University of South Carolina Libraries
TIM THE ACTOR. " Arent you a little more attentive to Mies Grald than it Is ntcessary for as attorney to be to his type-writerl?" asked Margaret Fenton of her brother. " Probably," he answered ; " but not more attentive than I find it agreeable, sister mine " " What taste you have ! She isn't even pretty." " Not particularly so: but all men are not fascinated by a pretty face; there are other qualities we admire." " if you want to be married for your money, by an ambitious young woman of no social position-uo family prestige -very well." "1 believe, Margaret, the ditler3neo between the Geralds and ourselves Is simply a question of money. Mother, was it not yourself who asked me to employ Miss Gerald." " Yes, Donald ; her father and yours were college chums; your father chose a mercantile life and made money; Mr. Gerald entered the ministry ; he and his wife are educated, retined peo. ple, but, as Margaret says, are poor. I am glad you could show your fattner's friend a favor by finding employment for his daughter. Perhaps we should have had her at the house oftoner." "I think Donald has done the honors for the family quite generously, mam ma. By the way, Donald, Carrie Denning le coming this week ; can you possibly spare time to help entertain her ?" " Gladly ; I shall be as attentive to your friends as I desire you to be to mine." And he left for the oilleo. " Margaret, don't say any more against Annie Gerald ; it is just the way to drive Donald to propose to her. Let him alone. I will trust his judg mont." " A man in lova has no judgment," replied the daughter. Then added, under her breath, " There are ways of preventing his making a fool of him self. I have my heart on his marrying Carrie. I'll drop in the oflice to-day Donald sid he would be out." The typewriter and cilice boy were alone. " Mr. Fenton will not be in until 4 o'clock," said Miss Gerald. " How provoking," returned Mar garet. "I will rest a moment, if you don't object." "Certainlv not." was the answer. "Mamma and I were talking about you this morning," continued Marga ret; " we were saying we must have you at the house oftoner, as our fathers were dear friends." "It would be very pleasant, I am sure." " Just now I am busy , a dear friend, Carrie Danning, comes this week. She's almost in the family, you know and Donald has a round of gayetics planned in her honor. I tell him he ii getting gay for a staid lawyer, who aspires to be a judge, but you know men in love are such unaccountable creatures." "I suppose so," murmured the girl dreamily, as her eyes rested on the flowers she bad found on her desk that morning. " If you were the sister (if one yo-a would know it. But. we a1t love her and are willing to do bomage. Mam ma has just set her heart on this mar riage. Carrie is charming, and has wealth, beauty and position, all that Donald's wife should have. But, dear me, I'm keeping you from your work ; how thoughtless In me! Good-bye, dear." " There," she ejaculated as she closed the door ; "she may think about that, and I'll keep Denald out of her way." Miss Gerald leaned her head on her desk. Shame and anger filled her heart. Anger that Mr. Fenton should (iare tiflas with her when his heart was another's. True, lie had not spoken his love, but he had expressed it in many ways ; shame, thbat sue had not realized the diffoi once in their several posItions, but had accepted all as a girl would the advance of true love. She could never look bim in the face again, she concluded. A cough from Tim, the cifice boy, roused her. She had forgotten him. " I say, Miss Gerald," said Tim soft ly, ' yer know I'm yer true frien' after wet you done fur ma an' me when she was sick, an' I w ish you wouldn't mind and wouldn't look so white an' scarry." "I'm sIck, that is all." "1I wouldn't care," ho said. "Tim, when Mr. Danton returns tell him I was taken ill and went home. Here is a half-dollar ; please don't tell him anything you heard. If you are my friend Tim, you won't," and she left the office. "Now," mused Tim, "this is excit ing:; jest like the plays on the stage. I allers wanted to be a hero in one, an' now's my chance. H~ow'lL I do it ? I can't Jose my job by mindin' other folk's bizniss." He delivered Miss Gerald's message, but no surprise was expressed. " 'Tain't no stage play after all ; he's too tame," he muttered. The following day Donald received a letter from Miss Gerald saying che would not return to her position. He re-iread the letter; intuitively he seem ed to know something was wrong. " Tim, was Miss Gerald very ill yes terday afternoon ?" "Now the plot's beginning ; stage play, sure onuil," said the boy to him self. " She was all right till your sister come, an' after that she was pretty ' After my sister came in ?" " Yes, sir, she come in and being as you warn't here, she sot an' rested an' talked awhile, yer see." Fenton turned to the window with a puzzled look, then faced the boy. " Tim, did you hear what my sister said yesterday ?" " Yes, sir," replied the lad, his face aglow ; "I hoerd the hull on it. Your sister didn't see me, but I was here all right." " What did she say ?" " Now, boss, I can't tell yor ; I'm busting to; It's just like the folks on the stage, but Miss Gerald gave inc 50 cents not to tell yer an' she's been aw ful good to ma an' me." K"I will give you these two silver dol lars to tell me." Tim held the dollars in his hand. " An' won't make enny trouble fur Miss Gerald, an' you won't turn her off ?" " Nor me, neother ?" " Honor bright, boss ?" " Honor bright." " Well, yer, see, 'twas this erway." began the boy excitedly, " your sister come in an' she told Miss Gerald as how yer was awfully in love with a gal what's comin' to yeir house this week ; a gal thet's pretty an' rich; thet you're a-goen' to marry her an' yer so dead gone on her, y, r want to be a judge, an' yer ma is awful glad. An' when she went out Miss Gerald jest sot still an' got awful white. I was scairt. I told her not to care, but she jest looked at me like she'd faint, an' went "Thank you Tim; you've earnod hat your money. We'll close the otlice now. too 1 have some importart busines out of the town to-day and you may have an after- wo noon off." Oh " Hooray," cried Tim to himself; "a a I1 whole afternoon and two silver dollars. gri I wonder if them play actors feel like hau I do." we That cvening Donald Fanton rang a< the bell of the parsonago in Hampton mo and inquired for Miss Annie. pla "She has a bad headache and doesn't fri4 want to see any one," said the maid. pol " Tell her that a friend desires t) sue th1 11( her on very important business ; you say need give no name." trii He sat In the little parlor wondering an( how he should make known his errand. sh lie was a practical man; when he tried kni his first case he was not as nervous as gel now. (ue " Mr. Fenton, you here ?" gasped no Annie, as she entered the room. fro " I came to see why you left my em- a g ploy, and to inquire to what dreadful sat disease you succumbed so sud lenly ?" cot " I tell my allments only to a physi- pr( clan." old " Let me mako a diagnosis this once, of 1 Annie," taking her trembling hands th. in his; "you were perfectly well until did my sister told you a falschood. No, po] not a word-let mo explain. Tim told I r me all. I will try to defend Margaret, no out I came to tell you that there is only wlb one woman in the world whom I love go' and whom I will marry. Will she any trl yes, darling ?" del "I am so glad," she whispered, "and ch so happy." Se Tim was all curiosity the next morn- kit Ing. " I wonder if ennything's hap- see pened," he thought. "I wished I dare atsk." chi " Will Miss Gerald be back to-day, it. bir." he asked, respectfully. ani "She won't be back at all," was th - co reply. th< "She ain't awful sick, is she ?" in- shi quired Tim in a frightened voice. be " No, she is quite well, but we shall str have a now gin in to-morrow." ani Tim was thoroughly scared. " Oh, ro boss, ycr promiied yer wouldn't turn for neether on us off. I wouldn't gone tack me on her for a hundred dollars. What agi have I done ? An' she so good to mne vic an' ma all winter !" sol "As you feel so badly, I will add tr that when she returns to the city it will cal be as Mrs. Donald Fenton, and I'll give im you a new suit to wear at the wedding, As rim." rei "Oh, fellers," said Tim, as he re- thi lated his experience to his comrades, sot " I jest did it swell-better'n any play wi actor you ever seen." thi And he indalged in a lively jig to give tal vent to his joy. bo . lot B11I4 ARP LOVES CHILDREN. se THE ONLY HAPPY CREATURES. to ca The Presence of Children is a Great or Comfort and 'T hey Sweeten Life th With heir Pranks. do go The best earthly antidote for melan- if choly is to mix up with a lot of inno'- Ti cent children and join in their little wE sporta. I have the blues sometimes sh and this always gives relief. They I make me forget myself. I don't know Cj how a man gets along without them. TI When little troubles make me sili, ml Or feeling sad a:.( can't tell why, These children bring serenity. - tu George Francis Train is now an old er man and has seen lots of trouble. He N was an eloquent, gif ted crank and made 224 quite a noise in the world thirty and w forty years ago, but was never a sue- di cess, and so he soured on the world and t swore olf from It. He dielarod that man h was a fraud, a hypocrite and woman t was weak and helpless and that little children were the only happy and un- g contaminated creatures In this wicked qu world and the only acciety he shouldn mingle with as long as he livcd. It has now been about twenty-five years since y he swore off and from that time his "i daily habit has been to visit some park O in New York every day and take a Mij busket of confections or fruits and all his pockets full and make headquarters g on the same park bench and gather a around him a score or two of little if folks and feed them and play with them and listen to them as they laugh, go and romp and frolic. They all know him and love him and irun to him when - he comes like little chicks run to the cia old hen's call. 1 saw him once and drew Cu near with a friend to hear what he was tai telling the children, but ho spied us whi an'd stopped talking and noon moved kn away to another seat and the children wb followed him. Before the civil war I th< heard him make an outdoor speech at en Rlochester to a very large audience and . he advocated the policy of the govern- no, ment issuing ten thousand millions of wo money so that every man could have da his pockets full and every woman her at bosom full and then, said he, we would ha build railroads and canals and docks ar and churchen and ships and steamboats Va and monuments and live like kIngs and princes. The government has the right o to issue it and has the presses to print it and why don't, they do it and give it -- away to the people and make every body happy." Just then a countryman cried out : " But hold on Train, wouldent there be a collapse after awhIle ?" d Train looked at hIm with contempt as he replied: " Why, of course there U would. Any fool would know that, but the railroads and docks and canals and churches wouldent collapse. They would be there, wouldent, they ?" And the crowd yelled : " H urrah for Train I" It was hard to teil whether he was a fool or a phijosopher. His redeeming trait Is his fondness for children. These little chaps that come to my Tl house are my daily annoyance and my daily comfort. They make trains on the cal floor with my books and mess up my ca table and draw ponies and dogs or make c me do it. One of them turned over my a ink yesterday and seemed very sorry D and said : " Gran'pa, I so sorry ; I beg Di my pardon. I won't do it any more- th will I ?" anid e put her lIttle around my neck and kIssed me. She made me ac glad that she had spied the ink. Some org of them are making speeches now and i will back up against the wall and make a bow and go through "Orphan Anule,, ' and 4' Mary's Lamb " and "AnnIe Bell" ani like a schoolboy, and then I love to glance at the mother to see the sweet, proud look upon her face. That look seems to say that is my child; Isn't she su smart ? And then I glance at my wife, prd the grandmother, and her contented look seems to say : " My grandchild ; rel if. it hadent been for me that child wouldent have been here." Well, ver that's a fact. There is never any ^ doubt about who is the mother of a for child. ber Blessed children ; what do they care " about our world of trouble-whether 1,5 Goebel lives or dIes, or the war in a e Africa or the Philippines, or how many i negro postmasters McKinley appoints. a.i Vi'ey don't know how grieved I am that Senator Morgan is likely to be Ad defeated-that great and good man aul whom the nation delights to honor. on Yes, defeated by machino politics and mm unclean methods. Verily, it reminds foi me of what ,urlle 11 maid:" na t.. a population of 30,000,000-mostly Is." I think they might let him stay re until he finished his life's groat rk and built the Nicaragua canal. ! the shame of it. I wish that I was tle child and dident knom it. I am eved,.too, because our Senator Bacon ihad a fall and broken his riba, for need his presence in the Senat- , i now wbiLe ho Is donn iIn bed someI re machine politicians are laying ne to oust him. I tell you, my inds, I have no patience with ma3ahine itics. Look at Kentucky. Sie how State is tot n and disgraced and I now that no gentleman or pa t would have done it. Goebel i Taylor and the whole concern >uld have said : " Well, I dident )w that my candidacy was going to , up all this bitter and dangerous e and mike enmities that will ror be healed, and so I will withdraw m the contest." I assert boldly that I entleman and a patriot would have I that and done it. It Is a mean, temptible, selfish ambition that has duced all this trouble in that grand State and revived its ancient name ,he dark and bloody ground. I wish 6t I was .another little child and ent know it. Hamlet said: " A itician would circumvent God." So -ckon this kind of corruption is no v thing. It goes back to the time en Brutus killed Coaear. Ya-, it ,s back to the time when Absalom 3d to circumvent his own father ani Jose him from the throne and Jacob )ated Eiau out of his birthright. fishness is the cardinal sin of man id-the trump card of the devil in ucing us to his allegiance. here is another antidote to melan )ly ; it is work, and I long to go at Tne winter has been long and hard I I am impatient for the time to no when the flowers shall appear on earth and the singing of birds 6ll come and the voice of the turtle heard in the lands. I want to alghten up things in the garden I dress it of and see how many es have been killed. I want to k up the ground and plant some re seeds. I vlauted peas a month j and they are coing up, sweet lets are pieping out and I found a itary strawberry bloom. The elm e buds are swelling, the crows are ving in the tree tops and soon some prudent peach trees will be in bloom. the poet saith spring is getting idy to " unlock the flowero and paint ) laughing earth." But there is ne bad with every good thing. My fe has just called my attention to ) neighbors' chickens that have cen up in our garden and the neigh es' dogs that are roaming over our and fighting in our back yard. ey are colored mostly-the owners, aean-and I'm going to declare war; if I don't. I hereby give warning all owners of gallinaceous and aine animals to keep them at home the race problem will break out in se parts. They say they passed a g law and now they say it does not into effect until May 1901, and never the grand juries don't indorse it. z lawmake2rs were politicians and nted the negro vote and so they aved the law onto the grand juries. isee that the grand jury of Gordon unty have already allied the law. ey like dogs and sausage-don't like iton. 'Beware of dogs," salth the scrip 'e. The last Legislature was a mis ble abortion. If Carlyle were here write its history he would say ['be last, Georgia Legislature had members-mostly fools.' Again I sh that, I was a little child and lent know anything about these ags. We all know too mruch any w, such as it Is. Too much about 3 rascality and devilment that is ing on in the wo)rld. I believe 1 will it reading the daily papers and read by the weekliws and the magazines. e mind wzana a rest. A hun(dred ira ago the poet said: 'h ! for a lodge in sonme vast wilderness iere i-umor ofi oppreesiont andl deceit successful or unsuccessful war ;ht never reach me more." VIonder what he would say now. t there is another side to all this 1 I'll feel bistter in the morning, for he chlldr n dion't come to me, I'-l to them. BILL ARP. -It Is said that the American oflM la who have just made a census of ha rep~ort havIng found in the moun na of the interior a tribe of Indians ose existence was previously un own, and they ran across intelligent ito persons who were unaware tnat United States goverament had tak control of the island. -A Detroit clergyman advances the rel proposiLion that "If Adam had rked 300 days each year from the he was created to the present time, i salary of $50 a day, he would not ze earned by this time as much 'perty as is owned by Rlockefelier or nderbilt." -Many a man who Is not ashamed tis faults is ashamed to confess them. Eruptions and skin iseases are a blot pon ese blots are actually blood blots. Tlo e them lotions and~ outward appli.. ions are useless. Th le blood must be red, before the skin becomes clean. Chat great medicine for the stonmach :1 blood, Dr. P'ierce's Golden Medical icovery, is most effective in cleanising comlelxlon and healing diseases ichi defile and dleface the skin. It a directly upon the stomach and the ~aus of digestion and nutrition. It reases the action of the blood-making uids, and expels fronm the system the king poisons which defile the blood ithrough it deface the skin. ~o alcohol or other intoxicant, nto umn or other narcotic is contained in oldeni Medical Discovery." t may pay a denler beCtter to sell you a )atitute which is less populnr but more >fitalble than the "'Discovery." It .n't pay you to buy it, if you want a iab~le remedy. y'o snout on e year and a half in vface was tuis, of 116 West Ma i st.R atiecreeCa Mie npt ag rent (lent of mole yil otcr rt ima Iaper. a,( oaited a bottlv or-r i takent onte bottle of thissmcine y. neotie anlge and after taking three bottles I wa rce's (iolde'l Medical Dicovryomeny or. ilarly afflicted", eyt n n rhe People's Commont Sense Medical vIser, xoo8 pages, is sent free by the htor, Dr. R. V. Pierce, Bluffalo, N. Y receipt of stamps to coverexns Ilin~g only. Send 21 one-cent stamp I the paper-bound, or 31 stamps for rHE SICK ARE MADE WELL, and the Weak are ftestored to Full Vigor and Strength at the Iands of tle Great est Healer of blodern Times. Have yot any pain or acbe o weaknosa? re You Does your blood show ttiatitcoutainsit qr Sick? Puritied A uIndoue? Do you ljck easilytIred? I ivoyou 10lot Winor? Is ithoro atly - unatturaal cdruatIlst til tlo systoin? Is overy orgtti per. foriulincf I(" eriiI futc tiofn? Oti . orils Are Vot a Peri'oetly trongr Activo, Vigor olN, ILealthy, liappI)y litn or Wonitain ? It not, you sho1lI tiot (Io. S - Iay one dity boforo yott con. stilt a speli tilisit. one t(o whorinitlkohumanottly tansa11l open book and who tnder shinds overy plhiasoof wouk. wuss 11111 lslt1ito imd to witom theo proper treaitt mort for a caire is its simiplo ts ho adding of It coluin of flr wres. For over year.s1 Dt.J. NEWTON rho Loading IIA'rIiAWAYlii'leeamthleaidiang SpOolalist. c rc r pr a hittof all otlier specialistacomlineAl . 1Ilctire of tall torts of distise(I Con(l(t101111 havo been tho iinarvel of ho muedical profe4ssota stiitiio 1,eoplo geserailly. Ills 111n bns spreat tilt() oveiry tiownI 1,inll eve-ry IlaInlet. 8lhoso Ilmilti ll t italm uInt ,er of1d.IIWenlses1 %av o glIt als services lei orler tiltit tiley iligilt bo 11111,10 w11olo y the adii0"ste riig of lots wetritivrfl systenli of trent 1iont. Wrecks of iumtliity ilve conno to 1m1111 for :Onstltatio1 1t111l Medicitnes, who a few itllitli litter Liuvo rottarnoci to bi1n Ito no4t vigorous Ihealthli to givo John: their titaks. Ii Disases )r. Iittlhiawny trents till disenses, Cured. thlos" p'collilar to 111pli 1111(l it:<>SO pectilinr to womtral, Its well its Datarrio Illietiruntliei:. XIhlnev Consipn tQ, ezelital. ind till formso of lingeri nlg aninl clhronIc is1'air4m. )r. linlIalway'- pite-sq i tlioe Varie0eete and treatient of Viar'icoa'e1e and Stricture. stricture iwitlioli tl ci l (If kaliifo or Ctite-irv i'1hertoment. 'Ii o intient Is trented< by this inethoi ;ist hils owtk tionuo vitlioIt pinr or loss of timlo irorn butsiness. T1is Is )ositively the only treittailort widli cotres wil ovit tin operation. Dr. Inthinwav enoil the part iculat- atteor lon of plt ferors froi viricocelo and11 Stricturo to )geon 27,28,29,30 anrtd 31 of 111 n1iew hook which will be IE ert froo on a11 ilicntIlot. Every CasO Every enso taet1 by Dr. Hatiaway Specially FIs sp>Ctoally treItet aIccording to its Itare, ill tincer lii1 generiil po rsonil Treated. suervision, and anl reinedief uset( by b1iu nro prepared froi tl) purest 11n( bestcidrngs.111 it li1own liboratories ider -IIs personal oversight, And till fron speicliil prescrilons of h1own. Dr. Iliathaway matike(s no clirgo for consul. Lw tntion or dvice, eillier it his olico or by Fees. innl, nIId whiot a cnso in taken tile one low ina ee ors aill cost of moclicines and proles itonal services. r - J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D. Dr. attliniway & Co., *23%South BroadStreet, Atlanta, Ga. MENTION THIS PAPER WHIEN WRITING. VtIC DARK AN D BLOODY GROUND I. ntucky's History Has Been Iver Marked by Exciting Political Rvents. Kentucky was early called " the dark and bloody ground," because of the sanguinary strifes enacted within its borders between contending tribes of savages, and has ever retained the characteristics and traits then do veloped to a intrked degree. From the political turoulence which pre coded and followed Its advent into the Union as a State, down to the present revolutionary proceedings now being enacted at its State Capital, Kentucky is nothing if not radical. Tuis spirit le, no doubt, due to the tifluence and training of the pioneer settlers, whose circumastances and surroundings made them a race seldom equailed for strength and intullect and will, physi cal and moral courage, personal prow ess and endurance. Many of the most intelletual and cultivated olicers of the Revolution settled in Kentucky at the ciot.e of the war in 1781, and it. is a matter of history that never did a population so small in numbers em brace so many who were giants in in tellect, daring and physical propor tions. Kentucky's tiret civil existence be gan in the spring of 1783, when it was erected Into a diotrilct with a Court oi criminal and civl jurisdiction. At that time the territory was a nart of Virginia. The failure of the E iglish to surrender their Norihwester-n fposts within the United States instigated constant Indian hostiiitk-es, and the citizens of Kentucky sought a separa tion from Virginia, in order that they might lawfully plrotect themselves from the savages. Proecedings were begun to tecurio constit utional separai tion. Virginia aLcquiesded, provided that Congress woulu assent and receive the now State into the Union. But two circumstances about tnis time oc curred to create great hostility in Ken tucky againut te General Gove-ra ment. One was the utter inability of Congress to protect them from the de predations of the Indians, and the other was the dispositIon of an element in Congress to yield to Spain for t went~y years the right to navigate the Missis sip~pi River in exchange for commer cial privileges beneficial only to the Easteorn States. This aroused intense dIssatisfaction in Kentucky, and Gen. James Wikinson, a Revolutionar-y officer, who had settled in Laxington, boldly advocated rebellion and separa tion from the Union. ils movement,, however, did not gain any consider able following. T1his was in 1786. For four years the hgitation for a separate State progressed. Gen. WiI kinson continued to be a revolutionary factor and advocated an independont, government, which, he said, Spain would recognize and cede to it the right of navigatIon of the Mississippi. Agents from Canada also intrigued with the malcontents, urging Kentucky to unite with tihe northern 10nglish provinces. In the meantime Gen. Washington was elected Prusident,, and strongly recommended the accept, ance of the Virginia Act of Separa tion by Congress. On February 4, 1791, an Act for that purpose passeo both houses of Congress, was signed by President Washington and Kentucky became a State. In Ddcember, 1791, a Constitutional Convention was elected, which met in the following April and formed the first Constitution of Kentucky. The basis of representation by counties was ~tbandoned and nunmbers established Instead. The 10xecutive, S-mate and judiciary were enitir ly removedl from 1,he direct control of the people. Tne Governor and members of the Senate were chosen by electors elected by the people, and the judiciary were ap pointed. The Constitution was adopted and otlietra' elected in May, 179)2. isaac shelby was elected the first, Governaor. rhe first Legislature met iat Ltxing ion and fixed upon the future seat of government by a singular process. lwenty-five commissioners weire irtt ,hosen by general ballot. Trhen the younties of Mercer and Fayette, the rival competitors for the location, al tornatoly struck live names from the ist, until the commisbioners were re luced to five. These last, were empfow - 3red to fix upon the Capital, and Frahk [ort was chosen. A year after Kentucky ratiflod her ti rst Constitutlor she narrowly escaped yoming into direct conflict, with the General Government. The flame of sympathy which swept over the coun try for the new French Republic )urrled with excidong fierceness in Kentucky. Genet, the French ambas ,ador', who openly disregarded the P~resident's piroclamaition of neutrality, lent four French agents into K-entucky. i'aiese wroro instructedl to enlist an irmy of 2,000 men, appoint a generalli timo and descend the Ohio and Missis tippi rivers and attack the Spanish set lements at the mouth. The move nanno. we awevehnwee received with Ie Rind You Have Always Doug to use for over 30 yeatrs, has 1 All Counterfeits, Imitations andt1 perimnents that trifle vith and Infants and Clildrei-Experien What is CA Ostorla. is a substitute for Casto and Soothing Syrups. It Is lar Contains neither Opium, .Morph substance. Its age is Its guara and allays Feverishness. It cur Colie. It relieves Teething Trov and Flatuleney. It assinilates Stoanach and 11owels, giving he 'tho Children's Panacea,-The M GENUINE CASTC Bears the Sigl theo Sigr The dil You HAe In Use For Over 9qw6 CTAUR COMPANy. 99 MUnnAY FEBRUARY Alh IS ~THE ~ To have youi Vehicles made goot repaint theni at the G reenv WE MAKE RUBBER TI During the cold weather have Carriages and Buggies will Look Bright and Ne Send inl yourm vehicles now. G. W. SIRRINE, Supt - Th~e cultivation of cotton in Indlia das attracted considlerable attention >f late. The~ tone regairdingY itha ciaturally enough been onha dsap pomlt menit at the fact that no progress '., is being miadle. It is not likely that thiere will be any change in the future, is uinder all circums)tanices yet experi Mnced the yiehl per acre is much small er in w~eigiht than is obtanine I in A'ner- To a cai, and, we ight for wveighit, the pro- west luct is less valuable. Th'lis places the. LIindJu cultivator at, a serious disadvani. Lv N Lage, and renders it impossible for him Lvwi .o compete with any chance of success$Y5 iginst the Anmri groths1, spiaHl- LvQ y smece the value of the latter, through Ar HI a concurrence of causes, has ruled so Ar 11 ow as (luring the past two or three Ar o cars. 1t is a great wonder that the AtI lecline in the cultivation has not been ~onsiderably more widlesp)read' ArolI Among the specimens of the fowl XiRii ribe to he seen at the potultry show Ar Gi ui New York is a white Plymouth Ilock A -sentextraordinarily handsomei appearance, nor yet magnetic to look Iion. However, this fowl is not Lv A vithout value, its owvner having been Ar A >fferedl $2,000 for the bird. White Ar,.i illoud is tihe name of tihe vailujable A, M 'ooster, and in his time he hias wonl 14 Lv 01 >lue ribbons and the 'nternational cup 'TII it the last p~oultr'y show ini Toronto. Er Th'le cottoni phmat in Paraguay grows lvS lhe year niroundl, favoredl throughout Ar 11 ach season by conditions of soil and Ar W lumate. After thei cotton is psicked Ar Pc lie plant is (cut, downi and another Arii rown from the root s. Every two ArWVs ears both plants andl roots aire plowvedl nd( new planits started, a fitner grade ! fcotton resulting. So Chemical examninat ions made in tihe and C iboratory of the University of Ur- lata ana, Ill., have shown that soil in n ,hich for twenty-four years Indianl Solid orn1 has been annually raisedl showed betwe 0 per cent, more exhaustion than soil But ni which for the same length of Oriea p time there had been a rotation of nloogs rops. ida The steel rail factories of the United I''or tates have sold1 enough rails to make I'll time for about nine ,nonths. 'here are large advance ord(ers in E. S-r lost othier branches of the iron andl ia Leel industry, aiid prices, instead of H. W bowing aiiy tendlency to reaict, aire - - ,ill ad vancing. ''Te marketing of the dlried fruit -- ro of California has been practically lacedl undler the control of the Cali >rnia Fruit Growers' Association. Do You Need An Electric Belt? A? For the past teln ye5a, Dr. J . Newton athaway who is recogniz,'ed as the groat. it of all our specialists, has been1 iperfect ig an electric belt, suitable to use in his Cur ractice. onie which lie couldl furnish as a stomi art, of lisa system of treat ment and~ wich morbi e could conscientiously guarantee, lie kidn< on an noun ces that hie has perfected such sores, belt, which he believes to be the only is as Drfect belt madle. it 's light. handsome, as an igreat power, and with new attaohments, hiich makes it suitable for every case. F'ry e Is prepared to furnish this beft to all If yo attents who need it and who apl to him >r treatment, at a merely nomia charge. rite to Dr. Hathaway to-dlay, relhing all PitE boutyour case and lie will write you about 1e bolt, and if you desire the belt will be ml U. 0. D. for inspetion. Address Dr. lath away & Co., 24. South Broad street, tlanta, ~a. fervent zeal, and Gen. George Rogers Clark accepted the command, with the title of "Commander-in Chief of the French Revolutionbry Legions on the Mlssissippi." In the meantime societles in imitation of the Jacobin clubs of France spread In Kentucky, which genorated a violent Anti-Federal spirit. President Washington protested to Governor Shelby over the proposed violation of the neutrality laws, but the latter openly sympathized with the movement. Just as matters were assuming a serious aspect Genet was recall-d and bis acts disavowed by the French Guovernmin . The Kentuck lane were censurable, the rank and file settled down and harmony and tranquility were restored. Thus was Kentucky installed into the Union. -The other evenin'g the electric lights of Jaunita, Cal., failed, and the next morning three suits were insti tuted against the corporation. Ac cording to the lawyer for one of the plaintiffs, " the parlor was at the time filled by guests at a children's party, many of whom made use ot the o))or. tunity for illicit kissing and romping, which resulted iu the destruction of costly ornaments and was harmful to the moral welfare of those i)resent." -Rsv. Henry Thompson, rector of St. Matthew's Eplcopal Church at Kenoshua, Wis., has just sued a couple of well known young men of the town for $4 each-the fees due him for hav lng performed the double ceremony of marriage when the two young men wedded sisters. -Left handed parties are a fad in New York. Each guest is requested to come with his right hand boutn'' up. le must register his name, play ttoe plano, hold the girl with whom he dances and eat with the assistance of his left hand only. -it Is stated that General Otis lt at last to be withdrawn from the Philip pines, and that the civil power will su percede the miltary control in the isl ands. --You can't measure a man's relig icn by the length of nis face. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Condense'd .Schedule of Passenger Trains. In Effect December 10th, 1899. Greenville, Washingxto n and th e ICa1st. No.12 No. 38 No. SO Northbound. Daily Daily. Daily. Ly. Atlanta C.' 760 a 20in . 1160 Atlanta, E. T:860 a '. p. 260 Gainesville...103Ma 225 p .218 " Athens.......9 25 a Lula..........1068a 88 a " .ornell...1125 a............. Toccoa.......11 a 833 . 828 Seneca. 252 415 p. 428 a " reenvi*e... 234 ) 22 p. 000 a "partanb, Bp3raburg. 837 p 6 13 p)...703 a Gaffney..420 04 p. 74 a Blacksburg.. ) 702 p. 802 a SGastonia. 62 ..............861 a " Charlotte.... 690 p 818 1 .o60 a Ar.Gro boro 95 1) 10 47 ....... 1228 p Lv.Gronboro.. ......11 45 p ........2.8. Ar.Norolk ...... .......8 25 a............... Ar. Danville. 1125 p 11 p ..... 88 Ar.1 ichinond ....... 828 r.a ~ 22ington p 42 5a ....... 80 p Baltni' PR. 8 a ..... p 03 Philadelph . ...... 15 a...... 2 56 a rNewYork.. ....... 12 43 n ......628 a iFrom ilia Eit to (rii-tevili.e; Aleo to At-leutiat IHic. INo. 85j No. 87 Dall1 Ar.Noro ... . ...... 8 420 a....... ..... ArPDnillehi ... 115 5p 10 5 p ..........88 At imonde... 16~2a 6024 a ... .......'.p gr. ashington.. ...... n1 42 ap ....88 Li'JloPr . ....... 85 p0a... 12 Arhlepi. .....uor .. 10 16 a......... 5 . GNewnYoro.. 7... 10 p43 05 a... 6 27 a. ~r Charl tate.. ,05 9I2 a12e. Lv. Gstoni.104 Sp10. 7 aly~p Sonoyn.14ail10. Day No4.1 v N.pY.tP.R.R. 12 20 a 14 a p 5 " Phoiaehia. 850 a 1280 p ..... p.,. "enBalio..22 a 1820 p .....,... " Woango.28 1 a 20 5 p .0.... .., L Cornville.....5-8p55a60a............72~ LuNol....041 a 8145 p O.. . ... Ar.Grehensb..68 515a..... ...........00p Ar Carlotthe .... 46 a 9 25 1205 p.. LA.atanI... 10 a p 10 00 11 p ... "ABlaksburg.T. 6105p 04 a 2 p Op... " ati-ney.7. 140 a 105826 2 p 0... "Chattanbug. 12 26 a 10 84 a 8o a5p... Ar.eninat.... 7 80 a 72 85 a 680 P ... Louisci..e.... 282 a 780 a 60p. * Toccoam.. 11 28 a 10 0~0 p.70 .. Ar.lN......ea.. 7451 p 80 a.p80p... Ar. thon -.- - - .. .. -..-.I.... 980 ..-.. A"- Gainsle.. 4I 86 a 8 008 p 0.p.... "MCattnoog8.0 5a 7140 p 1545 a ... Ar.ncnnai...70 p a 780 a. JncLouvlle.. 10 (10 p 7508 80 . *.1 Bimnhm. 11 T8ONa ox0 00 pIY Ar._NoOrlea__7_45p_8_8 N...1g " -acn....l8 80 n 10 p12 5 a 86' . Brunswick... 90 ......0 2 NoOS." STA OluNS~. "No Su 025a .... ... v.annaho ..A "....055 415a 740.. Lv"..Blcknilod..A .. .... 120 TObp a .... ... .Charleso .A7....3 1 12 25 p ...I L'.. ewherry.. " 8... 200 p 155p 40 a"..Geenwod.." 80p I120 215p 100 a ".. HGrodgesi .... "85W1155 ieW 784 J 2P Lv...Greenville.. A r 1 25 a 12 2 p 88p 68Ar Spartanburg Lv12 26 a 11134 a 7 00 . .. . " ....Ashoville.... ". ...7 18 a ( 45 . ." ... ~noxvillo... " . ..1 20 p p . Ar...Louisvillo...Lv . ...7 45 "A" a. mn. "P" p. mn. "M"~noon. "N" night. r Train. leavo Kingville, daily except Sunday, 3 for Camden 10:16 a. mn. and 4:45 p. mn. Return-. ig leave Camden for IKingville, daily except Suinday, 8:35 a. mn. and '2:50 p. mn. Also fora Sum tor daily except Siuday 10:25 a. mn. and 4:45 p. mn. Returnin g leavo Sumter at. 8:30 a. n. and 8:00 p. mn., making oonnootion at Kingville with trains between Columbia and Charleston. Trains leave S partanbunrg via S. U. & 0. divi sin, daily for Glendale Joniosvillo, Union and Columbia and intiermodiate points at 11:45 a, c m. an d 0:15 p. mn. Trains leave Toooa, Ga., for 1Clberton, Ga., daly 8:40 p1. m. exc'ept Sunday,* 7 :00 a. m. c Returning leav4. ISiberton daily 0:00 a. m. except Sunday, 1:180 p. mn., mi nag connee tion at Toccoa with trains between Atlanta, c Greenville and the East. iJhosapeoake Line Steamers in daily ser-vies between Norfolk and Baltimore. No.87 aid88-Daily. Washington and South western Vestibule Imitod. Through Pullman r sleepinig oars betwveen New York and New Or-' lean, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgo ery, and also betweeon Now York and MemphisI viaWashin gton,A tlanta and Birmingham.A elegant PULLMAN LiIRARtY OIBSERVA. s TION CARS bet weeon Atlanta and New York. i Firstclass thoroughfare coaches between Wash ington and Atlanta. Leaving WVashington eack 8 Monday, Wedneosday and Friday a tourist sleeping car will run through betweon Wash. Snton andl San F'rancisco without change. C ing oars serve all meals an route. uliman drawmng-room sleepin g ars be- E tweon Greensaboro and Norfol k. (o10e con-. f4 neotion at Norfolk for OLD POINT CMFORT. Also at A tlanta with Pullman D. R. sleeper for Vlhat tanooga and Cincinnati. N os. 86 and 85--United State Fast Mail runs polid between Washington and New Or ens being cornposed of coachea, through withouti ohane fr pasenersof all classes. Pllnma e adawgrolens. vieatrs between New York andNewOrean. va tlanta and Mont mery and between Charlotte and A tlanta. Ding g ears I' ser-ve all meals enroute. p Nos. 11,83 84 and 12-Pullman sleeig hasI bet woen Rtichmiond and Charlot te, vi Danvile, n southbound Nos. I1 and 88, northboundNeq 84 and 18 Oonnootion at Atlanta with thre a Pullman D~rawin g-room sleeping oar for J .P Sonvie; also Pullman sleeping oar for Brune- 0 wick. Connection made at Spartanbuirg wt through Pullman sleeper for Ashevlle, En ith. ville and Cincinnati ; also at Columbia ter Ea vannah and Jacksonville. FIANKS.GANNON, J. I.OULP ThirdV-P. & Gen. Migr., ~rame M a Waoshingtona, D. 0. aohingtoi ,l W.A.TU T t x. Ammnn As lht, and which has been orie the signature of on made muder his per. visioni sincO its Infancy. Lo to deceivo you In this. S1bstituttes are but Ex. Lndanger the health of ec against 1xperiment. STORIA r Ol, Paregorie, Drops miess and Pleatsanit. It ine nor other Narcotic Ltee. It destroys Worms ,s DIarrho-a aid Wind tbles, cures Constipation the Food, regulates the xlthy and atural sleep. other's Friend. )RIA ALWAY Lature of Always Bought 30 Years. STfiE&?. Haw voROC mIy. JD MARCH FIME I as new. We repirh anmd lie Coach eFlctor. R ESA SPECIALTY. ie ejiriiig done so your w For Spring Driving. H. C. MARKLEY, Prop. Oa I points North, South and South in effect November 5th, 1899. so UT[ HO BU ND. N o. 403. No. 41 ew York, P. R. RI. . .*11 00am *0 00pm ashuington, P. R. R... 5 00pm 4 30am Dhmond, A. C.L1...9 00pm 9 05am rtsmouth 8. A. La. . . .*8 45pm*9 20am eIdon .............11 10pm 11 43am Dnderson. .........*12546am *1 Sipm aleigh ..............2 22am 3 361pm Pines..............4 27am 6 00pm inlet...............5 1.am 7 00pmn ilmnington,8. A. b ..........*305pm nroe, 8. A. La....'*i~53am *9 12pm arlotte 8. A. L.... *8 00am*10 25pmn ester SA L.........'.8 13am*1055pmn ecenwood...........1045am 1 12a i thens ...............I 2-4pm 3 48amn lanta ...............3 501pm 6 15am NO RTnBfOUND. N o. 402.' No. 38 tianta 8.A.L.....* 10(0pm*8 50pm thens..............3 08pn 11 05pm eon wood ...........5 40pm -1 40am iester....... ........ 7 53pm '4 08am on roe.............. 9 0pt (45amn tarlotte 8AIL..'8 201pm*5 (10am smlet 8 A L....11 10pm 7 43am ilmington, 8 A L ... . *12 056pm P'ines 8 A L....12 012am *9 00a leigh.............. 20l3m 11 13am aiderson .....3 326a,n 12 e5pm eldon .............. 4 55am 2 501pm rtsmouth. .........7 25am 5 201pm hmnond, A. C. L...8 16amn '7 201pm silngtonvial'enniR1l2 3lpmn 11 20pm Iv York 0..... 23pm 0653am r. tlDaily Ex. Bunday. .403 and 402.-"The A tlanta 8pecial Vestibuled Trrain of Pullman Sleepers oaches between Washington and At also Pullmian Bloepers between Ports and Chiarlote, N. U. 41 and 38.-"T'he 8. A. L. Express," l'rain, Coaches and Pullman Bloopers Dfn Portsmouth and Atlanta. trains mako immediate connection unta for Miontgomery, Miobile, New is, Texas. California. Miexico, Chatta Nashville, biemphis. Macon. Flor Tickets, Sloepers. etc., apply to (4. Mc P. 1lA TTlIC. T. P. A Tryon 8treet, Charlotte, N. C. Agt Abbeville, S. C. JO HN, Vice-President and Gesneral ager. II. (1 LOV l'R, Trrafie M anager. icBlEE.Geineoral bupt llEN, (Gen'l Passenger Agent. ueral Oflices, Portsmouth, VirginIa PITT'S iseptic Inigorator! Ds dlyspeiaf, Indigestion, and all ,ch or bowel troubles, colic or cholera is, teething troubl s with children y troubles, b~ad blood and( all sorti (4 rliings or felons, cuts andi b)urns, It ood ant.eeptie, when locally applied y thin g on thei m arket,. It and vou will Ipraiso It to other. ir dIruggist doesn't keep It, write to 'Antiseptic Invigorator Co. THOMSON, GA.-. ox O)ARPECNTER BROS3., tUreenville. H. U.