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ODD BLUE M Rugged I-?ike the !M William B. Curtis, i V/AsijuwTOM, June ?0v-The moan tai neera of the Blue Ridge aro a race of themselves, in many respeots unlike all the other communities that make up this great Commonwealth. They partake of the rugged ?nd -sombre character of the mountains in ?which they live, and have inherited the habits and customs, as well as the cabins, of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who got that far in the westward march of empire, but could go no iartbor because their teams were tired and the mountain roads were impassable. There these pioneers settled down, oleared little spots of land in the forest and began aa unending struggle with nature, which has been only partially rucoess ful, and, continued from generation to generation, has produced a hardy peo ple who live comfortless lives of labor and privation, and yet are not unhap py. Their politics, religion, morals nod superstitions are .unchangeable and of the severest kind. Their poll ues is based on liberty, as their re ligion is based on brimstone. He..oe they are Moonshiners, hard-shell Bap tists and shouting Methodists. They resist the revenue offioers because they believe the Government is de priving them of their liberties. Their preachers pioturo the torments of the damned in lurid colors, because it re quires something strong to arouse their emotions, and their mortal lives are so full of misery that a mild form of perdition would not seem an ade quate punishment for sin. They are dull in book learning, but tenacious of memory. This is due to their empty minde, and their lack of knowledge and experience. They have lived in stagnation. They?>have few events to remember and the im pressions left by the trifling incidents of their lives and the little informa tion they gather are never effaced. The mountaineers are illiterate in secular learning, bnt you seldom find a household that is.not well posted in Scripture history. While they may not be able to read the text, they can quote passages from the Old and New Testaments without number, are eager for theological controversy, are power ful exhortera and fervent in (prayer. Some of the most effective preachers can scarcely tread or write. 'iTheir language is rude, but inspired by deep emotion. Northern people have told rae that the most eloquent prayers they ever listened to were offered by uncouth, uneducated mountaineers. This is a matt jr of j vide with them. Men who can pray eloquently and car ry ou theological controversies with credit are quite as highly esteemed as those who excel in the use of the rifle or io athletic sports. Coe day a boy who had . been taken up by a charitable faraidy ?to beefed and olothed and educated in a proper way waB being discussed with some visitors. Forgetting that the ohild was present his benefactor described the squalid home that he came from, thc poverty, the ignorance and the privations of his parents. The boy was DOA without pride and loyalty to his own family, and, looking up with a determined apirit, he asked: "Mrs. Phillip., did you all ever hear my father pray?" "No," the lady answered in sur prise; "doea he pray well?" ''Well,'' replied the .boy confidest ly, "I reckon be ean pray better'n be can do anything else." j There are few words in their vocabu lary because they do not have many ideas or much information to com municate. It is said that no civilised people have so barren a language, but their dialeot ia unique and philolo gists find in it a close relation to the Scotch, which waa the tongue of their ancestors. Perhaps their limited .vo cabulary is a part of their poverty. ?They may practice economy tin lau se as in the other necessities of j life, but their virtues are equally con spicuous and they are famous for their hospitality. No mountaineer ever '"-ued a stranger from his door unless he suspected him of being a revenue agent, and then he followed him.down the road with a shotgun. ( They never look np anything. They thave nothing to pteal, and honesty ?iii a recognition of tho rights of others are the fundamental principles jj their morality. Charles '.Egbert "raddoek has given ua graphic pie ces of their customs and habits, and thone -ho kaow them best say that her sketches are accurately .drawn. They care very little what is going 88 in the outside world, and while fhey do not resist civilization, that ia fessing closer and closer around *eo?, they are indifferent to it. They refnse to adopt labor saving machine nt although tho icdustrial schools es jhlishcd by tho benevolent people of he North for tho hands and minds a~ IDGE PEOPLE ountains in Midst of bey Xiive. w?he Record-Herald* are gradually breaking through the crust of their conservatism. Not along'I visited one of these schools near the Hot Springs of North Carolina, which was founded by a Dartmouth College man named Luke Borland, who ??ont derra there immy years ago for his health. As he wan dered over the mountains, studying the lives and habits of the people, he was most impressed by their abomina ble cooking and started ? scheel in his kitchen. He could accommodate but few pupils, whom he selected from among the brightest girls in the neigh borhood, but the field was wide and tho school kept growing until it now consists of several departments, whioh are under the supervision of the Wo men's. Home Missionary Sooiety of the Presbyterian Church. At Asheville there is a similar industrial sohool, where 100 girls from 12 to 18 years old, are being taught housework, cook ing, sewing, gardening and other prac tical knowledge. It costs only $75 a year to educate one of these girls and I ?do not -know where money oan be better invested. .There is also a nor mal school where the brightei minds are trained to teaoh others what they themselves have learned of tho house hold arts, and 130 young missionaries aro being fitted to go into the moun tains to preaoh the gospel of order, neatness and comfort among the primi tive homes of the mountaineers. At the little village of Denmark is a farm school of .400 acres where 115 boys are being taught thc use of modern ma chinery and economical methods and tho rudimentary principles of agricul ture. Tho Borland Institute, at Hot Springs, like the other schools I have named, is under the care of the wo men's home mission board of the /resbyterian Church, but is support ed directly by individual churches, societies and benevolent people, who pay oertain sums every year to sustain scholarships. . There are now fifty-two girls in the institute, who can be edu cated in the art of boueekeeping for 150 a year, whijh is the cost of a scholarship. This a possible because the teachers try to make the sohool as nearly self-supporting as possible. In looking over the list of contributors I Found the names of Mrs. William H. Reid, of Chicago; Mrs. Grace Reid Nash, of Lake Forest j Miss Lucille Hitt, of Campbell Park; Mrs. M. S. Lesbeur, of DeDanville; Mrs. V. C. Harbert, of Jerseyville; Minerva G. Titterington, of Rook Island; Mrs. Jessie Fisher, of Peoria, and several )Mier good women tff (Illinois. The 'Gleaners," of Po erm. and several ither-Sunday Sohool organizations and Christian Endeavor sooieties are also sontributors. tfihe pupils in this sohool are select id from the most intelligent girls in a ongdist of applicants, rfor it oan ac lommodate hut a small proportion of those who wish to attend. They all tome from tho cabins in the uioun ains, and the brightest ones are ihosen on the theory that the^greatesfc ;ood can be accomplished using the ?est. material. They are taught to ew, to .cook, to make gardens and a umoient amount of book learning to nable them to read, write ano! keep ccounts. 'If a girl proves too dull of ntellect to comprehend the simple lurpoaes of the institution she ib sent tome and her .place is filled rey anoth r of greater promise. The course is bree years, at the end of whioh raduating exeroises are held with onsiderabje ceremony to impress the athers ind mothers and the neigh ors with the importance of educa ion. Most of tke girls marry at once f ter leaving the school, because the oufag men appreciate the advantage f .having a wife who is trained to ?ake s, good housekeeper. . An ox-eyed girl with a freckled faoo nd a long, awkward fi-ame sat sun ing herself by thc roadside, her long ;gs being gathered up under her Irfrts and her calico sunbonnet having ?Hen .back of her towsly auburn hair, ho seemed full of the confidence and idependent spirit that is called pertness" down in North Carolina, if ter a while I asked her why she did ot attend the industrial school in the i Hage. "Helpin* ma," was the laconio re ly. "If you aro helping ma, why don't juno and help her, instead of ait ng out herc on the roadside?" said ie of the ladies. "Am helpin'." "How arc you helping?" "Totio' wood"-and we found by irther inquiry that her mother had mt her into tho forest to gather an mful of fagots fer the kitchen fire. "What do they teach down thore at tat school?" I asked. "Prayin', cookin' and ho'swork," (?? thc answer. Strangers always wonder where th* mountaineers get their clothing Much of it is home-made, like th' furnishings of their houses, whiot show the lack of what Harriet Beech er Stowe calls "faculty." They can' not adapt things like the Yankees They can make a tomato can serve th< purpose of a teapot, but their inge nuity goes very little farther. Th< most surprising and mysterious prob lem is the origin of their hats, and although I have asked the question di everybody who ought to know, I have been unable to get the slightest satis faction as to the source of supply The women wear sunbonnets made ol calico with wide frills, but the mei have the most remarkable variety anc patt??u uf headgear worn aoywhen else. You cannot find their like ii any other part of the civilized world and they not only last a lifetime, bu are handed down from generation t< generation. They tell a story of ai old man whose hat blew off as he wa: crossing a bridge and floated down th? stream. Tho neighbors rallied to th< ory of distress and sought for day with as much r.eal as they would hav shown in recovering a human body But it was a failure, and from tha date the old man weet about bare headed. He waa too old to buy a ne\ hat, he said. A meroiful Providenc could not be expected to spare hin many years longer. If anyone is curious to-know wha heoomes of the old clothes that w send to the home missionaries h might spend an interesting hour i the store room of the Borland Inst! tute. There is a collection of nonde script garments of all sises and fast ions and materials which would su? gest another essay by the author c "Sartor Resartus." These garment have* been reoeived from time to tim in missionory boxes from benevoleu people in different parts of the coui try, and are spread out according t size and quality, as in a second-hao clothing store, and supplied to th families of the mountaineers in?] change for vegetables, eggs, butte fowls, fuel and whatever else the pu chasers are able to offer. Nothing given away. The price of a pair < shoes may be only 10 cents; sn ove coat may be exchanged for a day labor, a warm woollen dress for a pa of chickens or a basket of eggs, or full suit of clothes for a load of woo? and by such barter the school is suj plied with the necessities of life. Stopped at her Station. Members frequently regale tl cloakroom habitues with stories eith originated or told, or both, by ex-Go ernor Robert L. Taylor. Here is 01 oerdited to the governor, and wheth b deserves the credit or not it is go< enough to have originated in his witt brain: "There was a nervous wo mac?n passenger train. She inquired fr quently 0/ the conductor as to wh time she would arrive at a certain st tion, and the train did not regular stop there. Bnt her inquiries, shr of conductor, porter, brakeman ai passengers awakened the .interest every one in thc coaoh. Finally tb came to the station, and by soi mishap .went two or three miles b yond without stopping. The condu tor rang the bell, the great engine 1 versed, the train baoked slowly to tl platform, and the conductor, foroit [lia way Lt rriedly through the crow sd car,ifound the woman and said: " 'Como on, madam. Here is yo itation. I will help you off!" " 'What!' responded the woma I don't want to get off!' And, reao ng for a slick, blaok satchel, said: 44 *I only wanted to take a pill wh< fe reached that station!'" Cares Blood and Skin Troubles. TRIAL TREATMENT FREE.--IS yo >lood poor ? Is it thin? Nose bice og and headaohe? Pricking pains ho skin? Skin pale? Skin feel h ,nd swollen? All run down? Is yo dood bad? Have you Pimples? Eru ions? Scrofula? Eating Soxes? Itc og, burning Ezema? Boils? Ulcer /anoer? Scaly Eruptions? Skin loalp Itch? Blood, Hair or Skin h aors? Tired out with aches and pail n bones and joints? Have you h editary or contracted Blood Poisoi Hoers in throat or mouth? Swolh lands? Rheumatism? As tired lorning as when you went to bed lave they resisted medical treatmcn f you have any of the above tronbl ?.B.B. (Botanic Blood Balm) shou e taken at once. B.B.B, has apeo lar effect-different from any otb lood medicine-it drains tho impui ies, poisons and humors that cause 1 hove troubles out of the blood, bon nd entire system, healing every soi sstoring to the ukin the bloom of pc sot health and making new. ri? lood. Trial treatment of B.B.l ree by addressing Blood Balm Cot any, 380 Mitchell St., Atlanta. G ?escribe your trouble, and we will i Indo free'medical advice. B. B. ] ever fail? td cure quickly and perm ently, after all fails. Thorough sstcd for thirty years. Over 3,0 oluntary testimonials of ourea ' i.B.B. Hill-Orr Drug Co., Wilhi I Wilhite, and Evans Pharmacy. - mm m- mm? - Every married man should jo ime good society-tho eoeiety of I ife and children for instance. The Best Prescription For Malaria hills and Perer is a bottle of Grovt astelcss Chill Tonie. It is simp on and quinine in a taseless fer o euro, No pay. Price 5Qc. II ? III! ifii i'i II.imiaaiiiiiiliMwr iniiiiiiaiJiiii Fell In a WeB: Saved by a Snake. WAYCROSS; GA., June 29.-Willio Blades, sen cf Mr. Winiam Bladen, dairyman, who lives near town, fell into a well yesterday and was saved by a mere incident. Willie is about 12 years old and he sud Charlie Hart, who is 15, were sent to the field to work. About ten o'olook they went to an old well on the plaoe to get some water. They had a ropo and bucket and in drawing the water, Will somehow lost his bal ance and tumbled into the well head foremost. His companion was a brave boy and instead of running away for help he began to try to get the buoket 1 and ron? do??s to his friend, but when j he looked down into the dark shaft 40 1 feet deep, Will had disappeared be neath the water. For several min utes he did not reappear, but by good fortune the old battling biook had so tuc ti mc previously fallen into the well which was out of use and Will had lodged on this, lt had gone down under the momentum of the fall, but had buoyed up the boy's half dead body again to the surface. Will was seriously hurt by the fall and proba bly would not have stirred from his dazed condition for some time, but for the faot that he beheld a huge mocca sin staring him in the face from one corner cf the well. This was stimulons enough and Will had no desire to disputo the right of possession to the well and he called manfully to his companion to let down the buoket. Charles complied as rapidly as he could and soon had Will riding to the surface as rapidly as his slender rope would allow. When res cued Will was very much disfigured and badly unnerved. He says the big snake scared him worse than the fall hurt him._ Heartburn. When the quantity of food taken is too large or the quality too rich, heart burn is likely to follow, and especially so if the digestion has been weakened by constipation. Eat slowly and not too freely of easily digested food. Masticate the food thoroughly. Let six hoirs elapse between meals, and when you feel a fullness and weight in the region of the stomach after eat ing, indicating that you have eaten too muoh, take one of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and the heartburn may be avoided. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - York county, Pa., the home of many people prominent in state poli tics, boasts of a white man whose name is Michael Andrew Jackson Johnson Donelson Fillmore Deokman. - There are now a quarter of a mil lion troeps ia South Africa. The war is costing more than a million dollars a day, and recent Boer aggressions suggest indefinite protraction. During last May an infant child of our neighbor was suffering from chole ra infantum. The doctors had given up all hopes of reoovery. I took a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to the house, telling them I felt sure it would do food if used according to directions, a two days time the child had fully recovered ? The child is now vigorous and healthy. I have recommended this remedy frequently and have never known it to fail.-Mrs. Curtis Baker, Bookwalter, Ohio. Sold by Hill-Orr Drug Co._ Owns 1.250,000 Acres. Major George W. Litilefieid, of this city, is probably the largest indivi dual land owner in the United States. His ranch and farm hidings in Texas and New Mexico aggregate about 1, 250,000 mores. This inoludes a tract of 284,000 acres of ranch land, which he recently purchased from the State Capitol syndioate. The lands of the latter corporation embraced 3,000,000 acres originally, and were given it by the State for building the State Capitol. They are situated in the extreme northwestern part of Texas and cover several large counties. Major Tiittlefield's r?verai purchase inoludcd 5,000 Hereford cows of pure breed and the samo num ber of Hereford oalves; 340 Hereford bulls and a large number of horses and mules. I Major Littlcfield cannot tell within ?vc or ten thousand of tho number of head of cattle he owns. Tho total number is estimated at from 70,OUI) to 80,000 head. Ho has sold many thousand head of beef cattle in tho lact few months and his ranches are now short of stock cattle. He takes great pride in his now ranch of 280, 000 acres and gives it much attention. He paid $790,000 cash for the prop oity, including the cattle and othor domestic animals thereon. Theranoh is well fenced and is well supplied with water from forty-two wells. The water from forty of these wells is pumped by windmills, and two of the wells afford a never-falling supply of Artesian water. The soil is rich and much of the land is susceptible of irri gation! He also owns what he calls a little ranch near Austin. It is situated in Macon County and embraces 120,000 acres. It is well stooked with cattle and has many substantial improve ments in the way of ranch buildings, wells and fences. Of ail his lauded possessions he takes tho greatest pride in a farm of 1,200 acres in Spring River Valley, New Mexico. The farm is ali ia a high state of cultivation, and brings in a big annual revenue. AU tho crops are raised by means of irrigation. On this farm there is a sixty-five-acre apple orchard just come into bearing. Largo orchards of other fruit trees have been planted and will be producing abundant crops before many years. Major Littlcfield is 57 and a native of Texas. He served through the civil war as an officer in the Hangers regiment, which was made up of Texas frontiersmen who favored the Con federate ?side. He oame ont of the war without a dollar and started to make a fortune for himself out of the cattle-raising business. His fortune is now estimated at from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000.- Austin, Texas, Special Nieto York Suit. You Know What You Are Taking When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonio because the formula is plainly printod on every bottle showing that it is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay. 50o. -m 4? mm - . - It does not follow that every fool is self-made because most men make fools of themselves.__*_ DUE WE8T FEMALE COLLEGE. OFFERS A. E., B. S., Normal, Music, Expression, Art and Butin?es courses un der experienced teachers, and the best moral, social and rellgloua environment, in an ideal College community. The purest tubular well water. Home comforts and restraints. The last year waa most successful, every room in the building being occupied. Applications should be made early for next term. Terms low. JAMES BOYCE. President. June 19, 1901-oct I Doe Wost, 8. C. GELESR?TEO AcmePaint and Cement Cure. Specially used on Tin Hoofs and Iron Work of any kind. For sale by ACME PAINT & CEMENT CO. Reference : F. B. GRAYTON & CO., Druggists. Anderson, S. C. D. AND [V ER. J. J. MAJOR. E. P. VANDIVER. Vandiver Bros. & Major. If you want a Fine, Medium or Cheap Buggy We can sell it to you and save you money. Wo have the nobbiest line of Paney Young Men's Buggies to be found, and want to show them to you. We have a large stock of "BIRDSELL'S and "WHITE HICKORY' Wagons rVt lowest prices. We seil the PL?N? MOWER and BINDER, and want you to iee them. Your trade appreciated. VANDIVER BROTHERS & MAJOR. LYON S French Periodical Drops Strictly vegetable, perfectly hax nles's, sure to accomplish DESIRED RESULTS. Greatest known female remedy. PBIITinU Bowaroor coniUerfelta and Imitations. Tho ?ena I no ls put np only in p*M<>-boaril Car?* UHU IlUn ton with fao-hlmllo nijjnutnro on Mil.? or tt.C i.oUic, Um?: &y^<?t^F2r?J**\ iona for Oirv.m-r ts V/ilauAiia ?iru. co.. Solo ARcr.t.s. Cleveland, Oblo. -g*r?v-- ~*-^>*~f ^* JTox? Salo l>y. KlvaBi? Phurmaey, Anderson. 8. CL 3 Reward With Proof to convict the man who said wo were GIVING AWAY PIANOS AND ORGANS. WE are selling BO LOW and on such EASY terms that there was some reason in the report. But we must insist that it is, to a certain extent, a mistake. Nest time you come to town drop in and shake hands with us. You know wo handle SEWING MACHINES aUo. THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. WE WANT YOUR WIPE To see the pretty new arrivals in our China Ware Department. CAN WE Not sell her a new supply for Spring ?TOur*[prices fare ven' low. At least HAVE HER Come in. She will e^joy looking at the 'pretty .and novel thiDgs for the year 190,4 ff hY/?b . \ i 1 9w A Well f urnishedYHome Is not necessarily an expensively furnished one, as at TOLLY'S hand some, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay, Not that we deal in knocked-together, made-to-sell sort, but because we are content with a reasonable profit on really good articles of Furniture. Our best witness is the Goods them selves. Yours truly, G. P. TOLLY & SON? The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, 8. C. Now ls the Time to Buy You a . w Cookin 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 bea 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 woura not have anything else. And just look at the price-thav cost 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 must be sold, so we iu want you to come and look and let us price yon through. We 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 the biggest line of TO VS vou ever aw We want you to come round and bring the children and let them see a grand Bight in Toys. And remember that all of these Goods must be sold 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. a o B 0 0 M O H 25 ?d > ? O < c M M o a a m M W Q H > < M a o w W > a g i H ? ft > A S "S W > g % O (ti S CO . o o i 1 ? I ?3 OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR. ATE 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 nly Oat that will positively stand any kiud of weather. Have just received Two Cars of fine FEED O VTS at lowest prices. Have just received Three Cars of RICE FLOUR for fattening your ogs, and it comes much cheaper than auy.other teed and is much be?er. Yours respectfully,