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ARE YOU READY WE ARE. We are now ready for your Christ mas Trade at - - W. C. Beaty Co's. Stor Where good bargains are made. Oranges, Bananas, Apples aid Spice, Currants, Raisins and Cit ron, and in fact, - - EV ERYT HING NICE. If you can't give us all your trade we will thank you for a slice. - - W. C. Beaty Company. CIRISMAS SPE1AL! Rfenember you canuot do better in getting your Christmas Groceries than to come to US. Large stock of FRUITS, NUTS and Candies. - - - - Raisins, Citron Cranberries. J. D. McAR LEY& CO. A CHRISTMAS POINTER. .WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED a full shipment of Fruits, Rai sins, Nuts, Citron, etc. Can supply all your Christmas wants -in the Grocery line. A. B. CA THOCAR T Christmas Necessities. FRUITS, RAISINS, Nuts, CANDIES, COCOANUTS. Malaga Grapes Fruit Cakes. S. C. JOHNSTON. JI Wilson Gibbes W N~V TYPEWRITER HEADQUARTERS ocsigErk,h 1412 Main St., Columbia, S. C. peaain,i yC~i South Carolina AgentveyhgetodrBin . DENSMORE TYPEWRITER-Theyororanyowilbplse est writing machine at any price. BrgteupfrC ism . CHICAGO TYPEWRITFR-T he e SIHBES est for the price-$3 and $50. ALL MAKES-Rented, Exchanged, ~ cHNTAL, P>ought. Repairing on the premises by Tepa al inhr,S wz expert. RUBBER STAMP FACTORY- RedT i Stam~ made every day on the premi ises. Stencil Plates, Dates Number-__ ing Machines, Check Punches of all -___ OFFICE SUPPLIES AND rjIFU uw ntt In N [TURE-Everythin gfrom a Pen l'iAnt to a Roll Top Desk. Sectional Filing Cases, Bookcases and Card In- s r d~xes ahepeciplty,o10-1 ONEwHOUSNDiARESEure,th : ofgood far ing and nerthuayrn i a Stck chase. Fo turmapp y to gherSt orde Builingn burg,workadyou wilMerpeandse, ISAIAH BNON , A. (1.MQuattlTbTum,OR, ThesianHal.rWinsbro,S.. LD FOR. SAQaLE.bum settlemelnt.nFri IN ARMOR TIMES. Strength of English War rlsel III the Days of Henry Vlfll. The size of the EngSlsh Wiar reached its maximum in the reign Of Henry VIII., when the relations of body armor to "hand guns" were an:ti ogous to those of the early ship armor and cannon. There was good reason t0 believe, says the London Spectator, that by adding a little to the thickness of the coat of steel the soft, low ve locity bullet of the day could be kept out. So it was for a time. But s the additional weight required a still larger horse to carry it. The charger had to be armored as well as his rider, and the collection in the Tower of Lon don shows the actual weight whcli it carried. The panoply of Charles Bran don, Duke of Suffolk, the brother-in law of Henry VIII., still exists. That of the horse covers the whole of the hind quarters, the back of the neck, forehead, muzzle, ears, shoulders and chest It is exactly like a piece of . boiler plating and fastened by rivets. The rider sat in a sa(Mle, the front of which was a steel si.d ten inches high, covering the stomach and thighs as the "breastwork" on an ironclad's deck covers tle base of the turret. The total weight is eighty pounds fifteen ounces. To this add the weight of the. rider's armor, ninety-nine pounds nine ounces, and of the rider himself, say, sixteen stone (224 pounds), and the to tal is twenty-eight stone twelve pounds eight ounces, or 404 pounds S ounces. This bears out Ilollinshead's statement that in the days of Henry VIII.. "who erected a noble studderie for breeding horses, especially the greatest sort," such as.were kept for burden, those anl mals would bear four hundred-weight commonly. MAKING OLD OAK. One of the Tricks of the Cabinet makers' Trade. You will have to go a long way be fore you find a I-ody of men more clev er than those cabinetmakers who pro duce goods to satisfy the desire of the public for furniture made of old and fancy woods. They can transform whitewood into all kinds of exotic woods by means of chemicals, and a chemist would be surprised if he were to have the run of one of those facto ries for a day. The manufacture of "old" oak is one of the easiest of their processes. The boards, moldings, panels or whatever pieces are required are made of oak which has just had time to dry suffi- i ciently to prevent excessive warping. They are then placed in a dark room, on the floor of which and quite close to the furniture to be "aged," are placed several bowls, plates and so forth, of liquid ammonia. The room is then her metically closed up, and the wood is left for a month or so, according to the age which is required. The coloration will extend to a depth of nearly a quarter of an inch if the room Is kept closed for a few months. That Is why there is so much old oak furniture about Of course, a little re fection would show that it could not be genuine-the forests of the middle ages would not have furnished one-half of it-but people do not alwvays reflect. -London Graphic. Shoe Buckles. When Evander Berry Wall, king of the dudes for twelve years and really1 the most inconspicuous man about town, because he was homely of face and a very bad dresser, besides beingi rather short and blotchy, undertook to reintroduce shoe buckles he made his1 first big faIlure as the sartorial die-i tator of our "jeunesse doree." I think it was poor Al Claggett who said: "Why, Berry, you make a fool of your self. Shoe buckles go with long stock ings and knee pants. You can't wear 'em with socks and trousers. They in terfere with the set of the trousers around the feet. Then, of course, you've got to have a low quartered shoe. Cut it out, Berry, cut It out." Wall immediately quit - New Yorki Press.C Wearing Glasses. Wearing glasses need not be perma nent If the first hint of derangement in the eyes is heeded a short time spent under the direction of an oculist I will safely tide over the difficulty. Iti is most restful to close the eyes fre- ( quently for a few mintes. This rest i does them great good. Particularly . should this be done in trains and street 2 cars. Many a headache and smarting pain may thus be saved. Traveling in . public conveyances is exceedingly I hard on the eyes, even for those that I are strong and perfect. The gaze I should be confined to the interior of the car. Looking out of the windows toC the rapidly changing seuery is a great strain.-Philadelphia Ledger. No Regrets. I "Hello, old man. Haven't seen any thing of you since you got married. ~ How goes it?" "Thanks, fairly well. But marriage is a cost?y job! If you only knew what 0 the dressmakers charge!', r "So I suppose you regret it?" "Oh, no. I married a dressmaker," Meggendorfer Blatter. Ini After Tears. Smith -- When Greeni was courting that young widow a couple of years a ago he declared he couldn't live with-. out her. Jones-And did he marry her? Smith-Yes. And now he is trying to get a divorce on the grounds that it's impossible to live with her.--Exchange. A suitable Book. Customer (hesitatingly)-I suppose er-you have some-er-suitable books' 1 for a man-er-about to be married? Bookseller-Certainly, sir. IHere, John, show this gentleman some of our ac count books, largest size. . King of All Cough Medicines. Mr. E. G. Case, a mail carrier of I fl Canton Center, Conn., who has b)een f in the U. S. Service for about sixteen years, says: "Me have triedl manyi d cough mledicines for croup, but Chamm- jt berlain's Cough Remedy is king of all V and one to be relied upon every time. We also find it the best remedy for|_ coughs and colds, giving certain results and leaving no bad after effects." For sale by Obear Drug Co. and all medi-( ene dealers. Kodol Dyspepsa Cure Digme+ts what you= at. BIRTH OF A HYMN. tory of the Origin of "In the swee. By and BY." A song of national circulatlon. "i. e Sweet By and By," written by S. 'illmore Bennett of Elkhorn, Wis., had % -s birth in a country store. Mr. Ben ett told the story, which is given in Wisconsin In Three Centuries," as fol >ws: It was about time for closing busi ess in the evening when J. P. Web ter, whose melodies have made Wis onsin famous, came into the store, eeling somewhat depressed. I said to Webster, "What is the mat er now?" He replied, "Ii is no matter; it will ,e all right by and by." The idea of the hymn came to mC Eke a flash of sunshine, and I replied: The sweet by and by. Why woukl M. ot that make a good hymn?" "Maybe it would," he said indiffer ntly. I then turned to my desk and penned he hymn as fast as I could write. I anded it to Mr. Webster. As he read t his eyes kindled and his whole de aeanor changed. Stepping to the desk. te began writing the notes instantly. In a few moments he requested Mr. right to hand him his violin, and he >aayed with little hesitation the beau iful melody from the notes. A few V noments later he had jotted down the totes for the different parts and the horus. I do not think it was more than thir y minutes from the time I took my encil to write the words before the ymn and the notes had all been com >leted and four of us were singing it xactly as it appeared in the Signet ing a few days later and as it has >een sung the world over ever since. A NAVAL REBUKE. rwo Admirals, a Captain and a Fool In 31anila Bay. When Dewey's fleet was at Manila he late Admiral Chichester was then L captain. On one occasion Admiral Miedrichs, the German, sent out the rene on an unrevealed errand and vithout the customary notification to he commander of the blockading fleet \miral Dewey had suffered, he bought, sufficiently from that sort of hing, and sa the admiral sent a vessel tcross the Irene's bows and notified er captain that she would not be per nitted to depart without a statement ,s to her destinatijn. It was not Ad niral Diedrichs' mission to quarrel vith both the American and the Eng ish fleets on this critical occasion, so ic sought to find out Captain Chiches er's purpose in case of a collision. Go- e ng on board Chichester's ship, he an rily exclaimed, "Did you see what )ewey did to my ship?" "Yes," replied Chichester. "What would you have done If it had )een an English shii6?" "Well," said Chichester, convenient y assumIng that the Irene's captain lad sailed without orders from Die lrichs, "I'd have put my captain in ar *est, and then I'd have gone on board he Olympia and apologized to Admiral )ewey for having such a fool in comn nand of one of my ships."-Harpe's ekly.________ A Poet's Homely Face. The poet Rogers was afflicted with a iotably unpleasant, cadaverous coun enance, which, with all his Intellectual >ower, was a mortification to him. To ide his annoyance, he joked about his igliness incessantly and deceived his :riends into supposing him indifferent , :o it. He once turned to Sydney smith, who, with Byron and Moore, vas dining with him, and said: "Chantrey wants to perpetuate thi niserable face of mine. What pose vould you suggest that I should take?" "If you really wish to spare the world ts much as possible," said the wit, "I vould, if I were you, be taken at my )rayers, my face buried in my hands." Rogers laughed with the other per ons present, but he.-shot a malignant ;lance at the jester and, it is said, nev r fully forgave him for the bonmot Thankfulness. I am no friend to the people who re ie the bounties of Providence with- | >t visible gratitude. When the six ~ee fails into your hat you may augh. WVhen the messenger of an un- . xpected lessing taker; you by the Land and li fts you up and bias you walk -ou may leap and run and sing for oy even as the lame man whom St. ~etr heaieil skipped piously and re oiced aloud as he passed through the icautiful gate of the temple. There is to virtue in solemn indifference. Joy s as much a duty as beneficence is. hankfuness is the other side of mer y.-Henry Van DyLe. Facial Horticulture. "A new milkman left our milk to .ay," announced Dorothy. "Did he have whiskers?" asked her aothr, thinking perhaps it was the 'roprietor. "No," said the four-year-old; "he .idn't he-e whiskers, but he had the oots."-Iarper's Weekly. Why She Couldn't. "No, I didn't have a very good time," he said. "I wanted to talk, and there asn't a man there." "But there were plenty of other irs." "Oh, of course, but that was no sat ;faction, for they all wanted to talk U7nfair. Another unfair thing in life - the ridj with a wealth of hair, wears a eil. out thle groom, who has a bald pot and really needs a veil to cover it, denied the privilege. - Atchison The noblest motive is the public good. EM Virgil. _________ "Pieues" (non-aleholic) made -omn resin from our' Pine Forests, use d >r hundred of years for Bladder and idnev diseases. Medicine for thirty ays, I. Guaranteed1 to give satisfac oni or money refunded. Get our uarantee coupon from the McMaster e1 o's drug store. I WINNSBORO, S. C. Offices: 4 Law Range. T-urs: 10 to . Christmas FOR EVE ONE OF 0 GCWt* ! !custom gih Pr go th ov lot T no Our Furniture Stock is Complete and y most desirable goods. Lots of nic( Christmas presents for your friends a home more beautiful and -attractive and H. E. K E T C H I IT'S JUST TH X Xx X X* f you did not -get to see ot . Wedding and Christmas Winnsboro last week why j *order telling what you wan certainlyiplease you. Just you had called in person. Bu; . and buying in person is all thi as pleasingjyou is concerned. you to come to see Us anyway ALL GOODS GUAR J. C. RO0B IN S ON Send U s -your -Repair W ork. Orders left with Obear Drug Co. will receive best Attention - - lothing! 'Clothing! Clothin ni immense stock of Cl< mostattractive. Comt to you. = = = V. WALKER & COMI R Y UR irs! ot exactly that we are giving our godds away Not that. Be we are 7 ring such a Reduction in ices Ihat your money will much farther with us X an ever before. We have V !rloaded and must have mey. That is just the - ig and short of it. Hence he Big Bargains w being offered. - - - )u will find here the things suitable for nd for making your comfortable. - - - N. COME TO *S EE U S. ESAM - X - ir Display of Presents at ust send ns an t and we will 9 as well as if yinig by mail e same so far9 But we want CIH E ST ER, 9 SOUTH CAR O LINA. 3 aSyfocus -,- 17 1PCALDRV I . IM IMCD/"IAAT