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A LION ADVENTURE. Tbe Haoter'a Gan Wu About m Ouc*r- oua the Booat. The hero of this ml venture is B.. F. Kelso of Juniper Flats. Junincr Flats is away dotvn in Riverside county in a nest of tangled, brush covered hills between Lake View and San Jacinto. Kelso is a big, burly, bearded man, with a good hu mored smile and an honest face. He makes his living by digging manza- nita and grease wood, which is haul ed to Riverside and sells for $7 a cord. One day ho had his load ready to start on his weary drive across the plains, when the family heard the dogs barking up on the hill back of the house. Kelso went for his gun. Now, this gun of Kelso’s is a fear ful and wonderful weapon. It had once been a single barreled shotgun, hut it had the misfortune some time in the misty past to have the whole stock smashed off. The hammer was left, it is true, hut it wouldn’t stand cocked under any circum stances, and everything abaft the hammer was gone. Some of my brave readers who are not afraid to pull a trigger may think it an unde sirable job to hold up the hammer of Kelso’s gun with the thumb, stick the whole thing out at a safe distance from the face, shut one eye, take aim—make ready—and let the hammer slip—bang! Not so with Kelso, however. He took his fragmentary relio and strode away through the brush to see what tbe dogs were raising such a row about. The rocks on the top of this hill are huge cubes and rectangular blocks as big as houses fresh flung from the hand of God. The dogs wore barking about the crevices of one of thpse. Kelso climbed labori ously to the top of it, so as to look down and find the wildcat or what ever it might be, when, as he scaled the crest, a giant mountain lion made a rush past him close enough to touch, and stood glaring down sav agely at the yellow dogs, switching his tail with an uneasy, nervous en ergy. The lion made, a spring down among the dogs, struck them off to right and loft and wont in great leaps down the mountain side that slopes toward San Jacinto. The dogs pursued, and after them flew the excited Kelso. Down, down they went for a mile or more throngh brush, over rocks that would have cost the life of any one but a mountaineer. At last the big cat, harassed and confused by the folio wing dogs, took refuge in his lair, a have among the rocks, some distance above the Fico springs, and when the man arrived, the dogs wore fiercely barking into the mouth of the cavern, and the lion was at bay. Kelso pushed in among the dogs in the thick of the fray. Suddenly the middle dog shot like an arrow at the lion and seized him by the throat. At a word from his master tho.hound rushed in and seized the great cat by the jaw, and the fyste followed suit by worrying his prey in the flanks. The scene was indescribable. Fur and blood, yells, growls, howls, snarls, demoniao cries and shrieks filled the echoing cavern. Kelso hold up the hammer of his ancient shooting iron and pointed the muz zle in toward the fearful din. He crept in till he was actually stand ing on the lion’s tail. As the groat brute raised bis head above the struggling dogs the hammer was re leased. For a wonder the cartridge exploded, and the whole top of the lion’s head was blown to smither eens.—Los Angeles Times. Wood Prenerving In Switzerland. A simple, effective and cheap way of preserving wood from decay is practiced in Switzerland in the prep aration of posts for the telegraph service. A square tank, having a capacity of some 200 gallons, is sup ported at a height of 20 or 25 feet above the ground by means of a light skeleton tower built of wood. A pii>e drops from the bottom of the tank to within 30 inches of the ground, where it is connected with a cluster of flexible branches, each ending with a cap having an orifice in the center. Each cap is clamped on to the larger end of a pole in such a manner that no liquid can es cape from the pipe except by pass ing into the wood. The poles are arranged parallel with one another, sloping downward, and troughs run under both ends to catch drippings. NVhon all is ready, a solution of sul phate of copjjer, which has been prepared in the tank, is allowed to descend the pipe. The pressure pro duced by the fall is sufficient to drive tlie solution, gradually, of course, right through the poles from end to end. When the operation is ended and the posts dried, the whole of the fiber of the wood remains per meated with the preserving chem ical.—London Work. Her Pet Corn. It is a curious fact that nearly ev ery one has an aversion to giving away some one thing. Matches are the great meanness of one of the richest women in this country. She hoards them as if each stick were studded with diamonds. She will give one or two und<ff- protest, but she buys them by the gross and lights and relights them until the last charred bit falls off, leaving her often with burned fingers and a re gretful wish that she could have used that one onoe more. When her ohildron oome of age, she gives each of them $200,000 with the greatest possible cheerfulness, hut rf they were to ask her for a whole box of matches she would feel that she was impoverished.—Augusta Chronicle. PECULIAR CHOPPERS. Th. Crmnky Old Ocntlam.n and th. S.U- l»h Lady Are Types. ' Vi o have some queer characters oome here—people who do such odd things that to tell about them sounds like exaggeration. ’ ’ The salesman shut with a snap the jewel case he held, a smile of amusement played about his mouth, as he reached into the showcase and set straight a row of glittering rings that had gotten out of order. “See this brooch?” pointing to a small gold leaf with vivid, glowing berries. “We sold one like ft to a middle aged lady who lives not 100 blocks from here and enjoys the reputation of being wealthy. If those berries were rubies, it would be a costly brooch; but, being gar- nets, it is worth only $20. The day after the brooch was sent homo a tall, austere looking gentleman came in and addressed himself to me. " ‘You sold this brooch to my wife, 1 believe, ’ he said, producing the brooch. I told him that was the case. “ 'I want you to take it back and refund the money.’ “ ‘Is there anything wrong about it?* I inquired. “ ‘No, but' my wife had no right to oome to an expensive store like this to buy jewelry. There are plenty of other places she could have gone to. ’ ‘‘I explained that the sale was made; that the lady had paid for the article, and that the firm did not take back goods under such con ditions. He got into a passion, ar gued the question at some length, and finally, when convinced that we would not comply with his demands, pitched the case out through the open door into the middle of tbe street and took himself off.” ‘‘And did the lady lose her pur chase?” “No. One of the hoys ran out and picked the case up from under the very feet of a cab horse. We packed it carefully in a new case and sent it round to her address. ” “What do you suppose led the husband to act like that?” “Simply crankiness. He is one of the sort who object to their wives making any disposal of their money without consulting them.. He is close fisted. “That was a cranky man. Now, how about this for a woman? Two days before Christmas, just in our busiest time, when the store was packed with shoppers, a lady came in and asked to look at novelties, al so silverware. She was interested in only tbe expensive goods, and I took great pains to show her our best line. Several people whom I am accustomed to serve were in tho store during her stay, but I let oth ers wait on them and devoted my time to her. "Alter inspecting everything and taking up an hour of the busiest time of the day she coolly remarked that she had a son who was at pres ent in tho south on a hunting expe dition. ‘He expects to be an usher for a wedding in June,’she went on. ‘I will write him about the arti cles! have seen, and doubtless when he comes back he will look in at them himself.’ “I could hardly believe my own ears. “ ‘In Jqne, madam?’ I gasped. 'Are you looking at those things now for a wedding in June, and all these people waiting here to get things for tho day after tomorrow?’ “ ‘Why, yes,’ she answered, not tho slightest bit embarrassed. ‘I thought all your prettiest things would be on exhibition now, and that it was a good time to get sug gestions. ’ “ ‘Suggestions for a June wed ding,’ I whispered to one of the men as my customer swept out to her carriage, and then the laugh was on me, because all had expected to bear of an $800 sale, at least I counted up and found that I bad lost just $1,000 worth of sales while that inconsid erate woman was in the store.”— New York Tribune. Origin of tho Architect. The earliest architecture be queathed by ancient nations was an outcome of ancestor worship. Its first phases were exhibited in either tombs or temples, which, as we have long ago seen, are the less developed and more developed forms of the same thing; hence, as being both appliances for worship, now simple and now elaborate, both came under the control of tho priesthood, and tho inference to bo drawn is that the first architects were priests. An illustration which may be put first is yielded by ancient India. Says Manning, “Architecture was treated as a sacred science by learned Hindoos. ” Again we road in Hunter: “Indian architecture, although al so ranked as an upavoda, or supple mentary part of inspired learning, derived its development from Bud- didst rather than from Brahmanical impulses.” In Tonnent’s “Ceylon” there are passages variously exhibiting the relations between architecture and religion and its ministers. By many peoples the cave was made the primitive tomb temple, and in the oast it became in some cases largely developed.—Popular Science Month ly Earlj The.tr!0.1 Benefits. They say tho first benefit was granted to Mrs. Barry on Jan. 16, 1687. But what does this sentence of Sir H. Herbert mean: “The bene- fitt of the winters day from the Kinges company upon the play of ‘The Moor of Venice’ cornea, this 2J of Nov., 16207 unto 91. 16s. Od.?”— Poston Journal A COSTLY FAD. that of Collecting Be.aMf.1 Gcme, graved Stone, .nd Cumm. A passing pretty fad that costs a passing pretty penny is the collect ing of gems, engraved stones and cameos. A great collection one* seen, and it is all up with the hap less wight who has taken in the» germ of the fad. He will want the heavenly city of Revelation itself. Rare and distracting objets d'arjt of this order may be seen in tbe Louvre, British museum. South Kensington museum, UflQzi gallery, in Florence, and the National mu seum at Naples. The ancient lapi daries were as clever and artistic craftsmen as heart could wish. The more examples I saw of their skid th' more I admired and marveled at it. Until such an exhibition of seals and rings as may be found among the priceless treasures of the Louvre is seen you cannot appreci ate the skill of the ancient Egyptians in this fascinating department of art. A favorite medium to display in beautiful form tbe craft of the art ists of earlier centuries was a rock crystal, a. substance that in the shapes of vases, cups and various exquisite devices is one of the typ ical articles of enrichment in the cabinets of European museums. In more pretentious form you may see this petrified sunlight constituting the massive chandeliers that hang in some of tbe gorgeous chambers of the palaces of Versailles and Fon tainebleau. But engraved gems for me. Amid the great Florentine col lection begun by Lorenzo de’ Medici you shall rave with cause. The an cients knew a thing or two. Supe rior gem engraving flourished as far back as Alexander, tho world beat er, and was a perfected art to the time of Hadrian, or the seoond century after Christ. It shared in the subsequent renaissance of tbe arts and received honorable place again in the skill of Italian, Engjish and German artists of the eighteenth Century. Naples boasts the largest cameo known, said to have been found in the tomb of the Emperor Hadrian. It is a shallow cup or dish, in diam eter at least six inches, showing a superb bead of Medusa on one side and eight figures on the other. Re membering that these compositions get their light and shade from the stratified colors of the onyx, one bet ter appreciates the beauty and rarity of this curio. If you would study jade outside of the orient, drop into the South Kensington museum. Jade is a precious and passionless mineral, but infinitely chaste and elegant when wrought into artistio form.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Medicine taking may become quits as engrossing a habit as gum and tobacco chewing, opium eating and the like. Just observe the number of medicine takers that one encoun ters in railway travel, In the street oars, the elevated trains, and, in fact, under any conditions where the public eye has an unrestricted op portunity to gaze upon the private individual. Medicine takers are mostly women, though the habit is by no means confined to them alone. Many men may also be seen popping small pills and dumping little pow ders between their paws at all too frequent intervals. All medicine takers do this mechanically, how- ever.almost automatically,as though they had no particular motive in so doing beyond the fact that they were the victims of a hi hit. Another sig nificant thing about the medicine takers is their apparent good health. If bright eyes, clear skins and un troubled countenances are any gauge of physical welfare, the medicine taker does not need his medicine. Of course not all possess these wel- oome characteristics, but so many of them do as to justify the conclusion that medicine taking must ha a healthful habit.—Chicago Post A LU Boaawhera Around. It is related that a father onoe charged his little boy with breaking something. The child denied it but the father did not believe him, ac cused him of falsehood and gave him a whipping. Afterward the fa ther discovered that the breakage had been inadvertently done by him self. Then the small boy stood be fore his parent and said soberly, “Papa, there is a lie somewhere around, and I did not tell it”—New York Recorder. NIm PUoa to Lira. It must be pleasant living in Hon duras, to judge by the report of Richard Harding Davis. “There is nothing green that grows in Hon duras,” he says, “that is not satu rated and alive with hugs and all manner of things that creep and crawl and sting and bite. If you walk 20 feet into the bushes, you have to be beaten with rods as if you were a dusty carpet and when the insects have onoe laid their claws on you you feel at night as if sleeping in a bed with rod pepper.” Clerk—No. 46 says that 1 I'had the best dinner here that he has had for fonr years. Hotel Keeper—Good 1 Charge him a quarter extra. “And No 64 says it was the worst bo ovor saw. ** "So? Make bis bill half a dollar more for kicking. ”—Indianapolis Jour nal Th* Modern Kmbnsmdor. Tommy—Paw, what is an embas sador? Mr. Figg—He is used ohiefly as a ohip which the other country knocks off when it wants to declare war.— Indianapojis JourpV- The Discover Saved I Mr. CK Gnillouette, VriMget, Beaversville, 111., 8aysfF«fDr. King’s New Discoveryfl owemy life. Was taken with Grippe and tried all the physicians for miles about, but of no avail and was given up and told I could not live. Having Dr. King’s New Discovery in my store I sent for a bottle and began to get better, and after using three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won’t keep store or house without it.” Get a free trial at Dr. J. A. Boyd’s Drug Store. Uncle Hays—“ ’Member the Hawkins boys who ran away to jine a theater company?’, Aunt Marthy— ‘‘Why. yes! What about ’em?” Uncle Hays (quietly)—“They ’s walked back.” Cincinnati Enquirer. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale at Dr. J. A. Boyd's drugstore 'FAT; i fit at. By order or the , Wl * <3. TASTELESS CHILL TONIC 18 JUST ABOOOD FOB ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE OOots. C-l, Mcdloto# CV, *<"'*“*- QEOVE™TA8TEi!bm CHl£L%*»C l aad^aTO bought thro* gross already thla year. In all o«r ex* perience of 14 years. In tbe drun beslneM. have uever sold an article that gave such universal aatle taction as your Tonic. Tours truly, ▲Bnr.CAKx *Cc For sale by O. B. DAVIS and all Druggists. June 11—6 in A'sr s a ajartii the aete Cfreait oa April 1. UN, CoUUag elaintt or deamiaaTaa^r •ore against the estate of J. C. WU1- deeessed, to file the a—in mr „e on or before the first day df Jy. ISki. and in default thereoftbey 111 be forever debarred froai parilei- ;ion in the asee e of said estate. 11 am required to take all tefitt- ay in establishment of said eiaiais lemands. R. K. CHARLES, Master. Oso. G. Thompson, Esq , Plaintiff’s Attorney. April 10,1806-8m. *•*•••» •»»*#•» I k***A*»F*4>4V Protect Yourself and Family Against Loss! BY INSURING YOUR PROPERTY AND YOUR LIFE. 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A certain Charlotte firm is frightening the people to buy now as “all manufactures will advance price* this Fall.” This is not true; only an advance of 50 per cent, has been made by the railroads on Chairs, and this was done last January; but our Chairs remain the same. Furniture Will Not Advance soon, yet you can positively get unapproachable bargains in Furniture from our big store for the next 30 days. • TELE MOHSTETT T^ILIKIS WITEC TJS.” ML. J. 61811,1. D„ DARLINGTON, 8. C. Office over Boyd’s Drug Store. Offici Hours: 11 am to 1 p m; 4:30 p m to 7 p m. LAW CARDS? J.J.WARD, Attorney at Law, DARLINGTON, 8. C. Will Practice 1> Ike Cearts ef the Fwrth Circa!!. Mch5 , 06—lyr. E. O. Woods. Robert Maofarlaa. WOODS i MACFARUH. (Successors to Wood* ft Spain.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Darlington, 3. C. 0 Offices over The Bank of Darlington. Janl0’96—lyr. R. W. Boyd. G. W. Brown. BOYD k BROWN- . Attanays and Opusalan at Law Office in S. Maroo building, op posite Court House. DARLINGTON, 8. C. Janl’96—lyr. T. H. Spain, R. T. Thompson. SPAIN A THOMPSON, Attorneys at Lav, Darlington, - - - 8. C. Offices in Darlington Gfiardt 1 Armory bonding, first loor. Special attention given to practice in the Probate Ceart. Mch26’96—yr. Breeden's... Alim.. Newtou Arrive Gibson. Train No. $7—Daily exe Leave Gibson —. Newtonrllle A Urn —... • —.«• Breeden's. Benneuevillo MandevUle ... 6Mam Robin's Neck.— 7II am Mont Dime TMam Darlington— - 7 0$ am Byraeoae -8 IS am Lamar........ —8 $8 am Elliott 6 48am 8t. Charles 8 68am Oswego. —...—$88 am rive Sumter — A Mia m No. tS —Sooth Bound Loeal FMight. (Mondays, Wednesday* and Fridays.) Leave Somtor...—8 SO a m Oswego— — 1018am St. Charles —. 1848 am Elliott’s 1106 am Lamar 1148 am Bymense.. —— —- 1888 p m Darlington — 1 00 p m Mont Clar > — 1 'S pm Robins Neek —$00 p m ManderviUe - 8SO pm Bennettsviile SS8pm Breedens 414 »m Alice 4 86pm Newtonvflle 808 pm Arrive Gibson - • 618 p m No. >1.—South Bound Loeal Freight. (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday*) Leave Gibson — Newton ville Alice ...... Beeden ..... Bennettsviile—- ManderviUe Robins Neek 1810 pm Mont Clare 12 SB pm Darlington —.... 205pm Syracuse— - 2 40 pm I jttTiMr 818pm Eliqtt’* - 8 SB pm St. Charles — 4 18 p m Oswego ——• 4 88 pm Arrive Sumter..—- ....— 8 88 p m NOTE.—Train No. 68 makes ekwe connection for Columbia via Darling ton and Sumter; aad tor via Florence; and for all pot Bx-Judge J. H. Hudson, Special. B. L. Dnrgnn HDM&DMKHI, Attorneys A Counselors at Law. DARLINGTON, 8. C. SPECIALTIES: Real Estate, Corporation and Commer- ciai Law. Pretice in 3rd and 4 th Circuits. Sept 18116 -lyr. For Correct Styles In MILXJNERY cml, o«r Miss Maggie Jones. Railroad. In effect Jan. j e No. 68.—NORTH BOUND. 6< Leave vtorenee............. Palmetto — $06. Darlington Floyd’s...... ....... ^Jove's.——.—... Society Hill. Cash's.—. Cheraw........ ReParian.... Moreen's— Bennett’s Arrive Wadeeboro. •••••••ee•••••• 940, loosam loaopp 10 88 am -11 Main . 1188 ato 12.40 pm 12 65p . 1.10 p 1.80 p: No. 68. SOUTH BOUND. Leave Wadeeboro .. Burnet Vs ••as Train No. 681 at Florence from Charleston and from all points North and at Darlington from Columbia. Pi ORTH EAVfBKN RAILROAD. Dated June 2nd, 1806. Trains going south. Xo.85 No. 23 • _ * a m Le. Florence . 824 “ KingBtree 862 Ar. Lanes . 488 812 Le. Lanes —. . 488 912 Ar. Charleston— . 625 Hit ?15 880 Trains going north. No.78 No.82 NoJ» • • • am pm am Le. Charleston 458 400 700 Ar. Lanes.. 700 582 881 Le. Lane*. 790 652 “ 790 -W-e Ar. Floreno* 890 720 * Daily, t Dally except Sunday. No. 88 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. of S.C. AWTILMINGTON, COLUMBIA* W AUGUSTA RALROAD. Leave Leave! Arrival Arrive Sumter < Leave Sumter—.. Arrive Columbia.. 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