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BYOLWKsCAi FS & LAN'GSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1896. VOLUME XXX. - NO 4L Ii WHY buy old shop-worn Go ods ? Goods that have been picked over, the best styles gone, when you can buy NEW GOODS at possibly less money than the old stuff cost you. Our Stock is NEW?"brim full" of all the latest styles the market ?ffords, Here's some prices for you to think over : 72 pairs good Jeans Pants, worth 75c. the town over, but we sell 'em for 50c. 144 pair s good Wool Pants, in brown and grey checks? the $1.50 kind. Our price $1.00. 48 pairs all-wool stripe Pants?the $3.00 kind. Going at $2.50. ' We have others on up to $5.00 and $6.00. SCHOOL SUITS FOR BOYS. Our line of Knee Pant Suits is the most complete line you can find, and the prices are?well, we have 'em from 75c. up to $6.00. Send your Boy in and let us fit him up. ? 0. EVANS 0 P. S?A, G. Means, Jr., is now with us. B. 0. E. & CO. OUR IDEAL BICYCLE Is a High Grade Wheel at a Low Grade Price. - There is nothing .Cheap atout them hut the Price ! THE IDEAL is thoroughly up to date in every respect, Narrow Tread, etc. Fitted with the Great G. & J. Tire. The Best Wheel on the Market for the Money. Don't take^our word for it?come and see for yourself. ? Yours truly, BBOCK BROS. iP. S.?We have on haDd a few Second-hand Wheels at a Bargain. FRESH AND PURE GARDEN SEED! OUR New Stock of . Seed have arrived, and we are selling them at ex tremely low prices. White Onion Setts. .15c. quart?2 for 25c. YeHow or Red Onion Setts. 10c. quart?3 for 25c. All Paper Seed.. 3 for 5c. The largest papers?twice as many Seed aa you buy for that money any where in the State. WATERMELON. PEAS, BEANS, &c, At correspondingly low prices. Our Seed are grown by The Cleveland Seed Co., of New York, and we have been selling them for ten years with perfect satisfaction to ourselves and customers. When ready to plant your garden come and see us and we will save you money. ORR & SLOAN, BB*?2$s?? BENSON BOUSE CORNER. MS?SjMSMjSj I'lWMWWMBIBMIMBOWMIWaBMMOBMMBBBMBMMI Bed Bug Destroyer, For Spring House Cleaning. Get a Bottle. GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS, all kiinds, -AT EVANS' PHARMACY. DRY S^lXiING-! IS the only voyage that's good for the health. Warmth is worse than noth ing without drynes3. Wet feet may bring on any number of ailments, Wearing our RUBBERS in had weather guarantees dry footing. That's the only way you c?n be sure of being dry. Our Rubbers are high, well made, durable, and impervious to dampness. Nothing iu Rubbers can be better or cheaper than ours. Reinforce your Rubbers with our Al SHOES. THE YATES SHOE CO. Masonic Building, Anderson, S. C. NEW JEWELRY STORE ! JOHN M. HUBBARD, IN HIS NEW STORE.IN HOTEL BLOCK LOTS OF NEW GOO RS. NOVELTIES [N PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. ONE JENT TO $100.00. p&~No cbanre for EnirrnviDR. JS^The^re'tie^t Qoods iti the T'i<vn, ?n<1 q r)lf>Honrp *r> .!mw tham. P. S.?IfVo'i n*ve looaots -vinb X. \? '?U'r'.B vR'> <fc URO. moke settlement wi'! meat above place, JOHN SI. HUBBARD. SARGE PL?NKETT. The Promise Now Is for un Abundant Fruit Crop This Yu&r. Atlanta Constitution. Brown has what we call a lazy grin that comes upon him with the spring and grows with the heat of summer? that grin is just sprouting now. This old friend of mine is a queer genius when it comes to weather. He wrestles with the weather all the time. When it is cold it is almost impossible to get him up ia the morn ings, and he shivers and complains through all the day, but when the earth begins to warm up he takes upon his face a grin that continues there until time to go to shivering again. That grin is the safest uign I have ever planted?I shall plant corn to morrow. Everything is bright and cheerful on the farms, considering that the people are just entering upon a heated political campaign. It is just the time in country life to bo cheerful if you ever can. The roosters crow louder and hens sing all ohe day, the turkeys strut prouder and the guineas saunter around looking up a nest which gives promise of pleuty of eggs in the near future. The fruit trees .add their charms of beauty with the promise of a bountiful yield, and who would not be cheerful? There has been a large increase in plow stock for this season, and che groucd is being turned in a hurry. Here is another delight. What is nicer than to walk over the mellow fields and smell the fresh turned earth? All these things have charms for the countryman, and we venture that there are mary in the cities who would be glad to come out with us and walk barefooted in the fresh earth?such could but stir up the most pleasing memories. How many would take delight in romping over the woods and gathering dogwood blossoms just as they used to do? ? stroll up and down the clear branches' amoug the honeysuckles and a sip from the cool springs on the way? this is one of the delights of spring time in Georgia that could but stir the sweetest memories. How many there are that fail in appreciation of these country delights we cannot say, nor could we say how many of fine city people there is that would be glad to take such a romp, but they are too busy or too fasionable. Some very rich people really think that they can not lose the time for a short rest in the country, and there are others who do not think it fashionable enough. I can tell these busy people that there would be nothing lost in taking ar. outing as suggested, and I can tell the fashionable people that no sweeter pleaures are to be had at the grand resorts. It is these fashionable peo ple that need the most of our pity. They cannot come out with plain country people and live cheap and romp over the fields and voods among the wild flowers and cooling streams from purely fashionable re isor.s. They must go to the seashore and watering places, and many of them are strained to keep up a style that tlrey could be relieved of by just going to some of the prosperous farm-houses right close home. I think these fashionable peo ple must feel somewhat as we boys used to reel when we would steal off fishing on Sundays. The thoughts of getting whipped upon our return marred the pleasures. A number of people live in a strain to keep in the fashionable whirl that could get all the benefits of a rest in the country cheaply and close by their homes. Last Sunday we went out to church and everybody seemed to be inspired with good cheer. I.like to watch these cheerful gatherings. It done me good to watch the young couples strolling to the spring and sitting out in the buggies during the recess. What they told each other there? some of them?we will never know, but pretty spring dresses and sweet young buds make the gijjs so charm ing that I am most sure the boys said just such things as the springtime naturally calls for from the young men? "In the spring the ynnne man'H fancy L'gbtly turns to thouebt? of love " This is as it should be. There is no more charming picture whan the groups of young people at a well regu lated and prosperous country church Little couutry children seem to look more cheerful now than has been their wont for a few years past. They are learning that to live in the country and to work on the farm is not so had a thing as once was thought. The parents are entitled to credit for this most desirable turn. They have quit bemoaning the hardships of a country life in the presence of their children. There is a great deal in imagination, and the children of a few years back had the right to imagine that any business was better than fanning. The whole talk of the young people tended this way. Lately there is mighty little grumbling. Farmers have got to believe that they are as gond as any other class, if not a little better, and this is a healthy condition and will leaven the young idea in such a manner as to stop the flow from the country that could result in nothing less than a great misfortune to the human family. There never was any excuse for this great rush of people tn the towns, nor was there ever any truth in the belief that once prevailed about the town people having such an easy time. The pressure on town people has been very much greater than many thought. I heard agood old gentleman say: "God bless Sunday.'' He told me that if it was not for the rest of Sunday he would soon land in the asylum. This came from a man that I had thought almost free from care, and it put me to thinking. Business. Business. The world is running wild on business. The world is overworked. Night must be turned into day. The great wheels must turn and the clatter of machinery go on. It takes millions of dollars to satisfy now where a Tew thousand used to satisfy. The richest man I knew before the war was rated at $200,000. He was a wonder in those days. He would not be so much now. A man starting out to get rich in these times would not think of stopping this side of millions. I have heard that there was not a millionaire in Georgia till since the war. Strain, overwork, never resting, and all for more money than one can devise what to do with. A man with $1,000,000 carmot rest, and neither can a man rest who has his heart set on making $1,000,000. There is too much of the strain ; there is too little of peaceful relaxation. We can see the need of this restfulness every where we look. There is great effort to supply the place of this rest by other means than by short sojourns in the rural districts. Prize fichting, ball playing and other excitements have been resorted to to relieve the teosion, but all such falls short. It does not satisfy and you may go on till you have the Spanish bull fights and not find the satisfaction. None of this can ease the tired brain nor will any such improve the morals of the country. My advice would be to take a trip to the country occasionally, especially in the spring. Commune with nature in the woods and fields. Go to bed with the chickens and lay there with out scheming to make money. This is what town people need and you can find the places without going to fash ionable places. Brown is down bait ing a fish hole now. and with the ex ception of that warm weather grin he looks as happy as can be. He is happy?happier than any town man can be while the craze for making milliona is at such a tension. Get out to the country and breath the fresh air of these spring mornings. Romp over the fields and woods and gather the wild flowers that are every where. It will not cost very much and it will build you up much better than to go to the fashionable resorts and it will have the good effect of impressing the country people around you that country life is not so bad after all, if we only knew it anrl would be satisfied. Sarge Pl?NKETT. A Tisit to Fort Sumter. When the Northern and Western travellers return home and apeak of having visited Charleston the two in terrogatories at once propounded are: "Did you go to Fort Sumter and did you see St. Mich l's Church?'' With a great many who have never been down this way FortSumterand Charles ton are synonymous, and to visit the old City by the Sea and not the Fort is thought to be more than passing strange. But for some months Uncle Sam has denied the Fort to visitors, and hundreds of tourists who would have been delighted to see the inside of the Fort were obliged to be content with a look at the outside. The work that was in progress has, however, reached a stage at which a halt must be made, and a week or two ago per mission was again granted for pariies to land. Two trips a day are now made to Sumter and Moultrie by the Mount Pleasant and Sullivan's Island Ferry Company's steamers, leaving Market wharf at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m., and these boats carry quite a number of tourists each trip. It is a pleasant voyage across the harbor on these bright spring days, and too soon over for many. The first stop is, of course, made at Mount Pleasant. Then the Island is touched, and finally the Pocosin swings up to the new wharf made by the Govern ment on the north side of Fort Sumter. A landing ib effected from the hurri cane deck and for about an hour the visitors are allowed to wander about through the casemates and bomb proofs and over the grassy mounds that cover them. Capt. Ferdinand Cherry, of the Ferry Company, who always brings the party over, is very attentive and explains the various positions of batteries, etc., on the neighboring islands, and, lantern in hand, acts as guide through the dark, echoing bomb proofs. The old Fort does not present a very warlike aspect at present. There are only a few old fashioned smooth bore guns mounted on the parapet, and two or three dis mantled ones lying in the centre of the enclosure. The east wall has been raised eight or ten feet in masonry, and preparations are being made to reinforce this with earth probarly thirty to forty feet in depth. The Artesian well is said to be a success, and this is certainly a good thing. The keeper's cottage is a pretty little place, and his pretty children are generally around to greet strangers with their innocent inquisitiveneBs. A visitor's book is kept, and upon it can be found the names of very many persons of note and importance. Em barking on the Pocosin again the voy agers are brought back to Sullivan's Island, and here an opportunity is given to visit Fort Moultrie. The sergeant in charge is found very oblig ing, and he conducts the visitors through the Fort. The dungeon where O-'ceola was confined is a spot of par ticular interest, and the bomb proofs here also are investigated, much to the disconcertion of the spiders aud other creeping things that make their homes therein. Moultrie has also some big old smooth bores mounted on her parapets and in the ordnance yard just back of the Fort a morter battery is apparently ready for action. In this yard there are dozens of dis mounted guns and thousands of shot and shell. Osceola's grave, just outside the Fort, is always viewed with interested curiosity. The marble slab has been broken in two and the corners chipped off by curiosity seekers, but it still retains its incription. Yesterday while a party of visitor:? were looking over the iron railing that encloses the grave a little colored girl came up and offered to sell them flow ers and sea shells. "Looks as though she might be a descendant of old Osneola himself," said one of the party, and so she did. Her complex inn was of a rich copper color, and her jet black hair was perfectly straight and her red hat and rather fantastic dress made her look a veritable Poca bontas, but she was a native Islander probably, and knew nothing of Indians further than the fact that the strangers who came and talked about "0>ceola, the patriot and warrior,"' sometimes irave her pennies for her flowers and shells. The Pocosin returns to the city from the morning excursion at 1.15 p. m., and from the afternoon trip at 6.30.?News and Courier. ? Old Lady?Little boy, did you see anything of a snow-white cat? "Yes. She fell into a barrel of black paint down the street; but I fixed her all right." "Oh, you good little boy. What did you do?" "I threw her into a barrel of whitewash." ? Most of the ivory that comes to the market is "dead"?that is, ivory taken from animals long since dead, and which has been stored away by the natives for years. There is no danger in Africa of the supply being exhausted for several generations at least. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the penso of smelt, a'd completely derange the whole system when entering it through the m?C"ua surfaces. Huch articles bhoul'i i ever be us d except on prescrip tions from reputable physicians, as the datiHg? they will do is ten fold to the g' od you can possi biy'der've from them Hall s alarm furo mumi fact tired by F J Cheney ft Co , Toled->, 0, enn taina ? o mercury, a d is taken internally acting directly upon tue bio d und mucous surfaces of t e system Tn buvi'ig IIti"s Catarrh 'urn h sure vnu get the g nuine. It (statten Interrn'ly' and made i T.-lddo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney $ Co. Ti'Ki iui'iiiials free. 4Sr*Sold t)y Prugglst?, prlco 75c. per bottle, DISPENSARY AND SALOONS. As Much Spent for Liquor now as Ever Before. Columbia Register. Every tree must be judged by its fruits. The old barroom bill whioh has been cut down in this State and by the new Constitution made impos sible in the future was the worst up to that time that, we thought could im agine. This tree, though planted and guarded by Satan, grew and flourished under the protecting nurture of the State. Although the barkeeper had to be a man of good moral character and was forbidden under severe pen alties of the law from selling to minors or drunkards, or on the Sabbath day, yet he was allowed by law and under its protection to sell that which de stroyed the people. The barkeepers did all that the law protected them in doing and then violated with impunity every provision of the law intended to restric the evils of the business. Why? Because the State and municipalities gained a revenue to their treasuries, though it was at a hundred times the cost to the people these governments were supposed to protect. Money was just what was wanted and no laws re stricting the sales were or could sin cerely be intended to limit the business. The more saloons, the greater the revenue to the State and city govern ment. But the time came when the people by a majority of ten thousand declared for simon pure prohibition. This had the effect of cutting down the old bar room tree. In its stead, however, there sprang up a young upas tree of just the same death dealing character as the one which preceded. One great difference is that this tree known as the Dispensary is the sole property of the State, planted, nourished and pro tected by the State herself. Now, what about its fruits ? Why, just examine them and see. This tree started about three years ago with only one shoot. It now has nearly one hundred branches, whose deadly shade extends over all the State only excepting, perhaps, two oounties. From each branch during the last year a flood of intoxicating li quors, aggregating near ten million bottles full of the fiery poison, has poured down the throats of drunkards, and costing in money over one million dollars, nearly all of which was sent out of the State. Besides the money cost direct, was the consequent loss of time, corruption of morals, thousands of homes reduced to beggary, misery untold, and crimes innumerable. For a young tree this is rapid progress. What it will be in three more years, who can tell ? Murder, suicide and other crimes of every kind just as truly follow the al cohol dispensed by the State over their counter (for it is the same devil in solution) as the liquors sold over the old saloon counters. It is true the barkeepers violated the law and sold to minors, drunkards, and to everyone else they could. But just the same result is obtained by the sales made by the State. No one can suppose that a million dollars of liquors sold last year went only down the throats of the sober people, and that none of the numerous arrests for drunkenness (over two hundred and fifty having been made in Columbia last year) was caused from Dispensary liquors. It is true the Dispenser takes a solemn oath which reads as follows : * I, -1-, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will well and truly per form all and singular the condition of the within bond, and keep and perform the trusta confided in me to purchase, keep and sell intoxicating liquors. I will not sell, give or furnish to any person any intoxicating liquors other wise than is provided by law, and especially, I will not sell or furnish intoxicating liquors to any minor, in toxicated person or persons who are in the habit of becoming intoxicated, &c. But when we hear how this solemn obligation is disregarded we are ap palled at the corrupting fruit of the dispensary tree. The barkeeper took no such oath of office and it is not surprising that for the greed of gain he would be heedless of any measure restricting the amount of his business. But the Dispenser solemnly obligates himself under pen altv of the consequences of perjury, &c, "to keep and perform the trusts confided in him," especially not to sell intoxicating liquors to any minor, intoxicated person or persons in the habit of getting intoxicated. If the restrictive features of the old saloon laws were not sincerely meant to limit the liquor business, and this we believe for reason given, neither can the restrictions thrown around the Dispensary system greatly limit this business, as just the same motive pre vails in both, namely, to make money. So long then as the radii of the State's visions is circumscribed by the al mighty dollar so long may it be ex pected the officials to disregard the restrictive features of the law and violate their oaths. Is it likely that the Slate will any sooner enforce a law apainstone of the faithful officials in making money for her, though at. the expense of his oath, than would the old saloon keeper against one of his own clerks in pushing the busi ness contrary to law ? Each Dispenser is required at the end of each month also to subscribe to the following oath: saying: "I have faithfully observed and complied with the provisions of my bond and oath taken by me." How any one can con scientiously and continually take these oaths when he knows the real policy underlying the State's liquor traffic is beyond comprehension. That official debauchery and will be if it has not already been added to a public para lyzed conscience is certain. Is this fruit of sufficient value to justify a good government to engage in such a business ? taking with her own hands the million dollars, the results of her own people's hard labor, and sending it abroad for liquors that bring in re turn only poverty, ruin and such like? Is the sample of this business which occurred in Columbia a few days ago such as commend it to the good peo ple of the State ? The account as taken from the Register, reads as fol lows : Dennis Hopkins, a wood-sawyer in this city, was found dead early Sunday morning in front of a restaurant on Plain street. Hopkins was addicted to the habit of looking into the one X bottle when it was full and was very drunk Saturday night. His death was caused from whiskey drinking and exposure and the Coroner's jury ren dered a verdict to that effect. Can we conclude that this system by the State to sell intoxicating liquors as a beverage is right ? If it is not right thus to demoralize and j debauob, her people, assuming the I attitude as she does of the old or new saloon- keeper and going further by forcing all her oitizens willingly or unwillingly to become copartners with her in the business, is it net worse and more shameful to her than was the old saloon system ? G. T. U. A Terrible Explosive. New York, Maroh 28.?Gorge M. Hathaway, the inventor oi: the Hath away high explosive, whose terribly destructive and death-dea'Hng proper ties were so clearly demonstrated at the proving grounds at Sandy Hook recently, was seen by a Post reporter. He was somewhat reluctant to discuss the merits of his remarkable invention, particularly those relatirig to the re cent tests. "I will say, however," said Mr. Hathaway, "that the Hathaway High Explosive company has the most powerful engine of deatxuetian yet discovered. "The tests before the oidnance board were highly satisfactory. We fired five shots from a six-pounder Driggs-Schr der, rapid-fire gun. The first four shots passed through a four inch plate, leaving a clean-cut hole, and exploded in a sand hutt behind. "It was then determined to demon strate that the explosive oan be used with absolute safety when fired with a full charge of powder from s. rapid firing gun. No detonator was used and the result was the plate wa? pene trated, but no explosive followed, as in preceding tests. "The tests so far made, in every in stance, demonstrate its practicability as a powerful engine of warfare. The larger the shell the greater the damage wrought. The peculiar feature of its destruction lies in its explosion after penetration, and having once passed through the armor of a vessel the havoc would be indescribable. It would mean simply annihilation. ' 'In our tests thus far we have had a pressure of 36,000 pounds to the square inch, U3ing a full charge of powder. Through this the projectile obtains a velocity of 1,875 feet per second, with a rotary motion at the muzzle of 450 revolutions per second. "As to its safety I can asse-t with absolute confidence that the h igh ex plosive can only be exploded b y deto nation of the Hathway company's particular composition. Without the detonator it is practically harmless and neither heat nor impact would have any more effect on it than would the touch of a feather. "This high explosive is heai;ed un til it assumes a pasty condition, then heavily compressed into the shell and allowed to harden, thus really becom ing a part of the projectile. A hole is then drilled in the substance, into which aperture is placed th e detDnator, after which," said the genial irventor with a grim smile, "I should prefer to be far removed from the spot where some obstruction called the explosive to a halt. "I propose at my earliest conven ience to experiment with torpedoes, and can see no reason why I should not duplicate my present succeus." Mr. Hathaway's attention wan called to the experiments that have been re cently made with small rifles fired from the ahou' *t, but he declined to enter further into particulars. The reporter succeeded in finding one of his assistants, however, Mr. C. F. Ferguson, who said that he had dis charged the small arms innunerable times, and was quite willing to i'urnish such information as he could. "We use the Winchester repeating rifle, with 52 grains of nitro-powder to propel the ball," said Mr. Ferguson. "The shell when filled and reitdy for use weighs two and three-quarter ounces. "I have frequently fired si:c shots from a repeater in three and oie-half seconds, the ball traveling fully 500 yards in an air line. "It is not of the slightest conse quence whether you hit your man or not, neither is it necessary to take a careful aim. Just bang away at the vicinity and when the explosion occurs every person within a radius of 15 feet would be either killed by th<: flying fragments of the shell or by the explo sive wave." "Have you never experienced any fear in handling such dangeroas ma terial?" queried the reporter. "Not the slightest," promptly re plied the expert. "I handle the load ed shells precisely as you would those of a fowling piece and with no jrreater danger. WThen, after demonstration, I realized that there was but one way to explode the high explosive and that by detonation, my squeamishness all vanished and has nerer returned. "You have asked me abojt the hand grenade that is a pear-?haped affair, made of brass or steel, and about three inches in diameter. It is charged with the explosive underheavy pressure and has a 15 second fuie. It has a contrivance similar to a parlor match snugly fitted in the handle, the head just protruding. Ignite that, throw the grenade, and the destruction is something awful when it lands." A peculiar and significant feature of these experiments in the presence of two of the most influential Cuban pa triots now in the city. They make a most rigid and thorough examination of every test, looking carefully into every detail which might prove of the slightest importance in shaping a re port. They are extremely ?uaided in their movements, and, in consequence of the gravity of the situation, decline either to discuss the reasons of their presence at these tests or the impress ions produced upon them by the deadly explosive. It is quite fair to assume than these Cuban representatives are not travel ingaround thecountry for their health, neither is it unreasonable to sappose that they are calculating tho effect that a few of these detonated shells, judiciously distributed would have on the Spanish forces in Cuba and the possibility of getting this terrible means of offense and defense safely in the hands of their compatriots. It is rumored that there will be a test of the high explosives made at the Indian Head proving ground in the near future, but the repor; could not be vanished.? Washington Post. ? We can help one another to live, but no man can help another to die. Ad Affidavit. This is to certify that on May 11th, I walked to Melick's drug sto:-e on a pair of crutches and bought a bottle <>f Chamberlain's Pain Balm :for in flammatory rheumatism whiei had crippled me up. After u?ing three bottles I am completely cured. lean cheerfully recommend it.- -Charles H. Wetzel, Sunbury. Pa. Sworn and subscribed to before me on August 10, 1894.?Walter Ship man, J. P. For sale at fifty cents per bottle by Hill Bros. A TALK TO WOMEN. Sam Jones Gives Splendid Advice on Matrimony. Atlanta Constitution, March 18. Sam Jones was greeted by two large congregations yesterday. In the afternoon he preached to as' many women as could crowd into the tabernacle. It was a remarkable meet ing. At night he preached to another vast audience. Mr. Jones did not take a text last night, but preached from these words: "Why will youooEti&ueinsiii?" Said he: First, do you do so because you are ignorant, because you don't know it's wrong to lie, to steal, to gamble, to cheat, to break the Sabbath? You may take the worst man in Atlanta and he will want his boy to be sober ?will want his boy to be industrious. There isn't a thief but who admires honesty and condemns dishonesty; and the man who nays he don't know right from wrong and says the truth, is irresponsible. Is it because you know what sin is but claim that you are ignorant of its consequences? I can shut my eyes and close the book, and yet know that sin will ruin a man. I know men claim that they believe there is no hell, but if you will read of the deso lation of sin, even in this world, we may well ask, if God has visited such punishment on sin in the past, how can we expect exemption in th? future? Every preacher in history, who had power with God, believed in bell. I believe in hell as strong as I do in heaven. The dying sinner has told tales enough in that hour to startle hell itself. I believe that there are men who have died in Atlanta that ! have gone to heaven aud some that have gone to hell. Show me a verse in the Bible that teaches there is no hope after death! All I know about it I get from the Bible. There isn't a little child that don't know as much about it, outside of the Bible, as the brightest scientist that ever spoke or wrote 1 The biggest fool of this cen tury is the man that is trying to make men believe that that there is no hell or heaven when he is going the re him self. But some will say I know that sin will ruin me and shut me up in hell, but I am indiff?rer t. How startling the indifference of men! At White hall crossing men stand there with clubs, butin spite of clubs and police men they are run over there and are killed! The brute himself seems more afraid of danger than immortal men. It is reckl(issne?s. We see it on all sides. Men swear and drink and gam ble, defying the Almighty God with clenched fists. With pistol in hand they shoot down their fellows. There are men who have been shot down on the streets of Atlanta who ought to be here listening to the gospel call in this tabernacle to-night. A mar. that would rush up and seize a flying en gine coming toward him is a philoso pher beside a man who will rufih into I the presence of God unprepared. Stop this reckless conduct. Is it because oi: your inconsiderate-1 ness. Men will think of everything but of their souls. If you could get a man to disc ass this question seriously for one hour he would drop on his knees and pray for mercy. The dying nobleman said: 'Doctor, if you will keep me alive until to-morrow?until 12 o'clock "to-morrow?I will give you ?250,000.' . But the doctor said, 'I have no time to sell.' Are you asleep? Some time ago a hotel was on fire in Atlanta. Two men were sleeping in the same room. One waked and tried to wake his friend, but could not. At last he had to rush out and leave him to save his own life. The next day they found his charred remains among the smoking embers.. God says now is the time. Is it because a conquer ed peace has taken possession of you? I believe there are men in Atlanta who have conquered a peace that will never j be disturbed until they wake up in hell. Some of you have fought against God until you have conquered a peace that will take the terrors of the dying hour to break up. At the conclusion many came up for prayer and there seemed to be a great er stir than at any time during the meeting. THE WOMAN'S MEETING. The crowd of women present yester day afternoon at the tabernacle was as large as the building could hold. An artist took a picture of the vast audienc . When the picture was being taken Mr. Jones said, "Now, all of you hold still and keep silence. Now," said he, after the artist was through, "some men can'- understand that scripture wh; v says, 'there was silence in heaven lor i',he space of half an hour.' They must have been hav ing their pictures taken." He selected as his theme, "Finally sisters, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatso ever things are pure, whatsoever is lovely, whatsoever is of good report, think of theses things." "Finally is an ia portant word in the text," said he. "It is as if St. Paul had said, 'Now you may forget the things I have said before, but give memory a good grip on what I say now.' We have in this verse a concise, clear and philosophical statement of what the nobler and better life is, an epitome of what constitutes beautiful womanhood. "Think of these things. Thoughts have everything to do with character. I am not a metaphjsictan, nor a mud dy-physician, but I can reason this out "Thought is the result of au im pression on one of the five senses. I hear something, I see something, I feel something, ard it puts me to thinking. If the sight of sin and evil produces thought, I had better be careful what I see. "An idea is a developed thought? a thought thunk oat?one shaped up and prepared for expression. The apostle not on'ly tells you think, but what to think about. "First, on whatsoever things that are true. We partake of the nature of that which we corae in contact with. I can put my thoughts on a bouquet until they will be saturated with the beauty and the odor of a flower. I can put my thoughts on a corpse until they become saturated with the gloom of the grave. What I see and hear and touch has much to do with what I am. Think on truth. Saturate yourself with it until you will be true. "There is so much falsehood. A woman that isn't true hasn't the foun dation of character. Aman asked his little boy, 'What makes a fellow tell a lie?' 'To keep from getting a licking,' answered the little fellow. "Folks that live right don't have to ?ell lies, Woe to the woman when she catches her daughter in a whop ping lie "Woe to the husband when he catches his wife in a lie. Speak the truth until you are saturated with it, and then you won't want to tell a lie. "You can come into contact with a lying woman until you become a liar yourself. Live the truth, act the tiuth, speak the truth. "You know why truth is called the naked truth? Truth and error went in'bathing once and left their clothes on the side of the stream. When they came out error rtook truth's clothes and put them ott and skipped. Truth looked down and saw error's garments lying there and said: "I won't have 'em; I'll go naked first.' And ever since, truth has been going naked through the world. Error needs frills and flounces and bangs, but truth can go in its own nakedness round and round the world. "Haven't you deceived others? I saw a set of false teeth the other day, I and one of them had a plug in it. I asked the dentist what he put the plug in there for. 'To make them r look natural,' he said. Telling lies with the truth, and going about with bought bangs. I like to see a woman as transparent as a window pane. If you women loved truth as you ought, the church would be in better shape. Women make solemn vows, but be fore three months they are breaking them ' "A lady not long ago said to roe, 'I want to tell you something. What do you think about ten women beirig confirmed one night and dancing the next night?' 'Why.' I said. 'I like that. If anybody is going to do wrong do it right away. I have more re spect for those ten'women than I have for one who has been in the church for twenty years, and will dance. Some of you old sisters have been in the church forty years and are still going to the dance. And when you get.80 old you can't dance for rheuma tism and gout, then you chaperon the other crowd. "You are fixing to get your husband into trouble. I hate to see a woman hold her husband's nose to the grind ing stone and hold it there until he has no more nose than BrotherStuart. And the girls, most of them, are try-1 ing to be pretty, until the millinery bills and the shoe bills and the man tua maker's bills are piled up so high, their fathers can never pay 'em. You ought to be helping your father in stead of piline debt on him. If your father is worth $20,000 you think he is the richest man in town. "Many working girls are here and some of these are helping to support the family, and I wouldn't give such a girl for a dozen of these little dnd ines. Her mother has called one of these little frizzled things down to a late breakfast, and when it gets down she quarrels with the cook and kicks the cat out of the door and then fusses because the waffles are not hot. 11 wouldn't give the cat for her. j "I like the g?irl who gets up soon and says: 'Mother, you look tired. J I'll help you to-day.' But instead of} that mother is waiting on you, and you are not worth killing?at least j with a big bullet. ! i "An honest girll After all there j is no use in all this finery. An hon est girl won't put all she's got on her back like a terrapin. I took up a col lection in Atlanta once for the Or-1 phan's home. I found in the hat a check for $100. The good man who put it there spoke to me the next day and said: 'I want to tell you about that check in order to tell you some thing else. When I came out of the church my wife said: "Didn't I ask you to buy me a sealskin cloak last week?" "Yes," I said, "but I thought these little orphans needed help so bad that you could wait for the cloak." "Well, I just wanted to tell you," she said, "that I had rath er see you give that ,check to those orphans than to own the finest cloak in this country." ' Now that was a woman. But you little Whitehall and Peachtree dudines, when it comes to helping somebody, you are not in it. Some bf you go down to the mission meeting in a fine carriage and carry your little 10 cents dues, and say: "Take this, O Lord, and convert the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession.' I can support every or- J phan in Atlanta for what it takes to support the Capital City Club. "Whatsoever things are pure. There are two pillars in woman's char acter that hold her up when the world is on fire?purity and modesty?and these are twin sisters. Purity in con versation. I can sorter see how men are smutty in their talk, but deliver me from a woman that is not pure in her conversation. A young man ask ed a young lady who had hold of his I arm going out: 'How do you feel?' She said: 'I feel like my dress was most too low down.' "If a boy has a fine horse and bug gy and good clothes he can ride out with almost any girl. We need some daddies in this country that will meet him at the door and kick him over the front fence. "Pure in conversation. I don't know that you ever knew a woman that was smutty in her talk. Of course, there are none here. I am talking about women in North Caroli na. "Some husbands are unfair to their wives. They pay the cook $5, and when the wife says give me $5, they say what do you want with it. J Sister, your misfortune is, you mar ried a hog. He may not have bristles but he is a hog all the same. When you have to beg or borrow money from your husband you haven't got a husband?just a pair of old breeches hung up at home. "Whatsoever things are lovely. A sweet, pure, industrious amaiable wo: man is the loveliest thing this side the stars. But some of you, if you ever get lovely, will have to lift your sights. We don't want pretty butter flies; they have dissected a butterfly's head and they can find no sign of a brain. What is that stuff the ladies paint their faces and shoulders with?" (Nobody would answer. Finally Dr. Hawthorne said, rouge). "And you think that when you get painted up with this and your new spring dress and bonnet on," said the evangelist, "you will be lovely. You can dress a a dummy up like that. I know some, girls in Atlanta that if you ask them . where they went Monday night, they will say to the theater, next night to i the dance, next night to the card par ty, next night to the progressive eu I chrc; that's lovely, ain't it. Of good report. Have a good name. I wish every woman in Atlanta had some thing to do. Some of the clerks here asked me to get after those boarding house girls who have nothing to do but to go around'making us pull down goods. They don't want to buy any thing, either; but it takes the clerks, I three hours to put back the goods yon have made him poll down." At the conclusion of the sermon hundreds of ladies took Mr. Jones's band and promised to lead a more spir itual life. AU Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Tf young men did not drink there would be no drunkards. ? 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Her numerous progeney included five sets of twins. ? An ancient tomb opened on a island off the coast of .Italy in D cemb?r last revealed the bones of two-headed human being, who had been over 11 feet in height. ?"Dad, what's a running account?'.' "It's an open acconnt with a drygoods store, my son, which keeps your moth er running down town aJl_the time to buy something." ? "Er mule he may be er mighty good fer nuthin' critter," said Uncle. Rasper, philosophically, "bot I mas' say he neverperten's to be ennything else, but jea' a'mule." ? "My birthday is on April Fool's day," said Jack, "but I don't care. That don't make me a fool, anymore than being born on the Fourth of July would make a fire cracker of nie." ? The first statutory mention of pins is to be^ound in an English law-' passed in the year 1483. The firfif patent pin machine was one of Amer' can make?Wright's machine of 1?~ ? 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