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fTHE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., AUGUST 2G, 1897 8 OVER THE RIVER. “I have brei» a thinkin, Lige. ashow necessary good eatin. Hob is now I^ifo Runnels Sends Wcrd by the j Dying to the Dead. you mougbt maybe love to send some grow in gray in streaks and patches, word to your kiubery and friends : whilst Miss Collie has shedded her front •th ree Oltl Mon nn<] Their Doctrines of <lie ••Kntwre lie reef ter”—A l.nnd of I'eaev nnii I’lenty uml .\olh- iiiff to Do. Oue night last week old man Travis Waters put out and v\eni on over the river. In my day and' generation 1 have teen various and sundry di;- ferent j>eoj)!e go down into the val leys and shadows, but the tilings 1 saw ttnd heard with my own mor tal eyes and ears that night eome back to me so constant and so till for the present 1 can’t think about noth in else. It was the first and onlycst time 1 have ever saw a livin man send word b^ a dyin man to a friend, and fel low citizen who had died and go tit* on before. I Jtrlr.hter unU llettcr l.nnt. Now if there ever was three old men in the settlement that didtn’t have any jeligion for certain, it. was Travis Waters, Luke Wesley and Inge Itunnels. They never did belong to the church and tiny never seaehed tlie Script tires. Hut they had* their own peeurious no tions in regard* to the tilings of the future hercaliter. They maintained and licit to it that we are all headed one way and bound for the same country. They believed that we will live together in that country a right smart like we live here, and that the general settle ments of the people, will be the same thing over there on the other shore. They didn’t think the land of the fu ture beyond will be part icular cold, or so very tremendous hot. and their doc trine was. that people which live to gether here, will likewise also live to gether there. They maintained in a general way that the people of Kocky Creek will live all in the same settle ment and be neighbors and friends and fellow citizens oncst more over there, and that the people from the hi!! country, and the people from llttekelherrv llidtge. and from 1’anth* r Creek, aa 1 from the rial Woods will all live toge ther in their different set tlements, and there will be mcetin and visitin ami eourtin and marryiu and goin ou there about the same asyou see in this country to-day. “Hit w ill be hot or cold in that coun try accordin to the way a man would ruther take his v\ ruth-v, llufc," says old man Travis to me oncst upon a time. "If you vvould'nither have I'old weather you will jest naturally find your place in some pleasant strip of country where it is cold all the year round. Hut if you would ruther have your weather but you can go where it is summer time .straight through for lg months in the i year. And if von want, it mixed about ‘J.alf and half, or oi !y mi'Mtin hot or cold yon can nominate y ur weather an 1 take your pick. “Andover there in that count ry,llufc. people won't have to work only when they feel like it. The seasons will hit right every pop, and every ytar will be a good erop year, but in thateoun- Iry people won’t have to tend, the roil and eat tin ir bread andimeat and gre. ns lit the sweat of the face like they do here. There will be plenty of some thin good to eat and plenty of clot Lev to wear, but peopltv won’t have to sc.-::*i b and fieraruble and-work their daylight s out in orderment to git the necessary wherewithals of life. You will know jest the same people over there as you know here, and you can go on sernpin up new acquaintances if you want to. There won’t be any taxes to pay and no government to maintain. There won’t bo any moriey there, from the fact that people ean have every thing they w;:>!!. without money andwithout price. And then they won’t have no polities tin Hufe—vviiieh tliere vvoiilc here if we didii’t raise up many politicians that an* forever scrambliii for a soft job. F. very body will be out of debt -no more mortgagee, no more v.nverly noteis, no more papers or compellmeat—and everybody v.ill be liealtby am!/happy over there. “All the people ia creation couldn't make me believe that when a man has Miif-ured through the things of thi; country—ail the. anlms and 1 pains that the human fle«h isheirtn ssm Itryhot, or cold as (logins—wet spells and dry oVouths and sorry crop and hard litre s - sickness and soriovv and trials and troubles and tribulations—you needn't to tell me that a man w hich has went through with all this will have to stand amt suffer somethin worn* vv Lc.n he goes have gone on hi / ore, say sold tnatr Travis, as lie motioned I.ige to a chair bv the bed. “and from all the prognos tics of the case 1 reckon we ain't got i much time for funibliu and foolin about it. I have no earthly doubts but what ! Luke Wesley will be the lirst man i j meet up w ith, and in the next place he will want to hear from you and the folks." 1 "1 am monstrous sorry to see you go, Travis." says Lige—and I could see tiii*. salt water backin up in his eyes— "but if you must 1 reckon you must. I ain't got no particlar word to send to anybody exceptin Luke Wesley, (live my double-breasted and most pious regards to Luke. Tell him whilst 1 aiut to say in no breakneck hurry to play’ quits with this country, 1 would be the proudest iu the world to see him and strike hands with him oncst more. Teli him that I am still in thebnlliest of health and hope this will find himen- joyin the same rich blessin. I am too infernal poor to give up the fight, and raloy aint get the time to take sick and go to bed. I can still git tired and hungry, and then cat and sleep like a yearlin boy. and there aint no tellin 1 for certain when it will eome my time to go and meet him face to face. ; "And, Travis, I reckon Luke would love to know somethin jxisitive about s the crops back here in the old settle ment, and y ou can tell him they are most heJIatioiis sorry. Tell him we haven’t had a runnin rain at our house since the first of May, and the dry drouth is stiil on. We wont make more than half a erop of corn, and cotton aint much better. I went around by Luke’s old place the other day. and the crops about there looked more like ruination than anything 1 have saw since 1 SCO. If he aint heard it from ; somebody’ else you enn tell him that Bud Newton has got his old place rent- ! <•(1 this year and will do mighty well if In* makes the rent. On them rich ham- I t mock lands down in the forks of the creek, where Luke use to make his bale to the acre. Bud's cotton is big sorry this year—no weed to start with and no seasons sullieient to make it put on l the. fruit. , "Now as for me, you can tell Luke I I ain’t farmin any’ lUs year. 1 put in last spring to farm a little, but when f found out it was all vanity and vexation 1 took out and quit. Here of late 1 have been knoekin around considerable— hunlin and lishin off and on. and visitin | tin* poor. F.\ erybody in this country is ! visitin the poor this summer—that is, providin they do any visitin at all.” teeth, but the lallagaggin gocson about the same as usual. “Every year for 20 years before Luke went on across old man Berry Hingst:*.!7 had went on adrunk indurin the Christ mas. got turned out of the church at Bark Log on Saturday before the third i Sunday in .January and returned to the | fold indurin the Mg protracted mcet in in August. You can tell Luke | that Berry never has missed a Christ mas yet. and I was over at Bark Log | one day Inst week when he come flockin hack to the amen corner and got his | name on the church books oncst mor *. ! “Consequentially upon the long dry drought the creeks have run don n low | and the fish are now bitin tremendius free and reckless. But maybe you 1 would better not tell Luke anything in regards to that. He mought pet homesick and want to return back into this land of sin and sufTerin. "Don’t forget about Dunk Strickland. Travis, and Lis three new babies--strip- : lets as they call ’em. 'J *11 Luke they are now comin three in a burr at Dunk’s house. I went tner in the hill country. • last Sunday eienin to see the sight. Tell Luke 1 found Mises Stiickland and the striplcts gettin along as well as | you could expect under the circum ference of the surpoundin calamity, but 1 have some serious doubts if Dunk ever will recover.” "I will tell Luke what you say when 1 I see him." says old man Travis, and before midnight he had went on across to see what wonders lie would see. RUFUS SAXDF.RS. TO W~AR UNIFORMS, Story of William F. Farlros and H.s Queor Mania. DECORATES HIS CRAVE. sportsman^ paradise. | - ! On the Pneltle Coast Tl ey Cuteh KIbIi While rifl>lni; lUlllarris. There is something in the California air that conduces to optimistic views of life. The denizen of the Golden state never tires of eulogizing the climate; and now this tendency to show the sil ver lining and conceal the cloud itself has extended to sporting matters. “Astoria is the greatest town on earth for sport.” declared a commercial traveler in the hearing of a San Fran cisco Host reporter. "All sorts of gam bling games arc running night and day, bear and deer are killed within HARVEST IS LARGE. Arp Writgs of Croat Yield of Cot ton, Corn ami r rules. I.ivtui; Part of the Man Visits the Place Where Demi Part Is In- terrt-U—Found L'neonselona on Ills Own Ora ve. I!e I.ouks f«»r lietter Tliaes—Jiurtow Philosopher Declares Politics Hub XutiiitiK to Do with the Chunice. The Pa ns I ii k of Our Puhlle Mm from f'itir.ens to Solillers. The recent ruling of the attor ney-general regarding the wearing of tin* uniform as well ar, the title of the highest grade which From Gimrdsville, Pa., comes the news tbit William F. Parkes, or that portion of him which still lives, was found by Henry Murphy, a grave dig ger, lying unconscious upon his own grave in a remote part of the St. Ed ward cemetery, early in the morning the other day. The unconscious man. who is nearly 70 years oid, had but one arm and no leg’s whatever. A portion of his left shoulder had been cut away by surgeons’ knives. He had fallen from his little wheel chair on to Ids own grave, and had evidently lain there all night. The dead portion of Mr. Parkes’ body lies buried iu a rosewood coflin in the grave upon which he was found. He ! had ecir.e, as was his custom, to deco rate and care for his own grave, and had fainted while trying to pull a very stubborn weed. The story of Mr. Parkesand hisqueer mania is an interesting due. Half of him is dead and buried. Parkes was horn in a suburb of Detroit, Mich. When he was 20 years old he married lies; ic Woodruff, but she died a year j after he married her. Shortly after | her death lie met with his first aeei- : dint. While riding a half-broken colt one dav the animal suddenly shied and | threw him to the ground, breaking his left leg. His foot swelled and mortiliexl, and, in order to save his life, the doc- j tors amputated it. A week afterward they performed another amputation at the knee. . FISHING BETWEEN HANDS. the city limits and the fishing is the finest in the world. "Oue day I was playing billiards with Alex Megler, at the Occidental hotel, which stands on piles over the Columbia river, but on the main street of the town. I noticed that whenever it For Sfik<» €»? ! “Yen will recollect, Travis, that Hire** things come to pass in this country which pestered Luke clean down to his dvin day," I.ige Bunnels w ent on to say. “He courted the Widder Bledsoe and si." Licked Mm to marry herself <,1T with , Doe Lambert. He swapped his b g Iron gray mul*.* to Handy Stribblin for a inula that showed up with the glander: .•led died inside of a week after he made tin* trade. And one even over at ihc (To* s Hoads he lestvhis nerve and laid down three queens, whilst .Ldin An- j drew Milligan railed in the pot with a pair of tray. You nev r saw a man that was n ;re quicker and rwidy to for give and forget the past than Luke M esh*;. - , but them thru* things stuck in ids craw and troubled him powerful as ; long as he remained over here and tar- ri d around in tin* llesli. “So for the sake of pluperfect peace, Travis- in ordermert to give r* t unto tie weary—von ean tell Luke tint all thugs i< me out right in the wash in if a man ( aa only wait and s e. Doe Lam bert eome ).• me most feloniously drunk one night along in the Christmas last Wirier, and from that be didn't do a blasted i! ing but sail in and give tin* widder a genteel thrnshin jest on gen eral principles. Consequentially ill ■ they reached in the volunteer service opens up vast possibilities fora large leale<l, but n short timenfter that blood number of our public* men. Our rep- poisoning again commenced to work. it sen tat i\es at foreign courts have in After a consultation the physicians de- times past had to satisfy themselves ! eided to cut the leg entirely off. The with the plain garb of the citizen while doctors wanted to take the pieees-of the many of the representatives of other ‘ nations at the same court have dazzled the world with the brilliance of their uniforms. But now for many of our representatives abroad these days are past and they ean shine with tin* diplo matic representatives of other nations. Many of our repn sentathcSi abroad were general officers in our late war, and these will now In* jk*i mitted to ap pear upon occasions of ceremony in all the gold lace their rank entitles them to. I 1 elive that our public men who are entitled to wear a military or naval uniform should be encouraged to do so. Foreigners have been in the habit of classing we Americans as a nation of farmers and shopkeepers, and the aj)- |M'arance of American military uni- | forms in foreign courts will do much l to correct this impression. Tliere is was my turn to play Alex walked over After a month of suffering the wound 1o Hut open window and pulled on a string. Just as 1 started over to see what he was doing, he yanked a big salmon trout in through the window. He had taken up a plank in the back | only one point that might cause trouble, and to prevent this we will La ve to rdy upon the good sense of our I public *:cii. It might In* unpleasant ! for an American minister who was not entitled to the privilege of wearing a uniform to have as a swretary of lega tion a man who had seen service in the American army or na-vy, and soentitled to app*ar in the uniform of his ran!;. As I said, to remedy this vve shall have to depend upon the good sense of such a secretary should he be put in this position to pass over his Inclinations to blossom forth in all the brilliance of a uniform r.nd so outshine his : u- ■ i. yard, and, while he was playing Mil liards, was fishing. I’ve seen him many a time sit and play whist with a lish- line tied to the leg of the table. Be tween hands he would jiggle the line, haul in his fish and bait his hook. One day a sn>. 11 sturgeon took the bait, up set the table and broke up a game of , roitnce. "Whenever the people play billiards then* they Jiave to keep the door shut, for if a bail jumps the table tind goes out tin* door it is almost sure to go into the river, and the game stops until the tide goes out and the ball is recovered.’’ A GIRL PROSPECTOR. Mi«- .Struck It Uieli :.nil Now Owns n Vnylni; Mine. With pick and long-handled shove*! over her shoulder, knapsack on her back, and a pistol swinging from her "I don’t complain When the Lord Kinds rain. When the tanks in the sky run over; For the rain, you know. Makes the <-orn to grow. And gives a lift to the clover.” But tny humble friend Cube rays we’ve had ‘Irout enuf and he wants it to stop right now. "We’ve had u ’ban- dame.’' saysCobe,"and Fin afeerd.there w on't be any nubbins to feed the steers on Im-- winter and no seed talers to plant next spring.” Another one-horse farmer says be is afeerd he will make more cotton than he can get picked out. Was there ever such a bountiful erop year.’ Wheat, corn, cot bon, potatoes and fruit! Mr. Huberts, who farms on Pumpkin Vine creek, says he feels sure of l.u'JD bushels of corn front one field of ten acres—that he ean select one or two acres that will yield 12U bushels each and there are several square rods that w ill make u bushel to the rod. That would make ICO bushels per acre, if eiery rod was as gitid. Mr. Huberts ia no brag. He is a conservative, truthful man and a good farmer. Mr. Akennaa made 2..’ bushels of wheat to the aero right in tin* suburbs of the town and he has more beautiful fruit than was ever grown here before. Our market is running over with good things—ap ples. peaches, pears, grapes and melons. Old folks lose their relish for meat, hut they never get tired of fruit. I was ruminating about the kindness of Prov idence in arranging the succession to suit our health and appetite. Straw berries. raspberries, dewbi rries, huck leberries. blackberries. June apples, cherries and then peaches and grapes, with melons thrown in. and beflorelong the town will be flooded with apple*. Oh, the jelly and jam and preserves that nr: folks have put up. and the sugar that I have had to pay for. Thank good ness. 1 bought it before the McKinley Oust eornered the market. A clever republican neighbor told me that the Almighty was smiling on the land be cause good men were now in power and he quoted Scripture which said when the righteous are in power the peoplo rejoice, • "Yes,” said I, “the devil can quote Scripture to suit his purpose. David un derstood the situation when he said: *L have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green bay tree, v 11 he passed away, and lo he was not.’ ” I don’t think the Lordis paying much attention to congress or the administra tion. but He does seem to have pity ou the people, and is showering blessings upon them. There was a camp meeting story that LYING ON belt, Ida. Wilson, aged 18, left Spear fish, S. D., early this spring to mako ! <ll<l Alien Turner told when l was a boy her fortune prospecting fur gold in the country directly north of the Black g to dissect, but young Parkes insist- | jjiip,. She*was ignorant ( f tie* ver*’ A i*(l they should In-Luried. When Parkes recovered he married his dead wife’s sister, who had nursed him durii g his long illness. Parbos de ll F of the art, but ulu* /'ambled on the chances and won. Kccently sl/e re turned heavily laden with the precious i eta! r.nd sole proprietor of a claim health ami take his young bride with him. When they were half way to their d‘stinatiou the sleeping ear ran off t he truck. Parkes' other leg was crushed and his wife was killed. Parkes wasrt- r o'.cd to his lather's home and thedoc- tmade every effort to t-ave his leg, periors ia the service which he repn'- but were at length compelled to unipu- hied to go to Saratoga Springs for his | on Hed Water creek for which she re fused aa offer of $l(!,0<;o. Probably she was foolish to do this, for the place appears to be nothing more than a pocket, from which it is doubtful if idd.OUO will be takeip RHU, ns a finan cial venture, the trip was eminently successful. Already nearly has vvuldiT s! e took out paper.- of compel!- 1 :: oil :.!.d rent her dearly beloved hus- ! band to Mil on the grounds of cruelty to ;:!s. or words to that ( :;t< at. After they made a clean b"st of it. ami deeds for a g *ncraI is now the Widder ;;(*(/: ( ■ oncst more. Sin 1 holds to her I farm down in the Flat Woods, whi st :i ;i mi that 'n’t be any I too!; out quit claim so infurnai M’Anrceeu :;t. It is to. Doe Lambert is a lonely wanderer on I he face of the earth. \> to that horse trade, you can tell him th" b'giron gray ran away last summer and throwrd Handy miten his wagon and broke three j of his ribs. Handy was then iaidupfor | repairs three weeks and in the mail time tin* horse went stone blind, fell in ’ that big gully down back of tin* lot. broke his own neck and died a sad and urful death. j "Ami mow in regards to John Andr w Milligan and the bluff gainc he played tell Luke that in remembrance of old I times at d old friendship 1 have : !r:*ady paid that score my own individually ■.•If. Me and John Andrew took in the state fair together last fall, and by some hook or men* crook 1 picked the SeudiizK tlie News. ! winner every clatter—in pursuance of }ou understand, of course, I never | which John Andrew w<*!*t in Hush and to his long shore." md final home on the other > nts. A man bolding an under posi tion who would insist on doing such a tiling, no matter what his previous serv ice had been, should be n good subject for dismiss'd. I ean think of no mere pleasing sight than to see on the occasion r;f some great public ('eension our dignified sen- ■-ators and cabinet officers attired in the ( uniforms to which they are entitled. Such a scene would be a wholesome les- -on to s* :m* of the representatives of ^ foreign nations iu Washington. It would also be a lesson in patriotism to our own people. Tlie first person to avail himself of th * privilege ilms bestowed will la* Brig. (ion. Woodford, who w ill wear the uniform of his rank when officially pre sented to the queen regent of Spain. I can think of no place where the wear ing of an American uniform would In- more appropriate than at the Spanish court, and trust that Gen. Woodford may find many occasions of ceremony awaiting him at his new post. The new secretary of the Vnifed States lega tion at M' drid is Maj. Sickles, of the New York national guard, and he will also avail himself of the opportunity offered and wear the uniform of his i rank on this occasion, although the opinion of the ntton/uv-general does not affect the officers of the national guard.— Washington Ccrrospond't nee. Military Gazette, Chicago. The: avc was nil the second leg buried with could go with old man Travis in the new doctiiues which him and Luke Wesley and Lige Bunnels had worked up and belt forth, hut 1 have heard him talk along them lines for hours on top of hours. Luke Wesley he went on across threw ( years ago. and now old man Travis has ! gone to see for certain about that mur- velsome pleasant country which ha talked about so much. By this time him and old man Luke have no doubts found out what is what and whieh is whielk. Old man Lige is still tnlkin and believln nrd guessin, but they know aomethin by now. 1 ruther expect, them two old men know more to-day in re gards to things on the other side than alt the people in the round created world put together. But anyhow Lige Hunnels was tliere when Travis Waters come to die. The doctor had given up tire ease, the wom en folks had went out to cry. and I eome out busted, whilst I loaned him money enough to return back home on. Kince then John Andrew has swore off and now says he wouldn't bet two bits that his mime is Milligan. \'l Around «!ie Set I ‘Finally at last, Travis, in my own* | rn mill in way I will put you in mind of j some general settlement news which ; will be welcome to Luke. You khovv he ! rever was no great hand fortnixin and meddlln with other people, hut yet no mortal man was ever more anxious like and greedy for the news than him. "Ii'«t use to worry Luke to see the way Bob Linton and Miss Gallic Mayo had been eourtin and earryin on for years and years and years, but didn't take and marry. I nderstand Luke didn’t make out like it was any of ids business in particular, but he didn’t think it was right for them to fool the long-sufferin public forever. You can Fine American MarMea. Some of the strongest marbles in tint world come from the town of Le** in Massachusetts. They bear a weight of is.too pound* to the cubic inch. The strongest Ameri can limestone comes from Kings ton, N. Y., showing'a capacity to stand a pressure of FI,000 jMmmls to the cubic inch. Tuckahoe marble l/cars 12.0.VI pounds to the cubic inch, while the red granite of the B limit at 11.812 late it close to thabody. opened tie first. Among the boarders at an adjoining farm was Miss Bessie White. She vvn*; a consumptive and had hut one at in, the other having'been crushed t/y a fall. Young Parkes met her. '1 hree weeks afterward they were married. Parkes lived with his third wife in i Detroit for two years. Then after a lingering illness of thni' months she died. She left him $25,000 and a baby i. h i. The child's nurse, a w blow named . Mrs. Maria Lawler, was still young and handsome. Parkes fell iu love with her and soon a/skrd her to become his w ife. A few months after their marriage his father became ill, and one night, while Pari es was watching by his bed side, a servant came to Parkes’ house intoxicated, up.*-', t a kerosene lamp and .*(•{ the house on lire. Mrs. Parkesand ! the baby were sleeping' soundly and be- j fore as.d tnnee arrived they were both I suiotbci* d to death. Just as this sad j news was broi ght to Paries his father ; expired. After tig* graver, had he; n covered and the last rad words spoken, I’prkes wa placed in a lurriage to be taken to his cheerless home. As tin*car riage was crossing a railroad track the horses took fright and ran away. The carriage, collided with a tree, smashing the vehicle, Distantly killing tin* driver, ! and throwing Parkes out. breaking his I left arm in two places and crushing it. lie was curried home unconscious and when he returned to consciousness the doetorn had amputated the arm close to the shoulder. It was buried with the i ther portions of Mr. Parkes. On his second trip to the grave of his numy parts Mr. Parkes was run over by a runaway team mid his left shoulder THE NEWEST NEW WOMAN. been taken from the claim, and at least as much more is pr veticaily assured. The girl is the daughter of a:i immi grant who arrived iu the hills in a prairie schooner from tin* . **st last fall end died this spring of pneumonia. Ida was without money or means of sup port, and turned to prospecting in d; s- i* ration. She tramped ninny miles ia search of tho claim oa v.'hich she has don« so well anil took out the gold, when she finally found it, with herowu hands. Sot/n* <> ueer tii; :»;ze»: ina*. While one man ntny fall from the roof of a house and ctcajK* unhurt an other will receive u fatal injury from merely stubbing hla toe. Frank Pom- mor, a wealthy New Yorker, lost his life because some, one stepped on his foot, wan severely injured. 1 he doctors were ; poisoning following the bruise, compelled to take out a l/oue and cut , Dennis Gutnmings fi J 11 stories down away a large portion of the flesh. Tit.* an elevntor ^haft and was uninjured, ay of Fundy reaches | grave was «q..*n.*d and the bone and; Mrfl> Margaret Hyatt, of Philadelphia. Rhode Island granite lu sh placed in the coflin at Mr. Parke* /(.]] out of bed, broke her hip, and diet crushes at 17.750 pounds to the cuhL: Inch, and that of Virginia will hear 21,500 pounds, and that from the quar- i ries of Maryland PJ.750 pounds. The New England granites vary from those standards. The trap rocks of New Jer- ' scy and the dolomites of Staten Island are rated the strongest stones in the i United States, their crushing resist- | nnce being 24,0t;0 j zounds to the cubic inch. direction. didn't have nothin rl*<* todo but to look tell him they are still tnkin on a* con- aqd listen at them two old men in the slant and fervent ns ever, but with no pnrtln hour. prospects of a weddin match and the —Silver gt’t spoons with flower han dles enameled in natural colors make a pretty show. Hitmortlluary ItiilaecnzentN. A Kansas farmer who simply it ttld not get harvest hands put this sign u|>ou his fence: "Harvest hands want ed. Hired girl blonde and genial. 4'ab- x inet organ music iu the evening. Pie time times a day. Three spoons of sugar with every cup of coffee. Ham mocks, feather beds or leather divans at your option for sleeping. Rising hom ^ight o'clock in the morning. Three hours’ rest at noon. Come one, come .Til.” hip, and died of the Injury. Lost summer in Camden a man was drowned iu water that was hardly knee deep, having fallen from an attack of vertigo. Another man re mained a float In inidoeeau half a day and was rescued. Nobody can explain why things happen t;s they do. They •imply happen, that’s nil. I'neriizntlc Itizifne Gloves. Pneumatic boxing gloves are au Im provement over live old style, as they can be made hard or soft by forcing air Into their backs through a valve In the wrist. that I have not forgotten. He was preaching a bout the perils of riches and said that there was a good old darky who had a kkid hut un-Christian and. skeptical master, and he tried in his humble way to convert him, but his master only laughed at him and ono day said to him: "Now, Uncle Jack,* if the i.ord is so wise andlso good and- loves us all so much, as you say. what makes Him let Jim Austin get so rich and keep on buying more land ur.dt more niggers and mules, when you know that Jim Austin is the meanest mail) in the. county. He swindles bus neigiioors and oppresses the poor, lie drinks and gambles and curses, but everything he touches makes hint rich er and richer. How do you explain that?" "Master! master!" said Unde Jack, “dut is all jes* so and it’r becaus’ de I.ord don’t kecr nothin’ about Jim Austin; his name ain’t on de book. No, sir, dc I.ord ain't payin' no ’tei>- tion Kz him at all and <!c debil is tun- niiz’ him. No. master! 1 tell you how it is. When de fjord takes a likin’ to a man and got his name on de hook, lie don’t !et him get fat and slick like Jim Austin. Whom the I.ord loveth He chat tiseth, and dat s dc reason your gin- house git bur::"!! up and your buggy mare die. and maybe dal's why Julian take sick away off at school j ami eome home in (k* coffin. She waz* a blessed child, she was, and acems : to me dat sometimes away lade night ! hear her callin’you. Master, old Jack don't like to trouble you about dese t’ing* and be wouident if your name wasent on lie book.” I .’nclc Allen used to finish up the story- with the master's conversion and Jim Austin being killed. ih-ttcr t imes a re com ing, sure enough, but politics has nothing to do with it. Politics didn’t give us a great crop of ! i w heat and a short crop ir> Murc.pe. My.j i friend Kirkpatrick, of Atlanta, says I these revulsions in trade and prosperity. 1 go by cycles of seven years and that our cycle of distress ami disaster has about expired. He almost proven it: by reference to the past and tells how. the failure of Jay Gooke precipitated! | the panic of '73. and our trotiole lasted 1 seven years, and the failure of Haring brothers brought on the next panic and that lasted seven years. I i But vvhjBt ami cotton are filling the ; farmers’ pockets with money nod by the I time the cotton crop is marketed a rew' | era of prosperity will be fairly on. us. Within the last three months the min- i ing business has revived in our county, j and labor is in demand; nobody, neither, : w hite, or black, is going about begging! for work in this region. I haven't see* ( a tramp iu six months. The garden* ! are teeming with vegetables and the- flowers are more beautiful and roor» abundant than ever before, but .Mc Kinley dkftt’t do it, nor the fariff. nor hi a party. If they won’t undo it is all we ns<{. Just let things alone. They, nre determined to humiliate the south, but as long as the Lord smiles on us we will be content.—Bill Arp, Id At lanta Constitution.