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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., AUGUST ll, 1898.
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LONGINGS.
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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. Tfc.« -»
routine b> t
less; no
ho\villth«fX SkAT
they work
Woraeu nrvecr
half take care of themselves,
decay and wrecked lives abound,re i.irxfr:.
through neglect. Every woman */
have the book called “ Health: sc+it
Beauty," which the Pe-ru-na MtfrirauM'.
Co., Columbus, O., will mail on reepuesa:..
It tells women some easy things w «£ci
to protect health, and all abos? ^Jet-
virtues of Re-ru-na for women's pe^-cuu**-
ills. Miss Lizzie Peters, Masa^vtauL*.
111., writes:
“I am perfectly cured of female th mit.
ness by taking I’e-ru-na and
*1 have gained thirty-seven pam£K.
since 1 began taking Pe-ru-nu. JG -
friends arc wondering what nafar*
me look so bright and hea^t£kir. TC
would like to let the world know vrtteat
a wonderful medicine Pe-ru-na is,
1 Woman’s diseases are mainly cfeCairsiL
of the pelvic organs. Pe-ru-m
out every phase of catarrh.
Mrs. Eliza Wike, No. 120 Iron hHwMX,
Akron, O., writes:
‘ “I would be in my grave ih
it had not been for your J ^
remedy, Pe-ru-na. 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.
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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
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