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HEART'S SUNSHINE. Ob, li only those who love us Would but teil us while wc live And not wait until life's journey Knded is before they give The smile we hungered after, Tender words we longed to hear, Which wc listened for, but vainly, y For many a wca/y year! There is much of pain and sorrow All must bear, and bear alone, Vet how helpful^ is thc sunshine O? a cheery look and tone! How it brightens up life's pathway And dispels thc shadows grim And restores our shattered idols, Which wc ballt ia days now dim! 1 J , . Then bestow,ydur sunshine freely! Let it shine from out your eyes, Let it speak in warm band pressures, Let it breathe in heartfelt sighs, Let it cheer the fainting spirit Of some brother In distress, Let it thrill our jarring voices With a note pf tenderness. For in serving fellow mortals We best serve the Father, too, And in lightening their burdens Ours grow light and fade from view. And a sympathetic nature That vibrates to others' needs Is a blt of God's own sunshine Quickening to noble deeds. -Anne B, Wheeler ia Boston Transcript. tl END nilli i A Country Girl Found It, bat It Wu * 4 Not u alarming M She Had - ? 4 Supposed. a> ? BY KATE X. CXEABY, * "Ob," Priscilla said softly to berself over and over, "it is like a fairy story" lt ls all just like a fairy story!" And indeed it bad come to pass aa unexpectedly and delightfully as do wonderful improbabilities la tbe world of enchantment. Priscilla was 17. For the last nine years she had lived in the old frame farmhouse on Dry creek. It was a pleasant enough place, the square green farmhouse, half hidden from tho road by a grove of native timber. A great Seven Sisters rose straggled up to Priscilla's bedroom window and nodded its pale pink blooms there every sum mer. The aunt and uncle with whom she lived-common, kindly people, with a marvelous capacity for sustained la bor-gave her limitless love. Beyond skimming the cream and keeping thc best room in stiff and dustless order Priscilla had little to do. Indeed, her good relatives considered her too fine for heavy tasks. They were proud of her. She was straight, slender and graceful. Her hair was silken and'yel low as the tassels of the corn which Irr July encompassed them In undulating seas of gold. Not all the winds of the prairie could destroy the pure fairness of her.complexion. She had laughing gray eyes, a straight nose and lips bright as geranium petals. Unhappily the spirit of discontent: was hers. She knew that there was another world than that in which she lived-a charm ing and enchanting world. She had memories of a city home where there were books and pictures, where clever people assembled and sweet rausSe ? sounded. She had never overcome her resentment to certain country ways. Eating at tbe same table as the hired hands was a hardship to her. Her uncle and aunt would have been puz zled at such foolish pride. They had never dreamed of a separate table for themselves. Bui now her whole life was to be different and- delightful. "It happened back at the old farm 'a Illinois," her aunt told her. "My sister wasn't much older than you; are how when the handsome young artist came sketching down our way. Mother took him to board. He was always sketch ing and painting. We thought he was just a nice, poor young man. He fell deeply la love with Alice. It was only after they were married that wo learn ed he was the son of proud and wealthy people In the east, * He wrote home the truth and was disowned then and there. His father said he ditTnot want to hear from bim alive or of him dead. Harry took his young wife and went tb the city to earn his living. They were doing well and had a com fortable home when your mother died. Harry couldn't livo without her. He fretted himself ill. He brought you to us. It was hero "he died.. My, how happy it made Elihu and me to have you, never having had a child of our own! And now"-a sharp quiver com ing into the leved volce-^'when we were thinking yon would marry Willie Lester, who worships tho ground you walk on, comes this!" Her right hand brought the letter lt held down on the other with <| savage slap. Brown oi? hands they were, en larged and made unlovely by much toll. Priscilla took the letter and read lt through for the dozenth time: Ry Dear Llttlo Girl-After all these years your grandfather has relented. I know the ntsnory ol pur boy hts bean ever with bim. Ton arc to come to ns. We have . great deal ol money, as I suppose yon know. We shall spend some of lt on a trip abroad, yon accompanying us. If yon succeed in pleasing your grandfather, ron will be a great heiress some day. Inclosed yon will find . check to ec rer your expenses to New York. Your affectionate grandmother, ELLIOT Warmm. "Oh, won't lt bo grand to travel and soe the places I've read of and hear heavenly muslo and wear beautiful gowns!" She drew a long breath of ec static anticipation. She was too daz 21 ed to recognize the heartlessness of the letter In which she rejoiced. She did not know how. cruelly selfish were her own words. ? The grandparents who had Ignored her existence all these years now summoned her without, a thought for those Into whose lives she had grown. She, attracted by th? bril lance Of the br?bo. wan esurar **> c?o_ "titted!" echoed c?ra. WHiris. She lamp io her throat pained her. She muttered something about the biscuit* for ouppat and went away. Wai Lefter came over that evening. He was an overgrown young follow. With an awkwitrd walk, a handsome head and a irr sh color in his tanned cheeks. v "So you aro going away, Priscilla!" he said . She dimpled and blushed coquettish ly. .< "Yes, I'm going away." Yesterday the knowledge that Will. Jester lot-id her would have thrilled ?er with delight. All that was changed now. , On the morning of her'departure Les ter went to Elihu Willlts with a look ? his hine eyes that was half deter mined, bait; ashamed. "Will you lui mo drive Priscilla to the train?" he asked. Wlllits, hooked of nose, gray of heard, shabby of attire, irascible of Breech and just now bitter of heart, was about to irritably refuse ou the spot. "Yes, my boy!" he said. For suddenly he had recalled a cer tain dark, rainy, sweet scented spring night when ho had walked home from prayer meeting with ber who now had been his faithful wife for 20 years and had kissed her for the first time. So Lester drove Priscilla to tho train. But lt was not until they had left the farmhouse far behind, not until they had whirled through the straggling street of tho little, unprosperous town, not, indeed, until they were in sight of tho red roofed depot, that he found courage to speak bis mind. "Priscilla, you know I love you, that I've always loved you, yes, since you came here a child. There ls no use in talking of that now. You are going to be a fine lady. When I shall have fin ished my two years' course in Chicago, I shall be at the best but a semlstarved country doctor. I felt I must say 'I love youl' although there is no use in hoping-now !" "No," she said softly. She colored a deep, delicious pink. "Pm awfully corry, Willie. Everything ls changed now." "PrisclHal" He pulled around In the seat and was looking down upon her. "I wonder if you remember how once, a long time ago, you strayed away from home. There had been a storm. You could not be discovered anywhere. The folks were nearly crazy. It was I who found you. You were a good way down the creek. You were wet and hungry, tired and cold. You were scratched by briers, had lost your shoe and were altogether forlorn. When you saw me, you held out your arms, with the gladdest cry I ever heard. 'Oh, take me home, Willie!' you cried. 'I was trying to find the end of the rainbow!' . I did take you home, and you slept every bit of the way with your little wet head cuddled on my shoulder. Do you know, I cannot help thinking that you are-are going to find the end of another rainbow, Pris cilla!" ?No-ab, no! What a cruel prophe cy!" She laughed a little nervously. "Here we nre! The train-is it on lime, I wonder?" The train was on time. The Willltses were on hand. Gaunt and lugubrious they loomed up on the platform. "Don't worry about me, Aunt Mary!" Priscilla entreated. "I'll come to see you, and I'll bring you a real camel's hair shawl and a velvet gown!" "Never mind them," returned Mrs. Wlllits huskily. "But you come, sure!" "Never mind . thom-eorno? sure!" urged Elihu like an echo. They kissed her. Lester held her hand tight a minute. Then the train was writhing eastward like a great black serpent. Such a different world was that Into 1 which she went-Buch a world of ease, of luxury, of artistic delight! At first she was deliciously dazed by It a!L The Immense, beautiful house; the vel vet laid corridors; the trained, de?t servants; the crested, fragrant linen; thc tall, reddish sideboard, on which the silver gleaued a dr Jit of moon lit frost; tho high Jars of aromatic rose leaves; tbs entrancing, gold bound pictures, the glowing draperies, the loose masses of cst flowers, tho univer sal air of aloofness, made up the en vironment of ideal existence. Then her grandparents were such charming old aristocrats. Money could never have made them. First, cen turies before, were blood and breed ing. The advantages which money, could buy had supplemented these. ' They decided that personally Priscilla was perfection. Masters of music, of dancing, of languages, came daily, and the polish of accomplishments was added to her store of fascination. Abroad, ber grandparents were de lighted with the sensation she created. With her natural intelligence stimulat ed to the utmost, her fresh young beauty set off with Parisian toilets, she was quite the most bewitching crea ture society had seen for a long time. She wrote regularly to the. old couple on Dry creek. She enjoyed her life heartily. At Borne its current was ' changed. She fell in love with a slug er wbose superb voice and face of brlgandlsh beauty bad taken the musi cal world by storm. Old Calvin Why land frowned on the affair. He took his granddaughter away. - De Latenter followed-obtained an interview. Car ried away by his earnestness, his per sonality, his passion, she promised to marry him. Her grandfather heard of it-questioned ber. "Ask him," cried the old man, ghast ly with rage, "if he wants you or the money ho believes you will Inherit!" "NeverP* 'she replied with scorn. "I shall never so insult him!" A fortnight later Mr. Why land caught the Roman fever and. died. When his will was opened, lt was found to bear the date of his Interview with his rebellions grandchild. After a certain share to his wife all his estate was left to a distant branch of his family. Priscilla was penniless. She tobk the newe lightly. She^had ?drain's love. He heard the rumor, e came to see her. "Yes," she answered him. "It ls true. I have been disinherited." He rose. He took up his hat He bowed profoundly. "You are the sweetest woman in the world, Miss Wayland, but I must say goodby." < She stared at him in bewilderment AU at once , comprehension, complete ?^terribie, can*e io uv v. ano was 1 juted: "You rucan" "That I-in your expressive tongue am a scoundrel! Forgive me if you can. Goodby 1" Then be was gone. a. . <9 m m ? Tho spirit of spring was abroad. The newly turned furrows in the cornfields were black and moist Lines of tender gr?en defined the hollows in the scats red earth. Everywhere tras the subtle sense of awakening, everywhere the wholesome, familiar smell of "green things growing." Tho trees along the creek had burst into myriads of brownish buds. Once in awhile sound ed th? contented note of the meadow, lark from its nest in tho prairie grasses. , "I'll be glad when tho young chick ens aro flt to fry," Mrs. Wlllits was spying. %ho leaned forward to.laytbs circle or oiscuit uougn sue noni un iou bubbling contents of the big iron pot. I "Not but that u fut old one does make a good potpie! My! How Priscilla rel ished my potpie! Tho dear child--who's that?" She turned sharply. A woniau stood Just without tho open door, a stately and beautiful wouinu. She was gown ed in soft fawn color, and tho har>ou the golden hair was a mass of change able purple bloom. She held out llttlo gloved hands. "Aunt Mary! Don't you know me?" For- au Instant the woman by the stove stood Btlll-motionless, enraptur ed. Then she rushed forward. She swept the radiant vision Into her breathless embrace. She had not known such happiness since the rainy, sweet scented spring night when Elihu bad kissed her on tue way home from pray er meeting. "My-=dear-llttle-glrl!" "I am not rich!" She was laughing and sobbing, her Ups seeking repeated ly the wrinkled old cheek. "I did not even bring you tho velvet gown. Grandpa died, you know, and" "Pm rich-I'm rich!" quavered the old woman. "Elihu-E-ll-hu, hurry 1 Here's our little girl!" Priscilla did not at first recognize the gentleman who came to call on ber a few days later as that handsome, self possessed, bearded man Will Lester. She learned much of Dr. Lester during the months that followed, and the tales that were told ber did credit to his bead and heart One night he ventured to speak of her again as ve had that distant morn ing on the way to the train which was to carry ber out of his life. "But now," he concluded, "I speak and hope! May I?" "Listen." she said. "You must know ali first" 1 She told him the frank and full truth. From the orchard came drifting up to them a thousand vagrant, delicious scents, and fireflies flashed around them like incarnate words of love. "I think," she ended in a queer, shaky little voice, "that I've found-as I you said I might-tho end of another rainbow, Willie." He opened his arms and gathered her into their shelter as he had dono that night orTDry creek when ho found her a little helpless, frightened child. "You remember lt, love-that old i story? Thank God, dear Heart," he said, in-his voice Infinite thankfulness, infinite Joy. "The storm is spent the darkness over!"-Chicago Tribune. Two Failles. Charles and William were partners In a small way in the commission bust ! ness. When the war broke out, Wil liam went to the front, but as Charjes had an u??le who was a congressman, be went to Washington and did impor tant work for some contractors. After tl? war William came home In dusty blue'clothes and was a hero, al though he was $0 In debt. He found Charles not only engaged to the pret tiest girl in the place, but with his pockets full of ready money. It is pleasant to know that republics ire not always ungrateful. * ***** * David wno a fine old marchant. He was a deacon, a solid man and univer sally respected. The civic reform club urged upon hire tc run for mayor, and the committee Informed him that he would bo pretty nearly unanimously elected. He weakly consented, and the respectable dement was delighted. They ran against him an unknown person named Michael, a retired saloon keeper. He was an Ignorant man, but he knew a good deal about machines. When they counted the ballots, it was discovered that Michael bad been elected by a majority of 2,293 to 158. David felt very sore and ls still won dering how lt happened. Stories like this should demonstrate that success consists in knowing bow to succeed.-Life. Hov Congress Sp r In ar Waa Named. When John Taylor Gilman, a membei of congress, visited the log houses which chiefly constituted Saratoga hi Its early history, he was accompanied one day on a hunting ramble by a young sou of the woodsman with whom he boarded. When they return ed to the cabin, the boy enthusiastical ly shouted* "Oh, mn, we've found o new spring!" "Who found It?" he was asked. Turning to the distinguished law maker, the little fellow admiringly ex claimed, "Why, the congress!" And to this day tho name has clung to one of the most celebrated of the springs which made the place a sani tary resort long before lt became.the Beat of summer fashion.-Ladles' Home Journal. A Fair Reason. "Do you candidly admit that you overcharged that n.an?" "I do," answered the keeper of the general store in the small (own. "He comes here and makes me agree with him in his viows of the Boer war. Then he switches off into the Chinese situation, and I've got to follow his arguments so ns to answer him. If he'd stick to free silver I wouldn't mind. I've had practice. But if he's bound to Hog io new ones, he's got to pay for 'em."-Washington Star. . '-iras 'i> ipuw? ?i. ? i A gentleman recently cured of dys pepsia gave the following appropriate rendering of Burns' famous blessing : "Some have meit and cannot eat, and some hacA "one tbtt ~-nt ii, bu? wo have Si est, as? ? 6 ??? cai-Ko?b? Dyspepsia Cure be thanked.'.' This preparation will digest what you eat. It instantly relieves and radically cures indigestion and all kinds of stomach disorders. Evans' Pharmacy. - Since Joly began two athletics haye been frozen to death in a storm on Mount Washington, whioh is an other evidence of the range cf Ameri can weather. CASTOR I A For Infants and ?foitflrfi*. Th* Kind Youta Always Bought What a Parrot Did. Had it not been for a mischievous poll parrot-so 'tis said-Miss Mary Strotter would now bc on thc Freuch liner La Bretague, bouud for Paris. Primarily Miss Strotter's forgetfulness was thc cause of ber tarry in Manhat tan, but at thc finish the parrot clinch ed the matter-and Miss Strotter grioves. Miss Strotter was prompt in reach ing the French Lino pier. She was there fully an hour before vsailing time So also were two trunks, her valise and her steamer chair. Miss Strotter had come from the West on Wednesday. She had stopped at the Greenwioh Street hotel. It waa not until just thirty minutes before sailing time that she discov ered the one article indispensable to the trip was missing-her tioket. A messenger was passing. Miss Strotter bailed him and sent him post haste for the ticket. She told him just where it could be found-on the top of her dressing table. The hotel was only three blocks away. When thc man did not return in fifteen minutes Miss Strotter grew anxious and almost ran baok to her hotel. She met the returning mes senger at the door. The tioket could not be found. She dashed by him to her room and searched every corner of it in vain. It was ten minutes before sailing time. She was in despair. She had begun a fresh search of the room, when she heard a voice say: "You're a fool." It was the voice of a parrot that had the range of the house at certain hours. He was perched on a shelf, and under one daw was the missing tioket. rle flew away as she rushed at him, but she got the ticket and ran back to the pier. La Bretagne voa just backing into the stream, and she will have to take passage on the next ship sailing. Neto Yorlc Journal. As Park Patrolman Albert E. Wor sham, who is stationed at the Druid Hill avenue entrance, was passing, yesterday afternoon, 2536 Druid Hill avenue, which is occupied by Charles A. Guthberiet as a saloon and resi dence, he heard fearful screams issu ing from the second story windows. Thc cries sounded like "murder!" and from harsh strained voioe the park officer instantly thought someone was being strangled to death. Although Mr. Worshsm is getting along in years, he is still a good runner. He made record-breaking time between the saloon'and the parkgate, where Round Sergeant Jonathan Mosley and Sergeant Jamos Smith were standing. It took him but- an instant to tell them tfe??^ he had heard "murder cried from Guthberlet's saloon, and that it had sounded like somebody was getting choked." Both sergeants were off in a second. They listened intently, but not a sound was heard. Probably the person 'who was being killed when Worsbara passed was dead by this time, thought they, and they had bet ter investigate. They ran to the back gate, thinking the murderer would escape that way. Everything appeared all right but to make sure they olimbed the fence and peered over. They could see nothing wrong and began to donbt the fact that the murderer had escaped. They returned to the front door and, as a happy thought, questioned the woman who lives next door. She had heard no cries of murder, and said the fami ly of the saloonkeeper were away from home. On second thought she re membered that they had not taken their parrot and that the bird had been yelling all day. This WSB enough for the policemen and they returned to .thuir posts, warmer, wiser and angry man.-Baltimore Sun. Nothing so thoroughly removes the IQ al af ?a germ from the ny GI "n as Prickly Ash Bitters. It give? life sod aotion to the torpid liver, strength ens and assists the kidneys to proper ly cleanse the blood, gives tone to the stomach, purifies the Dowels, and pro motes good appetite, vigor and cheer fulness. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. - Dead love is worse than wicked love, or crazy love, or even no love. - When anybody puts Satan be hind him, it's because that's the place Satan wants to be. - The way women flatter a man is to tell him they know he.can't stand being flattered. - If a woman loves a man and other women like him she is miserable about it; if they don't she is indignant i with them. Look out for malaria. It is season able now. A few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters is a sure -preventive. Evins Pharmacy. - The number of casualties on the railroads of this country Issi yest is stated at 51,743 of which 7,123 were fatal. This looks large, but when it is remembered that there are nearly a million men employed on the railroads, it if not large.. ^ - It has been discovered that the oholera germ is seldom fatal to a sys tem impregnated with tobaooo. " - A gentleman must kiss every lady he is introduced to in Paraguay. It is the custom of tho country. ! DeWitb's Little Early Bi sers are the best pills made. Evans' Pharmacy. Consolidation of Banks. The tendency to consolidation has reached to bauks as well aa nearly every other line of business. There are uow only 21 bauks in the down-town districts of Chicago. Eight years ago there were more than twico as uiauy. Within the last few mouths four Chicago banks have gone out of existence and two of these had already absorbed another bank each, so that the tb .ec remaining banks will repre sent tho business formerly done by nine independent institutions. Aloog with tho decrease of the num ber of Chicago banks has come a won derful increase in the volume of the city's banking business. At the be ginning of 1896 the total deposits held by all the banks, state and national, in Chicago was only $200,000,000; now it ia $380,000,000. Tho deposits of these banks have nearly doubled in four years and a half. Three banks in Chicago will hold, as soon as pend ing consolidating arrangements are completed, $167,000,000 of deposits, or 80 per oent of the total held by all the banks of Chioago four years ago. The Chioago News contends that the consolidation of banks in hat city is a logical result. It says: "The motive for the consolidations is to be found in that tendency to ceu tralic ';on which has played so impor tant -a part in all oommercial lines of lato.OA small bank cannot handle business, as the units of business get bigger the banks must get bigger, too. Twenty small manufacturera can do business with twenty small banks; but if they combine the combination must find a bank big enough to handle ita money affairs. The bank is simply the money wheel in the commercial machine, and in a general way it must correspond in size and power with the rest of the maohinery. But there is still room for comparatively small banks, as there is still a vast deal of comparatively small business." Whilo consolidation of banks is go ing on in some of the great cities, it is gratifying to see the number of small banks increasing in the towns. There is a demand for such institutions. They are very useful to the commu nities and districts in which they are established, and when well-managed usually pay their stockholders well. Atlanta Journal. - William McDonald's white hair is turning black and his few decayed stumps have fallen out in favor of a ? rand new set of teeth. Some of his neighbors in Alden a County, Mich., declare that the ~ld pioneer must be bewitohed, and the doctors themselves confess that he presents a freak of na ture without parallel. Dentists in .particular aro greatly wrought up over thc phenomenon or ne~7 teeth sprout ing in the shrivelled.gums of seventy five years. They say that if McDon ald's example were followed extensive ly it would be a blow to their profes sion. - - Auntie-"Joey, I've washed your face four times to-day. I guess you wish your mother would come homo." Joey-"No; she's worser. She washes it fm morning till night." - "My mother-in-law has gone to the mountains." "You look pleas ed." "Yes; she'll have to admit she has found something that she can't walkover." - What bcoomes of ail tho smart children after they grow up? LAND FOB. SALE. WE have six tracts of Land for sale In one body, four miles Southeast from Abbeville, on Long Cane Crook, and on Black Diamond R. H. survey. Tracts contain about 200 Acres eacb. Cheap and on easy terms. A good chance to get a home. Write us at Abbeville or call on us near lands. li. A. JACKSON, J. C. PRE8SLY, Jaly 25, 1900-5-5?_Agents. BLOOD TELLS. Yes, lt la tho index to health. If you bare bad blood you are likely to learn that ?ou haye Rheuma''sm, one of the mut orrlble diseases to which mankind ia heir. If thU disease has just organ its work, or If you hare been afflicted for rears, you should at. once take the wonderful new cure, RHEUMACIDE. Thousands bare been cured. The Spring ls the best time to take a rheumatic remedy. Nature will then aid the medicine In effec ting a permanent, constitutional cure. Peo ?>Ie with bad blood are subject to catarrh, odlgestlon, and many other diseases. To be healthy the blood most be pure. RHEU MACIDE Ia the Prince of blood purifiers. Sold ia Anderson by EVANS PHAR MACY. Price fl.OO._ - THE - BANK OF ANDERSON. J. A. S?wCCn, Presiden T. JOS. 5 . BEovtf?, Vice Presiden t. B. F. MAULDIN, Cashier. THE Largest, strongest Bank lo tbs County. Interest Faid OD Deposits By special agreement. With nnsurpsssM.fSaclliUss and resour ces we aro at all Ornas prepared to ec oommodate our customer*. Jan 10,1900 29 NOTICE. Will let to the lowest responsible bid der on Saturday, the 13th day of August, at 10 o'clock a. m., the Building of a Bridge over Beaver Creek, known as the Long Bridge, near W. B. Tate's, in Hall Township. Reserving the right to' accept arty or all bids. Successful bid der will bs required to give bond ia doa ble amount ot bid for faithful performance of the work. J. N. VANDIVER, Co. Supervisor A. C. WOMEN IN TROUBLE. The Approach of Motherhood is tho Occasion of Much. Anxiety to All. Every woman dreads the ordeal through which sho must pass in becom ing a mother. Tho pain and suffering which is in storo for her is a sourco ol constant anxiety, fear and dread, to say nothing of the danger which the coming incident entails. The joyous anticipations with which she looks for ward to baby's coming gives way to an indescribable dread of the ordeal when she fully realizes the critical and trying event which will soon approach and. have to be endured. "Women should hall with delight a remedy which insures to them im munity from tho pain, suffering and danger incidental to child-bearing. Such a remedy is now offered, and women need not fear longer the hour ol childbirth. "Mother's Friend"-is a scientific liniment-and if used before confinement, gently and surely prepares tho body for tho great requirements and changes it is undergoing, insures safety to Doth mother and child, and takes her through the event with com parative ease and comfort. This won? derful remedy is praised by every woman who has used it. What woman is not interested in "Mother's Friend?" This wonderful remedy has been tested and its price less value proven by the experience oi thousands of happy mothers who have used it during the moat critical period ot woman's lifo-tho approach and culmination of motherhood. It has won their everlasting praise, for it gave them help and nope io their most trying hour and when most needed. Every woman may some day need "Mother's Friend." Tho little book, "Before Baby is Born." telling all about it, and when it should be used, will prove of great interest and benefit to all expectant mothers, and will be sent free to any address upon application to the Bradfield Regulato! Company. Atlanta, Ga. D. 8. VANnivKB. E. P. YANDIVEB. J. J. MAJOR. VAHDlYERBROS.&ffiy?R DEALERS IN Fine Buggies, Phasetons, Surreys, Wagons, Harness Lap.?tobes and Whips, High Grade Fertilizers, Bagging and Ties. ONEhund-ed fine new Bugles just received. Come and look through them. They are.beauties, and we will treat you right if you need one. Car load "Birdsell" Wagons on hand tho best Wagons built. A Oar White Hickory Wagons to arrive soon. Yours, for vehiclos, VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR. Drs. StricH k Mm, DENTISTS, ANDERSON, ----- S. C. Ot- FICES : Over Farmers and Merchants Bank. WE having formed n partnership for the practico of Dentistry, and to establish a Cash practice, we give a liberal discount of 20 to 25 per cent, from former prices. Thus sc bad debts, no bill oolloctor to SRj, no lost ?s?isri?.?. Therefors, those avii_ work done by thia plan pay only for what they get, and save that over charge to make good the work done for others who never pay at all ; also, giving us more time to serve the paying class. A dollar saved is one made. Vitalized Air, "Oas." Cocaine and the Painless Spray used for the extraction of teeth. Re??2Ctfulljj A. C. STRICKLAND. J. C. CHATHAM. N. B.-Nothing but the best that mate rial and workmanship can produce will be turned ont of our office. S. & C. PROF. T. R. LANGSTON. ANDERSON, 8. G., CURES BY VITAL. MAGNETISM. ALL classes ol Diseases, acute and chronic, promptly, painlessly and permanently, and without the use of medicine or surgery. Having just completed a thorough course of instruction, theoretical and clinical in the Solence and Art of Healing by Vital Magnetism, (the Welt m or meth od,) I beg leave to offer my services to the sick and afllicted of Anderson and vicinity. I am thoroughly prepared to treat all classes of diseases, especially thoso affecting the nervous organism, by this new method. ABSENT TREATMENT. Persons living at remote distances may be auocessfnlly treated by this method by what la termed Absent Treatment, by correspondence. All communications whatever, either personal or by letter, will be scrupulous ly treated aa confidential. Offices-Thompson Building, Southeast of Publie Square. Call on or address PBOF. T. R. LANGSTON, Anderson, C. C. I have already a number of u> dering testimonials of marvelous euros per formed by me. May 10,1900_47 _ Notice of Final Settlement. 8tate of South Carolina, County of Anderson. To Charles D. Sloan, whoso whereabouts are unknown, If living, or If dead to his personal representatives or distrib utees, and to J. P. E. Sloan, Susan Hall. P. H. E. Sloan. Henrietta Sea brook, Maya Lyles, Hattie Sloan and Marrah D. Sloan, distributees of the Estate of the late Benjamin F. Sloan, deceased, intestate : Whcrss?. B. Frank ?noan, Administra tor of the KaUteof the said Benjaman F Sloan, deceased, bas applied to me to make FlnaTSetUement and distribution of said Estate on the day hereinafter named, and it having been made to ap pear to my satisfaction that the said Ad ministrator has been unable to ascertain the whereabout* of the Bald Charles D. Sloan, Who bas never been domiciled'In this State, one of said distributees, or whether be is living or dead ? the said Charles I>: Sloan, if living, or If dead his personal representatives or distributees are hereby cited to be and appear before the Probate Court in and for the said' County of Anderson, and State of Sooth Carolina, on Monday, tho first day of Oc tober next, at ll o'clock a. m, to ahow. cause why the ?*id Administrator of said Estate should not be decreed to distribute the same as if the said Charles D Sloan had died before the said BenJ. F. Sloan, deceased, intestate ; and the other above named distributees are hereby notified to appear before the said Cou rt on the day and at the time hereinbefore mentioned to Intervene for their intoresta in said Estate. B. Y. H. NANCE, ( LANI) FOR SALK. WK < iYor for halo iivo acrts of Laud lu tho Cily of AnderHcn, l>elnu ?art of tho Tract ou which M rn. Mary )'l>onucll residen, bounded by Hampton trcot, Kast lloundary street, Kennedy treot, and other Landa of said Mts dary O'Donnoll. lt J? divided into bali aero lotH, and .as a thirty-foot Mtroet running through If not aold at private salo will bo sold SaloBday iu October, l'KM). Seo plat at oillco of Bonham dc Watkins and apply to tho undersigned for terms. BONHAM * WATKIN8, O.UA?TLEHAUM & COCHRAN, ri . Attorneys. July 4, lOiX) 2 3m LAND FOR SALE. WE oder lor sale that Tract of Land In Savannah Township, known as the Hewln Land, on Genercstee Creek, waters of Savannah River, bounded br said Creek, Public Road and Lands of T. D. Stevenson, Earl Harris, Nathaniel Harris end oihors. If not aold at private sale will be sold at public outcry on Saleaday in Ootober. 1000. Ask at our office for terms and plat, BONHAM <fc WATKINS, Attorneys. July 4, 1000_2_3m Judge of Probate's Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ANDERSON. In the Court of Common Pleas. Frank Hammond and Matthew Gam brell, Plaintiffs, against Reuben Owens et al., Defendants.-Partition. IN obedience to the order of sale grant ed herein, I will sell on Salesday in August next, during tho usual hours of aale, in front of the Court Honso in the City of Anderson, S. C., the Lands do nen bod as follows, to wit : All that certain Tract or parcel of Land situate, lying and being in tho County and State aforesaid, containing four acres, more or lees, and bounded on the North by the landa or E. W. Levell and E. T. Morgan, and on the East and South by lands of W. L. Davis, said Tract lying on the South side of the Columbia & Green ville Railroad. Terms of Sale-Cash. To be complied with in one hour, or to be resold until a bona fide purchaser can comply with the terms of said sale. Purohasbr to pay for papers. R. Y. H. NANCE, Judge of Probate as Special Referee. July H, 1000_3_4_ An All-around Satisfaction Is assured to those who Patronize. OUR WORK is uniformly excellent, not merely occasionally good. What care and skill can do to give satisfaction is doab. Fine work on goods of every description is done here. The Finish, either high gloss or domestic, on Shirts, Odiara v jd Cuff* ia especially meritori ous. ANDr?R8t>N STEAM LAUNDRY CQ. 202 East Boundary St. R. A. MAYFIELD, Supt. and Treas. PEiONE NO. 20. tor*? Leave orders at D. C. Brown & Bro e. 8tore._ FARM LANDS May fust as well be sold during Spring and Sommer as In Fall and Winter. No need to walt until crops are made and marketed to "look around/' We have a large Hst of well-selected Farms, and likely have j uat what you want. We are also answering inquiries every day, and if yon have Farm Lands to sell we would likely find the purchaser you are looking for. We can. In moat cases, easily ad just any questions that may arlae with reference to rent for the year, or interest on purchase money or date of taking possession, and like details. In some cases, If early Bale is made, we can offer great Inducements in releasing rents to purchaser. 128 acres, near Honea Path, up-to-date condition. Can be bought low now. 168 acres, Fork, bottom price. (40 to 50 acres bottom-good condition.) 190 acres, Fork. 125 acres, Fork. 2500 acres in Oconee. Eleven settle ments. Already surveyed into six tracts. Timber valuable. The above are only a few. FRIERSON & SHIRLEY, People's Back Building, Anderson, S. C. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OP ANDERSON. COURT ?>!.' COMMON PLEAS. Fannie Mattlson, Plaintiff, against Lou Greer, Isaac Williams, William Williams, Sr., et al., Defendants. . To ibo Defendants Lon Greer, Isaac Williams, William Williams, Jr.. Estelle William-, Sallie Williams, Ophelia William*, Pur?ls Williams. Bertha ?rovrn, Muttle Lee Clinksrales and Fred Cllnkecalea: V rou are hereby summoned and required to an* \ suer the Complaint in this action, of which a LOi/y is herewith served upon you, and to sevve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers at their office, Anderson Court Houso, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the dar of such service; and if you fall to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in thia action wUl apply to the Court for the relief de manded in the Complaint. Anderson, 8. C., May 29, A. D., :d00. BONHAM * W A.TEIH5, Plaintiff's Attornoya. [8KAI ] JOH* C. WATKINS, C. O. P. To Ibo Infant Defendants William Williams, Jr., Estelle WUllams,Bailie Williams, Ophelia Wil liams. Purvis Williams, Bertha Brown, Mattie Lee Clint, seal es and Fred CUnkecalea : Yon wlU take notlco that within twenty days after the servicoof tho Bum mons and Complaint on yon, in thia action, you must procure the ap Kl?t mont of Guardians ad Utera to represent you said action ; and if yea fall to do so the Plain tiff rill procure such appointment to ba made. BONHAM A WATKINS, May 29,1900. Plaintiff's Attorneys. To the absent Defendants Bertha Brown, Mattie Lee Cllnkecalea and Fred Cllnkecalea : Take notice that copies of this Summons and Complaint, which are herewith served upon you. are this day Sled In the office of the Clerk of the Court for Anderson County, S.O. May 70,1000. . . BONHAM A WATKINS, PlalnUff'a AU'ra. July 25,1S0O_5_6 P?TEWTS-& ADVICE AS TO PATEMTACILfTY ?11 EC Notico In "Inventive Ago" EPaWK-.E. . nook "How to obtain Patents" Q HSBBBBB . I Charata moderate. No fee tUl patent Is occured. 1 f Letters etrictly confidential. Address, * 1