Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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(Copyright, 1807, by ?l: "tc RiwwU.] It was in that voyage that 1 took in / the Empire that 1 made up my mind to / knock off tho sea. Wo was homeward bound from Adelaide, and I W08 keep ing a lookout one black night on the ?P' fok'file, when, there coming n yelling epit of soaking blast slap into toy face, I lifts up my fist and brings it down on the rnil. For mere than 20 year had I Dscd tho sea, and what was it come to? An old chest, two or three shifts of rags, a pair of Boa boots and a'help me, no more. Through tho Improvidence of ?ho sailor? By thunder, then, no! What's Providence got to do with such n withered life as the ocean? Saving means getting, and where in niggers is the getting to be found where it's all living hard, faring hard, dying bard and going to hell after all? Beef you could chisel into snatch blocks, pork too foul to grease your bor's with, kirks and curses aft, wet and famine forrards?is it good enough? With a fok'slo so full of tired Dutch men?why, when they hoist the Eng lish red ensign the flag's tho bitterest lio sinco Annynius and Sophia. But how was I to get a living ashore? That was tho question that occupied my attention whon I walked them decks insolitudo. I'd say to my mates, "What, 'ud you do if you knocked oil?" and somo was for going to sea again, and tho rest was for the work'us. I'd seen ho littlo of life ashore that I couldn't guess how men got their living . What was a merchant? Ho was a covey who traded. What was a clerk? Ho was a covey who sat on a steed and wrote in n book. No use of my laying a course for the likes of that. My taste went to the country, deep inland. 1 fancied I'd like to get a job under a market garden er. I'd feel pleased when I thought of reaping wheat and cutting down givs, of nein?,' home at sundown on top of a wagon load of hay, the air sweet as nuts, and sitting down to a bursting blowout of ale and roasted apples and bread and cheese. "Co away, salt watcrl" I'd think then. I was about years old and looked 45. Lobscouso'll serve you measlier than weather. They say a weak heart paints the uoso blue, which colors tho spirits. Soup and bully's worse than a decayed vital, and if you leave your teeth in the mess kid how many spoonfuls of peas Boup do it take to raise a wrinkle? Tho ship duly arrived, and I, along with tho rest, was paid off. Thero was 22 months' wages to take up, so I had scope to rido by. 1 took a lodging at 2 UromJey strefd, Commercial road, ami Bpent ?'3 in a laudgoing rig out. Then I was at a loss. The name of the land lady was Mrs. Bloomer, and her hus band WaH a waterman. Meeting her ono day in the passage as I was going to take a turn to look about me, I says: "I should like to have n short yarn with you, missis, if you'vo got a minute." '?Certainly, sir, " she answers. "Don't 'sir' me, I beg, " says I. "I'm no dog." She steps mo into a bit of n parlor, close with careful keeping. Thero was a little looking glass over tho mantel shelf, bound in yaller Mauze, wit Ii oys ter shells for occasional ornaments, and a glass case, with a stuffed bird, in tho front window. "Can I nit?" says I. "Why, yes," says she, smiling. "It can't hurt you. " I put down my cap and took a chair and says: "Mrs. Biooiner, I've been a sallornian all my life and have come oshoro to find a Job, meaning to stop asboro. I've got a few pounds and can hold out for some time, and I want you to tell mo how I ought to go to work." "What's your age?" says she, looking mo over. I told her. "Thero's a many situations a-going," says she, "and n handy man ou^ht never to want for n job Why not turn water man?" "No more water for mo," says I "Light porter," says sho. Thought sho mount something to drink. "Can yon drive a 'orso?" "I don't fancy driving," says I. "Look 'ere, Mr. Poo ley, " says she, "your ohauco'll lio in advertising Writo out a little pieco for tho papers. It'll cost yon nhout U or 4 shillings to pnt in. Answers'll come, and you can pick and choose. " I allowed this to bn up to tho knocker, and in that samo room sho and mo made out this advertisement: "A sailorman wants a job Ho is an all round hand, useful anywhere and any time, being accustomed toaoalHng that runs a day's work into 24 hours and pays no overtime wages. Address William Pooley, 2 Bromley street, Com mercial road, E. " When Bloomer camo homo that night, he recommended me to put tho pieco in to the papel which says it hns tho lar gest circulation in tho world This Idid noxt day?forget tho cost Valuing it in pints of. beer, call it four gallons i'm a slow hand ut reading, and it took mo a srnothorod long timo to spell through tho advertisements on tho day whon tho piece 1 had wroto was to op pear At last down in a cornor I spies my n.one. "Who's a-going to sr.. this?" says I to Mrs. Bloomer, patting my finger npon it. "It do look insignificant, certainly," the blooming blazes Is a-going to seo it?" says I, a-bringing down my fist "You never can tell," snyii Mrs Bloomer. I wont out for a turn that afternoon and sat for a spoil with an old shipmato that had bronght up in tho homo, in Well street. Ho had said to mo: "You'll novor get rid of it, Bill. O'or and o'er I've been n-giving of it up Six times havo I been a-running, ami I'vo tried my hand as barber, dorg fancying and wheel ohnlr man. All no go," says be. "Here I am throe weeks ashore from Jamaica, and now I'm a-lookina tor another ship They nnn-i*wnnt sail ors on dry land. You'll bo drovo back to it." Whon I returned to my lodging, l found a letter addressed to Mr. William Pooloy. "Blistered if it ain't been seen arter all I" said \, grinning liko a fool. I opens tho lotter and, going to tho window, holds it out and roads it It was from agent, saying ho had soon my ] advertisement and was willing to givo I me a Job, but I must invest somo raonoy along with him. Mrs. Bloomer said that I must look to get a uumbor of letters of that sort. They was all thieves who wroto 'em, and I was to tako no notice. ininlit bo tempted to call 'upou tho old oovoy Wi ll. nl;. i that lotter 1 heard no more Who was u*goiug to BOO my uaiuo down in that there corner? 1 looked round at the orfico four days after tho UOtiCO hud appeared and says to a clork, "Considering."! says, "'the cost I've beou put to, I'm surprised," says I, "not to bnvo got any answers." '?Put it in again," says bo. "Down in (bat corner?" says 1. "What's your charge for half of one of them pages of your n with that there notice printed big, right amidships of the whito?" "We dOU't do business in that sort of way, " says lie "if WO did, tie; cost 'ud keep yon to wtnd'urdof Jobs for tho rest of your shining days." Wheu l gol to tho lodgiug that after noon, Mis Bloomor told mo a party had called to see me. "Something in the job line?" says 1 "1 can t Kay, I'm sure," says she, and 1 thought that her manner was ohauged, she bad a sort of east in hor eyes and look* d at the wall past my bead, though she was a-staring bard at me, taking me in. "What did the party want?" suys I. "She. was a female," she answers. "1 believe she'll he aide to lind yon a job, Mr Pooioy She'll ho hero at half past 10 tomorrow morning if couvouient to you." 1 went to my room and smoked a pipe There was no letters in answer to my UOtiCO, The paper might have the big g st circulation in the world, but its corner pieces wasn't read. What female party was this a -asking after me? A good many women kept shops. Numbers was widows in tho baeoy, sweetmeat and other lines. Any sort of a job ashore would suit mo, and one to my taste for all 1 knew might be coining along to morrow at half past 10. Half past 10 came round right enough, for if there's one thing that never dis appoints a man it's time That old bloke, drawed with a beard and a log glass, always keeps Iiis blushing word There was no letter from tho largest circulation. 1 bad come back from get ting a mouthful of breakfast and was a-sliaving?it was about half past 10 Wbilo I was all lather conies a knock, and Mrs Bloomer sings out, "Mr. Pooley, (he party that called yesterday is awaiting to see you in my. parlor. " "Right," says I, and wiping off tho soap I put oiTiny jacket anil went down stairs. There was a woman und her littlo Loy standing by the table Hho wore a green bat and looked to he got up for a Sunday outing The boy for his tidy looks was like one of them children that sings in the streets along with men in clean jumpers and women with babies under their shawls Mrs. Bloom er, standing beside tho door, says, "This is Mr Pooley. " When I stops In, the woman took and dodged a hit, shooting her head out first to port, then to starboard, a-screw driviug of hor eyes into mo with the twistings of her face. Sho then says faintly: " Lor?why?yes, Iii 111" And grasping tho table she fell to rocking herself, very quietly, saying once or twice soft ly, "Bill, Bill," hut with a note of such grief and reproach that an old goat might have been moved by it "What's thisr" says I, turning upon Mrs. Bloomer "Oh. Bill," shrieks tho woman on n sudden, holding out her hands to mo, "don't pretoud not to know mo if I'm not to drop dead. Here's your child,your own little William He was ti months old when you left me. and?and?oh, William, think?now he's (5 years." And with that she lifts him right on to the table, calling out: "Look at your father, Billy Ask him if lie ain't ashamed to have left his poor wife for nigh six year, with never one word to say whether ho was alive or dead?" 1 thought to myself, "Bloomed if 1 don t thiuk now that them corner pieces in tho largest circulation aro read I" Mrs. Bloomer's face was like a ship's figurehead, hard with foldings. . "You're quite mistaken." savs I. "I never was married in ihis hero world, and so if I've got a wife she must be an angel." "Never was married!" she screamed, running up to me, while the hoy sang out, "Mother, I shall fall!" and Mrs. Bloomer put him down. "Never wa married I" she shrieks. "D'you mean to say you forget coi iting me at my fa ther's, Simon Dudds, who kept the lios tillory called the Sinking Star, on tho Sandwich road? Never was married," sho yells, with her words streaming in a quick rattle like coal from a tip, "When tho church wns St. George's, at Deal, and tho date Juno 24, 18'<C>? Never was married? Ob, Bill!" And, seizing mo by the arm, she pulls nio to the window and sobs out: V()h, Bill, if yon ain't so changed, I can't ho! I've been alono for nigh six years. Look at your child. It's mo as has fed him and done for him, or whoro'd he bo? Don't say you don't know mo I never expect ed (hat." And hore, letting go of my arm, sho buries her face and lets fly ull hor nerves in eorecohings. "Why don't you comfort her?" snys Mrs. Bloomer " Why don t you?" says I. "Sho's got nAthlno o> ?In with mn. " With that I wulks out. The woman flies after mo "Bill, Billl" sho bawls, catching hold of mo. I turned mid said, "What's it you want?" Here the young uu boganto cry, roar ing for mother. "What's all this nbont?" says Bloomer, coming op from tho kitchen. He'd got a cold in his bead and was a-lyiug by "Joo, " answered Mrs Bloomer, "this poor woman has boon deserted along with her child for nrgh upon six year, and now she says she's found iier man in Mr. William Pooley. " "I'vo had almost enough of this hero larking, hain't you?" says 1 to tho wom an. "Who are you and what d'you want? Yon don't boliovo I'm yonr husband Bloomer, a'olp me, as I stand a living man, I never was married, and that woman knows it. " "How should she know it?" sqnnwked Mrs. Bloomer like a gull in a gale. "Cot you there, Pooioy," says Bloom er in a voice thick as gruel with cold. "I was marriod," cried tho woman, "at St. Uoorgo's, Doal, Jnno 21, 1876, and William Pooioy was my man's natno. Simon Dadds was ray father and kept a hoatillory. Oh, ma'am, that ho can stand them and pretoud not to know nor n member If my father were (int, pointing at im1 "Will von Ten mo that you don't recollect stopping tho carriage at ihn Deal Logger inn as wo drove fiom church and treating tho boatmen? Duln t you likewise stop at the Yarmouth Packet and keep father awaiting dinner for us" ? "1 toll yen. " 1 roared out, breaking in to her noise, "that I don't know von, and that I never was married, and that you've mistook your man." Hero Bloomer, stumping back to his kitchen, steps at the head of the stun ease to call out: "Settle it quickly, and don't make no noise, for this OU80 as got a name to lose. I know what sailors are, and Uiubbeo it is and lunbboo it ain't. Liz zie, keep yon ch ar, ami if the parties II come to tarms outside it'll bo agree able. " And down bo went. "Are yon going to tell me, Mr Pooley," says Mrs Bloomer, whose face -bowed a relish for,this shindy, for all that it was as hard as sailors' beet, "that there's no truth in this party's statements?'' "Nouo," I yelled, for their working up of my old iron WUH a-making me redbot. "And you tell us," says Mrs. Bloom er, with a sii'er, "that a woman's memory won't allow her to recognize her husband after six years of desei tiou?" "lie was li months old," says the other, Bobbing and pointing to her hoy, "when we was left He sailed in a ship called the Miranda. I've never heard of him since, but I knew he was alive, for he desalted at Sydney and arrived at Liverpool in a ship called tho Simon 'OrkillS, and that I lai nt, " she screamed. "Uli, Oi/t/" shrieks tin: woman, rounding upon me. "from .lim Red path, who had sailed with you afore and came home with you in the Orkins. " When she had said this, I pulled oil my jacket and waistcoat, bared my arms to the elbows, and. opening my starched shirt. 1 tinned it under, that they might see to the flesh of mo They yelled and fell hack, thinking I was going for them, and Bloomer came up stairs again, sneezing 1 ran my fingen through my hair, and, dinging open t" ? bouse door, that the light of Got. which the miuistt r says is the truth it self, might shine up.UO, I lays bold of the woman and pulls her onto the doorsteps and sings out: "Now look at me. Can you see me? Was this 'ere chest your William's?' And I gives my bosom a thump. "Was this 'eru arm your William's?" "Yes," she shrieks, "that was his oruoiflge." "Was this 'ere face your William's?" eays I, slapping my for; head, and I Rhovcs it into her'11 and sings out: "Look again. Lock by God's light. Look, if your dnrned perishing William ever had such a face upon him as mine in all his goiu n-ftshiii. " There was a crowd by this time, and, noticing it, 1 steps into the passage picks up my clothes and goes up stairs. After this I shifted my shanty. There was nothing to bo lost, I allowed, by a ohango of address, as I hoy cull it. By ? this tune all notion of getting a job out of the largest cir< illation was clean gone I hired a room in Smith street, Stopnoy Tho house was kept by Mrs. Gamble, widow of a coasting skipper When I paid Mrs Bloomer, she took my money scornfully, a.id I think would have spoke, but my eye kopt her quiet My pulling off my coat, too, and hauling of the lying party en to the pavement had done Mrs. Bloomer good. I still carried some pounds in good money in my pocket, but guessed if 1 didn't fall in with a situation soon tlx old leather purse 'ud bo showing like tho end of a long voyago. 1 answered advertisements and hunted about. It was all no good ? nobody wanted mo What was expected was always exactly what I hadn't got Then they wanted written characters, and I bail nothing but"V (? " certifloates to show 'em. ' I told Mrs. (Jumble I wauled to give up tho sea and settle ashore, and she answered that in her heart she couldn't blame mo. She advised mo to pal in a little notice 1 told her I'd done so. Says slue "Though once might bo of no use, twiOO might work the traverse Trv another notier " Aller COUSldOrtug the thing and un derstanding it might lind mo a chance if it did no more I walked round to an other newspaper with the same piece that bad appeared in I ho corner of the largest circulation, only instead of sign ing my norao William Pooley to it 1 took the name of William Treakell, my motboi h name afore her marriage, partl> because I reckoned (hat as Wil liam Pooley I'd had all the innings I was going to get, while Treakell was liko starting on a fresh voyage, and partly because I didn't want, my name to meet tin eye of tho lying party. And nov/ I'm a-going to tell yon what, I daresay, you'll not believe, but if it ain't true then my eyes aren't twins. Two days after tho piece liad ap peared I i/>tnrned to Stepney from a cruise to Regent street. When I walks in, MM. Gumble called out from her buck room, "Isthat you, Mr. Pooley?" "Pooley it is," says I, stopping at the foot of tho steps. She conns out, and, looking hard at ino, sayn, "There's been a party, with a boy, inquiring arter you." "Female party?" says I. "Yes," she says. " What does she want ?" "She says that her husband left, her when her child was (1 months old. Ib was a seafaring man. His name was Pooley," says she, looking at mo very hard. "Ho didn't always used to sign on under (hat name, and sometimes shipped himself as William Treakell." I breathed short. "It was her mother's maiden name," said Mrs. Cuinble. "What brought her to (his honso?" r ,iys I, talking as If I'd just had a toolh drawed. "She's always on tho lookout for her husband and reads tho advertisements in (ho papers She saw (ho name of Treakell und suvs-you'ro bor man. Bho doscribed you," saya Mrs. Gumble, be ginning to talk with a sort of snarl (Ihoro's a dnrned sight too much of fol low fceiing among peoplo of Mrs. Gam ble's sort). "Sho gavo mo your likeness in words in though sho talkod with your pioturo in her 'and. Bho says yon lodged, aj Mr*- JBloomor's. down out of tho Commercial roan, auu im ?um? house because sho discovered you." "Well?" says 1. "Well," Buys she, "she'll ho he-re tomorrow morning at 10 o'eloek and bopoa it'll tie convenient to you to soo her. " "It'll he convenient for mo to see bor In"? but 1 stopped myself The bloom ing joke was past boyoud all cuss s "How in (lames did she know," Kays I, "that 1 culled myself Troukoll?" "She asked if the Treakell as lodged here nusworcd to die description she gave of you 'No Treakell lodges here,' says I, 'but I've a party stopping iu thu llOURO as is the same as you du BOribc.' 'Then ids name's Pooley,' Bays sho. 'Pooley it is,' says 1, tho surprise making me answer quiok. Then sho tells mo you murried her at Deal and desurtod hor when your infant babe was ? mouths old. " "I'll not see the hedgehog," I burst out. "She's ten stun o' lie from bat to heel. Don't let mo bO troubled by her BllO'fl no wife of miuo. " "Von won't see her, d'you say?" "Look bore Is thero any letter for mo'r" "Nary letter You won't kco hor. d'you say':' "Narv h'tcr?" I says "It cost me 4 hot), and who tho blooming blazes is a-going to see it where they've) gone and stuck it, light amidships of a whole smother of like uotices? if they takes yer IliOUoy, why don't they Qud yer ill answers? Damn mo if it ain't worse than picking your pookot to entice a man into spending 4 boh and never a one withered reply in two daysl" "So you won't see her, then?" says Mrs. Humble, lifting of her oyebrows and sourly spreading of her lips till 1 saw the red of her false teeth at the back of her jaw I just wished deep down in mo that she'd been (tumble instead of Iiis wid j der and passed up stairs 1 went to a coffco house for breakfast early next morulUR and was messing about all day looking after it job, but could got nothing to do, not even down at the decks, though 1 remember think iugi when it came to my turning my eye in that direction, that if I was to knockabout ships for a living I'd bettet go to sea for good. There WUH no conn try fancies in the isle ol Dogs, no smell of the haystack, no scent of the milk maid in tlie breezes there. I went bnok home to my lodgings in llifl ovouing, wore out. Mrs. Gumbo* told mo that tho party und called at 10 o'clock along with the boy, but I wouldn't hear tell of her and went straight lo my bedroom Olid lay down on my In d to smoke a pip ami to cousidor whether this sort ol looking for a job wasn't like asking the way to the work'us. I lay late next morning, being, as I have said, wote out. 'Sides, what wa thcro to get up for? Of course it would be the old joke over again, ways of r< fusing of a man that was the same us puuchlug his Lead, lording about all day long, coming home and no letters and wondering if drowning was as quick a hanging. I was getting out of bed at nooi when conn s a knock upon tho do< ; and Mrs. Gitniblc's voice says, "You'n wunti d." " Who wants m< ?" says I. "An offlcor of the court," sho an swers. I opened the door to her, und, putting my head out, says, "What court?" "Tho police court," says she. "What does he want?" "You come down and he'll tollyou." I dressed and went downstairs. Mrs. Guiiibie,.hearing my footsteps, beckon* me into tin flout parlor, and there I found tho party as claimed 1U0 for her husband, the young tin. and a tall man with sticaig whiskers, dressed like a polieo boss. "Now, sir, "cries out tho party when I steps iu, "that's my 'usband, William Pooley. Ho di sal ted me"? "This female," says the oflicer, "was up at the court thisuioming, ask ing the magistrate's adviee. Iiis wash up sent mo round to inquire into her complaint. Sho says you're her hus band. If she can prove that, you're lia bio for her maintenauoi?hers and her youngster's," "His youngster," says the party. "This all conies along," says I, "of my stepping ashore and puttin? a piece in tho papor with the 'opes of getting n job. If that," says I, pointing to the party, "ist ho sort of n job I lint 's offered to sailormou w hen th y couios nshoro sick of tho sea, the sooner it's aboard and 'up koolog* with them again tho bettor. Mr. Officer, I'm no married man, and sho knows I never was her husband. I was in Hoinbuy in a ship called the ttutlcj when sho says I was a-marrying of her at Deal. " "Oh, you liar!" shrieks the party. "If he can prove he didn't marry you, there's an end," says the ofllcor, turn ing to the female. "He's got a crucifigo on his arm," who yelled; "so had my William. What made him take tho name of Treakell? Don't it stand to reason? His name's William Dooley, and, Mr. Officer, he's my man?glowed nothing, broadened n little, certainly, but it's William's faeo after six years, and, oh, William," sho cries out, "bow can you deny it?" The oflicer- looked very hard at me and then very hard at the female and then says to her: ' If ho can provo an alibi, what are yon going to do? Have von set no certificates of discharge." 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Constipation in a little illness that If neglected builds a biff one. nr. Pie.cc >'s rieasant Pellets cure constipation. One little "Pellet" Is a gentle laxativc^uid two ?. mild cathartic. They never gripe. ? fcfp.. /" i *s I'"1 them aside as 0 iPP* . I'A&Sno moment, it is th *?rf!0fZ/ A 0 same the sick r\? MM that ends i .U.H. ?_I-II v 1 ? POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its groat leavening Btr ogth sind health fulness. Assurcf the food agalust alum and all form' of adulteration common to tho oheap brands. Royal Baking Powder Co., Now York. "Oh. uou U. r!" says ho, "going ?uck nix yuurr' "Ilavo I?" says 1, and rnshiug up stairs i brought him down a handful. There was seven, and they went back 12 years. He turns 'em about, then, asking for tho dato of tho marriage, says: "Hero y'are He's spoken the truth. Tiiis man was at sui when you said you were married to him, " "And am I to believe they're Iiis own certificates?" cried tho woman "Aren't sailors every day a forging of these here V. G. 8?" "Put 'em up, ' says the officer to mo. "1 can't help you, missis," says ho, taking up his bat. .lust one hour later I im t an old ship mate on tho steps of the shipping yard nt Tower hill "What aro you doing here, Bill?" Bays ho. "Looking for a ship. ' says I. "I hoard that you'd squared yurds with the sea and was ashore for a set tlement. " "And a settlement it's been," says I, and just then, some one singing out for hands for u China clipper, I steps in, Bcarco smiling as i thought of that night when 1 brought my list down on the fok'slo rail of the Kmpiro. Tin: i.M) Peanuts na ?> Vegetable. Pcniiuta inuy bo linked nnd served an a vegetable. Ucinovo the skins from the mints and put one cupful into uncart li on baking di.-b. Pour over them two pints of boiling water, cover the dish with a pinto and place it in a moderate ly cool oven and bake from four to livi hour a, or until Iho nuts are tender. When the nets are partly cooked, se a son tin in with salt and stir among them a toaapooilful of butter. -? * . ^am~? ENGLISH < <>TT< ).\ MILLS. Wc have been talking, for yen 1*8, HI the South of New Bnglnud cotton mills moving to this section, bul now there is a ri port that Knglish facto ties will bo established here. Tl.o Host on 7V?n xcvipt says lliis would be an ur.doitak ng that would make old Lancasliinns turn in tin ir gravi s, cause ? very nnile I'rainc in Oldhain to run out of gear and every Ii on, m Manchester to lose picks. Our lb stoii conlemporaiy ndds : Hut what better alternative presents UtclfV In our Southern Slates, in close proximity to the staple and will) other advantages which vvotid lud tin in regain son n ol the ground winch I hey have lost through om cause ami an other, we have loom and 10 Sparc fol all Blieb, and their coming here I' g< ih er with their workers, would ho a boon I i what Ver section they settled in, In the present crisis hi the lotion industry throughout the world, Bug. Ian ! is the most unfortunate of the countries engaged In the inaiiufac arc. The I rade once compact is being to broken up as new factors alC C lining the front, and she sees her old .UStOlll eis supplying their ow n needs, .is well as calciing to the trade of others. "The part America is biking in tins division ?l' the cotlon goods I rude has boon commented upon before There is no good reason why wo should no! hold fast what we ha\c acquired in this line abroad, or why we should not possess ourselves from lime to time of new territory m the commercial world, and whether such acquisition be the result of natural conditions or of Iho native energy of Northern or Soulbern manufacturers, the glory and the ad vantage accruins from il will he shared by iho country as a w hole. ?? Tho contemplation of such a possi bility as Die ICinOVal Of English C( tton mills hero, nnturallv Bigges s the llrit ish policy relating to cotton manufac ture in favor in the last century. Then. Samuel Sinter, Aikwiight's young appienticc, stole secretly out of England with Ins head full of the de tails of spinning machinery, hut with novel a line oi model, the ilndlng of whi :h wt uld betray his secret and give him a turn in jail Tor the heller protec tion of English spinners against colonial competition! Thanks to his retentive memory, Iho foun at ions of Aincriciyi cotton manufacture weir laid deep ami sure, and what the stipcr ?eincline is to-day we all know. Il would he a strange fide thai made the PUcCOSSOrS of lacs, Strut! and Ilar groaves accopt Iho Iiohj iialiiy of his country, which, in spile of ombnrgo and repression, has made Il8?indu8l rial power fell throughout the world, and now magnanimously holds out a glad hand to (ho descendants of ils old op pressors." ??? ? ? . ? ? ?av? ?Tho girl who hesitates may not bo lost, but she is apt to become an old maid. ?They who cannot have what theV Hko should learn to liko what tl ey have. ? ?When It comes to keeping a soorot, the less said about It tho bettor. TO REDUCE 'HIE ACREAGE The farmers of ?ut'.s County, (?a., are preparing to organize a union or alliance, for tho purpose cf reducing (ho acreage in cotton. I tie said lobe more aggressive than the Cotton Plant it's Protective Association, and it cer tainly has very Birougaud binding pro visions in the plan of union, which in cludes the following: 1. Evory land owner or farm laborer is eligible. 2. No member will be allowed to plant more loan onoaci'e toovoiy three in cultivation. 3. The whole union will he composed of the cotton-growing Stales. Each Slate will have a union, and each coun ty and each district a union. 4. It will be an oa'h-hound Organ ization, but not net "ssanly a secret so ciety. The penalties for violating any of the itiles arc very severe and will cause the average to he reduced ill fact. For instance, each district will have a surveyor w ho will measure all the crops after planting is done, and a mail who has planted more than allowed by the society will forfeit two bales to the acre for every excessive acre be has ; planted, to go into the treasury of the association. No member will employ a laborer, exo p( for wages, w ho is not a member, and no member will work I a man's laud whose owner is not a member. 1 hey will not patronize a merchant or a raihoad that deals with men w ho arc not member.-. They mean to reduce the cot.on crop or die in the attempt. Th. p'.'C&idoUt ol the cOUllly union will be authorized t<> employ the county surveyor to investigate every suspicious case. Alter he lias coin pared the digest flock returns with the average of the returns of the union's biirveyor, the union's surveyor, would forfeit all bis compensation for any mistukc he had made The increased acreage in grai l crops ? would [iievei t millions of dollars from leaving the COtloU States. The BysU'111 would Improve the lauds Inn per cent .Ii usu years. The improvement iu cattle and slock would be immense. The iuctenbo ol home unide manure Would save llioio than the tanners clear ou their crops now. There are hundreds of oibei advnulugcs loo nu llit ions ti: mention. Si'KciAL Chops.-?The onlv special crop a farmer should raise and acknowl edge Mi| i :i<>r (onil others i- his family. Do not make your house a place for (hem to ml and sleep Olli)*, hill COUVCrl It into n home, pull on; (In weeds m ?.l cultivate their minds \\ i h Christianity and they will respcel you ; cultlvaie your OA-n mind, hi ginning all reforms with voiM-eli; practice that which y< u teach. Keep abreast of the tunes, lake I Iii ( ottos I'LA nt and oilier good wholesome journals and the world will he the belli i I hat you lived. Success ful fariniiia In those depressed limes depend- on good miuingciueiil, ilial is, for one to spend as lit'do ?d lib moncj ;i> possible; for u rarmer to pure hast somel lung that he d< cm not need is not good manag) incut. A variety of farm crops, dnhyiug,' including raising youi ? vvn i>e-t calves and pigs, a varli tv el [loultry, vegetables, fruil, and garden products, making ii a point to buy noth ing that can raised at home, selling everything to the best advantage and when making a ptucbnsc be Sur? l?get nil y< u can foi yoill dollar. The elm I object in variety farming is that sea sons > hange : some crops w ill In- over productive one year nod the in xt ; l>artial or total failun and in a season m bile (Ute crop is a failure auotli< r is abundant, scarcely ever all crop.* fad iug Iho same season Kveij farmer i should know and Ihoiotiglily study the | demands of home innikels undoi his ? best elitnatic eondi ions. Va.icty faim I ing will give steady employment t<> the l oss, foreman and hired man and Ibis ! is an ilemol save over hiring by day. THK LAURliNSBAR. w. u. mautik, Attorney at LtUV, Lauuknb, - South Cauouina. Will practice-in nil Ciurtsol this sun Attention given to collodions. I. I. JOHNSON. W. a. RtOHKY JOHNSON & K It'll i:v, ATTOilN K V H At LAW. Okkiub- Floating 'Uuruor, N ort, littst .Mil.- oi Public Square. H. y. simpson. O. i). UAitKSDALF SIMPSON ?V UAltKSDALE, Attorneys at Law, LAURENS, SOUTH CAHOLINA Special atn ntlon g Iven to tho Investi gation of titles and collection of olaitus Ii. W. It v 1,1.. I,, W. HIM KINK. W. W. 11am. BAU,, Si ll KINS A BALL, Attorneys at Law, Lauhkns, South Ca hoi.in a. Will practice in all Stale ami United states Court. Special attention given collections Who is;; Will Whitener? eath erc? He is our Fashionable Hair Cutter and Shaver -IN BENDELL.A HOTEL. We Cut jV* rices On Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines. Wc drive our business these hard times by selling at Cut Prices. We don't sit down and croak about the scarcity of money like the old fossils who let purchasers pass on when they won't pay them great long profits. If you want to purchase a Piano or an Or gun conn; and see us and we will sell you. We have on hand the largest und best selected stock of Pianos in the Stute including some of the besl makes on the market, and we aregoitlir to sell them. We guaruntec our prices to be lower than any other reliable dealer will make Our terms for lime purchasers are ca^y. Only a small cash payment required and we make the sailing smooth For Spot ( ash Buyers we will say, yon can buy a Piano or Orgun cheaper from us than lrom any concern in tin; business. We keep constantly on hand a Cull stocK of small instruments, consisting oC Guitars, Banjos, Mandolins, Autoharps, Violins, &,c. Also the various parts, strings and supplies for same We are selling Sewing Machines at ridiculously low prices. If you want one, just intimate it, and you will he surprised how low you can buy one. Our stock of sheet music, both vocal und instrumental, is kept full, and you can get any of the popular and up-to-date songs and music at any lime. Yours i ruly, alexander bros & co (?UKKNV1LLK, s W. H. GIBBES & GO., ? (AGENTS l'OK AM) DEALERS IN) ? Machinery, Vehicles and Mill Supplies. Represent: A. Ii. Farquhur Co., Fngines, Boilers, Saw-Mills, Thres hing Machinos. Chandler & Taylor Co., Engines nntl Boilers. 1 ami bard Iron Works & Supp' Co., Boilers and Saw-Mills. Liddell Co., Cotton Presses 12 gincs and Boilers, Saw Mills. Daniel Prall Gin Co., Cotlon gins and cotton presses. Winship Machine Co..' olton gins and cotton presses. Brown Cotton Gin Co . Co ton gins. Lane Manufacturing Co.. Saw-Mills. St raub Machinery Co., Grist Mills. Braunau & Co., Cam- Mills, ICvaporator pans, etc. Henry R. Worthington, Steam Pumps. Meridian Machine Shops, "'.hinter Full Circle May Presses." I no. E. Chisolm, "Chisolm's $;^5 hay press." Stover Manufacturing Co., Wind mills, tanks and towers. Rife I IydraulieEngine M'f'g Co., Hydraulic Rams. Henry Disslon & Sons, Saws. Deoring Harvesting Co., Harvesting Machinery. Keystone Manufacturing Co., Corn Shredders. |..\. Fay d- ICgun Co., Wood Working Machinery. Studebaker Brothers M'f'g Co., Wagons, Buggies, etc. |. B. McFarlan Carriage Co., Vehicles. New York Belling iC" Tacking Co., Rubber belting and packings. We are in a position to quote Factory Prices on any thing in the Machinery, Vehicle or Mill Supply linos. We keep in stock, Cotton gins. Threshing machines, Hay presses, Binders, Mowers, Reapers, Hay Rakes, Cane Mills. ICvaporator Pans, Furnaces, Saws. Disc Harrows, Pipe and pipe fittings of all kinds. Injectors, Boiler tubes, Pumps, Drive Points, Pump Cylinders, Rubber and Leather Belting, Wagons, Buggies. Road Calls and General Machinery Sup plies. ?WF~ Reliable Goods. &J0F~ Low Prices, Fair Treatment. W. H. GIBBES & CO., So.j Gervais St. Columbia, S. C. Represented in Laurens County by II. E. Gray, Laurens, S.C. Prudential Insurance Co. ^_ 5 OF AMERICA. ?-?^ Home Office, Newark, N. J. John F. Dryden, President. Assets July 1, 1807, $21,250,000. Surplus Over, $4,400,000. New Business Writ Ion 1896, $129,000,000. Income 1896, $14,000,000. All Policies Contain the INCONTESTABLE and NoN-FoRFEITABLB features and Promise to Pay Claims Immediately upon Receipt of Satisfactory Proofs of Death. Also Provide for Cash Values, Loans, Paid-Up and Extended Insurance. I. L. WITHERS, GENERAL AGENT, COLUMBIA? S. C. !l'ifck^?'.??^.."''.^.