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SARGE PI Happy A.ntici|^ai ion Layb.y Atlanta Just think, two mere months, .lune then .July, and crops will ho made and lay-by tin??: will In- upon us. What other class of people than farmors can claim such a blessed sea 80n as a time for lay-by? Before one hardly knows it the crops are made and a season of rest and peace comes tn the farmer. One more mouth's work will virtually wind up thc labor of making thc crops of 181W. After a month now everything will bc cany on thc farm, fruit will bc in season, pleasures will bo inaugurated and thc plow-boys and country lasses will be romping io joyful glee while thc old folks will fold their hands in rest upon the happy faith that God will do the balance. How blesses are such conditions! Where else can it be found save in thc rural pursuits*' Thc country fam ily that has done its duty for the last four months can trust the rest to providence in a confidence and rest fulness, that no other class on earth can feel. The mechanics of thc towns must hammer on. the merchant broods over a dull and heated ?cason and longs for cotton to hurry in, rich peo ple will be worrying to lind thc sum mer report to give them a rest that the poorest clodhopper would refuse to accept if he were to lind it in tin- mid dle of the road, the quality of c< mfort and freedom from anxiety that comes to the farmer at lay-by is found no where on earth save on the farm. They wi!, lay up in thc shade at noon time, play marbles under the big oaks, eat fruit from thc trees and bring melons from the spring, sipping such pleasures without price that is found nowhere else nor by any other class. Along with the other pleasures will come thc season of big meetings and eampmeetings. These are glorious for old and young. Old people arc like old clocks-they need winding up. and the big meeting season is the key that touches thc old man's heart and sets him to ticking with a stronger lick and happier purpose. I pity thc man that has never known the pleas ures of a big meeting in thc country. There you will find out all that has happened in the past year. Old friends are renewed. Every death will bo talked about. If any are sick they will be missed. All the mar riages will be discussed. New babies will be there dressed to be admired and proud young mothers will show them to their old mates with a holy pride that only comes through a mother's love. There is no matching this. Not on this earth is found such peace as belongs to thc young country couples who come for the first time with their babies to a good old meet ing house iu thc country. No matter how long our fathers and mothers may live, nor how nor where, there wijl never be a happier time than through those years when the children were Minali and went and came ns thc par ents did. The sociability of these big meet ings is beyond measurement. In groups they sit around under the troes swapping gossip till the preacher ar rives. The arrival of the preacher marks an event of the ocoasian. After ?he has tied his horse to a swinging limb he passes through the groups shaking hands, with a word for this ''sister" and a chat with this "broth er," making impressions and bringing pleasures that will remain long after they have passed from their fields of action and other generations have taken the place of the old. The con gregation now gathers inside the church, after the preacher's arrival. A good old hymn is started "AU hall the power of Jesus' name, Let angels prostrate fall, Bring forth the royal diadem And crown Him Lord of all." Whoever has eat in one of these old churches and watched the congrega tion as they came in and took their seats has a memory to cherish as long as lifo shall last. Young boys and girls, young mothers and old, old fathers and 'young fathers, together with the babies, will remain as mem ories to sweeten many bitters of life and bounce us joyfully over many rugged ways. God bless these old churches. The benches were rough and the interior unfinished, but fres coed walls, shining chandeliers, cush ioned seats nor carpeted aisles never have and never will catch the affec tions of a people and hold them down through life as do these rough old things. And the babies-a pretty babe in its mother's arms at an old fashioned church is the sweetest thing this side of heaven. If you will go to where they carry these babies to church and watch them one after the other as they nestle th air little faces down in the folds of their mother's dress and fall to sleep, you will not think it coarse, not a bit, but you will rather find in it a rebuke to fashion and a promise for the future that can never be found in the children left at home with servants to nibble at a bot* iJNKETT. us lor trie C1omiiiyf <>i f IV I urie. . /mi nail. tlc and cry for their mother's return. Children raised in thc arms of a mother give promise of being a blessing for j ever, children who are doomed to thc ears of servants and the nourishment of a buttle had better to never been horn, considering, of course, that these conditions pertain because of the j mother's desire to meet the demands I of fashion. Hut I do not want to get otf on any , of the weaknesses of thc day. it is a i glorious thing to contemplate thc j peace and pleasure of lay-by time, j and to know, too. that farmers can i claim this as entirely their own. I. I heard a business man of Atlanta say once that if it was not for the rest of j Sunday he would very soon land in ' the asylum. What a glorious thing if ; these hard-worked business men could i have a lay-by. It would be so good ; for them ami good for the world. Hut ; they can't have it. It is business, I business. The world is running wild i on business. Night must bc turned into day. Thc great wheels of thc industries must turu and tin.' clatter ?d' machinery he heard through all the nit,' li Ls. They have no lay-by-they have no night. It takes millions of j dollars lo satisfy a man's ambitions I where it used to lake only thousands, j A mau with a million dollars cannot ! rest -neither can a man rest who has I his heart set on making a million. ' There is too much strain, too little lay-by. We can see thc need of rest and peace wherever we look. We arc soon to have another big prize fight, and exciting games will bc instituted to relieve thc strain; but the strain ; remains, and will remain until the \ world shuts down the machinery at ! night; stop craving for the millions ! and take a lay-by once in every year, trusting more in the Lord. A boy at ten years of age now knows more than they used to koo?/ at thirty-and yet ! they arc all fools. Not a great statcs j man in prospect that has been evolved j under the culture of the last thirty I five years. Try the country. Have a I lay-by. (?et back to old-time ways. This is my advice. New departures have proved a failure. Great wealth and the cravings for wealth is all vex ation. After you get it. it will do you no good. Millions will not buy the peace of thc countryman's lay-by, and fashion cannot supply the pleas ures of an old-time big meeting at a country meeting house. SAKOE PLUNKETT. Bad management keeps more people in poor circumstances than any other one cause. To bo successful one must look ahead aud plan ahead so that when a favorable opportunity presents itself he is ready to take advantage of it. A little forethought will also save much expense and valuable time. A prudent and careful man will keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house, thc shiftless fellow will wait until necessity compels it and then ruin his best horse going for a doctor and have a big doctor bill to pay, besides; ono pays out 25 cents, the other is out a hundred dollars and then wonders why his neighbor is getting richer while he is getting poorer. For sale by Hill Orr Drug Co. - A person one year old may ex pect to live thirty-nine years longer ; of ten years, fifty one; of twenty, forty-one; of thirty years, thirty-four; of forty years, twenty-eight; of fifty, twenty-ODe; of sixty years, fourteen more; of seventy years, nine; of eighty years, four. Mr. P. Kctoham,of Pike City, Cal., says: "During my brother's late sick ness from sciatic rheumatism, Cham berlain's Pain Balm was the only remedy that gave him any relief." Many others have testified to the f?rom pt relief from pain which this inimont affords. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - Dixie Thompson, the^bean king" of Ventura county, California, planted 20,000 acres of beans last year. The crop was 1,300 carloads, embracing more than one hundred varieties. Thc beans were sown and cultivated in tho same manner as corn, and were har vested by special machinery. What is Kodol Dyspepsia Cure? It is the newly discovered remedy, tho most effective preparation ever devised for aiding the digestion and assimila tion of food, and restoring tho derang ed digestive organs to a natural condi tion. It is a discoveryRsurpassing anything yet known to the medical profession. Evans Pharmacy. - Snow fighters arc at work with dynamite and shovels on the moun tain system of the Colorado and South ern road. Without the aid of dyna mite, it is claimed tho banks would not disappear before thc Fourth July. No man can work well with a torpid liver or constipated bowels. A few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters will quiokly remove this condition and make work a pleasure. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. - It's easy to find reasons why others don't do the foolish things we do. - A Cincinnati judge recently gave a man ten days for stealing an Aivht. I day dook. MeQUIKE ON GEN. JACKSON. Why tho North Never Produced Au jr Ureat (?euerals. ALEXANDRIA, VA., May 17.-Dr. Hunter Mcguire, of Richmond, deliv ered an address here to-night in the opera house on Stonewall Jackson which made a deep impression upon tlie large audience. The paper held and entertained the most attentive, thc most intelligent and tho most ap preciative audience that has honored a lecturer on any previous occasion for many years. It was, as it were, a voice speaking from a sainted past, a voice which only such characters us Stonewall Jackson were moulded and made thc idol of his country. The opera house was filled from top to bottom, while men disticguished in many walks of life sat on the platform around Dr. McGuire. The hour and a half he spoke was all too short for the men who wore the gray and the women who remembered the trying days of the Confederacy. Dr. McGuire said in part : "The two sections of this country are not altogether dissimilar in blood and antecedents. It is, therefore, strange that the northern section has so far produced no great soldier, it has giveu birth to many gallant and meritorious men. but not one who by thc world's estimate to-day is account ed a great commander ; not one whom the final verdict of mankind will al low to rank with Washington, Lee or Jackson. Not one was forthcoming in the revolution of Iii or the war of 1812, or in 1848. or in the sectional war of 't?l G5. I need not speak of the war with Spain, fresh in our memories. I do not think that even northern his tory will claim that one great soldier from that section was then in evi dence. "Press, pulpit and people have com bined in efforts to make Grant a great soldier. In truth he was brave, honest and magnanimous ; but a general who in a short campaign-from the Wilder ness to Cold Harbor-lost more men than his antagonist had, and who, with anything like equal resource, would have been annihilated by Lee, will never be accepted by history as "great." Sherman and Sheridan, have been regarded by some of their adher ents as great soldiers. The former gave up his claim to this title-if, in deed, he ever possessed it-when he said that on his march through* Georgia he had so devastated the country with fire and sword that no army could fol low him and live ; and the latter sign ed his own protest against his right to the title when he left the Valley of Virginia and its helpless people so poor 'that a crow would have to carry his rations if he flew across the land.' Doth of these men were incendiaries, and such characters never had been and never will be accepted ag 'great* in the estimation of the world. "Present company excepted, as al ways; and at the same time admitting and claiming the greater fighting effi ciency of the individuals of the Con federate army, I do not know that any more gallant private soldiers ever lived than the meu furnished by thc States of the north in the first years of the war. Repeatedly defeated and driven from the field by the Confederates ; losing in their flight flags and g"ns and nearly all th?y possessed, they never entirely lost their courage. In a few weeks, when the next battle was joined, they would come forward with renewed courage, with as much assur ance of victory as if they had never been beaten. Directed by incompetent generals, I saw them at Fredericks burg lose hundreds and thousands of their men in as brave and gallant and hopeless an assault against our works as were ever witnessed. Yet these same men in a few minutes met us at Chancellorsville with a courage un subdued, with an assurance of success that seemed almost impudent. "They knew, too, that their leaders were incompetent men. Riding one day with Jackson to visit the pickets on thc Rappahannook at a time when there was an agreement betweon them and the Federals not to fire upon one another (they were friendly enough for daily exohanges of newspapers, coffee, tobacoo, etc.,) the Confederate pickets cheered Jackson when he left them, and after we had ridden a short distance one of tho federals came to the bank of tho river and said.. 'What are you yelling about, Johnnies?' and when told that they were hurrah ing for Stonewall Jackson, the Yankee cried out to his fellow soldiers. 'Three Cheers for Stonewall Jackson !' and they gaye them with a will. "After the Federals surrendered at Harper's Ferry I went with General Jackson from Bolivar Heights down through the main street of the town very nearly to the river. We had no escort, but when the Federal privates found out in some way that Jaokaon was passing by they evinced the most intense curiosity to see him and thick ly crowded along the roadside.? Some of them touched their hats as he pass ed, and one nf them cried out : 'If we had on our Hide one man like you we would soon clean out the rebellion.' "They knew ?.hey had no g?nerais oomp-r-^?e i?^rs. Bs; ?hy ?B that <h? o i rh han failed to produc? a great soldier? I think that blood and occupation aod environment had some thing to do with it, but one cause, and probably the main one, is to bc found in thc kind of education the Puritans forced upon the northern people for generations. In thc system of teach i oj.' inaugurated by those old fathers in the beginning, and rigidly abbered to since, the quick attainment of practical results is the sole motive recognized. It is thc he all and end all of their method. This Puritan system existed over the north and west. Knowledge of principles is by them lightly esteemed-whether of mathe matics or of war-and without this knowledge masters of cither science cannot bc produced. With these men nothing that was not directly practi cal was to bc considered. In fact, eui bono was their watchword. Their purpose in life was attained when re sults proved that they had learned how to convert one dollar into two. "Least of all did they seek to culti vate the imagination-the quality without which no man eau be a great commander. Jackson once said, 'I never look at a dense forest that I do not try to imagine what is on the other side of it.' The exercise of this in dispensable quality enabled Jackson and Lee, as it did Wellington and Na poleon, to foresee the movements and thwart the designs of their foes. But this is a digression for which I beg pardon.''-Rich mom I Tim es. Victim of Bigamist. Thc people about Allendale, in Barnwell county, seem to bc consid erably stirred up over the fact that one of the most popular young women of the place has found herself to be a victim of a bigamist. These details of thc affair are from the Jacksonville (Fla.) Metropolis of Saturday evening last: "C. V. Pons, a citizen of Jackson ville, is in jail at Barnwell, S. C., charged with bigamy. "Mr. Pons is a well-known detective and has a wife and several children, who reside in this city. A few weeks ago he married Miss Ollie Brabham, a young woman of Allendale, S. C. The young lady was said to be the b ?ile of the place and the wedding was a nota ble event. The manner in which tbe exposure was made is most interesting and is af follows : "David Manier, trusted employee of the Matthews department s/.ore, is a native of Allendale, and was a friend and neighbor of Miss Ollie Brabham. His cousin wrote to him from that place stating that Miss Ollie had mar ried a Jacksonville man by the name of C. F. Pons. Mr. Manier at once investigated the matter and says that he learned that Mr. Pons had a wife and several children residing in this city on Beaver street, and he so noti fied the Allendale people, which re sulted in arrest of Pons, and he was taken to the Barnwell county jail, where he is now incarcerated. "A reporter of the Metropolis was shown a letter this morning written by Hon. 0. J. Connor, a lawyer of Allendale, v hich says that the people of that little city are very indignant, as Miss Brabham was one of the most popular young ladies in the place. The letter further says that Pons was removed to Barnwell owing to the in dignation of the people." "Mr. Manier was requested to find out all about Pons, whioh he says he did, and Bent affidavits to the authori at Barnwell. Pons, he says, has ad mitted to his newly made wife that he had a former wife in Jacksonville, but had reoently secured a divorce from her. Mr. Manier says that he went to County Clerk Cassidey this morn ing and seoured from him a certificate stating that no divorce had been granted to Pons or suit entered for the same."-The State. A Prominent Doctor Speaks. He is not talking about medical ethics, quite the contrary. The sci entist is eager to grasp truth in what ever field it may be found, and the fact that Tyner's Dyspepsia Bemedy is so meritorious calls forth from him a testimonial : "Chipley, Ga., August 4, 1894. Dr. 0. O. Tyner, Atlanta, Ga. : I think it is due you that I should say that Tv tier's Dyspepsia Bemedy has done more for mo than all other pre parations that I have tried. I think it is a valuable remedy for chronic dyspepsia and indigestion. It has oured me. I hope you may be able to cure all dyspeptics. They are legion. DR Q. T. BUSSELL. For sale by Wilhite & Wi 1 hi te. Sample bottle free on application to Tyner's Dyspepsia Bemody Co., Atlan ta, Ga. _ - Throe thio.es in New York stoic a valuable dog last week, and later the owner found the dog in possession of the thieves. He olaimed his prop erty and attempted to reoover it ; biit was brutally assaulted, when the dog came to his reson? with such good ef fect that when a policeman came the three thieves were glad to be arrested and thus escape the dog's fury. Wha< you want is not temporary re lief from piles but a cure to stay oar ed. Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salvo our?! ?iles, and they stay oured. Evani 'harmaoy. - Husband-Why are you so angrj at the doctor? Wife-When I tole him I had a terribie tired feeling, ht told me to show him my tongue. Ancient Corn. Mr. William McCabe, a resident of Riverdale, Md., has six kernels of corn which were found among others in a mountain cave of Arkansas, and said by those versed in fossil signs to be 5,000 or ti,OOO years old, says a College Park, Md., special in the Baltimore Sun. Mr. John E. Burton, the send er of the precious grains, has in his office in Milwaukee, Wiss., 19 cars, in every respect like other corn, save that thc ? rains are much larger, and in color a dark chocolate. Mr. Burton received the corn from Mr. George Barnum, of Columbus, Neb., and Mr. Barnum raised these ears from the original seed, discovered in a cave her metically sealed in some ancieut and curious pottery. Mr. Barnum planted the corn last June, and the growth seemed to him to bc marvelous. In spite of the dry and unfavorable season, this antedilu vian maize grew to the heighv of 10 feet, and in instances to 15 feet, tne stalks measuring in circumference 7 inches, with leaves 5 feet long, when other grain shriveled and perished un der the heat of thc sun. Mr. Burton, seeing some notice of the gigantic ce real, and thinking it a fake, wrote to Mr. Barnum about it. Mr. Barnum replied by sending him some of the seed. Mr. Burtou has sent it to his old home, near Lake Geneva, where some of the fanners will see what can be done with it. It has been demon strated in the most satisfactory man ner that the corn was actually found in an old cavern in Arkansas. Mr. McCabe has planted what he has, and anxiously awaits the results. A great deal of interest in this matter has been awakened in this neighborhood. - In a criminal prosecution recent ly in York, Neb., the jury, after a brief deliberation, returned the fol lowing verdict: "We, the jury in the above named case, do not believe one word that the witnesses have sworn to; neither do we believe that any of the attorneys have spoken the truth, nor that either of them eould do so if he should care to take the trouble to try." - There's many a slip after the cup touches the lip. WE il f DISAPPEAR ? ^ \ ^ A N D / / :/: ' - rHFALTHl i I ? innfai BIBI ?WILL BRIGHTEN WOMAN'S LIFE IF SHE USES FAVORITE IN ALL CASKS OP FEMALE . WEAKNESS, c If you want Bargains 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 i t'a the place to get them cheap. Schnapps Tobacco. 874 o. Early Bird Tobacco..874c Gay Bird Tobacco. 36c Onr Leader Tobacco ....*.. 27}c. Nabob's Cigars. lc. eaob. S to j>iea..'..4 for 6c. Premio or Habana....3 for 5o. Old Glory. 8c a pack. Arbuckle's Coffee Ho. pound No. 0 Coffee 9o. pound. ' Soda 10 lbs. for 25c Candles Gc per pound. CHEAP JOHN ls ahead In Laundry and Toilet Soap?, Box and 8tlck Blue IQ fact, everything of that kind. Good 8-day CIock} gwursn?e?d fer ?ve years, f 1.05. . Tinware to beat the band. JOHN A. HAYES. W. G. McGEE, SURGEON DEMTI8T. OFFICE- w'ront Rjom, over Fa rm GIB and Me .-chanta Bank AHDEB80N, ?. 0. 1898_ 88 _I Notice to Creditors. ALL poreona having claims actainat tho Ettat* of Mrs. Mary K Yandi var, dftcaaaAd, are hereby notified to pre sent thflm to tho nnd^ralaiiMl. nMnori* pro von, wlihin tba t.mr? pres?ribod by lar* N. E. SULLIVAN, Kx'x. May 31,1899 49 3 > nwi??.;i? ^:iiimunSni?i?luTi^u?miiii?:iiU^ Av^el?blcPrepara?irofbr As sidu l?tlr?g ?i?Tooda?dRe?ula llpg f ho Stomachs nnri FWnvels of IM AMS ( )iii.mu;\ I^motB3TJ%sUoii,Ch?riul ness andRest.Conta?ns neither OpmntMorp?i?rie nor Mirerai. KOT NARCOTIC. frmfim SmJ Mx. Souter * I?t4.*lU Sdu Attn Se?* * \ Co*<n*Sm?e> ' Ur J - tJufier . A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Tac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. Alb nu)iitl\s c> 1 il 35 Dosi S - j y Ci N I S EXACT COPV OF WE APE EB. GASTORI For Infants and Childi^ The Kind You Hav, Always Bought Bears the Signature of Always Bough THC CIliTAU To the Unshod, Bare-oacked, and Hungry Population : HEAR us for our cause, for our cause ia your cause. It is unseemly for a g and powerful nation to shako from ito feet its sandals, to divest itself of its clot and to Bcrape the bottom of the flour barrel in its efforts to eke out a HV?D blackberries and melons. We are no Filipinos. What, then, shall ye weir wherewithal aball your appetites be clothed ? . Verily, if ye would walk in pride, like the strutting peacock, ye muet Fl like strutting. No man putteth on a paper-bottom Shoe, clotbeth himself iasb| raiment and eateth black Flour eoeth out to parade himself as a "good leeler." be that wears our all-leather 91.00 Shoes, buys our Standard, Dry Gooda andi only Dean's Patent Flour, ia a hummer with cb in-whiskers, and his name Bbq Rockefeller, Methuselah or "something better." We'll SAVE YOU MONEY and a peck of trouble. DEAN & RATLIFFE, TBE BARGAIN PRIN ?mT- Parties owing UB for FERTILIZERS will please call in and give Not^ same at once ' MOLASSES, MOLASSES. IF you need, a Barrel of Molasses you can't afford to buy until you have i We have fust received a big lot-all grades-and know we can please} both quality aDd price. Also, newlot of Shoes, Dry Goods ana Notions That we will sell cheap, mid wa have a few Shoes and other Goods that we ar selling at 50c. and 76c. on the dollar Here are only a few prices : Muscovado Molasses. 83ic. per gallon. Good Molasse*. 12io. per gallon. Good Coffee..'. ll lbs. for $1.00. 40o Tobacco in 10 lb. Caddies for. 30c. Joans Pants.u.... 40c . Shirts.:..... 15?. FLOUR, CORN, MEAT, LARD, Etc., AT BOTTOM PRICES. Yours for Business, MOORE, ACKER & CO.,] EAST 8IDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER BTC PREE CITY DELIVERY. FOB Fancy and. Staple Gkroeeries,/ Flour, Suf?ar, Cofiee, Molasses9 Tobacco, And Cigars, COME TO J. C. OSBORNE. South Main Street, below Bank of Anderson, Phone and Free Delivery. W. H. Harrison's Old St OUR RECENT TRADE HAS been extremely, gratifying and we appreciate the very liberal We expect to make it pay you to trade with us, aa we give our entire time, and energy to our business, and do, perhaps, the largest business, co m pw the expense of running, of any Firm in thia section, and are on the alert 1 Bargains for onr customers all the time. Wo want your Cash and Gilt Edj Trade, and will make it pay you to give lt to us. We ara in position to fillj dora for your hands at prices to please them and satisfy you. Jost now wo have some Bargains in- ' GOF^FPHES shrxd TOBAC?O, And firmly believe we can save yon money on anything in this line. NEW DRY GOODS and SBOE9 constantly arriving. Yours to make you a customer, j VANOlVER BR4 0. ?. ANDERSON & BRO. FLOUR, BABRULd, GOT every grade you are looking for.. We know what you j weYve got the prices right. Can't give it to yoo, but we will sell grado Flour 25 to 35o cheaper than any competition. Low gr* .8.00 per barrel. Car EAR COHN and stacks of Shelled Corn. Buy while itu advancing rapidly. We k2>*w where to bay and get good, sound Co1 OATS, HAY and BRAN. Special prices'by tho ton. We want your trade, and if honest dealings and low pnces will get it. Yours for Business, eada ?Tk ff* aaiAisnAAiu ? ?T ?w ? ovr% w+wurn* ia? nw aw mm U Now ia your chance to get Tobacco cheap. Closing out CS in Caddies. * r . SH