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BILL ARH "Ways of Grenerals-3 -A-nnouncec Atlanta Co "When General Taylor had fought and won a great battle in Mexico he sent a report of it to the secretary of war and began it by saying: "Sir-On yesterday noon as I was taking a hasty ' plate of soup." The nation was electrified at the victory, but every body smiled at the old man's style of reporting* it and the importance he attached to soup. Nevertheless the whigs nominated him for president over General Scott and Daniel Webster. Scott was called Old "Fuss and Feath ers," but Taylor was dubbed "Old Bough and Ready," and that nomina ted Hm. The democratic papers made fun of him and called him "old soup plate" and "old hasty," but he was elected. His fighting qualities put him through. And Henry Watterson says wc can put Admiral Dewey through for the same reason. Maybe we can. I am willing, of course, for he is a democrat and a Presbyterian, and being one of the elect, ought to be elected. We don't know that he is partial to soup, but certain it is that he is partial to his stomach, for he actually stopped fighting and sinking ships fong enough to eat breakfast. Was such a thing ever done in the midst of a terrific battle before? "Twenty min utes for breakfast!" was the ring of the steward's bell on every vessel and . the poor Spaniards had surcease of sorrow for a little while. Zachary Taylor said: "A little more grape,. Captain Bragg," but Dewey said : "Boys, let us rest awhile and eat up tsomething-the rest of their ships will keep." Dewey is a Green Mountain boy and I like that, for Vermont democrats are j the best democrats north of the line. And just to think of his being a Presbyterian. I dident know they had any in Vermont and would have set him down for a Unitarian or a Roman Catholic or a deep water Bap tist. Grover Cleveland, they say, is a Presbyterian, but maybe he is one of Zeb Vance's kind. Zeb said: "The difference between me and my brother Bob is that Bob is a Methodist and believes in falling from grace, but Bob never falls. I am a Presbyterian and don't believe in falling from grace, but am falling all the time." When Zeb was running against Holden for governor he found oat that all the people in a little valley over the mountains were Baptists and so he went over there just a few days before Holden, was to speak there and told the boys that his good old mother was a Baptist and that Holden was a regu lar old-fashioned shoutin' Methodist and yon could hear him a mile at a camp meeting. The result was that sot a dozen men came ont to hear Holden and Vance got every vote in the settlement. But that stopping fer breakfast at ' Manila reminds me of the fight be tween Dr. Hall and Colonel Boyd, of our town, away back before the war. They were leading citizens and were .-continually at outs. They carried -much animosity on their tongues and "much corporosity in their abdominal regions, for each weighed about 250 ..pounds and had short necks and short arms and shorter legs and each had vowed to whip the other if he ever ?crossed his path. One day as Hall was going from the postoffice slowly walking and reading his paper he and ?Boyd met at the corner and the fight began. Each was as big a coward as .old Falstaff, but they had to fight and ?everybody around was willing. In a brief time they got to the ground and , neither could get up or get on top and they blowed like porpoises. After awhile the people took pity on them and helped them up and then each 1 claimed the victory. "I sent you word I was going to whip you," said Boyd, "and now I reckon you will quit telling lies on me." "Whipwho, ' you old dirty, lying puppy. Why I whipped you, sir, and never stopped reading my newspaper." and he held up the crumpled sheet that somehow i or other he had never let go from his hand. The old doctor always swore that he never stopped reading his paper while fighting Boyd. Just so Taylor never forgot his soup and Dewey his breakfast. There is no record in all history that matches Dewey's coolness under fire and over water and if he should bc nominated for our next president, as Watterson predicts, the shibboleth will be twenty minutes for breakfast. Stonewall Jackson dident seem to care very much about eating during a fight, but did care about praying for che souls of his enemies. "The Bluelight elder knew them well, Says he, 'That Banks-be's fond of shell Lord save his soul-now give him'-well, That's Stonewall Jackson's way. "Silence! ground arma ! kneel a>l ! caps off! Old Bluelight's going to pray, 'Say bare thine arm; stretch forth thy rod ; 1 Amen!' That's Stonewalls way." ( But after all that has been said or j sung about our heroes, I don't believe i 3 LETTER. HEow Victories Wer L by Them. nstilution. that any good hearted man take pleasure in killing his fellow men whether in battle or in a personal quarrel. In the olden time when men fought duels and it was considered dishonorable to refuse a challenge, many a man overshot his adversary rather than have his blood on his hands. It takes a hard-hearted man to shoot another down in cold blood and it is a shade of comfort to every true soldier to know that possibly every bullet he fired may have missed the mark. I saw two loldiers shot at sunrise one morning at Centerville in 1861. Twelve men fired the fatal shots but no one knew who killed them, for six of the guns had not balls in them. Such is the kind con sideration that even army rules have for the feelings of those who are chosen for such reluctant work. That voice from heaven that Cain heard when he killed Abel still haunts us. "The voice of thy brother's blood cries unto me from the ground." I have often wondered how the spirits of dead soldiers of opposing armies meet each other on the other side. Do they shake hands and make friends or how? Or do they say like Nathaniel Hawthorne said when asked if he was in favor of civil war. "Well, yes, I am constrained to approve it, but still I don't know what we have to fight about." But one thing is certain. We arc ooming slow speed in feeding starving Cubans and if our fleets don't hurry up there won't be anybody to feed. Lord help them, for it looks like we cannot. BILL ARP. Raising Hogs for Bacon. A most decided change in the mat ter of taste has developed among the consumers of bacon. The demand now is almost entirely for lean meat, not a single strip of lean but full one-half. To raise hogs which will supply chis demand, pen feeding must be done away with almost entirely. The con finement in close quarters induces fat that even the most careful feeding cannot overcome profitably. Unlim ited pasture feeding is necessary from April to November; and if the right breed of hogs is kept bacon can be raised and sold at a good profit. It has been found that the rather kzy Berkshire, Poland-China and Jersey breeds cannot be profitably turned into lean bacon, so that breeds that are inclined to roam, like the crossed Yorkshires or the Tamworth, are the best for the purpose. The Tamworth is bat little known in this country, and breeders do not take kindly to the plan of giving up the well known breeds for Ihis stranger. It is not necessary, for a cross of Yorkshire female with Duroc-Jersey male gives an animal well suited for turning into lean bacon. Attempts are now being made with promise of good results, to educate the razor-back of the south to feed for bacon. It must be confessed that this animal has many of the c'iaracteristics of a good bacon hog, and if the dispo sition to eat anything from an old boot to a ground hog can be bred out of her, she may yet astonish the advo cates of fancy breeds. Four one-acre fields well fenced will supply ample pasture for 50 hogs with the addition of some roots or corn as a supplemen tary feed. The fields are sown into peas, rye and rape, clover and barley and the hogs turned into the rye early in the spring, from thence into the clover field, from the clover to the peas, and from peas to rape, the barley being cat green and fed to the hogs, or the field may be pastured occasionally. The main expense of this system of feeding is in the fences, which must be strong and close. Aside from this the cost will be less than pen feeding. Immediate Relief. Colonel W. H. Halbert is notorious ly poor pay. A few days ago he entered a drugstore on Austin avenue, and asked for a bottle of Dr. McFroud's Kidney Encourager. The clerk, who had been informed that all the bad debts contracted would be deducted from his mother's stipend, produced the bottle. "Do you think," said Colonel Hal bert, reaching out for the bottle, "that one bottle will relieve me of my dis couraged kidneys ?" "Yes." responded the clerk, still holding on to thc bottle; "I know it will relieve you right oft'. It will re lieve you of $1 in cash before you get out of the store with it." The colonel groaned, and remarking that the remedy was worse than the > disease, took his discouraged kidneys ' to thc next drugstore for relief. - ? ? ^ - - One Minuto is not long, yet relief is ob tained in bali' that time by the use ol' One Minute Cough Cure. It prevents con- ' sumption and quickly cures colds, croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, la grippe and all throat and lung troubles. Evans Phar macy. Noble Lessons of War. Atlanta Journal. It seems to me that this Spanish War will lose its essential mission if it does not teach us patriotism, awaken sentiment and better and broaden the spirit of Americanism in us all. No nobler and no greater people have lived in human history than the southerners who came, storm-swept and chastened out from the crowning shadows of Appomattox. Every heroic virtue grew in the matchless inspiration of the war. Every noble quality flourished in the stern and splendid discipline of these unrelenting years. Courage, patience, sentiment, devotion, duty, unselfish ness, and deathless patriotism flashed like radiant stars across the gloom and darkness of the time. Men learn ed there to love their country better than themselves and to pledge this loyalty freely with their lives. Wo men, raised in luxury, forgot their selfish comforts in their solemn duties, and thc white hands of fashion swept thc looms of labor and fastened the bandages of blood with a self-denying heroism that was indeed sublime. When triumphs came, they rejoiced with reverent gratitude. They met disasters in their turn with dignity, without discouragement, and when all was over, and the last shadow wrapped the lost cause, this people chastened into heroism, and disciplined into grandeur, facing desperate conditions without bitterness and without de spair, set themselves with patient faith to duty, and wrought with dili gence the development, that must for ever stand as the material miracle of our time. War and suffering developed a great ness for which defeat and poverty furnished a field of glorious illustra tion. But peace came, and with peace re sponsibility, and the stern necessity for an industrial heroism as notable as the prowess of our soldiery. The colossal energies of battles were consecrated anew to the making of money, and out of the industrial travail, glorious in itself, has been develoyed the monster of Materialism, selfish, sinister and threatening, mag nifying the individual and making the State subordinate. No people on earth could have con secrated for thirty years as we have done, every faculty of brain and heart and hand to mere material develop ment, without demoralization and thc evidences of our retrogression in moral qualities are patent and lamentable. The virtues that grew in our service of Mars, are fading in our worship of Mammon. t The nobility born in the service of our country is dying in exclusive ser vice to ourselves. It may be that tie Almighty ?'moving in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform," has brought this new war to pass to rebuild and tonic the decaying virtues of our race. For that war does revive the nobler spirit of a people there can be no doubt. John Ruskin says that "no great art ever yet rose on earth except among a nation of soldiers. He holds that the architectural triumphs of Italy, the paintings of Rubens or the playB of Shakespeare would have been impossible "without the lofty attitude of mind induced by the contemplation of stormy and heroic periods of his tory." He holds further that "war is the foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men," and with all due allowance for John Ruskin's exuber ance of expression, the universal drift of history confirms his sweeping state ment and breaks rudely upon thc eulogists of eternal peace. The growing consciousness during wars that dying is not the worst of "evils," and that honorable death is better than ignoble life, is a motive to high endeavor and one of the most uplifting sentiments in the thought of a world. The war sentiment in a nation pro duces consecration, effaces self, and stabbing the stubborn ego in thc human heart brings humanity to thc ideal satte of patriotism and of Chris tianity. We talk of peace and learning, of peace and plenty, of peace and civili zation, but brave old .John Ruskin is justified in saying that, instead of these, the words which the Muse of history couples on her lips, are ''peace and sensuality, peace and selfishness, peace and corruption, peace and death." We find in brief that all great nations learned their truth of word and strength of thought in war: that they were nourished in war and wasted by peace; taught by war aud deceived by peace; trained in war and betrayed by peace-in a word that they were born in war and expired in peace ! And so, let us wrap the spirit of these martial times about us, and lather to our souls thc mighty lessons af battle and endurance. Let us learn once more to love Our Country, and to love truth and honor and thc right. Let us lift thc qualities of manhood above the rim of the dollar and make money less than morals, while wc make merit more than peace. Let us magnify courage and patience and glorify duty and devotion. Let us exalt thc virtues and degrade the greed and selfishness, that makes men cowardly and ignoble. Let us celebrate our triumphs with enthusiasm; let us cherish our heroes and crowu them ; let us comfort the wounded and remember the soldier in arms: let us never weaken the ranks with a doubt of the justice of the cause for which they fight. Let us inspire the army by faith and sympa thy amoDg the people. Let us salute the government with reverence and undying devotion. And let us of the south standing without further protest of loyalty, j and without any lingering shado-" of doubt under the flag of the Union, thank God for our re-united country, and redeem in the fulness of action what our lips have professed in peace with Joe Wheeler of the Confederate horse leading the Union cavalry, and the great green country resonant with the praises, bearing thc immortal name of Lee. JOIIN TEMPLE GRAVES. - "Aside from the pain of parting, more keen than the pangs of home sickness, grief deep and strong has come to abide with the Indiana troops at camp Thomas," says the Chicago Journal. "The Indiana regimental officers have decided that the Hooiser soldier shall not wear his whiskers to the war. It is doubtful if so cruel an order has gone forth amid the stern regulations of military discipline. The Indiana soldier can fight without his whiskers. But it makes him. like Private Mulvaney without his shoes, 'timorous like.' Such bareness of face before the enemy, such nakedness to the rude, untempered wind, makes him feel like a half-orphan on his mother's side, and fills him with a longing for some asylum where he can regain his hirsuteness far from the vulgar gaze of mau." During the summer of 1891, Mr. Chas. P. Johnson, a well known attor ney of Louisville, Ky., had a very severe attack of summer complaint. Quite a number of different remedies were tried, but failed to afford any relief. A friend who knew what was needed procured him a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoa? llemedy, which quickly cured him and he thinks, saved his life. He says that there has not been a day since that time that he has not had this remedy in his household. He speaks of it in the highest praise and takes much pleasure in recom mending it whenever an opportunity is offered. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. A Tribute to Gen. Hood. Jaeob D. Cox, late major geueral commanding thc 23d army corps, in a work just published by the Scribners entitled "The Battle of Franklin, Tenn., November 4, 1864," is very complimentary to Hood. He remarki upon his military ability and energy of character. Gen. Cox's purpose in writing his book was principally to controvert many statements and mis statements in the Federal army. He has designed his book as a military stidy. He reviews, in separate chap ters, the work of the various divisions ol' the armies. Gen. Cox remarks : "Hood bore with patience the pen alty of failure, but justioe requires the clear acknowledgement that his faith in the attack has been, and per haps still is, the prevalent military creed in Continental Europe. His tacti?s of assault in deployd line with supports are not far from approved methods, supposed to be developed by late wars. It would be hard to match in dash and perseverance thc veteran Confederate battalions cf 1864; it would be impossible to surpass the leadership of the officers who headed the charges upon thc field." The author states that "Hood had more men killed at Franklin than died on one one side in some of the great est conflicts of the war, where three, four or even five times as many men were engaged. His killed were more than Grant's at Shiloh, McClellan's in the Seven Days' battle, Burnside's at Fredericksburg, Rosecrans at Stone River or Chickamauga, Hookers at Chancellorsville, and almost as many as Grant's at Cold Harbor." From the records now published by the Government, Gen Cox claims that Schofield's army numbered 20,234, while Hood's force was two or three hundred less than 24,000. Chamberlain's Pain Balm has no equal as a household liniment. It is the best remedy known for rheuma tism, lame back, neuralgia; while for sprains, cuts, bruises, burns, scalds and sore throat, it is invaluable. Wertz & Pike, merchants, Fernandina, Fla. write: "Everyone who buys a bottle of Chamberlain's Remedies, comes back and says it is thebest medicine he has ever used." 25 and 50 cents per bottle at Hill-Orr Drug Co. - Estimating the amount of blood in the human body at 24 pounds. 12 pounds pass through the heart every minute. HOES, HARROWS, CULTIVATORS. THE TERRELL, ROMAN, and EUREKA HARROWS. Take your choice. These are the leading grass-killers Prices reduced. Hoes. Absolutely perfect in shape of blade and handle. All superior steel. Bought in car lots. Our customers shall have the benefit. We have the Hoes and the prices. Sullivan Hardware Co. COTTON IS CHEAP AND SO ARE 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 are fresh, were bought for cash, and will be sold as low as the lowest. Please give me a call before purchasing your Groceries. Thanking all for past favors and soliciting a continuance ot" the same We are yours to please, Gk F. BIGBY. DURING THE SPRING MONTHS Whilo business is mipposed to bc dull, we have deckled to oller GREAT IN DUCEMENTS in our large and well selected Stock of . DRY. GOODS, NOTIONS, HATS and SHOES. We have i-evera! thousand dollars wortli of these Goods that we are ?coiny to sell for lesa than same Goods can bo bought tor elsewhere. No wind-work about, this. Come see for yourself. We carry a Splendid Stock of Heavy Groceries, And make Specialties of Finp flour, Melassen, Codee, Tobacco and Sugar. If you will honor us with a visit wben you want to buy your next bill, we will appreciate it and make it mighty interesting for you. ( 'onie see tor yoursolf. Yours for T radio, BROWNLEE & VANDBVERS. IjJEHMjl. 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Dean's Patent, Dean ?fe RatliftVs Choice Family, and Dean ?fe Ratline's Standard, and that they mean every word thev say." This is a gilt edge guarantee, and we stand ready to make it good for them If you can get a guaranteed Fiour at the va inn price as a wild-cat article, why not buy the one that is 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 suit a poor man's pocket book. All we ask is a trial. DEAN & RATLIFFE. 99- Parties owing us for GUANO will please come forward at once and oioee their accounts by Note, as we require this to be dono by May 1st. D. ?fe R. BAGS, BAGS, BAGS ! I am again buying Rags-Save them up and bring them and your Hides ! If you need a good STEEL RANGE OR STOVE AT bottom prices, either for Cash or on time for a good Note don't, fail to see my line. I will swap you a New Stove for your old"one 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, &c, A. SPECIALTY. Thanking you all for past favors, and soliciting a continuance of same Respectful ly, JOHN T. BURRIS8. THE OLD, RELIABLE Furniture Store! - OF - e* F? TOIJIJT <fe BON Still iii the Lead I They have the Largest Stock, Best Quality, and Certainly the Lowest Prices ! OTHERS try to get there, but they miss it every time. New, beautiful and select Stock of Furniture, &c., arriving every &yf and at PRICES NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE. Here you have the Largest Stock ; therefore, you can get ;ust what yon want. Here you have the Best Grade of Furniture ; therefore, you can get Goods that will last. Here you have the very LOWEST PRICES ; therefore, you save good big money. B?f Come along, aud we will do you as we have been doing for the la? forty years-sell you the very best Furniture for the very lowest prices. 8@u. The largest Stock in South Carolina and the Lowest Price in th? Southern States. New Lot Baby Carriages Just Received. C. F. TOLLY &> SON, Depot Street, Anderson, S. C. THIS IS WO FAKE ! That Jewelry Palace - OF - WILL. R. HUBBARD'S, NEXT TO F. and M. BANK. Has the Largest, Prettiest and Finest lot of . . . XMAS AND WEDDING PRESENTS T1V THE CITY. Competition don't cut any iee with me when it comes to prices. I don't buy goods to keep. I want the people to have them. Gold and Silver Watches, Sterling and Plated Silverware, Jewelry, Clocks, Lamps, China, spectacles, Novelties of all kinds. Rogers' Tripple Plate Table Knives S1.50 per Set. A world beater. WILL R. HUBBARD.