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7- N . .... !:, .4 . ?. ) - /[0 I XJ S L. 1] ALY SOAUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 188[NO. 39 jntCe-Ied id the ato1tA e at 3uley C. ae Beowl CL* Maftr J.~ IAG001, i i.**4 Pro, [. F AGOOF SUdSQRIT'ON. One year, strictly in advance.....$1.00 Six months " . 65 RATES OF ADVEBTISX'O. Otte square (1 ineh) I inse4t'tion1..7e ach suhequelt Istrtion ....... 40c Liberal discont on contriets or by the column, hlalf or quarter ol1ii. .Obitnaries over 12,1ines chargedl for. Correspondents. to lusure attention, tiust gJive thei' full adress. We .e not responelb le for the opin -ons of oir eorrespondents. A1 edtimtmications for the pAper' miifist. be faddressed to the iditor; busiess letters to the Publisher of the M sINO118Esley, S. C. .aOT, N01U TELL. If yoti have ai cieerished secret. Don't Vou tell. Not yolir frienl(d-'-tor his tymp:111tagin Is a bell, Which its ethoes, widetehouinditig. M.tipltid and far resouninyg - Don'tyou tell. 1U yoor1elf you coinot keep it, ' Then who (ould Von more excet. of any Other maln ? Yet you put him, If he tells it If lie givebaway or sellIt Under ban. Sell your gems to any bityet iI the mat t ; Of your wealth to feed the hitunigr-y Spare a part, 1'ssinlgs oil the open pocket, Hut your secret-keep it, lock it In your heairt. BILL AR1P. What are the Poor Girls of the Coun try to do. [From Atlanta (onstitition.] "What shall we do with oU 01irls?" I have heard a goo(d wa ny fathers ask that question! I don't m1eni rich fathers who have Ino anxiety about their dallghters, but I allu'de to folks in the middle walks of life whose daughters have had an education and1( the father! has nothing else to give them. What is ai 1)00r girl to (10 whmen she quits school or comesl~ homte fromn college. it is right hiarid tor' lher' to descend fr'om the beautiful heights of astronomy and the tields of history and1 botany and thei chamberCts ot flmusie down to the drudgery of housekeeping and sewing and1( dlarning ando patchmng 01(d elohthies. But suppose she is a good dutiful gir'l andl is willing' to do0 that and mforeC, the qulestioni is what does it amounut to and~( can't she do better ? Can't shel take hold of something that will ex(cite her amblditionl and inlterest her and make heri somp~ money ? ..C ~ ar nth'an._adt 1 fp gAot, marry a4 Ahese . agy are poor will need some 1no) t a te'f A*hih h:(i rdses ha to idethe rosr on' th-eir -1 kA. Some Are independent enoudh to g t. millinery and dresm'k ig but. this gives employnent tQ but 9 L'ew. Some pahit %ewer8 arid do rancy work and sell What they make, but not ninny have the gift :f genius in that line and, so the qJues'tioU still comes up what can the clever country girls do to make a living for themselves aid fel 1i :epen'dent? Not long ago I was over in Eastesi North Carolina and I round the question answered in some places. I fourid some nice well educated girls cultivating small fruits and veitetables for market. They didnt plow, the ground but they planted and hoed Fad weeded and gathered the -crop. [ saw an acre of strawberries thtt two sisters had llanted nnd they made a frolic of it, that is, thty went a.t.it wi.tW . will and too,a lively hpbyiiirest in it, an(1 they gathered 4,000 quarts and said they would get a thousand more, anld they packed them in the little baskets and the baskets in to crates and sent them North and their sales had averaged 30 cents a quart. 1heir total expenses for hire of help nid cost of baskets and freight to iarket was $200 and this left a thousand for their work and watching and constant c-are, Well those girls are proud an.1 independent. Their father had five acres and he was making mnoniey-a g(ood deal of money. I ie-ver Saw a1 nicer business nor le so sim)le ald sure. The land was poor niml sandy. The rows three feet apart, when the plants get well set a plow owis a furrow (lose by on each side and this fu rrow is near filled with cotton seed and then the earth is thrown back on the cotton seed, after that the vines are mulched with pine straw and that is all. I nevr saw vines as small or her ries as nunierous. I counted 2401 on one lant. They laid on one another. This vine had been pick ed three times and there were 240 left. They frequently picked a quart from 3} platlts and left many not r'ipe. They p)ick till 8 o'clock in thre morning and the girls aver aged 15 quarts by that time. They begin at 4 in the afternoon and1( get 15 qu jarts more. WVhen they hire' pickers they pay 2.j cents a quart to girls and 2 cenIts to boys for' the girils are more careful and do not mash the herries nor1 spill them and (do not eat every big ntice oneC ther 'omew across. But this is not aill. Thedseb( girls have got a crop of raspbe)rr'ies jurst bhndm and thr will matke~ two or ad grapes ahd all that. WalI; why dot. 1N'hit 'yiig In SnI'ce uasiness for girls and so is raising vegetables. Those girls have the advantage of, ours for the market is nearer, but .I have never sAen the time that nice strtWbeirris couldn't be -'sold itt home for ,20 cents, and that will make lots of mouey. And then agAin the exeris"ie is so goo for their health, and tie oct-upation is so cleanly and delicate and suits their nimble and delicate fingers so well. . Woman was the first to pick the fruit and I have always thought she ought to have been forgiven, for her first thought when she found. the fruit good was to gi e her . husbiand some. But he like an old rascal went and laid all the blame on her and tried to get out or the scrape. Now there'is a chance for our girls to make sone Ilone Y. Let them try 11anll peh ey one-fourth of 9n. acre. Plant. in August and have -I good crop of fruit next 4pring. It can be dlone. I heard a Nashville, man say that two years ago there was no such busipess around Nashville as growing her ries for Northern markets but now there was 150 bushels s hipped a (ny from one town, the town of Franklin, and they netted 20 cents a quart, or $6 a bushel, and thc girls did most of the work. I wish the dear creatures were all rich enough to live without work and only had to work when they felt like it, and I never see ladies of culture and refinement doing drudgery but what it shocks my humanity and I want a society established for the prevention of cruelty to angels. But work is the common lot for man and for wO.man too, and I reconk they ire hIppier fror it. I was ruminating over these things to-day when I met Sanford Bell on the train. Sanford the old reliable (onductor whom every body knows and Cverybody loves, and we got to talking ab~out the times audl the cr'ops, anid when I mentioned John H. .James and h~is bust up,1 Sanftord said yes, that is mighty badl on J ames and had on the poor fellows who had their money in his bank. Hie had a thiousandl dollars there he said, a thousanid dlollars the sav~ings of ten years, anid now he haud to take a1 new starit, and~ his plans and his hopes were brokeni up, for he was g~oing( to tak~e $200) of' that money andI~ send( Clifford to Mooreh's butsi niess c'ollege andl the $800 was for his (laughter who had been so good1 end worked so wfiingly and faithfully at home, and he had n-cked 'out a nice little lolace to the rents, but the money was gone and the yrosets was iAd very bad. After telling. me of the dark side he brightened ip and. said. " Well, I Won't give up too soon for Mr. James failed In 1873 and he owed'me $500 then and he paid it in full interest aind allowed me a premium of 12 per cent -for my gold, just what it was worth when I put imly gold in there, although it was worth only 4 per cent pre mnium when he paid it back. He is a'good maii, James is, and will do the best he can and he can't do any more. Some folks abuse him for specuilating on our monev but I notice they ie/vt6r abuse a man until he has had bad luck and bteaks. - James - speculated in Georgia railroad stock two years ago and made, they say, $100,001) and everybody smiled and said James was long-headed, not one said a word against him, but now they abuse him for being 'a apepQlatoI., About this time we met the down train and the engineer, Mr. Adams, c ame up to Sanford and[ said, "what's the newss my friend; will we ever get anything ?"' And Sanford cheered him up a little and then told me that Adams had $2,500 ill thjre, and it Was his hard earningys in cold and heat and winter and and sumer '(and day and night, while he stood at his post of duty, which is the the post of dansger. Well, all this is'bad, very bad, and there are many worse 'edcses. Sanford told mne about them and said he was sorrier for some oth ers,than he was for himself. "But then," said he, "Mr. James is young enough and smari enough to rise again and I believe lie will do it, and I'm not going to say a word to hurt his feelings or harass him,, for he has load enough to carry now aud my wife says I will get that money some day she has faith and she cheers me Up when I am down, and that is what a good wife always does. She belheves that money earned honestly is not going to be lost. "What havei you done about your claim," said I. '"Nothing, there is nothing to do that I know of. I gave the certificate to Mr. Jamxes and said, 'I have heard about your troubles aund I thought I would b)1 ing you this anid let you mnanage it for you know better how to (d0 it than the lawyers or any body else.' Well, I wish everybody had as much faith and charity as Sonford Bell. I reckon his boy will get to the college some way, and if his daughter will go to raising straw berriie-, [ think she will make the 800 back intorthe yer.