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Bm is Sick Bui Atlanta C Kind friends, please forbear. I know that ibo liwu xor opr&sbsitions I0d debates and estaV? near at hand, but J ?ni siokaad casuot help you this spring. I am weak and don't want to strain my =?mied. ? haven't beeo ouS cf (tho house bat twice in three months. My wife and the doc? tor watch me ?nd won't let no go. A fe? ?eeks ago I slipped ?ff to my daughter's ono pleasant evening and had to be hauled back in a buggy, for it is up hill to my house, and I was weaker than I thought. You Bee I hada sunstroke last June and. have sever recoveredfrom it. Every night, if the weather h bad, I have to get up about midnight and ?it by the fire ?nd cough for an hour or two.. But I can answer letters ?nd have from a dosen to a score every day. It pleases me to answer thc letters of the young folks, for many of them need help. I know that I did when I waa away off st school. My father was an old school teacher and knew how to help me. He wrote nearly all of my junior orator's speech arid I got credit for it, though I only crooned the t's and dot ted the i's and put n y name to the end of it. But there are hundreds of boys and girls who have no help ?nd am sorry for thew and eo for many years past I bavo tried to balp them. Some of them just went help a little, a few ideas, but others want the whole thing. In fact., one boy asked me to write bim two so that he could take choice. Many, of them forgot to en close a stamp and my postage account got to be such a burden that, as Bip Van Winkle said, "I swore off" and quit ?SSn??i?g Duoh letters. It is bad manners to Write to aman on busi ness that does not concern him and expeothim to pay the return postage. I receive many long manuscripts with request toreadand criticise and return and tell where to havo published and what the writer will probably got paid for them. I have two on hand, just received-no stamps enclosed-ono is a grammatical curiosity. Hardly a line that does not contain bad gram? ?uar or a misspelled word. It takes nearly half a line for tho word "spec tacles" and it has fourteen, letters in it. The word engel is spelled angle, and yet the writer expects to get paid for the story. The other manuscript is an inquiry into the raoe problem-no stamps-^ and it contains seventeen questions for rae to ass???. A??ih?r long ?ot ter on fool's oap writes of the good old times and says in conclusion that if I will answer it ho will write mo again and put his name to the nett letter. There is nv name to this. He is an Irishman, I reckon. Ono other request I wish to make about Utters. Please place your pos toni oe address plainly at the bottom. Many ? tim? I have passed a letter all around the family trying to decipher the signa ture. Sometimes I have cut the signa ture off and pasted it on the baok of the reply, thinking that probably the postmaster at the writers home would recognize it. If the postoffiee is omit ted and the postmark cc the envelope is blurred, as it frequently is, it ia impossible to know where a reply should be sent, 2nd if I guess at it ind guess wrong it go?s to the dead letter office. Now you youBF people must not forget these little things, xor they are important, especially the Hamps. Sometimes we literary men ere greatly perplexed to know what to do with some letters* One more request. Do not write ie me at Atlan ta. I do not live there. My home is Carterville, and I thought everybody knew it by this'time. I baye been living here over twenty years. And now let me ask the good chari table ladies who seek to do something for some good cause to - eend.no more endless chain letters to me. They .re a nu ?san?."? and have annoyed me greatly. I thought that when that j common ob\>at and swindler,Joel Smith [ of Monticello, Fla., Was broken up and arrested "the endless chain business kad stopped, but of late it has reviv ed and 7. received three last weest. One of them started In Canada fdr a go*called missionary work and got all fte way down v\ Louisiana and from there to me, wanting me to copy two letters and send ten cents in Christ's name, and under no oircustanoes to break the cbaiUi, !prolke) it. sad shall brc&k every ene that comes to me, and shall bwro. tho letters for they never contain any rotura postage. Some years ago the good , ladies of ^redrieksburg, Va^ wrote to me say log they wantsd shout ?hw vrvsOO to taco headstones tq tho graves of, 280 leorgia soldiers who were buried there. I m?do an earnest appeal to our people ?ad ?oked for a dollar from oh good man cr woman, and I raised 0 in three weeks. Adjutant Gen ral Phil Byrd sent xas $2 ali the way rom. Now Brv,Atwick. I bought the 'S LEITER. ; is A ble to Talk. 'costitution. ^ marble, oil lettered nioely, from the northern mon who own the worka et Munetta-bought them ftt one dollar each, whioh wee leas thea the obst, for the company said they helped to pat oar boys there and tbey ought te? help mark ?heir graves. The railroads shipped them free. There tras no endless chain in that business, Three thousand aeglected Confederate graves at Marietta! Oar boys, our dead, buried .on our soil, died in defense of their homes, .their State, their people? On the ether side of the railroad oro about as many who were trespassers on our soil-vandals who came aa in vaders with arms and torchon, nod their graves are marked with costly marble and adorned with gravel walks and flowers sud evergreens, and there is a greed entrance to their city of the dead, all done by the national government, and a keeper employed. And yet it is. now eettlod we were right and they were wrong. Oh, liberty and union I what crimes have bnen committed in thy n^e. But Seorotary Boot aeons to be a good man and is going, to help us make up the roster, tho muster roll of oar living and our dead. Maybe he will get ? little, closer to us and help Che Marietta women to oak? their Con i federate graveyard just aa elegant and ornam?ntalas the ono on the other aide. Why not try him? Dead, sol diers are. uot enemies to each other j and if theirs coul? sp ? ak. m&ybe they would say, "Give us your bandi broth er." Is it not sbcut time for our wo men to moke an appeal to the govern ment for aid in th?H patriotic -erk? iot only for Marietta, but wherever our soldiers are buried. Marietta has many northern visitors who spend their winters there, and it seems to mo if they brought along a heart sd a soul with them, they would go to these ladies and say, "Hore are ten dol lars. ? Please mark ten of those graves for me." But I reekon most of them: just bring their bodies and leave their hearts at home. Why not do as our Mr.. Granger did? ?Tust as soon as our ladies start ed a move to , build a monument to General Young and our Bar tow heroes, ho was the first to ask the privilege of subscribing $25 to the cause. He has gotten it all beek already in our good will and gratitude. He brought his heart with him when he moved down, here and his wife brought her whole soul. She is always doing something for somebody. Bill Arp. Ho CrJow te Seep Skirts Dry. Joplin, Mo., March 26.-Holding the skirts above the ankles aa far as the weather conditions necessitate, in the opinion of 'ths weaver of the skirts does not render a woman liable to ar rest and punishment ic ?his city, ac cording to a ruling made to-day hy Judge Potter, in the First Polios Court, in the ease against Miss Flo Bussell,' a girl arro J ted for holding ter skirts high and * dry on a rainy nay. ?!tie young lady, who wore a very handsome silk petticoat and attractive hosiery, attracted considerable atten tion on the street and a con seien doa o policeman arrested her. Miss Bussell denied that she had hold her skirts too high, and to prove her case gave a demonstration in tho Conti) room for the benefit of tho Judge, oho wing him how she held her skirts and that,, without so doing, her clothing would have been ruined by the mud, The Court discharged her with an apology for her humiliation by the pDHoo department. --mimj-m B Wi -~ Cures Bleed Pelton, Cancer, Ulcer*. E?ssmi, Carbuncles, Si?. Medioinfc 8ent Farce. Robert Ward, Massy's, Ga., says: {*i suffered from blood poison, my head, face and Shoulder? were one mose of corrup tion, ?OUCB in bones and joints, burn ing, Hobing, scabby skin, was all run down and discouraged, but Botanic Blood B"3*^ cured mo perfectly, heal ed all tee sores and gave my skin the rich ?low of health. Blood Balm put now life into my blood and new ambi tion into my brain." Geo. A. Wil liams, BoxD?ry, face covered with pimples, chronic sore on back of head, suppurating swelling on neck, eating ulcer oa ls?, bono pains, ?itching skin, cured perfectly by Botanic Blood Balm-sores all healed. Botanic Blood Balm, cures all malignant blood troubles, such ss cosama, ?cabs and scales, pimples, running sores, car buncles, Sorofula, etc. Kspeoially advised for ali obstinate cases that have reached the second or third stage. ^Druggists, $1 per large bottle. 8amnlo of Botanic Blood Balm freo and "prepaid by writing Blood Balm Oo,, Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and special medical advice sent ia sealed letter. Sold in Anderson by Orr GrayDrugCo., Wilhite & WU bite and Evans Pharmacy. - If eve** mao s^?? mate, his own worth wo would have no uso for smar( money. A Queer Superstition. Raleigh, Maroh 27.-A at negro superstition is diaoovercd Tva policemen wore carrying a man to the station Louse and when asked what waa his offence QUA ot them remarked that he was a chicken thief and had been found with the chickens in his possession, in other words, was caught at night with the chiokens in a bag. A negro standing near, who heard the policeman's state ment, said with a smile: "Dat nigger didn't haye hie hone with him." When asked what he meant by this he said: "I mean he didn't have his oat bone in his pockel 'round his neck io a bag.'? > Tho negroes believe, certainly a great many of the older ones, that the possession of what they call a "cat bone" gives the owner invisibility, a quality of prime necessity to a chick en thief. The bone in question is the tail bone of a oat, and must be none other than a black oat, and must be further procured ia no other w*y than by putting' tho cat while alive into a pot and boiling it away until the skele ton oan be lifted out and the tail bone obtained. John T. Ross, a white man, who was several years a guard of S tato con victs, says that one o? these during the noon hour one day obtained per mission to build a fire and do some cooking. He produoed from a bag a black cat and dropped it into the pot wherein the water was boiling. Sev eral ether convicts gathered around in the proceedings, particularly when later ia the afternoon the convict .got out the desired bone. He explained hie desire for this ownership by say ing that after he had served his term he might want togo into the "ohioken business." The matter came up again as to the oat bone in rather an amusing way. While walking in a part Of t-booity in habited entirely by negroes, several large chicken coops in a ,?rd nero noticed, all empty. A short passage led fros.th? street, io the coops, which was narrow and immediately at one side .Of the house. Under the house was a very Bavage bulldog who had plenty of ohain to enable him to roach" | the passage way. When the darky owner, of the house W?S asked what had become of. all bis chickens, he re plied, with an air of marked sadness: "One night las' week dey cum er'long and Gtolo evry one un'em." When asked why the dog did not get the dar ing thief the owner of the dog said, | with a very apologetic manner: "De dog couldn't see the thief nohow, for the rascal had de bono v/id him. Of course nobody and no ?beasts either oan see 'ern'when dey have de bono." A cumber of negroes believe in this bone business who are ashamed to own lt. There is a growing sentiment among tho negroes of ?Q!?o**Ksg super stition, because they hear it ridiouled, and not n few of them believe in it just tho same.--Charlotte Observer. Cairne of Bigomy. To the Editor of The State: In a recent editorial paragraph' you calle d attention to the faot that it is getting to be deplorably common for the news papers in South Carolina to publish account? of bigamy casos, and you also remark that tho nomadic life led by the mill operatives renders the family relations uncertain. . We fear that as factories are multi plied, and the factory population in* creases, bigamy will also increase, and in many instances the law will be powerless. Suppose that a man in one factory town leaves his wife and children, takes.an assumed name and rans off with another woman to a fac tory town where they are both ?>tal strangers, who in that town is to ap ply the law to them? Who is to oven know that they are not legally hus band and wife? It is said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of oure, and we honest ly believe that marriage licenses, to some extent, would bea preventive.of bigamy. Let the law require that it be stated where ?&oh of the contract ing parties are frO?a and let the iioense bo recorded. Such a law, we think, would cause thc, marriage tie to seem more binding. Tho contracting , par ties would feel that as the marriage was recorded, it would-be amore risky business recorded. At least it seems so to ns. \V ; Timen chango ant?, new things arc needed, and among the laws which Booth; Carolina, needs is enc providing fer marri ego licenses. Anything which is conducive to morality, is a public benefit, and if marriage licenses will check tho growing spirit of biga my (and we believe they will), then it is the duty of tho general assembly to give us such a law. McDonald Forman. Privateer, Sumter Co., Maroh 25, im.,. ' - , m-l p ? B?ant!? . r^Th?KindYeajtowt?wgBfXQ^ aigaatss? ' cf .- When they have Ifoen measurc?, most heroes have been found to come |s half-sires. -rit's terrible for a girl to hove a tiny frcoklo on her uppsr lip. Sparrows Started a Fire? S T- '* "-.il. . *; . ? "Seem* them fire engines reminds rae of tho time my house burned ecv j?rai years ago,".paid a countryman the 4?ther* evening as he stood on Monroe is tree t watching the fire apparatus clatter by. "For along time there waa considerable mystery about the blaze, and I was about to aoouse a neighbor of mine of scttis' the pitee afire, because I had kind o' swindled 'him in a horse trade. But he was te innoobnt as a baby, I found out later. "I woke up one night and the smoke was pour in' through the house. It seemed to be oomin' from up-otairs we had one of them big farm nooses, you fc?ow--and I tumbled out o' bed, and in about two jumps landed at the top of tho stairs. The flames was a ragia' all along one side of the house just under the eaves and fl ar in' up under the rafters. We had no way of fighting the fire, and all we could do waa to save a few things. "The insurance company gave me a pile o' trouble,'but finally paid me. TL wy deolared the house was set afire, and I kind o' thought so, too, but I wasn't a-goin' to say so. Well, eir, that thing set so on my mind that I resolved to play Sherlock HolmeB and find out what started the blaze. "What do you suppose did it? English sparrows. Yes, sir, English sparrows was the. oause of me losin' my home and nearly everything in it. There was a big shed near the house, and on the side that burned first. I Was studying how the fire could have been started under the eaves, when I remembered the sparrows had built a lot of nests there. I began tearin' the nests out of the shed, and among the stioks and straws I round a lot of matones. I remembered then about droppin' a box of the matches in the yard, and when I found it most of the matches was gone. Tao birds had carried them away and used them in building the nests. Of comeo I didn't know jest how the mutches got fired. I but ? am certain the sparrows were to blame for burning the house down. When I built a new house I fixed it so the only plaoe a sparrow eoald light on it was on top of the roof." Chioago Inter-Ocean. Will ho Reunited. Now Bedford, Mass., Marah 25. After an absence of forty y euro .Edwin Bow, of Newark, N. J., who accumula ted a fortune out West, is to remarry his wife. Dow some time after his marriage disappeared, leaving word that he would not return until he had made his fortune and oould . give his family a better home. A few years later hf rs? Dow secured a divorce and was married to Captain W. J. Norton. Dow made his f ortuue and returning found his wife was happily married. He nude himself known to hie daugh ter, and pledging her to seoreoy,. told her hie story. She was only to reveal the aeoret upon Capt. Norton's death. Captain Norton died two years ego and Dow carno on from the West, and meeting his former wife, asked her to remarry him. She consented, and the marriage will take plaoe Sunday. NOTHING is more gratifying to well-equipped outfit to begin his Sprinj he does his trading with us. We can i PLOW PLOW SINGJL HEEL CLEV1 HAME TRACI COLL? COLL; BACK PLOW BRID! And everything necessary to begin plo "sight" you to a Mule trade, We still have a few Syracuse Tun very low price, and can furnish you wi Come in and let us show you our ' pair. Nothing in th? Trace line comp: Don't you need a hog pasture ? 1 BROCK HARDW THE PEOPLES] BED ROOM SUITES, PARLOR PURNIT?E DINING ROOM WHITE Efl HAT RACKS, WINDOW BI MATTRESSES, very ch STOVES-come f Everything in the Furniture I THE Pi e??5? a River. Until about the beginning of the last decide all the geography dusses in our Bohools were taught, and cor* reetly, that tho oity of Vicksburg, Mies., made historio duriogkthe Civil War, was situated ou the bank of the Mississippi River. Thia statement, however, ceased to be a fact seine tea or more years ago, when the Father of Waters, in one of his erratic moods, forced a new ohannel for himself and left Vicksburg perched on a high bluff several miles inland. Tho town, whioh had been ono of the most im portant steamboat ports on the big stream, was thus suddenly deprived of muon of thc tramo that had oaused it to prosper. Strangely enough the misfortune wac an eoho of the famous siege of Vicksburg, and Geo. U. S. Grant was primarily responsible for it. In order that the Union gunboats might run past tho sho.'o batteries un harmed Grant sought to divert the waiere of the Mississippi away from the oity by digging a new ohannel. Tho great river refused at the time to take the new course marked out for it, but it eventually did so, more than thirty years after such aotion co ..ld be of any use to the Union army. Naturally the people of Vioksburg did not acoept with good grace the Mississippi's belated performance, so damaging to their material interests. They olamored for a restoration of the old days when they dwelt near navi gable water and when stately floating palaces touohed at their wharves and trade flourished. They appealed to Congress for aid and the national law makers made an appropriation for con structing a canal northward to the lassoo River. This oanal was recent ly completed and the water was let in to the ohannel deserted by the Missis sippi. The flow was abundant and filled the opaco from bank to bank, making Vicksburg onco more a river town. The event oaused general rejoicing is thc city, whioh LBS already begun te feel the good effects of renewed trafilo.-Leslie's Weekly, Would Take Care Of Himself. ' At an East Side kindergarten a few days ago a visitor gave a silver dollar to a bright little boy. "Now," she said, "what are you go* iog to do with it?" "I'll have it ohanged into halveH," said the boy without a moment's hesi tation. "And then?" asked the questioner. "1*11 get quarters.". "And then?" "I'll get dimes, and then niokols, and then pennies." "What will you do then?" asked the visitor smiling. "I'll get niokels." said the boy. "But why will you get nickels when you already have them?" "Huh," answered the bright youth, "somebody may make a mistake in ohange. And it won't be mo."- Es ohange. - The fun of being a fool over a woman is the enjoyment you get out -of the fun she gets out of it. - You must never tell a girl ?hen you are going to kisB her-nor any body else after you have gone and done it. G TOOLS! an up-to-date Farmer than to have a % work, and this he is sure to get when tell you ' STOCKS, E TREES, BOLTS. [CES, ?Si SS, % LRSa kR PADS. BANDS, - LINES, ?ES* wing, except the Mule, and we cai u Plows that we are closing out at a th the Terracing Wing. 7-foot Perfection Trace Chain at 50e ires with this Chain. #e have the Wire Fence for you. ARB COMPANY. FURNITURE CO. -E, FURNITURE, TAMELED IRON BEDS, IADE8, Etc. eap in price, md see them. # line. ?OFIiES FURNITURE CO. The best of barley, hops aad yeast, selected by one of our partners. Pure water, from six wells driven down to rock. Pure air, which has first passed through an air filter. Every drop of Schlitz Beer filtered by machin* ery through masses of white wood pulp. Every bottle sterilized, so that it contains no germs? Thus we double the necessary cost of our brew ing to make purity certain-to make Schlitz Beer healthful. Will you drink common beer, and pay just as much for it, when Schlitz Beer can be had for the asking. Ask for th? Brewery Bottling* For aalo at all dispensario* In thc State, ia quart and pint bottles. FRESH SEEDS ! IRISH POTATOES. White Bliss. 40o a Peck. Red BHFS.40c a Peck. Early Rose,.40c a Peck. Goodrich.40c a Peck. Burbank.40o a Peck. Peerless.40c a Peck. FRESH PKA8 AND BEAN?. Paper Seeds three for 5c. Onion Sets-Red and White. Fresh Watermelon Seed. Pratt's and International Stock Food. EVANS PHARMACY, ANDERSON, S. C. Wkat Growers! TAKE NOTICE. Do not Fail to try our Specially Prepared 8 1-2 2-2 Petrified Bone Fertilizers for Grain? We have all grades of Ammonkted Fertil izers and Acid Phosphates, also Eamit* Ni trate of Soda and Muriate of Potash; all put up in new bags ; thoroughly pulverized, 'and no better can be found in the market We shall be pleased to have your order. IHEUli PHOSPHITE MD OIL CO Why Not Give Your House a Coat of r AM? You can pat it on yourself-it is already mixed-and to paint your house would not cost you more _ than/. J^ive or ?ix Dollars! SOLD BY Orr "Gray & Go. CH B ? 0 2? S S3 B H pd ? ? td 0 td Q ? W td 2 O < M ? OD O ? ? H 3 H O Q hj M GD > A M > 11 B co o o o M 6" ts HOME SEEKER EXCURSION RATES VIA The Western and Atlantic Railway and Nashville, Chat tanooga and St. Louis Railway, To points in Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Missouri. Solid vesti buled trains between Atlanta and Memphis Only piincipal western cities. Very low rates to allleinte Jo^?orAwesfrand fecsi. Best service and quickest time via the Seen?? Battlefield Route, <V>r schedules, rates, maps or any information, write JOHN E. SATTERPIELD, Traveling Passenger Agent, No. 1 Brown Building, Atlanta, Ga. S?ptl0,1002