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BILL ARP' jBill Answers Letter Atlanta Vc Two school girls dowa in Alabama write to know why it is that geese will not eat com when it is strewn around the circumference of a circle. They gay that their presiding elder conldent tell, and advised them to ask me. I supposed it was a conundrum, or that there was some catch in the question ?a catch like the one: Why will a guinea pig's eyes fall out if you hold it up by the tail? As the guinea pig has no tail, of course, his eyes are in no danger. But a lady friend who raises geese assures me that [she has often seen them tempted with corn or other grain strown thickly round a cir cle, and they will not venture near it; but if soattered, they will, after care ful inspeotion, approach and eat. What the circle has to do with it is past my ken, though we do know that geese march in straight lines and the wild geese fly in straight angles. A goose is a very suspicious fowl, and is always on the lookout for danger. A goose basent much sense. In fact, a goose is a goose; but their devotion to each other when mated is beautiful. How faithfully the. gander will 'stand by his mate wbiie she sits on her nest. She pluoks the down- from his breast and covers her eggs. How gal lantly he escorte her to the grass and escorts her baok when she leaves them for food.. How tenderly they care for the brood when it comes, and never leave them until feathered and grown. There are no divorces nor grass widows io the Anserian family?what a pity we are not all geese. But, speaking of conundrums re minds me of how a lady caught me yesterday when she asked me how the water got into the watermelon, and as I proceeded to expound the ohemioal processes that all fruits and vegeta bles had to go through, she stoppsd me and said-: "Qh, major, the water gets into the watermelon because it is planted in the spring." I got even with her, though, by asking her why was an elephant like a lad's belt. When she gave it up, I said, "Be cause there is a 'b'in -both." 'Why," ehe said, "there io no *b' in 'ele phant.' " 'There is a*b' in 'both/ M said I. " 'B-o-t-h*?yon can't spell both' without a 'b.' " It takes a lit tle time to see that. And there is an other conundrum that was classic when I wss young? "Charge, Cheater, charge?On, Stanley, on! Were the last words of Marmion. Had I hut been In Stanley's place Tears would have moistened Chester's face." - . The smell of an onion would have brought a tear or two. I reckon. Now, let those sweet school girls strain their minds over that, and then let them Eearch the scriptures and tell me this. There is reference made in the old and new testaments to a person who died as no other person ever died; whose body never saw corruption, whose name is never spoken and the material of whose shroud is found in every household. Thero'is no catch in that ?it is a faot. Ask the presiding elder. I am indulging in these thoughts to please the children, for that is the biggest and best part of parental life, and is what the world is working for. Sometimes I cannot help ruminating upon what pleased me when I was young and my mind was expanding in to knowledge day by day: How I did strain over the-problem of the.fox and. tho goose and the bag of corn . And there was the elephant puzzle, where an old man died leaving eighteen ele phants to his three ssons-rone to have half of them, another one-third of them and the other one-ninth. But before the division one elephant died, and seventeen wouldn't divide even at all. So they consulted a wise old neighbor who had but one elephant. He generously drove his one into the herd of seventeen and then divided them, giving to one of the boys nine, to another six and to the other two. This took but seventeen, and so h? drove his own elephant baok home again. How is that? Wasent he a smart old fellow to satisfy the boys and aave his elephant? B at by and by these school ohiM??? advance into their teens and begin to choose sweethearts, and the boys brash their hair more carefully and lhc girls cast glances that are shy and fly and read poetry and mark the lov mg passages, and flowers grow lovelier and the birds sing and the days of Jove's young dream have come. De lightful dayB, delicious memories? c?en an old man loves iq revel in them. No wonder the poets wrote so tenderly of >ve and the novelists made it. tVj chief .subject Of thoir 8topy- I was ruminating the oth-pr day about compiling and publishing a book j-a little book that could be sold for S LETTER. s of the School Oirls. mstitution. poetio gems by the best authors, and urging every parent to buy it for the children, for it would help to mold and retins - their characters and give them pleasure and comfort all their lives. My good father encouraged me to commit to memory some of the sweetest poems that were ever witten. I can repeat "The Hermit" now, and "Gray's Elegy" and "Genevi?ve" and "Byron's Address to the Ocean" and "Hohenlinden," and such as there were an inspiration to me as I grew to manhood. If I were teaching school I would have the boys and girls to recite them. What a book of gems could be made of selections from the old au thors, such poems as have not been written in fifty years and could not be written now. What poet could ap proach such beauty of language and sentiment as that verse from Gray? "Full many a gem of purest ray serene Tbo dark unfathomed coves of ocean boar; Full many a flower Is born to blush un seen And waste its sweetness on the desert air." or those two verses from Goldsmith beginning, "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep," or his sad warning to weaker sex? "When lovely woman stoops to folly And learns too late that men betray, What art can soothe her melancholy, What charm oan drive her grief away; The only art her grief can smother And stifle every burning algh And bring repentance to her lover And wring his bosom?Is to die." Then there is Tom Hood's "Song of the Shirt" that awakened all London, and his other sweet, sad poem, "I Re member, I Remember the House Where I was Born." I would include those heroic poems, "The Burial of Sir Jobs Moors," by Wolfe, and "Marco Bozsris," by Halleok. Never was a more sweetly sad and tearful verse written on death than that of Halleok, beginning ? "Come to the bridal chamber death, Gome to the mother when ehe feels Vor the first time her first-born's breath." And there is Mrs. Heman's apostro phe to death, "Leaves have their time to fall," and Longfellow's "Psalm of Life," and Mrs. Smith's exquisite verses, "If I Should Die To-night," and Tom Moore's, "This World Is AU a Fleet ing 8how?" end Mrs. Barbaid's nn equeled lines on "Life," "Say not good night, but lu some bright er dime Bid me good morning." Horaoe Smith's "Ode. to the Flow ers," and his "Address to the Mom my," of course, should go in, and the "Fisherman's Prayer," by Sean In gelow?bless her sweet memory, and "The Cotter's Saturday Night," by ; Burns, and "Abou Ben Adhem," by Leigh Hunt, and that verse by Lang home that Walter Soott wept, over? that weeping. mother hunting over a battlefield for her husband slain? "Bent o'er her babe?her eyes dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his future years Theohild of misery baptised in tears." There was a painting of that sad pic-, ture in an artist's studio, and when Sir Walter looked upon it and read the lines underneath ho was overcome, and wept like a child. Who does not lov? to weep sometimes over sueh pictures or such poems? My dear mother used to sing to me "The Exile of Erin," by Campbell, and it did me good to cry?tears are the embalm era of pity. Of oourse I would not omit some beautiful gems from Coleridge and Wordsworth, Montgomery and New ton, Cowper and Gray and many others, but I would like to make up a book that would adorn the fireside of every good family. There is one!poem I have not mentioned, for I do not know who wrote it, nor do I remember but a few lines. Its title is, "Where Shall the Soul Find Rest?" and the v?rse I recall is: "Asd thou serenest moon that with such holy face . Xrooks down upon, the earth asleep in : nighty embrace, uost tbou not know .some spot whoro weary, man may rest, And free from care and pain be ever bleat? Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in woe, And in a sweet, sad voice ahe answered, No.' / * - '.' ' .," f / Faith, hope and love? best boons tvfccr tals given, \ Plumbed their bright wluga ami an swered, 'Yea?In heaveb."* I would bo pleased if some one would send me all of that poem and tell me wh? wrote it. Bill A bp. D=> Witt's Little Early Risers are prompt; and pleasant. Evans' Phar macy. HUNTINGTONS MAXIMS. The Great Railroad Magnate's Recipe For Building a Fortune. Huntingtons own story of how he became rich is interesting. He told it a few months before he went to Pine Knot camp, in the ?dirondacks, where he died. Here it is : "Appreciate the value of to-day. That's my advioe to young men. It has been my rule through life?I am noaring the oentury mark now?not to look forward to the future?is a blank. To-day is the all-important issue. "I have never gone against the tide, nor worried while my schemes are maturing. A farmer sows a field of wheat. To worry over it would mere ly sap his energy. The wheat requires his attention at the harvest. "When I was a boy on my father's farm in Connecticut I worked bard, utilizing every moment, for there was plenty to do. But if I had any spare time I did chores for the neighbors. "I never* wanted for anything I needed; I always got it. But very many buy things they do not need. "When I came to New York, in 1836,1 had quite a sum of nmoey, the result of my saviogs, judicious invest ments and little tradings about the neighborhood. "The great secret of suoess is the laying of a nest egg and adding to your little store, never spending more than you make and being strickly economioal. "Again a young man should com mand what he is worth and always endeavor to botter himself. I was my own master since I was sixteen years old. "I have had a hundred thousand people in my employ in different parts of the world at the same time. "In my mercantile life, I have no ticed the man who arrives at his post on time and not one minute later, and who leaves on the minute and not one second later. He does not' do more than he has to do and does not do that well. "Then there is the man who arrives ahead of time and works late if need be. He takes an interest in his work and is anxious to be advanced. "I have always lived within my means and always strived for advance ment. "Another principle I have constant ly obeyed is 'business before pleasure.' "The chances are as good to-day as they ever were?they are even better. "But I do not think that the life of one who has accumulated a hundred millions, more or less, is the least in spiring. "It dazzles, it bewilders the strug gling youth. It may inspire him for a time; but that inspiration soon wears off. "It is not possible for one to follow is the footstep of another. Each must work out his own destiny. "I have never oared a cent what any human being thought or said about me or my aotion, so long as I was sat isfied. It is my idea that a man's business should be bis first thought. It h as always been mine. In conse quence, I suppose there are a great many things about which I know-less than* the average man; but, on the other hand, I am certain that there is nobody who knows more about my own business than I do myself. I never leave my game to play an other fellow's. "Finally, false pride is an enormous obstacle. I know yonng men in New York* who would not carry a trunk along Fifth avenue for all the frontage they could pass beaotsse they would be afraid that they might meet some girl they knew." Bleed Poison Cured by B.B.B.?Bottlo Free t? Sauerere. Deep-seated, obstinate oases, the kind mat have resisted doctors, hot springs and patent medieine treat meat, quickly yield to B.B.B. (Botan ic Blood Balm), thoroughly tested for 30 years. Have you mueuous patches in the mouth, sore throat, eruptions, eating sores, bone nains, itching skin, swollen glands, stiff joints, copper oolored spots, chancres, ulc?ration on the body, hair and eyebrows fall ont ? Is the skin a mass of boils, pimples and ulcers? Then this wonderful B.B.B, sp?oifio will completely change the whole body into a clean, perfect condition, free from eruptions, and skin smooth with the glow of perfect health. B. B. B. drains the poison ont of the system so the symptoms cannot return. At same time-B,B.B. j builds up the broken down constitu tion and improves .the digestion. So sufferers may test B.B.B, a trial bot tle will be given away free of charge. B.B.B, for sale by druggists and Hill Orr h*n? Oc, T7i!u?.v? cb vv iihits and Evans Pharmacy, at 91 per Iarfte bot tle, or 6 large bottles (full treatment) $5. Complet*) directions with each bottle. For trial bottle address Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga. - Describe trouble and Free medi cal advice given. ? "What is meant by a Sabbath day's journey?'' asked the Sanday ' school teacher. "From our house to grandpapa's and back," replied Fred die Fosdick, who knew w'iere his family took dinner ever Sunday. The soothing and healing properties -of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, its pleasant taste and prompt and perma nent cures, have made it a groat fa vorite with the people every wnero.-r For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. To Rid a Room of Insects. A family moving into an old house a year or so ago vraa unpleasantly sur prised to find that the former occu pant^ had been lacking in housewifely qualities, and, after sleeping in the house a night or so, it was discovered that there was more icseot life than was sgreeable. To follow old-fashioned methods was too slow, and instead three sulpher candles were purchased, the house was shut up after the can dles had been lighted, and left to itself for three hours. At the end of that time everything living inside had been killed, and there was no trouble afterward. The family moved to an other floor in the same house, repeated tho same operation, with the same success, and, removing again to their original floor, for a third time repeated the operation. It worked without fail, but metal of any kind in the room had to be taken out, or it would have turned black. Chinese are dangerous enemies for they are treacherous. That's why all counterfeits of De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve are dangerous. They look like DeWitt's, but instead of the all-heal ing witch hazel they contain ingredi ents liable to irritate the skin and cause blood poisoning. For piles, in juries and skin diseases use the origi nal Dewitt's Witch Hssg? Salve. Evans' Pharmacy. ? "An ounce of prevention is bet ter than a pound of eure," a? the pig remarked when he ran away from the butcher. One Minute Cough cures all lung troubles, maoy. Cure quickly Evans' Phar Could Not Translate It. Hiram had returned home from col lego, where he had won high honors as a student of the ancient languages; but he "fell down" one day when his sister, a demure young girl in her teens, asked him to translate a sign she had seen in front of an optician's office which read thus: "Consultu sabo utyo urey es." Hiram struggled manfully with it for several minutes and then gave it up. "It isn't good Latin," he said. "There are booh words in it that are Latin; but tho others are either wrong in termination or are barbarisms from other langu ages, and, taken as a whole, it doesn't make sense." "That is what I said," rejoined his sister; "but Keturah, out in the kitchen, translates it without any trouble. She says it means, "Consult us about your eyes. Whereupon Hiram collapsed. During the civil war, as well as in our late war with Spain, diarrhoea was one of the most troublesome diseases the army had to contend with. In many instances it became ehronic and the old soldiers still suffer from it. Mr. David Taylor, of Wind Ridge, Greene Co., Pa., is one of these. He uses Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and says he never found anything that would give him suoh quiok relief. It is for sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. ? Only after a public favorite be comes a "has-been" does he begin to realize the emptiness of applause. Fortify the body to resist malarial germs by putting the system in per fect order. Prickly Ash Bitters is a wonderful system regulator. Sold by Evans Pharmacy._ The Deering Mowers W-uJMjmiJJJJJjmm And Rakes. Hade by the largest Harvester Works in the world?the lar gest in output-, and sise of plant. They are sold in ewerj/ civilised section of the globe. The first to introduce the Bicycle and Roller Bearings to Agricultural Implements now famous the world over. Can be operated l y a child. Perfect steel undej>cl?t?ers. High-carbon ?sgle-sieel axle. Can be dumped by hand or foot. Oil-tempered steel teeth of finest quality. Ninety-five per cent of material finest high-carbon steel. Simplest dumping mechanism on earth?not a cog or pinion of any kind Shouldered steel spokes in wheels, hot-pressed at malleable hub and rim BROCK BROS. Some People have asked isn't two Cars of Fruit Jars too much for - - - - - KING BROS. BARGAIN STORE IN ONE SEASON ? WE beg to say that it is not. We have about sold the last of our second car. We will agree that we have handled more Jars this season than any one firm of Anderson has in any past season. - Buying right enables any one to sell right. We have purchased one solid car of CROCKERY. Bo look out for prices on Crockery. Our Gups and Saucers at 35c, 40c, 45c and 50c goes. Platesper set 35c. We bought two hundred and eighty-eight Balloon Fly Traps. 10c each. A few specials to take home with you : Butter Dishes 5c. A large Glaes Bowl. 10c. Pickle Dishes 5c. If you would make sure of getting lowest prices always buy. from SCINCs BROS., BARGAIN STORE, Two Doors from Post Office. MUSIC LOVERS! Are Enthusiastic Admirers of -the Celebrated IVER8 & POND AND WHEELOCK PIANOS. Theyjare of the highest grade of Instru ment' The best in every respect?touch, tone, durability, finish?all of the most superior character. Come in and learn how easily you may own one of either make. FARRAND 4 VOTEV, ESTEY and CROWN ORGANS will delight you and last a life-time or two. ( TheBall-Bearing NEW HOME and WHITE SEWING MACHINES are the best in the world. THE C. A. REED M??lC HOUSE. GARD?N SEED! JBixist and T^erry's. . -1 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. 'SSSF PRICKLY BRAIN WEARY? *?*VIH1W? * ASH BITTERS REUIBVBi AflD INVIGORATES. It cleanses the liver and bowels, lengthens the kidneys and aids digestion, thus the system is regulated and the foody fortified to resist disease. VALUABLE REMEOY TO KEEP IN THE HOUSE... SOLO BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price $1.00 Per Bottle. EVANS PHARMACY, Special Agents. DO YOU LIKE TO EAT ? If so come and inspect our line of FRESH and CHOICE GROCERIES. We cau tickle your palate. Our line is fresh and line, and we sell then> cheap for the cash. Give us a call and be convinced. If you want a SEWING MACHINE CHEAP, ou the installment plan, don't forget us. We can save you money. Respectfully, MORRIS & CO., 8outh Main Btreet, Broylea Block, Anderson, 8. C. SEND US YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS. We have engaged the services of Mr. J. E. BRADLEY, an experienced Pharmacist, and we are now prepared to serve you at all hours?either day or night. Mr. Bradley will room over our Store, so if you want a Prescrip tion failed at night just presB the button in front of our Store and we'll do the rest. Remember, only? THE BEST AND PUREST DRUGS Are allowed in our Store. E. Gh EVANS & CO., PEKDLETON, S. C. Fruit Tars To put up your Fruit in. Preserving Powder. To keep Fruit from spoiling. Fruit Jar Rubbers, To put vu your old Jars. To make Cherry and Blackberry Acid. Sticky Fly Paper, To catch the flies while working with your frui ALL AT HILL- ORR DRUC CO. Emerson. 99 A half centuiy of successful PIANO BUILDING. Seventy-five thousand delighted oustomers. Unequalled in tone, touch and durability. A peerless, perfect PIANO. Every Instrument sold under a positive guarantee. The name "EMERSON" on a PIANO 1b like the trade mark on English Silver? a guarantee that it Is Standard. Friend?, remember that you can buy an 7 of the leading SEWING MACHINES from me at about one-half other dealers ask. A full line of ORGANS. Time given. South Main Street. 91. I.. WILLIS. 0 S g Sa g FW 0 w M W Z 0 < F M H CD 0 ? ? M M Q W W < M M 0 w W a 3 S W -Sa g ?"S CD O o * se * Clarence Oam, ../e. RU Tl. KD OK OsnORNl, 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, GLA8SWARE, CROCKERY and CHI NAWARE. Also, anything in the line of Kitchen Furnishing Goods?such as Buck* ets, Trays, Rolling Pins, Sifters, &c. Thanking our friends and customers for their past patronage and wish ing for continuance of same Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBOBNE.