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The Laurens Advertiser. Si. o per Year in Advance. " My foolish boy! Of course I love \ I love everything bore?thoso distant bleak barreu h?ls, the groat m 1 valloy, tbn Bago brush, the cactus, the toads, the raugo cattle, the ponies, and?everything that goes to make up tliis boundless Western couu try. Aud, above and beyond all else, 1 love you. You are a wouderful picture in a wonderful frame. I could not separate you from the country, nor the country, from you. Would I lovo it with you out of it? I cau't say. I can't imagino you out of it." Sho patted her pony's neck as sho talked. ** Would you love me anywhoro olse, I wonder, iu your far-away Eastern home, for example, amoug your more cultured friends?" She answered him by a peal of sil very laughter which rang down the canyon aud elartlcd the lizards bask ing iu the sunshino. He looked up quickly. ** Pardon mo, dear, but I was just imagining you among my friends back East. It?seems so funuv." Ho colored under tbo hoavy tan coating of his handsome face and pull ed his sombrero down more closely over his eyes. " Am 1, then, so different?such a wild man of Borneo?that you would hesitate to iutroduce me to your friends?" M Yes, I would hesitate, for it would set all the girls Hocking to the West in search of other wild men of Borneo, | aud there are no others?none half so j dear as my wild man. Careful there, Vixon, careful, careful. Oh, see Guthrie, a rattlesnake 1" The pony had shied to one side and trembled from head to foot. Quick as a Hash Guthrie .Blalock drew his revolver from his belt and shot the serpent dead. Thou hnstily dismounting ho knelt among the Btoues ana cactus, detached the string of rattles, ten in uumbcr, and handed them to the girl. She recoived them calmly aud fastened them in her belt. A few months ago she would have shuddered and screamed. Hut she had learned much during her short stay at her brother's cattle ranch. Under Guthrio Blalock's tutelage she had de veloped into a true daughter of the plains with marvelous rapidity. The day she stepped off the train after a loug journey from the Hast, and Hew into her brother's arms every cattleman and rancher standing around the Station began nourisbiug a secret bone in his own breast. Such n slight, willowy figure, such a bright, witching fn such merry blue eyes aud such a sit try, contagious laugh all bound up in ie young woman, could not fail to produce a sensaliou, especially where women were us rare as a cloud in the perpetual blue of the skies overhead. Every man in the country suddenly (lev Oped a desire to do business with ]!cj ijyman. They all had bunches of cattle to dispose of, but, strange to say they could novcr couio to terms. Each ' isit called for another. " It's fuuuy, Genie," Bob said to uis sister, with a twinkle in bis eye, " what a capitalist these men tako me for. Perhaps they think you brought gold with you for investment. Can't imagine what olso heads all the pouics for my ranch." Genie laughed aud was pleased, but not until Guthrie Blalock came on real business with no intention of meeting " the lily of tho valley," as the men called her, was she impressed. " Bob," she whispered, as he came into the room for a paper, ** introduce me to that handsome man." " He's not like the others, Genie; ho doesn't care a rap about women?would probably be rude to you." 411 don't care. Introduce rnc," she commanded and he obeyed. Guthrie bad been merely polite, had avoided her, bad shown for her no ad miration. Straightway he became tho only man in tho wholo country for whose attention she cared a tig. And the inevitable was happening. She nad at last won him ? more com pletely than she realized. They were constantly together on large rides over the hills and the pluius, and Bob was highly pleased at the prospect of keep ing his sister in the West. They were orphans and she hud remained in the East with a younger brother, who had needed her care until tho past year, when, his school days being about over, she felt free to visit Bob, whom she had not seen since she wus a little child. Guthrie 1'. la lock had been an enigma to the men witb whom ho transacted business?for he met them on no other footing?since he first came to tho country ten years ugo, and engaged himself as cowboy to one of tho cuttle kiugs. Silent, morose, gloomy, he had ridden the plains and lassoed steers till now he was one of the biggest cattle owners in that regiou, but yet ho held aloof, understood and loved by no one. Many mistrusted him and whispered of black deeds committed in some more civilized clime. Could thoy havo lift ed the mask they would have found only a sore quivering heart, that, shrinking from contact with the world of men, sought solace in nature. From his earliest memory ho had craved love and had gone loveless through the years. His mother had died during his infancy. As he grew into young manhood tho first girl who caught his attontion received from him a weulth of silent, all-absorbing devotion which *sho was not capablo of understanding. A few years ot wedded bliss and she w ccked his life by running away with An artist who could sing sontimentul songs and make pretty speeches. Guthrie hoard of her doath, but it could not add one throb to tho already bleeding heart that would not break. A i the years passed ovor his head ho imperceptibly grow into tho calm induced by the wide Wostorn plains, und not until Genie crossed his path did he arouse himself to any interest beyond his ponies. Gradually sho awakened all his old love of loving. She came to be a necessary part of his existence. Ho knew that his whole life now depended on her. Should she get out of it?she should not go out of it. With clenchod teeth be swore it, and had Genie seen the look on his face she would have trembled. But he hud won her, oven as she had won him. To her it was hoavon to bo by bis side: to him it was hell, in the fear something would take her from him. When they roached homo that even ing, as he lifted her from the pony he held her closely, almost Horcely to him. 1 " Tell me, Genie," he whispered, . " is there any one in the East for whom you once cared?who might over come between us? Be honest, little girl." , She drew away from him fend looked / down, tupping the toe of her boot with her riding whip. Could ho have Been her eyes the mischief tbore lurking would havo reassured bitn. 44 Yes, Guthrie, thero was some one I thought 1 loved with my whole heart. I didn't think anyone could ever bo dearer to mo or tnukt> mo lose sight of my duty to bun. Hut you have, Guthrie; you havo almost made me forgot him." Ho turned as white as I bo pale in >on light that enveloped them. That 41 al most" cut him to tho quick; aud if she had forgotten one man for bitn would u-it )-l>o forget him lor another? At thai uement Hob opened the door. 44 Hollo," ho called. ?4 Coino In, Guthrie. A lot of mail?letters from home?came down for you, Genie." At the magic word 44 mail" she hur ried inside leaving tho two men talk i ing together. Soon Hob went on tho stables aud Guthrie entered the bouse. She did not boo him enter nor feel his presence as ho crossed over and stood behind bor. Sho sat gazing at the photograph of a handsome boyish young face. The tears were streaming down her cheeks, and from time to time sho beul for ward aud kissed tho picture 44 Morton," sho murmured, 44 Morton, 1 had almost forgotten you, dear." Guthrie bent over her. 44 Is this the one you loved?before you met me?" 41 Yes, Guthrie. 1 bad forgotton bow much he was to nie. 1 have been I scltlsh. His dear faco seems to ro proach me. Guthrie, it is my-" A quick backward movement, a sharp " click," and Guthrie Bialock sank limply into a chair, letting his pistol fall to the lloor. Ho had for gotten that tho last charge hud been spent on the rattlesnake; that only saved him from self-murder. " Guthrie, Guthrie," cried Genie, springing to his side. 14 Oh, tell mo what is the trouble.'1 At that moment Bob entered. Guthrie roso to leave; I while and terrible to see. | 14 Sit down, man." commanded Bob, seeing that something had gone wrong and unwilling for him to leave in such a slalo. Ho thought Genie had refused him. To divert attention he picked up the photograph lying on the table. " Ah, a new picture of the kid. We can't call him httlo brother' any long er, can we, Geue?" Slowly a light began to dawn in Outline's set sunken eyes. " Is he your brother?'' he demanded. " Yes", dear; the only man who could share my love with you." " Genie, Genie," he cried, drawing her into his arms, regardless of Bob's presence. "Oh, Geniel" The truth Hooded her senses. She at last realized the magnitude of the love of a man of the plains. When (Jonic Lyman became Mrs. Guthrie Blalock, she lost her fad for collecting snake rattles, but she has one string of ten with which nothing could Induce her to part. She alone knows the secret of how they saved her husband's life. HIM, ARTS HOUSE ON FIRE. Jle Got a Move on Him When the Alarm Wsih Given? The Chimney Cuujfht Fire. Atlnnta C nstitntion. Fire oud water and air. Tho three things that cost the least and are the most necessary to our existence are tho most dangerous when unrestrained. Last Sabbath evening my wife and I walked down to Jessie's house to com fort her in her sick bed, ami play with the little girls and help nurse the little baby boy. Suddenly the lire bell gave an alarm and my wife walked out on the veranda to llnd out where the 1110 was. In a monicut she came hurry ing back and almost screamed. '* It's our house?it's our house; run quick. Oh! mercy." 1 throw the baby down on the lloor?no, I didn't either?and departed those coasts with alacrity. Firemen and people weic hurrying that way. I struck a fox trot for awhile, but soon relaxed into a fast walk, and then a slow pull up the hill, for 1 felt my palpitation coming on. "Before 1 reached tho mansion 1 met some of the advance guard returning, who said the lire was out. So I sat down on the front steps to blow for a minute. When 1 went through the ball to tho kitchen where the commotion was, I found our daughters and some good friends still drenching the smoking wallt- and pouring water down the Hue up in the garret. Tho accumulated soot of twenty years had caught on lire and somehow got to the lathing and then to the ceiling and dropped down to the lloor. Nobody was at home. The cook was in her cabin a^loep. Her littlo boy was sitting on the back steps and when our gi>ls ari.ved ho very quietly pointed to the kitchen aud said : " Dar's a lire in dar." Then they heard the crackling Ihunes and saw smoke pouring through a broken pnne. On opening tbo door they were astounded, for tho whole room seemed ablaze. One ran to the front door and screamed "Firo, (ire lire," and tho other went to the telephone and then they llcw to the water faucet and good neighbors gathered in and filled the buckets and went to work. They were just in time, for a delay of ten minutes would have caused the loss of the house and all of our tinte-honored fur niture and pictures and books and my wife's line clothes and golden wedding presents. When I left Jessie's house my wiic hailed me on tho run and said save something, but I am not cortain whether it was her fine dresses in tho wardrobo or her silverware in tho dark closet or her Bible. I reckon it was the Bible that she bus read a chapter in overy night for all these long yoars. I bad a good old Baptist aunt iu Rome and when her house caught on lire "Half-Sick "I first used Ayer's Sarsaparilla in the fall of 1848. Since then I , have takcn.it every spring as a blood-purifying and nerve* strengthening medicine." ? S. T. Jones, Wichita, Kans. HMBarMBntva ei-Jia-ss *tmmmmmmmmmmmamm If you feel run down, are easily tired, if your nerves are weak and your blood is thin, then begin to take the good old stand ard family medicine, Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It's a regular nerve lifter, a perfect blood guilder. ti.Mabotll*. All (tr?t|lt(i. A?k your doctor what ha think* of Ayer'a R*rtapartlla. II? knows all at>out t It In grand old family medicine Kollow hU advlceand 2will be tatUfled. j. U. Avrr Co., Towell, Mast. The Rage Does Mot depend on the start but on the finish. It's staying power which carries many n ruinier to victory. It's like that in business. Many a man starts oil in the race for business success with a burst of speed which seems to assure victory. Presently be 1>egius to fulter and at lust he falls and fails. The cause? Generally "stomach trouble." No man is stronger than his stomach. Business haste loads to careless and irregular eat ing. The stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition become diseased. The body is inadequately nourished and so grows weak. Dr. Tierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the 6touiach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It strengthens the stomach and so strength ens the whole body which depends on the stomach for the nourishment from which streneth is made. There is no alcohol in "Golden Medical Discovery," and it is entirely free frot/l opium, cocaine and all other narcotics. Accept no substitute for the "Discov ery." There is no medicine "just as good " for diseases of the stomach and allied organs. "Your 'Golden Medical Discovery' has per formed n wou<lcrful cure," writes Mr. M. H. House, of Charleston, Franklin Co., Ark. ?I lind the worst case of dyspepsia, the doctors say, that they ever saw. After trying seven doctor* and everything I could hear of, with no benefit, I tried l5r. Tierce's Golden Medical Dis covery, and now I am cured." ? Dr. Pierce'g Pleasant Pellets cure constipation. away in the night and the liremeu came running she ran out in her night clothes and beggod them to save her Chri-tian Index. Sho had a stock of them and treasured them more than anything else. Our good old professor, Charles P, McCoy, of Franklin collego, used to lecture lo us students, and his favorito subject was " The Regularity of Irro gular things," and ho satisfied mo that the longer my house escaped a fire the more I was liable lo havo one. The chances against mo increased as the years rolled on, and so I have been ex pecting a lire Tho insurance ov>m panie8 understand this and base all their calculations aud rates upon it. They will tell you whbt is the average life of a dwelling, a store, a gin, a plan ing mill or a church. Tho professor illustrated with a dico box and said if you cast tbo dico a dozen times the six spot might come up three or four times in succession and the ace several times, but if you cast the dico a thousand times, each number from one to six would show up about an equal number of times. That is according to the calculation of chances and proves the regularity of irregular things. So it is with the rainfall which, however un certain in its coming, amounts to about the same every year. Since 18.S:t the losses by lire in the United States have averaged $105,000,000 a year the lowest being ?100,000,000, ami the highest 8110,000,000, and yet in 1871 the loss in Chicago alone was $"200, 000,000. But where did lire come from and who gave it and when. There is no mention of lire in the Mosaic nccouut of the creation nor for two thousand years after it. Until after the Hood there was not much need of lire, for the people were not permitted to eat meat. Their food was the fiuits of the earth. But I reckon they did have lire and blacksmith shops and made ham mers and hoes and nails, etc. Noah could not have built the ark without tools and nails. The presumption is that the Creator supplied Adam with tools to dress tho garden and Abel with knives to sacriQco tho lirstlings of his tlock, but there are Indian tribes in our day and negroes in Africa and Esquimaux in the Arctic regions who have no knowledge of iron or its uses. A thousand years before Christ, Homer wroto that Jupiter only pos sessed the element that we call lire and when mau was created man he refused to give him lire. But Prometheus stole some from heaven and gave it to man, and it made Jupiter so mad that he chained him to a rock and sent eagles to eat his liver out and as fast as they eat it by day the liver grew again by night, but dually he was un chained and tho eagles driven away. It Beoms that Prometheus was a friend to mankind and by the command of .1 hi lit it actually created man out of the mud that was left after the Hood?not Noah's Hood, but tho Hood of Deucalion, away back iu the ages, lie was a god nearly as powerful as Jupiter and was alwaya in a qunrrel with him. Ho taught mankind architecture, astron omy, figures, medicine, navigation and all the arls that adorn life. At Athens and other ancient cities, temples were built to his honor. They believed that tho very lire that ho brought down from heaven was still preserved and was always burning on an altar in the temple of Vesta. It is called tho sacred lire?the Vestal lire?the Hre of tho heailhslone and must not be allowed to go out. If it does go out from ac cident even tbo family who. loses it must go to the teraplo of Vesta and get a new sunnlv. Of course all these stories about the gods aro superstitious, but tbey are vory fascinating ones and old Homer still stands as tbe greatest poet, and ranks as tbe equal of Shakespeare or Milton. That reverence for sacred liro is not yet extinguished, and it is said that the lioman Catholic priesthood burn candles in their cathedrals day and night because the custom was handed down from tho nncient churches and those churches probably got it from Grecian and Hornau mythology. Anyhow, wo know that tho Jews had great reverence for Ore, for they had to uso it in the sacrifices, and God ap peared to Moses in a burning bush and descended ou Mt. Sinai in lire, and tho Israelites wore guided through the wilderness by a pillar of fire by night, and fire camo down from heaven and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah aud many other important ovents woro marked by liro. In our young days whon tbero wore no matches it was no sure or certain thing to lind lire on the hearthstone every cold morning that came. Some times the live chunk that was' buried in the ashes at bed time went out or was burned up, and then ono of the. boys had to go to a neighbors and bor row lire. It was always called borrow ing (Ire, for it was leasonably expected that tho neighbor would sometimes CASTOR! A For Infanta and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought R rt?fi^B^ Its quality influences yMfiS^^-'^ Profitable fruit j*K?XftN growing insured only QgM&P when enough actual m Potash Bwl is in tin; fertilizer. M&m Neither quantity nor mm&M 8??d 9ua^(y possible %r*j^^?^^f} ?^rrit d'0r'i?ur'XK)'t* ??fey6?$S?^y QBRMAN KALI WORKS. flud himself in the snmc condition. Tho Chorokco Indians mado Uro by rubbing two hard dry sticks together with great rapidity. I have seen little Indian boys do it very quickly, and 1 tried to imitate them, but failed. Hut if tho good pure vestnl Uro came from lunvenl reckon old Satan got some of it when ho fell and took it down bolow. Tho old preacher who uced to go aroutid preaching about the M mountains of Hcpsidam where the liou roareth and the whangdoodlu mourncth for its first born, and he plnyed en a harp nf a thousand striugs ?spernta of just men ina<:o perfect," also had a few brokeu rcmaiks about lire. "My impertinent hearers, there are several kinds of lire. There are fox lire and camp liro and lire and fall hack, but the kiud that cousorns you most are the lire that is not equenohed and is called hell lire for short." Bill Am*. GENERAL WADE HAMPTON. Soldier, Statesman and Citizen. The Greenville Mountainoer, April 12. The bell is tolling the requiem of South Carolina's foremost citizen 1 Wtule Hampton is dead, aud a nation will mourn the departure of a man who was exalted in character, superb in ac tion and wibc in council. Southern in thought, word and deed, he was yet catholic in sentiment, liberal in dispo sition and kindly in conduct. His tem perament was truly conservative, and yet when aggressiveness was demand ed by the occasion, there was the dash and daring of a Chevalier Hasard, with all the civic and military virtues as cribed to 41 the good knight," whoso loyally, purity and scrupulous honor won for him the title of a "cavalier without fear and without reproach." Lieutenant General Wade Hampton, of the Confederates Slates army, was born on the 28th of March, 1818, in the city of Chai lesion, within sound of old St. Michael's chimes, and he died I iu Columbia at 9 o'clock on Friday, April 11th, 1002. He was the third of his family to bear the name he made so illustrious and honored, and his g aud father served wilh distinction as a sol dier in the Revolutionary war under Marion and Sumter, belonging to the cavaliy regiment commanded by Col. Win. Washington, of which lie was lieutenant colonel at the Oattlo of Eta* i taw. His son, Wade Hampton, was a I planter with extensive interests aud large estate, aud lived at Millwood, a . few miles from Columbia, whore tho third Wade Hampton was reared in I luxury aud affluence, hut was taught i the manly virtues under refining in I lluences that were characteristic of bis I long life. Gen. Hampton was a graduate of ; the South Carolina College, and after ward studied law, but without any in tention of entering upon the practice of the profession. Ho was recognized iu early life as one of the prominent men of tho State, though bis time was not occupied so much with public at* lairs as with hie landed interests in South Carolina and Mississippi, devot ing himself to the activities of a planter with ample fortune, and usiug for re creation ibo rod and tho gun rather than whlling away time with listloss purpose in fashion's circles. Ho was called upon to servo the people in tho Legislature, and made an excellent re cord in that body for common souse and sound judgment. He was a mem ber of the State Senate when the war broke out, and bis political sentiments wore strongly conservative, not being inclined to a dismemberment of tho Union. When tho State decided upon a withdrawal from the Union, he prompt ly offered bis services as a private iu tho defonco of South Carolina, but was shortly afterwards given authority lo organize a command of infantry, artil lery aud cavalry, which became known as the Hampton Legion, and achieved great distinction in each arm of tho sorvico. Ho commanded ihe infantry of the Legion with marked ability at tho First Manassas, and was wounded in the head. In tho campaign on the Pouinsultt, the commnnd again added toils reputation, and at Seven Pines increased tho distinction and famo of its lender, who was again wounded after pcrfoiniing gallant and effective sorvico. He was commissioned as brigadior general on tho 28th of July, lK(i2, and was assigned to the com mand of a cavalry brigade under (ion. J. E. H. Stuart, which figured very prominently in the army of Northern Virginia. Gen Hampton was henceforth Iden tified with tho cavalry aervice, and in tho Maryland campaign of 1802 ho wns iu charge of tho rear guard of tho cav alry division iu the movomont west ward from Frederick City, a perilous and important position, as tho enemy was pressing tho Confederates with vigor aud persistence. Ho was often chosen by Stuart for detached service, and in this he was uucommonly suc cessful, enhancing his reputation as a skillful and daring leader, whose valor und capacity won for him continued promotion as the war progressed. He was a participant in (Stuart's raid in the roar of Moade's army, and ho mot the onomy's cavalry near Gettysburg on the 3rd of July, in which engagement bo was wounded throo times, and two of them wore sabro cuts. His command sufforod vory heavily in this battle, nearly ono-half of his men boiug killed or wounded. On the !lrd of August, 18H3, Just ono month after the Gettysburg light, Hampton was promoted major-general and assigned to tho command of a Qivalry division. (ion. Stuart was Beanthd _r^91*18 Kind You Have Always Bonfll Signature mortally wen mied at Yellow Tavern on the 11th of May, ? 18C4, and died tbe next day. Hampton was the rank, ing ofilcev, and took command of tho cavalry corps of the Army of Nortborn Virginia. Ho defeated tho raid of Dahlgreon and Kilpatrick, and after several days' lighting bo gave Sheri dan a check at Troviliau's station, which broke up tho Federal plau of ?nurture with Hunter and tho capture of Hynchburg. Ho captured '1,000 prisoners aud largo quantities of war material, sustaining a loss of 710 men in twenty-three days. In September, 1864, ho struck tho rear of Grant's army at City Point, capturing 400 prisoners and britiging away 2,480 beeves, and shortly afterwards in an other action he captured 500 prisonorH. In February, 1805, bo was promoted heutonnnt genoral aud assigned to the command of the cavalry iu the army of Joseph E. Johnston, whero he ren dered conspicuous servito in checking the advance of Sherman and in select ing the bnttle-ground of Hentonvillu, which was the scone of his last eu gagemeut with the Federal troops. After tho closo of hostilities he re sumcd life as a pluntcr, and gave his attcntiou to tho lurge interests in Mis sissippi, where ho was engaged when called upou to lead the movement for tho redemption of the State in 1870. His courage and coolness uuder all circumstances, coupled with hid sa gacity and discretion, made an endur ing success of what was regarded by many as a htpeless undertaking, and he was crowned with civic honors that even surpassed the brilliant record in military lifo. In 1878 ho mot with an tlent while uuuliug near Columbia Inch caused the loss of a leg, and wh. his life still hung in the balance be wns elected to tho Uuited States Senate, in which exalted position he served until 1801, He was appointed by President Cleveland iu 1803 to the position of Commissioner of Railroads for tho United Stales, which ho resigned in 181)7, and has since that time been out i the public sorvico. Gen. Hampton's career has been so eminent aud clllc'ent that eulor* " npou his life and character are not r -cd to bring forth the admiration i his country men. No man had more pcr s mal friends, and his amiability was so conspicuous a trait that all men were drawn to him with unfailing magnetism. Full of years anil of labors he has gono to an honored grave. A HATCH Ol? GOOD STORIES. Some Things to Make One Lnngli und Grow Fat. The Washington J'nsl says that sev eral Senators were in the cloak room discussing their evperiences in getting 1 rid of an objectionable visitor. The talk recalled an episode in the life of the late .Justice Field, of the Supreme Court, whose temper was of the most irascible kind. He had given instruc tions to Iiis servant on a certain morn ing that he was not to be disturbed. Presently there came a ring at the door bell and an aggressive book agent appeared. " l.waut to seo Justice Field," bo said. " You cannot soo him," was the re ply. ?* I must see him." " Impossible." The conversation grew more em phatic, until finally the persistent book agent's demands echoed through the I house. At that moment Justice I Field, who had been attracted by the ' altercation, appeared at the bead of I the stairs. ** William," he said, in a fiercely I angry tone, "show the brazen, iu I fernal scoundrel up to me; if you can not handle him I will." J The book agent made no further cf i fort to break into the Justice's prcs I encc. The London Mail correspondent ! says a personality in South Africa that figures in more stories than any other soldier is General T?, whoso vocabulary, extensive and peculiar, is the subject of many stories. In the general advance towards Pre toria, one of tho most polished of our generals, seeing a solitary horseman riding about under a heavy lire, sent an orderly to tell "that fool" to get under cover if ho did not wish to be shot. The orderly returned with the information that he had delivered his message and that the officer had said many weird things, among which was the intelligence that he was Gen. T. The polite general was pained that he had made the mistake and asked the orderly whether Gen. T? was much offended. " Much offended, sirl" said Atkins gleefully; " why he told me to go?that is to say, sir, he said you were?well, to tell you the truth, sir, I couldn't have said it better my. solf!" The efforts on tho part of members of the llouso to pin one nuolbor down ! to direct answers reminded Representa tive Capron, of Rhode Island, of an experience in the last campaign. Air. (/'apron was'vory much bothered while making a speech by a man in the au dience who insisted on asking ques tions to which he demanded either " yes " or " no " for an answer. " Hut there arc sumo questions," finally remarked Mr. Capron, "which cannot, bo answered by 'yes' or * no.' " " I should like to hear ono," scorn fully commented Iiis annoycr. " Well," said Mr. Capron, " I think I can provo It. Havo you quit beat ing your wife? Answer ?yes' or 'no.' " The crowd eaw at once that Mr. Ca pron had the man in a trap. If lie had '?yes" it was a confession that ho had boon boating) his wife, and if ho said " no " it was an admission that ho was still indulging in lh3 pastime. " Yes " or" no" shouted everybody in tho hall, and in tho midst oftlio con fusion tho man inndo his escape.? Washington Post. Tho Now York World says that Gon. Fit/.h ugh I reo, who distinguished linn I'll in tho Confederate sorvico and is now on (he regular at my rotired list ns a brigadier general, recently went on a visit to West Virginia. <\ bile thcro he mot nn old comrado in arms whose reception was somewhat frigid. Woll, what's tho matter?" said Gen. Loo. "Oh, nothing much," was tho non committal reply. u There is something wrong," per sisted the General. " Out with itl What do you want?" After boing sironuouBly urged tho comrade said: " Well, I want to die at loast half an hour before you do. I want to be iu the other world when you arrive thero, just to heat what Gen. Jubal Early says when ho sees you in a blue uniform. Ouo of Secretary Shaw's stories was repeated in the cloak room yes terday. It ought to be priuted im mediately or else some' one will bo claiming the credit of it. ,4A ftiend of mine," said Gov. Sbaw, " gave a dinuor to some rural gentlemeu from Iowa. Ue furnished them the best of ovorythiug, terrapin and canvas-back duck. Tho climax of tho feast was a watormolon into which had been emptied two quarts of cham pagne. W hen the farmers began to oat the watoimelon they smiled and smack their lips aud ate again. Tbeu, of ono accord, they slipped into their pockets a handful of the seeds. They wanted to raise somo of tho snjae kind of melon on their owu farms." ? Wuahvuflon Post. " Don't talk to me about tho farui mors not understanding the problems of government," said a Western Repre sentative. " Hero is a letter from a consiitucut of miuo who knows all about reciprocity and tho trusts, and who wauts to thwart both by raising Iii? own plug tobacco: 44 4 Dear Mr. Cougrcssman: If this hero reccprosty bisnee is iixed be tween us aud Cuba as they say, wo'll have to grow our own terback or else make them Cubcns rich nough to buy tho whole country. I do a little chaw ing myself, and as 1 dou't believo iu building up no trust I'd like to raise my own plug. I aint no hand to ask fa vors, but if you could soud me a pack of tciback seed it would be remember ed. 44 4 P. S.?I want to rai80 the kind of plug with tin tlnug8 on it.' " CA HI< KOK TIIK CON VENTION How to Proceed With the He organisation of the Democratic Party. Secretary Gunter, of tho State Demo cratic executive committee, has sent to the several county chairmen the follow ing otlicial call for tho.May Slate con vention: Dear Sir: Your attention is respect fully called to tho following resolu tions adopted at a meeting of the State Democratic executive committee of April 4, 1002, and you ate earnestly requested to sec that the terms of the resolutions are carried out in your county: Resolved, ilrst, That iu accordance with section 4 of the constitution ot the Democratic party of South Caro lina, a Slate convention is hereby called to take place at 12 o'clock in., May 2lst., 1002, in the city of Colum bia. Kcsolvcd, second. County chair men throughout tho State are hereby instructed to call tho Democratic clubs of the various counties to assemble on Saturday, April 20th, for tho purpose of reorganizing aud electing delegates to tho county convention to be held on May 5th in accordance with article 2 of the constitution of tho Democratic party of South Carolina. The county conventions when so assembled wi. elect delegates to the State convention, and cacti county will be entitled to double its representation in tho Legis lature in that convention and to elect a county chairman and a member of the Slate Democratic executive com mittee. Respectfully, WlI.ik JONK8, Ohairman. U. X, Gunter, Jr., Secretary. For the benclit of the Democrats in tho several counties the secretary of tho committee has prepared and is sending out tho following: To the Democrats of South Carolina: For tho benolit of tho Democratic voters in reorganizing the Democratic party this year, tho following informa tion is given: Tho State Democratic oxecutive committee has instructed the county chairmen to issue a call for a meeting of tho respective township and ward clubs to be hold on the fourth Satur day in April. When convened these clubs shall each havo a distinct title, u Tho-^Democratic club," and shall elect a president, ono or more vice presidents, a recording and a cor responding secretary, and shall havo tho following working committees of not less than three members oach: A committee on registration, an execu tive committco and such other com mittees as may be deemed expedient. Bach club shall elect a member of the county cxecutivo committee, under the control of which the clubs shall bo hold together and operate. Tho county ox ocutive committee shall elect its own officers, except the chairman, who snail be elected by tho convention. These officers need not necessarily be members of tho committee. Tho clubs shall elect delegates to tho county con vention?ono delegate for each 25 members and ono delegate for a ma jority fraction thereof. The county convention, when as sembled,* shall bo called to order by the chairman of tho cxeculivo com mittee, and tho county convention shall proceed to nominate and elect from among its members a president, one or more vico presidents, a secre- ; tary and a trcasuicr, and shall bo held on tho first Monday in May. Tho county convention shall elect dolcgalcs to tho Stnlo convention, each count being entitled to double the number of dolegatcs as it lias mcmbors of tho general assembly. The Stale convention has boen called to moot on tho third Wednosday in May in the city of Columbia at 12 m. Each county convention must, at the meeting on the llrst Monday in Mey, elect a member of the State De mocratic cxecutivo committco. Kach county delegation to a Stato convention shall have powor to 1111 any vacancy therein. Tho Stato conven tion shall bo called to order by the chairman of the Stato Democratic cx ecutivo committee. A temporary chairman shall be elected by the con vention, and when organized shall olect a president, vico president from each Congressional district, two secre taries and a treasurer. U. X. Guntkk, Jr., Secretary. Thoraas Sedgwick Steele, the Boston artist, has four largo scrap books which he compiled on tho civil war from newspaper clippings. Every battlo or skirmish is pasted in itc correct chron. ological order. The World's Greatest Fever Medicine. ??ir .'A/?.?8 ?1 ^ver.utak8 JOHNSON'S CHILI, and FBVRR xrwin It la 100 times hotter than outnlno and Hnn? In I .V. "i" z5c""TONIC. _j COSTS 50 CENTS HF IT CURES. ?Vegetable Preparation for As similating ll?crood andRegula ling the Stouachs and Bowels of 1NFA1M I S /( HlL 1)KETN Promotes Digcslion.Cheerfui nessandRcst.Contains neillier Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. Not >I Ait c otic . /\anpkin Seat' yfix.Stwut ? ZiotAtlU Solu - /tyjrmii/it - Hi CurOmalr-totfa + fUffft Stud- - Ctrutfittl Sugar Hinltryrrrrt flavor. Aperfccl Remedy forConslipn Hon, Sour Slonuich, Diarrhoe-; Worms ,(>onvulsions,Fcvcrish ness and Loss of Sleep. FacSinuto Signature of NEW YOHK. .? A?b mujilhs old J 5 Dos h S - yjy C 1 NTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTQRIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years C? THE CCNTAun OOMMNY. NIW von? CITY. Montana will havo at least ono ex hibit at the St. Louis Exposition which will attract attontiou. The Stato will send the tallest man in America?Ed ward Bcauprc, aged 21, who is 7 feet 10 1-2 inches in height and weighs 307 pounds. Ho sleeps on the Moor in ho tels because no bed is largo enough to hold him. On the ranch where he has worked live years he often takes a 1, 000 pound horao under his arm and carries it about the pasture. He can walk off with 2,000 pounds on a straight lift. Unlike many giants Ueaupre is i well doveloprd generally. His chest measure 64 inches, hips 04, neck 21,1 licad 28 and wrist 10. His span with aims extended is 02 Inches, and he wears No. 22 shoes. Wn hlngton, I). 0., is to have a no w union railroad depot which will cost 85,000,000. it will be constructed of while marble and wbl have a frontage of 700 fect. It is to be located north east of the present station of the Haiti more and Ohio Railroad. All of the railways entering Washington will connect with i>, by means of a tuon-l piercing Capitol Hill. Tho station will then bo entered by means of a viaduct and clovatcd tracks, as all grade cros sings arc to be abolished. The city of Evansville, lud ., pro poses to constiuct and operate a tele phone system of its own at tin initial cost of 8250,000. The franehiso of tho existing company will expire in July next, and there were four bid ders for the privilege, but the city will not consider any offers. The Entering Wedge To your consideration is gen? orally tho cost, though cost should always bo relativo to value to bo a fair test. Tho lunibor wo soil may not always bo tho choapestin prico, but it's always cheapest in the long run, bocauso wo givo tho best value. Thoroughly kiln-dried,pro porly sawed and planed, you'll find it "matches" woll, and will be n lifo long source of satisfac tion R.H.Hudgens & Son. THE YOUNGBLOOD LUMBEK COMPANY AUGUSTA. OA. Orricit and Works, North Auoubta. 8. 0 oorfl, Bash, Blinds and BnlldnrV Hardware. FLOORING, SIDING, CEILING ANP INSIDE FINISHING LUMBER IN GEORGIA PINE. All CorroBponrienco given prompt n entlon. 8,000 Graduates Receives from 1 to 5 ap plications daily for bookkeepers and ste nographers. Bookkeeping, Hhorthand, Telegraphy taught. Refers to Atlanta's businosa men ami bankers. Write for cat aloguo. Address A, C. HHI8COK, Pros, or U \V. AKNOhl). Vlco-Pres., Atlanta. Ua Business Chances. DO YOU want to make $4,0o0 between now and March 1, 1903? If so, send ten rents (silver) for our s, ccialty and rccoi\e freo coupon which entitles you to one guess; caultal prize $4,000 tract of land lo cated in Liaurens County, Houth Carolina; bank references given. Address TfVlN'NICKIiBCo , lianrons, H. C. nuAMAii Cured in thirty tosixy dayp. I irnllVU Ten ll,u" beatme :il KKEK II 11lllil Would D?glad to have names UI upuj of Rll 8U|Toring with Dropsy O. B. COLLUM DROP3Y MEDI CINE CO., 312-18 Lowndes Building, Atlanta, Oa. MONEY TO LOAN On (arm lands. Kasy payments. No com missions charged, Borrower pays actual oust of perfecting loan. For information write JNO. It. PALM Kit A SON, Columbia, 8.0, _ JlMlTED trains Double Daily Service INDIA Cl HTAL CITY ROUTE, Shortest line between all principal oitio North, Kast, South and WcBt. Schedules In Effect I>k< 1, 1001. n o bt 11 bound. No. 00. Lv Bavannah, Central T. ..11 :511pm Fairfax .1 I Ham Denmark. 1 ftiinm Columbia, Eastern T... 4 mam Camdcn.> 07am Oheraw.'J'< 80am Ar Hamlet .7305am 10 l?pm Lv Caihoun Falls. 100pm 4 21pm Abbeville. 1 3 pm Greenwood . I fMlam Clinton .... .... 'M am Carlisle . 3 8 am Chester .4 ooain CatawLu Junction. I 83am Ar Hamlet. Lv Hamlet. Ar Raleigh.i" l?'?m Petersburg.'.! 20pm Richmond .,. 3 05pm Wnshin rton. 0 35pill 10 10am L .lliinore.Ii 2?j m Ii 25am Philadelphia.2 5tlam I 80pm New York. 6 30am I l pm Portsmouth?Norfolk?. 625pm 7 15am local atlanta to CI.IK rON. No. Lv Caihoun Kalis. 122 Abb? \ illc_.I 57pm Oreui wood. I 2:-pm Clin to:;. ? 2 ?pm No. 3 I 5:>pm :: 10pm I :7pm 7 05pm KOOpm II 40pm 1 54am ? 10am D8am ii 3am 7 2oam 7 >iam 7 00am i<> I5am 7 25am l* ? lup n am lam >am RODTIinOUM). Daily No. ?1. Lv Oheraw, Kastern T... 7 Ham Camden. S ;tlam Columbia, Central T.. - '? am Denmark.0;>2am Kai r fax .lOoO.im Ar Savannah.l |>ni Jacksonville. 8 5tipm Tampa. 5 00am Lv Catawba, Kastern T 007am ('bester . II I iam Carlisle.10 15am Clinton.II' (tarn Uroonwood .11 52am Abbevillo .12 21pm Caihoun Falls.12 5pm Ar Athens.?.! 21 pin Atlanta . 4 55pm . Dailv. No. ?-'7. 11 00pm 12 6'(am 1 tijain 2 Kam 2 57am i 10am !? < Ctatn 5 l?pm 12 57am 1 85am 2 00am 2 57 am 3 4:iam I loam i 38?m it 13am 8 6i lam LOCAL CLINTON TO ATI.AN i \. No 53 Lv Clinton. 2 i ?pm Greenwood. 3 35pm Abbevillo.I 07pin Caihoun Kails. .. ... 145pm Ar Athens.II 10pm Atlanta. K 50pm Columbia, Newberry & Laurens Kail way train No. 52, leaving Columbia. Union station, at 11.20 a ni daily, connects at Clin ton with SAL Ky No M, affording short est and quickest route by several bouts lo .Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville.St. Louis Chicago and all points West. Close connection at Petersburg, Rich mond, Washington, Portsmouth-Noilolk, Columbia, Savannah, Jacksonville and Atlan a with diverging lines. Magnificent vestibule trains carrying through Pullman sleeping cars between all principal points. Kor reduced rates, Pullman reservations, etc, apply to W. P. 80BUGOS.T.P. A., Savannah, Ua, J, m. Barr. 1st. v. P. and g. m., it e l Hunch, G P A, Portsmouth, Va. c<iualled Schedules to Pan-American ion at Buffalo. Oharleatou and Western Carolina R. It AUOVATA AND Ahiikvii.i.k Shout Link. In effect Deo. 29. 1901. IjV Augusta.10 05 a 2 65 p Ar Greenwood.IS 80 p M Anderson. " Lnurens .1 10 p ?' Greonvillo.....826p " Glenn .Springs. " Spartanburg.:i 30 p ? ?Hlnda. " Hcndersonville. " Asheville. Lv Asheville. " Hcndersonville. ? Flat Kock. " Kaluda. " Try on. " SnHrtauburg. .12 15 a " Glenn Springs. '? (Greenville. 12 22a 1 ?6 p " laufen?.i. .2 07 p ? 30 p " AnoLTHon . 7 M a " Greenwood.8 07 p 8 88 p Ar Augusta. 5 10 p 1. 35 a ?IiV Augusta. 4 15 p Ar Allendale. <> 20 p Fairfax . ? 32 p " Yomassue. 10 2ia 7 38 p " Beaufort.11 40 a X 38 p " l'ort Royal. ....Ilt5a 8 46 p hv Tort Royal.1 00 p ? 40 a Beaufort.....1 ISp 0 GO a Yeuiassoe .. .2 ISO p 7 40 a Fairfax. 8 48 a Allcndale. 8 68 a Ar Augusta. 11 00 a Close connections at Greenwood for all points on H. A. L. and O. & G. Railway, and at >partanburg with Southern Rail way For any information relativo to ticket , rates, schedules, etc., address W. J. Oftaia, Gen. Pass. Agent, Augus ta. Ga. Why Not Save The Middle-Man's Profit? The McPhall Piano or Kindergarten Organ dlreot to the buyer from fac tory. Write me If you wish to buy an Organ or Piano, for I can savo you money. I travel Smith Carolina, and would be pleased to oall and show you my Pianos and Organs. A postal card will bring me to you. L A. McCORD, Lauren?, - ? South Carolina