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BILL ARP Arp and His Childre Atlant* Ci This Chriatmaa is like "lengthened j Bweetoeaa lbng drawn, ontf^ nt our house, for the boy? }?ave gathered from the four cornera and brought their love and their rations with them, jiew York brought a huge box of de corations forj the Christmas tree. It wa8 beautiful beyond description. Dolls of silk and satin and paper, all covered with glittering spangles-lit tle angels with pearly wings suspend ed by threads of invisible robber, gold en harps arid hearts and wreaths of spuu giants lu raiubow ooiors-soores of little waxen candles to illuminate thc scene. Oh, it was like a fairy vision, and every limb and twig of the stately long leaf pino was burdened wi th Christmas gifts for old and young. There were twenty-four of the family present, and it took half the night to untie and unfold the surprises, for all were remembered over and over again by old Santa. Tes, all, even to the venerable old patriarch--tho "Pater familias," the antique ancestor, for ha brought me a ball and a monkey jack and some candy, because he had heard that I was vhe boy-the only boy r.bout the house. Bnt later on I dis covered a silk oap and a pair of slip pers, some handkerchiefs and an ink stand that the little grandchildren can't spill the ink ont of if th ?y do turn it over. Little Mary Lon, Trtiois Jessie's child, got so many dolls and pretty things that she looked tired and, drawing a long' breath, said: "Graupa, it's too much, and I can't hardly Btand it.V There were toys and books, and vases and perfumes, and baskets and gloves, and jewells and other gifts too numerous to mention. Mexico brought - a beautiful band woven castilian shawl for my wife, and she struts around as lithe and gay as Eden's garden bird. "My boy brought it from Mexico," she says,' forty times a day. "My boy and my children," a.e always on the tip of her tongue. Well, that's all right. They are her boys, sara'enough, and she; knows it. Thero may be some doubt, sometimes, about who is the father of a child, but everybody knows who is its mother. Downstairs ihas ?Ul been clothed with mistletoe and holly. Geraniums from the pit are placed all around, and jome beautiful roses lift up their lovely forms from beautiful vases that old Santa Claus brought. Bunches of mistletoe hang from every chandelier, and every timo 'these mer ry, mischievous girls sind me standing tinder one, they slip up unawares and claim a kiss. Sven Mrs. Arp lost her normal dignity and, costing slyly be hind me, suddenly wrapped ithe dra pery of her castilian shawl around me and claimed a mistletoe ikiss from my connubial lips. ? But the old marble ?look that 'for nearly fifty years has stood upon the mantel ticking the moments and re cording the hoars as they pass did not stop on Christmas nighty and at mid night the happy group retired to rest and happy dreams. Next day came thc feast-the Christmas dinner. Every leaf was placed on the long ex tension table. At etch ond was a large well-brownod, well-done turkey, and all the intermediate space crowded with luxuries for the inner man abd woman. Eighteen of the family were the welcome guests at the table/ while B'IX of the infantiles surrounded a smaller one near-by. I never asked a blessing with u more grateful -heart, for Providence has been kind, and since last wo met no affliction or'.calam ity has befallen, us. Verily, the lines have fallen to Us ia pleasant places. Would that all our k'ndrod ?nd friends-yes, would that every family in the land-the rieh and the poor-could have a like happy and un clouded Christmas. As L- survey the happy scene it is enough to look upon tbc serenity of the maternal an cea tor ts she grazes fondly upon her boys yes, her boys, who hive home HO far to ?ive her joy and comfort.. Oh, ye boys-ye yoong mon and middle aged, whom fortune or fate h&s removed far from a good old mother's tender care ?nd .solicitude, don't forget her yearn ,ugs, and if you cannot go to her at 'east once a year, write to her every fc?nth and oomforfehcr with your lov ing letters. Tho papers ore full of crimes of all descriptions; but - in my opinion, there is nono that will more .nrely provoke the curso of God .than for a man to neglect or distress his mother. Yesterday *he boyu with their fcotW aad ?sisteia visited tho oid ?omcsle?d-the farm in the country, *here our children grew up to man 0ft- 5sd rrumannood-where these tottered boys worked abd plowed and Planted 6?d reaped ,wti??* they had ?^n; where they labored hard by day *|?d hunted coops and 'possoms by J'ght; where they wenc to the nabor mill and fished in pond white ?s grist waa grinding^ ^ Carland S LETTER. n -A-bout the ITireside. institution. Jessie went io school and crossed the oreek on a slender footing, and gath ered haws and maypops and wild strawberries OD tho woy. These boys and their aietera wanted to revisit tho old scenes and drink water from the aamo old gashing spring. These boys wanted to see the old meadow where the bi?r trana ???cd in thsir s ?j ?? ly the oak trees that we named for Ros coe Conkling and Blaine, and the big sycamore that was named for Vcorhees, the tall sycamore of the ; VV abash. j Tbey vented to t o the old barn i yard where they used to tease old Pete, the Merino ram, and incite him to rear on his bina legs and run to bott them as they presented their poste riors >n a defiant and provoking man ner. . Sometituo they got out of his way just ia time, but ever and anon they didn't, and he soot ? theta on their winding way aeratobing the ground on their allfoars. They want ed to see the grave of old Bows, that good old dog whom they loved. I did not go for there waa no room, and as 1 am the boy, I hod to stay at home and take oare of Jessie's children. Well they came back in due time and it was amnsing to me to hear them tell how everything had changed with in these dosen years; how the house seemed to have sank into the ground a foot er two and the farm had shrunk np and <&e fields were smaller and the hills lewer and the shade trees short ened at ?he top. I've been through all that IJCIOTO, and was not surprisse! Interspersed with oar daily and night ly pleasures we havo music, good mu-' sre, classical music of the great mas ters and minstrel music with choruses *rcra all tho band and even my wife, Mrs. Arp, was constrained to play the "Caliph of Bazdad" with her first born daughter-her daughter. Music 'is our family's gift, for they all play on something, and all dev? voices for harmony of sweet sounds. Tins gift, I suppose, comes from their mother, and her touch upon the ivory keys ia still as delicate as when she was a las sie of sixteen. I used to think that I, too, had a melodious voice, and some times would venture te ktst the tune in Sunday School when the tone hys ter was absent, and, like the crow who tried to sing, I thought I did it finely. Nobody else ever told me so, and one day my wife said that my voioe was a little oraoked and if she was me she would not try to raise tho tunes in the Church any more. It *vas a revela tion that shooked me, and I have never sang in Churoh since, nor anywhere else. There, are wioeS in Church choirs of the ?ame kind, but nobody will tell them. They are oalled falset to. I Farewell Christmas-farewell old Santa Clans-while ?we all rejoice, Set us not forget that Christmas comm?m or?tes the birth of the Savior of me? -the nativity of Kris Kringle, which means "the little Christ ohild." Itia well enough to rejeooc, 'but we should at the same tim? eeJb'ct and be grate ful. BILL AEP, A Prominent Chicago Woman Speaks. Prof. Roxa Tyler, of Chicago, Viee Prosident Illinois Woman's Alliance, in speaking of Chamberlain's Cough .Remedy, says : "I suffered with a se vere cold this winter which threatened to run into pneumonia. I tried differ ent remedies but I seemed to grow worse and the medici oe upset my stomach. A friend advised me to try Chamberlain's Cough ?emedy and I found it was pleasant to take and it relieved me at onee. I am now en tirely recovered, saved a doctor's bill, time and suffer i Dg, and I will never be without this splendid medicino again." ?For sale by Hill-Orr Drag Co. - No man can ever believe in ro man's rights very long- after he has ?ocevwatohed one of them trying to carve a chioken. To -Cure A Cold In One Bay Take Laxative Bromo-Quinice Tab* lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's Sig natar ia-Ott each box. 25a. - These monopolies continue to grow. .Now the newsboy is to bo done away with on railroad trains and the hold-up business turned over to thc Pullman porter entirely. If troubled with a weak digestion, belching, sour stomach, or if you feel dull after eating, try Chamberlain's Stomneh and Liver Tablets: Price 25c. Samples free at Hill-Orr drag store. -- Teacher-"How mauy voyages did Columbus mako?" Pupil-"Cor rect; ??d after which of them did ho die?" Prickly Ash Bittern oaree *i?0 noys, regulates the liver and purifies the bowels. A valuable system tonic. Evans Pharmaoy. - Tho ministers of North Carolina are starting. . a propaganda against ooartiog co Sunday. It they are soo- I oessfal thc attendance on their San- i day night services will show a marked I falling off. Adulterated Molasses. The fsot of tho matter is that alt this cry about adulterated molasses has somewhat befogged the publio on this interesting topic. They have come to believe that the molasses pro dooers in Louisiana have ruined their industry by adulterating their produot with glucose, and, eres worse, by using hurtful eliemioa?B. This ia not, the eaao at all. The produoere, or plant ers, aa they call them in this . part of the world, still make the simon pure article as of old, but aa the supply o* fice, old-timo sogar house or Jkottio molasses ia necessarily smell, it is high-priced, and the consuming pub lio Will not pay the price ia comp?ti tion with the lino-colored, adulterated, bat cheaper article. Jobbers no bos ci- ucbire to handle tho puro kettlo molasses, because their oastomers do not pay the cost when they can buy the mixed article for ?!^ost half the prioe. Any one who ?5 willing tc pay the price can bay all the puro molas ses he wants from the fi *st hands in New Orleans. There was a time when large quan tities of rich kettle molasses were made in this State in the old-style sugar housos. This rich molasses rep resented the waste of a considerable portion of the sugar product. The tendency in recent years has been to extract all the sugar possible from the cane joice, and modern saga? factoriei extract each a large proportion of thc aagar that the molasses by-producl is no longer the rich sogarhoose arti ole, except ia the case of a few old fashioned fnotorios where the ketti? process is still io ase. Tho great bulk of the molasses no? morkete?l from the plantations is t comparatively low-grade by-product ol indifferent color and inferior is sae eharine strength. A very large pro portion of this molasses would not bi acceptable to consumers in its orad* ?er original state, henoe the practice n mixing it with glucose to improve it appearance and pender it merohan tablo commenced. This mixing o molasses is quite distinct from the cue tom of bleaching, Hn which ohemical are used, the deleterious effect 0 which has been much discussed. Mc lasses mixed ^ttitk glucose, al th aug" it is certainly an inforior article con pared with pure sugarhouse molasse or oane syrup, is yet entirely whole some. It is certainly a bad practice to se a mixed article in lieu of a paro art: elej bot ia the ease of molasses thei need bo no danger of being deceiver. Pure molasses is very much more es passive tli an'tho mixed article. Tb reason wty it is difficult te obtai from the retailers is th?, unalterabl propensity of the average / morican t disoriminLto in favor of A1 cheapi article, providing its appearance i satisfactory. The average consume will buy 'the mixed article every bim in preference to tho pure article, 0? ing to tfhe great difference in pric< Tho miling of molasses cae therefoi been actually forced upon the ?htr butors-first,- by the altered system < manufacture on plantations, .and sei ?on di y, (by the unwillingness ?of .cus ti mers to pay thc price of tbs pure art ole.-New Orleans Ptcymne. Now is the time when croup ac lung troubles prove rapidly fats The only harmless remedy that giv immediate results is One Minu Gough Cure. It quickly cores eougl and all long diseases. Eva* / Pha macy. ?- When a woman gets so w?ee th; ber ??Buand can't foot her any mor she de beginning to get old. Youdiuow What Toa Are Tating When you tako Grove's Tasteless Chi Tonio because the formula is plain printed on every bottlo showing th it is simply Iron and ?Quinine in tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay, .60 -> The river Jordan has its orig io one ?of the largest Springs ia tl world. Cut this out and take it to Hill-O. Oreg Co's. Drug Store and get a fc< sample of 'Chamberlain's Stomach ai Liver Tablets, the best physio. Th< also eora disorders of the stomae biliousness and headache. - If people would only throw o shoes at a man when he is ooming get married instead ot* when he going away again, it might save tro ble. Mr. Peter Sherman, of North Strs ford, N. H., saya, "For years I soffc ed tortore from ehronio indigestio bat Kodol Dyspepsia Core made a wt man of me." It digests what yon e and is a certain eure for all stoma? troubles. Evans1 Pharmacy. - A woman's first baby is a heave ly visitant to her, a toy to her hushan a nuisance to the neighbors and a li ing to tho doctor. Laxative Bromo Quinine Table cure a cold in one day. No Curo, J! Pay. Price 25 eents. - After a man has argoed a ct rain time with a woman he is eith convinced or else ho is willing admit h* is. When you need a soothing and he tog antiseptic application for any pt pos?, UPO the original De Witt's Wit Hazel Salve, a well known core i piles and skin diseases. Beware counterfeits. Evana' Pharmacy. The common schools in the Ul ted State: employ 400,000 teaohei Sixty-eight per cent, of ?bese are ? mea. The average wages paid to t maa ia $45.24 monthly; t >. the worn 138.14. Worry. Among tho good resolutions that might be mada for this year and one that should be carefully kept is a de termination not to worry. SomeOuo has said of the habit of worrying : "This would he a comparatively happy world if we did not suffer so muoh from things that did set hap pen. How muoh our shoulders ach o under the weight of burder ~ we are never called upon to bear I How our hearts are wrung by griefs that never take shapel" If no more serious charge oould be brought against it, worrying would head the list of follies. It costs us an untold amount of misery. It takes away the strength we need for work. Tn ?1! its record of ??uuutp?ishment, it is impossible to point to a single good result it has brought about. Worry ? the nail in the ooffin of the man not yet dead; it is the crape on the door, announcing the funeral that should not take place for years to come. Worry is the dyspepsia and indiges tion brought on, not from overeating or eating too much rich food, but from thinking too much before hand about what we are going to have to eat. It is the overcoat put on as a proteotion against the expected cold wave, that turns out to be a warm one; it is the umbrella raised to keep off the rain that turns out to be sunshine; it is the celestial telescope, which shows inverted images. Worry has never yot brought sun shine to any one, but has, times with out number, caused the sun to pass behind a cloud, when there was not a cloud to be seen in the sky; it has exhausted the strength in the yester day, that is needed to push forward the work'of to?day. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Let us borrow no trouble, for each day and hour will come laden with its proper ascani of sunshine and cloud. We have pointed to the absurdity of worrying, and it is now in order for us to point the way out of it. To got rid of the darkness , in a room wo should not think of diping it out, as we would so muoh water; wo would displace it with light. If we put wor rying under thc head of nonsense, it is easy to understand that it must bc driven out by & influx of sense. Wo oannot get rid of worry by an effort of the will not to worry; we must drive it out h? seeing that it is abso lutely foolish,7an? injurious as well, to worry. Anything that would nat urally happen will come just the same, no matter how much we worry, and if wo do worry, the thing will 'happen ia "Our weakened state of mind. -Sparlnnburg Journals f*.^3 A Wife Repartee. A parti of young men were taking dinner at a fashionable cafe a few nights ago, when one of them, who is somewhat of a jester, called the waiter and said: "John, go and call Main- cn the 'phase. If a woman answers, it will fee tay ?wife. Tell her that I in structed you to say that I am in the police station for a few hours and will not be ct homo for dinner. Say to her that the possibilities are that I shall aot be ?t home to-night. Understand me, sir?" ?John winked a oouple of titaea iv a knowing way, bowed defferentially and suggested: "Supposin" "Supposing nothing, sir! If she asks who is talking, tell her it is tho turnkey at the Central station, and she'll never know who told her tho lie." The waiter ambled away and waa presently seen to be having a good deal of fua with himself. Tho jester inferred tfeat it might have something to do with ina case and called him over. "What's amusing you, John?" "Wouldn't like to tell you, sir; at least right here." "I guess these fellows understand. Let'er gol" "Mi-ous says to tell her husband she ia glad he is so cicely heated for the night. She knows where ho is for once."-Clere1-md Leader. This season there is a large death rate among children from croup and lung troubles. Prompt action will save the little ones from these terrible diedos. We know of nothing so certain to givo instant relief as One Minute Cough Cure. It oan also bo relied replied upon in grippe and ail throat and lung troubles of adults. Pleasant to tako. Evans Pharmacy. - A rich widow of 54, who into marry a boy of 21, announces that it is not a love match but a business match. Thia is refreshingly frank, but she might, have left it to thc bride groom tb Hay that. Pepsin preparations often fail to re lieve indigestion because they can digest only albuminous foods. There is one preparations that digesta all classes of food, and that is Kodol Dyspepsia Curo. It cures tho worse oases of indigestion and gives instant relief, for it digests what you eat. Evans Pharmacy. - Alphonse Karr: Some people are always finding fault with nature for putting thorns on .roses. I al wa s thank her for having put roses on thorns. The Growth of Texas. The Louisville Courier-Journal in a leading artiole on the remarkable growth of Te2a8 says: "Tho Texas cotton crop is figured out at 3,250,000 bales, which repre sents but little less than $150,000,000 to the planters of that great common wealth. This ?ts nearly double the value of tho Iowa corn crop and not very far behind the $229,000,000 which is the aggregate value of all that State's farm products. Texas has the cotton seed as well as the lint, and in addition will spin a great, deal of ber cotton, so that it will be safe to put the total returns from her chief st -plo for 1900 at $175,000,000, or even $200,000,000. When wo add to this thc corn und tue wheat, the cattle and the 'hog and hominy' that are grown, the result is a sum that will leave tho magnificent State of Iowa plodding hopelessly in the rear. The cattle in terest is siiii a great ono, but as tho big ranches arc breaking up into farms, as worthless prairies aro turned into rico fields and as mills arc being built to convert the raw cotton into finished products it oan bo seen that Texas has a future before her that will have no competition outside of tho great tnauu I faoturiog States in tho East. Th. twelfth census gavo the Lone Star State a population and a rato of growth that put her woll in lino with Ohio, Illinois, New York and Pennsyl vania, but what will tho next quarter of a century show? With no more than the present rate of increase in agricultural and manufacturing pro ducts Texas will be able to feed, clothe and eduoato 6,000,000 people in 1910 and 10,000,000 in 25 years from now. How many great oities will rise on her plains and around the Gulf of Mexico it would take a Texas statistician to figuro out satisfactorily, but the most conservative must acknowledge that big figures aro required. The fact that this ono commonwealth now grows a third of tho American cotton crop moans that it is going to cut an equally wide swath in othor forms of produc tion, both of manufactures and agri culture. All that is needed for Texas development is to pay a little more attention to business and a little lees to politios. A Stato with as much mineral and agricultural wealth needs all the railroads it can iuducc to bc built and all thc factorios that can bc i established to work up its raw mate ' rials. We'ro looking for thc returns from Texas in 1910." Genuine Gratitude. The portly statesman in tho black cutaway coat lighted his cigar, leaned egaiust the bar and puffed away oon tcntentedly. Like most New Yorl barrooms, it wes a cosmopolitan place, full of many sorts of people. A lean, hungry individual with grimy hands and beard of an anarchrist approached the portly gentleman cautiously. "Isay, boss, could you not lot mc have a nickel?1' he began tentatively. '.What'? the trouble?" asked thc ettocr "Woli, yow see, the fact is I haven't a-cent, and [was out on an awful spree last night-and I want a beer." Me eot vhs nickol. He looked at thecoin meditatively fora time and ?ben at his feencf actor. 'Say," he ejaculated at last, "you'rt a good fellow. I wish I had another nickel so I could treat you.'Y. Mail and Express. mt . mm - A novel way of choosing a pastoi was recently adopted by the Men non - itos at Groffsdale, Penn. There were tea candidates, and ten Bibles were placed on a table before them. In one was a slip of paper, and the candi dato who chose this Bible became the pastor. 1 I I SYMPTOMS LIKE THESE SELCHINC, ?AD BREATH, BITTER TASTE, BLOATING After. Meale, HEARTBURN, BACKACHE, HEADACHE, DIZZINESS NERVOUS WEAKNESS, LOW SPIRITS, Indicate bad digestion, a disordered system and failing state of health. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS is a positive ?nd speedy cure, lt clears Ult body of poisonous secre* 'dors, c?c?r.xs inc b'ioo?, axis diges tion, strengthens the kidneys, purifies the bowels and Imparts renewed energy to body and brain. DRUGGISTS SI:;.:, lr Price <*.?.; Drone Pharmacy, Special Agents. Headquarters for Heating and Cooking Stoves. Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Tinware, &c. Jardeniers, full line, very cheap. Your trade solicited, aud thanking you for your liberal patronage. Respectfully, JOHN T. BURRISS. 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 Harrow?, will turn and thoroughly pulverize the soil from three to six inchts deep ; have never heard of one that did noi 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 BOW 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, 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 kiud of weather. Have just received Two Cars of linc 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^oid, To make Cherry and Blackberry Acid. Sticky 1^1 y Paper, To catch the flies while working with your frui ALL AT HILL-ORR DRUG CO. ?5 ow i? 9 n-T aa HW ? Sig P ? a * ?I 23 g I ?-H rrj y -THE ANDERSON Mutual Fire Insurance Co. WROTE its first Polioy Sept. 23, 1896, and har. made only two assessments since it commenced business. This is a great deal cheaper than you can gat fire insurance elsewhere Any of our Polioy-holders will tell you that. O thar people have saved money by placing their firo iuaurance in this Company, and it is confidently behoved you can. J. R. Vandi ver. President. J. J. Fretwoll, R. S. Hill, J. J. Major, ?TK^ G. Duoworth, W. G. Watson, R. B. A. Robinson, J. P. Glonn. A. P. Hub bard, I>ireotors. J.. J. BECK, Agent*