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THK LEDGER s GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 23, 1897.
THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS.
Tile mplitncholjr days have come, the mddw-t
of the year,
Of walling winds and naked wood a and mea
dow. brown :.nd Mere.
Beaded in tlie hollow, of the grove tho au
tumn leave, lie dead.
They rustle to the eddying gust and to the rab
bit’. tread.
The i obin and the wren are flowu, and from
the nhrubii the jay,
And from the wood to|> ealla the crow throuj’.i
all the gloomy day.
Ythere are the flowers, the fair young flowero,
that lately sprung and stood
In brighter light and softer air, a beauteous
sisterhood V
Alas, they nil are in their graves! The gentle
race of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair
and gfxsl of ours.
The tain is falling where they lie, but tho cold
Kovetnlxr lain
Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely
ones again.
The wind flower and the violet, they perished
long ago,
And the brier rose and the orchis die amid tho
summer glow.
But on the hill the goldenrod, and the aster
in the wood.
And the yellow sunflower by the brook in au
tumn beauty stood
Till fell tbe frost from the clear, cold heaven
as fulls the plague on men,
And tbe brightness of their smile was gone
from upland, glado and glon.
And now, when comes the calm, mild day, as
still such days will come,
To call the squirrel and the bee from out their
winter home,
When the sound of dropping nuts is heard,
though all the trees are still,
And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of
the rill,
Tile south wind searches for the flowers whose
. fragrance late he bore,
And slglis to lind them iu the wood and by the
stream no more.
And then I think of one who in her youthful
beauty died,
The fair, meek blossom that grew up and faded
by my side.
In the cold, moist earth wo laid her when the
forests east tho loaf,
And we wept that one so lovely should have a
life so brief.
Tat not unmeet it was that one like that
young friend of ours,
•Be* gentle and so beautiful, should perish with
the flowers.
—William Cullen Bryant.
A DEPENDENT.
“Mr. Schtrarfze comes tonight, Anne.
8eo tliiit his room is ready and bo quick
About it.”
Having irritably given her directions,
Mrs. Holmes lay hack with a dismal
groan and languidly picked up tho bock
'Vlbfi 1'ftd dropped.
With acuin" feet Anne dragged her
way up the stairs to tho top floor.
It was a small room aud not too
tfteerfcl, and 4t looked cv.t upon tho
lev*’ dwarfed fruit trees iu the back
yard and beyond that upon the rear
ends of mipaiuted tenements, where
half starved and wholly wretched faces
aomctinies peered out through the smoko
clouded panes.
“I wonder if he’ll mind,” mused
Anne, with a wordless thought of the
desolation that so often swept over her
own cramped soul as she looked out up
on this dreary prospect. ‘‘He ain’t like
A man that’s always lived boardin
around. Looks like he ought to have a
home somewhere and a mother. He’d
bo good to one if he had her. He’s got
good eyes. It’s pretty bare inhere,”
ahe added regretfully.
Then under some sudden impulse she
crept stealthily along the dark hall to
A bedroom hardly larger than a closet
and was back in a moment carrying
something carefully hidden under her.
r^ron. When deposited upon the dress*
it proved to be a tumble.: holding
half a dozen glowing carnations.
‘‘They’ll make it a little more home
like for him,” she said. And then she
turned to the prosaic work of changing
the bed linen, dusting, cleaning and
bringing in soap, fresh water and tow
els.
‘‘May I see the madam?” a hearty
▼oico called from the doorway, and
Anno lowered the ash pan aud turned to
Aeo tho new boarder, a big, good naturod
Crerman, bowing gravely toward her. .
*‘I—I’m afraid not, ” she said. ‘‘Aunt
Holmes is an invalid, you know. She
only sees people when they first come
to engage board. Will I do? I can tell
yon anything, I think, or I can take a
message to Aunt Holmes”— But there
she stopped confused, remembering that
Ahe was prohibited an audience with
the offended aunt.
Her breath came more freely when
Mr. Schwartze said: ‘‘If I could please
be shown to my room. And your din
ner hour I haf not learned. ”
‘‘Dinner’s at 6,” said Anne with alac
rity, ‘‘and I’ll show you to your room. ”
As she passed the new boarder at the
door ho stepped back with a chivalrous
movement aud held tho portiere for her.
Anne could not remember any such po
lite attention in the whole course of her
life. It gave her a queer sensation, and
aho walked somehow with her head a
little less bent up the two steep flights
and along the winding hall.
‘‘The boarders sit down stairs a good
deal,” she said, still regretting that
cheerless room. ‘‘The furnace doesn’t
beat very well up here, and it’s warmer
in the sitting room on account of the
lire. ”
Then she returned to her ashes.
She made the invalid’s toast with un
usual care that night and cautioned
Kitty about keeping the soup well cov
ered and hot.
At 0 o’clock, in her fresh white apron,
riie stood ready to wait on the long
feeble.
Mr. Schwartze was not among the
first to obey the summons of the dinner
hell. Before he come she had brought
in several plates of steaming soup, and
Mr. Brown had grunted with disfavor
at sight of his and gruffly ordered it
Away, muttering something about ‘‘dam
aoupevery night.”
Shu was hastening to change his plate
when Mr. Schwartze entered.
The big German cost his eyes with
friendly interest over the group at the
table. There w as something hearty and
genuine about him, thobgh his gait was
a trifle awkward and hn shoulders some
what stooped. Bur lie said, “Pardon,
auuk.in,” ho withdrew his uapki*
from too close proximity to Miss Simp
kins’ plate aud “Thank you” to Anno
when she gave him his soup. If the hot
stuff hud not been safely deposited upon
the cloth before him, it might have
showered upon him in scalding streams,
for a “Thank you” to Anne was so un
usual as to be absolutely startling. It
made her duties through that meal seem
almost pleasant, although Miss Simp
kins complained that the tea was slop
aud Mr. Brown said it was a pity if he
never could get roast beef ho could eat.
Anne’s cheeks had grown into the
habit of burning through the long hours
when she served at table. Aunt Holmes
was safe out of hearing, and Gladys de
clined to eat with tho boarders, so there
was only Anne to face the storming
when the cook made mistakes or tho
marketman failed to bring tho best of
his stock.
There was only one boarder in tho
house who treated Anne as if she were
of more significance than the dust of
tho earth. That one was Baby Blossom.
Baby Blossom had not learned iu tho
two years of his smiling existence that
there are people—'.verworked, under
fed, spiritless creatures—whom it is
one’s privilege to tread underfoot. He
had a friendly fashion of cooing at
Anne whenever ho saw her and holding
out his dimpled hands, aud when Anno
held him hungrily in her tired arms ho
gave no evidence of knowing that she
was salloW and tattered aud thin as a
rail and that her face was often streak
ed with tears.
Father Blossom was a “floor walker”
in a down town store who talked pom
pously of “my clerks” aud “my estab
lishment,” and Mother Blossom was an
overdressed blond who loved card par
ties better than the dimpled baby.
When, through long evenings, Baby
Blossom stared lonosomoly at the glow
worm light near his cradle, Anno used
to slip in, away from the crnel shafts
of Aunt Holmes’ tongue, and croon lul
labies as she rocked tho little chap to
slumber.
Now, upon this night of his arrival,
Mr. Schwartze, being a homo loving
man, not particularly drawn to the beer
saloon or tbe concert hall, roamed about
in Mrs. Holmes’ would be fashionable
boarding house in quest of entertain
ment.
In tho parlor Miss Gladys, large and
imposing, was languidly entertaining a
tall collared beau. In the sitting room
Mrs. Brown, Miss Simpkins aud Miss
Rhodes W cro discussing tho trials of tho
boarder.
Mr. Schwartze slipped into a warm
corner with his paper and tried not to
hear. Soon, quiet and sweet above tho
sharp fault finding of the ladies, sound
ed stray bits of a musical lullaby:
Shop, little pint on, and fold your v. ings,
Littlo blue pigeon with velvet eyes!
It was Anne in tho “second story
back” lulling Baby Blossom to sleep.
And it was Anne who stepped into the
sitting room half an hour later with
something almost like happiness in her
eyes and exclaimed softly, “I’ve got
him to sleep—the little lamb.”
The three ladies stared at her coldly,
and a silence fell upon them.
“I’m sorry about your curtains, Miss
Simpkins. I’ll get them up tomorrow.”
“I think it is time,” said Miss Simp
kins dryly, and the gladness died out of
poor Anne's eyes.
“Will you haf this chair by tho fire,
Miss Anna?” saida sudden voice, and
Mr. Schwartze stood looking kindly at
her and pointing to his easy chair.
“No, sir; thank you, sir. I’ve got
things to do,” said Miss Anne, as she
backed cut cf tho room. B^t what won
der if she dreamed that night of tho on
ly soul who, having arrived at years of
discretion, had ever regarded her as a
grade above the level of the earthworm.
. Mr- Schwartze, for some obscure rea
son, took paius to make covert inquiries
about this household drudge in tho
weeks that followed.
From Miss Simpkins ho learned that
Miss Anne was a “shiftless thing,” who
never got the fires made in time. Oth
ers infonned him that she frequently
failed to wash the windows and wood
work properly, that she was often late
bringing up water and answering the
bell, that she didn't shake the great
rugs half hard enough, that she was a
poor fool of a creature who often
bronght Mr. Brown his meat not suffi
ciently rare, and that, in fact, she was
generally faulty and incapable, a poor
dependent upon Mrs. Holmes’ boonty.
Yet with all the weight of evidence
against her, somehow the new boarder
only grew the more to pity the bar; «-
ed creature who toiled for thankless peo
ple day after day and often far into the
night.
Once he discovered her quieting Baby
Blossom in its mother’s absence, and
there was a light in her eyes that glori
fied them. In one glance the big heart
ed fellow seemed to see revealed the
woman Miss Anne might grow to be,
given a fair share of love and kindness.
It made him want to experiment.
In the morning ho walked squares out
of his way to stop at a florist's. Long
stemmed roses he picked ont and a
bunch of sweet violets. Then he gave
directions to tho florist and wrote care
fully and at some length on a card.
When the bell jangled that cold after
noon and Miss Anne hastened to answer
it, she stared in blank bewilderment tit
the name on the long, neat package.
Bhe had had precious little “schooling, ”
had Miss Anne, and for a moment she
doubted her ability to n ad plain script.
“Oh, a box from Wade's!” cried
Gladys over the banister. “That dear
Billy has sent me some flowers!”
“No,” said Anne, in a sort of daze,
holding the box as if it were some
loved, live thing. “It’s for me. It says,
'Miss Anne Minton’ on it”
“You’re craay,” said Gladys shortly
and a bit angrily, too, for she never had
heard Anne so nonsensical. And she
snatched the box from Anne’s fingers.
Then she stared, open mouthed.
“Csetar’s ghost!” was all she said,
but she handed back the box and made
no remonstrance when Anne ran up the
etuirs to her dark back chamber, leav
ing her work iu the basement suspended.
They were trembling fingers that
broke the strings aud took off the wrap
pings from the damp, cool box, and
when tho last waxed palters were folded
back and Aune saw the fresh end fra
grant flowers she gathered them up and
buried her face in them with tears that
fell aud ‘parkled, dewlike, on their
cool, sweet jjetals.
There was a sort of choking rapture
in her heart when she read on the re
verse of Mr. Bchwartze’s card, iu a fine
German hand:
Tho limit of life Is brief—
’Tis the red in the red rose leaf,
’Tis the gold in the sunset sky,
’Tis the flight of a bird on high.
Yet we may fill the space
With such an infinite grace
That the red will vein all time,
The gold through the ages shine,
Aud the bird fly swift and straight
To the lilies of God’s own gate.
She read it over and over, impressed
at first only with a sort of reverence for
the man who had “learned oil'” ami
written a verse like that.
Then through her mind, which un-
kindness had made dull and unimagina
tive by a long process of hardening,
there began to creep a sense of the beau
ty ami comfort of tho lines.
“With such an infinite grace,” she
repeated to herself, as she stood, a rose
on her breast, that night ready to wait
on the ungracious circle about the din
ing table. And when Mr. Brown wrath-
f ully ordered his plate back to the kitch
en she took it with almost a smile, feed
ing somehow that however ugly life
might be on the outside there still lived
within, if she were patient ami good, a
something sweet and fair that would
take her, like the bird in tho poem,
“swift and straight to the lilies of
God’s own gate. ”
Even Mr. Schwartze noticed a sort of
transfiguration of her sad, tired face,
though to him she never said a word of
acknowledgment or thanks.
Because of her ignorance and a cer
tain sense of awe toward him she felt
she could only thank him for a gift so
royal by written words, slowly aud
carefully wrought
Night after night, when tho lights
were dim in the boarding house, Anno
toiled over her paper ami the grammal
and spelling book she had borrowed from
Willie Brown.
At last tho note, written and fastened
to Mr. Schwartze's pinenrbion, lay
waiting his astonished perusal.
Ho read in careful, uneven letters:
Rcspectei* Fkiekd—These Hues arc to toll
you how thankful I am to you for tho brnuti-
fnl rosoR and violet*) and verue. You could
not know how it felt to mo to got them, for 1
couldn't help crying, for it was tho first beau
tiful tiling that ever happened to mo in my
fife tbit 1 cm remember. Your respected
friend, A. MistOX.
It was a week after that time that
Willie Brown stood on a dark landing
of the stain waiting to make Miss Anne
“jump like a scared cat” as sho came
toiling up the stairs with an armful of
wood for Miss Simpkins’ open fire.
Aud jump she did, in a way that sent
Master Willie off in a roar of langbter,
as suddenly checked when he realized
that Miss Anne, having missed her foot
ing aud fallen, was lying quite motion
less and very blue about tho lips, with
the heavy chunks of wood upon her.
One great stick, thumping and bump
ing down the stain, had brought impa
tient iuquiren to their various doors,
but it was Mr. Schwartze who first
reached the prostrate woman lying on
the landing below.
Sho tried to rise with his help, but
could not. And then Miss Anne dared
usurp a privilege belonging solely to
Aunt Holmes, the pronounced invalid.
She fainted dead away.
“It’s a sprain or a break,” said Mr.
Schwartze briefly. “Lead tho way to
her room, mees.” And he tnmod au
thoritatively to Gladys, who meekly
sped up stain and along the hall to the
narrow room.
“I go for tho doctor whilo you stay
with her here, ” said tho big German.
But in his brief glance at the clean,
bare room he had seen his drooping
roses and violets still tenderly cared
for, though withered and brown.
There was something very like a mist
in the honest eyes of Herr Schwartze ad
he ran with all speed for tho doctor a
few doors away.
Aunt Holmes intely jerked her im
posing person from the luxuries of the
sickroom and tried in a measure to do
Anne’s work in the weeks that followed.
Unable to accomplish this, even with
Gladys’ protecting aid, she advertised
at last for a servant, and then for two,
both of whom worked industriously
filling tho uupaid “dependent’s” place.
In the meantime Miss Anne herself
lay quiet and alone in her cold little
room. Yet she was neither cold nor
lonely, for down in her heart burned a
new gladness, hardly defined or recog
nized, yet filling her solitude with mu
sic and all the space about her with
warmth and comfort.
There were fresh carnations by her
bedside always now, and nnder her pil
low a precious store of little messages
—kind inquiries and good wishes—-all
written in a slanting German hand.
When she could sit up, she borrowed
a warm wrap of Gladys and spent her
time peacefully darning aud mending
for the cousin and aunt below. When
' Aunt Holmes raged against the time it
took to lui-ud broken ankles, Anne only
said, with a strange gleam of gladness,
“Tbe d)<ctor says I can hobble down
stairs in a week or so.”
Aud although that meant taking up
the old life speedily, the life of a mse
aud hardship, there was one thought
that overbalanced all else—the thought
that down in the common ground of
the sitting room she might see the hon
est, friendly face that for her held all
the light in the big, gray world.
It was dusk of a chilly evening, and
the boarders had not yet gathered about
tbe friendly fire down stairs, when Mrs.
Holmes’ petulant voice shrilled ont: “If
you’re ever going to oome down, Aune
Minton, you’d as well come now. Guess
you’re as able to slave as we are, and
the sittin room lamps want lightin."
Herr Schwartze, earning in with
mowfl&kes on his great coat, halted at
the newel post, turned, and then step
ped quietly into the fire lighted room.
When his listening ear caught the
first sound of the slow limp at the head
of the stairs, ho was up the flight in
three leaps, helping the slender figure
down.
“Wilkommen! Wilkommen!” he said
in the hall, taking Loth her hands in
his hearty grasp.
“What does that mean?” Miss Anno
asked, her face lighting np gladly.
“That is welcome!” exclaimed Herr
Schwartze. “Wilkommen! That is tho
German’s welcome to his goot fricut—
his American frient. ”
“How good you arc!” said Anno, and
all the story of her gratefulness, her
new zest in life, seemed to breathe in
the words. “I—I never was happy be
fore. I never had a friend. I didn’t
know what it was to”— And then she
stopped, confused, aud quick tears well
ed to her eyes.
“You haf been what they call the
unter dog in the fight,” he said. “I haf
seen it. I haf watched. I know. And
my heart bass melted for you, beholting
your patience and loving service to all,
who loved you none at all in return. ”
' In his heat end earnestness Herr
Schwartze's talk grew more aud more
broken, but Anne understood him, and
her pale cheek flushed. She stead i(*d
herself with one hand against the door,
aud, seeing this, he led her to the big
chair by the fire, so carefully, so tender
ly, that quiet tears gleamed again in
her great dark eyes.
Herr Schwartze looked at her a mo
ment, then held out a strong, impulsive
hand. “I haf not much to offer yon,
but what I haf and am iss yours,' ’ he
said. “Will you take it, my goot Mees
Anna? This hand knows how to work
for those it loves, aud you I love; yes,
dearly, dearly. ”
When Aunt Holmes, drawn by some
deep instinct, softly opened the sitting
room door, sho nearly fainted at tho
sight she saw. Anne, Aune, the dull,
the incapable, bolding Herr Schwartze’s
ample hand and looking as if all the
sparkles of tho stars had stolen into her
eyes.
“What does this moan, Mr. Schwartze
—Anne?” sho demanded in righteous
wrath.
Mr. Schwartze rrndo her his gravest
bow, though his face was radiant.
“It means, my dear madam, that
Moos Anna hero iss tomorrow my wife,
and wo go out to buili our home place
together.”
And tho andacious boarder, before
her very eyes, laid a protecting hand
upon tho head of Miss Anne, tho de
pendent.—New York Tribune.
A Famous War Correspondent.
It is most interesting to note, says
Henry Childs Merwiu in The Atlantic,
the impression made upon tbe English
mind by the late J. A. MacGahau, the
famous war correspondent, who was the
son of an Ohio farmer. His English
friend and fellow worker, Mr. Archibald
Forbes, writes of him as follows: “1
never saw such a fellow for making
himself at homo among high officials.
In his manner there was no flavor of
impudence or presumption. I question
whether of that word, indeed, he un
derstood'the meaning. It was as if he,
in the character of a man and a repub
lican man, had reasoned the mattet
down to bare principle. ‘I am a man,’
eeemed to me to be his attitude, ‘and 1
am a man who honestly and legitimate
ly, for a specific purpose of which you
are aware, or of which I shall be glad
to make you aware, want something.
That something—be it information, be
it a passport, bo it what it may—you
can give me best, therefore I ask you
for it It is immaterial to tho logic of
the position I virtually take whether
you are an office messenger or tho chan
cellor of an empire, a lientenant, or the
commander in chief. ’ ”
No wonder then that, as another
friend of his put it, “MacGahan could
do anything he liked with Ignatieff,
calmly made love to Mme. Ignatieff,
rather patronized Prince Gortchakof,
and nodded affably to the Grand Duke
Nicholas.”
It is to bo observed that in writing
the description which I have quoted Mr.
Forbes had no design of making a gen
eral statement, much less of analyzing
the American notion of equality. He
was simply indicating in his acute,
straightforward manner what he con
ceived to be MacGahan’s attitude ’to
ward all the world.
FtmIi Air For m Bod Foot Bat lent.
“As all the world knows, there is no
more perfect means of ventilation than
an open fire, ’ ’ writes Mrs. Bnrton Kings-
land, telling how to nurse the sick, in
The Ladies’ Home Journal. “It is con-
tinnons and attended with no danger of
draft. A more equable temperature is
obtained with wood than with coal, and
the thermometer should bo frequently
consulted in a sickroom. As fresh air is
tho best tonic it is said that a window
may be opened at the top on a sunny
day, no matter how ill tho patient be,
if iu tho opening a wooden frame cov
ered with flannel is fitted. The air
strained through the woolen material is
deprived of all power to harm. An um
brella covered with a shawl makes a
good screen when the windows are open,
the patient being sheltered nnder it as
if in a tent. A folding clothesborse may
also bo utilized as a screen frame. As a
person lying on his back is deprived of
the protection of his eyelids from the
light the blinds and enrtaius should be
udjusud with regard to that fact A
room a little shaded is more restful to
a person in illness, bnt if a patch of
sunshine can be let in somewhere in the
room it makes a cheery spot for him to
turn to if so minded. Thu Italian prov
erb says, ‘Where the sun does not enter
tne doctor does.’ ’’
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T. H. frlmnilor. Clerk, as Administrator de
bonis non ol tin- Estate of 11. \y. Tate oee’VI.
Plaintiff
. Against
... 1 1 -h'hn Alexander Henry Tate,
t lirtstopln-r late, lias late. Eva Tale, Tom
ale, Lafayette Tate, OU-dlah Tate, .lolm
late r a mile late, ami .1. Kb. Jefferies
y “"Administrator of the Estate of
OU-dlah I ate, tleivased.
. , Defendants.
1 o tae defendants aUive named:
\ on are hereby summoned and required to
answer the (-nni|k!u!ni in this set Ion, which
is this day filed in the office of the Pro hate
Judge for ilit- said c-ounty, ami to serve a
eopy of your answer lothe said complaint on
tlu subscrilsTs at the office of T. It. Hutler.
GiilTney City. Siuth Carolina, within twenty
days niter tin- soriiec thereof, exclusive of
I hi* day oi such service: and it you fall to an-
-wer ilie complaint within the time afore
said. tl.e phuniilT in this uctlou will apply to
the Court fi r the relief demanded in the
con,plaint. December 1st, A. 1)., IsaT.
July i;rd. A. D. PUT,
(Seal)
.1. E. Webster,
Probate Judge.
J. (’. Wai.i.ace,
• WiitiitiT Nash,
Thus. B. Hi ti.er,
Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
Notice.
To t he absent defendents. F.d. Tate:
Take Notice That the summons of which
the foregoing is a copy, together with the
complaint In this action, is this day filed in
the ofHee of tin- Probate Judge for the
county of Cherokee.
J. c. Wallace,
Wkight Nash,
Thus. It. Bctlkh,
Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
Administrator’s Sale.
B Y virtue of Authority given us by order
of the Probate Court forCherokec county
| we will sell at public sale, at the late resi-
denc of Mrs. Elizalieth A. Browe. deceased,
Gaffney. S. C., on Tuesday. Stiih day of De-
cember, isiff, beginning at 11 o’clock a. m..
the following named personal property, to
wit: Household and Kitchen Furniture,
Piano. Buggy. Wagon,Cow and Calf, Ac.
Terms of sale, cash.
W. C. Caupenteb.
J. N. Ct’IID,
Adms. Mrs. K. A. Brown, deed,
Gaffney, S. C.. Dec., 13, IsDi.-St.
You need not look in the dictionary to know that a fake
is a pretension. When anybody tells you they sell gro
ceries cheaper thau we do then that is a fake, for we sell
goods cheaper than auybody.
J. L. ALEXANDER & CO.
and you will want some toys for the children; some Fine/
Candies, Nuts, Ac., Pretty Dolls, and lots of other things that F
will sell you cheap. See my line. I have the prettiest lot of
these goods in Cherokee county.
Yours truly,
O. A. OSBORNE,
Blacksburg, -
S. C.
' THE NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNEY.
CAPITAL $50,000.00
Tips bank respectfully solicits the accounts of individual firms
and corporations and will extend every reasonable accommoda
tion to those doing business with it.
Call to see us if you wish to borrow money.
F. G. Stacy, Prest,
J. G. Wardlaw, Vice-Prest,
D. C. Ross, Cashier.
Save Your Hooey
t
by trading where you can buy your goods tho cheapest!
You will find my store the place you are looking for if you
want to make your dollars, quarters and dimes reach tho
full limit of their purchasing power.
Yours truly,
J. I. Sarratt.
Writing For a Living.
“I under*tnml you have joined the
literary brotherhood. ”
“Yea,’’ replied Lovelace, “I am now
writing for a living. ” And he daubed
off another begging letter to his father.
—Strand Magazine.
You will find a full line of
Christmas Goods
AT
'r. i>Cheap ©tore,
also a large stock ol Groceries, Hay, Corn andi
Oats at prices to suit you.
Respectfully,
T. Oavenport.
N. B.—Buy your fruits, &c., for Xmas cak<
from me and save money.
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