Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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[ LANS * = VOL, ix: '' " ll$Pii?| in tho Back? j Then probably the kidneys, j In tho Ohosi? | , Then probably the lungs. q 1 in tho Joints ? Then probably rheumatism. No matter where it is, nor what kind; you need have it no longer. P It may be an hour, a day, or a year old; it must yield to Dr.Ayer's Cherry * pectoral ' piaster (Immediately after applying it yoo feel its soothing, warming, strengthening power. It quiets congestion; draws out inflammation. I It is a new plaster. , A new combination of new B remedies. Made after new ] I methods. Entirely unlike any other plaster. I The Triumph of Modern Medical Science. N 1 The Perfected Product of years of Patient Toil. B Placed over tho chest it is a powerful aid to Ayer's Cherry Pec toral in the treatment of all throat ^B and lung affections. J^B Placed over the stomach, it stops nausea and vomiting; over the dftfe bowels, it controls cramps and colic. iPU* Placed over the small of the back, N< * It removes all congestion from the { w kidneys and greatly strengthens vB weakness. \ v ' y For sale by all Druggists. , J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. l has. D. Jones, ! \ Al 1UKNLY AT LAW, LANCASTER. S. C. Office In the Courthouse. Will practice In all the Courts. Prompt 1 attention will be given all business i entrusted. Collections a specialty. COMING TODAY! > Another Carload of Fine Mules and Horses. These animals were carefully selected in person by our Mr Klliott, and i the people may rest assured that they will prove to be just what tliey ( v are loo ins: for Now, don't think j of buy ingluntil you see our new stock and get our prices .We have bought A to sell, and we are going to sell.it Jv ma es no difference what prices others , may quote you We will either sell or 1 inw swap Will sell for the oash or on | V time for good papers AND DON'T FOUGHT - - - ? xuH we are neaaquarters ror the best Wagons and Buggies on the market, i Our large sales of vehicles is the best evidence of the popularity of the standard ma es handled by us You don't have to be always running to 'V the shop with the buggies and wagons you buy from us Of COURSE YOU KNOW That we keep HARNESS of all kinds No better made than the best grades we eep in ar.?M all .and oee for yourself ELLIOTT A ft V V FORD t March IB, 1899 ~\ Registration Notice. rpiIK PUBLIC will take notice that JL the Registration BookSpWill be open, at the Courthouse, for the registration of parties entitled to register under the constitution, on the 1st Monday in each month, until HO days | preceding the next general election. WG. A. PORTER^ < Jin* 11 man iiuuru /\pgimrai ion, i.an?1?i LL 1_? i Pneumonia, la grippe, coughs, colds, , croup and whooping-cough readily yield to One Minute Cough Cure. Use J this remedy in time and save a'doctor ( bill?or the undertaker's. Crawford Bros. * ? d-w-s I ASTE LANCASTE GEN. HAMPTON'S HOUSE rOTALLY DESTROYED BY EIRE EARLY THIS MORNING. Much of the Furniture and Many Valuable Rooks Lost?The General had to be Carried From the Building. I an ? J " ^ me residence 01 ueneral Hampton, just east of the city, was burned to the ground this morning between 2 and 3 o'clock. The flamet were discovered by the sleeping inmates by reason of the smoke and heat, but luckily in time to save themselves as well as some of the furniture and household effects. The aged general has been unwell for several days and had to take to bis bed. He was unable to walk and had to be carried out of the burning house by colored men who had been aroused. The people in the neighborhood were glarnied as quickly as pos sible, and they assembled and gave all the assistance within their power, but it was evident r * ? irom me oeginmng that the building was doomed to destruction. The fire originated at about the same place it did twice recently, kitchen part, one of which incipient fires the aged warrior nimself stopped. This morning the first thought was to get him to a place ol safety. lie was carried out and placed in a chair at a safe distance away, where he sat and witnessed the flames slowly destroy his dwelling and much of its valuable contents. The neighbors in the meantime were saving furniture and succeeded in carrying away a considerable portion of it. The general had a very valuable li brary, the collection of years. Every effort was made to save as many of these books as possible, but numbers of them of great value were lost. The fire may have been of incendiary origin, though it is thought that more likely it originated from a kitchen fire. A colored woman had ut'uu ironing in me piaee (luring the afternoon and it may have caught the building from a defectixe chimney. The greatest sympathy was expressed by everybody over the seiious loss to the general, and some enthusiastic old Confeds immediately began talking of building him another house, nhowing the deep regard they have for their old chieftain. The fire was first discovered by the general, who saw a light which at first appeared to him as beifte the break of day. He hobbl,e(r to a door and found the whole house ablaze. Among the losses were some valuable historical and personal papers kept in a desk. The library consisted of about 6,000 volumes and some of the books destroyed cannot be replaced. Among them was one printed a few years after the invention of the printing press. The general had a very valuable English saddle which he used throughout the war and which he prized very highly. This was lost. About 1,000 books were saved, they being stored in another building slcje by. Much of the family lilyerware was lost. In a trunk s. R EN 8EM I-WEEKLY. rT"s.~c~saturdav were family jewels. It could not be taken out, but water was poured on. that portion of the house constantly and they were saved with comparatively little injury. There was not a cent of fnsurunce. General Hampton is living temporarily in a small house on the premises. ANOTIIKR RESIDENCE BURNED. The residence of Mrs. Dent, who lives on the Camden road a few miles from the city, was burned to the ground today. The or igin of the fire or the amount of the loss could not he learned by time The Record went to press.? Columbia Record. May 2. " ilf you suffer from tenderness or fullness on the right side, pains under shoulder-blade, constipation, biliousness, sick headache, and feel dull, heavy and sleepy, your liver is torpid and congested. DeWitt's Little Early Risers will cure you promptly, pleasantly and permanently by removing the congestion and causing the bile ducts to open and tlow naturally. They are good pills. Crawford Bros. d-w-s A City Man's Opinion of Farmers. T. It. Terry, In Practical Farmer. A month or so ago I read an article in a city daily by Matthew Marshall. I have tried to forget it, but cannot It made my blood boil so that it won't cool down. In regard to the low prices that products of the soil bring, he said it was "owing to their abundance and the low grade of the labor with which they are obtained." Wo will agree aa to the ?v i ?> -- * ' auuiiuBiiuci, mm hh in me grade 01 labor, in such countries an China, and India, and in Russia, perhaps. But it is an insult to the farmers of America to speak thus of them. "From time immemorial," says Mr. Marshal), "the men who actually plow and and sow and reap have been classed as the duIleBt, the least enterprising and the least elevated portion of the race. That there have been numerous and brilliant exceptions to the rule, especially in this country, is undeniably true. The farm has r ? - l j iurnisnea eminent men in mauy linen, but the multitude out of which these peculiarly gifted geniuses have emerged, were and are considered below the rest of the community in intellectual ability, The product or mechanical laboi embody more skill than those of labor devoted to agriculture, and accordingly command a higher price in the market. The more intelligent part of the population of every civilized country drifts steadily away from its agricultural districts and concentrates itself in the towns and citiee. Not only is agricultural labor hardei and more exacting of time thar that required for mechanical and commercial pursuits, but its internals are less brightened by re creation. The laborer on a farm at the busy seasons of the yeai begins his toil early in the day and ends it late. When the idle season comes he has to vegetate with little or no occupation, and at all seasons his evenings and holidays have to bo passed with the scanty amusements that his own restricted home affords. The dweller in a town, on the contra* ry, earns his wages with shorter hours of labor and spends thorn more agreeably." Unimportant sentences were fTERP MAY 6, 1899". ROYA Absolutely > I - - - 1 Mokes the food more deli I HQVAL BAKtWO POWtM left out of the above, otherwise it is just as printed. So the multitude out of which some gifted men have been sent to the city is considered by this city man as below the rest of the community in intellectual ability. Well, that reminds that Success, bright magazine published in N. V., says that "cities are the graves of the physiques of our race. If towns were not constantly recruited from the country the constitutions and intellects of their inhabitants would rapidly decline vigor." History shows Success to l-e right. In the long run constitutions and intellects are built up best 111 the country. Would that you could \ stand and watch the al most count j less thousands of human beings, ; old and young, male and female, 1 that hurry aemss the ferries, to ! and from New York, morning s^id night; and of course the elevated lines carry other thousands. On ; every face one sees rush and care and worry, but nothing to indicate that their hours of leisure , were spent so agreeably as Mr. i M. tells of. The truth is M. is contrasting the privileged few in the i city with the mass in the country, loll us, Mr. M.,how very few of the people in N. Y. own their own homes; scarcely enough of the | great multitude to be worth mentioning. But never mind; if they only live in a city their life is ideal. The great mass of farmers, Mr. M.. own their homed nnn homes surrounded by sunlight and shade, and pure air and quiet, a blessed place for old and young. When you speak disparagingly of our farm homes you show either great ignorance or a wilful desire to belittle us in the eyes of our city brothers. When the heat of the pavements and brick blocks gits simply unendurable in the city, then the privileged few. who are able, are glad enough to come > out to spend a few months with i "the dullest and least enterpris. ing and least elevated'' part of the human race. But the great multitude have to toil on, scarcely existing for weeks and months. And then that greater skill de veloped in factory and shop. Yes, " it tends to raise people intellecti ually to do one thing right over and orer, year in and year out, i doesn't it? To stand behind the t counter selling one kind of goods. - to attend one machine in factory, i whether it is making button holes 1 or turning wood or iron, to run an electric car or typewriter, or keep books, etc. The man in the i country who rides a gang plow, * and corn planter, and grain drill ' and binder, and potato planter i and digger, and other such comvvl l/t A f A/1 f/V/vln A */! ? 1- 1 ' - , jnn..niru IUU13, KUU UD9 HM1I IU USD 1 them successfully, has less intel1 ligence, has he, than the man in i tho shop who year after year i works making one piece in one > tool? And then the successful . American farmer now has to study the composition of soils, of i manures, of cattle foods. Lie must be able to test the milk of i his cows and understand the % RISE. " NO 14 Leaking . Powder IIRE icious and wholesome m CO., wgw von*. principles ot breeding, tie must ttuow a hundred aua oue things, iuU have executive ability enough to put them lulu practice, oh LiiLie, aud lake the mailer as it ;ome. Hub ib what develops intellect, ana makes ihe men who to Uio city hold and succeed. 31 obi ui the wealthy men in the :it?es to-day got their traiuiug on me laroi, as 18 Well known. "The beauty amusements that us own restricted home ailords." Do not country people go to town, and do they uot have lecLore courses, and sociables, and and 1 armors' clubs, and reading ;ircles and graugesl And do not neighbors come in olteu and have x social good lime? Saloons and theatres may uot be as handy as in ihe city, I'll admit. And, perhaps, at lueir parties there is not as much lull dress, or lack of dress, as in city, but there is as much right good enjoyment. In ihe opiuion of some people a man is better otf at home with his wife and childreu alter his day's work is done than at a club, driuking aud carousing, etc., until the small hours ot the morning. This chance has the city man, but how much character ^building is there connected with it? How much does it raise him in intelligence? You certainly should not call us farmers the least elevated portion ot the race because we are quite tree from such questionable amusements. There are some good things in the city that we miss ; our social life is not always as lull as could be wished for, but much that is to be had in the city, although agreeable perhaps to many, is not countenanced to any extent by the most intlligent people. It is doubtful whether the dweller in town earns bis wages with shorter hours of labor if lie really succeeds. Genuine success has to be worked for, and hard, too, whether in town or country. It is the exception, not the rule. The Philadelphia Record stated last fall that of the 22,000 who die in a year in that city only about 3,300 have any property to leave their heirs, and of these few a large number of estates range in value from $50 to 41.000. Now T think, whan cnn take iuto account that the farmera generally own their homes, and the greater physical and intellectual stamina their countryraised children possess, we can leave the above record behind in almost any section. On the farm is no place to get great wealth, but that is not always real success. Now, do not understand me as wishing to run down city people at all. We are all one brotherhood, or should be. We cannot well do without them. They cannot exist at all without us. Such articles as Mr. M.'s convey a wrong impression to our city friends. Thy are not loyal to the farmers of America. Give us credit for the brilliant sons we have sentyou and our multitudes will never compare unfavorably with yours. But we care not for that; do not try to belittle the great industrious class of farmers that has made your great cities nossible. and from which von roust draw freely to keep up your physical and intellectual stamina. When we overdo the matter and feed you with cheap bread, and suffer ourselves, don't try to console us with the statement, in substance, that our low grade of intellectual ability is getting all it earns. I have a plow much of my life, but must drop it for a pen when countty men are slandered.