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DRY LOCO WEED. I bear lt cow os I beard it then Along the candy reaches. Within a wandering whisper Of thc crooning, southern beaches That lonesome sound along the ground That runs the island o'er. A tiny musketry to roar, A promise gone to seed. Hie rattle of the loco weed That grows along the shore. A fanfare br?TC the silence gave "Jf? Athwart tho treeless spaces, Like warning signal of the snakes That coll in driest places. That lusty sigh beneath the sky- ? A cheerful lisping lore ? Of solitudes the hares explore, Afar from bunters' greed Thc rattle of tho loco weed < '." Toat grows along the shore. I love lt now os I loved it then, A sound of winnowing wind, At work among the drying herbs That starving cattle find. A cadence low, tho w inn stars know. When day lias wandered o'er, A blithe complaint of sunshine more Than any hint of need. The rattle of the loco weed 1 That grows along the shore. -Grace Adelaide Luce in "Land of Sunshine." OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO s T?e Schooner That ? ? Turned Squatter. ? o - o 2 Captain Rowell, Being? Wrecked, ?, o Concluded to Moke tho Best o o of the Situation. o O ? 00000000000000000,000000000 Leaping seas lifted the schooner Ra ven high on the beach one night when a spring gale churned Lake Michigan. The Raven was owned, navigated and now, in tho flower of her sailing days, beached by Captain Ebenezer Rowell. Cape Cod was the place of the cap tain's nativity, and he bad sailed nil sorts and conditions of waters, from the Erie canal to the Arctic ocean. He asserted, however, with a flow of explosive language that was certainly no part of his Puritan inheritance, that he never ran Into quite so much ''dirt" anywhere else as when there was a norther screaming down tills long lake, breaking the water Into foam from Skllligalee to Grosse point. Now the indignant lake repaid his' tarry epithets by flinging him farther up on the land than any boat ever went before. Captain Rowell had characteristics that marked him as a man apart His long mustache drooped and mingled with a short beard well shot with gray, and when be wore his dingy sou'wester he looked very like a middle aged wal rus. The captain had a wooden leg, bound at tbe bottom with triple bands of brass. One of Farragut's surgeons took charge of the leg bf flesh for which this wooden substitute did duty after the battle of Mobile Bay. The skipper of the Raven also had a pipe that was not without celebrity. It was burned to ebony blackness, and, upon the word of reliable mariners, was declared to enrit such penetrating fumes that the Ru ven could not clear from a "Wisconsin port without the fact immediately becoming known In Michigan, if the wind were right. But now the Reven her commander, wooden leg, pipe and all, were cast up on the beach. Captain Rowell had been trying to make por', and had missed the harbor entrance-a narrow passage between two niera, na easy te sall into in a storm as the neck of a bottle. As his boat went flying in through the breakers the captain raged arid beat a tattoo on the deck with his wooden leg, having no gratitude in his heart for the wind and waves that were landing him on soft sand instead of banging the Raven against the rocks tbnt were equally handy. The schooner settled easily on the beach, with the skipper clinging to the taffrail and the two Scandinavians who constituted the crew gripping at-the shrouds. Morning showed the seriousness of the case. The Raven loy at the inner most point of a cozy bight, with a couple of hundred yards of sand be tween her and the bluffs that rimmed the bay. A little way to the north, a long breakwater was thrust Into the lake, the visible evidence of harbor work in which government engineers were engaged. One effect of the build ing of this breakwater had been to ar rest certain lake currents and make them deposit groat quantities of sanu along; that part of the shore on which the Raven stranded. In consequence, new land was forming; rapidly at that point, and the people of the town were beginning to speculate as to the usa.to which it should be put . It waa a singularly effectual nish of the. water that carried the schooner to this resting place, and Captain Bowell knew very well that to get her back into the water would be expensive and difficult He wes the more.dismasted with fate because he had bee?*' '???* away on the shore of his? home port, where neighbors would want to know the why and wherefore of this extraor dinary navigation. One of those who came next day to look at the schooner, so far removed from her ordinary element; Was a law yer acquaintance of the captain. In speaking about the changes that were going on In that part of the coast, he referred to tho rapidity with which the land waa encroaching on the lake there and gave it as his opinion that there was doubt about the right of owners of property on tho bluffs-be tween which and the lake a ralhoad right of way Intervened-to claim the accretion. "In fact/* said Lan jrbr Flanders, ?1 believe that this ls government land, and anybody who squale on lt will have a fighting chance, at least, to es tablish titlo to tho whole atrip." Where upon Captain EVb?nozer Rowell pricked up his Yankee ears and adroitly cross questioned the lawyer until be had a fan* Antics cf ?Sw ??g?? ?^pfllHonf af fecting this stretch of w**d tarted sand, not lovely ta l*y? ~T?v destined to be very valtable. He an- i neenced that night that he Intended to j deter brentlea* for floatta* ?*? Baven. ' Tffr nex^ Maria, his j wife," down fvo\n their cdttago. and, having got tho Bayon properly braced oo.an ev?? keel, Installed Mra, Rowell la the cabin, "We'll Uve here awhile. Mortar," said the captain. And Marja, who. had sailed under Ebeneser's or .flers for 40 years, thought this no time ta EB!:: questions,, but began to set things In " order. "> The schooner Baven had squatted on unclaimed land. Now, hi tho coarse of time the dwell ers on tho bluff, inhabitants of stone } houses tot in tended lawns, looked ' ?>"< u vu imo iiiur:uu ?ijuaaiT TIT:-a t? VIC i displeased. They paid Utile attention at first, but thu steady Issue of smoke from tin? Haven's cabin stove and the accumul?t ion of Marla's flowerpots savored of perumueut occupation. Au tumn came, then winter, uud the Rn ven was mill ou the sands. The nest spring, a year after the schooner went on the beach, certain rich men took ?tops to formally assert title to the natural Increase of land, on a portion of which the Raven Ia}'. Then came lawyers, writs and consta bles, whom Maria turned over to Eben ezer, and with whom Ebenezer dealt through the medium of his friend, lawyer Flanders. In the first court to which the men who owned the land on the bluff took the matter, Ebenezer won. Title was not proved! and the skipper of the Ra ven, so far as this tribunal was con cerned, was continued In bis right as a claimant of government land. Au appeal failed to reverse the judgment, and, although the rich men declared their fixed purpose to carry the case to the highest court in the land, Eheu ezer considered the victory won. Thereupon, under the advice of the farseeing Plunders, he hogan the most wonderful Improvements on his land that ever wore seen on that coast or, perhaps, any other. To repay some small annoyances that ho had been subjected to, he caused to be erected a staring slgu, where every dweller ou tho heights might rend: ''Captain Row ell's Shipyard." I mud tho captain there ono even ing .valkiug about his queer domain, pipe alight and pulling like a tug. Half a dozen cottages of remarkable archi tecture had sprung up about the Ra ven/ "Snug anchorage," said the captain, with a comprehensive wave of his pipe in the direction of theso new posses sions. "Mari?t- an I aro landlubbers now. Yes, we've squatted on guv'meut land an cal'late to live here. Mr. Bingham, up on the bill yonder, au some o' the other shore folks got after mc in the courts, but I beat them. Tried to bother me with the charge o' put tin up shanties within the fire limits an sent a lubber dowu here one day to pull my bouses down: You see, every house in this here shipyard is a boat, built boat shaped an registered at the custom bouse." The captain had, in truth, built as he said. The architecture dil not appeal to one's sense of beauty, whether the structures were considered as houses or bouts, but any one of them, properly bottomed, might be set afloat and made to serve as a scow or a tow barge. By way of tenants the captain bad a few of his sailor friends, a fisherman and a laborer who liked the situation because lt was near the railroad yards where he worked. The shipyard was paying expenses. * "Yes," Captain Rowell went on, "the Raven has done pretty well for me. 'Bout the best cruise I ever made was the one that ended wltb this here wreck. It's made me a rich man. But I was tellln you 'bout that attack on my fleet They sent the fire marshal, an he says, says he, 'Them shanties ls In the fire limits, an I'm ordered to pull them down.' Then I gets out on the for rad deck o' the Raven, an I says, says I, quite like as though ? wns whoopln in a blow outside tho point: 'Ship ahoy, there! Every one o' them shanties ls a boat an registered in the Yewnited States custom house. Any man that tears down one o' my boats is a pirate, an Uncle Sam 'ud rather hang a pirate than eat pie.' "That fire marshal looked at my ship yard enrefullike then an kinder open ed his eyes. \He went round behind one o' those craft, an when he seed her name an port o' hull painted there, plain as on any steamboat In the har bor, that settled him. He went back to the lawyers, an they've been figger in ever smite on how to make this here fleet put to sea. I'll keep 'em figgerIn," added Ebeneser confidently, "until my title to all this new land's as solid as Spectacle reef." Conceive a double row of buildings which upon front view appeared to be cahalboats, gabled windowed and clap bearded, with a Uti le picketed in clo sure behind each one, and you have the shipyard kt mind. ; At the ead of the afreet, Ba?e?ist t?o water, lay the Ra ven, dismantled with respect to rig ging, propped with timbers and kept immaculately painted and scrubbed, as a flagship should be. Thoa the fleet lay, a squadron to be depended on in any hind of weather. To the shipyard came sightseers, small boya and even the Salvation Army. Ebenezer Bowell waa a friend of religion, although his language at tunes might give rise to a contrary opinion, and he welcomed the Salva tion soldiers to- the h**aeh. He ifcr. performed on an accordion one night in honan of the opea air gospel meeting and waa assured that the Army band could do no better. The excellent Impression thus made was almost effaced by the captain's conduct on another occasion. Six men In tall hats came down to the beach one night, followed by a lot of take front loungers, and began to sing gos pel hymns. The captain was gratified. He never qufle approved of the Salva tion Army costume, and here, lt seem ed, waa a delegation of soberly clad ministen come to preach without any sound of brass and tinkling cy rabais. , One of the clerical looking men be gan to address the crowd.' In the be ginning hts harangue was not rmllke that of the:average street preacher, but he imparted gradually and tn small In stallments tho' Information that thia was a missionary party from Utah sent ont to teach the doctrines of the Church of Latter Day Saint?. , .. into, tba crowd he slumped with A per emptory order for tba meeting to dla* mxnil - T'aiTiT-n- TTT io cit OT D COO B6^ Exposition only move?: the i^Zcms nn? ^ vol leyed and thundered s ooh dreadful lan ?Boaga that the six tall hat? moved off, leaving Ebea&ser In possession of the ** .?'^ T"*000 When small boya offended on his premises, tho captain would roar: "HI, there; go antere, yon little powder monkey?! Til toko you all bot to sea an maroon youl" This wou?d be followed by ?vild ?c-auipcring across the sands, for the boya were divided in opinion aa to whether marooning meant bolling to oil or banging at the yardarm. Por six years Ebenezer and Maria lived in the etlpyuvd, drew rent and rrald-?awryops, :Tha lake, corrects kept adding; to their annoy aoniaru, uuu u? j tho beacb widened displeasure grow in i thu duo houses on the hill. The ox- j panding acres tc which the skipper of 1 tlie Raven laid claim gave rise to vi sions suggested by possible u ?s to which the laud might be put when the mariner saw tit to sell, if bis title ever arrived at a state of perfection that warranted anybody to buy. Tho shipyard was bad enough, but a factory, a thing of smoke and smell and chimney's, would be worse. So the hill folk managed to keep a lawsuit ! Imminent above the captain's head that ; he might not become too well estab lished in his belief that he was lord of the shore. In the extreme of their disgust aid came to the enemies of the captain from an unexpected source. The town upon whose hospitable front the Raven j had become a squatter decided to es tabllsh a system of parks. It was agreed with entire unanimity j that all the water frontage possible ' ought to be secured for this purpose, a I proposition that directed instant atten tion to Captain Ebenezer Rowell's con tested territory. All the machinery of lawyers, courts, writs and bailiffs was once more set in motion, and Ebenezer and Maria had to form a new line of battle. Indeed they had come upon evil days, for the discerning lawyoi who had bjeeu their chief defense In .e earlier years of their occupation was dead, and they had to Intrust the fortunes ? of the shipyard to strangers. The ag gressive city hustled Ebenezer from one court to another, summoned him, examined him, made him depose, af firm, deny, give bond and generally feel the pangs of litigation until he de clared himself "worried outen his vit tles." Ile smoked three times his normal allowance of tobacco and told Maria that he was sorely tempted to put to sea again. A little later he gave proof that this was an idea that bad some grip on him, for be set men to work calking the Raven's gaping scams and getting the schooner into something like sailing shape again. One evening Captain Rowell return ed and found the shipyard in a tumult. A case had just gone against bim in one of the courts, the judge having de clared that title to tho land was. vested In the city, and the municipal officers lost no time In following up this vic tory. Policemen descended, and the sheriff came, and with them sundry stout fellows having in charge teams, timbers, crowbars and other tools suffi cient to make Marla tremble. She bewailed the absence of Eben ezer, but came part down the steps that led up the Raven's side and gave an imitation of the captain in a bad temper. The sheriff said such language was shocking, but she refused to listen to the writ. Before Ebenezer appeared : to defend the premises from invasion ! one of the structures that the sailor called a boat when he talked to a con stable and a house when he conversed with a tenant had been hoisted from its anchorage and placed on skids. One without occupants had been se lected by way of a beginning, and the Bird of Freedom, as letters done In the highest style of the sign painter's art announced the clumsy affair, was well on her way toward th? street at the foot of the bluff when Ebenezer came snorting upon the scene. He did not stop to parley with the sheriff, but dived Into the cabin of the Baven and presently emerged on deck with a rifle la his hanns. It was a weapon that had been pur ? chased In the early stages of tho fight I for possession of thc *.ake front, but by a singular oversight Ebenezer had neg lected to provide himself with ammu nition. However, nobody stops to in quire with any particularity Into the condition of a gun when that gun ls in I the hands of a man whose hostility ls I undoubted, and the whole attacking force stampeded at the sight of the Winchester. Nearly all night the captain kept watch, rifle In hand, but when Marla questioned the efficiency of a gun that wanted cartridges he concluded to go ; to bed and risk the further kidnaping j of his scows. It was shortly after this incursion I: that I saw the captain again. The ! shipyard showed almost as many signs of disorder as though it were really a I place where boats were built. The ! Bird of Freedom, the Albatross (all j the captain's scowhouses were given the names of birds) and the rest were either In rains or In process of being plucked. The Baven showed unmis takable signs of an Impending voyage. Ska had been shored np, painted and rid of all the accumulation of^steps, platforms and flowerpots tho/ made her look like ?ometh'ing that belongil neither on land nor sea. The captaba was rather melancholy, but energetic In respect to ship chandlery and re pairs. . "Yes," ne said, "I'm go in sal Un once more; compromised with the city." This he said as cheerfully as a man might announce the date of his own hanging. "Compromised,'' ho went on; "that's what they call lt. I gives the city the land, an the city gives me tho vally o' these here craft. No, I ain't as rich as I used to think I was when I stuck on a hundred thousand every time a storm heaved np a fresh lot o' sand, which happened pretty reglar. "Fact Is, if the gnv'ment keeps ex tend?a that pier Into the lake an up eettln the cal'latlons o' nature In p'lnt of currents, sand'U keep pllln np until this lake's plum cut In two. I'm sick o' this boin, rolsterln, bangui body o' Ster. Fm geln to sall the Baven down ? lakes to the St Lawrence, take her ont to sea an go back to Gape Cod, whet* Marla? an r c?late w spend the rest o' oar dayw." It was a laborious nndertaking to get tba RA>*n !ntc tbs ^rat?? a?mn. abo had tata on abor? so long that she bad to ba, In a large measure, rebuilt before ana was flt to aalL bot finally the cap tain pronounced ber as good aa new and Ano enough to exhibit to those keen critics of things nautical, the In habitants of Cape Cod. Bo X went down one night to sse. him and Marla set out on their long voyage. There was a flattening of noses against the window panes In the houses on tho hill, whose satisfied owners saw the trim Uses of tba schooner slant across the darkening waters. The captain was at the wheel, and as ho sailed away into the gloom I could get glimpses of his cheerful pipe, glowing like a binna cle lamp and po.tntiug ns nearly as might be la tho direction of Cape Cod. -vow York ICvealnc Post PHENOMENA OF DREAMS. | ITIsinenta of Thoejrnt Drtrlnrr SIPOII | Ynuirtli In Wilkin;.-. Hourn. Mcu ta I pliouomcna bavo of lato yean : boca subjected to scientific Investiga- j lion in what is known ns modern phys iological psychology, nud an attempt . has been made to bring them nuder the law? that apply to material things. | Many curious connections between the , mind and tho body have been dlscov- j ered, but dreams seem to resist nnaly- . sis. It is Impossible for nu outsider '{ to note the dreams of another person, and the dreamer's own roi>ort is apt . to be very indetluite, for he cannot , tell what he really dreamed, but only { what he thinks he dreamed. We nil have noticed how quickly a dream fades and is forgotten unless set down lu writing promptly on waking. A theory has been adduced which seems to connect the phenomena of dreaming with the gradual manner In which human consciousness has risen j from the depths-from dead matter | perhaps-in the long history of tho race, lt ls that sleep submerges us i Sometimes as n Hood might submerge j ti continent, covering up the lower part | of our natures first and not blotting out | our higher moral principles till the hist, and thereby reversing the steps of ! lite process through which man passed j iu his development from a lower state, i Thus the tlrst power an animal ac quires is the co-ordination of its mus- j oles nud its will, tho power to make I prompt, decisive movements of its ! limbs. Titis is a power acquired by j children during the lirst year or two of their lives and ls nearly the entire sum of the faculties of tho lowest savage. In the state of sleep this power ls lost tlrst, for sleepwalking is entirely an unconscious action, the body acting ns a machine -not under control of the will. As the savage rises in the plane of life he acquires the rudimentary reasoning powers and becomes nble to estimate roughly the relation of cause aud effect. Tills logical power ls the next faculty we lose ns sleep rises from the depths over us. Every one must have noticed that lu dreams thlugs happen nt random. We find ourselves In strange places, and people appear oud disappear on thc scene in nn absolutely lawless manner. While we are in this condition we are still capable of remorse if wo do any thing wrong, aud we feel fear or joy. Our higher moral natures are still ac tive. Now, the conscience nud the es tablishment iu the mind of a reason able standard of ethics are the last things that grow up In the minti of man either in the race or in the individual. Savages have buf the rudiments of either, and only the ninn In whom the conscience Is developed cnn be called civilized. In the OnnI stage sleep rises so high as to cover up our moral na tures, the peaks of which had projected above the fog covering our logical pow ers. In this condition we kill our best friends in our dreams without tho slightest hesitation and are troubled with no remorse, though we commit in Imagination frightful and unnecessary crimes In a mood of placid indifference. It IB believed that the experience of every one as to the character of dreams, cr, rather, of sleep, will con firm the reality of the abovo stages. Nearly all who have testified on the subject agree that in "sleep thinking" their logical powers disappear first and their moral natures afterward. If it be really so and sleep Is a rehearsal backward of the great drama of hu man development, our nightly repose ls a more srrlor' matter than we thought It tc be. and ought not to be lightly entered into. If our dreams do dimly shadow the stages of Ufe history of the race, It Is only another proof of our common origin and our mys terious heredities.-Hartford Times. Where Hypnotism Didn't Work. "I think," said the careworn, sad eyed citizen to the professor of hypno tism, "ef you could manage to git Ma rla tinder the Influence of them ere hypnotics an jest leave ber so, we would git 'long aU right atterward. I want you to sorter change the natur* of her-git ber so tbat she'll reckernlze my rights an be In subjection, an the Scripte-* command?. You kin do that can't you?" "I certainly can,'.' said the professor. But just then a woman who had been taking up tickets at the door came for ward. "Look here," she said to the profess or, "what are you doing-jabbering with that feller, when there ain't enough tickets sold to pay the gas bill? Git on the outside this minute, an go to work, yon lazy-trifling" "Air you his wife, ma'am?" meekly inquired the careworn citizen. "Yes!" s??yuw the woman. "Have you got anything to say about it?" "Nuthin at all, ma'am-nuthin at all! E wu* only jest wai tin round here fer my own wife!"-Atlanta Constitution. Tlxo Encllsli DrlK Sergeant. "Now, then, number seven," the corporal continues, "we'll make an other start-that is, if you've quite fin ished feeling If your back bair happens to be on straight this morning. It's rou I'm talking to-third man from the left of the front rank. 1 haven't the 'pleasure of knowing your name, bint I expect to be writing lt down for in hour's extra duty pretty soon. "Now, then, look to your front squad, 'tchnn, left dress! Turn your ayes to the left, without squinting Uko Chinese dummies II' you ern. Stand jp tn the ranks, too, like soldiers, not Ike a measly row of lopsided, spindle thanked cockney shop boys! Stick roar chests out and pnt yonr sture nlcks somewhere ont of sight nlte -cthcr. There's *arf of yon with fig* ires like bags of potatoes. Strike me rrlmson if I ever saw such a mob! Hi, res Sn th? ceuier-tho ginger headed nan, I mean-don't grin Uko that! Thia dn*t no perishing beauty competition, tot by no manner of means."-"The Juecn's Service." by H. Wyndham. C ASTOR IA Por Infants and ?hildtea, iba Kind Yea Hara Always Blight Bears the ?lgimturo of (^^^fT?^U^ - A wise German student estima* C9, after much patient research, that t cost about $7,500 for Columbus to iscovcr Arderica. A BEAR FOR A ROOMMATE, j .'unuy Story About n H asm Inn Dc nat J Whlcb si?'i>t lu n Boil. 1 Livonia is a part or? our globe where t loudness for pets coexists with love i >f sport. A Russian subject froui that \ province tells me of the strange cou- < ddcrotlon evinced by one of her neigh- ] [>ors for tlie feelings of a bear. The \ mumal had an odd faucy for sleeping l Indoors and in a bed. To humor bim, j i room in a tower was always left i jpen for the animal. Some nights lie raine and availed himself of tho hos pitality, but often he staid out in tho woods. If he arrived at his tower and mounted tho long flight of steps which led from outside to his own door and found that anything prevented lils en trance, the bear made a horrible noise, growling and battering the woodwork. In Livonia, during Hie brief northern summer, the local magnates visit each other without prior arrangement, and tliey arrive prepared to stop the night. It not Infrequently occurs that many carriages converge at the same time on one country bouse, with the result that as many ns 40 beds may be required. A largo InllllX of visitors arrived one night at the house where the bear bad bis room. The last comer was a timid youth, a cousin of tho house. The host met bim. radiant: "What a pleasure. Ivan! You'll lind half tho relations here. But, alas, you'll not have a good room. Every other corner is full. There's only tho tower left As you know, the bear conies there, lint never mind! Ile does not put in an appearance every night." The young man would fain have none farther, but tho nearest country house was ten miles off, his horse tired, and the hospitable relations very pressing lu their Invitation to him to remain. Ile was greatly afraid of the bear, but still more afraid of offending host, hostess and all tho other cousins and neighbors. He decided to stay, ami at last retired to rest lu a large, square room, with two beds in it. Ile Inquir ed If be might not bar out the bear (tho door had but a latch), but he was told that no fastenings might be used; the bear was too noisy if Bhut out Ile "would not let a soul-lu tho place have a wink of sleep." Besides, "he wasn't coming very likely." And, further, "there wasn't any menus of altogether fastening tho door." "It was left on tlie latch on purpose." The last words of a rather sleepy cousin to the new comer were, "Better take the bed In the far corner. Ivnn!" The guest cnn hardly be said to have slept there. Tho terror of bruin kept him awnkc at flrst and then bruin him self, for in tho small hours a shambling step and a sound of claws on the steps and balustrade froze the blood in thc unhappy youth's veins. Tho noise came nearer. There was a fumbling nt the latch. With great growling nud grum bling, bruin entered and put himself to bed in the couch near the door. There the beast grumbled, grunted and seemed to sniff. That sniffing alarmed the other occupant of the room most of all, for he thought it meant that the bear scented him and might resent his presence. The wretch dared scarcely breathe. Dawn was breaking, but that was only another danger. The bear mig?t see him. Bruin, a great curled lump above the blankets, be came tn due time visible to his fellow lodger. Then the bear snored! Thero was comfort In that sound? But soon he rolled about and growled nnd groan ed discontentedly. The heart of the watcher beat painfully loud. He dared not rise. He bad not nerve enough to pass the sleeping animal and rush down the steps. Terror paralyzed tho youth, and prudence whispered that Inactivity can be sometimes masterly. The slow hours dragged on. All thc company had assembled down stairs at breakfast but bruin still slept, and the timid cousin watched him with eyes that burned and throbbed. At last the host said: "Where's Ivan? Where's the bear too?" And a mes senger was dispatched to the tower, there to find a pallid guest and his un invited companion. The messenger routed out the bear, who had been kept as a pet when a cub and who was really only half a wild beast and help ed tho nerve shattered youth to dress and join the breakfast party.-London News. Her Ambition. After the youthful but powerful In- ? tellects of the observation class in a West Philadelphia school bad devoted. 15 minutes the other day to making known the results of their thoughts upon nature and surrounding objects tho teacher diverted their minda by asking each of tho dozen youngsters what they mc-a?? io be when they grew up. One precocious girl of 7, looking up at the strong, but not overly comely, face of the teacher, whispered timidly, "If 1'ze pretty when I gets big, I am going to be an actress, but If I grows, ugly I'll be a schoolteacher."-Phila delphia Record. A Healthy Locality. To all appearance Ardnamurchan, on the west coast of Scotland, ls a great place for longevity. Whether it is be cause of tho soft and salubrious cli mate or the remoteness of the place from the centers and the sins of popu lation or something indigenous to the Ardnamurchan nature lt would be rash to say, but certain lt ls that an Ardna murchanlte seems to have a good chance of becoming a patriarch. With in 80 years many of the inhabitants have been cut off at very lng ripe ages between 100 and 112.-Scottish Ameri can. Bis Distinction, "Yes, slr," said Broncho Bob, "when I was east I wss a ???uta? literary, lion. I got In with some people who orb Interested In dialect" "But yon can't write dialect" "No, I can't write lt But I kin Ulk lt great"-Washington Star. - Giles County, Virginia, contains s remarkable natnrsl curiosity kat vii ss Salt Pond, which is described ss a lake of fresh water sunk in Sslt Pond ibove sea level. It is fed by no visi ble, stream, yet it is olaimed to have been gradually enlarged tioce 1804, the date of its discovery. .Fish that lave been placed in Salt Pond have Mysteriously disappeared. Its depth s unfathomable, experiments with a ino 300 feet long failing to reach the jottotn. The origin of the lako is un* cnown. j .?c.?.- '. \ ' . \ ? . - How Oleomargarine I? Made. Margarine was Urst prepared by M. I doge Mourlcs. In this procesa 1,000 ' kilograms of ground fat from freshly iltiughtcrod cattle ls mixed with UU0 j illograms of water, one kilogram of > ; totassluni carbonate nud two sheep's >r pigs' stomachs cut into pieces and teated nt 43 degrees C. by steam for 1 two hours. The fnt rises and. niter being skimmed, ls run off nud heated ?it from 30 to 40 degrees C., with 2 per cent of salt, the clear fat being then poured off from the sediment and cool ed at from 20 to 25 degrees C. The granular solid product ls cut in to pieces, packed Into linen and ex- j posed to hydraulic pressure nt about ? 23 degrees C., with the production of a BoIId cake of stearin and a liquid oleo margarine, which ls passed through cylinders ami washed by a shower of water. Of the melted oleomargarine 50 kilograms is mixed with 23 liters of cows' milk and 25 kilograms of water In which has been macerated 100 grains of fluely ground mammary gland of the cow. Annotto is added and the whole churned for about two hours and thu product kneaded and l washed. In the method employed In the Unit- j ed States, Austria and some parts of \ Oortnany pepsin is not added, thc unf ilial finely ground fat being subjected j to ti temperature below 3d degrees C. i for some time. The oleomargarine is j mixed with sour milk mid a small i quantity of bicarbonate of stuhl and minot to nud ls churned. After about 13 minutes it is cooled in Ice and then kneaded to eliminate the water, then returned with more Four milk and ls ready for sale. Knew Wlint She Wanted. There was a tall and haughty young womal) In tl provision store this morn ing, a pretty girl, who wore a smart tailor gown and an air of great Im portance. I "Have you a nice roundhouse steak?" sin? asked tho butcher sweet ly, when he came forward to walt upon lier. The man's face assumed a beefy hue itself, und he looked well nigh apo plectic as he replied, "No, miss, I haven't a round steak." "Then scud me a porlerloln. About seven pounds will be enough, I should think." "Tenderloin Is the best cut, miss; suppose you take that?" suggested the clerk, his face growing still redder. "Kindly send nie what I ordered," said the young woman with great dig nity. "My mother-in-law Is entirely conversant with the cuts of beef, and I'm quite sure that's the name she told me, aud send ten pounds of rice with it." Then she walked out of the shop with tlic pleased smile on her face of one who has found housekeeping the merest child's play, while the specta tors murmured "Bride'." to each other under their breath.-Baltimore News. - Little James had been imparting to the minister the important and cheerful information that hie father had got a new set of false teeth. "In deed, James!" replied the minister, indulgently. "And what will he do with the old set?" "Oh, I Htippose," replied little I James, with a look of resignation on-hisfnee, "they'll cut 'em down andoseke me wear 'em." WOMEN IN TROUBLE. The Approach of Motherhood ia the Occasion of Much Anxiety to A". Every woman dreads the ordeal through which she must pass in becom ing a mother. The pain and suffering which is in store for her 1B a source or constant anxiety, fear and dread, to say nothing of the danger which the coming incident entails. 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This wonderfnl r???edy ?~ beea teated and Its price* ?aaa veine provan by the experience o? thousands of happy ' mothers who have used it during the most critical period of woman's life-the approach and culmination of motherhood. It haa won their everlasting praise, for it gave them help and nope iv their most trying hour and when most needed. Every woman may some day need "Mother's Friend." The little book. "Before Baby is Born," telling all about it, and when it shou/d be used, will prove of great interest and benefit to alf expectant mothers, and will be sent free to any address upon application to the Bradfield Regulato! Company, Atlanta, Ga. W. G. McGEE. SURGEON DEMTIST. OFFICE-^ront K #orr, over Farmers .nd Me .-cb an ts Hank ANnFHSCN, b. G. NOTICE. i have a considerable num ber of small unpaid Accounts on my books. I am notifying each one of amount due, and unless paid I am going to place them in officer's hand for col lection. J. S. FOWLES. Jan 3,1000 28 Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned, Administratrix of Estf.te of James O. Moore, deo'd, hfrebv gives notice that she vvlll on the 12th day of May, 1000, apply to the Judge nf Probato for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a dlaoharge from hsr office as-Administra trix. MARY A. MOORE, Adm's. April ll, 1000 42 6 i-Vvfrv:-'- ..' ? .' .- ?? '? '. ? . - ; A?&i?fr?JjL^&i. ?iii-? .t?r-s??WMfc?W O T A S H gives color, jlavor and firmness to ill fruits. No good fruit can be raised without Potash. Fertilizers containing at least 8 to 10% of Potash will give best results on all fruits. Write for our pamphlets, which ought to be in every farmer's library. They are sent free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. !S 1? hZ CIAL ** A IL. K O IT Pi?MOSA?oORG?NS. X1 OH THE S EX T THIRTY DAYS C. a. REED IViUSlC HOUSE '.Viii null any of tho ...owing Hi?h Grade F?ANOS nod ORGANS at prices as low nu cati he obtained from thu Manufactu rers direct : - KNABE, WEBER. IVENS & POND,' CROWN, WHEELOCK, LAKE SIH)E and RICHMOND. A Ino, TUE ? BOWN, ESTEVand FAHKAND ?fc VOTE Y ORGANS. Prospective purchasers will And it to their interest to oali and inspect my Stock or writ? for priueH. We also represent tho leading makes Sewing Machines At Rook Bottom ligures. Respectfully, THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. J. J. MAJOR^***?J VAND?VEB BROS. & MAJOR DEALERS IN Fine Buggies, Fhaotons, Surreys, Wagons, Harness Lap Bebes and Whips, High Grade Fertilizers, Bagging and Ties. ONS bundled noe new Baggies just received. Come and look through them. They arejbe&utlea, and we will treat you right if you need one. Oar load "Blrdsell" Wagons on hand the best Wagons built. Car White Hickory Wagons to arrive soon. Yours, for vehicles, V AND IVER BROS. & MAJOR. NOTICE. PURSUANT to a resolution of the Board of Directora of the Fidelity Building and Loan Association, adopted cu Maret. 27th, 1900, notice ht hereby giv en f i&t a meeting of the Stockholders of said Aaaooiatlon wilt be held at the offices of Quattlebaotn & Cochran, Sn the city of Anderson, 8. C., on Thursday, April 26,1400, at 12 o'clock m.. for the purpose of considering a resolution proposing an Amendment to the Charter of said Asso ciation by increasing its Capital Stock from 925,000 to f100,000. All Stockhold ers are urged to attend in person or by proxy. O. W. EVANS, President Maroh 28,1900 40 _4_ To the Stockholders cf the Anderson Telephone Co. YOU aro hereby notified that at a meeting of the Directors of said Company, held at Anderson, S. C.. on the 26th day of March. 1900, s resolution was unanimously adopted recommend ing to the Stockholders an increase of the Capital Stock of said Company from Two Thousand Dollars to the sum of Sixteen Thousand Dollars, and directing tho President to call a meeting of said Btbokholders to consider this proposi tion. In obedience to the mandate of said resolution a meeting of the Stock holders of said Company la hereby called for TUESDAY, MAY 1st, 1900, at the Company's office in the City of Ander son, 8. C., at 10 o'clock a m., for the pur pose of deciding this question as to in crease of Capital aa .Indicated. Let every Stockholder be present, either in person or by proxy, if possible. R. E. LIGON. President Anderson Telephone Co. Maroh 28, 1900 40 4 NOTICE. TUE Stockholders of the Cox Manu facturing Co. are hereby notified thpt mt a me2>i~~ Cf the Board or Direc tors of said Corporation on ;oo 14th instt a r?solution waa adopted that the Capital Stock of said Corporation be increased from Fifty Thousand Dollarn to the mu. Imnm ??eust of Two rsuudrod Thou sand Dollars!; and in paran ance of said action th? Stockholders are notified to mest at Anderson O. H., S. C., on Tues day, April 24, 1900, at 10 o'clock a. m., fdr the purpose of considering said reso lution and the increase of the Capital Stock as proposed to said maximum amount of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars. Immediately upon the adjournment of the Speolal meeting there will bo hold the regular Annual Meeting or the Stock holders to transact such business as may come before thora. W. F. CO A, Pres. and Treas. March 21, lOOO,1?!? 39 4 PATENTS? - ADVICE AS TO PATEMTABILfTY B"fllEEv . Notice In "Inventive Are" BiffKlp Cr* 1 > l>oot "How to obtain ratante" H ?HEUBR* \ Charger, moderate. 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