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BILL ARP .Arp Answers Qi??stic the i Atlanta Ct A lady writes to me and asks what is really meat by the "needle's eye" in the parable of tho rich mao. I re member reading somewhere that it was the smallest gato that gavo en trance to the walled city of Jerusalem, and that a loaded camel had to bo stripped of its burden and bend its knees to squeeze through. And so a rich man had to give.up his rohes ami come to his knees before he cojld en ter heaven. But I do not find that in any commentary. It was just one of the thousand proverbs that adorned the moral teachings of the Jews and the eastern nations. The writings of Job end Solomon and Gonfuoius and Mahomet abound in them. In the Koran is found this proverb: "The impious man will find the gates of heaven shut and he eau no more enter than a camel can pass through a nee dle's eye." There is another in the Koran which says: "You will never ere a palm tree of gold nor an elephant pass through a needle's eye." These proverbs simply meant that it was im punible. Strange to say, the world has long since quit making proverbs. All proverbs have oome down to us, even such as "A rolling stone gathers no moss." "Poor Richard" left us a few, soon as "A penny saved is two pence gained." young man eager for knowledge writes to know why it is that wheo you reverse a number and subtract the less from the greater tho difference is always nine or some multiple of nine, and nine will divide it without a re mainder. He wants to know the rea son why. This is rath ar complex, but the reason i? plain when you see it. By reversing a number you change tho numerical value of every figure in it; units beoome tens or hundreds or thou sands, and vice versa; and hence, if you subtract a unit from a ten it leaves ' nine. Take ten, for instance, and reverse it, and it is .01. It was ten before and it is 1 now, and the differ ence is obliged to be nine. Take 91 and reverse it and you change 9 tens to 9 units, and 1 unit to 1 ten; gain ing 81 and losing niue, which makes 72, a multiple of 9. Nor? if you add instead of subtract the sum will be ll or some multiple of ll, 10 and Ol Hr 13 and 31 make 44; 16 ahd 61 make 77; 24 and 42 make 66; all multiples of ll. The complexities and results of figures are many and very wonderfui. They train the mind and strain the mind. I know they did misc when I was struggling through the trigonometry and calculus. A boy can fudge and smuggle along through Latin and Greek with the help of translations, but he can't fool the professor on the blackboard. Another enquiring mind wishes to know why it is that the first day of May and the following Christmas al ways come on the same day of the week. Well, it can't help it, that'u all, for there are thirty-four even wcekB from ono to the other. But Christmas day and the first day of the next May don't fit it. February somes in and knocks the even into odd. A Florida girl writes that her al manao is all wrong, for it gives Feb ruary only twenty-eight days, not withstanding this is a leap year. Yes, Miss, this is leap year, but it don't leap. Tho last year in every century ; has to be skipped as a leap year, for old father time gains a day in every hundred years, and the olook has to be set back twenty-four hours. And here is a humble, sensible let-. ter from a Louisiana negro who, says he has great respect for the w.bite peo ple, and loves to lean upon them, for they know best and they have treated him kindly all his life. He wants to know where the word negro comes from, and what it - means. He says: "I read all your letters, ?ind you g ve us some awful blows, but you can't blow the monkey out of us." Well, thc word negro is Spanish and Portu gce for black. Thc French is nigro. The Latin is niger, and the Epglish corrupted it into nigger. The Century dictionary s=yS luu nigger is moro lingi i ph than negro; and Was used without Opprobrious intout; and can bo found in writings of Tom Ilood-and Praed and Trevelyn. The Irish call them naners. But ?? ?be Lziiz is i?io foundation of all these languages I would say that niger is really - thc ori ginal and tho moat proper name for the race. I was on the train aonco when good old Sanford Bell was very much per plexed about a miserable, cadaverous looking foreigner who took a seat in the negro's cur; and a negro preacher made a fuss about it. So Sanford asked him whether he was * negro or a white man. He shrugged his shoul ders and grinned as he replied: "Mine fader was a Portugoo, and' mine mud der was a nagur. Sanford looked at the preacher and said: "VVh?tjshall I S LETTER. >ns Sent Him Through Mail. institution. do with him?" "Let. him stay, or pitch him out tho window," he re plied. Sanford said to me, "I think he is a cross between a baboon and an esquimo. I like such negroes as the ono who wrote me that respectful and sensible letter. In fact I know of many ne groes who hive not only my regard, but a share of my affections. How willing they aro to oblige you. When I am afar from home and want infor mation about the trains or the town or time I always ask a negro, for he will tell me more willingly than a white man. Yes, more willingly than some depot officials I have met. A good negro died here tho other day-a negro whose conduct and in dustry and politeness has been for years without a spot. Ellis Patter son deserves a monument, for he did the very best he could. He had no children, but adopted two orphan girls and raised them. He was manly in his deportment; always respectful to the white people, and did not mingle in politics sod worked in his black smith shop early and lato and was al* ways honestan all his ^skiings. What more need be said of any citizen, whether his skin be white or black. The negroos of north Georgia deserve commendation for their good conduct. They are, as a rule, lawabidiog and industrious. Wo have been living here quite near to a negro settlement For twelve years, and have never locked a door nor lost a ohioken. I believe the race is improving general ly in the rural districts of this part bf the State, and in the.small towns, out bhat they are getting worse in the sities the police reports overy day at test, and the devil seems to have broke loose among them again in lower Georgia. ? few more lynchings want ed. A gentleman from Texas-an old Georgian-has been reading Julian Hawthorn's "Nations of tho World," ind finds on the eight hnndrod and fourth pago of the fifteenth volume, mat when William Henry Harrison iras nominated for president there vere several aspirants in different States: Webster, from Massachusetts ; McLean, from Ohio; Clay, from Ken tucky; and White, from Georgia. He lesires to know something about this White. Well, it is a mistake, that's til. Hawthorn meant Hugh L. White, >f Tennessee, a very great and gifted itatesman. He succeeded Andrew Jackson in the United States Senate n 1825. He carried the State of Tennessee by 10,000 votes over An Irew Jackson, in 1828. As an aspir int for the whig nomination for presi leut he carried his own State and the State of Georgia. He was a very ;reat and good man, but Mr. Haw-* born's mistaken. He was not from Georgia. Bot this is enough of answers to torrespondents who requeBt an answer n your paper; I try to answer most of hem by letter, but they accumulate iowa day s more than ever, and it is .?rd io keep up. Some of your read ?rs have got an idea that a man of my ige ought to know something about tverything. Well, ho ought to, and ie has lived io vain if he is no wiser han when he-was young. I like to liffase the knowledge that I have ao luircd, and broadcast it among the teople who have .not tho books nor ho advantage that a kind Providence ias given to me. Especially do I ap ireciate letters from the boys and .iris. I had a nice letter yesterday rom two Mississippi girls, and they ign it Mabel and sister-nothing nord, I would answer their ques ions if I knew their other name. The ilder I grow tho greater is my ioter st in the ohildren; the generation hat is soon to take our places. My mrest pleasure now is to play with, nd fondle tho little ones. I mean ;ood children, of course-especially iris. When a dear little grandchild limbs my knees and puts her arms iround my neck and says: "You geed, c'?-fur nothing thing," nm happy. Another wedding anni versary passed us yesterday, and we re grateful that no calamity or afflic ion has befallen us since the last, fifty-nie years have passed sinn? my fltxi surrendered and I became her irispner. and time keeps rolling OD? BILL ARP. - ? - 9 ?II i - ta Atlanta Banker has Worts of Praise far a Hosie Insulation. Mr.! Chas. E. Currier, of the Atlan a National Bank, is very careful with tis words, not only in financiering, ?ut in his conversation generally! jike tho rest of us, he is siok some imcs ; but, unlike many of us, he ?nows how to get well. "I have used ?yner's Dyspepsia Remedy in attacks f acute indigestion, and have always ound it to givo instantaneous relief. '. couaider it a medicine of high iner ts' Price per bottle 50c. For sale y Hill-Orr Drug Co. and Wilhito & Vilhito. ' W. 0. T. U. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by tho ladies of tho W. C T. U. of Anderson, S. C. Burke, the Burglar, and Moody, the Evangelist. Valentine Burke was his name. Ile was an old-time burglar, with kit and gun always ready for usc. His pic ture adorned many a rogue's gallery, for Barko was a real burglar and none of your cheap amateurs. He had a courage born of many desperate "jobs." Twenty years of his life Burke had .spent inoprison, here and there. He was a big, strong fellow, with a aard face, and a terrible tongue for swearing, especially at sheriffs and jailers, who were his natural-born enemies. There must have been a streak of manhood or a tender spot somewhere about him, you will say, or this story could hardly have happen ed. I for one have yet to find the man who is wholly gone to thc bad, and is beyond the reach of man or God. If you have, skip this story, for it is a true one, just as Mr. Moody told it to me in October, up in Brattlcboro, Vt. And now that dear Moody is dead, and has spent his first Christmas in heaven, I remember how the big tears fell from bis eyes as he told it, and I am think Hg how happy he and Burke are, talk:<.? it ^>ver together up .there, where B?iile ba3 been waiting for him these long years. It was twenty-five years or more ago that it happened. Moody was young then, and not loog in his ministry. He came down to St. Louis to lead a union revival meeting, and the "Globe-Democrat" announced that it was going to print every word he said -sermon, prayer and exhortation. Moody said it made him quake in wardly when he read this, but he made up his mind that he "would weave in a lot of Scripture for the 'Globe-Democrat' to print, and that might count, should his own poor words fail." He did it, and his printed ser mons were sprinkled from day to day with Bible texts. The reporters tried their cunning at putting big, blazing headlines at tba top of the columns. Everybody was cither hearing or read ing thc sermons. Burke was in the 3t. Louid jail, waitiug trial for some piece of daring. Solitary confinement was wearing on him, and ho put in his time railing at the guards or damning [he sheriff on his daily rounds. It was meat and drink to Burke to curse i sheriff. Somebody threw a "Globe Democrat" into his cell, and the first thing that caught his eye was a big leadline like this: "How the jailer at Philippi got caught." It was jual what Burke wanted, and he sat down pith a chuckle to read the story of the jailer's discomfiture. "Philippi!" he said, "that's up in [iiino?8. I ve beeo. in that teen." Somehow the reading had a strange ook, out of the ordinary newspaper vay. It waa Moody's sermon of the ?ight before. "What rot is this?" isked Burke. "Paul and Silas-a peat earthquake-what must I do to )e saved? Has the 'Globe-Democrat' ?ot to printing suoh stuff?" He look id at the date. Yes, it was Friday norning's paper, fresh from the press. 3urke threw it down with an oath, md walked about his cell like a caged iou. By and by he took up the pa ler, and read thc story through. The estless fit grew on him. Again and I .gai? he picked up the paper and read ts strange story. It was then that a omethiog, from whence he did not [now, came into the burglar's heart and mt its way into the quiok. "What [oes it mean?" he began asking. 'Twenty years and more I've been ?urelar and jail bird, but I never felt ike this. What is it to be saved, myway? I've lived a dog's life, and 'in getting tired of it. If there is ueh a God as that preacher is telling bout. I believe I'll find it out if it :illa me to do it." He found it out. kway toward midnight, after hours of titter remorse over his wasted . life, nd lonely and broken prayers the first imo sinoe he was a child at his moth er's knee, Burke learned that there is i God who is ablo and willing lo blot .ut the darkest and bloodiest record t a single stroke. Then ho waited or day, a new creature, crying and aughing by turns. Next morning eben the guard came round Burke had i pleasant word for him, and the guard y ed him in wonder. When the auer ff came Burge greeted him as a friend, nd told him how he had found God, f ter reading Moody's sermon. "Jim," aid the sheriff to tho guard, "you'd tetter keep aa eye on Burke. Ho's flaying the pious dodge, and first banco Inn get? Le i?i?! bo out of here." n a few weeks Burke come to trial; ?ut the case, through some legal entan ;lement, failed, and he was released, ?"ri?radless, an ex-burglar in a big city, :nown only as a daring criminal, ho tad a hard timo for months of shame nd sorrow. Men looked at his face, rhen asked for work, and upon its ev dence turned him away. But poor ?urke waa as brave as a Christian as ie had been as a burglar, and he truggled on. . Moody told how the oor fellow, seeing that his sin-blurred satures were making against him, sked the Lord in prayer, "if He :ouldn't make him a bettor-look i og man. 60 that ho could get an honest job." You will smile at this, I know, but something or somebody really au swered that prayer, for Moody said a year from that time when he met Burke in Chicago he was as fine n looking man as he ever knew. I can not help thinking it was thc Lord who did it for him, in answer to his child like faith. Shifting to and fro, want ing much to find steady work, Burko went to New York, hoping far from his old haunts to find peace and hon est labor. Ile did not succeed, and after sis months came back to St. Louis, much discouraged, but still holding fast to the God he had found in his prison cell. One day there came a message from tho sheriff that he was wanted at tho courthouse, and Burke obeyed with a heavy heart. "Some old oaso they've got against me," he said; "but if I'm guilty I'll tell them so. I've done lying." The sheriff greeted him kindly. "Where have you been, Burke?" "In New York." "What have you been doing there?". "Trying to find a decent job." "Have you kept a good grip on the religion you told me about?" "Yes," answered Burke, looking him steadily in the eye. "I've had a hard time, sheriff, but I haven't lost my religion." It was then the tide began to turu. "Burke," said the sheriff, "I havo had you shadowed every day you were in New York. I suspected that your religion was a fraud. But I want to say to you that I know you've lived an honest Christian life, and I have sent for you to offer you a deputyship un me. You can begin at once." Ke began. He set his face like a flint. Steadily, and with dogged faithfulness, thc old burglar went about his duties until men high in business began to tip their hats to him and to talk of him at their clubs. Moody was passing through the city and stopped off an hour to meet Burko who loved nobody as he did the man who converted him. Moody told how he found him in a close room upstairs in the courthouse serving as a trusted guard over a bag of diamonds. Burke Bat with a sack of gems in his lap and a gun on the table. There were (60,000 worth of diamonds in tho sack. "Moody," he said, ''see what thc grace of God can do for a burglar. Look at this! Thc sheriff picked mo out of his force to guard it." Then he cried like a child as he held up tho glittering stonos for Moody Lo see. Years afterwards the Church es of St. Louis had made ready and (vere waiting for the coming of an evangelist who wa& io lead the meeting but something happened and he did not come. The pastors were in sore trouble, until one of them suggested that they send for Valentine Bnrke to lead the meetings for them. Burke led night after night, and many hard men of the city came to hear him, and nany hearts were turned, as Burke's iiad been, from lives of crime and shame to clean Christian living. There is no more beautiful or pathetic story than that of Burke's gentle and faith ful life and service in the city where be had been chief of sinners. How long he lived I do not recall, but Moody told me of his funeral, and hon ike rich and poor, the saints and the sinners, came to it; and how the big men of the oity could not say enough >ver tho coffin of Valentine Burk?, And io this day there are not a few in -hat city whose hearts soften with s itrange tenderness when the name of me burglar is recalled. And now Moody and Burke are met, no morete be separated. When I was a boy, ai] >ld black "mammy" that I greatly oved used to sing for me a song with words Uko these: 'Through all depths of Bin and loss, Sinks the plummet of thy cross." -Prof. H. M. Hamm, D. J)., in Kp corth Herald. - ,mm m mm It is very hard to stand idly by and iee our dear ones suffer while awaiting .he doctor. An Albany (N. Y.) dairy nan called at a drug store there for r loctor to come and seo his child, thei /cry sick with croup. Not finding tlu loctor in, he left word for him to com? it once on his return. He also bought i bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Rem sdy, which he hoped would give som< relief until the doctor should arrive [n a few hours he returned, saying the doctor need not-come, as the chile pas much better. The druggist, Mr Otto Scholz, says the family has sinci recommended Chamberlain's "Cougl Uemedy to their neighbors and friend: until he has a constant demand for ii from that part of the country. Fo lalo by Hill -Orr Drug Co. - Gycr-Saw you out riding witl peur gi?? yesterday. Myer-Yes Did you ever meet her? Gyer-No jut father says he was once a pupil ii 1er Sunday School class. To secure tho original Witch Haze Salve ask for DeWitt's Witch Haze Salve, well known as a certain cur for piles 'and skin diseases. Bewar >f worthless counterfeits. They an langerons. Evans Pharmacy. A Kirksville (Mo.) preacher ha; narried on an average one couple lay for twenty year-?, and in not i tingle instance has there been a di rorce. M. B. Smith, Butternut, Mich., say 'DeWitt's Littlo Early Risers are th rory best pills I ever nsed for costive toss, livor and bowel troubles. ' ' Evan Pharmacy. Hoodoos on a Hallway Train. The conductor of a railway train that pulled out from Jersey City was taking up tickets. One of his passen gers was whistling as ho hauled out his. The conductor handed it back unpunched. When thc conductor re turned from the rear coach he hesita ted at the seat of thc whistling man ! and then passed on. When ho made his second trip through thc car, after the train had left Trenton, he ogaiu took thc ticket of the sibilant passen ger and returned it without thc usual perforation. After this had been re peated a bald-headed passenger in a starboard seat apologized to thc con ductor and asked him why he didn't punch thc whistler's ticket. "I am not superstitious," was tho reply, "but I am afraid if that fellow doesn't stop whistling wc shall run into a blizzard, or oft the track, or i have a collision." The bald head said that was cheerful information coming from a conduc tor. "Well, you asked mc and I have told you. I never knew it to fail. I know whistling is considered by some as un evidoncc of good nature, but when it is done in a railway coach it is in line with thc crow of a hen. What on earth a man wants to whis I tlc for when ho is in a car I don't I know. But that is neither herc nor there. It is bad luck, especially if thc conductor punches the ticket while ho is whistling." "Why don't you ask him a question and punoh his ticket while he is an swering?" "That would do not good. He must u jt have his lips puckered when I take the ticket. Besides, I don't know what to ask him without appear ing impertinent. I can't think of any thing to ask." "Is that a notion common to con ductors?" "I ean't say how general it is, but I have had it many j ears, and I know others who think the same. A loco motive engineer doesn't like to have anybody whistle in his pilot." ? "But you will have to take up that j man's ticket before ho leaves the car." "Certainly. But he may stop whis tling. If he doesn't I shall have to take it up anyhow; but ' the damage will be done then." "What damage?" "Why, the hoodoo will be running the train by that time. I know what I am talking about." "Philadelphia; all out for Philadel phia," shouted thc parter. The whistling passenger seized the satchel and started for the door. The conductor overtook him, and said: "This is not your station." "I am going to stop over here one train." "Give me that ticket, quick !" cut. in the conductor, "so that I can fix it, or it won't be good for a stopov er." The passenger complied as he re sumed whistling. Tho ticket was fixed and tho passenger left the ear. The conductor usually turns his train over to another at Philadelphia, but this time thc same conductor continued to Baltimore. When the train was un der headway again thc bald-headed passenger congratulated tho conduc tor. He smiled and made no reply. Just after tho train left Wilmington it carno to a stop in thc open and stood there for an hour. Thc locomotive had got tho kinks. When it started again it waa a fitful speed. When it finally reached Baltimore a snowstorm had overtaken it, cr it had ran into one. The conductor left thc train there. "It might have been all right," he explained to the bald-headed pat Ben ger, "but a man got on at Wilmington who wore ear muffs, and I knew that we were in for it. It may be wrong about whistling men, but when a man gets on my train wearing heaters on his ears I then know that there is trouble coming. I am not supersti tious, but there arc things you can't get around," Thc train was three hours late at its destination. Thc storm was at its height. Tho street cars had stopped. Cabs were $H apiece. A. B. DeFluent. editor of the Jour nal, DoylcRtown, Ohio, ?u?Tercd for a number of years from rheumatism in his right shoulder and side. He says: "My right arm at times waa entirely useless. I tried Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and was surprised to reccivo re lief almost immediately. The Pain Balm hr.3 been u constant companion of mino ever since and it never fails." For salo by Hill Orr Drug Co. - The coolest winter on record was that of 1790, in which rivers and lakes were frozen, and even the oceans several miles from shore. In Europe frost penetrated three yards into thc ground, and people perished by the hundred in their homos. Mrs. Calvin Zimmerman, Milcsburg, l'a., says, "As a speedy cure for all coughs, colds, croup and sore throat Ono Minute Cough Cure is unequaled. lt is pleasant for children to take. I heartily recommend it to mothers." It is tho only harmless remedy that produces immediate results. It cures bronchitis, pneumonia, grippe and throat and lung diseases. It will pre vent consumption. Evans Pharmacy. . THESE LAMES HAVE NEVER Tried The ?reat system reculator PRICKLY ASH BITTERS, Because they think ?fi? nasty and bitter, d isagreeable To the stomach and violerif in action. ASK THESE They will Tell you it is rnoTaTall disagreeable. [And as a cure for Indi?esfior),] ^onstipaltor), Kidney ^Disordersit fe un* excelled. Evass Pharraaej, Special Agents. BANK OF ANDERSON J. A. BROCK; President. JOS. N. BROWN, Vico Presiden t. B. F. MAULDIN, Cashier. THE largest, strongest Hunk in the County. Interest Paid on Deposits By ?pedal agreement. With unsurpassed facilities and resour ce's wo aro at all times prepared to ac norumodnto our customers. Jan 10, HUH) 21) NOW IS THE TIME To have your Carriage and Buggy Repainted. We are also in a posi tion to fit new Cur tains, Axle Points and all kinds of Fifth Wheels put on nicely at short notice. PAUL E. STEPHENS. Special Meeting of Stockhold ers of the "Anderson Cotton Mill." ASPECIAL M HUTING of the Stock holders of the "Anderson Cotton Mill" is hereby oallod to meet at the Rank of Anderson, in the City of Ander son, 8. C., on FRIDAY, Otb day of April next, for the purpose ol adding to, alter ing and amending tho By-Laws or said Corporation, and for such .other business aa incident to the same, as authorized by the Charter, and the Amendment? there to, and of Article 15 of the Bv-Lawe. J A. BROCK, Pr?sident. Anderaon, March 7, 1900. '?7-5 Groceries at Wholesale. TO ALL WHO WILL BUY THIS WAY : WE HAVE THE LARGEST STOCK OF F^ISTCY GROCERIES EVER SEEN HERE. Agents for all the leading brands of Tobacco. Sugar and Coffee by the car load. We thip you Flour direct if you ure on the railroad. This saves hauling. Ten car loads Rodd's Molasses. Corn, Oats and Hay specialties. Carrv the best Lime and Cement. W*COME AND SEE US. LIGON & LEDBETTEE, WHOLESALE GROCERS. MOVED ? M M. M ATTI SON, State Agent, Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co, OP KTEWABK, 1ST. J"., Now located in New Offices in Peoples' Bank Building, ANDERSON S. C. Nothing Succeeds Like Success! WE beg to nnncuuco to our friends that the year just closed bas given us the lar gest business we ever enjoyed. For this result we are truly grateful to those who contributed even to a small degree. It has always been our aim to build up a permanent business on principles of square, boneBt effort and true merit. We havo succeeded, and now we ar? going to spread ! We are going to increase our bus iness fifty per cent, ibis year, and we beg the support of our old friends. New friends will flock to us when tboy learn cur methods and the quality of Gooda we sell, and this they arerapidW learning. "Why Dean's Patent Flour is to-day on the tongue of every housewife in tho County, because lt is ber friend. Every body who wears Shoes that are Shots are loud in their praises of our 8tore. And when people want pure New Orleaus Syrup they always send to ua because* they know we keep the beBt. . . . , , Then why not ox pand T We are ex pensionista for trade only, and we ask a look at our Goods whoo you get ready to boy. DEAN & RATLIFFE. GUANO AND ACID bottom. -The finest pulverizad in town, and the highest analysis In the ?tate. Our prices are on rock D. & R. CH 0 ? Sss 2 ?ci 0' td 0 io M . ? 0 < w S? ? < o sd M H s ft > 2 ? 2 S Pl co o o ? M a Ci.ARKN<'E OfiHOBNK. RlTTI.Knil K CsJtOKNR: Stoves, Stoves! Irou King Stoves, Elmo Stoves, Liberty Stoves, Peerless Iron King Stoves, And other good makes Stoves aud Ranges. A big line of TINWARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY and CHI NA WARE. Also, anything in tho line of Kitchen Furnishing Goods-such as Buck ets, Trays, Rolling Pin?, Sifters, &c. Thanking our friends and customers for their past patronage and wish ing for continuance of eame, Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE.