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p~ I a W. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT. ? Sm^rrrrrrrrTrrrtrrrrrr:*: K (Contributed.) A Bottle of Tears. Tne following story is vouched for by Rev J B Culpepper of Georgia, who received it from a man in Virginia who said lie knew the party I and conGrmed it in al! of its features: I Some years ago a noble young man f of Virginia wa> happily married to l one of the most beautiful young woI men of that grand old State. He T possessed a beautiful mansion and a X 1_ r D.. 1 l.AM twenty-six mine iarrn. dui h u?i was near his home. The bar-keeper ^ became his personal friend and in time iuduced hiui to drink and gamble. As the years rolled by his finan cial iuterest failed uutil his sole possessions were reduced to a home and a one-mule farm. One night in the gambling saloon of the bar-room ^ nearby he was brutally shot to death. After being buried by some negroes under an apple tree in his own garden his wife received the following note from the bar-keeper: "Dear Madam: This will inform fc yon that I hold a mortgage over your ? late husband's mule and farm, also the farm implements, also ihe honseIbold and kitchen furniture,also your ; household goods, including trunks, wardrobe and wearing apparel. As I wish possession you will do me the kindness to vacate at once. I here"* with send a man to take charge of I the premises,keys, etc, and represent I me in all things." The following is the answer to this S" note: !"Sir, you demand the Keys, i send them herewith. The one with a red string unlocks my wardrobe. Iu the right side you will find my wedding dress. 1 never wore it but once. It is yours now, by action of my husband, whom I never disobeyed. In the folds of that dress you will find a small phial, with a few tears iu it, the last I had to shed, but they are historic. They stand for the birth of a little girl bom under a happy roof ?of fifteen joyous, girlhood, schoolday years, of a short,sweet courtship and marriage to the bravest, best man I ever knew, but for whisky; of the day we moved into this then well kept and palatial home, of the alas! so short houeymoon spent here. ^ - ? ? -11 ^??<1 nil aP UlACA X UU Will IIIJU ail VI tilt Ot onwvj WW BScred pleasures in that bottle of tears. I A change, sharp and sudden, came. You may read it, sir, in the tears I [y bequeath you. They will tell you of p the first time ray husband crossed your villainous threshold; of the first r time I detected liquor on his breath, I and of how he put me gently aside L with a shower of assuring kisses, 1 saying that for my sake he would BLuiever be brought under the baneful B effects of strong drink; of how he B became a constant tippler; of the fn;st I time his step was unsteady; of his rapid decline in home-keeping and I home-love; of the ease with which he misunderstood me; of the first time B he spoke a cross word to me; of the B. first oath in my presence. Yon will B find it. all in the bottle of tears, sir. I You will find there, too, one rainy, I wind-shaken,thunder-boomed, lightI ning-torched night, in which it ? ? i r iu. ...,..,1,1 |?. fJOOKetl as 11 LUC uuuuiug iwmu uc demolished. It w;is that stormshocked night that our first-born, little Mary, came into this old whisky-soaked world. Yon will find also OP the bottle of tears .he greed-gored part you played in my house that night?for while one physician attended me, another, in an adjoining room, stood over my poor drunken husband, who was the victim of imaginary serpents, gorillas and devils. In reality he was only your victim. But you will find it, sir,in the bottle " 1 T " ??? li/vKtnin.T^o OX ictirs. i CUM in me iigutiuu^ c i glare the storm as it toyed with the shade trees, I heard the rain dashing in fury against the windows, the room was jarred by angry thunder. But louder than thunder,to me, were the groans and screams and oaths of my erstwhile noble and manly but now fallen and cowardly husband. "You will find it all, sir, in the bottle of tears. 1 heard the low, strange cry?the advent cry of the baby?a cry which ordinarily fills a mother with joy, but which filled me I with a new anguish, as I thought of such a jit beginning to a career destined to be one of piercing shame, I at first prayed that we all three I might meet death in the storm,which now seemed to be urged forward by all the furies of pandemonium.Then I asked that the little one might live and win papa back to the path of sobriety, from which you, for gain,had | led him. "The next morning lie came and ; stood uneasily upon his feet, looked I from bloated eyes upon us. stooped i and kissed me and babv, and vowed i. . . ... , , j Jk-would never drmK again. i ue! lieved him. The peach came back to I my cheek; a giilish lustre kindled in j my eye: a wife's and mother's pride 1 began to lay plans for life and home ?but they were soon dashed and broken, for before I was up from that bed he came home drunk again. "My sun weut out in sudden, irretrievable midnight; my heavens, if heavens they could be called, bei came starless; i grew old; my heart i petrified. lint, sir, you will find it (all, and much more, in the bottle of i tp?rs. I need not tell vou of the next few sorrow-laden years, and the coming of the second girl; of the flight of luxury; of the desertion of friends; of the absence of visitors; of the curtailing of expenses and enforced economy, in order to meet your liquor claims; of the loss of my health; of other efforts to keep the wolf from the door; of the times I have fled, by night, with frightened children, from a ruin-crazed husband and father; of a cheerless 1 hearthstone; of a bare table, and the i ' birth of the third child in the midst of the squalor with which only a drunkard's home is familiar; of my vain efforts to keep the children clothed and fed; of the deeper depths into which you pulled my now helpless husband. One night there was such a pain in my heart that I cried out. It awoke Mary, who came to me and asked what the matter was. 1 told her that 1 was in so much pain that I must be dying,that she would have to take mamma's place and care for papa and little sisters, that papa was a hopeless drunkard, and that she would soon be the only bread winner. You will tind in the bottle of tears how we spent that night, Mary and I,in praying and planning; how little Maiv took her seat at dawn in the doorway and watched for her papa's return; how, with the rising of the suu,he came staggering up the once llower-bordered, now ! weed-infested, road; how Mary ran j down, threw her arms about her father and said, 'O my papa! Our mamma came near death last night. She said I would have to care for you and little sister, too. 0, my sweet papa, you won't driuk any more, will you?' With an oath, which might become a demon, he raised his strong arm and slapped the child?a blow that sent her to the graveled walk and left her bleeding and weeping, while he came on to curse and beat me. But you can read it all, sir, in the bottle of tears, the only thing I had left in my own name and right, to leave you, as a reminder of what these possessions have cost. "Only three mornings ago four of your obedient henchmen bore my t precious husband home to me, at I break of day, and laid him dead oil the floor, and hurried back, I suppose, to the gambling table, over which your victim had just been shot. I found some friendly negroes to dig the grave in what I thought was my garden, and we laid him down u/ider his favorite apple tree. I thought to put flowers there in the summer and shells iu winter, and teach my girls of how noble he was before he fell into your clutches. But it seems I buried him in your garden aud under your apple tree! Indeed, lie was laid on vour floor. It is marked with your victim's blood. After some kind colored friends helped me to 6hroud him, and while sitting up with his precious remains that night, I tried to wash out the stain of blood,think-. ing 1 could not bear to look at it and j walk over it. But it turns out that i it is your floor, 011 which he who; gave you his vast property, his manhood, his family, his very soul, found a cooling board. You will1 find it all, sir, in the bottle of tears.' You order me to vacate. 1 obey, j When you read this I will be on ray way down the road east. 1 take that route only because it leads me away from you and your den of destruc tion. I don't kuow where I,with my three girls, will pass the night. But one thing I promise von, whatever 1 there is in a widow's wail or au or1 nhan's crv. if th?-re real I v he a God, I. , we will meet you at His judgment l>;ir, there to tell, and the truth to say, as to how you came by this home which we now leave. You will tind it all, sir, in the bottle of tears.''?J South C'-troIina Anti-Saloon League. I During the spring every one would j be benetited by taking Foley's Kid1 ney Remedy. It furnishes a needed tonic to the kidneys after the extra strain of winter, and it purifies the bloyd by stimulating the kidneys,and . causing them to eliminate the impurities from it. Foley's Kidney Kerne idy imparts new life and vigor. Pleasant tw take. VV L Wallace. President Taft's Souvenir Postal. Yes, she received the souvenir pos: tal card. When Mr Taft was pa3sj ing through South Carolina, on his ' way to Charleston to sail for Pana ma, a little girl handed hiui from the rear of the train a bunch of violots. She had fastened a card to ti e i stems on which was written her | name?Josephine liass. ;>ls this your name?" asked the | President-elect. ' Veth,'" lisped the child. I % ? . t f " l our vioiets are very .sweet, .insepliine, und i would like to do | something for yon; tell me what yon ! would like." i The little girl hung her In put her linger in Iter mouth lively; then, with a bright smi.. ' SUid' "I would like you to send u.j a i souvenir postal when you reach the Canal."' , The postal card was duly mailed, and it is doubtful if the little recipi ient had any more pletisure in the jtiansaction than was felt by the* President-elect when he directed the : illustrated bit of pasteboard to "Miss Josephine Bass," his little admirer in llranchville, S C, and knew that : her wish would he gratified.?lor j MitrhiU Chapffc, in "Affairs at H axfiinf/foit," Mai/ Mat tonal Mm/a: zinc. If you have backache and urinary troubles you shouid take Foley's Kidney lfeuiedy to strengtheu and 1 build up the kidneys so they will act property, as a serious kidney trouble may develop. W L Wallace. Attention, Veterans! A meeting of our camp will be held on Monday, May 10, to take part in the memorial exercises of that day. The IT D's are cordiallyinvited to cooperate with us. A colj lection will be taken on that day to J assist a fund being raised by the pai triotic neonle of our State looking to ! * * ~ the erection of a monument to the | ) noble women of the Confederacy at our State capital. Members are requested to turn out in full force. Public cordially in! vited to atteno exercises. Meeting to commence at 11 o'clock a m sharp. H II Kinder, Commander. 11 0 Britton, Adjutant. 4 22 2t A Dollar Bill With your name and address, will bring you Watson's Jeffersouian Magazine for the next twelve months. Iu every issue throughout 1909 will be one of these inimitable, chatty, personal, historical and biographical sketches by Mr Watson? the litth things that bring history right home to you and make you live with the great personages and ! take part in the mighty pageantries 1 of vanished days. The History of the life and Times of Andrew Jack1 son will re-commence in the January number. The Educational Depart; ment will also be resumed. We have just got in a splen| did lot of all kinds of stationery, tine bond papers,ruled headings, 100,000 envelopes, and Dennison's shipping tags with brass eyelets and wire strings, the best made. See our samples before ordering elsewhere. tf A Dollar Bill with your name aud address will bring you both Jeffersonians for the next six months. They are boih live wires. You can't touch them without getting a shock. The Jeffersonians, Thomson, Georgia. 1 * i Not a drop of Alcohol Doctors prescribe very little, if any, alcohol these days. They prefer strong tonics and alteratives. This is all in keeping with modern medical science. It explains why Ayer's Sarsaparilla is now made entirely free from alcohol. Ask your doctor. Follow his advice. We publiah our formulae /l a We banlah alcohol from our medicinea / V J i0J*O We urge you to JLlfGIO COD^ttoyr?Ur Unless there is daily action of the bowels, poisonous products are absorbed, causing headache, biliousness, nausea, dyspepsia. We wish you would ask your doctor about correcting your constipation by taking laxative doses of Ayer's Pills. ?Made bj the J. C. Ay ar Co., Lowell, Kaaa.?? a he 2 A PROTECTION J; ij THAT PROTECTS. * 'h j i Three Policies in One: r |5? Fire, Wind and Lightning- ? From the visitation ol these un- r certain elements we protect your *; st??ci; hy paying you, in case of n . death <>r a broken limb, caused by |? any one or all throe of the above |? ?| disasters. |? ^ Wouldn't you have felt easier ^ j early Thursday morning, during ^ j that awful storm, if you had ? * held a polioy In our Company? T 1^1 wlit" to 11s <lireet for application }* j ,J blank-' or any information you may O | ^ elisor*1. iKsal 'Hrocf ami ,*av._* t stent'- ** commission*. |* j Our rate is upon the basis of ? 5 $1.25 for an Insurance of $i00, F* for a period of twelve months. r ?j| This pives you protection by ? ?| the only bonded Live Stock Co in |? ^ the State. ^ H h ^ FARMERS LIVESTOCK g J L>lt tL lINaUKrtl^U K*KJ. U Rock Hill, 5. C. E I PROCURED AND DCFCN ED.^"1 Jf>l B drawin+c orpr.oto.foreipt'rt net -nandfn* ort. IYm aurlco, bow to obtain pa it*, trad. rkM, copyright*, etc., IN, ALL CO ' *" I Business direct-j. ith Washi Ion ? lime, I money and ojten the patent. E Pi tint and Infringement Prat *e Exduslrtly. I B Write or come to un at - V IU Htatk Stmt, epp. TJnlUd StaU^taat Offlce.B B WASHINGTON, P. C. 1 Weak ikidneys Otnss nor* tronbls thaa any other ofraa of tbsbody. The function of the kldasvsis to teparate lnorcanle salt and water la the pro* eeee of circulation, and to remove them and their attendaa tpo laona from the body tfcsoagh the bladder. Therefore when the kldheye become diseased and weak they are naturally onable to perform their work properly, and pains In the back, I a flam m atlon.of tie hladder and nrlnary disorders are the nssnit It is Imperative that a prompt relief be 'tf orded, which Is lmpoealble aniens you remove the cause, DeWitt'a Kidney and Bladder Pills promptly eliminate poisons from the system and nt the nn? time makn the kidneys well end strong. For Weak Kidney a. Beokaohe, Inflammation of the bladder ana all urinary troubles De Witt's KIBnay and Bladder Pills are unsurpaaeeSL A Week'* Treatment for 25a. Money baek if they fall For Sale by WL Wallace. j Registration Notice. The office ot the Supervisor of Registration will be opened on the 1st day of .July and win remain open continnously every day, except Sundays, through the months of July and August for thepurpo.se of the re-registering of any person who is qnalifiedas follows: Who shall have been a resident of the State for two years, and of the countv one year, and of the polling pre-1 einct in which the elector offers* vote four months before the day of election, and shall have paid, six months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who can both read and write any section of the constitution of 1895_submitted to him by the Supervisors "of Registration, or who can show that he owns, and has paid J all taxes collectable on during the present year, pioperty in this State assessed at three hundred dollars or more. J. Y. 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