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A.S 3E?e Grrows Older Siiox Atlanta Vo\ I couf ess that I do not like the night ?except when I am asleep. Of coarse I mean the dark night?nor do I go into raptures over what we call the twilight?that doubtful light twixt sunshine and darkness, and that litesr~'> ?eat*a "ligh': cut i? two." It seems that these twilights grow shorter as w? etov older. Whin tho day is done the darkness does seem to fall from t?fe wings of night, and we -hasten to light the lamps, for darkness ia never welcome. It is an intruder a^A ? symbol of av??y evil thing. We suppose that night was created as a contrast to make us enjoy the daynnot a? evil was created as a contrast to that which is good. The acriptures aay no good thing concern ing darkness or night, and when de* scribing heaven say, *'There shall be no night there/ ' They tell ue of outer darkness and thick darkness and tho blackness of darkness and dark ness that may be felt. Darkness was one., of the ten .plagues sent upon Pharaoh. Job cursed the day of his birth and says, "Let that day be darkness and the shadow of death stain it." David saif-h, "Sorrow cn dureth for tho night, but joy cometh in the morning," and tells of the pee* tilence that walketh in darknesc. The apostles use it as a symbol of every calamity. ' Darkness eovered the land when the Saviour was crucified. The devil is called the prince of darkness. A&eient mythology desoribeo Erebus as the dark cavern through which the spirits of the damned and the wicked dead shall pass on their way to hell. And Homer writes of a country, called Gimmeria afar beyond the sea where the sun never shines and the people live in darkness. Milton describes the darkness of j Hades as so dense that it was visible.' Speaking of evil spirits that haunt mankind, he says they move in darkness,. but fear truth and chastity. "No evil thing that walks by night in fog or fire?no hag, or ghost, or goblin damned has hurt ful power over a chaste and virtuous woman." .') Montgomery says', "Night ia the time to weep." And Shake* spearc says, "In the dark night, im agining some fear, a little bush ap pears ' to be a bear. *' Young aaya, "An atheist half believes in God by light," and Tennyson says of bimaelf "I am bot an infant crying in the night?an infant oryiog for the light.' ' But this is enough, and theso rumi nations were provoked last >,ight about midnight?tho hour when the deep aleep falleth upon a man, but not ?non a woman. My wife's voioe awakened and startled me. She said, "What is it? Who is it? What do yon want?" Then ehe called me and struck a match ar.d lighted the candle that was hear. "What did you hear?" soid I. ' 'Somebody at the door,' ' she said, Excitedly. "Which doer?" aaid I.. . "This one right here?maybe' somebody ia aiok upstairs," she aaid. Unlocking the door quickly the light shone into the room, but nobody waa visible. I examined the room care fully and thtea went into-the hall and dining room and parlor and thence upstairs on tiptoe, but all was silent. When I. returned she said, "Well, I certainly did hear somebody at that door, and it waked me, but maybe I was dreaming. I remember now I did have a troubled dream, but lease look under the bed before you put out the light." ' Such is conjugal life and felicity. For some timo ? laid awake listening for a noise and : ruminating on human helplessness 'during the darkness of the night. I remember when I had an unwil ling fear of ghosts that ? would not acknowledge. 1 got it from the awful stories that our ncgroea told tous children, for thero was a fascination about them that drew me to their cabins by night, and I listened to their made-up tales of ghosts and witohes and Jack O'Lanterns and raw *:ead and bloody bones until I was ; afraid to look around behind me, and had to bo guarded to the big house door when I left. But this childish fear soon passed away, and long sinoe I'havo realized that there are no spir ita to haunt us, and that "only man is vile." My wife is not a timid woman, but she ?b cautious, and will not consent for mo to keep a pistol ib our bed room for fear. I might have a bad dream auNd shoot somebody through mistake. Sho * never sleeps very sound. A mother who has nursed ton children never does, and the oracking of the paper on tho wall will arouse her. She is happy now, for there ia another grand child "not. far sway, ssd ahj goea thero every day. Pretends ehe goes to help Jessie, but it is real . ly to fondle Jessie's baby boy, for the maternal instiuct .bevor dies, and ehe has act forgotten the ~iniiab.es she sang to her children in their infanoy. I remember how my aged mother, 1 Twilight Seexiis to ten. ' isiiiuhon. whoa on .her last bod, dreamed away her loving lifo imagining there was a babe at her breast and whispering a song to it just before she died, ?he found two in heaven when she got there. Oh, ye young'men who linger and jest in the eakon and around the gaming tables or frequent disreputa ble places, stop and think* Stop and think, and remember the long and weary nights that a ' mother watched with you and never complain ed. Maybe her spirit ?o watching you now and yearning over you in the spirit land. ' For jj her sake stop and think and como back to the innooence of your childhood. . , And there are some little songs, that I, too, remember and can still sing to the little helpless teething things and soothe them te sleep as I walk the room. My little baby songa are ster eotyped in my memory and have been handed down, tho' not published or copyrighted. They ar? a maaonline medley of "By baby, bunting," "Hush, my dear, lie still and slum ber," "Julianna Johnson, don't you cry," "Away down in Shinbone al ley," "And we'll pass over Jordan," and so forth. They are all in the oamekey and the same meter and dove tail into one another and just go round and round, monotonous and mournful, until tho Child has to go to sleep to keep from hearing them; neverthe less, it is a fact that I can get a sick child to sleep when it's mother can't and sometimes away in the dead of night, as I walked the room, in my night shirt, 1 havo not only got the child to sleep, but the mother, too. But I am having some little domes tio troubles that are disturbing my tranquility. Night before last I slip ped the keys off the nail in the back room and went to the pantry to get Borne nice apples I had hid away there fora surprise to the family just be fore bedtime. I like these ?ttle sur prises and so do they. I 'found.the oat looked np in the pantry and put her out while I was getting the ap pies. It is a curious door look, for. it has no knob on the inside, and I. soon' found that the cat was looked out and I was looked in. I rapped and banged for awhile for somebody to hear, me and come, but nobody came. Then I knocked harder and halloed louder, but to no effect. Then I kicked the door and made all sorts ?f a raoket, but nobody came. So I concluded they heard me, but thought it was good fun to keep me in prison and give me time to* reflect on my past life and the value of freedom in this land of liberty. But 1 didn't ponder long on those things. I was perplex ed, put after a while thought of my knife as a screw driver and soon had the hasp off and was out of prison. "Didn't you all hear me?" f inquired. "Tes, we heard you knocking.. What were you doing out there?" said my wife. ' They thought I was fixing or mending something, and did not hear my voice, for. thero were two rooms ?nd a hall between, us and all the doore shut. I distributed the apples and everything wbb soon calm and. se rene, but I have an increased horror of being put in jail and I am' going to be? nr.ve myself and keep out. v;' . - Bill Abp. Cures Blood and Skin Troubles. Is your blood pure? Is it thin? Nose bleeding and headacko? Prick ing pains in the skin? Skin pate? Skin feel hot and swollen? All run down? Is your blood bad? Have?*?u Pimples? Eruptions ? Scrofula ? Eating sores? Itohing, burning Ko zema ? Boils? Ulcers ? Cancer ? Scaly Eruptions? SkinorSoalp Itch? Blood; J&air and 8kin humors? /fired out with aches and pains in bones and joints? , Havo you' hereditary or con tracted Blood Poison ? "i Ulcers *ih throat or mouth? Swollen glande? Rheumatism? As tired in morning as when you went to bed ? Have they resisted medical treatment? If you have any of the above troubles BJ B. B. 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For sale' by jprr-Gray Drug Co. , aBEKsBSB A THRILLING STORY. The Fiendish /Massacre of the Hampton Family. N. ' . Stories of the Hampton family arc always read with pleasure, for this family of unswerving patriotism has been closely identified with the most stirring events in State history since the beginning of the struggle for lib erty. Aa he is in reoeipt of numerous requests for information as to his fam ily, Gea. Hampton has consented to let the appended sketch be republish od. It is the original manusoript of the late Gov. Perry and was first pub lished in June, 1843, in "Magnolia." Following is the story. Anthony Hampton, the father of Gen. Wade Hampton, was among the first emigrauts from Virginia to the upper part of South Carolina. He settled with his family on Tiger river in the district of Spartanbnrg. In 1775 a war with the mother country as England was then called, became inevitable, and it waa a matter, of the highest importance to the inhabitants of tho frontiers of Carolina to secure a peace with the Cherokee Indians. To effect this the chiefs of that war-like and powerful tribe were invited to a "Big Talk" at somo convenient town in their nation. Edward and Preston Hampton, the sons of Anthony Hampton, were dele gated by their friends and neighbora to meet the Indiana at this confer ence, and endeavored to persuade thorn,, if possiblo, to remain neutral in the approaching struggle. But the British emissaries had already engag ed the Cherokee warriors to make an inouraion into the settlements in the upper part of the State, at the same time that the English fleet under Henry Clinton and Peter Parker was to attack Charleston. It ia well known in history that these move ments were simultaneous. The young Hamptons had just re turned from this talk with the Indians when a large number of their warriors oommeneed their work of death and destruction upon the inhabitants of Greenville and''Spartanburg. After killing the Hite family in Ennoree, they proceeded to Mr. Hampton's where they found the old gentleman, his lady, their son Preston Hampton, a lad by the name of John Bynum, and an infant ohild of James Harri aon. They approached' the house from every direotfon in order to pre vent any of its inmates from escaping their inhuman carnage. Some of these Indiana were known to both Preston Hampton and>bis father, and having received no information of their hostilities, their visit waa at first supposed to be a friendly one. They were met cordially and old Mr. Hampton was in the aot of shaking hands with one of the chiefs when he saw a gun ire and bis son Preston fall to the ground. This waa the signal for an indis criminate murder. The very hand which Mr. Hampton had, but a moment before grasped in friendship, now sent a tomahawk into his skull. His wife was soon dispatched in the aame manner. The\infant son of Mr. Hamp ton was dashed again at the wall of the house which it besprinkled with its blood and brains. John Bynum, the lad already mentioned, stood perfectly astounded amidst the murder and oar* nage, having lost all preaenoe of mind and making no effort to escape. At length an Indian warrior raised h<L* hand to dispatch the youth also, when the blow was arrested by the hand of a ohief, who took the lad under his protection. Mrs. Harrison, who waa the daugh ter of Mr. Hampton, / had gone to a neighbor's house, and on her return saw her father's house in flames, the Indies standing around it exulting with fiendish malignity, the mangled bodies of her father, mojther, brother and son lying scattered to and fro in tho yard. She waa going to rash for ward, in the frenzy of the moment, to make another victim, when she waa restrained by her husband and forced in another direction. They sought concealment in a swamp and remained there undiscovered until the savages left the place. The lad who was rescued by the chief was taken by the Indians to their nation, and remained with them until the treaty of 1777 when the district of Pendloton and Greenville were ceded to the whites. One artiole of this agreement waa that theCherokees should surrender to the commission ers all their prisoners and ohildren taken from the homes of inhabitants along the frontiers. Among those "?ho twr? thus surrendered was John Bynum. Ho had, however, been so long with the Indians that it waa with relnctance he was persuaded to leave them. ' ' Shortly after this massacre a large body of the South Carolina militia ' ?r?der the command of Col. Williams marched into tho Cherokee country burnt and destroyed a great many of I their towns and settlements. Henry i Hampton, a son of Anthony Hampton, commanded in this body of militia and j killed with hia own hand an Indian warrior attired in Preston Hampton's \ coat whioh was immediately recog nised ab the one in which his brother was murdered. * Edward Hampton at the time of the murder of his father and family was on a visit with his wife to her father, Bayliss Earlo, living on the head waters of Pacolette, and by this moans osoapcd the fate whioh he would otherwise have shared with his fam ily; He afterwards became a most active partisan in the oause of his country and waa" ultimately killed by tho "bloody scout" in the bosom of his family. James Harrison, with the eitizena generally of that part of the oountry, Bought protection in Prince's Fort, where he remained until offered an op portunity of aending his family into Virginia. He then devoted his own per?uoal services exclusively to his oountry and was in the battles of Blackstocks, Gowpens and Eutaw. Gen. Wade Hnmpton was, it is be lieved, in North Carolina when his father and' family were murdered in Spartanbnrg. His services in the War of the Revolution aro too well known to be mentioned in sketches of this character. His extraordinary gallantry at the head of a regiment of cavalry in the bp . tie of Eutaw, assist ed greatly ia the achievements of that day, and his noble daring and active exertions everywhere contributed muoh to the success of the American arm* in South Carolina. He Remembered it all Right. i - "John!" she said, looking at him severely, "did you know that yester day was the anniversary of our wed ding?" "Certainly, my darling, certainly," he replied, pretending that he wasn't at all surprised. "Didn't they send that little thing out from the jeweler's that I ordered for you? I shall go around to-day and see about it. 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A Well Furnished Home la not necessarily an expensively furnished one, as at TOLLY'S hand some, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay 'Not that we deal in knocked-together made-to-sell sort, but because we are content with a reasonable profit on really good articles of Furniture Our best witness is the Goods them selves. Yours truly G. F. TOTaLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, S. C. B 0 B ?PS g Sa er w w & M. L. CARLISLE. L. H. CARLISLE. DROP IN AND SEE US. WE are not tbo largest dealers but you will find that wc will give you tho best values in Anderson. Remember that wo havo the exolusive sale of the? Walter A. Wood Mowing Machine, Whioh is given up to be tho host Mower on tho market and cosU loss for re pairs. We oan cito you to ono farmer in Anderson County who has out on an average of 1?? acres per year :for 10 years in succession with only 35o. cost for repairs and maohine still in good condition. 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BROWN, FRANK A. BU ABID3E, R. ?. BTJRRI?S, Pres. and Treat. Superintendent. s", Secretary. OFFICE: OF ANDERSON FERTILIZER COMPANY, -MANUFACTURERS OF -*? All Grades Fertilizers, Acid Phosphates, ? AND IMPORTERS OF ? German Kr.mit, Muriate of Potash and Nitrate of Soda. We use Tennessee Rook, which runs higher in Bone Phosphate than any other Rock in the Country. WHEAT GROWERS, TAKE NOTICE ! And Enter your namo for the following Prizes : First Prize Offer. First best yield on Six Acres of Wheat? One Farmer's Favorite Grain Drill, worth $70.00. Second best yield on Six Acres of Wheat One Ton Standard Guano, 8-2 i?1. Third best yield on Six Acres of Wheat? Half Ton Standard Blood Guano, 8-2 J?1. Second Priz? Offer. First best yield on Threo Acres of Wheat-* One Ton High Grade Super-Phos., 16 per cent Ava. Second best yield on Three Aores of Wheat?; Half Ton High Grade Super-Phos., 16 per cent Ava. Third beBt yield on Three Acres of Wheat? Half Ton High Grade Super-Phos., 16 per cent Ava. Third Prize Offer. First best yield One Acre of Wheat?One Ton High Grade 10-2 Acid Phos. Seoond best yield One Acre of Wheat?Half Ton nigh Grade 10-2 Acid Phos. Third best yield One Acre of Wheat?Half Ton High Grade 10-2 Aoid Phos. The following terms must be complied with by those entering contest : 1st. You must fill out the blank hereto attached, sign your name, and out ont this adver tia omen tin full and* return to us. 2nd. You are to ohoose one disinterested neighbor, we are too choose one, and the two are to ohoose a third. You will enter the name of yonr represen tative in the blank space found below. 3d. The three raen named will act in the capaoity of judges, measure the land designated by you, which must be in one body, see that nothing but thp B:ands of the Anderson Fertiliser Company are applied for fertilizing, and finally to measure the wheat when threshed, place the result in a sealed en velope and mail to us. 4th. None other than the products of the Anderson Fertilizer Company shall be used by those entering this contest on* land designated. 5th. All contestants must fill out and sign this advertisement, and return to this office before the first day of December, 1901. 6th. Each winner of * prize is required to write out in detail how the re sult was obtained by telling us how the land was prepared, with what imple ments, how much fertilizers and grade were applied to the acre, what orop grown on the land previous to sowing the wheat, when planted, and anything of interest that will show tho bert method to produce wheat in this State. 7th1.? -.S. C, ,.1901. Anderson Fertilizer Co., Anderson, S. C. Gentlemen : I will enter the contest for one of the three prizes offered by you for the best yield in bushels threshed from.aores of wheat as per terms set forth in yonr advertisement hereto attached. I name .... .'. .... as my representative. , (Sign here). 8th. The three judges of each contestant bhonld be his neighbors. State in blank space left for same, whether you aro contesting for the Six Acre or Threo Acre or Oue Acre Pria?. After all results have been received by us we will name a day, not later than August 1st, 1902. to compare results, in the presence of suoh contestants at may b? here, ana award the prizes. Yonr? truly, ANDERSON FERTILIZES CO.