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**17 the iIhv looks kinder al > niy
And )?>ur r.hance* kinder slim;
If trie situation's puzz lnir,
And the prospect kinder union,
' And perplexities keep pressing
DTill all hope is nearly gone.
Just bristle up and grit your teeth,
And keep on keeping on."
Applicable to many candidates in
the second race, as well as with farmere
in perplexities.
The days are growing shorter and
every twenty-four hours we get
nearer our winter coats.
We have seen some fogs in August,
but do not know whether to book
anon or not If ??
- v> uvn A1 IIUOJ Die line raiuiiig
on dog days they will slip up.
Cotton is opening, we will soon
hear the sing of tlrt cotton gin, a
little money will be let loose, and
people oan then dance a little to its
jingle.
There was a "drizzly drozzly"
rain of several days last week, roads
were made muddy, laod wet, peas
g- spurted in growth and bad fodder
was damaged in many instances.
There has been some fine watermelons
raised by several farmers
around here this year, and many on
the vines, though it was thought the
yield would be light. There are
some fine late patches coming on.
Rust is bad on cotton just now
and often large areas are seen with
no leaves on the plants. This will
affect the yield. It goes without
saying that wet weather does not
always cause rust, for we have had
dry weather down here.
The chaingang is here, and Mr.
Hancock is doing some excellent
work with it. Some work he did
near here several years ago is stand*
ing well, with little or no expense to
outlay in keeping it in repair. The
machine is a good thing.
I cannot get all the "personals"
j this week; people have been coming
and going.
* Mr. J. H. Moore and wife have
rMfetned, and Mr: Moore will teach
tile school again.
Mr, W. H. Harris, Jr., telegraph
operator, who baa been on a visit to
his parents, left for his work in
Georgia Sunday.
Miss Hattie Moss is off on a visit
to relatives at Blaoksburg.
Messrs. J. P. and Rivers Thomas,
of Charlotte, are here on a visit.
There was a party, sjoiable or
dance given at Pr. P. P. Butler's on
the night of August 27th, but very
few attended, the weather being anything
but pleasant or suitable to
travel to and fro?it was raining.
Negroes love watermelons without
any pretense. I saw some melons
roll off a wagon a few days ago and
negroes were soon upon the broken i
ones, one taking a seat on the clear'
post at the railroad and enjoyed a
melon. Another said "the Lord will
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IB pivTiuo, auu Nuuwrou VII Willi one.
Of course they helped to fix the good
ones on the wagon.
More horses feet are ruined by
keeping them always shod, than by
neglect of shoeing. Owners are
afraid to lot them travel a short distance
barefoot, pull off shoes, put
more right back, until the hoof is
brittle, rotten and split to pieces.
Going barefoot makes feet tough and
resistable. A. physician's horse needs
more shoes than others, but I am
convinced that some people have little
judgment about a horse's feet.
I trv to study them by observation.
If any of you ever see Tom Jones,
a sixty four year old negro, who
lives near this place, just get him to
climb a tree baclcwards for yon. I
saw him do so recensly, but forgot to
' mention it. It is a strange looking
sight to see a man going feet first up
a tree, and coming down head first.
He crawls down like a big lizzard
and can change ends up the tree
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heard that if he went up a tree to get
a squirrel out of a hole, and found
that the hole ran down the tree so
that he couldn't get his hand into it,
he would come down, change
and start up feet first, and when he
* got up to the hole, run his hand
in and bring his squirrelship out It
is a wonder the squirrels have not
made him break his neck before this,
for they are no playthings. But perhaps
they are skeery about biting a
backward climber, and are filled with
r awe, or are out squirrels!. Now if
you see him you can have a little
side show cheap.
Negroes grown and growing up of
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' t-?d *y, (not raised or trained,) are
not Tioar so polite as the old ones,
s 'Tie scarcely vvr speak to a per*
and then never tip or raise
their hats and have no manners
about re-udenoos, Note an old negro,
how polite he is when you meet
him, and how mannerly he acts
around houses. If you ask him
questions about things, or old times,
how intelligently he talks. This
leads one to ponder the question
that when all of the old negroes,
those reared by white DeoDle. under
their "influences, are gone, where
will tne youngei generaaion have
drifted as to politeness, manners, or
intelligence. No use talking about
higher education for them, they may
be able to use some big words, all
meaning the same thing, or nothing
at all, but away from the training of
the white race, their influences, etc.,
and they will be drifting back to tho
heathen African, from whence the
race came and was alienated by the
white people, and I may say those of
the South, and the most of the good
qualities imbibed by being with the
white race, will all be gone, and a
thing of the past. Old negroes like
to talk about "my folks" of the good
old times, and how plentiful things
were with their masters, and they
speak inofTensively of "my kin folks '
when they mean they are goinjg to
I stick to them. But all of this is
| passing away.
amv vawvavu ?v vuiq i/IOViUUb pSDB*
ed off not quiotly, with no rows or
fighting, but just a lot of liquor
drinking and geting tipsy. Much
bard electioneering for and against,
and it may prove both fair and foul.
There was more interest shown than
any election in a number of years,
and some say that it has been a
long time since so much whisky
was used. Whether it was furnished
by candidates we do not know.
Anyway it flowed quite freely, and
there is no doubt but votes were
bought with liquor, a strong persuasion.
Many a man can be turned
when they get fully intoxicated and I
believe some will change for a chance
to get intoxicated; and some can
have their tickets marked against
them by unscrupulous men, ana they
never be aware of the fact, cheated,
and some just don't care who or for
what they are voting, so they are
voting and drinking. Often good
men are at the mercy of this kind of
men, and often you can't judge a
man's popularity by the vote he
gets at home. The papers have
Seen talking about leg palling, and
if I do not offend, do those men rote?
I am opposed to electing anything
by convention, large or small, ana
.want it done by direct primary. I
am this way on cotton weighers. Now
they get up petitions, send to an appointive
power, and that power appoints
whoever it likes best.
Might as well allow several men get
up petitions for magistrate of a place,
send them to an appointing power,
and have one appointed. Or let several
men of a state get petitions signed
by so many voters, for governor,
send that to the president of the
United States, and let him appoint a
governor. It all works pretty much
le same. This appointing business
with a good many things is a sort of
spoils system, and I think a primary
election, etc. is preferable. Then
the losing side cannot attach too
much blame and impartiality to the
power that appoints. So I believe
a direct primary, as in all the offices,
the best all around. Hf.y Dekver.
Santuo, 8. C., Sept. 1st, 1902.
JONESVILLE JOTTINGS.
The weather is fine now on the
farms and fodder palling is progresssing
well this week. Bat little cotton
has been picked op to date bat
there is maok of it opened in the
fields. Farmers are now confessing
that their cotton crop is quite short.
If there is no freshet to destroy the
bottoms the corn crop will be better
than the cotton crop. There is a
fine crop of corn on the creek and
rear bottoms. I heard a man say
yesterday that another man told him
who lives upon a river farm that he
was sure oorn could be bought from
the hands on his place from the heap
this fall for twenty-five cenio a bushel.
We will however see what we
will see.
Messrs. R. A. Wbitlock and J.
L. McWbirter | have both added
another gin to their already large
gineriee in town so there if now aev n
large gins in the two plant*,
ready for the present ootton crop.
They can handle from 40 to 50 bales
a day, and they will bnj the cotton
and seed at the gins and pay-the
highest market price for both.
The three Misses Murphy of Pinckney
are visiting Miss Ettie Hames.
I ee* the candidates that are in
the second race for oounty office*
are husling with a hump on tb?*m,
and well they may for the prevailing
opinion now is that it will be a
close race all round.
Charles Bolt has passed over the
river to join the ranks of the majori
ty of veterans on the other Shore.
He volunteered in Go. B, 18th S C.
and went forth to war in the cause
of his adopted country, receiving h
severe wound in the right leg st the
Second Manasees battle by which he
lost the leg. Being strong, however,
in young manhood, he survived
this dreadful wound and returned to
his home a cripple for life, but he
journeyed on throngh middle life
where he met the common enemies
incident to human life such as false
friends, open avowed enemies and
diseases of the body. These however
he overcame by truth, honor, fidelity
and loyalty to his country and
still traveling on down life's journey
towards the third and last period,
where in old age he met his last and
most inverate foe, a disease of the
kidneys. Being weak with old age
and the conflicts through which he
had passed, he was soon laid prostrate
in death. His remains were
borne by loving friends and comrades
to the cemetery nearby and there
laid in the narrow tomb to remain
and reat until the roll is called up
yonder, bye and bye.
There are a few cases of small pox
among the negroes near Jonesville on
Messrs B. F. Webber and Munroe
WTTl w
rrnuiocit s places and one negro woman
died with it yesterday. Dr.
Southern has the matter in charge.
He report*- it as being a bad type of
genuine small pox.
Mr. Stabley, of Georgetown has
been on a visit to his sister, Mrs.
Rev. David Hucks. Telephone.
Lockhart Junction Notes.
Lockhart Junction, Aug. 30.?
The weather has been cooler since
the last rain, and rest at night is now
comfortable as it is not so not.
Work time has again come and
fodder pulling is the order of the day.
Some has taken advantage of the
last season and is sowing turnip seed.
The cotton crop is not oyer a half
crop in this section, while upland
corn is good.
Mrs. A. C. White, who fell out of
her porch some time ago and broke
her leg, is doing very well at this
time.
This writer, along with Mr. J. W.
Scott, had the pleasure of attending
the Sunday Scnool Convention held
t an a? on.t r\
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accouat of rainy weather there was
only a small delegation present. Mr.
8. M. Rice, who is president of the
convention, and who is very punctual,
was at his poet of duty, and
ereiy one seemed to put on more
zeal for the work of the Sunday
school. We feel thankful to the
good people of Loekkart for the hospitality
shown us while in their
midst, and especially so to Mr. Joe
G. Bailey ana family where we were
assigned as delegates. He made us
feel like we were at home during our
stay with him. Moxy.
OF INTEREST TO THETARMER.
Culled From Our Agricultural Ex*
Plow deep while sluggards sleep;
Yoe will hare oorn to sell and corn
to keep.
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Oar domesticated animals are
fouid, wheo they are studied closely,
to be, in some important respects, a
good deal like oarselres; and it will
oertainty sometimes result profitably
to us If we so regard diem.
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Farm as well as garden products
should be -sent to market' in nioe
shape. In the commonest sense of
paying, it pays to do this. And the
operator who is so slovenly about any
matter ef this sort is forming habits
to put himself and all he produces in
the lowpv grade.
Hens should not have fattening
food during the summer months.
Grass, insects, oe'*, etc, will be the
beet hot wea'her diet. Make the
hens laj the grea'est p*r'i??n of their
eggs during the fill and winter. It
is better for them if thej do not isj
any during July, August and September.
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liens are usually very choice in
th?*ir belections of nests, and unless
we provide those that are acceptable
to them they will most likely seek
others. Now is a good time to renew
every one. Take the old straw
outside and burn it, and carefully
make each nest with fresh straw or
hay.
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At is not too mac* to say that every
bit of honest material progress
that the world has made has been
helpful to the fanner. One effect of
most, if not all, the great forward
steps made most notably in the latest
quarter of a century has been to
bring producer and consumer closer
togetner, and everywhere the forming
class has been particularly benefited
by this.
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One who is regarded as a comprehensive
student of every essential
matter pertaining to sheep says that
"in Spain, whenever^heep are kept
in the neighborhood of rock salt hills
or sea salt, they thrive better than
they do under other conditions. Salt
in the case of the sheep makes for
both better wool and mutton. When
an allowance of salt is given to sheep
at pasture, from half an ounce to an
ounce should be provided daily for
each sheep."
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
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Gmtherod Tttore and There From
Our BxchtarOm and Condensed
For Qtuak Heading.
The Government of Hayti appears
to have a head for business and
finance at any rate. It has seized
250 tons of coal.
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Representative Reese C. DeGraffonreia,
of Texas, died ot apolexy at
the Riggs House in Washington,
shortly before 11 o'cloolc last Friday
night.
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"It's queer that the only clothes that
show how women really are built are
bathing suits and night gdsrns." How
about the knit and silk suits combination?
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A big mineral trust it being formed
in New York, embracing seven big
companies with a capitalization of
$ 7,600,000. Verily this is a day of
trusts.
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Columbia, S. C., Sept I.?Labor
day was observed as a general holiday,
business being almost entirely
suspended. Addresses were delivered
by Governor McSwseney and
others.
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Walter Wood. aged 26 years, son I
of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wood, of
Glendale, died at their home there
Saturday. The body was shipped to
AsheTilfe this afternoon where it will
be buried tomorrow morning.
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The reports of the aets of violence
in the coal fields between the striking
miners and those who have taken
some of the vacant plaoee, point unmistakably
to the rapidly approaching
end of the great industrial disturbance.
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In the visitors' regimental match
of the Avondale Inter-State military
shoot in Savannah, Aug 89th, the
8rd 8outh Carolina infantry of
Charleston, won, with a score of404;
1st Florida seoond, 857, and 1st Alabama
third. 827.
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Washington, August 29.?Colombia
will formally demand of NicaraKa
an explanation in regard to the
,ter country's alleged participation
in the revolution against the ColomI
bian Government, and back up her
demand by the most formidable land
and naval force she can muster, as
soon as the present rebel aotivity on
the isthmus has been crushed. Information
to this effect was received
from an authoritive source in Washington.
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Burliogton, Sept. 1.?It in sated
by one of the presidential party ihat
Attorney General Knox it sluted u?
succeed Justice Shiras on the supreme
court beach. Genetal K'iox's
resignation is understood to be in
Roosevelt's hands.
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Riehland County took the cake.
At one of our political meetings last
week two personal encounters took
place?one between W. McB. Sloan
and Gen. J. S. Verner, candidates
for master, and the other between
George W. Taylor and S. H. Owens
and Dr L. Owens.
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Manila, August 29.?Isabelo De
Loa Reyes, head of the Filipino
Workingmen's Union, who was arrested
August 18, charged with
threatening to assassinate certain
striking cigar makers if they returned
to work, has been sentenced
to four month's imprisonment.
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Galveston,Tex., September 1?The
Galveston Ne?s publishes a s'ateraent
showing the Texas crop of co I >u fur
the year 190102, to be 2,207,259
bales, a decrease of 801,207 bales,
oomj a red with the Tizti crop for
1900 01* The orop lor Indian Territory
and Oklahoma for 1901 02 is
631,018 bales an inorea a of 208,567
compared with laatyar.
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Blue Ridge, Ga.f Aug. 30.?Application
for a charter has been filed for
a railroad to run through North Georgia,
Tennessee and South Carolina
under the title of Tennessee, Georgia
and South Carolina Railroad Cjmpany.
It is said that this road will
cross the Southern at B'&irs in Union
county. With the right kind of influence
brought to bear it might be
brought to Union as a crossing point.
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Berlin, Aug. 30.?The price of
meat in Germany continues to rise
and the town councils and other
bodies and the newspapers in every
part of the empire are discussing what
is called the "meat famine."
The Butchers Guilds advanced the
price of meat this week from 2? to 5
cents per pound. A good steak coots
44 oents a pound in Berliu.
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Ware Shoals Manufacturing Co.
has be^an the development of its
extensive water power near Laurens,
S. C., and will push the work as rapidly
as possible. It is also laying
off the ground and preparing to build
its mill of 25,000 spindles, previously
reported as to be located to utilize
the power. Messrs. W. B: Smith
Whaley & Co. are the engineers in
charge..
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Woodsoiola, Maw., Sept. 1 ?Rear
Admiral Higginson's fleet captured
Blook Irland this afternoon after two
hours' bombardment in the sham war
going on between the navy and the
land forces. The movement was
made while the army was expecting
attacks on Newport and the torts at
the head of Long Island sound. The
entire coast of Massachusetts is at Higginson's
mercy. He is now headinsr
for New York harbor.
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According to information unearthed
in Chicago, William Bartholin,
wanted by the police in connection
with the murder ot his mother and
the disappearance of his sweotheart,
Minnie Mitchell, is a member of the
noble house of Bartholin-Eichel, of
Denmark. It has also been disoorered
that he has a half-brother?
Frederic Bartholin?at present living
in Chicago, prosperous and highly
respected. Tne house of Bartholin
was founded in 1680, when
Dr. Bartholin-Eichel was made a
baronet for "distinguished services."
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Governor McSweeney has requested
R. O. Purdy. Judge elect,
to hold court in Beaufort us Judge
Gage has been disabled by an accident.
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After reading Roosevelt's speech
at Providence, says the Buffalo Enquirer,
one wonders how Wall street
can feel that there is any danger to
the trusts from the President. He
says plainly that most of the trusts
are all right, the present laws against
them are being enforced and it will
require a constitutional amendment
to do more with them. What more .
does Wall street want? Looks like
I Roosevelt is playing a double game.
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Blackwell, Okla, August 26.?
Mrs. Jack Frost, wife of a prominent
business man and politician of this
city, was arrested here tonight,
charged with poisoning Mrs. Alice
Combs and her eldest son, Ernest,
and with the intent to kill the entire
family of seven persons. Mrs. Frost
was tsken to the county jail at Newkirk.
Arsenic was put in the coffee
pot during the absence of the family.
Only two of the family drank coffee.
They are in a critical condition,
EXPENSES OF CANDIDATES.
How Does This Strike You, Boya?
Some of You can Appreciate it.
Below is given the expense account
of a Ilall county candidate
who favored a late primary. From
this time on he says he will always
be in favor of an early primary, although
he will never be a candidate
again. Here is the way he put it
down:
"Lost 4 months and 33 days canvassing;
1.340 hours thinking about
the election; 5 acres of cotton; 28
acres of corn; a whole sweet potato
crop; 4 sheep; 5 shoats; and 1 beef
given to barbecues; 2 front teeth and
a considerable quantity of hair in a
personal skirmish. Gave 97 pings
of tobacco; 7 Sunday school books; 2
pair of suspenders; 4 calico dresses;
7 dolls and 13 baby rattlers.
"Told 2,889 lies; shook hands
23,475 times; talked enough to have
made in print 1,000 large volumes
sizes of patent office reports; kissed
126 babies; kindled 14 kitchen fires;
cut 3 cords of wood; pulled 474 bandies
of fodder; picked 774 pounds of
cotton; helped pull 7 wagon loads ol
corn; dug 14 bushels of potatoes;
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stoves; was dog bit 4 times, watch
broken bj baby, cost $3 to get re
paired.
"Loaned out 3 barrels of flour, 50
bushels of meal, 150 pounds of bacon;
37 pounns of butter; 12 desen eggs;
3 umbrellas; 13 lead pencils; Bible
dictionary; 1 mowblade; 2 hoes; 2
rakes; 1 overcoat; 5 boxes of paper
collars, none of which have been return
od.
"Called my opponent a preambulating
liar?doctor's bill $10. Had
five arguments with my wife?result:
One flower vase smashed, 1 broom
handle broken, 1 dish of hash
knocked off the table. 1 shirt bosom
ruined, 2 handful of whiskers pulled
out, 10 cents worth of sticking plaster
bought, besides spending $1,768.
?Gainsville (Ga.) News.
A Boy'a Wild Ride for life.
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I I? mi muinj niuuiiu expecting him to
die, and a son riding for life, 18 miles,lo
get Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Cokls, W. H.
Brown, of Leesville. Ind., endured
death's agonies from asthma, but this
wonderful medicine gave instant relief
and soon cured him. He writes: "I
now sleep soundly every night." Like
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Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds sad
Grip prove its matchless merit for all
Throat and Lung troubles Guaranteed
Iwttles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free
[at F. C. Duke's drug store.
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