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IN THE SPRINO When you bedroom has all been cleaned from Winter's accumulations is a good time to renew the furniture of your sleeping rooms In anticipation of your needs we have filled our w are rooms w ith some rich and artistic bedroom suites, separate bureaus, cheval glasses ,dressing tables brass and enamelled beds and hat racks. Every article is well made and well finished, and are rare bargains. We are Exclusive~ A ger . Stov s andQle * * ** * * * * * * * * *, ** * THE EASTER EGGS. * * - - * By Dr. 0. B. Mayer, Sr. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (All rights reserved.) (This story was printed in The Herald and News of April 2, 1891, but at this Easter time we think it will bear repetition. The cut of the Eu. ter egg, whieh is used in thtis connec tion, was made by Dr. Mayer himself with a pen knife. The story is too long to be printed in one issue of The Herald and News, an.d will be eon tinued in subseqcuent issues until comn pleted.-Ed. H. & N.) I.-Love. Midway between the points where Crirn's creek and Tannon 's ereek empty their sluggish waters inYto the shining rapid streamn of Broad river, and near upon its Lexington bank, is the locality known as Cohees Hill. The oak forest which once covered it, corresponding to that still holding do minion over the adjacent hills and in the surrounding countrv,-so beauti fully green in summer, so ruggedly black in.wi nter,--has long been shorn from the sides and summ'it of Cohees - Hill.' The curious eve canr to this day deter traces of corn rows running to wards the bank of the river.-show ing that the level top of this bill was once c ultivated; but~ since the last harvest merry-m.akinz .all vestiges of farm buildings have -been swept away. Cedars almost vieinz in luxuriance with the ancients of Lebanon have long ago lifted high their conical forms and interlocked their wide reaching branches; whije in the centre of the old field a' shell-bark hickory, after waiting long for the disappear anee of the last apple tree, at length broke ground-grew to large matur - ity,-ielded annually, during the boyhood of him who writes this chron ile. vast crops of nuts much and long time sought after,- and then. lan guiabing iinder the innumerable clubs thonamon'z its limnbs to dislodge its f:,;t. it siek{ened, and died, and pas=ed awar-buried under the over sVpad of the cedatrs. There is a legend that a man by the namne of Cohee once lived on this hil! but the oldest men in the Dutch Fork ret:.in no recollection of him. There are none to trace their origin to him: nobody knows where his nrare is. More probably, the In dians gave this name to the beautiful shoals just here in the river nearly a mile wide It is known that Indians, ILI Of tligh Ur Since we first sta CONS1DERATION a Our business has inc unhe titatingly say 1 quality considered, a reasonable. We bu: as to enable us to ha customers get the be ,ts -for Welch R. E. Lee Princess Rang e before the arrival of white settlers, oceupied the portion of country knowii now as the Dutch Fork; and Webster in hjs Dictionary hag Co-. hees or Cohoze signifying a fall of water, in the languages of the North American Indians. *Irregular masses of .coarse granite, projecting from the river side of Co hees Hill, convert its declivity into a rough diminutive precipice command.. ing a delightful view of the Cohees shoals. There, on the left and right, are the pretty little is-lands wvith their images mingled by the rippled sur face that reflects them. Hundreds of black rocks divide the rushing sheet ,of water into as many sluices along which the summer drake glides with his mate. and the blue crane wades across them in quest of its food. Through the space where the no,int of Lakin's island (formerly Pearson's) nearly joins that of Hamp ton's, Parr's mill can be seen nearly a mile distant on the Fairfield side of the river, and in days long gone br, before the age of innovations, the old wooden water-wheel was wont to turn incessantly upon its gudgeons, elit.tering in the noonday aun like sil ver and in the evening sun like gold. Glorious old Cohee! How he who Iwrites this simple narrative does love t' ee! The noise of the water tumb lin2 over the rocks of thy shoals-a ndise subdued by distance and inte.r rening forests into quieting murmurs -has often lulled him to sleep in his earliest childhood, while nestling on t' e maternal lap, as the -twlight d'rkened more and more into the night. It is true, thou art no long Ier aided in thy soothing office by the mellow sound of the boatman's sam'fras born* eominez from the namn on the Fairfield brnk of the Ir ver where the cotton-boa was tied for the night to a slanting willow; and true it is, that fewer than they Iwere are the trees that now shelter the "''-ur-wing'd katydid,'' yet thy unassisted roar, Cohee, is delightful *Th. bmt-h":n was m.ade by ac * ) *>IVe* fra:n top)~ to bot tom, n f aVl )'t :t>e t.wo piees, and b nu then 2s. togV he by means .ye 1Y6'd weli waxed with shoe - ko:- w-ax. The he!!:8w tube thus >c'peilv :dr-tight; and t'rumpe'.' wa. very l9v.d, bpt as soft a-s ofe.n ald4n:i:e ba soaan; a-nd a.\ ay inl t2e ni:et when ev-erything lB. ride Cons tructi rted in business we h nd to this policy, faithft ;reased so in volume th tnat OUR PRICES AR] and when we say they Sin unusual quantities ndle our stock at the vt neft of. Our Carpel Is Aheacd of P We carry a very strong lin< the very best Wilton. We Rugs, in all si'zes and patte from a good quality of Japane a large stock of Irnported mat Curtains and Portieres. to hear .between sunset and dark, and even at midnight, awaking from sleep. Yes, he who loved thee .when he was a boy, and who loved thee still through all the distractions of mani hood, loves thee yet, even now, when the roar of thy shoaly waters is fur ther softened through the impaired hearing of old age. Since the days of my youth I have seen many places famed in history and fiction,- and have heard many sounds of tempests and breakers, all of which are fast fading from my recollection, but Co hees, when thou-: But to my tale. One Wednesday afternoon before Easter in the year 1830, a stalwart young manl was reclining upon a rock at the base of the Cohee Preei~piee. A well kept rifle wvas balanced across his lap; and a bunch of squirrels, with their heads shattered and sus pended from a small hawthorn tree, was evidence of* the steady arm and eye which h*ad aimed it. Upon a mos sy bank near the edge of the -water lay a large yellow dog. He, looked earnestly in his master's face, and wagged his tail to attract attentioai; but the, young man gazed listlessly over the sparkling shoals, and took no notice of h.is dog. The sagacious animal rose and reconnoitred the wat ery expouse before him, yet could see nothing within the ra:nge of his mas ter's -rifle, except a snowwhite ibis wading along the edge of a grass bed. He stood ready to plunge after it as soon as he should hear the re port of the rifle; but David Hartman, the man .in whose behalf the dog, Rinwood, would have sprung upon a lion, remained mfotionless. This was too much. Ringwood gave a bai-k of impatience, and after walking ba'ek wards towards his master scratching dirt into his face,-started off at full speed up the river,-wheeled sudden lv round,-squatted,-barked,--thenl darting swiftly at David, cleared him with a bound, and continued his course the same distance down the river, where he executed the same pantomimic squat,-then up the river again,-then behind the precipice ov er Cohees Hill, and then back to his master, before whom he wvent through a -series of extravagant eapr* a surpassing tos which Don Quixote et in the mounta:n; of Sierra Mor ena. They were of no avail. however, David Hairtman remained fixed in his reverie. What could he the '.natter with him. Hid lhe injured any one? No; his large blue eve was the very svm bol oIf magnanimity. Did he repent Ithe hao he had made among- the EPT R N IT on at Reasonz ave always made QUP illy adhered to, we owe at our purchasing pov LOWER than any hc are low, we mean that for this section, that ou ry minimum of expens Department ny in the City , from a good grade of Ingrain t have also a very strong line ns, embracing all of the grade se to the best Wiltons. We hav tings, also a splendid live of Lac HOW ABOUT A HALL RACK? % We have a large and va ried assortment in styles and prices. The styles are all of the best and highest grade -the prices are all low, and offer you a big value for the money. Drop in at Epting's and take a look at them any how. free, the jolly, the harmless squir rels? Not at all. He had caused them no pain, and they were for a sick friend. What then? Poor fel low, he was only in love. onRigwood again scratched dirt up onhsmaster as an expression of contempt for his weakness, and start ing off over the hill to amuse himself as best he could, he accordingly seiz ed a hog by the ear and suffered him self be dragged wherever the squeai ing porkers fright might lead him. Meanwhile, David sat upright, and commenced. whistling the merry air of Billy in The Lowrounds, but it was the most doleful whistling ever heard and he left off in despair. Suddenly a gleam of .pleasure lighted up his countenance. He thrust .his hand in to his otter-skin shotbag, drew out a mass of tow, and -picking it carefully apart, took thereform an egg of a dark purple color. It was one of the~ kind known by the name of East eggs, so abundantly used by the boys and girls, during the Easter holidays of the pleasant old times, in the in nocent game of pecking eggs. This egg-that David now handled had been dyed in logwood, and he had with the point of his knife scratched a variety of figures upon one-half of it,-such as a small log-house near which was one tree with three lim~os with a single leaf .at the end of each. -a man and woman the proprietors of the premises,-a game cock with fearfully long spurs, which the dis consolate artist had made to occupy two-thirds of the picture,--and then he put in a hen with a brood of chiekeus --ll of which taken togeth er was intended for a hieroglyphie dissertation on ''Love in a cottage.'' The other half of the egg had not been touched, -and the pensive youth now directed his attention to that part. He continued his etching and in an hour's intense labor achieved the eleven cabalistic character of which here is given an exast fac simile: D)uring this arduous work, he mut tered to himself in soliloquy: "4I'll es b, dino-'rl ef 1 ever was ING URE rble Prices LLITY THE FIRST our entire success. ier is great and we >use in Newberry, they are uniformly r facilities are such e, all of which our White Cros in sich a fix. afore, .in my life. It is a fack, I 'm over head and ears ihi love with this yer young 'oman; and I ain't bin right ever sence the big meetin' at the White Chureb, when I[ helpd her on her hoss, and had to put her feot in to the sturrup, which she could ha' done herself jes as well as .L could' Here David completed his 'B,' and held the egg out at arm's length before his eyes to sean it critically. Being highly pleased with his sue eess,,he brought the egg raek to his near gaze and continued his work and his soliloquy.. "In course she could, for she had put her foot into that same (turrup herself a many and many a time; and she know'd she had. And jes as I took hold of her foot, her shoe had to come off. I shall always believe to my last day that she mannitch'd to slip that shoe off. And while I was a trying to put her shoe on aga.in she told ine to be kerful. 'for,'ases she, 'I'm mighty ticklish:in the bottom of my foot.' Immejiately after she said that, she scrithes out to me, 'Oh, don't, Dave; ain't you ashamed of yourself0?' as ef I had raly tech'd tne sole of her foot :-a thing I. wouldn '1 ha' done for all the world; no, Sur, II wou ldn 't .for nuthin '*.oa .eould mention, Sur''-emphaiing these last w'ords as though he was speaking to some one. Now he again took an other scrutinizing look at what- he had accomplished, and being entirely pleased with his "E K,'' he went on with his task. He.aving a sigh he re smed his, confession, as follows: "There 's no use of my resistin', for I'm clean gone. Daddy has not ish 'd it; mammy has notish 'd it; so has sister Teener; and wot is worsht nor all, I has notish 'd it myself. It do seem to me that cold draps o' blood is continnerly a tricklin' down from the pint of my heart. I wonder ef it is raly so; for I'll be din'd ef I amn't a gittin' skeered about it.'' Another squinting examination of his egz showed him- that he had sue eessfully completed the first name, "Bekkv:'' and he at once addressed himelf to the other. He had less difficulty with the next initial, capi til letter, and he was soon satisfied with the "'B'' that begani the nanie. Bright: and while he was engaged w~ith tht remainder of Bekky' sur name, he made known to his imaigi nary confident some reflections aris ing from his experience in love, and from his observation of married life. " 'Certirgly, Sur,'' said he, "'I know thtno blood is ralv drappin AN EASY RUNNING BABY CAR RIAGE or go cart is always appreci ated and when this feature is coupled with an elegance of design, beauty of appearance, extreme durability and strength of construction, to which you can add a very low and reasonable price, you have a combination that makes a thoroughly ideal ve hicle. This you will find at Epting's, and nowhere else. sMattresses own from the pint of my heart; but thing wot makes a man feel like twos adoin' so had ought to be wvat ced. Wy, Sur, it mout jes ruin, a fller, ef it got the upper hand of im. I've hearn of a man and wife -falin' out ivid- wunnernudder, and tat they even fout-" Here he again held the egg out at am's length, viewed it with half clos ed eyes, and was well pleased wi.th hat he had done,-having progress ed in his work thus far, "Bekk; ri''-; and he again resumed his nife,-talking aside to his myster >us, invisible friend. "Yes, Sur,'' he continued, "I must say it wid shame,;that my own mammy nd daddy has font wunnernudder, nd mammy believe 'd she always got he best of it .over daddy; but in orse daddy, -he never let hisself ut; and in less dan -a,.'our arterwards dey was laughin' togedder, and main mv would wash wid eamf ire de. ratches she left on his face. But does you suppose ennyting like dat ould ever take place betwixt me and ekky ? No, Sur! sich a thing never kin happen betwixt us two,-no, Sur, ever-never! . At this point David's blue eyes flashed with indignation, and in the prit of emphasis he .came near dashi ng the egg upon the rocks; but recov ered himself in time. It was not long, now, .until he'finished his inscription o the "T.'' He was in the act of atting the finishing touch to this ltter when unfortunately a distur bancee caused the point of his knife o slip, thus producing a blemien plainly to be seen in the diagram above. S(To be Continu~ed.) Rare Self-Control. ashington* Herald. "He's a remarkable man. When he sees an unfamiliar word he looks it up n the dietionary and finds out what t means.''" "Nothing so remarkable about that." "Yes, but he doesn't try to lug it into the conversation right away." In Sportive Tongue. The Sketch. The Motor Fiend-What have you been doin' all the morning? The Golf Maniae-Practicing driv The Fiend-How far did you drive? , The Maniac (untruthfully)-About 250 yards. The Fiend-That 's not driving, you sll roter-that skiddin'.