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BILL ARP' Bill j9Lrp Gets Left Failed to 1 f - Atlanta C Left, left, left! That is an ominous word-I don't like it. Las!, Friday night I closed my mission down in Alabama-a most delightful week with balmy weather, moonlight nights and good people to cheer me. I retired happy to dream of home and the little grandchildren and the light that would be shining in the window for me on Saturday night. The porter was to call me up in time to take the 2 o'clock train for Chatta nooga, but alas! he did not do it, and I awoke to find that the train had pass ed and I was left, left, left. Oh! the misery of it. Shakespeare says that there is no philosopher who can endure the toothache patiently, and I will add, or being left by a train when far from home. There is a goneness about it, for the train has gone. The next train would not connect?t Chattanooga and I would have to stay there till another 2 o'clock in the morning. But all's well that ends well. About daylight I reached my hume. All was still and silent. The good old dog was lying at the door and ! gen dy wagged his bushy tail. The door was locked, but the window sash was not, and I raised it slowly and softly and was soon in the sitting room, where there was a good comfort able sofa. I knew that the door to our family bedroom was locked, and I |?_heard some faint, familiar nasal sounds that assured me that all was well. The diagnose was right. In a few minutes I was asleep and playing on the har monican myself. My heavy bass echoed to the tenor in the other room and awakened one of the girls, who whispered: "Mamma, mamma, there is somebody in the frontroom." "It's your papa," said she. "I know his trombone-be still and let him sleep far I expect he is almost worn out." It was 8 o'clock when somebody kiss ed me while I was dreaming of the soldier boys drilling and the officer said left, left, left at every step. Rousing up, I received the family em braces, and ?wo little children came running in and climbed all over me and made me happy-oh, it beats war, or politics, or a dog law, or anything. I was escorted into the dining-room to breakfast, and saw at a glance that the room had been repapered with a tinted olive green paper and the bordering matched it beautifully. The doors to the parlor were wide open, and that room had been repapered, too, and was lovely. Somehow I neVer could make as much ado over pleasant surprises as my female folks expeci, but I did my best, and have expressed my admira tion many times since. Before I left they had talked about the old paper that had gotten dirty and was falling off, and said that if I would get the paper they would put it on, and I as sented. I am glad that I did, for if I had been at home they would have put the harness on me and made mc wait upon them all day, for I am the boy. I met a man down iu Alabama who said that my letters were demoralizing the women of this country and putting new burdens on the men. "Why," said he, "just look at mc-I am fifty five years old and weigh nigh on to 200 pounds, and my wife wanted mc tovi climb up a stepladder yesterday and ! fix the curtains back, and I told her I couldn't, and I wouldn't, for the lad der was o!d and rickety and I might fall and break my neck or some of my arms and legs. Well, sir, she laugh ed and said: 'Bill Arp climbs ladders for his wife; and plants flowers, and strawberries, and nurses the grand children, too.' Yes, said I, that's what he writes, but I don't believe a word of it. He thinks that you women arc going to be allowed to vote pretty soon and he?3just fixing to bcclected. Now, see here, Mr. Arp, I fought four years in that dogond old war, and now I am gettin' old and fat, and I'm not gwine to climb ladders and tend the flower garden just because you do; j that is, if you really do it, which I j don't believe." And the good, jolly old old veteran laughed immensely. Next dayl made acquaintance with a conductor on the Alabama Great Southern and he comforted me by say ing that my letters gave good example and good cheer and pictured what home ought to be. Said he; "We have nine children ot our house-all under age, aid my greatest pleasure is in meeting them when my train is off, and in helping them and their mother to fight the battle of life and be conteutedaod enjoy what we have got and be thank ful to God foi his tender mercies. Running a train half a night and half a day is hard work, but I enjoy my family and my home all the more when I get with them, and they are ail the gladder to see me." I like that mao and that kind of talk. When our people realise that home is the best place on earth, -and the mother is its dearest inmate, *we will then have an idea! common S LETTER. -Porter of the Hotel Wake Him. onstitution. wealth. Coloridie says: "A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive/' Lyttleton says: "The lover in the husband may be lost But the wife is dearer than the bride." All the great poets have paid tribute to the home and to the mother, for home is not home without amother. Of course there arc many married women who are not mothers, and do not wish to be. With them children are in truders, and the pity is that their mothers had not been of similar mind. In New England and fashionable Northern circles thc maternal instinct has been smothered, and has gone into "innoxious desuetude" as Mr. Cleve land would say. And good, gentle Tom Howard said that a Boston moth er wouldn't have but one or two chil dren, and she wouldn't have any if she didn't want an heir to inherit the estate. Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote a re markable letter two years ago on the decay of the maternal instinct in .New England, and the great increase of di vorces and voluntary separations. Mary Brent Reid has recently pub lished an article on the same subject j as applicable to France. She says that the fashionable women of*the period won't even dress like women. They despise hips and try to hide them. They prefer to be as slim as race horses, and to conceal every sign of a ma ternal form. Children are intruders, they say; aud.if by chance they have any they are put out to nurse and to be reared by uomotherly hands. What an awful picture this is-what a sad descent from the motherhood of our mothers-what a counterpart to the Saviour's teaching when he said: "Suffer little children toc?me unto me, for of such is the kiogdom of heaven." Nearly all the great men of thc world have been nursed by noble mothers, and it rejoices me to kuow that Mrs. Sarah Butts, of Brunswick, has a book now in press with Lippencott thatwill rescue from oblivion the mothers of many of Georgia's great andgoodmen. With her it has been a labor of love. How our biographers from Moses down have lauded the great men but paid small tribute to their mothers. But the highest heaven is reserved for them, and an eternal fame that will not pass away like that the great men acquire in t*bis changeable world. Alas, poor Dewey; how soon did his garlands wither. But we still have Schley and Brumby and Hobson left, and a host of lesser lights that illumi nate the Southern sky. BILL ARP. ' Blood Poison aud Cancer Cured by B.B.B. Trial bottle sent Free. Deadly Cancer of the face, neck, legs, lip, eating cancer or sores, cured by B. B. B.-Botanic Blood Balm. B. B. B cures by driving the deadly, virulent poison, which causes cancer, out of the blood. This is the only cure arid B. B. B. is the only remedy that can do this. In the same *vay B. B. B. cures Blood Poison whether inherited or acquired, producing ul cers, painful swellings, Mothes, pim ples, copper-colored spots, falling of the hair, sores in the throat or tongue, scrofula. B. B. B. has made hundreds of permanent cures, and is a thor oughly tested, powerful Blond Reme dy. Cures where ail else fails. Test ed for 30 years. To prove its curative powers we send a sample bottle free to any one who writes for it. Large bottles for sale by all druggists for Slj or O' bottles (full treatment) $1. For sample bottle address Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga. - When a girl is entertaining a young man in the front parlor-that's capital. But when she has to half sole his trousers after marriage-that's labor. My son has been troubled for many years with chronic diarrhoea. Some time ago I persuaded him to take some of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After usiDg two bottles of the 25-ceot size he was cured. I give this testimonial hoping some one similarly afflicted may read it and be benefited.-THOMAS C. BOW ER, Glencoe. 0. For sale by Hill Orr Drug Ct?. - The remains of a gigautic pre historic animal, which naturalists at Santa Ge, N. M., are unable to class ify, has been found at Tesuque. Its upper jaw consists of twenty layers of bones overlapping each other, each provided with twelve teeth like hu man molars. As a cure for rheumatism Chamber lain's Pain Balm is gaining a wide reputation. D. B. Johnston, of Rich mond, Ind., has been troubled with that ailment since 1862. In speaking of it he says : "I never found any thing that would relieve me until I used Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It acts like magic with rae. My foot was swollen and paining me very much, but one good application of Pain Balm relieved me. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - "Do you suppose your father will consent to our engagement, Cla rissa?" "I don't think he will; but we can enjoy courting while he is making up his mind." 1 W. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by the ladies of thc W. C. T. U. of Anderson, S. C. My Brother's Keeper. Kornaus 14:13-15. BY ii EV. THOMAS NIELD. Oh, for the grace that wills to bear The burdens of a -weaker brother! Thc grace that gladly shuns whate'er Might prove a pitfall to another. Though I should have a giant's might, To stand where weaker ones would ?? stumble,-1 I would not exercise my right, But walk in safety with the humble. Lord, save from the weak conceit That scorns to practice self-denial, Lest my example tempt thc feet Of others into deadly trial. Engrave the fact upon my heart Yea, every day engrave it deeper That I must act a brothers part, And so become my brother's keeper. -Herald and Presbyter. Felt he was ?Strong. A brilliant young man, thirty years ago, vas beginning to form thc habit of indulgence in the wine cup. He knew that other men were drunkards, but he felt that he himself was strong and would never be anything but clear-eyed and strong of nerve and firm of flesh. The years went by. He has had hon or and position. He has become a drunkard with it all, and his honors have been for nothing. Whiskey and wine have done for him what they have done for all the rest and what they will do for all who are foolish enough to be deceived by them. If he could, he would deter young men from following in his footsteps, but he will not influence them. They will thi?k of him simply as an old drunkard, and say that he was a fool not to have con trolled himself a little; and they will follow him on to d.eath.-Herald and Presbyter. Wants None but Teetotalers. In the Island ol' Anticosti, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, a Frenchman, M. Henri Menier, has established what is regarded as the largest private game reserve in the world He bought the island, which is 140 miles long by 28 broad, for ?32,000, or six cents an acre, and then opened up negotiations with Canadian hunt2rs and trappers for stockiug it with red deer, caribou, moose, beavers, and various speci mens of the American fox. M. Me nier is also developing the agricultur al resources of his possession, and is encouraging people to go out and set tle on his property. These have to renounce alcoholic beverages, and be strict teetotalers.-League Journal. There are several persons in Los Angeles, Cal., engaged in the liquor business who never tasted intoxica ting liquor. They know the danger and avoid it, but are unscrupulous enough to make money out of those who do not realize their position. The Russian Method. Thc Russian Government has adopt ed a somewhat drastic measure in or der to suppress drunkenness in St. Petersburg. It has taken away from twenty-five thousand shops the right to sell alcoholic liquors, and it has re placed these by five thousand estab lishments, placed under control of thc State, aud located at equal distances apart. These establishments arc di rected by young women. The liquor is delivered in bottles, to which is af fixed a government mark. Thc con summer can obtain only one bottle in each shop, and if, when he visits an other establishment, he shows thc least sign of intoxication, no liquor will be served out to him.- Belfast Witness. New Zealand Drink Cure. In New Zealand a man who drinks too much for his own good may bc summoned before any justice of thc peace on complaint of any member of his family or other person interested. Witnesses are then heard, and if it can be proved that he "misspends, wastes and lessens his estate, general ly injures his health and endangers and interrupts the peace and happi ness of his family," the magistrate will issue a written order to all deal ers within his jurisdiction forbidding them to furnish him with any intoxi cating liquors for a period of 12 months. There is hope for thc tippler who will read a temperance paper. Ile is open to conviction. The constant dropping of water will wear away a stone. There is not a vice or a disease or a calamity of any kind that has not its frequent rise in the public house. ;. _ It takes but a minute to overcome tickling in the throat and to stop a cough by the use of One Minute Cough Cure. This remedy quickly cures all forms of throat and lung troubles. Harmless and pleasant to take. It prevents consumption. A famous specific for grippe and its after effects. Bvans Pharmacy. >*o USP For Clothes. ! Capt. Fred 0. Littlchalcs, of thc British steamer Kurdistan, in port with a cargo of nitrate from thc west coast of South America, gave an inter esting account of his long voyage, just ! completed to a reporter. The Kurdis tan is nov; in the Cramps' dry dock. Thc Kurdistan sailed in thc Spring of 1S!)9 for Montevidcar und thence in ballast proceeded through thc Straits of Magellan to the west coast. On July 26, thc Kurdistan, after discharg ing at Montevideo, weighed anchor for Caronel. Capt. Littlehales had deter mined to go through the Straits of Ma gellan, both for the reason that he might shorten his voyage and avoid thc stormy Cape Horn. To do so it was necessary to take on a pilot, and this devolved upon an xVmerican named Gaskiel, who was found out of work in Montevideo and who was well acquaint ed with the southern extremity of South America. The Kurdistan's run was a slow one. Capt. Littlehales had little cause to hurry, and he availed himself of the excellent opportunity afforded to study those comparatively unknown regions. By far the most interesting experi- ! enees occurred after passing through ' the Straits of Magellan and heading up the west coast. Near the southern extremity of Patagonia, on the Pacific side, are myriads of islands. They ex tend for several hundred miles up the coast, and are separated from the main land by a channel about twelve miles long. The Kurdistan would run in the daytime and anchor at night. Thc crew found that the islands were in habited by a wild set of savages, hith erto unrecorded in books of travel dealing with South America. The re markable feature about the latter is their immunity from cold. Tt was lattitude 54, south, that the natives first came under the observa tion of Capt. Littlehales. He told a reporter yesterday afternoon that at that time it was so cold that the spray was frozen on the rigging. Never theless, despite this weather, the na tive men were naked except for a loin cloth of fur, and all that the women wore was a long otter skin cape fasten ed around the shoulders. Both men and women were finely developed, al though rather short in stature. Their features were sharper and more intel ligent than those of the Esquimaux. -mau ? ?*- - Miss Annie E. Gunning, Tyre, Mich., says, "I suffered a long time from dyspepsia; lost flesh and became very weak. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure completely cured me." It digests what you eat and cures all forms of stomach trouble. It never fails to give imm?diate relief in thc worst cases. Evans Pharmacy. - Fancy his chagrin: He was writing to his girl and to his washer woman. Got the letters mixed. The latter was surprised at the sweet missive and thc other-well how would she feel at reading, "If you don't quit wrinkling up my shirt bosom I'll try someone else." :'Onc Minute Cough Cure is the best remedy I ever used for coughs and colds. It is unequalled for whooping cough. Children all like it," writes H. N. Williams, Gentryville, Ind. Never fails. It is the only harmless remedy that gives immediate results. Cures coughs, colds, hoarse ness, croup, pneumonia, bronchitis and all throat and lung troubles. Its early use prevents consumption. - In the summer the Northern Hemisphere is turned more perpen dicalarly toward the sun, hence it is warmer in summer than in winter, j when that hemisphere is turned more sideways to thc sun. In the summer the earth is more distant from thc sun than in wiuter. Mr. J. Sheer, Sedalia, Mo., saved his child's life by One Minute Cough I Cure. Doctors had given her up to die with croup. It's an infallible cure for coughs, colds, grippe, pneu- | moni;', brunchii.is and throat and lung j troubles. Relieves at unce. Kvans : Pharmacy. She Took His Advice. A bashful youth in Harlem fell in love last summer at thu seashore with a girl from Cleveland, but he could never screw up courage enough to pro pose. This caused him much anguish of soul and made the girl despise him a little for a ninny. After vacation was over and they were separated, a novel fell into his hands, in which the hero won his bride by making so brusque and offhand a proposal that it startled her into consenting before she had time to think. Thc Harlem man thought he would adopt that plan, so after much cogita tion and the writing of many letters, only to tear them up at once, he evolved and sent her this: "Dear Girl: Let's get engaged." He con sidered that a masterpiece, until her answer, which was "Dear Boy: Took your advice last night. Got en gaged to Jack. Whom will you get engaged to?" Then he kicked that novel all around his room.-New York Tribune. J. B. Clark, Peoria. 111., says, "Surgeons wanted to operate on me for piles, but I cured them with De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve." It is in fallible for piles and skin diseases. Beware of counterfeits. Evans Phar macy. - "I understand there arc some firms that always give a young em ploye a raise of salary when he mar ries," she said. "It is a strange fact," replied thc cynical bachelor, "that there arc men so constituted that they enjoy encouraging other men to get into trouble." "I was nearly dead with dyspepsia, tried doctors, visited mineral springs, and grew worse. I used Kodol Dys pepsia Cure. That cured me." It digests what you eat. Cures indiges tion, sour stomach, heartburn and all forms of dyspepsia. Evans Pharmacy. - The town of Lewis, England, has a woman grave digger, who has attend ed to all the work in cemetery for 25 years. Purify the sewers of the body and stimulate tho 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 Evans Pharmacy. - A herring weighing six or seven ounces is provided with about 30,000 eggs. Constipation leads to liver trouble, and torpid liver to Bright's disease. Prickly Ash Bitters is a certain cure at any stage of the disorder, ^old by Evaos Pharmacy. - Nothing hurts a dignified man more than to lutvc a nonentity call him by his first namo. OFFICE IK" MASONIC TEMPLE. r-*r- Gas ind Cocaine used for Extract T'5-fiE PL&CE FOR Have your repairs done by them. They do first-class work, and guarantee it. THOMSON CYCLE W?HS, THE BICYCLE PEOPLE. (trw** YANDIYER BROS., MERCHANTS, ^ItE WIDE OPEN FOR BUSINESS in their elegant New Store-room Between Masonic Temple and the New Bank, And respectfully and earnestly invite you to cati and seo thom, inspect their Stock of (roods and get acquainted with their way of doing business. We promise t) fully pay you for the lew feet von have to walk off the Square to not to us. We are going to carry by far the best Stork we huvd ever carried, and promise you more tor your money than anybody. We mean business. Try us and seo if this isn't a true statement. Splendid high-grade lino of SHOES, ROOTS, HATS and STAPLE DRY GOODS. Get our pricer ami see if they ur? not right. We are going to handle at, BOTTOM PRICER, CORN, OATS, BRAN. HAY, BAGGING and TIES, BACON, L? RD, and other lleiwv Goods, at SELLING PRIDES. We h'nrtllv appreciate your liberal trade in the past, sud promise to show our appreciation for that trade. Come tn sf-e us in our new place. We will appreciate it more th ?MI ever before. You will rind us nicely quartered. Free City Delivery. Phone 7f>. Promptness in everything. Yours grateful Iv, VANDIVER BROS. I -ntMUMWO- -_ J POS I Tl ONS POS ITiON S, POSITIONS ! $ Z OBTAINED readily after taking a course in Book-keeping, Shorthand, X 9 Banking, Typewriting, etc., at the- W f Southern Shorthand and Business University, ? . ATLANTA, OA. J 89 Enter now. 8,000 Graduates. Catalogne Free. 89 ^ ^WE?IC IC 135 S^l fe^f 'S ,lrc ?anggr0?S Kidney s because they ^ # are favorable to the appgarance of E?l^hVS WSeBSe* ? s p e iii n b irti Heals the Kidneys. Cleanses and regulates the Liver. Strengthens the digestion and removes constipated conditions in the Bowels. IT IS FOUR MEDICINES SN ONE. A SYSTEM TONIC PAR-D1CELLENCE. PRICE $1.00 PER BOTTLE. PREPARED BY PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO. SOLD BT AI* DRUGGISTS. f m THIS WEEK? If so, ve have all kinds of Bargains in all Departments. FOR this week and next week we will give you CUT PRICES on CAPES, JACKETS, BLANKETS, HEAVY GOODS. In fact, we give you special prices on everything, and you can't afford to look over these prices. If you buy your DRESS GOODS, TRIMMINGS and MILLINERY From us we give you only the latest styles. A splendid line of FRINGES, FURS, etc., in Trimmings. We have an entire new line of UNDERWEAR, FLANNELS, and Winter Gocds of all kinds. Shoes for Everybody, And at prices never heard of before. OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT Is complete. Call in and see us before buying. Youri truly, MOORE, ACKER & CO., EAST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER STORE. Free City Delivery. JOHN A. HAYES Sells HYNDS' Home-made SHOES-Home-made Leather, Honest Work, Honest Loather Honest Prices. npHE largest Shoo Factory and Tanuery South. Tho BEST SHOES made in the JL World. Tho only combined Shoe Factory and Tannery in tho United States. A Solid, First-elae?, A No. 1, Best Gainesville Shoes. If you want cheap, shoddy. i?.iper shoes don't buy these-ours will not suityou, but if you want the best Shoes at popular prices buy burs, they will please you. The prices rauge from Fifty cents to Five Dollars a pair; any price you want. They aro the cheapest because they are tb? be?/; made of our own pure Oak-bark Tanned Leather, "Soft, Elastic and Kt ron sr." Nothing equals it for wear, and that is what you want. Try one pair and you will buy them again. Buy our beet quality. $4.00 and $5.00 Shoes for $3.00 and $3.50._ With $6.75 ! LET'S SEE I Yon can g*o to - OSBORNE L OSBORN'S And get a good COOKING STOVE with 32 pieets of nice, smooth and use ful ware, guaranteed to give satisfaction. VVe also have the IRON KING, ELMO, LIBERTY STEEL RANGES, and other good makes of Stove* The bigest Stove House in the City. OD J Chinaware, Glassware, Tinware and Crockery. ?ST PRICES RIGHT. Come aud see for yourself, and let us show you through. Yours truly, ' OSBORNE & OSBORNE. 4 " The Best Company-The Best Policy." ? 1 THE MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INS?R?NCE GO., I 4 OF NEWARK. N. J. ^ This Company lias been in successful business for fifty-four years; bas A paid policy-holders over ?105,000,000, and now bas cash assets of o\w ' $ti7,(XK),00u. It issues tho plninest and best policy on the market. After TWO annual premiums have been paid it rniiavTPvsi 1. Cash Value. 3, Extended Insurance. 5. Incmcte? I 2 Loau Value. 4. Paid-up Insurance. tabtlity. Also l*u> s Large Annual Dividends. M. M. MATTISON, State Agent for South Carolina, ANDERSON, S. C., over P. 0. Resident Agent for FIRE, HEALTH and ACCIDENT Insurance. y> y y ^ y iy y yiiy YT **? V W V V 5 w 0 22j Pi* ..sw 55 td ' bd td 0 <! H L H co 0 ? ? H OD Kl a c ^ 2 a ? H Hi H ti Q H CO O o m ir ft e BOYS' STEAM LAUNDRY ! The Most Complete and Up-to-Date Laundry in the State, Every Machine the latest improved, and designed to do most perfectwork Under thc superintendence ot' 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. Give us a trial. AV. F. BABB, Business Manager, Located at rear of Fant's Book Store?