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5 I !i I . For the next millinery and clo cost you anywhci ing cash for satin your talking mac Rcmcm and for only the chines, and you i\ ?_rii i ? * mcy win oe sola 35c for These records selling the recorc ! : ' I hma u ^ow to Raise iTine Water melons. Southern Cultivator. I would like to tell Mr. B. V. of Timmonsville, S O., and a) other farmers, how 1 make tin largest and finest watermelons I ever saw. 1 lay otr rows 0x9 fee each way, put two shovels full o some weak compost to each hill four puarts cottonseed and om good handful of some high grad< fertilizer. Be sure to scatter it ai least four or five feet over tin hill to prevent its burning, thei run a four or five inch null tnngm plow through it twice, then take a Dixie plow and break the lam as deep as you can, and follov with tne bull tongue in ever> Dixie furrow as deep as you cai to subsoil ; when you get hull J ? ? ? ? ? done inarK your mils r>y runninj across lightly, then finish break ing your land with Dixie an( suhsoiler. Land should have a lo of grass or peavine to keep il mellow. When you plant tlx melons take a hoe and level tin land about the hill and sticl three or four seed with sharp etu down one inch deep; when thei come up and need work, hoi around lightly and always teni "?ary shallow, and don't leave bul one or two vines in the bill, am j~ be sure to never work when tin ground is wet or when the dew ii Von the vine. Mr. Editor, this in in Ihlvertiaement, but 1 wiah to aa} I have u few pounda of the tinea melon need I ever saw that originated here on mv farm twelve veara ago, and 1 have kept then pure by not planting any otheri With or about them. I am sure . % ? ; sixty days wc arc going to g thing one of the famous Stan re $12.00, but we are going to e, and ask for your coupon ; \ :hine absolutely FREE. ber this Offe purchases made in the depart can get none or as many as y< to you for the Small Rec cost you extra any where you Is to you. Remember, for Ci mmwk made a car load on half an acre last year that averaged 45 or 50 h pounds A friend of mine shipped a carload to Chattanooga, Tenn., j, U II r) tlm man I. ~ ~ -1 J viiv. lunu no niii|ipou hj naiu ^ it was the finest and best load of | melons thar ever went to Chattanooga. It's no trouble to make ft i I them weigh 60 poundR and I j have never seen a finer llavoreb j- melon. 1 wish to send everyone of 01 your subscribers a few seed and ' evervone that will send me a 9 a self addressed envelope and two ? 2 cent tamps, I will send them a _ few seed of. I think, the best seed ^ |?i 4 in the world, and I think every ,.j one that gets them will thing so, iu 3 too. d Wishing you and all the read- j,, I ers of the Cultivator a happy and |>l f prosperous New Year. I am, ,l* r Yours trulv, i G. W, N. n 1 I 'on t ! Jesup, Ga. z I lit . I Household Hints. 1 To make discuits 1 itrlit?drench with gasoline mid ignite before serving. a c How to keep servants?chloro- L j form them ancl lock in the eel j lar. 9 Quickest wav to get rid of pod I dlers?bnv'idl thev Iihvp. ' . ? How to remove frmt stains i i t'1 II from linen ? use scissors. a To koep rats out of the pantry x"i * ?place all food in the cellar. 3 To entertain women visitors? { lot them inspect ft'l your private papers. ft To entertain more visitors? ? ^ feed the brutes. 01 i To keep children at home? l. L lock up their clothes. ive everybody who pur dard Talking Machine give them away to o vhen you have gotten ; r fnr f merits above mentione 3U want. We have a :ords and ( i should buy a talking \SH only, and lor sixt; Yanrc fa i < JL O nil I mmm To keep hubby at home?hi is toupee. In order to prevent accidei i the kitchen?fill the kerose an with water. To test the freshness of eg -drop them on some hard si ice. To propitiate the janitor? tn't be done.?Smart Set. A PIANO OR ORGAN FOR YOU. To tlio hetul of over* family wlio is i itious t<>r tli?* future and education of liidren, we have a Special Propositioi tike. No Article in the ho.tie shows the i slice of culture that does a Piano or in No accomplishment gives as nu leasr.ro or is of as (great value in after i the knowledge of music and the abi play well. Our Small Payment Plan makes them rshipofa high grade Piano or Orj sy. Just a few dollaiH down and a small p ent each month or quarterly or se: innally and the instrument is joins. Write us today for Catalogues and < pecial Proposition ot Kasy Payments. Address, MALONES MUSIC HOUSE. Columbia. S. C. ANCASTEft & CHESTI RAILWAY COMPANY SCI1KDUL.K IN EPKKCT MAY UK. UM UAlli) KAUKl'T SUNDA" W BsTltOUN I> if Lancaster 'I .'{fi a m 3 15 | if Kort Lawn... S IV 11 m I 15 i ir liattcomvllle 0 >0 n m 1 30 j l' Kichlnirt: 7 "5 a in Mb | r' 'Hester 7 30 a in I H j r I harlotte?Sou. Hy... 1* bb a in 7 Oil ] r Columbia?Sou Kv Hi 15 a m KASTIIOIJND ir Coliininiu- Sou. Hy B u6 am 3 to i i' i harlot to-- Sou. Itv B Ob a m B 00 i if Chester ...till in H l"> | i' Klcliburi; 9 10 a in H 30 i v IIUKi'omvillc 0 50am 8 45 j v Kort La'^n 10 Ofl am 8 bB | l.ancinter 10 30 a in 0 lb | CONNKCTIONS HKSTKR? Soutborn, Seaboard, and Ca Una Si. North-Western Railways. ANCASTKR?Southern Railway. A. I . McIjURK, Superintended LKROY SPRINGS, President V, 3ESIW? chases from us $35.00 in dry goods, notions, s. These graphaphones or talking machines 111* customers. You make your purchase, payas much as $35.00 worth bring them in and get 'ash Purchases Only j d. We have the records that go with the malist of the various songs, band music, etc., and )0c for the Large Ones machine, so we make nothing back on you by y days. lifully, j wm m i i ? - de v AILEY BROS.' Cock-Spur plug tobacco puts all competition to flight. because it v,?- PR31 has all the sweetness, flavor and strength <?!> lEga&i of the best tobacco grown in the world's greatest nature-favored section. Chew Cock-Spur. aymi n No better tobaccos made ?g V B than those manufactured by 5iir s&l Bailey Bros., Winston-SaB* lem, N. C. Not in a Trust ? ^ For Sale by BENNETT GROCERY CO. | First National Bank I ? JJ m In tin ?e day* of keen o inpetilion, tlm success of a hunk may he said I > , n V depend primarily upon the lih-rality of trout i.ent uccorded iIr depositors. V j_n a lierogni/.iog this fact, Tilli FI1IST NATIONAL B\NK of LuncARtcr, m i>~i> V grants us generous terms as an-consistent with modern conservative hank- ft C "'k'. anil the result has been a continuous and l ipid growth in business M m and resources m 2JL IVo want and invite an account from every individual, tlrni and cnrpo- X D" ft ration in Lancaster County. Interest at the rate of I per cent paid on jft o it ^ time deposits. m II i CHAS 0 JONES, Pres't. E. M. CROXTON, Cashier. I Subscribe for The News