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?aaa?aaaaaaaaaaaaa?- AAA?^ THE jfh?8,?" 3 EXILE * We"Ma,ed of a Weil Couple By caldwell LIP8ETT "I expect you apeak the sahib who steals my window curtains. -When traveler come, no curtains my windows, and I very much ehame. If you, great hurra sahib, not wishjspeAk, what can do ?" Having entirely exhausted the re ?ources of his English vocabulary the dak bungalow khansamah paus ed for breath and to see what effect tho extent and variety of his ac quaintance with our tongue would have upon me. The speech, how ever, was a mcro flash in the pan, carefully committed to memory for the occasion, and I had to have re course to the vernacular to learn tho history of his woes. It appeared that there was an old sahib, a very old sahib, who lived in n house in the woods close by, and whenever the khuusumah put up new curtains ho came and took them away, and if tho khansamah tried to prevent him he got beaten, for he was a very fierce old man and had been a great bahadur in his day. "What did the man want the cur tains for?" 'Tor clothes." "How long had he lived in the woods?" "Oh, a very long time; perhaps a hundred years." That was all that I could learn about the matter. I told the khan samah to lock up the curtains in future and only to bring them out when some traveler was in the bungalow. I would speak to the sa hib about it when I saw him, and then I straightway forgot the whole episode. It was two or three mornings aft erward that I was out for a stroll in the woods soon after sunrise. It was late autumn, and here in the temperate Elulu valley the fierce In dian* sun does not reach its full in tensity. There was a crisp fresh ness in the air almost like on Eng lish morning, and after the bare, brown, eun steeped plains of tho Punjab, from which I had lately come, the lush green of the under growth was cool and refreshing to the eye. The large rosy cheeked Kulu apples gleamed through the branches of the orchards. But for the bite already latent in the Blast ing rays of the sun I might have 'been in Devonshire. Presently X was aware of a curi ous figure approaching me. It was a tall old man with bent shoulders and long white hair falling about the collar of his coat. His clothes, though neatly made, were of a cheap white calico so largely in use among. the natives, and his shoes were of untonned cowhide. His hat was of plaited straw. Everything about him was evidently homemade ex cept one thing?round his waist was wound a red cummerbund, which gave him the air of a stage brigand of venerable aspect. "Ha, sir," said he, following the direction of my gaze as he came near, "the scarlet, the grand old scarlet ! It reminds me of the good old days when I wore her majesty's .uniform in the Crimea before ever I came to this country." As I looked closer I recognized the pattern of the red r?p of the curtains in the dak bungalow. This was the khan samah's enemy. I thought the scarlet might be a tender subject, so I spoke of other things. It appeared that he was specially interested in the mineral wealth of the valley. "There is gold in those hills," he said. '^There is gold at the sources of this stream which flows beside our feet. But I have not tho means to reach its fastnesses nor the ma-v chinery to pluck it from the bowels of the earth." As he talked I had leisure to ob serve him more closely. In a land where _the fierce heat of the sun dries up the marrow ofla man's vi tality and shortens his life by. a span, where at sixty even a strong man is at the end of his life, ho was evidently the age he claimed. His eye was already growing lusterless and his step losing the firm tread of health. His hands were seamed with toil, but "he had a fine head, the arched brow and the inward seeing eyes of the dreamer, and he spoke like a man who, ey&n. in this back water of life had been .at pains to keep himself abreast of the world. How did such a man come to be stranded in this wilderness ? Later I heard his story from some of the planters in the volley. Twenty-seven years before he had been my own predecessor as deputy commissioner of tho adjoining dis trict in British India. Then, as now, ho had visions of tho mineral wealth of the country. He went into partnei*ship with a man who cheated him and sank all his mon ey in a mine that never existed. Knally the partner asked for a sum a* money ic realize the ore. Spenoe-r borrowed 40,000" rupees from the government treasury "for the pur pose. Tho partner fled with the m?noy and left him unable to pay. .When tho tim* came to account for the nmount in the treasury, a friendly commissioner warned him of his impending arrest on a charge of felony, and hp had just time to rise in the night with his wife and - flee across the border into this na tive state, where ho had remained ever since. On the night of their flight he and his wife had turned the cattle out of tho first shed they had come to in order to rest for the night, I and in that shed they had now lived for twenty-seven years. From year's end to year's end they never saw a white face except one of tho few planters in the val ley, an official like myself, who crossed the border for a holiday, or a' etray globe trotter. Here among a people distinct in color and alien in speech and thought the cultivat ed man and the delicately nurtured woman had lived out their life alone. In this fertile Valley the earth produced all that was necessary to sustain life. The natives gave them of their kind, und, like the natives, they lived mostly upon grain, rice and other vegetable products. Oc casionally a planter would send them a barrel of apples or a case of whisky. Spencer would accept such pr?sents? as he might have received under happier circumstances, but he never took money. The pride of a gentleman 6?11 burned in him, though it Lad no respect for dak bungalow curtains. Spencer had lined the mud walls of the cowshed with planks and made a few rough tables and chairs. Everything was scrupulously clean, but the hut was almost as bare and comfortless as it had been in its original condition as a barn. He kept a diary in which he would note the date on .'vhich tho cuckoo was first heard in the valley, how one season the pear trees all burst into bloom for the second time, an un usual phenomenon, or how in an other year the water channels on the hillsides all dried up because there was so little snow to melt, a drought ensued and there was scarcity in the land These were now his life's interests. Mrs. Spencer when I knew her was a little fat woman with round cheeks which were now getting weather beaten, but she had brave gray eyes. It was only m>cessary to see the two together to know that through all the years of trial that had passed over them a perfect comradeship remained between them. After ell Spencer had his compen sation. Whatever troubles he may have endured, he had tho one gret-i blessing which so many men lack-? his life had not been left incom plete or maimed by an unsympa thetic helpmate. Once I found myself looking at my wife with alien eyes and won dering if I were thus outcast by so ciety, and I deserved it, whether she would cleave to me through good report and through evil re port as this old woman stood by her husband. My wife caught my eye and spid: "What is it, dear? What treason are you thinking against me now?" I told her. "Traitor I" she whispered as she nestled her hand into mine, and then she sighed: "Poor old things 1 I wish we could do something to brighten their lives for them. Next Sunday is Michaelmas day. Let's ask them both here to dinner. If s not much, and even such as it is it may only help to show them the darkness of their ordinary lives?to remind them of things that it would be better to forget." The eventful day arrived and brought with it Spencer in his sash of the "grand old scarlet," while his wife had a complete gown of the same material. The excitement and the wine brought a flush to the old woman's cheeks which showed in their red lines beneath the skin like cracks in very old china. The dinner was over, 'and the pair insisted on giving us a song in return for our hospitality. They stood up hand in hand, and the song that they sang was "Auld Long Syne." I looked at my wife, and her eyes were full of unshed tears.?Golden Penny. Scrofula, Ulcers, Cancer, Skin Troubles. At Last a Cure?Trial Treatment Free. Is your skin palid, pale or blood thin ? Are you easily tired.or as tired in the morning as when you went to bed ? Is there loss of strength ? Are" i'ou all run down ? 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Trial treatment tcc by addressing Blood Balm Com pany. Atlanta, lia. Describe trouble ind free confidential medical advice iven. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co., iVilhito & Wilhito and Evans Phar nacy. ' - ' ? The man who makes a fool of limself seldom boasts of being self nadc. For driving out dull bilious feeling, itrengthening the appetite and in sroasing the-capacity of the body for vork Prickly Ash Bitters is a golden emedy. Evans Pharmacy. VENICE, THE UNIQUE The Beautiful City at Night. Looks Like a Vast Panorama. .Venice has been sentimentalized by the German and by the young lady of all nations. Lovers have found its moonlight and its water more expressive than the moonlight and the water of any other shore. Byron, Musset, Wagner, Browning, have loved and died there. It has been painted by every painter. It j has become a phrase almost as mean ingless as Arcadia. And indeed it is difficult to think of Venice- as being quite a real place, its streets of water as being exactly real streets, its gondolas as Doing no more than the equivalent of han soms, its union of those elsewhere opposed sentiments of the sea, the canal, the island, walled and tower ed land, as being quite in the nat ural order of things. I had had my dreams of Venice, but nothing I had dreamed was 3uite as impossible as what I found. ?hat firBt night as I looked at the miraculous, many colored facade of St. Mark's, the pale, faintly tinged marble of thc*doges' palace, I seem ed, after all, not to nave left Lon don, but to bo still at the Alham bra, watching a marvelous ballet, and, as it pleases me to be, in the very midst of it, among the glitter ing "properties," knocking at every step against some fragment of deli cately unreal scenery, losing none of the illusion by being so close to its framework. The doges* palace look ed exactly like beautifully painted canvas, as if it wero stretched on frames and ready to be shunted into the wings for a fresh "set" to come forward. Yes, it is difficult to believe in Venice, most of all when one is in Venice.?Saturday Review. Teaching Respect For Old D03C In a certain skirmish an officer got a slight scratch on tho leg. The wound was a matter of great glory to liim, and ho nursed it through after days, growing lamer with ev ery fear that the memory of his bravery might pass but of mind. One day late in life as ho sat nursing his leg and pondering the glorious past a young man visiting the family for the first time ap proached and sympathetically re marked: "Lame, colonel ?" "Yes, sir," after a pause and with' inexpressible solemnity, "I am lame." "Been riding, sir?" "Ko," with rebuking sternness; "I have not been riding." "A slip down on the pavement?" "No, sir," with actual ferocity. "Perhaps, then, you have sprain ed your ankle, zirr' .With a painful slowness the old man lifted his pet leg in both hands, set it carefully down upon the floor, rose slowly from his chair and, look ing down upon the unfortunate youth with mingled pity and wrath, borst forth in the sublimity of rage: "Go and read the history of your country, you confounded young pup py 1"?Regiment. Kept His Eye on the Windows. Most businesses are distinguished nowadays by keen competition, and I heard a story the other day which shows that the humble occupation of window cleaning is not exempt from it. In a certain studio in tho city a window cleaner got a contract job to clean the windows by the year. He wasn't so punctual about the cleaning operation as he was about drawing his pay, and after bearing with his eccentricities for awhile ho was sacked, and another man got the job. Things went better for a time, but one day tho ousted man stuck his head in at the door of tho stu dio and yelled, "Am I to get the job to clane thim winders?" "No," was tho reply : "we have a windoY.' cleaner already." "No, you hain't," was shouted back; "he fell four stories this mornin' at'Brigjate, and he'll clane winders no more." It turned out that the statement was true, and the enterprising man was reinstated in his old job on the understanding that he was to pay strict attention to both extremities of trie contract.?Glasgow Times. Remarkable Care for Croup. A Little Bov's' Life Saved.-I have <i few words to say regarding Chamberlain s Cough Remedy. It saved my little hoy's life and I feel that 1 cannot* praise it enough. I bought h bottle of it from A. E. Steer, nf Goodwin, S. D ,'.and when I got home with it ihopnor baby oould hard ly breathe. I gave the medicine as directed every ten minutes until ho "threw up," ai 1 then I thought sure ho was going to choke to death. We had to pull the phlegm out of his mouth in great long strings. ' 1 am positive that if I had not got that bot tle of cough mcdicioe my boy would not be on earth to-day.?Joel 1)e moxt. In .rood, Iowa. For sale by Orr-Gray Co._ ? A horse buyer in Nort* vestern Kansas has adopted a ucw plan of buying hofses. Ho pays ?? much a pound. Good drivers are quoted at eleven ceuts per pound, farm horses ten cents, and ordinary plugs five cento. GAS1 OR For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Boars tho Signatare of Knew it all the Time. A gentleman from one of the near by states who was in Memphis la^t week, told a good story which will illustrate the easy manner in which gossip may be started. He said that several years ago thero was a minister I of the Gospel in his neighborhood who waB n?ted fpr his piety. About two years ago there came a ohange, and the minister, whom we will call llev. Mr. Jones, was transferred to a dif ferent part of tho state. Only tho day before ho arrived in Memphis there had been another change, and Mr. Jonos wa6 given the chaplaincy of tho state penitentiary. That day, the Memphis visitor re lates he happened to run across one of the minister's old parishioners, and, thinking ho would bo interested in the latter's good fortune, said: "Say, Smith, did you hear that Rev. Mr. Jones had been sent to the peni tentiary?" "Good for him," responded Smith, laconically, "I always thought he would get there sorno day. lie was always such an all-fired rascal when ho was around hero, I knew he would wind up behind tho bars." When his astonished informant re membered that Smith had been known as one of Dr. Jonos' greatest hench men ho could hardly get up the cour age to tell him of his error. ? Memphis Scimitar. ? It is a wise woman that lets her Bervauts havo their own way. ? Being a crank depends a good deal on who turns the handle. ? The hot corn dealer is tho One who has to put up another margin. ? If a young man is really in love he never says he can't afford to marry. ? No man is ever perfectly sure of a girl's love until she declares she hates him. ? Occasionally a woatn uses a hammer to drive a tack?if there is no hair brush handy. ? Clothes do not make the man, but his tailor frequently gives him an expensive appearance. ? The man who kicks himself for having made a fool of himself only adds injury to insult. ? Being a baohelor day in and day out is what makes a lot of them break their good resolutions. ? Adversity may prepare a man for the life beyond, but it curtails his credit while here on earth. ? There are mighty few women who don't rehearse privately how they would aot at their coronation. ? You can never make a woman understand that it isn't cold-blooded for her husband to insure her life. ? A man likes.to have his ohildren look like him, but a woman would a darned sight rather, 'have them hand <t - some. ? A week-old New Year's resolu tion ceases to be an ailment that will cure itself ; it is a disease that must be got rid of. ? A woman will get mad at you if you don't try to have the last word, because you have to do that to give her another chance to bave it. ? They used to get married at seventeen and have seventeen ohil dren; now they get married at twenty five, but they don't have twenty-five children. ? A tour of the agricultural dis tricts of England and Wales reveals the fact that scores of farms arc abso lutely abandoned, and that hundreds more arc in a acini-derelict condition. The man who was "born tired" should use Prickly Ash Bitters. It makes work a necessity to give vent to the energy and exuberance of spirits generated by functional activity in the by stem. Evans Pharmacy. ? It is strange that aman will have the hardihood to bold up a glass of whiskey and exclaim "Here's health," when he knows well enough that there isn't a particle of health in the stuff. ? An Employer?Smith?"Has Brown any capital!" Jones?"No. But he gives employment to a great mauy men." Smith?"What do' they do?" Jones?"Try to collect money due his creditors." ? In North Carolina the other day there was a runaway match. A man 88 years old skedaddled with a woman who had passed only S2 winters. Tbc graudchildrcn objected to the union of these two old her.ru^, but true love sets aside every protest and is obliv-' ious to any young idea of superan nuation. A Cure for Lmnhrgo. W. C. Williamson, of Amherst, Va., says : ''For more than a year 1 suffer ed from lumbago. I finally tried Chamberlain's Pain Balm and it gave mo entire relief, whioh all other reme dies had failed to do." Sold by Orr Gray & Co. - MO? s? An Eoglish naturalist has devis ed an ingonious means by which he makes a bird take its own photograph aa it alights on its nest. Ho places a camora near the nest, properly forcus* ed, and with the shutter on tho catch, and attaches a string in such a way that the bird releases the spring by the mere act of alighting. A photo graph of this kind is a valuable help to the study of bird life, as well as a curiosity. V_/JL'J.lt. SECRETS At the Price of KufTerlnt;. Woman on her way tosembtnvalldtsm caused by pregnancy suffers much pain und terror. Ignoranceprompt* her toauffor alone in silence, and remain in tho dark us to the true cause? motherhood. Mother's h'rlend takes the doctor's place at her side, and she has no cause lor Inter* lew. She Is her own doctor, and her modest y is protected. Daily iieelicatlon over the region ol tho breast and abovetheahdouten. throughout prcg nancy, will ena' 1? her to undergo the period ot gestation In a chevrtul mood and rest undis turbed. ?iOW/OSV^H kJ Q I IVI1U Is a Liniment, and for external use only. It Is odorless and will not stain women's pretty linRcrs. It would Indeed lie shameful U tho sacrilico of modesty were necessary to the suc cessful Issue ot healthy children. All women nbout to hecoiuo mothers need send only to it Inn; s tor* and lor 51.'JO secure tho prize child birth remedy. Sweet motherly anticipation and healthy babies are the result of tho use ol Mother's Friend. Our Ih>oV "Motherhood" mailed frw. All women should have it. THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, GA. AVOID TROUBLE By letting us tighten your TIRES before they get too loose. We understand how to do this work to get the best results. Any Repairs on Carriages, Buggies and Wagons will be done promptly. PAUL E. STEPHENS. Foley's Honey and.Tar cures colds, prevents pneumonia. A PLEASED MAN ! A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH gives a great deal of pleasure, and my Spe? cialty ia the Photographs that will have life-like accuracy and artistic excellence. I combine the best points to produce the best Photographs. J H. COLLINS. KIDNEY DISEASES are the most fatal of all dis eases. Efll CV'O KIDNEY CURE is a rUBXI d Guaranteed Remedy or money refunded. Contains remedies recognized by emi nent physicians as the best for Kidney and Bladder troubles. PRICE 50c and $i.OO. J. W. IJUATTLEIIAUM. RRNEbT P. COOiritAX. QilMnm & Gotten, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ANDERSON, - - - - ? - ?. C. Oftice Removed to Post Office Building. Jan S. 1902_211_4_ BOf?HAM &WATK1NS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Anderson,.S. C, Have moved their ollico rear Peo .pliH Hank. Entrance through Bunk und ?hie of huilding. .fun S, 1002 2i? .'1m Foley's Kidney Cure makes kidneys and bladder right. FOR SALE OR RENT. A Handsome Dwelling ami live acres of Laud in thecorporate limita of the City of Anderson. Desirable location and beautiful view of the surrounding city. Tho house hau only been completed about two yoarH. Nicely arranged with water and electric lights. E. G. McADAMS, Otlice in Court House. Jan 10, 1002_30_3_ * Executor's Sale. ON Saturdav, the 8th day of February. A. D. 1902, at U o'clock a. m., I will sell at public auction at tho late residence of Henry Kirksey, deceased, the Tract of Land oi said deceased, containing Seven* ty-four acres. Terms cash. JAMES I. KIRKSEY, I Executor of the 1-Ast Will and Tosta i ment of Henry Kirksey, dc.ta.scd. Jan. 15,1002 30 8 > ) ROBERTS' TONIC ! Goes direct to the blood and cures Chills, Fevers, Malaria, and restores ap petite and health. It puts new blood in your veins new life in your system. It cures quickly, surely, and tastes good. Price 25c. Being guaranteed to us we guarantee? ROBERTS' CHILL TONIC to our customers. ORR, GRAY & CO.: EVANS PHARM AC 7. DENDY DRUG CO. Low Sates and Maps ALL POINTS NORTH and WEST. ADD KENS J. G. HOLLENBECK, District Passenger Agent, Louisville & Nashville R. E. No. I Brown Building, Op. Union Depot,' ATLANTA, UA. THE WORLD'S GREATEST FEVER MEDICINE. For all forms of fever take Jeta Btm'm CAIH aod Pever Teerte. It to WO ?mes bette? Uaaavlnlao and ?ooa la m alnaie day what alow ami. Bltt* cannot do 1? M dan. It's pHnl mm are la etrtsfas oon teajM to the feeble oareo m ado by qalalod. Coats 69 Cents If It dm. NOTICE Of Special Meeting of Stockholders of the Anderson Water, Light and Pow er Company. IN pursuance of a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Anderson Wa ter, Light and Power Company, adopted January 10th, 1002, notice is hereby given that there will be a special meeting of the (Stockholders of said Company nt lta office at Andoraon, South Carolina, on Wednesday, the 12th day of February, 1002, at 12 o'clock m. The purpose fur which said meeting is called ie set forth In eald resolution, and 1b as follows : In view of the recent diBaBter at Port man in the destruction of the dam of the Anderson Water, Light and Power Com pany it will, in the judgment of the Board of Directors, be necessary for the Compa ny to secure funds for the purpose of car rying out the object of the Charter of Baid Company. Therefore, be it Rksolved, By the Board of Directors that a Special meeting of the Stockhold* ers of said Company be called by the President, to be held on Wednesday, the 12th day of February, 1002, at 12 orclook m., at the Company's oflioe at Anderson, S. C, for the purpose of authorizing the borrowing of money in an amount not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars for rearranging the indebtedness and re pairing the Plant and securing the name by Bonds and Mortgage or a Jjeed of Trust on the properties and franchisas of said Company, and that a copy of this resolution be mailed to oaoh Stockholder and published in one of the newspapers at Anderson 0. <<., as required by Statute. s. M. OUR, President. Jan 15, 1002 ._30_ 4 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. To the Publie. Please note our change in busiiions from credit to Cash, and road the follow ing below : Our reasons for doing ho areas follows: First, our accounts being necessarily small, and an endless amount of confu sion and expense entailed to an injurious degree, and the Iobh in bad accounts, and the time and attention it requires to col lect same. Second, our current exponaos, such as labor, fuel, gas, water and other supplies arocasb. Tho stand we have taken is one wo have been forced into. With a great many of our customers wo regret to bo obliged to pursue this course, but as wo positively cannot discriminate, wo truat that you will appreciate our position and not ask for credit. All buudlos delivored after Juno 1st and not p?.ld Tor will bo return ed to laundry. For oonvorioneo of our customers we will Issue Coupon lJ<?oks sold for cash. These books can bo kept at home and payment made for bundles when deliver ed with the coupons. You can get those hooks at Laundry oillee, or from tho drlvor. This cbnngo goes intoelXoct iHtof June, 1001. Wo dosiro to thank all of our customers for the patronage they havo kindly favor ed uh with in tho past and hope wo have merited the samo, and hope to still be entrusted with your valued orders after our change goes into effect for cash only, which will always roceive our prompt attention. Vory respectfully, ANDERSON STEAM LAUNDRY CO. 202 East Boundary St. R. A. MAYFIELD, S opt. and Trees. PHONE NO. 20. Leave orders at D. C. Brown A Bro's. Store. 8. G. BRUCE, DENTIST. OVER D. C Brown dc Bro's. Store, on South Main Street. I have '25 years experience in my pro fession, and will bo ploasod to work for any who want Plates made. Filling done, and I make a specialty of Extracting Teeth without pain and with no after pain Jan 23,1001 81 7 Fruit. Its quality influences ^ the selling price. * Profitable fruit growing insured only when enough actual Potash is in the fertilizer. Neither quantity nor good quality possible without Potash. , Write for our/Vf* books giving details. GERMAN KA?.I WORKS"| 93.NUUU Si.,,Ncw York City. ? TUB ? BANK OF ANDERSON. J. A. BROCK, President. JOS. N. BROWN, Vico President. B. P. M AU LOIN, CsHhler. THE largest, strongest ttauk In th County. Interest Paid on Deposits By special agreement. With unsurpassed facBHies end resour ces we are at all .'ItUL'H preparod to ac noruuindato our customers. Jan 10. 1000_2?_ Peoples Bank of Anderson Moved into their Banking House, and are open for busi l ness and respectfully solicits the patronage of the public. Interest paid on time deposits I by agreement. THE ANUEUSON firs Insurance Co. HAS written 1000 Polioics and have a little over $550,01)0.00 insurance, in force. Tho Policies are for small amounts, usually, and tho risks are well Boatterod. We are oarrying this insurance at less than one-half of what tho old line companies would charge. We make uo extra charge for insurance against wind. They do. J. R. Vandiver. President. Directors?R. 8. Hill, J. J. Fret well, W. G. Watson, J. J. Major, J. P. Glonn, B. C. Martin, R. B. A. Robin son, John G. Ducworth. R. J. GINN, Agent, Starr, ti. 0. COCAINE*" WHltKT Habits On rod mt miBano tor inm. In SO day*. Hundreds pMlaltr. Book on EE. Address B. M. WOOIXEV, M. D.? Atlanta, Qa. of referonoco. 25 years s ? Homo Treatment sent V ' THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County or Anderson. COURT Ol* COMMON PLEAS. W. II. Shearer, at Assignee of John w". Shearer* Plaintiff, against Kotiert Bucker, Defendant.? Complaint not Served. To Robert Rucker, Defendant : TOI) are hereby summoned and required to nn t swer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy Is filed in tho office or the Clork of the Coutt for said County this day, and to serve a copy of your answer to Haid Complaint on the subscribers at their otfico, Anderson. S. C, within twenty days after the sorvico hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fall to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff In this action will apply to tho Court for the relief demand yd In the Complaint. Dated Decomber 2,1901. BONI'AM A WATKIN8. Plaintiffs Attorneys. [SEAL ] John C. Watkins, c. c. p. To Bob?rt Rucker, Defondant : TAKE NOTICE, '/ hat the Complaint, together with tho Summoup, was this day filed In the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for An derson County, d. C. Dated De*\ J, 1901. BO?iUAM A WATKINS, Plaintiffs Att'ys. [Sk*i; Jno. C. Watkins, c c. p. Dec 4,1001_24_G Assessment Notice. AUDITOR'S OFFICE, Axdkhhon, S. C. THIS Office will heopou to receive Returns Of Real Estate and Personal Property for Taxation lor the next Fiscal Year, from the llrst day of January, IU02, to tho 20th day of February fol lowing, inclusive All REAL ESTATE Is to be asaossod this year Be Biiro lo li-t correctly? NUMBER OF AC HKS, NUMBER OF LOTS. NUMBER OF BUILDINGS, * .jr the assessment will st:iud lor tour yeirs, and Errors in this particular are a constant source of minoyanco and trouble to the Auditor aud Assess ors as well as to th* Taxpayers themselves. Under the new assessing lawn tho Township As ues.ors arc rc<iuii wl to make Tax Returns for all those that fan to mako their own Returns within the time prescribed by law, and henco tho difficul ty of delinquents escaping the penalty of tho law. Ex-Confederate Soldier* over 60 years of ago aro exempt from Poll Tax. All other males between tho aged of 21 and ti ) years, except thoso incapable of earning a support irom bell)g maimed or from in y other catiso, shall he doomed taxable polls. For the convenience of Taxpayers wo will also havoDeputies 10 take Returns at tho following limes and places : Helton, ! ridav, Jon. 31. and Saturday, Feb. 1. l'ledmont, Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 27 and 28. Polaer, Monday, Tuesday und ?Vcdnesday, Feb ruary m, 11 and 12 Williauhton. Widiu-sday and Thursday, Janua ry 29 and ."> ; 'r X. C. BOIJ?MAN, Auditor. Notice to Administrators, Executors, Guardians, And Trustees. ALL Administrator's!, Kxocutors, Guar dian? and Trustees aro hereby notified to mako tin ir Annual Boturns to thisoilico daring tho immtus of January ami Feb ruary, as nuoirt-d hy law. B. Y. 11. NANCE, .) udgo of Probate. Jan s, 1603 2y r' 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Patents Designs * copypioht3 &c' Anyono sending n Mcotoh and desertntb.n ma? quickly iiscornoii our opinion froo;w*iU m m Invention Is prohnl.ly patentable. CommUnlCf> tlohs?trtotl/conn.iontlal. "'^rt,'^kl^ 'tt,J,ciltJ Bon" troo. Obtost acenorJorMrartaa^?tM?fc lTitonta taken through Mnnn &. rfc.notKt tptcial not ice, without ohnrgo, in tUA Scientific Bnerican. A nnndsomoly lllnstmted weekly. T* *** M?NK kCo.36,Bro?nNewY?j* Btinch OracoT &S F BU Washington. D.C.