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Ready for Santa Claus. It's beou tho longest, long old timo I s'poeo about a year Nineo Ha ti ta carno to our houso; But now he'll soon bo hore, And I'vo written him a lottor I wrote it all myself Souled it with a kiss And mailed it Upon the mantel shelf. I did forgot io put .nomo tilings I wanted on tho list, But if he brings ail 1 put down Tho others won't bo missed. I told bow 1 liked him, firs';, And how I liopod he'd como, Sho started quite politely "Pienso bring a ball and drum, "A little monkoy on a polo, A clown with'painted ooat, A mamma doll, a papa doll, A real live bil'y goat; I want a jointed woodon cow That stops and wags it? hoad, A family of paper dolls, A blackboard and a slod ; <lA horn to blow and mako a noise, A bank to hold my dime; J want a little watch that ticks And keops tho best of timo; I'd like to huvo a Christmas troo With candy, nuts aud fruit I want a toy pistol, too, With paper caps to shoot. "I want a small automobile I saw ono at tho shop; X want some wator color paints, Some marbles and a top. Denr Suntu, please do not forgot A singlo thing I say, V?nt come on time and leave for me These things for Christmas day. "'Now, Santa Claus, I'll say goodbyo-| I know you'll treat mo right, Cut there's ono thing I'd like expiai nod, For it is puzzling, (juitO My papa said, 'Those wants aro few,' I don't know how bo know, 1 did not ask him for a thing, I only wrote to youl" -Margaret S. Hall, in Constitution. Cadet Caught Stoating. Greenville, December 17.-After j expelling ono of tho cadots for steal ing it was learned from private cor respondence in this city to-day that tho faculty pf Clemson College lite rally held up tho entire corps several days ago and with thc assistanco of (military discipline, searched tho rooms of every cadet in thc barracks in an effort to find other stolon arti cles and lix the responsibility. Thc search was fruitless. Tho investiga tion was carried out by tho six cadet captains, assisted by their lieutenants, each officer searching his own bar racks. The name of tho cadet who was expelled is not known herc. Tho students submitted to the search without protest, (jo far as could bo loamed. It is certain there WUB no physical resistance. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Boars the Signature of Dois from Fin! Shoats. Flat Shoals, December ll?.-Our school is progressing nicely under the management of Miss Gretal Gaines. .lohn Tow recently cut a largo poplar tree on his place that mea sured 70 feet to tho li rsl knot. It| _ measured I feet and S inches in Innmotor and did not have a wind* shako in it, Thc tree mado 22,000 first-class shingles. Hicks Duncan recently bought tho j Olarkston place at Salem. Ben Sloan and lioono Grogan have recently moved on tho Lay placo. Dixie. A dispatch from St. Petersburg on December 17 says th ut SasonelT, who threw thc bomb which killed M inister Von Pleb vc on .I illy 28, and S i kori fsky, his accomplice' in thc crime, were to-day found guilty by the ('oort of Appeals, sitting in tho law courts building. Thc former was sentenced to imprisonment for life with hard labor, and tho latter to twenty years imprisonment. Tho trial had boon expected to last at least two days, but it was rushed to a Bp oed y completion, in view of thc possibility (if revolutionary d?mon* strattons. Thc trial was hold behind closed doors, and all tho entrances to tho building wcro locked. --?J # 9- ?.--. A. Ii. Lawrence, white, was struck En thc face sovcral times with a beer bottle itt Thaokston's boor dispensary Sn Spartanbltrg last, Thursday after noon. Ho was seriously, but not fatally wounded. Two young men wo.ro. arrested, charged with making fJtc atlaok. The particulars of tho /jiflicully are not known. South Carolin? News Notes. A commission has boon issued in Columbia to tho Bank of Starr, in Anderson county, to bo capitalized at $15,000. Col. M. 1*. Trihhlo, of Anderson, has scoured a vordiot of $1,500 against the Western Union Tele graph Co., before a Richland county jury for failure to dolt vor tr message Under the law. Jeff Pitts, a colored farmer, has bought 400 acres of land'for $3,000, nour Madden, Laurens county, and will establish a negro industrial Hohool thoro, something like Booker Washington presides over at Tus koogco, Ala. Abbovillo Medium : "Last Bpring Miss Knto Marshall plnntod a half aoro in Florodora cotton on Mago/.ino Hill and made a halo weighing 400 pounds. Sho did not do any Bpeoial work on her orop, but only guvo it tho usual attention." L. J. Jord?n became involvod in a difficulty with a nogrr- at Kershaw last week. While tho negro was en deavoring to pull his gun, Jordan got tho drop and killed him. Aftor ho was killed a 44-calihro pistol was discovered on his porson. Dr. Ben E Martin, tho woll known and popular proprietor of tho Ben Della Hotel, Laurens, died last Tues day afternoon. Ho was 50 yours old and loaves a wife and four children. Ile entered tho war as n boy and was ono of Hampton's faithful couriers. Learning that J. A. Adams, tho Colleton county murderer who es caped jail after tbo ?Supremo Court had refused bim a now trial, was Btill in that county, Governor Hoy ward last Wednesday inoreasod tho ^ ward for his capturo from $500 t $1,000. Four large barns and a dwelling have boon burned in and around Donald's within tho past fow weeks hy a band of incendiaries. The latest sufferer was C. C. Calhoun, a negro. Ile loni Iiis barn, 2 cows, '2 hales of seed cotton and thc seed from 15 bales and 40 bushels of peas. Wo Uko for people to road this nowspaper, but wc don't liko for people to borrow it from their neigh bors. Take a paper of your own and pay for it like a man whether you like tho editor or not, and be happy in thc feeling of independence that accompanies manliness. Tho News and Courier says : Nu merically tho Baptist denomination loads all others in South Carolina. If the action of thc Baptist Stato Convention in Cheater, composed of ministers and laymen, was represen tativo of Baptist sentiment, 'hard times and a heap of trouble' are just ahead for the dispensary cohorts." Dr. W. T. Field diod at his home, near Piokons, on 1 Uh instant, aged 72 years. Dr. Field was ono of tho most prominent and popular citizens of Picketts county and had a brilliant war record. Ho was well known in OconCO county, and his many old friends in this section will regret to hoar ol' his death, lie leaves a widow. Joe Covington, a most prosperous man of Marlboro county, though robust and in tho best of health, has already purchased tombstones for himself and wife, and ho has also had their graves dug and cemented so as to keep tho water out. Oftentimes ho gets into his own grave and plays on his violin and sings sonic sacred piece, Thc government report puts tho cotton crop in South Carolina this year at 1,100,000 bales, which will bo tho largest orop this Stato luis over produced, At an average price of 8 cents a pound such a quantity of cotton will yield our fanners up wards of $45,000,000, which is a big sum for ft little State to get out of a single crop. Thc Good Old Way. A sovoro cold or attack of la grippo is like a (ire, thc sooner you combat it the bc*ter your chances are to overpower it. But few mothers in this age aro willing to do tho nooossary work required to give a good old-fashioned reliable treat ment Sttol) as would bo administered by their grandmothers, backed by Boschoo's ({orman Syrup, which was always lib erally used in connection with tho homo treatment of colds and is still in groatnr household favor than any known romody. Mut ovon without tho application of tho old-fashioned aids Gorman syrup will euro a severe, cold in quick time. It will cure colds in children or grown pooplo. lt, relieves tho congested organs, allays the irritation and offOotivoly stops tho Sough, Any child will take it. lt, is in valuable in a household of children. Trial size bottle, 25oj regular size, 76o. Por salo by Walhalla Drug Co. and .Seneca Pharmacy. Potash as Necessary as Rain The quality and quantity of the crops depend on a sufficiency of Potash In the soil. Fertilizers which nro low in Potash will never produce satisfactory results. ' Every farmer should bo familiar with Ino proper proportions ol Ingredients that BO to nuke thc best fertilizers tor every kiwi of crop. We have published a scries ot hooks, Containing- the latest researches on this all important subject, which wc will semi free !f you ask. Write now while you think of it IO the (1KKMAN KAM WOHKS Now York-08 Nassau Street,.or Adunia, Oa.-'JS'A BoutU Mroml Btroot. Crack Discovered on Faco of Moon. Borkeloy, Cal., December 17.-The discovery of a great oraok or rill on thc faco of thc moon which oxtends longthwiso through tho valloy of tho Alps for a distance of 80 milos, is one of the facts announced in tho latest bulletin issued from tho Lick observa tory. The rill on tho moon was dis covered by Assistant Astronomer Perrine, with tho 30-inch telescope. The ring is in tho nature of a crack in the moon's orust or a dry riverbed a few hundred feot in width ind some 80 miles in length, extond ,-.g through tho center of tho valley. It can bo seen only under the good atmospheric conditions and when tho sun is shining on it at tho proper anglo. OASTORIA. Beare tho TN Kind You Have Always Bought Sl8?r \ Fire on December 15 destroyed tho Ohio Seat Company plant in tho c istorn part of Cincinnati, also tho Rudolph-Surro Tannery and dwell ing, causing a loss of $150,000. Senator Lntimer has given up hopo of the passage of his good roads bill at thc present session of Congress. It is announced that economy is to be tho slogan of the session, ami in every quarter where effort has been made tt) obtain support for thc measure the question of legislative extravagance has been raised. The bill will die at the end of the session. The information comes from Washington that Senator Latimor has given up hope of the passage of his good roads bill at tho present ses sion of Congress. It has been an nounced that economy is to bo tho slogan of the session, and in every quartor whore tho effort has been made to obtain support for tho mea sure tho question of legislativo ex travagance has been raised. Tho Comptroller General has com pleted a list of assessments against tho railroads for the Railroad Com mission's salary ?md expenses for the year 1001. The total cost was $8,800, of which the Southern was assessed $3,925, the Seaboard, $1,040.80, the Coast Line $2,496.58, tho Southern ICxprcss Co. $60.04, the Western Uni?n Telegraph Co. $32.78, the Postal Telegraph Co., $'28.1-1, ami the independent lines the rest. Advice to the Aged. ARC brings infirmities, such ns slug gish bowels, weak kidneys and blad der und TORPID LIVER. Tutf s Pills have II specific effect on these orgnns, stimulating thc bowels, causing them to perform their natural functions os In youth und iiV?i'AK UNG VIGOR_ to thc kidneys, Madder and LIVER. They (ire mlaptcd to ok! und young. Southbound Atlantio ('oast Line passenger train from Kooky Mount, N. C., to Wi lillington was wrecked last week by running into an open switch at Overman's siding, two miles north of Warsaw. Kngineor Guil ford F. Horne, of wilmington, and his colored fireman, Sterling Creech, of Kooky Mount, were instantly killed. None of tho passengers were seriously injured, although the en tire train, with tho exception of a Pullman) was piled up alongside tho track, ('east Line officials are of tho opinion that tho Switch was tampered with. Tho boy who does anything just because the other fellows do it, is apt to scratch a poor man's back all his lifo. Smallpox Epidemic In South Carolina. [The Stato. J Smallpox in alarming thc people of many sootions of tho State. Not since its first nppoaranoo in 180G has tho post boen run out of the State,1 although it was not iiomtfoaied in a serious form at all timos. Reports indicate that thoro is a larger num ber of COSCH now that at any other time, and that in some sections tho type is malignant. Thoro is only ono way to provont tho spread of tho disoase-and that is hy vaccination. It is diflicult to get tho consent of tho people to bo vacoinnted until tho disease is almost upou them. Within tho last fortnight there scorns to havo boon a groat spread of tho disoaoo, particularly in the coun ties in tho Eastern part of the State whore tho colored population is denso. Gov. Hoy ward has been in rooeipt of nu mero us lotters and tele grams acquainting him with tho con dition of affairs in respective locali ties, and ho has roforrod tho commu nications to thc Soorotary of tho Stato Board of Health, Dr. Jamos Evans, of Florence. Tho Legislature has mado an ap propriation and tho Stato Board of Health ia authorized to uso that fund in atamping out tho smallpox, hut communities can help a great deal by having vaccination, without falling back on tho Stato to furnish tho vac cine points and thc medical Borvieca. Tho only preventative is vaccination, and when HO many people are suffer ing with small po v it is singular that thoro is BO little [liierest taken in vaccination at places remote from the scat of contagion. For with tho rapid transit of these days smallpox can bo oarried aoroBS tho Stato in 24 hours and frequently is carried from ono point to another by passengers who ought to be in a pest house. While thoro havo been reports of smallpox over since thc beginning of the fall, there havo been moro alarm ing statements in the laBt 10 days than since tho first outbreak of tho disease just after thc Atlanta expo sition. RYDALE'S TONIC A New Scientific Discovery for the DLOOP anti rNCfeVtS. It purifies tho blood by eliminating the waste matter and other impurities and hy destroying the germs or microbes that iafest tile blood, lt builds up the blood by reconstructing and multiplying the red corpuscles, making thc blood rich and red. It restores and stimulates tho nerves, causing a full free flow of nerve fon o throughout the entire nerve system. It speedily cures unstrung nerves, nervous ness, nervous prostration, and all other diseuses of the nervous system. UV OA I.K'S TONIC is sold under a posi tive guarantee. Tria" size SO cents. Family size $1.00 MANUFACTURED UY The Radical Remedy Company, HICKORY, N. c. Fou SALK HY WALHALLA DRUG COMPANY. Tho Last of His Kind. Rev. William May, probably tho oldest Methodist preacher in the country, died recently at his homo in Perry ville, Ky. Ito wan 03 years old and had been preaching for 75 years, but during that time had never accepted a cent of money for his ser vicos. Ho had, it is said, married 3,000 couples, baptized 6,000 persons and olliciatcd at f),U0O funerals. Ho was a great horseback rider, using his steed for traveling over his district, but had never boen on a train, and in order to make a living conducted a farm, with which ho was eminently BUCCCHSflll. KIDNEY DISEASES are the most fatal of a!! dis* eases. cm eve K|DNEY M? I ULLI O Guaranteed Remedy or money refunded. Contains remedies recognized by emi nent physicians as the best for Kidney and Bladder troubles, PRICE 50c and $1.00. Vov&nU J.W.Bel!,Wa!ha!!a. Governor I loy ward has decided to order an eleotion for Calhoun county, to take place on tho first Tuesday in January. To Cw Toke Laxative Bron Soven Million boxes sold In post 12 m l? w ? a ? ? . n i M 11 ? ? 'i ? ? ofBoo will be Open from Biiuftry, 1005, to tbo 20th following for tho pur roturns of porsonnl estate for taxation in tho year 1005. For | tax paye? H tho Audi Acill also reaoivo ro g places on tho dates January 2, from 101 y, January 8, from' January 4, from mry 5, from 10 ! y 0, from 10 a. ary 7, from 10 ay, January ry 10, from , January ,January LThurs m. jin 101 io Tho Au tho first d... day of Fobr poso of pro porty and Oconoo ooun tho convouion tor or his dop turns nt tho f ni e n ti on od : Fair Play, Mo a. m. to il p. m. South Union, 'J 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. Ket real, Wedues 10 n. m. to 3 p. m. Tabor, Thursday, a. m. to 3 p. m. Oakway, Friday,. m. to 3 p. m. Tokoona, Saturday, a. m. to 8 p. m. W. N. Woolbright's, 0, 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. Friendship, TuoHf|ay, 10 a. m. to 8 p. nf? Clemson CollegO, Wod 1?. from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m Adams's Crossing, Th 12, 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. Soneca, Monday and Tuosds^Tanuary 2 and 3, 10 a, m. to 3 p. m. Westminster, Wednesday day, January 4 aud 5, 10 a. m. it i o h la i ul, Friday, January 0,} a. m. to 8 p. m. Nowry, Saturday, January 7, a. ra. to 8 p. m. Salom, Monday, January 0, froi m. to 3 p. m. Joonsseo, (Brown's Store), Tud|fy, January 10, from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. Littlo River, Wednesday, Januarj from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. Cherry Hill, Thursday, January from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. Tamassoo, (Kelley's Storo), Fridal January 13, from 10 a. m. to 3 p. ra. Mountain Rest, Monday, Jauunry 10, from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. , m Conley's Store, Tuesday, Jannary.^J from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. VS Cannon's Storo. Wednesday, January 18, from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. D. F. Cartor's, Thursday; January lt), from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. Tugaloo, Friday, January 20, from IC a. m. to 8 p. m. Madison, Saturday, January 21, from 10 a. m to 3 p. m. livery malo oitiz?n botweon tho ngos ol 21 and 00 years, except. ox-Confodoratc soldiers and those incapablo of earning ti support from hoing maimed or from other causes, shall bo deemed taxable {>olls. Kx-Confedornto soldiers are Ha llo for poll tax until 50 years of age. Noto all transfers of real est?t o since making your last ret urn, from whom ac quired or. to whom sold. Under act of 100-1, a capitation tax ol 50 cents was imposed upon all dogs, and tho owners of such property aro required to list their dogs for taxation nt tho time of making tboir annual return, and it ie made tho duty of tho County Auditor and Township Assessors to enforce thc provisions of tins not. lt is abRolutoly necessary to mako all ret urns boforo tho 20th day of February. After that dato 50 por cont ponnlty foi uou-roturns will bo added, according tc law. J. P. KEESE, Auditor Oconoo County, S. C. December li* 1004. 50-53 FOR CHEAP RATES TO TEXAS, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, OKLAHOMA, INDIAN TFARRITORY, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, UTAH, WYOMING, OREGON, MONTANA WASHINGTON, and Other Point? Wost, Northwest and Southwest, Writo or Call on J. G. HOLLENBECK, District Passenger Agi LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE R. R. No. 1 North Pryor S4., Opposite Union Depot, Atlanta, Ga. r Dragging Pains 2825 Keeley St., CHICAOO, lu.., Oct,, 2, 1902. I suffered with falling and con gestion of tho womb, with severo laina through tho groins. I suf ercd terribly at the timo of men struation, had lil i nding headaches and rushing of blood to the brain. What to try 1 knew not, for it seemed that I had tried all and failed, but 1 had never tried Wino of Cardui, that blcsHed remedy for sick women. I found it pleasant to tako and soon knew that I had tho right medicine. New blood Boomed to course through my veins and after using cloven bottles I was a well woman. Mrs. Bush is now in perfect health becauso she took Wino of Cardui for menstrual disorders, bearing down pains and blinding headaches when all other remedies failed to bring her relief. Any sufferer may secure health by tak ing Wino of Cardui in hor homo. Tho first bottle convincos tho pa tient she is on the road to health. For advice in cases requiring sp?cial directions, address, giving symptoms, "The Ladies' Advisory Department," The Chattanooga Medicino Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. ft re a Cold in On io ?niinineTablets.^ onths. This signature, w o. o; MY: Surveyor. Survoyiug dono lu any pa? oou ti ty. Plata, doods and all _ noatly oxoouted. Oorrospondenl lioltod. Torras roasonablo. Add rel 34-tf (\ C. MYERS, Oakway,1 ? r~ ~* . H. T. JAYNK8. \ ^ J. W. 8BBI J AYNES & SH ELOR3 ATTORN BYS-AT*L AW, WALHALLA, 8. O. PROMPT attention given to all busl ? U06B com mitt cul to their e. mo. !?\N WM. J. STMUHNO. \ \ E. L. HKiwnon? % WW Attorneys-At-Law,\ WALHALLA, S. O. PnoMPT ATTKNTION GrvKN TO ?.IA. SUSI NKSB ENTUUSTKD TO THHM. January 0.1898. J. H. MOORE, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Calls loi i at roBidonoe or J. H. Darby's Drug Store will re?oive prompt attention, DAY OR NIGHT. Phones : Residence 03, Drug Store 18* 12-3-01 Dr. G. C. Probst, DENTIST, Walhalla, S. C. )ffloe Over C. W. Pitchford Co.'s ; : : Store, : : : >una : 8.80 A. M. TO 1 r. M. AND 2 TO 0 1?. M. i J. H. BURGESS, entist, SENECA, S. C. OFFIC\OVKU NIMMON'8 STORK, DO Y I.IC Buii.niNO. Offl\Hour8: 0 A. M. to 1 i?. M. \ " 2 ??, M. to 0 1*. M. April ?1?04. 16-tf . F. Austin, SENECA/ \ - - - - S. C. Office O?J- Wi Byrd <t C0> " ? I AM NOW IM Y OFFICE ?VEliY VA Y. PHONl NO. 51. Curoa Ooldsi Prconta Pneumonia NOTICE OK FINA SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARV--NOTICE IS boroby given that thiW'dorsignod will ranko application to ?^- Smith, Esq., Judge of Probate for ?onoo county, tn tho Stato of South ?lolina, at .-, S3 ofllco at Walhalla C(U"t Houso, on Saturday, tho 24th day owecombor, 1004, at ll o'clock in tho forffro". or as soon thereafter as said apljpation caubo hoard, for loavo to m?fe n|ial ^Solfclb mont of tho catato of nQl?ltkors, de ceased, and obtain flmPptiisonargo as Administrator of savd/estato. if C.TlI. .OELKERS, Administrier of Estkto of D. Oolkors, ' il Ol deceased. Novombor 23, 1001. 47-80 Notice to Trespassers.) NOTICE is hereby given to all porsouf not to trespass upon any of otu lands in any mannor whatsoever, b? bunting, fishing, trapping, digging root sj pasturing stock, cutting timbor, sottiuf out Uro or committing any other troBpastf Partios entering said lands nftor publiof tion of this not iee will bo dealt with tho fullest extent, of tho law. Jas. L. Boyd, . W. P. Austin, R. Ii. Bogga, Cynthia A. Morgq Novombor 0, 1004. 45-50? F0LEYSH0NEYH .tops tl*? co? ii li and liealtt lui TRESPASS N?TIG! NOTICE 1B hereby givon to all pos uot to trespass on any of our j by hunting, fishing, digging roots,' ting timbor, sotting ont Uro or tres| ing in any mannor wbatsoovor. P entering our lands will bo prOBOOtit tho fullest extent of tho law. IL E. Neal, W. P, Frcoma^ Ooo. M. White, Mrs. Goo. M. J. B. Hill, Mrs. E. A. H< P. A. Brown, J. D. Hand, Atnoy Janos, Mr?.Maggil il Novombor 30, 1001. 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