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THE SINGERS. Ile struck Iiis harp a sounding: stroke, And high in benyeo thc music rang; The echoes in the skies awoke t Fluting the uu?hty note l-.e sang. And ?io cm: paused to greet Iiis thought; Life was too swift and love too sweet; He sang lus lofty stave for naught. Thc throng went hy with hurrying feet. Dut one who loitered Ly the way, Who wore no singing robs at ?Ul, Lifted & warble lig-it and gay As a child's laugh, a throstle's call. And half beneath thc breath his Ftraln Seemed fu.L ot tunes nil men had heard Long, long ago, sweet falls of rain, The love song of the mating bird. The rustling leaf,' thc murmuring dove, They heard in tbat melodious Eigh; The whisper of first trembling love They heard and their first lullaby. Within their .hearts they sang his lay Again. Tliey kissed his garment's hem And threw their laurels in his way Tliat he might set his feet on them. -Harriet Prescott SpoiTord in Independent. "IU? Tho Swamp Swallowed the Loco motive, and tho Lake Swal lowed tho Swjmp. BS MOOKLEY RODENTS. Copyright. ill I* was undoubtedly a swamp. "There ain't no skadder of a doubt of it," said tho railroad men when they cut sodB from the moss with short handled shovels. North of them stretched the mighty prairies, not yet yielding corn, for half a thousand miles. Beyond thc prairie lay the muskeg, the barren lands of northern Canada, haunt of the red eyed, matted musk os, of the moose and caribou. South was Lake Superior, a silver green sec, quiet, unruflled and tremen dous. Upon its shores thousands of men were working at the making of a railroad, part of Britain's steel girdle round the world. But now it was on the anvil, and the nature of things was bucking against tho intention of man, and every now and again Fate pipped a card played by tlie engineers, and this happened sometimes just ns the C. P. It. man was reaching out his hand to collar the stakes. "A swamp, lt ls true," said the sur veyor, "but nothing serious. Let the engineers look to lt." They ..shifted ahead and measured the rotund earth and left the swamp behind them. And a spell of dry weath er took the engineers in. It even took Archer in, who was not truly an en* gineer. but a man who- understood things generally and often was hard est driving when be was as Invisible ns steam in the cylinder. "Get on, get on," said Archer, who was a real chunk of millstone grit, orig inally from Yorkshire and American ized till bc bit like a file into any op position. "I just mean having it done," was Archer's motto, and lt was forever In bis mouth. "He meant having it done" should be bis epitaph and perhaps will be by and by when it gets done Anally. So when the swamp spread out he jumped on it and declared decisively that lt wasn't a swamp at all, or, if it was, it wasn't much of a one. And If lt wns much of a one he didn't care. "The railroad goes over It," sold Archer, for he wanted that section through, and In his mind was the no tion of the driving of the last spike, which represents heavenly attainment and paradise to railroad men. And the railroad did go over lt. and then Archer said: "I told you so. Hurry up, now; hur ry up." As everybody had been hurrying up till the horizon danced the men grunt ed a little. And Archer siid east on a train on business and wasn't back for three days. As he returned it rained in a gentle, insinuating way, good for crops and soothing to the farmer's mind, as it was a long time from har vest. But It did not soothe Archer, who wanted nice, dry, warmish weather, as he knew men, If they worked nt all, never worked as well In rain,, for when a man is thinking about himself lt takes his mind away from his shovel, and he who would shift 15 cubic yards of "dirt" in ten hours will come down to shifting only 12 or less. He got out at Nepijon. "It's a blt damp, Mr. Archer," said a man loafing there on the platform. "Humph!" paid Archer. : "And they do say there ain't no rail road on that swampy patch;" said the Nepijon man. -fl "What?" ! "No railroad on that swamp piece, 1 said," returned Nepijon, spitting. "Gone through I" . "The deuce I" cried Archer, and, go ing to bis office, he found a few. tele grams,'reading: I ?L "Swamp looks very shaky." j 2. "Swamp too soft. Ca? hardly rnn the gravel train over it." 3. "Road gone In. Locomotive gone with lt Wire Instructions," Archer went outside and shook his fist nt ?ato re and swore a little very softly and a little not loud and, get ting on the locomotive with the engi neer, went like the wind oh a visit of inspection. - "I own it freely," said the man, with his band on the lever as the engine fled west like n squattering duck. "I own lt freely, Mr. Archer, but I never had no confidence In that swamp." "Nor me," said the fireman. ? The engineer shut his left side sub ord?nate np with a frown- of surprise .which was like a blow with a clinker rake. '.Yon didn't, ehr'said Archer. "And .why not?' "Waal, Mr. Archer, Ifs this way," returned the engineer: "I felt that she didn't trust it. And when a man's en gine don't trust the road, but gets on a nervous treroulatlon, like a horse on a plank bridge that's bendy, a tann hasn't the proper confidence neither." "Humph!" growled Archer. "That's so,** said' the engineer ns ho peered ahead through the rain, which . .was now coming down "kersploah." The lake waa lost under a blnck squall, but here and there lt showell a thunderous green, like live swamp, green and mucky, in hard dried fen. Tho road's ditches were full of water, and so were the drain culverts miming ( athwart the road. "lt's got to be tried with nil weath- j ors." said the engineer, who was rather religious. "Tho Almighty says that ubout all things. Mr. Archer, and rail roads ain't no exception and haven't no especial gifts of grace. It's good works put the railroad through. We find salvation on the bedrock." But Archer had no love for theology then or at any time, and he growled. "Here wo are, slr," said tho senten tious man nt the lever. They pulled up at a bit of a wayside shanty that is now a dandy station, and Archer lit off thc locomotive into a puddle. . He found a gang of melancholy mak ers of railroads awaiting his coming. Tlicy looked very much ashamed of themselves. "So you've let her through, have you?" cried Archer reproachfully. And Scott, the chief of them, nod ded. The others nodded, too, like au tomatic Chinese mandarins. "We've let her through, sir." said Scott: "that's a fact." Archer nipped him by the nrtn just above the elbow. "Come in and let's have a look," said Archer. And he went out of the shel ter into the rain. Behind them tailed the gang of sub dued subordinates. A dozen of tho men came out of their tents and fol lowed. "Think bully Archer can cure her?" asked one. "He's a rustler." "Bustles us." "And himself, sonny. But this yer swamp! Dr. Archer can cure swamps and give new life and tone to tho whole railroad system of the C. P. R. Do not delay till it is too late. Men tion this advertisement." The tail of Archer's group laughed at' the joker. But Archer overheard, for he bad ears. "You heard that?" he said to Scott. "Young Wade is saying I'm the swamp doctor. If so, it's my ilrst case." They came down to the creek or lit tle river which bounded the swamp. The bridge was wrecked, and the rails gradually disappeared into bubbling slime on the far side of the water. And right across the swamp which now glimmered in pools lay a broad band of this same black slime, marking whore the road to the Rockies and be yond had once been. "Oil. British Columbia!" snid Archer to himself; "ob, Eritish Columbia, must you wait?" He spoke out. "So the gravel train went through?" "Yes," said Scott, with the curt American affirmative, "it did so." "Then she's deep?"" "She is so," said Scott, pulling bis mustache. "We'll report this when we've cured lt," said Archer. "Oh, bang this rain! How shall we cure It?" Scott put the end of his mustache into bis mouth and chewed it. "Mr. Archer, lt's my opinion that it was e. mistake to take this line. It would have paid us to go up yonder." "Extra miles cost dollars. Mr. Scott," snapped Archer, "and never mind about the ought. What's to be dont now? For I just mean having lt done, and that settles it." He sat down on a baulk of pine lying on the ground and motioned Scott tc sit beside him. The others retreated. "He says 'he just means having 11 done,' " said Charley Wade. "He's c tough, isn't he? I'll bet drinks he doe? It too." And ho and his crowd argued all tb< way back to camp. "A swamp can be drained," sale Archer. "This one drains Itself," replied Scott "We're sitting beside the drain now." "Then we want another." "I don't see bow it's to be done, slr.' "I just mean having It done!" crlet Archer. "But for raising dlffleultie: give me your expert. This man wh< knows too much knows too little." uAnd the man who knows too ll ttl often knows too much, sir," said Scot sharply. "Oh, pshaw!" cried Archer. "I'll cur this swamp or bust. It's late now an< getting dark, and I'm wet to the skin But tomorrow I'll go through thi swamp nnd fix lt I tell you I mea: having it done. Think it out, Scoti I'll give a month's pay to any mai Who makes a feasible rmggestloi whether it workB or not" He went back to the camp and stat by himself, sweating over the swam problem, while the crew of engineer and the men argued till the night fe on thc lake and the vast fertile nortl ern prairie. And lt rained mightily ti dawn, when the sky cleared in the ea? and the sun came up from Ontario t soe how the work got on. It fonnd little Archer sitting over h! swamp, thinking lt out and went on t inspect the Rocky Mountain divlsloi where 10,000 human ants strove arnon the great hills. And when the su came round again it still saw the ma who meant having lt done sitting ovc his swamp, thinking it out He called all the engineers up OE after the' other and found them fixe in cursing the surveyors for havln struck this swamp in fine, dry wea the But none of them had any notion < clearing np the difficulty without cl "I mean having it done and wltbot any more waste of time," be said t Charley Wade, who was as bright a tho best of them. "If this swam stays, there's a reason for it What I it Wade?" i "Ifs not so much above the lake le' el, slr," said Charley, "and mayt there's a connection between tho two, "Come herc," said Archer, and I walked the young fellow far down tl bank of the creek. "Isn't this a goo enough drain?" "Only lt don't drain lt" ans were Wade. And then Archer clipped bim tlgl by the shoulder. .I've got it Wade. Look at tl creek and read It and tell me win you react" Wade knitted bis clear young brov and stared at the black and gloorr stream. But he read nothing. "You nee nothing?" laughed Arche "Then .I'll show you engineers what wrong. I told you I meant having done, and when I say so something got to give. Go and get mo the bo; up here ?'rom thc shore. You'll find n bete when yon get back." And while Wade ran for the bo Archer strode alongside to tho camp. "Give me au iron rod," be demand- j ed of the storekeeper, "and let me have It quick. One ten feet long, and stiff j at that. Steal it. take lt. get lt. man ' alive!" And ns he stood waiting he looked back between tho steel rails running east past Nemagoseudn. Metagama and Klplsslng till they struck the Ottawa river und went through under thu crowned city of Ottawa to Montreal. And westward, westward lay the mighty mountains, and beyond them was the sea. "Lot us get our blt doue, my men," ?aid the doctor of thc swamp. "Oh, 1 just mean getting it done!" Tito storekeeper came hurriedly, try ing not to run for the sake of his dig nity and hardly daring to walk while the half tamed hear. Archer, danced on the hot plate of his desire. So Archer snatched a long clearing rod from the hands of his man and. with it over his shoulder, started back for his sick spot in tho railroad, like a thick set little surgeon handling a pro bang and hungering for enlightenment, for he was more like a surgeon than a doctor, and no dilettante or mere fum bler at that. "I'll drain you," he said savagely. "I'll give you beaus. I'll rake up your vitals, my precious swallower of lo comotives. I'll make you a mud spot and scrape you dry'with a shovel." His eyes brightened, and he walked with a swing. Throe deep Hues be twlx his eyes were now two, and If his diagnosis of this swamp disease were but accurate he would smooth out these to a single crease. He got back to bis drain, the slow nnd dismal creel;, and saw Charley Wade in the distance coming up from the lake In a rotten shell called a boat, "Step light or you'll step through, slr," said Charley. "She's a basket nnd as crazy as a state asylum." "Was it easy rowing up, Wade?" ask ed the little bear, handling bis rod like a harpoon. "Easier up here than below," said Wade, and the bear grunted joyfully. "And still she tells you nothing?" Wade looked up chopfallen. "Not a word, sir." "You came th rough a place where it was n bit weedy, eh?" "I did," said Wade. "Lot ber drift," said Archer, like a bear when he smells honey. And he let his Iron hang deep in the water, but fouud no bottom. 'Tu. on mud," said the boss, and bc stood up. "Let her drift," be said sharply, and be jabbed into thick ooze. "Not yet," he growled. "Go lower." Again he jabbed at the under earth and the rod went deeper. "Ugh!" said the hoss, and there wert three lines between his hnlf 'closec eyes. "Oh, a yard more!" be cried to Wade and then he rammed again at the eartl and struck a rib. The divining rot rang. "Oh, I've got it!" said tho surgeon and the world was a- happy place fo: bim that moment "I touched her oh, I touched ber! Ribs o' rock!" Wade opened his eyes and under stood. "Hurrah!" be cried. "You read her now?" said Archei with the open brows of a child. "She's A, B, C," laughed Wade, an< the boss and the boy shook bands. What greater joy than to clrcumven the ancient, cunning earth ! The Make of Things and the builder can declar It Let those of a city's meaner joy and those who play their little will against a brother ant's brains laugh i they will, but they are nothing in iu scales of Fate when God bolds the bu ance and sets against their golde plumpness some natural lord of tb open air. "Say nothing about this, Wade; not word," cried Archer. "Some of yo think I'm nothing but a whip an spur." "Not I," said Wade. "1 told 'em." "Lemme ashore," cried Archer, "au take your boat back." He marched tb the camp triumphal) holding his hat in bis hand. "Send me quick three rock men, wit drills and dynamite," he cried eas "And this Is private," he added to tl operator ticking the message. And early next morning be bad thr< lads of metal drilling under water im a rib of the eartl). "There's nothing in It," said Scott, bit sulky nt being dispossessed of tl Initiative by this brigadier who belle ed he saw the enemy's weak spot. "There'll be dynamite In it," sa Wade to himself. "And grumpy Arc er's lu it, and be's a whale nt things.' And grumpy Archer growled ai swore and tramped and stamped at walked round and round his swan and up and down it and waited for tl crisis and the proof. Between bis ey came other lines, and tbey were erk crossed with other wrinkles. "I'll rake your insides out' ' ho to the swamp that regarded bim with fi black contempt and stood in ooze. "1 rake and scrape you and make d peat of yon and get my locomotl back." The lads drilling went at It stead! arid when one hole was made und the dark water Archer ordered auotb "I'll give you pills, my boy," he tc his sick railroad, "and fetch you c hale and hearty." He sat watching the men work, c of them turning the drill stolidly n the others striking. "Keep the hole up and down. Do go out of the rib," said Archer. "I not so big across." All who were doing nothing coi down to look at the operation, a they made beta for and against, ; cording as they believed In Archer in Scott "A dollar he does!" "And a dollar he doesn't!" "Fifty dollars I dor' said Archer. Just mean having lt done." And next morning early they put the dynamite cartridges, tailed 1 fizzing comets, with Blckford's fuse. "Set 'em going," said the doctor, a all bands sat back to watch for gey spouts In the creek. And presently the crack came, s the water heaved, and & rock lu leaped In foam. J "Bolly for our side I" said Wa jumping. "I'll double my bet" And now the creek was lined w men who watched lt in doubt that st was doubt no more. "She's moving!" yelled Wade, i the others cheered. For tho current the stream was swift Archer with rod, was Jabbing for that earth rib, i fourni it no moro. Tbc undent ueeu- ( muintion of weed ami wreck ami ooze j piled up against it began to go, and the" stream moved swifter and swifter as it cut its way into the earth. And as it moved it sauk inch by inch. "Have I done lt?" asked the doctor. "It looks like lt." said Scott, "and 1 own you've beaten me. She's draining -draining fast." "Let's go up higher," said Archer. "Where's my locomotive?" Ile set men by thu place of blasting, and as the creek fell they cheered tho j way for it. He piled them into the water with their shovels. , and thu | swamp went out Into the lake and ! mnde a black, broadening hand in thu silvery waters lapping ou their beach. "I'll teach you." said Archer to tho enemy; "I'll teach you! Give me back my locomotive!" And presently they saw the engine show itself above tho sinking ooze, and from both sides of the swamp the length of three long rails was visible. "A blt of sun." said Archer, "will make It peat, i'm wanted east just now. Hurry up, hurry up." And the man who meant having lt j done went back to do something else.- | New York Tress. Slat!? lllm Sinir UitiH. "What man has done man can do." ls a? good motto, b\it lt needs to be in terpreted in the light of common sense. Every now ami then we hour of a mau who takes lt to mean that a little per severance will make a Newton or a Beethoven out of the stupidest of us. Hero ls a story connected witli Lid dell, the somewhat overpositive dean of Christ church, borrowed from Tho Spectator: Dr. Corfe, the organist of Christ church, was at this time sorely plagued by one of tho choirmen. whose alto singing was miserably bad. He came to the dean. "Mr. Dean, 1 really cannot have that mnu singing any longer. Ile spoils the Whole choir. If only lie sang bass it would not so much matter, but such an alto is Intolerable." "Very well. Dr. Corfe," sn id the dean, "I will deal with the matter." So thc clioirinan was sent for. "Dr. Corfe complains of your sing ing and says lie cannot have you sing ing alto any longer, but that lt would not bo so bud if you sang bass. Tor the future, therefore, be good enough to sing bass." "But, Mr. Dean, I cannot sing bass," rejoined the man. "Woll," answered Liddell, "I am no musician, but sing bass you must. Good morning." And for many a year afterward, as can be but too well remembered, the mau sang bass till bo was finally shelved. Evils* of Continued Anxiety. Some years ago I collected the sta tistics regarding the lives of stockbrok ers In a certain city nnd was surprised to find that nearly every person who lived a sob"r life and continuously studied the ups nnd downs of the money market failed either mentally or physically in a short time-less than a dozen years-ultimately disappear ing from active life. On the other hand, the mon who were operators of great skill and cool ness and who lived regularly most of the time, but occasionally gave way to tho drink habit and disappeared sev eral days at a time on account of help less drunkenness, lived longer and had fewer mental disorders. This, of course, cannot bo construed into an argument in favor of drinking even occasionally, but was to my mind il very strong indication of the benefit coming from the occasional complete relaxation4 from Intense mental anxi ety. Protracted anxiety without rest breaks moro men than does bard intel lectual effort.-Medical Record. PocUctH nnd Sentiment. "Married or unmarried?" asked tho measurer of a Walnut street tailoring establishment of a customer yester day afternoon just as the Saunterer chanced to stroll into the place. "Unmarried," replied the young mau, with a blush. "Inside pocket on the left side, then," observed the tailor, os If talking to himself, while in the memorandum book on the counter he made a note to that effect. After the young mau bad departed tho Saunterer could not refrain from tho query: "What difference does bis being sin gle make tn his Inside vest pockets?" "Ab, my dear sir," observed . the knight of the thread and needle with a bland smile, "all the difference in thu world. Being unmarried, he, of course, wants the pocket on the left side so as to bring lils sweetheart's picture over tho heart." "But doesn't a married man wont his wife's picture In the same place?" inquired thc scribe. "Well, there may have been an in stance of that kind," replied the tailor in a doubtfully hesitant tone of voice, "but I must confess that such a ono never came under my observation." Philadelphia Inquirer. What Made Armor Obsolete. "Firearms and Armor" ls the theme of a paper by Julian Corbett in Long man's. The traditional idea that lire arms occasioned the disuse of armor Is shown to be unfounded. In fact, "plate armor and gunpowder were In troduced In the same century." He argues to prove: "Thc real explana tion, then, of the disappearance of armor is, flrstly, thnt with the devel opment of military science light cav alry proved itself more serviceable than heavier cavalry, and, secoadly, that light cavalry In their origin were mounted musketeers and wore there fore unarmored. Except In their early days musketeers, it must be remem bered, never wore armor." Marine Corp? Chevronn. There Is only ono branch of the Unit ed States service whero the chevrons of sergeants and corporals are worn as they were a century ago and as they aro still worn in a very large portion of the English service. This is In thc United States marine corps, and hero they are Inverted, the point of thc chevron being toward the shoulder Instead of toward the wrist, as in all branches of thc service. The other cu rious feature of tho service Is that the colors of the corps oro red and yellow, those of cavalry and artillery, while thc service is actually Infantry. PJtJNTlN(? HAT TIPS. | THE WORK IS DONE FROM STEEI, PLATES OR GRASS DIES. A Vant Vnriety u( Deilem Nceefmnr y to Mci't tlio Demnnda of tho 'I'rn de. Au lutoroatiiiK I?IIKIUCI.X anti How It IM Conduct od. Hatters' |>i*iiitin.tr, which is tho print ing of names, trademarks and other dc signs upon hat Ups and sweat loathers in lints, and upon the labels used on hat boxes, is a business bj* Itself. The hat tip. or crown lining of a hat. is I sometimes made of paper, oftenest of satin. In a silk hat and. in some stiff j hats the tip covers the entire Interior j of tho crown above the sw. ai leather; lu straw hals tho tip is very often ; composed of a broad snip of satin upon a larc crown lining. Many stiff j hats nnd most soft hats aro now lin- i Ished without tips, in which caso the trademark or name is printed on the sweat leather. Tii> printing is done from brass dies and in the finest work from steel plates. These ?Iles ami plates are made i in very great variety. In a largo os- j tabllsbment devoted to hatters' print ing there might bo found 150.000 (li?s and 10,000 steel platos. Proof I ni pres sions of thf$N:rent number of dies and plates lill many huge, ledger like vol umes, upon whose pajees they are se cured as in scrapbooks. There are throughout the country thousands o?, retailing hatters, each having a separate die ol* his own. with which the tips of the hats he soils are printed; some hat jobbers might have many ?Hos, including dies of trade- j marks and designs for special lines of | goods. All thesu dies and plates, how- j ever varied ami widely distributed their ownership may be. are kept In the establishment of the printer, ready for use on occasion. The owner pays for tho engraving of the first ?li?*, the c?isr varying according to its elaborateness; j If a die or plate becomes worn ami a now ?lie is needed the printer supplies lt. In the larg?' hatters' printing estab lishments everything pertaining to the business is done, Including the design ing and engraving ot' the ?Mos and plates, as well ns thu printing from them. Som?? designs, the trademarks of old established houses, become fa miliar from l?>ng continued uso. As ?lies ami plates wear ?mt they are simply replaced, the design continuing the same. On the other hand, every year, for one reason ami another, many designs g?i out of us?', and Huntly the ?lies and plates are destroyed; hut every year there are produced for individual deal ers ami for general trade purposes thousands of new designs, so that tho number of ?lies ami plates on hand at the printer's is always great. Thesu designs, aside from those made for in dividual hatters. Include a very great variety of subjects. Thus there might bo seen printed on hat tips ships and locomtitives and horses ami anvils nnd many other things; ami any name or object of public Interest at tho mo ment is likely to be reproduced Inside of hats. Almost every hat worn bears within it printing In some form. If the hat has no tip it appears on the sweat leath er, and it may also be in such a hat upon what is called a sticker, tlils be ing a piece of imper, cloth or leather, in outline of the exact shape and size ol' the ?lie, upon which are printed the dealer's trademark and na nie, the sticker being pasted in the center of the crown of the hat. The retail hat dealer, wherever lie may be, If be desires a ?listinctive trademark or name design to appear In the bats he sells, sends to some big hatters* printing establishment for a design; he sends, perhaps, a suggestion of his own, or it may be that he relies upon the deslguer of the printing es tablishment. Une or more tlesigns are made ami submitted to him for ap proval. According as may lie required, such designs might embody in some ar tistic form simply the nain?? and ad dross; often such ?lies or plates are made In designs appropriate to tho re gion, state or locality. Such ?lies ami plates are made in almost endless vn riety. The plate would remain at tho printer's, and when the retailer ordered hats of the jobber with whom he dealt the jobber would have the tips and sweat leathers with which tho hats thus ordered were finished printed from the customer's own dies. Tips are printed in gold leaf, In silver leaf and lu aluminium leaf and in Ink in various colors; sometimes tit ey are printed In combinations of colors. Most commonly, however, they are printed in a single metal or color. AH sweat leathers are printed in one or another of thu metals. Box labels for hat boxes are made both plain and embossed In a very great variety of styles, and these are printed In variety as to color. A hat denier migbt have lila own design com plete for box label ns well as for hat tip; or he may select ono from among mnny box labels that nre made with a blank space to receive a die and have his own die inserted In the label. Many bat tips printed from dies en graved here are exported to Canada for use In bats thnt are flulshed there; nnd there are also made here suitable dies from which are printed hat tips for hats exported to South America.-New York Sun. Illa Fa tr Proposition. "Are you able to support my daugh ter?" asked tho old gentleman. "You know she bas pretty expensive tastes, and I don't mind saying that the bur den has been pretty bard for me at times." "That's just the point," exclaimed the prospective benedict. "If I marry her, we can divide the expense." Chicago Post - Man is a pecular animal. When ho gets what he wants he doesn't want it. C ASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind \ Have Always Bought Signature, of Makes Artificial Eyes, Tucked away lu quaint old world corners we timi Rome ot' the most odd personages. Such is tko groat nrtlA* ?.lal eye maker and pa i mer, A. Muller Mipper. In quaint Lauscha, In tko very heart ol* old Tkurlngcn's douse forests and high mountains, ko sits and works away day in and day out, sur rounded by his family, tko malo moni kers of which are all experts in this delicate work and have been such since the days ol" his great-grandfa ther, who first started the work in Paris, but who, owing to tho strong :inti-( icrmnn fceliug, was forced to re llim to his native mountain land. They have grown rich, but load simple, quiet lives. While the writer sat in front of Mr. Hipper he deftly mixed different col ored glasses over his gas lamp and within half au hour brought forth a perfect reproduction, In every tiling but real sieht, of tko writer's eye. Every year thousands of eyes made by this old world family find their way to America.-Leslie's Weekly. ('niiHi il Ind'nest lon. "Why does Henpeck refuse lo eat sausage?" "Hu says that they provoke sad thoughts. Ho proposed to his wife ou the golf lluka."-Brooklyn Lifo. - According to estimates of the salmon pack made at the principal can neries on Puget sound in the last few days, this year's product of canned and pickled salmon will reach fully 7.~>0.(KM) cases, or a gain of "id pei runt, aver la^t year's paek. This means that the product ol' thc canneries Fold in the Kuglish und American markets will realizo ahout $2.3UO,000. - "Ma." said a discouraged little Maple Avenue urchin, "I ain't Lroing to school any moro.'' "Why, dear?1' tenderly iiiijuirod hi> mother. "'Cause taint no uso. I can never I learn t'> spell. The teacher keeps changing words on mc all the time." - Kv o ry drunkard was once a mod erate drinker, and boasted that lie could drink or let it alone. The only man safe from this terrible demon is lie who positive!v refuses the fir>t gi"--*-_' _ Notice to Creditors. A LL persons having demands against thu Kstute of J. Walter Dickson, deceas ed, are hereby nodded to present thom, properly proven, to th? undersigned, within the time prescribed by law, and those indebted to ionice pavanent. J. C. GANTT, Adm'r Oct 4, LS'.*!* l l :; Copartnership Dissolution. rriHE copartnership here'oforeexisting A. between Luther H. Rigby and I. Walter Cox, under the Arin name nf Uig hy it Cox, at Pol/.or, S. G., was dissolved on July ls?. IS!>ii, by mutual consent. All accounts, Ac., dim the linn to be paid io LutlicrS. flimby, who also assumes the liabilities ol' the linn and continues the general merchandise business. LUTHER 8. UK;HY. I. WALTER COX. Sept 27, IS!tu l l 3 LAND SALE. MORE Laud than I need. Will sell in large or Minali lots. Laud fresh, productive, well timbered and lies. well. Community healthful, pure, e.old water, good citizens, good roads, sohools aud ehnrelies. Communlcste with W. L. SMITH, Ila, MadiHori (Jo., Ga. July is, IS'.)!)_4_:iin Valuable Plantation for Sale. T rr yt ACRE-', more or less, on Bea JL 6 ii verdam Creek; in a high Htato of cultivation. SO aurea bottom land, 3d in pins woods, l l in pasture, "100 in cotton laud. 3 houses on it. 1? Minded by Rev. (Jeorgo Rodgers, A. M. Guyton and oth ers. Will soil on easy terms. Purchaser to pay for paper? and stamps. For fur ther particulars apply to M. Berry Wil liams, ti uv ton, H. C.. or MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS, A luierson, y. C. July 12, 1890 3 _ Valuable Lands for Sale. WE offer for sale the following Tracts ot Land : 1st. Tho Hopkins Tract, situato in Bick ens County, e nimming two hundred acres, more or loss. 2d. Their. W. Miller Tract, containing one hundred and twenty-four acres, more or les?. This Tract has upon it a good Mill und Gin. 3d. All that part of tho Homo Tract of Lr. H. C. Miller, lying in Anderson County, being eighty acres, more or les?. These three Tracts of Land Ile on the 'waters of Eighteen Milo ('reek, resp UvHly, within oneand a half to three miles of the towns of Pendleton, Clemson Col lette and Central on the Southeru H. R. These Lands are finely wooded, with uplands and low lands in cultivation. For further particulars apply to Jas. T. Hunter, Pendleton, S. C., or John T. Taylor, on the premises. W. W. SIMONS, CARRIE T. SIMONS, RESSIE E. HOOK. EXPO. Est. Ur. H. C. Miller. A ugJIO, 1H00 _10_3 m DR. J. H. BURGESS, DENTIST. IN Pendletou every Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday. At Clemson College every Thursday Friday and Saturda}7. April 2<>, 1S1?)_44_i>m_ NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. Ti e undersigned, Administratrix of the Estate ol John M. Hall, deceased, h?*rebv gi\ea notice that she will on the 28th "day of October, 1699, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from her office as Administra trix. CORA HALL. Adnit'x. Sept. 27, lfOO 14 5* 60 YEARS* EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &C. Anrnno semlliiir a sketch ?nd description n>a> Quickly ascertain our opinion froo whether tm invention I* probably patentable. Communion. lionsHtrlctlycontldontlal. Handbook on Patents sent freo. Oldest nccnoy for securing patents. Patenta talton thmuch Munn & Co. receive sytelnl notice, without chnnto, in tho IS A handsomely ll'istrnted weekly. I .unrest cir culation of any solentltle tournai. Terms. ;? rear: four months, fl. SoWbyall newsdealer*. MUNN & Co.36,Bro-^' New York Branch omeo. 625 F tit.. Washington. D. C. I tflftJE^Gf CARDUE ?\J70MEN used .w to think "fe rn alo diseases ", cou'.d only ba treated after "lo cal examina tions" by physi cians. Dread of such treatment kept thousands of modest women silent about their suifering. The in troduction of Wine of Cardul has now demon strated that nine-tenths of all tho cases of menstrual disorders do not require a physician's attention at all. The simple, pure taken in the privacy of a woman's own homo insures quick relief and speedy cure. Women need not hesitate now. Wine of Cardul re quires no humiliating examina tions for its adoption, lt cures any disease that comes under the head of "t?male troubles"-disordered menses, falling of the womb, "whites." change of life, lt makes worh?n beautiful by making them well, lt keeps them young by keeping them healthy. $1.00 at the drug store. For advice In cases requiring special directions, address, glvlmr symptoms, tho "Ladies' Advisory Department," The Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Chatta nooga. Tenn. W. !. ADDISON, M. D., Cary, Misc., says: .'I use Wine of Cardul extensively In my practico and find 11 a most oxcoiieot Dreairatloa for female troubles." t&lN? Of CARDUt H. S. VA NIH V un. K P. VAN DIV KU .). .1. M A.I o a. VANDIVBR BROS. & I?J0R. D13 A LEWS IN Fine Buggies, Phasetons, Surreys, Wagons, Harness Lap Robes and Whips, AUK in their elegant now Repository ??vcr Vaudlver limn. Store Between Masonic Mall and New Bank. If you ni'Mil anything in our line wo have tim goods, tho guarantee Ktitl tho prii'o t?i ideas*. Wo hiuhly Mppreeiato all tho trade giv en u*, and are trying to give the very best JluggiPN OMI can b? sold for the price. A nico Int of New, Cheap II aggies on hand. Thu price will positively sur prix? you. Yours lor Buggies, YAN DIVER ll ROS. & MAJOR. W. G. McGEE, SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE- - rom K .or.' mid Mo eli an tb lian K over Farmers ANDEUSON, to. O. 181)8 83 NOTICE. 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. Desirable Plantation for Sale. ABOUT ano acre? of Land, on Threo and Twenty Creek, two and one half miles east of Pendleton, on the road lending to Pelzer, la ottered for Bale. There aro about ?25 acres of bottom land. The place is well watered and well adnptod to stock-raising, and baa butween 50 and 75 acres of forests. For further information applvto J. MILES PICKENS, S-?lm_Pendleton, S C. Notice to Teachers & Trustees. ARegular Examination for both white and colored teachers will be beld on Friday, Oct. 13. Under the rules of theState Board of Education certificates of teachers who did not attend tho Summer Normal can not bo renewed. If your certificate expires before tho next Spring examination, this will be your only opportunity to secure a certflcate. Trust?es are forbidden by the school law to employ teachers who tmvo no cer tificate, and a teacher who is employed without a eerti floate is in danger of losing bis pay. The examination will begin promptly at 0 a. m. and all applicants are ordered to be here at that hour. Trustees who have not already done so are requested to forward their annual report to me at onco, as my report to the State Supt. must be com ploted at an early date. R. E NICHOLSON, Co. Sup't. CHARLESTON AND WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY. AUGUSTA ANO AHHKVILLE8UOKT LINE In effect July 23,1893. LT Augusta., Ar Greenwood. Ar Anderson. Ar Laurens. Ar Greenville. Ar Glenn Springs?. ArSpartanburg. Ar Saluda. Ar Hendersouville. Ar Ashovllla. 9 40 am H 60 am 1 20 pin 3 00 pm 4 05 pm 3 10 pm 5 33 pm C 03 pm 7 00 pm 1 40 pm 6 10 pm 5 35 am 10 15 am 9 00 am LT Asheville. LT Hpartanburg. LT Glenn Springs.. LT Greenville. LT Laurens. LT Anderson., LT Greenwood. Ar Augusts. LT Calhoun Fulls.., Ar Raleigh. Ar Norfolk. Ar Petersburg. Ar Richmond. LT Auguste. Ar Allendale. Ar Fairfax. Ar Yemasseo. Ar Beaufort..... Ar Port Royal.... Ar Savannah. Ar Charles ton. 8 28 am 11 45 am 10 00 am 12 01 am 1 87 pm 3 40 pm 4 00 pm 7 00 pm 7 00 am 2 87 pm j.HHMH 6 10 pm ll 10 am 4 44 pm 2 16 am 7 30 am 6 00 am 8 15 am 10 05 am 11 15 am 1180 am l 20 pm 8 10 pm 8 65 pm 4 20 pm 5 20 pm 6 85 pm 7 00 pm 7 30 pm LT Charleston. LT Port Bural. LT Beaufort.... LT Yemasseo.. LT Fairfax., LT Allendale.. Ar Augusta. 1 00 pm 1 18 pm 3 80 pm 0 23 am fi 65 am 7 20 am 8 20 am 9 20 am 9 ?W ora ll 2) nui Clos! connection at Calhoun Falls for Athena Atlanta tad all points on 8. A. L. Close connection at Augusta for Charleston Savannah and all points. Close connections at Greenwood for all points on 8. A. Lt., and C. A G. Railway, au-1 at Spartanburg with Southern Railway. Forany information relativo to tickets, rates schedule, etc., address W. J. CRAIG, Gen.Pus. Agent,Augusta,Ga'. E. M. North, 8ol. Agent. T. M. Emerson ,Tr alfie Manager.