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SWEET REVENGE Author uf "Chattanooga," "Chiokamimgi*," Ktc Copyright, 1807, ?>y Ilarpor & Ilrotticra. -j-; M?H '\"\"\''VM'i''l''\''W y H CHAPTER I. . BTTK1!WIIA( KKO. wANDN Hi)!" ? ? ftwJI Why he shouted the words I don't know, for In | another moment lie gave | rno one bnrrul, and before I could raise | a finger I heard a click, admonishing me that I wai about to get the other. | X thin film of Btnoke floating above the | fence to the right and two malignant fryes peering at me from between the ( rails betrayed his position. Like a Hash I whipped out my revolver, but before I could raise It there was another re- ' port, and my right arm dropped, be numbed by a charge of buckshot. Seiz ing my weapon with my left hand. 1 brought It to a level with the eyes be hind the fence and tired. There was a sound of a body falling, and I knew that I had struck home. Spurring my horse to the side of the road, I craned my neck over the fence, and there In the ditch lay the bush- , whacker. Ills hat had fullon off and left bare a head of red, shoeky hair. In his belt was Ids revolver, beside him a shotgun. Ills body, clad In "butter nut/' lay on an Incline, his feet In the water, which flowed lazily past. The sun, shining through budding branches, lighted up his face, and I knew that I had seen him h?fore. Indeed, a vivid scene In which ho had borne a part came up out of the pnst to fling over mo a cloud of gloom like the wlug of an Apollyon. I drew an involuntary sigh. It was not that I had taken a life (lives were cheap enough tn those dayn, and he had Bought to tako mine); it was not my narrow escape from death, but an over powering consciousness that the spirit of war lurked everywhere; that the beautiful face of Nature about me troes, fences, bushes, everything?best served to cover assassins. "Is he dead?" Startled at tho sound of a voice, I glanced aside. There, leaning against the fence, her arms resting on the top rail, gazing at the disagreeable sight on which I had been Intent, stood a young girl. "Where did you come from?" I asked, lifting my hat with my left hand. "There." She turned^her head and glanced at a house on the other side of the road. "You must have stepped lightly. I didn't hear you coming." Without reply she continued gazing at the body of the bushwhacker. I, too. looked again at the upturned face, with its glassy, staring eyes. "Why did you kill blm?" "I will tell you." But I did not tell her then, for as I spoke I felt something warm trickling over the back of my hand and, looking dowu, saw blood dripping upon her dress. "Come into the house, quick. That's arterial blood." Seizing the reins, sbo led my horse, I following, to a side gate. This she opened, arid we went up to the veran da. Catching sight of a colored bey, sbo called to him: "Mouut quickly and ride for the doc tor! Tell him u man has been shot, an artery cut, nnd a life is In danger." I had a dim Imago of the boy tearing down the road, nnd, tottering Into tho "/8 /n! dcadt" she asked. house, I sat Aown on a sofa in the li brary. I inujit have fainted, for sud denly, without being conscious of their coming, I found myself In the midst of an excited tbJfong. An old lady stood beside me wKh a basin, from which she was sprl^kllne; niy face. A white haired old ge#*!er.ian with pink cheeks, a towel In ?oe hand, a decanter In tho drier, wnl bending over me. A boy of 12 with a try gun was staring at me, whllo the girt who had brought me thero looked to with far more Interest than I had ymt seen In her Impassive face. IleyouJ all was a dark back ground of riouae servants. My coat had been removed, and a negro had a tight <grlp on a hlft of wood twisted In n handkerchief f led around my arm Jus above the wamnd. A long, thin mm In a rusty suit of black came hurrying in with a leather case In his hand and, whipping out his instruments, began the work of picking up a partly sever ed artery. IT? first took out a piece of my coat sleeve, which had retarded the hemorrhage and doubtless saved my life, the.? a half dozen shot, did some stitching and then carefully bandaged the wound. "There," he gnld. "If you move that arm within 48 hours you'll bo In dan ger of your lifo. Keep quiet, and you'll come out all right" "I must go on at once, doctor." "You'll go part way as a corpse tf you do." The o d lady declared that I should not stir out of the house till tho doctor gave tho word, the old gentleman bade me welcome as long nn I needed to stay, the young lady who had brought mo there said nothing, while tho boy look ed as If to lose a subject so fruitful of Interest would break his heart. "I'll send a young assoclato of mine," said the doctor. "If tho wound opens, you must have attention at once." "Thank you doctor. Thero seems to be a great deal of commotion about a very small matter. I don't care to put so many people to so mach trouble" No one paid any attention to my pro test, all busying themselves to mako me comfortable. Pillows were laid be neath my head, a silk quilt was thrown over me, and a stand with a silver bell on it was placed beside me that I might ring for anything I wanted. All being fciiitfifrf.?1 the dootox o* dorcU evcryoo?y out oi me room nod then departed himself. What a singular transition! Half an hour before I had lefl lluntsvllle beautiful [Iuntsvlllo, nestling am the hills thai slope awr.y from n >? Cumberland plateau and wes workli ?-,* my way northward toward Foyotte vllle, Tcnn. The plants in tin- yon i beside the read wero putting foriti their buds, the leaves en the Irei I were opening, Insects were awakening, birds singing all revived by the rays of the vernal sun. i permitted mj horso to drop into a walk. A pleasant languor stole over me replacing a bitter mental turbu leneo which hail beoii over present with me for months. Perhaps It was the genial warmth, the balmy air: perhaps i an absence of war scenes with which j I had l?>n^ liten familiar: per baps both, ' At any rate, I watched the sun glisten Oil the (lewdropS, felt its rays warm inv shoulders, ami listened t<> tin- Hinging j of the birds with a consciousness that, after all. sometimes it is pleasant tu live. Thou fame an unnoeountnble sinking it may have been something in the ! rest fulness, the security I Im I fib. In congruous with pestilent war; |u?l as n in Id Mir luxurious foliage of the irn i 1 les niie feels that behind every leal" ami 1 (lower lurks Invisible fever Suddenly I the shuts ran? mit; then en me my reply to the ?Irl standing besldo me looking I nt the dead bushwhacker; tin'" my i entry into the house, ami now I was ' lying on a comfortable lounge an oli ; jeet of tender solicitude mi the purl ??!' people who. from being strangers, had i suddenly become very dear frli tids. ' Ullt BlippOSO they Knew 1110 that I ' was a renegade, a traitor to the south ' There was no name harsh enough j among Confederates for those of ihoii own people who wore not with tin in. I and all who were liol with them wore I against tllCtll, and doubtless these m \s ; found friends were all Confederate sympathizers. The bushwhacker could j tell no tub's. 1 wns.thnnkful for that, I for he hud known me well. The j thought of him took me back to that night of horrors. I was again at the head of thost? Tennessee Unionists en ) deavorlug to lead them to a haven of , safety. We were near the Cumberland ? gap. One more day and we should he I at Camp Dick Robinson, where we should And Federal troops. Then the j attack. By the (lashing of guns I could see their faces, and here and there recognize a neighbor?men beside whom 1 had lived for years, and whom civil war lutd converted into ti? lids. One by one I saw my friends shot down. There was one dearer to me tbnn all besides. Through the dark ness. Kidded by the Hashes and Un sound of my voice, hhe darted to mo, arid found refuge In my arms. Then that sudden dash of Confeder ate cavalry. 1 felt the figure 1 held lulver and slip through my arras. I moaned and kissed the white lip*; then, like lightning, the wild beast jumped within me. 1 It oked up to see who had done this last, ibis crowning ntroclty. A Confederate ofllccr Mit on Iiis horse Staring at me, in his hand a smoking pistol. A sudden collapse, and 1 knew that I was hit. This Is nil I reinem bored of the massacre. How I gloated in my revenge! The homes of men who had committed those murders were burning, ami I had applied tlie torch. Their barns, grain everything theyp iSSOSSCd -possedttWliy in black spark spangled clouds, which shot upward as it to carry vengeance to the very heavens. These men had made my life n waste; I had made theirs n hell. There was one I had not yet pun tshed, one whose punishment I longed for more than all the rest- the Con fed crate officer with the sin iking pistol I Bought for hhn without success. Thee I tried to forget him, but whenever remembered that beloved figure tie. lug to me for protection, that tremor, tbnt sinking away before the blight 01 denth, I would start again on my Ion hunt. I Joined the army, thinking tbnt war's grontor horrors might r'?" a time ?nable nie to forget my feud. .'.II went well till I henrd of him. He \ i at lluntsvllle. I burned to rem h him. Our general was casting covi to.i.i eyes 5U northern Alabama. I heg? d him to let mo go down and brh | . nek ii report of the country, the railroads, Its rolling stock, machine shops, bridges, Everything--a knowled e of which ?roiild assist In its cap! Hut this low cur who hn Irlod to kill me? ho wns at the mns'i n -re, Willi mj own band I had applied lire l< 1 i.i ib< erable but. Flow had he knov.-n i h 1 wns In Alabama? Hud be I ! : , during my stay at II n it l ! been brief, for as so< n im I ret 1 I' town I learned Ihn! n y i i: m;< in i there and, dlsappoluti d, turned my I ? northward. <;r had : Im hv i met me by chance? I ?. d n i kit a l (" > not know now. Of < ".?? Illing I waf certain?he was ? no of my old i i in es. and they would hull! i e like n h.-i e I lay for boms unwillingly turning over these wnr horrors ns if they were a wheel on which I was obliged to t tread. No one came Into the room, and I called no one. Doubtless they wished me to be quiet. I was weak and tired tired In mind, tired in mdy, tired of existence, if I could only (lud him, the world might vanish for all nie. I fell Into n troubled sltimhor, nnd when I awoke I saw standing In the doorway a girl of s or i> years - a frail, blue eyed little thing, with her haircut square about her neck nnd held by a semicircular comb. She was gazing at me Intently, as children In fairy tales stand on iptoo nnd look nt the sleoplug ogre who ii Intending to cat\them for supper. "Come In," I said encouragingly. Sho shrank back. Hut, though she seemed to dread me, sho could not keep away from me. Without for a oiomont taking her eyes off mo sho began to ap proach by slow, very slow, steps. I felt as If I wero n Htiake charming a bird. "Don't be afraid of me," 1 nald. "1 won't hurt you." "You killed lilm." She pointed like an accusing angel to the opposite sldo of the road, where I bad left the body Of my would be assassin. Her volco was soft, but her eyes wero big with tho enormity of my act. "Sweetheart, don't look at me that way. Como and kiss me." I reached out for her hand. She shrank away, but I gently pulled her to me with my well arm, drew her ?Sown and kissed her. At I touched her pure young lips with mipj the crimes j of whlcl) i hint i.n thinking, vivid <is I tli" day they wen- committed, soonied j to movo far. from me. like u retreating , storm muttering in th" distance, And BOtUellOW, with this hit Of lllUOCOUCO ill my ut'in, my beurd brushing her check, looking Into bor mild eyes, it seemed :i; If thero bad come a patch of hin? sky, and I wished -yes, strangely enough, I wished?that it hud nut been neeer Bary for me to shoot 0 man that inort - lug. CHAPTER II. INCOGNITO. THESE.kind people with whom l was lodged persisted In ton- : Bldurlng mi' always in ?lange.-, j A doctor must needs he at ud j times within reach, n strlpllnt of it medical gradiroto 'must sleep In n sauio room wJih me, the old geiitlomnn ^ was constantly coming Into tin' room to nsk If 1 wanted anything, while h a , wlfo was as lender and motherly as If , I had been her own boii. Even the servants vlctl with each other lu wait Ing on mo, and wnon anything was or dercd for 100 with hast*- unusual i i the negro I hey Bcramhled to see which : one woUld bring it. Only the uhl who j had br night me there enme and wert as though I was an ordinary person with an ordinary wound, to ho iroutid ?, In nn ordinary innutier All this ntteiitlon und synipalhy I vexed me beyond measure. What right had i to accept it I. a Tonn? suet tin, In | arms against the south. In sen roll of n Confederate eneniyV Vos, und more J wn% i not the bearer of Information that would enable the Im ted Yanktu^o swoop down on this fair region and re claim it for tho Union? The h ast bus plclon of my true character would turn the devotion lavished upon mo to con tempt. My very life would be In dan ger. I'ooh! What cared l for my life, exeept that I dreaded to go to my long home detested by those who had sue cored me. Besides, the Information I possessed?-Information of vital Impnr ttuice to the Union cause must bo car ried northvt nrd. a crisis camo soon cuough. it was oveulug, and I was reclining on my sot'a looking out upon tho beautiful hills lying to the eastward. The girl With the cool head and Impassive face was standing by a table rearranging boohs and bottles and what not which had been in use during the day Sud denly the door opened, a..d my host en tered. 1 saw at once by his expression that something had occurred to put him on his guard, or perhaps he had been thinking, wondering what kind of person he was harboring. At any rate, he came up and, drawing a chair be side me, began to talk, it was plain that he wished to ask nie questions, but he was ton kind, too generous to one In my condition, too hospitable, to ask them directly. "The doctor tells me, Mr."? he be gan. "Upon my word, you have been With us three days, sir, and we don't know even j our name." "Brnuderstaue, .lohn Brnnderstane. l am equally Ignorant to whom I am in debted for all this attention." "Our name is Stallforth, sir. This Is my daughter Helen, Mr. Brander sta: :<." Helen inclined her head slightly, and I raised mine far cuough from the pil lows to do the same. "Mr. Stallforth," l said ?there was gratitude both in tny voice and lu my eyes?"whoever bears your name may hereafter call upon me for any service You have placed me under an obliga tion which"? "Tut. tutl You know our southern customs -wo ai'o nothing if uot hos pitable. You arc a southern man, of course V" "Of course." I spoke th* words hes itatingly. "Your stater "Tennessee." "East, middle or west?* I "East." Mr. Stallforth paused. There was no | Information as to my sentiments III the 'act that I balled from cast Tennessee j More than two-thirds of the people of ; that section were with the Union. "May I ask, sir," said my host, with an evident intention of ending all doubt In regnrd (0 the side with which I was affiliated, "are sou a Union or it Con federate sympathizer?" I was about to decinro myself nn ardent supporter of tin- Confederacy when my little friend Ethel, who had visited mo on tho day I was shot, ap peared in the doorway, her blue eyes looking Straight IlltO mine. Had my Intended falsehood br.n rammed back Into my throat with the butt'Of n re volver it could not have boon more ef fectually stopped. Then something im polled me to turn my glnttCC to Helen. She was about to p air a liquid from a vial into ,i glass add had paused, her eyes Hxcd on me Intently. "Mr. Stallforth," I said, "you and your family have been too kind for mo to deceive you. 1 Will not do that, but It would not serve my purpose to de clare myself." "You are tin honorable man, sir, who ever and whatever you are:" exclaimed Mr. Stallforth warmly. "It may bo sometimes necessary to Withhold con fidence, but never to Ho, nlr. Keep your secret; I shall not trouble you for It. I nm merely a citizen and take no part In the national dispute." "But I do, papa." I looked at Helen. Sho was regard ing me earnestly. "If this gentleman Is with us," she said?"us of the south he need not fear to declaro himself. If ho Is with the Yankees"? "Helen 1" There was an uncomfortable silence, during WlilCh Mr. Stallforth regarded his daughter sternly. "If Micro is one right In tho south," lie said, "sacred above all others, It Is the right of hospitality. Mr. Hrander StanO cannot bo forced to divulge his opinions." "But has he o right to conceal them, papa?" "While our guest ho has." "Mr. Stanforth," I said, "your daugh ter Is right. No man should remain un der the roof of ono who has succored him without revealing bis Identity when It Is called for. May I ask you to order my horse?" I started u*\. j jet* $00 firjoccujnotj 1. .... ? . to notice (b? stand beside nie covered with liueks. wltli which 1 bad vainly tried to alleviate tny confinement, and Struck u?y arm at tho very spot where I had been wouuded. A shiver passed over the father; the daughter gave an Involuntary start. My coati which bad la-en thrown loose ly over in." shoulder, had become dis arranged, exposing the arm. upon , which every eye was turned. Both Mr. Stallforth ami Helen bent forward In tently. We were congratulating our selves that no damage bad been done when on tho white shirt sleeve ap penred a spot uf bright red blood. "Jackson, run! The doctor! Qulckl Tell him the wound has opened!" I sunk back on the sofa. Mr. Stall forth began running about wildly; Mrs. Stallforth entered In wonder; the serv ants (locked In With open eyes and mout hs. "Papa? your handkerchief." Helen Stallforth spoke the words as coolly as If she had been an experienced surgeon. With her father's Imndker chief slie improvised a tourniquet, und the bleeding Stopped at once. "Now, see here," said the doctor when be had arrived and repaired the dam age, "you've bad a close call, sir. Per haps you'll pay some attention here after to what 1 tell you, sir." "Next time, doetor," I said feebly, "let me go. My life is of llttlo moment to me." As I spoke Helen, who had gone out ) of the room for something, returned. "Ah, Miss Stallforth," said the doe- | tor, "I will leave the patient In your i care. You seem to be always on hand when he needs you and to know exact ly what to do. Let the others keep away." "I will relieve you, doctor," sho snld Quietly. The doctor gathered up bis belong ings and left the room, leaving Helen standing looking at mo with a certain curious earnestness that I could not Interpret. As she had been the indirect ? cause of my mishap, I naturally ex 1 pected she would refer to It, perhaps ' express some regret. She was think ing of an entirely different matter. "Why Is your life of little moment M you?" she asked. , "You overheard'.'" ! "Yes." "You have a right to require nie to I disclose my affiliations in the great , Struggle in Which we are involved, bill : my private griefs"? "I ask your pardon." There was no ; regret expressed. It was simply a well j bred way of noticing that she had full ? ed to elicit the Information she desired. "I should have got on well enough," I I continued, "if that confounded stand hail not been In the way. 1 hulleve I j could go now just as well as not." I paused. I was very weak. "May 1 ] ask you to band mo that glass?" I add j ed, looking nt a tumbler containing brandy. Without noticing the proof of my in ability to do as I asserted she hnndcd me the glass and when I had taken a swallow put It hack mi the table. Her coolness was beginning to Irritate me. "1 have a mind to get up and go on," I said. "I don't believe there Is any danger." "What did the doctor say?" "He told mo to keep quiet as 1 val ued my life." "You don't value your life; therefore you will get up ami go on?In other words, commit suicide." "You know very well that It galls me to be obliged to Impose upou a family that has loaded ine witli kindness with out declaring my identity." "Then why not declare It?" "Because It doesn't suit my plans to do so." I was acting ungraciously, recklessly, and I knew It, but I was In no condi tion to fence with this cool creature. "Shall I leave you?" she asked, with out appearing at all offended. "I don't need your attention." "You need some one's attention, I will have Jackson sit In the ball, where he can bear you If you ring." Aud she walked out of the room. ,.^.Ar ?. l/io UE vo.\ AlN UED.] Mis. Richard King, the largest wo man landowner in the United Stales, who is known as the " Cattle QtlOOU " of Texas, has just added to her already immense domain by the. purchase of 110,000 acres of land adjoining the San Gertrude's ranch at $.'{ an nc?o. Before this purchase was made Mis. King had in her pastures considerably over l,(Kio,()00 acres, from which have been sold this year 22,000 young steers and heifers, and there, are now 100,000 head of all kinds of beef cattle on the ranch. A million more farms are in the United States today than ten years ago. This fact is brought out in the work of Ihe Federal census bureau, detailed figures soon to follow. These will show approximately 5,045,000 farms in the United States when the census was taken last June, compared with 4,505,000 farms ten years ago. Com pared \yith earlier decades, reinnrkahjo progress has been made in cutting up Uncle Sam's prairie hills and valleys into tillable farms. Arrange your plans early to attend the 33rd Annual Stale Fair nt Colum bia, Oct. 28th to Nov. 1st. A Girl With mi Will "go" until she drops, and think she's doing rather a fine thing. Very often the future shows her that she was laying the foundation for years of unhappiuesa, When the back aches, when there is irregularity or any other womanly ill, then llie first duty a woman owes to herself is to find a cure for her ailments. The use of Dr. Pierre's Pavorite Pre scription in caseB of womanly disease will insure a prompt restoration to sound health. It regulates the periods, stops unhealthy drains, heals inflammation and ulcerntion, and cures female weak ness. It makes weak women strong, sick women well. Sick womcu ore invited to consult Dr. Pierce, by letter, free of charge. /U Correspondence absolutely private and confidential. In his thirty years and ov*r of medical practice Dr. Pierce, as sisted by his staff of nearly a score of physicians, has treated and cured more than half a million women. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. "I will drop you a few lines to-day to let you know that I am feeling well now, "writes Miss Anuii Stephens, of ncTlcvtlle, Wood Co., West Va. " I feel like a new woman. I took several botC*.? of ' I'avorite Prescription' aud of the ' Ooldet Medleal Discovery.' I nave no head ?cht now, a*id no more pain in my side- no bentlng-down pain any more. I think that there U ivo medicine like Dr. Piere?'* medicine." Dr. Picrce'a Common Sense Medical Adviser, in paper coven, is tent fret on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay ex pense of mailing only. Address Dr. R. V* P? Cntawba I? tho champion wheat county of North Carolina, aud poibn] b ol the South The crop lo cstinudcd at 120,000 bushels. The formers us< the host plows and machinery, and manv of Ihom make lo t<> ;.ti buihe to the aero, I ?*?HWilOW II I UI Ii Uli M'l'i Mother "My mother was troubled with \ consumption tor manv years. At last she was given up to die. Then she tried AVer's Cherry Pectoral, and was speedily cured." D. P. J'cllv, Avoea, N. Y. No matter how hard your cough or how long you have had it, A Cherry Pectoral is the best thing you c It's too risky to v.- lit until you have consump tion. If you are i today, get a bottle or' Cherry Pectoral at once. Thrtt tht* : 25c., SOc, :\ ' . Consult your doctor, it ho ?uya lato) ti, then ilo ?? ho iuy>. ii Ii? K'll? >???! ?o i?lc? tt. thon don't Iftlto Ii II? ? ?? 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Iii eiltet Ma I?, 1001, Lv Augusta. ..... 10 in a :: \ Ar Croon wood.1. r ; . " Amlorson. . . t -i . 1 ?' Laurens . 1 ; ? 1 ?' Ureouvillo..., " Qlenn Springs " Spartaiihurg . ' Ssliida. .... _ f? " Hcnderaouville. 1; " Aahcvillo. 7 Lv AshevlUo. 7 " Hen<leraon> llle. " Flat Rook ... . M Raluda. " Tri on. tl " 8 par tau burg, . j.; " Olenn Springs.... " Groouvillc. " JLhureua... .. . \> " Aucturaou. 7 11 (ir on wood. Ar Augusta. j.v AiiKi.stn. Ar Allnlidale. " Ktiirfax . " Voinasseo. " Beaufort. '? Port Hoya I_ " Savannah " CliarleBtou.... .... Lv Charleston. Port Koyal . U' aufm t.... . Yei/ntmKio .... .... 1. Fairfax.... . Alloudale. v A r AirgiiHta. Olose connection at (ii< < nwoujj, (< points on B. A. L. and * . O. Kal Hint Ht spartanburg with inborn way For any iuforuiation relative t.. lit ritten, schedules etc , nddMaa W, 1. Ort a 10, ' ten. Ph ?'s V.. M. S'oin n. 1 i, Aa1. a . ? 1 1 I 1 1 ?j 1 1 !v( 1 1' I 1."? hi , ro i i 1 SO '..'!i 80 ; ; r.o no 60 i a I in ?* \ Bull Wli u 1'h UuxIiih t> bu./ie. My i)u B got BOinvptu' la Iii? uofco tlm'.'j I isSeuod Ihoro to day. That all tho uolghbore wiauou ho would !? isu ')r give a way, Somo son <?' holUrlug allulr, Hko bulls Ii is in ttnir throats, Or Hko a big tmss horu. ojecopt It uovor plays no no!t:s Ma says it b sleopln' on his back, ho says U is )v iti-rr, But you oau bi t your bloooitn1 life what e vor ?t may arc It's there fur Join1 biznes?, an' it does it, too, fur euro, A.8 all the tu gkhorhood kin tell when I'a bcglus to Buoro! Ma says If sho d 'a ever kuOWOd that ho waB such a fright A try'n' to sk<cr ti>o llvln' out au' rise tho dead at night, She'd never have cousontod fur tube bis lovln* wife An' bbare Iiis bi rrors an' his joys an' lead a sleepless life It's hard on lini the same as her, fur when 1 irit asleep An* dreaming I'm a huutoc1 bold out in the f' rCBt deep I fee! my hair a risln' up to hear a lion roar An' he ii wake up in fright to bear it's Pa bogun to s ore ! Ma says that someday v.hen we git to heaven aflcrwllllo, Whore every prospeck'a (jolu' to please an' only man be vi'e, If people there Is jest the smie as peo pie hero bolow, Sho can't in aglno how Bko's goln'to boar tliu loud i. .\<>i ! Shu thiuki that at tho usual tlmo up thoro umungsistbu blest The angels I he broken o1 their swcot I??< Icsschul i< :;t An' tumble 'round a while an' then git up nn' walk the Qoor An' with bo'd novcr bin redeemed when Pa begins to snore ! .1 .vines Ilarlon Adams. Selocl specimens of your choicest trains, vegetables, finely bred stock, I including poultry, for exhibition at the til fair. A IPtle effort on your part will secure one or more of tho handsome premiums. FALL STYLES From the Up-To-Datc Carpet House, I?17 Mam St?COl, Columbia, S. C. j MUTUAL CAKPE5T CO. v\ ? i o us for Samples of anything in lur Hue. Goods shipped any whore in ! the Statu-irco of Height. Wo are al ways busy. No dull days with us. When i'i Columbia, come and see us. An)bo ly can diow you the place. (lolorn in- Wtigenor i (Ivn are * ompany, (. ucccasora toO. P, Por-pcnheim), Wholesale nnd ltd nil Dealers in Arms, Anmuinition, Agricul tural Iniph uients and H trdwaie Of even kind and description. Send postal fur Prices. King Street, Charleston, S. (\ F.t-.W Medicated ( iurs AND EE*M Smoking robacco, For uacra of I'ohaceo thai sulTor wltl t'a larrb, 'sihmn,or bronchitis Wognaran lOO an illisolulo ami permanent cure of i nturrii and it IbIIiq only known remedy Ii r Hay 1 cvor. It your di uggist or grocer oo8 im*, kcci it. write KK-M ?)., Atlanta. a , fin* Krco Sample. Trade supplied by I'tu'l nie?. Uro?',, (jioetivillc, s U., or Cruichliold ?V I'ollcaon Spnriauburit, S ( . Agents Wanted I Or the ? I : IS OK UkOKKU T. W A s 11 - IN I'l'tJ .' Writ ton Ii hinoolf Rvery bud} buys; airctltS are now ninking over $K o pi r mouth ; best hook to ??II to color ed |icoplo ever pi bliahcd. Write for tortr8, or >????<?; VI ecu's i.>r ...;i.p and beidn at once Pleaao monlion ibis paper. Ad dress J. I. NICHOLS & CO.i Uhtnto.Ga, A $50 llstVtll^.-rMElfM-T t'hal will raj $SJ5 '?* tjttOO Dividends Mnn iii\ la a ; uiro.igh, practical Ibisi noaa or shorthand induing at Stokes' Business College. v. i. , i for i .i logue and full par Honiara .i.i Kin;; street. Charleston, s. c. iWaci'cai's Business College, . OLUfe 131 A, S. O. Iii k Kooping, Bhort Hand,T\po Wri; ing. Kxport loachora Kopulation Ks t'blialiod, I i na-. Itensotiablo. : end for Cat dogUO. W U. MAO KB AT, Preeldi nt, (Oll'clal Court Succgrvphcr.) . ; :.;Vllllu. ... . CHOOt01 SHORTHAND (*Auf. f \ , 7A~ (Ja. |c J Jp* SITUATIONS sccupeo. ?fy.islTIONSI 1*0 ITION81I N<i UUJHO'I W M.caila tlian wo etui |k>8nlt>ly IUI, Qua/ * mitocof |K)8lllonatiackoil by WOtit Onurao une.veotled. Kuloran) time I'uiiilocruo froo A hlr. hh C U.I ,'MWA llUSI \ K S i ??:, i I (loi v Mill * * ( Tho pra lical side ol scionco is roflectcol in ^?'.^s. "TT"'??. A .monthly publication of inostimablo value to the student of ovcry day scientific problems, tho mechanic, the industrial export, tin* manufacturer, tho inventor ?in fact, to every widc-awako person who hopes to hotter bis condition by using his brains. Tho inventor, especially, will find in The Patent Record a guide, philosopher and friend. Nothing of importance escapes the vigilant, oyos of its corps <>f expert editors. [Everything is pre sented in clean, concise fashion, <> that the Im iest may take time to read and comprehend. The scientific and industrial progress of tho age is accur ately mirrored in (lie columns of The Patent Record, and it is tho on\y publication in tho country that prints tho official news of the U. S. Patent, Office and tho latest devolopoments in tho field of invention without fear or iavor. suiiscuiption rntcr? ond dollar. PElt veab. THE PAZEHT RECORD* Battm ore. Md. GREEN vi U R FEMALE COLLEGE, GREENVILLE, S. C. 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MOMTAOUI), Greenville, 8 0 c K u/cciiv tic. 8. l! Presbyterian oilege of South. Carolina. Next Session opens Sept. 2H, i H. >; d mi ? ? ? i . mi >. Limited num bcr oau be accomodaiod in !> rm ry. i 1;; 1 >\ I ?trd room-rout, in ?Irl rotation, au'd tuition, for ?'ollegiato yo;t 'iv< > >? . . . ruetor in faotil ly. Moral inlluoncoa .?.<>?? i i'oura?a loa I r .?? . It, \. and M, A. KIiih Commercial Ouurao. Write for catalogue ?rinfirmi.f ?uj kind In A E SPENCER Clinton. H. t? IlIiSAuG ? i Double Daily Service CAPITAL Cl I Y HOC 1'K simrit'si lino botwccu .'.'.i principal citic North. K?st, South and West. Unequalled Schedules to Pan Amcricai Kxposition at Buffalo. ScilKniW.KH I Kl i Ki r May 2'l, U'Ol. NOKTtt HOUND. . L'Savannah, Central T...11 i pni Kairia.x . I Ma t'. n Denmark. 2 1 tin l.'M 1 Columbia Kastern T... I loa in T Camdcn. 1 :17am s ,1 ? 'he-raw.V I2it 11 ' t , 11 Ar Hamlet .; 1 no lot n l.v Cathouu 1'aU.-..... 1 pin >< Abbeville. 1 it inn 1 .0 <; reenw odd . . ?'11 pin Clinton .... pm Carlisle. . a.-t'ph Chostor .... 1 lopr ; > aiauba Juiielhui. i p'?i "< Ar Hamlet.~i 1 r ' m I v Hamlet . im 11 Ar ah 1-di.in .; in I 21 an Petersburg.- tfipiii '?> llichmond . ;; 2spm ? . Wash lug ton. 7 o?pm t" ; 1 -i Baltimore ? ? .II 2fi m 1 Phiindolphin. - am 1 New York. K'aiu 12 i'ortsmoutb?Norfolk.j > iU|iin To local a 11.an 1 \ mi 1.1:. ros l.v Calhouu Palis. : ' Abbeville.I t'rccnw od. (bin-.. .... : :v?i?ui : Lv t bo'ruw, Hastorti '?'... isum 11 ~ Camdon.'?? liiim i2 . ? un Columbia! * 'outrai r.. ? ; am to.) 1 ion mark. i ? am ..' . . Fairfax . 1 '? darrt M tj am Ar Savannah. 1 17pm 13 in Jacksonville.,; l"pm n ? n Tampa.Ii I am ? u' 111 l.v Catnwba, ICaslorn i U 1 ? on I t'ft.im ('hosier .I 20am 1 12 .in Carlisle .. .i" 1 1.in - 0.1 nn 1 II u loll .11 .im ?'? 6 Hi (Ireonwood . ..I2 2^am !l lt;?m Abbeville .1 : IMpili I l.n.in Calboun Kall-. I ?j?m I is m \ r A Ibens . .2 -II pill -'- nil Atlanta. I 111 '? o 'an, l.oeAl. i i.in ion TO i I a S i v. l.v Clinton. J "1. (Ireenwood. 3o.'ipm Abb?villo . . 1.1 Calboun Kalb.. ?. . a Ar Athens, . ?. ?. ) 1 Ipm Atlanta_.?-j_,s 11 No. Od connects at Washington with ih Pennsylvania Itailwnj Itutfal ? Kx res* arriv ing Hull alo V !l 1 a in. Columbia, NOwbcrry ?V l.aUrcus 1:. way Cain No. 52, leaving Cob ml ... 1 station, at 11.2:; a in aal j. <? m um at > 1 ion with s A 1. By No :. affording h ir esi and rpiickcsi route by scv< ial bun ? Atlanta, Chattanooga, Xa ?. i. C'hicagO ami all points w est, Close connection at Po orsl moitd, Wnshiiigton, Pol umoti Ii c lumbin Wr.vanniUi, Jackson itlo . il Allan a ?I Ith divulging linos. Mnguitlconl vestibule trains eai . through l ullmaii stooping oars a11 \ 1!' 1 i ? at points. Pur rcdm en rates, ''oilman rt sot .1 . : olO, apply to Wm lb 11.1:1:, .' It., 1), P, A.. -,v\ . . i . t .1 (1, Mi P. IJATTri, T. I'. A.. C il Hindu, C .1. .M. Da 1111 Ist, V. i'. ani> c II . 1: K : Mi m I,(I r a. , ort imoiilh, \ a. THE YOUNG bLO L1 LUMBEK COMP . Y AUuUSTA, OA. OfflOC VNO W-JUKs, NoHTIfJAUOC iJ Doors, Si- h uiiimIh midj m l< op'i Mm d wm<\ FLOORING, SIDING, CEILIN ND IN >U)K FINISHING LUM UKM IN GEORGIA PINK ah CorYMpondenoo rivo > i>i<>m; ten lion. MONEY TO LOAN On fftrmii'g tr.nds. BAfly |>ftyiu0iil6. No conrtolaatons ohargod liotrowor ,. > ?ual cost of |>or'?>ctiiig loan. Internal 7 |>ei cent, up, according to aeourity. Ji?o. :t. palmeb a ?Ion. Columbia, H. 0. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. OontlotlHOll ? , I Ml*' ??! 1'>tiien|r?r 1 min?, In R root Tr.ne 80. 1001. GrcouvliU', v. -is! (Ion und the RmV ; . >?...' .isllrs'?Tai No. Noriiiii.i i-.iu i>aI iy.|Dally| Daily. Lv~ .. ii m l! 80 ,i 1 00 i>| 1 2y Ii ;i; a ?< a? U t.\ 1' I I i ill! k?U:lt I Sim i: i!',',, ?? Pliili V " .:. tiuor 7 83 (i 16 ?I it a U .if. a J. 4ji m| a 03 ?>| ?: n..?.. to Atlanta. n~B n... :j? No! 11 N'oTsl iiiill> ? l>ally|Dull3 ITTS iiu .-I a 4 ;*i h -1 M II "J L'U n 10 46 Datii I 818 p 8 06 p 8 '?.7 P :i iw IS ?fiiii 11 BO p 11 ju"v!ll So p ' io pj T?Tpj TSTp Ar Colunibus.Gii Ii M " ?ill?Oll . ... h so " Mnm nvlok... 2j^5 Ar. .it jj ~>n\ r,-. .' ~ .S.? |* l'l? >N>. i'-' [J .;l.v.. fjnyiiiunifi A J - i * T.v ?ij,jkvi'i??7j\r... n il ? !? I.'. i hm Ii Hton . Ar T&J 7 41 a la in ii II li ii 100 n No.l "5 IT ? ran Sutnn orvllle .'? I 8 67 a{ 8 4 i i ii. I? . " 11 60 v >? Nl ? ? i rv. . " |l0 15 p 1 Ii ..(in unv nod.. " i ? 50 P 11 60 a U 1 . " j 8 8-J p:ll M ? T\l ' " tri ~? 8fTp 10 i8 a ~'4.)i 040 iiifTv Anderaon ..Af lie, .Ly j'. ? p 5 iOa . . .... Ar HS) a if&Tp ? i : i> ArKi ? ' -urn i.v.ia an a 11 40 a 1 " ...,A-.!i. villa.... " " ... Knoxvilla,,, " Ai..Cii.fiiinnil.. I,\ " Ar . t.'.ui-<vllln"."."l,v "A" a. Id. "P" r>- ??? "M" noon. "K" night Tratna lenvo Bnnrtanburg via 8. U. ?i C. dt i In fortl " i'.ni'v Joiionvlile, Union and i mil ' i formed lata point* at 10:8Ae. I 12 p 4 or. .. T 1 TSTa m. tni' n. in ' l?.tir,? Iii dally nervloo bn ? ooil folk and l'.uitlinore. i ml Washington and Boup? u ? ??? in ? ??: ioltl l'lillmaQ train. im i.i,:woon New York an4 v i)r!i via Wnahlngton. Atlanta and ??i ? ? i et ,v?on New York and [ton, Atlanta and Bt*? ,1 HUl I'm. t. man I. hp. A a v Iweeu Atlanta and ?**r ik.v'm i'irn Vau? Ur.TWiM . iNi' w Yoiik. Dining eara ?erv? e, Pn I man sleeping ear* i n and Gol?laboro. Oiosooo*', . Ot.n Point OoxiPdn?.' a i i P? man D. R. Hleeper f..t filial I a ? ml * 'tnoiiUiatl, i i:. i )-ngt Mall" nUU * niid New Orleans, >ft< tlirough \vttho?> ?is< < Pullman in nM ii; .? i ? tu iluKoai'Hbetween New Yotw nutl N< w i li <. iiu, v in AilaiitaniKt Montxometr na.i holwi'Oii Kiriumxliiiiii ami Uiolunona. Pinliiii pars fi'vo nil inr>als onronte, ?1 Mlnnta nn<l New York Local trnln ..i : .? ?? n \tian;a e i'Oi nootlng at (;iiurlot'e wita ti ; ol ime numbers carrr not woo n CtiarlotM lorfolk Washlim'ton end Ne? ? ti nnra on theao i??nlne (m> \ a and < hnrlol to I.waving Waev ii..- . . Wednesday and Krida? ? iir will run through t>4 Iwon i \\ Illing I. i l l rtnn FranoUoio WlthoMt ni Atlanta with thronn i riiwiiiK-riKiin aloeiitoff oar for Jaqk loi'til ? l'.i linnn iloeplngoar for Brune ?r f.,r A ?h* villi, Knoi" ' "No at Columbia for E vnnnnli ?> id .1 ? k >n villa, ?A> JON. S.H.BARDWIOK. Jhii 1 \ -P. .. ?< n, Mgr., G?u. l>?na. A it. Wnahl i,Utt WMhlnuton,!). Q w: H, 1 A > 1 < .. j. 1). ^oUtfaV AM'tOeii 1 nisi. An t., Fas. ?T'kt Ag.tit.