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IN DEFENSE if ??: f be other day, in lecturing1 before1 the Mhool te?oherB wd$i*^per Hu ?entsat the Untyer?tj of> UMc**o? President Andr?es jvsed ?ll of his hearers who weren't! married to rash into matrimony, end declared that ?fl man or woman who voluntarily re-| mained single was a moral de-eaor ate. *^ ** Perhaps no more mischievous ad vice than this was eyer given. Hasty, ?od ill-considered marriages, marriages entered into without sufficient means to support a family, marriages eos* traded in the mistaken belief that a j passing fancy is a deathless pseaicm, I are responsible for nine-tenths of ih'e murders and thefts and. drunkenness and misery of the worjd. Soon un ions where loves die? with the honey-, moon, and whero all that is left ia a bated chain that binds two people (to gether, is the devil's workshop where all that is worst in the character of a man and woman are developed, andas a matter of truth, the moral degener ates are not old maids and baohelora, batmen and women ; who-have; been unhappily married, and whose own ex periences have embittered them and seared their belief In every good and true thing. The old bachelor,'no matter how wicked he may have been himself, cherishes some ideal of womanly gen tleness and purity; the old maid hugs to her heart to the last her faith in the supreme nobility of man; buttha man whose wife has betrayed him, or the woman whose husband has been false to her, believe in nothing, and either go forth to avenge their wrongs, on society, or, soured and disgrunt led, mock at the gods of others. If every marriage were a happy marriage, Dr. Andrews, and every other preacher and'teaoher, might well urge it indiscriminately on people, for there can be no donbt that just as un happy wedlock develops all the tares and weeds ic the soul, happy marriage is the sunshine in which all the buds ?Gd blooms of thej heart find their finest flower. The: love that robs la bor of its toil, that- makes sacrifice a pleasure, that prefers another above itself, round8 life into its fullest per fection. Those who have missed a happy marriage have missed the best that tbe world oin give, but those that bave kept out of an unhappy marriage; bave escaped a lot of misery and suf fering, and sometimes} it is a good deal; better to be safe than to- run the risk of being blessed. Unless all the cir cumstances of marriage are propitious -unless the man and wos&n sro old enongh to know what they really de lire in a life oompanion, and are sure that their love is founded on some thing deeper and more lasting than I the curve of a cheek or ah ability to dance the two-step, and unless they have sufficient inoome to live on de cently in the way in whioh they have been accustomed to live, it will be a great deal better for their hearts and their morals and their tempers and their purses to stay single, Dr. An jdrews to the contrary notwithstanding. ?There have been reckless .'marriages jthat turned out all right, but nobody Ita a right to take it for granted that Ithey will be struck by lightning. I As a further inducement to the un Sprepared to break into tho holy state jof matrimony. Dr. Andrews says that Ethe single man or woman has no plane ED society. The facts in the oase gdon't seem to bear out. this either. ?Hen who have done great things have Keen mostly .married becaase women Bemired them So they couldn't escape, Bhrough quite a respectable number of HwchelorB have also made a noise in floe world, and have done things that ?eft humanity better and wiser, while goong women. Florence. Nightingale, ?ranoes. Willard, Clara Barton, Jane ?Addams, and a hundred more one gould name c?-h??? have not only had S defi?it? p?aoo in society, but a perch fla the topmost ronnd of the ladder, fl?though none of them had a hns fl In society-the# gay eoeiety that Hives balls and parties abd rides in au flomobibs-whether a middle-aged Hereon has a plaoo in it or not do ?ends, in this country at least, on what sort of chromo they can throw in ??th their o?mpany and lack of person W ?ttractioni, and not on their pos-j MjiBion of a wedding ring. * An elder- i ? woman, stringy and sallow and' B^in, without any particular gift ot ?M or person tb attract the admira ?f her fellow-creatures,, must jr*?,y Wt tho privilege of society if she gets Wb If oho is poor and cannot entor flrn, she will find herself relegated to mfa back ranks and the Church sonia Sr* crowd, jusfc as muoh ii? sae is a vrried woman as if she is an old Jy^d, abd by the same tok?n the ric* -?Poster never has to complain of nog Bp or being overlooked by her ac OF CELIBACY. Andrews. quaintances? The woman who?? ooo is a sordos bleu and whose wines are of the proper vintage does not find that her invitations are reffed be? cause she is single,. and while a hus band may be a luxury, he is by no means a sooial necessity. So far as men are concerned, the statement that'"a elogie person has no status in society is even more unten able, for it is an axiom that so long as a man is unmarried he is an object of burning interest end solicitude to every woman in the communis /. The old bachelor is always persona grata with the wives of his married friends, a welcome guest at their table, and a perennial object of their phi lau tropic matchmaking endeavor. Indeed, one of the severest jars a man's vanity eyer gets is the dull, sickening thud with whioh all other women throw him over the minute he is married. Up to that time he has been a figure. Women's faces have brightened at his approach, they have hung with eager interest oh his words, and laughed at . bis witticisms, but the minute ht jets married ho is of interest and import i anoe I o only ono woman, in thc;World, ! and nc other woman is mean enough. I to do him reverence. But the society that io of most im portaoce in the world is the great brotherhood of man, and nothing could be less true than that the unmarried man or woman hes no part 'in this. In every community there are old maids and old bachelors whose lives are so helpful to their fellow crea tures that it nlmoBt seems os if they had a special call to oelibaoy, and that they were dat off from tender family ? ties' in order that they might assnme a mission of fatherhood and mother i hood broader than that bounded by blood, and far more unselfish. We all know the old maid sister or aunt, who is the stop gap in the fami ly life and makes good the deficien oies and inefficiencies of the wife to the husband, and who mothers moth erless little children. We know old bachelors who have .never known the love of wife or ohild, to whom no Cry of the widow or the orphan ever comes unheeded. All abont us there are thousands of unmarried women and men who are spending their lives mak ing good the married failures, aud to say that these people have no place in society ie like blaspheming against th? saints. It is the? unmarried men and women who are carrying on the great altruistic, philanthropic work of the world, for in the majority of cases family life makes people selfish, and they do new look beyoad their own brood. " * Some of the most beautiful stories of .unselfish devotion that the world has ever known could be told by these unmarried men and women, and many amen who battons his prim little black coat over his withered heart is entitled to pin there the cross of the Legion of Honor, for his gallant sacri fice of himself to his duty. The world seeB in h'm only a thia old man, dried up and wrinkled, who has acquired fussy, particular ways through muoh living alone, and it guys him good naturedly about being an old bachelor, and never dreams that somewhere down the road of the old man's life is a grave where he buried love and ro . manee and the hope of wife and child, and turned his bsok on happiness for the Sake of others, who often do not appreciate him, . ISomewhere, in a little country] tewn, I know an old bachelor who is oalled "Uncle Jim" by half the munity. He is a. wisened old man now, always scrupulously dressed in black, in the fashion of 20 years ago, and all day long he stands beni nd the counter of a drug store and listens with unfailing patience to the "symp tono" of his neighbors, and prescribes for them,, for Uncle Jim's remedies are esteemed far above doctors' stuff, and not a man, woman or child who does not go to bim with their aches, whether of body or heart. It is a j flourishing little town in wi Joh Uncle Jim lives, and he does ? flourishing business, and many people wonder why ho has never married. . One night it chanced that I dropped into the store very late. The last of the customers and loungera had gone ???d thestoro seemed deserted, but lind a screen, in the back of the >ng room, I found Unele Jim sittieg at his desk, with a few yellow old let tbzz, a crumpled globe and a withered rose Spread out before him, and on his cheek the hard and bitter tears of old age. . Abashed, I would have withdrawn, but he stopped roe. "Don't go, my dear," he uaid. "Do you ever feel that the dear dead aro so near you csu almost touoh them and hear their voices? All day I have b<^? listening to tho rustle of angel wings, and the sound of a voice that I Iloved, and BO tonight I have been liv ing over my youth thal left me-only these/' ?nd he spread hts hands pa thetically over the little heap en the desk. "Perhaps you bave wondered, as other people do," he went on, "why I never married. I was to have been once. ; I was engaged lo a b eaatifol girl whom I loved with aj?,my' 'Ijeajrt* and we had already rbegai. to make the planB-the sweet, foolish plait*?fot the Utile home thal was lo be ours, when suddenly my sister's husband died, and her support was thrown up* on me. I couldn't refuse the burden, you know. She was helpless and de stitute, and thore were little children crying to mo for bread, and so I had to give up my own happiness for her. "Angela oried when I told her and gave uer back herfresdom, for I would not bind th? woman I loved to the wearing slavery of a long engagement, and then she laid her dear head upon my breast for the last time, and I held her dose in arms, arms that I knew would go hungering for her to the grave, ae she told me over and .over again that she would be faithful to me and wait for me to the end. "I wasn't rioh in those days, my dear. It was a hard struggle to feed eight hungry little mouths, snd it lined my faee and strewed my hair with silver before my tims; but, by and by, the years wore on, and the children went out into the world, and I saw happiness beokoning to me sgain and Angela and I took up our unfin ished dream and began knitting to gether its dropped threads. "Tuen-one of my sister's^ boys-a weak, foolioh fellow, fell Into bad company, and got lo drinking and gambling and robbed his employer of a large) sum of money. I sat here all alonadme long night fighting oat the battle between duty and love, and whenjrjhe ?ray dawn broke duty had wonnat it loft se au old ?ac. There;'was my sister's broken heart to conoider, and-the old name that had ne ver had a stain upon it-and I paid the money for the boy. "Al last, however, after middle life had pissed and long waiting had rob bed Angela's oheek of its roses and her step of its-, lightness, when we knew that the fire and joy of youth had gone from us forever, it seemed thar-?ur happiness was coming to us. My sister had gone to live with her ohildren, the business was prospe-iog and Angela and I were planning uuoe more for the home that was to bs ours at last; but it was not to be. Angeli sickened and died, and all that wai left me was the memory of the long, long years and this little heap of treas urea. "It isn't much for a life time, but but I have my pleasures. I shall never know the clinging arms of i wife about me, but I send many a wo man's husband al home to her ot night with his wages who would waste them at the corner euloon but for , me. I shall never have a child, but many ? boy listens to me when he wouldn't tc his own father, and many a girl hu the lessons and the help that enabl?d her to go ont into the world and ears a living. They don't mind it from me, you know. I am just Unele Jim, aerocbetty old bachelor, who ion'? quite either a man or a woman, bul who has his IfUle piase in the worlc for all that," bc added, with a whim siosl sigh. Sometimes I hear important fa thc rc of families or gay young boys ask ban teringly: "Uncle Jim, why didn't you ev?i marry?" "Oh, 1 wasn't a handsome younf fellow like you," he invariably re plies, but I know that he io thinking of a withered roan, end a ?tu? to msnoe, and a grave where the grass ii growing . " Dorothy Dix. - It will undoubtedly be a eo)i day when the north pole is discovered Sleeps In Boom With Snake, i Taooma, Wash., Aug. 30.-When John Pron tico entered his ono-room boase across the Columbia Fiver from Pas?o, he heard a big rattlesnake shake a warning behind a mass of rub bish in tho room. . Prentice now sleeps with a gun on o?e side and a bottle of whiskey ob tue other, prepared for either emer gency. Ho is un oblo fcc dislodge the rattler. When he rolls over in bed at j night the rattler, sleeping just a few feet away, starts up, too, and rattles warningly. Prentice's friends deolan it is a toss-up whether he will event ually have to use the gan or the whis key. Both Made a Confession. When he made his customary oall upon the object of his affections the other evening, the young mac dis played more than tba ordinary ner vousness that usually marked his bearing. "What's troubling you, George?" asked the lovesick maiden, noticing his condition. "Oh, I have something to confeso to yon and I don't know how it will, affect yon." "Well, never mind. I'm 'prepared for anything." "Clara, I am a somnambulist." "Oh, pshaw; don't worry 1 My father is a Unnaria J', my mother's Congregationalist and I'm a hardshell Baptist but I don't mind ohangtag." -Exohange. Both Handicapped. On one occasion Bishop Porer was a guest at the" Storm King Club, says the New York Times. After a com fortable dinner he sent a telegram to one of the officials of the New York Central railroad asking him to stop the night express at Storm King op tion, on the opposite side of tho river. J He drove down the mountain and' hired a boatman to row him across. Arriving in good time, he and the boatman waited in the rowboat ustil the approaching train warned them to seek the station, only to see the train arrive, rush by, and disappear into the darkness. The bishop was irritated. "Well," he-said, "I am a bishop of the JSpisoopal Church, and I suppose ray calling will not allow me tossy anything." "Well," replied the boatman, "I am a Methodist and my principles will not let me say anything." Hot days followed by oool nights will breed malaria in the body that is bilious or costive. Prickly Ash Bit ters is very valuable at this time for keeping tho stomach, liver and bowels well regulated. Evans Pharmacy. - A boy who disappeared from Hos bury fifty years ago died reoently the king of cannibal islands, the Marques as, in the Southern Pacific : A whal ing ship on which he had taken pas sage was wrecked on one of these is lands, and the castaway survived io become the king. It is given to a few men to realise to snob an estent the ambitions of tb'eir childhood. - ? remarkable discovery has been made at (xirgeh, in Upper Egypt, in the. unearthing of human remains at least 8000 years old. These represent the most ancient of prehistoric periods, and Dr. Elliot Smith, of the Medical School at Cairo, has gone there to in vestigate the remains. The remains sre in a remarkable state of preserva tion, due, perhaps, both to the dry ness of the climate and the excellence of the embalming, lt is said that in several ease? the eyes are so well pre served that the lenses are intaot. - To the job of engraving the al phabet on a pin's head a Utica, ?i. Y., man has devoted the energy that might' have accomplished something i worth while. "lei tba eOUt BUSTtwrnw do your work." GOLD OUST will take ?very particle of dust and dirt tram your floors and woodwork-makes them t as clean as a whittle, neat aa a pin. Nothing so good for washing clothes and dishes. Made emly by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY. , Ca-atoy U tTerti W ft. l^--*elra4 ? OYAL Fimr SOAP* WHEAT GROWERS. Anderson, S. C., Aug. 1, 1902. To the contestants for the pr?tes offered by the Anderson Fertiliser Company for crop of 1901-1902 : We find that T. M. Welbon, of Pen dleton, 8. C., has won the first prize for the yield of 108.937 bushels from j * sir nore a, and the first prise for yield j C of 54.206 bushels from three ?ores, ! \ and the first prise for the yield of 18} bushels from one aore. This crop wes grown on land previ ously plantad in cotton ; wes prepared by turning with a two-horse plow, fol lowed by a two-horse subsoil plow. One bushel of Blue Stem wheat was sown per sore with a wheat drill, ap plying at the same time 800 pounds of Anderson Phosphate and Oil Company 10-2 aeidand 200 lbs. eotton teed meal per ant*. This test is duly signed by the three judges, and dated July 1st, 1902. The second prise for ?he best yield on six acres is won by Mr. Allen J. Sullivan, of Sullivan, 8. C., for the yield of 108J bushels. This orop was grown on land previ ously planted in cotton ; was turned by a two-horse Oliver Chilled Plow to an average depth of eight to ten inch es, then harrowed with Tarran t's har row, then sown with Farmer's Favorite seed drill, applying one bushel Ken tucky Red Wheat per acre, at the same time applying 340 pounds of Standard Fertiliser per acre, manufactured by the Anderson Phosphate and Oil Co. Mr. Sullivan says that he used aoid on another piece of ground, but got better results where he used Ammoni ated Fertilizers. This ie dated July 9,1902, and prop erly signed by the judges. The second prize for the best yield on one aore is won by Mr. M. B. Rich ardson, of Pendleton, S. C., being 10J bushels. Mr. Richardson grew thiB crop where he previously had cotton. He plowed np the stalks, and ran over the land with a outaway harrow ; then turned deep with a two-horse plow, applied 600 pounds of Anderson Phos photo and Oil Co's. 16 per cent aoid to an acre, and ran the smoothing hsr ' row over it : then sowed three-quarter [.-bushel of Blue Straw Wheat to the aore, applied'200 pounds of meal to I I the acre, and plowed in with side har- j row, followed "with smoothing harrow. , This communication is dated July 7th, 1902, and properly signed by the judges. Mr. L. O. Bean, of Dean, S. C., is the winner of the third prise for the best j ? eld. on one sere, having thresh ed 15$ bushels from one aore. He is also the winner of-the second prize for the three sore contest, having raised 48 bushels. Mr. Dean is also the winner of the third prize for the best yield on six aereo, having th re oh ed 96 J bushels. Mr. Dean raised this crop where he had oats and peas sown the year before. The land was turned with a two-horse turn plow five or six inches deep, then harrowed with a 20-inch solid diso har row. This was followed with an Aome harrow, whioh was followed by a plank drag. He then applied 200 pounds of Anderson Phosphate & Oil Company's 16 per oent. Aoid Phosphate and 150 pounds of ootton seed meal and 15 lbs. of Muriate of Potash through a Farm ers' Favorite Grain Drill on Nov. 5th; the same application was made on Nov. 6th. and then on Nov. 12th he sowed li bushels of Bine Straw Wheat to the acre through a Farmers' Favorite Grain Drill. This communication is dated July 1, 1902,and properly signed by the judges. Yours truly, ? ANDERSON PHOSPHATE & OIL CO. ? Rainald I weit M \ \ \\ have no edict ca Stg'ttt mPmtT 'M harneas treated Wg?Wk\mTk\ Sm> wUh Eureka Har- W W/*Xsl*V*AlirK neis Oil. lt ?e. * w \ situ the damp, ww \ \ _ _ - keep-. OJO leath. ^fWM ?TM g /flCTfV<T? do not break, v ? \ ^ No rough ?ur- \ \ \ \ M ?MW\ , face io cb^j* \??m? ' harness not XBLx^L V\ \ \ v wears twice [Tay ^jh ?Ls*^^^^' lil!' as lons by tbs LbBl ii9*Pf~**~^^?r ase of Eureka J3f j!C >? Y^f** Hara?*?OU. ?^SsLrV^M *\\\ Sold everywhere in cans all sires. Made by Standard Oil Company _ \ EDUCATE i YOUR DAUGHTERS! AND. before deciding where, send for a Catalogue of WILLIAMSTON FE MALE COLLEGE. After examining it carefully, ask yourself why any citizen of Anderson County should send his daughter away for a thorough education in a pure moral atmosphere in an unusually well equipped Female College. Patronize home institutions in preference to others not as good. Address REV. 8. LANDER, Pres., Williamson. 8. C. Joly 80, 1902 6 PARKER'S ~~ MA BR BALSAM *\ beautifies tbs bab luxuriant gruvth. Herer Talla to Hester* Or*y Bair to us Youthful Color. Carss scalp distases ?hair Ullin sDcaad^ljOOat Prusafats _ 03fa Wt?HsY S 'Sw Jtj?o^?a, PAJBUUB3& o'i?i MS RB Bfl cala? OT Whiskey, % DUI Hfl URS? book ot par pa* ? ? 1 non ticolaraon borne or 1 Ll BsV Ifll sanatorium trest Si Hw ???meat. Address, B. AMD M. WOX>LLKYOO^ '?!<.,' iii. . Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned, Admlnlatratrlx of | Batate of Jar. H. El lleco, deoeaaad, taere hv gt voa notice that ehe ?rill op Monday, '2-?d day of September, 1002, applv to the Judge of-Probate for And arnon County, ?. C., for a Fina! Settlement of said Es tate, and a discharge from her office aa Admlnlatratrlx. MART JANE Et/LISON, Adm'x* August 20, 1902 9 5 Rcr.J. W. Sfnl^taw X#Uw*HH; C^?wnte.wriU.0 "K?<ao??"n7?f ?T^u foi wlk?lSS^S nrittal M ? pftckM? Ml H CACM mi ft ?m. t ou? b*b. WM in ? ?uta? coodlttoo I rUi MircJabS i*a labcdcoftdUiM for ?CT?, ?.pd SMrtilin* thM*? ?T- dil any good; the ?*conl d oVe of''TE KT HI NA''?.'*? ?Tt?c<r?ii3t -fl t? hM tod ?0 tmtttw -ro-Ma. OUwx BimUn ot th* Oallj UN UIM lt ?5 A ?Ttiy Uo?* ka? ? WE have prepared for Hard Time? by buying the LARGEST Stock of FURNITURE Ever in Anderson, and have bought at Hard Tiroes Prices. There will ber no Hurd Times for you when you buy from us, for we have the prices lower than you have ever heard of them be fore, and you can now buy two dol lars worth of Furniture for one. Come to see us and we will convince you of the fact that you can S A. VE money by buying any prioe of Furni ture from us. LAUGEST 8TV0K, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOOD8. G. F. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street. UNDERTAKING and EMBALMING. Bed Room Suites, Side Boards,. Lounges, Wardrobes, Baby Carriages, Go Carts, Rockers, Chairs, Safes, Rugs, Mattings, Etc., Etc,r Can be found at a Cheaper Price at the PEOPLES FURNITURE CO. Than anywhere else. COFFINS and CASKETS,_ Why Not Give Tonr House a Coat of y v?TTf DA ?MT *) Imo ni rAilM ! Yo'& can put it on y ourself-it is already mixed-and to paint your house would not oost you more _ than -.- ? - - - J^ive or ?ix Dollars! 80LD BY Ofr~Gray & Co? COLEMAN -WAGENER HARDWARE CO., (SUCCESSOR TO C. P. POPPENHEIM,) SSS KING STREET,.CHARLESTON, S. ?/. SHELF HARDWARE A SPECIATTY. - AGENTS FOR Buckeye Mowers, Brinley Flows, Oliver Chilled Plows. - OFFICER8 : GEORGE A. WAGENER, President, f GEORGE Y. COLEMAN, Vioe President. I. G. BALL, Secretary and Treasurer. Correaptmdenee Solicite*. _ BLACKSMITH AND WOODWOBK SHOPS 1 THE undersigned, having succeeded to the business of Frank Johnson? & Co., will continue it at the old stand, and solicits the patrcnoge of the publie. Repairing and Repainting promptly executed. We make a specialty of ""Goodyear," Rubber and Steel Horse Shoeing. General Blacksmith and Woodwork. Only experienced and skilled workmen employed. We have now ready for sale Home-made, Hand-made Farm Wagon; that we especially invite your attention to* .? We put on Goodyear Rubber Tiree. Yours for business Church Street, Opposite Jail. J. P. TODD? NOW is the time to make a selec tion of a PIANO ! The "Kroeger" io the perfection ol mechanical construction, and for artis tic tone quality has no equal. Dont), be talked into paying a fancy price for a cheap instrument, but see rue about prices. I can sell you the very best at an exceedingly low price. Pianos. Organs, Sewing Machines. Machine Needles 20c. per dozen. H. li. WILLIS, Next to .loor Peoples Bank. m S S ? fl S r * ?ta ?Sci ? jo bd 0 td o ? M W . t? < tr? H H co < * fe o so M _ ? wo % 0 * OD w H d o s gs M ? H > & M > M O 3 ? O te ea 4 - CELEBRATED Acme Paint and Cernent Cure* Specially used on Tin Roofs f and Iron Work of any kind. For sale by ACME PAINT & CEMENT CO. \ Reference : F. B. GRAYTON & CO., Druggists* Anderson,. S. C.