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THE WAV OF-THE ARGONAUT*, . u<b is the w?y ?* lhe "S ??t vain Is hi* quest, unless , heart bo ready and iron" wrought J:i jiK.upbesiwl wlldtrnessl ,. " a hole in tbo rock and a man in the bole . . a hope that stubbornly seek* its seal, ' ril0uab ciitnccrul ?nd danger fraught; i, "the "ring-caring" of the single jack; ?. ? a bead on the brow and a bend in the baxk rut makes luck for the argonaut. . h i.i? camp rests upon the mountain aide, v duster of homes and belU. r <aints and to sinners open wide, While the mad boom seethes and swell*, for lie savs?'tis a cool philosophy? ' Things will settle 'enrclvea if you let \m tcj Don't croak auch a dismal tune; Hades and heavep will get their own, I lespite the gsit oi a mining town, Despite church or saloon." when success on his toll.attends *mi a "|?.- fjreak" be acquire* * , {g a ' licet t(J his poorer njleuds. . . \ 1 ope to the help be hires, , , |ie Favi cf 4 genial impetus. ' H vou'lf act lie mau. there'll bo two of ?s,?? \n l o wage that is fair be gtvec I is l-arncd tuis truth of bis own bard strife* a r.:crc .'x^itencc misnomers life; ' vi a man earns, eo he lives. ? ),t r.''s to the lads of the dynamite, ,i?. Ijoj-j v.!:c t?rfl? -?i ???;; \t I hey always liavo a mine in sight ' l strike it* rich at last. % if s here to the lads in the ragged jeans, ' \ can ?iope en a diet of pork and beans \ml join in a laugh when "broke," , , they build to the nation day by day j that they pioneer the way V..f Ic?S rniiragpn?? folk ?Fred T. Elkin iu Denver Hews. <r f & IIIUJIUII'UVI isiuiivt O _ ? A Story of the Sea. * . J :: By John B. Lauer. We sighted the Alexander Blake In latitude 38 degrees 22 minutes north, longitude G7 degrees 0 minutes west, at daybreak on the port how, heaved up <;!i the wave's back for us to look at, nid then dropped out of sight, as though the sea were showing It to us for :i warning. The wind was light, very light, fixing for a change. By viu'ht hells we came, without trying, within a mile or two of the derelict. My, hut she looked lonesome out there! Pcn't talk \o me of anything ashore heing lonesome. How could It, with trees and other things about for com pany i But a lone ship, dismasted, wa icrlogged and her people gone, dead, most likely, wallowing .about In a world of water?that's lonesome. If you like, and I ought to know. She was broadside on at first. Later she turned, und with a great. Weary heave, like she was lifting the bottom of the world with her, she showed her name?Alexander Blake, N. S. I took :i look over the rail after breakfast, ami there she wns, scarce n quarter mile away, with the old Dansforth hewing aud nodding to her, like she was sorry, but couldn't help It. Then the mate takes ouc of the boys on top >f the deckhouse and overhauls the jrig, gets tackles on and lands the beat m deck, then runs her on rollers to the ?invits and swings her outboard. "Three bauds," says he, "to go and. set lire to the derelict." I, being young and curious, was the first to step out and first In the bont. It always made me feel queer to go off from a ship at sea/ You feel so small and skeery, and that old Jonah swashing about so near made It worse. Oh, but she looked bad; you might say like n corpse, walking around looking for a place to bury Itself. It was like interviewing a dead man, only a deod ship is worse. Her nose was poked well down In the water. She was awaRh amidships, but her stern stuck up high We hit her about midships. Mr. Mon roe climbed on the rail and 1 with him. Joe held to her with the boat hook, while Tom fended her oft witli his oar. The water was waist deep on deck most of the time, for the waves would roll clear across her. Her decks were clean as the blade of an oar; not a stick of any kind left?not a rope In sight We ran along the rail to the poop. One of these here big American poops, with pilothouse, a raised deck or sky light aft of that and then the wheel. The stairs led down into the cabin from the pilothouse. All this part of the ship floated high, and the cabin floor was dry. Mr. Monroe went down and yelled for me to get matches off of Joe. Joe in handing 'em up lost his footing on the thwart and nigh fell overboard. The hand with the matches wont under water, and they were spoil ed, and none or us had any more. 1 told Monroe. He bawls up from tho cabin to go back to the ship and get some more. So back Joe and Tom went. Then the mate calls to me to come down and help move a chest to the light We pried It open and found lots of tobacco and some medicine on top. "We'll take the chest teethe ship." cays he, "but you and me may as well have the tohacco." Maybe we were longer filling our Pockets than we thought for by the time we lugged the chest on deck we found a change was coming and com hog quick. Joe and Tom were Just pulling away from the ship to come hack to us. They rowed a bit stop ped and looked over their shoulders. We saw the skipper come to the rail ana shout to them, wavfhg his arm. Just then the wind hit 'emf and the 6"ip, with sails aback, slid off to lee ward. This scared Joe and Toni (they never were much account nohow), and they turned tall and went back to the bip. . . it looked skeery. Clouds were cora '?S down on us out of the northeast ike a huge gray wall, with the top Waning over ready to fall on you. We seemed to be rushing toward It Instead ot it at us, like o train going Into a funnel. However, it was what you " nkees call t\ "bloff," more fog and smoke than wind, although there must have been enough to blow the Dans forth miles to leeward. "This Is bad business for you and mo, Dave," says the mote. Says I. "vw iJ&fc ?jjC. v?ry wonja ?ut of mo mouth, Mr. Momoe." What did we do? soys you. What couia wo do? I've read of seamen rig fi'ns up derelicts and all that and snil tag them Into port. Rut they . had something to work wHh. We had noth ing. Not a loose stick anywhere. There |""(,|*e some spare coils of rope in her azaret, but you can't bend sail on ?^ulPJlJjut??pe, lxec.R?Sfi.wRa under water ..w.stly. Couldn't get at nothing forward without diving.' Just a mere hulk, without a rudder, like the day she was launched. ?. .- Mr. Monroe sat down on the skylight with his head in Ids bands and never moved for a good half hour. But he jumps up then, shakes hlsself and says: ' "This won't uo. This won't do at all, Dave," Bays he. "Come here, and let'* talk it over. This wind," says he, "will blow the old Dausforth miles awny. By morning, eve without this fog, she will have lost us. If we were stutlouary, there would he a show. The current takes this cussed thing, while the wind Is taking the Dausforth. Here we are, and here we are like to stny until picked up starved or drown ed." Says I. "Let's see what our chances of starving arc." for I wus hungry right thou. . . We went through the cabin first. The tables and beuches were 'n place, but everything movable was In a line mess. "She- ?iu'i been like tbis very long," says the mnte. "Thla cablu's been flooded, though. It came in through the skylight and ruu out ngttiu." But I studied rats ali the time, so I says: "There's live rats aboard. Tbov must have something to cat and a dry place to stow themselves." Sure enough, we found the door go ing into the lazaret swelled that tight we couldn't builge it. But there was a hatch on deck, battened down and calked. We got this off. and of all the ecampering, squealing "and Jumping you ever heard that was the worst. "There's a million rats down there," says Monroe. Says (. "Rats pis good eating." "Have you tried 'em?" sayr he. "I have, sir," I says. "Well, well," says Monroe, Impatient like and getting red In the face, "let's sec what the rals have to eat first." We found "ots of things In there be sides rats. But they'd ruu over every thing except what was lu 6troug casks. There was barrels of flour piled up. and the top ones was mostly all right, what the rats hadn't gnnwed holes in. We found some pork, but nil the ship's bread was no use. "We'll not likely starve, not for some time, anyhow," says he. "How'11 we cook It," says 1. "without a match?" We turned everything upside down, but we never'found no matches. Happened I walks along the forward to the main chains where we landed aboard the derelict I was cursing Joe for being so clumsy, when I sees n match ledge in a dead eye, with the swell reaching up to within nn inch or two of it. I snatched it out of there lu a hurry, aud the uext roller covered the spot. I give It to the mate. He looks it -over carefidly, aud says he, "This little stick is all that stands be tween you and me and rnw pork and rats." "And a smoke," says I. lie wraps it careful in his handker chief aud puts it in bk pocket. The first puff of wind that came from them clouds was the worst and died down as the fog piled up thick. So after watching the old Alexander flounder around like a turtle we goes below and rigs up the cabin bogle. The pipe was rusty and falls all to pieces except one joint So we set the stove ou the table, fastening it down with chain, and stuck the pipe up through the skylight W7e put In a lot of shavings we made from a barrel stave, and Mr. Mpnroe takes out the match and holds it out to strike, but his hand trembled that bad he dasen't strike it. > "Dave," says he, "you take it" I reached for it. and I got so scared I liked to have dropped it. "Give it here!" shouts the mate, fierce as you please, and I sec his muscles set like iron. He strikes !t on the stove. I got sick and queer nil over, when I see it blaze mv But bis hand never give a ripple. He held it till the stick caught and passed it slow and steady, to the shavings, and she blazed up. I give a yell and was on band witb a armful of wood to pile in on it But Mr. Monroe, he holds me off with one arm and takes one stick at a time 'and puts it In careful, and the first thing we knew the stove w&s red hot. "Smoke Ol" says be, and we fills our pipes and have a comforting whiff. It tasted good and made us feel better. Next we bunts up a fiat piece cf iron (there wasn't anything else), and we gets some flour to make pancakes, aud, so help he, we never thought of no wa ter! We looked pretty foolish and streaks It for the deck. We found the starboard cask half full. The bung hole dipper was gone, so we makes ono out of a baking powder tin tied on a stick. The water was some B".Hy. We mixed the floar with lt, and the cakes was just about salty enough without no extra salt We mumlcked about In that fog for three days, and then lt roiled Itself up and oft to leeward. And the snn came out bright ns n new shilling. Where was we? That's more than 1 know. Monroe says the current was taking us north and west He near fret hlsself , to death with trying to puzzle out some way to get her to go where he Wanted her to. But Lord, we was helpless as J two city clerks, for, as I said, there ( was nothing to work with. And I don't believe we could have moved her, she was that low and soaked.. "No chart nor no nothing, that's what gets me, Da?e," he kept saying over and over again, stamping up and down and going on top of the pilot house to look for a sail. Then he'd get down and say: "This won't do; this won't do at all. Let's have a smoke, Dave." Then we'd go b?low and get a light from the stove. We kept a Btick smol dering all the time. I watched It day and night If that stick went out, our smoke was done. All this time I kept a poking around, and one day I finds a deck of cards hid away 1A a bunk. They was all ; soaked and blurred, but we makes a crlbbage board and has a game. We ; got to playing a good deal and used to get mighty hot ever the prunes some times, especially when Monroe *ud for get to take two" for "his heels." We began with a game at n $iu% Then we got to playing the be3? two out of tluee, then best -;brt>c out of O^ve, nnd we'd got to best IG out of- 30 and had been running it two days hand running when we got ketched nt it. We was fighting and arguing over a hand. I made It "fifteen two" more than he did, arid ? remember I \vaa savin*. "I'll on over It again," aud he was shouting, 1 "I can see, can't IV aud then he'd show me. and I'd take thp cards and show him how I counted, whea we hears a voice, low and scaredllke, 44Well, I'll he darned!" And then this voice colls out, "Oh, I say, Mamie, come here with the camera, quick!" We looks and sees a young fellow looking down the skylight. Well! Sur prised! My Lord! We Jlked to have I dropped. Monroe stood up, clutching the table, his eyes bulging out, his face as red as an Injun's. Next I knowed a girl give a funuy little laugh and says, "There's not light enough." We stood for about five minutes, I guess, hand ruuulng. Then Monroe lie gives a cough, cleat's his throat aud says, polite us you please: "Comr> in. sir. Come In." Aud the youup teller, all brass bound ami shiny, comes- luto the cabin, ami, Hays he, holding out his hand, "You don't keep c very good lookout on your ship, captain." Mon roe, he shakes hands aud tells who he is and then says, "Dou't the young lady want io come dowa?*' Au? she come. That was a picture for the ortlst fel lows. I wish that camera of her'u 'd a worked. Monroe and me, tough?no name for It. Aud that cablu tougher yet. And there was them two?the young fellow, fine ns ? fiddle, blue clothes, brass bouud, shiny shoes and all, and that youug woman come down them greasy stairs that we'd tramped a thousand times with a rustle of fresh, clean skirts and a breath of sweet per fume that ulgh took our breath. And she was as psriite as If it was a par lor she was entering. All this time I was like in a dream. I stood whittling tobacco, breaking it In my hands aud filling and stopping my pipe. Then what does I do but read) to the stove, dazed like, for a light. "Holy blazes," I shouts, ' all of a tremble, "our fire's out!" Mr. Monroe turns round like he was shot, scared enough, for a second. Aud then the young feller laughs, and Mon roe laughs, and we all laughs like to kill ourselves. And the young man hands me a match from' a little silver box he has lu his trousers pocket. "There's plenty of matches, my man. aboard the yachV says he. Then we goes on deck, and, sure enough, there was as pretty a piece of wood and iron as I ever saw, painted white, with yellow funnel, and three little poles for masts and alongside one of these here little gasboats. "Don't you think it would be best to blow her up, Monroe?" says the young mam HYes, I suppose so," says he. And, do you know, I felt kind of sor ry, too, when I see the old brute lly all j to pieces.?New York Evening Post. From an t'n to Date Novel. She came into the room where he sat aloue with a glittering knife in j her clinched hand amid the folds of ! her dress. i Her face was white and drawn, and I her eyes were wild and haggard look ing. He, the man whose name she bore, sat by the Ore deep In thought nnd never heard the slippered footfall of the beautiful woman who now 6tood I behind his chair with a strange, cold smile upon her lips. Suddenly, with a gasp, she cast the knife from her toward the glowing coals, but it sank silently Into a sofa ; at the other side of the room. "? cannot!" she moaned wearily. "I cannot!" And she fell In a white heap upon the floor at his feet. A pitying, tender expression broke across the Gothic granite of his cheek, and he murmured in deep, tender, heavy Urn conn tones: "What Is it, my darling?" But she spoke no word, only raised one white hand fovrard him In which was clasped n lead pencil. She had been trying to sharpen It, poor girl!?Pearson's Weekly. The Wlngra of Wealth. j To have his swing in Wall street is : the consuming desire of e^ery man 1 with the money craze In bis blood and ! brain, yet most of the "ex-kings of Wall street" died poor unless they had other resources of Income. Their liv ing successors darc.noc try to retire by converting their holdings into cash. Outside of Wall street the final ex periences of thousands of envied men have been similarly bad. An ex-mil lionaire, once supposed to be the shrewdest of the shrewd, It keeping a cheap restaurant In Boston, another is an object of charity in Chicago, and many monetary meteors to whose names "Lucky" was prefixed a few years ago would exchange all their I luck that remains for a permanent as ! surance against the wolf at the door.? I Saturday Evening Post. One Wny of Flndlngr It. A farmer was working in his hay held I when a neighbor came up and engaged In a chat which developed into a dis: pute about something* or other. ' "It's like looking for a needle in a haycock," said the first farmer. "And that's easy enough," said the neighbor. "Easy, is It?" retorted the other. "I bet you five shillings you won't find a needle I'll hide in that there haycock in an hour." "Done with you for five bob!" cried his neighbor. The first farmer thereupon bid a needle in the haycock and called "Time!" His neighbor drew a match from his pocket, set Are to the haycock and rush ed off at top speed to his own house. Back he came, presently and found the haycock" reduced to a heap of ashes. Flourishing a huge horseshoe magnet he plunged It Into the ashes and in a minute withdrew It with the needle clinging to it. "The result of se I en ti fiel: edd (cation !" he said proudly to the first farmer, who was gazing ruefully at the ashes of his haycock. "If you'd 'a* bin eddicated sclentlfickally up to date like me, you'd be richer by five ?x>b ??? the haycock." ?London Answers. C ASTORIA For Infants aud Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signatare of PIANO MOVING AN ART. Skill on Well aa Streufftlt Needed to Get One Up or Down Stairs. "Piano niovlug.",,3aid u dealer in pi anos, "Is a business by Itself. There are truckmen who devote themselves to this work and some whose busiuess has descended to them from their fathers. Some plane manufacturera und dealer? maintain their owu trucking aud piano moving facilities, but with the lnereas ed amount of piano moving the work has come to be more of a trade now than ever. What with the multiplica tion of nuthouses and the frequent ne cessity of carrying pianos up two, three or four flights of stairs, it Is work that calls nowadays more than ever for the exercise of Rkill as well as strength. "? suppose people generally realize this, und nowadays most folks when they want a piano moved employ a pi ano mover. But occasionally somebody has a piano to move "and to save n dol lar or two gets un expressman or a truckman who Is not a piano specialist to move his piano, and the express man or truckman very likely takes this Job because he wants the money, and he thinks he's up to anything there is dying in his line ami that he can handle pianos when they come his way. He gets through with it. very likely, all right, but sometimes a piano gets awn y from him, aud when It does lt makes dusty work. "1 knew of a case In which a piano got away like that from an expressman who had undertaken to carry it up to a fourth floor flat. lie was a good o.v pressman, all right, you know. Ho could handle anything lu his way jm-l as well as anybody could, but plum moving wos really not In his Hue. A piano Is a tremendously heavy thing but I don't suppose anybody except those that have tried it know how liaril a piano dots sag back when It's being carried up a flight of stairs. The regu lar piano mover is more than strong He's an expert iu this work too. .\ piano moving team hangs on to :i piano not only with strengt h and con stnnt watchfulness, but with cousin til readiness, and they work together wltl a mutual helpfulness that makes then practically Invulnerable, and when ; bunch of men not skilled In this wnj undertake to carry a piano up stain they undertake a big risk. "Well, the expressmau and his met got that piano up the l?rst flight 01 stairs all right and pretty nearly up t< the top of the second, aud then some thing happened, somebody's foot slip pod or something, uobody knew Jusi what, and it didn't make any differ euee with the result anyway, and tin piano got loose. I never knew what ii did to the stairs or the bouse. I novel went there to sec, but it broke ouc a'rn and one leg of the expressman win was running the job and who was out of the men under the piano's heavj end. It was only by the mercy ol Providence that he wasn't ground nn< smashed into pulp, nioug with the twv men with him at that end. They, ii some miraculous way, escaped alto gether. "They took the wounded man to tin hospital, and there he staid for weeks They brought the piano here to se? what we could do In the way of re pairing It. The back frame was bro ken, the case was split, and the whole piano was a wreck. It would hav< cost $200 to put it in order, and ther you wouldn't have been sure of ro storing it to its original condition. Thej took the piano away again, and how they settled it all I never knew. "The fact Is thnt under present con dltions piano moving calls more thai ever for the exercise not only oi strength, but of special skill, and J should not for a moment hesitate t< say, that if one had a nl&iio to move especially out of or into any difficult place, the wisest thing he could dt would be to employ a piano mover."? New York Sun. Lawyer's Opinion of the Conrl, The lawyer's Inalienable and InestI mable privilege of "cursing the court' when the decision has gone againsl him is marred, as most lawyers realize, by the fact that the "cursing" must be done In private. This animadversion however, aometimcs takes the form ol communication of the lawyer's opinion to the publisher of the law reports Parts of some of these communies tlous have been printed recently by a law publishing Arm. One lawyer wrote, "The case !s a le gal curiosity and seems to have been decided bjT main force." Another, beaten in a highway case, wrote of the court, "They do not know a highway even when they stumble over it." Another requests the publisher to chastise the court, stating that "It will be of great benefit to the profession that this case be thoroughly aired and the fallacy and danger of It in its far reaching results exposed." Another "very prominent lawyer" wrote, "The opinion of our court is a schoolboy blunder, deserving of noth ing but scathing rebuke, and a review of lt should run In that line." Most seductive of all the suggestions was 'the statement, "I should be very willing to pay for such a criticism of the decision as hereinnhove Indicated by me." "This" comments the publisher, '.'re calls the Quaker chasing tils hat in the wind and who hired nn urchin to curse it."?New York Sun. A. Gilbert Criticism. One night at the Garrick club a num ber of the members were discussing the merits of a new Hamlet who had appeared that evening. W. 8. Gilbert had taken no part in the arguments for or against At last one of the others ventured, "Well, Gilbert, what do you think of his Hamlet?" "Ob," responded the witty librettist "I th'nk It was funny without being frulgar." ? Probably its many feet enable a gas hij! to run up so rapidly. ?'Ouo woman can't bo together an hour without plotting something. ? The first publia school? wero opened in 1G45, in Massachusetts. ? Unbrellas wero introduced into America from England in 1772. ? Breaking your promise to a child is one way of learning it to lie. ? Do as much as you can and God ill see to it that you do enough. ?- Lost timo is never found. Wnndrrhif: Wim. Coventry Patuiore, the English poet, was a somewhat Inattentive ami care less driver ami when his Uts of reverie came upon him would allow the horse to follow Its own equine will. One day ho took his wife, for a drive, and they went on and on until evening began to fall. Mr. Patuiore. absorbed In his own thoughts, had no Idea of turning, nor could his wife arouse him to a cense of their situation. She spoke to him. He did not nuswer. _ She shook him and then, as a last resort, stopped the horse. This brought lier husband to himself, and he acknowledged that the region was entirely unknown to him. A eoun trymau presently appeared, and they asked him the way to Heron's Ghyll. "I don't rightly know." said ho, "but If you fro ou as you're going you'll bo drownded." Indeed there proved to be a large pond hut a few yards beyond the spot where they had stopped. This habit of Inattentive driving be came a fixed oue and even impressed Itself ?quin the mind of Mr. Pntmore's little sou. One day, after he had been his father's companion on such tin ex cursion, he sought Mrs. Pat more. ".Mamma." said he. "Piphle would rather not be n poet when he's a man." "Why not?" asked Mrs. Patmore. "Because," said the child, "poets take so long to drive to Winchelsea."? Youth's Companion. She Knew the liny Well. A poor little faded woman had been brought Into court as witness in a case Involving very Important Issues. The entire case depended on the fact that a paper had been signed on a certain day, and this the forlorn little woman was prepared to prove. "You saw the paper signed?" asked the opposing counsel In cross examina tion. "Yes, sir." "And you take your oath that It was the 13th of August?" "I know it was, sir." The lawyer, who thought another date could be proved, assumed nn exas perating smile and repented her words. "You know It was? And now be so good as to tell us how you know it." The poor little creature looked from one countenance to another with wide, sorrowful eyes, as if she sought under standing and sympathy; then her gaze rested ou the kindly face of the judge. "I know," she said as If speaking to him alone, "because that was the day my baby died."?Pearson's Weekly. An Od?l Change Purae. By long odds the neatest change purse I have ever seen comes from the land of the Aztccas and Is of pure Indi an origin. Two disks of embossed leather 2',4 inches in diameter are sewed together on their perimeters ex cept for the space of l'/i Inches, thus leaving an opening into which coins may be introduced. This pocket Is now placed between two other emboss ed disks three inches in diameter, which are likewise sewed together on their perimeters except for a space of two Inches, and the arc thus left Is cut away, permitting the Inner pocket to be turned by pulling with the thumb aud P?iger, but not allowing it to es cape from the outer coveting. Turn said Inner pocket around uutll the open ing appears, put in the coins and turn back until the opening is concealed. It is impossible to lose a coin and Impos sible i.o extract change until the open ings In the Inner and outer pockets co incide.?New York Press. A Montier. The Merchants' Review tells this sto ry on a drummer for nn Ithaca grocery house: The grocer sent out an energetic young man to canvass for new custom ers. He worked hard for the interests of his employer and also somewhat wearied the good housewives whom he called upon. At one house he used up his whole line of argument and gasped for more, as the lady of the house still said she was perfectly satisfied with her regular grocer. Then a happy thought struck him, and he said: "Mrs. Joncs, I wouldn't for the world say anything against that grocer you patronize, but let mo ask you if you think that he cares anything for you except your money? Do you think that he intends to plant roses on your grave? Now, you Just trade with my firm, and I guarantee that they will give you entire satisfaction." ? When a man gets married, no matter what a poor thing he is, there is always a woman somewhere to won der what he evor saw in her. ? The man who says ho wants but little here below is the first to kick when he gets into an overcrowded street car. ? Every woman has two beliefs; one is future life and the other is that if a cat has blue eyes it can't hear well. ? It is of no consequence how good a man is abroad if he is really mean at home. ? In the English army a soldier is drummed to church just a9 he is to drill or dress parade. ? The oldest national flag in the world is that of Denmark, which-has been in use since 1215). ? A Philadelphia grocer has this sign behind his counter: "The man who trusts is out." ? One drop of ink will darken a glass of water, and one bad boy will oorrupt a neighborhood. S. G. BRUCE. DEW TS ST. IN BROYLES BUILDING, over Nich olson's Store, below the Bauk of An derson. I havo Z5 y earn experience in my pro fession, and will bt pleased to work for any who want Plates made. Filling done, and I make a specialty of Extracting Tefcth without pain and with no after pain. Jan 23,1001_si * Attention, Painters ! fJETE Will lettho painting of the Stool If Bridge at Piedmont, at tho Bridge, on Tuesday theiTJth or Feb., 12 u'olock, noon. Speeltieatiotis mado known on tho day of lolling. J. N. VANDIVKR, Supervisor Anderson Coin.ty. J. E. 8PEEOLE Supervisor Greenville County. Fob 13, 11)01 31 2 After lie Cornes 1 he has a hard enough time. Every- 5j thing that the expectant mother S can do tu help her child she should ta do. One of the greatest blessings 2 ??he cai? give him is health, but to do this, she must have health her- g self. She should use every means to improve her physical condition. ?j She should, by all means, supply g herself with * Mothers I fi FriencL | It will take her I through tlio crisis ( easily and ? quickly. It is a I liniment which gives strength ;m<i vigor to the iscles. Com? >n sense will show you that tho stronger the se le s are. ich bear the St 1 .lin. iho less pain there will be. A woman living in Fort Wayne. Ind., says: "Mother's Friend did wonders for me. Praise God for your liniment." Read this from Huuel, Cal. " Mother's Friend is a blessing t<> all women who undergo nature's ordeal of childbirth." I Get Mother's friend ui the > drug store. $1 per bo?tie. $ \ THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., | l Atlanta, Ga. 8 x Write for our Ii.h-lSliis-trated book,'* Before ft) \ liaby is Horn." 1). S. Vandivkh. E. P. Yamuvku j. .1. Majok. VAHD1VER BROS. & MAJ?R DEALERS IN Fine Buggies, Phaaetons, Surreys, Wagons, Harness Lap Robes and Whips, High Grade Fertilizers, Bagging and Ties. Wo bavo on band ? S wife's High Grade Guano und Acid. Royhter's High GiadeGuaito and Acid, Patapsco High Grade Guauo Mid Acid. Dry mixtures and lluely pulvotlscd. Yours truly, V . . Some Special* and Special Prices on Ruggieri a- d WrtgniiF. I ~3 "2 o' c ? a a ? CO cs ?1 O C b a. OB ft ? g'S. es p o es 0 er b a g P d a, re <T> P S. Ci* ? 8 8s > p e-r ce ?. rt> O a ctq ? ^ P c g* sir ko s; <? 5' ? 'A d (D P a t-1 t?1 M Wg p g 5> D m CO O ?0 O FOR RATES ??D MAPS ALL POINTS NORTH AND WEST ADDRESS Fred D. Bush, District Paisenger Agent, Lonisriiie&NasbuileRi. No. 1 Brown Ilnildlng, Opposite Union lit pot, ATLANTA, - CA m. "No Trouble to Answer Questions." FOR SALE. THE II ASK ELL ESTATE, containing thieo thousand (3,000) acres, more or less, 1 vint: 00 tho waters of Little Hiver, and hituated in tho Fiatwood.-? section, in Ab beville County, will ho Hold, eithor as a whole or in. tracts. The Seaboard Air Lino Railroad runs through the placo and has ? Elaac Station on this property. A fine old dwelling of ton room.-, in good repair. Property exceptionally well wa tered and wooded. Parties wishing in? formation will call on or communicate with L. C. II ASK ELL, Agenr, Abbe ville, S. C. Nov 28, 19___23_:iro COCAINE^WHISKY Habita Oared at myj?uuntof. lam, la 80 day*. I?unrtrod* of refcronoei. 25 rear* n npeefalty- Hook ou Jlomo Trsatrnent Mint YUKK. Addreca B. M. WOOLLEV, M. D., Atlanta, Ga. NOTICE. WILL let to tho lowest responsible bidder on Wednesday, 27th February, at 11 o'clock a. m.. the building of a Bridge over Twenty Six Mile Greek at Tima Mill. Also, on Saturday, 2nd day of March, at 11 o'clock a. m.. the building of n Bridge over Bear Creok, near Drew Sim mlns' r?sidence?, in Martin Township. Also, tho building or repairing of a Brldgo over Hencoop fret k, noar ro?i liencA of 'Ii. N. Martin, Esq., on Saturday, 2nd March, at :l p. m. Rena* ving right to accept or rejoet any or all bid*. .L N. VANDIvJBR, Co. Supervisor A. C. Feb 12. 1001 2! 7 Two hundred bushels of po tatoes remove eighty pounds of 'actual ' ' Potash from the soil. Unless this quantity -; is returned to the soil, ^W.-.i - the following crop will materially decrease. yvt**V*J> Wc have books tcllmj? about i/jS& composition, use ami vuluo ol vi-.-?jv'<^Wv>-' turtili/i-rs for various crops. . Tlii-y arc sent free. ^''fS^^S^-, GERMAN KALI WORKS, 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 agrocment. BANK DFJNDERSON. J. A. BROCK, President. JOS. N. BROWN, Vieo President. B. F. MAULDIN, Cashier. THE largest, strongest Bunk in the Count}'. Interest Paid on Deposits By special agroomont. With unsurpassed facilities and resour t'os wo uro at all tltnoa prennrod to ne Ro in mod ate our customers. Jan 10, WOO_20_ BUGGY REPAIRS Let us 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. ill \ irrt I A '~>^ fif ^5iAi^:t*^.jW An All-around Satisfaction is assured to those who Patronize til OUR WORK is uniformly exceUent, not merely occasionally good. What care and skill ran do to give satisfaction is done. Fine work on goods of every description is done here. The Finish, Glther high gloss or domostio, on 8hirts, CoilarB and Cuffs is especially meritori ous. ANDERSON STEAM LAUNDRY CO. 202 East Boundary St. R. A. MAYFIELD, Snpt. and Treas, PHONE NO. 20. te$u Leave orders at D. C. Brown & Bro's. Store. REALESTATE AGENCY. THE undersigned have formed a Real Estate Agency under the name of TrihWo & Edwards, for the purpose of negotiating sales or purchases of Real Estate, both In tho City and County, and also attending to the renting and collect ing of rents of such proporty Several desirable IIousou and Lots for Kale now. M. P. TRIBBLE, H. IT. EDWARDS. Jan 2?, 1001 il AnpstaCoinircialGflllfi?B, AUGUSTA, (?A. BUSINESS, Shorthand, Typewriting und Acadomio departments. Llto rary Society, Lecture Coursos, Boarding Hull. Positions secured for every grad uate lor thin year wishing a position. MOKEY TO LOAN ! N REAL ESTATE. Long time if security ia good. Fine Farm Lands for Little Money. Strong Farms in Pickens for half the price of Anderson lands. Call and see our list cf them ; will aid buyers to get whet they want, and lend thorn half of purchase money. B. F. MARTIN, Attorney at Law, Mascnlo Temple, _ ? ' Anderson, 8. C. Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned. Executors of tho Estate of M. Melton, deceased, herobv Sives notice that they viii on tho liiih ay March, 1001, apply to the .Judge of Probate for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a dischargo from their ofllce as Executorp. D. K. MELTON, W. W. MELTON, Executor?. Peb 13. l!?0l 34 5? O yTTTVTTTVm YTVvTvrr * ? ? DESIGNS TRADE-MARKS AMD COPYRIGHTS OBTAINED ADVICE AS TO PATENTABILITY Y Notico in "Inventive* Arc " Book "How to obtain Patents" t Charge* mod?rais. No fro till nr.tent ta secured. Letter* RtricUy confidential. Addr???*. r ?. ?. SIS?uiS. rannt uuwer, Wa PATENTS FREE ]