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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-03-05

well-gargod intervals. With light
step and q lighter heart they follow
Out the farrows, one by one. Tho
morning sun reaches meridian and the
planters find q period OF rest. All !!
shat happy hour of repose. IL Is q
golden apple get in the silver picture
OF toll. Extended under the sassafras
in some sheltered aeornsr, where the
broom thrush rustles the leaves and
the sparrow twitters to his mate
among the sledges, the corn planters
gaze at the lazy clouds which float
across the azure above them, and revel
In the luxury OF rest.
Then to labor again until the ven
ing shadows gather and the COWS come
home with their merry bells tinkeriug
in the twilight and the night Of un.
troubled sleep comes down. Thus the
days go by until the last potential
grain is dropped i'm the fostering fur
row to await the correlates of sun and
shower which shall touch them into
the resurrection and the life.
Complaining time 1t Is, superb
cially observed, q day Of small things,
is full OF mirth and meaning, It IL
the matin OF the tuueful year tho
genesis OF approaching plenty. 1t is
then that the birds builds their nests
and the farmer his hopes. The streams
run onlike the interest on last years
loan. The crows and creditors are
once moro happy-the one though re-
slization, the other through anticioa-
tion-and 80 will be the farmer IL, con-
sulting his own best interests, he will
cease to be,
"1n spite of Boosting brave,
a gamesters catspaw and u bankers
slave"
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side, Ransom first made himself prom
tnent as u peace advocate In ante-bel-
lum days and he attended the Mont
gomery peace convention in 1851 as q
delegate from North Carolina. He was
in those days a Wing, but since the
war has affiliated with the Democratic
party.
During the war he filed in success
sion the grades of lieutenant colonel.
colonel, brigadier generalEand major
general which latter rank he held
when he surrendered with Lee at APP
pomatox. He participated in many
important engagements, in some OF
which he was in command. He was
especially noted for the care he took
OF his men.
Senator Ransom is SO years OF age,
but 1s well preserved and does not
snow his age. He is a man OF polished
manners and of much tact, and his
colleagues unite in the opinion that he
will make an ideal diplomat.
The Senate went into executive SEES.
sion Immediately after receiving the
nomination OF Ransom, aud confirmed
1T by an unanimous vote.
The confirmation was moved by Sen.
ator sherman, who making the motion
addressed the Senate briefly as to the
fitness of the nomination, Of which he
spoke as in every way deserving and
appropriate.
Senator Ransom said after his con,
hrmation h he would not qualify
until after the fourth Of March and
therefore would serve out his term in
the Senate. After that time he would
be prepared to proceed to Mexico as
soon as the Secretary of State would
desire to haYe him go.
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DESTITUTE IN NEBRASKA.
An Appeal Made to South Carolin
Alliaucemen.


Mr.. j. w. Reid, secretary of the
South Caroline Farmers Alliance, has
received the following letter:
Hartwell, Mob, Feb. "a, 1895.
Dear Brother: Yours OF January 4
was received in due time and SIS has
been received from Kelton Sub-Alli-
ance, No. lao, of your State; also the
secretary-treasurer of Union County
wrote me they were going 10 send
money and supplies about 14th, but
nothing received yet.
We are having a great deal Of trou-
Bile with the State Relief Commission
OF this State. Everything in the
shape OF freight which comes into the
State without the freight being pre-
paid Is turned over to the commission,
regardless Of who it is billed to or how
willing the parties are to pay freight
on arrival. Tho commission then
sends the supplies whore they please,
so that although many have written
me that they were sending food or
clothing only one trunk on which ex-
pressage was prepaid has reached us
yet. More than that, the commission
always sends its supplies to the large
cities and towns for distribution, and
as the farmers seldom get notice that
aid is to be distributed they get little
or none Of it. The members of our
order were hoping for some relief
from their brethren and have been
slow to take the oath of being entire
paupers, required before q particle of
aid can be obtained through the COM
mission, and many Of them are or the
verge of starvation. One. family was
found who had lived on bran mush for
ten days and still would not apply to
the public authorities. Many have
become crazed or committed suicide
rather than go through the prescribed
formula. Every day shows new and
more heartrending cases OF destitu-
every ones little hoard is being OK
hausted and we cannot expect any aid
from our gardens before June except
a little 'radishes, lettuce, greens, etc.
The horses have subsisted on dry grass
on the prairie which was too short to
m '"t5fSt year and they will be unable
to t~.cn.sIa cron without some grain
or at least hay or straw.
L do not believe our Southern breti-
rem can realize how desperate orr con-
dition Is nor how much 1t would help
to encourage and revive our members
to have aid sent through Alliance
channels, which is about tho only
chance We have OF getting any. The
relief commission, which some time
ago reported warehouses crowded with
supplies, now report everything
cleared and few receipts coming in,
while not O~ne-seventh of the calls for
help have boen answered.
L hope you will publish this and have
anything sent direct to me at Hart
we'll, which III president decided me-
cessary to keep out Of the clutches of
the commission. l wish | had the
power to describe to you the condition
of u people SO that you would realize
h n something must be done and done
quickly, as many lives will DO lost.
Already the time is at hand when
teams must be fed If they are to be
able to work this spring. Our State
Legislature has refused to aid us in
any way after Boosting Nebraska
could are for it's own and to the
Alliance we turn as to u only hope.
Yours in hope of relief,
Mrs. n. j. KELLIE.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-03-05

The SAFETY OF SILVER MONEY
The gold standard advocates are
chuckling over the fact that train rob-
bers in California carried off all the
gold from an express car, but left the
silver. Thai is one of the very things
that President Burum claims in ~silver's
favor, as the metal to bank on. He
says silver dollars should be tho basis
OF banking throughout the country.
Each ban should have its capital stock
In silver dollars in it's vault and issue
notes upon it. He contends that rob-
bers could never carry OFF the banks
funds, and a raid on the bank would
be a failure. I~fdepositors should draw
out all heir money, and the holders of
TIE banks notes present them for re-
demption and take the silver, thoy
could only carry it to the nearest bank
and deposit it again. The comfy be-
tween banks would see that it was ro-
turned fast enough to prevent embar-
raSsment.
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The Ola Morse.

no
Ay, sell the old horse, IL you will;
For he Is broken down
And weak with years--why car for that2
There's plenty in the town
To take his place, to do his work,
To go the pace he went
BY day or night, or rain or shine,
Until his strength was spent.
He never stopped to reason why,
To ask that this be done,
Or that he knewibis duty.
He didit on the run.
He serYed his master as he best
Kney how to serve-and now
Go sell him; he is loyal and
VIA not ask why, or how.
A horse is not a sentiment;
He cannot think or speak
Or vote; then why protect him when
He's worthless, old, and weakp
For him no starry banner floats
On every breeze that blows;
For him no pension comforts come
When years his labors close.
Ay, sell the old horse, If you will,
He will not ask you why.
Nor make complaint, when he is turned
Adrift to starve and die;
But faithful in his labors still,
AS when they were begun,
He will not care le is content
With duty bravely done.
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Our family STORY.
MISS PRITCHARD, GOSSIP.
BY KATE s.. II

Everybody in Bolton knew Miss
Pritchard but then, for that matter,
everybody knew everybody in Bolton.
Still, there was difference in the way
they felt toward one another.
"There Is no such thing as having II
secret In this town." Mrs. Pro ter, the
doctor's wife, said once; cat least not
while Miss Pritchari lives"
Poor Miss Pritchard nobody loved
How could they? Didn't she spend
her whole time gathering every bit of
gossip there was, and then spreading
-it1as wideiJ So she could? Was she
ever happier than when going the
rounds Of the street with some evil
report?
EFF she actually could not find any
thing to tell, | am not sure but she
would die said Mrs. Proctor, lS~%h-
ingly. You see shAShasn't any hrp
else to occupy her-x.Ind.- II shs
my hve boys 49, cook and mend for, D.
wouldnt have time to observe how
slack Mrs. Goodman is, nor how often
Mrs. Hatch Furnishes her step-children.
. wonder, sometimes, what the effect
would be If she had somebody thrust
upon her to care for. She hasn't as
much as q chicken now"
1t was not long after Mrs. Proctor
said this that things began to happen
to Miss Pritchard.
In the first place, one morning, whom
she opened her door, she found the
most forlon specimen of a dog on her
doorstep. He was the poorest,
s~crawniest creature you could imag-
Inc, and was literelly almost starved
to death.
Miss Pritchard tried to drive him off,
but he would not go, perhaps because
ne had not the strength. Anyway, he
looked up into her face beseechingly,
and tried to wag his tail as though he
had perfect confidence in her benevo-
lence.
Miss Pritchard hesitated. Sho
stamped her foot and babe him "go
along" but he only looked up more
imploringly, II possible, than before.
She stopped and picked him up, and
hesitated again. Should she put him
forcibly outside the gate, or take him
in? The dog licked her hand feebly,
and a moment later she went in with
him still in her arms.
I'll feed him." she said to herself {;
"ifI don't he will haunt me, l do be-
lieve. One would think he was q hui
man being, to see him look at me.
But why he should come to my door
Ia more than l can see. 1t would have
been much more sensible in him to
have gone across the street to Auntie
Green's. She is always doing some
thing fer somebody or other, and the
whole town is silly as can be over her.
-Ft {, = don't care to be Aunt
".o, and Harry, their
'lran
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- EELNU-Na
West. In many Of the Western towns
bicycles are being purchased for
family use In place OF horses and car
riages and q horse street car in the
Northwest would now DO a decided
novelty.
Men who have devoted their lives TO
horse raising and are now going out
OF the business, declare that electricity
as q motive power for street cars has
supplanted hundreds of thousands of
horses in the United States during tho
last ten years. The large numbers of
horses thus thrown on the market, and
the demand for horseHesh being
largely cut of, has resulted in the pres
sent abundant supply and low prices.
They think that the time of the horses
greatest usefulness is past, and believe
that the only solution OF the horse prob
lem will be- found in introducing the
meat as an edible.
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here at home to tbs
somehow | got in the habit of liking to
be the first to tell things, and l guess
| have been just what Lou said l was,
a d~isagreeable old thing. Butt
don't really think 1 have told so much
sincaI had Jack and pussie."
Neither do ~ replied the doctors
wife. They have taken up your
mind, you see, and you have not had
so much time to think what other peo-
pie wore doing. If l were you. / be-
lieve L would adopt some poor little
child. and have her to love and care
for. There isn't room for everything
in our hearts, and if we fill them up
full Of love and work, why, everything
that is worthless and harmful is
crowded out, don't you see ?"
All Bolton held its hands up in as
constituent when it was rumorcd a
few weeks later hat Miss Pritchard
had adopted a little girl whose par
ents had just died.
"Why not? asked the irrepressible
Mrs. Proctor. "She is comfortably
we'll off, and she has got her hand in
with jack and pussie. They certainly
have thrived under her care, and | ex-
pect that Mamie will also. Miss
Pritchard has ability enough"
ooh, yes" put in the doctor, "but
she will be Miss Pritchard to the end
of the chapter"
THAT remains to be seen. She
may not entirely overcome her life
long habits, but when l saw how that
dog and cat had just worked their way
into her heart and softened it, | had
hopes of her; and a child is better
than an animal any day. Miss Pritch-
ard Is going to be Gifferent because
her heart is full of very different
thoughts and plans, and Out OF the
abundance of the heart the mouth
sspeaketh,' you know. Just wait quiet
ly and see"
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And so IL happened that for nearly
two weeks she did not see q person TO
speak 10 but DR.. Proctor ard Maggie
Kane, who came In to do up the work
and walton her.
At first her mind was pretty we'll
taken up with her pain, but as that
grew less acute she longed for q chat
with a neighbour. Day after day she
watched and waited.
D"Pretty Christians they all are she
said bitterly to herself, mot to come
near a sick neighbor. III 1t was Auntie
Green, now, the house would be full
all the time, I've no doubt"
One afternoon Miss Pritchard had
her Shair up by the window, and sat
peeping through the shutters, hoping
some n would come.
Lou Turner and Hatty Graves came
down street together.
eve ought to go In and see Miss
Pritchard, she is SICK" said Hatty,
81 should think you had" muttered
the unseen listener behind the blinds.
"Oh, dear" answered Lou, 81
know we ought, but l don't want to.
She is 80 disagreeable, and she would
be sure to get something out OF us to
gossip about. She has nobody but her.
self to blame IL folks cau't bear her."
On they went, utterly unconscious of
poor Miss Pritchard. left behind with
a pain and loneliness harder to bear
than the rheumatism had been.
Nobody dOes love me-" she thought
as she moved away from the window,
fearful of hearing something else disa-
greeble. Nobody loves me-, and L
am getting old, and perhaps I'll have
the rheumatism or something else most
of the time, and no n will come
near, and-I don't know but I'd about
as soon die now as any other time"
Miss Pritchard was weak and nerv-
Gus, and she did something she had
not done for years-she broke down
and cried as IL her heart would break.
Jack seemed to feel that something
was wrong, and jumped up on the arm
of her chair, and kitty, awakened
from her nap, sprang up in her lap.
"I've got you two, anyway" sobbed
Miss P~ritchard, patting the cat. and
cuddling Jack up to her, and letting
her tears rain down on them both.
"I've got-you two-and L guess-it's
ALL have got"
Mrs. Proctor, coming in q few min
utes later, found them 30.
"What is the matter ?" she ex-
claimed.
"I'm so lonesome-nobody's been
near mel haven't q friend in the
world-but this cat and dog. Lou
Turner says I'm-a disagreeable old
thing-and nobody loves me-" an
swered Miss Pritchard, Historically.
"Then go right to work and make
us love you," replied Mrs. Proctor,
promptly. "My dear Miss Pritchard,
don't YOU think you have boon u little
to blame? Don't be veXed with me,
but somehow L am afraid 9ye have
come to feel that about all yeS cared
for us was to get hold of sometES ~ to
-"'' come one else" Se1S
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TPE CHAMPION COTTON CROP

Twenty.One Bales of Cotton Pro
duced on Twelve Acres OF Land.
To the Editor of The News and Courier
As many inquiries have been made
to me concerning my crop OF cotton
made last year, and as / am always
glad that others may profit by my sue
cess or failure, l have decided to put a
statement of the same In the columns
OF your valuable paper for the benefit
of all who are Interested.
The twelve acres Of land from which
l gathered the twenty-one bales ST cot
ton, averaging four hundred and fifty
one pounds, last year, is a part of u
tract of land formerly consisting Of
t~hirty-two acres. When I commenced
farming on 1t several years ago 1 sup
pose it would grow not more than six
hundred pounds Of seed cotton per
acre. | divided it into tracts of six
teen acres, aud ut once | commenced
a rotation OF crops, viz, the first cot
ton, followed by oats, then peas, then
cotton again, always and only ma
nuring tho cotton crop with u compost
consisting OF stable cotton
seed, acid and kainit, until 1 had work.
ed it up to producing very easily with
ordinary seasons a bale per acre. OF
this land | only had tho twelve acres
$50 10 TeQ III cOLCOD.
y. ,an'os' he month Of Fob
A.ug out the stalks Of
,ar before with a one-horse
straight shovel plough, going twice in
each row, forward and back again in
to this furrow l put my stable manure,
three two.horse loads per a.re, no
other fertilizer being used, except one
acre on which | used a sack Of soluble
guano, the stable manure supply being
exhausted. | used manure from my
own stable as far as it would go, thon
bought from livery stables. I listed
upon this as soon as possible. 1t was
about tho 18th of March. l finished
the entire preparation Of tho land
about the miuGle Of April and com
nenced planting about the Goth of the
month. Seed used was what | had
been improving for several years, nov
known as "White's improved"
The rows averaged three and a half
feet, the cotton being more or less of
the clustor variety I; wider rows was
not necessary. Early maturity and
fruiting from top to bottom is q char
acteristic feature of the seed used.
had a pretty fair stand on all OF It
except one acre which had some skiDs.
We had very little rain from the time
OF planting until the Let OF July, but
enough for the cotton to come uD and
grow slowly, consequently had very lit
tie trouble with grass. Only one hoeing
was necessary, except chopping out
punches of grass after laying by the
crop with the plough. The rains be-
gan in earnes about the 1st of July
and wore seasonable until In Soptem-
Der. Commenced picking on tho LIST of
September and finished on the 18th of
December. In ploughing the crop I
used a side harrow first, the other
ploughings with q straight shovel with
a bow, two burrows to the row, plough
ing out the row at the last ploughing.
EXPENSES AS FOLLOWS:
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The city CT Rome, Ga, has cap
tured a Massachusetts cotton mill by
the gift of 200 acres of land near I'll o
city. The land was paid by popular
subscription, and donated for the mill
site and operatives houses.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-03-05

MIR. ID. H. Traxler, ex-State Com
missioner, has accepted a position
with the Darlington Fertilizer Com
pany. Mr.. Traxler will travel in this
State and North Carolina In the in
terest of the company.
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MINISTER TO MEXICO.

Ransom, of North Carolina,
Gets the Appointments and is Uni
vcrsally CoHlrmed.
Tho President has appointed Hon.
Matt w. Ransom, Senator from North
Carolina, as Minister to Mexico to sue
coed tho late Hon. Issac r. Gray. Few
nominations have indeed been sent to
the Senate with greater favor. An old
member of the Senate personally
popular with all its members, the SEN
alto with two exceptions because of
had Join
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Constipation and sick-headache posi-
lively cured by Japanese Liver Pellets;
so pills Is cts. Sold az Carpenter
Bros, G~reenville, S. @.
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Nos. II and IL are solid trains between Charles.
ton and Greenvtllp.
Trains leave SparianburH, A. and G. division,
nOrthhound, 1 oil n. m, 340 p. m, 6.1sp y. m, CVes-
tibulcd Linitedl: southbound, 100 n. IN, 2.d ..
m, 1871 II. m, Vestibulcd Limited); west
boond, w. N. G. Division, $50 p. IN. for Hcndcs-
sonviilc and Asrcvillc.
Trains leave Grccnvi!ic, a. and 9. Division,
northhound, 3aIn.225pm m, and b.27 p m, IVES
ttbulcG Limitedl; southbouild. 1b2 n. m. i.05 p.
m, l2.a8 p. m. Wcstibnlcd Limited).
Trains leave Seneca. y. and G. Division, north.
bound, l.H n. m. and 2a0 y. m; southbound, SOL
u. IN. aud 6.o1 p. NJ
PULLMAN SERVICE.
Pullmnn Palrce Sleeping Cars on Trains 8S
and 20. - ana IS, on a. and c. Division.
w. II. GREEN. j NJ. CULP.
Gem Mt. Eas. Sys Traffic Mgr.
Warrington, D.. G..
f.. BGEiiii.&T. Sept, Columbia, s.. &.
W. a. TURK. :. II. R~A!iDNYiCk,
Gen. Pas. .ASt, Az Gen. Pas. .Agt. Eas Sys