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fe <Nmitt. VOL. XXIX. LEXINGTON, 8. 0., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1898. NO. 5. fj
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Mill m&IMEKi,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BATESBU RG, - - - SC.
Practices in all the State Conrts, especi- I
ally in Lexington, Edgefield and Aiken
counties ,
Mar. 6?ly
ANDREW CRAWFORD
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
?. . . s c
UULUnaia,
PRACTICES IN THE STATE AND
Federal Cocrts. and offers his professional
services to the citizens of Lexington
County.
October 18?ly.
EDWARD L. ASEILL,
Attorney at Law,
leesville, s. c.
Practices in all the Courts.
Business solicited.
Sept 30?6in
C. M. Erira>. F. E. Diieheb.
EFIRD &BREHER,
Attorneys at Law,
LEXINGTON, C. H., S. C.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE
Coarts. Business solicited. One
member of the firm will always be at office,
Lexmgton, S C.
Jane 17? 6m
Albert M. Boozer,
Attorney at Law,
COLUMBIA, s. c.
Especial attention given to business entrusted
to him by his fellow citizens of
Lexington county.
Office: 1609 Main Street, over T..B.
Aug^try & Cj.
February 23 ?f.
D8. E. J, ETHEBEDGE,
SURGEON DENTIST,
LEESVILLE, S. C.
Office next door below post office.
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Always on nanu.
February 12.
Saw Mills,
Light and H^avy, and Supplies.
CHEAPEST AND BEST,
everv day; wor* 180 Q&nda.
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and Supply Co.,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
January 27?
CAROLINA
NATIONAL BANS,
AT COLUMBIA, S. CSTATE,
TOWN AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY
Paid up Capital - - - $100,00
Surplus Profits - . 100,0-H'
Saving's Department.
Deposits ol S5.00 and upwards received
uterest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent
. annum. W A. CLAKK, President.
vmii. Ionks. Cashier,
eeember 4 ly
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IE LARGE OR SMALL QUANTITIES.
J WILL PAY THE EIGHEST MARket
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Price governed by color atd coudiion.
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At the Bazaar, ? Lexington, S. C.
LEXINGTON
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DEPOSITS RECEIVED SUBJECT TO
CHECK. .
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DIRECTORS:
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interest at 5 per cent, par annum allowed
payable April and October.
September 21?tt
ATTENTION, SOLDIERS!
Another Call Issued
For an army of sollief.s who
are fighting ior a living these hard
times In Sou'h Carolina. We, ot the firm
of Barriss & Rast, do hereby cordially invite
any and ail eligible men and women
who desire to save their hard earned money
to call upon ns when contemplating pur
chasing tmggies, carriages, etc , also har
ness, winch we mauntacmre. and guarantet
all that we sell to be well worth every penny
which we ark lor tbem.
We also take this opportunity'of slating
to our numeroas customers that we are very
sorry iDdred that we have been onable for
the past seven moths to supply the demands
made upon us owing to the fact that w*
have been qnite unable to emp'oy the skilllul
labor necessary to keen up a supply 01
goods to the standard which we prom s d
when starting out in this business B .1
now. being able to employ to labor tb?
need we hope to be able to supply the
steady increasing demands upon us with
the same, if not a better grade of work
Hoping to see enr old customers, with new
recruits coming to us in the future, we be$
to remain your obedient servants,
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columbia, s. c.
October 13 ?tf.
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"Let it be diamonds, brother Charlie.
You cannot go amiss then, for nothing
so gladdens a woman's heart. Let one
who knows tell yon. I shall never be
satisfied until I see Helen wearing a '
diamond tiara. It will be the most beantiful
Christmas present you can give
her." ? * j
Belle Kent watched her brother eager- '
lyas they walked together on the lawn,
noting the effect of her words.
44 A tiara!" cried Charlie Kent achast. !
"Why that is something for a queen to
wear! It would cost an awful lot cf
money!"
"Nonsense," answered Belle, "I j
don't mean one of those elaborate af- j
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BELLS CLASPED HEIC BROTHEP.'S ARM IMPULSIVELY.
? *7-- ??? tUinl.inf, a nnrnnof
ItUrd. iUU-tUC lUiuatug ui w vuiuuvt.
This is just a circlet of diamonds. They
needn't be very large stones, but they
must be good ones, well matched and
beautifully graded. I will help you select
them. Come, Charlie, you have
had a good year. I heard you say so.
And Helen will be so delighted!" Belle ;
clasped her brother's arm impulsively.
The two walked slowly across the !
lawn toward the house. Charlie Kent j
had been married to his young wife for
five years. She had been famous a3 one i
of the most beautiful girls in all the !
Oranges. It was in this lovely region i
that they now lived. Th9y had youth, !
wealth and everything to make life hap- !
py save one thing?no child had come
to gladden their home. This was a
source of sorrow to the young wife?a !
sorrow of which even her husband did
not know. Belle, however, suspected it. j
"I had been thinking of a pair of 1
ponies and a phaeton," said Charlie reflectively.
"Which would be the better,
do you thiDk, those or the diamonds?"
"The diamonds of course. You spoke
of a queen just now, Charlie. Isn't Helen
far more beautiful and queenly, too,
than most royal women? Ob, to think
how she will look when she sits in your
aunt's box at the opera this winter
with her tiara on her Lead!"
"You really think she would like it,
then," said Mr. Kent, beginning to
share his sister's enthusiasm.
"Like it, Charlie! I'm sure there's
nothing she longs for so much?except
perhaps"?
"Except what:" asked Charlie Kent
as his sister paused.
"Nothing," said Belle, looking down
and smiling a little demurely; "at
least nothing that cau be bought with
money. Come, Charlie, there isn't too
much time. Let us settle now upon the
diamond tiara for Helen's Christmas
present."
During the next month Miss Belle
Kent made several mysterious trips to
the city. She claimed to be an expert in
i 8HE STOPPED TO LISTEN AGAIN.
' diamonds, and she helped her brother
in the selection of ttmsq which were to
< form bis wife's She also hnd
* much to say about T^Jr arrangement
> and the simple j*et elegant setting
z which held them.
c One week before Christmas the dia
? mond circlet m its vioiet veivec case i?j
securely locked in the recesses of Air.
Kent's safe in the city.
Christmas eve arrived. The day had
been cold and threatening and toward
'* nightfall a heavy snowstorm set in.
Belle was in a fever of impatience as
t the hour for Charlie's train to arrive
drew near. She and Airs. Kent sat in an
i upper room waiting.
"W.
ET, Solicts
a Share of
s&mmmsp
mere i?. the wliistle!" cried Eelle.
"I hear the "train coming through the j
valley; now it is slowing up at the sta
tion. He will be here in ten minutes i
now, won't he, Helen?"
"How excited you aie, Eelle! Your
eyes are bright and your cheeks glow- ]
iug. "Why is it?" asked Helen wonder- I
iugly.
"Why, because it is Christmas eve, |
and because?oh, if he would only
come! I'm afraid I'll tell if he doesn't
hurry," murmured Eelle to herself.
Eut sho could not keep quiet a moment.
"Helen," she said, "of all the
things in the world what would you
rather have for Christmas:"
"How can I tell, Belle?" replied the >
sweet faced wife.
"What is the desire of your heart ;
like? Is it something not very large, :
but, oh, so beautiful and bright, and all j
in a coff rir>l> rnrpr srniP.thinC
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which would make every woman you [
know just wild with envy?"
"Well, perhaps it is a little like ,
that,"said Helen musingly, "hut without
the envy. I don't desire that."
"Well, Helen, this lovely thing is on
the way now?it is almost here, and
now you mustn't ask me one other ques:
tion," added Belle, with pretty effront j
ery. "If you do I'm afraid I'll tell j
what it is. Listen!"
At this moment a dark figure was I
creeping through the gate which opened !
upon the driveway. It was not Charlie
Kent, but a young woman, whose head
and figure were wrapped in a heavy
shawl. In her arms she carried a bundle.
From time to time she bent over
it and murmured to it softly.
"This is the house where I have seen !
the two pretty young women," she j
whispered. "They may take my little
one and be good to him. I can only hope
so. * * * If they send you to the found
ling asylum, my baby, it is only what
your poor mother would have to do."
She stopped and listened a moment, I
then ran rapidly to the porch.
"Goodby, my precious," she said
softly. "If I only dared kiss you again! 1
_ !
CHARLIE CLASFED THE TIARA ON* IIIS "WIFE'S
HEAD.
You will never kno*v your mother, but
do not think too ill of her if they ever
tell you."
4/-V lisfon orraiti fr-T fhlQ
vJiJtJ Oiuppuu i \J iw* VM.U
time she heard the sound of horses'
hoofs jast cutsirle the gate. She pressed
the bundle convulsively to her breast
and with a great sob laid it iu front of
the door. Then she pressed the bell and
darted off into the shrubbery.
"There is the bell, Helen! He has
come!"cried Belle, clapping her hands.
"How long Marv is in answering! I'll
run down myself?no, I must stay here!
Ob, there she goes now!"
The door opened, but it was a full
minute later before they heard Charlie's
voice utter a sharp "Hello!" at the entrance.
Then all was still for awhile.
Belle, bent a listening ear, 6carce dar1
ing to breathe, while Helen regarded
her in amazement.
Charlie's footstep sounded on the
stair. It seemed slower and more careful
than usual, and Belle, leaping upon
the divan, began to declaim:
j ' 'Twos the right Ix-fore Cltristrcas and all
through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
, When Brother Charlie arrived, climbing higher
and higher,
And bringing to my dearest, loveliest Eel en
her heart's desire."
Belle fairly shrieked the last words
as she sprang from her perch and rrm
toward the dcor.
"There," she cried, "that may nut
be poetry, but, oh, how tine it is! Behold!"
She flung the door open and disclosed
Charlie Kent standing on the threshold,
looking rather dazed and holding in his
ontstretched arms a white bundle.
! "Hurrah! He has brought it on a
cushion!" shouted Belle. "That is
right! Come now, march up to the
queen and present it kneeling!"
The girl caught Charh'e by the arm
and began to drag him forward.
"What is it?" ask?d Helen, with dilating
eves. She had seen a slight move
meat ia the bundle.
"It; is a baby," said Charlie ia a
queer voice. "I almost fell over it on
the porch jast now, and"?
"A what!" cried Helen and Eelle in
chorus. Mrs. Kent seized the bundle in
her arms, and in a moment it was on the
divau, with the two women on their
knees beside it, pulling away the wrap3
which infolded it.
"A baby!" cried Helen in a soft,
1 tremulous voice.
IMIOETCIEZTOiL;
Your Valued Patron
* "under the
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"Ana on the poich, you said, Charlie,"
in this awful storm? It most be
frozen to death. Oh, the poor liittle
dear I"
"No; here's a hand, Helen. It's warm
as a little to3st!"
"Oh, see that sweet little face! Look,
look, Belle, it's opened its eyes.
They're blue. Oh, the chernbl"
"Ah, the darling!"
The antiphonal exclaiming of the two j
yonng women over the child was bean- ;
tiful as themnsic of some angelic choir,
but Charlie Kent stood by looking rather
awkardly at the scene in which he
had no part.
"I suppose we'll have to keep it overnight,"
he said at length.
The cool, matter of fact note accorded
illy with the angelio choiring. The
two women looked up for a raoment as
though they did not understand.
"I mean it wouldn't do to send it
down to the police station in this storm,
would it?"
"To the police station!" burst from
the indignant Belle.
! Helen said not a word, but Charlie
I saw her face pale as she caught the
! child and held it close in her arms.
"b'ee, Helen, here is another little
I gown in this paper I" cried Belle. "And,
| oh. here's a note!"
She tore it open, and the two ladies
i read aloud together:
"A woman who is not wholly bad. but very
j miserable, leaves this child with you. He is j
healthy, beautiful and good. He may be to |
you the blessing which it is denied me to hope j
; for in him. Take hiin and love him, and you i
will never again hear from his unhappy
"ilOTHEIt." j
Helen arose and went to her husband j
i with the child.
"Charlie, yon will let me keep this'
j baby, will you not?!' she said in a voice
: which had in it something of religious
exaltation. "God has sent him to me,
' |
and I love him already. Yon will not
! send him away, Charlie; tell me yon
will not!" Her voice dropped to a tone
of tender cajolery, "Let it be my Christmas
i^esent, my husband!"
Charlie Kent accepted the situation
with the best grace possible. There was
no clcud on his brow as he kissed his
wife's chtek and said:
"Wo will keep the child if it is your
wish, Helen."
"Mercy, Cbarlio, I had quite forgotten
!" whispered Belle; "where is it:"
Charlie thrust his hand into the
pocket of his overcoat, which he still
wore, and drew forth a package. L'neeen
by Helen, who was bending over
the little rue, they opened it together.
Then, at a sign from Belle, Charlie
| came close behind his wife, while hie
sister led her to the mirror.
| "Close your eyes for a moment, Ileli
en, dearest; we want to show yon a pic|
ture." Helen did as she was Lid, and
nlocnwl rlio tinrn f.n lii? wife's
V_^ U i iiU l.?-v - .
i heau.
j "Now lock!" cried Belle.
I Helen opened her eyes and gazed upon
; what is surely the most beautiful pic!
turc in the world?a lovely young woini
an clasping an infant to her bosom.
Above her brow the circlet of white
stones gleamed like a halo. But Helen
gazed for an instant only. Her eyes,
brimming with gratitude and happiness,
sought in the mirror those of her husband,
rested there a moment and then
dropped to the face of the sleeping child.
Sl?e Wan I'txzxleil.
May?Christmas always puzzles me.
Belle?How?
May?I ( on't know whether 1 should
be thankful for the things I didn't expect
or disappointed about the things I
expected and didn't get.
Chamb'tIain's C lie, Cbo'ea ard
Dia rboea Remedy can always bed?
pended upon and is pleasant and
> safe to lake. Sold by J. E. Kauf'
mann.
)ODS
r, Ji3.,'
age. Prompt and I
MI5TLETOE."
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CHRISTMAS IN |
CAPE BRETON.!
i
ET MARGHEKITA ABLIXA HAMM.
I
[Copyright, 1S93, by the Author]
i AR off the beaten
track of tourist .
{J/ ) and health seeker
lies the twin is/
\ necting 1"*^ be- j
IB) / tween Nova Sco- !
wfJ ' an(* New- 1
? foundland. It is
cool and pleasant j
i? summer, be- ;
v ing swept by the J
* sea wind or the :
cold blasts from Labrador, but in win- i
ter it is discomfort realized. There is !
bitter cold, and the ocean storm brings
with it salt and frozen spray which benumb
the most powerful. The people
are an odd mixture. The first settlers
were Basque fishermen and sailors, and
these were followed in the course of
time by sturdy Scotchmen from the
highlands and French peasants from
Quebec or from the faraway fatherland.
English sailors and fishermen were added
from time to time, so that the people
of tndav are a combination impossible
to match in the new world. Like all !
dwellers in a cold climate, they have |
become devout and conservative. Once j
they drank hard, but today prohibition
covers them with her white banner.
Their Christmas day is more like that
of the Canadian than of the New Englandcr
or New Ycrker. Religious services
are held, and every one turns out in j
his or her best. The clothing is Dot
what would be called fashionable in J
American cities, but it is well adapted :
to the cruel climate. Three or four coats :
and trousers often mark the man and as !
i many woolen suits the woman.
In nearly every churchyard is a |
shrine tc seme saint, especially to those
connected with the weather. The favorj
ite is that of Mary of the Snows, and
another Anne, who is said to protect
mortals ficm the torments of the ice.
On Christmas day there are always candles
burning in theso little shrines and '
nm\-orc cuirl lir Trivps and daughters i
t"-".' J o
whose husbands are on the mainland or
the rocky, icebound beach. Here,
too, is kept up the lovely old practice ;
of the Christmas carols and "the J
waits." On Christmas eve groups of j
| singers go from house to bouse or else I
hold pretty ceremonies of song in the
village church, while on Christmas day '
church and house alike echo to the fa!
miliar tuues of Christmas in both EngI
land and Fiance. In the afternoon and
j evening there are parties where games,
I music and dancing pass the hours swilt;
ly away.
A touching feature of the day is the
I old French custom of remembering the
! needy. This is done., after the morning
! service in church and consists in the
| young people of families that are pros[
perous going with appropriate gifts to
j the homes of the poor. As you stand on
I the village street you will see a handsome,
well dressed girl struggling with a
bag of Hour under her arm and with
her brother or betrothed, carrying in
one hand a generous basket of potatoes
and in the other one of fish or meat.
Another party will be bringing clothes,
dolls and a great Christmas cake, while
a third will bo ladeu down with little
nipr>p= nf raiment. caDS and boots for the
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children of some poor neighbor.
It is a survival of the olden times
1 when the lord of the manor bestowed his
bounty upon all of his teuauts and in
; its present form is as pretty a way of
! observing the day as anything which
i can be found.
j As every one in Greater New York
J knew or oushfc to have known. _w'>ot?
COMP
^Gr!E3IE3,
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Mite Attention.
roya
t absolutecy'e
Makes the food more del
BOVAl MOW POWl
ikiiss Peggy Wcatherington -decided to
do a rhir# it was usually done.
Peggy was charming, but Peggy was
chronically unconventional. She had a
habit of gently shocking Fifth avenue
on an average of once a month and
astounding her family about once a
week. The truth of the matter was,
Peggy was simply fall of animal spirits,
preferred Jiving her own life and laughed
at her more dignified family and the
two dozen lovers who proposed on an
average of once a month to her.
There was of course Donald Cotton,
whom she took a little more seriously
and consequently tormented a little
mere assiduously. But as that young
man had been cursed with an income
and a taste for nrban life Peggy made
no bones abont expressing her good,
healthy contempt for the unillnstrious
existence he eked out. Clubmen, she
said, were always commonplace. She
liked men who did things. She liked to
see heroism, she said, and manliness
and the spirit of adventure in her
friends. All of which made the good
natured ahd easy going Mr. Donald Cotton
very unhappy.
Each December Donald was in tbe
habit of going up into Maine after
moose, and it occurred to bim that a
few weeks' absence wonld not be a bad
thing before asking Peggy for the nineteenth
time to marry him.
Roffiro rrninnr lin in the WOOds he Hat
0" n -x
urally had to see Peggy to say goodby,
and Peggy, of coarse, was surrounded
by the usual facetious circle when be
called. He doggedly sat them out, however,
and got hold of Peggy's hand
somehow and told her he was going
away.
"Where?" said Peggy, wincing for a
moment, and then nonchalantly pulling
her hand away.
"Up in the Maine woods after
moose," said Donald.
"Oh, is that all!" said Peggy, recovering
herself, with fine scorn.
"Moose hnnting is awfully dangerous
work," said Donald, "and something
might happen."
"Dangerous for what, you silly boy?
Chilblains?" said the unfeeling Peggy.
"Charlie Brown was killed by a bull
moose last winter," said Donald cheerfully.
Peggy laughed. " Why, I know a
girl, a little, dimpled, pink and white
girl, who goes moose shooting. She's a
cousin of mine up in Montreal, and she
goes to Mattawa every winter. And
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W133C is worse, sir, uu jc^uuu uiuuguto
I think I shall go with her this Christmas
and show yon that moose shooting
isn't so dreadfully dangerous."
"Peggy!" said Donald, trying to
catch her.
"And what is more," said Peggy,
slipping away and getting on the other
side of the table, "what is more, I'm
going to see if I can't get a bigger
moose than you. .No, you needn't look
horrified. I shot a mountain goat once,^
I "PEGGY!" SAID DONALD, TRYING TO CATCII
HER.
and I've been shark fishing in Florida,
and I walked through Mott street one
i midnight, so moose don't count. You
go up to Maine and I'll go to Mattawa,
and we shall see who'll bring home tb9
biggest horns."
j Donald knew it was madness, but he
also knew it was no use to expostulate.
He called at Peggy's bouse tho next
evening, but F^ gtry was gone, a sense
of loneliness stole over him as he
walked homo through the falling snow,
his face set with a great purpose. He
: would go after her. Something might
happen to her. Supposing she got lost
I in those northern woods?yes, ho would
most certainly go after her.
He had already lost one day. Ey 9
o'clock the next morning he was speeding
toward Montreal fast as steam could
carry him. At Montreal he caught the
transcontinental night express and at
: daybreak stepped out at the little town
j of Mftftnxca, on the headwaters of. the
ANY.
COLUMBIA, 8. O.,
October 13?tf.
i baki no
Powder
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licious and wholesome
Ottawa. Here ne made inquiries about .
the Montreal party.
Tbey had passed through Mattawa
the day before, had picked up six Indian
guides there and gone north to
Temiscamingue.
Two hours later a party of one, with
three guides, was on ks way north. At
Gordon Creek the nartv of one was told
that a party of six Indians, a white man
and two girls in blanket suits had the
day before started ont throngh the bnsh.
Donald followed up the trail. The
mercury went down below the zero
mark, Temiscamingne took on its first
ice, and snow fell often through the
night. In two days he came upon %
camp which had been broken up but a
few hours before. Later in the day they
struck high, rolling country. During
the afternoon they heard rifleshots, and
before dusk they came upon moose
tracks and a well tramped "yard."
That night over the campfire Donald
remembered it was Christmas eve. A
Christmas alone in the northern Laurentians
is not a cheerful thing.
But Christmas morning broke clear
and cold. Before the sun was over the
dark pine tops they were following up
the moose tracks over a rough and
| HIS FINGER WAS SHAKING ON THE TRIGGER j
OF I1IS WINCHESTER.
j broken country. The tracks skirted a
frozen Jake, and then went tip a high
j rocky platean. Donald knew these high
j ridges were the haunts of moose in
winter.
; Late in the afternoon nothing bad
j been seen. The Indians picked a camp
t and set to work getting their backwoods
Christmas dinner. Donald, however,
i could not resist the fascination of fresh
moose tracks. He took bis Winchester
and swung up over the bills for a reconnoiter.
After about half an hour's
i journey through second growth white
j birch be came to a sudden stop and
i dropped noiselessly behind a fallen pine.
i A few winters in Maine bad given him
; all the true hunter's alertness of nerve,
j Where the underbrush fringed away
! into a country of broken rock be bad
caught sight of a calf moose. In the
gathering dusk he could see it indistinctly
moving slowly and cautiously
out of the shadow of the scrub bush.
He had plenty of time, so he rested bis
Winchester on tho pine log, taking
i studious, deliberate and accurate aim.
i At that moment tbo moving shadow
i turned sideways. Donald's rifle fell
1 from his hand, and he took a deep
! breath. His rifle had been trained on a
| girl in a blanket suit, and he could, see
! her shouldered rifle pointing down the
! valley. It was Peggy.
The consciousness of this bad scarce|
ly swept through his mind when he
j saw a pnff of smoke. Then came a rei
port, and another, and another. A short
! distance up the valley he saw a cow
' moose fall. Then he saw something
I that sent the blood tingling through his
| veins. Out of the underbrush he beheld
a huge bull come thundering up the
' 1 ? - ?J " ?1-1. '1*a in
I ?10p6 btrujglik 1U1 iJJU uoYiiuu^u ju
| the blanket suit. As he came tearing
! up the snow in his flight the girl in the
j blanket suit deliberately dropped on
I one knee, took aim and fired at the
! broad breast bearing down on her, not
! more than 60 feet away.
! Donald groaned. He saw that the
J plucky shot went wide?miles wide.
His own finger was shaking on the trigger
of his Winchester, for when her
life depended npou a shot the responsi:
bility naturally unnerved him.
All he remembered was that he stopped
firing when his magazine was emp1.1
1. .L. U..11 Unrl
IY, 2ii(lJUU?ll UJC Uiai uaii jj<*m tviai
through the animal's huge lungs. A
| moment later be had a confused picture
of a moose plunging bead down into a
i snowbank stone dead and a girl sitting
in the snow, quietly crying. It was the
first time he had ever seen Peggy cry.
When she saw who it was, she stopped.
i "Don?Donald Cotton, how did you
I como he-re?"
"Why," said Donald, lifting her up
out of the snow and brushing the flakes
from her wet cheeks, "I just came Tip \
to tell you how dangerous moose shooting
really is"?
"Stop, Don, stop, or I'll cry again!"
- "And also to ask you for the "nine- ? M
teenth time if you will marry me." ? |jj
.!
"It's getting dreadfully dark, Don,
dear," said Peggy ten minutes later, .
"and it's four miles to camp." "
"Who cares?" said Don.
Three Indian guides never knew why
they were given three whole bottle? of
Kentucky ?ourbon on a certain Christ*
mas night, and it isn't every one who
knows just how Mrs. Donald Reed Cot*'
ton secured the pair of beautifully channeled
moose horns which hang over her
library door. "Jg
Fell from a Scaffold, - J
From the Heraii, Walerto-vn, N. Y. *
John Yung, of Le Roy, N. Y., is
72 years old, and is well known in
that and neighboring towns. While
putting some weather boards on a ^
barn, standing on a scaffold twentymo
feet from the ground, he felt % vj
dizzy, lost his balance and fell to the 'fmt
ground. The side of bis face, arm
and one entire side of his body, on ^
which he btiuck, were badly bruised.
Picked up and carried to the house, \V7fj
he was under a doctor's care for sev- -3
eral weeks. The doctor finally came ' ;M
to the conclusion that bis patient bad
received a stroke of paralysis and
PABALYZED BY THE FALL.
was beyond medical aid. He coald
not use one arm, or tarn over in bed. M
One day, wbile lying on the bed,
bo read of a case something like bis a|
having been cured with Dr. Wil- ^
Mams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
He coaxed his granddaughter to get
him a box of pills. After that box * 'J
bad been used he secured another. ^
in three weeks he began to feel a
little life in his arm; at the end of
foar he could move his lingers; at
the etd of two months he could walk
and in three months could shave ^
himself with the injured hand.
As he tcld his story in the Herald
office, be looked the perfect picture
of health. He carries a box of the ?
pills in bis pocket, and whenever be
does not feel just right, he takes
them. They cured him after doctors
had given him up, and his death was
daily exprcted.
All the elements necessary to give
new life and richness to the blood " "jjj
and restore shattered nerves are contained,
in a condensed form in Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
They are an unfailing specific for
such diseases as locomotor ataxia,
partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, tt<e after effects of la
grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale
and sallow complexions, all forms of
weakness either in male or female.
I
The Atlanta Jubilee.
McKiulej Caught the City By His
Utterances.
Gen. Wheeler and one Hundred of
His Old Cavalrymen Form the
Guard of Honor?Two Parades.
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Atlanta, Dec. 15.?President McKinley
continues to receive an ovation.
Ex-Mayor Glenn said this morn
ing: "Alter tne speecn 01 last mgni
the president might make any nam- . - '
ber of negro appointments and the
Sjuth would hardly take exception.
He showed not only that the past is
dead, but Ibis is a new country. All.
sections are now in such sympathy
that the North can honor the Confederate
dead because they were
Americans. The president has carned
the city off its feet."
Train after train load of people
i ? t it'- nn.
were umoaaea mis laoniiug. iue
streets are crowded The jam today
is worso than yesterday. The military
and civil parade today* was the
greatest in the city's history.
General Wheeler commanded five
hundred Confederate veterans. Ttie
guard of honor consisted of a bundred
of his c!d cavalrymen.
In the civic parade there were ten
thousand school children and four
hundred carriages.
Frances?Harry says he just wants
to fall down and worship me all the
time. Her Mamma?0, well, don't
mind that, dear. After you're marritd
he won't let it interfere with his
business.
S1C0 Be ward $100.
The readers of this paper will be
in l??Arn that thflrft is at least
r"v ? ? ?
one dreaded disease that sciense has
been able to cure id ail its stages, aod
that is Citarrh. Hall's Catarrh Care,
is the only positive care known to
the medical fraternity. Catarih being
a constitutional disease, requires
% constitutional treatment. Hall's
Cttarrh Cire is taken internally, acting
directly opon the blood and mucous
surfac- 8 of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the disease,
and giving the patieLt strength
by building up the constitution and
;.s-.is,tin > n>itiirH in d> i: c its work v
Th'? rr ipnetors Lave so much faith
iu i:s cnr.itive powers, that they offer
Ooe Hatred Dollars for aDy case
'hit it l^i's to cure. S-3Dd for list of
- s'imorjia's. SoU by all druggists.
Pr c.=* 7 j oei ts. 30
Hall's Family Pills are the best
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