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fayettetOd Marble &Granite W'k:
Thors was mors than one reason why
Fanny McLanoshould oot have aocopted
tbs Graftone’ Invitation to visit them
at Fort Sedgwick. Perhaps that wli
why abe never mentioned the matter
to her stater, Mrs. Parry, until that lady
surprised her in the midst at the peck-
ing.
‘Where are you going. Fan?” waa
thq query, half-aggrieved, half-eggrea-
sive—the tone in which an elder often
addressee a youngar sister who baa evi-
dently presumed to contemplate some
Journey without previous consultation
and consent.
“I? Why I thought you knew. Go-
ing to spend a week or two with the
Oraftons.”
"The Graf tonal Fancy McLanel You
don’t mean you’re going to Fort Sedg-
wick?"
“Tbat’a their station,” anawered Mr*.
McLane, with alight access of color.
Mrs. Parry had not yet seated herself.
She was still standing at the open door-
way, glancing quickly from trunk to
trunk in the sunshiny but littered room.
Now she took a step forward, hesitated
one moment as she looked at the maid
servant bending busily over a great
Saratoga, and In dumb show intimated
to her sister that she wished that open-
■yrd, opeo-eared domestic elsewhere.
Hut Mrs. MeLane was blind to any'
signals. Indeed she seemed at the mo-
ment to find it necessary to supervise
some of Annette’s work, noting which
symptom Mrs. Parry’s scruples van-
ished.
“Fanny, you know perfectly well
that’s the last place on earth you should
go to now, and Mr. McLane not a year
in his grave!”
A redder spot burns In each fair
cheek, as the young widow turns quick-
ly and faces her accusar.
“And why not, pray? The Graf tons
are the oldest, dearest friends I bav*—
at least she Is.”
“And Handy Merrlam—Isn't there, I
suppose—nor his plain wife?”
"U
Mr. Merriam’s whereabouts is a mat-
ter of entire indifference to me, as you
ought to have the decency to know,
Charlotte.”
“Ought to be matters of Indifference,
1 concede, but f bave grave doubts as
to whether they are, as you say.”
“Then keep your doubts and suspi-
cions to yourself, Charlotte,” said Mrs.
McLane, with brimming eyes and burn-
ing cheeks. “This Is no place to speak
of such matters,” and the brimming
eyes—which their owner tried hard
to induce to blase instead of brim-
turn significantly toward Annette,
busily packing and assiduously feign-
ing unconsciousness, and then almost
defiantly turn back to her sister.
"1 know perfectly well what you
mean. Frances,” responds the elder, and
when “Charlotte” and “Frances” wbre
adopted instead of "Lot” and “Fan” it
meant that the sororal relations were
more than strained.
“I gave you every signal ingenuity
— ■-» —■ggest, but you —
could suggest, but you wouldn’t sen-
You didn’t want to see, because you
thought that”— and here Mrs. Parry in-
dicate* the kneeling Annette with a
nod of her rery stylishly coifed head—
“that would keep me from speaking.
Rut this is II case where duty cannot be
neglected. Fanny, are you iq your right
senses?"
“In every one of the seven, Charlotte,
Swinburne, a well-presented, mutton-
chop whiskered, carefully-groomed fel-
low of 45, and Swinburne hows delight-
edly over the slender white band of the
pretty and youthful widow and disap-
pears with her within the cosy parlos,
“Bow long has Mrs. McLane been
packing?” asks Mra. Parry, presently,
of the maid.
“IIow lotig, mum? Oh, two or three
days only, though we got down the
trunks, mum, on Wednesday last,” is
Annette’s reply.
“Four trunks and four days’ packing
to spend a week or so at a frontier
post,” snys Mrs. Harry to herself, with
increasing wrath. Then turning, she
sweeps through the hallway with the
mien of nn offended queen, passes the
parlor door with barely a glance at
the bright, cheery interior, lets herself
out with a snap and it slam, and stands
angrily tapping her daintily booted
foot on the rug in front of the cage un-
til the elevator noiselessly answers her
signal and then lowers her to the mo-
saic pavement of the ground floor. “To
Mr. Parry’s office," she says to the
coachman, as she enters the waiting
carriage, and is whirled rapidly away
down the avenue, past the dancing|
waters of the lulte.
“Ned,” she cries, 20 minutes later, as
she precipitates herself into Mr. Par-
ry’s ground-glass citadel at the rear
of the big office, "what am I to do ? Fan
is actually packed and ready to start
for Fort Sedgewick—where Mr. Mer-
riant is stationed!”
Ned turns slowly toward her, trying
not to show in his deep-brown eyes how
pleased lie is at the sight of his hand-
[.some helpmeet. "The first thing you
j have to do, Mrs. Parry, when you come
■ to this office for advice is to pay the
customary retaining fee," he responds,
I ns lie takes her carefully-gloved hand
in his and bends forward for a kiss.
f>he recoils, pleased, yet provoked. He
! should have been startled at her reve-
lation, even though he did wish for her
kiss.
“Is that the customary retaining fee,
sir?" she asks, demurely, forgetful for
the moment of the portentous news
I she brings. "I heard you had quite a
number of feminine clients.”
I "So many that my partners find it
difficult to straighten out their ac-
counts as I do their stories. Pardon pte,
Mrs. Parry, did you say I was retained?
If so,” apd (he junior member of the
distinguished firm of Groeme, Rnyburp
A Parry again bends dowpwprd toward
the glowing face.
“You’re nbsurd, Ned, if that’s what
you mean,” replied Mrs. Parry, secretly
delighted at the iover-Iike ways of her
lor.d. “I’ve a mind not to pay—any-
thing. You shouldn't charge members
of the family.’’
"I don’t,” he answers, reflectively, “in
all coses. There’s Aunt Mildred, for in-
stance, und Aunt Charlotte and grand-
ma, but you und Fun notv—”
“Fnnl Why should she k—consult
you?”
“Why, do you know, Lot, I've never
once puked her. She might select some
other fellow ip the firm and k—consult
him.”
“Ned, you're, simply hprrjd now. I
never did like you when you tried to be
’Of oourse I can. Don’t I—alw«ya?”
“Well—ahem—I have known ln-
stances—But yon will So Just what 1
aay?”
"Y«*. Ned, I will.”
“Then, your ledyehlp, lot her go and
don’t worry. 1 don't, I haven't, a bit.”
‘Why, then you have known she wms
going-—she has told you?”
"flhn Ftnsn'i T 1 rnIf
'She hasn't. I Learned it from Swin-
burne.”
“When?”
"Three days ago.”
“And yon never told me, Nedt” re-
proachfully.
“Factl” says Ned. sagely and aenten-
tiously. “You would have protested'.
She would have been the more obsti-
nately determined. There would bave
been a row, and all to no purpose. Fan
has had her own way since she cut her
first baby tooth, and there’s nothing on
earth so Independent as a well-to-do
young widow. Swinburne’s found that
out.”
“Ned, I can’t bear Swinburne, but I’d
rnther she'd marry him—aa soon as it’s
decent to marry anybody—than go out
there and fling herself In Bandy Mer-
riam’s way aguin. Everybody knows
the story.”
“Yes. ltwnsrathera public exhibition
of mitten-giving. I’ll admit-,” says Parry,
reflectively-, “and not two years ago,
either," he added. Then suddenly—
"Lot, what sort of fellow is Capt. Graf-
ton ?”
“A very digmified, majestic personage
—a good deal older than she is, you
know, but she’s devoted to him and he
to her. There’s a woman who doesn’t
do as she pleases, let me tell youl Capt.
Grafton will have no nonsense going on
under his nose, and I’ll tell Fan that if
she thinks to resume her old flirtation
with Merriam, she’ll have to blind Graf-
ton first.”
“My love, yop forget the compact.
You’re not to tell Fan anything except
good-by. Yes—you may send opr re-
gards to Merriqm by her. He’s a par-
ticularly nice fellow, if she did throw
him over for old McLane and his for-
tune. And, Mrs. Parry, I shouldn’t be
surprised If our particularly pert and
pretty sister were taught a very valu-
able lessoD. Therefore do as I say, let
her go. Gal-I mean let herpto. And,
talking of going, suppose you drive me
home with you. We’ll stop und see Fan
a minute—and Swinburne.”
And stop they do. finding the brokpj-
magnate still there, though in evident
straits. Is it possible for a man in love
to look pleased at the coming of vis-
itors in the midst of even a prolonged
tete-a-tete? Swinburne doesn’t. He
lpoks infinitely distressed, and Parry
doesn’t fail to rennurk It.
“Hullo,Swinburne! Who’d ’a’ (bought
of seeing you here at this hour? I sup-
posed you never missed a day like this
for t) drive, yet your team isn’t st the
- •>
and I don’t mean to listen to abuse.
You know perfectly well Dr. Mellon
suid 1 needed change.”
“Well, then, go to New Orleans, go to
Bermuda, go to St. Augustine—go to
St. Petersburg, Fan—anywhere on
earth rather than Fort Sedgwick—any-
where tinder beaven except where Ran-
dolph Merriam happens to be—unless
you would have me believe you lost
to—"
But here, with solemn mien, enters
the male biped who officiates as butler,
hall boy and major do mo at (be Clar-
endon flats—a card upon the salver in
his pudgy hand, and Mrs. Parry nearly
chokes ia the necessity for sudden stop.
“Ask Mr. Swinburne up," says Mrs.
McLane, promptly, barely glancing at
the black-bordered c*rd and evidently
glad of the interruption. "Now, Char-
lotte, not another word, unless you wish
L i
>7^1—
* What am I to doP"
me to show how indignant I am to every
visitor who comes In," nnd Mrs. McLane
mi. L VAN NOSTRAND,Sculp, k Manager.
J.B, BEARDSLEY Sculp, k Sopt,
SffiBBSS;}—-
is buRy bathing her flushed checks al-
ready. “How does my hair look?" she
adds, turning Inquiringly toward the
defeated elder, sure that whatever cause
of quarrel there may be, that, at least, Is
subject for truce.
“Your hair Is all right,” responds her
sister, with marked emphasis and as
marked a sense of baffled purpose. “I
wish the rest of your head were as well
balanced. You don’t expect me to see 1
Mr. Swinburne, I suppose?"
“Mr. Swinburne certainly doesn’t ex- ]
pect to see you. He Is cofujiig plainly
»»
door.1
"No—er—I had business to discuss
with Mrs. McLane before her etart for
tho west—a journey which I bad much
hoped to hear Mrs. Parry has dissuaded
her from taking.”
"Oh, bless you. not” responds Parry,
cheerfully. “The doctor advises change
pf pcene and air, doesn’t he. Fan? And
Sedgwick’s the very place for both.
There’s no scenery within ten miles of
It, and there’s more air than they know
what to do with ten hours out of 12. It
blows a blizzard there six times a week,
doesn’t It, Fan?”
"Then I presume the residents of the
post must be unusually charming to
offset such monotony of landscape and
such objectionable climate,” says Swin-
burne, stiffly, und looking ruefully at
the fair young widow. "I have not- the
honor of anybody’s acquaintance
j there," he adds.
I “So?” says Parry. “Why, there’s
Capt. and Mrs. Grafton, old friends of
| fen’s, you know—that is, Mrs. Grafton
j is, pnd there’s Lieut. Merriam—splendid
fellow, hbatl We knew him so well
when be was on duty at the Poinf. And
j there’s Minturn, of the artillery, there
with his battery, ne used to visit us
| often when Merriam was philandering
i about Fan here. Oh. yes, there’s a raft
I pf pleasant people there."
Mrs. McLans’s pretty fnee at this
juncture is a study. She is flushed, al-
most tearful; ready to pull Ned Pnjrryfs
hair In wrath, yet hardly able to re-
| strain her merriment at sight of Swin-
burne. -who sits in open-mouthed dis-
may. For downright mischief a broth-
erdu-ifl.w has opportunitiesnccorded no
other mortal, and Parry 's *1 once her
torment and her delight. Mrs. McLane
has been known to say that Charlotte
took a very mean ndvantiige of her in
having met him first and “landed" him
before he ever flaw tlje sunshine of her
own lovely blue eyes.
Very little alike were these two sls-
! ters, despite the fact that they had lived
most of their life together- Educated
abroad by a benevolent aunt after the
death of their devoted mother, the girls
funny. You know I never interrupt
you here uuuei I’m troubled about
something, nnd you're just laughing at
me insteud ol svmpatliiziug,” and Mrs.
Ned pretends to pull away her hands,
but conspicuously fails.
“One of the first principles of my
large nnd successful practice, Mrs.
Parry, i> to secure prepayment of the
retaining tec in all caees where I have ( rn'cd to Amerie«7he greTtyenr
on business.
“^ou might far better listen to hla
business, ns you call it. even this soon,
than go near Randy Merriam.”
“Charlotte, I will not listen to you. If
you cannot stay here without insulting
me with every other word you would
much better go home and stay home un-
til you can apeak—sensibly.” And with
this Mrs. McLano darts past her sister
Into the passageway, and so ou to the
parlor front of her suite of apartments,
juet as the little electric indicator tells
that the elevator has stopped and that
some one is at the entrance door, ft is
TEXAf
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For some time, I have suffered
with rheumatism and tried every
imaginable remedy, without ef-
fect. Mr. G. S. Welle advised me
(o try Chamberlain's Pain Balm,
telling me mat it had onred many
cases of loDg standing like mine.
I have nsed four bottles and feel
• are that on* more bottle will
make my core complete,*—A. P.
Kontz, Glareraore, Ark. Sold by
all druggist.
reason to believe the cliynt yvjU sub-
sequently act contrary to my udvice.
When you have— Ah, that will have to
do, I presume, though it came with a
bad grace. And now you say Fan is
going to Sedgwick ?"
"Yefl, and Bandy Merriam's hardly
been married a month longer than Mr.
McLane’s been dead.”
"Astounding .coincidence! But Bran-
dy la matried, Isn't be?”
“Randy, Ned. not Brandy—how your
mind runs to such things!”
“Well, toward five p. m. the firm does
feel like running to such things, my
b.effif beloved, and Is only deferred from
doing so by the fact that a touch of the
button makes it do the running. Whnt
shall I order for you?" And Mr-Parry
transfers her left hand to Its mate re-
nt the Columbian fetes, and Charlotte,
I the elder by two years, had met Ned
Parry, a rising and Riioeessful young
! lawyer, before they had been home a
month, was engaged to him before the
! autumn leaves were falling—before Fan
; even dreamed tliat nnythingof the kind
was In contemplation, for she, at the
I moment, was having what she termed a
j dimply /deliriously delightful time at
the Point. Harriet Pahnpfi her especial
friend at school, both at home and
I abroad, hnd married Capt. Grafton
early Hint (tprfng. Fan making almost
her first appearance in society n.s one
I of the bridesmaids on that occasion,
and being much Impressed with the de-
votions of the groomsman assigned to
her, a handsome, soldierly fellow by
j the pame of Merriam. He was nn offl-
j cor several ye»T> the junior of Capt.
with others of
a very pretty wetk
had. And then, as luck would 1
Grafton himself was
the aestdemy, and rather than take his
bride to the far frontier so soon after
their marriage ha accepted It, and there
they spent the summeri and there, in
July, Miss Frances Hayward joined
them at Mrs. Grafton's urgent request,
and there did Beudolph Merriam fall
deeply and devotedly in love with her,
and no one wondered. By far and away
shs was the prettiest girl sX the Point
that summer, and Merriam waa con-
ceded to be a mighty lucky fellow when,
very soon after the announcement of
Charlotte Hayward's forthcoming mar-
riage to Edward Parry, he allowed him-
self to be congratulated upon his en-
gagement to her younger sister.
And he had every right to oonslder
himself engaged. She had accepted his
attentions, his devotions, eventually bis
ring and also his presents. He had
celled upon Aunt and Uncle Mellen in
New York, the guardians of the girls,
and startled them out of all equanimity
by the announcement that Miss Hay-
ward had accepted the offer of his heart
and hand conditioned only on their
consent, which he besought them to
give.
"I own I never thought of her marry-
ing in the army,” aaid Aunt Charlotte,
aa do other aunta and mothers after
their girls have been campaigning at
the Point.
H “Whatlncome, if any, have you out-
rln tmit v* nn u 9" urn a TTnola Xfallan’a
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II. M. Blossom, senior member
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St., Louis, writes: I had been left
with a very diattessfng ceugb, the
result of influenza, which nothing
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Getting married ia like renting
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Bblipgey & Revuolds
prettily furnish their quarters and still
leave a few hundreds to the fore. He
remembered, too, that Uncle Mellen had
u»ade some Inquiries of him, ond that
in perfect’ frankness he had replied.
And now. Just at the moment when he
was full of hope and happiness, came
this cruel mortification. Such action
pp fife parj pf his creditors was unac-
cpnniable, blit, ps the sppeTintppdent
said, it waa a solemn fact.1 Deeply pho-
grilled, he told the colonel the whole
story, and the POlopei was full of sym-
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“I’m sorry, Merriam," said be, "but
there's only one thing for you to do.
There's no telling when you’ll ever get
that inheritance. When lawyers once
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dimes nobpdy pise over does, and by the
tibia judgment is awarded In ypur fa-
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time and intersaj,, g«t yoqr flip Insured
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fropp. We can have yon relieved as at
your pwn request, and once out op th*
frontier yon dan save so much a month,
and little by little null yourself oiit.fi
and little by little pull jroqreelf onf.fi
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Wbpn g woman wishes she was
a man she tliipks slip cau show
tbe men how nice to bp a woman.
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more-to-the-polnt interrogation.
“Nothing, sir,”
"Well, neither has she. That Is, what
sbe has is so small it wouldn't keep that
extravagant child in gloves. You two
had better be sensible and think it
over."
Bandy Merriam did think it over, but
all to no purpose. The more he thought,
tbe more he declared himself hopelessly
aud Irrevocably in love, and as Miss
Fan took kindly to bis protestations,
and Parry and Charlotte took kindly
to him aud sympathized with the sol-
dierly fellow, who was evidently much
of a gentleman and so match In love,
it resulted Id bis being made welcome
at Parry’s club, received quite »» Party
was at tbe Mellens—since not oftener
than once a week could he get away
from his duties at tbe Point, and when
Ned and Charlotte were married,
they *ere In state and style early lu
tbe winter, Merriam had many a good
reason for believing that, despite his
poverty, the next wedding reception
held at the Mellen’s beautiful home
would be one in which he would ba
vitally Interested.
Wei}, he was; but not In the way or
manner expected. In fact, he did.not
attend the ceremony or the reception;
Indeed, he was not bidden. A very dis-
agreeable thing happened to him with-
in a month after the Parry-Hay ward
wedding, one that overwhelmed him
With mortification and distress, find
caused no little Indignation among his
comrades.
Everybody knew Randy Merriam was
In debt. He made no secret of It. He
was extravagant In his tastes, had in-
pqrred obligations before going on duty
at ihe Point, and found )t impossible
to "catch up” there. There were three
or four accounts he had been asked to
Rettle, as they had been running some
time, but he put them off from month
to month, hoping that he might goon
be able to obtain possession of a small
sum of money left him by the will of a
relative two years before. It was only
» few thousand dollars, yet even that
hod been contested, together with
number of similar bequests, aud the
legal complications had been as ex-
asperating as the law’s delay could
make them. One day, soon after Char-
lotte's wedding, Merriam was su
mooed to the presence of the super-
intendent and was regretfully told that
four Pf J1'® creditors had united in an
Appeal to the (var daparlP’p11f> sp<3 the
matter had been referred to liim as
post commander. Merriam was con-
founded. He had seen and talked with
one of them only a few week* before,
and no such action had even been hinted
at. Nor did he know that any one of
their number was aware of his indebt-
tp the others. Frankly he had
told Miss Fan of thesp matters before
be told her of his love, but It made, ap-
parently, no Impression on her. "Let
them wait,” she said. "You'll soon be
able to pay them ten times over."
Frankly he had talked of it to one or
fjyo of his intimates, and later to Parry,
jvh’o had prown fo like him, and who.
as a lajivyey, fbought his llftle inherit-
ance could not pe much lpnger with-
held. It would free him: it would very
ALL the stock owned by SAN ANTONIO citizens. The LAR-
GEST brewery in the South. Last year’s output I 50,000
KegS more than any brewery south of St. Louis.
Oara i\.s Hcilig* a
jpon
Yet
roundings, this was exactly what
Bandy Merriam did. Ned Parry, with
a puzzled look on his face, had listened
to his mournful recital, had promptly
offered his services and his bank ac-
count, and made but oue stipulation:
“Don’t you go near those fellows, Mer-
riam. Let me have the bills and I'll
send you the receipts," for Parry had a
theory of his own.
pedgwick was as dreary a post, so far
as surroundings were concerned, as
could bo found In the west, ft stood
on a pebbly mesa, flat and barren, over-
looking the narrow, tortuous, shallow
canyon through which rippled the
waters of the San Mateo. Across the
western horizon hung a low, jagged
curtain of distant blue mountains. Far
away to the northwest a snow peak
shimmered in the dazzling sunshipe,
but north, east upd south the low roil-
ing oontour of the prairie, like the
ground swell of the ocean, was lost in
illimitable monotony. The only trees
were some willow’s down in an arroyo
that emptied its rivulet after a rain-
storm Into the stream. The only green
things were the blinds and vines uj
the piazus of the officers’ quarters.
Sedgwick was n big post, an important
post, for u great Indian reservation lay
only 20 miles away toward the moun-
tains. Two lines of railway met at the
junction three milea down stream, and
by riding a few miles westward pne
came suddenly upon a fertile valley,
where grass and trees abounded, and
where all nature seemed to smile, and
where by rights the old post should
have been located; but all that waa In-
dian reservation when Sedgwick
built, and pot until long after did the
territorial officials succeed In getting
it lopped off from Lo’s allotment and
thrown open to settlement. Along the
bowery shades of the Santa Glara were
now ranches by the dozen, and a hun-
dred or more of enterprising settlers,
and between them and the thronging
garrison at Sedgwick was peace and
good will and every kindly relation,
when Bandy Merriam came oat in the
December of the Columbian year, de-
termined to take his punishment like
a man. He hn<j sworn off cigars and
extravagances of every kind. For
time he even declined to subscribe to
the hops, which were charming affairs,
for tbe band was excellent and tbe regi-
ment blessed with many lovely and
lovable women. “Merriam spends all
of his money In stamps," was the com-
ment of tbe garrison wits, for he wrote
day after day to his distant darling in
pbp east. That winter Ned Parry ac-
cepted the junior partnership in the
great firm of Graeme & Rayburn, in
Chicago, and moved thither with his
lovely wife, while Fan remained with
Aunt and Uncle Mellen in Gotham, pin-
ing, presumably, for her far-away sol-
dier boy, and yet writing much less fre-
quently than he did, for the demands
pf pociety were Incessant ant] auntie
kenf Vi or ‘‘nil lliA nrr» ”
At* Yos Weskt
'Weakness manifests itself in the loss of
ambition and aching bones. The blood is
watery; the timues are wusting—the door is
beiugopened for disease. A bottle of Browns’
Iron Bitters taken In time will restore your
KZ
a special course of medicine. For sale by
ALL DEALERS.
Yearly advertisers allowed tbe nriviW
'-----terly change.
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1am. 8
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Advertisements inserted under i-wnan
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. Our torms for announcing caudidt.tss I
|16 for Cong—M—J 11 ’ ’" “
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Calls upon candidates, their replies sad
theit circulars, and all notices ct a | . rtosal
character, (if at all admissahlu into uur eol-
irons) will be charged as advertisements.'""'™
trms for announcing candidi.tts si
Congress and district officer,, $10,0
tty officers; $6,00 for precinct su<
>al officers. Terms cash.
BBLiaioxrs.
M. E. Church Bourn—Comer Travis and
Monroe street—J no U. Green, Vaster—
Services at follows:
Sunday School at 0:80 a. in. K. II,
Phelps, Supt. Preaching at 11a. m. and
8 p. m. Prayer meeting Thursdays at 7:46
p. m.
Catholic Church—Services by Father P.
M. Lenartz. 2nd, 8rd and 4th Sunday oi
every month. First Mass at 7 o’clock A. Mr
High Muss at 10 o’clock A. M.
Le Grange Mari Ms.
O. E. STOLZ, Propr.
St James Church, (Episcopal). Her.
John Sio .n, Rector. Services, with s< nnon,
every first and Second Sunday in each
month, at 11 a. in. and 7:80 p m. Hitndsy
School every Sunday morning at 9:80. il
B. Bicharhs. Superintendent.
Phesuytirian Church.—Sunday school
every Sunday at 9:80 o’clock a. m. Every-
body is cordially invited to attend.
Lutheran services at tho Vrcebyterian
church, every second and fourth Sabliulh is
the month, in the afternoon.
M.K. &T. B’Y.
Truin No. d, north bound, arrives at 11 a, m
“ “ 8, south '* arrives at 6.86 p, to
“ 6, north “ arrives at 9.62 p. m
• “ S, south “ arrives al U.07 a. ut
Mail for Nos. 8 and 4 are closed at 6.27 p
iu. and (0.80 a. m. Express pouch for iri.ia
No. 6, Houston, is closed at 8 p. in.
HiH
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Dealer iu
Local reading advertisements, when par-
ties have a standing card in the paper, 10
cents each lino; puitics having no card ia
the paper will he charged 26 cents a line fat
lrst insertion and 16 conts a line fur each
ubsequent insertion.
STATE DIRECTORY.
High Grade Monuments
and Fine Carving
-A. SPECLA-ATT.
to give satisfac-
A LL work guaranteed
xl tion.
Governor—C. A. CULBERSON
Lieut. Governor—GEORGE T. JEST EE,
Attorney General—M. M CRANK,
Comptroller—R.W .FINLEY.
Treasurer—W. B. WOBTUAM.
Commissioner,Land Office—A J. RAKiB.
Superintendent Public Instruction.—J. M-
CARLISLE.
19* Iron fencing at special low rates.
Ask for pricos before placing your orders
BUPKKMKCOURT:
elsewhere.
10-1 y.
LEO FREDE & CO.
Chief Justice—11. R. GAINES.
Associate Justices—THOMAS J. BROWN.
“ « —LKKOY (1 DESMAN.
WHOLRSALR AMU RETAIL
APPELLATE COURT
GROI.ERS
J. H. HURT, P. J.
W. L. DAVIDSON.
1. N. HENDERSON.
\ Associates,
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
AMD ORALS RS IM —
Western Produce,
LaGBANGE, TEXAS.
DISTRICT OKFTt’KKS:
fudge 22 Jud. Dis’t—II. TEICliMl KLU*’
District Attorney—J. L, STOREY.
Clerk District Court—C. L NKESE.
Courts commence on the Tenth Munduy
kept her "op the go.’
One day in
>t her
me day in April there came a letter
from the east at sight of which Randy
Merriam’s face was radiant with Joy.
It briefly told him that the tong litlgia-
jipn was over qpd that some $3,600, all
that was left of the original $0,000, were
at h!s disposaL Jubilantly, confidently
(hen, he wrote to Fanny to name the
day, and in course of time there came a
^eply, long, self-accusing, penitent,
miserable, but ijll-sufflcienj. The day
waa named, and so was tho man—Mr.
John Harold McLane, of New York, a
wealthy widower of 55-
Established 1865.
CHASE’S
BARLEY MALI
WHISKY.
Absolutely Purt
Recommended and en-
dorsed BY THE LEADINt
Physicians & Chemist;
as the finest STIMU
LANT and TONIC for
MIUlIpINAL & FAMILY
USE.
For MALARIA, DYS-
PEPSIA and WEAK
LUNGS IT is unequalbd
For Sale By
after the first Monday in March and Septem-
ber, and continue six weeks.
COUNTY OFFICERS:
County Judge—JOSEPH EH LINGER.
y—PERU t FAISON.
County Attorney—PEKCt FAISON.
County Clerk—RUDOLPH KLAT’J.
County Sheriff—AUGUST LOFS8JN
County Treasurer—R. T. BRADSHAW |
County Assessor—C. H. ,STE1NMA;.N.
County Collector—NEAL ROB1SO. -,
Countv Surveyor—J. 1). ROMBERG.
Superintendent of Public lnstrutliou.—J.
a O’UAH.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 1
dost No. 1—JOI N W ESS ELS,
dost No. 2—C. C. BHENDLK;
lleut No. 8—C. A. YOUNG-
Heat No. 4—N. L. M eh IN NON.
Hapkebpjl A Weasels,LaGrange -91
The County Commissioners’ Court meets
every three months, viz: On. the Second
Mondays in February, May, August and
aner
AW YOUR DRUGGIST
10 OINT TRUL SIZE.
frnXTINURD SRVT WUK-)
From nil over tho coantry come
w ools of pritise for Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. Here is a sample
letier fr<>U' M,Rr 0, 8hep, of Little
Rooh, Ark. “I was suffering ftom
a very severe void, wbeu I read
of tho cures that had been effect-
ed by Chamberlain's Cough Re-
medy. I concluded to give it a
trial aud accordingly procured a
bottle. It gnve rpe prompt reljef,
and I have the best reason for re1
pommending it very highly, whiofi
I do with pleaeure.fi For eale b.
all druggist.
i
If yon hope to get along, you
must not stop when you have n
oold.
Never say pants; apeak of them
aa pantaloons.
■
lariou drag, ""it
Pssssm. Allart
and Protsets tbs 1
of Tsai* sad ta_ _ ,_
R«Wsf *1 oast. •• ct*. si Dr
|#Y8l&OT%$f.,»*,R!SS
November.
County Court of Fayette County meet* lot
Criminal, Civil and Probate business, til*
third Monday* in January, April, July aim
October.
JUSTICES AND CONSTABLES^
Beat No. 1-—H. C. Ledbetter Justice; Led
Smith, Constable. Court Last Monday m
each month, at the courthouse.
Beat No. 2—Conrad Bertsch, Justice; Jos,
Jsnak, Constable. Court meets Thursday
attar 4th Monday, at Fayetteville*
Bent No. 8—Chss. Wagner, Justice; Ad-
olph Becker, Constable. Court lit Mon-
day in eacb month, at Round Top.
Beat No. 4—J. M. Wroe, Justice; P.0,
Sanders, Constable. Court Thursday after lit
Monday in each month at Winchester.
Beat No, 6—G, W. Cole, Juitice; Cal
Bledsoe, Constable. Court Saturday after ]if
Monday each month, at Muldoon.
Beat No. 8— W A..Beckman, 'Justice
8. V. McElroy, Oonstame, Court 2n<J Mon-
day in each month, at Flatoma.
Beat No. 7—H. Laturne, Justice; A.
Walla, Constable. Court Thursday, after
8d Monday in each month, at Ammann-
ville. •" " •’ " ' • 1 ‘
Beat No. 8—C. T. Will rich, Justice | B.
Williams Uonstable. Court Thursday aflef
2nd Monday In eachmonth, at Schulenbprg
msrcarv _
open* tad nissasss tbe___
Pain sad IaflanuBaUoa. Haala
braae. Reatnraa tbe Sease*
Ia anleklT absorbed. Glcee
men street. Hew Tory
TOWN OFFICERS,
LAORANOE.
My representatives cau pot quote
prices 00 two inch slabs or on mono-
for Chain
pnn spy qne Ifiiug
berlain’i Colic, Obolcrit nnd Dinr-
yhoea Remedy; and that ia that II
rgoels any proprietary medicine 1
have Been on ibe market, and 1
have been in tbe praotiocof medi-
cine aud the drag bueioeee for
the past forty year*’’ writes J. M.
Jackson, M. D., Bronson, FIs.
Physicians like Cbamberlaiu’s
Colip,'Cholera and PUrrhoes Re
inedy because it ih a scientific
preparation, sndl because it al-
ways gives quick relief. Sold by
oil druggist*.
By “b*P«rfi society is often
meant a belter quality of out glare
and linen,
TtHs U Toms Oyportanlty.
On rsdeipt at tost srnts, o*ah or stamps,
O fans rows sample will b* mailed of th*
aaost popular Catarrh and Hay Payor Cure
aad Hay Fever Cure
Bairn) sufficient to '
merits
■t»U the great merit* at th* remedy.
X BRi
BROTHERS,
‘ Wsweo fit., 1st Y«fk OM*
! h
It is tim* fog people to worry
abont a woman when abe qaite
worrying about her b *
flirtations-
ifrriNH fr'BElWfofPli
Mayor—ROBT. BAM l»LK.
Marshal—GEORGE FRANZ.
Treasurer—ED STUDKMANN,;
Secretary—J. E. BAKER,
Attorney—J. W. MO0HB.
Aldermen.—M. J. Connell, Wm. M. Ms
Kinney, F. Reichert, 1. Knsenthsl, V'. N,
Murphy, I*. C. Arpim, M. M, Rodgers, T,
The Council meets in the Mayor's office
on th* First snd Third Wednosdars In every
month
Arrinli nt Departirei or Mill IFob LaRr
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