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Mr. W.J. Rodoey, Roclc Hill, S. C.
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THE FRANKLIN j TIMES
. A. THOMAS, Editor and Proprietor,
E.F. TAEBOROPGir, Associate Ed.
ONE YAR,
SIX MONTHS,
?i.5o;
75
Fridat. February. 21. 1896
THE RIVER.
I era a river flowing from God's sea
Through devious ways. He mapped my
course for me;
I cannot change it; mine alone the toll
To keep the water free from rrime and
soil. T
The winding river ends where It began;
And when my life has compassed its brief
. span
I must return to that mysterious source.
So let me gather daily on my course
The perfume from the blossoms as I pass.
Balm from tbe pines and healing from the
rrass,
And carry down my current as I go
Not common stones but precious gems to
show
And tears (the holy water from sad eyes)
Back to God's sea, which from all rivers
rise.
Let me convey; not blood from wounded
hearts.
Nor poison whlch'the upas tree imparts.
When over flowery vales I leap with Joy,
Let me not devastate them, nor destroy.
But rather leaye them fairer to the sight.
Mine be the lot, to comfort, and delight.
And if down awful chasms I needs must
leap.
Let me not murmur at my lot, but sweep
On bravely to the end without fear.
Knowing that He who planned my ways
stands near.
Love sent me forth, to Love I go again.
For Love is all, and over all. Amen.
Ella W. Wilcox, in N. Y. Independent. '
A STRANGE EXPERIENCE.
If there are those inclined to doubt
the probability of the following story,
told to me aa the truth by an eminent
and trustworthy gentleman of San
Francisco, they have yet to learn and
comprehend some of the most vital
things of life. He said tome:
"A few summers ago my family left
town to spend some weeks in the coun
try. I gave the servants a vacation and
arranged to stay alone at my house.
For a change I had a bed placed in the
drawing-room, which was in the front
of the house on the lower flooi. On
one side of this room was the vestibule,
into which the outer door opened, and
on, the other an exterior passage which
opened upon the street through a gate,
and which ran back alongside the house
in the rear of the premises. It was
paved with boards, some of which had
worn slightly loose. The gate was
closed with an ordinary lift latch.
"We had lived in the house a number
of years, but I had never slept in that
room before. The front of the room
, , , , . "
was taken up by a bay window, which
was furnished on the inside with ordi-
nary slat blinds. My bed was placed
at the opposite end of the room, against
the sliding doors.
"I had arranged to take my meals
downtown. Onhe first evenig of my
in mv imnrrJrifurf nt!,L
nvinnv Th i rTZ I; ,
the upper sashes of the window, closed j
the blinds and went to bed.
"Ordinarily, I would fall quickly j
asleep on retiring, but the novelty of
my position, and perhaps some busP
ness anxieties, kept me awake for an
hour or two. This worried me and
made me nervous. The stillness of the
night came on, but still I remained
awake. It was while I was lying in
this state that I heard the latch of i
the gate opening into the side passage
cautiously raised, then some one step
cautiously within, leaving the gate
open, and then footfalls proceeding
stealthily toward the rear of the house,
causing a loose board here and there
to squeak.
"I listened with the most eager and
strained alertness,, for my immediate
conclusion was that a burglar, perhaps
having observed the departure of the
family and assuming that the house
had been temporarily deserted, had
come to plunder the place. I heard
him try and then abandon the secure
ly barred door opening from the rear
porch upon the passage.
"A lattice extended from the lower
rear porch tg the upper. Without
moving, I heard the intruder slowly but
nimbly scale the lattice and step upon
the floor of the upper porch. A hall
door and a bed chamber window both
opened upon this porch, and I was curi
oii3 to note which the burglar would
attack, and began to wonder if they
had been locked.
"He chose the window. . I heard the
sash lock snap under the pressure of
his old chisel. After a pause he stepped
into the room and proceeded to ransack
it. It was my wife's room, and al
though I knew that she had provided
elsewhere for the safe care of her furs
and other more valuable clothes, I re
flected there must have been left a
number of things which a burglar
might think worthy of attention. I
heard him strip a blanket from the oed,
spread it upon the floor and proceed to
pile upon it the plunder which he found
in the trunks, chiff onnieres, closets and
the like. Then he, stepped to the open
door into the passage and stood listen
ing xor a moment.
"These occurrences "hA nanmriiiio.'
effect upon my nerves. The door be-1 "In sintple desperation rrfc.t
tween my temporary bedroom and the ! moved byTwrt oTSionf? cS
xestibule was open for ventilation, and to the windowin ordeTto obSiS
touch with, the man who would not): glars entering the gate. I turned th
hesitate to kill me should that prove slat of a lower band fed I S foul
necessary to his safety. I knew that Not a soul'isible, and yeurg?a
sooner or later he would descend the j were still pouring through the
stau-s, at the foot of which was the rh IT,ott V41" B
open door of mv room It wonid ' t explanation came like a shock-
hfve been cififcuir?or" S ' r' JT
him and naWaa eff orTto eripple t !wf e e wH8lata ima,edlafe
kill him in the darkness with ooJal SJS
aozenof the convenient articles which
1 remembered were the room, includ
ing a heavy poker, some bronze stat
uettes, chairs, stools and the like. Or
dinarily, as you are aware; I am not a
timid man, but T tell you now that an
unaccountable fear, assailed . me and
held me prisoner. ; It requires a good
eal of candor to make that admission,
but it is necessary tc-a complete under
Mandin'gof this remarkable experience,
' "After standing in a listening atti
tude a moment, the burglar slowly and
cautiously descended the stairs, and.
as I expected, left my room alone arid
proceeded - to the dining-room. t knew
that tha solid iUverwarc. had been sent
away for safekeeping, and so 1 was not
surprised when the burglar, after hand-
ling the plated -ware which he found
and making It tinkle softly and gently,
left it, made an, unprofitable search of
other rooms and returned to the foot
of the stain.' This brought bim again
io my door. He mused on the threa
hold, listened in silence a moment and t
1im "mmfA nuatM T. V.t taA I
ment I suffered such a reasonless agony
of terror as cannot be explained on or-
dinary grounds.; I held my breath nnta
1 was nearly suffocated, and when the
man ' turned to leave was cold to the
marrow.
"He reascended the stairs, tied up his
bundle, passed through : the window
and closed it, dropped the parcel over
the rail, clambered down the lattice
and went away as he had come, shut-
ting the gate behind him.
"I felt intensely relieved when he had
gone, and a reaction set in that com
posed my nerves for slumber. Drowsl
ncss was alreadv armroachinc when
was startled by the soft clicking of the
gate latch. It wes very unlikely that
.the same burglar had returned, and
would have been extraordinary if an
other had come. And yet, try as hard '.
as 1 might to reason out some other pos- j
nihility, there came the steady foot- i
sicps of a thief on the boards of the I
outer passage. I studied this step so
intently and analytically that I was j
certain the intruder was not the samo j
r.s the first. Then I began to wonder !
what he would do. -
"I was not surprised to hear him try 1
the door of the lower porch and find it i
strongly barred within, nor greatly to j
hear him climb the lattice ns the other
had done. I was curious to see -vhetber j
ho would attack the door or the window !
after he landed on the porch. By a sin- j
gular coincidence he chose the window.
1 heard him try it, and imagined that he
started on discovering that the latch
had been broken. It was evident that
upon entering the room he was sur- i
prised and confused to see its disorder. '
But he drew a sheet from, the bed and
spread it out on the floor and proceeded ,
to ransack the room. Evidently his be- 1
wilderment increased, and he must i
have been discouraged to find so little
worth taking.
"He was not lone in comnletmo' th
looting of the room, and then he went
to the door and stood a moment in the I
passage, listening intently. After that
he began carefully to descend the
stairs, nis conduct thenceforward was f j
exactly a iepetition of his predecessor's. j
ITe passed my door, tinkled the plated'!
silverware in the dining-room, left it j
alone, returned to the vestibules stood
a moment listening at my open door,
cautiously retraced his steps ujwtairs, ',;
passed through the window, closed it, !:
. ' "K" ptu-uei xo tne ground, clam-
,'bcred down the lattice and passed out,
closing the gate behind him
t vnnv c, , . , ,
dence aaed STvh
I Thfrno ttl Jnd, measure'
' anng else, seemed
j LeTr f?gtl
! ? 8 uld have
aroppea nis parcel to the ground, clam
cie&rea the house of the second bur
friar, but I had not the courage to do
iuuu
"My alarm and nervousness became
so great that I arose from bed and was
just about to strike a match with
which to light the gas in the chandelier'
when I heard the gate latch click for
the third time. My match remained
unstruck, and I listened with a fasci
nated intentness to this last invasion.
In all particulars it was identical with
the second, down to the point when the
burglar descended the stairs and
passed my own door on his way to the
uming-room. To light the gas then
would hare been to place the man in
a corner and compel him to fight, I
I realized not only thafJit is taking one's
1 life in his own hands, to cut off a bur
glar's retreat before attacking him (as
a knowledge of a chance of escape di
verts his attention from the necessity
for self-defense and renders Elm
easier to overcome), but that I was now
in a condition in which I lacked both
the courage and the strength to make
the attempt.
"The position which I now occupied
in the room was half way between the
bed and the window. As I was so
much nearer the window than before,
I could hear sounds from without with
much more distinctness. Vhile I
stood there listening to the third bur
glar tinkle the plated ware I .was
startled to hear the gate latch click
again and the footfall of a fourth bur
glar on the board-paved passage. As
he was climbing the lattice a fifth en
tered the gate, then a sixth, then oth
ers, until burglars in an endless pro
cession were entering my premises and
rifling my house on one common and
unvarying plan.
"It is useless to say that an intelli
gent man should not have entertained
such an idea for a moment. We know
that I might have reasoned that per
haps that there had been only one, or.
at most, two, burglars, after all, and
that the fright which they gave me
caused me to conjure up the others
from a fear-deranged imagination, it
might be profitable to indulge in a
grea many other speculations on this
suojec. out tae truth remains that I
could not reaann at. ait
f t'JZa
o J O iU
my imagination had cnniratV4 "tv.
phantasy from beginning to end. -'No
burglar at aH had invaded my house. X
amused and teased myself for sometime
afterward by compellingcny attention
to leave the rattling atot t
; "(j. "ww .wv ICUs)
and fill my house, with'- burglars.'--
ou eTanciscot!!.'
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ythea. Babr was stok Weave her Osaitaria. '.
1tbMkainM a Ob&j,'faa cried for Osatorta. .
':. "Waco she booama sObs, sfaa dung to Cmatoria.
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Highest of all in Leayenln Powers-Latest U.S Gov't Report.'
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:i To the Farmers of
and Adjoining Gonnties-o-
Wo call your attection to a few
Car load of Flour,
All grades
Car load Syrup and Molasses
Salt and Coffee.
Plows Dut.n & Dixie.
Points Duan & Dixie.
Hnmes, Bark Canva99,
and Leather Coilars.
We are daily receiving ow oods of every doscri pt ions, r.ch
plant hed clotb, early rose peed irish potatoes, Cabban, S. C
baras, Caniii tomatoes, corn, garden peac, prunes, nalmornl,
sardines, oysters, beet rream cheese, Mapon standard
crackers, corned beef, chipped beef, pickl?, pre
pared mustard Fauce, rice, buck wheat, oat
L'eal, dried apples and peaches, Frpsh
Sauiae alway? ofi band, country bam?,
beans, eweet potatoes, eating irish
p(tatoes, celery seed, 'ir.er,
nut meg. In fact you
ca.i ret ftnytbir;
you want from
ue frebb.
We keep a full 6tock Shoes, Dry
before you buy.
Louisburjr. N
C.
What is
CastorU la Ir. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for InfauU
pnd Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Xarcotic substance. It is harmless substituto
for Paregoric, Drops, Soo tiling Syrups, and Castor OIL
It is Pleasant. Its funrantco is' thirty years' use by
Million of Mothers. Castoria is tho Children's Panacea
the 3Iothers Friend.
Castoria.
"CetorlBbso w-'J aijpt: tocVMrc-. th.:
I reconmjsi it a:- Kupwior to any iirescrijoon
knotra to dip." n. A. Ar-raxa, M. P..
ill So. Oxford St., Brookirn. N". V.
" The ukc of ' Castoria ' Ls so unlrerI aid
it merits o well fccctrn that, it c:ns c work
of supwjrogaticn to entlorre it. . Few ero Zv
intclU jmt fmaCiec trbo do cct k?p Caitnrb
within cej.y roach."
C-3J0 SLL3TTH, T. D.,
New Tort City.
Tim Cehtac
ATTENTION PUBLIC.
For want of a euitabl? place to show and handle Clothing, to ad
vanage, we for tbe next 30 days will sell our entire stock of
Clothing at Cost
This is a rare opportunity to tret yoa a 8nit of Clothes,
what w ty. Call and be con-ioced. We are jrettint
another car load of 8alt and
'Old gold' Flour
1 1
c rkVi L1 iaTe JBl io ' W' lot of Genalnl
gecd,Tielf Coffee at 20 cent worth 22, we don't elalm U nnderael.
Anyone, Lot will meet competition of any, ho claim to undersell all
m V i " f0,? U eore 10 8e Ci ben yn t n, ' yo
will fe el tatiificd that y bought yonr foods at tbe rlcht place. . -
a u n .
Franklin
articles le!ow, wlich please rcaJ:
Car load Meat,
Sugar, Oats,
Plow Lin. Back
Bands, collar paJ.
as
Good? and Notions, piv,
us a eal
KING & PLEASANTS.
Castoria,
y-jur 'Cafctori.' nr.d il jl aiT.i.m e.inu jo to
'lo v t-A It Kio inrarinUlr prodvKxU otwicLil
rrwiuta."
Kowi F. riant. M. r.,
13T-th Slrwt act! Tui New v-rk OR7.
Cp?i.Tt,
Mcuir &nuor?, Kn T-x Orrr
aass
We mean
in today
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CRENSHAW,
Looisiiurg
OYS & YQUNd M!
TflEUKif
I P.irt"'-. enp.rdis.ns. t..p Mr
; need" your ; atro,,.., 4.nr rapt,hv. roor bertj co-opertt;
jit is to b'enn;- an elr-nent-of real sfreOKlb to our thr;:
:lo-.vn. If yenr 1 iv ma hA r, i : . 5
v , , u , m , iriiiiDj? perjQ i
! tbe r.r.fT:inK. We wart bim. You ran rot afford to -wor"
j now. K.) bas a Hfe t.m- to ork," a rery limited time for Fr,
! tion.
f!;r,cr.e a.imrs without
North Carolina an J Collets of
A. B. KIMBALL, Ph. B. C. N. C
Now is yonr time lo buy furniture.
Te Acme e; Lo? Pries is Ti-BaHtafc Ksur will fcs asr.
The FaiU ry's harr- al i agreed to advance their pnet-i, but U' r
iht-y put up tbr-ir prices I bad Keen into th
mark t and Lrupbt lh
GRANDEST AMD CHEAPEST
lo.
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KITE ME
E. ANDREWS,
Lcailinc; Ilcalrr in Furniture, Pir.noh niid Orar.
0 and IS A. Trad- Strt,
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WAITT'S SAMPLE ROOM.
Ob Coal SL,
Stiil maiutair.s its established reputation of elling
liquora and giving the moat satisfactory service of any
me county.
Their stock of Whissies, Wines, Beer, and Cif art" is now larger
and more complete than erer, and with
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The skillful bartender, to wrre yoa, yoa cannot fall L Jrt pleaaed.
Thanking oar friends warmly for tb sir past firors we atk a e&u
tjnaanca of the same, and promise; that yoa shall always rJeei?e
the prompt and conrteoni treatment doe a gentleman, Ko boys er
smart alecka employed in my saloon. ,
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sir:
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