The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 22, 1901, Image 3
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ARP ON MARRIAGE.
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What Kind of Girl Should a Vouncr
Lead to the APar.
LOVE IS THE GIFT OF THE LORD
Evils of Marrying Cousins? Professor
Connor, of the Institution For
the Deaf, Gives Figures.
When a young man falls in love and
resolves to get married I reckon it is a
good thing that he is reckless of the
consequences. I was. I know.fcr I never
-thought of anything except the pretty
girl and how happy 1 would be to get
^ her. I had no thought of trouble or
poverty or grief or war or death. The
time was far. far away when the silver
cord would be loosed and the golden
bowl be broken. As for the girl,
she is more reckless than her lorer,
even though her peril is far greater,
for hers is to be the pain and suffering,
the care and anxiety?the night watching
and sometimes the broken heart. It
Is a mystery to me how the mother endures
it all and hplds up her head and
keeps her strength. But love for her
ofTspring, maternal love, sustains her.
It is the gift of God. There was a marriage
in our town the other day, and
as the crowds gathered at the church
our neighbor, Mrs. Felton. stopped in
the veranda to rest and see the battle
from afar. She was. as usual, merry
and say bv turns?sometimes the tears
were glistening in her eyes and soon
she laughed merrily and showed her
pearly teeth. When the bridal carriage
arrived she gave a material sigh and
whispered. "Poor things, they little
know what is ahead of them." Suddenly
she branched cff into a story about
her little pet mule colt that is now her
daily comfort. "It watches me at the
window." she said, "and when I go out
it run6 to me and lays its head on my
arm and almost neastles in my bosom.
Mary's lamb was not more loving. It
bites and kicks at everybody else, but
runs to me fawns upon me with perfect
adoration." She laughed again, but all
at once the corners of her mouth
drooped to an angle of 45 degrees and
her voice trembled as she said: "But,
major, I have at last come down to
hard pan and misery in my old age. No
cook, no help of any 9ort, and though
yesterday was my sixty-fourth birthday
I had to pull the buggy down to
the branch and wash it. Oh, my country!"
She cried a little, and then
laughed a good deal more. Pearly tears
and pearly teeth are attractive features
in a woman. Neverthiess, between petting
mule colts and washing buggies
she still finds time to plead for the education
of the poor country girls of
North Georgia.
But what kind of a girl should a
young man marry? Of course, she must
be born of respertable paren'^^ she
should be virtuous, she should have a
good, loving dispr?Ition and a fair education.
She should be healthy.-and ha^?.
po taint of her lover'3 ancestral blood
j in her veins. All of these ' qua li fleaI
tions have been discused and treated
over and over again. except me /uei. i
am inspired to say something about
that because its importance has long
been overlooked?neither poets nor
philosophers nor scientists have written
upon it nor given any warning. A
letter recently received from a young
man in Mississippi asks if there is any- ,
thing wrong in a man marrying. hi| I
cousin. Yes; very, very wroa^rfftfiyan-ii
swer is found in the records of the asylums
for the deaf and dumb and blind.
Their chief patronage comes from the
intermarriage of cousins. These institutions
cost our state about $75,0Q0 a
year, and half of the :
pense could be avoided if
intermarriage of cousins was
prohibited. I have net the reports of
the blind asylum before me. but I know
of three blind children of one family
who were sent there, and they were
the offspring of parents who w^pe
cousins. I know of five children of one
family who wore sent to our datf and
dumb institute at Cave Springs. Their
parents wrre double cous!n3. They had
but one child who could hear and
speak. She was a good-looking country
girl. She married a clever
man who hdcfed for me. Softer
his marriage he moved to Texas
and hired to a gpttle man. and w^^^.
faithful in his service that in a Tew
ys*ars he bought an interest in the
ranch and prospered. I met him at '
Waco sixteen yeras after he left Georgia.
and he was said to foe worth SlfiO,000.
and bis^wo ^d(r
a^a boardin^sch<*>l at
fiym his tomc^He had^sU ^diU&en.
and. alas! one of thym was a'^mite.
The taint had cropped out in the second
generation. {
Professor Connor,, the faithful and
long tried principal^ of our deaf and
j dumb institution, fhas tabulated the
parentage of his pupils for many years,
and reports that Ip 20 families producing
48 mutes tbej parents were first
cousins, hn 12 fa/milles producing 19
mutee the parents were second cousins.
In 11 families producing 15 mutes
the parents were third cousins. Altogether
there v^ere 97 mute children,
of parents closeliy related.
Of 400 deaf muites 193 had deaf parents,
and man* of these deaf parents (
are no doubt tlye offspring of the Inter- 1
marriage of cotusins.
Among thes4< 400 pupils 59 marriages
havp occjurred and there have
been born to /them 110 children. S9 of I
fcrbom can ht^:r and 21 are mutes. In 19 I
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of the marriages there were no chll- i
dren born. Now, after one. two or three I
mutes have been born in succession to
parents, it would scorn a sin. if not a
crime, for them to have more. The law
should prohibit :t. But if this cannot be j
done after marriage, the remedy for
the future is to prohibit the intermarriage
of cousins?yes. and second
cousins. To be born deaf or blind is a
sin against the child, and to have it 1
supported by the state Is a drain upon
the treasury that might be avoided.
Hut being deaf or blind is not all the
evil that follows these incestuous marriages.
If the children are not deaf or
blind they are generally under some
physical disability. They a*e consumptives
or epileptics or idiotic, and pass
through life and leave no sign. Fortu- ,
nately most of such marriages result in (
no progeny. ,
"Oh. well." some say, "the Levitlcal j
law did not prohibit it." No, it did not. j
and I reckon that Cain married his sis- j
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ter. we Know mm Auiaimm ?uc*.k
his half sister, and no doubt that ,i3 1
why no children were born to them t
except one by grace in their old age. i
But it is said that the Roman laws ?
and the laws of England permit such j
marriages. Yes, the Roman law did 1
until Pope Alexander II stopped it and ?
prohibited first, second and third cous- .
ins from intermarrying. Ihe laws of
England permited such marriages be- ^
cause the kings and the nobility f
wanted to keep the crown and the ti- ,
ties and their estates in their families. t
And so our American people, who have ,
patterned after English law and pre- t
cedent for more than a hundred years, t
have been reluctant to make any i
change in this regard. c
But the question is now coming* to i
the front, and the time is coming for a r
change. It seems now to be an established
and universal rule that these I
marriages entail upon the offspring t
evil consequences, bodily or mentally, ?
or both. The evil effect of what Is call- (
d "breeding in" among animals leads j
to the conclusion that It is an universal ^
law. Good stock, blooded stock, is not j
permitted In that way. Heard a con- (
ceited man declare that he was de- (
sccnded from the Carrolls, of Carroll- >
ton, in old Maryland. Suppose he did. >
That was six generations back, and \
would give him sixty-four ancestral t
fatherrs and mothers, and hence he *
had only one sixty-fourth part of old c
Charles Carroll's blood in his veins. I 1
know a lady who boasts that her fath- ?
er oould trace hie lineage back to
Cromwell. That was eighteen generations
back, and would give him 512,000
ancestors?not much of Chomwell's
blood in her. It is astonishing how rapidly
the ancestral tree widens. Two
generations back gives a man only four
great-grandfathers and grandmothmothers,
but twenty generations gives
him ever a millkm. Just think of it.
young man, and quit bragging about
your ancestors, for threre are over a
million different strains of blood in
your veins, and no doubt some of it is
bad?very bad. My wife's grandfather
was a Holt and his grandfather was a
Randolph and his grandfather was a
Peyton and his was Lord R'olfe. who
pjarried Pocahontas. That was ten
generations back, and gives my wife
1,024 ancestors, and therefore, she has
l-l;024th part of Poky's blood in her
veins. Mightly slim strain, it seems to
me ?not much Injun about her. One
day I ventured to ask about the other
1,023 parts that did not come from
Poky and she never said anything, but ?
? mo in a rvAfiil'ir tone Of VOice (
that reminded me it was none of my j
business. But I honor a noble ancestry.
I used to think that maybe I descended t
from Captain John Smith, but on in- s
yestigation found that he never wat ]
married and had no children to speak (
of.?Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution, r
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Cadet* at Buffalo. . C?
The West Point cadets went to the t
"Pan-American yesterday to remain two r
"Weeks. The strength of the command ia t
12 oTficers. 363 cadets, 51 band and s
field music, 36 cavalrymen, 8 hospital t
corps men. 15 civilian employees, 57 r
horses and 12 mules. One Pullman pal- e
are car, 16 tourist sleepers, 8 bag^a^. c
cars and 4 stock cars were requ.rect tor^1
transportation. 'Ihe party w.il . *
wirh:n the '
Jive in ine euuuuiimcui. ?
grounds .and bave their rnea.s s,rveJ
ct tho Slatier Hotel. *
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Camp Investigation.
Of the ladies whom the British Gov- r
ernment has sent out to investigate 1
the state of the refuges camps Miss a
Lucy Deane, the lady factory inspector,
is,' perhaps, the least well known to 1
u- nuiiiif. But she is extreme- '
Lite A
ly well known to work people, espec;- f
ally to those in the pottery districts t
and to those in jam factories. Miss ^
Deane's father was killed in the last a
Boer war by the Boer3. y \
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A man can go downhill faster than 1
ha can so up.
"Ca tergron-rt ?<|" T> aaorarnd.
In dismantling an old brick housa !
facing Mulberry Bend r'a-K. in .New
York, the workmen unexpectedly pried e
open a square trap door at the left of E
tne stair landing on the second floor, s
The trap door opens into a secret c
chamber, extending the whole length t
if the house, forty-eight feet. The b
fodden chute, for that is it3 shape. i3 a
Cir.ee and one-half feet wide and four t
Wei deep. Investigation shows that the 0
pl^ce was for yrars before the war one 8
of the chain of stations on the "under- "
ground railroad" by which Quakers ^
and other friends of the nc;:o sect ?
fugitive slaves north ?
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LOST IN A STOMA
Much Damage Done By Wind and
Rain.
V FAMILY Or FIFTEEN DROWNED
rhe Great Gulf Storm Has Swept AM
Telegraph Wires Away? Heavy
Loss of Property.
New Orleans. Special.?The storm
vhich has been sweeping the Gulf
:oast from Pensacola and moving
westward during the past two days,
las prostrated telegraph and telephone
wires to such an extent that
lews from the outlying sections is
lard to get at. The greatest fears
lave been entertained lor the safety
>f the people living at Port Eads.
vhlch is at the mouth of the river,
tnd for the ships that started for sea
ust before the storm began. The
vires- there have been prostrated
dnce Tuesday night at 8 o'clock, but
The Picayune reached a man who
eft Port Eads at 2 o'clock on Wedneslay.
He was seen at Buras, which is
iO miles down the river, and the
arthest point with which there i3
vire communication at the present
ime. This man describes the storm
vhich swept that section as a regular
.ldal wave, similar to the one which
esulted in such an awful loss of life
n li93. He says all the people living
>n the east bank of the river have
noved up to the "jump," which is 13
nlles from the mouth of the river,
rhe house of a man naixved Cobden,
lalf a mile above the quarantine staion,
was swept away and the fifteen
nembers of the family, including nine
ihildren, drowned.
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The quarantine Dunaings were uauy
damaged, but no one injured. The
)ig tow-boat Chamberlain was driven
ligh and dry in the marsh, nut her
:rew are safe. The government boat
General Reise is believed to have
leen lost. Captain O'Brien's house
vas swept away, but he was on the
>oat which was believed to be outlide.
The plledriver at Port Eads was
>unk. The steamboat barge was
Iriven ashore near the llghthodse aqd
ater it was reported that she had
lunk. Her crew were said to ha,ve.
jeen saved. The tug Velesco went
!own to Pass L'Outre, which is the
saBtern mouth of the river, with two
>arges. When last seen she had her
leeks awash, and it is feared she has
;oae down. If this boat and her
>arges have been lost, 20 people more
lave been drowned. There are numerous
reports of individual casualties
ill along down the passes. The steamts
which started for the sea Tuesday
in TT9?. a
eraained inside the passes unui ?eulesday
evening and then went out
lafely, among the number being the
Cromwell liner Proteus, and the
Jritish transport Mechanician, which
vas dynamited while in port a few
lays ago. Not a single vessel has
>assed up the river since the storm
jegan and great fears are entertained
or the ones which are expected. There
s serious apprehension concerning
.he Cheniere, Caminada and Grande
sle sections, on the south Louisiana
oast, west of the Mississippi river,
vhere 2,000 lives were lost in 1S93
>y the tiral wave. Up to this writing
10 word has been received from that
lection which is largely inhabited by
l3hermen, mostly Chinese and Maiiys.
Up to Thursday midnight everyKm*
sppmed to be safe at the Mis
dssippi coast towns, Bay St. Louis, I
3ass Christian, Biloxi, Mississippi
Jlty and Ocean Springs, but since then
lot a word has been heard from them.
Ill wires are down. The only reports
>f damage so far received are of destroyed
bath houses and uprooted
rees. The Louisville and Nashville
oad is blocked off beyond Chef Meneur.
30 miles from this city. The big
steel bridge there is safe, but beyond
here are several washouts on the
oad. The New Orleans and North astern
road is also blocked by wash uts
and its big trestle over Lake
^onti^iartrain has teen shaken by the
reavy seas breaking against it. There
ias been much damage done at Shell
3each? southwest of the city, and
vhlch connects with Lake Pontcharrfcin.
All the buildings there have
>ecn swept iiway, and there are re>orto
of los?. of life among the fish rmcn,
but the exact extent of this is
lot known. ' A tidal wave swept o1 ?;
he land there as it did nine years
LgO. t .
in IM>cwy OI l\ew urieans U.H,1 au)urbs
lias been considerable
lamage^?^4.JiMi!nebergr o.pe of the
.akc resoM?. the railroad pier hea''
unnlng 'ffifciato the lake for a (Usance
of-flytlipusand yards has been
leetroyedatjd all light buildings dam.ged.
The,big buildings on shore
withstood the gale. There was no less
if life. The steamer Neptune, tied up
o this pier head, pounded herself
o pieces and sank.
Arizona Flooded.
El Paso. Tex., Special.?All the j
outhern portion of Arizona has been '
>artlally covered with water for many
lays and the destruction to property,
specially to railroads, ha3 been enor- |
nous. The Southern Pacific and the
mailer mineral roads have suffered
nany washouts. The "Burro'! road (
hat runs from Benson to Nogales, has 1
een unfit for use for several 'weeks
nd nearly every day fresh floods come '
hat destroy parts of the tracks."In all '
ver ten miles of the track has been '
wept away and the company has all :
:s surplus at work- .fepairlng the
amage. The El Paso & Southwestern 1
oad has suffered severe losses between
lenson and Bisbee and a dozen bridges '
ave been swept away. <
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WINTIIROP SCHOLARSHIPS.
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How These Prizes Have Been Won
on Examination.
Some time ago the competitive examinations
for the vacant scholarships
in the Winthrop Normal and Indusl
trial college were held in the severe!
counties of the State. There were .numbers
of young ladie3 to present them
selves in each county, and the papers
ware examined at the college. As a
result of these examinations the announcement
of the award of scholar
ships has been made by President
Johnson as follows:
Abbeville?Ida Penney, Lfvel Land.
Aiken?Juddie Panning, Salley.
Anderson?Eunice Russell, Anderson;
Estelle Aull, Pendleton; Marj
Major, Anderson.
Bamberg?Mamie Rowell, Bamberg;
Bessie Reed, Denmark.
Barnwell?Esther JenVins, Kline.
Beaufort?Omie Sanders, Beaufort;
Flora C. Adam3, Beaufort; Sadie Cunningham,-Beaufort.
Berkley?Elizabeth Gaillard, Eutaw
ville; Charlotte Porcher, Oakley Depot.
Charleston?Marie Lutjen, Charleston;
Susie Prioleau, Charleston; Har
rieu uroucn, mi. rieasam; .uary iew,
Mt. Pleasant; Elizabeth Grace, Charleston;
Mattie Thomas, Charleston.
Cherokee?Susie Parker, Gaffney;
Edna Healan, Blacksburg.
Chester?Esther Boyd, Corn well;
Margaret Lecker, Chester.
Clarendon?Kate Plowdea, Manning;
Athena Mellett, Davis Station.
Colleton?Virginia Connor, Branchvilie;
Effle Jones. McLaurin.
Darlington?Florence Lide, Darlington;
Neva Rogers, Darlington, Rhea
Dallas, Darlington.
Dorchester ? Margaret Pinckney,
Summerviile.
Edgefield?Nettie Belle, Parksville,
Nellie Hill, Edgefield.
Fairfield?Annie Stewart, Winsboro;
Margaret Blaine, Blackstock.
Florence ? Fielding Cottonham,
Claussen.
Georgetown?Mary Walker, Georgetown;
Evelyn Rouse, Georgetown.
Greenville?Nora Dal ton, Grove;
Agnes Deal, Greenville.
Horry?Viola Harrelston, Tabor;
Emiline Coles, Conway.
Kershaw?Rena Clements, Liberty
Hill.
Lancaster?Susie Dunlap, Lancaster;
Wrenn Harris, Plesant Valle.".
Laurens?Clara Welborn, Fountain
Inn; Florence Hellams, Ban;&dale;
Daisy Harris, Youngs.
Lexington?Bessie Barnett, Irmo.
Marion?Mae Delle Barre, Britton's
Neck.
Newberry?Leona Epting, Newberry.
H^nPP KaII'p R Uorri^ \-f i 11
Orangeburg?May Zelgler, Cope.
Richland?Bertha Jcyner, Kingville.
Saluda?Mamie Gunter, Saluda.
Spartanburg?Claire Wingo, Inman;
Edith Willis, Landrum; Mary Wingo,
Wingo; Geneva Gaston, Reidville; Ernestine
Caldwell. Campobello.
Sumter?Annie Rees. Statesburg; H.
Lee More. Stat^sburg; Cora Cole,
Lynchburg.
Union?Ida Foster, Jonesville: Mary
Thomas, Santur.
Williamsburg?Selden Epps, Kings
ville; Eloise Cooper, Cooper.
York?Nannie F. Grist, Yorkvil'.e.
Tpl^o-rflnhlr Priafa
Lord Kitchener, with a strong force,
is advancing to attack General Botha
on the border of Zululand.
Fifty British scouts were capture.]
by Boers in Cape Colony.
The census of Canada shows a population
of 5,333,883, an increase of
505,644 since 1S91.
G. E. Armstrong, editor, and W. T.
Madge, manager of the Londcn Globe,
apologized to the House ot Commons
for reflections on the Irish members.
Expenditures for relief work in India
in the la3t three years have been
$75,000,000.
American capital is enlis'ed in the
new project for a steamboat service
to Qftosa the Atlantic in four and a
half.jdpys.
The Colombian Government is garrisoning
the Isthmus of Panama.
The striking steel workeis are now
making rapid gains.
Wireless telegraph messages sent
f-oni Na^ntyeket were exchanged v.i:h
the steamer Lucanla when she ha!
LOO mi.es to go tefo;e reaching Ne.v
York.
Of the 40") American school teacher.".
who sailed for Manila 60 v/erc
mArried on reaching Honolulu. ^
deputy Police CoHsinisslonci? Devery
of New York, made a starejffeHt.defending
himself against recen.
charges. "
In th'ee and alfalf years the'honied
.debt of New Yo:k has increase:
$65,001,257. or 28 1-2 per cent
The Collector of the Port of New
York has seized a lot of Japanese
silks for alleged undervaluation.
The will of Robert E. Hopkins, a
millionaire, late of Tarrytown. N. Y..
and which was contested, has been
admitted to probate.
The Catjjolfc Order of Foresters will
admit p^HJonkeepere, proviuea lu^ji
pay an extra assessment.
Charles _M. Schwab is soon to take
charge of the Bethlehem Steel Cornpa
ny>
A Northern Pacific telegrapher has
Invented a system by which telegraph
and telephone messages may be
sent simultaneously over the same
wire.
This is Army Day at the Pan-American
Exposition at Buffalo.
Renewed guerrilla fighting a'.ongv
the route of the Panama railed iaj
cfficially reported. tr-'; |
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' LABOR V/OHIQ. t (
A Carpenters' Union be formed
In Wilmington, Del.
A printers' union has been formed
' at Herkimer, N. Y.
Two thousand workmen at Asturias*
Spain, have gone out on a strike.
The chef and five cooks at the royal
palace in Madrid, Spain, have gone on
strike. ? , ::jj
Eighteen iron foundries out of sixtyfive
in Chicago have yielded to the
striking moulders.
Seventy motormen and conductors
in Knoxville, Tenn.. have struck foe
recognition of their union.
Since May 25 factory inspectors
have removed 800 little children from
sweatshops in St. Louis, Mo.
Paper makers at the Burnside Mills,
Hartford. Codh., have gained ten
hours pay for nine hours' work.
The bricklayers at the Washington
Navy Yard have applied to the Navy
Department for an increase in wages.
About 2000 persons and 300 vessels
are employed In the sponge fisheries
of Florida. The profits last year
are estimated at $850,000.
Four delegates, representing 100,000
unionist laborers, have sailed from
Liverpool to study the economic conditions
of labor in America.
The New England cotton manufacturers
have ordered big cut of fourteen
per cent. In the wages of their
50,000 weavers, and a strike is predicted
by union leaders.
Thomas M. liobertson, an expert employed
by the United States Labor
Bureau, sent to investigate economic
conditions, said that New York workingmen
have no hoiuc3 worthy of tile
name.
The State Factory Inspector reports
that iu Ithode Island more than 5000
boys and girl3 under sixteen years
of nee are at work in factories, and
hence growing up, most of tliem, in
ignorance.
NEWSY CLEANINCS.
Trade is reopening at Johannesburg.
South Africa.
Only six per cent of the British
wounded die in the South African
War.
The will of former Senator Evarts
disposed of a personal estate valued
at $1117,000.
The Navy Department has settled
0(R)3 accounts and claims for the year
ending June 30, 1901.
The Gwanda Railway, of Rhodesia,
has been practically untouched for a
year because of the Boer war.
Adolph Lewisohn. of New York City,
has oflered $1000 toward a prize for
the invention of a perfect life saving
raft.
A huge top capable of accomiE*jdat-i
iug 10.000 persons is one of the nov-!
il.xflUwn/J ff/vv thn T/tnlllnilA.
I I'll 111 (fa UCSI^UCU 1V1 kill. ?
Purchase Exposition at St. Louis.
Thirty thousand dollars has been < \
raised for a monument to BeDjamin
Harrison at Indianapolis, Ind.. which
will probably be an arch costing $200,000.
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Great distress prevails on the Canary
Islands because of the failure of the
crops oa account of the prolonged
drought, the tirst within the memory,
of the living.
The accident to Santos-Dumont ia
Paris is regarded in American scientific
circles as proof conclusive that'
the airship is as yet nothing more
than a highly dangerous toy.
Samples of ore and gold, accompanied
by regularly attested affidavits,
hnvn received in Atlanta show
ing :i remarkably rich ctrike of gold
i.i county, near V/askington,
(Ja.
Ltulwlg Ivan Dembitzky has mads
a claim of nearly fci.C03.C00 against
the Government for money wlilcli Ihn
Baron lJembltzky. a Polish uoblexan,
killed in the Civil War, is supposed
to have deposited with the Treasurer
of the United States.
Tears. Bottled Tears.
A physician who has recently returned
from Persia says that the natives still
believe that human tears are a remedy
for certain chronic diseases. At every
funeral the bottling of mourners' tears
s one cf the chief features of the cere........
ni mnnrn^rs is nrpsen
t,cd with a sponge with which to mop his
face ar.d eyes, and after the burial these j
sponges are presented to the priest, who I
squeezes the tears into bottles, which he m
keeps.?Family Doctor. I
'I ho > argent and Most * ouiplele
I- stabllshmeiit >outn. f
GEO. S. HACKER & SON,
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Sash. Doors. Blinds.
Moulding und Building Mo'crlnl,
Sash Weight* and Cord
CHARLESTON', S. C.
Parcbaae uur hi?k?\ w hich w? gnsj"- ?
aut?H superior to auy t>olJ .South, and1
thereby eaTe moirey.
Window and Fancy Glass a S^clall^.
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