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HORSES IN OUR ARMY A CAVALRY SOLDIER WRITES WITH FEELING CONCERNING THEM. Recruit Herse la Very Like a Recruit I Soldier?Intelligence Displayed by the Animals ? Their Love of Play ? Poor Dandy's Grief. Perhaps few persons are on more intimate terms with the horse family in general than some old cavalry soldiers. To be the friend of his horse the soldier must b? a good one. A horse was never known to favor a bad one with bis confidence, for horses are infallible judges of soldiers. In the old frontier days cavalry soldiers thought far mora of their horses than they do bow, for their livos often dopended on them, and If a man negleoted his borso he ivaa sure to have to march on foot before long, which ie very distasteful to a cavalry man. inaeea, it was necessary lu guaru the forage wagon and the water holes to prevent men stealing more than their allowance for their horses. Even now, if ! you watch some old gray haired follows at the "stables" of a cavalry troop, you will ! see they have not forgotten to be greedy on behalf of their mouats. A recruit horse is like a recruit soldier, apt to be clumsy, unevenly gaibed, saucy and conceited. The old horses in the stable yard treat him exactly as old soldiers treat ? recruit. They attempt to frighten him by biting at him, kicking him, chasing him from one oorner of the yard to another, pulling his mane and ears?in fact, they try to make his life miserable in ' very way. This lasts for a few days only; then the new horse gets a chum, and they make an agreement to stand by eaoh other This offensive and defensive allianoe pre T?nts the rest of the herd from taking any more liberties with the recruit. The "chum business" is one of the most /ootiiron nf hnroo l)fn In t.ho army. The "chums" are inseparable. A9 booij as the herd is turned out Into the yard the ohums seek out eaoh other, as if , for a morning "oonfab," and remain to- , gether all day. Looking into the yard at : any time, one can see them rubbing noses, , blinking at one another or following each other around the yard. Take a new horse way from his ohum and he will greatly recent It Tie him near the stables and he | will whinny plaintively to his chum, who ' will answer from the corral. All horses In our service are taught to Ue down. A new horse, when first thrown Is the riding ball, with straps the use of , which he little suspects, ia greatly sur- ! prised. This painless throwing of horses is very effective in disciplining morally, for ] the horse soon realizes that he is completely mastered, and after he has been thrown a number of times a marked change takes , place In his temperament. Soldiers who abuse their horses in any way are severely punished. There is, in- , IamI nn alohfc more obnoxious to a eood , cavalryman than to soe a horse abused. The old cavalry horse seems to have a great disdain for a new soldier. When ridden by a recruit, be appears as if a little Insulted, and I am sure that some of 1 these old horses can tell a recruit from a 1 veteran as qulokly as can the adjutant at j "guard mounting." It Is customary to turn all the horses J out to graze?or*'to herd, "as It Is oalled? ' under a guard whenever the grass is good and the weather pleasant. The horses re- 1 gird "herd time" as a proper occasion for I furi and frolic. They enjoy the herd as J xnuoh as a lot of schoolboys do their reccss. ' In every troop are some old horses that ' pre full of mischief on herd and aro invet- ' erate stamped era. If they can only get the ' xest of the herd to follow them and run 1 ahead of the herders, they are delighted. ( The herd guards have to watch these old 1 rogues vigilantly, for once they obtain a j start, a stampede is sure to follow. Then, ' it no obBtaole prevents, the herd will run 11 tar hours?herds have bean known to rup 40 miles before they oould be stopped. Most j bold and daring riding on the part of the ' herd guards Is required to head off a cav- ' airy stampede and turn the leaders. Horses soon loam all the trumpet, calls. 1 "Stable call" In the afternoon la the favorite one, I Imagine, as it means dinner. A trumpeter's horse in a certain troop at j a western post was condemned for disabll- ' Ity and Bold to a milkman. One day, when 1 the milkman was driving near the drill ground where the troop was drilling, his horse at the sounding of the "charge" by 1 the trumpet bolted for the troop. Of course 1 the funDy sight of a milk cart oharging j with a troop of cavalry caused great merri- ' ment to all exoept the milkman. 1 During the Geronimo campaign some 1 years ago in Arizona, a remarkable illus- ' tration of how great an affection can exist 1 between a soldier and his horse occurred 1 Is a troop lo which I was serving. An old ' Irish sergeant had a splendid brown horse ' oalled Dandy, to which he was so singularly attached that the care and caresses he bestowed on It would have satisfied the most exacting sweetheart. The beautiful < and Intelligent animal seemed to be al- 1 most human, so much did be appreciate 1 the affection of his master. j Now It happened that during a long < march the sergeant became very tipsy by ? drinking some fiery Mexican mescal. 1 Reeling in the saddle to and fro he jerked ] the horse's sensitive mouth with the cruel 1 ourb till It bled profusely, and every little < while his sharp spurs would tear Dandy's < flanks. Suffering all this pain, the horse < calmly walked in ranks without showing < any resentment and apparently knowing < that his master was out of his senses. I Shortly after this happened we were ' fired upon from an ambush. The sergeant, 1 who was in the lead, was shot dead in the ] saddle while riding along the brink of one i of those steep canyons which abound in ] that part of Artaona. So he pitched head < foremost out of his saddle down hundreds 1 of feet into the oanyon bed. ' During the next few days Dandy ate almost nothing and appeared dull and listless. All the men being mounted, he was J 1 JJU i ? A , avu auu a pau& ttttuuxo puu uu unu. nuuuu ? * a week later, as we were riding along the J brink of another canyon, Tery similar to l that in which Dandy's master had found i grave, the command was halted for a i teat, and the men, dismounting, lot their i ' horses graze on the few bunches of dry ] grass in the vicinity. < Presently we saw Dandy walk to the I edge of the cliff and look down into the 1 black canyon depths. There was some- ] thing in the horse's manner that attracted \ attention, and we were silently watching : < him when he crouched on his haunohes, I ' gave a quick spring far out into the air I over the edge of theoliff and went turning and twisting down 500 feet to be dashed to death on the bowlders in the canyon h*d. I "As clear a case of suicide as I have ever! een," oar captain said. Poor Dandy I His heart was broken 1 , Can it be that the horse is passing away' from us? Let as hope not. If he is, we losing a noble friend.?A Cavalry Sol41sr In Youth's Companion. General News Notes. At a negro frolic Dear SwaiDsboro.Ga, anegro shot through a window into the room where dancing waB going on and killed three persons with one shot, one man and two women. The assassin fled and has not been caught. The prudential committee 01 mej ofreigD mission board of the Congre- i gational Church decided to hold on to < Mr. Rockefeller's gift of $100,000.) Rev. 'Dr.; Washington Gladden, who < opposed the acceptance of the grift. I made a caustic statement concerning 1 the committee's action. j HIS SECOND ASSIGNMENT. A. I.eaf Out of a Newspaper Reporters f Early Experience. "My first assignment," said an old t<?porter, "was to find out whether some- a Ua''" " 4-rxTr*-r* a? enmpfhino nf that uuujr was ju vuvyju, v/x ow**-*. . sort. I know there was nothing to be written about it. I got the information and reported to the city editor. That was all I had to do that day. For the rest of " the day I sat around the offico and looked on with an infatuation that has never de- ^ creased. The next day I got my second assignment. In this thoro was something to write about. I "Tho city editor handed mo a narrow little strip of white tissue paper out from a c sheet of ship news and containing, in two lines of writing, information that two la borers had been washed overboard from the barge So-and-so, laden with ore, com . ing up the bay in tow of the tug So-andso. What I was to do was to get tho facts about the ooourrence and writo thom. "The city editor said that if I would find the consignees of tho bargo or the 1 owner of the tug I would get on the traco of the story. The names of the consignees were in the two lines of ship news, and i simply by looking in the directory I found t their office without the slightest trouble. I There I learned where the cargo was tied I up. It was at a wharf in Hoboken or s Weehawken, I don't remember which, and c I made for that. When I turnod from the t Btreet down the whorf, there she was, tied 1 up alongside, her name on the wlieelhouso. i She was about half unloaded, and men were still at work carrying off the ore. f "I was not altogether without expert- c ence in life, but I had never done anything c that gave me quite the satisfaction that it t did to find that ore barge in my first ac- 1 tual experience as a reporter. The captain e was aboard, and so were the surviving i members of the little party of laborers t who had started up the bay in her, and so s the whole story was right there. I sat on f the stringpiooe of the wharf and talked ? with the captain of the boat. He told the ^ Btory with entire willingness. Of course ^ there was no reason why he shouldn't, and t ^ r 1 V. 4-Ur* wwnffl tUUIl X WL'ilU unutt to vuc uuiw uuvt tliuvvi It up. It was not a great story. I knew that. It was like thousands of stories that the newspapers are sending after all the time, of the manifold daily occurrence of life, but I must put it together in good Bhape, get in all the faots and put the Btory in the smallest space. "In the morning I wont out and got a paper before breakfast. I wanted to read my story of the loss of the men from tho ore barge. I looked the paper over, and, my gracious, I couldn't find it all I I thought they must have left it out altogether, bat when I came to look tho paper aver again I found it?a scant stickful, with a single line head. "But when I came to read it over I found that the facts were all there. They had simply been brought closer together by a method of condensation far more aouto than mine and had then been set in agate type."?New York Sun. Importanse of Regular Living. A question has lately arisen as to the Increase or the reverse in nervous diseases, some arguing that the cause of the sup posed inorcasein suoh nervous diseases lies in the increased demand made by the conditions of modern life upon the brain. It Is quite true that the conditions of life are yery different nowadays from what they were a few years ago. We now live in a high pressure age, and in one of keen competition, when greater, effort is needed in every branoh of life to attain a successful posi- , fcion, when the brain is always working ?nd there is constant tension. Such conditions, it will be perfectly obvious to all, sre not favorable to a diminution of nerv3us diseases, but rather the reverse. At fl Che same time, It cannot be denied that c the comforts of life have increased. We a .. ? l j c Dave Dccter sanitation, cieaner auu&ks uuu j= fresher air. There can be no question that men of regular habits are healthier, happier, live longer and do more than those who obey aaprice and impulse. The adoption of c bygienic habits saves the nervous system ' an enormous amount of friction and waste, t It preserves vitality. Regularity econo- T mlzes not only physical stamina, but time ? as well. The man who knows no sysfcem u In the details of his life, who exhausts na- v bare at the instance of a passing whim, <3 tvho drinks and smokes to excess, who ^ wastes the talents bestowed npon him, is t the one who must sooner or later fall a vio- i tim to disease. Regularity and modera- r bion In all things should be the motto of e Life, and it should be remembered that regularity does not necessarily preclude the I anjoyment of variety. A certain amount 0 Df variety prevents man from becoming a 6 morn tnnnhinft hut vnrifitv fihnnld not in- 6 terfore with those regular habits of life d which are necessary to the maintenanoe of 1 tiealth.?New York Ledger. 8 r A Puzzled Author. B The San Franoisco Argonaut tells an Q wnusing story about Alphonse Daudet. When he brought out "Sappho," an Amertoan publishing house that issues religious tjooks, not knowing its charaoter, offered a M. Daudet a large sum for advance sheets g if the work. He accepted the offer, and F the advance sheets were sent. When the t publishers received them, they decided that ^ they oould not issoo the book, and they t jabled to the author, " 'Sappho' will not F lo.' This dispatch puzzled Daudet. Ho t jonsulted with numbers of friends, and t uhis was the conclusion at which they t eventually arrived: "Sappho" in French F Is spelled with one "p"?"Sapho," after v ?e Greek fashion. In English It is spelled 6 with two. An unusually acute friend r pointed this out to Daudet, which much l relieved the novelist, and he cabled baok wj tae puoiisnors, * open 11/ wiui uwo y. o. [t is needless to state that the publishers were more astonished at Daudet's reply I than ho had been at their cable dispatch. 1 c . Japanese Journalism. c "Japanese journalism," says a mission- 1 nry's wife, "is a singular profession in 6 many of its features. There is pr%otically i do 6uch thing as freedom of the press in e Japan. Whenever a newspaper publishes ' something unfriendly to the government ' It is suppressed and the editor is sent to prison. The real editor is never imprisoned, though. Every newspaper has what the Japanese call a 'dummy editor/and it z Is his sole duty to go to jail every time the d paper is suppressed for offending the s mikado. Then the real editor changes the t Dame of the paper and keeps on publishing f It. Dummy editors 6pend most of their v time in prison." r t Bitf Ess?. c In the British inusoum, London, tno museum of the Academy of Soience at Paris, the National museum at Vienna and c In the several institutions for the advance- t ment of science there may be seen speci- k mens of birds' eggs which aro almost as E large as a two gallon jug. These egg9 wen: laid by the epiornis, an extlnot and gigantic bird of Madagascar. I I It is understood the tariff reformers ( in the British parliament favor a com- i promise. Eight American sailors shipwrecked ( off the coast of Formosa were murder- e ered by natives. d Two guns exploded on tne naicieship Iowa. It is not known what i damage was clone. I In the house of lords Lord Lans- i rtowne stated the views of the. United States and Great Britain concerning t belligerents' rights are identical. t; It is stated that the Union Pacific ti j. TWILIGHT IN MY GARDEN. !. purple twilight, from thy dim recesses Pale memories steal and shape thoraselvea anew, loft breezes stir and lift fair phantom treom. Tears mingle with tho sacramental dew, tnd shadowy lips are wreathed with tende* smiles, And loving hands shine faintly through the gloom 1 ris not alone the roseB' fragrant hearts That flood the dewy dusk with rare perfume. ["he loved and lost with noiseless feet are i straying Among the garden's old familiar walks, wonder do they hear the fountains playing And see the lilies swaying on their stalks? > twilight time, when all earth's jars and fret ' Die out, and quiet reigns on every handl Pho knows but for a little space perchance Tho dear ones slip from out the ' 'summat land?" -H. Hedderwiok Browne in Chambers' Journal. PRIMITIVE HOOSIER CABINS. Dwellings Constructed by the Earlier Settlers In Indiana. In the primitive Hoosier cabin?rough, mcouth, simple abodes?moro genuine lappiness has been enjoyed than in all the Lne, costly mansions in tho great city of \Tew York. Thousands of wealthy, ropectable men and women are living tolay who were Ixjrn, reared and married in ;uch humble cabins. And there are milions of people living today who have no dea how these cabins are constructed. The pioneer from some of the old east;rn or southern states, with his wife, six >r eight children, gun and dog, would :ome to Greene county in Ms covered vagon, which was the family abode until le erccted his cabin, which was construct;d thus: Cut about 40 logs 8 or 10 nches in diameter, 20 of them 16 feet long ind 20 of them 14 feet long; slope tne inds off half and notch tho other half to It; put chunks in tho cracks of the logs md daub them with mud. The gables vere made of shorter log3 until reaching vhat is called the comb, tho ends sloped Lown to suit tho pitch of tho roof. It being now ready for covering, cut >oles 5 to 6 inchcs in diameter, 16 feet ong, or the length of the house, notch hem down on the gables about 8>4 feet ipart. Cut down a largo oak tree, square ho butt and saw cuts four feet long, split hem in blocks about six inches square, ake a frow and rivo boards half an inch hick, lay them lengthwise on the aforelaid poles or rafters, breaking joints; weight them down with small poles. You ire now ready for tho floors. Cut poles iix inches in diameter, length the width >f the cabin, for lower joists; place them ibout four feet apart; cut a tree?general y linn or some soft wood?saw logs about ix or eight foot long; split into slabs ibout three inches thick; hew smooth. Yith these make tho floor. Tho door is nade of boards tho same as tho roof, only onger. The fu>tening is a wooden latch vith a string hanging on the outside. )r.e window, 14 by 10 inchcs, has greas:d paper for glass. The ceiling is made vith poles for joists covered with claploards. JNOW comes une most scieui/iuc muuutuical part of cabin building?the fireplace ,nd chimney. Saw out about six feet vide out of one end of the house, six feet ligh from the ground; case up the aperure. Inclose this aperture, extending lack far enough for the back wall of the treplaco and as high as tho aperturo. Cow dig yellow clay, dampen and with a mall maul beat down and form the icarth, jambs and back wall. Generally ho jambs and back wall are about a foot hick. Now split sticks the proper length or tho size of the chimney?tho sticks ibout an inch thick and IK wide. Make . mortar of the yellow clay and build your himney to the desired height. This makes . comfortable dwelling without nails, ;lass or paint. Hove in and have a "hoe lown."?Linton Call. Blaclc'a Method of Writing. It is said of tho late William Black thai lis literary method wa3 a slow and pain?^ ? 1 1 ? * ? ? * 4- r~t l-if A nT?AnncQ/l Ui UIAU. XAU tiiU auuuu c* pvjjvowu >ook for months before he put pen to paier. He oonjured up tho chief inoidents ,nd characters and lived with his person-ges, so to speak. "When ho came to the rriting, he was obliged to have perfect [uiet. He could bear no noiso at all. Chose who complain of his endless descripions of scenery will bo interested in knowng that he made careful and elaborate lotes of that scenery, of localities and specially of atmospheric effects. 4'If one does not correctly and completey frame a character or an incident with .11 the circumstances of the time," he aid, '"one gets only a blurred page. For sample, one may say, 'It was a beautiful lay.' But what kind of a beautiful day 1 t must be described so that the picture hall be beautiful and finished. Every huaan being in real life has a background, ,nd must have in a novel if the story is to ???! >> 1UU LU DUU iuiui;ii Iferref Well, Rather! A woman shoplifter was caught stealing ji umbrella one day in a Philadelphia dry ;oods store. But it was decided not to iroseoute her if 6he would pay for the umirella, valued at $2.50, which she did. The next day 6he returned and requested o see the manager. When that surprised lerson could recover himself sufficiently o ask her business, the woman calmly old him that sho had been pricing umbrellas in other stores and found she could turchase one like her own for $3 and she ranted to know If he wouldn't refund her ; 0 cents. As a tribute to her monumental terve the 60 cents was handed he* In si- j ence.?New York Tribune. Sonthey and Scott. A letter of Souther's recently sold in England contains an interesting prophecy Che poet writes to a friend: "My profits ipon this poem ("Madoc") in the course if 12 months amount precisely to ?3 17s. d. In the same time Walter Scott has i old 4,500 copies of his 'Lay of the Last Jinstrel' and netted over ?1,000. But i ay acorn will continue to grow when his furkey bean 6hall have withered." But rho reads Madoo now? Splcea. Ginger is the most wholesome spioe, h nace, cinnamon and nutmeg the most i lelicate, while allspice has a coarser flavor j Lnd one disliked by many. White mus ard and celcry 6eed give an appetizing ! lavor, and when the 6eeds themselves ! fould detract from the appearano# of a elish they should bo placed In a muslin I, lag and discarded when the relish is aimed. A man's ledger does not tell what ha Is ir what he is worth. Count what 1b in nan, not what is on him, if you would :now what he is worth, whether rioh or loor.?H W. Beechcr. Wales is tho richest part of Great Brit kin in mineral wealth. I J. R. will take over the New York Central and the Chicago & North-j vestern. rpi... L>.(i,x,> nf I L1C OUUlCltV IU| U1C x Cruelty to Animals in Augusta will recta house for taking care of stray Iocs ami cats. Prices of beef have been advanced n all the lar^e cities as a result, the leef packers say, of cattlemen holdrig back their shipments. X-'apt. George W. Kirkman, Tweny-fifth infantry, has been found guily by a court-njartial and sentenced o dismissal army. If you wish i beauty nn His stock of Sprii plete in all li attractive lie DRY GOODS He has everything you c< the way of Dry Goods < as low as the lowest. Dc see his line of Dress Gooc of Black Goods, Colored Voil Goods of every descriptio White Goods from 5c to Laces and Embroidei Are a specialty with him never shown a finer collect! The ladies and gei are all most cordially an immense stock of: ? i ! . vunij^ijMiiL^fgauuuf MMmmm n S.Miih Cirnllni Voii'H, A suspender factory will lie started nt liot-k Hill. Lay ton's brick p'arit at Marion wa< bu'-ticl with $:!().(Ji)0 i'ss. A company has been formed at Liureus to nianul'acii r overall*. The W. H. Walsn (Jo , of Charliatm will is-Hiie a new cily directory foi Greenville A t.\pewriler stolen from the t.'Ji?s teilieiU J^VilllUfr V/U. niur linn, inn uj^,. has be?u localei! and rotweied ii vVashing'on, D. (' A mandamus 1ms be?n is**wd bj :lie supreme court compelling tin -upTVisor of Saluda County to paj $J,o00 of e'aims held against the Cajuh ty King & Merlin, of Ander??--n, vil go out of .the mercantile In.siixss t< vsume Ja' uiinir, which they ah si don 'tl for meiclmndisim: tevtral y?a?! ng". Tn? y cbtiui to have made a ? *''' lain hi.in of money which w :sh ijrii nhject in g?ing into the nureuntih hu-oueK-. l>liam A May field ha-- been reap' [minted p< s mas'?r at G:eer. J<>li 11 Ji. O'Neale has oflVied t< donate a .-ite for a hospital in (Ji? cn v.llf. Dr. C. H. Judson, of Furru.in Uni versity, has returned from Florida ?vith his health much benefited. Two freight trains collided on tin Southern near Trenton. A fireman named Jenkins jumped and was hurt. The Bellon Athletic Club will b? organized with a capital of $12,000. ^ t?a>eball park acd race track will bt built. The store of Touey Young atj Jt JaL'? about frix miles from Manning was burned with. contents. Loss ?2.' JOO, insurance ?600, The merchants of Greenvllie have begun closing their mores at 6:30, This arrangement will be ellVctivt until September 1. Geo. K. Bruner of Snuiter. ran hi? riutomooile in'to a mill pond ou ac cnuut or a rngnteneu norse. rue machine was not greatly damaged. The state supreme court in a case coming up from Audersou Las decided that stable manure is real estate and not personal property. The portrait of Judge O'neale, which was purchased by the legist ture at a cost of $^5t), lias been turned uver to the clerk of the supreme court, A number of carpenters working on the new passenger depot at Greenville went on strike yesterday on account oJ differences wiih the foreman. A uew force was at once secured. John Gray, a weaver at Woodside Mills In Grieuville, was shot and severely wounded by a uegro gambler who escaped. The negro with others had bei.-n surpti.-t-d while gHinbbug. William Hurley, a whit?> man, shot and seriously wounded Simon Green, a uegro in front of the Har eyville pobtoince. 1 lit snooting vas luc <juigrowihofa low between these {'arlies last Saturday. James Joiiuson and John King, who were convicted at Charleston of the Latta postoliice burglary, have been sent to the federal penitentiary a; Ailanta to serve teven and live years respectively. A new $750 omnibus was badly 3inashtd in a runaway Sunday ni^ht. The hor?e while waiting at the Southdepot for No. So, took fright at a shifting engine and ran a mle and a hall". A northbound freight train on the Southern collided with a mixed train nf the Blue Ridge Railroad at Seneca. Nobody was hurt, but the locomotive of the Blue Ridge iraiu was badly smashed. The state convention of Elks will be held ill U-eorgeiown, April zo--/. The meeting will be well atundfd. Capt. F. W. Wagner, of Charleston, has resigned as captain of the German Artillery. He has been the captain l?I" this military organization for -o ynrs. The annual state conference of the ICpworth Leagues in South Carolina will couvcne in Columbia tonight. Delegates will be in attendance from ul! sections of the state. Four men employed by Si-lnvarzschilli <fc Sulberger were indicted by the federal grand jury at Chicago in connection with the beef trust inves ugauoij. Admiral Rodjeslvensky's course in passing conspicious points is believed in London to mean he has determinto try conclusions with Admiral Toi;o. Water hroke through into the tunnel under the Hudson river between .New York and Jersey City ami a dozen meu were at work there narrowly escaped their lives. Mr*. C'hadwick was arraigned on the charge of eonspiiaey with Cashier A. Ji. Hnear. of the Oberliu bank, and pleaded' not guilty, lier bail being iucref(6$d $ 7,V0U: * V. to see New- G d richest pro1 ( ag and Summer ( ties and in many has ever offerred. | 0L01 in call tor in I In acj ind at prices specia :> not fail to Cloth Is. All kinds , and es and Wash . great n. He has J chase 50c a yard. has t he cl< ies and k , and he has an^ \ ion of them. | 'n itlemen, girls and boj invited to call and su most desirable Merchs J_j. w. vv WANTED! ,' Millions to know the great merits of Alabastine, the Sanitary Wall Coating?Not a hot or cold water disease-breeding kalsomine, bearing ( a fanciful name. r LET US HELP YOU. Write for our artists' free color plans?different cffects for different rooms?In white, delicate ' grays, greens, pinks, blues, end yellows, using A DaaL PamahI Destroys disease - A HOCK u6m6ni germs and vermln; does not rub or scale. No washing of 1 walls after once applied. Ton can brush , it on?mix with cold water. Other finishes, mixed with either hot or cold water, do not have the cementing proper* ty of Alabastine. They are stuck on with glue, or other animal matter r which rots, feeding disease germs, cnnlinc. and SDoilinc walls, clothing, etc. Such finishes muai . be washed off every year^-costly, filthy work :, Bay Alnba?tine only in 5 lb. p'k'gs, prop, erly labeled. Pretty wall and celling design , I "Hints on Decorating" and tint card, free* -I ALABASTEVE CO., ; a rand Rapids, Mich., or 105 Water St., H. V For sulv in Abbeville by. C. A. MILFORD. ; BUILDING MATERIA) I am now receiving a slock < DOOJRS, ; SAS1JES, . BLINDS, FLOORING, | CEILING, 1 SIDING i and FINISHING LUMBER, als 1 SHINGLES, LATHS, LIMI CEMENT atd HAIR. f Come in and let rae give you prices. I A. G. FAULKNER TRINITY ST. Opposite A. B. MORSE. JUST OPEVKD UP I L'LL LINE OF THE "Official" Lea .lie BASE BAIL GOOTS. EV> ItYTHING IN THIS LINK. Abbeville Eardwar-3 Co. !T*T r. A HTMIT VV has open up liis business in J. S Cochran old stand. Bicycle and Sundries, Picture Moulding'. Yours lor business, W.D.ADDIE I The reputation of being n "^n>id fellow | DHver helped a man at a hauk. Keep you , pelt b.v liking Vliiol and smoking Speed' i Ciuco Cigars. Kvery-few days I. eet Inquiries f>om perI sonn wanting to buy farms. If you want t sell list yours with me. ltobt. S. Link. ;v .: . . . . ' P ' oods in rarest 'tision go to [ r.h s., joods is now com- ( respects is the most i i THING. c dition to Dry Goods he would call ^ il attention to his department ot ing, Gents Furnishing Goods, Hats Shoes. He is prepared to offer < bargains in these lines, and purrs would do well to see what he " o show them. When in New York < Dsed out a large lot of children's >oys' clothing from 6 to 17 years ie is now offering great bargains J s line. 1 ra nf A hhATn'llft flrmn+.Tr KJ V/A AA N/ W f AAAX/ W VhM w J pply their wants out of tndise. H I T E. IT Potash I is necessary for cotton to produce ! j high yields and good fibre. ij Write for our valuable books on I fertilization;'they contain information that means dollars to the ! farmers. Sent free on request. ! Writi now while you think of it | to the i] GERMAN KALI WORKS ! N#w York? - Atlanta, Ga.? | j 93 Nassau St., or Q& aXSo^Broad | ' JUST IN t HAMMOCKS! Finest line ever shown In Abbeville. Get your choice sarly. of FIR^T SHIPMENT OF THE Pfiftrlfiss Tneland Ice Cream Churns, All bIk?s. Churns quickest, use less Ice. Ice Toole. Screen Doors and Windows. .Plain and Ornaments. 10 j, Water Coolers, Fly Fans. Lawn Mowers. Abbeville Hardware Co. The Hege Loq Beam SAW MILL with Heacock-King feed works EN0INI8 AND BoiLEES, WOODWOBKINO Machinist, Cotton Ginnino, Bbiokm a kino and Shinolb and lath Maohineey, Corn Mills, Era, Era. GIBBES MACHINERY CO.* Colombia* 8. C. the gibbes shingle machine L XV. White's Locals. When In New York L. W. White closed out h large lot of soya' clothing from 6 to 17 yearn. Anyone In need of a boy's coat can certainly . get ti bargain. L. W. White Is offering a great bargain In shirts. You can buy for 75 cents a shirt that is worth from SI.00 toS1.50. Look at L. W. White's stock of white goods for dresses and wal?t?. All styles and all price" from 5 to 50 cunts. A few '>r:iflo-i at While's that are very cheap. (J ?od calicoes at 4 cents. The very liest a'. 5 cents. Colored homespuns at 1 cents. Dre>s ginghams at a cents. We have already koIiI about 3000 yards of these goods. L'n? bleached homespun a vard wide at 6 cents. Wnile meieerlz-d goods for sk'.rtsand waists a- low as 10 cents a yard. Colored muslins j and white lawns at5 emits a yard. Cotton? uiI'-shi 10 cent*, tue n<*avie<i, 10 trum, White dotted bwIbs at 10 cerns. Black tnff<*tH silk one yard wide at 75 cents, worth S1.00. First elacs white pearl buttons at a cents a dozen. I.. W. White hns laces and etnbroilery of the daliillent fabrics and most exquisite de? signs in endless variety and at all prices. L. W. White is offering good bargains in table damasks, napkins, doyii. s and towels. Brliliantines ire the things for skirts. You - e<-n find them iti black aud colors at L. W. While's, '' L. W. White has the most extensive line of r colored wa?h goods he has offered. Muslins, a 1 lairnu und hatistes at all prices. A beautiful line of ladles' slippers has Just arrived at White's. Also Misses and chil? ? dren's slippers. M Mate I For Sale. 3ne house and lot on upper Main ; Street, One of the most desirable places in town. 3ne house and lot on Tan Yard Street. 3ne large lot on Ca'bell Avenue. 3ne house aud lot on Pinokey Street. House comparatively new. - I ?2 1.x f?l ?"U J LLO IIUUSB a Liu XUl> UU UUUIUU Street. rwo cabins on Harrisburg Street. 350 acres land about 8 miles from J Abbeville and 6 miles from Due West, 329 acres land 9 miles from Ab- , beyille. L25 acres land one-half-mile from % Hodges. 342 acres land 9 miles from Ab- \ beville, three miles from Calhoun Falls. Sood house and lot on Wardlaw Street. BOBT. S. LINK., - % ? , ? I Abbeville-Greenwood MUTUAL i it n it n i ii n n ASSOCIATION. ' ?*operty Insured, $925,000 j January 1st, 1904. \>KrKlTH: TO OP. CA LL on the undersigned T' or to the Director o? your Township r .ivy information yon may desire abon fll piat of Is-uratice. itmnrn your property agat: st iettrrlc ' "3 by - j HE, fOTot a ussm, u<i do su cheaper than any Insurauoe Goal r ',uy In existence. \:v'. Kern ember w< are prepared to prove to voa *1 1 '?" and cheapest pien'of Intur&ncs known. J. B. BLAKE, Jr., Gen. Agent Abbeville, S. G. J. TEASES 170N, Fret. Abbeville, 8.;C. ??O BOARD DIRECTORS. 8. 0. Mwjnr Greenwood J.T. Mobry Cokesnury " W. B. Acker.- ....Donalds W. B. C'lnkscales Due Wost . T. L. Hftddon Long CaiieJ ' ' I. A. Keller. HtnlthvHle- 5jj A. K. Watson Cedar Spring f A. M. Held- Abbevllie Township . W. W. Bradley Abbeville City. '' ' Dr. J. A. Anderson Antrevllle . > II. A. Tennent. .Lowndesvllle A.O. Grant Magnolia J. K. Tarrant .....Calhoun Mills. 8. L. Edmonds Bordeaux S. 0. Harvey Walnat Grove W. C. Martin Hodges J. D. Coleuian Coronaca J. Add. Calhoun -Ninety-out J.M.Payne ...........Ktnards J. B.Taylor Fellowship Joseph Lake - -Phoenix Rev. J. B. Muse.. Verdery ' '* J. H. Chiles, Jr -..Bradley J.W.Lyon -...Troy,. W. A. Cheatham ...Yeldell P. B. Calllson Calllson W. M. Ontz - Klrksevs Caleb Walton Brooks : Abbeville. 8 C.. Jan. 18, 1904. 1 -u ' * DR. J. R. NICKLES, * Surgeon Dentist. Office over C. A. Milford's Drag Store. T T^rn TTQ rin rrn Lilil UO UU xv EUROPE! Would you like a superb tour at a moderate coat to all the brilliant capitals of Europe ? A special party of ladies, limited to i. ten, will sail during the last week in June, 1905 for ITALY, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, BELGIUM, FRANCE AND ENGLAND, under the personal conuuctorsmp or noted writer and linguist. Everything will be first class. Our members wilil, travel not as intruding tourists, label- \ led as strangers for the curious, but as refined and welcome visitors to the1 world's show places. Write for particulars. Hyacinthe Riugrose, 343 Fifth Avenue, New York City. DENTAL NOTICE. Dr. S. G. Thomson, OFFICE (JP-XTAJK* r,s MoILWAIW , Corner, A.bl'nvIUe. 8. C. ^ I A _ f uaivert & in levies ? Headquarters for ? * t White Hickory Wagons Owensboro Wagons, Rock Hill Buggies, Summer Buggies, Cheap Buggies, Harness, Laprobes, etc. Calvert & Nickles. Feb. '24. 19M. tf DR. J. A. DICKSON, SURGEON DENTIST. GOLD FILLINGS; CROWN AND BRIDGE WO RK_A_ SPECIALTY. _ ' A liUOU x JuiVi ?j AMALGAM FILLINGH 75c and. 1.00 S OFFICE OVER BARKH DALE'S STORK. } 1 . J