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BILL ARP'S S&ys J&?JSraley Was a :Z8 ? Atlanta Vc The publie grief hes assayed. - The shook ?hat made tho-nation tremble hail passed ?way. Editors and preach er^ have had their say and the wheels ot {government still roll on in* their es tablished way. Not for a day was there, any interruption to commerce or agriculture. Party and..partisans soft ened down.and paid regard-to the ti mo-honored' maxim, "De martimus nil nisbonunV - say nothing ? but good of*the dead.' Even the yellow jour nals stopped their, cartoons and gave their readers a rest. But one extreme always* follows another and so idolatry began as soon as tho president was as sassinated. He would have been sainted if sainting was revived. Now that he is dead he is everybody's president. 'But time is a good level er, .and history is beginn.ug to bo made. Mr. McKinley was no demigod nor? vf il I-ho be written down ss a great statesman. He was a Christian gen tleman-a beater man than his party but was carried along with it into an unjust war that will not ?bear, the scrutiny of time. He had to fall into line with the greed of commerce, and the consequence ia thoro are thousands of widows and mothers silently mourn ing for husbands and BOOB killed in battle or died in hospitals, in a foreign land. There is no lamentation over them. But as - Governor 'Oates said, what aro we going to do about it; nothing? Some preachers say it is the will of God and the way to spread the gospel. I don't believe it, and have not much regard for the preaeher who does.' tit tskeB more faith than I have got to seo the hand of God in any war for do minion or th*) acquisition of territory . For more than a hundred years Ireland has been held io vassalage against her will. So were the American colonies held until our fathers rebelled.' Na poleon coveted the earth and our gov ernment coveted Cuba and found a casus belli in apretenoe of feeding her starving p?ople, but never fed them. Then our oommeroial greed crossed the ocean to the Philippines and bought them for a song with ten mil lion negroes thrown in. . England coveted South Africa and has already spent.millions of money and rivers of blood in an effort to subdue a f ree.poo ple and get possession of their gold mine ! I don't believe that any of this IB (Hod's will. Greece and Rome and Carthage and Napoleon' all came to grief. ?Offenses must needs come,.but .woe unto those by whom they como ? don't believe that any war of ag gression has the ?favor of God, bat .sooner or later the aggressor will reap what he has sown. John; Brown was backed ?by Henry Ward Beecher and otha/ preachers who thought they saw .the will of God in an uprising sf tho. slaves agsinat their masters? no mat ter if lit resulted in murder abd arson and other outrages too horrible to mention. He was much au anarchist as Czolgosz, and his infamous scheme a thousand times more horrible; but last .year they removed his bones to Connecticut and reinterred them with honors and a monument. No, I am still the esme old rebel- iecon?truct ad- nir>??nen;t?!!tf ?-d Xis incredulous of any real or lost! eg harmony between tho North and the South.aa long as ?he pension grab goes on and gets, bigger every year and We have to pay a third of it for being conquered. If \ peace and love and ?harmony prevails why Meed us forever? Why take our hard earnings to support tho children and grandchildren -of union soldiers, one third of whom were Hessians and hire lings who were fighting for $10 a month and rations, wi th no thought of pa triotism? From that imported class, no doubt, sprang these anarchists who breed diseora and discontent among eur people. Czolgosz was no foreign er. He was born in Detroit, went to school there^ and his elder brother was a soldier in tho union army and be is just as much an American citizen as 54 por cont of the population of New York city-nativo horn but of foreign Tt?r?nt5- Thc SCcd of anarchy ??? sown long ago, s*?d iris too late to drive it out by legislation. The as , sassinspfail the presidents were all native-born American citizens, in deed, it is not surprising-that'among 75,000,COO of people there are to be found few men of auch abnormal mind as io glory io killing a president. As Roosevelt said,a president Dust take his chances. "Uueosy lies tho head that wears a crown." Why that wretoh should wish to kill such akind h?ariett stsd ussel?su mon as Mr. Mc Kinley p?sseth comprehension. If ho was jealous of power or great wealth, .fhy didn't he puisne Morgan or Bookefoller or 'Carnegie? Oh, tho pity of it! An unselfish, great-heart ed , Christian gentleman. No wonder , the women are helping to build the Atlanta rosaufcjent, for Mr. MoKinloy I wa3 a model husband, true to hts mar LETTER ii Good and True Citi ri, - nietitu?on. riego vows and ever thoughtful of his loving wife. Even in apprehension of his fate he carried $100,000 of life insurance, .and it was all for her-yee, all for her whom he had loved betterothan fame or wealth or power. And now comes President Roosevelt the first president from Georgia stock. ? like thc start Le bas made, and i be lieve be will be much the president as was Andrew Jaokson. If wo had a United States bank he wonld dose it and remove the deposits. Yes, I know the stosk from away back. When I was a Behool-boy ? visited Roswell, where the Kings and Danwoodys and Bulloehs and Pratts and Hands all lived in elegant seclusion. Dan El liott was one of my companions-a mischievous, blaokroyed youth of 16; I went to school with him. He was a half-brother toour president's mother. Yes, I know the stock and maybe I oaniget some little office with good pay and a little work-something like a sinecure or a sine que ?on-some thing that will snit my deolining years and let me down easy. I think I would like that, and the president ought to give it to ; me because I went to school with bis half-uncle Dan or bis unele half Baa. That's reason enough. But my time is up, for my wife says she is going to take an evening sap and I must look after the two little granddaughters, Jessie's ohildren. There is a brand new little boy there now, and the little girls are staying with us till their little brother gets acquainted. Before long I will have to brash up my. old baby songs again and sing that boy to sleep. They keep on working me as long ab I last. When I die I reckon the women will build a monumcrt to me and say on it:' "He WSB a faithful husband and fath er. He nursed the children and grandchildren as long as ho lasted." BILL ARP. Taught Wu to Dance. NEW YORK, Oct 1.-Now York is today talking of a Georgia girl, Miss Clarice Bark s dale, of Augusta. MisB Barksdale was brought into prominenoe here by the confession whioh Mr: Wn Ting Fang, the Chi nese minister to the United States, has just * made to Mrs.- Stuveysant Fish. Mrs. IF??h, delighted with the grane with whioh tho Chinese minister par ticipated in tho recent Newport cotil lion, bogged bim to tell her where he learned to waits. Wu yesterday finally said that he was taught by the handsomest woman in America, Miss Clarice Barksdale, of 'Augusta. . Miss Barksdale is a tall, queenly girl, with magnificent brown eyes, chestnut hair and highly colored com plexion, and is a great sooiau favorite in Augusta, Warm Springs, Montgom ery,. Aiken, Charleston and Washing ton, D. C. -She is also well known in Atlanta, where she has visited frequently and "herc she .?>-- x?isiivos. Ithonmatism-Catarrh in the Blood. AT LAST ? 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Druggists $1, Trial treat ment free by addressing Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell street, Atlan ta, Ga, Desoribo your trouble and freo medical advice given. Blood Balm thoroughly tested for 30 years: over 3,000^voluntary testimonials of cures by B. B. B. Orr-Gray & Co., Wilbite & Wilhito, and Evans Phar tcy. -- At. a reoent conference of. Bap tist missionaries at Chautauqua, Miss Forree, who represents the Industrial School xor Indians at Carlisle, Penn., oaid that among the noticeable *?aits of character found in the Indian pu pils were honor, obedience and gen erosity. ^ . ^ . To Core A Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund tho money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's sig nature is on each box. 25c. Thc Bybridiung 0f Colton. To tho Editor of the NOWB and Cou rier: The hybridising of cotton is cer- i tainly a fascinating study. Along i this Hoe I have no book-lore to guide i me; am weeding my own row, and < should 1 achieve success in this limit- i less field of labor it will be without i aid. I Gee, however, that with pa*i- 1 once and perseverance achievements < bordering on the wonderful may bo i dope. Florists tell us that the chrysanthe mum in the original state was insigni- . cant indeed, but under careful and , intelligent treatment it has become a . queenly flower. . , Nurserymen tell us that whee the peach first came from Chios and Per sia it was a poor fruit. No* it ranks high for both its edibility and com mercial qualities. Constant sod care ful selecting and hybridizing are the causes of the wonderful improvement. In tho kitehen garden are seen to day ?ittuy transformations. For in stance, tomatoes once were worthless aud in that state were called "love apples," but aro now highly prized, grow to a large size, play a prominent role in commerce, and alf"o in the do mestic economy of almost every home in this country. The station of FTinnesota for several years has been devoting a great deal of energy in improving the wheat seed and this season g?ew wheat with enormous heads, and produced the phenomenal yeild of 60 bushels per aore. As other plants have been improved so also can cotton bo improved. It responds more readily to onr soil, cli mate and labor than any plant we have. New varieties are coming for ward almost every year, but all of them that have oome under my care are iaoking in several silent points weed too small or poor land, too early maturing for best results, too liable to rust and too much shredding of fruit. By careful selecting and hybridizing theso faults can be wholly eliminated. I will give a case in point which has come under my own observation this year. King's cotton is tho earli est and smallest cotton in existence. Standard Egyptian is one of tho larg est varieties. Mr. H. H. Wentworth, who lives ou tho Bio Grande, Texas, undertook to cross these two varieties about seven years ago. These seed have been planted evjry year and, owing to the greatest extremes of tbe two kinds, it takes more than the usual time to fix a uniform variety. I am growing some of this cotton this year and, as above stated, is not yet uniform; still it shows many perfeot stalks of cotton-large and symmetri cal, heavily frnited, large open bolls, long lint, fine fibre and absolutely freo from rust or blight. It is well known here that King's ootton will rust like a ten-penny nail in a vinegar barrel, while Egyptian will not rust under any kinds of Bea tons or treatment. So I am led to be lieve that the objectionable features of .both varieties oan be bred out and the good qualities of both blended and firmly established. Now, as it is possible to blend tho two greatest ex tremes of .cotton, why not perfeot varieties not so far apart-for in stance, sea island and a large boll black seed variety? ?t can be done, and I am now working on that line, with every care possible, and in a few years J hope to give to the world a faultless long staple, blaok seed oot ton, surpassed only by the South Caro lina sea island cotton. When a type pf C.nttnn Htr? til-i ?Z ?Zvd wy urtJBIU will no longer be a dream, but a fact; not only a fact but a blessing to the whole low country of South Carolina.' And as sure as my life is spared just that sure will this variety o? cotton be forthcoming. The world is. making wonderful strides and it really seems there is no ouch word as impossible now. A. W. BRABIIAII. ? Kearse, Bamberg County , Sept. 24. A Typical South African Store. O. B. Larson, of Bay Villa, Sundays Biver, Cape Colony, conduots a store typical of South Africa, at which can be purchased anything from the pro verbial "needle to an anchor." This store is situated in a valley nine"miles from the nearest railway station and about twenty-five miles from the near est town. Mr. Larson says: "I am favored with the custom of farmers within a radius of thirty miles, to _ sassy vf wliC-? I have supplied Cham berlain's remedies.- All testify to their value in a household where a doctor's advice is almost out of the question. Within one mile of my store the population is perhaps sixty. Of theso, within the paBt twelve months, no less than fourteen have been absolutely oared by Chamber lain's Cough Remedy. This must sorely be a reoord." For sale by Orr Gray &Co. - Mrs. Nosy-"I think it's the most ridiculous thing to call that man in th?? bank a 'toiler.' " Mrs, Chumm -"Why?" Mrs. Noozy-"Because they simply won't tell at all. I asked one day how much my husband had on deposit there, and he just laughed.": YOB Know What Ton Are Taking When you takeOrove's Tasteless Chill Tonic because the form?la is. plainly printed on every bottle showing that it is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay. 50o. Kegs That Blow Up. Anton Golman, a veteran dynamite man, is perhaps one of the oldest of till the old-timers and hasbeou looking after high explosives for the past 25 ar 30 years. He has been on most of the big jobs in Massachusetts and in many parts of New England and has bad many hairbreadth escapes and ex oiting adventures. Mr. Colman is ?bout 70 years old, and was born in Maine. "Dynamite and the blasting powdor which wo have to-day, is muoh differ cot from what it used tobe in the days when 1 first started in the business," said Mr. Colman, "and I am not so well posted on everything as I might like to bo, but there are nome things about handling ponder thal when a man learns thurn once, he never for gets as long as he lives, and no mat ter how much tho style changes, it is all the same; they will still be careful scd watch their business mighty dose. Of course, of all the explosives, nitro glycerine is the most dangerous .nd the hardest to get along with. It has as many moods and is as hard to man age sometimes as the spoiled child or a woman who wants her own way. "I never got over my great respect for this explosive, and evoo to day I treat it with every deferenco, and vigil be as gentle and peaceful in its pres ence as any tyro. A man oan never get any experience in handling nitro glycerine. The more he handles it the less liable he is to know about it. For he realises more and more bow uncer tain it is. "Why, even the kegs that nitro glycerine comes io are white elepbaott on a man s hand, for they are mighty hard to get rid of, I tell you Thc wood has been so thoroughly satura ted with tho sniff that it cannot bc burned and oaunot be broken up, auc they can't be left lying around loose for tomeoue is sure to come aloug wh( does DO i know anything about then and band nomethiug into them and o? gees the roof. "1 remember a fellow out in itu western pan of thc S m te, several year ago, who came ulong with u hauime in hin tiaud. [lc sut d<?wu on an euip ty nitroglyc?rine keg und pla? full: amused himself by tapping th? ul*ve with his hammer I paw him und rai toa place of safety and tried my beti to warn him by shouting, hut it wa no use; the keg hu illy blew up with ioud report and tho poor fellow liiigei ed io tho hospital two weeks before bc died. j ''I am even more afraid of these empty nitroglycerine kegs than I am 4 of the explosive itsolf or of any other kind of powder of dynamite. You oan always tell uh.?. to be careful when J the real stuff is around, but if someone happens to leave an empty keg or barrel in the way you might not know it until you had dropped a orowbar or sledgehammer into it or tipped it over and then, after you found it out, you would beiu no condition to tell anyone of your discovery. "The only way to get rid of theso empty kegs or barrels is to take them out into an open field and fire a pistol at them from a safe distance, and even that is not an undertaking that I would advise a person teary, for I remember the case of a fellow who went out with three kegs, and instead of placing them Bide by sido and letting one shot do the business.. I guess hs was anxious to see them blow up one at a time, for he placed the first keg and left the other two on the wagon. "Ho fired his gun and the bullet did what was expeoled of it; but the kog exploded with such terrific force that the man was horrified when the con cussion caused the two remaining kegs on his wagon to follow suit immediate ly, killing his horses, wreokiog the wa goo completely, while he himself re ceived a splinter in the face that min ed tho eight of one eye. After that if he ever went out, I am sure he was more oareful. "I have known of a fellow who lost his foot by the explosion of a drop of tbe terrible stuff, and another man who lost his hand by hitting a board on which a can of nitro had rested and a drop or two of the liquid oozed out It is mighty bad stuff, and I am afraid of it, and if I live to be 200, I will be more afraid of it than ever." - Au unusual freak of nature has reoeutly taken plaoe with a oat at the home of Phil.'ipB Motts, near Salts burg, Pa A oat gave birth to a number of kittcus, as the Motts family desired no more of the feline family, thc kit teus weru drowned. The mother start ed out iu search of her offspring aud uoi finding them returned with three nearly huif grown rats, and they are beiug oared fur by the mother oat sim ilarly lo her kilteuN. It is an uuua ual u u i o u of auiuial life, aud persons who have seeu thu ourious freak and the oare of the mother oat in feeding aud pr?) tee ting the youugJ*rats are as I tarnished ~i j aaiat tho Qo^amv ^ y*MM* g ? _ ^^^sl removes all dirt and stains from | I ? S Tt^jP g woodwork and makes it look like | Get in and Mide in One oj* our Vehicles. Ton will derive that Buueme sense of satisfaction which only the perfectly built and finished Carriage can give. Ton will remark the greaten eas? of running and the careful finish of every detail. OUR BUGGY AT $50.00 Cs the perfection of carriage comfort. . vi : m Come to seo me. JOS. J. FBETWELL. ASTHMA CURE FREE. Asthmalene Brings Instant Relie! and Permanent Cure in All Cases ! tant absolutely Free on receipt of Postal-Write your Name and Address Plaint y IT-' ' ' ' ? There is nothing like Asthmalono. It tf?BJgj^pMP?' fl brings instant relief, even in th: worst w?!?"*S!T|TS"r I cases. It cures when all oise fails. 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They assume all liabilities and own all accounts. Their Specialty will be " RELIABILITY." They solicit your patronage. Respectfully, ?ll.??? <& Cd. {J?n nn Dowan! 9UU.UU UGH am Witta Proof to convict the man who said wc were GIVING AWAIT , PIANOS AND ORGANS, WE are selling 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 mistake. Next time you come to town drop in and shake hands with us. You know we handle SEWING MACHINES also. TEE C. A. HEED MUSIC HOUSE. mmmi A Well furnished Home, Ta not n*??p??a?!?y *??p?"J9?ve?"f iur?i?u?d one, as at TOLLY'S hand some, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay Not that we deal in knocked-together rnade-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 tiuly G\ F. TOLLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St- Anderson, S. C. 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