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MISS MUFFET ANO THE SPIDER. Little. Hiss. Kuffet discovered a tuflct (Which oe var occurred to the rest ol us), Aud, >&a "twas? June day and just about noonday, Sne wanted to cat-like thc best of us. Rec diet was whey, and I hast eu to say lt ia wholesome, and pcoplo grow fat on it; Voe; spot being lonely, the lady not only iKscovercd tho tu?et, but sat on it. A rivulet gabbled beside her and babbled. As~ rivulets always are thought to clo. .and dragon Sics sported around and cavorted, Aa poets Ray dragon Sics ought to do; Wjbgn-'glant?ing aside.foc?a moment, she spied ATSmbic sight that brought fear to her, A hideous spider waa sitting beside her And roost unavoidably near tr? her! However unsightly, this creature politely Said: "Madam, I earnestly vow to you i'm .penitent that I did not wear my hat. I Should otherwise certainly bow to you." Hough anxious to please, he was so iii at case That he lost sil Iiis K?03C of propriety Acd grc\r so inept that he clumsily stepped IQ her plate-which is barred in society. 'Jthw curious error completed her terror; She shuddered and, growing much paler, not ?oty lslt tmTet. but dealt him a buffet Which doubled him up ia a saiior knot. It should bc explained that at this he- was pained; He cried: "I have vexed you, no doubt of it! Your fis' like a truncheon." "You're still in m., ??mcheon." Was all that she answered; "get out ot itt" And the moral ia this: Ito it rcadnm or miss To whom you have something to say. You are only absurd when you get io the curd. But you're rude when you get in thc whey. -Uuy Wetmore Carry 1 in Sketch. ?OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0 S THE WREATH ? 1 OF VICTORY. ? o - c ? O o , By De ia Motte Fongce. o o o ? * - o ? A Ecmarkable Story of the Border ? ? Between tho Mortal and ? o ' InrniorteL a ?OOOOOOOODOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Late one evening an old knight made his way wearily down from a high peale of the Hara mountains Into the valley. His name was Leuthold. and he had formerly held sway over all that tract of country, but he had been driven, ont from bis possessions by the superior might of a rich barou, and the usurper now lived in the honored an cestral halls, for a glimpse of which the aged Leuthpid climbed the wooded heights by his cottage as long as they wore passable and gazed at the two ; tall towers ani?i the sun set. tfhen the old man went down again into tho val ley, where he was allowed to live un . molested, being considered harmless and powerless, for his only heir, a high spirited young fellow, the hero of many a battlefield, had fallen in de fense of hts father's hearth. On his way home the knight always passed a ?chapel which he had had erected in better days and where the body of the ' young lord, sleeping his honorable sleep, lay entombed. Thou the father would kneel befove the door of the lit tle building and say a Tater Noster for the soul of his dear Sigebald. Ile did so today also. Then he rose and looked longingly through the window, but be could not even se* the collin, for it stood in a niche ia th>; Wail behind the altar, and immediately after his son was laid to rest thc bereaved father, overcome by his grief, Had flung the key of the door inte the rjshing tor rent of the Bude. He rued it bitterly' now, for the poor man lacked money to have a new key made for the elabo rate lock; and so he had cut off himself and his good wife and bis niece. Dio- j twina, who had been Sigebald's betroth ed, from the precious remains of their dearest happiness. Never before had his longing been so great as ou this evening. He gazed at the door with passionate yearning. He almost be sought it to give way, and felt that it must perforce yield to his desire. But it stood firm and immovable before bim. It would scarcely allow the rust ed latch to be moved up and down suf ficiently to proye th? strength with which every part of the brazen clamp . did its duty. After the old man -had tried the door in vain tor awhile he turned away and went buck to his cot tage, shaking his head and with tears' in his eyes. He found his wife waiting for him with the frugal eveniug meal. "Where is Diotwina?" he asked. "She has gone to her room," replied the dame. "Today is the anniversary of her betrothal io Sigebald, which, as you know, she always spends in fast ing and solitude." The knight sighed deeply and was si lent a long time. At length he asked: "How much money have we got laid aside now f" "Not quite two gulden." "And the locksmith's price for a new key 1s" "Tbree gold gulden." Then the old man fell to sighing again and looked searchingly around the room. "No/* said the dame, "there is noth ing more to see here. There is only one thing. The locksmith would glad ly give us a couple of gulden for it." "You mean that!" exclaimed the old man, looking up'at his sword, which hung on the wall. His wife nodded in assent But he 5 amped up indignantly .md cried: "God forbid I ? shill do no more work j with the old blade in this world, it is i true, but it has earned the right to lie in J honor on my coffin. Sigebald himself, looking down from paradise, would [ scarce forgive me iT I parted with tile faithful old weapon." | The dame began ii-- weep behind her j wrinkled haut!, for she remembered >. how ber dead son had [Waved. :is :i ' beautiful, merry boy. with the old ? sword and lisped of future victories, i Then both the old people became si- j lent, put oct their light and went to ! bed. Toward midnight thc old knight ; heard strange sounds and eries ringing I through the valleys. From one of the ? ?heights a light like a great flame shone i through the window of the little roora, j He was about lt? get up to what H might be. but his wife said: "Lie still, husband. I have heard ir ? for a lour time and have be* n untying silently, lt is surely some unholy inarch of the Mad arr.... . "H'm!" said Leuthokl. "I ni vu often heard the Wild H tm ter rush past in .'nighty forest', but this is quito :t dif forent thing." "Then it miist be witeherafl of some sort," said his wife. "Who knows what j may lie happening upon the Brocken'; | I beg you to He ?fill and to i ?rb your 1 .nriesity." Tue old man yielded to lu's wlTe'i treaties, lay quiet .iud prayed so But after awhile he began again: "Wife, some oue is riding a h past our window just as our ble son used to ride." She trembled and urged bini i gentle voice to be still. But after ? tie the old man said again: "Did you not hear how some on? the mountain called out: 'Wt Charge?' lt came distinctly thro the storm. But shortly before Sigebald fell he gave just such a cr; "If you wish to kill me with fear anguish." said his wife, "or to rob of my reason, keep on with such wo It will take very little more." i So the old man held his peace kept his thoughts, which were m and strange, in his own breast. ' wonderful tumult ceased also or 1 lost in other valleys, and tow morning the old people fell asleep. The bright sunlight shone again o tho mountains, the dame was aire; seated at her distaff, and tho kui was going out rc? hoe and spade his tie patch at the door and said: "It is wonderful how the riddles : ghostly happenings of the uiglit. wi once they have forced themselves i a man's brain, refuse to go to r again. I dreamed until bright d light of the harvest festival as wc ll to celebrate it in happier days at < old home" "How strange!" interrupted clame. . "I also circa m od of it. 'i peasants came to the courtyard of i castle with shining scythes, their wi1 and daughters bearing their rakes, t with'many ribbons. The harvest ero shouc brilliantly in the blue of i bright summer day. and. alas! before walked my dear, dear boy us a you child; wouhd round and round witt chain of blue cornflowers, a bcauti; wreath like that of a bridegroom on I head and a great red flower on I breast. And i knew the red dov. weil." She bowed ber head, and the knig; to turn her thoughts from the dca wound of her only son, said: "The singing was the most wondi fui to rae. Even after I awoke I st heard the solemn hymu which t band had sung, and at this moment seem to hear it over the mountaii coming nearer and nearer down t wooded slope. Indeed, now that open the door, the sound seems come more plainly." The dame heard it also and rose speechless astonishment to step ot side the door, leaning on her husband arm. to look for the cause of the una customed noise, emboldeued by tl cheerful morning beams which gildt the trees and the dewy grass uudi them, but still more emboldened I the reverent character of the byra which came steadily/nearer, ?hawn and reed pipes mingled with the sin: lng. As the elderly couple stood at tl door they could see. through the trunl of thc beeches, a crowd of people wit gleaming scythes in their hands: som however, had also naked halberds an spears. . ? "Ah. heavens!" cried the dame. "1 is not yet harvest time. And why d 'they come thus, with song and rejoh ing? See how rod the morning su shines on their scythes." "H'm! There must have been a grav mowing somewhere," muttered th knight He knew the red on the bar steel far too well to take it, as did hi wife, for the reflection of the mornin, sun. Meanwhile the peasants had formo a semicircle around the venerable pah and out from their ranks, between th scythes and lances which they brand ished as they finished their song, step ped Diotwina with radiant face. Shi went up to the astonished couple an< said : "He who goes carly to prayer find: good fruit. Here at the edge of thi wood these heroes met me, and thej wish that you hear the tidings fron my Hps. They have reconquered youl castle. The country is free, the op pressor ia dead!" The old knight stared around hin as if he had again fallen into tin dreams of tho previous night. Then thc oldest of I he armed peasants approach ed. a venerable graybeard, like bis mas ter, and. taking the spade and hoc gently from his hand, he placed in their ste.id an ancient silver staff, in laid with gold, which Leuthold's fore father? had borne from time imm? morial and which had now been re captured with the other family relics. Then the circle of men raised a great shout of joy, repeating DIotwina's words, "The country is free. Thc op pressor is dead!" over and over and striking their weapons against one another so that they clanked jubilant ly. "It is all true," said the old peasant to the still incredulous pair. "Your brother's eon, Richard, has returned from the crusade, my liege, and hp,s brought these wonderful things to pass since yesterday evening, when he first showed himself here. He must have known how we all longed for our old rightful master, for he spoke to us so that v e felt compelled to take up scythe and spear for you as if it were a necessary act, which had long been decided upon, and even the hesitating ones among us believed that it could not be otherwise. Then the storm bells rang, the battle fires dared up on the mountains, wc assembled hastily and were as hastily organized in lighting array by the young champion and marvelously inspired by his speech; Wo swarmed up arixl down through thc valleys wherever the baron's re - tainers were u? be seen. Finally we stormed the castle, and the baron, in desperation, fell "it his sword. The young conqueror led us toward you until wi; had nearly reached here, then ho galloped liack lu Hu: castle to make ready for your reception. If you will be [?leased to let us eseori you thither, wc have with us three gentle, well ; broken horses from your own stables ! for you and our noble lady find i !..' i gracious damsel Diotwina." The ? i i noblojnau blessed Iiis brave, faithful people will? wide, outstretch ed arms. The horses were lcd forth. I i he* three were lifted into the saddles ; find the journey li? lin- castle was he- j gun amid great rejoicing. Tho old peasant walked beside ins master's horse and told of the night's battle and the marvelous feats of Rich ard. As Leuthold heard with ever increasing wonder and admiration tho (nany divers instances of his nephew's magnanimity, generalship and hero rsm, ms nome ouarc was so own iug with grateful enthusiasm tin cried out loudly, so that tho w hand heard: "Now by my knightly troth aud or, 1 swear that our brave deliv shall hn ve the most precious t! that I know upon this earth, and is my fair niece Diotwina! Sin hereby betrothed to him before and mau!" ile had stretched out bis right li toward heaven as if taking a soli oath. Tho procession halted in am mont nnd looked at the impetuous man. but his wife was deathly f and at length she said sadly: "Husband, husband, what have done? How eau this fatal rashi be found with bair so white? L around you and see where ive s? lender ls thc chapel within which only son sleeps, and you have just nulled Diotwina's solemn vow to and die thc pure betrothed of our S bald. Which oath shall now be brok Hers or yours V" Tho old night's head sank upon breast, and he sighed "It is ever tims! Heaven confers most precious gifts, and man in lus bridled delight uses them to his rul The whole i ?ami regarded their i tressed master sorrowfully. Thou otwina opened her lovely lips it smile like thai of an angel aud said: "Father and mother, do not gric i think our oaths are not so conflict as you imagine." Anti, tinning toward the i ki poa sa she continued: "How do you know ti?:it your leai of last night was Richard-?" "In God's name, gracious'lady. v. else could it be?" replied the old ra; "Ile wore thc colors of of.r mast? house, rind its arms were on his se. and shield. Even his speech ami mi uer and way of riding were like t io: " And he cried out the fara 112 a mighty battlecry every ti: that he charged the enemy's ran Indeed, he told us that we were fig ing under a shoot of tho true stoi Who. then, could It have been but ! Richard? Though, in truth, no o saw his features, for he kept his vii down." "Then let me tell what happened me last night," said Diotwina in clear voice, "and give careful heed what I say, for 1 speak the pure tru as a pure maiden should. I stood my window, and my tears fell upon beautiful myrtle bush which in form happy days I had intended for n bridal wreath. Now it had reached t fullness of its beauty, but the fea "which it should have graced was nev to bc. I was interrupted in this ai other like thoughts by a slight uoi outside the door of my room. I cou distinctly hear some one coming i the little stairway with soft, ligl steps, but With clanking spurs, and. ; father and mother had long since gol to bed. I was afraid. Then the doi was pushed half open aud an arm i: cased in steel was thrust inside ir room, holding a scarf which 1 had er broidcred for my betrothed and whic was laid in the coffin with him. Thc Sigcbald's voice said: " 'It is I. May I come in witboi frightening you to death?' "'In God's name!' I cried, tremblin with fear and hope. "Then the pale youth stepped siowl and gravely into the room, clad J armor, with raised visor. I knew tb dear features well, but yet I had nc the courage to gaze straight into hi helmet, so I do not know whether hi eyes were fixed and hollow, like thos of a corpse, or glowing with tende love, as they were In life. "'Do you still need the myrtle fo your marriage day V ho asked me kine ly. "I shook my head " 'Nevermore, truly?' "I shook my head again. " Then,' he begged coaxingly, gentl aud true hearted as he ever was ii life, 'weave me a wreath of victory o it. my dear little bride. For, see, it i permitted me to accomplish the worl of revenge and deliverance in this pale earthly form, and when it is again lah in its coffin it will take the wreath o victory with it.' ""I bound and bound deftly and twin ed all the blossoms into a beaut!fu wreath. My betrothed stood, sileut am patient, at the door. When I lind finish ed. he knelt before me. I set the wrcatl on his helmet, and he rose, saying: "'Do not be alarmed, dear love, ii you hear thc diu of battle in thc val leys. God has. given the victory inti my hand.' "And then he took leave of me, sc sweetly that all my fear vanished, and I had to smile after him as I used tc do when he left me for a merry joust. Only when ? heard him gallop away on his horse so fast and so eagerly Into the night did the terror come over me again. "Now you knott who your deliverer was, dear, faithful people, and if you will open the chapel and the collin, as I pray you to do, the victor's wreath on the helmet of my betrothed will bear testimony to the truth of my words." The people looked at one another in doubt and silence. Thc suspicion rose in many minds that Diotwina's brain had been affected by the wonderful events of the night, and perhaps also bj- a terrible dream; but when they re called how calmly she had com? oui of lb-' cottage to meet them al Hie edge of the wood there was no longer '.?ui;'.:? for ?iii- idea, and indeed the peasants remembered that their leader, after he had assembled them, had been missing for a space and had ro turned with a beautiful wreath crown ing ins helmet. Si. it was done as Dio twina begged. The chapel was open ct:, and th;.- dame, who was doubtful whether the bone.-, of her precious dead ought in bo exjiosed !<. viev. so auda ciously, was satisfied by ?!??- pensants' promise to Um ?> guard at the lomb un til the door and lock were made fast again. Rill when ii was seen what powerful resistance the ruste*.] door .of fered, belief in the apparition seemed ? rushed to death hi every heart by tho weight OL' tho material world, 'rn!;. Diotwina smiled contidenfl.v and await ed the proof of her word? Back rolled thc cover of the collin, and lhere, with a smile ninia his lips, lay the youug hero in full armor, di visor raised and upon his head the wreath . '!' victory made of iii'- myrtle bush <?!" ?us betrothed. Tin M all S?U? upon their knees and praised God. Diotwina found her happiness i:i fu! lilling her own and her uncle's vow She remained tho faithful betrothed ot uer icnigut until tile tiny or uer ucatn, living in ?a little cottage near the chapel. When Richard did come home many years later and came into the property, which the old people had left to him with their blessing, he enlarged the little house to a beautiful nunnery, under whose protection Sigebald's chapel was long revered as a place of sanctity and an object of many pil grimages.-Translated From the Ger man For Short Stories. The Yanko? In Germany. How does the Yankee look in tho imagination of my countrymen V asks Professor Hugo Munsterberg in The Atlantic. In the German language only three things are usually connected with tht; adjective American: the Ger mans speak of American stoves and mean a kind of stove which I have never seen in this country; secondly, they speak of American duels, and mean a crazy type of duel which was certainly never fought on this conti nent, and. thirdly, they speak of Amer ican humbug and mean by it that kind of humbug which flourishes in Berlin just as in Chicago. But the American man is of course very well known. Ile is a haggard creature, with vulgar tastes and brutal manners, who drinks whisky and chews tobacco, spits, tights, puts his feet 0:1 t!ie table ami habitually rushes along in wild haste, absorbed by a greedy desire for the dollars o?' his neighbors, ile does nut care for'edu cation or ar!, for the public welfare or for justice, uxce.p1 so far us they mean money to him. Corrupt from top to toe, he buys legislation .-ind courts and gov ernment; and when he wants fun ho lynches Innocent .negroes in Madison square In New York, or in the ?os?on Public garden. Ile has his family home usually in a skyscraper ol' -! stories; his business is founded on mis leading advertisements; his newspa pers are Glied with accounts of mur ders and his churches with hypocrites. Don't Worry Aboai Salarie*. "What salaries ft re paid in different business callings is a question often asked by young men and one which seems to enter into their deliberations as a qualifying factor as to whether they shall enter certain trades or pro fessions," writes Edward Bok In The Ladles' Home Journal. "I never could ? quite see the point of this nor the rea- j son for lt. What are the saJaries which , are paid to others to you or to me? i They signify nothing. If the highest j salary paid to the foremost mau in a certain profession is 910,000 a year, what does it provo or signify? There is no obstacle to some one's else going into that same profession and earning 925,000. The first step in going into business is to lind out not which spe cial line is most profitable, but which iine you are most interested in and are j best fitted for. Then drive ahead, and ' tho salary will take care of itself. ! When a young mau thinks too much j of his salary, it is pretty good proof . that he is not of very superior make, i Ability commands income. But you : must start with ability, not with sal- i ary." | -i Do Planta Think? A well known botanist propounds the question, "Have plants the power of reason or. any way of determining what is going on arouud them?" The question, though he admits it appears rather fantastic, ls prompted by ob servations he made a few weeks ago. His daughter was tending a morning glory vine at home, when a delicate tendril reached out toward a nail in the casing. The botanist proceeds: f'Shc marked the position of the ten dril with a pencil on the wood and then shifted the nail about an inch lower. Next day the little feeler had deflected itself very noticeably and was again heading for the nail. "The marking and shifting were re peated four or Gve times, always with the same result, and finally ono night the tendril, which had grown consider ably, managed to reach the coveted support, and we found it coiled tightly around it." Other little experiments of a similar nature are put forward in support of the botauist's theory.-London Mail. | A Baseball Ills Tomuntone. The grave of William A. H?lben, at one lime president of the old National Baseball league, is marked with a ? tombstone in the shape of a baseball. When Mr. Hulbert died, in 1S82, some of his old associates set about to show their love and respect for him. and the result was the monument in Grncc land cemetery. Chicago. The baseball is made of red granite, about 20 inches in diameter, showing the seams as they appear upon the balls used iu the regulation games. Across tho top appears in raised let ters, "W. A. Hulbert, President Na tional League, P. B. B. C., 187G, 1882." On one side appear the names of four clubs in the old Leagnc-Boston, Provi dence, Worcester and Troy-and on the other those of the other four-Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo aud Detroit. Also there is a headstone of white marble, upon which appears the uame, together with thc date Of birth, Oct. 1'::, 1832. und thc date of death. April 1?'. 1SS2. The Co.njuoU'orr'ft Sentiment*. Ii. was "ladies" day"" at the yacht j club, and a erm?ty old member who hal. .- a crowd and a fuss was watch ing one "i' thc club servants paint the "welcome board.'' He painted a pic ture of a yacht clubman, with a bread, happy grin dividing his face from ear 1 le ear. Then h.- pu!, these words be- j neath, "This is :i pretty big board, bul ii' we were to you how glad wc are that lathes- day lias come again we would need a board three times as big as ibis one." "Huh!" grunted the crusty member as the luau pm the last curlycue the last letter. "What makes you say dui tv "Well, sir, (he commodore said we might as well tell a good one while we were about it," said the n:nn. touching his cap. New York Nows. ? For Infants and Children. I Tiis Kind You 'Am Always Bought j I I A. VERY HOT PATIENT. HE LIKEWISE WAS A MAN WITH A VERY QUEER TASTE. Thc Singrnlur Case ot a Genius Who Wa? Ta Good Health Apparent?y Wlille the Thermometer Rc?r?Ntcr cd Hi* Temperature at 125. "There aro any number of malingerers in to wu," began the attending physi cian at an east side hospital. "They have the ability to feign diseases, throw lits on the street, get picked up by the ambulance and sometimes they impose upon the house physician and the nurses and are allowed to stay a little while in a hospital. I knew of one man who was really an expert at thc business. He puzzled tho doctors and lived for thc greater part of three years ai various hospitals. I was one Of his dupes. "I had a hurry call to a house on Sec ond avenue. On the second iloor I found my mau lying unconscious, with blood upon his mouth. I felt his pulse and found lhere wasn't anything un usual about that. Then, in tearing oJ? his clot lies to make a hurried examina tion, I found that his ribs on thc left side wen? all pasted up with court piaster, in strips, just as any doctor would lis up broken ribs. " 'That's where ti.'- blood comes from,! I said at once. -One of the fractured ribs has slipped and punc tured the lung.' "I gave him something to stop the bleeding and a hypodermic injection to bring lum eui. and tuen i hound np an open bruise I discovered on his elbow. While he was recovering consciousness i took his temperature aud I found it away up-IOS and lt)'.). Now. the nor mal temp?rature <>:' a human being is OS.-!, lu tlie worse eases bf pneu monia we don't expect .<> lind ir. over 105. "Just then the man rame i<> and tried to make me understand what bad hap pened io him. 1 got a German in from across the hall to interpret. The pa tient saiil he had fallen through au opeu hatch on a schooner bound from Baltimore to New York about a month ago; that he had been attended by a physician on his arrival here and had got along all right until now when he had suddenly collapsed. His tem perature showed me that I had a seri ous case ou my hands, though I couldn't tell for the life of- me what was the matter with him. "I hurried him into the hospital, put him to bed aud explained the extraor dinary feature of his case to the 'house.' Tile 'house' took his tempera ture again, aud it was 111 i Thou we drugged him and' drugged him and gave his feet cold baths and took his temperature again. It had run up to 113. And there didn't seem to be any thing the matter with him outside of that. "Everybody in the hospital got te talking about the ease. When the 'at tending' went through the ward thc 'house'*hurried him by that German. He didn't want to confess that he waa staggered. The patient didn't grow any worse. Ile maintained a constant ly high temperature anywhere between 110 and 12"), and we kept up the drugs and the cold foot baths. "One day the 'attending' noticed the case and asked how long that man wan going to be kept in bcd to cure a sore elbow. Then the nurse told him. 'Take his temperature,' said the 'attending.' "The nurse put the thermometer in the man's mouth under the tongue awi the doctor watched narrowly. All of fl I sudden he walked up to the bed. 'Get out of here! Get up and dress and don't let me see 3"ou again,' he said sternly to the patient. I "And in half an hour thc man was out on the sidewalk. You see that doctor was an older man than any of us. He saw the man was faking, that he manipulated the thermometer in his mouth so that by friction he could run ] it up as high as he pleased. . "Tlie next day this saine man was picked up on the street and taken to another hospital, aud the same doctor who was attending at both places \ caught him there Hie very first thing. For three years I heard of that Ger man, off and-on, always with the same patched ribs, sore elbow and extraor dinary temperature. Why, one doctor up in Connecticut wrote a paper for a medical review in which he said ho had found a man apparently in normal health with a temperature ol' 137! lt was our malingerer. "It couldn't have beeu auy fun ei ther. The doctors were always at him with hypodermics, cold water and so on. Ile had a queer taste."-New York i Commercial Advertiser. y nt arc'? Color Box. anions, from leeks to Bermudas, are bleaching to the skin, aud so are lem ons, asparagus and celery. Spinach ls the broom of the stomach, as the French say, and sorrel, in soup of pu ree, as they cook it in the provinces and at the students' restaurants in the Latin quarter, is n great beautifier. Dandelion, lettuce and all the salads will bring out the red and white lints of the skin. Beets, carrots, tomatoes, strawber ries, raspberries, cherries and black berries are red and bloodmaking, de veloping infantile loveliness in cheeks and lips ii* eaten, not now and then, bul: three limes a day. This is the r'ruii cure or garden "ii Eden break- I fa. s I, and ?? will bo remembered thal j Eve had uo patent medicine?.", eosniet- j ?cs pr doctors. Pineapple Is gout! for the stomach and air passages; Wee, all cereals and while vegetables, such as caulillbw?r and parsnips, arc whilcsome. Ibu. pickles and pie crust, hot cakes and too many sweets will make cue look pasty, ber a use ihey lack tlie acids and , salts which nature needs io cleanse j her machinery. Oil she must have. . lou. from tile clive and nut. 0? keep | ike internal wheels revolving. W !:;-,! man has don*' woman ! i thinks she can improve upon. 1 ni position the only position : - un>- people ever attain Popularity often makes :i n::in j believe winn i>n i true. The hungry mendicant pref? rs j i!,. cold liam to the cold sh on Kier ?J i , .j j ?onie men -le w go >.? .iucgmenl j by showing a lack of scIf-eouGi?ence. The most expensive thing.- one j ...cuni-'- aro tho?e purchased below j "One ut u Tim?-, if You Pif?ase." One dark and rainy winter's night the writer was ordered to carry food to thc men in the tronches. A team was hitched up, and with a loaded wagnn and driver we started out. Every challenge was maiie with the least noise, as the enemy were only a few rods in frout. ''Halt, dismount and give the countersign!" came at every thirty paces. I? was MUK h on my teamster, who was rheumatic and cold. However, we made the trip, and halt ed at a cavalry pose. Major-. a very paladin for courage and strength, had rolled in my blanket for a snooz**: he had driven the enemy with slaugh ter that day. My Jehu begin to re cite Iiis annoyances thus: ' Cuss thu (turned infantry, they made me halt dismount and give the counter.-ign till [ was weary and tarrii'y wi<i theirfool ishness." A roar followed from the couriers. At this m mienta trim f-ta?? officer of a General who had lost an arm, put in his .--.ay so: ''I say. hold that noise: the General wan rs to rest: den i le: mc hear any more of it. Stair had hardly gone into darkness before Jehu began his old story. It was folly to try to keep back' the laugh. A second outburst., arni asecr ond entry of thc staff; .,i).;r.'i it ! Did ? hot order you stop this noise? Who is it*? til fi awe iii tu arrested!'' Just then, by some strange accident, a donkey pul his demure snout iu at our fire, and flapping his ears, began his unmistakable bray. J.eui jumped to his feet, and shaking bis fist at the donkey, said: ,((),ie at a time, if you please!*' Staff left amid a burst of laughter, as Major-(the prince of soldiers) rolled over and over with my blanket, tryii g to restrain a big laugh.-Lost Cause. Copartnership Dissolution. nr**' "l copartnership here ofore ex ?stine: . 'twaeu Luther ""J. Bigbv anti I. Walter Cox. undnr the tirm nam?of Big by ?fe Cox, at Peiz'ir, S. C., was dissolved on July 1*', 1899, Oy mut lal consent. All account?, ??e., due the firm to bo paid t ? LutberS. Bittby, who also as?umes tho liabilities of th? lirm and continues the general merchandise business. LUTHER S BTOBY. i. WALTER COX. .Sept 27, ISM l-l '.> LAND SALE MORE Land than I need. Will sell in larK? or small lots. Land fresh, productive, well timbered and itcs -ell. Community healthful, pure, cold water, ;:ocd citizens. ?Ood roads, schools ami churches. Cbmmunieate with W. L, S M IT ET, lia, M?disou Cc, tia. July JS, 1809 4_3m_ Valuable Plantation for Sale. TrT" A ACRE?, moro or less, on Bea X I verdaru Creek, in a high state of cultivation. .">0 acres bottom land, ?JO in pius woods, 14 in pasture, 1(K) in cotton laud, o houses on it. B mnded by Rev. . George Rodgers, A. M. Guyton and otb- J ers. Will sell on easy terms. Purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. For fur ther particulars apply to M. Berry Wil liams, Guvtoo.S. C., or MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS, Anderson, 8. C. July 12, 139!? , li _ Desirable Plantation for Sale. ABOUT 300 acres of Land, on Three and Twenty Creek, two and one half miles east of Pendleton, on the road leading toPelzer, is offered for sale. There are about 25 acres of bottom land. Tho place is well watered and well adapted to stock-raising, and has between 50 and 75 acres of forests. For further information apply to J. MILES PIPKENS, K-V.ca Pendleton, S C. Notice to Teachers & Trustees. ARegular Examination for both white and colored teachers will be hold on Friday, Oct. 13. Under the rules of. tho State Board of Education certificates of teachers who did not attend the Summer Normal can not bo renewed. If your certificate expires before tho next Spriuy examination, this will be your "only opportunity to secure a certficate. Trustees aro forbidden by the school law to tmplo\- teachers who have "o cer tificate, and a teacher who is employed without a certificate is in danger of losing his pay. The examination will begin promptly at Ma. m. and all applicants aro ordered to be here at that hour. Trustees who havo not already done so are requested to forward their annual report to mo at ones, as my report to tho State Supt. must be completed at an early date. E. E NICHOLSON, Co. Sup't. Valuable Lauds for Sale. WE offer for sale tho following Tracts ' of Land : 1st. The Hopkins Tract, situate in Pick ens County, containing two hundred ; acres, more or less. 2d. The G. W. Miller Tract, containing one hundred and twenty-four acres, more or less. This Tract has upou it a good Mill oed Gin. ! Od. AU that part of the Homo Tract of 1 br. IL C. Miller, lying in Anderson County, being eighty acres, more or less. These three Tracts of Land lio on the ' waters of Eighteen Milo Creek, respec tively, within onoaad a half to three miles of the towns of Pendleton, Clemson Col lege and Central on the Southern ll. K. Those Lands aro finely wooded, with upland * and low lands in cultivation. For further particulars apply to jas. T. Hunter. Pendleton, S. C., or lohn T. 'fflvlor, nu the premises. W. W. SIMONS, CARRIE T. SIMONS, li ESSIE E. li ?.adv, lix-.-. Est. Or. ii. C. Miller. * ug ISUn 10 "'.rn Brs. Strickland & King*, OFFICE IN MASONIC TEMPLE. Gas and Cocaine used fer Extract ag Toot!-. VTOTICE FI N'A L SETTLEMENT i3i T! k undersigned, Administratrix . ho Estate ol lohn M. Hali, deceasod. tercby gives notice thai she will on the j iSth "day of October, lS0i\ apply to the } fudge of Pro!.;::.' for Anderson County for i Fina! Settlement of said Ey:.tte. and a j'scharge from ... - ..:?.;e?- a- Administra ri\ HALL. Admi x. Sept. 27. lv,?.' I ' I?. S. \ ANDIVKK HI P. V ANDIVKK J. J. MAJOK. li DEALERS IN Firle Buggies, Phasetons, Surreys, Wagons, Harness Lap Robes and Whips, AKE in i heir elegant per.- Repository ??ver Yandi ver Br J??. Storo Between Masonic Hell and New Bank. Ir' you nefld anything in our hue vie I'HVfl thc izo'idti, tbo guarantee and the pr >,e t ? pifase. WM hiahly -porpciaro all the trade giv uti u-. ano arti trying to give the very best Buggies that ean he sold for the pi iee. A nico lot of New, Cheap Boggie* un hand. Toe price viii positively eur priso you. Y'-urs for Buggies, VANUIVER BROS. ?fe MAJOR. ? r NOTICE. THE bo<>ks ?or tho col'ection of State. Schoo anil n.linty Tax-s will be open from Oct. lCth 183.?. u til December Uss, !8J,J, inclusive, and for the ??uv?nieuc- of the tiX.nyer-: I will ? >!lect a tin- 'M' .>*. i'ti; pl u e., : Ii:-h.ic's Brnocb Oct 30, *.' to 12 ,s rtbto-vi, iii. un'. Storp, Oct 30,1:30 to S p. ci Mr liiy.Oct 31, 0 to 1Z L-ch'."-to.-. Oct. 81, !::;o td 3:30. Pic lumiir, IV? dti???day, Nov. I, to fi o'clock. I' ?zr. Timr- iuy. >,?V <j to ..; o'clock. Wil.ia?i-tou Knday, Nov tl 9 to 12 o'clock. Belton. Fridav, No?. 3, ?:l> t-> 3:30 o'clock. Ho?i.-i e. i h Tueiilav, Kov 7-, 0 to 3 o'clock. ? o?.ks ?r Iv ., V.'.-.I,"?'<.>. .y, ?Tuv JO in 2 o'clock ll .1 ; il., Pn.ii ?dar, Nor 5, i? to 2 o'c;ock. Towuvill , Frdav, r?oiv 10 ;? t<> 12. il t? V Farmer's, frilay, X v. li. 1:30to3 c<?ijdl?t'?n;.M:>?d v Nov. I'j'. lU <o $ o'clocir. After tilt; lOiti ol N >v t'i Ti . .? ur."'.s office wit lie open, ?i'i- of tax lev . s follows: s af,.- Tas..".. mills. O'dltta'y Cou ty . 2; J " <"i>ii ti turi? tul school. :; " Pu il'C rfoadi. 1 " P^sjt in ebteduess-. \? " Court House and Jail. I Tota!. i:5 ,; .'.r; additional . vji i>f3 mlllvUas beeo u.*.dc for Iltinrei .-{.ii io' District foi s hool puroona, uiak 111. t'ir.-l evy in thar district IC mills ti," Stt<C CoOMitU'hiu r. qui res all nales be tween t'v ?ty on'- und 8 xi-y yoar.H of age, except thosi- incapable ol o*r iii!,' usupport from being a:i? ned, or from o ber cause, ?nd thosj wno served in th?- war bet ?reen tba Slates, to pay 3 pol tax of omi dollar. ail ale prr>oi.s between 'he ages of eighteen ??udi fifo., year*, who ari- ab e to vro'k roads or cans- thom tobo worked, i-xcept school :rustees prcdchero who luve ch wge of conyr gatioD.s, and per.ioUH who served in the war b-tweea the States ! aie llab.e tooo road duty, and in lieu o? work may pay H tax of one dolur, to be collected at the ?ame time th<j other laxes are collected J. M. PAYNE, County Treosurer. _ W. G. McGEE, SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE--ront Rjom, over Farmer? <?nd Me chant6 Bank ANDERSON, 8. C. IVvfl 18P8 33 NOW is the time to have your Buggy Revarnished, Repainted, and new Axle Points fitted on. We have the best Wagon Skeins on the market. All kinds of Fifth Wheels and Dashes. Headquarters for Carriage, Buggy and Wagon Repairs. PAUL E. STEPHENS. J. H. BURGESS, DENTIST. IN Pendleton every Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday. At Clemson College every Thursday Fridav and Saturday. April 26,1899_44_6rn Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned, Administrator of the Estate of Martin Burriss, deceased, hereby gives notice that he will on the 7th day of October, 189i>, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County, 8. C., for a Final Settlement of (-aid Es tate, and a discharge from his officias Administrator JAMES BURRISS, Adra'r. SeptC, 1891)_ll_5_ "THE STATF?F LJUTH CAROLINA, COUNT* or ANDEE-SON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. G. lt. Mahon, PUintiff ngaini-t Mrs. Tcx?o Aana Sterling and Mrs. Cor? Litton, Defendants - Summons for Relief-Comidatui Mirved. To the Defendants Mrs. Texiu Anna Sterling and airs. Cora Ligou : YOU are hereby summoned and required to an swer the Complaint, in this action, of which a espy is herewith nerved upon yon, and to servo a copy of your answer to th?* i-aid Complaint on the subscribers at their office, Anderson Court Houso, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusivo of the day of snell service; and if you fail to answer tho < ompl&int within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in till* action will apply to the Court for the relief de manded in the Complaint. Dated Anderson, 8. G, August 19, A D., i860. BONHAM A WATKIrS, Plaintiff's Attornoy. [3:CAL j Jons C. WATXIBS, C. C. C. r. To the absent Defendant, Mrs. Texie Anna Seer Ung : You will take notico that the Complaint tn thia action was filed In tho office of the Clerk of the Court of said County on the 19th day of August, IS99 HONKA M & WATKINS, Plaintiff* Attorneys. August 30, 1899 10_6_ CHARLESTON AND WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY. AUGUSTA AM) ASGEVILLKSHOl?r LI?U3 In effect July 23,1899. Lv Augusta..^..j 9 40 am | 140 pm Ai- Greenwood..' ll 60 am Ar Anderson.!. Ar Laurens. 120 pm Ar Greenville., :?. 00 pm Ar Glenn -'pringn.| 4 05 pm?. Ar Spartanburg.? s 10 pm j ? 00 a Ar Salud.1...] ? 33 pm j. Ar I?enderson7iIle.( ?. 03 pial. Ar Asheville.-! 7 00pm?. 6 10 pm 10 15 am Lv Asheville. c S am. LT Snartanburg. 11 -t"1 a:n| .'. t? v^i L7 Glenn Springs.! 100?) am:. LY Greenville.....I i2i?l ami 4 09 pu Lv Laurena..j 1 37 pin ? C? pu Lv Anderson.~..?.I 7 00 am Lv Greenwood.*. - 37 pm?.". Ar Augusta.i ? 1" pm It 10 am Lv Calhoun Falls.! 1 41 prc Ar Raleigh.! 'Jl??tu Ar Norfolk. 7 30 a? Ar Petersburg. CC.)um Ar Richmond.! S 15 am Lv Augusta.I.... >.i t :?pm Ar All?DiluIo. . 3 10 pm Ar Fairfax.'.I 3 55 pm Ar Yomaasee. 10 on am ! 4 20 pm Ar Beaufort. tl 15 ami ? 20 pm ArPortRoyal.I llSOaml 5 35 pm Arfavannah.'.j 7 CO pm ArCUr.rlciteu.!.! : ::a pm Lv Charleston. 6 28 an-. LT ?"or; noyai.! 1 CO pro t' ?5 am Lv Beaufort.? 1 If. pm! 7 20 am Lv Yemasseo.j 2S0pm| 6 20 am J.v Fair fa v. ., 9 20 un LT Allendale.; osS aw Ar Augusta.!. ll 25 ar-j Clos'3 e"iinectiou at Calhoun Falls for Athens A danta iud all poi;it.i on S. A. T.. CIO?J connection nt Augusta for Charle?? Barannab and all pointa. Clcoo connections r.t Gnu nwood !'->r ..til point i : a 5. A. L.,aad C. & (L Etallway, and a: ?nattant -.ru with Southern Railway. For any Information i . . ? to tickets, rato? ; ?hedale, cte., nddre?-? Vf. J. CRAIG. Gen. .V - Agent Augusts,G i. B.M.N?rth,Sol.Agont. r. v. Emerson Trat?c Manag?r