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' 1 il In the Attic. IBy TEMPLE BAILEY | Copyrighted, 190T. by P. C. Eastment. # Miss Cynthia's attic was fragrant wHh aromatic herbs. Little bags of ? -? -? - ? J-i-J 1 lavenuer tmu m urieu root; ien?? uuu$ from the rafters and mingled their del- ! teete perfume with the coarser aroma of sage and sweet marjoram and thyme and summer savory. On autumn afternoons the attic was golden with sunshine, and from the Uttle peaked window one could see the long white road and the blue hills beyond. It was to this fragrant and gold lighted attic that Miss Cynthia would come when the summer rush was over and In its peace and quiet try to forget that she was worn and worried and withered. At thirty-five one should not be worried and withered- But hard lives do not make for youth and freshness, and Miss Cynthia had always drudged. Work had been the watchword on the farm, and when prosperity had come in later years the habit of keeping summer boarders bad become nxeu, and even after the death of her parents Miss Cynthia had continued it But with September came rest and freedom, and it was then that Miss Cynthia sought the attic and wrote in her diary. The diary was a safe outlet for her woes. There were pages blotted with the tears she had shed when she had i closed the volume of her first romance, and two leaves on which she had penned a poetic swan song of affection were pinned together with a black pin. Miss Cynthia had old fashioned ideas about love. She had loved once, and hence there could be no other affair. It mattered nothing that the man in . the case was married and had grown fat and puffy and uninteresting. It was not the man, but the idea, and to that idea Miss Cynthia was true. To be sure, no second suitor had entered her life, so that there had been no severe tax upon her constancy. But the roses had gone out of her cheeks when she was twenty, and she bad twisted her hair in an uncompromising knot and had at that early date given herself up to mourning and ' te memories. "You're silly," Martha Ann told her one bright September morning as Miss Cynthia, with her black diary In her hand, prepared to ascend to the attic, "Why don't yon go out and visit and have a good time instead of writing in that dark old place?" Martha Ann was an old and privileged servant but Miss Cynthia would brook no interference with her acts of affliction. "I don't think good times are my portion, Martha Ann." she said and went up the stairway thoughtfully. Halfway up she paused to say: "Make a good vegetable soup for lunch, Martha Aim. Ill throw down a bench of my herbs. Soup will taste good on a cool day." "Love," wrote Miss Cynthia in her little book, 'is of man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's whole existence!" When she had rounded off the last' prim letter she bit the end of her penc* and sighed and looked out of the neaked window. Far down the road she could see a cloud of dust Coming nearer, the clood showed itself the forerunner of an automobile. The big machine swerved out of the read and into Miss Cynthia's own drive. It stopped at her door, and she had to lean far out of the peaked window to see Martha in her gingham apron speaking to the occupant Miss Cynthia could not hear a word, and she almost fell over the sill in the effort to satisfy her curiosity. She saw Martha Ann go in, and presently she felt a pull at the back of her dress. "Goodness," Martha Ann said crossly, "I called and called, and I couldn't make you hear. That man wants something to eat." "What?" Miss Cynthia gasped. "But he doesn't look like a tramp, Martha Ann." "Tramps don't ride in automobiles," Martha Ann sniffled. "He says he's been riding all the morning, and he just couldn't find a place to eat, and be would be glad to pay for a meal. He understood that we took boarders, he said." "Well, you go down and hurry the soup and make an omelet and some hot biscuits, and I will talk to him, Martha Ann." "You'd better stop In your room and primp a little," Martha Ann advised. "He's awfully good looking." I "The idea!" said Miss Cynthia, with dignity. She was a little sorry, however, when she reached the sitting room that she had not taken the girl's advice, for the man that she greeted was big and blond and prosperous looking. It developed that he slurred his grammar, but as he leaned back in the biggest rocking chair and talked in his hearty voice Miss Cynthia decided that he jwas very attractive. "I expect you think it's queer my droppin' in on you this way?" he said as Martha announced lunch. "But I couldn't pass the popples and the peonies in the yard. My mother used to have ap old fashioned garden, and there was something about your* that reminded me of it and I felt as if mn'A Mvo mA a home cooked meal. A J vu u v ?V ? ?? _ man gets tired of hotels." Oyer the steaming, savory soap ht expanded still more. "This to the kind I 11m," hs said. I 'With all the vegetables in it and herbs. I'll bet you've got a lot of herbs tied up in your attic. My mother had She said the attic was the pleasantest place in the house, and I used to think so too." Miss Cynthia felt that at last she hart mat an rmrtarstHndine soul "Would you like to go up after lunch?" she asked eagerly. "There is a fine view from the little dormer win dow." "My, how nice it smells!" said the bU; man as he seated himself in Miss Cynthia's favorite corner. The black diary lay open by his side. His eyes caught the lines: Love is of man's life a thing apart; 'Tis woman's whole existence. "Oh, tommyrot!" he said. "Did you write that?" "Yes," Miss Cynthia admitted. "Byron said it, you know." "Well, he didn't know what he was talking about. Why, if I loved a wo| man I should just love her all overno halfway business for me." "Oh!" Miss Cynthia gasped. There was something in his tone that made his statement next door to a declaration?a fervency that positively thrilled her. "I am awfully glad I came." he said as they went downstairs. "I am a stranger in this neighborhood, but if you will let me come again I will be mighty glad. It seems like my own folks." "l"ou must come real often," Miss Cynthia urged, and hoped that Martha Ann would not hear her invitation. "Gee! This is the way to live," said her visitor as he stood on the steps and surveyed the quiet garden, the family of gray pussy cats in the sunny porch corner, the gray horse in the paddock. "I should think traveling around In your automobile would be interesting," Miss Cynthia ventured. "Well, 'tis," he agreed. "Do you like it?" "I have never been in one." Miss Cynthia admitted. . "What?" he asked. "Oh, look here! You run right up and put on your hat. and I'll take you." "Oh," said Miss Cynthia, all a-flutter, "I wonder if I can ?" . "Of course you can." said the gentleman securely. "I won't run away with you." Safe in her own room, Miss Cynthia consulted Martha Ann. "You'd better go with us," she said, j "I don't think it's quite proper, Martha Ann, do you?" "I wouldn't go in one of them things if you'd give It to me," Martha Ann said, "and he's all right I saw his ? - * i- ~ t_ name on a Duncue or papers ue ten u* the automobile. He's Andrew Briggs, the millionaire that's bought the factory. He is building a church and a library for the town, and I guess he's respectable." Miss Cynthia.dressed in a whirl. Of what account was that little romance of years ago when at her gates was a prince like this? She came down with four yards of white chiffon tied around her hat It had been bought for a waist but, worn as a veil, it made a fascinating frame for her flushed little face. She had loosened her hair, and the soft brown curls gave youthfulness to her expression. Mr. Briggs eyed her with appreciation. "I'm awfully glad I met you," he j said again as he helped her into his car. ' Martha looked after them as they whirled down the long white road. "Well, I never!" she remarked to the pussy cats. "Did you ever see two people take to each other like that? I bet it will be a mstch"? i And it was. ? Both Won. That the average Broadwayite is a "natural born gambler" was well illustrated the other morning. Two men met and one confessed the want of breakfast The other "made good"' the deficiency, and during the meal No. 1 remarked that he had received notice that there was a registered letter in the postofflce for him. "Nobody would send me money," he added, "so it's a waste of car fare to go after it" ? .-11 M U.1# ln I "I'll give you a auuar iur a. uau. 1U- | terest," said No. 2. "You're on if you pay care fare," I was the quick reply. After breakfast the pair went to the postofflce, got the letter, opened it and found a five dollar bilL "Anyhow I'm $3.50 ahead," said the owner of the letter as he "split the bill." "Thafs from a man I never expected to make the loan good."? New York Globe. Could Not Cure Himself. Something of the Irony of fate is exemplified In an anecdote related by the New York Times concerning Professor Poirier, who until his death was the most famous cancer expert in France. Professor Poirier gave much of his time without pay to aiding poor people afflicted with cancer. One day there came to him a woman on whom he had operated and who feared the growth was coming again. "Fear nothing," said the physician when he had made an examination. "It will be some years before you will need a fresh operation?which, by the way, I shall not be able to perform." "But, doctor, you will not refuse to mot9f 1.1 VU V 1MV? "No, my poor woman, but I shall not be there to do it. I also have a cancer, and it will be more rapid than yours." A Counter Charge. An elegant young man seized a thief on the platform of a train, saying. "Are you not ashamed to follow so disgraceful a profession?" "And are you not ashamed," demanded the other, "to go so well dressed without a pocfcetbook about you?" LISTEN TO YOUR WIFE. Advice to Men by Governor Glenn of North Carolina. I advise every man who would be successful to listen to his wife's counsel in business affairs. The woman who is really a man's helpmeet is the one who is able to advise him on every serious problem that confronts him. But no woman can be a real companion who must spend all her time as cook and housekeeper. She ought to know about business and what is going on in the world. It is unreasonable of any man to expect his wife to meet his needs as a real companion if he does not provide the means for her to become so, says Gov. Robert B. Glenn, in the Home Magazine. A wife should have some leisure to study and develop herself along intellectual lines. A man who holds the opposite idea lowers the standard for wifehood and womanhood. And every girl and woman in the country should have a strict and thorough business education. No matter how fortunate a girl's immediate circumstances, she should be given a complete business training. Let them be trained to be first-class stenographers, bank cashiers, professional nurses, bookkeepers?anything they have talent for. But let their equipment be complete?as a man's is. It is a dreadful mistake to leave a girl without any definite training whereby she may earn a livelihood in case of necessity. I believe the reason many women go into wrong paths in life is simply because they are helpless when thrown suddenly on their own resources. A knowledge of business is not likely to spoil any woman's chances of winning a good husband. It would, on the contrary, increase her chance, in my opinion. Aliens Reach Savannah. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 10.?The steamship Eugeni, from Triest, with the first lot of immigrants for this State, arrived today. About two hundred of the next arrivals will be sent into the interior counties. ueardj Fresh Currants In packages, pound 12c Butter, best renovated, per pound. 35c Bananas, per dozen only 18c The famous Luzianne Coffe, pound 23c Evaporated Dried Apples, package 14c Sugar, per pound only 51c Choice Steak, per pound only.... lie Chuck Steak, per pound only ... 10c Roast, per pound only 9c Pork, per pound only 12c These Prices are for the Cash, Delivered at Your Door, so Please Don't Ask for Credit W. RRAPH UOI I ICTFR'Q Rocky Mountain Too Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A specific for Const!pation. Indigestion, Liver and Kidney troubles. Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath. Sluggish Bowels. Headache and Bacaache. Its Rocky Mountain Tea in tablet form. 35 cents a box. Genuine made by Hollxsteb Drug Compant. Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PE0PL3 JOHN F. FOLK ....AGENT FOR.... Ford Automobiles The Car That Goes NOTICE TO LIQUOR DEALERS. Office of County Dispensary Board of Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. C., December 2nd, 1907. Bids are hereby requested, in accordance with the terms of the Dispensary Law now in force, for the following kinds and qualities of liquors, beer, ana other articles herein enumerated, to be furnished to the State of South Carolina for use of the County Dispensary Board of Bamberg County, to-wit: Fifty barrels Corn Whiskey, 90 proof, different grades. Fifty barrels Rye Whiskey, 90 proof, different grades. Five barrels Alcohol, 188 proof. Fifty barrels Gin, 90 proof, different grades. Five barrels Banana Brandy. Five barrels Sherry Wine, two grades. Bids will also be received for Case Goods, including Rye, Corn and Scotch Whiskies, Brandy, Gin, Rum, Wines, Beers, Ales, ana Porter. Also glass, cork and tinfoil, wire and other articles used for a County Dispensary. All goods shall be furnished in compliance with and subject to the terms and conditions of the Dispensary Law of 1907, and bidders must observe the following rules: 1. The bids shall be sealed, and there shall be no sign or mark upon the envelope indicating the name of the bidder. 2. All bids must be sent by express or registered mail to Jno. F. Folk, County Treasurer for Bamberg County, at Bamberg, S. C., on or before 12 o'clock of Monday, the 6th day of January, 1908. I The contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder on each kind, the Board reserving the right to reject j any and all bids and any parts of bids; the Board reserves the rignt to increase or decrease the above quantities at the same price as the bids submitted. 3. All goods to be delivered f. o. b. Bamberg, S. C,, freight prepaid. Terms, to be paid for within ninety aays and sub ? *- TT70f.oVir?noo Alert J tret LU ICgaugC do uui nui viiuu^. | state discount for cash payment. Bids | will be opened in the office of the County I Dispensary board at Bamberg, S. C. I E. C. HAYS, J. A. WALKER, , G.B.CLAYTON, [ County Dispensary Board for Bamberg I County. TO CHRI< I wish to ! elsewhere il call and ir Ladies' an _ ^ jmm I have a ti scription w cost price. With Honest I respectfu patronage, mas and a this means favors, and your patron If r jncuowan Near Peoples Drug Company PILLS AS WEAPONS. The Curious Duel That Was Arranged By a Doctor. An extraordinary duel, which at the time created an immense senation, was one in which the decision was arrived at not by swords or pistols, but by means of a deadly poison. The men?who, it is hardly necessary to say, had fallen out over a lady?had left the arrangement of details to their seconds, and until they faced each other they did not know by what method they were to settle their differences. One of the seconds was a doctor, and he had made up for the occasion four black pellets, all identical in size and shape. "In one of these," he said, "I have placed a sufficient quantity of prussic acid to cause the almost instantaneous death of anv one who swallows it. We will decide by the tossing of a coin which of you is to have first choice, and you will alternately draw and swallow a pill until the poison shows its effects." Two of the pellets were then taken as the toss had decided, but without effect in either case. "This time," said the doctor, speaking of the two pellets remaining, "you must both swallow the pill at the same instant." The choice was again made, and in a few seconds one of the men lay dead on the grass. ?Pall Mall Gazette. Girl Shoots Man Who Slandered Her. Bessember, Pa.?"I'll teach you to injure innocent girls with your vile tongue," cried Miss Ida Brown, a pretty 18-year-old girl, to Charles Reynolds, a prominent young man, as she began firing at him. Miss Brown shot three times, two of the bullets striking Reynolds in the body, and inflicting what may nwYtfo fafal wminds. As Revnolds fell. the girl collapsed, and was found in a faint by persons whom the shots attracted. The shooting occurred in front of Reynolds' home, and Miss Brown was evidently waitingfor Reynolds, when she stepped in front of him, as soon as he reached the front gate of his home. Rittmrilrlc im tn a shnrt time aCTO. XKVJ iiViUWj W M w 0 - , was very attentive to Miss Brown. Soon after he ceased going with her, the girl alleges, Reynolds began to make slanderous statements about her. A new school building which will cost about $3,000, is being erected in the town of Cope. The Orangeburg Times and Democrat, one of the strongest weekly newspapers of the State, announces that after January the price of subscription will be raised to $1.50. Our contemporary found that even with its large advertising patronage and wide circulation nothing could be made out of the paper at one dollar a year. 5TMAS SI state that before | t will be to your ad ispect my stock c d Gents' F ne line of goods of diich I am selling A word to the wise i Goods and L< lly solicit a shai I u/Sch vnn nil 51 Mf * 14711 J VU Mil M i Happy New Year ; of thanking yoi assure you I will lage in the future 's Cheap C SOUTH CAROLINA BILLS. What Our Representatives in Washington are Doing. Washington, Dec. 12.?Congressman Lever has introduced in the house in the last few days a number of bills of interest and importance to South Carolina or at least to certain communities of the state. Among them is a bill for the erection of a public building at Orange burg, the cost of which is to be $100,000, another for the establishment of the proposed sub-treasury in Columbia. Two other bills are to provide for the erection of monuments to General Thomas Sumter and toJCapt. , James Butler. He will also introduce a bill for $50,000 for Sumter in addition to the $50,000 already secured by him for the federal building. The bill for a $100,000 building at Orangeburg he introduced to-day. 1 Senator Latimer has introduced the following bills: A bill to establish 1 in the department of agriculture, a , bureau to be known as the Bureau of Public Highways, and to provide for national aid in the improvement of the public roads, and a bill approprio+innr -iwusiTvhc -frfim flip Sfllp and I disposal of public lands in certain 1 states to the construction of works for the drainage or reclamation of 1 swamp and overflowed lands. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF ; (Complaint not served.) < State of South Carolina, County of Bam- \ berg?In the Court of Common Pleas. < Daniel Reddish, Ella Reddish, Wesley ] Dyches, Josephine Wright, Malinda- < Smalls, A. F. Brown, T. N. Rhoad, < glaintiffs, vs. Mattie Guess, Sammie J luess, Blanche Guess, Leon Guess, de- < fendants. < To the defendants, Mattie Guess and . Blanche Guess: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, a copy of which is to be filed in the office 01 the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Bamberg County, and to serve a copy of your answer to said complaint on the subscriber at his office in tne town of Bamberg, county and State aforesaid,' within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the complaint within tne time aforesaid the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. J. F. CARTER, Plaintiffs' Attorney. Dated at Bamberg, South Carolina, November 7th, 1907. C. B. FREE, [L. S.] Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Bamberg County. To the defendants, Mattie Guess and Blanche Guess: Please take notice: That a copy of the complaint in this action has been filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Bamberg County. J. F. CARTER, i Plaintiffs' Attorney. \ November 7th, 1907. < i fOPPERS purchasing [vantage to >f *36 <38 ?3B ! xirnishings *. '' V?*5r . '' m . : m every de= r at about is sufficient , : % I ,:\|l owest Prices j '-Sm re of your S :rry Christand take 1 for past A '-"A appreciate ^ ^ ^ I . j ; j ash Store Bamberg, South Carolina \ , 4' AGE NO BAR i ' ' ' . ?. Everybody in South Carolina is Eligible. " vi Old people stooped with suffering-, Middle age, courageously fighting, Youth protesting impatiently; Children, unable to explain; .. All in misery from their kidneys. Only a little backache first. /. Comes when you catch a cold. Or when you strain the back. Many complications follow. Urinary disorders, diabetes, Bright**, ;';-j disease. Doan's Kidney Pills cure backache. Cure every form of kidney ills. J. W. Powell, proprietor of a general store and coal, wood, and ice dealer, of Waverly, living at 2010 Blanding St., Columbia, S. C., says: "My son has been afflicted ^with kidney and'urinary trouble from childhood, being unable to control the secretions especially when asleep. Since using Doan's Kidney Pills he has entirely recovered." For sale by all dealers. Prjce 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New Yotk, 3ole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's?and take no other. > ? iimoney to lend:: i a J We are prepared to negotiate < [ ioans on improved farms for <' 11 five and ten years, partial pay- < [ I ments, eight per cent. Interest. < 1 * Don't write, come and see us. < J [ J. 0. Patterson, Jr. J. W. Patterson ] [ . BARN WELL, 8. C. . , IN Ml m| PORATAILI AND STATIONARY ENGINES AND BOILERS lav, Utk ud Shiaal* Mills. Injsstors, PamjM sad Blttiifs, woodiairs, plltton, Msfli, Pallsn. Bsitiaff, Oasolins InflaM. "" J"" LOMBARD, Foaadjy, MacUm ud War Warts ud Supply Sin, ?<IAII?TS. 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