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TH?S. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR VOL. LVm.'lNO. 27. XOVEFRANBXY APPROVED. Jotfrual of Education. If nature deigns to charm the eye With flowers of every hue;. Bejoicing, though at night they die, Why not be happy too? Why not, why not, Why not he happy too? A thousand creatures frisk an^ fly, And seek, arid spend, and woo; Shall we the common law deny? . Why not be happy too? Why not, why not, Why not be happy too? Squirrel and bee with rapture ply The arts their fathers knew; If these rejoice, why, so inay I ! Why not be happy too? Why not, why not, "VVUiy not be happy too? The bea^y brooks go laughing by,. ' The birds sing in the blue, The very heavens exult, and cry : Why not be happy too? ; Why not, why not, Why not be happy too? DORA KHAD GOODALL*. FACTS OF THE FRACAS. Official Report of The Irby-Shell Difficulty. GreenviUe News. HIGH POINT, S. C., July 24. To ? the Editor of The Greenville News. On Sunday last "The State pub lished an article giving an account of a meeting at my house between j Senator^ Irby and Congressman Shell in which there are several misstatments of facts, the correc tions of which as below I ask you to give the benefit of your cir culation. .Respectfully, . J.D.-M. SHAW. " We, the undersigned, were present at the residence of Colonel Shaw in Laurens county at the time of the difficulty between Senator Irby and Congressman Shell. Wo were invited there by] Colonel Shaw during his distress j on account of the Davenport, mat ter, Colonel Shaw being a nephew1 of Mr. Davenport. On this oe-1 casion there were present in the ^r?TKi^X^Jeague,'' W.. F. Cunningham, 0. C. '"?unningham ; ?nator Irby, and Congressman ".I. Colonel Shaw was out at j the ".rte holding Senator Irbyjs horses. He'came into the- parlor, walked up.to Captain Shall and said : Did you have anything to do with the writing of Farley's letter when he was at your house a few days before its publication?" .Shell replied^ "I did not, but: it was read" over to me in my presence at my house." Irby said : "Did you endorse Shell replied: "I endorsed a part of it," Irby then slapped him in the face with his hand, and W.F. Cunning ham asked them not to have any fuss there. Shell*said: "Let me explain; let me explain." Shell did not ?raw a chair or show any disposition to resent the blow in any way. Senator Irby had his pocket knife in his hand, a small knife, with but one blade, and he did not make any ; use of it. . ; 0. C. Cunningham did not draw a pistol ; had no weapon with him. He remarked that he was a friend of both Irby and .Shell but he ^didn't want Irby to stick a knife in him. There wasn't a high word spoken during the whole affair, and when Irby saw that Shell did not intend to resent the blow he did not preBS the fight upon him. Shell then said he endorsed that part of Farley's^ letter that he (Shell) did not disrupt the reform movement. During Shell's explanation Shaw came in the house most dis tressed that there had been any difference. Irby said to Shaw : "So far as you are concerned, I am sorry that there should have been any trouble." After some little talk, Senator Irby entered his buggy and drove off home. We are friends and neighbors of Colonel Shaw and know him to be incapable of planning or helping to take the life of, or to even wrong any one. T. S. TEAGUE, W. F. CUNNINGHAM. Colonel Shaw was at my_ house on Wednesday and invited me and my- wife down ip spe?d the next day. When we carno Mr. Shaw informed me that he had written a note to Captain Shell to come kown that day, and I told him that I was glad to* see Captain Shell foe he was an old friend and neigh bor. In a short time Captain Shell came and we were titting in . thevparlor. Senator Irby came and said to Shell : "Did you endorse Farley's letter?" Shell replied : "I did to a cer tain extent." Then Senator Irby slapped him. W. F. .Cunningham caught Senator Irby and I rose thon between Shell and. Irby and said that I was a friend of both of them, and "don't you stick ?that knife in Shell." I had no pistol about me and am not in the habit of carrying them. Shell did not attempt to draw a chair on Irby nor make any at tempt to resent the blow. 0. C. CUNNINGHAM. -?I saw in'^he State" an article which does me great injury and I write the following statement: Wednesday, a week ago, I wrote a note tc- Captain Shell to come to my house, intending for him to come the next day. I wanted to see him in reference to an in dignation meeting held" no far from his house in the Davenport matter. He came about 10 o'clock the next morning. A? short time afterward Senator Irby came in his buggy and I went out to meet him and asked ni m not to go into the parlor on account of -Shell being there. He went, however, anda difficulty took place, but I did not see it. I make this statement to correct the infam??T falsehood at once. Captain Shell will not dare to say that he was threatened,with assassination by me or./ Senator Irby, and I know he will correct it at once. J. D. M. SHAW. As contradictory to a malicious statement published in Columbia State last Sunday, July 23, the following statement from Captain Shell was furnished The State for publication in tomorrow's issue: Nothing is more distasteful to me than the necessity of appearing m" prinjr^D?t I. observe in your. ;. is8ueof the 23rd inst, an inac curate account - of a forma! dif ficulty that occurred at Colonel Shaw's between Senator Irby and myself, and in order thaf the pub- j lie. may know the truth of the oc currence, I will state briefly, that I was at Colonel Shaw's as an , invited guest on Thursday, the 1th inst., together twith 0. C. Cunningham, W. F. Cunningham, and T. S. Teague. Sometime af ter my arrival lhere, and whilst being entertained in the parlor, Senator Irby suddenly made his appearance and in an excited manner inquired of me if General Farley had r?ad to me the com munication published against him and also demanded to know if I endorsed said article. I replied in the affirmative, and said ,1 en dorsed so much of it as was contra dictory to the statement by "Crad dock," thereupon, Colonel Irby struck me whilbt sitting in my chair. W. F. Cunningham caught Irby and pulled him back, wh* n Irby drew his knife but was pre vented from using it by being held by W. F. Cunningham. Af ter some unimportant bickerings Senator Irbt left and thus ended the affair. I would .state in justice to Colonel Shaw.that he was in no way responsible for this indecent occurrence, and none, regretted it more than him. . The statement that Colonel Shaw had invited me to come to his house after night is utterly false, and any insinua tion that there was a conspiracy to "assassinate ru? is without foundation. If I have a friend and I have many-Colonel Shaw must be numbtred first among them. . 0. C. Cuniu^ham had no pistol nor was one even mentioned throughoiit the affair, and no such information was furnished by me, as one of the interested parties, to any one. ' , G. W. SHELL. -tf One of Washington's Jests. New York World. While riding over one of the fields of New Jersey the members of Washington's staff * noticed .their chief feeling about his throat. Hamilton asked him if his throat was sore. "No," said Washington, "I was only wondering how a halter would feel around it." A grim jest indeed, and ono of the few Wash ington ever made. But had the halter .performed such an Office would.the greatest of our heroes have been glorified as he was yes terday- and as he is always glori fied 1 Yet he would have been equally deserving. Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? Why, if ii prosper none dare call it treason. LITTLE GIRLS. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Where have they gone to-the little girls, With natural manners and natural curls? Who love their dollies and like their toys, And talk of something besides the boys? Little old women in plenty I find, Mature in manners and old in mind; Little old flirts who talk of their "beaus" And wish each other in stylish clothes. Little old belles,"who, at nine and ten, ire sick of pleasure and tired of men, Weary of travel, of balls, of fun And find no new thing under the sun. Once, in the beautiful long ago, Some dear little children I used to know; Girls who were merry as lambs at play, And langhed and rollicked the li velong day. They thought hot of the "style" of their clothes, They never imagined that boys were "beaus" Other girls' brothers and "mates" were they, Splendid fellows to help them play. Where have they gone to? If you see One of them anywhere, send her to me. I would give a medal of purest gold To one of those dear little girls of old, With an innocent heart and open smile, Who knows not the meaning of "flirt" or "style." TEN.?AKDSOF SNAKE. Tl ie Monster Does Seem Starling. Things on the Weston i arm? "If you should ever pass the Weston farm near Delphi. Ind," said John Gilbert to aN New York Sun man, "yoa?couldn't help bat notice a shepherd dog lying on one j1 endof the front porch with his head on his forepaws, apparently asleep. He went to sleep, accord ing to the story that Farmer Wes ton tells, one night in February last, and he has never wakened j since. When that dog went to sleep he weighed about fifty pounds 1 He now.weighs more than one ! hundred and fifty pounds, for he 1 is petrified. Some folks declare } tha?hB ' is simrjily a- -dog carV3ct= - from stone, but that is before they \ have heard Farm&r Weston's story. 3 4fter they hear that they have nothing more to say. They can't ( say anything. They simply marvel. ? Farmer Weston is a member of 1 the Baptist church and only ? has 1 one arm, so it is hardly likely that he. would lie about a little . thing like a petrified shepherd dog. ( And, more than that, the change in the dog's status is really not the most surprising thing about 1 the farmer's story. " I was never ?ny nearer the Weston farm than 1 Richmond. Ind., and consequently . I never saw the dog, but a man ] who saw it not long ago told me ^ the story Farmer Weston told him about the dog, and the amazing [ manner in which it was pertified. ? "Just after dark one night early i in February the farmer left the ' house' he said, '.o go his barn to at- 1 tend to his horses for the night. ' The weather was cold, but there was no wind astir, so the farmer j was surprised to hear a noise like the soughing of heavy wind i thr lugh the branches of the trees. 1 This sound was all tha^?ore sur- 1 prising because there was no trees 1 anywhere around for the wind to ; sough in. A public road passes ' the house a [hundred yards or so distant, and the noise seemed to be 1 from the direction of the- road. Farmer Weston stopped and ' listened to the singular noise, and as he listenen [he saw a sight no 1 Hoosier farmer ever gazed on bc- 1 fore, and he says he is willing to bet his farm on it. "And what do you think it was?' said the man, who said that he was ? saying just what Farmer Weston j had said to him. "A snake -y not ( only a snake, but a fire, regular fiery serpent came suddenly from j the road and wound wiggled, and zigzagged its way^ toward Weston, . traveling as fast as a steam engine." "According to the farmer's data | this fiery snake was thirty feet , long and a foot and a half in , diameter. Now, naturally, one i would suppose that a snake carry- : ing as much fire as that along with ( it would quickly raise the tem- \ perature of the weather in any < district it was traveling through, j but things worked just the con- j trary with this snake. As it ap- | proached Farmer Weston he could ^ feel the temperature getting ra- , pidly lowes, until he was sure it < fell away below zero. This alarmed : the farmer for he hadn't things ] just fixed around the premises for such a sudden and unprecedented 1 change ia the weather. Although the fiery serpent was coming righi at him accompanied by the sough ing noise he had heard, Farmer Weston did not move from his tra?ks. But the snake suddenly changed its course when it had come within -twenty feet of him and made directly for the barn. As the snake turned from its course the sound that was traveling with it changed and -besame exactly such a noise as made by a. steam.gong. At the same instant. Weston felt a sharp electric shock, and he was unable to move a> muscle or utter a sound. He was like one paralyzed. "The snake made straight for the barn climbed right up the side. of the building to the roof, and for five minutes contorted itself in fiery gyrations all around the out Bide of the barn. Weston expec ted every second to see the build lng burst into flames, but nothing of the kind occurred. At last the fiery serpent climbed to the peak of the roof and raised up on one sud of itself perpendiculary in the air, where it swayed and whirled for a minute or more, when there came a sound like the report, of a distant cannon and the startling sxhibition was at an^ end. The fiery serpent disappeared as if it bad never been. With the report that doused the glim of the snake so to speak, Farmer Weston felt another strong electric shock, but it seemed to come as an antidote to the first one for he instantly re covered the use of his limbs and dis voice. The temperature of the weather instantly rose -again, and 3tood where it was before the strange fire of the snako had sent it down. "The first thing Farmer Weston lid was to go back to the house ind confide to his wife what he aad seen. She was inclined to pooh-pooh him, but at last ac jompaniedhim to the barn with i lantern. They were confronted vith startling^urprises. The .first! vas., the effect : the. fieryV s?rjr^n^|^( sport had on the barn. The build '{ mg was covered with what seemed ;o be a network of icy ropes evidently marking where the snake had flashed about on around md over the barn. But the net vork wasn't ice. So far from it hat a lighted candle held against ;he substance would not melt it jroing into the barn they found meir two horses standing motion !ess in their stalls. They were ilive, warm to tne touch, and oreathing naturally. But they vere powerless, even under the [ashing of a whip, to move muscle. The shepherd dog lay on che barn floor, just as he had gone to sleep. The farmer soon dis jovered that the dog was . lifeless He stooped down to move him ind was amazed to find that he oould not budge him^ and it re quired the strength of both '.Veston and his wife to lift him. He had turned to solid stone. Three days passed, during which time the Weston farm was thronged with people who flocked to see the amazing sequences of the fiery serpent's visit, and the two horses showing no sign of recovering from their strange paralysis, were killed. In the course 'of a week the labyrinthine trail of the serpent on the barn crumbled away and fell off, so that the o'njy tangible ?vidence of the apperance of the fiery, freezing and paralyzing 3erpent that Farmer Weston has on hand is the pertified dog." -'-7 Has Its Good Points. - / Pomona. Col., Progress. In some villages in /apan rob bers are tried and convicted by ballot. Whenever a j robbery is 2ommitted the ruler of the hamlet ?ummons the entire male popula tion and requests them to write on a slip of paper tie name of the persons they suspect as having 3ommitted the crines. The one receiving the largest number of ballots is declared} duty elected." and is accoding/y hung. This 3ystem, like all Others has its peculiar advantages. It insures the punishment if somebody for ?very robbery committed ?vhereas under system in peguo in most jcivilized ooun tries in niue cases out of ten no punishmon is iafiicred on any body for the ciime. ' Of course, tfcey may not 'Sleet" the guilty perron, bul dispjse of some other :haracter equally as bad. There is much in thejsystem to com mend it to other pations. Subscribe to tjie Edgefield AD VERTISER. .1 J st i y n< wi I bv sc N w: I in tl te m so Ol th si il bi tb Ti so W( Hi he ar cu an on ari Cu wi th of ea g* ur te th th ba or ah ar to Li Cl in wi of M er Li W to li! ti? CD W] CC al Pe of th th ac ge M of he so! re: mi eq sh tw se< an wc wc Is] rig wi co: sec en thi as mc wh Th th( tie hit wh m TH?EE KISSES. mm ' g$?> The purest kiss ?V In the world is this T?fkiss that a mother lays -.-et On her child's fresh lips ~\a "As-he blithly tries Ti^meetthe world and its ways. The sweetest kiss W:? In the world is this T/h^irstTIong kiss of love, Mh?n time is not id th??arth is forgot, Eden drops from above. .The saddest kiss J& the world is this B&?? unansweringclay : |when dead lips tell Jjjjlpe must sob farewell lawn of the Judgment Day. it a Texas Norther is. bo-Democrat. ?is a Texas norther?" The lesion;was put to Major B. M. urst of Texas. -'A Texas ?my inquiring friend, is an y damp and disagreeble j|hat crawls up out of the ere the North Pole used to swoops down upon the ?es sunny southland at a auks gait catching you bur inosquite bar under on and your over coat It is more penetrating monia and requires but fhds to work its way to the ret recesses of a fat man's cause him to regard the x hell of fire as the one ^^^?l the world most to be de .^li a norther has a victim in i graf he feels that he has a com nati?n of buck ague and ages te '?nlls. It is the r- sax in ?xa?not to make re until mejSjdy. freezes death. It; miaree a slam ? ? "he most de ntal climate on earth. Few >us|pbuilt prior to the war had iyJ^fe)vision for heating. The stcra| was, when a norther LnoWc'ed itsel?-, to keep piling LCORj.untrl it got {discouraged id;3S^e up the contest. That sto$T2&.atill generally followed. 5rtK^f?i:.'..people, regard- this, th extreme disgust. They go down ere.expecting to find ten months summer .and two. months of rly fall weather to revel in . the ad sunshine and to inhale the ictuous perfume of magnolia ids all the year. They get iuto sir picnic clothes and send eir heavy weights to friends ,ck home to be given to the poor packed away in camphor. Just lout that time a norther arrives, id for three days, they long to go Manitoba to get warm. ?cu ten ant Tot ton and thc Mil lennium. - For half a century' the whole iristian world has taken a deep terest in the Biblical prophecies lich announce the second coming Christ* and the millennium, any learned and pious men have it?red into these discussions, ientenaut-Totten, a graduate of est Point, and millitary instruc r? at Yale College, has been pub string the results of his investira IDS for several years. He is i .reful student of the prophetical ?tings, and he is an earnest, ihscientious man. He is not bne in his opinion. Many devout irsons believe that all the signs the times point to a new dis nsation of some sort. Lieutenant Totten says : We are at the termination of e "times of the Gentiles," and e period of judgment has tually begun. Things will not t better, but rather worse. In arch I pointed out the sounding the tenth stroke of the midnight ur and announced the June Istice for the eleventh. I now iterate the statement that was ide, to-wit:. That the autumnal uinox will mark the twelfth .oke. Thereafter it is "low elve" fully come, and the con menees will follow in an orderly d chronological manner. It luld seem that every man and iman, at least of my own race, rael, would reread, and that ;ht carefully, the parable of the Be and foolish Virgins in this ?nection. It would then be m that it is by no means the d of the world that'is at hand it I am so often misrepresented expecting, but far different itters. We are approaching the crisis ich must precede the millenium. e optimistic's day is over, and ) scene of facts drown the whig? with which he^. seeks to keep j courage., up. '? Tnese troubles, ich are matfers of common con versation nowadays, are worldwide. They will not down. Their center is everywhere, their circumference Qowhere. They mean disaster to rotten institutions, the bursting of ill inflated enterprises, the expo sure of deceits of every descrip tion and the trial as by fire of every nan's work. You.may call it what ?rou will. I call it by its proper lame as written by the prophets )f Jehovah. It is judgement. Its luration a it were a-"week" of ..ears, ana ?or that matter all the rears that follow even to the mil enium, a duration of one thoa?and rears, or a day of the Lord, as St. ?eter calls it, w,ill be a period of udgment to all who do unright ?ousness therein. But enough ; a vord to the wise is sufficient. My imeis all occupied in close chro ?ological study. I would gladly mte the manuscript detailing hese unanswerable vindications )f the scripture in my life's blood f that would insu ._eir speedy ixamination at the hands of those br whom they are published. But ill this is iale ; it seems impossi )le to reach those whom I long vith. unattainable anxiety to bring nto a knowledge of what now oust shortly come to pass. Fare at Glenison. , . At all boarding schools there rill be boys and girls who will rumble at. the fare. You may enerally notice that their health is inproved when they are sent from tome and put on a r?gulai diet at e gular hours. The boarding cho?l, the year round, is generally etter than the fare in most of the omes. .The News and Courier ives thc following bill of fare rhich will fatten the Clemson Wiege boys : "About the best way to give an lea of what the boys get is to ive the menus for the days I saw ^Galloway : Breakfast at 7.20 a. .m Ham, ight bread, corn bread, hominy, pffee or milk. tation.) Supper at 6 o'clock. About same s breakfast. The bill of fare will be changed rith the season and the boys will e given the benefit of the products f the farm and station." It Costs You Nothing. We are pleased to announce that re have made arrangements by rhich'we are prepared to supply ree to each of our subscribers a ear's subscription to that well, nown monthly home and farm ournal, the American Farmer ublished at Springfield and ileveland, Ohio. We make this ffer to each of our subscribers rho will pay up all arrearges on iibscription and one' year in ad ance, and to all new subscribers aying one year in advance. The anerican Farmer is strictly Na ional in its character. It is a igh-class illustrated journal filled rith entertaining and instructive mading matter, containing each ?onth much information that is ?valuable to agriculturists and f special interest to each member f every home. It is suited to all Dcalities, being National in its icke and character, thus meeting rith favor in all localities. It is trictly non-political and non ectarian. It has a trained corps f contributors and is carefully dited. The various departments f Farm, Horticulture, Sheep and Iwine, The Home, The Horse and he Dairy, are filled with bright nd useful matter. The readers f the American Farmer are uni ersal in its praise and look for its lonthly visits with keen anticipa ion. The regular subscription rice to the American Farmer is 1.00 a year, but by this arrange ment it costs you nothing to receive bat great publication for one ear. Do not delay in taking ad antage of this offer, but call at nee qr send in your subscription, ample copy of the American 'armer can be seen at the ADVER ISEK office, or will he supplied irect by the publishers. AYE R'S HAIR VIGOR Keeps the scalp clean, cool, healthy. The Best Dressing Restores harr which has become thin, faded, or gray. Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. Lowell, Mass. lappy and content is a home with "The Ro ester;" a lamp with the light of the morning r Catalogue, write Rochester Lamp Co., New irk, The Union Mutual Life Insurance Co., OF FO^UrXjJ^TL}, IVTATTTE. Its Policies are Hie Host UM Now Offered! to the Pole. j Is the only existing Company whose policies are, or can be subject to, the MAINE NON-FORFEITURE LAW. WHAT IT IS: A The Maine Non-Forfeiture law pro tects polices from forfeiture by reason of default of payment of premiums', lt provides that, after three years' pre miums haye been paid, failure to pay any subsequent premiums shall not forfeit a policy, but it shall continue in force for its full amount until the reserve (less a small surrender charge) upon the policy is exhausted. The reserve isa sum made up of por tions of each and every premium paid upon a policy ;n anticipation of its maturity. Beg*, nihg with a small portion of the first premium, it is in creased eacn year by the addition of each subsequent premium, and grows larger year by year, until, at maturity, it exactly equals the face of the policy. When a policy is discontinued there fore, there is in the hands of the Comr pany a reserve greater or less, accord ing to the character and age of the policy. Instead of permitting the Com pany, upon non-payment of premium, to confiscate this reserve, the Mal..e Non-Forfeiture Law requires the Com pany to continue the policy in force until the policy-holder receives an equivalent for it in extended insur ance. HOW IT WORKS: A If a person, aged 36, pays three years' premiums upon a twenty pay ment Life policy and then discontinues payment, the policy will be continued 4 years and 257 days longer; if he pays* five premiums, and then discontinues, the insurance will continue 7 years and 357 days longer. If the^pohcy is a twenty year en te age, three years' pay vxfce*sionof#yea and 150 days- five y?arsr payment years, 300 days. If th?? policy is s ? Year Endowment, ($1,000)'K?me age, three years' payments will secure in surance to the end of the endowment period and $13.68 in cash if insurer lives till that time, and in like manner ten years' payment secures insurance for the full 15 years and $592.17 in cash. These extensions vary with the age of the insured, the class of policy, and the number of payments made; they are stated in each policy, in years and days, for each number of payments, so that the policy-holder knows at a? glance exactly what he is entitled to if be discontinues his payments at any time. WHAT IT HAS DONE : A The Company Has Paid Over Two Hundred Death Claims, in consequence of this law, aggregating in sums insured more than Four Hun dred Thousand Dollars. In every case there had been a de fault in the payment of premium, andf except for this law, the policies would have been of little or no value. Instead of this, the insurance in each case was extended to the time of death, and the Company was required to pay to the beneficiaries under the polir%* the sum of $418,335.77. ffflai A as It is the custom of many companies to provide "in their policies that, upon discontinuance of payment of Premium, paid-up policies will be given without the option of extension. This was the practice of the Union Mutual before the Maine Non-Forfeiture Law was enacted, but it now substitutes for paid-up values the more advantageous plan of extended insurance.. The objection to the paid-up system is that the amount of paid-up insurance which is given upon the discontinuance of payments upon a policy ? unless it has been in force a great many years is insignificant, and of little or no value as protection ; and it leaves the insured who ceases payment without adequate insurance at the very time he needs it the most. The great advantage of the extended insur ance afforded by the Maine Law over the most liberal paid-up system is strikingly shown by the following comparison, and it will be ob served that the paid-up value is insignificant in comparison with the amount actually paid by the Union Mutual. The result of two hun dred and twelve policies was this : If the insured had received paid-up , policies instead of extended in surance, the Company would have had to pay in settlement of the claims only. $98,197.50 Whereas, in fact, it did pay under the Maine Law. $416,344.77. Making a difference in favor of the beneficiaries under Two Hundred and Twelve policies of. $320,147.28 The policies are free from ALL restrictions, and incontestable after ONE YEAR. A. grace of. one month is given in the payment of premiums. For further information call on, or address, B. B. EVANS, Manager for South Carolina, Office, No. 1,Advertiser Building, EDDGrZEjZPIEIjJD, S. C.