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the hills of hope. "Whit saw you. child, on tho hills of hops ( Where none may go that be overwise) That a abinicg joy fades. liBgerisglr Out of the deeps of your eyeat" "The hills of hope are roses and snow, *iid the glad air o! it* own self ainga. And the dull world hid in the mists below lia gray, forgotten dretm of things. And oh, but my heart waa light and gay When I walked on the hill* of hope t&ayl" What saw y su, child, on the rainbow hills (Where none may go that be over-vise) That you 'ay yonr cold little barn ia mine, With the shadow oi fear in your eyi at" "On the farther aids oi the ralnbr*,- iiille la a forest of dead trees black ^ad bare, And a river cold aa the river of Jeath \nd the ghoeta of dead Joys wonder there, ?rd oh, but my heart waa terrified Today at that cold, da>k river sldel*' "Now be not afraid, ljttle child, for aee The dream is gone, and the warm 6unihine Ii bright on the paths of every day, \nd jour hand la clasped in mine." '_ouaiiotto Lowry Ma rah In East and West. <t?0 O@0O 0990 OMO O+fAo OMO 0?? r ?.? * o S I DEATH CHAMBER, f -" o I A Strange bot True Tale. By Frederick b. Guernsey, q tfo o#?o 0M0 o?*o o##o 099O omZ There used to be, perhaps It still ctandfl, ou old hacienda house down in the state of Guerrero which, for many years, held an evil repute as a place of sudden and Inexplicable death. " The state is now undergoing the process so familiar In Mexico, known as "opening up" by railway construc tion. Few people used to go down Into that region of heat and mystery; few came up from It to the capital city, for intercourse was difficult, a matter of stage riding over mountain roads liberally strewn with rocks, or else, in the lower country, deep with dust in tho autumn and winter and, later on, as the rainy season advanced, there was mud?mud up to the bellies of. the horses. To many parts of the state one had to go on horse, or, better, on uniie hack. There is no beast as safe tip a mule, except for the fallen rider, to whom the unholy hybrid, before bolting, stops to administer a parting kick. : The house I have mentioned was on a large tropical estate devoted to sugar cane, out of which muctfaguardiente was made, and to various hot country products of local consumption, for the bad roads placed a prohibitory charge on transportation. You approached the boose through great fields green witb the cane, over a road which, though a private way, was none of the best, and finally you reached an avenue of orange and pepper trees and saw near at hand the low, one story white stone house and the plantation buildings, stables, sugar mill, peons' quarters)' etc. Back of the house rose a fringe of lofty palms, whose clash during a gale was as of the sails of windmills allowed to ruu at will. The bouse seemed so calm and cool and wholly delightful I The traveler, weary of the long ride, gazed witb delight on the whiteness, palm shadowed. It was an oasis of comfort in a desert of blinding sunshine. It gave promise of rest for man and beast, of cool water and rural plenty. Such was the hacienda of Valverde. The saints in heaven know that It was a pleasant looking place. Don Diego Prado and Maria Naranjo, his wife, .were a quiet; hospitable couple of 45 and 40 years .respectively, with sever al children grown to a companionable age, which means much In such a soli tary place. Travelers were welcome at Valver de; they brought the ne"-* of the outer world, and months after their depart ure their peculiarities of face and fig ure, dress and gesture, even their qualntuesses of speech, were subjects for convers?t on over the dinner table, or when ft'i family gathered in the lauer patio for an evening 'chat, ^the master of the house tranquilly smok ing?a large, good natured man, quiet for lack of themes to set his tongue a-going. Maria Naranjo was voluble, fond of company, and enthusiastically hospitable; so much so that Don Diego used to say that she -would welcome a blind mule gone astray on the roads. There were several guestrooms, usu ally furnished with the proper and decent simplicity of the hot country, cot beds with just the canvas to lie on, thick "frazadoB" for the cool nights, as it is often very chilly lu the tlerra callenta after the sun goes down and night advances, a chair or two, a bureau and a smalt German looking glass warranted to make one wish he had never contemplated his features therein. One could hardly use the glass for shaving without danger of cutting off an ear. The floors of broad red tiles, unglazed; the walls white washed so you could eee, even with the feeble light of a candle, if there svas a scorpion crawling about, suggesting how inscrutable are the decrees of Allah who embodies one. intelligence hi a horrid, creeping thing, and anoth er in that strange biped, man, that is as a god walking the earth, and, as We all know, always and everywhere toe glory and justification of the Im mense time given to his evolution. The room of honor; for distinguished People was a large one with two iron fated windows looking out on a large eourtyard and a door which you closed at night, and then placed across it, the tods resting In each Its hole, a great ?eam for perfect security against in truders. There were at least six chairs ?? Austrian bent wood, light colored, two of them comfortable "me^dcres," *r rocking chairs, and: there was even a Bofa of the same material, ono of the ?nest products of human ingenuity. The bed was a masterpiece of brass, with a great canopy surmounted by June sort of carved crown, as if de signed for an emperor happening by jod asking lodging tor the nteht. T*? bed fo-^?o?. aa is were, was com fed of boards painted, green and laid across th? frame. And there was a ^tress, very thin and hard, ns Is Jjoper in tropical regions, if you era Wj>J so essentially strange a thing at JJ- A faded but ample rug waa "fetched at one side of th? bed so that jnwocratte feet need not touch tho *j"*ar brick tiles on- getting into bed ? night or on arising In the morning, *nen the yellow sunlight filled the J?m. from tho big patio. The room as pleasant, and one would not imag w?tiT hnd 80 lnist<?r tt history. 'thin six years three people bad oc b JPPied It and had been found dead in i wh .mp"n,n?. and no, one could say 4 *Qat uad extinguished the lamp of cneir uro. mere wus uon tiarios Ar? pe, who was a planter, living GO miles away, and who had been lodged In the room of the canopied bed as a due trib ute to his social consequence. He was GO years old, and it wns believed that he died of heart disease. Then came a lawyer from the City of Mexico, from the fnroff city of palaces, on his way to Acapuldo to arrange some business. Surely so grand a personage as a 11 cenciado of the capital of the federa tion must be lodged In the grand room! He, too, died In the night, Inexplicably. Still he was fragile and had been ex posed to the sun a great deal, and the transition from his somber, cool and ! smoky office In the capital to hot roads ! and co irse >{are was believed to have affected ?? brain. The servants said it was a in it of cerebral congestion I due to "inso loo," or overexposuro to the sun. Ft ten months nobody was placed in tl room till there came, one spring often oon, a robust youn?- man, a surveyor for a foreign company, ac companied by two niozos. He was a man of consequouce, for he wore a pearl handled Massachusetts made re volver, and so, without giving heed to the grim history of the room of the canopied bed, he was placed there, and as he undressed that April night lie whistled as only a happy German may and sang Bongs of the fatherland. When old Ponciano, a bouse servants went to call the surveyor in the morn ing, he was cold In death. His mozos viewed the remains, and in haste they rode off to bring the Judge, who lived 20 miles away. He barely got there in time, for in the ticrra caliente burial follows close on death. The jndge pro nounced it n case of sudden death (oh, legal sapiency!) due to organic cardiac derangement?at least that is what his high sounding phrase implied, and the sonorous sound of the words' satisfied the dead man's faithful servants and all the onlookers. There was no sign of a wound on the fair body of the young man. He was burled that night out lu the little cemetery where had preceded him two other victims of the fatal bed. Nearly six years had elapsed sine the first of these sinister happenings when, just after the close of the rainy season, the roads having hardened, ..there arrived from Acapulco a young married couple on their way to the City of Mexico. They were accompa nied by six armed mozos, and all were well mounted. The young man, the Captain Felix Delmonte, and his bride were most charming people. The offi cer hud Just taken to himself a wife, having received news of the death of an uncle, a wealthy man lu the federal capital, who had made him his sole heir. It was a somewhat unusual thing to marry at the "very root" of a kins man's death, but Soledad Marquez was an orphan, and the officer was madly In love with her and hoped to make ar rangements to leave the service and settle down with this lovely young wo man In the City of Mexico, there to en joy the new wealth. Soledad was a tropical beauty, a daughter of the sun and the sea, a* girl of the Pacific coast and with eyes deep, dark and dreamy, fit to fasclcr.te a king. They asked ac commodations for themselves and their escort for the night, and- Don Diego and his wife were only too glad of their company. There were a grand supper that night and much merrymaking, and all the news of the great and fa mous port of Acapulco was retailed, to the Intense Interest of Don Diego and his household. How It came about that the young couple were assigned to the room of the canopied bed Is told thus: They were first shown to a small room In which two cots, had been placed for them ami expressed their thanks for the lodging in the gracious Mexican way when Dona Maria, feeling a house wifely pride In the fact that she had a grander room to show, remarked, "I could give you another recamera.but"? "But what?" inquired Captain Del monte, and he added: "For myselC I don't mind, but this little woman Is very tired, and perhaps you have a mattrcsB oh which she could better rest. Excuse the trouble I'm giving you." The married pah? were shown the grand room, and Maria exclaimed, j What a very pretty bed!" The good wife dared not relate the story of the ! room, beit.; ashamed, aS she after ward remarked, and then, too, she re* fleeted that the mattress was a new one and the room had been cleaned ' and newly whitewashed. The young j couple seemed so radiant .with happi ness, bo Gtrong and full of the Joy of life, that Dona Maria told them to take the room and to Bay well their prayers on retiring. They laughed and prom ised to do so. Then she went to Don Diego, who, being a practical man, listened to her words of foreboding, and laughed, saying: "The spell will be broken-by this happy pair; they bring love and Ufe and everything gladsome with them. Don't think more about it, woman, and let us have a breakfast fit for our guests. To bed, to bed, and let us be up betimes!" It was a lovely late October morning; the air touched with just a distant sus picion of a chill; the sun, big and white and glorious, rose from above the tops of the great sawlike ridge of moun tains, the palm trees sv rayed In the breeze, and there was a contagious Joy In all nature. Repeating her prayers, Dona Maria asked the blessing of heaven on the young people and went out to see* her maids and make sure of a grand breakfast, so the travelers might start away with pleasant memories, of the hacienda of Val verde. There was a commotion In the huge kitchen, whore the morning repast was preparing according to the direction given to the "araa de Haves" the night before by the care ful Maria." Seven o'clock cam*, an a *u0 young people were not astir, though the mozos of the escort wcro long- before, up and had had their coffee. Eight o'clock came, and Maria felt a sinking Of the heart; a horrible clutching sen*, nation seised her bosom; ska grew faint and called for water; then, feeling better, she went to the big patio, tapped lightly on the' door of the grand room and listened, her/ heart thumping. . " No reply! Then she knocked louder, and theh. again with more force, and. no answer came. She almost dropped, and cold sweat covered her body. Old Ponciano came hobbling along, his face worried. "Get up on that chair and loo1, in tho window," said. Maria faintly.., Tho. old man did m> wee , Dja, ana said, "T?ey are* st?t: mut-p Ing" Then he jumped down, and his face, though very brown, became blanched with fear. Ho^ recalled the young Ger man surveyor," the lawyer and Don Carlos Arlspe. ^ Then came the master of the liouse, Don Diego, tall, strong, and bis face somber. He was choking with appre hension. He, too, looked In the win dow and shouted. And there was no reply. Then ho tried the door, and, luckily, the young people had not put up the wooden beam. He went in, and touch ed tho sleepers. The y moved not. They were*-slecplng the last sleep! Don Diego was a strong man, but ho felt deadly ill. "Demons haunt this accursed room!" he cried out. Then, Ponciano having called the men of tho escort, they came and entered tho room, Astonishment was depicted on their faces. They refused to believe that the captain and his bride, so calm in death, were not asleep. They groaned in spirit, und one of- tho men shouted in Captain Dclmontc's car: "Captain, get up! It is nearly 9 o'clock." But the captain was far away. Tho same judge who had been scut for before was summoned. Tho judge came late iu the afternoon. He re called his previous visit, and yet he said: "No suspicion can attach to you, Don Diego, nor to your wife or serv ants. This is an act of God; this room, this bed, they are accursed. Let us remove the bodies; they may bo burled In the morning, and next day I will draw up papers renting the mystery of this room, which should be barred, never to be opened again." The men of the escort wept like chil dren; they were good loyal fellows, and fond of the captain and his bride. Old Ponciano was so overcome that ho fell In an ataquo and died Incon tinently. A whisper went about that he was a poisoner, and that his heart had accused him! 80 the servants gossiped. At 5:30 in the morning the young couple were burled in the presence of the judge who also presided over the Interment of Ponciano, not without some feeling of suspicion in his heart regarding the old man. But Don Diego said: "Ponciano served my father be fore me. Ho was tho soul of honor, though poor and a servant No, no; let us take down that bed, for so, per chance, wo shall easo our minds, though I believe that the room Is filled with demons." Late In the afternoon the judge and Don Diego, with the men of the escort, went to the grand room. It was bright, as Is the wont of windowed rooms aft er great tragedies. Servants began to take the bed to pieces, trembling with superstitious horror. When the cano py was removed, everybody was petri fied and felt turned to Icy rigidity. Concealed In the top was a nest of ta rantulas! They scattered as disturbed, these demons In reality, and the men ran out'of the room, fearing them. Here was the long kept secret of the fatal room. These creatures had de? Bcended at night and killed their vic tims and then returned to their nest In the canopy. All was duly set down by the judge and attested by all the witnesses. And this closed the grewsonie chapter of horrors at the hacienda of Valverde.-? Boston Herald. A Story From Doblln. It was at a Dublin dance. What lent additional luster to the occasion was the expectation that a certain Impor tant peer would put in an appearance and, of course, dsneo v. Ith certain ftyrtussie damsels. The guest of iho evening was, however, late. An ex cellent and fussy, person saw a very pretty girl sitting out dance after dance. He went up and, speaking to the mother, observed: "It is quite a shame that your pretty daughter should be sitting out in this way. You must really let me intro duce her to some nice young men who will give her all the dancing she wants." "Whist!" cried the mother. "Be alsy; I'm kaplng her cool for the earl." A JPnrt Beply. The postmaster of Bound Up, Kan., recently received notification from the department In Washington that he would be compelled to give a larger bond for the faithful performance of his duty, as the business of his office was increasing. The postmaster draws a salary of $25 a year, and ho returned the department's letter with th? word "Nit" written In red Ink at the bottom. At last accounts the postmaster was doing business under the old bond. Tat Deceivers. "Look here, sir," she said as she en tered a sewing machine office the other day; "your agent has imposed upon me." > "Is it possible, ma'am? In what re spect?" "Yes, sir, he has, and I don't want your machine!" "How has he deceived you?" "Why, be came Into my house and told tne that your machine was the best In the world. I have witnesses and can prove every word of It" "But that was not deceiving you, ma'am." "Yes, it was. I hadn't tho machine two days before another agent called and said his was the best and be had a circular to back it up. He had hard ly got out of doors when another called and said his machine had taken ten medals." "But we have taken 15, ma'am." "Oh, you have!" "And we have issued a challenge for ? public trial, which no other machine dare accept" "Is that so? Then yonr machine U the best, after all?" ^rtalnly," 'Then you will please excuse me. 1 thought I had been Imposed upon, and I'm afraid I was a little hasty. The Other agents must havo been the de CASTOR IA for Infanta and Children. Tfei KM Yoa Hue Always Besgb. ' Bears the Signature of -;- ? ? A hen lays during the day but at light she becomes a rooster. HUMOR IN ENGLISH SIGNS. Ant Quotation** l'r.ed by Tradeunrn to Attract Attention. There Is quite a harvest of wit and wisdom to be gloaued by the observant eye from the notices with which 4 rades m eu seek to attract custom, and it might also be worth tho while of out of the way things to make a col lection of these wayside gems, many of which blush almost unseen. Many of the cleverest of these notices which the writer has added little by little to his collection consist of really witty adaptations of well known quotations and proverbs. An enterprising cycle dealer In a Yorkshire town, whose name is Net tle, turns his prickly cognomen to business account in this singularly apt quotation from "Henry IV," "Out of this nettle danger I pluck the flower safety," while a costumer in the same town, whoso sympathetic name is Love, Informs his customers in let ters half a foot long that "Love hath a large mantle." If capacity he a vir tue in mantles, Mr. Love deserves to have a large sale. A provision merchant, again lu a north country town, turns the same name .to useful account by this an nouncement, which "speaks for itself:" "Georgo Herbert says 'Love is a per sonal debt,' but this Lovo's terms are strict cash." Business rivalry often develops qulto unexpected resources of wit nud wis dom In men of business. A few months ago a grocer and provision dealer called Little had a practical monopoly of the custom of a small town in the Midlands, when, to his natural annoyance, a rival settled In the place and opened u shop under the name of John Strong. Within a few days this dignified protest appeared In tho outraged grocer's window: "Man wants but Little here below" (Gold smith). But the newcomer was a man of at leust equal learning and powers of quotation, for on the following day this supplementary notice appeared In his window: "Nor wants that Little long" (Goldsmith). A similar story is told of two rival to bacconists, the latest comer of whom was named Farr. He opened fire on his opposite rival by placing in bis window this notice: "The best tobacco by Farr." Within a few hours his ri val's window blossomed into one large announcement: "Far better tobacco than the best tobacco by Farr." Perhaps smarter still were the rival notices of two watchmakers, one of whom was called I. Wise. Mr. Wise had adopted as bis business motto, "Ho Is Wise that's wise in time." To this the newcomer retorted by this quota tion from Wordsworth: "He is oft the wisest man who Is cot Wise at all." Many business men make attractive advertisements by humorous play on their names when they lend themselves to this purpose. The proprietor of a wayside inn in one of the home coun ties makes clever use of his name, Day, to attract custom. Cn a swing ing sign, under a highly colored pic ture of the rising sun, appears this leg end in gilt letters: Won't you como Into ray parlor, I Gentle ?tranger, pray. For you'll bave to travel farther To pass a bappler Day. Another publican who boasts the cu riously inappropriate name of Isaac Drinkwater has adopted this motto: "I. Drinkwater, but my customers drink the best of ale." Mr. Knott, a draper in a west coun try town, makes this appeal for cus tom: "Many drapers are extortionate in their prlcc3. I am Knott," And sot many miies from Mr. Knott is a village tinker whose name is Dunn and whose modest motto Is, "What is done is done, but if a not well done unless if s done by Dunn." By no means the least clever of these humorous trade announcements was that of a bookseller called Hart who supplied for many years all the books used In a local grammar school. Mr. Hart's business motto was this couplet: Who In life's race would fain a good start Should altray* get bU "books by Hart." ?London Tit-Bits. The Unsrratefal Cackao. To hear the cuckoo's cheery note you might think he had the clearest con science in the world. He can have net* ther memory nor moral sense or he would not carry It off so gayly. We say nothing of the "raptores," who are a race apart, but the most disreputable of birds, as a rule, are guilty of noth ing worse than peccadillos. The jack daw will steal for tho mere fun of the thing, for he can make no possible use of plate or Jewelry, and sometimes un der temptation may make a snatch at a pheasant chick. Sparrows are, of course, notorious thieves, but tbey rank no higher In crime than the sneaking pickpockets.' Bnt the cuckoo, so to speak, is a murderer from hts cradle. He violates the sanctity of a hospitable hearth. His first victims are his own foster brothers, and before he tries his ' wings on the first flight he Is imbrued In fraternal blood, like any Amurath or Bacajet?Saturday Review. A Coloaaal Lnmlnons Crab. Indian Journals tell of a luminous crab captured by a dredge of the Zoo logical society of Calcutta In the In dian ocean nbont a mile off the coast and 45 fathoms deep. It Is nearly two feet In diameter! and its longest claws are about a yard In length. It has pro jecting eyes, like those of a lobster, and is very voracious. It was put Into a tank of sea water, and In two hours It devoured some 50 other crustaceans and fishes. When darkness cam j, lt proved phosphorescent, emitting pecul iar white rays and illuminating the Whole tank. The crab was sent to tho aanartacn ?t Oelc-t^a. IVaminous now ?1rs, fungi, worms, fishes, etc., were known to science, but not, we believe, a crab, or, at least, one so large, be fore.?London Globe. ? Happines? is composed of so many pieces' that there is always one miesing. ? One swallow may not make a summer, but a pin malioioutly insert ed in a ohair will make one spring ? No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for an other. ?- He who is ;n debt must endure insult !e3t he incur the tlispieaaure of his creditor. . Queer Effect. "Speakiugof pistols," said a New Orleans lawyer, "I am reminded of a remarkable case in which I was inter ested soon after the war, when I was practicing over in Alabama. A gen eral shooting affray, growing out of a family fued, had taken place at a crossroads store, and an Influential ?lauter named McDermott was killed, le was standing behind a little shed, considerable distance away, at the time; and a young man named Lee Allen was firing out of the store win dow at another of the orowd. McDer mott was hit in the head aud tho bullet was identified as coining from Allen's pistol, which was an English weapon of a very unusual size?caliber 47. But singular part of the affair was that tho place where the planter stood was out of the range of the window. The corner of the shed iuterposed, and it was simply impossible to understand how the missile readied its mark. I was engaged for the defense, and, af ter carefully measuring the ground and firing several test shots, I became convinced that my olient was innooent and that there had been another 47 calibcr pistol in the fight. The cir cumstantial evidence seemed to bear out my theory indisputably, and I felt confident of an acquittal, when, at the eleventh hour, tho unexpected hap pened and knocked out my props. It occurred to the prosecuting attorney to test Allen's weapon ana find out exactly how it carried. Accordingly, he screwed it in a vise and blazed away a few times at a target at differ ent distances. The result was as tonishing. Up to about 50 feet it shot all right, but at that point the bullet suddenly veered at all sorts of extraordinary tangents. Sometimes it sailed up into the air, sometimes it plunged downward, aud sometimes it swooped off to one side. The expla nation, however, was simple. It seemed that Allen had found the bar rel too long, and, a week or so be fore tho fight, had filed off several in ches. That operation completely de stroyed the effect of the rifling, aud, instead of imparting a true circular twist to the bullet, it gave it a peculiar 'English,' as billiard players would say, which was as liable to send it in one direotion as another. That ex periment fully explained the mystery of MoDermott's taxing off. My client was convicted of manslaughter and af terward pardoned. I don t know what became' of the pistol. It should have been preserved as the only gun on earth that pitched curved balls."? New Orleans Times-Democrat. Dog Days are Here. The dog days are upon us. Satur day ss the first ou?. It rained. Sunday was the second one. It rain ed. To-day is the third one. And it rained this morning. There are scores of people all over this country who believe that it will rain now every day for forty days, that being the accepted limit of the number of the dog days. But these so-called dog days being simply the result of an old supersti tion the weather bureau takes no offi cial cognizance of them?from a pure ly meteorological standpoint they are "nit." This dog day business is supposed to be brought about by the rising of the star Sirius above the horizon at the same time as the euo. Sirius makes this ris* about this time of year. The old superstition takes color from the fact that Sirius is called the' dog star, not because it looks a bit like a canine, but owing to its location in the constellation of the Ganis Major, or Great Dog. Sirius is the star of the first magni tude. Astronomers tell us that it is the brightest star in the heavens. They say that Sirius is only 123,000, 000,000 miles from the earth and so amazing in its brilliancy that were the sun that far from the world it would appear as a star of the sixth magnitude and not be visible to the naked eye. They add that it would take just 400 suns like ours located the same distance from the earth as Sirius, to give us the amount of light which oomes flooding through space to our world from this same old Dog star. Sirius was known to the Egyptians under the name of So this. They no ticed that its rising always preceded the rising of the river Nile, and be lieved that the rise of the Dog star led the freshets. This is probably the reason why old timers firmly believe to this day that the Dog star causes the dog days and 40 days of rain. The Romans named the star Sirius. They looked upon the luminary as a star of ill omen, believing that its rise above the horizon portended the oppressive and deadly heat of sum mer, and also gave rise to wars and other calamities. According to some superstitious worthies, the rising of Sirius is u. forerunner of a large crop of mad dogs ?and? Well, the wars are already here. The faot that they camo a little prior to the rising of the Dog star this year cao, perhaps, be accounted for on the ground that the course run by this dazzling "shiner" is irregular and at times absolutely zig zag. Chain up your dogs and un limber yonr umbrellas.?Atlanta Journal. COCAINEawWHISKY " ..Bookon QSW Notieo of Final Settlement. THE undersigned. Administrator of the Estate of John Willlngham, deceased, hereby gives notice thai he will on the 12th day of Septem ber, 1900, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County, S.O., fora Final Settlement of eald Es tate, and a discharge from his offloe as Administrator. J. N. WILLINGHAM, Adm'r. Aug. 8,1900 7 5 Notice to 'Creditors. ALL persons having demanda aRalnst the Batate of A. P. Hubbaro, deceas ed, are hereby notified to present them, properly proven, to Tribble & Prince. Attorneye, Anderson, 8. C, within the deb ted to make payment, tlsi? prescribed by iaw, and those In MARY M. HUBBARD, Es'x. Aug 8,1000 / 7 8 Pretty Children "We bare tfcree children. Before the birth or the last one my wife used four bet ?ts of MOTHER'S FRIEND. If you bad the pictures of oar children, yon could see ?I a fiance that the last one Is healthiest, prettiest and ftaest-looUng of them all. My wife thinks Mother's Friend Is the greatest and grandest remedy in the world for expect ant mothers." Written by a Ken tucky Attorney-at -Law. prevents nine-tenths of th? suffering Incluent to child' birth. The coming mother*! disposition and temper remain unruffled throughout the ordeal, because this relax* lng, penetrating Uniment relieves the I usual distress. A good-natured mothei I is pretty sure to have a good-natured child The patient is kept in a strong, health] condltionr which the child also inherits Mother's Friend takes a wife through thi crisis quickly and almost painlessly. H assists in her rapid recovery, and ward! off the dangers that so often follow dc livery. Sold by druggists for $1 a bottle. THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO, -? ATLANTA, OA. Send for our freo illustrated book writtal eipresslv for expectant mothers. LUMBER FOR SALE. GOOD Lumber at Mill fci.oo per M. Picked Lumber at Mill Sti.oo per M. Good Lumber f.o.b. cars ihldeling) ?i.'iO. Picked " " 88.f>i). All orders tilled upon short notice and out of lino timber. Address J. G. B. VAN DIVER, Dalton, Pickena Co., S. C. ati miles from Anderson. Aug 1, 1000_0_4_ LAND FOR SALE. WE have six tracts of Land for sale in one body, four miles Southeast from Abbeville, on Long Cane Creek, and on Black Diamond R. R. survey. Tracts contain about 200 acres each. Cheap and on eaav tor me. A good cbance to get a home. Write us at Abbeville or call on us near lands. L. A. JACKSON, J. C. PRESSLY, July 25, 190Q-5-5*_Agents.^ Dae West Female College 4~|FFER8 A. B, B 8., Normal. Mu \J sic, Expression, Art and Business courses under experienced teachers, and the best moral, social and religious en vironments, In an ideal College commu nity. The purest tubular well water. Home comforts and restraints. Terms low. JAMES BOYOE, President, July S5. 1000?5-0. Due West, 8. C. Peoples Bank of Anderson Moved into their Banking House, and are open for busi ness and respectfully solicits the patronage of the public. Interest paid on time deposits by agreement. PARKER RYE. None Purer. None Better. Ask for it at all lUspanBTtrieB. PROF. T R. UN6ST0N. ANDEItSON, *T. C, CURES BY MFAG'NETFSIVr. ALL classes of Diseases, acute and chronic, promptly, painlessly and permanently, and without the use of medicine or surgery. Having just completed a thorough course of instruction, theoretical and clinical in the Solence and Art of Healing by Vital Magnetism, (the Weltmer meth od,) I beg leave to offer my services to the sick and afflicted of Anderson and vicinity. I am thoroughly prepared to treat all elaEBes of disease*, especially those affecting the nervous organism, by this new method. ABSENT TREATMENT. Persons living at remote distances may be successfully treated by this method by ?hit iz isrm?? Abaent Treatment, by correspondence. All communications whatever, either personal or by letter, will be scrupulous ly treated as confidential. Offices? Thompson Building, Southeast of Publlo Square. Call on or address . PROP. T. R. LANQBTON, Anderson. S. C. I have already a ' number of nattering testimonials of mrrveloua eures per formed by me. May 10,1900_47__ MONEY TO LOAlti! O N REAL ESTATE Long Urne if security Is good. Fine Farm lands for Little Hon?y. Strong Farms in Pickena for half the price of Anderson lands. Call and see our list of them ; will aid buy era to get what they want, and lend them h air of purchase money. B. F. MARTIN, Attorney at Law, Mascnlo Temple, . Anderson, S. C. L.AND FOR SA?jE. WE oller for Bale five acres of Land in the City of Anderson, boinir part of the Tract on which Mrs. Mary 3'Ponnell resides, bounded by Hampton street, East Boundary street, Kennedy street, and other Lands of said Mrs Mary o* Don noil. It is divided into halt aero lota, and has p. thirty-foot street running through If not sold at private sale will bo sold Saleaday in October, 1%0. See plat at office of Bonhana & Watklns an 1 apply to the undersigned for terms. BON H AM & WATKIN8, tiUAlTLEBAUM & COCHRAN, r , . Attorneys. July 4,1900 2_3ai LAND FOR SALE. WE oiler jor sale that Tract of Laud in Savannah Township, known aa the Hewin Land, on Genorcstoe Creek, waters of Savannah Rivor, boundod by nald Cr3ek, Public Road and Lands of T. D. Stevenson, Kurl Harris, Nathaniel Harris aud others. If not Bold at private sale will be sold at public cutcrv on Salemlay in Oet^er, 1900. Ask at our office for terms and plat. BONIIAM & WATKINS, Atto:noyp. .lulv 4. lHOO 2 :;ai r\" , TffZ : far^ "s s,.' . . | ..)<a:..: An All-around Satisfaction is assured to those who Patronize. OUR WORK is uniformly excellent, not merely occasionally good. What care and skill can do to give satisfaction in done. Fine work on goods of every description ia done here. The Finish, either high gloss or domestic, on Shirts, Collars and Cuffs is especially meritori ous. ANDERSON STEAM LAUNDRY CO. 202 East Boundary St. R. A. MAYFIELD, Sunt, and Trees. PHONE NO. 20. Leave orders at D. C. Brown A. Bro'p. Store._ firs. SHlteil & GuQiuai, dentists, ANDERSON,.S. C. OFFICES : Ovar Farmers and Merchants Bank. WE having formed a partnership for the practice of Dentistry, and to establish a Cash practice, we give a liberal discount of 20 to 26 per cent, from former prices. Thus no bad debts, no bill collector to Eay, no lost material. Therefore, those aving work done by this plan pay only for what they get, and save thst over* charge to make good the work done for others who never pay at all ; alao, giving us more time to serve the paying class, A dollar saved Is one made. Vitalized Air, "Gas," Cocaine and the Painless Spray used for the extraction of teeth. Respectfully, A. C. 8TRICKL AN D. J. C. CHATHAM. N. B.?Nothing brt the beet that mate rial and workmanship can produce will be turned ont of onr office. S. <fe C. May just as well be Bold during Spring and Summer as in Fall and Winter. No need to wait until crops are made and marketed to "look around." Wo have a large Hat of well-selected Farms, and likely have Just what yon want. We are also answering Inquiries every day, and if yon have Farm Lands to sell we would likely find the purchaser you are looking for. We can, In moat cases, easily ad just any questions that may arise with reference to rent for the year, or interest on purchase money or date of taking possession, and like details. In some cases, if early sale Is made, we can offer great Inducements in releasing rents to purchaser. 128 acres,"hear Honea Path, up-to-date condition. Can be bought low now. 108 acres, Fork, bottom price. (40 to 50 acres bottom?good condition.) 190 acres, Fork. 125 acres, Fork. 2500 acres in Oconee. Eleven settle ments. Already surveyed into six tracts. Timber valuable. The above are only a few. FRIEr^ON & SHIRLEY, People's Bank Building, Anderson, S. C. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County or Andebson. COURT OX' C OMMON PLEAS. Fannie Mattlson, Plaintiff, against Lou Greet-, Isaac Williams, William Williams, Sr., et al., Defendants. To the Defendants Loa Greer, Isaac Williams, William Williams, Jr.. Estelle Williams, SaHie Williams, Ophelia William*, Partis Williams, Berths Brown, Blattle Lee Clinkscalea and Fred Clinkscalea: "\ TOO are hereby summoned and required to an it swer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy Is herewith served upon you, and to aert/e a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers at their offlco, Anderson Court House, South Carolina, within twenty daya after the service hereof, exclusive, of the day of auch service; and If you fail to answer the Complaint within tbo time aforesaid, the Plaintiff In this action will apply to the Court for the relief de manded in the Complaint. Anderson, 8. C , May 29, A. D., 1900. BONI! AM & WATKINS, Plaintiff's Attorneys. [Seal ] Joua C. Watkinb, c. o. r. T? the infant Defendant* William Williams, _Jr., Eitello WllUans,8allie WflUass. Cp?ii?l? wu ll?tua, Fftrris wuilaas, Bertha Brown, Mattle Lee Clinkscalea and Fred Clinkscalea : You will take notice that within twenty days after the service of the Summons and Complaint on yon, In this action, you must procura the ap pointment of Guardians ad lttem to represent you In said action ; and if you fall to do so the Plain tiff wUl procure ^^?wil?' May 29,1900. Plaintiff's Attorneys. To tho absent Defendants Bertha Brown, Mattlo Lee CUnkscales and Fred Clinkscslas : . Take notlea that copies of this Sommons and Complaint, which aro herewith served upon you, are this day filed In the office of the Clerk of the Ceart for Andurson County, 8. C ^B^SlHAM A WATKIN3, PlalntirTa Att'ys. Jnly 25, IMP_6_G Notice to Creditors. ALL persona having demands against the Estate of T. I* Clinksoales, Sr., de ceased, are hereby notified, to present them, pi-operlv proven, to the under signed, within* the time prescribed by law, ?nd these indebted to make ^ay m6FRANK H. CLINKSOALES, Ex'r. Aug 15, 1000 8 ?