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The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, 8.O. fyPubllRhed every Wednesday at V2 a year) advance. Wednesday, April 25,1900. I Reception. Miss Lucia Parker and other Daughters of the C'onfedertcy tendered an elegant reception to the Greenwood Dramatic Club last Thursday night after their beautiful performance lu the C )urt house. Quite a numbpr of our clt'/ens were present ai the home ot Hon. \V. H. Parker, and were happy to meet the pretty actors and the courtly geutlemen who bad doDe their parts so nicely in the court house. The Indies from Greenwood, by their gentle manners and sweet attractive graces carried captive all who met them, or saw their performance. The gentlemen of the club were greatly admired by the gentlemen of Abbeville, while our ladles are not telling how good au Impression they made on them. Our people were simply delighted with their guests, and remember them most pleasantly. Church Wedding:. Miss .Tanie Q,uarles and Mr. K. L. Dart; an are to he married In the Presbyterian church tonight at nine o'clock. Miss t^naneR is one of our prettiest arid most popular young ladle*, and Mr. Dar^ao to one of tbc most excellent salesman on tbe road. These happy young people have beeu lover* for two years or more, and their marriage was postponed on account of Mr. Dartran's absence in Cuba as l ieutenantiu the Second South Carolina Re^ment. Many friends extend good wishes. Cenonit Kmimemlor. We learn tbat Mr. B. J. Martin of Donalds has been appointed census enumerator for tbe thirteen lb division of tbe third districtDue West. Mr. Martin is a prospective candidate for Sheriff. In the war he was every Inch a soldier, and In peace he Is one of our best citizens. Attention, Daughters ?r the Confederacy. , Tbe regular monthly meeting of the Daagbteia of the Confederacy will be held Monday afternoon at six o'clock, at Mrs. F. E. Harrison's. Business of Importance will be dlscuMed and a full attendance is recreated, Lucla Parker, President. v Old Papers Wanted. If you have ooples of tbe Abbeville Banner for 1847,1848,1949.1850,1851,1852,1858. tbe PreM and Banner will pay a good prioe for thera In money, or will 6end tbe Press and Banner as long as you may think right. In exchange for tbem. You can get eltber. tbe cash or subscription to tbe Press and Banner. Of course no one baa a complete flle for all tbe year*. Let us bave wbal you have. tf. Take Care of Yonrself. Don't take off yonr winter olothlog too soon. This season of changeable temperature may cause pneumonia. The Scotch proverb runs something like this: c "Cast not a clout Till May be oat." ' t Masquerade on Skates. Masquerade on skates at.Barksdale Hall Friday night, April 27th. . Ten cents admission fee for all. Lots of fan and a good time generally. Ice! Ice! When you want Ice get our prices. They will be right. _Paftles> having refrigerators and ice boxes woo ace we coia sum in quantities will flod It to their advantage to gel oar prices. Quick delivery. Phone 99. ; Thomson Bros. Milk Cow for Sale. Nearly full Jersey, first oalf. Will sell for sash or trade. Thomson Bros. Something Hew. I have Just received an elegant line of wall paper samples, from tbe celebrated Alfred Peats Co. Orders will bave prompt attention at Penney's Drug Store. . W. C. Moore, Agt. Look Here. Mr. Till offers an attractive display of beautltul goods, and you should call and see them. In variety, style and price, tbey are np to date. Call at tbe New York Kacket Store. For Nelllnic Liquor. John Williams was arrested yesterday afternoon charged with selling liquor. Tbe case will be beard ibis morning. ! New Telephone. Judge E. B. Gary has bad a phone put in at hnme. Enter his name on your card, and talk to blra and bis folk when occasion requires. Doo't forget bis number, 7. For Rent. An elgbt raum dwelling bouse on Pickens street. w W. Joel Smith. tf The ladles of the Presbyterian cburcb will give the little operetta "Clnderilla Among tbe Flowers," on next Tuesday night, the flrstof May. This little operetta Is entirely of children. Come all and enjoy a scene In fairy land. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Devlin, of Due West, were In town Monday, and Mrs. Devlin took a look through the stock of splendid goods that are Intended to beautify and adorn tbe human form. Dr. and Mrs. Henderson, of Los Angeles, California, are In town on a visit to their kinsman, Mr. J. Hayne McDlll. Mr. U. c. Dusenbury has a cow with a young calf tor sale. See W. D. Barksdale. Brnce'a Restaurant. tio u> Brace's Restaurant for meals at all boura. Bruce's Restaurant Is open for the Fall and Winter trade. Bruce's Restaurant Is open day and nlgbt knock and ibe door shall be opened unto you , - * 3 Euster Thoughts. ' . < It seems clear that a pure splrfc Will arise from the seed of a pore body, and a loving spirit from the seed ^f a loving body. If the body we Borrowfully put aside bas been one fall of cbarity, helpful, kindly, and eager to speak tender, pitying words?one that bas thought no evil, and bas believed all things, and hoped all things, and endured all things?can auy one doubt what should icome of such a seed planting? fhenatural comet? first, aua after that the spiritual. But "as is the natural, so is the spirit^ n&L" It is far more ttlortous, but, after all?the same. * "y; So we may bring Easter, with its wonderful, deep meaning, into the life of every day. How*? By teaching ourselves to comprehend tbe'truth that while we live this human life ' and develop this natural body, it is uot alone tbe natural body we are creating, but the seed of the spiritual body which istooome after. This is not a mystical doctrine. All those who in this life have attained some knowledge of their iwlritual natures will testify to iUr truth. The change from a natural tti A^Jpmtual living is like lb* growing of a plant whose seed" we have bo we. The right plant surely grows In a man who has sown the right 'seed. V As tbe spiritual nature t>f such a man begins to develop, the purer, higher elements in him grow stronger, and one by one the baser sort die. HAitAmMa t%v\A nnnai* flow uwb, auu icvcugc) auu uu^vt, Cruelty dies, and alt un kindness. Narrowness of miDd dies, and contempt for the frailties of others. The part that lives and grows stronger is love. Purity and truth and courage are but parts of love, an d as it grows greater by and by comes thesureness of knowledge, and faith itself is swallowed up in fruition. This is the daily burial of the old mau, who was "earthly" and the daily rising of the new, who is the "Bt>rd from heaven." To such a heart Easter comes every day. A sample line of Felt batB. Can give yon in this lot a hat for $2, a 82 hat for S1.50, a 81.50 tiat for $1, etc. Cobb & McDavld. iJuy your ice ticket** from J. L. i'errin. HAD! ^4gScioves New pair GRATIS 9 if the finger* ends wear out first ' v> Price, 50c., 75c. and $1.00. R. M. Hatldon & Co. Sole Agents lor above. V-;:;. x ?MOUNT OABMEL. Notes, Incidents, Personal Mention and Other Thin ten. . Mt. Carmel, S. C., April 24, 1900. Sabbath vai a lovely day. Rev. Henry Blokes of the Methodist church preached an able sermon on the resurrection Sunday. J. W. Morrah hat-bought out the lively business of Paschal 4 Covin, and will run It In connection with Ills hoteL J. W. Morrah, Perrln Wells and T. C. McNeil worshiped with the McCormlck Methodlsu Sunday. ..V , ' Mr. W. B. wise is spending a few days with his home folks In Prosperity thlR week. J. K. Tarrant,<T. W. Mars, W. 0. Mars and Robert Marsare'aLtendtns: oourt at Lincolnton. Ga., thlswsekvvi; f Miss Mary Pressly, an accomplished voudk lady of Due West, ik stopping at the Morrah House, the guest of her brother, J. G. Pressly. Henry Taggart Is' la the city today. The heaviest rainfall for many years fell at this place last Friday. Considerable damage was done to forming lands. Mrs. W. L. Miller and Mrs. J. J. McKelly will leave tomorrow for Varnsvllle, Hampton County, to attwd the marriage of J. Eaten Miller to Miss Susie Peoples of that place. Mr. E. A. Mars and Miss Carrie Mars bave returned from an extended trip visiting irieuuts iu xxturuus ^uuuty. Mt. Carmel will send a large delegation to Augusta this week to take In Merry Maker* Carnival. The Abbeville County convicts, In charge of Capt. Johnson and his able assistant, Foster MoLaln, are doing Bome fine work on the road leading from this place to Troy. Mr. J. O. Soott, who had a severe attack of pneumonia sometime ago, has regained his usual health, Mr. Scott Is one of the best farmers In the county. Mr. T. G. fia/ker has oleaned off the Mercler lot, and at an early day will build two commodious brick stores on It. Mr. Baker Is one the self-made men of the county. Mr. J. W. Maynard has a fine field of wheat on the Rogers' plaoe. G. F. Blaokwell, we understand, will take the oeostu of thja township. Magistrate jTjL McAllister went to Abbeville today. Hew one of the progressive m en of ttieday,?OTkjttmagOod thing when W*C. Tennent and-Edward Morehead, of LoWttdeavllle, were in the city last week. Joseph McCanty. familiarly known as Hones I Joe, is planting a large crop of cotton inuyear. Joseph White, of ^artw?ULGa., la in town representing theHartfo^ Lite Insurance (Jo. w^nt^hMlUi and ajg^0- Mr- MoraniTwtoM'ininfttSile? every 7 A.r0. Grant and S&Jtwo ot onr farmers w b o are growJng-rjcfr^^harfl work and Old l'eople /co [Bf^k,,?,t,elr j iowu, upending ft^ewda|a ^trJepd Hendereori'g father D. D.. who moved m a ay. y eaTa ag(M^BIB6CR& Carolina to Illinois^ anq aflerwaflflWBCfltPQu Dmoi/iont hi iha Mnnmonth TLriUBHtv. u mild spell of wt- it her jrjfltt tor wJnter the heDS cease and wheat makeex^llent^?l8^during col# weather; but a variety of the foods bust be giveh In order to have the hens produce egR?,< The most unreasonable thing we can undertake to do is to avenge ourselves. . V-d'' ' "It was pride that changed angels into devils ; it is humility that makes men as angels." Avoid a slanderer as you would a scorpion ;'both sting for the mere pleasure of doing it. i Those who bore false witness against Christ had as much to do with causing His death as those who crucified Him. & 1 OON'S Contracte Will be appreciated n advantage of our extr As the davs set now offer 250 dozen La< i Over 2( Our Store is filled JBilfitai CANDIDATES. For Supervisor. We are authorized to anDOuace DAVID GILLIAM as a candidate for County Supervisor, subject to the action of tbe Democratic primary. We are authorized to announce CAPT. JOHN LYON as a candidate for re-eleotlon to the office of County Supervisor, subject to the^icMon of the Democratic primary. For Auditor. We are authorized to announce R. E. COX as a candidate for Auditor, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. We are authorized to annonnce T. P. MILLFORD as a candidate for the office of County Auditor, subject to tbe action of tbe Democratic primary. For Clerk of Court. I respectfully announce myself a candidate for Clerk of Court, Bubjeot to the action of Democratic primary. J. L. PERRIN. _ . ?.>. For saerin. We are authorized to announce WM, L MILLER, Br., as a candidate for Sheriff, subject to tlie action of tbq Item ocratlo primary. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Sheriff, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. J. R. KENNEDY. NOTICE OF REGISTRATIONSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGISTRATION, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. % Abbeville, S. C.f 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 ' " -> a - ? J f i.1- - | all legally quauneu voters, uuu lur iue issuing of transfers, ect., will be open at the office of Supervisors of Registration in the Court House, between the hour 9 o'clock a. in., and 3 o'clock p. m., on the first Monday of each month, and kept open for three successive days In each month until thirty days before the next general election. The Board of Registration is the 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 i; an idiot is not insane, is not a tper supported at the public exise, and is not confined in any pubprison, and who has not been conted of burglary, arson, obtaining ci^br money under false pretenses wry, fcrgery, robbery, bribery, iltery wife beating, housebreaking, riving stolen goods, breach of trust h fraudulent intent, fornication, omy, incest, assault with intent to lavish, , miscegenation, larceny, or ^rimeB'agalopt the^election laws, and ing of of Itegistrifittott and befow ^-elebtfon, and. te ^Bierwiee $W$h4pr^ra'Showing he 'is qualified to register, the Boards shall register such applicant before the closing of STApy person Vtyppe qualifications as iiu elector will he'.completed after the cfctttng of the ftagtetration Books but before the next election shall have the right to apply for and secure a registration certificate at any time within ?Lxty days immediately preceding t& closing Of the Registration Books, jfcpori an application under oath to the facts entitling him to shch registraThe registration of voters must be by polling precincts. There must be a Book of .Registration for each polling preoltict, that is for eacn township, or parish,'or city, or town of less than five thousand inhabitants, or ward of cities of more than five thousand inhabitants. Each elector must'vote in the polling precinct in which he resides. If there is more than one votinff.plaoe in the polling preoinct, the elector may vote at any voting plaoe designated on the registration certificate. The Boards most designate in the registration certificate the voting place in the polling precinot at whioh the elector is to vote. If there is more than one voting place in the polling precincts, the Boards shall designate on the certificate the voting place selected by the elector., 8. S. BOLES, W. A. LANIER. V . ' G. H. MOORE. Board of Supervisors of Registration Coca Cola?Pepper'B French Wine of Cocoa ?rullk shakes, the very finest phosphates, orangeades, at Mllford's Dra* Store. I Phone 107. 4 s?* A k i r immense ^>iuu d for Before lore and more as the s< a values?others may. warmer you will need # [lies Gauze Vest, at 4c, 5 c, 8c and Over 100 P Lai 1 9 ... s * v.,: 30 dozen Valeneines L; with the Latest Prodi hm A BREVET BACHELOR. Tnere are more,things in tiie service than brass buttons afad dashing Calvary-men, and dying at the poet of duty, and the rest of the a took phrases of romance. There are a few fixed principles and some prejudices which it is just as well not to run up against, because the service can, take revenge upon occasion?. Ordinarily a moderate amount of tact and common decency will take you through until you have learned those things which are set down in neither the drill-manual nor the regulations. But Miss Hadley had only beauty and pure cheek. She came from somewhere down the southern way?Los Angeles, or San Diego, or something, visit the Strongs at Angel isla'Qavv. And from the moment she setToat upon the landing she began to make herself unpopular. She had had visions of stepping ashore among a group of kneeling lieutenants, rather than after the fashion of the accredited paintings of the "LaudingofColombus" or the "Jesuit Fathers.'' But the lieutenants were busy, or they were taking naps, or sitting on their front porches, with their feet on the railings. They crossed the bay to the city daily, and graced every cotillion and function worth speaking of, and beautiful girls were not new. They had never even heard that Miss Hadley was beautiful. They were in deep darkness concerning the local belles of?wherever it was, down South. However, several of them met her at dinner that night, and the rest called afterwards, as is the custom. Miss Hadley did not know it was the custom. She thought it was all on her own account,' and. that the: post was beginning to come to its senses,' which made her yet more arrogant.'* Some dispositions thrive upon being maae much of, returning courtsey with good coin; the latent meanness of others warms to life as the snake on the woodchopper's hearth. As if there were not enough unattached men to ( occupy her, she turned her attention pointedly to La Boche, and when she saw his wife wince she redoubled her ( energies. La Roche was Frenoh, and flirtatious, and clever. And, whatever else was to be said of Miss Hadley, she was clever, too, iu a worldly sort of way. But Mrs. La Roche was stupid, and blushingly aware of her stupidity. Still, she was a good-hearted little thing, and had done a kind turn to everyone in thegarrlson atone time or another,' and it reseted seeing her made jealously wretched, her pale eyes tilling and her lipn quivering, as the beauty drew La Roche to a remote corner and leveled her batteries upon him. Everybody was scandalized? and the feelings of tbe bachelors were - A. Tl I L _ HiAl. 1 nun. 11 was just u unit! mu tuouicuu Bo they sought a punishment to fit the crime, and this was what they devised : There was one man who had not called that first night. It was Proctor, the adjutant. He had been over in the city at a dinner. When he came back by the first boat in the morning, a deputation met him at the warf ana carried him off to bis quarters and told him what was expected of him. "I'm not sure that I like the part, though, you know," said Proctor, when they had explained. They impressed upon him that the dignity of the service demanded it?also that it would be very good for the girl. Proctor said it would fall through at once. "We only want it to last a day or two," said the deputation. On that undertaking he consented. "But I won't lie. you know," be told them. "You'll have to do any of that." "It won't be necessary," they assured him. "If she asks?whioh is unlikely?we will say with one accord | that you are a brevet bachelor." You will not find the definition of that in the tactica. So Proctor went over to the Strongs' quarters and found Miss Hadley, gotten up in the sort of a morning robe that it is not customary to display to the gaze of several hundred soldiers, more or less, in a corner of the porch with La Eocbe. Proctor ousted him in about ten minutes. He fought openly dwelling upon the charms of La Roche's four small children, the details of the cunning things they said, and of the last attack of croup of the youngest, how its "Da-da" had nursed it and bow the babies loved him. Miss Hadley laughed. That hurt La Roche's self-esteem, and he went home. Then Proctor started in to do as he was bid. It was a pleaaant game enough. Miss* Hadley oouldt* agreeable when she chose. She was the obemaa?at-a?time stamp of girl, and for theooce Proctor was the man. He stayed all the morning, also to luncheon, also all the afternoon. JPart of the time they played together on the mandolin and guitar, ana for the rest they talked. Then he stayed . to dinner, and until some time after taps. When offlcal duties called him off he was back again surprisingly souu. Of oourse there was the chance in thia hind of thing that Miss Hadley might grow siok of him. But be took it. There was the better chance that she would be very much flattered, and Proctor believed that he wa9 the sort . P? * jajrr k. kof High C the Advance eason advances. Sco] lighter Clothing. To 110c Each. ?? ieces White Goods, en test Weaves of the Se ace. Over 20 icts of the Season- N HAI THIS IS And We m H ' . . i . - /' J; ? ? / ' MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. B MATTING.. WINDOW SHADES. B MALTING. WINDOW SHADES. B. MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. B, MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. B, MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. B MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. B. MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. B. MATTING. WINDOW SHXDES^ ; t B. MAT1TNG. . WINDOW SHADES. Bi MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. B. MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. B. GIVE US -;lSi Met > rM" ? 1 ",j of fellow who could be interesting for, 18 hours at a stretch. "It's not fair," Mrs. Strong protested to her husband. "You'd have thought it so if it had been me instead of La Boche," he suggested. "But it's not fair to Ella," she insisted, weakly. "Ella will think it's a good Joke, which it is. He has written her the whole thing. He told me so." "But in it right of us ? Miss Hadley is our guest." "Ob, no, she's not: that's a mistake. We are here on sufferance. You are useful to order the mealB and I to guard her against intruders on their tete-a-tetes." He reminded her of ontnnrioa In nronf of this. ' "Has she asked you about him ?", Mrs. Strong wanted to know. He said that she bad. "And I told ber tbat be was a brevet bachelor. Proctor himself came in at the moment and she dropped it. Now you be still for a day or two and let things take their course." And they took it, at a hand-gallop. . . Miss Hadley might have guessed tbat one first lieutenant could never have afforded all the fancy boxes of flowers and candies that came over for ber, in Proctor's name, by about every boat. But she did not stop to reflect, probably ; and she was mightily pleased, both with herself and him. Whereupon she was still more disagreeable to everyone else. But the tiny cloud began to float across her blue sky. The flowers and sweets were many and arrived regularly, and when they wanted Proctor at the adjutants office they sent for him to the Strongs'. And yet, though the week of her visit was drawing to a close, he was no nearer to love-making than upon the first Ac*** UKq n?pnn? o frlfla nnPAQV Tfl uajr, uuo 51VTT ** Mtuv . ? was not that she wanted Proctor, but that she wanted to know sne could have him. So she condescended, in dilemma, to speak to her host. "Mr. Proctor is a desperate flirt, don't you thiDk?" she asked. It was meant to be light, but it was a shade anxious. That would have been Strong' chance to have put^n end to a joke that was going too far. It had gotten away from them, and the man to stop it refused to arise. Strong funked. He looked mean, and said that he had never known Proctor to flirt. "He is swather in red tape, as a general thing, has notions of duty and the rest of it." Then he went off' and swore at Proctor in his own breast Which is human nature! Proctor for his part swore at everybody else openly. "I'm so far in it now that I don't know how to get out," ne said ; and they grinned acid suggested that he tell the truth and shame the devil, -as. ., _ r "Ana ieei more oi a 1001 mau i uo now." /'Consider?you are avenging us," cooed the bachelors. He said rude things about them. Tbey asked what be would like them to do. "Shall we come in a body the next time you are en tete-a-tete and explain, or shall we do it while you are absent, and can't defend yourself? Anyway you put it you will look a good deal of a cad, you know." They chuckled. Proctor sulked. "Mrs. Strong has got to do it," he announced. "Mre. Strong won't^^U\efeehi about. f irade Her n_! in rrices res of people are takin supply your wants w % ibracing all the ason. __ 0 pieces White Embro ew Goods Arriving Da DON i i' ; */ '' , ? J* V ~e Loaded w .. .For You, inABY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. ABY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. ABY CARRIAGES. .BED ROOM SUITS. A.BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. A.BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. ABY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. 4.BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. ABY CARRIAGE. BED ROOM SUITS. ABY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. &.BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. A.BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. A.BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. A CALL y - ' , t \ ' .. . are Right on v:ii c. i ilII <X I k> ' ' 1 j . i - . as email as you do. She goes around with the look of a stage conspirator Yon might draw off gradually." they advised. "I might make a qualified fiat of myself self 1" said Proctor; "I've done it, as it is." He departed to keep un engagement to walk arouDd the island with Miss Had ley. When they started he made a solemn resolve that before they got to the quarantine station she should know all. But she swung into the poet as blissfully ignorant as she had left it. He had funked again.' . * And at this point Fate came to, his aid. They sat on the steps of the Strong's quarters, resting, when an orderly brought a telegram for him, and a bo* for Miss Hadlev. The box contained violets. Pr&ctor was pleased to think what those little attentions were costing the other baohelors, but he glanced at his own card, lying in the purple fragrance, with loathing. Then he opened the telegram, and put It hastily in his pocket. Miss Hadley asked what it was. He said that it was from some one he had to meet at the train to morrow. "Which train ?" said Miss Hadley. "The train from the east," said Proctor. She told him that she, too, was going to the city on the early boat, for a few hours. "We may strike the same one coming back." He. thought it would be his unmentionable luck. And it oame to pass as Mis* Hadley bad predicted. They struck the same boat. She came aboard hurriedly, just as the gang-plank was being drawn in, and she looked about for Proctor, calmly, possessively, as though he must, of cburue, be there. But he was not to be seen. So she stood and talked to a group of post people, as the boat swung out into the bay, and the foggy wind blew stiffly about them. Sne was not sensitive, yet she was dimly aware that they 'were civil beyond their wont; even there seemed a vague sympathy in their manner. But she was busy and abstracted, watching for Proctor. He might be below deck, or in the cabin. At length ho appeared, from the I ol/la Af fKo r? an It \X7 Q 1 lr 1 n f* TX71 vuuci otuv \JI iuc ucuu) ir i*iuiug vt ?vu another girl. The girl glanced at her with a half-smile.- She was so pretty that Miss Hadley's lips set, and she forgot what she had been saying. Proctor and the girl strolled to the stern and stood there. Then Proctor oaught Miss Hadley'e amazed eye, and be raised his bat. But she beckoned. It was assurance, to say the very least, but he went to her, leaving the other girl. The group would have been glad to melt away, but some way it couldn't. Then Mi*s Hadley's admirable and perfect cool cheek reached its zenith. "Who is your pretty friend ?" she asked. Brummell could not have been more superb. There was a pause. Some oue might have helped Proctor out, but no one did. A snicker came from the group iand turned iuto a cough. Then the i man in Proctor came to his aid, the I i.1 4.U., *. 24. -11 remi''tlllUU lliai lb >vaa p.ti cvciy ukjkaj else's fault any way?*Miss Hadley's, in particular. He looked at her in stern reproach. "She is my wife, Miss Hadley." The very winds und screw were ; hushed. InJii^U&nce Proctor's eyes! \began^^tifn{t7 But Hud ley's jrrtvh were on his face, iii1' t'u?y never ;L chandise flfotUMBIA e ff Shoe / $3M wHq, f\m ' The American JL 2 Woman finds , VJkherea . . . Comfortable, xXfljK Fashionable, \^^^j^Reasonab!e v., , R. M. Uaddon & Co. Sole Agents for above ? \ , < ideries. 1 liy. : 1 fcCSO. I TIME! tth Bargains "* 31 SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIBEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. * SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. 4 t the Square. ^yon. i wavered. Somewhere in their limpid depths there was a twinkle. About theoornera of her mouth there was an unmistakably aroused twich. She raised a bunch of violets to hide it. They were the one9 that had come the day before. Ke moved uneasily aud met the eves peering above the flowers, again. This time they held him. "I won?r''?Mies Hadley's voice came slowly, with a distinctness that must hfrve penetrated even to the stern?"! wonder whether it is" I or . > you?all, who feels the most cheap? Take me to meet your wife, Mr. Proctor." And he took her. C You know how much raw | hides have advanced. Well, Shoes have advanced in proportion, and naturally you will see lots of shoddy s&es this season. If vou buy a , shoe with the Krippendorf, Dittmann Co,'s and the H. C. Goodman's name on it you will be sure to get solid leather goods, no paper or pasteboard in them, and if they go wrong you get a new pair for them?or your money. These two lines of goods are sold only by Smith's Dry Goods and Millinery. The State of South Carolina, , COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. PRO BATH COURT. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. In the Matter of the Estate of A.Bowman Deceased. ALL persons indebted to said estate must - settle without delay, and those holding claims against the estate must present them properly attested to W. L. BOWMAN and J. E. ALLEN. April 3rd, 1900. Executors. Cbrlstlitn CheerfuIuesN. It is the duty of every child of God to be happy. One of the greatest hindrances to the speedy spread of the gospel Is thejoylessness of Christians. Be a happy Christian, singing all the time. Those who are right hearted should be light hearted. Christian cheerfulness will make us rise above, opposition and pressing circumstances. A cheerful disposition will help the. weary worker greatly. If we can bift believe, our Father has permitted our tribulations, we shall be able to sing and praise Him in the midst of trouble. If Paul and Silas could pray, and sing praises to God at midnight, though they were bound m the inner prison, surely we, who walk at liberty, should be cheerful and happy and bless the Lord at all times. Be always exactly what you think other people ouaht to be. Then there will be at least one nearly perfect person in the world. When you want to be cooled oft these lioc summer days drop In at oar fount and get a refreshing drink. We are now serving all ot the latest soda drinks 01 this season. I'hone IU7. Mllt'ord'a Prug store. .... ? V JCmi