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"BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER iii. 18!)!). VOLUME XXXV-NO. 17. Cold Weather 1 You remember last year about this time, with its drifts of ?now and cutting, piercing, slashing winds, how the frost needles pierced you through ! How your very marrow was chilled ! The weather man says history repeats itself THIS MONTH, and so this sale of Overcoats could not happen at a better time-for you. They are cheap at the regular retail price, but we give you a fourth off of that. You get our $4.00 Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for $3.00. 5.00 Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 3.75. 7 50 Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 5.63. 10.00 Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 7.50. 12.50 Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 9.38. Some Heavy Suits at the same Reduction. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. HOLD TIGHT T5 what you have until you see our lines and Prices of everything in ?energtl ]VEerelland ise. Percales, Piques, ' Ducks, White Goods, And/other Spring Goods. You special attention to our Grocery Department. FLOUR, MOLASSES, TOBACCO, Etc. In big lots to go cheap. Yours truly, MOORE, ACKER '& CO, Wholesale and Retail Merchants. E G. EVANS, Jr. B. B. DAY, M. D. PEMPLETOM, 8. C. and 3^S33ia?lsrEIS, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Paney Soaps, Sponges, Combs, Hair and Tooth Brushes, Bubber Goods and Druggist Notions, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dyes, Buists' Garden Seeds. WE ARE BEACHING OUT for more business and want to do your LAUNDRY WORK. Our plac? is the best equipped in the city. Everything that would improve tho quality of th? work and enhance its ' finish is done, as ali of our operators are experts and +,heir skill, expel i ? ence'aud cure insure perfect results. ' Respectfully, ; ANDERSON STEAM L?UWDRY CO. 202 E&St Boundary St. R. A. MAYFIELD," i Supt. ?nd Treas. PHONE .NO. 20. . . s?ft- Leave prdors pt D. C. Brown & Bra'?. Store. WOOD'S HIGH GRADE Our business in Farm Seeds is to-day ono of the largest in this Country. A result due to the fact that quality bas always been our first consideration. We supply, all Seeds required for tho Farm. ORASS & CLOVER SEEDS, Cow Peas. Cotton Seed, Seed Oats, Seed Cora, Soja, Navy & Velvet Beans, Sorghums, Broom Corn, Kaffir Corn, Peanuts, Millet Seed, etc. Wood's* Descriptive Catalogue ?ives ibo rollest information ?bout theee ond all other Beeya; boat methods of culturo, eol| beat adapted for diff?r ?rent crops and practical hinta aa to, what oro likely to provji mostprofltable togroir.. Catalogue walled freo anon 1 request. T; W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, Va. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Oivn Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5,1900. Kow that the vote on the Porto Rican tariff bill has neon taken and tho ques tion has been settled for the time be ing at least, it seems advisable to re new some of the circumstances leading up to it add resulting from it. First, and most important from a political standpoint, is tho fact that President McKinley is on the winning side. However the matter had been decided, he would still have been on tho win ning side. There are few more astute politicians than William McKinley. When questioned as to his desires in regard to the bill, he merely replied that he wished for Republican harmony, leaving to be understood, according to the wishes of his questioner, that he stood by his message declaring it our "plain duty" to give free trade to Por to Rico, or that he favorqd harmony by the minority Republicans yielding to the majority. At the caucus the other night, when Representativo Shattuc, of OhiOf declared that he was willing to defer his judgment to that of the President, but that he wanted some assurance as to what tho President's judgment really was, &U that Mr. Payne could say in answer was: "I saw ?he President this afternoon and he told me that he had no doubt of the constitutionality of the Porto Rican tariff bill. He told me also that if the bill was passed by Congress ho will sign it." Just before the vote was taken, an anonymous "member of the cabinet" .was interviewed and said that the President regarded the 15 per cent, duty and the limitation of two years ns making the bill "practically free trade." Such evasions were eminently characteristic of the President, and show that he was determined to be able to jump down on cither side of tho fence when the vote was taken. A long time has elapsed since so de termined on effort has been made to pnss a bill in the face of so much oppo sition in and opposition out of the par ty. No sacrifices have been regarded as too great, no pledges as too high to give in return for votes. Threats and cajolery alike havt? been utilized in the effort to secure jts jiassoge. Members of little importance have suddenly dis covered they were very necessary to the leaders of their party, and som o of them have exacted heavy conditions as the price of their work. Similarly, the various amendments accepted by the Ways and Means Committee, limiting the life of the bill to a comparatively short period and reducing the rates of duty imposed by it, show how desper ately y ie Republicans strove to pass it. Unquestionably they were moved by terror ns to their future action in re gard to the Philippines if the bill should fail. Without it, it would be impossible for the Supreme Court to decido on questions bearing on thc Philippines as well as Porto Rico, and the Republicans would be apt to enact legislation that would absolutely de stroy them when its consequences be came known to the country. Democrats here are drawing compar isons between thc actions of our gov ernment and those of Great Britain somewhat to our disadvantage. Ever since tho President precipitated tho Philippine war, it bas been worse than drawing eyeteeth to get any informa-,; ti?n from him as to his policy ip tho Philippines, sud even ns to actual oc currences in that country, 'Senator Pettigrew and others havo asked for the facts, but bave been set upon and denounced as all sorts of traitors who wanted to aid Aguinaldo for asking for information to which tho country is plainly entitled. The President in speech and in writing has again and again declared that it was for Congress to prescribe the method of conducting the war and the policy to bo pursued. Yet he went on managing every tiling himself and taking progressive and radical steps with contemptuous disre gard of the views of Congress or of ?iublic opinion. Every effort to obtain intelligence throwing light on tho ac tion of tho Administration hos been met with determined opposition by its henchmen in tho two Houses. Resolu tions of inquiry which were finally {lushed through were answered partial y or completely ignored. In Great Britain the case is far dif ferent. With '? war on i*s hands in whifch, until recently, it suffered hu miliating defeats, the government hus been almost verbose in declaring its position. London papers which have reached here contain columns of re plies by Cabinet Ministers to all Sorts of inquiries as to the causes which led to the war, tho conduct of it and the plans and purposes of tho Government. Asked why they did not do this or that? they have replied they were fear ful of trenching npon the British Con stitution and wer? In 'leubt a? ?u ihe?r Ia vr? ui authority. We have heard no such talk as this from tho executive branch of our Government. So freo and unrestrained have been the state ments of Lord Salisbury and his asso ciates, that tho newspapers have taken them severely to task for it* have pointed out to them how these things are done in America and urged them to follow our example. How's Ta??. We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any casa rf Catarrh that cannot bo cared by Hall's Catarrh Curo. ' We, the undeiglgncd hare known I-,:.. Cheney for we tut. IS year?, ?nd bol lo ve bim perfectly honorable la all business transactions and fiuan dally able to carry out any obligations made by. their firm. WEST A TKOAX, wholesale DtuggUis, Toledo, O. Waunxo. KINNAN db MAUVXK, Wbolrs?lo Drug gists, Toledo, O. . Hull's Catarrh Cure la taken lnlotually, ar Urie directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tho system. TwsUmonlalfc' sent free. Prier 75s per betti* Sold by all druggist*. Hell's Family P11U or? tho beat. ? m M?? Ss Sis ! 1 ? Soldier of the Cross, aud Formerly Defender of His Country. Kev. John T. Meli ry de, who has come to take charge of tho Spartan Mill Presbyterian church, is not only un edifying preacher and devoted pas tor, whose advent into thia field may justly bo regarded as a blessing, but ho is a veteran Confederate with a splendid record. Ho joined Jackson's army when a boy of fifteen or sixteen years of age, was several times wounded, aud still carries a Yaukee bullet in one leg. His war record reads like a romance, so much BO that many of his friends have urged him to write tho story, but to this ho has always been averse. He is fond of talking of tho war to his friends, and the reporter has drawn some history from one of them. At, tho second battle of;Manassas, his mess of eight men were eating break fast just as the sun rose, and they ask ed each other; "How many of us will bo alive when that sun sets thi? even ing?" That night John McBryde was the only ono left. His seven comrades had been shot in that bloody day some of them by his side. At the "bloody anglo" at Spotsylvu nia, he was among the men holding an advanced position of the Confederate entrenchments. Tho Yankees had broken the line and got behind, with out theBO men knowing what had hap pened, and when one called to Mr. Mc Bryde to surrender, he replied, "I'll not do it." Struck in the face with the butt of a gun, bis teeth broken with the blow, he became senseless and was dragged by tho hair over the brestworks. With his wounds untend ed, he was afterwards placed in the hold of a vessel, and kept there for moro than forty-eight hours, under conditions of incredible hardship, and carried to fort Delaware. The Con federates were informed that there were 1,700 prisoners upon this vessel. Tho men were crowded no thickly in the hold that they lay one upon tho other. Air could not circulate; the only ventilation was the hatch. They were given no water. Biscuits wero thrown down tho hatch to those who happened t*> be within reach as food would bo thrown to dogs. Few men could eat; they were in thc grasp of dreadful sea-sickness, and in thc throes of nausea; it \VUH impossible for one *hian to get out of the way of another, so close was the {Wk. It was said that one hundred men died on tho voyage. The survivors arrived at the prison in a state of horrible filth, and starving. The ingenious and willful cruelty of the prison life is unfortunately known to many of our soldiers, and many a Southern home has mourned over the long list of those who died under it. It was after Lee's surrender, in tho bushwhacking time, when detached bands of soldiery ::oamed over the country, that Mr. M< Bryde had some of his most picturesque escapades, near his home at Pendleton. This is an ac count of one of them : Mr. McBryde rode up about dusk one evening to a well near Anderson, and t seeing some men, asked for water. The Teply showed that tho men were Yankee calvalrymen, who had just dis mounted. Mr. McBryde concluded that he did not need tho water nt that particular time, and beat a retreat. The Yankees mounted hastily and followed, shooting at him. They ran him into a long lane, with fences on each side, so that ho could not run out. What was his consternation to perceive ahead of him, and coming towards him, another squad of Yankees. His case was desperate, for he was one of three men in that part of the country who were listed for death if they could be caught, the famous Manee Jolly being another, but he did not lose hope. His wits came to his rescue. Raising him self in his stirrups, he wayed his hand to his pursuers and yelled out, so that those in front could hear, "Who-o-oop, come on boys; they ore Yanks ahead!" Tho men in front, supposing that he was leading a party of Confederates, took alarm, and wheeling, ran from him as fast as their horses could carty them, Mr. McBryde continuing to run them, with the enemy behind running him, until he reached a place whero he could turn off into the woods, and thus he made hisescape.-Spartanburg Uer ahl. A Visitor's View of Cuba. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Mnrch 4.-Col. Frank M. Gnrdenshire, a prominent citizen of Chattanooga, well known over the State, has just returned from a trip to Havana. Gnrdcnshirolin an interview predicts an uprising on the day of the Havana municipal election this month. He says: "In my opinion there will bo serious trouble ?in Havana on the day of the election. I have several personal friends in Havaua and this seems to be the impression among them. Ac cording to a late regr /ation promulgat ed by Gen. Wood avid other author ities, 00 per cent of the voters will bo disfranchised. Under the recon* order thc quali?cu?uus ol a voter aro that he must be able to read and wrico and own $260 worth of property. This rule was advoca ied by the Spaniards and thje .more intelligent classes in Havana. Tho regulation almost shuts out the average ron of natives and many of them declare that if they are not permitted in vote in the election there will bo some throat-cutting on eicction day. "The people from the outside coun try are moving into Havana and all want offices.*' Some of them aro fight ing for places on tho police force, while there are just twelve candidates in tho race for mayor. "The natives seem to hnto our sol diers even worse than the Spaniards, but the impression prevails among the officials at Havana "that, tho Cubans will engage in rows among themselves thc moment the troops are withdrawn. Tho Cubans appear tobo doing little work. In fact, so far as I could see, tho gardening nnd farm work is being done by Chinamen." v STATE SEWS. - A ucgi'o woman died in Darlington a few days ago at thc ripe old age of 110 years. . - State Constables are required un der the new law to give bond in tho sum of $500. - Three millions have been invested in cotton mills in this State in tho last two months. - The S. C. Press Association is ar ranging to tai ko a one-week's trip to Cubn, leaving Columbia, March 15. - Col. Vance, State phosphate com missioner, reports tho phosphate in dustry in a nourishing condition. - Watermelons paid so well in Hampton county last year that tho acreage will bo increased this year. - There is now a reward of $400 out for tho capture of tho convicts who escaped from tho Manlboro chain gang. - Senator Tillman has had twenty thousand copies of his speech on the Philippines printed and will distribute them among his constituents. - Leonard It. Owens, postmaster at Marion, has been arrested, charged with embezzling funds belonging to tho postoHice to tho amount ol' $1,000. - Tho Edgeiield Chronicle says that nil the lawyers of that placo will bo candidates for ellice this year, one for Solicitor and the others for the Legis lature. - Last Saturday night in Greenville Earle Teague, a negro, was stabbed in tho heart by Homer Ward, a young white mau. Both were drunk. Ward was arrested. - The two U. S. Senators from this ?State and tho seven Congressmen have contributed eighteen dollars to assist in building a monument to th? Into Dr. W. M. Grier. - Pearl Hutchins, a coloreu brake man on the Southern railroad's local freight running between Greenville and Toccoa, was run over and instant ly killed by his trnin nt Easley. - It is rumored that representative D. H. Magill, of Greenwood, will be a candidate for Secretary of State. D. A. G. Outz8 has intimated that he will bo a candidate for the same place. - D. W. Inabinet, who several months ago brutally murdered his father, and has sinco been confined in jnil at St. George's, has beeu declared insane and removed to tho asylum. - Smallpox has appeared in or near Grahamville in Beaufort county, and at Jameson in Orangeburg county. Tho State Bonrd of Health has been notified and will look after these places. - Under the new dispensary law the counties and cities will receive moro money than under tho old law. Here after 10 per cent, of tho profits will go to the Stnto and 00 per cent, to the counties and cities. - There aro twenty cases of small pox at Lake City, all among tho white people, and all the people of that sec tion ure very much alarmed. Tho Stace Board of Health has put all the patients under guard. ~ There will bo a total eclipse of the sun on May 28. Tho government will ha've observations erected in this State, where there is a greater proba bility of clear weather that anywhere else on the line in which tho eclipse will be visible. - Mormon ciders aro doing mission ary work in Charleston. They have asked for permission? to preach on the streets. They were informed that street preaching was not allowed, but they could select a vacant lot and preach on that with permission of the owner. - A dispatch from Darlington says James Gardner committed suicide at Mechanicsville in that county by taking strychnine. Disappointment in love was the causo. Mr. Gardner was from North Carolina and was 55 years old. Ho willed alibis property to the girl who rejected aim. . - Mrs. Anna E. Marshall, of Green ville, has donutod to Purumu U uiver sity her valuable complete museum. This collection was made by her father, Dr. Jno. P. Barrett of Abbeville coun ty a native of Yorkshire, England. This museum has been insured for a number of years for $5,000 and, of course, its real value is much moro than this. - The other day in Greenville coun ty a negro girl of sixteen was publicly whipped by her father with a stout hickory switch, rather than have her ,prosecuted for a brutal assault on nn aged lady, who had scolded her for not doing the family washing in a proper manner. No crowd was permitted to be present, only oue neighbor ns a spectator, a magistrate and his con stable, and a representative of the in jured party to see that the punishment was properly inflicted. - Governor Mcsweeney has received from tho United States treasury de partment a check for $7,552.04 on account of tho South Carolina Spanish war claims. There has been a long wait and there ar? vet claims amount ing to about $14,000 to bo heard from. The governor immediately upon re ceiving the check turned it over to Col. Wilie Jones, cashier of the Caro lina National bank, together with all accompanying papers. Col. Jones has undertaken to pay out the money to those entitled to it. - At Lexington last Thursday after 'a trial lasting six days C. S. Matthews, L. B. Frick. J. J. Frick, P. Connor, D. J. Dehart and John Fainter, all promi nent farmers o? Lexington, wero ac 8uitted of tho assassination of Patrick lowers, a wealthy land owner, on July 14 last. Tho case was sensational and tho public is not satisfied that justice has been done. All tho men wero neighliors and Bowers had re fused them certain concessions in pass ing through his land. He was shot from ambush while riding on the high way at midday. Tho dispensary clos ed during tho trial to prevent trouble. On being reopened it was taken charge oE by tho acquitted men, who "treated" their supporters. Holton Items. < Hie ot t lie most enjoyable events of the whole season was the addie:.- of Dr. Lodge, of Limestone College, in the school hall last Friday evening, file subject discussed was education, ?ind to this subject, which we have heard spoken on many time?, Dr. Lodge gave many new, bright ideas, lie showed himself a magnificent scholar and an unusually attractive speaker. Dr. Lodge has been in tim State for a short time only, but has already made Limestone one ot' the foremost female institutions in South Carolina. Helton will always be glad to welcome Dr. Lodge, and trusts lu1 may come again. La Grippe is right prevalent here now; Mr. J. C. Kay, and: his mother are both quito sick with it. also Mrs. J. S. Cox, W. C. Brown and lt. A. Lewis. Mr. M. E. ticer, has suffered very much from au attack ol! neuralgia for some days but is reported better to day. Misses Mallie Geer, and Bena Bice, ol'the Piedmont Graded Schools, and Mr. A. S. Holmes, of Pendleton, and Albert Sharp of Anderson were visit ing in town Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Z. T. McKinney and son, Frank, are visiting for some days Mrs. Mc Kinney's daughter, Mrs. W. B. West. Farmers are buying quantities of fertilizers. N?)ploughing has been done. XXX Pendleton Items. Mrs. Dr. Law, of Spartanburg, is vis iting M ?HS Susie 1). Adgcr. Miss Nell Cunningham, who has been visiting Miss Annie Simpson, returned to the city a few days ago. Mrs. M. A. Murrah spent a few days in our town visiting her sister, Mrs. ty. M. Gibson. S Mrs. M. Beaty, of Anderson, is visit ing Mrs. J. C. Stribling. The insurance agents are thicker in this section than the fiddlers. Mrs. A. G. Wood, the tombstone man of Williamston, is stopping beru n few days. After so long a time Camp Tally Simpson, U. C. V., was reorganized last Saturday, and elected tho following officers: J. C. Stribling, Commander; W. M. Gibson, First Lieutenant; L\ IL Shnnklin, Second Lieutenant; JJ W. Simpson, Third Lieutenant; B. E. Sloan, Adjutant; Dr. Charles Dnv nnt, Sergeant: W. E. Mullinix, Chap lain; J. D. Hendrix, Quartermaster; T. O. Jenkins, Sergeant Major; W. M. Gibson, Treasurer; J. E. McAllaster, Vidett; M. C. Dickson, Color Bearer; W. J. Martin and R. M. Burns, Color Guards; M?SB Lila Stribbling, Sponsor. The following delegates were elected to the Reunion at Louisville, Ky.: J, W. Simpson, M C. Dickson and W. M. Gibson. TKI.I. TALE, . Eureka Items. Well, Mr. Editor, we suppose you think we have been sleeping or else very quiet since we last wrote, but it has been so rainy that we couldn't get up any news. Spring will soon bo waving its beau tiful Hag and the birds singing their sweet songs. Mr. J. C. Harper, who has been with the brm of Brown, Osborne & Co. nt Anderson, has returned homo to stay, much to the delight of some of his friends. Our pastor, Rev. Mr. Mahon, will 8reach at this.place every second Sun ay nt ll o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. John Howard and little daughter visited Mr. P. B. Gentry's family last Saturday night. Our Sunday School is in a flourishing condition now: wc have heard of Sun day Schools dying out in the winter but ours never dies. Mr. John Robbins, of this place, has gone to spend a few months in Missis sippi. 1 he health of this community is very good. XX. mm ? m - - Tho Stato of Georgia has asked for $11,000 damages caused by United Stat es troops during the Spanish-Amer ican war. - A 14-year-old boy, in tho city of Atlanta, a day or two ago, stabbed with a knife mid killed his playmate all over a worthless cur. - Smallpox continues an epidemic throughout Mississippi and in one section in Hinds county fifty negroes have died during the present infec tion. - Tho democrats have won all the minor offices in the Kentucky contests. There is no doubt but that the decision will be in their favor in thc higher offices. - Sam Jones has made a contract with J. T. Sexton, the celebrated black smith preacher of Knoxville, to make, rv tour of the South and West. They will begin next fall. - The Southern Railway earned during its last fiscal year, ending June 10th, 1899, $7,997,431, and for tho first six months of the current fiscal year has already earned $5,897,000. - In tho past ten vears the produc tion of wheat has increased 5:1 per cent, in the South, mid tho number of hogs raised there bas, during that period, nearly doubled. - President McKinioy has appointed Gen. Luke I. Wright, of Memphis, Fenn., ns the democratic member of the Philippine commission. He is 53 years of age, a splendid lawyer, and ajj advocate of expansion. - It is said that nine out of every ten of the Northern soldiers in thc Spanish-American war have applied to tho government for pensions, while ihree out of every tlve-of tho Southern non have done tho same thing. - Wc have a fleet of more than thir ty ships in the Philippines, with practi cally nothing for them to do. In order to keep tho crows of some of them may nu order has been sent from Washington for a survey of tho archi pelago. - It is said the fishing industry in Korth Carolina yields an annual pro duct of the value of over $1,000,000. The fish commission pnvs its own ex penses and turns from $8,000 to $10,000 into tho State treasury. LowmlesvUle Items LOWNDKSVII.M:, S. C., March "?, 1000. -Tho Southbound C. & \V. C. train, duo to louve lu if at ~>M a. m., was de layed hero several hours Tuesday morning by tho partial destruction of tim trestle .just below the depot by lire on tho previous night. When discov ered by some dai kies living near about two o'clock the lire had burned about twenty erossties. and tin- girders and uprights were blazing. The agent. Mr. R. W. Colyer, telegraphed the par ticulars to the Railroad officials, and the train brought the section gang down with it. The gang made tem porary repairs on tho bridge, and the train, which should have left at T.:54, passed over it at about 10.15. Your correspondent has mentioned several times the sad case of Mr. Mor gan Daniels, live of whose seven chil dren were bitten some time ago by a dog supposed lo ho mad. The animal's head was sent to liai timor? for exami nation by the members of the Pasteur Institute, who reponed that the animal undoubtedly had hydrophobia, but that, for greater certainty they bad inoculated a rabbit, with the virus. A telegram was received not long after ward saying that the rabbit had died with an unmistakable case of rabies, and urging that tho children be brought ou at once for treatment by the Pas teursystem. A day or two later a calf, which was bitten by the same dog, al so went mad, and a subscription was nt once started to raise the amount neces sary to send them to Baltimore. About two hundred dollars was raised, and Mr. Daniels was enabled to leave on the 34th of February. Tlie^amount will not cover the cost of treatment alone and moro money will be needed. Though not at all a rich one, our little community bas never failed to respond nobly to such an appeal, and we do not doubt that its sympathy andi'help will be extended freely. Surely this is a cuso for the practice of homo missions. The people of Abbeville have been very kind, nt least such of them ns knew of tho case, and Dr. Harrison and Mr. H. E. Cox have been especial ly active in enlisting the sympathy of thc citizens and securing'.transporta tion from tho Railroads. These were so kind ns to grant free passes to Bal timore and return when tho unusual circumstances were made kuown to them. Twenty-three days is the time that it is said is required to complete the treatment, and we are anxiously awaiting tho result. Mr. Alonzo Z. Bowman has been suf fering several days from a stroke of paralysis. Mr. H. J. Armstrong has for the last few days been visiting his old home, Honen Path. Tho Mountain City Milling Com pany's representativo in this territory, Mr. XV. C. Tennant, came homo Fri day afternoon after a trip of a week or two "on the rond." Professor John G. Clinkscales, of Wofford College, was given ^quite nu ovation when ho arrived at "this, his one-time home, on Saturday after noon. He lins ninny relatives and warm friends here, and dozens clamor ed for the privilege of entertaining him, but ninny had perforce to be con tent with tho promise o i'la visit this coming summer. On Sunday morning he held tho undivided attention of the congregntion for about an hour, while he spoke warmly nud with the elo quence thnt comes from au enthusias tic personal interest in his theme, of ideals and tho duty of keeping them always high and pure. In the evening ho spoke again especially to young men, and strengthened I the pleasant impression made nt the morning ser vice. We have his promise of a visit this summer, and will give him a warm welcome to his old birth-place. MCDAVID HOUTON. Zarliue Breezes. The cold, drenry winter will soon be gone, nud the old farmer's heart will beat with joy, for tho time has como for them to tear up tho soil. "Pair handed Spring unbosoms every grace." Several of our young folks went to Due West, Friday for the A indian So ciety celebration. Rev. NV. 1). Monier preached au ex cellent sermon Sunday to iv largo and attentive audience. Mr. Mooler never fails to draw the attention of his hear ers. Miss Lois Loner, from Duo West, worshiped at Little River Sunday. Little Brainard Branyou, wno has been seriously ill with pneumonia, is improving. Smnllpox; or "elephant itch," ns it is often called, is tho topic subject with sumo of our more scary Zarlians. We think tho bark is worse than the bite, nnd some cross tho bridgo before they come to it. Miss Copa Shirley, who has charge of tho Neva school, spent a few days with homo folks recently. Mr. H. Bigby, of Pelzor, passed through our community last week on business. Mrs. Ida Mitchel nnd little daughter, Marie, have returned from a very plensant visit near Seneca City. Misses Helen Breazeal and Rozella Bowen spent Saturday and Sunday in Belton. Messrs. Tom. Ladell and Ed. Barks dale, of Abbeville, visited relatives hero recently. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Bowen visited rel atives at Clayton Sunday. Mr. T. H. Taylor, who has been on tho sick list, is now convalescent. Pao<;.