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J High Boots in White Canvas, Kid, and Buck, at ^ $2.50 and up to $7.50 per pair. Wexfn.wa. n <r nnH vnn rnn savA A 31T UUi uur UVXW1V v/A uvk v_ A * some money. I KLAUBER'S ? "The Store of Quality" f The Hunter's Wooden Wife. while they were on the wife was taken i The bureau of American ethnology of her weaving, and i has just issued as part of its thirty- fore she passed awa; first annual report, a comprehensive called her husband t article on the mythology of the Tsim- "My dear husband, ke shian Indians. Considerable infor- me after I am dead, mation is recorded concerning these too soon." Indians themselves, their life, social The husband deep > organizations, alphabet, music, re- lowed her dying wish ligious ideas and practices, and their the dead body until h folk-lore, which is a part of the my- bury it, and then he c thology of America. In this connec- of his wife out of red tion the author, Dr. Franz Boas, hon- set before the partly 1 orary philologist of the bureau of raiment, still hanginj American ethnology, shows the bear- left by his late wife, ing of the Tsimshian mythology on this woodman-artisan general mythical concepts and in re- ranged the wooden fi lation to the manner of dissemina- figure wife in the thr in northwestern America. finished garment, so 11V/U *** Among a number of these interest- peared to be busily ing myths recorded in the volume is construction. Not on a peculiar tale concerning a young contrived a clever sys Indian hunter, who had a wooden lating the figure; whf wife. opened its head turn It seems that once upon a time a and he pretended that certain Indian hunter, who was also could speak, an expert wood worker, had a very Although this fact capable young wife, whom he loved ported in the village, dearly. She was especially adept at occurred to two rui weaving the native dancing garments maidens who chanced and blankets, then much in vogue, hunter's, camp guarde from yarn spun from the wool of wooden wife. Peeri mountain sheep killed by her hus- knot hole they beheb band. Shortly after their marriage, parently weaving, an ,. x IN YOUR NEXT ORDER TRY A CAN OF COLUMBIA PURE COFFEE GUARANTEED PURE In One and Three Pound Tins HERNDON'S GROCERY Phone 24 Bamberg, S .C. | PRESERVE Tt THE two great forces in this counti merchant. It is they who preserve are home /tradie ^and cooperation, prosperity. If outside influences are al stroyed. Home Trade and Cooperatioi we can "deliver the goods/' You, M^r. are tempted to send your money out of t Bargain. Coming Biilie Burke in "Peggy." Theda Bara in "Romeo & Juliet." WATCH FOR DATES TH1ELEN THEATRE IT'S A GOOD IDEA. TO TAKE A GOOD TONIC each Spring. 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So she appproached ly :arved an image the silent figure, saying, "Will you gi cedar, which he give us a little food, elder sister?" at in inished dancing the safne time touching it on the ai I where it was shoulder, which proved to be wood. h< So cunning was The mystery was revealed to them j bi i, that he ar- j and they laughed?this was the j yc nger of his lay-,! wooden figure of which they had si eads of the un- ! heard, that she ap- Soon they heard the hunter return- to engaged in its j ing to camp, and hid themselves in a ei ly that, he even j corner behind some dried meat, to m item of manipu-. await developments. He wnistied as jit m the door was he drew near, although his load was"! w ed toward him, i very heavy and he was tired. "Come ' fa ; his wife-image out, my dear," he called to his wood- o\ en wife, "and look at this," indicat- bi had been re- ing his pack of meat and fat. Then w the story never ! he replied to himself, imitating his th l-away Indian j wife, "Not so, my dear, I cannot, beto arrive at the i cause my yarn is twisted abo.ut my i lis :d solely by his fingers." After saying this, the hun- j et ng through a ! ter ran in to his wife, embraced and j in d a woman ap- kissed her, telling her that she was th d being very j very handsome. Whereupon the two so \ l A ^ A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^4, A^A A^A A^4. A^t. A^ jr T^T T^T T^T T^T T^T ^T ^f GIRLS and LADIES MAKE HOOTON'S STORE YOUR STORE. Always the newest and best in Dry Goods, Millinery and Suits Hooton's Ladies Store & Millinery Parlor Telephone 83-J Bamberg, S. C. n /' t IE BALANCE ? y are the farmer and the home town } the balance. And the balancing poles Their performances determine our lowed to creep in, the balance is de1 are the deciding factors. 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The elder sister mediately after 1 te a great deal of everything that brilliant meteor, 1 ight, but the younger sister, being with the finder of 'raid, ate very sparingly, fortunate- scope, and was f for her, as the elder sister was dis- regular undulatio astingly ill in the morning and did from crest to cres it get up. This amused the hunter, pliture of a foui id he made fun of her, calling to Regular variatic 2r to get up and partake of the made it evident eakfast he had prepared. The the form of a hi junger sister arose, but the elder minutes the trail ster cried, she was so ashamed. was no perceptib In the meantime, the hunter seems of shape, maKin, ) have fallen in love with the young- that the form was sister, for now he asked her to rents, and it is arry him. This she agreed to do, meteor may have he would promise to destroy his tion. ooden wife, and never to reveal the gee ?nice ct that her sister was sick from per_, Herald Boo -er eating. The hunter promised, it extracted her assurance that she woman was wise < ould not tell what he had done with ed a better wife .e wooden figure. pecially in wea "Then," continues the myth, pub- growing very rich shed by the bureau of American ed to his native hnology, "they were married." And, gave a great feas fact, it is readily assumed that house, and finally ev lived "happily ever after," for, of his generation. > the story reveals: The young this Indian tale, ' ! X We especially call your attention ^ to our line of y SLIPPERS A Which have just arrived. We are X now in a position to suit all? > ladies, men and children. We shall be glad to have you stop in and look 'em I over. X H. C. FOLK f Satisfied with small profits. & We Know Your Wants I j AMD Y WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS |. Jj Honest merchandising is y *' If our motto?and we assure Y 1 you we appreciate your i/| business. I ||j| \ I .jfj J ? fin A /I V ' LaVerne Ihomas & to. | | Telephone 41-J Bamberg, S. C. X Buy Goods at Home | | We have all you need at lower prices ? than you can get from Kalamazoo to & Constantinople. If you prefer trad- & ing with foreigners, we have with us & "Sleigh" and "Buck," and they have & at your call all you need to eat or 4a* wear?to dress up with or to work in. Patronize the old reliable. & f, RENTZ i FEEDER f Bamberg, S. C. Y V A^A .6. A^A J,4A AAAJBLAAjBLA ATI ATI AT^JT*. y ?^r yV y y y y y teteor Trail. A Puzzled Celt. aeteor trail of last A class in a certain art school was r W. H. Stevenson, recently startled by the sudden apitronomical associa- pearance in its midst of a ragged * v-j is spiral shape. Im- Irishman, who, with tears in his the passage of the eyes, begged for enough money to the trail was traced get him a "bite." The first impulse the observer's tele- j of the presiding genius was to re:ound to consist of quest him to move on; but his pieins, about a degree turesqueness suggested that he st, and withjan am- should be given a chance to earn his. rth of a degree, supper by sitting as a model. >ns in brightness "Sit down," said the instructor, that the trail had kindly. "If you permit these ladies elix. In the three to paiqt you, we will pay you a shillwas watched, there ing. What do you say?" le drift or change j "Av oi'll let 'em wha-at?" replied g it quite evident j the beggar, with a puzzled look on ; not due to air cur- j his face. suggested that the j "Paint you?paint you. It won't had a helical mo- j take very long." I "Bedad, Oi want th' shillin' bad . . _ ? ! enough," he returned, after a moo nf oamnlo nov T)tL- ! k Store"1' i ment s reflection. "Ah' Oi'll he very -1 gla-ad t' let th' young ladies paint and kind, and prov-! me, av ye'll tell me how'll Oi get th' than the first, es-l paint arf me afterwar-dds!"?New ving. Eventually, j York World. , the hunter return-1 village, where he/ Sausage casings valued at $91,07? st, built a large were invoiced at the American conbecame head chief sulate at Punta Arenas, Chile, for "That," concludes the United States during 1916, 'is the end." against $101,007 worth for 1915.