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Not His Fish That Was Spoiled.

lie dlned wherever. meaitime
found him and in consequence in
many different restaurants. It had
become habit to notice the dish
which most of the other diners had
and to order it.. In this particular
restaurant a fish dinner seemed to
be the proper thing. An old man
at the next table was particularly
enjoying his fish. Presently the
waiter brought the stranger his por-
tion. He looked askance, shifted
freely and remarked to the waiter:
81 say, this fish does not seem to
be quite fresh"
"Oh, yes, sir; yours is all right"
said the waiter. cts the other old
gents what's off color" And he
motioned with his thumb to the
1avenous II one near by.-New York
Tribune.
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When Roosevelt was Challenged.

The President of the United States
might once have made his appearance
on the field Of honor" So, at least,
one Of the men who knew him when
he was pale, delicate youth in the
West has just been telling in some
carly recollections Of Mr.. Roosevelt.
A fre-eating foreign marquis, who
owned land on both sides of the
Roosevelt ranch, was offended at GER
tain alleged tresspassings on his land,
and threatened to kill young Roose-
velt on sight. Roosevelt made inoui-
ries OF the overseer as to when the
killing was to begin, and then came
letter from the marquis declaring that
between gentlemen such differences
could be settled in only one way"
Mr.. Roosevelt went to one of his men
and said, II don't want to disgrace
my family by fighting duel, but 1
won't be bullied. Now, as I am the
challenged party, have the privilege
of naming weapons. I am no swords
man, and pistols are too uncertain, so
will meet him with Winchester rifles
at 10 PAGES; both to FIRE until one
drops" The result was denial on
the part Of the marquis that he intend
ed to challenge Mr.. Roosevelt. and a
statement that he thought their differ.
ences could be settled without any
trouble.-London Chronicle.
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Encouraged.

ss "Good morning., spoke5the man in
The feded suit Of black, setting down
his valise and opening it. "I'ye got
something here that every man that
sha7es ought to have
81 don't shave myself" scowlei
the busy man at the desk. "Good
morning"
Good morning. I said that when
I came in. It's just as good, though,
for man that don't shave himself.
In fact: you can nse i. eoT almost any
purpose. It's a"
ST don't need it. Good morning
Good morning. All you've got to
do is to spread the paste on the lather
or canvas, strop the supplement- back
wards and forwards, like this, and in
one minute you have a--''
"Can't you understand what I say
when I tell you I don't want it? Good
morning,
..Good morning. How do you know
you don't want it, if you've never
tried is2 Remember I guarantee
each and every box Of paste to do ex-
actly what I claim for il or money re-
funded, and you cant ask anything
fairer than
..T've told you three or four times I
didn't want it. Now will you get out
Of herel''
Certainly, .said the man in the
faded suit Of black, closing his valise
aud moving toward the door. "I
would have got out long ago. if you
hadn't kind o encouraged ne to keep
on talking. -
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Getting an Egg in China.

An English traveller who has visit
ed every nation in the world, is au.
thority for the statement that one
food is universal throughout all coun-
tries. s'There. is not part Of the
world he says, "where you cannot
get an egg" While iu Western
China, however, he at frat had some
difficulty in getting even eggs. The
natives could not not understand him
and refused to recognize the pictures
he drew as pictures Of eggs. "The
way got out Of the difficulty" he
adds, "was that / squatted down on
my. aaunches, tapped my wings and
cock-a-doodle.doo'd until the entire
nation grasped whstI wanted, and I
was simply provided with hundreds
Of eggs. = esss&
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How Long do Drunkards Livel

More interesting and remarkable.
perhaps, than any othes. disclosure
made BY Dr.. Dana are those relating
to the capacity Of men for drink and
the duration Of lie among habitnai
'nebriates. On the latter point the
conclusions reached arc that in serious
cases the duration Of life 10 about a.
teen years--the maximum being over 40
years. In general, it is said that hard
drinking can rarely be carried on for
more than twenty years, and it gener.
ally brings the victim to grief about
the age of 40. Referring to persons
who drink most heavily and frequent.
~, 1t is said that it takes ten or fifteen
years to bring on dementia or Insanity, !,
f1ring which time it may be estima-
Ted that each inebriate consumes
about 1000 gallons of intozicants. A
saan 90 years old confessed to DR..
Dana that lie had been drunk twice a
day for three years, making about
Z,0oO intoxications; another man of
4O had been drunk weekly for 20
years, and third, aged 43, had been
drunk thousand times in fifteen
years. Two thousand drunks is set
down as the maximum limit in any or
dinary inebriate experience. The fa.
vorite combination for hard drinkers
was found to be beer and whiskey, and
beer alone came we'll up in the scale.
Other beverages used by inebriates
included cocoa, wine, Jamaica ginger,
tincture of soap and well
known proprietary "bitters.'' A re-
markable absence Of alcoholism wa:
found in wine drinkers
Weekly.
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Arqument From Precedent.

Lincoln was once arguing case
against an opponent who tried to
convince the jury that precedent is
superior to law and that custom
makes things legal in all cases. Lin
coins reply, given in Miss Ida Tar
BELLS life of the. great war president,
was one of his many effective anal
ogies in the form Of a story.
Lincoln told the jury that he
would argue the case in the same
way as his opponent and began:
"Old Squire Bagly, from Menard,
came into my office one day and
said:
Lincoln, I want your advice as
lawyer. Has q man what's been
elected justice of the peace right
to issue marriage icensep
81 told him mot, whereupon the
old squire threw himself back in his
chair very Indignantly and said:s
Lincoln, I thought you was a
lawyer. Now, Bob Thomas and me
had bet on this thing, and we
agreed to let you decide; but if this
is your opinion I don't want it, for
| know a thunderin' sight better.
Eve been a squire eight years and
have done it all the time.'"
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Boys Fired on the Ghost"

Columbia, Mo-, Sept. 19.-As the
result Of an unsuccessful attempt to
scare two OF his comrades by playing
ghost, the 20-year-old son of William
Smith is lying in the hospital here
With bullet in his side and is in
e very critical condition.
Last Saturday night the two sons Of
James Garret and John Rice started
coon hunting and young Smith station
ed himself on the path wrapped in q
sheet. When the boys came along
they took shot at the fake ghost,
lodging q small target bullet in the
side.
The victim is now in Parker Hos.
pital awaiting an operation.
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Too Late.

A North Side boy, 5 years of age,
who had recently become tho brother
of another little boy, was sent to the
grocery the other day to get some loaf
sugar. By mistake the grocer gave
him granulated, and the boy was sent
back to have it changed.
Glow do you like your new broth
er?' asked the grocer, as he was
weighing the right kind of sugar.
"Oh, l don't like him very much, !"
the little fellow answered. "He cries
all the time"
"Why don't you change him, then,
as you do the sugar?''
"We can't change him now, cause
we've used him three days Chicago
Record Herald.
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Served Him Right.

I once heard Of a minister who
boasted from his pulpit that he was
able to preach from any text in the
Bible off-hand, without thought OF
other preparation, and as test of his
talent in extemporaneous speaking, he
invited his congregation the next
Sunday to hand in any text they
would like him to preach from, when
he would show them what he was
able to do. In order that he might
not be suspected Of surreptitious pre-
parasion, the passages Of scripture to
be written upon slips Of paper, sealed
up in envelopes and placed upon the
pulpit Immediately before the SER
vice.
The next Sunday morning the pas.
tor came bounding in, pride and conf
dence cleaning in his eyes, and found
number Of sealed envelopes lying
upon the big Bible. After the pre-
liminary service he called attention to
them, aud said he would preach from
the text contained in the envelope
that lay on the top of the pile. The
remainder he would reserve for future
Sabbaths. Tearing itopen he unfold
ed slip of paper and read the words,
once addressedto the prophet Balaam:
''Am I not thine ass2"-W. E. Cur.
tbs, in Chicago Record. Herald.
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AN ODD COLLECTION.
univ a Book Lover Buys Old Bibles
W. and Hymnhocss.

w and Hymnhocl<s.
aAll book collectors have their
xeaknesses," remarked a man who
Is often seen poring over ths side
ralk y counters of secondhand book
sbops. "and mine, I confess, runs in
tbe n line Of old Bibles and hymn
hooks. Not particularly because
thew are Bibles and hymnbooks, but
because I simply can't stand it to
see such books tossed about as
dustv, almost worthless secondhand
Goods. Except in the case of rare
g cid Bibles or quite ancient hymn
hooks, such books cost but trife.
Religious books, as a rule, are al
most unstable in secondhand shops,
and I buy a great many; only, how
ever. such as contain family names
and inscriptions of pathetic charac-
"Nly first purchase of the kind
was an Episcopal prayer book, bat
tered and torn, with the name of an
old III friend Of mine in gilt on the
cover. 1t gave me shock to find
Il on a secondhand counter, so I
Maid the required dime and carried
if home. The man is dead, and his
children are living in other cit; IS,
we'll to do. I have no idea how,his
PRAYER book became public property.
People are queer. Isoffered it to q
remote relative Of the former own
or, but she said she didn't care about
it. Since then I have bought in
other old family Bibles and hymn
books which belonged to people I
had known or which contain inter-
csting written matter. 1t is pitiful
to see Bible inscribed, 'To my dear
son Henry, from his devoted moth
er,' or, elizabeth, from a loving fa-
ther,' or, Little Williams birthday
Gift to Uncle William Il
"When these books come into my
hands, I erase or tear out the in
scriptions, and if my shelf cf old
Bibles and hymnbooks ever gets
started out again as religious junk
it will all be anonymous and want
ing in that distressing quality which
has made me perhaps absurdly SEN
timental over il" = Detroit Free
Press.
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. There is a point near the famous


- There Is point near the famous
Stony Cave, in the Catskill Noun
tains, where ice may be found on any
day in the year. This locality is
known as the Notch, and is walled on
ell sides by steep mountains, some Of
whish are more than 5000 feet high.
Sunday School Teacher-'..What
do you suppose Jonah thought when
he found himself inside the whale2"
L:stle oEdgar-ssGuess he thought
he'd been asleep in folding bed aud
1t closed up Il
The eman who doesn't secure the
services Of the great teacher, expert
ense, may live TO q green old age.
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Nose Rebuilt with Paraffine.

Surgery has made such rapid strides
within the last decade that it is i'm
possible to predict where it's limi.
lies, as was again illustrated at tho
city hospital yesterday. In a few
days, when che friends of Maud Fra
ger visit her again they will scarcely
recognize her IN the comely girl artis-
tically rejuvenated by the surgeons
skill.
Maud Frazer was pretty girl, but
for one feature. and that was her nose.
When admitted just week ago from
her home at 1855 Linn street that
prominent adjunct to pretty face
was all awry. In early infancy she
became afflicted with catsrrh, which
in its intensity caused the nasal bones
to decay, and as the necrosis develop
ed they had to be removed. Strange
to say, the outer skin was never af-
fected, but as the mainstay-the
bridge and cartilage away the
nose finally collapsed like balloon
from which the air was exhausted.
So, little support did it have that at
length it only became an appendage
that would flop from side to side as
she turned her head. It was for the
correction of this unsightly defect
that she entered the hospital, willing
to undergo any form of torture in it's
repair.
When the nose had been eaten away
by malignant disease, such as can
Ger, surgeons long ago have found
remedy in skin grating. In Miss
Frazer's case, however, it was neoes-
ssTy 90 blow il up, as it were, and to
restore it to it's natural contour. A
practical knowledge, rather than sur
gichl skill was here necessary to de-
wise the means and the stuff physician
in charge of the case has both. He
decided to resort to par Gin, the same
article from which candles are made.
Only in this case the useful product
was sterilized and purified that it
might carry no disease germs with it.
After it had undergone this process it
was reduced to a semi-liquid form,
and kept so over regulated lamp.
When all was ready for the operation
the girls face was also carefully ster-
ilized, and then an antitoxin syringe
was brought into requisition. Filled
with parafin, the needle of the syr-
inge was then inserted under the skin
just where the eyebrows divide, the
parafin slowly injected between the
skin and tissue. Slowly the bulbous
nose began to form into its former
contour, and after the third injection
it looked like well-developed nose,
aquiline, and without its former de-.
fects. With his other hand the sur
geon kneaded and shaped it until its
form was perfect and the operation
was completed. In less than "a hours
the parafine will have hardened to the
consistency Of the cartilage chat occu-
pied the space before, and to ell in
tents and purposes Miss Frazer will
have shapely nose for the rest of her
days.-Cincinuati Enquirer.-
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Roberts
Chill Tonic

Enters the blood, drives out the yellow
poison and stops the trouble at once.
1t not only prevents but completely
cures chills, fevers, night sweats and
malaria. The manufacturers know
all about this yellow poison, aud have
perfected Roberts Tonic to drive it
out, nourish your system. restore appe.
tite purify the blood. It has cured
thousands Of cases of chills, fevers and
malaria. 1t will cure you or your
money back. This is fair. Try it.
Price, 25c.
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A Devoted Couple.

Mrs. Hartt--Yes, I have no doubt
there are unhappy marriages, but
really l cannot understand how they
are possible. Now, there's George
and l. We are so devoted. He says
a. ne could not exist without me, and
I'm sure [ live only for him.
Mrs. GreeneYo ou really are to
., De congratulated, both Of you. By
Inc way, how long have yon been
Mrs. HarttJust week day aft
er tomorrow.Boston Transcript.
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Judge Of Probate's Sale.
Sept 8, 1902

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF ANDERSON.
III the Court of Common IYcas.
Jno. c. Watkins, as Administrators Of the
Estate Of William Jenkins, deceased,
Plaintiff, against Kittie Jenkins, Sam.
Jenkins and others, Defendants.
In obedience to the order OF sale grant
ed herein will sell in front Of the Court
House In the. City Of Anderson, y. c.,
during the usual hours of sales, on Sales
day In October next, the Real Estate as
described as follows, to wit:
Al! that Tract or parcel Of Land, situate
In Anderson County, State aforesaid,
containing eiRhty-two (S2) acres. more or
less. adjoining lands OF w. d. Garrison,
s. l.. Eskew and Blue Ridge Railroad.
Terms OF Sale-Cash. To be complied
with in one. half hour or premises re.sold
at the risk OF former purchaser. Pur-
chaser to pay extra for papers.
r. Y. II. NANCE,
Judge Of Probate as Special Referee.
Sept 10, 1902 II
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Land Near the City for Sale.

will sell at Anderson Court House on
SaleRday in October next two Tracts of
the B. A. Bolt Land, lying four miles
West of the City Of Anderson. one Tract
containing l2o acres. and the other o91
acres, adjoining each other, on waters OF
Generostee Creek. adjoining land of Mrs.
Amanda j. Allen aud others, being part
OF the Provost Lands purchased Of e. p.
Sloan and j. II. Vandiver.
Terms-One.third cash, balance twelve
months, with interest from day OF sale,
secured by mortgage.
Sept 8, 1902 II
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can't Eooi 4he Say. &

a young lady from London was
VISITING for the first time a country
aarm. Seeing ascow looking very
savage, she said to an old farmer,
oh, how savage that; COW looks p
Yes, miss, it's the red parasol
you are carrying" !" said the farmer
Wei" she said, sT knew it was
a trife sout Of fashion, but i never
thought q {, a county COW would notice.
lt."-Tit-Bits.
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Then ! He Woke Up.

Il never saw 80 much money in all
my before, and I never saw as many
receipts and due bills and things Of
that sort at any one time BEFORE" OBJ
served the Bohemian who was regal
ing his friends. "and it all came about
in this way: had gons out to the
races, end everything seemed to drift
my way. Riley Grammar, ip the very
zenith Of his fame as better, did not
approximate the daring aud the luck
which compassed this one 8 experience.
l simply played with the wise men
who figure out the percentages from
the form sheets, and singularly I was
playing against the judgment cf the
bookmakers all the time. Horses
booked at 100 to /, aud at even longer
odds, called for my money. I was do
ing something I never did before,
playing long.shot horses, and betting
to the last penny in my pocket. I
Won every time. I hauled my money
home in furniture car. Then a
good impulse came to me. INTENDED
to found Q few orphan asylums, endow
educational institutions in several
parts of the country, and do other
philanthropic work. But the first
thing to do was to pay all my credi-
tors. 1t would take too much time to
call on each one Of them, go con-
cluded that / would rent hall, insert
an advertisement in a morning news.
paper, and call convention of my
creditors. | rented q big hall, and
called on all my creditors to meet me.
They were there on time. The hall
was jammed. The meeting will please
come to order says I. My fellow
citizens says I, this is the proudest
moment Of my life,' says I, and they
cheered me Justify, Il am here to pay
my honest debts, says I, and the gen.
tleman from Missouri got the floor.
announced that I would like to take
my creditors up alphabetically. if
there was no objection, and that
would like to pay my more recent OBJ
legations first. The fellows who held
claims that were barred by the statute
of Limitation, were inclined TO object
to this, but when I told them there
was no danger of any man being shut
out they subsided, and the merry
work went on. I never saw 80 many
'received-in-fulls' in my life, and in a
short while I was almost covered up
with receipts, and I was simply tick
led to death. It was novel thing,
and my creditors seemed to be as much
tiokled as I was over the situation.
Finally the last receipt had been
handed in aud it was incumbent on
me, SO 1 felt, to thank my creditors
for their leniency in the past, and for
meeting in convention at my request,
and to make few complimentary re.
marks on the mutuality Of the good
fortune which had fallen upon me. I
did so. I thank you again, gentle
men, says I, 'and it now becomes my
duty to declare the convention ad-
journed sine de- and I brought the
gavel down with good hard rap as I
oo;1 - 0uddan1r, moo onroo1aI out
into the middle Of the floor. 'It's all
right, growled my roommate, 'for you
to call your creditors convention to-
gether on my face, and it was all right
for you to use my face as counting
table, while you we're paying your
creditors, but I'll be id if can
stand for that Adjournment sine die'
blow crawled back into bad aud
went to sleep" New Orleans Demo
crat.
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FOR SALE.

III acre Farm In Brushy Creek Town
chip, miles from Piedmont, including S
acres creek bottom, good dwelling, two
tenant houses, good water, public road to
Greenville running through place, a pas
ture and good timber. Apply to
W. NJ. SMITH,
Westminster, s. c., Box 245.
August 20, 1902 8
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FOR SALE.

1 offer FOR aale ON easy terms a valua.
BILE Tract cf Land containing GOO acres,
lying in two miles OF the Williamson
Cotton Mills. The place lies well and is
we'll wooded; has q fine pasture inolcsed
with wire fence, anc % acIus OF good
bottom land not subject to overflow
B. F. MAULDIN,
Anderson, 8. c.
sept ID, 1910 13
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LAND FOR SALE.

ONE Tract. whereon B. G. Crawford
now lives, 204 acres, two miles East oi
Clemson College. and adjoining lands OF
same. Good dwelling. barn, &c.
One Tract. woodland, about 30 acres
One mile $. w. Of Pendieton.
For prices call and sec or address
j. SITTON, Agent,
Aug 81. 1902 10 Pm
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Is
Yellow
Poison

In your blood? Physicians call is
malarlsi germ. It can beseen chang
ing red blood yellow under micro.
scope. 1t works day and night. First,
u turns your complexion yellow.
Snllif' aching sensations creep down
your back bone. You feel weak and
worthless. -~-
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- The umbrella and parasol were
used by the Eastern nations many
centuries before the Christian era.
The oldest chinaware shove pictures
OF ladies and mandarins shaded by
pxSssols of patterns similar to those
now in use.