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PI A- Whole Week of 1 Atl&uta Vc 0, give aa a rent from the world'* flck fonesa, . . . N ' . And stroll for % day o'er the farms, Where cotton is white ?and people de light In a life that ? a free from alarms; 9 Where corn ears droop on stalks that ' stoop Flem tho weight of a bountiful yield, And where yon may know tho "man with a hc?fw And view all the charms of his field. Cotton is surely white in the field, and still a whitening, but as pretty a picture as it makes, it docs not .com pare in ito impressions of beauty to the pretty girls that one sees in trav eling along the roads of Georgia and takes a view of these girls - at work pioking the fleecy staple. To save our lives, ino and Brown - ail to under stand how any man eonld grow to be an old bachelor in- the cotton States* if they ever get a glimpse of these sweet * ' pickers. ' ' For an old man - To viow these'lasses, ' . As he passes, Makes him long to tarry, And, though he's old, If truth wei o told I think he?d-like to marry. Bataan aside, it is a most holy im pression that is made upon passers by seeing these pretty girls at-work. It means that foolishness bas not.got hold upon the homes they occupy; it means that there will be ?plenty und to spare in the way of produce for those homes, and it means that thc man will be blessed who gets ono of them for a wife,, that ?hoy already bless a father and mother and will bo a blessing to the generations of the future. God bless the sweet girls ; of the . South who have sgnso enough to understand that there is no disgrace in helping jn the light work of country life "or in doing what ever their hands finde th to do to make ( the home the place bf places, the i mother, the woman' of. women, the father the man of men, and dispensing .such a cheer,as will keep the brothers away from the towns to bless the land with a yeomanry that once loi>tcan never be. regained. The fate of this country fs in.the hands of its womanhood. The girls who remain contented in home life and engage themselves in making pickles, preserving fruit, tending the chiokens, milking the cows, learning to cook and keep house, to sew and quilt, and all the things of home life, will save the land if it is saved, and I Jtnow it will be. The signs aTgood, the pendulum is swinging hack and it will crush the silly vi ho Live placed t hc strength of woman at other plates than.the home and the duties of motherhood. The pretty girls who pick cotton now, as we see them doing, give the greatest encouragement that could be gitlb, not in ?be profit o? their work, but in the proof that there yet remains-sense, a freedom from foolishness - that saps their charms-that?, saps the virtues which make women so dear to the hearts of oben.. These cotton pickers of to-day strike us as being such an earnest of good sense that we xcan think of them iu no other light than-1 ss tbs future queens of the homes of the South, loved and lovable long af ter the silly followers of fads ah&ll have faded ia all that is charming to man,' to mope through the last years of their life steeped in r?grets and clouded with loneliness. Some of these silly fashionables will marry, , as they are marrying, but every day finds the filing of divorce proceedings and tho grant-1 i og of alimony and lawyers' f COB has began to strike the people as disgrace ful to a profession from whence baa sprung a judiciary that has never lost the confidence of the people, even when preachers are short and corrup tion rampant. In justice, to a. profes sion-', that' so hoids tho confidence of : thes people, this alimony,' together with, lawyers' fees, should bc curtail ed-it has begun to strike the people as dangerous and the suspicion ha3 begun to grow that roany of these cases are instituted f*>r ?be "ii Perhaps I h? ve went out of tho way tosey this,, hut tue nest Legislature could do nothing wiser: than to make divorcement harder than it is and to offer no lawyers a temptation for bringing these suits. From my heart, I believe that tho judiciary of'.Georgia has been tho saving power through the past thirty years, and its purity is first in importance af ter the purity of woman. If divorcement must grow as the consequence of the silly depar tures, fer the Lord'7 sake lee us keep our judiciary what ir-is and. the one thing that we could feel*so proud of, and rem?ve all the chances fer a sus picion to arise v against a profession which in nature must supply this judiciary, by being very careful in the encouragement of "fees" io connec tion wi*h alimony.' A danger is hero, and "Tawyers cannot afford to seo it growing. UN KBIT. travel from ^orm to pm. institution. Bat there will be precious few di vorcements from the olass of girls und bo>8who work in the fields and at tend to tho duties of home. Awhile baokit looked aa if the sliok-tongued hypocrites. weald get in their poison* Ons work at every country church, bot the country people have awakened to the danger ?nd the premiss io gwv4? Buring of the war our Southern girls wore dresses made entirely by their own hands, and they were justas sweet as the world has ever known. They had a song then "I envy not the Northern f-;rl, T. Her robes of beauty fair, Bat give to me tho homespun dress That Southern women weat." v The sentiment is growing in the eonntry around ns that dress nor. "fashion" is not tho whole thing that we were about to get io tho habit of admitting it to be. Of course, our boys and girls want to dress well and look sweet, and they do, but the strengt? of self-dependence has got a hold that it ?ever had before, and those children who have escaped tho erase of going to town seem willing to exert themselves on sensible, and eco nomical lines, recognising that there, must be work in whatever sphere we happen, and that work in the fields and at the country homes is just as easy and honorable as any other work, if not ahead, and so we proclaim the land in a good condition LO what it might haye been, with tho pendulum swinging back to old times and old time ways. in a week's travel there two things spoken of so often that it impressed us. One of these things was the death of our president-of course, everyone regrets that. Tho other thing most mentioned ,was the trial of Schley. Whett the guns lumbered at Santiago we thought that it meant the healing of all wounds between sec tions, and it did, but here coses thia Schley trial that impresses that the very men who stood by the guns are trying to devour eaeh other. Them is no UBO in remarking about the trou ble among our heroes. We all know how abuse has been going on. When the people in the peaceful country homes read about these things it puts them to studying. At last, on the farm cs the sweet life of all, and every day that comes people are more and more convinced. SABQE PLUNKETT. Rheumatism-Catarrh in the Blood. AT LAST A- C?BE-TRIAL T^SAT iiENT FREE.--It is the deep-seated? obstinate eases of catarrh and rheuma tism, the kind that have refused to heal under ordinary treatment that B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) odres. lt matters not what other treatments, doctors, sprays, liniments, medicated air, blood purifiers, have failed io do, B. B. B. always promptly reaches the real cause and roots out and drains j from the bones, joints, mucous mem brane and entire system the specific poison in the blood that causes Rheu matism or Catarrh. B. B. B. is the only remedy strong enough to do this and cure, so there can never be a:re-, turn of the symptoms. If you nave pains or aches in bones, jsints^Or.. back, swollen glands, tainted breath, noises in tho head, discharges of mu cous, ulceration of the membranes, blood thin y get easily tired, a treat ment with B. B. B. will stop every symptom by making the blood pure and rioh. Druggists $1. Trial treat* ment, free by addressing Blood Balm Go., 380 Mitchell street, Atlan ta, Ga. ' Desoribe your, .trouble and free medical advice given. Blood Balm thoroughly tested for 30 years; over 3,000 voluntary testimonials of cures by B, B. B. Orr-Gray & Go., Wilhite & Wilhite, and Evans Phar macy. . ' - m B m ; _ Curing Hams. For one hundred pounds of hams take eight pounds of salt, three pints of molasses, a quarter of a pound of saltpetre; dissolve thc saltpetre in boiling Water; mis all in a barrel, or in sufficient water to cover the hams withjpiekle; thoy should be -pp-rtkid iii three days, and after that once a week. They ohouid. reruais in pickle eight weeks, and theo smoke them as much as you-like. Every dine you repack stir the pickle. The object of repacking is to -have the hams on top put to tho bottom of tho cask. Stricken Vf Ith Paralysis. Henderson Grimett, of this place, was stricken with parti ak paralysis and completely lost the use of ono arm and side. After being treated by an emi nent physician for quito a while with out reiief, my wife recommended Chamberlain's Pain Balm,, and after: using two bottles of it ho is almost en tirely cured.-Geo. H. McDonald. ^Tan, Logan county, W. Va. Several other very remarkable cures of partial paralysis h?vo been effected by tho use of this liniment. It is most wide ly "known, however, as ? cure for rheu matism, sprains end brj?i?e^. . Sold by ?rr-Gray & Co. - Ho who borrosa money of his neighbors never hears the last of it. Tricks that are Vaia. _t "I am glad to say that it does not occur aa ^frequently as some people might believe; but it ia a faot that oc casionally a dishonest firmer will ?ry to cheat tuc cotton buyer with a load ed or plated bale of cotton." This remark was made a few ?.?ya i ago by a well-known cotton boyer who I had just received from a mill / to which I he had sold a lot of cotton, a letter claiming that a certain bale indicated j by marks, waa plated, and that it waa not worth as much aa had been paid for it by something like $2.00. 44Yes," tho buyer went on, "it does I not occur often, and it seems to me I that if the cotton seller who ia dis honest enough to resort to such tricks was only a little shrewder, he would sever ?U??ipc such a thing. Now, j for instance, take this ease. I have j only to refer to ray book hore to see I where it carno from. Hera is the I whole record. I bought bale No. -- j from Mr. -. He ia a pretty I good man. You would not have ? thought that he. would be guilty of suoh a thing, would you? Well, may be it was a mistake, and I will say nothing to him about it; but next time I will be more careful." "Do they ever put rooks or any thing of that kind in cotton ?" tho re porter asked. "Yes, that occurs occasionally. I hire known it to occur on this mar ket bat it is always caught up with*. I could toll you of oeveral instances that have come ander my observation here daring the last few years; bal perhaps it is just aa well not to men tion names. Did you ever hear ol that case down at Camden? It ii fanny. Some years ago a cotton buy er received a notice from Liverpool t< the effect that a 75 pound grindBton< had been found in a certain bale ol cotton that had been bought fron him. Tho buyer, who also ran a largi supply concern, looked on his book and found that he had bought the cot ton from a certain large and well-to do farmer, who lived in the vioinit; of Wateree. He had to make goo the Liverpool olaim, of course j au after studying over the situation, h ordered the return of the grindston to Camden. In doe time it arrived the cotton buyer all tho while care fully keeping his own counsel. Ut fore a great while the farmer who ha sold the bale of cotton came to Can den for supplies and among othc things he bought a barrel of sugai and went out to return for the good later. The cotton buyer took tb head oatt of the sugar barrel, remove 75 pounds of sugar, put the grindston in place of it and headed up the ba rel again, turniog it over to the fa mer as. if it had never been opened. "That Waa pretty good. What di the fellow say when ho found it out? "He has never .said a word to th; day, and had the merchant been ab to keep such a good story it woul never have been known. But it - * true, every word of it? ?ad I sss gi you not only the name of the eottc buyer and the supply concern, but.'th far mer. who sold and bought thegrim stone aa well." "I would sot hive you tai uk,'" co tioued the buyer, "that these thin, occur frequently in this market;"b there is no use in trying to conce the faot that .they do ooour oooasio ally. I have known of more than oi man who has'been caught up with ai who was glad to settle by paying a tual expenses, while protesting I innocence, ste."-YvtkviUc Ennuin '?-:- ttl I mm - An ear Will be handed down, to speak, from father to son or genei tion after. generation with compas tiyely little modification. . Some a thoriti?s on criminology assert .th criminals are very apt to possess a i ouliar kind of ear, whick is recognis ble by an expert ia auch matters. A Typical Sentit African Stare. O. ll. Larson, of Bay Yilla, Sunda Biver, Gape Colony, conducta a Bte typical of South Africa, at which c be purchased anything from the p; verbial "needleito an anchor." Tl s toro is situated in a valley nine mil from the nearest railway station a about twenty-five miles from the ne est town. Mr. Larson says: "I i favored with the custom of farmi within a radius of . thirty miles, many of whom I have supplied Cha borlain's remedies. Ali ^testify j their w?!?e i?-J? hon?o?ko?? when doctor's advice is almost out of I question. Within one mile of ; store the population ia perhaps six Of theso, within the past twel months, no less than fourteen hi ?>eon absolutely cured by- Chamb sin's Clough Remedy. This m surely be a record/' For salo by C Gray &Co. - Teacher-What led Columbus conclude that the world wai rout Bright Boy-Well, ?iia experiei with 'it proved that it was any th but square. Yon Know What Yon Arc Taklm When you take Grove's Tasteless Cl Tonio because the formula ia plai printed on every bottle showing t it is simply Iron and Quinine i tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay._B --The "war of thc union" beg shortly after tho raaf/iago cerom end*. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tab! cure a cold in one'day. No Core, Pay. ' Price 25 cents. Irrigation In Held and Gurten. I fi - i: The Department of Agriculture has 1 just issued "Farmers' Bulletin No. 138, containing a most interesting and a valuable ti cutis o on 'Irrigation io c Field and Garden," by Prof. E. J. 3 Wickson. It is a popular error to as- 1 aociate irrigation only with arid wastes 1 sought to be reclaimed. Ita useful- 1 ness is applicable wherever the oondi- 1 tiona suit and it is a subjcot upon 1 which our South Carolina farmers 1 should be as well posted as those of 1 desert States. In the introduction 1 the writer says: Irrigation should be recognized AS ? an agricultural art of very wide appli- > cability and , value. Its. aesooiatioo with the ide% of desert-reclamation has blinded the public ?ni&d io its value for regions where the need of reclamation does uot exist. Irriga tion is a means of soil improvement Co be employed, like other means of improvement, wheo the soil needs it. Water is the most in Sortant food of plants, no' alone eoause it enters io suoh volume into their tissues, but because without it. in adequate amount'the plant can not use other foods io sufficient quantity. No one questions the wisdom of tho saving and storing of manures, nor the wisdom of .generous outlay for commercial fertilisers * when required. The same ia true of soil improvement by means of drainage. There should bo a similar feeling in regard to irri gation.- * The most diligent culture and the most generous fertilization are often made of no avail, and actual loss is sometimes inourred beoause the farm er has not prepared himself to supply ? water when needed. The water, which he could often provide for a mere frac tion of his expenditure for fertilizers, often for less annual cost than the in terest on his investment in under drainage, he has neglected to have ready for use, and he sees the hope of return for his year's labor and expen diture fade away during a- few weeks of drought. There have been cases where water has been stored at con siderable expense as a protection against fire in barns and has remained unused while some valuable crop was burning up in the garden. Such losses are largely duo to two things: Firet, the notion that irrigation is of importance only in arid regions; ani, second, ignorance of tho case and cheapness with which a farm water supply can be stored and distributed. It is very important that the value md availability of water for irrigation hould be recognised and a supply jrovidcd on eaoh farm. Irrigation, moreover, is not merely , reeourso to iosuro tho safety of u rop. It has boen demonstrated be ond quodtioj. both by practical expo- < ienoo and by systematic experiment hat growth and production can be profitably pushed by irrigation even rhen the natural moisture seems a in do, and in this respect irrigation iligns itself with fertilisation and cul? ivation as a factor io intensive oul uro. Another error grows out of tho arge scale upon which irrigation is ;ecerally known to be carried Ob, in .olving canals and ditches too expen ive for individual undertaking. The mprcabiou is made that considerable lapital and engineering skill are ne !0S8ary to success; but as a tastier of act profitable, irrigation is easily at ainable by small effort. It lends tself readily to small individual or ^operative undertaking, developing water whose presence may be almost insuspected, or utilizing water whioh )rdinarily is either wasted or is a posi tive detriment when not turned to profitable service. It is the purpose >f this bulletin to present suggestions for irrigation of this kind. Small irrigation works usually re quire neither greater skill, labor, nor jutlay than other farm improvements which are readily undertaken. They io not require as exact engineering as anderdrainago by tiling, and the whole Bystem, both for development and morago of water, often costs much less per acre of the area irrigated than does tiling. The work is more readily comparable to the construction of open drains coupled io oases some with reser voir building, whioh is no more difficult than cellar excavation and is accom plished with a similar outfit of teams, plowB and scrapers. Tho man of or dinary skill in handling theso tools, who can turn a Btraight furrow, or build a straight pieoe of fence, and can do these thiogs wei i needs only a suggestion of the feasibility of scour ing a homo water nipply for irriga tion, providing his condition* are favorable. The first thing to be done in all cases is to make a careful study nf the whole situation, the location of the water supply, tho lay of the laud, and its requirements of water, etc. Thu article is fully illustrated and ha* explicit directions for making on the farm all the tools and appliances necessary. Thone farmers who have not received the bulimia should write for it. It is a good thing to have in t.fin linn un GOLD OUST makes the pans and kettles clean and bright It doe? the work much better than soap and in much less time. ; Yousavehalf your labor when you use GOLD DUST. It is the world s best cleanser, lt cleans everything arid injures nothing. Grocers have iL " Send for our FREE booklet, " Golden Rules for Housework." THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY". * Chicago, St Louis, New York. Boston. Get in and Hide in One o f our Vehicles. -.j Yon will derive that supreme sense of satisfaction which only the perfectly bnilt. and finished Carriage can give. Ton will remark the greater ease of running and the careful finish of every detail. OUR BUGGY AT $50.00 is the perfection of carriage comfort. Come to see me. JOS. J. FEET WELL. ASTHMA CURE FREE Asthmalene Brings Instant Reh f and Cure in AU Cases ! Permanent sont absolutely Free on receipt of Postal-Write your Name and Address Plainly I'II i pm t\ There is nothing like Asthmalene. It ??U AS wm WP V? briogs instaut relief, even in .he worst ^BVUNfthl cases. It eurea when all else fails. BOR TEN THE ROV- ?- F- WELLS, of Villa Ridge, m" ??gmp Ul., says : "Your trial bottle of Asthma jfj?jS^LTi YEARS *ene received in good condition. I cannot j|lg^ra|*L. tell you how thankful I feel for the good ?C?fr n^SiV^^^?M^ derived from it. I was a slave, chained ^gjf raj ^^*\^?^ W*tn PutJ'^ 80re tnr0!lt an(* Asthma for ton if?vLa?Av ^^W^liP years. I despaired ol' ever being cured. 1 /fi/^flS&Iti y^??0 8aw y0ur advertisement for thc euro of this Z/Ja^^f?l \ ^^^^ a dreadful and tormenting disease, Asthma, ^^Sj^i^w^fc \\? jand thought you had over spoken your Av^^?Hn?V il^ J \ J selves, but resolved to give it a trial. To JT ? \ j my astonishment the ?ria! r.ctcd like a f^^*\^^^^^k?\k9 charm. Send me a full-size bottle." S l^^jr ^^v?rjf ^^tf 1{cv" ?)r Mwrr,s Wechsler, ^^^^?si^^j^^m^^ a Kabbi of the Cong. Bnai Israel, ^ ^^^^QMam^^^^mt i Bus. TAFT BROS'. MEDICINE CO. *"**^ lifnW mmT* ' Gcn.tlemon : Your Asihmalcne is an ex in^?V^BBS8piBBlsl?tt i cc*'eDt remedy for Asthma and Hay Fever, ?uJmi%0t**jjr ! and its composition allcviiites all troubles ''RBL?KP which combine with Asthma. Its success L . *. 1 j? astonishing and wonderful. After hav ing it carefully analyzed wc can state that Asthmalene contains no opium, morphine, chloroform or ether. Very truly yours, KEY. ER. MORRIS WECHSLER. AVON SPRINGS, N. Y., Feb. 1, 11)01. DR. TAFT BROS. MEDICINE CO.-Gentlemen ; I write this testimonial from a sense of duty, having tested the wonderful effect of your Asthmalene for the ouro of Asthma. My wife has been o fil i o ted with spasmodic asthma for tho past 12 years. Having exhausted my "own skill as well as many others, T chanced to see your sign upon your windows on 130th street, N. Y., I at once obtained a bottle of Asthmalene. My wife commenced taking it about thc first of November. I very soon notioed a radical improvement. After using one bottle her Asthma has disappeared and she is entirely free from all symp toms. I feel that I can consistently recommend the medicine to all who are afflicted with this distressing disease. Yours respectfully. - O. D. PHELPS, M. D. DR. TAFT BROS. MEDICINE Co.-Gentlemen : I was troubled with Asthma for 22 years. I have tried numerous remedies but they have all failed. I ran across your advertisement and started with a trial bottle. I found relief at once. I have since purchased your full-size bottle, and I am evor grateful. I have family of four childreu, and for six years was unable to work. I am now in the best of health and am doing business every day. This testimony you eau make such use of as you see fit. Homo address 235 Rivington street. Feb. 5, 1901. S. RAPHAEL, 67 East 129th st., New York City. Trial bottle sent absolutely free on receipt, o? postal. Do not delay. Write at once, addressing DR. TAFT BROS. MEDICINE CO., 79 East 130th St., N. Y. City. B&- Sold by all Druggie. Sept. 4-6m Bargain Hunters " Should See Us before Making their Purchases ! AS we can ?bow you GREAT DARU A INS In all kinds NEW STAPLE DRY GOODS, such as Prints,. Giogbams, Bleacaiags, Outings, WorsUds, Flannels, Jeans, Check?, Sheo log and Drilli. Wo aro showing .'great values in Pants and H- h. We have a areal Une of Men's, Women's arni C.Oki rena Shoes. Our entire line of Shoes are splen did values, but wo bavo soma exceptional bargains in Shoes just now. Wo havn for a long while enjoy ed the distinction of giving bettor values in Shoe* than any other Firm in thu section, but we can i ow eclipse all former records, and feel sure our prices on Shoes thu Fall entitle ua to the biggest Shoo trade in our history, i We propose enlarging mightily In our Grocery Department, and lead the ti^ocesslon further than . ever on good Goods and Low Prices, so if you always want your money'4 worin of Flour, Bacon, Lard,'. Sugar, Corlee, Molasses. Tobacco, Rico, Flour, or anything ciao in tho Grocery line, see us and you will got. it. While we don't olatm to be Wholsalo peoplo yet we can give out-of-town Merchants a? low prices on most things they handle as any ono and you mighi lind some things a shade cheaper than at some houses that make great pretens.ons. Give us a trial and iee. TO THOSE WHO OWE CS, either Note or Account, we Insist on a prompt and early set tien: cn t. We appreciate your trade, and give you closo prices, and now ls tho time for you to pay us. We can't aflora te do business with peoplo who are slow to pay, for our profita don't JusUfy it. Yours truly, VANDIVER Between Masonic Temple and the Peoples Bank. ' BROS. 5D?.0? Reward Witt* Proof to convict the man who Said wo wer? GIVING AWAY PIANOS AND ORGANS. WE are selling ao LOW and on such EASY terms that there' was some reason in the report. But we mu st insist tnat 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. THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. ||:!?ip$lj j:, j A Well I'uruished Some Is not necees ai il y an expensively furnished oue, as at TOLLY'S hand some, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay Not that we deal in kuocked-together, made-to sell Sort, but because we are content with a reasonable profit ou really good articles of Furniture Our best witness is the Goods them selves. Yours truly G. F. TOLLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, 8. C. CH M 2 g ?a 0* gd Q >* M td o < w I* H CO ? > O td M M ?H * ao ft a ^ 2 ^ s " t> g a w li o 2 ll ' ffl3 G CO e O .O 3 ts a K3 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 stand any kind of weather. Have just received Two Cars of fine FEED OATS at lowest prices. Have just received Three Cars of RICE FLOUR for fattening your hogs, and it comes much cheaper than auy other feed-and is much better. Yours respectfully, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO.