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pppie. M^HgnSHaHBB^pRT; hat scold me i R^nMHMH^Vne cbair you have It is positively too j^^BH^HIB^Prcould not keep awake in HflH^H^^Brenly I bear a great strike of BHHRj^PBck ; 1 jump up and find I have a little five minutes to dress in ! MB^^Ah ! dear, patient Mary, forgive the foreigner and her abominable ways." f "Never mind about our apologizing, ^ 1 ' - ' Oilt IVM) r Clllia, DUllOU your UUU(9 auu pufc hat on. "My boots P'Estelle looks down at them in despair, and then dropping on her knees in the hall, tries to button them up with her weak little fingers. "" Mary Cotterell pulls ber up, orders her permptorily into a hall chair, drawing a button-hook from her own pocket proceeds to do up the high foreign boots. "There! Now turn slowly round, and let me see that you are all right." Estelle obeyed submissively. "I had not time to do my hair again," she explains. ' So I see; but aa it Is always rough, that makes very little difference. I suppose you must do now. Put on your gloves and where's your parasol ?" "Up-stairs. I don't want it." "Yes, you do. I'll get it for you." Estelle doesn't object at all; but when Mary comes down again she flings both arms around her, and calls f her her best beloved cabbage. "Tell me, Mary," she asked, as they walked down the garden on their way to Mrs. Charlesworth's tennis party, "will that dreadful red-haired engineer be there?you know; the man who is so stupid and quache?" "Sure to be," said Mary dryly. "He's devoted to Eva Charlesworth." "Poor girl! I pity her," observed Mdlle Verries. " "Oh, you needn't do that; she doesn't care a fig for him. And, besides, the dreadful red-haired engineer, as you call Arthur Rivers, is a very good fellow." "I call him a beast!" said Estelle, with exceeding frankness. "Now, Estelle," said Mary sharply, "* "T lio*TQ vnn nir?lr nn had Words } from my brothers, and I won't have ( you speak rudely of ruy friends." "Do you lifee him?" inquired her companion, stepping forward, so as to get a good look at her face. j "Certainly," replied Mary, not thl least disconcerted by the mischievous scrutiny of the dark eyes. Estelle let go of her arm, and held up both hands in amazement. "You are funny, you English ! You positively like people because they are good!" "Certainly," replied Mary, again. "But men never are good," answered Estelle, changing her ground. "Oh indeed !" "My mother says so, and she knows, too." "Your poor mother was unfortunate In her experience of them ; but surely, because one Englishman was a wicked husband to her, she wouldn't condemn all the rest?" "Ob, that is only a part of what she knows," said Estelle, confidently. "She has seen a great deal of life, and she has always taught me never to trust any man at all, however good he may seem." Mary was silent, not liking to say what she thought of such training. Estelle's French mother had been forced when hardly more than a child, into marriage with a wealthy Englishman, who had treated her with neglect and brutality, and finally deserted her. Released from galling boud9 by the intervention of the law, she had immediately quitted his hated country, and retired with his little Estelle to a quiet suburb of Paris, where the child was orougnt up 10 can nersen r rencu, and to hate everything that was English. Yet when and invitation came from Mrs. Cotterell for Estelle to upend a whole summer with her at Coppenham, the girl's reluctance to go was fc overriden by her mother, who never forgot that the Cotterells, husband and wife, had been the only people in England whose sympathy she had been able to accept or rely on. So Estelle nerved herself for a visit to her native country, and once at Ooppenham, found to her surprise that she was going to enjoy herself. She found English country life charmingly novel; she particularly liked the admiration accorded to her beauty and vivacity; and she took at once to Mary Cotterell, who had much of her mother's intelligent tact and thoughtfulnes;). The two girls had walked on another hundred yards or so without speaking, when Mary was roused from her reflections by feeling her arm suddenly pinched. Looking up, she discovered, rapidly approaching them the young man whose "goodness" bad been so summarily disposed of by T?ofnl 1/"* n fotir minnfoo aiio! tt JJOldilC i? ion UitUUtCO piUViUUOlJ* He certainly was Dot a beauty. Slightly above the average height, and disproportionately large, he not only haa no goods looks to boast of, but carried himself particularly badly, with a kind of undignified shamble, his head forward ana his hands forever in L his pockets. Estelle manged to convey her opinion of him to Mary by a rapid little grimace and shrug of the shoulders before he came up to them. "How do you do, Mary ? How do you do, Mademoiselle?er?I really forget your name." He put out his hand in an unthinking manner, much to her displeasure. He ought only to have bowed; and how dare he to forget her name! Her reluctant little fingers just touched his. Rivers saw now and his lips twitched with amusement. "Beg your pardon, I'm sure. I'll only bow another time," he said bluntly "Hate shaking haods myself; it's a barbarous custom. I suppose ( you are uouuu, use me, ior unariesworth's, Mary ?" On her assenting, be turned and walked beside her, without asking her whether his company was desired or not. "If you were polite, Arthur, you would offer to carryjjriy racquet and shoes," observed Mary, laughing. "You can't imagine w$&* bad opinion Mademoiselle Verrfeflrls forming of you." He took the things frcuraber, rapidly glancing up and down^Mtelle, who looked bewitchingly pretty under h6r roselined parosol. . "Quite right, too," he returnedLwith a smile. "You see, Mademoiselle, I've no sister to lick me into shape." . Estelle was not sufficiently well up in English slang to understand quite what be meant by this ; but gathering from the pleasantnegH?*f tnls smile that it could not ha^Wroen anything rude, she condescended to answer. "I've no sisters, or brothers, either," she said naively. "Ah! I thought so." "Why?" Rivers had guessed it from her man- j ifiiiiYrrifrft i ' n V riti i V i. nSHn^^pPery much thai of a! but be mau<iged to m^HH^HTeriagly from telling ber HH^^nis time they reached Mrs. ^^^resworth's law n and with a short, WFn\ can't say; intution, I suppose." Tie hastily crossed over to where the fair, slender Eva Cbarlesworih was staudiug, racquet in hand, talking to the favorite and scapegrace of the "?" %T ~ place, Hai Armuage. ?>euueriu iucmc two particularly wauted him, and after a little while Eva gracefully sent , him back to Estelle, who did not play tennis and who had been left stranded on a garden chair, while the rest of the guests were occupied with the game. She felt so neglected and uncomfortable that it was quite a relief to her when Rivers came and sat down beside her. "VVe ought to fraternize," he said, drawing his chair rather forward, so as to get a good view of her face, "since we neither of us play this allengrossing game. Are you over in England for long?" Estelle allowed herself to be gradually drawn into conversion, and was getting quite interested in comparing notes with him about the Riviera, when an amused approving little nod and smile trora Alary brought the color to her face. She was a complete child in many respects, and her vexa,i?" "* flnHinir haroelf hlnahinv WRH BO great that the tears started to her eyes. Rivers wondered what on earth had happened, but if his maimers were abrupt, his good feeling was rarely at fault, and he showed tact now. VI brought home no end of mementoes," he continued quietly, "and among them some flovi era from Mentone?roots, I mean?which I planted in the garden here for Mrs. Charlesworth. Would you lise to see them ?" Estelle sprang up, ready to go anywhere rather than continue to sit with ber face in full view of all the players. She was sure every one must be looking at her. But in a few minutes, thanks to Rivers* tactics, she was herself again, and inwardly determined to pay Mary off. This little episode had cured her of her dislike to the young engineer, and before the evening was over her feelings had undergone a further revulsion. She and Mary were asked, with some of the other guests, to stay to the eight o'clock supper at Mrs. Charlesworth's, and later on there was a general vote for music. Estelle was known to have a beautiful voice, but she was exceedingly nervous, and swt.iM not ho nrovnilpn nnon to sin? till Eva suggested that she should be supported by a violin obligato. "That would give me courage," Estelle admitted, "and I know this I song for yoice and violin; but who is this virtuoso?" "Oh, my fiddle and I are at home in this drawing-room," said Rivers, coming up quickly, and drawing out the case from under a low Bettee. Estelle regarded him doubtfully, making up her mind that she should 8top singing at once if his playing did not please her. She need not have been alarmed. He was a thorough musician, and soon she confessed to herself that she had never been accompanied with such instinctive sympathy. Her mellow voice gathered strength and evenness as she felt she could rely on the response of his violin to its faintest inflections, and at the end of the song their eyes met in a glance of mutual understanding and admiration. Hal Armitage looked over towards Eva Charlesworth with a significant i chuckle. "Our good Arthur is smitte"," he aaid?"settle and done for." Eva followed the direction of his 1 !?a cjea, uuu ap^iaiscu unuw?nj. "I hope it may be so," she answered gently. CHAPTER II. For a week or two Estelle went about in a frame of mind which is apt to upset the calmest natures, and which, in a girl of her excitable temperament, took the shape of ex| treme fitful alternations between turbulent gayety and tearful depression. She would have worked her| self into a fever had it not been for , the sincere good sense and unobtrusive sympathy of quiet Mary Cotterell, who understood her vistor well. Then one day she darted into the house, dragged Mary to her room, and there burst out crying and laughing wildly. "I am so happy!?so happy !?oh, Mary, can't you guess?" 'what a child you are, Estelle ! Of course I can guess, and I am as glad as ever I can be, dearie. Tell me all about it." "I was in the garden, and he came up the path?oh, I can't go now?I'm j list overwhelmed?frantic?my heart's beating all over me!" "That dreadful red-haired man?" said JViary, miscmevously. "How dare you call him dreadful! Yes, ves, I know that's what I said, hut then I began to like him just a tiny little, and then it went on crescendo?cresendo?forte?fortissimo !" She waved her hands as if conducting an orchestra, and ended on tiptoe, tossing them high above her bead. * "So,after all, you have found a man you can rust," said Mary, half-joking- ' ly, and not at all prepared for the sudden cloud that settled on Estelle's face. She did not answer at onoe, , and then the tone had changed. "Mary you told me he was devoted to Eva Charlesworth." "Ob, did I?" said Mary, muoh embarrassed. "Well, I used to think so, but clearly I was mistaken." .* "No, you were not. He told me about it himself. He says a long time ago he asked her to marry him, but she would not. She said she liked t somebody else, but he mustn't be angry with her; they must always be friends. So be took it very quitely, and stayed near her till I came, and then he found out he only cared for i her as u brother, but for me in quite a i different way. He says she is very < good, but I hate her. I am frightened i of her; she is so prettv and sweet, and i I am such a rough, undignified i baby!" J "Do you mean that you are going i to begin by being jealous ?" asked Mary, quiet coldly. i "I have told him he must never let i me see him near her!" declared Estelle, passionately. Mary's first impulse was to be indig- i nant, but the memory of Estelle's | training came into her mind, and she resolved to be very patient and gentle | with her. For the moment she dis- t missed the subject lightly. As to Arthur Rivers, he walked ,| away, too full of the happiness Estelle j had conferred upon him to .tblgjl | seriously of her confession of a jealous j thought it impossible*,' but' t&t*tl^|;j mu^t quickly learn to trust blaREf There were other considerations thiw < seemed to him of more importance, < and especially he had on his mind the t difficult letter that must be written g immediately to Madame Verries. But gradually he became aware that j Estelle's distrust was far deeper seated than he had conceived possible, and t it is hard to say which of the two suffered most. Estelle, alternating between jealousy and remorse, or i Arthur, under the continual necessity of behaving not only to Eva Charles- ] worth, hut to all women, with unnat- i ural formality, and of remonstrating i with his angry betrothed, Estelle, i honestly strove to crush the unworthy feeling down, but their deep roots in i her temperament and education put i forth fresh shoots as soon as the old ; ones were killed off. At last a crisis i ? til I I vcu. Eva Charlesworth had long ago < promised to marry Hal Armitage as i soou he should be able to keep a wife, I but her parents would allow no other ] engagement, as Hal was a harumscarum fellow, with a great distaste i for hard work, and correspondingly i little prospects of making a sufficient < income. The poor girl was beginning to suffer from the effects of long waiting, and to feel, though she never ' doubted her lover's affection, that he was not doing all he might to forward their marriage, when it was mentioned before her one day that Arthur Rivers < had a voice in the appointment of manager for some engineering Yorks in New Zealand. Eva resolved to make an appeal to bim on behalf of . the man she was ready to follow to the end of the world, and an opporpresented itself shortly at the Cotterells' where she was spending the . evening. i "I want to speak to you in private presently, Arthur," she said in a low voice, almost as soon as they had ' shaken hands. Arthur bowed with the stiffness ft* I quired of him by Estelle, but bla words were cordial. "Whenever an<* wherever you like, Eva." "In the conservatory, then, while Estelle is singing," she replied, indi^Atlnc bv a nervous little faueb ber comprehension of possible difficulties. Soon Estelle was called to the piano. At the end of the fir^t song she missed Rivers, but it was not till sbe bad finished a second that she discovered that Eva bad also absented herself. In a moment her indignant jealousy surged up, and, trembling all over witn surpressed fear end anger, sbe went to the head of the steps which led down into the conservatory. The two figures were standing below, half hidden by a tall palm. "You know I will do all I' can for you, Eva," said the man. "I know you have always been better to me than I deserve," said the woman, her voice hardly under con- < trol. "You'll keep my Becret now J Arthur ?" "I will keep your Becret and serve you," said Rivers, with just that strong gentleness in his voice which Estelle thought he had no right to use to any but her. The miserable girl clinched her hands and teeth in the effort to restrain ftereeir, conscious 01 tbe unfitness of making a scene, but self control was not to be learned in a moment, and pa?9ion asserted itself. "Arthur" she said, in a low, choking voice and stepping down toward him "you are a traitor?you have deceived me?you?" she could hardly speak, and now she put up one hand to her bead, while theother, extended, forbade his approach. So she stood for a moment, then her figure swayed, she missed her footing, and he only caught the words, "Ah, you have killed me!" before she fell at his feet, sobbing, crying, raving, flinging herself about in violent hysterics, like one possessed. Eva, shocked beyond measure, called Mary Cotterell to her aid, and, with a9 little fuss as possible, they got Estelle upstairs, where she continued all night in a state of half-delirious misery and rage. The only thing she was distinct and persistent about was that I she would never see or speak to Arthur again. He left the house in despair, pinning his only hope on Mary, who promised to bring tbe poor girl to reason. "Leave her to me a few days," she said, and Rivers 1 obeyed, devoting all his energies to nottinor TTal A rmitncrft thfl p.nlnniftl no livvvtug ?-"'O- "? ? gr " aition desired fqr him by Eva. Estelle, sorely ashamed of herself by now, heard the news of bis success from Mary, who added an explantion of the part played by Arthur. "Areyou satisfied now?" asked the . lattor, with the sterness she found more salutary than gentleness. "Why hasn't Arthur been to see me ?" asked Estelle, looking dowu. "You went too far this time; you forgot that be has his pride." Estelle spraog up and dropped on her knees beside Mary's chair. "Let 1 me go to him ! Not to his house?I don't mean that, but somewhere where I shall |meet him ! Ob, my dear Mary, do this one thing more for me, I implore you J" ] "I don't think you deserve anythiDg of the sort," said Mary, sharply, and nothing like a promise could be extort ed from her. It was, therefore, only a singular 1 coiocidence that the /following day J Arthur should be wilkinf through Coppenham Wood just as Mary and j Eatelle happened to be nutting there? or, rather, Mary was nutting, while Estelle stood by in her Frenchified dress, and never so much as to#k off her gloves. It was lucky,;.'; too, that just when Arthur came upon them Mary should be high up from the ground in a thick bush, and quite out of sight and hearing behind the leafy screen which compassed her about. 1 Where were Estelle's low spirits now?" She had meant to be very bumble and penitent, but it was never any uee for her to decide beforehand j how she would behave, and now, when she saw the "dreaded red-haired man" approaching her, the pleasure of It was so great theat everything else went out of her head. There was a ? stile between them, and hastily gathering a field daisy, she went and stood her side of it, with a face full of child- f< ish gaiety. d "He loves me a little, much, more, ot at all, she began, rapidly counting out the petals, and glancing mischiev- P ausly at her lover, "a little, much, w most of all!" she ended triumphantly, szpecting him to clear the stile in a moment, and punish her with kisses for her bad behavior. But Arthur did nothing of the kind. There was not a tl vestageofa smile on his worn face, ind he looked at her so gravely that a ^ Hidden fear and heart-ache tooK possesiioiTtrfsJbek^ "Arthur, forgive^* she said timidly, ? ind, taking in both hers the hand he bad laid on the stile. > "Am I never to be more than the ^ olaything of your jealous caprice, Es- ?lle?" be asked sadly. "Ah, you are cruel! You are tor- \ aaenting me, humbling me !" cried the ami ng^J 'You thin* j )hrase "I will never, never doubt you igain!" she exclaimed passionately. 0 "Never till next time," said Rivers, with a just perceptible smile. "How am I to feel safe ?" She would have protested, but he silenced her. "Words are useless, my child," he said. "We most begin [igain from the beginning." And therewith be ifot over the stile, and proceeded to make love bo delightfully, that when Mary descended from her Derch and insisted on her going home, i Estelle thoueht and called her a "hor rid bore." But Mary was too content with the jompieteuess of their reconciliation to mind being abused. Nor bad sbe any fear for the ultimate stability of their happiness, knowing that there was in Estelle plenty of good material, and that Arthur not only understood her svell now, but would conquer in the ;nd by sheer force of love and patience. DR. J. A. DICKSON, SURGEON DENTIST. 30LD FILLINGS; CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY. A GOOD PLATE- $8.00 AMALGAM FILLINGS75o and. 1.00 OFFICE OVER BARKSDaLE'S STORE. Trespassers. A LL persons are forbidden to trespass on oar lands. No shooting on our premises allowed under any circumstance*. / '' .... L. Ai JACKSON. F. E. HARRISON, J HUGH WILSON. FALL STOCK M(p| We have iq stock and aiUflHHHp well selected QROCERIB^WMjiii^ 6 1-2 cents cotton and an abldlngconf ways wants the BEST iu the line^|? oniy ior , Liberal Quantities, | We will, therefore, during *he -1 the wants of the most exacting, whil PRICE8 within the reach of ALL. CERIES, keep us in mind. ^ No. 4 Ho Repair Busin O. P. HAMMC ARE RUSHED WITH WORK, an work done. Bring your Wagons to me, and will fix them promptly. Horses and ! This is certainly our fort. Mr. I ivant is a trial. Wagon Wh And Tires cut in a workmanlike i Yours c;. :m?- jh Notice to T fceturns of Personal Property Mus Before the 20th of February, for Neglect, [n order to accommodati ville County in the matter of makir 900,1 will be at: Calboun Falls, January 9th and 10thLowndesvllle, January 11th and 12thMt Carmel, January 15th and 16th?I Willington, January 17th?Wednesda Bordeaux, January 18th?Thursday. McCormick, January 19th and 20th?1 Donalds, January 23d and 24th?Tues Due West, January 2oth and 26th?Tt Long Cane, at residence of A. F. Calv< Antrevllle, at McAdam's store and V February 20th. Bryant's Cross Roads, from January 1 A UUa?'11a TonnoMr lot tn Fohriia nuuc Vine, 11V1U Uttuuuij -WW vw ? vv. MM Remember that parties having credits re liable to prosecution, by the Auditor When parties wish corrections made i are returned by thpm, they must prese eputy. Don't send returns by mail, except wh ointments of the Auditor, or to come ti rhera parties reside outside the County. Remember that in swearing to your re ^turned your property at its market val tie Board of Assessors can approve. Ed tieir employees are returned. W^BRAD] See us before you b Km 1 I i A mm . . . For tl r L. C. Haskell. M xt. v : .. && .... .... . .. j.-s-.'iA-.: DENTAL NOTICE. S. F. Killings worth, No. 4 Seal Blook, Abbeville, 8. C. DENTAL NOTICE. Dr. S. G. Thomson, OFFICE UP-8TAIR8 ON MOlLWAIN | Corner, Abbeville, H. 0. Nice Farm for Sale! Two HUNDRED ACRES, In two miles of Abbeville. Pine wood enough on it to natr for nnp-hnlfnf it?the NOBLE_ PLAICE. | Apply to""" " AUG. W. smi in. Oot. 3, 1899, tf Farm Hands Wanted. Good steady and Industrious colored men, single or married, with families to work the whole year for Cash payments and settlements monthly. Apply to Hollow Creek Farm, Toale's P. O., Aiken Co., S. C. Nov. 22. 1899. 3 mo. FOR SALE. I OFFER FOR BALE FIFTY ACRES OF Jand within the Incorporate limits of the town of Abbeville. Can be divided into two tracts of twenty-five acres each. Titles perfect. Terms easy. Price low. Apply to J. W. W. MARSHALL. . Nov. 1st,'99. H. D. REESE, SURGEON. TT*HE place to carry your SICIt "WATCHES ana BROKEN CLOCKS, where they will be looked after and attended to at all boon of the day with skill and experience. No turnIn* yon away or sending Patients off to hate them treated elsewhere, bnt I will -pat them going at prloee to anlt the timet. " .VW ? \ feii Presents, Clotty and JEWELRY. Prices Down. 3. D. REESE, THE PEOPLE'S JEWELER. ' ' M STAPLE GROCERIES ^Sv'-jrp t> 9 d fm~J Ha XV fo.. attractive assortment of B*Vi$fS?jter had. An intimation of l<Muj|gj| thptfact that Abbeville al edib|#^&aiJsed us to contract not Quality. cginw^la&san:', be able to cater to e'?HBe:'.fame time we shall keep *- '-* w.# nnAT/n? r\T>n in quest ui onv i tel Block. ess Booming! >ND'S SHOPS d the cause of it is, he is having good i, Buggies and anything to be repaired Mules Shod. Jeagle knows his business and all we eels Filled nanner. for work, r[' CAJtESKOlTO. .,1 -S j Mi ' 'ax-Payeji t be Made at Its If their return lax ^Hhe flacal year -Tuesday and ^tyed^eefeay. ' V -Thursday and Friday. "^||L Monday and Tuesday. ' i Friday and Saturday. day and Wednesday. lursday and Friday. ?rt from January 10th to February 2Dth. ; Wakefield's store from January 10th to ! 0th to February 20th. ,ry 20th. and not making a fair return of same, and County Board., n the number of acres of land heretont their plats to the Auditor or his j ere parties are unable to meet the apd Abbeville before February 20tb, or i I turn you take a a oath that you have 1 ue. We want a ^ wirou v jeville Lumber Co.1 L:.. 'y. u -Vi.: 1 rt> 'J.im Abbeville-Greenwo od MUTUAL. IIWICE ASSOCIATION. $ 550,000. "WfRITE TO OR CALL on the'underslgried " or to the Director of your Township for any Information yon may desire about our plAn of Insnranoe. We Insure your property against deatrno tlon by PIES, WroSTOEH OS IISITOM, and do so cheaper than any Insuranoe Com pany In existence. Remember we are prepared to prove to you that oore Is the safest and cheapest plan of Insuranoe known. J. B. BLAKE, Jr., Agent, Abbeville, S. C. J. FT7LLEB LYON, Pres. jfv Abbeville. 8. C. / ? BOARD DIRECTORS. W. E. Leslie ~~~ Abbeville Township S. M. BenJamln.Mm?....Greenwood " J. Add. Calboun..^.^Nlnety4Jlx YT D i . M, B. Clinkicalea.. Due Weet ? Dr. J. A. Anderton.Dlamond Hill H. A. Tennent,....~.Lownde?vllIe ? J. D. Coleman ..^....Coronaca 11 J. W. Lyon . _.ij...>?.Troy *' J. R. Tarrant... Oalbocn Mills " T. L. Haddon .......Long tfcne " J. H.PCblles, Jr.!T.. BUiff " P.B. Calllson fl865oq R. W. Townsend ......?^..JCUHrdB W *A ^81rv?y ,""" Wainu^^^g ' i J. W.'Scott,.e.8'.;:V^rSS;-' J.T. Mabry CoketbaSffiy, -iff, : 8. F. Cromer ^...Jrimllbvljkfe,p! B. Calllson and JoeephSHM^toi^eti TpTnB.bCalll8on. J." Add. Calfcotwiod Jowrfb Lake. Klrkne.vs Township. J. Add. Calboun, Joseph LeSp^^ttii lll. W. Townsend, Fellowship Township,' J. Add. Calboun, Joseph Lakeand R. W. Townsend, Brooks Township. * . J. W. Lyon and A. K. Wataop, Abbeville, 8. C? Jan. 17, llOOl ' Charleston and Western Caroli^fi. K AngnBta and AshevIHe Short Li*e. - In effect Jan. 17,1Mb.' LViAngonU. - 9 iO Ma;,. ~?140 pm, Ar Greenwood ...? 19 15 pm ? , ?...... A r Anderson *.'? ]fl pm Ar Lknrenj....^......^ .... 1 20 pm 6>85 tm Ar GreerfvlUe _ 8 00 iwUi1 fffOm Ar Glenn Springs ? 4 00 pa <:U-.: 1* SnAPtAnhnw ft 10 nAr . % ' 1AV tin Ar SfenderaonvVlie, Ar AahevlHe.......^. 7 .~w. Lv Aeheville "r w-h-. Lv8partanbarg~..^vjtt2H|K4hq-< 4 lu pm Lv Glenn Sprlngs^^^JSHBBS ?& ' Lv 6reenvillen...'M^^^BHHMn(,',' 4 90 1? Lv Lanrena ...,?? Lv Anderson ' ' 8 ^ 1?n Lv Greenwood " ^ *** Lv Augusta 5S >? At Allendale V f- 6*. pa.; Ar Fairfax. ? V? P? Ar Ye m? " iE P?1 Ar Bps ofort-. 8 IT: pa Ar Port Royal! ftr H SB pnt Ar 8avar^gfc^MMM^^^^v,':'^- . . Lv Port v T1 '? 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Dimlag oui fi the* twu8 *?rT* *11 meals earout*. r Trains laa Spartanburg, A. A 0. division. i?rthboundX'08 a. m., 8:87 p. p. 0 Vtttibuls LirtUed); ^uthbouad It S a. la., :15p. re.. 11 -iia^M (VestAolaUritaL) . Trains feava Qre?^?. ?* 0-d^Mon, ( orthbound, 0 'M a. m.t ? '"f. P;?* *p4 ?J? ^ Veatiboled Limits) ml, SSBSs&qg tn bctwaca Qb**l*?t?n *- y BANK 8. ?A*NOy, \ JThirdV-p.#??*.Jir.. Vw-A23g?vv, f.A.TUBK, JPI NOTICE OF REGISTRATIONSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS- ^ TRATION, ABBEVILLE COUNrY. Abbeville, S. C., March 6,1899. Notice is hereby given that in accordance with an Act of the General Assembly, and in conformity with the requirements of the State Constitution, the books for the registration of all legally qualified voters, and for the v issuing of transfers, ect., will be open at the office of Supervisors of Registration in tbe Court House, between the hour 9 o'clock a. m., and 3 o'clock p. m., on the first Monday of each month, until thirty days before the next general election. The Board of Registration is tbe judge of the qualifications of all applicants for registration every male citizen of this State and of the United State, twenty-one years of age, who is not an idiot is not insane, is not a pauper supported at the public expense, and is not confined in any public prison, and who has not been coni i ?1~-~ -Li.i-t VICICU III .UUIglUI^, BIBULI, UUlUILllUg goods or money under false pretenses perjury, fernery, robbery, bribery, adultery wife beatinv, housebreaking, receiving stoien'goods, breach of trust with fraudulent intent, fornication, sodomy, incest, assault with intent to ravish, miscegenation, larceny, or crimes against the election laws, and who shall have been a resident in this State two years (except ministers in charge of organized churches and teachers of public schools, and these atter six months residence in the State,) a resident in the County for six months, and in polling precincy four months, and who can read any Section in the Constitution of 1895, or can understand and explain any sectiou of said Constitution when read to him by the registration officer or officers shall be entitled to registration and become an elector upon application for such registration. If any person has been; Convicted of any of the crimes Abbve-meotioned, a pardon of the Governor removes the disqualification. Id caie any minor wbo will become iW0nty-one Vears of age after the closing.of thq Books of ^Registration and rbiuore the election, ana is otherwise dtitilfled to register, makes application under oath showing be is qualified to register, the Boards shall register jBtich applicant before the closing of Any person whose qualifications as an elector will be completed after the dosing of the Registration Books but before fh* next election shall have the right to apply for and secure a regis-' tratlon certificate at any time within Sixty; days Jmmediateiy preceding tS^closing cf'the Registration Books, $pon an application under oath to the nets entitling him to soch registration. The registration of voters must be tw polling precincts. There must be a .Book of Registration for each polling precinct, that is for eacu township, or parish, or city, or town of less than five thousand inhabitants, or ward of bltiee of mqre than five thouuuid Iggftabitants. Each elector must vbte rW.'the polling precinct in which he ttealldes- If there is more than one mtlng place in tbe polling precinct, Igra eleotor may vote at any voting mjaoe designated on the registration poertiflcate. The Boards must designate Hit'the registration certificate tbe votijW^pIace in the polling precinct at tiwnfch tbe elector is to vote. If there pite morq than one voting place in the ^polling precincts, the Boards shall [designate on the certificate the voting mace selected by the elector. Efi. J- D. CAR WILE, t S. S. BOLES, A. LANIER. i wAreioAra nf Pocr{at raHnn j ' l Amount to be ttt?of ' boned by dtauteta ' ***? Mb? yeaT HMrtt...,..HM....W? 304 95 DlSiotSo!!? j# District No. 88 ....... - 167 50 ' Dlstrlet No. 87 446 78 District No. 88 - ?76 16 District No. 89- U76 20 District No. 40 - - 277 20 District No. 41........ District No. 42..? .... District No 48 .. 416 68 District No. 44 188 12 District No. 45 .... 215 15 ? 818,879 78 I'Tbe public will observe that the apportionment Is very much smaller in Rome school aisUlots for the present year than for tbe past. This Is due to several causes, to wit: some School Districts overdrew their apportionment lor the previous vear. and tbe over inn was deducted from "the present apposUonmeut. Id some districts fewer pupilSave been reported, tbe total number of chllIren, however, bus been Increased wblcb de jreased tbe per capita rate. Tbe main cause of a decrease in fund is the bot that the apportionment for last year through an oversight) was more than the 'Onds actually on band. Apportionments are Mued not on a certainty, but necessarily on in approximation. Respectfully, X 8. GIBERT, Co. Supt. of Education. WOOD! ' **. -.v. f r *- HE ABBEVILLE COTTON MILL WILL on tract for a Quantity of Split Four-Foot Pine Wood, ' early application Is made at tbe offlc? lake your contracts at once. If you delay ou may not be able to sell your wood. Apply to J, S. HARRIS, Jan. 3,1900. tf MILL OFFICE. Cm *M