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The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20

oHcHc: Salu Cue Olu ulGn, is WnarI
Johns sin begun. IF he had
stopped right there it would have
been all right, but like asfool hs
went on and on to dgstruetion. Is
Well, John wasn't such 4 dread
| ful Sinner after all for he wanted
the money to buy something to
please the old folks. But money
don't come that easy very often.
| know q man who has been kept
on q strain for five years working
out Of his losses on cotton futures.
Sometimes luck runs along with
man f." EN- years and more and
that ma - him vain and he thinks
his judgement is infallible and
suddenly he collapses like Seney
and Emo Kecnc. No money is
safe except that made by honest
men.
The rewards Of labor arc mighty
good and sure. Here l set in my
piazza and lock over my farm and
see the wheat and the oats all in
q strut and waving SO beautiful in
the breeze and / feel proud and
serene for l sowcd that wheat my
self anl helped to prepare the
land and it is my wheat and my
oats and come honestly and WASH ii
made out Of somebody else, and it|
does me good to cut q few choice
heads and bunch 'em and take 'cm
TO town and show the folks what
[ can do. 1t beats money made
by luck all to pieces, and 50 does
walking in my garden and dig
.ging the potatoes planted and
working them ever so nice and
bringing them in The house to
show to my wife anil hear her say,
they ale very fine She never
says much on that line, she don't,
but little goes Il great way with
me. She never indulges in rapt-
urc, ,sha never uses adjcctives to
any excess, such as lovely, exqui-
site, splendid and the like, but |
know what she thinks about any
thing just as well rs if she did.
I'm going to get her mess Of
raspberries to-day, the first Of the
season, and I'll surprise her with
EN- at dinner time. She likes that.
Women like these little thought
full attentions. They are like oil
cn the axeltree, and makes the ma
chihery run smooth. Bat then
there ought to be little money
to mix up with such things. MoH-
ey is good domestic lubricator
itself. a man feels more like a
gentleman with some change in
his pocket, and he ought to always
have a dollar or 50 just to feel Of
1t stiffens him up and keeps him
from feeling like q vagabond. And
women wants some too. When a
Ipedlar comes along with tinware
or a wagon load Of jugs or the
Gypsies come along with lace or
the book agent comes along with
pictures, and besides it is such a
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20


biggest thing Iknow Of. But mon
ey ought. to be hard to get, so that
it's real value may be appreciated
money has to be earned to be
prized, IF it is inherited or drawn
in a lottery Or won at games OF
chance or. found round in the road
or obtained by lucky speculations
in stocks or bonds or cotton fu-
lures, it goes at discount. 1t is
undcryalued and don't stick to a
man long. A fortune gained in q
year rarely sticks to anybody
Luck is a right good thing when
it follows along with labor and
honesty, but luck by itself is de-
ceiver. Trust to luck' is the dew
lis maxim. I know hard work
ing man who was SO anxious to
get ahead that he stintcd his fam
ily and invested part Of his earn
ings in the Louisiana lottery for
five years and never drew but ten
dollars. He told me he had lost
five hundred dollars that way, and
every time he saw the list publish
cd Of the lucky numbers and read
about the lucky men who drew
thctprizes it fred him np and he
tried it again. som etimes ] wish
Uncle Jubal and General Beaure-
gard would tote fair and publish
Z list Of them fellows who didn't
draw anything, But | reckon that
would be SO long and occupy so
many columns in the newspapers
they couldn't afford it.
1t is just human | know to want
more money than we have cot, es-
pecially if we are hard run and
living on q strain. I want more
myself, and if | was to tinl a hum
dred dollars in the road I couldn't
hclp hoping that the owner would
never miss it, and never call for it.
Just like a boy who finds q pock-
ct knife and feels like it is his, but
that sort of money is not as solid
and satisfactory as money we
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20

BASE BALL AS SEEN BY A GrRr,.-
A girl notion Of the national game
is called off pretty accurately by
the letter Of a young city lady to
her girl chum in the country. You
must visit me-, she wrote, when
the base ball season opens. There
is 50 much skill and grace display
ed. The pitcher, think but, my
you never saw game,I will ex-
plain it to you. The pitcher~-a
dear little thing stands in the
middle and throws ball ut anoth-
or who stands in front WIN !, long
stick in his hand. The thrower
tries to hit his stick, and the other
young man, who IS called the
knockcr, tries to swing the club
that it will be impossible for the
thrower to hit the stick with tile
ball. Some Of the knockers be-
come very good at this, and some
Of the darings could stand there
and never have their clubs hit once.
The catcher stands behind the
linockcr, and is just too brave for
anything. We girls think he is
the incest one IN every club.
think the catchers are very cute
and heroic. Merchants Traveller.
-Fhc New York Herald insists
that the proposed repeal Of tffe
brandy excise tax is a dclusion and
a snare. 1t attempts to reason
with the farmer thus: 1t is not
only proposed to free from tax
brandy that is made from peaches,
tplums and such fruits, but also
that which is made from grapes
the chief source of this liquor 50
that for every farmer who might
be relieved Of six or seven dollars
Of tax there would be a wine-ma-
ker who would be saved his thous-
ands. That is to say, the repeal
Of the tax would build up q few
very large establishments and cre-
ate monopo!ies, but give no real
benefit to the farmer himself. =
There would be offered many op-
portunities for fraudulent practi-
ccs, and this reason alone ought to
be sufficient to condemn the propo-
silion.
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The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04
Buffers Position.

The Worcester County Demo-
crat, published at Gardner, Massa-
chusetts, defines Gen. b. T. But
ler's position in the presidential
campaign as follows:
Gen. Butler believes a longer
continuance in power of the Re.
publican party will be dangerous
to the coutry, and he will take
whatever course appears to him
most likely to defeat the Rupubli-
can party. He viii run for Presi-
dent, and in Republican and
doubtful States there will be a
hearty union OF the Butler and
Democratic electoral tickets, in
order to weaken Blaine.
"The democrats have nothing to
fear at the hands OF Gen. Butler.
He is at heart their friend, and he
never leaves G friend in the lurch
Don't worry. Butler will be
found O. K. He may use politi-
cal strategy, but he will not prove
false"
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04
Is It CanEis..Iisnag Y

There is hardly a newspaper in
the country that has net, withinthe
last few weeks, charged the mem
bers Of tie Greely expedition with
being canuibals. This has either
been done directly OF implied in
the sensational headlines
which attract attention
to articles which give the
details Of the horrible story.
While there is every reason to be-
lieve there is more or less of truth
in every assertion made in regard
to the expedition, the question
arises If it is right to heap calum-
ny upon them by branding them
as cannibals. The definition of
cannibals, according to Webster, is
ga human being that eats human
flesh" but the true signlfcation Of
the word "cannibal'' is one who
eats human flesh because he pre-
fers it and makes a feast upon it
seeks for it and kills men to get it
for that purpose. Taking for
granted that every rumor circulat-
ed about the eating Of human flesh
be true, there is nothing that ap-
plies to Q case of this kind. Then,
when some Of the Greely party
were drived to the terrible resort
of eating the flesh Of their dead
comrades, is it right to brand that
act as cannibalism when compell-
ed under such appalling circum-
stances? The use of the word is
q cruel misnomer. It is the differ
ence between the sanguinary saw
age appetite that riots in feasting
on human fesh and blood and the
frightfm hrnger that compels
starving men to seize upon any
thing within reach that promises
to sustain life.
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04
Offered TO Pay His Way.

Albany News and Advertiser.
Some of the darkies have ex-
pressed much bitter feelings to-
ward the two white military or
CARNATIONS Of Albany since the
latter went over to Dawson to aid
the civil authorities in case the
negroes undertook to carry out
the threats they had made to res
cue George Jones, the negro
rapist, who was hung on Monday;
and on Tuesday night certain
one who appears to think that it
would be hard for the white peo-
pie Of The community to get along
without him, said to a prominent
real estate owner Of the city that
he believed he would leave this
part Of the country; that it was
getting so negro could not live
here, etc, yes" said he, I'm
gwine ter leave this part Of de
country jest as soon as 1 can get
enough money"
"Well, sir" said the matter-of-
fact old citizen to whom these re-
marks had been made, "just pick
out your place say where you
want to 60, and the lack OF money
shan't keep you. I'll pay your
way to any part Of the United
States"
"Yes, but dar's my family; I
don't want to leave dem" said the
dissatisfied darkey.
"Well, you can carry them
along with you; I'll pay their way,
too. Just say where You want to
go, anu II pay the way OF you
and your whole family"
But the darkey didn't accept
the LIBERAL offer, nor is he gong to
do it, for he very well knows that
he is doing better right here than
he could do anywhere else in tbs
yorld,
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04
An Albany Man in Dawson.
News and Advertiser.

News and Advertiser.
A certain clever gentleman who
went over to Dawson VITA our mil
itery companies on Monday morn
ing, but who is not o member of
either company, went into a bar
room, and, leaning over the coun-
ter, asked the mixologist if ne had
any real good whisky.
ooh, yes, sir; we keep the best
in town.
well, let me have little with
some sugar and water"
you belong to the Albany
Guards, don't you| asked the bar
keeper as he reached for a bottle
Of old rye.
"Who, me? Ah-oh yes; / be-
long to the Guards" answered the
citizen, as the thought struck him
that he was going to get the best
in the shop, and, perhaps, without
paying for it.
"Well, sir, I am very sorry"
said the young man, as he laid the
bottle back, "but / can't sell you
any liquor to-day; the Captain Of
the company asked me not to let
any Of his men have any whisky"
The look of disappointment
which came over the face of the
thirsty citizen as lie turned to 60
in search Of another saloon, and
inwardiy swore at himself for the
blunder he had made, can be bet
ter imagined than described.
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04
Hair Growing on a Bullet.
oi'sYiIle Journal /

fot'syiIle Journal
Henry Matthews, OF Pottsville,
VINO was a member of Company
L. Eorty-eighth Pennsylvania
'olQnteers, was wounded in the
mead at Cold Iarbor in 1864 The
, p"Il entered the back part of the
1'au and was taken out little
SO0ye the forehead on top Of the
l7aa' Ills skull was pretty badly
'dctured, but the man recovered.
\, Ihe bullet was retained by Mr..
n-l"''Aews, ~ and is perhaps one of
'ue most wonderful curiosities in
et'S''nco. "a 1t has the appearance
" aye and somewhat resembles a
Clam u she'll. At the back end of
we ball a bunch of black hair has
E o0H growing for years. AT one
s',no the hair had attained a
81, slu"th of fully one inch. The
i'llc Jl was exhibited at the Phila-
"slphl@ osIn and Reading depot re
Wr'jy Wr by George Rain, a clerk in
wbo ,, smith $ Office. Mr.. Matthews
Co rao Is employed by the Reading
sJ sSJT@e}RGany e}RGn at Pottsyille, was offer.
to 10 aaa SlVV Tor the ball but refused
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04
A SQIRREL STORY.
With a Piece Of Bark for Boat
and His Own Tail for Sail,
a Squirrel Crosses the
Raging Kinchafoonee.

Everybody in Albany knows
Peter Strozer, Peter is a good
boy. For two years before he
went to Chan Jones' drug store
he served in the capacity Of car
rier boy and printers devil in the
News and Advertiser office, where
he was taught to always tell the
truth the only difference between
him and the Father of his Coun-
try being that the immortal G..
W., as we are told, "could not tell
a lie" while Peter could if he
would, but he wouldn't. Such
Was the reputation that Peter
bore when he left the News and
Advertiser Office, and il he has
ever departed from the training
he received while learning the
art preservatiye" in his early
youth it must be attributed to evil
associations since he went to roll
ing pills. But to the squirrel
story which Peter tells.
Chan Jones was telling a big
yarn the other day, and that re-
minded Peter of a circumstance
which he says he witnessed with
his own eyes, and which, after
obtaining the floor from Chan, he
proceeded to tell as follows;
you know where the old mill
used to be at PQlmyra?"
yes" said a bystander.
"Well, sir, once, long time
ago, me and another fellow were
on the creek down below the mill
piece, and We saw a cat squirrel
come to the edge Of the water on
the other side. After awhile he
went off into the bushes and then
came back with big piece Of pine
bark in his mouth. We watched
him to see what he was going to
do, and, sir, first thing we knew
he laid the bark in the edge of
the water, got on it, hoisted his
tail for a sail, and went sailing
across the creek. He just sailed
across as pretty as anything you
ever saw"
"But, Peter, interrupted an in
credulous listener, "the Kincna-
foonee is big creek, and the cur
rent is pretty swift just below the
old mill"
"Well, I don't care if it is, I
reckon he could have steered
with one Of his hind feet, conldn't
he? There amt no use talking,
it's a fact, gentlemen; I saw it
with my own eyes, and it's the
truth whether you believe it or
not"
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04
BONNER BUYS THE MARE.
MaudS Passes in to the Ledger Sta
bles.

Trrf, Field and Farm publishes
the following:
Probably no prominent man ev-
er paid another prominent man SO
marked compliment as w. Fl.
Vanderbilt has just paid Robert
Bonner. ''Maud S." as all intelli-
gent hersemen know, has the fast
est record OF any trotting horse
in the world. She is the only ami
nal that has trotted mile in less
than 2:l0. Her record is 2:93.
This figure, a few years ago, was
deemed beyond the reach OF a trot-
ting horse. Vanderbilt was lately
offered 100000 for the great
chestnut, but he declined it,
preferring to sell her for less than
half OF that sum to Bonner, who
he knew, would not trot her in
public races. Last Friday Mr..
Vanderbilt sent friend expressly
from Saratoga to inform Bonner of
these facts, and on Saturday Mr..
Bonner sent his brother David up
to Saratoga to confer with Mr..
Vanderbilt. The result was that
Mr.. Bonner purchased the mare
on Monday evening, paying $40,-
900 for her. OF the seven great
trotters who, in succession, have
broken tha record, Flora Temple,
Dexter, Goldsmith's Maid, Rarus,
st. Julien, Jay Eye See, and Maud
S. Bonner now owns three of
them, Dexter, Rarus. and Maud S.
What a trio. Bonner was asked:
Suppose Jay-Eye-See should
beat the Record Of Maud s., what
would you do then?"
His answer was Characteristic:
Bay him too, if 7 could, or put
Maud S. into training at some
good track like Charter Oak at
Hartford, and give the puplic a
free exhibition Of speed"
MR.. BoNNER's PURPOSE.
Mr.. Bonner said he thought that
he would keep the mare for q few
days for road purposes, and then
he would send her to one of his
farms and put her in training
Then he would give a public exhi-
bition with her to show what she
can do in beating his record Of
2:09$. He said she could trot in
2:08 or 2:07 and he intended to
satisfy himself as to her speed.
He would never allow Maud S. to
trot for money, or even for a prize.
Il Jay-Eye-See beat Maud SIS
time, he would try to beat him.
He did not enter into any formal
agreement with Vanderbilt to keep
Maud S. out of the matches for
money, but he presumed that Van
derbilt knew his word well enough
to be sure he { (Bonner) would do
nothing of the kind.
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04
Desperation of a Father at the Grave
OF His Murdered Boy.

Gatesvill, Tex, August 25. =
Reports Of q triple killing, which
occurred yesterday some twenty
miles in the country, reached here
this evening. 1t seems two boys
named Graham and Hewlett,
neighbors' sons quarreled recently.
Graham was stabbed and killed
by his companion. Sunday even
ing Mr.. Graham, of the firm of
Collins, Graham, & Co, father of
the murdered boy, walked into the
cemetary to mediate beside his
sons freshly-made grave. Graham
was surprised at finding young
Hewlett, the companion and slay-
er, standing with his father be-
side young Graham's grave. The
elder Graham, incensed at what
he considered their intrusion, an
grily ordered the young man to
leave the spot threatening to kill
him unless he obeyed. Instead Of
quitting the grave and the camete-
ry Hewlett and father insaltingly
replied to Graham, and drawing
their pistols called upon the latter
to defend himself. Graham fired,
killing young Hewlett. The two
fathers then fought terrible duel
over yoang Graham's grave. The
men were close to one another, and
several shots were exchanged.
Both fell mortally wounded, and
died before they could be removed
from the cemetery. Friends ar
rived on the scene too late to sep
arate the contestants.
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04
written for the Dawson JOURNAL
curoestion for Checking the Desc
Grafton of Graves.

Uo know of only a few cases OF
Graves having been robbed fol
O. oak, of ransom. The frequent
oos Of this most sacriligious
loads are traced to men,
'l,ho u in newspapers, are
;l,nifed as "body-snatch-
'lo 9.'9 " in order to supply the wants
# medical colleges. Anybody
rbo has an idea of the science of
surgery will admit that without
nroctical experiments a student
cannot become a surgeon and as
essential as law-books are to the
LAWYER, so are dead bodies for the
medical student. So long as no
nrovision is made to supply this
want in colleges, so long body
spatchers will be heard from.
It strikes my mind, forcibly,
that colleges could be supplied
with dead bodies in a legitimate
uav, and my suggestion for it IS
rather in the following question:
Is it not in the power of legis-
lotnre to enact a law that the
bodies of those condemned to be
hing should be made useful for
medical students? IF to myself
7 should say, emphatically, yes,
yes, yes! and no sentimentality
should deter me from arguing
tbps: If the body belongs to the
law while alive, the law which
takes the life shall have tie right
to dispose Of the dead body, and
what better disposition could be
made than the one herein suggest
ed. What good results such a
law would bring about [ leave for
the calm reflection of those who
are shocked when reading GRAVES
robbed by body-snatchers."
In connexion with these lines is
the hesuggestion of having private
hangings. A criminal hung be-
fore a large crowd-no matter
how distardly his crime becomes,
in the eyes of the ignorant masses,
not only a hero of the day, bat a
future saint" jumping straight
up into heaven.
II. BECHTER.
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04
A Blessing To Al Mankind.

In these times when our newspa-
pers are flooded with patent medi-
cine advertisements, it is gratifying
to know what to procure that will
certainly cure you. If you are BIZ
lious, blood out of order, Liver mac
tive. or generally dobilitated, there is
nothing in The world that will cure
YOU so quickly as Electric Bitters.
They are blessing to all mankind,
and can be bad for only 80 cents a
bottle of Crouch Bros. [2w
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04

Eleven Harlem goats we're to
have participated in a swimming
match in North river, but Henry
Bergh said it was cruelty to goats
and stopped it. The prizes were
$2 for the first goat, a cabbage
head for the second goat, a turnip
for the third, a double-sheet cir
Gus poster for the fourth, and a
tomato can for the fifth.
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04
His Girls Heard From.

Rome Bulletin)
This morning a Bulletin report
er met several gentlemen from
down near the Barlow county
line, and among them was Mr..
William Bryard, one Of the solid
farmers of North Georgia and
Eithal one of the cleyerest men
|. YOU ever saw. Mr.. Bryard was in
singh glee Of fine feelings and one
1.-THE party asked him what made
bin SO jolly. He said: You
know my girls what got married
nearly ten months ago and went
out to Arkansas. Well, [ have
been so uneasy about them I did
not know what to do. They didn't
write and | didn't know where
lty were or what they were doing
or how they were getting along.
know now,' saying
this he pulled from
his pocket a postal card and
read about as follows:-
DEAR FATHER We are all well
and getting along pretty nicely.
Sister Sallie and me have a fine
pair of twins-all four of them
girls.
. Here he stopped reading, and
The laughing commenced and was
SUI going on when this reporter
left.
The Dawson journal., 1884-09-04

Hon. G. w. Hayzlitt, Water
loo, Iowa, member Of the State
Legislature, keeps st. Jacobs Oil,
the great pain-cura, ON the family
shelf, and says he considers it the
greatest remedy ever used for
bodily ailments.