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BILL ARF ;Bili G-oes to Mississip AttaniaOi Miss.-Some good BLUE MOUNTAIS peoplc called me dv|er hero audi carno, My wife said I hau* better go, for the rioter was at hand and the family aeeded clothes and .she ?as obliged to play old Santa Claps, aa usual, and provide some Christmas Rifts for tho ?hildren and grandchildren. That is a 5ood part of her life and happiness pleasing the children. She never*asks for arythijg for herself. She don't have to. The girls tell mo what she needs and I surprise her with it if I jave the money, and if I haven't I itraio my credit and get it anyhow. Professor Lowrey called me here to alk to bis college girls, for he is a 10ted educator and has 260 girls out 1?re io the woods and is building np iu institution that is the pride of s or th Mississippi. He got four other owns to join him in the call, and so I ectured in Tupelo last Monday night o a large audienoe in a large house i?d found a warm welcome. It is ronderful how these old towns are oowing up and taking on new life. Twelve years ago I was in Tupelo and thought it wao pretty- dead. I bad inly about 100 people out to hear me ben, and this time there wore near 00. Prosperity has done it. Ten ent cotton and a cotton mill has done t; McKinley had nothing to do with t. Last night ? was billed for Ripley -a nice old courthouse town not far way. The evening betokened a storm nd by night the lightning was flash ag incessantly all around the horizon nd the thunder pealed heavily.' kountry peoplo became alarmed and lurried home, for everything seemed minous of coming trouble. There eemed to be something in the ele ments that was brooding over us, and ure enough there was. The court oom was about half full of people rho bad dared to venturo out to hear ie. Suddenly the storm came with earful fury. There was an awful oaring sound from the Southeast that ras like the sound of many waters. It lushed tho audienoe into a solemn Bi euee. I did not take the platform, ut waited. In a few minutes some rild, excited messengers came rushing ip the steps and called for the doctors ,nd other help, for the cyolone had ome and torn up everything in the inburbs and killed men and women md children. The night was intense y dark, but the men rushed to the escue in haste and the lecture pro [ramme was broken np in a twinkling Everybody hurried to their homes or o the soene of the disaster. What an awful thing is a cyclone 1 dow quickly it comes and as quickly ;ocs. leaving swift destruction in its .rack. Happily it gives no warning, br the terror and'apprehension would ie worse than death. This morning re rejoioed to learn that nobody was killed, though many were badly rounded. Some houses were wreoked tnd blown away and many were un .oofed and some were set on fire. One nan was lifted up and carried away ihrown to the ground in the Woods, iith only a few bruises. How strange hat so few people are killed by a cy done. It seems providential, and this norning the question discussed at the breakfast table was whether God or toe devil was the author of these ter rible visitations. One said that the pirit of evil was still on the earth and pas ever contending against the spirit lf good, and this spirit brought famine, 'estilence, fireB, storms and ali. disas *rs. Another said that aW these Mogs came from natural oauses, and hat neither God nor the devil . had 'y agency in them. Another quoted rom Job where the Lord delivered too over to Satan, who was going to nd fro upon tho earth and walking up od down in it. He afBioted Job aw? QHy, but was not allowed to take his ta Another quoted from.the Savior's fords when he said: "Think you that hose upon whom the tower of Siloam ell were wicked above all people? I en you nay, but unless yo repent ye "H perish." Professor John Fiske, very great and learned man, has '?tien a little book called 'JTheMvs iry of Evil." I have read it twioe Qd found but little comfort or philo cPj?y ?n it. His argument is that , *8 ?f divine, oreation and designed > illustrate and exalt the good. That at for sickness we would not appro u?? or enjoy good health.- But for a occasional famine, we would not on Jy tba blessing of abundant food, and at for sin we w>^d not enjoy heaven. 1,8 book leaves you jnri where it you, and the mystery is still un stained.' We know that God loves '?creatures, and that ,ia enough. ^j* sparrow falls to tho ground "Jout His notice, and Ho did not ?h ?o dytroy Ninnevah, where there ye 600,000 people and much nattle. Ano much,.cattle." T-iat ras al - - '?ery ??gniucaur. expression to ** . . S LEITER. pi to Deliver Lectures. institution. Well, I had to come here from Rip ley by private conveyance. We had a good team, but the road was fearful, for it had rained nearly all nigh*. Mr. Pitner, an old Georgian, had the lines and did not anticipate trouble, but when we got to the riva? we found the lowlands flooded on both sides for a quarter of a mile, and after we oross ed the bridge the horses plunged sud denly into a washout and submerged ns into deep water. It flowed into the boggy and over it and no to the cush ions, and for a time we were both alarmed for fear of a collapse.1 JJ at we got out of it safely, and here I am with a valise full of wet clothes and no change for tonight. Here I am at the college and will have to stand np before two or three hundred pretty girls tonight. Fortunately Mr. Low rey is about my size and Bays he will lend 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 eome which I cannot fight, and that is a Methodist revival, for like a. cyclone, they are terribly in earnest and always break me up. Old Simon Peter Rich ardson says in his book that the Meth odists ave- all fire and the Baptists all water, and some others are all wind. I hope they won't - all oome upon me at onoe. 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 bo the cynosure of their beautiful eyes. Yes, the cynos ure of their beautiful eyes. That word comes from two Greek words which 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 General Lowrey, who succeeded to Gen. Clai borne as commander of that corps in the Army of Tennessee. He is buried near here, and I sh ill viait his grave. I go from here to Pontoloo, the oldest town in the State, where tV e Indian agenoy was looated and the chief 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. Tfme's Mutation. "Really, your face is very familiar, sir, but yon seem to have the advan tage of me in names." "I fancied'" he said, "that yon wonld know me. My name is Bangs and four years ago had the honor to be your coachman." "Sir!" she fairly snarled. "But a remarkably lucky series of stock investments," hewenton, "have enabled me to become your next door neighbor." "So pleased to renew our acquaint ance, Mr. Bangs," she smilingly said. To Cure A Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's sig nature is on each box. 25o. - Men.jnako religion of their poli tics. Women make politics of their religion. When you want prompt acting little ?ills that never gripe use Dewitt's tittle 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 beat liver pills ever made. Easy to take and never gripe. Evana' Phar macy. - Probably the most inhuman thing in the world, nezt to a baby when it tries to smile, is the faces a woman makes when she is crying. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salvo will quickly heal the worot burns and scalds, and not leave a soar. Use it for piles and kin diseases. Beware of worthless counterfeits. Evans' Pharmacy. - "He has always run his business like dook work." "Yes, and now his creditors have wound it up." Don't forget to Juso a little Prickly Ash Bitters whenever the stomach or bowels are disordered. It quickly cor rects sueli troubles and makes you feel bright and cheerful. - Every man has some lie he tells that it makes him mad if you don't bo lieve.' \ JU you nave ever seen a child in tbe agony of oroup you can jrealize how iraiefui mothers-aro xor Ono Minute lough Cure which given relief as soon as it is administered. I*, quiskly onres coughs, colds and all throat aud lang troubles. Evans' Pharmacy. -- Wonderful endurance is possess ed by the albatross. An anthentie record states that uno of them fellow ed a ship for sixty-four days without w?wS being aeon to rest upon ino water. . W.O. T. U. DEPARTMENT, Conducted by the ladies of tho \7. 0. T. U. of Anderson* S. C. A Fearful Penalty. The following is from Hall's Jour nal of Health: "A glass nf beer'eas-I hurt anybody I Why. I know of a per son-yonder he is now-a speoimen of manly beauty, a portly six-footer; he has the bearing of a prince. Ho i 3 one of our merchant \ ric ce g. His face wears the hue of youth ; and now, at the age of fifty-odd, he has the qu.ck eUstio step of onr young men cf twenty-five, and none more foll of wit and mirth than he; and I know ho 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 waa never known to be drunk.. 80 hero is a living exam piar and disproof of tl? a temperas co twaddle about toe dangerous nature of an occasion^ glass, end the destructivo effects of a temperate use of good liquors." Now it so happened that this speoi men of safe brandy drinking was a relative of ours. He died a year or two after that with ohronio diarrhea, a common end of those who are never drunk, but never out of liquor. He left his widow a splendid mansion up town, and a olear five thousand a year, besides a largo fortune to eaoh of his ohildren, for he had ships on every sea, and oredit at every oounter, but whieh he never had occasion to use. For months before he died-he was a year dying-he oould 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 for 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 were of unearth ly beauty-there was a kind of gran deur in that beauty-but they were blighted,' and they paled and faded iuto heaven, we trust, in their sweet est teens; another is tottering on the verge of the grave, and only to one of them is left all the senses. The Woes of the Drunkard. Could one dip his pen in fire, and experience the agonies of tho lost, he might portray the woes of the inebri ate. Drunkenness is the parent of every evil known to man. It is one long, impetuous, awful career of an guish and death, disease, insanity, imbecility, remorse, crime, and a Ge henna of unspeakable suffering and remorse. That man is oapable of such degradation and self-oleoted woe is j 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 worlda. Language on this theme can never exaggerate nor equal faot. In the heart of every oity is a literal, an aw ful pandemonium. The orime of civ ilization is that it not only tolerates, but legalizes it. It authorises men to poison their fellows until homes be come dens of vioe and orime, until parents become criminals, until 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 the world is discussing his case, the lot of the drunkard, the all-the-tirue drunkard, grows worse. He is no greater nuis ance than he was a hundred years ego, but he is not as tenderly and tolerant ly regarded as he was then. Courts and the general publio do not care 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 intervrls of drunkenhes fur ther apart. His offense is not.con doned by society AR it was in the days when drunkenness, once a religious, beoame a sooial rite. Habitual drunk enness is a bar to employment now. The drunkard is blacklisted and boy cotted without any formalities.-Ex change. imm > am ? \ The Best Plaster. A pi ceo of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound to the affected parts is superior to any Elaster. When troubled with lame nek or pains in the side or chest, give it a trial and you are oertain to be more than pleased with the prompt relief which ii ali ord ? Pain Balm also euros rheumatism. One application gives relief. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co.__ ; ._ ' - Among the blind patients fur nished by the MiBcouri School for he Blind for x-ray tests there wero many who, though totally blind, wero able to observe lights and shadows under its influence. If you would.have an appetite Jike a bear and relish for your meals take Chamberlain's Stomach ?and Liver Tablets. They correct disorders of the stomach and regulate the liver and bowels. Price, 25 ats. Samples free, ?i Hill-Orr Drug Co's. This Girl Made $2,100 io One Year Grind* | lng Corn. ATLANTA, GA., NOV. 15.-"I clear ed twenty-one hundred dollars on my. meal last year, and now am putting in a second bet of stones in hopes- o? ho ing able to fill the orders that I have taken for my winter trade." The speaker was Miss Bertha Hopkins, and she has 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 nt the death of my uncle, moro than four years ago, and for two years soarcely made enough to pay expenses," she cu H ?ii rued. t5At his death he ?eft me a child's share of his not too large property, whioh chanced to bo an old fashioned water mill. It is situated in a planting community and has .Iways done tho grinding for all tho nlanlotinna fnr rn ? 1 rj o j "In my uncle's day and for the first two years that I had it ?ho grinding was done in the old way. Of the corn brought to be ground we reoeived one peck from every bushel. I had to I employ a miller and was always at some little expense in keeping the dam and machinery in order, so, of course, was foroed to dispose of the oom taken as toll. For the first two years I followed my uncle'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 crop for this seotion 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 seo which could bc disposed of to the greatest advantage, corn or meal. I had collected over ono hundred bush els, and was sadly in need of money. "?it breakfast the morning after my arrival, the proprietor of the hotel where I stopped paid 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 can get it,' I told him. 'I am using the same stones and the same maohinery that was used at what time, and my miller has been there for more than twenty years. What will you pay me for five bushels?' " Til pay you fifteen dollars for ten bushels, if. yon 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 oom is heated to Buoh an extent that the taste is killed out of it. I will guarantee to ^ay 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-whioh, as everyone knows, is as much like that ground in an old-fashioned water mill as a banana ripened :u cold stor age in New York is like those plucked ripe from the tree-was selling for seventy-five cents a bushel, so I was CHRISTIN BARGAINS '.' OVERLOADED on Pia Our misfortune your op pc promising your folks a Pian ?ou get choice-tinter remna ittle down to secure what ; get the gooda, or on terms to BEST SEWING MACHINE C. A MUSIC TALK IS BUT the test of true values are tl you-not at Cost but lever than some IN PANTS we can show you a c< $1.15, $1.25, 81.7 , 81.50, 81.75, 82.00 IN CAPES we bought a Job Lot away at the low figures of 28c, 48o, 7c and you should see them. SHIRTS-good goods, big values These are hard to beat. SUSPENDERS-up-to-date, free good as anybody wants for 20c. Dry Gooda, all kind?, Notions. ? ware, Tinware, Brooms, Buckets, Bas right prices. Como and see us and get our pric< KEITH _ ama* m\ ru -~ . nrfi. B*mvm Mutual Fire J WROTE its first Polioy Sept. 23, 1896 since it commenced business. This is fire insurance elsewhere. Any of our people have saved money by placing th it is confidently believed you oan. J. R. Vandiver. President. J. J. G. Duoworth, W. G. Watson, R, B. bard, Directors. ready enough io luke the hotol pro? prietor's oiler. Theo, going out amongst grooerymen, i found that they wera one and all ready to take my meal to soil on commission. The hotel man had offered me double that for whieh the bolted was selling iu tho market, and I determined that I would try to get the same pri?e from the general public, 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 tho miller's side and superintended the grinding as well as tho saoking and branding, so anxious was I that everything should be just as it ought. Then I shipped iae number of bushels order ed and waited the result with what impatience any one who has spent moro inoney on a venturo than they can safely ??Tord to lose ean judge. It had been tho agreement with the grocerymen that at the cad of tho first two weeks they would writo mo a statement of their salo and tell mc what they considered tho outlook. "In less than a week after tho meal was put on sale I had letters from two of tho best merchants asking for an other shipment and containing checks for all the meal that they had receiv ed. Before thc e. i of tho second month I was buying oom to fill orders for meal and have been doing so ever since. "At the end of that first year I had suooeeded in introducing my meal into the wholesale as well as the retail trade of twonty towns and oities 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 the trade last year and have met with nono of tho small worries that annoy ed me thc first year. "Although I am putting in another set of stones, Ido not intend that they shall bo turned ono bit f astor than the old ones, for that is - just the point that makes my meal so much more valuable than that ground by tho mill with modern machinery. Meal ground slowly and not BO fino is better flavor ed and more nutritious than that ground as fine ai dust and so fast that tho corn is fired and becomes dead and tasteless. That is the reason why so many of the foodstuffs of to-day are so muoh inferior to that of former years, it is manufactured too fast, io the hurry to mako it as inexpensive as possible. I use only the best corn and see that the stones aro kept at a certain distance* apart and never go above a stated speed. I am particular to see that every sack sent out is ex actly as represented. I have followed the example of the F athcr of our coun try as a miller and that, together with the earnestness with which I have pushed my meal, is, I think, the rea son that I have met with suoh ready success."-Cor. Courier-Journal. Many people worry because they be lieve they have heart disease. The chances aro their hearts are ail right, but their stomachs are unable to digest food. Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure digests* what you eat and cures all stomach troubles. Evans' Pharmacy. IS PIANOS. THAT COUNT. nos, Organs and ;S.nall Goods ! ?rtunity I If you have been 0 now is your chance Now nt?. Come at once 1 Pay a you want-balance when you 1 suit you. : STOCK IN THE STATE. I HOUSE. CHEAP ! he PRICES. We can show them to people's Goods at Cost. omplete lino at 39c, 03c, 89c, 97c, $1.07, i and $2.25. ; below their value, and will give them lc, 98c, 81.69. These are big values -18c, 20c, 25c, 35c, 40c, 45c and 50c. h and clean-8c, 9c, 10c, 14c, and as Ichool Supplies, Glassware, Crockery kets, Tob?ceo?, a complete line and )s and see our Goods. * CO. "W" canowie insurance Co. >, and has mado only two assessments a great deal ohcaper than you can get Pol icy-holders will tell yon that. Other cir fire insurance in this Company, and Frotwell, P.. 8. Hill, J. J. Major, Jno. A. Robinson, J. P. Glenn, A. P. Hub J. J. BECK. Aeent. Syracuse Chilled Plows Are the lightest draft, Boof braced, and Most durable Plow on the market, And costs less for repairs. Have all the good features of any other Flow, And a large number that are not found on any other. Clark's Tarrant Cutaway Harrow, The perfection of Cutaway Harrows, will turn aud thoroughly pulverize the soil from three lo six inch? s deep ; have never heard of one that did not give perfect satisfaction. If you will try ono you will buy no other. The Empire Grain and Fertilizer Drill, The only Drill with the absolute force feed-will sow Oats where others fail, and will sow any grain better than any Driii made. They are etrong built, light draft. Every one guaranteed to do perfect work. BROCK BROS, Anderson, 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 havo another Car load of them ordered which wo want to sell by January 1st. We have put the price of Plows and Pointe to the lowest notch for Spot Cash. Buy one of our Steel Beam Hillside Plows-tho only Steel Beam Plow on the market. They are guaranteed to give gatisfaction or your money re funded. CARLISLE BROS., Anderson, B.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 of that famous HENRY OAT (or Winter Grazing Oat.) The only Oat that will positively stand any kind of weather. Have just received Two Cars of fine FEED O \TS at loweBt 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 Jars. Tartaric -A_cid, To make Cherry and Blackberry Acid. Sticky F*ly JPapei?9 To catch the flies while working with your frui ALL AT HILL-ORR DRUG CO. O < SS td > S'S gs8" W td W . ? DB Glenn Swings Mineral Water - FOR SALE AT - EVANS' PHARMACY. THE GLENN SPRINGS WATER bas been known for ovor % hundred year?, and recognized by the best Physicians in the land as a sure erne for diseases or tue Liver, Kidneys, Bladder, Bowols and Blood. Some of its remarkable otires were brought before the notice of the public In the Charleston Medical Journal in 1855. MESSRS. EvAJfs PHARMACY-GENTS: I have, been a snfforerlndl^stlon for several years, and have found the use of your Glenn Spring? beneflt to me, and can confidently recommend it to sny sutTerlng from llke^ronblea.