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THE TROUT AND THE RING. The tale I. sing is a song: of spring And is true beyond a doubt, The players are Miss Clara Carr, Myself. Uncle Jess and a trout. .Twas Clara's wi9h to take a fish From thc bridge across the brook, So I rigged her a line, botii strong and fine, ' And baited her Limerick hook. With a spring and a snap a speckled old chap Snatched the bait and made the line sing; I gave a shout at the sight of the trout, And G'h.ra dropped her ring. We searched fot days, in many ways. We raked and dragged and sounded; "VTe sifted ooze, but 'twas no use In short, ?re never found it. Many a trout was taken out Ot the pool, where the stream was crossed, And opened with care, but no ring was there, And we gave it up for lost. ".Twas a year, I guess, when Uncle Jess Caught a big trout on the fly; lt was plump and round and weighed a pound, And he brought it home to fry. His eyes shone bright as he told that night Of the ring lost a year ago, On the very spot where his trout was got. And never found, high nor low. **Xow, what do you think?" asked he, with a wink. .Til-bet you never could guess What was in that trout" "The ring!" they shoot! "Nothiu but ir.'ards," said Jess. \ -Forest and Stream. , * : j Tie Turee Visitations, t -4 -""- *> J*y Aucuste Vit?. i A Solder's Friendship That Lasted \ < * Beyond the Grave. ?> :* ' *} . In the month of August, 1845, a col umn of French soldiers, composed of African chasseurs, spahis and a few battalions of infantry, crossed? the beautiful valley filled with orange trees and agaves that lies at the foot of Djebel-Ammer, one of the principal chains ol' the Atlas. As the troops gradually drew near co Djebel-Ammer the soil, hitherto rich and carpeted with vegetation, grew sandy and barren. The orange trees were replaced by horrible cactuses and lentisks. To right and left rose masses of black and blue rocks, like monstrous Japanese vases, whence sprung huge cactuses, with leaves as jagged as the claws of some giant crab. The dry heath shuddered In the breeze, giving forth an uncanny crackling. The pale ' rays from the rising stars cast the shadows of men and horses in long, dim silhouettes. Jackals were howling far away; great birds whirled through the air, uttering piercing cries. You could hear the horses plunging heavily through the sandi soaked by a recent rain. From time to time you caught a sharp click-a rifle being cocked be cause a big bunch of grass had moved or because a stone had rolled down a bank. Naturally enough, since in Africa ' behind every tumbung stone, every rustling bough, an enemy is ambushed. The courageous officer in command, General Etienne Vergamier, was a man in Ms prime-not much beyond 40. With his imposing stature, his broad .shoulders, his 'gentle eyes, his open brow and winning smile, he could have served as a model for a northern hero, a son of Osslan and of Fingal, who might fight and die chanting a heroic strain. Major Bafiis, his com panion, was a cold, methodical man, but withal, a man of great intelligence and wide scholarship. Verganier had spurred his horse to a trot and kept silence for a time. The major respected his reverie; but finally yielding tv the curiosity' that his inti mate acquaintance with the general warranted he began: '.We have a long ride ahead of us, the road is growing more and more stony, we'll have to check our pace more and more. General, tell me about the event that you referred to a few moments back. Isn't it just the hour for ghost stories?' "Whatf?j the good, major? You won't believe me." "I believe in all sensations. I may merely take the liberty of discussing the principles you base yours on." "You are going to thrust your phys iologist's scalpel into my heart's most secret chamber. Yet, although it Is an effort., I wjll yield to your request I beg of you, don't laugh. All that I am about to relate is serious." The general began: At 20 I left St Cyr along with my best friend, Georges de Mancel, a charming fellow-fair, pale, slight, as dreamy as a poet, as strong, as a Kabyle, as brave as a lion." We had known each other from the first at St Cyr. In the midst of the brutal quar rels renewed daily by barbarous tra ditions he had often taken my defense and had stood up for me as I did for him. We were sincerely attached to each other and bitterly regretted the coming separation made necessary by our entrance into the service. But we were luckier than we had hoped, for we met again at the capture of the Fort Empereur, both of us en signs, full of hope and reveling in the war. A few days later Algiers fell un der our assault Georges was one of the first to enter the city. I saw him drop, struck by a bullet in the left breast I raised him and carried him on my shoulders to a little house deserted at the first cannonade. I laid him down in a woman's bedroom-cool, scented, voluptuous. The bed was not made. I placed my poor Georges in it and stanched the blood as best I could. It was hopeless; the agony began. Weak ened by the loss of blood, he could hardly raise his head to look at mo once more; he held one of my hands in bis and premised It convulsively when the pain became unbearable. Yet at in tervals he had a few moments' respite. "Etienne," he said to me, "I am dy ing very young, and I regret life, for with your friendship it was sweet to nie. We are about to part, but who knows whether it is forever! No one can say what awaits us beyond the tomb-perhaps further suffering, per haps happiness or nothingness. But if my soul is immortal, if it retains in un known regions the affections and mem ories th&t filled it during its sojourn on earth, God be praised! And if it be true that we shall see once more those whom we have loved tenderly, be sure, my good Etienne, be sure that I will come back to you. Some evening in spring, I hope! I feel death is easier, and yet I am suffering tortures. But ?ny poor mother said to me when sho was dying, "i will come DUCK.: A she did come back to mo last nigh she smiled to me. Her eyes aro f of tears now. Etienne, goodby." sigh and he was gone. 1 will not paint my grief to you; was terrible. And when Georges w buried in the midst of the beating drums anti the shouts of victory, wept bitter tears, for I felt that r. youth was lying in the coffin by r friend's side. Georges' strange fai well had impressed me-profoundly. . night hideous visions haunted n sleep. For six months I was as nervo as a woman, and, if you will belie me, major, I was positively afraid be alone in the dark. But one year, two years passe Georges' memory, indelibly graven < my heart, yielded, without becomii effaced, to the preoccupations of tl war to my anxieties about my futui My puerile fears, a positive diseas vanished. Yes, the more I look ba< the surer I am of it. I had quite b ? come myself once more, my mind ai brain were clear, when the event I a about to tell you of struck me wli stupor. 1 had just been made capta en second. After rough and, I may add, glorioi campaigns, I returned with my reg ment to Algiers. Young, impetuou with ardent, almost virginal, sense rich with the gold of our first captur I flung myself headlong Into the mid.1 of all the pleasures of garrison life day, evening, night, all were one lou orgy. I gambled madly, franticall; as one does at the first go. I won s the outset, and then suddenly my lue turned. One night in a cafe of Bal Azoun street I lost 14,000 francs-a my own private funds, as well as m share of the booty money. The sui was a large one, and its loss was con merited upon in Algiers. Toward 10 o'clock in the morning was requested to call upon the colone Pale and restless, hardly knowing whj I entered the colonel's room. I fonn him paler and more nervous than myself. "Captain," he begab, in a deep, di spairing voice, "my regiment's stron box was broken into this morning Fourteen thousand francs were taken 14,000 francs, do you hear, sir?" Ant the old officer stepped toward me, wltl his arms crossed and his eyes lowerin; under their bushy brows. I felt rn; temples thumping and my head split ting. I drew back with a cry of in dignntion. "Here is a handkerchie lost by the thief ard found under th? -treasurer's chair. Look, sir, lt is mark ed with your initials, 'E, V.' " I tool the handkerchief mechanically. It wai mine without a doubt My knee; quaked, tears sprang to my eyes, I could not speak. "And now, sir," th< colonel wound up, "go and blow youl brains out." 1 left the room without a word, ai crushed, as abject as if I bad been thc thief. 1 did not try to justify mysel) nor to claim an investigation. No! ) went back to tlje officers' cramped quarters, 1 took a loaded pistol out ol my saddle case, 1 cocked it. At this point 1 stopped. Thick sobs choked me. I had a rapid vision of my happj childhood, my first martial exploits my mother and Georges-Georges above all! "To die!" I murmured. "Tc die dishonored!" "You inust not die,'1 said a sonorous, vibrating voice, metal lic and yet soft with nothing human about it The pistol dropped from my fingers. Georges was standing before me. His eyes were fixed. They glow ed with an unknown light illuminating his face, as white and translucent as alabaster.) Explain this, major. As I tell you this terrible occurrence 1 feel my hair standing on end, my teeth chatter, my voice shakes, whereas in Georges' pres ence 1 experienced only serene joy, ideal calm, unalloyed happiness. My youth, my fair dreams of love and of glory surrounded me in all their radi ance. Only the moment before crushed under the weight of an Inconceivable fatality, 1 now felt myself under pow erful, almost divine, protection. Shall 1 say more? Georges' presence did not astonish me. 1 accepted it as a simple, natural fact We talked like brothers, like friends long separated. "Etienne, what were you about to do?" he asked me gently. "My poor boy! I've come to save, you. Your servant is the offender. He stole the 14,000 francs, as he stole the handker chief found by the colonel. You have trusted the fellow. He used to be hon est. But he has a mistress, a Moorish girl who sells her favors high. It was for her that he took the money. Two thousand francs will be found in his mattress and 12,000 on the girl's person. Hurry to the colonel. I have told you what I had to say. Goodby." Georges vanished, and 1 found myself alone. The sentiment of reality came back to me. I dashed my head against the window panes. The glass, splintering, cut my brow and made the blood flow. In the courtyard, between the daz zling, whitewashed walls, below the torrid sky, luminously blue, soldiers were nonchalantly smoking. The white minarets of the Casbah rose above the peaceful, silent scene. Far in the dis tance the waters of the blue Mediter ranean glittered like gems. I was ac tually alive; I was not dreaming! And all this impossible hallucination, this phantasmagoria was the truth. Ter ror seized me-mad, implacable, de vouring terror. Icy shivers ran down ?y ?pine to my heels. My fingers dug their nails into my palm. From that day I counted my first gray hairs. Events justified all that the speeler had revealed to me. The criminal ad mitted his guilt, and the money was recovered. My noble colonel, heart broken at his unfounded suspicions, was almost ready to follow the advice he had given me. The officers of the squadron came in a body to make me a visit of affectionate condolence. A few days later, at the colonel's solicita tion, I was named chevalier of the Legion of Honor. The reparation wes complete. The major seemed in a reverie. "You don't believe me. mon ami? I, too, have caught myself doubting the evidences. I saw Georges, I am sure of lt, and I don't believe it any more than you do. Yet, major, it must bs so, or I am out of my mind." "Has the apparition ever beeu re peated?" questioned tho mnjor, singu larly struck by the tale. "Yes, I saw Georges a second time," replied the general somberly. "I saw him the night before I killed Com mander Bernard de Ris in a duel. That evening, just back from drill, urea ana in low spirits, i mfeuiy cu tered my room, lighted only by a great fire of dried branches. Georges was sitting in my big leather armchair. Ile rose gravely and impressively. 'I was waiting for you,' be said. 'You are go ing to fight tomorrow with Command er Bernard de Bis, who is a blade. You neglect practice too much.' Georges leaned against the wall, and I saw that he bad a sword in bis band. I took down a foil and fell into position. 'Look out,' said Georges. 'I am going to give you what Grisier used to cali so gallantly a lesson in dueling. Tiens, here is dn irresistible thrust. Engage your sword, bring back the left foot while you toy with your adversary's blade. One, two, forward! Good! But you didn't lunge enough.' "A pale smile flitted over Georges' lips. We started afresh, and this time I lunged so violently that my sword snapped against the wall. It had passed clean through Georges* body. But, strangely, or rather naturally enough, my foil had encountered no resistance. 'Bien!' cried Georges. 'A keen eye, a steady wrist, a cool brain, and you will have him.' "'Georges/ 1 cried reproachfully, 'you are going to leave me! What is there up there that keeps you away from me?' Georges shook his head, and I cried out passionately, 'Will you come back soon?' "*I will come back only once more, Etienne, and then we will go away to gether,' and the vision vanished like a bubble. "I have ali my wits about me," the general went on, with increased ex altation, "but I am sure of what 1 tell you. I, Verga mi er, took a lesson with a ghost, and the next day I killed my mani Major, that's a long time ago. I am waiting for Georges' third visit." Banis could not conceal a nervous movement; the general's feverish state alarmed him. "Voyons, General Etienne; be yourself again. You've been telling me dreams strange fancies. Pray don't lay any more stress on them. You need calm, sang froid." "Major," returned the general, a prey to deep depression, "lt is a long while since I saw Georges." The whole troop had struck to tho left to avoid the torrentlike wady that bordered the plain. General Yergamler, shivering under his caban, broke si lence only to give an officer a few brief orders. At daybreak fires were made out on the sides of Djebel-Ammer. These fires showed the bivouac of the first scouting column that Yergamler had orders to join. The junction was quickly effected and arms were stack ed. The little army was encamped on the mountain's flank. At its foot streamed a vast plain covered with rich grain fields cut by narrow irrigating ditches fed from the neighboring wady. On the other side of the mountain rose a large Arab village, whose Irregular houses, built in a zigzag line, seemed to be tumbling down .the valley, for on that side, too, ran a triple belt of golden millet and corn fields. Huge bowlders of trachytlc porphyry, blue, black and white, hung over in toppling masses as If ready to falk A dense forest of cypress, figs and giant tur pentine trees crowned the summit General Vergamier had dismounted, and, after having turned his horse over to a chasseur, it had pleased his fancy to ascend the Djebel by a steep path that called for a keen eye and an agile foot. Lost in thought Vergamier did not observe that on his right stood per pendicular rocks rising like a wall be tween him and his troops, but went on climbing, leaning on his sword. At last he reached a great plateau covered with vegetable mold, the edge of the Ammer forest Nothing more melan choly, more imposing can be imagined than the dense masses of dark green, gray trunked cypresses. Vergamier plunged with a hasty step into the black stillness. The ground was strewn with fragments of sharp feldspar, thc debris of rocks ground into pieces in some primeval cyclone. His boots were soon cut through as cleanly as by a 1 razor. But Vergamier seemed to have grown insensible to physical pain. Fi nally he halted near a torrent vomited from the top of a tremendously high cliff and drank a swallow of water from his hollowed palm. Then he sat down on a mossy root and fell into deep meditation. As if this were a solemn momen tous epoch in his lifo, he called up all his past He saw once again the white plains of his native Champagne and St Cyr, with its cloisterlike streets; Sidi-Ferruch and his feat of arms; then Paris, wrapped in its blue mist, giant Paris, illuminated Paris, and the Tuileries, where his valor had been recognized and rewarded, and the Palais Bourbon, where enthusiastic ap plause had greeted his entrance, ami the little Nanteuil drawing room, tnt poet surrounded by an artistic luxury in a gentle atmosphere of home, al those that he had loved, and Georges. He suddenly raised his head. Abo V? him naught but a rock wall a hundred fathoms high and spirals of blacli trees, no sky. By bis side, standing near a cypress, a mau. "Georges!" he cried and hid his heat in his hands. Toward 8 o'clock Major Banis, alarm ed at the general's prolonged absence had a battue made by a number ol spahls. At noon Veigamier's body mutilated by a horrible fall, was fourni at the bottom of a deep ravine. Th( soldiers thought that their general had been killed by some ambushed Aral and then thrown over the precipice. Major Banis alone knew that Etienne Vergamier had received (Jeorges' third visit-Translated From the French For Argonaut. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of - "Mamma," said a little girl, thc other Sunday, "why does our minister always say 'lastly* in the middle of a sermon?" - mm m, m-? - - A silver fox skin was sold in London recently for $17541 at an auc tion. This is the highest price on record. EASTERN SHORE DIALECT. Queer ExuresH?on* In Common U?e Among Native? of Maryland. Hore ou the eastern shore, which from its opportunities should bc one of the most enlightened instead of most benighted regions of t?e country, a teacher in the public schools or a minister of the gospel, no less than any member of the common herd, would never fail in telling of his Jack of luck in fishing to say, "I was gone all day and never caught either fish," or on meeting with similar want of success in hunting would declare he "saw plenty of rabbits, but never got either ono." Among these people there are no early vegetables or fruit grown, but "forward" potatoes, cabbage, corn, strawberries, etc., are quite common. I have even heard the remark, "The forward bird catches the worm." Here mils are not used in constructing the old fashioned worm fence, only fence "logs," although they be split as Lin coln made them Sn his "forward" days. What are called sawlogs in other ?tate? are "chunks" here, regardless of length and size. One never sees a corncrib hereabout, but "cornstalks" (buildings in which maize is stored at gathering time) are found on every farm. There are no barnyards or sta ble lots either. All such things are given the name of "pound." The universal misuse of the word "head" is ridiculous, if not ludicrous. A man has five or six or ten "head" of children or visitors on a Sunday, but he never applies the word head to his stock. Our congressman, who operates a large mill here, if asked how many hands he employs would tell you so many or about so many "head." Re cently a news item in one of the coun ty papers was headlined, "Big Revival In Progress-Four Head Baptized." Quite as general, as well among the white as among the colored portion of i the population, is the use of "d" for "th" in the words the, this, that, they and them. The prepositions "In" and "into" are basely mistreated, the first by neglect, the other by overworking it. Nobody has money invested "In" stocks, land, merchandise and thc like, but always "into" them. Ask a man what his farm or horse is worth and he'll answer by telling you what amount of money he has invested "into" it. One never has a hole in his trousers or a dollar "in" his pocket, but "into" them or it I heard a lady teacher say she had lost her Portemon naie. "But, thank fortune," she add ed, "there wasn't a penny into it." People never haul anything here, but carry it A man carries his wife or family to church, his wood or crops to the railroad station or boat landing, his cattle to pasture or his chunks to the steam mill, never sawmill. What ever he takes into his arms or on his shoulder to convey from one place to another, he totes, instead of carries. There are no buggies or phaetons here, every vehicle used exclusively to ride in being a carriage, if it has more than two wheels. The land is of two kinds, hard and kind. Hard land Is chiefly clay and kind land ir os t ly sand. The land is never broke when plowed, but flushed, never harrowed, but drug to make the surface fine. Crops when tilled with a cultivator are harrowed, and a cultivator is known here only as a harrow, while a harrow is called a drag. Team:;, except when attached to car riages, are driven without reins or lines. The driver, whether walking or riding, directs his team by his word of mouth, supplemented with a long lash ed whip. When he wants his team horses, mules or oxen-to go or turn to the right, he hall?os "gee-a." If he wants a short turn to the left he yells "petty wo," but If only a slight diversion In that direction he ejaculates "ha-ther" (pronounced like "father") in a sub dued tone. To stop his team he yells "wo-back," loud enough to stop a train, and the team usually halts with in a space of ten rods. The familiar "gee," "haw," "ho" or "whoa" of our Ohio boyhood days is not heard in this country, and the use of a single line on the leader of a team is un known. No odds hov.' wicked the natives may be in this part of the moral vineyard, none is so abandoned as to usc thc word hello. They consider it shocking profanity, worse Indeed than down right "cussin." Heigh-ho is the word they enjoy instead.-John A. Geetlng in Indiana School Journal. Growls*. The New York Times calls the atten tion of growing girls and boys to the fact that while they are growing they are forming their figures for life. Drooping the shoulders a little, droop ing tho head as one walks, standing unevenly, so that one hip sinks more than the other, do not tend to form a straight figure or a graceful, easy carriage. Au easy way to practice walking well ls to start out right. Just before you leave the house walk up to the wall and see that your toes, chest and nose touch lt at once, then in that at titude walk away. Keep your head up and your chest out, and your shoul ders and back will take care of them selves. A southern school teacher used to in struct her pupils to walk always as if trying to look over the top of an im aginary carriage just in front of them. It was good advice, for it kept the head well raised. A Stupid Barber. , Customer (as journeyman barber' leaves the shop)-What did you dis-; charge him for? ! Barber-Why, he ain't got no more, sense than a stone wall! One of my I customers left a pair of razors here to I l>e sharpened, and that Ignorant chump J actually went and sharpened them so{ that the man could shave with them.-, Berlin (Md.> Herald. ! ^ ? m - - The fly lays four times each summer, and 80 eggs each time. - Bella M. Hughes, of Atchison, Kan., recently celebrated the 50th an niversary of her second marriage. - A Louisville judge has ruled that if a woman wears a man's hat she must take it oft' wltcn she comes into his court. - ,;Yes," he said, ''when I was young I was eagerly sought after." "What reward was offered?" asked the sweet girl. TITO Chance Meetings. In lSt/4 two travelers Biet at the en trance to Jerusalem- a dignified Eng lishman and a genial young American missionary. They were strangers to each other and informally entered into conversation. Passing the wall which surrounds the hallowed spot, the Amer ican flung himself from his donkey and, snatching some leaves, said, with a glowing face: "See! I have found some sacred hys sop." "Sorry to undeceive you," said thc imperturbable Englishman, "but that is merely our old fashioned chick weed." In another hour they parted, good naturedly and, as tuey had met, stran gers. Early in April, 1899, two men stood side by side gazing into the crypt where lies the body of General Grant. Neither had noticed the other until the Incidental remark of one, "Undoubt edly a great man!" uttered in tones of unmistakable sincerity, caused the oth er to raise his head. A look of mutual recognition was the result. "Well, well! Old hyssop-on-the-wall," said the speaker. "Say, friend," said the missionary, "I arrived in New York from Japan last night There's $1,000 on deposit for me in the-bank, but not a soul here knows me, and I need the money. Will you identify me?" "Of course I will," said the English man heartily, "and be glad to do lt What's your name?"-New Voice. A Clever Fraud. A peculiar case of fraud was that of a young woman who flied a claim for damages against the Providence rail road some time ago. In her declara tion she alleged that she had been thrown down by a banana peel while leaving a car at the Park street sta tion, and, striking her back against the arm of one of the seats, bad suffered a serious injury to her spine. She was examined by a physician, and he re ported that it appeared as if her lower limbs were paralyzed. The incident coming to the attention of a western road, its legal adviser wrote to the management of the Provi dence division for a description of the claimant, and he learned that it tallied exactly with a woman who had made a similar claim against the company, the circumstances being the same in both cases. This led to an investiga tion, and the fact was developed that the trick had been played successfully on no less than half a dozen trans portation companies. A. part of the game was for the sup posed injured person to soak her limbs in ice water just before the doctor called. This deadened the sensation when they were pricked with needles, the inference being that ?be had been partially paralyzed by the fall. The chief actor in this bit of sharp practice had an elderly woman for a confeder ate, who posed as her mother. Its Leaves Turned White. Much interest has been caused lately by the appearance of a. horse chestnut tree in the Thiergarten, says a Berlin dispatch. The numerous branches round the lower part of the trunk have a pure white foliage, such as is seen on trees growing in dark places, where no chlorophyll can develop on account of want of light The same whiteness of the leaves is also noticeable in a few of the neighboring branches through the crown to the top. The singular appearance of the tree has been noticed regularly for some years. This particular tree, it seems, had been attacked by a swarm of cater pillars and other creatures of the same species, and the foliage had already been destroyed, but still masses of caterpillars continued to crawl up and down the trunk and finally clung there in clumps. To preserve the beautiful tree, after other means had been tried in vain, a solution of acid was used, and the ground all round wa3 water ed with it, as well as the trunk and the branches, which were especially drenched. This treatment proved suc cessful. The tree gradually recover ed and now stands in its full strength and freshness, but has ever since shown the already described whiteness in its leaves, which presents a by no means unpleasant contrast io the oth erwise dark green foliage. Club Membership. lu fact, not one-half of the members of the average club spend 24 hours of any year in its quarters. There are thousands who belong to clubs they have never seen, and the definition of the club as an institution supported by 600 for the comfort of six is untrue only in its exaggeration. A gratifying result of tho extravagance of club Joining is the reaction, so that the man who gauges his importance by the number of clubs be belongs to is no longer a social lion, but is apt to be set down as a cad-Philadelphia Times. Remembered Only Too Welt "Not long ago," says the Ole vela ud Plain Dealer, "the pastor dined with the family, and Master Tommy waa at the table. He behaved pretty well un til the cake was brought in. Then he suddenly lurched forward and snatch ed the piece he sized up as the biggest., " 'Why, Tommy,' cried the distressed1 mother, 'you are forgetting that Dr. Choker is here!' i "The boy gave the worthy pastor a vrithering look. " 'Naw, I ain't forgettin it,' he snarl ed; 'if he wasn't here, I'd git two pieces!' " - - - - Some folks are unable to realize the utter worthless of earthly things until they try to pawn them._ ?---^-? Notice to Creditors. ALL persons having demands against the Estate of 8amuel P. McConnell, Sr., deceased, are hereby notified to present them, properlv proven, to the under signed, within" the time prescribed by law, and thone indebted to make pay ment. MARTHA c. MCCONNELL. MARTHA E. MCCONNELL, Executrixes. Septr>, ISP!?_ll_3a Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned, Administrator of the Estate of Martin Rurriss, deceased, hereby gives notice that he will on the 7th day of October, 1891?, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County, M. C., for a Fiual Settlement of said Es tate, and a discharge from his once as Administrator. JAMES BURK ISS, Adra'r. Sept?, lb9i? ll 5 Ttvo Smooth Girl*. "Say," remarked the drummer, "I've seen some pretty good games worked and don't deny having been the victim once in awhile, but one night as I was coming up from Ohio on the boat with another young man I was made an easy mark. We had been talking with two young ladies we'd just met, when one spoke of her hair being in dis order and bemoaned her fate in not having a comb. I suggested that she take the key to my stateroom and use my comb. She was delighted, and, with her other lady companion, both girls retired to our stateroom. "My friend and I waited patiently for their return, and nearly an hour passed. I was getting nervous, and we went to our stateroom door and knock ed. All we could hear was some gig gling, and we could not get an answer. We waited another hour and then another, and finally decided to get an other stateroom. We proceeded to lo cate the clerk, and you eau guess how we felt when we found out that every thing, even to the lounges in the par lors, was occupied. My friend anil I felt downcast Finally a bright idea struck me. "'What's the matter,' said 1, 'with asking for the use of the girls' own stateroom? They have ours.' "My friend was delighted with the idea. We went to the clerk and told him our story, describing the girls. " 'Sorry, old man.' he said, 'but those girls were unable to get a stateroom, although they tried bard.' "We slept on the (leek."-Detroit Free Press?. No Idle HoaHt. Bilkins-Smythe tries to make peo pie believe that he belongs to the "up per crust." Wilkins-Well. 1 should think he did belong to the "upper crust." Bilkins-In what way does he show lt? Wilkins-Always short and easily broke.-Brooklyn Life. j Every $ Month f there are thousands of wo- f ? men who nearly suffer death f ? from irregular menses. Some- A \ times the "period" comes too J f often - sometimes not often f ? enough-sometimes the flow is ? ? too scant, and again it is too ? \ profuse. Each symptom shows J f that Nature needs help, and f f that there is trouble in the or- f ? gans concerned. Be careful 1 \ when in any of the above con- \ v ditions. Don't take any and f ? every nostrum advertised to ? ? cure female troubles. ?) \ BRADFIELD^ \ \ FEMALE REGULATOR \ ^ is the one safe and sure ? A medicine for irregular or pain- A ; \ ful menstruation. It cures all \ f the ailments that are caused by f ? irregularity, such as Jeucor- ? A rhoea, falling of the womb, \ \ nervousness; pains in the head, \ 0 back, breasts, shoulders, sides, (' ? hips and limbs. By regulating A the menses so that they occur a \ every twenty-eighth day, eVi \ 9 those aches disappear together, f ? Just before your time comes, ? A get a bottle and see how much J \ good it will do you. Druggists J ? sell it f ? 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To the Defendants Mrs. Texie Anna Sterling and Mrs. Cora Ligon : YOU are hereby summoned and required to an swer the Complaint in this action, of which, a copy is herewith served opon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint oe the subscribers at tbeir office, Anderson Court House, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you (all to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in thin action will,apply to the Court for the relief d? manded in'the Complaint. Dated Anderson, 8. C , August 19, A D., 1899. . BONHAM A WATKIfiS, Plaintiff's Attorney. [Saar. ] JOHX C. WATKIBS, c. c. c. p. To the absent Defendant, Mrs. Ttxie Aona Ster ling: You wiil take notice that the Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of said County on the 19th day of August, 1899. BONHAM A. WATKINS, Pial nti fl'3 Attorneys. August 30,1899 10 6 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ANDERSON. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. James A. Watt, Plaintiff, against R I. Stewart, E H. Simpson and A. C. Townsend, Defendants. --Summons for Belief-Complain.' Served, To the D*fendants E. I. Stewart, E U. Simpson, and A. C. Townsend : YOU are hereby summoned and required to an swer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served opon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers at i heir office, at Anderson C. H.. S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day ol such service ; and it' you fall to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Com plaint. Dated Anderson,S C, August 15,1893. BONHAM Jc WATKINS, Plaintiffs Attorneys. [SEAL] JOHN* C. WATKIKS, C. C. C. P. To the absent Defendant, R. I. 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