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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 224891. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR A BOMBSHELL IN COLUMBIA. Irregularities in the Adjutant General's Omee-The Non-Payment and Protest of Checks Drawn by Gen. Bonham The Shortage Between $1,000 and $2,000-Gen. Bonham Ac knowledges His Responsi bility. [Special to the News and Courier.J COLUMBIA, January 15.-Yesterday Adj. Gen. Farley handed the Governor the following statement, and last night copies were given to the press. Later the governor decided to withhold it at the earnest plea of Gen. Bonham. To day permission was given to publish it, Governor Tillman saying that he con sidered it his duty to do so: "COLUMBIA, S. C., January 14,1891. "His Excellency B. R. Tillman, Gov ernor of State of South Carolina, Co lumbia,-.S. C.-Dear Sir: Having in formally communicated to your Excel lency and also the Hon. Attorney Gen eral Pope on yesterday certain facts relative to the disbursements of the ap propriation of 1890 for the support and maintenante of the militia of this State, I deem it my duty to submit the fol lowing statement of the whole matter with accompanying letters and then to await further instructions from your Excellency as to the course to be pur sued. "On January 8, 1891, I received the enclosed letter from the Hon. A. M. Youmans, of Hampton County, to the effect that 'Capt. A. R. Brunson, Troop A. 1st regiment S. C. cavalry, had re ceived from Gen. M. L. Bonham a check on the Carolina National Bank of Columbia, S. C., for $156, being the amount of the appropriation for his company for 1890; that the notice to him by Gen. Bonham that he had drawn and sent the check is dated No vember 19, 1890, and postmarked De cember 2 at the postoffice in Columbia. The cheek has been received, and is made payable 'to order.' Capt. Bron son endorsed the check, it has been presented to the bank for payment, and payment refused by the bank, and the check gone to protest, as shown by the notice of S. N. Walker, notary public. Now what we desire you to do is to look into the inatter at once for us, and write at your earliest convenience the cause of the trouble, as it is creating ex citement and unfavorable comment bere.' "Gen. Bonham coming into the office neit morning, the 9th, I imme diately brought the matter to his at tention by handing himthe letter re ceived. He said; 'I have been away in Georgetown for some time, and I will attend to the matter at once,' as 'there is some mistake.' I answered the letter from Mr. Youmans, telling him what I had done and repeated what Gen. Bonham said. "Trusting that the matter was all right, I said and did nothing until January 12, when I received the en closed letter from Mr. Butler Hagood, of Barnwell, dated January 10, stating as follows: 'I have been requested by Capt. 3. A. Haynes to enclose you no Stice of protest issued by the Carolina National Bank of Columbia for a check for $148, issued by Gen. Bonham for the quota of State appropriation to the Hagood Guards, and asking: 'Will you kindly look into the matter and write Capt. Hayes at A ppleton?'' On -re ceipt of this letter I at once went to the Carolina National Banik to find if any~ other cheek had been protested, and found from the statemen t of the cash ier that some eight or ten checks aver aging about $150 each, had been pre sented from various parts and had gone to protest from non-pay mient, no funds being on band to meet them. I again went to Gen. Bonham and told him of thc receipt of Mr. Hagood's letter and * the, contents, and also of the facts learned at the Naational Bank. He again informed me that these checks had been presented during his absence in Georgetown, and that he was pre pared to meet every one of them, with other explauations as to the custom of paying these claims in the past. S-"Under the circumstances I deemed it my duty to ennsult with Attorney General Pope and yourself in regard to the matter, as I did on yesterday eve ning. Early this morning, after some * conference with Col. Wilie Jones, cashier of the Carolina National Bank, as to the amount protested, I again ap proached Gen. Bonhamn on the subject, and at my suggestion we came to thbe office of Attorney General Pope and had another statement of the matter. Gen. Bonham reiterated his former statement to the effect that checks had been presented during his absence, and that he was prepared to meet them when presented again. "After this conversation with Gen. Pope, by . agreement, Gen. Bonham and I went to the National Bank to see -Col. Wilie Jones, the cashier, and it was there arranged, at the instance of if Gen. Bonhami, that Col- Jones should recall the protested checks or drafts for payment, and G3en. Bonham then ' drew and left with Col. Jones a draft on the general manager of the Union Central Life Insurance Company, which he represents here, for *2,000, which, it was estimated, would cover e protested paper. - "At Gen. Bonham's request the draft, Is to be forwarded to the general man ager for his endorsement, and then sent ' to the general office in - for pay ment, Gen. Bonham stating that he had already arranged and given bond and ecuityfor the amont desired. "t is impossible at this time for me by the protested paper or the amount of pay now due and in arrears to the troops, as all of the receipts have not *yet come in to this office, and some of them represent checks which have not been honored, but it can be approx imated as soon as the protested drafts are returned to the National Bank. "Such is the situation at present, and I will make no comments until further developments. I would say, in conclu sion, however, that as this is neither a bonded nor a disbursing office, proper ly speaking, I see no reason why the unnecessary custom which-: ems here tofore to have prevailed uld con tinue. The amounts due the troops from year to year can be drawn from the treasury on warrant by the - and signed by the - in favor of and to 'the order of' the companies to whom the money is due without passing through' this office, which I do not think the law contemplates. Possibly is this had been done heretofore the ap parent trouble now confronting us might have been avoided. "It may be necessary or well to add that all that has been done so far has been done witl as kindly a spirit as pos gible and with a.view to the importance of securing the money due to the troops still left unpaid. I am, very respect fully, your obedient servant, "H. L. FARLEY.. "Adjutant and Inspector General." The notice of protest for the check for $148, in favor of Capt. Hayes, is ap pended, as also are the letters from Messrs. Butler Hagood and A. M. Youmans. The former bears the date of January 10 and the latter that of January 7. Gen. Bonham telegraphed for Col. Aldrich, his brother-in-law, and he ar rived on th, night train from Barnwell. He was met at the depot by Gen. Far ley and taken at once to the Executive mansion, where he held a conference with the Governor. After the consultation Col. Aldrich called at the Bureau and stated that Gen. Bonham wonld to-morrow give to the press a full statement of his side of the case. He will no doubt make a frank acknowledgment of the use of the money and assume the conse quences. In an official way the above is a con plete statement of the whole case, and there was little more to add. The mat ter in some way became known among many citizens this afternoon, and it was freely discussed in all its bearings. Gen. Bonham was visited at his resi dence to-night by the News and Cou rier's representative, and the columns of the paper offered him to make any statement he might desire. He was found in bed, and said he was suffering from the grip. When told that the Governor had given the statement out for publication he seemed very much surprised. He thanked the reporter for calling, but said he had nothing more to say. LATER DEVELOPMENTS. COLUMBIA, January 16.-The publi cation of the statement of Gen. Farley of the non-payment of checks drawn by Gen. M. L. Bonham while Adjutanut General of the State was the general topic of talk to-day. It is the belief of Gen. Bonham's friends that the trouble was caused by Gen. Bonham's miscal culation of his resources. Gen Bonham is still confined to his bed and is quite ill with a severe attack of "Ia grippe," which is rendered worse by his condition of extreme nervous prostration brought on by the exeite ment of the last few days. MHe was too ill to see newspaper men to-day. C'ol Aldrich has assumed the control of his side of the case, and Governor Tillman said to-day that he would now have no further tonnection with the matter, unless Gen Bonham should fail to make good his protested checks. In that ease be would take steps to see that the interests of the State were preserved. He referred the paper Iepre sentatives to Col Aldrich for the pro mised statements of Gen Bonham and any subsequent events. Gen Farley was also seen., andi he said substantially the same things as the Governor.. The News and Courier's represenita tive then visited Gen Bonham's resi dence and was informed that h~e could not be seen. One of his family, how ever, gave the following brief an~d con cise statement: "Gen. Bonham is too unwell to pre pare hisstatement for the public to-dmiy. For thbe present he desiree it to be known that the shortage in his accounts will be made good and the State will lose nothing." It was learned the money would be paid by himself and members of his family, and his friends would have nothing to do with that portion of the matter. This has been arranged for and the payment will be made as soon as possible. It is also learned that Gen. Bonham had been promised a large loan of several thousand dollars by a certain institution, but that the recent depression of the money market caused it to fail him. G;EN. BONHAM'S STATEMENT. The correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle last night sent out a part of a statement that Gen. Bonham had prepared but asked to be withheld. It is no longer a private matter, and here it is: "To his Excellency B. Ri. Tillman, Governor of South Carolina-Sir: Through thbe kindness of Gen. Farlev I have been shown a copy of a letter ad dressed by him to you upon the sub ject of disbursement by me of the fund in aid of the militia for the year 1890. If it is the purpose of your Excellency to make the same public, I beg that you permit the publication of thiss scate ment along with it. "It has been the custom in the A dju tant General's office to draw this fund from the treasury and deposit it in. bank and issue checks against it, which custom was followed in this instance. Frequently, as you may perhaps know, these checks are held back by the com paiiies to whom they are sent for months, but when presented are paid by the Adjutant and Inspector General. "Under the stress of circumstances of a nature both painful and delicate, and which, therefore, I beg not to refer to here, I had overdrawn my account at the bank, but had made arrangements to meet these checks as they were pre sented; but during my absence~a num ber of them unexpectedly came in and were protested for non-payment. As Gen Farley states in his communica tion to you I went with him to the bank and there made arrangements to recall these checks and to pay them upon their return. "This is a frank statement of the case, and is not made by way of confession and avoidance, but that if it is your purpose to make public these matters I desired that this. statement should appear als . I know full well that I must bear -he consequences of my act at the hands of the public, but I desire to meet every one of these outstanding obligations, and to that end I trust my efforts will not be embarrassed by any present publication of these matters. I am, sir, respectfully yours." "M. L. BONHAM. Col.. Aldrich to-night said that no further statement would be made - for the present. MIDNIGHT RUMORS. It is currently states late to-night that -Mr. George Symmers, an expert book-keeper, has been secured and is now at work upon the books of Gen. Bonham's office. Tho Governor Finds a Mare's Nest. [Special to News and Courier.1 COLUMBIA, S. C., January 16.-Gov ernor Tilluman has discovered that there are no itemized statements of the dis bursement of the contingent fund on file in the office and that no vouchers for the various items have been kept on recorh. He says: "This you can see from the report of the Comptroller General," and that official has no right to make any payments of the fuud without such itemized statements. It is thought that the records may have been misplaced, but this is hardly prob able. WHAT EX-SECRETARY GONZALES SAYS. Mr. W. E. Gonzales, the private sec retary of ex-Governor Richardson, was seen -to-night. He said that upon re turning to Columbia this evening he had noticed in the Evening Record something derogatory to the conduct of the Governor's office while he was sec retary. He intended seeing Governor Tillman on the subject to-morrow morning, but in the meantime would ma,e a statement of the facts. It was said that the vouchers for contingent and other funds used by the Governor were not on file in the,Gov ernor's office. This is perfectly correct. They are not on file in that office, be cause that office has nothing to do with these vouchers. Before the warrant for the mony can be issusd by the Comptroller General these vouchers must be filed with the Comptroller General. They are a receipt to him for his warrant. This fact is certainly not unknown to the Governor's office. .In regard to the annual statement of expenditures not being published in the Comptroller General's report, Mr. Gonzales said that it is customary for these statements to be published in the Comptroller's report, but when so p)ublished the reports close on the 31st of October, after which no money can be drawn. This year, as one Governor was going out, it was deemed advisa ble and proper that he should pay all the debts contracted by the office up to the time of his retiring. To do this it was necessary to keep the account open after October 31. This was done with the consent of the Comp trolier GeneralPs office, and as the accounts were kept open until D)ecemnber 1, no statement could be made until they were closed. Then the accounts were closed 'on December 1, the statement was filed in the Comp troller General's office, and this was after his report had gon eto press. The matter is very simple and it is difficult to see how there could have been any misunderstanding about it. None of these matters are of record in the Gover nor's office. The Comptroller General's office is where they should be and where they are. 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I've caught cold all over. There's a pain in my breast or my diagram or diaphram or epigram or whatever they call it, and these children have got my aged bosom plastered all over with turpentine and flannel. They found some capsule in a box and made me take them because it was medicine and was in mamma's drawer. I've no idea what it was, but I can't be worsted. I took them heroi cally and said let 'em rip. I got to thinking about wills and codicils and what would become of the family and who would wake up the children in the morning and get them off to school. Who would keep up the supplies? Who would do this and do that, and I drop ped off to sleep and dreamed that I was dead, and that gentle hands had hurried me into an elevator that reached from earth to heaven, and it was crowded with disembodied spirits whom I did not know. They had visi ble forms and faces, but their material bodies were- gone, and they passed through each other without impedi ment. And these are spirits of the dead I thought, and I wondered if I too was a spirit. I looked at my hands and they seemed to be there; I tried to clasp them and found them only shadows pictures of hands. I touched my cheek and it was not there. Timidly I touched the form of one beside me and there was nothing to touch. An angel stood by the golden cord that seemed to run the elevator and I said, "Where are we going." "To the city of Jeru salem" said~ he, "the holy city. The elevator reaches to the lowest gate." "To heaven," said I. "Yes," he replied, "to the lowest heaven. Unly the saints go higher. There is another elevator for them." Thank the good Lord for his mercy thought I, and I felt calm and serene beyond all expression. By the time we were up among the stars and I was about to inquire how much farther we had to go Jessie leaned over me and asked me if the turpentine burLed me and I never reached the goldan gate at all. I wonder where heaven is-I wonder where this uni verse ends. When I am sick my mind runs on these things and I feel so little, so contemptible, so much like an atom, a microbe, a bacteria, a nothing com pared with the boundless universe when I get well and strong I can strut around and talk big and magnify my sell and feel almost as consequential as the Atlanta nabobs do when strutting around in the Kimball house. The idea of a microbe strutting and putting on airs-just ponder it for a moment. I was talking to the children the other night about astronomy and I said, I am a traveler,~ a great trayeler; I have traveled forty thousand million of miles in my life. I was born travel ing, I can beat railroads and telegraph. When I travel, I make 68,000 miles an hour and don't exert myself a bit. I can make over 1,500,000 miles in a day and turn a summerset 8,000 miles high in the bargain-I turn one every day when I am on the road. I traveled nearly 000,000,000 miles last year. And so I made the children figure it all.up so as to impress upon them the immensity of space and the mighty power of God. I knew an old man-a lawyer-who didn't belie#e in any of these things. He said it was not ac cording to scripture. He dident believe the earth was round or that it turned over. He said the scriptures spoke of the ends of tbe earth, and the four corners of the earth, and that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still just like he did the moon, and they both stood still. We used to argue with him and tell him that navigators had sailed all around the earth, but it was no use, and we gave him up. I know lots of sensible people who don't believe that astronomers know anything about these immense dis tances and orbits and weights of the planets. They say it is all guess work, pretty much, and that it is impossible to tell how far it is from one place to another, or one planet to another, without measuring it with a chain or a rod-pole or a string or something. And here is where a higher education comes in and broadens the mind and elevates it to a higher plane. There is no science so exact and so fully established as astronomy. The distance from here to Atlanta is not so accurately known as the earth's orbit around the sun. A great astronomer like Herschel or New ton or La* Place can look through the telescope at Jupiter's moons when they are in an eclipse and then mix up a few logrithms and fluxions and parallaxes and' tell how fast light travels and how far it is to the remotest planet in the universe. The children wanted to know why the new year began with January, and I couldn't tell them. Christmas would have been a better day. The new era should have begun with the birth of tisead of d week later; or the year should begin with the birth of spring-the 21st of March, when nature is putting on new garments. Those old philosophers got things awfully mixed up anyhow. Their years used to be measured by the moon, and they had thirteen months, but that diden't fit, and so they fell back to ten months of thirty-six days each, and that dident fit, and next, they put in two more months and had no leap year, and at last, Pope Gregory fixed the measure all right, just as we have it now. It was only in the last century that the civilized nations adopted the new time. Russia hasent adopted it yet, but I don't know whether she is civilized or not. January was a right good name for the first month. He was a watchful old fellow and had two faces, and could look before him and behind him at the same time. It is a good idea for a man to look back over the year that has gone and review his conduct, and then look forward and promise to do better. But most of the months were named for heathen gods who never existed, and so were the days of the week. I wish the school children would read about them and be able to answer what March means, and April and Wednesday and Thursday, and the other names. Gather knowledge as you go along-useful knowledge-and store it away. If you haven't got the books, borrow them from somebody and read. I asked two young men yesterday how far it was to the sun, and they had no idea. But I am sick, and don't care very much how far it is. -BILL ARP. SPLEXDID CHARITY. Emma Abbott Leaves Large Sums of Money to Churches and Charitable Instl tutions. NEN YORK, Ja'nuary 12.-The will of the late Emma Abbott was filed for probate to-day. The will was executed May 28, 1890, and names James L. Mitchell, Van Houghton and William F. Ducning as executors. She first directs that her body be tested by electricity to ascertain if life be extinct, and then to be cremated. She requires her executors to deposit enough money with the Farmers' Loan and Trust company to enable them to pay interest amouutiug to $500, per month to Seth Abbott, her father. In the United States Trust dompany, $100,000 is to be deposited, and from it her mother Almira M. Abbott is to be -paid also $400-per month. . Martha E. Wetherall, mother of her deceased husband, it to get $10,000. Her brother, Leon H. Abbott, gets$25, 000. Her trothers, George and Fred erick, get $25,000 each, and her sister, Mrs. Lizzie Abbott Clark, $25,000. Each ;of the children of the follow ing persons get $5,000: Leon Abbott, George H. Abbott, Mrs. Etta Clark (deceased) and Mrs. M. L. Weatherall. Van Houghton gets $10,000, and her secretary, D, A. Considine, $5,000. The following churches get $5,000 each: Congregational church, of Glou chester, Mass.; Plymouth church, of Brooklyn; Brooklyn Tabernacle; Madi son Avenue Baptist church; Fourth Avenue Presbyterian church; Church of Divine Paternity, ~all of this city; Citadel Square Baptist church, of Charleston, S. C.; and Rose Hill Meth odist Episcopal church, and St. Lukes M. E., both of this i ity. The residue of her estate is to de di vided share and share alike, among the following: Foundling asylum of sister's of charity, children's aid society for support of newsboys' lodging house, home for friendless of Newark, N. J., Chapin home for the aged and infirm, house of mercy in East Eighty-sixth street, St. John's Guild, for excursions for mothers and children in summer; Hebrew benevolent society; sanitarium for Hebrew children; Mrs. S. V. White of Brooklyn, and Mrs. Sarah Bird, a friend of Mrs. White. She hopes these ladies will use their shares in charity. The Southern Farm. The January issue of The Southern Farm surpasses any New Years' issue of an agricultural paper ever printed. It is 80 pages, superbly illustrated, and its cover pages are printed in blue and gold. The Southern Farm was estab lished by that friend of the farmer, Henry W. Grady, and was a special pet of his. Mrs. Grady retzins Mr. Grady's interest in The Farm, and no effort or expense has been spated to make each number better than the last, until in the January i-sue we find the most complete farm paper on earth. "Thoughts for the Month," "Answers to Inquiries," by Dr. Win. L. Jones, editor of The Farm, are alone worth the price to any farmer. The January con tains besides these, special letters from Mrs. WV. H. Felton, Bill Arp, Plunkett, Jeff Wellborn, Geo. Q. Dow, Mrs. J. B. Howe, Horticulture by S. A. Cook; Poultry by H. A. Kuhns; a complete household department which, in future, will be conducted by that admirable and brilliant woman, Mrs. Dr. WV. K. Felton; illustrated sketches by Uncle Remus and Wmn. Perry Brown; and scores of letters from the field contain ing useful information which no farmer can afford to do without. Each de partment is brimming over with good things. If you want to see the New Year's issue, simply send your address on a postal card for a sample copy. Ad dress The Southern Farm, Atlanta, Ga. The weakness and debility which result from illness may be speedily evercome by the use of Ayer's Sarsa parilla. This is a safe, but powerful tonic, assists digestion, regulates the [tivser and kidneys, and cleanses the h1hm.1 am of diease Reminiscences of "Lang Syne" in the Old Dutch Fork. rWritten for The Herald and News.] Well, Mr. Editor, it has been quite a little while since my pen graced the columns of The Herald and News, but we are at home again, happy and se rene! Some people do not like home -their calmness is frequently disturbed at home-and they sometimes express a preference for a warmer climate to their homes. But I love my home, and when away from home any length of time there seems to be a magnet there which has wonderfully attractive pow ers by which I am drawn thither. Yes, I have been away-y-y-y-y down in the Dutch Fork of Lexington-(the Dutch Fork proper)-been down there in the harrow business. I harrowed some people, and some harrowed me; but upon the whole we quit about even with a small balance to my individual credit. I am encouraged to go back again. While in this good old Fork I took occasion to visit the place of my nativity, and the place where I spent the days of my boyhood. I had not been to the place where I was born for more than thirty years, and oh, how changed. Not a single land-mark left by which I could tell that there once lived a happy little family-except an old well. The place where the dwelling and other buildings stood is now grown up in pines and briars. The fields that were there forty years ago are now forests, and the original forests are all cut down and the lands are cultivated. Oh, what sad memories rushed into my mind as I stood all alone on this sacred spot. Tears involuntarily coursed rapidly down my cheeks as I contemplated the past and the present. A kind father, a loving mother, and two younger brothers once composed the happy family that opce lived here. The thought, where are they now ? was so sad- so very sad! The remains of my dear mother lie peaceably at Spring Hill, those of my father near Aberdeen, Arkansas, one brother near Vicksburg, Miss., and one near Frank lin, Ky., victims of the cruel war. I, alone, am left-the last to hear the command, "It is enough, come up higher." I now turn to a more pleasant scene! The place of my boyhood at Spring Hill. Though I have not lived there for- thirty years, I visit the place frequently, and then there are many of the old land marks which still remain. The old home, though in an improved and enlarged condition, still remains. The old spring, from which I have carried many pails of water for my mother, is there, and the spring branch, with its little holes of min nows and crawfish and "bull frogs," where I used to wade after them and fish for with a pin-hook, and get my "breeches" wet and then get a spank ing for it, are all quite familiar. Another familiar object is the old mulberry tree which I climbed many times forty-five years ago, for the inul berries, and tear my "breeches," and then get a good, sound spanking, and be made to wear patched breeches as long as there was a shred of them. It is wonderful how a sharp spanking will impress a boy's memory. The big ditch is still there, along which I with other boys who are now grey headed, used to hunt "yaller jackets" and wasps' nests on Sunday, and when we could find one, especially a "yaller jacket's" nest-would carry water, often muddy water, in our wool hats to first give tliem a good wetting before attacking with the brush. We would often have to go home with the muddy water streaking down our necks and faces, and a swelled eye or lip, or ear, and get a good h-arp spanking to re mind a fellow that Sunday was no time to fight yaller jackets. The spanking in those good old times: was usually performed with a hickory switch from 2} to three feet long, and very sharp and keen. But there are~ other and more important landmarks still remamning at and near SpringHill. There are specimens of real, live, hu man beings of no ordinary longevity. The first I will speak of is Mr. and Mrs. Michael Slice, both of whom are past 90 years of age. I did not go to see this venerable couple, but from the best information I could gather, 'they are between 90 and 93 years old. They have lived together as man and wife for abo'ut 70 years, and at, or very near where they were born and reared. Next is Grandma Eleazer, (Mrs. Nancy Eleazer nce Haltiwanger), who is now 91 years old.'Grandma Eleazer's health and appetite are very good. Her vision is failing, and her hearing is bad. She is a great conversationalist, and when in her company you must talk, though it must be in a loud tone. Her mind, when carried back to her girlish days and young womanhood, is quits vigorou3 and correct, but when conversing about recent and quite modern things and affairs, &c., her mind is very treacherous and confused. She eats heartily--sleeps well, and knits all the time when awake. She says that she can't be contented and not work. Knitting is her favorite pastime. She goes to church regularly, and goes from place to place among her children. Next is Uncle Jake, (Jacob Earle) who is now 89ye ars old, and promises to live quite awhile yet. He is a most remarkable man. His whole being is in good condition,-good health, good hearing-good eyesight and good mem ory. In fact none of his mental and but little of his physical being has given away. He has always worked hard and lived plainly but very sub stantially ; works every day now ; cut and splt 200 rails a day ; walks 21 miles to church and back regularly. These four persons were all old people when I was a boy 45 years ago. Boys and girls of this present time, especial ly you who live around and in these towns and villages, &c., don't you one time think that you will ever live to that ripe old age, for I tell you now you will never be octogenarians, because you smoke too many cigarettes, chew too much chewing gum, keep too late hours, and lie in bed too late of morn ings. These old people didn't smoke cigarettes, and use chewing gum, and paints and powders, neither did they keep late hours at night, and late hours in bed in the morning, but they adopted the old maxim, "Early to bed and early to rise, To make them healthy, wealthy and wise." And living up to this motto, and in dulging in such healthful exercises as plowing, hoeing, mauling, chopping, ditching, making fences, cutting wheat and oats, threshing, ginning, picking cotton, weaving, spinning, knitting, washing, ironing, patching, darning, and cooking over the fire, have made them men and women- whose lives are not a blank on nature's great book of deeds... YUBE. Prosperity in the Field of Manufacturing Enterprise. Christmas holidays are over and a new year has dawned upon us, and we find Prosperity much the same as it was twelve months ago. The year of Grace, 1890, passed without giving Prosperity a cotton mill, oil mill, tan nery, sash, blind and door factory, can ning factory, or even the brick yard. The year passed and none of these in stitutions put in an appearance. The present year, however, bids fair to be fruitful with enterprises. Already a strong and reliable company.has been organized and officered for the manu facture and sale of the Bonham Adjust able Harrow. The officers of this company are, J. M. Wheeler, of the firm of Wheeler & Moseley, bankers, President; H. S. Boo z?r, of the firm of Boozer & Bowers, cotton buyers, secretary and treasurer. The board of directors are J. M. Wheel er, A.'H. Wheeler, A. M. Wyse, H. S. Boozer, A. H. Kohn and L. S. Bowers. The company is composed of rigidly staunch business men, andrepresentsa capital of more than $100,000. The com pany is entirely responsible for any contracts that they will undertake to make. They have purchased the whole State of Texas from the patentee~ind on Monday last Messrs. A. H. Kohn and A. Ml. Wyse, general agents of the company, started for the Lone Star State to canvass it in the interest of the company. The company made a wise selection of these two gentlemen. They are not only business men of a high standard, but they are gentlemen of genial and affable dispositions and pleasing man ners and address, and we predict for them a successful undertaking. January 14, 1891. ' YUBE. THE INDIANSWAE OVER. All the Hostiles Encamped Near the Agency. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-A Special from the Evening Star's staff corres pondent from Pine ridge Agency to-day, says: The Sioux outbreak of 1890-91 is over. There may be, and probably will be, trouble with a few small de tached bands of hostiles, but the great majority of those who revolted against the authority of the United States gov ernment have removed their war paint and are camped near the Friendly In dians, to the Southwest of the agency, just across White Clay Creek. INDIAN CHIEFS TO VISIT WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Jan." 15.-A telegram. was received at the War Department to-day from General Miles, asking per mission for a number of Sioux chiefs to visit Washington for the purpose of conferring with the Presideas~ in regard to their condition. After consulting with Secretary Noble, Secretary Proc tor telegraphed General Miles, giving the desired permission. General Miles says sending the chiefs East will ans wer a double purpose, namely, satisfy them and bridge over the transition period between war and peace, dispel distrust and hostility and restore confi dence. It will also be a guarantee of peace while they are absent. Will It Ever Get Here? I.CHARLESTON, S. C., Jan. 15.-The sale of the Blackville, Newberry and Alston railroad, for $110,000 to the East Shore Terminal Railroad Company, was to-day confirmed by the stockhold ers. The line is twenty miles long and runs through the Kaolin district of the State. Some of the herbs in Hall's Hair Renewer, that wonderful preparation for restoring the color and thickening the growth of the hair, grow plentifuilly in New England. Eczema, scalp covered with eruptions doctors proven valueless. P. P. P. was, tried and the hair began to grow again, not a pimple can be seen, and P. P. P. again proved itself a wonderful skin cure. Rhenmatism Cured. PoSTDA MER'S RED STAR STORE, LAKE CITY, FLA. P. P. P. Mlanufacturing Co.: GENTS-Have 'suffered with Rheu matism for some time, and tried great many remedies, but could find no re lief until I used your great and bene ficial P. P. P. I recommend it to suf fering humanity. Yours, J. PoTSDAMER. You can be cheerful and happy only when you are well. If you feel "out of ps take Dr. McLean's Sarsa THE ARIZONA KICKER. Eastern Journalists Have to Get AceU 'mated. In its last is ue, which was three days late, owing to a circumstance be low narrated, the Arizona Kicker says. ONE MORE UNFoRTUNATE.--The other day a tenderfoot who said he - had been a reporter on the Pittsburg = Chronicle, came along and struck'us for a job, and~we set him to work Mon day on the agricultural department of the paper. We ,warned him against the strange climate of this strange : country, and that he must not attempt' to handle anything until he first,. asked the name of it. After -two or three hours he got the swell-b and went out to chin w' -ys, and that afternoon we buried him. He had heard tell of jackass rabbits, but - had never seen one, and somebody made him believe that Col. Moore's -. := mule, which was tied near the post office, was one of the gentle creatures of the plains. He was looking to see if the rabbit's feet were webbed when the calamity came. Mortum bum, which is Latin for he didn't know it was = loaded, and that we have his latch ' key, five cents in monoy and a sum. mer necktie which we will forward to his friends on request. TOLD It So.-Three months ago when a young man who had stuck type for thirty-five cents. per M on a Cleveland paper, and had knocked off because he couldn't agree with the ed torial policy of the paper, came out here to establish a plant and grow o sa wool on- his back. We sat down and talked to him like a brother. There's nothing mean about us. We don't want the earth. We have a great weekly newspaper, a butcher shop, grocery, saddlery, shoe shop, mil linery store and signal service bureau all under one roof, and we don't care how many other enterprises are established in this wild west. This young man planned to start aJ weekly over at Pedro Valley, and we warned him to pitch into the Czar of Russia and go light on the boys at home. That's the safe policy while learning to shoot right and left handed. He didn't seem to take kindly to our advice, and our last words, as we lent him sixteen letters out of a font of job type, were to prepare for the up-hills and down-hills- of the hereafter. The sequel proves that. we were correet. He issued one edition, jabbed his bome -subscribers, and now he sleeps on lot No. 17, section 21, of Tbwer's sub-divi sion of the 2,000 acre tract. He died a- ~ victim of the climate, assisted by will ing hands. TooK A WALK.-Any particularlac of interest on our editorial page this week must must lead to a little incident which occurred Tuesday forenoon. A cross-eyed pressman, who was working himself from San Francisco to Boston q to see his mother die, had put ina couple of weeks with us as a literary editor. He seemed a prudent, level- - headed fellow, and we passed in his I copy without reading It. What did he do but ring in a little item to the effect that four aces always beat a royalfiush, . - no matter what old liar held to the contrary. Col. Johnson, who is Ari zona authority on poker, ca ne around to have a look at our man and ask where and how we had captured him, and he had scarcely stepped inside the office when the pressman lost his nerve and began to shoot.- - What was the Colonels gain was our loss. We had a finger split by a bullet, I the devil got a rake across the skull, and the foreman now carries his arm in a sling. The colonel, it is needless - to say, was untouched. When- our young man got through shooting at everybody except the man he wanted to hit, we assisted to take him out, head him for the cactus plantation, -- and start him off'. He won't see his mother die-not if he keeps on in that direction. Tenderfoots sailing in this direction should bear in mind that our customs, ways and habits are somc what different from those of Boston and New York, and on arriving in this locality they should expect to be ad vised and posted by~ citizens who can exhibit nine graves in their private burying grounds. A Thunig Man Kills Himself. [Lancaster Ledger.] Mr. Graham Joyner, a young man about 18 to 20 years old, son of Mr. Hiram Joyner of this county, accident ally killed himself last Sunday while fooling with an old pistol, the cylinder of which he was trying to make re volve. The weapon exploded as he was looking down the barrel, the ball entering his head. Hie died in about two hours after he was shot. The G., C. and N. Railroad. The Georgia, Cailiua and Northern Railroad is finished to the Savannah River on the Carolina side. The work of bridge building is going on and by October, 1, 1891, the Seaboard Air Line system, which now extends from Portsmouth, Va., to Abbeville, S. C., will, it is confidently expected, be running through trains between Ports mouth and Atlanta, Ga. ~This road is very thoroughly built. Stone culverts and iron bridges have been put up along the line, and the construction has been slow but complete in every way. The new road is 931 miles in length. When you are constipated have head ache, or loss of appetite take Dr. J. H. McLean's Liver and Kidney Pillets; they are pleasant to take and will you.