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T LBLS ED18. >NEWBERRY, S., C., FRIDAY, OCTCBER 8,97TWIEAEK,1.0AYR HM TCLLV THU THAT KNOWLIDOE rdF EV8VVTUlINO'IS-s9NTIAL. Ae Also Advise 0 The on-Into) m1 reeM are Dest for d'to 'Whiah They 'are Put-Other Oood Auvice. Here is a letter for the boys. - I believe that oven an imperfoct knowledge of many callings renders a man happier than perfection in any ne and comparative ignorance of all the rest. Great scientists, discoverers and inventors seem to be necessary for the world's progress and the good of mankind, but their work is generally &t the expenso of their health and happiness. Sir Isaac Newton in his last days ox. claimed with a sigh, "I have made a, Plave of myself." His great mi was always on a strain in one dir e tion. It is said of him that he ind a hole cut- in the lower part,of the door for his favorite gat40'enter and Oilt, and wUhQ-siA'ad a pair of kit k W 6tM*rid two smaller holes cut for the'. 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 set are usdd 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 attainments, but who acknowledged his very limited knowledge of nature and nature's laws. "I hardly know one tree from another," said he, "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 to\vrq and books have absorbed, me." I was ruminating about this be ause our little girl's mother is teaching her to draw and to paint, and I asked her to draw me a chost 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. 'and the shape of the limbs and the leaves. I wonder how many boys 4.nd 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 and point out the differ. once. Now there are ten different ~~kinds of ogai.n--this -country, but * eisfeW4'own raised people can name half of then: T[hen there are different kinda of hickories and pines and ash and elm trees, besides tbe hackberry, box elder, poplar, beech, locust and cottonwood. Engene Le Hardy was a very learned and scien tific Frenchman, but thought that American cotton grew on the cot ton wood trees and that we gathered it Sby using ladders. It is said that~ a Mr. Jackson, of Atlanta, is trying to introduce the ladder kind now and has got the trees up to fourteen feet high.. Tfhe 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 conirde this study require9 some k'uowledge of botany, but that is easily ac quired. This kind of knowledge is more useful and more comforting than a college smattering of calculus and ~pic sections and rhetoric and d.A I do not believe there are ten men in Bartow county wVho * would know ginseng if they were to sge it. Not many more know what is father graybeard -or white ash, the medicinal shrub from which old1 A. Q. Simmons first made the origi nal Simmona liver medicine in 0 win nett county. I know about that, for when I was a young merchant 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, t,hat the * father graybeard gave out about the time the old man died.' I wish that our young people would acquire habits of observing things rr clnsely na they Jonrnay Boog0 rough life. Some people erything and some see nothing ly. When should trees be cut own that are wanted for wood? What kind of wood is the strongest and will boar the greatest burden? What kind is the most elastic? What kind the hardost to split? What kind will last the longest in the ground I What kind most suit able for pianos, 'chairs, furniture or wainscoting? What kind for mauls or wedges or canos? Dr. Oliver Holmes must have studied all about those when he wrote the "One Hoss Shay." "So the deacon Inquired of the village folk Whurt he could find the srongest, oak ThatVcouldnt't be split nor bent nor /4roke; rfiat was for spokes and floor and sills; Re sent for iftneewood to make the thills; rhe crossbars were ash from straight eat trees; Pie panels were white wood that cuts like cheese, And the hubs of logs from the settler's elm." But perhaps Dr. Holmes got it all From some old honest wagon maker, ror they know. I'll bet that Mr. Bradley, of our town, can answer svery question. The boys ought to [Ind out that black locust and chest Iut and osage orange mako the best posts, and black gum the beat hubs, and persimmon the best wedges or luts, and sassafras the best bows, and white oak the best baskets. In England it is claimed that a yew ,ree post will last longer than an ron on'e. The boys ought to know hat the barjs of all trees are non .onductors of heat and cold and keep them cool in sumnior and warm n winter, and the green leaves are he lungs that inhale the carbon trom the air and not only make wood for the tree, but purify the at mosphere that we breathe. And [ience every habitation ought to aave some trees about it. The boys )ught to know about those beautiful slands in the sea that are of coral lormation and kept gowing until ;hey got above the water, and then iome cocoanuts came floating along and lodged there and sprouted and grew and the leaves of the trees fell lown and rotted and made a soil for aore cocoanuts, and in course of .ime the island became a paradise. rhat is the testimony of the rocks. rho boys should watch the little gassomor ball that floats away in the air from the sweet little dandelion plant. So light and so feathery that t would take a thousand of them to wveigh an onnteo and yet the seed are there for more plants and they are wrapped, as it weore, in a blanket to protect thema from the winter's cold. So it is with the seed of the Scotch thistle that is blowvn about b)y a breath of air like it was nothing, but it has the germ, the embryo of life in it, and will find a lodging place somewhoro and sleep until spring, and then make no mistake. It will acot come up a dandelion, but will mroly make a tilistle. In the horti 3ultural gardens at London are rasp berry plants- that came from seed bound in a man's stomach who had boon buried 1,700 years. Study nature a little as you go along, boys, and it wvill make you wiser and better and happier men. Lind out why it is that a dead bird weighs more than a live omho and by what force 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 who can 1)0 a Ben Franklin, b)ut eury boty can learn something every day, and even one fact a day will ini course of time make him a wise man. What~ a boy was Franklin I What a man! The11 youngest of.seventeen children, ap) prenticed to a candle maker, next to a printer; ran away from Boston to Philadelphia when seventeen years old1 and hired to a Mr. Read, anid fell in love with Deborah, his daugh ter; was never idle; read and studied in every leisure moment; mastered French, Italian, Spanish and Latin; became postmaster of Philadelphia, then postmaster general of all the colonies; established the Philadol phia library, the Philosophical So ciety and the University of Pennsyl vania, and not long after he dIrew lightning down from heaven with a kite and a string and a key. WVhat a man lhe was! What a boy! BILL ARIP 'THE' 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 25c to 50c. Hen riettas all wool, imported and cannot be excelled any where, at 5Oc, 60c, 75c, $1, $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 12'c to $1.25. Hosiery Is one of our specialties and we have an excellent line. Our lOc and 124c grades are COOD. Our 25c line isof the BEST.a In Undervests, Union Suits for ladies and children--cotton, wool, wool and silk, we have fine lines. Blankets! Blankets! Blankets! We have just opened a number of cases of these and are going to sell 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. JACKBTS AND CAPES We carry in great variety and in specially good values for the money asked for them. We can please you. WVe carry Androscoggin, Barker, Fruits, Pride of WVest, Wamsutta, ec,ec heig,Tcig,Cdns ehv line of Tfable Damask of good variety and prices from 25lc to $1.50 per yard with the Doilies to match. lIn charge of Mirs, Redus is as attractive as it has ever' beeni. We have the newvest designis and are up to date. In Our BOe Store Are things to please the housekeeper. Carpets, Mattings, Floor Cov 111 erings generally. Crockeryware of the best mnakes only. We (do not carry an*y stuff which will craze or crack. Prices arc very littleLI if' any higher than the cheap) goods. OUR SHOE STOCK I's very large. We inake no efTort to advertise the lowest price. We do give the very best to be obtained anywhiere for the price paid. We do not carry sho(ddy Shoes at~ all, we guaranitee satisfaction. Wo Name a Few Lines: Little Giant School Shoes $1 to $1.50, RI. T1. Wood & Co.'s celebrated line of children's and misses' Shoes 'i3e, to $2.50, Allen & Co.'s line fine Shoes $1 to $2. Our own line Ladies' fine Shc s. WVelts, Turns, Buttoned, Laced at all prices ini Goat and Dongola stock. Vn c have the heavier goodse which we know from experience to be equal to any maitde. WE PAY CASH, ny st the lowest prices and1( always giv'e our customers the benefit of it. COME AND SEE US.... C.& G._S. MOWER 0. HE WAS A GENTLEMAN TIAITS OF TilE OL1 TIME sOUT11 EtNEt THAT STILL AIDE. Ito Did) Not Woar lusta.ho-- i All Thlntig Ito fleuld Ilis Wori of 1ionor Freelotim liigh Trust In volmkan. [H1. S. Canuield, in Chicago Herald.J "No gentleman will wear a m1us tacho." That was the dictum of UoGn. Montfort Wells, over whoso guliet rost in the the heart of Louisiana magnolias havo drowsily nodded for manly windless summoris. iHo bo longod to the old regime-the clean aluvou regimo, the anto-bellum regimo, the slavo-holding regimo, the dancing, singing, fighting regime, the aristoerat-ic regime. Forti non mutat genus, said the Lat in---clianceo does not chiange tho kind. His typo existi in tho S,nth today. It is not anywhero else, aid, most of all placos, not on the stage. I_joo1:ing odd times at the bllack-mustacLIed, swaggering caricaturo who treads the mimic boa.-ds and says "sah" aid "suh," I Iong for throo things: To kick the actor, to kick the dramatist and to find some man able and will ing to toll the people who and what a Sout-horiu gentle-nan is. He is dis tinct enough to bo painted, and 1 bo Hoe that hiis painting wvould pay. li. is timo that we had himi as h1e is -a creaturo essentially lifforont from the buffoons of Hoyt or the serio comic fiasco given us by Clay Clo monts. The Southern gentlomai wis, anld is, a man bove the middle height, with clemr cut featuros. As in ninoty nino casos :out of a hundrod ho hits not a drop of foreign blood in his Veisli, lie looks like it transplanted E"n'glishmfan--an Englishman mo0(1di lied by somo centuries of climiato and otherialized by a loss conmuorcial modo of life. Long contaA with nature has made him a iman of broad views and of healthy instincts. lie does not know tho valuo of a dollar so well as ho ought, but, to balanco that dofout, lio is utterly unac quainted with the manny shady ways of getting a dollar. He is well edii cated imi a literary waly and is Iot inl frequently a linguist. lo carries himself unobtrusively and leaves the swagger to the negro out. for a Sun day holiday. INi LOVES THEf OPL1N. HIo and the Now Eniglander, who is his antithesis in many things, speak the best English to bo found onl this side of the A tlant ic. Theli ac cent is somewhat soft and slurring, and there is something too much of vowel elision, but it has a p)leasinig sound, and 1ho does niot burr his "r's" until they rattle like castaneots, as is the case in many parts of the West. The Sout hern gentleman comes of agricultural stock. Hie is used to woods and fields and1 horses and (logs. Ho is devoted to the chase, and( he is a good1 shot. Except in cities lie Idoes not bcestrido the bicycle, but he sits in his saddle with a sure grace; lie has the huntsmnan's seat-toes in --and lie rides from the knee, not from the stirrup. WVoodcraft lie es teems as a noble craft, and the art of vonery as one of the fino arts. Hlir physical ar.d miontal appetites are borun of the fresh air and t hey are sound. lio has poetry in hiimi, as what country-bred p)eople have noto - --arid lie finds miuch of it in animated nature. Th~Ie song of birds, the clear belling of the (leer, the sadldening cry of wild fowl in the nighit, all speaLk to the soul of himi. Though its liquid aind varied notes h1av boon familiar to him since infancy, lie is never tired of the mocking bird, a miusic that pours from groeni thrones through al: the moonilit nig'hts. Host, hostess anc guosts in a Southern home will "requently (drop) all con - versation and m1 iove to the front ver anda to lisioen to the wild trilIls and roulados anid bravuras of the maiitch loss mninst ral ini gray. T1he Southern gent lam an is honest. It is a b)oast handed from father to son that his word i's as good as his b)ondi, and surely there could 1)0 no p)roudor hoast. All of his recent ed ucationi ini a co. .mercial wvay has niot been able to grind t.hiis out of him. Instances nre not. infreqnnnt* of tha surronder of homesteads in payment of debts, in proof of whioh existed only verbal obligations. The home stead, it should be remembereJ, is protected from execution by law in overy -State of the South. The Southerner regards an execution proof debt as he regards a gambling dobt--ono that must bo'aid at any sacrifico sinco it is not recoverable by legal process. Whore the honor of a family is involved womon will sell their jewels to wipe out the obliga tion. IImtOlC IN 11UsINEss. Business in the South is transacted inl great degroo by Word of mouth. Thero are such things aq promissory n1otes, but they are not common. I am speaking hero of the country commIunities, and not of the large cities. There is no markod difitr Oco botween the bin11eoss methols of Atlanta and Boston. Indeed, since the close of the war and the in setting of the immigration tido the South has been much commnercialized. The typo has not changed. That would bo a work of conturios. But miethods of life and modos of thought hav(e undorgono modification. This may bo botter for the country at largo. Wo hoar much of the glory and beauty o! the "now South." But I doubt that it is botter for the up. por clahses of the peoplo. A happier man than the old Southernor never brolithod. "Mark Twain" declaroo that Wal ter Scott. is responsible for the ci-iL war. lie uas t1,1% munch reading of "Ivniuihoo" and ' The Talisman" 1made the Young 11m 11111d. Thoy dreamed of riding with visor down and lanco in rest for the honor of the name and 1ih resMu of bo lvoguered damsels. IHo is mistaken. The popularity of Scott was an effect, not, a caus0. T1he pOeIM an1(d prose of tho wizard of the North woro popular becauso the Southern or is by birth and brooding chivalric. lIo was so bofore Scott was born and will reniivin so while the same blood is inl him. At least. I hope l0 will. This chivalry finds its most notie able outlet, in the Southerner's atli tido toward womnii. The female af hik species ii oil a pedestal. Now and tlhen in the old days she strug gled bravely to get down, but he would not lot lei'. Ie objoets to the now woman, not hociuso he foars her coim]pet ition, but because lie thiIks she is not t rue to horselr. His (IALLANTaY. The Southerner's fooling for wo. man11 is a queer mixture of pasiIonl anmd respet. lie regards her as somuethinig to tio loved, to be cherish ed1, to he p)rotected. Hie cannIot get over the belief that she is fragile, and ho cannot he convinced that she is able to withstand hard knot km. To him all women are pure tntil demmonstrated otherwise, anid they are to b)0 treated with (1001 respect. Thley are miade of Iinoer clay, and( are, in fact, az superior order of being. It is one of the st.rongest~ tributes to thme worthI of Southern mot' or hood that Sombhorn sons grow up in1 this belief, and it neover loaves thorm. If a Jmn impiruden1tly attempt to de cry wvommanhood to a Southeruor that Southernersa mind( inlstinicti vely goes back to his mothuer, and( lie is apt to (enfor~ce his disbolief with thle strong arm. Marriages are very happy in the South and there are few divorcer. Indeed, ini the lower Carolina there is no such thing as divorce. Boe trayals are rare. Suits for breach of pr1omfis(e are prlactically unknown. Invasions of the household seldomt occur. A Southerner who sued a manai for dlamnages for alienating his wife's all'ections simpl)y could not live in the country. in every South ernm hmoime staInds the si lent sentinel of the fi rosido th111 shotgun. Th;s may ho against the lawv, but it keel S things qjuiet. I supp,ose that somo1 (lay we will have a Sout hern gentleman in drama and in l iterature. It ought to be ea- y to dlraw him1, but the painitor shoeuld forget all that he has seen of Hoyt, or Clay Clement, or Augustus Thomas. We have had the true New Englander in books mnany times. W e hav(i had him on the stage. ''Shore Acres'' is a notable inista[nco. We hlav() had thle true westerner, al - though Bret Harto is not to ho ceodit(ed with his creat1on. Let ms b'ope for the true Southerner. Thri is a literary lead in the South if some publhisher or nmagaz/ine editor has the skill and( eantnrlrisn to mine for it