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Two Pi A Christmas Carol. [Written by Lucile Zimmerman, of West mi bater*] A Christ man oarol was written by the famous author, Charles Diukena. Thia story is intended to teaoh ?w wo should spend this life in 1er to have ioy and peace through out eternity. The ohtet charaoter of the atory is Ebenezer .Scrooge, a tight fisted, covetous, old sinner. Marley waa Scrooge's former partner, but bad been dead seven year?. iWe first see ?Scrooge i his oount ioghouse on Christmas Eve. There we see how he tresta his nephew and bow kind thia nephew is to him, al ? I though Scrooge quarreled at him (rom tho time he said "Merry Christ mas, Uncle." Many lost an opportunity to say a kind thing to Scrooge because they waited to weigh the matter too long. But not so with this nephew, for aa little drops of rain brighten the meadow so bis little acta of kind ncaa helped to brighten the world/ When Scrooge's nephew had gone two gentlemen called to see if Scrooge would contribute something to relieve the poor and suffering. But Scrooge was not the man to do this, and he even went so far as to say that the podr and suffering had better die and decrease the surplus population. Some one has said, "Charity is tho golden ohain that reaches from heaven to earth," but Scrooge never bestowed gifts on the poor, neither did he aid them in any way. We, like Scrooge, have those about us to whom we always owe something. Not only do we owe them a gift of money, but a kind word, a hearty clasp of the hand, and a showing of real, true, broth erly love for our fe'dow-men more unfortunate than wo are, for "No man is so high that be cannot elevate himself by doing a kindness for the meekest and lowliest of God's crea tures." When Sorooge went to his solitary home that night, what did he see in the door-knocker but Marley's face, and when he had locked himself in his mom what did he hear but an awful sound deep, down below ? Nearer and nearer the sound came and on through his door, and Scrooge saw that it was Marley's ghost. It is needless to say that Scrooge was frightened almost out of his senses. Marley told him how ho was spend ing eternity, and how he, in life, had forged tho chain which he wore. How careful-we ought to be that wo Ajnight not forge some chain as Mar .'ley had done ! Marley ,J,old Scrooge that, although he was forging an aw ful chain, he yet had a chance of escaping the terrible fate which had befallen him. But before his life could be changed he must be haunted by three spirits. Scrooge shuddered at the idea, for being haunted by spirits was not as pleasant to Scrooge as counting his money. Exactly at one o'clock tho next ?wight the first of the three spirits P'ppeared to.him. It was the "Ghost of Christmas Pa?t," and beckoning Scrooge to it, carried him away. Out over the dark, dismal city they passed and into the beautiful, open country. There was Scrooge's child hood home, where his happy, young heart had been ns light and free as the birds that make the woods re sound with the melody of their cheer ful voices. Homo ! where he had romped in the fields and meadows with bia playmates, and the little market town, where wo suppose he had looked at the things which he wished Santa Claus to bring him. There were his old comrades on their ponies, shouting "Merry Christmas" to tho country boys and girls who jogged along happily in their carts. Then Sorooge and the ghost wont to tho old school house whoro he had stayed-a lonely, forsaken boy-until .. his little sister Fan had come to take him home. An old warehouse was also aeon where Scroogo had been apprenticed, and oh 1 what a glorious Christmas he spent there. Then Scroogo saw himself as he ; sat by a fair young girl, who tfas tolling him that the riches ho sought wore not all. For the. best and i \ greatest wealth' ts of the heart, an I enlightened mind, a loyal conscience and 0iie affections. Then the spirit I shewed Scrooge wii? kind of a home might have beeu his had he not wor shipped Greed and Gain as his gods, j Scrooge cried to the spirit lo haunt . hun no longer, but while he was pleading wiih thc spirit and trying lo extinguish its light he fell into a heavy sleep. When Scrooge awoke it was one ! o'clock, the time fof the second spirit, but nothing appeared exoepl a Wright light, which flashed up in the :ooin when the bell struck one. At 1 isl the idea came to Scrooge that the ghost might be in the adjoining room. So he shuffled to the door, and a strange voice bade bim enter. When he entered he beheld a beauti ful room with an abundance of good things to eat. Scrooge touched the robe of the ?'Ghost of Christmas Present" and found himself out in the cold city streets on Christmas morning. Why were the bo)s and girls, the shop keepers and everybody so happy this bitter cold morning ? Because their hearts^were filled with cheerfulness and with love for each other, for if we are cheerful and contented, all nature seems to smile with us; the air seems more balmy and the sky more clear. Soon the people came hurrying along to church to worship their tiod who had preserved their lives and brought them together ouce moro on that day of all days-* Christmas Day. Scrooge and the spirit hurried on to take a peep inside the home of Scrooge's derk, Bob Cratohit. There happiness and peace were reigning. Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit'a son, had been an invalid all his life, and Scrooge was very muoh afTeoled to see his little, withered form, so he asked the spirit if Tiny Tim would die, but he trembled lo hear his own words, "He had belter die and de crease the surplus population," quoted by the spirit. Then away Scrooge and the spirit went to a lighthouse, a mining camp, a ship at sea, aud the home of Scrooge's nephew. In all these places Christ mas was celebrated in some way. When the bell struck twelve Sorooge saw this spirit no more, but the "Ghost of the Future," approach ing toward him. Strange to say, this spirit never spoke, but always pointed to the place where he wished Scrooge to go. Scrooge approached a group of men and heard them talking of some one who had died and they were making a great deal of fun of it. But he could not understand who they were talking about. The spirit showed him tho bed on whioh this man lay cold in death, and also showed bim that the only emotion caused by this death was pleasure, while on the other hand Tiny Tim's death had caused groat sorrow, for ho was like a little flower which had budded on earth to bloom in heaven. Scrooge was taken to ? churchyard and tho spirit pointed to a neglected grave with the inscription on tho stone "Ebenezer Scrooge." Nobody cared^ for him in life, so nobody oared enough for him now to keep hiB grave clean. He begged tho spirit to tell him if it would be so, but thc spirit silently pointed down, down to the grave. % Then Sorooge awoke lo find that God had sent theso spirits in a dream lb him in order to show him how ho was living and to warn him of his doom. Sorooge was overjoyed to find that he was alive and able to bo kind to overybody and have those around him care for him. Tho first thing ho did was to have a fine turkey sent around to his clerk, and then be found the gentle men who had called the day before and gavo them quite a large sum of money. Yes ! Scrooge was a changed man. Never again would he live as he once had, and everybody said he knew how to spend Christmas well. - ? . - - The children's . unloe of good health follows the uso of Koo's Laxativo Honey Hud Tar, tho cough syrup that expels all cold from the system by acting as a ca tino tie on tho bowels. Acertain remedy for oroup, whooping cough and all lung and bronchial affections. Sold by Dr. J. W. Boll. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. By nitrn Lucile Zimmerman Mary Stewart, Queen ol Soots. [By Annie Jones, of Walhalla ] [The Sunshine prizes for the bes' essay written on Alary, Queen ol Scots, have been awarded to Missei Annie Jones and Ethel Bruce Thia offer wa J made by the Sun shine Society, through the Stat! Organizer. Thia is the "first prize' esbay.] Thia beautiful and accomplished but moat unhappy, princess, w?s tut daughter of King James V by hil second wife, Mary of Lorraine daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise and widow of Louis of Orleans, Duk< of Longueville. She was born al Linlithg >w on the 8th of December 1542. Her misfortunes may be said to have begun with ber birth. I tc tidings reached ber father on hil death-bed at Falkland, but brough* him no con Rotation. uThe devil gc with it I" be muttered, as his thought? wandered back to the marriage witl Bruce's daughter, which brought th? orown of Scotland to the Stewarts "It, came from a woman and it wil end in a woman !" Mary beoarae s queen before she was a week old. Before she was a twelvemonth ole the Regent Arran had promised hei tn marriage to Prince Edward ol England, and the Scottish Parlia ment had declared the promise null War with England followed, and al Piukie ('lench the Scots met a defeat only less disastrous than Flodden. But their aversion to an Englist match was unconquerable. Thej hastened to place the young queer beyond thu reach of English arms in the island of Inchmahome, in thc Lake of Montieth, and to offer hei in marriage to the eldest son oi Henry H of France, and Catharine de'Medici. The offer was acceptedj and in July, 1548, a French fleet oar ried Mary from Dumbarton, on the Clyde, to Rosooff, in Brittany, when she waa at once conveyed to St, Germain-en-Laye, and there affianced to the Dauphin. Her next ten years were passed at the French court, where she was carefully eduoated along with the king's family, receiving instructions in the art of making verses from the famous Ronsard. At a somewhat later period she had the great Scot tish scholar, Buchanan, for her Latjn master. On the 24th of April, 1558, her marriage with thc Dauphin, who was about two years younger than her self, w?s celebrated with every cir cumstance of pomp and splendor in the church of Notre Dame, at Paris. It was agreed, on the part of Scot land, that her husband should have the title of King of Scots. But this was not enough for the grasping am bition of France, and Mary was be trayed into the signature of a secret deed, by which, if she died childless, both her Scottish realm and her right of succession to the English crown, (she was the great-grand daughter of King Henry VII) were conveyed to France. On the 10th of July, 1559, the death of the French king called hei husband to the throne by tho title of Franois II. The government passed into .the hands of the queen's kinsfolk, the Duke of Guise and tho Cardinal ol Lorraine, but their rule was short lived. The feeble and siokly king died on the 5th of December, 1500, when tho reins of power were grasped by the queen-mother, Catharine de'Medici, as regent for her son, Ohar?ee IX. Mary must have been prepared under almost any circumstances, tc quit a court whioh was now swayed by ono whom during her brief reigt she had taunted with being "a mer chant's daughter." But there were othor reasons for her departure from France. Her presenoe was urgentlj needed in Scotland, which the dealt of her mother, a few months before had left without a govornment-at t moment when'it was convulsed bj the throes of tho Reformation. Her kinsmen of Lorraine had am bilious projects for ber marriage Great schemes were based on hei nearness of succession to the Englisl orown, and both these, it wai thought, might be more successfully / MARY STEWART, QUEtfN OF 5COT5. By Jilas j? Annie Jones. J - /= followed out when she was seated on her native throne. She sailed from Calata on the I5tb p and arrived at Leith on the 19ib of j August, 1?61, having escaped the . English ships of war which E'iztbeth . dispatched to intercept h?r. She \ wept as the shores of France faded j from her sight, and ber tear? flowed I anew when abe beheld the rudeness 1 and poverty nf Scotland. Her gov ^ crnment began auspiciously. The Reformation claimed to have received the sanction of the Scottish , Parliament, and if Mary did not for . mally acknowledge the claim, she was at least content to leave affairs I as she found hem, stipulating only j for liberty t' use her own religion j a liberty which Knox and a few of t the more extreme Reformers de > nounoed as a sin against thc law of s God. Shu is said to have rejected j the violent counsel of the Roman i Catholics. It is certain that she surrounded herself with Protestant i advisers, hor chief minister being , her illegitimate brother, James Stew art, an able, if ambitious, statesman, I whom she soon afterwards created . Earl?of Murray. Uuder his guid j ance, in the autumn of 1562, she made a progress to the north, whioh, whatever was its design, ended in ? the defeat and death of the Earl of ? Huntly, the powerful chief of the Roman Catholic party in Scotland, i Meanwhile the courts of Europe r were busy with schemes for Mary's i marriage. The king of Sweden, the , king of Denmark, the king of France, ) the Archduke Charles of Austria, . Don Carlos of Spain, the Duke of ; Te rrara, the Duke of Nemours, the ! Duke of Anjou, the Scottish Earl of , Arran, and the English Earl of Lei . coster were proposed as candidates i for her hand. Her own preference i was for Don Carlos, the heir of what , wat then the greatest monarchy in I Christendom ; and it was not until all hopes of obtaining him were , quenohed, that she thought seriously i of any other. Her choice fell some what on her oousin, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, son of the Earl of' Lennox, by his marriage with a j , granddaughter of King Fleury VII j of England. His claims to the due- ! cession were believed to have ihe ; support of the great body of Eng- ' lisb Roman Catholics. But, except this, and bis good looks, he had no other recommendation. He was weak, needy, insolent and vicious; his religion, such as it was, was Roman Catholic. Mary's husband's worthlessness and folly becamo only to apparent ; she was disgusted by his debauchery and alarmed by his arrogance and ambi tion. She had given him the title of king, but he now demanded that the i crown should be secured to bim for ' life and that if the queen died with out issue it should descend to his heirs. ' Mary hesitated to comply with a demand whioh would have set aside 1 the settled order of succession, and ' what she refused to grant by favor, the king prepared to extort by force. Mary's chief minister since Mur 1 ray's rebellion had been Pr.vid Rio? [ cio. The king and Ricoio had been j ' sworn friends. The king was now persuaded that it was Ricoio ^ who was the real obstacle to his designs 1 upon thc crown. In this behalf ho ' entered into a formal compact with 1 Murray, Ruthven, Morton and other 1 chiefs of the Protestant party, under- j p taking on his part to prevent their i attainder, or procure their pardon, | , and to support and advance the > Protestant religion ; while they, on i I tho other part, bound themselves to i procure the settlement of the crown ' upon him and his heirs, nnd to take a j i slay, if need were, even in the queen's i palace and presence every one who t opposed it. I 1 Tho result of this conspiracy was H the murder of Ricoio on the Oth _of1 1 March, 1566, the king leading' the ' way into tho queen's cabinet, and holding her in his grasp, while the . murderers dragged the poor Italian . into an antC'Chamber and mangling r his body with more than fifty i wounds. "1 shall bo your wife no s longer," Mary told him, "and shall Y never like well till I oause you to \ The Kind You Have Alway? ] in use for over 30 years. ] and h All Counterfeits. Imitations Experiments that trifte wltl Infants and Children-Expo What is ? (Tastoria is a harmless subs goric. Drops and Soothing contains neither Opium, M< (Substance, its age is its gui and allays Feverishness. It Colic. It relieves Teething ' and Flatulency. It assimilt Stomaeh and Bowels? givini The Children's Panacea-TL GENUINE CASI Bears the The KM You Ha In Use For O 1 HI OINTAUft COMPANY, TT Mi Mil have as sorrowful a heart as I have fX*4 this present." Mary was kept prisoner in Holy road, while the king, of his own authority, dismissed the Parliament, whioh was about to forfeit Murray and his associates in the late insur rection. The plot was thus far suc cessful, but Mary no sooner per ceived its objects than she set her self to defeat them. The conspiracy was now at an end, Ruthven and Morton fled to England, while Murray, by renounc ing their cause, hastened to make his peace with the queen ; and the king, hated by both sides, because he had betrayed both sides, became an objeot of mingled abhorrence and contempt. Divorce was openly discussed in Mary's presence, and darker designs were not obscurely hinted at among her friends. The king fell ill of the smallpox at Glasgow. There Mary visited him and slept for two nights in a room below his bedchamber. She Bpent Sunday, the 9th, with him and talked cheerfully and affection ately with him, although she said one remark that made him uneasy. She left him about teu o'olook, and that was the night that his cell was blown up, and his lifeless form was found in the neighboring garden. Only three months after her hus band's death she married tho- man whom every one regarded as his murderer. This fatal step at once arrayed her nobles in arms against her. Nothing was left to her but to abandon Rothwell and surrender her self to thc confederated lords. The poople then led her to Edinburg, . where tho insults of the rabble and grief ?t parting with Rothwell threw her into such a frenzy that she re fused all nourishment. From Edinburg she was hurried to Loch-Levon. Escaping from her island prison on the 2d of May, 15G8, ?ho found herself in a few years at the head of 6,000 men. The sentence of death was pronounced against her on tho 25th of October, but it was not until tho first of February, 1587, that Elizabeth took courage to sign tho warrant of execution. It was carried into effect on tho 8th, wb^n Mary laid her head upon tho block with tho dignity of a queen and the constancy and resignation of a martyr. ? Five months afterward hor body waft buried at Petorsborough, whence in 1G12, it was removed to King Henry YIPs chapol at Westminster, where it still lies. The eharactor of Mary was a long one of history. 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Wants Macadamized Roads. Union, January 20.-The presentment of tho graud jury, made to the Court here yesterday, contains thia paragraph: We recommend that our Senatorand Repr?sentatives take necessary steps at ouce to have an election held in Union county during tho primary election, 1000, for tho purpose of voting bonds to tho value of $100,000, the proceeds of Bald bonds to be used for the purpose of grading and macadamizing tho publio highways of Union county outside and beyond the limits of any incorporated towns. BLUE RIDGEJAILWAY CO. BKTWEEN HELTON AND WALHALLA. Timo Table No. 0.-In Effect May 28, 1905. EASTBOUND Lv Walhalla. Lv Wost 1 tulon. Ar Seneca. Lv Seneca. Lv 'Jordania Junction Lv 'Adams. Lv ?Cherry. I.v Pendleton. LV ?Anilin. Lv ?Denver. Lv ?Wost Anderson_ Ar Auderson- FassDop Lv Anderson-Pass DOD Lv ?Anderson-FrtDop Ar Helton. A M S 35 8 40 8 58 9 00 9 M 9 17 9 '?5 9 32 9 39 9 50 10 00 10 03 10 26 10 P. M 2 00 2 03 2 16 2 19 2 20 2 33 2 40 2 53 3 00 8 10 S 12 8 36 P.M. 3 10 3 12 3 35; 8 I IS rsi 3 00 :t 00 a 35 ?1 12 4 lti 4 || 4 88 I 45 ft 03 f> 12 B ?T 6 aa r> 43 IS 45 t; 10 AH 8 18 8 20 8 48 WESTBOUND Lv Helton. Lv ?Anderson-Kr't De Ar Anderson- Pass De Lv Anderson-Pass Do Lv ?Wost Anderson.... Lv ?Denver. Lv ?Antun. Lv Pendleton. Lv ?Ohcrry. Lv ?Adams. Lv ?Jordania Junction. Ar Seneca. Lv Seneca. Lv West Union. ir Walhalla. PM 3 56 4 20 4 22 4 27 4 40 4 47 4 02 4 59 5 03 6 18 A M 10 60 11 10 ll 12 AM 10 60 11 10 ll 12 A M ll 16 ll 26 lt 31 ll 37 ll 44 ll 47 11 60 12 02 6 21 5 39 6 44 ll 16 ll 26 ll 31 ll 87 ll 44 11 47 l l 60 12 02 1 05 1 20 1 26 8 30 8 86! S 611 9 00' 9 25 9 35 9 39 9 67 10 00 1 06 1 35 1 40 PM 6 80 6 60 6 87 . Flag stations. Will also stop at tho following stations to take on and let off passengers: Pldnney's, James's and Sandy Sprinte? and Toxaway. Nos. li ana 12. f.rst class passeriger, dally; Nos. 0 and lu, dally except Sunday; Nos. 5 and 6, Sunday only; Nos. 4 and 7, second class, mixed, daily except Sunday; Nos. 3 and 8, second class, mixod, daily. A. H. ANDREWS, President. . J. R. ANDERSON. Superintendent. Assessment Notice AUDITOR'S OFFICE, OCONKK COUNTY, rpi! IS Ofllce will bo opon to reoeiye Re* X turns of Heal and Personal Property for tnxation for the next fiscal year, from tho 1st day of January, 1000, to tho 20th day of February following, iuolu B?V0. The Heal Kstato, Lots and Buildings are to bo assessed this year. Taxpayors will he careful to list exaotly tho number of acres, number of lots and number of buildings on their Heturns, as the assess ment mude now will stand for tho uoxt four years. The Township Assessors aro required by law to list for all those who fail to mako their own Heturns within tho time preBoribod. Honce the difllculty of do linqucnts escaping tho 50 per cent pen alty, as well as the frequency of errors resuitiug from this practice By all moans make your OWN Heturns and thereby sav? oxpeuso and trouble. Kx-Confoderato Soldiers ovor 50 years of ago arc exempt from Poll Tax. All other males between tho agon of 21 and 60 years, excopt those incapablo of earn ing a support from being maimed or from any* other cause, shall bo deemed Taxable Polls. Undor act of 1004, a capitation tax of 50 cents was imposed upon ALL dogs, and tho owners of such proporty aro re quired to list thoir dogs for taxation at tho time of making their annual return, and it is made the duty of tho County Auditor and Township Assessors to . n foroe tho provisions of this act. For tho convenience of Taxpayers I I will have Deputies to take Tax Heturns at the following times and places: D. F. Carter's, Thursday, January 18th, from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. Tugaloo, Friday, ,'anuary 10th, from 10 a, m. to 3 p. m. Madison, Saturday, January 20th, from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. J. P. REESE, Auditor Ooonoe County, S. C.