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TO THINS OWN BELF BK THUS AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU 0AN8T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANT MAN. BY JA VNK8. SHE!LOK, HM ITU ?t ?TECK. KEW SBKIBS. NO. 3?6-VOLUMK UV.-HO.6. FEED STUFFS We can save you money on all kir for horses and mules. No. 1 Timothy Hay $1,10 per hun Wheat Eran, $1.10 per 80-pound sac Oats, 65 cents per bushel; Ear Corn, 8 Best Meal, 80 cents per bushel. We are expecting a car of Shelle will sell at 80 cents per bushel. <C. W. & J. E. BAUKNIGH" High Grade Fertilizers and Acid At Lowest Prices for Money or Cotton ! Clothing! .'. Clothing! Sumo of tho best values ever offered in MEN'S WINTER SUITS. We are also receiving ono of tho best lines of Spring and Summer Suits evor brought to this market. Spring And Slimmer Pants. We have a job lot of Men's Spring and Summer Pants, bought from a manufacturer going out of business, at almost HALF PRICE, and we expect to give our customers the benefit of tho low price. Shoes! Shoes ! We have Shoes to fit almost every man, woman and child in Oconee county. Do not fail to seo what we have to offer before buying your next pair. We can please you in quality and price. ^ Dry Goods, Etc. We have a full and complete stock of Ladies' Dross Goods, Dry Goods, Notions, Etc. BUILDERS' MATERIAL. We are builders' headquarters. You can find anything here that you may need in the line. Wc have just received one car of Doors, Sash Blinds, Lime, Cement, Glass and Putty, Oils and Paints, tho best manu factured, in all colors. lAR?WAUE"B?IlB WlllE BY THIS C?lii Our Hardware Department is full up. We havo a large stock of Stoves, Tinware and general Hardware. One solid car load of Barbed Wire and Wire Nails. Come and See Us. N. P. NiMMONS, SENECA. S. C. HOUCHINS' LIVERY STABLES - - FURNISH - - THE BEST TEAMS AND MOST COMFORTABLE VEHICLES AND IN EVERY RESPECT Give the Best Service to be Had io the Livery Business. SADDLE HORSES, BUGGY HORSES, \ j Drays sent promptly on -SURREY TEAMS.- $ \ phone or verbal orders. YOU WILL FIND PRICES RIGIIT-AND WE GUARANTEE TO GIVE BETTER SERVICE THAN ANYONE ELSE. Ring Us Up- HoitchinH' Livery Stables, Phone No. ll. L. 0. Russell, Manager. The Oconee Steam Marble and Granite Works, Westminster, O, DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF MONUMENTAL DESIGNING. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Rutland, East Dorset, Italian and Georgia Manchester,. Pittsford, -AND Barre, Qniocy, Westerley and Oilesny Granites. Pnoumatic Tools used in the works, and absolute satisfaction guaranteed. Correspondence earn estly solicitod. All orders and inquiries given prompt and careful attention. O, X{L GRAY, Proprietor, 'OB penn Send your orders for Sta tionery and Advertising Mat ter to The Courier and get THE BEST Tlie I? est is Always the Cheapest* Lds of Feed Stuffs 4 dred pounds ; Pure 5k; Sifted Clipped 5 cents per bushel ; d Corn, which we CASH 9 MERCHANTS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM. Items ol News of the Past Week Gathered from Various Sources. George A. Rose, tho late oashier of the Produce Exehange at Cleve land, O., who recently confessed to embezzling $187,000 of the bank's funds, was sentenced last Thursday to serve ten years in tho penitentiary. The Pickers County Commis sioners have recently decided to do away with every small bridge in the oounty and make fordsv as many of tho mountain streams rise so quickly and to suoh a height that in time of high floods it is impossible to maintain bridges over them. It is announced that Thomas Nel Bon Page, the author, is to establish a technical school in Hanover county, Virginia, the county of his birth. Tho plan is to teach youug men and girls the different manual callings such as carpentering, mechanics, cooking, sewing, eto. Senator Penroso has introduced a billin the United States Senate appro priating $100,000 for tho erection in Washington of a statue of Abraham Lincoln. . The bill provides that its erection shall be under tho direction of tho Secretary of War or such commission as ho may approve. Last Wednesday was tho anniver sary of the death of Governor William Goobel, of Kentucky, and in honor of his memory appropriate exeroises were held by the State Legislature in session at Frankfort. Addresses eulogistic of the character and public deeds of the dead executive were delivered, and as a further mark of respect to his memory both chambers of the Assembly adjourned for tho day. The oase ? f tho State of North Carolina versus tho State of South Dakota was decided last week by tho United States Supremo Court favorably to South Dakota, The case involves tho validity of a mort gage on stock of the North Carolina Railroad Company, gi /en by the State of North Carolina to secure tho payment of State bonds given in aid of tho road in 1867. The State of South Dakota holds ten bonds of $1,000 each, under a gift from Simon Schafer and Samuel M. Schafer, of New York City, the amount due on the bonds and coupons attached being $27,000. J. W. Hodges, a farmer, aged 60, residing near Duck River church, Culman county, Ala., was found dead hanging in bis barn last Wednesday while in the house in bed was found the dead body of his wife, who had been ill for some time, and had been brained with a blunt instrument. Hodges was deeply in debt, and it is said his creditors were pressing him. This is believed to have mentally unbalanced him and led him to murder his wife and commit suicido. S. Hill Terry, in jail at Wilming ton, N. C., charged with tho murder of his son-in-law. George Tate Bland, last September, committed suicide in his coll last Wednesday morning by Blashing his throat through the jugular vein with an old cane knife which ho had been given with his meals. His trial was in progress in tho Superior Court, and his chances wero good for a verdict of murder in tho second de gree. Mayor Rhett, of Charleston, ?B hot after the slot machines. Sevon were destroyed by the polieo last Thurs day morning, having been seized in pursuance to orders that slot ma chines must go. Altogether there have been about twenty-five ma chines destroyed by polieo officorfl. Tho process for destroying tho de vices is cremation. They aro flret broken up and thon piled in a heap in the open and the torch applied. Catarrh Cannot be Cured with local applications, as thoy cannot roach tho seat of tho disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disoaso, aud in order to euro it you must tako internal remedien. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts dirootly on tho blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack mod'.cino. It was prescribed by one of tho best phyBiolana in this country fm years, and is a regu lar prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, oombinod with tho best blood purifiers, acting dirootly on the mucous surfaces. The perfeot com bination of the two ingredients is what fnod noes such wonderful results in cur ng catarrh. Bond for testimonials, freo. F. J. Cheney A Co., Props., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, price 76o. Hall's Family Pills are the best, sMQkdl?l?ltitQfSiliatflllAifiXa^^ I The Lordliest I ri California. N tito dieariest islaud io the Califoraian archipelago, Abel SuuimerB bas made bis borne for more than thirty years, knowing al most as little of the rest of the world aa though he lived on another planet. Alone with a few dogs and a bunch of sheep, this strangoly isolated man of education and good breeding has found contentment on barren, wind sweep, uncanny San Clemente Island, sixt y ncvcn miles off the roast, of Los Angeles county, and in tho bosom of the Pacific Ocean. Solitary, yet not so because of any morbid dislike for human companionship; contented because he is shut off from the oares that vox men. For companionship ho bas thoughts, and the memory of a womau's fair faco; and the ghosts, maybe, of the prehistoric dead whoso bones bleach on the hillsides of the desert islo. Cut off from tho mainland, so far away that it is merely perceptible as a purple ha/.o on sunny days, he knows nothing of what makes life for such as us. Tho white sails of a craft, passing up and down the coast, are the only signs of a human activity that he sees from ono season to a not.ber. Once a year, wool and sheep buyers visit San Clemente Then ho barters his fleeoy orop for au annual supply of provisions and clothes. At inter vals of years some amateur exploring expedition lands for adventure and investigation, and when the visitors embark, and tho Bails of their vessel molt into the vast expanse of Bea and sky, Abel Summers and his dogs go baok up tho grim cliffs and settle down to moro years of solitude. None under tho Stars and Stripes can Bay so truly as he : I am monarch of all I survoy; My right there is nono to disputo, From tho contorall around to tho sea, I am Lord of tho fowl and brute. San Clemente is tho no-mau's land of tho Pacific shore archipelago. It is of volcanic origin ; a peak of an island of ragged cliffs, stretches of white sand, rocky promontories, grim, whitened canyons and alkali-laden gulches. One will have to Beek long and far to find a moro desolate, for bidding spot. No vegetation grows there, save in a few little valleys back from the ocean and among the ghaBtly hills, whore a little sedge grasa sprouts when it rains. AB far as tho eye of the visitor, standing on the inhospitable shores can see, thore ?B nothing but shifting Bands, pale cliffs, titantio bowlders and forsaken, withered canyons that seam the blasted hills. The ocean thunders against the bleached rocks. It is a scene of intenBest melancholy. In forgotten ages San Clemente was occupied by a hardy race. Stone mortars, nietatCB, pestles and crude stone and bone household imple ments strew the shore. Hero and th aro the bones of an aborogino lie among tho sands. Iii several spots tho winds have gnawed away mounds of sand that once covered the ancient dead, leaving grinning skulls and crumbling skeletons to add to thu scene of desolation and intensify tho sepulchral air that pervades the place. These aborigines were fisher men. Tho great heaps of mollusk shells about the solo spring of pal atable water on the island, that which runs out of tho volcanic rocks,indioato that. The quantities of atone fishing i m pie m en ts, found in ancient graves, are further evidenoe. Whence tho race came, how long it livod hero, how and whence it departed are some of tho mysteries.that onvolop gloomy San Clemente. The sailors and fishermen about THE TRYING TIME In a younw girl's life is reached when Mature leads her uncertain steps across thc line which divides girlhood from womanhood. Ignorance and neglect at this critical period arc largely responsible for much of the after misery of womanhood. Not only does Nature often need help in the regular establishment of the womanly function, but there ls almost always need of some safe, strengthening tonic, to over come the languor, nervousness and weak neat, com monly experi enced at this time. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription establishes regularity, lt ls a Strengthening tonic, soothing the nerves, encouraging the anpctlte and inducing restful sleep. It contains no alcohol neither opium, cocaine or qther narcotic, "I wish to tell you the benefit we linve received from using your remedies,"writes Mrs. linn Unit, of m.Mix "a, Oreen Co., Wis. "Two years ago my daughter's health began to full, Everything that could lie thought of wan dono to help her but it wa? of no use. When stiq bega? to complain she was quite stout ; weighed 17?, thc picture of go<xl health, until al>ouf thc age of fourteen, then in six mouths she was so rim down her weight was but ix,. She kept felling and I gave lip. thinking there was no ?se, she. must die. Friends all said, 'You wilt lose your daughter.' 1 said I fear I sholl. I must say, doctor, that only for your ? Favorite Prescrlp.ion ' my daughter would have been ia her grave to-day. When she had taken one hair bottle the natural function was established and we bought another one, making only two bottles in all, and she completely recovered. Since then alie is as well as can be." Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, in paper covers, is sent free on receipt of ai one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N, V, Man On Dreary Uland Abel ? Summers has Lived * Alono for More than |j Thirty Years. the coast of California; and Mexfoo have always felt the uncanny spirit of deceased San Clemente. Mexi can lore abounds in grewsome le gends of the inland-stories of de parted spirits that issue forth from the graveyards amid the shifting sands, and hold revels on the ghastly ] oliffe just as they did long before Cortez and the oouquestadores came from Andalusia and Castile. The coast fishermen iu Southern Califor nia speak of San Clemente in hushed innes. The lifeless and mysterious character of the island appeals su pernaturally to them, and they tell bow ghosts of ancieut fishermen oc casionally, on dark nights, when the sea is roaring and tossing, put forth from San Clemente in crazy, oreaking crafts of strange whiteness, and oatob fish where no mortal ii sherman would dare go. To this spot, out in the ocean, Abel Summers went in tho spring of 1809, and there ho has remained. Ho was then a robust, ruddy-checked, genial middle-aged mau, who would have succeeded in almost any, avocation and have been honoied in any ootn munity. Now ho is white-haired, silent and old. Tho dreary years and semi-savngo lifo have had their effect. Tho mon who wont to buy Abel Summer's wool clip two years ago did not believe he would bo there to deal with them the follow ing season. But twelvo months later he was down on tho beach to met the craft when it ran its nose into the sands-a little more taoiturn, but still defiant when thc trading crew renewed their advice that he abandon his abode on tho island, and. with his sheep and dogs go back to the mainland and enjoy the blessings of civilization during his remaining years. Abel Summers carno from a proud ancestry in New Jersey, aud was reared in a fine old Jersey home. His father was a merchant iu Plain field. His grandfather was ono of tho State committee that formally welcomed George Washington on his passage through New Jersey on his way to New York to take the oath of office of President. Tho boy Abel was educated in a private school in Newark, and later entered Princeton College Then carno several years of clerkship in a down-town bank in Now York City, and Abel Summers was as promising a young financial man as there was in tho city. His opinion was consulted by such men as the Havermeyers, the Coopers and Howitts. Old mon in Plainfield to this day tell rerainiscei* / of the wide social swath that handsome Abel Summers was wont to cut in the haughty old Jersey town when ever he visited thc family home. They remember how his were the moBt fashionable clothes, how doting mammas were flattered by bia calls at their homes, bow young men envied him, and how fathers in the community pointed him out as a model for tho local youth to follow! When Abel Summers and tho beautiful Mary Newcomb of Dunellcn -a village near Plainfield-bocamo engaged to marry, it seemed as if joy were indeed his. No girl was moro courted and admired in all Northern New Jersey than Mary Newcomb. She was tho only daughter of Simon Newcomb, a famous wholesale grocer in Now York in those days, a niece of President Franklin Pioroo, and the belle of many a groat ball in Washington. The few who now re cnll those days tell how ardent a lovor was Abel Snmmors, and narrate the costliness of his gifts and the splendor of his plans for a home in New York, when he and Mary should bo married. No ono knows oxaotly what it was that carno botween tho lovers. Something suddenly hap pened. The young man had risen higher in tho bank and public esteem. Ho had gono so far as to havo plans drawn for a stately residence in Brooklyn, and had already laid asido a small fortune toward tho consum mation of his plans. But Mary New ?cotnb and her mother sailed for Ba? rope-a Journey of rn *oh importance in those days. There was a chango in Abel Sum mers from that timo. Ile lost much of his ambition and his happy ways, Several years more and the civil war broke out. Ho was a ponsivo man of business then, and had apparently Bottled down to beoomo simply a banker and to get. very rich. How ever, tho excitement of martial pre parations and tho wave of patriotism thaC swept over the conutry thrilled him. One day he handed in his reBignation to the bank. Then he marched South, with a lieutenant's commission in a New Jersey com pany. Records in the War Depart ment go to prove that Abel Summers was a good soldier. He was promoted to captain, and served under Slocum at Gettysburg. He was mustered out of the service in 1864. For a year or two he was oashier in a little bank at FaUeson, N. J.-a serious, reoluBive man verging into middle age. M ai'while Mary Newoomb had become the wife and widow of a lawyer in New York. Her husband had left her with two ohildren and ample means. She and Abel Sum mers" met at Loi?g Branoh^oue sum mer. Their stay at the seashore was prolonged, and when tho summer was over the engagement to marry was renewed. The old-time geniality of Abel Summers returned. Ho went again in society, and found pleasure in the companionship of men and womeu. The marriage was delayed a year until the widow could get her par ents' benediutiou, for they were opposed to seuond marriages on any account. Meanwhile Abel Summers kept the mails and telegraph between Patterson and Plaiutield busy with letters, messages aud gifts to his pro spective bride. The great fortunes that were made in those days in petroleum specula tion tempted Abel Summors. For a time he added largely to his fortuno ; then came a day when oil dropped. Heavy margins were called. Every dollar thst could bo raked and scraped by Sumners went into the vortex. Oil went lower, and a week later not a dollar was left. Summers secured a plaoo as an accountant in Philadelphia, hopeful of retrieving his losses. For a few months there was a desultory cor respondence betweeu him and his affianced bride. In the spring of 18G8 there came to Abel Summers a paokago containing all tho jowols and love-letters ho had sent. No one ever knew how tho man bore this blow, for he disappeared frcui Phila delphia, and from that day to this has never been Been by any of bis New Jersey and New York friends. Six months later ho wroto from San Francisco to his dying mother. It was a brief lotter from an affec tionate son, who said that he was utterly disheartened, without hope .or zeal of any kind. Ho was then a clerk for tho mining brokerage house of O. F. Giflini & Co., in San Fran cisco. If Abel Summors has ever written a lotter since that time, in 18G8, no one kuows it. In 18G9 Abel Summers was a rancher where the town of Fullerton, in Orange county, has since grown up. A few people remember him as a quiet, gentle, hard-working shep herd. He had several hundred dol lars, and ho saved every dime. Some of tho old-time sheep owners re member that Summers said he could get free grazing land on San Cle mente island and that he liked the idea of getting his livelihood where he would havo no contact with the world. A little sloop, chartered at San Pedro ono day, carried him away with some dogs and a little band of sheep, some food and camp utensils. If ho had searched tho continent over i o could not have found a bit of laud where ho might live and breathe and, at the same time, havo HO little to do with tho busy race ho had forover left behind him. Along about 1881 tho brother and sister in New Jersey learned where their brother was living. Gen. Van doveor, then a mombor of Congross in tho Sixth California District, was ernployod by tho relatives to urgo Abel Summors to roturn to civiliza tion. Whether tho exilo even know of the interest and efforts in his be half is only conjecture, for ho nover communicated with any one on tho subject. Finally Gen. Vandeveer sent to San Clemente, by tho mon who wont for the old man's wool, several thousand dollars in gold and silver, lt was Abel's share of bis fathor's estate, long since settled in tho New Jersey courts. The hermit of San Clemente has not seen a nowspapor in thirty years and has not rend a book except his J?ible. Yoars ago he built a stono Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble, Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis courages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor t ^nxz.i jK. *na cheerfulness soon fffc? 9 Jrv disappear when the kld r AVKf^^^tz.L. Kidney trouble has -' lvM\\^?i^~--r(Decom* so prevalent ^??L/jf ]j<nat H ls not uncommon /^/l\y^9mtwL^*Jf ior * chi,d t0 ha born /Vl*V^^r-n affllc*ed with weak kld ^fll?c ?,?ya- if die child urln -:^rs! y^T* ates too often, If the urine scalds the flesh or If, when the child reaches an ago when lt should be able to control the passage, it ls yet afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon lt. the cause of the difficulty ls kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment of these Important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are made mis erable .vith kidney and bladder trouble, and both need tho same great remedy. The mild and the Immediate effect of Swamp-Root ls soon realized, lt ls sold by druggists, In fifty cent ana ono dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle by mall free, also pamphlet tell- Hom? of sw?mr>Root. lng all about it, Including many of the thousands of testimonial letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., bo sure and mention this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remem ber the name-Swamp-Root--Dr. Kil mer's Swamp-Root, and tho address Binghamton, N. Y.-on every bottle. house and filled the cracks between the ston?B with mud oarried from the grass fields five miles away. He sleeps on the floor and eats from a flat stone table. Driftwood and dry grasses furnish his fuel. And some day his bones will be found with the others that are bleaching in the sun and drying in the ocean winds that sweep his resting plaoe. i mam In the Merry Springtime. In the merry springtime the festive malaria microbe, goeth forth determined to colonise every human organism. If this arch foe has invaded your syHtem allow us to suggest Kydales Tonio. This remedy frees tue blood from malaria miorobes eliminates poisonous matter from the system, strengthens thenerves, and restores robust health. Rydalos Tonio 1? guaranteed. J. II. Darby, Wal halla; Seneca Pharmacy. . --rn . m lt it a Wedge or an arrow ? Tho shape of peninsulas and gulfs hab often had an important bearing on political affairs, but seldom more than in that part of Asia whioh is to day the storm-center of the world's diplomacy. Have you ever noticed how the Korean peninsula extends southward toward the Japanese archipelago ? This "lay of the land" has led Japanese statesmen to desoribe Korea as "the arrow pointing at our hearts." From thc Russian point of view, Korea separates Vladivostok, whioh ' ' looks through the spacious Japanese sea direct to tho Pacific, from Russia's newer bases at Port Arthur and Dalny. Their outlet to the ocean-is j by the Yellow Sea. It is a long way round through the Strait of Korea, Which the Russians call the "Yellow f Bosphorus," and ships making tho journey pass almost within sight of Japan. Hence tho Russians describe Korea as "the wedge" driven be tween their older possessions on thc Asiatio ooast and the new. Tho ambitions of the nations are thus focusing about Korea Hay and the Gulf of Pechili, wbioh are west of thc peninsula and open into th Yellow Sea. Beside the Japanese Russian interest, thoro lie on tho south the German sphero of influence at Kiau-chau and the British station at Woi-hai-wci, and on tho north th ports which will bo opened by the new treaty between the United States and China. Strong and insistent are the na tional desires struggling for th point of vantage about these waters Japan needs the food supplies of Korea, and tho outlet whioh it afford for its commercial enterprise an redundant population. Were Kore to fal] under thc control of Russia Japan would bo shut out from th mainland, and probably relegated eventually to tho rank of second-rate power in Asia. Russia's gradual absorption of Northeastern Asia is a process of centuries, which doubtless has as its iltimate aim a controlling inlluonoe >ver China. Mongolia, Manchuria and Korea are the stages of Russia's journey, of present concern. Although Americans have no ter ritorial ambitions in this seething jaldron, they are vitally concerned in guarding their trade interests in Northern China, which is oapable of affording an enormous markot, espe cially for such American products as cotton, keroseno, wheat, tobacco and machinery.-Youth's Companion. Bear? the Jyj Thi Kind You Hava Always Bought Bignatnre of . - j? The Kind You Hate Always Development of Our Mills, It is stated that tho Calumet Manufacturing Company, Liberty, S. C., will at once build a $10,000 annex to its already extensive plant for the manufacture of fine yarns from the long staple cotton of the sea islands and Mississippi. This is an important step toward the higher class of cotton manufacturing in tho South, presaging the imminent day when this section will manufacture everything now produced by the New lOugland and foreign cotton mills. Foley's Honoy and Tar is tho host for croup and whoopiug cough, contains no opiates, and cures quickly. Careful mothers koop it in the houso. For Bale by J. W. Bell, Walhalla. Tanning Sheepskins. Stretch the skin smoothly and tightly upon a broad frame, hair side down, and tack it firmly in position. Scrapo off the loose flesh and fat with a blunt knife and work in plenty of powdered chalk with brisk and hard rubbing. When tho chalk begins to powder and fall off remove the skin from tho board and rub in plenty of powdered alum ; wrap up closely and keep in a dry place for five days ; then boat and work soft. OABTOniA Beare the tmm^ Ito Kind You Haye Always Bought Signature of Chickons como homo to roost, and the Massachusetts abolitionists are having to furnish the roost. In the Berkshire hills of that State a bitter raoe war is in progress. Mixed educa tion oausod it, and in the rumpus tho school house was burned. This place was once a stronghold of aboli tion and the people took the negro to thoir hearts, but oould not hold bim there, ?dd Fellows' Orphanage Goes to Greenville. It is a signal compliment, not only o the Grouter Greenville, but to the ocal Odd Fellows as well, that the State Grand Lodge Committee bsa leoided to locate the Odd Fellows* )phanage in Greenville. Editor J. K. Peden, of the Caro ma Odd Fellow, has received from Chairman L. N. Ze sly the following otter : "Please announce that the com mu?e on Odd Fellows' Orphans' Home, after very careful considera tion of all offers, has deoided in fa voT of Greenville. "Wo make no further announce nent at this time, exoept that we would urge tho lodgeB in your oity ?nd county to send in their sub scriptions at onoe. The committee san place the money in some bank " ?nd seoure interest on it until we need it. "Yours, L. N. Zoaly, chairman ; H. Whitcomb, T. M. C. Oliveros, B. F. Middleton ; S. F. Killingsworth, jcoretary and treasurer." Tho Carpin place, situated about .bree miles from the oity, has been selected for the sito. There is at present a substantial brick building on the plaoe, whioh, with some repairing, will suit admira bly for the present. Greenville subsoribed $4,600 to se 3uro the orphanage and subscribers will be called upon shortly by the committee from the Grand Lodge [or their subscriptions. It is proba ble that building operations will be j?n May 1.-Greenville Herald, February 1. Winter coughs are apt to result in eon . mmptiou if neglected. They oan be toon broken up by using Foley's Honey ind Tar. THREE! PAPERS A WEEK FOR $1.50. Hy a olubbing arrangomont with tho 'liarlcston Semi-Weekly News and Cou rier wo aro offering that paper', and The Keowoo Couriorfor -$1.50 per year. The Koowoo Courier is recognizod not only vs tho best paper in Oconee county, but it is rated among the boBt county papers in South Carolina.?, The Semi-Weekly News and Courier is an excellent jour nal, published on Wednesdays and Satur days, gives the detailed news of South Carolina as a special feature, and carries tho full Associated Press dispatches from all over tho world. The combina tion of tho two papers at $1.50 gives our present roadors, as well as new sub scribers, an opportunity to seoure two of the best papers in tho State (throe papera i week) for 50 cents more than the regu lar price of either. Let us send you two of tho very best paper? iu South Carolina tor almost the price of ono. Wanted Postal Cards Sent. A well-dressed woman went to the 3tamp window of the Brooklyn post office one afternoon, and placing i dollar bill on tho window shelf said : "Will you please let me have a iollar's worth of postal cards? I would like them sent up to the house, is 1 am not going straight home." "All right," said the stamp olerk. "If you give me your address I'll havo it manifolded on all of the curtin and you'll got 'em by first mail in tho morning." "Gracious 1" exclaimed the woman, "Do. you moan to put my address on each and send them to mo by mail?" "I do," replied the clerk. "Noe, seo hore," said the woman, "I'm not in the habit of writing let ters to myself. I want those oards to mail to my friends for a euohre party." "Then you had bettor carry them away with you," replied the clerk. So she picked up the oards and flounced out of the office. "Department store habit," he sighed as ho turned to wait on an other customer.-New York Sun. SO'S C ?pa TH CURES WHERE Al i tm? Rost t 'eiwli Syrup. Url in time. Som by < Distance lends enchantment to service in Congress. The delegate from Hawaii will receive nearly fif teen thousand dollars during bis term of two years, in addition to his sal ary of ten thousand dollars, besides drawing an allowance for clerk hire and stationery. The fifteen thou sand dollars is the bonus-or rather the mileage-whioh ho receives be cause he lives in the Sandwich Islands. A delegate to Congress from the Philippines would be able to ooiiect about thirty-five thousand dollars' miloage if there should hap peu to be an extra session during his term. Otherwise bo would get about twenty-four thousand dollars. The most reliable preparation for kid ney troubles on the market is Foley's Kidnoy Curo. Thirty Tramps Die In Desert Salt Lake, Utah, January 81.-The bodies of botwoon twenty and thirty mon, who porlshed from thirst while at tempting to oross tho desert between Moapa and Los Vegas, Nevada, have boen found within a few weeks, accord ing to advices from tho latter plaoe. The men, it is believed, wore mostly trampa? who attempted to make the long journey DU foot without sufficient supplies of food or water to carry thom across. Many of the bodies found were without slothing and it ls believed that the vic tims had gone insane from thirst and dad wandorod about in a nude condition o Heart h ol'water. Some of the victims ire supposed to have drank water from 'dead man's well," whioh is located in tho center of the desert. The water from this well, while temporarily alleviating thirst, is sure death to those who drink ltY SK