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- j ' , _ . ? ^ Put It is wonderfully ^m convenient to dc mm kitchen work on a ^m stove that's ready ^m at the instant wanted, ^m and out of the way the jm moment you're done. U Such a stove is the New | m Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove. By using it you avoid the S continuous overpowering a heat of a coal lire and cook m with comfort, even in dog, ?m ' day*. "n>e ^ 11 airiir n i ULiT r Wick Blue Ha ' is so constructed that it can a room; the flame being d die stove top where it is #=j s see that a stove > / 1 rection would : J? a stov? radiatin _i' X \ "New Perfect* \ comfortable. | j\ If not with youri w ^ ^ W convenient, econ I ; 7a giver. If not witl est agency. 1 m.n-nniA STANDAl (Ij ... . .i ?. 11FVFR. ?TI )/ (IN CC The place t day and Stun Shoes. Lar: Shoes in the < I. are extremely v son. Come | stock. ' j ~ ' flittliHliHIMlMHHHHHHI BEARDEr 922-92,4 Cervai: I mmm Groceries, Hay, Grain, terial, Wire Fencing, ments, Harness, \ Br Best wagon yard in tin Call to see ns. treatme wmmmmmmmammm I BROOKIJ KB ' NEW BR< Slfe We Went your business. \lf/ your money with us until yo yy times s year, i M J. G. CUICNARD, Vloe-President. . * FURNIT FU I Wa norrv o -full Ktia nf ' T* V V(*A A J M ? v. . Goods at lowest prices. Sei Rockers, Chairs, v Bedste I Suites, Dining Suite: Shades, Carpets, v . ' We buy in solid car lots than most merchants. Just rest. : : : COFFINS AND Ci Swansea f ..HeJTV- ' > SW^ J > ^ ' > jjSsr . . 1 I 1 ^IWs^iwc in j ERFECTKHV "~] die Oil Cook-Stove I not add perceptibly to the heat of m irected up a retaining chimney to M needed for cooking. You can fl > sending out heat in but one di- K be preferable on a hot day to K g heat in all directions. The on" keeps a kitchen uniformly Three sizes, fully warranted,. dealer, write our nearest agency. fll foLamp deu M lamp K Jt for family use?safe, &* ? omical and a great light -:r\ ? your dealer, write our nearW OIL COMPANY -^4 icorporsted) ^ I f ' 1 i . K lie Shoe Man," J )LTTMBIA.) I o buy your every lay gd-to-meeting , I gest handlers of I arolinas. Prices I T low at this sea v and inspect our < H H Slwe Mao" I B ?olumbia.) . , \-. ' ?l LUTHER 3 St - Columbia, S. C. Vnn^wava W Vtnol Txrri orVi'f Mo? U ff (%A fl UVV1TT AAglAV , Tinware, Farming ImpleSaddles, Collars, Fads, idles, etc. I ) city for the benefit of all. Prompt and courteous > mt guaranteed. . ; Kdban^I JOKLAND, S. C. |jj It is our desire te please. Leave fit ) u need it. We pay interest four ^ ' ( L. S. TROTTI, 1 j| President. U RE! ENITURE! * ?i i TT ? rurmture ana .nouse r urmsnmg 9 our line of . ads, Bedroom Suites, Parlor l V s, Lace Curtains, Window Rugs, Art Squares, etc. i, which enables us to buy cheaper ; give us a call and we will do the 1SKETS A SPECIALTY. : ; : :urniture Co., LNSEA, S. C. \ . - i. - TALKS BYJRS, DOLBY' Hubby Listens to Another of Her Interesting Conversations. THOUGHT SHE WAS DYING. That Was How She Felt During a Fainting Spell, but It Didn't Feaze the Deacon Any--Samuel's Experience With a Cow. [Copyright, 1907, by T. C. McClure.] Deacon Dolby was digging potatoes In the garden the other afternoon and stopping occasionally to throw a stone or a clod of earth at a hog that was hunting for a hole in the fence to get in when Mrs. Dolby called to him from the back steps: "Samuel! I have got to run over to Mrs. Gay's for a few minutes to see why she hasn't brought my nutmeg grater back. I shall want it in making a custard pie for supper. Mrs. Gay is one of the best women in the world, but she never thinks of returning anything she borrows." Deacon Dolby looked up and nodded his head, and his wife departed on her errand and was absent half an hour. When she returned she came out to where he was still bringing the potatoes out of the ground, and without saying a word she keeled over in the dirt and rolled up her eyes and indulged in three or four convulsive kicks. The deacon didn't seem in the least surprised. He stooped and lifted her one side and dug three more hills of potatoes. Then, as she had not recovered consciousness, he picked her np in his arms and carried her into the house and laid her down on the lounge. He didn't bring out the camphor bottle nor throw water in her face. On the contrary, he sat down at the stand not far away .and picked up the family album and began to look through it A long zplnute elapsed, and then Mrs. Dolby struggled to a sitting position and asked: "Samuel, am I la heaven?* She wasn't The deacon knew she wasn't He could have bet ten to one and felt perfectly safe. He made no reply, however. She would find that she was still on earth without any help from him. She did discover the fact and after looking around she wailed out: ? "No, I haven't died and gone to heaven and teft all my troubles behind, as I thought I had. I am still doomed to suffer here below. Mebbe, "YOU JUMPED UP AND BEGAN KICKING THE COW." however, there will be a thunderstorm and kill me off before night, and so I want to talk to you a little. You wouldn't want me to die without saying anything, would you?" Mr. Dolby didn't answer the question. He was looking at an old picture of his grandfather and counting the horn buttons on his coat "I told you that I was going over to Mrs. Gay's," continued Mrs. Dolby as she stretched out in a more comforta1-1 t-t-t /I T T uit? pubiuuii, aiiu i vycuu x uuka aanx;u her for the nutmeg grater, and we had talked about the high price of ' eggs, when I suddenly observed tears in her eyes. I thought mebbe her sister in 'Ohio was dead, but when T asked her about it she put her arms around me and asked: "'Mrs. Dolby, can you bear to hear some awful, terrible news?' "I told her that I could. I have been hearing awful, terrible news for the last thirty years and have got used to it Then she went on to tell me. She hadn't meant to say a word, but her conscience wouldn't let her keep things to herself any longer. Are you listening to me, Samuel?' Samuel was. He even had a bit of curiosity to know what was coming, but he turned to the photograph of his grandmother and uttered no word. Samuel and the Gate. "A month ago. Samuel, the gate fell down, and you had to take out one of , the posts and put in a new one. That was the day I was over to Mrs. Johnson's quilting bee. Mrs. Gay didn't go. She was preserving some pears and couldn't leave'em. She wanted more sugar and was going down to the store to get some, when, just as she was passing you, you stepped backward into the post hole and went down clear to your hip. You got a jar and I-?t?/VL-a Vir?+Vi cncnoriflnK! Vnn /lifln't UlUAg ^/VIU X VU ViiUU 4 know that there was anybody within forty rods of you, and you let out. Poor Mrs. Gay couldn't remember the half you said, but the other half was enough. I came home with my blood like ice. When I looked at you and. thought of you saying them words I Just fainted dead away." Mr. Dolby was still looking at that photograph. He started to smile grim- , ^i ed that I'd better drive on for a mile and a half. "What d'ye s'pose she had done while appearing to be as innocent and childish as a spring chicken? Got a feller to look up my property and found I was under mortgage, and she let go as if I had been a hot tater. Yes, she did, and all the time she was telling me that if she ever did marry az'in she didn't care how poor the man was If he only had a manly heart in his manly bosom, meaning me. If I'd been courting long 'nuff to be head over heels in love I'd have come home to hang myself in the barn. "A widder woman don't hit fair from the shoulder. "You don't know when to believe her and when not to. "When you think you've got her she's somewhere else. When you begin to flatter yourself that you've got all the other fellers on the run she's working her cards to ring in a new bunch. "One experience with a widder womr an wasn't 'nuff for me. It's jest like when you git blowed up with powder. You know you've been blowed. but yet you hanker to go back to the spot and look around for the fragments. I was buying hay that summer, and I called on the widder to see if she'd sell me five tons. "She wasn't five minutes finding out that I was a widower. "As she knew that I'd quit the tombstone business and she would be safe, she begun to talk about her dead and gone Moses. He had spilt her life. He was dead, and she didn't want to talk ag'in him. but she had to say that he was a pesky mean man. When she married ag'in she hoped to marry her equal and a man who loved her for herself alone and all that kind of nonsense. L?ft House Flustrated. "I went away from that house so flustrated that I forgot all about the hay. I'd have bet steers to calves that the widder was gone on me at first sight. Of course I went back ag'in. Had to see about the hay. No hay for sale, but we sat down on the shady veranda and talked, and when we got through talking I was asked to call ag'in. "It hain't no use in denying that I thought I had struck a good thing. There was a good farm and a nice widder woman that could do a Monday washing and Ironing and be ready toy bake bread on Tuesday. I used to sit and hold that widder's hand in the moonlight and hear the whippoorwills -? i s 1 J A. _ ~ MS T Bing uuu i?ei je?t a? 11 x cuuiu wcu away like butter la July. She kept drawing me on, and I should have popped the question within two months if she hadn't stopped me at the critical moment. She seemed to read imy thoughts, and she'd bring me up short before I could get the words out. "Then, as in the other case, I went over one day to lay my m^nly heart at her feet. She caught me up before I could lay it by shedding tears and telling me that she must raise a hundred dollars or be sued. My Mariar be sued? Never! Never on this earth! I humped for town and borrowed the money on my note and carried it to her, and I was to call next day, when ?when I didn't. I had never seen a man spooking around there, but I learned that she had five of us on the string and that she had borrowed the same amount from each without security. Can't talk about security to a woman who's going to marry you, you know. Yes, sir, made fools of the whole five of us, and that money paid for her bridal tour with a wire fence manvto whom she had been engaged for two years. Just got through paylncr tho lnct nf mv hnn/lrArl flnllnr Tinti* the other day. "My case is Jim Hopewell's case. Got In love with a widder woman and got the throwdown and took it to heart. He'll live to get over it, jest as I have, and, though he may never be purty ag'in. he'll know more. He'll come to realize that it's a heap safer to court five old maids than one widder, and now I'll get my mail and 'lasses and go home." M. QUAD. He Forgot Himself. Absentminded Employer (to stenographed?Write a letter to Murray and tell him to send us his address.?Bohemian. Careful. "T.pnrt me vonr umbrella, old man. will you?" asked Meanley. "You've got one," replied Goodley. '"You told-'me your wife gave you a fine one for your birthday last week. Why don't you use that?" "Oh, I'm afraid of losing that."? Philadelphia Press. When They Are Quiet. "I like to go to church." "Why?" "Well, it's comforting to see a man keep a hundred women or so quiet for an hour."?Bohemian. A Sure Crop. There's but one crop thatceems to boom And flourish without fail Regardless of the tardy spring Or winter's blighting hail. Its stock quotations never heed The wars of bull and bear? This world old crop of youths' wild oats Grows well most anywhere. ?Mazie V. Caruthers in New York Times 4 Bigj lll^ Cotton Yield ??>?&? The value of comm ' been demonstrated ove jgig& t both government and ] tests. We stand read) W/& vou at anv time that th ^ crease your yields per a IP Virginia* Hon. R. J. Redding, form gia Exp. Station, is authorit Y&teki- "experiments made at this balanced commercial fertili J|j|g^/ of land, and well cultivated pected to produce an inc: mlcotton. At the present pri F iff mean a large extra profit ( Jt . after deducting the price fo 4 'ft You'll find reports of m | tests, together with much va \ censing land culture in the -li ^ear Book or Almanac. *^Mv> dealer for a copy?c *ree? ^ you write our ^^r^n*a"^aro^1 Richmond, Va. MVfrmll ( Norfolk, Va. Columbia, S. C jI Atlanta, Ga. <?ilmfeP- ?I 'f ? Savannah, Ga. fSPlk ?' \ Y * A Trtnph rtf Vanitv. I IP On Not. 25?St Catherine'* dayFrench girls who have passed their twenty-fifth birthday and are unmarried wear a little cap made of fine mus? lin, the symbol of maidhood. As the day approaches the millinery shops show these caps in great quantities, and their manufacture by young girls is always accompanied by jokes at the expense of old maids; but, strange to relate, these caps, because they are becoming to all, are worn on St. Catherine's day by young girls as well as by old maids. Where It Doesn't Apply. "Slow and sure," remarked the man with the quotation habit, "is a good motto." "But," protested the thoughtful thinker, "there is one thing that can never be slow and sure." "What's that?" queried the quotation dispenser. jj| "A watch," replied the t. t.?Kansas 2 City Independent j| A woman's love is a paradox. Tou 9 * t- .nnlAPfl ,'ftn Pfltnm _ B *_'UJLL I it I Uilicco J\JU Itiuiu Philadelphia, Record. Noncommittal. "Young: Mrs. Jenkins is a very hard woman to pump. She always gets out of giving you any information when you ask her anything." "I heard she was very close mouthed." ."You know it was reported that she and her husband did not get on very _ well together, so when I asked her quite casually what her husband gave her the other day for a birthday pres- ? ent (to see if they were on good terms) J I couldn'-t tell from her answer whether he had given her a handsome piece of bric-a-brac or whether they had quarreled." "What did she say?" "She just said,\He gave me a jar.'" ?Baltimore American. A Cross Country Rider. 4 *J Economy. Small Gilbert?Papa, didn't I hear S you tell mamma we would have to j 9. ?? -i-> t-? n ! H economize: jrupa?iw, m,) own. ouum i n Gilbert?Well, you might begin by get- e ting me a pony; then I shouldn't wear j E out so many shoes.?Chicago News. 8 Law oF Progress. fflj The law of progress is the law of E sacrifice?no-sacrifice, no progress. The i m secret of sacrifice is love. Without the j 8 self sacrificing love of the mother life j| itself would disappear from the earth. |J P^i-lau'O M SB rer s Per Acre ? ercial fertilizers has fog r and over again by private comparative r to demonstrate to * e surest way to "in- 3 ere" is to use Carolina | L?/Vi.O .flKST ier Director of the Geor- ? y for the statement that station show that well ttji zer applied to one acre yjs , may be reasonably ex- JJ& * rease of yield of seed ce of cotton this would for both lint and seed), a r fertilizer." a any other comparative .3 luable information con- -jiff new Virginia-Carolina A.sk you local fertilizer ft >r we'll send you one ? nearest sales office. ia Chemical Co. Durham, N. C. Charleston, S. C. a Baltimore, Md. Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. O phis, Tenn. A JjjZfBr report, La. /jt I want to shake hands yrith every man, woman or boy in this neighborhood who helps sell harness. I believe the mule has a hard time and am trying to make him comfortable by making comfortable harness. I f make everything from a gee strap to a horse collar and make it as ?ood as I know how. Let us help the mule Wilse W. Martin MAKER OF HARNESS 1118 Plain Street COLUMBIA, ; : : S. C. For INSURANCE, iiirju, FIRE, ACCIDENT, SEE E. G. Dreher, LEXINGTON, S. C. trongest and Best Companies Wearing Jewelry I Shows Good Taste I Wearing jewelry his never I been more fashionable than I it is now. But, of course, I the jewelry must be in style. I Ours fulfills every demand I It is right in style, quality I and in price. The stock is I large and o 1 a very wide range. \ v We invite every reader of this paper to visit us while in Columbia. If you can't come, write us. Mail orders receive careful- and prompt attention. CHARLES P. SBNTZ, JEWELER, I 1439 Main, Columbia, S. C |