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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-05-04
THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE
TREE.
ny WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

Come, let US plant the apple tree,
Cleave the tough greopsward with the spade
Wide let its hollow bed be made;
Thtre gently lay the roots, and there
Siit the dark mould with kindly care,
And press IT DER them tcndsrly;
As round the sleeping infants feet
We softly fold the eradle-sheet,
So plant wo the apple tree,
What plant we 10 this apple treei
BujF, which the breath OF Summer days
Shall lenglhen into leafy sprays;
Bough,, where the thrash, with crimson breast
Shall haunt anu sing, and hide hor nest;
Weplant upon The sunny lea
shadow for the noontide hour,
shelter from the Summer shower,
When we plant the apple tree.
What plant we In this apple trooi
Sweets for a hundfei Aowery springs
To load the May wind restless wings
when, from the orchard row, be pour
It's fragrance through our open doors
A world Of blossoms for the bee,
Flowers for the sick girls silent room,
For the glad infant sprigs Of bloom,
We plant with the apple tree
What plant we in This apple treo3
Fruits that shall swell in sunny June,
Aud Teaden In the August noon,
And drop, when gentle airs come by,
That ian the blue September sky
While children come, with cries Of glee,
And seek them where the fragrant grass
Botrays their bed to those who pass,
At the foot Of the apple tree.
And when, above this apple tree,
The Winter stars are glittering bright
~ nj fUh 4 ~. g.ks
Girls, whose eyes o'ertiow with mrtb,
Shall peel Its fruit by oOitsge-hearth,
And guests in prouder homes shall see,
Heaped with the grape Of Cihira's yiue,
And golden orange OF the line,
The fruit Of the apple tree.
The iruiiage Of :his spple tree,
Winds, and our iag Of stripe and star,
Shall bear to coasts that lie aiar,
Where men shall wonder at the view,
And ask in what fair groves they grew
And sejOurnets beyond the sea
slall think Of ehildhoods careless day,
And long long hours OF Summer play,
In the shade Of the apple tree
Each year shall give this apple tree
broader tush OF roseate bloom,
deeper maze Of yerdurous gloom,
And loosen, when tho frost clouds lower,
The crisp brown leaves in thicker shower.
The years shall come and pass, but we
Shall hear no longer where we lie,
The Summer songs, the Autumn's sigh,
In the bough Of the apple tree.
Aud time shal waste this apple tree.
Oh, when It's aged branches throw
Thin shadows on the ground below,
Shall iraui aud force and iron will
Cypress the weak and helpless sul'
What shall the task Of mercy be,
Amid the cares, the siriies, the tears
OF those we leave when length Of years
Is wasting this little apple treoi
"Wbo planted this old apple tree p
Tho children Of that distant day
Thus to some aged man shall say;
And, gazing on its mossy stem,
The gray-haired man shall answer taen
"a poet OF the land washe,
Born in the rude but good old times;
Iis said he made some quaint old rhymes
On planting the apple tree"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-05-04

The farmers in Louisiana are giving
their attention TO the cultivation Of
jutc, a plant with a stem from one.hali
inch to one inch in diameter, ten or
twelve feet high, very straight, and
branches at tho top. The bark, is
fibrous, like that Of hemp or flax, and
II is the fibre that is used. The seed
is sown in March or April and il may
be cut in juno, July or August. 1t is
best to cut il when it begins to blossom,
as the fibre is then better than when
the plant is older After being cut the
stems are stepped in water until the
fibre separates easily from the stems.
1t is then prepared for the loom in a
manner similar TO that IN which flax
is prepared, only the stems are not
dried and broken. Juto is used TO
make coarse cloth, mating, gunny,
coffee sacks, and like articles. 1t is
not good for ropes, as it cannot stand
the weather To cultivate it is light
work, and the yield is wonderful.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-05-04

"Drunk again, eh p said tho Magis.
trate, contracting his brows and look.
ing very severely at the prisoner. "Yis,
yer honor" candidly returned Pat, al
was afthcr splitun' wood at yer honor's
house, and the Teddy asked wud | take
suthin. j will, says |, and TUX two
glasses, but if | had known yer honor
kept such bad liqour, pon me sowl, 1
wuldnt have TUX but wan"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-05-04

A young fellow in Audubon county,
La, recently defended himself in a
breach of promise suit on the ground
that contract entered into on Sunday
night was not legally binding. Hc
won bis case.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-05-04

A SOLID FAoT.- Aunt Matilda is
good deal exercised at the lack Of
judgment displayed in newspaper ad.
vertising. She says she is a pretty
close observer il she is woman, and
che has noticed that the storekeepers
who are always overrun with custom.
ers and doing Gourishing business
and who don't seem to need any ad.
vertising are just the ones who always
do advertise, while those who have no
trade and need to advertise never do
So Boston Globc.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-05-04

Corn is the worst Of all cereals. No
matter how fruitful 1t Is, il is only
grown to have its ears pulled.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-05-04

The idle should not be classed with
the living; they are sort Of dead
men that can't bo buried.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-05-04
THE
EsTABLIs HE'D IN Is2I.

Terms Of Subscription.
=, maid in advance, or within 5 mOnths.ms2 90
n paid after 8 and before months-"..," 2 so
# paid after the expiration of months. . 90
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

The crime, the sequel Of which titus
furnished wss ono of the most brutal ever
perpetrated 10 this State, and had it's
authors met their death Ut the hands Of
tho law 20 sympathy would have been
wasted on them. L. S. Laprade was q
worthy bachelor farmer, living on his farm
near Sadd!ersville, about seventeen miles
from Springfield, and the Impression was
general throughout the ucighborhood that he
was very wealthy, aud that no kopt great
deal Of money concealed in bic house. lie led
asort Of hetmit life, and tho reportwus cur.
tent just before the murder that he and his
brother had tallep heir to $4,000, his
share Of which no hud secured aud
kept With him in his house. This ruuor
was the temptation to the brutal murder
which hss just been cxpiatcd o. the
night Of September 8. 1880. pinc negroes
prowled around Laprsde's house until they
felt sure that nobudy but hiusolf was at
hone, and then approaching the door
cautiously knocked. 10 L,pradc's question
ny to who wanted him one Of tho negroee,
Initiating the voice Of L,prsde's brother,
succeeded in inducing the farmer TO open
the door. No soouer hnd he done go than
was dragged out into the yard, where the
nine men act upon him md kicked and
pounded him without mercy demanding
his money. He gave the,u IS protesting
that it was all the mnnay which he had, but
they refused to ,uke his word. and hanged
him to tree uotil nearly d. ad when tley
took him down aud again demanded money.
Upon his giving the same answer they
hanged him pgain until life Was nearly gone.
aud then failing tn gain their purpose, they
mu'ilaied his budy in shocking mnnner
with knives. aud dragged him ubaut the
yard by the rope, which vas fastened to his
neck. Finally ono of the brutes seized on
an sxc in fie Of rage and crushed the
skull Of Laprude, thus mcrcifully putting
M end to his misery The body was then
hidden in n thickct but two days after the
butchers removed il and threw it into sink
hole twenty feet deep.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10
James, Is That Your"

Women arc timid orcstures, and hate to
be left 10 house alone at night, 80, when
Mr. Gallagher W. Mt away fron home, leaving
his wife With onlv an iguors scrvaut, she
was sery much worried, und readi!y hark>
ened to the voica Of an agent who called
just utter Gallagher had gone around the
corner, aud wanted to sell her machine
whioh would. prevent burglars from gettiug
ioto ehouse. She bought three. Those
placed at tre front aud back doors we're 80
arranged that, when the duor was opened,
hammer would strike down from above and
knock down the person trying to enter. a
third contrlvanoo Of dffsreut pattern was
placed on tho stairs aud another at the
front window Gallagher unexpectedly re-
turued late that uight, and, attempting to
enter the front door, got blow on the nose
thai Knocked '.im down the steps into the
street. He was both surprised snd anuoycd
at the circumstances. end, utterly unable TO
understand it, tried the door aguin Same
result. l1o then thought somebody was
behind the door trying to assussinate bim,
aud, getting up very mad, run GROUND to
the back door to get in that way. Then
he got tLump that seut him back into tho
swi'I- burrel, aud he was terribly cross when
he got up. lie grabbed sn AK aud, us he
opened tho door again struck with it. But
he hit nobody, and got another knock
dQ&n. Then he went and got a policeman,
so that ono could tackle each door, aud one
10 sure to get in; hut after both had en-
j"yed three knock downs they met unA
compared notes. and decided that two tncn
must te 10 the house. They then tried the
front windcw. and, raising it. u delugc OF
10y water from hose arranged to bring it,
flew upon theu,. But they bruvcd thai
and got in Then they rsnsucked the lower
part of the house. hut could fiod nobody,
aud n"oDtiWe Mra. g., up stairs, heard
them, ADD nearly died Of fright They
STATED up stairs, Gallagher first, aud usu,
the top stair, fixed on pivot, rolled rnde,
Gallagher aud hurled hin, backward ani he
went to the bottom, taking the policeman
with him. they 10th yelled. but GslIae her
yelled the lnudest nnd biz wife recognized
hia v"ice aud his fuvo,ite oath Her cour-
age returned She went to the head nf
tho stairs aud cried: "Jnmes is that yon?''
Ismes was pnufuI'y hurt and awful mad
then, and the policeman was trying to ret
back the breath Gallagher had .quashcd
out of him. "Nu,' cried james, "it's not
NE; it'a come other fellow. jim G,Iayh"r
was never knocked down .avenlren times
10 Que night" But she knew it was he, aod
explained matters. Aud then Gallagher
gave the policemao $40 to say nothing
about the matter. and the officer retire d;
md then Gallagher jawed his wife for two
hours. and the next day went seven miles
I" overtake the man who sold her the ma
chimes and Kicked the life nearly out Of him.
lie admits that the things would he dread
fully disoourog'ng to burglar, though.
Botson Post.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10
Poor Pay, Poor Teach.
From tho Columbia Register. |

Pay for good teeobers end you'll get
them. Starve out your tenohers with three
months salary to support theu for twelve
months in tho year and what right has a
reasonable being to expect fret class
service?
1t is like aome business houses that turn
off their clerks when business is dull, aud
expeot to whistle up efficient service when
1t is wanted. All this sort of means do
feats itself 10 tho long run. for tho man
who has not tho backbone to do the clover
thing in pinch will be moan as the mean.
est With opportunity, end it don't take the
people ioug to track him by his known
footprints. But tho meanest of all things
is to ohrot tho poor children of tho Srate
out of the means Of getting an education
whilst we are going through the tuotion of a
graud school system.
We say to the people of the State, if you
wapt these childrcu educated have the
oanliness to foot the bill Aud if not, ct
least have the pluck to soy so. We be
ieve there is but one wish in the State os
to this mItter, und that the people are per-
fectly willing to pay for good. well managed
schools. There are u plenty of good
teachers in the State who can give our
children the hest Of education, without a
single moukey show in it. That is whut
we want aud will have, and what ,h,
Register proposes to Gght for to the end
of the chupter, or 90 dawn with the motto
at its mas,head: Education to all, in the
best and most eoduriDg interest of all
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

@. j. SToLBRaND VERSUS D. WYATT
AIKEN-Col. Orsille U Calhoun, n promis
uenl member of the Abbeville bar, was iu
tho city yesterday on his return home from
attendance in Oconce aud Pickens coun-
ties Us counsel for the defendant 10 the
above case Col Calhoun gives tho follow
ing statement of the stutus quo: 10 Rich
land and Newberry couotics tao cxsmina
ton Of witnesses proved unsatisfactory to
the StolSrand side aud re examination ut
both these points is to be hold. Col Cal.
hnun has, however, no apprehension that
this second attempt will prove any more
surcesstul than the former The testimony
taken 10 Pickens aud Oconco Counties
amounted to uo;hing In Atbeville county
the testimony olicited was more satisfactory
to tho SloIhrand party, hut its rebu,tsl
under the fire Of GROSS examination very
heavily discounted it's value. Col. Calhoun
has intnruntioo from trustworthy source
that Stolbrand's nlain efurt nov ,a to obtain
sufficient evidence to secure more ti,ue, his
ult'mate purpose being to get utlid wits rom
every individual voter iu tho congressional
district how he voted. No apprehension
is entertained Of the unseating of COL
Aiken. Col Evins has no contestant, but
the opinion generally, sAys Col Calhoun,
is that Alessrs. Richardson, rilman and
O'Connorwill lose their seats.
TGrrcnyiWe News, 3d.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10
IMpoRrANcE OF WATERING

IMPORTANCE OF WATERING
sTocK.-For the purpose Of de-
tcrmining the capacity of a horse
to undergo the privations incident
to a state Of seige, a series Of ex-
periments has been made in Paris.
The results show that horse may
hold out for twenty-five days with
oQt any solid nourishment, provid-
ed it is supplied with good drinking
water; that a horse can subsist for
barely five days without water;
and thirdly, if a horse is well fed
for ten days, but insufficiently
supplied with water throughout
this period, it will not outlive the
eleventh day. A horse which had
received no solid nourishment for
twelve days was nevertheless in u
condition to draw load of 600
pounds on the twelfth day of it's
fast.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

B. F. Crayton, State Senator
of South Carolina, about five years
ago got man and his wife from
Castle Garden to work on his farms
in Anderson county. The next
season he brought out their chill
dren, and eight other immigrants
from Germany. The following
season he brought out fifteen or
twenty other families. He has at
present about twenty of them I'M
his employment, and there are,
perhaps, as many moro working
for his neighbors. He says they
are the very class needed in South
Carolina, and there is room for
thousands of them.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

A TRUTHFUL MANA flat.footed, old
fashioned Western merchant, hailng from
a country store in Michigan, was buying
stock in New York, and the firm took
advantage of the occasion to make inquiries
concerning some of their customers around
him. When they asked about Smith, of
Cashville, he replied:
"Smith! Yes, he's in trade yet, but he's
just married second wife, and she's going
through bis wealth like saltpeter. He'll
fail in less'n six mouths.
"How about Jones, of your town."
"Joncs! Well, Jones is pegging along
after tho old style, and he's bought him q
bicycle, and everybody soys ho'll go to the
wall 10 year"
"Aud Brown & sou--aro they all
right?"
"Browu 6 Sou2 Wall, they may keep
till spriug, but doubt it. Old Brown has
got 80 near-sighted that he can't tell
sheep pclt from coon skin, and the boy is
dead stuck on widow woman who never
wears anything less than So stookings."
"But Davis is doing good trade, isn't
hc?"
"Davis! Wall, pooty fair, but he won't
last. He rented the upper part of his
store to Chicago milliuer, and she broke
up two families aud caned preacher
Everybody blames Davis, and his sales last
week only footed up pound Of saleratus
and a wash board"
"WelI, you are the only customer out
there, aud of course, you are ell right"
"Me! Wall, I'm all right just now, but
things may change My wife belongs to
three literary societies aud is tho big toad
at church festivals, while I've bought 2:40
trotter and learned to play old sledge. You
needn't be surprised any day to hear that
I've been busted from garret to cellar; so
clean that creditors can't fnd enough dry
goods to wipe baby's nose on.''
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

ARITHMETIC BY INVERSE RAr1o--~-
"John, take this slate, you rascal, and work
out this sum: II cat falls in into we'll
sixty feet deep and orawls out six feet each
day, falling back eight feet every night,
how much time would the cat require to
got out of tho well7
John set to oiphering aud covered both
sides Of his slate with figures, then, plao.
ing one edge Of the slate on his knees aud
resting hid chin on tho other, he gased into
vacancy.
"Well, John, how about the cot?
"Father, amt got no more room on nv
slate, but if I had smother square I'd have
that cat 10 h.-l in three minuteB."
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10
Rradatraat,a nharlo.on aorposno.ao.

Bradstreet's Charlston correspondent
writes "That cotton factories will pay in
the South can scnrccly be doubted, when
the management ia skillfull and economical !
spd tho eituation favorable That it is'
.ohespor to bring tho mills to the cotton
than to sopd tho cotton to the mill, is
proven by tho fact that tho cotton mills
now in operation in this State and Georgia
will pay from twelve to fifty por cent. dlvi-
dends Moreover, tho whole of the ospi-
tal investcted in manufactures 10 this State
is exempted from State, county and mupio-
ipal taxation for ten years"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

There are some very straightforward
people in Galveston. Ono of them wene
up into the Nc,os Office, aud sauuteriug up
to the desk, asked:
III hear that the Bible has been revised.
DO you know of any important changes
that have been nader"
"a good many, believe"
"Ihen, there is no mistake about Ana
MAS being struck dead for lying?"
"No, believe not"
"Well, if was you I would fud ous
about it," and he strolled out as unoop-'
oernedIy as you please.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

Before the Legislature of West
Virginia are the signatures Of
about 10000 people, representing
every part of the State and every
variety of religious creed and faith,
appended to petitions praying for
the submission to the people Of an
amendment to the State constitu-
ton forever prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of intoxicating
liquors except for medicinal, me-
chanical and scientific purposes.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10
The House Of Representati,

The House Of Representatives
of Arkansas has adopted joint
resolution, by a vote of &C to II,
proposing an amendment to the
Constitution prohibiting tho sale
of liquor in the State.
The Senate Of that State has
adopted a joint resolution, by lS to
5, settling the proper pronunciation
ofthe name Of the State-they say
it is Arkansaw.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

A sensible writer, who knows
how it is, says: GLOW often it is the
"wot spell and the "dry spell'' get
the credit Of bringing about short
crops; when the ''iazy spell'' and
the "extravagant spell" had as
much to do with tho short crop as
the weather did. Apply the rem
edy this year. Begin to econo-
misc--but don't begin by stopping
your paper and feeding your
preacher OH "husks."
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

There are two ways that will cure the
worst memory. One of them is to read
subject when interested; the other is not
only to read, but to think. Whom you havo
read paragraph or page, stop, close the
book and try to remember tho ideas of the
page, and not only call them voguely to
mind, but put them in words and speak
them out. Faithfully follow these two
rules and you will have che golden keys Of
knowledge.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

TREATMENT OF DIpHrmERIA. Take from
two TO i've p,,ns of cblora,c Of pornsh, put
IL for bnck cn the tnngue, allow it to melt
gradually. aud repeat every hour nntii u
decided Improvement takes place. which is
usually 10 few hours. Que of the best
plans of treatment il the following: Chic
rate Of potassia, 2 drnohms; hot water, 6
ounces; alcohol, d drachms; creosoto, 8
drops; muriatc aoid, 80 drops This is
to be used as gurglo every thirty min
utes loternslly using the foIIowiug
Ch'orate Of potassa. 8 drachns; water, 6
onuces; sugar, ounce; tinoture Of nuri-
alto ooid, 2 draohws Dose--a teaspoonful
every four hours. 1t is claimed that the
above treatment will ours nineteen cases out
Of twenty.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

PoRT ROYAL, s o., Maroh 1.-The
Man',ou House ut this place was burned at
2 o'clock this morning. Loss $4,000, GOV
cred by insurance. The fire originated
accidentally. The wind being westerly
OF tho time saved the town from dcstruc-
ton
Tho conrt house at Beaufort, 8: @, was
destroyed by fro this morning. The
records were saved. The loss ia estimated
OF $5 900.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10
The Country Boys.

."The boys ere coming home to morrow"
!. Thus our rural hostess said;
While Lou and exchanged quick glances
Full Of mingled fear and dread.
Had we hither come for quiet,
Bither fed tho city's noiso,
But to change it for the riot
OF those horrid country boys?
Waking one with loud hollooiug
&c. Early every summers day,
Shooting robins. tensinR kittens,
Frightening tho wrens awsy.
wrote these lines one happy summer;
To-day l a,Dile to read them DER,
Remembering how with anxious faces
Wo watched al! duy the opening door.
They came "tho boys" six feet in statue,
GrucefuI. easy. polished men;
Vowed to Lou, behind my knitting,
Do trust 90 mothers word again.
For boyhood is a thing immortal,
Az each fond mother will agree;
And snus are "boys" to her forever,
Change as they may to you aud INC.
Now by the window, still aud sunny,
Warmed by the rioh Ootober glow,
The dear old lady waits aud watches,
just as she waited years ago.
For Lou and I are now her daughters-
We married "those two country boys,"
In spite of all our cad forcbodinps
About their awHward ways and noise.
Lou aprirgs up to meet football,
list NO more for cunning feet;
Mother and | ure waiting longer
For steps 90 Bculah's golden street.
But when she blesses Louis beloved,
And aesls it with tender kiss,
know that loving words 20 upward,
Words 10 another world than this.
Alwuys she epeaks iu gentle fashion
About "my hoys'-she always will;
Though one Ia gray and one hns vanished
Beyond tho reach of time or ill.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-10

THE BANK ROBBERY CAsE.-Mr. G..
Frazer Wilson, the man who robbed tho
First National Bank Of Charleston last
week Of something over ten thousand
dollars in honds, has had his bond reduced
from $40 900 to 5000. This was done by
Judge Mackey, mainly on tho certificate Of
his attending physician that he not been in
his right mind for somc timo before the
robbery wss comitted.