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Say Plainly to . Tlmt you want LION C being1 a Hquare man, will thing elae. You may not What About the Unitei of housekeepers who ha\ for over a quarter c la there any stronger pi Lion-liead on < Savo tlicso Lion-heads 11 SOLD BY GROCEF t ?? i c In an Opera 1 Box ' I Lilian C. "Patchat n Copyright. 1904, by Lilian C. Paschal s The groat hotel facing the park was nn obelisk of light flecks. Motor oars * came and wont noisily finder the wide 1 porte coehere. v T?aek of the largo hostelry and across a narrow alloy-a white girlish face. 1 banked with pillows looked out wist- | 8 fllllv rp.HK <lw, ...... ............ .. t...l?nr s.t ' n tliinl lloor back at these evidences of ' life and gnyety, listening to the orchestra. Suddenly the music burst into a wild tropicnl air front "Carmen," a very revel of life and youth and lusty, red blooded Joy. The invalid buried her tired eyes In the soft pillows, and her thin shoulders shook. Shaken by the tempest of sobs, a crutch that had been leaning against the bedside rattled to the lloor. "Oh, I can bear their old ragtime things without a shiver," she cried, "but the opera airs?-they break my heart! And now 1 shall never slug them again?I know I shan't!" The incoherent cry went straight through the open window like a winged arrow, across the alleyway in the grand hotel, and lodged deep in the sick heart of a listener there. Its note of suffering and aching longing needed no Interpreter. That is a universal lan- i gunge understood alike in palace and < tenement. John Wixton had been staring moodily out of the darkened shadows of his unliglited room into the still darker shadows of a future that looked gloomy indeed to his usually careless, sunny eyes. lb* had been hard hit? there was no doubt of that?and the girl's refusal of him had cut deep. lie had been so sure of her?too" sure, perhaps?but he had thought he eouhl not he mistaken in that warm light in her eyes that had set his heart on fire all these weeks. "The light that lies in woman's eves ? and lies ? and lies ? and lies!" lie sneered miserably, sitting there in tlio dark. "Curse tlie whole sex, anyway, and their deeeitful wiles!" And his clinched hands thumped the window sill fiercely. lie had mooned over her like a maundering Idiot, lie told himself hotly, and now she was engaged, so her mother had told liiin the last time he called, to Billy Lunders and his millions?principally the latter, he thought. Ix>rd! There was that beastly eliansonnette from "Carmen" again?could ho never escape the thing??the song that breathed so horribly of her in every seductive note. She had worn a red rose In her hair, too, that night he first met her with tlie Van Lorns. He could smell that rose now. Tonight "Carmen" was on the bill again. He recalled dully that ho hud i the same box for this performance, in- i tending to take her and show her he 1 remembered that first night so long i ago. She had said men always forgot < the dates a woman remembered. He ( had meant to tell her of his loving lit- t tie surprise that evening. Was it only a i week ago? How could he ever bear to t hear au opera again? Curse It. lie r would got out of tills sickening old New York and go west?to Chicago?any- 1 where. f "These opera airs?they break my j heart!" broke in the sobbing cry from i the window across the alley. John raised his head to listen. "Same here, f kid," he muttered heavily. "It's that i lame girl?poor little beggar! She does g have a devil of a time of it, lying there (] all day with hot water baps and tilings taround her. It's a shame!" ^ "I want to be back there 011 the stape again," went on the voice, "sing- t ing with the rest of the chorus. I t was a village maiden in 'Carmen,' you t know, Mrs. Iteebe." To the conscious r pride In this already well known fact j, there came nil indistinct murmur of j consolation from the dark interior of c the little room. "And maybe some day I might have j been a Sembrlch or a Melbn, my own , self?the master said so -and now my back's hurt, and I'll never sing again. 0 \ \. J ___??? Your Grocer IOFFF.E always, and he, not try to sell you anyeare for our opinion, but i Judgment of Millions e usod LION COFFEE >f a century ? "oof of merit, than the Confidence of the People ever Increasing popularity ? 4 COFFEE Is carefully seed at the plantation, shipped ct to our various factories, :*e It Is skillfully roasted and >1 ully packed In sealed packs?unlike loose coffee, which xposed to germs, dust, fnts, etc. LION COFFEE reaches as pure and clean as when :ft the factory. Sold only In . packages. 3very package. for valuable premiums. IS EVERYWHERE 00LS0N SriCE CO., Toledo, Ohio. . know it! If I'could only go Just mce and hear It nil again I tlilnk linyhe 1 could bear It better, but to >c penned in hero all the time like a lit with the snappers of a trap eauglit pvt*r ms DiH'K?us iyo ? xiiu resi was ost in till' infolding pillow. The mail in the darkened window cross tiie way suddenly stood up, urned on the light and squared his houlders like n soldier ready for unrolling. "I'll do it!" he said grimly. I'll not run away like a coward. I'll ace this thing out. I've got to go hrough it some time, and I might as veil begin now. I'll go right to that lame box and fight it out. And. what's norc, I'm going to take that child ilong. She'll probably look a fright, uul people will stare, but hang the >eople!" He took his lint and overcoat and lurried from the room. At the office le stopped to give an order for an auto ab. Twenty minutes later lie was bowling oward Broadway with bis strange lltle companion, still breathless over the vondrous angel in evening clothes vliose determination bad carried all ippositlon before lilm. Even the fat andlady liad been subdued into dcfermce and helped to dress lier quickly so is not to keep the young gentleman svaiting. Wlxton glanced down at her thin 1ftle face, sharpened by suffering; at her wo criUi'lies nml lior ximnln tvliifo "rock. To Ills surprise, she appeared nstefully gowned. She told him quite simply, with a lltie pntlietie quaver in her voice, about ler ambition to be a great singer; how she had fallen through a trapdoor left carelessly open by the stage hands one night after the opera was over and had been in the charity ward of a hospital, where they had not seemed able to cure her; how she could walk only a little way without hurting. When they reached the opera house the llrst act was nearly over. Wixton gathered up her slight form and strode up the wide s lair way as if his burden were a baby. At t lie door of the box he halted. It was slightly ajar. "Sold the other seats?" he questioned of the usher. "Only one to a lady," answered that worthy and volunteered further the whispered information that she was a queer one?"came with a party in the fourth box farther down and came out ill and went away. After a bit she came back with a ticket for a seat in this one." When Wixton ushered his charge into the box lie found, to his surprise, that the place was unlightcd. The curtain had just closed on the tirst act, and the solitary occupant was shrinking into the farthest corner as though seeking to avoid observation. John reached out to press the electric button and turned in the blaze of light to confront the woman who bad refused him the week before. Ills lips tightened, and his face went white. "Eunice! You here?" The woman turned a lovely pale face up to him entreatlngly without speak .ik. ?"i* liffiiHiKPu ror contretemps ind destroyed her poise, woman of the vorld though she was, and left her as ixclted and einharrassed as a school- : tlrl. There were traces of tears about 1 he dark eyes, hollow from sloeplessiess. ller soft white throat worked in he stress of emotion, and her bosom ' ose and fell pantingly. At last she found her voice. It was ( ow and tremulous, and at the thrilling , sweetness of it the man's heavy heart >ounded like a mad thing behind his mmaculate shirt front. "Jack," she whispered, "If you don't orglve me and love me I shall (lie. I icver dreamed till mamma made me lend you away how dreadfully I eared, md I never was engaged to Hilly I/nunlers at all. I couldn't be?not If the vhole family rose up to slay me." The orchestra hegan the overture to he next act. The wild, gypsy rnotlf of he immortal opera rose and bathed hem in Its melting torrents of love undo Into music. The little cripple was caning over the edge of the box waltng breathlessly for the curtain to rise n the familiar scene she loved. "Jack, darling- hear It! That music las been killing me till you came! I)o 'ou remember that night we"? John reached out an audacious thumb md pressed the. button, ou Vie wall* Aa ^ the box wag enveloped id darkness h< crushed her close In bis arms, unable t< say one word. On their way home in the carriage when Eunice had been told the lltth cripple's story, she laughed tenderly li her new found joy, so nearly lost, and with one Jeweled hand In John's am! the other caressing the young glrl'i pale cheek, said with a confidence thai the future proved not unfounded: "I shall take care of her, her voice her future and her back. I know J great doctor who can straighten oul this little one's tangles, even as sh< has been the means of unsnarling th< dreadful knot in my web of fate." Bnrry Salllvan and the Amntrar. The famous tragedian, Barry Sulll van, took his art so seriously that 1( was very seldom indeed tlint he perpe trated a Joke on the stage, although when away from the theater he was one of the most humorous of men. Or one oecasion, however, Sullivan eoul<! not resist the temptation of giving at apt retort to an amateur who, hs Itat cliff to his Richard III., had quit* overlooked the necessity of committing his words to memory. "During the early part of the trag edy," says Mr. Robert M. Sillnrd in hh "Life of Barry Sullivan," "this tor confident amateur strutted agreeablj and elicited applause from hla friendt in the front. In the tent scene he screwed tip his energies, and when Sullivan, as Richard, started from hit knees at the conclusion of his com ments on his dream, exclaiming, 'Who's there?* Ratellff In his excite ment stammered out the answer: " * 'TIs I, my lord. The early vlllagt cock'?and then abruptly stopped, hav lng apparently forgotten the next line? 1. e., 'Hath twice done salutation to the morn.* "Sullivan surveyed the stultified as pert of his officer for a few seconds with a sardonic grin, as If enjoying his agony, and at length growled out In an audible tone: " 'Why don't you crow, then?' " \ortnrlnR a Cheerful Spirit. Lucky was the patient In Cedarvilk who could secure the services of Aunt} Bond as his nurse, but he must ninkt up his mind that while all his wants would receive due attention and lit would have n fair amount of coddling there were some things In which h< could not count on having his own way "Now, you Just take that look ofl your face, won't you?" she half conxed, half commanded a man who was re covering from pneumonia. "You aren'l half as sick as you were a month ago Let your thoughts dwell on that, and let 'em dwell on this: There's lots o folks outdoors a-falllng from the topi o' buildings and a-gcttlng run Into and over by automobiles and contraption! of nil sorts, besides those that art yielding to temptation o' vaHoiia klndf j and being sent to Jail and then th statet prison. And while all these dreadfui things are going on outside, what li happening to you? You are getting well at home, in peace and plenty, and what's more, in as handsome a walnul bedstead as there is In all Cedarville. "You let your mind dwell on tbest things a minute, and then yon tun over and go to sleep." Why lie Wn.H Cnlled "Good Prldnf.' Alfred Bunn, the celebrated Knglisl Impresario and operatic librettist ol the last century, was not always in at amiable frame of mind, and one daj be was seen at a rehearsal holding t wretched "super" by the collar ant scolding him savagely. The poor fel low's fright and distress, says F. J Crowest in his biographical nuecdotei of famous musicians, attracted the at tcntion of Mallbran, the famous prlim donna. The lady crossed over to tin I manager and said: \ "Do you know, I shall call you'Goo< I Friday.'" "Why?" he asked. "Because," replied Mallbran, "yot are such a hot cross lain." Drtl Sore*, Bod sores are sores that form ot those parts of the hotly that are under most in the position taken up by tin bed occupant. As a rule they nevei form unless tlie miff"".' I- "-?-? .....till I la luiiuiitni l( I one position. When set up they nr< most distressing. Whisky or brandj used as a lotion to the healthy skli once daily will prevent them. Whor there are commencing sores they should be treated with white of egg mixed with powdered alum. The two should be well rubbed up together. If one haf not a mortar and pestle It Is a good plan to mix the things in a basin wltl a bone knife handle. The First Rrle Canal Boat. The William Tell was the first boat to pass over the Erie eanal from Buffalo to Albany and down the river tc New York. Her cargo consisted entire ly of hogsheads, barrels and bottles ol Lake Erie water, part of which wae mingled with the waters of the bay ol New York on the occasion of the great fete In celebration of the opening ol the wonderful waterway, ller passen gers included Governor I>e Witt Clinton, the leader In the canal enterprise, and n delegation of statesmen and distinguished persona from foreign lands and various parts of the United States. On the Free List. "So<ln water doesn't appear to be t popular beverage In your country." "So. You see, wind Is so cheap tha we hate to puy good money for It" Heroic Treatment. "How can I break myself of the cof fee habit?" "Try living at a boarding house foi awhile." % To Suit Their Taste. The coming race will be a bird. Although some men might wish, Could they be living at the time. That It would be a fish. . ?I - When Hnddlen Were First Cued. * It is supposed that the saddle was Invented about the middle of the fourth * century, but the fnot. In the opinion of 5 some, has not been positively proved. 1 Zonaras, the historian, tells us that ? Constantino the younger was killed In ' the year 340, when he fell from his sad' die. The word translated Into saddle * also means, however, the baek of the horse or the place where the rider sat. > It is true, nevertheless, that Rldonlus 1 Apolllnarls used the word that unmls^ takably refers to the saddletree. Tlir Trvo Rvll*. "There's jest two thing-* that break up most happy homes," observed the Pohlok philosopher. * "What's them?" Inquired the Rqticdunk Ignoramus. "Woman's love for dry goods an* man's love fer wet goods, b'g>-.h!"~ J Washington Post. I Strawberry sliorteake looks inviting i on the waiter's tray, but there are few people who know whether it is as g ?;>.! > as It looks. A statesman Is a politician who hasn't been found out. r Mercenary. "She fell In love with a soldier." "Rrnss buttons attract her?" ; "No; his $13 a month." i -?.? : ^ "Coffee which makes the politicians wise, And sec through all , things with half-shut eyes" ?Pope. : |= COFFEE =1 L Ycu eould tell with both eyes shut that our Coffee is pure?the aroma gives positive assurance of that. ? Coffee is either good or bad ^ ?It can't be both, and if it Isn't one, It is the otherthere Is no middle ground. 1 Ours is good?the best in r fact. r You can take our word for > it. Or we'll give your money ' back if it isn't the best Coffee you have ever tasted. : I ; : ucnous a : J" HICHOBAOf iCOFFEE The Union Grocery ; Company, i UNION'S COFFEE STORE. Best Values, i Best Assortment. L. L. Wagnon, - - Manager. Man's Unreasonableness is often as great as woman's. But l Tlios. 8. Austin, Mgr. of the "Republican," of Leavenworth, Ind., was not unreasonabc, when lie refused to allow the doctors to operate on his wife, r for female trouble, "Instead," he says, > "we concluded to try Electric Bitters. * My wife was then so sick, she could I r hardly leave her bed, and live (5) phyi sieians had failed to relieve her. After , taking Electric Bitters, she was per-. . fectlv cured, and can now perform all her household duties." Guaranteed by Dr. F. C. Duke, druggist, price 50c. | He Kept up In The Race. James 8. Barron, President Manchester Cotton Mills, Rock Hill, 8. C.' t writes: [ "In 1K83 I painted my residence with L. AM. It looks better than a great * many houses painted three, years " ago. Don't pay $1.50 a gallon for linseed i : oil, which you do in ready-for-use ' paint. Buy oil fresh from the barrel at 60 ? cents per gallon, and mix it with j Longman A Martinez L. A M. Paint. It makes paint cost about $1.20 per | gallon. > j Wears and covers like gold. Every church given a liberal quanti> | ty when bought from Union Hardware Co., Union ; J. L. Mc-Whirter, Jonesville; B. G. Wilburn A Son, Cross Keys. ' BOILERS AND ENGINES. Tanks, Stacks, Stand PipoH, and Sheet Iron Work; Shafting, Pulleys, (tearing, Boxes, Mangers, etc. Mill CastingH. r Ca?t every day; work 200 hands. Lombard Foundiy Machine and Boiler Work and Supply Store. Augusta, Georgia The Satisfactory Drug Store * It is a satisfaction to trade at \ some drug stores?they always have what you want, and the quality you want. ^ Our Store is That Kind. Our stock is so ample that you can depend upon finding ( anything in the drug store line here if it is to be had. Another feature that adds to the satisfaction is that people ( never go away with that "over-charged" feeling. Our prices are the same to all and ) are aiways reasonable. Just try us and see. ^ DUKE DRUG CO. , Under Hotel Union. Union, S. C. i Phone 78. Watch This j / , Space. I am after your trade good and strong. I mean to increase the volume ; of each month over the j month before (as I live , 1 grow) is the motto I J am following. So don't overlook this space, as there will be something i doing. Look out for t later issues. Come to j me for summer specials, ; Underwear, Straw Hats, ] Hosiery, Laces, Em- i broidery, etc. : ? ' i Yours For Good Values, \ GEO. W. GOING.' - . Watch This Space ..for.. BURNS & MILLING'S Ad. Next Week. A MILDER CLIMATE. In Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas. Stock ranges ton to twelve months in the year, two and three crops grow in a season. Now is the time to look up a location while the land is cheap. On February 7th and 21st and March 7th and 21st, Cotton Belt Route will sell round trip home-seekers' tickets from St. Louis, Thebes, Cairo and Memphis to points in above named states at rate of $15, or one fare plus $2 where it makes less than $15. One way colonist tickets, February 21st and March 21st at half fare, plus $2. Write for map, time table, and ask about rates to any point. I*. P. SMITH, T. P. A. Cotton Belt Route, Atlanta, Oa. WHIPS AND POCKET KNIVES CHEAP AT | J. T. SEXTON'S. both are a necessity I will deliver |QE a* Vour door Buy your ticket, it is economy and saves you trouble. ' Ice house opposite Southern Passenger Depot. J. 6. RICHARDS. Use Your Phone There is at any time apt to be an emergency need for drug store goods. No messenger may be at hand, nor is one needed. Just step to the telephone and tell us what is wanted. We will send it to you promptly and the price will be just the same as though the purchase was made at the store. Don't hesitate because you may not be a regular customer as this service is for everybody. Our phone % is No. 7. Palmetto Drug Co., Huict <fe Ronwiok, Owner*, '* T H E= ?=^8*5* lash Bargain Store Vhite Jap Silk, 24 and 36 inches wide, at 25c and 50c the yard. Vhite Lawn, 40 inches wide, at 10c. Fancy Neckwear and Belts. dollars 5c, 8c, 10c, 12Jc, 15c, 25c and 50c each. KEEP COOL1 Dpen and shut Fans from lc to 50c each. ?< Vhite Silk Fans 25c and 50c each. ~ancv Emb. Shirt Waist Pat terns 98c and $1.50 each. <# Aay Manton Patterns and Catalogues all 10c each. MRS. D. N. W1LBURN. New Things! 3 Car Loads Just Received. 5 cars Oak Bedroom Suits, Ranges, Stoves, odd Bureaus, Rockers, Mattresses, Bed , Springs, odd Bedsteads, etc. These things were Ixmght right, ,hcy will be sold right. We'd l>o {lad to have you give us a call. We ilso have a good line of Bahy GoDarts and Carriages, Clocks, Trunks, Machines, Bugs, Matting, Ice Cream Freezers, and all the necessary things in housekeeping. Do like four neighbor, trade with Turner fc Mayfield and have no "kick" joming. Now is your hest time ind you certainly can't make a setter investment than to buy one jf our 36 pound feather IhhIs for 510.00. TURNER & MAYFIELD Prom frigid to Torrid From Coal to Ice you think, one is no mora a luxury than the other,