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THE FAMU He is in Everything 1 tic ] ? From thc New 1"< Bombey's weakness before Susan Nipper is as nothing to the utter help lessness of us all before the doctor. A wife may plead with an obstinate hus band, a mother may argue with an im prudent daughter or a reckless son, and find that her efforts have no more result than that which spray may have upon a New England rock; but let a medical man get his hand upon the pulse or his trained ear over the lungs, and the whole face of things is , changed. No more late hours, ito more dancing in thin, gowns, no more nightly revelli?g. It is a study worth pursuing, this yielding of the strong, this sobering of the frivolous, this checking of life's waste, at the bid ding of a man whose only authority lies in respect for his profound knowl edge and confidence in his truthful speech. If .ever one needed a demon stration that knowledge was' power, here it is. "The Son of Sirach" seems to have had many thoughts up on the subject of physicians, as he put his shrewd Hebraic lessons into shape. *'Honor the physician with the honor due unto him," he says em phatically, but he adds with grim sug gestion that he had at times suffered many things at the hands of the medi cal men of his time: "He that sinneth against his Maker, let him fall into the hands of the physicians." There is an inexpressible force in these last words which leave many possibilities amusingly open to imagination, and I fear me that there are American, 19th century, affirmations of the preacher's idea of condign punishment easily ob tained. Eagerness pf research and thirst for provings have altered somewhat the coarse of medical thought. It ha.s be come possible for the man best fur nished to be least able to take the du ties of a "family physician." How and why rule too rigidly his contact with disease; investigation, becomes the almost absorbing influence of his life. Men become specimens in his eyes, and he is less eager to prolong the beatings of a laboring heart than to know why it threatens to stop its work. Experiment, which teaches, is too dear to the discoverer,' the oppor tunity of research too precious in his eyes, to leave room for ministry to the agony of hearts whose only, disease is grief, while tn ey await/ his decision. Unless rumor is false to the core, much hospital practice is touched with danger through the boldness of pro gressive scientists, who dare too much rather than forfeit the proving of a theory. Bat my bent to-day is far from critical; my mind turns with delight ' rather to the expression of gratitude we ovte to the men whose coming is the harbinger of comfort if it cannot be of cure, and of whom we can say without irreverence that "their com passions fail not." The "Hippocratic path" covers as with a shield the laying bare of the ? .secret family histories which the fami- , ly physician knows as DO one else but , 'God can know. This solemn promise . of secrecy is unnecessary to the man most fitted for the confidence reposed in him, but it binds -those of lower -character by a stern repression. Not infrequently 'the doctor knows what j the husband's love is guarding from ; h?3 wife's anxious eyes, sparing her while he may; and, perhaps, at the game time holds her secret, too. Xo "skeleton" can be closed in a locked closet from his eyes. If the mother's , strength fails and her cheek grows - pale without any token of disease, he . has to know that wakeful, tearful ( nights over a child's misdoings are ? sapping her vitality. If a business , man's strength fails and his hand . trembles, he has to find oat that it; is ? a closed mill or a false debtor that is - shaking his nerve power. If a youth ] is brought to him for cure, he must | ? learn whether he is poisoning himself | with alcohol, or draining his strength ] by dissipation. Nothing can be hid den. Men and women come and go and the fair surface of exterior life is as beautiful and sparkling in the j world's eyes as if nothing was wrong j beneath; but if the doctor should , chance to have time to mingle wiith ( the other guests, he wonders at the , Spartan courage which upholds the harrassed man and half-despairing woman on whose shoulders the order } of the home depends. Other friends and other profession al aids hare their special duties: the ; doctor is in everything that stirs the , family life. He is the first to welcome the new-born, the last to leave the ] dying. The pale young mother, glad | with the first cry of her first-born, j gives him her wan smile, and the , widow watehes him lay his kind hand , over the eyes that can no longer see. , I marvel sometimes how men can go , OD, going their way day by day and j year by year, from house to house, al- j ways the center of the strongest emo tions the family life is capable of; j how they can endure the strain of , meting out life's measure. , .Y DOCTOR. Fliat Stirs the Domes Life. irk Evening Po.si. We count it heroic to nerve our selves to "break" (as our strange phrase is) bad news to those we love, though we do it for love's sake; but these brave men must daily, nay, in some cases, hourly, quench hope s last ray and bid men set "their houses in order." Nordoes us? harden those best endowed for this stern duty. I have seen the blood leave a great doc tors oheek as pale as that of his pa tient, as he forced himself to say that disease had conquered nature and sci ence had no remedy: I have known such tidings told so tenderly that the first instinct of the foredoomed man was to grasp thc doctor's hand. Strange burdens are laid on the doc tor's shoulders; he must advise where one is to live, what school will best suit the boys, how much exercise the girls may take, how much wine the father must drink, where the family must travel. When you come to anal yze these questions they have a pro fessional germ in them, but if they were honestly thought over ?nd seri ously answered, a great deal of brain "work is gotten from them which can not be put into the bill. Nor do the demands stop with these question% which do remotely bear on the mutual relations between thc medical adviser and the family. Doc tors are frequently called upon to try moral suasion on troublesome boys and wayward girls. Many times, es pecially, if thcadvice comes from one familiar at their bedside from infancy, it will have extraordinary influence for good, and succeed where the earn est expostulation of ra clergyman has failed. There is" a certain prelimi nary acknowledgment, especially in a youDg man's mind, that "the doctor knows all about it," and that no dis guise or prevarication will prevail. There is much inveighing against doctors' bills, and a very common feeling that the grocer and butcher must be paid, but that the doctor can wait. . This arises unquestionably from the fact that we are already bur dened when we send for him, and that, unlike our other needs, we cannot control how much or how little it will take to satisfy them. Die we must unless the doctor can . aid us. and what he does for us he measures him self. With people living on small salaries, or in any way under the re straint of narrow means, days of ill ness mean always added expense of every sort, and if it be the head of thc house who is ill, loss of income also, and in this way the doctor's bill be comes part of the general infliction. The English habit of paying a fee at each visit is, when practicable, a short but not pleasant way out of thc difficulty of a steadily increasing in debtedness. But, following the cus tom of our own country, it is not only just and honorable to try to lay a lit tle aside for the meeting of this re sponsibility as time goes on. I knew a singularly provident man whose only deposit in a savings bank was what he ealled"the doctors contingent," and it proved an excellent expedient, al lowing him to meet his physician al ways cheerfully and be ready and glad to discharge the moneyed patt of his debt to him. That a thousand dollar fee seems an immense sum to pay for an operation which takes only an hour of a man's time is surely true, and there is a very bitter feeling natural to those who crave the utmost skill for their dear ones that such a demand puts the relief out of their reach. Yet, who shall weigh the strength which goes out of a man. the loss of nerve power, and vitality in that hour for which he demands so much? Who shall meas ure what he has done and endured to achieve his skill? Who shall analyze what he has to bear when under the knife a patient dies? In the making md the.working of a great surgeon | there are experiences which they only know, which no money can repay. Those who grumble most over the iues demanded by doctors are least aware what noble liberality is shown by the profession in the gift of their highest skill and of 'priceless time in which they might refresh themselves, sntirely "without money ami without price." And this, outside the walls 3f hospitals, merely in response to appeals in behalf of those who were not able to come to them as paying patients. I have seen a great specialist gently tear a check in two and lay it on a jonvenient table, after he had made a visit which involved a journey and thc loss of half his day, because he knew the money would bc a comfort to his patient. And I have known thc same man to treat case after ease with his i utmost skill and care, without a thought of payment, and. if his purse now overflows, he could have doubled bis fortune had he always had paying i l>aticnts. That there are many grasping, self ish and even un just physicians goes without saying: they arc of our com non humanity, and no profession. business or trade is without men with these characteristics, but that, as a body, they labor more for the relief of thc suffering of the world without ade quate reward than any other class of educated men, I sincerely believe can not bc questioned. Their opportunity is unique, but their influence and assistance in the history of our households is a great testimony to the sympathy and pa tience and large-hearted comprehen sion of man with and for his fellow man in this urgent, crowded, self seeking age of ours. Human brother hood, which has no name or guild, is vitally alive among our doctors. Sleep lessness nights and anxious days, hours of tense apprehension, the ex ertion of almost superhuman ingenui ty to relieve pain, mark the going to and fro of many a quick-moving bug gy in our busy streets, and if one in a thousand is so fortunate as to acquire wealth as the result of his practice, let us rejoice for him. The South is Conservative. A correspondent of the New York Evening Post, who signs himself "New Euglander," says that to him the most interesting feature of the Cuban crisis is the wise conservatism of Southern leaders in and out of Con gress. This correspondent seems to have needed enlightenment concern ing the South very sadly for he says that wheu he weut to Washington re cently he "naturally expected from the 'hot-headed,' 'fire-eating' South erners not only a disposition, but a desire to rush headlong into war, re gardless of motive, and .indifferent to consequences. Instead of such intem perate action, "what have we seen? Exactly the opposite! These very Southerners, with their martial pride, their sensitive sense of honor, and their quick sympathy with suffering, haye behaved handsomely throughout the whole crisis; they have contribu ted, their full share of strength, digni ty and wisdom to the national coun sels, and while they are ready to sup port energetically the government and the nation at the first moment of real necessity, they have taught many of ?heir Northern and Western brothers helpful lessons in moderation, pa tience and fortitude under distressing difficulties. This is a deserved tribute to South ern Senators and Representatives. While every one of them who has had a word to say about the present crisis has spoken sentiments of high and ar dent patriotism, not one, so far as we have been able to learn, has made a {jingle rash or foolish remark. The Washington Post in an editori al entitled "The South in These Try ing Days," says: "While there is no portion of our people who are more desirous of the continuance of peace than the South ern contingent, it is equally true that none are more ready to respond to a call to arms if peace and honor cannot be kept together. If loyalty to the flag may be measured by thc risks in curred in defending it, where is there a section whose loyalty is greater than that of the South in this emergency? Look at its coast line along the At lantic and the gulf, and see to what possibilities it would be exposed in case of war. We do not disparage the patriotism of any State or section. There is no laggard in the list of States. But it is a potent faet that the inhabitants of the interior would be comparatively safe from harm in any foreign war, while the South would be exposed to the enemy's guns in various possible contingencies. And thc South, the people of the Southern Atlantic and gulf States, have had severer lessons in the hor rors and losses incident to war than their fellow citizens of other sections. They know of a verity that 'war is hell.' That they are in common with all patriotic Americans earnestly de sirous of a peaceful issue from pres ent troubles simply attests their good sense and their regard for their own and the nation's welfare. That they stand united as one man in their readiness to do all that may be re quired for the vindication of the na tion's honor is no surprise to any in telligent American, but it ought to be 1 an instructive object lesson to all na tions." Thc Post has put it right. While there is no section of the country which would be in such peril as the South, if war should come there is no section which is readier to defend the honor of our common country.-At lanta Journal. - "Ah, there, Uncle Abner; you're OJ deck, again, are you" '"'Deed. I is, sah." ''I don't suppose you re member that when I met you yester day you were as full as a tick?" "Yaas, I does, boss." "'You do, eh? But you don't seem to be thc least bit sorry about it." "Beg yo' pahdon, sah, but I is; mighty sorry-sorry dat hit wuz yisterday instit! er tcrday." Blood Poison Cored. There is no doubt, according to the many remarkable cures performed by Botanic Blood Balm ("B. B. B.") that it is far the best Tonic and Blood Puri fier ever manufactured. All others pale into insignificance when compar ed with it. lt cures pimples, ulcers, skin diseases, and all manner of blood f.nd skin ailments. Buy the best, and don't throw your money away on sub stitutes. Try the long tested and old reliable B. B. B. $1.00 per large bot tle. For sale by Druggists. A MAH ?'A8K CMJRKI?. Three years ago I contracted a blood poison. I applied to a physician at once, and his treatment came near killing mc. 1 employed an old physi cian and then went to Kentucky. I then went to 1 lot Springs and remain ed two months. Nothing seemed to mire me permanently, although tem porary relief was given mc. I return ed home a ruined tuan physically, with I but little prospect of ever getting well. 1 was persuaded to try Botanic Blood Balm (M. B. li..) and to my utter as tonishment it quickly healed every ulcer. X. T. HALLERTON, Vor sale by druggists. Macon, (?a. Saved l>y a Wink. 4"Speaking of extraordinary feats re ! minds me," says Henry Austin, "of au amusing story Col. W. P. Curtis, who used to be on the staff of Ex-Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, once told in thc old St. Charles Hotel. It was rather a 'sporty' gathering, and a damp evening, and the 'boys' had been brag ging about various wonderful doughty deeds they had done in their salad days and frappe nights. When it came his turn to be a gorgeous, circum stantial and statistical liar the Colonel leaned away back and said in his sweet Kentucky voice, for he hailed from that State originally: '.Buys I can't match any of the feats of strength and active valor you have told, but [ can tell you a true tale of endurance that may be worth your attention. . 44 'Years ago, when Texas was the paradise of stage coaches, I was trav elling for a tobacco house a long jour ney, fully fifty miles. In the coach opposite me sat a mighty pretty girl and a shaggy man, with a sombrero and a small arsenal of pistols in full sight. We had journeyed on for about an hour, and not a word had been ex changed or a look between my fellow travellers. The girl was everlasting pretty, and, finally, catching her eye, I was tempted to wink slightly as a sort of preliminary toward breaking the ice and having some pleasant con versation. Instantl}', to my horror, she turned to the humau arsenal and whispered in his ear. 'Did I under stand you, stranger, to wink at this young lady?' Only presence of mind, as there couldn't be absence of body, saved me. I replied at once: 'Yes. sir, but let me explain. I have a ner vous disease of the eyelids. If you had noticed me before you would have no ticed 1 winked involuntarily very fre quently. Honestly, I couldn't help it.' 'Your explanatiou is extraordinary, stranger, but I accept it for the pres ent.' he answered gruffly, and from that time I think he never took his eyes off me. So, to keep up my part, every moment or two I had to wink one eye or the other, sometimes both. Hour after hour, gentlemen, as I live by champagne, my ocular exercise continued. I believe I am the only man living who ever winked to save his life, and I wunk and wank for at least forty miles, till we reached our destination. How was that for endur ance.-N~cw York Press. - The home is the grandest field for the Christian. To be a Christian mother, a Christian father, a Chris tian wife or husband, son or daughter, sister or brother is more difficult than to wear a public garb of Christianity as minister, elder, deacon or church worker. It is in the home that the severest, most protracted tests arc made: and it is in the home that the grandest victories are won. Some Curious Coincidences. - In his "Notes and Comments,'' in the Chicago Standard, the Jiev. Dr. J. C. l?den, of this city, gives thc following strange parallels: In the 22d chapter and 10th verse of thc prophecy of Jeremiah we have these words: "Weep not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away; for he shall re turn no more, nor see his native coun try." The prophet here seems to mean that death is preferable to exile. Now, in one of Plato's "Dialogues" we are informed that when the alternatives of death or exile were proposed to the . famous philosopher Socrates, he said that he would choose death: "for" said he, "I know that exile is an evil; but I do not know that death is." The coincidence of thought between the Hebrew prophet and the Greek philosopher is certainly striking, if we may trust Plato's report; and as he was the most distinguished pupil of Socra tes, there seems tobe nd sound reason for questioning his statements on a matter of this kind. True, the scholare are not at one on the "Dialogues" is Socratic, and how much is Plato's own; but then the "scholars" are scarcely at ODC about anything else; and so a plain man must now and then run the risk of making up his own opinion, if he is to have one. And here is another strange parallel: Silver was "demonetized" during the reign of Solomon. In 1 Kings, x, 21, we read: "And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver; it was nothing account ed of in the days of Solomon." In the 27th verse of the same chapter we learn that in Solomon's day silver was not worth picking up in the street. The statement in 1 Kings, x, 21, is repeated in 2 Chronicles, ix, 20; and the correspondence of language is so exact as to make it almost certain that one of these passages was copied from a document older than either, unless we are to assume that both are from the same author. At all events they show that "the demonetizing of sil ver" is no new question. "The an cients have stolen our best thoughts," as well as some of our worst. Please understand that we are not arguing the "silver bill." We are simply giv ing some examples to show that you can find a good many modern things in the Bible, if you will read it with your eyes open, which some of our United States Senators have failed to do. - "You are as full of airs as a music box," is what a young man said to a girl who refused to let him see her home. "That may be." was the reply, "but I don't go with a crank." Children like itjt saves their lives. We mean One Minute Cough Cure, the infal lible remedy for coughs, colds', croup, bronchitis, grippe, and all throat and lung troubles. Evans Pharmacy. Bradford ern See?. Fresh from .Augusta. RATTLESNAKE, JONES, and other popular varieties.. GERMAN MILLET, CANE SEED. HILL-ORR DRUG CO. TALK IS CHEAP. IT ia easy ko claim the world, but getting a good title to it is the trouble ; so it is with the merchant who claims to sell everything for nothing. Our la?t advertisement guaranteed to our customer* our Stock of SHOES, which was th?n too large, at a discount whioh would place them below the price of any Shoe in Anderson County. The fact that we hava never deceive! the people in our adver ! tisements evidences their confidence in our offer when we announce that we have not only reduced our Stock to the desiied point, but have been compelled to replenish it, and now have the newest. nobbi?t and completest line of SHOES in Town. Tnis is merely a straw to show !-be direction of the wind. DRY GOODS, JEANS AND COTTONADES Hare all been moving at the same rapid pace. DEAN'S PATENT FLOUtt, N.. ver known to lag superfluous on th* stige, has gotten a double shuffle on itself, and "pwmenades all" with CHARLIE BUCHANAN'S DELIGHT TOBACCO from prood ?knea to better. HIGH GRADE GUANOS ALWAYS ON HAND. DEAN & RATLIFFE, Wholeiale and Ritail Dealers in BACON at Wholesale Prices. CUBA MUST BE FREE ! If you want to enlist at once and at a good salary apply to - - - ID. C. BBOWU & BRO., And they will assist you. IF you don't want to enlist, but want to buy your Goods for the least money apply to D. C. Brown & Bro. Wc will sell 200 Barrels Straight Flour at. 84 75 250 Barrels Best Family Flour at. 4 25 50 Barrels Good Family Flour at... ... 4 00 . 70 Barrels Low Grade Flour at. 3 50 We handle HAY, CORN, OATS, BRAN, and all Heavy Groceries, and are selling them below all competition. Oi SHOES and DRY GOODS we are headquarters. Come aud see us. D. C. BROWN & BRO, Next to Post Oflico. DURING THE SPRING MONTHS While business is supposed to be dull, we have decided to offer UR EAT IN DUCEMENTS in our large and well selected Stocke of. DRY GOODS, LOTIONS, HATS and SHOES. We have several thousand dollars worth of these Goods thnt we are poiue to sell for less limn same Gooda can bo bought for elsewhere. No wind-work about rbis. Come see for yourself. We carry a Splendid Stock of Heavy Groceries, And make Specialties of Fine Hour, Molasses, Coffee, Tobacco and Sugar. If you will honor us with a visit when you want to buy your next bill, we will appreciate i! and make it mighty interesting for you. < onie see Tor yourself. Yours for Traffic, BROWNLEE & VANDIVERS. [ ^gg^?T^ I TOY Infants and Children, I ^^^^^^P^^^^^i?m A lumire ?tuif?rU* ?Vege table Preparatioiifor As - similatirig iheToodandRegula ling the Stomachs andBowels of INFANTS /CHILDREN Promotes T^gest?onjCheerfill ness andRest.Contains neither Chpium,Morphin? nor Mineral. NOT NAHC OTIC. Rtapc of Old ZrSAMUIl PITCHER Pumpkin Seed' Abc. Senna * BoAilh Salis - Anise Seed- * Rppermii?t - f Bl Cari) onrJc Soda. ' I fttmiSceJ- \ ?ianJud Sugar . ( hhiuyrccn Flavor. J Aperfec t Remedy f o r Cons tipa rion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF S LEEP Tac Simile Signature of NEW VOEK. At b mo nth s old 35 DOSES-35 CE NT s I EXACT COPY" OF WBABFEB. Cateto?--^ _ ^Mvk For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of You Have Always Bought. BAGS, RAGS, RAGS ! x m i ? S I am again buying Bag?-Save them up and bring them and your Hides ! If you need a jroocl STEEL RANGE OB STOVE AT bottom prices, either for Cash or on time for a good Note don't, fkil to see my HDC I will swap you a New Stove for your old'ooe or for Cattle, and give you the market price for your Cattle. Now is the time to get you a good Stove before cotton-planting time Tinware, CrocKery, Glass, Lamp Goods, &?., A. SPECIALTY. Thanking you all for past favors, and soliciting a continuance of same Respectfully, JOHN T. Bli MUSS. If you want to have a good Garden plant good Seeds. WE ARE SELLING D M. FERRY & CO'S. SEED ! Everybody knows they are the best. Buist's Seedling Irish Potatoes, Yellow and White Onion Setts, Multi plying Onions for planting. See us before you buy your Flour, Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Tobacco, Or anything in the Grocery HDC OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT. Yours tor business, OSBORNE & BOLT. NOW IS THE TIME ! hoes Cheaper than you ever bought them before. . . OUR Stock of Fall and Winter Shoes is entirely too large, and we don't propose to carrj- them over until next Fall, consequently we have - MARKED THEM DOWN To price* that will move them. We don't advertise selling out at coat, but our goods and prices speak for themselves. So call when in need of 9h?es, and be convinced of what we say. oaSw Remember, we will not be undersold by auy Firm in Town. Yours fer Shoes, Tte Yates Shoe Co. Under Masonic Temple, Anderos, 8. C. THIS IS NO FAKE ! That Jewelry Palace -OF - WILL. R. HUBBARD'S, NEXT TO F. and M. BANK, Has the Largest, Prettiest and Finest tot of . . . XMAS AND WEDDING PRESENTS nv THE CITY. Competition don't <-nt any ice with me when it comea to prices; I1 don't buy goods ta keep. I want the people to have them. Gold aud Silver Watches, Sterling and Plated Silverware. Jewelry. Clocks, Lamps, China. Spectacles. Novelties of all kinds. Rogers' Tripple Plate Table Knives'Sl.50 per Set. A world beator. WILL. R. HUBBARDS