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, LaN Vol. XII. 1A Golden of Agriculture: Be good to your land and your crop will be good. Plenty of j Potash in the fertilizer spells quality | jV . > and quantity in the hue-. jJ f vest. Write ua and ArajStpj r we will send you, jr fr??t by next mail, rj our money winning oekman kali wohks. NEGRO FIEND KILLED IN * KERSHAW. Plucky Woman Kill* Her Aasailaijt in SelLDctenMJ. Special to News and Courier. Camden, Not. 21.?There was a killing in West Wateree, about twelve miles from Camden, Wednesday night that will be gener ally approved. Ned Kendrick, a kjvw mill negro, went tp the home of Mrs. Mary E. Elliott, a very industrious white w?man, be tween 0 and 10 o'clock, armed with a pistol, a double-barrelled shotgun and an axo. Mrs. El liott antf her son, Alien, a boy about 19 years of age, were alone. ^ Kendrirk shot his pistol in the yard and called Allen ; told him just to show his head out of the house and he would shoot it oil". Mrs. Elliott recognized the voice and called to the negro and asked why he was going on in the w?y he was. lie cursed her and dared her to show herself, threatening to kill her it she came out. The supposition is that the object of the negro was to murder the boy and commit an outrage nnnn ^ T C11 <?>f? wj'vn iHn:, i.Hil" V The brute started to break the door down and enter the house. Ashe got the door down Mrs. j Kilinit caught hint and tried to t keen uio< i j t' (I k'i'unti OoT non Allen Llliott is a tall, afout youngj follow .;a 1 ho g-fcbW .1 the n,groj by the throat and chf>ked him ^ find, with ihe aspistnnre of hiB I mother, got him 1 ' in th? yard, J the negro f t i 11 bolting on to his gun and j'isioi. When they got j the negro down Mrs. Elliott' wrenoiuri tit?j pi :loi irom las, j grasp aim used In hutt c iid on the negro's hoad until he was j unconscious. bhe then cot n; huge ro<!; and proceed ml to make) rniuco meat out of the negro's head "'trs. Elliott's net wmh a struggle for life and she succeed ed in saving hor hoy and hersedf and killing tho scoundrel. Mrs. Eliot t has *1 toggled through; novert v to rair#> hor nnlv ?fin a;ui is a good and industrious oiuun. 11 you are hiliou* and seeking advises Take IVWilt's hittle l.arly iliser* $ .lust heforo going to bed. You will tirid on Hie morrow? That's nil: ! ??? cm i^h aid /t h ?i famous jnii-> do ?>of gr:{ l u? _ move the bowels gently and easily, ^ thereby cleatiM x d Iiv* r. TI > >ntr erect gives tdrength to thei + nd p. . ii i ' :i rt turn o( ti.sor.ier Ci.. ..lord hroe /AST E LANCASTER, S .WHO INYENTEI) THE ALPHABET. Bill Arp Tolls About its Origin and the Needs <>i Country Schools. Atlanta Constitution. I am very much perplexed to know what to do for the country boys and girls. Of course they can get a little schooling under the present system, hut t^at will be only in text books of reading, writing and arithmetic. What they need is books of reference that will answer their many questions. Every mail brings me letters wautiogto know things that they cannot learn in their country schools. Their teachers cannot tell them nor their neighbors. Of course not more than half of them care about knowing anything outside of their school hooks, but the other half,do, and on that half depend the culture and progress of our country. Why should those boys and girls hare to ask me and Joel - Chandler Harris and John Temple Graves and others so many questions? When they inclose a stamp 1 answer all I can, but these young people need books that they can refer to. If Mr. Carnegie would place iu every country school a standard cyclopedia such as Appleton's sixteen volumes of universal knowledge or Dodd, Meade Co's International of sixteen volumes, the young people would have a library thut would answer all their questions. Add to this Appleton's Koven volumes'of American biography and a country youth cau get an education without anything else. A young farmer in Alabama asks mo what books. he mupf buy lo improve liiH mind and store up knowledge by road ing and studying at night. Weil, it, will take near $1(10 to buy the Above named books and he had better skip all over the moderu | trash that does nothing but outer-1 tain end amuse, and strain hie. j farm and his cattle and everything to get that hundred dollars, i I think he could g? t them from VVanani ' k -r for .'tT" Nun*, of ccprac, a b >y ? i g'?I| unt yet in their teens would pre-! ; book . to Huit their age, and I thev ought to havo them. I Rtill! treasure with derr:h' my enjoy n cut ..?f simh book" m "lldiins.on ' flUnn a A r Li o -? V ? 1? - * - - - W. ?M U'Matl Ullli | J tile* Visrne'rt wo.Kh. ''bwien' * ? Family Robinson" and some of Srott's novp'iH, like "llob Koy*'| ioiI Kopilwor^h " Children rn\>P*! hav-? emph yment Ah they gro^ op th'*v lo^t have knowledge,' for as Lor I Bacon huh! knowledge! if* power, and Lord Brooch man I paid, "1 had rather trust the' schoolmaster to perpetuate this, government than all t.!io armies. of England." Now. here jh h vonth tvhe writ.PH to me to know who in j vented the alphabet!. Well, that ingoing afar back, but ll 18 a qucBtic n that Rhould bo aii8wer<*d for the alphabet i8 the very bo-j pinning of koow'edrro The a! 1 phabet goes uwuy back 1 thousand years bofore Mopos wasl born. The Phoenicians made the irst one that wo know of. I hoy! liv"d in a narrow region that lies between Palestine and Svr;a. a' it - 1 11 a * 11 ^ MLCi 0? i\ Eh . C., WEDNESDAY, NC 20 miles wide, and yet they dominated the civilised world for 8 thousand years, for they had control of commerce and manuf&c tures and the gold of Ophir and the silver of Tarbhish and the brass and copper of other landf were all theirs, and it was a facl that as Isaiah wrote, "Silver hat heaped up a dust in the street* and was plentiful than irou.' Hiram, the king, was the friend of Solomon, but a thousand year* before their time these I'hoeneoinna had made an alphabet and us6d it in writing and engraving But that alphabet has passed away. - In course of time the Grecians^ Conquered Phoenecii and the Greek language prevail ed. Their alphabet is the origir | of ours, the very word being com I pouuded of the first two letters alpha and beta. Just as the I'hoeneciau language was lost and went into disuse just so haf the Greek and Latin language been abandoned, and our Eng lish will no doubt be the lan eu?ge of the civilized world before this century ends. Nearly a hundred years ago an Englishman by the name ol Jauies Smithson, bequeathed tc the United States something over a million dollars to be used to promote the diffusion of knowledge among men. That sum has been increased by onr government from year to year, until now the Smithsonian institute ie one of the wonders of the world, But you canuot see it unless you go to it, and the rich and the members of Congress can do that The common people are still ir the woods, and that is why 1 wish Carnegie or some other philanthropist would do something foi our rounTry scnoois. I tie ppiril of congress is doing; well in th towns and cities. Right liore in Curtersville our good women have organized a public library as an attachment to their clut work. The corner stone will b* laid next Snfnrday, and ! haw been honored with ail invitatim: to upheave the first shove) full ol oHrrh, which I shall certainly dc if I am strong enough to lift th chovf!, I fcol o interest this educationsi work and nope to live lor:^ enough to sen it ir successful operation iNot. Ioqj npo a lady asked mo who design . i tJ?f Confederate flag and wh 1 ' BUppo.itsd our Menu.riai Da;. W'oen our library is well sup piled they wiii not have To asli these questions, but will go thor< and tind out. Hut I ?rus* stop r "? fo- re".r 1 will not only overtax mv bodih rrerpth, but will atrain my n":U' besides. liill Arp. 4 NtnrtliiiK *>iir|irln'. Very few could believe il Sookiup at A. T. lloadely, u heal thy, robust blacksmith of 1 iidei: li)dM that for ton yearn he sutler od m.'oh tortures from Ithcuma lism as few could endure hiiC live. Hot a wondorfui chaos:" followed his taking Klectrir Hitters. "Two bottles wholh cured me'' lie writes, ' ami I hevt r lit ielt ft twifi je if over a vent They rep u lute tholvduoyn, purity the blood end cure Rheumatism N"ur' ' 'in. .!t rv usee's, improve dices u>:i and pi vo perfect health Try ti m. Only 50 cts. at Craw r- 1 Hros u I .T T;' Mnckey A s w ) ui un otui e. ITERF )VEMBER 26, 1Q02. LA KU EST MAN IN THE WOULD 1 Edward Beauper in a (iiant at Twenty One. ' (From Jthe Chicago Chronicle) ' Kankakee, ill, November 18 ? | Edward Beauper, who is visiting ( relatives in Kankakee and who , is about to visit friends in Chicago, > is said to bo 'ho l?r(ri)<lt man in I the world, lie is 8 feet 3$ i inches tall, weighs 370 pounds, . wears a No 10 hat, a No 22 shoe I and a No 21 collar. His chest measures is 56 inches. He is ' 21 years old and was born near Winnipeg of French-Canadian parents, whoso statures were not above the average. "Where did 1 get my height?' asked Beauper, repeating the j question of a friend to day. t4Je t ne saib pas," and he shrugged i his massive shoulders. , "Am I strong in proportion to . my size?" he went on ; "well, . well you may decide." With the remark he walked out of a local restaurant into the street, i threw one arm around the body of a farmer's horse and lifted the ? animal off his feet. When Reauper was 10 years i old he was 6 feet 4 inhes tall. "The fact enabled me to escape i one thing few boys do escape," remarked the giant when comment was made on his early 1 growth. "My father's clothes was ' never cut down to fit me. lie was only 5 feet 8." For a time Reauper was a cow| boy in Montana. His size wne ( too great for the horses ho had to . | ride, so he gave up the occupation. -1 During his cowboy experiences a t pony kicked him and broke hin > jawbone, leaving a bad scar. Hut 1 for this he would be as handsome I as he is strong. In hotels he has ! to sleep on the floor because the *! beds are to short for him; in sleep. , iiig cars he utilizes two upper !be?ths. "I get along all right," | said he, except tor one thing?1 . am so big the girls are all scared ' i >t seeing tne an 1 I have not yet i found me a sweetheart " II Catr.rrh Cnn:\ct tie Cured ! with local apple-*fions, as they cannot r<'.Hch the seat r?f tin- rtiscjw, '"airrfi j* a blood of court it iitional t|i t and .. oi ler .o .?oii a.i : r:\k internal remedies. ilall'si'Htarrli ' <'i!r* is taken int? rnaily, anil act* ifi! reel.3 on the hinoii and iiiiicnu- -nrtaI ccs Hall's Catarrh t'ure is not a ' I (jiiack medicine. It was prescribed by on<? of the In >t physicians in 'to 1 country for years, and is a regular pre- -ripti f, 11, is soil posed ot the itcsi tonus known, conihined \vi?h the hesl tilood purifiers, acting directly ' n the :inu-<,us sut iac? s. The j crieci >ii>l)iiiHHnn ol t!i" (uo ingredients is what produces such wonderful re suits in curing < 'afttrrh. .Send for t?*s; t iinonials t ree. K .1 CI1K.VKY ? ?>., f'rnps., Toledo, <>, , > >U5 bj h.I tit Heists, price 7?"?c. Hall's Family Fills are the best " I j Abdul llaiuid, Sultan of Turk. 1 o.v, hAts just celebrated his 60th i j birthday. Thirty four Otiiman'f ' have reigned in Turkey and the. | j longest roign was lean than fifty t [ yearn, S ily man ? hmnnp a?t upon > I the throne from 1520 to 1566, ' Only one Sultan in the 10th cen Jturv, on'y one in the 1 Sth piv! onl, one in tile 1 7th ruled longer t.h ? i Abdul erd most of hif ipitdi.'e sor' have been "lain j. tt iti chains before then frien ' 'RISE. No. $7 1 In every town ' L and village may be had, < Mica 1 Axle v p Grease that makes your * horses glad. < - Tifie were able to wish them tnany happy returns of then 60th birtb day. WANTED?Every pernon tlist in siilFering with asthma. to send 25 cent* for a large dollar hnttte ?of 1'ikrck's Asthma Cukk Nature's Remedy Co., nl9-02-lry Washington, IV C. In his book, "The Struggle Between Boer and Brito," en DeWet reproaches England for provoking the war aud for 04mmittingcruelties in conducting it, but does not spare his own peobio, of whom he says that n*A>le characters were extremely iftre among the fighting Boers. Stupidity , cowardice, lack of discipline, faithlesness and abominable treason were to be met with among thorn to an appalling degree. Had there not been so many traitors in their own camp tho Boers weuld never have been bo utterly defoated. Nlartlinc, Tint True. 1 "If every one knew what a grand medicine I)r K'ng'? NewLitelnlls is," writer D. H. Turner, Denapseyrown, IV , "you'd sell ?!! jnu have in a day. Two week#' uce has made a new man >' me." Infallible for constipation, stomach and liv*>r troubles. 25c at Crawford Bros and .). F. Mackey j cVr Co'ii. drugstore. EJr. E. 5. WloDow, PMYSICIPN (iN.J SUIICKON, ' Soiitli ^ide Catawba Bouse, ) y t I p-Stairs. + + + \ ?" ,,, f> ,M. t Offices Open Day SVloney to Loan. j| V.N' A liKCK.N 1 \l-ll Id N 11 \V ? " Y, rk ('ity I i.i prr?" 1 is j by which I ran nejfntmil1 bonis of j fi.oo.Uo ami iipvaPiiK on lir.-t murt...... i mi i ' - if ; |.?. . i otc. o. -i. in . o I ) o\cr. al??S > jut . ilit t ? .,n so of lr?.- ? h*i * h 11 it x i.r:jI in.--ion ( r hroKcrntfc uhnrifetl?onlj h ri Isoi shit* 1 fill i I r ict of I I' :s, 1 K Will??, A 111 rii"> -:il I .n*. . . lbi..t -ii s ;? 2!, >: i. \\m YOHK LIFE p()i iry The new business written by the NKYV YORK I Lll-'li during the first six 'months of this year was I more than ^150,000.000 paid-for business. This i surpasses the record of anything ever done by any company except Uic : Vov'C I ifc. A J. C!.ARK, Act I ' r> -