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BILL ARF ^rp on tne Meteors-. Says he Kno Atlanta Cc A friend living in Arkansas writes me about tko recent fall of a meteor near his borne, and he compliments me by asking some questions that I can- j not answer. The origin of meteors and their flight and fall is yet the un- j solved problem of the ages. He says that on the-26th of last i month, at8 o'clock,in the morning, j when there was a clear sky and not a cloud to be seen, there was a rumbling j sound of thunder so weird and unnat- j ural that it was alarming. It was like I the rolling ot heavy trucks over au j uneven platform, only immensely j louder. It was heard in all the neigh- j boring towns, and'lheyall telegraphed j each other to know if a mill had not ! blown up or a magazine exploded, j . Suddenly there was au explosionan the air and a dark cloud formed and meteoric fragments fell at different places in this vicinity. A small piece that weighed one and a half pounds .fell in a field near by and wal%rought to town while it was yet hot. It was powder-blackened ou the outside, but inside was a grayish color, and its particles shone like gold dust. Under the microscope they resembled quick silver. It Vas a full minute from the begin ning of the rumbling thunder till the explodion came, and the course of the sound was from east to wes*.. The event was so unexpected, and so like the mythology of Jupiter tonans throwing a ,bum.b from Mt. Olympus that the white people were spellbound, . and the negroes declared it a warning and went to prayer. Philosophers and astronomers have been studying these phenomena for . 2,500 years, and have not yet agreed upon a solution. The archives of the ? Chinese empire record the fall of six teen great aerolites from 300 to 600 years before Christ. The Greeks and Romans record a number, and Aristotle and Diogenes commented upon them. So did Livy, Plutarch' and Pliny. They have been seen so large that the estimated weight of the fragments after the explosion was 30,000 pounds, and the light was so brilliant as to pole the san by day and obscure the moon hy night. There is now in the Yale college cabinet a fragment that weighs 1,635 pounds. This came from near the Red river in Arkanses. Many of the western States have furnished . specimens for the museum s of colleges., and all of them are composed of the same mineral ingredients-principally iron-and include copper, tin, sulphur, carbon and other metals known co our . own earth. Not a single new sub stance has ever been discovered, and, for this reason the theory obtained that they were thrown up from our own volcanoes with such force as to wander for a time in the onter atmos phere of the earth, and to revolve with the earth. But this theory has long since been abandoned, for they seem to have an orbit of their own from west to east. Them came, a theory that they came from thc moon, . and were of volcanic origin, and were thrown out with such terrific force as to get beyond the moon's iuflnence and within that of the earth. But this was discredited because these fragments have been falling, no doubt, for thousands of years on the land and on the sea, and on all countries, and would have by this time materially diminished the size and weight of thc moon. La Place and Humbolt favor ed this moon theory for a time. But our modern astronomers, such as Pro-| fessors Arago and Almst-jd and Bow ditch declare that.meteors are simply clouds or nebulea of meteoric planets that have a motion and orbit of their own, and 'that orbit sometimes comes within raDge of the earth's and pro duces a commotion-a disturbance that causes the fall of some of their . own nebulea. Som? of the children got too far away from their mother, I recko.n. Sometimes meteors are simply lumi nous and have no body to explode or strike the earth. These have periodic vibrations of thirty-four years. They ? come in showers as thick as snow flakes, and fall as gently to within a few feet of the earth and are extin guished. They fell in 1799-1S33 and 1867, and nach fall was on the.13th of November. But there have been minor displays at irregular intervals generally about the 10th of August. I am old enough to remember well the "falling of the stars" in 1833. My father held me ia his arms as he stood in the portico, for I was scared. Our old negro, aunt Minty, was praying and shouting so it scared all of us children. George Lester lived on the opposite side of the street, and his mother held him in her arms. Some times in these latter days I would get with my old-time friends, Dr. Jim Alexander or his brother Tom. or George Adair, and we could boast of the wonderful era in which we had lived, and the advent of steamboats .and railroj&s and cotton gins, and .-sewing rjgjgfoes, and telegraphs, and S LETTER. AL.S to l'heir Origin he ws N" o thing. institution. ! we never neglected tc? say, '"and we j saw the stars fall in 1833." Dewey < never saw a night like that-but I j reckon the Spaniards ac."Manila thought they did on the 1st of May. But this is enough about thc me teors. At least, it is about all that I know. JoeMulhattan, or Munchausen, made up a big fake u few years ago while I was in Texas and telegraphed the fall of a meteor near Brownwood that was as big as a meeting house and had buried itself thirty feet in the earth. I was at Browuwood a few days after and thc postmaster was as mad as a hornet with Joe, "for tele grams came to him from all over the United States and England wanting to know about it and wanting to buy it at any cost. Joe had to leave there and hide out for a month or two. The postmaster answered a few and then swore off. There is one good thing about meteors. They never hurt any body. The books say it is remarkable and perhaps providential that in all the earth there is no record of one having fallen on anybody or destroyed a habitation. Terrestial lightning gets us sometimes, but celestial fires are not dangerous. And now the next inquiry is from a young farmer who wants to know if it is good farming to follow grain with grain. He does not say what kind of grain, but I will tell him that fifteen years ago the Courier-Journal of Ken tucky offered a prize of $1,000 for the best essay on practical agriculture. Over 200 were contributed and the essay that got the prize detailed the writer's plan of farming in Kentucky. lt was brief, very brief. He laid off his corn rows seven feet apart, drilled his corn eighteen inches apart, cultivated the ground thoroughly and harrowed it; sowed wheat early and harrowed it in. When the corn.was ready to gather he drove the wagon in every sixth row and loaded from three rows each side. After the corn was all gathered he went over the corn stocks crossways with a heavy roller and rolled it all down flat on the wheat. The stocks and the blades covered it like a blanket. When the first good snow fell he sowed clover on the snow. When it rained or thawed the clover seed fell into the ground and took root, and so he had corn and wheat and clover following in rotation and made a fine crop of each. But in this region our farmers have learned the value of peas as a fertili zer and stock food, and the harvest of hay this year will no doubt double all previous records. One of my friends has a small farm near town and last year harvested a fair crop of wheat from a twenty-acre field. After the wheat was off he.so.7ed ten acres of the ground in cow peas. Last fall he sowed it all down in wheat and this spri?g you could tell just where the line of peas came to. There was no difference in the quality of the land. It was all level and all alike and yet he harvested this year ten bushels per acre on one-half and eighteen on the other. Now, what caused this great difference? It was the shade of the pea vines, the shade that produces nitrogen, and nitrogen is the best of all plant food. The denser the shade the more nitrogen goes down into the soil. A canebrake, a briar patch, a clover covering, an old house in a field-remove it and plant the ground that was under it and see how luxuri ant vegetation grows. Plant a grape vine near your house and the roots will all run uuder the house to feed to feed on nitrogen. My wife has a wisteria vine at the end of the veran da, and in three years' time its roots had traveled underneath the floor and sent up sprouts twenty feet away, and for a time we did not know where they came from. A good farmer will shade everything he can. He will cover the thin and galded spots in his field with wheat straw. There is no virtue in wheat straw, but it makes shade, and that makes nitrogen. There is no virtue in a stone or in rocks, but they make shade, and notice how plants will grow near to rocks or a rock wall. My lo ig lamented friend. Dr. Bcrck inan, told me that "rocks were God's blessing to the land," and he pur chased ten acres of very stony land for his vineyard and his (lower garden. It rejoices meto sec how our middle Georgia farmers are looming up on wheat culture. Forty bushels to thc acre. Ten years ago it would have been declared impossible. This re minds me of my old English neighbor, John Allen, who asserted that his father was never content in old Ileng land with less than sixty bushels of wheat to the acre, and sometimes he made seventy. "Sow wheat in dust and rye in mortar," was his motto. Good old John Allen. I shot his cow in my cornfield, for it was her third offense, and the old man was grieved. He never got mad, but only said: "I know rae coow worried ye, but-but major, I wouldent have shot your coow. I love you too well for that." How true is it that "kind words take away wrath." BILL ARP. W. 0. T. TT. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by the ladies of the W. C. T. U. of Anderson, S. C. Two Verdicts. She was a woman, worn and thin, Whom the world condemned for a single sin; They cast her out on the King's high way Aud passed her by as they went to pray. He was a mao, and moro to blame, But the world spared biro a breath of shame. Beneath his feet ho saw her lie, But raised his head and passed her by. They were tho poople who went to pray At tho temple of God on a holy day. They scorned the womuD, forgave the man; It were ever thus since tho worid began. Timo passr-'d on and tho woman died, Ou tho Cross of Shame she was crucified; But the World was stern and would not yield, And they buried hor in Potter's Field. The man died, too, and they buried him, lu a casket of cloth with a silver rim, And said, as they turned from his grave away, '.We have buried an honest man to-day." Two mortals, knocking at Heaven's gato, Stood face to face to inquire their fate. He carried a passport with earthly sign, But she a pardon from Love Divine. O! ye who judge'twixt virtue and vice, Which, think you, entered to Paradise? Not ho who the world had said would win. For the woman alone was ushered in. -Arthur Lewis Tubbs, in llamas Hom. The Water American. "Father," said Frank one day at dinner, "is a boy who drinks beer stronger than one who does not ?" "Why, no, my boy, certainly not; but what made you ask such a ques tion ?" "Well, you see, some of us boys at ..school are going to have a 'walking match, next Wednesday, and Tom Gates and I are to walk against Will White and Fred Brown. Now, Will and Fred both drink beer, and as Tom and I were coming home this noon, some of thc boys said to us, 'You stand no chance of beating, unless you take some beer before you start."' "And what did you say to that, my son?" "I told them I did not believe that beer would help us any; but even if it would, we would rather be beaten than to take such poison into our stomachs." "I am glad to hear you say that, my boy; and now let me tell you a little story about Benjamin Franklin, the man who discovered that lightning and electricity are the same, and who invented lightning rods to protect buildings. "When Franklin was a young man, he went to London, England, and while there he worked in a printing office where most of the men were great beer drinkers. One of the men used to drink six pints every day. Franklin drank nothing but water. The others laughed at him, and nick named him the 'Water American,' but after awhile they saw that he was stronger than they were, for he could beat them both at work and at play. "One day when they went to bathe in the river Thames, they found that their 'Water American' could swim like a fish; and he so astonished them that one of the rich men in London tried to have him start a swimming school to teach his sons." Frank was much pleased with his father"s story, and when the time for the race came, he and Tom started out with a great deal of courage. For a while after they had started, Will and Fred kept ahead, but after a time they began to fall behind, until at last Tom and Frank reached the goal fully five minutes before them. That night Frauk said to his father: "I see how it is;, when the beer is first taken into thc stomach, thc person feels as though he were stronger; but he soon finds that instead of being strengthened he is only made weak, and so I mean to let it alone." Youth's Temperance Evangel. mn % mm Progress of Temperance Reform. The Viceroy of India recently made some interesting remarks upon the great change which has taken place in the drinking habits of the English nation during the present century. Sentiments in respect to drinking which were openly professed one hun dred years ago by the highest and lowest alike would not, he said, be tolerated now in any society. Thc change was slowly, but surely and steadily spreading. President King, Farmer's Bank, Brooklyn, Mich., has used DeWitt's Little Early Risers in his family for years. Says they are the best. These famous little pills cure constipation, biliousness and bowel troubles. Evans Pharmacy. - In a New York law ease it was shown that one of thc parties had paid $7,000 for a husband. "If you scour the world you will never find a remedy equal to One Minute Cough Cure," says Editor Fackler, of the Micanopy, Fla., Hus tler. It cured his family of La Grippe and saves thousands from pneumonia, bronchitis, croup and all throat and lung troubles. Evans Pharmacy. Lee and Grant. RICHMOND, VA, October 12.- Dr. Hunter McGuire, who was surgeon general on Stonewall Jackson's staff, submitted a report to-day to thc Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans j at Pulaski City, Va., which -is certain j to attract widespread attention. Dr. McGuire is chairman of the history committee appointed by the camp, ! with a view of preventing the usc by : schools of any history which docs not I deal fairly with thc South in its narra tion of thc even!.- of the civil war. I The light nov/ is made on Fiske's School History of thc United States, which Dr. McGuire's committee insist i docs the South great injustice in j maintaining that the South fought the civil war for thc purpose ol' per petuating the institution of slavery. This the committee in its report denies with great vigor and fervor. Dr. McGuire points om that '?cn. Hobt. E. Lee was in favor o^' freeing all thc slaves in thc South, giving to each owner a bord to be the iirst paid by thc Confederacy when its indepen dence should bc secured, and that Stonewall Jackson, while believing in thc Scriptural right to own slaves, thought it would be politic of the white people to free them. He owned two, ono a negro man, whose first owner in financial difficul ties was compelled to sell. The negro asked Gee. Jackson to buy him and let him work until he accumulated the money to pay thc General back. He was waiter in a hotel and in a few years earned the money, gave it to Jackson and secured his freedom. The other was a negress about to be sold and sent away from Lexington. She asked Jackson to buy her, which he did, and then offered to let her v ork as the man had done and secure her freedom. She preferred to stay ?vith the General and his wife as a slave, and was an honest, faithful and affectionate servant. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston never u-vned a slave. Finally, says Dr. Mc Guire's report, and this deserves a a separate paragraph, "with respect to the motives of action, wc would be glad if Mr. Fiske or any other North ern authority would relieve us of the mental confusion resulting from thc contemplation of the facts tuan Robert E. Lee set free all of his slaves long before the sectional war began, and that U. S. Grant retained his as slaves until they were made free as one of the results of Lincoln's eman cipation proclamation. "Few, perhaps, know that Gen. Grant was a slaveholder, but the fact isthat he had several in the State of Missouri, and these were freed, like those in the South, by the eman cipation proclamation. 'Theseslaves,' said Mrs Grant, 'came to him from, my father's family, for I lived in the West when I married the General, who was ' then a lieutenant in the army.'" Thc distinguished Confederate also touched a popular chord when he con demned thc constitutional amendment giving thc right of suffrage to the negroes, "turning loose a legion of devils to torment us," as he put it. The report was unanimously adopted. -Neto Orleans Times-Democrat. During thc winter of 181)7 Mr. James Reed, one of the leading citizens and merchants of Clay, Clay Co., AV. Va., struck his leg against a cake of ice in such a manner as to bruise it severely. It became very much swollen and pained him so badly that he c^ild not walk without thc aid of crutches. Ile was treated by physicians, also used several kinds of liniment and two and a half gallons of whiskey in bathing it, but nothing gave any relief until he began using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. This brought almost a com plete cure in a week's time and he be lieves that had he not used this rem edy his leg would have had to be am putated. Pain Balm is unequaled for sprains, bruises and rheumatism. For sale by Ilill-Orr Drug Co. - Norwegian legislators propose that girls who do not knowhow to knit, sew. wash and cook, should be refused permission to marry. Daugh ters of wealthy men are not to be ex cepted. "I wish to express my thanks to thc manufacturers of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, for having put on the market such a won derful medicine," says W. W. Massin gill, of Beaumont, Texas. There arc many thousands of mothers' whose children have been saved from attacks of dysentery and cholera infantum who must also feel thankful. It is for salo by Ilill-Orr Drug Co. - Bing-"Ves, that's old Spriggins. Haifa dozen doctors have given him up at various times during his life." Wing-"What was thc trouble with 115111?" Bing-"Ile wouldn't pay his doctor bills." "Tlie "Plow Boy Preacher," Kev. J. Kirkman, Belle Hive, 111., says, "After suffering from Bronchial or lung trouble for ten years, I was cured by One Minute Cough Cure, lt is all that is claimed for it andmore." It, cures coughs, colds, grippe and all throat and lung trouble, liva ns Phar macy. - '"Faith," said thc man iu clerical garb, "willmovcmountains." "Great mackerel!" exclaimed the Kansas man. "It's worsc'n cyclones, isn't it?" Prickly Ash bittters cures diseases of the kidneys, cleanses and strength ens the liver, stomach and bowels. For sale by Evans Pharmacy. He Had Enough of lt. ! - j A farmer who was possessed of some ! means entered the office of his county paper and asked for the editor. Thc farmer was accompained by his son, a youth of 17 years, and as soon j as the editor, who was in his secret { sanctum, was informed that his visi j tors were not bill collectors he came ? forward and shook hands. "I came ter git some information," j explained the farmer. j "Certainly." said the editor, "and ! you came to the right place. He seat I ed." I The farmer sat on one end of thc ! table, while his son sat on the floor, j "This boy o' minc," he said, "wants ! ter go into the literary business, an1 I j thought you'd now cf thar wuz any j i money in it Or not. It's a good busi- ! ; ness, am t lt. "Why-yes." said thc editor, after some hesitation. ;Tve been in it my self for 15 years, and you see where I've got to." The farmer eyed him from head to ! foot, glanced around thc poorly fur nished office, surveyed the editor once more, then, turning to his son. who was still on thc lioor, said: "Grit up, John, an' go home, an' go back ter ploughin' !" Sour stomach, fullness after eating, flatulence are all caused by imperfect digestion. Prickly Ash Bitters cor rects the disorder at once, drives out badly digested food and tones the stomach, liver and bowels. For sale by Evans Pharmacy. - A Quakci \s advice to a son on his wedding day: ';W!ien thee went a-courtiug I told thee to keep thy eyes wide open. Now that thee is married, I tell thee to keep them half shut." "When our boys were almost dead from whooping cough, our doctor gave One Minute Cough Cure. They re covered rapidly," writes P. B. Belles, Argyle, Pa. It cures coughs, colds, grippe and all throat and lung trou bles. Evans Pharmacy. - When a man proposes to a girl and she asks time to consider it means that she wants to consider her chances of getting some other fellow. Eat plenty, Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will digest what you eat. It cures all forms of dyspepsia and stomach trou bles. E. 1?. Gamble, Vernon, Tex., says, "It relieved me from the start and cured mc. It is now my .ever lasting friend." Evans Pharmacy. - A Chicago paper, having kept a record of cri.'ue for 10 days, declares that the saloon business in the United States is directly chargable with a total of 53,43b' murders during that time. Millions of dollars, is the value placed by Mrs. Mary Bird, Harris burg, Pa., on the life of her child, which she saved from croup by the use of One Minute Cough Cure. It cures all coughs, colds and throat and lung troubles. Evans Pharmacy. - At Santa Clara, Cal., there is a garden of 500 acres devoted entirely to the cultivation of celery. - Bange cattle" in the southwest arc selling forSlUa head more than they bought two years ago. Joseph Stockford, Ilodgdon, Me., healed a sore running for seventeen years and cured his piles of long stand ing by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It cures all skin diseases. Evans Pharmacy. YOI HOME PMSURES J ^^^^ j ^ I ^s* ^ NO influence lends sn much tn hnrao li'e UH music. No Stuck offers greater attractions than ours, :md we wish to help yon to happiness. Mi's not alone thal we say is, but you know that w<? io ?au it, as we sell tho best ela?? of PIANOS m? ORGANS, As well as small M?sica! MercliBndi.se, and will give yon full v:?Iue lor ev ery dollar. You are cordially invited tr? call in person and inspect our Stock, or write for catalogues and price??. Wo also represent, tho leading SEWING MACHINES Of the dav, and are constantly receiving new additions to our Stock. Wo appeal to your judymeut Mini will sell you the best in I his line. Wo still handle thoroughly reliable Carriages. Buggies and Harness, And cnn save you inoue\ by au investi gation. Look lo quality lirsc-thou price. Most rt spectfully, THE C. <V REED MUSI?". HOUSE. Br s. Strickland & King, DENTISTS. OFFICE IN MASONIC TEMPLE. Gas and Cocaine used for Extract ing Teeth. BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ' ANDERSON, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1899. VOLUME XXXIV-NO. 49. HEADACHE, NEURALGIA, LA GBIPPE. 1 Relieves all pain. % ? 25c. all Druggists. @ WS lake our cue ftora thi.-, and in everything (-ur purpose is first, last and all the time to seit only reliable Merchandise over our counters, thus in suring satisfaction, to ihc purchaser. While '.ve have pleased customers in every department ot' our business, still it is undeniable that wc have pleased them best in the We have made a special study of this linc, and always exercise care in buy ing, so that we can oiler nothing but what we know to be first-class Shoes in every particular. To outdo in this line has ever been a hobby with us, and style, quality and price are points in which we excel. We Keep Everything in General Merchandise, DRESS GOODS, LOTIONS, HEAVY OUTINGS, FLANNELS. SHEETING!, and the heat line of JEAN? ON THE MARKET. See our 9-ounce Wool Jeans for 25c. It is a beauty, and worth more money than we are asking. EVERYTHING IN THE GROCERY LINE. Two big bars Soap 10c, Ten lbs. best Soda 25c, Ten lbs. Coffee, finest on earth, 81.00. i t?* See us before you sell Cotton, and let us price you our Goods before you buy. McCULLY BROS. Syracuse C i led Plows. FARRIERS, we ask your kind attention for a few minutes. You'are going to turn your land this Fall and Winter are you not ? Well, if you fare you must be sure and try one of the SYRACUSE CHILLED PLOWS. They are the lightest draft Plows and do the best work of any Plow in this country. They are no experiment, as we have been selling them here for the last five years, and we are sure we would not keep them on sale if they would not do the work we claim for them. CZ2 We ask only what is fair. If, after you give them a fair trial, they do not do the work satisfactory, you can bring the Plow back to our Store and get your money back. What could be more fair ? We are still selling them at old prices, on account of having contracted before the recent advances on goods in our line. Of course there arc some few things that we cannot sell at old prices, neither can any one else, but as long as we have any goods bought at old prices you can rest assured that you will get them that way. We have a full line of the best Agricultural Implements that is manufac tured, viz : The AVERY DISC PLOW, THOMAS HAY RAKES and CUTAWAY HARROWS of all sizes. Be sure and see our TORRENT HARROW, which does the work of three Turn Plows atone time. Will be pleased to see you at any time, so don't forget us when in the ci" BEOCK BEOS. ""The lest Company-The Best Policy." i OF NEWARK, N. J. This Company has been in successful business for fifty-four ytars; bas paid policy-holders over $1165,OOO.OOO, and now has cash assets of over $?7,000,000. It issues the plainest and best policy on the market. After TWO annual nremiums have been paid it ?TT \ T? A" VP wu* Q ? 1. Cash Value. 3. Extended Insurance. 5. Incontes aV. iL?. I - Loan Value. 4. Paid-up Insurance. tability. Also Pajs Large; Animal Dividends. M. M. MATTISON, State Agent for South Carolina, ANDERSON, S. C., over P. O. Resident Agent for FIRE, HEALTH and ACCIDENT Insurance. ? in Std g ? w 0 w o t> fi Sd # ? ? 0 &d ? H a 0 c 2 * ? > 3 2 3 CD i M > ? H % 0 ? H 4? CO O o M R e E G. EVANS, Jr. R. B. DAY, M. D. EVANS & DAY, - DEALERS IN - DBTJGS arid GBOCBBIES, PENDLETON, S- C. START RIGHT ?-The regulation of the primre vire is the basal principle of all therapeutics. Keep clean, eat properly by using FRESH DRUGS, FRESH GROCERIES, FRESH SODA WATER, FRESH ICE, FRESH FRUITS, FRESH TURNIP SEED, EVERYTHING FRESH EXCEPT EVANS & DAY.