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.The Plan Would Sav A youug girl who frankly admitted ?bat she wis lu lovo'With a man who ?id not ca e for her, asked mo not long ago if tbcre waB any way by which a joman conld win the affections of a man. For] the' dignity of my sex I longed to answer "No," bot I have gees so many men. married in Spite of ?iemeclves thai I could only assure ber that the woman who went out on ?still hunt after any man was pi etty sure to b&g him for a husband. The old theory that man is the pur suer and woman the pursued in love making is a beautiful and romantic legend, but it has few faots to sup port it. Custom. and convention de prive ?oman of taking any active part io courtship, but while this! cripples ber energies und deprives her of fair play it does ?not bar her from the matrimonial game. It only forces ber to arrive by a circuitous route, instead of the plain and Open path. Every man flatters himself that he discovered tho timid and shrinking little violet he elects.to wear on his heart, but every woman knows that oiae times out of ten the little floweret bad ber eyes on him from the start and deliberately put herself in his road so that he couldn't get past her without breaking his nook. The silent tac'ioB with <w.bioh a wo man conducts a courtship) tu pined. They are even a lid .anded, but th?y aro :,tr[ effective, and when o mon lindo that a oman is in lo vo wi th him cud ' has inarked him for her own, his own safe- j jv lies in flight. If fiie remains within ?jae radias of her sphere hie name is ?Benediot. Little by little ho yields (o the flattery of being so adored: Ber ndgment and taste in preferring him Kdfrom having* been perfectly in f?rent to her in the beginning, he ?ommenoea thinking she ?B a fine wo llan, a discriminas;og woman, the ideal loman he has been seeking, and it all over then but the wedding ?pres ats. And he never knows, bless hid ear, unsuspicious ^heart, how she urned the trick. For the things men .on't know about women, ni y staters, tt ns all return tht aka. It is our lvation. Nov, the mere suggestion of a wo tan making love arri actually popping be question is simply shocking'to the jority of people. If w& should hear at Sallie Smitt- had frankly told bJoneB that oho loved Mm and ould like to marry him if he retlpro led her sentiments, we would, lift hands to. heaven and. cry out: 0 brazen thingl" bat when Sallie s after Bob, when she throws her? If in his way and calls him hp half doien times a. day by talephone, we condone the fact, though it means eoisely the same thing and isn't half direct, as honest and as dignified aa would be for hov' j come square out th the truth. ?Sj The old idea'that a girl never look* at a man until he proposed to her. d never thought of him as a possible setheart or husband until he asked ?to name the day, io too idiotie and timon tal a pose for tliis practical y. Long, long before any man pro tea a girl knows who thor he :s going it or not, for women aro inoredi ? subtle in these matters. More a that, she knows when she is og to let him propose, at d she has en the temperature of p6r aflao DB tc the last fraction of a degree, girl's heart isn't a box of safety tches that dosen't ignite until you tch a proposal on it. It is a pieco tinder that will gi> with spontan os combustion the momont a mau (s loves looks at Jher, and when a ri tells a man she must have time to ?mine into ?the atate of her affeo ? she moans she is really going to |>k into his rating in Bradstreet's, he will db well if ho withdraws < 1 offer. tow, personally, i believe that tho ?veotion women from tolling a man it she loves him and asking him to ry her, works as much unhappiness l"y other one thing lu the world, wo't think, that there can be any >b.t that women aro moro discerning [?atters of the hea?t than men are, |d that if women could choose *heir s whands, instead if having to take J ?** they can. ?et, that thfere. would J 9 '?wer misfit uWions Marriage y Jans moro to a woman t>an it does a 8t0laQ- Ho hos hie business and a ** B?n.8*na> interests outside his home, |d if his wife proves, congenial, if he Ms that she is unrespoesive where jlooked for-2y mpathy, &a>vow. where |c*pectcdher to be broad and liberal 'r % iowa, even if abo bores him or [?arly aud il?fccmpered, whilo it is ^oct doubt a bitter disappoirit jfit to him, ifcxis aot tho blighting |"edy i tts to the woman wh'o mar ji one kind of a man and fiada him mmmm JLD PROPOSE e Mxioh. XJnliappiiies?? to bo another whoa abo gota him home. It is, therefore, more important that a woman should bo pleased in her bus band than a husband should be satis fled with bis wife, and if either one is to have the advantage of picking the other out it should be she. Nor in tho end would this be any the less to the man's advantage, for tho wife makes the home atmosphere, and a happy and oheerful amd contented wife will make a pleasant home. Tho woman who has gotten the husband she wanted, the man who oame np to her ideal and fired her fanoy and who xs forever patting himself on the back for having captured a matrimonial prize, is going to move heaven and earth to please him? aod if I were a mao I would take the woman who wanted me in proferonue to the wo?^ I man i wanted, every time, lt is so much easier to be phased than to try to please. Blf Perhaps no ono roalizcs how much the shiftlessness, the extravagance and the illtemper of women ia a quiet revenge they take on society, for hav ing forced them, to marry the man who asked them, instead of the man they would have asked, if they had been permitted the honest expression o&their hearts. K&Thore ia, too, a pathot?o sido to this matter in the increasing number of lonely.old maids, women who ario too fine andCtrue to give their hands wher e the highest love of their hearts oould not go also. We see beautiful and accomplished women refusing offer after- o ger of marriage and' passing into spinsterhood, and we know only too Well that they are the victims of a superstition that in this way ia as cruel ap the custom that makes the Indian widow burn herself on her hus--, baud's funeral pyre, for underneath the women's old-maidenho?d is the romanee pf a blighted love.. Beep, down in their ' hearts, throttled by shame and held down by convention, is the love for some man who has been . too dull or two careless to See that he he was passing by a treasure. Prob ably he only needed a word to call his attention to it, probably ho would have been only too glad.to olasp it to his heart, or he may have been only too muoh of a coward to dare to claim it for his own, but no word was spoken, tho man par,KP? on and a life was 1 Iwrecked. j' ,That men have small taste and lesa judgment in picking out wives the divoroe courts abundantly show, and the chauces are that women would dis play more acumen. When a widower with six children worts to marry again he generally pioks out a flighty young creature with pink and white com plexion. Very likely she marries him, f?r his offer may be the best thing'in sight, but she. would never on earth piok him out if she had the proposing to do. Her taste would run to Johnny Ttvoatop and oho would leave her els; I dorly suitor to the middle-aged wo man, ?rho would mother his children and make his home hippy and com fortable an d_ bring peace to him in atead of misery and discord. Whon Tom Pooranoo gets married ho selects the eilliest end vainest and flightiest girl of his acquaintance, put little Miss Frivolity, who marries, him and keeps his nose on the grindstone the balance of hio lifo, would have known better than to have proposed to an impecunious clerk herself. She would have asked somebody Who was able to pay her dry ?oode bills. Many and many a riob wcz?an would be glad to share hey f?rtuno with tho poor man she loves, und who never asks her, if she only jared tell bim so; many aa, old bachelor woudd. be reaoued from the privations of his lodging-house and landed in a happy home if only the woman who ?B dying to doit could call his attention to the fact of how comfortable she oould make him. There isn't a bit of uso iu saying that any woman with ?sot oan do ail of thia without popping the question. There are mien so dense - that they have to be slugged with a fact before they ever see it, and if they ever jet to the brink ofa proposai they have to be shoved over o& else they baokaway. * If women had the right to propose it would be a powerful inoentive to domesticity. Now, where they have tc take any old thing that comes Slong, th?y naturally 'reel that any kind of housekeeping and cooking is good enough, but no honorable wo man would ever think of such ? thing GET asking a man for bis band and heart unless she could make him a good home. Then, too, after she had won tho promise of her shrinking Adolphus she 'would have io face the ordeal of the interview with his father, when Adolphus' atora papa would de mand: "Young woman, can you inako ?uy sos as coufortablo as his mother has always done?" Why min should so strenously op pose woman's right to pop the ques tion i- hird to understand. Ono would think they would welcome .rath er than shun it. To have beauty on her knees before you can surely sot ba au unpleasant sight, to say nothing of the solid satisfaction there would bo iu having some fair one weeping beoausc you were a good thing she couldn't get. And IB a matter of fact, being made love to is not an 'unpleasant experience. Quite the contrary. And a man would always have the right to declino. He eould say "no" or refer the matter np to papa, and whee he saw a girl beginning to get sentimental he could head her off.by telling her how mach like a sister he regarded her- And he would at least know where he stood and who was making goo-goo eyes at him and so he would be safer. It would be muoh less dangeroue to face a business-like prop osition than to ward off tho insidious attacks of those who are trying to hypnotize you without you finding it out. Theoretically woman's right to pro pose, the advantages of her doing it, oven, are indisputable. Practically she longs to do it, but she lacks the courage of her convie ti ons,'for strange as it is the sea that defies laws and conditions is a slave to conventions, and the woman who has fought her woy in to the front rank of the *battie of life can still be shooed back over the fenoe by a flap of Mrs. Grundy's skirts.-Dorothy Dix in New Orleans Picayune. : _ _ , The live Stages. A 17 she said: "I want a mau who is ardent in all of love's ways and whose passionate devotion may never flag. He must-bo tall and broad shouldered, and handsome with dark, flashing, soulful oyea, and, jf need he, go to the end of the world for my sake." At 20 she said: "I want a man who unites the tender sympathy of a wo man/ with the bravery of a lion. I don't mind his being a little dissi pated, because that always adds a charm. Ho must be, however, accom plished to the last degree and capa?lo of any sacrifico for my. sake." At 25 she said: I want a man who unites with an engaging personality a complete knowledge of the world, and if, of necessity, he happens to have a past, he must also have a future; a man whom I can look up and with whom I can trust myself at all times without the slightest embarrassment." At 30 she said: "I want a man with money. He can have any other attri bute that a m*a can possess, but he must have money, and the more he has the better I will like it." At 35 she said: "I want a man." From Life. Eet Parrot Saved His Ll fe. Washington, N. J., May 8.-At tracted by ones of "murder," "help" "come quick," neighbors of George B. /Andrews of this placo ran to his houGO to find out the oause. They knew the cries were made by his par rot, but they had never heard it scream so loud before. Andrews lay. on the floor uncon scious j bieeding from a great. gash in his neck. He had been repainting the ceiling and had fallen from a step ladder, striking a atovo. ' A physician took Bia stitches to oloso the wound and said that in only a few minutes Andrews would haye been dead. Thia is cot the first time tho parrot has looked after the welfare of its owner. Some years ago the house next door caught fire. The parrot's screams awakened Andrews in time to arouse his neighbors before much damage was done* Andrews ia a vet eran of the civil war, and some time ago he applied for admission to the soldier's home. On being, informed that he would be aoo?pted, he wrote the authorities, asking if he would be permitted to bring his parrot. Their answer being in the negative he deeided-n?t to go. ---1. Cures Eozema, Stoning Humors, Pimples, Carbuncles-Costs Nothing to Try. B. B. B, (Botanic Blood Balm) is now recognized as a certain and euro oura for eefzema, itching skin, humors, tamba, scales, watery blisters, pimples, ?'aching bones or joints* boils, carbun cles, pricking ps iu in the skin, old, oating sores, uloers, etc. Botanic Blood. Balm taken internally, cures the worst and most deep-seated eases by corichi?g, purifying and vitalising the blood, thereby giving a healthy blood supply- to tho skin. Botanic Blood Balm is. the only cure, to Stay cured, for these awful, annoying skia troubles. Heals every sore and gives the rich glow of health to tbe skin. Builds up tho broken down body and makes the blood ?ed and nourishing. Especially advised for chronic, old cases that doctors, patent medicines and ho? aprings fail to cure. Drug gists $1. To prove B. B. B. cures, sample sent free and prepaid by writ ing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, G&. Describe trouble, and free medical ad vice eent iu sealed letter. Sold in Anderson by Orr-Gray Drug Co., Wil bite & Wilhita and Evans Pharmacy. - The biggest joke of allis tho . man ;?ho sets out to cultivate dis wife's mind. The Steam Plow Being Used la Rle? Callare. (New Orleans Dully States.) * "The problem of tho scarcity of la bor ia being solved ia the r.co coun try by the introduction of steam plows," said Mr. S.F.B. Morse, as sistant passenger tramo manager of the Southern Pacifia Railroad, who carno to tho oity thia morning abd reg ia to red at the St. Charles hotel. "A man by the name of Bussell, who came from Minneapolis, Minn.,, and who has had much experience in raising ?heat ia the far northwest, bought the first steam plow to be used in the rico country and ia now operat ing it on bia rioe farm of 1,000 acres, whioh is located five miles out of Houston, on the Southern Paoifio Railroad. "When he went to buy the engine for his plow he wanted the oompaoy from whom he purchased it to sell it to him subject to a test on bis rioe farm, but objeotion was made to this procedure and he then bought the traction maohine outright. Ho wish ed to buy the eight plows needed to hitch onto the ongine subject to the samo tost, but again he met with ob jections and again he bought tho plows outright. He knew how steam plowing was carried on in Minnesota and he was convinced that it could be done in the same way in Texas, as the rice prarie is perfeotly level. "Although everybody discouraged him and advised him against making the experiment he went ahead and exorcised his own judgment with the result that he is now plowing his land at the rate of 40 acres per day. His steam plow does the work of 30 mules and eight negroes. "The importance of the introduc tion of the steam plow into tho vice fields cannot be overestimated when it is understood that labor is so very soaroe that it is almost impossible to get the crops in. The negro does not seem to make a good hand in the rioe field. It is impossible to get any oth er sort of labor sufficient to meet thc demands of the rioe farmers. "While it is not the purpose of thc rioe interests to encourage Japanese immigration to the extent of sending out agents for it, yet the introduotior of a'few intelligent Japanese rioe-far mers will be of inestimable good They will teach us how to cultivate rice in tho most thoroughly up-to-date manner. The Japanese excel in ric? farming. There are 7,000,000 aorei of rioe land farmed in Japan, and al though the rioe belt along the gulf ii some greater in extent than this, ye only abOut 500,000 acres is now uude cultivation. The Japanese use rio* for a variety of purposes, iu fact util ising every bit of the cereal, ohafZ straw and roots. They make thei shoes out of riee, their mattings ant window, shades out of the straw, am their favorite beverages out of th grain. They make many articles o clothing out of the fibre, inoludin hats. Now what wo want is to lear: from these Japanese farmers who ar now settling in the rice belt the art o making rice more generally useful While in the United States only 4 c 5 pounds of rioe per oapita is co neun ed annually, in Japan from 400 to 50 pounds is need. The Japanese kno how to oook rioe into dozens of tl most tempting dichos while in Amer ca it is seldom seen excepting in tl ordinary boiled form, although f have a erek book with 300 reoipeB j it for cooking rice. All thie inform tion we want to get in a praotical wi from the Japanese farmer. "But I want to say that there not a particle of danger of cheap co? petition from Japanese labor. Tal the Japanese oook, for instanc While you oan get a negro cook f $15 per month yon would have to p a Japanese at least $25, and the s ai is true of all sorjts of Japanese lab< ors. The common laborer of the fi? wants $2 per day. In every way th have, the highest conception of t value of their conception. There no danger from Japanese immigratii and while we aro not going out for yet'it is welcome and will prove of ( greatest benefit to tho rice belt ai have outlined." OASVOXIXA. Boars ti? ^u^^ Kind Voa Wara Always Ba - The brain of a child at be weighs nuder ten ounoes, but at end of a year has increased to I pounds. Full growth is attained men at about twenty years of a and by woman at eighteen years. - "Maude's intended ia a pi dealer, isn't ho?" "Yes, and Bho Heves him all that his inarn me are/' "Grand, fl suppose? ' "1 :iid upright an d e q nare. ' y Tommy--"I think mamma is sn ful gossip." Ethel-"Oh, Tomi how can you say suoh a thin Tommy--"Well, she is; everythiu do, she immediately goes and t papa. I hate gossip." - The fanny, fluffy things th? woman CBIIB clothes a man' calls n tories. - Even if a man know the na , of all the queer things women v . it would not help him to undorat ' why they do. j .-?'. Told in Figures. Ninety per cent of the wealth of the United States is held by 10 per oent ? of tho people. The weight of tho average baby's brain at birth is a little more than three-fourths of a pound. Seventy-nine per cent of the popu lation of the United States were born within the .State or Territory of their present residence. The ?attie king of the Western plains is passing away forever. A few years ago there were nearly 100 mil lionaire exolusive cattlemen in the Southwest. Now there are but thirty. An official estimate made of the forest area of the United States puts it at 700,000,000 aores. Had the, forests been intelligently managed the amount of. merchantable timber in them would be ten times as great. The science of forestry is cow taught in moro than forty schools. Yale and Cornell universities and the special colleg-. at Biltmore, N. C., have advanced ciassos and give de grees in forestry. STORK to women ia a term ot much anxiety.seriouB thought and sweet anticipation. Pain andi dread, love and joy, come .ver changiagly. With tho cessation of pain necessary to childbirth th oro comeo calm nerves, sleep, recuperation. MOTHER'S v FRIEND diminishes the pain accompanying matera* tty. With its aid mothern can bringhealthy babies, sweet dispositloned babies and ideal babies into the world.. Take away the pain .ot childbirth And you have bliss and cc st ney. Morning sickness. Boro breasts and excru ciating pains oaused by tho gradually ex panding organB, aro relieved by this re. m.irkablo Eoothing balm. Among the manifold aids to childbirth B?othar'a Friand has grown in popular ity and gained a prcstlgo among rich women as well as poor; it is lound and welcomed in the mansion as well as the cabin. Children, strong intellectually and physic, ally isa duty every pregnant woman owes society. By lessening tho mother's agony of mied and diminishing pain a. beautiful influence itt ?wron ch t upon tho child, and instead of peev ish, ill-tempered and sickly forms you bavo laughing humanity that remains a blessing ever after to you and its country. Try a $1 bottle. Druggists everywhere .ell Mother's Friend. Write us for,our froa book "Motherhood," THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atienta, Om? CURSE - OP - DRINK CURED BT WHITE RIBBON REMEDY. No taite. Ko odor. 'Can be given In glass of I water, tea or coffee without rmtiou t'a knowledge. White Ribbon Remedy will cure or destroy the diseased appetite for alcoholic stimulants, ?neth er the patient is a confirmed inebriate, s "tiple?," social drinker or drunkard, impossible- for any. one to bsT6 an appettie for alcoholic liquors after rising White Ribbon Remedy. Indorsed by Members of W. C. T. D. Mrs. Moore, press sunerlntendent of Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Ventura, Califor nia, writes: "I have tested White Ribbon Remedy on very obstinate drunkards, and the eurea have been many. In many coses the Remedy was giv en secretly. I cheerfully recommend and lndorsa White Ribbon Remedy. Members of oar Union are delighted to find an economical treatment to aid us in our tempor?neo work." Druggists or by mall, SI. Trial package freo by writing Mrs. A. M. Townsend, (for years Secreta ry of a Woman's Christian Temperance Union.) 218 Tremont St, Boston, Mass. Sold In Anderson by ORR, GRAY & CO. 8optl7.1002_18_ly_^ Foley's Kidney Care make? kidneys and bladder right. Notice to Teachers. AT a recent meelina of the State Board of Educatlon two reeolntlono were passed which are of apodal importance to all teachers and prospective teachers, The first provides for two examinations oaoh year, to hs held In May and September, and that "DO teacher shall be employed In the pnblio schools of this State who bas not registered the certificate In the office of the County Superintendent ot Education and submitted proof thereof to the board of truste??." The second forbids tho teaching: of Latin in tbs pnblio schools except by teachers who hold a special certificate showing their qualification to teach this subieot. Collegs diplomas do not exempt teachers from the examination In Latin. Pursuant to these resolutions an exami nation will be held at Anderdon on Fri day, May 22nd. The examination will begin nt 0 a. m. ai d ell npplicauts ?re urged to be here on time, provided with the necessary stationery, otc. R. B. NICHOLSON. Co. Supt. Ed. May 5, 1903 at Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned, Executor of the Batate of J no. M. Warren, deo'od, hereby Rives notice that he' will on Saturday, Otb day of Jane, 1903, apply to the Judge of Proa te for Anderson County, S. C., for Fiual Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge frota his office a? Executor. J. O JAOKBON, Executor. MayO, 1903 46 6 Aotice ot Final Settlement. THE undersigned, Executor of the Estate of Mrs T. C. Reed, dee'd, here by gives notic that be will on Friday, Mov, 29th, 1903, apply to tbs Judge of Probate of Anderson County, 8. U., for a Fiual Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from his office aa Execu tor. B. F. MAULDIN, Executor. April 22, 1903 44 5_ Notice to Creditors. ALL porsonn having demands against tbe Estato of Mrs. Francis Burris, deo'd, aro hereby notified to present them, properly proven, to the undersigned, within the timo prescribed by law, and those indebted to make rayment. S. C. MAJOR, Executor. MAy 18,1903 47 3 wells driven down to rock. ^^^/^^J^^^^^^^^ passed through an air filter. ^""*l^S?^^^tlJta Every drop of Schlitz Beer filtered hy machin- OSSkT^ cry through masses of white wood pulp. Every bottle sterilized, so that it contains no germs? B Thus we double the necessary cost of our brew- J? ing to make purity certain-to make Schlitz Beer m healthful. MS Will you drink common beer, and pay just as BS much for it, when Schlitz Beer can be had for A?& L the asking. ?W fk AS?: for thc Brewery Bottling. OB |f? For sale nt nil dispensaries In SSS ?W? WMmX tho State, ia quart and plot fc&tf /.-'?-'-t bottles. / ?JWB NOTHING is more gratifying to an up-to-date Farmer than to have a well-equipped outfit to begin his Spring work, and this he ia sure to get when he does his trading with U3. We can sell you PLOWS, PLOW STOCKS, SINGLETREES, HEEL BOLTS. CLEVICES, HAMES, TRACES, COLLARS, COLLAR PADS. BACK HANDS, PLOW LINES, 1 BRIDLES? And everylhing necessary to begin plowing, except the Mule, and we eau "sight" you to a Mule trade. We still have a few Syracuse Turn Plows that we are ,?losing out [at a very low price, and can furnish you with the Terracing Wing. Como in and let us show you our 7-foot Perfection Trace Chain at 50o pair. Nothing in the Trace lino compares with this Chain. Don'tjou need a hog pasture ? Wo have the Wiro Fence for you. BROCK HARDWARE COMPANY. ?-i o w ? td Sa bd 2 O < tr1 M W m ? M ft OD ? < > 50 M ft O n d ? Pl; 4 M & S s 5 > g o CO H to q ?3 TAKE NOTICE. Do not Fail to try our Spec ially Prepared 8 1-2 2-2 Petrified Bone Fertilizers for Gram. We have all grades of Ammoniated Fertil izers and Acid Phosphates, also Kainit, Ni trate of Soda and Muriate of Potash; all put up in new hags; thoroughly pulverized, and no better can be found in the market We shall he pleased to have your order. ANDERSON PHOSPHATE IND OIL CO. Why Not Give Your House a Coat of You can put it on yourself-^-it is already mixed-and to paint your house would not cost you mora than$?- - -- --. ive or ?ix Dollars ! SOLD BY Qrr^Gray & Co.