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B1XI, ARP ON THIS WKATH?R He Discussea the Winde and the Rains and Touches on Politics. Atlanta Constitution. The ?lt im nl? are unsettled. The wind seem* m he veering southward. Roosevelt keep* on buying kind words about us and the Republicans are in a state of appiuhension. Tho G. A. lt.'s made the llrst assault on him because ho dared to oxnit the bravery and patriotism of our people; but he uu swered them hack nobly. And now they are in consternation because he invited Clnrk Unwell in diue with him. The City of iShuahun is perplexed. It looks like there is a power of good political fuu nliend ol us, und wo cau'i bo wonted. McKinley wanted to he kind, and they wouldeut let him, but my opinion is that. Roosevelt is going to run the machino accordiug to his emotions. Ue ib a man of emotions? good, gouerous emotions?and our emo tional nature is the beat part of our nature. That is the reason that wo men are better than mon; they are more emotional. A selfish man, a greedy man or a politician " por so " have no emotions. They plot and scheme for personal advantage. Ham let said that a politician is a man who would circumvent God. They bribe aud deceive to gain their end. But Roosovelt is outspoken, candid and fearless. Tho politician's utterances are cautious and come from his head; Roosevelt talks from his heart, and if ho feels like inviting Clark Howell to dine he is going to do it without con sulting Mark Ilanna or the G. A. R.'s or for a moment considering what the party will say about it. I like Roosevelt because he has a wife and children; in fact, ho bus been married twice and has two sets of children. That's all right if tho child, ren harmonize and tho last wife is as good to the children of the first wife as she is to her own. Our nearest neigh bor for long years had three sots of children. Colonol Bayard, a widower, with two children, married Mrs. Hand, a widow, with three children. Two more children wero born to tho last marriago, aud all was peace and har mony in that household. This reminds mo of another family, where theio wero three sets, and they dideut har monize, aud one clay whon they were quarreling in the back yard the wife came running in and said to her hus band: "John, you'd better go out yonder with a switch; your children aud my children are fighting our child ren." I am pleased to learn that our Presi dent is coming to Georgia next fall aud will visit his mother's old homo at li'jswcll. Thiuk I will meet him thero and show him around, for almost everybody else is dead but mo that was thero when his mother was a girl. I will show him where wo boys played bullpen and town ball, and where his uncle half Dan or half of his Uncle Dan aud I played sweepstakes and Dan always won my white alleys. Yes, 1 will show him around, But that colony of fine Savannah people, all blooded stock, nre not there now. There wero the Kings and Duuwoodys, who were in college with me. Not all tho King boys, of course, for there were nine of them, and only one sister for the whole crowd?a beautiful girl. I havo a very dear cousiu in Birming ham who has nine girls and one son. What a pity that those two families were not neighbors and cotomporaries so that tho children could have mated and Intermarried. I liko families with numerous offspring. If I had the making of tho constitution, whether Federal or State, I wouldent let a bachelor hold a public office; he shouldent be eligible to go to Congress or the Legislature. It as not possible for him to feel deeply concorned about the perpetuity of government. It is the children and the grandchildren we fathers are living for. An unmarried man lives for himself. Ho may be smart and moral and well educated, but, as Kipling says, he can't under stand tho paternal anxiety. All those Roswell boys were manly aud well favored. They made good preachers, good soldiers, good archi tects and manufacturers and were good citizens. Poor Tom King had his log shattered at Manassas, and as soon as he could walk was in the field again and was killed at Chickamauga. He was a bright, cheerful, handsome man, and everybody loved him. Old Bar rington King sent North for a teacher and got one by the name of Eels, but the boys dident like him. They said he was a hypocrite and an abolitionist, and was just fooling papa. They called him Slickfisb, and guyed him until ho wu." pent back to where he came from. Colonel llnyard married Harrington King's sister, the widow Hand, and moved to Home. He was a courtly gentleman, a descendant of Chevalier liny a id, and his grandfather, was Nicolas Bayard, a French Huguenot. He was a cousin to the Senators Bayard of Delaware. He was an export swordsman, and loved to show you the back stroke bv which his ancestor, while flying from some troopers, slow ed up his horse and, as they came up on the gallop, cut their heads off one by one with this same back stroke. One of his granddaughters, Miss Flonda Beay, has recently wedded a Mr. Tracy, of New York, a nephew of B. F. Tracy, who was secretary of the navy. One of Mrs. Bayard's daughters married Bishop Quintard. druggist, doctor, preacher, soldier, chaplain and then bishop. He got a beautiful and dutiful wife, and everything elso he asked for. Kind-hearted aud lovable as a woman, he alwwyo untried a satchel fall of cake and candy for other pen plc's children when he traveled on the train. We college boys knew him well in A then* when he was first a drag clerk and next a doctor, and we let him pull our teeth just because he was so kind and genial. Well, now I have written all* this about ltoswell because our President's mother lived there and married there. I like to speak of him as our President, | and I don't want any Georgia paper to call him Teddy or to make sport of him In cartoons. Some Idiots think these caricatures of our Presidents are very smart and funny, but the people who have respect tor the high office think they are shameful. Ton can't de* grade Iho man without degrading tho office. But we will have to wait sonu? time on Mr. Uoo8uvelt. You can't always sometimes generally tell, as Cobe would say; we must wait and 000 hew long this south wind blows?tho sweet south wind that breathes upon a bank of violets," ms Shakespearo Bays. Aud wo aro the violets. Wo have both hope and confidence, for a man of emotions can't go back upon his an-1 cestors nor the place of their nativity. I The Bullochs have been houoi 3d in J Georgia. More than one huudred ' years ago we named a county for Uov-, eroor Bulioch, and wo wouldent mind uaming another for his great great.; giandson. Georgia has never hud a President, and wo will bo proud to have eveu half of one, especially the matorual half?most ail great and good , meu have bred after tho dam. Bill Ahi\ GEN. HAMPTON FOR SENATOR State Chairman Thinks the Place Should he Offered Him Unan imously. Columbia 8tate, Oct. 7. A statement was given the press on ' Saturday by Col. Wilie Jones, tho chairman of tho Oemocratic party iu this State, who has been au avowed candidate fur Senatorial honors, which will set tho people aud tho politicians of the State to thinkiug and talking. Col. Jones withdraws from tho race, and in doing so makes tho suggestion that the other candidates for Senator McLuurin's scat step aside also, and let the posit ion be unanimously ten dered to Gen. Wade Hampton, tho most noted ligure today in South Carolina's political and war history. It is a proposition that will startle many at the that, but its appropriate ness aud merits will bo ceitain to com mand much con8ideratiou from the j people of tho State. Hero is what Col. Jones says of tho i matter in his statement: "I have concluded not to enter tho lace for the United States Senate next year, beeauee I feel that I cannot give up my home business interests, unless there be a special demand for it. 1 have a very large personal acquaint ance with the Democrats of this Stale. Judgiug from letters received and many personal interviews I feel satis fied that my chauces for the nomina tion to this distinguished position would have been fully as good as Unit of any caudidate whose uame i3 now mentioned in connection with the Scu atorship. 1 would have uo political fear to run ugainst any man in this State except two, namely, Senator 'fillman and Gen Hampton, because I believe either of them could beat mo or any other man in the Slate. "By tho way, I think the very best solution of the Senatorial contest would be for all of tho young men who are now candidates for the plncc to an nounce their withdrawal on the con dition that Gen. Wade Hampton ac cept the position and let the old gen eral be elected without opposition. "Without any reflection upon any candidate now in the Held I believe that Gen. Hampton's views on na tional politics meet with tho approval of practically all the Democrats in the State. Such a happy aud gracious event as the selection of Gen Hamptou at thi;< particular timo would mako tho Democratic party of this State abso lutely irresistible and save us of much agitation and feeling when there is so much oIbo for our people to do. "I happehed in 1877 to bo one of tho six Democratic boya who carried Gen. Hampton on our ahouldors from i ho platform where he was Inaugurat ed through the streets of Columbia to the hotel, and today again it would be my great pleasure to cooperate in elevating him to this high position, be cause I believe it would be for tho good of the great Democratic party of my State." Coming as it does from the Stale chairman, the proposition is one that is of peculiar interest. That it will meet with the unanimous approval of all veterans in South Carolina goes without saying, and there will bo many who uro not veterans who will approve of it. It is of course impossible to forecast the course the other candi dates will pursue. One thing is cer tain, however, and that is that should Gen. Hampton, the man who redeemed the State from negro rule, be sent back to the Senate the people of South Carolina would be represented on all the important ieauea by one who bas ever been true to his people in time of war and in time of peace. To send him back as a crowning glory to a long and useful life would be a compliment, indeed an act that would show to tho outside world that South Carolina ap preciates a son who has done for her what nothing she can do for him can repay. MOKE ABOUT THE " HAMPTON MOVE MENT." The Columbia State says that Mr. John J. Hemphill was in that city on the 9th inst., and as some curiosity has been manifeste?I in regard to Mr. Hemphill's view > upon the proposition to make-Gen. Wade Hampton the suc cessor of McLaurin, he was interview ed on this point. Mr. Hemphill expressed the highest admiration for Gen. Hampton, but said he had not fully determined upon his eou'so, particularly as Mr. Latimcr declines to withdraw in favor of Gen. Hampton. Mr. Hemphill stated that his candidacy was not altogether of hi* own motion, and before giving up the fight he would have to confer with his friends. He had just come from Spar tan burg and declares that he has met with encouragement whorever he has been. Ho seemed to think that what ever he might or might not have done, the action of Mr. Latiraer would pre vent any further action among the candidates to withdraw in favor of Gen. Hampton. CONGRESSMAN LAT1MKR Has announced definitely that he will not withdraw from the race. An in terview given by him to a Washington correspondent runs as follows : " Representative Latliner, who is an avowed cwftlldate for the Senate to succeed Senator MoLaurin, refuses to consider seriously the magnanimous proposition of state Chairman Wilio Joucs, who is hIso an n-pirunt for Sen atorial honors, that all of the candi dates withdraw in favor of the * Grand Old Man,' (Jen Wade Hampton. I 4i ? There is not a man in South Car j olina,' said Mr. Latiiuor, ' who has ' greater respect for Gen. Wade Hamp j ton thuu I have, and 1 would go as far as any other man to make hisdccliuing years comfortable and happy, but I cannot ugiue with Col. Jones' sugges tiou to drag Gen. Hamptou back into the excitement and turmoil of political lifo. 44 'It's all very well for Col. Jouos to invoko sentimental and patriotic mo tivus in behalf of Gen. Hampton. It im? n magnanimous llavor, which may ! appeal to the sentiment of a number of j people who are not eutirely acquainted with the actual conditions entering into the Senatorial fight in South Car olina. Col. Jones hus an assured posi tion, which pays something ovor 85,000 a year, aud he doubtless realizes that he cat) hardly make the rienatorialship iu tho pending contest, so in a burst of sympathy and zeal for Gen. Hampton he proposes thai all of tho other candi dates, who havo already stripped for the fray and havo commenced their canvass, shall step aside so that Gen. Hampton may be iuduccd to come out of retirement and again take up the trials aud responsibilities of politics. , I aui frauk to say that 1 will not give my consent to that proposition ; and I , do not believe Gen. Hampton and his best friends sanction the move mado . by Col. Jones.' " Col. Wilie Jones expressed himself as delighted at the manner in which tho peoplo of tho Stato havo received his suggestion that Wade Hampton should bo elected to the I'nited States Sonate. He stated that ho had receiv ed many letters from over tho State und had heard a great many leading men express themselves, and in every instance the suggestion had been re ceived favorably. Regardless of for mer party alignments the peoplo had shown au eagerness to do honor to Gen. Hampton. He had not heard from Gou. Hampton directly, but had heard indirectly that if the people so willed, tho old warhouse would go back into harness. A Story of Gen. Morgan .?One of the most interesting stories that I find in tho old war scrap book is that about the capture of John Morgan by tho home guard in Rabun County, Georgia. It was published m The Athens Watchman iu 18G4. The story as given in the paper is as follows: M Au incidont connected with the remarkable escape of Morgan from his Northern impiisoumeut came to our knowledge tho other day, which will bear repeating. Having mado applica tion to two respectable citizens of Clay ton, Rahun County, for a night's lodg ing and been refused because they thought ho was an impostor, a third, who bad scon him before and recogniz ed him, invited him to his house, where he spent tho night. Iu the meautimo it had been currently re ported in the villago and vicinity that an impostor, pretending to be John Morgan, was at tho house of Mr.-. M Next morning about twenty of tho " Home Guards' assembled, and under tho direction of their eiliciont captain, arrested him. He quietly submitted and assured, them that if ho failed 10 prove his identity he would accompany them to Atlanta. About this time one or two gentlemen who bad seen him recognized him, satisfied the Home Guards that they bad captured the voritable John II. Morgan 1 Of course ho was at onco released. Before leav ing he addressed the crowd briefly, commending m the highest terms the vigilance they bad displayed, advising them to arrest all persons who could not give a satisfactory account of them selves, and closed with tho playful re mark that twenty men bad accom plished in Rabuu what it required forty thousand in Ohio to do. The crowd gave nine cheers for Morgan, aud he proceeded on his way to Wal halla." Beiiind the Times.???It isn't my fault," declared tho bachelor. " I would have been married long ago if tho fates hadn't been against me. I simply gave up when I discovered that the race was too swift forme. There was a time when all my future was centered in a certain young lady wh > lived in this city. But I bad a detested rival who caused me a good deal of un easiness. At last I resolved to settle tho matter; so I dressed myself in my best aud made for the girl's home. Say, butl was boiling mad when I met my rival at the door. Something told me that he was on the same errand, and we stood there and glared at each other untd the girl's mother came to the door and informed us that the young lady had gone to a neighboring town to visit isn aunt. " As I turned away I chanced to no tice a hack passing. I knew that there was a train leaving town for the town where the girl was, in a few minutes, and it gave me an idea. Making a dash for the hack I jumped in and shouted to tiie driver that I would give him $10 if he would got me to the station in timo to catch the train. Then I waved my hand to my rival as long as he was in sight, and chuckled to mysolf at the success of my coup. " Well, 1 arrived at the town, found where my friend was staying, and call ed without loss of timcj as 1 had an idea that my rival would bo up on the next train. " Say, 1 hope to nevor get married if that miserable fellow hadn't called her up by telephone and settled the whole thing before I had even caught my train/'?Chicago Journal. The oldost veteran to march in the parade at tho last Grand Army reunion was John A. Reed of Decatur, Ind., I who is 103 yoars old. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind Yon Have Always Bought B?1 GOOD HEALTH I by the Quart I Every bottle you take of Johnston's ? Sarsaparille means batter hoalth, B and every bottle contains a full fcMLa*9 quark lb makes bettor blood?puror ^k* blood. For thirty years this famous \ W remedy has been oreattng and mala* j? tatnlns good health. Johnston's Sarsaparilla builds op the system, tones tns nerves, and etrengthons the musoles more promptly and effectually than any other remedy known. Tho pallor of the ohi eU disappears, energy takes tho plaoe of languor, and the rloh color of healtk flows to the oheeks. Unequalled for all disorders of the stomach and liver, and for all weakening com plaints of men, women and children. ScUortrpiktr*. Met, *1.00 fell ?Mit *?<*?? UICH10AN DRUG CO.. - Besrels. Mola F >p Salo by tho Lturtns Drug Com pany, Laurens, S. C. TIMROD'S GRAVE IS MARKED The Labor of Love Finished?The Poet's Nam'j Snatched from Oblivion. The State, Oct. 5. The bumble marblo shaft which has marked the spoc where sleeps Henry Timrod has been removed aud a more pretentious granite boulder has taken its place. In a retired corner of Trinity church yard, hallowed by the dust of choice spirits of the commonwealth, Henry Timrod was buried on the 7th of October, 18G7. It is indeed appro priate that the grave should be marked suitably and permanently before to morrow, tho 34th anniversary of his death. Tins is tho closing work of the Tim rod Memorial association. Three years ago this band of devoted South Caro linians determined to rescue Timrod:8 name and famo from tho dust of time, aud to erect a memorial to his mem ory. This was dono by obtaining the right to publish and to sell tho poems into which tho dead poet had breathed his lotty mind aud beautiful spirit. Four thousand copies of this volume have been put into the bands of those who have learned to know i>nd to lovo Timrod through companionship with his genius. Fiom tho proceeds a beau tiful marblo tablot baa been erected iu Timrod's homo, Charleston, ami tho erecting of tho stone which marks his lowly couch iu Trinity church yard completes the work of the association. Tho roughly quarried gray granito boulder is 5 1 ? foot high, 3? inches squaro at tho base aud a little smaller at tho top. On its face is this inscrip tion : 1829-07 llonry Timrod, Poot, and his only child - Willio - lio buried horo. 1901. That is all. A plain epitaph but enough for Timrod, fur bis name aud his fame will not soon perish. The stone which marks his gravo is taken from tho soil of Carolinn, aud Timrod would have had it thus. In appear ance it is bold, ns was bis spirit; and the inscription is simple and direct, as was his iiiu. The committee in charge of this work, ex-Gov. Hugh S. Thompson, Dr. F. C. Woodward and Capt. W. A. Courleuay, did not stop with tho erec tion of this stone, but had tho sur rounding burial lot enclosed in a uow granito coping surmounted by an iron picket fence. Within this enclosure sleeps Timrod, and by him lio his child, bis sister and his mother. Next south of the poet's grave is that of his youngest sister, now marked by a small, rough granito tablet upon which is this inscription: 1838-65. Edyth O. Timrod, wife of A. H. Corbott. 1901. And beside her lies tho venerable mother of tho poet and bis gifted sis ter. The mother's grave is marked with a stone of appearance similar to that of the daughter's. Tho inscrip lion reads: 1705-1870. Thyrza B. Prlnco, Relict of Oapt. W. H.Timrod of Charleston, ?. O. 1901. This small burial lot adjoins that of the Gibben family and is but uino feet square. Tho work of tho committee of tho momorlal association will not only change in a marked manner the appearance of tho spot somewhat no? glccted"in tho past, but is a tribute of' love and admiration which will with stand the elements. But the groatest monument which has boon erected to tho memory of Henry Timrod is the placing of his written work into tho hands of thous ands of people who might not have heard of him but for the collection and publication of his poems, To Capl. W. A. Courtonay bolomcs much. of the credit for this work of lovo. He has devoted time to it, because he knew and loved Timrod. Capt. Cour tenay states that a copy of the poems of Timrod recently found its way into the hands of a man of letters in Can ada. The poetic fire in tho book brought from this stranger a warm encomium and Tirarod's fame is through him being given to tho people of other sections of the coun' ', for "the poet to the wholo world belongs," This gentleman in Canada had not heard of Timrod before, but is now telling others of the beauties of the poet's writings. The small shaft which formerly marked the grave of Timrod was erected in 1880 through the efforts of Gov. Hugh S. Thompson, Prof. Wm. J. Rivers, tho historian, Dr. Jas. H. Carlisle and others. It was hard then to do more than to mark the spot, for the country had not recovered from tho effects of tho civil war. Tho work just finished was donn and done well by tho Stewart Contracting company of this city. 4t Poverty scatters all things," said Capt. Courtouay yesterday. 44 Tim rod's sister was gifted with u mind very much like that of her brother aud composed beautiful vorse. Sho had collected this into a book in manusenpt form but it has been lost. Thoy were too poor to keep their treasures safely." A biographer has recorded that whoo racked with diseaso and sufforiug in the general poverty of the State just after the war, Timrod said, ** I would consign wvery iino I have written to eternal oblivion for #100 iu hand." LTenry Timrod was born in Charles tou iu 1829. His father was an officer iu the German Fusiliers during tho campaign against the Seminole In dians in Florida and thorp, contracted the disease which was iuherited by his son. The eldor Timrod was hiruKclf a writer of verso of much moiit. The youuger Timrod studied law under James L. Petigru, but devoted hie lifo to literature. William Gilmore Simms took a great iutercst in Timrod, Paul Hamilton Hnyne and other talonted young men. Timrod's ilrst book of poems was published in 1800 and was ' hailed with delight by his friends. When the war came upon his bo-! loved State, Timrod's bold spirit was tired, aud he wrote a number of pa triotic and martial lyrics which mado him very popular in the South. When tho war was ended he was in Columbia, where ho had been editing Tho Caro linian when the city was destroyed, ituincd in fortuno, with tho hand of diseaso tenting at his lifo, with starva tion and suffering facing him, Timrod lived but a short while after the war. He expressed to Capt. Coiirtenay and others a desire for his poems to bo collected, and that was the inspiration which prompted tho noble South Caro linians to lend their energies to giving Timrod's name its proper place on the scroll of fame. Capt. Courtenay says that in youtli Timrod was looked upon as an athlete. Ho was rather short of stature but very broad shouldered and his very walk indicated strength. But con sumption wasted his frame aud he died at tho age of 38 when life should have been but beginning. The pallbearers who attended the body to its last rest ing place wero Gen. Wade Hampton, Dr. A. N. Talley, Dr. lt. W. Gibbes, G07. Hugh S. Thompson, Melvin M. Cohen and Felix G. do Foutaine. In 1873 Faul Hamilton Hayne col lected and published a number of Tim rod's poems aud three years ago the Timrod Memorial society secured from Mrs. Kate Lloyd, relict of the beloved poet, tho copyright to his poems on the condition that whatever protlt might accrue would bo used in eroding u suitable memorial. Over $2,000 has been raised and spent in this way and the copyright has recently been sold by Mrs. Lloyd to the B. F. Johnson company who will get out another edition. Timrod's gravo *?through tho sack cloth of tho Reconstruction in South Carolina remained without a stone." But, as Timrod himself wrote of tho host of Southern dead in tho wnr: " In seeds of laurel in tho earth Tho blossom of your famo Is blown, And somcwhoro waiting for Us birth The shaft is in the stone." HAPPY Hits.?So many mon u-e neglecting business to match around in parades that the women havo cause to bo proud of themselves. This is the scasou when callers arc taken into the cellar, and expected to rave over the rows ol jars of preserves and pickles. A town doesn't lose its country ways entiroly until tho young people living in it stop giggliu'g in tho back seals at public entertainments. The merchants complain that every woman who returns from a trip calls to tell them how much cheaper things are away from home, and they arc getting mad about it. When a man has had bad luck, and takes his wife to live with his son-in law, there is great indignation for the son-in-law, but uovor notice auy indig nation when a young man takes his family to live on his wifo's fathor? Anything that can be piled onto an old man seems to bo all right. The most severo critics old-fashioned people have are girls between twelve aud twenty years of age. It is a rare girl who docs not alien ate her real friends by being too much of a princess from sixtcon to twenty. When it is announced that a woman will entertain informally, it means that she will buy things ready-made at the baker's. So many women think thoy havo done their whole duty toward a man if they put a wet cloth on~his head when ho has a hoadacho. When a man's wifo flatters him, it may cost him tho price of a hat, but when other women begin it, it may cost him everything he has.?Atchi&on Globe. Congressman Galusha A, Orow, who is known us tho Doan of tho Houso at Washington and tho father of tho homestead law, finds one of bis great est pleasures in conducting a little Sunday school of about 100 scholars at the Qrow homestead, Glenwood, Susquohanna County, Pa. Tho Bthool was organized forty years ago by Mrs. I F. P. Grow, the Congreaaman's sister-1 in-law. Ii'h membership includes near ly everybody in the little neighbor hood from children to men and women with gray hairs. The World's Greatest H Bun i' -' ' ??? Cure for Malaria. A; Tor all forma of Malarial poison ing take Job-tun'* Chill and Pever Tonic. A Ulnt of Malarial poison ing In your blood mean*mlnery and ? faUuro. Bloortmwllclnesoftn'tonra ,',?.,.;,?.;,.; poisoning. The an?!<int* for It Is JOHNSON'S TONIC. Butt 5? C"t* V H Cms. AT PICKENaVILIvK MUSTER. A Place of Importance in the Hal c\ on Days of the Past. ?Tho Idler," a contributor to tho Spartauburg Journal, gives tho fol lowing reminiscence of Old Pickous villc, which will bo rolished by our readers: Ono old Southern institution, how ever, has departed for always. Tho changes of the manner of life, the de velopment of the country, the concen tral ion of nmuHcmeuts and organiza tions in tho Iowas, largo aud small, arc tiio reasons for its going. That was the muster. It is acne but not its memories. ! have heard tho oldor people talk of musters audtuy Irish blood has been raised by numerous rc ? mini8cenccs. I havo heard old men tell of the great crowds, the gay dress, the gorgeous drunks and the glorious lights that used to bo features of tho gatherings at the general muster grounds in the up-country. The militia was the pride of the State and it wus thick with generals and colonels aud majors and there was vast pride in thcHO and the miuor otlices, and tho wearers of opaulots and titles 44 did strut pow'ful." After the rcviows ? often by tho governor?tho iuu would commence. The neighborhood bullies would go aguinst each other and 14 fist and skull lights" ensued thick and fast. ! It was cowardly to U80 a knife or pistol l and tho man who did lost his social ! standing. Brandy and honey was tho I favorito beverage and tho result of the I mixture of that seductive draught, with ? enthusiasm, July sun aud militant am i hit ion is not hard to imagine. Cider i and t?ingor cakes were the delight of i the sober element and great articles of j i trade. There woro mighty fighters in I i those times nnd tho stage-bouts of I these days besides a muster day scrap j would bo a dumb show of fools. Ilorse I trading, barbecues, and dancing to the I music of the fiddle played by a fiddler added to the charming features of the day aud sank them deep m memory. The people who did this wero the sinew of the country and they wero simply a little rougher aud more en thusiastic in their sports, than we, their descendants, arc with ours. Ono of the most famous of these old muster grounds and gathering plsces of all the tribes was FickensvUle, which was a hundred or more years ago the court house town of the part of tho State now comprising Anderson, Oconcc, Pickeus and pa is of Green ville and perhaps otln.r counties. Pickensville was a placo of importance, and was perhaps tho woolliest point on the map. In fact it came to be dis reputable and finally becatno little more than a name and a memory with many odious features. There wore a num ber of killings thero in tho first half of the last century and public hangings had an cuormous attendance; killing and hauging wero associated i:i those days before the gentle expedients of insanity aud self defenso came into fashion. Horso thieves fared badly. There were some remarkable fights, somo being pitched battles be tween renowned bullies. Drinking, gambling, horse racing, chicken fight ing aud;other sports still in vogue, but more quiet, were indulged in \vith frontier earnestness, aud many stories of financial and moral ruin had their beginning there?aud the fast days and furious nights arc inwoven in tragedies that long have darkened up country homes. Pickensville, as I remember it from first sight, in my childhood days, was a small, deserted village, encompascd by senile gloom. A large tract of land was grown up in a tough aud then dreaded grass called " Tom Bell " ou account of a local legend connecting it with his Satanic majesty; scrubby pines growing near by furnished sighs and wails that tho nervous might as sociate with tho past. A few houses then remained and tho race track could bo defined. A few hundred yards away, on a tract of granite, there wero dungeons cut in the solid rock; that is where some of the old-time teirors wero kept, under the old jail. I hear this is all changed now. Tho dungeons aic no more and the granite has been blasted for building rock. Several years ago an enterprising far mer tore up tho faco of the earth and had a terrific battle with tho jointed grass and was rewarded by gaining a magnificent cotton field. Tho old shacks have disappeared. A milo above, on the Southern Bail way, is the prosperous town of Easley, and a cot ton mill has boon built there with a settlement reaching almost to the pre cincts of Old Pickonsvillc. The 41 big house " of tho place, once tho hotel, is, 1 believe,' standing and is the res idence of Wm. A. Neal. A quaint theory was once advanced about Pickonsvi'lo. The toonng up of tho 44 Tom Poll " grass was followed, it is ?nid, by ?n extraordinary outbreak of trouble in Easloy, a mile above. Tho town was torn by factions and tho churchos wero made scenos of war. An old citizen said that tho 44 Tom Bell " had mercifully come to Pickons ville and formed a tough covor and that the devil was covered in. His theory was that tho tearing up of the 44 Tom Poll " lot tho devil looso and hence all tho trouble. Dr. Thuraton, who is much moro at homo in the mazes of theology than in tho amomliuB of tsociui lifo, not long ago was introducing to a younger cler gyman, a handsome widower, a former parishioner of his own, no longer young, and extremely sensitive to the fact. "My brother," said Dr. Thura ton, leading tho lady forward while hie face beamed with genuiue affectiou.1 "this is Miss Aineda Jennings, one of my old sheep "?Harpor's Magazine. Farmers, bring or send the fruits of your labors to the State Fair at Colum bia, Oct. 28th to Nov. 1st, aud you need not exclaim, as many aro heard , to do evory year, "I can boat that." Mrs. Helen George, of Franklin, Pa., claims to be 120 years old. Her oldest child is 00. ?bantu ? ?M Kind You Hare Alwiya Bwfll t|fEttU* If When using baking powder it is always econ omy to buy the Royal. Royal makes the finest, most wholesome and de licious food. COTTON CHOP IN 1900. QUANTITY PRODUCED IN POUNDS AND BALKS IN SOUTH CAKOT.tNA. The Journal of Commerce nnd Com inercial Bulletin hns published reports compiled by the ccusus bureau, which shows in detail the productiou of cot ton by counties iu tho different States in 1900. Tho quautityof cottonginued iu pounds aud commercial bales iu the counties in South Carolina was as fol lows : POUNDS. BALKS. Abbeville 10,102,002 21,170 Aikcu 12,273,340 25,097 Audorson 17,104,331 35,550 Bamberg 7,133,209 14,171 Barnwell 10,934,580 32,427 lleuufort 1,435,411 3,422 Berkeley 4,975,959 10,047 Charleston 2,351,370 0,071 Cherokee 3,559,995 7,042 Chester 9,724,148 21,207 Chesleriield 5,708,308 11,790 Clarendon 10,405,006 21,003 Colleton 4,208,394 8,004 Darlington 13,834,743 27,G15 Dorchester 2,998,003 0,377 EdgeUeld 9,407,474 19,513 Fairfleld 10,745,790 22,274 Florence 8,325,958 10,742 Georgetown 051,710 1,323 Greenvillo 10,055,086 23,888 Greenwood 10,041,110 22,830 Hampton 0,041,341 12,159 Horry 2,705,130 5,047 Kersbaw 8,474,245 17,253 Lancaster 8,850,400 18,880 Laureus 14,015,508 30,991 Lexington 0,390,380 13,994 Marion 14,525,515 30,720 Marlboro 17,583,898 86,089 Ncwberry 9,519,882 20,980 Ocoueo 4,792,444 10,254 Orangeburg 24,807,881 52,293 Pickcns 4,210,311 9,199 ltichland 5,770 328 11,554 Saluda 5.744,870 12,492 Spartanburg 14,538,409 31,322 Sumter 22,904,583 45,523 Union (!,992,513 15,003 Williamsburg 9,323,709 18,804 York 12,744,741 27,134 TotalforState 374,302,722 780,782 If you gave some fellows a talent wrapped in a napkiu to start with in business thoy would swap the talent for a gold brick and lose the napkin and thoro uro othors Unit you could 1 start out with just a napkin who would | set up with it in the drj-goods business i in a 8 all way and then coax the other] fellow's talent iuto it. In the Bargain Store?Mrs. Barnes: Why, how do you do, Mrs. Howes. Isn't this the last place you'd expect to see me? I only came, in just for fun, you know. Wouldn't think of buying anything here, of course. Mrs. Howes: Of course not. The idea of anybody buying anything in such a place. Later ?Mrs. Howes (solus): H'ml she can't fool mo. I'll bet sho does] all her shopping here. Mrs. Barnes: Now I've found out whero thut woman gels all her cloths. I might have known by tho looks of them.?Boston Transcript. Juni after the fall of Bloemfontein soldiers were [called upon, owing to tho scarcity of civilians, to work the railway. The wcaiy men wore lying in camp one night after a hard day's work when a sergeant called out: " Any of you men want to put your names down as railway potters, drivers, stokers or for any other appointment connected with the railway ?" The silence was broken only by snores. Then one Tommy slowly raised his head and drowsily muttorcd: " Put me down as a sleeper.'' A citizen of Wilkinaburg, Pa., owns an old lottery ticket which reads as follows: No 257. Presbyterian Church lottery. Authorized by law. Thi8 tickot will onlitlo tho poasessor to such a prize as ahall bo drawn to its number, if demanded within twelvo months after tho drawing; subject to 20 per cent deduction. M. Wilkins, president of tho board of mauagers, Pittsburg, Juno 3, 1807. Bishop Potter and Cbauncey Depow wero mvited to the same function, recently, and both wero expected to apoak, which moved the Bishop to re mark: "This reminds me of two oystors who were in attendance at an ecclesi astical festival. Said ono to the other, ?What is this anyhow?' 'It's a church fair,' was tho reply. 'A chu.-ch fair? Then what in the world do they \. ant with both of ua?" The Governor of North Carolina does not approve of pardons for con victed criminals tha* do not moet with popular endorsement. He says he wdl grant no pardon, the application for which has not been thoroughly adver tised in the newspapers of the locality of the prisoner's offence. " No sub," said the old man, " my, boy didn't steal de mule; he wuz practisin' ter i'iue a circus, en whilst he wuz a-turnin' or a double-somerset up in do elements he lit on de male's back, en do oreetur got scart, en run away wid Mm ("?Atlanta Constitution. , Ths KM You jjjg Alwifl Bought The New York Eveniug Telegram says: " It appears that the distillers of tho Blue Grass State have banded together for tho purpose of thwarting the will and interfering with the liberties of tho pooplo. Their specific overt act of oppression is tho agree mcut to limit the season's output of whiskey to 27.500,000 gallons l It re quires but a slight knowledge of Ken tucky's conditions to be aroused to an indignant sense of the gross injustice of this agreement. There are in the State?the figures are taken from the returns at tho latest election?468,008 qualified voters. This means that under the agreement of the distillers there will be only 50 gallons, or 472 pints, for each Kentucky gentleman's consumption during the course of the yearI Divido these figures by tho 365 days of the year and the result is shook? iugl Loss than two pints of whiskey a day for eachl Woll may one shud der at this Bhowing and ask: ' Where will tho hand of the oppressor fall next?'" The efforts of Senators McLaurin and Till man, Representative Elliot, and others of tho South Carolina dele gation in Congress, to secure for the coming exposition at Charleston tho United states government exhibit, has at last been crowned with success. The action of the cabinet in agreeing to send the Buffalo exhibit to Charles ton is very pleasing to the Charleston ians interested. The exhibit will he sent, and the clerks who were desig nated to look after the government exhibit at Buffalo will bo sent to Char leston with tho exhibit, being desig nated by tho heads of their various departments in Washington for that purpose. It is stated that the longest railroad tunnel in tho United States will he built through the Sierra Nevada Moun tains of California if tho plans of E. H. Ilarrlman are carried out. The tunnel project, which will involve an outlay of from three to five million dollars, contemplates tho boring of a hole 27,000 feet in length through the heart of tho Sierras. Besides saving a climb of 1,500 feet the tunnel will shorten the Southern Pacific line about seven miles. Preliminary surveys are now being made. " I saw you sitting in a car last night when there were ?'?vcral ladies n.Jnding," ehe s??''1 rather frigidly. "Yes," .'..replied, "but my wife was there, yon know, and the ladies who stood wore all young and good looking." Having been one of those who stood the permitted him to lead her away to a corner whore they could bo alone.? Chicago Record-Herald. " I went so high in do balloon I could hcah do angels singin'," said the old colored deacon. " What fer you come back, den?*' he was asked. I " Kaze hit wuzn't my intention ter I meet de angels dat way; 'sides, I'd I done tol' my fambly I'd be back fer supper!"?Atlanta Constitution. I " I have found out ono thing about my hu&band," said the bride who had been married before, " that surprises me greatly." Her friend moved up a little nearer, so that they could whisper, and asked: " What is it?" ?? His salary is just as big as he told me it was." " Pardou me, sir," began tho ped dler of the supplies, " but may I ask what is the stylo of your typewriter ?" " Right up-to-date," replied the I business man, enthusiastically. 44 El bow-sleeves, lace insertion, shirtwaist iul all that sort of thing." Advertising may be too much of a good thing. Some weeks ago an item went the rounds of the press comment ing on tho scarcity of train hold-ups this season. Since then they have averaged about one a day. 44 That white cow," said tho wag gish farmer, 44 is the one that gives milk." 44Ah," exolaimed the city girl, "and those brown ones, I suppose, give beef tea."?Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Mary Minich was sought for eight years by a New York banking iirm that had a legacy of 840,000 that was loft to her only to discover that the woman died about a year ago in the poor-house. The Sultan of Turkey has six sons and seven daughters, who are kept in the securest seclusion, the former never leaving the grounds of the house in which they were horn. I Select specimens of your choicest gralus, vegetables, finely brod stock, including poultry, for exhibition at the State Fair. A little effort on your part will secure one or more of tha handsome premiums. The Siberia, ono of tho largest ships ever built on this hemisphere, will be launched on October 10th at Newport News, Va. It was built for the Pacific Mail line and has 18,600 tons displace ment. When a young mau asks a girl to clip a thread off his necktie, and there is nobody else around, she may be ex* cused for being disappointed it that is all that happens.?Somerville Journal. It's usually the head of the family who foots the bills.