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BILL ARP ^-3llvs About the Cole Atlanta C pember-yes, I remember the J friday and Saturday of '39, when : t j little male boy-I mean a mail 'Land l>a(i t0 "dc the ma^ *rom '^DceyiHe to Rosewell, twenty ?ffliles and back in a day. Friday _ jjy, rain or shine, cold or hot, ?1 mv mother cried when father i, j aie on to thc high dromedary 'ile that morning; but I was bundled ood, and had warm woolen socks ^ my shoes aD(i a pair of home-knit .l(eD8 on uiy hands and a woolen forter crossed around my neck and j thought I could stand it, for is young and tough, and full of J and had been raised to work in It cold and to chop wood and go to and my father always said that . who were raised easy would be ijcfount and die hard. I made the L. to Rosewell in good time, but it crowing colder and colder, and drizzling rain had turned into (et. For about an hour I sat by the mister's lire and got thawed. He ejmc to .stay all night, and said I aid freeze to death on the road, I knew my mother would imagine I \t? somewhere dead on the way and j distressed, and so thc postmaster Iped nie on the old dromedary and I ; reniai the reins for home and held j tu the liorn of the saddle. He was i foe traveler, and paced up hill and j ?to bill all the same. By the time j to Gregory's bridge, on the j ittihooehee, I was pre .ty well clad j ?ce. and the horse's main was & i ?o sheet and his ear? were full. L j mied iu the shelter of thc covered j Hgt a few minutes and found I was liing colder, for thc sleet had blown ?ernie on the saddle and got into sooks. A feeling of alarm came j r inc. for my fingers were numb j my feet too. Desperately I i Irked to the good horse, and away | went, for there -vere yet sixteen j ? to make, and the blizzard was | earnest aud ib looked like the i Jin ess of night had almost come, j leafier mile was left behind, and I ; that we could make it; but all of iadden, when I got to Fairview jireh. I realized that I had about feeling, for I couldn't unclutch ?hand from the horn of the saddle, I didn't know whether my feet ein the stirrups or not. I was r two miles from home and my Iborse paced on. They were look ior me-my father and mother as the horse rounded up to the t door I almost fell into their . and my hand was wrenched ?ls frozen grip on the saddle. I jtmber that, for it was the cold lay. and the next day was colder, is rubbed with turpentine and oil tenderly nursed, and in a few sas ready for another trip. We no thermometers then, and there record how cold it was, but I re |iber that birds were frozen in the and chickens on the roost. I ?t know whether these thermom are any advantage or not. The Ir morning I got up soon and made sin two rooms and then went out lecoalhouse to get more coal for lirs. I noticed that the back I floor and the steps and platform 5?d3traage?y as I walked on them, B felt that it was cold-very cold ?tl never looked at the thermom for half an hour, and it was 7 |w:s below zero. I got colder ina nely, for I had never seen the nry that low before. My opinion at 10 degrees above zero is about old as 10 degrees below if you DO thermometer. I can't realise lifference, and that is the reason our northern brethren make so fuss about weather 30 and 40 I? below the mark. "It is "like iogineer who was called in by a 'ad committee to give his opinion speed. They asked him if it lore dangerous to run fifty miles 'arthau forty. He said no. "Can [fun sixty as safe as forty ?* sa;d he. "How about seven eighty?" "Just as safe as for-, ho said, "for if you jump the it forty you will go to the devil, tQat is as far as you can go at 100 an hour." Just so I don't care where the mercury goes to after s below 20. r?s talking to an old friend front * about the weather, and he "said >d sintered about as much down ?s up there, but didn't suffer J? a time-only a day or two; but here it was several long, weary "Where I was raised," he "the mercury was far below zero month at a time, and I remember [?Dg,weaTy night when it dropped ?nd then 35 and 40. There was Jd fashioned box stove in the big It was made of thick melleahlc ar>d on bitter nights wc ?rowded *?d and pine until it was ired hot ?und. On this particular night had to turn round and round et'P from free*ing On one side we were scorching on the other, 't midnight the '-mercury dropped S LETTER. I 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 ?rtica he said that he found that fatty mat ter was better than fire and be 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 all thc 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 droppiog. Father had an old j 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 (Jod for His mercy.' "Well, it was glorious to see the big, round, red sun rise and shine in the windows next morning. About this time we heard a racket in the 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 thc 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 thc beautiful snow, for I don't like it, es pecially when I am the boy-the only boy about thc house, and have to keep trotting to town o* the woodpile or coalhouse, or somewhere. But the children like it, and there's some coin fort io that, and the other day while I was tramping slowly to town on the slippery walk I met a pretty lady, a middle-aged matron, 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 thc 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 giris 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 aud 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 fresen 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 placed 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 had five times the destructive power of dynamite, tho operator made lemonade and cocktails for the party and frose them by dropping a very small drop in each glass. How is that? But-N. B. The gentleman who solemnly told me thia is a newspaper man, too. Bi LT. Aap. Kev. E. Edwards, pastor of thc English Baptist Church at Mincrs ville, Pa., when suffering with rheu matism, was advised to try Chamber lain's Pain Balm. He says: "A few applications of this liniment proved of great service to me. It subdued the inflammation and relieved the pain. Should any sufferer profit by giving Pain.Balm a trial it will please mc." For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. Hot and Cold Wave*. Speaking about cold' waves and weather in general yesterday, a mem ber of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, said : "Wo 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. lt was a record breaker, you know, carrying the rigors of winter to a lower latitude than has been known for sixty years at least. 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 thc 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 with certain ty where they come from or how they are formed. They arc formed some where inland in the far northwest, in the latitude of greatest cokl, which, as you know, is a good way south of the north pole. At thc north pole it is probably comparatively wann, and that extremity of the earth's axis is perhaps surrounded by au 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 the 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 IOU degrees below zero, or even much lower. The body of cold formed by the down rush of this frigid air from above Btarts on a journey eastward across thc con tinent, traveling at thc speed of a fast railway train, 35 or 40 miles an hour. As it proceeds it spreads out. Ob viously the cold air would bc gradual ly wanned during the tri]) 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 \Verchojan8k, in thc interior of Sibe ria, January 15, 1885. lt was HO de grees and a fraction below zero. Wer chojansk is in the latitude of thc polo 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 record in the United States is 04 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 00 de erees 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 lucifer match dropped upon the burning sands af Sahara will catch fire. It is very difficult, eve? 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 has become famous for its cures of these diseases, over a large part of thc civilized world. Thc most flattering testimonials have beer- received, giving accounts of its good works; of thc aggravating and persistent coughs it has cured; of severe colds that have yielded prompt ly to its toothing effects, and of thc dangerous attacks of croup it has cured, often saving the life of the child. The extensive use of it for whooping cough has shown that it robs that disease of all dangerous con sequences. Sold by Hill-Orr Drug Co. ^ - She-"It has always struck me as a curious thing that we don't hear more anecdotes about doctors and their patients." Ile-"You forget, madam, t'aat dead men tell no tales." Biliousness and constipation aro seeds ont of which spring many of thc serious diseases that afflict thc human body. Sound judgment would demand the immediate removal of this condi tion before it develops something more troublesome and difficult to cure. Prickly A^h Bitters is a reliable cure for constipation and disorders of simi lar character. Ic not only thoroughly empties and purifies thc bowels, but strengthens thc bowel channels and regulates thc liver and stomach, hence it performs a radical cure. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. Tamed tile Most Vicious Horse in England? Under th<? title, "An Invincible Horse-Tamer," Lida Rose McCabe re hearses in the February St. Nicholas the fctory 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 thc taming of Lord Dorchester's "Crui ser," forty years ago. The horse's temper had depreciated his value live thousand dollars. For three yaars bc 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. Thc heavy planks that formed his prison he frequently kicked into splinters. "Cruiser, I think," said Lord Dor chester, in his challenge, "would bc the right horse in the right place to try Mr. Rarey's skill; and thc sooner thc experiment is made thc 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. Har ey, 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 thc impressions on his mind. Instead of throwing out a stick to Gght 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. Ile 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 the property ?if his tamer. Tlie 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 thc Duke of Wellington. Queen Victoria was among thc first to ex press joy at thc regeneration of Crui ser, and to regret the h?i.d usage to which thc horse had been subjected. Frequently she caressed thc beautiful creature with her own hand. On the eve of the marriage of the Princes Royal, Mr. Rarey was invited by the Queen to give in the riding school at Buckingham Palace an exhibition be fore thc royal guests summoned to the wedding. The next day he was hon ored with an invitation to the wedding at St. James's Palace. Under thc favorable influence; of kind treatment, Cruiser rapidly im proved in appearance. His rough, shaggy coat was shed for one of thc 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. - mm rn- mm ? -She-"Iwill never marry aman whose fortune has not at least five ciphers in it." He (triumphantly) "Oh, darling ! Mine is ail ciphers !" I have been afflicted with rheuma tism for fourteen years and nothing seemed to give any relief. I was able to be around all the time, but con stantly suffering. I had triad every thing I could hear of and at last was bold to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which I did, and was immediately re lieved and in a short time cured. I un happy to say that it has not since returned.-JOSH. En?AR,Cermantown, Cal. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. KAMHOL. HEADACHE, NEURALGIA, LA GRIPPE. Relieves all pain. 25c. all Druggists. NOTICE. ANDERSON, S. C., Feb. 20, 1891?. WANTED during the coming Sum mer 2000 Corda Rood Pine and Oak Wood, iaOO Cords Pine, ROO Corda Oak. Pino cut 4 feet long, Oak ? feet. Wood to he cut now and delivered at my y ? rd before Sept. 1st. Parties detering to ship can reach my yard either ovor Havannah Valley or R?ue Ridge R. R. Will pay Cash for same along as deliv ered to suit convenient e of parties. If you have wood to soil soe tho undesign ed. Am in tho market for Pino Wood all the t'me. KOB'T. K. MOON. Feh 22. 18?0 38 .r> Tho Koree of a ('aumin Hall. Sonic of thc tremendous power of our largest guns can bc gathered from this clear illustration, giren by Thc American Machinist : Think of a locomotive engine weigh ing one hundred thousand pounds. This is lifty tons. Xow. if the loco motive were moving at thc rate of 40 miles an hour its energy would bc scarcely more than one-thirteenth that of tho 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 thc thir teen - i nch gun, assuming that the mui rle of the latter was placed only a few inches from the same wall. Inasmuch as thc projectile would bc small it would concentrate its ac tion an one spot, and do more harm, apparently, than the thirteen engines. But the amount of energy would be the same. Ile Served. ?Judge Thomas A. Moran, of Chi cago, has a large family of children, all of whom he is justly proud. Thc day after bc had been presented with twins he was listening to jurors' ex cuses, when a man who had boen drawn said, mildly: "Your honor, I can't serve.'' "Why not ?" asked thc court, in tones that had been stereo typed, as he looked out of thc court room window. Approaching quite close thc juror whispered, ''My wife has just given birth 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 j have been hen- all day." Thc juror served. Two doctor1, were disputing by thc bed-side of a man during his recent illness. "1 tell you thc liver is dis eased," said one. "Nonsense! nothing of the kind, lt is the spleen." said the other. ' Very well, wc shall sec who is right at thc post mortem ex amination." Hearing which thc pa tient became real mad and got up ami dressed himself. Ile begun to improve from that time and hadn't known a sick day since. - mm . -mm* - Mr. Spelter - "Oh. you may talk as you please, .lane: but you were an ignorant woman when yon married nie." Mrs. Speller-"Yes. thal pryb ably accounts for it." lkl?. (HT C?WD'SJ. ^Mothers! tmta them ia - ? condition to do their work perfectly. That makes preg nancy less painful, shortens labor and hastensrecovery after [ child-birth. It helps a woman bear strong healthy children. has also brought happiness to thousands of homes barren for Iyears. A few doses often brings joy to loving hearts that long for a darling baby. No womaoi should neglect to try it for this trouble. It cures nine cases out of ten. AU druggists sell Wine of Cardui. $i.oo per bottle. I' For adtlce In cases requiring; spacial directions, address, riving symptoms, th? " Ladles' Advisory IMpartmesV* The ChattanoOfa Medicine Co., Chatta* ncofs. Tenn. Sra. LOUISA HALS. of J0?1KMB, Oft., StJM "WK tn I first took Wino of Cardui oro had boon married th rea y oars, but could net have any children, nine i ?spath? tatar I had a Ano girl baby/* g WHEN YOU WANT New Axle Points, New Wheels, New Curtains put on, and your Buggy re Fainted, or any kind of Repairs on Carriages or Wagons, we are prepared to give you the best work for least money. PAUL E. STEPHENS. IMPORTANT! I am bettor prepared to sell you a PIANO. ORGAN or SK WING MA CHINE than ever het<?re. I have noth ing but lin? goode. It' you think from $Tr0.00 tO$*5 00 is worth Hiving in tho purchase of a Piano wen mo Now lloma Hewing Machine ?:50 00 Now Royal 825.00. Needles for any Machine 20c. por ?loz. Oil bc. per hottle. Shuttles for N. Home Machines 00.?. Yours for tho highest jzrmlo goori* at lowest pricen. M. I J. WILLIS. HEADACHE, 1ER O UL- BREATH, IMO ENERGY, CONSTIPATION. These symptoms mean torpid firer and a clogged condition tn thc bowels. They also mean thc general health is below par and disease is seeking to obtain control. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS Quickly removes these Symptoms, Strengthens the Stomach, Cleanses thc Liver and Bowels and Promotes Func tional Activity in the Kidneys* A few doses will restores Health and Energy in Body and Brain. SOLD BY Ali DRU66ISTS. Price 51.00 Per Bottle. EVANS PHARMACY, Special Agents. Over Post Office. Thone No. 115. M. M. MATTISON , AGENT. LIFE, FIRE, ACCIDENT Call for nice Calendar. Office always open. SIT ON THE FENCE AND SLEEP! . . . W H I 1.K tho procession ]>HHHOH il youwnutto. Nobody will disturb you. but if you aro alivo to your own interests urouse yourself, shake o JV slumber, climb into the baud-wagon and wend vour wav with the crowd to THE JEWELRY PALACE OF WILL. R. HUBBARD! They that want tho best and prettiest to bu obtained in Diamonds, Jewelry, ?Silver and Plated Ware, Watches and Clocks that will keen time and are hacked with a iruarantee. Kine China and Glassware and beautiful Novelties, know that to Will. R. Hubbard's is the place to gu. They that want honest trout incut know that this is tho place to timi it. All Goods aro just as represented, and are fully covered by guar antee The young man who has a irirl and wants to keep her coes thore. Hubbard will help you keep her. The young married couple goes there to beautify their little hume. Hubbard beautifies it for you. The rich people go thore because they can albird it, and the poor gn there, ?Ino, because they eau alford it. Everything N KW ami l l? To DATE. ENGRAVING FREE. WILL. R. HUBBARD, Jewelry l'alaee, next to Farinera and Merchants Dank. OSBORNE & CLINKSCALES Are Sole Agents ai Anderson, S. C., for Iron King and Elmo Stoves, Garland Stoves a?d Ranges, ^vivr> THE Times Line of Gook Stoves, The above Stoves ure bought in Car Lots direct from the manufacturers. Thus we save "middle man's" profit, and also get. cheaper freight rates. Cus tomers who buy Stoves from us get the advantage of this. We carry a well-selected atock of FA. NC Y CHINA, PORCELAIN GOODS, CHINA DINNER SETS and TEA SETS. Just the thing for Christmas Presents. Call on UB. ?SB?ilN.fci & vj juin XAQVv?LiEi?, The Sole Agents for Iron KiDg Stoves. O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. Strictly la ii at Lowest Possible Prices. Two Cars Texas Red Rust Proof Oats, And all the country raised Oats you want. These have go, no matter what Cotton sells at. Pure Wheat Flour Rock Bottom Prices. We can give Country Merchante close figur?e on CHEESE. OY8TERS, TOMATOES, SALMON, SARDINES and TOBACCO. Every body knows beat the Town on NHOE?, and we propose to keep! up our reputation. BAGGING and TIEN guaranteed prices. ,35*r Send us your orders. Yours tor Business, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. 0 O PC S2S < o ps O' 0 W r-5 X C * > s * - H 3 rrj I >? = ? Z *3 a ?5 x * 5 2 Drs. Strickland & King NOTICE. ?J?lVTIST?. OFFICE IN MASONIC TEMPLE Gas and Cocaine used for Extract UK Teeth. THE management of the Equitable Lifo Assurance Society in thia territory ia desirous of Becuring the services of a man ! of character and ability to represent its ! Interest with Anderson as headquarters. The right man will be thoroughly edll ! cated in the science of Life Imuiance and tho art of successful soliciting. There is no busirtcEs or profession nut requiring capital wh.ch is more remunerative tiiRU it Ufo agency conducted with energy and ability. Correspondence with men who . hu,"re to secure permanent employment aTil are ambitious to attain prominence in the profession is4nvitod. W. J. RODDEY, Manager, . Kork Hill, S.