Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BILL ARP Bill Groes to 3V?ifiisissip Atlanta to BLUE MOUNTACN'I MISS.-Some good people called me qver here andi came, j My wife said I had better go, (or tho ?inter was at hana and the family beetled clothes and she was obliged to play old Santa Claus, aa usual, and provide some Christmas gifts for the children and grandchildren. That is a good part of her life and happiness pleasing the children. She nevor-asks for arythiag for herself. She don't have to. The girls tell me what she needs and I surprise her with it if I bave the money, and if I haven't I strain my credit and get it anyhow. Professor Lawrey called me here to talk to bis college girls, for hei?a soled educator and has 260 girls out icre in the woods and is building up m institution that is the pride of S'orth Mississippi. He got fonr other .owns to join him in the call, and so I lectured in Tupelo htKt Monday night o a large audienoe in a large house iad found a warm welcome. It ia wonderful how these old towns are looming up and taking on new life. Twelve years ago I waa in Tupelo and [ thought it was pretty- dead. I had mly about 100 people out to hear me hen, and this time there wore near LOO. Prosperity has done it. Ten tent cotton and a cotton mill haa done t; McKinley had nothing to do with t. Last night I was billed for Ripley -a nice old courthouse town not far way. The evening betokened a storm ind by night the lightning was fleeh og incessantly all around, the horizon ind the thunder pealed heavily.' kountry people beoame alarmed and turned home, for everything seemed iminous of coming trouble. There teemed to be something in the cle nents that was brooding over us, and ure enough there was. The court ooni was about half full of people rho had dared to venture ont to hear oe. Suddenly tho storm came with earful fury. There was an awful oaring sound from the Southeast that ras like the sound of many waters. It tushed the audienoe into a solemn sp ence. I did not take the platform, mt waited. In a few minutes some nld, excited messengers came rushing ip the steps and called for the doctors md other help, for the oyolone had lome and torn up everything in the suburbs and killed men and women ind children. The night was intense y dark, but the men rushed to the escue in hasto and the leoture pro gramme was broken up in a twinkling. Everybody hurried to their homes or o the scene of the disaster. Whalan awful thing is a cyclone} Sow quickly it comes and as quickly ;oeB, leaving swift destruction in UB track. Happily it gi veu no warning, 'or the terror audapprchonsion would )e worse than death. This morning ne rejoiced to learn that nobody was killed, though many were badly Rounded. Some houses were wrecked ?nd blown away and many were un roofed and some were set on fire. One man was lifted up and carried away thrown to the ground in the woods, frith only a few bruises. How strange that so few people are killed by a cy ilooe. It seems providential, and thia norning the question discussed at the breakfast table was whether God or [he devil was the author of these ter rible visitations. One said that the pirit of evil was still on the earth and ras ever contending against the spirit f good, and this spirit brought famine, lesiilence, fires, storms and ali^ disas ers. Another said that alt' these kings came from natural canses, and ht neither God nor ' the devil had iy agency in them. Another quoted rom Job where the Lord delivered nm over to Satan, who was going to nd fro upon the earth and walking up od down in it. He afflict ad Job aw but was not allowed to take his Another quoted from th e Savior's fords when he said: "Think you that hose upon whom the tower of Siloam ?1 were wicked above all people? I ell you nay, but unlcps yo repent ye WI perish." Professor John Fiske, very great and learned man, has '"tten a little book called l'TheMy?, ery of Evil." I have read it twice QdJound but little comfort or philo ?P"yiu it. His argument is that , is of divine creation and ^signed 1 ^?strate and exalt the good. That at for sickness wo would not appro ve or enjoy good health.- Bat for ^occasional istnane ?re would not on ?* *no bleesing of abundant food, and 1,1 for sin wa wes?d act cn^o- heaves. ,,!>book leaves you ju?.* where tt a?od you, and the mystery is still un ?Pla?ued. We know that God loves f,B creatures, and "that .ia nnnu2br pU sparrow falls to tho ground }^out His notice, and Ho did not lsh 10 destroy Ninnevah, where there efe 600,000 people,and mach cattle. nroob, cattle." That was at ys a very significant expression to 'S LETTER. pi to Deliver Xieotures. institution. Well, I had to come here from Rip ley by private conveyance. We had a good team, bat the road was fearful, for it had rained nearly all night. Mr. Fitoer, an old Georgian, had the lines and did not anticipate trouble, bat when we got to the river we found the lowlands ?ooded on both sides for a quarter of a mile, and after we cross I ed tho bridge the horses plunged sud denly into a washout and submerged us into deep water. It flowed into the baggy and over it and op to the ouah ions, and for a time we were both alarmed for fear of a oollapse. ' Bat we got out of it safely, and here I am with a valise full of wet clothes and no ohange for 'tonight. Here I am at the college aud will have to stand ap before two or three hundred pretty girls tonight. Fortunately Mr. Low rey is about my size and says ho will lena me some garments while mine are being renewed at the laundry. Hard, hard, indeed, is the contest for free*, dom and the struggle for Christmas money. Cyclones and floods are pur suing me and disturbing my tranquili ty. But one thing more may come which I oannot fight, and that is a Methodist revival, for like Q cyclone, they are terribly in earnest and always break me ap. Old Simon Peter Rich ardson says in his book that the Meth odists are all fire and the Baptists all water, and some others are all wind. I hope they won't - all oome upon me at once. But I am still hopeful and serene. Tonight I shall be inspired with the presence of these college girls and for an hour or so will be the cynosure of their beautiful eyes. Yes, the clos ure of their beautiful eyes. That word comes from two Greek words whioh mean the dog's tail, and so I will be the dog's tail of the fair assembly. Professor Lowrey's father was the brave old soldier known as Goneral Lowrey, who succeeded to Gen. Clai borne as commander of that oorps in the Army of Tennessee. He is buried near hore, and I shall visit his grave. I go from here to Pontoioc, the oldest town in the State, where the Indian agenoy was located and the ehief of the Chickasaws lived. From there I go to New Albany, and from there to my own home, where there is always a light in the window for me and many happy ones to greet me. BILL ARP. Time's Mutation. "Really, your face is very familiar, j sir, but yon seem tc have tue advan tage of me in names." "I fancied'" he said, "that yon would know me. My name >s Bangs and four years ago had the honor to be your ooaobman." "Sir!" she fairly snarled. "But a remarkably lucky series of stock investments," he weuton, "have enabled me to become yoi-r next door neighbor." "So pleased to renew our acquaint ance, Mr. Sangs," she smilingly said. To Cure A Cold In One Day Take Laxative Brcmo-Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to care. E. W. Grove's sig nature is on each box. 25c. - Men jnake religion of their poli tics. Women make politics of their religion. When yon want prompt aoting little Eilis that never gripe use DeWitt's little Early Risers. Evans' Phar macy. - The average advice that you give other people is about as useless as saying "Look before you leap" to a blind frog. DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the best liver pills ever made. Easy to take and never gripe. Evans* Phar macy. -?Probably the mo *. inhuman thing in tho world, next to a u?u> WU?? it tries to smile, is '?X, : faces a woman makes when she is crying. DeWitt s Witch Hasel Salve will quickly Leal tba worst burns and scalds, and not leave a soar. Use it for piles and skin diseases. Beware of worthless counterfeits. Evans* Pharmaoy. - "He has always run his business Uko clockwork." "Yes, and now his creditors have wound it np." Don't forget to ?UBO a little Prickly Ash Bitters whenever the stomach or bowels are disordered. It quickly cor rects such troubles and makes you feel bright and cheerful. - Every man has some lie he tells that it makes him mad if you don't be lieve. ?f yuu h?ve over seen a child in tho agony of croup you can realize how Grateful mothers are for One Minuto lough Cure whioh gives relief as soon as it is administered. It quiokly ocres CC?ghs, CO?d? at?u ali I Ii ru * i cuu lung troubles. Evans' Pharmacy.. - Wondorful endurance is possess ed by the albatross. An anthon tie record states that one of them fallow ed a ohip for sixty-four days without onco being seen to rest upon tho water. 1 :.~-.:---.^aMl? W. ?. T. TL DEPARTMENT. Conducted bv the ladies cf the "W. C. _T. Tj/c? Anderson, 8. *C._ ?v A Fearful Penalty. The following is from Hall's Jour nal of Health: "A glass of beer can't our* anybody i Why. I know of a per son-yonder he is now-a specimen of manly beauty, a portly six-footer; ho has the bearing of a prince. He is one of our merohant princes. His face weare the hue of youth; and now, at the age of fifty-odd, ho has the qu.ck elastio step of our young men of twenty-five, and none more full of wit and mirth than he; and I know he never dines without a brandy and water, and never goes to bed without a terrapin or oyster supper, with plenty of champagne; and more than that, he was never known to be drunk. 80 here is a living examplar and disproof of the tempor?neo twaddle about the dangerous nature of an occasional glass, and the destructivo effects of a temperate use of good liquors." Now it so happened that this speci men of safe brandy drinking was a relative of ours. He died a year or two after that with chronic diarrhea, a common end of tl ase who are never drank, but never ont of liquor. He left his widow a splendid mansion up town, and a elear five thousand a year, besides a large fortune to eaeh of his child ron, for he had ships on every sea, and credit at every counter, but which he never had oooasion io use. For months before he died-he was a year dying-he could eat nothing without distress; in the midst of his millions he died of inanition. That is not the half, reader. He had been a steady drinker, a daily drinker xor twenty-eight years. He left a legacy to his children which he did not mention. Scrofula has been eating up one daughter for fifteen years; another is in the madhouse; the third and fourth wero of unearth ly beauty-there was a kind of gran deur in that beauty-but they were blighted,' and they paled and faded into hoaven, we trust, in theil sweet est teens; another is tottering on the verge of the grave, and only to ono of them is left all tho senses. The Woes of the Drunkard. Could one dip his pen in fire, and experienee tho agonies of the lost, he might portray the woes of the inebri ate. Drunkenness is the parent of every evil known to man. It is one long, impetnous, awful career of an guish and death, disease, insanity, imbecility, remorse, orime, and a Ge henna of unspeakable suffering and remorse. That man is capable of such degradation and s elf-alec ted woe is one of the certain proofs of a hell. Suoh life is hell. Men who defile the body, dethrone reason, pollute the spirit, - transform themselves into devils, suffer the woes of perdition in two worlds. Language on thia theme ca" never exaggerate nor equal faot. In the heart of every oity is a literal, an aw ful pandemonium. The orime of civ ilisation is that it not only tolerates, but legalizes it. It authorizes men to poison their fellows nntil homes be come dens of vioe and orime, until parents become criminals, unt;l chil dren are cursed with poverty and cruelty unspeakable, and existence becomes both for tho drunkard and his family nothing less than infernal. -New York Observer. Harder Times for Drunkards. In the meantime, while tho world is discussing his case, the lot of the drunkard, the all-the-time drunkard, grows worse. He is zo seater nuis anoe than he was a hundred years ago, but he is not as tenderly and tolerant ly regarded as he was then. Courts and the general publio do not oare as formerly for the plea that he is a good man when he is sober. The unfeeling answer is returned that his spells of sobriety should come nearer together and his intervals of drunkennes fur ther apwt. His offense is not con doned by society as it was in the days when drunkenness, once a religious, became a social rite. Habitual drunk enness is a bar to employment now. The drunkard is blacklisted and boy cotted without any formalities.-Ex change. -1-.rn * rm \ The Beat Plaster. A p?ceo of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound to the affected parts is superior to any plaster. When troubled with lame back or pain3 in the side ovohest, give it a trial and you aro certain to be more than pleased with ?he prompt relief which it affords. Pain Balm also cures rheumatism. One application- gives relief. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - A ni o w g the blind patients fur nished by the Missouri School for the Blind for x-ray tests there were many who, though totally blind, wero able to ?.V..?.?? i:-v*? -i -t- - J--j influence. If you would have an appetite ?ikea bear and relit a for your meals take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They correct disorders of tho stoniaoh and regulate tho liver and bowels. Price, 25 eta. Samples free, at Hill-Orr Drug Co's. This Giri Made $2,100 la One Year Grind- j Inf Corn. ATLANTA, GA., Nov. 15.-"I clear ed twenty-one hundred doliera on my meal last year, and now am putting in m second set of stones in hopea of be ing able to fill the orders that I have taken for my wi ni?? traded ' The speaker WIB Miss Bertha Hopkins, and she haa for the last two years made a specialty of supplying water ground corn meal to a large number of patrons, mostly in Georgia and Carolina. "I began my present business at the death of my uncle, more tuan four yeara ago, and for two years soaroely made enough to pay expenses," she oontinued. "At his death he left me a child's, share of his not too large property, which chanced to bo an old fashioned water mili, it is situated io a planting oommunity and has always dono the grinding for all the plantation H for mi io? armin ri "lu my uncle's day and for the first two years that I had it the grinding was done in tho old way. Of tho corn brought to be ground we reoeived one peck from every bushel. I had to omploy a miller and was always at some little expense in keeping the dam and machinery in order, so, of course, was forced to dispose of ?he oom taken as toll. For the first two years I followed my undo's example and sold it as oom or meal to my neighbors at the market price for bolted meal. The last of those two years, however, being a good corn erop for thia section of the State, I found great difficulty in getting rid of the toll, and at last determined to make a trip to the nearest town, whioh is some twenty miles away, and see which could be disposed of to the greatest advantase, coro or meal.' I had colleo^d over one hundred bush els, and was sadly in need of money. "At breakfast the morning after my arrival, the proprietor of the hotel where I stopped said to me: 'Ah, Miss Bertha, if I could only get some of the good water-ground meal that was ground at your mill when I was a boy I believe I would never eat any other bread.' " 'You oan get it,' I told him. 'I am using the same stones and tho same maohinery that was used at that time, and my miller has been there for more than twenty years. What will you pay me for five bushels?' " 'I'll pay you fifteen dollars for ten bushels, if. you will promise to keep me supplied for two years. If once my patrons taste that meal I could never satisfy them with the common bolted stuff that we buy now. It is ground so fast and the corn is heated to suoh an extent that the taste is killed ont of it. I will guarantee to pay double the market price for the bolted, stuff, and will make a reputa tion for this hotel and for your meal.' "Meal, the fine bolted kipd-which, aa everyone knows, is as muoh like that ground in an old-fashioned water mill aa a banana ripened in cold stor age in New York is like thoso plucked ripe from the tree-was selling for seventy-five cents a bushel, so I was BA1WAINS ' OVERLOADED on Piai Our misfortune your'oppo promising your folks a Pian< ?ou get choice-rlater remnai ittle down to secure what 3 get the gooda, or on terms to BEST SEWING MACHINE TAT.TT T? BUT the test of true value? are tl you-not at Coat but lower than some ] IN PANTS we can show you a cc $1.15, $1.25, $1.7 , $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 IN CAPES we bought a Job Lot away at the low figures of 28c, 48o, 73 and you should see them. SHIRTS-good goods, big values These are hard to beat. SUSPENDERS-up-to-date, fres good as anybody wants for 20c. Dry Goods, all kind?, Notions. S ware, Tinware, Brooms, Buckets, Baal right prices. Come *?3 seo us and get our price KEITH -THE ANI Mutual Fire 1 WROTE its firBt Policy Sept. 23, 1896 sinco it commenced business. This is fire insurance elsewhere. Any of bur 3 people have saved money by placing tin it ia confidently believed you can. J". R. Vandiver. President. J. J. G. Ducworth, W. G. Watson, R, B. J bard, Directors. ready enough to take tbe hotel pro prietor's offer. Theo, going out amongst grocery mon. I found ?hil they wero ODO and all ready to take my meal to sell on commission. The hotel man had offered me double tint for whioh the belted was selling in tho market, and I determined that I would try to get the same price from the goneral publio, although many of tho merchants assured me that I would not succeed. "Then I went home and set to work to fill my orders. I went to the mill myself and stood at the miller's sido and superintended the grinding as well as the saoking and branding, so anxious was I that everything should be just as it ought. Then I shipped the number of bushels order ed and waited (Le result with what impatience any ono who has spent moro money on a venture than they can safely afford to lose can judge. It had been the a?rreetr??nt with tho grocerymen that at. the end of thc first two weeks they would write mo a statement of their salo and tell mc what they considered the outlook. ''In less than a week after tho meal was put on sale I had letters from two of the best merchants asking for an other shipment and containing checks for all the meal that they had receiv ed. Before the end of the scoond month I was buying corn to fill orders for meal and have been doing so ever si noe. "At the end of that first year I had succeeded in introducing my meal into the wholesale as well as the retail trade of twenty towns and cities in Georgia and South Carolina, but I had learned enough to follow the advice of a very successful merchant and sell no more on commission. I sold direotto iue trade last year and have met with none of the small worries tba* annoy ed mo the first year. "Although I am putting in another set of stones, I do not intend that they shall be turned one bit faster than the old ones, for that is - just the point that makes my meal so muoh moro valuable than that ground by the mill with modern machinery. Meal ground slowly and not so fino is better flavor ed and more nutritious than that ' ground as fine aa dust and so fast that tho corn is fired and becomes dead and tasteless. That is the reason why so many of tho foodstuffs of to-day are so muoh inferior to that of former years, it is manufactured too fast, in the hurry to make it as inexpensive as possible. I use only the best corn and see that the stones are kept at a oertain distance* apart and never go above a stated speed. I am particular I to see that every sack sent out is ex actly as represented. I havo followed the example of the F ather of our coun try us a miller and that, together with the earnestness with whioh I have pushed my meal, is, I think, the rea son that I have met with such ready sucoess."-Cor. Courier-Journal. Many peoplo worry because they be lieve they have heart disease. Tho chances are their hearts are all right, but their stomachs are unable to digest food. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests- what you eat and cures ail stomach troubles. Evans* Pharmacy. IS PIANOS. \ ???o? m THAT COUNT. ? ios,*X)rgans and Small Goods ! m rfu ni ty 1 If you have been ? i now is your chance Now nt*. Come at once ! Pay a |w pou want-balance when you rW suit you. 0 STOCK IN THE STATE, g , REED Jr ; HOUSE. r& CHEAP! iePRICE3. We can eho;v them to people's Goods at Cost. >mplete line at 39c, fJ3c, 89c, 97c, $1.07. and $2.25. below their value, and will give them c, 98c, 81.69. These are big values -18c, 20c, 25c, 35c, 40c, 45c and 50c. h and clean-8c, 9c, 10c, 14c, and as chool Supplies, Glassware, Crockery kets, Tob?ceo?, a complete line and sand see our Goods. * CO. DER80N - Insurance Co. , and has mado only two assessments a great deal cheaper than you can get Pol icy-holders will tell you that. Other sir fire insuranco in this Company, and Frctwell. R. S. Hill. J. J. Major, Jno. \. Robinson, J. P. Glenn, A. P. Hub J. J. BECK, Agent. Syracus? Chilled Plows Are the lightest draft, Best braced, and Most dnrable Plow on the market, And costs less fer repairs. Have all the good features of any other Plow, And a large number that ar? not found on any other. Clark's Tarrant Cutaway Harrow, The perfection of Cutaway Harrows, will turn and thoroughly pulverize the soil from three to six inches deep ; have never heard of one that did not give perfect satisfaction. If you will try one you will buy no other. The Empire Grain and Fertilizer Drill, The only Drill with the absoluto force feed-will sow Oats where others fail, and will sow any grain better than any Drill made. They are strong built, light draft. Every one guaranteed to do perfect work. BROCK BROS, Ande, son, S. C. M. L. CARLISLE. L. H. CARLISLE. The Lynchburg Chilled Plow Is gaining ground every day. WE have sold one Car of the famous Plows this season, and we have another Car load of them ordered which we wan' to sell by January 1st. We have put the price of Plows and Points to the lowest notch for Spot Cash. Buy ono of our Steel Beam Hillside Plows-tho only Steel Beam Plow en the market They are guaranteed to give Eatisfaction or your money re funded. _CARLISLE BROS., Anderson, S. C. OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for all KINDS of GRAIN. Three Thousand Bushels of TEXA8 RED RUST PROOF OATS. One Car cf that famous HENRY OAT (or Winter Grazing Oat.) The only Oat that will positively stand any kind of weather. Have juBt received Two Cars of fine FEED O VTS at lowest prices. Have just received Three Cars of RICE FLOUR for fattening your hogs, and it comes much cheaper than any other feed and is much better. Yours respectfully, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. Fruit Jars, To put up your Fruit in. Preserving Powder, To keep Fruit from spoiling. Fruit Jar Rubbers, To put on your old JarB. Tartaric -A_oicl, To make Cherry and Blackberry Acid. Sticky F*ly Paper, To catch the flies while working with your frui ALL AT HILL -ORR DRUC CO. o < p lim 2 5 ?I 8,1 gig g g ? ? ?I U\ I ? CG P Glenn Springs Mineral Water - FOR SALE AT EVANS; PHARMACY, THE GLENN SPRINGS WATER baa been known for over a hundred yearp.and recognized by the best Physicians in tho land as a sure cure for diseases or tue Liver. Kiduevs, Bladder, Bowels and Blood. 8ome of its remarkable euroa were brought before the g?tico of tho public in the Charleston Medical Journal in lbbo. MKSBBS. EvAics PHAKMACY-GBNTS: I have boon a sufferer from *ndl^tlon tor aevoral years, and have found tho use of your Glonn Springs Wator ofMja* benefit to me, and can confidently recommend it to any suffering from 1%tr??b^?;LEN