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BILL ?RF He Encounters Sor wa ?Atlanta ( happy. > Children et menthe de4 home, where i ' awaiting, and I 6ked the same old blessiag that I avc been asking for fifty years, only t was with unusual gratitude, for I ad been in perils of wind and water and escaped them. . t was weary with ? travel, and now I cruid reft. I left New Albany at midnight, reached Birmingham at daylight, only fi?e ? ? , ? nA 1\oA Rxra . minnla?' lUlivcs i'ivw, -?.--? ? hue to buy a ticket for Pell City, and row there I was to, board the East West for home. How happy I But alasl for human hopes. How soon they can vanish into despair, here were about a hundred big, black, greasy negro preaohers ahead of me at the ticket office. Their Baptist convention had been broken up, and they were going home on the south ound train, and had an hour to go >o, but they would not let me advance 3 inch. I hurried back to the gate ;eper and begged him to let me in, or ray train was waiting, and I point il to the crowd of negroes and told ira it was impossible for me to get a icket. He said he was sorry, but he ad bis orders. I hurried baok to ake one more effort, but a big square bouldered preacher, with a back as road as a barn door, had dropped a ime on the floor and half a dozen ere down hunting for it. I hailed he ticket man, but bo never heard or eeded me. Frantio, I rushed back to he iron gates, and saw my train alin ing off like a snake in the grass, and hat official automaton would not let e pass. "'Gainst orders," he said, lackstone says there is a remedy for very wrong, but there were no rail* oads in his day, or he wouldn't have ritten those lines. I had no remedy, od there is none. What could I do? to train for Pell City for twelve ours, and none from Pell C?t> for my orne for twenty-four hours. I was so ircd and so disappointed .that I sat own to ruminate on my valise. I was eak and sad and pitiful, for there is o disappointment so distressing to me s being left by a train when going omc. Just then a drummer, God less hi m! came up and spoke to me, rd said, "My friend, I am .pretty uch in the same fix you are, hut we an go by Chattanooga, for the Ala am a Great Southern iB an hour late his morning. It's sohedule is to leave ere thirty minutes before we arrived, ut it has not come yet, and we have ilf an hour to get our tickets. Those teachers are nearly.all out of the way ow." I rose to my feet. I saw how itwas, nd that I would lose only one hour d getting home. In my heart-I roviv d, and like David whispered, "Bless eLord, O my soul." We got our tioketo, and in foar ours were in Chattanooga, where I legraphedto my wife, "Hold the bit; I'm coming." And so "All's ell that buds well," and no thanks to ose who manage that iron-bound pen t Birmingham. Bat I found the cutest little narrow nge railroad in Mississippi that I ?veseen in many years. I didn't now there was one left. ' It is called e Gulf and Chinago railroad, but ey began to build it in the middle any years ago and built sixty miles d quit. You can ride all day ou it r $1.50. It dceBn't seem to have y schedule, and the folks along the just wait for it and seem content. l?y say, "Well, it's our road; it's all e w got, and they, do the best they The owners are olever men "will wait on you .half an hour if n telephone them. They are very jcommodatinsr, especially .going " Mtth, for they have no connection. to *? I boarded that train at Blue ointaio at 4 p m. for Pontotoo, Jj-rel was to lecture that night at o'clock. It was only thirty miles, " we didn't get there until 8;15 dock, and my audience didn't give the ship. They said it was their ?d?tbeir only rond?and they knew ! PfouHar ways. We stopped when 'jhin three miles of town, and after an hour or sol asked what was Matter, and was told iM tho am had given out. Before that the jn^t)pped in the woods somewhero then began to lack. I ventured U what Wja tbe matter and waa w lhat the brakeman had dropped * c?o oinn anA tl . . -iixjjr uiiv guuo USCK for it. But it w?? a railroad 1 had no right to complain, for I ftobcr when thorc wsb not a rail _--lue united States,. When I o Georgia overland in a carriage father and mother. 1,200 tih*ni Wo Dove ro>?ed a railroad, ^rewaanot one to cross; and J/jjere are 19G.0C? ?nile* in ^States. Ko, I nm happy oa '1 ae Trouble in Getting >me. JonatitutUm. the way on any railroad! even if it is thirty miles short and four hours long. It beats the old stugo coach ? long ways. I tried a buggy team from Bip ley to Blue. Mount, only ? Bix-mile drive, and like to have got drowned. I got fundamentally and distressingly w et. I shall wait for the narrow guago next time. Oh, that cyclone. haven't quit tolling about it yet. Next morning a man who was in it and un der it and on top of it said he went cut to chut his mules up In chustable, and before he could say Jack Robin son, it picked him-up and turned him a thousand somersaults, and while he was turni ng he. heard his mules a bray ing in the air above him.- "Gentle men," said he, "that are a fact, if I over told it; and tho thing just let me down in Jinny Jones's potato patch as eany as a woman lays -her baby in the cradle," . That college at Blue Mountain is a marvel to inc. It was founded twenty - five years ago by General Lowrey, a great big-hearted man, who, like Ben Adhem, loved his fellow men. It was at first a high school for the beoefit of thepoor girls in the neighborhood and expanded into ? college. When he died his sons and sons-in-law took ob arge and continued to expand, and now there are 300 girls there; over 200 of them are boarders at $12 per month. The others live in cottages near by and board themselves at a cost of about $5 a month, for they do their own work. Large, handsome brick build ings have been built and more are be ing built. Bountiful springs from the mountain side furnish abundan ; pure water for everything. There is-a dairy farm near by and vegetable gar dens and everything moves like clock work. Professor Lowrey is a man of untir ing energy and says that work is his best recreation. Ho took me on a-ro matio drive to the top of the moun tain and the village graveyard, and when we returned he called his four little children, inoluding the baby, and took them to ride. I liked that. It does not take me long to diagnose a good husband and kind father. There was no barber in the village and he brought to meohis fine lawn mower razor that cost $5, and when he saw how awkward and nervous I was, he said: "Oh, let me -do that," and he mowed the gray stubble ?S in i min ute. Ever hear of a college president doing that? I was specially interest ed in a young man, Ernest Guy ton, the only boy in college. He is totally blind, but is getting a first-class edu cation through bis cars. He listens eagerly to the recitations, keeps up with the foremost and is now studying Latin. Hie mother or sister reads to him every night and the family are all proud of him, for he is not only bright mentally, but cheerful and handsome. Ho told me that being bl.-id.never dis tressed him and the was happy all the time,' for everybody was- so < good to him. How kind Providence is to the afflicted. Those Mississippi woods are full of Georgians. Scores of them sought me and with a natural and earnest pride told me where they came from in the long ago, or where their fathers came f rom, and who they were kin to. I was amused at cue old man who said he camo here from Oase County before the war, and he asked me where Bar tow Oqunty was. He had never heard that the name of old Cass was changed to Bartotf in honor of bur Gen eral liartow, who was killed at Ma nas safe. An unknown friend has sent me a poetic gem callea . "The Chang* in Farmer Joe," by S&eldon Stoddard. I wish that it could bo read by every husband in tho land, for it tells in beautiful and patbetfn verse how Joe had long pursued y for money's sake and y;avc his ioving, long suffer ing wife j'ew comforts and none of tho luxuries or ornaments that brighten up a woman's home. For years she had from time to time hinted that she would like a new carpet for her room, for the old one had been turned and patched and beaten until it was faded and threadbare, and the window shades were worn out. But he said no, ho couldn't afford it, and he worked ear ly and late and was' accumulating money. The poem tells how he ;^2t her one morning and noticed a tear.in her eye as it dropped down on her pale cheek, and he got to thinking about it in the cornfield, and that tear haunted him and he recalled the long years of their married life-and how patient she had been with him and tho little chil dren and nursed him . when sick and watched them by night and by day. Suddenly he Came to himself and stop ped his mule ir the middle of tho row and hu?iricu home and hitched up the buggy and went to town like he was geisg fer tac doctor. Ks bought a nice carpet and somo ous'k?ins and Oth er cooiforto and drove home like Jehu | and tumbled them all at the front door. "Here, Sally, come here, biet? your dear heart; you shan't cry auy more." And he hurried baok to the cornfield. Well, I liked that, and now I feel like going to town and buying a naw finrnfitfnr mv Wo man f'or get that a woman has to stay at home ail the time. She loves ornaments, for God made her so, and if she oan't have these things her house is not a home, but a prison. Bill Abp. "Too Near My Price." .There is a story, well-known in naval circles of an honest old commodore, a man of frank and witty speech, who commanded a blockade squadron in Southern waters during the Civil War. A fine-looking, well-mannered man oame to him one day, at a time when no vessels had been able to pass the blockade for wn?trn. and introduced himself as the representative of cer tain firms abroad whoso commercial need for cotton was desperate. After explaining this point fully, he made an open offer to the commodore of fifty thousand dollars if he would man age to let one single ship, laden with cotton, pass the blockade. He even opened his wallet and spread the crisp bills out upon tho table to emphasize the amount. The commodore listened, with an indifferent air, and said nothing until the man was through with his offer. Then he answered, still indifferently, "Tho thing is absolutely impossible, sir. Good-morning." and bowed him out. So little indignation did he show, indeed, that a week later the persevering agent oame baok with a fresh offer. "Commodore," he said, "I am au thorized to offer you even more than I did. If you will do as I ask, here are one hundred thousand dollars, whioh I will leave upon the table," and he began to take a roll of bills out of his wallet as before. This time, however, the old sailor was not indifferent. Taking the bri ber by the neok he kicked him out of the cabin without oeremooy, saying, as he did so : "Get out of here you scoundrel ! You're coming too near my price !" It was a true speech, and a wise one. The temptation which does not tempt us may be met with indifference, but when we feel that a danger point is near we need to act quickly. Every man, the cynics say, has his price. Perhaps so; but the man who knows when his price is being approaoed, if he has the resolution to take tempt tation by the shoulders then and there, and turn it out, is safe. "Never let ai enemy get inside your guard," is an old rule. When the tempter gets too near our price, then is our time ty resist him stoutly. A little later may be too late; but the old sailor's exam ple, if followed, will bring us out tri umphantly.?Forward. The Best Plaster. A piece of flannel dampened with Chamb?rlaia'B Pain Balm and bound to the affeotod parts is superior to any Elaster. When troubled with lame abk or pains in the side or chest, give it a trial and you are certain to be more ihan pleased with the prompt relief whioh it affords. Pain Balm alsooures, rheumatism. One application gives relief. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. ^ ? The census bureau announced that the population of the State of Illinois was 4,821,550, as ngaiust 3, 826,351 in 1890. Don't forget to use a little Prickly Ash Bitters whenever the stomach or bowels are disordered. Ic quickly cor rects ?u?u trouble? and makes you feel bright and cheerful. ? The population of Nevada was officially announced at 42,335 againPt 45,761? in 1890, a dcorease of 3,426, or 7.4 per cent. 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. 25c. ? Postmaster General Smith denied a report that he would retire from the cabinet before March 4. If you would have an appetite like a bear utiu relish for your meals take Chamberlain's Stomaoh and Liver Tablets. They correct disorders of the stomaoh and regulate the liver and bowels. Price, 25 ots. Sam pies free, at Hill-Qrr Drug C?'s. ? Help from without is often en acoblige in its effects, but help from within invariable invigorates. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure "digests what you eat," so that you can eat all the good food you want while it is re storing the digestive organs to health, it is the only preparation that digests ill kinds of food. It never fails. 13 vans' Pharmacy. ? No young man ever climbed tho ladder of success with a whisky flask in bis pooket. Now is the time when croup and lung troubles prove rapidly fatal. The only harmless remedy that gives m mediate results is One Minute Dough Cure. It quickly cures coughs ind all lung diseases. Evans' Phar naoy. ? To-morrow is the time when the ool is going to bo wise and the lazy nan industrious.. Mr. Peter 8' erman, of North Strat- 1 ord, N. II., says, "For years I-suffor :d torture from chronic indigestion, I mi Kodol Dyspepsia C uro made a weil - nan of mo." It digests what yon eat od is a certain cure for all stomach \ roubles. Evans* Pharmacy. Ufe is Growing Longer. From statistics and the result of certain changea in the methods of liv ing we can safely affirm that tho span of life is steadily lengthening. Three thousand years before the Christian nra t hn |?Ar?ao dsrai?CS C* ??f? W?B seid to be three score years and ten. This would make middle age come at 35. Dante considered that year the middle of life's aroh and Montaigne, speaking'.for himself at the same pe riod of life, considered his real work practically ended and proved that ho was growing old by falling into the re miniscent age. At tho present time 50 years is con sidered as the middle age. In the days of the Revolutionary war promi nent men at that time were looked upon as old at 50 years. We are jus tified in supposing that the span of human lifo will be prolonged in the future because the possibility of living to au older ago has been demonstrated by tho great advances made in niedi oice and hygiene during the past ten years. Wc have attained a vast amount of knowledge as to the causes of disease and new remedies for their successful treatment havo been discovered. Wc have no now diseases, at least of any serious character, and we are belter able to treat the old ones, which, like old foes, appear to us with uew faces. One of tho most interesting and trust-worthy statements in respect to old age is the report of tho habits of centenarians; made some years ago by a commission appointed by the British Medioal Association. Without going into particulars of the different cases it is valuable to note, generally, the result of the investigation. It seems that most of these old peo ple v small or medium of stature and of sparo habit of body. The voice was rarely feeble. Moat of thorn had lost their teeth, but nearly all of them I enjoyed good digestion, ou? old man of 98, a clergyman, placing his hand on the organ in question and saying that he never knew what it was to I have a stomaoh. Nearly all of them had enjoyed uninterrupted good health and many had never known what it was to be sick. They were all very moderate in eat- j ing, most of them useing little animal food. Few indulged at all in intoxi cating drinks and those only in nota ble moderation! Thoytook consider able outdoor exercise and nearly all possessed the good-natured placid dis position.?Royal Magazine. How to Core tronp. Mr. B. Gray, who lives near Arne nia, Duchess County, N. Y., Bays: "Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best medicine I have ever used. It is a fine children's remedy for croup and never fails to eure. When given as soon as child becomes hoarse, or even after the oronpy cough has developed, it will prevent the attack. This should be borne in mind and a bottle of the Cough Remedy kept at hand ready for instant use as soon as these symp t?me appear. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. _ Not a Beehive, The following is toid at tho expense of an Amorioau gentleman who was recently stopping with his wife at the Hotel Cecil. Oa their first evening there ho happened to retire somewhat later thau his spouse. Arriving at tho door of what ho imagined to bo his room, and finding it looked, he tapped and oalled''Honey I" No an swer camo, and ho called again and more loudly, "Honey!" Still he got no reply, und, bcooming somewhat un easy, ho shouted tho endearing term with his full lung-power. This time a reply oatne, and in a male voice. "Go away, you blithering idiot! This is a bathroom, not a blooming bee hive!" ? Flo?Thesu box parties are noth ing but gab and chatter and all that. Joe?You're right there. Take that fellow FitBCorbett, for instance. y ASH c ? AN ECLIPSE O', the Sun throws.a da'?? shadow on the earth. So It ts with the human body 'when disease shuts out the Jlght ol health, and happiness. ' PRICKLY ASH BITTERS tf Is an antidote for all diseases whkrTattfck^ ? the Kidneys, Liver, Stomach or Bowels.: It drives out constipated conditions, restores,' 'functional activity and regularity/ MAKES Pure Blood, Strong Nerv?? and Good Digeatlon. y People who have, used it say it h?" their ' rnaln reliance for keeping the body healthy.' SOLD ?T DRUGGISTS. Price, 31.00. crcciAL noTn.-rouir tit titura UMi'itiim'; tl ?M ?MW tau II mm ? t?4 tf drin?. Ii I. co) Lou il. woes, uttif mm?????i ,?? picuui v. ic. tut*. Evans Pharmacy, Special Agents.! CITATION. State of South Cnrolina, County of Anderson. By Ii. Y. 11 Nance, Judge of Probate. Wherea9, Lee O. Ilolltman baa applied to me to graut him Letter* of Administration, with Will annexed, on the Estate and effects of Mrs. A. L. Gail lard, deceased. These are therefore to cite nvA admon ish all kindred and creditor* or the said Mrs. A. L. Gaillard, deceased, to be and appear before me in Court of Probate, to be held at Anderson C. H on the22od day of December, 1900, after publication here of, to show cause, If any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, thia 4tb day of December, 1900. R. Y. H. NANCE, Probate Judge. Deo 5. 1000 24 2 TO THE FARMERS Of Anderson and adjacent Counties. 8INCE last July when we organized the? ANDERSON FERTILIZER COMPANY We have put forward our beat effort, and rushed the buildings with all possi ble speed, in order to get our goods on the market for the Spring trade 1901. We now wish to inform you that we will start our Acid Chambers early in December, and our Mixing Department in January, We, ?111 manufacture Sulphuric Acid, Acid Phosphate and High Grade Ammoniated Fertilizers, all from the crude material. We are also importers of Germau Kai nit, Muriate of Potash and Nitrate of Soda. You can always get fresh, pure goods at our factory, and wo hope to supply jour wants in this line. This is a home industry, of which we feel proud, built with home capital and we solicit the patrouage of the home people. ANDERSON FERTILIZER COMPANY. FRED. G. BROWN, President. TALK IS CHEAP ! BUT the test of true values are the PRICES. We can ehow them to you?not at Cost but lower than some people's Goods at Cost. IN PANTS we can show you a complete line at 39c, 63c, 89c, 97c, 81.0*, 81.15, $1.25, 81.7, 81.60, $1.75, $2.00 and $2.25. IN CAPES we bought a Job Lot below their value, and will give them away at the low figures of 28c, 48c, 73c, 98c, $1.69. Theae are big value: and you should see them. SHIRTS?good goods, big values?18c, 20c, 25c, 35c, 40c, 45c and 50c. These are hard to beat. SUSPENDERS?up-to-date, frceh and clean?8c, 9c, 10c, 14c, and as good as anybody wants for 20c. Dry Goods, all kinds, Notions, School Supplies, Glassware, Crockery ware, Tinware, Brooms, Buckets, Baskets, Tobacco?, a complete line and right priceo (Jome an? see us and get our prices and see our Goods. KEITH * CO. 8%^F0R Glenn Springs Mineral Water ?? FOR SALE AT EVANS' PHARMACY. THE GLENN SPRINGS WATER haa boon known for over a hundred years, and recognised by tbo bent Physicians in the land aa a sure cure lor diseases of the Mver* Kidseys, Hlsddrr, 5cW5*5 ?"? Biood. Home or Its remarkable cures were brought before tbo notice of the public In the Charleston Medical Journal in 1855. MK'Sbs. Evaxs Pharmacy?Gbmts: I bave been a auffVrer from indigestion for several years, and hav* round the use of your Glenn 8pru gs Wat<*r of great benefit Lo me, and can confidently recommend It to any suffering from like troubles. ; R. E. ALLEN. 1 '..*..: -..- " . ; Bargain Seekers, Are you ready now to take advantage o/ some Genuine Clothing Surprises ! IP SO, come in and glance over the tempting ottering* we ofler in Men's and Boys' Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Etc., 4.nd be convinced that at the rates we offer Goods here it is more than prob able we will ho glad to buy them back of you at a profit. Special Bargains in Boys' Tan and Black Shoes, At prices that touch bottom ! T* UTT T TOT A "KT 18 Benson Street, Mifis Lizzie Williams' Old Stand. Syracuse Chilled Plows Are the lightest draft, Best braced, and Most durable Flow on the market, And costs less for repairs. Have all the good features of any other Plow, And a large number that are 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 ono you will buy no other. The Empire Grain and Fertilizer Drill, The only Drill with the absolute foree fec<*?will sow Oats where others fail, and will sow any grain better than any Drill made. They are Btrong built, light draft. Every one guaranteed to do perfect work, BROCK BROS, Anderson, S. C. OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for all KINDS of GRAIN. Three Thousand Bushels of TEXAS 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 fiue 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 Jars, Tartaric -A.eicl, To make Cherry and Blackberry Acid. Sticky Wly Paper, To catch the flies while working with your frui -all at HILL-ORR DRUG CO. o < g <?> h ^jL ? a h W ? 0 Hi 0 tri 2 S fflb* S ? 2 ?h g - 2 S S a? 2 2? I B g -THE ANDERSON - Mutual Fire Insurance Co. WROTE its first Policy Sept. 23, 1896, and has mado ouly two assessments since it commenced business. This i? a great deal cheaper than you car. got tire insurance elsewhere. Any of our Policy-holders will tell you that. Otho/r people havo saved money by placing their fire insurance in this Company, and it is confidently belioved von ?an, J. II. Vandiver, President. J. J. Frctwcll, R. S. Hill, J. J. Major, Jno. G. Ducworth, W. 6. Watson. R. B. A. Robin POD, -J. P. Glenn, A. P. Hub bard, Direotors. J J. BECK, Agent.