Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ttEBaggEggBSg55S5gggSBBagZS5SSgg3g^ ^ 8 * % Si 5 ^ tJT -j. | | | ENGRAVED VISITING CARDS f j |S;v I I and I | | I | WEDDING INVITATIONS. I 1 | v | Call and see the latest styles, at * ) I * Thn D I RDVAAI Pftmnanv I | || ; l lie n* l> mi i/iii uuiupuiij) i | i * In the Masonic Temple, | jj 1 | Columbia, S. C. | | teig . * ??" ? ! jjj * Embossed Monogram Stationery ? |f J ? ~ OUR NEW ? J Spring and Summer J 1 * SHOES * * S Are here and ready for the inspection of our i I i Lexington Mends. We had foresight to J X buy this Stock of SHOES last fall so we ^ j could protect our Customers against ad- i J vanced prices. We GUARANTEE our ^ ^ Shoes are made of SOLID LEATHER and J S Quality the Best for the price to be had. i 2 B. P. & F. A. DAVIS, t F y 1710 Main Street, Columbia, S. C. Y IE mm MB* SEWING MACHINE fThe design and finish of the stand isf unexcelled. Nothing to equal it has yet appeared on the market STEADY, SWIFT AND STTBE. Has a very large Bobbin?Holds more thread than any other. BALL BEARING, I A LIGHT RUNNER?STRONG and durable. It is something new. . (White SHUTTLE Machine has been in use twenty-five years.) The NEW HOME stands at the top of SHUTTLE machines. I have the latest. Always oil hand good Second Hand Machines. Needles for all machines and machine attachments, shuttles, belts and the best pure SPERM OIL. X H. BERRY, 1802 Maio Street, Colombia, S. C. |p ? I f SOUTHERN RAILWAY. V| J Unexcelled Dining Car Service, V | T Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on all Trains, JK v a Convenient Schedules en Local Trains. ^ A For fall information as to rates, routes, etc. a consult nearest Southern Sailway Ticket Agent, or w 1 A E. W. HUNT, D. P. A*, Charleston, S. C. W BBOOES MORGAN, A. 0. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. \j/ ?- D"LER s' ^ill* at all times, pay highaBaaEKHp / ' est market prices for Crude, based upon Savannah quotaOld Reliable "" I Standard I I SHOES! I SAW MILLS. | i light, medium and heavy ******** ^ s i wood-working machines i iVearapairof our kon- | B cor every kind of work queror Shoes and you j B engines and boilers can't go wrong. fl and sizes and for every j o n ? 1 ? t? B n 4s<! of service. ooia omy uy mm ? : H ASK POR OUR ESTIMATE BEFORE ! fflHFN'S SHflF ?STflRF I PLAClNa Y0UR 0RDERbuncnid onUL^OlUHC, BG|BBESMACH|NERy company; 1636 Main Street Columbia, s. c. j COLUMBIA, - S. c. IMlli'i'Wii'Vi V ^ - -CWz ' I Hans Gets Advice From the Coooer A Told How to Improve His Business, but Comes to Grief Experimenting. (Copyright, 190o, by Eugene Parcells.] ONE time vhen I don't have nottings to do uud vhas feeling dot I shall go by der poorhouse pooty queek my friend der cooper calls in to smoke his pipe. After we talk a leedle he says: * "Hans, I see how it vhas mit you. You vhas an old Dutchman who don't catch on to der vhays of dese Americans. If 3*ou do peesness here you must have sometings new every day. You must kill a man, rob a bank, run avay mit somebody's vife or get oop some excitements. Der peoples go mit a rush from one place to another. You must do sometings to make 'em come to your cobbler shop. Can't you kill your vife or put your baby on a hot stove?" "By golly, but I don't do such tings If I starve to death!" I says. "Vhell, don't get excited about it. We shall begin in an easy vhay. TojjiiillllliWiL f=7i I *ij( BANGS 2IY HEAD AGAINST DEIi VHALL. morrow you shall tell fortunes, und I bet dot more ash feefry peoples come into your shop." "But how can I toS fortunes?" I asked. "You shust open your mouth und speak.' No matter v<kat you say, it Yhas all right. Dere vhas one liunderd fools to one vhise man, und it vhas der fools you vhas after." Dot cooper talks to me for half an hour, und before I goes to bed dot night I paints me a sign und hangs her oop in my winder. She reads: "Come in und haf your fortune told. She don't co6t you a cent. Der German cobbler nefer makes a mistake." My vife says troubles may come of it, but I goes to bed happy, und I vhas uaruij avutibc iu un uivium^ <uv.u peoples vbas knocking on der door. Der first person to come in vbas a butcher. Vben he vbas inside be vbispers to me: "Give it to me straight cobbler, nnd I vhas always your friend. If I knew you vhas a fortune teller I vhas here a month ago, for I sufTer in my mind." "You vhas going to be unlucky," I says, after looking at him for a minute. "For heaven's sake, don't say dot!" "I can't help it. You must bring me all your shoes to mend, but still you vhill be unlucky. Your vife vhas'going to run avhay mit another man; your dog vhas going to die; you shall haf two lawsuits; your hair shall fall off und you shall become baldheaded; you shall fall off a street car und preak your leg; you shall bet ovi der wrong horse und lose all your money." "But vby should all dis bad luck come to me?" he groans. "Because you haf sold too much bone m .t your meat. Think of der t'ousands uftd tens of t'ousands of peoples who haf paid you from fifteen to twenty cents a pound for bones!" "But can't somethings be done?" "Maybe, if you quit selling bones." He sits down und holds his head in his hands for a minute und thinks it ofer, und den he shump6 up und says: "Not on your life! Der bones help along der profits. Say, cobbler, I believe yoti vhas an old fraud. I believe you are standing in mit der coal man to scare me out of business. Maybe my hair shall fall off, but yours shall go first!" tTnd in it dat he grabs me by der hair und bangs my head against der vhall und makes me so seasick dot I believe I vhas in der steerage going back to Germany. I like to take dot sign down, but before I can do so a vboinans cohies in. She was tall und solid und sober. She don't smile any more ash a paving stone. After she looks at me for a minute like a judge she says: "Cobbler, vhat fate is hanging ofer my head?" I believe she vhas a vhidcw vliomans mitoit any children, und so I says: "A rich mans has seen you und fallen in love mlt you." "Vhel?" 'He thinks of you by day und dreams about you at night." "Vhell?" "Dot man has millions und millions, und lie never loved before. He will soon throw himself in your vhay und ask you to be der queen of his heart. He vhill say dot he can't live if you don't marry him." ."Und vhat vhill I say?" she asked. ' You haven't seen him yet, but as soon as you do it vhill be love at first sight. You vhill throw yourself into his arms und tell him you vhas his, d ???? -.1. J11 t T?1 f A 1 1 \TC% UilU JUU \II1JI L?A1\. lillXft IV lifv j ill a palace all your days. Dot vhas all. Vhen vliill you bring in somo shoos to be mendedV' "Never, you okl wretch!" she shouts at me ash she grows red in dor fact, i "Do you know I vhas a married vlioraan und der mother of seven children! i I go right aviiay to der police und haf you arrested. Shoes? Why, I don't bring you some shoes to be mended if you vhas starving to death!" T n? fnbin^ /lor oiern nu'1 JL > IJilO 01nU U1UI going out of der fortune business vbeu a fat man comes in und says: "Hold on a minute, cobbler. I haf ten pairs of shoes to be mended, und I bring 'em around alter you have told my fortune. Go ahead and tell me all you can." "Vhell, you are going to have some good luck," I says. "Dot vhas good." "You need some money in your business, but you don't know where to get it." "Dot's a fact." "In one week from now you vhill go out in der evenings und sit in der park to hear der crickets sing. On der j bench beside you you will find a wallet mit $10,000 in It." "But I vhill have to return it to the loser, who will probably be some nurse i girl." "No, you won't. Dot wallet belongs to a director of a life insurance company. For twenty years he has drawn a salary of $20,000 a year und done nottings. His conscience now accuses him, und he leaves dot money on der bench for some poor man. It vhas yours. Take it und be happy."" "Und dot vhill surely happen tome?" he asks. "Sure, Mike." "Vhell, somet'ings else shall happen too. I shall find an old liar. His name shall be Hans, der cobbler. I shall reach out like dis und take him by der neck und turn him around und give him five kicks?so, und maybe he won't deceive innocent peoples no more!" It vhas hard times for me, und I like to shut oop der shop und go to bed vhen der polic-emans on dot beat comes in. "Hello, Dutcby! But how about dot fortune telling?" he asks. "I vhas out of business," I replies. "But you can't go out until you tell my fortune." "I vhas out. und I stay out." "Oh, you vhill? Cobbler, don't make any mistake on me. I vhas der officer on dis beat. I can run you in und get jrou three months. Now, go ahead und tell me vhat is going to happen in der next year " "Der commissioner vhill hear of you." "Dot vhas good." "PTo i-hill Tiovp vnn f.nll fit his " "Dot vhas better!" "He rhill smile at you." "Dot means promotion." "Und he vhill tell you to take off dot uniform und get off der force asp quick ash^you can." I shall draw some veils over vhat followed. Sometlngs struck me on der head?der vhas some roarings in my ears und lights flashed before my eyes, und vhen I woke oop two hours vhas gone by und der undertaker vhas saying to my wife: "It vhill cost you one hoonered dollars to bury him in der ground Vhy don't you put him in a coffee sack und * * riff anmp mm in uer river: M. QUAD. The Point of View. "Did your play fail because It was bad?" "My dear sir," answered Mr. Stormington Barnes, "no play fails because it is bad. Failure is invariably due to a lack of intelligent appreciation on the part of the public."?Washington Star. Only Way. Meeker?My wife and I never quarrel. She does as she plea-ies, and I do too. Bleeker?I see?as she pleases. Meeker?Of course. I'm not looking for trouble.?Detroit Tribune. Motor Statistic*. 'A ; Joan?What be the meanin' o' that number 'angin' up in front? Darby?Why, that be the number o' people they've killed.?Tatier. The Greeting. "Tick, tick," says the clock Up above me on the wall. "Time is going:, past recall. Why let old friend Duty knock And not open up the door? Or has Duty called before And been told to call again? Must she ever knock in vain?" "Tick, tick." "Yes. I hear, But I'm busy now, you see. Go away; don't bother me; Come around again next year When 1 have more time to spare. What? It's Chance that's knocking there? Come right in; why, howdy do? I've been long expecting you!" ?Pue^ THOMAS (OPPOSITE PO COIL/CTME WHOLESALE AND ] Mpn Wnmpn ?nd 1T1UU) VI UllflUU UIIU My stock is large, was carefully selected both the city and country trade and S in style, shapes and toes, down to the which are made of solid leather an market for the money. I want t child in Lexington county and offer some extraor Work and Dr Your are cordially invited to call at my s office, when in the city, and I will tak< and explaining their merits. Polite will strive to please yc DR. W H. TIMMEBMAN, U. Z President. ' 1 Citizens Bank PAID UP CAPITAI E. F. STKOTHER, Attorney, Announces to the public that it is now all the conveniences and facilities of suc< modating terms. Deposits solicited. 4 p quarterly. Friends and aequaitaiices are Bank whether they have business or not j Directors?Dr. W. H. 'Trmmerman, Dr. P. Timmerman, E. F. Strotlier, Isaac Ed1 Great Bargain Sa "AT THE STORE. T] We propose making record breaker, and < right by offering some bargains that we have before the trade. 25 dozen Misses' and Children's Satin Cans, satin lined, the 25c. kind- for each 10c. 25 dozen Ladies' 25c. Corset Coversy for each 17Ac. 10 dozen Ladies' 50c. Corset Covers, eacn 25e. 5 dozen Ladies' 75c. Uight Gowns only, each 5 c. 25 dozen Ladies' 50c. and 75e. Waists to close out at, each. 38c. 25 dozen 50c. and 75c. Silk Baby Caps to close out at, each 25c. 50 Ladies' heavy black Stockings, the best ever offered for, pair 25c. 20 pieces fine All-Linen Table Damask, some 72-inch wide. 100 dozen Cotton Towels, the 10c. and 15c. kind, onlv.the dozen 80c. One lot of 10c. and 15c. Embroideries for, the yard 5c. One lot of 10c. and 15c, Laces for, the yard oc. 100 Alarm Clocks, sold everywhere for $1.00, our price 59c. 55 only $1.50 and $2.00 Watches, for this sale, each 99c. 10 dozen large size Glass Pitchers, formerly sold at 25c., now 10c. 500 pieces Fine Decorated China ware, worth 10c. each, now 5c. 25 Men's $5.50 Silk Fancy Vests, now each $1.95 25 dozen Boys' Heavy 25c. Black Stockings, for this sale, pair 15c. 5 dozen Ladies' $1.50 Fine Black Sateen Waists for this sale 99c. 5 dozen Men's $1.C0 Silk Mufflers, for this sale, each 50c.! Opposite the Theatre. COLTTMB L BOYNE, i ST OFFICE.) 31^.. S. C.? r-? RETAIL DEALER IH ruiu 01 loins oiiucs, 1 / with a view of supplying the demands of hoes from the most fashionable cuts i seviceable every day plow shoe, all of d guaranteed to be the best on the o shoe every man, woman and to do this I am prepared to dinary bargains in ess Footwear. tore 1736 Main Street, opposite the post 3 pleasure in showing you my stock attention will be given you and I >u in quality and prioe. ?. GUNTER, A. C. JONES, face President. Assistant Cashier. of Batesburg j STOCK, $30,000.00. BATESBURG, S. C. located in the new Bank Building with jessful banking. Monies to loan an accom>er cent, on time deposits interest payable ; cordially invited to call on Officers of and see our institution. . M. U. Boatright, U. X. Gunter, Dr. W wards, W. K. Sliealy, J. F. Kneece. - I le Slid Continues JAT'S DIFFERENT." ; the month of May a will begin the month of the most wonderful ! yet been able to place 15 dozen Men's heavy Fleece-Lined Undershirts and Pants, 50c. kind for this sale, the garment 37j|c. 25 dozen Ladies' 10c. Swiss Embroidered Handkerchiefs, for this sale, each *. ..oc. 5 dozen Ladies' 25c. Hose Supporters for this sale, pair, 10c. 500 yards All-Linen Table Damask, for tins sale, yard 25c. 25 dozen Misses' 15c. fine Black Stockings, for this sale, pair 11c. 100 only extra good Men's Umbrellas, for this sale, each 99c. 10 boxes 10c. Sweet Soap, for this sale, 1 cake 5c. 1 pair regular 50 cent. Cuff Buttons a for 25c. . 2 regular 25c. China Pitchers for.., .25c. 2 regular 25c. Butter Dishes for 25c. 4T 2 regular 25c. Buggy "Whips for 25c. 1 pair Ladies' or Gentlemen's Gloves, the 50c. kind, for 25c. 15 yards Silk Ribbon, all colors 25c. 2 yards 25c. Taffeta Ribbon for 15c. 5 dozen fine Pearl Buttons for 25c. 10 pair 5c. Shoe Strings for 25c. 2 pair 25c. Side Combs for 25c. 4 Ladies' 10c. Back Combs for 25c. 25 Gold Plated Collar Buttons for.. .25ct 10 spools best Spool Silk for 25c. 12 Ladies' 5c. Mourning Handerchiefs for 25c. * 20 Spools Turkey Red Cotton ,25c. 2 pairs Men's regular 25c. Half-Hose for 25c, Hundreds of other bargains for Spot Cash. ' " Come to see us; look us over. Will be glad to show you through, FURTICK, "The Store That is Different. IA, S. C Slumber Peacefully )ver the lumber question. We have solved r. The best value for every one's money s in our vard. There is every variety of LUMBER ised here in the trade and the price it whicn we sell will giadaen tho heart of ilie man who is figuring on acontract, We ire headquarters for Doors, Sash and Blinds uid especially ask the people of Lexington lo call on us for their doors and Sash. N. H. MTttftERS Corner Lady and * r.-vdsden Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. Phone 185.