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BILL ARPS LETTER. Bartow Philosopher Talks.jA.bout Mankind Generally. AilantaVonsttoution. How naturally mankind adapt them- Christopher Columbus, selves to those of their kind, their But about old friends. Every vet age, f^ex and mental co&diiiou. Birds eran has them and it gives pleasure to of tho same feather will flock togeih- see them honored. The very prospect er, add so these little grandchildren of seeing Henry G. Turner in the gov will run away from me to frolic with ernor's chair gives me pl?asnre, for I other! little tots, and it makes me know him well and dova him. Maybe jealous. Just so the uext set from 10 I would love Colonel Estill or Pope to 12 years clan together. Then .Brown just as well if I knew them as comes the blushing school girls from well. I have great respect for them 12 to 15, who have lengthened out and am proud of their records. Ibo their dresses and ceased to pull up Ueve that either would dignify the their garters every few minutes as they. gubernatorial chair, but as Judge Un walk about, it is the same way with derwood said to me in the long ago: the boys, and when they get to be "Major let mo tell you why I would baseball experts with a college attach- like to be governor of Georgia. You mont they talk of their exploits in a will admit that knowledge is a little language that is heathen t hinee to better than faith. There are many everybody except themselves and claim good men whom I believe would make tobe the elect. And so it goes on a good governor, but I don't know it. and on until we bave passed our ma* Now I do know that I would; and turity, and then wo veterans take our there is a difference between faith and comfort in communion with veterans knowledge. . Don't you percieve?" and pay our tribute to the good old Just so I believe that Colonel Estill times that will never return. Weare pu'Pope ' Brown would make a good tho elect. governor, but I know that Henry G. I believe it is true that nobody but Turner would and knowledge is better the old men and old women give praise than faith. "Don't you perceive?" to the old times and ?the customs of -If ho is not an incorruptible, unselfish their fathers, and so if every genera- and brainy statesman, we have none, lion of old people believe that the age Xet his name be presented and I be ef their youth was the best, ilion the Hove the verdict will be as the king times ff.vb?- have degenerated awfully said of Mordecai: "Thus shall it be since the days of the prophets. Have done unto the-nan whom the people they or have they not gotten better delight to honor." BILL ABP. instead of worse? The answer is, - J ? ? they are better in some respects and . Law?Doesn't Protect Ghosts. worse in others. Public morals - were very look's a hundred years ago. ' The latest ghost story among the Andrew Jackson was a gambler, horse- negroes was related in Judge Stir racer and duellist seventy-five years man's oourt when Johnson, colored, ago. Suoh a man could not be elected detailed in evidence how he had taken President now. Foreign missions and "Henry Williams, also colored, for a Sabbath schools were almost unknown.-ghost whioh made war upon him. The slave trade with Africa was in full About midnight Johnson went over blast in New England, and New Eng- to Henry's oabin to oall on him, when land rum was the purchase money, he found the latter out under a tree Imprisonment for debt was the law wi-h his night robe on trying to keep generally, and so was flogging in the cool. 'He took Henry for a ghost and navy. Whiskey was unknown, but ran. Henry saw that he was taken brandy and rum wore kept in almost for a ghost and followed close after every respectable household. Illiter- Jack, who picked up a heavy club and acy prevailed almost all over the South felled the supposed ghost to the except among the aristocracy. There ground. A warrant was issued for were but few books to read and fewer Johnson, charging him with striking newspapers. There were no railroads with intent to kill, but upon hearing or telegraphs or sewing machines. But tne evidence tho court thought that thc people were generally honest and as the negro was only intending to religious. There were no trusts, no strike at a ghost there could be no strikes, no million-ires, no suicides or malice in it and dismissed the case. robberies, and a murder was a rare Cincinnati Enquirer. event and done in the heat of passion. " " " No doubt but that there are a hundred | . Probably True, of these crimes committed ??W to one then according to population. Well, They met in the narrowest aisle of then, why arraigo the old people for la- the department store. They were menting that the good old times have both very 8tout and immediately traf gonj. Not long ago I heard a gifted aR wa8 blocked in both directions, and cultured minister of tho olden Their conversation, stenographically time preach a most charming and im- sported, was as follows: "Why, Mrs. pressive sermon from the text in Jere- Jone8? how d'ye do?" "How d'ye do, miah whioh reads, "Stand in the way Mr8- ^ith? Who would have thought and ask for the old paths; which is tho of 8eeiD? y?u? ' "YE8-5 1 haven't good way, and walk therein, and ye 8een vou for aSes'" "Well? wby shall find rest for your souls." One doQ,t vou como UP 80u,e -imo?" "0h? of the best tests of tho strength of a U seems as though I never go aoy sermon is your remembrance of the wbere 0Qy a-0-"6-" "Yes,-you always text. When a gifted and soholarly tbat"" "But? roall-7> 1 doa,t minister is done with it and with holy Why don,t *ou come d<>wn?" "I've hands says, "Lotus pray," what a beeD on tbe P?intof coming several solemnity fills the place, and the text time8? but lfc a-*ays seems as though lingers with yo * Tor years to oome. It something always happens to prevent does not seem like the same soripture. l? " "Wellj make ^ther effort. "The old paths," "Walk ye in the old I'm just dying to have a good, long paths," has been ringing in my ears talk *ith y?u-" "Yes; 80 am L Do ever since. come and see mo." "I will. And T?. LL . T J T? you, come up, too." "Yes, I will." I know that Lord Baoon was grow- ,tVT , . , , ,, ,lxT T ,^ ,, , , ? et/vu i x "Now,.don t forget. "No, I wont, ing old when he wrote, "Old wood to C(1Tr " ?. ,, ">, ,, , . j . / ,, . . , J "Well, good-by. "Good-by. burn, old wine to drink, old friends to ..... . , , J ij >. .v. j it A J Liars, both of them, grunted a red trust and old authors to read. And . . , , , , , n ij ?AU ?j UT ? haired man, who had been trying to Goldsmith said, *!I love everything . , A that is old." Kirri James used to ?q^^ through. ' They never expec* call for his old shoe, when he was to call on each other anoV they know ^re<j lt. -rFhiladelp.')?a Record. . There is something almost, saored Cures Contagions Blood Poison. about the old songs, suoh as "Auld . - Lang Syne," "The Old Oaken Buck- ?TaiAL TREATMENT FBEE.--It is et," "The Old Arm Chan?" and even especially the deep seated, obstinate "Old Grimes, is dead, that good old oases that B. B. B. cures. Ic matters man." My friend, Tom Sawyer, of not if the doctors or patent medicines Florida, writes that he still clings to have failed to core, B. B. B. (*3otanio his old clothes; that he has worn his Blood Balm) always promptly reaohes pants for years and years and had them the poison and roots oat and drains it half-soled in the seat and reinforced (tam tho system, heals every sore or at the knees and rehemmed at the bot- pimple, stops hair from falli jg ont, tom; that he bought a home-made ?nd cures the disease so the symptoms pair of Books twenty-seven years ago 0an never return, and is wearing them still, though he B. B. B. cured K. B. Jones, Atlan has had new feet knit to them three ts, Ga., of contagious blood poison; times and new tops twice. He says had copper colored eruptions allover that Governor Bloxham dearly loves the body, excruciating aohes and pains the bid things-old heir-looms, etc., io bonesandJoints, falling of the hair, and boasts that he basan old barrel throat. His troubles resisted tho , , , ? ' " 7, treatment of the most noted doctors, that has been in the family ever since yet he was completely cured by ten Columbus discovered America-for he bottles of 'Botanic .Blood Balm (B. B. brought it over with him full of bran- B?) Bobert Ward, Maxoy, Ga., suf dy, and it has had good liquor of some ???J !'^8T??ary/n? ftfiff Z?? . "?_ ; ?. i blood poison, face and shoulders A sort in it ever since; that his great- mMa of corruption and sores; began great grandfather put new staves in to eat into the skull bones; eleven bot it, and his greatgrandfather put new ties of B. B. B. completely cured him. heads in it, and his father put new W you have eczema, cancer, scrofula! i .. ? J itt ?J v risings, boils, ulcers, then B. B. B. hoops on it, but the sama old bung- wiLl make a perfect euro, ho!-? still remains, and whes the fluid Trial treatment free by writing is drawn the same old sound goes Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell street, . goodte-goodle-goodlo. Tom ??ys he Atlanta, Ga. Describe your trouble is going to take the bung-hole and the g?4 w? 7*?l * nlU?%f 5^pW80nB KT?" ? -, ,., . . . , ical advice. Over rf,000 cures by B. goodie to th? Atlanta exposition and B. B. Orr-Gray <& Co., Wilhite & exhibit them as tho only relios of Wilhite, and ?Evans Pharmaoy. < The Decline of Marriage. Tho Atlanta Constitution notes that the declino of marriage has at? traoted the attention of a Maryland clergyman, "who has declared Lia par pose of fading a remedy-by lottery if oo better means can be found." aa if marriage itself were aot a lottery already by all accounts. However, the reverend gentleman, whose ad dress is sot stated, is reported as ex plaining that his congregation of a thousand adults, which formerly had a record of eighteen marriages a year, baa now dropped to four, ?sd in as signing reasons for the lowered rate it was admitted that one ?f them was most likely the lack of sooial intercourse. That there aro more women than men is thc church, airi that young men go from rural places to centres offering better business opportunities also K-counts for a percentage of the ! decline, but, at any rate, it is assert ed: "Here are all thee >. young people of marriageable age, and some of moro than marriageable age. But they are all very backward when it comes to marrying," and the preacher says of the condition: "Down at tho bottom of it all lies the generally prevalent tendency to ward luxurious living. Girls arc not satisfied with the simpler style of liv ing. Instead of that they look for ward to having homes furnished ex travagantly and elegantly. And tho mon know they are unable to provide the luxuries that arc expected." The Constitution regards that as a "startling" explanation, but appears to accept it as a valid one, and itself remarks: "The demand for luxury limits the girl's ambitions to suitors out of her reach, and overlooks the men who may bo the masters ten years later. It leado to miserable strife in pursuit, and to miserable disappoint ment later on." While there is doubtless much io the clergyman's explanation j and what the Constitution says is to be oom mended to every girl who is looking out for a husband, for the reason that the young man who appears most "eligible" before marriage, because of the possession of some money for in stance, is not always the one who will have and make the most money after wards; it is to be remarked in a gen eral way that the question with most young people is not so much one of "luxurious living" as of having a living of any kind for two-or perhaps more. Most sensible young men and women, we imagine, would be willing to marry when so inclined if they oould be sure of having homes fur nished comfortably and neatly, only, j without waiting for those furnished I extravagantly and elegantly. Most of i those who hesitate about marriage ' probably cannot see even a very mod est home of their own in the near and sure prospect. The "marriageable agc" begins with a young man at about 21. What proportion of young men is there in any of our cities who are prepared to provide a house and home, and maintain a family, at that age or for ten years or fifteen later? There is much in this question, we are sure; but we need not dwell on it. The points we wish to make rather are two, which are not generally consider ed in tho discussion of tho subject. The first is that whatever decline there is in the marriago rate is con fined, so far as our observation goes, to the cities and larger towns. The young folks in the country and vil lages, wo believe, go on marrying as fast as they ever did, regardless of luxurious homes, or well content to live ir. such as they can make for themselves, until they oan get better by working for them. There are not many old maids and bachelors in the country and small municipalities. The second point is that a new fac tor has entered into our national life, which will probably go far, and fast, to oheok the recent decline of tbe marriage rate and restore it to its for mer level. It is the diffioulty of mak ing a comfortable and attractive home in the city that deters young lovers from marrying. When they oan build a pretty cottage five or ten miles out in the country, at a fifth tho cost of a poorhouse in town, and have acres of ground and fruit and flowers, etc., besides, and yet have free and rapid access to all the valuable adv cages of town life, they will marry .juick enough. . Good roads and automobiles, we are sure, will solve the problem, as it could not be solved by any other agencies whatsoever.-News and Cou rier. The Best Prescription For Halarla Chillo and Fever is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonio. It is simply iron and quinine in a taseless form No cure, No pay. Pri?e 6Qr. - A mathematician who curi ous *o know about it has figured out that the weight of the air whioh cu circles-the earth is equal to that of 581,000 cubes of copper, each 1093 yardi) square. The laws of health require that tho bowels move once each day and one of tho penalties for violating this law is piles. Keep your bowels regular by taking a dose of Chamberlain s Stom ach and Liver Tablets when nocessary and you will never havo that severo punishment inflicted upou you. Price, 25 cents. For sale by Orr-Gray Sr. ?a, Tbe Indian as a Farmer. WICHITA, KAN., Aug. 6.-The j American Indian is of that physique which makes a good farmer and many thinkers wonder why they were not sent into the fields ere this, instead of into school. While education is regarded as desirable, a statistician has figured that 99 per eent of the Indians who return home from school either do nothing or go into fa rm life. The other 1 per cent become profess ional men. Within the past few years the strides made by the red men in farm ing have been quite remarkable. More Indians are taking to the plow than ono would believe. But it is also true that 20 per cent of them, after having passed through a good training school, will return to the reservation and go on tho down ward trail again. It is quite easy to ?cinch on Indias, but another matter to make him remember and obey that which has been taught to him. One may travel through any reser vation in the West and find many Indians at work in the fields. It may seem odd to seo a blanketed buck hoeing corn or driving a binder, but such things aro quite common in New Mexico, Arizona, Dakota and Okla homa. In Oklahoma vast fields of wheat arc cultivated by fullbloods, but they are called civilised Indians for the reason that they belong to the Five Civilized Tribes. These Indians live in pleasant Homes and aro a hos pitable and industrious people. It wa.- about 1887 that the Govern ment first oame to the conclusion that manual labor was good for the red man and would exercise a greater influence toward civilization than anything else. That was the date when their first lands were allotted to them. It was then believed that the proper way to go about teaching Indians to farm was to place them on a quarter section of land and say: ''You make a living out of this or we will let you starve." In a few years they found the un tutored savage quite willing te starve, for he knew nothing of farm work and exhibited no anxiety to learn. It was only after years of patient teaching that the Indians have learned to work at all. Now, in thc Sioux nation, once a battle ground for the wildest reds th it over swung over broncho, one may find fine fields of wheat and corn, cultivated hy thc onco neted warriors. In the United States to-day there are 39,000 Indians, who carn their own living by farm work. Last year they sold farm products for a com bined sum of $1,408,865, over aud above the expenses of living. This was nearly $40 per capita, which is very good, considering the fact that 30 per cent of them had never before farmed an acre of land. Some of thc Indian farmers never did a day's work in all their life before. While one canuob say too much good concerning his farming ability, his moral character is in keeping with other Indians. Sometimes, when he he can get liquor, he will remain drunk for weeks. Ile wears a blanket in the winter and attends the dog feast and pony smokes. So, while thc Government has tamed him ic one way, they have failed in another. Thc steps of thc red man aro slow and halting.- IV. R. Draper, in St. Louis Republic. Small Men Live Longest. ?One of tho most interesting and trustworthy statements in respect to old agc is tho report on the habits of centenarians, made some years ago by a commission appointed by the British Medical Association. It seems that most of these old people wore small or medium of stature and a spare habit of body; the voice was rather feeble; most of them had lost their teeth, but nearly all enjoyed good digestion, one old man of 98, a clergyman, placed a hand on tho organ in question and say ing that he knew what it was to have a stomach. Nearly all of them had enjoyed uninterrupted good health, and many had never known what it waB to be sick. They were all very moderate in eating, most of them using little animal food. Few indulged at all in intoxicating drinks, and those only in notable moderation. They took considerable outdoor exercise and nearly all possessed a good natured disposition. Why She Was Pensive. "You say," she murmered as she watched the moonlight on the sea, "that I am an angel." "Yes." She was silent for a long time. "Why so pensive?" he inquired sickishly. "I was wondering whether some day when the thermometer was up in the vicinity of a hundred, and thc ice man forgot us and tho cream is sour, and yeu have a hcadaehe bocausc you hive been -working hard-I was wonder ing whether you would call mo an augcl then. Don't auswer right away," she added in that cold busi ness-liko tono that women arc learning to assume. "Take your time and think it OVci."-Washington Star. Before Marriage and After. Dr. Temple, the Archbishop of Can terbury, is a notable personage about whom many good stories are related. Some years ago a young curate seek ing to be licensed, was bidden by Dr. Temple to read a few verses of the Bible, in order that his fitness for con ducting public worship might be judged. "Not loud enough," was the criti cism of tho bishop when the young man had finished. "Oh, I'm B?rry, to hear that, my lord," replied the curate; "a lady in the church yesterday told me I could be heard most plainly all over." "Ah! are you engaged?" suddenly asked Dr. Temple. "Yes, nay lord." The bishop smiled grimly and said: "Now listen tn me. > nunn mau. Whilo you are engnged don't believe every thing the lady toll? wm, but," he add ed with H deep chuck!'.;, "after you ar?* married, helive every word she says.'' - London Truth mm m mm? - . - - Mildred (?lill Mushing)- "Am t the first pirl you ever kissed, (Jor don? ' Gordon -"N<>. my love, hut you are tfie last *' Mildred- "Am I. reall>? Oh. Gordon', it makes mo so happy to think of that " - A young lady dropped into one of our stores recently, relates an ex change, and said: "It is my desire to obtaiu a pair of circular clastic ap pendage.?., <>apuhl<> of being contracted and expanded by means of oscillating I burnt>hed ht'el appliances that spar kle l'k? partiel?-* nf gold leaf set with Alask* d'Htiiouda. and which are util ized for keeping in no-dtion the habili ment > of the lower extremities whioh innate delicacy forbids meto men tion ' Th?* young man behind the counter had just time to haul out a pair of garters before he fainted. - Mrs Haymow-What ails, ye Josiah? Josiah-(painfully)-I heerd Borne one say that Bait water was a rat tling good tonio, so I drank about a quart, au' hang it, if I don't feel worser than I did before! Some time ago there was a notabi'j automobile procession in the city of Buf falo, N. Y. IL was notable for its size, and also for Uie fact that it was entirely com posed of automobile wagons (like that in the cut above), built to distribute the advertising literature of the World's Dispensary Medical Association, propri etors and manufacturers of Dr. IHerce's medicines. In many a town and village Dr. Pierce's automobile has been the' pioneer horseless vehicle. These wagons, sent to every important section ol the country, ait doing more than merely advertise Dr. Pierce's Remedies-they are pioneers of progress, heralds of the automobile age. And this is in keeping with the record made by Dr. Pierce ano his famous pre parations', which have always kept in the front on their merits. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is still the leading medicine for disorders and dis eases of the stomach and digestive and nutritive systems, for the purifying of the blood and healing of weak lungs. Women place Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription in the front of all put-up medicines specially designed for women's use. The . wide benefits this medicine has brought to women have l>een well summed up in the words "// makes weak women strong and sick wometi well." Tlie reputation of Dr. Pierce's Pleas ant Pellets as a safe and effective laxa tive for family use is international. *% It may be asserted without fear of con tradiction that no other firm OT company engaged in the vending of put-up medi cines can rank with the World's Dispen sary Medical Association, either in the opinion of the medical profession or of the intelligent public. The Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, which is connected with the "World's Dispen sary," is alone sufficient to prove this supremacy. Here is a great modern hospital, always filled with patients, where every day successful operations are performed on men and women whose diseases demand the nid of surgery. No hospital in Buffalo is better equipped, with respect to its modern appliances, br the surgical ability of its stan. Dr. R. V. Pierce, the chief consulting physician of this great institution, has associated with himself nearly a score of physicians, each man being a picked man, chosen for Iiis ability in the treatment and cure of some special form of disease. The offer tb it Dr. Pierce makes to men and wom?_n suffering with chronic diseases of a free consultation by letter^ is really without a parallel. It places without cost or charge the entire re sources of a great medical institute at the service of the sick. Such an offer is not for one moment to be confounded with those offers of " free medical advice" which are made by people who are not physicians, cannot and do not practice medicine, and are only saved from pro secution by artfully wording their adver tisements so that they give the impres sion that they are physicians without making the chum to be licensed. Those who write to Dr. Pierce, chief Consulting physician to the Invalids* Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., may do so with the assurance that they will receive not only the advice of a competent physician, but the advice of a physician whose wide experience in the treatment and cure of disease, and whose sympathy with human suffering leads hint to bike a deep, personal inter est in all those who sock his help and that of his associate staff of specialists. Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser (in paper covers), containing iooS large pages, is sent free on receipt of~2t one-cent stamps, or 31 cents for the cloth-bound volume, to pay exjx-nse of mailing only. Address Dr. R, V. Pierce, Buffalo, M. Y. ? S. M. ORR, M. D. D. ?. ?RAY. W. il. NARDIN, M. D. J. P. DUCKETT, M. D. Orr^Gray & Go. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN -. EVERYBODY will please take notice that the undersigned have bought out the Drug Firm and Business of HILL-ORR DRUG CO. They assume all liabilUits and own all accounts. . Their Specialty will be " RELIABILITY." They solicit your patronage. Respectfully, ?BB-CIBAY & CO. D. ?. V ANDI VER. E. P. VAN DIVER VANDIVER BROS., MERCHANTS, HAVE BIG LANES OF Sample Shoes? Pants and Hats That aro going at a great sacrifice-way down below their value. These Goods are new and first-class in every respect, aud you will lind them big bar gains. Hundreds of people have already taken advantage of these low prices. and saved big money by doing so. ?n GROCERIES, such as FLOUR, COHN, HAY, BACON, ME U, SUGAR, COFFEE, ANI> TOBACCO? Y--U will always fiud what you want at the right price. We work and study to please our trade. We are sure no oue eau protect your interests better than we eau. Won't you give us a look ? If you will we think we eau soon convince you that it ?B to your interest as well as ours to trade at our Store. Give us a trial. VANDIVER BROS. D. . J DIVE R. J. J. MAJOR. E. P. VANDIVER. Vandiver Bros. & Major. If you want a Fine, Medium or Cheap We can sell it to you and Bave you money. We have the nobbiest Hue of Fancy Young Men's Buggies to be found, r.nd want to show them to you. We have a large stock of "BIRDSELL'S and "WHITE HICKORY* Wagons At lowest prices. ?0^ We sell the PLANO MOWER and BINDER, and want you to cee them. Your trade appreciated. VANDIVER BROTHERS & MAJOR. Witb Proof to convict tho man who said wo wcro GIVING AWAY PIANOS AND ORGANS. WE are selliug so 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 1,1 icr a b-n 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. ' fl \\ W$ i. msm 4 lt A Well i'urcished Home Is not necessarily an expensively furnished ene, as at TOLLY'S hand tome, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay, Not that we deal in knocked-together mnde-to sj?ll sort, but becauee we are content with n reasonable profit on? really good articles of Furniture Our best witness is the GoodB them selves. Yours truly G. P. TOLLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, 6. C. LYON'S French Periodical Drops Strictly vegetable,_perfectly harmless, sure to accomplish DESIRED RESULTS. Greatest known female remedy. J?AIITIflH Beware of counterfeits amt Imitations. Tho Ronulno ls put up- ???y in paSte-board Car JMMiiiWli ton with fac-Blmllo Renature on aldo of tho bottle. thuH: __ir_*r*".rfvfe<r?-i. bond for Circular to WILLIAMS MFG. CO., Bolo Agenta, Cleveland. Ohio. ITor Sale l>y Evans Pharmacy, Anderson, C. S td ll HW H o -w o H td 0 < ?H W m > < o to ? M M M H O Q hj H Ul w W ? a a H H ? ? 4 M > Sd C 3 co . o o s fm Cs a MS 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.) Tho only Oat that will positively stand any kind of weather. Have just received Two Cars of line FEED O-VTS at lowest prices. Have j ust received Threo Cars of RICE FLOUR for fattening your hogs, and it comes much cheaper than any other feed and is much better. Yours respectfully, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO.