL Ole ,orners, liho Os it neat's skin sel oi with huge bulleis of briass and1 leathbe.n apron comlpris-ed hli, sCatt) wardrobl. Th iletber' he sitearct With le'CAsC Lt keeJ it, soft, and lexi His son.s followedl in hiis footstte, oi werie appren'Cutices Lo nteighi hit' ing tr'adie men . II is tdaughItet' wt'it ot, to ter vice. Shte terftutimed, inmdieed , all thi dIuties at prteset exacitetd hrini womte of hieur class, butt with thtet werie coupIi ed many otheris trtndered tusieles- by3 tii gY reat, imprttovementt tbat, has sintce tak e phlace ini the ctonvenieces oif life. Sht imindedt thbe clothtes, shte didl op Lth ruoTs, shte rain ion erratnds front one 6'n of thbe town ti the othert, slit' milke te cows, miadte the butter. watlkIed Le hiocks for' a pail of water', spulla tx ft the famtily linen, and whitn the y'ea was up) received .Ell (tabout $10) fotr lie wages. I it thero Is )oe otheri change wh ic h as, It, uitst ho a~dmi tted.,. dono (a mtore to Iincreaise tIhe coimforts of th< 1)oo)rest class Liibani 1 h ei'~ food, hiighbet wages, hinter colit~es. Mlen aro nm Nit cr'im ino twn ii1o the law btrotugh sio many i3'L Lt i ~h jils anditt iisons its th<i eirimetit of debtt ndi.h class monst likeI) Lto get into dti wa, thte inist defense less ati depenent1, the gireat, hodly o sevaints, iot arutian andi 11( of labtoroers those, ini short, whit idettded oin thbeil I )it i hundried ytiars ago the laboret wo lfi el ftitin ai relfo'.d or liay sick of ftever wa .i -ur c o bte seil/.ed by th lheiff thi liatlnenit lie recoverooi i het tairiid tt jil foir thbe hill of a foi dlollar - whtiei hail run up) during hi illneto at Ib uttck st~r's or Lthe ta~verr ' The cut Lirie systemii of ptun ishminit wa sith aiis car. not, b) con teminpla 1ted witl: outt muingleid feelings of pity and1( dht gust,. ()lfenuses to w hi ch a morer inrre fuh goeneration ihas attachedi no Ilhihe penalty than liprisonment andi lin stood uipon the statutLe hooks as'cai ta crimerts. Modes of pu n a iiment lon since idriven frtom the pr'i.sons with exc crations as w or'Lthy of 'Li A\ Iirican kriatt were lookced ito btttiy .'oiety wih Lb prVfoun mdliillerncehf. Thecju iryad-mi stocks werie ntiver emtirty. FTe -'hear's the btraniditg-rtotom andi the blt went never ih ie for ia liay. Ltre iCoopitteti til it thte tills even iof thi Ilit ion. hitndre dit eposItitors werein0 lii Ine Li witihiraw thiri mnonecy, three btarrels 0 ilver' dll ars were tunlotadedL in fion oft the li biling andl car'rieidI hi y Liii batsktLful. Thelu sight of . ih,00t btei ng idumpedIth ito trlhe aitk in LthIs whole stalt imianner hatd a ireassuin g (Ilett andthe rut:tn eetied ---'l Tere aire So,(J00 chiihIireni ireplorLte . 5s a~ttndinrigitoot it (20101 C 1-OICE Vegetables vill aiways find a ready niuaket-but only that farmer C.anl raise thlm who has studied the great secrt 1)W to ob tain1 both q(Iuality and qulantity I))' udlelOlls us(c of well Iauice1 d fCeIrtilizers. No fe-rtil i/r fr 'e V geta b les Canl produ It ice aI lar yield unlesS it, -()lntains aif least 8"', otash. Send for (uIllr Io)ks, which furnish full information. We send them free of Sl. \N N:\ I. \VOR KS, 1S Oil aCCOun1 oi damllage to tlhe stock in our Greenville stoiC, Calused by water thrown on 11h lire ill the hall over the slore, on Monday night of l1st week, we have been ol) bhuy to write a new ad., hut \vill Oi V say to you now, mok out lor the bar-gains we will-oe: as soon as the in Nurall#Ce ad justers haive Conl Comlpleted their work. YourS I'm businless, R. L. R. Bentz, 1'~b- in l ~ n Pri4ce M'anager ilasley B ranch. I . v o o nbtdzn of men I in fot Wl aspKalpicgi . ) On i~:i I tolpscomb ;l& Rusll'. The plan of SIrtaryU RIiot re dressedl by1( ll hi t the ard cage in ar s as folows : "cn theenra plnO und. MconSretiofh wa department, ohf orary collg ro-l be~Ph~ exp proected ar consl gan arer se upon varo qusinsafctiong d thesweldr and icienyt o the dcarged itcldCing nztiopln, hethd lettd miunist udtcndration, afamntequpet trnsporttion, thple, m obllezaion, uonerio di~stulon, mltary prlepara'ltion1, plans of campaign and such other professional matters as may he efierned to it"