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Board can be had in relined and Christian homes at reasonable prices. Patronage solicited. For further in formation address at once, B. B. HUGHES, Chair. Trus. THE DUE WEST Female College, DUE WEST, S. C. The exercises of this boardiug school for girls will begin the 1ST MONDAY in OCTOBER. Thorough and successful teach ers employed. The moral and religious influ ences surrounding this school are such as are rarely found. Vocal teacher secured through New England Conservatory of | Music. Send for Catalogue or write for] room. Mrs. L. M. BONNER, Principal. H. E. BONNER, Vice-Principals CHAPTER VIL BIS PA BAS GOT KELIGIOH. "Well, that beats the devil," said th? grocery man as he stood in front of his grocery and saw the bad boy coming along on the way home from Sunday school with a clean shirt on and a Testa ment and some dime novels under his arm, "What has got into you, and what has come over your Pa? I see he has braced up and looks pale and solemn. You haven't converted him, have you?" "Pa teas stamping on lt with his boots." "No, Pa has not got religion enough to hurt yet, but he has got the symptoms. He has joined the chureh on prowbation and is trying to be good so Le can get in the church for keeps. He said it was hell 1 i vin g the way he did, and he has got me to promise to go to Sunday school He said if 1 didn't he would maul ms so my skin wouldn't hold water. "You seo, Ma said Pa had got to be on trial for six months before he could get in the church, and if he could get along without swearing and doing anything bad he was all right, and we must try him and see if we could cause him to swear. She said she thought a person when they was on a prowbation ought to be a martyr and try and overcome all temptations to do evil, and if Pa could go through six months of our home life and not-cuss the hinges off the door he was sure of a glorious immortality be yond the grave. She said it wouldn't be wrong for me to continue jto play.inno- - cent jokes oh Pa, and if he took it all right he was a Chistian, but if he got a hot box and flew around mad he was better out of church than in it. There he comes now," said the boy as he got be hind a sign, "and he is pretty hot for a Christian. He is looking for me. You had ought to have seen him in church this morning. "You see, I commenced the exercises at home after breakfast by putting a piece of ice in each of Pa's boots, and when he pulled on the boots he yelled that bis feet were all on fire, and we told him that it was nothing but symptoms of gout, so he left the ice in his boots to melt, and he said all the morning that he felt as though he had sweat his boots full. But that was not the worst. You know, Pa he wears a liver pad. Well, on Saturday my chum and me was out on the lake shore, and we found a nest of ants, these little red ants, and I got a pop bottle half full of the ants and took them home. I didn't know what I would do with the ants, but ants are. always handy to have In the house. This morning when Pa was dressing for chureh I saw his liver pad on a chair and noticed a hole in it, and I thought what a good place it would be for the ants. "I. dont know what possessed me, but I took the liver pad into my room and opened the bottle and put the hole over the mouth of the bottle, and I guess the ants thought there was something to eat in the liver pad, 'cause they all went Into lt, and they crawled around in the bran and condition powders inside ot it, and I took it back to Pa, and he put it on under his shirt and dressed himself,, and we went to church. Pa squirmed a little when the minister was praying, and I guess Borne of the.ants had come out to view the landscape o'er. When we got up to sing the hymn, Pa kept kicking, as though be was nervous, and he felt down his neck and looked sort of wild, the way he did when he had the jim j ams. When we sat down, Pa couldn't keep still, and I like to died when I saw some of the ants come out of his shirt bosom and go racing around his white vest. Pa tried to look pious and re signed, but he couldn't keep his legs still, and he sweat more'n a pailful. "When the minister preached about 'the worm that never dieth,' Pa reached into his vest and scratched his ribs, and he looked as though he would give $10 if the minister would get through. Ida she looked at Pa as though she would bite his head off, but Pa he just squirmed and acted as though his soul was on fire. Say, does ants bite or just crawl around? Well, when the minister said amen and prayed the second round and then said a brother who was a missionary to the heathen would like to make a few re marks about the work of the missionaries in Bengal and take up a collection, Pa told Ma they would have to excuse him, and he Ut out for home, slapping himself on the legs and on the arms and on the back, and he acted crazy. Ma and me went home after the heathen got through and found Pa in his bedroom with part of his clothes off, and the liver pad was on the floor, and Pa was stamping on it with his boots and talking off ul. " 'What is the matter?" says Ma. ?Don't your religion agree with you?* ? " 'Religion be dashed,' says Pa as he kicked the liver pad. T would give $10 to know how a pint of red ants got into my liver pad. Religion is one thing, and a million ants walking all over a man playing tag is another. I didn't know the liver pad was loaded. How in Ge henna did they get in there?' and Pa scowled at Ma as though he would kill her. " 'Dont swear, dear,' says Ma aa she threw down her hymnbook and took ?ff her bonnet. 'You should be patient. Re member, Job was patient, and he was af flicted with sore boils.' " 'I dont care,' says Pa as he chased lAMEjmCAH PRESS ASSOCJATIOrU ene anta oat of his 'drawers; ' 'Job never had ants in his liver pad. If he had, he would have swore the shingles off a barn. Here.-y on, ' says Pa, speaking to me, 'yon head off them ants running under the If the truth was known, I be lieve you would be responsible for this outrage.' And Fa looked at me kind of hard.? y. " 'CBi, Pa,' says I, with tears in my eyes,.|do you think your little Sunday school boy would catch ants in a pop bottle" on the lake shore and bring them homeland put them in the hole of your * just before you pat it on to go in? Ton are too bad.' I And 1 o tears, I can shed tears now e I want to, but it didn't do any time. Pa knew it was me, and ie was looking for the shawl strap to Sunday school, and now I guess r me, and I will go and take a wn to Bay View." y moved off as bis Pa turned a ?iand the grocery man said: "Well, beats all I ever saw. If he was mine, I would give him away." I " CHAPTER VTEL I - BIS PA. AT THE REUNION. "I saw poor Pa wearing a red. white and bine badge, and a round red badge, and several other badges last week dur ing th? reunion, " said the grocery man to the bad boy as the youth asked for a piece pf codfish skin to settle coffee with. "He looked like a hero with his old black hat with a gold cord around it." "Yes, he wore all the badges he could get the first day, but after he blundered into 8j?place where there were a lot of fellowy-from his own regiment he took off the/?badges, and he wasn't very nu merous around the boys the rest of the week. ,i But he was lightning on the sham battle," says the boy. "Pa's nerves got unstrung." "What was the matter? Didn't the old soldiers treat bim well? Didn't they seem to yearn for his society?" asked the grocery man as the boy was making a lunch on some sweet crackers in a tin canister. "Well, they were not very much mashed on Pa. You see, Pa never gets tired telling us about how he fit in the army. For several years I didn't know what a sutler was, and when Pa would tell about taking a musket that a dead soldier had dropped and going into the thickest of the fight and fairly mowing down the Confederates in swaths the way they out hay I thought he was the great est man that ever was. Until I was ll years old I thought Pa had killed men enough to fill the Forest Home cemetery. I thought a sutler was something higher than a general, and Paused to talk about 'I and Grant,' and what Sheridan told him, and how Sherman marched with him to the sea, and all that kind of rot, until I wondered why they didst have pictures of Pa on a white horse, with epaulet? on and a sword. One day at school I told a boy that my Pa killed more men than Grant, and the boy said ho didn't doubt it, but he killed them with commissary whisky. "The boy said his Pa was in tba same regiment that my Pa was sutler of, and his Pa said my Pa charged him $3 for a canteen of peppersauce and alcohol and ?allod it.whisky. Then I began to in quire into It and found out that ? entier was a sort of liquid peanut stand, and that his rank in the army wai about the tame as a chestnut roaster on the sidewalk here at home. It made me sick, and I never had the same respect for Pa after that But Pa don't care. He thinks he is a hero and tried to get a pension on account of losing a piece of his thumb, but when the officers found he was wounded by the explosion of a | can of baked beans they couldn't gi it to bim. Pa was down town wh .e veterans were here, and I was w jn, and I saw a lot of old soldier? Jg at Pa, and I told him they acted > though they knew him, and he put O? his glasses and said to one of them, 'How are you, Billf* The soldier looked at Pa and called the other soldiers, and one said, That's the old duffer that sold me the bottle of brandy peaches at Chickamauga for $8, and they eat a hole through my stommick.' 9 "Another said: 'He's the cuss that took flO out of my'pay for pickles that were put up in aqua fortis. Look at the corps badges he has on.' Another said: 'The old whelp 1 He charged me 60 cents a pound for onions when I had the scurvy at Atlanta.' Another said: 'Hebeatme ont of my wages playing draw poker with a cold deck and the aces np his sleeve. Let us hang him.' By this time Pa's nerves got .unstrung and began to hurt him, and he said he wanted to go home, and when we got around the cor ner he tore off his badges and threw them in the sewer and said it was all a man's life was worth to be a veteran nowadays. He didn't go down town again till next day, and when he heard a band playing he would go around tho block. But at the sham battle, where there were no veterans hardly, he was all right with the militia boys, and I told them how he did when he was in the army. I thought it would be fun to see Pa run, and so when one of the cavalry fallows lost his cap in the charge and was looking for it I told the dragoon that the pussy old man over hy the fence had stolen his cap. That was Pa. Then I toJ4 P?. that Vfi joldjer-on the horse said no was a r?bel, 'an'J be wa? going to kill him. The soldier started after Pa with bis saber drawn, and Pa started to ron, and it was funny, you bet. The sol dier galloped his horse and yelled, and Pa pat in his best licks and run np the track to where there was a board off the fence and tried to get through, but he got stack, and the soldier put the point of his saber on Pa's pants and pushed, and Pa got through the fence, and I guess he ran all the way home. "At supper time Pa would not come to the table, but stood np and ate off the sideboard, and Ma said Pa's shirt was all bloody, and Pa said more'n 60 of them cavalrymen charged on bim, and he held them at bay as long as he could and then retired in good order. This morn ing a boy told him that I set the cavalry man onto him, and he made me wear two mousetraps on my ears all the forenoon, and ne says he will kill me at sunset. I ain't going to be there at sun set and dont yon remember about it Well, gobdby. I have *ot togo down to the morgue and see them bring in the man that was found on the lake shore, and see if the morgue keeper is drunk this time," _ CHAPTER DL THE BAD BOY IN LOVE. "Are you a Christian?" asked the bad boy of the grocery man as that gentle man was placing vegetables out in front of the grocery one morning. "Well, I hope so," answered the gro cery man. "I try to do what is right and hope to wear the golden crown when the time comes to close my books." "Then how is it that you put out a box of great big sweet potatoes, and when we order some and they come to the table they are little bits of things, not bigger than a radish! Do yon expect to get to heaven on such small potatoes when you usa big ones for a sign?" asked the boy as he took out a silk handkerchief and brushed a speck of dust off his nicely blacked shoes. The grocery man blushed and said he did not mean to take any such advan tage of his customers. He said it must have been a mistake of the boy that de livers groceries. "Then yon must hire the boy to make mistakes, for it has been so every time we have had sweet potatoes for five years," said the boy. "And about green corn. You have a few ears stripped down to show how nice and plump it ia, and if we order a dozen ears there are only two that have got any corn on at all, and Pa and lia gets them, and the rest of ns have to chew cob. Do yon hope to wear a crown of glory on that kind of corn?" "Oh, such things will happen," said the grocery man, with a laugh. "But don't let's talk about heaven. Let's talk abc -he other place. How's things over, j our house? And say what's the matter with yon? Yon are all dressed up and have got a clean shirt on and your shoes blacked, and I notice your pants are not raveled ont so at the bot toms of the legs behind. Yon are not in love, are you?" ~*.-** "Well, I should smile," said the boy as he looked in a small mirror on the counter covered with fly specks. "A girl got mashed on me, and Ma says it is good for a boy who hasn't got no sister to be in love with a girl, and so I kind of tum bled to myself, and she don't go nowhere without I go with her. I take'her to dancing school and everywhere, and she loves me like a house afire. Say, was you ever in love? Mal* s a fellow feel queer, don't it? Well, , the first time I went home with ber I put my arm around her. and, honest, it scared me. It was just like when you take hold of the handles of ? lee trie battery, and you can't let go till the man turns the knob. Honest, I wa? just as weak as a cat. I thought she had needles in her belt and was going to take my arm away, but it was inst like it was glued on. I asked her if she felt that way, too, and she said she used to, but it was nothing when you got used to lt. That made me mad. But she is older than me and knows more about it "Her Po came to let the cat te" "When I was going to leave her at the gate, she kissed me, and that was worse than putting my arm around her. By gosh, I trembled all over just like I had chills, but I was as warm as toast She wouldn't let go for much as a minute, and I was tired as though I had been carrying coal up stairs. I didn't want to go home at all, but she said it would be the best way for me to go home and come again the next day, and the next morning I went to her house be fore any of them were up, and her Pa came to let the cat in, and I asked him what time his girl got up, and he laffed and said I had got it bad, and that I had better go hom J and not be picked till I got ripe. Say, how much does it cost to get married?" "Well, I should say you had got it bad," said the grocery man as he set out a basket of beets. "Your getting in love will bo a great thing for your Pa. You won't have any time to play any more jokes on him." "Oh, I guess we can find time to keep Pa from being lonesome. Have you seen bim this morning? You ought to have seen bim last night. Yon see, my chum's Pa has got a setter dog stuffed. It is one that died two years ago, and he thought a great deal of it, and he had it stuffed for a ornament. Well, my chum and me took the dog and put it on our front steps and took some cotton and fastened it to the dog's mouth so it looked just like froth, and we got behind the door and waited for Pa to come home from the theater. When.Pa started to come up the steps, I growled, and Pa looked at the dog and said, 'Mad dog, by crimus,' and he started down the sidewalk, and my chum barked just like a dog, and I 'ki-yi'd' and growled like a dog that gets Hoked, and you ought to see Pa run. "Ho went around in the alley and was going to get in the basement window, and my ohnm had a revolver with some blank cartridges, and we went down in the basement, and when Pa was trying to open the wmdow"my eiram began to fire toward Pa. Pa hollered that it was only him and not a burglar, but after my eiram fired four shots Pa run and climbed over the fence, and then we took the dog home, and I staid with my chum all night, and this morning Ma said Pa didn't get home till 4 o'clock, and then a policeman came with him, and Pa talked about mad dogs and being taken for a burglar and nearly killed, and she said she waa afraid Pa had took to drink ing again, and she asked me if I heard any firing of guns, and I said no, and then she put a wet towel on Pa's head." "You ought to be ashamed," said the grocery man. "How does your Pa like your being in love with the girl? Does he seem to encourage you in it?" "Oh, yes, she was up to our house to bony some tea, and Pa patted her on the cheek and hugged her and said she was a dear little daisy and wanted her to sit in his lap, bot when I wanted him to let me have 60 cents to buy her some icecream he said that waa all nonsense. He said: 'Look at your Ma. Eating ice cream when she was a girl was what in jared her health for life.' I asked Ma about it, and she said Pa never laid out 10 cents for ice cream or any luxury for her in all the five years he was sparking her. She says he took her to a circus once, but he got free tickets for carrying water for the elephant. She says Pa was tighter than the bark to a tree. I tell you it's going to be different with me. If there is anything that girl wants, she is going to have it if I have to sell Ma's copper boiler to get the money. What is the use of having wealth if you hoard it up and don't enjoy it? This family will be run on different princi ples after this, you bet Say, how much are those yellow wooden pocket combs in the showcase? I've a good notion to buy them for her. How would one of them round mirrors with a zinc cover do for a present for a girl? There's nothing too good for her." CHAPTER X. . HIS PA OOES HUNTING. **What has your Pa got his jaw tied up for, and what makes his right eye so black and blue?" asked the grocery man of the bad boy as the boy came to bring some butter back that was strong enough to work on the street "You haven't hurt your poor old Pa, have you?' "Oh, his jaw is all right now. You ought to have seen him when the gun was engaged in kicking him," says the boyas he set the butter plate On the oheesebox. "Well, tell us about it. What had the gun against your Pa? I guess it was the son of a gun that kicked him," said the grocery man as he winked at a servant girl who came in with her apron over her head after 2 cents' worth of yeast "I'll tell you if you will keep watch down street for Pa^He says he is dammed if he will stand tSs-foolishness any longer." "What, does, yc^ he is on probation?1 -j?._iT.j?rc-.in. ,( "Swear ! Well, I should cackle. You ought to have heard him when he come to and spit out the loose.'teeth. You see, since Pa quit drinking he is a little nervous, and the doctor said he ought to go ont somewhere and get bizmes s off his mind, and hunt ducks, and row a boat, and get strength, and Pa said shooting ducks was just in his hand, and for me to go and borrow a gun, and I could go along and carry game. So I got a gun at the gun store and some cartridges, and we went away out west on the cars, more th ?i 50 miles, and staid two days. You o\\?:.z to seen Pa. He was just like a boy that was sick and couldn't go to school When we got out by the lake, he jumped up and cracked his heels together and yelled. I thought he was crazy, but he was only cunning. "First I scared him nearly to death by firing off the gun behind him as we were going along the bank and blowing c ff a Sieee of his coattail. I knew it wouldn't ort him, but he turned pale and told me to lay down that gun, and he picked it up and carried it the rest of the way, and I was o ff ul glad 'cause it was a heavy gun. His coattail smelled like when you burn a rag to make the air in the room stop smelling so all the forenoon. You know Pa is a little near sighted, but he don't believe it, so I got some of the wooden decoy ducks that the hunters use and put them in the lake, and you ought to see Pa get down on his belly and crawl through the grass to get up close to ? n. He shot 20 times at the wooden ?....?ks and wanted me to go in and fetch them out, but I told him I was no retriever dog. "Then Pa wis mad and said all he brought me along for was to carry game, and I had come near shooting his hind leg off, and now I wouldn't carry ducks. While he waa coaxing me to go in the cold water without my pants on I heard some wild geese squawking, and then Pa heard them, and he was excited. He said, 'You lay down behind the muskrat house, and I will get a goose.' I told him he couldn't kill a goose with that ?ne "He went over a log?" shot, and I gave him a large cartridge the gun store man loaded for me'with a handful of powder in, and I told Pa it was a goose cartridge, and Pa put it in the gun. The geese came along, about a mile high, squawking, and Pa aimed at a dark cloud and fired. Well, I was offul scared. I thought I had killed him. The gun just rared up. and comedown on his jaw, shoulder and everywhere, and he went over a log and struck on his shoulder. The gun flew out of his hands, and Pa he laid there on his neck with his feet over the log, and that was the first time he didn't scold me since he got relidgin. I felt offul sorry and got gome dirty water in my hat and poured it down his neok and laid him out, and ?re tty soon he opened his eyes and asked ! any of the passengers got ashore alive. "Then his eye swelled out so it looked like a blue doorknob, and Pa felt of bis jaw and asked if the engineer and fire man tanned off or if weir weat_down with, the engine. He seemed dazed, and then he saw the gun, and he said take the dam thing away, it is going te kick me again. Then he got his senses and wanted to know if he killed a goose, and I told him no, but he nearly broke one's jaw, and then he said the gun kicked him when it went off, and he laid down, and the gun kept kicking him more than 20 times when he was trying to sleep. He went back to the tavern where we were stopping and wouldn't touch the Sm, but made me lng it. He told the vern keeper that he fell over a wire fence, but I think he began to suspect, after he spit the loose teeth out, that the gun was loaded for bear. I suppose he will kill me some day. Don't you think he will?" "Any coroner's jury would let him off and call it justifiable if he should kill you. You must be a lunatic Has your Pa talked much about it since you got back?" asked the grocery man. "Not much. 'You see he cant talk much without breaking his jaw. But he was able to throw a chair at me. You see, I thought I would joke him. a lit tle, 'cause when anybody feels bad a joke kind of livens 'em np, so we were talk ing about Pa's liver, and Ma said he seemed to be better since his liver had become more active, and I said, 'Pa, when you was a-rolling over with the gun chasing you and kicking you every round your liver was active enough, 'cause it was on top half the time.' Then Pa thro wed the chair at me. He says he believes I knew that cartridge was load ed," FORTHROAT AND LUNG complaints, the best remedy is AYER'S Cherry Pectoral In colds, bronchitis, la grippe, and croup, it is Prompt to Act sure to cure. THE EDGEFIELD Male and Female USTSTJ-'J-' u 'j-'E. THE Trustees announce to the pub lic that this school will open on and continne ten months, forty weeks, with a recess of one week at Christ mas. There will be three departments, each carefully graded : The Trimary, embracing 2 years. The Intermediate, embracing 4 years. The Academic, embracing 4 years. Provision is also made for Music and Art Departments, under competent teachers. Arrangements for studies higher than the Academic will be made hereafter, if it be deemed best to do so. The rates of tuition will be as follows : In the Primary Department,first ' and second years, per month.. $ 1.00 In the Intermediate Department, 1st and 2nd years, per month.. 2.00 In the Intermediate Department 3rd and 4th years, per month.. 3.00 In the Academic Department, 1st and 2nd years, per month. 3.00 In the Academic Department, 3rd and 4tn years, per month. 4.00 In the Music Department, per month. 4.00 In the Art Department, per month. 3.00 From these charges will be deduct ed the pro rata amount allowed for each pupil from the public school fund. The trustees have committed this school to the management of Dr. L. R. GWALTNEY. He will be aided in each department by competent teachers. It will be seen that the basis of financial support which has been in operation for sev eral years has been abandoned, the trustees having fully decided that it is better to have fixed rates of tuition for all pupils. If the citizens of Edge field will heartily standby "The In stitute," they will have a good school in which they may ta*, a commenda ble pride. The Principal is well known. He returns to Edgefleld to become the pastor of the Baptist Church,' and to give his matured experience to the work of educating our boys and girls. Good board can be had for $8 to $10 per month. W. E. PRESCOTT, Chairman. Liquor, Morphine, Tobacco, Etc The liquor, morphine, and chloral habits absolutely cured under guaran tee. Particulars given by letter or in person at my office, ' which is open all hours of the day. There is no use to go away from home and spend hundreds of dollars for treatment, when you can be cured at home for a much smaller amount. J. GLOVER TOMPKINS, M. D. Edgefleld, C. H, S. C. Wade Hampton. HAVING bought the above stallion, he will stand the coming fall season, beginning Sept. ist, at my farm, Curry ton, Edgefleld Co., S. C., ten miles north of Augusta, Ga. Terms: Insurance, $25.00; Season, $20.00. H. A. SHAW, Hamburg, S. C. I will pay FIFTY CE^TS in Trade for SEED OATS, Sacked. I am in the TOP of the COTTON MARKET, and in the BOTTOM of the GROCERY MARKET. Fruit Jars reduced 25/ doz. Yours for economy, E. J. NQRRIS.