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; , 7 y ^ ,v . 'V/-"- > "''- * V" V ." Nk^'3^>:.#4 -- v:sV:v--. 7..VV Rjgggj.^ - .; :2.'. -; RUBWITURtl aT?wn yum Columbic We have here now ? and High Grade Furnit ishings not to be surj South. Beautiful Su il^Parlor. Hall. library, D in Circassian Walnut, I : hogany, Bird's Eye M Weathered and Golden Odd pieces in House % ?ers, Cellaretts, Smoker ^ Stands, Clocks, Pedesfc ures, Plate Backs, Rugs Exclusive agents f< Cross Sanitary Felt Ma Go Carts. , r All Goods marked | ' i One Low Price to ever] ' ' No misrepreseiitat Every article guarantee | IW can Duy cauap rum m rater only M mile t ' 1409 MAIN1ST., 0 u MH g 1 8 9 Ton may not want to s / {8 for presents, but yon n ' J " thing to your friends. r Why not sen -v 8 > One of the most attra | tor y of presents and oz 8 ..Call and see the New ] I y * 1 I THE I L I 9 ? MASONTCJTEMPLE, FINE- CA FOR CHRISTMAS; Here you find Fresh of every, conceivable Candies, suitable for < for your Sweetheart, F Ice Cream and I ?HBT. MM Columbia Candj \ - r*. ? w I JOS. LINES, I 1437 Main Street, Trespass Notice. AH persons are hereby forbidden to trespass in any manner whatsoever, or ? allow your stock to trespass, in any c manner whatsoever, on my land til said * County and State, adjoining lands of J - -rv TT y Andrew Keisier, u. ?. jxyzvi, Long and others. Fishing and hunting t are also prohibited, and all parties violating this notice will be persecuted to a the extent of the law. 4w7pd. E. LONG. " Gianery Notice. The public i9 generally nbtifled t tihat we will gin cotton only on Fri- j days &fter Dec. 23rd. ? p 2wp. LONG BROS. c Lexington, S. C. p i : V :.'' i-.' " ir - ' ' . ' x* / y rj . ' ' J' ' . IF QU11LITY)1 STORE OF T ii i rn no 1 ILLtK bU. ;? " *; ' T lj S^? r'^^?;. / ?J HAnMMMMHMM J* h i collection of Medium * ure and House Furrr ? >assed in the entire " its for Bed Room, t en and Dining Room, tt )nll and Polished Maaple, Early English, , Oak. i Desks',Tables, Rocks' Tables,. Magazine lis. Tabouretts, Piot3, Etc.y >r the Famous Red ttress, and Whitney d Plain Figures land fbody. ioAs in this rf Store. Bd as represented.. itere anywhere, rho f g High Class FURNITURE:. ** tt ' . . n< cjhTTMBIA, S. 0. J ) Times) i ' i ei n e\ pend much money H p1 rant to send some- \ I' ? : : i . : I 81 id a Book? I etive and satisfac- | ^ I? of the cheapest. 9 81 Holiday Books at | & 9 p( 1HHHHHBB fj ^ ^ I ? COLUMBIA'S. cr~3 I 63 B if junjuew.n.fjrAne.ii.e.iM.w ? NDIES! j ol Hand-Hade Candies a al kind. Z Fancy Box hi Christmas Presents riendorWife. : : tii [ot Soda Water. it f Manufactory, Proprietor. i Columbia, S. C. ? to Engine and Boiler Fixtures, , I have just opened up a new and ull line of engine and boiler fixtures, tt onsisting of valves, gauges, coup- sa ings, etc. Piping cut And threaded er o oraer. jangme ana Doner repair g also done. Satisfaction guaraneed. Give me a trial. J. J. RIKARD, 5tf Lexington, S. C. tfc b] STALLINGS' MILLINERY. p< Visit onr store and see for yourself ^ he most up-to-date line of Millinery, )ry Goods, Notions, Shoes and Gents' ai 'uruishings ever shown in Brookland. m >ur prices are right. Polite and fr rompt attention. Oct. 2?3m h< IT SKINNER IE le Has More or Less Sport With a Lawn Mower. IIS MOTHER WASNT WISE. "bought Her Darling Boy Could Be Trusted to Bring Home Machine Head of Household Had Purchased From a Neighbor. A [Copyright 1907, by P. C. Eastment] ? "Humpy," said Mrs. Skinner as hef Idest and only was looking all over the 3use after breakfast for his cap and is schoolbooks and declaring that )me thief had got in during the night ud stolen them, "you needn't go to diool this morning. I have got an ermd for you to do. Mr. Jackson, who ves over on Wintergreen street, was ere last evening, and he sold your faler his lawn mower for $2. You can y ^ .. ' ' ;l THE FUN SPEEDILY BEGAN. y and bring it hbme and cut the grass i the back yard. Do you think you re big enough to do that?" / "Why, ma, I could bring home ten lowers!" was the boy's entnusiastic iswer as he found his books under te lounge and his cap in the kitchen ext minute. "You'll have to be very careful. It's responsible thing to dkag a lawn lower through the streets. Dogs and its and boys will follow you the same J they do a wild west show." J "But I've wheeled a wheelbarrow rer two miles without anything hapening." "Yes, I remember, but a wheelbarrow >es not go bur-r-r-r-r when you wheel along. Your father paid cash down ir that mower, and if anything should appen to it I don't know what lie ould say and do. Don't you go after unless you think"? \ "BI do think," interrupted Humpy. Lf I hain't big enough to bring a mow home, then I ought to be spanked ad put to bed." After a little more argument and serial cautioris he was permitted to deirt, and he went his way with proud eart He had gone only one block hen the Watklns boy came out of a rocery with a package of sugar and anted to know what was up. jOn beig told he saitf: Would Have Licked the British. "And I'll go along, and we'll get ijout ten other boys. Say, Humpy, it ill be the greatest thing you ever iw. You can have lots of fun with wheelbarrow, but it don't begin with mower. My father says that if Najleon had had MO,000 lawn mowers t the battle of Waterloo he'd licked te British all holler." A minute later they picked up the Impson boy and the Taylor boy, and ten came two unknown but enthusiitic hoodlums. Before Wintergreen reet was reached the crowd number1 ten, and the Watklns boy constitut1 himself as assistant leader of the cnedition and halted the band to say: "Now. kids, it's almost the same as we were going out to fight Indians. I very boy has got to keep his eyes anued for the enemy and look out for is s?alp. Any one that runs away ill be called a coward. Hump Skin*r is the general, and what he says >es. We will now bear down upon le hostile village and wipe it off the ice of the earth." This was satisfactory to all but one ' the hoodlums. He wanted it to be band of highway robbers instead, but Pter a brief tussle, in which he had is hair pulled and his nose skinned, * gave up and marched along in hum !e spirit Mrs. Jackson was ready to irn over the mower, but took Humpy jide and asked: "Bub, do you fully realize what it eans to drag a mower through the reets?" "I do," was the reply. "Its different from walking up to a ago stand and buying two bananas >r 5 cents." "I know." "There's a bur-r-r-r-r and a whir-r-r-r-r ? it as you push it along." "Yes'm."' "Well, if you are prepared to take te consequences I have no more to iv. If anything happens to the mow1 your father mustn't blame us." "Xo, ma'am." Was Dragged Down the Street. The lawn mower was dragged out of le yard and down the street for a ock. Humpy and the Watkins boy ished it ahead of them, and the oth s ran 011 ahead or followed on be Ind. When they had gone a block id a half they came upon a milkan's horse and wagon hitched in ont of a bakery. The old horse had *ard a thousand different noises C without becoming frightened, but when that bur-r-r-^-r reached his ears and he saw the band of boys charging down upon him he reared up and then made a bolt down the street. The driver came rushing out and cuffed three or four of the crowd and,then followed after the horse. Humpy was scared, but the Watkins boy braced him up by saying: "A lawn mower has got the same rights on the streets as a milk wagon, and they can't touch you. S'pose the mower had srot scared and run away. could you have done anything with the milkman?' . Things went all right for tbfr next five minutes, and then a policeman stopped the band and said: '^Drawing an infernal machine through the streets, are you? Well. I'll soon put a stop to that." "Please, sir, but it's only a lawn mower," explained Humpy. "Then what's it making that riolse for?" "I don't know, sir." "But you ought to know, and his honor will see that you do know when you are brought before him. You are on your way to blow up the city hall, and don't you dare deny it" "Please, sir, but I think I know why the mower makes that whining noise," volunteered the Watkins boy. "Then out with it" "I think it has the colic, sir.* "Yes, I shouldn't woncfer if It was. This weather's enough to give a crowbar St. Vftus' dance. Yop'd better stop at the drug store and' give the thing some peppermint." Two blocks after leavlngjthd officer, who kept following them, with eyes of suspicion, the band met four big hoodlum boys, who at once decided to take charge of things. There was a fight, In which they were victorious, but they - were not mean spirited. Alter geumg possession of the machine they invited the weeping and indignant Humpy and his following to enter an old wood yard with them and witness the fun. They had a goat shut up therein, and the fun speedily began. The biggest hoodlum took off his coat and cap and seized the handles of the mower and began to chase the goat around. When he got tired one of his crowd took up the chase, and it was continued -until at length the frightened creature made a long spring and leaped the fence. Then Hnmpy, as owner of the mower, was trptted out and made to perform, and It was over two hours before the owner of the ?ard happenevl to pass' that way and drove the whole crowd out with a club. Then the hoodlums went their way, and tbemowfv was headed for home, lit was within four blocks of the Skinner house and was being pushed alohg by two small boys who insisted on sharing the honors when a fat woman with a basket on her arm turned in from a side street She no sooner caught sight of the mower than i she cried out: v' i Her Long Lost Wheelbarrow. "Ah, but it is my long lost wheelbarrow in the hands of these young rtiffians! Give it up'to me at once!" < "But thi^ is no wheelbarrow," protested Humpy. "Don't talk to me, you young gallows bird! Do you think I've arrived at the age of fifty years and have got to weigh over 200 pounds and can't tell a lawn mower fiom a whelbarrow? I say that ifs a wheelbarrow that was stolen from me a whole year ago. There's the green paint on it to identify If TTnnd it over or VOU Shall go to 52L"v; ; " T "Madam,, can't you spe t|iat this is not a wheelbarrow?" insisted Humpy. "A wheelbarrow has two handles and a whedl in front, while this"? "And you'd rob a poor old woman of her only wheelbarrow, would you?" shouted the other as she grabbed for the handle to get possession. In the struggle she was upset and her basket knocked into the middle of the street, but as the boys ran away with the machine an ice wagon came trotting along just in time to .run one wheel over and reduce the thing to a wreck. The iceman stopped and began to jaw, but in a minute he was gone. The crowd of boys, with Humpy at their head, had melted away. When Humpy stopped at last only the Watkins boy was with him. "Hump." he asked when he could get 1 his breath, "will your father give you J a licking for this?" n tr-fnlaef l.-fnrl f?f fl liflvinJT." X lie il )) n*uu V*. w "Will you holler for mercy?*' "I'll holler till you can hear me a mile away." "Then the boys and me will be in the alley to bear you and be glad it hain't us. Goodby, Hump." M. QUAD. Consolation. ^ Zl: Kind Hearted Motorist (to victim)? There's a doctor in that car behind.? Browning's Magazine. Their Second Meeting. We met; 'twas in a crowd; she looked at me With such a look as I shall ne'er forget, And, gazing in her eyes. I knew tnac sue And I some other where, some time, had met. The look she gave me filled my breast with pride. For as I halted just inside the door I knew that she remembered ine and tried To recollect where we had met before. And then it came to me, all in a flash. And in that instant she remembered, too; I'd knocked her automobile all to smaih "When I was nervous and my ear was i new. ?-S. E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald. THE AUDIENCE. I mak' not moocha mon' today, So few ees hear da tunes I play. Long: time bayfore da sun ees shine I tak' dees street pian' of mine An' pull eet out from ceety street To countra lane, where cool an' sweet Da morneeng breeza blow, an' where All theengs ees beautiful an' fair. Oh, here, I theenk, I gona find Som' peopla so good heart' an' kind Dey weell be glad for hear me play An' notta tal me "gona 'way!" Like mosta do dat I am meet Wen I am play een ceety street. I walk an' walk, but eet ees queer I meet so few da peopla here; Ees only wan or tW9? but steell I look for more. I climb da heell An' travel down da hotta road. Da street pian' ees heavy load; I am baygeen for feel da heat, An' so, bimeby, I stop an' seet Een shady place bayside da way. Oh, I am mad! I growl an' say: "I mak' not moocha mon* today. Wat for you com', oh, foola man. Where no wan hear your street plan'?" But den, w'at s'pose ees happen me? Firs' theeng you know, ees leetla tree Mak' funny noisa where eet stan's, So like as eef eet clap eets han's! Den gentla feengor een da air Dey com' an' pull me by da hair; Ees som'theeng een dees sweeta bree2? Dat speak to me an' coax an' tease. * An' den da sky, so wide, so blue. | Eet seem to smile an' coax me too. So all theengs speak, as eef dey say: "Com', let us have da music. Play!" I play wan tune?yes, two. t'ree, four. Like w'at -I newa do bayfore! I stop. Da sky cry, "More!" An' den I play dem evra wan agen. So, too. I leeft my voice an' seeng. 1 Da breeze say "More!" to everytheeng. So all day long ees Ilka dat. Oh. 'Merlcana man. I gat Som' curses an' som' food to eat Wen I am play een ceety street, But here da sky. da breeze, da tree, ^ Dey speak Eetalian to me! I mak* not raoocha mon' today. So few ees hear da tunes I play. But where ees reecher man dan I Dat play to breezje an' tree an' skyt ?T, A. Daly In Catholic Stiandard an< Times. Two of a Kind. "Well, Henry," said .the New Yorl man who was visiting his Chicago cons in, "before I leave town I want to lx sure to visit the stockyards, the ar institute and the Field museum. I sup i pose it's an old story to you, so if you'l direct me right I'll find 'em myself." ~ The Chicago man laughed. | "I'm ashamed to admijt it," he said I "but the fact is I've lived In this towi ! fifteen years and I've never been on ! to the stockyards. I never visited tin i Field museum, and I've never been t< | the art Institute, although I pass it ev ; ery day of my life. I guess I'll take j ! day off and see^ the sights of my owi j town," 5 i He did. and was as much interestet : as his cousin. . j "Now, when I go to New York In th< fall," he said, "I want you to" take in< out t? Ellis island to see the immi grants come in. It must be a grea sight. And I want to get the viev from the statue of Liberty and wall down the Bowery." "Sure," said the New York cousin "I'd like to see those things once my self."?Chicago Record-Herald. The Constable. Oh, I am the foe of the auto man, And I stand on the road with glee. And a racing car and a runabout; Are exacuy me saute iv tuc. Oh, I am the country constable And the luckless chauffeur's dread. For he's got to stop when I say the word Or I'll puncture his tires with lead. I laugh as I stretch from tree to tree A rope, for the flying car. And I take good care that the trap is lal< From the justice's office far, For that Is the way I get my rides In the things I hate like sin, For when they look at my badge, you bet They are glad to take me In. Oh, what were the Joys of Robin Hood In his good greenwood to mine, [ And what was the loot of Claude Duval To the bail bond and the fine, And where is the sport with rod or gun Compared to the pride I feel When I hunt the motorist, blithe and gay And capture an automobile? ?Minna Irving in New York Times. S 'THE HOLMANware (THE HARDW FOR WHAT Goods Righf. Right Prices Headquarters Hardware, Mechanic Tools, Crockery and Glassware, Majestic Ranges, Rucks Stoves and Ranges, Coles Combii A full line of Belting? stock. Let us figuure on nnitiii! mi [ IflULiiflZlll-tlUii BATESBU FREE TO AUTHORS. New Form of Phrases For the Use of Story Writers. ! According to an exchange, Mr. Clemens deplores the too frequent use by stofy writers of such stock phrases a? "replied Alfred, flipping the ash from his cigar," "responded Richard, with a laugh," "murmured Gladys, blushing." We have done a good deal of deploring ourselves along the same line of thought, plus other inefficiencies of the , Vnwlloh lononiaoro gnH at Inst it gftt 1UU^ a so deplorable we sat up all one night trying to evolve some new forms and have been eminently successful. We give them for what the^ are worth , and hope to see the grfcat army of American authors swing)' in line and help themselves till this batch is worn threadbare, when, we trust, some other phrase monger will come to the front with a mess of new ones. No copyright on the following: "Said Philip as he paused to polish his eyeglasses on the lace curtains. "Said Samuel, slowly writing his name qn his cuff. i i "Said the burglar, pausing to build a Are in the kitchen range for the housemaid ere he climbed out of the pantry window, for morning was breaking In the east. "Said Robert to the beautiful girl, I peeling an onion he had taken from his t pocket, as he paused for her reply. i "Said Mrs. Riley, unfolding her arms akimbo and holding them straight up in the air like a railroad signal. r "He responded, opening a can of sardines with his teeth as he awaited her answer. . i "Said he, taking out his magnificent gold watch and with it hammering back a loose nail which protruded from the sofa on which they sat j "Said the cop, taking a bushel of peanuts from his overcoat pocket and presenting them to Tony Confetti, the fruit stand man. ^ c "Said the florist as {ie threw in a do2en of cut roses and some choice " e rhododendrons with the three pinks t *> . / 1 the young man was ouymg. * . "Said the grocer as he tested the 1 scales to see that they were absolutely ? correct. "Twittered she, playfully prying up a cobblestone from the pavement with 1 the dainty toe of her No. 2 shoe, t "Said he. savagely biting the center ?/ out'of a doughnut and swallowing it 3 seeds and all. 4 ? "Said he as he suddenly tore the pass 1 i into bits and. throwing a dollar before i the astonished ticket' seller, vowed he would pay hjs own fare. \ 1 "Said she, with a tremulous sob k like that of a dying oyster." e No doubt there are many more such 5 desirable forms which If we had time we might think up. But why not give t some other fellow a chance? ? Jack 7 Robinson In Puck. S I Airy Criticism! i i. ?J ___ Bill (watching the traffic below)? Risky things, them there motors.? EE I OiilllM HARD UtILLtllll lAillKV I Company, I 'ARE PEOPLE J YOU, NEED. I Prices Right. | I on Good Goods I ' I ; for all kinds of II Chattanooga Plows, S 1 Saw Mills, I 1 Shingle Mills, I I Engines, 9 fl L. & M. 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