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? BIG SEND OFF. '?lary J"aile's Wedding, Bridges Smith, in Atlanta Journal. It bad been settled tbat Mary Jane should* have a big ?seud-oiT. She wa8 a year ?or eo behind Eliza in the mat ter of Ige, but then Eliza was slow in yanking a beau. Mary Jane used*to pike around the parlor when Eliza>waB setting her oap, and telling her young man hov much the unwitV.og workers and missionary society were < doing for the reformation of the world, but when Eliza turned a withering sidelong glance at Mary Jane -she wilted .and Houghted the solitude cf ber own chamber to have her cry out, and wish she was a big, grown woman like Eliza, and had a young man. But when Mary Jane finally got in to long frocks that didn't have-but tons in the back, and stopped plaiting her hair and tying the end with a yel low ribbon, she laid right down on the unwilling workers and talked ?like a real girl, until the boys circulated it around among themselves that she wus a lady .right, and the man that won her was striotly in it. And when she got where she could run Eliza out of the parlor and chew gum half the night, with nobody but the young man who was dead struck on her to remonstrate with her, the old folks de cided that the time was ripe to give her a swell blowout, if ever a girl ever had ono. It was tough on the old man, who had recently run up ag ai o si a Onanoiai snag, to have to draw on his imagina tion for wealth, but the old lady said Maryjane was her baby, and that they didn't have a wedding every day, and her baby was geing to be married in style if it was the last act of her life. And the old lady generally had things go her way. Before the end of the week the in side works of the house 'looked as though the main ?pring had busted. There V>SM an odor of soapsuds and orange blossoms all over tho lot, and everything from the front steps to the baok yard was looking spanking new. The parlor looked like a bu sh ar bor at a campmeeting, and there was more frosted cake setting around in spots than you eould shake a stick at. On the night of the tieup they hung a fresh lot of clothes on the old man and rigged him up in a standing collar. /Then they instructed him how to play host and extend the glad hand to friend and foe. The old man was nottpWsed ^ith his job worth a hardly, but it was up to him to look pleasant, and he made up his mind to go through or break a trace, yet if he had his rathers. he would rather haye shucked the store clothes and sat out on tho front poroh in the cool and spit red. As it was, he wore the'standing collar and the sickly smile and signal ed the guests togo to the parlur. There are uses for an idiotic young man just aB there is an occasional use for an undertaker, and this was one of the times. The ?omen folks had seated themselves and mentally ob served .from corners of eyes how So andrSo dressed on little or nothing in the way of inoome, and the men pid died their thumbB and wished the thing was over. . But the smart young man said something that, whih it was idiotie, kindled a regular blaze of oon versation, and encouraged by this outburst of applause, he continued to do things out of the ordinary until conversation hummed. Everybody broke loose in talk, and the wedding bollo rang out merrily, soto speak. In the midst of this hilarity somebody with a band-made megaphone announc es that the groom has arrived. The old man gathers bim first, falls all over him and then bustles through the hall to seine occluded spot in the rear of the houBe so as to have him on han?? for the ceremony. Tiie appearance of the groom and his hasty disposition subdues the hum of talk in the parlor, and the* guests give themselves np to a general dis cussion of Iiis merits, possibilities, etc. In the - meantime four or five sympathizing female friends have been hard at work on the bride in a bask room. They have rigged her up in white stuff so tight that she could not get out ox them soddenly without a can-opor.or, put gloves and slippers oo and otherwise got her ready for the fray. Rho was told not to sit down so that her dress would be mined, and she stood up until she was stitt. Dur ing all this embalming.process the old lady is softly crying, but bossing tho job ail the same. And Eliza, with a temporary smile and a heart of lead, glides softly about from thejproparing room to the parlor and keops tho crowd posted, assuring them that the marriage would surely t^ko plaoo. The smart youngman has played himself out and can think of DO more idiotic things to say, and the crowd is about to guess whother they are at a wedding or a funeral, when tho minister arrives. /This is equiva lent to a wet blanket so far &^f^?Q_U versation is concerned, but it gives rise to a suspioion that the ceremony is not so far off ss it bsd been. Elisa appears io the door on a quiet search for the reporter who promised to como, and Siding him on hand, darts baok to inform the bride, who is resting first on one foot and then on the oth er, hui-, still wi?icg tobe mani? J, thai everybody is ready. Mary Jane and her young man walk into the room with majestic tread, but looking as if both had been stealing sheep. The female friends who had been embalming her for the ordeal fol low, and Eliza slips away to have a quiet little ory all to herself. The old lady pats her scant hair to see that it is not falling down, and then walks in with tho old man, who by this time doesn't care whether school keeps or not. The knot is tied, and the min ister, with some little doubt in his mind as to the size of the fee, utters a cautious congratulation, and the smart young mao, recovering his gaiety, makes a break for the first kiss. Then the orowd ruahes to the room where the presents have been conceal ed from view. They havo been ar ranged on a long table by a lady friend who olerks in the ten-cent store, and were arranged with taste, if she did say so herself. Each present is tag ged with a card bearing the name of the friend who was taxed that way, and each guest satisfies himself or herself that his or her present has reached its destination, and at the same time comparing the other gifts. Then Eliza, having dried her eyes, announees supper. There is a rush for the room where the frosted oake and the angel food and stuff have been stored and worked on, and for a time there is joy in the land. The smart young man is now in his element, for it has been discovered that he oan eat much better than he can talk. T.hen the guests leave one by one, but not before saying some funny and obliging things to the newly-tied. The old man sheds the collar and oth er things* that have worried him, lights his.pipe and takes his long wished-for seat on the front poroh and thanks the Lord that it is all over. Next day the newspaper tells all about it. Tho reporter made a pretty story of the affair, said a good word the heat he ever had said about him about the .groom, made the bride a beautiful woman and.gave her charms that she never dreamed of, raised the old man in his own estimation, said something nice about the old lady, and as for Eliza, she was so well pleas ed with the mention of the whole family that she forgave the little sis ter for landing her fish first, and sent copies of the paper to relatives in four States. Moral for the Girls-If you want to catan a young man so you oan hold him fast, talk like a real girl. There are other and surer ways of saving the souls of young men than keeping them shut up in the. parlor, telling them about Church societies. This may be wrong, but it is true. Cures Blood and Skin Troubles. TRIAL TREATMENT FREE.-Is your blood poor ? Is it thin?, Nose bleed ing and headache? Pricking pains in the skin? Skin pale? Skin feel hot and swollen? All run down? Is your blood bsd? Have you Pimples? 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B. never fails to cure quickly and perma nently, after all fails. Thoroughly tested for thirty . years. Over 3,000 voluntary testimonials of cures by B B B. Hill-Orr Drug Co., Wilhite & Wilhite, and Evans Pharmacy. - There is nothing equal to a good opera for sharpening of the feminine appetite. - During last May sn infant child of our neighbor was suffering from cholo ra infantum. The doctors bad given up all hopes of recovery. I took a bottlo of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to the house, telling them I felt sure it would do good if used according to directions. In two days time the child had fully recovered. The child is now vigorous and healthy. ?*havo recommended this remedy frequently and havo never known it to fail.-Mrs. Curtis Baker, . Bookwalter, Ohio. Sold by Kiil-Orr [Drue Esau Buck and the Buck Saw. An old farmer of Arkansas, whose sons had all grown np and left him, hired a yoong man by the name of Esau Bnok to help him on his farm. On the evening of the first day they hauled up a smtU load of poles for wood and unloaded them between the garden and the barn yard. The next morning the old man said to the hired man: "Esau, I am going to town to* day and while I am gone you may saw up that wood and keep the old ram out of the garden. When the old man had gone Esau went out to saw the wood, but when he saw the saw he wouldn't saw it. When Esau saw the saw he saw that he couldn't saw it with that saw. Esau looked around for snothnr but that w?? lue only saw ho saw, so he didn't saw it. When the old man came home he says to Esau: "Esau, did you saw the wood?" Esau said: "I saw the wood, hut 1 wouldn't saw it; for when I saw the sar?, I saw that I oouldn't saw with that saw, so I didn't saw it." The old man went out to see the saw, and when he saw the saw he saw that Esau oouldn't saw with that saw. Wheo Esau ssw that the old man saw that he oouldn't saw with the saw, Esau picked up the ax and chopped up tho wood and made a see-saw. The next day the old man went to town and bought a new huck saw for EsaU Buck, and when he came home he hung the buck saw for Esau Buck on the saw buck by the see-saw. Just at this time Esau Buck saw the old buck in the garden eating cabbage, and when driving him from the garden to the barn yard Esau Buok saw the buok saw on tho saw buck by the see saw, and Esau stopped to examina the new buck saw. Now when the old ram saw Esau Buck looking at the new buck saw on the saw buck by the see-saw, he made a dive for Esau, missed Esau, hit the see-saw, knooked the see-saw against Esau Buck, who fell on the saw. Now, when the old man saw the old buok dive at Esau Buok and miss Esau and hit the saw saw and knock the see-saw against Esau and Esau Buok fall on the buck saw on the saw buok by the see-saw, he picked up the axo to kill the old buck, but the buck saw him coming, and dodged the blow and countered on the old man's stomach; knooked the old man over the see-saw onto Esau Buck, who was getting up with the buok saw off the saw buck by the pee saw, crippled Esau Buok, broke the buck saw and the saw buck and the see-saw. Now, when the old buck saw the completeness of his victory over the old man and Esau Buck and the buck "aw and the eaw buck and the see-saw, he quietly turned around, went back and jumped into the garden again and ate up what was left of the old man's cabbage. MM tl mam The Twentieth Century Girl. She is plastic and elastic and can trip the light fantastic in a style enthusiastic with abandon that is rare. She is sweetness and petiteness in a bunoh of great completeness and she keeps us at her fectness in a manner debonair. She can daily on the ally with ten pins and make a tally, and the boys around her rally when she's out upon the links. And she'll patter'round and chatter on most any weighty matter, but she's talking through her hat-'er little thinker never thinks. Oh , she's happy when she's frappe and is throwing bright and snappy bits of Ghillkoot Pass at chappy, freezing out the spoony boys. And the measure of her pleasure in .her never-ceasing leisure is a little world of treasure in un mitigated joys. She'll abuse you and amuse you and both well and ill she'll use you, and she'll finally refuse you, - though heart-broken yon im plore; But don't bother-get another-be content to be her brother, for she likes to see her mother mopping up the kitchen floor. -Denver Times. Thia 0'gnaturo I? on every box ot tho genuino Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablet? UM raaaedy that cmrrm . -M i?, ease ?lay - While arguing about their re spective weights, John Sterner and Alfred Bowley, of Toledo, made an unusual wager the other day, that will not be settled until after their death. The heavier skeleton is to win, and the stakes ($200) are to be awarded to a hospital.. . ^ Heartburn, When the quantity of food taken is too largo or the quality too rich, heart burn is likely to follow, and especially so if the digestion has been weakeeed by constipation. Eat slowly and not too freely of easily digested food. Masticate the food thoroughly. Let six hours elapse between meals, and when you feel a fullness ?nd weight in the region of tho stomach after eat ing, indicating that you have eaten too much, take one of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and tho heartburn may bo avoided.- For sale .? Orr Dru* ?o. . Texas Can Furnish Oil for the World. WASHINGTON, July 4.-"Just be fore I left Beaumont, Tex., tho other day, I paid $1 per night to sleep on a cot upon the sidewalk," said H. J. Williams, of Los Angeles, Cal., the representative of the Atlantio [and Pacific Oil Company, who is in this city. "That will give one a faint idea of the crowded conditio? of the town. Of course I had a room at one of the hotels, but it frequently happened th?t during the excitement of the oil speculation I would remain near the exchange over night to be early OD the scene in the morning. From a popu lation of 7,000 the oil boom has brought Beaumont within the past eight months over 30,000 people. And there is still a rush by the hundreds to the oil fields. "Laad that sold fu? $2 per acre eight months ago is now bringing al ?uoht any price asked. The last big sale was reported on June 1G, when one acre of land brought $164,000. "I have travelled all over tho world insncoting wells, and I am forced to say that in all my experience I never saw anything like the oil wells in Beaumont field. This is without ex ception the richest and pureBt fuel oil yet discovered. The oil well of the largest known capacity, 200,000 bar rels per day, is looated in Baku, Rus sia, but the oil from that well contains considerable sand and slush, while the oil from the Beaumont field is entirely free from extraueneous mat ter. Hardly a day passes but that a new gusher is located. The oil is not confined entirely to the Beaumont field, for rioh strikes have been found in the adjacent counties. "One thiner that has added au im petus to tho oil bottom is the fact that the Santa Fe Railroad and other roads aro making arrangements to use the fuel oil instead of coal, and, as an ex pert, based on years of experience, I do not hesitate to say that Texas is now able to supply the world with fuel oil. There are a number of wells in full blast that have a capaoity of over 00, 000 barrels per day. "Just before I left Beaumont ar rangements had been completed to put on a line of tank steamers to supply Porto Rico with fuel oil. And fac tories in New York and Boston are sending in orders for oil. The people are fairly wild with the oil fever, and stocks of the different companies re cently organized are soaking like the thermometer in Washington. For ex citement that does not subside, the scenes on the New York Stook Ex change are not to be compared with what is now daily witnessed on the exohaDge in Beaumont. You Knew What You Are Taking When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic because thc formula is plainly printed on every bottle showing that it is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay. 50p. - A philosopher who went to a Churoh where the people came in late, said it was "the fashion there for no body to go until everybody got there." Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tableta cure a cold in one day. No Cure, No Pay._Price 25 cents._? DUE WEST FEN OFFERS A. H., E. S., Normal, Music, E der experienced teachers, and the best mo: an ideal College community. The purest I restraints. The Inst year was moat ouooes occupied. Applications should bo made et Jone 1U,;1901-oct 1 icme Paint ant Specially used and Iron Worl For sale by ACME PAIN' Reference : F. B. GRAYTOIS Drugg D. AND i / ER. J. J. M Vandiver Br If you want a Fine, Medium 01 BU? We can sell it to you and save you moe Paney Young Men's Buggies to be foun We have a large stock of "BIRDS Wag lt lowest prices. Skr we seii the f liANO MO WI ce them. Your trade appreciated. VANDIVER Bl MOTT'S PENNYROYAI of menstruation." They womanhood, aiding du known remedy for worn becomes a pleasure. Al by ?l?T?i?gists. i)lw ?uC For fs^e t>y Wvans Pho Bey Carried up by banoon. WEST LIBERTY, IA., July 8.-Ctrl ton Moyer, 12 years of age, was among the crowd on the oommons yesterday to see a balloon ascension, to be made by the Baldwin brothers of Quincy, 111. Meyer, boylike, was esger to aid in the undertaking, and was helping to hold the balloon when suddenly it sprang away into the air. To the amazement and horror of the crowd, young Meyer was seen to sail upward with tho balloon, hanging head dows, with his feet entangled in one of the ropes. The aeronaut, who was to have gooe up io the balloon, had the pres ence of mind to call to tho boy: "Hang on! Hang on to the rope!" The bey bravely clutched ibo line and squirmed around uutil he caught ono of the dangling paraohuto rope?. The little fellow showed admirahln nerve and did not o nco make a slip as he twisted himself about and grad ually worked up to the balloon. Mr.?. Meyer, tho boy's mother, fainted as she saw him carried away. Straight upward shot tho balloon with its lit tle oaptivc. When it had reached an altitude of about a milo a current of air struck it and it began to drift away. Then began a novel and exciting chase. As the balloon moved tho crowd followed it. With necks cran ed, a prayer on every lip, they ran, expecting every instant to seo thc boy dashed to death on tho earth. Along the roads, over fields and fences thoy ran, and when those afoot woro dis tanced the pursuit was kept up by men on wagons or on horseback. After five miles had been covered the balloon was seen slowly to de scend. As the air in it cooled it .steadily settled, wavering now and then and drifting about with tho ca pricious breeze as though to torment tho anxious and nearly spent follow ers. Finally it came to the earth in a field of grain, where thc youthful aeronaut was gently dropped. When his friends came up he met them with a broad smile. A triumphal procession was formed and the boy was carried back home. There a purse of f 100 was raised to reward the little fellow for his pluck. The Best Prescription For Malaria Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonio. It ia simply iron and quinine in a taseless form No cure, No pay. Price 50o. -mm m ~m*nm - If troubled with red eyelids, give them a hot bath just before going to bed, laving them with the hands. In the morning always givu the eyes an other good bathing, rubbing gertly from the outer corner toward tho nose. Many people carelessly pass over the eyes while washing the face, but they deserve and need great care. - Bamboo is to the Chinese what iron is to the American. It is the frame work of most of the houses, the material from which bridges are made, provides a delicacy for the table, is manufactured into paper and is used in boat building. - William II. Newman, the new president of the Now York Central railroad, began life as a switohman. 1ALE COLLEGE. Ixnreaeion, Art and Business courses un ral, social aad religious environment, in tubular well water. Home comforts and sful, every room in the building being irly for next term. Torrn? low. JAME9 BOYCE, President. Dne Weet, S. C. RATED i Cement Cure. on Tia Hoofs i of zsrj kind. r & CEMENT CO. i & co., tiste, Anderson, S. C. AJOR. E. P. VANDIVER. os. & Major. . Cheap y . ley. We have the nobbiest line of d, and want to show them to you. (ELL'S and "WHITE HICKORY' ;ons JR and BINDER, and want you to BOTHERS & MAJOR. LPILLS They overcome Weak ness, irregularity and omissions, increase vig or and banish "pains ' aro "OPE SAVERS" to girls at relopment of organs and body. No ten equals them. Cannot do harm-life LOO PER BOX BY MATT* Sold r?x'a CHEMICAL COTTCievelund, Ohio, Lrniaey, Andorson. S. Cl With Proof to convict the man who said we were GIVING AWAY PIANOS AND ORGANS. WE are selling so LOW and on auch EA8Y terms that there was some reason in the report. But we must insist that it is, to a certain extent, a mistake. Next time you come to town drop in and shake hands with us. You know we handle SEWING MACHINES also. THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. i^f^^^^w?^^^m VOU K WI FE Y^^5^N0^3?/jE^ il To see tho pretty new arrivals in /Jffl ?^<P Not soil her a nev supply for V^pM-?^T"" fbrrs. /\\W?Sm\ Spring ?^Our*[prices fare very low. Jfff I VBB Como in. She will enjoy looking Wi / ff J Ar\H \ Iffl at i^ie ?Pretty .an<* novel things for .I A Well Itomshed OEomer ls not necessarily an expensively} furnished one, as at TOLLY'S hand-, some, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay,. Not that we deal in knocked-together, made-to sell sort,, but because we are content with a reasonable profit on. really good articles of Furniture. Our best witness is the Goods them selves. Yours truly, G. F. TOLLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, 8. G. Now is th? Time to Buy You a NewCooki WE can give them to you at any price, and any kind that you want. We have a good No. 7 Stove with 27 pieces of ware for 87.75. We have a big lot of IRON KING i.ud ELMO STOVES which you know are thebes. Stoves on the market. Now we just waut to speak to you one word about our HE.A.TI2STG- STOVES, Especially about our Air Tight Heater, which you know is the greatest heater on earth. If you would see one of them in use or try one of them, you wouia not hsve anything else. And just look at the price-they cost almost noth iog-only 81.75 up to 86.00. We want to call your atteniion to our big Stock of Tinware, Glassware and Crockery. Now we have just got too much of this and it must be sold, so we iu want you to come and look and let us price you through. We have some of the prettiest pieces of Odd China you ever saw. Would make nice Wedding, Birthday and Christmas Presents. Now we are just opening up the biggest line of TO VS 7?u ever saw We want you to come round and bring the children and let them see a grand sight in Toys. And remember that all of these Goods must be sold at some >..oe be tween now and the 25th day of December. Come now while you can get a good selection of everything. Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE. o w B o p al ?pd Q >? H Sd O < H H M CG ? < o w ? S M fl ?t? K< M _ gs M m td ts > a g Q il H ft > 4 M ? H O o o 11 es es OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for all KINDS of GRAIN, Three Thousand Bushels of TEXAS RED RUST PROOF OATS. One Car of that famous HENRY OAT (or Winter Grazing Oat.) Tho only Oat that will positively stand t.ny kind of weather. Have just received Two Cars ot' line FEED O VTS at lowest prices. Have just \eceived Three Cars of RICE FLOUR f;?r fattening your hogs, and it conics much cheaper than any other feed a?d is much better. Yours reepectfully, O. D. ANDERSON A RB A