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STARVATIO? Glance [Backward and Most Enjoyen Ever G-iven i News and It is still a question of moot with .;, j r V the old" boys who fought in the war on either side, whether there have ever been since such lovely, brilliant and loving, girls as those with whom they rode andrflirted and danced, for loving whom they, perhaps, fought all the better, away baftk in the 60's. Probably these old boys, still feel ing spry and hale, forget the swift cadence of Time's march as they sit at "camp fire," or "Reunion." Per haps few of them have ever heard, and those few have forgotten, the old - song-verse: s1 never shall see such flowers again, Nor smell such a sweet perfume ; But if there be now no such flowers as 1 those, , 'Tis I who have lost my bloom !" f Kpv- ?' But this reminiscence is not to risk the dread artillery of bright eyes of to-day; only to recall, without com parison, those merry, delightful and wholly unparalleled entertainments bf the later days of the war, which sol : V dieribeau and Richmond belle knew as ' 'starvation parties. ' ' Many a white haired grandstre, many a stately and ? venerable-grand dame of to-day re count to generations then unborn the frolic , and real brilliance of those .social gatherings in thei sorely loaguer ed Capital in the winters of 1863 and Richmond had ever been famous for her hospitality, and for the generous elegance of lier entertainment to all accredited strangers. When she be came the Capital of the Southern Con federacy \a great and new population \ . . was . emptied into her gates, coming ?^?fxom every distant sister State, and : embraces mosit of the - distinction, ' social renown, Lintellectuality and wealth of the entire Southland. And , for a time, indeed until the strain of , war and mourning of actual want bore too heavy upon her, this new popul? is ;tion was treated as though each and ^ ; everyone was an honored and invited guest. The gray and personal bearing -were the only "open sesame" needed to swing wide Richmond's doors. x : But the Capital was. the spot of all the South coveted by the powerful and active enemy. Untold masses of men were burled against her; com munications vrere cut of? and supplies became restricted in inverse ratio to ; - demand for them. Money, too, de preciated in value ina tumble that, looked back upon to-day, seems almost comic, until there came to be truth in .the epigram that the housewife going to market carried her money in the basket and brought back her supplies in her pocket. The early constant round of din ners, lunches, balls and receptions grew gradually less; at first by almost imperceptible degrees, then with strides as rapid as the financial de pression Or the engrossment of all thoughtful people by more sad and serious duties. For the once merry Capital became one vast hospital of the great camps, and almost every fireside had its "vacant chair." So, by the trying winter of 1863, formal entertaining in Bichmond was almost a thing of the past. Every boase was open tm& Its doors fell back of themselves to the open sesame of ?"oux boys," but the strain to provide home necessities, with the added om nipresent one of feeding the sick, put an automatic negative on every sug gestion of entertainment. Still the " people were far from hopeless ; were buoyant indeed to near the very end, . and the younger element, both in the anny and in society, were ever fun hungry, and ready for every plan and project of amusement. Ont of this demand, met by necessi ' ty's negative, sprang what weie known " as "starvation parties." At these beautiful and accomplished women, and not always only the giddy girls, - met and danced and flirted to their " hearts' content with "those poor boys - who deserved to be amused." lu the ? winter "siesta," when tired nature ' stopped nine months of killing by ' making roads impassable with mud ?' and snow, this elastic descriptive list covered all grades. The beardless . private, longing for his first mustache, was as much a hero to youDg woman hood as was the corps commander, with wreath-circled stars upon his collar. Indeed, for "starvation ' ' uses, the sub usually "had the call" OD his chief, for he danced better, and, in intervals of killing and being killed, had nothing on his mind but the next waltz and the bright eyes of the walt zer. Strange olia podrida ever was a star vation party. A piano and an oblig ing girl, usually one who did not dance, or some complaisant matron, furnished the music. Most houses were spacious enough to give ample room for a large crowd, and refresh ments were invariably the same. To wards the end, the law on that point was as the Medes and Persians. A huge pitcher, or. bucket, of yeiiow "Jsems's River", water, and mora or ' '^....:^k?&??-<:-r .... .Vi..,-. . N PARTIES. at the Most UniqLie 1 Entertainments n the World. Courie?. less, tumblers of any available style and shape were the Alpha and Omega of entertainment for the inner man. Not even a biscuit, or a ginger cake, was permitted, for, perhaps, the next hostess had none to spare, and all must be on equal footing. So, if the men were "invitedfor their boots," as they ofttimes are in peace, they certainly did not come for the supper, but for the company. That included the brightest, pretti est and most popular women of the Capital, and among the.men were Cabinet ministers, Senators, Generals, subalterns and privates from every arm of service, all, for the nonce, on absolutely equal footing, by ukase of that most despotic of regents, beauty. And merry, joyous and even brilliant revels they were. Almost all came to dance, and the exceptions came to find surcease from wearing mental s brain, and to try, for the moment, to forget strain of responsibility. Long past midnight the dance was kept up. Then men not on furlough would fling themselves in saddle, gallop back to camp and merely exist through its dull inactivity-of routine by memory of the last dance and ex pectation of the next. Then, towards spring, as roads improved and cavalry movements became possible, the dan ces grew rarer. Raids .had to be watched; leave was harder to obtain, and gradually the lax rain of discip line tightened and ''the dear boys," old and young, heard "boots and sad dles" in places of waltzes, for long and trying months again. Sometimes the tragedy that made diapason to the merry theme of the previous night was so sudden and so saddening as to shock even the war drilled nerve J of the sufferers by it into dumb despair. v Gallant Pres Hampton, the grand old General's boy soldier son, comes back in vivid memory of this. Young, chivalrous and fearless, as his sire's son could be, Preston Hampton had the form of a young Antinous, and all the virile fun-love of a young soldier horn. Not for his name and his sire's dazzling record, though these gave him the entree everywhere, of course, but for his personality and sonny na* tnre, he was a universal favorite with comrades and most popular with the Richmond belles. One night Pres Hampton lingered late after a war party. The most beautiful and bril liant bells of Richmond followed him to the porch, waved him a merry "au re voir" and bade him oome back very soon. It was said that he replied as he vaulted into the saddle: "Perhaps sooner than you expect. No telling!" He clattered back to his outpost duty ere daybreak; At dawn a skirmish came, and the gallant young Carolina boy "came back," stark and cold, in a rough, rumbling cart. "Dead on the field of glory !" And the beauty who had bidden him return, and who wove garlands for his i grave,herself knew the bitterness of the fiat that spared not general or private Later the bride of a brilliant brigadier one week, the passage of two more saw her bowed with grief unbearable, as she . tottered down the same Church aisle, behind the flag-draped bier of her dead love. Nor was Pres Hampton's an isolated case of the changes and sudden chan ges of war. Often news would come from "the front," to those left further and f?r ther behind it, that some popular fel low had fired his last shot and gone to answer "Here!" at the great roll-call. And many of these were laid in the stranger soil of the State they battled for so well, lears always, sometimes a deeper and more sacred sorrow from one "girl he left behind him"-were added guerdon for duty done at cost of life-here! But the pressure of those times upon woman's sympathy ever took shape in active occupation, not in "tears, idle tears.' ' She was everywhere about the over-crowded hospitals. "To do for those dear ones what woman Alone, in her pity, can do;" or else, with fair little hands, sending the swift needle through tough fabrics for those absent dear ones. And so affliction and regrets alike found their best surcease in their labor of love. But. by the sufferers' rough cots, over the rough jacket and busy needle, dampened by tears, even in personal bereavement for the loved and lost, some brave fellow's sweetest requiem was sung by tender lips, in whispered reminiscence of their last meeting and parting at a "starvation." Such they were, and such the beaux and belles who danced away care, un til duty stilled the merry measure. None who made them ever forgot, and many a fair young sponsor of to day, many of the loyal Sons of Veterans, have listended with thc awe of child hood, when grandmamma recounted her trials in those most trying of days, yet touched them with the golden fairy wand of reminiscence of her tri umphs at she "starvation parties." T. C. DELEO.V. Colonel Wrinkler And t?e Goat. About 2 o'clock the other morning Colonel Bobby Wrinkler, who resides in West End, was awakened by his wife. He turned over, rubbed his eyes, yawned, and inquired : "What's matter, wife? What's matter ?" "Matter enough !" replied the lady, who was wide awake. "That cow, man ! She's just eating up all my rose bushes-the yard-don't you hear her? Get up, man, and run her out-quick, Wrinkler-now, please do go at once!" The colonel arose languidly, and slipping on his slippers, made his im mediate exit at the front entrance in his night robe. Picking his way cau tiously upon the lawn and peering into the darkness, he heard a peculiar sniffle. And the next moment the dim out lines of a large, white male goat ap peared before him. Without the slightest h?sitation the goat reared on his hind legs and made a lunge at the colonel, who just had time to throw np both hands and grab the animal by the horns. The goat pulled back, swayed for ward, threw his body in the air, snif fled and snorted and Anally began a series of jerks which made Wrinkler dance around, with intense alacrity. The unhappy colonel tightened his grip at every jerk, which made his hands tingle and burn as though clasp ing a live wire. "Ye gods !" muttered Wrinkler be tween his teeth, "but ain't this the devil of a fix? I'm afraid to turn him loose. He'd stab me in the back with his horns before I could make the door. Guess I'll have to hold him." At times the animal would become quiet. He then reared back and jump ed forward in such a rough and reck less way that Wrinkler kicked his slippers off in the effort to hold him down and was Anally landed in his bare feet on the graveled walk, puffing and blowing, while the goat stood at bay, his horns still firmly clutched. Just then the voice of his wife call ed from the house : "Why, man, haven't you driven that cow out yet?" "Cow, the very devil ! It's no cow at all ! It's an infernal goat, and we are having the h--of a time out here-but I'll conquer him yet-see if I don't !" Here the goat landed his hind legs in midair and tried to stand on his head on the colonel's bosom. "Conquer him!" responded his wife in high soprano, "why don't you run him into the street ?" "Shucks, woman!" yelled Wrinkler, "you must be wild ! Run him into the street, the devil ! Just come out here and look at us !" Mrs. Wrinkler at this time poked her head out of the window and hold ing a lamp to the front, looked. "Well !" she cried, "if that don't beat the-Eh ! eh ! Why don't you let the brute go and kick him out of tho gate?" "I say it, woman ! Do you think I want to be murdered in my own yard ?" Here the goat bellowed and shoved Wrinkler about ten feet over the sharp gravels. "But you can outrun the old ras cal !" suggested the lady. "I tell you I can't. I wouldn't risk turning him loose fora million dol lars ! Dress quick and come out here and throw something over me. I'm about to freeze to death, and besides it will soon be daylight and people will be passing." Mrs. Wrinkler said "All right." She spent a little lifetime adjusting her apparel, and meantime Winkler had his hands full, foras day began to break the goat, sniffling the frosh morning air, became friskier than ever, and in addition to pulling and pushing the old man up and down the gravel walk, began to bellow. This attracted the attention of a policeman, who walked leisurely up to the fence and after spitting on the sidewalk, looked over. "You see my position,said Wrink ler. "Yis, I see it-but posishun, old mon, is iverything, and I guess you'll have ter hole yer base, cz yer can't make er home run ! Good mawnin." and the policeman walked off. Presently a tall man riding a pony came by. He stopped. "My friend," said Wrinkler, "can't you give me a lift ?" "I guess not," replied thc tall man; "the goat will do that. Besides, I'm a temperance man, and cannot take a horn !" and he rode on. Then three boys rode up in a milk wagon. They stopped. "What, oh, what shall I do?" whined Wrinkler. One of them yelled : "Go in the house and get a gun and shoot the white-whiskered old rascal!" Another suggested : "Butt him square- between the eyes and kill him !" The third boy advised the colonel to throw the goat on his back and skin him alive. If that don't go "Lynch 'im !" screamed the trio ia chorus, and drove off laughing. After a while, when poor Wrinkler was ou the point of losing his mind, and likewise his grip, an awkward ne gro man ambled up to the fence and exclaimed : "Dak he now! Dah dat goat! Kum here, Billy, Willy, Billy ! Whut you doin' wid my goat, whits man. Whut make you does dat good goat dat way -dat's whut I say ?" "Oh, I'm just playing with him," said Winkler with deep irony. "But I'm tired now and you can have him." "Ya-as, an' whut's more, um gwin ter hab 'im. Here Billy, Willy, Bil ly !" and with this thc negro reached over the fence with a long fishing pole and tickled the end of the goat's tail. Thc animal sprang high in the air and as he came down gave a supreme twist, wrenching his horns from Wrinkler's hand and throwing him sprawling upon the gravelled ground, cleared the fence at a bound, and fol lowed the negro out Gordon street as if nothing unusual had happened. Just as Winkler arose painfully from the walk and slowly pulled himself together his wife, who was now dress ed, appeared upon the scene. And as they walked back into the house she was begging the colonel to tell her how he got rid of the goat, and he was swearing that he would not gratify her curiosity for 200,000 goats of solid gold.-Smith Clayton in Atlanta Journal. Southern Textile Interests. The. Textile Excelsior, a leading authority in textile interests, has the following to say of the Southern cot ton mill development and of thc work of the Southern Railway in connection with it. "The rapid development of textile manufacturing interests in the South ern States has created a great deal of interest among writers for the daily and trade papers. That development has been so marked as to attract not only the attention of men actively connected with the industry, but of economic and industrial students throughout the entire country. There must, of course, be certain practical advantages for manufacturing, advan tages of a most pronounced character, before such a development could be possible. The South has these ad vantages. "The greater growth of the textile ? industry in the South has naturally been in the development of cotton man ufacturing. And this development has been along the line of certain large rail way systems, notably the Southern Railway. "In 1890, according to the returns made to the Census Bureau, there were in the States of Alabama, Geor gia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia 36,266 looms and 1,533, 250 spindles. In these same States, on January 1, this year, there were 95,552 looms and 3,796,000 spindles. -ThiB shows an increase of 164 per cent in the former and 147 per cent in the latter. There are in these States now 410 cotton mills, of which 241 are located on the Southern Railway. "Judging from present indications the development of the textile indus try in the South has just begun. Several new mills have been located along the line of the Southern Railway to be constructed within the next twelve months, and on some of them work has already begun. In addition to these new mills a great many of those now in operation are adding new machinery and in other ways making preparations to enlarge their output. "A word of praise is due the South ern Railway for the work it has done in promoting cotton spinning and other textile manufacturing in the South. It is doing notable and lauda ble work in developing the rich section of the South that it traverses. The many new mills that are going up show that the people along its lines appreciate the railroad's efforts and are endeavoring to assist it in utiliz ing the advantages that nature has placed within their reach. "The fact that the Southern 4has been able to equip and manage one of the best railway systems of the coun try shows conclusively that the South ia prospering, and under like condi tions will continue to prosper." Supreme Court Decisions. Since Chas. O. Tyner began thc man ufacture of TynerV Dyspepsia Remedy, many people have inquired as to its efficacy. Chief Justice Blecklcy, of Georgia, has tried it for indigestion and dyspepsia, and gives this as his decision : "Atlanta, Ga., March 14.-Chas. O. 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 sec thc law in spite of unsuitable or too much diet. "LOGAN K BLECK LE V." This is a splendid decision and peo ple are profiting by it. For sale by Wilhite & Wilhitc. Sample bottle free on application to Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Co., Atlan ta, Ga. - ? m - - People who are intoxicated with music must be air-tight. -o - -- Purify the sewers of thc body and stimulate the digestive organs to main tain health, strength and energy. Prickly Ash Bitters is a tonic for the kidneys, liver, stomach and bowels. For sale by Kvans Pharmacy. Don't Worry. The breakdown in American life comes from worry, and worry has al most come to be a national disease. If an American has no money he worries himself into a state of mind, and when he gets any money he worries himself to death for fear he will lose it. He worries at his work because he is afraid he will not accomplish what he is given to do. He worries about his meals; they are not on time, or they may disagree with him, or they may be costing him too much. If he pays for a thing in advance he is afraid it will not come up to the specifications, and if he gets it on credit he is afraid that he will not be able to pay for it when the bill comes in. He is afraid to leave his. money in the house lest it be stolen. He is afraid to carry it with him less some body should borrow it from him. He is afraid to put it in bank lest the bank should fail. And so he worries about it. He worries about his busi ness, whether it is going smoothly or not. He worries about his family, about the education of his children and the progress they are makiDg. He worries about the nation, about Congress, about the two great political parties, about the national conven tions, about the gubernational elec tions, about the tariff and financial questions, about the initiative and referendum, about the abstract right of secession, about the resolutions of '98, about the decadence of politics, about civil service reforms, about the future of democracy, about sanitation, the water and gaB questions, the pav ing of streets the street car system, the class of plays at the theaters, the nomination for mayor and the election of school visitor in the s'teenth civil district. He either sleeps too much or he sleeps too little. He has an ideal tba life is a conspiracy, and that he must preserve eternal vigilance or the con spirators will get him. He lives so much on his nerves that he gets angry on slight provocation, and thus wastes more tissue. The true secret of health and life' and success is cheerfulness. The man who does his appointed task- without being fussy will live a good deal lon ger. "Don't worry" and "don't be afraid" are two very good rules to observe. The American people must learn these rules by heart and put them into practice if they wish to live jong and prosper.-Memphis Commer cial Appeal._'_ Ah, that sad moment when ?faMgBg^BBBiB Death's awful pinions hover- j^^^K^^SSm Above the one we hold most ^ffi^B^mH'fflH must sooner or later ff^l /fifi come to all, but we can B^\j^ffl//f?S] never surely foretellJQK?B how imminent the sum-jHraf jnH mons may seem, it may still, in^God's good provi-g jf^fg^* institution was founded in Buffalo, N. Y., known as the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, which has since become one of the most famous institutions in the world for its enormous benefits to the sick and suffering all over the United States. Thousands have come there for treatment and tens of thousands have received professional ad vice by mail with suggestions for inexpen sive home-treatment, whereby they have been cured of severe, and in many in stances, apparently hopeless diseases. A Massachusetts man, Mr. John Brooks, of Boylston, Worcester Co., writes : ' ' About a year ago I was taken with a bad cold which setUed on my lungs. The doctors said I was in con sumption and could not get well. I took Emul sion of Cod Liver Oil and it did me no good. After taking it four months. I heard of your ' Golden Medical Discovery,' and wrote to you for advice. 1 have taken your medicine and it saved my life. I felt so sick when I wrote to vou that I thought I would not live through the winter. In the morning I raised an awful lot and would spit all the time and had pains in my chest. My bowels would not move more than once or twice a week; my strength was nearly gone; I could not do a whole day's work. Now, my bowels are regular every day and I feel no more pain in my chest. 1 feel a grea? deal stronger. I am working hard every day. driv ing a team in the woods, aud I owe my thanks to Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. I know it saved my life." The most difiacult diseases to cure 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. If you want Bargains go to. CHEAP JOHN'S, The Five Cent Store. IF you want SHOES cheap go to Cheap John's, the Five Cent Store. For your TOBACCO and CIGARS it'a the place to get them cheap. Schnapps Tobacco. 37*e. Early Bird Tobacco. 37?c. Gay Bird Tobacco. 35c. Our Leader Tobacco. 27$c. Nabob's Cigars. lc. each. Stogies.4 for 5c. Premio or Habana.3 for 5c. Old Glory. Sc. a pack. Ar buck le's Coffee Ile. pound No. 9 Coffee 9c. pound. Soda 10 lbs. for 25c. Candies Oe. per pound. CHEAP JOHN is ahead in Laundry and Toilet Soaps, Box and Stick Blue in fact, everything of that kind. Good S-day Clock, guaranteed for five years, ?1.95. Tluware to beat the band. JOHN A. HAYES. W. G. McGEE, SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE-'"ront Rjom, over Farmers nd Me chanta Bank ANDERSON, S. C. Feb 9,1898 33 The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of and lias been made under his per ?ffly J7, sonal supervision since its infancy. f'&4cJu4fi Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are hut Ex periments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment. What is CAStORIA Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drop? and Soothing: Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It 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 Sears the Signature of "tn. The Kind You toe Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THC CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. To the Unshod, Bare-Dacked, and Hungry Population : HEAR us for our cause, for our cause is jour cause. Ii is unseemly for a grea and powerful nation to shake from its feet its sandals, to divest itself cf its clothing and to scrape the bottom of the flour barrel in its efforts to eke out a living on blackberries and melons. We are no Filipinos. What, then, shall ye wear and wherewithal shall your appetites be clothed ? Verily, if ye would walk in pride, like the strutting peacock, ye must FEEL like strutting. No man putteth on a paper-bottom Shoe, clotheth himself in shoddy raiment and eateth black Flour goeth out to parade himself as a "good feeler." But he that wears our all-leather $1.00 Shoes, bnys onr Standard Dry Goods and eats only Dean's Patent Flour, is a hummer with chin-whiskers, and his name shall be Rockefeller, Mathuselah or "something better." We'll SAVE YOU MONEY and a peck of trouble. DEAN & RATLIFFE, THE BARGAIN PRINCES. p?f* Parties owing us for FERTILIZERS will please call in and give Notes for same at once . MOLASSES, MOLASSES. IF you need a Barrel of Molasses you can't afford to buy until you have seen us. We have just received a big lot-all grades-and know we can please you in both quality and price. Also, new lot of Shoes, Dry Goods and Notions , That we will seil obeap, and we have a few Shoes and other Gooda that we are still selling at 50c. and 75c. on the dollar Here are only a few prices : Muscovado Molasses. 33Jc. per gallon. Good Molasses.-..12?e. per gallon. Good Coffee.:. ll lbs. for $1.00.. 40c. Tobacco in 10 lb. Caddies for. 30c. Jeans Pants. 40c. Shirts. 15c. FLOUR, CORN, MEAT, LARD, Etc., AT BOTTOM PRICES. Yours for Business, MOORE, ACKER & CO., EAST 8IDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER STORE. FREE CITY DELIVERY. FOB_ Fancy and Staple Groceries, Flour, Sugar, Coflee3 Molasses, Tobacco, A_nd Cigars, COME TO J. C. OSBORNE. South Main Street, below Bank of Anderson, Phone and Free Delivery. W. H. Harrison's Old Stand. YOU CANT 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 must have the best material, the most careful construction, and must be made by people who know how-makers who have learned by experience. We can interest careful people in the construction of CRESCENT AND VIKING If they will give us the opportunity. "We'll show what goes into them, and explain why they are better thau others. Come and see us. Headquarters for everything in the line of Bicycle Sundries and Fittings. W. W. SULLIVAN, Manager Bicycle Department.