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If so, it DAYS. Our of Cotton Gc us. We will Our mill reasonable. Smart N Our sale I WHICH 33y S. L. Tin-dey Copuright, 1904. by S. .. Tinsieu i "You are not going out in all this rain, are you, Betty':" *Why not?" Betty turned around slowly and looked at her mothe:. "Why not? Why, because it is pour Ing-simply pouring:" "Well, what of it? I'm not afraid of rain." And the young lady clasped her gloves with a snap, unfastened her umi brella and tripped out beneath the drip ping skies. Hardly two squares had been covered when Betty saw a young ia coning toward her. Jack Winslow bowed, smiled and stopped. Betty blushed. "Why, really, Jack, what tempted you out to wade?" "What tempted Miss Betty away from her chocolates and novels?" "Mr. Elfland's new picture." "Jove, that's just my excuse: Say we go together." Jack looked anxiously, wistfully, at his companion. Miss Bet ty blushed more deeply. "Come along," said she. And togeth .er they walked down the street. Ar riving at the art gallery, they hunted out the much talked of picture. Several people were standing before it In silent admiration. The painting represented a room, seated in the fore ground of which was the figure of a girl In a 'white gown. Her. blaok hair was parted and arranged ia soft,, thaio rolls on both sides o'f her- fair, pale face. In her hand she held two roses, a red rose and a pink one. The trou bled' expression of her face told of per -:plexity. A question was to be solved, but the answer could not be found. Betty clasped her hands with delight. "Oh," she cried, "how perfectly beau tiful It is: Oh, Jack, Isn't she-isn't she just perfect?" The young man smiled down upon the enthusiastic girl at his side. "She is beautiful, but not perfect.'' "Why not?" Betty opened her eyes wide with amazement. 'Because," continued the young man, "she ought not to have any trouble in knowing whom she wants for her hus band." "Why not? One man might be rich and the other man poor. Donj't you 'see the pink rose is small and pale, while the other rose ,is a full blown beauty of a rich velvety red. Jack shook his head. "Anyhow she should not hesitate for a moment. She should take the man she loves." "And be poor and miserable all her ifre?" inquired Betty mischievously. "Not miserable, but poor and happy, perfectly happy." Jack Winslow was watching his com panion's face. Betty laughed. "Well," replied she, "perhaps you are right after all. Here comes Frank Carlyle." A tall, slender young man walked .leisurely up to Miss Betty's side, and, bowing slightly to Jack, he turned to ward the picture. "Well," remarked he after a mo ment's silence, "she is in a fix, isn't she? Pink or red; it's down to a choice of a favorite color', it seems to me." "Not at all," replied Jack testily. "Which does she ldv-e best?" "Well"-Frank elevated his brows as though' surprised--isn't that about what I said? She has a chance to s'o lect her favorite now, and why doesni't she do it without so much trouble?" Betty, who had been silently admnir lng the picture during the conversa tion' now turned again towar1 her com panions. "She is a girl you know ?" "Yes," replied both of the young men at the same time. "A girl," continued Betty. "has to wonder sometimes whether she knows her own mind or not. Here are two men. Both are kind and attentive to the girl. Both offer her the lest that he has to give. Both pay her the high est compliment that a man can pay to a woman, for each one in turn asks her to be his wife. Here, on the one hand, are riches, a life with every wish granted, a mother and 'father miade comfortable, and a husband who loves you. If she does not love him, she respects and admires him. On the other hand are a life of everlasting economy, a home where there my al ways be the necessities of life, but 'very few of the luxuries; a father and mother who must continue in their same circumstances, a little trip now .and then when there chances to be an excursion, and a husband who loves you, who denies himself for you :and whom you in your turn love. Which shall it be?" Without a moment's hesitation both of the young men answered. "The man you love." Betty was twisting the chain of her satchel around her tiuger. She laugh ed and shook her head when she heard the answer. "Well, I see that you are both as yet at the romantic age." "Are you?" Frank Carlyle looked down into the fair. sweet face close beside him. Bet. ty looked at Jack Winslow. He was '0 % Li will pay you h buyer in New .ismeyt buve inNewYork writes u ods, comprisi sg printed and have unheard . iners, the forc -of bargains' e being double ew Shoes tha ew Shestha are quite ine: of American aute e ~eauty Corset iore toward Franks chievously sideways and looking n-'s -Who knows?" Iat Jack, she said, Frank laughed a watch. d looked at his "Ilalf past 4," s nust be off. If you Id he. "Well, I ing first at Betty. t were going," look i's so beastly unp ien at Jack. "why, perhaps I might giv leasant I thought carriage." Jack dec e you a lift in the A deep .dimple sha lined with thanks. cheek for a moment. owed Betty's pink mLurely at Jack, sh Then, looking de question. answered Frank's "I would be ever you if you would j 'o much obliged to door. -Mother scold st drop me at my out, and it will d because I came somewhat to know ppease her wrath without being touch that I came home Jack said nothin, d by the rain." very pale when B but his face was hand at 'ie carring tty gave him her to con' am to chi door. Frank tried Jack s m, bec nge his mind, but second - invitatio juse Betty did not riage door was abo I. Just as the car ty leaned out. t to be closed Bet "Oh, Mr. Winslos go to the Freeman , I have decided to Then the carriage ance Friday night" they arrived at B oiled away When Frank Carlyle nor tty's home neither the ligure standing 1s companion saw tree on the oppost in the shadow of a and wheni Frank I side of the street and sprang again i t Betty at the door Winslow walked a his carriage Jack relief. .with a sigh of "A %nyway," inr ured he, ask him to coe in h she didn't Friday night an the Freem nit came at last. Bet a . Wlhe mirror looking at eroo refotion r wht mul '111w9~ n, gift from her - ho rarely gave her nice I 'woth irentioning, wis very ecomng to the girl. , She bad arithea her hair fter the style of 3Lr:.ifland's famous PictnT~e, and she s'fled as she looked at the chainge it made in her appea anice. "Ief I we. e't quite so ink and round as ihm loo omehing"- likesher didnt sFeiwas night an sad. Somehomam caot a. Bent kno stood butornfeell hirror okngeful atprpey.ton"e wunitemngawnyf from her, sh washuo ra ut togav helfi herneeap U oa t~hearlhe siste entrged ther room, pctrin two narrwed ashhe oeBt at droed haer ctlmak, too he bopesr andenigoe. hmlfe u deIf Ic wred' ruie, frshin and arund, proudly loon sheavyik hed and shein waspe mndt s Sodor. Bet ex notisad. th box,'t there wy, but Icfee. Turning awayil fothe mirrorshfe from itstbu deths a ngsemed, halt lown pihn hrse elicterend t om, drfuyinget Tarwhitoe boxes. Bet andhopetn a n oc temardedou. deep, rangrd oe, freshuand theagrln, proudlty souldn bth have had the filigtea romwt:isoo. et x amine th oxn Bett tre wslnt. Thed Ltyngth rose upon the table dny tueerni the mothers voxce aligtd ermha it depts tim o strt.d Wrain bhown pik aboutse, etttre and wn drnlly dwti Tiros. As mon ltat they soud oth caae hadethe Frmle alomnthett strost. .Th toroses0 lay~ upon the table, oudnly oe, butart heamotherfumie calling te he roatn its eosart. lwedapping he lat ruboueet ure n irt donteair Alm oment Ituisbsd at the fstet. cprnt But the Eroeee was onby h ~le n ose nowalulate upor the yearse 14nly onebutsh Thughvy siperfume enth thole o lise and ther place ofitea tgea imreby wa. aidydsp~ o aFrtcE rpaAmne ITisadhtte first almanace pite drumknownm to haegiomopntnds It Ewand weasultfranlthed ferm the5 1404ne and appeare Indps 1497 Eah publihed.rThueh it sel mdeipie tione ofacsesadteplcso:h old fo am carowns thf oldade. en in Uungstas seranyoo Italy, Enloand Thre fairstmncseorde mans he hr-kowns touhte sen printed TEglaneeled tranlated frmomathe tu th intodes tefi ectv vroseas CAnld Io om Janrytereminhe ol. InChisma son g ofyeutv. Manre Jes., tht six-yier-lddaughtler ofu m'ewsycicliedfrgyman'sn behove. Theegi illge, suhd ah playmae, Jim-o mybyknae.ed hone dyd was hmers rel Mod. thei Lotide, that the by'sw bri wothr. ro tepeito and sid "nMary theremnyuging os pray Cr,?~lh to ighta-oddaghe ofy an r'bteinergomnint pay forl Georgi vllae, ad no rplymateJish myg to name fu wo t flasn ecid tom to allwte youthul etoninc her workentin prblem her moths wneea. ren a1s C .v nioted i thard the boy'se gnrleclis omtto ed fall thepetone esand sa ayi aen't yof goingdto "noimoer.e e'namanehte: "God ayo cam besrimy." o waork ut you needn'm d Its on way Inaccw o mentsrp' she heard te lttl advantage of the gre take lose otit all cotton go s: " mjn fab'ics, beginning I wov custtmers. ror ou working day and ni d, are e are here in great cpenslvibig success. AgA ;was a - M N A. U K1 G OF BEASTS. an Old African Hunter The Way ts Out the Monarch. P*inag the question, "Which In discus of beasts?' an old African is the king,: hunter sa ith me to a desert pool some I "Come Wlight night when the shad clear, moleep and sharply cut and the Ows are 'self in the dry, cloudless air inoon hee a ball. All is nearly as looks l4 day, only the light is silver. bright a Sit down on that rock and not goldhe thirsty animals as they watch 'uffalo, rhinoceros, antelope, drink-1 occasigaally, if the water Is quagga;)ns too. But what has fright large, li antelope and quagga that they ened thneir heads up for a second and throw tay into the shadows? The oth fade avts, too, are listening and now er beahe sides of the pond. Nothing leave i inevitable, irrepressible jackal, but th'min among wild things, remains that gs. in vie-yet your dull human ears have "Ast no sound. but very soon the caUgl tread and low, rumbling note of heaveoming herd of elephants reach an Or They are at the water. The you- is have sat down with their tails acket out behind them, but not an sraip creature is to be seen. The king others. Not a sound is heard. Ie drinks the water over his back, makes squiI-hole pool muddy and retires sol the ', leaving his subjects, who now emnb round, to make the best of what gatles fouled. he-rhis is the king in the opinion of :fasts." I THE DINNER TABLE. ome Hints on How to Behave When Aceidents Happen. Accidents will happen. If one hap pens to spill something he is unfortu nate, but a ready, earnest apology to the hostess is all that he can do to rem edy the difficulty. A careful hostess will acknowledge the apology and im mediately change the subject. This story Is told of a hostess at whose table a beautIful china cup was broken. ''Never mind," she said pleas antly. "They break so easily. See" And she crushed one In her hand. Her met-hod was rather too elabo rate. It would have been quite as sat isfactory to the offender and far more genteel had she said: "I hope you have received no Injury. The cup doesn't matter In the least." If a morsel of food drops from the fork to the tablecloth do not attempt to remove It. If a guest drops a fork or a spoon he should let it lie. The hostess will provide another. If anything distasteful be taken into the mouth It may be removed on the corner of the napkin, when it can be folded away or placed quietly on the plate. If a bit of food falls on the waistcoat of a guest he should remove as much of it as he can quietly with the corner of his napkin. Damuseus Swords. To the lovers of strange goods the bazaars of Damascus are far more alluring than those of Cairo or of Con stantinople. -The capacious chests of the merchants contain mn'uch that we would buy were our purses longer. Old emroderies of wonderful colors, deli cate china, silks of many hues, swords of cunning workmanship, all these lie piled beside us on the floor. It is but seldom that a really good specimen of the Damascus sword can be obtained, for the art of working and engraving steel is dead. These -.words were made of alter nate layers of iron and steel, so finely tempered that the blade would bend to the hilt without breaking. with an edge so keen that no coat of mail could resist It, and a surface so highly pol Ished that when a Mo0slem wished to rearrange his turban he used his sword for a looking glass. In the Great Western Wheat Belt. One square mile of wvheat. Ever see it? Transconrinental trains used to stop in the Smoky Ihill valley of Kan sas to allow passenger-s a view of such a wonder. It realized all the travel ers' dreams of agricultural splendor. Hundreds such visions now mark the great grain area of the plains, but their beauty Is none the less. Six hundred and forty acres of wvealth! It shim mered beneath the perfect opalescent blue of the sky, the tall straws bending with their weight of graIn. Standing on the seat of'the reaper one mightse inthe distance a glimmer of green pas tures and catch glimpses of rustling ields of corn, but here was the he-art of summer.-C. M. Harger in Scrib ner's._ _ _ Terrific Race With Death. "Death was fast approaching, writes Ralph F. Fernardez, of Tampa, Flat., describing his fear ful race with death, ' as a result of liver trouble and heart dis ease, which had robbed me of sleep and of all interest in life. l had tried many different doc tors and several medicines, but got no benefit, until I began to use Electric Bitters, So wonder ful was their effect, that in thre? das3 I felt like a new man, and today I am cured of all my~ trou bles." Guaranteed at McMaster Co.'s, Obear Drug Co.'s and John H. McMaster & Co.'s drug stores; atest sale of this season's rr ods you have in next ten da: Monday, May i." He andt ght to keep up with our gro) quantities. They are made gents for Butterick Patterns Will Cure Consumption. A. A. I ernt-n. Finvih, Ark., write-: "Folev's i1oniey and Tar is the he-t preparationI for couhls, cobb., anIn u troubie. 'I know I 1at it Is cured on snliption in t ll irst st.uses. Yoi never hetard of any one using F, ley's Hloney andl Tar and intt beiml' satisfied. Sold by M-Mlaster Co. The best way not to argue with your wife is to comimunicate with her by telegraplh. A Lesson in Health. I [eall Iv ki1I s lilter tl:e impiluri t ies from the blood. :11( ti1lss tle.y (1 ItiS gooId0 htLltll iS in poSSilel. Foley'S Kidney Cure makes sounld kidneys anI will positive1y cure all forIs of kidneyi and bladder disease. It strengthens the wlWhole system t. Sold by .MMaster Co. The dentist can kill a nerve, but lie can't always take the conceit out of a man. Has Stood the Test 25 Years. The old, original G ROVE'S Tasteless Chill Tonie. You know wIvt VOL a'e taking. It is iron and quinin e in a tasteless form. No cure. no nay. 50C. When the strong-mindEd woman loses her nerve she, feels quite utmanned. Bears the A~he Kind You Have Always Bought AL A- A THIS WAY LES SUCCESS -u 4 4. mn evr go int theswimby V.J +4 indolee mar sinlee puieps + run kno currts s welnl as a- t allywh succe are those wo - manter g ot into the rren or tun runsh I currents ei wlay. W 8 It will not do tLo simply put 4. goods of muperior workman- ~ hpon the market, con vinced that the people will 4 discover them and purchase I 4 them. Such gcuods must be 4 advertised. The people must be told what they are, how *and by whom they are made and where they can be ob tained. What is true of the Individual +2 manufacturer and merchant is *1. also true of trade organizations+ *and even of cities and comn 4monweaiths. MIany prosperous + )American mnunicip)alities have * 4 +2 been largely built up inl this way+ Sby advertising the advantages +2 they' offer as places of residence or as locations for profitable in 4dustries. : Man~y states have prosperous *4 settlements which resulted from busintess energy and advertising. +Advertisingr pryM the mer- + c2 (hanft, city or- state which depends upon it for the 4 -r Smovement of buisiness4. :$ Money spent in advertisinlg-is + never vrasted 21. a ;;ood medinum Sis seleured. --Norwich (Comid. L nion..: SThis paper is t1he ac!:now!-+ Sedi'ed :;od mendiumn of this * comunty. (Dzer adv1ertis er et satisfactry r-sults frem our coluns. Why would not you? Overworked Mrray's Buchu, Giin anid Junfi perisprscibed :utnl eitl'(nlre by\ emitinenit phniysiciansI. I t (ire when :all else fails. l'revent s Kid- 1o Disease. etc. At all drug stores. $1.00 a IBottle, Or Diree: fromt THlE MURRAY DRUG CO,, Columbi, S. C les of Go ore desirable cotton fabrics or .s, as the H. B. Claflin Co. wil be head of our house, Mr. Mim ving millinery trade. Stock cc over the handsome, up=to=date 0., colum From Chicago, every day, Los Angcles, Sa.nta Barba California. Tickets good berth, Chic'ago to San 1an and many other po'Its in Union Passenger Station, C Chcao n2An!O Uion Pamli If you are thinking of su it at lcast cenc. Handsome book descriptiv< F. A. MILLER, General P'assenge Agent, 1Z45 Railwauy E::chzn~a, CHICAGO. ~Comnplcte information v-!i he sent free on r Sthis coupon with blani: lines filled. Coupoz be maikd to-day. To Cure -rae Laxative Bromo ! Seven Millon boxes sold in past 12 months. IRO MURRAY'S MIXTURE.Th Now is the time to takea spring tonie. By far the bes't. thing to take is Aurray's lroni Alj alixture. I t mai~kes pur e bloo binath and geL- rid of that tired feehnzg. sao At all dirag~gists. ao two ml 50c a Bottle. S10.00 or IDirect fromj sent f THE 31URRAY DRUG Co., cet 1 Columbia, 5. C. is her ~ ices th Comet GROWN BY US. in Wit anattions......7e. to $I.O(0 per dlozeni $2.00 to 83.~>0 per do'ze'n vaeimbse IlRomzan) ~On. to 71r. pr-r doe areissusi, P::per Wite' 75-. per djozen\~j1 C il y of \allev.. .81.00f t o 61..-,0 pirdozenI will h~ oxes of Priett y 3Iixedl FloC-rs -- I am i asets of Pretty MIixed>11( Flowers.i o a ouly the fiine- upj-to-date variet ies hiaviD.. polamted. pes )UR CUSTOM1ERS GET THE BEST better so mue t i ti oquets or all purpos. $1.00 to $10.00) tJCal Y LTIH ifOMIE AND) CHCHV l:IIH DEC*ORtATIONS. ion toa We ma~ke a speity~~ of 10oks Fine Wedding Work. $-:. Ii up. Ini odeim;! lout~S or D)-ign -ee, and we. will las .voni. ( 'ut NoiiV TEI for PiRcIE IT .f sEED~ts day SlMain Street, COLU.M1BA, S. C. petit ion uh~i * . pr uilbia i at our store for the NEXT TE sell One Million Dollars' wor naugh, .will be on, and buy f miplete, styles the best, pric models as our finer shoes. bia, S. C. \Iarch 1 to May 15, 195, to San -a, Sacramento and many othe: in tourist sleeping cars. Rate ci;co, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, California, i7. Through train s: hicao, via the lwauikee a $t. Southen Paoi a tip, this is your opportunit of California sent for six cents' W. S. HOWl cr, Ger.orzl Et ceipt or St-eat Address___________ should city S te- --- Probable Destination______ a Cold in One Dei guinine Tablets.A This signature, - sue Ribbon Stallion. eeutiful five-vear-old comn lu stallion will make this at Cedar Tree Plantation, ~ les above Ridgeway. Fee* THE HEC for the season. Mares S A om a distance kept at 50 er day. IHEACOCK [. Owens, Winnsboro, S. C., eby authorized to collect ENGNS AN v for service by Comet for* - AIN it eason. MACmINEa unig WNdnesday May 3 GIBBES will be at Owens' stables ca usboro every Wednesday. THE GIBBI T. L. BULOW, -3m Ridgeway, S. C. -* UND THAT sUIT WILL B -- the futurei kas good as new if you in the old e ye it cleaned andi pressed. dlepartment repared to do the work for Caskets, B1 the most reasonable prices constantly narantee satisfaction. By hearse whe: your suit cleaned and Thankful I it will look ever so much ~nd solicitc all the while and will last future, in tl - longer. If you have not Calls att< the habit of having your pt in good order, b.egin it Tl El asee how much satisfact re will lie in the improved > the suit and in its longer .ive me a trial. Business WV. Bose Durham. Large Zinal Discharge. ----. - EN is iweby rive tha S. . -- D.'I ii . !t 00 na u 'Atr:,:f11 1f Probat Fart -! L .4 j.C hh or es 4/ Francisco, poins in for double Sacramento :rvicc from Paul '; Line y to make ostage. zctrm Azent, 33! oI:hody, U~EW YoRK CITY. On everyI ELoG BEAM WV M IL w:TH -KING FEE WORKS4 ) BoLRtSs, ooDWORWGo r, CorroN G :-NnG, Bmzcz ND SHING K AN~D LATE r, Cons L~s, ErC., ETC. MACH NERY Co.. lumbia S. C. F.S SHI GLE MACHINE ER KING E CONT'INUED IN he same as ' the past stablishment tall iu s with a full st of irial Cases and Cdns on hand, and use of\ a requested. for past patronage us for a share in the ae old stand. mnded to at all hours. LIOTT GIN SHOP. ELLIOTT & Co. Education Pays st Dividends! TER NOW. >est terUms. Sat infact~on o Busines Colleg.e ofrers ures. Ou'r graduates are coa Write for inzforma SOUTH{ CAROLINA mEsS COL LEGE,