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BILL ARP Death, of ITriends M: Sa Atlante. Ce Hdw like a butterfly our thoughts flit from flower to faower feeding upon the ever-changing mental foods. Some times they soar to heaven or nestle among the stars, but their home is here among our people, our friends und kindred and the concerns of our daily life. Who has not wondered bow he came to be thinking of this thing or that aud traced it back to something wholly irrelevant, but lead ing on by shadowy lines. Buta little while ago I was sadly thinking about the sudden death of three more of my good friends?friends whom 1 loved uud everybody loved who knew them. Mr. Moore, of Auburn; Colonel My aatt, of Atlanta, aucVDr. Goetohius, of Home, left us on the same day. They were good men and the world was made better by their presence. I was thinking especially about Dr. lioetchius, the preacher, whose jour ney and destination was so suddenly changed, for he had bought his ticket f or Tallulah Falls, there to spend bis vacation, and was to take the train at 3 o'clock. lie rose from his bed at 2 aud at 3 he was dead and his spirit soaring heavenward. Then I thought about Mrs. Barbauld's lines that fit so well : "Life we have been long together In pleasant and in cloudy weather, Tis bard to part when friends are dear, I'erhsps 'twill cost a sigh or tear. Then steal away?give little warning; CbooBe thine own time, Fay not goodnight, but is some br?gui?r clime Bid me good morning." Then I ruminated about that won derful woman. How she was the first to write story books for the children anu hymns for the church and how her life was spent in the schoolroom among the children that she loved. And then I recalled that beautiful hymn that she wrote: '-How blest the righteous when he dies, When sinks the weary aoul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eye?, How gently heaves the expiring breast." And then I thought of the words of Balaam, upon whioh that hymn was founded. "Oh! may I die the death of the righteous and may my last end he like His." And this reminded me of those other words of Bslaam: "What hath God wrought?" That was the first message sent over a telegraph wire. It was sent from Washington to Baltimore by Misa Anna Ellsworth, the daughter of the commissioner of patents. She had been very kind to Professor Morse and he had prom ised that she should send the first message. This was sent on the 24th day of May, 1844, and two days later the second message was sent from Baltimore to Washington, announcing that James K. Polk had been nomi nated for president. I remember all this, for I was in college then. Bnt still the people were incredulous and waited for the mail train, to bring the news. Then I ruminated on the hard lot of great inventors, and how Morse spent all of his small estate and re ceived but little encouragement, being so utterly poor that he had to go without food at times for twenty-four hours, and how he pleaded with Con gress for three years in vain for an appropriation to help him perfect and build a line to Baltimore?and how at the very last, when he was in despair and had given up all hopes, Congress did at midnight, oh the last day of the session, pass the bill for $30,000, end Anna Eilsworth oame running to him " delighted haste and told him the good news. What an agonizing life he had led during all these years, for he had been refused help at home and had been to England and to Franco in search of it and found it not. Now just think of it. After he had built his first lines and his success was established he offered his patents to the United States for $100,000 and it was refused and he was constrained to sell to private parties, an invention that soon came to be worth one hun dred millions. But he died foil of yearB and full of honors, and eve France made him a donation of 400,00 francs. Wast a wonderful man?per haPs the greatest all around man that ?yer lived?for he was a painter of distinction and renown, the pnnll mn& Ii?e peer of Allsten and West and the ?ty of Charleston was his best friend ?od patron and has now his portraits ?f Monroe and Lafayette. He was a ?culptor, an architect, a philosopher *Qd a poet, and would have reached the top in all had he not become so absorbed in harnessing the lightning. A? a matter of course he w?? kept in "tigation several'years and other par> hes tried to steal his invention, bnt jhc 8upreme Court of the United States did gaally affirm veryjmw that he claimed. He died in :1^?M his eighty-first, year. Here rr?y thoughts rested for a while S LETTFR. akes the Philosopher and then returned to Dr. Goetohius snd the many other friends wholhave gone before and have left me almost alone. How fondly our minds cling to the friends of our youth?our schoolmates and college mates?and every now and then we hear of an other who has dropped out of line, and like the barber in a barber shop, old Father Time whispers "next." My dear old friend Jim Warren still lives to greet me when I come and so does Chess Howard and Dr. Alexander and his brother and Evan Ho well. Then I recalled the grand and beautiful words of Ingalls spoken in his eulogy on Senator Beck. "The right to live is, in human estimation, the most sacred, the most inviolable, the most inalienable. The joy of living in such a splendid and luminous day as this is inconceivable. To exist is exulta tion. To live forever is our sublimest hope, To know, to love, to achieve, to triumph is recapture; and yet we are all under sentence of death. Without a trial or opportunity of de fense, with no knowledge of the ac cuser or the nature and canse of the accusation; without being confronted with the witnesses against us we have been summoned to the bar of life and condemned to death. There is neither exculpation nor appeal. The tender mother cricB passionately for meroy for her first born, but there is no olemency. The craven fellon sullenly prays for a moment in which to be aneled, but there is no reprieve. The soul helplessly beats its wings upon the bars, shudders and disappears. "But the death of a good man is not an inconsolable lamentation. It is a strain of triumph and he may ex claim with' the Boman poet, 'Non om nis Moriar,' and turning to the silent and unknown future can rely with just and reasonable confidence upon that most impressive assurance ever delivered to the h um in race, "He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.'" . . Mr. Ingalls might have added one more shadow to his dark pioture of death by saying that he not only con demned us without trial or witnesses or an accuser, but the pitiless old ras cal would not even j^ive the date of our exeoution nor the manner of it. We are to die, that is certain, but, when or. how or where we know not. Think of Dr. Goetohius, dressed at 2 o'clock with pleoeant sntioipations of a.rest at Tallulah, amid the sound of falling waters that soothe the soul, but within an hour he was a helpless, lifelesB corpse. Senator Ingalls was a gifted man? not a word painter, but a thought en graver. For years he wse our enemy and harbored prejudices against our people, but after he had visited Texas and studied the negro and his race traits, he returned home and declared that he was unfit and unworthy of freedom or.any political franchise. Bill Abp. Reflections of a Bachelor. There is no good husband but a dead husband. Women probably like babieB be cause they cry. so mnoh without knowing what is?the matter with them. Women are useful in one way; the average man would never, know he. had some of bis faults if it weren't for his wife. Down in her heart every woman has an idea that the reason why an old bachelor doesn' t get married is because he isn't living as he ought to. When you hear a woman say she believes in the new style of going to church with no hat on, you may know some man has told her she has "glori ous hair." Probably most of the anoient mar tyrs were married. When a woman thinks she has con vinced a man, she has generally only made him sick. Yea can never tell fcom a woman's looks whether she has the ear-aohe or whether she is only in love. The average woman is as careful to save her minister's feelings as she is to save the black nluraeo oft h*? oM na*. When you. want a pleasant physio try the new remedy. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price, 250. Samples free at Hill-Orr Drug Co's. store, ? No. woman over knows when she is being worked and no man ever know3 when he is being watched. Have you a sense of fullness in the region of your stomach after eating ? If so you will be benefited by using i Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Ta blets. They also cure belching and sour stomach; They regulate the bow els, too. Prteth 25c. Sold by Hill 0*f Diutt C;>. They try to Dodge Death. A man who, while poor, is not more afraid to die than most people, often develops a haunting terror of death after he has made a big fortune, and spends an unhappy life and huge sums of money to avoid the coming fate, frequently hurrying himself in to a a premature grave through sheer worry and fear. This passion has turned the brains of a good many wealthy people and made monomani aoa of them. They resort to the most childish expenditures to keep death from their doors. You remember Kipling's charac ter who had his ohair slung on ropes from a heam that the world might spit under him instead of carrying him along to grow older. There was an actual case very like this a few years ago, when John Islip, an Eng lishman, made a huge fortune out of silver in Mexico, drove himself mad through worrying about his death. After exhausting all the safeguards London could offer, he bought a small rocky island called Bryohil, on the west Irish coast, taking with him one faithful servitor. Here, in fever ish haste, he had four stone pillars raised and a small one-storied cabin, with three i corns, rather like a house boat, slung on ohairs from iron gir ders that crossed the pillars and swung olear to the ground. Once in side this he shut himself up, with some books and a pet jackdaw for company, and never left his swinging house until his death. * The attendant, who lived in a small house close by, used to row to the mainland?a mile and half?when the weather permitted for provisions. The master spent his time in reading and looking out over the Atlantic from the cabin windows. His brain had given way, of course, and he im agined that his life stood still while the earth revolved under him. Ke had no relatives to insist on his en tering a private asylum, and he died three years later in the cabin, wor ried out of life by the fear of death. His hair was snow white, though he was only 43. Another wealthy man; Jean Ingle sant, though he had made a fortune by shrewd speculation, also gave way to dread of death. He conceived the idea that all movement and effort washed the tissues of the body, and this notion sunk so deeply into his mind that ho went to bed in a quiet country house and hardly moved hand nor foot for years; if he even stirred a finger he did it with dread, believing that it used up his vitality and short ened his life by so much time. He spoke as little as possible, sometimes not opening his lips for days, and was fed by attendants with spoons. All his food consisted of "slops," to save him the fatal exertion of chewing, and his one amusement was being read to by the hours together, for he would not hold a book or turn the page8. Even the reading he did away with toward v the close of his life, be lieving that listening shortened his existence. One of the queerest cases was that of a Mrs. Holmes, a very wealthy wi dow, who had a terrible fear of germs and bacilli of all kinds. She had studied the subject deeply and it affect ed her reason to all appearances. The dread of death seised her and she was eonvineed tha she wonld die by some wasting disease inspired by microbes. Knowing that cold is fatal to the aver age germ, she had two rooms adjoining eaoh other fitted as refrigerators and kept constantly at a temperature of about thirty degrees, or just below freezing point. One wonld suppose this to be more trying than any quan ity of microbes, but the owner was happy in her consciousness of freedom from germ diseases. Winter and sum mer the rooms were kept at the same point, and the adjoining rooms and halt were also kept cool, that no cur rent of warm air might bring bacilli in. This lady lived clad in furs through out the hottest days that hissed out side, and her attendants and servants were obliged to constantly disinfect themselves before entering her pres ence. They lived in a perpetual at mosphere of carbolic acid, and their mistress had to pay very high wages to induee servants to stay with her.? London ?mxcer. Indigestion is the direct cause of diseases that kill thousands of persons ?ssually. Slop the ironble at the out set with a li'.tle Prickly Ash Bitters. It strength dns the stomach and aids digestion Sold by Evans' Pharmacy. ? No woman ought to be allowed to we?r a low-out dreaa *fi*r fhe is fat enough to have a crease in her neek*^ Large sun spots, astronomers say, caused the extreme heat this summer, and doctors declare nearly all the pros trations were induced by disorders of the stomach. Good health follows ?ood digestion. Kodol Dyspepsia lure digeste what yon eat. If you have indigestion or dyspepsia it will quicUy relieve and permanently cure you. JBvaus' Pharmacy. ? Every woman believes she has depths in her nature which hor hus band can never reach. You can speil it cough, coff, eaugb, kauf, ?caff. kough or kangh, the reme dy to quickly core it is One Minute Cough .vnre.}V Eyans* pharmacy.; MOSQUITOES. Male Mosquitoes Drink Wine, But Shun . Deadly Kerosene. Washington Times, Mosquitoes, the terror of the sum mer pleasure seeker, the bane of the summer hotel keeper and the stook in trade of the men who writes jokes at the expenses of New Jersey, are the subject of discussion in a bulletine reoently issued by the department of Agriculture. L. O. Howard, Ph.D., of the division of entomology, is the author of the pamphlet, whioh dis closes a number of interesting facts heretofore not generally known about the pestiferous insects. The question of how to abate the nuisance caused by the presenco of great numbers of mosquitoes is discussed at length, as is also the biology and structure of both sexes of the insect. The popular literature of entomol ogy is repleto with instances of the incredible numbers in whioh mosqui toes have been .found in various parts of the globe. Kirby and Spence, two noted entomologists, refer to their ex perience in Lapland, where the mos quitoes were so thiok as to resemble a cloud, and it was impossible to breathe without filling the nostrils with them. In the, Crimea woVthe Russian soldiers were compelled to sleep in saoks to avoid the bites of mosquitoes, whioh, at times, were so severe that blood poison, resulting in death, often oc curred. The insects are not confined to any particular clime, but have been encountered in all zones. Travelers in darkest Africa have suffered from thoir onslaughts and remedies from mosquito bites are usually contained in the medioine chest of the Alaskan miner. It is a popular supposition that the blood of warm-blooded animals is the food of the mosquito, and that it is necessary for its sustenance. How ever, this is untrue. Millions of the inseots are bred and die in places where no animal ever comes. Mos quitoes seem to subsist on any kind of food, and often seemingly on nothing at all. In one case tho insects were observed under a microscope to sip at drops of water, and cases of fondness for molasses have been recorded. The idea of a mosquito becoming intoxicat ed seems absurd, but, in a letter from a resident of the British West Indies, a case of that nature is oited. The correspondent writes: "The males are very fond of wine, and almost every day I oan catch one or two ?always males?on the neck of a decanter or in a wine glass that has just been used. I put a few mosqui toes under a bell* jar one day in order to watch them. I pnt a single drop of port wine under the jar, as I had heard that mosnnjioes could be kept alive for a long time on wine. When I went to look at them a few hours later I found them all apparently dead, so I put them in a dry bottle, intend ing to pin them later. When I went to pin them shortly afterward they were all staggering about in the most ridionlous msnner?they were drunk." In addition to the general annoyance caused by the insects there is a source of real danger that attends from their presenco. It has been demonstrated by mediosl authorities that mosquitoes oan and often do draw the malarial germ from a person afflicted with ma larial fever and deposit it in the blood of a heslthy individual. This faot may account for the spread of malaria, deoidedly a nonoontagious complaint, in regions whereomosquitoes are most numerous and at times of year when they are most troublesome. Regions that abound in lowlands and are dotted with small pools of stagnant water and bits of marsh land (both prime breeding places for the mosquito larvae) are, more than other places, infested with, mosquitoes. Some People have as of Fruit Jare too muc KING BROS. B/ IN ONE S WE beg to say that it is not. We car. We will agree that we have hand firm of Anderson "has in any past seasoi sell right. We have purchased one solid car prices on Crockery. Our Gups and Sai Platesper set C5>. We bought two hundred and eight A few specials to tsko home witn j Bowl 10c. Pickle Dishes 5c. If you would make iure of getting KINC e 0. D. MM 4/nAA BUSHELS TOXAS SSI jUUU OAT3. Come and get ; bushels WHITE OATS for feed. We can i Feed la complete?Chops, Crmoked Corn, B Grocery I > A-l Patent Flonr $5.00 per barrel. Beat Hams 13c J. per pound. Pickeled Bams lOo. per pot Boneless Hams 12Jo \ Armour's Beat Colombia R Granu We <Aho carry an assortment of all kin Yours for Butin?es, O. D 4SW* Remember, we are headquarter HAIR. ?.v.. _.;...._...imHUuc Sew Jersey has acquired a uni vet. al notoriety as a region where the nios luitoe reaches the highest stage of his development, and where it is most ac tive in its warfare against man. There is no doubt that there arc great num bers of mosquitoes in various parts ef the State, but it is doubted if they are larger or more aggressive there than elsewhere. Even portions cf the Jersey high lands are infested by the inseots when there seems no reason for their pres ence, as there is no water or marsh land in the neighborhoods where they become prevalent. An explanation of their presence is advanced in the fol lowing novel manner, which seems to be correct: Every evening during tho summer months great numbers of trains are started inlaud from points on the seacoast which arc generally in fested with mosquitoes. The cars have often stood open all 'day, and contain at night thousands of mos quitoes. These are carried to the in land towns, where they breed in any damp place they may find, or, if there are no damp places, in rain barrels, sewers and drains. Thus a supply is started that often renders the locality extremely unpleasant. The best and most practical method to get rid of mosquitoes is a question that has presented itself to and per plexed residents of many places that suffer from a super-abundance of the pests during tho summer months. Kerosene is a substance most deadly to mosquitoes, and in a number of lo calities it has been used with consid erable success. So great is its exter minating power that when poured up on the stagnant water of a pool where breeding is in progress one ounce to fifteen square feet of water is all that is neoessary to free the place from the insects. But in regions abounding in long stretches of marsh land tho use of kerosene is expensive andimpractioal. In theae cases drainage has often been resorted to with gratifying results. Dragon flies are the natural foes of the mosquito. In regions where the flies are most numerous there is a con stant decrease in the mosquito census, caused by the inroads the flies make upon these inseots. When the fact first became known there was an im mediate attempt on the part of persons who lived in regions particularly fre quented by mosquitoes to formulate some plan whereby dragon flies might be domesticated and turned loose in those plaoes infested by the inseots. This plan, though lovely in theory, laoked the requisite of practicability. Remedies for the bite of the mos quito are quite numerous, a drop ol diluted carbolic acid on the afflioted part being about as good as anything. An open vessel partly filled with kerosene and placed as near a? possible to the ceiling of the sleeping apart ment before retiring will do much to free the apartment from mosquitoes. The most dainty and effeotive pille made are DeWitt's Little Early Risers. They are unequalled for liver and bow el troubles. Evans* Pharmacy. A. H, DAGN?LL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AnderfBoxi? - - - ?. O, OFFICE-OVER THE F03T OFFICE, Penuieton Graded School. Session I900??9?T beilos Sept. 17th CHILDREN of other Districts admit ted on payment of smell tuition fee. Your patronage is Invited. For informa tion as to rates, etc, apply to or write? A. O. HOLMES, Prln. Pendleton, 8. C, Sept. 5,1900 U?4 LAND SALE. WILL sell Salesday in October at An derson Two Thousand Acres ol Land, divided into eleven Tracts, known as the Wm. WatklnB land, in Oarvin Township, on Three-and-Twenty Creek, For any information call on me or ad dress me at Autnn. 8. C. J. B. DOUTHir, Trustee. Sept 5. 1900 11 4 iked isn't Two Cars h for. \RGAIN STORE tEASON? have about sold the last of our second led more Jars this season than any one I. Buying right enables any one to of CROCKERY. So look out foi icera at 35c, 40c, 45c and 50c goes. y-eight Balloon Fly Traps. 10c each, 'ou : Butter Dishes"5c. 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