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3? Many Girl school- said to be lazy and shiftless when she doesn’t deserve the least bit of it. ic can’t study, easily ^ asleep, is nervous and tired ail the time. And what can you ex pect? Her brain is being fed with impure blood and her whole system is suffering from poisoning. Such girls are wonder fully helped and greatly changed, by taking AN ASTONISHMENT. There'* a rriRhty cuiious feller who is livin out our way; He rover seems ns anxii us as Hie rest to have hii He listens to su argument ns quiet a' 1 kin ho An never makes an thirl to huak in an referee. An one" upon a time- us folks is taikin ’hout it We asked him ids hit. Tt was on a general topic that low. This fdlrr thoujrht a minute; didn’t know. pinion go's to help decide a excited hi|(h and then he said ho We'd heard a lot of people who had sinisritlod to explain Each query. It 'u’d uive you palpitation of the hrain To hear the way tiny figured. An their words were of such lemitl That tryin to romemher them was jes’ a waste of strength, Hut the wisest of them never, with tiieir great displays of wit, Within my recollection made the memorable hit That he scored when, after thinkiu very carefully an slow, He faced the situation an confessed lie didn't know. . —Washington Star. Hundreds of thousands of schoolgirls have taken it during the past 50 years. Many of these girls now have homes of their own. They remember what cured them, and now they give the same medi cine to theirown children. You can afford to trust a Sarsapariila.that has been tested for half a century. $1.00 a bottle. AH druggists. If your bowels arc consti pated take Ayer’s Pills. You can’t have good health unless you have daily action of the bowels. 25cts. abox. “ One box of Ayer’s rills cured my dyspepsia.” L.D. Cabdwill, Jan. 12,1899. Bath, N. Y. Write the Dactcr. If you have any complaint w hatever and desire the best medical advice you eau possibly receive, write the doctor freely. 'You will receive r prompt re ply, without cost. Address, Dr. J. C. AYER, Lowell, T.tass. 1 A SOUTH AFRICAN PASTORAL. £ T • #■«■#■*•#■»■#»#« #«>+-#■«#•*♦•»#* Night had just fallen upon the veldt, j Koine deserted ant heap as the rumble the wagon now with the vrouw, and the girl would not be so tired. Ah! Baas I’iet was a good man, bet ter than Baas Jakob. He would help, and later on he might even be rich enough to buy a few head of cattle and some ponies, and they would all go back to the old place on the Krel, and— lie started to his feet as the pipe of a honoybinl came faintly out of the dis tance. Betta was there at last. ♦ ♦♦**** The wagon was creaking along under the burning noonday sim. The oxen stumbled lazily with lolling tongues, crawling .'it a snail’s pace without fear of the Hick of the lash, for every one was asleep except the little voerloper trudg ing in front of the two leaders, croon ing an endless native song to himself. The wind, more burning than the sun, came in ceaseless gusts across the arid veldt, destitute of grass or tree, and, catching up great clouds of red dust, whirled them in eddying, choking masses about the wagon and then swept them away until they vanished in the shimmering heat haze. Now and then a tortoise dragged his black and yellow shell out of the way of the span and lumbered heavily off the track to a safe distance, there to re tire within himself until the unwonted apparition had disappeared beyond his limited horizon, or a snake would shoot out a shining head from the shelter of and whizzed down lyith a crack like a rillc shot, cutting into the steaming flanks of the plunging mob until they bellowed again. Scarred and bleeding, deafened by the report of the whip and the hoarse yells of the men, the mad dened beasts straightened out, and with Klaus and the voerloper tugging at the lenders’ heads, strained, panting up the farther bank of the drift, ’’.le wagon creaking through the rocky river bed behind them and then trailed wearily forward into the dusk. And when all was still the lizards came out of the crevices, only to scut tle back with a whisk of their tails. There was water in the drift now—red water, dripping softly down between the stones and sinking into the thirsty sand. Overhead sailed a vulture in ever narrowing circles. And then the night fell. It was late that evening before Klaus crawled stealthily away from the wagon, taking a full beaker of fresh water from the pool aud Ids sup per. The baas was very angry with him because the wagon had stuck in the drift, though how could lie help it if the oxen would not be driven, and be bad forbidden him to leave the wagon to see Beltn. But no baas could keep him from doing that, no matter how many hidings he got for it. He walked back as far as the edge HE LIKES TO WORK. A Millionaire Ilolol Owner Who Knna (lie Elevator. There is a millionaire in San Francis- I co who runs an elevator every day as ! industriously as though ho belonged to ! a cage operators’ union instead of a j capitalists’ club. It is decidedly out of common to see | a thousand dollar bodiamonded hand controlling the lever of an elevator and to know that the man who opens the door of the cage for you could draw a negotiable check for $100,000 as easily us you could step in or out of his pres ence. Nor is it at all usual for elevator passengers to have their eyes dazzled by a diamond worth $1,G00 blazing at them from a cage operator’s shirt. But notwithstanding this capitalist’s strict attention to business and the brilliancy of his jewels he could never get a jolt in any hotel not his own. Nobody in need of an elevator man would consider him seriously for an instant should he apply for employ ment. Yet he is an excellent mechanic and does not read yellow papered nov els while on duty. The reason of Millionaire Bradbury’s ineligibility is bis avoirdupois. What would be the use of lifting 200 pounds of man each trip when a 50 pound boy could do the work without The New Teacher. “It was in the English class,” says the Louisville Courier-Journal, “and a new teache i had just been employed. Sbe was from the north and call'd all the pupils ‘Miss,’ at which they mar veled greatly. On the llrst day tin* teacher told her cl iss that she would not give a regular lesson, but each girl should write down all the slang she knew and bring that to the next day’s recitation. That was a ‘cinch.’ Sever al girls who possessed brothers and the rest who possessed other girls’ broth ers set them to work. The result was tuarvelous. “When the class was called next day. there was not a girl who could uot show two closely written pages of slang expressions. The teacher looked. ‘Very good,’ she said. ‘Now translate them into readable English.’ They haven't fooled with her since.” How GI«J are You ? a I im ONE CABINET PHOTOiiRAPH t< <‘very man. woman or i) .v<‘mt's old ihut will i’o t I VI'. ( Til tills oul iind l>i a liiiv (,'iiliiurt I’liotii (leluy. This otlVr cx|)irt s •hi!'! .over seventy unic sit for the negu- : it v.hh you. uiol gi t 'IjIi for nothing, lion’t lav, 19. 1!*C0. '4 J. Clough Wallace. . ounelios Otts. WALLACE & OTTS, LAWYERS. All business Intrust ed to us, given prompt and vigorus attention. Office up stairs, next to R. A. Jones & Co. ’Phone S7. “JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, l G i-' I-* >; i c v, t-8. c_\ Notary Public in office. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over R. A. Jones .V Co.’s store. HARDIN & MCWHORTER, JVttormrvs i»t 1^sl\a.v 9 GAFFNEY, - - S. C. Money to loan on city real estate. Office over U. A. Jones & Co.'s Store. D. R.Duncan. C.P. Sanders. W.S. Hall.Jr. DUNCAN, SANDERS & HALL, Attorneys-at-Law. Office over J. R. Tolb son’s & Co.’s Store. hos. B. Butleh. Henry K. Osborne BUTLEB & OSBORNE, LAWYERS. Prompt attention given all business en trusted to us. Notary Public in office. A J. E. WEBSTER, A-ttorne^r-Ajt- Office in Court House. (Probate-Judge soffice Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a specialty C. JEFFERIES 4~ GAFFNEY, S. C. Commercial I.nu. Corporation Law Real I'state Law. Money to loan on approved security. Rutledge St. Smith Shop. ■M - can do your shoeing', lire setting, wheel ■*- oiling. Vehicles and Implements repaired and paint'd. "Wiuu i you to gi vi* mo a trial. Lame horses and mules examined free for all patrons. Your "JVf will gel you good value. ^> Yours for pleasantness W. 'I\ 'riJOJVlL'SOM. Plain Facts. I will sell you for cash any thing in my line consisting of Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats, Groceries, Shelf IIaid- ware, and almost anything car ried in a general store, as cheap as any house in the city. When iii need of goods see my prices. Yours to please, I. PEELER. A N. WOOD, BANKER, ^does a general Banking and Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock ;ty Deposit Be it moderate ana dBon Buys County and School C Your business solicited. The short dusk had suddenly deepened into a heavy, thick obscurity, impeue- j treble for a space until there rose the rim of a full moon over the edge of the plain which showed hard and clear cut against the great disk. The ant hills, that alone broke the monotonous flat ness, flung interminable inky shadows as the cold, white glare; electric in its fierce intensity, shone out level across the plains. The sense of loneliness, of utter isolation, was overwhelming. The heavens, sown with lire, seemed so re mote, and the bare earth, stretching | away into the dim, starry distance, so empty and limitless. It might have been the roof of some dead worlfl. By the edge of the marsh a transport j wagon had outspauned for the night, I and within the circle of firelight, where moon and flame struggled for the mas tery, loomed the wavering outlines of the trek oxen tethered to the di.ssel- boom aud now and again the figure of a man. The only sounds were the crackling chirps of the bullfrogs in the vlei and ; the voices of two men who sat leaning ] back against the kaross of meerkat j skins flung over one of the wagon wheels. j “No!” repeated the elder man, the transport rider and owner of the wag on, raising his voice. “With us they shall not come—either she or the brat.” “But look, Jakob,” persisted the oth er, “it is now three weeks, four weeks, that we are on the trek, and she has followed all the time aud carried the child too. How the poor girl lives I do not know. Take only the child, J a kob.” “How are we to eat? How is the vrouw to eat?” demanded the Boer querulously. “Are there not enough mouths to till already? And God knows how much farther the span can go without water in this accursed coun try; they have enough to pull as it is. And why should I feed the wife and child of every black selielm that is fool enough to want them? Yordomte swartzkop!” And he spat angrily into the lire. “But the child,” persisted Piet. “That is small and eats but little, not a quar ter as much as a dog. Besides, Klaus may run away if the girl falls sick, and he alone knows the road aud the drifts across the river.” There was a moment’s pause. “Well, the brat, then, in God’s name,”snapped the other. “The girl can walk, as she has walked these three weeks," he added aud rolled himself in his rug to avoid further surrender. Piet rose stillly to his feet: the night breeze was growing chill. He knocked the ashes out of his pipe, kicked some fuel into the embers of the tire, and went around to the other side of the wagon, where the three Basuto boys were lying. “Klaus!” he called. “Here a mo ment!” A grunt from one of the blankets answered him. “Baas Jakob says the baby may ride with the vrouw in the wagon, but the girl must still walk.” There was a sudden movement at bis feet and a dark figure rolled out of the blanket. “No, boy; no! Not that!” His hand was being covered with kisses. Piet drew it sharply away and, taking a strip of biltong from bis pocket, thrust it into the Basuto’s grasp. “Here; this may help for the girl. It was all I could get,” he said roughly. Aud, turn ing on his heel, he went back to where his brother lay sleeping. Baas Piet was as averse to being generous as the transport rider, though for other rea sons. For awhile Klaus lay still. Presently, carrying the piece of hard sun dried meat and his own supper of boiled mealies, he crept, shivering, from his blanket and went slowly out on to the silent veldt in the direction from which the wagon had come, as lie had gone every night to listen for the signal that told him Betta was there among the ant hills. Then he would cheer her up and sit beside her while she ate some of his poor rations, though they were not enough for her and the child. Betta was a good girl. He knew that alien he gave her father two oxen and some wethers aud took her away with him from the old kraal by the wagon drift across the Krei three years ago. She bad been with him ever since, and now, when the trek began. Baas Jakob would not let her ride in the wagon or even come near it. Klaus grasped the kerrio dangling from his belt at the recollection of the cut across the mouth that the drunken transport rider had given him with his i sjambok when be bad asked his per mission. Besides, there was the baby, I and he could not have left both of them behind, so far from the kraal and her civu people. But Baas Jakob was j a hard man; he did not understand such things. Fvcr since they had left Burghers- ! dorp, many weeks ago, she had walk- I od after them, the baby slung at her I back, and there were yet three weeks more and the desert strip to cross be- I fore they reached the g.eat belt and the river. But the baby wga to ride iy of the drift and sat there waiting. Ho | wear and tear < n ti c basement ma- of wheels roused him from his nap, and far up in the clear, blue air floated a great vulture, without a tremor of his wide pinions, just as he had floated for many days past, watching and waiting. Suddenly there was a stir under the tilt. The curtain was flung aside and Baas Piet stepped out on to the fore part of the wagon, yawning sleepily. “Boy,” ho shouted, "onsaddle the mare. I shall ride on to the water hole beyond Hie drift. It cannot be far off now.” Klaus appeared from underneath the wagon, where his blanket was slung hammock fashion in the daytime. “No, Baas Piet; the spruit shouh. not be more than one hour’s rldo now, and the hole is only two, three mile far ther.” Presently he brought the mare around from the back of the wagon, where she had been tied up, tightened the girths and rolled up the riem of the neck halter. Baas Piet swung him self off the edge of the wagon into the sadle. “Tell the baas when he wakes up,” he said, aud with a shake of the reins cantered off through the dust. “It cannot be far off now,” repeated Klaus to himself, as be watched him until he became invisible In the midst of the vast brown expanse of sun scorched hillside. It was now live days since they had left the last vlei, and he had given nearly all his share of the hot muddy water that the vrouw served out to the girl for the last few days, but that was very, very little, and she was sick too. For a moment he stopped and looked backward. There, just topping the last rise, miles and miles away, his keen sight could pick out against the sky line the little black speck that had been behind them fpr so many weeks now. /altering on with parched lips through the heat and loneliness of the plains, always dropping farther and farther behind as evening drew in. He heard the snores of the transport rider and his vrouw as they slept com fortably under the tilt. If they could only feel what Betta felt—yet It was easier for her now that she had not the baby to carry, and the water was close in front, and after that only two or three days’ trek before the desert end ed. And, comforted by the thought, Klaus walked on after the wagon and returned to his blanket. The baby was certainly the most con tented of all, lying in an empty sugar box under the shade of the tilt, engag ed in coiling the soft end of the 1$ foot lash round and round its chubby arms. It -rew fatter and merrier every day. The vrouw rather liked it, black as it was, for she had no children of her own. All at once came a warning shout from the voerloper. They were right on the edge of the drift, and the lead ers began to pick their way slowly down the steep bank over the loose rocks and sand. Klaus was busy put ting the heavy iron shoe drag under one of the hind wheels, while Baas Ja kob, in a bad temper at having Ids sleep disturbed, sat upon the front of the wagon, swearing at him and the other boys for being lazy Now sliding sideways over a smooth shelving rock, now plunging down over a ledge with a jar that wrenched every bolt and wheel spoke, the heavy wag on crashed down the bank, only to come to a dead stop at the bottom, im bedded in sand up to the axles. The span were knotted in a tangled mob of clashing horns aud twisted yoke reins, snuffing aud pawing up the sand with Impatient hoofs. Instinct told them that water was there, but it was far, far below, for the last rains had fallen many months back. “Yerdonite ruiueks!” raged the an gry baas, beside himself. “Twist their tails! Get that iron spike there, Hen drik. That will make the devils move!” But it was of no use. The span only became more hopelessly entangled. In vain Klaus dashed In among them sjambok in hand, kicking here am slashing there, while Hendrik and the voerloper called upon the beasts by name aud urged them forward. Water they knew was there, aud water they would have “The whip! Why don’t you take the whip, you sehelms? Where is It? roared the infuriated Boer, risiug am glaring about the wagon. As be went forward he stumbled over the baby and its box, upsetting it am sending the child rolling across the could not see far tonight, for there was no moon, only the half light of the stars, and the bottom of the drift yawned black at bis feet. A prowling jackal snarled close by, and at Ids ap proach a great vulture, gorged with the remains of some wornout trek ox that had fallen there to die, though he did not remember noticing it, had flapped heavily off into the night. Klaus waited for many hours, but the girl did not come. Of course, hav ing the baby to carry again would make her take longer, for Baas Jakob bad told him bow be bad seen it roll off the wagon that morning trying to reach a big tortoise on the road and crawl after it unhurt, and bow he had watched it there until Betta had pick ed it up when she came along. Still, she would catch them up next evening, and he left the water beaker and the food tied up in a piece of rag under a heap of stones in the middle of tiie road, so that the aasvogels could not get at them, and Betta might find them there in the morning. But Betta did not catch the wagon up next evening or the next. Four days afterward they had pass ed the edge of the desert and out- spanned among the shady tamarisks ind the willows by the banks of the Great river. “Never mind, Klaus,” said Baas I’iet indly, patting him ou the shoulder. Hunger is a bad death, but it Is God’s will. Besides,” be added, with a smile, ’there are yet many good girls in Ba sutoland. But you will stay with Baas Jakob aud me yet a bit?” ‘I stay with you—and Baas Jakob,” answered Klaus simply. “Ho treats me as well as any other baas.”—Ball Mall Magazine. V1VIER, THE HORN PLAYER. chinery. not to mention the unnecessary fraying of wire cables? A representative of The Examiner found William U. Bradbury in the cage of the elevator at bis hotel, rushing it up and down the shaft as fast as elec tricity could send it. But Mr. Brad bury would not talk. He was busy running bis hotel aud his elevator, he said, and, besides, it wasn’t any busi ness of the newspapers anyhow. Leav ing the elevator, lie slammed the door and disappeared in Ids private office. Mr. Bradbury is a man of moods, lu subsequent interviews be good na- turedly explained that he works be cause be wants to. He lias worked all bis life long, he says, and has a right to keep ou working. Asked for the names of other pioneer millionaires who work, he said there is none, be cause they are all dead. Then he re called the names of some of them— Fair. Flood, O’Brien, Stanford, Crock er, Hopkins, Sharon, Ralston, Sutro and Blythe. “A man’s got to work to live,” said he. "That's what bone and muscle are given us for. When you shut down your engine, your holler is going to burst. “How to get rich? That is just as easy as anything else on earth—just as easy, mind you. All you have to do is to center your mind ou it. (live up everything else. Give up friends, chil dren, peace and comfort. Pleasure? ’lake it seeing the dollars come in. There is a tierce joy of conquest that you feel over each one.” Millionaire Bradbury talks like a miser, but bis deeds are those of a philanthropist, for he gives away dol lars by the thousand to charity aud asks those benefited that nothing be said about It.—San Francisco Exam iner. Wiiat (he Hrillsli Soldier Im Fighting For. There was a residuum of horrid real ity in the reply of the warrior at the front whose parents had asked him for help to keep them out of the work- house. He told them, as we related, to wait till he returned, when they could all “go to the workhouse togeth er.” Writing from Modder river, a corporal in the Black Watch complains that out of 7 shillings a week be must pay 1 shilling for a small pot of jam and the same sum for 18 very small biscuits. Milk costs 1 shilling a tin, and then there is tobacco. No wonder the workhouse looms ominously!—Lon don Chronicle. Ho Was FnmoaH For Practical Jok ing t'udcr Napoleon HI. The death, announced from Nice, at the age of 7b, of the famous horn play er aud practical joker, Eugene Leon VIvier, will recall stories of a man who figured largely iu London and Parisian society In the early days of the third empire. Vivier was a magnificent solo horn player, but he was even more re markable us a humorist His practical jokes may seem rather stupid now, but iu their day they were the talk of Eu rope. One of them was to tie a young calf ou the second floor balcony of Ids house, so that a crowd assembled and blocked up the street. Yivior's excuse was that he hated to see boys hurrying on their errands and adopted this plan to tempt them to loiter. Then he kept the calf in his rooms so long that it grew into a bullock, and when the po lice Interfered they found it impossible to get the animal down stairs. Vivier invented a plan of mixing gum with soap, for the manufacture of soap bubbles, of a particularly large and tough description, which he set flying over 1st. Petersburg, to the alarm of the Emperor Nicholas, who Imagined it to portend some new Insurrection. In London he had a fancy for keeping in his rooms, off Regent street, a cock, for the board of which he insisted ou paying 18 pence a week and which he pretended to treat as a familiar spirit, jabbering to it for some minutes and then rushing frantically out of the house, his handkerchief to bis eyes, sobbing as though his heart would break. In an omnibus he once pretended to be mad, shouted at the top of his voice and presented a pistol at his own head. Then, when seized, he gravely broke the supposed pistol in half, handed one piece to the conductor and proceeded to eat the other half, which was choc olate. Napoleon III was especially his ad mirer aud gave him many sinecures, among them an inspectorship of mines, which meant the drawing from time to time of a comfortable salary. When Vivier wanted to travel, Napoleon used to seud him, at the government ex pense, as a special imperial courier with secret dispatches. Vivier was a self made man and as little more than a lad lie came (part of the way on footi from his native Ajac cio, where his father was a tax gather er, to Paris and became a player in the band at the Italian Opera. Afterward he studied seriously under Gallay and soon, as a soloist, took the foremost place, lie first visited London in 1818 on the recommendation of Louis Phi lippe. who thought a great deal of him, and his celebrity lasted practically un til the fall of the empire. Clerk's Sales. State of South Carolina, i In Common County of Cherokee. ( I’ieas. C. II. Gaffney et al.. Plaintiffs, against Miss Edna Northey t t al., Dei't mlants. In obedience to an order made in-rein. I.y llis Honor James Aldriel), Presiding Judge, dated March ItSUi. 1900, I will sell a. Gaffney, before the Court House door, during lire legal hours of sale, on Saiesday, i th iff May, 1900, tin* following described lands, to wit: Twenty-five (25) residence or building lots, located in Hit western part of said town, front ing on Oranard, Logan and Wood street; each lot being eighty (>0> feet front by two hundred (200) feet dee;> to an alley, and same being a part of the estate lands of Tho... W. Gaffney, deceasrd. A plat of same eau be seen in (T i b's office. Termsof sale: One-third easii, balance on a credit of one and two years, in equal an nual installments, with inti rest from day of sale at 8 percent, per annum, lo be secured by bond of purchaser aud mortgage of the premises. Purchaser lo pay lor papm-s. reve nue stamps and recording. A pril 9th, 1900-st. J. ER.Tr.FFF.UlER, Clerk C. C. Pis. Wallace & Otts. Plaintiffs’ Attorneys. I Us Mm pprVb! him tmcL!*, Piictorrapiiei. (iaffney, S, U. Iveop Oool at a small expense (luring the hot summer mouths by buying vour IOI from me every dav ice delivered J, L. ALEXANDER. He then retired to the soutli of floor of the wagon, where it lay iu a I France, keeping up his character for ball on u heap of skins, crowing with j eccentricity. He invented a trick which delight. People so seldom played games with tt. The Boer thrust the empty box back against the side with his foot aud snatched up the bamboo whip handle. Poising it carefully above his head in both hands, lie gave a little preliminary flourish, but the end was .caught iu something—the brat again, curse it! It opeued wide eyes of pleasure at him, holding up Its dimpled wrists, wound round with the eud of the lash. With a savage oath lie kicked it off the end of the wagon into the midst of the struggling cattle uud brought the great whip down upon them with nli greatly perplexed the last generation- playing. or pretending to play, four notes at once ou the horn, the effect being somewhat similar to that of four horns playing together.—London News. The Wlrelea*. “As 1 understand it,” says Mrs. Gaz- sam, "by the wireless telegraph - sys tem the messages go right through tho air we breathe.” "Yes, that Is correct,” assented Mr. Gazzam. “Then a person who has just tiled a message In the telegraph office may swallow Ids own words ou Uia wa; A FIGHTING PARSON. How Dr. MoKaue (‘ompletely Con- *4?rtc<l a Uiilljintv I’iucksinith. The conversation had drifted some how or other to fighting clergymen. “That reminds me,” said a Georgian in tho group, "of a story that is told on Dr. McKane. The doctor was a fa mous antebellum character, who lived between Washington and Augusta—a district, by the way, which produced nu extraordinary number of men of ability, lie was a physician of tbo good old school, and, being a man of strong religious views, he was in tho habit of occasionally pi t aching i". the rural churelics. PhyVca’dy .McKane was a giant, and if he failed to convert a sinner by word of mouth lie was uot averse to finishing the argument with his lists; so, needless to say, his prose lyting was singularly successful. "One Sunday, as the story goes, lie drove to a neighboring village fur the purpose of holding services and was met as he descended from ins buggy by the local blacksmith, who was the bully of the community. Tho black smith had heard of the doctor’s prow ess and regarded his presence as a menace to his own prestige aud decid ed not to let him preach. “‘Well, stranger, who be you. any how?’ he asked as a starter, pTnling himself in the visitor's path. “‘My name is McKane,’ replied the doctor, ‘and I’ve come to hold a meet ing in the church yonder.’ “ ‘My name i* Bill Williams,’ paid the blacksmith, ’and I’m hero to tell yon that you can't hold no meet in in this town today.’ “ ‘That’s something we’d best settle Immediately.’ said McKane, with ^t- fect coolness, and proceeded to pull off his coat. Tho blacksmith had tho ad vantage of brute strength, but McKano was a skillful boxer, and after a few swift passes be saw an opening and knocked bis man down. The bully got up raving and was promptly floored again. The third time McKane stretch ed his adversary out he jumped on his chest and began slugging him about the face. “‘Hold on!’ bellowed the blacksmith, spitting out a couple of teeth. *I’vo get ter ’uuf!’ “‘Do 1 preach here today?” asked McKane, landing a stiff punch on Ids nose. “'Yes! Yes!’ yelled the other. ‘Preach all you want to!’ “‘And will you come and hear inc?' continued the doctor, hitting him a ter rific lick in the eye. “‘Yes! Yes! I'll come." “‘All right, brother.’ said the fighting parson, rising and wiping his hands ‘The services will begin at lo sharp ' "The blacksmith kept Ids word and was cn the front bench. They he afterward l.(( , nuie a chi • I . lec." New Ui'icaos Thin • Dc *• .a. A Marvel of OI«con»forl. The monitor, which used to be the terror of the navy in the matter of di comfort to Its crew, will have to yield that unquestionable distinction to the torpedo boat destroyer, In wld(<i the demands upon the officers and men are enormous. Comfort, as It Is understood in a big ship, is unknown. Even In what Is known as moderate weather cooking Is almost an impossibility. The whole structure vibrates and trembles under the strokes of the engines ami the kick of the propellers.—Army aud S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO. Schedule No. 4. In Effectii'.oi A. M.. Sunday.December 24th, ’99 Between Caraden.S.C. and Blacksburg,S.C. W i:s i\ EAST asT"357 , 1 32 , 31. Sheriffs Sale. State of South Carolina, ' In Court of County of ('hehokee. 1 Common Pleas. S. M. Littlejohn, et ;ih, Plaintiffs, against !'• P. Cani rel, et ah, Defendants. b.v viitue of a decree in the aljove cause, made on March the 14th, 1900, 1 will expose for P’d'lic sc.ie at Guff my, S. C., before the ('ourt Mon ■' door, on Hu first Monday in May. 1900, mwi isah -day) during the legal hours of sale, the follow in : dt serihed real estate, to wit: Lots numbered sixty-six (Oii) aud sixty-seven (Jo on Sage >1 reel in the town of Gaffney, and being a pari of a ten acre lot formerly owned by L. C. I’yars and li. IC. Humphries, and b •ing the same lots in which N. K. Littlejohn and J as. it. Littlejohn purchased an interest at Sheriff's sale al Spartanburg Court House on Hie seventh (lay of March. 1887; each of lid lots Ironting on Sage Street sixty-six feet and running back one hundred and six teen feel, mure or less, said lots io be sold separately. Terms of sale: One-third cash; tho i«il- an a* on a credit of t welve mont hs with inter- 1 -t irom day of sale, to be secured by bond of 1 he puiohti.-er With m at gage of the premises, • he purchaser to have tin privilege of paying ail ea ffi, if he or she so desires. If termsof sale are not complied with within twenty- four hours said premises to lie resold at next sab sdny at 1 isi< of purchaser. Purchasers to 1 ay for all pa pi rs. W. W. Thomas, 4-i7-19H'-law—3t Sheriff. EASTERN TIME. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 1! Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains. In j£?lect l)ec. 10,1309. STATIONS. >1 ; - X 1*. I*. >1. 1 P. Me P. M. 8 20 12 50 CAMDEN 12 25 5 30 H 5()| 1 15 HE KALI! ! 12 021 4 50 9 r.'" 1 27 . . WEST V 11.LE I 11 501 4 20 10 501 t 40 . ... KERSHAW | n ;;5 4 10 11 2" 2 id, HEATH SPRINGS , 1! 20 3 15 ti :s>i 2 15 .PHEASANT HILL. 11 15 ;j oo 12 :to *J LANCASTER .. 1" 551 2 1 00! 2 50 .... RIVERSIDE .. 10 40 1 00 1 30 :t no . . SPRI NGDEl.L .. 10 :;o 12 40 2 nol 10 CAT AW LA .11 NC’N to 20 12 20 •J f>‘»j A ....... LESLIE I 10 101 11 no ;t to :i to . HOCK HILL id on 10 40 4 l"! :t 55 NEW PORT— 1 9 :ci S 20 4 45; 4 tr2 .. TIRZAH | <i 30| 8 00 4 20 ... YORKVII.LE ... 9 15 7;«) i\ (Ml 4 ;r> . .. SHARON 9 on •) 50 (1 251 4 50 j HICKORY GROVE I 8 45 ti 20 ti 95 5 no SMYRNA ! s ti U> •7 00 5 20 . HLACKSBCKG ..j 8 15 5 30 P. M. j P M. A. M j A. M. Between Blacksbur&S.C., asd Marion,H.C. W ESI E AST. 11 :>a. b-4. , 12. '/I X T. X l X X 7i S3 3 C! /} EASTERN TIME. Cl u ■y. 5 O y, % X STATIONS. ^4 - x j' j- x. .j j 1 X i A. M. | i*. »i | A. m. ; V. M . K 10 5 3o .. BLACKS1HTRG ..i 7 ti to h 30 8 15: EAKLH 1 9 22; ti 2o 8 401 5 50 PATTI K'son si-GS; C” 2.»i ti 12 9 201 ti 00) SHELLY .... t l"»i ti m |o on! t; 2oi ....1, Vi 1 IMuRK ti ,V» 4 .V* 10 10 (i 2*1 .. M( loRI-.SltoRO... i (i 4 40 10 251 ti .‘H .... II EnRI 1.1 1 A .. ti •• 4 20 10 .‘ill, ti .VV ToKI-sT CITY . 1 ti 20 j 3 50 II 15 7 l<> UP rili.KI ORDTON ** o.\j :i 25 11 35 7 22 MILLWOOD i ;> , i, >! 3 05 11 45 7 GOLD;. . VALLEY i .» 4o 2 50 12 05 7 4o .THERMAL (Ml 5 I 5 •{“■I 2 45 12 25 7 .V G i.EN WOOD ; 17 2 20 12 *>o| H 1*> .MARION I 5 (J0 i 2 00 M. I P. M. A. M. J P. M. Gaffney Division. EASTERN time STATIONS. P Al At A P M 1 '«> ft < M) i HI.AC KS1MR( t 50 3 (0 1 2“ ti *. Jo ' ClihK« >K EE 1 \l J.M ' 7 30 2 40 1 to ’ ti ( to (. . \l FNLY 10 2 20 P M A M A M P M Tn lio ! So. 22 |i ;i vlng Murlnn. S. c \ . Il l’ • i a. hi. lonU ifllf nli >Ht» t'OIH IC •lion nt Mia* ■U- n nr, s ( .. \v ith (hi- Soul lie I’D ,’s tl llll \«». ;ji M' i hnr- . V • Ituii nil points K.is t. HIP >1' In/ v vif h 1 ti It* ^Olll In * rn .-i v* si lihuh Otf to \tlif ota, . U a., uih! lil 1 t>olnt*' W . si 1.' [til <! will I”.- H 1 y l»t* 4M*iiu r *rs Ltnirij/ I .' t*t f 1 ' t III train N«». 1 I (ft iiii N '. || ! , at Vi i) 1* 1 1% viI lo. a i k 4 j a. in., :t •Is ,1 1 l l 'u nuh-n. K < ‘ h t lit \ if* urrlv- It.i/ i ar h* Ion .* ( , :»t h. K tl » . Tr \ 11, ;j4 | > h ‘ #*44!| tt, a<*h4*d, |t*ll Y lin/ nu i• *UhImi t: ! ' i . lit,. 1 ('Ml- n«*«*t at 1 Ito U III t W 4oUt li »i n' 4 Kl< »rh l.i 1 ruin f* >r all i>oh Fit** '"v m t II Ti 0 III ; i i 11 io i CalU'li II. M. , > lt 12 50 p. io , 0 fir r th»* ii ir\ ilval of 1 I'D S' < lit herns < hoi l*U‘M nfl trum i udmIs a f him* ter, M. « u 11 | t th« 1, .V C 11 : U ; lit ‘ Junct loll will 1 t III* K A 1*.. koIii; : T at Mock Mill h. < with 1h souf h< rn •* 11 nt' No. .it for < i ho 1 |n 4 1 ill | H »t*4 Hast < oni rinrt 1 VnrUv I* , H (. with 11 No VI nil 11 >11* < . tV N. NV. !< K , for (1 H. <■ At HUt j with t i a* Mouth enf *i \ till,uii, bo! n > mu! th i* Mont l.eri u**i ti nt guilig u ♦•M . and *o nr »e«*t nor a l Ma rk a i. N. 1 1 Yes. 1 No. 18. FstMa Northbound. No. 12. No. 38. Ex. No. 38. Daily Daily Sun. Daily. Lv. AtlantisT'j 7 59 a F 12 10m 4 30 p 11 50 p “ Atlanta ET 8 5(1 a 1 00 p 5 30 p 12 50 a “ Norcrosa.. 9 39 a 6 23 p 1 23 a " Buford. 10 05 a 7 03 p 1 63 a " Gainesville 10 35 <i 2 25 p 7 33 p 2 13 a “ Lula 19 o3 a 2 45 p 8 OOp 2 38 a •• Cornelia.... 1 1 tit) i\ 8 30 p “ Mt. Airy. 11 30 a 8 35 p Lv Toecua.. 11 53 a 3 33 p 0 OOp 3 23 a Ar. Elbertou. Lv. Elberton.. 9 66 a 5 40 p 11 45 a Lv. Vv 'minster. 12 31 in 4 04 ft “ Beneca. 12 52 p 4 15 p 4 28 ft “ Central 1 4>i p 4 55 a •• GreeiAille 2 34 p 5 22 p , 6 00 a bpar’burg . 3 37 d tl 13 p ........ 7 03 a ” flaffuev.... 4 20 p G 45 p 7 45 a Blacksburg 4 38 p 7 02 p ........ 8 02 a '• King's ML. 5 03 p 8 27 a •' Gastonia... 5 25 p 8 61 a " Charlotte.. 6 30 n 6 18 p .••••••• 9 50a Ar. Gre'naboro V 55 p 10 47 p 12 23 p Lv Gre’nsboro il 45 p Ar. Norfolk.. . ...... 8 25 u Ar. Danville... 11 ‘25 p 11 5Gp 1 38 p Ar. Richmond.. 0 10 a ti 00 a 6 25 p Ar. W'hington. 6 42 a 8 50 p H 25 p " li'more P K 8 00 a “ Ph'delnhia. M New York. * • • 10 15 a '! 53 a 12 4 m J 23 a FstMa V f 9. Soutli bound. No. ;15. No. 37. No. IL Daily Daily Daily. Lv NY.,Pa.R. 12 15 a 4 30 p “ Ph’dclphia. 3 50 a G 55 p • • “ Baltimore.. 6 22 a 9 20 p “ Wnsh’ton. H 15 (t 10 45 p Lv. Hi Linond.. 12 01 n 11 00 p 5 50:. 11 00 p Lv. Danville.. 5 48 p « 10 a Lv. Norfolk. . 9 00 ti 8 35 p ....... . . .*••••• Ar. ((ro’iisboro 0 35 p 5 10 a i Lv. Grc’n ff.oro 7 10 p| 7 05 u 7 37 ft Ar l harlot to . 9 45 p 9 25 a 12 05 m Lv Gastonia. 10 42 p 1 10 ui a 1 12 p “ King's Mt. | 1 3s p " Blacksburg li 25 p 10 45 a 2 lei p ........ *• Gaffney. 11 42 p 10 68 a 2 24 p •' Sjinr'burg 12 ffliu 11 34 a 3 15 p •' Greenville “ Central 1 30 a 12 30 p 4 30 p o 42 p rnr Ex. Sun. •* frVneca •* W‘minuter 2 32 a 1 30] 6 08 p 6 25 p " Toc< >;i 3 28 a 2 15 r 7 OOp u U» a f.v Eibcrton. 9 00 a 1 301 / . . Ml her 1 (in. 11 45 u 6 40 Lv. MI Airy.. 7 21 p 6 3o a “ Cornelia . 7 32 p 6 35 a “ Lula 4 18 a 3 Up 8 Oi'p tt 57 a Gainesville 4 3d a 3 33 p 8 20 p 7 20a “ Buford... 6 02 t 8 48p 7 48 a •' Nor,toss. 5 25 a 9 18 p 8 27 a Ar. At lanta.ET (1 10 a 4 55 p 10 OOp 9 :xt*s » At lanta,CT 5 10 a 3 55 p 9 OOp 8 30 a Betwceu Lula aud Athens. So. 1 i. Ex. bun. No. 13. Daily. STATIONS. 11 Do a Lv .Lula II i)l , a “ Maysville 11 62 a “ Harmony 12 Uhp Ar. Athens Lv No. 10. No. 12. Ex. Daily. Sun. 10 60 a 7 35 p 10 19 a 7 09 p lu Uta 6 38 p 9 25 a 6 00 p with the southern SAMI EL A.TKHT, Mil III NT. I'roftliieni. intcudent. 8 lOp 8 !!( p 8 69 p H 9Up Note c)on6 connection made at Lula with main line trains. ••A''a m. “P’'p. m. "M” noon. “N” night. ('liesnpeftkc Line Steamera in daily aarvica be'ween Nor >lk and Haitimore. Nos. U7 a no 88—Daily Washington and Pouthwestern Vestibule Limited. Through PulliMin KleeplngcarH between New York and N**w Ur leans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgomery. and also between New York and M'-mphi*. via Washington, Atlanta and Blr- ininiriatn. Also elegant Pullman LibharT Cn t ovation Cars between Atlanta and New Y"tU kirstfliiaa thoroughfare coachet be- twri n Wii-hmston and Atlanta. Dining *ara l»*-i e nil nieois eu route. I^t7ing Wash ug- ini’tou Mondnya, Wednesdays and Fridays r totiriv s is-ptngfar will run through bet ween Waa.itngtim and bun Franciaro without change. Pom.i in .ii uw mg room a.ee; tng oara lieiwwen ((roe .sir ioaii'1 Noilollt Clou connection at Norto n for oi.u Point Comfort. No- .A and .»>—L'niled States Fast Mall runa eoltd lad ween Washington and New Orleans, via Southern Hallway, A. A W. P. R. R. ana 1, X N K. H.. IrtCng composed of coaches, thrnn. n without change tor iiasaengers of all chi* i-i I'nhiiiiui drawing room sleeping cars t»-iwien New York iticl New Orleans, via A' lanta and Miinlyniiiery and between Cha hrtie Hint Atlanta. Dining cars nervs at. ti eu's en rou(« No. II, 1L 1 end 12—Pnllmau sleeping car* between Ith'limoud ami Charlotta. via Dan* VlUft. MOIlt h hound Nos. U and 88, north ho nod No* 84 and 12 FLANK h UANNON. Thild T-f