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j?w mum | Bowser's Hired | ! Girl Leaves U Cook Quits, and He Learns the Reason Why After an Investigation. n I PUTS BLAME ON WIFE fe . (it Was AH Because Head of Household Tried to Show Sympathy For Domestic. [Copyright, 1906, by P. C. Eastment.] Y T ELLQ, now, but what's the I I meaning of this?" demanded i JL J. Mr- Bowser, as he came home the other evening and found Mrs. Bowser with the cook's Opron on and engaged in placing dinner on the table. "Oh, this is a little picnic," she laughingly replied. "You can sit right down, abd I hope you will find your dinner all right." "But where is the cook?" he asked. "After you left this morning she gave me some talk that I couldn't stand, and so I told her to go. I shall get another tomorrow, all right." Mr. Bowser's face assumed a very serious expression and he fell silent. Mrs. Bowser chattered away and tried to thaw him out, but he answered or>ly gp fa monosyllables. It was the best dinner put before him for a month, but he | ate very sparingly and soon left the ' "WE HAVE A COOK IN OUB KITCHEN." table. An/ hour later, when she had cleared the table and put everything to rights, she went upstairs to find him pacing to and fro and the thunder ready to reverberate. "Mrs. Bowser," he began, as he halt ed before her, "I understand that the eook has left?" 'Tes." . "She was practically thrown into the street, I presume?" "She was only about half an hour packing up." Could Not Understand. "I was talking with her in the kitchen last night and she had no cause for complaint. She seemed as settled as If she intended to remain liere for years. No sooner do I leave the house this morning than you say something to aggravate her. The worm turns at last, and then you unfeelingly tell her that she can pack up and go. You are woman without a heart. If I was a servant girl I'd see you starve before I'd work for you." "You know nothing about the matter," replied Mrs. Bowser, as she picked up the evening paper. "Oh, I don't, eh? Then I wish for information. Madam, will you have the kindness to put that paper down and talk to me? We have a cook in our kitchen. She is a poor, lonely girl. She is trying her best to please and get along. She came here under the idea that you were human. She has been here three months." "Well?" * "During that time have you ever sat down with her and asked her if she had a sick mother or a crippled father or a blind brother?" , "No, I have not." * "She looks like a married woman. She looks like a woman with a great sorrow. Have you ever asked her if she has lost a child; if her husband is sleeping 'neath the sod? Have you * asked for her confidence, offered to bear a part of her burdens? When she has gone up to her lonely room at night have you followed and sought to cheer her drooping spirits?" Bovrser Is Solicitous. "I don't remember to have done so. She was out every night as soon as her work was done and didn't get in until ' near midnight." "But did you make it your business to find out whether she was out to a dance or to a prayer meeting? Have you ever advised and admonished? As a matter of fact, have you cared 2 cents whether she went to the dogs or not?" "I tokl vou that she said something I didn't like, and I told her she could go," replied Mrs. Bowser. "I understand. You said something to humiliate and grind her down, and she resented it. Poor Anna! When 1 have a case of it right under ruy own roof, can I wonder that this country is on the threshold of a social revolution? Last evening, when you were over to Green's, I thought the poor girl would be lonesome, and I went down to the kitchen to speak a few kind words to her." "Yes. she said you came down," replied Mrs. Bowser, with a smile. "I asked after her health, after her relatives, of'her hopes for the future. I gave her to understand that while accident had made me her employer, 1 had thoughts beyond paying her her wages every month." " **Vio/3 +hrvn<rl*fc " I MIC dUiU j'uu aau "Then she must have appreciated what I said. I go down into the kitchen to let a girl know that I regard her as a human being, and a few hours later you order her out of the house like a dog. Mrs. Bowser, there has got to be a change in your treatment of our hired help or I shall run *the house myself. If I knew where Anna had gone I would follow her and beg her pardon on your account" "You won't have to follow her, Mr. Bowser. We owe lier for nair a wee.;, and as I didn't have the change she is to come for it this evening. I think that's her ringing the basement bell now. Will you go down and pay her and extend your sympathies? If you can get heflBto return I shall have no objections."* "If the very soul has not been ground out of her she will be here to cook our breakfast in the morning," observed Mr. Bowser as he went downstairs to answer the bell. It was poor Anna. She had a defiant look on her face as he opened the door. She also inquired for Mrs. Bowser "I will attend to the matter, if you please," replied Mr. Bowser. "We were just discussing your case.. I told Mrs. Bowser that she has no heart." "I've come for my money," was the stiff reply. "And you shall have it and welcome, my dear girl, but I should like to know why my wife flung you into the street at a moment's notice. Had I been at home"? "She gave me all the time I wanted," interrupted Anna, who didn't bear herself at all like a "flung" woman. "But she^ claims that there were some words. I suppose her utter lack of sympathy irritated you to the point where you were forced to say something?" "Yes, sir. Hasn't she told you what it was?" "Not a word. On the contrary, she has refused to tell me, realizing, as she does, that she was in the wrong. When you rang the bell I told her that I should ask you to come back." "Not while you are in the house, sir!" Called Him a Hen Hnzzy. "What? What's that?" "Not while you are in the house to hen huzzy around, sir. I told Mrs. Bowser that you were down in the kitchen last evening gabbing to me and that two or three times you wanted to put>your arm around me. Oh, you needn't bristle up over ti. Every girl has quit this place on your account. If you had tried to kiss me last night I should have scalded you. When I told Mrs. Bowser about it she said I'd better go. I haven't a word or iauir to nnu wiui uvr. "You?you know what you are talking about, do you?" asked Mr. Bowser as his face grew white. "I do, sir." "And instead of realizing that I was down there to show my sympathy for you"? "You are a sly old fox, sir?very sly. Give me my money and let me go, and tell Mrs. Bowser I hope she'll get a good girl at .once, though yon will drive her away in a month." Mr. Bowser handed over the money without another word. He knew that Mrs. Bowser was standing at the head of the stairs and drinking in every word, and how he was going to square himself was a puzzle. He stood in thought for a couple of minutes and then ascended the stairs and went down the hall for his hat. "Going out, dear?" was asked. He didn't answer. He opened the door and passed out with a volcano raging within him. On the opposite side of the street was a wooden legged man stumping along with a basket on his arm. Mr. Bowser uttered a long drawn war whoop and started for him, and from the front window Mrs. Bowser saw the poor cripple trying to get around the corner and heard his shouts of terror and alarm as the holocaust tore down upon him. M. QUAD. Not Housekeeping. "So, you're married, eh? I hope you've got a good housewife." "Well," replied the young benedict. "She's only been a fashionable hotel wife so far, and I guess she hopes to continue so."?Houston Post. The Morning: After. Gayboye?The boys banquet me at the club tonight. I'll feel like a king. Mrs. Gayboye?Yes, and in the morn- I ing you'll feel like the deuce.?New I York Herald. 1 Professional Insight. ggjP' " | Dr. Skinn?Will the patient stand an operation? Dr. Flint?I think not?from the looks of this X raj' picture. ? Harper's Weekly. 5T0P, 1 AND CONSIDER THE ALL-IMPORTA1 FACT That in addressing- Mrs. Pinkhatn y are confiding your private ills to a worn ?a woman whose experience with v men's diseases covers twenty-five yea The present Mrs. Pinkham is t daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkha and for many years under her directi< and since her decease,her advice has be freely given to sick women. Many women suffer in silence and d: from bad to worse, knowing full well ought to have immediate assistance, bu modesty impels them to shrink from ex selves to the qiiestions and probable < of even their family physician. It is Without money or price you can cons whose knowledge from actual experie Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Ini Women suffering from any form of f ness are invited to promptly communis Pinkham at Lynn. Mass. All letters i opened, read and answered by worn woman can freely talk of her private woman; thus has been established tl confidence between Mrs.Pinkham and t' of America which has never been brol of the vast volume of experience wh has to draw from, it is more than po that she has gained the very knowle that will help your case. She asks not ing in return except your good-will, a: her advice has relieved thousands. Sure any woman, rich or poor, is very foolisl she does not take advantage of this ge erous offer of assistance.?Lydia E. Pir ham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. Following we publish two letters from a woman who accepted this invitation. Note tlie result: First letter. Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? " For eight years I have suffered something terrible every month. The pains are excruciating and I can hardly stand them. My J ^ T IIAVTA o famoln fivMihln UUCIUI" A. UCb v c a UA vumav^ and I must go through an operation if I want to get well I do not want to submit to it if I can possibly help it. Please tell me what to do. I hope you can relieve me."?Mrs. Mary Dimmick, 59th and E. Capitol Streets, "Washington, D. C. Second letter. Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? I 44 After following carefully your advice, and taking Lydia E. Pinkbam's Vegetable (Compound, I am very anxious to send you my testimonial, that others may know their value and what you have done for me. When Cod Become Blind. Several large cod are kept in one of the tanks of the Amsterdam aquarium, necessarily near the surface and therefore exposed to a strong light from above. New, the cod, though not a deep sea fish, is not a surface swimmw nml 15vp< at donths where the sun light must be very much modified by passage through the water. It lives in what to us would besemidarkuess. Every one of these cod exposed to the strong light is suffering from an extraordinary hypertrophy of the eye. The whole organ has become overgrown, as if in the effort to adjust itself to the use of more light fays it had become overequipped and then useless. The cod, in fact, are blind. The most interesting feature in this change is the extraordinary rapidity with which increased supply of light rays has overdeveloped the organ for its use. It has taken place not by slow degrees .from individual to individual, but in a course of time to be measured by months and in every individual in the tauk. If | this example is a measure of the rapidity with which such changes take place among fishes, the adaptation of those creatures which have migrated from the shallow waters of the deep seas, shown by the total loss or enormous development of their eyes and the growth of illuminating organs to light the abyss, may have been as rapid as it is marvelous.?London Spectator. u A Hotbed of Violence. The island of Sardinia is a botbed of violence. The "Granary of Rome" resists the softening influences of civili zation and remains with many of the peculiarities which distinguished it in the middle of the last century. "In the country," writes a traveler of that time, "the men are clothed in goatskins, one before and another behind, without breeches, shoos or stockings, and I a woolen or skin cap 011 the head. The , women have no other habiliments than a long woolen gown and a woolen cap. ! The peasants always go armed to de! fend themselves from one another, for ! they are all robbers and assassins, so | that traveling in the interior is extrcme| ly unsafe without an escort, and it is I even dangerous for ships to send their people on shore for water unless they are well armed. In short, the Sardes are the Malays of the Mediterranean." ?London Chronicle. The Breath of Life. It's a significant fact that the strongest animal of its size, the gorilla, alsc lias the largest lungs. Powerful lungs means powerful creatures. How to keep the breathing organs right should b man's chiefest study. Like thousands of mothers, Mrs. Ora A. Stephens, oi Port Williams, O., has learned how ti do this. She writes: 4iTliree bottle* of Dr. King's New Discovery stopped mv cough of two years and cured me o1 what my friends thought consumption O, its grand for throat and lung tr rabies Guaranteed by The Knufniann Dru; Co., druggist. Price 00c. and $1.00 Trial bottle free. SVOnAN! i ? " As you know, I wrote you that my doctor said I must have an operation or I could not live. I then wrote you, telling you my ailments. I followed your advice "and am entirely welL I can walk miles without an ache or a pain, and I owe my life to you and to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I wish every suffering woman would read this testimonial and realize the value of writing to you and your remedy.'1?Mrs. Mary Dimmick, 59th and E. Capitol Streets, Washington, D. C. When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health so many women whose testimony is so unquestionable, you cannot well say, without trying it, 441 do not believe it will help me." If you are ill. don't hesitate to get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable I Compound at once, and write Mrs Pinkj ham, Lynn, Mass., for special advice? 1 it is free and always helpful. t I KIDNEY CURE WILL CURE YOU > of any case of Kidney or Bladder disease that is not beyond the reach of medicine. Take it at once. Do not risk having Bright's Disease or Diabetes. There is i nothing gained by delay. 50c. and $1.00 Bottles* REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. The Kaufmann Drug Co. Old Reliable Standard SHOES! fVear a pair of our Konqueror Shoes and you can't go wrong. Sold only by COHEN'S SHOE STORE, 1636 Main Street, COLUMBIA, - - S. C. ) jK|LLTHE(yOUCHd , iasp CURE the LllNCSl ""Dr. King's ; I Hew Discovery f Ii-*n /Consumption Price B FOR I OUGHSand 50c & $1.00 ' I WOLDS Free Trial. R Surest and Quickest Cure for all S THROAT and LUNG TBOUBI LES, or HONEY BACK. 1730 MAIN STREET, !?; Is where you can find or III /^nAII rnii | OF ALL DOORS, SA BLINDS I LIME AND ji CABINET 1 s Call or write for Prices. The Store Where Qeal Post Office Block 1603 main steee1 wash goods. Colored organdies in all the latest figures 12Jc. quality 10c. 100 pieces Scotch Lawn 4c. We have a special value in large figured Lawn?Ask to see them.. 61c. 27-inch Brown Linen 10c. Light Merrimack prints 5c. Dress gingham 5c. white goods! ' - ? ? 4 A. 40-incn JLawn iuc. 32-inch Lawn, special value 5c. 27-inch Organdie 10c. | 72-inch Organdie 25c. 27-inch White Linen 15c. 36-inch White Linen 25c. DEESS G00DS~XND SILKS. We are receiving new goods in this department daily? 50-incli Moliair, all colors 48c. 36-inch Brillantine blue and black.. 25c. 27-inch China Silk, all colors 48c. 18-inch White Jap Silk 25c. We have some very good barg will be pleased to have our shown through our stock. I The Palmetto COLUMB United States Government, Stai Capital paid in Surplus profits Liability of Stockholders...... Security for depositors Interest allowed in Savings Depar Payable (J United States bonds South Carolina bonds OFFI( Wilie Jones, President. . T T Cr^rnrT C TTS-ncf* Vioo. to* O* UJEJIDLSIjO, X" H.OU T 1VV A A V?J. Thos. Taylor, Second Vice-JPres. This is the people's bank?"of fch people." Loans to small merchants and sm; ones. We want your business, Bj 8 o'clock p. m. for accommodation i ? N & BRO, | . COLUMBIA, S. C., 1 / ie of the best stocks of | iiTe^ * I | KINDS. I :V SH 1 GLASS, ^ CEMENT. I MANTLES.? I ^ 1 = ^ ity aiid Price Counts. * We now have a complete stock of all r the Leathers and Toes. We can save you money on your Spring and Summer foot wear, as we bought this stock early last Fall before the rise in the leather t market hence you can see that this means a saving to the purchaser of about 2? ^ per cent, on your shoes. 1 Farmers medium and heavy" weight f work shoes a specialty. < rman9 Columbia. S. C. > and RETAIL * r, COLUMBIA, S. C. MILLINERY! MILLINERY! t 4 Miss Eleanor Clary will be in charge of our Millinery Department again this season, this being our first season in SPRING MILLINERY you will find everything new and upto-date in this department. Call and see- * us before purchaseing a hat. ? SPECIALS. ^Art Squares $3.98Rugs 27x63, special 98c, 1000 yards Embroidery 6c. ^ 1000 yards Embroidery, special. ... 10c. Corset cover, Embroidery 20 and 25c. Gilt Belts 25 and 50c. Leather Belts 25 and 50c. Mennens Talcum Powder 15c. 4 ;ains in all departments and we Lexington friends call and be National Bank, ( LA, S. C. B te, City and County Depository. B ?250,000 00 B 12,500 CO 250,000 00 $olo,500 00 05 tment at 4 per cent, per Annum, * Quarterly. m M $100,000 00 M W 82,000 00 . :ers. I T. P. Matthews, Cashier. B W. M. Gibbes, Jr., Ass't. Cashier, w * Weston & Aycock, Attorneys. B e people, for the people and by the S all farmers as much desired as large B ^ ink opens every Saturday from 6 to of wage earners. M ? OUR PIES ive found favor with everybody hohno on/1 mor? thftlittlA arirl in UU LfV/U C4X1U UIVAJ^ VAAV AA V V A W gAJLX A JUL nafores and her mother and he. ^ andmother. They are of the 7eet, delicious, wholesome, elt-in-your-mouth kind, and e're anxious to have you try tern if you don't know the pro- ^ icts of our ovens. If you do aow we won't have to ask you. EIDLIHGER'S STEAM BAKERY, COLUMBIA, s. c. , 1