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BILL ARF Arp Discusses Mar Mar Atlanta <h Wedding bella have been] ringing around kerp for some time. Their' uiusie always excite the good people and everybody talks ?boat the coming nuini??s. Mothers, wi?ea and daugh tors are specially interested for it is the bride who has moat at otako and is ohnut to surrender everything to her lover. Bu; hope is stronger than fear and the women all rejoice in it and wish the good work to go on. They dissect and disouss every phase of the new relationship and crowd the Church or the home **hsre the k??t is to be tied with anxious and eager interest. The bridal trosaeaus and the wedding gifts have especial considera tion and are carefully inspected. What a difference between man and woman about such things/ What a di(Terence between my wife and I. It was of small concern to me whether the bride's] apparel cost a thousand dollars or a hundred; Just so >he tras dressed in good taste and wore a Pew pretty ornaments was enough for me. I like to see a pretty woman dressed in away that you oan tell pretty T?ell how muoh of her is clothes and ho * muoh is - 2<*sn land blood, padding and petticoats may fool c man in a new acquaintance, but a home girl can't fool anybody. Wo see them ride and walk and stand up ab ? around and we can measure them up like David Har um measured a horse. The modern style of dress is muoh more pleasing to men than the old style of hoop skirts and bustles. Nothing is lack ng now but*, to shor'-ea up their walk ing frooks so that they won't drag be iind and sweep up the sidewalks with ili their filth of' cigar stumps and quids and bacteria and expectorated germs of expectorated consumption. When I see a girl's skirt dragging along I suspect that she is pigeon-toed or b?x-ankled and wants to* hide it. My wife never wore a dress that way in her life for she- wears a number two shoe and steps like a door. But it is a woman's nature to love ornament. She oannot help it and it is no sin. John Wesley tried to eure her of'it in the dicipline, but ho couldent discipline about ornaments and jewelry and other finery is a dead letter. I have suspected that may be he was too hard on his. wife about such things and that is why she quit him. What a miserable time'those women had in the days, of the Puri tans when a pretty girl had t? wear a plain black dress to Church; a homo j made straw hood shaped like a coal scuttle on her head, and not an ear ring nor a breast pin nor even a string of glass beads around her neek. The creator adorned the earth with flowers and studded the heavens with stars. He gave the birds their beautiful plumage and taught them to eisg for our pleasure. There uro diamonds in tho mines and pearls in the ocean and of course they were made for women. We men care nothing about such things. I wouldent give ten dollars for a bushel of them, but my wifegoes into rapture over them and would give everything she has not for them, ex cept her children and may be mo. Woman is a curious and peculiar creation. I have been studying them for sixty years and don't fully under stand them yet. They are very near to us aud very dear to us-, but very unlike in their devotional nature; their love of tho beautiful; their long suf fering under trial and adversity. They go willingly and; oageri/ to the mar nage altar when they know that theirs 19 all the peril and theirs to be all the pain and care an * grief that inevita bly comes to a wife and mother. I have pondered over all this and if I *&s a woman and had only a man's instincts and emotions I ,would not marry any man upon earth'. It is the Ood gis'cn maternal instinct that per suades and forces a woman to marry. She will launch her boat upon tho "ream and tako her chaneos to jump tho waterfalls. She will marry even gainst her jnd?rae?t ?cd the plead ioga of her friends. Sfe does not .walite the force of thia maternal in stinct, but it impels and controls her. 'y little granddaughters aro perfeotly haPpy with their dolls. They, play *'th thera by day and sleep with them by night. A little four-year old *aid J? me last night, "Graopa, don't take dolly away from mo till I get fast " leep." Little boys care nothing ?out dolls. They want balls and drums and fireorankcrs and guns rotnething that will mnke 2. scxsg. A ??n iovea a woman and marries her, but there is hot a particle of paternal ,nstinot influencing' him. The young pother hugB her first born to her Jn^a and is happy. The young 'ather takes tho advent of the child as * matter of course, but not off choice. \n course off tiiae the little one grows mto favor atla jj0 bC00EA5 ??i-s!ied to S LETTER xiage in Interesting mer. institution. no paternal instinet. The true wo* mau loves to be a mother. Sho is not content with one child. She wants another and another and another. Two children double her love and therefore her happiness and finally when she has no more little ones to fc?di?, her maternal love laps over to her grandchildren, and she would claim them if she could. Mrs. Wilcox wrote a lamentation on the "Decay of tho Maternal Inaticct in New Eng land/' asserting that the women up < there did not wish for ohildren and there was hardly a household that had more than one or two?just enough to inherit the father's estate. When that decays everything else decays. ? town or city or a state without children?a natural comple ment' of ohildren?is on the down grade. To arrest or impede the com ing of children is a violation of the law of God. . The earth must be peopled by hon orable marriage. Milton says "Hail wedded Love?true source of human offspring." And again he says of marriage, "It is the sum of earthly bliss." Oiher oynicai old poets make 8?or? cS ? ???oall it a "lottery." "An institution where those who are out wish to get in avid those who are in wish to get out." Some of our mod* ern poets ask the question, 'Is mar riage a failure?" and discuss it in prose and poetry. Well, suppose that it is, what is to be done about it. Who is going to stop it? How shall the earth be peopled when we all die off? What kind of incubators do thoy propose to substitute? Emerson says "All the world loves a lover," end that is why the good people of every community flock to witness a marriage ceremony. Every body loves the happy couple then and wishes them joy. Will he be kind to her, and there ia a smothered thought in every mother's .mind. Dr. Gaines of the Agnes Soott In stitute gave us a diaoourse the other day on the importance of educating our girls. . It was deoply entertaining and^convinoing. How comes it that six timeB as much money is invested in giving our boys a high education aa there ia for our girls. Who are our educators at home and in our public schools. Sixty-six per cent, of all the teaohers in Georgia Are women and they should have.the best oppor tunities to fit them for their vocation. Who teaches the children until they can go to school. The mothers?the patient loving mothers all over the land, while the fathers are in the field, the counting-room, the workshop, or maybe at the club or the billiard table. Why should the female colleges bo neglected by the State? Who are do ing the most good in the school rocs;, the Church, the Sunday 3ohu;>v or by the fireside in the establishing and perpetuating morality and virtue among the children? Is it the boy* who come from college or the girls who oannot go, but have to be content with suoh education as they can get at home. Well, the good doctor gave us food for thought and when he closed I felt a wish that I was rich so that I might enable every good girl to get a higher education than she can get at homo. When will we have a legislature that will have heart enough to givo to wo man all of her rights? The marriage able girls ought to form a trust and vow to marry nobody until their rights were recognized. If it wasent for the maternal instinct they would. Bill Art. The Mother's Favorite. . Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the mother's favorite. It ia pleasant and safe for ohildren to take and always cures. It is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup and ' whooping cough, and ia the best medicine made for th?se diseases. There is not the least danger in giving it to ohildren for it contains no opium or- other in jurious drug, and map be given aa con fidently to a babe as to an adult. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. _ m , m _ ? When trcublc comes wabbl"_? along a.woman gives way to. a flood of tears, and a man proceeds to tint the atmosphere blue. If troubled with a weak digestion, belohing, sour stomach, or if you feel dull after eating, try Chamberlain'* Stomach and Liver Tablets. Price 25c. Samples free at Hill -Orr drug store; ? A". Ohio man aged 112 years is threatened with nervona prostration.' His physician attributes it to the ?* ceasivo use of tobae.no for ihr. lost ninety-seven years. The Best Prescription For Malaria Chills and Fever ia a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic It is simply iron and quinine in a taaeleas form. No cure, No pay. Price 50o. '.'? There can bo no objection to fam ily broils so long as they are confined to the kitohen. ? Some society ladies are works of An Incident of the Battle of Atlant?. Editor Atlanta Journal: Having | read some of the interesting articles in The Journal, I would like to. add an interesting faot about the campaign around your city during the war. By some ehanoe of war a division-? I think it was French's?had been or dered to the right of our line and had left their videtto posts without reliev ing them and without any instructions and our division was sent to occupy the space left vacant by the departure of the other division. As it was necessary to ascertain the number of men composing tho outpost guard which had been left by the for mer division, so as to make tho neces sary daui! to relieve ihem, I was or dered to make my way to the first vi detto pit and thon on around the cir - cuit and report the number. On ar riving at the outpost I found our men firing at tho enemy, who were only a short distance away, sheltered in soxsc woods. After counting the men in the pit I was preparing to mako a run for the next when the officer in charge cautioned me in regard to a gun the enemy fired regularly every minute to keep our men well under cover and to stop their fire as muoh as possible. I therefore waited until the gun had been fired and then ran to the next pit, which was fifty yards away, where J arrived safely, and so on from one pit to the other I made my way, follow ing closely tho instruction given by the men. At one pit where our linns made a ourve 1' was preparing to run for the next, when I was stopped 'jy one of the men and asked which dire 3 tion I waB gtring to run. I pointed to a pit about fifty yards away. He laughed and told me that I would nev er see daylight again if I went to that pit, *8 it belonged to the enemy. -Tho lines were bo close together that the mistake was very likely to be made by anybody, and it was difficult for those who knew the ground to tell which was which. I finally Bucceeded?in finishing the round and arrived safely at the headquarters with my report, whioh was something that I had not expeoted to do when I sent out. I write this merely to show how closely the two armies lay to eaeh other in the deadly struggle around your city and on what small things a human life hung. John H. Hill, Courier Hardee's Corps, Breokinridge's Division, C. S. A. Kept the Bonnet Company. The story of an elderly couple who lived in a Massachusetts town nearly 50 years ago, is told by some of the oldest inhabitants with muoh unc tion. The lady had been bereft of one helpmeet, and her second husband had twice been left a widower before the pair were united in the [ bonds of matrimony. They were both of that temperament whioh oauses its posses sor to be characterised as "set." On the wedding day the bride found in the baok pantry, on a conspicuous nail, a sunbonnet, whioh had belonged to he? immediate predecessor. She removed it to oblivion in a closet. Her newly wedded husband made no comment, but replaced the Suubonnet on its aooustomed nail. ' D?ring the next few days the calico headgear vibrated between the closet and the nail. Then there oame a day when the bride approached her hus band with a man's hat in her hand as he was in the aot of re-instating the sur.bonnet. "If you havo that sunbonnet there," she said firmly, "I shall hang my first husband's hat on the next nail." She looked at the bridogroom and met the counterpart of her own expres sion. . She hung the hat on the desig nated nail, and although the two peo ple lived to be very old, neither the hat nor the sunbonnctt ever moved again till the house eame into the hands of a new owner.?Youth'* Com panion. , This season thero is a large death rate among children from croup and lung troubles. Prompt action will save the little ones from these terrible diseases. We know of nothing so certain to givo instant relief as One Minute Cough Cure. It can also be relied replied upon in jgrippe and all throat and lung troubles of adults. Pleasant to take. Evans Pharmacy. ? The inventor Of a salt cellar that will always have salt in it will supply a longfelt want. Use DeWitt'b Witch Hazel Salve for piles, sores and skin discuses. There are counterfeits. Evans Phar macy. ? Never attempt to bully a judgo or a jury unless you h*ve previously bribed them. Laxative . Brom?? Quinine Tablets cure a cold in.one da>. No Cure, No Puy. Pri?e 25 cca^. ? Niiio times out ox tcu when the unexpected happens we bring it on ourselves. You Know What Ton Are Taking When yon take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle showing that il is simply Iron aud ^Quinine in a tameless form. No Cure, No Pay. 50c. ? Some people have been ou the stage all their lives and still long tobe actors. ' Remedy for Mosquitoes. Now thai the mosquito >is declared by scientists to"be sot only a pest, but a conveyer of disease, including malar ial and yellow fevers, it will be inter esting to know that the South Ameri cans have found a simple, inexpensive and effectual remedy for this nuisance. Consul Plumacher writes the State department from Maraoaibo as fol lows: "A simple remedy against moiqui toes has been employed in several places in South America and is equal ly well adapted to the temperate zone. It consists in planting tho castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis), or pr.lma ohristi, around the hour3 and prom "In cold and temperate climates the castor-oil plant grows to a height of four or five feet; in these countries, it becomes a tall tree and is perennial. It seems that the smell of the plant is disagreeable to the mnunnitm.? *n? other insects, and it is an acknowledg ed fact that where these plants grow few mosquitoes will be found. "My personal experience bears this out. My residence is surrounded by plantain and banana trees, and I have bef a muoh troubled in the past by the great number of mosquitoes which gathered between the leaves. Follow ing the example of old settlers iu the country, I planted the castor seeds, which grew up in profusion, and there are now no mosquitoes to be found among the plantain and banana trees, although I keep the ground well irri gated. By keeping branches and the seeds of the plant in rooms tho mos quitoes are driven away from the lat ter. "Thero are several varieties of the oastor-oil plant. In this country there are two?one with brown nuts and the other white in oolor, with a kernel tasting liko the fresh almond." This is better than the eoal oil rem edy, which is about as bad as the mos quitoes. Hauled to School. Columbus, Ga., Jan. 19.?Musoo gee County school authorities are try ing, on a limited scale, a reoent sug gestion by the State school commis sioner, Dr. Glenn, that ohildren be hauled to school in sparsely settled districts. In the extreme northern part of the County there are a number of families who have some 12 or 15 children. They petitioned for a school for the community, but the County school board did not think that tho number of pupils authorized a school. The neareat schoolhouse is some fivo miles away, at Double Churches. The board, as a compromise, agreed to haul the ohildren to that school. A contract was made with a man in that community who had a wagon suit able'for the purpose. This gentle man's 15-year-old son wished to at tend school, and so he was installed as driver. Every morning he drives along the read and collects tho .chil dren, who come to the main road from I their homes to meet him, and carries them on to school. He and his team I spend the day, and in the afternoon ' he carries the ohildren home. He thus earns a neat sum for his father sod at the same time is receiving an education. Water. Sweet, beautiful water I?browed in the running brook, the rippling foun tain oapd the laughing rill?in the limpid cascade, as it joyfully leaps down the side of the mountain. Brewed in yonder mountain top, whose granite peaks glitter like gold bathed in the morning sun?browed in the sparkling dewdrop; sweet, beauti ful water 1?brewed in tho crested wave of the ocean deeps, driven by tho storm, breathing its terrible anthem to tho God of the sea?brewed iu the fleecy foam and the whitened spray as it hangs like a speck over tho distant oataraot?brewed in the clouds of heaven: sweet, beautiful waterl As it sings in the rain shower and dances iu the hailstorm?as it comes sweeping down in feathery flakes, clothing tho earth in a spotless mantle of. white ? always beautiful! Distilled in the golden tirrues that paint the Western sky at the sotting of the sun, and the silvery tissues that veil tho midnight moon?sweet, health-giving, beautiful waterl Distilled in the rainbow of promise, whose warp is the raindrop of earth, and whose woof is tho sun beam of heaven?sweet, beautiful wa I ter.?John li. Qough. When you need a soothing and heal ing antisoptio application for any pur pose, uso tho original Do Witt's Witch Hazel Salve, a well known cure for piles and skin diseases. Beware of counterfeits. Evans' Pharmacy. ?!- The five great power*?Love, money, revenge, r.ir.bitiou and a good dinner. The most soothing, healing and an tisoptio application ever devised is So Witt's Wiu.n Hazel Salve. It relieves at once and cures piles, sores, eczema and ?dein diseases. Beware of coun terfeits. Evans Pharmacy. ? A man may be able to argue with a woman, but it no;er does any good. '? A west side, phrenologist elaims he ein tell what a barrel contains by Af*minincr ft? hnaA The Irishman's Bluff. Oar day a geutleruau uot con neeUd with tho army, was ridiog to overtako Lewis' Kentuoky brigade, then serving au mounted infantry, and operating between Augusta and Savan nah. G a., after Sherman had reached the latter city. The brigade, reduced I to a few hundred by four years' active service in the field, had just marohed through a little village, where the gen tleman soon aftor arrived, lie rode up to tho door of a cottage, in which dwolt au old Irishman and his spouse, and tipping his hat, a la soldier, in quired if t?'icro had been any rebels passing. The old lady, seeing that tho interrogator had on a blue army ?veircuai, naturally ooooluded that he was tho advance of a Federal column in pursuit, and being a true Southern er, sho sought to do the oauao a ser vice by at once striking terror into tho enemy's ranks. She therefore answer ed. "Yis, sir, tbey havo jist bcon afther marchin'? through, and ther^ wero twinty thousand o' thorn if there was a single mon!" The gentleman thanked her for the information, ><"d again tipping his hat a la soldier, turned his horse's head in tbe direction tho "twinty thousand*' had gone. The old man, then think ing that the exaggeration had notbeon sufficiently complete, ceased the vigor ous whiffing of his pipe long enough>to call after the supposed Federal: "Yis, sir; that's ivcry word the truth, it is. And they wore dommed big min at thotl" ^_ Courage a Common Virtue. ! Of all the virtues says Richard Hard ing Davis in the February Everybody's Magasine, "Oourago is tbe least parti cular as to whero it takes up its abode. There is really nothing aso perplexing and disappointing to the hero-worship per as to find that the same virtue whioh he admires in his oho.ien hero is shared by others who, but for that one quality, are his inferiors in every way, in mind, in morals, in birth, and ; in body. Indeed, one is inclined to believe it to be tho commonest of all the virtues. It is the rarest thing in tho world to hear of a regiment show ing the whito feather, and yet a regi ment is only a collection of human be ings, and human beings of by no means the highost mental or moral type. In deed, after you have observed tho way the privato soldier oonducts himself out of office hours, you aro inclined to plaoe courage lower than any of the } virtues, even to deny that it is a vir tue at all, and toolass it as an instinct; j for even tho black-sheep in a regiment ?the men who will lie, and loot, and assault women, will fight magnificent ly, coolly, and without a suggestion of doubt." ? Horseshoes weighing an ounce each and just a trifle larger than a sil ver dollar, wero turned out in a Cali fornia shop recently. They were, made for a Shetland pony 6 months old, and small for its age. ? It is known that wasp nests often take fire, supposed to be caused by the ohemioal action of tho wax upon the material of the nest itself. This may account for many mysterous fires in barns and outbuildings. ? Let your character be as firm as granite and the shafts of your enemies cannot harm it. ? A fire engine ?b merely a water pitcher._ Of the Sun throws a dark shadow on rhe earth. So it Is with the human body when disease shuts out the light of health and happiness. PS?GKLY ASH BITTERS Is an an''dote for all diseases whkh attack" the Kidneys, Liver, Stomach or Bowels. It drives out constipated conditions, restores, functional activity and regularity. MAKES mm Pure Blood, Strong Ncives end Good Clfc*?tton. People who have used It say it is their main reliance for keeping the body healthy. GOLD AT Dn???i?TV. Price, 91.00. ananj. Borau-THckty at mmm s> ait btilMMMNailiailiKMrt. HUM) latest Notice to Creditors. ^VLiLi perKiin" lnvlnu d?mandi? against tbe Estate of Mrs. A. L. Gaillard, deceae ed. are hereby notified to present them, properly proven, ta~4i,? undersigned wltbln tbe lime prescribed by law, and those indebted t*? inwke payment. LEE Q. IIOLLRMAN; Adm'r. D. S. VANDIVEH. E p YANDIYHS. Vandiver Bros. GENERAL MERCHANTS ? AND ? JOBBERS OP GROCERIES, Want Your Tra cLe ! wE are gtnctiy Headquarters on FLOUR, MOLASSES, TOBACCO, COFFEE, CORN aud other Heavy Groceries, DRY GOODS and SHOES at selling prices. Yours for fcTrade, V?ri?iVER BROS. Syracuse Chilled Plows Are the lightest;draft, Best 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 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 Brill, The only Drill with the absolute force feed?will sow Oats where others fail, ind 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. Now is the Time to Buy You a . I WE can give them to you at any price, and any kind that you want.. We have a good No. 7 Stove with 27 pieces of ware for $7.75. We have a big lot of IRON KING and ELMO STOVES which you know are the beat Stoves on the market. Now we just want to speak to you one word about our? HE?TIISTGr STOVES, Especially about our Air Tight Heater, which you know is the greatest heater on earth. If you would see one of them in use or try one of them, you would not have anything else. And just look at the price?they coat almost noth ing?only $1.75 up to $6.00. We want to call your attention to our big Stock of? Tinware, Glassware and Crockery. Now we have just got too much of this and it roust be Bold, bo we ust vr??t you to come and look and let us price you through. We have some of the prettiest pieces of Odd China you oversaw. Would make nice Wedding, Birthday and Christmas Pr?sents. Now we arc juat opening up the biggeat line of TOYS vou ?ver saw We want you to como round aud bring the children aud let, them aee a grand sight in Toy8. And remember that all of these Goods must be Eold at aome price be tween now and the 25th day of December. Come now while you can get a good selection of everything. Yours truly, OSEORHE & 0SB0BNE. o < ? co o 3 o w is x CT^2 *JZ ? a ? s ? hm l ?? g S.B t g.S| || g 8.4 g| q2 g 5* w H OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for all KINDS of GRAIN. Three Thousand Buahels of TEXAS RED RUST PROOF OATS. One Car of that famous HENRY OAT (or Winter Grazing Oat.) The nly Oat that will positively stand any kind of weather. Have juat received Two Cars of fine FEED O vTS at lowest prices. Have juat received Three Cara of RICE FLOUR for fattening your ogs, and it cornea much cheaper than auy other feed and is much better. Yours respectfully, -?- O. O. ANDERSON * BRO.