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Miss Cynthia's attic was fragrant
wHh aromatic herbs. Little bags of
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lavenuer tmu m urieu root; ien?? uuu$
from the rafters and mingled their del- !
teete perfume with the coarser aroma
of sage and sweet marjoram and
thyme and summer savory.
On autumn afternoons the attic was
golden with sunshine, and from the
Uttle peaked window one could see
the long white road and the blue hills
beyond.
It was to this fragrant and gold
lighted attic that Miss Cynthia would
come when the summer rush was over
and In its peace and quiet try to forget
that she was worn and worried
and withered.
At thirty-five one should not be worried
and withered- But hard lives do
not make for youth and freshness, and
Miss Cynthia had always drudged.
Work had been the watchword on the
farm, and when prosperity had come
in later years the habit of keeping
summer boarders bad become nxeu,
and even after the death of her parents
Miss Cynthia had continued it
But with September came rest and
freedom, and it was then that Miss
Cynthia sought the attic and wrote in
her diary.
The diary was a safe outlet for her
woes. There were pages blotted with
the tears she had shed when she had
i closed the volume of her first romance,
and two leaves on which she had penned
a poetic swan song of affection
were pinned together with a black pin.
Miss Cynthia had old fashioned ideas
about love. She had loved once, and
hence there could be no other affair.
It mattered nothing that the man in
. the case was married and had grown
fat and puffy and uninteresting. It
was not the man, but the idea, and to
that idea Miss Cynthia was true.
To be sure, no second suitor had entered
her life, so that there had been
no severe tax upon her constancy.
But the roses had gone out of her
cheeks when she was twenty, and she
bad twisted her hair in an uncompromising
knot and had at that early
date given herself up to mourning and
' te memories.
"You're silly," Martha Ann told her
one bright September morning as Miss
Cynthia, with her black diary In her
hand, prepared to ascend to the attic,
"Why don't yon go out and visit and
have a good time instead of writing in
that dark old place?"
Martha Ann was an old and privileged
servant but Miss Cynthia would
brook no interference with her acts of
affliction.
"I don't think good times are my
portion, Martha Ann." she said and
went up the stairway thoughtfully.
Halfway up she paused to say:
"Make a good vegetable soup for
lunch, Martha Aim. Ill throw down a
bench of my herbs. Soup will taste
good on a cool day."
"Love," wrote Miss Cynthia in her
little book, 'is of man's life a thing
apart; 'tis woman's whole existence!"
When she had rounded off the last'
prim letter she bit the end of her penc*
and sighed and looked out of the
neaked window.
Far down the road she could see a
cloud of dust Coming nearer, the
clood showed itself the forerunner of
an automobile.
The big machine swerved out of the
read and into Miss Cynthia's own
drive. It stopped at her door, and she
had to lean far out of the peaked window
to see Martha in her gingham
apron speaking to the occupant
Miss Cynthia could not hear a word,
and she almost fell over the sill in the
effort to satisfy her curiosity. She saw
Martha Ann go in, and presently she
felt a pull at the back of her dress.
"Goodness," Martha Ann said crossly,
"I called and called, and I couldn't
make you hear. That man wants something
to eat."
"What?" Miss Cynthia gasped. "But
he doesn't look like a tramp, Martha
Ann."
"Tramps don't ride in automobiles,"
Martha Ann sniffled. "He says he's
been riding all the morning, and he
just couldn't find a place to eat, and
be would be glad to pay for a meal.
He understood that we took boarders,
he said."
"Well, you go down and hurry the
soup and make an omelet and some
hot biscuits, and I will talk to him,
Martha Ann."
"You'd better stop In your room and
primp a little," Martha Ann advised.
"He's awfully good looking."
I "The idea!" said Miss Cynthia, with
dignity.
She was a little sorry, however, when
she reached the sitting room that she
had not taken the girl's advice, for the
man that she greeted was big and
blond and prosperous looking. It developed
that he slurred his grammar,
but as he leaned back in the biggest
rocking chair and talked in his hearty
voice Miss Cynthia decided that he
jwas very attractive.
"I expect you think it's queer my
droppin' in on you this way?" he said
as Martha announced lunch. "But
I couldn't pass the popples and the
peonies in the yard. My mother used
to have ap old fashioned garden, and
there was something about your* that
reminded me of it and I felt as if
mn'A Mvo mA a home cooked meal. A
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man gets tired of hotels."
Oyer the steaming, savory soap ht
expanded still more.
"This to the kind I 11m," hs said.
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'With all the vegetables in it and
herbs. I'll bet you've got a lot of herbs
tied up in your attic. My mother had
She said the attic was the pleasantest
place in the house, and I used to think
so too."
Miss Cynthia felt that at last she
hart mat an rmrtarstHndine soul
"Would you like to go up after
lunch?" she asked eagerly. "There is
a fine view from the little dormer win
dow."
"My, how nice it smells!" said the bU;
man as he seated himself in Miss
Cynthia's favorite corner. The black
diary lay open by his side. His eyes
caught the lines:
Love is of man's life a thing apart;
'Tis woman's whole existence.
"Oh, tommyrot!" he said. "Did you
write that?"
"Yes," Miss Cynthia admitted. "Byron
said it, you know."
"Well, he didn't know what he was
talking about. Why, if I loved a wo|
man I should just love her all overno
halfway business for me."
"Oh!" Miss Cynthia gasped. There
was something in his tone that made
his statement next door to a declaration?a
fervency that positively thrilled
her.
"I am awfully glad I came." he said
as they went downstairs. "I am a
stranger in this neighborhood, but if
you will let me come again I will be
mighty glad. It seems like my own
folks."
"l"ou must come real often," Miss
Cynthia urged, and hoped that Martha
Ann would not hear her invitation.
"Gee! This is the way to live," said
her visitor as he stood on the steps and
surveyed the quiet garden, the family
of gray pussy cats in the sunny porch
corner, the gray horse in the paddock.
"I should think traveling around In
your automobile would be interesting,"
Miss Cynthia ventured.
"Well, 'tis," he agreed. "Do you like
it?"
"I have never been in one." Miss
Cynthia admitted. .
"What?" he asked. "Oh, look here!
You run right up and put on your hat.
and I'll take you."
"Oh," said Miss Cynthia, all a-flutter,
"I wonder if I can ?"
. "Of course you can." said the gentleman
securely. "I won't run away with
you."
Safe in her own room, Miss Cynthia
consulted Martha Ann.
"You'd better go with us," she said, j
"I don't think it's quite proper, Martha
Ann, do you?"
"I wouldn't go in one of them things
if you'd give It to me," Martha Ann
said, "and he's all right I saw his
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name on a Duncue or papers ue ten u*
the automobile. He's Andrew Briggs,
the millionaire that's bought the factory.
He is building a church and a
library for the town, and I guess he's
respectable."
Miss Cynthia.dressed in a whirl. Of
what account was that little romance
of years ago when at her gates was a
prince like this?
She came down with four yards of
white chiffon tied around her hat It
had been bought for a waist but, worn
as a veil, it made a fascinating frame
for her flushed little face. She had
loosened her hair, and the soft brown
curls gave youthfulness to her expression.
Mr. Briggs eyed her with appreciation.
"I'm awfully glad I met you," he j
said again as he helped her into his
car. '
Martha looked after them as they
whirled down the long white road.
"Well, I never!" she remarked to the
pussy cats. "Did you ever see two people
take to each other like that? I bet
it will be a mstch"? i
And it was.
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Both Won.
That the average Broadwayite is a
"natural born gambler" was well illustrated
the other morning. Two men
met and one confessed the want of
breakfast The other "made good"'
the deficiency, and during the meal
No. 1 remarked that he had received
notice that there was a registered letter
in the postofflce for him.
"Nobody would send me money," he
added, "so it's a waste of car fare to
go after it"
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"I'll give you a auuar iur a. uau. 1U- |
terest," said No. 2.
"You're on if you pay care fare," I
was the quick reply.
After breakfast the pair went to the
postofflce, got the letter, opened it and
found a five dollar bilL
"Anyhow I'm $3.50 ahead," said the
owner of the letter as he "split the
bill." "Thafs from a man I never
expected to make the loan good."?
New York Globe.
Could Not Cure Himself.
Something of the Irony of fate is exemplified
In an anecdote related by the
New York Times concerning Professor
Poirier, who until his death was the
most famous cancer expert in France.
Professor Poirier gave much of his
time without pay to aiding poor people
afflicted with cancer. One day there
came to him a woman on whom he had
operated and who feared the growth
was coming again.
"Fear nothing," said the physician
when he had made an examination.
"It will be some years before you will
need a fresh operation?which, by the
way, I shall not be able to perform."
"But, doctor, you will not refuse to
mot9f
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"No, my poor woman, but I shall not
be there to do it. I also have a cancer,
and it will be more rapid than yours."
A Counter Charge.
An elegant young man seized a thief
on the platform of a train, saying.
"Are you not ashamed to follow so
disgraceful a profession?"
"And are you not ashamed," demanded
the other, "to go so well dressed
without a pocfcetbook about you?"
LISTEN TO YOUR WIFE.
Advice to Men by Governor Glenn of
North Carolina.
I advise every man who would be
successful to listen to his wife's
counsel in business affairs. The woman
who is really a man's helpmeet
is the one who is able to advise him
on every serious problem that confronts
him. But no woman can be
a real companion who must spend all
her time as cook and housekeeper.
She ought to know about business
and what is going on in the world.
It is unreasonable of any man to expect
his wife to meet his needs as a
real companion if he does not provide
the means for her to become so,
says Gov. Robert B. Glenn, in the
Home Magazine.
A wife should have some leisure to
study and develop herself along intellectual
lines. A man who holds
the opposite idea lowers the standard
for wifehood and womanhood. And
every girl and woman in the country
should have a strict and thorough
business education. No matter how
fortunate a girl's immediate circumstances,
she should be given a complete
business training. Let them
be trained to be first-class stenographers,
bank cashiers, professional
nurses, bookkeepers?anything they
have talent for. But let their equipment
be complete?as a man's is.
It is a dreadful mistake to leave a
girl without any definite training
whereby she may earn a livelihood in
case of necessity.
I believe the reason many women
go into wrong paths in life is simply
because they are helpless when
thrown suddenly on their own resources.
A knowledge of business
is not likely to spoil any woman's
chances of winning a good husband.
It would, on the contrary, increase
her chance, in my opinion.
Aliens Reach Savannah.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 10.?The
steamship Eugeni, from Triest, with
the first lot of immigrants for this
State, arrived today. About two
hundred of the next arrivals will be
sent into the interior counties.
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Butter, best renovated, per pound. 35c
Bananas, per dozen only 18c
The famous Luzianne Coffe, pound 23c
Evaporated Dried Apples, package 14c
Sugar, per pound only 51c
Choice Steak, per pound only.... lie
Chuck Steak, per pound only ... 10c
Roast, per pound only 9c
Pork, per pound only 12c
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NOTICE TO LIQUOR DEALERS.
Office of County Dispensary Board of
Bamberg County.
Bamberg, S. C., December 2nd, 1907.
Bids are hereby requested, in accordance
with the terms of the Dispensary
Law now in force, for the following kinds
and qualities of liquors, beer, ana other
articles herein enumerated, to be furnished
to the State of South Carolina for
use of the County Dispensary Board of
Bamberg County, to-wit:
Fifty barrels Corn Whiskey, 90 proof,
different grades.
Fifty barrels Rye Whiskey, 90 proof,
different grades.
Five barrels Alcohol, 188 proof.
Fifty barrels Gin, 90 proof, different
grades.
Five barrels Banana Brandy.
Five barrels Sherry Wine, two grades.
Bids will also be received for Case
Goods, including Rye, Corn and Scotch
Whiskies, Brandy, Gin, Rum, Wines,
Beers, Ales, ana Porter. Also glass,
cork and tinfoil, wire and other articles
used for a County Dispensary.
All goods shall be furnished in compliance
with and subject to the terms and
conditions of the Dispensary Law of
1907, and bidders must observe the following
rules:
1. The bids shall be sealed, and there
shall be no sign or mark upon the envelope
indicating the name of the bidder.
2. All bids must be sent by express or
registered mail to Jno. F. Folk, County
Treasurer for Bamberg County, at Bamberg,
S. C., on or before 12 o'clock of
Monday, the 6th day of January, 1908.
I The contract shall be awarded to the
lowest responsible bidder on each kind,
the Board reserving the right to reject
j any and all bids and any parts of bids;
the Board reserves the rignt to increase
or decrease the above quantities at the
same price as the bids submitted.
3. All goods to be delivered f. o. b.
Bamberg, S. C,, freight prepaid. Terms,
to be paid for within ninety aays and sub
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I Dispensary board at Bamberg, S. C.
I E. C. HAYS,
J. A. WALKER,
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[ County Dispensary Board for Bamberg
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PILLS AS WEAPONS.
The Curious Duel That Was Arranged
By a Doctor.
An extraordinary duel, which at
the time created an immense senation,
was one in which the decision was arrived
at not by swords or pistols, but
by means of a deadly poison. The
men?who, it is hardly necessary to
say, had fallen out over a lady?had
left the arrangement of details to
their seconds, and until they faced
each other they did not know by
what method they were to settle
their differences. One of the seconds
was a doctor, and he had made up
for the occasion four black pellets,
all identical in size and shape. "In
one of these," he said, "I have placed
a sufficient quantity of prussic acid
to cause the almost instantaneous
death of anv one who swallows it.
We will decide by the tossing of a
coin which of you is to have first
choice, and you will alternately draw
and swallow a pill until the poison
shows its effects." Two of the pellets
were then taken as the toss had
decided, but without effect in either
case. "This time," said the doctor,
speaking of the two pellets remaining,
"you must both swallow the pill
at the same instant." The choice
was again made, and in a few seconds
one of the men lay dead on the grass.
?Pall Mall Gazette.
Girl Shoots Man Who Slandered Her.
Bessember, Pa.?"I'll teach you to
injure innocent girls with your vile
tongue," cried Miss Ida Brown, a
pretty 18-year-old girl, to Charles
Reynolds, a prominent young man,
as she began firing at him.
Miss Brown shot three times, two
of the bullets striking Reynolds in
the body, and inflicting what may
nwYtfo fafal wminds. As Revnolds fell.
the girl collapsed, and was found in
a faint by persons whom the shots
attracted.
The shooting occurred in front of
Reynolds' home, and Miss Brown was
evidently waitingfor Reynolds, when
she stepped in front of him, as soon
as he reached the front gate of his
home.
Rittmrilrlc im tn a shnrt time aCTO.
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was very attentive to Miss Brown.
Soon after he ceased going with her,
the girl alleges, Reynolds began to
make slanderous statements about
her.
A new school building which will
cost about $3,000, is being erected in
the town of Cope.
The Orangeburg Times and Democrat,
one of the strongest weekly
newspapers of the State, announces
that after January the price of subscription
will be raised to $1.50. Our
contemporary found that even with
its large advertising patronage and
wide circulation nothing could be
made out of the paper at one dollar
a year.
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SOUTH CAROLINA BILLS.
What Our Representatives in Washington
are Doing.
Washington, Dec. 12.?Congressman
Lever has introduced in the
house in the last few days a number
of bills of interest and importance to
South Carolina or at least to certain
communities of the state.
Among them is a bill for the erection
of a public building at Orange
burg, the cost of which is to be $100,000,
another for the establishment of
the proposed sub-treasury in Columbia.
Two other bills are to provide
for the erection of monuments to
General Thomas Sumter and toJCapt. ,
James Butler.
He will also introduce a bill for
$50,000 for Sumter in addition to the
$50,000 already secured by him for
the federal building. The bill for a
$100,000 building at Orangeburg he
introduced to-day. 1
Senator Latimer has introduced
the following bills: A bill to establish 1
in the department of agriculture, a ,
bureau to be known as the Bureau of
Public Highways, and to provide for
national aid in the improvement of
the public roads, and a bill approprio+innr
-iwusiTvhc -frfim flip Sfllp and I
disposal of public lands in certain 1
states to the construction of works
for the drainage or reclamation of 1
swamp and overflowed lands.
SUMMONS FOR RELIEF ;
(Complaint not served.) <
State of South Carolina, County of Bam- \
berg?In the Court of Common Pleas. <
Daniel Reddish, Ella Reddish, Wesley ]
Dyches, Josephine Wright, Malinda- <
Smalls, A. F. Brown, T. N. Rhoad, <
glaintiffs, vs. Mattie Guess, Sammie J
luess, Blanche Guess, Leon Guess, de- <
fendants. <
To the defendants, Mattie Guess and .
Blanche Guess:
You are hereby summoned and required
to answer the complaint in this
action, a copy of which is to be filed in
the office 01 the Clerk of Court of Common
Pleas for Bamberg County, and to
serve a copy of your answer to said
complaint on the subscriber at his office
in tne town of Bamberg, county and
State aforesaid,' within twenty days
after the service hereof, exclusive of
the day of such service, and if you fail
to answer the complaint within tne time
aforesaid the plaintiff in this action will
apply to the Court for the relief demanded
in the complaint.
J. F. CARTER,
Plaintiffs' Attorney.
Dated at Bamberg, South Carolina,
November 7th, 1907.
C. B. FREE, [L. S.]
Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for
Bamberg County.
To the defendants, Mattie Guess and
Blanche Guess:
Please take notice:
That a copy of the complaint in this
action has been filed in the office of the
Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for
Bamberg County. J. F. CARTER, i
Plaintiffs' Attorney. \
November 7th, 1907. <
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