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BILL A RP' Bill?Likes To See the Atlanta C Those little chaps alarm me-alarm mc with their innoceucc, their happi ness, their love, for ? have a forcbod ing that it cannot last. Life is full ol' sorrows and they will have their share. It is the common lot. Cae melancholy poet says: "Man was made to mourn." Another says: "I would not live al way," but I like thai one hotter who wroto "Tho world is very lovely. Uh, my God, I thank Thee that I live." From my window almost every day I see two little girls:, only four and six years old, turning the corner and coming up through thc grove to see grandma and grandpa and be petted and, of course, befeasted with biscuit a?d jelly and apples and to nurse tho cat and play with their little cousin's linc Paris doll. They always come hand in hand and with clean faces and ribboned hair and wo meet them at the door, for they bring sunshine to our hearts and home. I love to have them climb into the back of my big chair and bother mc while I write, and I have to stop and draw pictures for them and to hear thc little one call me her good old for nothing gran'pa. The other day I met them going another way and they said they were going to sec their other grandma. "Yes," said I, "you have two grand mas, but you havent got but one grandpa." Thc little one looked up lovingly to mo and said: "We don't need any more." I bought a fine tur key for the boys who are coming aod the little girl surveyed him and said: "Gran'pa, ho is running at the nose and it's bloody." It was the older one who said tho turkey is sick, I reckon, for ho keeps vomiting. Dean Swift was a oynio and had no lovo for children. He said that an author who talked about his own books war as silly as a mother who was ever telling something smart about her ohildren. .. reckon he would say that grand-parents were more silly than mothers. I confess that it is ? good part of my happiness now to minglo with and to pet the little grand chil dren and thal is why I feel alarmed for fear something will happen to them beforo I dio or that I will die before they get old enough to lovo me with a love that will not forget, and I think of Tom Moore and his gazelle that ?died. I don't know where my spirit will be, but it seems to me now that I would like to havo these little ones bring flowers to my grave sometimes and talk about me. What would the world be without children, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Just imagine for a moment tho desolation, the despair that would pervade the homo and society and trade and com merce-not a day school in all the land, nor a Sunday School; not a little shoe or stocking, nor a little hat, nor a doll or toy in any store; no castoria or soothing syrup or other infantile medicines; no tiroworks, no Christmas nor Santa Claus; no nothing hardly, for it is a fact that thc world is work ing for ohildren. The cynics say that marriage is a failure. Suppose it is in many cases. Children are not failures. Divorces may Btiflo tho love of man and wife, but they still love tho chil dren and contend for the possession of them. Good schools build up towns and communities and tho ohildren make the schools. Country people movo to town to educate them. What would become of the 4,000 tcaohors in the State of Georgia? What would the publishers do with all their school books and pioture books? Who would go to a picnic or a monkey show? What exouse would men folks have for going to the ciroue? Wouldcnt it bc a lonesome, no account world? But marriage is not a failure. It could not be, for it waa ordained by God. One or two unhappy marriages in a community sets all tho dogs bark ing. Divorces arc multiplying, but only au. -g the very rich or tho drunk en poor. Money or whisky aro tb? cause of most of them, and in niuo cases out of ten tho man is to blame. There is but one scriptural ground for divorce and nine men aro guilty of that to one woman. Poor, long suf fering women. How silently, secret ly .and sadly you havo to endure what you know, but cannot tell, and all you can do is to bdg your children all the closer to your bosom and trust in ?od. . I was ruminating about ohildren be causo I am away off from mine and on my way here I passed a country schoolhouse just as the ohildren were ?piling out for recess and they carno like bees out of a hive. As long as the train stopped at that station I wat oh ed them ac their merry plays and sports in the pretty grove nesr by and I almost wished that I was a boy ?again so that I might join them. 4 M.a?SAna V.wv T ./.MM ?nn atti) 'Vawv.a Q.-W.w -syn * . m MOT?. / jo mp and olinib and shout; how long r happy waa tho 4ay. S LETTER. i Little Ones at Play. onstitutton. I "Tho sun ne'er rose a wink too soon, Nor brought too long n dny, Hut now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away." Tom Hood wrote that, poor fellow. I do not say it, for I love to live and have few regrets to distress mc. I am here in Okolona, a pretty town with a pretty name. This good old State, a daughter of Georgia, is full of Indian names of towns and Counties and rivers. These names arc all that is left of the tribes-the Chickasaws and Choctaws and Creeks and Natches. They were a proud and happy people, but had to vanish when thc pale faces carno and coveted their lands. Colonel Gordon, a Confederate veteran, lives here and interested me greatly in thc history of Mississippi, for he aud his father before him could say "magna pars fui-a good part of it I was." I He gave me the origin and moaning of many of these Indian names, such as l'ontotoe and Tupelo and Okoloua, and also of Aberdeen, which his father, who was a Scotchman, had named Dundee, but got mad becauso our people would call it Dundy und so changed it to a name they could not mispronounce. His father was very wealthy, owning thous ands of acres of this rich praitio land that he had bought from tho Chicka saws before they signed tho treaty that ceded their lands to tho United States government. I said that his father waa a nativo of Scotland. Of course he was or ho' could never have bought those lands. The Indiau tribes all liked the Scotchmen, for they treated them fairly and kindly in trading and taught them the use of thc cross bow and long bow. These Scotchmen frequently married Indian maidens, f,\ o daughters of the ohiefs, and in course of time their halfbreed children beoamo the ohiefs. Such was Ross and Ridge and Molotosh and Osceola. Major Colbert, another halfbreed whoso Indian name was Itta wamba, became chief of the Chicka saws. He was a great favorite with Mrs. Dolly Madison, tho president's wife, for ho was a splendid specimen of Indian and Scotch manhood and waa smart and well eduoated. Mrs. Madison gave him a pair of peafowls and ho brought them home and from that pair every peafowl in Mississippi haa descended. This pair was many years afterwards given to Colonel Gordon's unole, Josiah Walton, and by him to his sister, Mrs. Doggett, and the male bird lived to be seventy two years old. A psir of this same stock has becu reoently presented to tho oity of Memphis for their zoo. I had no idea that peafowls lived to such great age, but I do know that we havo been breeding them for over twenty years and have given away a great many and I never knew one to die a natural death. But I am tired-travel worn, for no hours aro mine; they are the railroad's by night as well as by day, and my rest is broken up and I begin to realize that I cannot stand it much longer. Ben Franklin's definition of man was that ho is "a bundle of habits" and the older he grows tho stronger his habits hold him. The very word habit comes from tho latin "habco," to hold, to bind. BILL ARP. The Daughters of the Confederacy aro wide awake in this town and are going to build a monument to their heroic dead of whom about 1,200 are buried hore. They called me here to help them. B. A. Cures Contagious Blood Poison. Trial Treatmout Free. It is especially tho deep-seated, ob stinate cases that B. B. B. cures. It matters not if the doctors or patent medicines have failed to cure,H. B. B. (Botanie Blood Balm) always prompt ly reaches the poison and roots out and drains it from the system, heals every soro or pimple, stops hair from falling out, and cures tho disease so tho symptoms can novcr rcturu. B. B. B. cured K. P. B. Jones, At lanta, Ga., of contagious blood poison; had copper colored eruptions all over the body, excruciating aches and ; .iins in bones and joints, falling of th j hair, soro throat. His troubles resisted the treatment of the most noted doctors, yet he was completely cured by ten bottles of Botanic Blood Balm (B.B.B) Robert Ward, Maxoy, Ga., suffered from secondary and tertiary blood poi son, faoo and shoulders a mass of cor ruption and sores; began to eat into the skull bones; cloven bottles of B. B. B. sompletely oured him. If you. have cozema, canocr, scrofula, risings, boils, ulcers, then B. B. B. will make j a perfect cure. Trial treatment freo by writing Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell street, Atlan ta, Ga. Dotcribe your trouble and we will include free personal medical sui _ f\-O Aila_V - T? T> V? ?too. wv ui o,uuu vuicB Dy x?. if. x -. Hill-Orr Drug Co., Wilhite & Wiihite, and Evans Pharmacy. - "Well, the horse is ahead of the .ntAmA*k?lA TT?f. " ' 1 \r r? a WK*., t* I1A.M - - --rf - ~- ?- ?.?. . . - - - prances sideways, yon know what he moans by it." W. 0. T. U. DEPARTMENT. Conducted hy t lie ladies of the W. C. T. U. of Anderson, S. i'. A Fearful Commentary. In the horrible catastrophe which recently befell (Calveston, a few of thc barrooms escaped injury, an? as soon as the wreckage could be forced frou their *3oors they were opened for busi ness. Among thc lower classes there were those who tanked up themselves or? beer and liquor, and became a me nace to thc aillicted community. Hut as Ki,.,n as martial law was proclaimed every one of these vile and shameless dens was ordered closed, and their proprietors instructed to leave the is land. There was no place for a liquor resort auu for white-aproned beer slingers under circumstances like those. Everything noble and pure in tho hearts of the survivors of the storm revolted against such institu tions and against men engaged in run ning them. Gambling dens and gam ing proprietors still intact were treat ed likewise. Think of itl Death and destruction, wailing and lamentation, and the mangled bodies of the dead scattered promiscuously over the street and under the wrecks placed uo check upon some of these heartless wretches engaged in the liquor traffic! As soon as they could recover them selves from the shock of tho night tliry were ready to make every nickel possible out of thc survivors who were so unfortunate as to have an ap petite for strong drink. But tho man hood of the remnant of the popula tion rose up and expelled them and their business from this scene of hu man suffering and calamity. The fact is, wo have always known that the li quor business was without heart or conscience; but this is thc first in stance where wo have ever known it to defy tho dead, mock the living, laugh at calamity, debauch the man gled and the maimed, and dofy the awful visitations of Almighty God! We arc glad that there was manhood enough left in the island city, even in the midst of its ruins, to drive from its borders these despoilers of virtue, truth, and benevolence. And what a pity it is that the manhood of this great State, and of this nation, does not rise up and hurl from every com munity this nefarious business that is wrceking moro human lifo and charac ter than all of the storms and waves that ever swept the shores of America 1 It stands to-day in tho presence of the deepest agony of the human heart, and unblushingly grins at woe and misery. It is the unmitigated scourge of the earth, the vulture whose pois oned beak is bloody with its ravages of widowhood and orphanage. But language fails us as we stand in the faoe of tho barroom.-Texas Christian Advocate. It Soundew Awful A temperance leoturer was preach ing on his favorite theme. "Now, boys, when I ask you a question you must not be afraid to speak up and an swer me. When you look around and see all those fine- houses, farms, and cattle, do you ever think who owns them all now? Your fathers own them, do they not?" "Yes, Bir," shouted a hundred voices. "Where will your fathers be in twenty years?" "Dead," shouted the boys. "That's right. And who -will own this property then?" "Us boya," shouted the urohins. "Right. Now tell me, did you ever in going along tho street notice the drunkards lounging around the public house door waiting for some one to treat them?" 11 ir_i_?_o ?i_ .? ice, air, luis ui niuul. "Well, where will they boin twenty years from now?" "Dead," exclaimed the boys. "And who will be the drunkards then?" "Us boys." Everybody was thunderstruck. It sounded awfully! It was awful, but it was true. The young Queen of Holland is dis tinguished among European sovereigns as a total abstainer, and is an ardent worker in the temporanoe cause. She has made a convert of her great friend, tho Princess Paulina, of Wurtemberg, and both royal ladies aotivcly uso their influence on the sido of temper ance in their respective circles. Queen Wilhelmina is patron both of tho To tal Abstinence Soeicty of the Nether lands and of tho Women's Social Pu rity League. Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime, and if any oncourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they aro guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has been praoticed by the bravos of any country or of any age. The Best Plaster. A piece of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound to the affected parta is superior to any ?laster. When troubled with lame aok or pains in the side orehest, givo it a trial and you are oertsin to bo moro chan pleased with the prompt relief which it affords. Pain Balm also eurea rheumatism, une application gives relief. For salo by Hill-Orr Drug Co. Reveries of an irldcrly Spinster. Anyhow, it'? my own fault. I've had plenty of orTers in my time. That's more than that sneaking Delia Hykea can say. Men used to rave about my complex ion. It hasn't chaDged eo much. I've never eeen a mau that wae worth Bitting up till after midnight either with or fer. i could have had Lil Vuiuby if I and wanted him, but who would mar ry a man that had swoliowed his chin? I don't have half as ?.?uc!; trouble as Mag Sputterwell has, aod she's only been married ten years. Looks a hun dred years old. Still, I don't like to iee impudent men get up and offer me a seat when I go inside a .street car. I take thc seat, bu I look daggers at 'em. There's some married women that don't want to acknowledge they're growing old. Mrs. Iliggaworthy tries to dress like a young girl, and sh" makes a perfect guy of herself. She is 57 if she's a day. I suppose some men would laugh at mc because I think so much of Taboy, hut. T wniild rather h s ve a clean cit about the house than a man with a nasty old pipe and a threedaye' growth of beard. I doa't have to sow any body's buttons on, either. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure "digests what you eat," so that you can eat all the good food you want while it ia re storing the digestive organs to health. It ip the only preparation that digests all kinds op food. It never fails. Evans' Pharmacy. - Mrs. Nancy Holli field, who died in Charlotte, N. (\, was said to hav< been 121 years old. - The shortcomings of men are tc be attributed to negligence rather thar to inability or lack of opportunity ti perform their duties._ The First Trousers. Tho first pantaloons ur trousers wero made in Assyria. In the reign of KiDg Asshumirpel (838 58 B. C.) horcos were introduced in thc array as eavalry. Herc, now, was a problem; the cavalrymen had to have some sort of a uniform, and it was impossible for him to wear a skirt and ride astride of a hovso. Thc tailors to his majesty's amies wagged their heads along time over the problem, and finally decided that the only way out of the difficulty was to cut the cavalrymen's Blrirts from hem to waistband in both front J ad back, letting each part fail on its respective side of the horso. As can readily be imagined, this split skirt made an exceedingly poor article of clothing. The mind of the tailor1 has been a small one. It is like ly that, even then, as now, it took "nine tailors to make a mao." At any rate, it took the tailors of Assyria over a century to solve the problem of tho horseman's clothing. "Why not," said ono of these workers with the needle and shears, "sew together the edges of each division of the skirt and thus form a separate skirt for each leg?" or, in other words, he invented a pair of pantaloons-tit. Nicholan. - When Lieuten?"* Governor Tim othy Woodruff, ofiM?wYork, visited Danncmora State prison recently, he asked to bo locked up in a dark cell, the extreme form of punishment at the prison. Before he had been there a full minute ho asked to bo freed, saying that he had experienced enough for a lifetime. (8 ?ftj&irv^> This Signatare ls on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo=Quinme Tablets the remedy that ?ires a cold In one dav OlUUlUUllg HlklWUIUIUaVKUU' Ungular .I*T?\vis/< HU UKI:N Promotes DigesUonJCteetrur ness and Rest .Contains nei liter Opium.Morvliine nor Mineral. ?OT WXB.C OTIC. Seed. ApSffecl R?n>?.^v fnrrnnsKivi Tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrh?en Worms.Convuis?onsJcverislv ness and Loss JF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. EXACT COPy OfTWRABRER. For Infants and Children. mmam imn?! MI .? wnw-. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears Signature of Use VJf For Over Thirty Years THC OKMTAUR OOMH0|T. *HV VOM? O ITV. Better than a Savings Baok Is the sheet anchor of Life losaranie It oners the best protection for the family when death claims th husband and father. A policy in the Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. Will give ypu a feeling of security that your family ia provided for and safe from want, and the premium is low. Let us insure you. WC. UK. MATTISON, STATE AGENTS, Peopl&a' Bank Building, ANDERSON, S. 0. E. P. VANDIVBR. Vandiver Bros. Only ask a chance at your Fall bill of SHOES, JEANS, SHEETING, CHECKS, PBINT8, Etc. Large and splendid line of TOBACCO at wholesale prices. We can and will sell you the best FLOUR made ?f yon will let us. Your patronage is highly appreciated. _. . . Yours truly, VANDIVER BROS. J9* P. S.-You don't knowhow we would appreciate an early settle? ment of every account due us this month. V. B. D. S. VANDIVEK. Anderson is ??p4? Date,, so are the >W? AVI Vi A WA stvvn '3 ni? A Anil TVTAII anlnnf nr] ?frllfilc Of ??vj ui*w V|ivuvM t* iiugV ?Ul* ??u**-uuiCtlCU ptUUXV Wi Furniture, House Furnishings, And everything that belongs to that line of business. Mr. Ben. B. Bleckloy and Mr. Noel B. Sharpe are the man agers, and will take pleasure in showing everybody their IMMENSE STOCK and CHEAP FE?CES. Their stook was bought in car load lots and from the best .factories for Cash, and they feel sure?that the most fastidious can bs pleased. Go to see them. They also have an elegant HE ARSE, and carry a full line Gaskets and Coffins. Buist arid, berry's* ?HM ??mw II um mm ???????? Wii.?mm MIMUMIH Remomber when you go tc get your Seed to get fresh ones. AB this io our first y.iar In tho Seed business we have j no seed carried over from last year. i Yours, F. B . CR AYTON & CO. j Near tho Post Oi???b? House Work is Hard Work without GOLD DUST. A ROYAL GIFT For Christmas And one that will he held in grateful remembrance for many a succeeding Christmas, is an elegant Stanhope or Phaeton, Sumptuously upholstered, ball-bearing axles, pneumatic or hard rubber tues, and springs which make riding a delight. They can be seen here in several styles and are well worth your consideration. Come to see me and be convinced. JOS. J. FRET WELL. || f| A il A11A S" 4 A S" nBauqudi m LOADED SHELLS Of all kinds, loaded with any size of load. SMOKELESS SHELLS, At only 50c. per box. Two Solid Gar Loads of Loaded Shells Have been reoeived by us this season. We would like to furnish you your Loaded Shells for Chromas. SUI LIV AN HARDWARE GO B. G. EVANS, JR. O. W. EVANS. E. G. EVANS, Jr., & CO., Dealers in Drugs and Medicines, Pendleton; S. O. THE PSESCR?PT?Ci? 3>EFART??E?T IS of ibo utmost Import?nos to every Drog Store. Ic should be presided over by a thoroughly competent man, and only the beat acid fresh eat goods dbpenuod Quality and ability In the Pi eacri piton Department ara of the groaiee* importance. ; They instill oonfldonoo in tho patient and excito the admiration of your Physicians. DR. R. B. DAV la not only an experienced Prescription mao. but also an np- { to-date Physician, and far doubly safe In ease of an error. He has full charge of our Proscription Department, oeau j our P?sscr?p?tsa1? in na. . E. G. EVANS, JR. A CO., MMODJO Building, Pendleton, 8. C.