University of South Carolina Libraries
tawwrrrv ?*. 1.t ^ FIT11IK T 1704 and 1708 M&m S7, Fall and VI iLJiy uuuui, isuj.1 and Bovs, Ladies' Squares and Rugs We invite our fr ton and the surrou bia to see us for yc are prepared to sa^ stock. We never or cheaper. Notice we prepa; wards to your nea will pay half your of 50 miles, provid $30.00, and at the same time 1 to see'us for your wants. Ladies' Suits from $10.00 tc Millinery this fall. Grand val $18.00. A big assortment of - : We guarantee everything v LOWEST EK1UE. ^ ? ? I WISE MEN I ATOPPO * Never in the histor 1 such splendid vain I FINE FU I as we are offering n I AT COST II SS?""" $2.50 f" I Everything must g | rebuilding our Bed Room ? Come at once an VAN M . 1313*1319 MAIN ST l- . ????g?????? : 1 : ?. -.. - I Invite Youi To my lime of General Dry Goods, Shoes, Hj Staple Groceries, Hardw lowest prices. Highest cotton seed, M. P. L CHAP] ' V D< # Bug 3 As Cell ilOTT AOrH ffiW! nKrr-AKLH oINimj a S A -* i s. ii ? O ?i i v>* m **-* & a ILi. i i C^S i; 5 ' ~ 5f? 3 \ Q ! J f inter Wear j ons, Clothing for Men, Youths f Tailored Suits, Millinery, Art! 7 %j ' j i iends and patrons from Lexing-1 nding counties when in Colum- \ >ur wants before buving. We I C W f ;e you money from this big j had a better stock to show you j i j y all orders from $4.00 and up- j rest express office. Also we j railroad fare within a distance j ing your purchane amounts to j ouying at the lowest price. Call ! ) $27.50. A grand display of j lues in Men's Clothing. $5.00 to j Boys' Suits, $1.50 to $5.00. re sell to be GOOD and at the I * .* K GRASP I RtUNITIESI y of Columbia have .es been offered in IRNITURE I ,ow. Many articles " | ^,?.o?s'? >1.651 Below Cost jo to avoid the dirt store will make Suits $9.50 up Ld get first choice ETRE'S ^COLTWraiA^a^l r Attention v' 4 Merchandise, consisting of its, Notions, Fancy and are. AU the time at the market prices for your INDLER, DT, S. C. (jeaniac Anastroag Stocks Pies A We Do Not Hoodie Imitations M | Six Assortments Carried In Stock Threading Pipe % in. to 4 in. inclusive Also Vises, Pipe Cutters, Wrenches, Bard Bushings I Columbia Supply Co., Columbia,S. C. I DN'TF To see our line o [gies, Wagons a ai IE (J we can save you n ughman E COLUMBIA, S. C. R tln Dn\r-rnrn ""? cj p; p. vr I $ tinM*1 i a ? J i j Liu t ?? -O ^ i 3 !i -i i h i J i i. ? pnshoQ l\n'Y. - 'v] ' '"r"t\ * : lU vlj^O MUl ifV vj ! J i 'l'. IwJ lit !l V t -*y - ' ' r-? *? v ^ * '' A n * C*. ^ 1JP I \J VWwtci Jil i ui S 1 uilia O rA *7 r\ ; *\1 o ? r\ A-r-? * a ? GO i v in o; s L-u s :;. - s. Finds He Will Have to Ride Three Miles Into Country and Prefers to Take Dri/er's V/crc;?Speaks of Divorce Proceedings Again. By M. QUAD. [Copyright, 10'Jl5, by Associated Literary i'ress.j fT was 11 o'clock the other forenoon when the telephone tans and Mrs. Bowser helloed in return, to hear the voice of Mr. Bowser saying: That you. Mrs. Bowser? Yes? Well, r want you to have luncli at sharp 12. I shail be home. Have some clothes ou and have vour hat ready to put on. There's something doing." "But what's happened?" she asked. "I can't go into any long explanations over the wire, but we are going out into the country for a few miles as soon as lunch is over." "To pick flowers?" "Flowers be hanged! I am offered ihe greatest bargain of my life if the deal is closed within twenty-four hours. That's enough until I get Vome. Don't say anything to the cook or the neighbors, but wait for me." At five minutes to 12 he came dashing up in a hansom, the first ride he had ever taken in one in his life. He had the fare in his hand, and he reached it to the driver and made a rush for the house and was hardly at the top of the steps when he exclaimed: "If lunch isn't ready we must go without it!" "But it's all ready. Why. I haven't seen you so excited in years before. Is it a case of life or death?" "About the Bame thing. You know it has always been our dream to have a cottage on the water." "No, I didn't know it But go on." "Don't talk that way to me. Mrs. Bowser. You've been pegging at me for years to get a cottage somewhere where we can spend the summer. I || tf '*WB DOH'T 8HLL A>Y TO THAT PODfT JfOW." have tried and tried and failed. There was always something wrong with all of 'em." "But this time you hare found the place?" "I have or else the owner lies like a son of a gun. It's a man named Bartlett, who has failed in business and is giving all up to his creditors. He surrenders this cottage and has offered it j to me at about half its value if I close the deal right away. There are four or five other men after it, you see." "Is it on the seashore?" "Not directly. It is back about half a mile and on a river. It commands a splendid view of the ocean, however. Don't sit there with your mouth open, but eat away. I'm already done." "But I don't think you ought to rush things this way," protested Mrs. Bowser. "We ought to have time to look the house over and know what we are buying." AIL f nd mess loney. j iros. j J I i soo'iur %vo n:~? ;:r j Il/t! (lit* ?'>' ? i; li l. it's :V;vsVt- I :::: ! ;? ; i' i take t ' ".2.22. j ?;:<? ??/l: a ;.v.:.)t4; ' I "1 it IS V/iV2.2' ".i1 ' j 0:2:1 {5".:s;:\.v ii r<? ?ii L':<\ "i* : i your !f*it a:,;! .. </:! '? ? < P.\- ' j b'.-t you *:? ::! b: . for ".vcl;! | I i* your f: ? *!t:;c an m ?.-:?;: <? > us f:? ! I l0>"0 1 li!S s:iu* : ; i *2" f . W you. i ! Mrs. IVjwmt v. -'s r< ;,'.!y v.*i>i!o Iip i | was :kiiitv. rin'J they t . k a trolley i ! car to the <;c:k;!. There were i\v? or i I I three decays en rente, ami Mr. P. =w- j I sor told the condm :.;r ami ;no:.o:,:;:an ! : what lie thought of the::; and ?areful- i ; ly took their numbers in hi.; Utile book. J but of course they were at the depot j j a full half h.-ar before train time, j ; Mrs. Bowser spent tills inteiral silting i i on a hard bench and watching the j i people who visited the water cooler, j j while Mr. Bowser walked to and fro j J and made threats of suing the road. | i When he came to inquire for tickets ! to Violet Iliil the agent smiled and replied: "We don't sell any to that point now. ( | You'll have to buy to White Rose and ' 1 walk back, or perhaps you can hire a [ vehicle there." "But why in blazes don't you stop at Yiolet Hill?" "Because we don't. Don't block the way." "By thunder, but this thing has got j to be and will be looked into!" shouted ( Mr. Bowser as he was crowded back, j "Not stop at Violet Hill! Why. the j man doesn't know what he is talking a"bout. I'd like to "have him out of that cubby hole for about two miuutes"' "But the conductor will know all ! about It," consoled Mrs. Bowser. "If he don't I'll punch his head!" The official's head was safe. When asked to explain he said: "The station at Violet Ilill was ' closed for lack of business. A con- I tractor was going to build fifty villas ! there, but he went broke." "But there are villas there." "Perhaps. I never looked out to see. You'll have to get off at White Rose, but there's always a mao there with a wagon. You can get a good view of the country as you ride with him." Mrs. Bowser was not in the least disappointed. She had her mind made up to failure right away after the telephone message. She sat and looked from the car window at the landscape, and Mr. Bowser sat and grumbled and swore. A feeling was coming over him that he was going to be done up. Offers Seme Consolation. "It may turn out all right." said Mrs. Bowser as be grumbled away. "A man who was surrendering everything to his creditors wouldn't deceive you Perhaps the railroad people shut up the station to spite him or something of the sort." Violet Hill was passed without any one seeming to know it. The depot , building might have been taken for a fisherman's shanty. White Rose was all right, though. There were seven houses there, and two cows were lying asleep on the track, and the train bad to stop whether or no. The Bowsers found a wagon and 'two mules loafing around, and when a boy bad found the owner and driver IIr. Bowser said to him: "How ranch will you charge to drive us over to Violet Hill and back?" "Any waitln' over theFe?" queried the man. "Perhaps an hour." "Let's see. There are two persons of you, a man and a woman. It's three miles there and back, aud the I roads ain't a bit good. You'll ask questions all the tray out aDU swear all the way back. We'll say $6 for the trip." "Why, man, you are a robber!" shouted Mr. Bowser. ? A Cheaper Arrangement. "Waal, s'pose you don't go over? S'pose you gimme a dollar to hear all < about it instead? Some prefers that i way. It saves your being bounced J around in a wagon." I "Do you mean tbat any one has ] wanted to go over to Violet Hill this summer?" "'Bout a hundred." "For why?" : "To see Ocean Blue and then came j back." < j "Um! Here's your dollar. What sort of a villa or mansion or cottage is Ocean Blue?" "It's kiuder farmhousy." 3 "And what river is It on?" ] "It's on Jim Crow creek when there's ] any water." t "And what about the grounds around the house?" 1 "That's where the old owner used to ? ' "i'ca ft'Aora 99 ] IrtlCU 1 I V "Why don't the trains stop there now?" "No steady man to frit on or off. The railroad makes air the suckers come i here first." "And what do the folks say whom 1 you drive over to Violet Hill?" "Thoy make things look mighty vio- s letj' coming back, and most of them i pick a fight here at White Rose and 1 git licked before tlicy take the train. Is that all?" That was all. There was two hours to wait in the depot, and tlie Itowsers waited. It was twelve miles back to ] town, but they spoke no word on the ' journey. Mrs. Bowser was almost } ? ! gone in her efforts to prevent her lips ] j from saying. "Sold again," and Mr. j Bowser was figuring on the number of < j murders be would eommit on the mor! row. lie strode into the house ahead J of her. but turned in the hall to say in j t a low. tonse voife: , "Madam. yon have driven mo to thr dead line nt Inst. Tomorrow mornhvj yen enn ^o to your mother's and wait the divoree proceedings. You have shown yottr fine Italian hand once toe often." . i uffcRirpJ PIQW r*P<V > f fiVN Uky b/iill2 Oil! v I'^ex- Boor to Ccpeisrd Co, , ^ : r; , 7 O u L* i.- i-- -k i*_\ c ?*% Not The Ias> TW,: tO} ?'f ' }'>'-\ , ? i-r^r.r.p t.o hnv vr: :tZ.: k?V"T^ ' C ?}W. Goods Shoes, L '*) n:ch>.rrc r.ir ort % v v ",k'; ' 4 y .( found :n Columbi, / "%>\x X\\ ^\s Doing a strii / v-^'rv are not taxed \vi ' *$*-& . . . . 1 wiiicii is recessar I 1 XT j / business. Neiihei f I \t liMr on bad accounts, , I }/s$nm we arc a^e t0 I /j/ I?: cent, less than oti 1 By helping u \i |v; fjfl selves, for if our ^JwNIIL gro w as ft has in m m y0U wj|] soon f;nc than they are at r AMERICAN BEAUTY Style 38? ,J \ Kalamazoo Corset Co, Makers jf 0ur Statement i; L. A- JONES, 1? | This' beautiful solid Oak I made for service, looks w I our Lexington friends I The Lion Furni 1 Ask for Catalogue . Co] His Scheme. ? An aelt-r in a London lodging house who had <lis?*<>vored his landlady's proiiensity for "swiping** numbered and omo listed his things. One night be roused the household by shouting down from wa Ills attic a demand for "No. S." A an? "No. S7" shouted the landlady back. Toi( 'What No. S'r "I have "! want cube No. 8 of my lump sug- things ; *r," he replied. st?el 3?' Thenceforth the provisions in his "Well ?upboard were unmolested.?Argonaut. * myself.' His Reto-t. ^ife "No," remarked a determined lady to in indignant cabman who had received bis legal fare, "you cannot cheat me, my man. I haven't ridden in cabs for I the last twenty-five years for nothing." j ? 1ea "Haven't you. mum?" replied the cab- i i11 man bitterly, gathering up the reins. 'Well, you've done your best!"?Tit- so? Bits. ? D?n fluid ac No Need of a Home. ! crac^ed Tom?Weii, darling, I have seen your f ^ * father, and he has given his consent. luc 6*? Grace?He approves of love in a cottage. then? "No. but he says that a girl who j Eurin: spends as much time golfing and mo- f English toring as you do really has not much j bind need of a home."?Tatler. ^De sa,J . fishermj Good From Evil. s*ru "The voice of envy is sure to be pro- river- ^ coked by success," said the sensitive no s^*11 person. an<^ "Don't let that worry you, son," an5wered Grandpa Whetstone. "If you've really got the goods the voice of envy j 1??^ lae will unintentionally advertise 'em l'or j a wee* you."?Washington Star. j l'eildeut .? i She Found Out. T>.-kcc /V*virnin<rlvl ?Tell mo. Frank. I "Vnn I do you really anil truly lore me, dar- ! 'Well linjr? ; tortod t Frank (meanly)?I certainly did when j "Yes, I told you so for the five thousandth j -were sji time sir seconds a go. but now?well, j i ihoug you know, we men are so changeable.! loft." ?Boston Traveler. . - j prmno OTftnr ^IPsKaSa dbOL^ vjfilfliflj 1 *5*1 n.f 4 QTPTT.T A t/ o* ? ?.c *1^. *+.^4 a *1J A r? V. chance?but a .good jr Fail and Winter Dry ; f -P^ty' 1" 1I *"i >.*__ ?, V> C - - L O i Ui" ho inwpst nrif-p; 1n I .W - vy ? V. Ik., w ^ A * VX 1 3. :tly cash business, we th the heavy expense y in conducting a credit : do we have any losses and for these reasons, sell you at least 10 per ler merchants. s, you will help yourbusiness continues to the past three months, 1 our prices even lower iresent. Come and see s not correct. i Cash Dry Goods Storo." m?9 Rocker <t>| nn t? m iture Co. lumbia, S. C. mammmmmmmmm ' TOOL" TALK. Vitty Remarks Overheard In a Machine Shop. s midnigbtin tbe machine shop all was silent until tbe rasping ;e of the file was beard to say M* 1% V? mm w 0% /vn S rt C ) { h Si i UUUfU Up ilgaiudb ivio vi um < in my life, but tbis barveyizet b bus completely worn me out.' ," said the lathe sympathetic-ill L'v have done many a hard tun . is a great bore," suppleroente< ^ let. W-: intinual grind," put in the em eel roughly. i many a broken thread." added im pipe in hollow accents, i yourselves," advised the damwheel; "there may be a revolu ?n." t mind him." said the soldering idly. "Every one knows he is 99 n the confusion that followed escaped.?Judge. Fishing Yarn. ! g the salmon fishing season aDj man was the guest of a high-j ird, and one day he hooked ni nou. Being inexperienced as a j in, he became excited and in' ,ggle with the fish fell into the( ?he keeper, seeing that he was! imer, booked him with the gafi arted to drag him ashore.; are ye aboot. Donal'?" cried; d. "Get baud o' the rod and: i the fush. Ma friend can bide! but the fush wiuna!"?Indef 1 1 " 4 i : The Rub. j 1 bought me." declared the bride | * I . you knew it at the time," re i A lie groom. but I did not know that you _ J ending all your money for me I ht that you had a few dollars 1