The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 13, 1897, Image 3

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ffi*'-'.; 1 *®*? / THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., MAY 13, 1807. 3 WOMEN DON’T BITE. i “And Criico Ain't Plzen,” Says v. Reeky Crock. :i3 St*v«*nN I.«-nrnt *hc •■on—Komc I'roplo Cninv l;> Sirnn«r nml Curloum i liiltlrcn. C? -t-f aJJ . There was sir.pn and *!cw waikin at oJ<l Pilgrim's kot giu»eyard over in*.liv liiil.i country out day last week. And when I heard the news in full and grot all the facts in the case it come to ptvsa that old man Antny Stevens had thrown his har.d to the i-nck and quit the game oncst for all. Hit in ley seems to me like some people have been raisin up mighty odd and curious children in this present day and generation of ti)e hu man family—which the same old man Antny he was one of whom. Fortem- inon and in a general way he was a right tolerable good man, but tiie maehiuery had jumjied a cog some whores when Antny Steveot> oome J ith« r from tho whence. Sometimes I have thought it ciought be that he was horned at the wrui!”- tune of the moon, or muvbe wav ulong in the dark nights of August. 3hit anyhow, somehow In- was the most strangest piece of human flesh amongst all the cuds an 1 ends of creation so for as I know. change my gait. You ace I very durn well that the rail vest women folks around there was them that slept in peace end in the graveyard, and they couldn't pester me. 1 didn't have no fears of anything dead. Hit was the ii\;n tilings that shook my hand and made tne feel weak and wobbly in the kt.ee:-. "The old folks they had v ent to bed when 1 got in home that night. The dark was particlar thick and heavy, but 1 slipped in the through it as l c:7 to bed. When 1 r.exr woke up it was TORTURED BY RORBERS. DARING bicycle feat. Entire Ohio Faruily Bound Hand and Foot Torelie* Api'Iletl to Tl»elr I'eot ami l.lmhH—Simple llo> Wliu Showed Fight Family Clubbed—Itlir Monty Carried Oil. >t »1.- v n ,1 est I could, and sneaked wav long pus A few days ago the residence of Mrs. Rebecca lllukesley, two miles west of Findlay, O.. was entered by seven mid light and towards masked men. who battered down a door dav. The moon was shinin rale and din, and what Right the woman, c sort—setti with a fie do you rt ekon 1 saw, Knfe? re before my eyes I saw a r a female critter of seme n th.?r-.* in a bigreckin chair bonnet c:i. a:- still us a cost a ,i ent as the sainted tie Xohedy nothin funeral note. F-nt yet i bundle of female gnrrr.er e.d. 1 leading to a sleeping apartment occu pied by the entire family, eonsistii.g of Mrs. I’.lakesley, two sru_s and a daughter. The men rushed into the room, and covering the thoroughly frightened .people with revolvers, de manded that they give up what money and other valuable# they had in their possession. One of the two Blakesley boys, who is an imbecile, attempted to secure pos session of a shotgun standing behind 1 can > my hand before my face in the | the door, but was instantly floored by broad open day time. "Nov. man. sir. if any poor white 1\ A Rhode Inland \\ heelmnn'n !)<‘«prr» ate Hide In Wnatilnirton. William Shields, of Woonsocket. R. rode down the steps of the west front of the capitol the other afternoon on a bi cycle. and lives to-day to tc !i tin* tale. Perhaps it would be more exact to say that he dropped slantwise from the top of the terrace to the ground below while astride of a wheel. There is no question that he accomplished the feat, for he was photographed during his rapid de scent. and the incontrovertible product of the camera is on exhibition to con vince the skeptics. V'ntil row no wheelman ever at tempted to ride down the steps or, the WRITES OF CAROLINA. com* Bill Arp Returns from a Visit to the Palmetto Stut:. didn’t :-ay nothin. >beciy didn’* s *y as heard, not a U1 cr,.» *»., <3 cha its there in the on as plain as ■nlTerod a n the sti: and terrors j ever of a s* e >nt death, whilst yet in the j full blush and bloom of youth and health, it was me. Hit wouldn’t do to ! jump and run for the door. She would be deed certain to h< ad me ol7. 1 eon id n’t jump dht through the win dow from the fact that th > dad blame female thing was set tin right slap l.er- ; dab betwixt me and the window. I could feel the cold sweat bust loose all ; over me. whilst my hair ri/. up and ! stood out every way for Sunday. I didn’t say a blame thing out loud, but. Rufe, I do reckon 1 prayed the most ; fervent and outnrayine.-t prayer that has ever went up from mortal lips to ; the throne of grace. Hit was a trcmcn- dius hot and svveltry night, but 1 cov- ! rred up. head and foot, and waited with 1 J fear and trcmblin to see what was com- j in mxt. I Well, by hokevs. when finally at !:.:-:t ] daylight came and I jx-eped forth to fee what had went with the female tiling—then what do you reckon I saw. Rufe? Not a dun. thing but mother’s i j old a’anaea dress there in the roekin 1 chair, and her last year’s fly bonnet ] hnngin ou the top round. She had hung the things there by the window to i sun the day before, and forget to take ’em in when night come. "I have slept sound and peaceful the ! right before the'hnttle. Rufe. I have slept the sleep of the just right out amongst the dyin and th** dead. Rut I as yet 1 never have went through with anything that ever put me in mind of i the mortal terrors that ransacked my soul on that orfnl night, when I thought some female critter had caught me in her trap. "Taint no use in talkin. Rufe. As for me—Antny Stevens—I wouldn’t harm a livin human l>ein a purpose, and I don’t say nothin in partielar agin the women folks. But betwixt me and nil female human things there is a dead I lire which I will never cross.” And old man Antny Stevens was good as his word. After the old folks died he lived for years right there at home by his lone self, cooked his own grub, sowed »nd washed and patched his ow n clothes, and kept dost to his own side of the road. The machinery had slipped a erg somew heres, and he couldn’t help it. fVn * ?loee “Atrantte rhlld." It was so I could n’t lx* ilkcre that day when they had sirgin ami slow waikin at I'ilgHm’s Rest, and consequentially I don’t know for certain w here they put and scout ersued t ; Jl they vy-t ! w-A* PS ^ ron ' t *'‘‘ v. Sometimes I mought in."" be slip ^ —* rj ’ - ' ‘ ;r " j to me bke lie ought to sleep aide by side j with old Mines Ixirgmire—whieh she was on<* mere of them strangeehildren | which the sens and daughters of man kind have been raisin up in this present I day and generation, j V* hat was t.h«* matter w ith old Misus lovngiaire? Not hing much, only she was j l«*ft a [>oor lone widder w hen she was | right young, and in the due fullness of time Romelwdy put out a tretne.ndius big scandalat ion about h/*r. I never did know anything for certain in regards to what was said or who said it. Rut the v.idder she hell and m:iintaine«l that it wa.s hatched up by the forked- tongmil women of i he s:-ti lenient. And hemvforwards and forevermore after that she never spoke a single mortal word to any livin fi-male human bein under the sun. She was pas-sir. friendly with the me*) folks, arxl one of th»iucst kicdentand jiotient souls in the created world to lioys. But she «lid naturully h.aTe anything in tiie shupe of womac- kind. Slie was even mean mid spiteful to the girls, savin how they would all be women by-and-by. Thus an<l so tiie YVidtler Ixmgmire lived Hk*! remainin davs of her life ou*. and it was only after she was dead and gone that some of the good women of the settlement slipped over tla»re and fixed her up for the funeral. “Hit taken a whole |mssie of various and sundry different sorts of liuman people to make up this vain and fleetin world, say* Andy Lucas to me oncst Ui^n a time, “and let me tell you. Rufe, I'll be dad blamed if we ain’t got ’em.” And in regards to mem and women mid people and things. Andy Lucas roost in generally always wabble# around mighty clast to |he bull’s eve. RUFl’8 nANDBRi. ••The Plainest tflssln LtuU.” For the paist BO years, or maybe a Jiiile the rise oi that, 1 have tried my l.nel blan.edest to make old man Antny believe that calico aint pizeu and women wouldn’t bite. But by gracious up to bis last dyin day he never learnt the lesson. That was T.h~ in a incut miss in Jink in the makeup of that strange ami pccurious man. He never could mix with the female generation any at all {scarcely to speak of. Now. I have seen the time when no- l-ody wouldn’t believe that Antny Mtevens was afraid of any livin creepin thing that trod the face of the discov- oml earth. 1 have seen him hold his hand in many n rough and tumble light over at the Cross Reads. 1 have seen him many ami many* the t.:mc in rale dost places where nothin but a brave man could stand, and he never flinched nor flickered nor fell back, lie lit plum thrcusjh The war and followed the flag of bis country arrost Hie trenches on a bumTred battlefields. <>f my own indi vidually self 1 do knew that Antny Stevens had rene—great scads and dead oodles of it. 1 have seen him U*t hts pile and win the |x»t < n a jiair of two spo’s. But little as you moughtthinl; it. lie would run from a woman like you would from a loose bcur or a stack of **atairounts. -Honest to God. Buft. I do ralcy wish it.vvas sninewliat otherwiKe with me.” the old man use to say when I would git right dost in Ix'hind him, “but lainytio use in talkin—I jest simply uint got Jh? nerve suflicient to face the mu- Mifauxl go forth amongst the women folks. My mot her was t h* onlyest wom- un I have ever spoke a word with since I was Itorned into the world, and 1 had started to runuin wild before she died. She was the onlyest woman—the onlyest female human Win—at our house, and 1 recollect till now how she use to try und try and try to break me from them wild r.T.d skittish ways. ' “If ever cry of the women folks from the settlement around come to our house in the way of company I would simply run away from home and hide out •may. Sometimes I mought ir.cybe dip jn thixnigh the kitchen wimluw and jsteal my dinner, but manys the time I | have went ali day long without a mouth ful to eat—and me a grovvin, healthy boy. forever and eternally hungry at that. And if it come to pa:-s that the * isitin women folks tarried around and I Teroained over the night I would stay | out on t he scout. Mnv i e I ir.oughtsteal * In the house when everything got rtill | ned take a nop, and then slip out l»efore 1 IrrakRist the next mf-ir.in. But more 1 than oncst 2 have slept out in the fed- .der loft or under the hay stock ruther than run tiie ehanee& of nu*etin with strange women folks. ■“.Mind you now. Rufe. 1 wouldn’t try to ray that the women folks r.intgood nnd ni«*e and perfectly all right to them they suit. But it never did suit me to tarrv around with them, and it never j will. You say calico aint pizen and women won’t bite. 1 don’t know any thing about that. I reckon maybe you know and f am more than wiliin totake your word for it. But I can’t face the music. Rufe. and taint no use in talkin. The female generation are too many for roe. blows on the head from a club in the hands of one of the men. The Blakes- leys were then botmd hand and foot, and torches were applied to their feet in the hoj>e that they would reveal tiie hiding place of their valuables, but none of them would acknowledge that they had any money in the house, and the roblvers began to search the house. Every piece of furniture was over turned. the bedding ripped open, pic tures removed from the wall, ard <werv nook and corner in the house searched. Inn bureau drawer a iarge roll of bank bills, three gold watches and one silver watch were obtained. After the search w ;ui completed t lie robliers took the shot gun. a rifle and two revolvers, which they found in the kitchen, and deport- ed. About four o'clock the daughter succeeded in freeing her hands from the ropes with which they were tied, and soon released the remainder of the family. Neighbors were at once noti fied and medical assistance summoned from the city. The first physician to arrive found John Blakesley in a very critical condition. lx*ing unconscious from the blow received on the head. The other members of the family were <* L i 0 0 0 U 3/. : ij J . AVvl * P eM: See* S!ach to Pleaae Him — Town* Sliovv u VI onderf ill liaprovemeitt and the People Appear rroKpvrcii*. '*ne«l tn, cmkalir.ed anti rair.ud dtad, Deal as th*. ' laod y .-u rave: No Imricus footsteps here- shall tread. The herbage of your grave.” This is one of the verses on a beauti ful monument 1 looked upon with tear ful reverence while walking through Rnsemoiit cemetery at Newberry. Calvin C’rozier was a Texas confed erate soldier, who, shortly after the el us.* of the war, was going k *r.:o and some ladies in his charge. V. hen t.rain arrived at N? vvberry some negro soldiers who were in car and C'rozier had the I e i * * lawless negro soldiers nip near by went into the •osslv intuited the ladies. .--tc- art! some others defended the ladies, ard in the melee one of the negroes w as slightly wounded. Before the tram left Col. Trowbridge sent some < f the negroes to arrest the man v*-ho did it. They made a mistake and seized Mr. Jacob Bowers, a railroad employe, and hurried him away to the colonel's quar ters. Without trial he was summarily ordered to be shot. It was n ur tnid- “Whore did all the money from?” 1 inquired. From u small beginning—from one little mill, and it did so well that others scon followed. Northern manufactur ers of machinery were attracted there* nnd took one-third of the stock ami paid for it in spindles and loams—and have made good money and are oun- n nt. Some Charleston money is there, too. These mills have made from ten to twenty per cent, for several years, and keep on making it. and these ma chinery men up north will do the same tiling for the people of Cartersville or any other southern town that is healthy and well situated. They only wait to be invited. The Piedmont region of South Carolina is now the New England of the south. Ever the young men an«l young ladles of good families in their towns are not too proud to take po sitions in the factories. They are hook- I eejHT.*. typewriters, correspondents und superintend in some of the de partments. and earn good, honest money. Just think of it. what n revela tion I For many years we have siijqiosed that the state, was nearly worn cut and her young men would have to ac cept Greeley’s maxim. "Go west, young man. go west.” but not ro. Northern ' South Carolina is richer to-day and , more prosperous than any portion €if ' Georgia. Anderson has nearly doubled her population during the last five : years. New stores, new dwell ires, new III /.■*- . ! 111 v night when C’rozier was told of Bovvers’ i churches, parsonages and a fine pub lic school building have gone up. a new LEAPING OVER THE FINAL FLIGHT. west front, though riders have accom plished the feat on the east steps. Shields waited until the rteps and ap proaches were entirely clear of visitors, and then placing his bicycle at the brink of the steep incline, swung easily Into tiie saddle and began the perilous de scent. Before reaching tlic-ifcttom cf the uppermost flight he lost his pedals, r.rd making no attempt to regain them, 1 sat rigidly upright in the saddle, his l<*et hanging clear cf the rapidly re volving cranks, holding to the handle ! bars with a vise-like grip, and his eyes fastened fixedly on the path nt the l ot- , icm. I( only lasted for about 15 seconds, but the intensity c.f the strain increased err* at and condemnation; he promptly went forward and declared that he him self was the man who wounded ‘he negro. Bowers was released and at i an rise next morning Crazier was shot to death, notwithstanding hi- demand for a trial and protest of Prince Rivers, an officer in Trowbridge’s command. The negro soldiers danced w ith fiendish delight upon end around the shallow grave where they had laid him. Long after the war his banes were remove 1 nnd this •monument was erected by ihe *' people of Newberry to his irem- nrv nobler sneri- ir.uch ir.crc mp'dlv t^; : the .tccor.. 1 - T l* . ■ - -f* T - r *■ - T ?• I TT paastd. Ciuihc-iiiig r..:i..:uiunj '..na I goes ory. Docs history record flee? Damon was the friend of Pyhias, but this man Bovvers was a stranger to Cra zier. Much more of th s pathetic story is recorded in the “Annals of Newberry.” an interesting volume written by John r* p--, C’V-alh tt n. .-r * V V •i! TORCHES A’I • Ill 1 THEIR FEET. Thct One Orful Mstlit. “If by the blessins of God the cards would all^come my way sothat l mought Eve on and on for a hundred years to come. Rufe, the* hair-raisin recollections *;f one orful night would forever keep , roe on my own side of the road and the female generation on the other,” Nat Ktevens went on to say, whilst great Irops of inspiration broke out on his r face till he was sweatin like a free nig ger on election day. "Bit was on a Saturday, and I had l**rn off down on the creek tishin and fociin around all day long. As for me, 1 was nothin more than a yearlin boy then, but 1 didn’t mind stayin out lato —r.nd sometimes, in a case of pushency, sdeepin out—of nights. I had heard etories in the main time—stories on top of stories—about ghosts and spooks and «perits. you understand. But they didn't have no terrors for me. Raley I I don’t believe 1 was sheered of anything 'on the earth or under it nt that time exeeptin female people—anything and everything that wore fly bonnets and frocks and dresses and the like. Coinin home that night I passed right along bv the meet in house and graveyard at Pil grim's Rest and didn't so much aa badly burned about the feet and legs, but their injuries are not serious. The Blakesley family is one of five wealthiest and most eccentric in Han cock or adjacent counties. They own 400 acres of rich farm kind in the heart of one of the richest oil pools in this ter ritory. but have ['ersistently refused to lease it for drilling purposes, and have made no effort to develop the oil them selves. They live in a small brick house consisting of but three rooms. About 20 years ago they lost $18.(K)0 by the failure of a local bank, and ever since have refused to deposit even the small est amount in any banking institution, and it is generally supposed that they keep their wealth concealed alKiut the premises. Several weeks ago an at tempt was made by local oil operators to secure a lease on the undivided one- fourth interest in tiie land owned by Smith Blakesley. who is of unsound mind. He signed the lease, but itn- 11 ediately an application was made to the probate court to have a guardian ;i|v- pointed. which was refused, but during the hearing of the ease attention was called to the fact that they were in the habit of keeping large sums of money in the house, and it is thought that this information was taken ad vantage of by local crooks who were familiar, with the premises. Mrs. Blakesley claims that the roll of bills contained between $300 and $400. but neighlsir* who are wed acquainted with t.he affairs of the family say that they had between $4,000 and $5,000 in the house at the time the robbery occurred, but whether it w as in the bureau draw er or was concealed in another hiding place is not known. The only clew left ing so great as to pitch the rider over the last flight. Be left the saddle, hut at the bottom wheel and rider fell in a heap. Shields esea;>cd. however, with out a serious bruise. The w heel w hich he was riding did not !oo*;.*n a holt or yield at any point under the strain to which it. was put. nnd aside from a twisted handle bar. received at the fall nt the bottom, came out of the ordeal without u scratch. QUEER COMPANIONS. Little Girl mill Her Cut Travel from KanMaM to Roolimter. A little, girl 11 years old recently | traveled all the way from YVichitu, Kan., to Rochester. N. Y.. with no com panion but her kitten. She was al lowed To have the j/i t in her hip. al though it is against the rules of rail road companies to allow animals in (N •f i i i W DRESSED LIKE A DOLL. the passenger coach. Perhaps this may ' have been due partially to the fact I that the kitten was dressed “like folks’* I in clothes. The <xit wus as handsomely ! attired as a favorite doli and infinitely I more amusing. Her little dress did by t lie robbers were the torches, which !KJ t seem a novelty to her and the little they threw into a neighboring creek, ■ v. a i*t with bishop sleeve# nnd lace at and which arc of the variety used on , the ankles, or more properly wrists, was ('otifttalnic In Coart. It was Itefore an Irish trial justice. The evidence was all in. and the plain tiff's attorney had made a long, elo quent and logical argument. Then the defemlur.t's attorney took the floor. "What you doing?” asked the justice, as the lawyer began. “Go ng to pre sent our side of the ease.” "I don’t want to hear both sides argued. It ha* a tir.dlney to confuse the eoort.” So the defendant’s lawyer sat down.—X. Y. Post. locomotives, nml were ev idently stolen from some roundhouse or ear shops, j They were heavily masked. The eoun- ; ty commissioners have offered a re- i ward of fl.YO for the apprehension of ! each of the nobliers. and detectives are i busily at work on a number of clew s. A Itemarkchlc Accident. The infant daughter of John f. Buck- ley. of Des Moines. la., was accidentally hung by her Iwnnct strings,catching on a limb of a cherry tree. The little girl, aged about five years, had been playing on the poix-h but a few minutes before the accident. Her bonnet strings were tied twice around her neck, presumably to keep the bonnet In position. She slipped when climbing on a dwarf cherry tree and the strings caught on a twig projecting not more than an inch. A Butte Jury has decided that vitriol ‘browing is no crime. dainty, while a handsome lace bajjycop completed the most fetching toilet. The little girl apologized for tiie state of kittie's clothing, as she said she had but one change out of Iter trunk. But kittic had sjwnt the most of her Journey on her mistress’ lap or on the velvet ear soat and was not in the least bedraggled. The little girl sr.:d .she did not care for dolls, because they weren't alive, and kittie could play with her; besides, kittie did not ob ject to being dressed and undressed. n> she hud all the pleasure of playing doll with a livedollie. Tomatoes on Potato Vine*. Prof. Bailey, of Ithacn. N. Y., ha* succeeded in grafting tomato on potato vines. In this case the tomr.toe* grew to full size, but the potatoes remained suiall. VrEiialde Pnlr of Tr«»t?*er«. An old pair of trousers worth more than $H>0 is not wen every day. A slack-wire walker in 1/ondon ha* an article of this kind which he would not exchange for a £20 note. They are made of 25 complete skins of the South Afri can nnlelojie. nnd are in some places three inches thick. The first require ment in performing on a wire one- fourth of an inch in diameter is to wear well-podded garments of an ir.destnicn- ible material. courthouse is projector!, and sill this comes from the cotton mills. It does seem as though the cotion we grow should i>e spun and woven at 1 one. My Inst visit was to the old historic town of Edgefield—a town almost re tired from the. public gaze. bu f one that has always felt proud of its pres tige as the domicil? of more great men then any in the state. McDuffie i ; verl here, end Gov. Pickens, and the Butlers, and Bhetts. and Garys, nnd many oth ers. The Tillmans live here, and f was the honored guest of one of them. The nobility have no better manners than mine host and hostess, nnd it is rare to find a handsomer couple.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. every foot of the downward passage, the rider seemed to lie going, as if shot cut of the mouth c a cannon. When he reached the third and last Inrtdir.g. the velocity of his descent had reached such a point that he literally leaped over the final flight of If. steps to the bottom. IBs wheel did not touch a single one of the steps, but took an onward and down ward hound for the bottom. Then it was the few who witnessed the descent shuddered, the momentum attained lie- ! done and would be of inestimable value I r7.f j)k*a^".] to Team that other conntks in Carolina were having their annals writt. n nnd published in book form. How else can we hand down to posterity the good deeds of our nn- c; .-tors? State histories cannot do it, for it would make many pond'Tous vol umes. but even now it is not ’oo late for some one of literary taste nnd fidel ity in every county to confer with the old men and compile such a history. S'Teh publications could be cheaply to the citizens. Mr. Chapman, a well- preserved veteran, a cultured scholar, a gentleman of tfcio olden rimes, is now writing the nnnalsof Edgefield. 1 was informed on good authority that this Mir. Chapman was the r< al nuthorof the school history of the United States that was published in Columbia. S. C.. ns the work of Alexander I!. Stephens. Mr. Chapman submitted bus manuseript to Mr. Stephens, ami for the use and pres tige of his name gave him an interest in the royalty. There was scarcely a change made in it from loginning to end. Newberry is u gem of a city, and its population is perhaps more cultured and refined than any city of South Car olina. The professors of her college and high school, her lawyers and doc tors and preachers and editors are all genl’einen. not only in manners, but at heart. The standard of good-citizen ship is high and the influence of her leading men jiervades the entire com munity. Mr. Anil, the editor of the News-Herald, is perhaps the best all round man for Ids work to be found, for he is not pnlv a man of high cul ture. hut is eminently a practical news paper n an and is devoted tn his enli- ing. Be lias written the history cf the state, and it is the standard in the schools. Two of his hoys, aged ten nnd twelve, arc at work in the printing- room and do good service. Mr. Aull is not at all reconciled to the modern system of grading the schools so that it takes eight years to go through their courses. If four years more are added for a college course there is no time left fora bay to acquire a knowledge of work or habits of work. From eight to twenty he is a ncnproduccr. and when lie graduate* is fit only for the learned professions, if fit for nnytldng. But his l>cys have to mingle study with la bor and alternate the years of each. Mr. Anil is the president of the State ]Te.*s association. Of course, Newberry has a large cot ton mill. Almost every Carolina town has one or mo e. As you travel from place to place they are in sight, and give employment to the poor. Five years ago Union had only l.WH) inhab itants, but during all these distressing years has continued to grow and pros- j per. until now there are 5.000. One little mill, as they call it. started the Ikkiiu and encouraged them to build another—.> very large one, whose four floor# cover a space equal to six acres. Next came an oil mill and a knitting mill and other industries, and now they are boring for artesian water to «up- plv a system of waterworks. Neither in the city nor near it are any people beg ging for work, for employment is at hand. Thin go to Ppartansburg and he amazed. When 1 was there a few veers ago there was nothing to make note cf save a college, but now there arc cut- ton mills near by that manufacture 140,000 bales annually, and it is claimed that no one county in the United States consumes as much. Not an acre of suburban land can be bought for less than $30. Everything prospers and everybody seems happy. The taxable property has increased fourfold vvilbiti eight years and the population ha# more than doubled. V/HITg: INSIDE. A ToecMn^ TrlliHie to the Worth oC the Abyssinian Women. Maj. Gamerra, who was made pri»- onei* ?it tf.c battle of Adovva and whose hair turned completely white with hi# sufferings while in Abyssinia, hu.s pub lished a ixx;k giving r.n account cf the ten months of his captivity. He pays a feeling and genuine tribute to the Abys sinian women. The Ethiopian woman Is obliged to work hard all day, hewing wood and drawing water, grinding the grain and preparing the household food. To the men is reserved the task of sewing and weaving, which they are very clever at. The customs f the peo ple are quite patriarehinJ. hr head of the family being often like a sultan i*. minature, with a small harem of slaves. The legitimate wife, if she protests at all, does so meekly, as women, even in that part, of Africa, are considered lit tle better than beostsof burden, and the Copt religion as it is understood, espe cially among the Amhora, has not th© jiowcr to raise her from her state of inferiority. Maj. Gamberra paints © picture t ruly touching of the tenderness to suffering and the charity anil seif- saerifice, which are not found in isolated mse#. but are generaliy among these downtrodden souls. He sjjeaks of a cer tain Kongeitu. an old and ugly woman, who was an angel of charity to many of the prisoners, but especially to tb© major. She shared their sadness, she gathered and prepared the primitive mediciresof herbs used there, nnd when she saw them depressed, used to cry “Agaril Agnri!” (Italy! Italy!) add ing that Menelik was good and woult$ free them. When she understood that in Italy there were mothers, wives and sisters weeping for them, she began to cry. r.nd they in turn were the com forters. The first woman Maj. Gamerra. m'*t was when his fret were all cut and bleeding, owing to marching with out shoeo. so that he was in extreme pain. Sella*, a joor slave of Has Workie. seeing his sufferings, took the white linen she wore from her head.divided it into two piece# and bandaged liis feet. This was na act of real sacrifice.cssuch, a piece of linen in Sehoa and Goggiam is a precious treasure. It was al! th© more wonderful that a slave should make such a sacrifice for a stranger, and lie a captive. After ten months the day at last came for Maj. Gamerra to leave for Italy. He nva* early and went to take leave of his true friend*. Kongeitu was ill. Sh** showed herself, and really was glad at his liberation; but when the moment of parting came 1 she could not conceal her bitter grief.— Ball Mall Gazette. Xone of HI* Muslne**. Philosophers, lazy men nnd Turk* have many qualities in common. So, at least, it would appear from the reply cf n Turkish pnaha to the British minister at Coustantinople, who had asked for information concerning the population. ;.nd trad * of u certain province. “Illustrious frfend. joy of my liverB* the pasha’s letter began. “The thinff von ask of me is both difficult and use less. "Although I have possed all my days in this place. 1 have neither counted the houses nor have I inquired into the number of the inhabitant*; and ns to what one (>erson loads on his mules and another stows away in the Iwttom of h’s ships, tbit is no business of mine. “O my soul! O my lamb! seek not after the things that concern thee not. Thou coinest to us nnd we we!com© thee; go in peace. “Of a truth thou hnet spoken many words, nnd there is no harm done, for the s;>enker is one and the listener is an other. “After the fashion of the people thoit hast wandered from one place tc an other. until thou, art happy and content in none.”—Youth’* Companion. The mean temperature of Greece I# U4 degrees Fahrenheit.