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BY J AYN KS, 8HELOK, SMITH & STECK. WALHALLA, SOUTH OA MOLINA, MAY 20, 1001. KEW SERIES, NO. 105._VOLUME LU._NO. 22.
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Portions of North Carolina, 5
nessee and Virginia Si
Abbeville, S. C., May 22.-We had
.i hard rain and hail storm in tins
section Sunday afternoon and great
damage was dono to the grain and
cotton crops. The grain crops of
Messrs. Hill and Sons, Magill, Thorn
ton, Sondley and A. W. Smith wore
practically wiped out by thc hail,
tho latter gentleman having Hf ty j
acres of linc oats entirely destroyed.
Whore cotton had not been chopped
out there is hope of saving a stand.
In town and above hero tho storm
was pretty heavy, but no damage !
done. j
Smashed Car Windows.
Augusta, (ia., May 22.-Kev. Dr.
Klugh, pastor of Union Baptist
church, this city, said to a Chronicle
reporter last night : "I am just back
from tlie 'Promised Land,' South
Carolina, where I went to preach a
funeral, and, on leaving tho station
our train struck a great hail Storni.
Hail fell thick and fast, in all sorts of
shapes and forms, varying sizes from
a plum to a large baseball. Thirteen
windows of our train wore com
pletely smashed. It seemed that
bands of boys were rocking our train
as it passed on in thc black dark
ness till we reached Yerdrcy. Hero
wc found the ground well covered
with blocks of ice. Doubtless groat
damage was done to both animal
and vegetable life. No one in that
community has ever seen tho like
before. 1 fear that sonic who left
thc church on route horne were killed
Ol' fatally injured on the way.
Very Destructive in Saluda County.
Saluda, May 22.-Sunday morn- .
lng, where there were large hud ?
promising fields of wheat and oats, !
now there is naught but ruin as a 1
result of the destructive hail which j
fell in many sections of thu county
late Sunday afternoon. Reports j
have been received from tho /uar,
Richardson ville, Bloaso Cross Roads
and Denny sections .so far, and the
damage cannot he appreciated unless
one were to sec tl?0 destruction
which was wrought. Tho wheat
and oat crop, which was much above
the average, was destroyed com
pletely in many places, while tho
cotton and corn will have to be re
planted. The area of the boil storm
was about twelve miles in length,
but fortunately it was not so heavy \
in many places. Near Richardson- !
ville several crops were demolished
arid the same fate met others at.
/oar and Denny's. Whore the hail
stones were piled up by tho wind
against fences they measured as
much as eighteen inches in depth.
The stones fell as large as guinea
eggs and the foliage was stripped
from the trees. Window panes
were shattered wherever exposed.
Mr. T. (). Allaway, a large and
prosperous farmer, living three miles
south of Saluda, stated this morning
that where he was expecting to har
vest twenty bushels of wheat to thc
fiore ho would not get li vi?. This is
but one of many similar reports
made to your correspondent this
morning from many communities.
Additional reports received late
this afternoon indicate that tho de
struction by the hail of Sunday was
moro far-reaching than it was first
supposed. It now appears that hun
dreds of acres of wheal, and oats, in
stead of ii few farms, were com
pletely ruined, Mr. W. <). (larson
has just come in from Ol c portion of
the hail-.stricken district, bringing
With him a bucket full of the stones,
which now, after twenty-four hours,
measure from a half to three-quart
ers of an inch in diameter. Ile says
that '.he hail in some places was still
a foot in depth Oh the ground.
Three Drowned in Tennessee.
Eli'/.ubethton, Tenn., May 22.
Tho greatest Hood in tho history o
Neckwear is strict!
m be found in any
t, we have almost
W. & J. E.
South Carolina, Georgia, Ten
iffer from Hard Rains.
tl)is section swept through the town
lust evening, drowning three persons
and wiping out two dwellings. Oth
ers are missing and aro believed to
ho drowned. Two hundred aud
lifty families are homeless and all
the bridges in thc town and county
have been washed away. Telephone
and telegraph lines are down and
communication with the outside
world is shut off. The Hood swept
away all the tann houses along the
Doe and Wa tuga rivers, and the
damage in Carter county alone is
estimated at one million dollars.
Much Damage Dono Around Knoxville.
Knoxville, Tenn., May '22.-The
most disastrous Hood that over raged
in Fast Tennessee is now on. All
streams are higher than ever known,
and the Southern Railway's bridges
at Wa tuga and Fmbreeville are
washed away. Traflie to thc East is
suspended. Ten steel road bridges
on the Cbucky river, in Oreen
county, were washed away last night.
One man died from fright at Eliza
betbtown at seeing tho rising tide.
Three children were drowned near
(?reenville. Thomas Joralds is be
lieved to have been drowned at Tate
Hill. The Tennessee river is rising
high, and it is feared that it will
reach its highest stage ever known
by to-morrow morning. All waters
from tho upper section come in here.
For eighty consecutive hours rain
fell over this region, ceasing this
morning. Damage beyond estimate
was done to strawberries, corn and
vegetables. The heaviest rain in
years is reported throughout West
ern North Carolina, Southwest Vir
ginia and upper Tennessee, with
houses under water at Bristol, Ashe
ville, Kli/.abethlon and Newport.
The Southern Railway has annulled
all trains on its North Carolina di
vision on account of the washouts.
The trucks are submerged and bridges
destroyed. livery bridge in Unicoi
and Washington counties is reported
destroyed.
Considerable Damage About Asheville
Asheville, N. C., May 22.-The
heaviest and most disastrous rain
fell yesterday in Asheville and the
surrounding country that has visited
this county in years. Tho bottom
land is ruined and hillsides are yawn
ing gulches. Bridges are gone and
many roads are impassable. The
water is up to tho Hoors in many
dwellings and bas reached the fires
in the electric light plant. The city
is in darkness. The waters of the
French Broad and Swannoa rivers
have reached the highest point on
record. The water is a foot deep in
the ice factory and flour mills. At
Riltinoro tho Southern Railway
tracks were wash od out of place and
twisted into all sorts of shapes.
Hundreds of Asheville people
have Hocked to Biltmore to seo the
damage done to tho ideal village of
Mr. Vam' irbilt. When the million
aire and his advisers planned the
town an insignificant creek was not
taken into account. Yesterday this
st ream did surprising damage. Ono
row of cottages was flooded and the
people forced to move their belong
ings to the upper Hoers. Some
beautifully paved streets were cov
ered with rubbish. Small trestles at
IMItmore and on the main lines of
the Southern and Spartaubtirg and
! Asheville roads wero washed away,
and ho train will be operated on
either lino before this evening.
Buildings Wrecked at Charlotte.
Charlotte, N. C., May 22.-A ter
rific windstorm, amounting almost to
a cyclone, swept up the Catawba
river early yesterday morning, be
tween six and seven o'clock, damag
ing buildings, uprooting trees and
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going to be worn,
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carry all the new tl
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market. Ask to se
anything in FURS
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leveling fences. The plant of tho
Charlotte Brick Company, near Fort
Mill, S. C., was unroofed. Mr. T.
B. Gantier, general manager of tho
plant, says: "I saw timber two hun
dred feet in tho air. In tho direct
path houses wore blown down, trees
uprooted, chickens killed and fences
laid low." Continuing up tho river,
tho storm struck Mountain Island.
Tho house of James Van Pelt was
partly blown down, but tho family
escaped injury. Other houses wero
damaged by tho wind, but no deaths
havo been so far reported. Tho
crops along tho river aro said to
have suffered greatly.
Summer Hotel Washed Away.
Hickory, N. C., May 22.-Tho
wornt Hood ever known is raging on
the Catawba river, which ie four feet
higher than has ever been known
before. The new Bummer hotel at
Cliffs has been washed away, and
also tho toll bridge. The iron
bridge at tho Shuford Cotton Mill
is also gone. Groat damage is re
sulting to crops along thc river.
Heavy Rains at Spartanburg.
Spartanburg, May 22.-The rain
fall in this seotion for tho past two
days has boon unprecedented. Great
damage has been done to lands and
crops. The streams aro high and
tho county is certain to loso several
bridges. Several residences in tho
western part of this city aro sur
rounded by water, and in some the
water is a foot deep.
High Water In Anderson County.
Anderson, May 22.-Big Beaver
dam creek w'ts higher yesterday
afternoon than it has ever been
known to be and immense damage
has been done on the plantation of
Mr. NV. Q. Hammond, in Hopewell
township. One hundred and fifty
acres of oats, from which he expect
ed to get from ter? to fifteen thou
sand bushels, were completely de
stroyed. The oats were nearly as
high as fi man's head, and some of it
was estimated as good for 100
bushels to tho aere. In addition to
that his bottom corn was all up and
growing and is a complete loss,
though it will bc replanted. The
water was from hill to hill and the
levees he had built to confine the
waler were all destroyed. Mr. Ham
mond's losses are very heavy.
Later-lt is now learned that Mr.
Hammond's oat crop will not bo a
total loss. Tho water was eddy water
and submerged them, and when it
receded ho found his oats still stand
ing all right.
Floods All Over Virginia.
Richmond, Va., May 22.-News
reaches hero to-night of disastrous
floods all over the State. At Karm
ville, the Appomattox is higher than
in twenty years and there has been
great IOBB to farmers by the washing
away of crops.
K?st and northbound Chesapeake
and Ohio trains were delayed at
Charlottesville by high water, and
tho Charlottesville Woolen tn ills are
flooded to the second story.
Danville reports nundi damage to
tho Danville tfc Western railroad,
and at Bassetts, west of the city, a
church was washed away. The Dan
ville mills are flooded and the elec
tric light plant had to shut down.
New river, at Radford, is on tho
biggoHt rise since 1M78. Tho elec
tric light plant is wrecked and the
roller mills are under water to the
second story.
Trafilo on tho Radford division of
tho Norfolk and Western road is sus
pended.
James river at Columbia has risen
from five feet above low water mark
this morning to twenty-five feet to
night at ll o'clock, and is still rising.
This means danger of a big flood
here.
Tlie high water from up the James
river is expected to roach hero about
noon lo-morrow. The merchants
and others in tho low lying section
ot the city are moving out.
Skin affections will readily disappear
by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
Lookout for counterfeits. If you get
DeWitt's you will got good results. It
is the quick and positive cure for piles.
J. W. Koli.
ow with our line of
showing a nice line
VAISTS. They are
We can please you
>rice. We always
lings in COLLARS
carry as nice a line
e our Men's Hose
?ISHING GOODS.
HT.
MAJOR AMBLER, OF PlCKENS.
An Old-Timor, Who Delights in Making Othors
Laugh, Visits Greenwood.
Major Jas. Ilagood Ambler, of
Pickens county, was in the oity last
Friday. Major Ambler went out
with Mr. J. C. Caldwell to his home
in the country, where ho spent tho
night, and Saturday ho went over to
Ninoty-Six and to Fellowship
church, whero ho waB born 86 years
ago last Saturday. James Ambler,
Major James II. Ambler's father,
was from Virginia and moved to
South Carolina in tho early days and
settled in tho Cambridge section of
the State. Sometime aftor his son
James was born tho father moved to
Old Pondloton District, a part of
which is now Pickens county. Tho
move was made on account of chills
and fever which prevailed at that
time in all that section around Cam
bridge. Major Ambler lives on tho
old family homestoad in Pickens
and, though approaching four-score
and-ten, is a lively, interesting old
gentleman, and can relate many
incidents of tho old timo that would
refresh the memory of an "old-timer"
and bring a toar or a smile to those
who are younger-but with jovial
disposition he is inclined to tell you
a thousand things to laugh at and
not ono to cry over.
Major Ambler was a member of
tho South Carolina Legislature from
1854 to 1858, and he remembers
many pleasant things that occurred
while ho was a legislator. While in
The Journal oflice last Friday he
spoke of Joseph Daniel l'ope, who
was a member from I Jean fort at that
time, but is now a resident of Colum
bia. One day while there was a lull
of business in thc House of Repre
sentatives, Mr. Pope picked up a
scrap of paper and wrote the follow
ing linos :
"Wo bave a clerk that's hard to beat,
His name's not slow, but Sloan,
Ho wields his pen with facile art,
With work, though e'er so laden,
Ho knows tho members' names by heart,
Prom Ambler down to Yeadon."
Clerk Sloan, mentioned in tho
lines, was the father of John T.
Sloan, of Columbia, and Dr. II.
Sloan, of Ninoty-Six. Major Amb
ler's name was the first on the roll
of members of thc Legislature and
Mr. Yeadon's was thc last. Major
Ambler was, therefore, the first to
vote upon any question, and lie
remembers now what a hard time he
bad in leading off when puzzling
questions came up and lie had to
vote yes or no without an example
to follow.
Major Ambler is in good health
for a man of his age. He wont to
Washington last March to see Prcsi
dena McKinley inaugurated and
caught the grip while he was on top
of the dome of tho capitol watching
tho inauguration ceremonies. It
took some timo and good nursing to
bring bim through, but he is all
right now. Ile spoke of his visit to
Arlington and Mt. Vernon, and said
he was the object of much curiosity
because of the home-made suit that
he wore. Ile raises sheep and still
Imlds to an old loom, and he was a
show in Washington with home
made clothes, such as people, espe
cially old farmers, wore fifty years
ag( ?.-G reen wood J oumul.
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One small bottle of Hall's Groat Dis
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seminal emissions, weak and lame backs,
rheumatism and all irregularities of the
kidneys and bladder in both men and
women. Regulates bladder troubles in
children. If not sold by your druggist,
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One small bottle is two months' treat
ment, and will cure any case above men
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This is to certify that I have berni cured
of kidney and bladder trouble with one
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Groat Discovery, and can roe.ommond it
to others sulTcring in tim same manner.
Henry Lin/ner,
Af Lindoll Harber Shop.
01? Washington avenue
Farmors' Institutos.
Tho following statement, given
out by Dr. Ilartzog, of Clemson Col
lege, will be of interest to tho farmers
in ovory section of this Stato :
Farmers' institutes will bo hold in
a limited nutnbor of counties this
summor for tho instruction of tho
people in various brmcheB of agri
cultural science. Tho course of
lectures will be arranged to present
to those in attendance tho results of
tho most recent investigations in
theoretical and practical agriculture
and, as far a? possible, to make tho
subjects discussed meet tho special
needs of tho locality whoro the insti
tute is hold.
All oxpcnscB of tho meeting will
be met.by thc College. Tho com
munity in which the institute is held
is expected to provide a suitable
place for the speaking, to advertise
the mooting and to arrango tho
minor details. It is desirable that
local speakers and writers assist in
thc exercises of the institutes by dis
cussing subjects in which they aro
most interested, or in which they
havo had successful experience.
For any place to secure an insti
tute it will bo necessary for at leatt
fifteen citizens to petition therefor.
Petitions must be sent in not later
than July 1,
It may not bc practicable always
to hold the institute on tho day
desired by thc community, as dif
ferent places sometimes ask for the
same date. The final selection of
tho dato must, therefore, bc left to
tho College authorities, but tho
wishes of the community will be
observed as far ns practicable.
Tho annual State Farmers' Insti
tute will begin at Clemson on
August 12. Further information
will be given later.
Henry S. llart/.og, President.
Mr. W. -I. Baxter, of North Brook, N.
C., says bo sulfured with piles for fifteen
years. Ile tried many remedies with no
rosulta until he used Do Witt'8 Witch
Hazel .Salvo and that quickly cured bim.
Richest Negro in tho South Dead.
Ilopkinaville, Ky., May 2'2.
Peter Postell, probably tho rich381
negro in the South, died suddenly of
heart disease. Postell came from
North Carolina as a slave. Ile ran
off and joined the Federal army.
Returning home be started a grocery
store from which he accumulated a
fortune estimated at $500,000. He
was the most public spirited negro
in Southern Kentucky, and his obse
quies will be the most elaborate ever
held in this section.
The nuisance of stamping checks
and drafts, telegrams and other
documents of daily usage will soon
be abated. Thc bill that goes into
effect July 1st removes tho war tax
on the following articles: Bank
oh eeks and drafts, bills of lading for
export, certificates not otherwise
specified, sight drafts, express
receipts, money orders, mortgage or
conveyance in trust, power of attor
ney to sell, promissory notes, protest,
telegraph messages, warehouse re
ceipts. On all else the tax is
retained.
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A th roo and a half year old boy,
in I lorry county found a bottle of
whiskey a few days ago and took a
large drink. Ile died in convulsions
24 hours later.
Is more common than we may think, if
we define gluttony as eating beyond the
body's need of sustenance mid beyond
thc stomach's capacity fi;r digestion and
assimilation of food. That Is a fair
definition, and it fastens thc natue glut
ton on many a person who Would resent
the term as an insc.lt. Thc fact of this
fluttony is marked by its consequences,
lie overloaded stomach becomes dis
eased. Thc popular term for the condi
tion is "weak" stomach. Thc "weak"
stomach fails in furnishing adequate nu
trition for the body, and BOOH the " weak
ness " spreads from the stomach to other
organs.
I)r. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
cures diseases of the stomach and other
organs of digestion and nutrition. It
enables the perfect assimilation of food,
by which alone the health and strength
of the body is maintained.
"Your medicine helped me R<> mach Hint I
cannot poduc it tOO highly," writes Moi. C. I,,
llrooks, of Toland, Audrosioggln Co., M?, "The
first dom- I took helped nie. I cannot forget
how I fell when I look ll ; I was Bullering every
thing with Indigestion mid my stomach was so
bloated that ll seemed as though lt must hurst.
My husband said he was going for thc doctor,
but I said If he would get me a iKiltle of thc
'Ooldea Medical Discovery1 l would try that.
I had not tuleen lt long when I felt relieved, and
have not had a touch of Indigestion or stomach
trouble since. I had lieen sick for four years,
and less than four l>oHle? cured me. Home
people Hint kn?w me before I began to take the
'Ooldea Medical Iilscovery' (ell me thal Ihey
never saw snell a change In any one, and they
Also say they don't see how I can do such large
washings as I do now, when I hail not ?lone a
washing for so long."
Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure biliousness.
j. W. Boll.
At Cherry's Crossing Col, Jas, '
with Girls and Cadets-!
[From the Col
When you go to Clemson Collogo
by rail via Anderson, you stop at a
station on tho Blue Ridge road
called Chorry's Crossing-two milos
from tho collogo. Chorry's Crossing
is a very lonely place in a very pic
turesque country. To bo at Clemson
Collogo, is, in our opinion, to bo high
up in Abraham's bosom. Therefore,
it does not matter how lonely the
gatoway may bo.
Arriving at Clemson on Friday
afternoon, May 10th, from tho Dio
cesan Council in Greenville, and full
of tho great and truo glory of the
apostolic succession, wo sleop in
peace and comfort in tho barracks.
At Clemson there is peace and com
fort even in the barraoks-Btrango as
it may Bcem. On Saturday morning
early wo hear that the flowor of Se
neca's people is coming down to
Cherry's Crossing at 10 o'clock for a i
May picnic. Seneca is tho lovely, i
refined and very progressive moun- i
tain town nine miles above Clemson i
Collego. We decide to go to Seneca 1
picnic. It runs in our head that it i
will bo heavenly. Wo know that i
everybody will be kind to us and i
agreeable, but wo especially hope to I
moot our dear friends, Mrs. Dr. A. '.
Ii. Hines and Mrs. M. W. Coleman, i
founder and ex-President of thc Wo- <
man's Federation of Clubs in our i
State. A young barraoks oflicor, be- i
hind an extremely fiery Arabian I
steed, drives us to tho scene. When 1
wo arrive near the scone, the young <
officer is seized with a deadly fear
that we are vulgarly early. As for :
ourself, wo have Burvivod tho feeling
of shame, but wo say nothing, and
tho young oflicer drives us a quarter i
of a milo further, down a grand hill,
to tho "iron bridge" aorosB tho Se- i
noca rivor. It is a beautiful now <
modern bridge, and the spot is one of :
uncommon beauty. On tho bridge,
which stands very high aboyo tho
lovely, swift-llowing Seneca, wo find
two young gentlemen fishing-Prof.
Newman, of Clemson Collego, and
his tiny little grandson, Stanley, who
is a bright and handsome little boy.
With one hand Stanley holds on to
his line, while with the other he
clasps to his bosom two "cats." Ono
of these cats is largor than Job'B be
hemoth that was able to drink tho
river Jordan dry at one draught,
whilo the other is very small. Stan
loy informs us with extreme exulta
tion that ho has caught tho behe
moth, while his grandpa has only
hauled up thc wee cat.
THU TUKKS WIIKKK 1MCKKNS STOOD
WITH TllK INDIANS.
Assuring tho proud young officer
that tho hour of oxtremo gentility
had fully arrived, wo drove back,
and, through a wide-swinging, old
time gate, enter tho grounds of tho
once proud Cherry mansion. It Bits
on a bill, and tho now Bomowhat bar
ren lawns around it is dotted with
ancient oaks. This was tho original
homo of old Brig. Gon. Andrew
Pickens and bia wife Rebecca Cal
houn, and hero he sat in pow-wow
with tho Indians, made his famous
treaty of peace with them, and so
cured their everlasting friendship
and love. In the graveyard of tho
historical "Old Stone Church," two
miles away, he and Kebeooa Calhoun
are buried. Thuir tombs aro in good
preservation, A part of this estate,
lying lower down the rivor, but ad
joining, Gen. Andrew Pickens gavo
to his son, Ezekiel Piokcns, who is
also buried at the Old Stone church,
as is also Gov. Andrew Pickens,
whilo Gov. Francis W. Pickens sleeps
in Edgell old, a few hundred yards
from where wo are writing. Theso
two plantations are still spoken of
by tho old pcoplo as "tho Andrew
Pickens place" and "tho Ezekiel
Piokons place." When this property
wont out of tho hands of tho Pick
onses it went into those of a rich
and prominent family named Cherry.
Tho Andrew Pickens place, the
scene of the picnic, is now owned by
Miss Mary Cherry, a lovoly and bo
loved young girl who is now nt tho
Presbyterian College for Women,
Columbia, while the Ezekiel Piokons
place is tho property of her mother,
Mrs. JOPBO W. Strihling, a promi
nent and popular society leader of
Seneca. Indeed, it is Mrs. Stribling
who is, as it were, tho head and front
of this May outing. The residence
has been much added to and im
r. Bacon has a Glorious Time
Some History Recalled.
umbia State.]
proved since tho Picket? period and
is full of very anoient furniture, for
which many new-rioh Yankees would
now give largo sums of money. It
is, howoYor, occupied only by a whito
tenant of Miss Chorry's, who takcB
oaro of tho property and keeps up a
largo modern dairy farm.
A MAMMOTH CHURN Ol' LEMONADE,
Mr. and Mrs. Stribling received us
with ease and cordiality, saying to
the proud young oflioer that he is
"late," and then Mrs. Stribling
wavcB us to a mammoth modern
swinging churn, Bitting at one end of
tho long and anoient piazza. We
puch tho proud young ofllcer and
whisper to him scornfully, "Butter
milk." But not so. Tho modern
churn holds a million gallons, and it
is full of royal ice lemonade. Five
million lemons, live million pounds
of sugar and five million pounds of
ice havo been churned up in it. it
is a heavenly vision-and, unlike
most of earth's joys, proves not to
be fleeting. And then after we have
swallowed a gallon of lemonade, and
thanked God, Mrs. Stribling kindly
introduces us to tho heads of the
tribes. The idoa of old Andrew
Piokens treating with tho Indians is
strong in our minds, and tinctures all
our ideas. So much so that wo look
upon all tho elderly mon and women
is heads of tho tribes. We even
look for wampum and feathers and
beads and tomakawks. The heads
of tribes aro kind and cordial, and
we swim.
LOVELY Ol RLS, CLEMSON BOYS AND
HONG ICONO GK1?8E.
Lovely girls. Seneca boys. Clem
son boys. Heavenly little children.
Hong Kong gocBC. Iridescent pea
cocks. Mild-eyed Jersey cows.
Green grass. Big trees. Lovers'
nooks ! It is lovoly. Supremely
arcadian. Tho Clemson boys. We
venerate tho Clemson boya-arc not
in uniform. On the contrary, they
all wear now summer sacks suits
lan vender and sage green. Their
trousers aro very narrow in thc legs;
and sternly creased down the middle.
Indeed the only way ono differenti
ates tho Clemson boy from tho Se
neca boy is that the Clemson crease
is sterner and more inexorable than
the Seneca orease. And the Clem
son trousers are moro lavender
lavonderer !-than the Seneca troua
ors. The lovely young girls wear
muslins and lawns and percales of
all thc shades of tho azalea, tho mig
nonette and the lilac. Indeed those
Seneca girls aro really living azaleas,
mignonettes, lilacs, roses and lilies.
The Clemson boys aryo woodland
violets ! These Seneca azaleas and
lilies, however, subject themselves
like all other azaleas and lilies of thia
day to tho torture and deformity of
tho stock collar. Out upon tho stock
collar 1 Wo lovo many follies of
fashion, and we adoro Babylonish
garments, but out upon thc giraffe
looking stock collar.
KAC. TIMI: ON A COLONIAL SPINET.
And now the Clemson boys dis
cover that there is a colonial spinet
in one of the largo front rooms of
the old mansion, and they como to
your humble correspondent and bo
soech him to come and whack rag
time on the spinet for tho waltz and
tho two-stop. Did this spinet be
long to tho l'ickenses or tho Cherrys ?
We whack, and as we do so, fair
ghosts of former Pickcnses and
Cherrys rise up before us. But the
Seneca roses and the lavender boys
seo no ghosts. They aro young and
they soo only each other. They
dance and whirl and glide and twist
and swim. They waltz equisitely,
and soon tho stock collar wilts
and tho creases becomo less stern.
And tho spinet and tho player alike
pine for surcease from labor. And
the great ico lemorado churn gives
up its doad in incalculable numbers.
CLEMSON CAPON AND SENECA OA EE,
Now, ancient slaves, under the
direction of hoads of tribes, bring
down ancient tables from tho second
story of tho ancient mansion. They
arc arranged along tho entire length
of tho ancient piazza, and soon they
rise up into Andes and Adirondacks
of ham and fried chicken and baked
Clemson oapon, and mayonnaises
and piokles and jellies and buns and
benton biscuits. Tho capon comes
only from Clomson, whom Prof. Os
car Watson, of Kdgcfield, has made
him a thing of beauty and a joy for
over. While tho feast progresses
strenuously (as Teddy Roosevelt
would say) thirty odd lovely Hong
Kong geese como and arrange them
selves in dress parado bofore the
piazza, and with outstretched nooks
and loud cawing, bog for some of
tho good things.
Wo mercifully but surreptitiously
throw oaoh ono of them a divino
boaton biscuit. And whilo wo sur
reptitiously feed the Hong Kong
geoso in front on beaten biscuit, we
openly feed tho Clemson boya be
hind us on silvor and gold and mar
ble cake This cake has boen brought
to us on a tray by that blessed lady,
Mrs. Bon. Crawford. It is ours and
wc aro at liborty to dispense it as wo
wish. It feeds the five thousand,
but loaves no fragments. Indeed wo
would ardently desire some man of
science to invent a self-closing at
tachment for college boys and Hong
Kong geese.
OUK CA lt KS LUCK JOHN HUNYAN'S
C1IA1NK1) LIONS.
The fenst ?B over. And again wo
whack the colonial spinet, and again
the azalea girls and lavender boys
glide and whirl. Now the shadows
slant, and "old men and maidens,
young mon and children," travel
homewards to Seneca and to Clom
som. It has been a happy day. All
our cares and difliculties have boon
Uko John Bunyan's chained lions.
They have not touched us. And the
"minister of Satan" that every mau
and woman has to "buffet" him or
her, has been blessedly absent. Wo
bow low to the heads of tribes !
James T. Bacon.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
thnt Contain Mercury,
as morcury will surely destroy tho sonso
of smell and completely derange tho
whole system when entering it through
tho mucous surfaces. Such articles
should ?over bo usod excopt on proscrip
tions from reputable j di y si ci ans, as tho
damage they will do is ton fold to tho
good you can possibly derive from thom.
Hall's Catarrh Caro, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., con
tains no mercury, and is takon internally,
acting directly upon tho blood and mu
cous surfaces of tho system. In buying
Hall's Catarrh ('uro bo suro you got tho
genuine. It is taken internally, and
I made in Toledo, Ohio, by V, J, Clicnoy &
Co. Testimonials free. Sold by drug
gists, ?rico 7?C por bottle.
Hall's Family Pills aro tho host.
Wo agree with the Yorkville
Enquirer when it says : "Wc again
beg to remark that the only recog
nized rule of Democracy in South
Carolina is loyalty to tho result of
tho primary election. Any white
man has a right to advocate, within
tho primary, any view that ho may
seo proper to advocate. The white
voters themselves are the judges as
to what they prefer, and the man
who is afraid to trust these white
voters on any proposition, is not a
Democrat. That is not Northorn or
Western Democracy, but it is good
in Soul li Carolina."
Six Million Boxes a Year.
In 189s, none; in 1900, 6,000,000
boxes; that's Cascareis Candy Ca
thartic's jump into popularity. The
people have cast their verdict. Best
medicine for thc bowels in the world.
All druggists, 10C.
"A woman with a pet dog can
make more kinds of a fool of herself
than any other human being under
tho Run," savagely remarked ono of
tho salesmen in a Chestnut street
jewelry store yesterday, says the
Philadelphia Record. "A girl with
an ugly brute of a bull dog came in
this morning and said she wanted to
look at garters. I showed her
several very handsome pairs, but she
said she wanted three, all alike. I
thought sjic meant three pairs, but
it turned out she wanted three
garters, two for herself and one to
match them for her dog. A friend
of hers who had just returned from
abroad had told her that it was
quite tho thing in Paris and London
for dogs to wear garters on the loft
foi clegs Lo match those worn by
their owners. Did you ever hear of
such idocy ? Of course, the garters
wero much too large for this girl's
pet, and she decided that sho would
havo ono made to order. She felt
herself to bo very much aggrieved
because we wouldn't Undertake tho
commission for her, and she flounced
out of the store in a potty rage."
Dewitt's I.ittlo Karly Kisors search tho
remotest parts of tho bowols and romovo
tho impurities speedily with no discom
fort. They are, famous for thoir elllcacy.
Kasy to take, never gripe. J. W. Doll.
?- . -
A German farmer walked into a
printing office recently, and in re
sponse to the inquiry of a friend as
to how he was getting along, said:
"Mino vrend, brosberidy vas hore
for sure, now, for mino old zow she
make seventeen leotlc bigs, and tho
whole beefiness is alive."
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