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BILL ARP' .Arp Slio ws the Suns Atlanta C If this war was waged for humanity's sake-that is, for the purpose of feed ing the starving Cubans-of course it has failed of itspirpese, for they have not been fed. But even though our government made a blunder in assign ing a cause-a casus belli-and instead o? feeding the starving have killed a thousand Spaniards afar oh! in the Philippines, and 8,000 more at Santi ago, nevertheless the war seems to have been the culmination of many grievances and has already resulted in inestimable good. Whether it be manifest destiny or the will of God and the fulfillment of prophecy, we cannot tell, but can only say, as of old, "If this thing be of man it will come to naught, but if it come from God we cannot fight against it." One thing is certain. It has exalted the prow ess, the genius and the resources of the American people more than any thing that has ever happened. The United States now stand acknowledged by the great powers of the world as equal to any of them, and her only rival has solicited her hand in frater nal union. At a banquet given the other day in British Columbia to Lord and Lady Aberdeen, Hon. Mr. Mack intosh, the Lieutenant Governor, paid to Americans the following beautiful tribute: "To our American friends who are present we oannot refrain from extend ing our congratulations for the recent achievements of their army and navy while waging a white man's war for the extension of modern civilization, and we implore- them to cast their in fluence for a white man's policy of an Anglo-American alliance. (Loud cheers.) There can be no legitimate civilization where a Bible is carried in one hand and a drawn sword in the other. When the great English-speak ing nations link their fortunes together, then the war drum will throb no longer and the hattie flag will be furled and a union be perfected that will be sanctioned and blessed by the Al mighty. (Immense applause.) Then will be written by angel fingers the brightest page in history, on which will be recorded the union of the powers owning the same origin, speak ing the same language, but long sev ,. ered by passion and prejudices for which the older must accept responsi bility. (Applause.) Then will be established the greatest confederation of freemen the world has ever dreamed of. Each star upon the flag of the United States will then representa civilizing power and each British colony an auxiliary force, all working together in concert-all honoring the flag of our fathers and all revering the banner of liberty and patriotism. (Loud cheering.) Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I give you the stars and stripes and the Union Jack. Long may their varying tints reunite and form in heaven's light one arch of peace." Isn't that fine? Could it have been better said? Are we not all for that -an alliance with grand old England, our mother from whom we have been long estranged-a white race who now asks foran alliance with the white Tace of this country, for the Christian .civilization of the world. Our recent victories on sea and land have done this. Old solid, sturdy England has long had doubts of our ability and our statesmanship. She has been prejudiced against our re publican form of government, but is now convinced and converted, and is forced to admit that the people can be trusted to govern themselves. But the stress and emphasis that Mr. Mackintosh pays to a white man's government must bea withering re buke to Mr. McKinley, who still seeks to humiliate our people by placing the negro over us. The New York Press is now the most infuriated organ of the republican party, and in a recent issue says: "We want no possession or control of the Philppine islands 01 cf any other islands that have a hybrid, mongrel, lawless population. It would cost us millions of money and a century of time to civilize them and educate them to the blessings of good government. Bight here within our own domain we find it impossible to control and regulate the conduct of some of our own people, for in South Carolina and Georgia we cannot pun ish the people for killing one negrc postmaster and maiming another." Isn't that funny? That party still seeks to humiliate us with the negrc and to keep up the strife. We wert hoping that this war would wipe oui all this bitterness, and if it did it was a war worth fighting; but il looks now like politics is shaping itself to continue the sectional strife. 3fr. Hemphill has been invited ur. north to make a speech on fraternal union, and maybe he can stop th if agitation and help to give us fraternal peace, but I am afraid not. If it were left to the soldiers, we would have s white man's government such as Mr. Mackintosh desired, but already the contention has begun-whose war is S LETTER. ?hine -Alfter the Storm. Constitution. it-who killed cock robin-what party is to have the political benefit of the glory? But we shall see what we will see. The smoke is not cleared away yet. It may be that peace is still afar off, and if the preachers who are writing about the prophecies are not mistaken the war has just begun. The fifth vial of St. John is not near poured out. The preachers amuse me. When I was a young man Napoleon Bona parte was proclaimed as the beast, and his number was six hundred and sixty and six. They found the number by giving a numerical value to each let ter of his name, and then added them all together and actually did make their sum to be 666. But now the Roman Catholic church is said to be the beast, and this war will not end until the pope and his church are all annihilated and then comes the next vial 'which is to be poured out on Turkey and that kingdom is to be annihilated. I heard a preacher say about the time our late civil war begun that if it should turn out that the Lord was not on our side he would forswear his religion. But he lived to see his hopes blasted and did not forswear his religion either. But it humbled him and took away his con ceit. But whether the war must gc on or not I will pray for peace, for I know that peace is a blessed thing. Peace at home and peaoe abroad. We want no war for glory when it is all mixed up with tears, et Lus stop it just as soon as possible, prophecy or no prophecy. Bismarck is dead and not long before he died he said: "I take no comfort in anything that I have done. I have provoked and fought three wars, in which there were killed 80,000 men and which brought rivers of tears. I now be lieve these wars could have been hon orably avoided and I have no pleasure in the memory of them. But I have made my peace with Cod and have his forgiveness." What an admission for an old man, a great man to make. How different from that of Gladstone. BILL ARP. An Episode of Santiago. Lieut. Col. Edgar R. Kellogg, of the Tenth Regular infantry, who com manded his regiment during the ter rific fighting at Santiago July 1, in which the Tenth suffered severe loss, is at the Arlington, and relates an incident of the famous battle that is worthy a place in history, as illustrat ing one characteristic of the American soldier that distinguishes him from the soldier of any other country. The incident related by the Colonel is as follows: During the hottest of the fight, when Spanish bullets were flying thickest and men were falling, killed or wounded, a private of the Ninth infantry, who had been accidentally separated from his command, and whose name the Colonel could not recall, asked permission of an officer of the Tenth to fight in his company, saying that he wanted to do his duty and could not find his own regiment. Permission was granted him, and all day the soldier did his part toward winning the battle with as much skill and vigor as though he belonged to the Tenth. When night came the private accosted Col. Kellogg and asked for a certificate showing that he had performed a soldier's duty all through the battle. "For," said he, "my captain might think I had been skulking all day unless I can show that I was lost and that I fought with your regi ment." Col. Kellogg questioned the man sharply, and sent his adjutant to the captain under whom the man said he had fought to see if his story was true. He found that it was true, and that the soldier had performed valor ous service all day in his strange posi tion. Quickly writing the proper cer tificate, the Colonel dismissed the man, who started at once to hunt up his own regiment. Late in the evening as Col. Kellogg was walking the lines of his regiment to cheer up the men and to see that ll was well with them, he made a ghastly discovery, stumbling over the dead body of a soldier who had fallen, pierced by a Spanish bullet. A hasty examination in thc moonlight showed that the dead hero was the faithful and conscientious soldier of the Ninth who had fought all day with the Tenth. In his pocket was the certifi cate so recently given him by Col. Kellogg. He had gone but a few steps on his journey to his own regi ment when he was struck down by a stray Spanish bullet. Thus is illus trated, in the strongest light, as the Colonel remarked, the self-reliant and independent character of the Ameri can soldier. If separated from his command he is not lost and helpless, sitting down to await aa order from some officer, but, on the contrary, he hunts up another place to fight and gives a good account of himself wher ever he may be.-Washing/on Star. y 1 q d a i g i t C 1 i c d i< t t t I r ? 0 V f d a s i a 3 c i t ? SOME LONG SLEEPS. wo Persons Who Are Making a Great Record. There have been numerous instances i which persons have slept for weeks ithout awakening, and usually they ave been the victims of a well defined ervous disorder. Probably the most remarkable sleep r of modern times is Herman Harms, citizen of St. Charles, Minn. He as slept almost continuously for ffenty years, and is still in the land f the living. He fell asleep in 1875, rhen he was twenty-six years of age, nd was at that time perfectly sound a mind and body, weighing 180 ounds. Though he has been fed sys amatically as well as circumstances rill allow during the whole of his long leep, ho has been reduced to scarcely alf his former weight, being only 84 ounds. Harms is fed usually once a ay, but sometimes goes two or three ays without a drink, all his food be ag in liquid form. He is the father f a family of five, none of whom dis may any signs of the unhappy malady rhich has kept their father uncon cious for twenty years. Periodically the sleeper awakens for short interval, but he invariably re rpses again into slumber. In his mo ?ents of partial consciousness he re ognizes friends, and appears to be naware of the state through which he 3 passing. A year ago he was awake Dr some days and every effort was lade to preserve his consciousness, ut in vain. Harms sank back to leep in less than a week after he had wakened, and has since slept the leep of the living. Numerous physi ians have given their attention to his ase, and various means of arousing he man from his lethargy have been ried without avail. Powerful electric batteries have cen applied to the body again and gain, but the only effect has been to ause a slight twitch of the muscles as t the sleeper felt pain, and in the ext moment he is once more in a lead stupor. All sorts of explana ions have been offered of this myste y, and doctors have variously stated hat Harms suffers from Bright's dis ase, heart trouble or softening of the rain, but so far no satisfactory con lusion has been arrived at as to the ause of his marvelous sleep. It is an spect of physical science which has et to be solved. Catalepsy frequent y takes a peculiar form, which is uite as difficult to account for as the tisease itself, for the doctors are greed that somnambulism of this kind s a disease, and that no person in ood health ever sleeps for such ab lormal periods. One of the most eccentric catalep ics ever known, says the London Hobe, was Elizabeth Perkins, who ived in Norfolk. This old lady spent Qost of her later life in a state of un onsciousness, but regularly woke one lay in seven, and in the "Philosoph cal Transactions" the case is men ioned of Elizabeth Orrin, who, for en years, never slept less than seven een hours out of twenty-four, and was lerfectly sane when awake. Another emarkable feature in this strange ail ment is that it seizes its victims with out the slightest warning, and that rhile it locks some persons in slumber or yearB, others are released after a reek or a month. In 1886 a lady fell asleep for seven lays, and awoke at the end of the week ,s usual, and in the summer of the ame year a Russian soldier fell asleep n an English workhouse and did not wake until the following August. These comparatively short sleeps are if ten traceable to nervousness or phys cal weakness. Fright appears to be he most common cause of long sleep. 5ome years ago a young woman was on r?^=B It ?3 a marvel bow I fq^l y^some men will risk their I lives by sl eer neglect. I ?llfiy They sleep iway entirely i^PST oblivious of the danger creeping upon them.k Men Jf?o^, can hardly be made to re f_ alize that a little sput '.pmfK^L tering spark of disease Th\ \ s\V\ wb*cn migbt be stamp .X^vA?jtA ed out in an instant i%^J$yl\may mean death if it J?K ."^Vi?PvJi3 a"owed to keep on. M /?K jLjj^L Dyspepsia, con M f FffT?T-?-*^ station and Vi* Bggt. \ liver complaint j sfclMj? 1 \ seem 'ike trifling rf T/WO^M \ \ matters but they - J ? lr \1 \ wiU eventually ** fl 1 \ Jj fammS Ji wreck the con t A\ ^^g?^gg^Suc^a^s t i t u t i o n as \f0-'*~' surely as a spark will blow up a keg of ' ? ? " If your health is not strong ?A-, and vigorous it is a simple # f\|/>- and sensible thing to write to Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief con suiting physician to the In valids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y., and obtain from lim and his 6taff of eminent specialists, without charge, professional advice which viii enable you to put your constitution on i solid basis of health and strength forth with, before these ailments have a chance ;o reduce you to a physical wreck. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is icknowledged as the most wonderful med cine ever devised for those diseases which ire caused by imperfect action of the liver md digestive organs. Mr. F. M. Robinett, of Xenophon, Hancock :o., Tenn., says in a letter to Dr. Pierce: " I can leartily recommend Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for indigestion and torpid liver. I ried different doctors with but little result. I x>uld scarcely eat anything-it would put me in mch dreadful distress in my stomach. I had n lull aching pain in my stomach, and continual itirting behind my shoulders, bad taste in my nouth, tongue coated brown, bad faint spells ?nth n lired worn-out feeling. I took eleven x>ttles of . Golden Medical Discovery1 and re lived great benefit. I nni now able to work. It t had not been for this wonderful remedy I be lieve I would not be living to-day." The most difficult diseases to cure are Lhose which are aggravated by constipation, [n such cases Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets ;hould be taken in conjunction with thc " Discovery. ' ' They never gripe. All good dealers sell them. exhibition in various places who had been asleep since she was twelve years old. At that age the child suffered a severe attack of fever, on recovering from which she relapsed into a deep sleep, in which she remained more or less until her death, which took place at the age of twenty-six, after she had been asleep fourteen years. During the first few months of her sleep the girl awok i twice every twen ty-four hours for about ten minutes ; but in her most wakeful intervals she appeared anxious to go to sleep, and when once soundly asleep nothing could arouse her. She never com plained of pain, but when asleep her hands were always clutched tightly, and she appeared extremely nervous, occasionally suffering from a violent jerking and twitching of her muscles and limbs. Several cases have come under notice during the last few years of persons falling asleep for a week or more.- Washington Times. Sold to Gen. Grant. While chatting over Dewey's mar vellous victory and the chance of shelling Manilla, Capt. J. G. Fred erick, a Confederate Veteran, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, said : "I never hear of the shelling of a city but that I am reminded of an inci dent which happened while Grant was shelling Petersburg. Our side, had become so accustomed to the singing of the shells that we paid little atten tion ^to them, consequently I was attracted as I passed a large auction house by hearing the auctioneer an nounce 'that during this sale Gen. Grant had agreed to cease firing, and while I knew it was a joke, I could not help but wait and see the result. Article after article was knocked down to various purchasers until it came to an immense wardrobe, which the sales man said was a bargain at $1,500 (Confederate money.) It started at $500 bid. advanced $50 a bid until it reached $1,000, when a large shell dropped upon it, knocking it to smith ereens. As the shell hit it the auc tioneer, with a laugh, shouted: 'Sold to Gen. Grant for $1,000,' and the sale proceeded as if nothing serious had occurred. The auctioneer was C. C. Burton, famous throughout the South before, during and for years after the war for his coolness and ready wit.-Cincinnati Commercial. - - ? m - Mr. A. C. Wolfe, of Dundee, Mo., who travels for Man sur & Tibbetts, Implement Co., of St. Louis, gives traveling men and travelers in general some good advice. "Being a Knight of the Grip," he says, "I have for the past three years made it a rule to keep myself supplied with Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and have found numerous occasions to test its merits, not only on myself, but on others as well. I can truly say that I never, in a single instance, have known it to fail. I consider it one of the best remedies travelers can carry, and could relate many instances where I have used the remedy on skeptics, much to their surprise and relief. I hope every traveling man in the U. S. will carry a bottle of this remedy in his grip." For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. Willie's Birthday. When Willie's mother and aunt de cided to take him south with them, of course it was only after great fore thought on their part. "I don't believe we'd have to pay," said Aunt Sarah. "Willie looks tobe five or under, at least not a day older, and I'm sure we could squeeze him through." "But if he knew we were lying about his age, saying he is five when he is really six, do you think he would be still? He's a manly little fellow, you know, and likes people to think he is ! seven or eight. And don't you think I it would be setting him a bad example to fib about him, anyway?" Aunt Sarah thought awhile and then said, suddenly: "I have it, Katherine; we'll just tell Willie that he had no birthday this year, therefore he isn't quite five. That will do, and Willie wont know we are fibbing about him, for he doesn't know how old he is himself without our telling him." "All right," acquiesced Willie's mother, "we'll do that, and I shall in form the child that he had no birthday this year." Preparations were made for the trip, and while waiting for the carriage Willie's mother called him to her and said: "Willie, I want to tell you that you have had no birthday this year." Willie looked up and his eyes open ed wide. Then his mother asked: "How old does that make you, Willie?" Willie thought a minute. "Not quite five, mama," he answered. When the conductor reached their seats and was handed two full-fare tickets he looked at the little boy sit ting next the aisle. "How old is the child, madam?" he asked. "Not quite five," the mother answer ed, sliding along the seat and squeez ing her son into even a smaller space. The conductor was not quite satisfi ed. Looking down at Willie and patting his curly brown head, he asked: "How old are you, my little man ?" "Well," spoke up Willie, "if I'd a had a birthday this year I'd be six, but as I havn't I aint quite five." Detroit Free Press. Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve has the largest sale of any Salve in the world. This fact and its merit has led dishonest people to attempt to counterfeit it. Look out for the man who attempts to deceive you when you call for Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve, the great pile cure. Evans Pharmacy. - To pronounce a man happy mere ly because he is rich is just as absurd as to call a man healthy because he has enough to eat. One Minute Cough Cure surprises peo ple by its qnlck cures, and children may take it In large quantities without the least danger. It has won for itself the best reputation of any preparation used to-day for colds, croup, tickling in the throat or obstinate coughs. Evans Phar macy. - Mother-Johnny what do you mean by playing with that Gabler boy? Didn't I tell you never to let me hear of such a thing again. Off spring-You needn't blame me for hearing it. I didn't tell you. SODA WATER AND Hill-Orr Drug Co. Phone No. 8 SUMMER GOODS *?? FRUIT JARS. BUY A STEEL RANGE, ASBESTOS LINED. YOU save 50 cent, in fuel, and does not heat up your cook-room by 50 per cent, as much as the Cast Stove. Iron King and Elmo is the best cheap Stove you can buy. I have a large lot of nice DECORATED PLATES of imported Goods, in va rious patterns, that I am running off at Bargains, as I will not carry the pattern any longer. Now is your chance for nice Goods at a Bargain. I am agent for the BRENNAN CANE MILL (self-oiling) and EVAPORA TORS and FURNACES, To save money buy a Cane Mill and make your own molasses. I can save you money by you having your SMOKE STACKS for Kngines made by me. I am still Buying Hides, Rags and Beeswax. GLASSWARE lower than you have ever bought. Give me a call. Respectfully, JOHN T. BURRISS. AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS TOUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD "CASTORIA," AND "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADEMARK. 4 I DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts]] was the originator of "CASTORIA," the same that] has borne and does now bear - on every the fae-simile signature of C^4a^^M?c^k wrapper. This is the original "CASIO RI A" which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought - on the and has the signature of Out^yf/^?c^k4 wrap per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March 24 J898 J7 w y Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in gredients 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 CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRAY ?TR C CT,'HCl? YORK CITY. ? CEYLON AND INDIA TEA IS WHOLESOME. IT is manufactured in a scientific manner by cleanly machinery, and is PURE, so that a short infusion extracts all the good qualities. DIRECTIONS-Take half usual quantity, see water boils. Pour off liter five minutes steep\ ,. TELLE Y'S CEYLuN-INDIA TEA. "Two cups in one." Fragrant! Delicious ! ! SURPASSING COFFEE. Blue Ribbon, Genuine Mocha and Java, 25c. per lb. For strength and richness of flavor in the cup it surpasses any coffee on the market. It's a sjreat seller. Don't Buy Fruit Jars-Buy Sealing Wax. Manufactured exoressly for putting up fruit. You can use "any old thing,'* md we guarantee the fruit to keep perfectly. Soliciting your orders, Very respectfully yours, JNO. A. AUSTIN & CO. COTTON IS CHEAP SO ARE LIVE AND LET LIVE IS OUR, MOTTO ! "WE have a choice and select Stock of FAMILY and FANCY GROCERIES, Eonsisting 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 of the same We are yours to please, GK F. BIGBY. THE OLD, RELIABLE Furniture Store! - OF - G. F. TOUJT & BON Still in the Lead ! ( 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 eveiy day, and at PRICES NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE. Here you have the Largest Stock ; therefore, you can get "?ust what you want. Here you have the Best Grade of Furniture ; therefore, you ?an get Goods that will last. Here you have the very LOWEST PRICES ; therefore, you save good big money. J5@* Come along, and we will do you as we have been doing for the las forty years-sell you the very best Furniture for the very lowest prices. 8?, The largest Stock iu South Carolina and the Lowest Price in tbs Southern States. New Lot Baby Carriages Just Received. C. F. TOLLY &c SON, Depot Street, Anderson, S. C._ ~ "^THIS ISIMO FAKE I That Jewelry Palace -OF - WILL. R. HUBBARD'S, NEXT TO F. and M. BANK, Has the Largest, Prettiest and Finest lot of . . . XMAS Atw) WEDDING PRESENT'S I1V THE CIXY. Competition don't ont any ice with me when it comes to prices. I don't my goods to keep. I want the people to have them. Gold and Silver Watches, Sterling and Plated Silverware, Jewelry, Clocks, Lamps, Chipa, spectacles, Novelties of all kinds. Rogers' Tripple Plate Table Knives $1 JO 1er Set. A world beater. WILL R. HUBBARD.