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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-01
On the Lookout.

In speaking of the Republicans still
in Office, and specially in tho War
Department, the Cincinnati ENQUIRER
says:
Inc pestifcl Gus partisans, who dur-
ing the late campaign were too COW.
ardiy to go homo to vote, but stood
around In tho halls and corridors
oousing Cleveland as tho libertine and
rolling the Halpin scandal
u !, s.9 RaoSsels undor their tongues.
aHd i'i de5iiiisznei"g 5ii eeAiAIaiqks as traitor
and cJBperhead, arc still there. ~
young sprigs of gentility who attenc
tho law anu medical schools fnten
only upon securing professiona
education at the expense of the Gov
crnment arc still there. The politica
parties who boasted Of their purnosl
to have certain Democrats turned on
aAf office when Blaine and Logan wer,
ad are still there. They are al
8 sSREsIn'aeeies Of cormorants on
4 ( aAght shrm III
j 81 sullyine
sser theft
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1886-04-01

Wo claim to have taken moro nrem;ums q
with our Jacks, Jennets and Saddic.stoek
than any breeders IN Tennessee. Fair
Ground, Nashville, Tenn.
Dn. L: w. KNIGHT, SON Sc 90.
Mehtlon this paper Feb13L8t
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-10-13
A Cure for the Felon.

That woollen smoke is cure for a
felon is certainly one of the medical dis
coveries of the age. Could we give the
name of the correspondent who sends us
the following it would be at once re-
cognized as Of authority sufficient to
guarantee the truthfulness Of any asser-
ton to which it might be appended:
"E you ever endure the agony of a
felon you will appreciate the fact that it
can be cured by woollen smoke. Place
the woollen rags under an inverted fow-
er pot and put Goals upon them, or set
them on the fire in some other way;
then hold the felon over the smoke, and
it will extract all the pain. This has
been done by friend of mine within a
week. 1 assure you that in my circle we
consider it as great discovery as that
ether viii temporarily deaden pain. The
only remedy for felon that I ever con-
sidered infalible, and I have had
cognizance of several aggravated cases,
was having the part laid open (under the
influence of ether and the bone thor
oughly scraped. That reaches the root
of the difficulty, but the smoke cure is
far better. boston Transcript.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-10-13
Kindness to Horses.

''Senex, in communication to the
Barnesvile, Ca, Gazette, says: edgar
Jet never wrote a. truer sentence than
when he said in the Gazette last week:
"No, we are not good enough to our
horses and mules; if We could show to
them more kindness, they might return
to us more gentleness. And he might
have added, and more obedience and
better service. A horse, kindly treated,
will obey his master in anything that he
can understand, and he is more wiling
and better able TO render good and salts
factory service when he is well fed and
cared for and kindly spoken to than
when he is half starved, either for food
or water or both, and whipped unneces-
sarily, and scolded at without cause.
Some men never speak kindly to a horse,
and so never have kind horse. We
think horse or a mule, properly treated
and cared for, instead of being consid-
cred "dead old'' at fifteen would be then
just in his primo, and would do good
work till thirty, if not forty; and # the
law forbidding cruel treatment Of do
nestle animals was rigidly enforced, we
should have better and cheaper horses
and mules. But good laws, without viz
tue enough in the people to respect
them, are of little avail. Another feature
of the treatment of horses is, that the
man who treats his horse wrong viii
not treat his wife right. Let every
young lady make note Of this fact, and
watch how her sweetheart treats his horse.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-10-13

forage, hay, ETC., gathered and housed.
Gronndpeas should also be gathered by
that time, that the tops may be cured as
forage, and the gathering Of the nuts
facilitated. After killing frost the nuts
quickly lose their hold on the vines, and
are left in the ground when the latter are
pulled up. Sorghum cut and slowed
away under shelter will keep green and
sweet for !, long time, prolonginG the
period of green feed well up to Christ
mas Stalks, leaves and heads cut up
together We find to be a most excellent
f-c> 70. cattle. Our people, generally,
have not learned yet to appreciate its
value as stock feed. N'e think it superb
or to Milo Maize or any other of that
class. The amber cane IS the best variety
for this purpose.
The sweet potato vine is another good
feed, liable now- to be ruined by frost.
As it is almost impossible to cure them,
they may be either grazcd Or pulled of;
and fed. Little damage to the potato
Will accrue if this is done after the mid
dc OF October. Everything should be
in readiness also for digging the pota-
toes. After the weather gets cool and
vegetation ceases active growth, tie dig
ging may take place at any time when
the soil is dry. Where the vines are not
fed off to stock, the usual practice is to
pull them out of the way with plow.
This gathers the vines in heaps at the
end Of the rows and deprives the land of
their fertilizing properties. Il would be
better to have a turn plough with sharp,
revolving coulter, and run it Oh each
side of a TOW so as to cut off the vines
and bury them in the middles. Then
with a plow, called ':potato digger,
such as is used by Northern farmers for
digging Irish potatoes, the tubers might
be lifted out of the ground with great
rapidity and without being cut and
bruised. Dig in dry weather after the
plant has ceased growing rapidly, put in
hills OF thirty to forty bushels, keep dry,
wrap with pine straw and cornstalks six
to eight inches thick, and cover with
dirt, Increasing the thickness Of the lat
ter as the weather gets colder, until it is
one foot thick. At first leave an air hole
az top OF hill, say for four or five weeks,
then stop it up with dirt and cut of all
communication with outside air. A
shelter over the hill is preferable, though
not indispensable, if enough dirt is put
on the hill, and it is well sloped so as to
shed water rapidly.
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4 Maine Conundrum.

The way people can mix up them
selves and their relatives in the matter
Of marriage was perhaps never better
Illustrated than in the case of BACK
woods Maine family, of which q CORE
spondent writes:
A father, son and grandson married
three sisters.
That looks simple enough, doesn't it?
It hasn't dawned on you yet?
Well, see here:
l. Amos, the father, married Abagai.
2. Benjamin, son of Amos, married
Betsey.
3. Charles, son Of Benjamin, married
Caroline.
What then?
Amos is brother to his son.
Amos is brother to his grandson.
Amos is grandfather to his daughter.
Amos is grandfather to his sister.
Amos is father to his wife.
Amos is father to his grandson.
Amos is his own grandfather, his own
son and brother-in-law to himself.
Benjamin is brother to his father.
Benjamin is brother to his son.
Benjamin is brother to his mother.
Benjamin is brother to his daughter.
Benjamin is the son Of his sister.
Benjamin is the husband of his sister.
Charles is brother to his father.
Charles is brother to his grandfather.
Charles is brother to his mother.
Charles is brother to his grandmother.
Charles is grandnephew to bis mother.
Charles is grandnephew to his wife.
Charles is the grandchild of his aunt.
Charles married to another aunt.
Charles is the son OF his aunt.
Charles is the husband of his sister.
Maine is responsible for good many
things, but the foregoing will show that
she is still engaged in the good work
Rochester Express.
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pinned her colors on his hat and prom
ised to be faithful to the last. In the
spring of 1865, ragged, dirty, half-starved
and penniless, he was paroled and started
back to Georgia to stare the fortunes Of
his ruined peopled. On bis arrival in
Savannah he met an old friend just from
his former home, and to his eager inqni-
ries was informed that Minnie had been
married about a week before to young
man who had escaped military duty by
hiding outTduring most OF the war. The
news seemed to stun Frank and he turned
away without word. That night he
disappeared from friendly sight as effect
ually as if he had been swallowed up in
the fathomless ocean. His friends-and
he bad host of them-made every effort
to trace him, but to no avail. BE was
never heard of again until his dead body
was found in the little hut on the Ockla-
waha river. So the evil that women do
lives after them. HAMILTON JAY.
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split Ten-iioliGT Notes.

4 new departure IN the matter OF
counterfeiting money was brought to
light at the United States Sub-Treasury
in Baltimore few days ago. 4 some
what worn tcn-dollar Government bill
was presented at the cashiers window
with a request for change, which was
given. The note was sent to Washing
ton as mutilated currency, and was re-
turned with the information that one
side Of the note was good, but the othec
side was well executed counterfeit O;
the original. 1t was found that a GENT
inc ten-doilar bill had been split, tn"
face being separated from the back, 4
seemingly impossible undertaking. The
original face with a counterfeit back had
been used, aud it is quite likely that the
genuine back with well executed com-
terfeit face has been passed il some
other quarter. More recently another
ten-dollar "front" was presented 1t tAc
cashiers window with a similar rcqncS;
for change. The clerk at the window,
suspecting the bill, told the maa who
handed it il TO wait a moment until he
consulted Dr.. Bishop, the Sub-TreasUrer.
Dr. Bishop recognized il the note the
familiar game, and said it was worth iusi
s.. When tie clerk returned to the
window the man had left without waiting
for his change. the Sub-Treasury
which was ont 50 on the first transaction,
WIS cYencd up by the nd.--Baltimort
Sun.
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Two young ladies were conversing
in street car in the high key which the
rumbling of that public conveyance de-
mands if one wishes to be heard while
the car is in motion. "Well," said one
Of them, s'the reporters at sisters we'd
ding the other night were just too curl
Gus for anything. Of course we notified
the newspapers that the wedding would
take place, but, would you believe 1t,
one Of those horrid reporters walked up
to ma that night in the parlor and asked
her the names of the bridesmaids and
lots of other impudent questions. Ma
told him to just step into the back
kitchen and wait until every had gone
away and she would tell him all about
il. ".Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
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TIE STORY Or HIS LIFE.

iron the little book which l saw, :"
said the narrator, :'ior I was one of the
;oar;y. We learned the following facts:
The man supposed TO bc over seventy
wears old WAS rot yet fifty. Years ago, a
few ulilcs out of Savannah, lived Frank
Walton and Minnie JefIcoat. The farms
of their parents adjoined; the two had
crown up together Together they mas
sered tie intricaci, Of the school books
they became plighted lovers. He was
gwcnt.threc years old; she was barely
seventeen. They were to have married
IN June, 1861, but the tempest swung
the pine against the palm. Frank en-
I! listed in the gallant Bartow's egiment
and marched gaily to the front. Minnie
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WHERE TIE FLAG WAS FURLED.
T:iH Si.EHi'I OLD rL.CE THAT WILL
EVER LlT}. IL lilSTUNl.
k:, i.ve-Nitncss to the surrcntc. : The sicry
Told tv CoIcns. Peers Oh the Historic Field.
(L ,t;r . TIE Philadelphia Tim

An Eye Witness to the SURRENDER The SCR!
Told by coIcae: Peers Oh the Historic fieic.
(L.,t;r % TIE Philadelphia Timcs.)
!Appomattox Courthouse, Va, a sleepy
little village, doing its days away OF
the old stage road between Richmond
and Lynchburg, seems to the Northern
traveller to have become tired OF exist
ence away back in the carly part OF the
century and to have settled into Rip
Van Winkle sleep, from which i onlg
once awoke, shaken by the thunder OF
cannon and the tread Of armed men,
only to relapse into more profound
slumbcr. All unconscious Of its world
wide fame and the richness Of its Local
history, the little town IS content with
its own peculiar life and calmly ignores
the roar and rush oc the outside world.
Once in while stray tourist comes
this way, but seldom does the old tavern
door open to admit stranger. its
hinges have accumulated rust FOR years
ana long sprigs OF grass grow between
the broken Porch-steps. The whole
town wears the same passive air OF
somnolency as when Generals Grant and
Lee rode through its quiet streets to
close, by few strokes OF the pen, the
most bitterly contested and bloody IN
ternecine contest ever to swell the pages
of history.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-10-13
She Can't Throw 4 Brick.

Had Paris seen Helen attempt to shoe
a COW out Of the back yard, it is safe to
say that the Trojan war would never have
been waged, and Homer would have
been blged to take the Haymarket not
for an epic. Had Antony seen Cleopatra
chase street car down a dusty avenue
of Cairo, it is safe to state that he would
have fled disenchanted back to Octavla,
and the divorce court lawyer-"decree
quietly secured; no publicity
never have made cent from him. Had
Dante seen Beatrice fire half brick at
the vandal hen which prospected for
seeds in her fower-bed every spring, 1t
is again safe to say he would have sent
back her notes, her white mouse pen
wiper, the lava smoking set with "MerTy
Christmas" painted across the stern, and
discontinued that rocky courtship which
he subsequently celebrated in his poem
known as "The Inferno.
In the three situations given above the
average woman is grand, massive,
Titanic, incomprchensible. The man
who witnesses these feminine moods
from the weather side of high board
fence and does not stand with head
barred, hushed and awe-stricken has no
poetry in his soul. In all she IS great,
but in the brick-throwing act she IS
greatest-and most dangerous. There Is
physiological reason for this. 1t is rot
her fault that an ambulance wagon has
to be rung up after her brick-throwing
moods, but that this kind of exercise
always creates furry and an upward
tendency in the window glass market.
She cannot help aiming at the hen and
bringing down the usual inotfensive cltl-
zen in the next ward. Her shoulders
were not rightly constructed for ball
tossing, and in the hurry incident upon
laying the citizen she frequently forgets
to consult her hand, book on throwing,
and makes the left hand do al the labor
instead of the right, as laid down by the
authorities. Nor is she mentally con
stituted for a baseball pitcher. Many
husbands who are not right-mlnded
sneer at their wives weakness cf mental
grasp in rot being able to distinguish
between mutilated and jumped-on UNI
pire and three-base hit. These nice
subtleties of the game may be thus lost
to her, but it is not her fault. Her gray
brain matter is not put up that way,
architecturaly speaking, any more than
her shoulder is built to bring confusion
and death to COWS.
1t will be observed by all who take the
trouble to attend base ball game IN the
interests of science that the best throw
crs have very square shoulders, and the
shoulders Of some are higher at the
corners than near the neck. In these
latter the clavicle tends upward as i
leaves the spinal column, a circumstance
which allows free play Of the arm IN any
direction. Whereas as is seen IN lady
skeleton, the shoulder-blade slopes dow1
like toboggan slide and overlaps th'
arm-socket in manner which prevents
her lifting her arm without cracking he
shoulder-blade or bursting out seam il
her basque, either of which is calculated
to discourage good craftsmanship
Chicago Inter-Ccean.
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General Boulanger, desiring to Sc
cure from the French government an
appropriation for new explosive bombs,
recently invitec the Budget Committee
to witness the experiments he was carry
ing on in private. The experiments he
was carrying on in private. The expert
ment is made with monster mortar, fol
the destruction OF Notifications; the mis-
sile explodes with exceedingly destruc,
tive effect. It is charged with new eX-
plosive, of whose composition Boulangel
and his associates alone possess the
secret. The compound. however, is ad-
mitted to have al the powers Of gun
cotton with none Of its defects, and i:
said, in addition, to be easily transport
able and free from liability to spon
taneous ignition. It is stated that The
budget and committee were not only
highly satisfied and pleased, but proais
ed to freely support the Generals de
nand for a large special appropriation
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AT a Montreal Knights of Labor
picnic at Ormstown, Que, one married
couple brought their fourteen children
on the grounds. The judges charged
with the duty Of giving a prize to the
largest family present thought more
than fourteen children ought to have
been there with some couple, and adver-
tised for parents who had beaten that
show.
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a CHILD OF THE NIGHT AND STORM

CAT night this strange creature was
more of a mystery than ever. Then his
canoe was rugged with a homely canvas
and would outsail the fastest craft. The
lovers floating idly on the shining
waves, where the moon showered down
its silver glory, would see off in the dis
ta2cc the tossing craft of the hermit.
Pleasure boats, merry laden with laugh
ing youth and maiden, would greet him
with song and jest. To all of these he
made no sigr,. When the long roll of
the thunder was heard and the storm
king was seen marshaling his black
! squadrons along the dark horizon all
other boats would dash for the shore,
but he was in his glory then. Those
hurrying from the scene, eager to escape
the storm and danger, would experience
strange thrill at the sight of this old
man, who seemed to revel in the tempest.
! His boat would sweep through the
binding sheets of rain like meteor,
sometimes almost disappearing in the
trough Of the waves, then leaping to
their topmost crests. At these times the
hermit would stand erect, and bare
headed, in his boat, wildly gesticulating,
sometimes giving vent to shrieks OF
maniacal laughter. Every effort was
made to track him to his hiding-place,
but they all failed Once, party who
had been cndeavcring for long time
to solve the mystery, followed him eau
/ tiouslv, as he seemed homeward bound
and unaware of their espionage. He
padded out of the lake into the river,
and when short distance out, making
an abrupt turn, apparently disappeared
in the saw-grass prairie at the edge. The
hunting-party could see no trace of him
and returned to their homes in greater
bewil3 3erment.
\ week passed and the hermit was
still missed upon the lake. Another
week having passed and still no sign,
the young men who had originally fol.
lowed him determined to make thor
ough search. They were prompted te
this by the common feelings OF humani
tv as well as by curiosity. He might be
sick and in great distress. Procuring
light boat they set ont upon their self
imposed mission. Reaching the point
where he had disappeared they pushed
resolutely through the tall matted grass.
and after short distance, to their aston
ish,nent, they came to a n; rrow branct
or creek, easily navigable to small boats
Two hundred yards from this point wa:
:. clump OF hammock, and here theil
search ended. The hut was before them
Tying their boat to large exposed root
they gently approached it. 1t was abou
eight feet long and four feet wide, made
with saplings, thatched with grass, tie
sides covered with dried hides Of alliga
tors. The stencil that came from th'
interior of the hut was almost overpow
erirg. Fropping the door back with :
poe they looked in. The hermit la.
dead upon the floor, his body badly de
. composed. Death had evidently ap
pcoached him very suddenly, as III
fingers still held little memorandum
book which he had been reading. Th
party covered the body as well as the.
could and, tu.nbiing the hut down upol
it. left it to await the final trump.
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4 bank cashier may get himself involved
hut he generally comes out all right in tho
long run-that is, provided the long run i
to Canada
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THOUGHTS FOR TIE MONTH.
SOME sE4soSABLE SUGGESTIONS :RO&
n:Gi. iy.gEcEITi.

What Work The Good Farmers Should Do il
the Month OF cc:cDer--tn Interesting Ar'i-
cic From ON Intel!;cc@; W:;t:..
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\ FLORIDA HERMIT.
TIE .&s:E STRANGE nO:iAtCE THAT
CONES FROM LAKE EjcIls.

fu. Remarkable story OF the Lone Fisherman
=. strange Creature ,,ho Took Delight IL
t:ic E:Srcc Storms os Night.
(t'or:,$p5 iderce of ta4 Philadelphia T:u:es.)
EUsTIs, Fla, September 29.-lt was
told me few nights ago when the beau
tiful lake was peopled with shadows and
from the dark encircling woods came the
plaintive notes of the whip-o'-will
Eustis is one of a chain Of lakes that
have water communication with the out
side world by means Of the Ocklawaha
river. The latter is a narrow, crooked
stream, hedged by swamp and hammock,
loafng lazily wherever the notion seems
to take it. These lakes are beautiful
clearwater streams, and embellish and
make comfortable the prettiest and most
delightful portion Of Florida, the hill
and lake region. The hills sloping down
to these lakes are now dotted with the
handsome villas and thrifty orange
groves of both permanent settlers and
winter residents. Lakes Harris and
Eustis, IN the meeting of the waters, are
ing, boating ard sailing are pleasures
much INDUCED in by the lake frontiers,
and now, with this preface to my
strange, wierd tale, I Will proceed.
"Some few wears ago, when this coun-
try was sparsely settled and everybody
knew everybody else, much speculation
was excited by the appearance of a
stranger upon these lakes. The only
place where he was ever seen, however,
was in his boat fishing or porng over
some tattered book. Lake Eustis seemed
to be his favorite resort. Many efforts
were made to attract his attention and
to discover something about him, but
they all failed. He would answer no
questions, nor even look up when he was
addressed. He appeared to be about
seventy years old, Of thin, but wiry
build, his long, white hair falling down
over his shoulders, his long white beard
reaching to his waist. His clothing was
of gray, almost threadbare, neatly patch
ed in places with what looked to be the
skin OF some animal. His boat was a
long canoe, evidently followed out of
some tree by his own hands Of very
graceful outlines and so light as to be
almost transparent. This he managed
with consummate skill, and when his in
quisitors became too troublesome he
would speed away from them like some
frightened bird. "
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from the west came in with the intelli-
gence that Sheri IAN had come up the
railroad track and was across the road n
Lees front. In the afternoon Lee az
rived and cncamped on the brow OF a
hill about mile from town. About
halfway between, through q fertile
meadow, runs AppomattoN Creek, cross.
ing the road near an old apple orchard.