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Washington, December 13.-George
Washington will have been dead one
hundred and five years on the night
of December 14. It was between 10
and ll o'clock that night, 1709, that
the foremost American expived. The
day of his birth is observed through
out the United States sod wherever
else there are Americans, but the
Jay of bis death is known to few of
his countrymen. The story is a
pathetic one.
Washington for some timo had been
io retirement at Mount Vernon. His
liveliest interest and most active con
cern was in the management of thc
place. It is reoorded that on Decem
ber 10 he walked through the grounds
immediately surrounding the house
with his favorite nephew, Lawrence
Lewis, and Lewis's wife, Nellie Cus
tis, the adopted daughter of Washing
ton and whom he loved as faithful'y
as any father ever loved a daughter,
Lewis and Mies Cuatis had nob been
married a year, the nuptials having
been oelebrated at Mount Vernon on
Washington's birthday, February 22,
1709. As the trio walked through
he garden on the tenth of December
Vashington pointed out to his young
ompanions the place where he in
tended tu erect a new family vault,
thc old vault having been rived by the
roots of tren?. On the afternoon cf
|l>ecember 10 Washington completed
set of plans on which he had been for
some time engaged for the cultivation
if the fields and the rotation of the
fjrops, indicating the acreage ter be
lanted and tho nature ofjgpe crop for
:veral seasons in advance.
December ll, according to Wash
ington's diary, was windy and rainy
ind at night there was a ring around
the moon.
December 12 waa cloudy and threat
ing. In the morning of that day
iVashington wrote a letter to Alexan
dr Hamilton approving a plan which
ie (Hamilton) had submitted to the
iecretary of War for the ereotion of a
ational military academy, whish
iter was orcated at Wost Point. He
included the letter and a 110 o'clock
died for his saddle horse and started
on a tour of the plantation. It
las his almost invariable custom to
fake this tour daily. About noon
low began to fall. Snow turned to
lin and this to hail, but Washington
id not return to the house until he
lad made the rounds. It was then 3
(clock in the afternoon.
Tobias Lear, Washington's private
[cretary, saw that the General was
it and cold, but he went to dinner
nhout ohanging his clothes. The
:nl passed off as usual.
[The next morning, December 13,
snow lay three inches deep on the
lund and Washington remained in
)rs during the forenoon. He was
irse and complained of sore throat,
the afternoon he walked ont in the
unds at the iront of the house
'Hooking the river, and marked
eral trees which, he wished out
rn. His hoarseness increased,
it evening a negro servant brought
mail from the postoffiae at Alex
ia. , and Lear read the papers
Washington. Both were partiou
y interested in the report of the
ates of the Virginia Assembly.
letTP03&: 2 and 3 o'clock in the
oing of December 14 Washington
kened Mrs. Washi ngtorf, but would
permit Lor to leave the chamber
all a servant. At dawn, when a
rn ^OTS?? entered to Z??k? thc fire,
j was sent to rouse Mr- Lear, who
patched a messenger for Dr. Craik
Llcxaodria, and called in Rawlins,
(overseer of the plaoe, to bleed the
eral. Rawlins took half a pint of
d from the patient. Gargles were
and hot poultices applied to the
Iat, but the General cpuld not
low and oould breathe and speak
with great difficulty. Dr. Craik
about 9 o'clock and later Drs.
and Brown, one of them oom
ill the way from Port Tobaooo,
on '. tho Maryland shore, ar
4 o' clock the General called for
Washington and direoted her to
Ihim some papers from, his desk,
e papers were twD wills. . One he
. ber destroy in thc fire and the
to keep:
r relates' that he took the Gen
hand and that Washing lon said
: "I find lam going. Hy breath
)t las t lon g. 1 believed f rem ita
hat tho disorder would provo fa
Do you arrange and record all'
ilitary papers. Arrange my to*
s and settle my books, as yon
more abont them than anybody
md let Mr. Rawlins finish ve
>g my other letters which ho has
Craik carno io again ut 5 o'clock,
ashington amid to him : "Doo
F WASHINGTON.
Hie Farm and Estate.
I Courier.
eioiaos carno io and all assisted in
propping thc General up in bcd.
Washington said to them: "I feel I
am going, I thank you for your atten
tions, but I pray you to take no more
trouble about me; let me go off quiet
ly; I cannot last long."
Lear says that at 10 o'clock that
night thc General made an effort to
speak, and with great difficulty said:
"I am just going. Have me decently
buried and do not let my body bo put
in the vault in less than three days
after I am dead." Lear ?ays: "I
bowed, for I could not speak."
Dr. Craik hold Washington'6 wrist
and then gently laid it down. Ho
closed the eyes of Washington, for
the great man was dead. It was late
in the night of Deoembcr 14, 1790.
The funeral took place December 18.
All the people of the neighborhood
were at the house or out in the
grounds. The corporation of Alex
andria, companies of militia and
Macons from the country-side around
wero there. The procession moved
from the house to the vault, and the
casket was laid away. A sloop of
war anchored off Mount Vernon fired
minute guns.
After the ceremonies were com
pleted thc will was read. In it Wash
ington gave freedom to his slaves after
thc Jcttla ui his widow and provided
for thc maintenance of all those too
feeble or too old or young to take care
of themselves. Washington was op
posed to the institution of slavery.
There are many of his letters to prove
this. In one written to Lawrence
Lewis, in 1707, he said: "I wish from
my soul that the Legislature of this
State could see the policy of the
gradual abolition of slavery. It might
prevent much future mischief."
Washington was a prophet.
Io>> .A Corn Crop.
Des Moines, Ia., Dec. 10.-Iowa's
corn crop is worth $120,000,000. -This
is the estimate of John R. Sage, di
rector of the weather crop service.
He haB notfound any reason to change
his estimate, made weeks ago, that
the 9,000,000 acres of corn land in
Iowa will yield 300,000,000 bushels
of the golden grain. Forty cents a
bushel is the moderate price whioh
Mr. Sage says the corn is reasonably
oertain to bring.
"Exaggerated reports of the corn
crop prospects are being circulated,"
Mr. Sage said, "just as exaggerated re
ports of suspected shortcoming iu the
crop have been ciroulated from time
to time in the past. The tendency to
exaggerate is universal. Farmers ex
aggerate, grain men exaggerate and
crop reporters exaggerate. One of
our good men reported to me that
conditions were disappointing. He
was worried. The crop was falling
away below his expectations. 'What
were you oounting on?' I asked him.
" 'Thought we'd get seventy-five
bushels to the acre/ he said.
' " 'Aren't you getting it?*
"No; don't think I'll get more than
Bixty-five.'
"Then I told bien," continued Di
rector Sage, "that he was getting ex
aotly twice the average born yield in
Iowa for the last fifteen years.
"He had figured that his field would
bring down the average. In fact, it
ia one of the first-class fields that
keep the average acreage up to the
satisfactory point it has been held for
_
UlbOCU )101D,
'"The heaviest yield of corn in Iowa
will be in Pottawatomie County, as
it has been for many years. They
raise as muoh corn in Pottawatomie
as they do in some good corn States.
A normal orop there is about 8,000,
000 bushels. The average in the
ninety-nine Iowa counties is about
3,000,000.
"We have bean told of one man in
low? v.hose yield overages 104 bush
els to thc acre. Thero are many that
average eighty and many more that
come up to sixty and sixty-five.
Those figures get out and aie talked
about. You don't h cur about tho fel
low whose land lies under water, and
who gets ten bushels to the aero or
less. On the other hand, when there
are many piecea that yield poorly you
hear much calamity talk."-St. Louis
Republic.
- The man who paya cash for a lon
of coal has money to burn.
- A jokers idea of a good joke ia
one that is on the other fellow.
. --Many a man wanta the earth,
but in the end the earth gets? the
man.
- A man doesn't need much mon
ey if he has a reputation for being
wealthy.
- As a rule women are not inclined
to layup anything for a rainy day
probably beoauae they dislike th?, idea
^?;?l,nnprng-ia th? J*jjU?r??l*?^.-??
'.The Woman Tempted Me."
fcixty-niue per cent of the inmates
of a western prison," says a recent
writer, "sayB that they were led to
commit crimes by tho extravagance of
their wives."
In all probability 09 percent of that
09 are unconscious liars.
Adam lusted after the borbidden
apple until his mouth watered, and,
after he had eaten it, laid the blame
on his wife. His example has been
followed by his male successors,
Of course there are extravagant and
improvident and silly wives-too mauy
of them. And it may be that a man
is sometimes driven to crime to sup
port a wife who wants to live beyond
his means.
But the excuse is a frayed one.
A man goes aud gets drunk because
he made a bad investment or guessed
on the wrong side of the market or be
cause he wants to drink. Ile does a
mean thing or commits a crime.
When brougat to bay he whines about
his "wretched domestic affairs" and
says his wife drove him to drink.
On the contrary:
Leaving out of account the excep
tions to the general rule, it may be
affirmed that the average wife is more
economical than her husband. She
will submit to moro personal sacrifices
under unfortunate financial conditions.
And her ability to get along under
strain is greater than his.
Besides, a roman's ideals nre
usually higher than a man's. Her
code of honor is more binding. And
her benign influence over her husband
tends to prevent rather than encourage
crime.
Let us have done with this old
libel.
The man who hides bi:-; frailties be
hind a woman's petticoats is usually
not only a liar but a cvward.-Atlanta
Journal.
Compulsory Education is Necessary.
Some weeks ago Dr. A. J. McKel
way of Charlotte, N. 0., one of tho
assistant secretaries of the National
Child Labor committee, wrote to Gov.
Hey ward on the subject of child labor.
Gov. Ileyward replied that he thought
it advisable to let the subject alone.
Dr. McKelway afterwards visited Co
lumbia in the interest of the child labor
cause. He advocates the passage of
law by every State prohibiting the cot
ton mills from employing and working
in the mills children under 14 years o"
age.
South Carolina already has a law
fixing the age at 12 years. Wc think
that child labor law and compulsory
education go hand in hand. The law
forbidding cotton mills to work chil
dren under 12 years old has two very
good objects in view, one is to prevent
the impairing of the child's health and
dwarfing its growth and natural phys
ical and mental maturity and at the
same times gives the child the oppor
tunity to attend school., At every cot
ton mill we know of there are school
advantages provided for the children
of the operatives, and we also know
that there are as many children under
the legal age at which they are allowed
to work in the mill in the mill village
who do not attend school, but are al
lowed by their parents to spend their
time in idleness. The law whioh pre
vents ihem from placing their children
under 12 years old at work in the mill
is antagonistic to the parent's wishes
and creates a spirit of rebellion in the
parents, for the reason that there are
many children under 12 years old who
could earn for their parents by work
ing in the mill all the way from 50
cents to $1.25 per day.
Now, io the face of these facts, in
order that this law about the age at
which a child can work in the mill may
serve the double purpose^ it seems to
us to become nocessary that a compul
sory education law be passed, other
wise ? uiajurliy of ?he children of thc
mill operatives will grow up iu ignor
ance and will also learn tho ways of
the idle and useless.-Union Times.
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Railroad Accidents.
It is a most disquieting fact that the
statistics of train accidents for the
year ending June 30, 1904, show not
only the largest record of deaths aud
injuries, but oue that has never been
approached in any year covered by the
investigation of the interstate com
merce commission. Last year 3,787
passengers and employes were killed
and 51,3io were injured in train acci
dents. In tho previous year, 3,5G4
Were killed, and 45,977 injured, and in
1902 2,819 were killed and 39,800 more
?>r lepa severely iojercd.
Thie is an increase in two years of
nofcr?y ene thousand, or 34 per oent,
is lim o amber of killed, and over ll,
S00f or 29 per cent, in the number of
injured. Now, just what these figures
mean can be understood when we re
member that they-far exceed in killed
lad wounded the losses in some of the
greatest battles of the present Japan
ese ltuBsian war-battles whioh we
ir? informed will go down to history
as among the most bbody on record.
Scientific American.
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T- After a young man has blown all
his money on a girl che often shows
Archbishop Davidson's II o mor.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is
known among his friends as especially
partial to two things-children and
jokes. As Bishop of London he won
no little of his great influence in the
slam districts because nf his immense
popularity with the small citizens
whom he so truly loved, and as for
the jokes one need but to hear thc
famous prelate tell one upon him
self to realize how keon is bia zest for
humor.
Not long before his translation he
was one day walking in the suburbs of
the English Capital when he chanced
upon a little girl, who was standing
looking up somewhat wistfully at a
four-barred gate. ''Oh. please, sir,"
she asked, "will you open this gate
for me?"
Smiling upon the demure maiden,
the Bishop lifted the latch and push
ed back the gate; but in spite of its
size it swung so easily that he said:
"You're such a big little girl that I
should think you could have opened
yourself so nice a gate as this."
"Ob, I could, ?ir," she replied,
"but then I should have got my hands
all over fresh paint."
And then the Bishop saw that that
was just what had happened to him.
New York Times.
A Pleasant Possibility.
A member of the faculty of the Co
lumbian Medical College at "Washing
ton is particularly fond of taking his
students unawares in his "quizzes."
To one studen, whom it would not be
uncharitable to call a dullard the pro
[ fessor said one day:
"What quantity constitutes a dose
of-," giving the technical name of
croton oil. i 1
"A teaspoonful," was tho answer.
The instructor made no comment,
aod tho student soon realised that he
had made a mistake. After a quarter
of an hour had elapsed he said:
"Professor, I should like to change
my reply to that question."
.Tm afraid it's too late, Mr. Blank,"
responded tho professor, looking at his
watch. "Your pationt has been dead
fourteen minutes."
WILL YOU BE ONE?
There are about seven million peo
ple in the U. S. who have savings ac
counts. These accounts show an av
erage of 8400 each ; eeventy out of
every hundred persons starting savings
accounts with one dollar keep them
going, and in a short time have seve
eral hundred dollars. If you will
open an account with the Saving De
partment of the Bank of Anderson
there are seventy chances out of a
hundred of your sooner or later hav
ing the average.
THE BANK OF ANDERSON,
The oldest and strongest Bank in the
i County.
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Tlie Bigest Sale
j in the <
> History of Anderson.^
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THE BIG SALE OF
ESSER &
IS NOW IN PULL BLAST.
Come in and inspect and be convinced.
We bought in this Mammoth Stock
WOOL DRESS GOODS,
And all kinds Cotton Fabrics,
Men's and Boyo' Clothing,
Capes, Jackets,
f And Shoes.
Also, a fall line of
MILL?N ERY !
Now, if you are looking for ?BIG BARGAINS, you will do well by
coming m and inspecting our Stock, as we certainly have the largest Stock in
Upper Caroline;.
We can fit man, woman and child in anything to wear.
We are certainly going to try and make ell efforts to make the next six
week? the largert bmineso in the.history of our house. To succeed in this
effort we will certainly give our many friends and customers the biggest
values ever given in Anderson.
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Our Motto :-High Quality and Low Prices.
Hoping to have an early call from our many customers,
LESSER & CO.,
LEADERS OF L.OW PRICES.
RUBBER TIBES !
We are ki a position to put on High Grade ?EuwlX?r Ties
with good service, and priceafto correspond with RubBer bs?
fore it made a bounce.
PAUL E. STEPHENS.
ONE CAR OF HOG FEEI>,
Have just received one Car Load of HOG FEED
(Shorts) at very close prices. Come before they are
all gone. Now is the time for throwing
Around your premises to prevent a case of fever or
some other disease, that will cost you very much more
than the price of a barrel of Lim? ($1.00.) We have
a fresh shipment in stock, and will be glad to send you
tome. If you contemplate building a bain or any
other building, see us before buying your
CEMENT and LIME,
vre Bell the very best qualities 01 ly.
Wanted to BUY.
Good, Flat Land, in good state
of cultivation and well im
proved. .- - -
Wanted to Sell.
132 acte*, Hall Township-10 acres in bottom lauds that will yield 1000
bushels oom. Fair improvement.
148 acres, Savannah Township, known as Evergreen place. Well im -
proved, good orchard-.
S4 acree, Hopewell Township. Tenant house, ham, Arc lr> acres \?
cultivation, balance woods and old fields.
152 acree, Rock Mills Township. Price 81200.
\)Gl acres, Broadway Township. Well improved. Price $2500
874 acre?, Varennea Township-improved.
200 acres, Fork Township.
JOS. J. FKETWFT.L,
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or and banish "pains
of menstruation." They arc .'JL1FJE SA VISUS" to girls at
womanhood, aiding development of organs and body. Ko
known remedy for women equals thom. Cannot do harm-life
becomes a pleasure. ,$1.00 1?15U BOX l\Y MAIL. Sold
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COME TO SEE US !
On anything in our liue and we will make PRICES SPECIALLY INTER
ESTING. We have a limited amount of
Sound, Cheap Flour for Hog Feed,
At 83.50 per barrel.
Yours for Trade,
VANDIVER BROS.
Flooring, Ceiling, U I WM Qft?T ? UT I
Siding, Framing. I ImrUKI ANI !
ShmgloB, Lime,
Cement, Lathes, O^^MMB
Brick, Doors, INVESTIGATE when in
Sash, Blinds, need Qf kind f _
Mantels, f
"?B?jSSSf BUIlDfflG HHUL
Oil, Turpentine,
Hard Oil, Glass, Seems. If I don't sell you
EVERY?T C" RU MAKE THE OTHER FELLOW
TSSI THE BUILDER.! SELL YOU RIGHT.
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Til i M Establishment liaH beeu Stiling
IN ANDERSON for moro than forty years. Daring all that time competitora'?
have come and gone, but we have remained right hore We have always sold
Cheaper than any others, and during those long years wc have not had one dis
satisfied customer. Mistakes will sometimes oocnr, and if at any time w?r
found that a customer was dissatisfied wc did not rest until we had made him
satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and-last
ing, and wc can say with pride, bnt wWhout boasting, that we have the confi
dence of thc people of this section. Wo have a largor Stock of Goods this
season than wc have ever had, and we pledge you our word that wo have never
sold Furniture at as dose a margin of profit as wo are doing now. This ie -
{?roven by the fsot that wo are soiling Furniture not only all over Anderson
bounty but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Come and see ns. Your '
parents saved money by baying from us, and you and your ohildrcn can save -
money by buying 1 ore toa. We carry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line,
'3, F. TOLLY & SON, Dftpot Street
Tho Old -ReliableKurili ture Dealer a
MOVED I
WE have moved our Shop and office below Peoples' Bank, in front of
Mr. J. J. Fretwell's Stables. We respectfully ask all our friends that need
any Roofing done, or any kind of Repair work, Engine Stacks, Evaporators,
or any kind of Tin or Gravel Roofing to call on os, aa we are prepared to do
it; promptly and in best maoner. Soliciting yonr patronage, we are, ._
