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REV. SAM .Talks About the Soutl The biggest thing in South Caro ,. ?s the dispensary. Ben Tillman nd the devil saddled the thing OD *outb Carolina and the politicians WDJ the devil are running it with the id of fools and rane?is who buy the H.uor. Wb?skey s sold from tho dispensary from sun up till sun down ? the prices range from 10 cents for half P>nt bottles to $1.00 for pint bot |e8 from popskill to "good likir." pruuimers and "gentlemen" buy the ?.good licker" and negroes and poor whites buy the 10 cents a pint stuff. ^11 the dibpensaries of the State are famished their liquor from the Colum bia wholesale shop. The State takes its profits at headquarters before the town a J county dispensaries get hold of it. Then the town and coun ty divide the profits equally. And the work of drunkard making goes steadily on. I find in mingling with tbe re?Plc CI mean tDe 8?od People) for I go with no other sort, are all opposed to the dispensary. They say it's better than the saloon. Just as they prefer measles to smallpox. They say it's death to morals and manhood, whether it's furnished by saloon, blind tiger or dispensary. The dispensary is as muoh in poli tics in South Carolina as the saloons of Chicago or 'Atlanta are in politics. Therefore both gangs know that when they go out of politice they must go out of business. And so it goes, and it looks like as long,ao the infernal greed of whiskey dealers and the in fernal appetite for drink shall i assess men that the traffic will go on, but I am still at my old game fighting the c a UL's on both sides. They tell nie X can't stop it, but I tell them that I am like the boy who grabbed the calf hythe tail and tho calf took off down the road at break neck speed, and the boy keeping up with the procession, and by and by a gentleman said to the boy: "Tom, what are you doing with that calf?" "I am trying to stop him." "You can't stop him that way," said the gentleman.' "I know I can't," said the boy, "but I'm slow ling him up some." So I say, gentlemen, while I may never be able to stop the gang, I have them by the tail and hope to slow them up somewhat. I asked the hotel man in one of the South Carolina towns if the drummers bought muoh dispensary liquor, be replied not much. A few of them still drink, Ibut as a rule when a drummer gets [drunk at my hotel, he don't oome lack any more. I inquire of him, and I learn his house had fired him. Hetaid I find that drinking or gamb ling drummers are growing soaroer and scarcer every year. Their houses pire them soon as they get on to them. Liquor was never under bond like it is today, the fellows who drink it as the low down white folks, and ne groes, who have nothing to loose, or the well-to do fellows, who oan afford to be vagabonds for they have money and money not only makes the filly go, but it makes a dog respectable. I keep haying that the last man of us was born half dog and half man, and many men have fed the dog in them and btarved the man, until the ania them is dead and tne dog full town, and there are thousands of fol ow8, wbo if they had a little more air and a tail they could go to run ing rabbits for a negro. All dog, t for nothing but bologna sausage. Whiskey is splendid dog food, and an poison. And the Georgia legislature ijs in ession again. I have not had time o look up the pedigree of its mahers, >r into their habits. I will look into Jhose things later along-maybe. If t's worth while. I wonder what they ill do with the depot matter. Jo; >H Hall is on top at these writings oe ia the only fellow who oan say, 'I told you so." But the roads wili ? Boon be under one general mange ent, and then the thing will be too >g to tackle. This is your last chance entlemen-r-now or neve/ If you Wt build they will, and I don't now but both of you had better build, he State and the railroads. We will ant a depot for the poor little W. & - bye and bye. But don't let any wng be done through spite* "Tote jw ? ' gentlemen, and keep in mind we owe the railroads about as nob. as they owe us. We have done Inch for the railroads, but they have ?one muoh for ns. If you don't think 10 you traverse this country as muoh J?1 We and see what yon see along M>? lines of railroads and then get in ff onggy and travel through countries god districts where no tracks are laid ?nd no whistles blow. Let all meas gjes be considered and all bills pass TJ *lkboot spite and spleen, I am for w bottom dog, and here ie a bottom everyday fight. l*m *l*d to see cotton holding up Pnce.- Some ok our best fermera P. JONES bi Carolina Dispensary. are holding their eotton end they think by March cotton will Bell at 10 cents, and 1 think so, too. I am sure I have looked on more sorry fields of cotton this year than any year of my life, and the yield must be short, but we will make enough to do us if we oonld be economical and honest. Some men want only an excuse to act the dog that is in them. If a bank breaks in a towiv a fellow who never had a dollar on deposit will tell his credi tors: "I can't pay you now, the bank bas failed and almost ruined mo," ana some f'rmcrs will make the cry of short crops a reason they don't settle accounts, when they ought to pay half or three-fourths of all their indebted ness.-Rev. Sam P. Jones, in Atlanta Journal. Fine Flour and Appendicitis. Changes in milling processes are responsible for appendicitis,, accord ing to a physician who has been in the practice of medioine for fifty years and who has observed the spread of the disease. This physioian, Dr. H. C. Howard of Champaign, 111., as serts that until the trade demand for exceedingly white flour ohanged the method of grinding wheat there was no appendicitis. To prove this assertion the physi cian points to the fact that where coarse breads are used the disease is unknown, but that as soon as the fine breadstuffs are introduced appendici tis comes along as a sequence. By this reasoning it is shown that the people of agricultural communities who secured their flour from smaii mills did not have the disease until t!ie small mills were crowded out by the large ones and fine flour supplant ed the coarse. Then the negroes of the south so long as they ate ooru bread were free from the disease, but when thc new process flour began to be used thc disease came among them. The same result attended the depar ture of the German folks from their coarse bread to the refined flour. "I can rememborthat prior to about 1875," said Dr. Howard, "there waB little or none of the ailment among the people. Tn twenty-five years of practice among tho people before that time I do not think I saw more than forty oaseB of appendicitis. Now they are common. Large and extended change in the diet of people has contributed to this. For example, about the date mention ed there began to be a general change from the old method of grinding grain to the present method of roller mills and excessively fine bolting cloths. This plan of milling began first in the large cities, and appendicitis began to increase tkst there.. Later the new process crccrdcd cut thc s rn ?ll milln in the country, and the people oould not get flour made by the old prooess. They bought products of the large milling establishments, and then the farmers began to have appendicitis. "Still the negroes of the south did not have it, but in time they began to get away from their plain corn bread, and they, too, began to have appendi citis. So it goes. They did not have appendicitis ?L Germany until they began to eat our fine white flour and put in the new prooess of milling after our fashion. Now they have appendi citis in Germany, just as we do. "Experienced millers will tell you that the fine flour 'is a less desirable flour than that made by the old pro oess but the trade demands it chiefly on account- of its whiteness. On ac count of its indigestibilicy the disar rangement of the digestive organs of the people eating it has greatly in creased. The prime cause of appen dicitis is-found in this disarrangement. "Quite small children have it. I know one boy who has had thirteen well-defined attacks of the disoaee and came out of all of them without surgical operations. He ohanged his food to corn bread and mush, with ooaree breads io ?general, vegetables, little meat and some fruit and he has taken on flesh cod has cot had a syrup tom of tho disease for three years." Chicago Tribune. Cares Blood and Skin Diseases, Itch ing Humors, Eczema, Scrofula, Etc. Send no money-simply write and try Botanic Blood Balm at our ex pense. A personal trial of 1 Blood Balm is better than a thousand print ed testimonials, so don't hesitate to write for a free sample. If you suffer from ulcers, eczema, scrofula, blood poison, cancer, eating sores, itohing skin, pimples, boils, bone pains, swellings, rheumatism, oatarrh, or any blood or skin disease, we advise you to take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) Especially recom mended for old, obstinate, deep-seated cases of malignant blood or skin dis eases, because Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) kills the poison in the blood, cures-where all else fails, heals every sore, makes the blood pure and rieh, gives the skin the rioh glow of health, B. B< B., the most pcrfeot blood purifier made. Thoroughly test ed for 30 years. Cost fl per large bot tle at drug stores. To prove it cures, sample of Blood Balm sent Jfree by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Desoribe trouble and free medical ad* vico sent in* sealed letter. 9&f* This ls an honest offer-medioine Bent at once, prepaid. Sold in Anderson by Orr-Gaay Drug Co., Wilhito & W? hlte and Evans Pharmacy. Poetic Justice. "Father, what is poetio justice?" asked Fred Stanley, at the tabb;. "Bless the boyl What put tha? ? into his head?" said his motlier. ' "Why, there was something about ' it in our reading lesson today, and, ? when I asked Miss Thompson what it meant, she said we should see bow many of us oould find out for our selves, and give her an illustration of lt tomorrow, but I don't know how to find out, unless you tell me, father." Mr. Stanley looked thoughtful for a moment, and then smiled as if struck by some amusing recollection. "Poetio justice," he said, "is a kind of justioe that reaches us through *he unforeseen uonsequenoes of our un just acts. I will toll you a little story, Fred, that I think will furnish the illustration you are after. "I recall a summer afternoon a good many years ago, when I was not so lt'TjKo as I am now, T??o other boys and myself went blackberrying in a big meadow several miles from home. On our way to the meadow, as wo paddled along the dusty highway, we met a stray dog. Ho was a friend less, forlorn-looking creature, and seemed delighted to make up with us; and when we gave him some soraps of bread and meat from our lunch basket, he capered for joy, and trotted along at our side, as if to say, (Now, boy s, I'm one of you.' We named him Rover, and boy-like, tried to find out how muoh ho knew and what he oould do in the way of tricks; and we soon discovered that he would 'fetch and carry' beautifully. No matter how big the stick or the stone, nor how far away we threw it, he would reach it, and drew it back to us. Fen ces, ditohe, and brambles be seemed to regard as only so many obstados thrown in his way to try his pluok and endurance, and he overcame them all. "At length we reached the meadow, and scattered out in quest of black berries. In my wandering I discover ed a hornet's nest, tho largest I ever saw. and I have seen a good many. It was built in a cluster of blackberry vines, and hung low, touching the ground. Moreover, it was at the foot of a little hill; and, as I scampered up the latter, I was met at the Gummit by Rover, frisking pbout with a stick in his mouth. J don't see why the dog and hornets' nest should have connected themselves in my mind; bub they did, and a wicked thought was born of the union. " 'Rob! Will!' I oalled to the boys; 'come here. We'll have some fun.' "They came promptly, and I ex plained my villainous project. 1 pointed out the hornets' nest, and proposed that we roll a stone dowe upon it, and send Rover after the stone 'And, ohl won't it be fun to see hov, astonished he'll be when the hornett come out?' I cried, in conclusion They agreed that it would be funny, We selected a good-sized round stone, called Rover's special attention to it, and started it down the hill. Whet it had a fair start, we turned the doj loose; and the poor fellow, never sus peoting our tr?.?ohery, darted afte: the stone with a joyous bark. Wt had taken good aim, and, as the groun< was smooth, the stone went true v its mark, and orashed into the hoi nets' nest just as Rover sprang upoi it. In less than a minute the f orion insects had swarmad out, and settle upon the poor animal. His surpris and dismay filled onr antioipstioz and we had just begun to double oui selves in paroxysms of laughter wher with frenzied yelps of agony, he cam up the hill toward ns, followed close ly by all the hornets. " 'Run!' I shouted; and we di run; but the maddened dog ran fastei and dashed into our midst, with pi eons appeals for help. The horne settled like a blaok, avenging olou over us, and the soene that fol Io we ba?les my power of description. ^ ran, we scattered, we rolled on tl ground, and we howled with agony. 'T have never known just how loi the torture lasted; but t remember was poor Rover who rose to the erne genoy, and, with superior instinc showed us a way tc rid ourselves our vindictive assailants. As soo ss he realized that we, too, were distress and could give no assistanc he ran blindly to a stream that dow* through the meadow not far awa and plunged in, dived clear benea the surface. We followed bim, ai only ventured to crawl out from t friendly element when we were assur that the enemy had withdrawn. Th we sat on the bank of the stream a looked at eaoh other dolefully thron our swollen, purple eyelids, while t water dripped from our clothing, a a hundred ?tinging wounds remind 1 us what excessively funny fun we h j been having with Rover. "The poor dog, innocent and fi from gaile himself, judged us aoooi ingly, and, creeping |up to me, liok my hand in silent sympathy. Th bOm? dormant sense of justice assert itself within me. " 'Boys/ I said, 'we've had an awl tics; but, I tell yon what, it ser ns right.' "Neither of them contradicted r and, rising stiffly, we went sloi homeward, with Rover at onr hec 'That, my boy,' said Mr. Stanley, conoluaion, 'is a good instance poetio justioe.' "-Our Dumb A ?h.. Bounty Mutual Benefit Association of America. The County Mutual Benefit Association of America is now organizing the Anderson Division of 1,000 membors. Tho membership feo is $5.00, which ravers the first advance death assessment. One Dollar for every member is leposited with Kv. James M. Payne, the Secretary and Treasurer of the An lerson Division, and is held in The Bank of Anderson, subjeot to the order of helson B. Green, the President of the Anderson Division, to pay the first leath loss by tho Association. The Policy is olear and simple- agreeing to pay the sum of one dollar for ivery member in the Division upon the surrender of the Policy and approval )f the proofs of death of a member in good standing. It is a home organiza tion, managed by honorable, high-minded business men, for the benefit and protection of home people. It reduces life insurance protection to the mini mum of oost that the average of human life will allow. There aro no big sal tried officers to pay, and there are no big aunual premiums to be sent out of the County into some rioh Northern insurance oompany's pocket. All the poney stays right at home, and when it is paid out every member knows ex actly to whose benefit it goes in time of trouble. Until thc first thousand ouembers are scoured applicants will bo received up to 55 years of age, there after no member will be admitted over 30 years of age. We want good, relia ole agents iu every township in Anderson County at once. Persons desiring LO become agents for their township will write or call on TUOS. W. NORRIS, nanager of agents for Anderson bounty. _ lt?-4 GROAVING ! WE have enlarged our Store room and added to our Stove ami Tin buri nes3 GLASS and CROCK Eil Y, and would be pleased to have you call and inspect Goods aid pet prices. We sell the best Cook Stoves, Ranges and Heaters ou the market. Would call special attention to the Air Tight Wood Burner, lt will burn knots, chunks, chips, corn-cobs, roots, trash of any kind, and gives the greatest amount of heat with less fuel than any Stove in ex istence. We contract for Roofing, Gut tering, Plumbing and Electric Wiring. Yours for business, ARCHER & NORRIS. TAKE NOTICE. Do not Fail to trv our Specially Prepared tj X v A 8 1-2 2-2 Petrified Bone Fertilizers for Grain. We have all grades of Ammoniated F?rtil izers and Acid Phosphates, also Kainit, Ni trate of Soda and Muriate of Potash; all put up in new bags ; thoroughly pulverized, and no better can be found in the market. We shall be pleased to have your order. ANDERSON PNOSPNHl IND Oil CO. m_M^CT-MOPPlTT'?ifl1CiTii GuOlara-?nfanluR?, M&9J?fiC-) L t^mmWBB?m?mW^BMW Diarrhou,Dyientery,and F^ilr8^! Bfg *frfla aM m i fl jlHiS the Bowel Troubles ci f&&K?ra?S&^<>? maU 35 feat* to C. ?I. WIOFPETT, M. D"- ST. LOUIS* MO, ?n>wi i Orno? O? n. B. BxfU>T, Gae rotary ot S tato. J.urar. Tex., Nor. 81? 1900. I tiaro found Dr. Moffitt'a TEETHtNA k> splendid r*jiody and eld for my teaming children. When mr oldest borwufttetxUbff chUd, ?rory taomdlna ?cy \tur^ea ce that wo would limitably loto Mm. I happoned ripon TEETUINA.and oezm it o nco &dmlnlitartnc; lt to bice and Ma ImproTcment was marked in 24 hours, and from thai day on ho re?u^rTtodT I^avo constinUy Hep* lt and used It tinco wita my ehu4ren, and haro taken gn&t afieSe !s BOM1!=S"Es: prt?sss ? BC?tf?? ot ??a* c Milton, i iooud il Inraloablo ?wea ef Urjhefa?puaaj pJS?d-WMpaawd. HHS. S. E. SABOT. "MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES !" lt is very easy to make Hay while the sun shines if you have A DEERING MOWER and RAKE. THE many advantages the Deering: Mower bas enables the operator to work it with much more ease than any other machine, and no time lost in go ing around stumps and trees. This Machine is so constructed that the driver is at no trouble in lowering and raising the cutter bar in passing stumps and trees. With no eifert scarcely he brings the cutter bar to an upright position without stopping the Machine. There are many other advantages the Deer ing Ideal Mower has tha? we will show you when you want a Mower. The Pitman Rod of this Mower has only two pieces, while all other Machines have from ten to twenty-five pieces to wear out and be replaced. The Mower is not all in looking up en outfit. Ii is essential to have a good Rake, and the Deering Rake is the wimpiest Rake on the market. A comparison of our Rake with other makes will convince any farmer that it is the Rake he needs. The devices for dumping are BO constructed that a child can operate it without any assistance. If you are in need of an outfit let us show you our Mower and Rake and be convinced. Now io the time to sow your stubble land in Peas and harrow them in with one of our TORRENT HARROWS. We are still headquarters for all lines of Hardware, Nails and Wire. BROCK HARDWARE COMPANY, Successors to Brock Krotber*. BLACKSMITH AND WOODWORK SHOPS ! THE undersigned, having succeeded to the business of Frank Johnson & Co., will continue it at the old stand, and solicits the patronage of the public 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 Tues. ' Youri for business Church Street, Opposite Jail. J. P. TODD. ?nffl Values These. Nothing gives us such genuine pleasure as to offer to our Customers One Hundred Cents worth of Value for every Dollar ! WE mako just as good a profit on an article that is worth the money as we do on one that ?e not worth carrying home. Tho first mukes us friends and new customers, while the last keeps us continually in hot water. For this reason, in buying our SEW STOCK OF DRESS GOODS and SHOES, We left off the usual sido line of "shoddies" and bought only the very best tiuality of doods for the price. For instance, our long experience in Shoe Buying and Shoe Selling taught us just what our best trade demanded in Shoes, aud we bought accord ingly, so that we are euabled to offer the Newest, Best, most Substantial and Shapely lino of Ladies aud Gentlemans Shoes Ever brought to this market. We have an excellent combina tion Brogan aud Dress Shoe for men that we offer for $1.75 that oan't bo duplicated elsewhero tor $2.00. We have a Lace Wa ter Proof Calf, half boot, for $2.00 that makes us friends every day. Wc have a most comfortable heavy Kangaroo Man's Calf lined, that is as full of value at $1.50 as it is full of solid leath er. Our Stock of Women's Shoes is equally as varied and com plete as the men's, and wo confidently offer them to the trade aa honest, well-made goods. Wo have recently added to our Stook a handsome, lino of TETJNKS, From a cheap packer to the best $5.00 Trunk. Prospective briden and grooms, and young ladies and gentlemen starting to College, will observe that goods-boxes havo gone out of date since our new prices on Trunks went into effect, and that tho stylo now is one of Dean & Ratliffc's Trunks. Speaking of style, there never wus a time since thc foundation of thc world when DEAN'S PATENT FLOUR Wasn't in style. It is still in style, and thc peoplo just cry for it. Any ono who doubts it can see for himself by watching where all thc wagons load. The people will have our stuff, and that's what makes us the busiest Store in town. DEAN & RATLIFFE, THE HOTTEST OF THE HOT. Why Not Give Your House a Coat of MASTIC PAINT ? You can put it on yourself--it is already mixed-and to paint your house would not coot you more than.' . . . Five or ?ix Dollars! SOLD BY Orr-Gray & Co* HOME SEEKER EXCURSION RATES VIA. The Western and Atlantic Railway and Nashville, Chat tanooga and St. Louis Railway, To points in Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Missouri. 8olid vesti buled trains between Atlanta and Memphis. Only one change of cars to piincipal western cities. Very low rates to all points North, Northwest and West. Best service and quickest lime via the Scenic Battlefield Route. For schedules, rates, maps or any information, write JOHN E. SATTERFIELD, Traveling Passenger Agent, No. 1 Brown Building, Atlanta, Ga. Sept 10. 1002_ _12_ dm CH > O < 0 3 250 H b m g SP Z 0 H ts S cj 2 > a o 0 Dd ha M 0 > 2 M ? 5? ts co w g O w ^ Wt NJ ? 2 ft M S g a Z L ts il Ss S W G - CELEBRATED - Acme Paint and Cement Cure Specially used on Tin Roofs and Iron Work of any kind. For sale by ACME PAINT & CEMENT!CO. Reference : 9 F. B. GRAYTON & CO., Druggists? Anderson? S? C.