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HEbSH The Press and Banner! fiv W. W. and W. R. Bradley, HUGH WILSON, Editor. ^ ; ABBEVILLE, S. C. ^1 4fc#-Publl6hed every Weduesdp at. S2 h year In advance. B Wednesday, June 6, 1906. Did the I'KiiiniiBt ( ?> U i-oiik |HH David, we believe, has been considered as authority ou diviue worship, especially Is ^9Sh this true in the Associate Reformed church, where he Is accepted as a high priest lu the HRfl temple. However, in an unguarded tnomeni BH be may have given offense, uui lor which aoi we hope that the wore strict, but less iuformBBMfcjjBI ed brethren will pardon the old gentlemen. la his enthusiasm he so far forgot the rules o: the Associate Reformed Church, as to say : '"SiDg unto the Lord with the harp; with the barp, and the voice of a Psalm. S "With trumpets and sound ol CORNKl' make a joyful noise before the Lout, toe King." Wig David, was nq doubt a good old man, but he should have been more careful in obeying tlurales of tbe Associate Reformed Cnurcb? ' ?111 Honht. hf IHv. tome of whose memoer? ?n? ?? shocked at tils reference to the comet. The Psalmist might lose caste with the Seccdert if we bear much more from him oti the sub Jeci of the cornet. I These Teachers ExaminntlouN. Eg ' I Of all Impositions on a suffering public, the I. reoent examinations for teachers held all I over the Stale takes the cake. We do not r. know what wiseacres prepared these examination papers, but we preeume that Ihej I, knew that the time allotted for the exumlna| tlon was one day, and why they should coucocta set of questions that would give a walking stenographic eucyclopoedia "Jim EJfc Jams" and give the poor teacher nervous ! prostration lr a quest Ion we want answered. All the court bouses In the State are not well equlped with lights, and besides wheu the ex amlnation is advertised for one day It Is suppfrt^posed that It can be finished by the average " "id th? StKte teacher lu six or bikui UUUto, M^Hg?-v Board of Education shows unexcusablt though tlessDesp when it springs such an arra> of questions before the coruiauu school teachers and expects these questions to be answered In so short a time. . ;The teachers of the state are complaining at this thing and who can biaine them? Do BbS you? It so I'll go to the trouble to make out ' a set Of parallel queHtloDH and pay :iour expenaes to Abbeville .Courthouse and back provided your live In South Carolina, just to seelf I can't change your mind. If you warn to take me up on this proposition just adHi " dress your missive to this paper, please. The thousands of poor underpaid teacher*. DfiHyy' * Of thlB stale should get together and ask themselves a few questions aud at least dtUU|| mand some show of reaKon anent this mallei of teachers examinations. ? If U is the policy of the State Board to force Bg teaot era to. attend the summer schools then lei the Board make some pecuniary provls Ion for them.. When a teacher receives twen I tyflve or thirty dollars per month lor six months, she hasn't time to attend Euumei schools, she must stay home aud pick black ' The Slate Board should remember thai ommitiuiion Questions are to be a struggle for a thousand or more people and I'', . V consequently should see to It that the preparation of the questions and the time alloted for the examinations should be so ordered that those who must stand them may do so ,/ in comfort. %' Seventy-three and.one-half per cent of the teachers of Abbeville county are not college graduate^ and yet those common school teachers are examined ou studies wulch are ^B taught In colleges and which are not laugh) IB la the oommon schools, and It Is a lact that B |ome of them have not seen between the baclie jS of such works as pedagogy and physics. Oi jB course they ought to kn?iw about these things jn bat they don't. How fartlal then are these MB'' examinations. Hall the teachers of Abbe vllle county were required to stand this exIS aminatlon and the papers closely und strictly examined and certificates Issued accordingly, nine-tenths of the schools In Abbeville counM \ ty would be without teachers next year. |Hl I DitftlDKuinhed l*llt;rliiiN. Messrs. J. T. Blgbam, A. G. Brlce, and J. 8. Moflatt, In company wlih another dlstlnH"' ' gulshed looking genllemau whose name we fS did not learn, passed through Abbevlllt ?| Monday evening going to I>ue West. Thej came over the Seaboard Air Line to AbbeS. , vllle. A carriage and a pair ol high steppine horses from Hill's stable cairied them to the Mecca of learning, These gentlemen occupy j B high positions in Chester, and fill big places B in the publlo eye of South Carolina. B Mr. Blgham is editor of Chester Lantern | , whose rays Illumine all.of Chester and which fig luminary Is a beacon light and a central M figure for temperance men, prohibitionist* U and every variety of good citizens who dell splse the horrid old dispensary. He married 3 one of the very best girls that ever went oui B from Due West. For live years she never missed a recitation in the Female College, and she never failed to win the honors. Chester would not be a Chester without the Hon. A. G, Brlce, whose ability as a lawffi yer and whose high character as a citizen is K known of all men.fand whose sterling worth 9 makes blm a power in the Associate Reform? ed church. S Mr. Moflatt Is pastor of the first Associate | Reformed church In Chester, which Is tbJ X first church In the First Presbytery. He and S ' his predecessors, with assistance of the mem8 bers, have built up a great chureh In Chestei ' I which pays their beloved-pastor a bandsonit I salary. Mr. Moffatt Is one of the foremusi | men in the Associate Resoimid synod. He, lit? Mr. Bigbam, Is one of the luckiest men ft on earth. He married one of the most jjj charming young women of Due West. Miss B Jennie (irier, whose mother > ears ago as Miss E Nannie McMorris van the most attractive I girl in the Associate Keiormed Sunday j school in .Newberry. One young man oi whom we know at that time, never lailed to be there on Sunday morning. All nncousclous oi her power she made idolator ol that young man, but she married Hew \V. M. Grler oi blessed memory. Tbelr daughter Is now^Irs. Motfat'. And neither, he nor Mr. Bigham can go wrong as long as Miss Mary "Miller takes wire of the one, and Miss Jennie Grier keeps an eyeon the other. The unidentified distinguished looking stranger appeared to be as good as the company with which he was traveling. He must have been the Mayor oi Chester, or the principal of the high scbojl. He couldn't have been less than an elder lu Mr. MotlatlV I church. If we knew him we would throw a bouquet at him, too. Due West always draws to her commencement a inultltute of educated people from every part of the land. The lame and glory of ber educational institutions are known in every state of. the,. Union, aud their sons and daughters have goue abroad even to foreign lands, carrying with them light of our blessed religion to make pure and gentle the heartB and hands of those who were 4 strangers to the civilization which brings the peopie into the paths ,of peace and into the ways of pleasantness. II, at the final accounting, educational Institutions are to be rewarded for the good which tbey do, thon Erskineand Irvine will wear the brightest crowns and the most sparkling diadems. Id 1851 the Lindsay Hall waR flnlnned, and in that year It was ready tor the commence niont exercises. It. was ;i proud commencein < til lor those who took p>*rl in It. With the j exception of Prof. J. F. l^e, tiio faculty of that year have passed to ti:e silent maj>riiy. | A lonu lint ni printers In the Presbyterian otllce have gone the same way. The founders of the paper, .Messrs. J. O Ltudsny and J. . J, Bonuer, aud L)r. \V\. M. Grier, late editor . are with us no more. The printers. \Vray, Puck??t, Stansell, Stiirnes. Mauiy, Darlington, Krimminuer, one aller the oilier, have . crosstd tiie Ulvor. ??I that year, none of the old citizens remain, except Mr. Lee. ] Prof. Kat/.mlnKer, of' the Co-educational Institute ol Kdgefieia, spent Monday nl^ht ' In Abbeville with his friend, Capt. Thomas . Lyon, while on his way to the Due West I Commencement. , COURT NEWS. Court Convenes .Monday .Morning. | Court ol General .Sessions Abbeville County convened .Monday morning, June 4th. with following otlicerw: Solicitor Cooper, Stenographer Aul., .Stierill Lyon uud ?jlert J. L. Peri in. The lollowlug bills were banded grand jury: Stale v.*. a rail Wardlaw, murder. True bill. state vs. Joe Hards, assault and battery. True bill. stale vs. Napoleon Wideman, assault and battery. State vs. Hiram Till man. | Stuie vs. Robert Romaus, assault and battery. Plead guilty and sentenced to pay 325 or 30 days. Siale vs. J. H. Moore, Joel Moore, Will Moore.Sam Bigby and Hugu Bowen, muruer. The 101 towing Jury was sworn to try ease: J. J. Link, K. T. Broad well, M. L. Kills, T. L. Cann, H M. Muudy, s. A. Wakefield, J. E. Rogers, Joe F. Edmunds, F. M. irowther, Geo. smith, J. A. Gilliam, W. A. Gallagher. Argument by F. B. Gary, W. P. Greene and W. N. Gray don lor deiense. Argumeut b> Solicitor Cooper lorS'ate. Verdict?Not guilty. QUICK LUNCH. I'iire lee Creaai?I'uro Milk Shake* ?"? su'<>pf Meats to Hold Them Oowii? Cigartf lo Fill the Air With DeilKhlfnl Aroma. For lime out of mind, ll has been bard for a ' thirsty man or a hungry man lo be accommodated wRti those things whiob appease the appetite or slake the thirst, but now the best ot luuches and the best of creams and milks ( can be had on call at the attractive store or ^ Mr. Brelbahn's new bakery. The tables are , ueat aud clean, the attention is all that could 1 be desired, the company Is pleasant and ' agreeable. < Those who go to this lunch counter can < spend from a nickel up to the capacity of a 1 man's ability to hold or to spend. Home men J eat to live; others live to eat. Things are so j nice and so cheap at the Mew Bakery that it mattery not to which class you belong. The goods are there for you, and you cau't help ' tilling up to the brim, if you go In there. j WEST ENU. ; DoIm IMckrd I'p Here and There ' About the City. Miss Hattie Brogden whs in the city last . week the guest of Mrs. E. C. Hicks. Miss Brogilen leaches in Gainesville, Ga,and was < on her way to her home tn Ricnmond. \ Mrs. A. L. Garrison came home last week , from Peachland, N. C.. where she has 6een spending sometime wilh homefolks. ' Mr. \V. A. Ttfuopieton went to Anderson on t Saturday lo assist In the Installation of Rev. ( Mr. Fraser as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. MIsm Lena Worth Barbee la here from ( Kome. Ga., the guest of Mrs. T. G. White. Miss Jim bee made her home in Abbeville (or .sotneiime and Is always a welcome visitor. Mrs. J. H. Latimer lelt last week lor Lowndesvllle, where she will visit Mrs. J. A. Latimer before going to Greenville to spend awhile with her brother, Mr. Thomas Cosby. Mr. J. T. Robertson was in the city Sunday and Monday staying.with his home people. Mr. Robertson has been located in Asheville, N. C.. for the past month and will go back to RaleigD in a short time. Mrs. R. L. Dargan is at home again after a week's stay In Spartanbure where she visited her slater, Mrs. H. Frank McGee. JDr. W . i?. Link ol W illlngton is In the city spending a few days with his sons, Mr. R. S. Link and Mr.S. J. Link. Miss Mary Hill arrived in the city Tuesday from Spartanburg to spend the summer vacation with her parents, l)r. and Mrs. L. T. Hill. Mr. Ray Calder Is In Cokesbury spending awhile with his home-people. Mrs. F. A. Cheatham left Mooday for North t Augusta where she will visit Mrs. Alec Gi? , bert tor a lew days then go to Raysvllle to see . ber daughter. Mrs. Charles D. Cowan. Mr. Joel S. Morse Is at home again after a 1 pleasant stay at Davidson JurlDg Commence- ] ment week. i . Miss Lillian Gambrell came homfc Monday 1 ai'hnni duties at Denmnrk. Miss I Garobrell will leave In a sbort while for a trip out west. Miss Louise Brown baa gone to Kock Hill to enjoy Commencement week. Sue will be the guest of her aunt Mrs. Greene Sandlfer white In the cily. Mrs. W. A. Templeton and Miss Mary J. Cater speut last Wednesday and Thursday In Mouterey the guests ot Mrs. G. W. Speer. Miss Belie Yisanska came home from Atlanta Monday. Her many friends are delighted to know that sne Is able to come and hope she will soon be well again. MIkk Helen and Miss lone Smith came borne from Spartanburg Tuesday after a successful year's work at Converse College. Miss Ivy Calhoun is at home from Pacolet where she has been teaching In the Graded school lor the past session. Miss Marie Gary entertained the Euchre Club Tuesday afternoon at a very dellgbtlul meeting. Miss Gary is a charming hostess aud her entertainments are always pleasant . ones. Mrs. M. L. Bullock has been In Lowndes- < vilte for the past week the guest of ber Aunt, ] Mrs. James T. Latimer. Mrs. Bullock will return to Abbeville Thursday then go to Clemson to be present at the graduation of tne '06 class of which her brother Mr. | William Latimer Is a member. . Mrs. B.C. Wilson left Monday for a ten dajs visit to relatives in North Augusta and Granltsvllle. 1 Miss Louise McGee of Greenville was the guest of Mrs. W. D. Wilson Saturday and Sunday. Dr. J. Lowrie Wilson went to Anderson ( Saturday to assist in the installation of Rev. ^ Eraser as pastor of the First l'resbyterlan Church. There was uo service In the free- ' byterlan church on Suuday. i Mrs. Sarah Nance ol Monterey Is In the city ] the guest ol her daughter, Mrs. W. C. Sberard. Mrs. Mary Parker Is at home after a pleasant two week's vicit to lriends In Anderson and Houea Path. Solicitor Julius E. Boggs is In the city attpnrilrie' nonrt. I A pttrty of youne people chaperoned by | Mrs. Elisabeth Norwood, Miss Mary and Miss i-'aunle Starke and Miss Lily Templetoii spent last Thursday at Kupley's Shoals. Those who made up the happy party were: I Misses Julia l'ennal, Marjorle Kern, Sarah i Norwood, Jessie Speed, Lucy Calvert, Sep- i tlum Hoillngaworth, Lois Wilson, Bessfe Lee Cluatham. Ethel Lyon, Edna Cox, Estelle ' strickle; Mtssers Wllllaiu Klngh, Allen M Kober'son, Albert Miller, McDuflie McKee, John Hill, Jr., Will Perrlu, Albert Morse. Sam Turner, I angdon llaskell, Laland Stevens, Gotttob Neull'er, William Grayoon, ISonur While, John Calvert, Ktauk Morrow, Je*sle McKee and others. Little Mir8 Margaret Cox daughter of Mr. atid Mrs. H? K. Cox has been quite sick for the past ten days. Their friends are glad to know that she is improvir.g, Miss Fannie Harris came home Tuesday front Con verse College. Miss Helen White will not come directly home from Converse, but will go to Asheville to attend the Y. W. C. A. Convention and visit her cousin. Miss Grace Jones lor a while. Mrs. E. E. Piatt and children fiom Sumiuertou, S. C., is visiting in the city. MASS-MJJJt;TiJVJ(i, It i<;h ,S< liool Tor Abbeville. There will l?e a mass-meeting of the citizensof Abbeville, and Community in the clerk's ollice next Thursday , afternoon, at 5 o'clock, relative to secui ing the I'resbyteiian .High School | of South Carolina Presbytery. ( | If you would read something ludi- J crous bunt uj? the Insurance Committee's r< j'ort on the ?San Francisco disaster and see, not what they intend to e | pay, but what they do not intend to 1 1 pay- ( I ?? | A proroenent physician says that Celery , Cola Is the healthiest drink on the market, t It's a good brain lood an well as nerve tonic. 0 I?i? Ain't Here No More. j ? Then was h lot of people come to our | louse one day, And fn??tiii aunt Lib net upstairs, and when they went a way Ma went along, but after while my grandpa fetctied her back, And she was crvio'all tbe time, and all her clo's was olack; And grandpa, he was cryIn' too; and pretty | soon, why then We all come down to graudpa's house, and ain't went hack again. I like to live at grandpa's house; wis pa was with us, though; Cause he was grandpa's little boy a long, time i ago; And ht's went far away, they say; and when [ 1 ask them why, And wbeu he's com in'back again, somehow It makes them cry. Most an the time they seem to try to treat awful ever kind, And ma don't scold me no more when I I forget to mind. Whenever grandpa goes to town be brings me home a toy, Uaube I'm the picture of my pa when he's a | little boy; And when I'm hungry grandma Bpreads the Jam on good and thick, And never thinks it's naughty when I want the spoon to lick, And Aunt Lib says the reason why tboy love me such a lot Is cause since pa ain't here no more I'm *11 iLrL.:-" THE HARD WORKED LIVER. tt Is the Jack of All Trades of th* Human Body. The liver i8 the jack of all trades of th* t>odj\ Most organs ore satisfied with do jog theii own particular business, "one nan one job," but there would seem to I* juite four or flvo distinct functions for ibis important organ. In the first plaoe, each one of Its millions of minute cells acts as a Alter, guarding the portals of the blood from intrusion. Our food may have undergono the :>rdeal of digestion, but before it is allowed ;o circulate and nourish the body it must 3c carried to the liver, which examine? ind promptly eliminates any particle likely to be injurious to the health. Then, again, aa a tonio manufacturer She liver is without a rival. It prepares a medicine, and every now aud again sends a dose to the stomach to induce it to K-ork properly. Whenever the liver has a jftle time to spare from its other duties SSnanufactures a stock of this medicine the bile) and saves it up in the gall bladler until required. Moreover, the liver selects all the intoluble fats of our foods and by dividing ;hem into very tiny globules and making i soap of them with an alkali so liquefies ;hem that they can be absorbed in the oriinary way. The superfatted livers of the Strassburg geese (used in making the fanous pate de foie gras) have been so overworked that they have entirely lost this ioapmaking power. One of the most curious things done by ;he liver is to deal with any starchy subitances that are insoluble and gradually ;ransform them into a strange material ihat is found nowhere else in nature? lamely, animal sugar. This sugar (gly:ogen) cannot be imitated by the most :lcver chemist, and it is carefully saved in ;he body so as to compensate for any defl ionw in tVin mmnlv of the ordinarv kind. Whether we consider the liver as a filter >r a 6oap boiler or an apothecary or a sugir maker, we find it doing each kind of vork as though that one were its sol? are.?New York World. CHESS AND MATHEMATICS. The Game and the Science Run m Parallel Llnea. It was Leibnitz (born 1646), the famous 3-erman philosopher and mathematician, ivho made that oft quoted phrase, "Chess s too much of a game for a science and loo much of a science for a game," which infortunately seems to remain the popular dea of chess even in this day. After a prolonged devotion to fhe pastime it is aleged that the great Teuton renounced It sompletely for solitaire, whioh is not easy o explain, since all card games, saving perhaps whist, are generally distasteful to ihe confirmed chessist. John Oliver Hobbes says, "Artistia ihess is beyond the petty restriction of a wlence," and this rings much truer than Leibnitz's narrow dictum, which perhaps ihe had in mind when she wrote. It his been remarked that chess and nathematics have much in common; that ;hey run on parallel lines; that they have i similar direction of thought. Leibnita vas not the only great mathematician vho made the game a study. Euler and Jaenish were both flhe players and chess malysts. Riohard Proctor, the astronomer, who was also noted for his mathenatical attainments, was devoted to the game. And to turn to the other side of the ihield most first rate chesslste have been excellent mental calculators. Andersen, who next to Steinitz was undoubtedly the most warriorlike of chess players, was really great mathematician. Lasker 1b a professor of higher mathematics. But, of oourse, there are elements in shess which are wanting in mathematics, ;he chief being the combative element, rhe two intellects which contend for tht nasteiy must possess the qualities of gen?rn!fi in the field of battle, an important listinction.?Walter Pulitzer in American Uhess Magazine. , The Plrat Basilica*. In the third century there were already imall buildings called "synagogues," or scclesise, where services were conducted, 3Ut Constantino began to build the first basilicas fitted to hold large congregations, [n the west the apse was at the west end, but in Asia it was on the east, and our;ains divided off the bema or choir from she rest of the basilica. Within these stood ;he wooden table of the euoharistio rite, ind behind it, facing the congregation, sat the bishop or presbyter, facing east at Rome, but west in Asia. Not until the ordinary service was ended and the deacons lad carefully excluded all among the worshipers who were unbaptlzed were the surtalns drawn and the mysteries displayid to the faithful. Thus no profanation at ;he rite could be due to the mocking of unbelievers, though nothing was hidden !rom the believer.?Blackwood's Magazine. The Old Qnei. "We'll have to give up the idea of putiin pictures in the parlor, Jane," remarkMi old John Turaipseed as he threw the Dridle under the table. "Why?" asked hla wife. "Too dearl Why, I priced one In town today, and the dealer sez, sez he, 'That'l in old master; its price is ?500.' " 'Why,' sez I, 'it looks like a secondland pictur.' " 'Yes, it is,' sez he. "Then, thinks I, if a secondhand pictur >05ts that much, it's no use to price a new an. So, Jane, I reckon we'll have to hang up a few mottoes, 'God Bless Our Home* ind the like, and let the pictur's go."? Pearson's Weekly. A Question Aniwtrtd. This is the way in which the Centralis (Kan.) Journal editor answers a question propounded by a stock raiser: "A rural subscriber asks, 'Do hogs pay?' We know that a good many don't. They bake the paper several years and have the postmaster send it back marked'Rofused.' Such a breed id usually two legged *ad unprofitable." Financial. "Mother, how big must I grow to be in a bank, like uncle?" asked the small boy. "Not very much," said his father, "for I often seen in the papers that cashiers are short."?Spokane Spokesman-Review. The largest tree in the eastern hemisphere if not in the world is a monster chestnut standing at the foot of Mount iEtna. The circumference of the main trunk at 60 feet from the ground Is 818 feet. Russian battle songs are written In minor keys, and instead of being brilliantly martial are sad, telling of the soldier's fate. If you want to be appreciated, die or pay four debt*.?Adams Freeman. Don't be foole<l and made to believe ;bat rheumatism can be cured with lo:al appliances. ^Jollister's Rocky Mountain Tea is the only positive cure ror rheumatism. 35 cents, Tea or Tabets. C. A. Milford. If jou want to buy crepe tissue paper cheap ;r than ever before in your iite, go to Speed's (rug store. A nice line of Comic Post Cards at Speeds Dru? Store. Ifeoodl quick servioe Is what you want rtilford Is the man you want to deal with, ie hastlie store, the stock and a tine set of lerkfl. - ibe boy they've got. AtDlgbtl ride on grandpa's back when I go up to bed, Cause that's the way pa did when he's a little curly bead; _ And grandma nolds me on her lap and pats my cheeks, und tries w To iua&e me thlDk she's smllla' when the , tears are In her eyes. 18 I never knew that lolks could treat a boy so pi kind before: h( There's notbln'that's too good for me since paa'ii'l here no more. 8. E. Riser. w 5 A {JonjHgHl Sywlem. y The married man alluded to herein P( has for the past two months or so, al been following what he calls a "conjugal system." Up to the present he K is away ahead'of the game^ He main- a tains with considerable 9how of proof, a| that his system is one that can't lose. His system, briefly defined, consists 11 in standing mute under his wife's ti- al radee. w He evolved the theory, both from experience and observation, that if C( there is any one thing in the world " that infuriates a married woman en- " gaged in orally lambasting her bus- ai band for his sins, it is for the busband to maintain an utter and impene- ef trable silence. B When he found this out be h#d gained wisdom, and when he put it into practice he gained peace. 91 Before tumbling onto this conjugal al system, he had permitted himself to make reply to his wile's jibes, jeers ? and accusations during the moments of domestic eruptious. * He did not know then, that the man * never lived, before or after the earli- w " ' " *xl ' ?IT est Ot tue FnOeUlCiau uavigawrii, wuu o ever stood a chance on earth to win ? in a argument with bis wife. Myriads 'l of millions of husbands have gone to n their graves without ever Laving d round ibis fact out. Countless mil- 9( ! lions who did find it out didn't have 01 the sense to be guided by it, and lost out in their domestic struggles, as a 01 matter of course, from the beginning to the end. ? Before this particular man gained the wisdom of silence under wifely r reprobatiou, he had, like most of the ' rest, the habit of answering back. He would come home pretty late, for example, with some kind of obviously rehearsed yarn about having attended to an important business engagement, and his wife would open up on him. He'd have a pat reply, bhe'd have 1 * ? ? V? r\ n f h q UD if a patter unt;. xucu iuVJ u UUIV . v back and forth, and the thing would inevitably terminate in the man's being slithered to ribbons. One fancy crack would bring ou another, one sarcasm would bring on another, and for * little while the scarred and evil bird of bate would hover over the home. Eager to gain this advantage, which, of course, bad never really departed from the woman, both would say things to each other that it hurt them to even thiuk about afterward, and bus the old game went on. Now, the man discovered the strange efficacy of silence in a curious way. He came home one one night about two months ago just a teench^ bit to the bad. He had met some one of the fellows, and he'd taken one or two too many. He didn't have any excuse at hand that he thought he'd be able to get away with at home. Moreover, he had a hunch that his tongue might prove a bit thick and troublesome, anyway. So, right ou the threshold of bis home he had an inspiraiion. He resolved that he wouldn't say a word. It worked gorgeously, and he's been "i""'"" tho avaitim pvpr since. pjoj l,UV "J - Here's about the way the play unravels Itself: I We'll suppose that the man comes ?' |home late. His wife it sitting up, with all of the gas flaring , and the curuers a of her mouthdrawn tightly downward. ^ She drops her hook when he comes in. a 'stares hard at him, and, says she, in a . 'most significant tone, full of inquiry. J(. j "Well?" i Man, after hanging up his hat and J1 coat, drops into a chair, with an am- lc iable expression of countenance, flicks w [a little imaginary dust from his coat ?' ! lapel, and says nothing. She's waiting for him to begin to unreel the exjcuse. He fools her. j "Well?" she repeats iu a hard, arid [tone. Have you any reason to offer . for your coming home at this time of j3.' {the night,'/or morning, and in this condition?" [The man has had two bottles of beer, and his condition is all right,Jbut she won't grant that.] Man gets to looking at one of the a pictures on the wall, aud seems to notice that the (icture is hanging a bit tt. crooked. He goes over to the picture ^ and fixes it straight, but says liary a ~ word. This causes her to begin, then and there, to get somewhat het up. . "So jou'don't dare trust yourself to speak?that is it?" she says, with a still more accusatory ring in her tone, "You are simply tongue-tied after your J(J carousing, eh?" Man gets out his pocket knife, 11 opens up the nail file blade, and pro- _ ceeds to file away an imaginary haug uail from his left thumb. But he doean't say a word. "What do you think of yourself, I'd (like to know?" says his wife, after half a minute's silence, makiiig the pause for the perfectly obvious purpose of allowing the man to put his foot into it by replying, which he utterly declines to do. "I wonder ifyou ever stop to think that you are going to the dogs as fast as you ever can? Does it ever occur to you that you are getting into a rut of dissipation lately that is just bouud to drag you down to perdition aud land us both in the poorhouse?" Man whistles about three bars of a plaintive air, aud picks up The Star paper, which be read through right after diuner, and pretends to be deeply absorbed in the Anacostia news. Jiut lie doesn't say anything. She begins to pant with rage. Ii ! t... U.nolniihlofn llcr tllRt UPglLlS UJ UtCUUJC |jaipni/iv i." he isn't goiug to reply to any ordinary knock. She makes up her mind tha' slie'b going to make him say something or know the reason why. Iu order to start him, she coucludes to hand him some kind of cutting jolt 'eufficieut to damage his self-esteem, J ) , Sale of NEW ^ R. M. HAD: Just opened fre.^h from the in ble White Goods, White Law Piques and Mercerized Madras. Hi inch White Lawns, 10 ai .'!() inch India Lawns, S to 2 Fine J'ersian Lawns, 10 to The finish Pique that can be full line Piques, under price, for * All our Fine White Silk Mul :5G inch Linen finish Suiting, oO inch all pure Linen Lawn, Linens for Fancy Work, Shii 14 to 90 inch wide Pure Linei ity, 10 to ?3c yd. , The bast line Check Muslins i English Long Cloth and Nail best quality. Embroideries and Insertions cheap that everybody should lay R. M. HADDON _________________________________ hich she, like most women, imagines the male beast's most vulnerable aint, next to his desire for food at all ours of the day aud night. "Do you know," she says to him ith great deliberation, "that you are fining to look perfectly sodden? our face is positively puffy. You are ^ginningto look coarse and jowly, ou are beginuig to neglect your ap jarance, aud are becoming dandruffy id feathery aud common-looking." Man looks up at the ceiling, with a >rt of half-grin, and whistles the re laininebaror two of the plaintive r. But he isn't there with auy reply batever. By this time she is so fuous that her hands are trembling, ad her face is spotted with red rath. "I suppose," she goes on, "that the jmpany you have been in tonight as so vile that even you?even you? ate to sit and lie about it, and so you re keeping still?" Man getsup and yaw'ns and stretch-. i with great apparent enjoyment Jut he has nothing to say. Her teeth are clicking together by * 11 - * u* ais timej ana mere are two ungub Dots on her cheeks. She looks as if ae'd like to bile him. "Yes," she adds, "and your hair is ettingtbin/m top. You've got all of le signs of a man going to pieces, 'ou're becoming fat and stodgy, 'our eyes are becoming green and ratery-looking. I know folks are beinning to notice how you're going own?how could they help noticing ? Why, even your teeth are begining to turn dark, from neglect and is&ipation. I'd just like to haveyou je yourself as you are lately, and as Lherssee you." Man turns over the advertising pages F one of the magazlines on the table, lie Smitli Dry The best goods a consistent with chandise. A prop customers and in foundation prmc make it both Plea ble lor You to Si of -Business. Its Our sincerity. Y sistent. The Smith I TnVm Dani ad seeme to be profoundly immersed 1 the pictures of the automobiles, ut he remains silent. His wife beins to hop up and down the room, nable to contain herself in her rage. "Heaven forgive me for having, >ined my life to a perfect dummy!" ie snaps. If anybody had ever preicted for me that I'd be tied for life ) a noody-naddy that couldn't say a 'ord for himself, I'd have just laugb3, that's what I'd have done?just lughed!" etc., etc., etc. And tfaus on, for about fifteen miutes more, during which the man ut;rs nix the word. Then, while she's still talking, and ecoming more cutting and vituperaveall the time, begets up, winds the tting room clock, puts the pup out in je kitchen, locks the doors, and, with jndry and divers deliberate yawns tid "bohums," walks upstairs, takes 1 * "'-*1 *' hia nui<uiriu? I FT U1S ClOLIltJi^) pu is uu iiio pwjMiuww) ad gets iuto bed?and all the while le's still talking and straining every not to draw him out. .But be isn't being drawn. The next morning he wakes up and ?gins to chat easily and amiably as if othinp- had happened, and she, a bit i diamed of her one-sided outburst,, litis in the chat. Bully system, bojs! Let's all play r SOUTHERN THROUGH EVERY DAY ii High-Back Coaches, Drawing-Boom Southern Re Finest Cars. Covenient Sehedult For full information, consult an R. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, 8. C. ,' '- :' >? '?}**$ I 11 "mi * li IT i rtn. -Miifiiminmnin m n? iw< VHITE GOODS DON & CO. lillsa big shipment of Seasonans, Persian Lawns, Dimities, id 12Ac yd. !5u yd. 25c yd. made from Cotton, 25c yd. A skirts, suits and Eton Jackets. Is, 25c yd. wash fabric, 10 to 15c yd. 25c to 7. c yard. t Waists and Suits, 40c to $1 yd. i Dainty Checks in White Dimin this section. usook, 10 to 25c yd. The very in abundance and at prices so in a supply. " & COMPANY. 1HT. (IRA MEL. Me Mt. Carrael Graded School Commence ment will take place oo the 7tb and 8th. o June. The graduates are Misses Kathleen Slorrah, Cora Watson, Laura McAllister, Messrs. Hake Fraster, Thomas McAllister, Archie Watson. Mr. J. J. fireszeale and Miss Lucy Floen, Mr. Will McKelvey andMIsp Pearl Soutberland, Mr. Deed Soutberland and MIm Bessie Jones went to Millwood last Sunday. Miss Pearl Watson returned Saturday morning from Llnwood where she was attending college. Mis? Bessie Jones from Anderson is In the city visiting her mother. 11Mr*. J. K. Watson is visiting her parents In Anderson. Mr. Pre88ly Knox has returned from Wofford where he was attending college. Mrs. T. G. Baker who has been in'tbecity for the past week left Tbt for Greenwood. Master Ollle Watson was sho by lightning Saturday; we hope not 16. Mrs. M. L. Kay attended the commence?~ * MnCnrmt/.!/ loaf. FrldllV lllcht. Miss Mamie Smith Is visiting Miss Mae Scott In this city. Mr. Baker Tarrant wns vlestlng bin parent# last week. He has returned (rom Ed afield wbere be bas been attending college. He left Thursday for P umbrancb wbere be has a position as clerk. Mr. J. T. Scott la visiting bis parents In tbla city. SIcIfarray's Local*. All kinds of stationery can be bad at the MoMurray Drug Co. Cbu-obu chewing gum is tbe latest thing in its class. It Is without doubt the best thing In the line of chewing gum. For sale by tb? McMurray Drug Co. When you go Into McMurray's drug store Just say "Cbu-Cbu" and jou will get tbe best chewing gain made. We do not. make Ice cream because we do not have time. Anyhow we can make for you anything else that goes with a soda water ticket. MoMurray Drug Co. Nice work in Engraving Cards, wedding invitations, etc. gotten up on snort notice at Speeds Drug Store. Us Company ,t smallest profit legitimate Merlosition fair to our keeping with our iples- We will isant and Profitaiop at our place for You to test ou'll find Us eon f )ry Goods Co. bzler, Manager. Havaland China, and espec* cially Theodore Havaland China is just as good China as is made, in a great many respects it is better, it certainly has a big reputation, and a Lady with Havaland China on her table when she is entertaining has a good reason to feel that in the china line +Vi? Vioaf Af fliia D 11C XIAO tii V/ UVOlt AAV VMAW store, low, you will find six beautiful patters that we have only the samples of, and for whicn we take orders. It is in open stock, which means that you can buy of it just such pieces as you want, and we are sure that this is the best way to buy china Please call aDd give us the pleasure of showing you our Patterns, Dargans 5 & iOcts Store. RAILWAY. SERVICE. ,LL THE WAY. Sleepers, and lilway Dining Cars. Fastest Time. is on local Tiains. y Southern Railway Agent, or BROOKS MORGAN, Asst. General Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. j WE WILL COMMENCE OUR LITTLE TALK TO YOU THIS MORN ING-, BY MAKING a Few Mil hits ONLY ABOUT Scissors AND Razors, i however, notice this Pair. ' . Most Ladies and Some Men Have Good Tempers bat a good temper in the ordinary pair of scissors is rare indeed. CfaB&fr 1 n c a. c reneti jtusuis i Have good tempera, cut sharp and hold their edge. They stay sharp because they are made of celebrated "Clauss Gas Tempered Steel" We Carry A Complete Line of Clauss Scissors) and will be glad to show them to you whether you are ready to buy or not. : J ! j See our line of Razors, everyone guaranteed to suit you. You are the judge; if it don't please you bring it back and get another that will. And if you are a little nervious about your shaving, try a :i SAFETY " We have the "Gillette," the finest made, with twelve blades for $5.00. Also "Enders" at $1.00, a good value. . ji-J And to continue out little talk about "TEMPERS," let us suggest that the easiest way for your wife 1o loose hers, is to worry with that old f stove of yours. This stove business is the very foundation of home comfort?what is home without a good STOVE. "A good stove," and an" "IRON KING" are synonymous terms. You can't think of one without thinking of the other. Now we want you to think HARD about the this stove matter Think and then act. We can interest you, if you will try us. 1 PRESERVING- ^ Time is now on. We are prepared for you with "LISK" preserving ' kettles, these are light, sanitary, guaranteed not to crack or craze for ten years. Try a canning outfit." We sell the Baltimore canner. Convenient and economical. See us for '\ Fruit Jars AND Rubbers -I KEEP COOL AND USE THE You don't have to go to the North Pole to cool off if I you have a Peerless Iceland , Freezer. H Freezes smooth, fine and I firm in three minutes, all the , U delicious home-made ice fl cream and ices. YiB We can thoroughly recom mend the f eeriess iceiana. fly fans, water coolers, oil stoves, garden hose, hammocks, spalding's base ball goods. Abbeville Hardware Co.