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T11K?E CI "lPi III Lilli Ul', I '< \s( In one of Lander's "< 'onver.sation.s a certain author is made io say that ti od has three chastisers for the hu man race, namely : "Famine, pesti lence and the hero.'' As a punish ment for sin, or because the sons of men are multiplying too rapidly, or to teach a fearful object-lesson, or for sume other reason so mysterious and inscrutable that no human mind can grasp it, (?od reaches uu?i ?tod strikes the earth hy territories, who listricts hum up and dry out from frightful droughts, and the people fall hy seores and hundreds starved, india has been one of these cursed tcrrito- j lies. Again the Fateful strikes hu- } inanity by the. assembly. In crowded cities disease takes its strongest hold j and devours its greatest number ?d' I victims. Through contiguity and as- i sociation death reaches from soul tu >oid. The most awful instance we know (d' this [(articular dispensation was the black death in the seventeent h ; century which destroyed ball' thc l' ipulation of langland. The chastiser as a hero whips tin human race by tin: nation. Alexan der was horn ; (?reece, .Macedonia, i Kgypt and Persia gave their sons to bim. At one time in thc mere begin- j tiing, this hero sold thirty thousand inhabitants of a refractory city into slavery, and he then a youth of barely twenty two years. Before Christ Cae sar came. To this day certain por tions of the earth carry the scars of i this chastiser-indestructible roads j that he laid for the marching of his | army. In calculating the census of j thc ancient world Caesar's dead made ? a difference almost appreciable. In our own day he whom half the world would name matchless, Napoleon, took his stand at the right hand of Destiny, (?od said ''Strike!" And then there was thc battle of the Pyra mids, Marengo, Auster!itz. Thc re treat from Moscow, the battle of the Nations and Waterloo. Stupendous autograph of our name ! Fiance was j forever glorified, geography changed, j and-hundreds of acres of earth en- I riched with blood. There; are old chateaus yet that bear thc wounds in displaced beams and ! broken columns of the vollies this ! hero directed. There are .dd wells ! from which none draw water to this day because of the whole company of corpses shoveled into them after one ! of these tragedies. Plastic humanity sprung back after the wheel had rolled on, and is blooming rank again over the face of the earth, searless : for the great multitude of them that bore this man's scars in their bodies many years after his voyage to St. Helena, have long since died, rotted and dissi pated ?uto du?L uud traditions ; and j thc still greater host of them who bore I his deep scars in their hearts have, likewise, long since followed thoso myriads they mourned for. Tho very form of government ho would have erected over tho mind of men has ceased to be in France, and a republic stands for tho empire Famine, cholera and Napoleon were fearful scourges, and have left on thc history of man deep sears, but they were adequate. Man stands meek and must acknowledge before them that he is beaten. He feels the invincible touch of the hand of Fate. Ho bows beneath it, and is perhaps too over whelmed for awhile to seo the reason or good in it. lint after a time he does. To every man's eyes sometime ur other comes that finer insight which stays with him longer or shorter, ac cording to the greatness of his soul - that insight into thc purpose of things. Ile sees for a moment the perfect in the imperfect, the good in thocv>! ?>nd is satislied. Each of these calamities has its good ; and after thc return to the stunned senses of serenity the good begins to be apparent. The famine of India has helped India and tho world morally. Thc cry of distress that went up from her starving districts brought forth aid from all Christen dom. Shiploads of food, whole for tunes of gifts were sent to herby alien countries. Those countries which re sponded most generously were the civilized nations, tho Christian na tions. Half-civilized India, as she reached her bony hands for the bread of life, took note that it was a Cau casian hand that stretched toward hers. India is beginning to see the superiority of Christian over Moham medan civilization as she never Baw it before. She may respond to its bene ficent overtures and welcome its en nobling revolutions as she never would have done had she depended only on casual observation. The famine had a beautiful effeot on thc Christian nations. Tho good that we do for others bestows its greatest benefit on ourselves, and a greater benefit than any other good can. While I should hesitate to say that our generosity to India had a national effect, yet it is certain it had an indi vidual effect for good that eannot be questioned. Aa a smaller good many were made to feel the personality, we might say, of that far-off land celled 1AST1SKKS. j ? ;-.---.????r._._I i 1 ( ! i X -i . ; 11?< 1 \Y ; i r. india. India caine tx our doors, wc j lek that there; was n ally a country ol" J that natue across the waters; that it was not merely a map picture in our geographies. The fain ?io; of India made our world bigger. In other words, we were broadened, ami to broaden thc perspective is not only m intellectual good, but it can scarcely escape being a moral good. And, individually, it touched and ennobled every singh; heart in every land that listened to that pitiful cry coming "i' from the stricken plains (d' the tianges; whether they listened to it and gave, or whether they listened and only sighed. That cry turned the eyes of sympathy for a moment from the sel(isli concerns of our individual household, or our cri ty. or our nation. We looked beyond ourselves, we felt lin- to nell of nature that makes the whole world kin. And from the mo ment our ?im - thal tlif world becomes contracted for bim . no part ol' it is any longer barbarian ; we al] become brothers. We feel and know from that good time forth that there ar?' others in the world as well as our selves, ?uni those others have a claim on us. 1 believe America, individu ally, is a little broader, little nobler, a little; nearer brotherly love than she was before any of the famines nlie has responded to from time to time. Kvery great ship she has sent out loaded with food to the frozen Siber ian, thc persecuted Armenian, or the starving [lidian, has brought back on its return double and triple loads of thc invisible coin of nobility which lies increasing in the deep vault of national character. Ravages have likcwiso been ordain ed to bring good in their wake. A golden harvest lies incipient in every plowing The Black Death may he called one of thc seven wouders of calamity. It was stupendous, lt was to all other diseases their Napoleon ; it had neither fear nor remorse. Once its courHC began, like Napoloon. only thc annihilation of a people stopped it. It had no more to feed on, as Na poleon no longer had an army. Be hind it was a clean path ; it ate its way on to thc edge of Kngland and stopped only at the North Sea. hon d?n was the Austcrlilz of the Black Benth ; there, as no where else, it rained its torrents of invisible skulls that bent down the people like wheat under u hailstorm. It raged through the streets, it. swept through the by ways, whole blocks and almost whole streets were leftunowned. Itiucreas , cd HO rapidly and grew HO deadly that j at last thc people did not so much as I put out its sign ordered by the Mayor, a red cross on the door with the legend, I (d_1 L _ _._ _I.. ? . I Ti jjuiu uu luciuuui tu our simm: it> j became too common to necessitate a j sign. When thousands of thc cursed j inhabitants fled into th?- country and surrounding towns for refuge the Black Death, with a tonacity and inexorableness that characterizes only Destiny, followed them, found them out, and in spite of overy subterfuge, precaution or defiance gave the sting , it came to give. Not only to these, possibly bringing thc poison with them from tho eily, but also to all those who had harbored the miserable j wretches. But the eloquent historian j of those dark days describes them as ! they have never since been describe?}, i Turn tn Dauiel Defoe fm- the siory of London in the time of thc plague. The greatest, good result of this i sacrifice, a result that increases in ' good to Kngland always, was the im ! provemcnt of tho condition of the laborer. So many thousands died of the plague (if 1 have not forgotten, as manv ?4 a tlimi<aitnA A\nA in T Aaa -* - - - --- ?. - -i# when the di*eat?e was at its worst) there were practically but a few left to till tho land and to do thc other man ual work of the couutry. The mortal ity among the lower classes was greater than among the upper, because of their habits of life and their inability to get away. Consequently after the plague labor became dear, and as their necessity to employers became more and more evident to thc laborers they made demands for certain honest rights that had heretofore been de nied. The circumstances compelled concessions to these demands. Exor bitant taxation was removed, and the right to have the land at a reasonable rent "as cenceded. Thc laborer rose, in short, from a position hardly above slavery to one of real liberty, with the possibility of accumulating property of his own. The b?n?ficient effect of these conditions on England's eareer ie best seen by contrasting that career with France going through the most frightful distortion of revolution in history, her hopeless, down-trodden, lord-ridden serfdom rising in wrath and madness and ungovernable feroci ty against the nobility, is only the excreseneo of a diseased body politic. England was saved through the night mare pf a "Black Death from sucha revolution, and owes part of her great ness to-day to one of God's three scourges." 'Wari we must hurry ; these are swift and breathless times. . Delibera i ion i s about lo if ?a H: lo bo for a while, j ami dispatch i- thc word. Thc last scourge Lander's author puts in thc h.md ?d' Hcstiny is tl c hero lt is uncertain whether lu- puts tho hero last because he ranks as thc superla tive tu the seale of these three scour ges. This is true, however, that the third of these three great scourges is very different from the other two in its in dividual < flects. In both thc fortner instances the body itself of every in dividual implicated is laid hold of. His flesh is literally assailed, and as his organism deteriorates, perhaps his mind and morals deteriorate with it ; for, generally speaking, let famine or disease ever get a hold on a nation, and its valor declines. Hellishness exhibits itself where one is astonished to observe it ; almost unhuinau cal lousness characterizes even those who were known to bc of benevolent ten dencies. Mothers desert their own children in the one instance, and eat them itt the other. Children fly from the ??layers of their dying parents under the unnatural hallucination of the plague. Husbands and wives shun each other, or snatch fund from one another. All the kind relations of life aie reversed under the poison ing influence of cither famine or dis ease. It is understood, there are i noble exceptions to the rule ; but this is the rule. War wakes up and intensities the pure emotions. Patriotism, the back bone of .sentiment, defense of home, arouses a latent bravery that might, ? without the voice of war, have re mained unknown. And all the dear domestic loves are tenfold strength ened, when thc possibility arises of saying good-bye to the brother or the son or the sweetheart bound on the grave and hazardous expedition of war, of saying good-bye with a large possi bility of never saying welcome. Oh, then, if oven down underneath the crusts of our self-centered and unsym pathetic hearts there is the smallest spot of space which is capable of hold ing the image of another, surely af that moment that spot of space ex pands, that germ of affection shoots c bud. Surely then, if our eyes are of that polite sort that never commit thc blunder of a tear, surely they will al least, at such a moment, smart a little O, war is a strong conjunction! Herc is a picture of one of the incl dents (?) of Napoleon's Waterloo. Wt have all read it in that monument oi notion, Les Miserables , but it is au unworthy a eccond reading. This pie ture may be called an incarnation o! war. This could bc the picture o nothing but war-you volunteers o (?eorgia. you bright-eyed, gay-hcartet herne?. This is one of the accident only of war. Listen : "AH at once, tragic to relate, at thi left of thc English, and on our right the head of the column of cuirassier reared with a frightful clamor. Ar rived at tho culminating point of th crest (of a small elevation,) unmanage able, full of fury, and bent upon th estermiuatica of the squares and can nons (of tho English) the cuirassier saw between themselves and the Eng lish a ditch, a grave. It was th sunken road of Ohain. "It was a frightful moment. Ther was thc ravine unlooked for, yawnin at thc very foot of the horses, tw fathoms deep between its double slope The second rank pushed in the firs! thc third pushed in the second ; th horses reared, threw themselves ovei fell upon their backs, and struggle with their feet ?D the air. piling u and overturning their riders ; no po wt to retreat ; the whole column Wi nothing but a projectile. The fore acquired to crush the English emslie the French. The inexorable ravir could not yield until it was filled riders and horses rolled in togotln pell-mell, grinding each other, inakir common flesh in thin dres^f"! ~n 1 and when this grave was full of livii men, tho rest marched over them ai passed on. Almost a third of Duboi brigade sank into this abyss. He the loss of the battle began." This sunken road of Ohain go down in history as one of the mo strositics ; Waterloo and the sunk? toad of Ohain look not like a scourg but revengo-if one might say tl word of God. And that sunken rot filled half a brigade was the first lett of thc doom of Napoleon. St. Helei became possible lhere. France has been cruelly ruled wi her Louis VI, her military Lo? XIV, her weak Louis XVI and Mai Antoinette, her Catherine de Medi< her Pompadour, her Maintenant, h Napoleon. War haa boon her mi and blood her drink. Oppression a has known so bitter and so heavy tl the most patient of people raised 1793 the moat terrible of cries. B France-that ia, Franoe, not the i bility-suffered and struggled and c her cruel lord's bidding for coote after oentnry, with never a hope freedom to illuminate her until aft Waterloo. Waterloo, or rather ?> poleo n, ou red the ophthalmia France with an excrutiating operatic After Napoleon, when France li taken a little breathing spe'd, she rt up, and the way pointed oat to her that band through the smoke of Ai terlita and Waterloo (pointed oat him whether he would or not,) tl way I'rance beheld clearly, arni that way she took with all the detcriniHa lton anil tenacity (d' England. That i way was liberty. And now we will hear V ?clo 11 ugo again. "In presence of aud confronting th ?ri ancient Kuropc made over, .he lineaments of a new F rance began to appear. The future, the jest of the emperor, made its appearance. It had on its brow this star, Liberty. The ardent eyes of rising generations turn ed toward it. Men became enamored of this future Liberty. And to day there is a republic-France. Napo leon, the friend and the scourge of the people, had let them realize their own power, not as rioters and regicides, lawless, for they already knew that, but as builders of States. After his death they put in practice the lesson he had taught them and built the free State of France." Catherine de Medici is an impossi bility in France to-day, and Madame de Pompadour is forever dead. The reign of terror is as inexorably extinct as is thc mau who said of them : "Let thc people eat grass." Thc Bastilc cannot bc rebuilt, and the throne of the miserable Louis X V shall not bc sat up again. Supersti tion is weakened, and slavery has broken his bonds. The divine right of tuan is recognized in place of thc divine right of kings. In Napoleon's splendid and tragic defiance of custom and authority the people of Franct first conceived a declaration of inde pendence, which they read aloud in triumphant tones in less than fifty years after the death of the "child ol destiny," caged on the rock of St. Helena. So (?enserie, Attilo and Alaric, wit! their yelping hordes of Norsemen meant strength to degenerated Home In place of the ruined splendors, thc mutilated statues, the desecrated tem pies, they gave Rome fresh, strong blood and a new hold on life that pres ently developed into those hardy younj states of Italy, France, Sr?ain an*: Portugal. William the Conquero: brought to England through the clamo: and chaos of the field of Hastings new energy, broader culture and high er philosophy. The wail and boom o Bunker Hill were the travail throes o thc birth of the most splendid repub lie on the green globe. War has ?ts meaning ; in war then is a truth. Behind the rolling vol umes of smoke the serene face of Des . tiny shines ; through tho roarof death and the wail of sorrow the voice of tho Omnipotent is heard. I', is not chance. Thc most momentous event in human j in story is war ; it cannot bc chance. ' Cod must know it as well as He ; knows of tho fall of the sparrow ; j neither does God go on a journey and leave the battle to us. His wings I stretch abroad in the black cloud of battle, and under his features we gather, though in thc midst of trouble. And we shall yet know that over the raging and over the madness of every slaughter-field our (?od watched. lu thc war that is upon us no suffi ' vient reason yet appears for its exist ence, and no good equal to its evil is yet apparent. But this may even yet contiuue to be our hope, that there is a destined end in it for the beautifica tion of man. ANN STEWART ICTJIBIDOK. A Small Chance fer His Money? A Missouri paper to illustrate the hopeful feeling that some men have when they are in debt, tells of a far ia - ? er who owed Walt Perkins $25, and ? had owed him for years. One day he met Walt and said : "Don't bc uneasy, Walt ; I have the thing all Gxed by which I can pay : you." Walt asked him how he had got it fixed, and the old granger said : "Well, Walt, if nothing happens, next year I hope to raise a good crop of corn, and I intend to trade some of the corn for a yoke of oxen, and I know an old man in St. Charles coun ty that owns an old mare, and he wants to trade her for a yoke of oxen. Now, Walt, when 1 raise the corn and get the oxen I will make the trade for the old marc, and then I will bring her home and raise mule colts-and, Walt, the very first mule colt I sell you shall have the money." Mr. John Peterson, of Patoutville, La., was ver; agreeably surprised not long ago. For eighteen months he had been troubled with dysentery and had tried three of the best doctors in New Orleans, besides half a dozen or more patent medicines, but received very little relief. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy having been recommended to him he gave ita trial, and to his great surprise three doses of that remedy effected a per manent cure. Mr. Wm. McNamara, a well known merchant of the same place, is well acquainted with Mr. Pe terson, and attests to the truth of this statement. This remedy is for sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. _ DEAN'S PATENT FLOUR. EV KUY BARKEL GUARANTEED. Our MUI writes us that we, upon their re sponsibility, "may guarantee every Barrel of Dean ?fe Kati i ff Ve Fancy Patent, Dean <fe RatlihVs Patent. Dean's Patent, Dean & Ratline's Choice Family, and Dean <fc RatHnVs Standard, and that they mean every word thev say." This is a gilt edge guarantee, and we stand ready tn make it good for them If you can get a guaranteed FJour at the name price as a wild-cat article, why not buy the one that ls guaranteed ? We want to say that we have the Cheapest line of Shoes in town-all new styles, Dress Goods of all kinds, and Light and Heavy Groceries, To Buit a poor man's pocket book. All we ask ia a trial. DEAS? & RATLIFF^. ?Hf* Parties owing us for GUANO will please come forward at once and close their aooounts by Note, a9 we require this to be demo by May 1st. D. & R. YOU DON'T KNOW, DO YOU ?" WHO ? Are always away up-to-date, With prices seldom beaten, With latest goods in the State, Which are "out of sight" when eaten. Selling tickled Shad is their latest fad. And Graham Flour is their pet ; It's mighty hard to beat their lard, And their Hams are the rage yet ; Their Canned Goods the famous "Boyal Scarlet" brand, Many medals have won as purest under the sun, And Blanke Bros. Candy finest in the land, For sale by H. B. FANT & SON, who give the best goods for the "mon." Phone 89. Free City Delivery. Fine old Apple Vinegar. COTTON IS CHEAP AND SO ABE Hi' LIVE AND LET LIVE IS OUR MOTTO! WE have a choice and select Stock of FAMILY and FANCY GROCERIES, Consisting of almost everything you may need to eat. Our Goods aro fresh, were bought for cash, and will bo sold as low as the lowest. Please give me a call before purchasing your Groceries. Thanking all for past favors and soliciting a continuance of the same We are yours to please, G-. 3IGBY. DURING THE SPRING MONTHS While baal ness ls supposed to bo dull, we have decided to offer GREAT IN DUCEMENTS in our large end well selected Stock of - - - - - - - - DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, EATS and SHOES. We have a?rerai thousand dollars worth of these Goods that we are going to eel 1 for less than same Gooda can be bought for elsewhere. No wind-work about this. . Come see for yourself. We carry a Splendid Stook of Heavy Groceries, And make Specialties of Fine Floor, Molasses, Coffee, Tobacco and Sugar. If yon will honor ns with a v lait when you want to bay your next bill, we will appreciate it ead make it mighty.Interesting for you. Como nee for yourself. Yon? for Trafile, BROWNLEE & VANDIV6R&. AN OPENJ-ETTER Tu mw i r?c?RS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD "CASTORIA," AND "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADEMARK. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts was the originator of "CASTORIA," the same tha has borne and does new bear on eVi:r the fae-simile siynUure of C^k^/^&^Ui wrappq This is the original "CASTORIA" which has been used i the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that iii the kind you have always bought ^? y/& ^-?* on th and has the signature of C^St^/yf^??/?^z^ wrap per. No one has authority from me io use my name excep The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is Preside^ March 24,1898 /7 j Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by acceptinj a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yoi ( because he makes a few more pennies on it), thc in gradients of which even he does not know. "The Kind You Have Always Bought' BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. THC CKftTAUf! COMPANY, TT MUMMY STRUT, new TORR CIYT. RAGS, RAGS, RAGS ? I am again buying Bags-Save them up and bring them ai your Hides ! Ifyou need a food STEEL B?W3E OB STOVE AT bottom prices, either for Cash or ou time for a good Note don't, fail toi ray line. I will swap you a New Stove for your old'one or for Cattle, i give you the market price for your Cattle. Now is the time to get you a go Stove before cotton-planting time Tinware, Crockery, Ola??, Lamp Goods, Ac, A. SPECIALTY. Thanking you all for past favors, and soliciting a continuance of same Respectfully, JOHN T. BIIRR1RS CKBSCJiNl JSlCYCL?S. MORE of them snld thau any other There must be feood reason?! this, when the same condition prevails every year. They must have inuit Why You Should Side a Crescent ! The price as well as the quality is guaranteed. If you buy a CREi CENT you will never be annoyed by having a duplicate of your wheel adti tised at Department Store prices. CRESCENTS are told through Bicycle Dealers, who protect aud stand! their customers. "Wc sell thc CRESCENTS as cheap as they can be bought anywhere the wide world. Buy where you are assured fair treatment. 33,000 Crescents sold in one year. Best liked ^here best known. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. W. W. SULLIVAN, Manager Bicycle Department. i i BBB ! II--? : I ?-?-Bg THE OLD, RELIABLE Furniture Store - OF - G. Wm TOU?T M SOU Still in th.? Xjead ? They have the Largest Stock, Best Quality, and Certainly the Lowest Prices ! OTHERS try to get there, hut they miss it every time. New, beautiful and select Stock of Furniture, Ac., arriving ever/ and at PRICES NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE. Here you have thc Largest Stock ; therefore, you ean get ;uet wbat want. Here you have the Beat Grade of Furniture ; therefore, you <*?! Goods that will last Here you have the very LOW?-iT PRICES ; therefore, yoo save* big money. j . figf Come along, and we will do you as we have been doing for the forty years^-sell you the very beet Furniture for the very lowest prioe* BS. The largest Stock in South Carolina and the Lowest Frioe it Southern States. New Lot Baby Carriages Just Received. C F. TOLLY & SO Depot Street, Anderson, 8. C. THIS BS mo FAKE ! That Jewelry Palace -OUT _ . WILL. R. HUBBARD'S NEXT TO F. Mi N. BANK, Hu tko Largest, Prettiest and Finest lot of . XMAS ARD WEDDING PRESEN IN VIS? CITY. j Competition don't cnt any ?oe with roe when it comes to price?, buy ?oods to keep. I want the people fid have them. Gold aoa Watches, Sterling aud Plated Silverware, Jewelry, Clocks, Lamp Spectacles, Novelties of all kinds. Rogers* Tripple Plate Table Km ? per Bet A world beater. R.