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BILL ARP' Talks About the Cole .A Atlanta G I remember-yes, I remember the cold Friday and Saturday of '39, wheo I was a little male boy-I mean a mail i boy-and had to ride the mail from Lawrenceville to Kosewell, twenty four miles and back in a day. Friday was my day, rain or shine, cold or hot, and my mother cried when father helped me on to the high dromedary horse that morning; but I was bundled up good, and had warm woolen socks over my shoes and a pair of home-knit mittens on my hands and a woolen comforter crossed around my neck and ears. I thought I could stand it, for I was young and tough, and full of blood, and had been raised to work in the cold and to chop wood and go to mill, and my father always said that boys who were raised easy would be no account and die hard. I made the trip to Bose well in good time, but it was growing colder and colder, and the drizzling rain had turned into sleet. For about an hour I sat by the postmaster's fire and got; thawed. He urged me to stay all night, and said I would. freeze to death on the road, but I knew my mother would imagine I was somewhere dead on the way and be distressed, and so the postmaster helped me on the old dromedary and I gave him the reins for home and held on to the horn of the saddle. He was a fine traveler, and paced up hill and down hill all the same. By the time I got. to Gregory's bridge, on the Chattahoochee, I was pretty well clad in ice, and the horse's main was a solid shoes and his ears were full. I stopped in the shelter of the covered bridge a few minutes and found I was getting colder, for the sleet, had blown under me on the saddle and got into my socks. A feeling of alarm came ? over me, for my fingers were numb and my feet too. Desperately I clucked to the good horse, and away he went, for there were yet sixteen miles to make, and the blizzard was on in earnest and it looked like the darkness of night had almost come. ? Mile after mile was left behind, and I j felt that we could make it; but all of j a sudden, when I got to Fairview Church, I realized that I had about lost feeling, for I couldn't unclutch my hand from the horn of the saddle, and I didn't know whether my feet were in the stirrups or not. I was only two miles from home and my good horse paced on. They were look- . ing for me-my father and mother and as the horse rounded up to the back door I almost fell into their arms, and my hand was wrenched from its frozen grip on the sadvle. I remember that, for it was the cold Friday, and the next day was colder. I was rubbed with turpentine and oil and tenderly nursed, and in a few days was ready for another trip. We bad no thermometers then, and there is no record how cold it was," but I re member that birds were frozen in the woods and chickens on the roost. I don't know whether these thermom eters are any advantage or not. The other^morning I got up soon and made a fire in two rooms and then went out to the coalhouse to get more coal for upstairs. I noticed that the back hall floor and the steps and platform cracked strangely as I walked on them, and I felt that it was cold-very cold -but I never looked at the thermom eter for half an hour, and it was 7 degrees below zero. I got colder im mediately, for I had never seen the mercury that low before. My opinion is that 10 degrees above zero is about as cold as 10 degrees below if you have no thermometer. I can't realise the difference, and that is the reasou why our northern brethren make so little fuss about weather 30 and 40 degrees below the mark. "It is like the engineer who was called in by a railroad committee to give his opinion about speed. They asked him if it was more dangerous to run fifty miles an hour than forty. He said no. "Can you run sixty as safe as forty ?" "Yes," sa:d he. "How about seven ty or'eighty?" "Justas safe as for ty," he said, "for if you jump the track at forty you will go to the devil, and that is as far as you can go at 100 miles an hour." Just so I don't care much where the mercury goes to after it gets below 20. I was talking to an old friend from Maihe about thc weather, and he said he had supered about as much down befe as up there, but didn't suffer long at a time-only a day or two; but up there it was several long, weary months. "Where I was raised," he said, "the mercury was far below zero for a month ata time, and 1 remember one long, weary night when it dropped to 30 and then 35 and 40. There was an old-fashioned box stove in thc big room. It was made of thick melleablc iron and on bitter nights wc crowded in wood and pine until it way red hot all round. On this particular night we boys had to turn round and round to keep from freezing on one side while we were scorching on the other. About midnight thc mercury dropped S LETTER. 1 Days of Sixty Years go. institution, to 45, and the house cracked and pop ped like little guns. Father got alarmed, and, being an old-fashioned Christian man, said, 'Come, children, let us all kneel down and pray.' After prayer we piled more pine into the heater. "Father said to mother: 'When Elisha Kent Kane was io the artics he said that he found that fatty mat ter was better than fire and he made his crew stuff themselves with whale blubber and seal oil and grease and it saved their lives. And so, mother, you had better bring us 3II the grease in the pantry.' Mother turned us all loose on her lard and butter and fat meat and we crammed it down and it did do us good. But the mercury kept dropping. Father had an old donkey that brayed incessantly all the forepart of the night, but about 3 o'clock he ceased and father said : 'My children, the poor old donkey is dead.' About 4 o'clock there was a fire in the little village, but nobody went to it. The family fled to the nearest house for refuge. Just before daybreak the mercury began to rise a little and father said: 'Come chil dren, let us kneel down and give thanks to God for His mercy.' "Well, it was glorious to see the big, round, red sumrise and shine in the windows next morning. About this time we heard a racket in thc barn which was near by and father said: 'Boys, go out and see if that donkey is alive.' And sure enough he was and there he stood facing the door with an icicle sticking out of his mouth three feet long and as big at the base as a coffee pot. His brays had frozen and frozen to a sharp point and had stopped up his mouth so effectually he couldn't bray any more." That's what my friend told me, but N. B. he was a newspaper man. Well,*| I'm not going to write a poem on the beautiful snow, for I don't like it, cs-.j pecially when I am the boy-the only boy about the house, and have to keep trotting to town or the woodpile or coalhouse, or somewhere. But the children like it, and there's some com fort in that, and the other day while I was tramping slowly to town on the slippery walk I met a pretty lady, a middle-aged macron, and just before she got to me her foot slipped back ward and the other extremity had to bend forward and she -made me the prettiest little courtesy I ever had made to me. She never lost her per pendicular, but just come down grace fully on one knee like I have seen girls in the parlor dance. If course, I tipped my hat and said "Thank you, madam." She colored up and smiled and spoilt it all by saying, "I dind't mean to." I havn't told my wife about it yet, for our golden wedding is near at hand and it is no time for these irregularities. It was the beau tiful, the slickery, trickery snow that did it. I had to shovel it out of the pathway from my house to the street 50 yards so that my women folks could walk without wetting their shoes and stockings, but every one of them, even to my wife, prepared to wade in the beautiful snow and the girls found a ditch where it was knee deep and waded in that. That's the way they impose on a poor old boy like me. But there is not so much difference between heat and cold after all. Both destroy sensation and vitality and wither and blast vegetation. They are very close akin. Not long ago a man told me he witnessed the experi ments made in New York with liqui fied air. He saw the discoverer place a tumbler half full of it in the center of a large pan of water and in less than a minute the water was all frozen into solid ice. Then he took an iron rod three feet long and as large round as a cedar pencil and put one end in the tumbler and while it rested there he touched a lighted match to the other end, and it took fire and burned furiously until the whole rod was con sumed. He declared that a teaspoon ful of this liquified air plated in a re frigerator would freeze everything in it and keep it frozen for three or four days, and that ice would soon be made at 10 cents for a thousand pounds, and all thc ice factories be closed for ever, and he said that this liquified air bad five times thc destructive power of dynamite, ^hc operator ? made lemonade and cocktails for thc party and froze them by dropping a very small drep in each glass. How is that? But-N. T?. Thc gentleman who solemnly told me this is a newspaper man, ton. BILL ARC. mm) . ?? Kev. Iv. Edwards, pastor of thc English IJaptist Church at Mincrs ville, l'a., when suffering with rheu matism, was advised to try Chamber lain's I'ai n Kalin, lie say?: "A few applications of this liniment proved of great service to me. lt subdued thc inflammation and relieved the pain. Should any sufferer profit by giving Kain Balm a trial it will please mc." For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. Hot and Cold Waves. Speaking about cold waves and weather in general yesterday, a mem ber of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, said : "We have some kinds of weather in the United States that are unknown abroad. Take the cold wave, for ex ample, that struck the far south sev ? eral years ago. It was a record breaker, you know, carrying the rigors of winter to a lower latitude than has j been known for sixty years at least. I Florida suffered $4,000,000 worth of damage. At Pensacola the oranges froze hard on the trees. The ther mometer at Tampa fell to 18 degrees above zero, five degress below the low est ever noted. At Orange Park ice two inches thick formed on ponds. A cold wave of equal severity, it is said, struck the flowery peninsular in 1835, but temperatures were not recorded with reliable accuracy. "Cold waves are unknown in Eu rope. We may justly pride ourselves upon them as an American institution. It is the same way with blizzards. Who ever heard of a blizzard in Eu rope ? "Cold waves are very strange phe nomena. Nobody knows witt certain ty where they come from or how they are formed. They are formed some where inland in the far northwest, in the latitude of greatest celd, which, as you know, is a good way south of the north pole. At the north pole it is probably comparatively warm, and that extremity of the earth's axis is perhaps surrounded by an open and unfrozen sea. As for the typical cold wave, my belief is that it is composed of air drawn from thc higher and more frigid regions of thc atmosphere. As cend to an attitude of 30 miles above the earth's surface and you might find a rarefied air at a temperature of 100 degrees below zero, or even much lower. The body of cold formed by the down rush of this frigid air from above starts on a journey eastward across the con tinent, traveling at the speed of a fast railway train, 35 or 40 miles an hour. As it proceeds it spreads out. Ob viously the cold air would be gradual ly warmed during the trip unless the waves were replenished with cold in some fashion. My notion is that while the wave is in transit fresh cold is continually drawn into it from above, where there is always an unlimited .supply of air at an extremely low tem perature. Finally, the wave passes off over the ocean. In some manner the Alleghany mountains seem to inter rupt the passage of cold waves, to a certain extent, as if the cold air was banked up against this range of hills, and its passage thus impeded. On this account it is very difficult to pre dict cold waves for the region of Bal timore and Washington. "The lowest temperature ever re corded on the earth was taken at Werchojansk, in the interior of Sibe ria, January 15, 1885. It was I'O de grees and a fraction below zero. Wer chojansk is in the latitude of the pole of cold. There the earth is frozen to a depth of about 100 feet, and in the warmest season it never thaws. The highest temperature recorded is 124 degrees and a fraction, taken in Alge ria, July 17, 1870. The lowest tem perature on recor-d in the United States is 64 degrees below zero, at Tobacco (?arden, N. D. Greely, the arctic ex plorer, has probably experienced a wider range of temperature than any other living man. He recorded (?0 de grees below zero at Fort Conger, on Lady Franklin Bay. On another oc casion, in the Maricopa desert of Ari zona, his thermometer in the shade ran up to 114 degrees above. A lucifar match dropped upon the burning sands of Sahara will catch fire. It is very difficult, even with the finest ther mometers, to get accurate records of the extreme temperatures, and on that account such observations in general are to be regarded as only approxi mately correct."-Baltimore Ameri can . Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. This remedy is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough and influenza. It lias become famous for its cures of these diseases, over a large part of the civilized world. The most flattering testimonials have been received, giving accounts of its good works; of the aggravating and persistent coughs it has cured; of severe colds that have yielded prompt ly to its soothing effects, and of thc dangerous attacks of croup it has cured, often saving the life of the child. The extensive usc of it for whooping cough has shown that it robs that disease of all dangerous con sequences, ?^old by Hill-Orr Drug Co. She-"It has always struck mc as a curious thing that we don't h ca/ more anecdotes about doctors and their patients." Ile-"You forget, madam, that dead men tell no tales." Biliousness and constipation arc seeds ont of which spring many of the serious diseases that atflict thc human body. Sound judgment would demand thc immediate removal ot' this condi tion before it develops something more troublesome und difficult to cure. Prickly Ash Bitters is a reliable eure for constipation and disorders of simi lar character. It not only thoroughly empties ana purifies thc bowels, but. strengthens the bowel channels and regulates thc liver and stomach, hence it performs a radicai cure. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. Tamed the Most Vicious Horse in England. Under thc* title, "An Invincible Horse-Tamer," Lida Rose McCabe re hearses in the February St. Nicholas the story of John S. Rarey's career in America and England as a breaker of colts and tamer of vicious horses. His most conspicuous triumph was the taming of Lord Dorchester's "Crui ser," forty years ago. The horse's temper had depreciated his value five thousand dollars. For three years he had been abandoned to himself. Tormented by huge bits loaded with chains, his head was incased in a complication of iron ribs and plates, so that he had to procure his food by licking it up with his tongue. Op pression and cruelty had made him a demon. He resented the approach of any one by fearful screams and yells of hate and fury. He snapped an iron bar, an inch in diameter, in two pieces with his teeth. The heavy planks that formed his prison he frequently kicked into splinters. "Cruiser, I think," said Lord Dor chester, in his challenge, "would be the right horse in the right place to try Mr. Rarey's skill; and the sooner the experiment is made the better. If he can ride Cruiser as a hack I guar antee him immortality and enough ready money to make a British bank director's mouth water." "I will tell you," said Mr. Rarey, in recounting this crowning incident of his career, "what happened at my first interview with Cruiser. I be lieve there is some cause for every thing a horse does. He acts accord ing to the impressions on. his mind. Instead of throwing out a stick to fight him, when I first approached Cruiser, I threw open the door and walked in. He was astonished at see ing this, and more so at my exhibiting no fear. He had on his head a large muzzle, lined inside and out with iron. He had worn it three years, until it bored a hole in his head. I took it off, and he never wore it again." In three hours Lord Dorchester was able to mount Cruiser, and Rarey rode the horse as a hack to London. Crui ser became thc property of his tamer. The fortune of Mr. Rarey was made. All classes, headed by the nobility, flocked to his lectures and exhibitions. Lord Palmerston opened the subscrip tion list to Mr. Rarey's private in structions, given in the riding acade my of the Duke of Wellington. Queen Victoria was among the first to ex press joy at thc regeneration of Crui ser, and to regret the h?ird usage to which thc horse had been subjected. Frequently she caressed the beautiful creature with her own hand. On th< eve of the marriage of the Princes Royal, Mr. Rarey was invited by th< Queen to give in the riding school at Buckingham Palace an exhibition be fore the royal guests summoned to the wedding. The next day he was hon ored with an invitation to thc wedding at St. James's Palace. Under the favorable influence of kind treatment, Cruiser rapidly im proved in appearance. His rough, shaggy coat was shed for one of the lustre of satin. Festive in a royal purple silk bridle, with rosettes of gold filigree, and the look of a war horse in his high-bred nostrils, he followed his master through thc Capi tals of Europe. Everywhere through out his travels in the Old World, Mr. Rarey gave free lectures and exhibi tions to cab and truck drivers. In his remarkable collection of souvenirs is a gold medal of wonderfully fine work manship, presented Mr. Rarey by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. ? -She-"Iwill never marry aman whose fortune has not at least five ciphers in it." He (triumphantly) "Oh, darling ! Mine is all ciphers !" I have been afflicted with rheuma tism for fourteen year? and nothing seemed to give any relief. I was able to be around all the time, but con stantly suffering. I had tried every thing I could hear of and at last was told to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which I did, and was immediately re lieved and in a short time cured. I am happy to say that it has not since returned.-JOSH. El?.'AU, Germantown, Cal. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. KAMNOL. HEADACHE, NEURALGIA, LA GRIPPE. Relieves all pain. 25c. all Druggists. NOTICE. AN DICKSON, S. I'., Feb. lin, \sw. ANTED during tho coming .Sum mer ??O0 Cords good Pine and Oak Wood. 150(1 Cords Pine, f?00 Corda Oak. Pino emt-I loot long, Oak s feet. Wood to bo cut now and delivered at my yard before Sept. lat. Parties desiring to' -hip ran roach my yard either ovor Savannah Valley or Blue Kidgo M. li. Will pay Cash for samo along as deliv ered to suit convenience of parlies. If you have wood to soil soo tho nhilorsiKi! od. Am in tho market tor Pino Wood all the tune. KtVB'T. I'; MOON*. Feb ?J, IS! li I 5 The Force of a Cannon Ball. Some of the tremendous power of our largest guns can be gathered from this clear illustration, given by The American Machinist : Think of a locomotive engine weigh ing one hundred thousand pounds. This is fifty tons. Xow, if the loco motive were moving at the rate of 40 miles an hour its energy weuld be scarcely more than one-thirteenth that of the cannon ball. In other words, if thirteen locomo tives were to smash up against a stone wall all at once, the blow which they would deliver would be no more severe than that of one shot from the thir teen-inch gun, assuming that the muz zle of the latter was placed only a few inches from the same wall. Inasmuch as the projectile would be small it would concentrate its ac tion an one spot, and do more harm, apparently, than the thirteen engines. Bat the amount of energy would be the same. He Served. Judge Thomas A. Moran, of Chi cago, has a large family of children, all of whom he is justly proud. The day after he had been presented with twins he was listening to jurors' ex cuses, when a man who had been drawn said, mildly : "Your honor, I can't serve." "Why not ?" asked the court, in tones that had been stereo typed, as he looked out of the court room window. Approaching quite close the juror whispered, "My wife has just given bir,th to a boy, judge." "No excuse at all," observed the judge, as he closed his docket with a bang, "my wife had two last night, and I have been here all day." The juror served. - Two doctors were disputing by the bed-side of a man during his recent illness. "I tell you the liver is dis eased," said one. "Nonsense! nothing of the kind. It is the spleen," said the other. "Very well, we shall see who is right at the post mortem ex imination." Hearing which the pa tient became real mad and got up and dressed himself. He begun to improve Prom that time and hasn't known a sick day since. - mm m m - - Mr. Spelter-"Oh. you may talk as you please, Jane ; but you were an ignorant woman when you married me." Mrs. Spelter-"Yes. that prob ably accounts for it." ^Mothers! rpm; discom ! forts and dangers of child-birth, can be almost en tirely avoided.; Wine of Cardal"" relieves ex pectant moth ers. It gives tonetothegen it al organs, and puts them in condition to do their work perfectly. That makes preg nancy less painful, shortens labor and hastens recovery after child-birth. It helps a woman bear strong healthy children. has also brought happiness to thousands of homes barren for vears. A few doses often brings joy to loving hearts that long for a darling baby. No woman should neglect to try it for this trouble. It cures nine cases out of ten. AU druggists sell Wine of Cardui. $1.00 per bottle. For advice in cases requiring special directions, address, giving symptoms, tho "Ladies' Advisory Department," The Chattanooga Medicino Ca, Chatte 000(3, Tenn. Mrs. LOUISA BALI, _ or Jefferson, Ga., tayit ?When I first took Wine of Cardui we lied been married three years, but eould not bave any children. Hint atontas If ter I bad a fine giri baby.'* nfl WHEN YOU WANT New Axle Points, New Wheels, New Curtains put on, and your Buggy re Painted, or any kind of Repairs on Carriages or Wagons, we are prepared to give you the best work for least money. PAUL E. STEPHENS. 1 mn hettcr prepared tn s<Ml you a PIANO, OKUAN or SI*'WING MA CHINE than over before. I have noth ing hut iHuv uoods. If you think from $..".0.0(1 to S rr? On is worth Hiving in tho nu rebaso of ti Piano Hen mc Now Home Sowing Miieiiihes ?:>i) on Now Royal 82">.on. Neoiihw for any Maclunft^Oi!; p?r doz. Oil ye. per lindie. Shuttles for N. Homo Machines nu .. Yours for tho highest jrradn ironds Ht lowest prices. M. I J. 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