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i The Press and Banner. I BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C. I' I :: -W-Pnbllebed every Wednesday at S2 a | year Id advance. [. Wednesday, Sept. 12,1900. Flifbl of Conservative*. Under the name of Prohibition Conservai tlveR have made a bitter fight against Tillman and the dispensary. In that fight they have 1 met a signal defeat. Under the firm name of , Prohibition all the fragments or coteries that were opposed to Tillman assembled together in love and nnlty. Barkeepers, whiskey guzzles, prohibitionists,and Irreconcileable opponents of Tillman made up the rank and file [ of the Conservative party which had been organized under the firm name of Prohibition. The people saw the spectacle of the be1 Uevers in license fighting violently against their own convictions, or principles, and laboring with all possible energy for prohibition ?a thing which they did not want?in the hope no doubt that in the shuttle the existing restrictions on the sale of liquor might be less operatl ve in the future. The oonduct of the campaign has not been high. The testimony of this newspaper i wnnM hu thai we have no recollection of a "V? i campaign in which higher methods were not employed. Low conduct of the campaign has gained nothing but to lower public respect for those who have spoken so violently or unjustly of the men whom they were opposing. To prove this it is only necessary to acknowledge as a fact that 20,000 men in this State would vote against Tillman or anything that be advocated- The whiskey element has never forgiven bim for shutting up a thousand bar-rooms and thus throwing live thousand men <out of employment. Many patrons of these establishments still hold blm in bitter remembrance for closing the places which were delightful for them to visit, day or night Somtf people he has offended by his plain manner of speeoh. The former Bet of office ? holders and their friends may not have forgiven him for ousting the "Old set" and in inaugurating a new order of things. With all things in view, It might bfe set down as afaot that 30,000 oat of 90,000 voters, would cast their ballots against Tillman for cause. At a conservative and fair estimate the real, honest prohibitionist* may possibly number 5,000 la this State. Opening1 of the tletlOOI. The Abbeville High School will be openea next Monday. Scholars will be examlQed tbls week. ^ Parents should tee that their ohlldren get i an even start with all oiher ohlldren. To lose a week at tbe beginning, Is to embarrass a i scholar for tbe remainder of tbe term, and ometlmes tbe disadvantage la very great. \ We have a eood school, and we should make I the most of It. A good school is about tbe A moet Important Institution that we have, m and oar people sbonld sustain tbe teachers in ' their efierts to educate our children. . Any town that has as good a school as we I have Is fortunate, and we are only surprised I that more people do not come to town from remote sections, with a view to educating >' their children. Each year the usefulness of tbe school Is | extending, and tbe popularity of the Super" 1 tooohoro 1 h the lDteoaem SUU uid aooiowur "V"-? ? ? best evidence of tbelr good work lo ibe most Important o 1 all lines 01 endeavor. I Charleston's Vote. Charleston's vote yesterday mast be very |iv gratifying to the people of the State. The gratification comes not so much from the fact that the city voted l*or McSweeney, but a greater and other reason Is to be found In the fact that Charleston may be disposed to allgD Itself with the people of the Slate, Instead ol being?as it has seemed to us In the past?In a combination with Colombia to defeat the people. It now seems tbat Spartanburg and f Greenville are more or less disappointed at Charleston"* independent course. It a com btnution between these cities is effected with a view to overriding the wtu of the people, it would be a source of regret. Charleston can easily enough have the goodwill of ail the people if she so desires and does not go out of her way to show her antagonism to the people. There is no good reason why Charleston okAnl/1 waIq onolncl IMllmon urv OArtn o Oot> ? DUUUiU ? WH. Ugotunb Alltuiou 0\r OVVU OlkVl ^ bis able efforts In behalf of tbe olty. Neither 1r there good reason why Charleston should ^ defy public opinion on the dispensary quesIt Ion. Saggentlon to tbe Oovernor. As tbe Governor has not been at>le to enforce the dispensary in Charleston to tbe k satisfaction of bis enemies we would suggest I that be call on some of tbe Smart Alecks 5 who have been writing for the newsI papers for tbe last two weeks. If be | would make one of tbem Cblef Liquor Constable and appoint for him a sufficient corps from the other writers In the newspapers they might enforce tbe law to their own satisfaction, and to tbe relief of tbe Oovernor. Let him examine tbe papers and select some ol his critics to aid him in the enforcement of me taw. Clean Record. Oovernor MoSweeney'e record as the chlel executive of tbe State has not been assailed, except as to tbe enforcement of tbe dispensary law in a city where grand Juries refused to indict those charged with violations. In tbe campaign he has been fair and square with every opponent. He has sought to injure nobody's good name. He has not by assertion, or insinuation, assailed anybody's good name. And he comes out of tbe campaign with no smell of fire on his bis garments. Having been so thoroughly endorsed by the good people or thlB State, he may be in the field two years hence for other honors. I 0^9 Here's for Charleston. * We notice that there are implied threats oi \ boycot for the Charleston Exposition. As a matter of fact Columbia is a small part of tbe Htate. Wpartanburg and Greenville are only fractional parts of tbe State. Tbe newspapers of these cities are bnt a fraction cl a fraction, and, for this reason, Charleston need have no fears. I THE COTTON MARKET. PlIlKheMt Price In Mnny Yearn la I Beluir Ph1?I Tor tbe Staple. e unprecedented rise in cotton Is attractkorld-wlde attention, and our farmers l^pg tbe deepest interest in tbe prioe oi ^Bduct. One day last week tbe price ^^fcbout one cent, and tbe chanceB are ^^ fcaple will yet command a still ^^ ce. Tbe cotton mills Id many inB^Kave been stopped to await developBand speculation is wlid. Nobody bat tbe outcome will be. Tbe crop Hlly over tbe ootton States is said to be ad tbe effect of tbe terrible storm Id Rs not yet kDown. If tbe crop In tbat Fsbould be materially damaged by wiod rain it is possible tbat still higher figures will be realized for cottoo. But of the price of cotton no one may speak with certainty. Tbe wisest aod bestinformed dealer in tbe product often comes to grief, and sometimes the inexperienced speculator gets rioh. At Abbeville yesterday a considerable quantity of cotton was ortered|for sale. Prices ranged from 10 to 10 1-8 cents. Cottonseed brought 20 oeuts a bushel. iction, Sept. 11,1900. i K OF ]l SUPT. -| |tjuPER" I TTATIVES. EDD'ON VISOR. M MM. I ^ ; u I'm - ^ 5 i | s ^ : oJ 3 , 3 s ! * I * ! 5 !J i * H ei i * ! B : rr. i S & - 1 Democratic; Primary Elc Hous IIeprese: I i' i . i CLUBS. Ji . 2 j j? = 3 St ll ? ? = j !. s 1 4. g ! j! 5 ! a ' B ! jia" I ? 1 j| -? I 3 Abbeville CottonMlll|! tlo 52 40 Level Land j| 49j 34 83 ' Donalds .. 541 GO 72 Lebanon.. 45] 27 38 Abbeville Wo. 1 2?| 185 57 Doe West 54j 88 85 Aotrevllle 66! 93 38 Keowee 31 25 16 Abbeville No. 2 109 212 104 Kock Springs 18 IS 19 Cold Springs 37 28 27 Hampton 31 19 1 Lowndesvllle 117 96 28 Wllllngton I 8# 33 83 Mountain View j 46 14 17 Mt. Cartnel I 44 49 29 McCormlck 70 69 125 Calboun Falls 2o! 22 23 i : Long Cane... ~ j j Cedar Springs j Meant* Chapel ! i [ < Bradley's Mill j , Total j 922jlU64 73fi _ ELECTIO] Charleston Behav< quits Herself ] The Shiftir McSweeney carried i and city of Columbia by ? McSweeney gains Hoyt loses 78. In York McSweeney In Marlboro McSwee Other polls indicate FROM QRE Greenwood, Rogers elected Superir Brooks elected to the I Hoyt in lead, large maj Tillman leads Sloan. Wharton leads by large Gaines for State Senate Cobb and Kinard are c for the House. O /~v111 m V\1 o vwiumuiaj 10 O'clock: McSwee ton goes in. Totals : Mc 15,946; Sloan, 16,993; ' 14,830; Wharton, 21,983, DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. Abbeville < onuly, Kept. 11, 1900. , Gov- ILieut.- R. R. , ernor. ! Gov. Com. .! | | 1 * i 1 ? i OLURS. | I j j g i | ? 1 I1 ?1 s ii s i a =: 50 > a a i j ; S h ? * .* ! . a pi ia. a Hatnptoo ... fj_^| 11 2 81 Lowndesville, No. 1..J 116 801 127j 82 128| 60 Donalds j 101 35i 41 6jlsi ?kk/.niii.r<ni?AnMinl Ml 58! 50i *<j m! rq i auucTiiiovutwiu AT*J??I j ; *' i w Cold Rprln* 32 13 7j 37 Lebanon ....J 63 ** 20 46 21 Abbeville No. 1 j S7 j^i 128 1,1 127 Due West ; 67|_59j_^! 51 17 107 WllllnetOD I 87_24|_^! 32 14; 47 ; Antrevllle ! 60 57j 25 3lj 85 Keowee j 80_^_^> 12 TTTj 51 Mountain View 42 9 45; 6 ; Abbeville No. 2 195 142^ 109j 181 Mt. CwpeL. 66 17 ?8l 17 13| 70 Rock Springs 30 21 12 j 81 C&JboanPftlta 31 22j?|~80 27 ' 24 Long Cane I ?j j I Lowndesvllle, No. 2.J ?? ' -J Bradley's Mills j I I , Mean's Chapel j j j j i Level Land j I : , Cedar Springs ! [ I j ! ] ~g~H-; ! McCorralck j 65 89 esj ]2j 14:? 1 Total 1102' 698'1060' 7481 547i 1194 1 1 R. M. Haddoa ?t Co Have opened a branch store at Due West. S. C., where they will show one of the roost attractive lines of Millinery, Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets and TrlmmlngH. in all the latest and up-to-date styles. We extend a , cordial invitation to all of our friends to call > aDd examine our dally arrivals in the above . line. Respectfully, R. M. Haddon & Co. 1 1 l A nice line of purses and pocket books at Jhil're's Hook store. I . .. . >*- - *"* I **! ^ i ^ !i ^ ^ ' 74| 49 551 1S| 96| 76| 37 25 30 12 ; 48 12 14j 47 GO 50 91 j 9G 35 17j 116 40; 22 32 j 13 55 32 35 , 88j 47 ~150 j 8ft 8? 111 56 ~87 79 ~~48 112 11 2?! <15 , 63j 36 ~~53 77 88 63 M2 I 44 j 45 12 28 80 6 48 185 94~219 117 169 154 1.11 ; 48 30 28 7 48 8 ! 48 i S 24 12 38 ?fl 14; 30 i n,l a/ ' /o n * a. oLqi I SI M '9 in V 180 98~80 76 "ll6 120i 71 89 13 26 86 84 4oi 20 j 33 31 12 15 36 15 | 47 17 56 184 48 i 50 82 I 12 118j 58 92 j 81 70 43 15| 33 j 31 22 j 87 1? ? ? 103oj m 1009 893 930 j 871 j 1160 ST NEWS. ZS Well and AcHandsomely. I lg Figures/ Charleston over 2,400 482. 123 in Chester while gains 418, Hoyt 119. jney. gains 379, Hoyt 60. Wharton's election. iENWOOD. S. C., Sept. ii, 1900. Ltendent of Education, legislature. ; ; majority. >r ten votes ahead. lose together in the race S. C., Sept. ii, 1900. ney in a walk. WharSweeney, 21,006; Hoyt, rillman, 19,993; Evans, 1 TROY'S CONTRIBUTION. ' Personal Paragraphs and Other Matters of Interest. Troy, 8. C., Sept. 10,1900. Mrs. Sam Eakln and daughter, MIbh Virginia, from Abbeville, are down to see the formers sister, Mrs. J. W. Lyon. Mrs. ?. J. Taggart is visiting in tbe Clear Springs vicinity, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac 'Keller, from near Abbeville, spent last week with relatives near here. Mr. J. L. Taggart and ulster. Mlas Minnie, w ith Miss Fannie Jay, from Greenwood, at tended communion services hi tiopewen church yesterday. Mrs, J.F. Singleton, left for her home In Pendleton Saturday, taking her niece, ilttle Knthle Harris, with her. Miss Myrtis Smart has gone to Cbicaga to keep house for her brothers, Messrs Rupert, Mabyn and Gerald, who have good positions there. Prof. W. R. Bradley and brothers. Messrs. Jim and Frank, leave this week to take up work In the Abbeville Graded 6obool. After two weeks pleasantly spent among many relatives, Mrs. Margaret Kennedy ana her two lovely daughters. Miss Nell and Miss Alma, have gone to their home In Due West. The union meeting will convene here on Saturday and Sunday, the 29th and 80th of this month In the Baptist church. Miss Janle Dendy Is off to attend Greenville Female College. Mrs. J. S. Harris and her molher, Mrs. H. C. Smart will visit relatives at Pendleton this wpek. Mr. A. J. Davis took a meery crowd of picnickers to Little Mountain Wednesday. Rev. W. W. Jones is carryicg on a series of meetings at Wldeman's school house this week. His churches haveglven him a month's vacation which will give him a needed rest. Just a peep at Rev. T. W. Sloan as he passed through Monday was a real pleasure. One of his good sermons would a be delightful feast. But we must not covert We are glad to see Mr. J. N. Dendy out after having suffered for a tnoath with a felon in bis hand. Cant. John Lvon was down from Abbeville lost week The little Infant of Mr. and Mrs Tom McFerrln wa6 burled here In the cemetery yesterday. Mrs. Willie Hackett, of A"gii?ta, will visit i bcr parents, Mr. and Mrs. .J. N. Dendy this week. Cotton sold for 9% cents thlH morning, with prospects for a steaay rise. Seed are 24 cents per bushel. The ordlnanoe of baptism will be administered in the Baptist church on the 4th SabQath afternoon. Mr. S.li. McGhee, our candidate for Sen- | ator is dere. I Mrs. B. B. Harvley and daughter. Miss Agele, of Aiken, spent a few days In town with Mrs. A. J. Davis last week. Nick. i ^ I A. M. Hill & Sons will receive a car load of * Iheoelebrated Studebaker wagons thia week. C rtay are the leading wagon or tbn world. WSy will be all sizes to suit the farmers. ^jCfcllatDuPre'sBeok store and examine his t 4ock whether you buy or not. 8 *jtf you want to save money, buy your sclio (applies at. DuPre's Book Sloro i I BENEATH THE SOD. t saw the mortal laid beneath the sod, , With carven crosa above her breast. I [ knew the immortal spirit was with God? A bright, pure soul had (rained eternal re?t. first of a band of friends to pass away, Her busy, useful life on earth is done. Ended forever is our toilsome day, ( . For her the promised rest has now begun. [ stood and heard the solemn accents fall, "I am the resurrection and tho life." Sod, whose great mercy watches over all, Had t'en mv friend from out our earthly strife. SVe loft her lying in her peaceful bed Until the dawning of that last great day, I Trusting in one who long ago hath said I That he will wipe all bitter tears away. i ?Florence Peacock in Academy. POWER OF ORATORY. Qood Voice and a Fine Presence Count For Much. It is a fine thing that words have power to burn and that in the flame of eloquence a deal of trumpery and stuffy notions are readily consumed. It has been said that genuino oratory is gone, but now and then the spirit of the mightiest power that moves masses of men shows its everlasting vitality in a notable way. With sincere personal conviction to support him a man with a good voico and that gift of adding phrase unto phrase which is indefinable may enchain a great convention, hold thousands of men pliant to his thought and feelings, or he may charm and cheer his hundreds in a banqueting hali. The secret of genuine oratory, of the sort that moves and stirs all hearers to responsive emotion, is always to be found at the center of a storm of honest feeling on the part of the orator. It is concealed in the hidden places pf the interior life and is the more effective when its restraint is shown even in the whirl of impassioned words or noble marshaling of phrase after phrase. Private views ana narrow contentions, personal wishes, never have a chance for exposition in oratory that moves men and women. It must express large principles largely, or its influence never remains, nor has the fame of any orator endured except of those who spoke for the largest conviotlon and desire of the mind of man. The earliest movemeDt which f^eed Boston from England, althongh Lard North used to assure his countrymen that "no other province will in the lew jjjrontCTance the rebellious Bostonians,!?tej|jiU^ by the orators of Boston. the massacre, delivered in i church, on the site of , at the Old South church, immense crowds of peopleL'V?^j|WH|p^ well said that these patriotic orations are j a protective shield to '' There are few men of cbnrtq&MjKje among i us who did not commence tli6b^|fia$?0 an oration on the 6th of John Quincy Adams. when, by aid of descendants of qp39jfe?te| lious Bostonians," tjbe stars. nffinflaflM have waved in peace at Alderahot, is lending its time honored aid ta rae'ptro-j motion of arbitratlon-be^e^tfo Strike the barpBlrings of glory. '1 Let the tongue"of the eloquent .V\;: Hallow tl? story. ; :y' 1 ?Boston Tnwtexipft; % JD UUU tUlU VUlUllQMUt That certain kinds of food affect a man mentally, morally and .physically is well' known. It Is by no means Impossible that porridge has Contributed largely to the characteristics of the Scotch;-that it makes their men brave, brawny and shrewd, and their , women blithsome and bonny, and their whole nation pious. A professor of physiology insists that the inferiority of the Celts is due to their universal use of the potato as the chief staple of diet. He Bay* that no man can live on potatoes and amount to anything. An exclusive diet of potatoes has no doubt contributed largely to many of the characteristics of the Irish. Beef and beer through many generations have no doubt had their influence on the Englishman They have made him stub-' born, opinionated, self assertive and a good fighter. His intellect, like his beer, is both strong and heavy, and not infrequently -with bitterness. Tne jfrencn, witn their notable variegated diet, are equally whimsical In their minds. This is also the case with the Americans, who have perhaps the most versatile minds as well as the most abundant bill of fare of any nation. Wa will not go so far as to define which is the causo and which is the effect, but we insist that the diet of, the average Londoner is far from being the best for his physical and mental health.?London Hotel. Whence the Acorn? The male flowers of the oak are gathered in distant dusters round a long, swaying stalk. They approach much nedrer to the conventional idea of a flower Individually. Instead of being a mere aggregation of anthers, or pollen cells, oh simple scales, those of the oak are possessed of distinct starlike, hairy calioes, each marked off into six or seven lobes and containing ten slender stamens, with two celled anthers. Then the female flowers, which are usually t~nrn r\r tKmii nojir PArh OtlhflT. hilt not connected, consist each of an ovary, with three short curved styles, and invested by a calyx that adheres closely to it and becomes tho husk, or shell, of the acorn. The whole, except the Btyles, is held in a cup formed of many small overlapping scales, which afterward lose their individuality and shrink into mere roughness on tho outside of the cup that holds tho acorn, for only one of the nix ovules contained in the ovary develops into an acorn (seed or oorn of the ac, or oak).?Good Words. Oddly Shaped Spiders. The most peculiar spiders in the world, aa well as the largest ones, inhabit the island of Sumatra. They are of all conceivable forms and colors, and some of them spin threads almost as large and strong as tho grocer's twine. Some qucerly shaped spiders have square bodies poised on long red legs, and others have crooked green and yellow legs which support heart shaped bodies. One of the very oddest of the lot has a body that looks liko that of a young 4-Ua KnltnllM l.avinr* tnnKa bUXUlD) bUP OUCH ajmtauq ivuuu and pear shaped projections all over It? St Louis Republic. Cariosity Aroaicd. "Papa, what makes this cheese amell o?" "The process by which it was cured, I prosuma " (After some moments of profound cogitation.) "Papa, what would it smell like if It hadn't been cured!"'?Chicago Tribune. The "era of tho martyrs," a famouB era In use in the early church, commemorates ; the tenth and last great persecution by Diocletian, beginning Feb. 28, 284 A. D. j The dollar goldpieco was authorized by 1 not nf nnnrmua March 3. 1849. and its coin- ' \go was begun in the same year. -.A Tbia world iH too small to afford a place of safety to the man who disobeys God. a 1 This life will mean more when we ! ealize that it is the pathway to the , lext. ^ i If you wish to become a scholar, s icquire a little new knowledge every j lay. The more faith men have in God, 4 he more faith they will have in one mother. lie just before you are generous. |t A RETIRED BURGLAR. ' HE TELLS OF A CURIOUS INCIDENT IN HIS CAREER. A. Kffffht'a Work That Involved a Disagreeable Surprise, a Cool Headed Man anil a Safe That Had to pe Opened Before Mornlnjf. "In the course of my time, "said the retired burglar, "I have opened a considerable number of iron boxes of one sort and another, but never one under more peculiar circumstances than this one, in a house in a small town in this state. This gaff, stood in the dining room against the wall on one 6ide. My light fell on it when I opened the door of the room to look in. It was a big, old fashioned safe, more likely here to contain documents and mortgages and one thing and another like that than money. But a safe is always a pleasant thing to look at. It makes you think of money anyway. And 60 I was glad to 6ee this safe, and, of course, I hoped I'd 1 find a lot of stuff in it too. Then I started to swing my lamp around to take a glance at the rest of the room before walking in, but I hadn't more'n begun to move it before I brought into the light a pair of shoes with the heels on the floor and the soles up at an angle of about 45 degrees, toes toward the safe. There were feet in those shoes, of course, and the legs went up from the other side at an angle of 45 degrees to what I didn't need to look to see was a man sitting there in a chair in front of the safe asleep. "Well, now, you know, that was unex-, pec ted, and while a man In my business must expect unexpected things ai\d be , ready for 'cm and not be surprised or startled this was really so very unusual that I will admit I was just a little bit startled by it, and my hand must have shaken a J -Hi- ? JUblilt?, OUU TTUUO iLUUCil 1UUJU vuvuiUListances that wouldn't have made the slightest difference ir the world here it made all the difference, for the hand that shook was the one holding the lamp, which was at that moment close to the jamb of the door. I ' nocked the lamp against it?just a little bit of a tick, but enough to wake up the sleeper. I could see his feet draw up toward the chair. "Then I wanted to get out myself, and .1 started along the hall I was In toward ;the cellar door I'd oome in at, but I hadn't taken two steps before I heard a man say: Ik;.." ' Hold on there?wait 1 Come back!' jStjj&And I went back. It was a command, 'tSfpk .lt was an invitation, too, and I was nody to meet it or to chance it, and I giant back to the dining room and looked Wpfed saw a man lighting the gas; he'd having for a light before a kerosene Mop that I saw now standing on the taHrjdth. the oil burned out. The man ?fand eays to me: ^HKrasn't quite so tall as I was, but nerpptfa pretty solid sort of a citizen, who QgrtA have held his own with me in a jqnare rough and tumble easy, and he was H man who was accustomed to boss in cr things and having folks do what he said, i! couldn't tell for the life of me what he .was, what his business was, but I guess he was just simply the richest man in the town and spent his time looking after his .pfcoperiiy. And when I'd come in he says: 'What's your business, my friend?' "* "And I said I was a traveling blacksmith. ." 'H'ml' he says. 'Yon do most of your work nights?' "And I said yes, I did do more or less night work. . " 'And I Imagine you've got a handy kit of tools right In that bag there now,' he says, pointing to my bag, that I had set down alongside of the chair I was sitting In. i "And I said yes, I had tools there for any ordinary work. , "'You see that safe?' the man says, pointing toward the safe he'd been sitting in front .of'when I first looked in, and I looked, &i4t and saw the big1, old fashioned safe, looking very imposing, and strong, but a safe that a man thaftknew bow could cut Into about as easy as be could a cheese, and I said yes, I did. .. " 'Well,' says thejnan, 'I want to get into that safe. There's some papers in there that I've got to have inoourt tomor-. row morning, or this morning rather, at So-and-so at 10 o'clock. And I've broken the key, and I(ve been trying here for half the night to break the 6afe open. Bo you suppose you could open it??, "Well, I had to kind of cough to conceal my emotion, because I could have opened the old box, you know, in ten minutes, but I said yes, I could open it, I thought " '"Well, now,' says the man, 'you pitch in and open it,' and he sat down in a chair there near the safe and got ready to see me work. And I put my bag up on the table and got out my tools and went at it, with the owner looking on and greatly interested. "In about three-quarters of an hour I had the door of the safe off and laid on its Hn/?1r <vn tVin flour " 'You certainly are a handy man with tools, eh?' says the man, and then he asked me to look through the safe and 6ee that there was no money in it, which was quite right. There wasn't any. 'You'd have got nothing,' says the man. 'But you've saved me a lot of bother and trouble,' he says, 'getting those papers for me in time, and. I want to pay you for it. How much do you think I ought to give you?' "And I said I'd leave that to him. 41 'How muoh do you make a day?' he Bays. "And I told him my earnings varied; that sometimes I made nothing and sometimes I made a good deal, but I thought I didn't average more than |20 a day. He seemed to have his own ideas about that, too, but he handed me over a $20 note and said the work was worth it to him. "And then he escorted me to the door. < And he didn't ask me not to come back nor threaten nor warn nor anything. He knew that my knowledge of his habitn , about money insured him from any further visits from me, as far as that was fvmrpmAd. and he wasted no words over it. He just let me out the door and didn't even say good night. ''Curious things happen in my business? Yes, they do, sure; no doubt about it. A man may go for days and weeks and nothing whatever happen; everybody sound . asleep and you just walk in and walk out, , and that's all there is to it, but when , anything does happen H's more'n likely ] to be something out of the usual course." , ?New York Sun. I Would Lose Leia. It is often said that no European can , understand Chinese commercial methods. Here is a curious instance of the Celestial's mental inversion. A Chinese hotel keeper had contracted to board and lodge a visitor , for $1 a day. As time went on he found , It impossible to get his weekly account , -iil-J 0_ 1 A V.la DCLlrlUU. CU lit? UUU1CU u uuuuwuii auo j guest for half u iollw a week. He said he would lace lees. c t i Blackberry Jelly. c Thi9 jelly ie sometimes hard lo t nake, but if an acid of some kind, jither sour apples or preen grapes are idded to the berries while stewing, it . yill make the jelly a lighter color and jo trouble to congeal. Cook until soft, t itrain and to each pint of juice add a -j jint of sugar; boil in a wide, shallow l rnn, it will jelly easily and be delirious. ) ? j To shirk a manifest responsibility i*? o Incur inevitable suffering. I* R. M. Haili Stock of Fall ]\ Dress Goods, Perc || Dark Outings, T I Flannels, Flanejet \ iery, Glove^jkoti Now ready. The etrtjrfe stock LOWEST POINT. Glve' ps a LADIES' WEAR. ' " . R. M. Mint I ..flUUUILLL 01: I ^ jPT Our Trade for the^ Past Week .... ill Our Busi Knir ihorn must hp A fiftiiao for this. tentiou and prompt delivery couat I Coroe and join the merry throng that i town. Fall Stock is d^ily arfiving. Yours foi ' . c Phone 8. I T. 33. I v-/ ROSENBERG BLOCK. i. . , , -H ' , '* 4 ,~\ , ' . i A. H . 5 If js DEAL iS # Dry Gc $ Notiom | Milline /|\ Dressn f firs. Rossei 4 f M ROSSER will return fr (I) 'day next aud be prepared to show 11 rstclass goods, including Ladies i A\ icgs, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Cor AV make up a clever and handsome & fn We are agents f< f ??McGALL. I m And will sell you any pattern at 1 /|\ We will present monthly, withou A\ any one who will call at store or s Master's Sale. The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Mary Noble and others, Plaintiff?, against Aug. W. Smith and others, Defendants ?Partition. By VIRTUE OF A DECREE OF SALE made in the above mated cas?, I will offer for 'ale at public outcry at Abbeville Court Rouse, In eald State, on Saleday, the first lay of OCTOBER, A. D. 1900, within the egal hours of sale, the following described and, to-wlt: All that tract or parcel of land ylng and being In said State and County, :ontainlng Two Hundred [200] Acres, uore or less, bounded by lands of Mrs. Cox, 3eo. W. Smith, the Due West and Abbeville >ubllc road and lands of tbeestate of Samuel Cochran, deceased. TERMS OF SALE?One-half cash, balance >n a credit of twelve months from day of lale, with Interest from day of 6ale. .Secured jy bond of purchaser and mortgage of preraseo, with privilege of paying all cash. Pur:haser to pay for papers and stamps. All paries may become purchasers. Ij. W. PEKRIN, Sept. 11, 19tii. Master. A. M. Hill & Sons will receive a car load o he celebrated Studebaker wagons this week. I'hey are the leading wagon of the world. Fhey will be all sizes to suit the farmers. Our trade for the past week has been creater han we ever had. Now, there must be a :ause for this. Come and join the merry rowd that Is dally making lor our store, j. , l). Kerr. I have several line Pigs t'? to s weeks old lor ale. Amos li. Mors*.-. Ion 1 Co.'s I < ??v> i V ana winter | ales, Cheviots, Light and ^ able Linens, Sheetings, ts, Blankets, Shoes, Hosons, &c.v . . . ' v ' r a bought when prices wvere at the look when you need anything in DON & CO. pFV'-v. r ? HI: Full Time ! , *p *Vlri. *' ' #i | ER IN % tods, j| ry> | nakiirjg. m M ? . 4# r, Hanager. 1 om the Northern market on Mon-_-Cl? the ladia a full line of up-to-date n\ and Children's Underwear, Stocksets and everything that goes to ostume. iki >r the celebrated.....? A >ATTERHS ? 0 and 15 cents. Nothing higher. a t charge, a Bazaar of Fashion to A pnd their address. fa I LONG CANE PICNIC. :H Don't Forget the Place and Dote to Get n Good Dinner. The public are invited to attend the annual picnic of the Lone Cane Cemetery Association, to be given In the grove near Long Cane church on TburFday, 27th September. You will get a substantial dinner, lncladlng hash, for twenty cents, coffee five cents a cup. Ice cream and lemonade at the usual price. Mlttie I. Cochran, Secretary. Just what you want In writiDg material at DuPre.s Book Store DuPre, The Book Store man will undersell any body In the stationery line. A lot of copv-rlght Novels Just received at DuPre's Book StoreHe who would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now. "There is nothing like an obedient to-day to reveal God's will to-morrow." The selfish lead a solitary life. They separate themselves from those around them by their selfishness. The pleasautest thiugs in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the*greatest art in life is to have as many of them as possible. The essence of eternal life is conscious fellowship with (fod. Small and steady gains give competency, witli tranquility of mind. The true man will not shirk a duty 9imply because it is hard and diftiult. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. Avoid tern pat ion, through fear you may m>t withstand it.