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A HIRD SONG. ? ripple of rhythm trilling a tune Cadenced and caroled to colore of Jone, Shaded with vistas of shadowy dreams, Rhyming and timing to singing of streams. Sounding the tint and the glint of tho sky, Kchoing, echoing ecstasy thining the sheen and tho green of the sheaf. .Sparkling and darkling the diamond dewed leaf. Painting the grace and tho fane of tho flower. Kissing the lip and thedrip of the shower, Stealing tho breeze of the trees and the shades. Drinking the dews of the dells and the glades. Whistling the wind voiced violin trill, Trebling tho thread of a slender thrill; Twittering over the trembling strings Subtlest, sweetest and tenderest things. Pealing a passionate poan of love. Lyrical, limpid, wafted above Bird halleluiahs, echoed afar, Chanted through nature's portals ajar. Sunning in rapture the scale of song scope. Wording and birdipg the rainbow of hope. Pulsing and throbbing and thrilling with June, fashioning, passioning all to his tone. Praising in prisms of cadencing light. Soaring and soaring to ecstasy's height; Swelling his magical, music mad throat. Singing and winging his heavenward notel -Marion Daniel McConnell in Alkahest. MALINDY'S MATCH. The pathetic little procession had wound its way down the dusty royi tad over the brow of the hill, leaving the gmshine of the valley, the well tilled actes, the spreading orchard and the pleasant old farmhouse, that had meant much to the heart of Martin Ramsey, tint to which he would never more re* tarn. "Law me," wheezed Bil's.. Tinkler, wiping a furtive tear upon the corner M her black silk. "So that's the last of poer Martin ! Well, he has seen sig its of trouble in his day. Malindy an Be lindy has acted aa contrary as two females ever did. an Martin stool np under Vern, splendid. 'Pears to. me them girt} take it mighty cool when yon think it's their only brother. " ??Oh.. maw. ' ' said- Tenie. untying the daggled.bit of crape that ?rifted from tte doorknob, "I think Belmay felt aw ful She ain't one to show it As for Malindy. she's that cranky she wouldn't ?eel bad at her own fun er al. ' ' .*Seems to me, ' ' remarked her mother, thoughtfully, "that Brother Rice didn't have no call to be so coxnfortin an con soling Them girls ain't nc spring chick -ens: they're 80 come next May-same age as Sister Harriet BelL When you think they ain't spoke to one another this 60 year, an that Martin has had to live with 'em, bearin the I mt of the plaguy foolishness, it does seem as if it was the preacher's business to make the fanerai edifyin to the mourners. I ho;pe Brother Bice wasn't thinkin that the Ramsey farm is broad, an fruitful. I hope he ain't 'fraid of no old maid twins. "Why, I can remember," weat on Mrs. Tinkler, reflectively, "when the Ramsey girls was as pretty as there was in the county, <tn a body never see one without t'other. But when Bob Parker was beauin Malindy an took up with . Belindy the fat was in the fire, I can tell yon. Bob married Sissy Pollock, an has been dead this 20 year, but that don't make no difference to Malindy; mad she is, an mad she'll stay I She's the contrairiest erecter the Lord ever pat breath in!" "My suz, maw!" exclaimed Tenie, | "**see how high the sun is gettin. I bit ter run an set the tabla I don't belie ve they'll be many want to climb that bill ?ven for a meal of victuals. Now, ma tv, yon settle right down in that shady comer an take a catnap; you look beat oat. Everything is ready to put ov-.r, i '*> there's no need of your helpin. ' * ' The summer had trailed away into the autumn. The high hills had glow sd with riotous beauty, only to fade into the somber tints of winter, and now to a waiting world was coming the breath ?of approaching spring. Tenio was looking for her mother. She s'.,ood upon the porch of the little brown cottage, peering ouv "ider her hand. "There she is!" she exclaimed as a bay horse hitched to a shabby buggy shambled into sight "I'll jest run down an open the gata Goodness me, maw ! What a time you've been ! ' ' she cried os her mother drove into the barnyard. "I've been lonesome as a -log! I was afraid Dolly had run away with yon." "I t no wed you'd be worried about jae," Tenie." wheezed Mrs. Tinkler, clambering heavily to the ground. "Bat I did have the biggest hunt to match that blue delaine, an. as for wool carpet chain, there ain't a pound in Philadelphy. So it was dreadful late when I come by the Ramseys. an when Belindy see me nothin would dc but I must unhitch the beast an stay for din ger." "Kow. maw, you take them bundles an put for the house. " commanded Te me. "You look fit to drop. You aint a-goin to stand here in the wet Go Song with youl" "Law. Tenie. you make a regular ?iaby of me. I'll go to please you, child, but 'tain't right to be alwaj's shirkin. " "I guess you're rested enough to talk, maw. ' ' said Tenie when they had had tea. and Mrs. Tinkler was resting com fortably in a rocking chair, her slipper ed feet thrust into the warm baker. "Never mind about the delaine. Tell me about the Ramseys: seems like a coon's ag csince 1 seen one of 'em. " "They was askin why you didn't come over, but I told 'em you was dreadful busy makin a rag carpet, an the spring sewin comin on. to say nothin of Tom Miller bein hero so constant. " "Pshaw, maw!" exclaimed Tenio, blushing rosy red. ' 'Stop your f colin, an go on with your story. " "Well, the fact is. they are havin high old times at tho Ramseys. " said Mrs. Tinkler impressively. "You don'tsay! They ain't on speak in terms t" inquired Tenie, sewing away briskly with her lap full of carpet Tags. "Here. Tenie. hand me my thimble ai a mess of them rags. I can talk twice as fast with my needle goin. Up to the Ramseys. as far us speakiii goes, things aro jest where they was, except they've got that little Rosie Leth rrs there to do their talkin through. Cut Soon as I got there Isee there wag some thin in the wind. an. ns I said, nothin would do but I must take off my bon net an stay to eat Pretty soon Malindy couldn't stand it no longer, an she out with it. An, daughter, you'd never guess it in this wide world!" "Mv suz. maw. how could I auess." tittered Teme excitedly. "Tain* other beau, is it?" "Well, I swan !" exclaimed her i er admiringly. "If you didn't gu first thing! It's the livin truth, T Belindy has got a beau!" "You're foolin!" " Ton honor, jest aa true as live!" "Whoever?" "Jess make a guess. " "I ain't the slightest idee?" "Well." said Mrs. Tinkler, rsluc ly parting with her news, "it's D, Carter!" 4 'Dan'el Carter ! ' ' gasped Tonie. ' the land sakes! But if it ain't the thing ! Why. dear me. seems as if 1 knowed it a year!" ''There. " cried her mother tr phantly: "that's 'zactly what I ? Likely a match as ever waa Stidj forehanded, can go there an run farm as good as Martin ever did can tell you things has gone at 1 ends since they have been runnin i the shears-but no, Malindy won't 1 it so, an she is raisin Cain generali; "I can't see what business it hers." cried Tenie indignantly. 4 never speaks to poor Belindy. She regular dog in the manger." "So I told her. but. law. it didn' no good. Her heart is as hard as a ble. Belindy broke down an cried, ] thing, an said Malindy had said if married Dan'el Carter they shonl live on the farm-an Belindy ov. half of everything, mind you-an it would break- her heart to leave old home, where she was born. "But, land sakes, when Beli cried, that made Malindy act like 1 ket. Why, she said she was disgn to have a sister with no more sense, that there wasn't no fools like old fe an that she'd burn the house over tl heads 'fore he should come there. 11 her she acted like she was plum crt Mind my words. Tenie, she'll break that match nnless some thin drops, drops.hard. " The spring had hurried on into summer, and upon Goshen hill, wt lay between the Tinkler and Ram farms, the blackberries were hang amid green leaves in rich, ripe dust Here early and late Mrs. Tinkler toil loving the outdoor life and coveting many dimes the luscious fruit wo bring for Tenie's wedding outfit. It was a close August morning, i Tenie, working over the ironing tal was thinking longingly of the le: coolness and the deep, clear spring nj the hillside when suddenly she esp her mother coming across the meade 44Why, what ever?" cried Ter dropping her flatiron with a clatter, Mrs. Tinkler, with gown draggled ? sunbonnet awTy, but with face ali; with excitement and news, appeal around the corner of the house. " V/ hi are the berries?" "Did you ever?" chuckled her mo' er, sinking down upon the step. "Ii didn't havo them berries clear knod out of my head an leave them eta standin under the bushes! Bi Tenie Tinkler, talk about your circus* There's things happenin on that hill beats any show I ever see. Oh, i goodness gracious!" "Do stop your langhin. " said Ten: untying her mother's bonnet and bril ing her a glass of water. "Your face as red as a beet; I hope you ain't gol sunstroke. I can't make head nor tail what you're talking about. " "There's nothin the matter of u Tenie. I'm just worked up, an so yon be when you've heard. You st when I got on top of Goshen this mor in I s':?e the berries was hangin thi down toward the Raniseys, so down went. 'Twas dreadful pretty and ct down there ; the birds were singin, t j sassrasses was a gmellin. an the big b{ ries thumpin down on my bucket, an was thinkin of startin up a hymn, whe all of a sudden. I see a woman over the Ramsey patch. I couldn't see wh for her bonnet, an I knowed she couldr see me for the bushes. "Right 'twist us was that old celia 'A'here the house burned down. T] busnea was a leanin way out over it. ? I the woman was a gettin nearer an nea ! gr. I was jest goin to holler to her to 1 ; careful, when out her feet slipped ? lickety split she went sailin dow through them bushes, an here she wa settin flat on that cellar floor ! I wi that scart seemed as if I couldn't cl iee] "She didn't seem hurt none, set the: kind of whiniperin, an then she jerk* her bonnet off, an declare to goodness it wasn't Malindy I An if you'll belier me, Tenie. I hadn't no sooner seen wi 'twas than every bit of old Adam riz i me, an says I to myself. 'Guess the i ain't no .bones broke, so set there, ol lady, mebb'y it'll do you good!' "There wasn't a place where a bo couldn't 'a' clnm ont in a minute, bc Malindy is a gettin old, an she ain used to dirnbir). She got np an wee round an round the wall, but thei wasn't nothin to stand on, an ever time she'd get her toe in a cranny a try to pull herself up somethin woul give an down she'd go. ' ' "Why. maw Tinkler! You setti there an say in nothin!" exclaime j Tenie reproachfully. "Wasn't yoi 'shanied of yourself?" "Well, some, only when I though how she'd acted to Belindy I didn't car ono mite, an jest when my heart wa soften <t little who should come a-crasli in an a dashin through the bushes bu Dan'el Carter! " 'Mr. Carter. ' hollered Malindy, soo) as she see who it be. 4Mr. Carter Dan'el! You ain't a-goin by withou helpin nie out, be you?' 1 "When Dan'el see her standin dowi there, he seemed struck of a heap j 'What in earth are you doin dow] I there?' says he. j "'I fell in an can't getont,'say ! she. ! "When Dan'el heard that ho tnrru* kind of Slow like an looked at her with 0'.it savin a word. There was somethii in that stiddy look that made Malinda get pretty red in the face, an she toed , to fnmblin with tho corner of her apron 44 'Malindy, ' says he, goin down dosi I to the wall. 'I'm mighty glad tc ^t-t ci ciiaucc vu ian? io YOU moue, I've jest come from my sister Mar thy's. an slut's been tellin me si mu more of your carr'ii;'s on. Now." say.' he. dearin his throat. 'Delindy is t breakin down under your persecutions, an 1 ain't the man to see tho woman J love killed without doin my best ti hinder it. I've come to tho ci inclusion, Malindy,1 says he, 'that bein as it'f only crazy folks that talk about poisonir an a-burnin houses over folles' heads the asylum is the b"st placo for you. I'm on my way now to nee Squire Al ters about it ' " ""tiuvv uiu ne tvc* 0__1.... Tenie. "Dare! I guess Dan'el Carter daro anything when he's roused. As for Ma lindy. .she was ragin. "* " 'I guess it'll take more than your word to make me crazy!' she sputtered. 'Guess I've been knowed in this neigh borhood longer 'an any Carter. ' " 'There ain't a neighbor but what will say you've treated Belindy like a dog, ' says he. 'It's knowed for miles that you ain't spoke to her direct for" 30 year, an beside, you've made your threats promiscuous. ' "Malindy wasa-gettin mighty scared, for. like all bullies, she's a dreadful coward at heart, but she wasn't goin to give in yet." " 'You don't dare I* says she. tryin to be fierce an lookin awful faint. " 'A man dares anything when he's desperate as I be.' says he. 'You've stood in my road for a ye. r. ' " 'Belindy won't let yoa do anything to me.' says she. " 'Belindy will let me do what I think best. ' says he. " 'Bigger fool she! You are after her money. Dan'el Carter, an you want me out of the road.' says she. brazen as a penny. 'You think you're a regular Dan'el come to j -dgment. don't you?' " '1 ain't a-go.n to stand no insults,' says he. 'I'm goin now. an when the squire an me comes in the morn in I ain't a doubt we'll find you right here.' " 'Yon ain't a-goin to let me stay here all night V she gasped out. Malin dy was a-,'{eJ tin nervous an hystericky. for the fall had shook her up dreaaful, an his sayin that jest upset her. 'Ain't you got no heart?' says she. " 'You ain't never showed me an Be lindy none. ' says he. movin on. " 'You wretch, an me that 'fraid of bears! There ain't never a soul on this hill, but that fat old idiot of a Mis' Tinkler. ' says she. < "The mean old thing!" cried Tenie, in disgust. "She didn't say that, did she, maw?" "Honest Injun, Tenie. I heard her with my own eats, an to think of all I've dene fer that erecter. " " 'Dan'el Carter, how much will you take to let me ou ; ?' says she. lookin fit to drop. " 'There's only ore way I'll let you out,' says he, stern as a judge. 'If you'll promise to act like a sane woman an let Belindy go her own road, I'll give you another chance,' says he. " 'I ain't never a-goin to speak to Belindy, ' says she. as spiteful as ever. 'I ain't spoke to her this 80 year, an I ain't goin to.' " 'I'd a plaguy sight rather you wouldn't.' says he, contemptuouslike. 'I might as well tell you, Belindy an me is goin to get married next Sunday, at Sister Marthy's, an I'm comin to run the farm. But if you'll promise to keep a civil tongue in your head I'll give you another chance. ' " 'You ain't comin there,' says she, gettin white as a sheet. 'But I darsn't sta}' here. I'm afraid of my life.' " 'You won't see anything worse than yourself. ' says he, au with that off he wont. An when she couldn't see him no more down she went in a heap an cov ered her face with 1 r hands. "An then what do you think I done. Tenie ? I jest up an growled that low an mu ii. ed an awful, it sent the chills down my own backbone." "For the land sakes," cried Tenie. "You awful Maw Tinkler. What did poor Malindy do?" "Malindy! Why, you'd 'a' thought she had a fit She jumped an hollered, 'Dan'el! Dan'el Carter! Dan'el!' an that Dan'el went a-echoin down the hill till seems as if I can hear it yet. "Seemed half an hour 'fore Dan'el come a-crashin back, so near me I could 'a' touched him. " 'What's happened? What's the matter?' says he. " 'Get me out of this,' says she. 'You an Belindy can make jest as big fools of yourselfs as you want to, for all of me. I'll promise anything so's you'll let me out!' "But that whiffet of a woman's feet hadn't more than touched solid ground 'fore she turned on him like a cat. " Til have it out with you. Dan'el Carter, ' says she. 'You'll wish you'd 'a' died 'fore you ever come into the Ram sey family, ' an with that she went tear in down the hill. "An is that all?" asked Tenie. "What more'd you have?" replied her mother, testily. "Why, they ain't no end to it; I can't see as things is one bit better off, " said Tenie. disappointedly. "Law, Tenie Tinkler, don't you know no more of woman nature than that V Malindy has found her master, an she knows it. She may do a lot of blusterin, but she'll think the sun rises an sets in Dan'el Carter 'fore a month. " "Well." said .Tenie, "I do' know." -Agnes Warner McClelland in Chicago Record. Think Over Your Plan. The novelist can give the preacher some good points and especially in the matter of the sermon plan. After Zola had collected some 1.700 pages of notes and arranged them in order, he writes about "Lourdes:" "My book is finish ed; I have only to write it." George Eliot would make several drafts of lier plot before she wrote a line. Of Mrs. Henry Wood her biographer says: "The great amount of thought and de liberation bestowed upon her books waa always at the commencement. She would first compose her plot-a matter of extreme care and deliberation, where nothing una passed over or hurried. This would take her about throe weeks of very close application, and until tho whole was accomplished not one word of the novel was written." As a rule, the more time a preacher spends over the plan of his sermon, the less til ie will he need to spend on its composi tion.-Homiletic Review. Knew lt* Ixe. One stormy day not long ago a vessel was loading potatoes. A cart i'rom th? country came alongside of her, and tho driver proceeded to empty his load into the ship's hold. When he bad finished, he was invited by thc mate to warm and dry himself at the galley tire and to eat a piece ol' pork and a ship's biscuit, tin? latter aa hard as a Hint. The driver ate the pork with a relish, without touching the biscuit. When he had finished, he handed back the in digestible biscuit to the mate: with tho remark: ".Many thanks, sailormati TherVi your platel"-Liverpool Mercury, -- A. ?dear e.?ii-eieiii:e is the testi mony and reward ol' a geed life. Feeding a Boa Conatrictor by Hand. Eugland bas a remarkable snake charmer in Dr. Arthur?tradling, whose blood ia poiFon pnof and who pprmits the snakes to bite him at will. He bas visited every snake country on the globe. Ho had two ribs broken while manipulating a West African pythoness 16 feet long. This is tho mannor in which ho feeds his boa constrictors, de scribed by himself: "With shirt sleeves rolled up and Btockinged feet I grasp the creature jost behind the bead and separato its jaws by geikle pressure with a silver spatula. It's more knack than force, for all snakes are exceedingly seusitivo abont the mouth. A light tap on the muzzle will turn the fiercest of them. "Then the assistant (his little eon) pops the lump of meat, dead rat, bird or whatever tho morsel may be, right in among the quivering triple rows of long, curved teeth-positively quiver ing and .walking' with the agitation of anger on tho mobile jaws-and 1 push it down to the stomach, first with a ruler and then by squeezing upon it with my hands from the outside, a me chanical suasion which requires to be maintained for some little time in order to insure that the item of aliment shall remain in statu quo. "in the interval the youngster is not idle, and finds plenty of occnpation in shifting the reptile's coils and disengag ing various parts of me from n too close embrace. And so we fill the beast np un til he can hold no more." Calline ?he Boll Mooie. The most experienced professional callers differ widely in their efforts to simulate the plaintive challenge of the cow moose. The call employed by some of the guides in Maine and New Bruns wick is a rasping roar, that on a wind less, moonlit night fairly shatters the silence for miles aroond like a wither ing storm of grape. Yet they declare that this will bring the bull Some affect a short, then a long, then two more short calla Others prefer a single long call The Montagnais Indens of Quebec 'use a tmccassion of short calls Many of the Micmac and Milicete guides, when at the height of the long call, cut the note off abruptly with a sort of choking sob. The low call or "coaxer" is a tough proposition for the amateur It is only needed when the moose is very near, and, as he is then likely to be suspi cions, with all his senses on the alert, the call must be given with the utmost shill aud caution. A single false note and he will steal away on velvet foot as silently as a ghost. Many old hunters claim that as soon as the first answering grunt is heard from the bali, away across the lake or up tho mouutain side, the caller should eal! uo more They say that the moose, though he may be miles away, locates the sound exactly; that his answer in dicates that be will 6ureiy come, and is even then on tha way.-Frank H. Ris teen in OutiDg Eumina Man's Waeel, The fact that others shirk is a poor reason for negiert to earn one's wases The Young People's Weekly prints tho following anecdote about a boy who was an honest worker: One day after a severe storm a la rc o number of men and boys were ont on the roads of a country town to shovel out the drifts. Each workman was paid 25 cents an honr, and, as may be sup posed, there was no very strict watch kept npon them, but one little follow seemed to be working with all his might, and his comrades laughed at him. "Why, Jim, are yoa after the job of highway surveyor, or do you expect to get more than the rest of us for putting in so?" "Let's put bim out. He is shortening our job Twon't last till night, at this rate," laughed another "1 am getting man's pay for the first time in my life, and I meau to earn it, " said Jim "I don't suppose tho town cares, nor that i shall get any moro money at night, but 1 shall feel a big sight better myself. " "You've begun right, Jim," said the surveyor, who was not very strict in behalf of the town perhaps, but had a business of his own, whero he appre ciated workmeu with a conscience. Animals und Poisonous Planta. From repeated observations in my own garden 1 know that song thrushes will eat ripe mozercon berries greedily. In the winter of 1896 they c leard a small bush containing perhaps 200 ber ries in the conrea of a week or two, re turning at once when driven away and becoming-half stupefied,.so that they might apparently have been caught with the hand. Dr Withering states (* British Plans, "ed. 1812) that six berries of this shrub (Daphne mezereum) will kill a wolf According to the samo authority, Gi* cuta virosa is a certain poison to cows, while goats devour it eagerly, and it is not injurious to jsheep and horses. As to Atropa belladonna, a case which receiv ed much attention at the time may be found in the daily papers of some 20 years ago. A family was poisoned by eating rabbit pie, tho symptoms beiug those of atropine poisoning, and tho in quiry which followed showed that rab bits do often eat deadly nightshade ber ries. -Nature. Very Old. A southern family has an old-a very old-servant named .leif, who is au in heritance from further back than any ono eau romomber Tho other day ho asked to got off to seo bis aunt in At lanta. "Why, .Teff. " said his mistress, "your aunt must bo pretty old. isn't she?" "Yas'm ; pretty ole., bbo's 'bout bun nurd an five y'ars ole, ah 'epect." "A hundred and five years!" ex claimed ibe lady. "Why, how on earth dot J she get along?" "'Deed ah dunno, missus," replied Jeff. "??ho livin up dar wif her gran' motber. " Argonuut. - 'I'lic Loni luv? th a cheerful giver .md the ele-erful giV?r is ?HIV IO he tli<' umst iihiT.il one Be si>.*?ur?-d that Hu* tine who lays Iiis offering down v^iih dob-fui coiitiietniiice ha* given in ;i H'L'L' i rd I) iiic?>ure. - Killel -"Why. what's tlu* matf?>., ? J er'rude ? " (rertriitle-"Oh nothing. Only Jack and I had a i|Hirtel the miler d;iv ;inil I \vii?ie and told lim nt!vcr t-i dare to spe?lc or write to tue ?gain- ami the wretch hasn't even had thc decency to anarer my letter.1 * WOMEN WHO FASCINATE WOMEN. Tragic ResaltB That Have Followed Zu Some Modern Instanced. Cases of the unnatural influence ?which women have exercised over ?women aro not uncommon. Therc^"' noted lnstanco of that kind was ic the case of Miss Alice Mitchell of Memphis. Miss Mitchell's father was a merchant of wealth and sho lived in great refinement in the fashion able part of tho city. She was fre quently visited by Miss Freda Ward of Gold Dust, Ark., and the pair seomed to be inseparable. One day in January, 1892, however, Miss Mitchell was driving through the streets with a friend when she met Miss Ward. She jumped from the carriage suddenly and without a word cut Miss Ward's throat. The poor girl fell to the sidewalk and died whilo being taken to a hospital. No one could understand the mo tive for the deed. Miss Mitchell told various stories, one of which was that she I Hied Miss Ward because she had circulated scandals about her. Finally she made a statement which she adhered to, in which she said: "I killed Freda because I loved her and she refused to marry mc. I asked her to marry mo three times, and at last she consented. We were going to marry here and go to St. Louis. When Freda promised to marry me, T was so happy. I sent her an engagement ring and she wore it for a time, but when it was returned to me I was miserable. I could not bear to bo separated from her, so I resolved to kill her. I would rather she were dead than away from me." Miss Mitchell was tried for mur der in July, 1892, and on being ad judged insane was sent toan asylum. A peculiar case lay in the infatu ation which Miss Margaret Messmoro of Los Angeles had for Miss Grace Miltimore of Savannah. Both gMs came of good families and were ex ceedingly pretty. In 1893 they room ed together in Chicago, where they were studying music. The parents become alarmed at the friendship which existed between them, and Miss Miltimore was induced to return home. She left her trunk containing many valuable articles with her friend, who refused to give it up. "Graco is my husband," said Miss Messmore, "why should I give her things to her family?" Miss Mess moro was finally taken back to Los ! Angeles almost by force. Mrs. Alma , Erhardt's love for Mrs. Charlotte I Goehlinp: of Newark caused her to be sent to an insane asylum in Jan uary, 1894. At the trial Mrs. Goeh t ling produced a letter from Mrs. Er j hardt. which contained a distinct ' proposal of marriage. Another letter i urged her to kill her two children. Mrs. Eugenia Van Cott, daughter of a prominent minister of Smithville, N. Y., was arrested in September, , 1893, for enticing Mrs. Alice Tauris away from her husband.' The case never came to trial.-New York Herald. Medinval Outbarnti. The energies which in our own day find vent in half a dozen forms ( of athletio exercise had in the thir teenth oentury hardly more than the single outlet of lighting. Men talked i of war and sang of it, and tho closo of tho thirteenth century was a pe riod when a succession of fortunate expeditions and a soldierly king had turnod men's thoughts moro strong ly than usual upon tho popular topic. Tho prevailing tone of society must have acted upon tho immature lad9 at Oxford cooped up in the narrow streots of a crowded city, without. j or practically without, books, much as the cheap romances of our own ' day are believed to affect the office hoy. There were plenty of rogues in .the thirteenth century, of course, who wero able and willing to help the militant student to add practice to theory, and when we recollect that there were no better police than half a dozen Dogberries, that the city was unlighted, and that even lads went armed, one no longer has cause to wonder at the insecurity of life in Oxford 600 years ago.-Macmillan's Magazine. Napoleon In the Ifcautan Csmpaiffii. Around tho campfires there was, during the remaining months of winter, a passive endurance, min gled with somo murmuring abou? tho horrors caused by ono man's am bition. The emperor sut his men an example of uncomplaining cheerful ness. His health continued as oxu lu ira nt ns it had been for tho year pnst, and his activity, though no longer feverish, lost nothing of its intensity. Savary thought he outdid himself, accomplishing in ono month what elsewhere would have been, even for him, tho work of three. Mme. do Kcmusat remembered to havo heard him say that he felt bet ter during thoso months than over before or after. This vigor of body, combined with tho same iron deter mination as of old, did indeed work miracles, and this in spite of tho fact that his indefatigable secretary, Muret, was long nt tho point of death.-"Lifo of Napoleon" in Cen tury. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Ths Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho //f _/ Signature cf C^t?/^^ m ? e? - "Gan she hdk. id ?J luau?" '"(Jan sin-? Why. Ia>t su'iiim-i" in rlw nimin I ai us ?li?' didn't even let the echo have ?he la>t ?Mid ! " Severe Helmke. Constable, tbe fanions painter, oneo gaven reniarkabJo instance ?if tbe sweet ness ot' bis temper wt ich scarcely any thing conld ruffle. The story is told by Julian Charles Young, whoso nude bad witnessed its incident. Ho called on Constable oue day and was received by him in his front roora. After half an hour's chat the artist pro posed to repair to the backroom to shew him a large picture on which he was .engaged. On walking np to his easel bo found that one of his little boys, in his ab sence, had dashed tho handle of the hearth broom through tho canvas and made so large a rent in it as to reuder its restoration impossible. He called the child up to him and asked him gently if he had done it. When the boy admitted his act, Constat' e took him on his knee and rebuked him in these unmeasured terms: "Oh, my dear petl See what we have done! Dear, dear! What shall we do to mend it? 1 can't think-canyon?'* Pretty- Near FBeab. "An Italian prelato who believes himself a master of the English lan guage, " says a correspondent of an Eng lish paper, "was while an honored guest at a famous college asked to preach at the high mass on Sunday. His discourse was diversified by neolo gisms that kept oar attention alive, ii they sometimes disordered onr gravity, which finally collapsed nuder the propo sition: " 'There aro, my brethren, three ene mies againEt whom, all our long, we are bound to fight-tho devil, the world and' (for a moment he pondered carne) 'tho meat.'" Hidden Beauty In Egypt the custom is for Princesses to hide their beauty by covering the lower part of the face with a v? :L In America the beauty of many ?f our women is hidden because of the weakness and sickness pecu liar to the sex. If the Egypt ian custom pre? vailed in this country, many sufferers would be glad ta .cover theil |p r e m atu r e .wrinkles, theil sunkencheeks, their unnealthy complexion, from the eyes of the world with the veil of the Orient Bradfield's Female Regulator brings out a woman's true beauty. It makes her strong and well in those organs upon which her whole general health depends. It corrects all men strual disorders. It stops the drains of Leucorrhcea. It restores the womb to its proper place. It removes the causes of headache, backache and nervousness. It takes the poor, de bilitated, weak, haggard, fading woman and puts her on her feet again, making her face beautiful by making her body well. Dru rei ft? .nell it for $ I a bottle. Send for ocr free illustrated book for women. The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta. Ga. Assessment Notice. AUDITORS OFFICE, & NDICKSON, S. C. THIS OPf'FE WILL BK OPEN T'l R CEI VE RK URNtJ ? F Pr R SU>?AL PR 'PICxTY mr taxation for . hn next, hx'xl v*-*?r from ibe tirai day ot January, 1899. to the 20th ol February lol to wi tm, ?ucl Un'y. All tran ter* ot KE.\L ENTITE made since lant yeai'u aKse>?siuent mu?t be carefully noted . n the return-tho num ber ot aeren bought or Hold and fruin whom acquired or to whom Hold. Under tbe ucw HssH?.Mriir la?8 the township a???e?Hora are required to make Tax Returns tor all thom* that 'ail KI make meir own returns within the time prenoribed by law, and hencetnedifficul ty ot delinquents soaping the penalty ot the IH .. EX CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS OVHI io v*?aru ot age h re exempt trom POLL TAX. & I othnr male?? h-tween HIM ag?w o 21 a??d 60 yearn, EXCr>PT HO E INC PABLE OF EARNI *G A SUPPORT F?OM BEING MAIMED OR FrvuM ANY OT?EK CaUSE,?hall bo deemed l xaOle puns. For the couveuience of taxpayers we will al HO have deputies to take returns ai the following i' ti es and place? : Holland, Tuesday, January 10. Mi fiVt*ville, Wxrineeday, January ll. iva, Thuraday, January 12. Moseley, Friday, January 13. Bxv li? ,vicCouneil's, Saturuay, Janu ary 14. Si a r, M uiday, January 16. istorevi'le, TtiHs.iay, January 17. OioikMoalea' Mill, Weducaday, Janu ary 18 uv ton, Thursday, January 19. Bi?hop'n B-aiion, Fridav, January 20. Five Forks, Thursday, January 19 A II tun, Vloiiiiav, lam?an 23 W>ati'M -tore M >uday, January 2'5. (. eiiar WrHHth, TuMMlrtt, January 24. v\ Uiintiton'ei ? ?-re, WeUuesday, Jauu ar? 2r> Equality, Thursday, January 26. fen.il t.-ii, Kriilav, January 27. Townvill , Friday, J-nuar.v 27. Tillaloo, S-tturdny, January ^8. n.uiea Path. M nd ay and Tuesday, J notary M mid 31. Belton, We. nesday and Thursday, Feti iiHr.v 1 and 2. r*<ed MOI t Friday aud Saturday. Feb ru r\ 3 a'd 4. Pelz r, M indar, Tuesday and Wedne* I1M\, Fehl ii?r> 6, 7 aud S. WilliniiiMton. Thursday and, Friday. Fetiri;ar\ 9 and 10. ti. N. 0. BO LE M AN, Dec 14, WK Auditor A. C w. G. MCGEE, SURGEON D2KTIST. OF F I*"'R- n>nt R ?on , over Vumnerp mi! Me chant? Kjuik AND KIRBON, h. C. Notice to Creditors. ALL persona bavimr demanda airabst ihw 'i.Siat- o' I'ur er H. O i?. ?ri?, diie'd. are |w-r?lo, notified tn oi? >? nrth-'Ui properly (?roven, to tn? mid rnitflled, wi??do lb tune prener?'???<i Uv i?\v, and th^se in <tel>t?-<1 '.. ">4k- nu ?!.??..! J. a i UNN'IXGHAM, Adrn'r. Jan 4, 1899 28 S OTTON is and will con tinue to be the money crop of the South. The planter who gets the most cot ton from a given area at the least cost, is the one who makes the most money. Good culti vation, suitable rotation, and liberal use of fertilizers con taining at least $% actual Potash will insure the largess yield. We will send Free, upon a^plicatiorai? pamphlets that will interest evt?ty cotltfc planter in the South. GERT1AN KALI WO! IKS, 03 NatMu St.. New YariL FOR &AU ! SOME valuabiH Rivm F-.no? -litaated in Nurti" UMI'K , UH r II ? - M : Farm No. 1 ijii.tf 7 - S ?ath ea-tof Dalton, Gi* r^ut, n Wm ti-in nu? Mur ray Cnurj'i"-, n'iiU'inou 3oO a r^, mort ur Ins-, WV. II ii-iifi?r*-<i, ii improved and wa et^d ; 100 ?...?* . tin? river bot toui laud cl**airit, a-o 50 .-r upland. AI?", ?* il e h (Mitt > o in?? O?rori tho (IMIII e tUica Kner MiiitiiiK i h ruu gb iL Room.\ d * el MUK*, "?..?! i ??L Ta ?re ia alu'? a ti?i?* ehoai t"r n ivi ....?..?/, F?r H. No. 2, I>III>? 7 m-I-- "iMi-tof Dd tou, I'W.ru'a, in ii r ? and Whitfield <\>ui.tie*, COIOHIHIIK 400 MIT?-?, more or lew?,oneg'HKl ilwe'im*, ne-i-ien four oom fortable tenant li"H?-?, une Nt'ire-boUflD ai d ehopM, at? .ur 75 *v * . f iv r bottom eleared ami th neree <>i upland in .tino ?late ot en tiv-?ti"ii. Hie remainder tine li m he erl, I onne-Mima kl Ver ruuning ibn>uy>b the tarn- ; MIMI, iwn ii ?Uv mails from Pallon t<> >pni * Pi iv. Ldtallty health \, wit hm 8 milee ol C'ibuttab Fort M ll- tani-. Farm N<> 3 eutlH m Kn-t of Ddtnn, 1> i i? tr "O tue mi titanic i KI ver. <<)(?tain tnjr 160 a?r?e-1*5 a--ree m eu livaiion* 101 acre? bue Moitun i Hie rufo m ndrolli ng, withs co m tori M hie dwelling naru*, Ac, attnebed. Farm N". 4, nnntsiniii?! 200 wm* of up land, fair u.pr??v?.?neiit?, *eil watered and fine timber, 50 ne ?M r't-and, lying 2 miles mn.th nf M^roig Place, Murray County, ire-ntM. I have a'so mie 30 h"rut* E 'Kine and B liier, C ittnn Gin ami ?'re**, ?tri?t Mill, Planer mid Matcher, wiri. aM ih>-> ti? Ni res, Mituaied in the io*II ot Sering Place, Murray C<>lint\,Tor ente. Terms will b? ma le ea y. Apply at tbis office, or wri'M i?. J. W. L ?NOS TON, A i Z', Murray ?'o'int>, GH<>r??ia. Jan 11, 189V? 20 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Co ONT Y op *N DICKSON. COCRT UK rnSIMoSi PLBAS. W. M Wehh and R ' W. h'., ,m t e H lu trade ai Ai?ders?tj,S . under II? P<nu na ofW?b? <t W>hb HUini nX mais F M Mo<|.by.u Truste? lur tue Ci Hil en . I F M >j u r j. h v Sr. d?cei.se , I.nenin I?r Mur i,v. . i nui-e-Mur ohy, Irene . at-r, tor nil? .Sin phy ) K?? Mur pb., i I n i id Mii'onv. l'ar-nce M .r hy and L mia MU piy. Minor-uv rr?- ge ix f ur leen yian, Def udaniB - ru u.ous for tte i-f- Com pl?i nt tforved Tn ihe Defendants F vt. Murphy, ax T usO e of the ch?dre of F M Mu pli) ne-iior, riecea-ed, L H. Mu'phy,?' L? ?w M m phy. i m,,,- Outer, (f-r eny Mm hy,) Eva M ii rpi. y, aun C aude Murphy. Clarance Murphy a .ri ,.ouio Murphy Inlauts over . he age i.t iou> ern ???ar : YOD ?ni hereby suiumuued and lequired to an ?wer the Co.? plain' tu f li i*> action, of which ac->py i-? hete with ?ei ved - pun o.i, ?od to-serve a copy of your auawet u> in- -?aid ''nropl -ict OB the subscribers ai their office, Auderoou Cocui House, South i arollua within twenty days after tbe service herein, exclusive of the day of auch service; and if you taii to auswei the ' ompiaiflt within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in th* action will apply '<. the I'oun fnr the relief de manded in rh*? Complaint Dated Anderson, * ', January II, 1889. BON H A a & W \TiiI?S, PlaintiflV Aitornej, [SEAL ] Joan C. WATKI - S, C CC P. To the absent Defendant lareue? 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