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SARGE PLUNKETT. Sarge Writes About the Boys Who Are Away From Home. The sweetest words that were ever write are the sweet words, "my moth er;" hut the sweetest song is hard to agree upon. Anyhow, during of the war our reg iment w?? ordered away from Virgin ia, and when it became known that we were to come over -vnd help the Ten nessee army at Ghickama^ga the boys raised a song, and a thousand voices joined and a thousand hearts beat time to the tune and sentiment. That song went thusly : "We are off to Georgia early in tho , morning, OC to Georgia 'fore the break of day, Give my respects to all "old Virginia" girls, For we're off to Georgia 'fore the break cf day." Soldiers took up songs and suited them to the oooasion, and I doubt if there waa ever a sweeter song or a more thrilling sentiment than this .."Off to Georgia" to the men who had been in Virginia for years. But it was not the soldiers of the Confederacy or tho days of the war that started my mind in suoh a trend. I have just read a letter from a Geor gia hoy in Canada, and in that letter and in every Hoe you could read the feeling of the heart whioh as good as said, "Ob, for old Georgia onoe again I " I should never have written about this "Georgia boy in Canada" save for the effect it may have upon boys who are yet in Georgia, and some of them smarting under tho delusion that better plaoes are far away and long to lo cw 3 to try their fortunes there. I know the young mac that writes from Canada. I know . that be ii far above the average in ccpaoity. He is a "steel sharpener", and readi ly obtained (2.50 per day here in De Kalb at the quarries; but he was rest less, and rlike many another boy he thought that opportunities lay in the d?atenos. There is no hara, I think, in giving the name of this "Georgia boy in Canada," and, perhaps, the story would be more impressive when it is known that this.boy is none oth er than Joe Bitch, or, to be more ex plicit, Josiah Jonathan Hitch. But we know him BB simply "Joe," and he has touched our hearts here by writing, "Oh, for cid Georgia once again." And in another sentenee he says, "It is snowing now, it has been snowing for days and snow ia every where till lt chills =7 besrt -sd makes me long for home and for Geor gia." In another contonee he says, "If I could only be at home and watch fath er as he saunters np the road and see "Jaok" frisking and romping along oo he goes, it would be a pleasure that no travel can supply and no money could ever purohase." "See father saunter up tue road and watch Jaok frisk and frolio by his aide." This is a sentiment that boys at homo will fail to appreciate till they, too, like this young man, have wandered off and far away. "Jaok" is nothing but a dog, and an old man sauntering np the road or across the fialrla ia nothing to the hoy whe is yet at home, hut wait, boyo, wait till you get far away and then these small things will be the dearest things on earth. When our mothers used to slip in and tuck the cover to keep out the cold, wc hardly gave the ?ninor a thought, but as ago comes, on, When that mother io lost to UB forever, then we remember that gentle touch and would give all that wo have, whatever wc may be, to have that touch again. Every one Of us oan remember these small things-they are a ?art of every lifo. In old time we swung upon the wagon oonpling at corn gathering and the delight of being jolted remains with us UH a sweet memory. Keeping the "gap" used to be a horror, but what would wo give to keep that "gap" again? Gathering hiokory nuts was a small thing, but the best scholar, perhaps, of our country, Mr. Bell, has quit everything and goes out gathering these nuts, sends them north and make3 more than he could raising jotton at even 10 oents a pound. We used to gather chinquapins, chest nuts, muBoadines and so on, wo thought nothing of it then, but what would we give to once again go with the girls, have them Htiok briars in their fingers and th eu stand to have tis pick these briare out. Holding a girl's hand to pick a briar from her finger is a small thing and some might think it a painful thing, but what giri would not like to have tbeso briars in her fingers any more and what boy who would not take delight in hold' ing her hand and pioking the briars out? But theso letters from our boys,at a distance, that is tho question. If all the boys away from home could know just tho feeling that a letter oreates they would never negleot to write. I read this lotter from this "Georgia boy in Canada," read it aloud to the old father, and I watched the ohaoges of his face as I did read. When tho cold and snow was mentioned the old man shivered and I am sure that he longed for his boy to be baok in Geor gia. His um ci 11 Li eyes filled with tears and he stroked "Jaok" with a tender stroke, while the dog seemed to hear and understand. There is something sadly sweet to old folks in every one of these letters. They read tue tu or have thew read over and over again. Memories well up and live over again the days when the boy toddled by the side. An old man io sure to feel and remember the days when it took persuading and soolding to keep the boy from following to wheresoever the father went. It is one of the sad things of life that fathers spend a good part of their life to keep the children st home and from troubling,. to long in after years to have these children with them. We know that boya must go out in the world, and we know that a great many of them have other "fish to fry" than to spend too muob time writing to old folks, but if they under stood just the feeling that still re mains for them in the home they left there would have to be some mighty pressing business to keep them from writing. This "Georgia boy in Canada" i? only one of thousands of boys who have left Georgia to better their con ditions and many another one of them have gone to lands where anow and cold abounds. On this December das tho sun shines like a day in May down here in Georgia. Even now ? see thc father of this boy in Canada strolling aorosa the field in his shirt sleeves. He will return pretty soon with a saok or loouot. He has already gathered the persimmons, and will now put in the locust and a little boiled corn ant1 in a few days we will drink the old persimmon beer just as this boy uaoc to drink. As we drink we will thinl of "Joe," and may he be spared frou the snows of Canada to return agaii to the-sunny skies of Georgia, when 'simmons beer and ginger oakes ant possums and potatoes still remain anc are his only for his coming. Sarge Plunkett. - Western newspapers report tha five years ago a Missouri farmer wai killed by lightning while standing ii one of his fields; two yeera later hit wife waa stunned by another flesh ot the same spot, and last month a ou? grating there waa struck. Ignorance of the Bible. A boy of 17 should intimately know the English Bible. Ho should know it as literature quite aside from its re ligous teaching. Ile should know it from having had it read to him from his earliest years, and from reading and studying it for himself. A boy' who grows up without this intimate acquaintance with the groat master piece of all literature is without some thing for the IOSB of which nothing can compensate and which nothing oan replaoe. It is needless to apeak of the strength of the language, the beauty of the poetry, and the interest of the narratives of this wonderful book, but necessary merely to emphasize con cerning it what was said of the myths and legends-that, without knowing it well, it is impossible to really un derstand or appreciate the groat mass of our best literature. Experience shows that unless a boy acquires .bis knowledge before he is; 17 ho rarely gets it later. The lamentable ign > ranoe that exists in regard to the 'Ji ble was shown by a test of oollege stu dents as to their knowledge of Bibli Ieal allusions in the great poets. This 1 test was made by President Chas. F. Thwing, of Western Reserve Univer sity, and the result was published in tho Century for May, 1900. It show ed that a great majority of the stu 1 dents had no clew to the mont obvious i Biblical allusions.-Review of Re viows. His Aversion For Dixie. Brig. Gen. "Ja ok" Hayes was an aide on the etan* of Gen. Kilpatriok during ? the Civil war. When a hand-organ began playing I "Dixie" the other night he left hia aeat in front of a local hotel and went into the house. j "Why don't you like 'Dixie?' " asked a friend. j "OD our march to the sea," said General Hayes, "we ?rere tearing up a railroad, building bonfires of the ties and laying the rails across them until hbated redhot and then twisting fch?m about trees and telegraph polos. A bunoh of Confederates attaoked us. General Kilpatriok ordered me. to take out three bands and begin playing, hoping to delay the main attack until we had destroyed railroad communi cation. "I deployed the bauds, and they gave the Reba the finest line of musio they ever heard. Finally all of them stopped. " 'Play more patriotio airs,' I order ed. " 'We don't know ?ny n?o?e.' - - id the three bandmasters in concert. " 'Well, give 'em 'Dixie,' I said. "The bands played Dixie and those Confederates let out the rebel yell and started for us and gave us the worst Hoking we got on the march to the sea. That's why I don't seem to like 'Dixie.' Exohange. Boan the mmt*9^A Kind YOT Hara Alwars Bcsgfel -MQ?<--mm - Hungarian peasants have a su perstition that fire kindled by light ning oan only bc extinguished by milk and owing to their refusal to use wa ter a barn with a farmer's whole hay crop has been bumed in ons of the prov?noos. ' - The individual who gets the few est letters, makes the most complaint to the postmaster; the man who nev er had a good meal at home growls at the hotel accommodations: the per son who complains most of his neigh bors is the meanest of the lot; the member who pays the least to the preacher'* salary finds the most fault at his preaohing and oomplains of tbe bad management of the. church. Chicago's Greatness. Chioago has just celebrated its first, centennial and tho Tribune published tho following informing facts about the town : The total mileage of water pipes now in ueo is 191,874 miles. Inoluding those of tho trust tbcro are 1.224 retail cigar stores. During 1902 20,500 marriage licen ses were issued by thc county clerk. Retail meal markets, of whioh there arc 1,578 aro scattered all over town. Chicago's parks, seventeen in num ber, aro collectively tho finest ia thc world. The total expenses for running thc eily of Chicago for 1902 were $15,005, 428,99. The grocer is much in evidenco, as thero are 4,532 retail grocory estab- j lisbmonts. It oosts Chicago $20,000 a year to | remove the snow from its principal business streets. Forty thousand men oall the oheap lodging bouses "home" during the winter months. In 1901 the total grain shipments to Chicago amounted to 245,207,053 bushels. Tho longest thoroughfare in Chi cago is Western avenue, which is twenty-two miles in length. One thousand five hundred and twenty-seven miles of sewers were in operation in Chicago on January 1, 1903. Three thousand one hundred and seventy-five dressmakers are engaged ia clothing Chicago women. There are 5,802 saloons, 60 asylums, ?6 pawn shops, 37 cemeteries and 140 oonstablos in Chicago. Chicago is rapidly becoming a musi cal oentre. Its orchestra is consider ed the beat now in existence. It requires the professional skill of 1,175 dentists to keep upward of 2, 000,000 sets of teeth in order. Two hundred and ninety hotels eater aooeptably to the large and in creasing demands made upon them by visitors. The grain-that is, the wheat, oom, oats, rye and barley-received during the last year amounted to 185,537,374 bushels. The total street mileage in a rtraigbt line would reach from Lake Michigan to the PaoiSo. The ofEoial total is 2,798.34 miles. The fleur received at Chioago dur ing 1902 amounted to 7,395,207 bar rels, of whioh 5,839,441 barrels were shipped all over thc world. The profession of. Blaokstono evi dently strikes the fa*:cy of Ibo am bitious Chioagoan, as there are fully A nrrt *x,v/? J. isn/ciui There are 395 artists, 477 watch makers and jewellers, 353 architects, 826 bakers, 1,920 barbers, 193 pho tographers and ll express companion. Within the confines of the oity are to be found 780 ohurohes, 29 con von to, 21 libraries, 58 hospitals and 292 public schools, attended by 275,000 ohildren. While Chioago's death rate is bul 16.2 per thousand of population, there are 3,192 physicians, whoso prescrip tions may be prepared at any one of the 922 drug stores. There are 630 laundries, 217 of whioh are Chinese; 62 chiropodists, 18 Chinese stores, 33 oaterers, 757 carpenters and builders, 17 kalsomi ners, 49 oabinet-makers and 113 build ing and loan associations. The name Chioago has been evolved from Che-oau-gou, a name given by the Illinois Indiana tn m f??t wh?ob. IS tht early days was looated on the Chioago River. Practically defined in plain English, Chioago means strong, mighty, powerfal. Dressed beef to the amount of 1, 049,801,765 pounds, 909,918 oattle, 831,728 sheep, 1,251,798 hogs, 150, 015 pounds of drossed pork, 382,493, 009 pounds of lard and 660,809,799 pounds of meats in various forms wero shipped out of Chioago during 1902. There muy bo found 535 boarding house, 106 employment agencies, 213 florists, 31 theatres, 126 chemists, 15 claim agents, 98 clairvoyants, 23 der matologists, 717 trained nurses, 2,446 confectioners, 10 professional trans lators and ?o( undertakers. A Lucky Girl. "What a perfectly beautiful bracelet, and isn:.. that lace collar a drenm! Rep! Italian, isn't it?" said Bertha's admiring friend. "Yes, and wasn't I lucky to get them? I didn't tell you how it hap pened, did I? Well, it was this way. You know Cousin George has been in Europe for about two years, and ho was engaged to some one hero-so ho says. Well, anyway, ho brought her the most beautiful lot of things; but be wanted to make suro she really cared for him, so beforo hewenttosee her, he wrote and told her that ho had lost all his money. I supposo she conoludcd there wasn't anything in it for her, so sho wroto him the frostiest note in reply. And, of course, ho did not go to seo her nt all after that. Then he didn't care what boo ame of tho things, so ho just tossed them all over to me. Wasn't I lucky?" "And wasn't I a fool?" thought the other girl.-Detroit FreeProBS. Gen. Dick Takes a Chance. In the lottery of seats Gen. Diok, of Ohio, has been one of the most unfortu nate members of the houee, having never yet secured Q desirable seat. At the beginning of the Fifty-eerenth congress he was one of the very last Hepublioans oalled, and had to take the seat in the extreme southwest oorner, the alternative being a ?eat in the "Cherokee strip*' on the Demo eratic side. Later in the session he discovered that a fairly desirable seat on the Republican tide was vacant, and after watching it for a week or io applied to the sergeant-at-arms. ' "If no one else with a prior olaim wanta that seat," he said, "I think I'll take it." "What, toko that seat?" the ser* geant-at-arms fairly shouted. "Woy, man, there isn't a member of the house would have it. TKO members who oc cupied that seat have died within the past year." "I'll take it," promptly replied the -Ohio s&e?ibefT I bad a blamed sight rather be dead than sit where I am." He took the seat and survived that Heuuiuu abd the next.-Waubiugtun Post. Watches That Bun Slower la Erenlo?. "You know that tho vital energies are at a lower ebb at night than in tho daytime," said an old watchmaker. "Would you believe that some watoh es-especially the oheaper ones-are similarly affected? "You know a good watchmaker al ways wants several days in whioh to regulate a timepieoe. That is because the only way to regulate it properly is to compare it with a chronometer at the same hoar every day. Otherwise the variations in the speed of the watoh will baffle his efforts. "The man to whom I was appren ti aed told me this, and I thought the idea absurd. We were working late one night, and he oalled my attention to a lot of watohes we had regulated and ready to deliver. It was near midnight aud every watoh WBB BIOW. Next inoru?ug every one of. tue lui was exaotly right. "The fact is you oan reg?late a watoh to make exaotly twenty-four hours a day, but you can't persuade it to make just sixty minut?e in eaoh of the twenty-four hours. "Why thia is no one can tell." AFTER THIS DATE We WiH Not Retail Fertilizers And Acid Phosphate to Any Ona * .Ti - We do this for the reason that we are represented here by Merchantes and it will be much better for all of the retail business to paes through their hands, thereby paving a lot of confusion. We therefore respectfully ask oin friends to call on OSBORNE & PEARSON, OR DEAN ?c RATL.IFFE? Or any other one of our representatives here or any adjacent town. Yfe arc represented at every Town in the up-country, aud hope to merit your con tinued liberal patronage. OUR GOODS ARE FIRST CLASS ?N EVERY RESPECT And tho results show that there is none superior ia quality. ANDERSON PHOSPHATE MD OIL CO. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. We ofter for sale the following)!desirable property, situ ated in this and surrounding Counties.!] ^Nearly all of these places have good improvements on them. For fall partien ulars as to terms, location, &c, call at my office. 50 acres, two miles from city, un-1 improved. J House and Lot, 6 acron, near city limits, very desirable. 74 ?ores in Rook Mills township, on Richland Greek, good dwelling. Half aore City Lot, front on Main Street, no improvements. 1 aore, with new dwelling, in city limits. Iii aores, near oity limits, oleared, no improvements. 200 aores in Fork township, on Tug nloo River, two dwellings. 100 aores in Williamston township, improved, on Beaverdam oreek. 400 aores in Oaklawn township, in Greenville Co., half in cultivation, 5 tenant dwellings, 50 aores of this is in bottom land. 700 acres in Hopewell township, on Six. andr Twenty Creek, 300 aores in cultivation, 2 good residences, 6 ten ant dwellings, 40 afires in bottom land. 91 aores in Garvin township, on Three-and-Twonty Creek, good dwell ing, barn, &o. 5P? anrAp in M.nnr. Co., N. C., 20 miles above Walhalla, on road to Highlands. Berry plaoe, V?rennos, 871 aores. 437 aores. Pendleton township, ten ant houses and dwelling. 145 aores, Evergreen plaoe, Sasaa nah township. 90 aores in Fork township. 150 aores in Savannah inwn*Va>, well timbered, no improvenx rn*. 400 aoreB in Center town&ntp, ouu nee Connty, 100 oleared, balanoe wett timbered, well watered, good mill site with ample water power. 65 aores in Picken a County. 174 aores in Hopewell township. 130 aores ls Broadway township, improved. 230 aores in Fork township, on Sen con River, good dwellings, &o. 50 aores in V?rennos township, near oity limits. 800 aores in Anderson County, om Savannah River. 96 aores in Lowndesvillo township,, Abbeville County. 84 aores in Corner township. 75 acres in Ooonee County. 75 aores in Piokens County. 152 nure? in nook Mills township, on Seneoa Rivor, 2 dwellings. 700 aores in Fork township. All the above are desirable Lands, and parties wanting good homes, afc low prioes, oan seleot from the above and oall for further particulars. Now is the time to seoure your homes for another year. JOS. J. FBETWELL, ANDERSON, 8. (Do O m 24 a o Hm 0 tri S fe % O M GD * fe O Sd ? 5 ? S rrj 3 gs tt OD tt i c V 2 tn I 5 ? M > A S H s ? 5d 2J O *1 b o * m tt XVJLO"V JtiiXD I WE have moved our Shop and office below Peoples' Bank, in front of Mr. J. J. Fretwell's 8tables. We respectfully ask all our friends that need any Roofing done, or any kind of Eepair work, Engine Stacks, Evaporators, or any kind of Tin or Gravel Roofing to call on us, as we are prepared to do it promptly and in best manner. Soliciting your patronage, we are, . Respectfully, BTJRRISS & DI WER. .s Gift from the Sunny lenehens Everyfltog about Cottolene is clean and pure from its origin to its completion. Iftai^ nurtured by rain and dew, the <fpon plant fnflly concentrates in its feed that life-giving and life-sustaining quality which is the basis of Cottolene. Cottolene makes food nutritious, delicious and healthful. Then think of neorle usiner ho? lard when their ?Ft^A ^^1^J??ro^t ?tetoP *o PWip?#*?e ?nd we'll mail you a copy of our book, "Home Helps, edited by Mrs. Storer, which contains 300 choice recipes from the country's noted cooks. Made only lir'-ftm/H.. F?l^ATO COlSPAFf, Department MM&**&