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BILL ARF [Bill Describes the C Prom Atlanta Ci Going, going, gone! For two weeks it had been tho family talk-will the maternal ancestor go to Florida or not. Her posterity down there hod been calling her long aud frequently and finally sent her a liberal check where with to provide a suitable parapher nalia aud pay her way to Jacksonville, lt w?b an awful struggle. Tbe girls hinted that if she was not going sho ou.jht to send the check back, and when at last she bought the beautiful silk mohair Henrietta Maria Vendet ta, or words to that effect, and turned it over to the dressmaker, it looked like she was certainly goiug, but I had my doubts. She wanted me to decide the momentous question, but I looked solemn aud maintained a dignified neutrality. "If you are going," said I, "of oourse I will go with you, for where thou geest I will go, ' but you must start next Tuesday eve and stay a week only, for I have got to go to Coolina again the last of next week." Still she hesitated and gave no certojn sigh. There were posterity at home that she feared .vould fall into a weir or get bitteu by a mad dog, or get run over on the street, or catch the meas les or something else, and every time they came to greet her, her eyes would get watery at the thought of leaving them. .Neighbors and kindred urged her to go for she bad not been as far as Atlanta in five years, and needed a chango of air and water and Bcenery. And so we escorted her to the depot and there were so'many to kiss and so many parting injunctions 'about tho children that she bad liked to have been left after all. For ten miles she never said a word, but looked out of thc window and ruminated. An acquaintance on tho car came forward and that relieved the mono tony and wo got to Atlanta in duo time and after a short stay left for Florida. Now we are both glad that wc came, for wo made our kindred happy and * will make some more happy when wc get back. This evening wo visited the ostrich farm, the Florida zoo, which of itself is worth a trip to Jackson ville. ? wish that al! the children could visit it for it is a bigger thing . than a circus or menagerie; it is much largar than it was two years ago, for now, besides over a hundred ostriches the proprietors have many varieties of the most beautiful birds in the world. They arc of exquisite plumage-pheas ants, ducks, parrots, pelicans, cranes -and there are deer, monkeys, croco diles, otters and many otb::r creatures that are never seen traveling around, and are things of beauty that would delight the little folks. My wife says thai it is the best show for a quarter that she ever saw. It is worth that co see the otters playing in the water. This zoo is an established success and a speciality for Jacksonville. Crowds visit it every day and tho tourists buy feathers and eggs most liberal ly. The street car takes you there for a nickel and they are always fulV. We are going to Pablo Beach to-morrow and to St. Augustine next day, and keep on the go all the time as long as the letters from home tell us that all aro weii. What a wonderful change has come over the city since I first knew it, when there wore about 10,000 people, and it was under therban-a suspect a home for pestilence, and tie tourists hurried throngh it to safe havens. Now there are 35,000 people, and diir^ ing the winter half as many more. The city has been thoroughly sewered and drained and is .supplied with thc purest water and the streets and walk ways are all paved and everything looks olean as a parlor. Tho pcstilenoo thatwalkoth at noon day will not walk here any more. And then what a change of diet has come over us. Early vegetables, early oys ters and shad hud pompano, and straw berries for dessert every '"ay. I sent come orange blossoms home yesterday -but requested '?ho girls not to get mar ried until wo returned; My wife and I are being rejuvenated. Fine clothes, fine diet, and nothing tc do bet receive aU??i?ou, will regenerate maternal an ?? 0. And it helps the veterans, too. I feel this morning like lean jump over a two-rail fence and cut the pigeon wing-a small pigeon. But I never said any thing about our brief .stay in Savannah, that grand old city that Georgia is proud of, and it is still tho most beau tif cl and interesting city in the South,; Its parks alone are a monument to Oglethorpe. ' Its broad street*, and shade trees and flowers aro things of beauty. Its churches and public buildings are time-honored and impressive. Now just ponder over it for a mo ment when I say that I saw Savannah for tho first time sixty-serea years S LETTER. >ld Lady's Departure Home. institution. ago, and I do not suppose there are a hundred people living who saw it be fore then. My parents and brother and myself sailed from th0** to Bos tou in 1833. We returned to Georgia by land in a carriage. It took us two months to make thc long journey, aud wc never crossod a railroad for there was none to cross. How is that for antiquity? And yet I am thc boy, the only boy about the house, and when Mrs. Arp calls mo I move to wards her with alacrity. And so let Anno Domini roll on. Yesterday I met a yoting lawyer hero by the name of Marks, and when ho told me whoso eon he was, I remembered that I|was at his grandfather's wedding, though I was then a little schoolboy ?wearing my first gallusses. But I verily be lieve I can chop more wood in a day than Marks can and I could outrun him but for my corporosity. BILL ARP. Wold In Corn Bow. Walking along a cotton row on Messrs. Wadsworth & Pegram'e farm, to tho east of the city, yesterday morning, Emiline Lindsay, a colored girl, picked up a lump of pure gbld. She showed her find to the overseer of tho farm, and then brought it to the city, handing it over to Mr. M. P. Pegratn, president of tho First Na tional Bank. The nugget is virgin gold. There is not a particle of quartz about it, and it is as pure as if it had been fluxed by thc hand of man. It is about thc size of a minnie ball, and in shape looks like a bullet thathadbecn flattened by contact with some hard object. It weighs 13 pennyweights. Mr. Pegram rewarded the girl for her Gnd and its delivery -by handing over to her 10 silver dollars. Her de light at receiving the money was ex traordinary and resulted in thc dis closure of a little romance of thc farm. Emiline is about 16 years old and is in love. Si.e is engaged to be married; but only last week her moth er had told her that she could not marry this Spring as intended, because she had so money, bul must wait another year. When the rain of 10 silver dollars poured into her hands, her fir?t thought was not of a new dress or a Spring bonnet, but of her lover. Tho ten dollars, she declared, would enable her to get married, and she hurried from thc bank to tell her intended of their good fortune and to send him after a license. The wed ding is to take place to day. It has always been known that there is gold on the "old Jones farm," as Wadsworth & Pegram's property is known, and several nuggets have been picked up there; but none to compare io Bize and purity with that whioh hastened the wedding of Emiline Lindsay.-Charlotte Observer. . mn ? nw -.. An Atlanta Banker has Words of Praise for a Home Institution. Inir. Chas. E. Currier, of the Atlan ta National Bank, is very careful with his words, not only in financiering, but in his conversation generally. Like the rest of ns, he is sick some times ; but, unlike mauy of us, he knows how to get well. "I have used Tyncr's Dyspepsia Remedy in attacks of neate indigestion, aod have always found it to give instantaneous relief. I consider it a medicine of high mer it." Price per bottle 50c. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. aud Wilhite & Wilhite. - A troc Christinn living in the ?vorld is like a ship sailing on the ocean. It is not the ship being in the water that will sink it, but the water into the ship. So, in like manner, thc Christian is not ruined by being in thc world, which he must needs be while he remains in thc body, but by the world being in him. Mrs. Calvin Zimmerman, Milesburg, Pa., says, "AB a speedy cure for all coughs, colds, croup and sore throat One Minute Cough Cure is unequaled, lt is pleasant for children to take.. I heartily recommend it to mothers." It is thc only harmless remedy that pr?u??es immediate results, lt cures bronchitis, pneumonia, grippe and throat and lung diseases. It will pre vent consumption. Evans Pharmacy. -. To do ono good deed is a greater ?c-G?i??cOui?ul tu character than to spend d&yo in thinking about the good deeds you would like to do. M. B. Smith, Butternut, Mich., says "DeWitt's Little Early Risers afc the very boat pills I ever used for costive ness, liver and bowel troubles." Evans Pharmacy. -- When yo? are tempted- to be im patient with Others consider how sore* ly you yourself have tried the patience of God. Kev. W. E. Sitzer, W. Cat?n, N.Y., writes, "I had dyspepsia over twenty years, and tried doctors and medicines without benefit. I was persuaded to use Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and it help ed mc from tho start. I bolievo it to bo-a panacea for all forms of indiges tion; It digests what yon eat. Evans Pharmacy. W. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by'tho ladies of the W. C. T. U. of Anderson, S. C. Which is the Enemy I A boy, bright eyed and bright faced, was found in the street by Frank Hals, a celebrated Dutch cpaintcr. Thc lad knew no name but Hans, so Hals call ed him Hans Findlings, and went at the work of teaching him. The boy pnoved au apt pupil; but as he pro gressed in art and increased in years, his works took on a strange character for one so young. They were of drink ing houses and drinking scenes, paint ed with a truthfulness and vividness that was wonderful. He went in for a 6hort lifo aud] a merry : one. At the agc of thirty he had drunk so much, so deeply, and so long that his life was literally drowned out o' bini. "Give me wine!'' bc ried to his physician. "No, no; it must bc water, Hans." "Must it? Ah, I'll try to love my enemy!'' The physician took the young uiau's baud and said: "Hans, I am going away for a time, as I have others to visit. Now, look you; I want to leave a solemn question for you to answer. There da a bottle of wine, and there is a flagon cf pu.o water. Which is the enemy? Dour boy,'.if you will solve this problem, aa I hope you will, you shall bo eaved, uot for a merry life, bot for a useful one. If you decide in behalf of the foul fiend, no power can save you." Tho physician went away. When he returned he found the young paint er in tears. "Doctor, save me, save mc, and I will be a useful man." He had decided that thc bright wine was his enemy. The good physician saved him, and Hans lived many year?, an ornament to soci< ty, and a grand contributor to the world of art.-Youth's Compan ion. A Tnrk Preferred. An English gentleman, who has re sided in Constantinople for twenty years, and employs U large number of men, in speaking of the laboriug pop ulation, exclaimed: "The laboring Turk has a great future before him. If I want a good, reliable watchman to watch my mill, or a boatman to row me down the Golden Horn to Pera, where I reside, I employ a Turk, and prefer him to a Christian;" and arnon;; the reasons which he gave for preferring Turks for such offices'was that they are always sober. As it is against their religious principles ever to drink any kind of intoxicating drinks, dis tilled or fermented, they are conse quently free from "thc enormous sin of drunkenness." What shall we say for ourselves and C . *istianity when we read that the religious principles of the Turks cause them to be free from the "enormous sin. of drunkenness?" The Turks. Give the Turks their dues. We have no sympathy with their nation or their religion. But it is a fact that they are great fighters, and endure ex posure and hardship far better than do the Greeks. This superiority is due, in part at least, to thc abstemious habits of the Turk. Their religion forbids them to u?e intoxicants. Tho Turkish officers were astonished at the large quantities of brandy and other liquors found in thc deserted Greek camps, and ridicule men who drink so much for attempting to fight battles. Total abstainers, other thiags being equal, can endure much more than men who arc befuddled with liquor.- Scottish Reformer. , It is very hard to stand idly by and sec our dear ones suffer while awaiting the doctor. An Albany (N. Y.) dairy man called at a drug store there for a doctor to come and sec his child, then very sick with croup. Not finding thc doctor in, he left word for him to come at once on his return. He also bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy, which he hoped would give some I relief until the doctor should arrive. In a few hours he returned, saying the doctor need not come, as the child was much better. Tho druggist, Mr. Otto Scholz, says the family has since recommended Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to their neighbors and friends until he has a constant demand *for it from that part of the country. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. You can be sure of this: if you are doing all you can to make a ehild I better vou are doing ?omot??ing that pleases God. To secure the original Witch Hazel Salve ask for DcWitfs Witch nazel Salvo, well known as a certain cure for piles and skin diseases.. Beware of worthless counterfeits. They arc dangerous. Evans Pharmacy. - Few of us gaie by' the mistakes cf others, but he who fails to profit by his own mistakes, will soon bo bank ruptin knowledge. Wm. Orr, 'Newark, O., says, "We never feel safe without Ono Minute Cough Cure in th*e house. It saved my little boy's life when he had the pneumonia. Wo think it is the bcd! medioine made." It cures coughs and all lung diseases. Piensan*, to take, ' harmless, and gives immediate results. Evans Pharmacy. Vagaries of Joo ?'beeler. General Joe Wheeler will receive uo warmer welcome from any class of people when he resumes his scat in thc IIouso of Representatives than from thc doorkeepers of the various committee-rooms iuto which he is sure to drop gomo time during each day. Some article of his clothing is stowed away in tho closet of nearly /every room. He has a way of jerking oil his cuffs and putting them in un looked fi r places--frequently in thc waste basket. After a while he miss es them, and runs around to the va rious doors and insists that such and such au attendant has put them where ho can't fiud them. After exciting searches they arc sometimes found, but more often overlooked and packed away in the official wardrobe. Many a pair of sleeve links has thc General lost in this way. Ile will run into a committee-room, and if he linds there a group talking on any subject in which he is interested, will drop his hat, and coat on tho lloor and in two minutes will be in tho heat of a heat ed "arg uncut. Some ponderous mem ber of the committee will get up to leave che room, inadvertently step on the hat, and in aotwinkliug thc brave little man is up and smoothing out his battered headgear with thc greatest surprise and solicitude, woudcring how on earth it came tobo on thc floor. He is said to have lost moro hats than any other man io Congress, and the official barber always keeps an extra hat on hand for General WhcelerJ in case of emergency. When the mem bers seo him starting for home, al most lost to sight under a very large hat that has evidently belonged to a 7?j-8?zcd head, they know what has happened. All the members of thc Wheeler family have beeu ever independent in their movements, and oue rarely ex pressed any curiosity about thc doings of the other, and, while confidence waa always enjoyed, it was never for ced. Un one occasion, during tho life of Mrs. Wheeler, who was a wo man of charming personality, if some times a bit absent-minded, this lack of family consultation placed tho General in a somewhat awkward, and certainly a very unusual predicament. The General, says thc Chicago Inter Ocean, had lodged his family for thc winter in apartments in a fashionable section of the city, but after a trial of them for a few days, Mrs. Wheeler became dissatisfied, and ono evening when her husband returned from Con gress she Eaid: "Father, I dou't like this plac? nt all and really^ think wc bad belter move, if you don't object." . "Certainly not, mother," returned the ever gallant General. ''Just please yourself-anything suits me." Nothing more was'said on the sub ject, but a couple of days later, on seeking the society of his family after the official duties of the day were over, the Congressman found the apartment deserted, and on inquiry that his family had moved during the day. No one knew where they had gone. Mrs. Wheeler had merely neglected to inform her husband that-t'iey were to move that day, and whero the -new residence was. He] went to various hotels, but didn't find them, so finally spent the night at one, and next day his colleagues were highly diverted and interested at^thc engaging candor with which the great little man re lated how he had lost his family and asked their advico as to where they supposed he could find them. In thc course of the day ?ne of the children carno to the Capitol to find out why the father had n't been at home then igh: before, and then the omission of let ting him know the secret of where they had moved was rectified; and he went away gayly to the new quarters, where with Mrs. Wheeler he had a hearty laugh over their temporary separation. General Wheeler's lunches do not put many shekels into tho pockets of the restaurant keepers of tho House, but ho is always a welcome guest, and at irregular hours drops in for a bowl of crackers and milk, which is his in variable luncheon fare. He never fails to'give a tip which amounts to as much or more than the cost of his luncheon, and the waiters vic with each other in their efforts to take his order. Ho is beloved alike by all sorts and conditions of men, and when he gets back to Congress will be wel comed by the humblest attendent as well a? by tbo'tnost distinguished of his colleagues. One Against thc Mean Mau ' A capital joke is related of a man who positively made anne art of mean ness. When traveling, as be very often did, he would keep railway por ters busy attending to his luggage, and then purposely defer thc much deser ved ^perquisite till thc starting of the train made its payment practically impossible. One morning, however, when about to journey to Birmingham, he exe cuted this maneuver once too often. "Dear, dear; I am so ?orry!" he sufi, as thc train gave a lurch forward. "I quite forgot to get change." ''And I'm rale sorry, too, sir," wat thc porter's dry retort. "I quite for got about that brown portman tay ol yours-it's Jyin' on the platform." London Ansiccr*. Urliup Totter on the Filipinos. New York, March-li).-Bishop Pot tor, who, has just returned from a five months tour, which included visits to the Philippines, Japan and India, talked to-day regarding his impres sions. The trip was made at the in stance of the committee on iucreascd responsibilities of the Protestant Kpiscopal church. He was most in terested, he said, in the conditiou of affairs in China and Japan, lie no ticed a gradual friendliness between the two nations, and prophesied 4'nai. when Japan has taught thc Chinese the art of war, neither longland. Rus sia nor Germany will decide thc fate of the East. The Chinese do npt love thc Japanese, but, recognizing that they have nothing to hope from Eu ropean nations, are gladly establishing au entente cordiale with the .Japa nese. Referring to thc Philippine] situa tion Bishop Potter said he went lo the islands in au attitude of antagon ism. He declined to say if his opin ions had altered, but paid he recog nized thc question as a purely acade mic one. " Whatever wc might have done," bc said, "a year or more back, there is but one thing for us to do now, ?iud that is to hold on to thc islands and assume tho responsibility for their future. Thc military administration of thc islands is beyond praise. Gen. Otis has not received half tho recog nition to which ho is entitled. His position has been ono of extreme deli cacy. New questions are arising daily and he has handled them all with dis cretion. One thing is evident, and that is that thc Filipinos arc in no condition for scli-governrnent. If a civil government were imposed it would need a largo military force to maintain it. ' "Several friends of Aguinaldo," said the bishop, ; called on me in Hong Kong, and they told mc that they were satisfied that there could be no success of his undertaking. The better class of Filipinos are satisfied that American occupation moans in creased prosperity and are not raising any objections." Btshop Potter toiJ us of a visit he made to a factory in Manila, where about i?O Filipino boys and girls were spinuing cotton cloth. The overseer told him they had ieu.ncd to work the looms in about six weeks whereas Irish aud Scotch children took as many months before they were of any assistance. The natives seemed to take kindly to thc confinement of fac tory life, but ibey objected to thc or ders against smoking in the factories. Choosing An Occupation. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higgin son, thc veteran abolitionist, soldier, ! lecturer and writer,'has n golden word of advice for young men in thc March issues of Success: "The danger of being too change able is especially apt to predominare in a country like ours, where things are more in a state of flux, less fixed and settled than in olden countries, and where there are more fields. In England, for instance, if one starts in some particular linc, it is very difficult to get out of it, but herc it is a com paratively easy matter. "I should, therefore, saj to young people: 'Beware of tomntntion tc per sigt in following an occupation or pro fession, merely becau c you have started in that, wheu once you find that you are utterly unadapted to it; and still more, beware of the tempta tion to fly from one thing to another, to be constantly fluctuating in your choice, for this will surolylead to fail ure and disappointment-an ineorn plcte lifo. -m .> m -? - The American Tobacco compa ny has closed down its New York fac tories on thc ground that labor there is too expensive. - Meat is very dear in Havana to the retail buy ar. The price for beef is about 35 cents a pound and is very poor beef at that. - Thc Atchinson Globe says that Great Britain has again demonstrated that the lion is thc king of bcasia._ - TH BJ BANKJJFJMJPSON. J. A. imOCK, President. Jos. N. BROWN, Vic? Presiden t. Ii. F. MAULDIN, Cat-liior. TH 1-2 lar^e-at, strongest H*nk in the Count3'. Interest Paid?on Deposits Ii y special ttf?reemont. 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Talley, of Columbia, aud what he had to say for Harris Lithia : "After a long and varied experience in the usc of min ral wateis from many source?, both foreign and domestic, I ant tully persuaded hat the Harris Lithia Water possesses cflicaey in thc treatment of otiUctions of the Kidney and the Bladder unequalled by any other water of which I have made trial. This opinion is based upon observation of its ?l?ects upon my patients for tho past three yeats, during which tim > I have prescribed it freely and almost uniformly with bent '.it in thc medical maladies ab ?ve menliync * Columbia, S. C , Od. 8, 18512'. A. N. TALLEY M. 1) " '.An extended clinical uso ol' the Harris Lithia Water prompts me to the statement that I regard it as one ol' thc best, if not the best, Lithia Water known to the profession. In the condition ol' Phosphatic Urine, it) action is marvellous. Its use in the Rheumatic and Gouty Diseases afford me more comfort than either thc Bulla! o or Loudoiulerrv Waters. 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