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SARTUC SPARKS.
feraonal Mention? Bad Out-took
for Crop*?Hey DOmrer Cornea
' to Vniem?Shake* Handa
With Vox.
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4,lf rou have ? Mood wArth Joying,
Lots him. Yes, and let bin know
That fst lata Mas, ere life'* evening
Fringe Us brow witb sunset glow."
Yes, and tall a girl so too. Don't
tell your neighbors, but tell her.
Bat no joking, too much is kept
back until a person is beneath the
ed* sleeping.
Song birds da not seem to be very
MMaeroos, if the singing is an evidence.
Perhaps the cool weather is
ft damper on their confidence.
t L...U -l - J ? * *
* whuw arvuuu iuu ueipeu CO
dean and straighten up the house
Sunday taorniug. Now, if a real
Me* girl wants an annex who can be
usefcl as well as ornamental, let her
p* in her "wanted" ad.
Iftrs. May Jeter, of Carlisle, came
u Saturday to risit her mother,
Mm. Ophelia Jeter.
flKn Jalia Thomas, who has been
tkiting at Union, returned home on
last Saturday.
Rsr. W. H. White filled his pulpit
at the Presbyterian church yesterday,
8rd Sunday. Text 1 Cor.
10:16,17.
Mr. L. B. Jeter went to Columbia
Sunday on a special visit.
Mr. Jay Gould Coleman, of CarIhdfL
came up Sunday on his regular
waeklv visit
Mr: and Mm. R. G. A. Jeter went
to Bedalia Saturday to see "the old
Iblks at home," and attend services
t Padgett's Creek.
Sacrament was taken at the Presbyterian
church Sunday, also a col*
. lection was taken to purchase new
hemdhOoha. '
Corafcsll is expecting |
to Re?e this week to attend the re
union in New Orleans and sfer-l
w- ..wards to iMt mistime if -Ahbita*.!
|jr> ^wdmw Ifituhsll and little!
(^^Wir,^ula^ wpnt ^owsT to tl?e
JjorttoBf ^witt hS and conld see
that the trip to this special reunion
Wto the beet inresttnept he had made
in eonulime,
. The "Company" has worked the
reed front this place to the Shoals in
good order. an<Us it has never been
worksd before, end it looks nice this
ftno vesthw. I wonder if the county
wiH hare la pay for working. it this
year, as it?j? necessary, fop this
.work to safe machinery, etc.
A rsry good rain fell here last
week which did considerable good,
where it fell, hot ft jpai not eaten*
life and sections are needing rain
qnito badly. ' * - ' < - *
Reports are continued that cotton
kl dying, the earlier planted baring
the stand badly broken by tke dying
onfc 'The feather is entirely too
p<^celW*or any other fonng
pub. ?
.TSatij bare bepri mrCittly improved
tH? W?* tpw wieki TS? f*Il prop
*?s almost despair*} of for spine
tiffltt b?* *0* ?ro begftiWfog to
please. Wheat a very poor, as
then will ho little else than straw.
1 It is reported that farmers who ore
Cttiag ia teams sad buying same to
d tot the dam are making "big
money" at f2.60 per day per pair of
males, wagon and driver, and others
tre a tickling of the foot to bay and
al also. If mere money ean be
made with one Hr o# males off the
farm, it seems H would be a pare
business move, to take all of yoar
males to Wilthis 7**r and 1st the
? |aty} reft, wbjch jr peed*. If one
Mms pays* better KftUliilg than by
farming, why weald not two, three,
fear or a whole big farm pf them.
A traction engino was sent down
from Spartanburg and arrived here
to y?* <# *> ftoory.>??(?? *r
the dam, and it wtll gtre the contractor
a lift, so far as that kind rf
hauling comes io. Indeed it belongs
to Mr. Tonne? himself. It is now
pulliog logo for derricks, the logs
seventy fett long and twolve inches
r 4l. .~-_n J _tn .i? ?it
?? hi if"'1 rnu, mw wui men pan
. torn* hear/ boilers. The young men
I la charge seem to understand their
business, despite the feet thet some
" meb uuy whoop around and tell
these how to do, assuming the role
of chief cook and bottle washers.
The engine was quite a novelty and
tone seem to "lose their head over
it. M any were the expressions
made concerning it, jokingly and
?? ?
St"
\ '"V - ^ "vT^'.'vX'jS.
N. , ' r..'. ^J- -(.WW.
there. As I had expeetajpl ffcet
many who are peraotal fr^de,- josd
I fell to listening to MMiQ af thei^
war time experiences* (for fid soldiers
will talk about that) and some
reunion pleasantries. Th^r made
me wish that I had prepared to j 'in
them on the trip and^MM^Njffl
see Vox whom I had ji3H?o*n for
several year*. lie is a Jftd friend
of mine as well at a nH ?rw.
spondent. lie was a edeSiSe h=T my
father in the war for sft
think he was with hiimiH9^M&f>father)
shot an alligator,- 4f*?& it
into camp which so ^taqjj^H^.t^e
horses that he camf dca$9 in
the guard house for brittylft it to
1 have heard nothing since the
accounts in Tub Timi? JMrJThe
State about the (<shootihga^||fi^L
there was a sequel to be*
or I could see nim, hut it;|p|jbMjM
it seems. Ernest may
hasty in lawlns or he may tiBHBp
justified, but ne has
so far as I have heard, to b4j|k)$J&Ki
or run out of the " c >%ttfry? ,v UP j
would like to figure inafPBB|^^j
i*jgaK>r"mp?p9fteaij mpnr"or
bigoted towards the white people
andjtf that affair is true, I know no
white people did it.
Bat sneaking of ulawing" there is
too much of it by both races, whether
justified or not. But you can often
find men unscrupulous, both white
and black fools, from pure downright
meanness, naturally and embellished
by cultivation, that are constantly
coing to law, and better people will
have to take many things to keep
from being "carried to law" by those
people who have no principle, nor
care anything for character, to keep
from being in a "mess" with them.
Then the "lawing" ones may think
the Other is "whipped." But it is
better, for a decent and respectable
mawte give back?when he isn't a
financier loser?and let people think,
fura falsehood will not stand throughout,
but truth will assert itself, and
SbOw -the right man in the true light.
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jl Ainto ucou IV1U til aw Ji SUJlDlDg 15
gained by lawing the gainer is also
a loeer. , IJon't let as gentlemen
<la*.!\
IJe? Denver.
... W/trimi5C|NCE|.
Happening* In and Around Union
During Reconstruction?A Brave
Father and Son?A Hit of Their
Snhaeqnent History.
(Continued from isaue of May 8th.)
by j. l. strain.
I will for the time being, drop
Ueqry Fernandez and bring another
figure to the front in order that I
may more fully and intelligently
lead the reader to the sad ending of
flenry Fernandez's life.'
A few years after the trouble
mentioned at Union took place, what
is known as the Ku Kluz war broke
out and this, of course, sent another
batch of refugees from this section
tojthe^great W est. ^.mong them was
|q;u cojpraae enq rriena r. Jell
Huges. I have already told the
readers of Mr. Hughes hegira on that
memorable occasion, and it will not
be necessary to tell it again.
Mr. Hughes had now been in
Texas for some time and was getting
pretty well fixed up for a man in his
circumstances?having through one
misfortune and another lost most of his
belongings except-his honor, energy,
pluck and perseverance together with
his noble and faithful wife and bright
little children.
At that time (thirty years ag t) in
many sections of Tex ?s tho pistol,
bowie knife and shot gun were the
supreme law of the land and the man
' bit teV wa^
clan." *
Henry then weat on |o tell Jeff
of bis cbming to Me him to get bfm
to assist him in stealing his children.
His wife he said was all right and
she would go but wouldn't leave the
children. She was waiting f>r an
opportunity to **.1 off. Henry told
Jeff of the landnehad on the Brazos
rivers whither he expected to go and
settle in case he got his wife and
children to go with him. But he
couldn't and wouldn't go without
them. The circumstance was a heartrending
one and touched Mr. Hughes
in n. v*rxr ?An<W nln/?* H
minded Jeff that his was a very perilous
undertaking. If the Scales found
out his mission they would be sure to
kill him.
"Well," says Jeff, "how is it with
the children? Will they want to
come?" "Oh yes, 'they'll come if
they get a chance,' said Henry.
"All they'll want to know is that
they'll have protection." ' That
settles it," said Mr. Hughes, "I'll
tiring them or I'll stay there till
some one hawls me away foot foremost."
Itfow Henry, ?i4 Mr. Hughes,
"you take a pieoe of paper and draw
a diagram ?f Dr. Scales' house, the
roads leading to it from different
directions, the out-houses, trees, gardens,
fences, etc, so I will not be
mistaken in the place when I get
there. Tell me the beat way to go,
what room they will'likely sleep in
and what kind of fastenings to the
doors, gates and so forth, so I will
have nothing of this kind to study
when I get on the {ground, and I'll
do the work or die in the attempt."
Lest I make this letter too long
and tedious I will withhold the rest
of it till my next which will appear
shortly together with other mitters
which will interest a very large* number
of your readers.
(To ho continued.)
FROM THE FAR WEST.
Interesting Trip From Clinton, 8.
C.. to walnut,' Mine.?Changing
Soenea Along the way.
(Concluded from last week.)
The country at Middleton, Tenn ,
is a littlp rolling, though the aem<
kind of sticky 1 and the same
kind of timber. I reached Middleton
about d a. m. and the rain wai
still coming down very lively, but
soon became a mist or mere fog; here
I had to ohang) oars to a little nir
row gauge railroad which runs frou
t Sfiddleton to Pontctac, and as they
(nrij-havc^nc train per day on this
lifaglfcid to wait until after noon.
tti^Tiien the train came in it brought
I 'wifenf my cousins, W. P. 11. Bailey,
r' alloxan of'his neighbors from Jones
t *JflHBHtafifth oounty, Miss. The
t tttBE fmr over about an hour
ahd tMpi we started South.
I W^nlyl lad about 15 miles to go to
K tfiilnti* ,*? that wag the most sociiT?e
gentle i friendly load of of passena.^bcil.
he Jin.jfcf had ever seen; erervV
'w'oor car was acquainted be)
foro?wagbad got a mile from Midlle1
ton* Th%conductor has nrn the
v train for Tnany years and owns a
U large stock of the road. The agent
' tfron* Walnut was on the tHin, he'
pr\ _ it-- - .. . _ * ? . - '
j vwna a gooa lot ol stock in the
4nfact every one who works on
w ft stockholder and are all
jast*bo\j#rtc ftmily working for each
nt Ue bad7j^an<l a]l who patronize the
4 I*? intimatcV acquaint!
officer and agent of
You don't need to buy a
j^KZMpiltes you so choose, for you
conductor the same rate
Would cost. The coun1%
JyMWdleton, Tenn,, to WalJfeta
more rolling as you
j approach tbp latter place and there
wm only two very small pines obIi
entire route. At
the hack for Jonesbont
four miles east
Immediately after
the country began to
i and soon we were
le quite steep hills as
ouse colored mules
about three inches of
in all directions and
g the mules, but tbe
the same color of the
ide very little differjolor
was concerned,
liles we reached the
bottoms, which was
ith "white oak logs split
up about twice the site of an hraMtPff
fence rail, in,4 the writer thinks the
rocky- road to Dablih could hardly be
compared with this one through the
muddy bottoms. The bottom is
about a half mile wide on the west
side of the creek and in some places
the logs had hecn torn or washed out
so that the mud would come up to
the axles, but those mules had been
there before, so they kept climbing
around until they got out of one hole
and into another. The creek sure
has the right name and there is no
creek in South Carolina to make a
comparison with this one. It is so
crooked that it is utterly impossible
to tell in what direction it is likely to
bo found again, and the water seems
absolutely still, and the only way to
tell which way tho water is llowing
is to see on which side of the logs
the trash is lodged. The creek is
full of logs, many of them have been
?i - ? '?
buiuvru iu merp uy peopio clearing
land along the banks, and at one
place a large hill got so wet that it
slid down into the creek and caused
the creek to seek a new channel by
cutting its way through u fyld.
Thefp wpre treed three feet in diameter
on the earth that slid down and
many of them still stand perfectly
erect while others toppled over during
the land slide. After crossing
the creek we proceeded up a hill
where there was some red mud very
much liko the hills of South Carolina.
All through these bottoms
and on the hills east of the creek
the timber is very heavy, consisting
of oak, sweet gnm, holly, elm, b.irthj
and many others similar to those
found in South Carolina, but no pine
as yet. After climbing the red hill
we came in sight of lovely farm
houses, though no farms in sight, as
many of tho farmers lire on the hills
and hare their ^arms several m^les
away on the creek. Thc'p? the bp^sps
\>epatpp t^prpvnumerous until soon wo
were in the midst of tho little village
of Chalybeate, known as Chalybcato
Springs. There is a very bold mineral
spring at the foot of the hill on
the north side of the town. They
have a fine college and several good
stores, cotton gin, saw and grist mill
and a tan yard. Nearly the entire
town is owned by native South Carolina
people or theip dpft-cnuants.
We had to stop a few tim:s to see an
1 old South Carolina native, but owing
! to the bad weather we made ot)r way
as fast as tfcoep mouse colored mules
1 could go for another mile east to the
1 little town or po9tofRce of Jonesboro,
5 and when we got in sight of that
place we were in full view of a tvpi1
. cai South Carolina home. There
j
were red muddy bil's, pine treef
cedars in the yard, ro60 bushes an
honeysuckle vines, cows in the cot
ton iield, hogs in the pen, goats ii
tho yard, chickens, turkeys am
cuckleburs scattered every where, am
last, but not least, dinner on th
table. A house full < f vi.Mtors, th
doors open wide welcoming us come
and here will say we felt at home a:
never before in a strange land anc
among those we had never seen be
fore.
With best wishes to The Time;
and all its readers,
W. G. Bailey.
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GREATLY ALARUEI)
By a Persistent Con fill, but Per
mancntly Cured by Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy.
Mr. II. 1\ Burbage, a student af law,
in (ireenville, S. C., hail been troubled
for four or five years with a continuous
cough which he says, "greatly alarmed
me, causing me to fear that I was in the
first stage of consumption." Mr.
Burbage, having seen Chamborlan's
Cough Kennedy advertised, concluded
to try it. Now read what lie says of it:
,,I soon felt a remarkable change and
after using two bottles of the twentyfive
cent size, was permanently curcu."
Sold by, F. C. Duke.
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AUNT HEPPY
Writes a Letter T clling of the Long
Ago?More About Harry
I Fernandez.
Mr. Editor: After reading the
letter of your Etta Jane correspondent
in last week's issue about
"Ilarry" Fernandez and his father
I thought I would just give some
recollections of the "dear dead long
ago."
Forty-three years 020. I. a little
lassie just entering the teens, was
boarding at Dr. B. F. Hawls and attending
the old Aoadeiny, presided
over by Hev. J. D. McCullough.
I remember tha coming war
daily. discussed, (acccsaiooj f I
saw the first torch light procession
in Union. I heard some fine speeches
by as able men as. South Carolina
ever produced, the Munros, Gists,
Wallaces, Maj. Townsend and a host
of giant orators. Alas, many of tbem
went forth the next year as soldiers
battling for their country, and many,
very many, never returned. I used
to love to go to picnics alter the war
and hear Col. I. G. WcKissick speak,
but it was not to pay a tribute to
Union's grand orators, her noble
sons and hen patriotic (lead that
urged me to write, but to relate a
circumstance in Harry Fernandez's
life. I had been introduced to him
by Col. McKissick at the May party
and had met him the Sabbath the
Baptist church dedicated in
18G0, bv\t not seen him since
until the time X am going to relate,
the Spring of 18GG, I think in
March T went tn Tlninn ?? 1 - - 11?
...M. vMf ? VM? vv UU1VU IU ULM* U1C
train for Spartanburg but 1 found
after getting to Dr, Hauls' that the
train would not go Hp till Tuesday,
qnd the doctor, laughingly, remarked
I would have to pay them a visit
' willy, nilly." (Ilow I liked and
respected the Doctor, he was quaint
and yet so pleasant at times and was
always ready and willing to help us
girls in our studies.)
There was a camp of Yankees
stationed at Union and were occupying
the house Mr. Nolan lived
when I was ut school there.
On Tuesday ^h$ doctor escorted
me to the depot and found me a seat
noar the stove, and as he starttd out
he stooped over as if to bid me
"good bye'* a second time an^ whispered
"use your cy?s hut not your
tongue," tben he shook hands with
my seat mate and so left us. There
v^as a blind gentleman Jrom Fairfield,
a pit\no tm\cr. QU the train going to
Spartanburg to tune the College
piano. 1 knew him well ar.d knew
he had been very wealthy till the
Yankees burnt his gin house, all his
t ? .1 i-: - * -
wuuii huu uia carriage and buggy,
in fapt his fino richly furnished house
all were burned by the vandals, and
ho was rabid when he was near one,
j What was my consternation when
we were about ^fhPTP Hr. Hernd^y.'d
hPfl30 (ik **s thei1^ Rt%d by the
railroad, t^j sec the Yankees oome
straggling in the train, some of them
drunk, aU of them disorderly. Aunt
gallic Fernando* was sitting by me,
Harry was standing at her back between
our seat and the one behind
him. Aunt Ballio was trembling
like a wind shaken loaf. Mr
Feeater, the blind man, locked
black and defiant, his little son
s
%
V
i. Norris, l?d him as he paid hi* "i.egro
il servant vai free and his son in
bondage." The Yankee i were
n Unrrliin * ' '"*4*- ?L *" *'
??m* JV.BIUIJ5 wna* tney
[1 aould d> vlien they caught t >e d?
rl Fernandez. I could not 1 ?ok at
e Harry, bad sa I wanted too, but you
r can conceive his feeling when one of
, the Yanks, drunken beyond r.ason,
s seated himself on the arm of my seat.
1 I trembled for fear Ilarry would *
knock him down and so be recogn:/.ed,
but Noiris to'd his pa and Mr.
j Fccster yelled, "guard come to this
drunken dog, be is annoying a young
lady and her mother under my care."
Well they yanked him away from
there and wo were not molested .
again. I know now we could never
havo made the trip without him
being known, but the sun was set- ;
ting when wc lefc Union and the
l lights were few and dim.
1 When wc stopped at Jonesville
\ Aunt Sallie get off and I went to the
door with her, (she was rather large)
1 and with Mr. Feester talking like
he had known her always and Ilarry
enveloped in a long army coat and
cape got off, and as he grasped my
hand in good bye I had a parting 1
glimpse of his eyes thanking me in
silence for what I had done for him,
for I told Aunt Sallie many little
anicdotes about Ilarry and how I
heard he was off for California and other
things of him, and the little
Yank seated at my left listened in Uam-U
^ A * * * ? *
.vuv^ muugu uc iuuh.ea ho careless,
but they did not get Harry. The
negro man that betrayed Mr. F.
was afterwards killed fn his cahin.
Ilia widow camo to her brother's in
this vicinity and died a lew tears
ago. After Mr. Feester lost all but
his 800 acres cf land ha toned
pianos till the time of his death, hot
he said he never woold forgive the
Yanks for he was blind and had
eight children, the oldest, Norris,
twelve years old, and dear old Dr.
Ik and nearly all that I knew 43
years ago are gone, to the "bfetter '
land" I hope.
Cabal, S. C. "/ ? T
Quick Arrest.
J. A. Gulledge of verbena, Ala. was
twice in the hospital from a severe case
of piles causing 24 tumors. After ilrw*.
tors and iill remedies failed, Bucklen's
Arnica Salve quickly arrested further
inflammation and cured him. It conquers
aches and kill pain. 25c. at F. C.
L)uke, Druggist.
Jonesville Jottings.
JONFSVILLE, May 1&,?A good
rain last week and wr.rmer weather
has put a smile on the face of the
farmers. The planting < f the crops
has not been finished yet; and a great
deal of corn will be put in this week.
Much of the fruit is turning vellow
and falling off the trees; caused
no doubt, by the late hail storm.
The John llames Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy are
arranging to present a number of
crosses of honor to Confederate veterans
on the evening of the 3rd of
June. They desire every veteran
that has applied to them for a cross
to be present on that occasion to receive
their crosses in person. The
Chapter will serve refreshments at
I the same time to aid in raising funds
I fo? placing a monument to tho memory
of the Confederate dead in the
cemetery here.
The exercises of the graded school
will close on tho Ath of June with an
exhibition at night at Almau's Hell.
\Y. H. S. Harris will leave here
this morning for New Orleans to attend
the rounion of the U. C. V's?
All the veterans that attended the
State reunion of the U. C. V/s m
Columbia returned w ith much praise
for tho unbounded hospitality of
Columbia's good people in entertain*
ing them.
llev. L. T. Carroll filled his pulpit
here yesterday morning and last
night giving his hearers two good,
intornotin a?
.u.VIVUtlU^ S?(UIVU3]
Telephone.
A Startling Test.
To save a life, Dr. T. (?. Merrilt, of
i No. Mehoopany, l*a., made a startling
i test resulting in a wonderful cure. lie
writes, "a patient was attacked with
violent hemorrhages, caused by ulcera- A
tion of the stomach. 1 had often found Ml
Electric Hitters excellent for acute ^1
stomach and liver troubles so 1 pre- 41'1
. scribed them. The p&tient gained from -JM
the first, and has not had an attack in 1
14 months." Electric Hitters are iioai- mmam?J
tively guaranteed for Dyspepsia, IndU
pest ion, Constipation " and . Kidney
1 troubles. Try them. Only 60c *1
, "P. C. Duke*
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