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OOSEVELT AN xpert's View of the the Pr< A staff correspondent)of tho Waeh ngton Posti who aooompanied the president to Charleston, sent his pa-. Jer the following letter under date of Iprii 8: ? r President Roosevelt has captured Charleston and Charlestonhaa captar d tbe president. Nothing could be nore genuine, spontaneous and uui rersal than the cordial welcome which ,asbeen acoorded him to-day. The inly danger whioh he invites by com Dg to this quaint and beautiful Southern city was the danger of being tillea by kindness. Ho wont to bed o-nigbt a tired bat thoroughly happy Dan. From early morning, when a ommittee welcomed him afc Summer ville, 22 miles from Charleston, until aidnight, when he left the banquet oom amid enthusiastic cheers, he was itcrally in the bands of his monds, 'hey couldn't do too muon xor him. lWe wanted to show," said Governor ilcSweeney, to me to-night, "that Marleston wanted the president and hat we couti give him a patriotic and ordial welcome. If we have succeed d, we ask no more." There can be no doubt that the Charleston people have succeeded, 'heir hurrahs are still ringing in the ara of the president, who has literal* y bubbled over all day with his cn husiasm at the warmth of the greet og extended to him. ; He is a most ^conventional president. This very absence of formality, this hearty and inrestrained participation in every de ail of the programme arranged for hin ?ntertainment, the total absence of re jerve and official frigidity won all of !e hearts of his hosts. They know at ho was of different mould than dunley. But if the truth be known ey expected that he would go to the ber extreme. They rather untid ied that he would move impulsively cording to his own free will; on the ntrary he was most compliant. He Jlowed where they led. Every fea |ure of the elaborate programme was accepted by him with suoh. instanta neous good wili and with suoh evident mjoyment that the hearts of the hard working committeemen went out to um as one of their own kin. *'I have ?cen simply delighted with every mo neut of the day j" said the president o Mayor Smyth as he left the revenue lutter Algonquin late, this afternoon, if ter several hours spent upon the caters of the picturesque harbor, and he remark left no doubt of his sincer ty. "I really believe the president ias enjoyed himself," said Mayor smyth. Yet the president, it is worth re bating, was moat unconvention/.. Ie was more democratic in the real lenee of the word than any president )f recent years. **J am the last man u the world to be bound by eti mette," he remarked with good ne wed frankness when a mistake had )een made in the order of precedence, flever, of conree, <Hd he overstep the ine whioh divides dignity f*.om soota-' ?ility and y et he was. always L?OBO elt. He couldn't be anything ./iso 'if ie tried, aud it is quite evident that ie does not propose to try. He is limself alwuys. When his hat blew iff while he was standing at the para pet of Fort Sumter, he at once started o iun after it with almost boyish reedom, and when it was finally aught by a smutty workman from the ilaoksmith'B shop, he grasped the aan'B hand and thanked him with uoh earnestness and warmth that tho ian wa? overwhelmed. Until his ring day that workman will remetn er that the president of .{fie Jnited StateB treated him like a ?rother. ' When the president was greeted at summerville by the reception commit ee, headed by Mayor J. Adger Smyth nd Col. John C. Homphill, he greet ed them with ft ope con GO cordial in its lature that the committeemen were ?QthusiaBtically repeating it all day ?Dg. When he was marched over the. fautif ul roads of Chioora park, whioh ls to j>e the site of tho naval station, ? want into rapture over the pano rama that unfolded itself before him, iud praised tho beauty of the live foBtoo??d with Spanish moss in .ervent expressions which manifested ?? keen love of nature. The myriad ft Bandfliea which annoyed rverybody fhe while awaiting the arrival of the Algonquin, morely elicited from Mm a reminesoonco of hunting trips P the Adirondacks, where the Ngets were " more or less trouble some. ! Upon the boat the stiff br?ese from ta west made his silk hat a brrden. fe at once bow ired from Colonel lemphill a crush hat of soft wool, Wiled it down upon his head abd was ?erfeotly content. For naif an hour, rfcite he chatted with Judge Simonton *4 Judge Brawley, he sat np * the skylight on tho quarter D CHARLESTON. Impressions Made by ssident. ! deck, disdaining a chair, with head uncovered and the wind playing \avoo with his hair. Once, when the lace of Mrs. Roosevelt's ahoe became un tied, he waa on bended kaoe in an in stant, fastening the unruly string. In all of tbeuc thicga he was Roosevelt tho man, and there is no gainsaying the fact that they won the hearts of the people around him. The total lack of affectation and everpresont genu ineness of hie nature were so marked as to bo a revelation even to those who know how these qualities predominate in him. Picture-takers were, of course, ev erywhere. He entered heartily into their work. He posed by the side of Governor MoSweouey, and when the buttons of three camerae were pressed with audible clearness, he exclaimed: I "Three tiraea and out!" aa if he were I an umpire on the baseball field. He gave Major Micah Jenkins a welcome that a prince might have envied, and introduced bim to everybody within arm's reach, with eulogies of the ma jor's bravery. At Fort Sumter, where I the big disappearing guns were opera - \ ted for the president's edification, he asked innumerable questions of the 'young artillery lieutenant in oharge. The officer, perceptibly embarassed by the immediate presence of the president of the United States, stood at atten tion, both arms hanging olose beside his hedy. When the president had learned all that there was to learn about the gun, he reaohed out and shook hands with the lieutenant in tho most friendly fashion, at the same time thanking him heartily for his clear and intelli gent answers. The happy officer walked away more ereot than ever. It was while standing by this same gun that the president showed his quick ness at repartee. "Mr. .President," said Colonel Hemphill, "we wish that you were the mayor of Charleston." "But there is no vacancy," immedi ately replied the president, glancing at Mayor Smyth. "Mr. President," interrupted ?he mayor, "I will resign in your favor." "I will take your job if you will take mine," re torted the president so quickly that the mayor didn't have another word to say. All these incidents I have related, and whioh are only a few that I recall in a day crowded with like episodes, may seem trivial enough, and yet if I have used them as an artist lays strokes, upon the canvas with bis brush, I have painted a picture of the president. It is a picture whioh is nniqae'<because Roosevelt 13 like unto no other president. His frank, open hearted and even impulsive, disposi tion, his determination to obtain the heartiest en joyment out of every mo ment of . his exiptenoe, his utmost existence, his utmost abandon when among his friends, his earnestness and enthusiasm making him an interest ing study. His personality dominates everything, and certainly during the day whioh he has spent in Charleston this personality has been revealed in a striking fashion. Certain it is also that this personality of such a pronounced American type, seems to find favor with the common people. lt waa this trait of Americanism Whioh the president emphasized in his speech at the banquet to-night. He evoked applause when he addressed thc throng around the handsomely de corated tables as "My fellow Ameri cans," and when he added that he would indeed be a poor Amerioan if he failed to appreoiate the warmth of the welcome accorded him, there was prolonged applause. "Of course, I feel at home 'here," he exclaimed, "any American who is worth his salt has the right to feel at home in any part of the United States." He spoke of the war with Spain as show ing "how thoroughly as one we Were," because, he added,' "when we ; were through the war it did not make i a bit of difference to us' whether it I was an admiral who came from Ver mont or a lieutenant who'came from Alabama." Ho complimented South Carolina upon the industrial progress of the State, and then uttered a strong plea for reciprocity with Coba. He appealed for closer relations for our advantage, and added that onr advan tage could only bo gained by making it Cuba's advantage also. "I ask/' he said, "that in our trade relations with Cuba we give her marked and substantial advantage, not merely that 4fc may redound to our interest to do so, but I ask it because events have j so shaped- themselves that it is our duty to help Cuba, and I hope that we shall do it." This sentiment was greeted with applause. "I want you to appreoiate," said the president, in conclusion, "that I mean overy word when I say I have been more than pleased--thal I have been touched and stirred by the warmth and heartiner.V wivh which you have made me feel to-day that I am one of you." Tho* empnaais with which th oso words were spoken made them ring through the banquet hall. As soon ?a they had been uttered, ev ery man in the room rose to hie feet, cheered loudly and waved his napkin in the air. The demonstration lasted for several minutes, and the beaming smiles upon the president's face betokened the genuine pleasure which the spontaneous tribute afforded him. ?rn > m> ( Dreg-Steeped Mothers. "What can we expect for the future of America from the ohildren of a drug-steoped motherhood and a to bacco-steeped fatherhood?" Thits was one of the questions asked yester day by Mrs. Emma Graves Dietriok in her report of "The Department of Anti-NarcotioB," read in her absenoe by Mrs: El Titus at a meeting of the midyear conference of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Kings County, held in the Grace Methodist Episcopal Chn/oh, of Brooklyn. The report was full of other start ling announcements. After stating that it is alleged that in New y ork oity alone there are one hundred thousand women who smoke, the speaker continued: "lt is true this large army of women inoludes all ciasses; the women of the slums and foreign quarters, as well as women of wealth and social standing, but the sons of the rich and poor alike v Ul be voters, and their daughters will be mothers of American citizens. "The number of smokers among our cultured women are increasing. Worn with late hours and dissipation, the women seek relief from an overtaxed nervous system. Oftentimes it is the doctor who prescribes cigarette smok ing as a 'nerve sedative.' "Chloral, ohlorodyne, cocaine, opium and in its most common form mor phine, with many other narcotics, have their hosts of victims. Since the Glens Falls Convention, at a parlor meeting, where tho writer was speak ing on this subject, one of the Wo man's Christian Temperance Union women had to leave the room while the meeting was iu progress to take her drug. "Of brandy candies consumed by school children," the speaker said, "the craving for them increases rapidly and after a time demands a stronger supply. Cases have been reported of children who resorted to the cologne and perfumery of their mothers to satisfy the appetite formed from eat ing these candies." "Don't forget the tea drunkards," said a member after hearing the paper. "I noUce that they have not been mentioned, yet it is a habit to whioh .a great many women are addioted, ?nd I know tl 3re are women who cannot get on without fifteen or twenty oups of tea daily, and others who will get up four and five times in the night to make tea.'1-New York Tribune. "Yes" or No." . The efforts on the part of members of the house to pin one another down to dire.ot answers reminded Represen tative Capron, of Rhode Island--one of the best story tellers in the house, by the way-of an experience in the last campaign. Mr. Capron was very much bothered while makiug a speech by a man in the audience who insist ed on asking questions to . whioh he demanded either "yes" or "no" for an answer. "But .there are some questions," finally remarked Mr. Capron, "which cannot be answered by 'yes' or 'no.' " ? "I should like to hear one," scorn fully commented his annoyer. "Well,'1 said Mr. Capron, "I think loan prove it. Have you quit beat ing your wife. Answer 'yes' or 'no.' " The crowd saw at once that Mr. Ca pron had the man in a trap. If he said "yes" it was a confession that he had been beating his wife, if he said "no" it was an admission that he was still indulging in the pastime. "Yes" or "nc" shouted everybody in the hall, and in the midst of the confusion the man made his esoape. Washington Post. _ Curds Blood Poison, Cancer, Ulcers, Eczema, Carbuncles, Etc.-Medicine Free. Robert Ward, Maxey's, Ga., says: "I suffered from blood poison, my head, face and shoulders were one mass of corruption, aches, in bones and joints, burning, itching, scabby hands, was all run down and discour aged, but Botauio Blood Balm oured me perfectly, healed all the sores and gave my akin the rich glow of health. Blood Bairn put uew life into my blood and new ambition into my brain." Geo. A. Williams, Roxbury, face cov ered with pimples, ohronio sore on back of head, suppersting awelling on iieck, eating ulcer on leg, bone pains, itching skin oared perfectly by Botan io Blood Balm-sores all healed? Botanio Blood Balm, cures all malig nant blood troubles, snob as eczema, scabs and scales, pimple, running sores, oarbunoles, scrofula, etc. Es pecially advised for all obstinate caa es that have readied the second or third stage. Druggists, $1. To prove it cures, sample of Blood Balm Co.. Atlanta. Ga. Desoribe troubla ana free medical advioe sent in sealed let ter. Sold in Anderson by Orr-Gray Drug Co., Wilhite & Wilhite, and Evana Pharmacy. Cat Corps in Regular Army. In advertising for bids on subsist- I enoo ?stores for tho United States j Army, the list posted by Colonel Abiel L. Smith, in charge of tho St. Louis depot, includes an item, "meats for cats." Thia establishes Tom's and Tabby's status as members of Uncle Sam's forces of offense and de fense. "So," an army officer remarked, "when the cats holds a caucus on n back fenoe one should not wax so ex ceeding wroth as to forget the respect due to the dignity of the felines. They may be soldiers." "Cats," said the officer, "have been important members of the .army for many years. Though their namco ore not carried upon the muster rolls, this advertisement shows that they are com ing to be reoognized. If recruits for the cat ranks were not so plentiful the Government would certainly have to establish a feline farm. As ?tis they are simply kidnaped-or catnaped and forced into service by a shanghi process such as was practiced in for mer times when English sailors were chloroformed and carried aboard ships for foreign service." At the St. Louis storehouses in custody of Colonel Smith of the Sub sistence Department, and Colonel "Barnett, Assistant Quartermaster of the army, and even at the drug depot on Vine street, where Major M. W. Wood of the medical corps is in com mand, there are squads, companies and battalions of cats on duty, and it is to feed these trusty defenders that the bids for oat meat are advertised. One of the Government storekeepers delivered himself of a dissertation upon the subject of his felino com rades: "A large hunk of meat is a sufficient inducement," said hey to get Tom or Tabby to enlist. A gunny sack is always a convenient '.bing to oarry along when on a recruiting expedition of this nature, in case the prospective recruit is inclined to use his daws. But it is not often that we aro foroed to augment the ranks at thc expense of spinster ladies, and to the possible relief of other oitizens of St. Louis. The army traditions aro strong in the oat ranks, and we have pussies in ser vice whose ancestors, even unto thc th:"i and fourth generation back, saw service against the rodent insurgents. "Once in a while," he continued, "we receive requests from army posts on the Western plains to send them a oouple of oats to proteot their rations, and not only their rations, but almost everything else except their lives. "Out there they have what are known as pack rats. They are husky kleptomoniaos, who come into bar racks and 'pack" or carry off almost anything that is portable, inoluding things they can't possibly eat. I have known them to get away with knives and forks, and even belts and gun straps." Which statement Major Wood indorsed. A discussion of the oat family was precipitated in the building at Third and Olive streets, tho Army Quarter master and- Subsistence offioes, the bid for "oat meat" being the cause. Most f ' ?he officers agreed that it was not a good plan to feed the Govern ment oats too muoh meat. Keeping M?LM Means bad air, and whether it ? comes from the low lands a&d marshes of the country, or the filthy and towns, its effect upon the human These atmospheric poisons are t hythe blood, and the foundatiou of t Chills and fever, chronic dyspepsie troubles, jaundice and biliousness ar? Malaria. Noxious gases and unhealC the liver and kidneys fail to act, and i it becomes so polluted and sluggish ti the sl.v>\, and carbuncles, boils, absces indolent character appear, depleting 1 The germs and poisons that so op; the life-giving properties of the bloo he overcome and carried out of the s get rid of Malaria and its effects. S.S.S. dc changeinthe1 lating them t< possesses not and the genet increases almost from the first dose, or other mineral in S. S. S. It is stri < Write ns about your case, and ou their advice to regain your health, free. TSE SWI ? pTorBROwiT ~E. A. SMYTH, C. Pres. & Treaty Vice Pres. AM MON I AT ED ACID PHi COTTON SEED (V We are prepared to sell our on and in aa We wish to call your special alter 16 per cent. Petri* Manufactured 'from Tennessee Phosphi Standard Blood A All of our goodr. m high in tho with care, and are of the best quality, derived from Blood and Tankage. e are also prepared to sell you Phosphate for fertilizing purposes. We are import?is of German Kai a full stock of which we have on hand exchango of any of the above named i purposes, for Cotton Seed at our vario; Please call and see us and secure i Thanking yon foi? your past liber* praise for the high quality and excelle prospero?* New Year, we remain, ANDERSON PHQ8PHA1 them lc*o and hungry makes them perform moro effective service against the onemy. But tho cat foroes are so well drilled that a rat doesn't dare show his whiskers armiud tho store houses, and the cats aro, therefore, merely a garrison troop. They should bo well taken care of for future en gagements, it was argued. One of the offioors, who was posted upou the history of the folino army corps, recalled tho f sot that tho do mestic oat aooompanied tho armies of anoient Egypt as a mascot. Temples were ereoted in her honor and saori fices and devotions offered to Tabby. lu the Middle Ages oats were regard ed as the familiars of witohos and the favorite shape of Satan. There is an old Weloh law ot the Tenth Century which fixed the prioe of etta aocord ing to their age and qualities, begin nine with a kitten before it oould seo, and enacting that if any cse stole cr killed the cat that guarded tho Prince's granary he was to forfeit a milk ewe, its fleece and lamb, or as much as when poured on tho oat, suspended by its tail, the head touching the j floor, would form a heap high enough to eover the tip of the tail. "As a soldier," the officor remark ed, "Tom is to bo commended. It is well that he has thc proverbial nine lives. He sticks to his feeding place and never deserts tho army."-St. Louis Republic. Thia signature is on every box ot tho genuin? Laxative Brooo-Quitilne Tabieu the remedy that corea o cold tn. ops.day. A Good Story. Prof. William B. Soott, of Prince ton, who presided as toastmaster at tho dinner of tho American Philosoph ical Society of Philadelphia rcoently, announced to tho hundred or more fa mous mon who sat around the tables that he oocupiod hin post unwillingly, and then to prove his point aud show how little ho relished tho position in whioh he was standing, ho told this story: "Tim and Clancy wero walking through the wilds of Now Jersey, bound for New York, when Tim spied a wildcat orouched in tho branches of a tree near the road. Clutching his companion by the arm, and pointing exoitedly to the beast, ho said: " 'Clanoy, do yez seo thotfoino Mal tese cat? Oi've a frind in Vasey street as wud give $40 fur ut. Stand yes un der, now, an' Oi'U go up an' shake her dune. All yez'll have to dois to howld her.' "Clanoy did as he was told, and Tim went up and shook and shook till the oat did actually tumble. Clanoy grabbed her. When there came a mo ment's lull in the oyclone of fur and Clanoy and dust and grass, the won dering Tim, looking on from above, called down: " 'Shall Oi oome dune, Clanoy, an' help howld her?' " 'Come dune? Come dune!' gasped Clanoy. 'Come dune, an1 help let her got"' - Preparations maybe more than half of performance. flA En?my ie HQUHH ' sewers and drain pipes of the cities system is the same, ireathed into the lungs and taken up tome long, debilitating illness is laid, i, torpid and enlarged liver, kidney 9 frequently due to that invisible foe, hy matter collect in the system because are poured into the blood current until iiat the poisons literally break through is es, ulcers and various eruptions of an he system, and threatening life itself, press and weaken the body and destroy d, rendering it thin and watery, must lystem before the patient can hope to >c3 this and quickly produces an entire >lood, reaching every organ and stimu y vigorous, healthy action. S. S. 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