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*• 'jf THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., AUGUST ll, 1898. I LONGINGS. Hr |b>r from fh« «on K’irt otty ttiat I i .vo, M> vrntideriti({ wrys by ran s nttrade* Btruunr w the B7.ui» of t!ii< f;»rt i, n sky And strange the cluttered sTnr-i that nlajve. Out froTti thia loveb s lend would I rrmovn To Mc.'k thy svnng IMt rliin, never dry, O thrtre cuiwned rity : Hr ir ,ny fainting cry! I^t rot mj )M»!Mioi;atc b.aging friutles* ;irove! Would I once more might set tlw dome of gold Hurtling aloft l* m ath :nr nnilve rky. The river, winding m ar my home of old. And o! TV i t In the ire again To breathe before I ole t iling hre> ze, may it tie grunted nm, fair city by the distant sea. —Allan England in Literary Kevtew. A LOVE STORY. It waa a beautiful spring morning to ward tho end of the seventeenth century —the scene Cermauy. In a meadow thickly carpeted with flowers a buy and girl were strolling hand in hand. Ho was altout 14 years old, and his dress betokened him of high birth. Sho wr.s about a year younger and wore the at tire of a girl of tho middle class. Her face was one of the loveliest ever seen, with her gentle blue eyes and her bright, fair hair, which fell in two long plaits down her back, and the boy’s eyes rested upon her with an expression of loving admiration which softened dowti his usually haughty and defiant cast of countenance. He had twisted a handful of field flowers into a Wreath, and placing it upon her bead he sprang away laughing to survey the effect of his adornment “How pretty thou art. Anua L»e«\” be cried. “There is no other like thee anywhere in the wide world. When thou art cider, thou sbouldst wear a crown of jewels instead of one of flow ers. for thou art bom to be a little queen. “ The little girl laughed gently nod shook lier head. “An apothecary's daughter cannot to- come a great lady, much less a qu*eu." she said, “so 1 shall have to do without a crown and be content with my moth er’s trinkets when I grow up. ” The boy drew her to him wid liend- ing his head so as to be on m level -with hers whispered: “Thou shalt l>e a gn'Ofc lady, llttl* Anna Liese, for I mean when I’m » man to marry thee, and then t.houTt be princess of this province and have as many fine jewels as my lady mother. Does that please thee?” “It sounds a pretty tale," laughed the little girl smiling, “but thou kaow- est if is nothing but a dream. They let us play together and be friends because we aro only children, but when thou art r. man we shall have to be and thon wilt marry a noble lady who will bring theo more wealth and luudc That is what princes have to do, 1 know. ” “Hut I shall not, Wiesgcn,” cried the boy. “1 mean what I say, arid who evc-u now cares to cross nry will? Tbhu and no other shall be my wife and my princess, so now thou knowest thy fate." Still the little girl shook her lovely blond head incredulously, and at tiv.t moment a man’s figure appeared at the farther cud of the field. ) “See,’’ said Anna Liese, “they ct from the castle to look for thee. We must say goodby for today.” The boy looked angrily in the direc tion of the richly attired servitor. “I shall not go.” be said defiantly. “I wish to remain where I am.” “If the prince err thy mother with to speak to the?, they will be angry,” said Anna Liese, “and perhaps they will not let us bo playmates any more. Go with him now,” sho added persuasively, stroking his arm and trying to smile away the frown that dark' in d las face, "and tomorrow we can come here again Go, to please me!” “Well, thon,” said tho boy, his lip? relaxing into a smile as ho looked down at her, "to please thee I will go. Hut remember, tomorrow at tho sano hunt be thou hero, Wiergen. Auf wieder- sehen,” and he ki-.-^d her pretty rosy lips as ho spoke. Little Anna Licso from the apothe cary’s shop and Prince Leopold from the castle had been playmates from early childhood. The prince was tho only surviving son of adoring parents whose indulgence had hehied to foster a dis position already by nature wild and un governable, and there wa« no one in the wild world who could persuade or guide him so well as gentle Anna Liese. See ing this, and knowing that the little girl was a good child and wi ll brought up, his mother plaoed no obstacle in the way of their meeting together, and so they grew up, as one may say, side by side, loving each ether devotedly. But as the months and years passed on and Leopold grew into a tall youth and Anna Licso into the fairest maid in all the land the Princess Hcariette be gan to see danger in this constant com panionship. And her fears proved only too well founded. The affection of the boy for the little child merged imper ceptibly into tho passionate love of man for maid, and Leopold displayed an open admiration for Anna Licee which appalled his mother He spoke of mar riage—marriage with an apothecary's daughter! He, the reigning prince of the province, for his father had been dead some years. At any cost, she toM herself, a stop must be put to this youthful folly. In those daysthe “grand tour” was considered to give the finish ing touch to a young gentleman's edu cation. The princess decided that Leo pold should travel. He should go to Italy, and amid the excitements and splendors of tho various courts to which be could have access how could he tail to get over this mad infatuation for a gi>l so far beneath him? The prince protested against the de cision. He did not want to leave Ger many and Anna Liese, but his mother managed very skillfully tb overrule his objections, and in company with a young nobleman he set forth uu the tour planned for him. His alisence lasted ncafly two year*, during which his mother hrtped and bo- lieved that her specific had l»een sue- cessful—that Leopold among tho fair bora i ami highborn ladies of uthcr lauds hud forgotten his simply first love. The road to the cn c ue was gayly dec orated with floral arches and waving banners, and a host of retainers and servants were as^nblcd to welcome back the young prtnoo. His mother sto«j4 in the great hall anxiously listening for tho sound of horses’ feet which should tell of her loved one’s approach. Already tho time when his arrival \fras expected was past and still he came not. Slowly the min utes crept on. Anxiously tho mother waited. No prinayly sou appeared. In front of tho apothecary’s house in < the little town below a party of riders had drawn up, ami the most brilliantly dressed among jrhem was leaning from his horse, speaking words of passionate love and joyous greeting to a beaiftiful girl, who stood with flushed face and downcast eyes before him. It was Prince Leopold, whose first thought upon reaching home was for his Anna Lies^ “I have seen no one to prefer to thee, ” he whispered. “Tell me, Wiesgen, dost thou still love me best of all?” And Anna Liesq’s sweet blue eyes an swered for bet as she raised them a moment to his. When tho princess heard the reason of her son’s tardy arrival, she was in despair. If nearly Iwo years of absence among novel and -4aM4Lu>t scenes could not cure her son, the ouso was hoi*'lees. Bitterly she rued bar blindness in hav ing allowed the old childish triondship to oou’imie so king. But she was a woman of resources. Sho did not give up the battle; she-aulf changed her tac tics. Previously she had been loath to Ipention Annafitta® M she could help it; now, of her oyn accord, she often ■poke erf her, and Leopold had long ac counts of bis k/vsrt one. The princess, rendered desperate bv the state of af faire, resorted to moan* she would oth erwise have detqpiaud. She collected what gossip she could concerning Anna Liese and retailed it in a very garbled form to bar son. Thus tho girl, accord- hig to these acacuats, had become a practiced coquette; she was beset with admirers and Iqytobud smiles on them one and all Latterly there was one whom she bad wsiusd to favor more than the other—« oonsin, a youttg doc tor, who had just tjoturued from lengthy travels. To bins, evsry one said, Anna Liese was sure to be betrothed before very long. The lady’s tacllss succeeded in their primary objoc*;-L*«P®ld became furi ously jealous. IB* fid not believe tho part ubout AaoA Licse’s coquetries .. (which was indodd/KUutter fabrication), strangers, but the idea of tR2g v «*on daring to look with covetous eyes upon his treasure made him wildauger. Pretty Anna IrieMt. the innocent cause of all they# hatrtburnings, was sitting one day at wwk besido one of the quaint old of her father’s house. It was iu-$J|p<¥uut of tho dwell ing and looked oat into the street, for which reason it a favorite place with the girl, Who liked to watch' the jjpssersby. To her entered cousin. Dr. Wil helm, with some uurk.-us old coins and j other articles uuwaaAf on his foreign ! travels. “Bee, consinr"'* said, “I have brought tho things I promised to show i you.” Anna Licso her worj: and j drew near to the £oui;g man. Their heads were bent very close together over the curiosities, and to any one passing in the street afut to look up their attitude rni^ht very well pass for that of lovers. As misfortune would have it it so happened that thd princess and her sou rode past cn their way to the castle. Leopold’s eye of Cuur^jsought his loved one’s dwelling, and hTs mother’s gaze followed his. herdriuuce fell upqu the scene in the wurfrow her eyes lit up, and touching her tf/u’sarm sho said: “Look here, my BCfi, and see for yourself the trnfll 6f tvhat I told you. Your Anua Licst!WP&riiot you, but an other. ” The effect on tho passionate young man was tremendous, and tho result very different from what tho short sighted mother had foreseen. Uttering a cry of xage, he sprang from his hors© trrtifc mrshed into the house. Wnlt-dTirap frm-rH he flew up tho stairs and into rimniurtnient where the cousins were. As Anna Liee* etfcyp bar lover enter sword in hand and with a face distorted with passion she- JtBrircd a terrified shriek, and the youyjj doctor eyed the intruder with pyBy.ryic.i*. Leopold, for fne none* quite mad, rushed straight at him, and tho torrent of abuse which he poured forth, together with his wild no doubt as against whom ffiff hostility was di rected. The doctor was a man of peace and timid. He tnni^ft yfll fled into another room. The prirtte® fcnowed him, and before Anna Liese—who hail rushed after them—could stay his arm he had stabbed the nufostanate Wilhelm through the beaA. young man fell, bathed in bloo^ and Leopold, all his fury suddenly before the dread ful sight, horror stricken upon tho victim of his mad wrath, while the household of the apothecary, aroused by Anna Liese’s frantic cries, crowded round, speeehhtMMlggiirrifled. The despair oT the princess at the outcome of the jealousy which she her self had aronsed in lier sou can be imagined. True, she had no need to fear for imn. Prince of the land, be stood in too high and unassailable a position to be called to account for bis crime, besides which such affairs were looked upon with much less severity in those stormy times than they are now, and this particular unhappy matter had been so carefully boshed up that few beyond those immediately concerned knew all the fuett iff tbo case. What affected tie prfUcftJ most deeply was the hitter rcfltvWn that the whole ter rible epinodn was rtf her o^ - n bringing about Sho had known so well her son 's passionate, undisciplined nature and notwithstanding that had played up^u it in so dangorons a styla Too late she realized the tremendous power of the love against which she bad tried to bat tle. and now Ivor dearest wish was to bring alnjut marriage which she had hitherto striven with all her might to prevent, for It seemed to her now that in that alone lay her son’s salva tion. It was a matter which required some delicate handling. The apothecary’s family, firm and deep as was/their loyalty and affection fi>r their prince, could not fail to feol both these senti ments deeply shaken by his fatal act, and to give Anna Liese in marriage to the very man who had slain her cousin would no doubt seem to them too dread ful a thing to contemplate. As for tho pretty maid herself, she was very much in Juliet’s predicament. She had loved her cousin and mourned him deeply, but she loved his destroyer still more, and that love nothing was powerful enough to kill. How could sho forget that his fu/y had all bedn born of his love for her, and who knew better than she, his playmate of old, that ter rible side of his character which, once brought into play, led him mto acts for which be was hardly responsible? Many wqpe the tears poor Anna Liese shed in the solitude and silence of her little chamber both for the dead cousin and that still dearer one, whom sho had not seen since the fatal day, and whom she knew would be now suffering all the agonies of unavailing remorse. She was sitting thus, some weeks later, with her sad thoughts for sole companions, when the door opened and her mother with tear stained eyes stood before her. “Daughter, I have oome to fetch thee, ” she said in tones that trembled. “The princess is down below with thy father, and thou art wanted. ” Anna Liese txirwM pale. “The princess, mother?” “Yes, my child 1“ And then the mother took the girl into her arms, and her tears welled forth afresh. “She comes to ask thee of os for her son's wife, ” she murmured. “She says she was to blame tor all his jealousy and beseeches us to consent to the marriage. She told us that sho sees now that thou alone canst guide him as he needs to be led and make him a good man ; that his life, for good or evil, is in thy hands to make or mar. ” “And you and my father—what did you say?” faltered Anna Liese. Her raothtr gently stroked her hair as she answered: "Thy father said at last that thine own heart should decide, ray child. It may bo that the princess is right, and that thou art the one pointed out by heaven to be this man’s good angel. If that is so, we have no right to with- j hold his salvation. God, who is so , great and wise, knows what is for the best, and he will guide thee tho right | way, my child. ” Leopold meanwhile was sitting brood ing all alone in one of the great mas sively furnished rooms of the castle. It was getting dark very rapidly, hut he 'did not notice the increasing gloom. It accorded but too well with the darkness of his mind. His head was sunk for- | ward ou his breast, his eyes were fixed on vacancy, while all manner of tor menting reflections were surging , through Ids brain. And the chief of these, which kept ever recurring, was that by his own hand he hud placed a barrier between his love and himseM forever. For she, the gentle, peace lov ing maiden, would surely never forgive t such an act as his. No, his pretty Anna Liese, his darling Wiesgen, as be hail been wont to call her, was lost to him I forever. Bitter tears welled to his eyes, , and he cursed his mad and fatal im- pulse for the thousandth time. At that moment tho door behind him opened noiselessly, light footsteps glided across the polit-bed floor, and some one came and stood besido him. And look ing up he saw with wondering eyes his j love, his Anna Liese, more beautiful than he had ever yet beheld her, with ! tears, half of sadness, hnif of joy, in tho tender eye : that gazed upon him. Then, even as be sat, speechless and j bewildered, half doubting his own eyes, J his mother glided up to him and placed his sweetheart’s baud in his. Tliough this tnio story happened in times far from idyllic, and the prince was by nature far from an ideal hero ol | pomance, one might well end the narra tive of his wooing with the old finale ol the fairy tales, “They lived happily ever after, ” for Leopold and his wife, from the time they were wedded till Anna Lieee’s death, 47 years latex, were 1 lovers to the last. Nearly 200 years have passed Finec the day when pretty Anna Liese be came the great lady of her native land, but tho names of both maid and lovex i still live in the pages of German his tory, for the prinpe was Leopold Furst von Anhalt-D(«9uu, famous in Prussian annals as “det alto Dessauer, ” the gen eral who fought as a young man under Frederick the Great himself and who for a period of nearly half a century stood out conspicuously as one of tho greatest soldiers of that day. Tho memory of Anna Lieao Fose is still bifid it honor in her native prov ince. for she showed herself well worthy to fill the exalted position to which she was raised She knew just | how tp manage her rough and self will ed lord and to nse her influence for the good of the people. Well acquainted with the wants and necessities of the Dessan province, she held the reins of government during the prinoe’s enforced absence in the wars wisely and well, and, risen herself from the people, suc ceeded in winning in the highest degree their loyalty and love. And tl as across the rough soldier’s life of the old Dessauer, with its con stant turmoil and its clash of arms, there shines one ray of pare golden light—Lis love for Anna Lies©.—Ar- gosy. A CAMEL ADVENTURE. AN EXPERIENCE ON THE DESERT WITH A BEAST OF SPIRIT. MUSIC IN WAR. He J’roved Firklr, IVrvcrse, Obstinate and a Victim of Uomc'slRkticM—Tliti OUcom- fort of the Hide OuUtooo by a Dray •Journey In Japan. The returned traveler was telling of his camel experience in Egypt lie said. “1 arrived, fresh and eager for bright Cairo air, from India, debased and sod den in climate and non, and I hadn't been at the Mina House a day before the desire to investigate! the huge desert beyond the Gizah pyramids and tho sphinx, sullen guardian, promising un told significance beyond, led mo to hire a oamel and a small, mischievously friendly Arab boy, with spirited black eye# and endless enthusiasm for ‘ back sheesh. ’ “We started off gayly along f he desert —a desert not monotonous, not really bare, although no plant took root there —not bare, for the shading of cool col ors ou its rolling and shelving surface was infinite. It seemed like a thing of eternal experience, stripped of all finite coatings of transient green. “We were bound for theoavos of Sao- carah, distant eight miles, two of which wo traveled stolidly and comfortably. Bat then the camel, as tho little Arab afterward explained, grew homewick. He was born some 4,000 miles across the SahaKg at a little village, and al- tbongh he had boon away from his na tive town for several years he, like the rest of his raoe, never oonld forget his geographical origin. And, like the rest | of bis race, too, his sentiments bad their full bent, and now a big wave of daeire impelled him suddenly to torn from the direction of Saocarab and tuen an awkward and uncomfortable bnt ex tremely swift lino toward the middle at the desert. A camel can go very fast, and when he goes fast it is not pleasant to lie on him, nor Is it pleasant to fall off. “I didn’t know »t the time that tho beast intdn led to carry mo away acrces tho deeert—several weeks’ trip, with no water or provisions—or I probably should have fallen off promptly, as I did the other day from a bicycle in or der to avoid a worse accfflent in the way of a collision, so I merely tugged on the useless rein and yelled to the lit tle Arab to stop him, but the little Arab was quite as powerless as L Ho still clung to the rope, bat the callous necked camel didn’t mind that; it seemed to offer just the right amount of balancing impediment to bring out his best speed. “After 20 minutes’ headlong run, when 1 was exhausted almost to the falling off point, the impulse seemed to die in the beast as suddenly as it h:td l>eeu born. In this respect, too, he was like, the rest of his race, for the lit tle Arab told mo that camels are re markably fickle, in spite of the crusted ; sobriety of their demeanor. Whether or not it was duo to tho superficiality of his emotional nature, tho camel did stop. W’e weve too tired and too grate ful to beat the beast much, though wo did make a few feeble attempts in that direction. Besides, I wanted to see Sac- carah, so wo resumed our former quiet ■ pace in that direction and arrived with no further development of perversity. I saw tin: wonderful caves, and in tho meantime the camel ate and must have enjoyed his meal, for when wo had gone some two miles on our way home ho suddenly turned about, and in spito of my constant kicks anil tho curses of the little Arab he ran back at full Bpewl to Saocarab to get something more to eat. When he found—what ho had already known, but in his impul- i sive way had forgotten—that the food i was all gone, ho consented to return to tho Mina House, where I arrived uu hour too late for my dinner, sore in body and with un-Christian anger to ward the keeper who had let me the beast. I lung his iniquity full in his lace, but he defended himself by saying that lie thought tho gentleman wanted a camel with some spirit—not any old, steady hack that had no wayward and romantic fancies. “‘Give me,’ I said, ‘the next time the oldest and most uninteresting hack you have. I don’t care whether it’s blind in one eyo and halts ou two feet, if only it is not impulsive and has no sentiment except a penchant for obe dience. ’ “That was perhaps the most irritat- , iug ride I over liad. I have been jostled along over Alpine passes in springles- coaches; I have been on the back of a Jaipur e’ phant as he recklessly ran down a steep hill; 1 was once, when uu j innocent lad, compelled by a German girl to escort her up tho funiculalre near Geneva and to spend tho day with | her at the exjiense of pelf, temper and good manners. Tho physical torture ou the elephant was w’orse than that on the camel, but it didn’t last so long, and it was not mixed with rage at tho j beast. The German girl experience in volved no physical hardship, but the camel tortured both the mind and the body—moral pain at the perversity of the impulse and physical pain at the unraisonabk-DCNs of the motion. “There is only one other ride in my experience which compares wpth that iff the cairn! in point of complete dis comfort, and that was in Japan. The physical part of it wasn’t so very bad, but the morn distress involved was far worse. I tried on one occasion to leave Kioto, where I had been living. I knew that a Jap was always late to his ap pointment, so I told tho coolies who were to come for my trunks to tie there 12 hours in advance of the time the train left They arrived 13 honrs late, in astonished innocence at the reception I gave them, and ran with me and the trunks perched cn a dray and literally bumped ns off in a heap at the station a few minutes after the train left, and then were mildly reproachful because 1 wouldn’t give them an extra tip for the hurry.”—New York Commercial Ad- verttser. It Itiipirr* tha Men to He Brave and to Endure. To tho present'day, in all the armies of tho world, musical war signals.aro considered not only minicab but abso lutely indispensable. Tho infantry drill regulations of the United States army give the music and significance of more than OU trumpet signals—calls of warn ing or of assembly, of alarm, of serv ice, with such napios as “guard mount ing.” “drill,” “stable.” “to arms.” “lire,” “retreat,’’ “church,” “fa tigue,” “attention,” “forward,” “quick time,” “double time,’’ "charge,” “lie down,” ‘’rise,” etc., besides a dozen or more drum and fife signals, all of which must be known to tho soldiers, to whom they aro a definite language, in tho sense of Wagnerian Leit-motive. Every one is familiar with such expressions as “drumming up re cruits,” “drumming out descsters” and so ou. Besides its importance for signaling purposes, there are no fewer than five others for music in tho army. A few words about each of these must suffice. Zoller, the African traveler, says that “among all savage and half civilized races song and dance are considered as indispensable aids to military training as drilling and drumming in onr armioa. ” The marvelous precision with which these primitive races execute their war songs and dances has been commented upon by many admiring explorers, and, as the value of perfect drill and co operation is well understood, music, which supplies the regularity of rhythm, is se* 41 to be of paramount importance. When our armies parade, they always do so to the measured beat of military baud or drum and fife. Another very curibos use of music in war is suggested by the word “panic. ” The historian Row both am says that “all panic is derivable from the trnm- petlike sound, if we may trust the der ivation of the word, wfiich refers the first panic to the time when the great god Pan pnt to flight on army by a sud den shoot” Many savages use wild songs and shouts or drums and horns to inspire terror and to create a panic in the enemy’s ranks. So horrible is the sound of this music, both in itself and by its bloody associations, that it Is said the Spanish settlers in some parts of South America to this day can not hear the awful trumpets of the In dians without being frightened. It is interesting to note that Hornet represented the Trojans as going to bat tle with howling warcries, while the Greeks are silenf, and that Thucydides 1 makes Brasidas say. “They are cowards who think they can frighten us by their lend shoutings,’’thus indicating that the more civilized Greeks did not resort i to this method of creating a panic. It is believed that one cause of the defeat ; of tho Chinese in their last war was that they at first relied too much on the effect of their war songs to frighten away tho Japanese. A military writer says that the drum in the army is used “especially for in spiring the soldiers under the fatigue of march or battle. ” This function of military music reminds eno ef the primitive custom of singing in order tc facilitate work. It is recognized by the greatest authorities. Field Marshal Lcrd Wolseley, for instance, wrote not long ago in the preface ol the “Soldier’s Song Book” that: “Troops that sing as they inarch will not only reach their destination more quickly and in better fighting condition than those who march in silence, hut inspired by the music and words of na tional songs will feel that self confi dence which is the mother of victqry. ” Tho German army includes more than 10,000 military musicians, able- bodied men, who might as well be sol diers. We may feel sure that the great and shrewd commanders of the German army wonld not employ in times of war such an enormous number of mu sicians unless they believed that in this way these players could do more good than an equal number of fighting men. In other words, thy generals fully ap preciate and indorbo tho utility of mu sic.—Jfornm. m Most women, drudges. So me- evu.- •wilting, somt err.' unwilling. women dnnii'v*'*/*' th ernse t. *r t ■.-T-iyi some for family. 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I was a down woman, now I am well." Eeli. The eels form the suborder f£ tit* - Apoda, or footless fish, so callevt irrKxx the absence of ventral fins. Thgat- terfa assume a form very similar to fataearr - pents. Although on a hasty exrur^m/ wrr they soein to be devoid of scaXn*, feet when the skin is dried, very scales may be seen through tfcte- m transparent outer skin, and may detached by carefully sepaxwadhg: two skins. Eels inhabit muddy ponds and!: and are common in many canals Taorv are susceptible of cold and descend the rivers to deposit tl in the sea, after which the younuc vetbezz hatched work their way up th*%««ws^ thereby precisely reversing the Imbia-zci the salmon. They are capable «£ iriuaqp out of water for a long time aft« - make vclnnfary land excursion*, rrifeex for the purpose of avoiding tfte rwa* mountable tall or in search worms, on which they feed. In tn© winter, while they mm .Syaopc torpid in the mud, multitndeaaK ta&tx.: by e€l spears—inttuy prongoti .uswr*. meats, whose prongs are feathureri vcjbL. recurved barbs, which, when psateM./ into tire mud, entangle the e<Ai «ai~ «&- fectually prevent their escape. The Reflneipeat of Itnjalty. G.. W. Russell, tho author of “Col- lectious and Recollections, “ records the following from an unpublished diary of Lord Robert Sfcymonr as an example of the “refine of manners” in the highest circles of English society in tho latter part of tho last century. In 17ES Lord Robert made this entry: “TheP. of W. (Prince of Wales, after ward* George IV, whom Thackeray has pilloried as ‘the First Gentleman in Eu rope’) called on Miss Yaueck last week with two of his equerries. On coming into tho room he exclaimed, ‘I must do it; I must do it. ’ Miss V. asked him what it was that be was obliged to do, when he winked at St. Lcgcr and the other accomplice, who lay’d Miss V. on the Floor and the P. possitively wipped her. The occasion of this extraordinary behavior was occasioned by a Bett which I suppose he made in one of his mad Fit* The next day, however, ho wrote her a penitential Letter, and she now receives him on the same footing as ever. ” Tlie MmIo Cur*. Tho theory that music is a sedative to the nerves is no new one and has been fairly well tested. Mr. Gladstone dur ing thollnany weeks of acute neuralgia which nshered in the last phase of his fatal illness found great relief in music. Mr. Herbert Spencer is said to have had recom-se to music for the relief of nerv- ons disturbance, and the empress of Austria is reported to have been cored of neuralgia by certain^trains of sound repeated at frequent interval* Many other illnstrioassnfferers have bad their pain charmed away by the same sweet imdiciuo. The “music enre’’ had con siderable vogue some time ago in Ger many, and a special hospital for its sys- ter a mo application was established in Munich. How She Viewed It. Perhwp'* yie was jealous, wasn't; anyway, she bad ivmBf'scmuii of the engagement, and she coeJd'wr&t. help noticing the engaged giojitfr jtrm* in her captured youth. jm “Really,” she said, and her mbeJ- ed scornfully, ‘Hhere’s no aecjTxzatotS for tastes, is there: Some peo$j£- tticcukz they have won the game wber the booby prize.”—Chicago Pc —* * — The County Campaign. The county “ampaigr, opens H- nr\ at Owen's Ford A large crovyi.. vril? no doubt he present to hear tho rtttr- didates tell the dear people why they seek their sulTerag*-. We predict tuj them a pleasant day and trust tha meeting will redound to the good at the entire county. The following is the schedule nt the meeting from this date Mabry’s Mill, Saturday Augr. .Uitf. Timber Ridge, Tuesday, Aug. NY bite Plains, Thursday, Aug. , BlacKsburg, Saturday, Aug. Ezells. Tuesday. Aug. 2i3rd. Maui, Thursday, Aug. 25th. Gaffney, Saturday, Aug. 27ifc. ■ . ... — • — hinging School Closing. Tomorrow two weens Prof. tV i.i Davis’singing school at Grass; 3'tMfei will close. I'rof. Davis prop>f>»t«xli> give a public exhibition of his b-.u»giMg? t-choul. It is also expected to fowm- u general basket picnic in which iht public are invited to partlcrpwto-. Bring your baskets well filled. Tfc*- candidates will also be on hnmi fto give a few speeches. — ■ - —• — • • — Change m the Schedule. There has been a slight chJtx^r*. 7in the schedule of the Soulier;*- and in the future the No Hkv-n***- bourn: passenger will arrive at m,. and No. 12 Northbound yu—r»* - ger at 4 20 p. m Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromn Quinine TutiSrcar. All druFi’ists refund money jj It nut*>«-. 2V-. Tl>e irenuinebus L. B. Q, ou each u.UVX. DnPre DrujrOo iAJs GAFFNEY HIGH SCHOOI SESSION 1898-9. BEGINS AUGUST 31 -. .. Lii