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BOLTON’S LAST YEAR.
The •• "y Fie Spent tt I’rc^flrins For
litN llMCl.
‘ *>oiton. the Lnusing'bi.i'g [ row¬
er. was a very rich man ami trie with a
ho.-t ot ftiends, said an up state 1 mnn
to the Now York Pun. ■‘His iirewery
in Lansingburg war- a prohtahle con
eeni. and he practically o’.v .ed about
all the saloons in that town.
"Oue day after a consultation his phy¬
sicians told him that he had Bright's
disease and that he surely would not
li\e moie than a year. I’dl’y took their
wo.d lot it and made v.p bis mind to
make the fur fly while life was left,
lie had i.eter traveled much, and so Lie
decided to go around the world.
•die took with hint a congenial friend
and plenty 0 f money, and nwny they
weiit. through They left a trail of tire mid.ash*.
os all the capitals of Europe
and the queer and strange places of
Asia and Africa. After nine months
they came back, and Holton brought
with him the most marvelous collection
of souvenirs and presents that any
man not a professional collector ever
brought into this country. Tlie duties
amounted to $11,000.
“Arrived in Lansingburg, Billy hired
the iown hall, sent his packing boxes
tilled witli these oriental and European
ti ensures up to the hall and had I limn
ail taken out and put on exhibition as
though for a church fair. Upon cadi
article he marked the name of some
friend whom lie wished to remember
with n gift. There were hundreds in
this category, but Hilly had presents
for them all,
"On the day appointed for the pres
eolation he invited his army of friends
to the town hull. To each he turned
over the present selected for ldm. and
funid the cheers of Ills. grateful and ad¬
miring fellow townsmen the hall was
Stripped of its beautiful things.
’•When 1 he Inst present had been
placed In the bunds of its recipient.
Billy went back to his home and lay
down to die. Within the year his phy
fcicians' prophecy came true, rifid the
town gave him the finest funeral that
tftny man ever had."
THE SMOTE WAS THERE.
Why One Old Unrmet- Thinks lie
WobM Make n (load Delective.
“Guess I wouldn't Inivo much trou¬
ble gittin on the 'teettve staff in De¬
troit ef 1 wanted ter make appercla
tioti.’’ and the old farmer kicked a log
in the open fireplace so that lie could
see his neighbors better. They were
assembled to hear ldm tell nil about it.
‘•When I missed that sliote outeii the
pen. next uiornln it Jest ennio ter me
sudden ns Bghtnin that it had been
stole by that tlicr George Washington
Popporville what bad been workiu fur
me. He knowed* the dog. suit wouldn't
bother him none, and he was the povv
erf'ulest man fur fresh pork I ever
set>. So l goes inter town and tells the
head man of the 'teetives. and lie puts
ti couple of fellers on the Job. and they
reports that they was no sliote about j
Peppervllle's shanty, and they was no j
case ag’it) him. I 'lowed I might be
foherin the wrong track, but I Uim j
home here and sot my own stakes, and
1 was to IVpperville's afore sunup.
" ‘Wash.* i says, 'why didn't you
keep that log when you had him?
Wasn't lit* fat 'nougli yit ter suit yon?’
“’Who you talklu to?' tie muttered. I
‘I’ll h:il> de law on ylm ef you make |.
me any mo' trouble 'bout dat liawg.'
" 'Now. Wash.' says I. 'don't gii your
dander up. That there sliote Uim
homo in tli“ night and went ter squeal
in ter git Inter the pell. I put ole Bas¬
ins on tlit* scent, und he lauded me
right here.'
"‘Dog gone dat Rastas,’ he shouted,
‘FI! flay dat dog alibei’
"Ai:d lie sprung tor the middle of the ;
room ami ripped up the ttoorin, and j
there was the sliote. Wash would j
have jumped on me. but 1 jest kivered
him with that ole muzzle Ion din pistol
of mine and tole him ter go gentleliUe.
•‘Weil. sir. lie begged ami whined so
I let hiU) off. him agreeln ter tote the
p'g home In a hag and ter chop wood
fur me three days fur my trouble.”—
Detroit Free Press.
The Relienreed AVeditliiR:.
Tbo weddins was. upon the whole,
r.n artistic success. The bride part ini
iarly evinced unmistakable latent. She
trembled with all the technical accti
racy of an aspen leaf and the emo¬
tional intensity of a startled fawn. Her
tremliling indeed was irreproachable.
If stie east down her eyes with some¬
thing of amateurish gawkiness, the
fact is easily attributable to her inex¬
perience. this being her first wedding,
rather than an essentially defective
method. Site was fairly well support
ed. ,
The bridegroom rose from his knees
too soon and had to be knocked down
bv the prompter, but otherwise tlie
.niiuor part* were carried out credita
lily.—Detroit Journal.
Kell Familiar.
P.pnnet Burleigh related a pleasant
story in the London Telegraph. The
incident, which happened in Ids sight
mid nearing, was as follows: Two nftt
cits, total strangers, new arrivals
from up country, rather lonely and
holed, were awaiting Innchtem. The
elder having proposed that they should
sit together, a mutual friendliness de
veloped so rapidly that at lust oue
said to tlie other: "Do you know, i
rather like you. nnd there's something
about you that seems familiar, as if
WO IghI Illot bofore i I*m Mrtjor iv of
{.lie Blanks.” "Indeed! Are you? I
tllOllgllt so. And I'm Lieutenant S. of
—’s stuff. Just Johied-your youngest
hi other!”
A Ureal Error.
"Mr hero dies m me middle of my
latest novel.” said u u . young nutbor.
"1 lint s a grave mistake," replied ttig
editor "lit* should not die before the
y.uder Uoea. -AUaata Constitution,
WONDERS CF WATCHMAKING
Qjrrr T;r>e^'eees O - rr:l l y Tiro at
queens.
A rnong ilit* treasures of a Swiss rnn
sett in. inserted i:i the tt; • > <.f tin old fash
iout'cl pencil ease, is the tiniest watch
ever constructed. tt is oaiv th roe-six
i teeutlis of !D hid) in diameter. and its
little din 1 not only indicates hours, min
utes and sw aids. 1 nt also tin* days of
tiio month. So perfectly formed is lids
lilliputian watcli that it keeps
lout time and is a marvelous piece of
mechanical workmanship.
Two of tin 1 must elaborate and curl
our watches which tie world is as ever
seen belonged to f J tier tt 1 • -ul-itb and
: her unfortunate contemporary, Mr y.
| queen of from, tiood Quee: ■j. i
s a watch i. r.-i • for her in i!n , v i a
duck, with beautifully elitist '<. hi i s.
tile lower |nr; of which op The
face was of Hirer, with an abti.r.te
gilt flesign. and the whole w. - in pi in
a case of brass, covered w Hi i lack
leather thickly studded with big silver
knobs.
The ill fated Mary was the possessor
of a watch in the form of a skull. The
dial was introduced where the palate
should have been, and the works occu¬
pied the place of brains in the crani¬
um. In the hollow of the skull, more¬
over. was a bell which had works of its
own and by means of which a hammer
struck out the hours upon it.
One of the choicest rarities of the
Hemal collection was a book shaped
j watch. Tills curious time indicator XIV. Duke was
j made by order of Bogislnus
of Pomerania, in the time of (lustnvus
Adolphus. On the face of the book,
where the dial of the watch is set.
there is an engraved insc.iption of the
duke and bis till: s and armorial bear¬
ings, together with the date*. Mb.’". On
the back the engravings are also very
finely and skillfully executed, among
them being the portraits of two gentle
i men of the seventeenth century The
dial plate Is of silver, chased in relief,
while the insides are beautifully chased
with figures of birds and foliage. 'Hie
watch lias two separate movements and
n large, sweet toned hell. At the back,
over this bell, tin 1 metal is ornamental
; ly pierced In a circle, with a dragon and
! other devices, while the sides arc pierc
ed mid engraved with a complicated
design of beautiful scroll work.—Lon¬
don Tit-Hits.
DR. BYLES STOOD GUARD.
tt Was tt l linnf.Hftlvims Pay, nnd the
t'nuNc Was Urgent.
One of the most famous of the old
Puritan divines was Dr. Mather By lee.
who was born* in Boston in 1700 and
who was the first pastor of the Hollis
Street Congregational church, to which
he ministered for more than 40 years.
Dr. Byles was famous ns u humorist
und tilt, mid Innumerable anecdotes
ore related of bis ylever quips an I re¬
torts. lie was u zealous Tory nnd
warmly advocated the cause of "the
mother country" against the colonies.
In November. 1777. he was arrested as
n Tory, tried, convicted and sentenced
u> fie eon lined on board a guard ship
and sent to England with his family
within 40 days. The sentence was aft*
erward commuted by the board of war
to confinement 111 his own house, a
guard living placed over him with lu
strnctions not to permit ldm to leave
bis residence for a moment under any
circumstances.
On Thanksgiving merning. observing
that the sentinel, who. like many of tin*
colonial soldiers, was a simple fustic,
lind disappeared and that. Dr. Byles
himself was pacing up nnd down be¬
fore Ills own door with ft musket on his
shoulder, the neighbors crossed the
street lo Inquire the cause of this s!n
gular spectacle,
"You see.'’ said Dr. Byles. "1 begged
my guard to let me go out to procure
some eider with which myself and
family might celebrate Thanksgiving
day, hut lie would not permit me to
stir. 1 argued the point with him. and
lie hits now gone to get the eider for me
on condition thru 1 keep guard over
myself during his absence.”
—--—•——
Actorn Who SlntU'f.
It would seem that the Ktnsp is not
only the last profession that would be
chosen by a person afflicted by stutter
Inv. hut Hint a stutterer would never
dream of roIoc-Uiik that profession.
Yet It Is a fact that some well known
notovs and singers labor under this dis
advantage.
The strangest thing about it Is that
the sad Impediment which is so pain¬
fully evident in private lift* seems to
vanish entirely , , when . they . are on the
hoards.
It is curious tfcat appearance on the
stage or lu the pulpit should have this
beneficial effect, for stutterers la other
walks cf life do not lose their Impedi¬
ment when at work, however euthusl
nstic their love for their profession.—
London Answers.
Victoria Clot Her Primroses.
“The following little anecdote, told
by Queen Victoria herself, will show
her independence of character,” says a
writer in The Century. "Very fond of
primroses and (lading none In the
royal gardens, she sent word to have
some planted. The gardeners, the
queen said, made many objections, and,
finding shortly afterward that her
wishes Und not yet been carried out.
she dispatched a messenger inquiring
the reason. 'I suppose Queen Anne
bad none.' she said, 'so they did not
tilbl!; it pS*Ci)or for IHO to llitvt* tiny*
but l sent them word promptly
Queen Victoria would have seme— nnd
she did.'"
A Financial Qoiel-aaatt.
“Would you like au iucrcase of sal
ary. Mr. Sniith?"
"No: it's uo use.”
“Xo tiscV"
**lf i had more money. Fd bare to
pay move debts.’’—Detroit Free Press.
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six years being most of the lime
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When speaking of this Mr. D N
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•‘Some time ago l had a severe
attack of rheumatism* in toy
arm and shoulder, I tried
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relief until I was reccotnmend
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Co , drtiggut of this place, to
trv Chamberlain’s Pain Balm.
They recommended it so high
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To PATENT Good ldm
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Century Oiler.
$2500 CASH.
The Constitution now offers
$2500,00 iu Gash Prizes to agents
for Hie very best agents work
during the first quarter of ine
first 3 car of thR new century.
Omitiug all contest, except for
agents, they place Ihe whole
sum to the agent’s credit, and
make tho terms equitable f<
distributing it over the w'.._ v
territory. To arrange ilt’j T .»f
South has been divided tv jfvU
sections, as folio**•>•:
1st Section. Vir iia ^OUh
Carolina. South * AT . inj
Florida.
2tl Section Vaanessee, Al»
barna and Mississippi.
3a Section. Georgia.
4th Section. LnuisiattA Ar
‘katisa8, Texas, Indian Territory
Oklahoma.
'Ibis making , . about , an equal ,
number of suberiptum accord¬
ing to Th« Constitution’s list as
it now- stands.
THE CASH PRIZES ARE:
For highest list fr»tn ANY
Ag*nt. Jan. 1st to April let 1901,
from WHaiii T«rritorjr............... $400.00
For the h ig hest list in EACH
of the above four divisions from
Jan. 1st to April 1st 1901. AF
TEIt the above general prize
is awarded...................................... r.00.00
For the second highest list for
the three months in each sec¬
tion................................................... 100.00
For the third highest list for
the three months in each s*>—
tion.................................................... 60.00
Fer the fourth highest list for
th« three months in eacn sec¬
tion ................................................... 25.00
For the fifth highest list for the
thro* months in each sec
tien................................................... 15.00
Forth# sixth higehst list fer
the three tnenthein each sec
tien...................................................... 10.00
f ix prizes in each section.....$500.00
Total for four sections $2000 00
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For the ten next highest lists
from the whole territory at
randem, not taking any of a*
hove prize*, $10.00 each .imiiimii $ 100,00
Total cash prizes from Jan. 1st
to April 1st 1901
The t ubs< -• ib®i a to bt renewed
for the Mire# months corned by
this contest are 48800 names*
This# with the new eubscrip
tions secured will deubUess ruu
tlie list tip appreciably in every
section. Every newspaper read¬
er in the whole .South will b«
given an opportunity to get on
our Jhfc.
The Constitution wants good
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will g»t out and canvass and
hustle for new business. Many
who have to go over tueir own
and adjoining counties on bus
in®ss can tak* the Constitution
along as the best side line.
.Country doctors, tax collectors,
iiiial toutR mail carriers, nur
sery men, farmers ajid good
workmen, could all realize
among these prizes and mak«
their commission besides. A
fair salary p reposition for any
man
”ke Weekly * Constitution
i.-‘ ■ special feature of its ag
cuitu?c» page, which is presid¬
ed erby Col. R. J. Redding,
s ' ctor of Ihe Georgia expeii,
d iit farm, and a man who is
rmvgmZed as an expert on all
agricultural topic?,
The Constitution will send a
sample copy five to any one
sending his own and the names
of six neighbors.
The Constitution should be
in every soutl eru home, •
This paper and the Constitu¬
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Schedules, and Rates, both
B* « m J fWgH
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CITY BJRBER SHOP
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PROPRIETOR.
My shop is comfortable.
My towels are clean.
My tools are always keen.
My attention is respectful.
My aim»—to please all*
Give me a call when you new
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