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f^SBa^B^BSIilESwSi^^SSm^wsSSS^^otlie please SKjwaiMHffM a Sffivwlffi mother's s WsjSyjftffl o out!" the parent 1 hastily diverted her p wishing her %uest to I; SfflMttSHfifi^^Iat she looked upon as "love t BMKffisM^were only efforts tosmooth from c H&ISeHct aged face the marks of time. Jiut t ? ' ? "- ? f * ?i... ?.? i r 1U1CUCC U1U uut 1 ui^ct me 0114115c i: sight which had so puzzled her, and a after grandma had left, she said : 1< "Mamma, what made her face all h checkered-like?" 1; "Because, dearie, grandma has lived c a long, Jong time !" was the reply. Florence was silent a moment, in the s; meantime lovingly patting her mother's cheek, aud then she queried : \ "Will your pitty smoov' face ever get p lil'O ?roii(lnin'(i0" ii "Yes, I suppose so," said the moth- t er, with a long-drawn sight, "if I live t< to get old." For like most people this mother shrinks from age and wrink- y les. 1; The child?who is no "make believe" s' child?is wonderfully old for one of t! her years, and seeing that her words fi had brought a shadow to the face she loved so well, and wishing to counter- b act the effect of them she said quick- n ly: b "Never mind, mamma, p'raps you'll u die pittjT quick !" h But her effort to cheer had the op posite effect, for the child's mother p had a greater dread of dying than of b growing old, and for that reason had tried by every mean9 in her power to t gL teach her only child to look upon death c * as a friend, rather than with fear. t Seeing thai she had blundered again ti Fiorence stood silently looking out of the window a few moments, until a e happy thought seemed to strike her, v then she said sweetly : "Just see how beau'ful my tulip bed I is, mamma! it's lots nicer'n 'twas la9t fi year!" "Yes, dear," was the only p answer from the one who was still de- u pressed by the thoughtless words, b ' "III .111 ni?Mf 1)1 X"iap9 JUU'll U1C (SltCJ ljUivrv . "But, mamma," urged the child, tl putting her arms lovingly around her mother's neck, "don's you 'membei t< how I cried last summer when there wasn't any more flowers an' all the p leaves turned yellow ?" s "Yes, dearie, you thought so much of your beautiful tulips because Aunt d Amy brought the bulbs from Europe, h you did not understand the nature of b bulbs and you thought they would q never bloom again." "Yes, mamma, I 'member how you ft splained it to me, an' don't you 'mem- |j ber what you told we when Lulu was put in the ground in a pitty white d bex ?" 3 "Yes, dear," answered the mother S1 in o hQlf_r)iatpar)toH wav "Then don't you see you needn't g feel bad if you should die pitty pood an' be put in the ground, for" you'll w come up lots lovelier in a little while h like my beau'ful tulips ! Then you ti - won't ever, ever have to grow check- b ered like grandma!" The child not loug before had lost her dearest playmate "Lulu," and her y mother had comforted her by telling her how Jesus would briDg her back to life again just as the flowers in spring escaped from their prison. And h how well the child treasured the lesson C is shown by the way she tried to comfort her mother and she succeeded, a too. ii For after the disturbed one listened a to words of her child, she glanced to- r< ward the manv-hued tulip bed, and b then kissing the up-turued face said cheerily : "That is true, niy sweet lit- h tie comforter!" I li Jamie's I'ost. Q "Rob, what does a to-tie-to meau ?" "A?what?" askes Rob, suddenly o becoming aware of the small pres- u ence. y "That boy," deolared Jamie, point- " ing one plump finger, "said another w boy didn't be a to-tie-to." a "Oh!" groaned Rob. "No; he said fi the other boy wouldn't do to tie to?to t< tie to, you understand? It isn't all fi one word." ' p "What kind of a boy does it mean, h Wobby?" "Mean ? Why, when you say a fellow won't do to tie to, you mean that tTAn non'f ovofitltrnat him T-Ta ?Rob hesitated, realizing thut some t! common phrases that seem to convey e to one a very clear meaning, are, after 1< all, not easy to explain. "It's this a way, Jimsy. If you were going to tie c a horse somewhere, wouldn't you find s a good, strong post that would hold a hem ?" i "Yes ; I wouldn't tie him to some p bush, said Jamie, scornfully. "He'd o wun end dwag it oil*. t sv "That's it," answered Rob, de- f; lighted with his owu clearness of ex- a position. "And ifyou were going into l the water and wanted a rope to pull yourself in by, and hold you so you could not be swept away, you would fasten the end of it to somethingstrong * and solid that wouldn't pull loose and ' let you sink. Well, the folks that do to tie to are the ones that stand fast to what they say?the ones that you can always trust to do the right thing, no matter how much pulling there may be in other directions. "Yes. I tie to you," said Jamie, t admiringly. "You'er that kind of a t boy to tie to, ain't you ?" Was he? ltob woudered a trifle un- 1 easily as he walked away. He had never thought of asking himself such * a question before, but this attempt to ^ explain the subject to Jamie had made n it stand out very clearly. He knew the two kinds of boys he had been describing, aud he could count the few who always stood where they ought, v for everything good and right, and t who could be depended upon to noici others fast, instead of being moved a :themselves. But the many "who went with the crowd," and yielded to every influence that touched them?he could w not be sure that he was wholly unlike them. He knew that he was carrying a the definition farther than Ralph had 11 thought of doing when he used the words ; but the thought would not be q put away, though he impatiently tried r, to do it. He found himself watching his companions, and noting coutrasts si watching himself aud making deductions not altogether comfortable; but E after all, the strange study taught him more than many of the professor's wise ? lectures had done. & At dinner Jamie suddenly looked up F v" BlHa| use^^^^^^^^^^^^^Hmpretended MHfiMBMW^jWI^^^Pamie's funny BBgKBKaMmH^^T^ but into Ilob's KgjSagl^^Rescription. jjBffinHKe kind of man I want to Bm^^nought. "It's the kind I will ^pffnl helping me. One Mother'* Deail. Columns of facts and tigures, with ,11 their arguments could not convey a tronger portrayal of the awiul effects f drunkenness than thie story of real ifp tHkfin from one of the big daily iapers of New York. One morning ast winter, so the story runs, a policeiiau came into tlie Jefferson Market ourt, Laving in charge a lad of tweny. The boy stared vacantly about iim, and his face, which was houest nd good-humored, was bloated with a jngand heavydebauch. Close behind iim came a little old woman, decenty clad. Her hair was white and her ountenance pale and anxious. "Who's this, officer?" the justice aid, when the boy's turn came. "It's John Cleary, your honor. Ve've got his mother to enter complaint against him for habitual drinkug. We think if he had a monlli at he island it would give him a chance a pull up." "You can do nothing with him ourself, Mrs. Cleary?" said the kinder magistrate, who, used as he was to cenes of sufferings, wa9 startled by he dumb agony in the old woman's ace. "I cannot, sir. It's five years since te took to the drink. It's not Johnv's fault. There's four saloons near y. He was as good a boy as ever a aother bad. He's good now when le's himself." "He's mad when he is drunk," the oliceman interrupted. "He tried to ill her twice." "Sign the complaint Mrs. Cleary," he magistrate ordered, nodding to a lerk who laid a printed form on the able before her,saying: "Write your lame on that line." She took up the pen, and then turnd to the justice again. Her thin face ras bloodless. "Sir," she said, "he's all the child 've got! I've been fighting the devil :>r him for five years. If I sign that aper, I'll have to let him go. He'll lever forgive me. He'll never come lome again." "It's the only chance to save him," be officer said. She wrote her name. John was told a stand up. "Now go into the witness-box," a oliceman directed her. "You must wear against him." Her foot was on the step. She sudenly turned. "I can't swear against im! I can't!" She clutched her reast with both hands. "It's killing le ! Johuuy, come here!" Her son spraug toward her, but she ill at his feet. She was dead when he fled her. "Mother, mother, I'll quit the riuk !" the startled lad cried. But be did not answer. The phyiscian lid it was heart disease. An ambulance was summoned, ome one whispered to the justice. "Discharged," he said, ami the wretched lad followed his dead mother ome to be haunted all his life by the jrrible thought that he had sent her roken-hearted to her death. ViNdom is Orttlniew Nearer When We Stoop ThnnWhen We Sonr. Dr. Benjamin Franklin wrote that e received a very useful lesson from Cotton Mather. He said to his son. "The last time I aw vnnr father was in 1724. On tak ug my leave, be showed me a shorter way out of the house, through a narow passage, which was crossed by a earn over-head. We were still talking as I withdrew e accompanying me behind, and turning towards hin ; when he said asti!y, "Stoop ! stoop !" I did not understand him till I felt ly bead bit against the beam. He was a man who never missed an ccasion of giving instruction; and pon this he said to me: "You are oung and have the world before you, Stoop as you go throught it, and you rill miss many hard thumps." This dvice, thus beat into my head, has requently been of use to me ; and I of2n think of it when I Bee pride mortied, and misfortunes brought upon eople by carrying their heads too igb." Chinese Smile*. Some of the ordinary expressions of be Chinese are pointedly sarcastic nougb. A blustering, harmless feldw they call "a paper tiger." When man values himself overmuch, tbey ompare him to "a rat falling into a cale, and weighing itself." Overdoing thing they call "a huncbdack makng a bow." A spendthrift they comtare to "a rocket" which goes ofl* at nee. Those who expend their chariy on remote objects, but neglect their amily, are said to "hang a lantern on , pole, which is seen atar, out gives no ight below."?New York Ledger. ? m A great many things which we are o quick to say are beyond our control re only our self-control. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We are nutborlzed to announce JOHN W. tULLOCK hb a candidate for the House 01 lepresentatlves to till out the unexpired erm of T. A. Graham, subject to the action of he Democratic primary. We are authorized to announce M. I*. Dk!RUH L as a candidate for the House of itenesentatlveR, to fill the unexpired term of T. i. Graham, subject to the Democratic priaary. Yard wide Sea Island 5 cents at Haddons. You should nee those beautiful silk and rool dress patterns. No two alike, cheaper han ever known. Haddons. French organdies, in all the newest lints t Haddon's. For the newest, prettiest and cheapest mil Inery go to Mrs. Taggart. Mrs. Taggart receives new millinery every reek. When in search of bargains don't fall to call t Haddons. They carry the most complete ne of Ladies goods In the market. firentr-Kt valueot the season that 1 1-4 white ullt SI Wat Haddons. Look at those 50 In blk., seclllian clotb educed laprice at Haddons. BlackSlclllian clotb makes a nice Ladles kirt, or a man's summer coat at Haddons. Prices reduced on broken lots of slippers at [addons. Organs repaired and tuned, sewing ma bines repaired and adjusted, fine parasols lended. As an expert in all these, I dely ampetitlon. For 30 days you will find me inhoto Hall. J. A.M. Coble pGwann will I m\ i ?s?h9eqe8^^0r house keeper. an|^^PFe.s? the uuderttlugned, BradMri E. P. Yoiingblood. H^^ental notice. m?. F. Killings worth, No. 4 Seal Block, Abbeville, S. C. Surveying and Platting. LANDandTown Lots. Also Terracing, Leveling and Grading. Aocurate wor? done where local attraction makes a CotnpasR unreliable. T. C. ANDERSON', Ninety Six, S. C. March 10,1897.-12(11 Fine Chickens THOROUGHBRED Indian Games. Buff and S. C. Brown Leghorns, from the .'inest Strains. Having asurplns of Kggs, I will sell them cheap. , MRS. L. H. RUSSKLL. Mch. 1!).?:{m. Sunday Kxcurnlon Kates. Via Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Co. Tickets are sold for ail passenger trains scheduled to pass stations after 12.00 noon on Saturdays and until G.00 p. m. on Sundays, limited lor return passage until 12.00 noon on the Monday following date of sale. For rates oran.v other further information call on any agent of the Company, or Wm. J. Craig, General Passenger Agent. Augugta, Ga. DENTAL NOTICE. Dr. S. G. Thomson, OFFICE UP-STAIRS ON McILWAIN Corner, Abbeville, S. C. RICHAIiD GANTT, In now prepared to do all Awk In his department in the best manner and at reasonable charges. Monthly customers shaving, hair cutting and shampooing 81 per montn. Rasors honed and put n t he hast condition for 25 cents each. Water Works. HAVE your work done by a man that knows his business and save moaej and health. C. B. VERONEE. Practical and Licensed number. Abbeville, S. C., Jan. 12,1S97. Restaurant. I would announce to my friends and customers that I have moved my RESTAURANT to Cotbran's Block, on Washington Street, where I will be glad ro serve the pubic with as good meals as tbe provisions of the markel will afford. HARRIET E. ADAMS. Oct 1,1395, 6ms. Mutual Aid, Loan aid Mmt Co., Atlanta, Ga. ABBEVILLE LOCAL BOAKI). J. K. Blake. Jr.?President. Walter L. Miller?Attorney. DIRECTORS. R. W. Cannon, C. V. Hammond, Walter L. Miller, C. D. Brown. An excellent Investment company. July 31,1895,18B5. tf OUR DEAD.. HHHE NATURAL PROMPTINGS OF THE J- human lieart goes out In tenderness for the dead, and we show respect for ourselves by giving a decent burial to our friends as they go out from amongst us. J. f. SIGN, UNDERTAKER, has tw<#FINE HEARSES, one for the white people, aud one for the colored people. He ernbalmes bodies, and keeps on hand ALL LINDS OF COFFINS, from tlie cheapest to the finest. He takes orders for all kinds of MONUMENTS and HEADSTONES. When the services of an Undertaker la needed, or monuments are wanted, call on J, W. SIGN, Telephone No. 46, Shop. Kesldenc, No. 55. July 15.1896. tr .rt^VrcflB U LED ^UMjTED VfljjlPR/DOUBLE DAIIY SERVICE To Atlanta, Charlotte, Augusta. Athens, Wilmlneton, New Orleans, Chattanooga, Nashville and New York, Boston, Philadelphia. Washington, Norti lk, l'.ich mono.?fcclieuule in ciieci rti). /, low. SOUTHBOUND. No. 403. Nn. 41k Lv. New York, vlaPenn. K. li.'il 00 a in *9 00 pm " Philadelphia, " " 1 12 p in 12 05 am ' Baltimore, " " 3 15pm 2 50 am * Washhington, " " 4 40 p m 4 30 am " Hicbtnond, A. C. L., 8 56 p rn 9 05 aui Lv. Norfolk via 3. A. L...~.~*S 85 p in *'J 05 am " Portsmouth, " 8 45 a m II 20 am Lv. Wcldon, via 8. A. L..7. >1T 28 pm_*l 1 55 am Ar. Henderson, via * *12 56 a m *1 39 prn Ar Durham via 8. A. L +7 32 am fl/09 pui Lv Durham " t5 20 pm til 10 am ArTKaleigh7vTaS. A. L. ?2 IB a m ?3 34 pm " Sani'ord, " 3 35 " 5 03 " " Southern Pines, " 4 22 " 5 55 " " Hamlet, " 5 10 '* 6 53 " A'adesboro, " 5 54 " 8 11 " " Monroe, " 6 43 " 9 12 " Ar. Charlotte via 8. A. L....... "8 30 am lO 25 pm Ar. Chester, via 8. A. L *9JO a in_*10 47 pm Lv. Columbia, C. N. & L., fC 00 pin Ar. Clinton, 8. A. L *9 45 am *12 10 am " Greenwood, 10 35 " 1 07 atn " ABBEVILLE, " 11 05 ' 1 40 " " Elberton, " 12 07 p tn 2 41 " " Athens, " 1 15 " 3 45 " " Winder, " 1 59 " 4 30 " " Atlanta, (Central Time) 2 50 " 5 20 " ~ NORTHBOUND. No. 402. No. 3S~ Lv. Atlanta,vla3.A.L.(Ccnt. T.)*12 00 n'n *7 50 pm " Winder, " 2 40 p m 10 42 " " Athens, " 3 10 " II 20 " AIIHTKJII, t I<J li ->i> "Ill " ABBEVILLK " ft 15 " 1 40 " " Greenwood, " ft 41 " 2 U9 " ' Clinton, 44 *ti 84 w *3 05 " Ar. Columbia, C. N. tfc L., li. K t" 0 ) ain Lv. Chester, " *S 13 p III *4 83 am Ar. Charlotte, via p. A. L *10 2ft p in * 8 30 am Lv. Monroe, via 8. A. L. *9 40 p in *d Oft am " Ham let " .^*11 23 ^ 8 15 J Lv. Wlo tft 30 am *15: 30 pin Lv. Southern Pines, " *i2 14 am *!> 20 urn " Raleigh, " *2 1C a in 11 lift am Ar. Henderson 44 3 28 a in *1 00 pin Ar Durham via 8. A. L +7 32 am f4 09 pin r.. r> It +. ? on I,.n +11 ilium Ar. Weldon, " *1 Vt am *3 (10 pm " Richmond, A. C L? S 15 " <i ,">0 ' ' Washington, via Penn, Kli 12 31pm II 10 |>m " Baltimore, u 1 43 {tin 12 4.S am * Philadelphia, " 3 50 p m 3 45 mil " New York. " (! 23 " (? 53 Ar. Portsmouth, S. a. L., 7 30 itin 5 50 pin " Norfolk, * *7 50 " 6 U.'i " Daily. fDttily, ex..Sunday. }I)..ily ex. Muiday. Nos. 403 and 102, "The Atlanta Special," Solid Vestibulcd Train of Pullman Sleepers and Coaches between Washington and Atlai I a. al?o I'ul Inian Sleepers between Portsmouth and ('better, S. C. Noh 41 and 38, "The S. A. L. Kxpress," Solid Train, Coaehesand Pullman Sleepers between Portsmouth and Atlanta. Company Sleepers between Columbia and Atlanta. Both trains make immediate connections at Atlanta for Montgomery. Mobile, New Orleans, Texas, California, Mexico, Chattanooga, Nashville, Memphis, Macon, Florida. For Tickets, Sleepers, apply to li. A. NKWLANI), Gen. Agt, Pass. Dept. (> Kiuiball House, Atlanta, Ga. *i,. 11 Oi'P'n- T.?.. T>....c \ Cliurl'ittf, N. C. K. 8t. .JOHN. Vice-Pres. anil Gcn'l. Mgr. V. E. McBEE, Qen'l. Superintendent. II. W. B. GLOVER, Trollic Manager. T. J. ANDERSON. Oen'1. Pass. Agent. General Otlicea: Portsmouth, Va. White french organdies 0?i Inches wide, 25 to 50 cents at liaddon's. Mrs. Marie Pfranjr is now ready to start her classes for French, Oerman, Piano, Organ and ' Uultarre at 52 per month during vacation,! Please to apply at her residence on Main I street, opposite YouiiKer's butcher shop. w (II.I) MIRY ON GOin Andrew Jackson Said It Had Been Standard in All Ages. "THERE IS SO FRAUD IN GOLD." The True Representative of the Principles of Justice iintl Equality Which Should Enter into Everything That Operates on Our Institutions?It Should Ever lie Insisted on by Our Industrious Classes as the Aetu.il Circulating; Medium. That splendid exemplar of Demo crauc journalism, uie jjuuisviuc v-umier-Journal, asks the silverites who are in the habit of claiming thateverybody, including Andrew Jackson, of any consequence in American history was for free silver until 1873, to explain what the great exemplar of Democracy meant in the following letter written to the Rev. A. S. McCallum in response to the present of a gold pen and pencil. The letter is dated from Washington, Dec. 26, 1836: "I am obliged to you for the favorable manner in which you speak of some of my late public measures, which the pure and intrinsically valuable material of the useful and beautiful present you tender .gives occasion to introduce, as you seem to think, not inaptly. The useful and ornamental purposes to which grold can be applied are the properties that give it real value and render the demand for it univernfKnr nomiliar nriali ?<XI. X 1119) VV 1L1I Uliici i^vvui.mo ?! .?... ties, has made it in all apes, throughout the world, the standard of value. There is no fraud in gold; like the honest principles of the founders of our government, who declare by constitutional provision the precious metals to be the only money of the republic, it is unchangeable, and will do its office well everywhere and at all times; no Alchemy can multiply it?no chartered privileges can give sudden and unseen expansion or contraction to its amount. Nature has set limits and labor imparts an invariable value to it. It is, therefore, the true representative of the principles of justice and equality which should enter into everything that operates on our institutions, and' should be ever insisted on by the industrious classes as the actual circulating medium to bring continually to the test every species of credit currency, and to suppress the spurious paper system, restirg on no solid basis, and giving birth to frauds and stock gambling; which tends so much to estrange our people from honest and useful pursuits, and our legislation from that primitive patriotism which was once entirely directed to foster them." - ' Jackson, like Benton." recognized at that early *day the drift of mankind to the gold standard. Abundant evidence of this is to be found in his speeches and writings as well as in his public aci:s. He was as much the friend of the yellow metal as "Old Bullion" Benton himself. Cheap Money the Koo of Labor, He who tunpem with the currency robs labor of It* bread. H? pander*. Indeed to greedy capital, which is keeaniglited and may shift for itself; bnt he beggars labor, which is honest, unsuspectlue too busy with the present to calulate for the future. The prosperity of the working classes lives, moves and has its being in established credit and a steady medium of payment. All sudden change* deiitroy it. Honest industry never comes In for any part of the spoils in that scramble, which takes place when the currency of a country is disordered. Did wild schemes and profits ever benefit the industrious? Did violent fluctuations over do good to him who depends on his dally labor for his dally bread? Certainly never. All these thins:* may gratify greedincus for sudden gain or the rashness oi daring speculation, frtit they can bring nothing but injury and distress to the homes of patient industry and honest labor.?Daniel Webster. CANNOT BE TOO GOOD. Sound Money Good for All Alike, and Valueless If Idlo. Unused money, unloaned money bestows no more value upon its owner than an uneaten meal can give of pleasure or nutrition. A little reflection makes it plain, therefore, that the farmer and the Chicago packer, wage earner, manufacturer and capitalist are equally interested in circulating a kind of money which, when they let go of it, will buy them the most satisfaction either at home or abroad. Those who buy of the farmers the foodstuffs which they raise, and sell the same farmers money, should understand that wise farmers desire to buy oniiy, the best money?money which, like good pork, beef and cereals, will pass current in all markets. And as there has never been any complaint about too good wheat, too good beef, too good pork, or too productive a farm, so there never can be, from correctly reasoning men, any complaint about too good a dollar, too good currency or money. A dollar with too much purchasing power is as impossible as a square meal with too much nutritive power, an acre of land with too much productive capacity, or an advocate of Populistic schemes of finance with too much logi cal ability.?Secretary J. s;erung ivxorton. Revolution Proposed by Silver Democrats. The declarations of the Chicago convention attack individual freedom, the right of private contract, the independence of the Judiciary, and the authority of the president to enforce federal laws. They advocate a reckless attempt to increase the price of silver by legislation to the' debasement of our monetary standard, and threaten unlimited issues -of paper money by the government. They abandon for Republican allies the Democratic cause of tariff reform to court the favor of protectionists to their fiscal heresy.?National Democratic Platform. Time-Tried Doctrines of Deiuocrucy. The Democratic party ever has main tained, and ever win maintain, me supremacy of law. the independence of its judicial administration, the inviolability of contract, and the obligations of all good citizens to resist every illegal trust, combination or attempt against the just rights of property and the good order of soc iety, in which are bound up the peace and happiness of ourpeople.?Nt-tional Democratic platform. K. C. Wilson and Co. have a full htoek ol Helnz's Pickle and condiments. Hruce's Ice Cream Business commences to dny Send your orders for Kutterick patterns to U. M. Haddon A Co. UXIOTU IICS OIUUK IIUU 1UU HI IUIUUUU a. Sandals with ctpel buckles, ladies, Misses and children at lladdon's. Crinkled and plain Chiffon In all shades. Muslliueand China silks In different colors at Mrs. Taggart's. Ho to Bruce's for chickens, hens, fries and broils, prices to suit the times. If you need towels or table linen go to Haddons. / - .. CANNON OF GOLD. I Two Very Ancient Guus Whose 0<rl?la id Shrouded In Mystery. The imperial army of Berlin has in ml- i dition to its armament a Held gun as cost- I ly as it is unique. A cannon made of gold, such as is possessed l}v no other arm'ory in the world except the Hamburg museum, whence it came, is the great show piece just now for the domesticated Berliner, as * well as the thousands of strangers who visit tno tjerman capital. j.ue uuiwtuu appearance of the monster jewel is most i delicate in workmanship, such as is never I seen in an arm of this kind. Tho cylinder | is 10 feet long and strangely beautiful in its massive coat of burnished gold inlaid . with delicate frieze work, with a handle formed of two nude wrestlers and a cascabel i in the shape of an elephant's head with inverted trunk. The handle is in itself a work of the highest plastic art. In harmony with the elegance of the arm proper is tho gun carriage, which is made of oak, inlaid with reddish pear wood and richly decorated J with etched steel knobs, rosettos and other decorative designs. Twice in the chaste and unusually elaborate ornamentation are found the initials of tho etcher, "H. R. M., 1043," but his identity has not yet been discovered. r Even more remarkable than the costli- . ness of the material of which it is made is t the construction of tho cylinder. Its like l is not described in any handbook on t arms, and a similar arm has not been seen 8 before. The copper cylinder has a diameter 1 of 65 millimeters, with an inner and outer mantle. The filler consists of pine wood __J 1?i.1 nu.? ?:n,? U.LLU lUiil/HUI. X11U wi uuo wnv is an unsolved mystery, although mention of them is made in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oldcnburger, in his "Book On Travel" (1675), and Berlenmeyer, in his "Antiquarium," speak with .. great enthusiasm of the '"golden cannon." According to these two sources, the guns were taken fruiu H Hamburg merchant to satisfy a debt of ? 12,000. Tne style of the guns would indicate that they were made in Holland, and the costliness of tho work justifies the assumption that they were mado only by special order.?St. Louis Republic. SAINT OF THE COOKS. She Was a Queen of the Culiuary Art aod Wm Canonized. Few people, perhaps, knew beforo that' cooks had a saint of their own, who, kind lady, will doubtless in the hereafter make the grilling of them as pleasant as possible. Santa Zita, as she is named, lived, it appears, at Genoa and was there canonizcd. She could, so runs the legend, cook better tlia-n n nv chef within 300 miles of the town. which, wo all know, is noted for its won- I derful soups and dumplings, though of | course in the latter indigestible article of food outrivaled by Vienna, since it is one of the chief articles in the religion of gastronomy that it is only in the kaiserstadt that the "glose" is in perfection. Santa Zita was, it seems, not less famous for her piety than for cooking and was a constant attendant at the cathedral during high mass. One day, however, Bhe fell into a trance, bo called?though, in plain English, a good, Bound sleep?and quite forgot that she had to produce an exceptionally fine dinner for a large company. On awakening she hurried forth from the sacred edifice in a way which was far indeed from her wont, but, on reaching the kitchen, , what was her surprise and delight to llnd i a party of oherub celestials busy cooking the required dinner. She did not interfere, 1 bet was at first not unwilling to accept the praise which was lavished on her culi- ' 1 nary success. She soon repented, however, and told the world the truth about the i spiritual and miraculous help she had reoelved, and it wtv? agreed on all sides that she deserved to be canonized. Accordingly she became Santa Zita.?Exchange. I Mackerel Skies. > The mackerel sky comes from the same causes as all the cirrus clouds, so callcd from the beautiful curl their fragments often assume, such as "mackerel skies," "mares' tails" and "cats' tails." Meteorologists are not agreed as to the cause, there being two explanations. It has been suggested that these cirrus clouds are the j I 1 Ar, swtliirvtr\f rnrtm* vloinw frnm 1 iil?ua Ui. tUlUiiiUO \JM. V(t?SVS?. AJhw??* v?w , ' earth and precipitated as soon as they attain a certain elevation, rarely less than three miles abovo tho earth (15,840 feet), and often five or six miles (26,000 to 30,000 , feet). If this be so, tho visible cloud forms the capital of an invisible pillar of satu- ( rated air. The second explanation is that j they are caused in the higher regions of the , , atmosphere by tho meeting of two currents . of air, of different water bearing capacity, ' causing them to form into parallel bands, ' each belt being composed of light, airy < fragments, slightly altered in appearance < according to a slight difference in condi- ( 1 tions under which they are formed. It lias ( been supposed that such clouds are com- < posed of particles of snow. It might be , added that they occur in systems, long 1 ranks of them extending in one direction 1 for vast distances and being occasionally ' crosscd by other systems, at other but also < oxtrome altitudes.?Boston Traveller. < Firecrackers In China. Firecrackers aro also used to bring rain , when it is needed. They are not exploded on scientific principles, but simply to attract the attention of Lung Wong, the rain ' god. If, aft?r repeated salvos the drought continues, tho deity is supposed to be I asleep, and active measures are taken. The chief officials of the district, dressed in | mourning and followed by numerous sor rowing farmers, visit his temple. In front \ of tho procession are carried four silken banners decorated with the characters rep- 1 resenting wind, rain, thunder and lightning. Thoso are placed in tho stands near 1 tho altar and surrounded by lighted candies. Then, with much kow-towing (bowing very low) and chin-chining (greeting), written prayers to the rain god are burned 1 in a sacrod fire. A tremendous salute of . firecrackers follows, accompanied by the usual clashing of cymbals, beating of | gongs, etc. These salvos arc continued day after (lay until Lung Wong wakes. Sooner | or later thoy never lail to rouse mm.?aNU\v York Post. I Costly Uric-a-brac. I A lady who was looking about in a brica-brnc shop, with a view to purchasing ( something old, noticcd a quaint figure, the head and shoulders of which appeared above the counter. "What is that Japaneso idol over there worth?" she inquired. ' The salesman replied in a subdued tone: " Worth about $auu,uuu, mauum. xirtt tuu proprietor."?Pick Me Up. Don't drink green tea. I "so it instead to < ; restore rusty black luce to its original fresli! ncss. The result will bo admirable for both . lace and nerves. The principal cause of the prosperity ot ; pawnbrokers is that they take so much in- l tcrcst in their business. ' | Rruce's Is the place to get beans, tomatoes | j chickens, and eggs, I ' "> eases summer millinery just received at | IIaddon's. U/MTCDI Mil I CD ! TO ML I LI1 L. IfllLLLIIj I Attorney at Law. Abbeville, S. C. I also represent a number of Investment : Companies. Loans made on Abbeville or Greenwood City real estate. | OKFICK on liftw Kanee. . . ~V V-; , \ Complete and Full STOCK OK TtTI'J C.'KI.KBflATKi) l tteti'opolitan brand of MiieiPaials, ? of ? * JOHN LUCAS & CO. ? always on band at the + 3ity Drug Store.' PKICES IN ONE GALLON CANS by the 1 single can $1.25. A liberal discount to I iftlntflrH nslny lnive Quantities. J dot. 25, 1898,"tf " 111! HOSPITAL H. D. REESE, SURGEON. * rHE place to carry yonr SICK WATCHES and BROKEN CLOCKS, where they will ie looked after and attended to at all hours of he day with skill and experience. No turnng you away or sending Patients off to have hem treated elsewhere, bat I will put them ; jolng at prices to suit the times. I Mil Presents, CMs, . and JEWELRY. Prices Down. 1 H. D. REESE, I mtrir -ptrnpr-vm .ithwrt/rr. iii m : - MACHINE I! p STEAM ENGINE*, tl Kfinairs COTTON GINS and I . .-J SAW MILL8 J Engines and Machinery of all Kinds for Kent, Lease, or j Sale, Second-hand or New, ALSO AGENTS pr>p ~ Automatic Engines and Rams, We are fully prepared to do your plumming and gas titling. We also run a grist mill od Saturdays,, ? and are making a' ^ splendid meal. Shops adjoining old depot. Address, J. E. Gadsey, Manager I If you still have In mind a nice col'd worst Kl dress you t-hould nee those single pattern it Iladdon's. National Bank Abbevil Canital, .... Surplus, J. ALLEN SMITH, Presidenx. BENJ. S. BARNW Ulirec I. G. EDWARDS, Abbeville, S. C., L. W. WHITE, Abbeville, S. C., BENJ. S. BARNWELL, Abbeville, S.C, J. ALLEN SMITH, DOES a General Banking buslnesi, provides t Depositors. Is ready at any and all times t< is onr oonnty afford". P W, S. 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T>t?4-i /tii 1 rk -it n All roii tiuuiai aiicniiuii ^iven to our MARKET d lepartment. v V Remember the place, No. 2 Washington \ treet. \ MUTUAL | mi HUB I $ 400,000. r|7"RITE TO OR CALL on the'underslgned ?* or to the Director of your Township ir an v information van mflv desire about ur plan of Insurance. / . '' J We Insure your property against destruoIon by FIEE, WIHDSTO&U OS U6BIM, nd do so cheaper than any Insurance Com any in existence. Remember we are prepared to prove to yon bat ours Is the safest and cheapest plan of nsurance known. r. E. BLASE, Jr., Agent, Abbeville, S. C. r. FULLER LYON, Pres. Abbeville, S. C. 0 BOARD DIRECTORS. T. C. Turner -Ninety-Six Township* J. M. Major ....Greenwood " P. W. Sullivan Cokesbury " W. B. Acker Donnalds M. B. Clinkscales ?...pue West " T. L. Haddon -Long Cane " J. W. Scott- -Mmltbvllle " E. W. Watson White Hall J.W.Lyon Indian Hill " Capt. John Lyon Cedar Spring " W.E. Leslie Abbeville Dr. J. A. Anderson.Dlamond Hill " t H. A. Tennent Lowndesvllle " A. O. Grant Magnolia " J. T. Horton Calhoun " G. N. McKlnney Bordeaux " Abbeville, S. C., March 1,1S97. if ? 1 of Abbeville, , i?, s. o. i - - - - $75,000 "i - - - 15,000 X z r. %v_ WHITE. Vice-President. ELL, Cashier. torn* . | J. C. KLUGH, Abbeville, S. C., W. JOEL SMITH, Abbeyille, S. C., ? A. B. MORSE, Abbeville, S. C. > Abbeville, S. C. he greatest security and convenience for Ita d make loans based upon such safe collatera ? ??MM A. G, FAULKNER, ? Manager, J ) J i i fiAiniiin no I i LU1IIBH I I). all orders for Dressed and $ Blinds, Frames, Shingles, J hort anything needed in the S rden ^eed * * i c - > ' ? Game's ? stationery BuiilQess or H. \V. L&wsod ^ A. W. SMITH, Vice Presldeut 'RE, Cashier. k of Abbeville. iOLICITED. anrvK r\r\r\ CC5 i U,UW 6,500 luys and sells Exchange and makes Colecsiabllstied. Amounts received of $1 and up. ? January. April, July, October. Small sav ,V. Smitb, W. C. McOowan, J. R. Blake, H. P rlson, U. A. Visauskl. 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