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AT THE "SIGN OF THE SMILE." We're weary svwa?k.ng the Highway of life; We're fretted and flustered with worry and strife. Ut us drop by the .wayside the '.icarr old load And rest ai the inn at the turn of tit road; At the -Sign or tha Smile." Ho, the "Sign et tLe Smile" la a Jolly ina, With gargoyles about it thet do naught but grin. Xticre's always a laugh and a shoulder to whack And an echo that erer will answer us back; bet us tarry awhile ?t the "Sign of the Emile." Ai the "Sign of the Smile" we will linger long there. ; j For the strictest of rules is the ban upon care. And the guests trust forge? there are such things as years j v.'i never shed any but laughter brought tears; Let us} tarry awhile. tboj "Sign of the Brails.". There'll be Oa?oui of Jollity for us to sip, \nd many and toiny a roUicldng quip; Though the Jokes fenay bo old, like the Juice of the vine. "-. They mellow with age to the richest of wine; Lei us tarry awhile At thq "Sign of the Smile." Let us tarry awhile tt the "Sign of the Smile/? Forget all our griefs In the Joys that beguile. Let us pleasuro the noon tili It changes tonight, Then up with our loads, and we'll find they are light. If we tarry awhile At the "Sign of the Smile." ?Josh Wink in Baltimore American. A , - - A.-A-A - - + - ^-*-V*"V ?VV " V'-TT-tl?' v - " -i 9 I CHAPTER I ?1 t Story of a Hidden Treasure, f - I q BT FBBDEBIOK J. BUENETT. < > The wheels of train No. 14 on tlie Michigan Central were Just clicking ever the last switch out of Kalamazoo ns I leaned back In the corner of the smoking room to enjoy my after din ner cigar and meditate upon the ease and comfort of my Journey across the state, end the sharp contrast it pre sented to the Jonrneyinga of Marquette and Cadillac. The only other'occupant of the room, a slight man with a. sandy mustache, sat close to the window, using the last gleams of daylight to road something that appeared to in terest him greatly in one of the small G cent magazines of which we were at that time having quite an epidemic. After a little he closed his magazine and looked out of the window; then, ' turning to me, said: "I wish people who write stories wouldn't stop In the middle of 'em, as if the first half was all a person would want to know." "Another of The Lady or the Tiger' brand?" I nskeC. "Not this time; one of those yarns about a fellow who Is dead broke find ing some hidden treasure that makes him a regular Croesus. This is the third I've read in a couple of days, and they all stop at the find?only say something about his rolling in wealth afterward. "Now, I want to know the whole business; how he turned his diamonds iuto ducats; how he felt dropping from his old ways into new ones; If he had any trouble proving bis right 'to his find. If St was something that had be longed to some one else at some time or other, or on land that wasn't bis, even If in a wilderness, seems to me there'd be somebody trying to claim it. I want to know bow he worked It to hang on to what he found." Some one bad been at the wasbstand. while he was speaking, and as be con cluded a tall, slender man appeared.at' the door with a towel in bis hands. "I've read a number of those yarns, too," he said, smiling, "and quite agree with yi. ' 4 . out the last half of the sto ry being worth the telling. I suppose the authors like to leave something for , their renders* imagination, so they let ? us finish as we like." He stepped back to the washstand. hut reappeared in a-moment and, tak ing a case from his pocket, said: "If you will have a fresh cigar with me and would care to bear It, I will tell you a story of that kind, l'o? the truth of wblcb I can vouch, a nd give you a second chapter, ; too, though la, this case It was'ducats and not dia monds." Of course we wanted to hear, and. leaning back in one corner, be began: "I once knew a young man who was a clerk in a coal office in Omaha. He worked for a firm that was not doing a very largo business, so h? didn't get a very large salary, but as he was the only clerk and had to give more or less time and attention to affairs that were personal to the two members/ of the firm and not connected with the coal business he was kept pretty busy and pretty closely tied to the office. If he went ont, lt was on a business errand, and he must burry back; no running out to get hts hair cut or buy a pair of shoes or anything like that till he had locked the door at tSe end of the day, and they were pretty long days. "He was an ambitious chap and something of a dreamer besides, and each of these characteristics made him a bit dissatisfied with his lot.. Ho wanted to rise in the business world or else leave it entirely and live among hooks and pictures, pnrple mountains and sunsets and poetic things in gen eral. But to do either he must have money?more money than it appeared .as If he stood any chance of ever get tmg. it was a steady grind from jweok's end *.o v/eok-'a end. and at the jelose of the month but a few dollars more than enough to pay for bis board 'and lodging and n small draft to his (mother back in the east.. Economize ?s he might he could save bat little. In f*ho three years since he enrxse from tho eastern village that couldn't offer him what ho was getting now he hadn't heen able to accumulate $100, and. so when he thought of the future and .how the years were slipping away without improving his condition or bringing him any better opportunities to improve lt St gave him the. bines. "E e didn't want money for the med? ^e of having it, but for what ha could do with it. He wanted,to try his hand at manipulating some, feeling oure ho couid double it as rapidly as most men, and he oImo wanted enough to enable him to c'i th? ^c-^rhl befese his eyes became to ? dim to see it. "One Sunday afternoon this man tramped from Omaha to Florence, ? httlo town Just north, and was ram bling about among the bUls that sur round iL Walking was his principal recreation. It was cheap, nnd he en Joyed it. ho bad'wandered aw*y from roads and paths into & wood that was Angled Trtth vines and underbrush. It was Bcptemncr ana warm, ami wta-u he came oat Into the open, being hot and tired, be threw himself down un der ? walnut tree to rest "Before him was a little glade which thi ?tec:-s i^ra-red c? ?ll sides. Part of It wus covered and part rras planted with m??leL Besides this there was nothing to show that a human being' bad been there before. The ragged, poorly tended corn suggested to him an aboriginal maize field, and It seemed to him as If the spirits of Mondamin and Hiawatha brooded ovtr that peace ful little valley. Some of the stalks had been cut and gathered into shocks that looked like Indian tepees, and by half closing his eyes the tassels of the more distant corn were transformed Into eagle feathers, nodding and bow. Ing as If their savage wearers were en gaged In some sort of a ghost dance. -ah bo lay there thinking of the red men and maidens who used to dwell among the bills over which he bad Just been wandering, and who perhaps had planted maize In that very spot, from up in the woods, behind him came the tap, tap, tap of a woodpecker, which was answered by another tap, tap, tap from the woods on the other side. I There was a lull in the wind Just then, [ and the eagl? feathers stood still, as If ! listening. He knew the taps to be j woodpecker rappings, but It seemed as if they were Indian signals. : I told you tie was a dreamer. "Presently . a walnut fell from the tree above him and rolled Into a little gully that the water coming down the hill behind him bad.washed near by. He followed it with his eyes and where it stopped noticed what looked like a bit of dirty canvas sticking out of the ground; not a little scrap, but appar ently part of something that was bur* led. It was beyond the reach of his walking stick, bat a dead branch lay at hand, and with this he poked at It In an Idle sort of way. There seemed to be something harder than earth under It, oud be poked It again with a little more vigor, whereupon it tore, and three yellow disks about the size of sli ver dollars rolled out. "In an Instant he had cast aside tho branch and was on his knees over the canvas gathering, gold eagles and half eagles and double eagles Into his pock ets with ? feverish haste that would hardly have seemed ?posslblo In the Idle dreamer, of a few moments ago. He moved as if his life depended upon getting them out of sight as soon as possible." lie paused for a moment and blew some smoke wreaths toward the cell ing. "There," said the man by the win dow, "'s where 6uch stories usually end?with the first chapter." "This one doesn't end there. It has a second chapter. "When the bag?for such the canvas was?had been emptied, he dug with his pocketknlfe as well as he could'all around It to see If there, might be an other, but could find no more. He then proceeded to coy u- up all signs of dis turbance, making the ground look as nearly like that about It as possible and dragging some fallen branches and dead leaves over it, looking about blm now onil then to see If. any one was In sight; not that he felt for a moment . that he was stealing, as the coin op- I peared to have been burled for a long time, and he believed a finder's title to be good, but didn't care to discuss the matter with any Inquisitive farmer or tramp who might happen "long. "He had staffed It into h!3 pockets hastily, without counting it, feeling It to be of the greatest Importance to get away from the scene as soon as possi ble, before any one's suspicion that something bad been found should be aroused, but he judged he had several thousand dollars. How much the pos session of all this meant to him he had scarcely realized, his mind being bus ied lb devlsiug ways and means of keeping the find from coming to the knowledge of any one. "By the time he had covered the ground so he thought there was noth ing to attract the attention of the most* 1 observant he found that he was In a profuse perspiration and trembling like an aspen leaf. "He went slowly np through tho woods and out Into a road, and here. In' the shadow of some sunflowers, he sat down to rest and think. And then he began to realize that a few thousand, ! even a very few, would make a. big change In his life. "He pulled a coin out of. bis coat ... pocket, If was a twenty of 1855. He took one from his trousers, it was a ten of 1840; another was a twenty of 1854. One at a' time he il row out a number and found them all to be as old as 1855, which seemed to show that they were burled, or, at least, gathered together, not long after that time, so he decided that ho need give < no thought to the rightful owner?that , la, the original owner of the bag; that , be and any one who knew of the bury* \ Ing were probably beyond the need of . SId, or it would not have been permit- t 3 to remain there all these years, but j the owner of the land on which he had , found it might have a legal title to t It and might endeavor to enforce it { should the finding come to his knowl- ( edge and he could not prove that It ( lid hot belong to any one who might claim to have buried It. So the only c thing was to keep quiet as to the whole business and get the coin Into circula- z Son In Some way that would not"excite ? suspicion. i "The sun was getting low, and It Was 1 several miles to an Omaha street car; c so, after he had rested a short time, he a crossed the road to a walnut tree and t picked up enough nuts to fill the tops c of his outside pockets, and thus ac- f count for their bulglness, and then i started homeward, his heavy pockets pounding against him on tho outside t und his heart pounding against him on t the Inside for fear some one would s bear tho click of his coins and guess j. what he was carrying. v "He took a bob tailed car at the north o sdgo of town?that was before there e were any electric cars?and of courso Imagined every one in It was eying s lim suspiciously, but ho reached down t town without any one's speaking to v Una and wont to the cScc Trbcra lie B worked. : "After locking- tho doer be wcut to 1 :he desk farthest from tho window and e took out and counted his treasure, s rhere was $5,005 and no coin dated atcr than 1855. He wen-h*-* a-* twenty a m the letter scale and'figured out tho fc weight o? vue whole to be a trine over 18 pounds. t "Patting s. tew. of tho .?maller pieces v tu ma ywivi-i, UW um nie (1?X up 1U packages, which he put in the office cafe, behind the boobs, so if by chance any one opened it before him la the morning they would uot see It. You xeay .bc cure be was certain the safe was locked before be left the office. "He went to a newsroom and bought a magazine, paying for lt with a $5 goldplece, and ho paid bis check at the restaurant where he got supper with another, putting the change he receiv ed and money from bis purse to make up the amount spent with the other gold in a separate pocket. '' "Then ho went to his room, a little hall bedroom, but all the home he had, went to bed and lay until after the high school clock struck 1, thinking about bis future and planning how be should invest his little fortune, "He must change bis manner of liv ing gradually. It wouldn't do to leave his position at once. People must get used to his having money by degrees, he felt. There was a boom on then in Omaha, and South Omaha was just rising out of the prairie, and be knew he could very soon double his dollars and double those by judicious manage ment. "He thought of the offico he would have-T-bls own office?where It would be for h'Xxi to command ?usienii of to obey; where he would not have to swallow as much as ho had been doing, but could talk back; of the long vaca tion he would take after a few more years of hard work; ot the green fields of England nud the sandy wastes of Egypt; of the fiords of Norway aud In dia's coral strand; of the Louvre and the Vatlcau; of foreign railway car riages and P. and O. steamers, and In all bis thoughts there was mixed up a pair of gray eyes in which he had read life's meaning somo years ago, but had not dared to confess it, because he couldn't see his way. clear to ask them to leave the village academy and brighten a home for him. "He went tc sleep thinking how he was going to get rid 01 his gold with out attracting attention, for, of course, he didn't want auy one te notice It "Monday morning it didn't bother him much when he was repeatedly called from footing a column of figures to answer the phone or when one of the partners criticised him for not at tending to. a matter that had never been brought to bis knowledge. "When bis lunchtlme came, he went to the savings bank where his few dol lars were and deposited $90 in g)ld and the $10 for which he had exchang ed gold the night before. At one na tional bank ho got a cashier's check to his own Order for $50, paying for lt with gold; In another he got a demand O. D. for $100 to his own order; In a third he got a cashier's check for $200. Then he went to a national bank the cashier of which he knew and opened an account, saying that he was going to do something In the real estate line. Here he deposited the demand O. D., $150 in gold and $50 in currency, for which be had exchanged gold at the office. This took him half an hour; the other half he spent In buying five lots for a total of $35\>, whicb be paid in gold, thus getting rid of $1,000 alto gether, and in buying some doughnuts at a bakery, from which he Lvide bis lunch later In the day when he was alone in the office. ; "In two weeks be had managed after this fashion to get all his gold but the odd $5, which he kept for a relic, into circulation without any one's com menting thereon to him. In three months be sold his first lots that cost him $350 for an even $1,000 and resign ed his position, opened a real estate office and was soon rak'.^g in consider able In commissions, besides his profits ! on his own investments, in which be was exceptionally fortunate. f'lf you know anything about what Omaha was In the latter half of the eighties, you can understand how rap Idly one could double a few thousand over and over; if you don't, there's nc use in my trying to explain. "By spring he bad a stenographer and an office boy, and when June came he added a clerk to bis force and went back east to see his mother and the gray eyed girl. He took th? gray eyes a long drive Into the country, and when they got home the eyes were very bright, and their owner wrote the trustees of the academy that she couldn't teach there next term. "In September he went east again fand took her back with him, and in a little cottage in a quiet street, from the window of which were to be had glimpses of the shining river and the blue Iowa bills, they set up their house hold gods and were very happy. "All this time he bad kept his capital Invested in city property, and after his real estate office had been open for a few months he made his expenses ont )f that, so all the gain from the origi nal $5,000 was added to it. ?s soon is he sold a piece of property he loughtmore with the proceeds, and whatever ho bought went up, so that ;very transaction increased his capital, lis commissions on sales from other people giving him a fair income, so .hey could buy books and pictures now ?od then and.keep a horse and take >coasiooal runs back east or to the tool of Colorado. "Just before the panic of 1893 he lold out all his belongings except some ;ood rent paying business property ind a few close-in dwellings that rent id well aud after a bit put his funds n to first-class stocks. By that time ris $5,000 had grown to a sum the in :ome from which would support him md bis wife anywhere, so they let heir house to somo friends that want id to be married and started ont to ind all the things there were to see n the world and arc doing that yet. "No, he never knew anything about he previous history o? the money, ait he supposed that it was buried by eine of the Mormon crowd that stop >ed about there for a time on their ray to Salt Lake. The dates of the oins were old enough, aud that seem d a probable solution." "Unusual ability? I don't think o; perhaps exceptional opportunities, bough almost any young man who is rilling to work and bas a little horse ease coaid do about as well with that tart. The trouble is to get the start, fou know, Carnegie says it's easy nough after you have tho first thou and dollars." "Did it ever got out about his gold?" eked the man Oy the window. "Did te always keep it a sestet?" "Nobody ever learned any more h an he chose to tell. Ho told his fife; there was no -we telling anyone else. I knew about it at tho time. I was his closest friend then. Of course ? would not have told you if von I sew him." VI tfc.uk I cave met him," I said. "Perhaps," he answered as he rose to go, "but you do not know his name."?Chicago Record. From Cabin to Castle. Miss 6r?.ce Carr, who was married to Lord Newborough in London recent* ly, was bora 25 years ago in a log eabin in the woods near Leaven worth, Ind. Her father was a soldier who had come out of the Civil War with nothing but a sound body and good health left. Sho had a sister two years older, named Alioe. In their early girlhood tho sisters were noted for their beauty. When they wero in their teens their father was appointed pension agent at Louisville, Ky., in which city the family took up its resi dence. There tho beauty of tho girls attracted almost immediato attention, and they were taken up and iutroduccd j into society. Just at thir. time thcir father died aud the family moved back to Leavenwortk, where they could live moro cheaply. Tho death of their father was followed in a few mouths by that of their ouly brother, leaving the sisters practically without means of support. Some of their Louisville ' friends sought them out in their In diana homo, and Alice, the elder, was finally persuaded to take a winter trip to Florida with ono of them in the hope of regaining her delicate health. There she met Dr. Samuel Sloau Chauncey, a young Now York million aire, who promptly fell in lovo with the Indiana boauty. They were mar ried, but the husband died within a few years, and since that time his widow has spent muoh of her time abroad. Her sister Grace has lived with her during recent years, and her marriage to tho rieh Lord Newborough folio-Trod a Btay of considerable length in London, His Sympathy. An old housewife in tho country was bemoaning her poverty to an un sympathetic husband. "Things ain't as they used ter be," she complained. "Why, I ain't got anything like I used tor he v. I ain't got quilts enough to go round the beds, there's two of tho best chairs broken, and I ain't got no dress that's really fit to wear ter meetin', and if I was ter die ternight I wouldn't have a cap ter be buried in." The old man had stood th? whining as long as he could. "Blast it all, then," he fiercely ejaculated, "why didn't yer die whon yer did hev a cap?" This Signatare is on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo?Quinine Tablets the remedy that cares a cola In. ono day ? John and Kachel Scott, of Ran dolph county, West Virginia, and their children, have been weighed re cently. The father and mother are still living in the house where their eight sons, whose combined weight is more than a ton, were born and raised. The combined weight of the family is 2,796 pounds, an average weight of 236 3-5 pounds: ? Ships can now go to sea with fro zen ammunitiou. A method of utiliz ing liquified air on war-ships has been discovered whioh will render the ex plosion of a magazine, even when the ship is in action, aiment impossible. The method is to so place the liquid air that it will freeze the ammunition to several hundred degrees belo 7 zero. In that condition it could not explode, even if a shell should burst in the magazine. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tables oure a oold in ono day. No Cure, No Pay. Prico 25 cents. ? Sometime ago when the roughs in Chicago annoyed John Alexander Dowie, the faith-healer, a superior British journal, sneeringly remarked that the incident reve&led the essen tial lawlessness of the Americans. It would be interesting to know what it has to say now that the same Dowie is being mobbed in London. ? Snow is from 4 to 6 feet deep at Vancouver, B. C, an unprecedented condition at so early a date. CHRISTIAN BARGAINS TI . OVERLOADED on Pianos Oar misfortune your opporti promising your folks a Piano n ?rou get choice?later remnants ittle down to secure what yon get the goods, or on terms to su BEST SEWING MACHINE S C. A. I MUSIC JLVH MM l\ \JMilX, What is Sauce For The Goose. The groom entered uloue and said confidently, "Do you ujo tho word 'obey' in your marriage service, Mr. -?" "No," said the minister, "I do not, usually. " "Well," said tho expectant Bene dict. "I have come to ask you to mar ry me now, and I want it used." "Certainly," replied tho other. "It shall he done," and presently the con plo stood solemnly before him. "Jauicc T-," said the clergyman, "do you tako this woman to be your wedded wife?" "I do." "Do you solemnly promise to love, honor and oboy her so long as you both shall live?" Hor ror and rebellion struggled with the sanctities of the occasion on tho bride groom's face, but ho chokingly re sponded, "I do," and tho meek bride decorously promised in her turn. After the ceremony wos over the bridegroom said excitedly aside- to the grave minister: "You misunderstood j me! I referred to tho woman's prom ising to obey. "Ah, iudced?" serene ly answered his reverence. "But I think what is good for one side is good for the other, don't you? And, my friend, it is my advice to you to say nothing more aboutit, for, as an old married man, I can tell you you'll have to obey anyhow!"?H'oHion's Jour nal. ? The census ouuinerators in many cases failed to realize the importance of mortality statistics. In ono of tho Eastern States an enumerater had only two deaths in a population of more than 13,000, for the entire ten years, which the supervisor thought was not sufficient, so he sent baok the returns. Tho enumerator responded with the following explanation : "Dear Sir : There was four more people that died, but they were widows.' ? The actual labor involved in tho making of a $240 dress in Paris, after it leaves the cutter s hands, averages $10? a Paris authority says. Of tho remainder $36 is profit, the rest inter est, royalty on name, bad dobts, style of tho establishment, etc, consumes. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the / < Signature of t^O^/l^TCU^U^ FOR SALE. ABOUT 100 Acres good Farm Land for Bale, part bottom and about half well wooded, on main publto road about ono mile from two Churches, School IIoubo and Station on Southern Railroad, in Oconee Co. Part ca*h, balance on easy terme. J. B. 8HA.NKLIN, Anderson, S. C. Nov 28, 1000_23_4 Lost !?Stock Certificates. THE following Certificates of Stock have been lost, and all persona are warn ed not to buy or sell same, except from the nnderaigned or their assians, ?a the7 are property of the estate of Mr Jane S. Thompson, deceased, and new<. jrtificates will be Issued in their atead. (1) Certificate No. 06 for 5 Shares of Stock of Anderson Cotton Mills. (2) Certificate No. 85 for 20 Shares of Stock of Bank of Anderson. Vi. E. THOMPSON, T. B. EARLK. Exeentora of Mrs. Jano S. Thompson, deceased. Nov. 28, 1000. 23 3. FOE SALE. THE HASKELL ESTATF, containing three thousand (3,000) aores, more or less, lying on the watera of Little River, and situated in the Flatwooda section, in Ab beville County, will be sold, eltber as a whole or in tracts. The Seaboard Air Id no Railroad runs through the place and has a Flaot Station on this property. A floe old dwelling o? ten rooms, in good repair. Property exceptionally well wa tered and wooded. Parties winning in formation will call on or communicate with L. C. HA.8KELL, Agent, Abbe ville, S. C. Nov 28, 10 23 3m Notice to Creditors. ALL persons having demands against the Estate of J. M. Welborn, decoas od, are hereby notified to present them properly proven, to the nnderaigned within the time prescribed by law, and those indebted to make payment. J. M. GARRETT, J. T. BOGGS. Administrators. Bee 5, 1900_24_8? Notice of Final Seulement. THE undersigned, Executors of the Batate of Baasil Bay, deceased, hereby lives notice that they vill on the 20th Jay December. 1900, apply to the Judge >f Probate for Anderson County for a riuai Seiiieuieni of said Estato, and a Mnoharge from their office es Executors R. W. PICK ENS, W. A. POLLARD, Nov 11, 1900?5 _Executors S PIANOS. I?.T COUNT. , Organs and Small Goods ! inity ! If you have been ow is your chance Now . Come at once 1 Pay a 1 want?balance when you it you. >T0CK IN THE STATE. REED HOUSE. Womar wants to put out a f iro she docsn' t heap on oil and wood. She throws on water.knowing that water quenches fire. When a woman wants to get well from diseases peculiar to her sex, she should not add fuel to the fire already burning her lifo away. She should not take worthless drugs and potions composed of harmtui narcot- 41 les and opiates. They do not check ti the disease?they do not cure it?they *J simply add fuel to the fire. Bradfield's Female Regulator should be taken by every woman or girl who has the slightest suspicion of any of the ail monts which af flict women.' They will simply bo warning time until they take it. The Regulator is a purifying, Btren g t h ? n 111 k .tonic, which gets atiho roots of the disease ami cures the cause. It dues not drug tho pain, ?t eradicates it. It stops fullingof the womb, lemon hen, tall.limitation 41 sS ? I 8 *> 6) O o o It ? (1 o i\ *> o l\ o u o o ? mi periodical suffering, ir regular, scanty or painful menstruation; nnd by doing all this drives away th? hundred and one aches ?nid pains which drain health und beauty, happiness ?"?1 good temper from mnuv ,\ woman's life, it is the one remedy bovo all others which > v woman should know a' M und use. S 1.00 i>; r tiottlu tit itny drug store. Send for nur fr?-e Ulu-tr:ilcd hook. The cBradficld Regulator Co. Atlanta, G A. YOUR EYES. i fVfc! '-Ml r-i- 1 at a 1V1IIJIW rt; aftftjvill 1* ?bit tw rxk4 il tjti ;.r- .1 t. i - ? * lire! ff, t.a.tltx IWu tMta* noraU vblan ?Iii l* fc^?a < f 11 tMbM frvci tt t|? *iih ? v cud ccm riti ravb *?|ju*.t*lr if ?? ? to hi SfttuM I tt* toyt.lls.tr MtMMOO* V ! - , 0 ? trtewlot or *f tha :?turt i-a blnt?r? an** run 1. f, It: ?.rt i*?*.<s> C?atK*1 vtr r*t?ct). Tb* r?l<l ?'? * 1 a**?l.? ftr ft vc 4*?*Hf Lftr*Ii*iu*fffn:l2? IffiH3 ? ??;?*.-.. tVt.i * ?.! ur. ? f 1 ". ?.< BT^^W??.*? db. strickland submits with pride tho endorsement of Mr. J. C. Wat kins, Anderson County's elUclent Clerk of Court, aud u man whom tho people of Anderson County know to bo of unques tionable ronpousiblllty, wiio?e name and Btauding is a sullicieut guarantee of tho good work he is doing. Mr. WatkUiB writes as follows : Dr. A. C Strickland?Deer Sir : It af fords me pleasure to s-iy Hurt tho GIbsboh reoen.ly fitted by you for me are giving porfect'salts faction. Respectfully, JNO. C. W ATKINS. Pot. IG, 1000._ ? the ? BANK OF ANDERSON. J. A. PHOC?Ej President. JOS. N. BROWN, Vico President. B. P. MAULDIN, Cashier. THE largest, strongest Bank in the County. Interest Paid on Deposits By special agraoment. With unsurpassed facilities aud resour ces we aro at nil times preparod to no oommodato our customers. Jan 10, 1000 20 BUGGY REPAIRS Let ub Repair your Buggy or Carriage from start to fin ish with high grade Wheels or double stitched Curtains, so as to look nearly like new, and give several years extra ser vice. Remember, repairing of all kind promptly done. PAUL E. STEPHENS. PARKER RYE. None Purer, None Better. Ask for it at all Dispensaries. FOR RATES ARD MAPS ALL POINTS NORTH AND WEST ADDRESS Fred D. Bush, District Paescncjer A.^nt, LflflisvfllB&NaslivlR.B. No. 1 Brown lln'ldlng, Oppoalte Union Depot, ATLANTA, - - OA. "No Trouble to Answer Questions . A. H. DACNALL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LnderHon. - - S. O. FFICE?OVER THE P03T OFFICE. augusta, oa. BUSINESS, Shorthand, Typewriting an.? anajinrnin dsr>srtms!its. I.ite irv Society. Lectm 6 Courses, Boardin [all. Positions secured for every ? rod ite for tbiu year wishing a position. 7 No crop can be grown without Potash. Supply enough Pot ash and your profits will be large; without Potash your crop will be "scrubby." ing about composition of fertiliicra best adapted for all crops, nr.- free to all furriers, GERMAN KAl.l works, 93 Nassau St., New York. Peoples Bank of Anderson Moved into their Banking House, and arc open for busi ness and respectfully solicits the patronage of the pnblic. Interest paid on time deposits by agreement. GET BICH! HOW? Buy Real Estate in West minster, the coming Town of the Piedmont Belt. Where is Westminster ? On South ern R. R., in Oeonec County, South Carolina, one hundred and eleven miles from Atlan ta, Ga. How can I find out aboutit?1 Ea?y euougb. Write to or come to Bee the uu dorH?j?ned. We own or control several valuable lots of land In this town and several good farms in from one to five mile?. Act now while lota and land are iheap. Don't wait till it doublon in value undlbnnsay, 1 wluh I had, "for of all the Had words of tongue or pen the mid oat are these it might hove been." You m for bualnesH, W. P. ANDERSON, .1- T, SIMPSON, jt 17,10(H) 17 :itn. An All-around Satisfaction is assured to those who Patronize ...... OUR WORK la uniformly excellent, not merely occasionally good. What care and skill can do to give satisfaction is dono. Fine work on goods of every description 1b done here. The Finish, either high gloss or domestic, on Shirts, Collars and Culls is especially moritori ous. ANDERSON STEAM LAUNDRY CO. 202 East Boundary St. R. A. MAYFIELD, Supt. and Treas. PHONE NO. 20. to?u Leave orders at D. C. Brown <fc Bro'e. Btore._ TKE STAVE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Anderson. COURT Ol' COMMON PLEAS. Mra. H.H. Garrctt, wife of ?. M. C.vrott, Plain tiff, ogftiost Mrs. Sarah Evatt, Ka\ Ma Swords, Amanda Newton, Charles M. Wolborn, B- H. Wolborn, Jarno? Melton, aon of Mra. Martha Melton, deceased. Oscar Boggs, Frank Boggs, Flora Boggs, Uubuard Boggs, aged 18 yearn, flo ra Boggs, ago 10 years, children (f Ann Boggs, deceased, and J. M. Oarrett and J. T. Boggs, Administrators of tho Estate of Jatnca M. Wel born, deceased Defcndanta.?Summons for Re lief? Complaint not Served. To the Defcndanta rbove named : \ rOU are hereby aummonod and required to an. \ awor tho Complaint in thla action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of ihe Court of Common Pleas, for the oaid County, and to servo a copy of your anawerto the said Complaint on the subscriber at his office., Anderson Court House, South Carolina, within twenty days after the aervice hereof, exclusive of tho day of such servico; and If you fail to answer tho Complaint within tho time aforesaid, tho Plaintiff In this action will apply to the Court for tho relief de manded in the Complaint. November 2?, a. v., muu. JOSEPH N". I1ROWN, Plaintitra Attorneys. [$KM, ] JOHK C. WATKIN3, C. 0. V. To the Defendants aboTo named : Take notice that the Complaint in tho above stated raio ia for partition of a Trrct of Land containing 'JO acres, and another containing 60 acres, In Anderson County, lu said Stato among tho heirs of Janira M. Wolborn, deceased, accord ing to their interests as sot forthin theCompialnt. No personal claim ia made against you. JOSEPH N. BROWN, Plaintiff's A It . To R. H Welhorn and .lames Melton of the above naaed Defendants : Tako notieo that the Complaint in this action, together with tho Huminona, of which tho fore going Is a copy, was tiled In tho office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas at Anderson, in the County of Anderson. S. C, on the 28th day of November, 1330. JOSEPH N. BROWN, PlaintifPs Attorney. Dec 6.1900_21_8_ MONEY TO LOAN ! ON REAL ESTATE. Long time if security is good. Fine Farm Lands ffer Little Money. Strong Farms in Plc'cena for half the price of Anderson lauds. Call aud boo our llc? of them; will niii huyorn to get what they want, and lend tbem half of purchase money. B. F. MARTIN, Attornoy at Law, Mascnio Temple, Anderson, S. C. fi tj . ^r. - ... , . ai' H of rtt'erouccj. ?o ? n,;-,'-- : ' ? J-1 Home Trent ir.ent m :?l *It?l? AttdrtM B. M. WOOLLEY. M. O.. Atlanta, Ca. V * .T.V.TVV.TTV? PATENTS ADVICE AS TO PA7FIT - BILtTY Notice in "Inventive* Ajra Book "Howtoobtodn Patenta" DESIGNS 1 TRADE-MARKS 4 AND C0PTRJGHTS OBTAINED FREE