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THE ADVERTISER. (Subscription Price-12 Months, $1.00 Parable in Advance. Rates for Advertising.?Ordinary Ad ? vertlsements, per squaro, ono inser tion, tl.OO; each subsequent insertion, 60 cents. Liberal reduction made for large Advertisements. W. W. Bai.d, Proprietor. LAURENS? S. Cm Jan. 21, 1110?. The People's Friend Stricken. It has been our privilege for eleven years to know Mr N. G. Gonzales and for part of that timo to bo in daily as sociation with him. It Is hard to rea lize that a man so gontle, so kindly, 80 clean in his living, has been shot down. Few men know him well. Those who did know him and who were worthy of his rospee* wero his friends, in late years tho linos of political opinion of tho writer and of the State's editor drifted widely apart. Sometimes we have clashed lu expression and have given each other "hard knocks." News paper editors, if thoy aro worth their salt, must differ, but if they are not gross fools they do differ without cross ing a lino that divides argument from insult. So it was that we have been able to look to N. G. Gonzales always as our friend, as a favorite older brother in tho order of newspaper men. Wo could "give and take," wo had (<> in controversy, it was part of the game, but tho blow that foil upon Mr. Gon zales fell upon ono to whom we have felt close and loyal in tho bonds of our calling. With all our differences and disputes, wo remember now only that the brave chief of our clan is stricken and in our deop sorrow we arc proud to tako our Staad in the ranks of his friends. Mr. Gonzales believed In "personal journalism.." His creed oilled upon him, to denounce meanness, vice and wrong, not in tho abstract, but in the porsoos of tho doors, In discussing public men ho thought of them as pub lic figures. Who they were or whal counted nothing with him, it was their relationship to his policy and that policy was simply a high concept ion of tho good of his people. Right and left year after year he struck out and many a head wont down under his vigorous blows. Of course sometimes the wrong man suffered. No editor who frequently writes of men can fail of er ror. But tho error was the exception. His discernment of sham and fraud and trickery and dishonor was keen and so for the 12 years of The State's life he has stood guard and earned the hate and inspired the fear of tho vile in South Carolina. Not infrequently he has made enemies of true and honest men but it was th?* legions of the low and base who shrank away from htm and bit their thumbs at him from afar. It was a dangerous place that N\ G. Gonzales made for himself, dangorous all the timo. There wero always many who would have been g'ad to strlko. Clear-beaded gent'eman that he was, Gonzales knew all this. But he took the chances. There aro doubtless many who ignore the l'easons that impelled Mr. Con/ales to attack Col. Tillman's record and they rush to the conclusion that Till man Is excusable because harsh things were said of him. During tho campaign The Advertiser did not regard it ne cessary to ventilate the charges made against Col, Tilltnan. Wo do not make them now. Tho timo has come whon the State of South Carolina must deal with Tillman. But suppose, suppose merely for tho argument's sake, tho charges true, is it not well for Carolina that she had a bravo newspaper with a splendidly ablo and fearless editor to press them and press thorn again until the peoplo were warned? If a bad man comes to tho surface and the honor and safety of tho state is imperiled, What guardian, what protection have the great people who make the state unless it be an unterrified press? When, then, a man like N. G. Gonzales is the enemy of one, ho is tho sturdy friend of thou sands and tens of thousands. This is written at a moment when Mr. Goft zales' life trembles fn the balance. May it please the good God to spare him? 8pare him for the sake, of his doar ones, his young wife, tho days of whose bridehood are scarcely past, and his devoted sistor and brothers?but more than all, may God sparo him to tho teeming thousands of South Carolinians who so sorely and no constantly need an honest man and a gallant man at the head of a great newspaper to lash their enemies into cowering impotence! If lie depart, who will tako his place? Where is another to "take tho chances?" To day by day and night by night invite and daro tho blows of those who cannot bear the light? If ho bo taken, it is the people of all Carolina and especially tho. poor and tho woak who most need a defender, who havo lost a novor falter ing friend. Mr. Oonzales is doad. His death is a personal loss to the editor of this pa per. It is sucb a loss though to the people of South Carolina as thoy will only know as the years go by, that they will feel only as tho need for him comes and tbero Is none, none to till it! Of the poor instrument of his taking off, what matters it? A groat man in the fullness and blossom of glorious manhood of mind and body and soul has been st ruck downl Thoro is no sen timent known to tho human heart that the poor weak, lost ruined wretob can arouse save that In which loathing mingles with pity. What may bofa'll tbls Jim Tillman, what does it count? Mr. Gonaales is dead and tho people, tho whole people are hurt! Too Many Newspapers. The Advertiser hns received a copy of a new weekly paper published in Croonwodd. It is a good looking enough newspaper and readable but wo are sorry to see it. None of our busi ness? Well, yes it is. The foolish mul tiplication of newspapers demoralise* the. whole business. A,town and county of Greenwood's size will support two good papers. It will not support more comfortably. Greenwood has had two good weeklies and a little dally for jtorae tDno, Of course the new paper may omke/OAL money bo put into printer's ink. Add ing to tbe number of papers adds little if any money to tho painter's till, it simp y moans more division, more throat-cutting competition und los? and failure in the long run. There are in South Carolina 15 or 20 crodltablo weekly p.ipors. Tiiero uro 00 or 80 Whloll either in mechanical construc tion or editorial contents or both are miserable excuses. The average is low. The reason Is plain. Then' aro too many newi papers for the people to pay for and iho r wards are too email to ti tnpt cap iblo men to enter tha busi ness. Doubtless the advertisers and the people generally of Greenwood will Vive the new paper advertising aud subscriptions, The people don't care. But tllOrti won't be enough money to go round. As suro as fate, in a year or i ?? some one or other of tho Green wood papers will fail or he absorbed. We wish them 8.11 sue jess und know that all oan't have it. Wo have no uc qitaintaooo with any of the Greenwood edltora but we believe that the men who were on tho ground first are best entitled to publio support unless they have proven thomsolves totally unwor thy. V TllO Governor's .ilcs>ug?. Governor MoSweouoy souds to the logisUturo an admirable message. If ho had to defend it on the stump it would of course beat him. Only an out-going governor could afford such u ine s ii recommends numerous good'thing', all of which would cost much money. To carry out his road an 1 school plai 8 alone would about double the pres in* tax levy. Vet tho ni088ago is on the whole ad mirable. What tho governor advises the pot pie to bay they need and the eh. apes1 way to pay for these things is by; taxation, if the peop'o would tax Iheinselvo two mills on tho dollar and buy if 100/0() worth oMi x; permanent l'O.ldj a year it would bo many mil lions savt d In a few ycora and tho roads would be to pay for but once. Un .il wo have good roads our state will lag. As the Q ivernor suggested,tho "mud tax1 is about tin heavies', \yo labor under On the thrifty, well-to-do man the present tax burd :i U ii^rlit. In Lau rons C mnty 1 IS mills oh a t!0 per cent valuation is no: severe. Railroads and corporations now pay about one-third of Laurens county's taxes. The real trouble is this: most people are pay ing on hind they d Ul't own. Smith has a 12000 farm but lie is only worth a .?flood because Jones has a mortgage for a fitlOOO on that farm. Nevertheless Smith is p ying all tho taxos. The mortgage holder ho lies low. Nobody appears able to dovieo a schein! by wh'ol) the mortgage holdor may bo made to hold up his end. The problem is to on lol a In v which will compel the m rig.ige bolder to pay upon his mort gages and at th : 6nmo time prevent Irin from shifting the binden back on tho borrower, As a rule the banking corporations aro taxed abundantly. It is the private money leader who es cap a. Cures Blood, Skin Troubles, (nicer, Blood Poison, tlrentpst Blood Purlllcr Free. If your blood is impure, thin, dis eased, hot Oi' full of humors, if jou have blood poison, cancer, carbuncles, cat:ii!_' sores, sorofuhi, eczema, Itching, risings and lumps,scabby, pimply bkln, bor.o pains, catarrh, rheumatism, or any blood or skin dUoa$o take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) ucoording to di rections. Soon a1! sores heal, aches and pains si >p, the bl tod is made pure and rieh, leaving tho skin froe from every eruption, and giving the rieh glow of perfeot health to the skin. 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JLVWSV/JltfS CHAPTER IV. _ mus. si.vvpu's STOltY. , ^ tit??t followed fbo j t\ i Uluol: Upcfe Christmas wore .< ujtxiods days and weary, but I.-.'..".',? not for the brightest of* my lifo would I change them now. for, as nfier the burning lu ai or rocking storm the dying day lies hctlutlfu| in the ten dor glow of tho oyoulng, so these dtjya have losl iheir weariness and lie bath ed in a mlaly glory. The years (hat bring us many ills and that pass so storinfuliy over us beiir owny* witii tluMu the ugliness, the weariness, the pain. Ii;- t etc lit -; . 1:1 the beuuly, tho swcolno! '. the rest, ihey leave tin* touched, for Ihi'su are eternal. A a the mountains, th'at n6ar fit hand Miami Jagged and scarred, in ibo far distance reposed in their soft robes of purple ham ao the rough present fades into the past, soft and sweet and beautiful. 1 have sei !,,\ ojf to rocnll Ibo pain niitl anxiety of thoso days and nights when we waited in feni' for the tuiii ol* (ho fov< r, but I can only think of the pntioiieo ami gentleness and coinage of her who st< i! In side me, bearing uioro than half my burden. And, while l can see llie face of Leslie Graeme, glut lly or Hushed, aiid leaf bit low moaning or the broken v rds of his delirium, I think chiefly Of the briglil face bending over him and ol' the cool, linn, swift moving hands lim I soothed and .smooth, od and rented, and ibo voice, like tho soft song of bird lu ibo .twilight, that hover fuljod to I ring peace. Mrs. Mav >r und I were lUueh togeth er during those days, 1 made my home in Mr. Qra^g's shuck, but most of my time was Spent be Ido my friend. We did not boo much of Craig, for he was heart deep with the miners, laying plans for the milking of the league the following Thursday, ami, though he Shared our anxiety tllld was ever ready lo relieve us, Ids thought and bis talk had mostly tu do with the lea.true. Mrs. Mayor's ovonings were glvon to the miners, but her afternoons mostly to Graeme and to inc. and then it was 1 saw another side of her character. We would sit in her little dining room, Where the pictures on the walls, (ho quaint old silver and bits of curiously cut glass all spokV of other ami dif ferent days, and thenco we would roam the world of literature and art. Keenly sensitive to all the goOd and beautiful iii these, she hid her favorites (UUOUg the masters, for whom she was ready to do battle, and when her argument, instinct with fancy ami vivid imagina tion, failed She swept away all oppos ing opinion with the swift: rush of her enthusiasm, so that, though 1 felt she was beaten, I was left without words to reply. Shakespeare and Tennyson and Hums she loved, but not Shelley or Byron or even Wordsworth, Brown ing she knew not and therefore could not rank him with her noblest three, but when I read to her "A Death In the pesort" and came lo tho noble words at the end of the tale, "For nil was as 1 say, and now tho man Llea an ho onco lay, breast lo breast with Clod." the light shone in her eyes, and she said: "Oh, that Is good and great! 1 shall gof much out of bim. I had al ways feared he was Impossible." And "Paracelsus," too, stirred her. But wlun I recited the thrilling fragment, "?prosplce," on to that closing raptur es cry, "Then a light, then thy breast? Oh, thoy soul oi' my soul, I shall clasp theo again, ? And with Cod bo ilift rest!" the red color faded from her cheek, her breath came in a sob, and she rose quickly ami passed out without a word. Ever after Browning was among her god;. Bill when we talked of music she, adoring Wagner, soared upon the Wings of the mighty "Taniihn.usor," far above, Into regions unknown, leav ing mo to walk soberly with Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Vet with all our free, frank talk (hero was all the while that in her gentle courtesy which kept me from venturing Into any chamber of lur life whose d< or she did. not set freely open to me. So I vexed myself about, her, ami whin .Mr. Cmlg return ed the next day from the Landing, Whore be had been for BOU10 days, my Urs' questions were: ??Who Is Mrs. Muvor? And how, In the name of all (hat is wonderful and Unlikely, dues BllO < mo to be here? And why dot.; she si;.., ':" lie would not nns\v< r thru. Whet hei lt was dial his mind was full of the Cpmlllg struggle or whether ho" shrank from the tale | know not. ? But that night when we sal logv-lh.er beside Iiis fire he told lUO the ;-?;< ly while 1 smok ed. He was worn witli Ids long, hard drive and with tho bunion of his work, but as be Wd'it on with Ids t ili-, I ? ' Ipg into thy lire as lie I Id It, he ft I i all his present weariness, and lived again the Beetles ho painted for me. This was his story: "I remember woll my first right of her as she Sprang from the front scat of the Btagd to tin* ground, hardly touching her husband's hand. She look ed a mere girl, Let's see. five years iiko?she couldn't have been a day 0VC1' Iweidy-throe. BllO lookefd bandy twen ty. Her swift glance swept over the group of miners at the hotel door and then rested on the mountains standing In nil their autumn glory. "I was proud of our mountains that evening, Turning to bor husband, she exclaimed: "'Ob, Lewis, nro (hey not grand and lovely too?' "Every miner I ?sl his hear! then and there, but all wailed lor Ahe. ibo.dl'lv? ?or, to give bin verdict bOfoiO venturing nn opinion. Abe said nothing until lie had taken a preliminary drink, and (ben, calling all bauds lo Q|| up, 110 lifted bin glass high and ?nld solemnly: " 'Boys, herd's (?> bei'.' "Like a flash every ghtss was emp tied; ami Abe rjafled out: "'i-'iii her in? again, boys, roy tronll' "He was evidently quite waked up. Then ho began, with Solemn omphasls: "'Boys, you bear me; she's :? Xo. I, triple X, the pure (JtHll with a bead on it; she's a' ? "And for the first lime In bis Black Rock history' Abe was stuck for a Wdl'd. Some one ; n ? i -V I 'angel.' ^AngOlj; repelled Ahe, with Infinite contempt.' 'Auuel be Plowed!' 1 para pbias/? bore. 'Angels a.n't In (be Same month with he ? I'd Hfco (., seo any blanked nngel swIngNny ten in around' tiit'in curves wiihoc.?i shiver.' f :,; Ibe . h'Koir, AbeV asked ' W ' 1 ?^??Liiiiiii ? Atuv profanity expressive of his esteem for the girl who had swung his team round II)?' CUt'VOB, and tbo minors nod ded to each other nnd winked their en tire approval of Abo's performance, for this was his specialty. "Very decent follow, Abe, but his tniu wouldn't print." Hon? ?ralg paused, us if balancing Abo'S virtues und vices. "Well," I urged, "who is she?" "Oh. yes," he said, recalling himself.. "She Is an Edinburgh youug lady; met Lewis Ma vor, n youug Scotch-English' nmn, In London, wealthy, good family and nil that, but fust und going to plOCCS at b um?. His people, who own lor ."bares In theso mines here, as a lai i tort send him out here to reform. Curiously innocent Ideas those old i ii try people have of the reforming properties of this atmosphere. They peed their young bloods hero to re fi i lu re in this devil's campground, whi te u man's lust Is his only law und wlien, Crom sheer monotony, n man mo l betake himself to the only ex citement ofytho place, that offered by tho buIoou. Good people in tho east hold up holy hands of horror at these godless miiieis, but I toll you It's ask ing these boys a good denl to keep straight and clean 111 a place like this. 1 lake my excitement in lighting the devil and doing my work generally, und that gives me enough, but these p. ir chaps, hard worked, homeless, , with no break or change?God help til in and me!" And his voice Bank low. "Well." I persisted, "did Ma vor re form V" Again ho roused himself. "Reform? Not exactly. In six mouths be bad broken through all re straint, :iiid, mind you. not the miners' fault. Not a minor helped him down. It was a sight to make angola woop wln ii Mrs. Muvor would conic to the sal.i door for her husband. Every miner would vanish. They could not look upon her shame, and they would send Muvor forth In charge of Billy Kreon, .1 queer little chap who had be longed to the MnV01'8 in some way In ih?? old country,and between them they would uot him home. How she stood it puzzles hie to this day, but she never 11,; de any sign, and her courage never fulled. 11 was always a bright, brave, proud face she hold up to the world, except in church. There It was differ ent. 1 used to preach my sermons, I beiieve, mostly for her -but never so that sic could suspect-us bravely and as cheerily ns 1 could, und ns she Iis* toned, and especially .'is she sung-how ?-lie used to sing in those days!?there was no touch of pride in hot' face, though the courage never died out, hut appeal, appeal! I could have cursed aloud the cause of her misery or wept for the. pity of it. Boforo her baby was born ho seemed to pull himself to gethcr, for ho was qulto mad about h r, and from the day the baby mine? talk al out miracles!-from that day he Iii vor drank a drop. She gave tho baby over to him, and the baby simply nbsorbed him. "He was n now man. He could not drink whisky nnd kiss his baby. And the miners?It wus really absurd if It Were not so pal1.,elie. It was the first baby in Block Rock, and they used to crowd Mnvor'O shop and peep into the room at the back < t Ii -1 forgot to toll you that when be lost Ills position ns nuiiuii er he opened n hardware shop, ft i' his people chucked him, and he wus too proud to write homo for money? Jn> ! f< r a chance to bo asked in to Bee the baby. I eine > upon Nixon standing at the hack of the* shop after lie hud pi 1:1 (lie baby for the Ill's! time, sub bin r bard, and to my question he re plied: " 'Jt's Just like my own.' "You can't understand this, but to men who have lived so long in tho mountains that they have forgotten what a baby looks like, who have had experience of humanity only in Its rou fliest, foulest form, this little mite, sweet nnd clean, was like. 1111 angel fri b from heaven, the one Jink In all that black camp that bound them to what was purest and best in 'heir past. '"And lo see the mother and her baby bandle I he miners oh, it was nil beau tiful beyond words! I shall never for ? '11 Hie shock 1 got one night when I found Old Kickotts nursing the baby. A drunken old boast ho was. but there ho was, sitting, sober enough, making extrnordinary faces at tho baby, who was grabbing at his noso and w hiskers and cooing In blissful delight. I'oor Old Rlckctts looked ns it' be had been cnughl stealing and, muttering some thing about linving to go, gazed wildly round for some place in which to lay the baby, when in came the mother saying in her own Bwect, frank way: 'Oh, Mr. Rlckctts' she didn't find out till afterward his name was Shaw? 'would you mind keeping her just u Ut ile longer? I shall bo back in a few minutes.' And Old RlckCltS guessed he could wait. "Bui in six nioniiiK mother and baby between them transformed old Hick otls Into Mr, Shaw, lire boss of the nil lies, and then, in the ovoillngs, w lien .-he would be singing hoi' baby to Sleep, the little Bliop wpuld lie full of miners, listening In dead silence to the I v. by songs and tho Kngllsh songs und tho Sen; eh songs she poured forth without stint, for she sung moro for them Hum for her baby. No wonder Ihoy adored her. She was no bright, So gny, thhl sho brought light With her when sh" went Into the camp, into tho )';. . for : !i" went dow n (<> see the men work, or into a sick miner's shack, nnd many n man, lonely and sick for homo or w ife or baby or mother, found In that back room cheer and comfort mid courage, und to many n poor broken wretch that room became, ns pno miner put it, 'the anteroom to ben veil,' " Mi. Ornig paused, nnd I wailed. Thon im wont pu slowly; "For a year und n half Hint wus tho happiest home In nil the world till 0110 day" - lie pul bin fneo In his hands nnd shuddered; "I don't tulnk I enn over forget tho awful horror of that bright fall after noon when old Rlckotts breath' less to mo and gasped, '1 'omc, for tbo dear Lord's sake!' und I rushed after him. Al tho mouth of tho shaft lay (hroo men dead. One was Lewis Ma yor. Ho hod gone down to superintend tho running of48 new drift. The tW/> men, half drunk with Slavi'n's whisky, pe; off a s-uot prematurely, to their I own and Itfcvor'ii destruction, They untouched. A minor was sponging off the bloody froth oozing from his lips. Tho others wore standing about wait ing for mo to speak, but I could tlud no word, for my heart was sick, think ing, as they were, of the young moth er and her baby waiting at home. So I stood, looking stupidly from one to tho other, trying to tlnd some reason, coward that I was,*wky another should bear tho news rather than I, and whllo we stood there, looking at ono another In fear, there broke upon us the sound of a voice mounting high above tho birch tops, singing: " 'Will ye no' conic back again? Will yo no' come buck again? Better lo'i'd >?<< canna be, Wilt yo no" come back again?' "A strange terror seized us. Instinc tively the men closed up in front of the body and stood in silence. Nearer and nearer came the clear, sweet voice, ringing like a silver bell up tho steep: " 'Sweet tho lav"rock's note and lang. Ltltln' wildly ui) the glen, fiat ay tue me In- Bings no saiiK. Will yo no' come back again?' "Before the verse was finished Old Knkotts had dropped on his knees, sobbing out brokenly, 'O God," O God, have pity, have pity, have pity!' and evory man took off his hat. And still the voice came nearer, singing so brightly the refrain: " 'Will yo no' come back agula?' "It became unbearable, old [ticketts ?prang suddenly to bis feet and, grip ping me by the arm, said plteously: " 'Oil, go to her! Vor heaven's sake, go to her!' "1 next remember standing in her path and seeing her holding out her hands full of red lilies, crying out: "'Are they not lovelyV Lewis Is so fond of iheml' "With the promise of much liner ones I turned her down a path toward the river, talking I know not what folly till her great eyes grew grave, then anxious, and my tongue stammered and became silent. Then, laying her hand upon my arm, she said, with gen tle sweetness: " 'Tell me your trouble, Mr. Cralg,' nnd 1 knew my agony had come, and 1 burst out: " 'Oh, If it were only mine!' "Sin* turned quite white, ami, with her deep eyes?you've noticed her eyes ?drawing tho truth out of mine, sho said: " 'Is It mine, Mr. Cralg, and my bu lly's?' "I waited, thinking with what words lo begin. She put one hand to her ucart and with the other caught a little poplar tree tkurt shivered under her grasp and said, with white lips, but even more gently: " 'Tell mo.' "I wondered nt my voice being so steady as 1 said: " 'Mrs. Mavor. God will help you and your baby. There lias been an acci dent, and it Is all over.' "She was a miner's wife, ami (here was no need for more. I could see the pattern'of the sunlight falling through the trees upon the grnss. I could hear the murmur of the river and the cry of the catbird 111 the bushes, but we seem ed to bo in a strange ami unreal world. Suddenly she stretched out her hands to mo and with a little moan said: " 'Take mo to hint.' " 'Sit down for a moment or two,' I entreated. " 'No, no; I am quite ready. See,' she added quietly; 'I am quite strong.' "1 set off by a short cut lending to her home, hoping the men would bo there ahead of us: but. passing me, she walked swiftly through Hie tics, and 1 followed in fear. As we came near tbo main path 1 heard the sound of feet, and I tried to stop her, but she, too. had heard and knew. "'Oh, let lue go!" she said pitCOUSly. 'Vou need not fear.' "And I had not the heart to stop her. in a little opening among the pines we met the bearers. When the men saw her, they laid their burden gently down upon the carpet of yellow pine needles, and then, for they had the hearts of true men in them, they went away into the bushes and left her alone with the dead. She went swiftly to his side, making HO cry; but, kneeling beside him, she stroked bis face and hands and touched his curia with her lingers, murmuring all the time soft words of love. "'Ob, my darling, my bonny, bonny darling, speak to mo! Will you not speak to me just one little word'.' oh, my love, my love, my heart's love! Listen, my darling!' "And she put her lips to ids ear, Whispering, and then tho awful still ness. Suddenly she lifted her head and scanned his face, and then, glanc ing round witli a wild surprise in her eyes, she cried: " 'Ho will not speak to me! Oh, lie will not speak to me!' "I signed to the men, and ns they camo forward I wont to her and took her hands. "'Oh,' she said, witli n wall in her voice, 'lie will not speak to me!' "The men were sobbing aloud. She looked at them with wide open eyes of wonder. " 'Why are they weeping? Will ho never speak to me again? Tell me,' she insisted gently. "The words were running through my head, "There's a land that Is fuller than dny, und I said them over to her, holding her hands firmly in mine. She gazed ut mo ns If In u dream, and the light slowly faded from her eyes as she Raid, tonrlng her hands from mine and waving thorn toward the mountains and the woods: " 'Rut never more here! Never more here!' "I believe In heaven and the other life, but I confess that for a moment it nil seemed shadowy beside the reality of this warm, bright world, full of life nnd love. Sho was very ill for 'vo nights, and when the coffin was closed a no.W! baby lay In the father's arms. "She slowly came back to ilfe, but there were no more songs. Tho miners still come about her shop nnd talk to her luiby nnd bring her their sorrows nnd troubles; but, though she is nl wnys gentle, nlmont tender, with them, no man ever sn.vs 'Sing.' And that Is why I am glad sho sang last week. It will bo good for hot nnd good for them." "Why does sho stay?" I asked. "Mnvor's people wanted her to go to them," he replied. "They hove money?she told me about it?hut her heart is in the grave up there under the pines, nnd, besides, sho hopes to do something for the min ers, nnd she will not lenve them." I am afraid I snorted n little Impa tiently ns I said: "Nonsense! Why, with her face and uinuner nnd voice she could be anything sho liked In Edinburgh or In London." "And why Edinburgh or London?" be asked coolly. "Why?" I repeated a little hotly. "You think this Is better?" "Nazareth was good enough for the Lord of Glory," he* answered, with a smile none too-brl*ftit, i,ui it drew my heart to him, and nly heat was gone. "How long will sue stay?" tasked. "Till ber work is/none," be replied. ".flsld .wtiou wijj that be?" t asked "Whou Cod chooses," bo answered gravely. "And don't you ever think but 11 int It Is worth while. One value of work Is not that crowds stare at it. Head history, iuuu!" Ho rose abruptly and began to walk about. "And don't miss the whole moaning of the life that lies at the foundation of your religion. Yes," he added to himself, "the work is worth doing, worth even her doing." I could not think so then, but tho light of the alter years proved him wiser than I. A man to see far must Climb to some height, and I was too much upon the plain in those days to cateb even a glimpse of distant sunlit uplands of triumphant achievement that lie beyond the valley of self sac rlilce. [to de co&tinuep.] Jill Stuffed Up That's tho condition of many sufferon from catarrh, especially in tho morning Great difficulty is experienced in clear ing the bead and thr >at. No wonder catarrh causes headache, impairs the taste, Bmell and bearing, pollutes the breath, deranges the stom ach and affects the appetite. To euro catarrh, treatment must be constitutional?alterative and tonic. ??I was afflicted with catarrh. I tooli medicines of different kinds, giving each a fair trial; but gradually grew worse until I could hardly hear, taste or smell. I then concluded to try Hood's Snrsaparllla, and after taking live bottles I was cured and have not bad any return of the disease Blnco." EUOBNE FORBES, Lebanon, Kan. Hood's Sarsapariila Cures catarrh?it soothes ami strength" ons tho mucous membrane and buildt up the whole system. Thimble, THIMBLE! Who g*ot The Thimble? Do you hold a Draft on us for a THIMBLE? If you do call and we will i be glad lo explain how you can get a Sterling Silver Thimble Free* Ask to sec our Art Portfolio. For Four Cents you can get a beautiful picture. Visit our stoic and we will be pleased. Palmetto Drug Co. Look for sign with the Tree. THE KYLE hay Press Farmers take euro of what you make. There is as much in saving as there is in making, and if you halo your hay, foddt r. outs, shucks etc., at the proper time you not only save room and time, but you save X\ per cent of the nutri oious matter that ovaporatea when it Is not haled. The > Kyle Hay Press tills a loiu' felt want with farmers. It is tho best yet made. The opinion sei ins to be unanimous that the KYLE H\Y PRESS is unexcelled by any press on tho market. It Is going to the frdnt, already a great number of them have been sold, you only need to try il to bo pleased. It is eusy oper ated by '1 men and I hor.-o. Ii is cheap, durable, simple in construction und easily mounted. It is tho only pross that, c.m be mado or repaired on tho farm, it has no casting to break and c iuse Ion* delay. No other press has this- advantage It is tho only press that, the farmor c;ni afford to buy, it pays for ltse;f out of the first crop. Every farmer can own his own press, and bale bis hay at tho proper time. A. L HI IDG ENS, Laurcns,, S. C. State of South Carolina, COUNTY OE LAU KENS. Trustee's Sale. Hy virtue of the power given to me ii a Trust. Deed, executed by W. T. Putnam, on January 20th 1002, which Deed is recorded In the office of the lork of Court of Common Pleas, for Lahrens County, in Hook D, at page 3?4, I will sell at public outcry, to tho highest bidder, at Laurens C IL H. C, [on Kalesday in February, Uioil, boing the '2nd day of the month, during tho legal hours for public sales, the follow ing described tract of land: All that tract situate In the County and State abovo named, containing lifly (-YJ) seven acres, more or loss, bounded by lands of J. I). Owings, Newton Dial, W. P. Pat-ton, .lohn L. ?lones and others, known as Clark Smith place. Terms of Sale: One-half cash and balance on a credit of 12 months,' with leave to purchaser to pay entire bid in Cash, tlio credit portion to bo secured by note of tho purchaser and a mort gage of tho premises, and to bear in terest from day of sale at oight por cent, and if purchaser fails to comply premises will be re-sold at his risk oil same or somo subsequent salesday. Purchaser to pay for deed and mort gage, and for record ng mortgage. C. 0, EKATIIKKSTONK, Trustee MONEY TO LOAN On Improved farms. Long* time. Easy payments. Small cost. No com mission. Apply to ? C. D. Harkbuale, Atty., Luurons, S. 0. June 24th, 1902?3m. NEW Restaurant Opened. I have opened a Restaurant in tho Babb Huilding for WHITE PEOPLE EXCLUSIVELY. Prompt and Eirst class service assured. Meals, 2? cents at Restaurant or sent to offices. Eresh Oysters on hand. Harrison Huntkr, on Harper Street. Dr, W. II. DIAL, No. 110 w. Main St. . Special Attention Olren Women ) had Children. Office hours in the olty from 10 a. in; to 4 p. m. 'Phone?Residence No. 44. 'IceNo. 8?. ( HWP4^J>HB'J1^yjltVBiHllB^IW,t''Wr*"',t':" ' ?' AVegetable Pr eparationfor As similating (lie Food andllegula ting theStotnachs and Dowels of lNF/\NT5/< H1LI>KKN For Infants and Children. Promotes Digcslion.Cheerfur ness and Rest.Contains neilltcr Opium,MorplUi\c nor>lii\eral. 1SOT ARC OTIC. /tufa aTOtdnrSAMUELPtTCHSR /\tmpfun Se*4?>~ sflx.fmtttt * RttkttUSJlt Miniae Settl * CitftftMl .Oiaar hbit*y/+*n rlatvr. A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Fcvcri sh ness and Loss OF SLEEP. FacSiinltc Signature or NEW* YORK._ AI t> rivo AI h s old ? Dosts - ])Cl N 1 s exact copy or wrapper. (it The Kind You Have Always Bough! Bears the Signature of For Over Thirty leers mm THE CINTAUn COMPANY. riCVV YORK CITY. 4 mill-end sale .ON GROCERIEvS -AT THIv Cash Bargain Store. 19 lbs Granulated Sugar, $1.00 10 " Extra Coffee, 1.00 9 " Best coffee, 1.00 Arm & Hammer Soda, 1 lb pkgs, 04 Celluloid Starch, pkgs. 04 Star Lye The Box, 04 and 08 2 ltf Can Tomatoes, 09 3 " " " 11 Brown Mule Tobacco, per lb., 29 J. L. HOPKINS, LAURENS, S. C. Proprietor, A BIO Crowd this Week. Laurens Awakened! The progressive step marks her pathwaywith steady move ment is fast coming to the front. Daring this week's festivities many special attr ictions will be displayed. W. G. Wik.m t& Co. will offer during the week Special Lines in? Dress Goods, Blankets and Ladies' Jackets. Decided Bargains will easily be detected here by those who are thoroughly familiar with present market values. These cut prices are for this week only at? W. G. Wilson & Co. In Every House] there is some article of furniture that would be improved with a coat of The Sherwin-Wiumms Enamel Paint It gives a bright lustre to anything upon which it is used. Fourteen beautiful tints and shade;; See color card. It's economical. It will save the old rocker that would otherwise be thrown away as unsightly. Put up iu small packages. ALSO Varnish Stain for Furniture and Woodwork, etc, buqoy paint for Buggies, Porch Furniture, etc. SOLD BY - _ BROOKS & JONES, Laurens, S, C,