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BILL ARF Grandchildren Had ike O] ?tlcv.tr. i This mooth did act begin right ^pril meaos td open, bat it^did nol ' H was an Aprityool. \Noth 0g shows in ujy garden but the peas ind ooions. The flowers mske nc mres*. There is no sweet eoutl nod to breathe upon them-no sun ^\np On M >ndny the grandchildren ?posed upon mo with their Biodoc iraok?. They gave me a cup ol hocolate with whipped cream on top, od it was nothing but soapsuds. 1 ?eteoded to be fooled, but I waseutj naid them baok in varions wave, fte [lind?os started this childish ous m away back in the ages, and it still ?oases the children. And now Bas er day is at hand and that is another inc that came down from the Pa SD8> Ostera waa their goddess of pring and it was corrupted into Es iis. How these old names do stioL jus. The names of the days of the eek and of the month came from ??em. Sc did the plansto auu thy jostellations. Even the prophets nd Job had to take them from the ?vptians. But the Scotch people jn't call it Easter. They say Pascha IT, or passover day. They won't ittern after anybody but John Knox, }d he said Pascha. But there is a isson for calling it Easter, for the i going of spring-the opening of the ir th and the flowers is emblematical ! the resurrection-the opening of ie Saviour's tomb and His return to ees and comfort Hi? people. This ry corresponds cloe-jiy with the ?wish passover, and so they ob rve it. Now I want the young people to tow that Lout is another word that eau s spring. It is preceded by that olisJi festival called, mardi gras-or t beef and oontinues forty days in membrance of tho Saviour's long st, aud it ends with Easter, and the mniutiiou and other rejoicings. As e old-time almanacs would say, ?bout this time look for Easter hats id flowers and finery." Christmas another festival day that is common all Christian nations. There are any other days dedicated to the ints, but in course of time it was und that there were not enough days thc year to go round, and so the ?pe stopped the sainting of so many d had ono day set apart as All lints day. The noxt day after that All Souls day, on which mass is id by the Roman Catholics for the als of thc dead who are in purga ry. It seems that about 900 years ;o a pilgrim from the holy land found hermit in Sicily who told him of an vening between the cliffs of the obtains near by that communicated ?tb hades where Pluto lived add that i could see the sulphurous smoke ring and hear the groans of the lost als who were being tormented in ill ind he had known some of them escape through the prayers cf the ieats and this made the devils very id and he could hear them cursing e priests with awful impr?cations, 3o pilgrim told all this to the abbots d monks, and they had a day set art to pray these lost sonia out of >H or hades or purgatory or whatever ii. Besides these international days cr? are natiesa! days in every coun 7- Here we have the Fourth of dy and Washington's birthday and Koration Day and some others, ertnany celebrates the birth of Cal Q and Luther and the kaiser. Soot od that of Sir William Wallace and race and John Knox. In old Eng nd they celebrate the Queen's birth y> Magna Charter day and Waterloo V sud May day. May day is the ippiest of all and has been long re ?rnbered in verso and song and in ?icing around tho May polo. Ten non wrote a sad, sweet poom called io "May Queen." Mexico celebrates 1 ibo Roman Catholic days and has ? other that the rabble call Judas .cariot's day. It is the next day tar Kastor. On the bc&utit?l trees ' the plaisa or. park they suspend uteboard images of Jadas Iscariot ?JW* as largo as life, with little oles bored in them from head to foot ?d in overy hole is fastened a cannon Rcker. At a given signal the faso in J?ry oraoker is lighted and ail of ??n explode nearly at the same time ?d suoh a terrific popping was never **"fd outside of a battle?eld, end J* old Judss is torn and rent into a Jouaand pieces. Thia is just a sign 'what they would do to him if thej ?d him there alive, tai I reckon it if j?re for frolio than anything, for thej "out and langh and dance tho hom "Po and make all the ratoket they can. "en Franklin said that mau was i Jjdle o? habits, He might hav< JJ1 ed "and superstitions," for mo?l People have some belief in super ll?r?l things. Two hundred ycart 5ft almost everybody bclioTed it 'tones. 8hake?pearo wrote atom _ >'S LETTER. Xiots of Fun Out of Ld Man. 1/1/H71HHCIUII, . them io "Macbeth1' and Barns io b "Tam O'shanter." The Puritans ? drowned many innocent women from ? mero suspicion of being witches. The ) conceited, self-righteous rascals never i accused a man of being a wizard. It ? is tho women who havo suffered in all > ?ge?. When I HUB a boy the young > people wero more afraid of ghosts than 1 they are now. * ? i Ghosts are very scarce in these days. I haven't seen one in a long time. In my early youth I was .tho mill boy and I remember that nnn evening ic tho early twilight as I was astride my horse and grist and going slowly home I neared tho cou:.'?ry graveyard of Fairview, Church and saw, or thought I saw, a ghost ahead of me in the big road. It had arms and legs, but had no head. It was white and going I slowly from mo.. I checked my horse and wondered. I started on again and got a little closer. Still the Term was headless. Broad ihouiders and arms akimbo. Nearer and nearer i drew to it, but it made no sign. My horso prioked up his ears as if alarmed. The road forked not far ahead, and I had resolved that if tho ghost took one road I would take the other, when suddenly au old man stopped to cough and took the sack from his shoulders and laid it upon the ground. I knew him instantly- old Uncle Tom Wilson, the hunchback-going home from tho mill with his grist across bis should ers and his head bent forward so that I could not seo it in the dusky twi light. Now, if both of us had reach ed the forks of tho road and had sepa rated I should always havo believed I saw a ghost. That old mill road and ehurch and graveyard made lasting impressions upon me, and so did the mill and the pond and tho spring-board and big wheel and thc soothing sounds of thc water fulling over the dam. We had various adventures with the country schoolboys on the way, for they didcot .like tho town boys-and they don't yet. 1 remember'that it was on April fool day that I saw in the road just beyond the schoolhouse a package done up in brown paper, and as I had met a man io a buggy a little while before, I supposed he had dropped it. I stopped my horse and got down. Picking up the package I untied the string and took off the wrapper and found another wrapper and another string and then anothei and another and at last two big blaok bugs, whose odor was familiar. That kind of bugs that advance baokward. and you can't tell v hethef you meet 'em or overtake 'em. Just then a sobre of boys jump ed from the bushes and yelled and yelled and screamed "April Fool 1" I was so mad I could hardly mount my horse sgain, bat I never spoke a word. I took it out in thinking and hating. West Point hazing waient any worse than that April fooLwas lo* me. But boys will be boys. BILL ABP. tures Contagions Blood Poison. TRIAL TREATMENT FREE.-It is es pecially the deep-seated, obstinate cases that B. B. B. cures. It mattera not if the doctors, or patient medicine? have failed to ouro, B. B. B. 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Funston's Capture of Aguinaldo Recall Previous Similar Incidents. Gen. Funston' S achievement in oap turing Aguinaldo recalls earlier at tempts made by officers of other ar mies to make prisoners or" the leaders o hostile f oro??. The first attempt a seising a general was never oarriec ont. It involved too many persons I and the plotters engaged in it worke< from the inside, not from without, a Fonston did, and their plans wer? overheard. This was the attempt ii June, Vi /7, to seize Washington ii New I ork. The plans of the con s pi r ators were overheard by a woman, wh( disclosed them to the Amerioan au tboriiies, and as result the men impli csted were captured sod puuiaucd, uu< of them, private Thomas Hickey, o Washington's bodyguard, being hang ed. After Arnold's treason and hil flight to the British, the American! made an attempt to seize him. Th ii undertaking was like General Fun ston's exploit. Sergt. Champe, of Lee'i Legion, waa the principal actor in th? Boheme. His plan was known only tc tho chief in command; so when he de sorted to the British bia late comrade! firod upon him, and he reached th< enemy's lines under a shower of bul lets, narrowly escaping with his life This was an excellent introduction tc the British, and Champe was received with onen arma, Bnt he was un sue ces sf ul; Arnold mov?d his headquaten the day on whioh Champa had arran ged to capture him, and Champe bac finally to desert from the English and return again under fire, to our lines, When Washington wished soon aftei to promote him for his gallantry, ht found Champe had died of disease. The capture of the British general, Prescott, in July, 1777, was perhaps the first successful attempt of thie kiod. General Prescott commanded the British forces in Newport, B. I., and went for the summer to a fine house some five miles out of the city. Colonel William Barton, knowing this, decided to capture him if pos sible; aud on July 10,1777, with 41 comrades, rowed across from Warwick Point, on the west ?hore of Narragan sett bay, and reached the house un discovered. Tbu door of his house was burst in by a negro, who used his head as a battering ram; Prescott was asleep and awoke to find himself a prisoner. He was not allowed to dress, but in his cloak with a captoi carrying his clothes, was forced tO tuc boat, and taken within the American lines and then to Washington's head quarters in Now Jersey. He was ex changed later. The successful cap ture of General Stoughton by Mosby and his Rangers in March, 1863, wac the result of a carefully made plan. Mosby, with 29 men entered Fairfax Court Houso, passing themselves ofi as belonging to the Fifth New lc ork cavalry, and while some of the bane1 attempted to capture Colonel Wynd ham, the leader went to the house where the general was sound asleep. At the name of Mosby, General Stoughton sat up in bed, wide awake in an instant. "Havo you got him?" he asked. "Ho'o got you," ropiied Mosby. The prisoner was taken to General Fitzhugh Lee's headquarters, from the very midst of a camp ic whioh lay several thousand troops, The attempt to capture Sitting Ball was not made by' strategy or trick; om Indian scouts went openly to the ol? thief's tent, and when and when they tried to arrest the famous Sioux were met with bullets; they returned the fire and killing him, losing some oi their own number. FnnBton's oaptnrc of Aguinaldo was marked by a weil devised plan, involving more dangei than that of any other plot except Sergt. Champe's and requiring longei time and more careful work, with the same exception.-New York Sun. The Best Remedy For Bheamatlsm. QUICK RELIEF FROM PAIN.-AI! who use Chamberlain's Pain Balm foi rheumatism are delighted with thc quick relief from pain whioh it affords When speaking of this Mr. D. N. Sinks, of Troy, Ohio, says: "Some time ago I had a severe attack ol rheumatism in my arm and shoulder I tried numerous remedies but got nc relief until I .voa ri* ommended bj Messrs. George F. Parsons & Co. druggists of this place, te try Cham bcrlain's Pain Balm. They recoin mended it so highly that I bought i bottle. I was soon relieved of al {iain. I have since recommended thii iniment to many of my friends, whi agree with me that it is the best reme dy for muscular rheumatism in th? market." . For salo by Hill-Orr Druj Co._ - In Japan the stranger wonders a the crowded appearance of the tomb stones in cemeteries. It ls the one tom to bury the dead in a sitting p0s turo. Tho coffins ar? nearly square, au it is possiblo to bary more of them i s given space than of the oblong caa kets. Mauy of tho attendants at fun erais are olothed tn whito. The Best Prescription For Malaria Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove' Tasteless Chill Tonio. It ia simpl iron and quinine in a taseless forn Nb cure, No pay. Price 50o. - It takes thc average woman til she is thirty to inake np her min whether its better to marry a pig tha looks like a gentleman or a gcntlcma that looks like a pig. A Dangerons Drug. The following editorial from the New York Journal has interest for the whole country, and we print it in order that attentioo may be riveted in South Carolina upon the possibilities of thc abuse of a very dangerous drug: Lawmakers should road and think about Dr. Thomas D. Crothers's recent lecture in New York on the subject of cocaine. Tho danger of tho cooaine habit has been mentioned in this column be fore. It ia a habit which ends in in sanity and death. It ia never cured. Tens of thousands of people become victims of the oooaino habit thiough tho oriminal negligonoo of doctora aud A - - KWUMOtOl Every parent should see to it that no cocaine ia used in treating a ohild, or at least that the child is not in formed of the nature of the drug. Dentista and doctors should be held responsible for s&?'p?fc?tto? when their treatment of patients results in mak ing them cooaine fiends. The salo of cocaine should bo super vised strictly. Any druggist or other individual found guilty of selling the drug improperly should go to jail for at least five years to think it over. The man who will wreck another's life for a business profit is a villain and a natural candidate for Sing Sing. It ia horrible to learn that the co caine habit lo spreading widely, and at the same time that the price of co oaine freo from all restrictive tax is constantly decreasing. An amount of Cooaino whioh a short time ago would have oost $6-can now bo bought for 75 cents. . The government imposes a heavy duty on tho manufacturer and sale of alcohol, and it imposes the duty moat properly. But oooainciam is ten times as dangerous as alcoholism, since in every case its victim is doomed. There should be sn enormous tax on cocaine, and such a tax as would pre vent any but physicians from Using itt. Already in New Orleans striot meas ures have been taken to prevent thc sale of the drug, which has made vic tims of tho negroes by thousands. We urge every reader to remember that tho uso of cocaine is indiscrimi nate among many physicians. Some years ago morphine was used in the same way by well meauing but foolish and ignorant doctors.. ^Tho present great army of morphtnQ;;.R^hd8 results from this past stupidity^' . 1 If cocaine is used tc allay pain in treatment of your yvifo br ohild or friend, impress upon tho physician that he must keep the fact to himself. If you know anybody in danger of forming tho cooaine habit and not yet a confirmed victim, he jay perhaps bc broken of the habit by friendly warn ing. Cocaine gives at first a feeling of elation, of freedom from physical and mental worry. But there follows a sure and terrible reaction. Tho char acter is changed. The best and frank est of men is transformed by this drug into a sneak and Har, ultimately into a maniac. Tell tho man or woman who begins taking cocaine that prus sic acid would he better. The latter is quick suicide-the former is suicide 1 also, but painful, long drawn out and 1 horrible. Capt. Raphael Semmes Foresaw Cnba's Fate. While Captain Raphaol Sommes was roving tko seas in the Sumter, he car ried aix prises into Cienfuegos, only ts have them turned over to their owners by the Governor General of Cuba. This was naturally annoying to tho enterprising oaptain, and he says is his memoirs, published lu 1868: "I planned a very pretty little quarrel between tho Confederate States and Spain, in caso tho former should establish their independence. Cuba, I thought, would make a couple of very respectable States, with her staples of sugar and tobacco, and with her similar system of labor; and if Spain refused to foot our bill for tho robbery of these vessels we would foot it ourselves at her expense." That plan fell through, but Captain Sommes continues with a passage tho conclu sion of which may strike some people as curiously prophetic: "Poor old Spain!" ho exolaims, "I thought per haps "to forgive thee, for thou wast afterward kicked and cuffed by the very power to which thou didst trucklo -the federal steamers of war making free use of thy coast of tho 'Ever Faithful Island of Cuba,' chasing ves sels on shoro and burning them in .ontempt of thy jurisdiction and in spite of thy remonstrances. And the day is not far distant whon the school ma'am and tho carpet-bag missionary will enoamp on tho plantations and hold joint conventions with thy free men in the interest of godliness and the said sohoolma'am of missionary." According to somo of the Havana papers tho day whioh Captain Sommes foresaw is como, and thirty years is "not far distant" in the realm of propheoy. April Fool Hoax. Reporters have been told of an April fool hoax atGraniteville, whioh seems to havo been ono of tho best in years. The big smokestack 'for the new mill is up. It is very tall and imposing. Mr. Sam T. Donning, who is at work in Granitcvillo, procured a suit of old clothing, stuffed it carefully and, du ring Sunday night, caused it be sus pended from thc top. When the pop ulation started to work on tho morn ing of April 1 they saw what appear ed to bo a man hanging from tho chim ney top. Thc figure wa8 perfectly gotten up. Sensation ran high for a couple cf hours,awhen tho figure was cut down and the hoax exposed. But tho news had gotten out and for two days people tramped in from thc out lying sections to sec the man who had been hanged or who had hanged him self from the big smoko stack.-Au gusta Herald. The Best Blood Purifier. Tho blood is constantly being puri fied by thc lungs, liver and kidneys. Keep these organs in a healthy condi tion and the bowels regular and you will havo no need of a blood purifier. For this purpose there is nothing equal to Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, ono dose of them will do you more good than a dollar bottle of tho beot blood purifier. Price 25o. Sam ?les free at HiH-Orr Drug Co.'s drug tore. - Tho less you arc talked about the less you are abused. WE WANT YOUR WIFE To see the pretty new arrivals in our China Wnro Department. CAN WE Not sell her a new suppl j io Spring ?JJOur (prices are very low. At least HAVE HER Come in. She will enjoy looking at the pretty and novel things for the year 1901. A Well furnished Home Is not necessarily an expensively furnished one, as at TOLLY'S hand some, even sumptuous, FURMIT?RE is procurable without great outlay. Not that we deal in kuocked-together, mnde-to sell sort, but because wo are content with a reasonable profit on really good articles of Furniture. Our best witness is the Goods them selves. Youro truly, G. F. TOLLY & SON, Tho Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St, Anderson. 8. C. fl ARE YOU FEELIN PRICKLY ASH * WILL CURE ten AA n $Du.uu rt With Proof to convict the man who said we were GIVING AWAY PIANOS AND ORGANS. WE arc Belling to LOW aud on such EASY terms that there waa some reason in the report. But we must insist that it i?, to a certain extent, a mistake. Next time you come to town drop in and shako hands with us. You kuow we handle SEWING MACHINES also. THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. E. G. EVANS, JR., * PENDLETON, S. C. FULL LINE OF Bu is t'a Gaid.n Seeds, Paints, Oil, Varnishes, Gasoline, Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Toilet Snaps, Sponges, etc. A supply of Peruna, Manalin aud Lacupia on hand. Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded. FA RMERS, FA RMEff SI Prepare for the coming Flowing Season by filling your Blacksmith Shop with good Tools, such as. Anvils, Hammers, Clevers, Vises, Forges, Bellowses, Etc., Of which we carry a full lino-, and can sell them at prices that every one can afford to buy. We can supply you in tho best GALVANIZED BARBED WIRE, Six-inch or four-inch, at the market price. Also, Galvanized Poultry Wire, any height, from 30-inch to 6 feet, all at a low price. Come and see us before you buy. BROCK BROS, Anderson, S. C. Now is the Tim? to Muy You a . . . 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 HEATING 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 ju?t look at the price-they cost almost noth ing-only 81.75 up to 86.00.' We want to cali your attention to our big Stock of Tinware; Glassware and Crockery Now we have just got too much of this and it must bc sold, so we ius want you to come and look and let us prico you through. Wo have some of the prettiest pieces of Odd China you ever saw. Would make nice Wedding, .Birthday and Christmas Presents. Now we are just opening up tho biggest line of TOYS vou ever Baw Wc want you to como round and bring thc children and let them see a grand sight in Toys. And remember that all of these Gooda must be told at some price be tween now and the 25th day of December. Come now while you can get a good selection of everything. Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE. o P CH O ? ti tr* Q w ca a cri tri s* z o < M H CG < O Sd ? M ti W ?d * M _ M O Q *) M co W > A S g ?? 8 s d ts a H % (?i * S5 ? co b o 3 I t* ? a es OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for ail KINDS of GRAIN. Three Thousand Bushels of TEXAS RED RUST PROOF OATS. One Car of that famous HENRY OAT (or Winter Grazing Oat.) Th? only Oat that will positively stand any kind of weather. Have just received Two Cars of fine FEED O Y TS 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. ?. ANDERSON & BRO.