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A PASSING F #? ?% ~B-b . v. v. j?rown in I am writing on Sunday morning, February 2, and I aa fifty yean old to-day. That ? have been knocking about on this sublunary sphere for haifa century, whoa I come to look the fact squarely in tho face, amazes me. I find it hard to believe my own ?ords. Surely some ono has made a wrong entry in the old Family Biblo, or I have been cheated ont of some of the years that are ohorged against me. lam willing to believe almost any thing, ezoept thst fifty hallowed years have passed over my poor hood. Wheo I ?as a child, there waa a little pieoe we used to reoite at Behool, beginning, "(Time bears ns on like the current of a mighty river." Possibly I recited it, along with the other children, bot I did not believe it say more then than ohildren now would belier's it. Noone cornea to realise the truth of the words until the mysterious stream has carried him far down through the years. I begin to see it now, and it ' the truth-"Time bears us on like the current of a xnishty river." In youth, tho stream has an eddy here and there, and the flowing wss not ss swift; but now the ourrent has a straight onward flow, and the days abd months and years flit by like dreams in the night. Old man Jacob, when he stood as a pilgrim traveler before Kin j Pharaoh, said his days had been few and evil. They may have been evil ss far aa he was concerned; bot they themselves were not evil.4 He may have thought and felt and pursued evil; but the years themselves were nothing but a succession of days and nights of rising and settings of the auh, and eaoh re curring day bsd been marked sod crowned with the love andgoodneaa of the Lord. So it bsa been for na all. We ourselvea have been evil, but the days whioh God gave us have been good. But Jaoob told the truth and gave us an apt figure when he spoke of his life as a pilgrimage-a daily going on, a moving about, a journeying we know not whither. Our estate, our condi tion, our environment ohangea; but none of these things impede us. nor cause us to pause in our journey. When onoe a ohild ia born, ho sots out upon the mysterious way, and there is never a moment's pause .be tween the oradle and the grsve. We may sloep or dream or idle awsy the time; we may spend our days in the pursuit of pleasure or roll and ^nize in pain; but wo are borne onward all the same, and are daily snd hourly brought nearer to the appointed end. What a pity we oannot live in con stant r?siliation of thia feet! How much of our time we have wasted in waiting for to-moirow! B? once we see something . ahead of us that we covet, if onoe we have a plan laid for next month or next year, we seem to forget or despise all the time that lies between now and tuen, and forget to utilise the passing hours. So time i passes from us. My little life baa not been eventful perhaps; but it has been busy. I have done many thinga that amounted to nothing, but I have not been idle. I uavo sought neither place nor power; but I have honestly desired to make thyself felt for God and for good.. Whether I have made a mistake in this, it remains for my brethren to say. I have made many loving and true friends who. are on tho journey with me. . Some friends I have lost. The grave stole them away, on the one bandi and I have doubtless driven a few away from me by my folly, by words or deeds that were unholy. The sorrowful reflection which arises is that if you lose a friend, the chances are that you will never regain him. We disoourse largely upon the snbjeot. of forgiveness; but of the real thing, we see but little. When Christian a fall ont, they do not, ss a rule, go into the courts, no.' do they go after caoh other witn guns; but what is just as bad, they retire to one side and sulk, or refuse to speak to'one another, or try to play the meek, as if to say, "I haye been injured; but I will say nothing; I will just keep my mouth; I will be very pions; I will not haye anything to do with the brother who has so grossly wronged me." And meanwhile ?he low. and base feelings which lio hidden in tho heart are akin to those nurtured in the mind of a mur derer or bandit. The great majority . of us Lave yet to ?earn the A, B, C of the lesson Jesus taught whon he said, "Forgive." However, I guess I could count on one hand tho enemies I have made-some because I did wrong, some because I did right. There seems to be nothing left for us but to travel on down the sams road-they on one side ' and I on tho other, and the one Father of us all will have to adjust "the differences between Lis ?Mldre? rrben they get home in thc evening. RETROSPECT. Baptist Courier. The lott of friends in middle life is more sorely felt thou in youth. Liv ing and laboring eo long together, our lives flow into one and when one it tom away, the survivor suffers keenly. That was a tender story Dr. Broadna used to tell shout the old family horse. In eompany with the wagon driver, he, when s boy, was allowed to go in the wagon to Boruo town a few miles away ffom his boyhood home. The hore es had been true yoke-fellows for many a dey, and bad been inseparable is their labora. On this trip, however, one of them siokened and died by tho way side. It waa towsrd evening? He end the driver journeyed afoot to the home of aome one they knew, leading the surviving horse by the bridle. Arrangements were made for them to borrow a horse for nae the next day. But when the morning came, they aought in vain for the horse they had left in the barnyard the night before. After long delny, they went bask down the road to the wsgon, and there stood ike old horse, oloae by the aids of hie dead comrade, paying doubtleae the tribute of affection to the noble fellow thst had so long stood hy him aa MB partner and comrade of the rosd. To every tender and loving heart there are spots m ado sacred by being the resting plaoes of those who have been our fellow-burden beelera along the highway of life. The fsot they .pulled by our aides so long only made it the harder for ua to give them up. But death do OD not relent at our tears and sorrow. In the midst of life's dire exigencies, we are oaiied upon to aurrender our co-workers and friends, and- to make the reat of the journey in sorrowful loneliness. Fifty years old 1 But what atlast? Nothing but this-tho yeera will all coon be gone. I myself must give way to those who sro coming after me: I am but making my way into the eter nal world. I shall yet Bee the king face to fsoe. One night last Bummer, when Dr. Barron was preaching for ua here at Sumter, he told me a story about a visit he had msde once to he*r John Jssper, the negro preacher of ; Richmond, Vs., who bod won a sort of notoriety by declaring that "The ? ann do move." He said Jasper waa a j born orator, and greatly gifted in im agination. On the night referred to by Barron, Jasper was describing bia approach to the hesvenly ol ty, and i?id, "Well,, ole John will git to de oity at last. I done ase it. I see it in my sleep an' I see when I wake. I I come to de big gate, an as it open, I j look in, sud see de king in Ma beauty. A angel take me by de han an' want .to lead me in de gate, but I aay, 'O no, honey 1 jist let mo stand here an* look in. But by an*.by, he got me in de gate, sn* I didn't know wat to say. A angel fetch me a chair, an' tay, 'ait down, ole man.' I answered, 'Ono, honey, jist let me atan'here an' rest.' Den a/pestle come up a* a ssy, 'como on, Brother Johi., I moa* take you to see de king. 'O no, no, I sin' fittin* to Br-.o no Jist Jet me set here an' rest.' By sn' by a big angel come to me wid a crown in his han', sn' say, 'Hold down your head, John,' sn' I cry out, 'O no; honey, I ain' fitton to* we ar no crown: jist lot mo set here an' rest. Iain fitton to wear no crown 1 I sin' fitton . to wear no crown 1* " May I-borrow the old man's words, I ain't fitton to wear no crown. Cancer Cured by Blood Balm. ALL SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES CUBED.-Mrs. M. L. Adams, Fredo nia, Ala., took Botanic Blood Balm which effectually cured an eating can oer of the nose and face. The sores healed up perfectly. Many doctors had given up her ease aa hopeless, hundreds of oases of cancer, eating sores, supperating swellings, etc., have been cured by Blood Balm. . Among others, Mrs. B. M. Guerney, Warrior Stand, Ala. Her nose and lip were raw as beef, with offensive discharge from the eating sore. Dootors ad vised cutting, but it failed. Blood Balm healed the sores, and Mrs. Guer ney is as well as aver. Botanio Blood Balm also cures ecaema, itching hu mors, scabs and scales, bone pains, ulcers, offensive pimples, blood poi son, oarbunoles, scrofula, risings and bumps on tho skin and all blood trou ble?. Druggists, $1 ?er large bottle. Sample of Botanio Blood Balm free, and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co j AUanta, Ga. Describe trouble and sp?cial medical advice sent in sealed letter. It is certainly worth while investigating such a remarkable remedy, as Blood Balm cures tho most awful, worst and most deep-seated blood diseases. Sold in Anderson by Orr-GrayDrug Co., Wilhite & Wil hite and Evana Pharmaoy. - When a man is spoiling for fight hf naturally too fresh. - A practical man is the one who carnes out the plans of a theorist. . To Care a Cold la One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab leta. All druggists rejFundjthc^moae ii fails io cure. B. tv. Grove' signature on overy box. 25c. ) Crimes of tte Corsets. lathe 400 years tb it have elapsed sines Catherine de Medioi introduced corsets into France, oritioism of the artiole and of tho women weiring it baa not been looking. Indeed, it was net long after the death of Catherine whee a celebrated Frcnoh savant gare a public lecture i rf his dissecting-room at the Hotel Bien to demonstrate the "orimes" cf whloh the cornet was guilty. These lectures raised mach discussion at the time, and they per haps, and not coquetry ?nu the femi nine love of change, were responsible for the loose, floating lines of the Watteau pleat, ora century after ward for the costumes of the Dirac* torie. Now another celebrated Frcnoh doc tor has returned to the charge, but not content with lecturing and demon strating the evils of corsets, has gone BO far as. to form a bill whioh it is his intention to present to the Chamber, ind which, la the ease of its becom ing a law, would most effectually pot a stop to what this doctor terms "the crime of womanhood." Doctor Mareohal is a physician whose reputation would not lead one to ac o uso him of mere sensationalism, yet the charges that he brings against the corset in his recent lecture are perhaps more stringent than those ever j uttered before by any member of the anti-oorsetbrigade. Dootor Mar?chal! makes the astonishing assertion and pretends to back it up by statistics, that ont of a hundred young women | who wear corsets only thirty. retain perfect health. The law that Doctor Mareohal is en deavoring to have passed is divided into three articles. Artiole 1 forbids any woman under 80 to wear a oorset ' of any description. Any woman oon ! via ted of doing so shill be punished by three months* imprisonment. If j the delinquent should he s minor, her j parents or guardians as well shall he condemned to pay a fine of from 100 1 to 1,000 francs. ! Artiole 2 permits any woman over 80 to wear any oordefc she wishes. Artiolo 3 provides for the most rigor ; ons formalities surrounding the man ufacturing and sale of corsets. Every one lioensed to sell corsets shall he obliged to take the name, address and age of every buyer, and shall be sub jeot to fine and confiscation of business in oase of an illegal sale. Although Dootor Mar?chal asks th??t legislation shall only take cognisance of the evils of oorsets at present, he is by no means to stop there in his de sire for dross reform. He has a good deal to say on the subject of high heels and pointed toca, of tight gloves and long skirts. In short he claims that women's dress has canoed a frightful physical deterioration in the 'human species. W?ile the cra nium of the Merovingian woman had a capacity of 1,383 cobie centimeters, that of the modern Frcnoh woman hts a capacity of only 1,337 oubio centi meters, and this loss, the doctor de clares, is due to the habit of wearing heavy headdresses. As to whether or not a modern Frenob head weighing only 1,887 eubie centimeters* is worth more than a| Merovingim cranium weighing some what more is a subject on which the learned dootor dosB not eave to enter. Ho is convinoed that oorsets, hats, veils and vari?me other items of the feminine wardrobe are bad, and hsB como to the oonolnsion that if women will not be persuaded to disoard them they should be foroed to do so.-New York Tribune/ - - . ?, ( Bow Gates Fooled the Beggar. They are telling a story on John W. Gatea. It is that the other night he had eluded the swarm of beggars that hover around the Holland House, the Waldorf-Astoria, Delmonico* s and Sherry's. Later he was accosted by a particularly insolent beggar, sc very daring and aggressive that ho promised to be interesting. Mr. Gates dug down into his pocket, jingled some coins and pulled out a quarter. This he gave to the beggar. "You're a nico one, you are," said the mendicant. "You'd spend that many dollars for ? luncheon, and yes give a man in hard luok that ohioken feed." "Exouse me," said Mr. Gates. "Give me that baok." Ha reached into his pocket as if to draw ont a larger coin, and the beggar expectant ly handed back the quarter. Mr. Gates put it in his pocket, re marking that it would be useful for a tip and Walked into the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria. According to the story the beggar now takes his hat off every time he sees Mr. Gates. Incidentally Mr. Gates denies the story. But it is one of those that are going the rounds in happy Wall Street.-New York Times. Stops the Conon and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bremo Quinine Tablets eura a cold in one day. No oure, No Pay.. Price 25 cents. - I^e who steals a woman's purse gets away with a lot of samples and other trash. - A married man is apt to get mad 1 he finds eui that his wife isn't worrying about him. Chart? B. Rotos. C S. A. ? Oharies Broadway Bouts, for many I years a picturesque figure in tho mer- i can tile world and also wall known on i account of his pabilo gifts, died at i balf-paat 6 o'olook yesterday morniog, ? ?t his homo, No. 632 5th avenue. Hie < loath is attributed to pneumonia? Ho > ras taken ill last Sunday Afternoon ? wiih chills, whioh speedily were fol lowed by an attack of the fatal malady, i His nemo was originally plain * Charles Roust. The name Broadway he added because in the principal 1 thoroughfare of New Tork he had won Fortune. He was born in Woodbury, Frederick County, Maryland, in 1886, and attended sohool at Winohoster, Va. As a sohoolboy he had sold no tions in the streets in Winchester and it waa there ho found employment as a olerk in the store of Peter Sensony, the principal merohant, at a salary of $1 a week. Ho was then 15 years of age. In the oourse of three years he had accumulated a oapital of $500, with whioh he went into business on his own account. Ho was, at the age of 25, the wealthiest merohant in Winchester, for he had 160,000 in bank. He joined the Confederate army at the outbreak of the war, and when the struggle closed he was practically pen niless, having given his money in aid of the Southern cause. He oame to this city, obtained employment as a olerk, saved his money and eventually entered business on his own scoount. He rapidly accumulated money and a few years ago built a twelve-story building at Nos. 549 to 555 Broadway, in whioh he did alargo trade. His business WSB principally in so called job lots. He supplied bargain counters, travelling merchants, five and ten-09nt stores and such estab lishments. He kept no accounts, ex cept the record?- of what he sent to out-of-town customers, from whom he expected payment within a week aftei the goods were sent. All in the citj paid cash. He paid his olerks evorj night. It was a saying cf his thal few men Were worth more than $11 day and many of his employees wer? paid on that soale. If one of hi olerks was unable to work on aocouo of too free indulgenoe in tho flowinj bowl he made him sleep in the stir for several nights thereafter. It is estimated that Mr. Roues ha? accumulated a fortune of $10,000,00(1 yet he was as indefatigable in busines as he was when a olerk. He arose a 5 o'olook in the morning, took a driv through the park and was generally i his place of business at 6 o'olook. H remained there until 7 o'olook i night. Pleasures he had none, at cording to his own story, except om and that was standing on the baok < a street oar and throwing pennies t the newsboys. The police requests him to desist from this pastime. He was always a true friend to hi old comrades in arms. One of the came to this oity to buy goods sever years ago and when the merebai learned who he was he deolined i accept payment for a purohase of se oral hundred dollars. The buyer d olined to accept them as a gift ai after as muoh negotiation as thouf Mr. Bouse were driving a bargain tl old comrade agreed to take the me ohandise at cost. When the count! merohant returned home he receiv< with his goods a handsome toa sc In the teapot was a package contai ing the money he had paid for tl merchandise. Mr. Bouss gave the sum of $10C OOO with whioh to erecb in Biohmon Va., a memorial chapel to those wi sacrificed their lives for the Lc Cause. He gave $35,000 to found art scholarship for the University Virginia. The town of Winches) received several largo'benefactions his hands. He gave funds to t merchants when a part of the toi waa destroyed by fire. He gave Wi chester water works, at a cost of $3 000, and a town hall. To the oity New York he gave the Washingt and Lafayette statue and in Mou Hope Cemetery be erected a mor mont to the memory of Confeden veterans. One of the greatest sorrows io 1 life was the death of his son, C. B. Bouss, io 1891. Ten years ago 1 ye eight of Mr.? Rou s 8 began to fail nd for tho last six years he had been ?lind. He offered a reward of one Billion dollars to any man who wonld ettore bia eight. Ho submitted to overal experimenta and finally hired > substituto, named Martin, who was ira?arfy afflicted. Martin underwent nany ordeals. Nothing was found, towever, whioh waa of any avail. Mr. Bones bnilt at Winchester a iplendid mausoleum, where members ?f bia family are resting. His body rill be taken there to-night and the dtivena of the town will give it a pub ic funeral. Mr. Rouse left two chil Iren, his daughter, Mrs. David Lee, tho lives at the 5th avenue house, ind,Pe ter Winohester Rouse, his son, tho resides in the Borough of Brook lyn.-New York Herald. Family Tea Gardens. I It is the result of several years of sxperionoe in tea culture at Summer ville and Pinehurst, whioh has proven most conclusively that tea may be produced in the United States in two ways-by families in their kitohon gardens, or on a commercial soale, after the manner followed by the British East Indian toa establish ments. These beginnings of an im portant industry have demonstrated that the yield of tea per aore is the equal of the average Oriental produc tion, and oan be marketed at a fair profit. It baa been shown that a good grade of tea oan be grown ^od put on the market in bulk at a oost not ex ceeding 15 cents per pound. Under ordinary conditions an tore will yield 400 pounds of salable tea, whioh, at 15 oents per pound, makes the expense of growing, pioking, drying, curing and paoking 60 oents per aore. Tea plants are shown growing upon the Exposition grounds at South Caro lina, and the various prooesses practi cally illustrated for the benefit of visitors, making an exhibit of excep tional value, as it opena a new field to industry and oapltal, supplying an easy and healthy livelihood to thous ands, and giving value to immense tracts of what is now waste land. This tea sella in bulk at 30 cents a pound, therefore the profit on this ; basia is 100 per eent. The American Tea Growing Com pany has been established for con ducting tea oulture on a large soale near Charleston and has 7,000 aoros of land at Rantowles, with 700,000 young plants in the nursery ready to be transplanted. A thousand acres of tea will soon be under cultivation with the best prospeots, as the industry has been oarried well beyond an experi mental stage. The national import ance of this new industry in the awakening South oan be appreciated by oonaidering that the importations of tea by the United States during 1900 amounted to nearly eighty-five million pounds, or more than a pound for every person iu the land.-Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Settling an Interesting Question. "Say, Jim," inquired an old darkey j ont in Chelsea, of his son, who ia a muoh-lssrned sohool youth, "which travels de fastes', heat or ooi'nesB?" 1 "I hadn't give de DUD j co' muon ov ma attention," wea the reply, "but I'd i nwoherly think thet col' ud trsvel de fastest on de 'oount cv it bein' PO pen 'tratin*. "Yo* sohool 1'arnin' didn' clo youno geod here, Jim," said the oldman with a patronising air; "Heat it travels er heap faster den ooi' do. You just tsk' dat fer afao'." "How do yo' reokon dat out?" "Jes diserway: Yo' didn't never hear of nobody ketohingheat, did yo'? But shore's yo' bo'n, chile, dey ken ketch col' mitey easy." Bloating after eating, indigestion, flatulence or water brash, may be ?uiokly corrected through the use of 'riokly Ash Bitters. It strengthens digestion, cleanses and regulates -tho bowels. Evans Pharmacy. - "I suppose your wife always has the last word?" said the impertinent relation. "Not always," answered Mr. Meekton. "But she always has the last ono that is spoken aloud." - Consistency is often but another name for contrariness. CA TARRHJ??L The treatment of Catarrh with antiseptic and f?BBKp'aiBL astringent washes, lotions, salves, medicated tobacco <$SSp* and cigarettes or any external or local application, is ^>V&$$&'&JL jtist as senseless as would be kindling a fire on top of "7^L\^aL^S^t the pot to make it boil. True, these give temporary Ssm relief, but the cavities and passages of the head and the bronchial tubes soon fill up again with mucus. BOB H * Taking cold is the first step towards Catarrh, for it %B W checks perspiration, and the poisonous acids and w5 '. W vapors whicn should pass off through the skin, are ^^xy^^fl^^S.. thrown back upon the niucoua membrane or inner skin, ?^?r^Hull^S^s^^ producing inflammation and excessive flow of mucus, 'wMi* ' much Of which is absorbed into the blood, and through the circulation reaches every part of the system, involving the Sto** "ich, Kidneys and other parts of the body. When the disease assumes Jie dry form, the breath becomes exceedingly foul, blinding headaches are frequent, the eyes red, nearing affected and a constant ringing in the ears. Ko remedy that does not reach the polluted blood can cure Catarrh. S. S. 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