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- Forty.
With many a earelesa, joyous bound.
With many a weurr, treadmill round.
O’er smooth-spread turf or dangerous ground;
By many a limpid stream, and mild.
By many a mountain torrent wild,
I, from a simple, trusting child.
Have wandered on to forty.
From feet that skipped to sober tread—
From mind with foolish fancies fed,
To sounder judgment, wiser head;
The change to work from thoughtless play,
The change from graver thoughts to gay
Which came to me along the way
I strode while reaching forty.
Through visions which had real seemed —
Through vi ions wilder than I dreamed;
Through shadows where the silver gleamed,
Through sunny places half o’ercast
By eerie shapes which flitted fast—
For brightness cannot always last,
And youth must merge in 4^-
Kow let me count my treasures o’er;
What have I won or lost ? Far more
Save lost tbsn gained. Such boundless store
Of faith and hope I boasted, when
( wandered from a lad of ten
To where my vision broadened. Then
My faith exceeded forty.
Somewhat have learned, and much unlearned—
Borne good received, much more have spurned
And much that might have bccu discerned
l left unheeded—wandering by
With careless or averted eye;
Forgetting that the moments fly
So fast from youth to forty.
I’ve retched the summit of the race,
And would move on with slower pace;
But forty has no breathing place;
Bo shift and turn me as I will
The years will crowd and jostle still,
And I may hasten down the hill
To score another forty.
[ view the path I’ve wandered on,
Where forty years have come and gone,
And much of faith and hope lies strewn.
And pray they may prove finest gold,
Flie remnant of the faith I hold.
And shred of hope I still infold,
And last another forty.
—Springfield /?<pub’iean.
The Pathetic Young Man.
■Walking the sands with her father,
Mise Grannis felt that she had lived up
to all the possibilities of eighteen years;
that she enjoyed the ocean view more
for being perfectly dressed, and gazing
on it from nnder a fleece of dark curling
hair, which crept fashionably low on
her forehead, without over having been
hairdresser’s merebandiee. She er joyed
even the doubtful support her French
heel gave the arch of her foot. At any
time it would have hurt Mies Grannis
to be less than a picture against the
landscape. Bhe had delicate features,
large hazel eyes, and cheeks inclined to
flush, and she knew it was a face to set
with a background of immense hat, and
above Mother Hubbard shirrings on the
shoulders below it. Yet she was an in
nocent creature, with the dregs of child
hood lingering on her lips.
Her father was an innocent creature
also ; short and thick, with a face clean
shaven (xcept a thorn of beard on the
end of his chin. His methodical move
ments and placid air indicated the busi
ness man retired on the protits of a
successful career. He carried a heavy
gold-headed cane, and gave his left arm
to his daughter, who indulgently let her
fingers lie therein. The gentleman’s
walk was a swinging one, while she
herself with elastic elegance,
catching the step when they jarred. Mr.
Grannie nttered a growl when her white
parasol ^interfered with his hat, but
npon her begging pardon, assured her
it was nothing at all. His manner
toward his daughter was ceremonious.
Bhe htyl spent so much of her life in
boarding-schools, whilo he grubbed for
money, that he felt unacquainted with
her. Besides, she was a woman, and
therefore entitled to deference. It was
' Mr. Grannis’ habit to lift his hat to tho
chambermaids in his hotel, and ad
dress his washer-woman as madame.
They reached tho wooden promenade,
and clicked slowly along it, Mr. Gran
nis adding an occasional thud of his
cane to the uneven cadences of their
steps.
“There’s the pathetic young man
again,” observed Miss Grannis, casting
a sidelong glance across the beach.
"What pathetic young man?” in
quired her father, giving his cane head
the revolntion on his palm necessary to
produce a flourish.
"There ; standing alone, with a soft
slouching hat on ; black eyes and a
large mustache. Don’t look now, he’s
noticing ns.”
Miss Grannis twitched her parasol
in a pretty bnt self-conscious manner.
"What’s pathetic about him?’’ in
quired her father. "He looks fat and
hearty. He needs to go to the barber
and get a double handful of his hair
clipped off. Must be hot this weather.”
The gentleman ended in an abrupt
chuckle which usually startled strangers
—it did not accord with his solidity.
“ Oh, I just call him the pathetic
yonng man. He stands gazing across
the water so much, and his eyes are so
sad when ho looks at yon at table.”
“Maybe he’s a salesman out of a
position,” volunteered Mr. Grannis;
“or a professional man who can’t get
into practice.”
“ Don’t you think he looks nice, pa?”
“No. Too pretty. Never s*wa pretty
fellow that could do anything. Their
making’s iu their flesh and bones, and it
stops there.”
“But don’t yon like his air?”
“ Stuff, stuff,” said Mr. Grannis, with
out a punctuation mark or tingle of dis
approval. It was the methodical but
not severe plug which he thought best
to apply to his daughter’s enthusiasms.
His ownenthusiasms, being once roused,
were irrepressible.
“Perhaps he is stuff-stuff, pa. There
ain't many men. young or old, as nice
and reliable as you are.”
“ What do you know about that,
child?” itquired the old merchant, with
a smirk pleasant to see, for it proved
him one of those lovable male beings
open to flattery.
“Ob, I know a great deal. I have
studied men.” Miss Grannis exhaled
a sigh through parted lips. A girl in a
large hat, with a face as delicate as a
flower, who can sigh eo prettily and
gaze at the horizon through smiling
eyes, is very rood company even for her
father. Bo Mr. Grannis thumped along
with much satisfaction. The wind grew
fresher as they walked, and the pathetic
young man faded away behind their
backs.
After following the beach half a mile
they left it and turned into a path which
wound among rocks. Beyond the
rocks and a sandy intervening belt was
a piece of wood lard that Miss Grannis
and her father had explored before and
found to their liking. Not to wander
in woods, however, do maids adorn
themselves in Gainsborough hats and
high-heeled bools. This was the walk
all the hotel world took when not in
clined to go on wheels. There were
benches nnder the trees. A cream-
tinted parasol was apparently renting
itself on one of these seats, while a
pair of trousered shins and a sweep of
silk appeared below it.
Bat Mhs Grannis scarcely let her
ayes rest on this or any ether enchanted
conple dotting the vista. Bhe indi
cated to her father an artist’s umbrella,
and a plump, blonde girl sketching un
der it
“There she is, pa. Bbe doesn’t
seem to notice who comes or goes, or
to care if they look at her.”
“ Her mind’s fixed on her business,”
said Mr. Grannis, with appreciative em
phasis.
The sketeher greeted them, however,
and spoke as if pleased to see them.
They had picked up acquaintance with
her during their week’s stay. She did
not come from the hotels, but boarded
at a farmer’s. Her thick light hair
hung in two braids below her waist.
She was very p:etty, very dimpled
about the wrists and finger roots, and
dressed in Qaakor colors with almost
Q laker plainness.
She had a small camp-stool beside
her, to which she smilingly motioned
Mis' Grannis. Mr. Grannis sat down
on a bench near by, made a number of
polite observations, placed his hands on
the top of his cine, and began to nod.
“ You’re going to sleep, pa,” cau
tioned his daughter.
“lam enjoying tho view, Fanny,”
said the old merchant, decidedly. “ I
always like to meditate while I am en
joying the view.”
Miss Grannis smiled at the nearland-
ecape of recks piled up before the sea.
Bnt out of th s, threading the familiar
path, came the pathetic young man. He
had a right to be walking there. Bnt
the fact of his following so closely her
own arrival made her start.
The artist noticed this, and looked at
the yonng man coolly and with an nn-
moved aspect. He passed near them,
glancing their way, and went on among
the trees.
" Did yon notice that gentleman's ex
pression?” inquired Miss Grannis of her
companion.”
“ Do yon ?” said the artist ? ’
“ Yes. He stops at our hotel. I
thick he has the raldest face—as if his
life were blighted, or something.”
“ Maybe he has blighted somebody
elee’s life,” said the artist.
“ I wonder how? ’ mused Miss Gran
nis.
" You seem interested in him.”
"Not a bit,” exclaimed the young
Indy. “ He has never been introduced.
I don’t even know his name.”
“ I can tell you what it is,” said the
artist, changing her pencil. "It’s the
same as mine. He is my husband.”
“ Mrs. Granger 1” Tho yonng lady
gave such a start that she was near up
setting the umbrella, but saved bereelf
this awkwardness, which would have
pained her more than anything per
taining to the pathetic yonng man. " I
thought you wore a widow.”
“ I am—a divorced widow. It is not
noce'saryto blazon the fact.”
“And why—” hinted Miss Grannis.
She felt unwarranted to maae inquiries
and glanced back at her father, whose
brow was sunk to his cane. But this
shattered romance fascinated her.
“Didn’t yon love him?’
The blonde face put on a cynical
sneer which lifted the nostrils an in
stant; but this died away, as if it found
the wholesome, sweet muscles unapt for
its use. Mrs. Granger smiled, sketching
with a steady baud.
“ Oh, yen, I loved him. But I couldn’t
eat love. It was very light diet. I have
some solid Dutch blood.”
“Didn’t he give yon enough to eat?”
questioned Miss Grannis.. with widening
eyes.
“ Yon have evidently been foraged
for all your life,” said the artist. " And
you can’t see the danger which lurks in
such beings as j our pathetic young man.
But let me tell you, if a mau ever comes
courting you in a minor key, don’t you
have him. If he calls himself a black
sheep, value him accordingly ; he ought
to know what he is. And if he tells
you he looks into the future and sees
nothing bnt darkness, keep out of his
darkness; let him enjoy it himself.
He’ll have a good enough time. There
is a worthlessness in some men worse
than positive bad habits. They lack
all the points which go to make success.
All they can do in the race of life is to
snap at the heels of people who do win.
Their companionship wears the soul
threadbare. They have no faiths, no
hopes, and if any energy, it is of that
shabby kind that is without the nerve
to vault over difficulties. The exhilara
tion of life is never enjoyed near such a
person. He ernshes you—this pathetic
young man.”
" Oh, my I” said Miss Grannis, mean
ing to indicate that such views of mas
culine nature were distressing to her,
and that her experience was far from
preparing her for them. “ Bnt I
thought when two people were very
much devoted to each other, they—did
not mind anything else.’’
" Love,” said the artist, coolly, "never
flourishes in the society of the pathetic
yonng man.”
“Was he ever cruel to yon?”
" Yes, he was ; ” a dart of pain ap
peared for the first time in the artist's
voice. " I think he has killtd out much
of my womauhood.”
Thought the young lady, with secret
wisdom, “She loves him yet.”
They sat a long time silent. The
artist kept steadily at work, and the
schoolgirl reconstructed a palace from
the ruins in band. She sifted her read
ing on the subject of matrimony, to
find means with which to work on the
minds of this separated pair. It should
be her mission to bring them together
again. At the end of a glory-lighted
vista she saw them kneeling at her feet
while she bestowed a benediction.
The pathetic yonng man came out of
the woods, loitered past them again,
and returned to the beaoh.
Then Miss Grannie remembered how
late it was grooving. She rose np and
waked her father, who said he had not
been so pleased with a view since he
came to the seaside. He took off his
hat to bow when they parted with the
artist. But his daughter, full ©f delicate
and benevolent plans, decided not to
ask this lady to the hotel immediately ;
and taking her father’s elbow, walked
him to the sands.
“ Pa,” she exclaimed, " I want you
to introduce the pathetic young man to
me.”
"Bat I don’t know him myself,” ob
jected Mr. Grannis.
“ You can know him. And, pa, if he
really is out of a position, or suffering
for money, you can start him in the
right direction, can t you?”
Mr. Grannis made a cautious pause,
shaking his head.
“ It isn't just the thing,” he prosed,
"for a young girl to show so much
interest in a young man.”
Yet when they emerged from the
rocks, and almost ran against the young
man in question, this cautious father
was so precipitate in yielding to her
demand that she colored with vexation.
He touched his hat, half in apology
for running so nearly against him, and
the pathetic young man touched his
hat and they exchanged remarks about
the roar of the surf. The young gen
tleman asked Mr. Grannis’ opinion as
to whether a certain vessel coming in
was a ship or a schooner, speaking the
elder gentleman’s name in a nicely
modulated voice. He was either anxious
to continue with them, or tockit for
granted that they wished him to do so,
^nd introduced himself, upon which the
’amiable old merchant presented his
daughter, noticing afterward that she
seemed to take in ill part the very
thing she bad begged him to do.
As for Mbs Grannis she walked erect
with tingling “cheeks. The pathetic
yonng man walked next to her, and her
father had the water side. Bhe meant
to work a change in the life of this
yonng gentleman, and felt chagrined to
have the least irregularity in their in
troduction. Bat of coarse poor pa, al
ways tied np to businean, could not
know the nice requirements of society.
As they walked, however, her chagrin
was soothed. Mr. Granger knew several
friends of her father’s, His behavior
toward herself was perfect He glanced
at her deferentially, and absorbed her
society with quiet pleasure, returning at
intervals to bis sad abstraction. Miss
Grannis would have hated him had he
ceased to be pathetic.
When they had nearly reached the
hotel she vouchsafed him a few remarks.
“I have just been with a friend of
yours,” she said.
Mr. Granger turned his gaze toward
her for explanation.
" The l&dy who is sketching. She is
i a very particular friend of yours, I be-
' lieve.”
"I never saw her before in my life,”
I said Mr. Granger.
" Yon surely are mistaken,” impetu
ously exclaimed Miss Grannis.
" Not at all, begging your pardon,”
said Mr. Granger.
" But she said she knew yon very
well indeed.” A look of utter mystifi
cation came over the gentleman’s face.
“ A case of mistaken identity,” he
snggested.
"And your names are the same—
Granger.”
He looked searchingly at Miss Gran
nis.
“Singular coincidence. I certainly
cannot remember having ever met her
before. Bnt I did not look with par
ticular attention at her.”
There was a hint of emphasis on
“her ’’—pleasing, because it was slight,
like the suggestion of a perfume. Mr.
Grannis now took np the conversation,
and his daughter left them in the hotel
veranda and went to her own room.
She told herself that either the pa
thetic yonng man or the girl-widow in
whom she had taken such an interest
had made false statements. If he were
not a recreant husband, how oonld the
pair be reconciled ? Mrs. Granger
claimed him with snch assurance, and
he had passed quite near enough to be
recognized On the other hand, he de
nied acquaintance even with Mrs. Gran
ger’s face, with an air of candid uncon
cern. It pnzzled Miss Grannis so
much she could think of nothing but
the pathetic yonng man. She had read
of twins and of doubles who had to
bear the sins of those whom they dupli
cated. What gave him that sad look if
there was nothing gnawing at his heart
strings ?
“ I wonder if she really was his wife,”
thought Miss Grannis. “ I don’t want
to see her anymore while we stay here.
It’s a horrible business to be so pnzzled
about. If they really are strangers how
unjust I am to him 1”
There was a dance ending with a
german at their hotel that evening.
Miss Grannis had no chaperon ; her
life had been an independent one, and
her father knew little abont a yonng
girl’s requirements. But she had op
portunities to dance, and oue of her
opportunities was Mr. Granger He
waltzed elegantly, aud in this exhilara
ting motion appeared to forget the
recent sorrow which made him pathetic.
Miss Grannis uoticed his mother, a wiry
old lady with white curls, watching them
with attentive eye.
“She can’t help seeing we are well
matched,” thought the young lady.
It occurred to her now for the first
time that she might learn the cause of
Mr. Granger’s melancholy from his
mother. The young girl was exclusive
in her own fashion. She picked out
people in whom to feel an interest, and
ignored the rest of the world. Daring
her week’s stay she had not lingered
emidst the gossip of the parlors, and
had therefore obtained no information
abont the people in the hotel except
what her eyes gave her. Bnt she was
certain this youngish old lady was Mr.
Granger’s mother, because he always
brought her to the table, and exhibited
the most dutiful behavior toward her.
After tho waltz Miss Grannis walked
on the veraeda with the pathetic
yonng man. It was a light night, the
moon seeming to walk the ocean with
a thousand glittering footprints, and
time and scene had their effect on the
two young people. Other couples were
also promenading. Still, Miss Grannis
felt an aloneness with the pathetio
young man and decided now to sift and
claasifyhim. She said he seemed pensive.
He turned his luminous eyes toward
her and assured her he was always a
little pensive when extremely satisfied.
This was a nice though ambiguous
beginning. But it gave her opportu
nity to ask if he was always satisfied,
for his usual expression was sad, she
thought.
“ Yes," the pathetio young man re-
plifd; “ he had as good reason as any
body to congratulate himself. Nobody
was quite happy.”
This was rank heresy to Miss Grannis.
She said it was too dreadful to believe.
If people could not be very happy, life
would be unendurable.
Mr. Granger said life was pretty prosy
at times. Folks conld jog through it,
though, if they weren’t iu a cramp for
money. He considered being in a
cramp for money the woret thing.
Miss Grannis secretly decided that he
had not much soul, or was fearfully
cynical. Bhe felt a certain hollowness
in her pathetic young man, or unsatis
factory flatness, like the taste of squash
to her palate. Still, he might be veil
ing his inmost nature.
He sighed a little, and admired her
fan. Within doors were scores of women
sitting along tno wall, and no pathetio
young man leaned over them pouring
the mystic sadness of his eyes into their
sympathetic countenances. Miss Gran
nis was enjoying herself, when the wiry
old lady with light curls appeared in
the open window, quite near enough to
put her hand on Mr. Granger’s arm.
“ Remember your dyspepsia, Harry,
my love,” she remarked, in what Miss
Grannis considered a detestable voice,
" and how cooling off suddenly after
exercise affects you.”
The pathetio young man was suddenly
less expansive in his manner toward
M iss Grannis, and replied to the mater
nal admonition that he would take care.
Then he introduced the younger lady to
Mrs. Granger. Mrs. Granger was rather
acid. She roused a belligerent feeling
in the girl’s bosom.
“ I don’t think it was very nice,”
ruminated Miss Grannis, “ to speak
about dyspepsia, reminding people of
their stomachs. Bhe must be no end of
fussy, aud not at all like what I should
picture his mother. I have a great mind
to flirt with him; it will torment her.”
Revolving this nnfilial plan she re
entered the room with Mr. Granger,
and instantly plunged among the
couples who were executing one of
those new round dances composed of
hippity-hops and slides, and during this
undignified pastime she saw Mrs.
Granger's eyes still following them
aroaud the room.
At the end of that dince her father
found her, aud uttered his usual admo
nition about early hours.
"Just one more, pa,” decided Miss
Grannis. “After the next I’ll have
plenty of time to get my beauty-sleep.”
"Which you certainly never need,”
said the pathetic yonng man, giving
her a look that seemed to melt warmly
over her.
They were moving to take their places
for this lost dance, when he halted with
a start, and said, despairingly; "That’s
my wife again.”
So he admitted the fact at last. He
was Mrs. Granger'a ex-husband, and she
mast be in the room. Miss Grannis
swept her eye along the wall, and saw
the blonde artist chatting with a gen
tleman, bnt watching her.
“ You appeared to ignore your wife
this morning,” the young iady said,
severely, to the pathetic young man.
"Yon told me' she was a complete
stranger to you.”
** Mr. Granger never ignores bis vi£&‘’
■aid a voice in front of her. Miaa Gian
nis felt startled as she brought her gase
back to the elderly Mrs. Gianger, again
bent on interrupting them.
" I’m sore I haven’t done anyt]
her,” thought the girL "What
her so disagreeable ? I’d be pathetio too
if I had snch a spy of a mother.”
" What did you mean, Ha. ry,” pur
sued the elderly Mrs. Granger, in an
astringent tone, "by saying your wife
was a complete stranger to you ?”
" I don’t know,” replied the pathetic
young man, collapsing visibly.
" I know abont the separation,’’ said
Miss Grannis, determined not to be put
down by this warlike old woman, and
looking her defiantly in the eye. "Why
should yon want to conceal it ?”
The elder lady’s month drew inward
with a convulsive twitch. She grew
sallower under her cosmetics. But
putting her hand within the pathetio
young man’s free arm, she spoke with
low aud guarded emphasis:
" We are not separated yet, and I
don’t think we shall be—by the most
brazen of flirts—while my husband
knows his own advantage. If yon will
^excuse my husband now, we shall have
the ple&snreot wishing yon good-night.”
The elderly Mr?. Granger then moved
away with her pathetio yonng man.
Miss Grannis soon After felt yonng
Mrs. Granger take her arm and walk
her toward the veranda. But the girl
paused in the hall.
" I know just what has happened, ”
said the artist, suppressing laughter.
“ They say she is as jealous as can be,
and makes constant scenes. It’s what
he deserves for marrying her money.”
“ I thought she was his mother,” said
Mins Grannis, out of her stupefaction.
" How many wives has he, pray ?”
“ One only,” replied the artist; “ but
as she is twice his age, and equal in
watchfulness to twenty, he is most
thoroughly wived.”
" You said he was your husband.”
“ I told you a fib,” said the blonde
art : st, with charming candor. “ I never
saw the man before this morning. Bnt
yon were bent on a romance for him,
so 1 helped yon to one. It might have
been so, you know. You are inclined
to build too mnch on appearances.”
"I think I am,” said Miss Grannis,
holding her head higher.
" Don’t resent my little fiction seri
ously. I did it on the spur of the
moment, and came this evening almost
purposely to confess it, and to look
after that pathetic yonng man of yours.”
"And you called yourself Mrs.
Granger all the time I” denounced Miss
Grannis, laying her hand on the
baiastrade, while she bent falcon looks
npon her acquaintance.
" That’s my name—by tho merest co
incidence. If it had been anything else
you would have thought I had re
turned to my maiden name. But you
could see for yourself, my dear, what a
cozy little widow I am. Nothing pa
thetic about me. I married a mau to
whom I am indebted for various lessons
in human nature. He died several
years ago. I am to be married again
next month, and sorrow is not j reying
upon me at all.”
Miss Grannis’ head was at this time
reared so high, and her eyelids drooped
so low, that she paid languid attention
[ to anything else yonng Mrs. Granger
had to say. Bat after reaching the top
of the stairs, her progress along the
corridor became a flight.
She knocked at her father’s door, and
fell tumultuously on the bosom of his
dressing-gown.
“ What’s the matter?” exclaimed the
old merchant, feeling compunction at
having left her downstairs while he
senght a nap between dances,
"We must go right away—in the
train that leaves to-night,” said Miss
Grannis, with half a sob, ornahia^ her
pretty tulle dress npon his knees as she
made him sit down at a window. “ Oh,
pa, don’t keep me here another hour !
I am all mixed up aud everybody is
deceptive and horrid 1”
"But I thought you were having the
best of times, dancing so late. And
there was that fat yonng man who
looked so melancholy.”
"Pa,” exclaimed Mies Grannis, hold
ing him off with a savage shake, " if I
ever see anybody again with that far
away sad look in the eyes I shall be
lieve it is dyspepsia. I shall avoid that
person as a miserable human shell.
Now, I’m going to pack. It’s so com
fortable,” she concluded, leaning her
head on his shoulder, " to feel such
confidence in a dear old pa to-night.
But never speak to me abont any
pathetio young man again.”—Harper's
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that nearly every peculiarity of the hand
has been emblematic of some personal
trait of ebarreter. Thus, we are told:
A great thick band signifies one not
only strong, bnt stout; a little slender
hand, one not only weak, bnt timorons;
a long hand and long fingers betoken a
man not only apt for mechanical artifice
bnt liberally ingenious. Those short,
on the contrary, denote a fool and fit
for nothing; a’hard, brawny hand sig
nifies one dnll and rude; a soft hand,
one witty, but effeminate; a hairy hand,
one luxurious. Long joints sig
nify generosity; yet, if they
be thick withal, one not
so ingenious. The . often clapping
and folding of the hands note covetous
ness, and their much moving in speeob,
loquacity. Short and fat fingers mark
a man out as intemperate and silly; but
long and lean as witty. If his fingers
crook upward, that shows him liberal;
if downward niggar ly. Long nails
and crooked signify one to be brutish,
ravenous and unchaste; very short
nails, pale and sharp, show him subtle
and beguiling.” Among other omens,
we are told that the itching of the
right hand signifies that it will shortly
receive money, whereas if the left hand
be the one to itch, it is a sign that
money will before very many days have
to be paid away.
The nails also have their folk fore, the
ittle specks which are seen on them
being regarded as ominous. Many
have their particular days for cutting
the nails. Of the numerous rhymes an
the subject we may quote the following
as a specimen, from which it will be
seen that every day has its peculiar
virtue:
“Cut them on Monday, you cat them for
health;
Cut them on Tuesday, you cut them for wealth;
Cut them on Wednesday, you cut them for
news;
Cut them on Thursday, a pair of new shoes;
Cut them on Friday, you cut them for sorrow;
Cut them on Saturday, see your true love to
morrow ;
Cut them on Sunday, the devil will be with you
all the week.”
This old rhyming saw differs in
various localities, although in ’he main
points it is the same ; as by general
consent both Friday and Bnnday are
regarded as most inauspicious days for
cutting both the nails and hair.
L
fain Street,
AIKEN, S. C
'HE GEORGIA CHEMICAL WORKS.
Manufacturers of
All Kinds of Fertilizers.
M. C. STOVALL,
Secretary and Treasurer, Augusta, Ga.
D. 8. Hendf.hson.
E. F. Hendibsox-
H
ENDERSON BROS.,
Attorneys at Law, Aiken, 8. 0.
W
QUITMAN DAVIS,
• Attorney at Law,
Aiken, S. C.
Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit.
Special attention given to collections.
3. C. SHEPPARD,
Edgefield C. H.
S HEFPARD & DeVORE,
Attorneys at Law,
Aiken, S. C.
V. ill practice in the State and United States
Courts for South Carolina.
F W. NORRIS.
• Attorney at Law,
Aiken, 3. C.,
Will practice in &!i the Courts of this State
H
AWKINS K. JENKINS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Rock Hiil, York County, S. C.,
Will practice in all the courts of this State.
Special attention given to collections.
JAMES E. DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT L4.W,
Barnwell, C. H., S._C.
LUDEKENS,
Attorney at Law,
Aiken, S. C.,
Will practice in all the courts of this State.
All business transacted with promptness.
c
ROFT & DUNLAP,
Attorneys at Law
Aiken, S. C.
DR. J. RY£RS0N SMITH.
DENTIST.
OFFICE AT WILLISTON, a a
Will attend calls in the country.
A SOLID
fire
A-CS-EIVOY
I AT
WILLISTON, S. C.
Representing The Insurance Co. of Nort'i
America, assets $7,000,000; The Star Insurance
Co. of New York, assets $1,000,000; The Lt
Confiancs, of Paris, Franco, assets $6,500,000;
The Fire Association of Philadelphia, asset!
$5,000,000; The Virginia Home Insurance Co.,
of Richmond, Va., asset* $400,000.
Stores, stocks, dwellings, barns, stables, livj
stock, milts, factories, gins, cotton, and all
other insurable property insured at the lowest
current rates.
We insure dwellings at % per cent, per an
num. Dwellings insured for one year, or os
the five year plan, as our patrons desire.
Losses equitably adjusted and promptly paid
Letters of mquiry promptly answered.
MIXON & CO.,
General Insurance Agente,
WILLISTON, 8. O.
Fire Insurance!
London Assurance Corporation. Chartered
1720. Assets, $15,886,110.96.
North British and Mercantile. Chartered
1809. Assets, $2,044,664.00.
Phoenix, of Hartford, Conn. Chartered 1853.
Assets, $2,826,875.00.
Hanover, of New York. Chartered 1852.
Assets, $2,561,141.00.
r Germania, of New York. Chartered 1859'
Assets, $2,471,061.00.
CLAUDE E. SAWYER, Agent,
AIKEN, S. C.
F. McEWEN,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER
%
—AJND DHALER IN—
SWISS AND AMERICAN WATCHES..
Will receive monthly during the season, cn
consignment, all of tho new styles c? Jewelry
<n solid gold and rolled plate, and will receive
orders—subject to approval—for any goods not
in stock in the line of Watches, Diamonds,
So id Silver or Meriden Silver Plate Company’s
Celebrated Ware.
LE AGENT FOR KING’S COMBINATION
SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES.
' * xr All goods warranted as represented, and
ill work warranted to give satisfaction.
Will practice in the State and United Stated
courts lor South Carolina.
Prompt attention given to collections.
p A. EMANUEL,
Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. O.
Will practice in all the State and United
States Courts. Special attention paid to collec
tions and investments of money.
JAMES ALDRICH,
rJ
Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. 0.
Practices in the' State and United State!
Courts for South Carolina.
i. W. DCVORE,
Aiken C. H.
DR. JOHN H. BURNET f
DENTIST.
OFFICE AT —
GBAJfITFIVIIiliFI, Aiken County, s. C
DR. B. H TEAGUE,
DENTIST.
— OFFICE OH —
Richland Avenue AIKEN. S. C.
GASTON HOTEL.
AIKEN, S. O.
This boose, formerly known ss “ The Pines,”
is situated in a very desirable portion of the
village of Aiken, la now open for the accommo
dation of transient and regular boarders.
LIVERY STABLE ATTACHED.
Board for ths winter months, from $9 to $25
per week, according to location of room, etc.;
$2 to $150 per day. Children and servants
half price.
jrOHTV T. 0A.HT01V,
PROPRIETOR.
HENRY BUSCH,
PROPRIETOR Of THE
BUSCH HOUSE
Cor. Richland Ave. ft York St.,
AND DEALER IN
General Merchandise,
LAURENS STREET, AIKEN, S. C.
WAVERLY HOUSE,
CHARLESTON, S. 0.
HEADQUARTERS SOR SPORTING GOODS!
This favorite family Hotel is sitnsted on King
street, the principal retail business street, end
nearlv opposite the Academy of Music. The
WAVERLY under the new management had
recently been renovated and refurnished, and
is recommended for its well kept table and
home comforts.
Rates $2 and $2.50 Jper day, according to
location of room. The Charleston Hotel Trans
fer Ominibuees will carry guests to and from
the House.
G. T. ALFORD. Manacer.
S0MIE1YILLE BOOSE.
H. A. SMYSER V
(Formerly of Aiken, S. O.),
Has a fine large bouse and cott&ge for tbs
accommodation of boarders in the beautiful vil
lage of Summerville, near the city of Augusta,
Ga., finely situated, with splendid drives and
pleasant walks. Street can within three
minutes’ walk. Churches very convenient to
the house. The house is neatly and comfort
ably furnished with everything necessary for
comfort. Rooms aud halls well ventilated and
heated. Mails delivered daily. Terms mod
erate. Apply to H. A. 8MYSER, Sand Hills,
Augusta, Ga.
GLOBE HOTEL,
George S. Atkinson & Son.
Proprietors,
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
Rates, $2 and $2.50 per day.
h7f. warneke,
Baker and Confectioner,
AND DEALERS IN
GROCERIES,
Tobacco and Cigars,
TOYS. FIREWORKS, Etc.
AIIvEIV, - S. C.
R S. AGNEW,
• Trial Justice and Notary Public,
Aiken, S. C.
Deeds and other legal documents written
with neatness and dispatch.
BANSLEY & RENTZ,
AT THE
Globe Betel Barber Sloe
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Are prepared to accommodate the most fastidi
ous with s first-class
Shave, Hair Cut or Shampooing.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
BAiEUBKH SHQOP.
The undersigned, having purchased Mr.
Rcutz’s interest in his barber shop, would re
spect fully solicit the patronage of the citizen*
of Aiken.
Shavint;, Hair Cu ting and Shampooing exe
cuted at reasonable prices.
J. R. BOYCE,
AT P.ENTZ-S OLD STAND, AIKEN, 8. C,
—DEALER IN
STAPLE AND FANCY
STAPLE AND FANCY
STAPLE AND FANCY
GROCERIES,
GROCERIES,
GROCERIES,
GLASS, CHINA, CIGARS
AND TOBACCO,
Laurens Street, • • - AIKEN, 8. C.
CINCINNATI
TYPE FOUNDRY,
201 Vine Street. C. VEILS. Treat
The type on which this paper Is printed v
from the Above foundry. —Ed.
O- 33 G-^IPIE
HARDWARE MERCHANT,
AIKKIV, S. O.
We take pleasure in celling the attention of sportsmen to our stock of
BREECH AND MOZZLE LOADING SHOT 6DN8,
Paper Shells, Primers, Cartridges, Etc.
Aim to our new selected stock of
Hardware, Tinware, Stoves, Agricultural Implements, Hubs, Spoke*
and Rims.
We have added a Saddlery Department, consisting of
Saddles, Bridles, Harness, Collars, Whips, Eto.
ah the above we offer yon at the lowest market prices, and defy competition with other market^
OUR MOTTO—“QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS.”
Mr. Edward B. Curtis is with us, and will be pleased to serve his many friends.
C. H. LUDEKENS & SON,
DEALERS IN
DIY MS, rati CITS’ MSIUC MS.
GROCERIES AND CONFECTIONERIES,
Imported & Domestic Vines, Liquors, Cigars, &c.
Mil to (Mar. Cittii a Soocialty.
Laurens Street,
- - AlIEEiy, S. O.
HOSE STOCK’OF HEW C1BPETS!
urchased from the leading manufactorere of the country, are offered to the trade, our friend** 1
and the public at
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES I
Body and Tapestry Brussels, Moqnet’s Velvet, 3-Ply Ingrain Carpets, all qualities Crumb
Cloths, Door Mats, Hearth Ruga, a full line of New Chromos, Hair Cloth ana Upholsterers’
Trimmings, Floor end TaMo Oil Cloths, Lace Curtains, Cornices and Bands, Window Shades
(all sizes), Piano aud Table Covers, Wall Papers and Borders, French Terrys, Curtain Goods,
Cretonnes for Lambrequins, Chins and Cocoa Mattings, and a big stock of goods in my line.
JAMES G. BAILIE & SONS,
OLD ORIGINAL CARPET STORE, - - 713 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
FRESH STOCK OF GROCERIES.
I have in store and arriving 500 cases Canned Goods, Meats, Vegetables and Fruits of every
variety; Now Preserves, Jollies, Crackers, Mackerel (No. 1 and in mess), Salmon and Boneless
VcfclAUvYy XV yj W a. i x v v o, isvjixsv'Uj a—— ... - - —— ——— — — — —
Codfish; all grades of Sugars, Coffees, Teas, Soaps, Starch, etc.; Onions, Cabbages. Potatoes
Apples S'raw and Rattan Brooms, Scrub Brushes, long handle and short handle Hair Brooms,
Tu bs, Pails, Clothes Hampers, Clothes Baskets,etc.; all of which I offer at the lowest prices for cash.
JAMES. G-. BAILIE & SONS,
OLD STAND JAMES G. BAILIE A BROTHER, 113 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
MYERS & MARCUS,
JOBBERS IN AND JdANUFAOl
AGENTS FOR
Dry Goods, Notions, Hosiery,
Boots, Shoes, Clothing;
The undersigned would respectfully inform the merchants of Aiken county that their Ffe
and Winter Stock is now being received, and in price and assortment is nneqnsjed by any that
has ever been brought to this market. A special feature of our busineas is the establishment of«
Wholesale Boot, Shoe and Hat House
Entirely distinct from our Dry Goods, Notions and other departments. In our new store will ba
found the largest and best-selected stocks of Boots and Hats we have ever had, and we feel sat*
is£ed that it will be to the interest of purchasers to inspect our goods before buying elsewhere.
IHYEHS Sc M^ROTTS,
286 AND 288 BROAD STREET, - - - AUGUSTA. GE0R6IA,
WATCHES, DIAMONDS. JEWELRY,
SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
SPECTACLES and EYE-GLASSES, WATCHES, CLOCKS, and JEWELRY of every
description repaiiod. All work warranted. Agent for the Beet Spectacle made.
782 BROAD STREET, UNDER CENTRAL HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
OPSBi HOUSE G4BDEI
Hardware Merchants,
Ccr. Broad and Waslnugtoa Sts., Augusta, Ga.
DEALERS IN
Mill Supplies, Wagon Material
Carriage Material, Oriole Plows
Farmers’ Friend Plows, Rowland
Chilled Plows and headquarters
FOB
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
NEW GOODS.
I keep constantly on hand a full stock of
GROCERIES!
Comprising all ♦bat Is called for by an epicure.
Quality and quantity guaranteed. By
the quantity and for cash.
I will sell for the
Lowest Possible Prices?
Give me a call before you go to Augusta.
TV, TUR1VBXJLL.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
Also Houses and Rooms to Rent.
— APFLT TO —
£i. eraiTH,
AIKEN, & C
BEN NIESZ, Proprietor.
CHOICE
WINES, LIQUORS
AND
C I CARS.
Philadelphia and Cincinnati Beer.
Broad and Ellis Sts., Augusta, 6a.
“^ESTABLISHED 1846.
S. P. T. FIELD’S,
Cor. Laurens St. and Richland Ave..
i VARIETY
IF
AND
GROCER
All kinds of
IREAD,
Canned GS-oocLs.
ijhC'W Nectar, tne Finest Flavored and Pure!.
Leaf Tea ever offered to the public.
Ijarge variety of Candies. Wedding aa£
[arty Cakee supplied at abort notice. Owgafc
iffec, Rice, Grita, Meal. Butter, Lard eat
ery variety of Family Groceries, together
ith the finest brands of Flour in the market.
AMES H. GADSDEN,
T0NS0RIAL ARTIST.
No. 90 Hazel street, mm Stef etveal
Sign Telephone Pole and Handk Cfcartretah
O. Shaving executed by«
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