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A BIRD SONG. ? ripple of rhythm trifling a tune Cadenced an ' caroled to colurs of Jane, Shaded with vistas of shadowy dreams, Rhyming and timing to singing of streams. Sounding the tint and tho glint of tho sky, Echoing, echoing ecstasy Shining the sheen and tho green of the sheaf, .Sparkling and darkling the diamond dewed teat. fainting tho grace and tho face of tho flower. Kissing the lip and. the^Jrip of thc shower, Stealing the bree?! of the trees and the shades, Drinking the dewe 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 passional o piean of love, Lyrical, limpid, wafted above Bird halleluiahs, echoed afar, {Slanted through nature's portals ajar. Running in raptor s the scale of sont; scope. Wording and birding tho rainbow of hope. Pulsing and throbbing and thrilling with June, .fashioning, passioning all to his tune. 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 road and. over the brow of the hill, leaving the genshine of the valley, the well tilled ?cres, the spreading orchard and the pleasant old farmhouse, that had meant mach to the heart of Martin Ramsey, hilt to which he would never more re tarit. "Law me." wheezed Mrs.. Tinkler, wiping a furtive tear upon the corner ?f her black silk. ? 'So that's the last of poor Martin! Weih he has seen sights of trouble in his day. Malindy an Be lindy has acted as contrary as two females ever did, an Martin stood np ?cdjsr-.'em.splendid. 'Pears to. me them girls take it mighty cool, when yon Shink it's their only brother. " "Oh,. maw, ' ' said- Tenie, untying the ?draggled:bit of crape-that drifted from the-doorknob, "I think Belindy felt aw ful She ain't one to show it As for Malindy. she's that cranky she wouldn't iee! bad at her own funeral. ' * "Seems to me, * ' remarked her mother, thoughtfully, "that Brother Rice didn't have no call to be so comfortin an con ?olin. Them girls ain't no 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 CO 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 funeral edifyin to the mourners. I hope Brother Rice 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," went on Mrs. Tinkler, reflectively, "when the Ramsey girls was as pretty as there was in the county, an a body never see one without t'other. But when Bob Parker was beauin Ms.lindy an took up with Belindy the fat was in the fire. I can tell you. 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 put breath in!" "My snz, maw I" exclaimed Tenie, .**see how high f ae sun is gettin. I bet ter run an set the tabla I don't believe they'll be many want to climb that hill ??ven for a meal of victuals. Now, maw, you settle right down in that shady comer an take a catnap ; you look b?at ?ut Everything is ready to put over, i so there's no need of your h?lpin. ' ' The summer had trailed away into the autumn. The high hills had glowed 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. Teniowas looking for her mother, ?he stood upon the porch of the little brown cottage, peering out under her hand. "There she isl" she exclaimed as a foy horse hitched to a shabby buggy shambled into sight "1*11 jest run ?down an open the gate. Goodness me, maw! What a time you've been!" she ?ried as her mother drove into the j barnyard. "I've been lonesome as a ! -log! I w*8 afraid Dolly had run away with you." "I hnowed you'd be worried about jaie, ? Tenie. " wheezed Mrs. Tinkler, clambering heavily to the ground. "But I did have the biggest hunt to match that blue delaine, an. as for wool i 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 do but I must unhitch the beast an stay for din ger." "Now, maw, you take them bundles an put for the house. " commanded Te ade. "You look fit to drop. You oint , a-goin to stand here in the wet. Go long with youl" "Law, Tenie. you make a regular .baby of me. I'll go to please you. child. but 'tain't right to be always shirkin. " "I guess you're rested enough to talk, maw." said Tenio 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 i coon's ag esince 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 here so constant. " 1 "Pshaw, maw!" exclaimed Tenie, j blushing rosy red. "Stop your foolin. an j go on with your story. "Well, the fact is. they are havin 1 high old times at tho Ramseys, ' ' said Mrs. Tinkler impressively. "You don't say ! They ain't on speak in terms?" inquired Tenie. sewing away briskly with her lap full of carpet rags. "Here. Tenie. hand mo my thimble Hi a mess of them rags. I can talk twice as fast with my noodle goin. Up to the Ramseys. as far as speakin goes, things are jest where they was, except they've fiot that little Rosie Leth rs there to do their talkin through. Dut soon as I got there ? seo thero was some thin in the wind. an. as I said, nothin would do but, I must take off my bon fcet 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 wido world!" "Mv snz. maw. how could I trues*. " tittered Tome excitedly, "Taln't other beau, is it?" "'Weill. I swan!" exclaimed her mo er admiringly. "If yon didn't gues: first thing! It's the livin truth, Ter Belindy has got a beau ! ' ' "You're foolin!" " Ton honor, jest as true as 3 live!" "Whoever?" "Jess make a guess." "I ain't the slightest idee!" "Well. " said Mrs. Tinkler, reineta: ly parting with her news, "it's Dan Carter!" "Dan'el Carter!" gasped Tenie. "I the land sakes! But if it ain't the v? thing! Why. dear me. seems as if I h knowed it a year!" "There." cried her mother triu: phantly: "that's 'zactly what I sai Likely a match as ever was Stidy. forehanded, can go there an run t farm as good as Martin ever did-ai can tell you things has gone at loc ends since they have been runnin it the shears-but no, Malindy won't ha it so, an she is raisin Cain generally. ' "I can't see what business it is hers." cried Tenie indignantly. "S never speaks to poor Belindy. She's regular dog in the manger. " "So I told her. but. law. it didn't 1 no good. Her heart is as hard as a co ble. Belindy broke down an cried, po thing, an said Malindy had said if si married Dan'el Carter they shoal dr live on the farm-an Belindy own half of everything, mind you-an th it would break her heart to leave tl old home, where she was born "But, land sakes, when Belinc cried, that made Malindy act like tu; ket. Why, she said sho was disgract to have a sister with no more sense. c that there wasn't no fools like old fool an that she'd burn the house over the heads 'fore he should come there. I toi her she acted like she was plum craz; Mind my words. Tenie. she'll break o that match unless somethin drops, a drops.hard. " The spring had hurried on into tl. summer, and upon Goshen hill, whic lay between the Tinkler and Ramsc farms, the blackberries were hangin amid green leaves in rich, ripe cluster; Here early and late Mrs. Tinkler toilet loving the outdoor life and coveting th many dimes the luscious fruit wonl bring for Tenie's wedding outfit. It was a close August morning, an Tenie, working over the ironing table was thinking longingly of the leaf; coolness and the deep, clear spring upoi the hillside when suddenly she espie her mother coming across the meadow "Why, what ever?" cried Tenie dropping her flatiron with a clatter, a Mrs. Tinkler, with gown draggled an< sunbonnet awry, but with face aligh with excitement and news, appeare< around the corner of the house. 4 ' W her are the berries?" "Did you ever?" chuckled her moth er, sinking down upon the step. "If 1 didn't have them berries clear knocket out of my head an leave them br.ck ets standiu under the bushes! But Tenie Tinkler, talk about your circuses There's things happenin on that hill a< beats any show I ever see. Oh, mj goodness gracious ! ' ' "Do stop your langhin." said Tenie. untying her mother's bonnet and bring ing her a glass of water. "Your face ii as red as a beet; I hope you ain't got s sunstroke. I can't make head nor tail oi what you're talking about. " "There's nothin the matter of me, Tenie. I'm just worked up, an so'li you be when you've heard. You see. when I got on top of Goshen this morn . in I s>e the berries was hangin thick down toward the Ramseys, so down I went. 'Twas dreadful pretty and coo) down there ; the birds were singin. thc sassrasses was a smellin, an the big ber ries thumpin down on my bucket, an I was thinkin of startin up a hymn. when, all of a sudden, I see a woman over in the Ramsey patch. I couldn't see who, for her bonnet, an I knowed she couldn't see me for the bushes, j "Right 'twixt us was that old cellar, where the house burned down. The bushes was a leanin way out over it. an the woman was a gettin nearer an near ' gr. I was ?est goin to holler to her to be careful, when out her feet slipped a:a j lickety split she went sailin down through them bushes, an herc she was, gettin flat on that cellar floor ! I was that scart seemed as if I couldn't cheep ! "She didn't seem hurt none, set there kind of whimperin, an then she jerked her bonnet off, an declare to goodness if it wasn't Malindy! An if you'll believe me, Tenie. I hadn't no sooner seen who 'twas than every bit of old Adam riz in me, an says I to myself, 'Guess they ain't no.bones broke, so set there, old lady, mebby it'll do you good!' "There wasn't a place where a boy couldn't 'a' clnm out in a minute, but Malindy is a gettin old, an she ain't used to climbin. She got np an went round an round the wall, but there wasn't nothin to stand on. an every time she'd get her toe in a cranny an try to pull herself up somethin would give an down she'd go. " "Why, maw Tinkler! You settin there an say in nothin!" exclaimed Tenie reproachfully. "Wasn't you 'shamed of yourself?" "Well, some, only when I thought how she'd acted to Belindy 1 didn't care one mite, an jest when my heart was soften a little who should come a-crash in an a dashin through the bushes but Dan'el Carter 1 " 'Mr. Carter, ' hollered Malindy. soon as she see who it be. 'Mr. Carter. Dan'el! You ain't a-goin by without helpin me out, be you?' "When Dan'el see ber standin down there, he seemed struck of a heap. 'What in earth are you doin down there?' says he. "'I fell in an can't get ont,'says she. I "When Dan'el heard that ho turned kind of slow like ari looked at ber with out savin a word. There was somethin in that stiddy look that made Malindy get pretty red in the face, tin she took , to fumblin with tho corner of lier apron. " 'Malindy, ' says he, goin down dost I to tho wall. 'I'm mighty glad to net A ta moue w? i<tm iu you un'ur. I've jest come from my sister Mar thy's. an site's been tellin me some moro of your carr'in'a on. Now.'says he. dearin his throat. 'Belindy is a break-in down under your persecutions, an 1 ain't tlie man to see tho woman I love killed without doin my best to hinder it. I've com?; to tho conclusion, Malindy,' says he. 'that bein as it's only crazy folks' that talk about poisonin an a-burnin houses over folles' heads the asylum is the best place for you. I'm on my way now to seo Squire Al ters about iL' " "iriovv uiu ac ttci ?.....~, 0-r... Tenia "Dare! I guess Dan'ol Carter dare 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 Tva 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 fof 30 year, an beside, you've made your threats promiscuous. ' "Malindy was a-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 darel' says she. try in 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 yo a do anything to me.' says hbo. " 'Bjdindy will let me do what I think best. * says he. " 'Bigger fool she! Yon 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 judgment, 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. ' " 'You ain't a-goin to let me stay here all night ?' she gasped out. Malin dy was a-ge'tin nervous an hystericky. for the fall hud 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 betns! 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. "Sh-i 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 Delindy, ' says she. as spiteful a3 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 comm to run the farm. But if you'll promise to keep a civil tongue in your head I'll give yon another chance. ' " 'You ain't comin there,' says she, gettin white as a sheet. 'But I darsn't stay here. I'm afraid of my life. ' " 'You won't see anything worse than yourself. ' says he. au with that off he went. 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?ied 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. " 'Y/hat'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. " 'I'll have it out with you. Dan'el Carter, ' says she. 'You'll wish you'd 'a' died 'fore you ever como 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 ? 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 Yoar 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 thom in order, he writes about "Lourdes:" "My book is finish ed; I have only to write it." George Eliot would make several drafts of ber plot before she wrote a line. Of Mrs. Henry Wood her biographer says: "The great amount of thought and do liberation bestowed upon ber books was always at the commencement. Hbo would first compose her plot -a matter of extreme care and deliberation, where nothing was passed over or hurried. This would take her about three weeks of very close application, and until tho whole was accomplished not one word of the novel was written." As a rulo, the uiore 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 KN Use. One stormy day not long UTO a vessel was loading potatoes. A cart from thy country came alongside of her, and tho driver proceeded to empty his load into tho skill's hold. When bc had finished, he was invited by Hie mate to warm and dry bim.'elf at the galley tire and to eat a piece ol' pork and a ship's biscuit, th" latter as hard as a Hint. Tin- driver ate the pork with a relish, without touching tia- biscuit Win n ho had finished, he handed back the in digestible biscuit to tin! male with tho remark: "Many thanks, sailorman Thera'ii your platel"-Liverpool Mercury, -- A rle,ir cm-eleu.;o is I 'ie lc* ti immy and reward ol' a good life. Peeriini; a Bon Conatrictor by Hand. England bas a remarkable snake charmer in Dr. Arthur Cradling, whoso blood is poison pnof and who permits tho snakes to bite him at will. He bas visited every snake conutry on the globe. He had two ribs broken while manipulating a West African pythonoss 16 feet long. This is tho manner in which he feeds his boa constrictors, de scribed by himself: "With shirt sleeves rolled np and stockinged feet I grasp the creature just behiud the bead and separate its jaws by gei?#le pressure with a silver spatula. It's more knack than force, for all suakes are exceedingly sensitivo about the mouth. A light tap on the muzzle will turn the fiercest of them. "Then tho assistant (his little son j pops the lump of meat, dead rat, bird or whatever the 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 I push it down to the stomach, first with a ruler and then by squeezing upon it with my hands from the outside, a me* cbanical suasion which requires to be maintained for some little time in order to insnre that tba item of aliment shall remain in statu quo. "In the interval the youngster is not idle, and finds plenty of ocenpation in shifting the reptiio's coils and disengag ing various parts of me from a too close embrace. And so we fill the beast np un til he can hold no more." Calling the Ball Moose. The most experienced professional callers differ widely in their efforts to eimnlate the plaintive challenge of the cow moose. The call employed by some of the guides in Maine and New Bruns wick ia a rasping roar, that on a wind less, moonlit night fairly shatters the silence for miles around 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 calls. Others prefer a single long call The Montagnais Inriil us of Quebec 'tiso-a fluccassiou of short calls. Many of the Micmac and Miliceto 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" ?B a tough proposition for the amateur It is only needed when the moose is very uear, and, as he is then likely to be suspi cious, with all his senses on the alert, the call must be given with the utmost skill and caution. A singlo false note and be will steal away on velvet foot as silently as a ghost. Many old bunters claim that as soon as the first answering grunt is heard from the bull, away across the lake or up tho mouutain side, the caller should call no more They say that the moose, though be may be miles away, locates the sound exactly; that his answer in dicates that he will surely come, aud is even then on the way.-Frank H. Rie teen in Outing Burning ?ilan'a Wages. The fact that others shirk is a poor reason for negiert to earn .one's wases The Young Pennie's Weekly prints the following anecdote about a boy who was an honest worker: One day alter a severe storm a laree number of men and boys were out on the roads of a country town to shovel out the drifts. Each workman was paid 25 cents an hour, and, as may be sup posed, there was no very strict watch ! kept upon them, but one little follow seemed to be working with all his might, and bis comrades laughed at him. "Why, Jim, are you 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 him out. He issborteniug our job Twon't last till night, at this rate, " laughed another I "I 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, uor that I shall get any moro money at night, but I 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 bad a business of his own, whero he appre ciated workmeu with a conscience. An?mala und Poisonous Plants. From repeated observations in my own garden 1 kuow that song thrushes will eat ripe mozercon berries greedily. In the winter of 1896 they cleard a small bush containing perhaps 200 ber ries ia the course of a week or two, re turning at once when driven away and becoming- half stupefied,, so that they might apparently havo 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, Ci cuta virosa is a certain poison to cows, while goats devour it eagerly, and it is not injurious to .sheep 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 eatiug rabbit pie, tho symptoms being those of atropine poisoning, and tho iu qniry which followed showed that rab bits do otten eat deadly nightshade ber ries. -Nature. Very (?ld. A southern faun ly has an old-a very old-servant named Jeff, who is au in heritance from further back than any ono can ronioruber Tho other day ho asked to got off to seo his aunt in At lanta. " Why, Jeff, " said his mistress, "your aunt must be pretty old. isn't she?" "Yas'm ; pretty ole. hbo's 'bout bun nerd an five y'ars ole, ah 'spect." "A hundred and five years !" ex claimed the lady. "Why, how on earth does she get along?" " Deed ah duuuo, missus," replied Jeff, "She livia up dar wif her gran' muiber. " Argonaut. - Tlir Loni inv< tli a cheerful g.vcr :IIM1 the eloTl'f'll giV'l' ?rf Hire lo he ili.> HIO.-M lil?1 r<t\ one IJe -.osiifiil i hat. tin-.M.i- w ho l.iys his offering down willi iloh-ful collincu:inee Una given in .i II?ir?! nilly iiie.i>ure. - Ki li ?I -"Why. iv h ii t's I hi- lin tl i" , i?iT'rudi. V" (?viunide-*"Oh nothing. Only tl i ct and I had a quarrel (he Hiller dav ami I wrote ami told I ?in never V> dur?. t<? g pe? lt IT write tn nu' ; au ai n- and thc wretch hasn't oven' had the decency to anam-r my lutter! ' WOMEN WHO FASCINATE WOMEN. Tracie Results That ll a vu Followed Eu Some Modern InwtanceH. Cases of the unnatural influence .which women have exercised over women aro not uncommon. Them^"' noted Instanco of that kind was in tho case of Miss Alico Mitchell of Memphis. Miss Mitchell's father was a merchant of wealth and sho lived in prent refinement in the fashion able part of the city. She was fre quently visited by Miss Freda Ward of Gold Dust, Ark., and the pair scorned to bo inseparable. One day in January, Ih'.l?, 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 tho 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 sho I Hied Miss Ward because she had circulated scandals about her. Finally she made a statement which she adhered to, in which sho said: "I killed Freda because I loved her and she refused to marry roc. 1 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 waa miserable. I could not bear to be 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 thom, and Miss Miltimore was induced to return home. ??bo left her trunk containing many valuable articles with her friend, who refused to give it up. "Grnco 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 Erhnrdt's love for Mrs. Charlotte Goehling of Nowark caused her to be sent to an insane asylum in Jan uary, 1894. At the trial Mrs. Goeh ling produced a letter from Mrs. Er hardt, whicli contained a distinct proposal of marriage. Another letter urged her to kill her two children. Mrs. Eugenia Van Cott, daughter of a prominent minister of Smithville, N. YM was arrested in September, 1893, for enticing Mrs. Alice Tauris away from her husband.' The case never came to trial.-New York Herald. Medica val Outbarsta. The energies which in our own day find vent in half a dozen forms of ntbletio exercise had in the thir teenth oenrury hardly moro than the single outlet of lighting. Men talked of war and sang of it, and the close of the thirteenth century was a pe riod when a succession of fortunate expeditions and a soldierly king had turned men's thoughts more strong ly than usual upon tho popular topic Hie prevailing tone of sooioty must have neted upon tho immature lads at Oxford cooped up in the narrow streots of a crowded city, without, or practically without, books, much as the cheap romances of our own day are believed to affect the office boy. There were plenty of rogues in .the thirteenth century, of course, who were 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 tho insecurity of life in Oxford 600 years 3go.- Macmillan's Magazine. Napoleon In the Russian Campaign. Around tho campfires there was, during the remaining months of winter, a passive endurance, min gled with somo murmuring about tho horrors caused by ono man's am bition. The emperor sut his men an example of uncomplaining cheerful ness. His health continued as exu berant as it had been for tho year past, and his activity, though no longer feverish, lost nothing of its intensity. Sa vary thought ho outdid himself, accomplishing in ono month what elsewhere would have been, even for him, tho work of th roo. Mme. do Rem us?t remembered to have hoard him say that he felt bet ter during thoso months than over bol'oro or after. This vigor of body, combined with thc same iron deter mination as of old, did indeed work miracles, and this in spite of tho fnot that his indefatigable secretary, Maret, was long at the point of death.-"Lifo of Napoleon" in Cen tury. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature cf ^^/^^???^ - "('.tu tiilk. <'?.i mau?" ' Can sin ? Why. Ia>t su'iiiin-r tn rix1 moun tains sh- didn't even ht the echo have the la^t wind ! ' Severo Helmke. Constable, tbe fanions painter, our o pavea remarkable instance nf tbe sweet ness of his temper wt ich scarcely any thing conld ruffle. The story is told by Julian Charles Young, whoso nude bad witnessed its incident. Hu called on ?..(instable one day anti was received by him in his front room. 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 ho found that one of his little boys, in his ab sence, bad dashed tho haudlu of the hearth broom through tho canvas and made so large a rent in it as to render 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, Constable took him on his knee and rebuked him in those unmeasured terms: "Oh, my dear pet! See what we havo donel Dear dear! What shall wa do to mond it? I can't think-canyon?" Pretty \ear Flesh. "An Italian pro la to 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 preaoh at the high mass on Sunday. His discourse was diversified by neolo gisms that kept our attention alive, if they sometimes disordered our gravity, which finally collapsed under the propo sition: " 'There aro, my brethren, three ene mies against whom, all our long, we are bound to fight-the 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 to .cover the it |prem atu r e .wrinkles, their sunkencheeks, their unnealthy complexion, from the eyes of the world with the veil of the Orient. Bradfield 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. Drureiftsscn lt for $ i a bottle. Send for our free illustrated book for-women. The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. Assessment Notice. AUDITOR'S OFFICE, AND?KSON, t?. C. THIS OPrFE WILL BK OPEN T > K CEIVE RK UKNd ? F PrR &O^AL PK ?PE \TY ior taxation for . hu next OM'MI y fur front ?he first, day ot January, 1809. to the 20th ol February lol lo wi nu, 'uclUH'Ve. Ad iran tersol KE.\L ESTATE made Since la.it year's assessment munt be i-arefullv noted . n the return-the uum ber ot ai*r?*H bought or sold aud from whiiiu acquired or to whom sold. Dnrier the new ?sseeeinic la?s the township assessors are required to make Tux Returns tor all thone that 'ail io make their own returns within the time prescribed by law, and hence thedifficul ty ot delinquents escaping tbe penalty ot the IH .. EX CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS over ?o vears ot age ?re exempt from POLL TAX. A. 1 other male? h-tween U?H atc** o 21 H"d 60 yearn, EXChPT HO E l^C PABLE OF EARNING A SUPPORT P?OM BEING MAIMED OR FrvUM ANY OTHEK CAUSE, shall be deemed t xaole polis. For the couveuience of taxpayers we will also bave deputies tn take returns at the following times sud places: Holland, Tuesday, January 10. Mi If-titMville, Wednesday, January ll. Iva, Thursday, January 12. Moseley, Friday, January 13. Bxvlio McConnell's, Saturday, Janu ary 14. Sm r, Monday, J-tnuary 18. Moreviile, Tues-'ay, January 17. Oiicikhcalea' Mill, Wednesday, .Janu ary 18 nylon, Thursday, January 19. Hilltop's Branch, Fridav, Jan uar v 20. Five Forks, rtinrsday, January 19 Ailinn, Moudav, latinar* 2'} Wyatt's -?tore M mriay, .1 lunary 23. C'eOar Wreath, Tiiesriai, January 21. v\ luiiiKtotj's S ore, Wednesday, Jauu ar? 2j Eqn-lity, Thursday, January 2>?. fen.il i-.n, H'rtiiav, January 27. Townvill , Friday, J?unary 27. TuaaloM, Saturday, Jauuar> 28. ?f.niea Pim. M nd ay aud Tuesday, J Hillary :<0and 31. BHIOII, WM uesday and Thursday, Fen nary I and 2. p>ed HOI t Friday and Saturday, Feb ru r\ 3 a' ri 4. Pelz r, M iiidav, Tuesday and Wednee da , Kein II ir\ ti, 7 nuil 8. WilliniiiMton. Ttiurnday and, Friday. Feiiri;ar\ 9 arid 10. G. N. C. BOL EM AN. Dec. 14, 1S!K Auditor A. C W. G. McGEE, SURCEON DENTIST. OFFK'K- root R torr, over V??neri . mt Me client? Bank ANI>KH8v>N, fc. C. . '. jw* 81 _ Notice to Creditors. ALL persons bavtmr demands aenlrst m.. n.stHt- o'' Fur er R.0-l?orn,dee'd H> l?ere??> iiotilind tn oies^nrth^m nroperl: proven, to tn? und rsijfiicd, wiffdo III* rime preeen'ted hv law. and those ln dehted '.. '" ik" OH? n?? oj J. <i i (INNINGHAM, Adm'r. J4ti 4, 1899 28 S i 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 3% actual Potash will insure the largest yield. We will send Free, upon application, pamphlets that will interest every cottsfc planter in the South. OERJTAN KALI WORKS, 03 Nassau St.. New Yflfffc? FOR ?Ace 2 SOME valuable Rivei F-?rtui Vito* ted ht Nurtu Gt?i>ic , n? t II'I-H: Farm N'l.T i)H>x" ni'?-* S ?nth ea t of Dalton, G?* r^ia, n Wm ti-io and Mur ray (Niun-i*??, u'nui ni..H 300 a-'nw, inora urina?. W~n ii mareil, II improve! and wanted; 100 aei??. . . tin? rivnr bot u?uj laud ol**ait>o, a-.o 50 -t up land? A!?<., A ri e hiMie v <. KIM 'Virir?,. tho <??.?.! e -??lita Hiver riiitt.u a 'hr.nj gh it. RIMIUI.V d* H lime--, ?ii.?i , Tnereis ttlno a ti'iM ahna' t??r u en i..< v. Farut JS<>. 2, iju?* 7 md?- h??tof Dd tou, Htxtritia, in ? r ? and Winifield <.<>ui>tiex, cuii'aiiiu-a 40O aer?*, more or leHH, one K"<xl i1**H>|ii?a, IM?M?N tour com fortable, muant !.. ?.?.??->, UI.H Htortt-bnuflB a> d t*h??pa, at) .ei 75 ie i? . f iv r but tom edaared ami 7-*? <>. upi-.nd in .tine state ol cu t.v-tti. in*? remainder ?no Um ne ed, ? oime-Miiita Mv*?r ruuning :bmu>jb ?he tarn ; HUM?, ?W<> daily mails from l'altot. it. .-pm it Pi ?H. ?ojraltty health \, wiitnu 8 unie? ol C'djuttab Fort M ii tam-. Farm N<? 3 eiuhi m IHN Ka-t of Dllton, Iv it'? "ii tun ..ime?auui4 hiver, < ou ta in inti 160 aerni-125 a-ret, III ru liv?l.oil, 109 acre? hue boltinn tn** remainder rolling^ with a <*oujturtablH dwelling-, bara*, Ac, alticbed. Farm N'?. 4, oimtatidiiti 200 a^re* of no land, fair ii?pP?v*?int?tit'o, *ell watered and fine timber, 50 ae ?n e't-and, lying 2 miles rumth ol ri,?r?itg Plai*e, Murray County, Gt^-n?H. I havH a'8<> OOH 30 h??r?w Euiineand B liier, C ii toil Hui and ?'res-., iirint Mill, Flauer mid Matcher. wit??aM ihn ti xi* u ree, totuated in the lown nt Spring Piace, .Murray C"iint\, lorenie. Terms will b?? male ea y. Apoly at thia office, or wrim i?? J. WT. LANGSTON, A . z', Vlurrai .''.'luiv, Gn->r??.a. Jan ll, 189?_20 _ THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COCNTY ">P ?VOKKSON. COt'RT i?F i ?.>!*!<?\ PLU4S. W. M VVehhand R ' Weht?, tm i en tu trade at *.iiders-.n,S . under iii. F'riu na ofW'bk & Webb H<im tK n.ais F M Mti',.b-.a? Trustee lor ttieci ?lil en . I F M Murphy 8r. decei.ae , Lucilia M MU*' hy. . i ?mise' Mui* ohy, Ireni' . aKr, tor mit Mu phy ) Kv* Mur phy ? latid.? Mifonv. i'ar-hce M .r hy and Lmia Mu piy, Minor-uv rt e ge .x f ur teen yian?, Off udants-ru u.uui? for tte i-f-Oom pl. i ut Served T? 'he Defendant* F M. Murphy, aa T uat? e of the child re of F M Alu elis ?e-ii.ir, decea-ed, L M.Mu-phy,?' tnt .Iff Mmphy. . r.me i later, (fr eny Mm by,) Eva Miiiet.y, aun Cauda Murphy. Clarens Mur,.ny a .rt ?Mala Murphy i niants oi'er ibe age i.t mu. rru .ear : YOU ar? Density au m moued aud i equi red to an swer thei.'Ou plain- tu 'hie action, of which ac-.py i* beiewitb beived--pon o^i,and to-eerro a copy of your aoxwei t.? iii? ^aid ''nropi int OB the subscribers al their orfiee, Ande ?ou Cooli Uonee, South ? aroliua wltliib twenty days after the service herein, exclusive <>f the day of such service; and if you fal* to auowei the ' omplaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaiutiffa in tba action will apply *<> the ?'ouri for ?be relief de mauded in 'hp romplai'U Dated Anderson, ', Jinuary ll, 1889. BON H A u & W \T?I-S, Plainti?V Attorney, [SEAL ] JOKS C. WATKI - S, c CC P. 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