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BILL ARP Answering the Quel Asking .A. Atlanta C A friend writes me from Florida that bacon will not keep well in that climate, and that the old Bottlers say it always gets rancid. Ho wants to know if there is aoy remedy for this. Vos, I think so, unless hogs fattened on pindera are different from those fattened on corn. This reminds me of a war story. In 180*4 my wife and half a dozen little children found refuge from the foul invader at her father's plantation on thc upper Chattahoochee river. There was no white man there or near there save her old father, Judge Hutchins. There were about u hun dred negroes, more than half of them too old or too young to work. Food for our soldiers was getting scarcer every day and orders came that every farmer should bc tithed -that is to say, he should give up to the govern ment agents a portion of his corn and :i,eat and beef cattle. A mounted de tail from the home guard was sent out with thc wagons to enforce thc order and gather in the supplies. There was nobody to resist them, for every body was in the army save the old men and invalids and women and chil dren. Late one evening a company - of thirty men came to Judge Hutchins' house and rudely informed him that they came for bacon and beef cattle. The judge very calmly told them he had none to spare. For a while they parleyed with him but finally demand ed tho If'jy to his smokehouse. My wife and children and two other little ?raudchildren listened iu fear and anxiety. They knew that thc Judge was a fearless man, but there were so many well armed men against him, Ithe odds were fearful, and when he refused to give up the key, they said they would arrest him and break down thc door. Then he pleaded with them in a trembling voice and said to the cap tain : ':rIere is my daughter and her little helpless children and herc are two others whose mother is dead and their father is in the army. I haye but four sons and they arc in thc army. My two sons-in-law are there. Here on this place are fifty or sixty negroes who arc too young or too old to work, aud it is a struggle for us all to live. I um alone and getting old. I have done my share for the confed eracy and cannot do more. Now I know that you can overpower mc or kill me and take away the little meat I have saved for these helpless ones, Ibut let mo tell you, captain, thc first _ man who goes to that door to break it down will be a dead man before he can do it." His black eyes flashed as if lit up by sparks of fire and his voice DO longer trembled. He was despe rate. Lightly he ascended the stairs, where he had two double-barreled guns well loaded, and planting him self by the window that overlooked the smokehouse, he said, "Now break ?that door if you da/e to," and the percussion lock went dick, click. The oaptain looked at the door and then at the judge. There was an awful silence for a few moments. My wife and children had heard it all and S trembled. Some of the negroes had gathered at the cabin doors, and old Sam dared to exclaim in a low, husky voice, "Better not-better not-old massa kill you-kill you shore." The captain suddenly reconsidered. "Come, boys," said he "it's getting late; and tbcre ain't no use in fighting about a little meat. We can report tbe case to headquarters and if we are ..j i_?. _. ._.'_T ICU ll ?JU Iv WU UHU 11" jr th clgtUU, X reckon." Without saying goodbye or farewell they left. That night about midnight the judge called up old Jack and Virgil, whom be knew he could trust, and had the joints of the meat and a part of the sides carried quietly down to the old blacksmith shop on the bank of the river. With a pick and shovel the cinders and earth in the old hearth r-lwcru soon excavated and a chamber I fashioned that would hold and hide a thousand pouu?B. It was buried tbcre and the health was covered just like it had been. Some scattering charcoal filled in the spaces and some was left on top and the black old basket placed where it long had been. With shovel and wheelbarrow the surplus earth was taken down the river bank and tumbled in and then all was quiet on the Chattahoochee. Thc burial of Sir John Mooro was not Biore silent. In January, 1865, I joined my family .at tho plantation aud not long af'.er the jndge furnished ns a good mulo te?m and wagon and *e returned to our home in Borne. The day before we left his hospitable Mansion ho opened the cache and found the meat all sweet and sound and we brought & good poi ?ion of it with us and it was as precious as gold. &y wife says the charcoal purified it ?od kept it from tasting old or rancid. Now then I have. answered my friend's question. He must get np another civil war and hide his meat in the hearth of an old blacksmith shop. 'S LETTER. ry of a Correspondent bout Bacon. ?on?titution. Earth and charcoal are both good disinfectants and preservers of flesh, and if I was in Florida I would pack my meat in charcoal, uot dust, but small crushed coal. Before putting , the meat down I would powder it from a pepper box with borax. Borax is almost universally used now. It is sure death to skippers and other ver mine, and a druggist told inc that thc sale of it had increased a thousand per cent within thc last five years. When ray family got home we found that it was not good to live by meat alone and we had to send down thc river a hundred miles for a few bushels of com and hid it near a mill in the country, because thu outlaws and dc-1 sellers were patrolling thc land and taking everything they could lind. A good friend brought us half a bushel of meal at a time on the sly, and so we got along. The memory of old j Rowland Bryant is still precious to us J for his kindness in those days of trib- j ulation. It is encouraging to know ! that Armour & Co. have not abolished all the smokehouses iu thc land, nor \ drawn our home made meat into their j mighty trust. Our farmers are gene \ rally raising their o /n meat and bring j a good deal to town to sell, and my | I wife says that country lard is purer ? j and better thau any that comes from i the packing houses of thc west. Our i home market is well supplied by our i farmers with almost everything that ! is good to eat. Beef, pork, butter, I j chickens, eggs, potatoes, turnips, cabbages, beans and apples are in j ; great abundance. Of course, wc can't j have mutton, for thc negroes must j have dogs and thc candidates must I have negro votes. I lost eight fine I : Merinos in one night aud my neigh I hor, Mr. Dobbins, lost three hundred* j in five years, and quit the business. I But with all our drawbacks, our peo ple are on the upgrade. Seven cents : cotton has helped greatly, and if our 1 farmers will cut down the acreage still move, it will bring S cents next year and leave more laud for wheat and corn. Thc southern farmers ought to ! form a mighty trust and regulate j acreage and price. Our own county . could regulate itself by organizing \ and combining with the local banks. Our average crop is 10,000 bales, and j at S cents a pound would bring $400, I 0U0. About one-half of this could be carried aud held by thc more wealthy producers. Thc other 5,000 bales could get an advance of 5 cents a pound, or $30 a bale, from thc banks on warehouse certificates. This would take only $150,000. Even $25 a bale would pay thc cost of production and leave the margin for the producer, and this would require from the banks only $125,000. If every county was to do this a 10,000,000 bale crop would jump to 8 cents within sixty days. That's thc way to meet trust with trust and defy the speculators. Why can't it be done? BILL ABP. The Words of a Famous Mission Worker Perhaps no man in Atlanta is better and more favorably known than Mr. Johu F. Barclay. He for a long time has beena sifferer from indigestion and dyspepsia. This is what he says: Atlanta, Ga , January 23, 1895. Dr. C. O. Tyner: Having used Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy for several years in my family I gladly add roy testi mony to what has already been said in its praise. Without any exception I think it is the finest remedy on the market and nothing would induce me to do without it. JNO. F. BARCLAY. For sale by Wilhitc & Wilhito. Sample bottle free on application to Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Co., Atlan ta, Ga. - ?rn m ma - He-"I'm thinking of proposing to you." She-"I hope you will postpone it awhile." He-"Why?" She-"I don't know you well enough jct to refuse you." Eat plenty, Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will digest what you eat. It cures all forms of dyspepsia and stomach trou bles. E. R. Gamble, Vernon, Tex., says, "It relieved me from the start and cured me. It is now my ever ???ti?g friend." divans Jfhaimacy. - The 130 year old vine at Bamp ton Court, England, is. reported to be as vigorous as ever, although it is not now allowed to produce as many grapes as in its prime. President King. Farmer's Bank, Brooklyn, Mich., has used De Witt's Little Early Risers in his family for years. Says they are the best. These famous little pills cure constipation, hilliousncss and bowel troubles. Evans Pharmacy. - A Wesleyan preacher named Houldsworth, who had preached for eighty years, died recently in the Halifax (England) almshouse, aged 94 years. _ For a olear complexion, bright spark ling eye and vigorous digestion, take Prickly Ash Bitlters. It pats the system tn perfect order. Sold by Elans Pharmacy. - It wonld be difficult to imagine moro' extraordinary digestive Spowers than those of the hyena. One of these beasts has been known to swal low six large bones without crushing I them. W. C. T. ?. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by tho Indies of tho W. C. T. U. of Anderson, S. C. (jovernor in a Hogshead A good-natured philanthropist was walking along ibo docks one Sunday morning, when he found a boy asleep in a hogshead. Ile shook him until he was wide-awake, and then opened the following conversation: "What arc you doing here, boy?." "I slept here all night, sir, for I had no other place to sleep in." ''How is that ? Have you no father or mother? Who takes care of you?" ''My father drinks, sir, and 1 don't know where he is. 1 have to take care of myself, for my mother is dead; she died not long ago." And at the mention of her name the boy's eyes lilied with tears. "Well, come along with me. I'll give you a home, and look after you as well as I can." The child thus adopted on the wharf was taken to a happy home. Ile was sent to a common school, aud after wards employed as a clerk in the store of his benefactor. When he became of age, his friend and benefactor said to him: "You have been a faithful and honest boy and man, and if you will make three promises, I will fur nish you with letters of credit, so that you can start business iu thc West on your own account." "What promises do you wish mo to make?" inquired the young man. "First, that you will not drink in toxicating liquors of any kind." "I ?ureo to that." "Second, that you will not me pro fane speech." "I agree to that." "Third, that you will not become a politician." "I agree to that." The young man started in business in the West, and by minding his own business in a few years he became a rich mau. At the close of the war he came Fast, and called upon his friend and accepted father. In thc course of a happy interview the philanthrop ist asked his adopted son if he had ko pt his total abstinence pledge. "Ves, sir," was the answer. "Have you abstaiucd from thc use | of profane speech?" "Yes, sir," said the mau with cm- j phasis. "Have you had anything to do with j politics?" The visitor-thc adopted son, per haps I should have said-blushed, and said: "Without my consent 1 was nomiuated for Governor of my State aud elected. I am now on my way to Washington to transact importaut business for the State." Bid ever a hogshead turn out so good a thing as a teetotal Governor before? It had to be emptied of its wino before it could be a shelter for thc little Arab who ran wild in that wilderness of marble and mortar, the great city of New York. The streets and wharves of thc great metropolis of commerce invite missionary effort, and the writer hopes that the little waifs afloat on the wave of outward life will not be neglected. - George W. Bungay, in National Temperance Advocate. Before the Bar. How many young men who are actors in the first part of this drama have ever rehearsed in thought the parts they may take in the last three acts? Act I.-Before the bar of the saloon. Act II.-Before the bar of thc court. Act III.-Before the bar of the prison. Act IV.-Before the bar of God. Youth's Companion. -.^mm>-? mm A young lady asked a butcher for a dollar toward paying for a temperance lecture. She didn't expect to get it, but the butcher said: "There's your dollar. I've sold more meat in one day since this town went no-license than I used to in a whole week when we had saloons." What better tem perance lecture than that could be de livered?_ Charnier Iain's Pain Balm Cures Others, vv??y DUI i lin ? My wife has beon using Chamber lain's Pain Balm, with good results, for a lame shoulder that has pained her continually for nine years. We have tried all kinds of medioines and dootors without reoeiving any benefit from any of them. One day we saw an advertisement of this medicine and thought of trying it, which we did with the best of satisfaction. She bas used only one bottle and her shoulder is almost well.-ADOLPH L. MILLET, Manchester, N. H. For salo by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - Mable: "Are you going to return tho poor fellow's ring?" Florence (who has just broken her engagement): "J haven't decided. I suppose he will propose to you now, and I thought I'd* just hand it over to you to save bother." LaGrippe, with its after effects, an nually destroys thousands of people. It may be quickly cured by One Min ute Cough Cure, the only remedy that produces immediate results in coughs, colds, cronp, bronchitis, pneumonia and throat and lung troubles. It will prevent consumption. Evan? Phar macy. Unexpected. One of the district school trustees was a crank on the subject of lire, aud when he""callcd arouud with the ex amining board he always confined his remarks to a qucstiou addressed to tho pupils as to what they would do in caso the building should catch fire. The teacher was acquainted with hi3 hobby, so she prompted her schol ars os to tho answers they should give when ho rose to pronounce his accus tomed inquiry. When thc board call cd, however, this particular trustee, perhaps from a desire to emulate his associates in their addresses, rose and said: "You boys and girls have paid such attention to Mr. Jones' remarks. I wonder what you would do, now, if I wore to make you a little speech?'' I Quick as thought a hundred voices ?liped in unison: "Form a Hue and march down stairs." _ Not That ? This was actually beard in the Cracker district of Tennessee: Thc mother shouted from the door of thc cabin behind thc trees: "Yank Tyson! Tim Tyson!'' she cried, "what yu'uns doin'?" Two little boys raised their heads over a barrel 300 yards down thc mountain. "Foolin'," was thc reply. "Be yu'uns smoking'?'' "Ye'um." "Bo yu'uns chawin'?" "Ye'um." "Be yu'uns chawin' twist an' smokin' cob pipe?"' "Ye'um." "Thct's right. But if yo' let me kotch yo' sinokiu' them cigarcet, I'll gi' yo' th' wust lammin' yo' ever bed in yo' lives. Yo' bear yo' ma?" "Ye'um."-Detroit Free Presa. On the 10th of December, 18U7, Kev. S. A. Donohoe, pastor M. K. Church. South, Pt. Pleasant, W. Ya., con tracted a severe cold which was at tended from thc beginning by violent i coughing. Ile says: "After resort ing to a number of so-called 'sp?cifies.' usually kept in thc huns'.', to no pur pose, I purchased a bottle of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy, which acted like a charm. I most cheerfully re commend it to the public;." For sale by Hill-OrH&rug Co. - A. kind of paper is made from seaweed which is so transparent that it may bo used instead of glass for windows. Tho kidneys are small but impor tant organs. They need hclpoccasion ally. Prickly Ash Bitters is a suc cessful kidney tonic and system regu lator. Sold by Kvans Pharmacy. - The English walnut is said to bc thc most profitable of all nut-bearing trees. When in full bearing they yield about 300 pounds of nuts to thc tree. The nut sells on an average at about 8 cents per pound. If ouly twenty-seven trees are planted on at acre thc income would be about $G7? Joseph Stockford, Ilodgdon, Me., healed a soro running for seventeen ?"ara and cured his piles of long stand ng by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It eures all skin diseases, Evans Pharmacy. - A young woman jumped from ? train near Waseoa, Minn., and several other passengers, not knowing tin cause of the excitement, also jumped, None weie badly injured. Geo. Noland, Roekland, O., says, "My wife had piles forty years. De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve cured her, It is the best salve in America." Ii heals everything and cures all skit: diseases. Evans Pharmacy. - Tho Safest Part or a Train. ? A party of travelers iu a train were talking over their traveling experience and the danger of accidents, and finally the question arose as to the safest part of tho train. Failing to settle the question among themselves, they called ou tho guard, and one of them said to him: "Guard, we have been discussing thc matter of the safest part of the train and want to know your opinion." "Want to know the safest part, ch?" replied thc guard. "Yes, that's it." "Well," continued the guard, "I've beeu on thc linc for 15 years and have been turned over embankments, .busted' up in tunnels, dumped off of bridges, telescoped in collisions, blown off the litio by cyclones, run into opcu switches and had other pleasant incidental divert isemonts of a kindred nature, and i should say. gentlemen, that thc safest part of thc train was that part which happened to be in the works for repairs at the time of (he accident."-/.tunion Til i n ra ph. .J. 1>. Bridges, Fditor "Democrat," Lancaster, N. H., says, "One-Minute Cough Cure is the best remedy for croup I ever used." Immediately re lieves and cures coughs, colds, croup, asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, grippe and all throat and lung troubles. It prevents consumption. F vans Phar macy. _ _ NO inlluunco I'MHIH BO touch to homo* tho KH munie. No Slock ollera Kreut? r attmot?oii!* than 'mrs, ami wo wish io help you t.? happiness. H't* not itl?>!ta<? ?t?a! w? say il. bul you know c!i?. xv?' mean il. HM wo HU ll Hi? lien! <*.lnv> of PIANOS timi OUUANS. AH well HM Mimili M uaicnl Merchant]iae, und will ??vo you ful! v?lii<e tor ?*/ orv Mollar. You mu cordially invited to e*l! in portion and inspect our S'.oel , or wriio |?>r ca od OK ii CM ami price.**. Wo ?Uso represent the leading SEWING MACHINES Ot' Ihn ?lav, and ur? conatnntly recoiviiig now ndditiouH lo our Stock. Wo appeal to your judgment HIKI will H?'1I yon tho beni io mir? line. Wo Klili handle thoroughly reliable Carriages, Buggies and Harness, And eau ?ave you money by an investi gation. Look to?piality firflt-than price. Moat reapectl'ully, THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. Drs. Strickland & King, DENTISTS*. OFFICE IN MASONIC TFUPLE OST- Oat? and Cocaine nacd for Extract ing Teeth. JOHN A. HAYES Solls HYNDS' Home-m?da SHOES-Home-made Leather, Honest Work, Honest Leather, Honest Prices. ?'JMIE largest Shoe Factory and Tannory South. Tho BEST SHOES made tn the J. World. TLe ouiy combined Whoo Factory and Tannery m tho United States. A Solid, First-class, A No. 1, Best Gainesville Shoes. If you want cheap, shoddy, paper shoes don't buy t hes?-our? will not suit you, but if you want the beut Shoes at popular prices buy our?, they will ploaso you. The prices range from Fifty centa to Five Dollars u pair; any price yon want. They ar? the cheapest because they are til? hem; made of our own pure Oak-bark Tanned Leather, "Soft, Elastic and Strong." Nothtug equal? it for wear, and that ia what you want. Try one pair and you will buy them again Buy our be^t quality. $4.00 and $5.00 Shoes for $3.00 and $3.50. BOYS' STEAM LAUNDRY ! The Most Complete and Up-to-Date Laundry in the State. Every Machine the latest improved, and designed to do most perfect work. Under the superintendence of an experienced Laundryman, with a corps of skilled assistants. Every piece of work carefully inspected, and no sorry work allowed to pass from Laundry. PRICES LOW. Quality of work unexcelled. G ivo us a trial. W. F. BARR? nuttiness Managor. Liocattd at rear of Fan t's Book Store. ^AJNTDTVER BROS., MERCHANTS, j^BE WIDE OPEN FOR BUSINESS in their olegant Now Store-room Between Masonic Temple and the New Bank, And respectfully and earnestly invite von to call and see them, inspect their Rtock of Goods sod get acquainted with their way of doing business. We promise to folly pay you for the lew feet you have to walk oft the Square to get to us. We are going to carry by far the bent Stock we hsve eyer carried, and promise you more tor your money than anybody. We mean bunine*?. Try u* and see if thia isn't a true statement. \ Splendid high-grade line of BHOES, BOOTS, HATS and STAPLE DRY GPCD9. Get onr prices and see ir they are not right. We are going to handle, at. BOTTOM PRICES, CORN, OATS, BRAN, HAY, BAGGING and TIES, BACON, LARD, and other Heavy Goods, at SELLING PRICES. We heartily appreciate yonr liberal trade in the past, and promise to show onr appreciation for that trade. Come to ste ns in oar now place. We will appreciate lt more than ever before. You will find us nicely quartered. Free City Delivery. Phone 75. Promptness in every thin?. t Yonra gratefully, VANDIVER BROS. EVA?TS PHARMACY, S?scial Agents. Is so effective or good as a Pleased Customer. WK take our cue from t Iii-*, mid in everything eur pur poso is firat, last und all the time to sell only reliable Merchandise over our counters, thus in suring satisfaction to thc purchaser. While we have pleased customers in every clepartmutit ?d' our business, still it is undeniable that we have pleased them best in the We have maile a special study ut* this line, and always exercise caro in buy ing, M> 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 arr points in which wc extol. We Keep Everything in General Merchandise, DRESS GOODS, NOTIONS, HF.AVY O?JTB.N?JS, FIJANNK?LS. S HKKTSNG. iin?l tilt* liKtft Uno ol' ,5 53 A X S OX TI1 K M A ll K KT. See our ll-ounce Wool .leans tor 25e. Ii is a beauly, and worth nunc money than wo uro n-king. K V K RYT U IX C? IN T1IK f? KOCK Et Y M NB. Two big buts Soap 10c, Ten 1 hs. best Soda 25c, Ten lb?. Collei1, li nest on earth, SI.00. we?f" See im before you sell Collo:', and let us price you our Goods before you buy. fl 1 Li1 With Tl *m LET'S SEE I Yon can jg-o to - OSBORNE & OSBORN'S And get a good COOKING STOVE with .'12 pieces of nice, smooth and use ful ware, guaranteed io give satisfaction. We also have the IRON KING, ELMO, LIBERTY STEEL RANGES, and other good makes of Stoves. The biggest Stove House in the City. Chinaware, Glassware, Tinware and Crockery. 1ST* PRICES RIGHT. Come and see for yourself, and let us show you? through. , Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE. " The Best Cowpony-The Bist Policy. THE MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE CU., OF NEWARK, N. J. This? Company has benn in Rucceasfnl business for fifty-four yt ara; hau paid policy-holders over ^1105,000,000, and now bax caa h asseta of ov??r $(?7,000,000. It i-auea th? plainest and boat policy on tho market. After TWO annual omni innis have boon paid it TT A i> A VTVTI'C ? Cash Value. Extended Inaurance. 5. Inronten . ( - Loan Value. i. Paid-up Insurance. tability. A Uso I'UJM Lurge Annual Dividend?. M. M. MATTIS0N, State Agent for South Carolina, ANDERSON, 8. C., over P. O. S?B- Resident Agent for FIRE, HEALTH and ACCIDENT Insurance. 0 % ?tn g Sd o- S3 Q H Sd c < r1 M H CD < * > o sd ?B SS ts co fig a gs w 2 co o ? r? BB e 4 E. G. EVANS, Jr. R. B. DAY, M. D. EVANS & DAY, - DEALER8IN - IDIR/TTG-S and GBOCBRIES, PENDLETON, S- C. START RIGHT!-The regulation of the primas vi?) is the basal principle of all therapeutics. Keep clean, eat properly by using FRE9H DRUGS, FRESH GROCERIES, FRE3IJ. 80DA WATER, FRESH ICE, FRESH FRUITS, FRESH TURNIP SEED, EVERYTHING FRESH EXCEPT EVANS & DAY?