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*'*2' . *I . - }Z ESTABLI 'ED 3865 NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 81897. ]I tjW t,,. A YEAR UR TILLA THUK THAT KNOWLESUR '. .,VdjNVRYTHINO - IssE4TIAL. Xe. Also Advise 0 res are 'Beet for 'to'1Which They 'are ]Put-Other Good Advice. Here is a letter for the boys. - I believe that oven an imperfect knowledge of many callings rendors a man happier than perfection in any pne and comparative ignorance of all the rest. Great scientists, discoverers and inventors seem to be neces*ary for the world's progress an4 the good of mankind, but their work is generally ,t the expeaso of their health and happiness. Sir Isaac Newton in his last days ox claimed with a sigh, "I have made a, Olave of myself." His great mini was always on a strain in one dirl. tion. It is said of him that he 4ad a hole cut- in the lower part of the door for his favorite ,at-to6enter and exit, and wjn-shfihad a pair of kit two smaller holes cut for them. The mind is like the body. It m.ust. have a variety of food. It is.like the muscles in the arms or legs. If only one sot are usld the others become weak and will grad ually perish away. I was talking not long ago to a learned judge, a man of fine judicial mind and literary attainment3, but who acknowledged his very limited knowledge of uature and naturo's laws. "I hardly know one tree frow another," said lie, "excepting, of course, the chestnut, hickory nut and walnut. Yes, of course, I know the pine and the oak. Indeed I have never had any occasion to know more for I was raised in towi; and books have absorbed' me." I was ruminating about this be Aause our little girl's mother is eaching her to draw and to paint, and I asked her to draw me a chest nut tree, an oak tree and a maple tree. She is working on them now and has to go out and look at them and examine the bark on the trunk. Und the shape of the limbs and the leaves. I wonder how many boys okind girls can draw a hickory leaf without looking at one. I should like to see their specimens. Thous ands of boys, especially country boys, know all the common trees of their neighborhood, but it requires close and careful observation to de scribe them ...d point out the differ ence. Now there are ten different kinds of oris.ja~ thijs-country, but e'ify!gw4own raised people can name half of them. Then there are different kinds of hickories and pines and ash and elm trees, besides the hackberry, box elder, poplar, beech, locust and cottonwood. Eugene Le Hardy was a very learned and scien tific Frenchman, but thought that a. American cotton grew~on the cot ton wood trees and that we gathered it by using ladders. It is said thiat a Mr. Jackson, of Atlanta, is trying to introduce the ladder kind now and has got, the trees up to fourteen foot high. The study of the trees and shrubs of this southern country is a delight ful and instructive recreation for young people, and I wish they would pay more attention to it. Of course this study requires some knowledge of botany, but that is easily ac quired. This kind of knowledge is more useful and more comforting than a college smattering of celculus and d~jie sections and rhetoric and d.I do not believe thoi-o are ten men in Bartow county who would know ginseng if they woe to sqe it. Not many more know wvhat is father graybeard -or white ash, the medicinal shrub from which old A. Q. Simmons first made the origi nal Simmons liver medicine in 0 win nott county. I know about that, for when I was a young mierchanrt I * sold the first he ever made and con * tinued to sell it -for him for several years and he told me what it was made of. I think, though, that the father graybeard gave out about the time the old man died. I wish that our young people would acqjuire habits of observing things inore closely as they journey along V'A see -rough life. Some people erything and some see nothing y. When should trees be cut. own that are wanted for wood? What kind of wood is the strongest and will boar tho groatest burdon? What kind is the most elastic? What kind the hardost to split? What kind will Ist the longest in the ground! What kind most suit able for pianov. chairs, furniture or wainscoting? What kind for mauls or wedges or canoes? Dr. Oliver Holmes must have studied all about these when he wrote the "One Hoss Shay." "So the doecon liquired of the village folk Wherp. he could find the strongest oak rhatfcouldn't be split nor bent nor ,broke; Pfiat was for spokes and floor and sills; Re sent for lancewood to make the t4h ill ; rhe crossbars were ash from straight eat trees; Phe panels were white wood that cuts like cheese, And the hubs of logs froim the sottler's elm." But perhaps Dr. Holmes got it all Irom some old honest wagon maker, ror they know. I'll bet that Mr. Bradley, of our town, can answer )very question. The boys ought to lind out that black locust and chest aut and osage orange make the best posts, and black gum the best hubs, ,nd persimmon the best wedges or glute, and sassafras the best bow,.. ind white oak the best baskets. In England it is claimed that a yow ree post will last longer than an iron one. The boys ought to know Ohat the barj<s of all trees are non 3onductors of heat and cold and keep them cool in sunimor and warm n winter, and the green leaves are ho lungs that inhale the carbon rrom the air and not only make wood for the tree, but purify the at mosphere that we breathe. And hence every habitation ought to have some trees about it. The boys >ught to know about those beautiful elands in the sea that are of coral lormation and kept growing until hey got above the water, and then 3ome cocoanuts camue floating along and lodged there and sprouted and grow and the leaves of the trees fell iown and rotted and made a soil for more cocoanuts, aid in course of Lime the island became a paradise. rhat is the testimony of the rocks. rho boys should watch the little gassomnor ball that floats away in the air from the sweet little dandelion plant. So light and so feathery that it wvould take a thousand of them to weigh an ounce and yet the seed are there for more planta and they are wrapped, as it wocro, in a blanket to protect thenm from the wvinter's cold. So it is with the seed of the Scotch thistle that is blown about by a breath of air like it wvas nothing, but it has the germ, the embryo of life in iIt, and will find a lodging place somewhere and sleep until spring, and then make no mistake. It will not come up a dandelion, but wvill surely make a tilistlo. In the horti cnltural gardens at London are rasp berry plants- that camoe from seed found in a man's stom)ach wvho had been buried 1,700 years. Study nature a little as you go along, boys, and it will make you wiser and better and happier men. Find out why it is that ii de'ad bird weighs mnore than a live ofie and by what forco or power a buzzard can sail round and round in the air above you and never hat a wing nor wave a feather. It isent every boy wvho can be a Ben Franklin, but every boy can learn something every (lay, and even one fact a day will in course of time make him a wvise man. What a boy vwas Frankl.in I What a man! The youngest of seventeen children, ap - prenticed to a candle maker, next to a printer; ran away from Boston to Philadelp.ihia when seventeen years 0o(1 and -hired to a Mr. Read, and fell in love with Deborah, his daugh tor; was never idle; read and studied in every leisure moment; mastered French, Italia[n, Spanish and Latin; became postmaster of Philadelphia, then postmaster- general of all the colonies; established the Phmiladol phia library, the Philosophical So ciety and the University of Pennseyl vania, and not long after he drew lightning down from heaven with a kite and a string and a key. What a man he was! What a boy! BILT. MW. 'I THE' 30W 1o ANY! .In this day of extravagant advertising we wish to come before the good people of New berry County and the counties adjoining, among whom we have so many good and faithful friends and customers, with some simple and true statements as to what we are doing and what we are selling. In Dress Goods We have everything desirable. Serges, in black and colors---all wool imported goods from 25cto 5Oc. Hen riettas all wool, imported and cannot be excelled any where, at 5Oc, 60c, 75c, $I, $1.25. - -- Our silk warps Henriettas are all that they should be. In Fancies, Novelties And all the new things in Dress Goods we have them. The prices range from 121c to $1.25. Hosiery Is one of our specialties and we have an excellent line. Our lOc and 12'c grades are COOD. Our 25c line isof the BEST. In Undervests, Union Suits for ladies and children--cotton, wool, wool and silk, we have fine lines. Blankets! Blankets! Blankets! We have just o ened a number of cases of these and are going tc sel them very low. Prices begin at 50c per pair and end with large all wool 11-4 at 4.50, 12-4 at $5. Call for these. JACKETS AND CAPES We carry in great variety and in specially good values for the money asked for them. *Ilr D oMestics We can please you. We carry Androscoggin, Barker, Fruits, Pride ofri WAest, Wamsutta, etc , etc. Sheetings, TJickings, Casings. WVe have a line of' Table Damask of good variety and prices from 25c to $1.50 per yard with the Doilies to match. OUlR MILLINERY DEPARTMENT] I lIn charge of Mrs. Redus is as attractive as it has ever been. We have the newest dIesigns'and are up to date. In Our Otlier Store III ~ Are things to please the housekeep)er. C'arpets, Mattings, Floor Cov ermgs~ generally. Crockerywvare of the best makes only. We (do not carriy any stuff which will craze or crack. Prices are very little J if' any higher than the cheap goods. OUR SHOE STOCK Ivery' large. WeV mrake no effort to advertise the lowest pr'ices. ~ We do give the very best to be obtainedl anywhere for the price paid. We do not carry shodldy Shoes at all, we guarantee satisfaction. We Name a Few Lines: . &CO'ClbItdij(of Little Giant School Shoes $ o$.0 .T od&C.sclbae ieo children's and misses' She 75 to $2.50), Allen &Co.'s liofine Shoes 81 to$2. Our own line Ladies' fine Shoes, Welts, Turiins, Bluttoned(. Laced aal1iA prce in Goat and Dongola stock. We have the heavier goods which we know from ' experience to be equal to any maiide. WE PAY CASH bny ~t the l>west prices and always give our customer's the benefit of it. COME AND SEE US.... _ C. &G._S. MOWER_0. HE WAS A GENTLEMAN TRAITS OF TIIEC 011) 1 so1 HO-11111 E1tNEl THEAT sril,l. ASIDI.. i0 Didt Not Wear a Musttimnhko.- I ek All Tlingm Ito led 11i* HWordl of liossor l'relom ligh Tirttt InI womn. [I. S. Caniold, in Chicago Ilorald.J "No gentloian will wear a ius. ta.Cho." That was the dictum of Gon. Montfort Wels, over whoso quiet rst in the thOe heart of Louisiana magnolias have drowsily nodded for many windless sunniors. Ito be longed to the old regim3-tho clean shaven regimo, the anto-bollum regine, the slave-holding regime, the dancing, singing, lighting regimo, the aristocratic regime. Fors non Iutat genus, said the l,114il--chanceo does not change the kind. His typo exists in tho Sjuth today. It is not (Inywhero else, and, most of all places, not on the f4tage. Looking odd timos at the black- im ustached, swaggering caricaturo who treads t he mimic boads and says "sah" and "suh," I lng for throo things: To kick the actor, to kick the dramatist and to find sone man able and will. ing to toll the people who and what a Soutbrr gentloman is. lIe is dis tinct onough to be painted, and I be lievo that, his painting would pay. It is timo that we had hii as he is - creature e3entially difT01r0nt from the buffoois of Hoyt or the serio comic liasco given us by Clay Cl monts. The Southern gentleman was, and is, a man 1 bove the middlo height, with clear cut, feathuros. As in ninety nino cases :ut of a hundred li has not a drop of foreign blood in his veins, he looks like a transplanted Englishmiitni-an EniglishmanI modi lied by sonto centurios of climato and othorialized by a less commercial modo of life. Long contact with naturo has made him a manm of broad views and of healthy instincts. He does not know the valuo of a dollar so well as ho ought, but, to balance tha defoct, he is utterly inac quiainted with the many shady ways of getting a dollar. Ito is well vdl . cated in a literary way and is not. in frequently a linguist. 11o carries him.elf unobtrusively and leaves the swagger to the negro out. for a Sun day holiday. n1K LOVES T1E OPEN. lie and the New Englander, who is his antithosis in mally things, speak the best English to be found on tis side of the Atlantic. The ac cent is somewhat soft and slurring, and there is somiethiing too much of vowel elision, but it, has a pleasing soundi(, and lhe (does not burr his "rm' s" until they rattlo like castanets, as is the case in many p)arts of the West. The Southern gentleman comes of agricultural stock, lie is used to woods and fields and horsosn arid dogs. lie is dlevoted to the chase, and he is a good shot. Except in cities lie does not bestride the bicycle, but lhe sits ini his saddle with a sure grace; lie has the huntsmnan's sont- toes ini --and lie ridoes from the knee, not from thme stirrup. WVoodcraft lhe es teems as a noble craft, anid the art of venery as oneO of thle fine arts. H ir phlysip9al ar(d momntal ap)petitos are b)orni of the fresh air anid they arne sound1(. HIe has p)oetry ini him, as what count ry-bred people have noti --anid lie finds much of it in animated nature. T1he song of birds, the clear bolling of the dleer, the saddening cry of wild fowl in the niighmt, all spealk to thme soul of him. TJhough its liqjuid anid varied niotes have been familiar to him since infancy, lie is never tiredi of the mocking bird, a music that por-s from green thrones through al: the moonlit nights. Host, hostess anm guests in a Southern home will 'requently (drop) all comn voesationi and1 move to thme fronit voer andat to li en to t he wild trilIls anrd roulados anid bravuras of the match - less minstral in gray. The Sou~hmern gent leman is linost. It is a boast handed from father to son that his word1 i'i as good its his bond, andl surely there could b)o no prouder boast. All of his recent od1 ucation in a c'ommnercial way has not boeoi able to grind this out of him. instnnens are niot infreqnnnt* of the surrondor of homesteads in payment of debts, in pyoof of which existed only verbal obligations. The homie. stead, it should be remembered, is protected from execution by law in overy , Stato of the South. The Southerner rogards an execution proof dobt as he regards a gambling debt--ono that must be'paid at any sacrifico since it is not recoverable by legal process. Whore the honor of it family is involvod women will sell their jewels to wipe out the obliga tion. EROlIC IN BUsINESS. Business in the South is transacted in groat degroo by word of mouth. There aro such things as promissory notes, but they are not common. I am speaking here of the country Dommu1n11nities, and not of the larigo cities. There is no marked diffur 11n1co botweoll tilt businosli Imethols of Atlanta and Boston. Indeed, since the closo of the war and the in setting of tho immigration tido tUe South has boon much commercialized. The typo has not eliatigod. That would bi a work of centuries. But methods of life and modes of thought have undorgono modification. This may bo better for the country at largo. We hear much of the glory and bnauty o! the "now South." But I doubt that it is better for the up. per classei of the people. A happier man than the old Southernor never brotlied. "Mark Twain" declares that Wal ter Scott is responsible for the ci,il war. io iians that much reading of "Ivianhoo" and "Tho Talimmau" mi1ado the young mnn11 mad. 'I'hoy dronmed or riding with visor down and Itince in rest for tlie honot of the ino and tle resmio of bo. lcmiguerod dainsels. Ile is mistaken. The popularity of Scott was an effOt, not a cause. The pO1a11 n Ald prost) of tho wizard of the North woro popuilar bocauso the Southern or is by birth and brooding chivalric. Il1 was so before Scott was born and will reIminti so while tie samelo blood is in him. At least. I hope he will. Thi chivalry 1inds its most notic0 able outlet iii the Southerner's atli-. ('u1do toward women. The female if his species is * on it pedeStal. Now and thOn in tle ohl days she strug gled bravely to got down, but he would not, lot her. lie objOets to tbe now woIman, not blcause iho fears her compt1tition, but. because he thinls sho is not. t ruo to horself. nllS (AILLANliTRY. The Southerner's feeling for wo. man is a (qu1er inixture of passion anmd respet. Hie regards her as somiethiing to Iso loved, to be cherish (1d, to bet p)rotectedl. lie cannot get over the belief that she is fragile, and( lie cannot be conivinicd that she is able to withstand hard knocki.. To him all womi-n are pure until demonoustrat ed otherwise, and they are to be treated with deep respet. Thiey airt madoi of finer clay, andi are, ini fact, ai superior order or being. It is 0110 or thme strongest tributes to tiht worth of Southern mother hood that. Sout,bern 80on8 gm-ow up in this belief, andi it noevr leaves them. If ai mani impJrudenItly attempt to de cry womanhiilood to a Southernior that Southerner's mind inistinictively goes hack t,o his mothmer, and( lie is apt to eniforce his~ d1isbelief with the strong arm. Marriages are very happy in thie South aind there are few divorcei'. Inidood, in the lower Carolina there is no such thing as dlivorce. Bo trayal'i are rare. Suits for breach of poise are p)ractically unknown. InviVt5ons of the hiouisehold seldom occur. A Southerner who sued a mian for dlamalges for alienating his wife's affoe.ions simp~ly could not live ini the counitry. in every South - ern honie standls the silent sentinel of the lireside the shotgun. This masy be aigains. tihe lawv, hut it keej a thiing4 o<iuiet. I suppose that somse day woe will have a Southlern gent lemnli ill drama anud in lit eraturze. It ought to be on- y to drawv him, but the painter shonid forget all thait lie has so0on of Hoyt, or Clay Clement, or Augustus Th'iornais. We have hiad the true Now Eniglanider in books mnanmy times. W o have had him on the stage. '"Shore Acres'' is at notabloh inistance. Weo have had1( t lie true westerner, al though Brot Harte is not to be 'eodite,d with hiis creat1on. Let na lbopo) for till true Southerner. There is at literary lead in the South if somo11 publlisher or magaine editor has the skill aind enternrise tonmine for it