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A WOOD BIRD'S WHIM. Hollow of a dead man's breast, In a mighty wood { Hero's a place to make a nest And to warm a brood. Beta through its caressing vines, Honey heavy. Cit. Svery star of God that, shines Sees the way to ir. Buds which at their beauty blush Weep their dews out here. And tho snake-I pray you, htishl Something slides anear. Was he poet-he to whom All these things haye prid Eeverenfc rites in sacred gloom, Loving, not afraid? Ho was poet. What dark whim Sot his heart to wings? Oh, the song that was'.ed him Now the wild bird sings 1 -Sarah Piatt in Century. MES. PASSONS, M. D There are 00 many fools in the -world that Ido not mind confessing that I was one of them for a few dismal years, not one of the com placent, happy ones either. To begin with, I took up medicine comparatively late in life. They had made an architect of me, but soon found myself Melang vigor ously against that honorable profes sion. After a deal of persuasion was allowed to enteras a student at Bart's and for two years worked hard. I read a good deal at the British museum, like other fellows, from the 8th of August. 188-, always at the Bil seat. Why, you ask, always at that place? Well, because it was on that date the most charming little woman I .ever saw first came and occupied the seat marked B12. I hoped she would keep to that seat, and so she did TPhe pile of" books she used daily staggered me, and of course it would haye been troublesome to Biter the indications^on all her ref erence slips if ' she had changed or fteen ousted from B 12. from the 3th of August, 188-, it was generally a toss up which of us was the first reader to appear in the reading room. The assistants often smiled. Her name was Bella Whitcombe. I learned ?hat very soon. An official left one of "her slips on my table by mistake. She had asked for Strauss' famous "Lecture on Cardiac Trou bles," and the slip came to me marked "In use." I had the great est pleasure in the world in return ing the slip to her with a smile. Then she smiled back at me with those sweet, brown eyes of hers and remarked : "What a nuisance ! I did so want it" After this we often exchanged words, trivial words. Any pretext Vas good enough for me that pro cured me a glance or a smile from her. I did not get oe at all with studies. If X had not been a fool from the professional point of view, I should Save bolted to the W or Y part of tile. room. But I had come to the Conviction that it was more enjoy able to fail in my exams and see Bella every day than pass with dis tinction at the cost of severance from her. Blissful, lazy, heartbreaking, anx ious hours, day after day from half past 9 until 3, with an interval of three quarters of an hour foi: lunch. Bella was brough J to the museum every morning by a maid. The maid took her off for lunch, and the maid was always waiting amcng the pigeons under the portico from five minutes to 3 in the afternoon. There was no getting rid of that precious abominable domestic. When we had known each other a month, I proposed (it was a wild, foolish thing to do) to accompany her toward Bayswater on an omni bus. The maid was to go inside, she and I outside, but it was no go. "My father wouldn't like it, Mr. Marrable," she said, with a sym pathetic smile. 1 tried whispering conversations about the weather; textbooks, exams and so on. But, to say nothing of the frowns I raised on other studi ous faces and a formal protest from the gentleman on his throne in the middle of the room, Bella did not greatly encourage me. "1 am here to work," she wrote on a slip at one time and pushed this toward me. It will hardly be credited, but I ostentatiously put that slip to u.y ,ips and then folded it and placed it m my watch pocket, the heart pock et How she looked at me when I did this! An ordinary girl would have giggled. She did not giggle, and thenceforward her smiles were not quite what they had been. The pensive seriousness in them, how ever, made her more and more dear to me. Even when, for a joke, I recommended her to ask for Spencer on "Shoulder Blades," a well known absurdity, she only gave me a little reproving nod of her pretty head, with the bronze colored hail.* and the limy shell earn ?0 it went on until November, when I could bear it no longer. I knew less about surgery and medi ane than in July. "I must speak to you ac lunch .on," I whispered to her that morn ing. My face impressed her. Be sides there was another reason why i she should assent. We came out among the Egyptian tombs, mummies and things. I told lier she was everything to me-life, blood, ambition, happiness-and, as was right, she believed me. Better ?till, she admitted that I was much to her. "But, Philip," she added (I was holding her hand ; we had wandered tuto a Greek statuary room, where mere was no soul else), "it must ail depend upon my father. If you sat isfy bim, I shall be a very happy girl." Tho Greek statues had, I daresay, seen a great nanny people kiss each other 2,GIO or 0,000 years ago, but they never saw a more earnest es char go of such tokens of affection than ours. 4'Tomorrow, dear," said Bolla, "at ll o'ciock would bo tho best time for him." a * ? * ? ti ? An exciting but felicitous evening followed, unmarred by my sister's scoff at the idea of my marrying a medicine woman; so she termed my Bella. But when I was at Bella's father's door I did net feel happy. What were my prospects? I had ?100 a year of my own ; nothing else. Of all things, too, Professor Whit combe was a teacher of philosophy. It is just those men who are so con cerned with ideals that look so tre mendously sharp after the down right material good things of this life. The gentleman disconcerted me from the outset by his formal man ners and his blue glasses. . Up went his ej'ebrows when I told him what I wanted. Still he heard me to the end. Only when I had exhausted all my powers of asseveration about the great things I could and would do with Bella engaged to me did he cough and pass sentence. "I never in my life, Mir. -" (glancing at my card) "Marribone, heard anything more absurd or im practicable than your proposition. I have nothing more tb say. Good morning." When I was outside, I held my senses just sufficiently to nash back to Great Russell street. Some ono else got my seat, of course, a bulk ing, raw young Scotsman, also a Bart's man. I waited, however, till lunchtime and then told her all. "Poor Phil!" said she. "I-I'm afraid it is all over!" We are again among the Greek gods and goddesses. She cried gen tly as she spoke. "But you love me?" I asked in a boiling rage against fate. "Yes, I love you," said she chok ingly. "Very well, then; I shall win you yet. Bella, always love me, and things will right themselves." The kiss we then exchanged seem ed our last, for, though I saw her in the afternoon, she never again ap peared in the reading room. I wrote to her and received one letter in reply as follows : MY VEIIY DEAR PHIL-Fnpn forbids mo tc correspond with you in cny way, and I most, alas, obey him. I can only repeat what you know. You are enshrined in my heart. Let us pray tliat the futuro may be brighter for us both. Your fond BELLA. Sweet, sweet letter, in spite of the despidr it indicated ! For the ensuing fortnight I was . like one bereft of half his senses. I tried to work, could not and ran down in health at a gallop. . I learned that Professor Whit combe was a cold hearted, scheming monster. He worshiped rank and money, though he taught the pur suit of the noble, the true and the beautiful. Hypocrite ! It: was plain I had nothing to hope for from him. Then my father compelled me to see our doctor-he and they all were so alarmed at my personal appear ance, plus a cough. The upshot was that in mid-De cember I was in the bay of Biscay, bound for Australia. It was my only chance, said the doctor. He little knew. One word from that philoso pher fellow, and I would have been a Hercules in five minutes. However, the Rubicon was passed. I had written "goodby" to Bella and received no answer. Landing at Melbourne, I at onco made arrangements for going up coun try to present certain letters to a cattle owner, Mr. Grant, among whose acres and quadrupeds I was supposed to have the best possible chance of regaining health. And here I settled down. It was less than 18 months after ward that I received an awful note from. Professor Whitcombe inform ing me that bis daughter was mar ried to a "distinguished colleague in every way able to insure her happi ness. " That was how he put it. I was further requested to see both the absurdity and impropriety of continuing to address letters to Bella at her father's house. My own people confirmed the mis erable news. They didn't know the particulars, but they had seen Bella's name in The Times. Once more I had a fit of raving, but it passed, and then I set to work to make money, the only aim that seemed left to me. Under advice from Mr. Grant I had already bought a good block of land. I now prepared to stock it In three years I was worth $10, 000, and scant joy the knowledge afforded me. This, however, was nothing to what happened in the fourth year. Gold was discovered all along our line of country, and an expert I had told me I was a millionaire. So it proved. After a vast deal of excite ment x ciearea out or ino country fabulously rich, considering my an tecedents. But, though rich, I wasn't happy, being one of those fellows, some times enviable and sometimes to be pitied, who, having once desired a thing, are never happy until they have got it. Moreover, my heart had gone wrong, what with tho excitement and my rather rackety, desperate way of living latterly. The first thing I did in town after 1 greeting the oin J:oJK was io C<UJM?U old Jensen <,[ Bart's. To my dis may, be agreed that my heart was really very wrong; "What has done it':*1 he asked. "Disappointment," I replied care lessly my thoughts recurred to Bella. "By the way, " he added, "there's a downright clever woman specialist I would strongly advise yon to see." "Von say th.-'t,*1 i exclaimed, as tonished, for tho dear old chap knew j all about my other case and also had in the old time expressed his con tempt for the fair sex as medicino . women. "I mean it. Man-able, I seriously assure you." he replied, with ac? 1 rious little cough. "She's written a remarkable little monograph. Here, I have it by me. " j He showed it to me, and a brief ' glance proved that the writer at least knew her subject. "Mrs. B. Parsons, M. D.," was her name. i Then with a shrug I promised Jensen I would see the lady. Heav en bless thc old chap! And what ex cellent luck it was, my thinking to go to him for advice! I was inw ardly somewhat amused the next morning when I called in Harley street and joined a couple of demure middle aged females in Dr. Parsons' writing room. In less than half an hour I was something infinitely better than amused. i "Be so good as to step this way, sir," said the man, and I and my . card entered Bella's sanctum togeth . er. |( "Bella!" I cried, and "Philip!" cried she, and we were in each oth er's arms before the ama2ed servant cleared out of the room. It was a tremendous meeting, and minutes passed before I recovered ray sanity. Then, with a fresh prick at that troubled heart of mine, I ex claimed: - I "But your husband! Good gra ' cious, what have I done?" j "He is dead," she said. "It was a wretched business. My ' father had set his mind on it, and there j seemed nothing for it but to make j him happy, seeing that I could not" "Could not what, Bella?'" "Could not make you believe that you were happy, " she said shyly. "And your father? Oh, but never j mind now. I'm a Croesus, positively rolling in money-that is to say (for I was conscious of my meanness), I hope he is well, my darling." I "No, Philip; he, too, is dead." j I am sorry to say that the news did not grieve me. Then I started and told Bella ev erything, and afterward she told me everything. By the time that we had done with our respective his tories the morning was far spent. "And now, dearest, you must prescribe for me," I said, and I re lated my symptoms. I But she showed such a sweetly grave face at my words that I shuf fled out of the role of patient back into that of lover. 4 At 'any rate, my Bella, you will now be my life's physician?" I ask ed. Ard so she is. We study each oth 1 er's hearts-that is the main busi * ness of our two lives. Nor am I nearly as bad a subject as old Jensen made out when he sent me where he believed and fully hoped I should find my cure.- Cassell's Saturday j Journal. A Life ot Industry. The life of the late Rev. Cobham Brewer was a monument to pains taking industry. Ho was 85 when he finished compiling the last edi tion of his bulky "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. " But perhaps the most remarkable thing was that he had acquired these habits of industry before he went to college, and that he paid his waj- through Cambridge with his pen and had $150 left on commencement day. Poor DOCK in. "Charley, why is that Miss Silly always dragging her poodle around with her?" "Because the pup can't break the chain. "-Detroit Free Press. Official Importance. A scene reported by a French pa per as occurring in a camp of "re servists," a military body which corresponds in some degree with our militia, indicates that the officer who is clothed "in a little brief au thority" is often as absurdly insis tent upon that authority in one country as another. A lieutenant of these reservists, bursting with importance, calls out to u passing soldier: "Hi, there, barber, barber! Send me the barber!" "Yes, sir. Yes, lieutenant," says the soldier, saluting and starting off on a run. Presently another soldier arrives and salutes the lieutenant ' ' Barber, eh ? " says the lieutenant "Y-yes, sir" "Then take my razor and things here and shave mo quickly." "But, lieutenant" "No buts about it. I tell you to shave me." "I'm afraid, lieutenant" "What business have you to bo afraid ? I tell you to shave mo right off!" The soldier seizes the razor and at tho first movement cuts the lieu tenant badly on the cheek. "Blockhead! Scoundrel!" shouts the officer. "Don't you know how to shave any better than that?" "No, sir, I" "You what? Aren't you the com pany barber? ' ' "No, sir, I'm not a barber at all, only my name's Barber, sir. I play the fife in the band, sir." ~~ SIGHTS IN ARMENIA. Tin- Ivnr??s?i iirci'icnls "t:? Ti:<;ir Bl,?;? Fierce Dc~s. Tho paramount impression re maining on one's mind af ter having traveled in Armenia is that ii" you were to go over Lhc same ground again tomoixow there would always he the charm of the unexpected to which to look forward. I am speak ? g of thc time before tho country was devastated by 1 ho Kurds. When an Englishman appeared upon the scene, every ono - Turks, Kurds, Armenians, devil worshipers, and so on-got ready to help him. I never saw such willingness to guide and direct a stranger in my life. But it seldom took a more practical form. Having done everything, in theory, that was necessary, the Turk or Kurd or devil worshiper went back to his hut and considered it done in fact. And there remains in my mind to this day the sense of deep injury and vivid annoyance which I used to ex perience when, toward the end of a long ride, weary, travel sore, hun gry, I would pull up my apology for a mulo arid ask some stalwart moun taineer how far it was to the village where I intended to pass tho night. Ee would blandly assure me that it was only an hour's journey and do part. At the end ol' an hour there would not be what I once heard an exasperated missionary describo as "a scintilla of a village" in sight. Then I would meet another man. "Oh, yes, effendi, you'll get there in three-quarters of au hour!" The tired dogs and horses and mules would prick their ears and start on egain, as if they, too, had heard the welcome words. Three-quarters of an hour later a downcast assemblage of men and animals would gaze over the plain in tho fast falling dusk vainly looking for a village. After this had been repeated some half a dozen times, however, just as we were sorrowfully gathering np our reins in our chilled fingers, pre paring to push on with bitter hearts and empty bellies, 20 or 30 rough haired, ferocious Kurd dogs would emerge from the gloom, circle around us and bite at our riding . boots by way of welcome. These dogs belonged to the Kurds who had settled in villages and were enor mous brutes. They usually wore huge collars, studded with nails, so that ii a wolf flew at their throats he was received by a mouthful of sharp points and could not get a griji. 1 once bought a magnificent Kurd dog for 4 shillings. He was so fierce that 1 dared not go near him. Kind ness, I thought, would have its due effect on him in a few days, so I had a rope fastened to his collar and gave tho other end of the rope to a mounted Zaptieh. The last thing I saw of .that dog was a frightened horse and Zaptieh disappearing in the distance, and the animal fetching a compass for his native village, with what Artemus Ward once described as "a select assortment of trouser patterns" in his mouth. These dogs are so intelligent that j they seem to understand the slight est bign from their masters. I once saw my man buy a fowl for our evening meal from a Kurd and pay down tue money. Then he asked for the fowl. "Oh, there it is, effendi !" said the Kurd, pointing to a limp mass of feathers standing on one leg just outside the hut. "All you have to do it to catch and kill it." My man, likeAgag, "walked delicately" toward tho fowl, and tho limp bun dle of feathers immediately "put out" in tho direction of Si vas. My man went after it, sword in hand, with the full intention of slicing off the fowl's head and bringing back its gory body in triumph. A big Kurd dog immediately started after my man, who gained rapidly upon the fowl. Just as ho was about to slice off its head an ominous growl from the rear warned him that he must turn and defend himself. Tho fowl stopped, limply watched the struggle and gained her second wind. When the exasperated man had driven off the dog, he again pur sued the fowl, which seemed to re member an important engagement in the direction of Diarbekir. Again tho fowl was nearly overtaken; again came an ominous growl, the gleam of magnificent teeth through the gloom, and again the fowl limp ly presided as umpire while the com bat raged. When the dog was driven away, the fowl started off in the di rection of Samsoun, and my man re turned to the hut with a piteous re quest for sticking plaster. I made my supper that evening off tho aged and moldy heel of a Dutch cheese. -London Chronicle. Elastic. The elastic used for garters and many other purposes is made by weaving threads of rubber, cut by machinery, into the material used in the manufacture. The weaving is done by a special process which permit?? the elastic* to lengthea without impairing the fabric. Lengthwise threads of cotton or silk are woven very slack, as otherwise they would prevent the stretching of the rubber. . .z&te? CASTOR IA Por Infants and Children. The Kind You Nave Always Bought Bears the rf-S/ffa^ " Signature of (^co/^X^^C^^ - The consequences of telling tl e truth, however painful they maybe, are never so hard to bear as thc con sequences of telling a falsehood. 4 BRIDEGROOMS V/HO FAIL. ?They T.nn Away, Kids Themselves or J?o ciunn }.';:. e; !..'t?s.s. Possibly every nu::: about to mar ry experiences ? novel inward lint ier when the critical liour arrivas and brings the altar into sight, bui ii is not often that ono hears of a prospectivo husband whose nerve deserts him to the extent that he fights shy of the ceremony at the last moment and allows the bride to leave the church without having changed her name. Hitches of this startling kind do, however, now and then occur. The bridegroom has not the courage to face thc public ordeal, and the situation becomes both hu morous and dramatic. A most amusing attack of "nerves" of this order was witnessed by a large crowd at a country church not long since. The bridegroom was late in arriving. When at length he came abreast of the church gates, heated and flumed, the sight of his white robed life partner in the midst of an imposing party fairly scatter ed what courage he had churned for the occasion. He turned and made off across country as fast as his shak ing legs would carry him. The crowd and a number of his indig nant friends pursuing him, he took refuge up a tree, and no remon strances would induce him to de scend and go through with the cere mony. He paid rather dearly for his cowardice, howevei', for the bride promptly jilted him and walked to the same church with a bolder man a few months later. At another church in tho neigh borhood a number of people who had flocked to see a. popular local couple made one were curiously dis appointed. When it came to the turn of tho bridegroom to give ut terance to his vows, he was found to be tongue tied by sheer nervousness. The longer they waited for him to recover the worse he became, and finally, white as a ghost, he wheeled about and ran out of the building. As no amount of jeers or encourage ment served to induce him to at tempt the ordeal a second time, he perforce remained in single misery. Plenty of humorous instances have been recorded where the intended husband, brave enough in his woo ing, has found himself unable to stand and be publicly married. One gentleman became so unnerved at sight of the swelling assembly and the preparations that he slipped into the vestry and locked himself in un til the registrar lost patience and the ceremony had to be abandoned. In another caso a missing bride groom was discovered locked, in his bedroom at home, and sheer force had to be used by his friends before he could be induced to walk to the church. As it turned out, he was too late. Tho bride felt herself justified in declining to fulfill her part of the contract with so difiident a partner. But perhaps as unique an example of what may be termed "altar fright" as any known was one which caused quite a sensation in a mid land town some years ago. The cir cumstances were peculiar enough to bear repetition. A young man, standing at the altar with the future participant of his joys and sorrows, suddenly fainted when asked to de clare his willingness to take a wife and had to be carried home in a cab. Later he essayed to enter the lists of matrimony with more suc cess; but, strange to say, his nerv ousness again reached such a pitch that he swooned at precisely the same part of the proceedings. When on a third occasion tho same weak ness overcame him as soon as he en tered the church, it becamo evident that his physical courage was not equal to the ordeal. Whether the bride declined to look foolish for a fourth time, or whether the cere mony was subsequently performed in private, did not transpire. Brides, it is interesting to note, do not appear to suffer from any such backwardness. Their nervousness seems to be of a different order, and it is seldom or never that one hears of a ease where the lady has failed to come up to the "line" through mere dread of publicity.-Happy Thoughts. The Carlyle.s' Maid. The Carlyles had a maid who was untidy, useless in all ways, hut "abounding in grace" and in conse quent censure of every one above or below her and of everything she could not understand. After a long apostrophe one day, as she was bringing in dinner, Carlyle ended with, "And this I can tell you, that if you do not carry the dishes straight, so as not to spill tho gravy, so far from being tolerated in heav en, you won't bo even tolerated on earth." A Cane He Knew. "I see in a recent book where the idea is put forth that mankind sang before it talked. What do you think of it?" "Don't know, but there is a fellow on our block who is going to sing just before he dies, some time, un less he quits howling popular songs." *~ Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Cheap Kates. I - From Nov. 1st until April 30th, 1899, Winter Tourist tickets to principal Southern resorts, including Asheville and Hot Springs, N. C., and Florida i points, will be on sale at special rates via Southern Railway. Tickets allow fifteen days' stop-over, and are good to return until May 31, 1899. Quick schedules and excellent ser vice via Sont hern Railway. Call on any agent of the company tor detailed information as to schedules, etc. S. II. IfAKOW1CK, Asst. Gen? Pass. Agt., Atlanta, G*. Wm S?VS? I ? sic Vi>i S;^ v??ft \? t?j> O "Wc have four children. With the fed three I suffered almost unbearable panis from 12 to 14 hours? and had to be placed untar the influence of chloroform. I used Ihre? bottles of Mother's Friend before our list child came, which is a strong, fat and healthy boy, doing my housework up to within two hours of birth, and suf fered but a few hard pains. This lini ment is the grand est remedy eve made." Mother's Friend will do for every woman what it did for thc Minnesota mother who writes the above kil ter. Not to use it during pregnancy is a mistake to be paid for in pain and suffering:. Mother's Friend equips the patient with ;? strong body and clear intellect, which ?3 turn are imparted to the child. It relaxes the muscles and allows them to expand? ft relieves morning sickness and nervousness It puts all the organs concerned in perfect condition for the final hour, so that the actual labor is short and practically painless. Dan ger of rising or hard breasts is altogether avoided, and recovery is merely a matter cl a few days. Druggists sell Mother's Friend for $t a bottle. The Bradfield /icgulator Co., Atlanta,Ga, ^. Send for our fres illustrated book. ALL parties indebt ed to me by note, ac count or otherwise will be each notified by letter of the amount, and unless each and every one is not re sponded to by the 10th of November, I am go ing to send my collec tors to make a person al call. This notice is intended to carry the idea that I mean to make collections, and any expenses incurred will be added to the debt. J. S. FOWLER. Assessment Notice. AUDITOR S OFFICE, 3NDEKSON, S. C. TBIS OFFICE WILL BK OPEN TO RH.CE I VE RK'URNS "F P?R SUNAL PKuPEaTY iur taxation for ' ba next ?M'MI year from tho ii THC day of January, 1SU9. to the 20th ot February allowing, 'uclus've. All tr*u-.fer* of BEAL ESTATE made sin CH last year's aasessiueut must be carefully noted on the return-tbe num ber ot acres bought or sold aud from whom acquired or to whom sold. Uuder the new Hssessiutr laws the township assessors are required to make Tax Returns for all those that 'ail io make their own return? within tbe time preseribfd by law, and hence the difficul ty ot delinquents escaping the penalty ot tho ittw. EX-CON FEDERATE SOLDIERS over ?? \e*rsot'age *re exempt Irotn POLL TAX. Ad other males h-twewn tbH ages of tit ?"o' n*0 years, EXChPT ' HO'IC INC > PABLE OF ti A KN I IM G A SUPPORT F KO.M BEING MAIMED OR F KU M ANY OTBt?K CAUS?, shall he deemed t-xable polls. For the convenience of taxpayers we will also have deputies to take returns ut the following times and plaoes : Holland, Tueaday, January 10. Mu?'-ots vii le, Wednesday, January ll. Iva, Thursday, January 12. Moseley, Friday, January 13. ? Bavlis McConnell's, Saturuay, Janu ary 14. Stair, Monday, January lt?. Storeville, Tuesday, January 17. Clinkscales' Mill, Wednesday, Janu ary 18 iTuvton, Thursday, January 19. Bis'hop'a Branch, Friday, Jauuary 20. Five Forks, Saturday, January 21. Autun, Monday, Januarv 23 Wyatt's ?tore Monday, January 2i. Cedar Wreath, Tuesday, January 24. Wigington's Store, Wednesday, Janu arv 25 Equality, Thursday, January 26. Peudli-tou, Friday, January ?7. Towovilln, Friday, January 27. Tugaloo, Saturday, Jauuary 2?. Bonna Path, Monday and Tuesday, January 30 and 31. Belton, Weonesday and Thursday, February J and 2. Piedmont, Friday and Saturday, Febyj ru?ry i a?d 4. Pelzsr, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day, February 6, 7 and vS. 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Write and get Free our pamphlets, whick tell how to buy and use fertilizers wUfo greatest economy and profit. GERHAN KALI WORKS? 93 Nassau St, New Yorffc, THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OP ANDERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEA?. Jns?oh G Cuininiih im, as *din!nl?trat>r of thu Estate of Curiar it O-b.nn. ilec a*e-l, P ai ad ff, usfniust L. O-bnu, m, T <Ktv>ro, R li. Oa hirn.lv.. ua K ligand O' ia Vickory, as heirs of Tunnel R Osb?ru, Oec a ed. ao l n( 1-ahe'ia? Otboro, d ceased, an I J -se^h ii Brown, Defin daiit. -Summons for Rihef- Complaint no'; ocr?ed ro the Oef ndant above named : YOU are bereny Miiutuuued .nd required to r.e swer the Complaint io this action,, whick ?> filed in thc office of tlie Cleik <>f the ? ourt of "oininou P^eas. at nder on II , S C., and to serve a copy of your answer io the said Complaint )U the subscriber ai his office,at anderson CH.. 5. C., within twenty days after fbi? service hereof, exclusive of the day ol such service; and if von ?ail to answer the ('?mpiaiut within the tune Aforesaid, the Pl*lutifT in thin action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the On plain t. Dated No ?ember 29, A. D 1S9S. OSEPH N. BROWN, Plaintiffs Attorney, Anderson, 8.9. ?KAL] TOUN I!. ?ATKI:-S, C C C P. To the Defendant? above i aa ed : Take n .tico that the Complaint in this actio?, together wiib the Su ni on-? herem a cot?y ot which i ? he e with sei ved upon y OJ, were filed in. the <,ificd of tue Merk cf the ' ourt of ? om mon Pl as tor the t'oun'y of Anderson on the 2Sth day of Noven ber, A D. 18*8, and the obj ?of roe ac .mn is to sell the Real Esta'e ot Turner R. Os born, dec? as d- 06 acres in Fo k ?ownship-for pay meut of debts SSu personal cla<n is mad* gainst you. JOahFH N BROWN, ? lain tiff's vttorney. AndeisoD, 8. C., Nov. 29,18*8 To the Defendants Eu ma Ki ni? and Cora Vickory < ake notice that unie,-;, you apply within twen ty days after the sei Mee of this Su iu mun .. upon you tor the appointucnt of a Guaidiau ad lite?, to apt ear ai d defend this aetioc in your behalf, the P ai i. ti ff will then app y to the Cou t for ?ooh appointment ou your behalf J SE'H N. bKOWN, Plaintiff's Attfy. Anderson, S. C., v ov. 2*, 1898._ 2S-6 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ANDERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Martha H. Smith, as Grantee of . amliue E Wel h mi. and as Gra> tee ot Lemuel H Welburn Grantee ?.f Wm Harper, John E Harper, ? vida Uirpei, Calhoun >> Harper, Wm. A Acker B o Ac??-r. Ma j J S mp>ou ai d Lucinda Wet born, Plaint ffi. against wanna E Harper, So phi* C Rainwater, Sarah A Loup, Fannie C. aniels. Pal de M. Kag-daie. Ernest G. Towa sond, Gale H. Towt send, N M Harper, Roheit K House. E mo Strait, Mary J Strait, Hattie0. Stra t, .'al hou n L-Harper, William *. Acker Anaviila Harder, J? h II E Hamer. Ford y Hotuo and Ww. St ra t. Def? ud?n s.-Suniuious fur ?*? lef-Comp amt not Seived. To the Defendants above named : YOU are hereby summoned and required toan awer the Cou plaint in this minn, of which ac py is heiewitb served upon ; on, and to nervo a copy of your answer to the said Complaint oat the subscriber at his office, Anderson Court House, South Carolina, within twenty days' after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of aaoh service ; and if you fail to answer the < omplaiot within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in tim action will apply to the Court for the relief de mandad in the Complaint. Dated Anderson, ?. C , Nn-cnber 3?, 1898. JOSEPH N. BROWJL Plaintiff-' A.tornoy, [SEAL ] Jon? C. WATKT-S, C. C. C. P. Tn the Defendants above i, urned : Take notice that the < OJ. plaint in this aotioa, together with the Summons herein, a copy ?C nInch ts herewith s* rved upon yo*, ?ere filed i* Ihe office of tne Cl lk of the Cou t of t'ooumoa Pleas for the ? ount. of Anderson, stat* aforesaid, on the .Sd day of Noven ber, A tl 1898. and tko obj ct of the acti >o is io partition 121 acres of Laud in Anderson . ounty, rt C, among the hain jf asa Harper, deceased. No personal calm fa made ag ii list \ou JOSEPH ti. BROWN, Plaintiffs'Attorney. Anderson, S C., November 'ii, 183?. ro the Defendants G .!? ri Townsend, an infant and E nest T wn end. his father, Mary J st rail, au infant ov-r ll years of a,c, Hattie K Strait, an infant, and Wm. nt rait, ber lather: Take unti e that un es? you,or nome one ea rour heh J", apnli -s within twenty dara after the lervice ot tbUSuu mous upou you for iheap^o ate. neut of a Gnard au ad litem for t-aid infants U ip ear ai d d- f. ud sa d ct ion on their behalf, the Plaintiffs w ll i hen apply to the Court to make luch appointment. JOS PH N. BROWN, Plaintiffs' Atify. Anderdon. S. 0. Nov mher 23. 1898. '?t-6 Notice of Final Settlement THE undersigned Executrixes of 1H tate ot Clementine A. ti all, deu'd, hereby siv?s notice that "bey villon the 16th day :>f December, 1898, apply to the Jud?6 of P??robate for Aud?rsou County, 8. C." for % Final Settlement of Raid E*.ate and a discharge in m theirofficeas Executrixes. MRS F. P. L ARNOLD, MRS. HAT1IE WKLCH, Executrixes. Nov. 16, 1898 21 i Notice of Final Settlement TUB undersigned, Administrator of the Estate of Sarah Cox, deceased, here by gives notice that h? will on the 2Sr? lay of December, 1898, apply to th* Judge of Probai? of anderson County, :?. C.. for a Final Settlement of said Ha ute, and a discharge Jrom his office.** Administrator. _B. F. .WRIGHT. Adm'r. CHARLESTON AND WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY._ AUGUSTA AN Ll ASHEVILLK SHORT jUxtJfi In effect August 7, 1898. Lt Augusta..M lr Greenwood-. lr Anderson........... lr Laurens.".., lr Greenville. lr Glenn springs.... Ar Soartanburg lr Saluda.. lr Heudersonville. lr Asheville.. 9 40 am ll SO am 120 pm 3 00 pm 4 05 pm 8 lu pm 5 33 pm 6 03 pm 7 00 pm 140 pm G 10 pe) 7 OO M IG 15 aa 10 Lv Asheville. LT r partan burg-. Lv Glenn Springs. Lv Greenville. LT Laurens.-. LT Anderson. LT Greenwood.. Ar Augusta. LT Calhoun Fall?...... Ar Haleigh... Ar Norfolk.~. 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