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BILL ARP hs 3_rp on Suicides,?It if the 1ST Atlanta O The rapid increase of suicides in the South is alarming and provokes the serious study Of our thinking peo ple. Fifty years ago ? ?uioido^ was a rare event among the white Taoe, and never heard oi| among tho negroes. When it did ooour. it was considered aD evidence of {insanity. I do not re call but ooo instance in my youth and that was a woman v/ho jumped into a deC|, well when no help was within reach. But nowadays p'uiuai evwryj daily paper contains an account of one or more self-murders, and even negroes bave taken the infection, for they will imitate every vice and frailty of the whites. Old Lewie,-who is my wood chopper, asked me the other day how. it was that the white folks kill "der serves so much, and de niggers dident." "Became," said I, "white folks arc more easily overcome, with grief, or remorse, or distress, than ne groes. You negroes don't borrow trou ble, nor take it hard when it does come. You don't give yourselves much anxiety about to-morrow, or next week, or next year. You don't grieve long over a death in the fami ly; your emotional nature is of a low grade; your marriage relation is loose; in fact, it is on the decline since free dom came. The marriage reoords show that your legal marriages are 60 per cent, less, according to population, thi.il in the white raoe, and the de crease gets less and less every year. Your young men and women don't marry; they just take up and quit when they please, and eo the men don'tcaro nzj much about the welfare of their children, if they have any. Besides all this, Uncle Lewis, your raoe has a trait of stealing little things, -and this accounts in a great measure for their indifference to the laying up of some thing for the future; something for the winter, or the rainy days, or for old age. If the worst comes to the worst, they know they can. steal or beg. If your young folks, men and women, haven't got bnt a dollar in the world, they will spend it for a water melon, or an excursion, and take the chances. Now, Undo Lewis, you re member when there wasn't a ohaingang in the South, nor a heinous crime nor a brutal outrage, committed , by your people, from the Potomac river to the Bio Grande. Now there are in Geor gia alone over 4,000 of yOur people in the chaingangs, and there would be 4,000 more if all the little stealings; were punisheu." Uncle Lewis had stopped cutting and was leaning on his ax helve. "Pat's all so," said he, "and boss I knows it, and boss what I want to know is die: What must we poor niggers do about it?" There is the rub. I couldn't tell htm, but I did Bay, "Uncle Lewis, your race has got some mighty good traita, andil like to have you about ua; you are kind-hearted, good-natured, easy to please, and don't carry malice or re venge in your heaits; you steal, hut you don't oheat anybody. The white nee won't steal, but they will cheat, or take advantage in a trade, and that is worse. If you trust a negro With anything he will not abuse your confi dence, but a white man will embozzte and defraud and even the cashiers of banks will appropriate the hank's money, and falsify the books for months and years. Every race has its ?"c traita, both bad and good. Some of your bad ones were almost run out by slavery, but they have come hack gain, and all your college education does not stop it. It makes it worse/ There is nothing will stop it but work, constant work, every day, u?der some good employer. Work on the farm is yonr best safeguard, or Work as me chanics underwood contractors. Your P?ople make good mechaniqs, >>i the ?hite people ompldy thorn and patron no them just ?s willingly as they do white mechanics. The negro blaok ?muha and masons get good employ- ! ment here and everywhere, aad aa for 1 cooking and washing and nursing, yonr women hayg it. alh The two noes would 0t together nicely if it ?"n't for politios and idleness. An wie negro is a dangerous creatare and ?Jould be taken up &nd put to. work. Me is ranch more dangerous than an U|e white man, for he has no shame, ?od fears not God nor regards man. If ">re a 1; t. maker, 1 would mako con ned idleness a crime, for, ras Ben tranklin says, "It is the parent of rice." I started to write about suicides, 0ttt got to preaching Uncle Lewis a ?ermon and get off the traok. Ki?e hundred years ago PJafcaroh, the Ureek hifitAri*.*. w=1j?j<?-j - *J 0o*ardioe, for a brave man would ?ter rather than take the - life that, d gave him. 8clf?morder was a j 00,18 crime under the* bid English *f The estate of ihn fain a* ee J???8cated, and taken away from hii ?tniiy. His body was buried on the Mlhway without a coffin and a sharp 'S LETTER. i a Rare Event A m :mg ?groes. omtituUon. stako thrust tbrougb it to mark the accursed spot. Suicide was tinder the ban of ike church, and no prayers were said for his soul. In no civilized country has suicide been justified, ex cept in suoh oases as that of Saul, who fell on his swe/d because, *s he said, "Lest tbeso unoiroumoioeu Philistines throat me through and abuse me." Or perhaps that other notable case the scriptures record, that of Judas, whoso remorse was so droadful he* preferred hell ' or anything tbat wonld he a change. But generally it is "better to endure the ills we have, than fly to those we know not of." A.lmo?! every day we read of young men and young women killing themselves because of disappointment or dissipation or love or money. They must believe there is no hereafter, or all punishment ends with this life. Surely no Christian man or woman would think of self murder. Wait, wait, young man, young woman; wait, I say?suffer and be strong; only cowards kill them selves. The soul is looked up in this oasket and God only haB the key. Wait and trust Him. Remorse for a great crime may atone somewhat for self-murder. M?sb Morrison might have killed herself after she killed her rival, and it would havo seemed hero ic. When* Othello discovered his great mistake in killing Desdemona, his peroration was grand ae he said, "I took tho circumcised dog by the throat and smote him thus," and thon stabbed himself and died, for, as Shakespeare says, "He was great of heart." In anoient Greece and Rome their notable warriors sometimes kill ed themselves, rather than suffer the stains of defeat in battle. In Japan military officers commit what is called harakari (ripping open the abdomen) to avoid personal disgrace. Bat in our land the pistol or poison has superseded all other means of suioide. It would save thousands of lives if the pistol was abolished by law. Not one should he allowed in any household; they are entirely too convenient, for murder or suicide or robbery or re venge. And the sale of poison should be so regulated that no one could buy it except upon the most careful inquiry as to its intended use. Human life is too sacred to be endangered by pistols and poison; for, as St. Paul says, "We are made in the image of God." , Well, we see that Mr. Crumpiokei, or Stnmpsuoker, or some suoh, name, from Indiana, has opened the ball at Washington with his usual screech owl howl against the South. He was in such a malignant harry that he got in the first bill, and it is to reduce the representation of the South in Con gress. He reminds me of Hainan, whose stomaoh would not digest his food as long as he saw Mordecai sit ting at th? king's gate. He has. be gun to Build a gallows for us; Let him beware, for it was Hainan who was hanged. Some . of these rabid Republicans remind mo of old Cato, the Roman censor, who hated the Carthegeniana so oad tbat he never voted on any question in the Roman senate without adding,' "And I also vote that Carthage be destroyed." Bat nobody cares; we will yet have i Schoolbook commission in every Sooth ern State. The South is moving right along in spite of Northern insults and Northern literature. I see that "Bar bara Friotohie" is to bo played in At lanta. I wonder if that dramatic lie Will,he patronised by any self-reBpeot ing Southern man or woman? Many years ago a Yankee troup came to Rome with "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and wo egged them out of town. That's what we done. They may abuse ub from afar off, but they shan't oomo down here and rub it in. Bill Alu\ The Best Plaster. A piece of flannel^ dampened with Chamberlain's Pain is aim and bound to the affected parts is superior to any Staster. When troubled with lame ack or pains in the side or chest, give it atrial and you are certain tobe more than pleased with the prompt relief which it affords. Pain Balm also cures rheumatism. One application gives relief. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug > _ m t _ , ? Maidenhood and widowhood are two hoods that are ever set for the inveiglement of men. , If you would have an appetite like a bear and relish for yonr meals take Chamberlain-a Stomach and Liver Tablets. They correct disorders of the stomaoh and regulate the liver and bowels. Price, 25 01?. Samples free, at Hill-Orr Drug Co's. ? Aini??i any evil CSS DO remedied j if youfoco it fearlessly and honestly \ try to remove it. - 'i Kodol Dyspepsia Care "digests j what yon eat," so that yon can eat all I tho roo? food yon want while it is re* ? storing tho digestive organs to health. It is tho only preparation that digests all kinds of food, it never fails. tEvans' Pharmacy. W. 0. T. ??. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by the ladies of the W. C. T. ?. of Anderson* 8. C. A True Picture. There was a good woman whose hus band was in the habit of drinking very heavily. One night he oame home, as he too often did,' helplessly drunk, and reeled into a ebair and fell aoleep. As his wife looked at him, and saw how miserable he ap peared, she thought if he could only see himself in that State he would never touch drink again. She Had a friend, a photographer. If she eould get him to dome and photograph her husband, just as he lay there, it might have n good effects She slippsd out of the house, and soon returned with her friend, who brought his. camera with him, and in a short time the inebriated husband was photographed. A few days afterwards the carlo oame home. The woman first looked at it, and then handed it to her husband. "Is that any one 1 know?'' he inquired. "Tes, that ic you," the woman quietly replied. He took a long look, and then exclaimed as he turned away to hide his emotion: "By the help of God, I will never touch strong drink again 1 " He had been shown his true state while under the power of. sin, and came to Jesus to be cleansed by Him.?Christian Budget. An Effective Lesson. A.drunkard in New Orleans was re cently saved from continuing his career of dissipation in a peculiar manner. The young man in question was of a fine family and had splendid gifts, but was going down* as fast as it was possible for a man to go through strong drink. His friends had plead ed with him, but he had taken their warnings as an insult. One day one of them, who was a court stenographer, determined to try a new tack with him. He was sitting at a restaurant one evening, when the young man in question cam? in with a companion, took the table next to him, sitting down with his back to him, and not seeing him. Ho was just drunk enough to be talkative about h'S pri vate affairs, and on the impulse of the moment the stenographer pulled out his notebook and took a full short hand report of every word ho said. It was the usual mauldin folly of a young man with his brain muddled by drink, and included a number of highly can did details of his daily life?things that when he was sober he would as soon havo thought of putting his hand in the fire as of speaking about to a casual acquaintance. The next morn ing the stenographer copied tho whole thing neatly and sent it around to his office. In less than ten minutes he oame tearing in with "What is this, anyhow?" "It's a sienographio re port of your monologue at the restau rant last evening," his friend replied, and gave him a brief explanation. "Did I really talk like that?" he asked faintly. "I assure yon it is an absolutely verbatim report,"' was the reply. Ho turned pale .and walked out. He never drank another drop. There are many men who would cease not only the ' sin of .drunkenness, but other sins as well, if they oould see themselves as other people see them. ?Herald and Presbyter. * Eight Out of Nine. Within the last four months nine women have been shot?nearly all of them fatally?in the city of St. Louis by angry' and jealous husbands or lovers. "Tho Ce Ural Christian Ad vocate" says: "An expert neurolo gist has examined each case, and has published results of his studies, show ing that eight out of these nine men who set out on a murderous mission were the victims of drink, and that they fortified themselves with liquor in advance of. undertaking their des perate deeds. These figures, taken from a single city, may be accepted as typical of ku aggregate whioh must be appalling. Apartfrom all other woes produced by liquor, this one needs to be emphasized: it nerves the arm of the murderer or assassin. Were the account summed up each year of the number of men and women stabbed, shot, or beaten to death by drunken -assailants, the aggregate wonld be frightful." Mr. Peter Sherman, of North Strat ford, N. H., says, "For years ? suffer ed torture from chronio indigestion, but Kodol Dyspepsia Cure made a well man of It digests what you eat and is a certain oure for all stomach troubles'. Evans' Pharmacy. ? The broadnoss of some men's minds is only exceeded by tho shallow ness. Now is the time when cronp and lung troubles pr<>ve rapidly fatal. Tho only harmless remedy that gives I immediate results is One Minute Cough Cure. It. quickly ourea coughs sds?lssg diseases. Ev-?' ?h?? maoy. * ? A rainbow never appears until after the storm?and the same is very often true of a policeman. To Cur? A Gold la One Day Take Laxative Bromo-Qoinlae Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to oure. E. W. Grove's sig nature is on each box. 25o. A Woman's Hour. One on Mr. Hanford. "Please state to the Court ezaotly what you did between 8 and 9 o'clock ou Wednesday morning," said a law* yer to a delioate-looking little woman on the witness stand. "Well," she said, after a moment's refleotion, "I washed my two ohildren and got them ready for school, and sewed a button on Johnny's coat, and mended a rent in Nellie's dress. Thon I tidied up my sitting-room, and wa tered my house plants, and glanoed Over tho mornio^ "p?^er. ^ Then I dusted my parlor and set1 things to rights in it, and washed my lamp chimneys, and combed my baby's hair and sewed a button cn one of her lit tle shoes, and then I swept out tho front entry: und brushed and pat away the children's Sunday clothes, and wrote a note to Johnny's teacher asking her to excuse him for not being at school on Friday. Then I fed my canary bird and gave. the groceryman an order, and swept off the back poroh, and then I sat down and rested a few minutes before the clock struck 9, That's all."_ Tho best little livcr'pills made arc DcWitt's Little Early Risers. They never gripe. Evans' Pharmacy._ In a Mississippi town where Charles B. Hanford was playing he was intro duced to one of the prominent local politicians, a oandidato for Congress at time. "Soyou're Privato John Allen," he said genially. Mr. Hanford owned tbe soft im peachment. "Well, have something to drink." "I thank you, but I never drink anything stronger than coffee." "Thon take a cigar." "I am sorry, hut I dou't use tobac co." "Don't drink and smoke. Well, sir, it's no wonder you remained a private. You'd never do for a colonel or a major in lu\6 part of the eoun try."_ No ono can reasonably hopo for good health unless his bowels move once each day. When this is not attended to, disorders of the stomach ariso, bil iousness,headache, dyspepsia and piles Boon follow. If you wish to avoid theso ail me ?us keep your bowels regu ! iar by taking Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets when required. They are so easy to take and mild and gentle in effect. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. PROMINENT MEN DIE OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE. Within the last few months the newspapers have contained frequent mention of the death of some prominent men, a victim of the malignant Bright's Disease. Several men of wide re* pute?Mr. Henry Vil lard, the railroad magnate, Marcus Daly, the Copper King, Oeo. W. Wilson, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Senator Cushmau K. Davis?having died of this dis ease vithin a few days, and we now learn of the death of John L. M. Irby, the well-known Ex-United States Senator, stricken with the same disease. This only serves to show what terrible progress kidney disease is making, as it is reasonable to assume that where we hear of one death from Bright's Disease there are thousands we do not hear of. Tho most remarkable feature about) this disease ia that physicians seem totally unable to cope with it ; strive as they will, the disease keeps gaining &nd the patient dies in spite of them. Through all this fruitier experi menting on the part of physicians the marvelous efficacy of Prickly Ash Bitters in the relief and cure of Bright's Diseate, Diabetes and Uniary troubles is becoming more generally re cognized, and as a result its use has increased very rapidly. It has been co uniformly successful in curing these diseases that many physicians have conceded its great merit while condemn ing proprietary medicines as a clnts. Results will prove the truth, and it is upon results achieved that Prickly Ash Bitters bases ?b claim to be a successful and speedy cure for diseases of the kidneys. The secret of ils suceees lies in the fact that in ad dition CO its great healing influence in the kidneys aud bladder it cleanses the system of impurities, strengthens tho stomach and digestion, aud regulates the bowel:?. All these organs arc con cerned when the kidneys fail to do their work, hence it is neces sary to the successful treatment of the disease that they be strengthened and purified. There is no caso of Bright's Diseare, where life still holds out that Prickly Ash Bitters will not help, and iu milder cases it aff rds such prompt and effectual relief that strength and vigorous health are soon restored. Persons sons who have reasons to suspect Unit their kidneys are not quite right should take warning?the'dieeaee spreads rapidly and be comes dangerous before the victim is aware that he is seriously affected. The wise course is to be eure that the kidneys are well and strong. Prickly Ash Bitters offers the best means for put ting these organs in condition. If they are nneoted it cures them; if they are healthy it docs not harm them, but stimulates and purifies the entire system. Sold at Drug Stores. EVANS PHARMACY, Special Ageats. DON'T FAIL TO SEE THE HOLIDAY GOOD Now being shown by the Evans' Pharmacy. All kinds, all prices. Huyler's Candies-Fresh. Get the first look and yon will find what you want. EVANS' PHARMACY. TO THE FARMERS Of Anderson and adjacent Counties. SINCE last July when we organized the? ANDERSON FERTILIZER COMPANY We have put forward our best effort, and rushed the buildings with all possi ble speed, in order to get our goods on the market for the Spring trade 1901. We now wish to inform you that we will start our Acid Chambers early in December, and our Mixing Department in January. We will manufacture Sulphuric Acid, Acid Phosphate and High Grade Ammoniated Fertilizers, all from the crude material. We are also importers of German Kainit, Muriate of Potash and Nitrate of Soda. Tou can always get fresh, pure goods u*. our Factory, and we hope to supply your wants in this line. This is a home industry, of which we feel proud, built with home capital and we solicit the patronage of the home people. ANDERSON FERTILIZER COMPANY. FRED. G. BROWN, President. Glenn Springs Mineral Water -FOR SALE AT ? EVANS' PHARMACY. THE GLENN SPRINGS WATER haa been known for over a hundred years, and raoognized by tbe bent Vhyalolana in tbe land aa e anre cure for diseases of tbe LI vor, Kidneye, Bladder, towels and Blood. Romn of its rerssrksblo eure? wvr? bref??rht before the ??licw ox in? publi? In the Cherlo?lon Modicsl Journal in 1855. Mersus. Evans PbabuXcy?Gents: I have been a cofferer from indigestion fox sever*! years, and bavo '.ound tbe ose of your Glenn Springs Water of great benefit t to me, and can confidently recommend It to any suffering from like troubles. - R. E. ALLEN. Bargain Seekers, Are you ready now to take advantage of some Genuine Clothing Surprises ! IF BO, come in and glance over the tempting offerings wo offer in Men's and Boys' Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Etc., A.nd be convinced that at the'rates we offer Goods hero it is more than prob able wo will be glad to buy them back of you al a profit. Special Bargains in Boys' Tan and Black Shoes, At prices that touch bottom ! B. HILLM?N, 18 Benson Street, Miss Lizzie Williams' Old Stand. Syracuse Chilled Plows Are the lightest draft, Best braced, and Most durable Flow on the market, Anct costs less for repairs. Have all the good features of any other Plow, And a large number that are not found on any other. Clark's Tarrant Cutaway Harrow^ The perfection of Cutaway Harrows, will turn and thoroughly pulverize the soil from three to six inchts deep ; have never heard of one that did not give perfect satbfaction. If you will try one you will buy no other. The Empire Grain and Fertilizer Brill, The only Drill with the absolute force feed?will sow Oats where others fail, and will sow any grain better than any Drill made. They rue strong built, light draft. Every one guaranteed to do perfect work. BROCK BROS, Anderson, S. C. OATS, O?TS, AND RICE FLOUR. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for all KINDS of GRAIN. Three Thousand Bushels of TEXAS RED RUST PROOF OATS. One Car of that famous HENRY OAT (or Winter Grazing Oat.) The only Oat that will positively stand any kind of weather. Have just received Two Cars of fine FEED O VTS at lowest prices. Have just received Three Care of RICE FLOUR for fattening your hogs, and it comes much cheaper than any other feed and is much better. Yours respectfully, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. Fruit Jars, To put up your Fruit in. Preserving Powder. To keep Fruit from spoiling. Fruit Jar Rubbers, To put on your old Jars. Tartario .A_cicl, To make Cherry and Blackberry Acid. * Sticky H'ly Paper, To catch the flies while working with your frai - ALL AT ?? HILL-ORR DRUG CO. M 0 H F M 0 Q M O H ft* ba* Sa 2 o < M F H ? 0 ? d H H Q M > < M O _THE ANDERSON ? Mutual Fire Insurance Co. WROTE its first Polioy Sept. 23, 1896, and has made only two assessments since it commenced business. This is a great deal oheapor than you can got Sre insurance elsewhere. Any of our rolioy-ho?ders will tell you that. Other people have saved money by placing their fire insurance in this Company, and it is confidently believed you oan. _. J. R. Vandiver, President. J. J. Fretwell, R. S. Hill. J. J. Major, Jm>. G. Ducworth, W. G/Watson, R. B. A. Robinson, J. P. Glenn, A. 1. Hub bard, Directors. J. J. BECK, Agent.