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TALE OF 17 Day [Laborer Who 33* aire-He Also Sat ? V..?.;- U > - ? ? New Ti ^ By dying in comfortable circum t stances, H. A. W. Tabor surprised many people who predicted that he would end in a ditch without a cent to f^Wesjl himself. Throughout his career, one of the most romantic ic the whole history bf the wonderful wealth-pro ducing west, be consistently disap pointed phophecy, whether of good or evil, so it is not to be wondered at that bis death should have been under : unexpected circumstances. This man : V wlio at first dug ditches, then was a \;:bmiHionaire many times over, then . .wentv back to digging, ditches as a ' " means to earn his bread, an i who, , three years ago, hadn't a cent of all his.jgreat fortune left, and lived liter- ' ally by the sweat of bis brow, found , himself at 69 years of age postmaster of Denver, with an income that put him. beyond danger of want once more. A short time before his death he said ^tli?t his days of money-making were over, and that he was quite content to have enough to live decently upon. In 1860 Tabor appeared in Calif or-1 :v: ?ia Gulch, Colo., where men were finding nuggets that were the wonder of ;the world. He was then about 30 years old, and had been a stonecutter ' in Massachusetts, a farmer in Kansas, and a member of the Legislature there, '.. and finally a sort of superior tramp until he .struck the diggings. Then, having come too late, to. locate a claim ,'4for himself, he wes c. to work for an-, 'other/maa at $5 a day. ' Before long . ? he had enough saved up to start a lit-1 . tie store,- and when he was ready to move to a new field he owned about \ $1,000 in hard earned cash. He start led &r.O^^ against the advice . of his friends, who warned him that ; he would lo,3e all his little capital in \ that then little known locality. This was the first prophecy to go wrong, ? for Tabor didn't start crt as a, pros pector. Settling at/ Oro, which w?s ? then beginning its boom, he opened a ' general, store, selling food, imple . rnents; tobacco, clothing, and notions. Oro grew to be a town of 7,000 inhabi tants. As Tabor' accumulated money it was v predicted that he would soon succumb.to the mining fever and go into the business on his own hook. %iBnt he stuck to the store; stuck to it even after Oro began to decline and %0ta best friends saw that it was a burst bubble. In those hard years- the .' storekeeper lost most of what he had made, and his' wife, a hard-working, ?3 faithful Irish girl., took in boarders to .help him atong. Tor more than teu years the Tabors pluckily stood by the store and saw the town dwindle from 7,000 to 70 people. Then the hus-1 band made ip his-mind that it was time to move, sa what remained of the v stock was packed a mile or two up the 1 gulch, where there were rumors of good strikes, and business was resum ed at the new place. This new place was subsequently - Leadville, by Tabor's naming. It is ! said that the name was given in this ! way : Several old-timers were talking of a name for the place when it had ?become certain that there was to be a permanent settlement there, and sev eral suggestions were made. One hopeful spirit suggested Goldtown, ""after the metal that's common around , here." It so happened that the night before there had been a general shoot ing at the saloon and bullets had flown in all directions, with fatal results to three of. the men concerned. Having this in mind, Tabor spoke up: . "If you're going to call the place after the metal that's plenty, what's the matter with Leadville?" he said. And Leadville it became. Soon he began to grub-stake needy prospector:;, who, with the outfit furn ished by him, would go back into the hills and hunt for precious metal, which they usually didn't find. Ta bor's friends said it was bad business, and predicted his ultimate ruin, but ' he kept adding' to his business, and, despite the items charged to profits j and loss ou account of his grub-stake business, he prospered. It was gen erally supposed that his aid to the prospectors was not regarded by him as an investment, but as a charity which he could afford to dispense where it was most needed; and it is certain that he saved many men from want and-hunger in this way. Every body knew that these items of j-rofit and loss were all loss, aod as usual everybody knew the thi?g which was not. For one day in 1878 there came to the storekeeper an Irish prospector and a German tailor, badly smitten with the gold fever and without means, whom Tabor started on their searoh with a good outfit. They went up on the hill and dug until they were ex ceeding weary of digging and attained to no gold-only a species of curious looking gravel, heavy in the spade and Dot pretty to look at. When they be came finally convinced that no gold was in reach at that point they aban doned the claim and went away, the Irishman taking-with him a bag of the iBOR'S LIFE. ?came a-Real Million Ln the XJ. S- Senate. >rfc Sun. gravel, saying that, as he had dug so much of it, he would just find out what it was that made it so eternally heavy to hoist. The assayer to whom he took it told him it was silver, almost pure. The Irishman and Ger man survived the shock, went back to the claim, and sold out for $100,000 apiece. This was the Little Pitts burg mine. One-third of it belonged to Tabor as his stake for the grub. He was regarded as an irresponsible idiot when he refused $100,000 for his share. There was plenty of time, however, for those who so regarded him to change their minds during the days when the claim achieved the ' neat little output of $8,000 a day. Tabor finally sold his part of it for a million, and said that as he'd done tolerably well on his profit and loss account he'd just keep on in the min ing business for a while. . This was a source of unselfish sor row to his friends, who knew that an innocent sort of a ohap like Tabor would get swindled right and left if he tried to increase his capital in gold instead of soaking it away. The first person who thought Tabor would be a good subject for a confidence game was called '"Chicken Bill"'Lovell, ex mail oarrier for the district. "Chicken Bill" had a claim on Fryer hill not fa from the spot where the two prospec tors located the Little Pittsburg, an be had worked for six weeks without taking anything out in exchange for 1 his labor except tones of unprofitable soil. One day he helped himself to some pay dirt from another and luck ier man's claim and dropped it in the mud vein he was working. Then he sent for labor, showing him the dust and offered to sell out for $150. Un hesitatingly, the innocent Tabor paid the price. '"Chicken Bill" went down to town find bought drinks for himself for a week. At the end of that time -he was looting for someone to blow him off to a carbolic acid cocktail, for Tabor had dug five feet deeper than he h?d gone and had struck gold that had not been transplanted. Before the vein was worked oat it brought in million dollars. That was the way the Chrysolite mine was discovered. People said this was bullhead luck and Tabor was a good fellow, bat didn't know enough to go in when it rained. After he had organized a few stock companies and come oat far ahead on all of them public opinion had another opportunity for a'second guess. Among those who thought that Ta bor was "'easy" where Foley and Wi! gas, owners of the Matchless claim which showed some color, bat not ?nocgh to convince them that it was really mach good. They convinced Tabor, however, so successfully that he gave them $112,000 for the prop erty. It was reckoned to be worth perhaps $25,000, as claims were going then. As soon as the sale was com pleted the former owners went about telling everybody how they had ""fool ed good old Tabor." The carious cir cumstance of a subsequent offer of $3,000,000 to Tabor for the Matchless saddened the remainder of their exist* enees with the knowledge that under some circumstances honesty is the best policy by a .huge percentage. Then there was the Maid of Erin mine which Tabor and a Maj. Dubois bought for $20,000 ; a dead loss, said Lead ville. Two months later they sold out to an English syndicate for ten times that amoant; the luckiest hit ever made, as Leadville pat it. But the syndicate didn't like the looks of the claim after they had bought, and rais ed such lamentations over the matter that Tabor said he didn't want to swindle anybody and he'd take the mine back at the same price. There upon Leadville, which hadn't learned any better yet, wrung its collective hands and said that somebody ought to look up a nice quiet lunatic asylum for poor Tabor, where he'd be restrain ed from dissipating his fortune in such a manner. A year or so later some body tried to buy that same rejected mine for $2,000,000 and was greeted with a cheerful laugh. Thus far all had prospered with Ta bor to which he put his hand. People called him the luckiest man in Col orado, and as soon as he got thc title his luck changed. It is a singular cir cumstance in a world where evil deeds are not always visibly punished that as soon as he deserted the wife who had been a true helpmeet in the days of his adversity, Tabor's affairs un derwent a change for thc worse. He ?ot a divorce from her-though no fault of hers-and with $300,000 which he settled upon her as the price of his release, she went to live in Den ver and dropped out of his life. His money-$7,000,000 approximately was now scattered all over this conti nent. Much of it was in Honduras, much in the northwest and some on the Pacific coast. He invested heavi ly in Denver property, aud some of thc handsomest houses there was built by him, but all had passed from his j session before his death. Going Washington, he married there young woman for whom he left wife. The marriage was made fam by Eugene Field's poem of the $10, nightgown, which was alleged tc part of the mine-king's trousi From that time he became the but' the western newspaper paragraph? a sore trial to him. He had been politics and had been elected Lieut ant-Governor of Colorado, and had ] for United States Senator, but 1 been defeated. Subsequently he \ appointed Senator to fill an unexpi term of one month, but his public 1 was embittered by the enmity of mi men who had known him in Leadvi and could not forgive him for '. treatment of his wife. Tabor built opera houses and hot? but lost money on them. There not space here to tell of the steps which he was reduced to beggary,'! the end came in 1893, when he v left with nothing. At the age of he took a pick and went to work. I second wife stood by him in his m fortunes as the first had done, a they lived as other laboring people ( For a year he worked thus, declari with unbroken courage that he woe dig out another fortune for hims: and his family. Then Winfield Sc( Stratton, the Cripple Creek mini king, gave him $15,000 to start li with anew. President McKinley a pointed him Postmaster of Denv< and there he finished his life; but the end many of his old friends of t mining days would have nothing to < with him. - ? ? m> The Slaking of Glass Eyes. The world of manufacture coritaii many departments that thc publ knows little about; take, for cxampl the glimpse into a glass eye factor, given by the Pottery Gazette: One of the quaintest and most i teresting of industries is the man facture of glass eyes. The demai for these counterfeits of nature is : great and constant that a large factoi employing scores of hands, is kej busily engaged in their supply. The are produced at the rate of over eighl a day, or twenty-six thousand a yea and range in price from five dollars i fifty dollars each, according to th care demanded in their production. For practical purposes and scant purposes a glass eye valued at fiv dollars meets every reasonable requin ment, and, considering that the avei age life of these eyes is only a yeai the replacement is an appreciable itei in the year's estimate. For this pur pose tears are a luxury to be avoided as they destroy the enamel mor quickly than any other form of wea and tear. Thousands of these cheap, ready made eyes in every tint, of gray, blue brown and even green are kept ii slock, and form rather a ghastly arra; in the large partitioned trays in whicl they are exposed for selection. Th regular customer is spared this ordeal for a sample eye is invariably kept, s that the worn-out optic may here placed by the next post. The modern glass eye is distinctly a work of art, requiring great skill ii its production, and is very difieren from the crude and expensive subsfci tutes used in remote ages. Th< Egyptians, in thc days of the Pha raohs, wore eyes of gold and silver and, at a later period, of copper and ivory. The Middle Ages introduced porcelian into their manufacture, anc a century ago it was thought finality had been reached by making them oi glass. Now, however, enamel is used exclusively, and from this material eyes are made which, even to close scrutiny, balle detection. In the first stage of manufacture the eye is in the form of a long, thin stick of enamel. This is subjeeted to intense heat under a blow-pipe, and gradually moulded into an elliptical shape-an elongated sphere. A little colored enamel is then placed in the centre of the oval and by gentle heat and skilful rotation, the iris is formed; a point; of darker enamel being added to represent the pupil. A layer of crystal formj the cornea, and when the eye is cool it is skilfully hollowed out to form a concave oval. After careful polishing it is ready for the wearer. - An old woman asked a sailor where her cow had gone. The sailor replied, "Gone to the devil, for what I know." "Well, as you are going that way," said the old woman, "I just wish you would let down the bars."_ Blood Cure Sent Free. By addressing Blood Balm Co., oSO Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Ga., any of our readers may obtain a sample bot tle of their famous B. B. B.-Botanic Blood Bilm, the g eatest, grandest, best and strongest Blood Kemcdy made. Cures wheu all else fails, pim ples, ulcers, scrofula, eczema, boils, blood poison, eating sores, distressing skiu eruptions, cancer, catarrh, rheu matism. Free medical advice included, when description of your trouble is given. This generous ofter is worth while accepting. Sample bottle sent all charges prepaid. Large bottles, (containing nearly a quart of medi cine) for sale by all druggists at SI per bottle. B. B. B. is away ahead of all other Blood Remedies for curing Blood Humors. Try B. B. B. Newspaper English. Thc New York Press, io the execu tion of an ambitious and praiseworthy purpose, has prescribed certain rules for the guidance of its corps of editors and reporters in choosing the English wherewith they undertake to enlighten the public. Its model we suspect, is the celebrated "index expurgatorius," which William Cullen Bryant caused to be posted in the office of the New York Evening Post. The late Rev. Dr. Moses D. H?ge, of Richmond, was fond of preaching about "high ideals." He argued that all human effort falls far short of per fection, that unless men are actuated by the loftiest aims they can accom plish no great good. The editor of the Press seems to have adopted for literary things the principle which Dr. H?ge recommended for things spirit ual. Certainly there will never be another edition of The Press printed if it be required that it shall be free from the works and phrases prohibited by the rules of the office. Neverthe less, we "glory in the spunk" of our contemporary in attempting to have a newqpap ir in which profound respect ia shown for pure English. The Dispatch has waged a desultory warfare of that description for many years but has never yet been able to produce a single copy into which er rors have not crept. They "slip in" in all departments of the paper; none is exempt from them. How much of this erring is due to the all-too-copious definitions and citations of the big dictionaries; how much to the press ure for time under which writers for the daily press labor, and. how much to the inborn frailty of the average writer, we do not know. But we haven't yet given up all hope; that is to say, there are some things which we still "kick" against. And it con soles us to know that some of the ex pressions which plague us also vex the editor of The Press. We find, that he has to wrestle with writers who use "don't" for '/doesn't" and "every" for "all;" who split their infinitives; who stab "parties" in "the fracas;" who do not know the differ ence between "learn" and "teach;" who marry the man to the woman; who say "well posted" for "well in formed;" who speak of "persons" as "partier;" who "render" a song and "tender" a dinner; who are oblivious to the d.fference between "transpire" and "occur;" who write "Mrs. Gen eral" and "Mrs. Colone];" etc. These are but a few samples out of scores of errors in the use of English which worry thc soul of our Gothamite contemporary. In the MSS. which from time to time come undsr our own eye we find an astonishing number from persons who will insist upon saying, for instance, "that neither of the two gentlemen have been summoned." Others never fail to arouse our sorrow by saying that the "widow of the late John Smith" is sick, or dead, or married again. Still others who' wish to be exact state that "the will of the late John Doe has been admitted to pro bate." ''Buried from his late resi dence," is another favorite expression, and "nee Jane Jones" is common. Another is in the use of the far more vivid, but less authoritative, ?vord "busted" for "burst." We contend that an address, or "card," ?r advertisement appears un der, not over., the signature of Mr. So and So, but we find few who oblige us with their MSS. (or for the matter of that few books or newspapers) that agree with us. So, too, we prefer to hold an inquest "upon" a body, rather than "over" it. But, alas! we dare not "hold down" our contributors with too much se verity, lest we find them calling in re inforcements and turning upon us and exposing our own shortcomings. Nev ertheless, we hold that it is well for all papers to have high ideals, and though none will ever attain perfec tion, or anything like it, all will be the better for doing the best they can in that direction.-Richmond Dis patch. Sour stomach, fullness after eating, flatulence are all caused by imperfect digestion. Prickly Ash Bitters cor rects the disorder at once, drives out badly digested food and tones thc stomach, liver and bowels. For sale by Evans Pharmacy. - "My sou follows the medical pro fession." "Where did he study med icine ?" "Ob, he isn't a doctor ; he's an undertaker." "What's in a name?'' Thc word "bitters" does not always indicate something harsh and disagreeable. Prickly Ash Bitters is proof of this. It cleanses, strengthens and regulates the system thoroughly, yet it is so pleasant the most delicate stomach will not object to it. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. - The Preacher-"And so you aro always glad to have me call, arc you ? Well, I am glad of that. It pleases me to know that I am liked by thc dear little boys." Johnny-" 'Tain't 'cause I like you, but ina always has jelly on thc table when you're here, and she dasscnt do any more than wink when I ast for three kclpin's.*1 Purify thc sewers of the body and stimulate thc digestive organs to main tain health, strength and energ/. Prickly Ash Bitters is a tonic for thc kidneys, liver, stomach and bowels. For sale by Evans Pharmacy. Truly a Serious Case. Once I was assistant to an elderly doctor in Ontario, who also ran a drug store. He was as peppery as a cay enne pod, and from time to time customers and patients had sprung jokes on him. just for the fun of hear ing him blow off. On one occasion a well-dressed young fellow called at the shop and asked the doctor to prescribe for a breaking out and a rash on his left arm. The doctor examined the limb, and pronounced it to be a bad case of psoriasis or ezcema. "? suppose, doctor, you can cure it?" "Why, certainly.' ' replied the doctor. "How long will it take to get well?" "Oh, I guess about two months," said the doctor. "Quite sure, sir-it is a bad case?" "It is positively the worst I have ever seen." "Then I will leave it with you,*and call for it again when cured," solemn ly said the patient, slowly unfastening his arm, which was an artificial one, and painted for the occasion. - "Well, dad," said the returned soldier boy, "I'm mustered out !" "Good fer you !" exclaimed the old man. "The ol' mule is stan'in' in the furrow, an' the plow's in the groun'. Git yer breakfas', an' then muster in, Bill-muster in !" Many a woman throws away the flower of her youth-her beauty, her amiability and'her capacity for wifehood and mother hood- without realizing: it. There is no sadder sight than that of a young woman who has for years been bearing up bravely and silently under physical tortures that would drive a man to the mad-house. Thousands of women suffer in this way and ask neither aid nor sympathy. They realize that they are the victims of weak ness and disease of the distinctly womanly organism. They do not consult a physician because of the well-founded fear that he will insist upon disgusting "examinations" and "local treatment.;> Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescription does away with all necessity for these ordeals. It cures in the privacy of the home. It restores health and strength and vigor to the delicate or gans concerned in wifehood and mother hood. It tones, invigorates and builds up the nerves and transforms nervous, over wrought sickly invalids into^ healthy, happy wives and mothers. Dr. Pierce is an eminent and skillful specialist who has been for thirty years chief consulting phy sician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y. He will answer, without charge, all letters from ailing wom en. The "Favorite Prescription" is for sale by all good dealers. " I suffered from womb trouble for about twelve years," writes Mrs. Harry Pomeroy, of Box 2^8, Monona, Clayton Co., Iowa. "I doctored with six diff?rent physicians, but found only tempor ary relief. I then used six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and three of 'Pleasant Pellets.' I am a new woman. I hope and pray that this will induce other poor sufferers to use Dr. Tierce's medicines and bc cured." If you want Bargains CHEAP JOHN'S, The Fire Cent Store. IF you want SHOES cheap go to Cheap John'w, the Five Cent Store. For your TOBACCO and CIGARS it's the place to get them cheap. Schnapps Tobacco. 37?c. Early Bird Tobacco. 37ic. Gay Bird Tobacco. 35c. Our Leader Tobacco. 27*c Nabob's Cigars. lc. each. Stogies.4 for 5c. Premio or Habana.3 for 5c. Old Glory. 8c. a pack. Arbuckle's Coffee lie. pound No. 9 Coffee 9c. pound. Soda 10 lbs. for 25c. Candies Gc. per pound. CHEAP JOHN is ahead in Laundry and Toilet Soaps, Box and Stick Blue in fact, everything of that kind. Good 8-day Clock, guaranteed for five yearB, 51.95. Tinware to beat the band. JOHN A. HAYES. FJIOM this date until 15th May I am prepared to offer extra low prices on PIANOS and ORGANS. Remember, I will be glad to price anything in the SEWING MACHINE line. I guarantee my prices are 20 per cent lower than you will have to pay elsewhere. I have noth iug but a carefully selected stock ol new Instruments-nothing shop-worn or sec ond-hand. M. L. WILLIS, South Main St., Anderson, S. C. W. G. McGEE, SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE- Front RJOID, over FarmeiB ?nd Merchants Bank ANDERSON, 8. C. 9. 1S98 33 Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned, Administrator of the Estate of A. C. Stepp, decoased, hereby gives notice that ho will on the 17th day of May, 1899, apply to tho Judge of Probate for Anderson County, S. C., for a Final Settlement ol' said Estate, and a discharge from his office as Administra tor. J. B. STEPP, Adm'r. 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It is unseemly for a grea and powerful nation to shake from its feet its sandals, to divest itself of its clothing and to scrape the bottom of the flour barrel in its efforts to eke out a living on blackberries and melons. We are no Filipinos. What, then, shall ye wear and wherewithal shall your appetites be clothed ? Verily, if ye would walk in pride, like the strutting peacock, ye must FEEL like strutting. No man putteth on a paper-bottom Shoe, ciotheth himself in shoddy raiment and eateth black Flour goeth out to parade himself as a "good feeler." But he that weans our all-leather $1.00 Shoes, buye our Standard Dry Goods and eats only Dean's Patent Flour, is a hummer with chin-whiskers, and his hame shall be* Rockefeller, Matbuselah or "something better." We'll SAVE YOU MONEY and a peck of trouble. DEAN & RATLSFFE, THE BARGAIN PRINCES. ?pgf Parties owing us for FERTILIZERS will please call in and give Notes for same at once MOLASSES, MOLASSES. TF you need a Barrel of Molaases you can't afford to buy until you bave seen us. J[ We have inst received a big lot-all grades-and know we can please yon in both quality and price. Also, new lot of Shoes, Dry Goods and Notions That we will seil cheap, and we hive a few Shoes and other Goods that we are still selling at uOo. and 75c. on the dollar Here are only a'few prices : MuscovurJo Molasses.33?c. per gallon. Good Molasses".12?c. per gallon. Good Coffee. ll lbs. for $1.00. 40o. Tobacco in 10 lb. Caddies for.30c. Jeans Pan ts.....40o. Shirts. 15c. FLOUE, CORN, MEAT, LAKD, Etc., AT BOTTOM PRICES. Yours for Business, MOORE, ACKER & CO., EAST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER STORE. FREE CITY DELIVERY. FOE._ Fancy and Staple Groceries, Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Tobacco, _A_nd Cigars, COME TO J. C. OSBORNE. South Main Street, below Bank of Anderson, Phone and Free Delivery. W. H. Harrison's Old Stand. YOU CANT JUDGE A SAUSAGE BY ITS ULSTER ! Neither can you fix the value of a BICYCLE by its Enamel. SENSIBLE people want SAFE BICYCLES, and safe Bicycles muse have the beat material, the most careful construction, and must be made bv people who know how-makers who have learned by experience. We can interest careful people in the construction of CRESCENT AND VIKING If they will give us the opportunity. We'll show what goes into them, and explain why they are better than others. Come aud see U3. Headquarters for everything in the line of Bicycle Sundries and Fittings. . W. W. SULLIVAN, Manager Bicycle Department.