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BILL A RP Bill Takes Trip Fron Atlanta CV Sonie ?ad and some sweet memories came over mo as I journeyed on tho old (?corda l?ailroad from Atlanta tn Augusta lt was tho first railroad I ever saw and traveled on. My good old father was one of the original stockholders. Ile subscribed $3,000 and paid it as it was called for. In those days roads wore not built on bonds or questionable, mysterious Bchemes. There was no preferred stock or income bonds or first and second mortgages, but everything was 5, 1 , 1" -1 l< orin rt T li_ Dimple, ?nani div* IIQUVhl. 1. nun great reverence for that road. 1 lived in Lawrenceville while it was being built. Stone Mountain was our near est depot, and it was there I first ven tured to board a train as I journeyed to Athens to enter college. How solemn, how inspiring was that ride. I remember that it seemed to me that thc trees and fences and farms and habitations were al! moviug swiftly backwards, while thc train secmcu to bc still and quivering on its track. I had the same feeling the first time I ever went up in an elevator. It was at the Gilsey House, in New York, and I was not conscious of going up, but thought thc hotel was rapidly de scending into some subterranean cavi ty. Young people nowadays have no such experience. They do not remem ber the time when there woro no rail roads or telegraphs, nor sewing ma chins or cooking stoves, or matches or steel pens, and therefore they can not appreciate or be grateful for the blessings they enjoy. As we neared Stone Mountain and I looked upon its bald, majestic summit I was carried back in memory to tho delightful days of my youth, when ru arly sixty years ago that mouutain <*"s our trysting place, and boys and f'rls journeyed there sixteen miles from Lawrenceville and spent a happy day and while there and on tho way we reveled in love's young dream and eyes looked lovo to eyes that spoke ?gain. I remember when there was a tower on that mountain's top-a tower 1U0 feet high, whoso slender top did sometimes touch the clouds, and it was built by Aaron Cloud, whoso very name made him a fitting architect. It was the first sky-scraper ever built in Georgia. I remember tho delightful day when a brunette lassie with hazel eyes and Indian hair ascended those winding stairs with mo, and as wc sat together on its dizzy pinnaole I thought I was a little nearer heaven than I had ever been before. Under pretenso of shielding her from harm, I half en closed her with my arm and tho palpi tating lace upon her bosom told mo how fast hor heart was beating, and there almost in tho clouds wo plighted our troth, I remember when one win ter night the storm came and the rain descended and the winds blew, and that tower fell and great was tho fall of it. I remember when there was a fine hotel at tho base of that mountain and ono night there was a ball in tho spaoious dining room, and "bright the lights shone o'er fair women and brave men" and for the first time I saw that queenly girl whom tho boys oalled Becky Lattimer, and whose dashing beauty drew them to her as molasses draws flies. Her father lived not far away, a substantial farmer, and a few years later "our Becky" beoame Mrs. Bebecah Felton, the wife of the learn ed and eloquent doctor of Carters ville. I remember when that great solid mountain of granite seemed larger yes, muuh larger-than it looks to be now, for I was young then and nature had not began to shrink with me. Everything is smaller now and every year gets smaller still. As Pope says of the dying Christie, "The world recedes-it disappears," aud so it will to those who die of old age. Tom Hood expressed it beautifully and pathetically when he said: "I remember, I remember tho fir tree, dark and high, I used tc think their slender tops wero close against the sky, But now Pm growing older and find it little joy To know Pm farther off from heaven than when I was a boy.1' I remember that historical town called Madison, where many of my college mates lived. They arc all gone now, not one is left to comfort me in my declining years. It was herc I saw this railroad when I was a boy of fourteen, and it was completed to Madison. What a sensation of won der and alarm as I looked at the huge leviathan that eame paning down the traok with a train behind it. My father v_ j jL_ ?.i-?_1.--J s_T i_"_v i".1 UHU (IV UVIU Ul jr UBUU, ?Va ?? ?*V?M./.VV. lest it should jump the traok and kill ni all. My father waa proud cf that road proud beoauoo ho helped to "build it He kept that stook for twelve years without receiving a dividend. Tho stcok went down, down, down, till it moued ito lowest point in 1649. It s LBTTER. 1 Atlanta t*"* Augusta. mstUufhn, was then worth only 27 coats on thc dollar, hut hu had faith and clung to it with hope. About that time a com mercial revolution-a crisis-a panic -came over the country and to save his mercantile credit he was forced to nell his sioek. It distressed him and grieved my mother, but he said there was no help for it. The stock must go. I remember the night he came home and told my mother thai thc stock was gone -he had sold it to Judge Hutchins for '?7 cents on the dollar-thc stock that ho had paid 100 cents for twelve years before. Father was sad and the tears fell on mother's cheek and none of us cared for supper. When father went back to the store that night I sat down by mother's side and took her hand in mine. "Moth er," said I, "you must not feel so bad about that stock. Let me toll you a secret. Last night I ['reposed to Oc tavia Hutchins, I asked her to marry mc and she said she would and wo have Axed tho time-tho 7th of March -and in less than thrco months I'll get that stock back and it will bo in tho family again. Now, don't you toll, but you mustn't cry any more," and I kissed her ?on her check and said, "Mother, Mr. Shakespeare says 'All's well that ends well.' " But my dear mother was a woman and womanlike she told an intimate friend what I said about getting the stock back and that friend told another woman in confi dence and thc confidence kept spread ing and spreading until thc engage ment and tho stock matter got all over tho village and at last to Judgo Hutch ins. I was mortified and alarmed, but my affianced stuck close to me, for she was dreadfully iu love, though she denies it to this day. In due time we were married and were so happy we didn't want any stock or anything else hardly. A few days after our marriage as I was pasaingohis office, tho stern old judge called mc in. He unlocked his iron safe and taking out a paper, said to mc, "i heard that you told your good mother that you rere going to marry Octavia ant4 get that railroad stock back. Did you tell her that?" I was intensely alarmed, but, like George Washington, I would not tell a lie. "Yes, judge, I did," said I, "but I didn't mean it," I replied. I Baw thc twinkle in his eyo. "Well," said he, "I thought that if you wero deter mined to have it I had just as well give it to you now," and ho handed mc tho certificate with the transfer al ready written. I don't know what I said, but he enjoyed my embarrass ment. What a considerate man he was. I remember that a few months after ho sent six of the family negroes up to our house ono morning beforo we got up. Wo heard them talking on the front steps and my wife asked me to get up and sec what they wanted. They informed mo that "old master told them he had given them tc me and MisB Oetavia and to como up here." They were all servants who had long said that when Miss Octavia got married they were gwino to live with her. That was the usual patri mony of slave owners to their ohildren. We had no use for them, and sent them buck with a kind note bogging the judge to keep them for us awhile longer. Some years after that Mr. Lincoln set them free and to tell the truth I am glad of it, for ?hey were al ways a oare and an expense. Now, while I write our train has] readied Union Point and I remember when we oollege boys used to take the tandem mule train from here to Ath ens. It was an all day journey, for it took us eight hon rs to make the forty miles, but we rode on top and had lots of fun and plenty of good things to eat that our mothers had provided. Yes, I love to ruminato about those good old times when everything had a roseate hue and we wrote love letters to our sweethearts and reveled in love's young dream. BILL Aar. Cures Blood and Skin Troubles-Trial Treatment Free. Is your blood poor? Is it thin? Nose bleeding and headaohe? Prick ing pains in the skin? Skin pale? Skin feel hot and swollen? All ruo down? ?s your blood bad? Have you Pimples? ?ruptions? Sorofula? Eat ! ing sores? Itching, burninS, Ezema? Boils? Ulcers? Cancer? Scaly Erup ? dons? Shin or Scalp Itch? Blood, Hair or 8kin humors? Tired out with achcB and pains in hones and joints? Have you hereditary or contracted Blood Poison? Ulcer? in throat or month? Swollen glssd?? Bhemma tism? As tired in morning as when you went to bed? Have they resisted medical treatment? If you have any of the abovo troubl?e B.B.B. (Botanio Blood Balm) should he taken at once. B.B.B, has a peculiar effect-different from any other blood medicine-it drains the impurities, poisons and hu mors that cause all above troubles ont -? *t.? M/\A? hone? ?nl.irn ttvaiArn. healing every sore, restoring to the Skin the Bloom of perfect health, and making new? rich Blood? On Behalf of the Hog. If I were to go on a farm with thc idea of ascertaining whether the mau who owned it was a thriftyand intelli gent man in his ealling, that is lo say, a good farmer, the Gr st thin/ 1 would do would he to look ut his hogs. He might take me to his stable and show mc horses direct from Lexington or from Electioneer, or he might takeme to the pastures iud let me gaze upon tho fawn-colored and delicate .Jersey and the black-and-white ponderous Holstein, or even on his beef-stock of Galloways, Durhams, Herefords or I'ulled-Augus, and yet I would not be satisfied. I would want to go to his pen and ascertain what he was doing there. For if in his pig pen or pig pasture he had thc shriveled hog, I would know that his cottle were noth* ing but a fad. und that nfter all there was nothing in him in the way of thc practical farmc. It might bc that he would expect his (iud cattle to yield enough to "make his meat." Hut if he had the hogs, whether beef was high or low, he had thc meat anyhow. To nie One horses, fine cattle, fine sheep, fine houses and all that, without the hog, is what might bu called speculative farming. Hut when you look over in thc pen of tho farmer or in the hog pasture of thc farmer, or even wben he calls them up from thc roGds, and they are healthy and strong and of the right proportions, then you can go on and look at the balance of his stock with some pleasure, because you know that he has been wiso enough to provide bis meat for the year, anyhow, and with the bread, corn or wheat, which never fails entirely, his cattlo and horses and sheep aro to a great extent profit. I uo not care how full is thc stable and thc cow peu if the pig pen is empty-tho owoer is guessing. Of course, everyone knows that the hog characteristics aro not pleasing to man. Ile is an animal without a friend, so to speak, except when the time comes to cat him, and then ho is appreciated only after he is dead. In to our . language has been engrafted such words as hoggishness and 'trying to hog,' and all that. If a child's clothing is soiled by playing, his affec tionate mother says ho is as "filthy as a pig." If a man becomes the least obese, his kind friends will say that he is "as fat ns a hog." If a man wants to get what is coming to him in this life, other people with as much greed as ho will say, "he is trying to hog everything in Bight." Tho very name of hog carries with it the sug gestion of filth, obesity, greed and coarseness. Next to tho snake there is nothing living more condemned than this most lovable, most intelli gent and i jost useful animal toman. As far as the books show he has been thc constant companion of man, multi plying and furnishing him food. He rode out the storm with Noah, and the chances aro ten to ono that the first fresh meat that Noah tasted after his long, but not altogether exciting float, was frosh pork. Belonging to tho pachyderm family, he has relatives in the elephant, rhinoceros and hippopo tamus, and some near relatives, suoh as the bariroussa of the Polynesian islands and the pecoary of the country south of us. i Being somewhat short on clothes, that is hair, and inseots liking his meat about as well as man, he seeks mud to smother the enemies which prey upon him, and as far as intelli gence goes I leave it to any farmer who ever tried to keep a fenee-break iug sow out of a field, to testify wheth er any animal is more intelligent than a hog, and if this testimony is not sufficient to prove that the animal knows more in a minute than a horse, dog and elephant all oombised in a thousand years, I will bring to the stand one of the best lawyers in tho State, who played seven-up with one of them at the Omaha exposi tion. Intended for food for man, in order to be of full benefit to said man he has to be in "good order." To be in "good order" he has to hastio for food and eat all set before him. Hustling and eating in this way ho is careless in his general deportment and habita. To the ordinary person he is not at all attractive.-W. G. S.t in Dalla? uWews. __ _ There is no pleasure ia life if you dread to eat and can't sleep on account of indigestion. Henry Williams, of Boon ville, Ind., suffered that way for years 'till he need Kodol Dyspepsia Gare. He Bays "Now I eat anything I ?ike and sleep soundly." &v~oi Dyspepsia Cure digests what yon eat. Evans Pharmacy. - When a Chinese girl is married her attendants aro always the oldest and ugliest women to be found, who are paid to act as foils to her beauty. It is said some exceptionally ugly wo mon make their living by noting as professional attendants at weddings. "I bave uecd Chamberlain's Collo, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and find it to bo A great medicino," says Mr. E. S. Phipps, of Poteau, Ark. "It oared me of bloody flax, I cannot speak too highly of it." This remedy always wins the good opinion, it not praise, of those wno nae it. Tho quick nnraA wh?oh H ?ffflnl* ?vnn in the moat severe oases make it a favorita every where. For sale by Hill-Orr Drag Co. New Cure For Bald Heads.. A young mau who has lived for thir ty years ii? 'he vicinity of Manayuok, l'a., is looking forward eagerly to two important events in his life-his mar riage and his iirst hair cut. He lost all his hair at a very early age. In fact, it is said that ho has never bad any from infancy. However that may bc, he has always worn a wig, and his sensitiveness on this point has pre vented him from associating very much with the fair sex Some time ago he met a young woman, and for the flrst time in his life he fell in love. Still he despaired of winning her, nrc;iu?c of his pbysicsl defect. A short time after the tender passion first asserted itself, ho was surprised one morning to observe that in washing his head a littlo down appeared on tho akin. Phy sicians attribute the growth of hair to thc increased flow of blood to thc head under thc stimulation of the emotions of lo ?rc. Thc marriage is not far off. A Village Blacksmith Saved Ills Little Son 's Lire. Mr. II. II. Black, the well-known village blacksmith at Urahamsvillc, Sullivan Co., N. Y., says: "Our little son, fivo years old, has always been subject to croup, and so bad have tho attacks been that we have feared many times that he would die. We have had the doctor and used many medi cines, but Chamberlain's Cough Reme dy is now our sole reli&noe. It seems to dissolve the tough mucus and by givicg frequent doses when the croupy symptoms appear we have found that the dreaded croup is cured before it gets settled." There is no danger in giving this remedy for it contains uo opium or other injurious drug and may bo given ao confidently to a babe as to an adult. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - Ono of the favorite stories out in tho short grass country of Kansas right now, is that of the teacher who asked her pupils what an anecdote was, and the answer being a "short, funny talc," told a small boy to write a senteneo oontaing tho word. He wrote : "A rabbit has four legs and one anecdote." Worth Imitating. Mr. Krancia La Fleische, aa Omaha Indian, has recently published au ac count of ?tho trainiog of children in thc tepees of that tribe. "Ne ohild is permitted to interrupt an older person, or to pass between two persons who are speaking," says thc author, "still less to come between them and the fire. We we?e strictly enjoined never to stare at strangers, nor to address any one by his personal name without a title. "From his earliest years tho Omaha chil l was trained un thc grammatical use of his nativo tongue. No mistake was allowed to pass uncorrect ed. "No Indian parents ever whips his child. When it commits a fault, tho entire family assembles in solemn con clave, and it is summoned and reproved with such gravity that it never forgets tho lesson." These are not civilized red men, but the class known* to us as ^sav ages." London Truth lately gave an oc count of the training given in Tokyo iu the prefecture of police. Thc Japuucse policemen aro taught to knock gently at the doors of houses before they enter. Under no circum stances are they to talk roughly. "Rough talk intimidates theinnocent, while the hardened criminal does not mind it." In executing search warrants they must not disturb sleeping children or invalids. They must deal kindly with dogs belonging to strangers; hospitality is due to animals as well as to men. No amusement must ever be shown at the mistakes of foreigners. Every effort must be made to impress strang ers with Japanese politeness, and all people with the kindness as well as the justice of Japanese law. Is there nothing which tho English speaking peoples could learn from these two nations, the Omahas aud 1 the Japanese?-Youth's Companion. use Work is Hard Work without GOLD DUST, fl DEAN & RATLIFF'S LETTER ! SOME PLAIN TALK. WHEN it comes to plain, open lying we are not in it, but when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for cs to tell just what we are doing .we are bound to do it. Anybody that watches the intelligent crowd of pleased customers who throng our Store from dawn 'till dusk must know that we don't have to advertise in the newspapers to make ourselves known. The quantity and quality of Shoes, Dry Goods, Jeans, Hats, &c, that are carried out of our Store daily show that the wind is blowing in our favor, while the scores of wagons that we load every day with purest Flour-Dean's Patent and those Pure Rust Proof Oats, Bice, Meal, &c, ?imply tell the tale for us wherever they go. While we will see to it that every one is waited on in the rush, and while we want as many more to come in and get happy as they deserve, but we must insist upon those who have already been made happy and who owe us for it by Note, Lien or open Account coming in io settle at once, as all such Accounts and Notes are due on October 1st, and we must have our money or it must bo satisfactorily arranged. Guano and other customers will bear this in mind and act accordingly. Yours for Business, DEAN & RATLIFFE. Sole Distributors of Dean's Patent Flour, And Headquarters for all Plantation Supplies. B" HILLMAN, RECENTLY of Abbeville, who has opened the Store at NO. 18, BENSON STREET, desires the public to know his success in purchasing his Fall and Winter Stock of lien's, Boys' and Children's Clothing, Shoes, Hats and Underwear, At prices that will enable him to UNDERSELL any oompetion. A trial will convince everybody of the money he is able to save yon. A Specialty of Big Values in Three-Piece Suits for Boys from three to seven years of age, at prices to out to the bone. NECKWEAR, the latest styles, fi?* Finest Goods at lowest prices. B. HILLMAN. _ 18 Benson Street, Miss Liaie Williams' Old 8tand. ~~ SOME BARGAINS 1 I HIVE ft FEW nuns. O! the very Ltghest grade and latest style?, . TO GO AT GO&T FOE A ?BW BAYS. This ls an opportunity of a life-time. T. also have the latest Improved ball-bearing HB? HOME SEWIHO BIA? Ct JIBES fe* S80. Vibrator Standard Machino only $28.00. OBGAH8 CHEAP. M. I*. WILLIS* / South Main 8trestf Anderson, 8. C. SEND US_ YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS. i We have engaged tho services of Mr. J. E. BRADLEY, an experienced PimruMcw. uni we are now prepared to serre you at all hours-either day or night. Mr. Bradley will room over our Store, so if you want ft Psescrip tion Siled at night just press the button in front of oar Store ?ad we'll do the rest. Remember, only THE BEST AND PUREST DRUGS Are allowed in our Store. Mi? Ut* J?j V Cfit/ KJXJt.f, PKNDLBTON, 8. C? ?Vfegetable Preparalionfor As simila?ing thc Food andBeguIa ling Ihe Stomachs and Beweis of 1 N> AN TS Si H ll. I) K i. N Promoles Digestion.Cheerful ness and Rest.Con tai n s neither Opium.Morphine nor?linaral. NOT MAH.C OTIC. f?aape afOldDrSAMUEl, PnXUOR Mx. Senna * \ Ox&tUsSm?t- i IiiCcrtatrJcScda* 1 lilm-Ser.il' I Aperfecl Remt?dy for Cons Upa ?ion.Sc .r Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness ?nd Loss OF SLEEP. FacSin?ie Signature of NEW Y?fcK. K For Infants and Children. \ The Kind You Have j Always Bought j Bears the Signatur of A ru "i ? .'. > i i ri,, a i ) ) 8 ? ? *1 "'s ] "> < Svjr- s EXACT C?PY.OgWp?RRER. Use For Over tu ? MRMM COHFANY. nsw Yonn on?. D. S. VANDIVER. E. P. VANDI VE B. Vandiver Bros. Only ask a chance at your Fall bill of SHOES, JEANS, SHEETING, CHECKS, PEINTS, Etc. Large and splendid lice of TOBACCO at wholesale prices.: We can and will sell yon the best FLOUR made if you will let us. Your patronage is highly appreciated. Yours truly, VANDIVER BROS. *?* P. 8.-You don't know how we would appreciate an early settle* meit of every account due us this month. V. B. Anderson is Up-to-Date, so are the. They have opened Up a large and well-selected ?tock of Furniture^ ) -JLJLVr uov gs, And everything that belong? to that line of business. Mr. Ben. B. Bleckley and BSr. Noel B. Sharpe are the man? avers, and will take pleasure in showing everybody their IMMENSE STOCK and CHEAP PRICES. Their stock waa bought in car load lots and from the best j , factories for Cash, and they fool sure that the most fastidious can be pleased. Go to see them. They also have an elegant HEARSE, and carry a full line Caskets and Coff ins. FRUIT J ARS ! FRUIT JARS! Now is the time to buy your -Tars before they advance in price. There being a big crop of fruit all over the country. Jara will be mt'-V higher 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 goods. I have a lot of Decorated gooda in odd pieces at a bargain. I am roo*.] ning out of stock at very low prices. Bring me your Bags and Beeswax^ Your patronage solicited, ______ JOHN T. BURRIS8: T?T?TI Buist anet Remember whoa vou .?s to trot xr?nv a^a? *A erat ?retal 7? - M - tr-K>- 1 ones. As this is our first year in the Seed business we a**] no seed carried over from last year. Tours, F* B, QRAYT0M & CO J Hear the Post Office. J