Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE SAILOR MAN. Hare a terrible time I wan out o' the way. Over the bea, over the Bea, Till I come back to Ireland one bunny day, lietthcr f >r me, bett lier (or met The flrit time me foot got the (eel o' the ground. I waa uthrollin along in an Ii.-li city That hasn't its arjuil the world around lor tlie air thal is sweet ar. tiie girls that are pritty. XU'lit on their feet nov.- they passed me nn sped, Uive you me word, give you me wordt Every girl had a turu o' the head Just lil:?, a lird, just like a bird! An the lash s so thick round their beautiful eyes, M.min lo tell ye 'twas fair tiuu o' day wi' them. Hail: in mc Ina.t, wit' a kind o' rurprise, 1 think how .he Irish girls hrs the way wi' them. Och, man alivj, but it's little ye know That never va? there, never was there! Look where ye ?ike for Hiern; long i:iay ye go What do I care? What do 1 care? Plenty as blac Oicrrks, where will ye find Rare pritty girls, not by two nor by three o' them? Only just there where they grow, d'ye mind, Still like the blackberries, more than ye see o' them. Long, long away, an, no ir>atthcr how far, 'Tis the girls that I miss, girls that 1 miss. Women are roun' ye wherever ye are, Not worth n kiss, not worth a kiss. Over in Ireland many's tho one Well do I know that lias nothin to say wi* them Sweeter than anything under the sun. Och, but the Irish girls lina the way wi' Hiern. -Moira O'Neill in lila, kwiod's. XX>OOtXXX>51 THE SURGEON'S VACATION. Ho Went Away For ti Rest, but Could Not Stop Benefit ing; Others. BY.;... W W. R. ROSE. Tlie groat surgvoii hud como dowu to Marion for rest and forgetfulness. He had meant to go where there Way nei ther pain nor sorrow, if such an Edeu existed, and he had come to Marion. For one tiling, it was not on a railroad; for another, its diminutive size pre cluded the idea that the clanking chains of business life were about it. It was just a lazy little hamlet-a church, a general store, a score of straggling white houses with green blinds, and that was all. Here the surgeon incant to bury him self for his precious four weeks' out ing. Ho could have gone to Europe as the guest of a millionaire had he said the word. He know be needed Marion instead. The great surgeon bad been sadly overworked. All through the summer months bc bad promised himself that he would stop and rest. It was late in September before be Anally started. He felt that bis iron nerves were giv ing way, and one September morning he noticed that the marvelous steadi ness of his good light hand was Im paired. He knew then that he had enough. He went away with all the precau tions of a defaulter. He left no ad dress. He desired no mail, no tele grams, to follow him. For o month he meant to drop his professional exist ence. He picked out his destination at haphazard from the big map on his of fice wall. He was influenced, as has been said, by the fact that the little village was off the line of travel. He bought his ticket for a point beyond the railway town that was Marlon's nearest connection and then doubled back. "And now," he said, as he alighted, valise in hand, from the mail stage that brought him over, "here's an end to the surgeon shop. For a month I'm somebody else, somebody who knows no moro of struggling with human ail ments than be does of tbrottliug Thra cian gladiators." : He hadn't even brought a profession al card with him. A half hour latoi* he was comfortably lodged In the upper front room of the Widow Odette's cozy cottage, with a wonderful view of smiling hillsides and tinted woods and blue and white sky from its extremely clean windows. He had told the widow that his name was Thomas Brown and that he was a worn out traveling man who had come to Marlon for rest and quiet. Where was he from? From Braceville, and he named the railway town to which he had purchased his ticket when he ran away from the big city. "Much sickness In Braceville?" In quired the widow. The surgeon shuddered. "I don't know," he said shortly and. taking his hat, went out for a stroll. As he passed down the maple bowered highway beyond the row of houses, kicking the red and gold drifts of leaves as he faintly remembered doing when he was a boy in that faraway Iowa village, he noticed a lame man ap proaching. Thc mau walked with a crutch, ono of his legs being bent stiffly at the knee. He was a cheery faced old man in a faded blue blouse with brass buttons. "Morntn, squire," he said, with true rural affability. "A fine morning," said the great sur geon, resolutely looking away from the stiffened knee. "Not from my rheumatism's p'int of view," chuckled the old man. "Rheumatism, eh?" said the surgeon. 'I thought it might have been a gun shot wound." The lame man had halt ed, and thc surgeon felt that he was called upon to say something. 'No, slr," said the lame man,, with much emphasis. "1 went thr?' th' war without a scratch. Got into 17 pitched battles an came out ag'In sound as a dollar. Uncle Sam don't owe me nothin. No. slr. Mornin." and hf. Rtniylll? p?r?5?J aiung. The nugeon smiled at the old man's vehemence. Then, as he looked back at h Ia pain cramped figure, he sighed. Somehow the sunshine didn't seem quite so bright Re walked long enough to win a good appetite, however, and when he rei urn ed to the widow's cottage found, an appetising cold luncheon awaiting him, with a trim little rosy cheeked lass to serve it Tho widow bustled in present ly with voluble excuses for her ab sence. She had run over to Ezra Patchen's, her right hand neighbors, to carry a glass of quince jelly to young Joe Patchen, jost back from the Philippines. "Poor boy," said the widow; "he's nothing but parched skin an aching bones. Got one o' those swamp fe vers fastened on him, an If he Dull* through the winter ir il ue a uiesncu wonder." k The surgeon pushed back lils plate. Ills appetite had suddenly failed. He went up to lils oozy bedroom und dropped jato n big cushioned rocker. "Tiie m nu's a fool who thinks he can run away from human suffering." he muttered bitterly. Then the tidy beti, with Its immacu late covering:*, wooed his tired bones, and a minute or two later he was en joying thc first afternoon nap lie had taken for many years. Ho awoke toward dusk feeling rather ashamed of his long sleep. And yet only a few hours later he found he was quite ready for the all ulght uap. He was sleeping soundly at S o'clock when the widow called him. He arose with a start, glancing first at his watch aud then at himself in the bureau glass. He looked ten years younger. "Sleep is knitting up the raveled sleeve of care for you all right, old fellow," ho said. Then he quito astonished himself by having nu appetite for breakfast, and after breakfast he walked forth again. Ile remembered the old soldier, how ever, and went the other way. As ho passed the last cottage in this new direction a young woman came through the gate. She was accompa nied by a weazened little boy, who clung tightly to ber hand. Ho was a cripple. One of Ids shoulders dropped, and his head bent over it. His legs were spindly and weak, and he shut tled along with the appearance of a de crepit old man. The great surgeon frowned and hur ried forward, .lust as ho was about to pass the pair the girl turned nnd look ed back. She was a comely young wo man of perhaps six aud twenty, with clear, honest eyes and pretty nut brown hair and a singularly gentle ex pression. When the surgeon caine back from lils long stroll along tho ridge, the young woman and the boy were seated on a low stone wall half way up the hill. As the surgeon passed, the little follow, whose head rested comfortably against the girl's arm, laughed shrilly over some story his companion was reading aloud from a book in her lap. The surgeon thought of that picture a good many times during the day. Ile saw it again the next day and the next. The boy's misfortune worried him. His fingers twitched to examine into his ailment. Ile felt that the lad could be helped, lie tried to crowd this feeling ashli;. Ho told himself that he was an idiot to let sentiment bother him In such a ridiculous fashion. "But you always were a fool about children," he growled to his reflection In the bedroom glass. On the fourth day he spoke to the girl. She and the little cripple were sit ting on the low stone wall where they usually rested on the way up the hill. "Pleasant afternoon," said the sur geon, as he lifted his hat. The girl looked up. She saw before her a tall man, a little stooped, a little gray, a little careworn. She gravely bowed. Sho took no offense at his unceremoni ous speech. The niceties of social usage are not so strictly observed in the country. "I am interested in your lit tle companion," the surgeon went on. He might have added that he was also Interested in the dark eyed, self pos sessed young woman. "He has been a great sufferer," said the girl, "but he is a very good and rory patient boy." The surgeon sat down on the wall by the lad and lifted him on to ills knee. He did it so quickly, so deftly, so gen tly, that the girl looked up at the kind ly face in surprise. She saw the large tvhite hand of the stranger pass softly mt firmly across the twisted shoulder ind adown tho- weakened spine. She ?nw a frown replace the kindly smile. "How long ago was he hurt?" "Three years," said the girl. "He is Ll now. It was a runaway. He and mr mother were thrown from the yagon, nnd she was killed." The girl laused and turned her head away. "What treatment did he have?" "The best we could secure-a doctor 'rom Brldgevllle." The stranger'a frown deepened. "It was botch work," he said, almost larshly. "The boy should never have leen like this." The girl turned quickly. "Then you are a surgeon?" she said, vith a wondering flash in her darb yes. The stranger faintly smiled. "Murder will out," he ' id. "I didn't aean to hear that ti for a solid louth of forgetfulness. But nevei ulnd. I intend to see this mattel brough. Come, I must examine thc oy more nt my leisure." His eyes sparkled as he arose wit; be slight figure of the child in hit rms, and together they passed dowe be hill. "Ii! yon are a surgeon," said the glr fter a little hesitation, "perhaps yoi viii be kind enough to give me som? dvice on a subject that-that deeply aterests me. It ls my ambition to be orne a hospital nurse. I feel that I an ailed to the work. I have had a lit le experience in nursing here in Mar >n, and when they had a typhoid epi ernie in Milburn they sent for me ti ome over. But what I need ls i banco in some city hospital." Shi nosed and looked appealingly in hil res. "It is painful and dlsagreeabh wk," he said. "Yes,4 know," she quickly cried. "I ave thought of all that. I own sev ral books on nursing and medica roctlce and snits ??-U wnat ti rpect. I would have started out foi lyself months ago If lt hadn't beei >r Artie there. He needs constan ire, and, while my stepmother-m: ither died last winter-ls very kind * 1m, I did not think it right to put al ds burden on her shoulders. But th ?sire to go grows stronger and stron ? every day." The stranger's eyes sparkled agali : her eagerness. "It looks to me now," he said quit .avely, "as If there would soon be t lance to prove your capabilities. I m come out of the ordeal In a satis ictory manner, I think I can safer, ?omise yon a berth in the big hosjsif Ith which I chance to have some coe :ctlon." "Oh, thank you, Biri" she cried.. "An hat ls the ordeal?" Tho/stranger looked down at the fae ' the clppled lad. "The little chap ts asleep," he sot tl 8ni?*. "TVft? your permission i mean j to straighten this tortured back and | this ugly shoulder. I mean to nudo the j mischief wrought by well meaning lg- j nornncc. I mean that this Utile follow ' shall walk through life ns straight and ? upright as God intended lie should." ? The girl's eyes dilated. "And you will do this?" t>he mur- * mured in an awed tono. "With your permission and a certain | amount of your assistance." the strnn- I ger smilingly saith "My assistance!" she repeated. "Yes. I have no acquaintances here, and I will need some help. Do you think you have the nerve to stand by mo?" "I will try," she simply answered. Three days later a square, leather covered box of considerable size was brought over on the stage from the nearest railway station. The surgeon sat up late that night examining and arranging its contents. Then be went to bed and slept like a healthy child. The first thing be did when he arose lu the morning was to stretch out bis long, white hands and stare at them. "Steady as the eternal rocks," he said, with a pleased smile. Two hours later he made ids appear ance at the door of the little cottage, valise In hand, where the dark eyed girl eagerly awaited bim. "Artie awoke in capital spirits," shu whispered, ."and my stepmother lias gone to spend tlie day at a neighbor's, and everything that you ordered is ready." "Good," he said, witli au admiring glance at her eager face and trim, alert figure. Then be weut In and closed tlie outer door. When it was all over, tho dark eyed girl walked willi the great surgeon to the gate. Siie was very pale, and there were tears in her eyes. "Those wonderful, wonderful bands," she murmured. "So swift, so steady, so sure!" He smiled down at ber like a pleased boy. "I make it a practice never to Hatter my assistants," be sahl, "but 1 will say to you confidentially that the hospital berth is yours whenever you choose to call for it." Ut? stopped ber thanks with a quick gesture as be went on a little more gravely. "It certainly was a beautiful operation, and we may botli feel proud of it. Our plastered and harnessed and jacketed little pa tient ought to be ou the highway to recovery in a mouth's time. Thou you can safely leave him. Meanwhile you will have to put up with a daily call from the surgeon in charge." A cloud crossed the girl's face. "But the-the bill for your services, sir," she murmured. "How are we to pay that?" "I admire your frankness, my dear," laughed the surgeon. "But chase that troubled look from your eyes. When I carno to Marlon, I dropped the shop. I haven't even a blank billhead among my effects. Besides this, I took thc case for my own selfish amusement. Oh, I can afford these little eccentrici ties. I'd have paid you for lt sooner than have missed it. Goodby!" And the great surgeon walked briskly down the road quite unconscious that a pair of worshiping eyes followed bim un til a swift rush of grateful tears blur red him from their sight. Three weeks later, as he sat in the parlor car that was rapidly bearing tilm back to the gront city, be smiling ly muttered to himself: "I quite failed to carry out my vaca tion programme. But what of that? I ?vas never better nor surer of myself. Besides, it bas taught me a valuable csson. Fixed habits of life should ml y bo broken off by degrees."-Clevc and Plaiu Dealer. London In ?7S3. In 17S4 M. La Combe published a look entitled "A Ficture of London," n which, inter alia, he says: "The high roads 30 or 40 milos round Loudon are Hied* with armed highwaymen and ootpnds." This was then pretty true, hough the expression "filled" is some vhat of an exaggeration. The med cal student of 40 or 50 years ago seems o have been auticipatcd In 1784, fdr il. La Combe tells us that "tlie brass mockers of doors, which cost from 12 hillings to 15 shillings, are stolen at tight If the maid forgets to unscrew hem"-a precaution which seems to lave gone out of fashion. M. Ln Combe, In another part of his took, exclaims: "How arc you changed, londoners! Your women are become lold, Imperious and expensive. Bank upts and beggars, coiners, spies and aformers. robbers and pickpockets bound. The baker mixes alum in his read; thc brewer puts opium and cop er filling In his beer; the mllkwoman polls lier milk with snails." How Missourians Were Made. There are many ways of settling a tate, according to Ainslee's Magazine, [ere's the story of Missouri : "Tennessee mountaineers took ad nntage of the more level lands of MIs ?url to fill that state In an Incredibly ?ort space- of time after the treaty .1th the Osages, and in thc state's rich ad abundant soil and water they light have made ono of the largest ad greatest of thc American common ealths had not the vicinity been so empting to tho Confederacy and BO nportant to the north. In the terrific mtcst that waged over tho freeing of ie shaves the young men and the ad snturous of thc community found it ?sler to migrate than to remain at une, easier even at the cost of facing ie unexplored regions of Kansas, New [exlco and / rizona. Tb?? c^5nr?s? iva tarried, suffered the emotions of ar, posted the sacrifice of $40,000,000 ? be free of serfdom and stamped up~ i Missouri the characteristics of com itlve endurance." Needed a Divining Rod. "Ho, there, Jilkins, have you got tange, for a twenty 7' asked Van ouch, rushing up to Jilkins breath ssly. "Yes-yes, I believe I" "Well, just let me have ? ten, then, ?" "Come to think of it." said Jilkins, *1 ft vmy bundle with my wife before I art ed down town, and" "Too bad," said Van Touch. "I want I to pay you that ten," and he pulled' it a crisp new twenty. "Some other fl time'll do. though. 8'Iong!" And s was off. "What I need in my business Is a di ning rod," mused Jilkins as be wend I.his cloomy way.-Washington Post. HUMAN SIGNBOARDS. THE MF.N WHO CARRY THE BANNERS FOR ADVERTISERS. One of tht? Brotherhood Who l'oram unlates New Yorls'li S'roots Tollu of tho MothoUH nod Killen W ll Iel? Govern Illa Peculiar Occupation. Iiis aspect was that of a creature hopelessly goue to seed. His move ments betrayed a listlessness which a fiery, sodden face, framed lu unkempt white hair and beard, denoted was born of mortal apathy. From his neck hung a cheap nickel clock. Over lils slender, narrow shoulders loomed a great oil cloth banner Inscribed with gilt letters, which advertised lo State street's mul titude tho eminent superiority of some body's shoes, for he was a peripatetic sign man who went Heating along in tho human sea until an eddy tossed him Into a side street with a precipi tation due perhaps to the presence of a dingy, forlorn little saloon of evil and farrcachlng odors, into which thc cu rious observer invited him that he might got a story. "Who nm IV Nobody but the vet eran banner lugger in State street. Otherwise, viewed ns an atom of the social system. I'm a blot, child of the gutter, and all the usual rot which an emotional imagination may be able to supply. I never was long on adjec tives, aud sentiment and I parted com pany years ago. But. as I say, I'm the veteran banner packer in this human wilderness. for I have been nt it through storm and sunshine for seven years and that with few interruptions to appease the longings of moral de linquency common to the race of ban ner packers. Appear to have some education? I don't know. Maybe I lind once, but I'm too much of a phi losopher for reminiscence." "Better remove your-your banner." suggested the curious observer as tiley entered the dingy, forlorn little saloon "You'll feel easier." "Can't." replied the red facet! packer laconically. "Locked in." "Locked In! You don't mean it?" "Yes, that's a gospel fact." continued the packe:-, edging himself tbrough the narrow door. "You will notice that the shoulder pieces attached to my banner are part of an iron band which goes around my waist. At the back the band works on hinges, and it is locked on me by tho foreman of the banner packers when 1 start out in the morning. I come back to the start ing point at noon, and the foreman ! unlocks them, leaving me free for an hour to eat If I have the price of a morsel or so, or to loaf arouud wishing I was some one else, with my teeth aching from too close an application to trudies and pheasants. If 1 haven't. Then at 1 o'clock I am locked Into my Iron frame again and set forth to pack the banner until 0 o'clock, when my work for the day ends and 1 am at liberty to go to my lodgings." "Virtually, then, you are a prisoner during your working hours?" said the curious observer. "Virtually, yes," responded the ban ner packer. "I am one of the hun dreds who arc patrolling the streets of New York today in iron frames and who ore just as much Imprisoned as our friends in Sing Sing or the male factors who parade in ball and choin. Por certain hours we move up and down locked In irons, and, although our shoulders may become racked with pain, we have no relief except at thc noon hour and quitting time, unless wo return between times and resign our jobs." "Why are you locked lu the frames?" "Because the advertisers demand it. Many months ago they discovered that a. majority of their peripatetic sign men were dishonest and availed them selves of every opportunity to hide their signs ns soon ns they were out .?f sight of the establishments employ ing them." "Are banner packers governed by my fixed rules?" "To bo sure we are. We are not al owed to walk the thoroughfares in iouplcs, and we must not keep our hau lers out in a rain which seems wet mo ugh to do them serious Injury. Wo ire forbidden to talk to persons who tccost us during working hours and ire particularly enjoined from conver tatlon with packers engaged by rival loncerns. To be caught taking a drink neans instant dismissal. "What territory do we cover? The vhole of Greater New York. Each ono if us bas a defined district and ls for ddden to overlap another's on pain of lismissal. But men In my profession xe not punctilious, and when we can ;et together for a chat and a pint we tever fall to embrace the opportunity, ?'ew besides members of the fraternl y seem willing to talk to a banner lacker. We are outcasts, pariahs, the purned of all the little world. Bow yer, it isn't worth while to rehearse ur personal histories in detail. We ome from all classes, the highest as pell as the lowest, from every walk of fe, but all of us are united on one ommon plane, and that is hopeless In competency. We're the failures, the ocial wrecks, whom your business ian scans askance and passes os as eyend the pale of commercial recognl on. He doesn't want us. Nobody will ave us except those advertisers who link banner packing a good thing in leir business. "Our pay Is very small. The average jmpensatlon ls 50 cents a day and a leal or two, or from 75 cent? to ?i for ?CS0 ?m-.kers who do not get a grub ako. However, there are not many f us who can get SI a day."-New ork Telegraph. A Matter ot Appearance*. "What did tho football game look tte, Aunt Sue?" "Like a lot of crazy men trying to itch a chicken."-Chicago Record. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. ba Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho ligna tur o of - If you want your children to bo no Christians, you must set them a nrthy example in your own life. JAV< .1^11 Viii IV. SPEAKING HIS FIRST PILCE. An Experience *?Vltn Which Mnny of IN Will l'rohalily Sj m pat li ::.?.. Tlfe author of "Little .Tourneys te thc Homes of American Statesmen" u>H? of his experience when a new teacher Inaugurated "Friday afternoons" to u devoted to "speaking pieces." He had been well drilled at home, but his spir its ran lower and lower as the fateful Friday drew near: Thursday night I slept little, and all Friday morning I was lu a burning fe ver. At noon I could not eat my lunch eon, but 1 tried manfully, and as 1 munched the tasteless morsels salt tears rained ou lite Johnnycake. Even when the girls brought in big bunches of wild Howers and cornstalks and began to decorate tito platform things appeared no brighter. Finally the teacher went to tito door and rang the bell. Nobody .scented to play, and as the scholars took their seats some, very pale, tried to smile. Others whispered, "Have you got your piece?" Still others kept their lips working, repeating lines that struggled hard to lice. Nantes were called, but I did not sec I who went up; neither did 1 bear what i was said. At last my name was called, j It came like a (dap of thunder-a groat surprise, a shock. 1 clutched tito desi;, struggled to my feet, passed down the , aisle, tlie sound of my shoes echoing ; through tho silence like thc strokes ot \ a maul. The blood seemed ready ie j burst front my eyes, cars and nose. I readied Ute platform, missed my j footing, stumbled and m arly fell. 1 ; beard tho giggling that followed and i knew that a red haired boy, who bad ? just spoken ami was therefore mince . essarily jubilant, had laughed aloud. I Avas angry. I shut my lists so that ! the nails cut my llesh, and. glaring j straight at ltl-s red bead, I shot my bolt: "I know not bow others may feel; but, sink or swim, live or die. survive i or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. It ls my living sentiment, I and by the blessing of (Jod it shall bo i my dying sentiment. Independence ? now and independence forever." That was all of the piece. I ?ave the ; whole tiling in a mouthful and started j for my seat, got half way there, and, j remembering I had forgotten to bow, turned, went back to the platform, bowed with il jerk, started again for my scat and. hearing some ono laugh, I I ran. Reaching tho seat. I burst into tears. The teacher came over, patted my head, kissed my cheek and told me I bad done flrst rate, and after hearing several others speal; I calmed down and quite agreed willi her. Animal*' Fear of 'Inn. Darwin has shown that the fear of man ls an acquired and not a native instinct, and from this we may Infer that with other acquired instincts It would more readily be lost or fall Into abeyance than those Instiucts that arc inborn. With strange surrouudlugs nnlmals tend to lose these acquired instincts, as ls well shown by the cow ardice of the house dog lu a strange bouse, the unruliness of the horse in strange harness and the like. The laud bird in mldoeean, bereft of its accustomed landmarks, loses with them its acquired instincts until the sight of land restores its contldence In itself and gives it back all Ita facul ties. A tameness from a similar cause has often been uoticed in wild animals during convulsions of uature, Hoods and lire, aud it Is well known that paule, such, for example, as Is pro duced by a Uro at sen. falling into the water or a pestilence, will bring into abeyance all a man's acquired instincts and reduce him to the primitive in stincts of a brute beast. Notable Event. She-Do you know, dear, that I bavo been thinking of nothing all night but that high note the prima douua ren dered at thc opera last night? He-And I have been "thinking of nothing but that other note I rendered Shaver to get the wherewithal to take you there.-Richmond Dispatch. - If a man has a clear conscience he can sec through a great many dark things. e with pure 6PAHI5H LICORICES Unsurpawetl for cure of CeUGHSt.C9lD?> H?9 PACKAGES* borny recommended by Medical Profession. In decorated Tin Boxes - Pocket yze. ( Ul*25 ff Per BOX ? Sold by Druqqi5t? everywhere, on sent * p/epaidon receipt of price? Z>*f<4<f(4srJ . fl63 Broadway ?? NBWYOWK? D.S. VANOIVEU. K. P. VANOIVEH. J. J. MAJOR. miMBROSlMAJOB. DEALERS IN Fine Buggies, Phaotons, Surreys. Wagons. Harness Lap Hubes and Whips, WE want your trade, and promise both lo take care of yon and to appreciate the .rade. Drop round and see our pretty, alick ino of work. If we can't sell yon we will appreciate be opportunity and atill be friends. Tours for Baggies, VAM DIVER BROS. A MAJOR. _ DATENTA T?Ak??ri FA i Ero IS *^ ADVICE AS TO PATENTABILITY PBIKC 1 NoUco in " Inventive Age " BBRKBB %W 1 Book "How to obtain Patente" H Bli Kw BM 4 upatc_ Letters strictly confidential. Address, E. 0. 3IGGER6./?Wd Uttffer. Waihlngjon, D.C. FOR SALE. A BOTTT Nine Hundred Acres FINE fY LAND in Fork Township, be woen new F*?rry and H?ttnn's Foro. MRS. O. M. CHESNAULT, Anderdon, S. G. Oct 25, 1899 18 " We hive four children. With thc fini \ three I Buttered almost unbearable pains from 12 to 14 hours, and had to bc placed und? the influence of chloroform. I used thrcj bottles of Mother's Friend before our last child came, which is a strong, fat and healthy boy, doing my housework up to within two hours of birth, and suf fered but a few hard C pains. This lini- I . ment is thc grand- { J*. est remedy cverV made." Mother's will do for every woman what it did fer tho Minnesota mother NV ho writes the above let? ter. Not to usc it during pregnancy is a mistake to bc paid for in pain and suffering) Mother's Frunc? equips thc patient with a j strong body and clear intellect, which in I turn arc imparted to thc child. It rclar.ci thc muscles and allows them to expand. Il relieves morning sickness and nervousness, ? lt puts all the organs concerned in perfect ! condition for thc final hour,so that thc actual labor is short and practically painless. Dan ger of rising cr hard breasts is altogether avoided, end recovery merely a matter ol a few days. DrusRlsts sci! Motlier'? Friend tar 51 a bottle. Tbc Bradfield .-.emulator Co., Atlanta, Ga, ?end for !0 Illustrated t'ook. SPECIAL ?ALF. OF AND j a. OH Tl I li N li X ! I'lllH ! Y DAYS j THF. C. A REED ! MUSIC HOUSE Will nell Huy of t ho following Ulah Grade PIANOS Hud OH? ANS Ht prmes H* low UH ORO he obtained from the Manufactu rera dirret : KNABE, WEB EH, IVEKS & POND," CROWN, WHKEIiOCK. LAKE SIDE and I1ICHJV20ND. A iKO. 'rsif-l * Ito WW, E;VTS-:Y aaa FAKIUND ?fc VOTE Y O RU A NN. Prnspeoti a purchasers will find it to their interest to eal! mid inspect my Slock or write tor prico*. Wo ?IMO represent th? 'ending innkos Sewing Machines At Hork Bottom ligures. Heap? etfull? , THE C. A. REED MUSIf. HOUSE Presbyterian College, Clinton, ? C. SECOND TERM begins*. Jan. 'll), 1S)()0. htudenlH reeeivod at any time. Ma triculation. 'Tuition, Hoard and Room rout from Jan. 9. to June 5, WOO, for onlv 802.00. Hame, from Jan. 211 to June 5, 852.00. Chundra], Scientific and Com mer? nial course?. For catalogua or Informa tion ol' any kind address W. T. MATTHEWS, or A E. SPENCER. Dec 18. 1800 _25_0 BO YEARS* EXPERIENCE PATENTS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &C. Anyono nonrtlitR a skctrh and description ina? nui.MJv asnortaln our opinion froo whether an Invention In probably patentable. Communie*, iloitantrtothr confidential. Handbook on Patenta sent froo. Oldest auency for nocurln? putouts. Patents taken through Munn & Co. re?oive ?pedal notice, without charge, In tho Scientific Jlmericatt. A handsomely tlTnstrated weekly. I.nrecst cir culation of any aclentlOo Journal. Terms. 93 a year: four mont bu. tj L Bold by all newsdealers. MUNM8Co.38,Broa^NewYork _ Branch Offloo. 625 F St- W Babington. JD. c._ Notice to Creditors. ALL persons having demanda against the EHtate of Audrew Hunter, deceas ed. are hereby notified to present them, properly proven, to tho uoder>igned, within the t?uie prescribed by law, and those indebted to make uavment. J. I,. FARMER, Ono of tho Executor*". _JanJl11000_ 28 3 NOTICE To Administrators, Executers, Guardians, And Trustees. AI#IJ Administrators, Executors,Guar dians and Trust?e? are hrreby noti tied to make their Annual Returns to this ofliae during the months of January and February, as required by law. R. Y. H. NANCE, Judge of Probate. Jan 3, 1000_28_6 Kotice. ALL porfions are hereby notified that they must not do work in the county without firat contracting with the Supervisor, County Commissioners, or with the one of the nub-Township com missioners, and no claim hereafter will be approved by the Hoard of County Commissioners until it ia O. E., bv the person authorizing work to bo done. And claim muet be died in every instance on or before Salesday in ea-h month, with the Clerk of the Board to insure action at any meeting. Hereafter no checks will be Issued on day of bom! meeting. .). N. VAN DIVER, Co. Supervisor. JOHN C. GANTT, JOnN T. ASHLEY, Board Co. Com. J. F. CL A RD Y, Clerk Board. 7 NO crop can grow witlv out Potash. Every blade of Grass, every grain of Corn, all Fruits and Vegetables must have it. If enough is supplied you can count on a full crop if too little, the growth will be 44 scrubby." Send lor our books telling all about composition of fertilizers best adapted for all crops. They coit you nothing, GERMAN K.U.I WORKS. ,3 Nassau St. NcwYotV, Weaver Ona \ro'? will timi me at tho AE.i.IANt V, i. .Vl'OEtK with ? sokvl s*.i cl; of Fine Pianos And Organs. I nm prepared tu nell on tm*y torniH to re I spotisihht partier i I ion Mi'.l Kfllinu til? XBW HOME j MACHIN K Ht s j't.dii canil, or a alight ad - ! vane? <ui time. j M. L. WU. IG?SE7, MCCULLOUGH, & M?ETIN, i Attorneys at Law, MASOXK' TEHJ'LE. W. G. McGEE, j OFFICE-. mot .. ... , over Formera 1 ?ml Mo chant* Hdii'x AND?H8?N, .s. C. . . 0. 1898 S3 ?iONE?TO LOAN, ON FA KM I NU UNDK. Knsy pay mcnta. No commissions chanted. Bot rower puya actual cont of perfecting loan. Interest 8 pur cent. J NO. B. PALMER & SON. Columbi*, S C Oct. ll. 1899. 10 Om FOR SALE FARM, containing 249 acres, ll miles (Southwest from the City ot Ander son. All Noleutitlcally terraced and In good elate of cultivation. I room cot tage, (new,) two tenant houses and big log barn on the place. Price ?10.00 per acre, H not casb. For further particulars call on or address JOHN J. NORRIS, Anderson,S.C. Oct 25, 1899_18_ FOR SALE. My House and Lot of four acres on Greenville St. Also, Mills and 80 acres of land .ii miles south of Anderson. For further particulars apply to me In my oflle.e or J. L Tribble, Esq A. C. STRICKLAND. Sept 27, 1S99_14_ Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned, Administrator oi Estate of E. I). McAlister, dee'd, here by nivea notice that ho will on tho Kith day of January, l'KK), apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderdon County, S. C., for a Final Settlement of said EH tate, and a diacharge from bia otlice as Administrator. S. R. riIMS, Adm'r. Den 13, 1889_9fi_5_ THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CO Vlf TY OF ANDERSON. COURT UV COMMON PLEAS. J. H. fowler at.d Joseph N. Brown, as Assignee of J. H. Fowler, PlaiuliHd, against J. L.' taylors, Defendant.--Summons for Belief"-Complaint not .Served. To tho Defendant, J. L Soy lora : YOU are hereby summoned and required to an swer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office or tho Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Bald County, and tn serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber at his office, at Anderson CH.. 8. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, ex clusivo of the dar ol'such service; and if you fall to answer the Complaint within tho time aforesaid, tho Plaintiffs in this action will apply to tho Court for tho relief demanded in the Complaint. J03EPH N. DROWN. Plaintiffs' Attorney, Anderson, 8. C. December lbth, A. D. 1899. [SKA?.] JOHN C. WATKINS, C. C. C I>. To tho Dofendant, J L. Say lora : Take notice that the Complaint in this action together with tho Summon?, of which Ibo fore going ls a copy, was filed in ibo office of the Clerk of the Court at Anderson, in the County and State aforesaid, on the 15th day of December, 1899, and that the t>l>]ect of the action is to force ose a mort Sage executed by you to J. 8. Fowler on ono bun red acres of Laud, situate in Anderson County, In said State, dated December 14tb, 1889. JOSEPH N. BROWN, Plaintiffs* Attorney, Anderson, ? C. December 15,1899_2?_G CHARLESTON AND WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY AUGUSTA AMI!?SSS7ILLE?S?Bi' LINK In effect Dee. 1st, 1899. LT Augusta,. 9 40 am 1 40 pm KrGreenwood. 12 15 am . lr Anderson. 6 10 pm lr Laurens. 1 20 pm 5 35 ara \r (treenville. 8 00 pm 1015 am lr Glenn *pringe~. 4 05 pm . kr Sparenburg... 8 10 pru 9 00 ar*. \r Saluda.M. 6 83 pm . \.r Iiendersouvlllo. 9)3 pm . lr Asheville. 7 00 p<n . JV Asheville. 8 20 am. JT Hpartanburg.... ll 45 am 4 10 pm JT Glenn Springs. 10 00 am . 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