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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JUNE 4, 1896.
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DR.TALMACIEON WAR
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APFROPniATE
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Mr.MORIAL DAY SER*
f-'COQUENT PREACHER.
ii U:o Wl.ith of tiio AluilClitJ
but Latov Ho ladulgos 5u
[iiat Will PI^mo JteUIfforcnt
steps as she
miBSi’ig!'’
A
Wiiat maiio m:
might havr boon ;\T
more )icod ct tf^
* T s'r-n/iil
1 lo^uizes, “Missing,
of I’oace.
• • ; w v- n , all this
-oidf-fl. There was no
war thnn at this
mnnii-’u i plunge a dogger
through yonr h'M Thera were aiovf
Christian phih iTsiirr' 1- ‘' irt rh ' :o
sr-.iT -.1 at tb \ •'>. xrath, who
been
—What could
bo mor. fippropr
' ho or stirring thru
this disobnrse by'
rho Re v. Dr. Talmago
At tty timo cf ; ( ‘i
tit when tlio frit ntls of
those who v, or.' i
h( blno and tho gray
have decori. : o<l th
• mo’.iiids of the fallen?
The text y.
lonou's Bt.ng iv, 4,
“Tho tov r of '
David bail'led for an
pr.J. iHO JVOl.Hl r...*.., ,,0 >■ OUU.1 ..HO o.. .....v . * ..v j
sell the slaves anyhow.’’ But the irlfcth -flgjnoro unknown! Wo have found
had the right of it.
heard on both fdd<
had no war and no slave]
vised by tl’.oro Christian phi!
“Let (ho north pay in r ^
.• ,i<! nr pf'rty and set thenj free. ”
to
had
ntld have
It was ad-
iropists,
y for the
slaves as pr
The north said, “Wc cannot
The south said, “ We wifi not
tcries at Arlington Heights and at Rich
mond aud Gettysburg saw one inscrip
tion on soldiers’ tombs oftener repeated
than any other—“Unknown.” When,
about 21 years ago, l was called to de
liver the oration at Arlington Heights,
j Washington, l was not so much im-
j pressed with the minute guns (hatshook
j the earth or with the attendance of pr?s-
idont and cabinet and foreign ministers
and general ■ of the ox:uy xind commo
dores of the navy as with the pathetic
and overwhelming Guggcstiveuess of
that epitaph on so many graves at my
/feet, “Unknown!” “Unknown!” It
scorns to me that the time must conic
when the government of the United
States shall take olT that epitaph. They
armory, wh
buckleG, ail
iron the -a hang a thousand
i-.iaolds of mighty men.”
The church Is he:
compared to an
armory, the ay alls hung with trophies
of dead heroes'. Walk all a boot tiiis
tower' of David and bco the dented
shield?:, sud tlio tudated swords, and
the rusted helmets of terrible battle:
So at this season, a month earlier at. the
south, a ir. nth later at tho north, the
American churches aro tujnod &to ar-
I merles, adorned with memories of de
parted bravos. Blesnom and bloom, ('
walls, with storirri of self sacrifice and
patriotism and prowess!
By unanimous decree of the people of
the United States of America tho graves
of all tho northern, and southern dead
are every rear decorated. All acerbity
gnd bitternes.-’, ha^c gone ant of t>.o na-
Honal. solemnity, and ac tho men and
▼omen of tho south one mouth ago
totalized the •env iorics and graveyards
i yesterday we, the men mid women of
iio north, put upon the tombs of our
si the kiss of patriotic affection,
ravory ilvewya ayprcciaiec biavery,
Hough it light on the other bh*\ »»i<1 r?
• •oldier of tiro I'ederal iu-my kivi l>ccn
• mouth ago at Savamuh he would not
b*TO been aHlianird to march i« the
Poral processions to the cemetery. And
K yesfcrd.iy o Co..federate soldirr wai
at Arlington h^v/as glad to pnt a sprig
t!i(' silent heart of our
of heartsease
•cad.
In a battle during our last war tho
Confedcratn wer driving back thoFcd-
who were iu »'.vi*> rrt/egt. when
a Federal ofiici-r uropyed wounded. One
of his men Ptopp d at the risk of Ids life
and pi\t his armi arormd the offlrer to
cairy mm from (he firdd. Tifty Confed-
ciato munkrt^ were aimed at the young
man who was picking v.f tho cfflecr.
But tho Confederate captain shouted:
“Hold! Don’t tiro! That follow is too
brave to shexit. ” And'as (be J"odrrnl
r, held up by ids private soldier,
limping .slowly off tho Held the
pdoratc.-j gave three cheers for the
private, mid, just before tho two
ared behind a barn both tho
id offloor aud the brivo private
loir cape in gratitude tothoGou-
i captain.
thogw-<p?l be loss generous than
anns, the bayomet
did pay hi war expanses enough to pur
chase the shiVYi, and vh.c south v,-as oom-
pclicd to give up slnvo>y anyliow. Might
not the north better have paid the
money and sarod the lives of 500,000
bravo men, and miglit not tho south
better Jinvo sold out slavery and saved
; her 500,000 bravo men? J. swear you by
| tho gravi s cf your ftr.hers and brothers
: and sons to a now, hatred for tho cham-
; picn curse of tho universe—war!
O Lord C-< d, with the hottest bolt of
! thine omnipotent indignation strike
' that monster down foivver and ever! Iin-
! prison it in tho deepcRt dungeon cf tho
eternal penitentiary. Bolt it in with all
the iron over forged in cannon or mold
ed into howitzers. Cleave it with nil
tho sabers that over glittered in battle
and wring its soul with all tho pangs
which it ever caused. Let it feel nil tho
conflagrations of tho homesteads it ever
destroyed. Deeper down let it full and
in flcrc'-r flame let it burn, till it has
gathered into its heart all tho suffering
of eternity as well as time. In the name
of the million* of grave s of itc victims,
I denounce it. The nations need more
the spirit of treaty and loos of tiro spirit
of war.
War is more ghostly now tiian once,
not only iH'oiuiro of the gr otev dostruc-
tiven as of tti wokp .my, but Ixxiauso
now it takes dorm toe bent men, where
as oik c it ohi-efiy took down tho worst.
Bruce in 1717, in bic. Tustitutions of
Military lAw,” said of (do Unrcpcan
armies of his day, “If nil it fair, -us per-
committed capital
ists and all das-
wero v/oedc*d out
lorn
X
•rn nr.a facing
trnj of tho
sine of *oon no
^hlne of oIA war
hiat, imd (key
of King .fames’
iiy rorisio*, “Glory
ieet, ;md o» earth
ion.” Now, what
I jprat obserranee?
sen of It,
instruction to (Tie
'Subtract wkon
pm our 1305, and yon
•▼apt nunib'T of yeo-
co the war, or wore so
Lio vivid aypreoifttion.
Sdorf 4.1 ; years of age has any
inopuxry of that prolongedhor-
r you rteociqber it? “ Well, ” you
o’.ly renjember that mother
sd asray while she was rending
rsp.-jper, and that they brought
1 homo wrapped in tho flag,
that :* good many people came in
fiouae to pray, and mother faded
after f^at until again there wero
pet.plo in tho houso ami they told
Slio was dead. ”
r/ero are others who cannot roir.om-
Jtho roll of a drum or tho trimip of a
Vimcnt or a nigh or a tear tf that tor-
loof woe (that swept tko aatton again
^ again tfulil there was one dead in
ph housci Now, it is the religious
tycf (hoje who do remember it to tell
flo not My young friends,
such partings at rail car win-
Rtrambont wharfs, and at
(ti comfortable homes aa I
fou may never witness. Oh,
jo it was when fathers and
up their sons, never ox-
again and never did
1. they camo back
* and dead!
Four years of
;iur years of ghast-
of graved igging.
r yoar8 of fimerals, coffins, shrouds,
hearses, dirges.' Mourning, mourning,
•mourning! It wan hell let loose. What
9 time of waiting for news! v Morning
paper and evening paper scrutinized for
intelljgonCQ froiii tho boys at tho front.
First, unummoomont that the battle
must occur tho next dny. Then tho news
' of tho battle’s going on. On tho follow
ing day still going on. Then nows of
80,001) slain, and of tho names of tho
great generals who had fallen, but no
news about tho private soldiers. Wait
ing for news! After many days a load
of wounded going through the tevwu *r
City, but no nows from our boy. Then a
long list of wounded and a long list of
flw death aud a long list of tho missing,
«uad among the last list our boy.
When missing? How missing? Who
saw him lust? Mising, missing! Was he
in the wood* or by tho t-txcjmi? How
was he hurt? Missing, missingl WLut
burning prayers that he may yetlbo
heard from! In that awful waiting
™!wy marty n lii • perished. The strain
f ttuxiety was to > gr#at. That ifil
iy that tot week after l’
lover and anon uho waik^ tlio
Lu.a or look* outlof tho
,n ^c, oxpoeto^. some
»P tho
, gave
sons and cr.eh as br.v
crimes, heretics, r.tb
tardly feminine m ■?.
of (bo army, it would s-on bo reduced
toaprettymoderatenumbor.” Flogging
and mean pay made them .still moro ig
noble. Ouii - rs were appointed to pee
that each soldier drank his ration of n,
pint of spirits a day. Thero were noble
men in battle, but the moral character
of the army then vv-.s 95 per cent, lower
than the moral ehn'.acter of an array to
day. By so much is war now (bo more
detestable tecausoit destroy* the picked
men of the nalions.
riuuor Tor Coisrafc.
Again, by this national ceremony we
mean to honor co::r.,ge. Many of these
departed soldiers were volunteers, not
conscrlnls end many of t);os° .vdo wc-ro
drafted m^jbt have provided a rulwti-
tnlo or got eiT on furlough or. have, de
serted. Tho fact that they lio in their
graves is proof of their bmveyy. Brave
at the front, brave at tho cannon’s
mouth, bravo < \ lonely pidzet duty,
bravo in cavalry charge, brave before
the snrfccoii, bravo in the dyinfj raeafi«fjo
to the home eir le. We yesterday put a
garland on the brow of courage. Tha
world T'*.n?« m-■]'.> • f K.
Tho church of Ged is in woofnl rej-d
of men who can stand under fire. Tho
lion of worldly derision roars aud (ho
cheep tremble. In (treat reformatory
movements at tho first, shot how many
fail back! Tho great obstacle to (ho
church’s advancement is the inanity,
tho vacuity, the, soft prcl tineas, tho
inimby pambyism < , professed Chris
tians. Great on a parade, cowards in
battle. Afraid of getting their plumes
ruffled, they carry a parasol over their
helmet. They go into battle not with
warrior’s gauntlet, hut with kid gloves,
not clutching tho sword hilt too tight
lest the glove split at tho hack.
In all our reformatory and Christian
work the great want ir, more backbmc,
moro mettle, moro daring, moro prow
ess. Wo would in all our churches like
to trade off n hundred do nothings for
ono do everything, “(auii yourselves
like men; bo strong. ”
Thy taints In all this florlous war
KbaU eouciiior. though they <lto.
They mco Iho Iriu’nph fr.<m nfur
Aud who It with their oyu.
Siibliuio fJelf Saertfloo,
Again, Wh mean by this national ob
servance to honor coif sacrifice for eth
ers. To all those departed men homo and
kindred were as dear as our homo and
kindred are to ns. Do you know how
they folt? Just; as you aud I would fool
starting out tomorrow morning with
nino chances oitt of ten against our re
turning alive, for tho intelligent soldier
secs not only battle ahead, but malarial
sickness and exhaustion. Had theso
men ohoxn they could have spent last
night in their home* and to<"ay have
been seated where you are. They chose
tho camp not because they liked It bet
ter than their own house, and followed
tho drum and fife not because they
were better music than the voice* of tho
domestic circle. South Mountain and'
Murfreesboro and tho swamp* of Chicka-
hotniny were not playgrounds.
Theso'henxs risked.and loflt all for
others. There is no higher sublimity
than that. To keep three-quarters for
ourselves and givo one-quarter to others
is honorable. To divide even with oth
ers is generous. To keep nothing for
ourselves and givo all for others is mag
nanimity Christlikc. Pnt a girdle
around your Ixjdy and then measure tho
girdle and soo if you are 50 or GO iuchc*
round. And is that tho circle of your
sympathies—the size of yourself?
to measure yon around the heart,
it take a girdlo largo enough to fc
the lr.i|.d and encircle tho world
want tu know v hat wo dry thoo
mean When W0 talk of Vi<
io^ Look at tl'.a
finu o
Wtsufds f<
ors, h
ITS.;
Thoao who vi
them ouflRt-lssb They arc tho beloved
sons of tho repuBtkv
Would it not ho well to take tho
statue of the heathen goddess cfTthc top
of tho capital (for I havo no faith in the
morals cf a heathen goddess) and put
ono great statue in all our national
comet erics—a statue of liberty in tho
form of a Christian woman with her
hand on an open Bible and her foot on
tho Reck cf Ages, with tho other hand
pointing down to tho ' raves t f tho un
known, saying, “These aro my sons who
died that 1 might live.” Takeoff tho
misnomer. Everybody knows them. It
is of comparatively little importanco
ivhat was tho name given them in bap
tism of water. In the holier and might
ier baptism of blood wo know them, and
yesterday tho nation put both arms
around them and hugged them to her
heart, crying, “Mino forever!”
Again, by this national ccrciaoay wc
mean tho future defouso of this nation.
By every wreath of flower* on tho sol
diers’ graves we say, “Those who dio
for tho country shall not be forgotten,”
and that will give onthwiasm to our
young men in case our nstiixs should in
tho future ncod to defend itself in battle.
Wo shall never have another war be
tween north and’aouth. The old decayed
bone of contention, American slavery,
has been cast out, although htry and
there a depraved politician takrs it up
to se.o if he can’t gnaw someth in g off it.
Wo are floating off farther and farther
from tho possibility of sectional nlrifc
Everything Fcr DefcnifO.
No possibility of civil war. Br^ about
foreign invasion I am not ry certain.
When I spoke against war, IprAA noth
ing against self defense, inventor
told mo that ho had invented a f ,tyi 0 0 f
weapon which could bo *se<l in self de
fense, byt not in aggressive warfare. I
said, “When you get tko n«liom to
adopt that weapon, you hsvtf introduced
tho millennium. ” I JLvNe no right to r'>
on my neighbor’* jroraisn and assault
him, but if sonw ruffian break into my
house for tljs assassination of my fam
ily, andJcon borrow a gun ami load it
in tinin/and aim it straight enough, I
wilrshcot him.
f There is no room oa this continent fur
any other naticxi (*zc(^t Cans da, and a
better neighbor no ono ever t>ad. If you
don’t think so, go to Montreal and To
ronto and sao how v>’ell tluy will treat
yon. Other than thnt dure is absolutely
ho room for any otlur aatiun. I have
boon aoroKS the aontineut aguiu and
again and know (but wo kavo not a
half inch of gmmdforlhe gouty feet of
foreign doqiotirtn to standfni. But I am
not so ruro (imt souk* of Ao arroyaiit
aatiorst of Lsro^x: rosy not amne day
challcngo ur.. I do not know that inoso
forts around N f w York bay aro to s^x p
all through the noxt century. 1 do not
know that Barncgat lighthouse will
yet look off upon a Ik stile navy. Ido
act know but that a half dozen nations,
envious of our prosperity, may want to
give us a wrestle. During our civil war
there wore two or three nations that
could hardly keep their hands off us. It
is very easy to pick national quarrels,
and if our nation escapes much longer it
will be tho exception.
If foreign foe should come, wo want
men like those of 1S12 and like those of
1802 to meet them. Wo want them all
up and down the coast, Pulaski and
Fort Sumtor in tho samo chorus of
thunder as Fort Lafayette and Fort
Hamilton—men who will not only know
how to fight, hut how to die. When
such a time comes, if it ever does come,
tho generation on tho stage of action
will say: “My country will enro for my
family as they d ; d in the soldiers’ asy
lum for tho orphans in the civil war,
and my country will honor my dust as
it honored those who preceded me in
patriotic «orifice, and once a year at auy
rate, on Decoration day, I shall be res
urrected iuto tho remembrance of those
for whom Idled. Hero I go fur God and
my country! Huzza!”
If foreign foo should come, the old
sectional animosities would have no
power. Here go cur regiments into the
battlefield—Fifteenth New York volun
teers, Tenth Alabama cavalry, Four
teenth Pennsylvania riflemen, Tenth
Massachusetts artillery, Seventh South
Carolina sharpshooters. I do not know
but it may require tho attack of some
foreign foo to make us forget our absurd
sectional wrangling. I have no faith
in tho. cry, “No north, no south, no
c^ist, no west!” Let all four sections
keep their peculiarities and their pref
erences, each doing its own work and
not interfering with each other, each of
tho four carrying its part in (ho great
harmony—the bass, the alto, tho tenor,
the soprano—in the grand march of
Union,
PromlM of (the Ron direction.
Once more, tnis great national cere
mony means tj^beautification of the
tombs, whcth^lBM.liose who fell in
It is all that wo can do for them new.
Make their resting places attractive, not
j ab-urd with costly outlay, hut in quiet
remembranoa. You know how. If you
: can afToid only one flower, that w ill do.
; It shows what yon would do if you
could. Ono blossom from you may mean
j more than the Dnko of Wellington's
catafalque. Oh. wo cannot afford to for*
I get (hem. Tb'y wero so lovely to us.
Wo inks* them so much. Wo will never
get over it. Blessed Lord Jesus, comfort
our broken hearts. From every bonk oi
flowers breathes promise of resurrection.
la olden times the Hebrews, re turning
from their burial place, used to pluck
tho grass from tho field three or four
times, then throw it over their heads,
suggestive of tho resurrection. Wo pick
not the grass, but tlio flowers, and in
stead of throwing them over our heads
wo place them before our eyes, right
down over tho silent heart that once
beat with warmest love toward us, c/
over the still feet that ran to service, qj
over tho lips frem which wo too£
kiss at the anguish of tho last par;j n g
But stop! Wo are not infidels
bodies will scon join tho bodies oni
departed in tho tomb and our
VAf»!rf
OF/COTTON.
Peculiar Noted 4ml lO-portod Upon
,f *^ ,i 1( t Tt-xa* Kxi»yiuu'nt Station.
Texas Firm and Rj(nch has published
ionic of thd conclusions reported from
results of experiments with varieties of
cotton tho pfprt ,% y° seasons on thj
grounds of t h<NvJ <,,;as
Lion. Tho yfeldjfei ill ui the iiznbod
cluster
s, ouch os Peerless, Pe-
j shall join their spirits in tho 1
| rising sun. Wo cannot long b^, ^
Instead of crying with Jacohf f
“I will go down into thongs nnto ^
con, mourning let us with David>
‘ ‘I shall go to him. r
On ono of the gates « f Greenwood is
tho quaint inscription^.« A ,jilt’s lodg
ing on tho way to th/ city of tho NoV)
ono another with
thj
Oomfc/
Jerusalem. ’ ’
these words. Mayij 3n( i 0 f i,j m who
shall wipe away ( Carg from all oyei-
wipe your cheek^ v ith its softest tender
ness. rho of Mary aud Martha
and Lazarusin iuf 0 i,i y 0U i u jjjg armBi
The white a j)g 0 i s who sat at tho
tomb < y ffosus will yet roll tho stone
from tiic*
reHmTe*^i on <pi, p limisclf shall do-
seend/rom iicavc-n with a shout and the
veiny of the archangel. So tho “Dead
fWli” in "Saul” shall become the
"id'V.Ic.luiah Chorus. ”
lerkin, * jij^'p’ruit, Tyler and others of
sa “5l type, is usually largo, aud
w ‘ 1 !ff/nc bolls aro small tho cotton is
easl y picked, provided it is done before
rain j a ]] s n p 0U t ij e byiig, Tho
S^test objection to tbese varieties is
fact that tho cotton falls out so
“ a 'lly the gathering is ofteutimes seri-
°^ly interfered with and the loss from
tain considerable.
The cluster or short limbed varieties,
such as Boyd, Cochran, Hawkins and
Welbcrn, are early aud prolific, but fail
more readily from tho effects of a*dry
hot spell than the long limbed cluster
kinds; the bolls being so near each oth
er are easily covered with trash and
troublesome to pick.
The largo boll varieties, such as Texas
ilof thx Stormproof, Bohemian aud others, are
“Vjorous growers, aud tho plant con-
tiuttuKrccn long after many other va
rieties ha'J dropped most of their leaves.
Tho bolls art very largo aud easy to
pick, aud owing'q the pecnliar deep
shape of the bnr the ct/tfln does not fall
out easily, and, the foliaVremaining
green, trash from dead leavoJs never
very troublesome. None of those >'ie-
ties is prolific, tho seeds aro larger turn
tho per cent of lint small.
All the long staple varieties, suck os
Allen, Matthews, Southern Hope and
others, have made good yields aud fair
staple.
Tennessee Gold Dust anil King’s Im
proved are tho earliest that have been
tested thus far at tho station.
Among the now varieties tested aud
mentioned as promising are Dickson’s
Early Cluster, Kono, Ladde and Texas
Stormproof aud as worthless the Japan.
/Missionaries and Native Morale.
The failure of the English Protestant
[iasiouarios in west Africa to rrcog-
i.'ize tho difference between tho minds
tho Africf.UK and their own, and their
tendency to regard tho African minds
tii :;o many jugs, which have only to bo
emptied of the stuff which is iu them
and refilled with the particular form of
docirino they, tho missionaries, aro e»-
gnped in teaching, is certainly one
several causes of tho mission
, and it works in very various
-by eliminating those parts of
tho fxtich that we re a wholesome rc-
straiuband putting in their placo the
doctrine of tho forgiveness of sin by
means cf repentance, etc. This part of
the Christian doctrine the negroes are
very devoted to.
I have tackled several mission trained
men and women and asked them how
they reconciled it to tlioinsclvoH to go on
iu tho way they were doing, openly con
trary to the teaching they had received.
W hat (hey say I will not write down. I
should prefer to givo a verbatim report
cf tho observations of r. sea captain
when tho steering ge.-ir ban broken
down, hut it amounts to tho statement
that they know' they aro doing wrong,
but they intend to repent in time. Cant
yen cannot call it, because they quite
belles'" it. Severe! tiine-i I have been in
tight places.with backsliders, and tiny
have turned t::cir entire attention to
thin repentinco, pouring out full confes
sions of thoir iniquities instead ot
lending a hand that would save thoir
lives. The popularity of a (to me) very
unpleasant little hymn on tho ocuthwCst
coast that has a chorus cf
A little talk with Jteus
M:ikcH it right,
All right,
domemtratoH their view of the affair—
no doubt sound doctrine, bat bad for
negro-morals in this world.—National
Review.
battle or
in the!
luL
have expired
is, or on onr
noticed that
)is season as
of thoir
ervance
^flori-
right-
W0 or
rythe
brought
r )iuli' ob-
tho bono-
i of father,
■ther,
An Up to Date Miracle.
This curious story comes from a cele
brated shrine at Wilna in Russian Po
land : In February a Russian, who can-
uof now be identified, lirought to tho
parish priest of theOstra Drama ehnpel,
Father Franklewiez, several very largo
wax candles, with the request that they
might lie kept burning night and day ns
a votive offering before Oar Lady’s
image.
The request excited no surprise, ns
even the schismatic Russians have a de
votion to tho Madonna, and frequently
bring offerings to the shrine, but as it
would have boon imprudent to leave the
caudles burning all night Without
watching, tho sacristan was told to sit
up in a room near by the altar. About
midnight tho watcher extinguished tho
candles. Asked next morning why
had done so, the man declared that ii
his sleep lie had repeatedly heard
cry, “Put cut tlio candles!” and with
some natural feeling of awe had done
so.
Upon careful examination, the can*
dies turned out to bo hollow and filled
with gunpowder. There is no doubt an
attempt had been mado to destroy the
famous Madonna, which for so many
centuries had boon looked upon, even
by tho Russian^ as the mighty protec
tress of tho Catholic faith.-—London
J Tablet.
St. Ilcmanl Dogs.
A St. Bernard dog is u handsome pet
and so intelligent that its owner always
grows fond of it. But it is a cure, es
pecially os tho warm months come on.
Tho heavy coat makes tho poor animal
■uff(‘r intensely with tho heat. •JJsually
it will take refuge in the cellar-and lie
thero on the stone floor, panting loudly,
with tongue lolling and an expressioi
of suffering in iho great eye* that
piteous to soo. It is highly dangerous to
try clipping tho coat, as baa been
by rush friends of tlio nihch end
animal. The dog cannot stand a I
greo of covering, and yet it
fortublo in our summers wi
has. Really, from May to
Bernard dog is more pain
Manurlnc a Meadow.
Both lime npd ashes are excellent fer
tilizers fcr meadow lands, and may be
mixed nml distributed together either
late iu tho fall or early iu the spring.
A dressing of 100 to 800 pounds of cot
tonseed meal per acre would famish
nitrogen, which is likely to be deficient
in all meadow lauds. If • little alsike
clover would not reduce the pries of the
hay, then scarify tho me»dovr with a
fine toothed harrow before diswibuting
the lime and ashes, and sow one quart
of alsiko seed per aero. Then apply the
fertilizers, reharrow and roll. Alsike
cures light colored, and is not notice
able in tho hay, and really improves its
quality. In some localltiM great objec
tion is made to clover of any kind in
hay sold in tho cities. In central New
York timothy hay may bo ono-tenth
alsiko clover and yet no objections are
made to it.—Country Gentleman.
A Komomadc Lend Ontder.
Every small farmer cani ot afford the
espouse of buying a land grader. Labor
ing under this inoouvenionoe Gordon
Grimes of Png oca Springs, Cola, built
one which is simple and easily made,
and has the desired effect—that is, it
levels the lend by scraping tho dirt off
the high places aud deposits it in tho
low places automatically., It will level
up n back furrow as completely as though
it hud never existed. To moke this ma-
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chine take two pieces, 3 by 4 aud 20 feet
long, placo thorn 7 feet apart like sled
runners with the front ends sloping up
ward. Then take a 2 by 6, 7 feet long,
and nail it crosswise between.the front
end of the runners sotting edgewise up
aud down, allowing tho lower edge to
project half an inch below tho runners.
Then take a plunk 2 by 12 and fit it in
tho same manner as the front one, only
putting it back about 8 foot from the
front scraper. Nail some pieces acromon
the top of the runners for braces and It
is ready for use, as shown in tho accom^
panyiugoutline. Three horseq are
Sary it the driver rides on the
which is recommended as the
UKTOID MISK*
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Rheus^Atisw
C. Tester Valley, Mils., cured by
%er’s larsaparilla
“Fir nvc year*. 1 aullorett untold mliery
from imitcular rb*'iniaUs!u. I tried every
known remedy, oousultod the J est physi
cians, visited IfotSprings, Ark., three times,
upending Jiooo there, Pcs ides doctors’ till!*;
!>nt could obtain only temporary relief. My
flesh was wasted away so that I weighed
only ninety-three ■ •Minds; ray left arm and
leg were drawn oi of shape, the muscles
being twisted np la knots. I was unable to
dress myself, except with assistance, and
could only hobble about by using a cane. I
had no appetite, and was assured, by tho
doctors, that I could not live. Tho. pa ins, at
times, were so awful, that 1 sould procure
refill only by means of hypodermic Injec
tions of morphine. 1 had my limbs bandaged
bfUy, In sulphur, la poultices; hut these
gave *ly temporary relief. After trying
everything,aud suffering the most awful
tortures, I heg-vJto lake A fates Sarsaparilla.
Inside of two moths, 1 was able to walk
without a cane. Iu thVJ months, my limbs
began to stt'-ngthen, and feihe^course oi a
year, I was cured. My '.vr’tght fil increased
to ito pounds, and 1 am now HWeVto ray
full day’s work as a railroad blacksmith’,
AY
Tht Only World’s Fair Sarsaparilla.
A YJS/t’S FILLS euro [Headache.
A. N. WOOD,
BANKER,
does a general Banking and Exchange
business. Well secured with Burglar-
Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock.
Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate
rent.
Buys and sells Stocks and Bom
Buys County and School Claims.
Your business solicited.
DR. J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist,
Gaffney, - - - S. C.
Ofiicp over J. It. Tolleson’s new store.
I n office from 1st to 24th of each
month;
Southern Railway.
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