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BILL ARP Relatives of Jack Be to 1 Atlanta Ci I J A veteran friend bas sent me one of the identical beans thai little Jack planted and that grew up in the sky. It came in a letter spiled up like a lit tle green snake and I thought at first it was a snake. It is about tho size of an average wax been and is twenty eight and one-half inches long. I measured it on my square and am satisfied it was at least thirty inches when it was taken from the vine, for it has shrunk some in thc mail. Ile writes that he is a lineal descendant of Jack and thc bean stalk and this variety has been handed down through seventeen generations, more or less, and these beans won't grow for any body except Irish patriots or confed erate veterans. Thc writer belonged to Captain Dawson's company in the Kighth Georgia regiment and was with us that memorable night whan we er ased the Shenandoah river by torah light and the short boys had to be eased over the deep places by putting tailor soldiers behind them, and even then the water ran into their mouths occasionally. My friend was one of the shortB and says he got strangled several times on tiptoe. These bean vines and other vines Luve often exoited my wonder and con templation. Solomon says: "There is a purpose for everything under beaven," and Addison says: "In reason's voice all rejoice." And so I would like to know why all the bean vines, morning glories, madeira and cinnamon vines grow and wind toward the sun, starting on the south side of lac pole ana going east, while thc hop vine and some others reverse their course. Everything has its law and you can't make anything change its rat'ire. A vine will die if you force it the wrong way. And yet Raphael femmes says in his great beck that, south of the equator everything is re versed and the bean vines that climb against the sun up here climb with it ! down there. . Of course the motion of j the earth on its axis has something to do with it, but why is it so? We don't know much after all. Mrs. Hemans says: "And flowers shall wither at the north wind's breath," but if she had lived in South America she would have said "at the south wind's breath," for that is the cold wind below the equator. We are all inclined to view things from oar own standpoint. Of course it is very nat ural for us to do so for we live in the same zone and latitude that Adam and Eve lived in. "Westward the course of empire taken its way." That's all. No change in the course of the san or moon or stars or climate or tempera ture. Paradise was on a line with Carterville, and' it is yet, and the Euphrates river is the Etowah now and the gold of that land was good and BO is the gold of this. But I was ruminnting about these mysteries of nature that surround us and aro so common that we do not notice them. Last night our grove, was illuminated, by thousand fireflies more numerous and more brilliant than ever before. It was regular pyrotech nics for an hoar. They lighten as they rise from the grass and emit a spark of gold and green laster that is lovely. Some naturalists say it is phosphorus that taey can illuminate at will by breathing hydrogen or oxy gen ?nto.it and that it has no heat. Ever since Linnens lived thia little innocent bug has been under the fires of dissection and discussion, and no solution of its wonderful faculty has yet been agreed upon. I had to eatch a bottle full for the little girls. They played with them until bed time and then I turned them put and one el' them was dead with the light still shining in its tail. It had illuminated its own death and kept its lantern burning without a breath of hydrogen or oxygen. Away down in tho tropics these fireflies are an inch long and a score or two of them will illuminate a room and a dosen in a bottle gives light to read by. Travelers tio a dozen to a stick and travel at night by their light.. I would like to import some of that variety into my grove. In fact I think we could utilize them ia our street lamps and get more light than we do now.* The other morning about sunrise I was surprised . at the number of little dewcovered cobwebs that adorned the grass and weeds around the house. They were almost touching each other ' sud glistened in the morning-sun like a frost was upon them. Most of them were about tho site bf a saucer and had their tiny cords and stays fastened securely and in everyone was a can Biag little aperture where the weavei lived and waited and watched for his prey. The workmanship of these lit tle webs was exquisite, artistic and perfect-where did tho little creature get its material and who told it that S LETTER. anstalk Fame Writes Bill. institution. this was a good morning to set its j traps? The books tell us that it has within its little abdomen a tiny reel that turns as the web is spun and that thc fiber is so wonderfully fioe it would take ten thousand strands to make a thread of sewing silk. Wendell Phil lips delivered a lecture in Boston and his subject was: "There is Nothing New Under the Sun." He declared that 3,000 years ago thc Persian ladies could weave fabrics as delioate as a spider's web and that once a Porisian princess who was going out to a fash ionable dance went into her father's roora to show him the beautiful gar ments she had on. The old king was amazed at her apparel, or rather at the lack of it, and said: "Go back, my daughter; go back and dress yourself. Your garments do not conceal your nakedness." She seemed indignant at his rebuke and said: "Father, I have on seven different coverings be side my dreBS." This is enough of beans and vines and insects. My folks are busy now making jelly-made thirty-six glasees of horse apple jelly yesterday and are working on the blackberries to-day. Never was Buch a crop of berries these herries of chameleon colors that are red when they are green and black when they are ripe. The poor country women and' little girls have taken in many a dime already. They want 20 cents a gallon and I never jew them. When a poor woman and her little children turn out in the wet gras and scratch their hands and tear their clothes and get wqt up to their knees and tote their buckets to town two or three miles they ought to have 20 cents for agall?n, but they don't get it often. A woman came yesterday with a peck of nico berries and I knew VA. * li J I I r ,( li T V? *wl ?. * * rt **w* 1- ' - - - - - ? . v-? T A uuuu V U uti OIUVU I her husband was in the chaingang. . How is he doing now? I asked her. She smiled and said: "He's at work; he's been dom' right well for a good while. His health ain't good, but he's at work. Me and the children have got a right good garden, but my little daughter needed a pair of Sunday shoes mighty bad and I told her we could pick herries for 'em and we will." Now that poor woman tied herself to a trifling man when she was yoong and fairly pretty and she don't i?Ant to get loose, it is most aston* ishing to me-the devotion of a wo man to a trifling husband. She says he is good to her and loves the chil dren, but he haa his failings and sb she clings to him and keeps her mar riage vows. St. Peter will let her in when she knocks at the gate and will let her child.en in, too, bat I don't know what will become of him. May be he is elected for her sake; I hope so. BILL ARP. An Epldemlo of Diarrhoea. Mr. A. Sanders, writing from Co coanut Grove, Fla., says there has been quite an epidemic of diarrhoea there. He had a severe attaok and was cured by four doses of Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says he also recommend ed it to others and they say it is the best medicine they ever used. For sale by Hill-Orr Drag Co. - "Did you see Dumley's latest photograph?'* "You mean the one in which ' looks cross-eyed?" "Yes; how < arth did it happen?" "Well, the photographer was cross-eyed, yon see, and just as he made the exposure he turned to Datnpley and said: 'Look this way, pie a BO.' " A gentleman recently cured of dys pepsia gave the following appropriate rendering of Burns' famous blessing : "Some have meat and cannot eat, and some have none that want it ; but we have meat, and we ean eat-Kodol Dyspepsia Cure be thanked.". This {reparation will digest what yon eat. t instantly relieves and radically cures indigestion and all kinds of stomach disorders. Evans' Pharmacy. - At a wedding in Illinois the other day no men except the bridegroom and the minister were allowed. Even the ushers were women, and so was the "best mao."/ It needed only a woman minister to make the femininity of the occasion complete. And then what a pity the bridegroom had to be a man. The law holds both maker and cir culator of a counterfeit equally guilty. The dealer who sells you a dangerous counterfeit of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve risks your life to make a little larger profit. You cannot trust him. Dewitt's is the only genuine and orig inal Witch Hazel Salve, a well known cure for piles and all skin diseases. See that your dealer gives you De' Witt's Salve. Evans' Pharmacy. -- Bobba- "Clothes do not make the man." Dobbs"-"Nc, but mans a lawyer bas b;cn mat'j by a good ' sait." i LosT-Many golden . opportunit?. have been lost by those who snffei ' rheumatism. By taking Rheumacid? now they will be permanently ant : positively cured. Sold in Andersor ; by Evans Pharmacy. Knowing How. A member of the graduating class of a high school went to the principal, who was known to bo a man of great practical wisdom, and asked him to write in an autograph album the most helpful and timely advioe which he could put into the form of a motto. Tho teacher quickly wrote two words with his autograph, and returned the book. The two words were theso "Know how." Ten years later the pupil and his former teacher met again. The young man was then holding an important and highly remunerative pcsi?on in a shipbuilding establishment. He had achieved tho most brilliant success of all thc members of his class, thus far. In response to tho congratulations of his old high-school master he said gratefully: "I owe itali to those two words you wrote in my autograph al bum, ten years ago, 'Know how.' It' did not take me long to realize that that was indeed the supreme demand o" this age, and I met it as earnestly and aa faithfully as I could. I chose my profession, and then gave myself to it day and night, until there was not a detail from first to last with which I was not perfectly familiar. I hope I do not say this boastfully. What I have to bo thankful for is sim ply the result of the honest following of wise advice." Tho writer knows another young man-not so very young now how ever- who started out with a differ ent conception of the demand of the age. He thought, and used often to assert, that all one needed in order to succeed in life were "puFh and cheek." He did not believe in tho supreme praotioal vale of equipment. Self assertion was his reliance. "What you assume to he, the world will grant you," ho deolared. "All you have to do is to demand it." But when he was thirty-two years old he concluded to give up his grand game of biuS and acoept himself as the world's stern valuation-on the basis of practical equipment. He is now working in a furniture store in Omaha-and grad ually learning how. Time was, perhaps, before the world was as intelligent as it is noir, when self-assertion or "cheek" would do much toward helping a young person to secure a position of trust and re sponsibility. Assuming to know counted a good deal with those who confessedly did not know. But that time has certainly passed. Modern eyes have thc X-ray power of intelli gence. They can see through wool. The most sublime assumption and self assertion no longer suffice. The stern, straight questions which the world asks every young person are these: "What is your equipment? What do you know how to do?" No preten sion will be accepted ss an answer to this question. The world nowadays not only demands honest equipment but humility with knowledge. At any rate, it puts a premium upon mod est fitness. To know thoroughly what one asks a chance to do and yet to be modest and deferential and receptive at heart, -is the best recommendation for any young person who is seeking a place in the world. Undoubtedly, there never was a time when life had such strenuous de mands upon the beginner as now. Universal intelligence, keen compen sation, higher standards in education, definite and well-directed training from childhood up, the tendency to specialization, the demand not only for complete knowledge bat for orig inal oreative faculty-all these things make it increasingly harder for the new workers to win reoognization. There is absolutely no honorable chance in these days for the young person who does not know how to do something and do it well. We must wake to this fact before we throw our self into the struggle for life, or noth ing but cruel disappointment awaits us. "Know how" is the most im perative of all mottoes, so far as prac tical success ?a life is concerned. The dawdler, the wool-gatherer, the skirk er, the snperfioialist, the truster in luck-these are the ones who cannot survive in this age of progressive in tellectual selection. Yet, how many young people seem still inclined to follow the cheap and shoddy methods by which success used sometimes to be. snatohed, not won. How many fail to wake to the seriousness of life until they are help lessly handicapped io the race. How many dawdle, and idle, and squander the preeiou 9 time allowed them for preparation for life's strenuous work. They do not seem to realise the vital ?mnnrlonnn rkt nuA.D atar, in r1i-i?> orin, -M-_-- ......--jr - - --- .. eattve training, and haw necessary it I ia that it should be thoroughly taken, i in order that they may know how to do whatever they elect to do from the rudiments up. Warnings addressed to such as these too often fall upon . heedless and nnbelieving ears; but how certain is. the neglect that mus? > follow such negligence. Let the care f less and the doubters only watch the I careers of those who have faced life with the samo irresponsible motive?, i and they will be forced to confess that r the ?.?mehas passed when happy-go-1 nek j methods can win for anybody ever i apparent and temporary s,!r*':?s ir life.--Arthur Burntly in Foricard. New Flying Machine. Dr. K. I. Danilewsky, a Kassian en gineer living in Charkow, according to the reports of Russian army experts, has conquered the problem of aerial navigation. Dr. Danilewsky for years has made a serious study of the science of aero nautics and has constructed a flying machine which has accomplished much more in a practical way than any simi lar contrivance yet invented. In a recent test at Charkow, accord ing to the London Ling, Dr. Charkow proved his ability to ascend to any height that may be desired; tc travel in any desired direction in average winds; to successfully navigate his ma chine at any latitude and to bring it to earth again without wastage of gas. In ascending or descending he does not disturb or remove ballast or gas and the machine returns to earth in vir tually the same condition as when it starts on a voyage. Thc most striking features of the tests have been Dr. Danilewsky's per fect control of the machine under all conditions and his ability to travel against the wind by tacking as a sail in ship does. The machine itself is different from all others. It resembles a huge cigar and travels in a vertical position, with the pointed end pointing toward the sky. The cigar part is inflated with hydrogen, and suspended from it is a kind of a framework of fans in lieu of the ordinary car. Below this is a chair, in which the aeronaut is seated. On each Bide he is flanked by an im mense wing, and it is by dexterously manipulating these that Dr. Dani lewsky makes headway against the wind. Dr. Danilewsky's theory of aerial navigation is that if a man's strength, ip proportion to his weight, is not suf ficient to raise him in the air he must have his weight eliminated. This is Daviot av; wi ny avuuuij/uoucu Djr luuauujj the baloon part with hydrogen. Then, with the question of man's weight dis posed of, he is in a position to con centrate all of his energies upon the task of propelling and steering the vessel. The Russian military department has caused Dr. Danilewsky to put his maohin? through many severe tests and in every case h<i - has acquitted himself successfully. He has ascend ed to a height of 300 feet and put his aerial vessel through all manner of evolutions. Ile has also risen to a height that has placed him outside the range of vision of the observers on the earth, and after an hour's trip in lofty altitudes returned to thc stark ing point. Dr. Danilewsky can con trol the descent from a great height with a. nicety so even that the machine returns io the earth without a percep tible jar. The Russian military department will probably adopt the machine ac part of the equipment of its signal corps.-New York World. Good Joke by a Minister's Father. The Rev. Frank Gunsaulus at one time believed that his psrish wori would bs made much easier for him il he possessed a horse on which to ride from plaoe to place, ?so he determined to purchase one. Now, what Mr, Gunsaulus didn't know about a horse would fill a large volume, and aB might have been expected, he fell into the hands of the Philistines. He san nothing wrong with the horse, how ever. He had told the man of whoa he bought it that he was not used tc riding, and so wanted a quiet animal, and in this respect at least the horse esme fully up to the requirements Oneiday Mr. GunBaulus's father cam? to visit him, and the horse was proud ly shown to him. Gunsaulus, per? looked the horse over carefully. "Well, Frank," he ??id at last, "he Isn't muoh on looks, is he?" "No," answered Frank; "but, thee you kLOW, father, the Saviour rode i horse that was anything but hand some." "Yes, I've heard that," said the old man reflectively. "Frank," he added, suddenly, ' 'you've got a treasure. I'll bet this is the same horse." DeWitt's Little Early Risers are the best pills made. Evans' Pharmacy, CHLORO-N4 CHEMICAL LAnonATO J. E. CLARK, WEST DISINFECTING CO.-DEAR SH made a tories of experiments with Weat be a potent disinfectant and deodorizer, that render it a valuable agent in all co materials. It is especially to be re oom rr lent, as it acts by combining with tbe cai weil by its germicidal aoiion ia ?esiroyi , development of gases which give rise to does not simply supply eu odor to ma caneo and removes it. In my opinion, i i tartan in his laudable endeavor to obeck ( nflaencea of the omnipresent microbe. CHLORO-NAPTHG?LEUM heal , beast. It is invaluable for the treati . chicken cholera, as a sheep dip and a ' struction of bel-bugs, cocK-roaches i ' kinds of insects which infest vegetati I The Farmers J PAYS INTERES , S&" No deposit too small to rec i t&~ Children's deposits especial I Moody on his Grandchild's Death. Mr. Moody's only grandson and namesake, who was born on Novem ber Beventh, 1897, was taken home on November thirtieth, 1898, while Mr. Moody was absent in Colorado. In a letter to the parents, written from Colorado Springs, and quoted io thc Life of Moody, by his son, he said: "I know Dwight is having a good time, and we should rejoioo with him. What would the mansions be without children? HQ was the last to come into our circle, and ho is the first to go up there! So safe, so free from all the sorrow that we are passing through ! I do thank God for such a life. It was nearly all smiles and sunshine, and what a glorified body he will have, and with what joy he will await your coming! God does not give us such I strong love for each other for a few days or years, but it is going to last forever, and you will have the dear little man with you for ages and ages, aud love will keep increasing. The Master had need of him, or he would not have called him; and you should feel highly honored that you had anything in your home that he wanted. "I caunot think of Dwight as be longing to earth. Tho more I think of him the more I think ho was only sent to us to draw us all closer to each other and up to the world of light and joy. I could not wish him back, if he could have all earth could give him. And then the thought that the Sa viour will take such good care of him! No going astray, no sickness, no death. Dear, dear little fellow! I love to think of him, so sweet, so Bafe, and so lovely! His life was not only 1 blameless, but faultless; and if his life here was so sweet, what will it be up there? I believe thc only thing he took away from earth was that sweet smile, and I have no doubt that when he. saw the Saviour he smiled as he did when he saw you, and the word that keeps Coming to my mind is ibis: 'It is well with the child.' Only think of his translation! Thank God, Dwight is safe at home, and wc will all of us see him soon. "Your loving father, "1>. L. MOODY." A Newspaper Wonder. When you open up your newspaper, it may cause you to feel some wonder if you know that in all probability yours , are the first hands that have ever touched its inside pages. The reason for this is that the paper is made from wood pulp. Tho woodman cuts down a spruce tree. It is hauled to thc mill. There machinery strips off tht bark, reduces tho wood to pulp and makes it into paper. j At every turn cranes, derricks, chains, cogs, roller, steel teeth and other mechanical contrivances keer the material out of human hands. Thc immense rolls are wound by machines I loaded into car and wagon by machi nery, put into pressroom and or presses by other machinery and finally printed and folded without having been directly touched by any humar j hand. . This is, a meehanical marvel of to ? day which is no doubt duplicated ir i other branches of industry. It is verj I striking in the newspaper industry which stands in the very front rank ol j mechanical perfection.-St. Lou? ^ Post-Dispatch. * D. W. Mciver, Tukege, Ala., wrote ' Our child's bowels were passing of - pure blood and all prescriptions failec i to relieve her, until we tried Teethim > (Teething Powders), and she is nov doing well. - A double-headed calf was bon ' the other day on the farm of Marioi Minges atStanards, Allegany County 5 N. Y. Both heads arc perfectly form ed. The animal eats heartily and ii ' as frisky SB a normal calf. For burns, injuries, piles and skit 1 diseases use DeWitt's Witch Haze Salve. It is the original. Counter i feits may be offered. Evans' Phar . macy. - The first ingredient in conversa tton is truth, the next good sense, th< i third good humor, and the fourth wit Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests wha you eat aud allows dyspeptics to ea 1 plenty of nourishing food while th< stomach troubles are being radically oured by the medicinal agents it con ? tains. Pleasant to take and givei ? ? quick relief. Evans' Pharmacy. .PTHOLEUM ! KY, DETROIT COLLEGE OK MEDICINE, , M. D., Director, DETROIT, MICH., July 2. is : I bave made a careful analysis, and hav 'a Chloro-Naptbolenm, and have found itt and to be possessed of antiseptic qualitie nditions where it is necessary to nae sud tended in all case? where odors are preva use of the smell, and rendering lt inert, a ag micro organism*, and thus prevents tb foul odors. ID Itself, it has a pleasant odoi sic offensive exhalations, but strikes at th its employment will aid and assist the sani distase, and to circumscribe the unhealthft JOHN F. CLARK, M. D. K sores and wounds on both man an uent of horses and cattle, for hog an nimni wash, as an insecticide for the ch ind other pests, and for destroying a on. HARMACV, Agents. ^oan g Trust Co iT ON DEPOSTITS. eivo careful and courteous attention ly invited. J. K. VAN DIVER, Cashier. Ba CLEANSES THE M VER AND BOWELS ^SLW t ABD rctnrns ns SYSTEM TO RESIST PBKVAILIEG DEBASES. X EVANS PHARMACY, Special Agents. FRUIT JARS! FRUIT JARS! Now is the time to buy your Jars belove tliey advance in price. There being a big crop of fruit all over the country, Jars will bc much ligher later in the season. I have a big lot of them on hand at a low price Fruit Kettles, Fly Fans and Fly Traps, and all other summer good?. I have a lot ol' Decorated goods in odd pieces at a bargain. I am run ning out of stock at very low prices. jfeaY- Briug me your Rag? and Beeswax. Your patronage solicited, _JOHN T. BURRISS Fruit Jars, To put up your Fruit in. Preserving Powder, To keep Fruit from spoiling. Fruit Jar Rubbers, To put on your old Jars. Tartaric .A^eicl, To make Cherry and Blackberry Acid. Sticky F^ly JPaper, To catch the flies while working with your fruit HILL-ORR DRUG CO. D. S. VAND1VEH. E. P. VANDIVER VAND1VER BROS. We are strictly in it on HEAVY GROCERIES, Such as FLOUR, CORN, BRAN, MOLASSES, COFFEE, SUGAR anfr TOBACCO. We buy all of the above for Spot Cash, which puts us in posi tion to take care of your interest as well as any firm in this County, and pos sibly better than some. We can do you more good than anybody on SHOES. Strictly wholesale prices to Merchants ou the celebrated Schnapps and "Blue Jay** TOBACCO. Big Stock DRY GOODS, SHOES and HATS, bought before the recent big advance. Come and get your share at old prices. Yours for business, VANDIVER BROS. GARDEN SEED. Buist and Florry's. Remember when you go to get your Seed to get fresh ones. As this is our first year in the Seed business we have no seed carried over from last year. Yours, F. B. GRAYTON & CO. Near the Post Office. CLARENCE OSBORNE. KUT..EDGE OSSORTSE. Stoves, Stoves! * Iron King Stoves* Elmo Stoves, Liberty Stoves, Peerless Iron King Stoves, And other good makes Stoves and Ranges. A big line of TINWARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY and CHI NAWARE. Also, anything in the line of Kitchen Furnishing Goods-such as Buck ets, Trays, Rolling Pins, Sifters, ?fcc. Thanking our friends and customers for their pa?t patronage and wish ing for continuance of same Ysura truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE.