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\ Too much housework wrecks wo- g men's nerves. And the constant P care of children, day and night, is jfi often too trying for even a strong & woman. A haggard face tells the u ! story of the overworked housewife to and mother. Derange*! menses, r. leucorrlnea and failing of the n womb result from overwork. .J Every housewife needs a remedy g to regulate iwr incuses and to r> keep Iiur *cau**1c or^iii.s ** in perfect condition. r* WinEcf ?.&> 1. doilrg (his (or (' (sjuols of B j Mrs. .Tones and 'hat is wlr -he ft j writes this trunk letter: jr. ' K" i?? ' 1 ain bo rI??1 that V'-urtVino of Cariitii > j M i have felt lor j'i ur>. 1 i u dm.-,, isii !, own work without my h- 'p. and . * I washed last wc?k an ; was not ojio bit j | m do..i<4 nio goou. I Ui.i be; ...,; nicr I than I ever was b-for , arc! sleep n<> > l .? | B r.' il eat hearty, I'd-re 1 1 yan t i...-,.r f' Jp \V no of f'urrtiil, I nsc.l to Vr. to lay pi M (low .1 live or six tines c\..> uaj, but e theday. Mit*. Kicmaud Joxuk. c| B Fcr * !vl*c ami literatim, r.d lrr??, jmtIt.b ijrnip- L B Ohatt pvu.'.i Medicine Co , 1 hattai?. -jch, I"cnn. V Miss Patton's Clock. By Howard Markle Hoke. All of us who often dropped in to see Miss Patton noticed, of course, that the t&l), mahogany ciock mat stood on trie landing ol the stairs leading up from her luxurious sitting-room, did not run. Its highly ornamented case was kept polished, and we could see that she gave it scrupulous care, but so far as we could learn she had never called in for it the service of a clock-maker. The hands stood at nine-twenty-three, and at the time 1 am writing apout I was contident they had not moved a minute in ten years. The older people of Hrookton believed that ?he moveless hands and pendulum stood for some crisis in .Miss TattoiTs life. They told us that after she hud come to live umon^ them the clock had run for a few montes, but one day they had seen thut it tiad stopped, and she had never started it. Some of the prying ones had tried to question her, but Rhe had evaded them with her perfect courtesy, and from these bailledones the impression was spread that there was a streak of queerness in Miss Pulton. Hut we young people resisted and resented this. If Miss Patton had had a great gift, she became all the more interesting to us but that it had made her queer we stoutly denied. For if there was one person in Brockton who was interested in us young folks and all we did it was Miss Button. She was only too glad to help us plan uui pleasures, and none of us' trouble or perplexed, had ever been turned awav bv her after a confidence without an uplifting word or a suggestion that made the way clear. If anyone in Brookrou was sick she wuj the rr.nflt constant and the moat welcome vinitor. and the tale of her charities and kindness could not he told on many pages. Ah outsiders, our relation to the mistery of the clock was en . ti rely different from Nannie Graham's. She had been adopted by Miss fat ton a few weeks ?f ter | she had come to the village.! Nannie had been only ten at fhat, time, and the clock tb d not run. naturally became a o<. iimouplace of her life. We never mentioned it to her for fear that in some way it would otl'end hor benefactor and her own best friend. But we heard about the clock in a perfectly simple way and through Nannie, after all. It was the evening the three of us who were to be hor bridesmaid were Rt Miss Patton's discussing the preparations for the wedding. A boy had been soriously hurt the day before on the railroad and Miss Patton was over at his home doing all she could for him. Our topic was interesting that we forget how the evening was wear ingaway until LuoyGreat sudden- j iiskedij' wliut time it was, and,j without thinking, looked up at me eioctt upon tne landing, l nere i was a light laugh, followed by at.! : embarrassed aileuee; then wo alllooked at Nannie and fuiind bor | looking at us in am prise. "What, makes ) ou act so, girls?" she Paked. Then it came out that she had | never known that we were curious about the eluca, and she said'? "Why. I dont mind telling you all 1 know about it, and 1 ?ni sure t Miss L'atton would not object, for J she has never asked me not to tell what I saw. "A long while ago, .just a fowl I weeks after 1 came here to lnre, I a gentleman called here one evening to sec Miss Hattou. lie wop' a stranger, and she had never talked of him since and never! told me his name. lie was very J handsome, and I often recalled since the look upou Miss L'atton's face, and have known by it that all her dearest hopes were center; od upon him. "They spent the evening; to : gether here in this room, while I 1 sat out there in the library I studying my lessons. My bedtime ! went by without Misb l'atton I thinking of it, and at last 1 went | to sleep with my head resting upi on the book before me. I was awakened by loud, earnest talk' ing, and 1 looked up to see the two standing up on opposite sides j of the center table. The man , nUf much excited and distressed, i iind Mi^a I'atlnn v?; u u /-w.lrl on/1 j dignified. I fiftw him lift Ins hat from the table and heard him ask I la ihih final, Elizabeth?' 'Yes,' she answered him, firmly. 'Very I well,' ho said, in a choking voice, with his appealing eyes testing I upon her," good bye' 'Good bye, i she responded, without reaching ; onther hand, and he walked to I tiie door, ile stopped there a I moment with his hand on the j I knob, looked back at her, but j there was no sign of relenting up-! I on her face. Ile turned the knob1 j and went out. I have never Been , I him since. "1 sat still watching Miss i'at-1 J ton She stood for sometime just! i as hhe had been when lie left her ; i ! then she turned to the table and I i bMgiin .juietly, but with tremu j j lous IihikI, to put things to rights j l~T~ 7~rl i ouiu'tiei iniiu iJiaiii i ir? u it Ur liuii j' I prevalent among children this1 'season. A well developed case | in the writer's faniilv wan cured; I I ;i 4 t U'oolr I a \r tlift t rr% 1 ?r noA * f , ~j ^ ,<""3 "? | <'hnmberlain's (-olio, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy?one of the (beat patent medicines manufac! tured and which is always keptl i on hand at the home of ye scribe.; ' This is not intended as a free puff for the company ,who do not advertise with us, but to benefit ' little sufferers who may not bo within easy access of a phvpician. No family should he without a bottle of thin medicine in the house, especially in summer time. ? Lansing, Iowa, Journal. For eale by J. F. Mac key A Co. / upon it. As she did so, 1 saw he stop suddeuly and look up at the clock on the landing. I could see that as she looked her lips be gan to quiver and tears slipped down her cheeks. Suddenly she stepped forward, went up the few steps, opened the caBe, reached in and stopped the pendulum. "You have ticked away the hours of our joy," 1 heard her say "but now I never wish to hear you again." "Of course I was too young to appreciate the meaning of it at all, but for several years now I have done ho fully?yet how sweet and good she has remained. About ?i week after that night I was alone hero in the sitting rocni and I was seised by a child . ish desire to sot thy clock going. 1 wont up and opened rhe casei and was just about to start tin?' pendulum, whou . hand fell soft | !y upon niv shoulder, and Miss I'attou said,? u 'Don't, Nannie; I do not| v ish it j * cr ,g ?*g?- .i. longs to a part of my life thai j is ended forever.' "From that day t j this and 1 iiuve never talked nbout it, but, I have known the burden of giief' she is carrying so nobly and cheerfully. I am going to leave her soon, and 1 have tohl you this so that you may all be kinder than ever to her and do all you can to relieve her loneliness after I ! am gone.'" It wafl about a week after Nan j mo was married and away that , Mips Pattern apkod me if 1 would not come and Htay with her for a little while, until she could be- j coHie accustomed to the thought, that she must live alone. Of course 1 win only too glad to accept, and 1 was soon trying to j take Nannie's place. One evening, about two weeks; afterward, while Miss Patton and 1 were reading by the drop-light in the sitting-room, old Hiram i Day, who often did errauds for her, broughet in a letter ho had ' just gotten at the postollice. I ! j saw by her manner that the writi ing on the envelope was unfamil-' |ia?,for alio curiously examined1 i it for some time as people often I j do before opening letters. She out thp envelope at last and took Jout several closely written sheets of thin paper. She read them1 i very quickly, and when she had! I finished she read the lart-two! ! again. This time I n?w that she! j had grown slightly pale and that she was controlling herself with a visible effort. She folded the sheets carefully, put them back | into the envelope, and sat with it clenched in her hand aw she sat l staring vacantly at the floor. She j remained so far some minutes,' ; seeming to mo to be sinking deeper into the big arm chair ; but when 1 saw the tears start, and j slip down her cheeks 1 could not restrain myself. 1 hurried aroundi to her, dropped on my knees by , the chair, and asked,? ''Oh dear Miss l'atton, has trouble come to you ?" 'Ohe that I knew must come .1. I stjulit/l til i a rj i j fuc an on ui u'ti, in alow tone. "Would it help you if you i would tell mo?" I askod. i4Oh,| T would he so glad to do something for you." "Perhaps it might," she answered. For some minutes her mind seemed to slip hack into a past upon which it had often dwelt, but she started as she became aware at length of the grievous present, and turning to uie kindly she asked : "You have noticed my clock, Alice, the one there on the land ing; the one that does not run?" "Yes, Miss Patton," I answered. "We have all seen it, and only a week before Nannie was married she told a few of us what she had seen here the night you stopped it. She told us so that we might know your life was a sad one and try all we could to cheer you." She clasped my hands convulsively in a moment of despair as if I might sustain her. I know she had conquered herself, and she said, in a pitiful effort to resume the cheery tone we all loved so well,? "What you have no doubt sur mised is true, Alice. Henry and 1 wero to have been married soon am! i w I -oking forward to ? life if gi it happiness and use fulness with him, hut the drean ended ?o earthly dreams will. ] hi v p. i mi him since tha' night Nennio told you of, what *h t i r: ? ! ? ' my lite w. as ended.' "Aiul now, Miss I'atton," 1 .. !.:' . n't there )tne .'.ope r?o^ for you?" "Henry died, Alice, two weeki ago in England." iShe said it in her own patient, sell'-reliaut way. Then there wai silence. I tried to think of some comforting wrrd, but ! felt thai any I might ohooso would be tri vial in contrast with the comfort ing expressiveness of the place about ns. !Slie rose at last, in her owe calm way, went to mahogany escritoire, and took a key from one of i13 drawers. I rose to my foot Q 111) M? O f I?h h/\?? /\ t\ rl A 1 i v u i n nitiiuvi HCI n UIIUOI 11J^* lv. She walkedd up the steps tc the lauding, unlocked the door ol the clock, and, reaching in wiih a steady hand, she atarted the pendulum. The first tick seemed almost startled, as if roused fron a long sleep. She closed the dooi and stood still upon the landing looking at the timepiece. 1 stolt up beside her. As she put hei arm around me, she said in tin beautiful spright we all loved,? 'There, Alice, it shall go agaii Henry gave it to me many Christ mases ago. It ticked through th< time ot our joyful anticipations and it has been silent during tin day of my weary hope, i wih! it to tick on now during the las period of my life?of waiting fo the and. Its voice will always bi a reminder to me of the lesaoi of life I have learned, better a it has been. 1 will always thinl thai 1 was to learn it in this way Please do not tell anyone of this Alice, until the end comes. Now excuse rare; dear, I will go ove and sit awhile with old Johi White. lie is fluttering to-uigh and may need a cheering word Do not wait up for me if I an late.'' The end she awaited .-o pa tit nt ly came one Winter night thre< years later, and now 1 have givci tho explanation of the clock 8< that others may discern the lossoi sho learned. Nannie wrote tha tit* timepiece would be too vivic a reminder of the grief of her deai one. and it fell to my happy lo to receive it ?a mv own. I Hands now in my own cheer r 111 pitting room, anil the burdet of its ticking seems to be "Lifelife." Need More Help. Often the over-taxed organf of digestion cry out for help by Dyspepsia's pains Nausea, Dias ziness, Headaches, liver complaints, bowol disorder. Such troubles rail for prompt u?>e ol Dr. King's Npw Life Hills. They are gentle, thorough and guaranteed to cure. 25c at Crawford Bros, and J. F. Mackey A Co'e drug store. CONSTIPATION , "I have goue 14 rtwya at a tluio without a of the bowela, not being ablo to move them oicupt by uiIiir hot water Injection* i Cbroulc conatlpallon for aovon yoara placed me In Ihl* terrible condition; during that tlmo I did er- m err thing I heard of but never found any relief; ouch V waa inr case until I began using CASCAHETB I I uow have front one to tin en passages a day. and If I was rich 1 would give I10U W for each movement; It . le auoU a relief." Ayi.mlk 1. Hi nt. 1?U Hutaell Hi.. Mat roll, Mloh. CATHARTIC rwAOt wash tecoiavawgo obA***I'leasant. Palatable, Potent. Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, 25c. 50o ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... . it+rlla? Kuaid; lonpiuij, CM?>|o, floutreal, Ni?t York. S2S :|?|ji Carolina k Georgia Hx. K. K. Co. [j rAssKNi;i:u pkpaktmknt M Schedule Kffcclive Jan. 15, 1!)02. ' Eastern Tims' 'j*'"' , Down i I up No I No I as" Qfafjnne ' ^ | No 1 N\? 11 | .15 jL>tai-| utdli01i5 |Uiu-l 34 ; U ^ i A M J A \ljp Mi P mJp mI|? M r TTLTT' ! ~ b !5i 12 i" Lv Pamrlen Ar! 3 Mi fl Ml ' McKttUi x ?5r , 19 20 12 45 WcKlvllle I IT d 00 lit 1 us, 'Kershaw : 2 42| 5 , 'II '.'Ot i 40 Heath Springs :<oi 4 10 I'-! Joi i ov Lancaster - 'IS 3 S"! l jia isI a as Riverside ; i 45 3 iitj ! - 4-?i - 4" Cutawha Junct. I 30 2 40 [ 4 (Ml .1 00 Kock Mill ! 1 10 I IS . I 4*11 3 1 a| Tirzall |12 So. lit 4SI I S 2?t 8 3 ? York vll.c 12 35|iO 2 0 | S 4S| 3 4">| Slim-on .12 30, V 4't| AM 8 OS I 4 00 Hickory drove 12 OS it 10 1' M No ; 8 20| 4 lu Smyrna II S'-| s So No 11 . 0 50 ' > ArB acktburgLv II 3S| 8 2.1 12 B 00; It 48'Lv B'sckibutgAr 11 30 I 0 45 8 301 I S 05j i?arlg 'II IS 0 2S 8 30 S 12 Patterson SpR.slll 08 8 15 r 9 28 5 25 Shelby 10 SB | 8 00 5 45 Laitlmore |I0 3S, I 4 45 I Hi 30 s 5ftI Moorceboro 10 3' | 4 30 10 So 0 OS Henrietta 10 20 j 4 10 11 20 8 22 Forest City 10 OS I 3 45 " 15 8 87 ltuttierfortiton 0 50 3 20 , 12 *? 7 051 Thermal City 9 20 I 2 45 12 So 7 VOI Glen wood 9 00 j 2 20 > ? 20 7 35 Marlon 8 45 2 00 WKST I KAST i 2.i n? h..ei.. HaffncvRranrhI. i? ...... UU HUVJ i/1 llUV/li l?*l\ li*. V II*. No. 16. No 13 I No 14 No. Id. Dally Daily bastbhn timb Dally I KxSun KxSuu t.xSun Ki Sub P M | A M i STATIONS | A~Si f"I'M 1 4 30 H .V) ' fllacUsliurK II 20 rt 10 . 4 '0 9 10 iChtrokli- Fulls II O'l f> SO 1 6 10 a :u Giiffney 10 40 ft 30 U Head Down Head Cp 3 *20 minutes for dinner. Trains No's 34, 85, 11, 12,13,14,15, r and 10 are operated daily excep Sun3 <lay. - CORN KCTIONA MADK RY HOTTH ROTTN D W TRAINS. AtMarion : No. 32 connects at Marion with Southern Ry train No. 30 which ^ arrives at Marion at 3.28, A M., from Chattanooga, Asheville and interl, mediate points. 9 At Illaoksburg: No. 3 and No. 11 connects with Southern Ry train No. I 36 which arrives a( Biacksburg at I 7 45, A. M , from Atlanta, (Jreenville, Spartanburg and intermediate points, r I At Yorkville r No. 31 connects with a <!. it N. VV. train No. 70 which leaves Yorkville at 10.is, A. M , for 'iastonia l Lenoir and intermediate points. ^ At R. ck Mil!: No 32 and 31 connec'swiih Southern R ? train No 75 t which leaves Rock 11 i I at 3 30 p rn for |v,ne*'*T, uoiumuia t nil n.cri.ieuiate ' points. i, At Catawba .let: No's 32 hikI 34 , conrifc s with S. A. f. , tra n No 3!> 11 which passes Catawba .let ar 7 15 r I\ M , lor Monroe an<1 intermediate ( | points. At Lancaster: No's 32 ?nd HI eon 11 nerts with L. & C , t rain No. 1?'? which | leaves Lancaster at 1.15, I'. M., for ' Ctie-ter and intermediate points. 1 At Camden: With A C. L. (N W. W of S. C.) for Ctiarleston, Sumter, Flo-enee, Darlington, Wilmington . and intermediate points Train No. ?>H which leave* Camden at I 15. I*. M 3 CONN EOT ION 9 M.Vl>K HV NOltTII HOC M> w 1 TWAINS. 3! At Camden : With A. C. I.. (N.W, of | SC) No 71 from Charh stor. on Klornoe 1 | Darlington, Wilmington, Sumtor and t intermediate points wi icti arrives at Camden at 11 15 A M. With South* 1 | ern Ky train No 77 from Kingsville r which arriv sat Camden at 11 55 A M i At Lancaster: No H3 connects at t , Lancaster with L A train No 1?5 f j for Chester and intermediate points. At 1 ataw ha .let : No 3.1 and 35 con nects with N A L., train NoH*2 which 3 lea es Catawba Jet at 7 51, 1*. M , for Monroe and intermediate points. "I At Kock Hill: No HH and 35 coni neets at Kock Hill w th Southern Ky j tram No Hf^ leaving Kock 11111 at 8 2?J, i' i? , ror < narlotte ami points north. At Hlackshurg: No S3 connects with .Southern Ry trains No's 12 4 38, I' M , No S3, at 7.05, J* M., and No j to at 7.45, I' M , for points north ' No'aHS and 35 connects with .Southern Ry train Nc SR leaving Hlackshurg at II JR, I'. M., for points south. At Marion: No 33 connects with t Southern Ry train No 3R leaving r Marion at 1140, 1\M., for Aaheville, ^ , Chattanooga and intermediate points. Through car service without change . between Marion and Charleston on | trains No'i 3U and 33. 1 ?.11. SHAW, S General 1'asseuger Agent.