The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, December 13, 1893, Image 4
the. smartest wlfo in tho wcld[^H
would work niyHolf to death for a
but ho seldom talkod or potted mc
was too busy with hi8 farm work. "V
Thatsocond winter a baby came, and I
tho young German wldow'who stayed
with mo six months said It was the
prettiest boy sho ovor saw. I thought
It looked liko Clem, und of course lie
thought It was my imago, tiko all
? young mothers 1 was easily frightened,'
and I think I had somo cause, for tho
doctor was fifty miles off. I mav liavo
been overanxious, but the lirst shadow
that came botween Clom and nie was
his Indifforencc to my worries about,
baby. Ho would laugh at niennd'go
about his work, while I carried {he
child all day soothing its fretting.
That summer I was not strong, und
may have been as Clem said, ''hys
terioky."
\ Clom grow broad shouldered and
manly, bronzed with ruddy health and
?lifo: but I was weakly and drooping,
with haggard oyes and hollow cheeks.
saw It plain enough, and I Jrad no
^Jfjjjition to alter my shabby?{riwiis to
lit iTifey "ttOJj.,.1(1 look neat." I I grew
slatternly and careless. Was I to
blame ? I had to cook for two men,
tend a sickly baby, and wash and iron.
AIT day long the lierce sun beat down
upon our little home, where the kitchen
was like an oven and tho bedrbont still
ing.
i was on my feet from sun up to sun
down. For somehow I never learned
to got through with work, it was always
ahead of me.
Thon Clom would say, "You are
gotting cross, little woman, you seem
. go spiritless. Are you sorry Unit you
married me? Your life is rjo harder
than any rancher's wife endures. It
will only last a short time, then wo
can got hotter things and some one to
help you." That to mo when I had
novor complained.
He gave all his love words and pott
ing to baby, now, and I used to wonder
in dumb despair why it was,<?>. Was
it that ho had changed or I ?
? * * * * I *
Tho third summer Mr% France
came. Sho was the widow of a cattlo
, king who owned all the land about us
?..but cur little homestead. Slio had
boon in Europe, but usually spent her
summers at hor ranch ten ?ni es from
my home. I was washing thai morn
ing onsho shady side of the houso,
when I Heard tho sound of a horse's
hoofs, and a handsome woman, with
bold, black eves canio dashing around
thohoutto on^ (lno thorough hi cd mare.
I noticed heV perfectly, fitting habit
her cquisite gby*s ui.v.-...t., ber beuuti
ftll face. No need tointroducohorsolf;
from >lrs". Mohm?the .German widow's
description?I knew my vtioitor was
Mrs. branee.
" I thought I'd find somebody " after
a whllosho said : " Wh?-reg Clom V"
" He went over on tho niDro to soo
after his sheep at daylight,' f-stain
morod.
" Aro you his wife ?''
" Yos. ' I was possessed tlon with a
mad jealousy of her, and I tftnndorod If
(Mem knew hor woll. He Sad never
said a wt.rJ. Just then Clem caino
galloping up.
" Corrigan said you were bore," ho
said eagerly : "I sent my man on and
cam o back. Are you well '? Of course,
you are?the picture of health."
She laughed merrily, showing hor
{iretty teeth, while ho lifted her off
ier horse, and thoro I stood with my
hands In the suds llko a s. rtib woman.
"This is my wlfo, Mrs. Franc,"
said t'iom: then be looked actuilly
ashamed of me. I felt it. Iaickily
the baby cried and 1 ran into house.
? i !'?'??>? i von wie married Clom."
I heard hor say, "I was talking to your
Wile." *
In my anger I fanclod there was a
touch of ridicule in hor tone. ? I sat and
rooked tho baby and listond to their
tall: In the other room, nnd once in a
while I would feel a sob rising in my
tbro.tt. After an hour ( lern camo out
to ink me to cook a nice dinner, for
M ? ''Vance would stay.
"XI y up a little, Molly," he said, ;
I; He on
Ri rny
Hri icy
HRhom.
Hp I am
Bi her.''
?* I don't
?hat you
I shall :'n
ly will do
Iflfty-tnile
link ho is
fc oIT tho
I I ?hall
? ho could
pby in my
ent, then
moh hud
and roilo
ho misery
I cannot
|ck horror
i BttW my
short day.
Kittend in^
It's of an?
Bmi ho ro
K of more
P i do not
It av cased
Fd action,
I of baby's
jWjlng when
Huis going
Hffhnttcr of
Hjh a taunt
nn the day
Bid jumped
HJiiin out of
Hp bed room.
jjP packed
HT>r und flung
HJ( >lscn i was
und might
HR-tcd for her
HTt he could no
HnaMi und struck
HJu trail that led
HTnio miles beyond
HP Clem often wont
HFn when ho was on
Kf on. ovor lovol land,
Hnmcl sage brush, then
HFi went over rolling
Bflike mounds, and then
BWuto a valley, Dry Creek
SJHHT did not stop to eat or drink;
Hyc; there was no water for miles.
H^fyts terribly hot, tho air was close
~~ Xstilling, and the few scorched wil
VwP along the sandy creek bed afforded
Jno sholter at at all. I noticed early in
the afternoon wagon tracks whore a
team hud como down tho low banks into
tho creek bed.
I .saw that some one was ahead of
me. There was. I knew, farther on,
an old, abandoned runeh where emi
grants often stopped. 1 begun to feel
fear now. 1 remembered I was a wo
man and alone, but I hoped they woidd
have crossed the canyon and gone ovor
tho hills to this place. I kept, on.
determined not to give up soon. Once
when T looked back timorously,
frightened by thouwful stillness of the
canyon, I saw tho heavens were dark
nhd angry.
kSooU dull thunder peals echoed from
th'o hills und a sharp Hash of lightning
dazzled mo for a moment. 1 know ono
of those suddon and terrible thunder
storms peculiar to a mountainous
'?cv.ntry was upon me. i believe half
of my uhhappfnoBs at the ranch was
caused by the fact that I had to stay
alone in thunder showers, and the
terror 'they inspired then will never
leave inc. As the roar grew louder,
the light more vivid, I began to long
for human companionship. I prayed
I might Und tho wagon and a woman
in h. and I planned a story to tell the
people that would pxplain my strange
appearance. 1 ran faster all the
while- with the energy of a terrible
despair.
The air grew close and murky, tho
sky overcast, tho clouds low-hanging,
and a strange, moaning wind swept
down tho canyon, rustling the scatter
willows. A few raindrops pattered on
my shoulders and I wished for my
shawl that in my excitement I had for
gotton to take. I heard the rattle of
whools'and just aheud as T turned a
bend in tho creek, I saw a wagon
going rapidly down tho canyon. The
ul'Iyer?-a man?was sitting with bowed
head and did not heed my frantic calls
till I was eloso to him. Ho reined in
his horses and looked back. " Molly |M
lie crfwd.
In my fright and haste I had re
cognized neither team nor driver. I
stood and looked ut him in miserable
dismay, yet I wus glad, too, for tho
thunder storm was very present and
real, and my running away was alia
miserable luturo. At least Clem
would bo with mo now, if we never saw
ouch other again.
"Where wore you going?" ho said,
coldly.
A hasty answer rose to my lips:
arrested at tho instant by the strange
expression on Clom's faco. Ho was
looking up tile canyon: 1 turned and
saw far above a dark lino like a num
ber of cattle crossing the creok bed.
The rain was coming now in groat,
swift sheets, while the thunder re
verberated over the far-away hills ami
tho lightning flung its red glare across
our white faces.
Clom ran to the horses, cut their
harness and struck thorn with tlio
whip. "It'll givo tho poor beast.i a
chance.'' ho said, as they galloped
across the sand. Them be caught mo by
tho-arm.
" Run for your lifo," ho cried, drag
ging mo along.
Abovo the rour'of the tempest there
was another sound, steady Mud coming
nearer. A feurful crash(ng of Waters,
like Niagara, dropped uuddontly down
in a quiet landseupo. 1 looked up tho
creek and saw a dnrk moving mass,
with u curious motion no ono can de
scribe. It hud not th ? smooth full
ness and onwnrd rush of an ocean
wave, but rathor a mad dunco. It
bad no whito crost nor shining stir
fiico ; it was black und oily, like mud
in \\;avos, and came with 'tremendous
voloeity.
Ahead of us mid-st^roam was a littlo
mound that had been part of the
eastern shore, probably separated by
just such a flood, and thitncr.wo ran.
Cn tho U . nd were a.number ol cotton
oods, on j old ginnt that nniAt havo
enotrated to some bidden spring, for
ts folia;? was green and bright,\Tha
Iii 3 ?ji H^s root* had boen washed
'?5;/' I Hg Bouiu of them exposed,
- ?j| HKuik wo climbed was so
I Hyielding that a great mass
. .. ,. mV* aarth fell after us as wo
I Bp up. The Island was four or
j| ?' ^Phi;>iu-r than theereek bed and
- - ^vhcd its shore just in time, for
Mr, there was a dirty scum, pres
Hnf the torrent, hissing over tho
Hrhot sand.
Hfl< in pulled me \\\> Into the bijr tree,
Hrl just us ho did so a wavd, all of ten
Kot high; leaped upon us. It reared
Straight up Into the air, hurling tim
ber dead cows, a pail from some
rancher's door, a woman's hat and a
chair. I thought, as these things
whirled by, had anyone else beon sur
prised, too, and would wo go floating
in ghastly guyoty down that black
river? Close behind this wavo canto
a second one, and tho two chased each
other in diabolical merriment; thoy
churned up the sand, dug great black
^hollows hot ween each other and went
tumbling along, followed by a foam
ing stretch of water, too swift for waves
In Its pell-mell haste.
As the water rose Clem dragged mo
?further up the tree, both of us wot and
shivering.
Around us as far as wo could soo was
a wide world of dark waves, boiling,
rolling, hurrying on. There was a
strange fasciuation in it, too. I knew
ifo swimmer could breast that awful
current: that tho teachcrous sand
would drag him down, liko a giant
armed oltopus, yet there was such a
swift motion of water, such a rolicking,
dancing glee, such a whirling of air
and shore, that one wanted to join the
procession and hurry along, too.
Tho waves wore full of rotten tree
trunks and debris of a wooked hillside,
showing tho clouds had come down
some mountain side somo miles away,
and with the trees were homely house
hold utensils and furniture, a calf and a
washtub that sailed jovially along till
it struck a timber and succumbed. I
bad seen our wagon disappear on the
crest of tho first wave, but I was sure
the horses were safe. Then I began
to think of ourselves. Tho tree was
swaying perilously, the water seething
madly about its roots.
"Is it still rising?'' 1 jald to Clom,
who answered Yes," quietly holding
me tight all the while.
" Don't let mo go !" I cried pitoously,
" at least lei, us dio together." 1 be
came aware that ho held mo very
close and was brushing the wet hair
oil m.v face.
" 1" wleh l had my coat," ho said
tenderly, "that poor littlo dross of
yours is so thill. How you tremble !
Do I hold you too tight? Is this tho
ond of your martyrdom, I wonder ! Door
Molly I your married life has been ono
long torturo."
" It would not have been if you had
loved me," 1 said, and then I told him
of all my troubles that I hud hoarded
up and gloated over as a miser does
his gold. 1 told him of the saddlo ho
promised, the many other little acts of
neglect, of things that go to muke up
the sum of a woman's happiness'; his
indifference to baby's sickness and my
own woes. " 1 hail no friend,'' I stam
mered. " no one to bid mo have hope
and t.ako up heart again. Ob. Clem,
there are more tragedies in the home
ly everyday life than will ovor bo
written in books or understood by
men !"
I saw his faee droop, his mouth
quiver, and then I felt a sob rise in his
breast. Clem crying?the greut,
strong man ! I could not bear that.
'* Forgive me. I was wrong," I said.
" I fancied ail this. You did not mean
it." Hut he only muttered, " Blind !
Blind I"
Still tho flood wont on : still tho dark
waters encompassed us about, till 1
thought. "Verily, the "floodgates of
heaven are opened.'' Then, as tho old
tree rocked and writhed in the torrent,
Clem told mo simply and honestly,
that he had not understood.
Ho thought I was contented, and he
was not used to the little caresses that
como natural to other men ; he had no
mother or sister?dear, quiet old Clem
?to teach him. Hut he was bitterly
sorry, and he thought from my ravings
after baby died, that 1 hated htm and
blamed him for the child's death. It
was so good to hear him reproach
himself and to have him kiss me in
that passionate grief, that I was in
* different to tho Hood or the future.
For a moment wo were silent, and
looking into his (b ar face, 1 mercifully
did not sco tho coming wave, but 1
heard the l?undor roar echoing the
far-away thunder peal and coining
with the crash of a gale in a pine
forest, or tho breaking of the surf on a
rocky coast. There was one swift
moment of agonized expectation when
it washed over use. bending the treo to
its level, but it went on and tho treo
did not follow.
1 remember Clem kissed me and said
ho thought the water was going down,
but somehow I did not hood. I think
1 fainted. When I did begin to realize
again, tho Hood was quite low, gone as
swifly as it came. Only a muddy
brook oreeplng down the sandy creek
bed where a might river had been :
tho sun had come out bright and warm
and the storm was past.
What havoc and desolation the
storm caused was recorded in all the
papers, but our deaths wore not among
tho disasters. I fancied that great
volume of water roaring on to the
l'lutto River, swelling its tido to
wash the shores of sandy plains and
fertile meadow lands far to the turbu
lent Missouri, ending at lust in a shin
ing blue sea, the great Gulf of Mexico.
" Shall I carry you. little tliin thing?''
said Clem.
"You might slip," I said, bo hand
in-hand, like two children, wo crossed
the slippery land to the ranch two
miles away. On the hill by the creek
I saw oi-r wagon bottom up, and by the
ranch '*vo found our horses feeding
quietly. Luokly, Clem's matches- in
the silver case 1 had given him long
before, we were married?were dry.
and we built up a fire in the fireplace
in the log cabin. When 1 stood there
to dry my elothes I look my treasures
OUt Of my wet pocket and put them by
tho lire. Clein came. In with some
wood and saw them. Ho stooped
down on one kneo and took them in his
hand.
"1 was running away when I saw
you," I said, determined to keep no
more secrets from him,
He looked up at mo and said slowly :
"1?I was running away myself.' J
thought you haled ine.I sold tho
ranch to Mrs. France-good business
woman -moan, though -haggled a
year ubout-d.be paice?f?.OOO. I was
going to mail you the particulars and
she would pay yon. One of those
visitors of hers has olfeu^d mo a place
on his big cattle ranch in Texas- I
was going there. You have had four
years of misery?the money would pay
yon a little, and you could go home?
I would not trouble you any more?
Wrot ! this in a letter.
"Can I see it Clom?"
" It was carried off in my coat?pro
bably on its way down the Matte now?
letter was hard to write??nearly broke
my heart?told Olsen to look out for
you?waS going to send tho team back
so you could getaway all right? came
down Dry Dock Canyon?afraid I'd
moot Mrs. France and her crowd."
j Ho spoko in quick, jerky sentences,
'coking at my treasures; be turned
thorn over in bis hand ami looked up
at me. " Flftoon dollars, the photo
graph of a man who rninod your life
and?-a dead baby's shoo I wonder if
tho l'llgrlm entered the gates of
Paradise with so light, a lo:ul ?
"Clom." I cried, "it is heaven now
If you will love mo and forgive me."
lie jumped up and t<x>k me in his
arms. " Mlserablo cowards that wo
wore, Molly, running away from euch
other, too silly and Drond to toll ??ach
other tho truth. Shall wo begin all
over again?lot mo win you once, more
ap'l keep you, pet?"
It did not seem like sober. Indif
feihi clem at all, this eager, pas
stonato lovor. It was vory doar to mo,
I had starved for love so long'.
'' And you will tako me to Texas ?'' I
cried.
"Of oourso," ho laughed, " we are
just married, are we not? and no more
ranches for mo of my own : somebody
else can do the work ; its beyond us,
too. We don't want to be rich we
want to be happy.
While wo stood there haud-in-hund,
like two young lovers, we heard a loud
rattling and thero came Olsen und
r.nliin. driving ut full speed across the
prairie. Mrs. B?hm had come over to
spend the day with me, and then Olson
knew I was gone sumo other way. He
borrowed her team and went to iind
mo. Ho traeked my steps to tho
canyon, and tho double tracks across
the mud to the ranch. Luckily he hud
missed tho Hood.
" My wife h? going to Texas with
me," said Clem proudly. Tho doar
fellow hud sulfored, knowing Olsen
knew how unhappy wo were.
"That is good," said Olson in his
slow way, " for Mrs. B?hm and mo are
ugreed to get married, and I could not
go with you."
Later Clem und Olsen rescued our
wagon and hitched our horses ahead of
Mrs. Bohm's team. Wo hud quite u
procession. Mrs. B?hm sat with
Olson in tho front seat, and Clem
silting behind with me iusisted on
wrapping a blanket ubout me und
holding, it too.
Ho hud gaven mo back my treasures
except the little worn shoe. He kept
that to remind him," he said, but ho
would not say any more. Men's feel
ing are buried deeper than woman's
and I have learned to know that only
in times of great trouble and danger
are tho depths of Clom's nature roused
into motion.
#**?** *
The sunset flamed out red and golden
behind tho foothills, tho sky wua
glowing with glorious color, the cloud
hursts of Dry Creek Canyon and of our
lives wore over. Nature and love
laughed again in the sunlight.
BILL A III* IS THANKFUL.
Ghul iluii He ami His Friends Are
Out <>r.iiiii?Thanksgiving Day Was
Fixed by a Woman, Wlio Out all the
States lo Unite Together.
Thanksgiving Day is a good institu
tion. It is ono that all civilized peo
ple can observe with pleasure and
gratitude, whether they be saints or
sinners, .Jews or Gentiles. That is if
they have got tho turkey or its equi
valent. If we haven't got anything
good, we ought to be thankful for what
we havonlt got?thankful that we are
out of jail?thankful " that it is us well
with us us what it is " as the old-timo
preacher always prays. Some folks
don't believe in Christmas. Some
don't observe Easter ; but all can unite
on Thanksgiving for on that day the
good and the thoughtful will honor
their Creator and the others will honor
their?thoir?their?appetites, as Paul
said to tho Philiphans in the .'Id chap
ter and 19th verse. These last have
an idea that they are entitled to a
turkey because they have worked for
it or deserve it on tho Lattlo Jack
Honor principle. They are thankful
to themselves only.
I was ruminating about Thanksgiv
ing Day. It is an old institution in
Knglund, and was observed in this
country before the revolutionary war
of 177<). Hut when independence was
declared, our rebellious forefather
quit it just because it was English you
j know. Just like we rebels down
i South quit tho Ith of July for a good
while after the late war for we felt
like tliu yankoes had stolen it from us, |
like thoy did everything else. It took
US twelve years to get fairly buck into :
the union, and then wo began to honor
the old Hag and to shoot guns and liro
eruekers on tho 1th of July. History
says that a preacher by tho name of
Kbonezer Poniborton, road the King's .
proclamation for Than' sgiving, in his |
pulpit in Hosten, just before the war '
begun, and it made those Hunker Hill I
yankees so mad they left the church, I
for they said there was nothing to bo
thankful for. There was no more
Thanksgiving Day until General Wash
ington was chosen President in ITS!).
On the last Thursday in November of
that year, tho first national Thanks
giving was observed. That was just
104 years ago today. Washington had
to send out his proclamation by mail to
the thirteen States, and it bad to be
started out about the first of October
so as to get down to Georgia and up to
Massachusetts in time. Washington
was a good man as well as a great man
and ho continued the annual Thanks
giving days for tho eight years of his
service, but why they ceased to be
proclaimed or observed after bis death
1 cannot lind out. Hut. it seems that
there wore no more national Thanks
giving days until November. 18l>4,
when Mr. Lincoln proclaimed one,
whioh was right and proper, consider
ing what a time be had bad in subdu
ing us rebels. Mr. Lincoln was a
thankful man by nature and I have no
doubt be ate grateful bis share of that
turkey .with a grateful heart. It was
right mean in us to worry the old man
so, but wo couldn't help it.
it is wonderful what great tilings a
woman can do. One women has flxod
our national Thanksgiving and gotten
all the States to unite with the nation
In establishing one day for all. That
woman labored for twenty long years
to accomplish the desire ol her heart.
She wrote letters to the President and
to the governors and entreated them
in such beautiful, earnest language
that they finally gave heed to her re
quest, and so ever since the close of
tin! late, war the day has been observ
ed. I knew that lady and so did thous
ands and thousands of our people?It
generation that has almost passed
away, for a I most every household took
Goody's I.tidy's Hook before the war and
everybody loved and admired Mrs.
San ah .1. Hale, who was its editress,
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for a quarter of a century. She loved
the good, the beautiful und tho true.
Sho wrote many charming little books
for tho children, hut if she hud never
done anything moiothanto establish
Thanksgiving Day und to write these
sweet little verses beginning :
Mary had a little lamb.
Its lleeeo was white as snow
it would be enough for the life work of
one woman. There is no more saered I
duty than to make the ohlldren happy
and those little verses about Mary and
her little lamb have inspired the
tender hearts of millionsof them. That
good woman died in 187SI. but her good
works, her dovotion to children und
hor love for all that was kind and
true und beautiful in life still lives.
What can ono woman do? not a woman
of extraordinary talents, but one of
earliest will and a lover of mankind ?
What did our own Mrs. Williams, of I
Columbus, do when she set her heart I
and her pen to tho work of establish
ing our Southern decoration day ? She
dill it. and it stands established as a
monument to Southern patriotism.
Whether we were l ight er wrong in
the light made no difference with her.
Sho loved tho heroism of our soldiers,
and wept tears of admiration for their
sacrifices.
"With fairest flowers while summer
lusts
Wo will sweeten their sad graves."
she said und it was done.
There is much for us all to he thunk
ful for. A civilized people have no ex
cuse for ingratitude. Sbakespear had
a special horror of it and speaks of it
as a " monster,'' "a marble-hearted
friend." In unother place he says :
Blow, blow thou winter wind,
Thou art. not so unkind
As man's ingratitude ;
Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky
Thou dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot.
" I hate, ingratitude more than lying,
bablii.g, drunkenness or any taint of
vice." !
Another poet says. " It is the basest
1 of all crimes.
I Hut if ingratitude to man be so base.
what must it bo to the Creator, from
? whom comes every good and perfect
! gift?
If Ho hud not loved us this world
; would not have been made so beaut 1
: ful. We could have lived without any
! of its luxuries; we could have got
i along with only bu.v/.ards for birds and
dogfonnel for flowers and the howling
of tho winds for music : we could have
I lived on cornbread and codfish, but the
. Creator made tho earth lovely for our
sake, and is continually unlocking the
doors of His storehouses and dispensing
new anil wonderful treasures for our
comfort, und our elevation to a higher
life. This is the day of all others to
ponder and ruminate upon the good
ness of Cod and to be grateful for his
, business. BILL AltP.
AN ATTACK ON THE DOGS.
THE OA NINES AUE TRIUMPHANT.
Tho Annual Fight Over tho Sheep ami
ihe Hogs Result hub Usual?ElectitMl
ol" an Attorney General to Siiceecn
? Judge Towitfletul?Utichahaii Was
Chosen Unuiniously.
Columbia Register, Dee.".
Some one aptly termed yesterday's
session of the House >s "dog-day."
for that was the subject that oeeupied
its attention more than anything else.
The subject came up on Mr. Smith's
bill to require all owners of dogs to
pay a fee of 7f> cents, out of which
should be purchased a collar for every
dog owned. It was just a few minutes
after 10 o'clock when this bill was
reached on the calendar and for two
hours and a half thereafter tho sheep
killing dog, the mangy cur and dogs of
other disreputable breed wore " cussed
out" black and blue, but as the liuale
showed he had enough friends among
members to prevent the imposition of
a tax upon his useless but dangerous
head.
Mr. Josh Ashley was the lirst cham
pion of the dog to step into the arena
in his behalf. Ho didn't boliovo the
dog bad as bad a character as painted,
for in many cases he was about all that
a poor man had and often he bad lots
of them, lie didn't think it right to
make tlx'poor man pay this tax. It
would be better reform to start at some
big thing and not worry with little
things like, a poor man's dog and trial
justices, lie moved that the House
reject the bill.
Messrs. Harper, Cooper, Smith of
Laurons and Buist were ull in favor of
the bill and jumped on the cur with
both feet and stamped the life out of
him and gave him such a bad character
generally that it would make tho
meanest of them slink away in shame.
They showed, however that tho sheep
in industry this State had been retard
ed and in some instances completely
knocked out by dogs. Most of them
were utterly useless and in udditior.
often bit human beings and gave them
hydrophobia. Messrs. Poster ami
Parks reinforced thesegentlomon with
reasons why every thing should be done
to sweop the ordinary dog from the
face of the earth.
Mr. Volnitz moved to kill the bill
and now on a vote it appeared that tho
oncmies of the dog were on top for by
a vote of 33 10 t'><? the House red used to
indefinitely postpone tho bill. Then
came motions to amend or recommit,
which were also lost. Representatives
Watson and Welborn both made strong
arguments against the bill as woll as
Mr. Dennis of Berkeley. Ho humor
ously read from the Comptroller Gen
eral's report showing that the dogs in
the State were valued greater thnnthe
.sheep ami he saw no reason why the
dog industry should be legislated
against. Boriously ho claimed that in
the swamps of Berkeley County the
dog was u great institution. Tho
swamps were full of all kinds of var
mints that destroyed the crops ami
nothing could keep them down but dogs.
He asked the House to exempt Ber
keley from the provisions of the bill.
Mr. I.often wanted to StlbstitutO a
Senate bill on the same subject.
Plnally an amendment was proposed
exempting Berkeley County und almost
us quick as lightning Anderson. Wil*
liamsburg and York woreaddod and so
on through tho list so that only one
or two counties were loft for the bill
to apply to. Mr. Smith moved to kil.
these, amendments, and to his BUI*
prise the House refused to do this by a
vote of .">:! to Its, Mr. HllghOB moved
that the bill be postponed until tic
noxtsession (which practically killed
it) and this was carried by a vote of .">'.?
to 33 and the groat dog quostlon wa
dropped only to hob up again later oil
in tho day.
According to a joint resolution pass
ed during the day the Senate came
into tho hall a few minutes after I
o'clock for the purpose of elect ing an
Attorney General vloo(Judge Town
send, resigned. Mr. Johnson of Falr<
held nominated Mr. O. W. Biiehauan.
Assistant Attornoy Oonoral. No other
nominations were made and Mr. Duoll
auan was unanimously nominated,
receiving bll VdtCS. When the Senat
retired the calendar was again tackled.
There was some discussion on a joint
resolution proposing to amend the
c> nstltution and provide for biennial
sessions of the Legislature. Mr. Koper
favored the measure as did Mr. Wol*
born who said tbut it would probably
l*e better for tho St:;te if sessions were
held only every four years or probably
every ten. Mr. Youmuns thought that
the bill should Dot pass but should bo
loft to tho Constitutional Convention
which was sure to bo hold. He didn't
t!iink in the present divided political
condition of the State that the Legis
lature should meet but every two years
tie diil not approve either ot amending
the Constitution by piecemeal. The
resolution was anally Indefinitely
postponed by a large majority. Tho
disposition is to kill all such resolu
tions and leave their decision to the
Constitutional Convention. Throe
such measures were postponed yester
day.
Tho dog question came up again
when the bill to punish tho owner of
any sheep-killing dog running at large
and providing for the punishment of
any such person by a fine of $20. Tho
same general discussion was gono over
ami numbers of amendments were
offered, (hie was by Mr. Jordan, who
proposed to include in Its dogs which
killed fowls or prey upon hens'nests.
While ho was writing out his amend
ment the Speaker got on a little joke
which caused a great laughter.
"Arc you ready with tho dog gone 1
amendment. Mr. Jordan ?" Iio said,
whoroui>oa the members caught on to
tho joke ami laughed. After much
discussion tho hill as amended by Mr.
Jordan passed to its third reading.
Among tho bills sidetracked was one
proposing to exempt dwelling houses
on farms from taxation for live years.
Mr. Blouse explained that ho introduc
ed the bill by request.
Tim following joint resolution intro
duced by Mr. Uaeot of Charleston was
adopted! "TheGeneral Assembly of
the State of South Carolina hereby
OX press their hieb appreciation of the
Augusta Exposition and return their
thanks for the hospitality and atten
tion extended them collectively and
individually on Carolina day."
Among the new bills introduced were
the following :
To prohibit tho running of trains on
Sunday, by Mr. Watson.
To regulate the sale of commercial
fertilizers, by McLaurin. It provides
that certificates of ingredients must
be liled with i loiUSOU College au
thorities together with samples and
any person selling fertilizers below 5
per cent, of tho commercial value shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
The penalty is $1,000, together with
imprisonment in the discretion of tho
court.
T< enable the State Agricultural
Societ y to extend more perfect protec
tion to its property ami that of exhibi
tors and to authorize the officers to
appoints police force for that purpose,
b.v Mr. llrice.
To amend tho uct to prohibit emi
grant agents from plying their busi
ness in this stale. under tho bill the
license will be $.'?00 ami they aro re
g trie ted in their work from January to
July of each year, by Mr. BricO.
To provide for tho purehuse of 100
copi08 of Thomas's history of the
fits.did. by Mr. Voumans.
To better provide for tho enrolling
of Confederate ponsioriors.
An extended session of the State
Legislature now seems absolutely
essential. In addition to the vast
number of general as well as local
bills which are pilling' up on the
calendars t be opinion is gaining ground
that it will be necessary to read tho
code in full at least one time.
Carpenter Bros.. (Jreenvillo, S. C,
Druggists, recommend Johnson's Ma
gnetic oil. the great family pain-kill
or, internal and external.
Carpcntor Bros., Groonvillo, S. C,
Druggists, recommend Japonose Diver
Pol lots for constipation and sick head
ache Small, mild, otuy to take. f>0
pills J? cents.
R. Nulty of St. Paul, Minn., writes:
"Was confined to bod H weeks, doctors
could dome no good: Japanese Pile
I Cure e ntirely ourod mo." Sold by
Carpenter Bros.. Gr 'onvillo. S. C.
Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S. C,
Druggists, recommend Johnson's Ori
ental Soap for all skin and scalp dis
eases. Try it.
Not lee.
Bo modern. Don't harass tho system
with noxious drugs. Monterey cures
Malaria. Nervousness, Indigestion and
Bowol Complaints. It is simple, pleas*
ant to taste and leaves no bad c.llects.
MAGNETIC NERVINE.
?BtM'ORE - AFTER'
rln' Brnln, causing Misery, Insanity nml Death;
HnrrouoM, Impotoncy, Lo&t Power in olthornox,
Is sold With written
guarantee to euro
N ervousProatra
tion, Fite, Dizzl
noB8,lica<laolie uuil
Neuralgin andWoke*
fulnou,c<Mirad t>y ex
ooaftl vousoof Opium,
Tobacco nml Ait-o
holj Mental Dopro*
i-lon, 8ofteningot
isnrrouoftH, impotoncy, toi t Power in oiuiornox.
Promnt ure Old Ak?, involuntary 1/okpoh, cnuscil
!>>? ovor-fnilulitcncO| 5Vor??x?rllon of the Urntn nml
Errore< ;' Youth. II ttlvoeto Weak Orpnnn thulr
Natural Viifor ami doubled tlio joys of lifo; cures
l.ucorrlKv:; ami I'Vnialo WoaknoKs. A monlhV treat
ment, in itlfiin packoco. by mall, to nny address, fl
I i r li.ix, 0 l.oxos :f?. Willi every |.r> order wo ffiVO a
Written Cunrnntoo to euro or rofum! (ho money.
( nvulars free. Uuuraiiteu Issued only by our ox
cluslvo ngonr.
Carpentbh Bros . ?rebnvit4t<k, S C
MONTEREY.
1753, THE M0NK!SflSMED7. IMS,
A TONIC. NERVINE, BLCOJ I I I
EIEK
l.ikk ( rix'Krt I,ii<b. Tin- Poison of the
Swamp has 11s Antidote In the
Swamp.
|''or Malaria, Nervousness, Indigos*
tioni Dysentery .mil Bowol Complaint,
?isl< yonrdoalor for MONTEREY. If be
loos not keep it. wo will send you a
i,rg<- bottle, i xpress prepaid, on re?
<? fpl of > l.i i?.
MONTEREY CO.,
Florence, S. C, Drops, ami MTrs.
V, VV. WAG EN ER & CO..
(Charleston, s. c.. State Agents.
II I llAY?<\Yll|l II. hi W. I'AltKKK
aAYtVSWO&TH & PARKER,
ATTORNEYS AT DAW,
tiOJ Main St - - decnville, S.C
- ?
THE LAHRES HAK.
II. Y. BIMP?ON. C. IN 1* UKbOAl.K
SIMPSON & BAHK\DALIV
AttornoyM at Lav,
laurrnh, SOUTH CAloLlN.o
Special attention given to the ?woxii
ga'tlon of titles ntid collection ol OJvJdvs.
a. w. ball. l. W. HIMKlNs. \\ . u . ,iy , ,
HAI.I., SIM KINS & BALL,
Attorney a at Ln*,
Laukkns, South Cahoi.ina.
Will practice in all state anoNUulted
States Court. Special atlenlioA given
collection*. \
j. t. Johnson. w. k. khVi:y.
JOHNSON & It It'll 1: A
ATTOHNKYs at law. \
Omca?Fleming's Comer, NortllWMI
side of Public SquarP? A
I.AURENS, - SOUTH CAROLIN.^
W. H. MAKTIN,
Attorney at Law,
j Laubbms, - South Cahomxa.
Will practice In idl C iirts ol : : s;
Attention given t<> , iioetl >.-.
-THE FRESHEST
Groceries, Fruiis,
Canned Goods,
and CONFECTONSi
v_ ' .\*r v _
a i
IKennedy Bros|
CT L
nnnrjrjnr.crinr?^-.i:n'r<i-r ?-?-.? rr.rsu
We have a supply >l
SEED RYE.
You had better j uiehasc I >?:'? le it
is all disposed of it
KENNEDY'S.
NEXT DOOR TO THE POST OFFICE.
MACHINERY!
Wood Working Maehiix ry
Brlok und Tile "
Harret st rvo "
Gin ii in u "
Grain Threslduu "
S?w Mill
Rio? Hulling
E N G I N K s AND IK) I I. 1: V, S.
To I bolt .V Suns' Km
Sii\. tux I ?. v:si MIL;
I? ni l ??
I) reel
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lalll ihiis'
I!.
Statu A|tfH c v
>rlni>h ami Bolli
Brewers' Brlnli Nliielittu
Screw Cotton l'rossr?; Tin
Acting Siiion (no bull - : 'I
Cotton r.m\ Klors: 11 ?;!
(?ins; Untrlpberir Hin? (In
Smith ?V Co.'w Woo i W. i kiiif> M hi
?ry, Plan??: v, Bam I s i ?? ?. M.>n lOoiM
Users; Tenoiiors' <?<?'; i --ii ? i omnium
equipment lor Siish, Iii-or hi \\ hi ii
Fuetorjes; ))('l.oacho'b I'lillitHl Oil S W
Mills, variable leod.
B1SLTIN?,FITTINGS AM? M VCIIIX
KHY si' J"'l.I ;:s.
?}iy~ Write mo l'ii (?ri<*?
V. 0. BADIIAM, Manager,
CoIiiimIiIh. S. <*.
?SPECIALISTS^
(Ucviitwr (Sru in.??! s )
A:e the Inadine und
*lll give you help.
ucccssfut special! iroJ
Vftunn nn<l uiM*
dic aired man.
JJ\ v i mm ? ? r.v
\ Bllltr) iiuv.l follow
\ ed our oi i\lment.
>} Mmiy yon r- of
^ Vllllt'lll.Mi
tui kmk'i Iciicn
in inc. ii- of liill v
live med ii'lj Kirf
Mfu titoric own ii V
control o r fii iltV
..v t?rd< moi limn who
jSK-J il?\"0 wt'llk, imiiu!'
wft vul 'ped or il i t
rrt - ti.j?. i-immI nri'iins, nr
^'vH:?.. jvi.o nr.
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v' '
ii n i t h ?
coiitempi i>i Uiplr
frli ?'.- iiii'i com
to unaratilee to nit put lent". If lliey
lie restored, our own CXClllHlvo trcntmcilt
will uflford it eure.
Wo MET?! non'l yon v. at logei ei n Infi mt
wrakncHu with u IrcMinci Mint you cm
home without Inslrumeii t 0 u ? ? ? >\ in .?..
mcnt has cured o.'.ii . s. IVliy liotyoiiy Try It.
0AT.VR1UI, .,..! disease* of Shin, niood,
Heart, LlVOr mid l% !?:;.? t,
sTPirvi.rN ?????? .si runld. Ivo
remedy. a complete Vuro (iiiiiriotti cd,
mv.ruiwmsAnrsn >f kind- <!??..????.
msuy oilicrs ii.ive f.ll . I.
VKSATVRATi !IK< II pi
cured In n f v/ day* > ?'? ". . . . i : ?
Includes Cli ?t an It.-..
TRUTh AND . .- ?;?( i.
TVr hftVfl our ?<1 Iii ' ?
have f?ll? 1 ;o \f t .:.??!... ii
Ii is and mi' llcnl l:i
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for you, Oua.ua no< r,i . wnsio tuluiii
time. Obtain ?>nr U.
Wtewavt <>( froo hi
the In-m nml most fn-.i- .?. .. ?
I-rVCS low ?* Mil I ., ill 10 i f : 110 U '
treatment. t'BiU! consultation a ? ????.
by niait. TI?oioi'ttli I'xnmii ulon nml ? ? ??
no?ds. A homo in ill ? il i .. ???? ? ? ?> III an
.-?f ??ris"?. send f r eymntom Itlnnk . ? iforM
No. n :or Won. ??: Ko. lifor tiXlll J>i?eat;i:a, All ti .
ipondonco (iitovti i | wnpir.'. liiisinr-m Mricttv ?
Ddontinl. Knttrotrou ? . ? r> ? rrom .
iion. lioforloour imiIviiUi imuksauill>u ... j .
Address or call or.
DR. HATHAWAY & CO
1-3 South Broad Street, ATLANTA, <1
S3 SHOE m^'Wp.
Do you wear them? When next In need try a pair.
Boat in tho world.
If you want afmo DRESG SHOE, marfo In (? late I
styles, don't pay $6 to C?, try my $3, $3.50, $!.00cr
$5 Shoe. They flt Oljiifll to c itom niado and I k I
wearaswell. IfyoiJ wish to cconomlzo in your ?? ar,
do so by purchasing W. L. Ij [las Shi N.uno and
prlco stamped on tho liot'.om, look for it \ hi i you hiiy.
W? I? DOUGLAS, Brookton, siuss. Sold by
For Sah; by t ie I.. \ 111; 1,1. S < II
COM FAN V. I .a ureiis. S. ?\
W.
DANVILLE
IjiOHMONU & 1
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in Leave Greenville a 0 80 u. in., tine
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WEITE HEB & M/H
They .arc our Fa?hionrtb!c Hair Cutlers :m<l Sliav^H