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BILL ARP: Mittle More Ora Atlanta G< .'A little more grape, Captain rjragg/' said General Taylor, at the battle'of Buena Vista. And ao wo siy now to Captain Teddy, "A few jnore niggers to offices up north and a few more to our southern postoffioes. Go thc whole hog while you are at it. McKinley gave you a starter by ap pointing a negro over a white com munity at Ilogansville, and another t Athens, tho cultured college city j thc South but he got alarmed and took the back track. It was just such ? case as you have now in Mississippi at Indianola, for the people at Hogans ville went 1 milo to get their mail rather than take it from a negro-a dirty politican." Teddy has done no florae on the postoffi.ee line. The postoffices are the people's not the president's. They aro almost as near to as and as sacred as is our preacher or our family physician. No greater insult, no greater outrage upon our rights, could bo perpetrated by a tyrant than to appoint a negro as post master in a white community. The difference between Teddy and Mr. McKinley is that the latter played fool for a while and quit, but Teddy keeps it np and grows more defiant of southern opinion and southern indig nation. Sometimes providence afflicts the people with a fool; and sometimes ?th a knave to tyrannize over them, nt it looks like wo are to have both ool and knave in the same person, at "'he Lord loveth whom he chas eneth." A medical friend from over the line rites me that he has a growing sense f justice and abounds in sympathy or our long-suffering peoplo, but that eddy's deformity does notoome from riginal sin or total depravity, but rom physical defects in his anatomy, nd says: "I have studied his cranium and nd that he has too small a cerebel Qi. His occiput goes straight up 'rom the medulla oblongata and meets e sinciput at right angles and leaves 0 room for moral attributes. A per endicular back head like Teddy's in mates a fighting, bear-killing, athletio nd foolhardy man. The aphryon and [he meBsial plane, are champed gether and Teddy's baok head is a rpendicular plane without hill or ile. A man with a very small oere dlum is peculiar, and it will be found inspection of the sinoiput or fore ead that the nose and cheek bones nerally vost on an enormous jaw ne, or, as you might say, the jaw ne of an ass. If Teddy had lived Samson's day he would have re iced to have been his armour-bearer, d carried his jawbone some." Just so-exaotly-not only so, but o. I understand 'it all how, and mk my medioal friend. The lack cerebellum and medulla oblongata d occiput has made Teddy srssy out bears and negroes and other ?ck woolly things. But I should e to know what kind of a cerebellum it fellow Crumpaoker or Stump fer or Dirtdauber has got, that kes him so venomous toward our opie. At Teddy's request he has troduced a resolution to have a oom Uee appcioted to visit Indianola d see what our people are doing to e colored postmistress. Of. course, ?ill be appointed oh airman of the aiitt.ee, but I'll wager ten dollars don't go. He is nothing but a gas 1 *ud a coward. Mr. Th empson ed to get him to oome down to Ala a and see how the negroes' on his plantation were getting on. He invited and aooepted the invita it but he did not come. He was id. And that is what discourages ?bout any growing sense of justice vailing among the common people North. If they are getting any der why do they send suoh a malig t man to congress? Hating the th seems to be the stook in trade most of the northern members, e brainy man, like Charles Franois ?ms, have modified-and mollified maoh of late. Forty years ago ?as commanding a nigger regiment "> here for whioh I will never for e aim, but lately he han made a ch at Charleston and another in York, io whieh he says concom io right of a State to seoede: "If jeeept the judgment of modern eats and investigators it would as if the weight of argument 8 into the confedere ?a soale. Th? w waa settled by might and not by Then why don't they pen ?or soldiers and pay us for the [petty they destroyed-and ask our ?ou besides. Four generational John Adams, John Quincy 3B? his son Charles Frances ?ns and now this Charles Frances, I ?on,, and he is 70 years old and han 'forty years finding out that we the right to secede and they had ^ght to free our negroes without for them. Beaides all that, j aWiiiMtff?i?ViV ii'f?l?iiiliti'i?i?ilin-i i S LETTER. -po, CJaptain Bragg." institution. this Adams took charge of a whole regiment of our runaway negroes to fight us with. Low Wallace did the same thing. Yes, ho did worse. Be was president of the oourt that tried Wirz and convicted him and hung him on perjured evidence. The longer I live the more I am convinced that as a general rale the smartest men are the meanest-especially the politicans. Think of Henry Ward Beecher oreaoh ing from his pulpit that Sha P'S rifles were better than Bibles to convert the slave owners of the South, and so his people bought tho rifles and tho ammunition and told John Brown to go ahead. But the niggers were loyal to their masters and wouldn't burn nor kill nor destroy. And hence Lew Wallace and Adams and many others armed all they oould muster up and joined the grand army and marohod I them down upon our helpless women and children. At that timo there 1 were 30,000 runaways up North-fugi tive slaves-the meanest of the raoe and nobody but an unprincipled dog of a man would have lod them against us. Down further South the negroes mixed with gentlemen and were trae and faithful during the war and aB G&neral Henry R.Jackson said, they ought to have a monument built to their loyalty as high^as the stars. But, pshaw I What's the use of scratching the old sores? Let them scab over. Are wo not all brethren sinoe the Spanish war? Did not we all fight and bleed and die together in Cuba? Don't the editors and politi cal orators tell us that fraternal peaoe prevails between tho sections? Lam still Bick, and have been out of the house but twice in three months, and maybe that is why I brood and rumin ate over the wrongs we have suffered. When the spring comes- and the birds begin to sing and the flowers to bloors maybe I will write more loving letters; and if Teddy wilt retract and apolo gize for the lies he told on Mr. Davis I will let him alone, considering that his cerebellum is limited by the medulla oblongata and the siniput. I never read the modern novel. They come and they go and are forgot ten; but Miss Pet tu s, of Alabama, sent me the "Princess of Glendale," and I reluctantly took a glanoe at the first page and got caught. I turned the leaf and read on and had devoured one hundred pages before breakfast and all of it during the day. It is a faithful and charming recital of south ern home life on a big plantation be fore the war. Then the war oomes, with its distresses, and Forrest with three hundred men pursues .Straot with fifteen hundred and captures bim, and Miss Emma Sanson figures as a heroine in guiding Forrest across the river, and then oomes the sad atory of Sam Davis, the typioal south ern hero. Interest never flags in the beautiful story, and it will be a land mark for our ohildren and children's ohildren, for it is faithful to the troth of confederate history. _Bill Arp. Police man and Fanon. Polioemen ar?, as other men, rather sensitive of allusion to their failures. Richmond has lately suffered at the hands of burglars, and the burglars are still at large. A well known min ister met a polioeman in the street the other day at Richmond, and oould not avoid an allusion to the local topic "What a number of burglars there are about!" he said: "why don't you constables arrest them?" The polioeman regarded the minister solemnly. "Sir," he replied, "there are thousands of people going to hell every day. Why don't you ministers stop them?"-London Chroniole. Cares Rheumatism and Catarrh.-Medi cine Sent; Free. Send no money-simply write and try Botanic Blood Balm at our ex pense. Botanio Blood Balm (B.B.B) kills or destroys the poison in the blood whioh causes the awful aches in baok and shoulder blades, shifting r.uins, difficulty in moving fingers, toes or legs, bone pains, swollen mus ole* and joints of rheumatism, or the foul breath, hawking, spitting, drop pings in throat, bad hearing, sp coko flying before the eyes, all played Out feeling of catarrh. Botanio Blood Balm has outed hundreds of oases of 30 or 40 years standing after dootors. hot springs and patent medioines baa all failed. Most of these cured pa tients had taken Blood Balm as a last resort. It is especially advised for ohronio, deep-seated eases. Impossi ble for any one to suffer the agonies or symptoms of rheumatism or catarrh while or after taking Blood Balm. It makes the blood pure and rich, there by giving a healthy blood supply. Curoo are psrmaneut and not a patch ing up. Sold at drug stores, $1 per large Dottie. Sample of Blood Balm sent free and prepaid, also speoial medical advice by describing your trouble av.d writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Apersoual trial of Blood Balm is better than a thousand print ed testimonials, so writ? at once. Sold in Anderson by Orr-Gray Drag Co., Wilhite & Wi?hite and Evans Phar ?maoy. ORIENTAL BULLS. Examples of the Storieathe Arabs Teil About the Kurds. The Kurds in eastern Asia Minor are regarded by tho Arabs as stupid people, wont to make the sort of bull that in thc west is popularly ascribed to Irishmen. There is a collection of stories which tho Arabs tell about them of which these aro fair examples : Once a detachment of Kurds was crossing a stream which was so muddy that they could not seo their feet under the water. "Wc have lost our legs/' they said and stood helpless, bocause without legs they could not walk. After awhilo tho pasha came by. "What are you standing in that water for?" he* demanded. "We have lost our legs and cannot walk." The pasha got some of his attend ants to apply thongs to thc backs of thc legless Kurds, and of ccurso they jumped, thereby discovering their legs again. Whereupon they ali fell on their knees and thanked the pasha for having restored their legs. Once sonic Kurds wero standing under a cliif. "No one knows how high that cliff is," said one. "No," replied another, "and a stranger might come by and ask us. It would be disgraceful not to know." "Then let us measure it." "But we have no line long enough." "Well, wo can measure it with our bodies. Let ono hang hy his hands to tho edge and another hang to his feet, and so on until wo know how many men it takes to hang tho wholo distance." So they started to form a living plumb line^ Just as the last man was climbing down tho top man tried to change tho position of his hands, and they all foll and broke their legs. "Oh, well/* said one when he came to, "we didn't need to know the height of tho cliff." "No," 6aid another, "so it doesn't matter."-Youth's Companion. A Milk Epidemic Of the typhoid epidemics traced to milk one of tho most typical was that at Springfield, Mas3., where in July and August of 1892 150 cases occurred concentrated in one of the most beautiful suburban districts of that city. The investigation by Pro fessor W. T. Sedgwick showed that the path of the pestilence was coin cident with tho route of a certain milkman. It was next found that a portion of his product came from a farm where several cases of typhoid fever had occurred during tho pre ceding summer. Shortly before tho outbreak of tho epidemic the dis charges from tho patients wero spread upon a tobacco field. Manure from this field carried-on the boots of the farmhands was* obvious ^about and in a well near by. On-tho bottom of this well and submorgAd in leaky cans stood the milk to-bo cooled'be fore it was sent ta Springfield. The chain of evidence was4husobmplete. -C?uE. A. Winslow injAtlanuc. Too Scientific. The principal trustes of school district No. 16 was entertaining a Soung man fresh from college who? ad driven out to bia .homo to apply for tho position of teacher of the school-in that district* As they sat on the porch after dinner the trustee-casual ly called at tention to a familiar little orange colored bug iwith hlack; spots on its back that wasscxawiingion the floor. "T s*pose yoo^arorohatVthat is ?" hesaid. "Yee/* replied the applicant^, ea ger to show hia technioalirnowledge. ?Ihat is a Oocchoeila- septempunc tata," "Young mon," was the- rejoinder, "a feller thatKlon't know* a ladybug when ho sees it carr*t get my vote fur teacher in this district." Youth's Companion. A Disintegrating Bachelor. A good looking,, well to^do bache lor who was being teased by the young women of the club for not marrying offered ?to make the girl whom the-club should elect Iiis wife just to show -them . that he was not averse to matrimony. Each girl went to a corner and wrote her choice on a pieco. of paper,, disguis ing her handwriting. There wore nine members of the-ohib,.and the result -eho weeWco-votovf or each.Th o O.. man is still. a bachelor, but lb is brokextap, and its mem bers aro all mad at each other. Kaneao City Sta?. An Old dtory. Tm sorry wo haven't much of s dinner/* said Spratts to Bkobump &E, whom he had urged to stay for that meal. Toa ought to have dropped in last ovening. $9o-$iadro stunning dinner theta. *Why, papa/* - chirped Sammy Spratts, "that's Just ?ttet you toidi M*. Waddells at ?hxa&r yoev?vday/' fi _AT m? mp <r*^ jg? jg i B?an tu _^Ths Kind Yoa Hare Always Booght Signatare of - Perhaps the worst thiog ?bout rheumatism is the apparent necessity of listening to everybody's oure for it. - When a man fails it is owing to ?Mroumstance past all human oontrol, but when he succeed s it is all due to his personal ability-so he says. '~~ HOME OF THE MOLE. _________ ? 8?ne of the Peculiarities of This Odd Little Anima!. Tho home of the mole, if not Mug j else,.would provo that it is not tho j dull creature most people imagine it | to bc. Viewing it from tho outside, [ this home would appear to lie oniv o hillock of firm and well trodden earth, but if it were possible for you to pay t ie molo a visit you would be greatly surprised at what you would find under the mound of earth-a 6nug, leaf lined sleeping chamber in thc very heart of the hillock, two galleries, ono near thc top, another near the bottom, connected with each other and with the main high road and tho "runs" which radiate from it in every direction by pas sages of various lengths. Ic would all be very bewildering to you, but to thc little builder it is all plain-every passage, where it begins and where it leads. And if by chance it hp surprised in its nest it can withdraw into the central cham ber and reach the highroad at once. The mole is said to be a very thirsty animal, and if its home be not near a stream of water it digs a number of little pits or wells along its "run" to catch the rain or dew. A mole's eyes are very small (lar ger ones would bc useless under ground), but when it requires to use them it can bring them forth very quickly from the mass of fur which protects them. Thc quick car, thc acute sense of smoll and the delicate sense of touch seem to serve tho an imal in its dark journeys through the earth instead of sight, and it is by means of theso senses that it se cures its food and escapes its foes. The most extraordinary thing about a mole is the paw or hand with which it digs. Thc two fore paws are very large and are fur nished with strong flattened nails. The hands are turned outward to enable thc animal to throw tho earth out of its way. Another curi ous part of the mole is its fur, and no matter how damp and slimy tho mold through which the animal bur row's the fur remains perfectly clean and velvety. That is because it has no "grain," but lies smooth in every direction. The short hairs grow perpendicular from the skin and are capable of turning with ev ery direction of the animal. Food For Toy Dogs. Most people overfeed toy dogs, and the result is a fat, unhealthy looking specimen, with a foul breath and rough, staring coat. Some food is supposed to be better than others in the growing of coats. My experi ence has been that there is nothing so good for toy dogs as a judicious mixtvre of finely cut up boiled meat -beef or lamb necks are the cheap est and answer tho purposo admira bly-soared bread from which the yeast has been squeezed out, boiled vegetables, such as potatoes, carrots, spinach, beans, etc., and occasional ly rice, barley and oatmeal. To this siiould be added the soup in which' the meat has been boiled, the mix ture when finished being sufficiently firm to take out in a spoon without spilling. Once a day is sufficient for the average toy dog, but for this there is no cut and dried rule, an active dog of a nervous tempera ment needing more food than tho ordinary specimen.-Outing. Sorry He 8poke. ? young matron whoso girlish clearance sometimes subjects her to the persecutions of impudent strangers neatly rebuked ono of those public nuisances on an elevat ed railroad train recently. He was dressed in a style that ho regarded cs very "fetching," and ho ogled the young woman persistently. Finally he edged through tho crowd until he was directly in front of her, when he bent down and, lifting his hat, said: "Beg pardon, but I'm sure I've met you somewhere." "Oh, yes"- began tho.young wo man, in a pleasant voice. "Delighted"- broke in tho youth ecstatically. "You aro the young man who calls on our cook," continued the young woman in a clear voice. "I'll tell Mary that I saw you."-New. York Post. . Joya pf Flat Lifo. "What time of night was it," asked tho judge, "when you heard the pistol shot ?" "Between 1:30 andf?," rep?e?Vthe witness. "Have you a striking clock ?fc?_h'Q house?" "Now" "You say you had retired early and the room was-darki" ?*Yea." Then how do ypa know what time.it .was?" "Because tho people nv tho, flat above had just run np tKojTdtrmb waitwr to put thefe^milM bottleevon and the family for* the 'flat below: _?a_nr\>shakon -down tforr'__?cfc?n limy Eft"-?towar-fl?tewfe* - A red nose may be due to the rays of the sun or to tho raise of thc glass. - It seems olear that so many crook ed people find themselves in straight ened circumstances. - It is generally understood that a man dislikes a (dippery pavement when ho is down on it. - It may bo hard for somo people to be poor, but for others it is tho ca o ott thing in the world. A WORD TO FARM TOILERS. PAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND The Home Friend of the Farmer and His Family. After the labors arni toils of thc summer time, and harvesting of crops in thc early autumn, many of our farmer*, their wives, daughters, and sons, find themselves in a condition of health demanding careful attention if suffering is to be avoided later on. Many experience kidney trouble in some form; with some the liver is torpid; there is biliousness, nausea, and vomiting, with loss of apatite and depression of spirits. Thousands who have l>cen exposit to cold, damp winds ami rains while toiling in the harvest fields, now feel thc twinges of terrible rheumatism; others run down by worry, overwork, and irregular dieting, are tormented with the pangs of dyspepsia. To the thousands of run down, sickly, and half dead men and women in farm homes we recommend with all honesty and confidence the worker's friend, Taine's Celery Compound, the only medicine that can quickly and fully restore strength to tho weak body and vigor to the muscles. Taine's Celery Compound tones the stomach; it removes poisonous acids from the blood which cause ihcumatism; it feeds the weak and diseased nerves and banishes neuralgic tortures; it purifies the blood and gives true vitality and hie. The usc of Taine's Celery Compound in uJtumn means thc estab lishing of a perfect physical vigor to withstand thc rigors of a severe winter. DIAMOND DYES for children'* c'Mhci arc most serviceable. They Color jackets, coats, capea, ribbon., stockings, aa well aa dresses. No other dy ca equal Dia mond Dyei fa variety of uses* they never disappoint. Wo have a- .pedal department of ndvtce, und will nnnwer tree any questions about dyeing. Bend samplo of goods when possible. Direction book and 45 dyed samples freo. DIAMOND DYE?, Burlington, Vt. CHEERFULNESS. Bodily Health and Mental Condition Are Both Benefited by lt. Some of the sunniest dispositions, are those of. confirmed invalids who. have the strength of will to ignore, their own sufferings in order not to cast a gloom over their family and friends. So that it is not so much a condition of bodily health as of moral, and we cannot doubt that the physical condition is largely influ-. enced by tho prevailing state of our mind. It is not only that "a merry heart makcth a cheerful counte nance," but it also helps to make a healthy body, for we are told by the same authority, "A merry heart do eth good like a medicine." Tho correctness of ibis latter statement is seen in thc fact that it is much easier for a person to recov er from an attack of illness if he ia cheerful and hopeful than when ho is cither indifferent as to Iiis recov ery or despairs of. iL This is alto gether aside from the strength of purpose which often helps one to throw oil an illness by sheer force of will - - Just as tho bodily health is im proved by cheerfulness so tho men tal condition is benefited by iL A sour, nervous, melancholy person cannot take a correct Cview of any-j thing. It affects" his judgment inj business matters, inclines him al ways to take a gloomy view of r'tha state of trade and to believo that' every transaction. in which ho en gages is suroto provo ii failure. Wera the business ^world largely made npj of such men there would bo an ena; to every enterprise which involved] any element of chance, for thejj would bo unwilling to risk money in any venturo unless its result wera absolutely certain to be a success? Besides this a morose man never judges his fellow men fairly, but ho is always on tho lookout for flaws in their character, and few persona oc cupying subordinate positions in business realize how much tho value of their services is increased by tho cheerfulness with which they, are rendered.-Charleston Nows. Reason For Rejoicing. Whon Wesley and Nelson were traveling through Cornwall, from common to common, preaching to a people who heard willingly, but sel dom or never profferod them tho slightest acts of hospitality, they, were frequently hungry. They were detained somo timo at St. Ives because of the illness of ono of their companions, and their lodg ing was little bettor than tlieir faro. "All that time," taya Mr. Nelson, "Mr. Wosloy and I lay on tho floor-! Ile had my greatcoat for his.pillow_, and I had Burkitts 'Notes on tho New Tcstamont' for minc. "Af tor being hore/nearly, threei weeks ono morning about 3 o'clock Mr. Wesley turned over and, finding mo awoko, clapped mc on tho side saying: 'Brother NcLson>JLot-.uft bo OB good choor. Wo havo much to ro goico in. I have ono wholo-sido vet, for tho skin is only off ona^d?^" Lincoln's WK Won? Wlrc?vJoeeph Jcileroot ?.was?a boy*, he used to tramp. from^oAvnv tc* town in tho United States as a small memboc af his ia thor's traveling oomp?nfJHkiy of?oo st ruck-t?to ?owp of Sprmgfiold," 111.,, at AliriH**vhen af groot aelagaous rot?wftl Attain full ewing. ' In tho VP0 a* -pi&no?xte any plajiActing .at ?euch acperiod^fJi? iovm oooncilcIe?Tmnded alieayy.Tfoo for permission. This wes a .serious matter for-jtho strollers- who>lu?d;to cai n their daily brood, anti, a ioc?V lawyer took up their 'case out x>f good will. 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