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How Sylvanut. Crabb Esoape Being Tarred and feathered. INCIDENT OF THE LATE PANIC Man Who Always Had Run Down the Town Met His Waterioe When His Neighbors Determined to Save ths Factory and Also Enjoy a Joke. . Sylvalius Crabb wvas the town scold of Coryville. Ile was a native of the place, but no stranger to whom he talked ever woul have susp'ected the fact. Sylvat:s never missed a chance to abuse Coryville and everybody and everything in Coryville. "Yes, sir." Mr. Crabb would remark. transferring Ih!s uild of plug tobacco from the right to the left side of his mouth, "this here old town ain't (It for the junk heap. Why. I've lived here, man and boy, for forty-nine years, anud the town's been goin' dmyn ever since I can recolect. Yes, sir. Coryville's a mighty pore town to live In, but some of us can't get out." The stranger to whom Sylvanus con. fided these lifelong l:npresslons would sit patiently I his chair on the hotel veranda or tand patle:it!y at the depot awaiting his train. Sometimes lie would reply with a question: "Are you In business here, . Mr. Crabb'" "Blusliness! I should say not. I don't mix with the people of this here town, I don't. My folks left me the old hoie-stead and some rentin' houses. and I live (IX t!,m incone. But I don't spenl my13, money around here-no, sir! I buy iy suliplies In bulk right straight fron Chicago and get my clothes there. too; send my mIeasiure In by mail. Whien I need any new furniture I look It up in a catalogue and send right off for it myself. These here Coryville people don't make nothin' off of Syl vanus Crah--no, sir!' One day a stranger of distinguished appearance came to Coryville. It was In the midst of the late unpleasantness -the financial depression. "Yes, sir," Mr. Crabb took occasion to say to the stranger, "this town's no good at all. No place for business, sir." "I was beginning to think so my self," replied the stranger, "from what I have heard from my representatives here." 'And who might you be?" inquired Sylvanus. "My name Is Hawkins." said the stranger, "and Fi the owner of the Coryville shoe factory. I came down here half inclined to close up the fac tory'for good and consolidate it with my main works in Chicago, and what you have told mne about the slowness of Coryville has determined me to do so. I thank you." Mr. Crabb stopped in his tracks and stared. He was worried for two rea sons. One was that two or three young men who on other occasions had told Mr. Crabb that he was a useless ornament to Coryville had overheard him running down the town and had heard Mr. Hawkins' statement as to closing the shoe factory, the one insti tution which kept the town from dis The Radge of Honesty la on every wrapper of Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery because a full list of the ingredients comnposing it is printed there in plain English. Forty years of experience has proven its superior worth as a blood purifier and Invigorat ing tonic for the cnre of stomach disorders and all liver ills. It tpllds up the run <down system as no other tonie can in which alcohol is used. The active medic inal principles of native roots such as Golden Beal1 and Queen's root, Stone and Mandrake root, Bloodroot and 'Black Cherrybark are extracted and preserved by the use of cheinically. pure, triple refined glycerine. Sead to Dr. E.V. Pierce at Buffalo, N. Y., for free booklet which quotes extracts from well-recognized med ical authorit such as Drs. Bartholow, King, .8cudd e , Coe, Eiiingwood and a host of othe , showIng that these roots esn be nded upon for their curative action i( tlt weak states of the stomach, accom pled indigestion or dyspepsla as wvel- I I bitiousor liver complaints and in wasting dIseases* where there Is i ehand radual running down of re and stem. . and eruptions as wetas sorofulous swel lings and old open tunning sores or ulcers are cured and healed. In trating old running sores, or ulcers, it is well to in sure their healing to apply to them Dr. *Pierce's All-Healint Salve. If your drug gis6 don't happen tohave this Salve in stock, send 8ttylour eenig -in poetage stamps toDr.RL.V.'Pie ' lids Hotel auj Suria Institute ~fatN d ..rg' efthe "All-nean 'en WUJee on by return poet, tutasasub~tutefort i non oeI medficihe ov K W C W en thou t ~t' , as~ I duri'g the ttiath four houses. ty!it for $1 a month each and snpplied his ei tire cash income.- were occupied bY men who would be co:npele'd todeave town and look elsewbeft tor employ. went when the factory clo.Aod. they be lig skilled employees therein an .hav lug no other trade. "It's '23' for you." remarked one of 4ha young men mentioned as be passed by Sylvanus. Those young nen work ed In the shoe factory. That nIght Sylvanus sat In lits lime feeling truly dejectel. Ills kitdI knoch at Co:yville had had results dis::strous to hinself. But he did not broAd long in somber silence. Suddenly somebody knocked nt his door. Mr. Crab! opened the doo: and found himself confronted by nearly a hundred ablebudied men. They wore no masks or any other dis guises. They were young men from the shoe factory. merchants of the town, lawyers and others whom Syl vanus had been running down for thir ty years. They carried with them a large bag of feathers and a pot of tar. with a brush stuck in it. The spokesman was the young man who had higsd "23' at the town scold. This man. after Sylvanus had obeyed the order to come out Into the street. said sternly: "Sylvanus Crabb, town scold and general nuisance, unless you march straight to the hotel. call Mr. Hawkins out, get down on your knees before him and before all of us tell him that Coryvilie is the best town on earth and plead for him to keep his factory here we'll tar and feather you and sbt every dog in town on you." Sylvanus had met his Waterloo. lie walked to the hotel surrounded by the stern faced men. his neighbors with whom he never had neighbored. and. after kneeling to Mr. Hawkins and making his decktration ( and plea In whining tones, he was permitted to goI howe. The Earth and the Moon. As the original earth. nebula con densed the lighter materials were dis tributed quite uniformly over the en tire surface, but these. are now miss Ing from one hemisphere, the reason seeming to be, as Professor G. H. Dar r-In demonstrated In 1879, that a por tion of the earth's crust has beeni thrown of by tidal action, forming the 1moon. The surface density of the present continents is about 2.7. the ican density of the moon appearing to be 3.4, or not far. froM that of tL missing continents to the depth reach ed. The moon, it is computed, equals a mass havuing the surface area of the terrestrial oceans and a depth of thir ty-six miles, and it is concluded that the crust -when thirty-six miles thick must have been torn away over three fourths of the earth, the remainder breakiug apart to form the eastern and western continents, with Australia and other Islands. These continental anil island fragments floated like great Ice floes on liquid materials of a density of 3.7 or more. This groat rupture gave the earth's surface its chief Irreg ularities,' with a mean difference of three miles between the levels of the contInental . iplateaus and 'the ocean beds, arnd -as the water enndensed in the cooling depressions, with the Pa cific where most of the moon b ad been, the dry land was- formed that has made human life possible. We may consider that without this change the earth would be glow' ie the condi tion of Venus, with. water over its whole surface. The Oldest -Fenme, In ancient thies people had one name only,.as Adam or David, and in order to distinguish persons -of . the, same amne It was the customto foaffix the description "son of" ,Isaac er Jo seph, as the case might bie. ATbus we get Solomon ben David among .the Hebrews and Elvan ap.Richard atoong the Welsh, to quote two examples. Al though the argument that-those names were not strictly "forenames" is not without weight, yet it is respoqasible to accept them as such, seeing that the application hadjo: be supplemented by another for -the sake of distipetion. We are therefore entitled -to .include them within the scope of the question. Adam and other early Biblical names are regarded as the oldest for obvious reasons; but, excluding these, the choice .falls upon .Marmaduike,- which is the modern rendering of the- ancient Chaldean Meridung, alsio written Ma'rn duk and Merodachi, the god who inter ceded constantly between the -angry En and the humble Damikua, his fa ther And mother. The Romans used both forenames and family names, and of the former two that date back about 2,500 yeats are still with us-namely. Marcus and Lucius, representeda in modern tones by Mark and the fem inine Lucy. The old form Marous -i still retained in some famllies. Bryan has been chosen by the Democratic party. He now will be elected by the people of the United States. ____ PH ARE Wt And You Will D4 By culling on us before buying your lisk Flour (and another shipment tha Tobacco, Molasses, etc. Bring us your Corn, Pease, Beans ai you the very top of the market for eve If- you haven't tried our Dr. Hess St Healing Powder, and Heave Powder,: 11 size packages from the 25c. box to Our personal guarantee goes with el We also want to sell.you your wire i Perfect" Fence. Prices from 4oc. per i Our motto is Honest Weights and C H[l.A. s. ONE FC For every Se spend you get a D< an investment tha ::-:: TWENTY Beginning Friday morning ] Extra Pants at Tmenty- Five Per for CASH ONLY and no Alteral and when we offer them at a disc $io.oo Suits now - 12-50 " " -- 15.00 , 8.oo " - - - 20.00 " " - - - 25.00 " " --- S 30.00 " " - - SManhattan and' Es red uction. I All Panama Hats R All othe Smith Corner Main and Washington To Break In New Shoes Aiway Usve swollen, ,dweating feet. At all Drug gsta ando shestore,-21. Sample aal- .Y 0FREE. Address, A. 8. Olmsted. Le Troy, N.Y. -feb20w4. wc yo Notice of Partnership' The undersigned hereby gives A notice that on the 25th day of July, 1906, they formed a part- x norship as pvided by Chapter 89, Code of Laws of 1902, for the Go purpose of doing a general mer- sol cantile business in the town of1 Liberty, Pickens Qounty, SouthW Carolina. Safd prtnership to Iee continue drnhe peasure of M either or all, & to beconduct ed under the rnme and style of Ar R. 0. Robison & Company. w Respeotffull w , INqON, ~'LIBE ces are right ights are rig atment is-ri )RIOIIT spring supplies. We have a t will be here in a few days), id in fact any kind of saleab rything. ock and Poultry Food, Lou: ou should do so at once. T the 'ioo pound sacks. tery package. encing. We are agents for rod up. Any height and we ood Goods." Come in and UR TH renty-Five Cent >llars worth ot C yields immense -FIVE PER CEP uly 3rd, we offer all Men's a cent. 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