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r TALKS OP VISITS FROM THK, SPIRIT LAND. (ihtfcits and Their Warnings to tiu* UtIdk ? Some Wonderful HappenbiKH Told of In an Interesting At a house party in the South the talk fell upon the supernatural, and there were cited a number of Instances showing either vividness of lmigination or something harder to explain, but not less interesting because not understood. A man in the party according to an exchange, said: "1 am telling you this Just as it was told to ine , by my father. "Both my father and my uncle ' John were planters before the war. I Taey owned thousands of acres T-hith they planted in cotton and rice and lived several miles apart on separate plantations. Their! father had been dead for several yeurs at the time of my story. He ! had alwayy been fairly idolized by his sons, for while a stern man he was a loving father. "My uncle owned a number of ne-| groes, one of whom, Black Dan, he had n special fancy for ajid kept as a valet, or body servant. as they I were called then in the South. No I one could understand my uncle's; fancy for the negro, for he was a) surly fellow. "One night Uncle John was sit-1 ting in front of the fire in his I study reading. 1 do not know , what the book was, but I will mention, however, that it has no direct | section with the story, that he was an agnostic and was looked upon by the family as little better . than an atheist ? a stern, embit-ij tered, irreligious man, intensely ma-L terialistic, believing little of either J j God or the Devil, and given to reading authors of his owin scoffing ^ tendencies. "Suddenly a shadow seemed to j fall across his book, and he glanced g up. Standing on the opposite side , "J of the fireplace and looking grave-L ly at him was my grandfather, who! ? had been in his grave for years. My uncle jumped up. dropping thej. book, and the figure disappeared. "Thinking that he must have been dreaming, and tried to resume {j his reading, but a sense of uneasiness possessed him, and he felt impelled to rusJi out into the dark- . ness of the night. My uncle had, . much sorrow, and he began to wonder if his trouble had affected his', mind. He endeavored to fix his ' attention on his book, when sud- ^ denly the shadow fell again, and he iw&ea up to see nis lather stand- \" ing facing him with a heavy frown ! darkening his face. "My uncle sprang up and held out his hands, and the apparation , disappeared, leaving behind a sense . of impending disaster. My uncle : tried again to settle to his reading, refusing to give way to impress-1 ions of danger with which he seem-j J ed possessed, and had almost con- IJ vinced himself that the presence'! had been a dream when the ap- j parition suddenly appeared again. I j My uncle sprang up and my grand-' father spoke, frowning and pointing 1 . to the door. My uncle thought he j. Sought the words, 'John go, go!' an J then the ghostly visitant for the |: third time disappeared. "My uncle rushed from the house:' and following an impulse, saddled l. his horse and rode to my father's, 1 three miles away. I was a small child, but I can well remember j hearing the clatter of the horse's hoofs as he dashed up to the J door. He told of his ghostly visi,tant, and said he wished to 6pend j ? the night with us. i "My mother and father thought him ill, but forebore to argue with him. He spent the night with us . and the next morning my father 1^ rode back with him to his ^ plantation. When they entered my uncle's room they cried out in 11 amazement. Two heavy loads of! " buckshot had been fired into the f bed the night before from the op- a en window. Had my grandfather appeared to his son to save him ' from death the night before? "Years after Black Dan was hanged for crimes committed against J the white race. My uncle endeav- i ored to save the negro's life, but n his efforts in his^behalf were in J1 vain. During the last conversa- 1 tion my uncle had with him the ? former slave told him that it was ! he who had fired the buckshot in- ! to his bed, .thinking he was . asleep in itVas usual at that time of \J ntrrht ? n f* hr?nir?.o- to V i 1) him. /I wherein tb 3 present day clvuizaut^w ] is handicapped in its progress t<? the higher planes. y , It happens the press dispatches . recently carried two stories, oM' from the West and one from th? Kast, which should cause the be*'" lievers in right living to weep. In" St. Paul a man and woman danced seven hours and then the man" dropped dead from sleep and ex*M j haustion. In Baltimore an unfor-" tunate fellow boasted that he could" drink more whiskey than anybody*1 else. He tried it, and drank more3 than anybody he oould find. He1 ! "dropped dead at the conclusion of1] the foolhardy victory. Are not these two incident* ex-' amples of a real savagery? in the one case the element of an electric lighted fury predominated, rea-? sonless and silly. In the other,* the Lrert.inc.ts of a hog swallowed up 1 the barance of a man. Fortunately,! a cure for such excess comes out of^ the very civilization which pro-' duces it. Death is the penalty for" such defiance to the laws of health . KIN*; OF THE MOKOS. - 3 An American Wlio is Hosn Of Our Island* Near Barneo. ; To be* head man over almost half a hundred islands, with ever so,, many dattos under you And to be _ a sort of supreme court In yourself sounds big, but ('apt. W. H.a Shu tan. P. C., stiys It is not really f that way, according to the New _ York 8un. P. C. means Philippine L constabulary. Capt. Shutan, who,; u has just arrived at the Holland t House, is head man of the Tawl-_ Tawi group of islands, which are the southernmost of the Philip-a pines and even extended into the j waters of Barneo. B Capt. Bhutan in a young man with ] steady eyes and a quiet manner, f who ban been in the Philippines Sinew he went out in 1899 as a volunteer. in 1903 he joined the constabulary and is now home on ...... ing there making her evening supplications. "She moved with a daughter to Texas and had been living in that State for a number of years when one day I entered the room which she had occupied while with us. and there, kneeling beside the little table, her Bible before her, was my great-grandmother. She smiled at me and then pointed upward, and then seemed to fade into j nothingness. "It was broad day and 1 could j hardly credit my senses, but I told members of the family and ex- | pressed the belief that grandma i, was dead. The following day we!i received news of her death, and f she had passed away at the very hour of her appearance to me.They , said at the last she" had smiled and pointed upward." In the party was a man of af- j j fairs whose success in business and ] practical ways gave weight to the | following contribution: "I have never seen but one ghost. ' That was several-ears ago, before , my mother's dedR*. I had been fox hunting on a | clear, moonlight night, and on j coming home was met by the stable . boy, who told me that my mother, who had been an invalid for several years, was much worse. It was 1 the fall of the year, and I remem- ' bered noticing, as I passed throueh ( the grate, that a pile of dry leaves ' had accumulated in front of it. I \ iind as 1 walked through them I * must see thai the gardener have ( them removed the next morning. 1 "I did not enter the house at I: Jnce, but sat down on a bench on i side porch, thinking 1 would colect myself after the shock of ie stable boy's news, beore going into my mother's room. "My mother was a very charitablej" voman and was greatly beloved. Vmong her pensioners was a Mrs. Irown, a poor widow, dead for 1 everal years at the time of which 0 am speaking. This poor wo- j nan had been an especial pet of: ? uy mother's. "As I sat idly looking out into b he grounds, 1 thought 1 saw a j * roman come down the lane and [ a oss through the gate. 1 was es- b ecially sitruck with the fact that 0 >'hen she passed through the pile id f dead leaves there was not a rus- ja le of a leaf, so far as I could jc lear. She was dressed in black and j P ame on quickly down the walk b nd passed me with face averted, j P ;oing into the house. She did not .e nake a sound, and passed so near ae as almost to brush against me. seemed to recognize something aguely familiar in the figure. "Presently, without a sound she ante from the house and passed me igain, going as she had come, S hrough the leaves and on up the j a.ne. 1 roused myself wondering if L could have been dreaming, and vent into the Louse, washed my i h ace and hands and went down to t nother's room. i ii T"As I bent to kiss her and asked 1 >olicitiously if she was feeling bet- i a er, site said: t "'Oh, much better! All day I d lave been suffering so with my | c lead, but a little while ago I d .hought that Mrs. Brown came in I c lere and bent over me and laid|o ler hand on my head and soothed 11 ill the pain away, and now I am h n now pain at all.' i b "Then 1 realized that the figure jc hat had seemed so familiar was | hat of Mrs. Brown, dead many 'ears ago, but who, I firmly beieve entered my mother's sick r oom that night and ministered to ler." t "I was visiting relatives in Nc.rth 1 Carolina," one of the group , said, c >ne or the girls whom I wa$ visit-!o ng had given a party and \ve had j 1; een very gay all the evening, so I a had gone to bed with jyo sense of I v neasiness about any Jfnember of i I ay family, who were Jjn a distant , e tate, and, so far as I knew, well n nd happy. /' I n I dreamed that^ saw my mother 5 ying on her bed,/ white and ill, and bout her all h.er children gatherd, with the exception of myself. I i hought 1 st^0(j far off, struggling ! i o get to he'r through a heavy white ;s nist tha^L seemed to hold me im- 1 rl8on^(j The dream came to me 1 hree/'times, and at daylight I arose ? n<V'went to my aunt's room, tell-,1 "if her of the vision and the anx-,* p/y I felt about my mother. ' "The family tried to laugh me out ( f my fears, but 1 persisted in my ( belief that my mother was ill. No 1 bad tidings came that day, but sev- , * written on the night.of my dream, J Dral days later I received a letter, ' telling me that my mother had been ' taken ill suddenly and her life * despaired of that night, but was J pronounced out of danger at the j J time of my sister's writing. All of ,' the children but myself had been j gathered about her bedside, and; I believe my mother's spirit called j to me through space that night." FOR SALE. ? MY FARM OON.I taming 72 acres; 40 acres of this land in hight state of cultivation, baiane*'. fnirlv Thoro I is u good six-room dwelling and all necessary out houses. This), property is located within two* miles of Fairmont and % miles of the Baltimore school. For terms and prices apply to A. C. j Inman, Fairmont, N. C. 9-J 4-4t. p Citation. State of South Carolina, Dillon Oounty. lu the Probate Court. Whereas, Jack R. Watson has made suit to me to grant him letters of administration of the estate and efiects of Joe M. Harrelson, deceased, these are therefore to cit and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Joe M. Harrelson, deceased to be and appear at the probate eourt to be held at my office at Dillon, S. C., on the 15th day of September, 1911. at 10 o'clock a. m. to show cause, if any they have, why the said letters of administration should not be granted. Given under my hamd and seal j this ?Uth day of August, 1911. R. A. Brunson, J P. for Dillon County. 8-31-2t &&>..JdL:<*& .i&;,>...,.it. Citation. State of South Carolina. Dillon county. I In the Probate Court. Whereas, Jack R. Watson has made suit to me to grant him letters of administration of the estate and effects of Francis Shepard, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Francis Shepard, deceased, to be and appear at the probate court to be held at my office at Dillon, S. C., on the 15th day of September, 1911, at 10 o'clock a. m. to show cause, if any they have, why the said letters of administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal this 30th day of August, 1911. R. A. Brunson. J. P. for Dillon County, i B-31-2t j (ItAtinn State of South Carolina, Dillon Oounty. In the Probate Court. Whereas, Jack R. Watson, has made, suit to me to grant him letters of administration of the es- \ tate utu: effects of Mary H. Shcp [>ard, deceased. These are there-1 fore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors >* said Mary H. Sheppard to be md appear at the pro-1 jp.te court to be held at my i ifficn at Dillon, S. C., on the 15th ; lay of September, 1911, at 10! >'clock, a. m. to show cause, if any: ni.ititration should not be granted.1' hey have, why said letters of adGiven under my hand and seal hip 30th day of August, 1911. R. A. Bruneon. i J. P. Fof Dillon County. 1 Notice. Pursuant to a commission issued 1 o the undersigned as corporators ' f the Allen Hardware &\ Furniture * fompany, by the Honorable R. M. tcCown, Secretary of State, bear- j ng date the first day of Septem- j er, 1911, notice is hereby given! Iiat books of subscription to the!: apital stock of said Company will, e open at the Farmers and Mer-11 hants Bank of I.atta, S. C., on Fri- 1 ay, the 8th day of September, 1911 { t 11 o'clock, in the forenoon. The f apital stock of the proposed cor- j ^ oration is five thousand dollars, to ^ e divided into fifty shares of the j J ar value of One Hundred Dollars n ach. L. B'. Kogers, Jr., J. J. Allen, J. D. Coleman, Corporators. ' Notice, tate of South Carolina, Dillon county. 'ourt of Common Pleas. Pursuant to an order granted by is Honor. R. C. Watts, Judge of he Fourth Judicial Circuit bear-' ng date the 28th dav of August, j 911, notice is hereby given that I 11 and singular the creditors of he estate of Martha Jane Jackson, leceased, do file their respective laims. duly proven, before the unlersigned as Master of Dillon ounty, on or before the 6th day f October, A. D., 1911, and upon he failure of any creditor to file :is claim, as here'n required, shall e barred the benefit of their laiir against said estate. A. B. Jordan, Dillon. S. 0., Aug. 30th, 1911. Master Dillon County. A Dreadful Sight. o H. J. 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Farming land and timbered land; farms, 40 to 400 acre tracts, im-, proved and unimproved lando; | town lots, one-fourth to ten acre j tracts, at Fair Bluff, N. C. For! particulars address, J. E. Dick, Fair Bluff, N. C. 1 have some bargains that must be sold at once. 6-24-4t " j For Sale. 404 acres of land in Robeaon county, 1 miles of R. R. and church- 25 acres in high state of cultivation. 100 acres can be easily cleared. Several thousand feet; of pine timber on the place situatetd on public road and R. F. D. route. Will sell at once for $2,500. on Weslsy J. Britt, Lumberton, N. C. i 8-17-p THROW OUT THK LINE. (>ive the Kidneys Help and Many IMIIon People Mill be Happier "Throw out the life line"? The kidneys need help. They're overworked ? can't get! the poison filtered out of the blood. They're getting worse every minute. Will you help them? Doan's kidney pills have brought thousands of kidney sufferers back from the verge of despair. J. P. Turbevllle, 117 S. 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You know you are s week, run-down and failing in health, day by day, but you must worn as long ae you can stand, i What you need is Electric Bitters to give tone, strength, and vigor | to your system, to prevent break-1 down and build you up. Don't be | weak, sickly or ailing when Elec- j trie B'tters will benefit you from , the first dose. Thousands bless | them for their glorious health and j Btrength. Try them. Every bottle is guaranteed to satisfy. (Only 50c. at Evans Pharmacy. | Executor's Notice. All persons holding claims against the estate of E. Lide Berry, deceased, are hereby notified to j present them, duly proved, to the j undersigned, or this notice will be | plead in bar of same. Persons in-! debted to said estate are notified i to make payment to Tracey E. Fore, Percy A. George. Executors. 8-24-4t I There Is more Catarrh In this section of the country I han all other diseases put together, anil until the last ear years was supposed to be Incurable. 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