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I." AN OLD TIME nHOE DOWN" A. Country Party In Canada In tlio Days of Lone A|o. Did you ever get a "bid" to a danco in the country? I mean a real, home fnado, fifth concessions, log house, quarter of a -Century back country party. A spree, a Jioe down, a neighborhood shaker of tho simple, ready, rough, pioneer days. Did, h? Then you will remember that on tho morning of the day fixed for tho party the board partition that ran across tho middle of tho house was pulled down, and the beds woro piled in one corner, and the bunk was shoved up to tho end of tho house beside tho stove, and tho stout legged kitchen table was placed against tbo wall at the other end of the room, and a stout legged chair planted on tho tabic, and tn that, nhoirtho -a-j VKV UUU1C1 lUJ U1C V Uic\l| . and thero ho rolled his gray old head V from sido to side, and whiskod lightning from his elbow and fingered in ecstatic frenzy and beat time with his cowhido boots, and tbo throb of his eager music H touched tlio very inner keys of lifo and stirred tho young blood and softened the hardening muscles and loosed the settled H joints of age uAtil tlio stovo shook and tho dishes rattled on the shelves and tho beat of the feet on tho dancing floor was like the crashing of a score of mallets, f j deadened as by "flhe sweep of a mighty IF brtdm betvrccii. ' > . r w How they danced 1 How the fellow* I who had a few steps shono and capered . and pounded tho floor with his cowhides I | And how they swung! Round and round, i and round and round, until tho perspirajf tlon rolled down tho faco and tho breath gasped for a renewal of tho leaso. Tamed | and degenerate days. They swing no more. And they dance no moro. Tho mighty clatter of the old Scotch reel where old people unlimbered and shook off tho steps of youth, and tho young peoplo gasped to keep pace with tlio i elders; and tho opora reel?they called it the upper reel?which tho old folks also invaded; and then the cutting out i jig, whero tho youths ono after the other did their finest steps, and tho girls Ik did tho same, and you often got on the i track of n liking or an incipient com.^^^pany keeping by noting tho tinio and Circumstances under which somo par^ HUcular girl selected to tako tho floor, and m who thus became tho partner of her j m V choico, and the same with tho malo end ?' tho performance, where the cut out was much moro likely to have a signiflM cancc. M Do you remember that as a boy you I felt if you could grow up to call off V dances, or perhaps call off and play the fiddle at tho same time, as you onco W knew a man do, and wlioso imago lived f in your memorv for weeks, thnfc rlerkincr P in a storo or oven teaching school would < r be nowhere; or perhaps you know a clerk J ^ who kept storo and could call off also, and you ached to grow up and bo as 1 great rftrian* i? he? It ia hardly likely fo4 you knew a mnlo teacher who could 1 ' *?? danco much. Somehow tho worry in I the teacher's head over arithmetical i ,'J problems and tho confusion of dates and 1 the eccentricities of parsing seemed to i get into tho teacher's feet when ho gft l on tho floor, or, as a nativo used to put < A it in a placo wliero I onco lived, his left . e^| foot was Methodist and mixed him tjL and disgraced him every time hjB rta\ ?god to got for a partner a straiurfF1 ' , 0 ~ V hadn't been told how badly liqJy "iy k 11 Kiv>m? singular now, whr*"a,c? am' a MMMiniv U10 lJest, u? q ^^HBere woodehopps#!,? children I am jY Myheart smote ino jis I thought of ^ip the wifo and children who would never nan- | seo him again?of tho black nail of sor wlio I vow which would nettle down over :i d I happy household. lii'nk 1 "And tell father and mother!'' ho When Oca. Taylor was olected the same year it snowed on the 19th of November, and he only lived a short time. It snowed again on the 19th of November the year Oen. Garfield was elected, and his short reign is fresh in our memories. 'This year it snowod on the 19th of November, and for this reasou lie says Harrison will have a short reign. I hope that his predictions will not prove true in this instance, for I believe Oen. Harrison is one of ' the best and purest of tho Republican leaders." ' And it Oskkually Isn't.?Father : "My son, stopl You must not dispute your moth- ] sr that way." j Boy: "But she's in the wrong." Father: "That makes no difference; and g you might as well learn, my boy, once for all. a that when a lady says a thing is so, it is so." u And then he added, earnestly: '-Even if c. it isn't so." It is wise to provide against emergencies Wbioh are liable to arise in every family. In uddsn attacks of cold, croup, nsthama, etc., ~ a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pcotoral will prove " a never failing rem edy, ~|\ -X. , m , Ju Married on the Stage.?Richmond da Nov. 20?At the Richmond Theatro the ?n M Right, after the pcrformauco of ' Zo-Zo. dil by the Gardoner Company, Miss Ida g#. I Marsh, whoso namo appears on tho ),e ' play-bill as Lorainc, and who .assumes tb? tho char&otor of 'Geranium, tho girl th? that blushes,'1 wan married to Mr. M. Putnam, of New York . lie is said to bo a commercial trnvcller. Tho bride ? Will * remain with tho company until Q they reaoh the home of tho bridegroom. The Rev. Miilvilo II. Jackson officiated. ^ J ml There will be a largo immigration SMti convention held iD Montgomery, Decern- finn ber 12. All tbe Oovoners of theSouth- 80r^ era State will bo sent nut A:a * .v, UIUCIUUI iajd States. It is said that Toxas will hnvc her* large delegation present. bofo evor Consignees Per ExpressUnion, 8. C. Dec. 6, 1888. Ni 0 0 Waters, Jno. Hunter, E. K. Belue, J B Butler, It T Gee, It 8 A I'carson, J E a Covington, J J 8pears, Dr T Munro, Oeo E \ Tucker, Thos. K Bailey. Hedalia; W J Ro- xv cheater, Miss C Par'or, W N Garner Bros, pron ; P M 'Cohen," MAP Bank, D A Townsend, cent W 8 Gregory, 8r. Times, W M Lowery, J big ? B Brook, Bessie Karrar, D J Young, D. K. you \ Norman, Dr J F Norman, Rev Jno Wallace, M W Culp, J M Rico, MiasZella Davis, JT No Malone, Joo Font, Greene Bros. J M Gibbes A Son, J Salter, Goes & Stokes, Thos Boulware. F. H. COUNTS, Agt. List of Letters. p , v' Remaining in the Post office at Union 8 C NovJtt>, 1808 uncalled for. A R^damn, 'Mies K R Jeter, T C Bal?, * lilt? w? ^ -Wra Alice Drattej, Jm L McCormick, NEX' Mr Will Callout, . Mr W M Murph, Mrs Hattie Oajlie. Mr Geo Maer, IndirDunoan, Roht Miller, MttMlfah DatU, R F l'cmbleton, I IN KP D Po?l?r, Mrs Lira Banter L c<> H.J Fowler, Mir .) D Sealer, CI.OCI WjllMlto Qalc. ino L Townnend, 81LYF lfltt Sal lie Quc?t, Mm Warrcnalen, that a Mr Jm Hughes., Mini Ramie Young. Al?o Mitt Mara K_H<rri?onli?-Geo Mo"r, Hooks I price-*. >. PirwwjMMiftr the abov# latter* wiii > WOUNDED UNTO DEATH. An Incident at tlio llattlo of Fair Oaks. "HorrlWo War," A battle ia not always a whirl of contusion and uproar, with moil llring at will or at random. At Fair Oaks when wo swept down in tlio gray of morning on Casey's division we found two-thirds of it unprepared for our recoptiorf. I was a sergeant In my company, and as we began firing I noticed a federal sergeant of my own rank displaying tlio utmost energy in rallying tlio men around him to check us. Some of our men noticed him as well and two or threo called out that lie looked near enough liko mo to be a brother. By his own individual efforts he rallied enough men to check us temporarily, but after a few minutes wo drove them again and wero in the Federal camps. Then our lines liroko and each man fought for himself. I had singled out tho sergeant and fired twice at him, and it was a fact that ho had also singled mo out and fired at mo alone. Wo kept advancing slowly, and by and by, as wo crowded them from their shelters, I got a fair view of the sergeant. For a moment I forgot that there was any ono elso in all that battle. I had raised my gun when ho wheeled and raised his, and . wo both fired together. I went down liko a log, having received his bullet in tho right shoulder, and for two hours I hugged the eartn beside a log to escapo being hit again by tho missiles of friend or foe. When the fury of battlo had passed on I was lamo and stiff, and as tho location was strango to me, and I did not know whether wo wero still advancing or in retreat, I could not make my way off the field. I could not tell front from rear, nor was there ono chance in ten of finding a field hospital. After pulling myBclf up, and holding to a trco for a fow minutes, I felt better and advanced to tho spot whero I had last seen tho Federal sergeant. I found him lying oh his back. My bullet had struck him in tho sido and ho was fatally hit. As I knelt down boBido him ho recognized mo and said: "You havo given rue my death wound." iTliif vau ^ i.:n ?? ? " T i^uv ouu^uo tu lxin nit'j j. pro* tcstwl, ia extenuation. 'Yes, I fired at you. Souio of tlio men said you looked liko me, and I felt a desiro to kill you." "Let us bo friends," I said, as I knelt beside him. "I can use ono hand and arm, and perhaps I can stop the bleeding." "It is too late!" lio whispered. So it was. lie had lost a great* quantity of blood, and it was still pouring out and sinking away into tlio . black roil of tho forest. As my hand touched his ho grasped it and said: "We wero enemies. Lotus bo friu^Mfl Givo mo water." I held my canteen to his lip^^^Hlmiig thirst was satisfied, and"thp^^^^nust b< liiui and held lii3 ham'oflTy tlio 6inceres1 shadow of death <^jeptible and benevolent with his eyes clrtSably thoro are very manj it last whnxtf this kind, wero tho secret "Teljvfliat liavo actuated tho victinu :cttsdnpht to light. Yet wlierovcr humor r "law is founded on tho divino law, sell destruction must necessarily bo regarded as a crime. A man's buildings are not his own in tho eenso that he can set them on lire and burn them down with impunity; much less is his life?a possession which cannot lie restored?so exclusively personal that ho lias tho right ?o end it by violence in an hour of discouragement or disgust. Tho yearly list of suicides in some oi tho countries of Europo is appalling to contemplate. Tho waters of the Seine givo up their dead daily, and drowning is but ono among tho common methods JTrc7 40 ;)t To Rent. mil 1 ? . _ ..... ..muvuco in town of Union, now JL occupied by T. M. Whiteside, nnd known ns the "Dognn Piace. Apply to the undersigned. II. L. (JOSS. Dec 0 49 3t Jersey Stoek.? I Will lmvc tile Jersey Bull, Sir Pogen, in Union next wrek, Tor the convenience of any one wishing hit icrvices. Price $2 50. W. II. MURTISIIAW. Deo 7 49 It To Creditors of J. W. Posoy & Bro. 11 ill}death of Dr. J. W. Posey renders it necessary that every ?ne indebted to the rm of J. \V. Pesey k Bro., shall settle at nee, oither by cash or note. Such ns will ot do so, roust not expect nny further redit. We have no choice in the matter, it i a business necessity. 11. F. POSKY, Survivor of J. W. Possy & llro. Dec. 7 49 4t ruardiau's Final Discharge T OTICE is hereby given, that by permis. N sion of Hon. JamM \t n-- " ' .... rroratO idge, for Union County, I will, on the 6th y of January, 1880, inako my final return d apply for loiters dismissory as Guarin of Corrio Bobo, (alia*) l'almar. All persons having claims against the d Corrio Bobo, (alias) Palmer, during r minority, aro hereby notified to present >m to me on or before tho above date, or iy will be forever barred. L I. BOBO. Guardian Corrio Bubo. Dec. 7 49 4t. 1 uardian's Final Discharge ' OTICK is hereby given, that by pcrmis* J rion of Hon. James M. Gee, Probate ge, for Union County, I will, on the dny of December, 1888, make my I return, and apply for Letters Dismisr, as Guardian of Thomas Cudd. II persons having claims against the Thomas Cudd, during his minority, are :by notified (o present them to me on or -j, re the above date, or they will be forbarrcd. \ F: M. ADAMS, Guardian of Tlios. Cudd. >v 28 47 4t* jc th NOnOB. ofl LL persons indebted to me, by nots or aft account will please call nnd settle da lptly, as now ia the time I need every sw that is due, to meet the demands fo my sai lock of goods. By responding at once to sill greatly oblige, cot T. E. BAILEY, v 16 40 1m. REMOVED. < 8hj , G.TREFZER'S Ln nsc JEWELRY STORE. $ rw r 1)0011 TO J. <J, BUCIIIIE1T. N VITE ilio Ladles and Gentlemen to me and sec my enlarged Stock of WATCH B8, JKWBLRY and IKWAllK, wliieh I will sell at prices A inuot )>e boat. 1V on hand, a nice selection of School that an 1 School Suppli.yt, at Introduction All | at a THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE. ,V Mysterious Inconsistency?TIio AcjBI H Kingdom?Moral Cowardice* A very mysterious inconsistenc]^^H| human naturo lies in the contrast* H Iweon lifo which makes sell preservr^^^H its ilrat lovo, and that utter contempt^^^H intolernnco of it which induces self* H struction. 13y all human laws, the 1 who takes another's lifo in defend in own is held guiltless of murder; hisH H is accounted justiflablo in tho self saving instinct wiflWuanl ! croator has accompanied thopf?2 { , i to all his creatures. With tno consciousness of young animals tlui^*""1 ! ntinct a pilars in timidity and slirinkii^^ from danger, real or imaginary; and^ down to tlio lowesfc order of beings, a wounded thing will oxer tits last strength to escapo having its existonc^alottcd out. As for tho human 6peoies, liavo if on Scripture authority that 4,all that a man hath will ho givo for his life.'' In view of this, who that is unaware of the facts would expect to so constantly hear of men and women, and even children, finding life unbearable and ending all? What a surprising violation of this innato principlo it seems, when for this or that cause, and often for no cause that is ovident, some cliooso death rather than lifet Suicide is not entirely confined to tho human species. Thero aro numerous well authenticated instances of different? animals deliberately killing themselves when circumstances rendered lifo no longer desirable. A recent traveler in the tropics tells of coming at various times upon tho skeleton of a species of poisonous serpent within a circle of leaves of tho prickly cactus, and later tho riddlo was solved by his seeing sonio monkeys engaged in surrounding a sleeping reptile with tho spinous vegetation. Upon awaking and finding itself imnricnno/1 nrwl oil ~ A ,j?v^1 un *vo ubuuuipi>) vu escapG futile, tlio serpent presently took refuge in stinging its own body and dying at onco. It is commonly reported that the Kuno thing happens when a poisonous enako is hemmed in by tiro, in a epasm of des]>cration at linding no chance of escape, it turns its means of self defense 1 into means of self destruction. 6 Tlio animal kingdom is a law unto itself. Not 60 with man. Ho is subject to the higher law of duty and accountability ;~?md no environment can bo called hopeless to one who believes in"h gracious overruling power and tho better life to come. A portion of tlio akyafl|M| number of current confessed, in heart, ^^^HHHm^^^^HRKE^^^pres8ion ^^MtuveaDj^uW^^n before eliunber Overwhelms it bo calculated upon; for wd j may read of Mother Blood's oxecution, f. and dream, immediately alterward, of a b cabbage garden; or, transversely, we may r be cradled by the most soothing, placid j meditations, yet the weird magician, j who bears the branch of poppies, will L beokoirtis to follow through seas of gore. ? Experiment has proved that dreams may do influenced, if not controlled, through the inlets of the senses; the tliun[ der of drays upon tho cobblestones suggest* a tempest to the dreamer, aud tho ' tarries of si^phur or tho pleasant odors of oromatio water near his nostrils transport him to strago countries. For this ' reason the noises of awakening lifo givo color and movement to tlio visions that , ''bang upon tho odgo of day," rendering | them more real and vivid than those | which come at dead of night* It is one of tho peculiarities of dreams to eeom to be tending toward somo stupendous climax, and then to turn away J2LL?_<1 n>fimm* vo1\ c have a full lino of atopic goods, all of which you can buy at a sacrifice. Come One ! Come All! Aud you will find that wo mean what wo 8*y- MCE & McLURE. Not 24 47 Gt Notice to Creditors. Tho State of South Carolina. COUNTY OF UNION. In tho Court of Common Picas. Francis W. Sheldon, as Administratrix t with tho will annexed, of 1). if SholdoD Plaintiff, ar/aintt J James J. Layton, Alice Lay ton, ct al, Defendants. y UNDER an order in the above staled caao, ^ the creditors of D. II. Sheldon, de, censed, are required to present and estab- J lish their claims against the estate of the said D. II. Sheldon, before me, on or before the first day of January, 188'J. "< JAMES MUNRO, N Master for Union County. w Master's Office, Nov. 15, 1888. Not 10 40 Gt The State of South Caroliuu. | nI to COUNTY OF UNION <"? Ut la the Court*of Common Picas. .. Francis W. Sheldon, as administratrix U| cum tcstamento anntxo of D. II. Sheldon, ?' deceased, Plaintiff. against lamesT. Layton, Alico Layton, William II. Sheldon, Anna Pinson, Lulo Sims, Adolphus Sheldon, Mary Maxwell, Mary Sheldon, and an infaut son*of Pinckney Sheldon, deceased, whosr name is unknown, Defendants. ber Summons for Relief?Complaint Served. j the Defendants in this action : ^"OU arc hereby summoned and required L to answer the Complaint in this action, ? oopy of whioh is herewith served upon^ m, and to f^ervo a copy of your auswer to" said comp'aint on the subscribers at their T3 ico, at Union, S. C., within tweuty dsys ler the service hereof, exclusive of the a y of suoh service ; and if you fail to an- J\_ er the complaint within -? ...? ?.iuw more- cbea d, the plaintiff in this action will apply Tips the Court for the relief demanded in the nplaint. _ D. A. TOWN8END, Jer C.' n. PEAKS, Plaintiffs Attorneys. )et 25th, 1888. To Anna Pinson, Lula Sims, Adolphns ?ldon, Mary Sheldon, and infant son of ckney Sheldon, deceased whose complaint in the above entitled Cal ae is unknown: Take notice, that _ on ia filed in the offioe of tho Clerk of 1 ourl Court of Common Pleas for Union nty, Booth Carpi ina. % ?~ D. A TOWN8END, Oct C. H. PKAKE, Plaintiffs Attorney*, ov. 23 47 Ot Notice to Creditorti. mad? LL persona indebted to the estate sf D. 11. Rico, deceased, are hereby notified Nov payments must he made to ine at once. petrous having clvimt againft stid esa to requested to present them to me, perly stusted. 5!> 11 JjBB thcorios ouo real |^^BBB|^^^H barrier cei B| Howledgo thereof, tv lc be more iua- be; busy World to from our lib 7 v%'here, vague and vast ci\ Hollow as a brea^^^B nt |^n may set i^^^HrIorn 0( ught? ue 1^-asto.* ^Hp milestones along \V the ca||j! . I*80 ^^^BVe only know that, th Tlier^J"18* ^^Bto "a sleep and a er tlieso nocTm[ ,!?-2ination becomes a \vi brief and circumno wits speed over \vi Tho dog* ''hunts 11 birds set freo from w lights its battles ovm th sings in its sleep', latures exempt from m commonplaco prr?urneyings, however or some crude accouivibcd thev mav lie. to slumber. Cerlainfti dreams," the cat to all people?falMr again, and tho bird ki down, down, to flvhiio even tho most h; ?striving to wallam can usually give tc horribly beneath of his experiences in di in urgent haste, t<l dreams aro common tl dropoff?turn wJng from a precipice, zl velop otlyjr impilmid unfaihomed gulf tl in a coacir-ivhicllupon a floor that sink* I] pieces, and lcavAm feet?endeavoring, tl road. So to spool put on garments that it liarity of dreams Img side out, and dc- c< out of overythihili propensities?riding o So rebellious all suddenly crumbles to h in their course, tls ouo staring in tho a polled by any ?k, it is a marked pccu- c could be more eltliat "tho bottom drops g long ardently uM." t wilderness of sCo dreams, and 60 erratic vanished face; lliat thoy cannot be com- I bo denied, whilBffort of will; wild firo f tho brain. IMasily chained. Wo may t wrote, vl ncviM 6eo onco moro, in "tho t one I am partiAeep," somo beloved and ( thought almo8#y-ot this poor 6olace may I Bon for years, ft) alien images crowd into ( as to h&yoherlpon this subject Ilazlltt ? to bo liauntedBr dream of tho face of any I ness of disapjBularly attached to. I have 1 In all that tH to agony of the samo permore than oflnearly without ceasing, bo ] vividlyJI^Jface always before me, and 1 rc^HMBB^F by a perpetual conscious|^^^^^^^Hointed passion, yet I never |mo dreamt of that poreoifr# ^^^^^^^Hico or twico, aiu^^^^p; should inns an oml?l?4m^ or an oouf sur le plat. It is a fact worth noting that most of the families who wcro raised to high positions and profusely gilded by tho First Napoleon aro extinct, and that those 6till existing aro represented chiefly by women. Tho First Empiro and its wars did not play havoc with the dukes and princes who 6prang up around its head. The harm was dono by tho second empiro, whoso ideal was fairo boinbance. Tho higher class Donapartists ate, drank, and were nearly all guzzlers, and man. aged to soak any amount of lino wines at their lunches and dinners. Tho fashion in their time came in of having as many wino glasses at each plato as there are flues in a great 6tack of chimneys. When appctito palled, tho 6. jt russo was brought in to act on tho unfortunato Btomach as a tonio and enable it to go through as much moro as it had gono through already. Ono of tho reasons why tho lato Marsh. .1 Bazaino could not get quickly out of Metz to bar tho way against tho Prussians was that tho einneror started before him, and A GOLD TO BE GIVEN AWAY. LECKY From this date, Nov. 22d, 1888, nil who Li entitled to a chance at the Gold Watch, un.l oi with me. The chance costs you nothing, and h". *4 SANTA CLAUSL, HE 6?ItRE Holiday Goods ! JJlIolliday Good* ! I hav docks, Toys, Christmas Card?, Candies, Chris >c8t stock over la this market. Toys, yes Toys of every description," kind a tid old, in goods, price and quality. You o*n loods, Toys, &c. of mo. Mirrors; Dressing Cases, Manicure Cases, 0 Writing Desks, Whisp Holders, Cigar and Cigai dbums, Engravings, Oil Paintings, Oleographs, ^T>Tt*T/STT - ^xviii^un UAJNUllfiin F I have an assortment of seventy-five Ulffbt jlectiou ever in this market. Crystalized frui uts, etc., always on hand. Slick Candy a epeoi ill sell at wholesale prices. .. . I3ook?, Book For the old and young : something suitable fo ise you. I have got tho Goods and I am going r f>0 cents. I will sell yon Churles Diokons' Wi r $(>, worth $12, and all other Books same .est styles always on hand. LATCHES, CLOCKS A nice line. I am offering very cheap. Ban Cups, Sauceis, Mugs Voces, Shasi -Attention Close 111.yen*, and all 7lb, 1888, I will open my entire .stock qP ' rything on tlint day, I will offer at a special a you can buy them for ag tin. Uen'l miss seei a. p. g Lead Sept 21 38 [ats 1 Hats!! Hats ! i jj LL prices, all sizes, all cjualities. Also JN ' Pattern Hats and Bonnets. Also the freigli pest and newest styles In Trimmings, I hi , Wings, Birds, and ftil^oDS, including and h meat seys, Corsets and Bustles HE! Blast!: aii *o11 y bough I borne i At the Lowest Prices. 'for bla 1 on me at mv old stand, r.nm.ii., r^r?. -rr. -T- not oo? Hondo. Xnatm tnil* . i j ^pBoK^ Of t! MRS. 3k& QmWM Hook,' ~ "Qoldi To Those Indebted.' ,J|h #oJh?^ iL periona indebted, in any ny,fio the Arm of A. H. Stokee & *,, m j notified that setilemouta jpuMe gept at once. 5f ^ C. H. PEAKEr*?. 72S AT,TORNEY AT I.A WSJ 4 By do? beyond ia offioo ofl>^^TiA^? *sd HOW TO LIVE LONG. | 'ts That Co* tenarlnn* Kupply?Eating i For Too Much. Fro: Slcssod nro th"? poverty stricken, if ^ gevity bo a bl?sing. Tho majority tho eighty-four centenarians who were uioi vo in Franco at the taking of the last isus were extremely poor. Thero were ou enty-ouo of them living on aims as i Am ;gars or in almshouses. Tho open air ! of i a of a shepherd must bo also conduo to long life. A beggar named Rives, ^ Tarbes, was born in 1770, and a 11 >man who herded goats in the Ceven- Tha s mountains had exceeded 118 years, idows survive into a great old age; eir husbands more often than widow- Wo s pay such a bad compliment to their Ah, ives. Tho proportion of tho centenarian idows as compared to tho saiuo class of idowers was as 41 to 28 in 1884. Is " is because tho ungentle sex aro tho Th oro deeply sentimental, or tho gentle Th r>nt. Ipsa and have hotter re mil a ted ?.! m pel's? You know?or perhaps you don't su now?that nothing hastens senility like ibitual guzzling. Would it not bo well 0v i hang up the nbovo statistics in tho f0 ining rooms of city companies and at Fo le Mansion house? Your elderly guzer 011 tho shady sldo of middlo lifo is, ^ lough I10 lives, in many respects dead, lis brain is starved by tho clogging of fy 10 hair liko arteries which used to feed Ft Tho sediment that chokes thcui omes of too nutritive food and *oo much f it. Uis bones aro denso and weighty, is muscles rigid, his knuckles chalky, nd his lungs and throat ready to catch old. Turkish baths keep off, in a de- I1 ree, tlieso effects, but tho best plan is not " o bo gourmand. Tlioso centenarian beggars, I daro say, ' lad not tho means of eating lieavilv, and -y ew in tho south of France, to which 11 hoy belong, drink deep. Meat, too, is K hero dear and trying to bad teeth, and ruit is plentiful, cheap and good. This * ast won't inako bono and muscle in a : :hild?a reason why it docs not clog 11 capillary arteries. But in tho south it ^ lias a deal of forco in it derived straight from tho sun, which is convertible into ~ vivacity. Eggs aro also plentiful, liens Jj laying in tho south four moro months thopn tfaan in the north. Tlio id^cd in tluPi^onc who wants j^roiL Freo Press. # Kotli Sides of tlio Question. Ethel (entering suddenly)?Jack, dear, I wish you to lend 1110 your baseball mask for?well, for six months at least. Brother Jack?Gracious! sister mine, vjvhat 011 earth nre you going to do? ^^iUel? Well?if I must tell?it is this way: V^v-kpow Harry and I aro engaged now. Ho cor.x-i every evening and stays?quite a while. lie i3 so extremely demonstrative, and ho has such an?aggressive mustache. I believe in free trade up to a certain point, then I am for protection.?Pittsburg Bulletin. 1 Ilia riaco ia Society. 1 According to a Now York correspondent, tho western rnnn is looming up on the horizon of tho New York woman in 1 n most astonishing way. "lie is .just hogiuning," ho writes, "to take Ins placehero in social life, and ho taken an aw- , fully big place. lie lakes away the , breath of tho eastern girl by hi* self confident methods, and by tho time she recovers it sho very often finds that it is in reality her heart that is gone."?Chicago Herald. Bremen's Statuo of Liberty. The quaintest thing in Bremen is its 6taluo of liberty, tho "Boland" as it is is a colossal figure, ^eighteen j WATCH 1 "WHO WILL Hid THE ONK? iy of mo tho amount of ono dollar will be io chance for every ono dollar you spend ill I guorantco the watch for twelve months. c ADQUARTERS AT TT'S. o tho largest and most, complete stock of ^ 1 tmas Goods of all kinds, the largest nnd od pi-icfe. I can suit you all, both younK save 25 per cent. l>y buying Ckristma4 dor Cases, Shaving Cases, Work Boxes, rett Stands, Autograph and Photograph Pastolls, Chromos, &o. RENCH CANDIES!! ent kinds. It is the largest and nicest tsf Citron, Currants, Itusins, Prunes, ialty. 1 have a large stock on hand and Books. r everybody, and at prices that will surto sell theut. I will sell you a $1 Book orks, complete, 10 volumes, Illustrated, price in propotlion. Stationery of tho AND JEWELRY - - . ? ? a a jos, Violin?, anil Guitars at Cost. Iiinawiii'e ! ! ing Cups, Tea Sets, otc. who want to save money. On Decern- ? Toys, Holiday Goods, etc. In fact, discount of 10 to '20 per cent, less ng the Grand Display of the Season. BARRETT, (\i er in Books and Holiday Novelties. V/A tf OWDER! POWDER!! 1 i moro need of byying your powder ANI away from home and paying big til my its. ^ In ord< eve built a Powder Magazine in Union, siblo p avo now stored in it a largo assorU have b of r| aCULES AND DUPONTS ftml ha ng and Rifle Powder, which I wil it in, a i merchants as cheap as it can be sold bo l anywhere. But vour ? -* p r??uoi in any out md safe yoar freight?>10 or 6O0 per well to Hare HorculcsNo. 22, which is used fori po ting, and is a useful article on a in smal for remoring old stump*, etc, and ia tWhm. itly. I keep Dnpont'a Skipping, MinIeating and Hide powder, lie Hi?* ptnrder, 1 hart the ^M|S ? "Choke bore.' *Fg,' "Ffg.' 'Fffg' and My ates >u Pheasant," in kega of 2f>, 12} and and canisters of 1 lb. each. CARPE k I can suit any purchaser, in grade mB. e of package. 8. M. RICE, JR., B. U., ef 8. M. Rico, Jr., & Co. ? 7 86 v' : IASH1 OASHI CASH! ItCM CRth to ton our busineaa F fully, and to meot our wants, we re- , lly aak all pontona Inbebt> UM to make immediat> payments. ir'? 01 114 this yon win Nnvt Ironblo l*ts?sr" U ??3' EJ? ^ILK1?3L.\ ^ Hov. i / LES M1SERABLES. * wh.it wo wo thankful? O sages, declare, m your high, curvcu pulpits, to suffering men; list to your sermon, your nut hem, your prayer, ir soft benediction. No nqsiver Is llicro .ho question wo ask you; tlio chill autumn air ,vs tho words to our faces again, i'vo talked of tho merchant ships sailing tho (j seas. I told of the treasures the harvest would yield; tho fruit hanging low on tho o'erhnrdened trees; tho odorous breath of tho vine ou tho breeze; wheueo comes tho mandate, tho law that decrees it wo starve in tho brown stubblellcld? I-Vftttlrwl nt nAAtulflV U-ltll tllicf. mill Tvlfll hPllt ' sang uml wo Jested to lighten our toil; hoped tho drear w inter with plenty to greet? , tho mirage to near fainting hearts was so j sweet? . t empty onr hands, baro and bleeding our feet; , 9 labor was ours, not tho^poU. ' . 9 harvests are garnered, tho myriad sheaves at piled tho wide field ) liko gold from tho mino I uptho great barns from thotloorto tho eaves; 0 grapes that grow ripe umidst whispering leaves Un red, laughing Hps while a starving one grioves itsido for tho dregs of tho wino. ir what nro wo thankful? For prisons and pain; >r our babes murd'riug sleep with their famishing cries; ir tho snow and tho sleet, tho wind and tho rain sating out tho dull lifo from tho iieart and tho brum: >r tho gravo wo at last in potter's field gain; >r tbo stono with its deeply cut lies. ?Margaret Holmes iu New York World. Tho Faco of a Scoundrel. Undoubtedly Cagliostro was tbo most do and successful scoundrol who ever ved. Thomas Carlyle, after carefully ispccting his portrait, describes his faco 1 follows: "Fittest of visages wore icy to bo worn by tbo quack of quacks 1 i most portentous faco of scoundrel ism; flat, snub, abominablo faco; flat nosed, reasy, full of greediness, sensuality, ax ko obstinacy; a forehead impudent, reusing to bo ashamed; and then two eyes urned up seraphically languishing, as i! u divino contemplation and adoration; , touch of quiz, too; on tho whole, periap^U>^tnost perfect quack faco pro[u^^HH^^^htccnth century."?Dellendersonvillo " Flat ltook " Saluda " Tryou " Spat tan burg., f 11 55 n. in. . Un'?? 1 -10 p. in. 9 45 a in Arrive Alston *3 35 p. m " Collllullin <1 Jlln m - - " f '' August* 9 10 p. m. " Charleston via S. *Daily. f Daily except Sunday Through Car Service. Slain Line Trains Nos. 'id and 55 daily jetween Columbia and Alston, and daily jxeept Sunday between Alston and Grcenrille. Through passenger coach between Cha'ston tnd Mort istown, viaS. C. linilway, Columbia ?nd Spartanburg. Tickets on sale at principal stations to all mints. On train No. 50 and 51 Pullman sleeper beween Charleston and Hot Springs, N. C., ria A. C. L . Columbia and Spartanburg. J as.. Taj lor 1). Card well Sol. Ilaa | Ass't Ueril jtn. Pass. Ay'I.\Past. Agent. Traffic Mana,' | Columbia, $ C gtr. WONDERFUL SUCCESS. !Y SELLING MY GO URES, FOR Ti No large percentage on the books i the Fall. Credit is the TATJ.nw iw the 13 of bus: c must move on with the grand p irretrievably lost in arid plaii OUR STOCK In all Departments. Special BOOTS AN] The new designs in Henriettas ami LOOK TO YOUR INI HEARKEN TO 1 AND HE] H. M. ft 21 r,s THE GREAT SALE ? FURNITURE IS NOW GOING ON AT Of ni 1 "pi "DA XT .. -D.rt.XJLjHi Y e't,C ' My ( ? will continue nt reduced prices un- l?w I immense stock is greatly reduced, peop jrtoget my goods at the Lowest pos- nnn< rice, and reduced rates of freight, 1 W,R ought get t 'OO MUCH "or ve to rent an extra building to put ?hoy' nd to cut down expenses it must be ''""j'fore the first of January, 188'.), and > in need of goods in my line will li b? so call before the assortment is broken, 1800 sitivoly cannot furnish the same goods c 1 lota at the prices 1 am now offering ()*a' Ralsi REMEMBER. tk oonsieta of Furniture of every e- and t seription: your ra, WINDOW SHADES, RUGS, J, " IICE POLKS, HASSOCKS, LOOK- have 1 GLASSES, STEP LADDERS, Bri KHAR MATS, PICTURES, CIftu# I BUTTER'S TRAYS, ? EATIIERS AND TICKINGS, GLASS AND PUTTY. Ip nly place* in 'own A are you ean ich Picture lliiisL'Mlniii, Doors, Blinds, Lumber and Kbln, j . 'll^U.UONT AIR LINE UOHMOND & DANVILLE RAILROAD IKEENVILLE & COLUMBIA DIVISION CONDENSED SCHEDULE In eflcct August 10, 1888. (Trains run on 70th Meridian time.) NORTHBOUND No. 54. No. 61. <eave Cha'aton 7 00 a. m. .euve Columbia... |10 25 a. m. f trrivc Alston 11 22 a. m. leave Alston 11 25 p. id. Vrrive Union 1 25 p. m. 4 25 p. m. Urrive Spartanburg. 2 50 p. in. G 45 p. m. Try on " Saluda " Flat Rock " llcndersonville... * Ashevillc 7 00 p. m. " Hot Spriugs ' l'o m aria 11 50 a. id. Xr'rivo Prosperity... 12 22 p. m. " Newberry 12 30 p. m. " Laurens " Ninety-Six... 1 45 p. in. " Grecuwood...., 2 27 p. in. " Greenville , 5 30 p m " Abbeville 3 55 p. m. " Anderson 4 25 p. m. " Seneca 5 45 p.m. " Walhalla G 45 p. m. Atlanta 10 40 p.m. ^ SOUTHBOUND, No 55 No. 50 Leavo Walualla f7 00 a. m. " Seneca..... 8 00 a. m. ' Anderson. .. . 9 35 a. m. " Abbeville 10 30 a. m. " Greenville 8 40 a. m. ' Greenwood... 11 oli p. m. " Ninny Six.... 12 40 p. m. " Laurens " Newberry 2 15 p. m. " Prosperity 2 40 p. m. Arrive Alston 3 25 p. m. Leave Hot *0 1 0B3 AT CIOSi^^H IE HONEY. 1 I igainst you; no unfriendly fee? SB VH1 LECTmClrJ^H ITVESS. ?3 nj roccssion. The La aru* will bX:l| 13 nf f1i? o ? mv v/ic-iiit ovsiem. IS FULL- f] I inducements offered in a 0 SHOES. 11 1 l'all Suiting* avc attractive. " ? 'EREST! I [ HE BLAST, ED THE HORN! GRIM BALL . if SPECIAL-ftinTCV-" .m FOR DECEMBER 7TH 188Q I ? I will inuko ft ' M GRAND niQDi a%/ ^ ? -i?i *? r\ Y iy entire stock of Toys and Holiday noY?. everything suitahlo for Cbrisimns. )tycct for making this special sale and prices is to gito all close buyers nnd le who look nhcrkl a ohnnoo < save J&j sy. lty ending on Deo. 7lh, lbtM, yon A re o\iM'i I urnIri sh :unl new; y..ii wiii B he first selection, you will scathe beet H largest assortment of Christmas food* UA in ilrs market. And besides nli the e advantages, 1 make the following ofMl Christmas and Holiday Qooci >" Id on December 7th IbHHai % ?p*W of M to SO i or cent loss thu jot ver buy them for again. S* H Jies satchels at cost. Give me your order for Candljtf, us, and all perishable fruita t'obe de- H rd at any lime in Deoembar. ill give you the lowest marlMg prlcaa. V hen 10 per cent. off. By giving V orders yen save 10 par oer*?jj^l V ire to get just what yon wan^Lud at 'IB me you want them. All oraK s will 1 my prompt and personal atte^kxen, a ng all tha children tp see alw^ >. 23 ? P, GARRETT. \ J ?i7 - -,M Money, to i ~? Hunit* oi'MOtt .*? r?*d bjr flrxt