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_ HE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL io.---NO. 35. PICKENS S. C., 'IllURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1Q00. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR Tothe Readeils We invite yo anud boys Our line- of Our Boys' 1 Men's Pants A complletc felt and The best $3 EIvery thing line of 1 known t We will tak best to< section, Yours t SMITH & GRE RUBBER TI We put on the best at You are cordially invited t( Fine CarriagE Wago Our Prices Are Right. The Greenvil G. W. SIRRINE,ISupt. STON EWALL JACKSON'S SIJRGE Dr. Hunter McGuire Dies at Ilis na i Richmond- A Rtemarkable 4 reer. Dr. Hunter H. McGu!re, who was t physician of Stonewall Jackson, d on the 20th inst. at his home in RN mond, Va., in the 65th year of his a, He leaves a wife and nine childr and his wife was a daughter of Al ander H. H. Stuart, of Staunton, V who was secretary of the interior der President Fillmore. Dr. McGuire was born at Winchest Va., October Ii, 1835, and was desce ed from royal Irish stock. ils pro slonal studies were begun in the W chester Medical College, from wh institution he received his degree 1855. In 1856 he matriculated in b the University of Pensyivania and . ferson Medical College, of Phila( phia, but was taken ill and compel to return home before the end of session. In 1857 he was elected y fessor of anatomy in the Winches Medical College, where after one yoz service, feeling the need of grea clinical advantages, he resigned position and relinquished a grow: practice to return to Philadelpl The following year he not only atte ed the regular course of lectures in Jelferson Melical College, but also tablished a quiz class, which was lar ly patronized by medical students. 1859, in consequence of John Brow raid into Virginia, Dr. McGuire the leader of a movement among students to return to Richmond. Governor Henry A. Wise welconi them in a stirring speech. The M ical College of Virginia matricula them without charge, and the < council made an appropriation to re burse them for the expenses of the ti Dr. McGuire completed the session Richmond, and in March, 1860, rect ed the dcgree of doctor of medici *He then went to New Orleans, wh he established another quiz~ class, after the secession of South Carol d an4 other States he hastened homc oifer his srvices to Virginia. He volunteered-in Company I''. 2 Virginia' regiment, and April 1861, marched from Winchester' Harper's Ferry. lie afterwards bect medical director of the army of Shenandoah under Gen. T. .J. (Stc wall) Jackson. While in this capai 'Dr. McGuire inaugurated the plan * releasing captured medical oflic * After the Alght at Winchester n .Banks, eight leederal oflilcers were free upon the simple condition t they would endeavor to procure the * lease of the same number of Con foder surgeons, and a few weeks after this the medical otlicers who had been< fined by both the Confedera'e and F eral armies as prisoners of war w released and returned to their resj tive-commands. Although this, interrupted by some disagreem between the conimissioners for exchange of prisoners, D~r. McGi continued to release surgeons wt~ over it wvas in his p)ower. Dr. McGi was also the first to organize the serve corps hospital in the Confedox service, and was the originator of ambulance corps, a system now unis sally adopted In all armnies. Uon the death of General Jacki May, 1863, Dr. McGuire served as ci surgeon of the second corps of i~Th Journal: u to come to see us for any thing that men wear. Men's Suits run from $4.00 to $d1.00. nee Pant Suits $1.60 to $6.00. from $1.00 to $7.50. line of Mon's and Boys' Hats in both straw goods. .50 Shoe Imade for men. in Underwear, among which is the best nlaundered white shirts and colored shirts o the trade for 50 cents. L pleasure in showing you through the k of goods in our line in the Piedmont aind lie prices are all right. lily, BRISTOW, ~~ENVILLE, S. C. RES. SHORT NOTICE. examine our Summer Stock of 1s,,Buggies, ns and Harness. Our Goods Are'Guaranteed. le Coach Factory. - '- 14. C. MARKLEY, Prop. )N Army of Northern Virginia under Lieutenant General Rt. S. Ewell, and nie subsequently as medical director of the . Army of the Valley under General J. A. Early. Hie was captured after the battle near Waynesboro, Va., but re he leasod uoder a parole of 15 days, and ed after its expiration joined the Second ,h- corps under General J. 13. Gordon and re. romained as its .inedical director until 3n, the surrender at Appomattox. 3x- The war being over, Dr. McGuire in a., Novemier, 1865, moved to Rtichmond, in- having been elected to fill the chair of surgery in the Medical College of Vir or, ginia, made vacant by the death of Dr. id- Charles Bell Gibson. This position he es- bold until 1878, when the demands of in- ani extensive practice compelled him oh to resign it; the college conferring in upon him in 1880 the title of emeritus )th professor. In 1883 Dr. McGuire estab ef- lisbed St. Luke's home for the sick, a tel- private infirmary for the accommoda led tion of hlis surgical cases, an institution ~he which soon became one of the largest ro- and most successful private sanitariums ter in the country. Ho is president and br's professer of clinical surgery in the ter University Collego of Medicine, Rich Lis mend, Va., and-prosident and one of ng the surgeons to tire Virginia hospital, ia.. an institution which, largely through rid- his influence, was established for the ~he: sick and- poor of the -State. Cs- In- 1887 the <tegree of doctor of laws go- was~conferred on Dr. McGuire by the In University of North Carolina, and in n's 1888 by the Jefferson Medical college, vas of Philadelphia. ~ho ed In his address to the farmers at cd Greenwood, Mr. W. S. 11111, of the eid United States agricultural department, dmade one statement which-- should be typosted on every barn in the State for Lf frequent reference. "South Carolina," ho said, " in respect of wheat produc i-tion, is far behind all other sections of the United States, and even of the rSouthes States. Thbe average yield iein this State, according to the statistics u f h agricultural department, is only nacgtbushels per acre. It produces oa ou o million bushels per annum, and consumes abolit six million bushels. Te money to pay for the other five to m-ilflnn 'bnehels, botween five and six tomillion dollars, goes out of the State. SIf this money could be, kept at home it ewould he a great help to the farming n-interests." 3rs --Mr. Bradford Loe GIlhoert, the ith architoct i chief of the South Caro set lina lInter-State and West Indian 10x hat position, is hard at work, with his as re- sistants, in his New York offices pre ate naring the plans for the grounds and all 'buildi-ngs.- These promise to be very on. effective and imposing. For sugges ed.. tions as to the planting of the grounds ore and the choice of plants, Mr. Gilbert ec. 'will have the advantage of the taste vas .and oxperienco of Mr. Flagler's gard e'nt ener, who laid out the gardens at, the ioPnedo Leon and other famous iohotels in Florida, and is considered on. quite an authoirity upon such matter-s. ro- -Salt water is to be0 used for sprink ate ling the streets of Tacoma. Sea water the does not dry so quickly as fresh water, 'or- and for this purpose one load of it is as aifoctual as three loads of fresh water. on, Besides, as a mean Seattle paper aug. ele goats, the salt, will prevent the grass the from growing in Tacmas trnats. TUE U. S. POSTAL S1RVICE-. THE GREATES' [1USINis CON CEN IN T1IE WOtI). A Summary o' Factsi ani Figuros Showing W1on(lIerul i'errectiol of tihe Systenm. 8cientilic Anerican. The postal establishment of the United States is the greatest business concern in the world, handling more pieces of mall, and employing more men and women than any other gov ornment or corporation. The immense size of the country, the lack of concon tration of the inhabitants in a few large cities, all hell) to make the 'ost Ollice service of the first magnitude, and, as a matter of fact, only one cor poration, a combination of railways, earns and disburses as much as the Post 01co Department. Probably no branch of the government service comes into as close contact with the average citizen as the Post Ollico. The postal service is pro-eminently one of detail, and it may, perhaps, be in teresting to take the report of the Postmaster-General and analyze some of the figures. Some idea of the wonderful perfec tion and system whIch makes the service possible may be obtained when it is stated that a letter can be bent from I.lorida to the Klondike, a dis tane of over 7,000 mile for two cents, thirty days being consumed in its transmission. If it were carried by courior the time would not be lossened and the cost would be increased to something like $300. It is this re markable cheapness which makes the service so interosting, for, of course, on this hypothetical trip of the letter, its delivery in the gold fields costs much more than was received for its transmission, but the government makes a handsome profit on much of the first-class matter ; enough, In fact, almost to mako good the deficit caused by transporting inferior classes of mat ter. According to the report of the Second Assistant Postmaster-General for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, there were :4.298 routes of domestic mall service in operation upon that, date. The.total leng h of these routes was .196,9418 miles, or more than a round trip between the earth and the moon. The number of miles travoled per annum is 445,744,815 miles, or rnore than two round trips to thesun. The annual rate of expenditure for tile transportation of the mail Is 513,076,413. The rate of cost per mile of length or the route is $106 80. The rate of cost .por mile traveled is 11.110 cents ; the average number of trips per weck is ,i2. . The inland service can he divided into ton classes. *ily "star routo " is mneanta route whore the means of trans portation is other than railway, steam boat, street car, or pneumnatic tube. There are 22,482 star routes and their length is 269,45 miles. The annual travel is 132 068,807 miles. The daily travel for 365 days is 361,830 miles, or seventeen times around the world. IL is upon the star routes that much of the romance of the Post Olliec Dcpart ment rests, and many of the carriers have performea heroic deeds. Next comes the railway service, which amounts to 176,726 miles, divid ed among 2,617 routes. The annual rate. of expenditure for carrying the malls on the railroads is $31,912,150. This does not include the salaries of 8,:188 railway post ofico clerks, who re coive the sum of $8,610,732. The an nual travel upon the railroads of 2!)(;, 782,270 miles. )ividing this total by the number of days we obtain the daily travel on railroads, which iamounts to 813,000 nilca, or thirty-one trips aro nirl the world. There were hand led oy railway postal clerks during the year' 7,118,122,8-10 pieces of first-class matter, and 1,233,561,88 of all other classes of matter, making a total of 13,351,992,725 pieces, which includes 519,870,465 pieces of city mail separated in railway post oices. In addition there were handled by the railway postal clerks 17,537,058 packages, cases and pouches of registered mail. With 1,3 12,388 errors made by the clerks In distributing this matter, there wore over 10,000 correctly for warded pleo00s of mail to every error made, constitut, ing a remar-kablo record. There vwere 799 casualitiles durling the yoaur to rail way postal employes, and of this num ber 6 were killed and 50 seriously in jur-ed. 'rho number of routes of st~eamboat mail carriers is 178, anid the length is :1,169 miles. Tbe annual travel amounts to -,387,028 miles and the aun nual rate of expenditurc is $550,-15.1 Thie street car service amnounts to 1.926 miles andl Includes 267 routes. Tine annual travel is 4.978,130 miles and the rate of expenditure is $275,4-18. 'P'ho pneumatic tube service is only 805 miles in length. The pneumatic tube service cost $222,266, and it is confined to the cities of Iloston, Now York, Brooklyn and P hiladelphia. Thue service has pro ied highly eflicient and has done away with many thousands of miles of wagon service. [,etters for branch ollices cain be forwardeti at once by tihe pneumnatic tube instead of being held, as formerly, for the next reg ularly sdceduled wagon or car tip. TIho labor of closing, recording, and verifying potuchos is also done away withb. There are several minor means of transportation' known ais special ollice routes, mall messenger routes and wagon routes in~ cities. Whnile somel of them are very extensive they do not call for special attention. The question of weight naturally oc cupies the second place in interest. Hoefore discussing this, however, It is necessary to consider brieily tine var ious classes of postal matter. " l rst elaass" matter includes letters, po3tai cards, and anythning sealed or other w ise closed against inspection. Wh ile the weight of first-class matteor is not very great, at the same tinmo it fur nishes the greater portion of the postal revenue. " Becond-clas" matter in cludes all newspamers, periodicals, and all matter exclusively in print and re gularly issued at stated inteorvals, as freqjuently as four times a year. This forms tihe bulk of all mall matter carried arnd furnIshes only a small pnor cntage of the revenue. "Th ird -class" matter includes printed books, pamph lets, circulars, etc., and does not form a very large portion of the weight oarried, although it furnishes almost twice as much revenue as enormously heavier second-class matter. "IFourth class " matter is all mailablo matter not included in the preceding classes, embracing merchandise and samples of all kinds. The weight of iirst-class matter carried amounts to 128,517,9192 pounds. The postage paid amounts to $65,987,732. The total n imuber of letters and other piccos that are sont at letter rates Is 2,917,010,000. In ad dition to this there woro 98,092.00 dead-head and "ollicial business " lot. tors sent through the mail as well as 573,634,000 postal cards, making the total number of first-class pieces of mail matter 3,588,726,000 pleces. There arc 9,804,729 pieces of first-class matter malled daily. This would make a pli :39,219 foot high, or more than 7 miles high, not allowing for the comupres sion caused by the incumben-t woight. In second-class matter the total num bar of pieces mailed amounted to 2,173,715,000. This is, however, only an estimate, though an ollicial esti mate ; it is, undoubtedly, very much larger. The total weight of mnattor paid at pound rates by publishors was 352,703,226 pounds, In addition to this, 02,241,700 pounds were transmitted free, and 25,289,355 pieces of transient matter paid for by stamps were also transmitted, making a grand total of 440,234,281 pounds. The total postage paid amounted to $5,091.322, and, not withstanding the great weight of the material carried at pound ratos, it paid only $3,527,032 of this amount. The transportation of second-class matter at mch an excessively low rate was, of 3oursc, the cause of the postal delicit, >f $6,610,776. There are many abuses -onnected with second-class mail, such is the mailing of novels, trade organs, 3to., which conform to the letter, but act to the spirit of the laws. If overy LPoetmaster-General would make stron )us efforts to rectify those abuses, it vould put this department on a paying 3asis. Up to the present time, how 3vor, there does not seem to be any )rospect of relief. The weight of third-class matter arried is 08.227,169 pounds, and the iumber of pilces maiied amounts to 47,695,000 piece, and the postage )aid is $10,093,882, from which it will )a seen that the amount of postage mid in this class is thoroughly ade luato to produce a surplus. The weight of fourth-class matter id , ,776,,.17 pounds. The number of Jicces mailed is (;6, 17.1,000, the postage )aid being $3,421,181. rhe weight of oreign mail carried is 7,760,377 pounds, md the cost is $2.516,800. The figures which have just been ihown make imposing totals. The iumber of pieces mailed in the fiscal lear which we are considering Is 6, 17,:llo.000. If these pieces of mail natter were place:1 together they Nould make a baud seven feet wide %round the world. The total weight -arried is 661,286,868 pounds. To trans iort, this enormous weight would re Iulro 33,21-1 freight cars, forming a ,rain 300 miles long, hauled by 500 ocomotyives, aggregating 500,000 horse )'Jwer, and the locomotives alone would requirn seven miles of track. It hould be remembered that mail mat ,or carried on trains is not packed ,ightly, as in the vast train we are :onsidering, where it is estimated that 0 tons of matter are closely packed in nail bage. As a matter of fact, only mn very few trains is ihe mail carriori n this way. Sometimes a trailer or upply car is used, which Is packed olid with mail bags, and they are )rought forward to the sorters as be :omes nocessary. It is impossible to nake any reliable comparison of mall Ls actually carried, and it is possible .o assume that only freight cars arc 1lled with rail, for the sake of argu nont, We rn. w come to the financial sid1e. 'Te postal revenue for the tiscal year 1899 was $95,021.384. The total ex1pen) ilitures amounted to $l0i 4i32,160, leay ing a deticit, of $1,610,776. Had 170, 351,613 pounds of mall miatter, which w as really third-cl ass, boen transmitted at, the pound rate, and paid for- as It should have been, the financial state ment would have exhibited a surplus of *17,637,570. Or, if this matter would pay only a nominal rate of eight, u'ents a piound, there would have been) a surplus of $5,733,836 In- the year we ar-e consldering. The amount of piost igo actually received for a pound of ri rat-class matter was 85 (1 cents moond-class- matt'er, 8 conts ; third slass matter, 141.7 cents ; foreign mat er, 46i cents ; postal cards, 188.2. The ixpense of the transp~ortation of the niail matter is reckoned at, eight, cents m pound. The nu mber of registered plicos sarried was l16,086i 022. Thore wer~e 30.976i,37 I 'ost 0llice money orders ssoed, the aggregate value belng 8224i,958.363. T1he Dead Letter Ollice recoivedl I,855,983 pie(Ce of mall mat, 5er. Of this amount 367,469 were imis lirected, 61,919) were without an ad Iress, 4,903,700 were unclimed, arid i 13,917 had lictitious addresses. TIhe number of stamps issued was 4,917, 069,025. T1he total number of P'ost Ollices in the United States is not, far from 15,000, and the number of employes Is Estimuatedi at 200,000. It, should lbe re mnembered in dealinug w ith postaI ligures that they are apt to he slIghtly erroncuus, andl in neoarly every case the weights mare greaiter- than thtose wich we have given, thoutgh they airo suflieet, to show thme wonderful magnl tud(o of this most important biranch oft the governmenmt service. -There is no doubt that the State building which is to lie crected on the grounds at the South Carolina inter State and Wesmt indlian 'x position and which Is designed to show the re sources of each county of the State will contain much that will prove a revola tion to the outside world. The grw ing of wheat and thbe making of hlour are industrIes which have attained larger proportions in South Carolina thaii is generally known. Few realize the importance of the expeimeildnts re cently made in this State in the grow ing of hemp, and one feature in whichh South Carolina will lie abmoad of all rther States will be the tea exhibit from the farm aut Summerville. -The New Orleans P'icayune thinks that it is a fact of more or less Interest, that, while Now 10ngland cotton mills are advertising for operatives in the South, they are not advertising for ny cooend nr.ns. B1114L ARP AND THU ORPHANS CVERYBODY OUGHT TO 11 I'I' THICM. H-e Thinks a Day Should b 8ot Apari 'or Them-Mrs. Arp is Willing tc GIvo a Dollar If H10 Will Work it Out. Conio now, let's divido out. Thore %re :00 good working days in the year. Bupposo we call one of them orphans day. We have a Labor Day and Wash ington's birthday and independence day and other days sot apart for obser vance, why not have a lay for the or Phans of Georgia'-' The orphanage at Decatur k in great need and the LYOO.1 mon in chargo have acked the poople to givo the 29lth day of this month to their service, the labor and earnngs of One day. What hottor can wo do with it? Madam Destael said that our bink account in hLeaven would bo made up of the money we gavo away in charity while we lived upon the earth. Hluntington diled worth $,0, 000,000, but h could not tako it with him, and it is fearcd that he will have a very small bank account up yonder-. L1 could have endowod a hundred or phanages and had plonty left for hih kindred. Surely we cn all give someo thing on that day. I am going to give $2 Mr. Grumley shan't shake his M otho dist locks at me. " lie that giveth it the poor londoth to the Lord." " At now, if you like thesecurity down witi the dust," as the old Scotch preacieh said when he sont around the hat foi charity. The word fatherless mean an orpihan--a child boreft of a protect ing parent, either father or mother or both. The word mothorless I not in the Bi ble, but the word father less includes it, and It is found In tlh scriptures thirty-eight ',ims, and I always coupled with a reward to thos who befriend the orphan, or some cal amity upon those who oppress them Job says, " If I have lifted my ham: against tihe fatherless, may Imine arr fail from my shoulder blado," and 8t, James says, " PurO religion is to vIsit the fatherless and the widow In their sliction." Good friends It will not (e to say you have niever wronged the orphans. Neglect of thon Is a wrong. if nobody gave what would becomo of them. l'veryboly ought )t, give-give Lccording to your purse-give as the Lord hath blossed you. It is a peril not to give. St. I'oter keeps the books, und l want him to find my namo on 6hom with a good bank account at bached. I had a funny conference with my wife about thls. She says she will give I& dollar if I will work It out. " What 10) you want me to do ?' said I. " The Window cord is broken," she said, "anI the sideboard lock is out of ordor, ani tie long-handled broom that I brush dlown the spider webs with is worn out and needs another broom on .At." " IS that all ?" said 1. "' Oli ! no. The hall papering Is pe~aling oil and needs re pasting, and there is a leak in the roof over the dining room. ' is that all ?'' said 1. " Well, you can linish the day bifting the ashes and putting somec around the rose bushes. Mr. llorck man's book says that ashes are a good fertilizer for the roses." I pondered awhile and then ventured to ask where she was going to got the dollar to pay me. " Why, from you of course,'' she said. " Where did you oxpect me to vt, it? Didn't I give yvo uverytihing I had, and didn't you promise to give me everything you had ? l)idn't you say, ' With all my worldly goods I thee Lndow ' What's mine is mine and what's yours Is mino, too, according to that." "But my dear," said I, "haven't I su)pported you and maintained you for all these years and rcs)ondcd tci every want and wish I could 'e" "Why yes, of course you have ; but if a wift was to keel) accounts with her hiusband] sue would bring him in debt eve ry tIme Board andi clothing don't, pay for nurs ing and night watching and sowing ant darning and housekeepling and ralsini up ten children through infancy am cbidhood, and (doctoring measles anr' whooping cough and boils and colic etc. I madle a thousand little garments for them with my needlle before tboe was ever a sewing machine invented.' "'Yes," said I, ''1 remomb er ; and yoi made your own clothes and my shlrti -my plalte'd bosom shirts, with pear. buttons-yes, I remember. I can't finoc any as good now." Then she remarked. "YOU coulden't got, a tgoodl hosokop or for less than $100 per year, could you? And that would make over *5,010, and the interest comp lounded would make live Limes as much more that yOU OWe me~t, and you ask mne where I am going to get, the dollIar." '" Hut, hold( on, my dear,"' said I, "' you forget thbat I had to supplort and edlucate your ten chmildronm--you aliways call them you rs -and that old Abe Laincoln set all your munggers ' free and that the wart broke me all up andi I've had to seuL 111 for ai living ever since, and I give you moJney wihenever you ask for it and keep you in cologne and camphor and liver imod Icino and mi) ssionary money and li ttIo presents for the chil d ron and grand child(1ren onm their b)1irthd ays. Oldnmm't I give you two dollars last week to buiy ambler beads for Mary I iou. W heni the cook quits or gets sick, dlon't, I get up and make the lire and cook the break fast and move atround on tiptoe to keep] 1,rom wvak inrg you -andi-- andi- anmd - haven't, I mfadoe you a marble chip, walk to t.ho street for your number 2 shoet to walk On ?'' " Is that, allI,"' said my wi fe, and she lauighled at me and said "(o, you kno1w I was just, joking. kno1w that you have clone the best, yet coul. I would n't swap you off for any miody. Now go and see if you can' climb that new ladder you mnvdo yes tcrdiay and get some squaba for suppo1) tonight. Trhore must no a dozen 01 more up there, andI the gilIs have in v itecd company to tea." LAd dors anm uquabs 'Well, I tried the new ladder It, Is fourteen feet long and and reachol O p to the gable end of the smokehouse where the pigeons live, and by the time I got, nearly within reach I didn't k nov whether my head was swimming or th<i ladder careening, and I just my cyo, and slid down with alacrity, like a fire man, and liked to have bad a lit of ner vous prostration, and miy wife jusl5 laughed at me when I told her. I air the boy, and she hasn't, yet realizat that I am growing old. ! go) to th<c butcher's andI the baker's aind the post oflice and dig the piotatoes and hunt, i chickens and oggs antI bring her frost ren every monnIng and look after th< little grandchildren while she takes her ovoning nap. I have a lot of letters to answer every day, and before I can tinish one somebody wants something done, and when night comes I am as tired as an old dray horse. We used to be rich, but now we are as poor as Lazarus. But still we put on airs and keep open house just like we did be fore the war, and our daily visitors have to be entertained and I must help do it. A stranger caie the other day whilo I was working the rosebuds and had charge of two ilttle grandchildren and my wife was napping. Ieo took a seat on a bench and said lie caine to see Inc about lying-the sin of lying. This alarmed me for a moment. Then lie said that I was the writer for the press and had influenco, and he wanted mno to iol) him reform the world about lying. And lie told Inc how the politi clans lied and the newspapors lied and tho newspapers lied and the merchant3 lied and mado their clerks to lie and deceivo thoir custoincis and how the lawyers lied in the courthouse to do cuive the jury, and seome of th) pI)reaCh ers hiad got to lying and making up sensational storlos in the pulpit,. Lo was well posted and quotod scripture and talked in a stream untli I got tired of hi Is abstriactions. Then he asked Inc if a lie or a deceuption was justilablo uinder any circumstancos. I replied that there were some white lies or de ceptions th at ! thoug h 3t wvore ad missible u nder certain circe mstitteo. lie looked isuriprised aid asked me to give him an Instance or exaImiple. Well, said 1, a woman called on my wife yesterday whil she was in the kitchen pltting -op peach llckles. TiaIs old woman was ta long setting hen and my wife got very tired of her, and at last when Bhe -0rose to leave, Iny wife said : " Can't you sit longer ? Why are you In uel a hurry ? Well, do call again soon I'm soirry you can't sit longer."' Tin stranger spoke abruptly and said "1 Your wife deceived her and dit wrong-she ought 1o have told her thal she was busy and must be excused Don't you think so ?" Well, now, said I, let mnc nut another case. You cone here and found Inc hard at work with my coat oil and I had two little chiild run to watch, for my wifO told in not to lot them got out of my sight, and now they have gone, I must hunt them up, and I've listened to your abstrac tions for half an hour and all to no practical pul-pose, suIpiose I should say to you, my friend, you Will have to Cx c aso me; I mui,t look after the chid ren and work my garden, and I reckon you had botter go. What would you think of me and miy rudenoss ? lie looked surprised and grievod and said, " 1)0 you mean it ?" No, said I, and if I did, it would libe very impolite for mc to tell you so. I had rat her tell a little Whit o lic-h-iadn't, you ? lie was silent for a minu1mte, and then said : "Well, I reck on I !at better go," and lie bado me an a ifcetionato goodby. liut let us not forget the orphans nor the day. 'T'horo is no lie about that. Sometimes I feel like an orphan myself and wish my father and mother woro hero to comfort me. I reckou thbat is a sign of second childhood. Now I have a labor of love beforo me, I shall compile that book of poems and I want, hn lp. Kind friends havo sent mc 222 copiOs of the poem I asked for and it will plonso mic and hol1 m to have tiho lovers of gootl, pure poetic liiterature send to m11 the titles of, say, live or nu,, o of their favorItos, and also the names of the authors. Address Major Charles I. Smith, Cartersvillo, UGa. Iii Ai,. O)T( iCItN SCHIOOL BIOOKs. Tih1 ChAaCtOr and 8eliItOsHoot 01 Our i'copio AMst oI Carefiulh3 Gartimi. The Columbia correspiondent, of thb News and Courier says that Capt. Wmi A. Courtenay was in Columbia~ on ti 13h instant on a comiiiiittoo applointei by the South CnrolIia iJnaited Con federate Veteorans to prosent the rest I utions on the subject, of school book, to thbe State hioard of lelueatlon. U< said In repily to inquiries, that thbo ac tilon of the Graind A\rmny of the Jtepub~ tIc In this relation Is simply a deiman for unconitlonal surrender in oui schools, and thme self-respect of Lihi South ioml )1 ab~solumte and1 promnp refusal. If this Is "' an Indostructibl( Un Ion of indestructlo1 States," as he. hoped and1 trusted It was, then thore imuLst be equnal ty among eqjuals, andi loyalty to the present Union and Con stitutlon did( not carry with it, the de niunclation and1 imisrpresentation of the Southern people in tihe part, they uriacted in "' the war between the St~ates." Vears ag~ lie had seen In school biooks tihe question :Was (Gen, lie a traitor ? amJ other similar mat teis. The doui h owes it, to the r'ising generation to absol01utely forbid this In terference in their schools. The South's material futur'o Is thoroughly assured. We have a gold (rep in cot, ti~rn every year of $:50,000,000. Georgia, Tennniissee and Alabama have untol( sq uaro ilis of iron ore, limneston< rock and coal, and mare actually mak ing Iron for less money and inininj coal at lowdr prices than all the worlid yes, but there are seome other thinmg mnore preclous than those rich materia r-esults--the character and sel f-rospoc oif thme Southlandi must be hmobu abov< all this great aggregate of co~ming wealth and business p)ower -ehartor~ee and self-respect must, be tauight in our schools from truth ful school books by Southern teachers. With t~bo found I ng of Southern plih shIig hiouies of large capital andl~ hayv ig our publ)It confidence, there will dlevelop,1 hiosldes s. 1)hoo boo(k publiiiicath'or. , oppoirtuiiiities . for' Southern lIIteraturo to make its ap pearancc. Northirii pl iishmeris very naturally favor their Iimedilateo con stituen ts ; theo South owes it to itsell toeoncou rago not only thie making of Soutiiorn school books, hut in this con netion to stipulat~O for the reiognmition of Southern literature, andi not, hav( ouir authors going from publisher tt pui shor, ini the Northern cities, and be r-egularly refused. --3latrilco ilarraden, author oj "Ships That I'ass in the Night," wh( is trying to regain her lost, healthi on California ranch, has taken up carpen try and has become skilled in then use of the saw and plane. She has also be come proficlint as a grower of orchidi and a landscap)O gardener. To All Our Pickens Friends. We want to say that we intend this fall to have the best line of Shoes and Dry Goods ever shown in Easley, and at prices the same as you pay in Green. ville. Our Easley store will have everything our Greenville store has. You know our stock is the largest in Greenville, therefore You know what you can findin our Easley store. We are agents for some of the best shoe factories in the United States, amd we will sell them at the lowest possqil)le price. Mr. .1. Melton King. our manager, asks all his friends to give him a call that he may let them see what he can do for them im supplping their wants in l)ry (oods, Shoes, etc. It will save you a long ride to Greenville. He has many things that he is selling at b)-argainl pricIes, and invites inspection. Keep your eye on this space and it will save you miany a dollar. Yours truly, R. L. R. Bentz, Cash Dry Goods and Shoes. J. Ml1N.TON KING, Manager Easley Branch. Greenville Store, .-. .-. ... ... .-. Corner entrance, 201 Main St. EW-Agent for lutterick Patterns.-MM The Following Goods to go BELOW COST! All Latest Style. No Old Stock. Ladica' $3 0 TFan Oxfords at ........ $2 00 Slandice' $2 00 Tlan Oxfords at .......$1 50 - .adies' $1 50f.Tfan and Black Oxfords $1 00 -M isses' $ L 25.T'an and Black Oxfords $1 00 SChild ren'a $1 00I T1an and Bl1k. Oxfords 1, 80 PaIDE & Per TON, 106 S. Main Street. 4F First, door above Lipscomnb & Russell's -GOn. Nelson A. Miles will under take a new task in October, when he will be judge of the cavalry, walk, trot arnd cantor saddle horses at the hos show at Louisville. Gen. John B. Castleman, president of the associa- - Lion, who, as Adjutant General, vas prominent in the troubles of laste win ter, Invited Gon. Miles to be a jud~ and has just received an acceptance the invttation. -The anthracito coal region U! P'ennsylvania, where the great strike now prevails, had iast year 36u6 mines in operation, employing 140,000people.*' TJhe production of hard coal was 54i,000,000 tons for an aggreg'ate of 180 working days. I t Is 'estimat- ~ ed that should the demand for this cal ever warrant It the production could be Increased to 72,000 000 tonis a year. -The pineap~ple crop of Florida is expocted to break all previous records. Th'e value of the crop on the ealeoaa - ~ alone will he in excess of $300o,000~ -A nugget weighing 1,15i0 ouness' was found recently in the Ural gold minos at Orak, In the government of Oronhberg. For 20 years l)r. J. Newton Hathaway ' has so successfully treated chronic diseas es thoat he is acknowledged today'to stand~ at. the head of his profession in this line. Ilis exclusive method of treatment for V'aricocelo and Stricture, without thle aid ~ of knife or cauto (ry cures In 90 per cent;,tf all1 cases0. ini the treatment of the logs of Vital lForces. Nervous D~isorders, Kidney 'e an d 11 rinmary Comuplaints,' Paralysis, Blood P'oisoning, Rheumatism, CJatarri, and di. (cases peculiar to women, lie is equally successful. Dr. Hathaway's practice f more than double that of any other speo. lalist. Cases pronounced helpless by other phuysicians readily yield to his treatment. * Write him today fully about your case. Heo makes no charge for consultation or advice, either at his office or by mail. - J. Newton H athaway, M. D., 223% bSouth~ Proad street, Atlanta, da