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COME B?CK There is an Epidemi 9tSS Rev. Sam P. ?'unes, Cart?rsviilo, Ga., Mar. 18, 1.905. Scarcely a day passes but what we read of boys and young men Tanning a way ff om home, and no tidings of their wpereaboutu come back to par ents and loved ones. The great trou ble with boys i? the fact they don't think; jin the first place, the closer a boy eau be and the closer he lives under the shadow of a good mother the better it is for bim. The home roof is the best covering and shield that a boy oan knew in this world. The literature cf tho d&y is largely re sponsible for this craze on the part of boys and young men to leave home and wander np and down through . tho earth. I suppose no boy has left a good home, and a good mother and father, bnt what thoughts of home and friends occur ever: and anon to bim. At night time, wherever ho pillows his bead he must think of mother at home; but he doesn't realize how mother and father suffer because of the absent boy. I hope thees lines nry fall under the eyea of many wan dering boys, and that if they refase to come baok to their homes, they will sit down and write to mother and father, or brother and sister. They need not say where they'are, but let % their loved ones know thoy are well ~ and how they are getting along. How many thousand mothers have been made to utter the sad.pathetio words: "Where is my wandering boy tonight? Go search, for him where you will and tell him that I lo^e. him still." L mother's love and a father's devotion are as long as all eternity. Broader than thiB world, 'and there is np land so distant, no . pathway so cold but what a mother's feet would tread that way, a father's weary efforts would lead that way until they come in the presence of the ono who had wander ed off. A good boy can do better at his own home and in the community where he was raised than he can do anywhere else on earth. A bad boy can do well nowhere. Latitude and longitude and geographical position does not determine the well-doing of a fellow. Character alone settles the question with him. j Tho judge cf our circuit court re lated the following incident to me a few days ago. Eight or ten boyo trere indicted in his court SB railroad tramps for riding trains, every one of whom wore strangers to him and from different towns and States in the union. They were convicted and he sentenced them simp.y to pay the cost or, to three months' imprisonment. None of them could pay their fines and; all went to th J ohaingang. Some of them have broken down lu their prison life and have written to their parents at home pf their condition and their parents sent the money co pay their, .fines and luring them home. One of them, a son of a poor widow, who earned; the'/ r.. mo hoy to pay her boy's fine at the ^ Wash tub/ One of those boys.lived in the State1 ol Tennessee, one . in the city of Atlanta, of respectable family, another o?c in North Carolina.' The others aro still in the ohaiugSngy some of thern^ perhaps, have no parents to whom they can write or friends who . will come to;-\hoir relief, and others perhaps are too stubborn and proud to let their condition be known; at homo. This .ia only ono of the many instances whore'cPurts are compelled to punish the wandering boy. ? noticed that the p?lipo of Atlanta took up a young Arkansas boy the other day aod the little follow broke down and told his history and the family to which he .belonged and his parents were notified of his whore abouts. Th oro ie no more commend able r?<jtk in cities by detectives and policemen tbap'iha arrest and .i&4$& lion of straDge-boys, and they ought to giva themselves moro diligently io tho work Pf Anding ??t the name and the home, of ever^ st^y boy in every city. Xsook hiin up until he gives Ms identity. In thia way they may save aaany a boy to his horne and his moth: . cr a?d pave him from Wreokj and ruin. Osrter/vs?le^ ?. like other towns, baa ! been cbnlribuling to the number who have wandered off. If a CarierBviiio Iboy who |a away from home shall read these ?ords ?et.blip instantly sit down j and write and tell-the loved: ohos Ut home how he is, and how he ?sgoUiog along. So in&ny of these wandering boys are killed by trains and other, accidents and may be the loved ones never hear ot where or how they went. If boys could see t&afc i% was a eri^e thus to mske mother and loved ones Buffer, and hew oruel it ia to give no things of thercsolve.u to those who ara^oxioPs and who are all the time thinking of them by d?y and dreaming of them by tiight. I Ther^isscarcely act ihit en???e g s? much putiishtnent upon the. inuo I opnt as ?\? onme uf runaing away *| r>ojn homo ob the part c.f boys and 1 yoting men. When a boy leaves houVc HOME BOYS. o of Runa-w^y 33oyi in Atlanta Journal. and wanders oS the mother, goes to bed and suffers. The father ia trou bled and worried so he is scarcely fit ted for the business of his life. The vacant chair at the table, the pillow on Which no head rested the night be foie, his chair io the sitting room, his voice heard no more--a thousand things remind the loved ones of the absent one. I say again, come home j boys, come home, but if you will not come home, sit down and write father and mother and tell them how it goes with you, whether you tell where you are or cot. These v/oird, miserable novelo, whether high-class or low-olass novels, furnish the incentive and motive for many a boy to leave home and the company he gets in when he is once gone is auch that he soon falls in with their ways and goer, to the bad before ho scarcely realises at all what he has done. I heard a fellow ?nibing the other day how* he and his young brother ran away from homo bcoanse their father whippediihom; how they spent one night away and the next day went back home.' They were only gone a little over twenty-four hours but he said when he got back he found his mother in bed sick and he said, "I believe ii' we had staid a week mother would havo been dead when we got homo." He said: "We were not at ? homo an hour bof oro mother was up \WTA rejoicing over the fact thav her boys had come back." What must be tho suffering of a homo where a boy . has been gone a month or a year and sent no tidings back. Honor thy father and thy mother, boys, and thy days shall be long upon the land whioh the Lord, thy God, giveth thee. No child oan dishonor his parents and do well here or hereafter. Let a boy Buffer any thing before he will wouud his mother ox dp dishonor to fajs-father. These infernal novels with., their weird lies and oortorted characters have made a fool of many a boy and, started him on a tramp to tho devil and the dogs. In the State Of Mississippi a run away boy, who wat? then a young man, p?me to me and told me that he had been a runaway-for more than five years, that he had never written a line to his father or .mother, and asked me did I know his father and mother, telling me the town and. bounty where* they lived. I said: "Yes, ? know them well." He said: "Will you ( write to them for me' and see if they will let me oome back to see them. I did so, and when he did come back to his G?o*gi? home ibero was a regu lar o'amp-meeting, picnic and May festival all combined. I can never forget how eagerly that boy looked into my face when, he was asking me about h ia .parents. Five years is too long,: boys, to keep quiet. Then, mother may be dead, father buried, and tho mischief you have done oan no ver be undone. Come back, now, boys or write immediately.. God alone oan measure the depth and breadth of a parent's love for a wandering child. I would* that every boy who has run arny from his homo could realize how fearfully he has lacerated the heart and feelings of those who loved him host. I would that every editor of every, paper^n ?the United States would catch n^M^s refrain and writo on tho Subject o? tho oacrod duty of runaway boys toj come or to write back' to their parents at homo. Tod could serve your country no better, gentlemen, than to sound the bugle blast down thc lino veo'that every wan dering boy could hear or read your words, The prodigal >boy in bygone y ears'carno to himself and immediate ly he started '. for homo. There was thc f atted calf killed, there were shoos , j fortis feet, a robe for his back, and a welcome' that done his heart good; Come h?ck boys, conto back. Yours truiyv ' * ".", - > Sam I\ Jones. Did,''So ???te^ Start In This Way' MYott may Kayo wo?dersd, jyffimfwi] how tho slangy .o^pressiofc.'Sp long* carno ta h? so:generally ased," said a Colombia College leoruser the other day. "It is usually used in olooiog a conversation and ia simply a form of good-by. The Norwegians brought il 40 ibis country. In that land of the midnight aurie 'aaa laang' is a common form of farewell. It means the same os tho 'aaf wiedersehen* of tho Ger man or the 'au revoir' of . tho French. Among the early settlers in Amono? were many Norwegian*? and thc phrase T?ftS picked up from thom. They pro nounce it with the cg' softened and company it hy a wave of the hand." .New York San. - A miss isas good as a smile. - ? ui&n ls master in his own jbouso whet? ho isn't home. "Thrift ls Blessing." Some men expect to acquire all their good bab?.:: in their second ohildhood. And one of the good habits long put off is thrift, Often this habit does come in sec ond childhood. With appetites and passions burned out of the decaying mind ar<& body, old men may find themselves freed from temptations and wrongly consider their condition due to ripened virtue. But thrift, like any other "virtue" forced upon one by nature, is apt to find its environment unhealthy and to curdle into penurious meanness. If thrift is to he whoiesomu and sweet it must be embraced while the mind and body are healthy and vigor ous. Shakespeare causes oue of his char acters to say: "Thrift is blessing," and it has proved suoh to countless numbers of its adherents. Thrift is a composite quality. It embraces within itself nearly all of the great virtues. It implies indus try^ prudence, forethought, self-de nial. It oertainly hao no relation to niggardliness or meanness. Some men would let their grand mothers starve to death for the sake of a few dollars. Suoh action cannot be celled thrifty. A virtue carried to excess becomes a vioe and is no longer a virtue. Thrift that does not take into partnership honesty and charity develops into covetousness and avarice. ThriJt is the opposite of thrifti ness, prodigality, improvidence and waste. Natureis profuse and open-handed and lavish. But it is not wise to attempt imitation without understand ing. \ While nature is plentiful and boun tiful and generous with ono hand, she ia Careful and prudent and economical with the other. Nature at times bathes the world in unstinted floods of sunlight. But No single ray is wasted. Every drop of the generous rain ie gathered up again into the clouds. ISven the dead plants and the leaves of the i?e .e'are utilized for the benefit of next year's fruits aud flowers. If we truly understand nature'i open-handedness we may safely inri tate. Thrift means better homes and bet ter food, more oomfort and enjoyment leas waste and leno anxiety. It is possible that a large proppr tion of people have earnings so small that saving is impossible. But thal is -o reason for their being unthrifty. On the contrary, it is reason for theil making the best and the. most of th? little they have for their health ant happiness. A few dollars in a savings Wank o id a safe investment or. in a heme ii as good as ever was sown; Out of it grow quickened energies firmer courage, more stalwart though and hope, more orderly citizenship education for the children and th independence and self-respect tba lift aimless, hopeless drudges up ti true manhood. --- mt ' m m' ' .-? ? DANGEROUS HABIT. Gladstone's Physician Gives Wart iug Against a Growing Americai Custom. ' The growing habit amongst Anieri cans of taking a mint tablet or soit) other, so called digestive after eatin a hearty meal, is something that Si Andrew Clarke, Mr. Gladstone's pu j cician advises-strongly against, st] ing. "It is absolutely dangerous t take into the stomach remedies whio are popularly supposed to aid in tl digestion of food." There is nothing known to tl soienoe of medicine that can' perfon the work of the human stomaoh. Druf do not and cannot digest the foo? They ai m ply deoornpoao it. What ei be more revolting or disgusting tht the thought of taking something in the stomaoh that ie going to turn tl good food you have eaten iuto a mai of corruption. . The only way to overcome indigo tion and its .evil effects .is to rexmr all irritation, congestion and inflar, matron from the stomach, li ve*'al inteotineo, acd Mi-(v-na io the on agent known that will do this. When ? Mio-?a tablet is taken b ford each meal eve!\y trace of i rt ?Uni i < and inflammation is removed from tl stosaaoh and digestive system, ai those organs will. extract from tl food ?ll that goce to make good, ri blood, firm musole, steady nerves ai a sound healthy bodyi If you sufi with headache*, indsgestica, ' flat leney, spots before the eyes, ver ti* cr dizziness, palpatation of the heal sleeplessness/ or any stomach troubl get a fifty; cent box of Mi-o-na frc Evana Pharmacy one of our most i liable drug firms, whoso faith in t remedy is bhown by their offer to i tV'.m tho money if Mi-o-na .does n give complete satisfaction. There is hardly anything no fooli as imagining that people are crazy be reformed. - Somo puns aro almost ?9 poit '??HI as a woman's pencil. COTTON Ie cheap, and if any plan will advance the price 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 cotton per acre by increased use of Fertilizers per acre. Tjie 500 pounds where you have used 300 before ; work and feed two mules where you have used three before, and reduce other labor in proportion, thereby in creasing production and decreasing expenses. 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 pr y you to read carefully : % Clemson Agricultural College, (Department of Fertilizers,) Clemson College, S. C., Feb. 22,1905. To Anderson Phos. & Oil Co., Anderson, 8. C. Your attention is called to the following copy of Fertilizer Analysis in which you are interested : Fertilizer Sample No. 119. Analysis No. 6343. Drawn at Darlington. Of Anderson H. G. Phosphate. P. C. Soluble Phosphoric Acid.11.19 Reverted " ? .'... 3.08 Available " " .t.14 27 Insoluble " ".61 Total " ".14.88 Moisture..15.03 Relative Commercial Valuation per Ton of 2,000 pounds.-12.13 Analysis guaranteed by us 13 P. C. ; com. val. 11.05. Analysis found by Clemson 14.27; com. value 12.13. Fertilizer Sample No. 114. Analysis Number 6339. Drawn at Belton. Of XX Potash Bone. P. C, Soluble Phosphoric Acid. 3.59 Reverted " ". 3.63 Available " " .12-12 Insoluble " ". 1.31 Total ? ".13.4S Potash Soluble in Water..2.06 Moisture.4.117C Guaranteed by us Ava. IO, Pot 2, com. val. $10.60, Found by Clemson 12.12,2.06, com. val. 12.47. Fertilizer Sample No. 163; Analysis Number 6394. Drawn at Chester Of German Kaimt. P.C Potash Soluble in Water.Si.12.5C Guaranteed by us 12.00 Potash, com. value 12.60. Y Found by Clemson 12.59 Potash, com. val. 13.22. Fertilizer Sample No. 161. Analysis Number G392. Drawn at Chester Of II. G. Phosphate. < ?A; P.C Soluble Phosphoric Acid.11.0C Reverted..... 3.07 Available..._. ?.14.07 Insoluble..... .54 V> * - Total.......14.61 Moisture...'.....14.46 Guaranteed by us 13.00 P. C., com. val. $11.05. Found by Clemson 14.07, commercial value $11.96. Respectfully submitted, M. B HARDIN, Chief Chemist HB R. W. SIMPSON, Pres. Bd. True. ~ Per H. M. STACKHO??E, Sec, Fert. Dept. ;?? * . . : ??-1-~~-~"-~~ You will make no mistake in buying our goods. PARKER'S ANALYSIS. Laboratory of Francis L. Parker, Jr., Ph. D., Analytical and Consulting Chemi?VCollege of Charleston, Charleston, 8. C, Feb. 18,1905. Certificate of Analysis. AnalTEia No. 1462. *wr Andersen Phosphate & Oil Co. Material marked 8.65-2-2. Formula No. 14, 2-15-05. Received Feb, 17,1905. " " Basia as received. RC Moisture................ 8.73 Ayailabl? Phosphoric Acid... 9 62 Insoluble Phosphoric Acid. 3.54 I Total Phosphoric Acid..........,. 13.16 I Nitrogen....- 1.75 Equivalent, to Ammonia. 2.12 Potash. 2.61 .Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS Ii. PARKER, Jr. I Write for one of our books, "The Progress of Cotton," I that tells you how to make three bales per acre. We have agents s t ali railway stations. Please call on them for prices. Reopectfully, Anderson Phosphate arid Oil Co?, ANDERSON, S. O. J* RydaleV Tonic 5 nw, scientific remedy for the Blood and Nerves lt purifies the blooc by ?lfaiinatlng the waMo matter and other impurities and by destroying the germs or mlerohei that infest th? blood. It builds up the hlood hy restoring and multiply ing tho red corpuscles, making tlio blood rich and rod. lt resiores and rt?mulatts the nerves, causing a full free flow of nerve fore? through out the entlro nerve system. It BjKvdlly eurea unstrung nerves, nervousness, nervous pros tration, and all diseases of the nervous system. a real cure for Malaria? RYDALE'8 TONIO la a specific for an roora < of Malaria. It acts on a new principle. It kin?, tao microbes that produce Malaria. Tho ava? , being removed, the disease quickly diseppens. ) RYDALE'S TONIO ls guaranteed to cure tl* most obstinate cases of Malarial Fever, Chills ? and Fever, Ague, etc. "Wo authorize ail deafen ? handling our remedias to refund the pureba? . price for every bottle of UYDALE'S TONIC * that does not give satisfaction. RADICAL REMEDY COMPANY, HICKORY. N. C. FOR SALE BY 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 acres iu bottom lands that will yield 100Q> bu tl ie ls corn. Fair improvement. 148 acre?, Savannah Township, known as Evergreen place. Well im proved, good orchard. 84 acres, Hopewell Township. T -nut house, barn, &c. 45 acree list cultivation, balance woads and old fields. 152 acree, Rock Mills Township. Trice 81200. 90} acres, Broadway Township. Well improved. Price 82500?:* 87J acres, Varsnnes Town?hip-improved. 200 acres, Fork T /n^hip. JOS. J, FRETWELL, ANDf?RSON, S. C?. MOTT'S PENNYROYAL PILLS omissions, increase vif*** ' ? i : or nnd banish " pains" of menstruation." They aro M LIFE SAVERS" to girls at . womanhood, aiding; development of organs and body. Not ? known remedy for women equals them. Cannot do harm-lifo ? becomes a pleasure. $1.00 PER BOX BY MAIL. So?&? by druggists. DB. MOTT'S CHEMICAL CO.. Cleveland, Obie*. FOR SALB BY EVANS PHARMACY. Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Framing, Shingles, Lime, Cement, Lathes, Br??k, Deers, Sash, Blinds, Mantels, Turned and Scroll Work, ; Devoe's Faint, Lead, \ Oil, Turpentine, Hard Oil, Glass, , Futty, Etc. EVERYTHING THE BUILDER. FOR TBK IMPORTANT 1 INVESTIGATE when tat need of any kind of BUILDING MT?BI?L See me. If I don't sell y ma I'll make the other fellow. SELL YOU RIGHT. "W. Hi. BRISSBY. ANDERSON, S. C. o i mm fa hr"1 H BB p? tt B cj s w 0 > M &d 3 0 ft S H. w w 30 ( < O td M H w GD i33 d ft > & S .12 1 w g ft Q ?fl This Establishment bas been Selling IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. During all that time ooinpetiloiar have come and gone, but we ha?e remained right hure. We have always sold Cheaper than any others, and during those long years we have not hadoae dis ; satisfied customer. Mistakes will sometimes occur, and if'at any **m* we? found that a oustomer waa dissatisfied we did not rest ur' 1 ? * hud ?i??\. inotm, satisfied. Thie policy, rigidly adhered to, has wade nsftinnds, true and last ing, and we can say ?p',h prid*?. but without boasting, that we have the ec9$ dence of the people vi' tn.o ?fetoiou. V. c have a- lurger Stock of GOO?A t> >>? season than we have ever had, and we pledge you our word that we have nwrc? sold Furniture ut as close a margin of profit as we are doing now. This itv* 8roven by the faot that we are selling Furniture not only all over Andersen.* ounty but in every Town in tho Piedmont section. Como and sse no> Yourr parents saved-money by buying from us, and you and your ohildren can saver money by buying I ? ra lao. We carry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line*. Co, FM TOLLY &T80N, Dupot Stre?i The}01d$ReliableVFurnituretDealer* MOVED! WE have moved our Shopand offire beipw Peoples' Bank, in frbM ?yr" Mr. J. J. Fi orwell's Stables. respectfully ask all our friends that nee& any Roofing done, or any kind of Repair work, Engine Stacks, Evaporaient, or any kind of Tin or Gravel Roofing to call on ns, as we are prepared lo?* it!promptly in best manner.^Soliciting your patronage, we are, ; JEU*pectt?ny, . B?RRI?S A DIVVK&.