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__ II is with pride, that I take pleasure to inform all my friends and customers that I had my store remodeled, installing an entire new front, positively the best and largest windows in Kershaw County, and in addition to the new front, a great transformation was made in my store in ordter to place the enormous stock which I have just purchased while at the market ; visiting the largest and best manufacturers in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Richmond and Philadelphia. The installation of my new purchased stock will excecii the sum of $25,000, making in all a complete stock of nearly $40,000 which will enable you to choose from this big stock. hvery season 1 try - I strive to please one hundred customers out of evei*y hundred, and every season these satisfied customers respond to my appeal. Below you will find a list which comprises thi? stock and you'll be convinced by all means the largest and best assorted stock in Camden. * 1 Women's Wear Aprons It**) ( H Brassiere ( o;i t H ' I apes Corset Govern ( oi'Hot Accessories CombB Cloaks DrOSBGB iJri'.iiaUnt ..aimka Dress Goods 10 pi bold rery Fancy leathers ' Flannellettes Gloves Hat b Ilalr Goods Hoods iFose Supporters House Dresses Handkerchiefs Hosiery Jabots Jewelry .) ackets Kiinonas Knitted Gaps Kn)t Underwear. liOiig Goats Leather liags U liens Uildit'H SIlOt'B Ladies Suits lA'iuhor Novel lies Midrty Mouses Mesh Hags , Millinery Mourning Dresses Muslin DndiTwciir Nockwuar Nursing Waist h Nursing Caps Nursing Aprons HettieoatB Parasols Plumes Ribbon b lialn Coats Rubbers Stock nigs ScarfB Shoes Shoulder Braces Silks Suits Skirts Sweaters Trimmed Hats Umbrellas Underwear Oil Cloth' Veils, j. Waists Wash Goods Misceieaneous Art Needlework Needles rinK Ourlern Thread lOinhroidery Silk Leather Goods In fact the largest and mo?t com plete Htoek of Notions. New Arrivals in Dress Goods Panama 'Chiffon Crepe V olio Foulards fiilkb J'oplin Brflliantines Hroad Clcth Suit iiif". Mercerized Ginghams Zephyr Amoskeag i . . Ohambric ' Madras Silkaline Taffeta Infants Cloth . Plan nel lette Kimono Outing Apron (jinghttms I'oiVuk'H Prints CuUcQOS Blenching BtioetJn# Household Furnishings nod Spreads PlllOW ('IIBOK Hod Hheots Comforts HlnnkctB Towels Doylies Curtains (^retpn Curtain Berlin Window Shades Counterpanes Men & Boys' Wearing Apparl Hoys Suits Hoys Trousers Belts Hath Hobos . * Caps Coats Gloves Carters Hats Hosiery Handkerchiefs .IttWO'lry Knit Underwear Leather Goods M imi'b Suits Overcoats I'ants Pajamas Itubber Coats Itubber Shoos Shirts Suits Shoos Sox StlHpiMldOrS Sutipenders Sweaters Sox Supporters Umbrellas Walking canes . Musical Instruments Titters i Guitars Majidollnt* Banjos Violins Harps Strings Accordions Musical Accessories ? '? ? ? ? ' ' ? - 1 1 FVFRYTHKMtP FOR FVlPPVRfllYV Everything to wear for man, woman and child. Everything to eat. Everything for the home and k/AjLiLi Li Y .ul\ 1 1 lllliVl 1 \J1Y Ei V LI\ 1 DvJi/ 1 """{or sport is included in this immehse slock. Investigate and convince yourself, and, REMEMBER, WATCH THE WINDOWS AND THEIR SPLENDOUR OF MAGNIFICENT MERCHANDISE EXHIBITION I thank the people of Camden and vicinity for their past favors and sincerely hope to have the pleasure to serve you again. To Out-of-Town Customers If you can't come write for samp les and we'll send them to you. Write about anything you want. MORE TROUBLE IN A GARDEN Old Gentleman Went Too Far In His Inquiry, and Demonstration Proved His Undoing. An elderly gentleman walking through his garden one day stopped before a fig tree on -which were two figs just ripening. Ills favorites were figs, and summer often came arid went without the* fruit coming to ma turity. Shortly after, lie met his gardener, who, assuring hup. the figs were quite ripe, was requested to send them to the summer house, where his master was about to rest. Picking the figs, the gardener sent his little boy of seven with tho basket. On the way tho little fellow stopped and, removing the leaves, gazed upon tho tempting fruit. Tho attraction was too great; he ato one. Covering the other with tho leaves, lie proceeded upon his errand. On being asked if the gardener had not sent two figs, the boy, after a mo ment's silence, answered: "I ate one." "You ate one? How?" exclaimed tho old gentleman, angrily. "How did you come to do that?" Dropping his eyes to the basket. "I took it like this," said tho chHtl, taking the remaining fig, "and I at? it liko this." And, suiting the action to tho word, ho consumed the second fig before tho astonished eyes of tho old gentleman. literal in his theology Darky Preacher's Humorous Comment on Biblical Text As He Under stood Its Meaning. "Of old tho right of individual private interpretation of tho scriptures was not accorded to tho laity. Only tho priests or preachers were authorized to say what was meant by the sacred text. That has all been changed, and flo man will now be expelled from tho most orthodox church for believing that Balaam's palace mule did not really address his fellow cltii^ns of Judea on the political issues of the day. or considering that tho statement of tho sun's standing still at the order of Captain Joshua was an illustrative allegory and not tho record of a frozen fact. This advance In theology is illus trated by the story of the darky preacher who delivered a sermon from tho text, "These eight did Mtlcah bear." "Muffrlnds," said he, "you is singu larly blessed by de Lawd In dls gen eration. if you wants some milk you dono goes to youah cow, and at one ?llk you gets enough of de laciferous ?uld foh eight people. In> de olden times of -which de Bible speaks !t took eight folks to milk a bear, en I 'Pecs dey get s mighty little ttllk at ***?"?? Angeles Times. ' ? . Z - ? ? ? Splcrers Catch ana Eat Ft?h. Specimens of the spider known aa j Tlmlassius Spenceri are in the mi*- t seum at Durban, Natal, and the cu* ' rator, E. C. Chubb, has Just made sci- ! entifle announcement of the discovery | of a member of this species in the act of catching fish for food. One of the spiders was captured several years ago by the Itev. N. Abraham at Greytown, and it was placed in an aquarium. A servant boy soon noticed the creature eating a pet fish, and the startled clergyman left his study to watch. The spider, three inches across with legs extended, stationed itself at the water's edge, with two legs on a stone and the eight others spread out on the water. After a time a fish camo unAer the putstretclied legs, ! which were suddenly thrown around it as tho sfiidcr made a plunge, driv ing its fangs into its prey, and then at once climbing out on the rocks. It soon ate a fish of four times Its own weight. i Bagdad and Queen of Sheba. Tho Bagdad of the "Arabian &ightsM still exists, but in a greatly diminished form. In fact tho grand old palaces and mosques of its prime are nearly all in ruins, and only a small popula tion lives where once was a city of 1 2,000,000 people. A new city is ! gradually coming into existence on | the opposite (east) bank of the Tigris, } tho site boing valuable from a com- j mercial point of view. Tho inhabitants i number about 200,000, and are mainly ' Bedouins. The famous palace of Har- | oun-al-Ita8chIld has disappeared, and tho foreign consulates occupy its site, j It is only a tradition which asserts : that tho queen of Sheba, who once i visited King Solomon, lies buried un- ' dor an eight-sided brick tower bear ing her name in old Bagdad. Tho citi- \ zens have ceased to venerate it, wo ; are told, and the tower is hpproaching : a state of ruin. Concerning Men With Tails. It would not be wise to build upon ! tho story of tho coast natives that in [ tho interior of Papua there are men : with tails. Similar beliefs have been held in many parts of tho world and ! many ages, sometimes from impres- j sions of apes, sometime3 from more ; or less spiteful credulity about, a peo- ] pie's neighbors. For centuries it was | a common gibo on the Continent that j Englishmen had tails. It originated j from the story that the people of ? Canterbury or Strood, having mocked j at St. Thomas riding upon a little ass j and cut off its tail, were punished with the curse that thenceforth all their boys should be born with tails. And tho scoffs of other Englishmen at the "Kentish longtails" rebounded up on the whole nation, so that even in the time of Edward VI. Englishmen abroad suffered from the taunt. IT WAS SO PUZZLING y By JOHN NEWTON. Dobozy and Angyal were sitting on the divan in the smoking room talk ing of a fair-haired lady. The still ness of the night, the red light of the lamp on the armors, swprds and shields on the wall, the strong Turk ish tobacco wrapped everything in the room in a blue fog and led their imag inations into the empire of mystery. They talked of many things in the ab stract, though the principal subject of their conversation was a golden-haired lady who was very real indeed. "You know that I am madly in love with her," said Dobozy, the magnato. "When 1 see her I haVe to use all my self-control not to throw myself at her feet. But listen ? last week we wero on our way towards the Turkish ruin and it was getting dark as wf return ed. She and I had walked a little :ahead of the others. We stopped on a bridge to wait for them. Below us the Danube was rushing and above our heads the moon was shining. Suddenly I felt her hand gripping my arm and she said: "I can look into your very soul as if it wer.e made from glass. I can read ?very word writ ten there. Surely you can also read mine. No, please do not say any thing ? " Strange words, you must admit. I did not answer. The others caught up with us. She was unusual ly quiet all the rest of the evening. Occasionally she looked at me and smijied sadly. "And what happened then?" asked Angyal, the poet, very much interest- ! ed. * | > "We arranged a new excursion to ; Bookstal, and then we drove home. The next day wo started out in six carriages. She sat opposite and until I we reached .Tause she was bubbling over with good humor. There some ; gypsies began singing their ugly mel ancholy songs. Her face had turned quite pale and she bit her lips nervous ly. At last I did not dare say any thing more to her, for I felt ber soul j was filled with bitterness. Suddenly ( she aroso and went away from the rest of us to sit down alone on a bench in the wood. I followed her j and noticed that her eyeB were full of tears and her face was convulsed ; with pain." "Irma, do tell me what Is the matter J with you?" I asked. . "She stamped her foot angrily and said: 'Please leave me alone.' An hour later she drove home alone with out saying goodby to anybody. But j now comes ^he strangest part of all. i When we retunied we passed her villa. She stood on the balcony with her stater waving her hand at and when my carriage passed the threw a' red rose to me and cried 'Goodnight, V - * Ttx f? SO " - Dobozy.* What do you think of thlsT my friend? How am I to explain the sudden change In her treatment of me? She must have a secret. But what can It be?" "A very interesting woman," said Angyal. "It would be something to a ! poet to look into her soul. Perhaps ! he might be able to solve the riddle." Now, here is the real explanation. ! On the day of the excursion to Rock stal Irma had just received a pair* of new shoes, which, of course, she must put on right away. Until they reached Jause, as long as they were sitting in the carriage, everything was well, i.but when she put her foot on the ground she might have screamed with pain. She felt as If she were sitting on a crater of glowing lava bathing her feet in it. The others who no ticed her distorted face began to t question her and to put an end to this she walked to tho bench in the wood and when Dobozy did not leave i her alone even there she had an at tack of nervous crying. At last tho pain became so unendurable that she drove home. As soon as she got rid of the two instruments of torture she felt as happy as ever before and hbr happiness culminated when she, saw : Dobozy driving by and she threw him i the rose. | The next day the golden-haired girl, I beautiful and charming as ever, prom enaded in the park. ! In front of the bandstand she met i Dobozy, who at first felt rather em barrassed, but Irma's. bewitching smile soon gave him back his courage. An hour later Dobozy called on his friond, the poet Angyal. In a button hole was a rose Irma had worn in the morning. As soon as ho saw An gyal ho burst out: "Congratulate me, old boy, Irma has promised to be my wife." But neither of tho two. ever suc ceeded in solving the riddle of Mrs. 1 Irma Dobozy's life. ? Found Doctor Didn't Noed Him. | Wedding cut ups in Clay Center have a new form of diversion. Tho Times tells about it: "Recently a Clay Center j young man was going to bo married. Tho day of the affair, in the morning a friend pretending to bo Dr. Olsen, tele- j | phoned him, telling him that under tho j new law a man had to undergo a phys ical examination by tho city health officer before he could get married. Bio took it all in, in solemn earnest, and went to Dr. OKen's office for the examination, Olsen being city health ( officer. Reaching the otflco ho told the doctor he was ready for the exam ination. 'What examination?' asked Olsen. 'The examination you told me I would have to undergo. I am tho young man who is to be married.' ' 'Some one has been playing a joke on you, my friend.' was the doctor's an swer and the young man has about come to that conclusion himself he thinks he will get even some day." ?Kinm City Star. ..v MISSIVES LONG IN TRANSIT Correspondence Sent From Paris Dun Ing Siege Took Years to Reach the Consignees. What would Americans Bay if they j received mall matter that had been de- j layed In transit for a lifetime? In j France, a few years ago, letters for j ' 300 persons were delivered ? to as ; j many of the addressees as were liv j Ing? that had been mailed years be- ; | fore. They were delivered, moreover, ! at the earliest possible moment; al though the distance between the send- ' er and the receiver was In many cases j only a few miles. ' During the siege of Paris by tho Germans in 1870 tho postolllco admin- | istratlon lilt upon tho expedient, In ad- j dition to the balloons, of Inclosing let- ! ters In small zinc globes, water tight and hermetically sealed, and dropping them Into tho Seine. There they lloat 1 ed, if they were not captured by tho Germans, down the river to tho French lines, where a net stretched across tho river gathered them In, and they were sent on their way. Unfortunately for tho French, the Germans discovered the character of these zinc floats, and as they could not hope to see and fish out by ordinary means all. the letters that wont down thus, they stretched across the river, at Vllleneuvo Saint Georges, a net of their own and effectually stopped this system of postal communication. Tho zinc balls and their uso were pretty nearly forgotten, when, some ? yeaTs ago, a fisherman found in the Seine, near Villenouve, a queer looking globe of zinc. With a tyrge knife he opened it, and found 300 letters, still legibile, and all dated December, 1870. They were delivered to the postal au thorities, and after this long wait in tho river went on their way. ? The i Sunday Magazine. COLORS NOT BORNE IN WAR* British Troops Go Into Action With- j } out the Inspiration of the Regi mental Colors. Tho colors of the British army are made of silk, with gold-fringed edge? and cords and tassels of crimson and gold, mounted on a staff eight feet seven Inches long.^ To Insuro their absolute correctness in matters of detail and pattern, an official of the Heralds' College aots as "Inspector of colors." He has to furnish drawings and designs, and is responsible that an unauthorized de parture lb made from them. Every Infantry battalion has two colors ? "tho wing's" and "the regi mental." The former is always of the same pattern, and shows the union | jack on a blue ground, while the lat ter has a wreath of roses, shamrocks I and thistles, with the regiment's motto | Wl jOft jgrronndefl fey A"# % various battles In which It ha? taken part. ' ; , Regimental colors are no longor car ried Into action, but are now left be hind at headquarters when a battalion proceeds on service. This has been the rule since the IJoer war in 1881. A couple of years earlier two young ofli- . cers of the South Wales Borders were killed while endeavoring to pre vent the .colors, of which they had charge, from falling into the hands. of the enemy at the battle of Isandhl wana. ^ Japanese Like Other Babied. There la u mistakon but popular be lief that a Japanese baby never cries. There is really no reason why he should. Replete with nourishment and rarely denied a wish, ho blossoms like a wild rose on the sunny side of the hedges, so sweet and so unre strained. His life is full of rich and varied in terests. From his second day on earth, tied safoly to his mother's back under an overcoat made for two, he finds amusement for every waking hour in watching the passing show. He is the honored guest at every family picnic. No matter what the hour or the weather, he Is the active member , in all that concerns the household amusements or work. From his perch he participates In the life of the neighborhood, and is a part of all the merry festivals, that turn the streets into fairyland, l^ater,. his playground is the gay market place or the dim old temples.-? 'Francis Ldtr, tie, in the Century Magazine. ?_ Question of Degree. - i On a writ of error to the supreme^ court of ono of the territories, counsel for plaintiff in error sharply criticized the rulings of the trial judge. When the counsel for the defendant in error began his reply, tho following took place: "May it please your honors, before I" finish my argument, I think I can show you that the trial judge was not as crazy as counsel on the othor side would make him out to be." liy a member of the court: "Let me understand you; yqu admit the fact of insanity of the trial judge, but deny its degree?" ? Case and Comment. Gentle, but Pointed. A young practitioner had ono trou- 1 blesome patient ? an old woman who was practically on the free list, but who registered raoro kicks than all tho othor patients put together. One day she called to roast .him for not showing up when she called him the nipht before. "You can go to see your other patients at night," she com plained, "so why can't you come when I send for you? ? Ain't my money as good as the money that them rich people pay you?" "I don't know, t*a'am," answered the doctor gently. "I have never teen any of yovra ^ .V ? - y ? ? -s qgar'AHU 2