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

ance ChaC WILL be brought forward.
Misses Sallie r. Grogan and Tom
nile Purkins, OF Ga, and Va, graced
our town with their presence this week.
Miss Purkins was met by the charm.
ing Miss H0llingswortha and was escort
cd to Miss Ida's beautiful home in
Ptckens. Hope that Miss p, will be
fav0rably impressed and that she will
honor us with another visit. Miss Gro
gan, who for so long time ably edi-
ted the ''Alma Mater" honored uui
sanctum previous to her departure for
Pickens. Come again, and you shall
produce more than two impressions
next time.
Wanted! Will some gentleman in,
the county who has more fair da,,gh-
ters than he can well take care Of, or
more poor COWS than he can feed, dis
pose OF one or the other Of them to
zone OF the single men Of the MEssEN-
GER Office, which has been the recip-
ienl Of so much fine wheat and oats?
Our old bachelor, G. w. b., brought
us a fine sample of wheat the other
day We won't charge him anything
tor this advertisement. We would like
some pound cake, however.
e. III. Bates, the prosperous farm
er. who lives a few miles northeast of
Easley, was in town this week and
brought a very favorable report with
him. With an Osborne Reaper. bought
OF Jas. II. Williams & Co., Of Green
vile, he cut 100 dozen OF oats in one
hour and twenty minutes, and 481 doz-
Ell in hours. He sOwed one bushel
of fine wheat, the sample of which was
sent him by Hon. -. Wyatt Aiken,
which he thinks will produce 20 bush
els.
Mr.. Bates will pleae accept our
thanks fora basket Of fine peaches aud
apples.
Base Gall Is on the brain now
Of the school boys, and the other oil
town. a match game was played on
last Friday afternoon, which resulted
in the defeat Of the school boys by a
score of 80 to 24. The following fine
men composed each team:
The f. B. r. G.
Il. l.. Ownbey, j. II. O'Conor. w
Il. Bryant, w. A. Folger, W.. F. Wait,
E. Runion, DR.. j. +. Bruce, j. 8.
George, p. l.. Kirton.
The G.. b. b. G..
James Rankin, T.. II. GilliIand, w
l.. Gricc. j. Il. Lath,m. Is. d. Len
hardt, V. E. sEIudgens, +. n. Berry,
e.. II. Clyde, w. II. Hamilton.
There will be a match game between
the r, B. 3. c., and G.. B. B. c., on
Friday next 9th inst. The public are
invited.
From u private letter from S. r.
G., West Springs, Union County, we
gather the following Information
"'rhe small grain crops are fine, but
considerably damaged by the recent
storms through that county, and a
large quantity yet to harvest. Other
crops are promising. We had two
weddings on Sunday, 18th inst viz:
by Samuel West, Trial Justice, at
the residence of the BRIDES mother,
Mr.. Thomas Cunningham and Miss
Fannie Mayes. all Of Union County.
By Neil West, Notary Public, at his
residence, Mr.. John Lancaster and
Miss Martha West, all of Union Co."
A NEIGHBoRI.Y WAY OF SETTLING
| THINGS. Smith Hello, meighbOr
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
had been a one-sidcd ''neighborly at
fair


The name Of Col. Il. f. Bowen, OF
Pickens, has recently been presented
rs a candidate to represent our people
in Congress. Col. Bowen is a good
man, q true Democrat and represent
ed for many years Pickens County III
our State Legislature. His past record
should be sufficient guarantee to our
people that their honor and interests
would be safe III his hands'-Seneca
Free Press.
Col. II. f.. Bowen, OF Pickens, has
published card In the Easley MES
sENGER in which he consents to the
Use Of his name as a candidate for Con-
gress. He says II have always taken
the position that high and honorable
positions should not be sought, but at
tho same time, If it be the will of the
people, they should not be declined"
If Col. Aiken is to be left out when the
nominating Convention meets there is
no man in the District who would be
more acceptable to the people than
Col. Bowen. Journal.
The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
For County Commissioner.
@g'The friends Of JAMES II

NO. l,he frlends or JAMES T..
BOROUGHS respectfully announce
him as a candidate for County Com
missioner Of Pickens County, at the
uext ensuing election, subject to -
nomination by the Democratic party
at the approaching primary election.
jun 20td
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15
Too Much Study.

The Ctristtan-0t- Work thinks the cur
rent boy and girl study too hard, and it
calls for less intellectual food and more
digestion. 1t says:
with our school children bending
over school benches the first week of
September, not to stand up straight
again till July blows her hot furnace
blasts with the teacher, almost ap-
palled, addressing herself to the years
work that lies before her; with the Sc
we're demands that our modern educa-
tional processes make upon one side of
the boys nature, leaving his other side
severely alone,-we are bringing up =
race of abnormally developed children
sharpened at one corner and rounded
off at all the others-the beginning If
the school year may well carry the
measure of terror that it does for 80
many. We need to give less time to
mental cram and cerebral culture, and
more to rounding or: developing the
boy or girl; and SO education would be-
come less the awful task that the young
tudent finds it to be, and life would
lose nothing Of Importance and high
purpose in adding to the sum Of il
st."
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15

He reflected moment, then pulled
out his pocket-knife. With this he de-
tached a portion of the wall paper, and
uncovered the orifice of a speaking
tube! This then was the secret of it all;
the sounds were conveyed from some
other place, and the tubing transformed
ordinary noises into CHASTITY cadences.
The next day the mystery was further
more explained. A former owner had
connected his library with building
some distance away. Some time after
the piping had been broken up, leaving
intact only that portion built in the
wall, one end of which was in our sit
ting-room, the other extending to the
cellar of an adjoining house, between
couple of wooden shelves. The
spoken words we heard were those of
the colored servant, who was accus-
toned to bank up the heater fire abouf
midnight. The rafting of the chains
was produced by the shoveling of coal.
/ had mistaken some words about ode
fire" for "De Wire" The s.poison'
and mangling had reference to mice
which were making free with articles
on the shelf. That was all!
/ was so much obliged to Mr.. Bolton
for his efforts, that I could not ''say
him nay' when he asked me to marry
him. Besides, how handy it was to
have man about the house to clay a
ghost. "-Godey's Lady Book.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15
NUMBER 5.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Berlin, Germany, has only my
churches. Only 10000 Of the million o.
inhabitants are church-goers.
Frederick Billings, of Woodstock.
VT, is erecting 100000 building to
give to the University of Vermont.
The first volume of the Gutenberg
Bible was sold at the Earl Of Gosford's
sale in London recently, for $4,000.
The State of Kentucky has 1897
Baptist churches. In these the baptisms
during the past year numbered 6,02S,
and the net gain in members was 6,05S.
AT conference held in Sidney, re-
Gently, the federation of the Presbyterian
churches of the various Australian colo
MES was resolved upon.
The most popular course chosen by
the new students Of Cornell University
this year is civil engineering, which Is
taken by fifty-three; science and letters
come next with forty-nine, and me-
chanics with twenty-nine. Ithdcd Jour
nal
The .Sternenhaus," a branch Of the
Evangelical "Johannesstifts, near Ber-
lin, appeals to Christian young men to
join its society, and undergo course OF
study preparatory to their becoming
preachers to the Germans in North
America.
More than ten thousand copies Of
the New Testament have been recently
disposed of-given away and sold
among the Fits. Religious reading
seems to take with them, II it be true,
as reported, that nine thousand copies OF
the Conference Catechism" have been
sold among them Chicago Times.
This country was pretty well repre-
sented at the recent meeting OF the
| Evangelical Alliance in Copenhagen.
Some two hundred Americans were in
attendance, and among them such
| Schaff, John Hall, William M. Taylor,
Edward Bright, and Wilbur +. Watkins
Recently the dome of st. Peters.
in Rome, was reclad at an expense to
the Vatican of $4,000. The old sheath
ing required such continuous repairs
| that it was deemed better to replace it.
| The sheets of lead which now cover the
dome weigh 70S, 610 pounds, and would
extend over more than an acre and
half of land if they were spread out fiat
In Missouri missionary of the
American Sunday School Union found
church thirty years old, meeting in q
! good house of worship, well appointed
as to comforts, with large congrega-
ton, but which had never had a Sum
day-school While there was preaching
, to parents and adults, the children were
hunting, fishing, etc. Here he organ
lied good school with fifty scholars.
Baptist Weekly
The Government of Sweden has APP
pointed a committee for the new revis-
| ion of the Old Testament. Archbishop
DR.. A. N. Sundberg is Chairman, and
he will be assisted in the work by three
professors, two Bishops and one pastor.
For nearly century the Swedes have
been working on the revision of their
Bible translation. The New Testament
version was adopted by the last General
Assembly, and appointed to be used in
the schools, but not yet in public serv-
| ices
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15
WAYS THAT ARE DARK.
How Mr.. william Lorenzo Smith Defraud-
ed Detroit Capitalist.


ed Detroit Capitalist.
The other morning a young man
pretty well dressed and quite extensively
adorned with jewelry entered the office
of Detroit capitalist and introduced
himself as William Lorenzo Smith,
formerly of New York, but just at pres
ent a resident of Michigan on account
of the disarmament of a theatrical troupe
in which he was leading star.
"Yes-I see-exactly So, replied the
capitalist, in icy tones.
IL was recommended to come to you
for loan of fifty dollars" continued
the young man.
"Indeed! Very kind of some one! l
am not in the habit of loaning fifty dol
lars to every stranger who applies
''But / will certainly return it as soon
as reach New York"
Very likely, but l must refuse to
lend it.
'.Do you take me for dead-beatp"
asked the young man.
80, no; but if / were in your place
I'd raise some cash on that big gold
watch-chain and diamond-pin before
trying to borrow of a stranger You
ought to have no trouble in raising one
hundred dollars that way"
Il suppose not, though they are keep
sakes and 1 hate to part with them.
Nevertheless, it doesn't seem right to
wear them while am dead broke. II l
had fif-"
Here he paused and detached the
chain from his watch and removed the
pin and laid them down.
II am not in the pawnbroker bust
ness,' said the capitalist, 'but you can
send for these articles any time without
paying interest. Here's the fifty dol
lars you want "
The young man had been gone an
hour when friend came in, observed
the articles, and after brief inspection
remarked:
"You must be about the tenth man he
struck"
''How-what?"
Young manifested troupe-wants
to get to New York. That's washed
chain, and this diamond is only glass"
A call at a jewelers. proved that such
was the case.-DetrOit Free Press.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15
Natural Wonders.

Did you ever see well forty feet deep,
lined throughout with stone, in which
there is hardly seam, made without
handsP have and could not credit the
evidence of my senses. There are, so it
is said, several of these natural wells in
Florida. / question though whether
they are not the handiwork of some
ancient race. Florida is an old country.
1t has been the dwelling place and the
lighting place OF generations of both red
the scientists, but if you could see these
natural wells, so called, your first
thought would be, what splendid work.
manship! The water in these wells is
always brackish-not so with that in
those that are dug in the sand. Inever
tasted better water in my life than that
in the well just outside my kitchen door,
cool and soft and clear. Florida is not
without its springs of healing, also, and
for many diseases to which mankind is
heir there are waters all the way from
San Mateot to Sanford of various compo
sitions. Sulphur and iron, sulphur and
soda, salt and iron, sulphur and carbo-
nate, all adapted to the various diseases
Of humanity. Our pretty lakes are also
worthy of attention. There is one not
two miles from Palmer called Kanahapa.
The lake is small, but the shore on either
side is studded with live oaks, it may be
centuries old. These again are envi-
roned by grand old vines, whose main
stems are as thick as mans body and
whose interlacing branches mingle with
the rich gray moss that hangs in fes
toons from every point of the oaks,
whose long arms stretch a hundred feet
toward the lake. 1t is, in fact, verita-
BILE fairy bower and well repays the
visitor who sees it by the clear white
rays of the moon.-Cor. San Francisco
Chronicle.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15
HlNDUS AND CHINESE.
The Former Love the Ideal, and the La
ter the Practical,

The Former Love the IDEAL and the Lat
ter the Practical,
Never did opposing qualities and de-
fects establish wider gulf between two
races. During the four or five thousand
years which make up her history, China
offers us the unique spectacle, as it
seems to me, of society founded upon
a purely human basis-without prophet,
without Messiah, without revealer, with
out mythology; of society calculated
for temporal well-being and the good
organization of this world, and for moth
ing else. India, on the other hand,
shows us not less surprising spectacle
of race exclusively speculative, living
by the ideal, building its religion and its
literature in the clouds, without any in
termingling elements drawn from his
tory or reality. The characteristic feat
ure of the Chinese mind is negation of
the supernatural; what it can not I'M
derstand does not exist for it. India, on
the contrary, absorbed in the cOntem-
plation of the infinite, has exhausted her
activity in the creation of an exuberant
mythology and innumerable systems of
metaphysics. Nor has the study of ma
ture, of man, or of history ever seemed
to her worthy to check her thought for
an instant. China is indisputably, of all
countries, that which possesses the best
ordered and the most abundant archives.
Since the twelfth century before the
Christian era she has stored up, dynasty
by dynasty, and almost year by year, the
official documents of her history, the
DEGREES of her sovereigns, the rules of
her administration. India, so prodig-
iously fruitful in everything else, has not
a line of history. She has reached
modern times without believing that the
real is ever worth writing down. This
present life is for the Chinese the only
aim of human activity. For the Indian
it is but an episode in a series of exist
ences. On one side you have bour-
geois and reasonable race, narrow as
common sense is narrow; on the other,
a race devoted to the infnite-dreamy,
absorbed, and lost in its own magma
tons. Nor are the physical character
istics of both less strikingiy contrasted.
The bright oblique eye, the flat nose,
the short neck, the cunning look of the
Chinese, indicate the man of common
sense, well trained in the affairs of this
world; the noble outline of the Indian,
his slim figure, his broad, calm brow. his
deep, tranquil eye, show us race made
for meditation, and destined, even by
its very errors, to provide lis with a
measure of the speculative power of
humanity. Macnillan's Magazine.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15
THE MODEL WIFE.
The Woman Whom Husbands Love Mo
Than Their Cigars and Horses.

The Woman Whom Husbands Love More
Than Their Cigars and Horses.
Scripture, and history, and poetry vie
with one another in sounding the praises
of the model wife. The man who is
blessed with a companion worthy the
name of model wife can snap his fin
gers in the faces of all the old bachelors
that ever breathed and give them points
each day in every exalted pleasure that
makes life worth living. There is no
danger of his applying for divorce.
Unfortunately for the married men of
this generation, the model wives are
most all dead. The struggle for exist
ence was too much for them. The
ceaseless, silent self-sacrifice needed to
build up model domestic character
could only be met and borne as long as
there was living appreciation of the
personal laws OF duty that underlie all
sorts of ideal existence. The men who
appreciated model wives, and were in
return willing to be model husbands,
were so few that the good wives-that
is, the model wives-grew discouraged
and took to their graves or some more
congenial occupation.
The few model wives that are left are
cherished by their husbands beyond
even their cigars or their horses. The
model wife of the workingman, clerk or
business man has some appreciation of
the ten thousand little labors, petty
cares and annoyances that her husband
has to go through each day in his work.
shop or Office. She considers that such
worrying cares are part of the duties
by which her husband makes a living
for himself, for her and for the chill
dren, if there are any. And when the
husband comes home from his work,
tired, perhaps cross, and hungry and
out of sorts, she is always ready to meet
him with some quiet and gentle good
cheer. Her own person is attractive
and restful to him. She always has
some pleasant scheme in mind to make
his home hours delightful to him and
so make herself indispensable and a
constant joy.
The model wife does not see how
many poor and silly or exciting things
she can say to her tired husband. If
she has anything to ask she waits until
he is rested and fed. She invites pleas
ant people to her home, not to show
how many rich things she has, but to
make her husbands home hours pass
cheerfully. She knows that if she is
half woman no other can displace her
in her husbands affections. She is al
ways more attractive in her manners to
her husband than to other men. She is
the genius of the household. But, un.-
fortunately, most of them are dead
PhiLadelpkta Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15
Feeling Confidence in the Future.

As Mr.. Vanderbilt says, there is every
thing in feeling confident in the future.
James Landing, Ark, used to be stu
ated in Tennessee. One night the big
river went on bender, and next morn
ing the landing was on the Arkansas
shore. The half-dozen residents crawled
out of bed to be amazed, and dumb
founded, and plunged into despair.
After a bit steamboat came along and
turned her nose into the bank, and the
Captain called out:
'What in blazes has happenedp"
'sThis new cutoff has moved us into
Arkansas, was the reply.
bad! badl And how do you feelp"
"Well. we did feel all broke up at
first, but we've had meeting and talked
it over. and we've got heap of conf
dence in the future. Come to figger up,
we've jumped Tennessee debts to the
amount of $500. - Wall Street Nescs.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15
THE MAUD OF THE PERIOD.
Maud Parvenue one summers day
Went to the stable bright and gay.

Maud Parvenue one summers day
Went to the stable bright and gay.
While standing by the open door
The rich man passed ip coaon and four.
He glanced at Maud with loving air
Her father was millionaire
And Maud she gently moved her head,
And to herself these few words said:
'Ill not be by rich man won;
Ny pa can cover him ten to one."
Into the stable then walked she
To hear sweet words from the coachee.
The coachman did not have much cash,
But oh he was lovely mash.
Down they sat on bale of hay,
And this is what Maud heard him say:
.swill you fly with me, my pretty miss,
To a land that's far remote from this2
s'You know that time and time again,
I've told my love in the shady lane.
-sWhen driving, darling, by your side
I've often asked: Will you be my brideY"
Then Maud made up her mind TO slope
And said to the coachee, ''Well elope."
Maud's father raved and ragged, they say.
But Maud was happy with her coachee,
AS happy, as happy as girl could be.
Time passed on and the rich man wed
A vixen with a carmine head,
And often he has groaned and sighed,
Because Maud would not be his bride.
Maud's father drove her from his door,
And by and by grew very poor.
The rich mans wealth soon went complete,
For they played him well in wild Wall Street
The coachman bought him horses and hacks
And for Niagara Falls made tracks;
And in year or little more
He counted his millions by the score.
And when Maud's father heard the news
He had an awful fit of blues.
Then he tried to make the matter straight,
But got kicked over the coachee's gate.
OF all sad words from tongue of flesh,
The saddest are these: I've been too fresh.
n. W. Jackson in Cleveland Leader.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15

into large mortars and subjected to the
impact of piyoted pestles until the
whole is pounded to dust. Then it is
foated in q running stream of water
through chute over rifles, which
catch the heavy metallic particles and
allow the lighter trash to pass Off The
metallic residuum, packed in crucibles
with luted covers. gives back profit
able percentage of solid brass to be re-
used. Scientific american.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15

"A shoemaker of Utica, N. Y, has
completed mechanical curiosity, con-
sisting Of two houses each six feet
square. Inside Of these houses are diff
ferent wooden figures working at trades.
There arc nearly 800 Of these figures.
The motive power is small three horse
Power engine.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15

"A Baltimore contemporary complains
that clergymen are not well paid in the
State Of Maryland. The editor mem
lions one case where "a bright young
preacher" got ten dollars q month from
8 well-to-do congregation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-09-22
A Mothers Love.

Some day,
When others braid your thick brown hair,
And drape J our form in silk and lace,
When others shall call you "dear" and "fair,
And hold your hands and kiss your face,
You'll not forget that far above
All others is mothers love.
Some day,
'Mong strangers in far distant lands,
In your new home beyond the sea,
When at your lips are baby hands
And children playing at your knee
o, then, as at your side they grow,
How have loved you you will know.
Some day,
When you must feel loves heavy loss,
You will remember other years
When 1, too, bent beneath the cross,
And mixed my memory with thy tears;
In such dark hours be not afraid;
Within their shadow have prayed.
Some day,
Your daughters voice, or smile, or eyes,
My face will suddenly recall;
Then you viii smile in sweet surprise,
And your soul unto mine will call
In that dear unforgotten prayer
Which we at evening used to share.
Some day,
A flower, a song, word, may be
A link between us strong and sweet;
Ali then, dear child, remember me,
And let your heart to ''mother" beat;
My love is with you everywhere-
You cannot go beyond my prayer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-09-22
TOO SMART.

A young married man of this city
discovered freshly-opened box of
face powder on his wife's toilet table.
ssTo this complexion have we come
at last" he said, and flung it out of
the open window.
1t alighted safely on the head of a
gentleman who was going to church
in his Sunday best, and enveloped
him from head to foot like spring
snow storm.
.'Ccme down and be murdered, !"
he yelled up to the man in the win
dow, shaking his fist and describing
war dance.
ssCome up and I'll fight you,"
shrieked the powder magazine above.
The wife appeared as a paciicator
armed with whisk-broom she de-
scended to the sidewalk, and her
husband had the satisfaction of see
ing her carefully dust off the strange
man, while she made soothing apollo
gies in invisible tones.
And the husband has concluded
not to interfere with his wife's toilet
relations in the future.-Detroit Free
Press.