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THE NIGHT STORM. nu distant ?tan In all tho sky are bright, The sentit winds sin* too** ol peace tonight, And earth in ?uiet ptaceraloesa 1c dressed* When, Jo, from out the distant wet* The rum Wine vole* of thunder deep IlocUiaaa tbe etcrm god; lightning* leap From the rttrk borfaon, playing O'er tis sss??!B ?5tss flat, ftii&iltf WUdty. teil the atonn god'o power; Over all the haaToa towar . The great gray eloude. and rapidly . The stars are blotted trow the i*y. White reins iceea-ant beat . ' "V. The ground lia? tiny last. And tbe thunder Breaks saun der ' -K : . A? the quiet at the night, *?! the Inked Ushtalna* brirhi Turn to day The satatgr ray Ci' the gray elooda* dripping path. Then the wild etorm's aftermath Follows gently, and, behold, . The stare are shifting as ol old, The trees are by soft winds caressed. And tartb xn pcaeefulnefB la dressed. ?International Magazine. BY MAX BBWNBTT THRASHER. Early one August afternoon a well dressed, businesslike looking man, car rying u uiuaii ieuiber handbag, walked up tbe principal street of tbe village of Graytown. In tbe basement of tbe big, old fashioned country church which be approached a small door stood open. Tinning from tbe sidewalk, he entered this door. Once out of sight from the street he ran hurriedly up n flight of stairs aud then found himself in the vestibule, which v.*?.s dusky and coo' after the garish light outside. He looked in. One door of the audience room was open. The sexton was sweeping the aisle and coming toward him. He tried a door at the end of the vestibule, but this was locked. Steps echoing through the empty building told bim that pome one was coming In at the snme door by which ho had entered. Tlie man hur riedly pulled at a small door In the wall. It opened Into what seemed to be a tall, narrow closet, down through the middle of which a stout wire rope ran iuto a rough stone floor. Cramped as these quarters were, the man crowded himself in, holding the leather bag close to his side, and pulled the door shut after him. Not more than three or four seconds elapsed before a young man walked rapidly through the vestibule to the open door of the. audience room. MOh, Mr. Jackson," he called to the man sweeping, "may I go up and wind the clock? It's the day to wind it, I know." "May you? Why, certainly if you want to," was the reply. "Here are the keys," and be slid the bunch of keys along the floor of tbe aisle. The boy, Rodney Galvln, picked up the keys, unlocked the door at the end of the vestibule and went clattering up a flight of stairs which the open door disclosed. By that time the sexton had reached tbe vestibule and, whistling as be worked, began to sweep it Rodney Galvln so far had been a dis appointment to his family. His father was determined he should be a busi ness man, his mother had hoped that be would be a minister, but Rodney, so bis father said, wratbfully, cared only for "tinkering." He doctored all the disabled bicycles In town, and a broken watch or clock gave bim joy. When he bad been refused a position in the bank a month before and Harry Grant had been taken Instead, Rodney's only re gret was that he should not have an op portunity to Investigate the time lock on tbe bank safe. He watched for chances to wind tbe town clock, for be liked to study Its-works. On this day he went with practiced tread up tbe dark stajr? behind the gal lery, along the narrow board walk laid across the beams In th ? garret floor, up another long flight of rude steps, and then he climbed the almost perpendicu lar ladder which led to the clock room. Around him were backs of the four great dials up to which the citizens of Graytown looked when they wished to set their watches. The works of the clock were In the Qiiddie of the room. Taking a big movable Iron crank from | the floor, Rodney fitted it up to the end i of the arbor, or spindle, and began j turning it to wind up the stout wire rope to which one of the clock weights was fastened. The town clock of Graytown Is near ly as old as the church in which It.is placed, but the people of the village cherish It and would not think of hav ing it replaced by one of more modern Btyle. As a cons?quence the sexton of the church bad to climb up to the clock room in the spire once every week un less he could get some one to go for bim and wind up from tbe basement; to which they had spent tbe previous week in descending, the blocks of gran ite that served as clock weights. It seemed to Rodney this afternoon as if tbe machinery worked uncommon* ly bard, and after turning the. crank a few times he dropped it and went back flown stairs. c ' "I think tbnt pulley needs greasing," he said. "I never knew tbe old clock to wind so hard." "I shouldn't wonder but what It does," was tbe sexton's answer. "I baven't got a bit of oil here, though," be added. "I've got some down- to the house tbat'H do." said the boy. "I'll go and get lt." \ "All right" said the sexton. "If I get through before yon come back, I'll leave the doors unlocked and the keys on the window sill." "There Isn't anything the matter i Pith the weights. Is; there?" asked Rod* j Qey, opening the narrow door which ! save access to the shaft In which one of the clock weights ran from belfry to basement. There was nothing to be Be*n. The square block of stone which ; lust filled the space} bad been wound : op out of sight When he went out on the street oey found people wildly excited. The national bank had been robbed. The teller was out of town, and'while the cashier , had been at dinner Harry Srant the clerk, had been knocked j senseless and the robbery effected. ) ?eventec,;. hundred dollars In money ; md many valuable phpers were gone. Little Mary Grant 'reported having teen a strange man on the street with a leather handbag. Han j Gmnt wns still too stunned to talk coherently. Rodney hurried on for tho oil. He Wanted to get back, wind the clock and j ? ?x in? cuurvu eu**? iucu ....._I Beau.: 'or the robber. Oiling ve pniiey ^ not t?, make it wor>. *nuch easier. There was I a email opening the top of the shaft \ through which the weight could be seen when it was rau<*d into place, j Watching- this opening as >s toiled at the crank, Rodney saw appearing not the block < ! granite, but a man's head. Re dropped the crank. If the ma chinery bad foot worked automatically, man and weight might have fallen to the basement. "How did yon g*;t iz there T' Rodney gasped. "No matter,** said *> fncn. Til give yon f 100 If yon'U help me out and say nothing about it." "How did you get in there?" Rodney repeated. "When be had been down on- the street he had heard the little girl who had seen the bank robber telling a group of e?plted people that the strango man bad a smooth face and wore a brown derby hat This man had a smooth face and wore a brown derby hat "Ycu srs ?ho b??k rubberT" said Rod ney. "You help me out, and I'll make It $200," said the man. "Are yon the man that robbed the bank?" "You get me out of this trap!" The man kicked savagely against the inside of the shaft and, bracing himself as well as he could In the cramped space, tried to burst the walls apart The joints crenked, but the strength of six men could not have broken out the planks of which the shaft Was built "You better stop that wiggling In there," said Rodney. "The rope Isn't fastened any too solid through tbnt rock. If you yank it out, you and the rock will go down to the basement to gether. Ifs 73 feet down there." The "wiggling" stopped, and the man's face appeared nt the bole again. The opening was not more than eight Inches square, and only the bead of the captive was even with it, but a mo ment later tbe muzzle of a revolver came up into sight beside his face. Before the man could get his cramped arm and band Into aiming position Rodney, quick as a flash, knocked the catch out of a ratchet In the clock works and, grasping the crank, turned it backward until he had lowered bis prisoner far enough down the shaft so that he could do no harm. Feeling sure that his prisoner was safe for tbe present, Rodney decided to go for help. Some boys would have rushed from the church, shouting, "I've got him!" but Rodney walked carelessly down the street with his hands in his pockets and joined the outer edge of a crowd in front of the bank. A hastily printed notice on which the Ink was not yet dry announced that the bank would pay $500 for tbe capture of the robber, wltb his plunder. The town added an other $100 to the reward. Rodney's fingers twisted nervously in bis pockets. Six hundred dollars! That meant for him the Institute of Technology. If be asked for help to secure the man, be could claim only part of the reward. He left the group of excited men as quietly as be bad come and went to a tinsbop near by. The proprietor was out but Rodney knew him and the place well. He quickly found the things he wanted and took them?a small portable furnace with a charcoal fire in it, a long handled skillet used for melting lead and a handful of sul phur. Taking these with bim to tho church vestibule, he locked the outside door and once more climbed the stairs into tbe steeple. This time he went up one more lad der into th? belfry itself. Here be un tied the bell rope from the wheel and let It foil through the hole In tbe floor. He knew It would go clear through to the vestibule and that he would find It on the floor there when he wanted it, 100 feet of good pliabl. inch rope. Then he came down to the clockroom again and, turning tbe crank backward, let the loaded weight slowly down to ward tbe basement Fortunately ev ery one on tbe street had been too ex cited all that afternoon to notice that the town clock was varying from Its usual regularity. Rodney had wound tbe clock often enough to be able to tell by the number of coils of wire about the arbor pretty nearly when the weight had reached the vestibule door. When he thought It was nearly there, he left the clock room and hurried down tbe stairs. A cautious glance through the narrow door showed the weight alowly de scending and nearly all of It in sight Scooping the aklllet foil of live coals from the. portable furnace, Rodney stood ready. ' The weight stopped just as the feet of the man standing on it came Into sight Then Rodney strew ed tbe coals with sulphur and shoved the skillet into the shaft A chorus of mingled coughs and cries followed. Pulling, out the skillet and tossing It Into nn empty coal hod, Rodney ran up the stairs and ladder faster than he had ever done In his life before, gave tbe crank In the clockroom one more turn backward and then ran down { again. This time the. weight was let down to where the robber's legs were visible. The leather bag had been ! dropped nt his feet Passing tbe rope around the man's legs and making it into a sllpnoose, Rodney dragged him out upon the floor, gasping and senseless. The boy did not know the risk he had run of killing the ! man hy suffocation with sulphur fumes. He was sure the robber would revive, and fortunately he did, but not until Rodney had bound him firmly with coil after coil of the bell rope. When Rodney was sure his man was safe, he did the coolest thing of all. He took the leather bag and carried it down to the bank, saying nothing Jo anybody on the way. Here Is your money, I think, Mr. Hyde," he s^id to the cashier. "I've got the man np in the meeting house." Then there was a sensation which fair ly eclipsed that of the robbery. Rod ney Galvln had captured the burglar alone! It was Incredible! His father looked at him in astonishment Rodney entered the Institute of Tech nology that fall; but, best of all, he knew for the first time in his ?lfe that his fr?her was proud of him, and he never will forget the warm feeling which enmr* up '?vhis threat whc? his father remarked to bim, "You 'may amount to something, after all, my son!"?Cleveland Plain Dealer. LAMP CHIMNEYS, Made In Tbl a Country by Millions An nanlly Vor Houn l'ao und JSaport, "The lamp chimney," said a man ac quainted with the trade, "seems a sim ple sert of thins, but there are net many things of m<-;v common use the world over, and In the aggregate the Dumber sold is enormous, in this coun try there are 12,000 men and boya em ployed in making lamp chimneys, and the chimneys produced number mil-* lion* ennusily. Tts grcaiur uiiuiber ere now made west of the Allegheny mountains in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, where the majority of the glass works of the country are located* many of them in the natural gas re gions. "The first glass works In the country were established In Boston, and former ly the glass making industry was prin cipally in the east Now there are not nearly so many glass factories here as there once were. "One ndt familiar with the business might be surprised v . h the great vari ety In which lamp chimneys are made. Lamps are made in these days in very great variety by many makers, and of course'there are made chimneys suita ble for all of them. There Is one Amer icas lamp chimney maker who, count ing sizes and styles, produces 000 varie ties. Among the great variety of chim neys made there are some that are of common use everywhere, and then there are some that are specially suited to demands in this or that part of the country and are not In demand In other parts. "Lamp chimneys are not only made |n for greater variety than formerly, to fit perfectly every sort of lamp, but tbey are also made better than ever. In fact, lamp chimneys have advanced with everything else. But enormous and increasing as the production Is, the demand scarcely keeps pace with the Increase in the population, this being especially true of cities in which gas is more and more used and here in New York, for instance, by users through plot gns machines, which have some In fluence on the sale of lamp chimneys. Still the number of lumps used here is enormous. Tiiere are plenty of people burning gas, for instance, who have ns well three or four la.ups, and the num ber of people here who use lamps alone for the purpose of Illumination is very great. There are used in New York and its vicinity millions of Inmp chim neys annually. "There are received In this city, from western manufacturers for domestic consumption I suppose about four car loads of chimneys weekly, running from 1,500 to 2,000 dozen chimneys to the car. These are sold to Jobbers, who distribute them through their trade to customers in the city and hereabout and to customers at greater or less dis tances away. Perhaps half of these chimneys or rather more ore used In the city or within 50 miles of it To the chimneys thus brought here are to be added those produced here, the eastern chimneys being made chiefly for the local trade and for export "We import a few lamp chimneys of the cheapest and of the best grades, the cheap chimney-from Germany and the costlier from France, but these im ports cut only a small figure in the to tal consumption, and we export lamp chimneys in great quantities. We send very few to Europe, though we do sell them some of our best chimneys. But outside of Europe we sell lamp chim neys everywhere. We come Into com petition in some parts of the world with the Germans, who make chim neys very cheaply, but our exports are increasing, and we send chimneys, as I said, everywhere?to Mexico, the West Indies, South America, South Africa, China?In fact to all lands in which lamps are used, all around the earth."?New York Sun. BVonarht to Reason. He was out walking with a young lady who had a decided antipathy to cigarettes, but not being aware of her prejudice he lighted one of the little rolls and began smoking with great gusto, inhaling the fumes deep Into bis lungs and then blowing great rings up st the moon. \v h i c h gazed tranquilly down, on his folly. . Offended by his presumption, she said, with dangerous urbanity: "Do you know, I can read fortunes In cigarette smoke?" "Indeed!" exclaimed the unsuspect ing youth. "Perhaps you'll condescend to read mine." "Ob, certainly, if you wish It" Then she gazed up in the air at the delicate blue wreaths of smoke. She hesitated, evidently puzzled about something. "I am undecided which of two things Is to befall you," she admitted. "Your fortune Is not so easily read as I fan cied It would be." "What are the two things?" : "Why, I can't determine whether you are marked out for the lung disease or lunacy," was the answer. "Cigarettes bave such diverse effects on people of your temperament" A moment later the cigarette lay glimmering In the gutter, and the for tune teller was listening to her escort's embarrassed apologies. ? Memphis Scimitar. Loader Than tlie Falls. Tourists who go to see BoltoU abbey lo England usually push on to Pos forth Gill waterfall, which Is near by, relates The Youth's Companion. On one occasion an o'd guide accompanied a party of very garrulous ladies and a solitary gentleman to the head of the gorge where the water comes down. The gentleman became somewhat tired after awhile, possibly from sightseeing, and remarked: "My good fellow, how much farther Is If yet to the fall?" "Just a minute or two, sir," the guide answered. "As soon as the ladles step talking yon will heaorshe roar." . CASTOR IA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Blight Bears the Signature of ? It always jars a man terribly j when he wakes up after dreaming ! that his wife got marrie I to another man. STORIES THAT GROW BIG YARNS THAT ARE EVOLVED FROM SIMPLE INCIDENTS. Bone of too Newspaper Sensattono Waich Bwral Enp?nnd Get* Up to IPaealc, Astonish er Arataao too Qoofi People OX Louflon. These are-some of the newspaper sensations which rural England gets up to amuse the Londoners: It WB8 recently announced thai a county council In the midlands had passed a law forbidding cow racing and that several other councils all over the country were following suit. More over, it was said that sermons were preached in scores of pulpits every Sunday against the great rural vice of cow racing and its effects en .he na tion. The matter* got into the London papers, and all over the country the news was spread. Everybody asked what was cow rac ing. It was explained that a -vide epread custom in country districts, es pecially on Saturdays, was to collect cows and race them as if they were horses, each one being ridden by a special jockey, and that grand stands were erected, betting rings formed and hundreds or people attended the races. Then followed harrowing accounts of tho way the poor cows were ridden to j death and died on the course, and so forth. Great astonishment reigned ev cry whore till it was found the wholu thing originated in n sermon a certain rec-i?f had preached because two farm hands had chased some cows .ound n field aud bet on the fastest. Result: ? little homily o?i cruelty and gambling by the parson, reported badly In a country paper. The statement grew cu the snowball principle till it shoo!', nil Britain, and then it died. It was reported lately that as a doc tor was driving a friend to a Surrey village the horse, a fine, big animal, showed signs of thirst. The doctor pulled tihn up at a wayside fountain a mile or two from the town, and the horse drank a good deal of water very quickly. Suddenly the horse blew up with a terrific explosion, wrecking the whole turnout and scattering bits of horse, dogcart nnd passengers all about tho place. This yarn, which originated locally, got into the country paper. Thence It spread over the kingdom, and tho "great horse explosion case" became famous for two or three days, some scoffing, others gravely publishing the-1 ories as to the cause. The way It frigan was that after stop ping at the trough the horse had fallen | lame and was put up at a remote way side Inn. A keeper near the well, hearing a poacher's gun fired some where near, hurried to the spot and found round the well a lot of rubbish, in reality some broken axietrees and pieces of borsehide left by gypsies who had camped there. Ilorror strick en, he rushed to the conclusion given here, having seen the dogcart stop there just before, and spread the news, which reached vast proportions before it wns "shown up. ' A fearful announcement came from a quiet district In Denbighshire that the infernal regions had found an out let on a lonely moor there and that from a dark and smoking pit, miles deep, the evil'one and his cohort of fiends had a habit of Issuing In batches, arising from the depths to emerge and devastate the world. The report, too, swiftly got into nearly every paper In Britain in a few days and caused a tre mendous commotion among Impres sionable people. The satanlc messen gers were said to be jet black, with white teeth and flashing eyeballs. The alarm subsided when it was found that a local landowner, having struck coal on his ground, had kept the news close, but had quietly sunk a shaft and started work. Importing mine ers from the south. The supposed black demons were the miners emerg ing after work. The countryside folk, . however, knowing nothing of coal shafts, were terribly alarmed. Of two gorrlllos which, according to nearly all the big newspapers and re ports in the country, were devastating Scotland, news is it??l uei?g heard. This story said that two huge mon keys, standing seven feet high, were prowling the hills and dales of Ayr shire. They killed cattle and fed on them, lea.lng the carcasses about They hod slain a shepherd, stolen his clothes, and one of them Is even now roaming the mountains clad in a Mac gregor kilt and tartan. iwlu G lauster?. As the Matterhorn Is the grandest object to be seen in Switzerland, so . also are the glaciers nbov- Zermatt tho most magnificent In the Oberland I and at Cbamonix the glaciers are fro ren rivers and. cataracts. From the Corner Grat the glaciers are vast seas of Ice, with ledges of rocky beach, : over which the frozen breakers are beating. The Aletsch and the Rhone ' glaciers are grand frozen torrents of j immense volume, and the Icefields of j the Mont Blanc range are of vast ex ! tent hut It is from the Gorner Grat, : where the spectator is surrounded by frozen seas, out of which the snow peaks rise, like Islands, that the imag ination Is overpowered by stupendous glacial effects.?Cor. New York Tilb [ une. Tbe Sanny Side. A friend was once speaking to tho lute Bishop Brooks of a clergyman whose congregation had begun to feel that It would be advisable for them to bave a younger man In the pulpit "If s only natural," said he in reply to an indignant remonstrance from the bishop, "for, you see, he's on the shady side of 65." "The shady aide!" retorted the bish op, with a smile. "Why, yon mean tbe cranny side! Surely If s the side near est glory T ? An Illinois man has saed a wo man who declined to marry him for the car fare he expended in going to see her. This is very small busi ness. He should have walked and sued her for footwear and dootor's bills. ? If an umbrella was rrado of one rib, like a woman, you would never be able to shut it up. ?: A woman never hears a new cute baby story that she doesn't tell it after?ard o? her own cbi?dr Vavloa Warts by Susucttlon. Among tho curiosities of disease j which pathologist* must somehow ex plain and put in ilnc with their other observations before they can dogmatize aa lb the permonenco of organic changes is the disappearance of warts, often apparently under nervous influ ences of the character of suggestion. As Is well known, the stories about warts and their cure .by s trau go de vices are Infinite, and In many cases are so strange that It is only on the hypothesis of suggestion that they can be explained or even believed. Meed loss to say, however, the theory that such solid sad obvious overgrowths as warty masses can be made to shrivel and die off under tbe influence of such a mental process aa suggestion has bearings vrhlch reach far and can hard ly be limited to warts alone. A case Is related by Dr. Dibble ??aplo of a girl 15 years old who had a large number of warts on both her hands. She had counted as many as 04 on the right bond. Having read in one of the medical journals that a number of warts had been cured by vaccination, j the doctor determined, with the con sent of her relatives, to give the plan a trial. He thereforo revaccluated the patient on June 1. The vaccination Was successful, but ou effect was pro duced on the warts until soveu weeks after, when they gradually disappear ed, leaving temporary white spots, and when she was seeu on Aug. 30 she had no trace of them.?London Hospital. Still Kicklnff. There is a Woodward avenue busi ness man who always takes his lunch nt a little place on Hush street, kept by u Gertuuu. "He gives me just what I want," snys the merchant, "and he is always entertaining. "He kept me a little longer than usual tho other day, when I suddenly remembered an engagement, looked at his clock, looked at my watch and then looked nt him. 44 'What time havo you, anyhow?' I inquired. "'Dot? Dot Is gompromlso dime, sir.' 41 'W-h-a-t?' " 'Gompromlso dime. All doso men dey comes In hero und dey say ve mus' baf sum dime or ve mus' hnf stan'art dime, und dey yaw und gall names, und somedime8 you dink it vould he a fight. So I say by mineseluf I mus' not dnke sides, for dcy all do dime sa? to me how It Is, und I all de dime my I knew nottlngs. So I puts In dei gompromlso dime und none of 'em can glek.' ' 'But what Is it? 44 'It vos dis vay. I poot dot glock back fourdeen minutes bchint stan'art dime, und I poot him fourdeen minutes ahead off sun dime. Dot Is vhat you gall it?neudral dime or gompromlso dime. But vhat makes me mlsundcr stooden myBeluf Is dot dey glck like der mischief youst der same.'"?Detroit Free Presn. THlna? to Foruet. Forgetting has its pleasures, because it permits the closing of the mind's eyes to harsh experiences and depress j lng incidents. The blues are a common complaint. If women are most affect ed with them, they aro most disas trous to men. They come at different times and in different ways to every one. Tbey are tho lowlands of life, full of miasma, through which all travelers must pass, some oftencr than others. Tbe blues feed upon the blues. Miasma breeds miasma. Tho way to get rid of the dumpsis when one Is in the lowest spirits to call up before tho mental vision memories of the bright est hour. On tbe contrary, defeat is emphasized and despair made peren nial by the remembrance of other de feats and past despairing moments. It is not a crime to fail, but it is a crime against one's better nature to brood upon failures. The fellow who for gets failures moy succeed. He certainly will not if be goes into every new bat ?g cowed and cowering at the recol lection of past defeats. Dwellers In a swamp grow to have the lifeless look of the lowlands. Remembrance of the blues makes one blue. Mo man is ever born a pessimist. He- becomes one by furgeiiinji the wr?tig Uii?gS.? St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Didn't Mean to b? Fohh?. There Is a certain Hyde Park clergy man whose usually tripping and elo quent tongue runs off the track oc casionally, so to speak, and betrays him into amusing mistakes and blun ders in the course of bis pulpit ora tory. Such a mistake occurred one Sunday evening not long ago, and the younger and less serious members of his congregation are laughing over it yet. The preacher bad occasion to refer to the text "Set thou my feet in a large place" several times in the course of tbe trenlng's prayer and sermon, and perhaps ho had grown a little tired of that particular phrase or feared that his listeners had. So, when in the course of tho after sermon prayers he desired to convey the same Idea again, he employed a different net of words to this purpose. "Tbou knowest, O Lord," he prayed, therefore, "how Bmall and mean and crowded are the places whereupon wo often etand on earth. Choose thou, dear Lord, a large place and establish my feet thereon."?Chicago Times Herald. Utaht Try a Coaplet. "Well," exclaimed tbe persistent poet, upon opening his mall, "I call that encouraging." "Have they accepted something?" asked bis wife. "Mo; but Instead of !bs printed re jection slip the editor returns my quat rain with a criticism in his own hand." 44What docs he say?" "He says, 'Herewith we return your quatrain; it is too long.4 "?Exchange. ? Hetty?Looking over the dic tionary again? Evidently you uuu it intensely 'interesting. Bertha?No, not interesting, but amusing. It spells words so different from the way I spell them, you know. ? Tho D(?5cor.?"Dc you koow what happens to boys who tell lies?' Small youth?"Yes sir. They gits off most times, if they tells good ones." ? Ingratitude is avico that renders ell others less disgusting. Old SdiKcconch nnyn, Adventures of varied nature belonged to the old English mall coach days. One of the most thrilling episodes of the road occurred one night on the way from Salisbury to London In 1810. The story Is told by Mr. Charles O. Harper In the Exeter Road. As the coach went bowling along, the horses suddenly became extremely nervous, and what was thought to be a large calf was seen trotting along be side the left leader in the darkness. Aa they neared the Inn the horses became uncontrollable, and then the supposed calf seized one of the animals. By this time the horses were frantic, plunging and kicking, and It was remarkable that the coach was not overturned. The guard laid hold of his gun and was about to shoot the assailant when several men, accompanied by a large mastiff, nppeared. The foremost, see ing that the guard was about to fire, pointed n pistol at his head, declaring that he would shoot If the beast was killed. The "calf was a lioness, escaped from u il?vel?uy h'iiuw. The dog WHS set upon the brute, who left the horse, seized the mastiff and tore him to pieces and retreated under a granary. The spot was barricaded to prevent her escape, and she was noosed and re turned to captivity. The horse which hud be 1 seized was seriously Injured by the lioness, but Anally recovered. ^eeklnsr Uf*at In Dlrmlnuliam. The house In which I staid faced a road traversed by a steam tramway, the traffic on which goe.4 on from early morning till late at night, while the br-ck windows overlooked the London and Northwestern railway, upon which nt this point perhaps a hundred trains pass in the 21 hours. I was about to write "a hundred trains a day;" but, unfortunately for the light sleeper, many of them pass In the night. Just as one gets to sleep an express rushes by with a noise like an ava lanche and rouses one with a start. When you have recovered from the fright and are settling yourself for a second attempt at sleep, a goods train , arrives on the scene and shunts Into a < siding just under your window. You . lie awake listening to the bump, bump, bump, of the buffers nnd the occasion ! nl whistle of the engine, wondering p how long It will be before the wretchei] , train moves on. At length It la gone, and, bel?g pasi midnight, you feel you can safely tun , over and settle yourself for the night You drop asleep to the soft music of i tilt hammer and the rushing of stenn at a distant Iron forge, to be nrousei again perhaps about 4 In the movshij j by an early excursion train. Between I ! and 0 the regular traffic re. v >jmences I so you need not try to sleep ngaln. Westmlnster Review? Early Day* of Freemaaoary. Outside of England and her colonlet the development of Masonry was bj no means rapid, but the church earlj took the alarm, and In 1738 Clemeul XII condemned It In his bull, In Emi nent;. No reason for this was alleged except Its secrecy and that under It.s rules men of all religions associate to gether, giving rise to suspicions of evil wherefore all members Incur excom municatlon removable only by tin pope, and all bishops are Instructed U prosecute and punish them as vehe mently suspect of heresy. As the parlement of Paris refused tc register this bull It could scarce accom plish much outside of the papal states except in Spain, but within them It was rendered effective by an edict ol the cardinal secretary of state Jan. 14 1730, pronouncing Irr?missible pain ol death, not only on all members, but or all who tempt others to join or favoi the society In any way, such as leasing a house for Its use. This was a decla ration of war to the knife, although tht only victim of the death penalty Is sali to bave been the French author of c book on Masonry.?New LIpplncott ? Your life will never rise anj higher than your belief. If you be lieve wrong you will behave wrong. ? The prudent society belle trief to make her waiat as little as possible ? Don't dress for show. The thin nest soap bubble wears the gaudiest oolors. 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Dan* ger of rising or hard breasts is altogether avoided, and recovery is merely a matter of a few days. Druggists sell Mother's Friend lor $1 a bottle. The Eradfleld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. Send for our free Illustrated book. AflmstaGosrcisl Cite, AUGURA, OA. BUSINK8S, Shorthand, Typewriting und Acidomio departments Idto i iv.?/?oc!*?ty, Loctnie Courxos, Hoarding H?d!. Positions sssured for i?Ve>ry gr; ? uale for thia year wishing a position. To produce the best results in fruit, vegetable or grain, the fertilizer used must contain enough Potash. For partic ulars see our pamphlets. We send them free. GERMAN KAU WORKS, Nn. VI. 1UH, 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. GET HIGH! 7 Buy Real Estate in West minster, the coming Town of the Piedmout Belt. Where is Westminster ? On South ern 11. li., in Oconee County, South Carolina, one hundred and eleven miles from Atlan ta, Ga. How can I find out aboutit? Easy enough. Write to or ?o??u io see the un dersigned. We own or control several valuable lots of land in this town and several good farms io from one to five miles. Act now while lots and land are cheap. Don't wait till It doublen in value and then say, I wish I bad, "for of all tho sad words of tongue or pen the Badest are thene it might have been." Yours for business, W. P. ANDERSON, J. T. SIMPSON. Got 17, 1000_17_3m. An Ail-around Satisfaction io assured to those who Patronize ...... Tile AuQersoii Steam LannfliT. OUR WORK is uniformly excellent, not merely occasionally good. What care and skill can do to give satisfaction is done. Fine work on goods of every description is 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, Supt. and Trees. jf HONE NO. 20. Saft- Leave orders at D. C. Brown & B ro' a. Store._ THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Count's: or Anderhon. COURT OK COMMON PLEAS. Mra. H.H. Qarrett, wife of J. M. Gsrrctt, Plotn tlff, against Mrs. Sarah Evatt, Ravllla 8wordB, Amanda Newton, Charles M. welborr, B- H. Welborn, Jarno? l 'ton, son of Mrs. Matins Melton, deceased, Oscar Boggs, Fiank Bo?tkb, Administrator born, deceased Defendants.?Summons for Be lief?Complaint not Served. To the Defendants shore named : A T OU are hereby sammoned and required to an* l? swer tho Complaint In this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the oubscriV,r at his office, Anderson Court House, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and If you fall to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff In this action will apply to the Court for the reUef de> manded In the Complaint. November 38, A. D.,1800. JOSEPH N. BKOWN, Plaintiff's Attorneys. [Bual ] Jons C. Watkins. c. o. r. To the Defendants above named : Take notice that the Complaint in the above stated cs.se is for partition of a Tr*et uf Land containing 90 acres, and another containing 50 acres, in Anderson County, in said State among the heir* of James M Wo.born, decessed, accord ing to their interests as sot forthin theComplalnt. No personal claim Is made agali>Bt you. JOSEPH N. BKOWN, t'Ulntlffr Attorney, To H. H Welborn and James Melton of the above Diu cd Defccdants : Tftk.i notice that the Complaint in this action, together with the Hummons, of which the fore going is a copy, was filed in the office of the Clerk of tho Court of Common Pleas at Anderson, In tho County of Anderson. S. C, on the 28th day of November, 1500. JOSEPH N. BROWN, Plaintiff's Attorney. Dec S, 1900 24 6 MONEY TO LOAN ! O N REAL. ESTATE, Long t?~c if security is good. Fine Farm Laim? for Tittle Honey* Strong FavjQB In Plckens for half the price of Anderson lands. 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