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i The ? Scrap Book ** * ? ? - a Aa.. Ait Nil in xne ?rmjr niwr <-iiu A Methodist negro exhorter shouted, "Come up en jine de army ob de Lobd!" 'Ts done jined," replied one of the congregation. "Whar'd yoh jine5" asked the extorter. "In de Baptis' chu'ch." "Why, chile, yoh ain't in the army: Yoh's in de navy." A BOY TO BE PITIED. * God help the boy who never s?es The butterflies, the birds, the bees. Nor hears the music of the breeze Whoa : cphyrs soft are blowing; Who cannot in sweet comfort lie "Where clover blooms are thick and high And hear the gentle murmur nigh Of brooklets softly flowing! God help the boy who does not know Where all the woodland berries grow; Who never sees the forests glow When leaves are red and yellow; Whose childish feet can never stray! For such a hapless b n* I sayWhen nature does her charms displayGod help the little fellow! Nixon Waterman. The Sun a Foreigner. "Sunset" f'ox's most successful sally at his opponents In congress was his resolutions against free sunshine, made when there was a fight on against lowtring the duty on coal: "Resolved. That all windows, skylights, Inside and outside shutters, curtains and blinds shall be permanently Closed, as also all openings, holes, Chinks, clefts and fissures through which the light and heat of the sun have been allowed to enter bouses, to the prejudice and Injury of meritorious miners and dealers In gas coal, to protect domestic Industry." "For the sun is a foreigner," ex plained Mr. Cox. "He comes from broad, and we must shut out tbe light of the sun in order to gratify these Pennsylvania gentlemen who have a monopoly of this article of coal." His Secret. "You ought not to work such long hours. Surely your boss can get along Without you part of tbe time." "Sure he can, but I don't want him to find it out." r .. Th# Pot and the Kettle. ? A portly Gerrnau of obvious Hebraic nceetry boarded a Broadway car. He handed the conductor a ruddy faced Irishman a transfer not good on that particular line. The inevitable wrangle followed. In which much vehement lanfC&ge found expression, colored with a strong Hibernian flavor and an un mlltakable Teutonic accent. At length the fat German roee, bnt before he left the car shook his fist In the conductor's face and exclaimed, with profound contempt: "You! You Are no Amer-rican cltissen! You hare not yet lost your broc-oue." Lippln" cott's. v : 'Aire Pair In Love and War. A- - |n A soiaier oeionging 10 ? un^auc m Command of a general who believed in A celibate army asked permission to marry, as he had two good conduct badges and money in the savings bank. "Weil, go away," said the general, / 'and if yon come back to me a year from today in the same frame of mind ..yon shall marry. I'll keep the vacancy" On the anniversary the soldier repeated his request But do yon really, after a year, want to marry?" inquired the general in a surprised tone. % "Yes, sir; very much." c "8ergeant major, take bis, name down. Yes, you may marry. I never believed there was so much constancy In man or woman. Right face; quick t mgrcb:" *+ . ' tlie man left the room, turning bis' head, he said, "Thank you, sir; but it isn't the same woman." i^aaies Home Journal.^ ^ -V. What an "Amendment" May Do. "Such an amendment," said Senator Tillman during a debate, "would deitroy the bill's meaning, as the meaning of the epitaph on old John Ekinn's tombstone was destroyed. The amendment that was tacked to John's epitaph consisted of one wordfriend.' It was put on in the dead of night The epitaph before that read: 'He did his best'" No Need For Pensions. A t.ovnlop In tho nrlont who W3S A tia* vici uu iuv v>>vH?r ?? ? picking up material for a book, asked a ptsha: "Is the civil service like ours? A*e there retiring allowances and pensions?" .. V"My Illustrious friend," replied the ' pasha, "Allah is great, and the public functionary who 6tands In need of a retiring allowance when his term of Office expires is a fool." 8om? Words With the Cook. He was f jRd faced American tourist, and as fieweate# himself in a London restaurant he was Immediately attended by an obsequious waiter.* "I want two eggs," said the American, "one fried on one side pnd one on the o&er.w' " 'Ow is that, sir?" "Two eggs one fried on one side and one on the other." < . , "Very well, sir." The waiter was gone several mlnutee. When-he returned, his face was HMji "Would you please repeat yotir border. sir?'*"I sa^very distinctly two e^gs, one fried on one side and one on the other." OppressJ^e silence and then a dased "Very well, sir." This time he was gone longer; and when he returned he said anxiously, t I | "Would It be awaking too much, air. ; to 'are you repeat your border, sir? I cawn't think I 'ave it right, air, y' know." "Two eggs," said tbe American sadly and patiently, "one fried on one side and one on the other. More oppressive silence and another and fainter "Very well, sir." This time he was gone still longer. When he returned, his collar was unbuttoned. his hair disheveled and his ^ ~ nr>A T n! n C Mimiuuu uiiu ujcvuni0. over the waiting patron, he whispered [ beseechingly: "Would you mind tyking boiled ' loggs. sir? I've had some words with ! the cook." Ready For the Next Customer. "My rubber," said Nat Goodwin, describing a Turkish bath that he once had in Mexico, "was a very strong man. He laid me on a slab and kneaded me and punched me and banged me in a most emphatic way. When it was over and I had got up. he came up l>ehind me liefore my sheet was adjusted and .gave me three resounding slaps on ttie bare lwck with the palm of his enormous hand. " 'What in blazes are you doing?' I gasped, staggering. " 'No offense, sir,' said the man. 'It was only to let the otlice know that I was ready for the next bather. You see. sir, the bell's out of order In this room.' " Everybody's. Why He Was Sad. "Oh, my friends," exclaimed the orator. "It makes me sad when I think of the days that are gone, when I look around and miss the old familiar faces I used to shake hands with!" Fox Hunting In a Greenhouse. The only fox hunting I have ever done was on board an Impetuous, tough mouthed, fore and aft horse that had emotional insanity. As I was away from home and could not reach my own horse I was obliged to mount a spirited steed with high, intellectual hips, one white eye and a big red nostril that you could set a Shanghai hen in. This horse, as soon as the pack broke Into a full cry, climbed over a fence that had wrought iron briers on It, lit in a cornfield, stabbed his hind leg through a sere and yellow pumpkin, which he wore the rest of the day. with seven yards of pumpkin viae streaming out behind, and away we dashed cross country. I remained mounted because I hated to get off In pieces. We did not see the fox, bat we saw almost everything else. I remember riding through a hothouse, and how I enjoyed It! A morning scamper through a conservatory when the syrlngas and jonquils and jack roses lie cuddled up together In their little beds Is a thing to remember and look back to and pay for. To stand knee deep In glass and gladioli, to smell the mashed and mussed up mignonette and the last fragrant sigh of the scrunched hellotrope beneath the hoof of your horse, while far away the deep mouthed baying of the hoarse hounds, hotly hogging the reeking trail of the aniseed bag, calling on the gorgeously caparisoned hills to give back their merry music, is joy to the huntsman's heart -Bill Nye. I One on the President. When President Roosevelt alighted I at Red Hill, Va., to see his wife's new cottage be noticed that an elderly woman was about to board the train and rushed forward to assist her. That done, be grasped her hand and gave It nn "executive shake." The woman, snatching her hand away, exclaimed, "Young man, I don't know who you are, and I don't care a cent, but I must say yoi\ are the freshest somebody I've ever seen in these parts." Isaac ar.d the Angel. Old Isaac was a devout Christian. It was his custom when his work was done to retire to his cabin and devote himself to worship until bedtime. His earnest and frequent announcements {hat he was^always ready to meet his "Lawd" hacT^eeiTso often heard that some boys decided to test Isaac's faith. One night, while he was und_er full headway: "O Lawd. we know dy long sufriu' fur dis beni'ted sinner, but we feel, O Lawd, dat In dy love we will be spahed dy vangins and raf. We are always reddy, Lawd, at dy biddin' to cum and meet dy angel Gabr'e!. Send him, O Lawd, wid his shinin* trnmpit, his robes ob glory and his crown ob life, and take dy poh sahvant into dy vineyard" "Isaac! Isaac!" came in deep sepulchral tones down the chlmmy. "Amen!" softly said Isaac, closing his prayer abruptly and rising, with fear and trembling. "Isaac! Isaac!" came the still dreadful tones. "Who-bo-ho's dat?" stammered the awe stricken negro. "The angel of the Lord has come for Isaac!" Isaac hesitated, and then, with a onnrnro it en me * K>UU V* Ul CUIV4V.VU VVlWM^vt -% "De Lawd bless you. dat old uigger hain't been here for a week!" Why Corn Popt. When the grains of roaixe or Indian corn are gently roasted they burst with a pop and turn inside out. I^iey are then known as popcorn. This popping is due to the evaporation of the oil oontained in the kernel. Ordinary wheat does not pop so readily because the outer portion of the kernel is more porous and thus permits the escape of the oil as it evaporates. In the caae of popcorn a great pressure is developed in the kernel by the confined oil, which is present in greater quantity, so that the kernel is suddenly exploded and reversed. \ DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel! Salve don't forget the name, and accept no substitute. Get De Witt's. It's good for piles. Sold by W L Wallace, M D. . Box Stationery, from 5c. to $5; Xuias cards 5c to 25c People's Mercantile < o. Fruit for the Christmas cake, all kinds at People's Mercantile Go's, j Toys and Fireworks of all kinds j I : . ., Ml.,,,., I I JUSl WIUIl, JUII nam x<./i muuo, i j the kind that please the children, are to be found at People's Mercantile Go's. Nice lot all wool blankets at cost, $3.00 and up at People's Mercantile Co's. A tickling cough, from any cause is quickly stopped by Dr Shoop's Cough Cure. And it is so thoroughly haimless and safe, that Dr Shoop tells mothers everywhere to give if without hesitation, even to very young babes. The wholesome green leaves and tender stems of a lunghealing mountainous >h*ub, furnish the curative properties to l)r Shoop's Cough Cure. It calms the cough, | ana Heals tne sore ana sensitive bronchial membranes/ No opium, no chloroform, nothing harsh used j to injure or surpress.Simply a res- [ inous plant extract, that > helps to heal aching lungs. The Spaniards : call this shrub which the i)r uses, ! The Sacred Herb." Alwavs de- j maud Dr Shoop's Cough Cure. D C , Scott. j _ | i Parties desiring to purchase ! either town or country real es- i tate, improved, call on or write B Wallace Jones A Sons, Lake City, S C. 1212 3t. Whenever you feel that your stomach has gonea little wrong, or when you feel that it is not in good ; * J i i i oraer as is eviuenceu oy umtu ucauaches, nervousness, bad breath, belcnmg, take something at time*, and especially after yonr meal# tintil le* < lief is afforded. There is nothing | better offered the public today for stomach troubles, dispepsia, indigestion, etc., than Kodol. This is a . scientific preparation of nataral digestants combined with vegetable 1 acids and it contains the same juices found in any healthy stomach. I Kodol is guaranteed to give relief. It is pleasant to take; it will make you feel fine by digesting what you eat Sold by W L "Wallace, M D. < - - . i New Train Schedule. The following- schedule of the new train from Lane to Florence, < which went into effect Monday, December 17, has been furnished us by Mr J P Taylor, the ' courteous and efficient agent of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad : atKingstree: " ? North Bound Arrives No. 80 7:41 A. Al, No. 46 11:42 A.M. No. 50 (5:36 P. M. South Bound Arrives No. 89. 9:l7P. M. - 4~ r . ?> T-> ?r ""..MO. *{ u;*u ir. iu. g ^ No. 51 10:52 A.M. # Daidy Except Sunday.. When the stomach, heart, or kidney nerves get weak, then these or gans always fail. Don't drug the * stomach, nor stimulate the heart or kidneys. That is 6imply a make- i shift. Get a prescription known to druggists everywhere as DrShoop's ' Restorative. The Restorative expressly for these weak inside nerves. ( Strengthen these nerves, build them up With Dr Shoop's Restorative tablets or liquid and see how quickly help will come. Free earn- ' njf o?.rvf rennoaf hv Dr Shoon. pic icoi; otww vu ivvjuv.. J fi Racine, Wis. Your health is surely worth this sample test. D C Scott l A MAGAZINE I fI READERS |~| SUNSET MAGAZINE beautifully illustrated, good done* Q_ _ and article* about California and * 'J all the Far Wed. 7m CAMERA CRAFT devoted each month to the at. tube reproduction of the beat $2.00 work of amateur and professional photographer*. ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS ' a book of 75 pages, containing 120 colored photograph* of trf picturesque spot* it California and Oregon. Toul . . I3.3S , All for So*- $1.50 SOTTSET HAGAZIKE J Flood Building San Francisco t I A Narrow Escape. First Traveler So you have returned from Africa ? Second Traveler Yes. First T. Any narrow escapes, eh ? Second T. Only one a regular prize winner, I should think. First T. Let me hear it. Second T. Well, I was chased by a big lion, and, having no aartridges left, I threw away my rifle and fiiccd the brute, but as he sprang at rac 1 caught him by the lower jaw with one hand and by the nose with the other, and there I stood and held his mouth wide open until he starved tc death. A narrow escape, eh ? Art Exploded Theory. "r\Tv dear,'' remarked Mr. Grouch when the argument threatened to reach a climax, "it has occurred to me that a sitf^le man is a wise man. A woman to gain knowledge must be married." "I eoeld readily support your theory," replied Mrs. Grouch, "but unfortrr1 that Solo mon, the wi-est mail, had 700 wives. And yev p\ deer. you might also have m * :: r "f the fact that Minerva, tlv of wisdom, never mTri ?!.'*- Brooklyn Life. Cough Caution Never, positively never poiaoa roar longs. It yoa cough even from a simple cold only you should si ways heal soothe, and ease the Irritated broiw ehtal tubes. Don't blindly supprea it with a ituDefying poison. It's strange how some things Anally come about. For twenty years Dr. 8hoop has constantly warned people not to take cough mixtures or prescriptions coot&lnlnf Opium, Chloroform, or similar poisons. And now?a little late though?Congress says "Put it on the label. If poisons are In your Cough Mixture." Good! Very rood! 1 Hereafter for this very reason mothen, and others, should insist on harlnr Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure. No poison marks on Dr. Shoop's labels?and none In the medicine, else it must by taw be on the label. And It's not only safe, but It Is said to be by tboee that know ft beet, a truly remarkable cough remedy. Take no chance then, particularly with your children. Insist on having Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure. Compare carefully the Dr. Shoop package with others and note the Inference. No poison marks there! You can always be on the safe side by demanding Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure o. c. scon. The Largest aud Most C ^mplete Establishment South. SEO. S. 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Never ; | go contrary to his advice. \ We publish our fornulu J /W Wo bonish oleohol / .B J from our medicine* / 110 PC Wo nrgo you to a JLifCIo wsoaf The dose of Ayer's Pills is small, only one at bedtime. As a rule, laxative dose* are better than cathartic doses. For constipation, biliousness, dyspepsia, sickheadaches, they cannot be excelled. Ask your doctor about this. -?JUde by the J. C. Ayor Co., Lowell, Mu*.? I OYSTERS A] I SANDWICHES HOT COFFEE CHOCOLATE ALL KINDS OF v BOUILLON 1 1 ClWil'l In nHHunHnBBi "A dollar ' ?{.$'* is a doll* There is no better way t< dealing with ' J. L Stuckey, the olc man. I have a splendid line of Bits, Wit that in view of the hard times above cost. A nice bunch of HORSES at prices to suit. J. L Stuc (9000000000000 QllnAiiffiio 11 8 BlWdliaai X MICE BRIVEHS Ml o Buggies, Surreys 0 Quality G Q twocZ: X Webu and Russell O Harness, Rob* X Come and gel 0 Yours tc ? 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