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GENT STORE 628 Broad Street, Augusta. Ga. Come to our stow for B ARGAINS* when in August &&Read these prices; Speoial Bargains : 36 inch wide sheeting 5c yard; yard wide Sea Island 5c yard; good quality drills 5c yard; first-class Checks and .Plaids at 5c yard; all oiled ccloied Calico to go at 6c yd; 6>?c Waists and Dress Outing at 6c. 10c Black Sateen cut to Sc; all 26c Table Domestic cut to 15c and regular 50c goods at- 25c. Men's Pants from 45c to $2.00 pair; Men's Suits from $2.50to $7.25 suit; Boys and Children's Suits from 65c to $1.98suit; Men's Overalls from 25c io 49c pair Underwear. 100 Dozen Ladies 40c Vests cut to 22c; 300 dozen heavy 50c Jersey Ribbed Ve us to go at 25c; Men's heavy Shirts cut from 40c to 25c; extra soft finish Shirts and Drawers cut from 75c to 37 ' i each. Best values in Suspenders on the market for the money. . LADIES' SHIRT WAIST: 1000 Percale Wlists for 24c;lot of Summer Skirts eat to 24c; heavy Fall Skirts for 82c. Our Shoe Stock can't be beat, Childrens 10c np; Womens 93o up and Men's from $1.00 to $1.75 for best Calf or Vlei Dress Shoe. LARGE STOCK OF TINWARE AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Weean save you money on everything we sell. Call to see us A. M. THOMAS, Proprietor. 628 Broad Street, - Augusta, Ga. "Wagons Buggies FUKNIT?KE. 'Large Shipments of the best makes of wagons abd buggies just received. Oar stc?k of furniture, house furnishings is complete. A Large stock. COFFINS and CASKETS. always on hand. All calls for our Hearse prompt ly responded to. All goods sold on a small mar gin of profit. Call to see me, I will save you money. O25:0. IP. COBB. Johnston, South Carolina. Farrand Organs The Bese in the world. The Factory does three quarters of a million dollars worth of I business a year. Quality considered they are tde CHEAPEST ORGANS made. Over fifty now in stock. Terms accommodat ing. Write me before buying elsewhere. Other magnifi cent organs in appearance at Forty-Five Dollars, with stool and box. Freight paid J. A. Holland, NINETY SIX, S. C. PhiladelphiaDentalParlors, 722. Broadway, Augusta, Ga. - No more dread of the dental chair. Teeth extracted by the latest scientific methods. ^ AnA?LirMr for the painless extraction of teeth is absolutely 1 AKvr IB ti PE CL painless aud harmless No sleep producing- agent er cocaine applied to the gums. No bad rest Its follow. We are notcom jeting with cheap dentist or cheap dentist establishments; but with first r?das* dentists, at prices less than that charged by them. Why pay more , L:J.when ire do the t>est work, bave the mest skilled operators in each depart ment, the best equipped office in the city, use the best modern methods for painless extraction of teeth, and guarantee to please you. We are the on4y dentist in Augusta using this new method for the painless extraction of ttteih. Gold Crowns and Teeth without plates at low prices. Gold Fillings, Amalgam, Silver and Cement at reduced prices. Our common sense prices ' and satisfactory work have established the lerge-t and best dental practice in the aouto. This is the only first class, up-to-date dental office in the city. We have no comretiors. We can tell you exactly what your work will cost by a free examination. IT-Offices in the United States. Augusta Office, 722 "Broadway, Next door to J. B. White's Store, Dr. G. W. Sbackeford, Manager )ffice hours : 8 a ra, to 9 p m. Look for our signs W; J. Rutherford. R. B. Morris. W. J. Rutherford & Co MANUFACTURER OF Brick and Lime. ANL> DEALER IN Cement, Plaster, Hair, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Ready Roofing and other Material. Write Us For Prices. Corner Reynolds and Washington Streets, Augusta, * Georga, 31 Receiving From Day To Day| Shipment of toy wagons, goat wagons, goat carts and harness, velocipedes, tricycles, shoo flys, etc., for the holiday season. A large and varied line of beaver and plush carriage robes, horse blankets. Fine and medium priced whips and crops. Genuine imported riding saddles and rbidles. Trunks, Satchels," and Suit Cases. Call and inspect goods wnich it is a pleasure and delight to show. ? H. H. COSKERY, 33.735 Br?ad St.. Augusta, Ga.| ESTIATES GIVEN ON ALL KINDS Tin Roofing,. Galvanized Iron Cornice| Sheet Metal W rk, Sky Lights, Etc. Stoves, Rannes, anlols, Tilling Grate?, Tin Plate, Galvanize] Iron, Copper, ?jnc, Solder, Eave Troughs and Conductor Pipes, Roof ing and Sheathing Papers. ' flj?flF*Repairing promptly done. inna j^arf gt. Augusta Ga.1 WE HAVE BOUGE MANY i and must move them in a Iii this we have in some lines c We Must Rai consequently we will sacrifie many GOODS at ar This is the C of a life time to get CLOT DRY GOODS and NOTIO The Goods are G and you had better come at the STOCK. We can now make one c for you as two dollars will dc Jp^"Come, let us show \ li .ADVERTISER BUILDIN APHORISMS. Nothing ages like laziness.-Bulwer. The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow.-Cowper. We can do nothing well without joy and a good conscience, which is the ground of joy.-Dlbbes. He that is ungrateful bas no guilt j but one. All other crimes may pass ' for virtues in him.-Young. A word or nod from the good has more weight than the eloquent speeches of others.-Plutarch. Kind words prevent a good deal of that pervertedness which rough and Imperious usnge often produces in gen erous minds.-Locke. An Inquisitive man is a creature nat urally very /nennt of thought Itself and therefore forced to apply to for eign assistance.-Steele. The only way to make the mass of mankind we lue beauty of justice is by Showing them in pretty plain terms the consequence of injustice.-Sydney ] Smith. I The YOUIIR Writer. No young A* ri UT III whom the liter acy aspiration ia a inisalon need ot reui?y will oe cowed by the array of mighty, and expert antagonists in the arena whose names sound and resound so gloriously tram the herald's trumpet in full volume re-enfnreed by past tri umphs. Though a true and bocouiln.1 modesty may well temper Iiis ambition it should in no degree suppress his ai dent longings These veterans, young aspirant, are indeed masters, but as such your exemplars. They also had their beginnings, bidden indeed, as used to be the sources of the Nile. "n< permitted to be seen sundi."/ because they mastered their art before they exhibited as artists.-Harper's Maga sine. Thief CleTerne.i?. A magistrate's clerk has been known to have his tic- pin stolen while in court, and one In Birmingham a few years ago lost his coat in the same way, but a more remarkable example perhaps of a thief's cleverness under the very eyes of the police was that of the burglar at Clerkenwell who man aged to conceal two diamond rings while the police were searching him and passed one of them to his wife in the ceil while the police were looking on. The rings were under his tongue, and one of them passed from his mouth to his wife's when he w.is kissing her goodby.- London Answers/ A Lasting Lettaon. "Didn't J tell you not to propose to me again?" "You said something of the kind, but of course it made no impression on me." "Oh, it didn't! Well. lil give you a lesson now that you won't forget. You'll never propose to me again." "What are yon going to do?" "Pm going to accept you."-Cleve land Plain Dealer. Bnddhlam. y Mrs. Dumm-I see a piece in the pa per about some society people bein' in terested in Buddhism. What's that? Mrs. Dumber-Why. I guess that must be the (loin's of these young soci ety people that's called "buds."-Phila delphia Ledger. " The Snfent. Sharpe - Yes. Parker invented the tafeat^alr ship ever heard of. Whealton-But lt refused to fly. You couldn't get up on it. "That's why I say lt was the safest." Success. She-And what would you call a suc cessful poet? He-One who leaves money euougb to bury him.-Judge. A straight line ls shortest in momi as well as ir. geometry.-Rahel. I The Cause of Many Sudden Deaths. There is a disease prevailing in this I country most dangerous because so decep tive.' Many sudden deaths are caused by it - heart disease, pneumonia. heart failure or apoplexy r- aro, often the result of kidney disease. If kidney trouble is al lowed to advance the 'Z kidney-po is on ed blood will attack the _ -u?K vital organs or the kidneys themselves break down and waste away cell by celk Bladder troubles most always result from a derangement of the kidneys and a cure ls obtained quickest by a proper treatment of the kidneys, if you are feeling badly you can make no mistake by taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. It corrects inability to hold urine and scald ing pain in passing it, and overcomes that unpleasant .necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many [times during the night.' The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon ?realized, It stands the highest for Its won derful cures of the(most distressing cases. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and sold by all druggists in fifty-cent and one-dollar sized bottles. You may have a sample bottle of thii wonderful new dis covery an4 a book that fells all about it, both sent freo by mail. Address Dr, Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, N. Y. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper. Homo of Bivarop-Tloot. [T ENTIRELY TOO GOODS nited time. In order to do ut prices half in two, se the CASH ;e the profits and will sell td BELOW COST. )pportanity 'HING, SHOES, HATS, XS, at your own prices. oing Every Day once and ?et the pick of lollarbuy as many GOODS ) at almost any other store. rou. HRfBI G. EDGEFIELD, S. C. A Wonder of Precocity. Christian lleiueeker was boru nt Lu beck ou the ?th of February, 1721. When only ten months old he could re peat every word spoken to ulm. At twelve months of age he had memo rized all the principal events in the Pentateuch. Before Le had finished Iiis second year ol' existence he had learned all the historical ??arts of both the Old and the New Testament. At the age of three he could reply correct ly to all questions put to him regard ing universal history und geography, and In the same year he leal-nod to speak both Latin and French. In his fourth year be employed his time in studying religio:)';, especially the history of tho Christian church. Ile was not o:ily aide lo glibly repeat all that lie had read, but was also able to reason with ir;iu3ldi?r:ible of judg ment and to give- h'.s own oplniou of things In general. The king ol' Hen nin r!: wished to seo this wonderful child. so ho was taken to Copenhagen. After his return to Lubeck he learned to write and was beginning on the study nf music and mathematics; but, his constitution being pery weak, he took down and died on June 27. 1725, nged four years, four months and twenty-one days. What a wonderful) record for such a short life! Battered Locks. In Abyssinia one method of doing the hair that ls adopted by warriors ?ci to stroll into the market place, buy a pound of butter and. putting it upon the top of the hair, stand still while the sun arranges things. When the hair is thus dressed with melted butter the Abyssinian knows that fate cannot or will not touch him. Ile ls a picture of well dressed elegance done in oils. Another style is to tress the hair, and every tress means something. A young warrior with a head of hair untressed is of no account He-bas not yet killed a man. When, however, he has done so all his hair is shaved off except enough to make one tress, which is of the same signification as a notch on a pistol stock. After that every man he kills entitles bira to add another tress until as a conquering hero of 100 tress es he is a formidable man to try con clusions with. Crinoline. Crinoline had its origin in a woven fabric composed of hair and linen (flax) warp; hence the name. This fabric was first used for shoes, thtm for bon nets, the word being coined in 1830. As this article was costly and did not extend the dress to the desired bulk light steel hoops were fitted with tape upon the bird cage principle. So popu lar was the crinoline in 18G2 that the rolling of the steel developed a great trade in Sheffield, and one firm alone averaged an output of from ten to fif teen tons a week. Several deaths oc curring by fire through the use of crinoline killed the fashion, but Dr. Richardson in his "Field of Diseases" gives an instance of a lady escaping from the effects of being struck by lightning by the hoops acting as con ductors. Rearranging the Bani?. "You are charging me S7 a week for board and lodging, Mrs. Irons," said the gray haired person of the name of Harris. "May I ask how you would itemize it? What part of lt ls for board?" "Five dollars," replied the landlady. "And $2 for my room?,r "Yes." "Well, if you don't mind, Mrs. Irons," he said, proceeding to square up for another week, "we'll consider hereaft er that I'm paying $5 for lodging and $2 for board. It will seem more as If I were getting the worth of my money." -Chicago Tribune. 131 rd n That Lay Foar Esten. The spotted sandpiper and killdeer plover and most of the other snipe and plover lay four eggs at a clutch. The eggs are arranged in the nest or on the bare ground with their small ends to gether, and as they are pyriform In shape they join in to perfection. The eggs of tho snipe and plover groups are proportionately exceedingly large for the slzo of the bird, and the saving of space by this arrangement undoubt edly answers a purpose. Why They Parted. "Yis," said .Mrs. Clancy, "Pat and 1 j have parted foriver. I went to the hospital to ax after bim. 'I want to gee me husband.1 soz I-'tho man that got blowod up.' Ycz can't see bim,' soz tho doctbor: 'be's nuder the lntioo enco of Ann Estbctlcks.' 'I don't know tho lady.' soz I. mighty dignified lolke. 'but if mo lawful wedded husband kin act loiko that when he's at dith's door I'll have a divorce from him.' " F.nvlonN. Visitor- You haven't got half as nice a cemetery boro as we have in Elm ville. Prominent Citizen (of Hawville)-No, I've always hoard that the cemetery ls the only part of 3'our town that holds out any Inducements for perma nent residents.-Chicago Tribune. rp Tr ll I Old Sores, Itching Piles, tUitlYIAj Skin Diseases, ABSOLUTELY CURED. HERMIT SALVE, ES ANO 60 CENTS A BOX. Sold by all Drugirists. Take no other. _Old Family Remedy 25 years. t COUNTESS TOLSTOI. The Hr Ulla nt bat Modext IV ?.Te of the Greut RuNiiinn Writer. Countess Tolstoi is a wonderful wom an, and but for ber geulus her distin guished husband, tho great Russian writer, would today be a beggar, a de crepit invalid, with his physical pow ers wasted and gone years ago. Mme. Tolstoi, handsome, highly educated, practical, has been the power behind the throne, engineer of the elaborate Tolstoi machinery, which so speedily would have gone to smash without her. She persists in keeping herself in the background and is quite content to re main unknown. When Count Tolstoi met her, she was a mere girl, the daughter of a phy sician in Moscow. He was already a jaded man of the world, with strange religious ideas just beginning to crop out. He had sold his estates and had decided never to marry. Then he met COUNTESS TOLSTOI the countess, and she changed the whole world for him. They were mar ried in and she began her life of constant self sacrifice by going out to a little hut on the Poly?na estate, all that was left of the big house. There she lived for seventeen years in a lonely, deserted place, rniloj away from town. Tolstoi was then going up and down the Russian empire stndyinf social conditions and absent from home for months at a time. The countess at tended to her housework-they were too poor to have many servants. She nursed each one of her thirteen chil dren. She dispensed with governesses and taught them herself German. French and English, gave them music lessons, mad? their clothes and her own. Then, as soon as her husband be gan a book, she began revising it. translating it from Russian into French or German, copying lt in her clear handwriting, so that the printer could read it-she is about the only person who can make head or tail of the count's writing-and attending to the publication of the book wbeu it was finished. Count Tolstoi pays no attention at all to the royalties on his books, and he even went so far years ago as to de clare to his wife that they had no right to receive money for his work. But ns the family property had to be sold piece by piece to get the money to buy bread for the children Countess Tol stoi rebelled and threatened to leave him unless ho let her collect the money which was due him. So now all the business is transacted through her. She has paid off all the debts on the estate, and a few years ago she bought a pretty little house in Moscow, which gives her a chance to see something of life and people and know what ls going on In tlie world.-St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. The Seeret of Good Dre.ialnnr. lu the gospel of sticking to whatever becomes you is contained the secret of being well dressed. Foolish, indeed, ls she who wears brown just because it happens to be stylish when she knows that lt sallows her skin, or waists fitted closely to the figure when she knows they reveal defects, uneven shoulder heights or angularities of form. Hav ing discovered the color and cut which especially suit her, she should adhere to them though the heavens fall. Same ness ls not to be feared when it is also becomlngness. The celebrated beauty, Mme. Reca mler, set a notable example in this matter. At the Abbaye-au-Bois, summer and winter, she received her friends wearing a pale yellow pelisse made of taffeta. In cold weather It was softly wadded, and in warm weat' er it was simply lined with silk, but it was the same garment. At her throat and wrist were ruffle's of beautiful creamy bice, concealing traces of attenuation, for this was In the latter years of her life She never changed the style of her bat either, which was always large and white, brimmed with either drooping plumes or marabou tips. How differ ent and how much less admirable our conception of Mme. Recamier's per sonality had she affected a Jaunty turban and decollete! Why Women Oo Not Fish. How does it happen that the fisher man's mantle never falls on the women of the house. Investigators claim that the daughter is more likely to Inherit Hie father's quality than Is the son. We all know that with other taints and tendencies-tendencies that cause, alas. Ruffp'ing, shame, disease, disgrace, death-nature ia not so lenient. Wom en come in for their full share of the visitation for the sins of their fathers, and there are no physical traits and peculiarities that may not descend in Ihnve been grown hy thousands of sat isficd customers for over fifty years Ihcy arc ns good as can be procured any where in tlir world. At thc prices listed in our catalogue wc deliver goods to you FREE of express or mail charges. VicK's Garden ? (Si Floral Guide for 1003 Valuable to everyone who plants seeds, whether it':; only a flower bcd or an immense farm. It is not a mere enta legue, but a v.-or!: ol reference, full 0f profitable information. A hook of over icc illustrated pires. Free, if you rr.imion V.-.?? naiar. Write fer it. i - -i11 2a r?c".?_-oe?5 A valuable rci.rcnec ImcJc :!:.;t tri, - .-.'I staut thc culture au! c.irc ot crops, preparation of !.,nd, fertilizing, sprsyi:^, etc. St.;: FREE if desired. JAMES VICK'S CONS Roc?ies?or, IJev/ Yc?l? y lie same way. lt seems to me a tr?r lard that when It comes to the oue in lerltance that yields such absolute en oymeut they should be so mercilessly mt out. I do not believe they are cut tut except by artificial reasons. I be leve the daughter Is bou with the ame devotion to the stream, the Foods, the open air, the blue sky, the erne intolerance of restraint, the same ?erlodieal longings to be away, with he same skillful bands and uncanny >raln tbat ber father bad before her md that her brotheri are encouraged 0 Indulge. Custom, however, has put 1 broom In her hands, a needle In her Ingers, long skirts that bind ber llb Tty and the cry of duty and decorum n her ears.-Outing. Too Much Kitchen. The French, the best cooks in the .7orld, perform their entire task within he area that ls often given In this lountry in a house of moderate size to he china closet alone, for the Amerl :an, following his English ancestor, tas fallen into the habit of giving an indue amount of importance to the titchen or service portion of the house. This tendency reacts upon Itself, and it nay be that the exaggerated impor ance given to the servant problem In his country is less unavoidable than be ordinary housewife supposes. If j .he could but once be brought to con- ' iider restricting the area now given to he kitchen and the closets connected vith lt, might it not be found that the trdlnnry routine of household life vould move aiong more easily and vlth less friction?-F. Chouteau Brown n Good Housekeeping. The Boudoir Breakfast. "It is too bad about Cl. rissa," a weet old lady observed after a vls.it o a city relation. "She is so poorly be bas to have ber breakfast In bed very morning." "More likely lt's pure laziness," napped her less charitable sister. It may happen that the city cousin, f she be up to date, la neither the ne nor the other. There is no longer lither surmise or a suspicion of lazi ?ess attached to the woman who take9 be first meal of the day If not In bed it least In her own room. Each day nay have for her an Infinity of duties o be performed. She husbands ber orces for the fray by eating before .he dresses and over ber solitary coffee :up quietly lays the plans for her cam mign.-Washington Star. Young Old Women. You sometimes see a woman whose ;ld age ls as exquisite as was the per 'ect bloom of her youth. You wonder low this has come about. You wonder low it is her life bas been a long and ?appy one. Here are some of the rea 10ns: She knew bow to forget disagreeable liiugs. Siie mastered the art of saying pleas ant things. She made whatever work came to her :ongenial. She retained her illusions and did not jelieve all the world wicked and un bind.-Philadelphia Inquirer. Camphorated Challe Camphorated chalk ls one of the slm )le dentifrices that never go out One :an prepare it at home just as well as o pay a druggist to do it All that is lecessary ls an on?ce of powdered mmphor and fifteen Ounces of pre mred chalk. If lt ia desired to have the dentifrice f(Tam add/S little pow lered castile soan^oPifx thoroughly by lifting through coarse cambric a num jer of tunes. Value of OU Ia Cooking. After using olive oil In place of but :er to saute potatoes, small fish, toma res, etc., few housekeepers will care :o go back to the old fashion. Oil, even me best, costs very little more than Imiter, and less of lt Is required in looking. Oil mixed with flour makes a pery smooth foundation for a roux or ivhite sauce. An Athletic Aathorena. Miss Florence Finch Kelly, the au Jioress, takes great delight in hunt ng and In horseback riding through iparsely settled parts of the country. 3he has traveled all over the Sierras, arith only so much outfit as could be Jed on her saddle, and she bandies a .evolver and rifle with great skill. Better Than Beauty. The woman who looks amiable and ?heerful is naturally beautiful, far nore so than a woman with irre proachable sculptural outlines and fea :ures so regular that she makes you -vish she had some redeeming defect >r other. Perfection was attractive in indent Greece. It is not now. Bread aad Milk Pancake?. Soak a pint of stale bread crumbs in i quart of rich milk, whip in a table spoonful of melted butter, a teaspoon ful of salt, three well beaten eggs and mougb flour to make a griddlecake satter. Cook on a soapstone griddle f you have one. Mrs. Russell Sage says: "Cooks are lifficult to keep, as they are more in iemand in marriage. Men like to mar ry cooks. They feel that the food question is settled then." The Medical Press and Circular says that so'-- long as skirt bands are fas tened round the waist corsets of stiff material should be worn. Very dainty stand covers can be made of colored linen with cream crochet Insertions and edgings. Sleep on small pillows and thus avoid lonnie chins. Quite Fp to Date. Day-I find there ls a $2.500 mort gage on the property you sold me. You never said anything about it Gay-Certainly I did. Didn't I dis tinctly tell you lt had all modern Im provements*-New Yorker. The bashi-bnzouk shaves bis bend ex ;ept a tuft nt the crown, which is to be used by tile angel to Jerk bim to para dise if he should be slain by bis in tended vlei bu. Enginesand Boilers, ana ems GET OUR PRICES. Complete Cotton, Saw, Grist, Oil and fertilizer Mill Outfits, Gin, Press Jane Mill.and Shingle Outfits. Fnil.diif.] riff*, Frrtrry, Fiiric nd Railroad Castings, Railroad, Mil Jachinists'and Factory Supplies. Belting, Packing, Injectors, Pipe Attings, Saws, Files, Oilers, etc. We a?t every day. Work 160 Hands, 'oundry. Machine, Boiler, Press and Gin Works 'W* Repa is Promptly Done mM Iron loris & Sopply Co AJUSTA, GA We Incite Your attention to the greatest sale of WHJTE TABLE CROCKERY that has ever taken place in Augusta. More than 67,000 pieces a solid car of 60,000 pounds j the freight alone being$257.52 1000 Fine D?coratif - Sao I eera at 10 cents. About 150 doz PUtters from 8 to 14 inches at 10 o-nts each. No limit you can buy as many a? you want About 100 doz Nappies 6, 6, 7, 8.9 I and 10 inch at 10c each 147 doz 4 in Fruit Plates at 2>?c ead 196 doz Bakers assorted 5 to 10 indi ! 10c each, no limit 40 doz Table Pitchers pints, quarti le gallons 10 cents. Sauce Boats 10 cents ea?h. 16 doz Brush Vases 10c each. 8 doz Covered So^p Dishes at 10c A few doz 9 pieces Chamber bets al 11.25 each. LOOK AT THIS 28 pieje Dinner Set* SI.25. 109 piece Dinner $457. A4 piece Dinner Sets $2.5*. 50 piece Piain Print Dino er Sets * $4.00. 50 piece 'Decorated and Gold lined Dinner Sets at $5 00. 4 doz Sugar D?thes at 10c eich 2 doz l ea Pois lOceaeh. 25 onz Covered Dist es good large z? 25c, i iuG about 103 Decorated covered i?hes;i9 cents. Th*se covered dub ?s are really worth $1.00 About 50 doz Wash Bowl? wor'h 50c to go at 25 cents. -Titowers to match Bowl 25c each doz $1.50 covered S>op l'ai Ls at 75c 4 doz Cabinets ai. 69 cent?. About \y2 doz 22.00 Slop Jars at $1, 1 lot covr-red Chambers at 35 cents. 675 doz 5 inch Plates 2>? cents-each. 70 doz cake 5 cents each. About 2000 dozen White Plates as sorted 6, 7, 8, at 5 cents each 66 doz Soup Plates at 2<vc each, sus doz Tea Cups and Saucers at ?)?c each or 25 cents per set Hi doz (jard Plates at cents, lu doz Jumbo Coffee Cup* at 2}?c, About 25 doz Decorated Plates at 0 cents each. 500 pieces Japanese China worth double the price to g > at 10 cents At The Of writing this advertisement th have plei_ty of every item men Jo u^d but on account of the Very Low Prices we have pul on them we do no oxpect them to stay very loug. S< Come Early and do not get disappoint*d. Look At These For Bargains. 8 quart Galvanized Iron Buck t 13 eenie each . Galvanized Wash Tubs, 45c,55 I$6 aud 75 cents, Pint Tin Cups 3 cents each. 2 quart Pudding Pans 5 cents 1 quart milk Pans 5 cents. 2 quart milk Pans 5 ceil's. 1 quart covered Buckets5'cents. 9 inch Jelly Pil?tes 5 cents. 14 inch Basting Spoons 5 cnuts 4 quart Pudding Pans 5 cent?* 3, 6 and 8 quart milk Pans 10c. No; 8 large size 'lin Wash Ba ?in 10 cents. 9 inch Pin Plates 3 couts. 1 qjart Coff^o Pots 8 cents. Sises! ??Unes! Ladies' shoes 75c upwards* Men's shoes 89c upwuids. Childreu's shoes 15c upwards. We cannot describe every item lof Shoes that we carry. Ier.u:t us Ito make, this statement, which we lean buhstautiate. We are at No Expense To Sell Shoes! We simply combine them with] our immense stock, therefore be ing at no expense to handle Shoes we can sell them for less money than regular Shoe dealers and yet -this difference goes to our cus tomers. Dry Goods. Here we are at home to our friends . Checks at 5 cents vard. Better Checks at 6? cents. Fancy Outing Flannel at 4c. (jood Outing Flannels 10c. Very best Spool cotton 25c doz All tho leading Dress Goods at low? st prices. jptVIn this brief advertise ment we have been able to 'ell you^ but a few facts concerning our! bat ga in 8. We want you to come and see for yourself. Wy are very sure tbat you will be surprised at 'he stock and espeoially nt the price Old Santa Claus will make| his headquarters with us this season. i lt variety fi IUO&III2 Broad Street] A flu ra JIU Pict ar? Book. A remarkable cTse of tattooing carno to Iigbt lo Professor Debra's ' lecture room ID a bos;:j tal lu VIeuua souw rears ago. Tbe man was the subject ot a lecture, and ono of the spectators at first mistook bim for a bronze statue. He was tattooed from head to foot, and not a quarter of a square loeb of Hs entire person was intact. The skin presented an appearance resembling the tracery of an exceedingly rich cash mere shawl. Tbe coloring was done with indigo principally, with enough red Inserted here and there to give lt effect. His name was George Con stantine, a Greek by birth, who with a band of robbers entered Chinese Tartary to commit depredations. The crang was captured, and this man. with others'; was ordered by the ruler to be branded In this manner. On the palms of bis hands letters were tattooed which explained that he was "tho greatest rascal and thief In the world." it took three months to tattoo him. the Indigo being pricked into the skin. The designs represented elephants, lions, ti gers and birds, with letters worked In between. A couple of dragons orna mented bis forehead. He said bis body swelled up very much at the time and ever since bad been sensitive to changes in the weather. Gambitos the Wont Tlee. Of all the vices to Which men are ad dicted gambling is undoubtedly tbe worst Gambling has a worse effect on the mind and conscience even than drink. The inveterate gambler cannot remain honest; be does not remain hon est We talk earnestly to the young man with the gambling habit because many such young men are strong In ability and character and would render good service to the world if they could use their energies properly. The gambling instinct is a perverted form of ambition, the most dangerous of human perversions. Every yonng man who has genuine strength shonld think about gambling from bis own point of view, and his own pride should give him reasons for stopping. If you want success in life you should want lt as a result of your own efforts, not as the result of any accident The gambling instinct ls weak as well si vicious, lt is self Indulgent and con temptible; it represents the desire to get something for nothing.-New York Journal. HU Hobnailed Shoes. A globe trotter whose shoe soles ar? always heavily studded with copper brads was asked why he wore them. He replied: "To those simple brads alone I attrib ute my present good health. For years 1 was an invalid, subject to neuralgia, dyspepsia and headache. In traveling among the western Indiana I finally concluded that their splendid good health was due to their going bare foot And now I attain the same result and wear shoes. I believe the aches ~md pams civilization is heir to are due co the insulation of our bodies from mother earth. Electricity ls the vital izing constituent ot our bodies. The globe ls a mighty battery, continually generating and discharging electricity. I restored the broken connection with the battery with these brads, and the result was astonishing improvement in health." He Ate Bia Own Words. Not long ago the punishment for libel. in Russia was the requirement tbst tbet>; libeler literally ?>at bis own words. A man who published a small volume re flecting on tbe unlimited power of the sovereign was-wised, tried* in a suua^-^ mary way and .condemned to consume- ' the objectionable word?. In oue of the public streets rho Itook was severed from its binding, the margins cut off, the leaves rolled up one by one and fed to the unfortunate author. A surgeon was in attendance to pronounce upon the number possible to give without^* endangering his life, but be is reported to hive set the limit at something like 2?X>. Carried a Live Shark Ashore. Jonathan Fowler, u Massachusetts fifiherman. once walked out kuee deep through the mud und filth of a sea shore ut low tide to a shark left by the r?-tirLug waters, shouldered it and brought it alive on his back to the shore. The shark weighed 500 pounds, quite a load, considering that it was not the most portable of articles and that the man had to wade tbrougif mud. Slmylr Useful. That's AU. "Yes." said Mrs. Wordsworth, "tbe family ls most interesting.* John dances divinely. Tom sings like an an gel, David ls a famous footballer. Su sanna puiuts with grout taste." "And HeuryV" "Oh. Henry! Well, he's a rather duh sort of u follow, you know. Ile onlj works and supports tin? others."-Chi cago Journal. A Chuuare. "You certainly look botler. Yen must have followed my advice aud bad a change." "Yes, doctor, so I have." "Where did you go?" "I went to another physician." The maximum endurance of a IS Inch gun ls 300 firings, while the 6 bach gun may be fired upward of 2,000 times without injury. INDIGESTION "I voa troubled ?Ith stom ach trou bl?. Thadtord's Black Draught did isa mora good In ona weer than all tha doc tor s medicina I took in s year.'-MRS. SABA H S. SniBFIBLD, Ell?tUville, Ind. Thetford 's Black Draught quickly invigorates the ac tion of the stomach and cures even chronic cases of indigestion. If you will take a small dose of Thed ford a Black Draught occa sionally you will keep your stomach and liver ia per fect condition. THEDfoRD'5 l(lf DRAUihT I Kore sickness ii caused by constipation than by any other disease. Thedf ord's Black-Draught not only re lieves constipation but cores diarrhoea and dysentery and keeps the bowels regular. All druggists sell TaVcaat packages. "Th ed ford's Black Draught is tb? best medi cine to regulate tbs bowels I havo ?ver used."-MRS. * A. M. GRANT, Sneads Ferry, N. C. CONSTIPATION saTasWaTaTaTaTaTSHa'a'