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BILL ARP? 'Bill -A.rp Oro W?S C'ri as of Lyn .1 Ihm hi t '"i Tho lynching ol'Sam Mose is over. Thc press aad thc preacher? have ex pressed their horror or their approval and the world moves ou-not a stay ? nur a stop nora jolt is felt either soci ally, religiously financially, or counner- j cially. The fulminations of thc north- i err: ?.ress nor thc apprehensions of ! editor? nearer homo amount to any thing. History is just repeating it self. livery few years something like this happens and thc press and thc , preachers explode in about the same language until they get tired and then subside and wait quietly for some other harrowing thing to happen. We remember well what thc press said about the burning of thc brute at Dal- ; las a few years agu and thc .-ame ad ject ves were used and the same ana- | themas hurled upon our people. Thc brute who ravished a child of six year- and then killed her and threw her mutilated body in thc hushes ac tually found friends among our ene mies. They said it was brutal to burn him. Wc remember when thc j negro assaulted a little girl near Mad \ ison a- ?he was going home from school I alone and then cut her throat and threw her body in a gully and covered ; it with brush. When vengeance over- > Look him thc northern press howled as usual. ; It ; - their business to howl. They j like it, and no doubt are glad this thin, has happened, lt feeds their appetite mid nurses their wrath and will last them a week, perhaps longer. In the language of Governor Oates, I j would rise to a point of order and ask, ; 'What arc you going to do about it?" | Nothing, of course, nothing. Such ] thin-.s will happen sometimes every- j where at long intervals, but they do j not affect a sitigleitcni of civilization. : Who is afraid to move to Georgia or Texas because of lynchings? Nobody, save, perhaps, a few bad men who think of coming because they are in bad repute at home. Fitzgerald was not afraid to come, nor afraid to stay, and the northern people in that grow ing city are celebrating their content with picnics and other hilarities while I write. The wicked flee where no man is in danger of thc lynchers. No law-abiding citizen has any fear for himself or his household. It takes a terrible crime to arouse a whole community into such a remedy, and so I feel no personal alarm ? Header, do you Y Thc truth is that lynchings arc not as frequent in the south at hey have been, but are getting quite common over the line. We read that they tried to lynch a man in New York the other day for stealing a horse. Why they have long since quit that in Texas. Mr. Inman is right or nearly so. He says in his answer to the symposium of opinions that "there is no just cause for alarm among the country people-no greater cause than there has been. That 115 per cent of the people, both white and black, are harmless aud law-abiding and we will have to watch and punish tho other 5 per cent just as we have been doing for many years." The per cont of bad negroes is greater than he thinks. The number in the chaingangs prove this, but their crimes are generally misdemeanors, larceny and burglary, and education does not correct this. Booker Washington says it does, but observation and the statistics of f prison commission prove the reverse. Wc old men who owned slaves be fore thc war aro established in our opinions that education does not les sen crime, neither among whites nor blacks. Mr. Stetson, the chairman of thc school commission of Massachu setts, declared this in a pamphlet sev eral years ago, and proved that educa tion increased crime not a little, but to an alarming extent. I have great respect for Hooker Washington, and believe that thc kind of education he is giving will lessen crime among the pupils he is educating. Our slaves were educated by fear of thc lash or thc whipping post, and you can pick them out to-day. It is their children, born since the war, or their grand children who are in thc chaitigang. Why should there be -1,000 negroes 1 in these State and county chaingangs of Georgia when there are only 240 white convicts? It will not do to say thc negro is punished and thc white man escapes. That is a lie. and every observing man knows it. My own ob servation is that the courts lenn to the negro rather than against him. No small per cent of the colored con victs arc now serving a second term and some a third term, which proves that imprisonment docs not reform thc negro. When he comes out his last condition is worse than the first. Hut tho whipping post would so thor oughly reform a young negro that he would not repeat the .offense. Con finement in jail nearly crushes tho soul out of a white man, but a negro * "_, " f_i_..J.I . . io |n.m.K?i/ wvuivuicu tlltTU. .ASH me sheriffs or the jailers nf this ia not so. Now it will take perhaps ton years to S LETTER. ti<- A.boiit tlie Oritics IxtitlttioH, do it, but my candid opinion is that thc number of convicts would in that time bc reduced fnun l,U0? to IOU were thc whipping port used instead o? thc chaingang. Delaware has ex pcrimcntcd with this for half a cen ture and will not abolish it. It is used for all colors- white, black and mulatto. If that little State was south ol' thu line wouldn't she eatch it from thc northern press and north ern preachers. Mut how can wc make the change, for as long as thc negro has a vote he will vote- against a candidate- who favors it and the candidates are gene rally demagogues and dare not dis please the negro. No. they won't even pass a dog law for fear of offend ing their constituents, livery now and then my wife asks mc to buy some mutton and says wc used to have mut ton. Hut the negroes own the dogs and tin; dogs have exterminated the sheep in Murlow county. We ought to change the constitution and elect lawmakers for four or six years and after that they should he ineligible. Then they wouldn't talk and vote for buncombe. Some of the symposium writers thought that the law's delay and the lawyers were to blame for these lynch ings. Not so. A lynching for that crime is but the outburst of human indignation. Thc law's delay is not in their minds. If I know myself 1 am as good a man as any horror stricken editor or preacher. I am kind in heart and love my fellow men and fellow womon. 1 respect thc su premacy of the law just as much as Governor Atkinson or any other gov ernor, but I rejoiced when the brute was caught and burned. How much he suffered is of no con sequence to me, nor am I afraid of thc crowd that did it or that will do it agaiu. It was the unanimous verdiet of a very large jury, a jury of met and women, and I am not chicken hearted about such suspects as Lig< Strickland, nor would I take verj much sympathetic talk from othe negro leaders who raise their bristles I know and feel that the white peopli of the south have been kind, yes overkind to the negro since thc wa and that yankee emissaries hav? alienated him from us and we liavt got no thanks for all we have done Sooner or later we will have to tak away his vote and establish the whip ping post and then, and not till then will we have peace between tho races If these remedies affected a few na< white men, let them share it or leav thc country. Some of us remerabe when the kuklux was our only prc tection, and it raised a howl that wa heard across the ocean, but it save our wives and our daughters when th world, the flesh and thc devil wei against us. And BO, let the procession proceec BILL ARP. Watering With a Rake. The New York experiment statio gives the following sensible advice i regard to saving and ualiziag thc moi: ture that is in the soil : "Lot me tell you how to water tl plants. I wonder if you have a wate ing pot ? If you have, put it whei you cannot find it, for we are going I water this garden with a rake ! \\ want you to learn in this little garde the first great lesson in farming-ho to save the water in the soil. If y( learn that much next summer, yr will know more than many old farme do. You know that the soil is moi in thc spring when you plant tl seeds. Where does this moisture ? to ? It dries up-goes off into tl air. If we could cover the soil wii something we should prevent tl moisture from drying up. Let i cover it with a layer of loose d earth ' We shall make this coverii by raking the bed every few days once every week, anyhow, and often than that if the top of thc soil I comes hard and crusty, as it does aft a rain. Instead of pouring water < the bed, therefore, we shall keep t moisture in the bed. "If, however, the soil becomes dry in spito of you that the plants not thrive, then water the bed. 3 not sprinkle it. but water it. Wet clean through at evening. Then the morning, when the surface begi to dry, begin the raking again to kc thc water from getting away. Sprir ling the plants every day or tw.0 one of thc surest ways to spoil them Whooping Cough. I had a little boy who was nea dead from an attack of whooping couf My neighbors recommended Ch arab Iain's Cough Remedy. I did not th i that any medicine would help hi j but after giving him a few doses that remedy I noticed an improvcrue and one bottle cured him eutirely. is thp hflRr. enitfh rr??r?toin? T over ? in thc house.-J. L. MOOKE, SOI Burgettstowu. Pa. Ker sale by II Orr Drug Co. A NOBLE DEED. Gratitude or un Ex-L'oufederate te His Federul Preserver. Un Memorial ?lay in 1S?.") Mrs. j Sarah Howe?, of Hoboken, paid ber annual visit to Cypress Hills cemetery to ?lecorate her husband's grave. Mr?. Howen was in such poor, alino.it indi gent circumstances, that even the trip to H rocklyn, not reckoning the money for Howers, was a strain on her slender resources. She was a veteran's widow, and the $H a month pension allowed her on that account by the national government was all she had to support herself and au invalid uaughter. Nevertheless she had performed her obligations to thc memory of thc brave for ll? consecutive years with religious devotion. When -li?; arrived ?iii thc ground on this occasion, her nervous system re ceived such a shock that she was J obliged to lean against a railing adja- | cent to save herself from falling. "What is thc meaning ?d' this?" she j murmured, closing her eyes and open ing them again in thc expectation that she was laboring under an optical de lusion Thc cause ?d the widow's astonish ment was a change that had taken place in the grave since her last visit. lt was covered with Howers, it was bordered with evergreen plants, and a handsome granite column rose at its head, with thc sub-joined inscription engraved in deep black letters: "Sacred to the Memory of Edward C. Howen. a Brave Soldier and a Loyal Friend." The widow glanced wonderingly to tho right and the left. She looked up arni down, but there was no mistake. The grave was that of her husbaud, but what a metamorphosis had been circe ted ! While deliberating as to what she would do in thc premises a tall, mili tary-looking gentleman of aristocratic bearing and with an empty sleeve alighted from a carriage near by, and taking a wreath from under its seat approached the grave. He hesitated wheu he saw the widow, and their eyes met. Hers had a questioning look in them; his one of deprecation, as if he were a trespasser. "Madam," he said, placing the wreath on the grave and lifting his hat as he would to a duchess, "have I the honor-" "This is my husband's grave," she replied, with an almost imperceptible strain of jealousy in her voice. "Then I must offer an apology and an explanation. 1 should have con sulted you before effecting alterations here, and so, in fact, I would, only I could not find you, though I tried hard." "It was very kind in you, sir," said Mrs. Bowen. "You would find it hard, for no one in Brooklyn knew that I had moved to Hoboken." "This is my explanation." said the gentleman after a pause. "My name ia Chas. J. Gray-Judge Gray, I am called in South Carolina-and I am an ex-Confederate soldier. I belonged to the Montgomery Guards, and served in the Army cf Northern Virginia the last two years of the war. You must know-though perhaps you don't that sometimes Federals and Confede rate soldiers in the field were excellent friends, especially when doing out post duty together, if I may use the words. It often ocourred that nothing but a fence separated our sentinels, and that, instead of firing at each other wc chatted sociably and ex changed views on the situation. Our superiors did not sanction this, but they connived at it. On the night of the fourth day's battle of the Wilder ness I was posted as sentinel on the extreme front of our lines. On the other side of a picket fence was a young man of the Oue Hundred and Forty-Fourth Now York regiment, his name-well, there it is engraved on that stono. Wo entered into conver sation. I gave him a plug of tobacco, he gave me some coffee, and wc be came quite friendly. I was utterly exhausted, and would have given the whole world for one hour's sleep." "Poor fellow," said the widow, commiserating not the elegant gen tleman in front of her, but thc ragged, war-worn soldier of one and thirty years ago; "it was terrible." "It was, madam. I told my Yankee enemy that I was ready to drop and begged him not to take advantage of mc. He laughed. " 'Sit down on that stone,' he said, 'lean your back against the fence and sleep. I'll wake you up when your relief comes along.' "It may seem incredible, but I took his advice, thus placing my life in the hands of a foe and a stranger. I slept, oh, such a sweet sleep. I thought I had been in slumber for a few min utes, while in reality I slept an hour, when Ned Bowen roused me by throw ing some water from his canteen down my back. " 'Jump up, Johnny, he said, 'my relief is coming. You are all right, for I received your of?ccrof the guard going his rounds, and he gave mo thc countersign without suspicion. I Iguess all the poor fellows like you arc half asleep or they would have dis covered the trick. Now, don't co to sleep agaiu, old mau. Good-bye.' "It appears that whilo the Confedo-4 rate night officer was approaching, Nod* Bowen, heaven rest him. jumped over thc fence and, failing to wake mc up, took my rifle aud challenged, thus placing his life in peril. Wheu half an hour later I got back to the guard tent I learned that two other sentinels had been iound asleep on their posts. They were shot next morning, and now madam, you will, I trust, be no longer surprised at this monument I have erected to my preserver." Thc widow extended her hand while the tears of pride and emotion rolled down her face. "God bless you," she said, 'you have a kind heart." Next day Mrs. Bowen received a letter enclosing a treasury note for $1,000, and since then on the first day of every month she gets a check on the First National bank ol Atlanta for $50. - - mm * m - - What it .Means to Keep House. Many a housewife luis seen that her husband did not understand what it meant to keep house, and that he has wondered why she was worn out. He thought of the things he knew she had to do and could not see why they should tire her so. But thor? are a hundred and one little things a man will never see. He enjoys his well cooked meals, likes to see the house neat and pretty, knows his socks are well darned, and takes pleasure in seeing his wife look bright and smiling. All this he takes as a matter of course, but he fails to realize that one pair of hands, in mosteases, must do all this, and one brain plan to get it done. Many an uncharitable remark has been uttered by a husband to his wife on the subject of her housekeeping. Forgive them; it is their ignorance. Even if a man were set to housekeep ing by himself he would fail to sec the little things, the things that a woman does to add to the comfort of each member of her family. Never does she put from her the wants and needs of her husband and children. Li is to mother the children come when their books, hats and playthings are lost; to mother in their trials: and so mother is in demand all day long. Who can count the steps a woman takes each day in her household du ties? Many a man would be worn out if he had to do the work of a woman about the house. He would have to learn to leave a task unfinished and see to some urgent call in another part of the house, or in the midst of im portant work answer a call to the door aad politely dismiss an agent or usher in a friend who had "just stopped for a moment." If men would under stand the magnitude of a woman's work they would give due credit where they often give blame. It is positively necessary that a wo man should get out each day. She needs a little fresh air and companion ship as well as does her husband. It is a fact that more farm women go crazy than any other class of women, and why? Simply because of the hard work and solitude. They do not go out because they have no place to go, and so it is work, work all the time, with few pleasures, and a great lack of something to divert their minds from the daily routine. A woman's best efforts should be for the comfort of her home, for hus band and children, and a reasonable amount of work she will gladly, will ingly, give. But when it beoomes a mountain of labor and crushes out her life, hope, ambition and youth, then. it is too much, and the beauty of home is spoiled. When the wife becomes a slave in her own household it is time some one should rescue her. The most sacred name in any household should be that of mother. Let the boys and girls remember that never will they find on earth a friend like mother.-Exchange. Supreme Court Decisions. Since Chas. O. Tyner began the man ufacture of Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy, many people have inquired as to its efficacy. Chief Justice Bleckley, of Georgia, has tried it for indigestion and dyspepsia, and gives this as his decision : "Atlanta, Ga., March 14.-Chas. ?. Tyner, Atlanta, Ga.: I have used, and am now using, Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy. It is a mental as well as a physical elixir. With its aid and a pair of spectacles I can frequently see thc law in spite of unsuitable or too much diet. "LOGAN E. BLECKLEY." This is a splendid decision and peo ple are profiting by it. For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite. Sample bottle free on application to Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Co., Atlan ta, Ga. - Congressman Charles Curtis, of Kansas, is an indian of the Kaw tribe. He is a Republican from the district embracing Topeka, and has served three terms in Congress and holds a certificate for the fourth. He is a lawyer by profession, an earnest and accomplished spoakcr, and a conspicu ous friend of his race. The most vigorous workers have spells of "tired feeling" now and then. This feeling is caused by derangement in thc stomach, liver and bowels. A few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters quickly corrects the disorder and sends ibo bioud ringling through tho veins, carrying life and renewed energy throughout the system. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. Effect of Storms on Birds. The effect of approaching storniB upon song birds is the subject of an interesting contribution by Mr. C. E. Linney to The Pnited States Monthly Weather Review. It appears that dunng thc night of August 15-16.1898, severe electrical, wind and rain storms provailed over the northern district of Illinois. An observer in Henry coun ty, Mr. W. W. Warner, noticed that for forty-eight hours before the storm not a souud was heard from the nu merous song birds in the district. This observation waB so full of inter est that Mr. Linney wrote for ad ditional information, with the result that he received numerous letters, some continuing it; others statiug that birds sing louder and more persistent ly before a great storm, and nearly all agreeing that they are more restless than usual at such a time. Mr. Lin ney has found the following weather proverbs referring to song birds and storms : When birds cease to sing, rain and thunder will probably occur. If birds in geueral pick their feathers, wash themselves, and Hy to their nests, expect rain. Parrots and cana ries dress their feathers and are wake ful the evening before a storm. If the 'peacock cries when he goes to roost, and, indeed much at any time, it is a sign of rain. Loug and loud singing of robbins in the morning de uotes rain. Hobbins will perch on the topmost branches of trees and whistle when a storm is approaching. The restlessness of domestic auimals and barnyard fowls before an approaching storm is well known, .and many of their peculiarities have been noted ; but the actions of song birds do not appear to have previously received particular attention.-Scientific Amer ica II . "No Quarter!" There ia* no sense in trifling with disease. Death is a foe ready enough to over power poor human ity at the least op portunity without our adding any thing to the deadly ichancea by uncer tainly or inaction. Death is not the sort of an enemy to dilly-dally with, nor give the slightest rquarter. Ile should be bayoneted to the earth with a sure and vigorous thrust. There is just one medicine which can be counted on with absolute certainty to over come the deadly assault of wasting disease and restore the rugged, masterly power of perfect health. The " Golden Medical Dis covery" of Dr. R. V. Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y., creates that keen digestive and nutritive capacity, which makes healthy, nourishing red blood, and keeps it pure and alive with bounding vitality. It nour ishes, vitalizes and builds up every organ and tissue in the body ; tones the liver ; heals the lungs ; strengthens the heart, and restores complete energy and cheerfulness. " I had been troubled for several yean with spells of liver complaint," writes H. N. Drans field, Esq., of Centennial, Monroe Co., W. Va., "and about two years ago my health gave way. X tried Sarsaparilla. I was getting worse all the time. I had a ?weOKoess m my left aide n&? limbs, palpitation of the heart at times, cramp ing pains in the stomach niter eating ; nerves weak, and no energy for anything. I took Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and began to mend from the start. I soon felt like a new person. I am now enjoying splendid health and have a splendid appetite, pood digestiou, and also a peaceful, quiet mind." Dr. Pierce's thousand-page book, "The Common Sense Medical Adviser" contains over two hundred reliable prescriptions, with directions for self-treatment of all such diseases as are curable without a phy sician. Anatomy, physiology and the laws of reproduction are explained, with over seven hundred illustrations. One copy, paper-covered, sent absolutely free for ax one-cent stamps, to pay cost of mailing only. Address, World's Dispensary Med ical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. For a handsome cloth binding send 31 stamps. V?1IVGRB1S.&MW, - DEALERS IN - Fine Buggies, Photons, Surreys, Harness, Lap Robes and Whips. WE beg to inform the trade that we will carry a complete line of Barber's flue work under bis "Mew South" brand, which we will sell under an absolute guar antee. Cost yon nothing if they break or paint comes off to have broken parte made good or paint replaced. Latest Spring Cushion, Long Distance Dost Proof Axles, and all the latest atylea in everything without additional coat. Neat, nobby, slick work. Prices right and terms easy-on gilt edge paper. Yours for trade, VAN DIVER BROS. <k MAJOR. FROM this date until 15th May I am prepared to offer extra low prices on PIANOS and ORGANS. Remember, I will be glad to price anything in the SEWING MACHINE line. I guarantee my prices are 20 per cent lower than yon will have to pay elsewhere. I have noth ing but a carefully selected stock of new Instruments-nothing shop-worn or sec ond-hand. M. L. WILLIS, _ Sonth Main 8t.. Anderson, 3. C. W. G. McGEE, SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE- p^ontjljom,?over Fermera and Merchante Bank ANDERSON, 8. G. y?* P.1898 88_ Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersign* Jd, Administrator of the Estate of A. C. Stepp, deceased, hereby given notice that he will on the 17th day of May, 1899, apply to the Jodee of x-rubato for Anderson County, S. C., tor a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from his office aa Administra tor. J. B. 8TEPP, Adm'r. April 26, 1899 44 fi The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has horne the signature ur and has hcen made under his per* sonal supervision since its infancy, f'GC?cJu4? Allow no ono to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Ex periments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment, What ?s CASTOR1A tjastoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric? Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant, h contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and "Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought I TI Use Foi- Over 30 Years. THC CENTAUR COMPANY. TT MURKAY STMCET, NCUT TORR CITY. To the Unshod, Bare-oacked, and Hungry Population : HEAR us for our cause, for our cause ls your cause. It is unseemly for agid and powerful nation to shake from ita feet ita sandals, to divest itself of itsclothii and to scrape the bottom of the tl our barrel in its efforts to eke out a living { blackberries and melons. We are no Filipinos. What, then, shall ye wear q wherewithal shall your appetites be clothed ? Verily, if ye would walk in pride, like the strutting peacock, ye must FE] like strutting. No man putteth on a paper-bottom Shoe, clotheth himself in shod raiment and eateth black Flour sooth out to parade h'itself as a "good ieeler." I he tbftt wears our all-leather $1.00 Shoes, buys our Standard Dry Gooda ande only Dean's Patent Flour, is a hummer with chin-whiskers, and his name shill Rockefeller, Mathuselah or "something better." We'll SAVE YOU MONEY and a peck of trouble. DEAN & RATLIFFE, THE BARGAIN PRINCES ?Sf Parties owing ns for FERTILIZERS will please call in and give Not? j same at once. MOLASSES, MOLASSES. IF you need a Barrel of Molosses yon can't afford to buy until you ha^eseesl We have lust received a big lot-all grades-and know we can please yw|j both quality and price. Also, new lot of Shoes, Dry Goods and Notions That we will soil cheap, And wa have a few Shoes and other Gooda that we are, selling at 50o. and 75c. on the dollar Here are only a few prices : Muscovado Molasses. 33Jc. per gallon. Good Molasses. 124 c. per gallon. Good Coffee. ll lbs. for $1.00. 40o. Tobacco in 10 lb. CaddleB for. 30o. Jeans Pan ts. 40c. Shirts.:. 15o. FLOUR, CORN, MEAT, LARD, Etc., AT BOTTOM PRICES. Yours for Business, MOORE, AOKER & GO., EAST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER BTORg FREE CITY DELIVERY. FOB_ j Fancy and g Staple Q-roceries, 1 Flonr, Sugar*, Coffee, j Molasses., Tobacco, ! A.nd. Cigars, 1 COME TO J. C. OSBORNE. I Son tb Main Street, below Bank of Anderson, J Phone and Free Delivery._- Y7. H. Harrison's Old Sui YOU CAN T JUDGE A SAUSAGE BY ITS ULSTER ! Neither can you fix the value of a BICYCLE by its Enamel SENSIBLE people want SAFE BICYCLES, and safe Bicycles have the best material, the most careful construction, and must be nia< people who know how-makers who have learned by experience. W interest careful people, in the construction of CRESCENT AND VIKING DIV m fJJj JES If they will give us the opportunity. Well show what goes into thea explain why they are better than others. Come and see us. D Headquarters for everything in the line of YtfavnlA RnnilrtaB avili "Pit t? nora " W. W. S?LLIYANJ Manager Bloycte Departnv