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GREED F( Obsequiousness Mrs. W. H. Felton, If I w?ls put on the witness stand today to say what distinctive feature io our republic forbodes decay and pos?iblel disintegration ir^the distant future, I would certainly declare it to be obsequiousness to wealth and the power of money not only in elections but in shaping legislation, But ty is she worship of money to which I would direct attention at this time, and the getting of money is found to be the open door io the pro motions which count so much in the eocial life of the nation, as well as in legislative prominence. Some time during last year a fash ionable wedding was annonnoed for a certain day in New York city. The bride and groom were millionaire people, and t*\o yellow journals had elaborated the occasion beforehand* wbioh is usually the case. When the bridal party approached the church door the crowd turned into a mob of curiosity and the police had to intervene to allow the bridal party to vacate their carriages and get inside. The more the mob was jostled the more they pushed, and a number ,found entrance into the basement, widere they listened at d crowded the others who were in with them, lest a *vord or sound might be lost to their attentive ears or that others might catch what they were anguished to hear of thc proceedings above their heads. Outside, they thronged tho steps, tho railing of the fence, and it was said they even fingered some bf the bride's finery, they were so insis tent. What a spectacle! What a com mentary on poor human weakness 1 Worshipping the golden calf I Other wise decent people (becauso it was a well-dressed mob,) . hey went crazy at the display of gorgeous wealth! Men and women lost their sense of self respect, and made of themselves hu maUjjassaoks to feast their eyes on the fine carriages and fine clothes of the wedding party. Not a copper of profit came to themselves in the transaction. Admiration of money and what money etood for worked. on their sordid natures like the'sound cf a drum and fife xnakes the rural multitude shout and hurrah during a military display. And this admiration business grows with what it feeds npon. The more the orowd admires 'the more money parades itself, until society, baaed on wealth, has got in such a whirl with its gaudy trappings and "pagan feasts,!' (as Bishop Candler terms them) that men sometimes will sell their integrity of character, forfeit confidence, betray trust and some times wreck basks . sn? mo??yed cor porations to be able to furnish tho wherewith to their families for a brief season of promotion. Where tho giddy multitude will fall down and worship for a day they will risk everything to bask in adulation. HE above picture of tho iuian and fish is the trade wark of Sebfo'sEmulsion, and ia the synonym for strength and purity. It. is sold in almost ail the civilized co im tries of theglobe. If the cod fish became extinct it would be G world-wide calana 'ty, because the oil thafc comes i om its liver surpasses all other ats in nourishing and life-giving roperties, Thirty years ago he proprietors of Scott's Emu! ion found a M ay of preparing odliver oil so that everyone can akeit and get the full value of he oil without the objectionable ?ste. Scott's Emulsion is the est thing in the world for weak, aekward children, thin;;'d?licat ? eqple, and all conditions of fasting encl lost strength. Stud for.flw ??sr.i<:\ SCOTT .? BOWNS, CHEATS ?oftmals vx&ifr ewamrr, srsrw TORE ' ?9t./UHl fl.??. AH dm est?t s. )R MONEY to Mere "Wealth. in Atlanta -Touroul. And it will fall down and worship until the pinnacle topples over aud then they will have neither sympathy nor kind words for the man covered with disgrace if he is shorn of his wealth. The poor lost soul is sctbiug to them any more. It was simply his supposed wealth which ezoited their worship and envy-not himself- He MUS the ooh that held the grains of core, ?tot the stuff itself. He eau rost assured he has less than nothing when he goes down to the gates of the great Hereafter. "Haughty overoomers, In their pomp and state Masquers all and murmur? { At Death's gate." If this greed fer money to be used for purposes here stated ended here, theil the mischief wrought.would cot be so calamitous; but the example is contagious. Like begets like. Coil dren brought up under such condi tions are infeoted with this inane wor ship of wealth. The whole world revolves on the style the gp in, they houses they live in, the invitations they reoeive, the return'they can make ic kind and,tho methods they must use to reach up ward to get into the higher four hun dred, who are still richer, who live iu Europe half the year and hob-nob with titled people, who are themselves equally insane in pursuit of wealth, and there can be no satisfaction, no peace, no rest of mind or body until they compass this new eminence and ocoupy this advanced position in so oiety, so oalled. I recall (while writing this article) a dear old lady whose acquaintance I made during my first winter spent in Washington oity while congress was in session and her society life seems pertinent to the ease in point. She wats seventy, if a day old, wore a wig and dressed is the finest olothes she could buy. She kept a maid whose time was fully, oooupied in getting the dear woman dressed, first for breakfast, then for shopping, then for afternoon calls, then for hotel din ner, then for the various receptions of the evening. I met the old lady at the dining room door one morning (rather fore noon) and asked aa usual for her health, eto. "Worn out,, my dear friend; didn't get to bed before 3 o'clock; attended three receptions lsBt night; I am so tired I must go up stairs to y 3d and rest until I am due at Senator -- 's at 3, to help his wife reoeive. I ?i doing ay beac to hold up until Lent; but I'm afraid I'll get sick." . Being really fond of the kind hearted lady, I remarked: "I'd take a rest if I were you. You may get down sick and that would bo distres sing." With a gesture of impatience, rais ing her old jeweled fingers in protest/ she cried out: "Why, I can't rest-I must keep in touoh with society. It is my duty to my family. Ycu don't understand. If you drop off you will not be invited! I'll meet those people next winter, and it is simply impossi ble to neglect one's opportunities, because you muet keep up your partas well as the rest.'V'v \ With one foot nearly in the grave this dear old lady was just as crazy to le invited, as were her . two married daughters: who were also in the; swim, and her Whole time,- iay and hight, her .waking hours, were devoted to this attendance on society. . Sometimes the thermometer marked six below zero, but it. didn't stop her a minute.& Sho had fed on this unnat ural dht until she . ?raved no other. She was rich, adored riches, worship ped wealth poseessed by others 'and her-whole life centered about "being invited"-to rich people's houses where ibero was eating and drinking ands parade of money. Shs worship ped the motoied people. . v 'The miser hideB his money under the flagstones or in a hole in the wail, but these devotees of Mammon put Tip their gold ss? an advertisement to th*> silly-paled io come and worship and they get what they want in obsequious attention to riobes. The whole in terest centers in tho people who have money. Ifc is said the United States. Sen?*e is fast becoming a place where wealth is the highest consideration. To, fule SB_ ^clitics, tb* iirst step is to get enfoney. With plenty of money nothing seems to bo denied its otf&cr. - Men. always like to give peoplo the impression that they arc superb athletes, but a few think it a tribute when tbey? ave asked to-beat the car pet. - Thc great trouble with many a church- is that it is more anxious about the ?team that runs io its whis tle than about that v/hieh ians the WILLIAM ANO BISMARCK, Dno View of the Kaiser's Break With *Ho Iron Chancellor. The first thing niter his (Emper or William's) accession which really struck me aa a revelation of his character was his dismissal oi| Bis marck. By vast numbers of people this was thought the act of an ex ultant young ruler eager to escape restraint, and this opinion was con siderably promoted in English speak ing countries by an ephemeral cause *--Tenhiel's cartoon in Punch en titled "Dropping tlie Pilot." As most people who read this will re member, the Iron Chancellor waa therein represented as an old, weather beaten pilot, in storm coat and sou'wester, going slowly and heavily down the gangway ax the side of a great ship, while far above him, leaning over the bulwarks, was the young emperor, jaunty, with a Gatis?ed smirk and wearing his crown. There was in that little drawing a spark of genius, and it sped far. Probably no other car toon, in Punch ever produced so deep an effect, save possibly that which appeared during the Crimean wai' with the legend, "General Feb ruary Turned Traitor." It went everywhere, appealing to deep senti ment in human hearts. And yet to me, admiring Bismarck as the greatest German since Luther, but reflecting upon the vast interests involved, this act was a proof that the young monarch was a stronger man than any one had supposed. Certainly this dismissal must, have caused him a deep pang. All his previous tyfe had shown that he ad mired Bismarck, almost adored him. The dismissal revealed deep purpose, strong will. Louis Xiv. had gained credit after the death of Mazarin by declaring his intention of ruling alone, of taking into his own hands the va6t work begun by Richelieu. But that was the merest nothing compared with this. This was apparently as if Louis XIII., irnmeaiately after the triumphs of Richelieu, had dismissed luir? and de clared his purpose of'henceforth be ing his own primo minister. The young emperor had found himself at the parting of the ways and had de liberately chosen the right path in 'spite of almost universal ou."ries at home and abroad. The old Em peror William could let Bismarck have his way to any extent. When his chancellor sulked, he could drive to the palace in tue wiihelm strasse, pat his old servant on the back, chaff him, scold him, laugh at him and set him going again, and no one thought less of the old mon arch cn that account. But for the young Emperor William to do this was fatal. It classed him at once among the rois faineants, the mere figureheads, "the solemnly consti tuted impostors/' p - '. in this lay not merely dangers to a young mon arch, but to his dy*xasty analto the empire. To me his recognition of this fact was and is a proof that the fa vorable judgments of him which I had heard expressed in Berlin were v eli founded.-Andrew D. White in Century. ___ A Disraeli Story, 'After Disraeli was created Lord Beaconsfield and had attained every distinction, he could wish for he was dining out one day at a vashionablo London home and was asked by the lady whom he had taken- in to din ner, 'ls there anything, my lord, that you can now possibly want which yon do not already possess?" His. characteristic reply, after dna consideration, was, "Yes, a potato, please." IS CATARRH 3 Hyomei Cures This Common and Dis agreeable Disease. Hyomei eures catarrh by tba simple method of breathing it into the air j passages and lungs. It kills the germs of tho 'c.vtrrhal poison, heals and Boothes the irritated mucous mem brane, enters the blood, with the oxygen and kills the germs present there, effectually driving this disease from the system. If you 'invfl any of tho following symptoms, cat arrha! germs ara at work somewhere in the mucous mern* br me of the nose, throat, bronchial tubes or tissues of the lungs. fToaslvo breath 'etopr ago of the nose st dry HMS ofjho ? oso sight ' pain serosa the ?yes actus* ar tb? body pr&ln fa back of head droppings In tho throat jain in trout of bead ' month opon .Philo tenstaey to take eold sleep!? g bursts* psin In t hroat " . ficklin g Sack c f the hawking to olear throat palto pain in tho cheat formation of croats in a cough the note stitch lb aid's Aryneaa of tho thrust losing of flesh in tho'morning ; rariat-?? opnoitto loas o? Strength low aphited at times B^esaa of cough! cg raising of. frothy mu- - cough short and hack cous lng, ci pectoral teg rollos* cough worso night? and matter morning* difficulty is breathing loss la vital feres . ' frequent enccEia* a iVellng of tightness huakineas of vole? acrosa lbs nonar n?rt dlx?hs^eiro?sths?Mws? of tho cheat Hyomei will oura the disease,: de stroy activity of all germ life in tho respiratory organs, enrich aud purify the blood with additional ozone, and after a few days use of this treatment the majority ' of those symptoms will have disappeared. Io a few weeks the cure will be oompleto. Catarrh or catan: h al colds cannot exist when Hyomei is used. This is a strong s/at?ment, but Evana Phar j macy emr/haaizb it by agreeing to re fund your money if Hyomei does not cure, _ _ - Girls sre ?ruo friends only wren -hey cry teether in sympathy. COTTON I? cheap, and if ?ny plan will advance the prico for that now in the hands of the farmers, it will be to hold tenaciously, sit steady in the boat until the re quirements of the consumer becomes absolutely necessary. REDUCE ACREAGE*. In order for you to make money at present prices, it is necessary to pro duce more cr" ncr acre by increased uee of Fertilizers per acre. Use 600 pounds w ? have used 300 before ; work and feed two mules where you have usc k ' % aud reduce other labor in proportion, thereby in creasing prou lid decreasing expenses. .AILEY'S ADDRESS. Please read the following extract from the address of Prof. H. W. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. C., delivered at the St Louis Exposition September 28, 1904 : ..Now, statistics give us some interesting facts regarding agricultural re sults in diffident parts of our country. I don't want to say anything to offend our Southern friends, but they must acknowledge that the soils which have long been under cultivation-like those of North and South Carolina for in stance-have been reduced to a low state of fertility, and, therefore, in order to produce a crop, they require more fertilizer materials than soils North. By way of compaiison, for instance, of the soils of Illinois and the soils of Geor gia, it would show how iupeiior the soils of Illinois are for growing a crop, and if you oould transport the State of Illinois into Georgia, taking eighteen inches of its surface, you would be growing larger and better crops in Geor gia without a pound of fertilizer than you are now in that State with their abundant use. But the time will come when the soil fertility of Illinois will be diminished to such an extent that it will not produce such large crops. Scientifically agriculture demands a knowledge on the part of the farmer of the plant foods in the soil, and where there is a lack of fertility, that it may be restored as near as possible to the conditions in which the soil was found in its original state. And any system of agriculture which does not preserve the fertility of the soil and increase it when low is not a scientific system of agriculture. In the great wheat fields of North France at the present time j they have an average yield of twenty-seven bushels of wheat per acre, whereas fifty years ago they had only seventeen. The average yield of wheat in England is over thirty-three bushels per acre, and that yield is secured by heavy fertilization and by scientific rotation of crops and cultivation ; and if the English farmer should allow his soil to become so reduced in fertility as to grow only thirteen buthels per acre, which is the average yearly produc tion of this country, he would become bankrupt. What I have 8aid about wheal, is true of all other crops. We do not need more acreB of w heat. We want to raise our thirteen bushels per acre to twenty seven, or even more than that. These gentlemen who are here from the experiment stations know that such yields can be secured by systematic, scientific agriculture. At the ex periment station in Maryland, on land which a few years ago would not pro vl?co seven bushels of wheat per acie, they now raiso crops of from thirty to forty bushels per acre every year on that worn-out soil, which shows what a scientific system of agriculture and judicious fertilization may accomplish on soils whioh have be<n exhausted, if we would take our Indian corn crop, which is raised over an area of 100 million acres in this country, with an av erage j ield of twenty-seven bushels per acre, ?nd cut that down to fifty mil- j lion acres, and raise the yield to fifty-four bushels per acre, we would have just as much Indian corn as we have today and % much more remunerative return to the farmer. We haven't much more land or area to give to Indian corn nor to wheat until the great regions of the West, which are now in pro cess of iriigation, are recovered, and therefore the avenue for American ag riculture is to be found in increasing the yield and not in extending tho area of the crop. So by the collaboration o? the agricultural chemists and the manufacturers of fertilizers the scientific farmer will be able, 1 believe, with* in the next fifty years, to increase the yield of our staple crops to at least double what they are today,'and that, too, without increasing the acreage un der cultivation. To this end let us all work heartily together CLEMSON'S ANALYSIS. You will find the following analyses sent us by Clemson Agricultural College, made from samples of the goods we are now shipping, interesting, which it will pay you to read carefully : Clemson Agricultural College? (Department of Fertilizer!,) Clemson College, S. C., Feb. 22, 1905. To Anderson Phos. & Oil Co., Anderson, 8. C. Your attention is called te the following copy of Fertilizer Analysis in which you are interested : I Fertilizer Sample No. lift, Analysis No. 6343. Drawn at Darlington.' Of Anderson H. G. Phosphate. P. C. Soluble Phosphor io Acid.... :...>.... 11.19 Reverted " " .*.i.3.08 Available " .? .-.14 27 Insoluble " ".v.61 Total " ".....14.88 Moisture.......15.03 Relativo Commercial Valuation per Ton of 2,000 pounds.12.13 Analysis Guaranteed on Sacks : Available Phosphoric Acid 13.00 P. C. j Fertilizer Sample No. 114. Analysis Number 6339. Drawn at Belton. ' Of XX Potash Bone. P. C. Soluble Phosphoric Acid..... 8.59 Reverted " ?' .:.-: 3.53 Available ? .'. 12.12 Insoluble " " . 1.31 Total " . ".....13.43 Potash Soluble in /Water.. 2.06 Moisture...1176 .Relativo Commercial Valuation per ton of 2,000 pounds..12 47 Analysis guaranteed on Sacka: Available Phosphoric Acid 10.00; Potash 2.00 P. C. ; Respectfully submitted, M. B HARDIN, Chief Chemist. R. W. SIMPSON, Pres. Bd. Trus. Per H. M. STACKHOUSE, Sec. Fert. Dept.; Aa soon aa we receive from Clemson College analyses on Ammoniated goods we wilLpubliah saine. In the meantime we publish analysis just made from ?ood3 that we are now chipping, of our 8.65 2-2 Fertilizers. Yon will make no mistake in buying our goods. PARKER'S ANALYSIS. ' Laboratory of Francia L. Parker, Jr., Ph. D., Analytical .and Consulting Chemist, College of Charleston, Charleston, S. C , Feb. 18,1905. Certificate of Analysis. Analysis No. 1462. For Anderson Phosphate & Oil Co. Material marked 8.65-^2-2. Formula No. 14, 2-15-05. Received Feb. 17,1905. V Basis aa received. P. C. 'Moisture-...'.-v. 8.73 Available Phosphoric Acid.-9 62 Insoluble Phosphoric Acid.I. 3.54 Total Ph? spborio ?c?d..*............ .13 16 Nitrogen...,.. < . 1.75 ISonivalent tc Amnion*??. ..?..?.......?..... . ?*.? 2.12 Potash....................w...V.T. .V...'. 2.61 Bespec?f???y B?braittoi, FRANCIS L. PARKER, Jr. . ,. " ' M,' ... Il ,'.-., *T'v" '.;!.<>; V..' r.:- . ' . V '.' ?.?.<?.?.'.' ?> ' , .. . M\ i .V '" \ A V ' . - ? . .. ?.. ;, - . - ' . * . Write for one of oux books, "The Progreso of Cotton," tb at teil? yea how to make three boles per aero. We have agents vt ali railway stations. Please call on them for prices. Respectfully, The Anderson Phosphate and Oil Co., ANDERSON, 3. O. Ryd&le's Stomach Tablets INDIGESTION DYSPEPSIA Causes belching, gas, or wind In the Causes Cramps and pain in the stomaciv,, stomach, heartburn, sour stomach, etc* sick stomach, etc. Ry dole's Stomach Tablets Q^Jfg Ry dale's Stomach Tablets ? digest ali kinds of food and prevent fer- j digest the food and rest the stomsxbT mentation, and the formation of gas and They stimulate, tone the digestive organs,, .acid in the stomach. They never fail to and cure dyspepsia in its worst form*. i cure Indigestion. ' Indigestion and Dyspepsia. nt lite CAUSO. Their prescripHouu did little or no gc>ed. As my appetite wiw poor and my food du not digest well, ? decided to use Bydslos Stomach Tablets. A. friend assured me they were a , food dyaiK-iwIft medicine. Aft?>r tuklug a few doncB, I began to realize that I waa getting better, have used two boxes of these t.-Mr .s mid have gained 90 pounds end never felt better In my ure. , Rydnlo's Stomach Tut>k-tscim>d me and I reooir.naend them most heartily to fiufTi'rers from r.-rvou? i indigestion and a general rim down conditio? C? the sy??eui. iiydulo^s Stomach Tablets arv. uianufaclured and guaranteed by tho * m? RADICAL REMEDY COMPANY. Hickory, N.^Ci FOR SALE BT EVANS PHARMACY. Wanted to Buy Good, Flat Land, in good state of cultivation and well im proved. . Wanted to Sell 132 acre?, Hall Township-40 acre3 in bottom lands that will yield 1000' bushels corn. Fair improvement. 148 acre?, Savannah Township, known as Evergreen place. Well im proved, good orchard. 84 acres, Hopewell Township. Tenant house, barb, &c. 45 acre? W cultivation, balance woads ami old Gelds? 152 acree, Rock Mills Township. Price 81200. 9G? acres, Broadway Township. Well improved. Price S2500t 87J acres, Varenues Towi>?hip- improved. 200 acres, Fork Township. JOS. J. FRET WELL, ANDERSONt 8. CR AFTER usine. HEALTH ANO VITALITY H 9 ra Ira mm H JD**., MOTT'S ? ?? *mmm m IBSBSI sa sn as wjanvHUxwH pixjousi Tho groat remedy for nervous pron trat ion and all diseases ot tho generative-; organs of cither sex, auch as Nervous Prostration, Failing or Lost. Manhood,. Impotency. Nightly Emissions, Youthful Errors, Montai Worry, excessive uss t ot Tobacco or Opium, which load to Consumption and Insanity. Witb nay - 0 B order wo Ruarauteo to euro or refund the money. Sold ot f LOO per box*. O boxes for 95.00. DH. MOTT'S ClIBfflUCAa, CO., Cleveland? Oula*. FOB SAIiE BY EVANS PHABKIAOY. Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Framing,; Shingles, Lime, Cement, Lathes, Brick, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mantels, Turned and Scroll Work, Devoe'6 Faint, Lead, Oil, Turpentine, Hard Oil, Glass. Putty, Etc. EVERYTHING KS THE BUILDER. IMPORTANT ! INVESTIGATE when ira need of any kind of BU?LDINB M?T?BI?L See me. If I don't sell you I'll make the other feHom SELL YOU RIGm ANDERSON, S. C. M 2 0 ? B SS ? td mm pw td 0 td Q >? 2 0 ? w OD This Establishment has been Selling IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. Daring ..< that time competitor** have come and gone, bat we have remained right here. We have always sold Cheaper than any others, and during those long years vrejuve not hr.d ose <5B satisfied customer. Mistakes will sometimes occur, and if at any tizan found that a customer was dissntisGed we did not rest un?:] ve ?>,.i n.-. ..? * "ta satisfied. This polioy, rigidly adhered to, has mude us ftitnua, true autl li?^ti ing, and we can say with pride, but without boasting, that wo have the ocuxfi uenoo of the people of thib section. We have a Mrgpr St^ek of norris season than we he;o ever had, and we pledge yon our word that we have rat . .: sold Furniture at as dose a margin of profit as we are doing now. T&iai*' proven by the fact that we are selling Furniture not only all ovor Aa?ezwn. County but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Come and'see \u. Toas parents saved money by buying from us, and you and your children oe? aire money by buying hore loo. We carry EVERYTHING in the Furnitur? line,. C, F, TOLLY &:SON. Depot Stresi ThejOld^Reliablc'Furnitureilfealex* - L_'_I WE have moved our Shoo and office below Peoples' Bank, ia mm* o3 Mr. J. J. Fiv?tt?cira Stables. We respectfully ask all our friends that xx**! any Roding done, or any kind of Repair work, Engine Stacks, Evaporator or any kind of Tin or Gravel RooBng to call on ne? at we are prepared toda? lt?promptly and in best manner.KSolicittag your patronage, we Respectfully, B?RRISS & <','.?