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THE COT
Did Whitney Steal tl
South Ca:
Columbi
To thc Editor of Thc Stale:
I see in the papers that whole days
arc taken to teach thc children about
Eli Whitney, the foremost inventor
of the agc, but nothing said about
how he pilfered the invention from a
South Carolinian. I was born and
raised in tho same ncighborhoood, and
ray father was, too, with this South
Carolinian. The history that ? ara
writing is true; I heard my father tell
it over and often, and other old mon
in the neighborhood.
Eli Whitney came from Wcstboro,
Maos., the last of the eighteenth cen
tury and put up a cabinet shop near
Augusta, Ga. He dammed up a
branch and turned his laths by water;
he was a meohanio himself and em
ployed others to turn bed posta and
table legs for his furniture.
This South Carolinian that made
the first gin was named Kincaid also
a meohanio. Mr. Kincaid owned a
large traot of land on Little Ki vor in
io tho southwestern part of Fairfield
County with Mill oreek running
through it. On this oreek he built a
mill, io faot he put up the only grist
mill that was then in tho oountry.
He was a fine wheelwright.
Back in that time, before railroads,
the farmers in that neighborhood
would go at least onoe a year to Au
gusta and Hamburg in wagons for
sugary coffee, salt and iron. On ooo
of Mr. Kincaid's trips he met on the
streets of Augusta a Scotchman, s
fellow-countryman, and askecThim to
como homo with him in the wagon;
whioh he did, and forked with Mr.
Kincaid for several years. This
Scotchman (I have forgotten his
name) was one of Eli Whitney's work*
men in his shop on the branch. This
man helped Mr. Kinoaid in nil of his
mechanical work in his mill on the
plantation, and mill work in the conn
try. My, Kincaid had hundreds of
sheep. His pasture was infested with
eoaklobnrrs; when ho would shear his
sheep tho wool would be a mat of
eookleburrs. To finger-pick this quan
tity of wool, or even enough for home
noo, was a big job. So Mr. Kinouiu,
with the aid of this Whitney mao,
made him a gin to got tho burrs out of
the wool-ran it by water in his mill
house. He made improvements on it
for two or three years; finally it
cleaned the wool from the eookleburrs
satisfactorily. Ail the neighbors far
and. near brought the wool to Mr.
Kincaid's mill to be deaned, on
shares.
In those days every farmer had a
flock of sheep. Mr. Kinoaid had run
cotton through his gin enough for
hi? own use and some of his neigh
bors.
In the meantime Mr. Kincaid made
trips to Augusta and this workman
would go with him to visit his friends
and kinsmen at Eli Whitney's shop.
All Run Down
jHIS is a common expres
sion we hear on every
side. Unless there is
some ; organic trouble, the con*
ditton ,cain doubtless be remedied.
Your doctor is the best adviser.
Do not dose yourself with alt
kinds of Advertised remedies
get his opinion. More than likely
you need a concentrated fat food
to enrich your blood and tone
up the system. .
Scott's Emulsion
?; u???Bffl,MIM,l,,,iUlalUuitttM
of Cod Liver Oil
.1.$.
is just such a food in its best form.
It will build tip the weaker*
and wasted body when all
other foods fail to nourish. Sf
you are run down or emaciated,
give it a trial : it cannot hurt
you. lt is essentially the best
possible nourishment for delicate
children and pale, anaemic girls.
We wilt send you a sample fret.
TON GIN.
ie Invention From a |
rolinian I5
, H..
i State.
Not thinking what harm lie was doing
Mr. Kincaid, he told it in Whitney's
whop what he aud Mr. Kincaid had
dono ginning the burrs out o' wool.
Eli Whitney-smart, Yankee like
heard of it by theBe visits. One
morning a nice looking man, riding a
splendid horBe; rodo up to Mr. Kin
caid's house. Mr. Kincaid was not at
homo. This man nuked Mrs. Kincaid
if he could look at that wool machine.
She said yea; that she would got him
the mill key. Mrs. Kincaid said ho
was in the mill about threo or four
hours. Nobody knew who this man
was at the time.
In a short time Eli Whitney get a
patent on a cotton gin. The whole
thing was plain then-Eli Whitney
rode horsebsok from Augusts to Mr.
Kincaid's and took a diagram of that
wool gin and beat Mr. Kinoaid out of
tho cotton gin. Sherman burned this
old mill house in Fobrusry, 1865.. Eli
Whitney made his gin and turned it
by water, exsotly as Mr. Kinoaid had
his, on this branch near Augusta, Go.
Mr. Kinoaid wes a genius, his ter
raced garden, built on a hill side, and
the buildings on this place attest that
to this day. The only male descen
dant of Mr. Kincaid that I know of
was Capt. Thomas Anderson, a great
grandson, who died near Columbia
last lammer, a comparatively poor
man when he and his ohildren ought
to have boon worth the Whitney mil
lions now in the North.
Osoar F. Chappell.
-Bookmans, 8. C.
Tactful Quaker.
. Some time ago there lived a gen
tlemen of indolent habita who i>peut
his time visiting among his friends.
After wearing oat his welcome in hio
own neighborhood he thought he
would vieit en old Quaker friend some
twenty miles distant. -
On hie arrival he ?as cordially re
ceived by the Quaker, who, thinking
the visitor had taken muon pains to
oome so far to see him treated him
with a great deal of attention and po
liteness for several days.
As the visitor showed DO signs of
leaving, the Quaker bsoame uneasy,
but bore it with patienoe until the
eighth doy, when he said to him:
"My friend I am afraid theo will
never oome again."
"Oh, yes I shall,'' vd the visitor.
"I have enjoyed my visit very much ;
and shall certainly oome again."
"But," said the Quaker, "if thee
will never leave how oan thee oome
again?"-Blaok and White.
Money Plenty In the Sooth.
It is a fact indicating the changed
conditions in the South in recent
years that, individually the farmer
can hold his ootton without outside
aid. He has the money tp do it. <'He
has plonty to cat and wear and oap
pay his debts. He has forgotten how
it feels to be squeezed by a mortgage.
It is further significant that when he
undertakes an organized movement to
hold, his cotton and make the effect
felt upon the market the bankers and
business men of the South come for
ward with an offer of money to help
him perrcot and maintain bis organi
zation. Times have greatly changed
in the South and the primary ohange
is the ootton mill. It has given the
farmer a home market for his staple
and at good prices and the cotton mill
settlement has given him a pto
fitablo market for nie farm and gardes
products. Some farmers now make
a good living off the cotton mill set
tlement alone, for there they always
have a call for their produoe ant) the
operatives have the money to pay for
it. It is interesting to contrast con
ditions tn tho South when the mills
and faotories were few and far between
with the present time when they have
multiplied and are contributing to
the prosperity of every Southern Btate.
jin Birmingham a few days ago, a large
Dank building was pointed out tous.
"In that one building," said oar
'irisad, "there is at this moment
$5,000,000 in surplus oapital stored
up"-end there ere a few other banks,
too, in toa!/'town. This isa reflec
tion of conditions in all Southern
eitles. The time baa come to pass
when tibi? 8?uth is able to finance it
self and ; nt ino same, time to lend
money.to the North,-Charlotte Even
ing Ohroniole. %t
v. ;~ It is easier for the average man
to keep aidiary theo a dairy.
s-r A^y\iman;wbo would laugh at
your miataV's would g?i angry if you
ihoold JBAifcbvat bia. >:. /i
- Wise men occasionally aay things
that indicate ? temporary saipenaloa
^?ha?r^saa?'wis?omi.'
duration.
? Market fror Cow Veas.
Working in thc same direction as
the efforts for tho opening of a good
and steady market for South Carolina
raiBed eweet potatoes, artichokes, etc.,
the Stato department of agriculture,
commcroe and immigration has been
laborin.' for rome time to see if a lu
crative market could not bo found for
thc great crop of cowpcas annually
rained in .South Carolina without af
f.'tting the uso of thepeavinc for hay
and fertilizer purpofien. Thc market
for the cowpea itself haB beeu largely
local and not very extensive. Com
iniHBioner Watson has been looking
into the matter for several months
and yesterday reoeived advices which
mean tho opening of an inexhaustible
markot at ono of the greatest of the
export ports of this oouctry-New
Orleans. Arrangements have been
completed with one of the representa
tive merchandise brokers and manu
facturer's agents at the port of New
Orleans whereby every bushel of
South Carolina oowpeas oan be han
? ??ivid at remunerative prices. The
I letter to the department says: "We
j will pay $1 per buehel for oowpeas,
mixed, clays, unknown, whippoorwills
or any other good variety f. o. b. sta
tions your State. The price ie net
oash, bill of lading attached for all
shipments. We refer you to Dun and
Bradstreet agencies and to the entire
jobbing trado of New Orleans. We
trust'that we may have the pleasure
of doiog a large business in the cort
poa line with your plastors aod mer
chants."
Aooording to the United States gov
ernment figures the average price
prevailing for oowpeas in South Caro
lina is 71 ocnts per bushel. At
present io Columbia, the price paid
per bushel rangos from 90 cents to $1
and there is practically no business
done in this line. Aooording to the
United States government figures tbe
average yield per aore of oowpeas in
South Carolina is 8.22 bushels per acre
aooording to the land. There have
been some instanoes ia whioh 25
bushel? per acre have been raised by
means of repiokiog. At present
throughout South Carolina many
thousands of acres of land oro devoted
to oowpeas, the vine and pea oeiug
used for either oowpea hay or for
turning under for fertilization pur
poses. During the year just dosed
considerably over 1,250,000 bushels of
oowpeas were raised in the State and
the opening of this market, whioh will
be a steady one and will doubtless
develop in the next few years, means
muon to the farmers of the State.
One of the most expert farmers in
South Carolina yesterday said that at
the figure quoted the growing of cow
peas for this market should beootne a
very profitable industry in the State.
Tho department of agriculture, com
merce and immigration will be glad to
furnish in oiraular form "Hints to
Cowpea Shippers" for the guidance of
those who desire to ship {heir pro*
duot. Ia getting into communication
with ibo1 purchasers the shippers
should communicate direct with Mr?
H. H. Daniel, 415 417 Naoh?e street,
New Orloans, mentioning having Been
the announcement of. this offer ia the
South Carolina newspapers. At the
price per bushel offered to tbs ohip
por at his station the next oowpea
orop in South like $1,500,000 to the
growers in addition to tho value of
their cowpea hay says Commissioner
Watson.-Tho State. / . '.:. '<'"'
A Miraculous
The explorer, Loss Cox, in his in
teresting work describing bis exped?.
Hon along the course of the Columbia
Elver, narrates a thrilling incident
that occurred ono evoking, tho cen
tral fi cnro of whioh was a Frenoh
Canadian courier du. bois,' or wood
?augerv named La Course, who acted
K6 guide. .;"
Themen were preparing supper o?a;
the bank of the river, and La Course,
worn ont with the fatigue of the day,
had a tro tob ed himself on the ground
and fallen asleep.
A few minut?e later I paasgd him,
says Mr. Cox, and was horrifled at
teeing a large rattlesnake moving over
his body toward hts left breast.
My first impulse was to alarm La
Course, bat an old Canadian whom %
had beckoned -'o the spot said we must
make uo "noise aod tho eoako wofcld' ?
cross tho maa'e body and go away.
In thia he was mistaken, for, on roach
lng the ehest, the serpent colled it- ?
self quietly as if meditating a stay,
If La Course moved or Woke, we
shuddered to think what would hap
pen. . y^wB-'?', '
Others quietly joined UB, and it wa?
determined that two men should ad
vance in front, to di vor t the attention
of the snake, while one ehonloT^ial^
proton. With along a ti ok from the rear
and dislodge the oreature.
On seeing the mon in front, the
rattler raised hie bead; play ed ? ta
evil-looking ?onguo and shook its rat
tles-indications of danger.
? Every one waa in a state of feverish
anxiety aa to the fat? itt ?toorLa
Course, who still ley asleep^ $he
man - behind, now carno nu|wtth(f'-ti;
stick se?en feet ?oog, quickly placed
ono end ucdor tbe reptile, and suc
oeeded in pitohtng it ten feet from tho
man's body*. ? ' ? \ jW&SLWLfflwm
Escape.
The ??e?gbt of Waves.
Owing to nany causeo, tbo ooean is
never still. T^e wind is ono of the
ohitf distillera, for it gives rise to
waves. Th effect of an ordinary
storm is DO below a depth of
fifty fet. uh seven hundred
feet tho \ he disturbed only
by ti'' . ^currents. The
usual ..ave in common
stormi? ? is more than twelve
feet, and violent gales on the open
sea, never exceeds tifty feet from
trough to crest and a length of about
six hundred feet. In thc South
Pnoiiio waves forty-three feet io
height have been measured, in the
South Atlantic ihirty-nlpe feet, in tho
Bey of Biscay thirty-six feet, in the
North Sea and the Mediterranean
thirteen feet. Of course, nearer land,
when driven furiously against an
obstacle, such as a light-house, waves
often dash against the top of the
light house, ouch as tho Bell Rook
(ono hundred feet,) and Unst, in the
Shetlands (two hundred feet). But
in the deep sea, even, in a bowling
tempest, they never run higher than
fifty feot, whioh would be a very poor
mountain.
The Sun's Heat.
An astronomer recently"' used tho
following illustrations to indicate the
power of the san's host.
"Let us suppose that the total
value of tho sun's heat, as expressed
in dollars, is $25,000,000. Now the
proportion of thiB value that warms
tbs earth is about two coots' W?rth.
The balance of thc heat goes to warm
the other planets in the solar sys*
tem.
"Or, I can give you another , illus?
tration with coal. We will suppose
that the conditions are reversed, and
that, instead of the sun heating the
earth, tbs earth heats the sun, with
ooal as fuel. AU the coal upon the
earth, so far as it has been measured,
would snffiee to maintain the present
solar heat for about on? tenth of a
second."--Boy's World.
mm m> mm
FOUND THE. KEYNOTE.
. . V
TU? Storr of fin A?Gry Fiedler on? a
Uaiicinc Brtdse. ',
Tho old Sixth street bridge was a
suspension bridge, and in connection
therewith a story used to be told. Ev
erybody knows that soldiers in crossing
a suspension bridge must break step
and bauds aro not allowed to play
marchc.4 because of the cumulative
force of the vibrations, which are a;
to either destroy the bridge completely
or crystallize the iron cables. Now,
sound ls vibration, nnd thia explana
tion, not very scientifically put here, Ia
the basis of the story, remembering
that every object ls supposed to have a
keynote, Which when struck on a mu?,
slcal Instrument, evokes responsive vi
brations in the said object. * .
The story goes that many years s*?f
an old man carrying a fiddle in s case.
once1 started across the bridge without
paying toll. He waa called back by the
toilkeeper, protested his Inabilltr to
pay, but was not' allowed to , ?ross.
Threatening vengeance, the oki fiddler
seated himself on the wharf under (the
Allegheny end of thc bridge and began
to scrape away on t iaAddle for hours,
.apparently trying all sorts of, notes,
Laif notp and combinations of notes
and chords. Suddenly he' seemed to
find what he' sought for, for his race
lighted - up, . and he be'gan/ to scrape.
\ steadily :, oh a ; corbiln chord. A moan
went,through the bridge. Paster play
ed the old mani nnd\ the wire . cab! ?23
Iralrly sang in reanome to the wild,
notes; ot the fiddle; Furiously tho; Old '.
fiddle scraped away, nnd thc cables be
gan to vibrate, 'slowly at first, tho v|;
brations growing stronger and Stronger
hs the keynote so&Bfi^uj^^
The-bridge 4 began to tremb?o.. theni to
?wrtfoy... : : 77" ? ^P?iS
.By this time the tollkeepers saw
something was up, f?r th? pedestrians
on the bridge ; began . to ruh; i drivers
whipped up; their hers?s1 add m en and
women wltb blanched faces declined to
set foot oh either end o? tbs ?tr-sc?ur?.
A messenger (there were rib . tele-i
phones then) was dispatched for the
superintendent,' and he carno running.
Tho old fiddler waa polnted'out, and ar
constable was ordored to arrest bltn;
hut, there being/ ho suspicious person
law then in existence, the officer chook
hi? hoad. The bridge w?s catting op
all sorts ot copers; swaying; back und
fOrth ?ik? a swing, until nt last the sc?
perlnteudent in desperation ran to tfa>
fiddler and promised ti ever to dem and
toll from him. An '.ag-w^nlent'was"en?
tared- into, the fiddler pledging tn t?epi
8?opet,tp,:hls'^
HAYSTACK MONUMENT.
Merk? Birthplace ,,t Porclffu Minston
Worlt In Thia Conntrjr.
Many ti visitor to Williams colley is
taken to. the birthplace of American
foreign missions, naur lied Ly a unique
monument in n little park near the col
lege grounds.
For ouc? in the history of thc world a
prayer meeting is eoinmemornted by a
monument In Mission park in Wil
liamstown stands a shaft which was
dedicated on Sunday, July 23, 1807, to
the memory of live students ol Wil
liams college who met at the close of
one sultry summer dny in the year
1800 to hold a prayer meeting, ?is waa
their custom. They were overtaken by
u sudden shower of rain and were com
pelled to seek tho friendly shelter af
forded them by a neighboring hay
stack.
The group of young evangelists who
were present nt the prayer meeting on
that particular occasion consisted of
Samuel J. Mills, James Richards, Fran
cis L. Hobbins, Harvey Loomis and
Byram Green.
Sheltered from the min by the hay
stack, they continued amid the conflict
of thc elements their devotional exer
cises and discussed religious topics of
deep Interest to themselves. While the
storm raged Mills communicated to his
fellows tho pion of executing a great
life work. It was nothing less than a
mission to some heathen land and t'fe
ultimate evangelisation of the world.
They communicated their plan to
such of their fellow students as they
believed would sympathize with them
and organized the Society of Brearen,
a secret society, which had for its ob?
j oct tho establishment of foreign mis
sions.
Tho result of tba prayer meeting was
the organization in Bradford, Mass., in
1810 of tho American board of com
missioners for foreign missions. From
this start grew tbs great society of the
American boards which bas distributed
millions of donors. Since the first
meeting of five persons its corporate
and honorary members have Increased
to over 70,000.,
Years after the students had formed
their great scheme of evangelization
the spot where they.> held the ?prayer
meeting was marked by a cedar stake.
This led to the purchase of Mission
park by the alumni of Williams col -
lege and in 18*7 to tho'eruption and
dedication of What Is nowTtnowu as
Haystack monument. The cedar stake:
monument < became marble through
Harvey Bice of Cleveland, .'who..' de?
signed^and sit bis cwr?expenso reared
the prayer meeting site marker. -?-i
Tba monument st?nde on, the Iden*
tical cpot where tho.hayatack stood. It
j is a strictly Berkshire county produc
tion, composed ot Berkshire marble,
quarried at Alford and wrought In tba
work shops of the Berkshire | Marble
company, Its helgbt is twelve feet, lt?
shaft, cap and base square polished, its
color a sliver blue.-New York Tribune."
. , Hlradoo Caste.
The four grade? of society among tibe
Hindoos are the Brahmans, or sacer
dotal class, who Rre said nt the mo
ment of creation, to. har? Issued from
the mouth of Brahma; the. Ksbatxya,
or Cbnttsee, or military class, sprung
from, the' arm j of Brahma) thc Va?sya.
or Bois, or mercantile 'class, fro tu the
thigh of Brahma, '.-and. Sudras, or 8oo
der?, or servile elga*, from the foot of
Brahma. * The bnehiess of the Sadr?s
to serve'the three superior classes,
I more especially the Brahmans. Their
[ condition ls never to be improved, they
-are not to; accumulate; property, and
'are,'; unable by any mean? to ; approach.
the dignity bf the: higher classes. These
divisions *arer hereditary, impassable,
and indefensibie. . '.. -?'i
j. Meyerbeer. ."' (
i Meyerbeer was so nervous and ^fidg*
ety** about bis, works that when they
!':?We^;-:to;.;conrao-^f^'preparatlon-'br re
hearsal : or /perforomnce ho ; borer, gaye
j himself or=any one oise ? coucerned a
moment's peace Of mind. .He was con
stantly malting 'changes or alterations,
in: Ute score and would sometimes write
a-passageIp! threeIpi ?o?r^ff?rent. col?,
ored inks in order, to'try the different
effects and -then Could not make up bis
. min4;whl.c^ l-&4:ffi$??-\
over his^o?era *dLk\rYlcalne*r' so long,
l^l^S^^X\'i?^u^??^ and pcUshJng,.
even while lt^
Self imposed labor made bim 111, abd ,
he' died before the first, public perform?
\dyn??ta^ more :
?'irHmb^ th^ V?.
case ls br? rec^
Bolte, *n$:^$wm out in bot
ter. abe me can o?! fcrt.waf^itfiirtpffg'
blow of bammw
. The sua?.
Beach Strewa With Old Runners
Debris.
Old blockade runners in Charleston
will be interested in the report from
Wilmington of tho washing ashore on
Wrightsville Beach of the wreck of
the noted runner Hebe, which wjis
sunk by the Federal fleet during the
latter yeara of the Civil war.
Wilmington wa9 probably next to
Charleston as i favored port for the
trade of the blockade runners and the 1
vessels frequently took it by turns as :
to which port they would enter, tho '
presence of the Federal fleet sod oth- 1
er conditions frequently determining 1
the port of entry. Oo account of the '
valuable stores Whioh the blockade
boats brought and tho means of com- '
munication with the outside world '
which these boats provided, the en*
trance of tbs daring craft always j
proved most acceptable to the people j
of the ports, and a friendly welcome I
waited the runners, wherever and i i
whenever they called. 1i
The blockade runners consequently 11
felt at home at whatever port along I
the coast they made, and the. gallant j
crew and their vessels soon became
well known ; stall the .ports . and the 1
memory of these vessels and . Suter* j
osting reminiscences of their trip are I
still told by the rapidly thinning ranks
of as brave and daring a set of men j
as the South bas produced. The I
strewing of the North Carolina beach 1
with the remnants of the wreck of tba I
old blookade runner is a matter of .in? I
terest to many of tho old runners? and
their friends sud tba following ex-j
oerpt from The Wilmington Dispatch j
will be read: J
. "The east shore of Wrightsville
heaoh presented an interesting sight j
yesterday afternoon in the v?oinity I
or Lumina. This portion pf the beaob j
was strewn with wreckage of the old
bulk that bas been ashore off Lumina
oin co the Civil v/o?.- ? Th io hulk repre
sento all that remains of th?'blookade
ronner Hebe, that plied between Wit-1
midgton and the .West indies. The
storm of Thursday night tore into the j
wreck and tossed: a gp&at amount of I
debris upon tba shore.'1 *.fio powerful)
waetheragingofthe 8?ath*tthc>?d|
Iron safo aboard the shipwas cashed
upon the beach and formed the most j
interesting obj co t \ for th o sightseers
yesterday. A quantfty^ of. old iron I,
pipe and patt of , ?he . "vessels shaft j
wpro also, washed ashore, as well ss odd i
bits of hardware, including home-1
ms^e nails. : Ooqj't^the most^?nter-1
eating curios picked up was au old and
very rusty carving knife. ?; |
; The safe is a very heavy one, and
bas corroded v?ry badly. It is a oom-:
bination safe, though it was supposed
that; the safe aboard waa of the old
fashioned loQk and key type, /fun
safe was broken into, but eontaisii& i
nothing aovo a very small portion:w?| \
gold chain, T^ |
been opened by the officers when it .
was' seen th?it the ship could not be
sa>cd. Onljr a part of \ iho^Idf .j^fe
wes torn .apart and
the greatest portion, still remains and
looms up .plainly in -sight of: those
peer seaward from the vicinity of *
,. 'It ?s^up^psea;that ^e.hulk^w:^^
pf the Jblooka'de . runner rtebe, which
vas driven ashore undor fire of-the*.
Federal blockaders daring thc Civl?
?ar. Tbs Hebo and the blockade ron
ner Dee arc koowa to have gone down?
abo at off Lamina, but the wreck ia
question is thought to be that of tho
former. The General Beauregard
went aground ftrther down towards
Carolina beach. Another ship lost in
blockade running was tho Emma.
The Hebe and the Dee are said tOv
have been exceedingly handsome boats,
aiil daring blockade runners. They
made their last stand gallantly, but
the Federal boateforced them aground
iud then poured shot ?nd shell into
them some time afterwards. Many
af the crow escaped by making tho
beach safely, while others were captur
ed and como C?O supposed to have*
been killed.-Cbar?eeto? Pest.
Didn't Freeze Ula.
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A newspaper man who recently re
cently returned from a Southern trip?
tells this story: "I happened to?
Bpend a Sunday in a little town way
down Sont h i and in the morning went
to a colored church to listen to the
sermon of a colored preacher who was
a character, ia thc. community. He?,
had for bis teat tho. escape of the
Israelites from Egypt, and when I
came ia he spoke something like thisr
'And the Lord frcao the Bed Sea into
a solid cake of iee and do Israelites,
crossed safely over to do 'oder side.
Then the Gyptians followed them?
over the lea, but when. they got into
th? aaiddle de Lord sent down a heavy
thaw, whieb melted the iee and per
oipetated tho Gyptians into the water
ahd they . woief all, drowned.' Tho
congregation was stilt for about two
minutes. Thon a tall, thin colored
man arose and said: 'Mister Preacher,.
I bega do 'disagree with that last
statement of yours. Aeoording to
geography the, Bel Sea is in * the
tropica, elos? to ih? equator, and the
water there heyer freezes. The min.
ister .listened attentively,. thou in a.
loud? angry volee replied, fl thought
there would hs one of these smart
niggers in this here congregation to
cSntrcdtofc. ?mo. But he is not so
mkit m bo thinks, ho is. - In the days
when tho Israelites iran away from
Egypt,* l?/ni? tong ago, there was co
snob thing as. Jbgraphy^or an equator
nejither.!^rhHadelphla tteeord.
Saiterralte^
There would be more buttermilk
sold if p^ple ^aly kn??w .the goo?
?aalities of the drink; There ie
nothing in thc lino of simple drinks
whieh exercises a more b?n?ficiai in
fluence on thc general health. It is
at once s food and medicine. The
lactic acid it contains acts on the
Whole digeBttve^syste?? j;:whit?;ssj|ood
it has already UDdergcce s somidigsB
tion in ; tbs churning "tb which it ha?
beet ??Weo?ed. ^^ jlhsunees , are nu
merous of^pereb?s; afflicted witl
#Figh^s ;disoase Hvis^for mw^yearfl
in comparative comfort with no; other
medicine than a daily supply of
butterrhilk.-The Farmers Wife.
-~:A girl geuera?.Iy Ukes the feH
who isl stse^ mah likes
the girl ut band.
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BY GLINKSCALES & LANGST0N7 ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1906. VOLUME XLI-NO. 35.
