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VOL. VII., NV. 6.
POKY.
BY FL<fcl'.3&E B. HALLOWELL.
From Gulden Dayt.
‘‘Dorothy!” in * hoarse whisper.
I was in the upper hall, at the sink,
getting some cold water for my morn
ing ablutions, when I heard the whisper,
and, leaning over the baluster, I looked
down on the floor below.
There stood mother iu her loose
1 double wrapper and slippers.
“ I wish you would go into Poky’s
room and wake him up. Your father
said last night that he positively would
not stand it any longer.” All this in
the same hoarse whisper.
“ Yes’m,” I answered, and mother
went softly back into her own room,
where father was just rousing himself
■ from his morning nap.
I knew very well what the it was that
father had determined to stand no
longer. He had stood it so long that
we were all perfectly familiar with it.
Poky’s room was next mine. I rap
ped gently on the door. No answer.
I rapped again, a little louder this time.
Still no answer. Turning the knob, I
entered the room. Pqky was sound
asleep. He had rolled himself round
and round in the bed-clothes until he
resembled a small mountain.
“ Poky !” I cried, “ Wake up ! Mo
ther says father don’t intend to stand
it any longer.”
“Is that you; Dolly ?” asked my
brother, opening his big blue eyes, and
fixing them on me with a sleep}’ stare.
“ Yes; do hurry, Poky. Get up
right away. You won’t be ready when
the breakfast bell rings if you don’t
begin to dress now.”
“ Pooh ! There’s lots of time,’’ said
rousing a little more, Don’t
grudge a ferUvt' ms morning snooze,
Dolly. I played base-ball yesterday
till I ached all er. I can dress in
five
feather pillow .restlcd the curly, chest
nut head.
“ Oh, Poky, you know you never do !”
“ Y'ou just see, now.”
I went out, and I did see.
Breakfast was nearly over when
Poky came in and took his seat at the
table.
Father had not said a word about bis
absence, but we all understood what
that frown on the paternal brow meant.
Mother was so nervous that she put
two teaspoons in Bill’ coffee-cup, and
forgot the sugar in mine. The air was
ominous of a coming “ lecture.”
“ Good morning, all,” said Poky, in
his pleasant way, as he sat down. “ I
give up this time, Dolly, on that five
minutes business. But, truly, I would
have been down if my shoe-string hadn’t
got into a knot.”
“Always some excuse, sir,” said fa
ther, sternly. “Since your earliest
childhood you have never taken your
seat at the table with the other mem
bers of your family. The meal is in
variably half over before you make
your appearance. And it is not about
[breakfast only that you are behind
hand. I cannot trust you to do the
simplest errand at the time appointed.
Something always happens to make
I you unpunctual. If it was only occa
sionally, I could excuse you ; but the
uniformity of your dereliction makes
I it without excuse of any kind, and fills
I me with fears for your future. You
have many excellent qualities, but your
want ot punctuality vitiates your whole
character. You can never be depend
ed upon. What kind of a business
man will you make if you cannot be
relied upon to keep an engagement.
It irritates me beyond measure to ieel
that my only son will grow up a dila
tory, dawdling, procrastinating man.
I hope, sir, that you will make some
effort to overcome this unaccountable
aversion of yours to being ‘on ttme.
Promptness and reliability are virtues
which cannot be over-estimated.
Mother, Bell, and I sat through this
1 lecture with aching hearts. Not one
of us dared look at Poky. AV e could
1 not have endured the expression of
pain and mortification which we felt
| sure was on his face.
We fairly idolized the boy, and
though we knew that be richly deserved
the lecture, we would have saved him
from it, if possible.
Devoted to HarrCounty.
“ I will try to do better in the future,
sir.”
That was just like Poky! He was
always willing to promise. But, oh, it
was so hard for him to perform! 11 •-
tried to look as if he did not feel badly.
and to eat his breakfast as usual; but
after disposing of two buckwheat cakes
I and a glass of milk, he rose from the
table, and taking bis cap and
started to school.
Mother saw that he had forgotten,
his lunch, and ran after him with ’
catching him at the hall door.
Dear mother! She hail put in an
extra piece of sponge cake ami some
raisins. Poky had a weakness for rai
sins.
That evening, when father came
home, he did not drive around to the
stable-yard, but fastened the horse to r<
stake in front of the bouse. ,
Passing through the dining-i/»om,
where Poky sat, he said :
“ I left the horse for you to . akv
around, Richard. Goatonn! for you
• ■
know he doesn’t like to stand tins coh B .
weather.”
“Yes, sir,” said Poky, who
dividing some marbles which he and
Bert Allen had bought together.
“ Do hurry, Poky !” said Bell. “Yod
know how spirited Hercules is.
“In a minute,” answered Poky. “1|
just want to finish these marbles.
went now, I’d forget bow many jf *
counted, and have to do it all ovvT
again.” .
“ Oh, never mind the marbles !” saw!
Bell. “I ll count them for you!
see about the horse !”
“It won’t take a second to finish 'em.
up now,” said Poky, who was certainly,
justly entile d to the nickname we had
bestowed upon him.
But?*wosTa great many
and then, as Poky got up, pi j
“Blue Danube.” and started
the dopr, 1/e saw something
Mr I iiim^?!W!l 111 Wri. IM I■’
lightning. It was Hercules, with the
sleigh, which lie was making desperate
efforts to kick off, behind him. From
his bridle dangled the broken halter.
Poky’s face turned as white as chalk.
With one bound, he was out of the
window and into the road, rushing after
the fast disappearing horse and sleigh.
Near the garden fence lay the whip,
and a little further on the buffalo robe.
That trilling delay of Poky’s cost fa
ther nearly a hundred dollars. The
sleigh was broken into a dozen pieces,
and Hercules’ legs were so badly cut
by the dasher that he was lame for
months; and he was never the same
horse as before the runaway—father
could never trust him.
Perhaps you think that this accident
cured lloky of his bad habit. But it
didn’t. It seemed to us sometimes as
if the habit was too deeply rooted to
admit of a cure. Bell said it had been
born in him, and I rather agreed with
her. He was late in rising, late at
meals, late at school —always behind
hand in everything. Father gave him
up in despair.
“ Now, Poky,’ we girls would plead,
when getting ready for church, “do be
ready in time. You know how it irri
tates father to have to wait for you,
and then to march up the aisle just as
the hymn is being given out. Allow
yourself some extra time. Get all
ready, and then you can do all the
fussing you like.”
“Oh, I’ll be ready ; never fear!” Poky
would answer, carelessly. “ You girls
are the ones who fuss. I’ve only got
to sling on my best necktie and grab
my cap, and there I am.”
But we did fear ; for in spite of pro
mises. in spite of having so little to
do, Pokv was always the last to an
swer father’s call of “ Time to start,
children,” and seldom were we in our
pew until after the services had begun.
Once Bell and I spent nearly all our
leisure time for a week in working two
mottoes on perforated board, which we
hung in Poky’s room. Bell’s was,
“ Don’t dawdle !” and was suspended
over the bed. Mine was, “Time waits
for no man,” and we put that over the
bureau looking-glass.
“ You girls are awfully kind,” said
Poky, when be came down to breakfast
the next morning. “To think of your
taking up so much of your valuable
HARTWELL. G.V-jCSUHER 11. ISS2.
? y*tic in working those nice mottoes for
j?e! But then. I'm afraid they won't
1 much of a Reminder to me. 1 would
Lave been down earlier this morning,
.>*ll 1 got to admiring them, and forgot
*4 about dressing.”
t iV “Oil. Poky, you are incorrigible! - '
groaned Bell.
•‘I wish you would tighten that knot
Berthe big tree, Poky,” said mother,
wwe day in summer, as l*oky came home
school. “1 am afraid it isn’t safe for
,‘ytv children to swing there until it is
itxqd.jaud J iyjtj Mrs. Morris that she
j Mild let Gerty and l.ulie conic over
yir £ little while this afternooi. She
sii feeling so miserable, that the|r being
|*ere an hour or so will be a greit relief
i |O her.”
■ ' “ All right,” said Poky, checfrily, as
threw down his books and went out
(n the yard.
, • A quarter of hour later, we Leard a
iMDost appalling shriek from the garden.
’AVe rushed out, to find little Gertie
i Morris lying on the ground w ith her
J'jfcrn broken. The rope had slipped
Mt om the bough of the big tree, and the
jiving bad come down just as Gertie
i jTvas in full motion.
W* “ Uh, mother," cried Poky, rushing
•on the scene, with pale cheeks, “ I was
Jiiist going to fix the knott but I stop-
Lped a minute to sec first if Bert had
■' Jest my rake and hoc in the tool-house!”
“You stopped long enough to give
time to fall,” said mother, as
).*;he carried the child into the house.
I j ‘-It will be long before she will be able
X’o swing again.”
) “ I'll fix the horrid rope this min
ijate!” said Poky penitently. “ I would
•<£not have had it happen flor anything,
li I m just out and out sorry, mother.”
| But his repentance did not mend
f poor Gertie’s arm or save her from a te
pdious illness.
t Poky’s habit grew and strengthened
years. It was the banc of hit
jjp () n bio. «<«rriaiO ! A*’ „
he missed lie train he ought to have
taken, and the ceremony had to be per
formed two hours later than the time
set, and when the guests, tired out,
were in anything but a mood to offer
pleasant wishes.
“ You'll receive a punishment some
time that you’ll never forget, Dick,” 1
said to him once, when, because of his
delay, I had missed saying good-by to
a dear friend who had sailed for Eu
rope. “Be prepared for it.”
Dick laughed, a merry light in bis
blue eyes.
We could not call him by the pet
name of his childhood, now he had
grown so tall, and bad a little son of
his own ; but we idolized him just the
same as ever, and his loving, tender
manner toward us was unchanged.
Ah, me! When 1 spoke so lightly
of the punishment that was sure to
come, I little thought what it would be
like.
One night little was taken sick
with croup. Dick was in Rockville,
fifty miles away. I telegraphed to
him—“ Come at once; Hugh is very
ill,” and at midnight drove two miles
to the depot to meet a train from Rock
ville, which came in at that hour,
Dick was not upon it.
“ Do you think he could have receiv
ed the telegram in time ?” poor Anna
asked, as she raised her despairing
eyes to mine, and then let them fall
again upon the suffering child on her
lap.
I did not answer. I could not.
At six o’clock the next morning Dick
came.
But be came too late. A white, mo
tionless little figure, with closed eyes
that would never open again, lay on
the bed, and beside it knelt the mother
in her anguish.
’ “ Oh, my baby ! My boy ! Gone !
and I not here !”
That was all I heard Dick say. I
, went out and closed the door, leaving
■ the parents alone with their dead.
, But later I learned why be had not
i come in time. As usual, something
i had hindered him just as he was start
) ing for the train. With his customary
I belief in their being plenty of time, be
I had stopped to open his satchel again
t j to put in something be had forgotten tc
r pack at first, and so—the train went ot!
e without him. It had just steamed oul
Terms, 81.00 in Advance
of the depot when he reached the ticket
office. 1
All this happened jears ago, Dick 1
. has never ha 1 another child, but he has
shaken <»fT his bad habit forever. By ’
the exercise of n strong will, and with
the help of the memory of what he bad ■
i missed Htat sad, never-to-be-forgotten
night, he overcame his enemy. 11
•TH 5 a Treat Ye.” (
Two centuries ago. in the Highlaudsl
of Scotland, Io ask tot 1 receipt or a .
promissory note was thought an iesnlt. |
, It would have been resented as quickly j
as if one had said, “1 doubt your boiior.”
If parties hail business matters to trans- ■
act, they steppnl into the air, tixeri
their eyes upon the heavens, and each ,
. repeated his obligation, with no mortal
; witness. A mark was then cunred on
some rock or tree near by as a rcmctn
t brance of the compact. Such a thing
as a breach of can tract was rarely met
,' with, so highly did the people reganl
r their honor.
I i When the march of improvement
, | brought along the new inode of doing
J bu.'inesß, they were oflen pained by
these innovations. Au anecdMe is
r banded down of a fanner who hail been
to the Lowlnmk, and learned worldly
wisdom.
I Oil returning to bis native parish he
. had need of a sum of money, and made
, bold to ask a loan of a gentlenmii ot
s means, named Stew art. This was kindly
grantetj, and Mr. S. counted out the
■ gold/
This done the farmer wrote a receipt,
ami offered it to Mr. H.
I “What is this, man ?” cried Mr. S.,
, eyeing the slip of paper.
“It is a receipt, sir, binding me to
give y< back yer gold at the right time,''
, replied Sandy.
“Binding ye ? Well, my man, if ye
q canna trust ycrsel', I’m sure I’ll na
trust ye. Ye canna hae my gold.” h
Whereupon he gatheretl it wjn
. 'back
I pon it.
, I “But, sir, 1 must die,” replied the
canny Scotchman, bringing up an argu
ment in favor of his new wisdom, “and
perhaps my sons might refuse it ye:
but the bit of paper wfluld compel
them to pay.”
“Compel them to sustain their dead
father’s honor !” cried the Celt. “They'll
need compelling t<> do right if this is
the road ye’re lending them. Ye can
gae elsewhere fur money; but ye 11 find
Dane in tlut |mrisb that'll; put more
faith in a bit of pdpeAhbM In a neigh
bor’s word o' honor and his fear o
•God.”
For Farm Boys to l.earn.
From a Western paper we extract
the following practical remarks; they
will be very useful to every one on a (
farm : How many of the boys who read ,
this paper could lay ofl an acre of ,
providing one of the ,
dirnciisiftls was given them ? Now,
, Hoe-Handle likes to be useful, and 1
have taken some pains to make out a (
tuble, and 1 would like to have every ,
one of the farm boys learn it. There (
are 160 square rods in an aC>e, ami (
there are 30i square yards iu one rod. (
This gives 4,840 square yards in one
t acre.
5 yards wide by 068 yards long is 1 ,
I ; acre.
10 yards wide by 484 yards long is 1
acre.
20 yards wide by 212 yards long is 1
I acre.
40 yards wide by 121 yards long is 1
acre.
80 yards wide by 601 yards kmg is 1
( | acre.
J 70 yards wide by 69 i yards long is 1
; acre.
, i 60 yards wide by 80S yards long is 1
acre.
Again allowing nine square feet to
the rod, 43,560 square feet to the acre
> and we have another table:
110 feet by 369 feet —1 acre,
t 120 feet by 363 feet—l acre.
; 220 feet by 198 feet—l acre.
i 240 feet by 18U feet—l acre,
f 440 feet by 90 feet—l acre.
e
o Mark Twain remarks that all we
o need to possess the finest navy in the
ts world is ships—for we have plenty of
| -4
it water.
UHin E NO. 318*
THE 1 I’START. h-
IIII »l III■ »
The Governor Aninaed but hot < on-
• xlnrvd.
“Dtil,” ciid a very yuMthfal son of
one of utir kcal pUiti-mi?--, “if- time
you tumbled to yourself.”
■ Sir!” ejaculated tlr< great nrir/t otj,
his ward, looking up from his evening
paper and gazing with mingUd a*ton-"
ishment and wrath upon his hopeful.
“I «ny it's time Vi»u took a drop,”
said the youth, throwing Iris feet upon ’
a chair in front of him and fighting »
cigarette. t
“What do you mean by
.•iich language to me ?" cried the father.
“It's all right. Don't get excited,"
said the youth. “But of course an old
fellow like you never can keep hi* tem
per in an argument. That’s tU# great
trouble. That's the zeasoh it’s high
time for you Ur light put."
'‘Young man, do you know yo(»
tirtl talking to, sir ?” asked the father*
throwing his paper on the floor and
jamming his spectacles into their case.
“Now, don’t get on your eaf,” said
the youth. “That shows you are be
hind the times. This is an age when
coahiess is the big racket in life. But
vou old fossils haven’t woke up to the
fact, and you keep on fuming away
like a lot of old women, and the coun
try in the meanwhile is the sufferer.
You must drop out nnd give us cool
headed young fellows a chance. X oung
.blood in pliLics, sir, is what is panted.
That’s the watch cry this fall, and we d
mean to keep it up. It’s time you old
duffers were stowed away iu glass cases
with other relics of the war.”
"Weir, if you wasn’t— you young
nU! —"
“There you go agin,” said the youth,
pulling n cloud of smoke towards tlio
ceiling. “You never can keep your
hfta<l for two seconds in an argument.
But we can't expect anything the from
disappointed old You
see you’re like the aptors. You never
know when to retire, and through your
sour tempers you have brought both
parties into such a state that it isn’t
worth a toss up to choose hctwnbii them.
What the country wants Li new blood;
uew ideas iu government; fresh issues,
and everything that comes with youth
! and progress. We want to be at the
1 head, tuo. We’re tired of the back
* rpw, and don i you forget it. We do
• “f.k at jx>ur eleciiur- and what
wc get left, fcnd y i k<*ep on in the .
same old rut, eating the chestnuts we
rake out of the fire for you. We’ro
tired of burning our fingers for nothing,
and you can just put that in your pipe
and smoke it. Just give us a living
show ami we’ll distance you old hacks
so quickly that you’ll have to take a
telescope to catch sight of tho dust we
kick up. Now you must see that you
have outgrown your usefulness. You
should retire to save your self-respect,
if for no other reason.”
“You miserable little upstart of a —”
"There, hold your horses,” said tho
youth. ‘Tin just giving you a pointer,
and tho quicker you drop to it the
better —”
“This language, sir, is—”
“Yes, it ain't the old fashioned ‘re
spect for age’ sort of racket. I know
that; but the country demands a new
party, and the old must give away to
the new—•”
“Not this evening,” shouted the aged
warrior of many a hard fought political
campaign, springing U[>ou his hopeful
and swinging the would be Endymion
over the arm of the cluiir, as he pro
ceeded to administer a stinging and un
answerable argument on veneration.
STEPHENS AM> TALMAGE.
Our Governor luwite.l to lecture in th*
Hrooklyn Tiibrrwuh.
The honors to the Commoner are not
yet all written. Among the hundreds
of telegrams congratulating him on his !
success, is one from the Rfcv. T. DeWitt.
Talmage, which was shown us by Mr.
Sam Myers this morning. The tele
gram wanted to know if Mr. Stephens
would lecture in the Brooklyn Taber
nacle during the season, at’d offering a
regular star price for the troat.
Mr. Stephens authorized Mr. Myers '
to reply fur him, stating that he could
not leave Georgia this fall or winter. I
This declination on the part of our j
Governor will crush the hopes of Dr. '
Talmage in securing the latest attraction, ’
but he may yet be gratified next spring.
—Augusta News.
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Make life happy by using Brawn’s Iron
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