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ADAM x Bp KEITH GORDON nr ...Copyright. 1004, by Francos Wilson... The girl lo the hammock laid her book face downward beside her, a faint, skeptical smile visible about her mouth. "How do you gro about It?" wus the Questlou that her eyes naked of the radiant landscape. "It's all very well to mt that n womnn If ?h? imvn nM ? hump upon her back, may marry whom she will, but how would Bhe go about itr* The scratching of a match broke the summer stillness, and her meditations were suddenly precipitated from the general to the concrete. She glanced where a man's form bulked In one of the huge wicker chairs. With his hand forming a screen he was lighting a fresh cigar, seemingly oblivious to everything In life except' that and the Engineering Journal, which lay In his lap. He was her brother's best friend, and she bad known hlin for years, not with much satisfaction, it must be confessed, since he was notoriously a "man's man." living in a man's world and regarding the rustic of feminine skirts with something of the same feeling that he did the humming of a mosquito. But he was good to look upon?so good that a sudden, quick resentment shot through lier heart at bis indifference. It assumed the likeness of a personal affront, a sort of Insult to her sex. It would serve him right if some girl would just make up her mind to marry him and do It, too, before he knew what he was about. Meanwhile he had tossed away the match and picked up the Journal again as Imperturbably as if he were alone, a pair of half Indignant eyes watching him with a combination of pique and amusement. It certainly would serve him right, her thoughts ran on, if some lady would Just wind him round and round her finger, make him fetch and carry at her beck and call, reduce him to n perfect mush of sentiment. Something In her steady gaze caused him to move uneasily, then look up. "Did you speak?" He had the perfunctory manner of a person who knows he must keep guard over himself or he will be guilty of some remissness. A heroic resolution to do his duty was visible in bis face. "No," she drawled. "I didn't speak. But if you don't mind very much I bUb T ?.111 4 ujnm i mil, i n iiKi? [u asK you, ror Instance. If you have ever had a ladies' day?" "A ladies' dnj'?" he repented helplessly, shaking off lila eyeglasses with a characteristic movement, while his tormentor watched him as if he had been some sort of n specimen that she had impaled upon a pin. Then a light dawned upon him. "You mean such as they have at the clubs?a day when the place is given up to your sex and other matters go , to the wall? Well, no. I don't know that I ever have had." "Don't you think it 1s time?" she ventured. "Possibly," he admitted, but he still held the Journal in a way that suggested a well nigh unconquerable desire to return to it. She stretched out her hand. Reluctantly he handed It over. "Did it ever occur to you," she asked blandly, "that the creature who tempted Adam so successfully, who is at the bottom of everything, as it were, must be as?as Intricate as your old engineering problems?" "I have always considered Adam weak?very weak," was Ids evasive answer. "Men aren't like that nowadays." At these boastful words a resolution that had been taking form in her mind became full fledged. She was Inspired with the sense of a mission. Ilor neglected sex phould find an avenger in her. "You think you wouldn't have caleu of the apple, then?" There was a new note in her voice. It was at the same time a challenge and an appeal. As if It were something absolutely new it enme to ids mliul that girls were delicate, helpless creatures, and a wave of tenderness for the sex swept over him. Still he was vo'-y positive that he wouldn't have eaten ill" apple, and something In the soft, babyish, yet dependent way In which she looked at hlni caused him to explain at great length why. "Has talked fifteen minutes by the clock," (the was think lug in high gleo, but outwardly she was all deferential, honey sweet attention. "I'm sure ho wouldn't have yielded if he'd been like you!" was her earnest comment when he finished speaking, and at the words he was conscious of a pleasant ezpansiveness, a caressing sense of satisfaction as delightful as it wns unusual. It was as if be were growing taller, broader and more severely strong before her very eyes. "CIo back to your reading. I'm not . going to bother you another minute." She Jumped up and, laying her hand on his arm, finished Ingenuously: "You don't mind my bothering you, do you? A girl gets so tired of woman talk! A chat like this Is like a plunge in n cold stream." And she vanished into tho bouse and scurried to her room, where she threw a kiss to ber Image in the mirror, with the remark, "You're doing well for a beginner, my love." Down on tb? broad piazza the man iiri ?i igcaftd'tlJ?>**rty'i*lBta<rooE . I | uiuus before him. but after n balf liotir ho gave up. "I'm stale!" he murmured, throwing the paper on the table. "Wonder where'a she gone? Never before realized how interesting she is?for a girl. Had I ever had a Indies' day? Fiuph! That was funny!" And he smiled at the recollection of it. For the next two or three days she avoided him cs nmeh as possible. "I must give him plenty of line." she decided craftily, "and never let him 8U.spoet that he's taken the halt." On the third day lie proposed a long tramp to her. I "You don't want a silly thing like me," she protested, with modest self depreciation. "I can't talk about bridges and buttresses and caissons and all those interesting things that you know about. I shall only bore you." "What was It you said the other day 1 about the creature that tempted Adam?" was his laughing reply. "Perhaps I want, to take up a new line of study." ' "I Just made hint think 1 was the most dependent thing that ever lived." she conllded shamelessly to her mirror that night. "My timid little feet ! could scarcely pet over the ground without help, and as for climbing fences"? She .went off into a peal of laughter as she remembered how solicitous he uun utvii iiuuui nvr Killing uvt'r n fence thnt was in tlielr way?and she j who could turn a handspring as well as cither of her brothers. I "Of course I couldn't do it if I really liked him," she murmured. Then the girl in the mirror averted her face quickly. "I'm Just going to give him a much needed lesson, you know," she 1 went on. This time the girl looked Into : her eyes for a moment. After that she I threw herself on the bod and buried n j hot face in the pillows. As the weeks went by the startling j ; conviction that there was one girl in the world who never hored liiin. never made him long to escape and get back , to his own kind, came to be a certainty to the man. With the coining of this knowledge the world seemed a brighter, livelier place. The idea of marriage, which had hitherto seemed as remote as that of suicide, came and lodged within his 1 brain as if it wore nn old friend. lie thought, with some scorn, of his former views. *# ** They were standing under the big apple tree iu the back garden. From the- ground she picked up one of the round, smooth apples and began to eat it. Something in the action brought back to him the conversation they once had about Ado in. and lie wondered how ho could ever have been so cross, so dense. He held out his hand. "Please, Eve," he bcseeched. "But you ure not like Adam," she began archly. "No," he said mcaulngly. "He waitA/1 <*/% A?M tl Ar* T /I A*>'^ vu iv/i iCiiii/UIUWll. A UU11 t JUIVIIU LU wait!" And that night she whispered to the girl in the mirror. "What Thackeray saya in trno!" To F"II1 tp Her Time. The family who had lived for ten years in the small house owned by old lady Crocker had moved away. She asked her agent to secure some quiet and desirable tenants for the property as soon as possible. The agent advertised and within a few days had a call from n man, who asked numerous questions about the house. "There are seven good sized rooms," said the agent, "and an excellent cellar. How many are there in your family?" "My wife and myself and twelve children," said the man. "Ah," said the agent, "I'm afraid that would hardly do, as Mrs. Crocker is old and something of an invalid and lives next door. She is not particularly fond of children." "Well," and the man looked indignant, "I shouldn't think she'd mind; thorn, nra nnlv fl.ro lltflo oooo But the agent shook his bend. "It's nil right anyway," said the man, with a quick-change of base. "I don't believe there's land enough around that house, and It's too uear the city. Whnt I really want Is a place farther out, with an ncre or so of ground and a barn und a chance to keep a cow and chickens and room to grow some vegetables, so my wife will have something to bike up her spare time."?Youth's Companion. Tlie Nil* of a "Mr." An amusing Illustration of the value of courtesy In the factory Is given by the London Knginecrlug Magazine. "At one time," says the writer, "we had some large forging drawings returned to the works, and the order clertc, Into whose hands they came, told his errand boy to 'take them to Burnham,' one of the foremen. The boy looked in astonishment, hut upon a peremptory order ho went off with the drawings. We missed them n day or two later, and upon inquiring of the boy be said, 'Yon told me to take them to burn 'em, and I did it.' In fact, he had taken those drawings to the boiler room and bad them burned, all because the order clerk forgot to use the 'Mr.' when giving his instructions." Jack and till!. Jill or Gill Is an abbreviation of the once feminlno name Gillian or Juliana. in Icelandic mythology Jack und dill arc two children kidnaped by the moon while drawing water, which Is carried on their shoulders in a bucket suspended from n pole. The Swedish peasants still account for the moon spots In this way. A play wltb the title "Jack and Gill" was popular at the English court between 1567 and 1578. TTow far back the English nursery rhyme with this title dates Is not known, though eTery school child Is familiar with the lines. HE LOVED THE THEATER. Varce* untl Clown* Were (be Joy of Gfornce III. of EnRlnud. Few men of any runlt or time have ever derived bo much unaffected pleasure from the theater as George III. In fact, in the words of a contemporary, It was "as good as a play to hear the royal laughter and note the genuine enjoyment of his majesty." "He is said." Thnckcray wrote, "not to have cared for Shakespeare or tragedy much. Farces and pantomimes were his joy, and especially when the clown swallowed a carrot or a string of sausages he would laugh so outrageously that the lovely princess by his side would have to say. 'My gracious, monarch. do compose yourself!' And he continued to laugh and at the very smallest farces as long as his poor wits were left him." So frequent were George's visits to the theater that "his face was the most familiar In London to playgoers, who took no more notice of his presence than if he had been a simple citizen, except when his boisterous laughter drew attention to him and started others laughing out of irresistible infection." As familiar a spectacle as that of his majesty purple and rolling with laughter was to see him sleeping as peacefully as a child between the acts. So partial was he to actors that he permitted and even smiled at liberties : which he would have reseuted In any j one else. On one occasion, wheu Par- ! sons was playing In "The Siege of Ca- I lais," the actor walked toward the box ' In which George was sitting and addressed 1dm In the words of his part: "An the king were here and did not admire my scaffold I would say: 'Hang him! He has no taste,' " a piece of impudence which threw his majesty into a fit of laughter.?Ix>ndon Tit-Bits. I PRONUNCIATION. Read Over This Tent nn<] Then ConMult Your Dictionary. The following rather curious piece of composition was placed upon the blackboard at a certain teachers' institute and a prize of a dictionary offered to any person who could read it and pronounce every word correctly. The book was not carried off, as twelve was the lowest number of mistakes in pronunciation made: . : l- . i "A sacrilegious son of Beyp.1 who has suffered from bronchitis, 'having exhausted his finances In order to make good the deficit, resolved tb: ally himself to a comely, lenient1 and docile young lady of the Malay or Caucasian race. He accordingly purchased a calliope and.coral necklace of a'chameieon hue and securing n suit of .rooms at a principal hotol ho engaged, ;tbe head waiter as his coadjutor. IJe then dispatched a letter of the most unexceptional caligraphy extant1,' Inviting the young lady to a matinee. :3ne revolted at the ideu, refused to tolisldc*' herself sncriflcable to his desires^ and, sent a I polite note of refusal, 'pfl receiving whicli he procured a earlAnc and bowle knife, said that he would ' not now forge fetters hymeneal with the queen and went to nn Isolated spot severed his Jugular vein and discharged the contents of the carbine into his abdomen. The debris was- removed by the coroner." . | The mistakes in pronunciation were made on the following wdrds: Sacri; Ieglous, Belial, bronchitis, exhausted, 1 finances, deficit, comely.' lebftpj't, docile, Malay, cnlliope, chameleoii; suit, coadjutor, caligraphy, matinee, sncriflcable, carbine, hymeneal, isolated, Jugular and debris. The Trlnmphont Spider. A little garter snake nbout Ave inches long went to sleep in ? wheelwright shop, and n big black spider spun a web around the reptile. When the litj tie snake awoke It was literally in the toils and began to struggle. It Qnally managed to free its body,, but not its hend. Meanwhile the spider was industriously spinning fresh threads, stopping occasionally to give the snake n bite. Then the real fight commenced and lasted for an hour. The snake could not gei away, but it tried Its best to bite the spider, without avail. Weakened by Its futile efforts and the successive stings of the Insect, it gradually ceased to struggle and finally died. Then the spider, presumably triumphant, disappeared under the wall. The nattered Side. A woman who is a close observer of children was out walking In the country one day, she relates, when she saw n little girl with solemn blue eyes sitting on a doorstep munching a huge slice of bread and butter. Tho only peculiarity about the operation was | that she was holding the buttered side I of the bread toward the ground. J "Why do yoti hold your bread and butter that way?" nsked the lady, j "Tause," whispered the little maiden ! confidentially, "mamma snva hwpjid always fulls butter side down, so If ' you hold It butter side down to start I wlf and then dwop It, why, of course. It falls butter side up." Paid Her Back. "Gracious, my dear," said the first society belle spitefully, "I trust you're not 111! You look so much older tonight." "Do I, dear?" the other replied sweetly. "I feel quite well. And you?how wonderfully Improved you are! You look positively young!" A Subtle Dlitlnetlaa. "Did the critics like your performance of Hamlet?" "The critics," answered Mr. Stormington Barnes, "liked It. But a large number of persons who assume to be critics did not."?Washington Star. Nothing more completely baffles one who Is full of trick and duplicity than straightforward and simple Integrity In anotlNriwCoitOB. WANTED! My old and new customers to know that I have opened a beef market in the rear of NICHOLSON S NEW BANK BUILDING, and am prepared to j serve you with the choicest cuts of BEEF, PORK, MUTTON, SAUSAGE, and in fact, everything first class in my line. N. P. DUNBAR. Phone No. 89. 1,000 CLAIMS. Equal Not a Single Fact. Union Endorsement Makes This Claim _ _ _ j. a raci. Endorsed by scores of Union ciUxens, we cheerfully make a public stub nient of tbeir experience, >s the proof we have to back our claim* that D-an's Kidney Pills cure eve.rv form of kidney ills, from a common backache to serious urinary disorders. Here is one local e ample. We have many more like it. J. It l'oiter. printer employed on Progress, living on South Church Si., says: "I have never felt better in my life than 1 have since I used Bonn's Kidney Pills wMch I procured at Holmes' Pharmacy. I was a preat snfleier from b ckaebe for a number of years. My trouble was r'ght across the -mall < f my hack, and toe pain was onetimes so severe that I thought my hack would break int*o. I have plastered it, and rubbed it until it was all raw ami one mass of blisters, but in spite of ab I could do, n< thing seemed to help me. I read about I loan's Kidney fills and got them. Half a b x relieved me, and the use of two boxe- entiraly cured me." For sale by all dealers. Price 50c per box. Foster-.Milburn Co. Buffalo, N Y., sole agents for the United States. Ueniemher the name?OMAN'S?and take nn other. CHEAP RATES WEST. $10 One Way?$15 Round Trip to Texas. For January 3rd and 17th Cotton Belt JRoute has authorized bargain rates trodi Memphis to Texas p- ints. Gfce way Colonist tickets will be sold at rate of $10. Bound trip llome-seekor tiekets at rate of $15. Stop-overs allowed both ways. 21 days return limit. The Cotton Belt offers fine service from Memphis. Two trains daily, morning and evining; close connections at principal points Write for map time table and any further information about rates. L. P. SMITH, T. P. A. cotton Belt Route, Atlanta, (la. FOR SALE ~ CABBAGE PLANTS. Wo have been in the truck-business since 1871, and arc again prepared to till any and all orders for Early and Late varieties of Cabbage Plants. They are best known to experienced Truckers, are grown in open air near salt water and will stand severe cold .without injury. Price $1.60 per 1,000 F. 0. B. ! here. We make special prices on larger lots and solicit correspondence. All plants packed in light baskets and shipped C. O. 1). when money does not accompany orders. We guarantee satisfaction. Address all orders t*> D. II. TOWLES & SON, Megg. Its, S. C. OR TOWLES & ARNKTT, 3t Green Pond, S. C. THE Cash harpin Store. FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS All our Capes and Jackets will be sold at actual cost; ana mens' heavy fleeced lined shirts and drawers, the 50 cts kind, will go at 40 cts. NEW EMBROIDERIES JUST RECEIVED. This line of Embroideries are big values at 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40 and 50 cts. per yard. Our prices are 5, 8, 10, 12 1-2, 15, | 20 25 and 30 cts. the yard. rirs. D. N. Wllburn WHIPS ! AND I POCKET ; KNIVES | CHEAP AT | J. T. SEXTON'S.: While I Am Waiting for my stock to arrive Send Me Your Furniture to repair, your _ Mattress to do over and your Carpets to clean and renew. My Wi-k is First riass as my past n?p<ovl t\ f fifteen years in this line of business . stands for its? lf. Fred C. Milling, J A. BWOWN* DEALER IN REAl. ESTATE, STOvKS AND mou.se ur.nrino and coi lectIN* i A SPECIALTY. iMIl.r. on B^h.-S. r S r-ot. a >-i i . S MEANS, BEATY, attorney at-l/ w. n'o '{. law. !l:t??* SCAIFE & HAMBLIN, %-att ? eysat law.t rostor Building Union, s.'c | J. CLOUGH WALLACE atornby at lav/. 12 upstairs Fo u-r liuiMuv I J. M. Wallace. H. L. FHIers. WALLACE & SELLERS, <5-DENTISTS.^ wrnwn ana Bridge work a Specialty. Temporary office Peoples Bank 41-tf SUMMONS FOR RELIEF complaint not served. State of South Carolina, ) County of Union. f Court of Common Pleas. Sam Jordan, Plaintiff, against George Jordan, Louisa McCane, Ellen Jeter Armctesd Jordan, Hutson Jordan, Andrew Jordan, McGee Jordan, Win. Mooreliead, and Acy Sanders, defendants. | To the Defendants George Jordan,: Louisa McCane, Ellen Jeter, Armstead Jordan, Hutson Jordan, Andrew Jordan, McGeo Jordan, Wm. Mooreheau and Acy Sanders. You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action, which is | flied in the office of the Clerk ot the I Court of Common Pleas for said County and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their law office at No. 3 Law Range, at Union, S, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service and if v?>u fail to anawer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in this complaint. Date, Union. 8. C.. December l"th, A. I) 1004 f. prank teakk, [skal] , Clevk of Court, per J. VV G., f>. C. F. M Bryan, 8. Means Bkaty, Attorneys for P'aintiff. To the Defendants Geoige Jordah. lyouisa McCane. El en J?ter. Armstead Jordan, Hutaon Jo*dan, Andrew Jordan, McGee .Ionian, Wm. Moore head and Acy Sanders. TAKE NOTICE! That the summons an 1 comi-taint in the above stated cause of act on was on the 16th day of Dec m'-er A I) 1904, filed in tin-office of the 'lerk of Court of Common Pie-a for Union County and State aforesaid. K. M Bryan, M kav? Bjcatv, . i Attorneys f'T rinintiff. Union, 8. C . I)ert'ml>er 16, 1904 62-6t. BOILERS AND ENGINES. ! Tanks, Stacks, Stand Pipes, and Sheet Iron Work; Shafting, Pulleys, Gearing, Boxes, Mangers, etc. Mill Castings. Cast every day; work 200 hands. Lombard Foundry Kachine and | Boiler Work and Supply Store. I iiimief Gaonia* v.' \ cood ^ j botw nnd poor look- fe v^A. W i Ing liitrti?*? la lh? worst klud of ? com* Harness Oil tjk 1 not only inakMthe linrncM and tho I.ML ; boree hi k better, but make* tb? M\\ J leather soft ami pliable, put* tt In con- |11W mil i a/ . dltlon to last?twice a* long mm fi(i r"",J ""gad "b ,a ?*"*~*"' wWk Horse Chance I TEXAS FRUIT LANDS Produce early crops which bring fancy prices. In Texas thcylx'gin shipping berries in April, tomatoes in May, peaches in June, bringing fancy prices up North. The growing season is much longer than in the North?a chance to make two and three crops, reducing the expense of "getting through" the winter. Fruit and truck lands along the Cotton Belt Route are very cheap as yet?$10 to $15 an acre unimproved. When put to orchard or truck tlay can be made to yield Mnn i- on/in -- " i cum hi czuu per acre ono more. Besides, it's an ideal clitnatv?no long, cold winters. Write for booklet on fruit and truck growing. L. P. SMITH, T. P. ft., CKop 1(1 to tc, Atlanta, Ga. Look \t Hy Prices ^ Consider the Qualities. I make special efforts to procure the best of everything for my trade in DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES, CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, ETC. So you will savo money and secure 5 better goods by a visit to my store. Call early and let us show you through the various lines. Prices and Qualities are my best salesmen. My only arguments arc, Qualities al)ovc priccB below. Yonrs for Better Values GEO. W. GOING. Do Thf> Best Thing See TURNER & MAYFIELD For Furniture, Stoves, Clocks, Trunks, Pictures, Rugs and everything that pertains to the furnishing of your house. We can save you money. CASH OR INSTALLMENT 36 pound Feather Bed for $10.00. Pillows, 6 pounds to pair, $1.50. 10 pounds to pair $2.50 Next door to C. E. Lipscomb, Wholesale Grocery. GIVE US A CALF. NOTICE! To the Taxpayers of Union County. ' H I will-brut the Mlnwintr fi'ttco* for 11 |tur|)OSO of tHklr-p t x rrtnrn* of l property an i'omU i??t ?1 0. low: \V?M S|?!i?jrs, Jnn. 9th, lfr'5, *i BrVnill'* Sutr?* Oi?>bn, Jnn 10th, 190ft, **t Lin'Wa ohl *tore. Croii Kevi, Jan. 11th IPO'S P?*.h?lin Jnn I'Jth. 19* >A Oonlo-n Hi I aftfi Rl? l u...L . w.? - ?>rx *, .inn 13th I90f>. Kantnc, Jnn. 14th 190ft Iynkhnrt, .Inn. Idth, lflhft. A''?nm?'itrtr, J?n. 17t' . J1XV> Kelton. Jan. 8th 190">, Joneavlle, .l*n, 19tfi, IOCS Union, Jan. 20, 21. -.'8. 190T. CHrlit-h'. Jnli. 24th, I9?'ft Monn'cn,' Jar 2ftih 190ft. Buffalo, Jan. 2T>th. lOnft. fy Uni n, in office from Jan. 27th, to Feh 20th. On flint >'ny the t'me expiree for taking returns. All elofail to make their returns In aairi time, it 111 be charged (0 per cent, penalty, tytft ??* ?, Jam, Aaditoc,