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We, ol the firm of Burriss Rast, do hereby cordially invite any and all eligible men and women who desire to save their hard earned money do call upon us when contemplating purchasing buggies, carriages, etc., also harL-ness, which we manufacture. ?ncl tfuarnntee all that we sell to be well worth every penny which we ark for them. 'We also take this opportunity of stating to onr numerous customers that we are ver\ sorry indeed that we have been unable for the past seven moths to supply the demands made upon us. owing to the fact that we have been quite unable to emp'oy the skillLful labor necessary to keep up a supply of goods to the standard which we promised when starting out in this business. But now, being able to employ to labor the L needle hope to be able to supply 1 he steady increasing demands upon us with :r ?* ~ r.nf work. toe same, n uui? ucun .HopiDg to see our old customers, with new . recruits coming to us in the future, we beg to remain your obedient servants, ? BURRISS & BAST, COLUMBIA, S. C. October 13?tf. v Poultry, Farm, Garden, Cemetery, !Lawn, Railroad and Rabbit Fencing. Thousands of mil ex in use. Catalogue Free. ^ Freight Paid. Prices Lour. Hie McMULLEN WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO. CHICAGO, ILL. Not-17.U TVTAI1V STIM I THE I l^SHSulf^i i "'A KEW YEARS TALE J J BVJE?*L5T i?5?i??ta j f Coppi^it>Kl8.by th^&thor A It was New Year's eve. A fire of mountain turf roared iu tbe wide mouthed fireplace. The octogenarian, Patrick Mulligan, sat upon a suggauu (rope etraw) chair in the ingle nook. Four generations of Mulligans were represented under the thatch that night. It was the annual gathering of the faction. They included all ages, from the baby who had just come over the border of earth's mysterious land to the stalwart old man who was about to cross tbe farther frontier. The firelight dauced upon 85 faces. "The Mulligans forever!" shouted broed shouldered young Mike Mulligan. "Grandad, tell us the story of the blackthorn and how you won your wife with it!" "Troth thin I told it to yez before, me lad. 'Tis an old tale! 'Tis an old tale!" replied the old man, while the snow beat upon the window panes, tbe hail rattled in the thatch and the wind T T I ' L* I! m ; "DII) HF. AX YKZ?'' SAYS I. swooped down the chimney of wattles, sending a stream of sparks across the floor. "Faith, 'tis that,"-said Mike, "but 'tis like some other things?all the better for its age. "Yes, yes, grandad," chorused the Mulligans, young and old, crowding around the fireplace.. "Do tell us about the blackthorn." "Faith, I couldn't say nay to all yez gossoons on a New Year's eve," replied the old man as he caressed the shillalah which had been in his possession nearly 60 years. "Many a skull did yez touch in friendly sport," ho continued, running his fingers over the stick caressingly and surveying the wood with the eye of a connoisseur. " 'Twascut from the straightest root growing piece of blackthorn I could find 60 years ago. It must be root growing, boys, for if not, I could not think 'twas worth cutting. A mere branch, no matter how straight and fair it might look, would be apt to warp and twist in the tug o' war. Whin I had it cut and tho branches lopped off, I put it up the chimney to season. Whin 'twas well dried, I took it down and wrapped it in brown paper, well soaked in hog's lard. Thin I buried it in warm earth, taking it out every day to bind it across mo knee till all the twists and turns were out of it. After I had it straight, I rubbed it well with a woolen cloth covered with blacklead and grease, to give it a polish. 'Twas all ready now for a shindy, only for it being a little too light at wan ind. So I bored a hole in it with a redhot iron spindle, into which I poured some melted lead for the purpose o' giving it the knockdown weight. This lead, me childer," continued the old man in benignant fashion, "gave the stick a widow and orphan making quality, a child bereaving touch, as the poet says, altogether very desirable, to say nothing of the balance in the hand. Now, if the stick should split whin yez are making the hole, yez may put on an iron ferrule and drive a few nails into it, l'aving the nails stick out on either side, both for arnamiut and use. The fortnnes of the Mulligans, me cbilder, have depinded more nor wanst on the judicious use of a nail in a stick, and"? "But I thought you were going to tell us about grandma," broke in a 17year-old maiden with pansy eyes. "So I am, mavournccn, but yez must let me tell it in me own way. Whin I was of yer age, Mike," he resumed, "I was as tidy a lad as ye'd meet in a month of Sundays?well set up about the shoulders and as handsome a.- a soldier. Manny a girl would turn her head to look at me thim days and 1 passing. And among thim that gave me a Lit o' blarney now and thin was the Widdy Sullivan. She was left widout chick or child at the ago of 22, and a snug, purty woman she was, wid a warm complexion and a w.cnn heart. Whin I'd be working hard all day on the farm, I'd stroll down to her liquor store in the avenin. There was always a taste o' punch to be had, and mebbe a rashii o' bacon and a cup o' tay whin the 1 j L ??MM' -Ttr'tc I avemng woum UV Wianuf; a\m.. i ! not in tbe taproom we sat at ail, at ail, ) bat in tbe kitchen, where the turf fire : was homing bright and everything nate | and comfortable, wi<l the firelight dancing on tbe tins on the wall. 44'Pat,' she'd say to me soothering like, 4 'tis time yez were thinking about getting married.' i 44 'Well,' says I, 'mebbe I am looking | oat for a wife. And who should I come ! to for advice bat to yez, that knows all aboat it?' **4Ob,' says she, blasbing like a rose, Pll?8 jfjp w. E CET, Solicts a Share o * 'tis not zrse Has r.ie age no tue experieuce to give advice to a tidy young chap like ycrself.' " 'Sure army wan could soc yoz hadn't j the age by looking in yer eyes, acushla, but ye ought to have the experience, and yer husband dead only a year.' " 'But ho was an elderly man, rest | his sow I, Pat,' says she, wiping her eyes I with her apron. ' 'Tis a lottery all ! around, this marrying.' '"'Tis soindade,' says I, hitching j me chair up a little closer. " 'But mebbo ye'd bo giving mo | some advice yerself, Pat?' says she as i sly as a weasel. 'I'm a widdy wid no wan to look out for me, and I'm that lonesome, Pat, yez wouldn't believe! I have three as fiuo feather beds as ever kept a man warm on a cold winter's night, a round dozen o' silver spoons, j five pigs, a donkey and a cow in the ' yard and a dale o' staff that I can't j mint ion.' j " 'Well,' says I, putting me ar-r-ra | around her waist by way of eucouragement, 'go on, widdy, darliut. What adi vice are yez wanting, agra?' j " 'I'm afeerd ye'd be angry, Pat,' ; says she, and she knowing all the time I i. u uu jaivu a xui.iv. ^ j 44 4 Well, thin,' says she, purriug like I a cat, 4 Terence McCarthy was in here ! last night, and he's very ginteel.' j 4 4 4Oh, he is, is he?' says I. Yez i mast know, gossoons, that Terence was j the only man that could handle a hurly ! stick or shake the foot with me at a ! christening. Besides, he had a nate way | of striking with a stick. 44 When tho *widdy mintioned his name, I took me ar-r-m away from her ; waist and got on me feet. I thought tho I widdy was making a fool 0' me by put* j ting McCarthy over ag'in mo. j 4 4 4 Did he ax ycz,' says I, whiroas tho I wall and biting my lips with rage. ! 4 4 4No,' says she, demure as a kitten, | 4but he told me he was coming tomorI row night to say something important ] tome. Now, Pat, darliut,' says she? | oh, ye women, what sarpints yez are? J 4if he axes me to marry him, shall I say i 44yes?" ' " 'Tis necessary for me to tell yez, I cbilder, that all that the widdy was telling rue about McCarthy was made up out of her own purty head. She was only telling it to me so that I'd be jealous and ask her to marry me.; but, like tho poor fool I was, I didn't see through i her little game, and 'twas only through j the Lord's kindness to me that I didn't | strike her down where she stood I was | that augry with jealousy; but I was terrible cold to her, as cold as the icicle that hung on the northeast corner of Diana's temple wero the freezing words j I spoke to her, and her poor little heart i breaking for mo all the time, tho darj lint! i " 'Good avening to yez, Yviddy SulliJ van,' says I, mighty polite, and setting j her to one side, as if she was a bag of ; male. 'Good avening to yez, and I wish ! yez joy, yez and yer McCarthy,' and with that I was off hot foot up tho street in search of McCarthy. " 'What talk have yez wid tho Wid dy Sullivan?' says I, whin I met him j coming down the street as p'aceable as 1 a sheep going to a shearing, and I fairj ly frothing at the mouth wid rage, j Now, if I'd asked him politoand dacint there would have been no fight, for McCarthy had 110 rye for tho widdy. Eut I was that ugly that he lost his timper and said: " 'What's that to yez, Pat Mulligan? I'll talk to army woman I like!' ho snvs. 44 'I dare yez to meet me in Murphy's barn loft tomorrow night wid sticks!' I roared. 4 And bj;ing a doctor wid yez, for I'll break yer bead!' 4 4 4 And ye bring a new jaw with yez, ; ye dirty thafe!' roared Mac, now as | mad as raeself, 4for I'll break the wan yez have in three halves!' " By this time the recollection of tho most stirring period in his history enlivened the dying fires of the old man's | energy. Iiising to his full height and j holding the sbillalahon high, he shouted the old Mulligan warcry: 44Whoo! Yer sowl! Hurroo! Success to the Mulligans! To the divvil "IIUHUOO! SUCCESS TO THE MULLIGANS!" wid tho McCarthys! Where's tho Haggard dare tread on the tail of me coat?" ! Here the eye of the old man caught tho look of alarm on tho faces of his listeners and he sat down with a foolish smile. "Excuse me," said he. "Tis long since tho fighting spirit was in 1110. The "? '1 - - i i: i . news wiut rouuo tne panMi nnr wmiiut: i 1 that McCarthy and I wero to tight for the Widdy Sullivan, and it being New Year's eve the loft was crowded wid people to see the fan. The widdy didn't tell me she was lying to me, and McCarthy was too proud to say a word. A space about 20 feet across was cleared in the middle of the floor. The referee i was chosen, and he warned us there ; was to be no kicking or hiring or gongl ing?nothing hut fair fighting wid the j sticks. The widdy was there looking j like an angel. There was a chalk mark I drawn across the tloor and just before _ * i HWin' !SEMWB3ZIgaP?iBObai??M?in? fcg? 2v^02^TC^:T02S f Your Valued Patron n 1 Hoi! io me New Year! ^ 3 ? SI v$ The horns are blowing lond and Sv S GhriU, WA <g The bells aro ringing clear. S sj And melodies of gtodness fill Lias 9 The frost-atmosphere. Tr! jT ?2 Tno old year's flown m To realms unknown ? a <2 And on liptoo apace & H ^ ' Beside the door 1$ g >4 We seo once more ? p The new year's baby face, 22 ? A bud of beauty I May it blow & >--? A perfect flower, fold on fold, 5' 0 ^ And set our hopes with joy aglow 1:= 2 And light our paths with fairy <8 gold. The old year's hobbled to the gate ?2 And said his last goodbv. *S? The new year comes with step elate ! <2 And kind and loving eye. 9 North, south, east, west. <2 A welcome gue3t, He sails on happy wings ^ And waves serene ^ L I ' the fighting "began a gossoon came to | me and whispered in my ear: > ?rr?i : .1.1 1 ?? *U? 1 lie wjuuv t>uj s &ecp uu uig uuuu i side cf the chalk mark for yer life!' | "That heartened me up a bit, for I j had been thinking she was wid Mc- | ' Carthy, although I did not know what the message meant. Thin we wiut at it hammer and tcngs. Tare and ages! Tho ; first welt I got loosened three teeth, but "DO YEZ GIVE UP?" I ROARED. ! I made him see fireflies wid a crack I j gave him on top of the head. Tho crowd j was worKea up iu great Biuiuiut-ui, auu i shouts arose from all sides of: " 'Hurroo for the Mulligans!' 'Death to the McCarthys!' 'That'sa good one, Mac!' 'Break his bones, Pat!' "We had been fighting for nearly tin | i minutes when McCarthy made a mad ; rush at me, the floor gave way beneath j j his feet, and he fell through up to his ; armpits. Ho could neither get up nor [ down, and there ho hung in midair like ! a woodcock on a spit. A roar of laugh- I ter went up from tho crowd. But 'twas : no laughing matter wid Mac. I stood ! j over him wid me stick in mo hand, I and divvil's tho wan dared como near j to help. j " 'Do yez givo up:' I roared, shaking ! me stick at his head. "'Faith, I do,' says he, 'since'yez1 druv me through tho floor.' "Thin he was pulled up out of tho : hole, the widdy rushed into me a-r-rms, j and 'twas all over but the treating at tho widdy's bar. But she niver told me until after tho wedding that it was her- j self cut the board iu the floor so that ; McCarthy would fall through." Placing the Blume. Good Father Time, your patience, pray! j My question is a bold one? Why should I turn another leaf If you still use the old one? Each year I take a spotless page, I>rink deep of pure ambition. But every Christmas finds it in The same besmirched condition. Full thirty times I've slipped from grace, ' Borne virtue's execrations. Because you've always tried me with The same old sweet temptations. And now I know reform is but A visionary matter. While you. with such consummate skill, On my defenses batter. For while the roses brightly bloom Upon the lips of beauty I know I'll lack the strength to walk The lonely paths of duty. And while the twisted 1 af contains Nepenthe for :ny sorrow SIy great reforms will Le postponed To some unborn tomorrow. So. Fath< r Time, it rests with youl For my part, I've concluded To go unperjured mi my way. No more I'll be deluded. And if you want this world to roll T'nstjiincd through h'-avn's portals ' You'll have to turn a loaf yoursolf And Klve :t chance to mortals. 1\ M'ARTHUR. Ci;a:</i>-ikin's C.]i?\ Cholera and ; Dianhooa Remedy ran always bot'eponded upon and is pleasant and hafo to take. Sold by J. E Kauf ; tn ann. {paid for your paper ? | r, je., ' > " I i-\4- mi /I IcIgU. JL UMiJj/L dim I The branch of green, ^ Of war no noto he Kings. 9b Within his pack good things galore 3 Has ho and naught, let's hope, ft that's sad, ^ Bare gifts from time's mysterious d shore ^ To make our trusting spirits V glad. Then for tho old year bore's a sigh And for the new a Rmilo. ^ E'en as the snowflakes whirl and ^ fly 3 HMay love's white blooms beguile, ft The glad bells ring 3 The notes that wing ft From star to 6tar, from heart to 3 heart. & The glad new year ^ Is h^ro. is here. 9t And all our thoughts of care de- ^ . part. * Then let the bells ring out their cheer ^ In merry measures far and wide ft To welcome in the glad new year 3 The stranger at the mgleside. ft r. k. munkittrick. 3 A SMUGGLING YARN. NEW YEAR'S ADVENTURE ON THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER. With n Revenue Cnttor In Midwinter? The Seareh For n CnrKo of French Drnndy?The Most Gnllant SnuiKKler on the Gnlf. The Canadian revenue cutter Dominion slouched ominously up and down the south coast of Autioosti, poking an ice covered uoso into every bay and cove along the coast as she went. It was New Year's day and bitterly cold in tho gulf. Officers and men (there wero not a dozen all told) cheerfully cursed the Cape Gaspo lighthouse keeper, who had sent a crazy dispatch up to Quebec with somo nonsense about a smuggled cargo of French brandy. But tho inland revenuo department at Ottawa knew a few hundred barrels of Fiench brandy had lately found its way into tho country, and it bad its suspicions. So when the Ga-=pe information camo up to Quebec Captain Armstrong was sent down with a three pound gun to look into the matter. I happened to bo spending my Christmas vacation wit?; tho captain, so he told mo to conic along as there might bo seme excitement. Bnt New Year's on tho lower St. Lawrence, I found, was not a thing to bo longed for, and we both called the inland revenue department somo very bad names as wo paced the Dominion's icy Jittle deck. The cap- j tain, nevertheless, was keeping his weather eye open for a black tug with j a red funnel, known as tho Rosalie L., ! and supposed to be making up the gulf for Ste. Anno des Montes with GO barrels ! of French brandy on board. I never felt such raw, benumbing, | paralyzing cold. For three days our search for smugglers had been fruitless. In fact, no kind of craft cared to pass either up or down the gulf in such weather. It was on the afternoon of New Year's day that a fishing smack ran up alongside and reported that a black tug with a red funnel bad been seen com- I iug up tho gulf. So we slipped away j from Anticosti and went churuing west- j ward for the south mainland. Revenue j cutters aro not made for loafing, and | the Dominion was making her 15 knots i an hour until a fog blew up the gulf ! and caused us to shut down to quarter j speed. We were shivering 011 deck in that ; great white gulf fog lato in the after- ! noon, when from tho southwest we j heard tho sadden report ot a signal gun. i This was followed by three short blasts ; of a siren. The Dominion sped ahead J under full steam, and we forgot the i cold. Two men stood in the bow and j strained tbe-ir eyes through the white ! mist that hung over us like a blanket. Ten minutes later tho lookout cried, i "Open boat ahead!" Under our bows , 20 feet ahead a small boat tossed up ; and down on the waves. "Port! Hard port!" cried the cap- ; tain. Before the wheelsman could swing her round and step the engines wo had j swept past the tiny craft. The one man j in tho boat dropped his oars and lightly j waved his hand to us as we lunged past and lost him in the fog. He certainly J was not trying to escape. We lay to, and in a couple of min- j utes tho boat pulled up alongside. Tho crew of one climbed nimbly on board. Ho was a little dark skinned Frenchman, with twinkling black eyes and a turned up nose. He dolled his heavy coonskin cap with great grace as he stepped on deck and bowed. "All, la'sieurs, it is tho first of the good year. Permit me to wish you all, m'sieurs, the compliments of the season." Again the little man bowed, smiled and showed a row of good white teeth. He spoke English with astound iiiir fluency for a habitant. Our captain returned Jii.-; salutation. "What is your name, sir, and your ship:" heasktd. "Ah, my name! Pardon me, m'sieurs. It is Pierre Baptisto Delormo of iSte. Anno de Montes. What do you call him ? pilot, fisherman, trappeur, I ?w<3~I3IE?3, Polite Attention. j absolutely Makes the food more d? rqval baking PQv m'sieurs, and lnmberman."' Again the cheerful littlo man bowed. I The captain started at the name and | tools a letter from his greatcoat pocket, lie wont up to the little Frenchman. "And smuggler, Pierre Baptiste Delormc," said the captain. The idea was j absurd. The little fellow laughed up- j roariously, took a flask from his coon- j ' skin coat pocket, and gallantly passed | i it around. It was filled with lino French ' brandy. "Ah, no, m'sieurs," ho said, taking a deep drink, "I have n;y wife and the littlo Pierre and Baptisto at homo, and fishing is better than this." lie pointed toward the three pound gun. Once more through tho log tho signal ; gun sounded, followed by the whistle. ! "What ship is that?" asked tho captain. "Oh, that is the Rosalie F., xn'sicur, ! with codfish for Three Rivers." "Codfish!" said tho captain. "And what is the gun for?" The little man shrugged his shoulders. "The fog is very thick, m'sieur." The captain went to the wheel. "Do you know these waters well, M. DeJorme?" "Know them !" ' A smilo spread over tho Frenchman's bearded lips. "Yes, m'sieur, from a boy." "Andrews, givo this gentleman tho I wheel," said the captain. "He shall } take us to this Rosalie F. at once. I want to look over that codfish." Tho captain threw open his bearskin coat and showed his uniform. "On her majesty's service!" he added significantly. Tho littlo Frenchman again shrugged i his shoulders, then laughed. "With I j p'easure, m'siccr!" He stopped lightly | into the pilotbouso and spun round the wheel with airy nonchalance. The captain stood beside him watching. "Aren't you running her a few points off on the south:" ho asked, studying the chart. Tho Frenchman laughed unoasilv. j "M'sieur, I was horn on these waters," j ho said simply. j I was on tho bow beside tho lookout. | Suddenly tho wind came up and tho fog ; lifted. There, 200 yards away, towered J tho great rocky sboro of tho lower St. | Lawrence. Our pilot was deliberately j running us upon tho rocks! The captain sprang forward and sig- j I naled "Reverse engines." Half a milo ; up tho river lay a black tug with a red i funnel, and a six oared boat was plying j between her and tho shore. Tho captain and tho Frenchman look- I ed at each oth?T, but neither spoko for a moment. Then tho littlo Frenchman laughed uneasily and spun round tho wheel. "Oh-h-h!" ho cried, with mock distress. "I was mistaken, m'sieur, after all!" The captain's hand was 011 his pistol. Yet lie could not help smiling. We had 110 sooner swung slowly round j than tho black tug picked up the open ] I boat and scurried away. In two minutes j I we were after her. Snow began to fall, | [ and the early midwinter twilight set ' I in, but still the chase kept up. Finally we put a ball across the black j tug's bow. Her only retort was a rifle | I shot that splintered our pilothouse and , made the Frenchman say something un- ( der his breath. Our nest shot was in i earnest and caught her just above the ; water line. We could seo the crew run- j ning hurriedly about, while the tug ; turned and ran head on for land. A shot or two sang over our heads. Then a boat i put out from her and made for the I shore. When wo came alongside the Rosalie L., it was almost dark. We found only ' i a red funuel showing above the water. An empty cask floated past us with tho tide. "Ah, the rascals, m'sieur!" cried the little Frenchman. "It is a brandy cask!" Tho captain laughed. Ho had done his work and could afford to laugh. A boat was lowered, and half a dozen men raced merrily after the disappearing cask. Darkness bad fallen by the timo they got back, and tho burden was hauled up on deck. It is always tho duty of a revonuo officer to ascertain - 1. t- - ?, Ua UA? iLiu uiiiuru ui iiiu guuu5 iiu uua uuiiuauaied. The captain stove in the bungbcle, and did so. It was a barrel of tbo finest brandy ever shipped out of Cognac. It may not have been necessary for all tbo crew to verify tbo captain's decision, but they did so. "Wait," saidtbe captain. "M. Pierro Baptistc Delormo?where is be? Wo must drink tbe rascal's health." But M. Pierro was not to be seen. We rushed to tbe stern where the little dcry bad been tied only to hear tbo sound of bis oars as be slipped away through tbo night. "Halt!" challenged the captain. "Halt there, or wo lire!" A rifle shot or two rang out on tbe cold night air. Then a mocking voice came back across tbe water. "Au revoir, m'sieurs, and a happy new year to you all!" And the smoothest little smuggler on tin ?St. Lawrence slipped away in the darkness. AuTiirtt .1. Stkinger. Some Seasonable 1'roverbs. Hero are a few seasonable proverbs interesting perhaps to those who ?oncern themselves about the weather: If a Christmas ice hangs on the wil? I-.-... .. 1 * I " .* . .. XOW, ciover may i e < in ai i-asiin. J>eceinber changeable and mild, the whole winter will remain a child. Tin; n?!>!:tli that comes in good will go out had. January warm, tin: Lord have mercy. If it snows on Christmas night, wo I expect a good hop crop next year. ' The first three 'tries of January rule COIAIMIJIA, S. O., O'-tAbor 1 ^?t f. .g &4KIN6 PflWnFR Pure liciotiS and wholesome VDER CO., NEW YORK. I j the coming three months. The 12 days commencing Dec. 25 and ; ending Jan. 5 are said to be the keys to i the weather of tho year. I If tho sun shines through tho apple i tree on Christmas day, there will bo an abundant crop the following year. The Germans say, "The shepherd would rather seo his wifo enter the stable on Christmas day than the sun." County Court Soiiono. The Question Is Being Much Discussed. Many of tbe Couny Papers are \\ nting Favorably About It?The Richland Delegation. Columbia ReccrX Many of the county papers are advocating the establishment of county courts, and, judging from their statements, there seems to be a consid* r able demand for the adoption of such a measure. That such a bill will be introduced is practically certain. Details of tbe piau have not been formulated, but the general idea is to diminish the number of magistrates as now constituted and make fbem simply committing officers. The county court would then meet monthly and dispose of many small cases which now take up so much, time of the higher court. It is contended that it would be a saving to the county and would relieve the circuit judge of a vast amount of labor. It is contended that they have more work now than they can properly attend to, and the subject is being agitated of having more circuits and unless county courts are established a bill making at least one more, or maybe two mom, circuits will be introduced with some prospects of passing. A Record reporter endeavored to get the views of the Richland delegation on the subject today. Senator Marshall said that lie bad given the subject very little consideration and was not prepared to express an opinion until be undeistood more clearly the plans of the. promotors of the idea. Representative Weston said that generally he would favor such a measure, though a great deal would depend upon the details of the measure whether he would vote for it cr not. He thought, however, that a county court system was a good one, and believed that it would save the various couuties considerable expense. Representative Patton said tbatLe had given the subject some consider- j tion, and while he believed that it j would greatly expedite the work of the higher court, he had never been i able to see where a county couit would lesson expenses. That will be the chief consideration, and unless it I can be shown that such a condition will follow he does not believe that the bill wili pass. Other members j of the delegation living in the county could not be seen. EEBEtHBEinry | ALL WOMEN || |j J^INE-TENTHS cf jr f 0 all the pain Iandsicknessfrom _ \ t j which women suffer is caused [ by weakness or f I derangement in y f the organs j menstruation. I j Nearly always legfftaWi 0<;V* j when a woman is net well these t organs are affected. Eut when [ they are strong and healthy a j woman is very seldom sick. Is nature's provision for the regu- ?*'; ; lation of the menstrual function, hi It cures all "female troubles." It hi is equally effective for the girl in p her teens, the young wife with do- fc mestic and maternal cares, and ?. the woman approaching the period E* known as the " Change of trfe." They ail need it. They are all ft H benefitted by it. "ij-\ For advice In cases requirinc spo 'sl K directions, address, giving syrnprcms, fcj 3? the " Ladies' Advisor/ Depanmcr.t." k" <3 The Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Chcttc.- P' ^ nooga, Tenn. t tP" <_!'*'R K THOS. J. CGCPER, Tupelo, K!so.. cays: ? I j 4 My sister suffered from vary irregular [ ?j and painful menstruation and coolers * & could not relieve her. Wir.e o{ Coroul t m entirely cured her ar.d also helped ny [ ?1 mother through tha Change ot Li::." r tanaMmosi, It is difficult io know whether everything is for the host or not. hut there is no doubt that \vc should try mnl?A < hn lt/ief /\f IU UlUD'J CUV UVOV \jl V ?Vi I I \\mwifm$:s . !j * ^ $ \ .3 ^ 9 ! I^l-i}m~m^?:z\\ VM SCOTLfNBj'j ; mrWlL MACBOtf^lD \ f Copyright. 1898, by.Utc author. f ! ?? -~-rt r- turn x^. From timo immemorial New Year'8 day has been regarded in Scotland as the most notable day of tho wholo year. Previous to tho introduction of Christianity it shared in importanco among the Druids with May day, known even now among Scottish Celts as "latha buio Beltane"?i. o., tho yellow day, of Bel's lire. Among the Druids New Year's day was signalized by special rites and observances distinctive of their mysterious creed. Tho sacred mistletoe; was cut by tho priests with peculiar, ceremonies and distributed among tho people, who regarded these gifts with great veneratiou and attributed occult power and much virtue to them. After Christianity was established tho Druidical observances fell generally into disuse, and tho clergy turned tho day into a Christian festival, the feast of the circumcision. Its celebration was, however, regarded as of secondary importanco compared with Christmas and Good Fridav. thonch it never ceased to bo popular among tho people as a secular holiday. Some of the customs which distinguished the day in Druidical times survived centuries after tho introduction of Christianity, notably that of lighting bonlires on New Year's evo. At nightfall each household would light a fire, and it was thought of the utmost importance that it should continue burning until midnight. A character of sacreduess was attached to this fire, and as it burned brightly, cr the reverse, so it was imagined would be the fortune of the family during the following year. This observance, coming down from the time of the Drnids, is still general in Wales. I do not think it has been observed among tho Scottish Celts for many centuries, though other features of tho celebration cf the day which still remain give mute testimony of the ancient veneration with which fire was regarded by the primitive Eritish people. The Scottish reformation restored -* New Year's day to the Scottish people If hoa as luu ruiu uunuaj \j*. vug aW MMU teen regarded, however, as a purely, secular one, though as the opening day of a new year the occasion was considered appropriate for religions services. In some of the churches the closing mo AT KIGHTFALL E4CII HOUSEHOLD WOULD LIGHT A FIRE. merits of tho old year and the opeging ones of the new arc spent in devotional exercises, bat the great majority of the people hail the advent of another year in a very different manner. The evening preceding the 1st of January, known as hogmanay, is ? special occasion for rejoicing on the part of boys and girls. Then they receive presents, and in the cities and towns groups of them ask for gifts from [ tho people they see on tho streets and in shops and houses. They rarely meet with a refusal, and those who would never think of making presents at any other time give with apparent cheerfulness on this occasion. Coming to the door of a house the children cry, "Hogmanay, hogmanay!" and one of their favorite rhymes is: Rise up, gade wife, and shake your feathers, . Dinna think that we are beggars; ! We are bairns coine to play And to seek our hogmanay. Various explanations have been given of the term "hogmanay." One of these claims that it is a corruption of the French phrase. "Au gui meuez" (lead | 011 to tho mistletoe), a cry which in ' seme parts of France the boys that go around seeking gifts on tho last day of , December are said to use. Plausible as : tLii.s may be, I tbii k the word more \ : likely to bo a corruption of the Gaeiio expression, "Thug do mi" (giveto me), ! which, pronounced with tho "t" mute, ! as it must be, and hurriedly, would i sound almost the same as tho word so familiar to all tho boys and girls in the j lowlands of Scotland. Among tho Celtic population of Scot! laud a number of years ago it was cust ternary for groups of boys on New | Year's eve to go around from house to house with tho "croicioim colluinn" I (literally, skin of the feast), a baglike arrangement of a sheepskin. One of tho number would rap at the door, and o?x I Leing admitted would walk three times ; in front of the fire, or around it if posi sible, with tho skin hag and demand a | New Year's gift for himself and comi panicus. Tho gift, which invariably was forthcoming, was placed in the bag, ; and the boy.< would then all join in i singing a New Year's carol, in which all earthly and heavenly blessings would | be invoked upon the household. * "r A"?T?77T1 December 11. l^OS, al tbo brides Iw.ine in Lexington county, by the | li'-v. S C II dlentiue, Mr. Andrew I J. Vi'iggus and Miss Cora M. Fulunr. r- o i December 11. 1808, by Lev. S. C. i Hallrntiiie, Mr. Jesse M. LoiiknigLt and Miss TJzz'o J. Fiddle. All of i Lrvu^ton comity. December IS, IS'.iS, by Dev. S. C. 1?111< 111 ine, Mr. Ernoefc Sbealy, of lb^bt\v<l!, ami Miss Carrie Ballentino, of Cbapiu.