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THE SCHOO! The Mystery of T IRev. Alex W. Beale Today, way down here io my touth Icorjria home, where the sunshine is . bright as the smile of God, sadness ?.?oils above and around our hearts, bc sadness of sympathy. The wires ave borne to us tho sorrowful news Ebat death has invaded the peaceful Sirecincts of my brother's home and Jnatched away the light of his lifo. iWhon last I saw him, not a month Eo, with his devoted wifo and his bree little boys about him, life was ull of promise and he was praying hat Cod would send a daughter to dd softness to his surroundings and fleetness to his home-coming. Just Wo weeks ago tho daughter came. I ejoiced with him, for I knew what it ras to have a daughter. Hut how great are the changes rrouL'ht by the hand of time! Yes crday the little yellow message that I ad been dreading oamo. It told me -hat death had snatched thc cup of Boy from my beloved brother's lips, Shat he had, with one fell stroke Blotted out the light of his home, re Bioved the babe and then, as if it Seeded a mother's love, ehe was taken Biso. Worse than that, tho message ratted that a dread disease had seized HPbn my brother, and his oldest boy Bod they were prostrate in its grasp. H When I thought of all these things Hie words of the Apostle Paul came to Hy mind: "Behold, I show yous Hystery." He waB referring to the Hsurrection of the dead, but, when I Hink of the havoc death has wrought H this family, surely we oan say, ?Here, too, is a mystery." I For the first time in thirty-four Hears death has entered into onr im mediate family. Way back yonder in HlO God took my sainted father and 'He was not. How good has God been Hus! But today with bowed head I Hand so olose to death that I can al Bost hear the rustling of his wings. Sj Death is indeed a mystery, for at Best bc comes so quickly for the sons ? men. A wailing infant's cry, a Hpildish voice making music in the , Br, a youthful face on which the I B?ht of hope is beaming, a few fleet Rg years of sunshine and shadow, the Hem set" face of middle life on which "Me lines of care are cut, a feeble body nth bowed shoulders shuffling toward 4e yawning grave, a tolling bell, a Loflw sad and solemn words, a wailing ll.BDS> a new mft<fe grave. Suoh is the erBory of the longest life and how quiok JB it io told. In the morning man b.Bes forth to gratify the ambition that ^flirns within his heart. He goes ofBim glory to glory and when the cov >ened prize is almost in his grasp, old 9p creeps upon him like a thief in "Be night and ere his plans are com ?i?u death takes him hence. ?God gives us others whe are depen fjot upon us. When they are leaning U Vily upon us and it seems that they ^Bd us most, Death takes them by H hand and lead s them off into the Hdow through which our yearning H dimmed eyes cannot see. oQHeath always oomes before our work ?faiBhed. I have never yet looked ndS?a a oomPlete<l lifo. Life upon ?> earth is like a half Sniahed build DgH like an incomplete shaft, like a 8i"B?er thnt Las budded and bloomed >erElDever comes to its fruitage. Some ?es my soul, ignoring the eye of lb, seeks to penetrate the gloom lin its perplexity cries out, "Why it that God gives to his creature 9 o, made a little lower than tho an J, Bofowof "His eternal years to ?od upon the earth?*' Reason cannot answer tho question. Se oannot look beyond the grav?. * )own in one of the cemeteries in w Orleans there is a large vault on ! side of whioh is a movable figure ?lion on whioh is the head of the On the other side st?nde lg ?life size figure of an angel. She coking with eager face into the ntcuanoo of the sphynx and point ffith one hand into the tomb, fag ed up with grated bars. . he idea of the artist is, "Oh, ynx, read me this-riddlo of death." W eo we often gaze into the stolid, ' * of death and soy, j'Tell us the ?tery you hold." And yet no an _ r oomes and we must wait the ?j ?when we, too, shall pass beyond vale. lift l?n is hurried to ! ho tomb while ** &ce lives on and tho influences ho I* ?et in motion continue to touch ray lives of other mon. The fleeting I ja fader of lifo bas poesied meu . in ? Mee of the world. . If we should ge a beautiful plant that budded 8 bloomed every year but was nip-. ?O?Sby a frost, ere it oamo to its ma* ?ty, we would know that somewhere * fr1'8 world there was a place where ftouid bud, bloom - and come to its Stage. And so reason tells us that rj, jewhera in all tho universo of God 1" ia a plaoe where life, God given ">,. l^itooompleied. L* OF EARTH. hat We Call Death. r ia Allant:i Journal. Faith, with her hand iu the pierced palm of the resurrected Christ? says there is such a land. Its gateway is the grave, and having passed its por tals, Tic ?hall theo begin to live. The trouble with us all is that we take a wiong view of this life. We forget that it is not all of lifo, only the beginning. We do not view it in its relation to eternity. Our human ity shrinks from the thought of death, but if God's word be true, it should be the happiest day on earth. Lot us look upon the clouds of death with a faith that will not shrink. It has been said that out of the clouds the deluge came, but on tho olouds the bow of promise sat; though the gloomy cloud of death may hover over us, our Lord braids it with the promise of the resurrection, and although the olouds will come, there is sunshine behind them, and in due time it will warm and cheer our droopiug hearts. The first Christians were BO confident of the early coming of Christ, they say, and of the resurrection that they nev er told their dying friends goodby. They only bade them good night, be lieving that on the glorious morning of the resurrection they would bid them good morrow on the golden shores of heaven. And so today as my mind leaps across the miles that lie between me and my sister Happy's body. They called her Happy and her heart was always light. And well did she de serve the name, for she made many hearts rejoice and I know today as her glorified spirit stands in the presence of the King that she is Happy indeed to think of all the joys that shall be hers throughout the endless years of heaven. Happy to think of what her loved ones will enjoy when they have bid adieu to earth and gone home to God. Believing in the pr^mise? uf God makes us willing to trust ourselves to His keeping and to wait the fulfill ment of his promises. Believing in the love of God makes us willing to bear with patience all that He sends upon us, for He is but training us for the other life. I know we grieve with bleeding heart at the ofTJiotions of life. But I have seen a little girl weep in agony of spirit over a broken doll and when she had grown to be a woman she looked back and wondered how she could have grieved so about a doll., So I believe it will be with us. We grieve today beoause we see through tho glass darkly, beoause we have cot put away childish things, but I believe that when the veil has been removed and we see face to face,' when all God's dealings with us are made plain in the light of His eternal day; when we taste the joys of heaven onr ransomed, blood-bought souls will thrill with rapture and we will won der how we ever grieved over the sor rows of earth. I believe this for I believe the word of God and there I read "the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to tho glory that shall be revealed in US. And let us all remember that God's hand is leading us and soon, yes, it cannot be long at best, the shades of night-will flee before the dawning of eternity's day. Let us then Beek to use the passing moments as they fly, seek to fit ourselves in athe school of. earth for the true and endless life that is to come. Why She Didn't Shoat. Bishop Cortlandb Whitehead, of Pittsburg, is fond of telling stories at his own expense. When he was rec tor Of the Churoh of the Nativity at South bethlehem, Pa., he acquired a convert for thc Epiaqopal Churoh in the person of a Methodist woman who waB much given to contributing to the Church services by interjecting "Amen" and k?Alleluia." He ex plained to the good woman that such ejaculations were not customary in tho Episcopal Church. Afterward the bishop thanked her for restraining heir fervor. ? "No need to thank me," retorted the ex Methodist. "You didn't say anything to mako me shout."-N. Y. Times.- _ . j Appearances Agalust Ulm. 'Do you moan, to intimate that the prisoner was intoxicated?"' "Well, appearances seemed against him." "What appearances?" "Well, for ene thing he was holding a glass upside down trying to fill it from a tightly corked bottle."-Cleve land Dealer. t- mm m m ? To Cure a Cold In Oat Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signa ' on each box. Price 25o. Self-Control tue Hoot of All Virtue. (Rev. Thomas B. Gregory io Atlanta Journal.) "My God! What have I done!" It was the exclamation of ono who stood, dazed and horriiicd looking down into the face of the man he had just struck dead. There was a quarrel, tho hot blood flushed his face, thc uplifted hand came down with tho rapidity of the lightning's flash and one man was dead, and the other was forever curs ed with a murderer's remorse! "My God! What have I done!" He would have given all the world uot to have struck that blow. Hut the deed was done, and could uot he un done; and there he stood, looking down upon the dead man's face, feel iug the hell ho could not describe! ''Greater is he," saith thc Old Book, "who ruleth his spirit than he that taketh the city." It is grand to bc a stormer of cities and a vanquish er of armies, but how slow wo are in perceiving that it is greater to be the conqueror of ono's self, tho master of one's own ugly passions. Control yourself-there is the be ginning of all true empireship. To bc the master of one's own spirit, to be the lord of ono's own temper!-there is the secret of all true power and greatness. Who has not read of the battle prowess of Hannibal, Frederick the Great, and William the Silent, but do we remember the still more important fact that these great captains were even greater in the oontrol which they had over their astrally bot and im pulsive natures than they were in their power over armies and battles? The grandest thing about Hannibal was not the habit of victory on the battlefield that so persistently charac terized him, but the habit of patience with which he always mst the mean treatment that came to him from the home government. . Frederiok was great in action thrillingly, sublimely, great-but he was greater in the calm, patient, un conquerable self-control with which he faced the terribie odds which more than once threatened to crush bim. And WiH-sni th? Silent, so-called not because he oould not talk, but because, when it became necessary, he would not talk-was a marvel of patience and self-possession. Silent ly the great man could bear many griefs, and silently he could endure many provocations ard wrongs. Times without number he was tried to the ntmost limit of human endur ance, but he never failed to keep rea son on the throue and his passion firmly in the leash. No American, cert ?lin ly, can feel otherwise than proud when he thinks of the battle triumphs that will ever cluster about the names of Grant and and Lee, bat is he not infinitely prc udor of the magnificent self-con trol with v?Mch the two great captains met at Appomattox 1 Than Grant at Appomattox was there ever a general who had greater oanae for exaltation? Had he not conquered the mightiest revolt of his tory, and was there not already shin ing about his name the glory that should never die? And then Lee, was there ever a commander who had a better reaaon for feeling utterly broken'hearted and undone? Bot what happened? Was there any sign of rejoicing or braggadocio in the bearing of the victor, or any token of despair or ugliness io that of the vanquished? No! Cooqoeior and conquered kept themselves BO well in hand that their meeting will stand to the end of time as a ".bining example of self-oontrol. ? To be able to master one's self is the noblest accomplishment in the list of human virtues. Such mastery is absolutely essential to any rational, human success. Let a man give the reins to his im pulses and passions and from that mordent he ceases to bo a man. He is carnied along the current of li'*? and becomes the slave of the appetite or passion whiob, for the time being, happens to be the strongest. To be free-to be morally free-to be a man not a mero animal-one must be able to resist the wild impulse whieh would goad him on to despera tion and ruin. . "In the supremacy.of self-control," says Herbert Specoer, "consists one of the perfections of the ideal mao. Not to be impulsive-not to be spur red hither and thither by each desire that in turn comes uppermost-but to be self-restrained, self-balanced, gov erned by the Joint decision of tie feelings in council assembled, before ?hom every action shall have been folly debated and calmly determined -that it is which ?ducation, mora) education. at least, strives to pro duce." Of coarse, this noble equipoise of soul is not to be gained in a day. It is the golden fruit of a long and earn est self-training. Not in a day, but sorely after many days the mott im pulsivo man may tamo himself, may conquer the wild beast within, bim sfilf.aid become ? rational, secsiblo human being. What to Do With Thom. Gen. Wade Hampton always loved u joke and thoroughly enjoyed his own He had large planting interests ir, Mississippi, which necessitated the employment of many slaves. There as in Columbia he had extensive grounds around his dwelliug, and il was often quite a tax upon his good wife to keep them io thorough order, especially those io their Columbia home. In spite of every effort the trash and din would collect aud she was constantly appealing to thc gen eral for extra servauts to make things clean. When tho Federal gunboats began to come down tho Mississippi rivtr and their soldiers raided tho sur rounding country it became necessary to lind a place of refuge for thc ne groes. Mrs. Hampton was at her horn" in ! Columbia and the general lighting in Virginia. One morning fifteen hundred ne groes arrived at her door. They came unexpectedly from the plantation in Mississippi, and there had been no provision made for their keeping. Mrs. Hampton telegraphed thc gen eral at once, saying: "Fifteen hundred negroes have ar rived from Mississippi! What must I do with them?"' General Hampton immediately wired back: "Put ihem to cleaning up the yard." And that was all she could ever get from him. - According to the Grant City (Kan.) Star, lightning struck a hayrick on Mrs. Allison's farm, on West Grand River, and set it on fire. The rick was not far from the house, and thc boys, seeing the smoke, went to it at once. They found in the top of one end of the rick a small hole, from which t! smoke was issuing, and thrusting a wisp of hay into the hole, smothered the fire. When the end of the rick was cut off it was found that the lightning had burned a hole from the top to the bottom of the stack about two inches in diameter. The timely arrival of the boys on the scene saved the riok from burning. - Dr. R. Suering, of the Royal Me teorological Institute of Berlin, de scribes thc effect on tue human sys tem of the rare atmosphere seven miles above thc ep.rtb. He and a companion asceuded to that height in a balloon, relates Our Times. Thoy could not have lived at all without the artificial use of exygen. Both of them beoame too weak to breathe reg ularly and deeply, and therefore did not get enough oxygen in the lungs. Falling asleep occurred frequently. At the height of seven miles one of them found the other asleep and pull ed the valve. Both of them lost the breathing pipes and fell into a heavy swoon. When they reoovered, the balloon was at a height of only 20,000 feet._ _ - A small boy in East St. Louis, ill., recently went to the suthorities of the town and olaimed that he h:d been kidnaped by a negro who wished to make a monkey of him. The boy's skin had been stained, and le said that he had been in s cage of monkeys in a circus for a week. - It has been discovered that the streets of Dawson, Alaska, aro lined with gold that it will pay to work. When You Should Uso Olive Oil. Olive oil is ii food which luis moro nutriment in it than any other food known, and it should he considered ns a vnluahle nrticle of diet and n>>t used simply ?is a condiment. ll! your blood is thin and you are not strong take a tablespoonful ot* olive oil three times a day, either be fore meals or after. If meat cannot be taken olive oil very nearly sup plies its place, and il makes botli fat und muscle. Olive oil aids digestion in a re markable way, and if you have never considered it as both medicine and food you have overlooked one of na ture's most wholesome Otterings. it you are thin or nervous, if you are palo or sutler from dyspepsia, try olive oil and do not think thal olive oil from Spain or Italy is any bettor than that from our own coun try. ?Vi o rc Suddenness. "Something bothering von, Miss Won vcr?" "Why, yes. Mr. Ragmore. H's only a trille, of course, but our lives are made up of tritios, you know. Mamma and Aunt Miriam bave been giving me such u lot of nice linen lately, and 1 was just wondering how L would have it marked/' "Why not with your 11111110?'' "Yes, of course, B-but if 1 want ed to change it ?" "But you don't want to change it, do you ?" ''Oh, Mr. Ragmore, this is so sud den!"-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tommy's Bad Break. "We arc going to have pic for dinner," said Tommy Uptown to the minister. "Indeed !" laughed the clergyman, amused at the little boy's alertness. "And what kind of pie is it?" "lt's a new kind. Ma was talking this morning about pa bringing you home to dinner so often, and pa said he didn't care what she thought, and ma said she would make him cat humble pie before the day was over, and I suppose we are going to have it for dinner." Easy to Cure, But Doctor-So your husband is ail ing again ? Mrs. SlimpursG-Ye?; it's insom nia DOW. Ile can't sleep a wink. "Ah, I'll soon cure him of that." "Yes, 1 am sure you can." "Thanks for your confidence, lie is worried about something, 1 pre sume." "Indeed be is, poor man! Ile lies awake all night wondering how he is ever going to pay your last bill." -New York Weekly. His Steady Occupation. "What profession do you follow?" asked attorney for plaintiff. "The medical profession," the witness answered. "Are vou a practicing physician ?" "No, sir." "Then what do you mean by say ing you follow the medical profes sion V* . "I am an undertaker, sir." Brooklyn Eagle. - The men who oan stop drinking when they get ready usually stop be cause there are so saloons is the grave. - In France trees are felled for lamber by means of a platinum wire h n?ed by eleotrioity and used like a saw. - The trouble with ignorance is that it seldom realizes its own bliss fulness. - A sooiety womao says the worst thing about making calls is that you are so apt to Bud people at home. America is a nation of dyspeptics ; the use of lard in cooking is the main cause. For your own protection you should divorce yourself from all food cooked with lard. Instead, use Cottolene, the purest and most palatable shortening possible to produce. Cottolene is made from refined vegetable oil and choice beef suet, is full of richness, yet free from dys pepsia. It will give you better food, and food which will agree with you. V Cottolons is never sold in bulk. It comes in sealed white pails, with red label and band. In the center of the label is cur trade mark-a steer's head in cotton plant wreath. Cottolene is not exposed to all the odors which surround it ; lard is, because it usually comes in bulk. The quality of Cottolene is guaranteed, we stand behind iL You take no chances in its use. Forestall dyspepsia by the use of Cottolene. Any good groder will supply you. One trial will make you wonder why you stuck to hog lard solong. USB $3 LESS. Cottolene being richer than either lard or cooking butter, one-third less is required. BT?ST??? SeM us aT:8c stamp to poy postas* and we'll mail you a copy of car book. riSJ^Ej -Horno Helps." edtod by Mrs, Rorer, which contrjns 300 choleo recipes from tts) country's noted cooks. ? Mads otu/ by THE H. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY. Dipt 646 Chicago AFTER THIS DATE We Will Not Retail Fertilizers And Acid Phosphate to Any One We do thia for the reason that weare represented hero hy Merchants, and it will he much helter for all of the retail business to pass through their hands, iherehy saving a lot of contusion. We therefore respectfully jwk our friends to call on OS HO ll SE & PEARSON, OR DEAS & KA I LI EEK* Or any (thor one of cur representatives lu re or any adjacent town. We aro represented at every Town in the ut -n unity, and hone to merit ycur con tin?en: liberal patronage. CUR GOODS ABE FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT And the results shew that there is none superior in quality. ?HDERSON PHONE ADD OIL CO. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. PP We offer for sale the followingftdeBirable property, situ ated in this and surrounding Counties.! [Nearly all of these places have good improvements on them. For full ? particu lars as to terms, location, &c, call at my office. 50 acres, two miles from city, un improved. House and Lot, 6 ceres, near city limits, very desirable. 74 acres in Mock Mills township, on Richland Creek, good dwelling. Half acre City Lot, front on Main Street, no improvements. 1 acre, with new dwelling, in city limits. 11} acres, near city limits, cleared, no improvements. 200 acres in Kork township, on Tug aloo River, two dwellings. 100 acres in Williamston township, improved, on Bcavcrdaui creek. 400 acres in Oakiawn township, in Greenville Co., half in cultivation, 5 tenaut dwellings, 50 acres of this is in bottom land. 700 acres in Hopewell township, on Six and Twenty Creek, 300 acres in cultivation, 2 good residences, 0 ten ant dwellings, IO acres in bottom land. 01 acres in Garvin township, on Thrco-and-Twonty Creek, good dwell ing, barn, &c. 50 acres in Maoon Co., N. C., 29 miles above Walhalla, on road to Highlands. Korry place, V?rennos, 87* acres. 437 aores, Pendleton township, t?t ant houses and dwelling. 145 acres, Evergreen place, Savae nah township. !I0 acres in Fork township. 150 acres in Savannah township, well timbered, no improvements. 400 acres in Center township, 0<M nec County, 100 cleared, balance wctt timbered, well watered, good mill sit? with ample water power. (55 acres in Piekcns Couoty. 174 acres in Hopewell township. 130 acroB in Broadway township? improved. 2!I0 acres in Fork township, on Sen eca Uiver, good dwclliu's, ?&o. 50 acres in V?rennos township, near city limits. 800 acres in Anderson County, on Savannah Uiver. 9(i acres in Lowndcsvillc township. Abbeville County. 81 acres in Corner township. 75 acres in Oconeo County. 75 acres in Pickeus County. 152 acres in Rook Mills township , on Seneca Uiver, 2 dwellings. 1 700 aores in Fork township. LID All the above are desirable Lands, and parties wanting good homes, at- , low prises, can select from the above and call for further particulars. Nov* is tho time to seoure your homes for ?nother year. " J JOS. J. FRETWEIJV ANDfCBSOKT, S. O* H ft H H U F 0 0. M O m E 5-3 58 td Sd ? 2 O w M M m > < ? > SS M GD IVCO'V'IEID I WE have moved our Shop and ci?ice below Peoples' Pank, iu front of Mr. J. J. Fretwell'a Stables. We respectfully ask all our friends that need aDy Roofing done, or any kind of Repair work, Engine Stalks, Evaporators, or any kind of Tin or Gravel Roo?ng to call on us, ns we are prepared todo it piompily and in best manner. Soliciting your patronage, we are, _ Respectfully, _BURRISS & DI WER. ?lst BipsUtert BBS! ! TMN Establishment ha? been Selling IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. Daring all that time competitor? have como and gone, but we have remained right here We have always sold Cheaper than any others, and during those long years Wo have not had one dis satisfied customer. Mistakes will sometimes occur, and if at any time wo found that a customer was dissatisfied we did not rest until we had made him satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and last ing, and we can say with pride, but without boasting, that wc have the confi dence of the people of this section. Wo have a larger Stock of Goods this season than we have ever had, and we pledge you our word that wo have never sold Furniture at as close a margin of profit as wc are doing now. This is proven by the fact that we arc soiling Furniture not only all over Anderson Couuty but in every Town in tho Piedmont section. Come and see us. Your parents saved money by buying from us, and you and your children can save money by buying here, too. We carry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line, G. F. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street. The Old Ucliable Furniture Dealers 1 HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF CORN, SlightlyEdamaged, and can sell you at 50c. per bushel. Will have a lot of it cracked for hog and; chicken feed at same price. See me for OLD DOMINION, CEMENT, ANDI iBEST XJTIMIIEL 0> BU ANDKR80N.