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1)1 LL ARI j\.rp Shows tli?? Sun: .1 (hitit" If this war WUK waged for humanity*! sake-that is, for thc purpose of feed ing the starving Cubana-?d' course ii lias failed of its purpose, fur they hav< not been fed. Hut even though oui government mad? a blunder in assign ing a eau-'' ;i casus belli-and instead of feeding tli. . starving have killed : thousand Spaniards afar off in tin Philippines, :tnd 8,000 inure at Santi ago, nevertheless the war scorns t' have been the culmination "f many grievances and has already resulted in inestimable pood. Whether it bc manifest destiny or tin- willoi God and the fulfillment of prophecy, we cannot tell, hut eau only say, as of old, "If this thing bc of man it will come to naught, bin if it come from God wo cannot fight against it." Uno tiling is certain, lt has exulted thc prow ess, the genius and the resources of the American people more than any thing that has ever happened. The I'ni ted States now stand acknowledged by thc 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 thc other day in British Columbia to Lord and Lady Aberdeen, Hon. Mr. Mack intosh, the Lieutenant Governor, paid to Americans thc following beautiful tribute : "To our American friends who are present we cannot 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 eau be no legitimate civilization where a Bible is carried in ono hand and a drawn sword in thc other. When the great English-speak ing nations link their fortunes together, then the war drum will throb no longor and the battle flag will bo furled and a union bo perfected that will bc sanctioned and blessed by thc Al mighty. (Immense applause.) Then will be written by angel fingers thc brightest page in history, on which will bc recorded tho union of thc powers owning the samo origin, speak ing thc samo language, but long sev ered by passion and prejudices for which tho older must accept responsi bility. (Applause.) Then will be established the greatest confederation of freemen the world has evor dreamed of. Each star upon the flag of thc United States will thou represent a civilizing power and each British colony an auxiliary force, all working together in concert-all honoring the flag of our fathers and all revering tho banner of liberty and patriotism. (Loud cheering.) Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I give you the stars and stripes and the Union Jack. Loug may their varying tints reunite and form in heaven's light one arch of peaoe." 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 for an alliance with the white race 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 tho people can br trusted to govern themselves. But thc stress and emphasis that Mr. Mackintosh pays ic a white man's government must be a 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 or of 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 thc blessings of good government. Right 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 peoplo for killing one negro postmaster and maiming another." Isn't that funny? That party still seeks to humiliate us with the negro and to keep up the strife. We were hoping that this war would wipe out all this bitterness, and if it did it was a war worth fighting; but it looks now like politics is shaping itself to continue the sectional strife. Mr. Hemphill has been invited up north to make a speech on fraternal union, and maybe he can stop this agitation and help to give us fraternal peace, but I am afraid uot. If it were left to thc soldiers, wo would have a white man's government each as Mr. Mackintosh desired, but already the contention has begun-whose war is S LETTER. slime -A l ter t?ie Storm. < 'oti.stilntio?. - it who killed cock robin what party is tu have thc political benefit of the i glory? lint we shall sec what wc will seo. r Tho smoko is nut cleared away yet. . > It may lu- that peace is still alar oil, [ and il'thc preachers who arc writing t about tim prophecies are nut mistaken thc w.ir lias just begun. The fifth vin! ul'M. .lohn is not near poured , out. The preachers amuse me. When I was a young mau 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 I all together and actually ?lid make their sum tu lu: l?t?l>. But now the Kunian Catholic church is said tobe thc beast, ami this war will nut end until the pupe and his church are all annihilated and then comes the next vial which is tu be poured out un Turkey and that kingdom is to be annihilated. I bearii a preacher say ! about the time our late civil war beg".!: that if it should turn out that the Lord was not on our side he would forswear his religion. But bc 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 go on or not I will pray for peace, for I know that peuce is a blessed thing. Peace at home and peace abroad. We waut no war for glory when it is all mixed up with tears, ct hus stop it just as soon as possible, prophecy or no prophecy. Bisu;arck is dead and not long beforo he died he said: "I take no comfort in anything that I have done. 1 have provoked and fought three wars, in which there were killed 80,01)0 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 tho memory of them. But I have made my peace with God and have his forgiveness." What au 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 li. Kellogg, of tho 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 tb*vt is worthy a placo 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 tho 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 thc battle with as much skill and vigor as though he belonged to thc Tenth. When night oame the private accosted Col. Kellogg and asked for a certificate showing that he had performed a soldier's duty all through the battle. "Kor," said he, "my captain might think I had beon 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 sont his adjutant to tho captain under whom tho man said he had fought to soe if his story was true. He found that it was true, and that tho soldier had performed valor ous service all day in his strange posi tion. Quickly writing the proper cer tificate, the Colonel dismissed tho 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 all was well with them, he made a ghastly discovery, stuish?ss over thf. 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 tho Ninth who had fought all day with the Tenth. In his pocket was the certifi cate so recently given him by Col. Kellogg. Ile 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 oharacter of tho 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 auothor place to fight and gives a good account of himself wher ever ho may he.- Washington Star. SO.Mi: I.OM? SLKITS. - Ttvfi l'p.tnotm Wini A ri? Muk ?ML- a (?rent ? Ki'cu rd. There have been numerous instances in which persons have slept for weeks without awakening, and usually they have been thc victims of a well defined nervous disorder. 1'robably the most remarkable sleep er of modern times is Herman Harms, a citizen of St. Charles, Minn. Ile has slept almost continuously for twenty years, and is still in the land of the living. He fell asleep in 1K7??, when he was twenty-six years of age, and was ut that time perfectly sound in mind and body, weighing 180 pounds. Though he has been fed sys tematically as well as circumstances will allow during thc whole of Iiis long sleep, ho has been reduced to scarcely half his former weight, being only 81 pounds. Hanns is fed usually once a day, hut sometimes goes two or three days without a drink, all his food be ing in liquid form. Ile is the father nf a family of five, none of whom dis play any signs of the unhappy malady which has kept their father uncon scious f<ir twenty years. Periodically the sleeper awakens for a short interval, hut he invariably re lapses again into slumber. In his mo ments of partial consciousness he re cognizes friends, and appears to bc unaware of the state through which he is passing. A year ago he was awake frr some days and every effort was made to preserve his consciousness, but in vain. Harms sank back to sleep in less than a week after he had awakened, and has since slept thc sleep of the living. Numerous physi cians have given their attention to his case, and various means of arousing thc man from his lethargy have been tried without avail. Powerful electric batteries have been applied to thc body again and again, but thc only effect has been to cause a slight twitch of thc muscles as if the sleeper felt pain, and in tho next moment he is once more in a dead stupor. All sorts of explana tions have been offered of this myste ry, and doctors have variously stated that Harms suffers from Bright's dis ease, heart trouble or softening of the brain, but so far no satisfactory con clusion has been arrived at as to the cause of his marvelous sleep, lt is an aspect of physical science which has yet to be solved. Catalepsy frequent ly takes a peculiar form, which is quite as difficult to account for as the disease itself, for the doctors are agreed that somnambulism of this kind is a disease, and that no person in good health ever sloops for such ab normal periods. One of the most eccentric catalep tics ever known, says the London Globe, was Elizabeth Perkins, who lived in Norfolk. This old lady spent most of her later life in a state of un consciousness, but regularly woke one day in seven, and ic tho "Philosoph ical Transactions" the case is men tioned of IC lizabeth Orrin, who, for ten years, never slept less than seven teen hours out of twenty-four, and was perfectly sane when awake. Another remarkable feature in this strange ail ment is that it seiies its victims with out the slightest warning, and that while it looks some persons in slumber for years, others are released after a week or a month. In 1886 a lady fell asleep for seven days, and awoke at the end of the week as usual, and in the summer of the same year a Russian soldier fell asleep in an English workhouse and did not awake until the following August. These comparatively short sleeps are often traceable to nervousness or phys ical weakness. Fright appears to be thc most common cause of long sleep. Some years ago a young woman was on i tf-^a? mm *9 a marve- how I t^B jffLwBomc mr* w--l "sk their I 't?lw Uvea by sLeer neglect. i y~3BLftf They sleep vway entirely fl oblivious of thc danger (l^S&H creeping upon theran Men iT?o'?i can hardly bc made to TC ^t?rjt alise that a little sput "?V^V tertng spark of disease *\Vv wbich might be atamp *X-^VVgji\ ed out in an instant 4So?y mean death if it iJK?->lt??Wia allowed to keep on. ?I Dyspepsia, con tS # BlL?\ L -il 8t?pation and \sJ HfcS . vH/ \ liver complaint ^flMii \ \ neem like trifling V VI i tY0tft!jf \ \ matters but they rj> J ? I I 1 If? \ \ wiU eventually * - JU . / , fernel wreck the con . ^\ ^?^aawBWJfcto91 i t u t i o n as J' surely as a /r%'?S^.'w spark will blow up a keg of /'*vi_*> " If your health is not strong .A? and vigorous it ia a simple fM??> ana sensible thing to write to "^gf-SS Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief con ~</ !)v> suiting physician to the In valida' Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y.t and obtain from him and bis statt ot eminent apecianav. without charge, professional advice which will enable you to put your constitution on a solid basia of health and strength forth with, before these ailments have a chance to reduce you to a physical wreck. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery ia acknowledged as the most wonderful med icine ever devised for those diseases which are caused by imperfect action of the liver and digestive organs. Mr. F. M. Robinett, of Xenophon Hancock Ca, Tenn., Mys in a letter toDr. Woree: " I can h -artlly recommend Ur. Pierce's Golde A Medical Discovery for indigestion and torpVi liver. I tried different doctors with but i itt ie result. X could scarcely est anything-it would put me In such dreadful distress in my stomach. X had a dull aching pain in my stomach, and continual hurting behind my shoulders, bad taste in my mouth, ton eue coated brown, had faint spelts with a tired worn-out feeling. I took eleven bottles of'Golden Medical Discovery' and re ceived great benefit X am now able to work. It it had not been for this wonderful remedy X be lieve I would nat be living to-day." The moat difficult diseases to core are those which are aggravated by constipation. In such cases Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets should be taken in conjunction with the "Discovery." They never gripe. All good dealers sell them. " exhibition in various places who bad been asleep since she was twelve years old. At that age the child Buffered 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 agc of twenty-six. after she had been asleep fourteen years. Durit)!' the first few months of her sleep the girl awok ; 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 thc last few years of persons falling asleep for a week or more.- Washington Tim? s. Sold to Ucn. (?rant. While chatting over Dewey's mar vellous victory and thc 'chance of shelling Manilla. Capt. J. G. Fred erick, a Confederate; Veteran, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, said: "I never hear of thc shelling of a city but that I am reminded of an inci dent which happened while (Jrant was shelling Petersburg. Our side, had become so accustomed to thc 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 (Jen. Grant had agreed to cease firing, and while I knew it was a joke, I could not help but wait and see tho result. Articlo after article was knocked down to various purchasers until it came to au 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 reaohed $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. - Mr. A. C. Wolfe, of Dundee. Mo., who travels for Mansur & 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 nn UVi Willie s Birthday. When Willie's motlier 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 wc could squeeze him through." "But if bc knew we were lying about his age, saying he is five when he is really six, do you think he would be still? Ho's a mauly little fellow, you know, and likes people to thiuk he is si;ven or eight. And don't you think it would be setting him a bad example to Gb about him, anyway?" Aunt Sarah thought awhile and then said, suddenly: "I have it, Katherine: we' just tell Willie that he had no birthday this year, therefore he isn't quite five. That will do, and Willie wont know wc arc 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 thc trip, and while waiting for thc 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," bc 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 Td a Lad a birthday this year I'd be six, hut ns 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 Pharmaoy. - 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 Minnie Gough Cure surprises peo ple by its quick cures, and children may take it in large quantities without the least danger. It has won for itself the beet reputation of any preparation used to-day for colds, croup, tickling in the throat OE obstinate coughs. Evans Phar macy. - Mother-Johnny what do you mean by playing with that Gubler hoy? 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. AND Hill-Orr Drug Co. Pilone IN"o. 8. SUMMER GOODS AND FRUIT JARS. BUY A STEEL HANGE, ASBESTOS LINED. YOU save 60 mot. in rael, and doee not beat np your cook-room by 50 per cent, aa mich os the Catt 8 to VG. Iron King and Elmo hi the boat cheap Stove yon can bny. I have a large lot of nice DECORATED PIiATEft of imported Gooda, in va ions pattor?B, that I am running off at Bargain?, aa I will not carry tba pattern any onger. Now ia your chance for nloe Gooda at a Bargain. I am agent for the BRENNAN CANE HIIdL (self-oUIng) and EVAPORA* TORS and FURNACES? To eave monoy buy a Cane Mill and maka your own notasses. I can eave yon money by yon having your SHORE STACKS for Engines eade by me. I am still Baying Hides, Ragt and Beeswax. GLASSWARE lower than yon have ever bought. Give mo a call. Respectfully, JOHN T. BURRISS. AM ?DCM I tr "TT t IA a *? ^ 1 ia?B H Ossa BHD S ? t^uTf 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. /, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts 1 was the originator of "CASTORIA," the same ?X' has borne and does now bear on ej] the fae-simile signature of C^t^/?f^^^ wrap2 This is the original "CASTO RIA" which hau been used k the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you have always bought ^~f? /v on the and has the signature of Out^/?r^?^^: Wrap. per. No one has authority from me to use my name excent The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President March 24 J898 /7 ?? * 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. TM? ci NT AU- se??ANv, ?r S?U!?IAY BTSBST. Mes ~c?* crrr. ? CEYLORS AND INDIA TEA IS WHOLESOME. IT is manufactured in a scientific manner by cleanly machinery, and u PURE, so that a short infusion extracts all the good qualities. DIRECTIONS-Take half usual quantity, see water boils. Pour ol after five minutes steep? a TELLE Y'rf CEYLuN-INDIA TEA. "Two cups in one." Fragrant! Delicious ! ! SURPASSING COFFEE. Blue Ribbon, Genuine Mocha and Java, 25c. per lb. For strength ao richness of flavor in the cup it surpasse^ any coftee on the market. It's great seller. Don't Buy Fruit Jars-Buy Sealing Wax. Manufactured expressly for putting up fruit. You can use "any old thing,' and we guarantee the fruit to keep perfectly. Soliciting your orders, Very respectfully yours, JNO. A. AUSTIN & CO. COTTON IS CHEAP AND SO A.TXE1 Itffl" UVE AND LET UVE IS OUR MOTTO! WE have a choice and select Stock of FAMILY and FANGT GROCERIES, GOGS isling of almost everything you may need to sat. Oar Goods *K$ were bought fr- cash, and will be sold as low as the lowest. Please give a call before purchasing your Groceries. Thanking all for past favors and soliciting a continuance of the sa We are yours to please, GK F. BIGhBY. THE OLD, RELIABLE Furniture Store - g\mg - mmmr wi ?L m TOIiIiT St 80 Still in tile Lead. I They have the Largest Stock, Best Quality, and Certainly the Lowest Prices ! OTHERS try to git there, hut they miss it every time. New, beautiful an ! select Stock of Furniture, ?fcc-, arriving evaiy and at PRICE8 NEVER HEARD OP BEFORE. Here you have the Largest Stock ; therefore, you ?an get ;uat what want Here you have the Best Grade of Furniture ; therefore, you *a Goods that will last. Here you have the very LOWEST PRICES ; therefore, you big money. tts?" Come along, and we will do you as we have bean doing for tn* forty years-sell you the vcry'best Furniture for the very lowest price?. B&. The largest Stock in South Carolina and the Lowest Pri?e w Southern States. New Lot Baby Carriages Just Received? C. F. TOLLY <fc SO Depot Street, Anderson? 8. C. Tri.g f g ?? F?Kfc ? That Jewelry Palace ? -OP - _ WILL. R. HUBBARD'S NEXT TO F. aid H. BANK, Has the Largest, Prettiest and Finest lot of ... XMAS \T WEDDING PRES ENI INTHS3 0ITY. ID Competition don't cot any ice with me when it comee to pri?es, buy. goods to keep. I want the people to have them. Gold ana Watches, Sterling and Plated Silverware, Jewelry, Clocks, Lamp* j Spectacles, Novelties of all kinds. Rogers' Tripple Plate Table ?nive" per Set. A world beater. '_-**nn WILL. R. HUBBARH