The Holly chieftain., November 05, 1897, Image 3

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{Cayyrigat. 1835, by J. B Lippincost Conpany.) l
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THE BEGINNING OF THINGS. '
In the days before the new eru, Alla- |
coochee was a dead-alive viliage with a
single street climbing from the ferry
landing on the river bank up to the
weather-beaten courthouse on the first
slope of John's mountain. Ifitdiffered
from other inland county seats in
northern Alabama it was on the side
of drowsiness and shabby inconse
quence. Its reason for existence was
purely geographical; the Chiwassce
valley divides Chilmath county into
halves, and the ferry was a point ac
cessible to the farmers in the valley
and to the dwellers on Jubal moun
tain on the east and John’s mountain
on the west. In the sprinkling of
weather-worn buildings strewn upon
the hillside. facing the river, but. threo |
were relatively notable. One was the |
courthouse, wooden, two-storied, with
a classic porch out of which tumbled
a cataract of steps flowing down to the
head of the street. Another was Cat
ron’s store, low and windowless in the
rear and self-assertive and pretentious
in front, with a high forehead ot
weather-boarding rising above the
wooden awning over the sidewalk.
‘The third was the Mountain house, just
across the street from Catron’s. It had
been a planter’s mansion in the days of
masters and slaves, and in falling from
its better estate the square brick house
had brought down some reminders of
ancient stateliness and solidity. There
was a suggestion of comfort in its deep
verandas, roomy hallways and wide
firepiaces, but the hint was lost in the
general aspect of decay and neglect,
and the Mountain house, together with
everything else in the village, pointed
toward a gradual and painless relapse
into a condition of moribund disuss.
In the nature of things, the old Alla
coochee saw few visitors. It was 20
miles down the vallecy to Prattville,
the nearest railway town. and Abel
French's buckboard was the only means
of communication. French drove down
twice a week for the mail, but he sel
dom brought back a passenger, and,
save on “First Mondays” and other
vourt days., the Mountain house was
usually without guests. One pleasant
cvening in February, howerer, French
broke the record. He brought two
strangers up with him from Prattville,
and there was a consequent gtir of spec
ulative curiosity among the loungers
whose rallying point was the shelter
of Catron’s awning. French, being
promptly interrogated, confessed reluc
tantly that he had been unable to find
out his passengers' business: and, hav
ing run a 20-mile gauntlet with the in-'
quisitive mail carrier, the strangers
had no trouble in evading the less skill
ful approaches of the townsfolk. For
two weeks they spent their days driv
ing up and down the valley, and their
evenings sitting upon the veranda of
the Mountain house.asking questions of
everyone and contriving to dodge all in
quiries aimed at the object of their visit.
One cvening when the sun had gone
down behind John’s mountain the new
comers took their accustomed places
on the veranda, drawing their chairs
together and lighting their after-sup
per cigars in full view of the open-air
court in session under Catron’s awn
ing. Oneof them was a heavy-set man,
with a smooth-shaven face, hard but
unreadable. He had the mannerism of
quiet aggressiveness which belongs to
physical superiority, but the bully in
him was a force rather than an expres
sion. Certain little idiosyncrasies, such
as the habit of slipping his hands into
his pockets and rocking his chair gen
tly on two legs as he talked. suggested
the lawyer cross-examining a witness,
and the hint pointed truthfully to the
gentleman's profession. Among his
legal associates in New York, Lawyer
Sharpless was respected as an abie at
torney and one whose loyalty to his
clients was unever hampered by incon
venient questions of conscience. His
companion was a wiry little man whose
clothes were shabby with the wear of
activity. He talked volubly, punctuat
ing his speech with a lean finger laid
in the palm of the opposite hand, and
throwing one leg over the arm of hLis
chair us he warmed to his subject. His
calling was not 80 obvious, but that
Was because he had followed 20 many
occupations that none of them had left
its impress upon him. A pettifogging
lawyer, a land agent for a railway com
pany, a broker in real estate, and lat
terly a professional boomer, Mr, Jenkins
Fench was o man of many parts, well
qualified to bear his share in the enter
prise in which he was at present as
sociated with the New York lawyer. |
Sharpless enjoyed' the first inch of
his cigar in silence before he nodded to
the group acroes the street. *“The
guessers are hard at it again over there;
you don't suppose they have heard any
thing, do you?”
“Hardly,” replied Fench; “there
basun't been avything they could get
hold of, yet.” #
“*No—not unless Cutes has been talk
ing.”
*He hasn’t anything to ‘talk about.
All be knows is that we want to buy
his land, nod that provespothing.” =
“Perhaps not, to these people,” re
jolned the lawyer, tipping his chair to
the cross-examination angle, “Whatdo
they say about the engineer’s camp up
~on the Little Chiwassee?” -
Fench chuckled. “They think it's an |
exploring party for a new railroad; even
Cates don't suspect that the men have
anything to do withus.” ¥
{4 '“lt's been pretty carefully worked,
' ‘no far, Portheroe’s o shasp fellow, and |.
he knows how to Lkeep his mouth shut.
He woa the best mas you could gggvg :
i mto handle the upl’i‘r&%flfly-
Where did you run across him?" |
“ugut e foing & |
town for a Nebrasks syndicate. He |
. waa ths ongineer for the rullmed com- |
pasyiend) woucd him: Did[abow yon
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FRANCIS LYNDE.
| waasee is full of iron, and tnere’s plénty |
|of coal in this one"—indicating the
{ shadowy bulk of John's mountain ris
ing like & black clowd-bank above the |
roof of the courthouse.
“Well, 1 guess that settles it. We'll
have to have Cates® land before we make
another move: Have you fixed up your
map?”
“Did that to-day; the town-site will
take in the strip between the river and
the mountain, running down this way
as far as we can get options. Cates’
farm covers the best part of the tract
np there at the mouth of the Little
Chiwassee, and 1 suppose we'd better
buy that outright. Does he still want
two thousand for §t?" %
“He did yesterday, but I think I've
scraped together a few details that’ll
help him change his mind. You know
‘everything has a history, if you can
only get at the facts.”
“Of course. What did you find out 2"
*'l got the whole story of the property.
Tt seems that the place used to belong
to an old fellow by the name of Kil
grow, who lived on the mountain and
made moonshine whisky or apple bran
dy, or something in that line, that got
him into trouble with the revenuc peo
ple. Cates, who was 4 ‘fence’ for the
moonshiners, held the land as a tenant
under Kilgrow for some years, and
never claimed it until after the revenue
oftficers had run Kilgrow out of the
country. That was six years ago, and
after the old mountaineer was well out
of the way, Cates gave it out that the
land was his—that he bought it some
time before the raid. Noboady secms to
have questioned his title, though there
i no record of any transfer from Kil
grow.”
“Then Kilgrow is probably the right
ful owmner now 2"
“He would be if he were alive; but he
died in Texa¥*three ycars ago, and, so
far as I can find out, there are no heirs
in sight.”
*oOh, then it don't make so much dif- i
{ ference, after all,” said Fench.' |
I *No, except that it gives us a good |
leverage on Cates. It leavesagapin the
ltitlc; but I guess we can doctor that
up.”
"'\'es, easy enough. We'll go and sec
Cates in the morning, if you're ready.”
Lawyer Sharpless had not overesti
mated the value of his discoveries.
When the leverage wasapplied to James
Cates on the following day, the farmer
promptly produced a witness who
| cloined to have been present when the
| purchase was made, and who confirmed
the rumor of Kilgrow’s death by as
| serting that he had helped bury the old
.| mountaineer three years before on the
‘| Texan fronticr. Sharpless ignored the
| witness, and pointed obstinately to the
' foulty record, insisting that Cates
| shouid produce the original dced. I'he’
| farmer declared at first that the docu
| ment was among his papers, and then
| thut it had been lost. Pushed to the
‘| wall, he wavered, cut his price in half,
| and disappeared from the valley as soon
| as the transfer was mude to the new
' | owners.
; If Sharpless doubted the assevera
| tions of- Cates and his opportune wit
| ness, he made no sign; nor was he dis
-1 turbed by the significant fact that the
‘| witness vanished with Cates. The at
| torney had assured himsclf beforehand
| tpon two points—the certitude of Kil
.| grow’s title to the land, and the ab
'| sence of heirs who might become
| troublesome future-eclaimants, With
| these two premises in reserve, he be
| lieved that the title acquired from
| Cates could be made as good as valid.
) After the purchase of the Cates farm,
| Sharpless and Fench spread a report
that they were about to try an experi
| ment in tobacco raisingon a large sczle;
| nnd with this ostensible object in view
| they ‘proceeded to secure options upon
‘|'other tracts in the valley. Since they
offered good prices for poor land, there
was little haggling: and in a few days
the required acreage was under con
trol. This was the first move in the
complicated game of | evolution, and
swwlien it was made the promoters cele
brated their success with a fresh box ‘
of cigars and a bottleof rather sickish
native wine in their room at the Moun
toin house.
“We're in great luck, so far,” said
Sharpless, examining:the map spread
out on the table between them. *‘You'd
bettér write them to go ahead in New
York with their articles of incorpora
tion. 1 wonder if Birkmore is ready to
begin on the railroad extension ?”
“He ought to be; hewastosend Ray
mond up to let us know when the
strings were ready to pull.” ¢
The anawer t the question was com
-1 Ingup the stairs while Fench was speak
4ng, and presently entered the room in
the keeping of a man whose clothes
guve evidence of hard riding over mud
dy roads,
“Hello, Raymond,” said Fench; “we
were just talking about you. How's
everything down below ?”
“All right,” replied the newcomer.
“The material is all up, and Birkmore's
waiting. for the word to begin.” -
“That's the talk!” exclaimed the
manager. “Can you find your way back
to Prattville to-night ?” ¢
“Why, yes, I suppose so—if I have to.
I'm dog-tired, though.”
| “Well, time's precious; 1 guess you'd
better get a fresh horse and go. Tell
Birkmore not to loxe a minute,. Is he
fixed to work a night gang by electric
light?” ot g
“Yes." . / | /
" “Good enough! Tell him he can’t get
‘n locomotive into Allacoochee any too
quick to please us now, Hayve a drink,
and put some cigars in your pocket to
smoke on the way,” ..
" “When' the messenger left the room |
Sharpless leaned back ih his chair and |
Bek Mo hanas is his poskets) “The |
Jethro' dea) cleans it all up uup-t:? |
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“1 suppose we might as well fix that |
Dow &x sny time, Have mi:éi-fln* :
‘Q"r BLEEa o TR
. Jéoeh rimmaged fn his poekets for |
the pupar. “Wheron Cutas doed t 0
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“Here it is,” Sharpless said, handing
it across the table. *Better change the |
wording a little, so it won’t look sus
picious.”
“You let me alone for that.” !
Fench wrote rapidly for a few mo- |
ments, pausing when he came to the |
date. *“Make it about May 20, 1885." |
The lawyer madec a rapid calculation |
in dates. *“Yes, that'll do. As nearly |
as 1 can locate it, the raid on the moon- |
shiners was made in June or July of |
that year; it'll be safe enough to cail it |
the 20th of May.”
Fench went on writing, and presently
handed the two deeds to Sharpless.
“How will that do?” / w
“That’s about it,” replied the attor
ney. *“I wonder if the old moonshiner
would recognize his signature ?”
“T'd risk it. What are you going to
|4o about the notary’s acknowledg
ment 2"
“P'll fix that. I've been making my
self solid with an old fellow across the
street who calls himself a lawyer. He
doesn’t know enough about the law to
hurt him, but he iz a notary public.
He’ll do it—for a consideration—nnd he
won’t be too particular about the exact
date.”
“Is it safe to trust him?”
“I don’t mean to make the experi
ment; I shall simply tell him that Cates
has had this deed kicking about the
house all these years without having it
recorded.”
“Oh, that’s the scheme, is it?" said
Fench, ‘screwing up one eye until all
the craftiness in both seemed to peer
out of the other. “Give me that deed a
minute.” }
He went to the fircplace, and, taking a
pinch of soot, rubbed it into his hands
until they were black and grimy. Then
he folded and crumpled the deed until
it had the requisite appearance of age
and ill usage.
“You're an artist, Fench!” was the
lawyer's admiring comment when the
paper was handed back for inspection.
“Nobody will ever suspect now that it
isn't as old as it claims to be. Wonder
if I counld find old Bquire Pragmore to
night?” ]
“Perhaps,” said the manager, wash
ing the grime from his hands. *“While
you're hunting him I'll write to New
York.”
Sharpless came back in a few min
utes and threw the forged deed on the
table.
*“That's settled,” he said. “When it's
recorded we'll destroy it."
*“Did Pragmore object?” inquired
Fench, looking up from his letter.
“He balked a little at first, but I've
given him a lot of business in the last
| {wo wecks, and a S2O fee was too much
] for him.”
| A week lates Lawyer Sharpless called
‘ | at Judge Wilkinson's office in the court-
l Shorpiess threw the lerged deed oa the table.
house and asked for the Kilgrow-Cates
deed. He took the paper that was given
him and put it into his pocket without
examining it further than to glance at
the judge of probate’s certificate of rec
ord. Being by this time burdened with
many matters of greater importance, he
did not think of it again until evening,
when he took it out with some other
papers in the office of the Mountain
house. A cold rain had been falling
during the day and a wood fire was
blazing in the fireplace. Sharpless
singled the deed out of the bunch of
papers and thrust it between the logs,
ignoring the summons to supper until
ke hod seen the crisp cinders whirled
up the chimney in a winding sheet of
flame. Then he went to the dining-room
and took his seat opposite Fench at the
table reserved for their use.
One morning, not many weeks later,
Allacoochee the inert became a thing
of the past. A maoy-handed demon of
octivity had suddenly invaded the pence
ful valley, transforming it into a dusty
battlefield whercon labor pitted itsed
against chaos. Snorting locomotives
rumbled back and forth with trains of
building material. Shouting teamsters
cuided the plows whose furrows
marked the lines of new streets or
loosened the soil in ndvance of battal
jous of laborers establishing the grade.
Armies of workmen wrought miracles
of handicraft. turning unsightly heaps
of brick and stone and lumber into
stately buildings which seemed to
spring up out of the red soil as if by
magic. And into the midst of the clam
orous turmoil the daily passenger trains
soon began to pour their crowds of ad
venturers and investors to submerge
the single street of the old town and to
elbow and jostle the bewildered na
tives as they fought for accommoda
tions at the Mountain house or struz
gled for standing room around the tem
porary-rostrum from which Mr, Fench
dispensed bargains in real estate to the
highest bidder.
And so began the new cra in Alla
coochee. .
ITo n::on‘r'm!r:n,l
Author ana President.
All the testimony in regard. to Hayw
thorne is that he was not only shy, but
very reserved. Frank Preston Stearns
says thnt on the occasion of Haw
thorne’s last visit to the Tules of Shoats.
in company with bis friend, ex-Presi
dent Pierce, there was also a party ol
New Hampshire business men who
iried to make his sequaintance,” but
without much success. Their after com
ents were very amusing. “Nathanicl
Hawthorneisaveryreserved man,” safd
ope. “There’s }'ranklin Plerce, he's
‘been president of the United Btates, yet
any one.could go up and speak to him,
We found Hnwthorne very different.”
This conversation was repeated to Haw:
thoine's ‘acquaintances at’the Bhonla,
and the poet Whittler wusamong those
who laughed henrtily. “Réserved fsin
word for [t.” sald Mrs Thaster; and:
Whitsler “added, 'ln wordy ‘Which. pot]
only seempd-te describe-the euse; but
were in_ tHemselves ep jmatic; |
“Hawthorne was s strange.p wd
shmaRRR
hi% p Sever seemed 16 be o |
ing anyfhing, 46 yet b never fkad.w
| be disturbed jas it!”—Youth's Com- |
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HERO'S UNMARKED GRAVE
No Monument on theSpet Where John
C. Fremont's Bedy Iy Buried. :
Of all the candidates of the great pars
sies for the presidency of the United
States who have died, the only grave
unmarked by monument or headstone
s that of Gen. John C, Fremont. On ;
1 broad plateau in Rockland cemetery,
on the Hudson, direetly overlooking the :
tamous Tappun Zee, his body is buried, |,
and while there are hundreds of monu- | |
Tents within a stone's throw, there is |/
aothing but the records of the ceme- |
:ery to show the location of his grave. |
When Gen. Fremont died, about seven | !
years ago, his body was placed in there- |
seiving vault in Rockland cemetery, and |,
1 movement was started‘to rafse funds
for a monument. For some reason it |
lailed. and his body remained in the|,
rault five years. About two years ago |,
it was removed, and, with imposing |
ceremonies, buried where it now lies. |’
Many distinguished persons were pres- |
ent, and it was definitely decided then |
io erect a monument, :
Designs were submitted by various |’
artists, and the one finally selected was |,
u statue of Gen. Fremont, of heroic size, |
representing him dressed in the cos- {
tume of a scout, and standing upon a |
huge rock. The cost was to be SIO,OOO. |
Mrs. Fremont, the widow, approved of |
the design, but practically forbade any |
efforts at raising the money by popular |,
rontributions. Bhe deplored the pub-|
licity that would necessarily tollow., An
attempt was made to raise the money |
hy private subscriptions, but delays fol
lowed, and the monument is no nearer
& reality now than ever. j
Gen. Fremont died very poor. The
women of the west iaised enough money
to buy a comfortable home for Mrs.
Fremont in Los Angeles, Cal., where she |
uow lives. ‘Although more than 70 years
vld, she is diligently prosecuting what
she terms her life’s work, This is a
suit for many thousand dollars against
the government. |
Gen. Fremont owned a tract of land
near San Francisco of about 40 acres.
The government desired the ground for |
military purposes, but Gen. Fremont
woud not accept the price it offered.|
Finally the government took possession
of the land and Gen. Fremont took the
matter to thecourtof claims. The mat
ter was allowed to languish until a'short
time before the general's death Then
the government declined to pay for the |
land ‘and put in the defense that the
¢laim was outlawed. :
The expectation of a favoruble settle
ment of this suit has caused Mrs. Fre
mont to object to any efforts to erect a
monument to her husband by popular
subscription. In the last letter received
by her friends here upon this subject,
Mrs. Fremont said:
*“1 feel that it is my duty to erect the
monument to the memory of my dear
husband. The suit which [ have pushed
o diligently must with all justice be
decided in my favor. Ifitis not | may
rclinquish the task of erecting the mon:
ument to others.”—N, Y, Herald.
WHY SUNDAY IS CHOSEN.
Most Royal Assassinations Have Oc
curred on the Sabbath,
Sunday seems to be a favorite day for
political assassinations of Europe. The
death of Canovas on this day recalls the
long list of rtilers who have either met
death or but narrowly elc:tp{g it on the
Sabbath at the bands of anarchists,com
inunists or nihilists. The fact that in
the old world Sunday is_the great fes
tival day, when the rulers go around
and give their subjects un opportunity
to look upon gnd get near them, is per
haps a sufficient explanation.
Alexander IL, the Russian czar, was
returning to his palace on the after
noon of Sunday, March 13, 1881, when
a dynamite bomb was thrown at his
carriage. The carriage was blown to
pieces and Alexander died within a few
bours. ‘
President Carnot, of France, was at
Lyons, attending an industrial and art
cxhibition on Sunday, June 24. 1894,
That: night as he drove to a theater.
Sesare Giovanni Sarilo, a young Italian
anarchist, sprang upon the step of the
president’s carriage and plungeda knife
into his abdomen. Carnot died within
a few hours,
President Faure narrowly escaped
death on Sunday, June 13 last. He was
driving ou the Bois de Boulogne to wit
uess the Grand Prix at the Longchamps
race course, when a bomb was exploded
uear his carringe. It was of faulty con:
struction and hurt no one.
Two attempts have been made on the
life of King Humbert of Italy on Sun
day. March 17, 1878, Giovanni Pasa
nante climbed into the king's carriage
in the streets of Naples and stabbed him
in the thigh with a sword. The King
fought back, cut his assuilant on the
arm and held him at bay nntil the po
lice took charge of him. On Sunday.
March 26, 1893, a religious fanatic named
Beradi attacked King Humbert in the
sireets of Rome, but was captured be:
fore he did any harm.
William L of Germany, grandfather
of the present empéror. was twice at
tucked by would-be assnssins on Sun.
day. On July 14, 1861, Oscar Becker
tried to shoot him. and on June 2, 1878.
Dr. Nobling repeated the attempt.
Nobling blew out his own brains when
gr saw that he had failed.—Washingtoy
Star.
Cotd-Blosdes Plann.
The Esquimaux dread the winter, ana
take early precautions to provide
against famine. As the season ap
proaches the great herds of reindeer
migrate sonthward and the walrus or
the seal are all' that remain for food.
When an in-wind is blowing, the walrug
iz easily.found on the outer edge of the
ice packs. When it is blowing off the
share, however, the ice pucks sail out to
sea with the walrusesonthem. The na
tives then class their numbers in a list
from the strongest to the weakest. The
| food that is in store is divided up, the
weakest having the smallest quantity,
the strongest the largest. Thus the
mightiest hunters bhave strength to pro
vide for the others. It isa cruel system.
but nevertheless a necessary one. If al)
were weak all would die; if some are
atrong, they will save many 6t the weak
~~Pearson’s Weekly. ooy
One Way of G ettlas It.
Proprietor—Go over Lo Blake, the tan. |
aer, and see if you can collect that bill.
Collector—\What will Ido if he doesn’s l
{pay? 3 A
*““Take it out of his hide.”—N. Y, Jour.
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Willlam Stimpson Stricken with
Paralysis of His Lawer Limbs '
=Caused by Overwork, ‘
i From the New Era, Greensburg, Ind. |
Many our: readers Inay I ber an
{tem in (‘l’:lh ‘rpu‘n Year ago qufil which 1
stated that Mr. William Stumpson, a well-to- | !
do fermer, living near R -lw ‘
been stricken \\?ith paral of the er |
limbs, and his recovery was doubtful. P
The case which was an unuisually severe |
and complicated olc has at last been entirely |
m&?h the utmost surprise avd joy of Mr. |,
Bt?poqund his . T
Mr. Stimpeon ‘was bd to relate to a |
reporter the particulars regarding his case, | .
and his subsequent B ‘
“A year age last fall,” bigan My, Stim
u;n,‘ldldnlnrfilmoun!olmk. My ||
hired help left me in the middle of eonp,fl’to ,
ting and 1 finished the fall work myoefl ;
doing an unysual large amount of work. 1]
put :f-o-'% hun?r.id shocks of fodder, |
and husked all my corn. To accom- |,
plish this I had to work early and Jate. :
“About the first of December, as I was |
Fthn. my fall work about dnu? 1 suf-|.
ered a stroke of paralysis, which the r‘hyn
cian said was brought on by excessive labor.
left limb was entirely helpless and my |
ight limb was fast becoming so. My shy- '
sician became uneasy, and after attending |
npon me for a week or 80, he bronsht ? a8
box of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale|
People, saying that he believed they would
do me more good than anything which he
knew of, as he had ured them with ‘:ut ‘
success in a cuse very similar to mine where
all other remedies liad fajled. The case in
g\inlel:tion was that of L. Phillipe, of Peters
“About the fimlbernu ing the second
box of these pills a ecideino!um S WAS
noticed, and when I had taken two more |
boxes we discovered that I was actually fiv
ting well. You can probably: imnh(ine what
a relief and feeling of gladness this was to
me, after being confined to my bed for
nearly two months. Well, T kept on tak
ing the pills -cco;dingow directions, until I
had (i‘omumed nine boxes of them, which
comlp etely oured me.
.“I'am sound and well to-day, with not s
n&n of the retnrmn?a affliction and can
affirm that- Dr. Willlams’ Pink Pills for
Pale People did me a wonderful good and
probahlly.n\'ed me from the grave.
To al { all doubt as to tfi: truth of his
statement, Mr. Stimpson made out the fol
lowing sworn affidavit:
Ruesy, Isn., Feb. 2, 1807,
“This is_to certify that I do hereby swear
that the fore.oinf statement is ahsolutely
true. WILLIAM STIMPSON.”
CoUNTY OF BARTHOLOMEW, |
STATE OF INDIANA, {BB,
Sworn to and subscribed hefore me, a Jus
tice of the Peace, in and for said county in
said Rtate. ABNER NORMAN. ‘
Justice of the Peace.
The New Era was also informed that Mrs.
Charles Williams, of the same neighbor
hood, had been cured of rheumatism, and
Henry Johnson, of Hartsville, who was
troubled with neuralgia, was also cured by
Dr. Williame’ Pink Pills. -It seems that
this_ remedy is in great demand in that
neighborhood.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
contain, in a condensed fon?. all the cle
menta necessary to give new life and rich
ness to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are algo a specific for troubles
peculiar to females, such as suppressions,
irregularities and zll forms of weakness.
They build ||s) the hlood, and restore the
clow of health to pale and sallow cheeks.
fn men they effect a radical cure in all cases
arising from mental worry, overwork or ex
cesses of whatever nature. These pills are
sold in boxes (never in loose hul{") at 50
cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may
be had of all drnm;istn or direct by mail
from Dr. Willinms’ Medicine Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. .
A Ilome-Grown Experlenve.
A man weut into an icehouse to coo! off,
An abrupt and impetuous hired man closed
and locked the door and went away. The
next day was Nundni' and the hired man did
not come back. While the mau who yearned
to cool off waited for the return of the hired
{man his object was accomplished in a very
thoro‘l‘:fh manner, He cooled off. . The
mufiled door gave back but echoes to his
blows, and his voice could find no ?‘leuce to
osca) mrc and sound the alarm.. When he grew
ti of wulkmo"and uwmgmlz his armsx to
keep warm the chunks of ice that were piled
around him did not offer a tempting bed.
Hunger gnawed at_his vitals and refused to
be satisfied with diet of raw air. Darkuess
settled down like a six months’ Arctic night,
and the only sound which broke the pro
found stillness was the man who wanted to |
cool off trying to swear. The hired man
nrened the door on Monday morning, and
theman who wanted to cool off crawled out
more dead than alive. When his tongue had
thawed out he began to abuse the hired !
man. “Fooll” retorted the hired man.
*Fool, you are a Jucky dog and do not know
it. Don’t waste time in nlmningo;ne. our
benefactor, but go and write a book o{ im
pressions on Alakka.”” Then the man who
wanted to cool off saw that his fortune was
made.—Chicago Record,
Of the Modern Duel.
First Second—l think the swords have
ml;e‘fl long enough in the antiseptic com
und.
poSecnnd Second—T think so. Did you scat
ter the chloride of lime under the trees?
“Yes, and I burned sulpbur in. the
branches.” !
“Good. How about the bushes?”
“They have been sprayed with that No. 1
deodorizer. Did you sprinkle the lawn
“Yes. I'used the camphorated wash.””
“Excellent. Shall we start the rotary at
mospheric purifier?”
“P(hink %0. One moment—did you kindle
the fire under the medicated bath ¢
“I did. And T also put the hot water bot
tles on the portable furnace and set the
mustard ?lnner where it would warm.”
| “Then I think we are all ready.” :
“I think so. Messieurs, we are quite
| ready.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
2 As To His Photograph.
Cholly—l don’t think the photographer
| uught me expwession, do you? I
She—l don’t see any.—Puck.
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A Rudyard Kipling,
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Eaglish I» Now Used, . .
A genfleman who lwlmfid*
denc{cnmn Abe part of the e 4
of late 1o have their menn entirely in Kng:
lish, asked one of them what btuu‘htm |
the change from the old way, when
was the mhr form' for. nt?ry‘ menn in
first-clams establishments. He maid; =
“A change of time and a change of taste.
g«n s & time wb?& n-t?.mt;teodd
rery | Ices. WaS AR FOor L 4
and'p'eopln di&’:'c-re mwch what they ]
80 that the service -m?;w he very bes!
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gentle m. Few could resd Fy .
and when ordered pommes de terie
g were the impression m were
ting & French dish when, in_ .m
mre gemug .?hh everyday murphies
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time 1 hdncoupleofdvmml--t .
table and at the close of the or
dered cafe au lait, just becauee it twp
the close of the menu. When they were
served with coffee and cream they
.nrx:l'led, and the waiter sid the '-'fi
to beau: ‘Well, I know enough
now to knowtlu_thlawhg:h # It
won't take me [onqhh learn h, Willie,
if you keep coming here.’ s
“Another thing. In the old days the
French wasa le deception. A man whe
ordered pommes de terre u;', ‘was willing
my a 3"‘"" for them;, but he would have
it muck for putatoes: Pecpie ar aling
m! or . are eaf
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es don g na is
ting more nnr more to haye pride in Amer
ica and all things that are American.”—Cin
cinnati Commercial Telegraph. ;
The girl in love who bas a rival should
keep nfeyo on her—and if the rival is s
{'Sdow keep both eyes on her.—Chicago
ews.
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