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n JUST RE / We have just r< I big ship PERUNA, WAMPOLE'S T/ LIVES It is fresh, for it < from the THE PRICE IS ONI ... r Just 'phone, s< UNION D lUncle kM ============== |S^v.v.., ...a ; W8$$M CHARLES C; IS:'??"1'-"' iJjV.vjJ Copyright, 1 9 O O, by CHAPTER XI. ** "yTjT OU must not expect mfleh ex4 clteincnt up In Sandgate," -jjm Albert said to Ills friend the ISSKI day .they started for that quiet village. "It is a small place, and Iall the people do in tlie \ylnter is to chop wood.'Oshovel snow, eat and go to meeting.,-^Ve shall go sleighing, and I shall take you to church to be stared at, andvfor the rest Alice and Aunt Susan will give us plenty to 4at." It was nearly dark and snowing when they reached Sandgate, and when Prank Nason saw a plump, girlish figure with slightly whitened garments rush forward, almost jump into his friend's arms and kiss him vehement ly, It occurred to him that a welcome homo by such a sister was worth conw Ing many miles tor. " ' Then he heard his name mumbled in s> hurried Introduction and, as he ifcised his hat, saw this girl withdraw a small hand from a mltteu and offer It to him. "I am very glad to meet you, Mr. Nason," she suid with a bright smile; Worth* coming many miles for. "my brother has told me so much about' you I feel almost acquainted." X And then, turning to that brother, she added, "I hare the horse hitched outside, Bert, so we will go right home." She led the way, and when they had s: stowed their belongings In the sleigh she sa{d, "You can hold nfe In jour lap, Bert, and I'll drive. I'm used to It now." She chirruped to the rather docile horse, and as the bells began to jingle she added, "What have you got to that box, Bertie?" "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs, Mire Curious," he answered. "Wait ontU tomorrow, and then Til show yon." When they drove Into the yard be said: "Take Frank right in, sis, and BnL unharness," ? ' It was quite dark now, but Frank \ noticed as he gathered up the bags I and bundles and followed his hostess * that the rather stately house was aglow with light "Lear? yfrur hat and coat here in the hall, Mr. Naaon," she said cordial- ' tjr, "and go right into the parlor and |W get warm. You will kindly excuse W0 now. I'm first and second girl, housemaid and cook, and I must go gnd lie4f> Aunt Susan to got supper jt ready. You two gentlemen are hungry, I'm sure." L. It wee not a formal reception, but m. It was * cordial one, which was better, and when Frank entered the parlor he was surprised at the cheerful ' eight, for the room was festooned nil v around with ropes of evergreen. The Jfe l'?ng mantel ovor the fireplace, bright with flames, was banked with a inasB i&JAt ;iwr . iCEIVED. iceived another ment of and also ' ^STELESS COD I OIL. ;ame to us direct factory. -,Y 67c A BOTTLE. itid or call on RUG CO. Terry H 1 -1 < >? , 1 i LARK MUNN | LEE SSL SHETAHT) V^.^f , * ol' green, rum against each white lace curtain hung a wreath. In one corner j Blood an uprigftt piano, in sharp contrast with the lather antique hnirclotli chairs and Sofa! He had Just drawn a "chair to the lire when Albert came in and gave a low whistle nt the sight of the decorations. "That's one of the perquisites of a country schoolma'am," he observed, "nmu *11 bet the boys that gathered all this green for Alice enjoyed getting it. I used to when I was a boy. Well, old follow," I he added, addressing Frank, "bete we are, and you must make yourself at? home." Then Alice came in and announced supper, and after Aunt Susan had been Introduced they all sat down. It was an old fashioned meal, for, while the brot^or. helped to thoUiain-aiHl eggs and fried potatoes, Aunt Susan served the quince preserves and*pushed the hot biscuit and Alice poured the tea. The table, too, had a Christinas touch, for around the mat where the lamp stood was a green wreath brightened with clusters of red berries. It was all a charming \iicture, and not the least of It wns the fair girl who so graciously played" the'hostess. When the njeal was over she said: '* "Notf ytfu two gentlemen mus^ go into the parlor and smoke, and I'll join VOI1 Inter I rniiunniwl von to nmnla " she added imperiously, "for I want the house to smell as if there was a man around." When she came in later, wearing her new house dress, she drew her chair close to her brother's and, resting her elbows on his knee and her chin In her open palms, she looked up and said 1 with a witching smile: "Now, Bertie. I've done all I could for your comfort, so now please tell mo 1 what Is In that long, flat box you brought." "You aro a bewitching conxcr, sis," he answered, "but I am hard hearted. I'll make a trMe with you, though. First tell us all ubput your scliOoIteacliing and sing u?.uU the songs I i aslTYor, and then I'll open the* box." "You are very modest In your wants," she replied archly, "but, like nil men, you must be humored to keep you good natured, I presume." "I wish you would tell us about your school, Miss I'nge," put in Frank. "You are not n bit like the schoolma'ain of mtt hnrlmoil n rwl T 11b?*/>wr J ""J ?WV, ? " VU?U IV ?*VVTT how you manage children." "Well, It was a little hnrd at first," she answered, "for 'boys and girls of ten find twelve have surprisingly keen intuitions, and It seemed to me they made a study of my face from the first and concluded I was soft hearted. I had one little boy that was a born mischief maker, but he had such winsome ways I hod to lore him in spite of it But he had to be punished some way, and so one day I kept him after school and then told him I must whip him hard, but not at that time. 1 explained to him what I was going to punish him for, 'bat,' I said, 'I shall not do it to I uikui. i uitiy uo it tomorrow or me day after, but I will not tell you when the whipping is to come until I am rondy to do it.' My little plan was a success, for the next night he waited I till all the rest had gone and then came 1 to me with tears In his eyes and begged me to whip him then. I didn't, though, and told him I wouldn't until he disobeyed again. He lias been the most obedient boy in the school ever since. There Is one little girl who has won my heart, though. In the oddest way you can Imagine, The day I received your letter, Bert, I was so happy thitf the school ran riot, and I never knew It Tbey must have seen It In my face, I think. Well, when school was out this girl, a shy little body of ten, sidled up to my desk and said, 'Pleath may I kith you, teacher,.*fore I go home?' It moms? grvny wt of out U ' . y jF". V'.k ..* -. ifr*" s. i.v? * .v, Ssm .... lb % i-g It nearly brought tours to uiy eyes." "I should like to give that little girl a box of candy. Miss rage." observed Frank, "aud then ask her for a kiss myself." For an hour Alice kept both the young men interested In her anecdotes of school teaching, and then her brother said: "Come, sis, you must sing some, or no box tonight!" "Well," she replied, smiling, "whut shall it be?a few gems from Moody and Sankey or from 'Laurel Leaves?'" And then, turning to Frank, she added, "My brother Just dotes 011 church music." "Alice," said her brother, with mock sternness, "if you lib like thnt you know the penalty!" "Do you play or sing, Mr. Nason?" she inquired, not heeding her brother. "I do not know one note from another," he answered. "Well, thnt Is fortunate for me," she said. "I only sing old fashioned ballads and help out at church." Then, without further apology, sho went to the piano. "Come", Bertie," she said, "you must help me, and we will go through the college songs." Aud go through them they did, beginning with "Clementine" and ending with "The Quilting Party." "Now, sis," said her brother, 'T want 'Old Folks at Home,' 'Annie Laurie,' 'Rock-a-bye' and 'Ben Bolt,' and then I'll open the box." It was a simple, old fashioned home parlor entertainment, and no doubt most musical artists would have sneered at the programme, but Alice had a wonderfully sweet and sympathetic Soprano voice, and as Frank sat watching the fitful (lames play hide and seek In the open fire and listened to those time worn ballads it seemed to him he Had never heard singing quite so sweet. Much depends upon the time and place, and perhaps the romance of the open fire sparkling beneath the bauk of svergreen and making the roses come Into the fair singer's cheeks and warming the golden sheen of her hair had much to do with it When she came to "Ben Bolt," thnt old ditty that has all the pathos of our lost youth in it* there was a tiny quiver in her voice, and when she finished had he been nenr lie would have seen the glint of two I ^ 1 A beautiful sealskin sackt unshed tears in her eyes, for tho song carried her thoughts to where her mother was at rest "Now, Bertie," said Alice coaxingly, after she had finished, "huven't*I earned the box?" Albert, true to his promise, gave her the mysterious box. With excited fingers she untied the cords, tore off the wrapper, nn:l as she lifted the cover J Bhe saw?a beautiful sealskin sack! ' CIIAPTCB XII. "ISm n^"E <llre?ted our llveryi&l * J mun to send over his best IfiraSI nag and a cutter this morn- iug," said Albert At. breakfast thy next day to his friend, *'aml you and Alice can take a sleifchride and sec Handgute snowclad. I have sonio business matters to attend to." It was a delightful day for a slelgty: rtdc, for every bush and tree was covered with a white fleece of snow, and the morning sun added a tiny sparkle to every crystal. A thicket of spruce; was changed to a grove of towering white cones and an older swamp'to a fantastic fairyland. It was all new to Frank, and as Jie drove away with that bright and vivacious girl for a companion it is needless to say he enjoyed it to the utmost. "I had no idea your town was so hemmed in l>y mountains," he said after thuy started and be had a cjinnpe to look around. "Why, you are completely shut in, and such irrand ones too! They are more beautiful than the White mountains and more gra<$: . ful In shape." .' "They are all of that," 'answered Alice, "and yet at tlpaes they make me feel as if I was shut in, away from all the world. We who see them every day forgot their beauty and only .feel their -desolation, for a great tree-clad mountain is desolate In winter, I think. At least it is opt to reflect one's mood. I suppose you have traveled a great deal, Mr. Nason?" "Not nearly as much as I ought to," he answered, "for the reason that I can't And any one I like to go with me. My mother and sisters go away to some watering placo every summer and stay there, and father sticks to business. I either dawdle around (Oonfinwwfl on 6th pvge.) fiiakea A Clean Sweep. . There's nothing like doing a thing thoroughly. Of all the Salves you ever heard of, Bucklen's Arnica Salve is the best. It sweeps away and cnres Borne, Sores, Brnises, Cuts, Boils, Ulcers, Skin Ernptions and Piles. It's only 26c and rdtsed^^lrs Mflsflautton fry T. C> .'"V . 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Tluy best telegraphy?flashing a ray T, of rausbino into m gloomy heart. The best biography?the life that A: writes charity In the largest letters. A Tb3 beet engineering?budding a bridge of faltb over tbe river or death. Yl Tho best navigation?steering clear of tbe lacerating rocks of personal contention. Tbe best mathematics?that which w doubles the most joys and divides the mosV sorrows. . h< He W?? Awful Homely. One day while on a hunting expedition in the Alps Victor Bmmnnnel met * an old woman gathering brambles. She inquired of the stranger whether It ? was true, as sue Una beard, that the v king was In the neighborhood. If so, was there any chance of seeing him? / 'Tes," said hls'majesty, "be is about. / Would you like to see him?" > Tlic old woman declared that few sights would give her more pleasure. "Well, mother, I am the king." She Btared at him for a moment and brolfe into a grin. "Get out with you, Jester! Do you think n" nice woman "like the queen ? would marry a chap liko you, with that hideous mug}". . The king was hot offended. Perhaps the compliment to his wife mollified him. He gave the woman a piece of money, with which he was always free, and passed along. A Thoughtful Man, M. M. Austin, of Winchester, Ind., knew what to do in the hour of need, [lis wife had such an unusual case of itomAch and liver trouble, physicians . jould not help her. He thought of and . tried Dr. King's New Life Pills and she rot relief at once and was finally cured. m [)nly 25c, at F. C. Duke's drug store. * Take Hi* Word For It Oh, it will be cool in St. Louis in June when you go to the (air, About like a d%y in November. Sp bracing and wlnellke the air Will be you will need your fall wear Except In the heat of the day? That's what the press agents say. July, though accustomed to sizzle. This jrfer will be pleasant and cool; w The man who Is looking for sunstrokes Will meet with a neat April fool. For moderate weather will rule Becauss- It's been ordered that way? That's-What the press agents say. When^ugust comes round In Its glory, 'tI Sightseers need not be afraid That it will be hot as Old HarryOne hundred and two In the shade. For different arrangements were made Before It was yet under way? C? That's what the press agents say. Then don't be alarmed for the weather, t. The temperature's bound to be low. Q So pick up your wives and your babies ee And tote the^i off down to the show. I Ciim|)a unc? B W<eK it will snow; Then you can glide round In a sleigh? That's what the press agents say. rc ni An P?y Mark. "He lost his money on the board of trade." . * . . 1,1 "And did no one find It and return It to him?" . "No, but the man who got It said It al was like finding It" & They All Do It. , ' Soon Johnny will go swimming In soma deep, shaded pool, And tell his anxlouf mamma That he was kept at school. a' Fruits of Their Privation. "Thlnlc of the hardships of the Revolutionary soldiers who went barefoot nl at Yorktown." ^ "Yes, think of it But they did not know they were saving the country for the shoe trust." ra' I Southed iu n THIS GREAT RAILWAY RUNS | GREAT COUN' r| CONVENIENTLY UNITINO ALL THE G 1 0F THE south. W.A.TURK. S. H. y Paaaanecr Traffic Manager, General T: *? Washington. D. C. | W. H. TAYLOE. Aaa't Cen'l Paw. Ago I 36 >' ? Humor mo Philosophy By D'JXiAN M. SMITH ? 'opy right. 1904. by Duncan M. Smith. IT IS DIFFERENT. 'o b? ft calm philosopher When life is smoothly gliding, /hou not care floats on the sir, And trouble Is in hiding. i i not a task to try a saint Or bathe a man in glorjry ut when your woes coma thick as croa Then It'a ft different story. ,'s easy to be wise and sweet And live alone by reason r'hen you have wealth and boundia health And everything In season, ut let .your money fly like chaff Blown through the clover huller, ou'll find, perforce, that It's a horse Of quite a different color. Don't worry as you Jog through life." What rule could be more simple? ut lightly hum when troubles coma. Let smiles your g|nd face dimple, ut when the landlord boosts the rent, 80 that oi\other dollar ou have to cough, the smile comes off. And then you raise a holler. 0 be a cold philosopher When there Is nothing doing nd you've no kick is not a trick. But when It comes to wooing, nd some one takes your sweetheart out To give the girl an airing. our rules profound fall to the ground. And you resort to sweating. Finally Succeeded. "Our friend Jenks stutters some hat." "I should say so. His wife says thai 1 proposed to her on the iustAirmeat nn. It took him three nights." tBase Bawl. When in the night with accents wild The husky youngstm calls, The father snatches uy the child And takes his base on balls. Equaled the Ancients. "Is that painting one of the old esters?" "No, It Is one of the young mistress', le can paint ns badly as any Of the d masters that ever lived." The Tools. To be an able critic. One quoted far and wide. Procure a sledge and pencil And check your brains outside. Burned It Slowly. "Old Flint lias money to burn." "Well, I wish he wouldn't burn It up i such a cheap grade of cigars If hi going to ride down in the car wlti e every morning." Needs No-HtIy? a Too many cooks will spoil the broth. If twenty try to stew It, And yet your hired girl can prove That often one will do It. No Interest "Were there many mourners?" "Not many; he didn't owe a cent hen he died." PERT PARAGRAPHS. It is a liberal education for a man to low when not to butt lnr.-? ? ' 4 With some people the lawyer has ken the place of the priest as father infessor. It would be much harder to pick out great man from the herd If he were parated from his clothes. There Is this advantage About boriwing trouble?one is not obliged to ortgage the little home for security. io iuukc uie imng ompDatic, trouble mnlly copies C. O. D. English creditors do not view with larm the marriage of their royal Likes to common, though wealthy, merican girls. The wages of sin Is not Infrequently Job In the city hall. Some people take a hint as seriously ( though it were a riot act Politeness does not cost any money, id It sometimes makes people aaham1 to charge you. 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