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SARGE PLUNKETT IPleaeaxir, CReturn. to a, Good <Qaa <OhiiF?h. vwe ?Know. .Atlanta Constitution. Big mee ting time ia a glorious time for o!d folks. Like ? old clocks, we need finding ap once in awhile, and G big meeting is tho-key that-makes our hearts beat stronger, our hopes rise higher, and wo mark time with new vigor aud p..more cheerful stroke. Me and Brown went baok to our old settlement? laat^week, and a big meet ing was j just inprorrAM th?tmade it eaay to -see all whom we knew, and that refreshed us and-wound us up to tick with new vigor*and. to feast.upon -some memories that will ever be dear and cheering on our way. Webed nearly run down till we took thia <trip of last weak and worshipped -again in the good old cburoh whero we used to worship. ?It was big meeting time ?nd oar old neighbors had pressed us to bo there.and to strive all togeth er to have a . revival of tho go M old religion es>it asad to be. It is one of the old -ehurjhes that is .quite old fogy ead, strenge to - say, there bas never been.a proposition to move it to -come aere convenient plac?. The .graveyard oan be aeon from a-side .door? -end it ia there that mo and Brown found the >moBt*>pf the nemos that we used to know. 'Thcror-has never boon-en organ .in this old church, but they ?have . soma pretty new sesga ?which they sing in tb?- good old way* As tho moura era gathered ot the altar they wig "Gathering in the Sheaves" so much in an old-time way that iBrown cried right out and. I shed a few tears ?myself. We were not ashamed - of this nor did any ching less seem to be ezpeoted. Our happiest days were spent *a-and around this old church. *We used to. go to school in a little house whioh stood down by the .spring, aud-.our pionios were in the woods around - tb ie very place. As sweet Lgirlo as ever blessed Georgia .gc tho red' Svom three, and ? four mile? to attend thia school and there was never a thought -of its being a very, great feat to -walk thia distance. As I call to mind thesa.girl8.and think of thom as they bleosed the world in after years, it makes me tired.* to* hear talk of pron ding ?eye fer the children of these.days to ride to school. livery thing -still gees on in the old fashioned wey. 'Dinner wea served free for 'all every dey, ead there wu ?a abundance of it. ' ^While the men weteiedteod'ffed their-horseB, thvgirls and .mothers apread-enow-white cloths >m the -shades on the slope to the opring andi the work cf unloading the baskets wee -a ..pleasure ?and ? frolic. Prc tty agirla, and awoet mothers scram bled things in eueh a -way aa to make it all in common, and there could be oe feeling 'that ?ene -was .unwelcome the dinner belonged ta everybody, end all felt that way. So mo of the, people cf the towns .raho.are -disposed to. pity the c ountry 'folks ought'to have seen these dinner;;. S ooh .nice bread from new wh?at or .good country ?ground corn, if .yon .wanted 'Ai? <Home raised hara, dhiokon, mutton, 'beef, shoat, .pickles, preserves, fruit, .cakes, cus tards, pies. Everything urns ^thore that one .could have -desired and in the greatest abundance. I don't eat much myself--nattery mach-but ?I do like to bc around on such -oceasi.io-j as these and .watch the .young?Georgia boys and girls. (These young folks can't fool me-there io iota of-courting going on yet, just as there used-to be, and I rejoiced to see it. flhe,country is safe so long as these ycang folka-do mate, and marry and settle down oe the farms in the good old way. This old settlement .ha? -beeil peculiarly blessed tn Jceeptqg out the "progres sive" ideas. Tho temper of the .peo ple wee .indicated by a eermeu from the pastor.on the folly of fashion.. I let you know- .that he handled .the ladies of fashion with .gloves off. fie was a real good, old-fashioned fellow, but he was ?pretty near -as moan sm Sam Jones wheo bo .talked about 0 woman who would prefer to ?follow the fashion than to have sweet children. He was at ?his meanest, though, whoa be discussed women who would turo tbeir children over to servaut* and hazily knew their mother's toueh. The old fellow worked on the feelings of his congregation about the growing disposition of "progressive" women to ?birk motherhood, till J actually be lieve that if an agent had come along to soil a chicken incubator he would bave been mobbed. All the time thia good o)d man was preaching several babies made their presence ia the con gregation known, 'some by crowing, *otue by crying aud some by nibbling ?? a cold biscuit and scattering moro crumbs on the floor than they put in their mouths, but not a soul seemed disturbed and, not a? word of tho Preaoher was lost because of their Presence, lt may npt be just the Proper thing to oarry thoao babes to Web, but it is botter than to loave them at home to nibblo at a bottle and tty till the mother's return. People wonder why it is that church attend ance ia falling off. The old preaoher asserted that mothers with babies wera not wanted at .most of the churches, and so the mother became estranged by remaining away and oar ing for the babe-and hero-he alapped his hands cud bawled that the moth ers were right. O think they are God bleas such old-time churches and bless snob old-time people. As I ait sod looked over the ooogregation 1 involuntarily counted the babies. They were a prolific people, and I counted three sets of ow in s in one congregation. Even two did not worry thc mother and the young father seemed to be j ?'st as. proud again from having two aa he wortld assist the young mother io their care. As 1 watched One after another of these babies nestle their sweet faces down in th? folds of the mother* e dress end fall to sleep, i oould but reflect upon the beauty of the thing. All the frescoed wells end glittering chandel iers end cushioned seats and oarpcted .aisles pale in elegance with ouch e eoeoe. A- pretty babe asleep on the breast at an old-fashioned meeting house is the sweetest thing this side of heaven, a rebuke to fashion and a proaieefor thc future ?that oan never be expected from ohildrer .aised np by servants and almost strangers to the mothers who follow the fashions. As I locked -upon these babies and these ?others and thought upon the contrast between their ways and the ways of ^fashion," >I waa fully con vinced as to why young people used to bc more disposed to marry than they are new and why divorces were so un common thea. Children raised in the arms of good mothers have the promise of being a ; blessing beyond measure. Of course you must go home with these people who live around these good old churches. Some live in shady nook? back in the woods p,od drink from the springs. Some live in better houses on the big roads. Seme nave homes of abundance in the volleys by the streams and some in stately houses on the hills. At the humblest of hose homes you will find a hospitality, a virtue and a sweetness in women that ic scarcely matched and never surpassed. Yon will receive a j welcome peculiar to Georgia country folk, I think, end will feel at once at home. And these are old-fogy, people, and old-time ways. None suoh as these would ever desire tho-State to famish carriages for children to ride to school, and if the truth wasdeoown, they would be more than glad to eeo the public school system of. the conn try districts entirely abolished.aud a return to thc old field schcol -system and to the stern old teaohers as we had. .Brown has realized forty-eight dol lar s and seventy-five cents from black berries this season and there is 00 doing anything with him. SAUGE PLUNKETT.' Cores Contagions Bleed Poison. Tai AI. TREATMENT FI&BE.-It IS especially the deep seated, obstinate oases that B. TS. B, Cures. Ic matters not if the doctors or patent medicines have failed to cure, B. B. B. (((Botanic ?Blood Balm) always promptly .roaches -tho poison and roots out and draina it from the system, heals every sere or pimple, stops hair from falling -ont, and.cures the disease so the Symptoms can uever return. B. S. B. cured K.' B. Jones, Atlan ta, Ga., of contagious blood poison.; .bsd copper colored eruptions all over the body., excruciating aohea and *>?ins { du bones and joints, falling of tho hair, sore throat. His troubles resisted thc treatment of the most noted doctors, yet he waa completely eurr.i by ten bottles of Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. JB."; Hoher t Ward. Maxey, Ga., suf fered from socbudary and tertiary blood poison, face and shoulders a .mass of corruption and. sores ; began to*eat into the skull bones; eleven bot tles of B. B. B. completely oured him. If you have eotema, cancer, scrofula, ridings, boils, ule ere, then B. B. B. will make a perfect ?ure. Trial treatment free by writing Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell street, Atlanta, Ga. Describe your trouble and we will include free personal med ical advice. Over 3,000 cures by B. B. B. Orr-Gray & CoM Wilhite & Wilhitc, and Evans Pharmacy* - In tliS county court house at Clarke ville, Tenn., Friday four ai tor- j neya ongagefvin a desperato shooting affray, hit only three of the four are wounded and none of the wounds are uongerouB. Keep your vital organs in good con dition if you would -have health through the malarial seasou. Prickly Ash Bitters cleanses and strengthens the stomach, liver and - boweh and helps the system to resist disease germs, livens Pharmacy. ? - Tho massed navies of tho world would include 360 battleships, 471 cruisers. 1,255 gunboats and over 1,600 torpedo boats. Deadly Days for Mules. By a stroke of the pen declaring live stock coutraband of war this gov ernment could have added, at a mod erate estimate, a year to the war in -South Africa. American horses and mules have mounted and remounted the British cavalry, supplied aad re* I supplied the muscle to move tho artil lery and furuished and refurnished .pack trains. Texas has been drained of mules, and Kansas, Wyoming, Mis souri and other stock-raising States cf the West have been so nearly depleted that the $40 animals of 1899 bring to day $90. More than half as many mules and horses as men have gone to ? the. English army. One hundred and one thousand have been shipped 'from - this country alone. And still a trans port a week with 1,000 cr more Luaus leaves New Orleans. This is by far tho largest exporta . tion of live stook for military purpos es thc world has ever known. Along ! with the purchases of live stock, mil? ! liens of dollars have been spent for I fodder and lumberofor equipping large I stockyards, having an army of labor ers, veterinarians, carpenters and ma chinists, and maintaining an official staff here. General Samuel Pearson, of th< Boer army, has been in this country since November last working diligent' ly to put an end to this mule supply His suit ia the Federal Court at Nov Orleans to stop the shipments, Judg< Parlange decided, was not a mattel the Court could pass upon; ifc*waa foi the Cabinet to decide. General Pear son was unsuccessful in -his efforts a Washington. But he is still at work and is about to reopen the case at Ne^ Orleans on new grounds. Two months before the hostilitio began England had officers in Austric Portugal, Canada and the Unite States purchasing animals. All thea stations were opened that no dela; should be suffered, but the cost of th< stock being from 50 to ?100 per uenf higher in the other countries and th quality much inferior, they were soo abandoned and entire reliance place? upon the United States. The first shipment sailed from jus above New Orleans October 10, 1891 two days before war was deolared The Pr&n carried out that day 67 mules-a small load. Subsequec shipments all ran higher, the City o Manchester, which sailed Novemb< 21, carrying the largest cargo of etoo that ever sailed-2,080 mules an horses. Mules formed by far ti larger part of all shipments. Regular cattle shina could not I secured. But the pri?es offered wo Bttffioieut to make the owners of o nur ber of cotton carriers then awaiti i cargoes, turn them into transport The animals are packed closely aide I side. There is standing room onl, A loss of 10 per oent. on some trips i the summer is considered small. Tho: is a veterinary surgeon aboard eal boat, and from 75 to 100 muleteer j The latter, after feeding and waterii the stook each day, have to jgive hand in dosing the eiok, binding tl bruised sufferers from the ship's roi ing, end slinging up those too weak Btaud longer. There is another task-that of hole ing over the dead. The transpoi seem to be known among, and spott by, tbe great fishes. .Porpoises, sh ar and the like follow them for days, f they are sure of at least three goc meals of mule every day. The swiftest vessels of the fie make the distance to Cape Town in days. '?By this time many of the po creatures, from standing still so lon without room to turn around, are t stiff to move and have to be lifted o of the siails. They soon recover those not too far gone-and when th .realize that they are again on tei firma they jump and buck with joy 1 yond control. But it is simply givi them another tasto of life before I ?laughter; for fever, insects and b ilets make short wonk of them. .Occasionally storms are -anoount ed that toss the ships about so tl saany of the beasts are maimed a ?rippled beyond recovery or killed o right. The Corinthia eaoounterec gale that blew her upon a reef off Hi ti io January, 1900. After ?vc d? work ia attempting to float her s was girr n up. Blore tuan 1,090 mu! were tacen up on deck, and after th noses had been pointed toward 2? so that they might see and seent they wore lowered overboard. F< hundred swam tho distance. T others were either unequal to the fort after being penned up so long, spent their strength in vain efforts get aboard the ship and the tug bo; about her. Of late the percentage of loss ame the animals has been growing less, first any mule from 13 to 14 hai high or horse from 14 v> 16, sound limb and in geed con?iiio?, after th days' last to recover from the rai In journey to New Orleans, was loa< for Cape Town. Now only an anil with a tried constitution is sont. Kansas City, St. Louis, Dallas, Ho ton, corrals for collection aro mi tained. * To those recruiting stati candidates are brought^ Any. t pass aro retained until the num has grown largo enough to warrant chartering of a train. Then they shipped to New Orleans, ?here sta bles that will accommodate nearly ii.OOO are operated. Here they are assorted and gotten into condition for shipment. The first' assortment is tho sick and bruised from the well. The former are sent to the hospital. They are exorcised daily and fed up for the.journey. Baoh animal is vac cinated. Then they are assorted for fitness for the various services. Each is numbered on the hoof and marked with a broad arrow if for the heavy artillery, a email arrow for the light and a double cress for the oavalry. Those simply numbered go into the pack trains or are assigned to other service. With the muleteers the qualifica tions have grown less rigid. At first, at tho offer of free transportation, the British ouluers u??iu pick their men. All the discharged Spanish war sol diers were chosen. But particular care w?s takes that they should not get near a Boer recruiting station. Fi nally when the South African enthu siasm began to wane, the price had to j be raised; return transportation was added, later return transportation and $15. But New Orleans was drained. Now hoboes and tramps are enlisted from any old place. They get free transportation on the tops of the stock trains from as far away as Chicago, and the Britishers are soratohing harder for them than they are for mules.__ :-An active crusade against the wearing of ladies' corsets is being car ried on at Buda-tPesth. The Hunga rian minister for publie instruction has issued an energetio order against their use, forbidding all girt pupils at tending public and private day sohools in Hungary from wearing them. Herr von WlassicB declares in his ordor that th? corset prevents the fall devel opment of the bodily organs and stunts the grrwth. He desires a uniform blouse to be adopted in its stead. -. The population'of Idaho has in creased 82 per cot, since 1890, that of Montana -70 per cent. North Dako ta 67. Wyoming 46 and Washington 45. Nevada is the only state which shows an actual decrease in population iinoo 1890. - John Silence married Mary Peace in a KausaB town the other day. ? Minister's Geed Werk. "I had a severe attack of bilious eolio, got a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, took ?wo doses and was entirely cured," says Rev. A. A. Power, of 'Emporia, Kan. "My neighbor aoross the street was sick for over a weak, had two or three bottles of medicine-from the doctor. He used them for three or four days without relief, then called in ant. tuer doctor who treated him for some days and gave him no relief, so discharged him. I went over to see him the nest morning. Ho said his bowels were in a terrible fix, tbntthoy had been running off so long that it waa almost bloody flux. I asked him if he had tried Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and he said 'No.' I went home and brought him my bottle and gave him one dose; told him to take another dose in fif teen or twenty minutes ?if he did not find relief, but he took no more and was entirely cured." .For sale by Orr-Gray db Co. DUE WEST FER OFFERS A. B., B. S., Normal, Muslo, ? der experienced.tesonera, and tba beet mo an ideal Gollago oommnntty. The purest restraint?. The last year waa most BU coe occupied. Applications should be made e June ly/iooi-oct l D. S. VANDIVER. VANDIVI MERCI HAVE BIG- LINES OF Sample Shoes* That are going at - a great sacrifice-' Goods are new and firat-clars in every gains. Hundreds of people have a prices, and saved big money by doing i FLOUR, CORR MEAL? SUGAB AND TOBACC4 You will always lind what you want a< to please our trade. We are sure no c than we can. Won't you give us a loo convince you that it is to your interest Give us a trial. D. , J I DIVER. j. J. ^ Vandiver Br If ysa want a Fine, Medium o; Bu; We can sell it to you and save you mo: Fancy Young Mena Buggies to be foui We have a large stock of "BIRD; Wai At lowest price?. a?* We sell the PLANO MOW] see thens. 'Your trade appreciated. VANDIVER B LYON'S French Pi Strictly vegetable, perfectly , DESIRED RESULTS. Grcal ft?llVlftH Sowaroof <*vmter?cltft ami imluulon wtliMVT ton with fac-Mmilc Kignaturo on sld Bead for Circular to WILLIAMS MKU. CO.. Solo Ag For 8 ni*? hy Sva'ua jp lu ! Rivals Klondike. - ATLANTA. Joly 27.-Thore aro ma terial indications in existence that a mining company, composed in the ma jority of Atlanta men, has struok a vein of gold-bearing soil, rivaling in richness and parity the best that California showed in the days of '49 or the Klondike rc7ealed in later days. Thia modern El Dorado ia located in the State of Georgia, ia Wilkes Coun ty, and the Atlanta owners of the property are I. H. Oppenheim, Mon roe Biokhart and A. Bluthenthal. These gentlemen, with William D. ! Storey, a mine prospector and W. H. Flukor, of McDuffie County, consti tute what is termed the Columbia Mining Company, by whioh is owned \ the land upon whioh tho lead of gold is discovered. From a singlo ton of earth taken from thiR newly discovered mine, whioh is known as the Latimer mine, gold to the amount of ? 12,040 was re cently gotten. This, it is claimed by owners of the mine, is the richest yield ever known to be taken from a single ton of earth, the nearest approaeh to it being the celebrated Comstock mine of Colorado, which assayed $10,000 to a ton of the gold-bearing soil. The correctness of these figures is attested by the affidavits of thoae by whom the figures were obtained. There are in sight so far in the vein just unearthed, whioh oan be panned out into pure gold for a mere nominal cost, about ll tona of earth. When the gold ia taken from the ore it will approximate very close to $300, 000 ia value. This is but the first step io the work of unearthing the fall deposit. The miner's wealth, of coarse, is but a conjecture, but from early ovid ?noos it is not improbable that il may be the beginning of a flood of treasure from the bosoci of Georgia, rivaling in extent and quality some of the gifts the west has made to the enriohmentof the world's treasury. Bicycle Versus a Cow. An Irish farmer went into an iron monger's ahop to buy a scythe. After serving him the shopmao asked him if he would buy a bioyele. "What is that?" queried the Irish-, man. "It's a maehioe to ride about the town on." "And, abure what might the price of it be?" "Fifteen pounds." "I'd rather see fifteen pounds in a cow." "But what a fool you would look ?riding round the town on the baok of a cowl** "Share, now," replied the Irishman, "act half sttoh a fool as I'd look try ing to milk a bicyole."-Tit-Bfa. The laws cf health require that the bowelB move once each day and ono of the penalties for violating this law is .piles. Keep your bowels regular by taking a dose of Chamberlain s Stom ach and Liver Tablets when necessary and you will never have that severe punishment inflicted upon you. Pri?e, 2b oents. For sale by Orr-Gray & Co. HALE COLLEGE. Ixpresalon, Art and business courses un- ' ral, social and religions environment, In tubular well water. Home comforts and saful, every room in the building being arly for next term. Terms low. JAMES BOYCE, Pr?sident. ?ne West, 8. C. E. P. VANDIVER SR BROS-, HANTS, Pants and Hats way down below their value These respect, and you will find them big bar-. 1 ready taken advantage of these low so. On GROCERIES, such as r, HAY, BACON, t, COFFEE, J. t the right price. We work and study me can protect your interests better >k J If you will we think we can soon as well as ours to trade at our Store. VANDIVER 3R08. JAJOR. E. P. VANDIVER. os. & Major. r Cheap ney. We have the nobbiest Hue of ad, and want to show them to you. SELL'S and "WHITE HICKORY' jons ER and BINDER, >iud want you to ROTHERS & MAJOR. iriodical Drops n harmless', sure to accomplish ?cst known female remedy. %4 Tho Kcmilnc is put up only In paste-board liar u of tho bott!?, thus: ^->? <C^7i^-^?->?^ outs, Cloveland.OUlo. ,^3??2=-?S22> armaey, AndorNon. S. O. With Proof to convict the man who said we were GIVING AWAY PIANOS AND ORGANS. WE are Belling so LOW and ou such EA8Y terms that there was some reason ia the report. But we must insist that n is, to a certain, extend, a mistake. Next time you come to town drop in and shake hands with us. You know we handle SEWING MACHINES also. THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. WE WANT YOUR WIFE To see the pretty new arrivals in our China Ware Department. CAN WE Not sell her a new supplt for Spring ? * Our} prices ! are very low. At least HAVE HER Come in. She will enjoy looking at the 'pretty and novel things for the year 190*4 A Well Furnished Sonne Ia not necessaiily 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. Ou ir best witness is the Goods them* selves. Yours truly, G. P. TOLLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, 8. C. Now is the Time to Buy You a . . . New Cooking Stove WE can give them to you at'any price, and any kind that you wanto. We have a good No. 7 Stove with 27 pieces of ware for 87.75. We have s 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 wouia not have anything else. And just look at the price-they cost almost noth ing-only 01.75 up to $6.00. We want to call yo?r atteni ion 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 ?u want you to come and look and let us price you 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 TOYS vou e?er saw We want you to come round aud bring the children and let them see a grand sight in Toys. And remember that all of these Gooda must be sold at some price be tween now and the 25th day of December. Come now while you can get good selection of everything. Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE. 9 ? 1.2 Stu g Sa o*-gd 0 B td O < w G) > < _ > 0 td ? M M ft 0 H M ? H O o a 3 OJ H ? o g BJ H ? > > td o o ?1 cs a ?3 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 8tami any kind of weather. Have just received Two Curs of fine FEED OA.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 \n much better. Yours respectfully,