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UIW LADIE$ GIVB BAZAAl. WOw Lovely Wax Doll Brought $10, a Gentle Pig $10 and Threo Gal Ions of Oysters Brought Dis anpointment. Ooli James T. Bacon in Sunday Nevs. "Oh, I am so delighted to see you. Yi &re the very first one to camp, . and it is a good sign." cried a tall she stripped down her front steps to meet a slim, dessicated evoparated old bachelor who looked like an elder ly-gray possum. Ris npw 4 o'clock, and not a one of those miserable, wretched wo men has come. And I am worn to th6 bone and my poor legs totter with moving all the furniture out of my be4 room so that we might have at least three. roms for this wretched ithing-this so-calcd bazaar. And I h'Ve decorated all three rooms entire ly by myself, besides tieing a bow in the pig's tail and making him fit to b seen. Oh, Lordy, how worn out I do feel! But let me tell you about it, Mr. Barron, for you were in Augusta and didn't kubw about this guild meeting. I tell you the women of this St. Chrysostom Guild are a mean, sel 'fish set. Well, you see, notwithstand ing it was only Vne week before Christmas-as we still owed twenty five'dollars on the new aisle carpet we decided to have a bazaar out of nothing-three quarts of dirty oysters to be paid for out of the proceeds. And when the question was asked at whose house we should have it there sat all the wretched women-even Mrs Kate Cranston, with that great big, old, cold, spraddling house within fif ty yards of the public square-and said not a word. There they sat stiff and silent as mummies. Most of them are mummies. So finally, although I am. out here in the suburbs a mile from the public square, I offered my poor little cottage. And all those wo men who live so near the church and the Court House jumped at it. The selfish creatures! And it was agreed that two women should give salt and pepper, and two butter, and two crackers, and two milk, for the oys tors. And Mrs. Thomas and the Miss Beltons were to give oranges and co coanuts for that dangerous muck that is commonly called ambrosia; and Mrs. Gunton was to give a cream cake, and Mrs. Stratton a noisome 6hoco late cake; and Mrs. Carswell was to give coffee and cream-blue John! and Miss Collier was to give livid Anathi We will offer *to s Midi Beginning Fr: ending SE we will offer cent. off the ~ ~$8.OO, an d sc All Men 's Hats at this sale f half the price. They all go al each. Calicoes 4 aiid 5 1-2 cents. Drep Goods 9, 11, and 13 cen up. * White Homespun 6 yards: cents. Jeans, 1A4, 18, 23, and 29 cent; Crockery and Glassware at *SHOES! SHOES! SHOEI We make the foll'owing vei prices on shoes. Men's patent Shoes,, $5.00- foi Men'4 patent Shoes, $4.00 fo: M%en 's viei Shoes, $3.00 for Women's patent Shoes, $3.( $2.63. Women's vici Shoes, $2.5( $2.13 Potato ?ald 1and so'on, and so on. And then it was urged that, as it was Iso 00ekr Christmas, and the btisi ness men and clerks couldn't possibly leave their work to run a mile for a soup-plate 4' deadly oyster water, Mrs. Kate , Cranstbn' should operate with oysters on the public square, in the edlitorial room of the Edgehill Muck Rake, and send out smoky, lukewarm, horrid stuff to the busi noss men and clerks at their' places. You k-now she just mounts men's backs, and their fronts and their flanks and never lets them go until they give her the quarter. They tell me she has been at work oie hour and that she has actually already taken in six dollars. Lord! I would hate to taste those oysters cooked on that filthy Muck Rake stovb! - And now here it is 4 o'clock and not a wretch ed mean woman has conic. Well, it doesn't matter much for if they come finally no one else will. Of course no body is going to walk way over here -especially to an Episcopal thing, for you know, Mr. Barron, we are not on ly few and poor, but very unpopuar. And oh, Mr. Barron, I forgot to tell Sou the worst of all! It was decided to request Peof. Bell to announce to the pupils of the W. X. Y. Z. that our bazaar would take place on Friday afternoon and -night, and to ...irge I them to come and patioiize us poor, poverty-stricken, down-trodde'n Epis copalians. And lie promised faithfully to do so, and to do all in his power to help us, and ,to come Ihimself and bring his wife and his teachers and his boarding pupils, and to let his lady teachers play and sing and re cite for us in the evening. And what do you think? School is already out and he actually didn't mention it to the scholars. Mamma telelioned him five minutes ago and he said,hie had forgotten it. Mamma abused him like a pickpoeket through the telephone, but what does lie care? Oh, these lar row, bigotted Baptists! But Lord have m e Mamma is calling to me to know if any butter or milk or crack ers have come. And .none are here. Mercy, what a disa-raceful swash the I oy.te's will be.! Oh. Lord, I hope no- I body will come for we will be eter- I nally disgraced, and the Presbyter- I ians will sneer aid say we were elect ed to be damned.'' And so the pretty, slender young woman rattled on until she literally gasped for breath, and had perforce to stop. Then the old gray Possum ] patted her lovingly on the shoulder, and said: ''Oh, never mind, liolney, it will all come right. I already see the Oppori our customei wve money' in Vinier day, Februar tturday, Febri a.lI Clothing al p~rice.- A $12 >Onl. or one Womiie 75 c. $.8 Wome ts and $1.37. All ot ~or 25 -Wind< $1.19 pe yard. -and 48 o.A few~ $3.00. y low A fei - Flour at $4.56 Monk< $3.48 0der 4 ec: P2.73. , Red I 0, for 25 cents ,A newl ~, for , es just i . . No go BIRGI chariots 6f the guilh Women coming, lande with poppee and Bait and butter and milk and crackers and cake and Christian love. And see, see, yon der cole Prof. Bell and all his board ing boys in their brass buttons. Run, hoiley/t and get the butter and milk and crackers stirred into the oyster muck. And here comes out tall rec tor and his little wife, and their young. They will al-every midu and womna of them-die upon the spot from the effects of the deadly muck, but that wil not matter at all. We have no time to lose. While you and some- of those old ugly talking women adininis ter the poison to the W. X. Y. Z. boys and the rector and his young, I will iet down the raffle doll and begin to get chances. A-nd look, the crowd is really increasing. There come those two best and loveliest people in the world, the Baptist preacher and his wife. How kind anid svipathetic the Baptist alwaYs are! 1u111 there isli't a Presbyterialn or a Methodist.'' And so saying the old possun went briskly and took dv.Wn the rather ,heap dax (loll from the mantel; and as lie di(d so i steam of sawdust flow 3d steadily from the howels of the doll. ';he had evidently been operated on eor appeidicitis, and the wou.nd had broke loose. The old possum took her juickly and stealthily into a dark cor ier and pinned lp the oriflee with a [)in which he took from the under side :f his coat lappel. Possums of this la-s always carry pins thus. And at this juneture Mrs. Kate ?'ranston, who has wound up her oper itions in the editorial rooins of the Nfuck Rake and repaired to the main )attlefield, rushes upon the old p)os mim, and shaking him by the shoulder, ;ays to him inl a hoarse whisper %nd vith -horrible emphasis: ''This raf ming must be done in strict secrecy 'rom Dr. Bains, (the Baptist preach !r,) who says that lie will leave the louse if there is any raffling. And ,on know lie has promised to read rom Uncle Remus for us how Brev Zahit sealed Brer Pox through the labbit scaled Brer Fox through the ioles in the top of the box-and you cnow a great many are coming ex ressly to hera that. I am going now o start tile singing. T had praeticed Ohm, Mio Fernando,' but I have con tluded to sing 'IT need Thee Every lur, so that everybody can join i.'' And Mrs. Crauston swished off, qd as she sang ''I Need Thee Every lour'' and ''I Love to Tell the 3tory, ' the old - possum, steathily, nade iay while the sun shone, and aused the doll to bring twelve dol tunit! rs a chance our. Sale, y 15th, and iary 23d, :'33 '1-3 per .00 Suit for1 n' s vIii Shoes, $2.00, for n's vici Shoes, $1.50, for hers at right prices. >w Cnrtains 48, 73, 98 nnd r pair. Window Shrdles 24, ents each. barrels of straight ilour at v barrelts of Second patent $3.25. my and Parrott Baking Pow ats can. rabel Lye 5 eents Cani, 6 for stock of Jewelry and Watch-/ n. Big bargains in them. ads charged. ECO Aars-nothwitlistanding that she'lpa, ,lost intue thani half of her internal viscera. 'racious nievey, Mr.. Barron, now exclaimls.the Rebecca at the well, "what am I to do? All,the little par eels are gone, at 1 cents apie', nid still those foolish, gawky Wt X. Y. Z. boys clamoring for a pull. Wlit upon eatrh am I to dol'' Now, Rebecca Miss Eugenia Pitki'ns-was v, lovely and very graceful girl, but her'cos Lume would hiave made Isaac flee into the. tall timber and .never return. How sver, she had realized six "plunks'' Erom the bottom of the square goods box which was her Abrahiamnic well. Analytical Vi Greatest Combination < Complete' Common Ready Seller for Protectio Afforded, Non Forfeitur 0 Privilege Maturity Settlemer Special Privilege Policies Containing on whole Life, limite Pacific Mutua Call to see us. Office over old Post Office. P L HarnessaI Barb Field and Pot (line of Hi Newberr ''Oh, for the Lord's 6ake, Eugenia, don't bother any more with your dir ty well, but go and begin to work on that nasty pig. He's to be raffled, you know, ,hat is if it is a he. Who ever heard. of preseinting a messy ydu.ng pig to decent women for a guild bazaarl'" Thus spoke old Mrs. Lowe, a sister with a bird-of-prey nose and an eagle eye, as she caie hurryean ing along. ''Do tell me, Mrs. Lowe,' cries Re becca, "who gave us that lovely pig.. It is the loveliest thing I ever saw, and it ought to be made to bring at least fifteen dollars." "Mr. Wilcher, of Tienton, gave us w of the Combii )f strong insurance Fe Sense, Practical Polica the Agent. People's P 1. Cash Weekly Incor abled by Accident 2. Cash Weekly Incoi n abled by Sickness 3. Cash Annual Incon disalbled by Any Ca 4. Cash payment, Fac sured. 5. Cash Annual Incor turity of policy. 1. Paid-Up Insurance 2. Extended Insuranc 3. Liberal Cash Loans 4. 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