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f ht :g>MXtvit fy&vtttiw. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. ONJS DOLLAK A. Y?A?. MM I I ? 1 I I I ' 1_Ll.1'1 I Wt I ULJL?IBS The One That Prospered. "Whichever one of them prospers, he it? to get my money." The "Hoover boys" remembered well that their rich uunt, Miss Hoover, had said this when they were quite little fellows, and came to live with her la order to atteud the private school In the town of Wythevillo. They regarded Miss Hoover "with uwe even before they saw her, and her piercing black eyes made n lasting hu Eresslou upon them as they stood in er presence on the Ih'Ht night of their arrival. "I will do my part by them equally," Mis* Hoover had said, prior to the invitation that the boys should come to her and be educated. "They shall start in life with the same chances. If they both prosper, well and good : but PR not throw money away." After the boys had been with Miss Hoover for ubout three weeks thoy both euiuu to the conclusion that il was hardly possible for them to share the almighty dollars. One or the other would get all?it must be u race. " Richard will have lots of money, any way," said Hob to himself. " t wish I knew what I (night to do." The old lady Hinilcd grimly when she saw Hob deposit flvu eents of his weekly allowance in his littlo bank on tho dining room mantel. Tho bottom of Richard's bank, which was beside Bob's, must bo pretty well covorod with nickols aud dimos, thought Miss Hoover. "Take care of tho pennies, and the pounds will take caro of themselvos," Haid sho in an'awful voice, throe days after Hob's deposit in tho bank. Tno piercing black eyes wore on Bob's abashed face us she waved the bank to and fro without nsouud. * " I got sticking-plaster with it for Harry Burganaut's head," said tho boy, apologetically. "Ho slipped on tho ice just two squares above hero, and nono of tho boys had any money." " And you had so much ?" " I?I only had five cents." Bob's face reddened. " Was Richard with you ?" " Yos'm." " Did Richard oiler to run homo and get any of his money? Richard could have afforded it better than you. If Harry Burganaut head needed a stick ing plaster, Harry Burganaut's father was tho person to buy that sticking plaster, not Bob Hoover." It was then that Bob gave up his dream of holrship. But all that was long ago. It seemed ages and agos ago to Bob and Richard, bearded men aud the heads of families. Perhaps it did not seem quito so long ago to Miss Hoover. It is st range how some pcoplo can be little old trwomen for half a life. To tho inhabitants of Wythevillo, Miss Hoover had looked tho same for thirty years, neat and prim and little und old. It was only Miss Hoover herself who noticed any change. She knew that she walked a little more slowly than she had done thirty years ago, and sho felt aches and pains unfclt by her then, and that her hunds trembled If sho kept too steadily at her knit ting. She sat one day with her hunds in her lap boside her knitting. She was making up her mind for a groat under taking, a visit to thoao boys who had slept and eaten under her roof twenty tivo years bofore. Sho had kopt herself away from her rolatlves, and sho had lot thom under stand from the very boginning that if ever sho wanted their presenco she would let thom know. " I could have the lot of them if I whistlod." sho said, a trillo contemptu ously ; and yet how very, very angry tho old lady would have been against any one who would dare not to respond to tho whistle. It seemed hard to realize that twenty live years had passed since the full bank and the empty bank, poor Hob Hoover's bugbear, had stood side by side on the dining room inantol. Tho rich relative, true to bur intention, had started the Iroys in life. She had ' asked permission to do this thing just as she had asked permission to cducato her nopl.ews, and the permission had been gladly and quickly grantod. Sho had sneered a litt le both at the gladness and the promptness of the replies to her letter; but oh, how sho would have sneered and how bittor and reviling she would havo been if either the gladness or tho promptness had been lacking! She started Richard into life as a merchant and Bob as a doctor, and sho had not seen them since, for sho had not whistled. Miss Hoover looked at her wrinkled hands until they trembled under tho intonsity of her gaze. "Well. I can't live forever," sho murmured ; and then she quite mude up her mind to visit " the boys." Sho had said always that sho would give hei ^loney to tho ono that pros pered, thus raising no false hopes. She believed that either a man or a woman could prosper in this world if " the mind was set to it." She herself had commenced on a littlo; sho had invested prudently in land and stock ; sho had bought and sold at proper times. She was a woman who laughed " luck " to scorn. " Why, some pcoplo would call mo lucky !" she exclaimed. " I who havo worked hard for every cent and care fully laid it by." There was a sort of prosperity, how ever, to which Miss Hoover was violently opposed, the prosperity which would not boar investigation. " If I'm told a man's rich, and for special reasons it is my business to know that man is rich, then 1 want a look at tho books." Miss Hoover mado this announce ment to her knitting needles before sho laid thom down in her lap to think. Sho clicked thom when she uttered tho words. So it was to get a look at tho hooka that tho boy's rich rolatlve determined to pay them u visit. There is more or loss excitement in preparing for any visit, but to a person who had not loft her home since sho was a girl tho excitement was intense If it had not beon for tho stern sense of duty actuating the proceeding, tho trip would never havo been taken. In tho tlret place, Miss Hoover's dressmaker wanted to show tho pco plo in tho city that she understood the stylos jus*, as well as thoy did. Sho stiffened up her customer and flounced and boribbonod her to her heart's desire. "I toll you, Holona Simpson, I'm old !'' cried tho sufferer appoalingly. But Miss Simpson was without mercy. " You don't want to look like you corno from tho country," sho nald. M No ?" snapped tho victim ; " but no more do I want to rosomble a fool." "You won't look like nary a fool when I get through with you," declar ed Miss Simpson positively. " Remember I'm 'most oighty," said tho rich woman, tremulously. " I tell you, Miss Hoover, all tho drosses is mado fancy. You'd fool funny If you wasn't in tho stylo." "Show mo tho fashion plate," Insisted the sufferer, and Mis* Simp son produced hor " latest number" reluctantly. . u4,None of 'ora don't look old," sle^ said. "They nevor get to bo near eighty in tho fashion plates." " VVoll. thank God, I've still got my black silk and new cap," du Id Mi--* Hoover piously, l"and if you go lo putting auy fancy touchos on toy traveling dress, why, I tell you right hero, Helena Simpson, I won't wear It.'l So, although Miss Simpson heaved a sigh, the traveling droits was left plain enough. It wan a little too short, perhaps, but tho rieh old lady looked very trim aa stopped off the cars at the city and gave her directions to a cabman. She bad written to the boys, telling them of her contemplated visit. She had said in her letter that she was getting old, and naturally would like to see them once more ; but they need'nt feel It incumbent upon them to sit down and cover a couple of pages begging her to name tho day and the hour, so that they could be on hand to meet her at the station. She would choono her own time, and she wasn't I too old to direct a cabman or make a will. She still had aitfauthoritative tone for tho boys. But sne would have been very angry indeed if they hadu't both sal down aud written ofT the couple of pages contrary to her directions, telling her how glad they would be to eeo her, and that sho had better recon sider hor decision and allow them to meet her. "Vory glad, indeed; I expect so !" sniffed Miss Hoover, putting the second letter back in its envelope. " But I'll choose my own day." ? She was perfectly sure that Richard Hoover had prospered. Sho 3ald to herself, as she was jumbled over the cobble stones, that tho boy had the making of a inun In him, but the magnificence of the house at which tho cab drew up startlod her. As she made hor way up tho dark, polished steps sho was conscious of two feelings, One that hor travelling dross was too short, tho other of thankfulness that dross makers didn't fashion gloves. A servant in livery answered tho boll, and Miss Hoover folt a strange timidity upon hor jus sho gave her namo, and, following tho man's order, stepped into the reception room. Richard will bo down at tho store," sho soliloquized. "I suppose I shall have to meet his wifo first." And then what was this strange thing sho was wishing V?that sl>e had named tho day or else gone arouud to Bob's. A rustlo of silken robes announced tho coming of Richard's wifo, and tho littlo old aunt stood up and rubbed her hands nervously one over tho other. " Miss Hoover, that is Richard's aunt Susanna," said Richard's wife, stoop ing and kissing tho old lady lightly on the cheek. " Ho was at my homo when ho was a boy," explained Miss Hoover. " Oh, yes," said Richard's wife, and then sho laughed. " 1 don't suppose you would know him now. You will se.e him at dinner. But 1 mustn't keep" you horo ; I must lot you get rid of your travel stains." A severe trial awaited Miss Hoover in tho protty front room on tie second story. Hor trunk was there before hor, and tho maid accompanying hor evidently meant to Btay and help her change her attire. Sho had intended to get rid of her travoling dress, of course, but not right away, and she had never onco thought of the maid. Then once moro sho wished sho was at Bob's whore sho could put on hor I old silk and cap and feol perfectly at home ; yes, and moro than that, where sho could feol as if she wore the rich relation. Sho was so B?ro that Bob hadn't prospered. Under the press of circumstances, j however, sho donned ono of tho be ribboned gowns, awkwardly availing herself of tho maid's services, and felt very unbecomingly dressed and vory miserable as she made hor way back to tho first floor, still depending upon tho maid to toll her where to go. No, sho would never have known Richard: and yet she might have guessod that ho would havogrown into just such a prosperous, smiling gentle man. She did not see tho children until tho following day. Their mother gave them a look as they came into the room, but tho pretty littlo girl with tho brown curls giggled convulsively, and tho great aunt felt suro that tho child was laughing at her gown. Sho was timid boforo Richard's children on account of tho littlo girl's laugh. Miss Hoover's visit was four days' old when she acknowledged to herself that she would never daro ask Richard Hoover to lot her look at tho books, for which purpose sho had travellod 400 miles. "And what would be the uso of look in? at the books?don't I know he's prospered ?" she said, with a sigh. The first doubt that eaino into her mind was early tho noxt morning, when she saw Richard for a half hour in the cosy breakfast room and an nounced hor intention of leaving that day. His faco wore a frown instead of its usual placid, smiling expression, and ho spoke rapidly and irritably. " It's all very woll to be rich, Aunt Susanna, you and 1 both know that, but I toll you it's a pity that there isn't a certain attitude beyond which a man couldn't get. I'd liko to havo reached that attitude and havo somo time and some money, too, to bestow on other things. You'll find Bob poor and hap py. I go around to see him sometimes, l ou'll lind him surrounded by his children ; you'll find his wifo adoriug him." Richard laughed ; and thou ho rang the boll for tho breakfast to be brought in, and laughod n^ain, and said that money, after all, was a good thing, and a powerful thing, and making it kept a man from worrying. Miss Hoover went around to Bob's that afternoon. Ho lived in a better houso than sho had supposed. Sho was astonished to find everything so nice, and sho was astonished also to discover that sho preferred merely nice things to tho luxuries of life. The wifo, who adored Bob, did not come sweeping in upon her in silken robes, but for all that sho thought that Bob had made a good choice in a wifo. Tho ohildren wore a littlo awed at her. That was because sho was rich ; and sho understood thoroughly how riches could awe. Sho liked Bob's wifo and children from tho start; and when sho looked into Bob's happy faco that even ing, as he stood grasping hor hand in hearty welcome, she was sorry that ho hadn't been the one that prospered. Sho was sorry, too, to leavo at the end of tho four days ; but there wore no account books horo to look at. Sho was aware of that when sho came, and by leaving at tho end of tho four days she was troating tho two boys aliko. Miss Hoover had nover realized how lonely sho was until sho got back to Wvthovillo and her lonely lifo. The neighbors said that her visit to town hadn't cheered her a bit. Sho was sitting in her customary place one day knitting, whon -die clicked her needles and lot tho stock ing fall in her lap. Some neighbors had just gone out. Sho had been toll ing thorn of Richard's grand houso und tho servants. They had openod thoir e>ycs at tho mention of the butler and tho maid. But sho was not thinking of Richard as she clicked hor noodles and dropped tho stocking in hor lap. A lump had risen in her throat, hor eyes woro dim : sho was homesick, j Sho saw again in imagination the five j little banks sitting in a row on the mantol in Bob's sitting room, and Bob was pointing thorn out to hor, half laughing ns he oxplains that they woro trying to bring tho children up with economical viows. Bob did not know that sho had been lot, by ono of his children, into a ^ro znondous secret?how tho money in the five banks was to bo put togethor at; Christmas to buy papa a new over-1 CeHJt. "Bocauso doctors havo to bo so, awful particular about thoir dress,"; said Bob'soldost daughter, "and mam ma says that papa's coat Is beginning to get shabby." Thou one evening Boh came into the room, still in his shabby overcoat, and looked first at the banks and then at the childreu clamoring about him. " Who wants to give a Christmas gift a little before time?" he asks. " It is a case in which public charity j will not answer: a poor old woman who dreads the almshouse. She has I not very long to live. I thought my little people would like to keep her from the almshouse." " But the overeoat ?" said little Bob. "Overcoat? Why, this is a very flue overeoat. Has your mother been telling tales on my overeoat?" So the money In the five banks went to nave the old woman from t ho alms house. And, strauge to say, the money for the overcoat was not wanting. It put in an appearance the very next day In the shape of a good-sized fee, unex pectedly paid. " An unexpected fee," said Bob's wife, "but we ar? so lucky, I didn't feul at all disturbed about the over coat." Two tears splashed down upon the stocking in Miss Hoover's lap. " And I, I thought the other one had prospered." She glanced about her lonely room. "Bob has children crowding about him 5 he has a housofull, but It seemed as if f wasn't In the way. He can put out his hand and keep the almshouse from a poor dying creature. I wonder, I wonder?" She left the room and went out Into the hall and on up the stairs. " It won't bo for long," she said. She f^ot out. her writing desk and wrote a ettor. It was a very short letter, but a tear drop fell upon It and made a Btaln. Littlo Bob criod when his mother told him what it was. "My dear nephew." ran Miss Hoo ver's lotter, " I hate lived a long tirao ?I am almost oighty yoars old?and I have made a great many mistakos in my life. I wnut my money to bo di vldod between you aud Richard equally: but oh, I want to ask you about a case in which public charity will not answer. I would like you to tako the money right away, and the old woman too. "Susanna Hoover." After she had written that letter sho felt no further fear. She know how It would bo. She sat there a long, long time, her thoughts lingering tenderly on the boy who had robbed his bank to purchase sticking-plaster for Harry Burganaut's hoad.?Youth's Compan ion. COLUMBUS NO GREAT SHAKES. Bill Arp Stayed Away from the World's Fair?His Bank Account Woe Small and He Couldn't Tako Mis Wife, Atiantu Ceustitut'on. It was a groat show, tho greatest show on oarth, I reckon. I wanted to go and seo It, but I dtdent go. I tried to got In on tho ground floor for mysolf and my wifo, but I couldent, and as I didont have money enough for two I' concluded to stay at homo. That's loyalty?conjugal loyalty. Thero was anothor reason. I hoard a man talking about anothor mac and he said : "Yes. dogon him, lie can go to Chicago and tako his wife, but can't pay mo that grocery bill he's been owing mo for six months." I owo a few of thoso darn little just debts myself, and I dident want to be talked about, so it's all right. It's an awful time to be sending tho money out of the country anyhow and getting nothing back but ploasuro. It's well enough to celebrate Columbus and make a great display, but tho times are unfortunate and tho groat United States Senate won't do anything but draw their pay, and everything is demoralized. I wish now we had lot Mr. Columbus alone. "Lead us not into temptation," is a good nrayor. If there had boon no fair nobody would have wanted to go and our money would have boon kept at home. Columbus waseut such a wondorful man no how. Ho didont mean to discover America, and ho dident know he had discovered a now continont when ho landed. Ho was on tho make. Ho stole Indians and carried thorn away and sold them. History does not make him a great man nor a good man, but he was an enterprising navigator and was a succoss, thut's all. I would nit her have been Galiloo than Columbus. Ho discovered a lar big gor thing and did it on purpose It was not an accident. He discovered the universe, tho solar system and declarod it to mankink. My admi ration for him is profound, and I wish tho schoolboys ami girls to road about him and think about him. It was just 300 yoars ago this mouth that ho convinced himself that the sun did not go around tho earth, but tho earth wont around tho sun. What a stupendous assertion for any man to make! Just think of it! For thous ands of years everybody had seen the sun to riso and set and rise again every twenty-four hours, and nobody doubted or suspected but what it went around tho earth and that the oarth was stationary. It does look that way, docsent it ? No wonder everybody believed it. Joshua belioved it when ho commanded tho sun to stand still on Gideon. Solomon bolioved it, and so did all tho astronomers of Egypt and of Greece aud Home. So did Shako s pea re and Bacon and tho wise men of England. How could any man daro to say that tho earth wont around the sun, making a circuit of 200,000,000 miles in a year and get back to the samo identical spot from whenco it started V Columbus dident do any thing or know anything to bo compared to it. Galiloo upset and destroyed the theory of ages and be challenged tho astronomers and the mathematicians of tho world to listen to htm and to come and examino bis proofs. That was ttnly .'HR) years ago. Just think how long tho world hid slept In utter ignorance of tho grandest thing the human mind can contomplato?the solar system. Wo ought to have colo brated Galileo in some way this very year. Columbus discovered a con tinent, but dident know it. Galileo discovered a universe aud did knov it, Copernicus had in a timid way de clared tho same solar system somo fifty years boforo, but ho died wdthout converts, and his theory died with him. Even Galileo kept it a secret for seven years. Ho was afraid of tho popo, and after he did announce it he was put in prison and keptlu a dungeon until his health broke down and his wifo did like Job's wifo. She begged him to recant and say he had lied and he did it. It was a momorablo sight, tho scono of that recantation. Tho great philo sopher down on bis knees boforo the popo and in tho prosenco of cardinals and priests and learned men, swoaring with uplifted hands that tho earth did not go around the sun, hut tho sun went around the. oarth every day. Uut as ho rose up ami retired from tho pope's presence ho whispered to a friend, " I have recanted and abjured only to save my lifo. The oarth does revolvo on its axis and around tho sun." Then for seven years ho hail to go before tho priest three times a wook and rooito the .seven penitential psalms us anffioncmcnt for his heresy. Tho popo nno"*the priesthood declared his new theory to bo heresy because it contradicted thoxBlble. Galileo had mhdo him a telescope, tho first one ovor made. Ho made the tube out of an old organ pipe and got a spectacle maker to grind him a con cavo glass for one end and a convex glass for tho other, and thon to his surpriso and delight ho saw stars, moro stars, now Htars. Ho improved the telescope until it magnified thirty times and he saw tho inoous of Jupitor. Whon he announced his discovorles, tho wiso men said he was a crank, a fanatic, a fool. They said that any star or planet that could not bo seen with tho naked eye was not intended to bo soon and it was sacvilego to pry into the mysteries of God. They said thero couldn't be but sevon planets for there were but seven days in the week und seven metals and seven holes in a man's head. They kept that poor man under watch and persecuted him to such an extent that he lost his sight and when John Milton came to visit him there were two blind men together conver sing earnestly and secretly about the universe, the solar system and tho wonderful works of the creator. There was a scene for a painter?Milton and Galileo?each Boaring in realms of thought far above the conception of mankind and comforting each other In their afflictions. But in his last days Qalileo triumphed over his enemies and established his wonderful dis coveries. He lived to reap some re wards and although blind and deaf, he was visited by the most noted men of the civilized world. Just think what martyrdom the truth has to suffer before it is established. And the king said unto his servants " what hunor and dignity hath been done unto Mordecai for this?" And they said "nothing has been done." That is tho way of tho world still The benefactors of mankind aro soon forgotten. Morse and Cyrus Field and Maury and Crawford Long and Ellas Howe are passing out of mind and mention. The great heroes of war, the meu of blood, get fame and a name, but those men who have done most for mankind in the arts of peace get but a small record In tho annals of history. Let our boys aud girls read moro biography or the great and good men who have passed away. It is as in teresting as a romance. It beats buse ball and blcyoleB. I asked a young lady not long ago who composeu that beautiful music she was playing and sho said "Boothoven." "Who was ho," said I. "What nationality?" I was sorry that 1 askod tho question, for sho didn't know. The children should be encouragod to read ubout somebody every day or night. Fill tho mind with useful knowledgo and it will be a comfort when old age comes. Bill. Arp. THE CITY OF BAN DOMINGO. Tho Site Selected by Christopher Columbus?The AucientTowu lias a Curious History. Santo Domingo is tho oldest city built by Europeans now standing in the western hemisphere. It was founded by the brother of Columbus, and is said by somo to havo been nam ed after thoir father Domenico, and by others to havo received its uamo because it was on Sunday that tho ships sollt from the north arrived there ?Santo Domingo meaning, " holy Sunday." Curiously enough, its found ing was tho result of a quarrel. On tho northern shore of Hi6paniola, as tho island of Santo Domingo was then called, was Isabella, the first Spanish colony in the Now World. Tnore, ono day, a young Spaniard nam ed Miguel Diaz, ono of the followers of Columbus stabbed a companion in a fijrht; and afraid of tho anger of Columbus, he fled Into tho mountains and wont toward tho south. After wandering for some days, he came to a river, aud following it to where it emptied into the soa, found a tribe of Indians called tho Ozamas. They had heard of tho wonderful white men who had landed on thoir island, and thoy received him with awe, but with kind ness and hospitality, and took him bo fore their queen, Zameaca. who was famous for her beauty and gontlcness. Ho had not livod long with them when Zameaca loBt her heart to tho fair-fac ed Spaniard, and they were married. For a time all went well, but Diaz soon tired of tho simple life, and his wife, to please him, told him of gold to be found in the river Jayna, and guided him to it. Diaz then went back in haste to Isabolla, knowing that the news of tho discovery would secure his pardon,?as it did. Ho guided his avaricious companion to the golden stream, and afterward to tho mouth of tho Ozama River. There Columbus chose tho place for tho town. It was begun in 1496, and it was called Santo Domiugo. Tho Spaniards ill-treated and made slaves of tho simple Indians, und Za meaca, seoing tho evils she hud brought upon nor people, fled to tho mountulns und wus never heard of afterward. The new city crew and prospered until tho year 150:2, when it was entirely destroyed by a frightfuV hurricane, and was rebuilt on the other bank of tho river. There it stands to day, not much changed from the Santo Domingo of four centuries ago. It is vory curious to go from ono of our cities, with its now, bright, tall buildings und its broad streets alive with tho hum and bustle of business, to this sleepy old Spanish town, where (on account of tho earthquakes) tho housos aro rarely moro than ono story high, and are painted various colors? blue, green, brown, or rod ; where tho narrow streets havo sidewalks only three feot wido, and where nobody is ever in a hurry ; and to romoinbor, as ono walks over tho town, that those streets were once trodden by FIzarro, who gathered there the first money that enabled him to start on the ex pedition that conquered Peru; by Cortex, tho conqueror of Mexico; by Ponce do Leon, who discovered F'or ida; by Bulboa, the first European who saw tho Pacific Oeeun ; by Ojeda, who discovered Venezuela! and by Columbus himself, and his brothers und his son, and tho companions of his voyage.?St. Nicholas. Not lee. Bo modern. Don't harass the system with noxious drugs. Monterey cures .Malaria. 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In all derangements and displace-! rnents of the special organs which result iu " signs of inflammation," in catarrlml discharges from the lining membranes, ana in distressing irregularities?this medicine is guar anteed to benefit or cure, or the money is returned. , Highest of all in Leavening Power.?Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTE!* PURE POL.ITIC8 ANI> PATRON AO E. Beu Perry Wakes Up tho Wronx Pas senger? A Refl?rmer Who Says He Would Rather Be ItlRht Thau Hold Office. The Florence Reform Advocate. Al llauce-Tillraaulto. publishes the follow ing correspondence and makes it the basis of a charge that Perry and Ro per are trying to buy support for Sen ator Butler's candidacy." Washington, D. c. Oct. 18, 1893. Mr. T. C. WfHouffliby, Fiorenoe, S. C. Dear Sir : Mr. D. 0. Roper, and who agrees with me that you were the man for Dispenser, has requested mo to write you and ask yon to give me the name of somo good young man of your county that would like to accept | a position up hero as a conductor on some of these street cars at $2 per day. Wo have now on those cars some fifteen young men from South Carolina, und as yet none from your county, therefore I urn anxious to have your county on tho list, and I know of no one that is in a position to pick mo out. a good man than yourself. Good board can bo had for $JL6 por month. We may bo able to get you a place in some of these departments at from $1,200 to $1,800 por annum, if you would like something of that kind. When Tillman treatod mo as he did, I was not at all surprised at his conduct to wards you In that Dispensary ease. You, like mysolf. have almost killed ourselves for the Reform movomont. Hoping to hear from you soon, I re main. B. F. Perry. P. S.?I will got my appointment as soon as tho silver question is settled, and then I will be In position to help my friends more in tho way of patron age Mr. Waddill has told mo all about you, what a trash raovor you were ; and ho Is my frlond, too. Florence, S. C, Oct. 20, 1893. B. F. Perry, 419 Sixth stree, N. W., Washington, D. C. Dear Sir : Your lottor of tho 18th instant at hand, and let mo assure you that I feel flattered at your great interost in my wolfaro ; tho more so sinco wo havo never met, and this is tho first communication which you have honored mo with. I regret my inability to name any one suitable for conductors on stroot cars. Am surprised in thoso days of deprossion and want of employment that you aro not able to find all tho men you want In Washington, and if this is another source of patronage, are you not going outsido of our plat form, which proclaims for homo rule, in seeking elsowhero than in Washing ton for conductors ? As to the matter of my appointment, or I should say non-appointment as State Dispenser. I am not in neod of sympathy?am too good a Democrat to kick out"of traces because of personal disappointment. My object in seeking the appointment was to make 8 .ess of the scheme, and since that is assured I am more than satisfied What has become of the Civel Service Bureau? I innocently ask this ques tion since you soom to havo so much patronage at your disposal. $1,200 and $1,800 places aro not to bo lightly refused in these hard times, but al though not doing near so well must decline your kind assistance with thanks. In conclusion I have to say that if you havo in any way taken up the idea that I can be bought you have certainly struck a snag. We, down here, aro for the principles of Reform, and not tho loaves and fishos ; and wo propose to carry that banner to tho front, and will stand by those only who stand by our i Hag. Yours, &c. T. C. WlLLOUOIlBY. READING CHARACTER. A Woman's Hair Gives the Clue to Her Disposition and Character. "To read a woman's char-actor it is only necessary for one to seo her hair," said a man who was one of a party of ten at a luncheon. " O, bow dreadful I" cried tho women present, each unconsciously smoothing her locks and placing in position any stray curl that had worked itself too low on tho forehead. "Well," continued he who had spoken first, "I determine whothor she is of gentle or rude birth by tho fineness of her hair. Tho tlnor tho hair the gentler tho birth or the higher grade the family stock from which sbo canio. "Then, as to her mode of lifo, I rely wholly upon tho amount of euro sho has given hor hair. Tho finest feminine hair can never havo a glossy olToct excopt as a result of long and careful training. Then, coarso hair, which indicates rudo birth, will never tako a high degree of glossiness." "My hair is curly," said a petite blonde. " Is that a bad sign ?" "No; i\ means that the owner has inherent grace and poetic case of body. Tho closer tho ends of hair together tho more intellectuality does tho owner possess." " Straight and soft hair," added the character roador, glancing at tho lady on his loft, "indicates a lifiner and more positivo naturo than that possessed by tho curly-headed woman. " Black hafr that is dead and lustre less in nine cases out of ton, hides treachery and jealousy, and all cranks have, without oxcoption, brokon or split hair. " Rough, uneven hair indicates a badly balanced character?a woman with very queer notions." "Does not tho color havo some significance?" asked a beautiful brown haired woman at the end of tho table, ovidently desirous of getting into a plea, anter strain. " Yoa, indeed ; color has much to do with it," answered the gontleman. "The lighter tho hair tho moro sen sitive and touchy tho owner, excopt in rare cases, *hore tho lady onjoys por fect health. " Any shado of brown is moro plea sant and satisfactory. Almost in variably brown hair covers a perfect hot-bed of common sonse, good judg ment and reason." " Would you pluaso diagnose red hair?" asked sweetly an suburn-trcsscd lass nervously. "U f were to trust any woman It would bo a red-beaded one, because, though occasionally impulsive and quick spoken they are always sincere. Then I can justly add that a-, a general rule they aro among the brightest, gentlest and most genuine of women." MAGNETIC NEBVINE. Is ?oi. with written uaranUa to cure NarvouaProntrn tlon, Fit?, Dliil neon.llcndnchu und Neuralgia and Wako f s I in - ,, in ? < I )..??< const veupgof Opium, Tobacco nml Alco hol; .Mi lit -?1 I i in i . ??ET-ORE - AFTER? .ion. ao/tanlng;"! the Brain, MUtttaf Mlsary, Insanity and Deatht uarreneaa, Impotenoy, L?st Powar In either sex. pr?matur?) Old Ar?-, involuntary i,nwo?, caused by over-lndulgenco, over-exertion of the Bralu and ffrroraof Youth. It vires to Weak Organs their Natural Vigor and double* tho Joys of life; cures T.aoorrhoea and IfomiJe Weakness. \ month's treat ment, In plain pack quo. by mail, to any address, It por box, ? bOMafh With overy 16 order we ?Ivo a Written Quaranta? to euro or rotund the nmnoy. Circulars free. Guarantee leaned ouly by our ex elusive ageut, Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S O MOKE OF THF. BARRETT GANG. Ait Atlanta Whin key Dealer 8 w lud led and the Hwiudler Special to The State. Spartanburq, S. C.,Oct. 20.?Some niontha ago a man at Saluda, N. C, ordered of A. L. Dunn of Atlunta $550 worth of fine whiskey. Ho represent ed himself as very wealthy, and got a testimonial as to his commercial standing from Deputy Marshal John Fisher. It was sooou found that the man was irresponsible, and was not ovon a whiskey dealer. Most of tho j whiskey was recovered, and now the i man who bought it, W. B. Rhoel, is under arrest for usiug tho mails for fraudulent purposes. It is believed ho i? t? member of tho gang who havo boon systematically swindling BOextenslvoly in this county. John Fisher was also bound over to day on a similar charge. One of tho witnesses gave away the secret by which they havo been able to retain many of tho articles after tho fraud was discovered. They would buy u typewriter, a piano, a sowing machine, farm machinery aud all manner of merchandise, and when tho attorneys for thoso firms wouid invostlvato they would find tho goods covored by raort gugos, or in tho other hands of in nocent purchasers, to all appoarances. It was worked in this way. Thoy would draw a mortgage and get tho mortgagor and supposed mortgagee, in tho presence of a bona iido disin terested witness. Then a roll of money would pass, and the man who received tho money would count it aloud over and over until the desired amount was called. Tho witness would supposo that it was a straight transaction. Then tho money would bo returned and be ready for tho next transaction. When tho sobers came to look after the property, out of which thoy had been swindled, thoy would find it in tho hands of a bona fido pur ( chaser for value, as this witness would j testify. Harper's MAGAZINE for Novembor is tho concluding number of the eigh ty-sevonth volume. It opens with tho second instalment of Edwin Lord Week's richly illustrated account of his'journey across Persia by caravan, which grows in intcrost as it proceeds, and must stand as an important con tribution to tho literature of travel. William Black's novel, "The Hand some Humes," is finished in this Num ber. Richard Harding Davis writes of " London in tho Season," and there aro strong papers on the Indian Terri tory, by Re/.in W. McAdam, and " Arbitration," by FredericR. Coudert; a description of Acadian Louisiana, by Julian Ralph; a dicsussion of "The Decadent Movement in Litcraturo," by Arthur Svmons ; a description of " Riders of Turkey," by Col. T. A. Dodge, and four short stories, includ ing an " imaginary portrait," by Wal tor Pater, called Apollo in Picardy." Magnetic Nervine quiets tho nerves, : drives away bad dreams, and gives quiet rest and peaceful sloep. Sold by , Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S. C. Why undergo terrible suffering and I endanger your life when you can be cured by Japanese Pile Cure ; guaran teed by Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S. C. Itching, burning, scaly and crusty scalps of infants cleansed and healed, and quiet sleep restored by Johnson's Oriental soap. Sold at Carpenter Bros., , Greenville, S. C. MONTEREY. IHO, THE MONK'S REMEDY, 1345. A TONIC. NERVINE, BLOOL PIT HI FI ER Like Cures Like.?The Poison of the Swamp has its Antidote in tho Swamp. For Malaria, Nervousness, Indigos* tion, Dysentery and Bowel Complaint, ask your dealer for MONTEREY. If ho does not keep it. wo will send you a largo bottle, express prepaid, on re ceipt of $1.00. MONTEREY CO., Floronoo, S. C, Props, and M'f'rs. F. W. WAGENER & CO., Charlonton, S. 0.? State Agent?. There's Always Room at the Top. This was Daniel Webster's remark to a young and half discouraged aspirant for legal honors. There is no secure resting place in any business or profession but " the top." and the man who lacks ?,he brains and persistence to attain that position cannot hopo to achieve great results. Onco there, however, he has all fortune's host favors in his grasp, and can well afford to bo generous to tho strug gling masses below. "The Now High Ann Davis Sewing Machine " has arrived at "the top," and has booome the acknowledged standard of excellence among sewing ma chines. In proof of this assertion wo aro daily told by dealers in other machines that " they are as good as 'The Davis,' which is in Ftrolf sufficient evidence that The Davis' is at tho head. " The New High Ann Davis" has no equal in simplicity, durability aud range of work. It has arrived at "Tho Top." Alexander, Bros. & Co., Greenville Music Mouse, Pianos, Organs, Sewing Ma chines and Sheet Music. 07 and 111 Washington Street Greon yillo, &. C. ?FOR SALE BY @q ff?Vnty & Im? ?WHO - WHITE1TEB a MAKSm? They are our Fashionable Hair Cutters and Shavers. Ben-Delia Hotel THE LAURRNS HAR. II. V. 81M phon. 0. r>. ha kk> I) a LK SIMPSON & BARKSDALfi, Attorneys at Law, LAURRNS, SOUTH CAROLINA Special at t nut Inn given to tho Investi gation oftitio? nod collection of claims. b. w. u.m.i.. l. w. sim kins. w. \v. ball BALL, SIMKINS .V- BALL, Attorneys at Law, LaUKENS, South Carolina. Will prKCtico in ?11 State and United States Court. Special altonlion given collections. j. t. johnson. w. k. biokhy. JOHNSON & BIOHEY, attoknkys at law. Offiok?Fleming's Comer, Northwest side of Public Square. LAUREN'S, - SOUTH CAROLINA. W. H. MARTIN, Attorney at Lnw, Laukknh, - South Carolina. Will praetlcs in ?11 Courts of this State. Attention givmi to col tedious. MACHINERY! Wood Working Machinery. Brick and Tile " Barrel Stavo " Ginninir " Grain Threshing " Saw Mill " Rice Hulling ENGINES AND BOILERS. State Ajrency tor Talbott A Sons' En Sines and Rollers, Saw and Grist Mills] rcwors' Brick Machinery, Douhle Screw Cotton Presses; Thon.as' Direel Acting Steam (no bella); Thomas' Seed Cotton Elovatnrs; Hall Ar Lu ib in us1 Gins; Engleberu Rio? Hullers; II. R. Smith A Oo.'s Wood-Working M?chlu ery, Pianora, Rand Saws, Moulders, Mor tisors; Tononors' comprising com pie to equipment for Sash, Door and Wsyon Factories; DoLoaobe's Plnntatlon Saw Mills, variable teed. RELTING, FITTINGS AND MACHIN ERY SUPPLIES. ?t"9~ Wrlto mo for prices. V. C. RADII AM, Manager, Columbia, s. C. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE noTVtp. Do you wear them? When next In need try a pair. Best In the world. ?5.00. 54.00, ?3.50 f ?2.50 ?2.25 ?2.00 J3.00 ^2.50 j*2.00 ifor LADIES [?2.00 ? 1.75 FOR BOYS If you want a fine DRESS SHOE, mado In the latest ?tylei, don't pay $6 to $8, try my $3, $3.50, $4.00 or $5 Shoe. Thoy fit equal to custom made and look and Wear at well, If you wish to economlzo In your footwear, ^?oby purchasing W. t. Douglas Shoes. Name and prk '- Tiped on the bottom, look for It when you buy. VY. L. bOUGLAS, Hrookton, Mass. Sold by PORT ROYAL & WESTERN CAli olina Kail way. Condensed sched ule taking effect Sopl 21th, 1893, Lv Greonvillo Lv Sinipsonville Lv Fountain Inn Lv Gray Court Ar Laurens. Ar Spartanburg Lv Laurens Ar Greenwood .. Ar Augusta. Ar Savannah Ar Jacksonville Lv Jacksonville Lv Savannah 4A anv 17 am :it) am H M 8 fio um p I.) um 40 pm Oft ?in OA am! 4? pm I? pm .'>.'> a m I 4A i>m ?i l? pm :: (it i>m :i 4? pm I 80 pm 0 40 pm ? t'? pm r. 05 pm s 40 pm i> l? pm 12 no m (in pm -ii 20 pm 4r> p nil ti ?O pm Lv Augusta. | 1? 1)0 am| 1 4fi pm ' 48 am 1 20 pm 17 pm 5 Jl pm ?I" pm, 0 4? pm in pm 0 80 pm Lv Green wood Ar Laurens Ar Bpartanbtirg. Lv Laurcii? Lv Mnrksdule Lv Gray Court Lv Owlnga Lv Fountain Inn Lv Sinipsonville Ar Oroonvlllo bktwrkn M'COItMIOK am) ANDKnsON. Lv Ale? ormick . Ar Anderson . Lv Anderson Ar McCormlek f>7 pm; ? ?.'t pm 04 am <i no pm 82 ami <l I? pm ?fj all) 8 21 piu ?? [?in I 7 00 jilli ?2 in pnilfA nu am ?1 f>;"> pm !i na am j 10 20 am 4 A0 pm 12 4A pin| 8 10 pm ?Daily. t Except Sunday. Closeconnootion viaG, 0. ?v N. to und ; from Atlanta. A through OOaoll is run between (lroan? vilie and t barlestoii. leaving Cli irlcston at , 7.20 a. in., Arriving ?t Greenville oi <i <n> p. in Leave Greenville a' 0 80 a m . and ar rive at Charleston 8 p in. For rates or information apply to any ngent of the company, or to ?V.J. C It A IG, tien. I'ano. Agen?. AilgllHla. (ia. R. L. TODD, Trav, I'h?<k. Aw-tH Room No. J04, Dyer lltilldhiir. SOUTH CAROLINA RAILWAY Leave Charleston . 7 80 am Arrive Columbia . U IAhiii l^iftve t hnrlcston . ."> 00 pin Arrive Columbia Leave < oluinbia Arrlvo ('hnrlcston Loavo Columbia Arrive Cbarloatoti fl 10 pill ? 80 am ti 80 nn< i 20 pm s i,'? pm Through trains between Charleston and AsbevillQ ami through service hetwoen Charleston and SVnlnnlhi, eon oetlng at Helton forQrconville, Quick time between the mountains add neu snore. For rates und folders api lv to E. P, WA1UN?. <). 1*. A . i hurlcstou,8, c. -THE FR ESI 1 EST Groceries, Fruits, Canned Goods, and CONFECTOINS ?< AT ^ JKennedy Br?sI bbbbbbrbbsi iaa?aan?RKKr;??RH We have a supply ;>l SEED RYE. You had belter purchase before it is all disposed of at KENNEDY'S. NEXT DOOR TO THE POST OFFICE. Is Life Worth Liv.ngV Thai Depends on THE LIVEJR. For more ills icsult fron, an (Jn healthy Livei than any other cause. When von arc Bilious TAKE LIVER-AID. When you are Constipated TAKE LIVER AID. \V hen von lee! 1 hazy TAKE LIVER-AID. When von have Dyspepsia TAKE LIVER-A ID. When you have no Appelitc PAKE LIVER AID. When your Skin is Sallow TAKE LIVER-AID. When you arc Onl <>t Sorts TAKE LIVER-AID. No Fain?No Cnii'Ks in Livku Ain. A ^riidualed medicine ^ia.--> j^oes free with each I >'t lie. LI VIOK-AII) : o.sl . w ei-, A ml !: ( ;; res Y ? u All of the above Manufactured by - i i i i: HuWAHD & W1LLKT DRUG COMPANY, AUGUSTA, OA Ami Hold i,y H. MARTIN and 15. F. POSEY, Agents. LAUREN'S, S. C. ^SPECIALISTS-**^. (Regular Graduates.) Air Um leading and most auccctrful gpectatOt?. and ?rin biv<! you briu. VouiiKnii.l iiild dli: atfod men. Remarkable, re Fiias Inn >: fallow ed our II? atmonb .Many i. . ., of varied niiil iuci oss fill - . t. ... . Ii, tnO UBii uf ciira Uvo method*, (hat wo ntone own .ui4 control for nil .-. ??. onli ihof men who J have IVOafc, undo "?fcvelone? or <iu cuntod oiyii.'K, or ?Who ore Buffcrln* Jfrum error* or Ivnulh Ami ?* (or who are ne rvous fand ImpotPnt, }!>.<? acorn <>f their (yfi Hows iin 'I ilia contempt of their 1. !? ndl and com panion*. Ii'U'Ih us locnni'BiiIri i ?II patient'. If (hey can possibly br restored, our own eicluilve treutoisin* will (tflTord a eure. WOMr?l Don't ymi war.f to k*"' cored of that wfalincu with a tri 'atmt nt ihnt yon mil u*0 at honm without Instrument'i1 (Mir wonderful treat ment bM cured oilltil I. Why" not you? Try It. CATA1IH1, ?' I (ilauaaca of thu Skin. Illood. Heart, l.l. it :\nd Ktdm > ft YWflT.IM -Tho moil rupM. ? .t" nnd effective reinrily. A complete Cur? Guarnnteetl? ?HIV ni*?r..\Brr-t of na kinds cnreii where Biauy u.iii;.* bavo railed. rvv iTt'?.i i. dtacii.mors promptly eared In a few dayc Vulefc, auro and nufu. i iiia Includes i.r and OoDoi Im i. TRUTH AN!) FACTS, Wo have cured CAMI of Chronic ni'Oftso? that havo tailed to h t or.' I nt tho hands of othur special tits and moillcol Institutes. ?asm neu OlIIKit that thero Is hopn for You C?n?uii.iher, as you may wasto vuiuaiiio time. Obtain out treatment at onco, Hewnre of frro and i-hoap treatments. We R|t8 (hebest and most scientific treaunoni nt moderate) pr lee* nt! 'vm< r-n hfl done for nafo ami alc<lirul treatment, mrii cormi.'itutioit ut tnooiiKoor by mall, thorough cxrmliiotloii and careful dUfp no^H. A home ircatment on he ?Iven In nmajority ftf cases, scii for Symptom Manic No. i for Mw So.3for Womuir, Ho. ;lf. i t-';lu Diseases. Ailcnrra ipondei,ee intv/cn-d promptly, rtusinca* strictly cony Idcntlal. I.ntlro treatment font freo from oi..e, >* lion. Kei'cr lootir p .ti. ou, beulet and business meiw Au?rct i or coll on \)R. HATHAWAY & Ca. *- i-a South llroud &:rect. ATLANTA,?*.,