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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1894._*_VOLUME XXIX--NO 19.
AN OPPORTUNITY
FOE MEN" and BOYS!
To Secure a Good Suit of Clothes at a nominal Price !
ARE Y0? (
\H ] In regard to where you shall buy your FALL SUIT ? If eo, consult the best dressed men?they
DOUBT t will tell you B. 0. EVANS & CO.
DO
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Then don't hesitate, but go to?
f TO BUY NEW CLOTHING ?
TO BUY STYLISH CLOTHING ?
TO BUY YOUR SUIT CHEAP ?
TO SECURE A GOOD FIT ?
[TO BE WELL DRESSED ?
B. O. EVANS & CO,
The Leading Clothiers, Hatters and Furnishers.
?ALK8IIES?BELTON O. EVANS, formerly with C. F. Jones & Co.; JOHN if. FLYNN, formerly with Means Co.
ThB Successful Advertiser!
Is the man who writes something the
people will read, and reading, believe. In
this age of education and enlightenment,
when men read and think for themselves,
all that stuff about "selling goods cheaper
than year competitors bay them," being
the "only competent dealers in the line,"
"handling better stuff than anybody
else,"'cm., is mere clap trap, and subjects
the waiter and the firm back of it to the
contempt of all right-thinking people. The
man who has something to offer, and then
tolls the folks about in a plain, business
way, is the man who "got* there," and
getting there, stands.
\ Lola of peoplo handle Paint. Some
bandle one kind, some another, bnt they
all realize, if they have any business sense
at all, that in order to make that business
a permanent success it is absolutely neces
?aary to give the people tha very beet ma?
terial. This we h ave tried to do, and at a
3>rico that puts it in the ranch of all.
In this connection we call attention
the fact' that crop i ire about laid
is plen?ful, and 'a. little paint not only
freshen) t and beautifies, bu; improves won?
derfully the sanliary cocidltlon of the
premiHC3. If your house hi all right may.
be the fence needs a coat. A little Paint
would keep tha'.; old " buirjry from falling
down, And the wagon might last a year or
4wo longer by spending seventy-five cents
or a dollar in Paint od it.
"Remember thin, the longer yon put it
?off the more it taxes and the less good it
?does* Remember another thing, it costs
just as much, and takes just as much time,
tto have cheap paiat put on as it does good
Taint. Always bny the best, even if yon
pay more for it.
HILL BEOS., Druggists,
AN DBBSOK, 8. O.
all.
ention to
by, time
MASONS' SUPPLIES,
276 EAST BAY,
S C.*
IMPORTERS OP
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Eastern and Southern Book Lime,
Boaendale Cement,
N. Y. Piaster Paris,
Hair, Laths, Shinglus,
Tilts, Bricks, Fire Clay,
AllsizeaT. 0. Pipe,
Best Full Size Fire Brick,
Scoffing Slate*.
AND ALL
BUILDING MATERIAL.
?I .Telephone 291.
Aug 22,1891 8 _6m
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.SEND FC3 CATALOGUE
W?l?'?OUGLAS,
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Yon can uare raonsy br Pturchasin? \V. JL.
Doug laa tenoes, , x -
Becsesc, vre are tUe largest manufacturers of
-? advertised shoe* In the world., and guarantee
' the value by stamping the name and price on.
- the bottom, ? wfcicn protect* yon against high
prices and the middleman's profits. Our shoes
equal custom work in style, easy fitting and
wearing Dualities. Wehavethemsoldevery
wherc at lower price* for the value given than
any other make. Take no substi tute. If your
. ^<^iiT cannot supply yon, we car. Sold by
C JT. JTOPTES & vco.,
ANDERSON, S. 0.
GEERIgliOS., Belton, S. C.
"ftTOTIOE TO CREDITORS.
JX All persons having demands against
the Estate of W. A. Brownlee. deceased,
are hereby notified to present them, proper
; SyproveDj to the undersigned, within the
?time prescribed by law, and those indebted
to make payment,
i LEMUEL D. STSIBBLINQ, Ex'r.
Eichland, S C.
0>.Sl,tm 17 S
Application for Charter.
NOTICE is hereby given tbat we, the
undersigned Corporators, will apply
i to the nczt session of the General Assem?
bly of South Caioh^a for a Charter to
build a Railroad from Greenwood, South
Carolina, via Due West, Anderson, Town
; Tille and Westminister, ti. C, to the South
?.? Carolina and Georgia Una at or near the
point where tho Blue Kidge Railroad
crosses said line, to be called "The Green?
wood. Anderson and Western Railway."
J. C. Maxwell. T. F. Riiey, J. K. Durst,
J. S. B?iley, J. G. SimmonB, B. W. Cobb,
H. P. McGee, M. B. Clinkscales, G. F.
Tolly, D. 0. DuPre, W. L. Durst, B. B.
Wilson. W B M ill wee, D. A. P.Jordan,
J. W. Wideman, B. S. Galloway, Geo. E.
.Prince, C. A. C. Waller. Corporators,
Aug 23,1894_8_8m
Application for Charter.
"VTOTXCE is hereby given that we, the
.Hi undersigned Corporators, will apply
to the next session of the General Assem?
bly of South Carolina for a Charter to
Smild a Railroad from Greenwood, South
-Carolina, by way of Cokesbnry, Pelzer
ami Piedmont to Gnjpnville or Easley,
South Carolina, to be called "The Saluda
Valley Bail way."
? J. O. Maxwall, T. F. Riley, J. K Durst,
J, S Bailey, J. G SimmoDs, B. W Cobb,
-?.0. DuPre, E. A. Smytbe, T..J. Ellis,
W. L. Durst, B. B. Wilson, W. B. Millwee,
JD. A. P. Jordan. G. W. Connor. J. C.
Moore, G. B. Biley, J. L. Orr, T. E. Pol?
itik, Corporators.
Ante 22,1894_8_3m
Bailroad Charter.
NOTICE is hereby given that we, the
undersigned corporators, will apply
to the next General Assembly of South
Carolina for a Charter of a Bailroad run?
ning from Piedmont, in Greenviilo Co ,
to Abbeville C. H ? by way of the Towns
of Pelzer, Wllliamston and Belton, and
from there to Abbevilie C. H by the most
desirable and practicable route.
JvC. Klugh, W. C. McGowan, W. A.
Templeton. Dr. J. A. Anderson, A. M.
Er*ln, J. E Wakefleld, R. B. A. Bobin
Bon. T. L. Cllnfcpcalw, Jr., J. T. Ashley,
G. W. Su';livan, E A. Smythe, Jas. L. Orr,
J.'T. Bice, lt. D Harris, B. A. Lewis, Dr.
J. W. Wideman, M. B. Clinkscales, B. C.
Brownlee, - 7-12,
SHAKEM UP AND LETGO GROCERY!
?
WE beg to announce to our many patrons in Anderson and throughout
the County that we have moved our place of business to the elegant and
commodious salesroom?
IN HOTEL GHiaUOLA BLOCK, NO. 5,
Formerly occupied by D. S. Maxwell & Son. We will be better prepared
than ever to supply you with the BEST GROCERIES at the lowest price
consistent with the quality of Goods given. We haven't disappointed you in
the past, and hope to do even better for you in the future.
No compromise nor winking at adulterated goods. Strictly pure food at
popular prices. Come and see us. We are ready to make things lively.
Sbakem up and letgo,
j. A. AUSTIN & CO.
CLASS IN ALL SHAPES,
CUT XO ORDER, AT
Evans9 Pharmacy.
REMEMBER our $5.00 TUBNIP PRIZE, due November
20,1894. Bring on your Turnips and have weight registered.
NO, 4 HOTEL. CHIQUOLA.
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, EfC.
Iron King and Elmo Stove? at Prices you cannot afford to be
without one.
W e have just received a nice assortment of Goods In our line, and we ore going to
sell them at prices to suit the people and times.
It will pay you to inspect onr varied Stock and Prices.
We take pleasure in showing and pricing customers and visitors our Goods,
whether you wish to buy or not.
Soliciting your future wants, and thanking you for past favors,
I remain yours, &c,
JOHN T-BURRISS.
P. s. ?Parties indebted to me by Note or Account will accommodate me
very much by coming in and settling as soon as convenient
Respectfully,
JOHN T. BURRISS.
SHOES in all Styles !
SHOES OF Alili QUALITIES,
SHOES FOR ALIi PEOPLE,
THE MEANS SHOE,
THE MILES SHOE,
THE HYNDS HOA'EST HOME MADE SHOE,
And all the Best Makes at Popular Prices !
ONE entire side of our Mammoth New Store is devoted entirely to Shoes. This is a
sight worth seeing, and the PRICES WILL INTEREST YOU. Don't forget
that WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY.
And then you kn w?
We are always in the Cotton Market!
??* Come to see us, and we will do you right
McOULLY & CATHCART.
? RE1EDY FOB HARD TIMES!
I DESIRE to inform the trading public that I am now reducing my Stock
for the Fall season, and for the next few weeks will offer great inducements
to Cash buyers. Come and see my Stock of
Family and Fancy Groceries,
Canned Goods,
Confectioneries,
Tobacco, Cigars, Etc.
And I will please you in prices and goods.
Gr. F. JBIGrBY.
$1.50 $1.50
THE BARGAIN OF THE YEAR.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A DRIVE IN
MEU'S FIITE HATS.
Your Choice of the Lot, $1 50.
Had we bought these goods regular we would have to sell them at three
dollars. No two Hats alike. All the latest shape and colors.
Whenever we get a Bargain we give you the benefit.
TAYLOR & CRAYTON.
$1.50 j $1,50
BILL ARP'S LETTER;
Arp at a Fair.
Atlanta Constitution.
If a man would escape all this hurly
burly of politics let him take an over?
land trip to some quiet country settle?
ment where there is a camp meeting
or a fair going on. I found a place
last week that surprised and pleased
me. There is a territory about ten
miles square down in the corner of
Troup, Heard and Coweta counties
that seems to loom up a little higher
and is a good deal richer than the
average land of either county. The
old original surveyor who laid off these
boundaries would not put all this fine
land in a single county, but tried to
tote fair with all. He gave Heard
the largest share because it needed it.
About the center of this territory is a
little village called Corinth. Some
old Bible reader gave it that name, I
reckon, in honor of Paul, .who lived
and preached in the ancient city and
planted churches there and turned
them over to Apollos to be watered.
This Corinth has no Paul nor Apollos,
but it used to have a reputation for
its school. JustasBeman andFouche
and Isham and Dick Johnston made
reputation so did a man by the name
of Corbett acquire renown as a teacher
at Corinth. LaGrange boys and New
nan boys were sent there, especially
those who were hard to manage at
home. Ben Hill got his rudiments
there. Rudiments in those days in?
cluded the use of persuaders as well
as books, and the persuaders were gen?
erally from three to four feet long.
But the boys are so much better now?
adays that the persuaders have been
discarded. One of our teachers whip?
ped a boy the other day and has been
arrested for it and a big rumpus raised
over it. That boy is in danger of the
state reformatory just as soon as they
build one. I mean what I say. I have
noticed these hoys whose parents raise
a row when they are whipped at school
and they turn out bad. Dick John?
ston's rule was a good one?''beg par?
don, take a whipping or quit Bchool."
Corinth is high and dry, a kind of
plateau of red chocolate land that
grows cotton and bermuda grass to
perfection and corn and oats in abun?
dance. It ia only sixty miles south
of Cartersville, and yet there has been
no killing frost. The cotton leaves
and potato vines and late corn are still
green and the cape jessamines take
the winter out of doors. Bermuda
grass can be seen all along the roads
and streets and when grown for hay
makes three crops a year.
Corinth has just closed her fifth
annual fair?a settlement fair that
draws the farmers and .their families
together like a camp meeting. It does
not pretend to be a thing, but it costs
nothing hardly and the people like it.
They brought the best products of
their farms, some corn stalks eighteen
feet eight inches high and twelve feet
to the ear. Wheat and oats and hay,
hams and leaf lard and butter, cane
syrup and sorghum, potatoes and
pumpkins and many kinds of garden
seed. A fine display of fowls, some
hogs and Jersey cattle. In the wo?
man's department there were some of
the same old coverlets and counter?
panes and patch-work quilts that we
have seen, ever since we were hoys,
and there was some beautiful embroid?
ery work that we didn't see in the
long ago. There were all sor?s of pre?
servers and jellies and pickles and I
counted six kinds of home-made.wine,
among them was some maypop wine
that the judges said was delicious, but
they never offered me any. Some of
the old veterans brought their guns
and swords and canteens. There was
an old battered tin canteen that was
in all the war and had I been such a
poet as my friend Lucien Knight I
would have written an apostrophe to
it in verse?
Hall old canteen, the Southern Soldiers'
friend,
WhL'e on the march bis country to defend.
Close by his tide thy shining form was
seen
And none stuck closer than his old can?
teen,
or words to that effect. And the Ital?
ians were there with monster perform?
ing bears. These wandering songs of
Italy were 3.000 miles from their home
ministering to the pleasure of our
children for a mere pittance, but
where the bears came from I know not.
They danced and pranced to music.
They marched and countermarched
and made bows and sat in chairs and
wrestled with their keepers and did
many funny and fantastic things that
amused and entertained us all. The
men and the bears sleep together in
some outhouse. They eat together
and share a common fortune. The
chief difference is that God clothes
one and man the other.
When dinner time came the matrons
and maidens spread their table cloths
upon the ground under the shade of
the trees and filled them with good
things for the multitude. Everybody
was invited everywhere and all were
pressed to eat and drink, for spring
water and coffee were abundant. I
eat chicken and sausage until I didn't
know whether tc crow or to grunt, and
so I did neither.
Next came the races?horse races,
upon a mile track that was in the
shape of the figure eight. It was in a
close sheared meadow of bermuda
grass. This racing business seems to.
be quite orthodox with the people, for
the stock is all home-made, and there
was no jockeying or betting that I dis?
covered. There was some good stock,
but none that were kept for the turf.
They pulled the plow or the wagon
and made the crop. Nobody seemed
to time them, and the only question
was, which beat? Maude S. was not
there nor Nancy Hanks. I think
there must have been 300 or 400 bug?
gies around that track, and in most of
them were young men and maidens.
There was no drinking nor swearing
and not an accident of any kind. I
met some people I used to know, but
had forgotten. One middle-aged gen?
tleman introduced himself by saying:
"Major, you do not remember me, but
I will refresh your memory. Many
years ago when you were living in
Rome you was a member of the school
board and I was an applicant for a
teacher's commission. You were
chosed to examine me on arithmetic
and when it was your turn you asked
me to go to the blackboard and write
down eleven thousand eleven hundred
and eleven, and I busted, but you let
me in." Yes, I remembered then
that his name was Duke, and how
mortified he was at his failure. My
friend Judge Ware was president of
the fair. He stands six feet four, and
is large in proportion. Seven sons
and three daughters of like proportions
ornninent the family, and nearly all
are married. Almost everybody in
that settlement seemed above the
average size, just as they do in Ken?
tucky, where the blue grass grows.
All flesh is grass, you know. Cattle
eat the grass and folks eat the cattle,
Judge "Ware is a pious man and doesn't
approve of the race3, but he says ho
is obliged to stand around and keep
order, but he alvray3 turns his back
when the horses are running. This
reminds me of my son, who is in Eng?
land, and while he was walking around
the old historic towerof London want?
ed a sprig of ivy that mantled its walls.
03d soldiers were slo wly walking about
as guards, and the signboards said,
"Hands off," but he humbly approach?
ed the guard nearest the wall and told
him he was all the way from America,
and would be glad to take home a sprig
of that ivy to remember the tower by,
and the old man turned his back to
the wall and whispered: "I'm not
looking at ye." So he quickly cut a
branch and put it under his vest. It
is now growing in a little pot, and he
will bring it when he comes.
I met but one populist at Corinth
that I know of and he said he had
always liked Mr. Atkinson until they
told him he had got to drinking and
whipped his wife scandalous. "Maybe
it was his wife whipped him," said I.
From all political liars and slanderers
may the good Lord deliver us.
Bill Akp.
To Measure an Acre.
Few farmers know the size of their
fields or how many acres they contain.
It is desirable?in fact, indispensable
?for good work that a farmer know
this, otherwise he cannot apportion
seed or manure for it; nor can he tell
how much time it should take to
plow, harrow or cultivate it. A good
cotton cord, the size of a plow line,
should be kept for this purpose. To
make one, buy 67 feet of cotton rope,
one inch round; fasten a ring at each
end, and make these rings precisely
60 feet apart. This is four rods. Tie
a piece of red rag in the center. One
acre of ground will be a piece four of
these cbrds long, and! two and one-half
wide equal to 16 by 10 rods, making
160 square rods to an acre.
The advantage of the rings is that
one person can measure alone by driv?
ing a stake in the ground to hold the
rope while he stretches it out. The
rope should be soaked in tar and then
dried. This will prevent its shrink?
ing
Last year a neighbor of the writer
had a heavy sod plowed by contract at
$2.50 per acre. Three persons stepped
it off. One said it was four acres;
another made it a little over five, and
the third said it was three and a half
acres. The contractor sent over and
got this rope, and all five men meas?
ured it, and it was found to be just
three and a half acres. He had paid
to have the grass cut off it for three
years at $1 per acre, or $5 each sea?
son, counting it to be five acres in ex?
tent, thus losing $4.50 through ignor?
ance.
Get a measuring line, and when not
in use, put it away, bo that the hands
cannot get at it, or ithey will be very
apt to cut a piece off it to tie up har?
ness, thus making it worthless for
measuring purposes.
That Fool Book-keeper.
A lady who buys provisions regu?
larly of a dealer in Boston, was a little
puzzled over one of the items of her
monthly bill. The item was as fol?
lows : "To 3 lbs psalmon, 90.".
It suddenly occurred to the lady
thabshe had puschased three pounds
of salmon on the date given, and the
meaning of the mysteriously spelled
word was apparent to her.
Greatly amused, and feeling well
enough acquainted with the provision
dealer to tell him of the little laugh
she had enjoyed at his expense, she
said, when she went to pay the bill:
"Mr. Blank, I had quite a laugh at
the way some one in your establish?
ment spells salmon."
When the item had been pointed
out to him, Mr. Blank said, in a tone
of contempt for such ignorance :
"That's the woirk of a new book?
keeper I have. I'm ashamed to have
such bills sent out, and shall have to
speak to him about it. He is a good
book-keeper, but he's got to learn to
spell if he stays in my employ. Let
me correct the bill."
Taking a pen, Mr. Blank crossed
out the word and wrote above it "Sam
mon."
"There, ma'am," he said, compla?
cently, handidg back the bill, "I'll
teach that book-keeper how to spell
'salmon' when he comes in, or tell
him to find a new place."
He Was Hilped Oat.
Not being blessed with a supera?
bundance of money, two medical stu?
dents, the one a very large and the
other a very small man, were room?
mates and bedfellows. Only a few
nights had elapsed when the big man,
who was on the inner side, suddenly
awoke to the consciousness that he
was being crowded, to the wall, his
companion having taken a good sized
reservation in the middle of the bed.
By way of punishing the encroach?
ment with neatness and dispatch, he
crently adjusted the soles of his feet,
and ousted the little fellow so effectu?
ally as to land him quickly on the
carpet.
The ejected showed no signs of re?
sentment until several nights later,
when, finding his bulky comrade oc?
cupying a similar position to that in
which he had given offence, he plotted
a revenge. Stealthily climbing over
the huge form, he braced his back
against the wall, and placing a foot on
either side of his friend's spine, col?
lected all his forces, and gave a tre?
mendous push. The effect was in?
stantaneous, and if not just what he
anticipated, was in strict accordance
with the laws of nature.
The big man moved, but the bed
moved with him, opening a wide space
between it and the wall, through which
the other one disappeared. The little
fellow had shot himself out of bed.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, /
Lucas Countt. \ ss'
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm of
F. J. CnENEY & Co., doing business
in the City of Toledo, County and
State aforesaid, and that said firm will
pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS fo; each and every case of
CATARRH that cannot be cured by the
use of Hall's Catarrii Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of De?
cember, A. D. 1886.
[seal] A. W. Gleason, .
Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter?
nally and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
HgL?Sold by Druggists, 75c.
? The man who lives only to please
himself has a hard master.
A 8T0BY OF SAND BAB FEBBY.
Tragic Fate of two Oharleatoniani In Edge
field.
Sunday News.
Edgefield, tOct. 27.?Mr. James
T. jJacon's lee are on "Anecdotes and
Reminiscences 'of Early Edgefield,"
delivered in the Opera House here a
few days ago, was a masterpiece of
pathos and humor, wit and merriment,
incident and accident, romance and
history. Among many others he told
the following pathetic story of a once
famous duel, so illustrative of old
time Southern chivalry, and the con?
sequent death blow to a mother's
heart. It is reproduced in his own
simple and eloquent words :
In the year 1828 there was in the
South Carolina College a beautiful,
brave, noble, gentle youth from Edge
field, of barely 18 years. His name
was Hampden Wigfall. The Wigfall
family had then lived in Edgefield
only four years. They were rich Hu?
guenot people of the Parish of St.
Thomas and St. Dennis, in Charles?
ton District, where they built an
Episcopal church of brick, which is
still standing, and around which they
are buried. In 1820 old Durand "Wig?
fall bought a summer home in Edge
field, where he died in 1825. His
widow, a gentle, shrinking and de?
votedly pious woman, was left with
three sons and one daughter, Hamp?
den being the eldest. This lady was
the paternal grandmother of my sister.
At college a misunderstanding arose
between Hampden Wigfall and his
intimato friend, young Cogsdale, of
Charleston, another very noble young
man, only 19 years of age. The mis?
understanding turned out to be abso?
lutely trivial, but the lie had been
passed and in those days of extremely
strained chivalry and honor no recon?
ciliation could be effected. The Code
Duello then reigned in its most abso?
lute and pitiless power. The man
who was challenged to fight a duel and
even wavered one second in accepting
it was forever socially damned, brand?
ed, ostracized forever and ever. Young
Wigfall challenged young Cogsdale to
meet him in mortal combat. The boy
of 18 challenged the boy of 19, whom
he loved and who loved him.
They met with all the formalities?
the seconds, the doctors, and the in?
evitable negro attendant?at San Bar
Ferry, near Augusta, before that and
since the most noted duelling ground
in America. Mrs. Wigfall, the wid?
owed mother, and myoid grandmother,
who had also b^fn a widow for two
years, went to Augusta in Mrs. Wig
fall's carriage to be near the scene and
await the result. The mother was
more dead than alive and bordered on
actual lunacy.
The duel was to take place at sun?
down of a summer day. At 5 o'clock
in the afternoon, having sent their
carriage on before to prevent suspi?
cion, my grandmother and Mrs. Wig?
fall crept out of Gen. Glascock'shouse
in Augusta, travelled down the South
Carolina shore of the river on foot,
and hid themselves in a. thick wood
not two hundred yards from the scene
of the duel. They could hear the
sounds, but could sec nothing. The
carriage had been driven by my grand?
mother's old coachman, "Uncle
Watt," and by his side, on the loftly
old-fashioned dickey seat, sat Matilda,
the negro waiting maid. The carriage
could not enter the woods, so it waited
on the outskirts, one hundred yards
off.
Hampden Wigfall fell at the first
fire, killed instantly. The mother
rushed frantically to the scene. The
seconds and doctors were terribly sur?
prised. Such a thing was unheard of
as a woman near a duel. And when
the mother threw herself also upon
the body of his unhappy slayer, for
young Cogsdale. breaking away from
his seconds, had rushed to the body,
thrown himself prostrate upon the
earth by it, wound his arms around it
and was sobbing out like a little child,
and in tones of unutterable anguish.
"Oh, Hammie, Hammie, Hammie 1"
as if trying to awake the dead boy.
My grandmother has often told me
that the cry of the slayer was ten
thousand times more heartrending
than even the cry of the mother. And
then followed a scene of Christian
spirit perhaps unexampled in all his?
tory. The hitherto wild mother calmly
unwound the arms of young Cogsdale,
and lifting him up, kissed him ten?
derly on the forehead and said, with
commingled pity and fervor : "God be
with you, my child; God be with
you ! You will need Him more than I
will, for I willl soon be with Him, I
will soon be with my God and with
my child." And as the seconds led
the weeping boy away she cried out to
him, wringing her hands, "God be
with you, my child. In Heaven Ham?
mie and I will pray for you." It was
now quite nightfall and the twilight
lingered upon the saddest picture that
was ever seen on sea or shore.
In the meantime the wretched moth?
er had overheard the words, "We
must wait for the coroner." Creep?
ing up to my grandmother she whis?
pered in tones of terrible agony, "No
coroner must touch the body of my
child," and then, with what was seen
afterwards to be a woman's and a
mother's cunning, she went twenty
paces away, whither the seconds, the
doctors, Gen. Glascock and the ne?
groes had all withdrawn, to leave her
somewhat alone with her dead, and
begged them all to retire for one hour
to the ferry, a half mile away, that
she might pray beside the body of her
child. Knowing her to be a woman of
deepest and purest piety they quickly
departed, every one of them, to the
ferry.
As soon as they were fairly out of
sight, although a frail and slender
woman, she lifted the body of her
dead boy in her arms and bore it with?
out shaking or staggering or resting a
moment to the carriage at the skirt of
the wood. The carriage was an immense
old-fashioned, round-bodied coach. My
grandmother and Matilda followed
her closely, pressing up in fact to
her very shoulders to catch her if she
should fall. But she did not waver a
moment, and as the carriage came in
view, she ran vigorously towards it.
This was a mother bearing her dead
child away from what she considered
the profauing touch of the coroner.
Delivering the dead body into the
arms of j^atilda and the coachman she
entered the carriage aud seated herself
in acorncr of the back seat; ray grand?
mother followed her and took the obli?
que front corner. Then Uncle Watt
and Matilda lifted in the dead body.
The mother received the head upon
her bosom, while the legs rested upon
my grandmother's lap, and through
the fifteen miles home in the warm,
black summer night, thus they trav?
elled. Home was reached at midnight,
and the bereaved mother laid herself
upon her bed with her dead boy on
her bosom.
On the morrow the ooronordid com?
ply with the legal formalities, but the
mother never knew it. She buried her
boy, ^ standing at his grave without
uttering a cry, and then she went
back to her bed only to leave it, as
she had said on the fatal field, to go
home to her God and her boy. Young
Cogsdale, 19 years of age, left college
and left the State. In his 30th year,
unmarried, with snow-white hair, he
died in Newark, N. J., never, it is
said, having smiled since the hour of
the duel_Simkins.
Dr, Shepards Tea Farm.
To the Editor of the Sunday Neuss:
Following an invitation of Dr. Shep
ard to visit his tea fields, nurseries
and curing house, the iron horse of
the 4 o'clock train wheeled us in forty
minutes to Summerville and fifteen
minutes later we arrived at Pinehurst,
the Doctor's rustic villc and the gov?
ernmental seat of his pet industry,
which considering its recent origin
and present wonderful development,
gives great promise of future success.
Owing to the late hour the Doctor
could this evening only show me his
curing house, where two men were
sitting in the porch preparing cuttings
of the broad leaf and narrow leaf As?
sam hybrid tea, which we saw later
planted in a hot house with artificial
heat under the frames.
In the house he showed me the
baskets with little holes in the covers
in which the children gather the ten?
der leaves from May to October.
These leaves have to be wilted by
spreading them on the floor and on
frames, then they are rolled by an in?
genious, elaborate and costly English
machine called the Little Giant, which
was invented by William Jackson, a
brother of John Jackson, who was at
the head of the first experiment of tea
culture in Summerville. The two sur?
faces of the machine, which have a
complex rotory motion, press upon
each other and have openings with
ridges like human fingers, do the work
which in China is done by human
hands more thoroughly, more evenly
and n turally, much more cleanly,
preserving the pristine aroma of the
leaf, which is bound to suffer from
contact with the human hand. The
Little Giant is a great step forward,
and the difference in the quality of
tea is very great, as proved to me the
next day by comparing its product in
the cup with tea rolled in the primi?
tive way.
Then the tea must be oxydized by
the atmosphere, after which it is car?
ried to the evaporator, then sifted to
get the dust, takko and big leaves out.
Finally the process of firing perfects
the article, which is now ready for the
table.
After supper, over a bottle of most
excellent chablis, the good Doctor
dived into the reminiscences of his
student life at Gottingen, and I was
surprised to find that two of my broth?
ers had studied under the same Prof.
Baum five years before him. Several
interesting episodes of the birth of the
German Empire the Doctor confided
to my ravenous ear, but the recital of
these would spin out my article too
much.
In the morning we rose with the
sun, and after a hearty breakfast the
Doctor carried me to his tea patches,
which he has distributed here and
there as he thinks a field is adapted
and prepared for the culture. "You
see," the Doctor said, "this all is the
broad leaf Assam hybrid, which, I
think, makes the best tea here, but
notice how the plant has improved
without treatment. Look at the coarse,
tough, dark leaf of the mother plant
and now observe the bright, tender,
large pliant leaf of the voluntary shoots
around the root. But even these
leaves are too large and old t'or use.
We can only use these tiny young
leaves at the end of the branches, be?
cause my aim is to produce only the
best tea. In lower grades I could not
compete with the imported article,
which is brought in free of duty,
whereas I had to pay a handsome duty
on the Little Giant rolling machine.
My tea is a perfectly natural product
and will not stain the table cloth like
many of the imported varieties., some
of which are even colored with Berlin
blue. My tea, also holds out better in
strength and is especially adapted for
iced tea. Some of my friends have
told me that my tea goes twice as far
as the imported article. Next year I
hope to produce the famous Mandarin
tea, which in China costs $10 to $25
per pound, and which is only used by
the Mandarin class over there. This
variety can only be produced from the
very tip ends of the tenderest shoots.
You see here this tiny newborn leaflet,
which has not yet unfolded? These
have to be treated with the utmost
care, and finally to be packed in tiny
little bundles wrapped with ribbons
like you do some cigars. This tea is
never exported from China because its
flavor is too delicate and evanescent*
and cannot stand the trip on the sea."
"But, Doctor," I said, "you do not
expect to get $20 a pound for this tea
here?"
"Why not," he answered. "Look
at the elegant dinners and suppers,
given by the wealthy classes at the
North, where often hundreds of dollars
are spent for flowers alone. What
should prevent a lady that wants to
give an afternoon tea from buying a
quarter of a pound of the Mandarin
tea for $5? This will give her fifty
cups of this delicious beverage at the
cost of 10 cents per cup. And once
an aristocratic lady starts the ball
rolling, I shall not be able to satisfy
the demand."
The tea farm has now under culti?
vation twelve acres Assam hybrid,
five acres Ceylon, three acres Chinese,
two acres Indian, one acre Japan.
We next went to a remote field in
the extreme corner of the Doctor's
possession. It was a beautiful sight?
the even bushes, planted like soldiers
in accurate rows, four feet each way,
almost all of the same size, the glossy
foliage glistening in the bright Octo?
ber sun.
"How strange," I said, "that the
plants should thrive so well in a soil
with so much sand. And pray what
are these red lumps?"
"Oh," retorted the Doctor, "this
soil is most excellent for my purpose,
and as to these red clap lumps, they
even contain a little phosphate. '
Dr. Shepard expects to produce this
year four hundred pounds of tea, next
year eight hundred pounds, and so he
hopes to double up year by year, as
new fields get ready for the culture,
till he will have reached five tons of
tea per annum when fifty acres are in
full operation. This will be his maxi?
mum and will prove that tea culture
is practical aud profitable in South
Carolina.
"Quod erat demonstrandum."
Rakso Leiicia.
? All of us have a chance to hear
the word of God; but how many of us
heed it ? It is easier to hear than to
heed ; but heeding is quite as impor?
tant as hearing,
REVISED INSTRUCTIONS,
What the Governor Tolls tbe Constables to
do.
Since the State Supreme Court has
held the State dispensary constitu?
tional and the work of the constabu?
lary has become so much more active
than ever before, Governor Tillman
and his State board of control have
entirely revised the instructions to
constables heretofore in use. The re?
vision has been printed in circular
form a copy to be given each consta?
ble. The circular is headed in large
type : "State Constables.?Their Pow?
ers and Duties." Here is the circular:
"The Constables appointed under
the dispensary law will act only under
that law. They will wear their bad?
ges where they can be seen when
on active duty, but when doing de?
tective work they can conceal their
badges.
"They have the right to exercise all
the common law and statutory powers
of Constables and all authority given
to the police or watchmen by the stat?
utes of the State, and by the charters
and ordinances of incorporated towns
and cities concurrently with such offi?
cers.
"They are specially authorised and
required by the dispensary law 'to seize
without warrant all contraband liquor
while it is being transported or after
its arrival, whether in possession of a
common carrier, depot agent, express
agent, private person, firm or corpora?
tion or association, being in an open
car. or house, or exposed to view. But
persons coming from without the State
carrying liquor as personal baggage,
not exceeding one gallon, shall he al?
lowed to keep the same. But if such is
transparting it for another, and does
not own it exclusively himself, it may
be seized.
"A State Constable may arrest,
without a warrant, for an offense
against the dispensary law oommitted
in his presence, but when he does so
arrest he should at.once carry the of?
fender before a trial justice, and a
warrant sworn out particularly de?
scribing the offense. In all other cases,
when other witnesses are to prove the
facts, he should swear out a warrant'
and arrest the prisoner under it.
"Should any trial justice refuse a
warrant, the Constable will report the
fact immediately and proceed to obtain
one from the next nearest trial jus?
tice so as to make the arrest promptly.
When arrests are made the Constables
will carry the prisoners before the
trial justice issuing the warrant,
and it is the duty of the trial jus?
tice to commit the prisoner to jail or
require sufficient bail. Any trial
justice taking a utraw bond will be re?
moved.
"A warrant must be obtained from
a trial justice of the county in which
the crime was committed. 'If the
criminal leaves his county and goes
into another, the officer should apply
to the trial justice of the latter coun?
ty to endorse the warrant before
he attempts the arrest in the said
county.
"The affidavit should have the sig?
nature of the party swearing, it
out. It is important that the war?
rant should have the seal of the trial
justice.
"This law authorizes the seizure,
without warrant, in all open lots
or all open places, including bars and
stores.
"Whenever they are informed or
suspect that any suspicious package
in the possesion of any common car?
rier contains contraband liquors, they
are required, and have power to detain
the same for examination for the term
of twenty-four hours without any war?
rant or process whatever.
"When a package is detained for
examination, notice should be given
to the agent of such common carrier
of the cause of detention. The inter?
ference of such agent with the Con?
stable, or resistance or obstruction to
him, is punishable by a fine of ?100 or
30 days' imprisonment.
"Constables may search any depot
without any warrant, but express
cars will not be searcned, except by
special permit of the Governor in
writing.*
"For the searching of all places, un?
der Section 22, where liquors are sold,
bartered or given given away, or where
such liquors are kept for sale, barter
or delivery in violation of the law, the
said places not being open nor exposed
a warrant of arrest and a search war?
rant must be applied for, on personal
? knowledge or information and belief,
against the keeper or manager of the
places and his aides and his assistants,
whereupon the trial justice shall is?
sue his warrant to the sheriff or any
special constable, commanding him to
arrest the defendants and bring them
before him ; and shall issue his search
warrant, commanding the search of the
premises and the seizure of all liquors
found therein, and of all the vessels,
bar fixtures, screen, bottles, glasses
and appurtenances apparently used or
suitable for use in retailing liquor,
which said liquors and appurtenances
shall be turned over to the sheriff;
the trial justice, upon the finding of
any of these articles, Bhall send the
case up to the higher court for the
punishment required by law for main?
taining such a nuisance. The trial
justice shall then make out in dupli?
cate all the papers including the re?
turn of the officers, and shall transmit
them to the solicitor of the circuit,
who will apply for the judge at cham?
bers for the injunction. The original
should be returned to clerk of court to
be marked "File," copy or copies
made, the officer serving the order will
show original to defendants and leave
a copy with each of them, and after
making his return on the original
should deposit it with the clerk.
"All contraband liquors must be
disposed of under Section 31.
"A certificate from the State com?
missioner is necessary to ship to him,
unless sent by express. Packages un?
der twenty pounds must always be
sent by express, and no certificate is
needed to ship. Notice of all such seiz?
ures must be made to the Governor,
giving the quantity and name of pack?
age.
"Having contraband liquor in pos?
session is an offense under the law,
and when it is seized the person should
be arrested and tried before a trial
justice under Section 1.
"Constables will study the law and
enforce its various provisions with
vigor.
"Constables will report twice a week
to the Governor or to their immediate
superior.
1 'Constables must be courteous to all
and refrain from use of whiskey on
pain of dismissal."
B. B. Tillman,
Chairman State Board.
? During the Civil War the Con?
federate cruisers captured or destroyed
SO ships, 64 brigs, 84 bargues, 67
schooners, and eight other voxels
flying the American flag.
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
? There are over 20,000,000 fruit
trees in California.
? Norwegians are the most temper?
ate people in the world.
? An inventor has devised a child's
swing which will work the well pump
as the child swings.
? Among the pupils at one of the
public schools in Georgia is a negro
woman 43 years old.
? Sioux Indians, of South Dakota,
sell more than $100,000 worth of grain
to the government every year.
? The robin is always the last bird
to go to bed in the evening. Its eyes
are large, and it can see well by a dim
light.
? John?"I'm beginning to lose
confidence in my friends.' ?Mary?
"Why?" John?"There isn't one of
them that will lend me $5."
? The largest plow in the world is
owned by Richard Gird, of San Ber?
nardino Co.. Cal. This immense sod
turner stands 18 feet high and weighs
30,000 pounds. It runs by steam.
? "When er man smites yer," said
Uncle Eben, "tu'hn de nddah cheek.
Den ef he's mean 'nuff ter tek advan?
tage ob yer Christianity, he deserves
de bes' lickin' yoh knows how ter gib
im.
Rudy's Pile Suppository, is guar?
anteed to cure Piles and Constipation,
or money refunded. 50 cents per box.
Send stamp for circular and Free Sam?
ple to Martin Rijdy, Lancaster, Pa. .
For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, drug?
gists. ? ?
? Some persons are content with a
partial success, but the grand, heroic
and persistent soul wants the fullest
measure of success. With the best
exertions, the happiest results are to
be expected.
? Jinks?Brobson seems to be just
as hard up as ever, though he has
married a rich wife. Filkins?Oh, '
well, that takes time, you know. He
probably hasn't learned how to find
her pocket yet.
? Ethel?Mamma. I saw a sign in
one of the stores to-day that said they
were selling kids at half price. Mam?
ma?Well ? "I thought maybe you
would go down and buy me a little
brother while they were cheap."
? It is stated in some of the papers ..
that astronomers predict for Nov. 12,
1894, the most remarkable configura?
tions of the planets ever known, and
that there is no reason to doubt that
the period will present the phenomena
of earthquakes, floods, tidal waves,
etc., with special violence.
? If other States would follow the
lead of Iowa a vicious class would
soon learn a lesson. One of her
courts recently convicted a man of
sending obscene matter through the
mails, and sentenced him to eight
years imprisonment in the peniten?
tiary and to pay a fine of $4,000.
? For a pain in the side or chest
there is nothing so good as a piece of
flannel dampened with Chamberlain's
Pain Balm and bound on over the seat
of pain. It affords prompt and per
manent relief and if used in time-will
often prevent a cold from resulting in
pneumonia. This same treatment is a
sure cure for lame back. For sale by *
Hill Bros.
? Little Ethel: At the circus I ,
saw a monkey riding a dog, but he
didn't sit up like a man on a horse.
Mother: How did he ride ? Little
Ethel: Oh, he screwed up his legs \
and stooped way over so his head
'most touched the dog's ears. He
looked 'most as funny as a boy on a
bicycle.
? "I couldn't eat all the beans you ?
served me," said a man with a pru?
dent mind to the railway restaurant ,
keeper; "can you m,t make an allow?
ance on the bill ?" "That is against
our rule," replied the bean seller,
"but we can give you a check, ana
you can have the balance next time
you are here." .
? "Why did she refuse him?"
"He thought too much of himself."
"That is better than thinking too
little of himself. I shouldn't think
she would have refused him for that."
"Well, you see, he thinks himself the
best man in the world, and she had
said she wouldn't marry the best man
in the world."
? Sleeplessness in people who work
hard, and especially in brain-workers,
is often due to their working up to the
last minute before bedtime. They
may cure themselves by allowing at
least an hour's interval of case and
repose, between sleep and ceasing to
work. A little light supper will often
aid sleep ; and a walk in the open air
before bed is also a good recipe for
inducing sleep and promoting health.
? Henry Wilson, the postmaster at
Welsh ton, Florida, says he cured a
case of diarrhoea of long standing in
six hours, with one small bottle of
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diirrhma Remedy. What a pleasant
surprise that must have been to the
sufferer. Such cures are not unusual
with thi3 remedy. In many instances
only one or two doses are required to
give permanent relief. It can always
be depended upon. When reduced
with water it is pleasant to take. For
sale by Hill Bros.
? In a Chinese restaurant in Can?
ton, enough dog stew may be purchas?
ed to feed a lot of Coolies for 10 cents.
This is black dog stew, which is bet?
ter than that made from yellow dog.
It is cooked with a tuft of the hair
left on the end of the tail as an evi?
dence of good faith. Cat meat is
higher than dog meat and rat meat
costs less; but tabbies are killed only
to order.
? "One time on a canvass in my
district," remarked- a well-known
member of Congress, "I stopped with
a man who had been a lawyer and a
man of considerable influence ; but he
had foolishly thrown away his success
by taking to liquor and to bad com
r "uy. He knew that he was to blame
?nore than anyone else, and after I left
him to go to bed, I overheard him
talking to his wife, who, womanlike,
still had confidence in him. 'Mary,
he said, 'I might have been a Con?
gressman if I had had some sense.'
'Lor, John,' she replied, encourag?
ingly, 'it don't take sense to be a Con?
gressman.'"
? W. A. McGuire. a well known
citizen of McKay, Ohio, is of the
opinion that there is nothing as good
for children troubled with colds or
croup as Chamberlain's Cough Rem?
edy. He has used it in his family for
several years with the best results and
always keeps a bottle of it in the
house. After having la grippe he was
himself troubled with a severe cough.
He used other remedies without bene?
fit and then concluded to try the chil?
dren's medicine and to his delight it
soon effected a permanent cure. 25
and 50 cent, bottles for sale by Hill