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THE RUBY BRACELET A Romance of the French Revolution. More than a hundred years ago in a secluded street ci old Paris a voting girl waa dawdling through a walled garden, with her hands full of half blown roses, and a bored, un happy ]?ok upon her face. "C?e /' he murmured, "life is dull hert! Old Sfyzette*,is as stupid as a carp; tho petite house is like a tomb* my uncle, tho abbe, does nothing but scold-scold! If I had thc wijnga of Suzette's pigeons I would fly away from it all, out into ike great, wide, beautiful world." Jeanne Vaubernier, whose heart was indeed with the world ?md thc things thereof, stopped suddenly in her walk, inserted a small, ' high heeled shoe in a fissure in tho garden wall and, climbing nimbly io the top, looked over into tho street. Eagerly she gazed up and down. At the far end of the street a man turned from a dark archway and advanced toward her along tho pave ment with tho firm, elastic step of youth and strength. He was of singularly elegant and distinguished presence. He wore the short sword and three cornered hat of the period. Iiis coat glitter ed with gold embroidery ; his ruffles were of the finest lace. She gave him a soft, coquettish glance, and a demon of mischief entered her heart. A blush rose whizzed through the air and. struck the young gallant's sword hilt, another his cocked hat. Ho looked up and saw over the old wall an arch face iike Psycho's own, all dimples and dazzling fairness and shining with clusters of brown curls dropping away on either side. H? stopped short. With a laugh Jeanne dashed down upon him ali the roses that her white hands held-a perfect shower of pink, odorous bloom; then she sprang down from her perch and ran off through the garden. "He is certainly a gallant of the court," she murmured, her heart fluttering like a bird under the lace and muslin of her bodice. "Oh, what bliss to go to court-to see tho king, tho nobles, the great dames!" That day the abbe came to dine with his niece. He was lean, gray, melancholy. For years he had held the office of confessor to condemned criminals, and the scenes that he witnessed at a time when capital punishment was conducted with in fernal tortures had whitened the head of tho kindly priest and left deep lines in his cadaverous face. The table was laid in a little room looking out on the garden. There were a mackerel on the board, a pigeon, fresh eggs and asparagus, but the abbe did not cat. "You look ill today, uncle," said Jeanne; "you have been at another of those dreadful exeoutions, maybe." "Yes," he sighed. "Yesterday a poor man was broken on the wheel in the Place de Grave-would that the parliament of Paris would do away with these tortures. I stood by his side till my strength failed-then I fainted. I grow old, my child, and my heart is not as firm as it once was. Sanson, the good executioner, took me to his own house, and kept mo there till I recovered." Jeanne stared aghast. "The world is wicked. Jeanne, and a young creature like .yourself should be early provided with a nat ural protector. Suzette complains that you are altogether unmanage able. My. child, I have found a husband for you-a worthy man M. Mathurin, the notary in the Rue St. Jean." Jeanne uttered a cry. "M. Mathurin! Why, he ia ugly and old-as ugly, as old as yourself, uncle! Marry him! Never! A notary-bah ! I have set my mind on something better; I mean to be a grand lady and go to court 1" The old priest grewjtpale. "Foolish child!" hoi?ried. ?Who but satan put such thoughts in your head? . You have no fortune, no relatives to lift you to a higher state. I am poor and without in fluence" But the girl sprang up from the table and ran away into the garden. She seated herself on the mossy stone under the plum tree? think ing her own thoughts. The twilight shadows were beginning to- gather, when she suddenly heard a step in the grass, a deep sigh. She started and looked. The handsome gallant of the-morning was standing by her side, hia eyes shining upon her through the dusk. "Mlle. Vaubernier," he began, "I have come to thank you for your roses." "You know me?" she answered, amazed. "You call mo by my name?" Ho sj??cd. "The fame of your beauty reached my ears weeks ago. Suffer me now to pay homage to it." And ho fell upon his knees before her. "Ah, monsieur, who are you?" she cried. "I am the Chevalier de Longvah a servant of his majesty the king." Jeanne nearly fainted w|th ec stasy. Hero at last was a wooer worthy of her-the court gallant of whom sho had long dreamed! "All thin doy,'" ho cried, "I have thought only of you; all this day your "roses liavo lain upon my heart. See!" He opened his embroidered vest and showed her the flowers, crushed against his fine laco ruffles. "Now, mademoiselle, ? implore you to accept and wear a gift from me as a token that I am not alto gether abhorrent to you/' He clasped upon her round, milky arm a bracelet m the form of a ser- ' pent, its golden scales shimmering with rubies, two of the same gems, largo and red as drops of blood, set for eyes. Jeanne, wno was passion ately fond of ornaments, looked at the trinket with undisguised de light. "Ah, monsieur," she murmured, "nopody ever before spoke to me like this-nobody ever before offer ed me jewels. Yes, I will wear it alwoys for your sake!" . * a . * . .. Night after night the Chevalier de Loiigval scaled tho old wall and found waiting under the plum trees a lovely, wistful face and two soft, violet eyes kindled with the first pas sion of youth. Night after night the young pair walked the dewy paths unseen, undisturbed. Only the stars and tho roses and the tiny forgetmenots in the grass wit nessed their kisses, heard their sighs. Both were young, ardent, happy. One unlucky night thc Abbe Go mart came to sup at Dame Suzette's house, but found no Jeanne. "Doubtless she is mooning up and down the garden," grumbled Su zette. "She is always there of late." Tho abbe gathered up his black robe and sallied forth in the dew and damp to find his niece. A full moon was in tho sky. In a dim path beneath the wall he espied a white gown gleaming Jeanne, but she was not alone. Her head rested on the shoulder of tho Chevalier de Longval, his arm en circled her waist, his voice was mur muring in her ear such words as lovers know. Neither saw nor heard the abbe till he laid his trem bling hand on the arm of the en amoured gallant. "Saints in heaven!" gasped the poor priest. "Jeanne, my poor lit tle Jeanne, is this man your lover ?" She flung back her willful head and answered iCYes." "Do you know who he is ?" "The Chevalier de Longval, n servant of the king," she answered proudly. "Ah, poor child!" cried the abbe. "Who has deceived you like this? .The Chevalier de Longval? No, but Charles Sanson, the executioner of Paris." Then he turned to the chevalier. "Sanson, my friend, how could you play this trick upon one near and dear to me ?" he snid sadly. * "You talked to me of her beauty," answered Sanson, "till I was mad to ! look upon it with my own eyes. : There is noble blood in my veins, as you well know. I boast a' \ ancestor who was a D? Longval. Having won the heart of your niece by his name, let me hope that I may retain it as Sanson/* With a scream of horror Jeanne broke from her lover. She had heard the abbe say that the execu tioner of Paris was allowed to dress as a nobleman. Of elegant and re fined appearance, he had come from his burnings and his torturings from the wheel and the gibbet-to woo her in that old garden ! <fMonster!" she shrieked, and fell half fainting upon the bosom of the abbe. Years passed away. . The little house in the Rue de Bac had been torn down. Both the Abbe 'Gcmart and old Suzette were dead, and Jeanne Vaubernier, the lovely^ the frivolous, was now Comtesse du Barry, favorite bf Louis XV" and in reality ruler of France. She who had longed in her youth to becomb a court lady now reigned supreme at Marly and Versailles. Nobility, ministry, clergy, philoso phers, ali bent the knee to this idol of a weak and dissolute king. She sat on his knee at councils of state, called him "France" in the pres ence of courtiers. The treasury was robbed for her sake. While the people died of hunger she heaped together enormous riches. After the death of the king Jeanne du Barry retired to the Ab baye of Pont-aux-domes. There she remained for a year and a half. Then she cet up a little court of her own at Luciennes^a. magnificent estate which Louis XV had given her, on the borders of the forest of Saint Germain. Foremost among her adorers was the Due de Cosse-Brio sac, governor of Paris and colonel of the Centgardes du Roi. For ten years this man had paid the Com tesse du Barry a romantic worship, a passionate devotion, such as in old romanea knights of chivalry were wont to render to the ladies of their choice. T,he list of Jeanne's lovers which begins with a public execu tioner, ends with this splendid'De BriHsac. Stormy times were now gathering upon France. In tho sky thunder muttered. Around tho. card tables in the salon at Luciennes faces be ri to grow anxious and depressed. _ terrible voice was abroad in the earth-the voice of the sovereign people, who hated favorites and openly talked of virtue. Gne night Jeanne du Barry sat down to supper alone. The win dows of the room opened on tho still, dark park. In the midst of tho meal the comtessel?card a ter rific clamor. An immense crowd of men and women poured into tho gar dens and leaped noon the. lon?; ter races in an irruption ?;r?. ed j weapons, wi!d, threatening rates and red liberty caps. A pike was thrust through tho open window, with the severed head ? of the Dur de Brissac on its point. The mob hod killed him on his way to Lucicnncs and brought this ghastly trophy to throw ot the feet of the comtesse as she sat at meat. With a shriek of mortal terror the unfortunate woman fell fainting to the floor. She was arrested that same hour by the revolutionary committee, carried to Paris and committed to the Conciergerie prison. No time was lost in judging her. She was sentenced to be executed on the fol lowing morning. After 20 long years Jeanne Vau bernier again found herself face to face with her first lover. "Youl" she cried. "Oh, surely you will not kill me !" Then she thrust out her white arms, and on one he saw thc serpent bracelet, with thc rubies in the scales-his love gift to Jeanne Vaubernier long years before in thc Rue du Bac. "A reprieve!" she moaned. "If you ever loved me, save me now! Help me to gain a reprieve!" "I have no power to save you," he groaned. "JVhat am I but the servant of tho nation? What can I do but execute its laws ?" She pointed to the bracelet. "Tho past ! Remember thc past !" she wailed. He trembled, but did not answer. Sho tore the gold serpent from her wrist and dashed it on the floor. A tremendous mob Ailed thc streets of Paris as thc death cart left the prison. Du Barry was dressed in white, and her face was paler than her gown. <rL\ie, life," she screamed, "that I may repent. Life for all the riches that I have given to the nation ! "You, who loved me once, save me now!" she entreated. "You were my first lover 1 Is it possible that I must die by your hand ?" The procession reached the Place de Revolution. Here stood tho guillotine. At sight of it the com tesse struggled wildly with the as sistants, and several minutes elapsed before she could be carried bodily up to the platform. She was strapped to the weigh plank. The iron hearted Sanson, pale now as his victim, touched the spring. With a thump the blade fell, and the head of Jeanne Vau bernier, comtesse du Barry, for many years thc actual sovereign of France, fell into the basket.-Penny Pictorial Magazine. > Tho Three Ends of a Rope. An Irishman who was out of work went on board a vessel that was in the harbor, and asked the captain if he could find him work on tho ship. "Well," said the captain, at the same time handing the Irishman a piece of rope, "if you can find three ends to that rope you shall have some work." The Irishman got hold of one end of the rope and, showing it to the captain, said : "That's one end, your honor." Then he took hold of the other end and, showing it to the captain as before, said : "And that's two ends, your bono**." Then taking hold of both ends of the rope, he threw it overboard, say ing: "And, faith, there's an end to the rope, your honor!" He was engaged. An Expensive Luxury. A creditor called upon a debtor and found him busy carving a tur key. "Well, sir, are you going to pay me at last ?" "I should very much like to, ray dear sir, but I find it impossible. I am cleared out-ruined; I haven't a farthing." "Then I must p?y that a man who cannot pay his de ?.s has no business to cat a turkey like that !" "Alas," said the debtor as he raised his napkin to his eyes, "I couldn't afford its keep !" How Polks Sleep In Para. Everybody in Para sleeps in ham mocks, or, as tliey call them, redes. In each house will probably be found one draped with a canopy of lace or mosquito netting and dress ed, as the ladies say, with sham pil lows, creating tho impression that it is more for ornament than for use. If there be a dozen in a family, each will have his or her own rede, and, ii necessary, be prepared to take it up and walk. The redes may be of different colors, but, as a rule, the majority are of white material that may be washed. The girls of the family will have their redes strung in one room side by side, merely giving one another sufficient room to swing freely,, and they all ewing and talk themselves to eleen, the pendulum motion of the redes only ceasing when they become too weary to reach out and kick it into motion again. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tte Kind Yon Have Always Bough! Signature of ^^^/?^????c -- Some people seem to think they ire bestowing a favor every timo they ?nile. A SONG AT COURT. "hore took the reins," ung the lute boy low, With a laugh ?"<' a."nitch ci son?, But Lite waa rewire, and Lite, it Mema, Bad tarried tor Lore too long I "Had child, be warr," I said, "for wild Ia the ateed you UgbUf atti" But Lore laogbed down in my troubled eyes. Where Lita atood champing the bit. "Thia Lore," Bang the youth to the Ust'rung court, "Said, bo, be would hare bia day Aa Life at a touch ot his careless spur flew over toe kill and away." "But Life." sang the youth, "umped back and stood At nay door with a broken rein," "And Lore," said the pale queen, under ber breath, "Lore came not once egainf" "When Lite," sang the boy with the Ute, "limp ed bjck, j True, a scar or two he bore, But, though Lite throws over a thousand Lores, There is ere*", lo, one Love more!" -Arthur Stringer in Kew York Commercial Ad rertiser. AT A MEXICAN HOTEL. The Meals and the Dishes That Ar? Served There. The dining room is scrupulously clean, and the mozos are in attend ance in their spotless white blouses (which resemble our shirt waists, with tho gathering string let out at tho bottom), the corners tied in a hard knot in front below the waist. The first meal of thc day is called desayuno and consists usually of different kinds of bread, some very fancy aud sweet, with coffee or chocolate; also fruit and eggs, if you j ! desire them. j After a very blow cauter about the ' country on the back of a burro ! through banana groves, to sugar {dentations, etc., you return prompt y at 12 o'clock ready for your din ner (comida.) This is a full course meal, beginning with soup and rice. All the dishes are novel and are gen erally "liked. Some of them are rather hot, but after a few meals you find that your taste for chile con carno has become cultivated, and you enjoy the piquancy of the deli cacies set before you. I have learned to be very fond of j the Mexican's favorites, such as chiles stuffed with cheese and roast ed; a very delicious combination of peas, pineapple and banana boiled together; meats dressed with chile; salad of the alligator pear (butter fruit) ; onions, tomato and chile, and the standbys of all Mexicans, tortil las (corn cakes) and frijoles (beans). These last are always served after the meat courses. Then we have the dulces (preserved fruits) and coffee. The eena (supper) at 7 is of the same number of courses as the din ner and very much like it.-Inter national Magazine. Construction of the Earthworm. A slight acquaintance with the anatomy of an earthworm enables us to understand why the body is divided into a number of rings, or "segments," as they are more gener ally termed. The internal organs, instead of being distributed among the segments, are for tho most part repeated from segment to segment. It follows, therefore, that when the gardener's spade shears off several inches of a worm tho animal is not deprived of one or more essential organs, but only of a less or greater number of parte of these organs. Spalanzani was the first natural ist who made-about 200 years ago -experiments of this kind, which proved, as a subsequent writer Sointcd out, that <fby a strange para ox in naturo tho most useless and contemptible lives are, of all others, extinguished with the greatest diffi culty." In addition to these advantages in its construction, the earthworm has a certain amount of cunning which must enable it to escape some foes. On mild, wet evenings innu merable worms may bo seen lying out with the ends of their tails fixed in their burrows. On the slightest nlarm they rapidly retire under ground. _ Insect '.caps With Its Nose. Among tho curious insects of the Malay peninsula recently studied by Mr. Nelson Annandale of the "London Zoological society is one called tho lantern fly, Which is remarkable for its sudden leaps, made without the aid of its wings. It was only after he had carried a specimen back to London and carefully examined it that Mr. Annandale discovered that a curious projection on the front of its head, a kind of nose with a crease in it, was tho leaping organ. When bent baok under the abdomen and suddenly released, it sent the insect flying._ Shared With the Dog. A dog walked into a south Illinois street restaurant several aays ago. Seated at one of tho tables was a well dressed man, who recognized the dog as one ho had often fed when he had lunched at the place eeveral years before. Ho caliea out in a friendly tone : "Hello, Jack. Here, waiter, make that an Order for two." A moment later Jack was eating half of a double porterhouse steak from a plate.-Indianapolis News. This signature ia on every box of thor gonn Ina Laxative Bromo-Quinlne Tablets the remedy that corea a> cold Ita. oxret ?faur - "Johnny, hero you are at break fast with your face unwashed!" "I know it, mamma. I saw the little things Chat live in water through fapa s miecrosoope last evening, and 'm not going to havo them crawlin' all over my face w'-th their funny little legs!" A CURIOUS MONUMENT. The Sacred Rock of Cehistun ?nd Its Ancient Inscriptions. Behistun, or Baghistan, is a ruin ed city of Persia noted for a pre cipitous rock in its vicinity, ono sido of which rises perpendicular to the height of 1,700 feet and bears a number of remarkable inscriptions. It was anciently called Mount Bag istanus, and is now known as the Sacred Rock of Behistun. Tho lines inscribed on the rock are in cuneiform characters and were en graved by order of tho Persian king, Darius Hystaspis, about 500 years B. C. They aro in throe languages -Persian, Babylonic and Scythic and aro on tho perpendicular faco of tho rock 300 feet from tho ground. Examination shows that' great labor was expended in makin*; tho face o? the rock perfectly smooth before tho inscriptions were put on. Places where the great stono wall happened to bc uneven or otherwise defective wcro made smooth by in eerting pieces of stones, which were held in place with molten lead. After the inscriptions had been put on a coating of silica was spread over it, and now, after a lapse of 21 centuries, this silicious covering is harder than the face of the rock itself, the curious characters of tho inscription shining from beneath the polished surface as if ?it were but the work of. yesterday. ? James Watson Dawson and Sir Henry Rawlinson translated tho major portion of thc inscriptions. According to these two eminent ! oriental scholars, it gives thc gene j alogy of Darius Hystaspis for eight generations, recounts the provinces of his empire and gives a history of his daring achievements. Besides thc letters and characters, this great stone book of history is well illus trated. One of these curious efforts , of tho corly artist represents Darius ' armed with a bow, his foot upon tho prostrate ligure of a man, while nine I others chained together by the necks ' stand humbly before him. Taken ! all in al!, this Behistun inscription j is one of the most remarkable works of art left by the ancient nations. Pull Out Their Beards. The Eskimos have coarse, black hair, some witli a tinge of brown. Males have tho crown of tho head closely cropped, so that reindeer may not seo the waving locks when the hunter creeps behind bunch ! grass. They have black eyes and I high cheek bones. Tho bones of thc j face are better protected from tho ! severity of the climate by a thicker ! covering of flesh than southern j races. Generally their beard is very scant, and most of them devote oth ! erwisc idle hours to pulling out the i hairs. From a Bachelor's View, Whother we love to live or live to love we all get to the same jurap ing-off place. Nobody ever made a fortune out of I hope; bnt neither did anybody out of j despair. Hot weather is like an insult; the more you think about it the moro it makes a fool of you. God's patience ondureth even the paroots who tell of the wonderful things their children say. Some women would rather have you love 'em and beat 'em than not to do either. You can almost always tell when a woman isu't intereated in a man by the way she works so hard to try to make him think she is. After a man has passed thirty-five he contemplates matrimory with about as much romance as he looks around for a safe 4-pcr cent, investment. Some people gamble in love on u mighty small margin. The only successful way a woman can chase a man is for him to chase her. Romantic love has been put away in camphor along with the rest of our grandmothers' things. Boys could grow up to be pretty sensible, on the average, if their moth ers didn't have their queer notions about what a boy ought not to be. A man can grind himself to fine powder doing things for a woman, but unless he tells her about it she doesn't take any mock in it, and if he tells her about it he needn't do any grind ing. A man who has no faults is fit only tobe an archangel or a door-mat. The lace night-gowns that a mas sometimes sees in shop windows arc probably given to the poor. The women talk a lot about meu "trying" to kiss them. No mac ever "tries" to kiss a woman; he just kiss es her. When a girl knows that a man does not smoke she ought to find out wb?i other queer thing there is about him that would make her miserable if she married him; Love lasts pretty well, considering ail the wear and tear it has to stand. When there are no men around to help a girl float she learns to swim mighty quick. It's generally easier to make love to all tho girls some of the time than to some of the girls all the time. No woman eve; gets really interest ed in a man untii she begins to worry about whether other women think he has good taste in neckties;-Nein York Press. - The greatest daily change of tem perature to be found on the earth's barface is in Arizona. There is fre quently a ohange of 80 degrees in 12 hours. - As a result of brain fever, Wm. H. MoGinnis of Watertown, N. 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ALL persons rsvlng demands against the Estate of Dr. E. C. Frierson, deceas ed, are hereby noll'lori to present them, properly proven, to the undersigned, within the imo preecriuml 'ty law, and thooto indebted to make navmenl. MISS 84RAH J. FRIERBON, Adm's. Juiy 31, 1901 rt 3 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Tc the Public. Pleaee note our change in business from credit to Cut-li, and read the follow ?g below : Our reasons for doing so areas follows: First, our accounts being necessarily small, and an endless amount of confu sion and expense entailed toan Injurious degree, and the loss In bsd account?, and the time and attention lt requires to col lect same. Hf coud, our current expenses, auch as labor, fuel, gas, water and other supplies ar** cash. Tho Btand we have taken ison? c- 2 havo bt?m forced loto. With a great many of otir customers we regret to be obliged to pursue tblH course, but as we positively i'Hunot discriminate, we trust that you viii appreciate our position and not ask ..ir credit. All bundies delivered after .lune 1st and not paid for will be return ed to laundry. For converienco of our customers we will 1MMuo Coupon Books sold for cash. These books can be kept at home and payment made for bundles when del'ver ed with the coupons. You nan ?et ?uo?? becks mi Laundry oillce, or from the driver. This change goes intoeffect 1st of Juno, 1901. We desire to thank all of our cn* timers for the patronage they have kindly favor ed na wit*? in the past and hopo we havo merited the same, and hope to ?till be entrusted with your valued orders after our change goes into effect for cash only, which will always re?oive our prompt attention. Very respectfully, ANDERSON STEAM LAUNDRY CO. 202 East Boundary St. R, A. MAYFIELD, Supt. and Treas. PHONIC NO. 20. Ltave orders at D. C. Brown & Bro's. Store. A. tl. BAGNALL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, A11 tl o i*?-* o - S. C OFFICE-OVER THE P09T OFFICE. Peoples Bank of Anderson Moved into their Banking House, and are open for burli ness and respectfully solicits the patronage of the public. Interest paid on time deposits by agreement. - THE - BANK OF ANDERSON. J. A. BROCK, President. JOS. N. BROWN, Vice Presiden t. B. F. MAULDIN, Cashier. THE largest, strongest Bank in tb County. Interest Paid on Deposits By special agreement. With unsurpassed facilities and resour ces we aro at all times prepared to ac commodate our customers. Jan 10, 1900_29_ THE ANDERSON Mutual Fire insurance Co. HAS written 1000 Policies and bave a little over $550,000.00 insurance in force. The Policies are for small amounts, usually, and the risks are well scattered. Wo are carrying this insurance at less than one-half of what the old line companies would charge. We make no extra charge for insurance against wind. ' They do. J. R. Vandiver, President. Directors-R. S. Hill, J. J. Fret well, W. G. Watson, J.J. Major, J. P. Glenn, B. C. Martin, R. B. A. Robin son, John G. Ducworth. R. J. GINN, Agent, Starr, t?. C. PARIAN Unequaled Covering ! Unequaled Spreading ! Durable ! Handsomest Faints On the market ! Endorsed by the highest au thorities. FOR SALE BY F. B. CRAYTON & CO., DRUGGISTS, ANDERSON, - - S. C. April 17,1901 _43_3m JAPANESE PILE CURE, K New and Complete Treatment. consisting of SUPPOSITORIES, Capsulos of Ointment and two Boxea of Ointment. A never-falling cure for Plies of every nature and degree- It mckee an operation with the knife, which ls painful, and often results in death, unnecessary. Why endure thia terrible disease? We pack a Written Guarantee in eioh SI Box. No Cure, no Pay. 60c. and Si a box, 6 for &5. Sent by mail. Sampleo free. OINTMENT, 25o. and 50c. CONSTIPATION Cured. Piles Prevented,hy Japanete Liver Pellets, the great Liver and Stom ach Begulator and Blood Purifier Small, mild and pleasant to take ; especially adapted for chil dren's use. EVANS PHARMACY, Sole Agents, Anderson, 8. C. BEAL ESTATE AGENCY. THE undersigned have formed a Re? Ks ta t?* Agency under the name cn Trlbble ?fe Edwards, for the purpose of negotiating sales or purchases of Real Estate, both in tho City and County, and also atiendlog to the renting and oolloot ing of rents of such property Several desirable HOUBOS and Lots for sale now. M. P. TRIBBLE, H. H. EDWARDS. Jan 23, 1001 il ._ [Baal ?CaMTO TRADEMARKS 3 r AI KN I ?'W'J > ADVICE ASlO PATENTABILITY PfEDaCC 1 h Netir? ID "Inventivo A?o" PNPI1 1 ? Book 'How to obtain Patents" B llah 1