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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR ? EDGE FI ELP, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895._VOL. LX. NO. 43. AUNT J KAN' BT nivIiE.N* FOR] IT, dear I it ia too pleas ant tu stay in the house to-day!"* said Kitty Ford. "Aunt Jean, '** couldn't 1 go berrying, p2 np in the pasture lot?" ^ "Nonsense!" said Aunt Jean. "With the back bed-room to be whitey.. *ied, and the churning to be done, and the quilt to be got ready for the frimes? I'm surprised at you, Catherine!" Kitty looked with longing eyes at the creeping tides of sunshine^n^tho bill, the great shadows that the apple tree boughs made, swaying, on the grass. Thcro was a catbird singing in the maples. Kittie wished that-just for a while-sho could be that catbird, and dwell in a glorified region of green leaves, ?here churning, whitewash pails and quil ting-bees were un known. She knew that even now the scarlet poppies were nodding along the stone walls like tiuy soldiers, the wild roses opening in solitary nooks, the straw berries ripening in fragrant ? wood openings on the hill. As these tempting thoughts passed across ber mind, she beard Aunt Jean's shrill voice at the back door, taking to some one. "A painter, oh?" said ehe. "Oh, yes, you're wolcjmo tc- a drink qf water. You can draw it, fresh aud cool, for yourself. The well's out under the big butternut tree. V painter, did yon Fay? P'raps you can whitewash, too?" . "Certainly, ma'am!" said a deep, pleasant voice. Kitty leaned forward io get a peep at the possessor of that; clear, r.oft tenor. He was a young man, with a sort of pack strapped on his baok, and some thing that resembled a magnified um brella in his hand. "Oh," said Kittie, to herself, "u peddler! Aunt Jean is getting hard er of hearing every day !" "Well," said Aunt Jean, "I do b'lieve Providence has sent yon ! I'd engaged Perkins Polk to whitewash the back bed-room to day, but ho hasn't come near me. And here it is 9 o'clock ! I don't b'lieve he means to come to-day. Perkins has took to drink dreadful of late -poor erector ! P'raps, sir, yor whitewash the back bed-room * ye- your dim dollar for the more lberal th * Aunt Jean v of the T?*** w' of h.-ut eyes e brigks rosy, mibe despeto??. "You'll please excuav auum,MM. my good man," said she. "We don't want anything to-day. There was a peddler along on Saturday, and we bought all that we required.1' The young man-Horton Leigh was the name stamped in gilt letters on the inside of his color-box-looked from grim Aunt Jean to pretty Kitty, and made up his mind at once. "Pardon me," he said, "but I sm not ? peddler. And if you will allow me, I shall be very glad to undertake the job." "The sooner tho better," said Aunt Jean, briskly. "I s'pose you ain't got your overalls with you. That don't make no diSerence, There's a pair up stairs as belonged to Hiram Harkness, who worked for us one spell, and a jumper jacket as Billy Barlow wore, who ran away and joined the gipsies, six months ago. Kitty, run V.p stairs and fetch 'em. And the yo^ng man can go into the barn asi put 'om on. Well, 1 do call this a streak o' luck!" And in less than five minutes the "young man" was mounted on a lad der, brandishing a good-sized white wash brush. Kitty Ford was churning, and Aunt Jean was tacking the quilt on the frames m tho best root?. "There's not bin' like gettin' s good, early start on Monday morning," said Aunt Jean. j At 12 o'olock the back bed room was whiter and sweeter than any lily, the butter had "come," the quilt wa? satisfactorily arranged, and the whole family sat down to a savory meal of fried chioken, white broad, milk and strawberry shortcake. "You seem to be a very respectable ?-onng man," said Aunt Jean, oritioal y surveying the stranger. "Jf yen'd like to stay here and do chores for your board, you might sleep in the barn chamber, and I could recommend you to do whitewashing jobs for the neighbors. Deacon Dowd's house needs a new coat o' paint, badly, and I'm most sure that Widow Elnathan Trueby would like her barn painted to match the new house." .?I am greatly obliged to you," said the young man, toying wi th a particu larly large berryi "but I do not exe cute orders in that branoh. I am an artist." "A-which?" said Aunt Jean. "An artist. Shall I show you some of my sketches?" Aunt Jean put on her spectacles at once. "Well, I don't object to look at 'esi," said she. "But I won't promise to buy. We got a very pretty chromo with the last pound o' tea we bought, and Kitty cuts piotures out of the il lustrated papers and pastes'em on to store-jars." Mr. Leigh laughed. "Ob, 1 don't expect to make a sale !" said he. "AU these aro merely first ideas, jotted down in the crudest of Jasnions. My real object iu oalling here this morning was to ask permis sion to sketch those picturesque ruius down by the old road." "Oh!" said Aunt Jean; "the old smithy. Dear, dear 1 there ain't noth in' but a tumble-down stun wall anda few mullen-stalks left there. Ef yon could wait till next spring. EUhue Lewis means to put a first-class black smith's shop. But you're welcome to do all the sk et ch in' you want." Kitty's eyes sparkled. "1 wish 1 was au artist," said she, as she turned over the bits of mill board, all of which were instinct with life and beauty ..Well," said Annt Jean, cow s MISTAKE. REST GRAVES. placently, "why shouldn't yon be? A dare say this young man can show yom how he does it." Kitty looked at the young man ; the young man looked at Kitty, and then both burst into a hearty peal of laughter, to Aunt Jean's great mysti fication. ..Oh, hunty," said Kitty, still chok ing behind her pocket handkerchief, "that isn't the way that artists are made." Half an hour later Kitty Fold was out on the green, feeding her little downy ducklings with scalded meal, when Judge Laughington's carriage drove up. Kitty let the tin pail fall in her dis may. To her, Miss Laughington, in summer silk and diamonds, represent ed all that Was elegant and adoiable. Ho- sbo regretted that she still wore her old blue gingham gown, and that her curls were all tangled by the ?weet, soft wind 1 "Don't run away, Kitty, dear," said M?68 Laughington, beckoning with her ivory handled parasol. "You are tba very girl that I want to iee. My cousin, Mr. Leigh, is coming down this way to-day to sketch. 1 have told him about those pretty, cid ruins ol the blacksmith's shop ; so, if he comou past here-" "Ob, Miss Laughington," cried Kitty, turning as scarlet as the big bunch of peonies at the corner of tho house, "he has come already ! And Aunt Jean set him to whitewashing, and paid him a quarter of a dollar and his dinner. Ob, how could we have made such a blunder?" Miss Laughington laughed. "Blunder, child!" said she. "Where's the blunder? If Horton wants to do a thing, he'll do it. If not, the whole world couldn't compel him." And after the glistening carriage had rolled away, Kitty Ford sat down and oried. Judge Laughington's daughter drove on to tho ruinod smithy, where Mr. Leigh was composedly "putting in" the lights and shadows of the old chimney and the mullein-stalks. But she went back to i,he stately "Court" with a bent brow and an ill pleased expression of face. "Horton is so awfully eocentriol" taid she. "There's no knowing what ridiculous whim he will take up next." For Mr. Leigh had declined to ac cept the hospitalities of tho Court. "You always have such loads of ompany there, Antonia," said he, 'anti I prefer quiet No-I'll come jp to see you when the spirit moves me; but I'll pitch my tent in this secluded? dale. It will be better tor rosl^rtsad^ work.*;^eeP) Hqnid eye's still haunted him. "The prettiest girl I ever saw!" he kept repeating to-himself. "Apure spirit, dwelling in a lilly-liko templ'.e! 1 must see more of her ; I must sketch her as'Una.'" So he went back that night, just as the dew was falling and the whippoor wills beginning to sing, and asked Aunt Jean if he could occupy tho li tule room over the kitchen, where the brick chimney perked itsek! out, and the one little window looked directly into the bows of the old pear tree. "Oh, I don't care," said good Aunt Jean. "It's Kitty that does the house work. She must decide. " "We are plain people," said Kitty, blushing. "Then I may come," said Horton Leigh. People were very muoh surprised when Horton Leigh brought a bluo eyed country maiden to preside over his city, mansion the next fall. But Kitty Ford, secure in innocent happiness, never knew how many tears Antonia Laughington had shod over her cousin's wodding card. And Aunt Jean makes her boast that Kitty bas "store carpets" in every one of her rooms and a carriage of her own. "He's a painter," said Anni; Jean to her friends. "Not a house painter, bat a picture painter. And ho knows how to whitewash a ceiling equal to Perkins Polk. I guess thero ain't no fear but that he'll make his way in the world. Anyhow, Kitty likes him, and that's enough."-Saturday. Night. Good Watch for a Dollar. A watch that will record the passing hours with fair accuracy-can be bought; nowadays at retail for the price of a table d'hote dinner. A watchmaker and jeweler on upper Broadway dis plays a tray full of niokle oase watches for one dollar each. They ure not toys, but real watches that "go," and wb;lo they are not to be depended up on to catch railroad traine, they serve all the purposes of a dilatory ?man in keeping appointments. "That dollar watoh," said the dealer, "sold for ten dollars ten years ago, but the improvement in tho machinory for making the parts has been such within the last two years that a iactoxy equipped for mannfaoturing the cheap article can turn them out almost as last as clothes pins are made. No, they are not furnished with jewel bearings, although some people expeot the pins and shafts to be set in dia mond sockets, and even then think a dollar gives me too muoh prollt," Mail and Express. Arrow Poison. The natives of the New Hebrides render themselves a terror to their enemies by using poisoned arrows, the tips of which they smear with earth from certain marshes. M. Dante c has made a bacteriological study of these poisoned arrows, and finds that their fatal properties are due to the pres ence, in the earth with which they are smeared, of two deadly germs-a ceptio vibrion and the microbe of tetanus. The firtt of these produce death from malignant edema in twelve to fifteen h ours. In oases where septic vibrion has lost its virnlence, the tetanus bacil lus which is present prove* equally, although less speedily, fatal. This observation of M. Danteo proves tho incorrectness of tho former theory that the tetanus bacillus is derived from a horse, since this animal is un known in the Hebrides Islands, -Mod era Medicino, THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR ? EDGE FI ELP, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895._VOL. LX. NO. 43. BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Tho Poet's Utilitarianism-An Apt Pupil-Charitable-An Architect ural Expert-Neglected Edu cation-His Revenge, Etc. The poet's lot would happier be If he could sometimes turn 'ls Attention from the thoughts that burn To firing up the furnace. AN APT PUPIL. She-"Why, yen foolish boy, if I married you, you wouldn't b9 able to even dress me." He-"Well-er-couldn't I learn?" -Brooklyn Life. AN ARCHITECTURAL EXPERT. "Yes, indeed, it is a very fino build ing. BcloDgs to the Ionic Order," "Nary a bit, sor. Have Oi not been tellin' yo it bolongs to the Ancient Or dor of Hibernians." IN ANOTHER CTJASS. "You friend is an artist, I think you said." "No, sir ; I did not. I said he drow pictures for tho Sunday papera." Philadelphia North American. A HAD CASE. Flynagon - "Oi ECO th' docther goin't'yer house, Mrs. Murphy." Mrs. Murphy-"Yis; Murphy is bnd off. Th' docther sez he has th' daylariums wid trimmin's."- Judgo. CHARITABLE. Mamma (to Willie, who is sliding down the cellar door)-"Willie, what aro yon doing?" Willie-"Makin' a pair o' pants fur a poor orphan boy."-Pittsburg Bul letin. NEGLECTED EDUCATION. Smith-"I wish I had studied boxing when I was a boy. You see, I need it so much in my profession." Jonos (surprised) - "What! as a lawyer." Smith-"No, OB a father." HI3 REVENGE. "Well, Pm even with Backey at last." "How's that?" "Induced him to join a football team, and he's a lightweight, you know."-Detroit Free Press. DEEPLY ABSORBED. Father-"It wa9 strangely quiet in thc parlor while that young fellow was calling last evening, Edith." Daughter-"Ye*, he's one of thc U. of M. tacklers and seems to think of nothing else."-Detroit Free Press. A SPRINTER. Bilter has been learning to rido a bioyclo he bought on tho instalment plan. "How is he getting on?" "First rate. Tho company hasn't been able to catch him."-Spare Mo ments. DOESN'T FOLLOW. Blynkins-"A girl who can sing just as soon as sho gets up in tho morning must have a sweet disposition." Wynkins-".Not necessarily. She .may have a grudge against somebody in the neighborhood."-Baltimore News. . \_;_'__---_^_ THE SCORCHER'S COSTPLAINT. . "What's the matter, Sweaty?" "Matter! Just had a row with a bloke on the crossing beoause I run him* down with my wheel. Somo of these follows that walk seem to think they own the earth." -Detroit Free Press. LIKE STOVES. ???"The higher nltitudo attained," said tho Professor, "the colder the temper ature becomes." "I should think it would bo warm er," replied one of tho students." "What would make it warmer?" "The mountain rang?e."-Harlem Lifo. NOT A BARGAIN. "You want as much for thia ther mometer," said the woman who had arrived boforo the store opened so as to bo the first at tho bargain counter, "as you did for those you ehowed mo last August." "Of course," tho salesman answered. "It's the same thermometer." "No, it isn't. There ought to bo a reduction in tho price. Those others had nearly twico as much mercury in them as these have."-Washington Star. TIRED OF CURL3. There was a little boy whose mother had mado a little Lord Fauntleroy of him, training his hair in long curls and dressing him in nlaok velvet knickerbockers and jacket, ornament ed with white lace. One day a largo girl thought to frighten the pic turesque little ohap by rushing toward him brandishing a large pair of scis sors, and exclaiming, "I'll out off your curial"; . The little Lord Fauntleroy was not frightened. He merely replied in a shrill little voice, "Wish you would I" -Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. A Dread nni Butter Diet. The newest diet suggested as pro ductive of longevity is bread and but ter. There is in Hythe, Eugland, a lady who lives entirely on bread and butter, and has done eo all her life. She has never tasted meat, game, fish, vegetables, jam and only a few kinds of biscuits and sweets. She has never had a day's illness in all her life and never had recourse to medicino of any description. Her friends have tried in vain to induce her to eat something besides broad and butter, but she con fines herself entirely to the diet on whioh she has existed for at least thirty years. She is stiong and healthy in every respect, healthier, in fact, than a great many people who have lived upon exactly the food that is supposed to make us feel as if ill ness were a total strangor and always would be. _ A Curious Test ol Coins. In America an alloy of one-tenth copper ia used in coins to harden them and make them less susceptible to abraaion. In England the amount of alloy is lesa-only one-twelfth. Recently a controversy arose among the mint officials of London as to which ooins, English or American, would last tho longest. In order to pat the matter to a tost two small steel cylinders were fixed on a revolving rod and one filled with United States and the other with British coins. It is needlesa to say that all of tho letters, milling, reading, etc., were worn from tho Eugliah coina twelve hours before they were finally totally effaoted from tho American coin?. THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR ? EDGE FI ELP, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895._VOL. LX. NO. 43. Sweetness ? Put a pill in the pulpi preaching for tko physios pill in the pillory if it do? preaches. There's a wi Sugar Coated Pills; tx * and light." People used as they did their religic The moro bitter tho doso We've got over that. 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