The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, November 24, 1881, Image 1

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1- U vntiac »*’uWi mm W •vmmrni F««t tftoi m ) •B-naunlc#* **••• *• W ^abttahrd ikoald b* «ritui> ’■pf* 1 ' •hMI* •nd th» nh)*«t ot««rh cWrTy lodlcftte&kj nccwurj autv wh*« r»- _ / *" _ Inquired THE PEOPLE. S ArtiplM Uy pub'taktion should b nttM In a drivt, li>iui« l aod, and o > ■lr •*• »*dc i t th« pag'. 4.'.All L MrattKf mbbl* w»ch u^pa^Fjirtiyi r , , . * * * ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ - - y "VOL V. NO. 1-2. BARNWELL C. H., S. C. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24, 188L $2 a Year. ecir. QAMVtKKtWM WA TOMTTB Hr SI V. (Thafollowiiia wma Um farorlU bjma of tboJlU ' PrMM>t<HHlWd'.J N r J * of Ilf*** horTMt, whv lUnd with mated btedo Until Mi uigkt draw, rouuddheo and daj begins to fader I - "X* stand jo Idle, waiting for reapers more tooome,_ 7>ie golden morn la patsing, whj ait ja idle, dumb? r Thrust in jour sharpened alokla and gather in the groin; S The uiaht to feat sgpreaohtrg, and soon win came Xtlu; . Tbe Mavtar oalia (of reapers, and shall Ha call in Tain? 8baU shsavae Ha there ungatnered and waste upon the plaint Moont hp the heights of wisdom, and crush sach sr- >flh bl eheaM know. < ) He faithful to thj miag)ouin serrice of thjr Lord, And than a golden chaplet aliall be tUlrich reward. jbffbfal&k l^ck. “ Well, now, you look eort of gickfy, ■pindliug liltev you ain't hearty, be ye, auaterT* The ‘-peakex wan a ull, gaunt apeeimea of n^doman 1 , paat middle age, almost marc a line in pbvaique. H**r oomplei'oti a^ile yrm think of a nu»« t apple with the ■onahtne on it, ao brouK-d w»a it, and the hair was too gray for ao l» > *ii*aaJjM ■M /lw UiMMfbl i old, but a Draxi-r app. ua<-li re- I you that ahe mold not hare I eased 4U The ealieo dress was arra pukmslj riaan, and, sJthoogb not ia thr AX Brokan reat at night tad long days 6f oewtblaM work took the spunk all out af nit. I kind of murmured in . mv heart, bat Lord forgive me, for tint wus only the beginning. “Joeiah had just got the planting done, a powerful large lot, when he wm taken shik; - never waa sick before. Ty phoid feveij daotor said, and ha Would have a hard one. I waa Bo weak 1 just laid ’Siah by bis father and then crept up stain to the south chamber. The moan waa full and seemed to mock me* the ielda, groen as they were, only made my heart ache. I flung myaelf on the floor and lifted up an exceeding bitter cry. I oharged the prood Lord fooli^y^t 1 rebelled at my condition. I said it in ' cruel. He don’t care. I heard some uoixe below and then I thought, how sinful; perhaps Joeiah wifl die; he needs you now, and here you are, giving way to despair. I did not see my folly, '.at I picked up a little courage and went down. , - ^ r - ’. 1 “ What a summer that waa I Joeiah kept growing worse, until be seemed dead in all but breathing. Crazy ! Oh, how he ravadl Bouse gf the tune be teemed to think I had married the Bos ton man and he was bring alone on his farm, end than be would prey. Th ee iwayen wetu tba Anisbiag stroke. Joaish thought my luck had tumad, and than came that awful diphtheria. May was sick two days; the third day the bloom ing girl, whose beauty we worshiped, faded, and the flower was plucked by the gardener. The four remaining chil dren were soon taken. In two weeks’ time we had but bne child. The hill- locks were froah in the orchard, four of them beside little ’Siah. So sudden j was the blow, so anxious the days, that I had not time to think of my grief. But, last of all, Joeiah was taken, wea ried out with watching and sorrow. His strong constitution held at bay the terri ble disease for weeks. One night, when the crisis came, he prayed with me, his dying lips not faltering as ho commend ed me to God. Ha said five children were waiting for him, and he seemed to see them as ha drew hear the end, and, at midnighfV was a widow'. “Ton savil mnst have felt forsaken. I did not fcgP at all fof weeks. I simply breathed : but when in the early spring I crawled out to the apple tree whore the six mounds were lieguming to grow green, and fell upon the sol, I left an awful burden at the feet of Him who has made immortality sure. It wm God's way and it was well. Do I not mourn f Yes, and no; not for them, but for my- flitted V it mmm nweta ta by-wues rarre wee ^ uu-o.ag irucr. M>|(| ^ j m not a professor. I bad done my duty, ' > i | — m |a»M but all tba time I rebelled; I almoat j ^ curved Ood. Again and again I stole up 1 to the aoutb ebambar, when Josiab was a ^ af F*. v •* I iiiuet, and tbought and titomgbt until it . amds ereps to ' *■. med as tf I ab<mU go mad. Una I * ' bidivn hmo- u^cLt I caiM ik'«a mors <W«p raSs Ibaa •vef. J«niab sremrd to bo astsrr, and j ttttle TAah was la ante Wm. TW mmm- Imbt tr|| on turn “Mr a gtavy. 1 Wow I ** Mi Ho« giant f lbs antiva ^anil*. T • • Lnolal flrvi, untfl fan tnd tba axpresssai (are aa she told story. Tbatv waa a grosl |smw aart 1 knew, lor the calm nvUd wow. I beard the ahiatieid tba tram and know wa parted non aa tf you are a Httia rabeUtons; mjsrlf by tire bad. rb <4 a •f a •A I va* ■meg tire k area W 4gH tire ivsawv s»a |« «*. t-boAmg and Jtrere t. | »•* Ha aavre i Aaa. Hm di Iwiam ail at IS THKBH TO Bit A COTtOB-TLAlfT- 1NO ABISTifCMACrt The small farmer—who waste retrieve the disasters of the South, and wipe cut the last vestige of the planting aris tocracy, between which and the people there was always f lack of sympathy, by keeping his own acres under liis own supervision, and using hired labor only aa a supplement to his own—ia still held to be the typical cotton raiser. But the observer who oaraa to look be neath the surface will detect signs of- a reverse current Ha will discover that there ia beyond question a sura though gradual rebunching of the small farms Into large estates. and a iei the re-establishment of a land holding oligarchy. Hera and there through all the Cotton States, and almost in every eounty, are reappearing the planter princes of the old time, still lords at acres, though not of slaves. There is in Mississippi one planter who raises annu ally 12,000 bales of oottou on twelve consolidated plantations, aggregating, perhaps, 00,000 acres. Tba Capeheart estate, on Albemarle sound, originally of several thousand acres, bad $52,000 worth of land added last year. In the Mississippi valley, ^hera. more than anywhere else, is preserved tba distinct ive ootloo |<buit.itioa, this reabsorbing <4 separate fi.nn- into <**e ownership ia go- ing m repully, - F. C- Marehesd. an autiiointy >« them lauds, says that sot ooe tlird of them are owned by tire wea who Im*U them at tire nines «d tire war. and Urey are passing. <me after tire other, titio tka be lids of tire wnmmwaiob II la doebtfaJ if tirere ia a in ell tire Beeth m wtre-t, IWI17 will nag bnag to ibs tsa la a doun maa who here OUK JVVKMLES. canid bs mid sss “I A I An I i’d rvre; I’d ssj: ‘T r, i ,* “I ro asks irobsks IV 1 I v II ust not tofcs •oa mast Ths crust— i, and ssj? ke? You nuj m know lb, sad ao Ho; Q a snarly, I Cbatraat ■ys afiar Amt lu« to* ill pula tad. No oomaraatoetiee wUl oaWas aaoumpaniad by tba I dram of tba writer, aot noblloatl jo. but aa a goaraaty of goad puWtibjd AJdraas, T JB PBOPLB, Barstrell 0. B., 8 0. •r oars I bar; •1 r K r r i Its kind? m a raw: e* foe jwa. i awaj go to aleap and be real good,” ha eon tinned, as the teacher began to unwind the shawl. , And then the whole room saw a but prised, half-amotherml-looking little ba by, still in her night-gown, one bare foot aticking out, and her little flats tightly clenched, aa if defying anybody to rend her home. - ^ The teacher waa a good-natured young lady, and she laughed ao that ahe al most dropped the baby on the floor, and then the whole room laughed, and, finally, Elbert joined in; for ha waa glad he Lad escaped the tardy mark, and the j lieby certainly did look, funny in School. Of course there could be no order. Nearly all the scholars had tiabies at borne, or were weil acquainted with those of their neighbors; bat they acted as if they had never seen one before, and | every movement of the little pink hands and every torn of the small, bald head made them scream with laughter, until the principal of the school came into tba room to sea what the disturbance waa, sad, after trying to look severe for fire seconds, he laughed, too. And, while all this fun was going on. Ell**ct's mother was running wildly through ths four mourn of bar little bouse, calling bar boy’s name and feat ing sure that tire children ware either billed and thrown into tire nstswa, or else carried off like Charley Bom and lost forever. The scattered pillows sad apart rocking chair, tadard, muds tire kitchen appear aa tf there bad bean Thu apple and tba small boy dantoti- strsie ooree and afoot. ' “ A babb,” mys a writer, “ ia a noth' L er’sanchor.” Wa have often heard that . the first thing she does is to weigh it When a member of Congress wanted his picture in a heroic attitude the artist painted him in the set of refusing • \ drink. „ “ What makes men fat f" asks a cor respondent. Don’t know, but about a quart of whisky will make a man loan- all around a lamp-post. Thbbi is nothing like a bicycle to put had one only a week, and his left ankle ia three inches larger around than it aa when ha first rode it It kind of disguata me migrant agent who has worked two hours to convince | a victim that the town ha blows for ia healthy, to And that the proposed emi grant is by trade an undertaker. * An Irishman wrote thus to hie wife of a sick brother: "If Jamie isn’t dead yet, remoind him of tire twinty shillings be owns ma oo tire pigs, and if be ia, tall him aot to give hliaaalf ■urrua about it ” A nresHBAsasys: "Ufa toast a melon right ia foaftdd wbau i* b picked.’’ Lima M that tt ia fhlse. m to ran. aud aot at^BWaalttttlyau>a Ml I >id toil vfrel bs i 0i imm mmt I ti -bma. *—• • 1 L<sa m« MNt TW MMt m m*% I flpa4 Bfev ft# !■ I * •re U TW mredssdfoa ami wrasa I wa kaamsbA a W Wft M psajs si s smew swtimg goto ersakmg to and ho bad a k to Libert's muthre. Jast ■au wtrem Dbsat bad mat Mm at a at IW 1 EWH Oslhaa buf '•ret or tarlv Mam tbrre larare are res aftoa tire abd I **l iMPt “la bast" “ Ob. 1 AmT kmre sre l 1 tsA tbrei wbd ttmwa's s mkawto. au _ ml Ire afraid - I ’an Gat bw H.” mtd Mia P^ I raa mbs 4 tire bf W« m d tiflhti IA «l Iby Aamaup it Wa •- TWm mm foa • I tSrea lOdhmb Bnamti Irererei tl ii • i I y«ar TW ■t iftv I arel tsrt re • •!••»• M re. H«re •bat L .1 M BWw tW wlMto Wret i svmld just asawl aiareA bs da bre aareu I Wm," aptol r bsreeb, taltrr«d tbs SUB ^ tag air ; fragrant with tire frmh oik«a <4 tW yvar. “Too sea I was just paat IN a • • Juatah mai powerful burry. V I » red me. Ha was in a Ha bad bought a farm, to be worked off, be a wife. TWy did aay—you wouldn’t'believe it—that I was hand some. A Boston chap had asked me to marry him before that, and ths folks were rather anxious, for be wm 'rich ; but Joeiah and I had loved each other since we were children, and I sai l no. Well, we were married and the farm had a mistress, jl knew all about work, wm strong and hopeful. We didn’t have any auoh fixings as that city chap would have bought, but wo loved each other and our poverty was no hindrance to that We made batter and fatted cat tle. The next spring Joeiah raised gar den boos, and that first year we managed to pay $200 on the mortgage. It was hard work, and we both were a little tired. I was not quite as strong os the summer came on. ” Here she stopped as if lost in reverie ; her face took that 1 abstracted look again. “ And how was it next year ? ” I in quired. She gave a sigh. " Mister, my luck began then,” and a dawning smile flat tered on her thin lips ; “ that is, I called it eo in my wrath. Little ’Biah came to us the second winter, and from the first he wee e piece, eo cunning and ao crcwa. I called him possessed some days, but Joshua said he was only powerful heal thy. We loved but. He wm our first bon, and he Monad about our hearts ymm bum arere twt a rbtfti; yre Are^ bare. (bare. W* 4me Ltti* bay. Tbs bight be 4re«i be , m be humlcd bre be peayai. end tbs wuetie smmnd to open Ibs galm to that rety whees tbs ehtifcan usa, and bre Aattr I gave up. 1 ettiaod Ood * m my heart. I asked toe Jmtb. Weaks pamed, tmllMgtnudumbatapar; tire duck* said I must be soared or dm. I bed thought it wm evil luck far a crest ! are to five. I behaved in nothing. The spring came. Josiab wm atroeg again. One day he l^y a aingU- May flower in my thin hand. * God watches over tba flowers, Bukia,’ he said, and 1 then my tears began to flow. I had not been able to cry for mcntiis. Those little pink petals spoke to me. I came to myself. I began to pray. I said : T will not die.’ " Another autumn. May come to us, a calm, placid child. I had something to live for, and I roue up with new cour age. The red loaves fell on ’Siah’a grave, but I knew he was beyond the reach of a dying life. I began to look for the Lord’s face. Days came when I seemed to be in a tittle bell of my own, hut afterward there came peace. I was finding that my luck wm the Master himself, terrifying os He was to the dis ciples on Ihe lake at first, bnt on a near er approach a deliverer.” Here the woman ceased. I had been intensely interested. I cannot put tone and bearing on paper. In the winning expression of her calm face I had found bread. "Bat that wm long ago,” I ■aid, hoping she would continue her narrative. . . / " Yea, sir, the years went cm. The fanser’a life ia a hard one; you can’t realise it It ia a tough battle to pay off a mortgage and liva. Not much ■4 res flmt aprerei Aw r vbutosa as Jta. !. t«N TW partre** uf bre* t*4ty ~ 1 . refo* rewtb rei*. mm *44ret m t*titi. Autmg tb* retretotareultore «4 PtoreA at Jack •re It to a bJty bstibAreg, Ire siaare tu katgbt. bivtog a trereaay ^ IWAvS re4 a A>t*b W IAS toak. TW vaatobuts •tlbm tire SMaa •«* to Mti40 m A^sto- TW lasrerea resA rt m. ubreb mm Areasw4 auly Ally ysam sgu. to AD IreCbregbyCaretos^niM btgb. TV* Pto to list's sfoaa, wbreb la la tW au4 to as* a racy larg* af«r«treat bw tbs Wbtto Hiresa. although atwret 1$ <w CO last ia AvpCb, by prfhaf* SO tort uafe, and with a high treliag A toag- tohts » m tire re 1441* at tire Sort, with Iratksr reali*4 ehatra around it; tbs two windows bare long Umlwaquia rurtauw of a dark-bluish gray eolcr. A large map at tire Uaitod Hutes ia on tire wall Tlregeaeral rff«et of tire mom m otre enters u that at a library without books. Ktery oo* of our Presidents, except Wrelnngbm, hss lived in this great house. Hooubhold axpenaes are mcrraaing ia a way that begins to alarm the family with a moderate income. McaU of all kinda, butU r, Vi gctablea, fruit, flour—every thing, 1- -udrng must the wages of do mestics, has advanced until the averaga householder begins to look melancholy, and ere long may begin to look hungry. A comparative list of prices given in a Cincinn «u paper exhibits an advance that may well worry the frugal house keeper; Iret el Ito mm Bl bf NbelMa •* storety bwgrt tba Maw af dag Mere wtod» btoto KSbart, ». A ■■fo—atoAaaMfti^ atifl ca» to I r • Art tba i If .1*4 m to rvirtty reuw ibaa sap b*a lr bad ak«g by bwty-tY* TWrv rtrf, roretojUB. B lb. Corned b«tf, g lb. Urtod Iref, V tb... Mutton, g tt> Lsinb, B tb Ktoh,l»k»... Drewrt clilckans, •ach Butter, crMUnoj, g lb Fancy dairy, • B> Choice dairy, g 1b ('bn. ua, g lb Green applaa, half part.... Lem one, V dos. Dried pnaohee, g to...... .. IVara, email meaeura Potabre, half-pack...... Oniona, half-pack Oebbegn, g head Corn, g doe He eel potatoea, balf-peck.. Tomatone, half : pack Flour, g OC 1HS0. 1881. 12.aU ... »^15 12.418 8.. 10 18.425 ...Hi* 15 15J4I8 .... MIO 10,4X6 V. .12 a 15 12(41'- .... *-nx #->2M ... .aOa'iS 20«30 ....25»:t0 3.1 ..40 . >. .S0(*25 20(428 .. IW'ii 25..2S 15(420 .... 10* HM . . . .20(a 25 ^.50.10 Km*10 .. *..15 loSv ... IIKNOO 1S.420 .. .io.au 15,420 .... 5»1U 44 IS .... H «10 0U»;20 ....*».« 26 l-0<43S ... (H>.« 10 25,»30 * S(KS S time for pUy. The duldreu came, five . ik. -re"Gkpu..u ^i^ ^ Bo. u» .,,ru, ..rt ™ • rere r«a I.rt«ab«kno I no a Wo hnl mekod Oo la^tirmoot oo ^ »y strength cams Maatgaga aad Wa bad wuvkad Lard, but tha^^Hfotiowad tma • lrl atiutbar with aa gTvaftLrengaa I Thb project of a world’s fair seems t be having about the some experience L Boston that it want through with in New York. Ths idea waa received at first With entire enthueiaam, particularly by those who had bwaureas rresems fo being intaraatad, and a few wealthy area to ooutribute heavily; bu puUk hue | 4 to are GeftieU s rej-vre •Mil resrere, but Urey daal mm* hmm aay vuffrtM.na ea bto part. Be wee eafteue ia that way, aad II «m ru- etetotore that led •tnag that warn* mm* f orty lwe ia lire regimri.t ■ re aasibeml Wires bre UUie girt dred, ut IMS. be Breen red bre he barrel, and told tor she areasurvd just f.vty-two inches re length. There were luks at those eoinssdencra, and he had wonder ful ingenuity in working there out. For instance, 1 hsve been with him when he wm given room 67. He would aay * Do you see that six threw seven make forty-two?' He hod a check given him at the d< pot niimlH-red 1,246. He would my : * dec there, again ? One and two make three, three mi l four art seven, sud six times seven make forty-two. But then, any one that baa ingenuity con ret thiuim of that sort.” BPKLLtD JOUB y>0-0-M. She had grown to w. .manhood in a rural home, and, by chance or choice, her father had removed to EmI Nash ville. She wm p*etty and pleasant, which two qualities rendered her an at tractive magnet, and she soon drew a number of our young men, who are adorers of beauty, around her. One of the gents, seizing time by the forelock, prepared his declaration of love, and thinking it might be an incentive to Ips success, prefaced his declaration with a description of her future home which she would lie led to, and, to make the grand, he borrowed Claude Mel uoUe’s language, descriptive of hie palace by Lake G .mo. He had proceeded with his portrayal until he earns to— W* would tor* BO frirnrt thkt rer* net lorore; to• world r-»4 bo book* ttot wer* sol too* at k>*< when she gently interrupted him, and, gazing with tearful eyes into implored him to never again wound feeling* thus, and added: "John, I can not read ; I never went to Behoof a day ia aty life—I know not ao book love— rev raa I avar spall but a ft'-tiy, arel that ia yoar *G ore,' arel mu are Ihat —Are •res a Mtitt ao ’-•a, I* but BeStiS I 41*; aa4 pret heard tire first last ball. It* r bs of tire TW Assign waa her three alrarto I there waa Urea enough y. t if only start Qua thing wm would nwar laara lus little baby sister. BU remembered a story of a poor baby who wm almost burned tv death becaaae her brother, who had promised to take oars of her, left her and raa out oo the street to plsy. He weut to the door sad shouted again. It wm something like ths case of Casahianoa. But when two mothers are talking aliout path ms and Christ- mas trees, who ever knew them to no tice every little outside noise ? Elliert’s shout ended in s big soh. A man going to lose his entire fortune couldh’t feel worse than this little fellow did, with that dreadful "tardy” mark hanging over his bead. Then a happy thought flaslntd into his mind. Running to the cradle, he caught up the baby, scattering pillows and blankets right and left, bundled an old shawl over her, snatched her half- filled milk bottle, dashed out of the* house, and ran in the direction of that clanging bell as fast os his stout young legs could carry him. The baby was a Hght little mite, only two-and-a-half months old, and Elbert wan nearly six years and large for his age. He met two women, whom he knew, and who commenced making weak re marks, " like " Why Elliert 1 ” and "What on earth 1” but he bounded past them, with no answer hot his pant- braath, and ranched ths school such good time that the ball gave its teattwo clangs just M ha hand ad ever his fnnoi burden to tba •I 000148*1 Lasse bar. «ff I aeulda’t which ia 17 fart high square ; seared, a highly sculptural dium, fart high arel U fact re *' •tor, in the funs of a ing a column. This latter, which ia part third, ia 00 feet high, and at the bacc 7| feat in diameter. The four auks of tba baae contain : Pint, an inscrip tion dedicating the monument m a mem orial of the victory ; aeoood, an inscrip tion representing a succinct narrative of the siege, prepared in accordance with the original archives in the Department of SUto; third, the treaty of alliance with the King at Franca, and, fourth, the treaty of peace with the King of En gland. Upon the podium, which rues from the baae, thirteen typical female figures are placed, hand in hand, en circling a drum, while upon a halt bn neath their feet are the words : " Qua country, one constitution, one destiny.’’ It ia a symbol of the birth of freedoaa. A POETIC BBCOBCrLIATIOX. Some time ago a man came into a Baltimore lawyer's office in a state of great excitement, aad asked him to com mence proceedings for a divorce. Mr. Dobbin heard him through, and then said, " 1 think I have something that will exactly suit your case. Bit still and I will read it to you.” ' The man remained seated, all ear, supposing he wm to listen to Blaokatons or Kant, when Mr. Dobbin began to read "Betsey and I are Out” By tba bins ha had ended ths maa’s eyas full of tears. "I behave I will gu bores,” ha Aa4 ha aad his wiis to • Mi •sal btgb hi i CmiMEBB PBJTATU k gives privacy i . Tba wind r by s aort of They do re wtto t latpraoautiotia with which wa auvalop there proceedings to Europe. Mamma nature, they argue, has to lie#, aad to bars ia the mat upon which it ikreil Why csnosal it f It also eat, ami it satisfies its appetite nol bow many eyes are gazing. TrilaChinea* cook you are hungry and he will immedi ately fetch his fire, his cooking utensils, his provisions, aad cook under your vary nose. He hss no idea of concealing his operations in some far away beak regtoiii yclept Kitchen. He squats down any where, makes a fire on or in anything—a basin, dish, pan or pot; there ia no Umil to his invention. He will cook in lh* middle of the street or in the cantor of his guests to a restaurant. Upon on* occasion, when on board a junk, I ob served a man cooking his own and his neighbor’s food together in a fab, and an earthenware saucer containing the charcoal. Wonderful creatures thsy are, these despised Chinese, with a deft- neM of finger and ingenuity of petienca unsurpassed by any nation under ti** - Pbbsoknt Hammett, of s North Car olina cotton company, aeys that his ax* enmastmtes tire f— : H1H, of annas! profit of 15 to 2ft per cant re the investment to s mill of 10,- 000 to 20,000 spsreilre anywhere to ths of ths South. Tbs