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New goods arriving every d*
plete stock' of Dry Goods, Noti
,.: Hats, etc., at the lowest prices.
I carry a full line of Staple
Groceries and can save you moh
purchases.
Give me a trial. Satisfaction
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SAXE-COTHA MILLS.
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PELION, - - - - S. C.
Call and see my line of Fine Dress Goods and
are going at prices that will surprise you. 300
and Plow Shoes to move at once. Get prices bej
where. i L.v W. 1
AT COS1
We are now selling our entire stock of Dry
Shoes, Glass and Crockeryware at COST.
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We mean what we say. Call to see us in
store across the railroad.
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k Ih SANDY RUN CLUB.
In pursuance to the call of thee
chairman, Sandy Run Demc
club will meet at Oak Grove aca
11 a Saturday, April 25th, atSo'clocl
| The club will be reorganixed,
* gates elected to attend the C
Democratic convention, to ass
at Lexington C. H., Monday, 4t
of May next. A full attendar
desired. N. B. Wanramak*
Presid
WTINP
I If II I |J ll Will meet at Hollow Creek c]
1 Ell V I n! D I at 4 o'clock, April 25, for reorg
tion, electing delegates tc conve
D. F. Price, Secret
The Delingo Democratic clu
meet at Delingo School House,
25, at 4 p. m.
D. Pickens Roof, I
iv. A com- BROOKLAND CLUB.
, * , Brookland club will meet in
Lons, Snoes, hall Saturday afternoon, April
3 o'clock for the purpose of el
delegates to the county convent
_ By order of Secret
and Fancy ?
GILBERT CLUE
.GV on your Will meet Saturday, April 25;
J . o'clock. All members are req
to be present as there will be ir
. _ ant business to attend to.
gUarantGea p H. Craps, Chairr
EDMUND CLUB.
_ ? , ?^ w- A meeting of the Edmund c
L A & called for Saturday afternoon,
^ 25th, at 3 o'clock.
. . Geo. A. Shealy, I
LEXINGTON CLUB.
The members of Lexington cl
? ? hereby requested to meet in the
house on Saturday afternoon,
A I gtj ^ V 25, at 3 o'clock.
JiMl BlWi Frank W. Shealy,
Ballentine Democratic club wil
at Ballentine on Saturday, Apri
^ j-u at 4 o'clock p. m., to transact
E* ' G business as required by County
mA Jill kJ a man. A full attendance is desi:
7 Jas. W. Shea!
Secret
p i. rni The members of Boiling i
Calicoes. 1 ney ciuk v0# 2. are reauested to mi
pan. Jf&QCV Dress the school house at the Saxe*
J , mills oil Saturday afternoon 3
fore buying 'else on April 25th, 1908.
VISE, Manager. J" H" ^
7 Peak Democratic club will m
nt Town Hall, April 25th, at 4 p. n
L. O. L. Mayer, I
Goods, Notions, The members of the Lew
Democratic club are hereby re
ed to meet on Saturday, April
3 p. m., to elect delegates and i
f-iironian Pnimt'ir Pnnve
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. . , We hope a full attendance w
OUr new brick present. L. Hallman,
v The Bates'ourg Democratic ch
Tmeet at Batesburg, S. C., Sat
April 18, 1908, at 3 o'clock p. n
the purpose of reorganizing, el
I delegates to the Lounty Conve
&c. A full attendance is defir<
^/\ Aau W. B. Kite, 1
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nan. scare away evil spirits from a tomb. uuc"" ? but
was an attempt to perpetuate the ^llcb Ina.v be bi
profound knowledge of Maximus Oly- the Tirj?
lub is bius, who effected this wonder by his th" s!);)rtor P?ri<
April skill in the chemical art interesting that
THE DOWAGERS.
ub are Titled Widows Go to the Rear In the .
^ ^^ril Social Procession. rich
x Little sympathy is bestowed on tiSec.
widows after the first few days of ?ct!l v*'ere Ans
their bereavement Of course when Were
ilmeet an earl dies his widow remains a Luring and fo:
125th, countess, but with the unwelcome ad- c5v:i n';;r there* 1
; such dition "dowager," which often is mis- ty. y-n- v'liotv t
Chair- leading as far as her age is concerned, before the days
red. Thackeray, although he professed Boeuf river, a
^' gool breeding, looked on dowager ^vho met with 1
duchesses as fair targets for sarcasm, big two of her
Spring ^cl Du Maurier, though the only thereafter, her
set at offense of the poor women was that sbe never prayei
Gotha they had lost their husbands. It is a Pened during th
p. m., double blow to a woman of title when "Sani being
, her husband dies, for if grief leaves army," was the
-kn? her time for reflection she realizes 4<I S?t lonesome
nan* that, no matter how young she may stay at hon
eet in be' sbe is re]e^atod to the rear in the 1 Sot down
social procession. The new duchess or tor the soutl
Wflwhrnnoec nr rrmnfpss SteDS iutO tile Clean Ollt the
Jres. | ?
I an(* the dowager is lucky to I wasn't a week t
ledale I find a place iu the last row of the j eral PaP Price'
? chorus? for the very term implies old "ear dark, the
Dxecu- womanllood, and in most cases she along the rivei
aition. was*es time if she combats the stock feed, rob'
ill be ln3pression. and burned half
Sec. | Ordinary widows may have better place without r
chances for matrimony than debu- As I didn't knc
ib will I tantcs, though that's doubtful. Dow- tell him what t!
*" A ~ ^?,*o ,rrtc prayed again, a."
in-day, agers seiaom contract nev> -l+ ^he Federals toi.
for for few men have courage to Itad
ecting them to the altar. So in all the affairs 'j? ..
intion, of society tliey make the host of the * 1 "
custom that dictates they shall follow 1 1
"res. meekly in the wakes of their flattered *hc .1.? r| , 3
daughters-in-law.?New York Press. ?L e iul .
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Curious Stories of the Wonderful .... . , ? ~
. r xu a i. Vital In the V
Lamps of the Ancients.
lounty When the tomb of Palls, son of . _ 6
cratic Evander, who is mentioned by'Virgil, er?. ais n<
"vvas discovered about the twelfth cen- ro ?'a in? y
kp.m. , . . . general course
Hole tury by a countryman digging near .
aeie- - ., ..* , ment, our know
Jounty Rome- * ^ said that a lamp was still '
emble burning over his head, which must oee~
u j u f i? ^ o aaa us to,mark the i
h day have been lighted more than 2,000 ni?npt'<
ice is years before. t i
3r? ) Baptista Porta in his treatise on nat- e.r ax a ro ]
el>t. oral magic relates that about 1550 a '? kD^ledse
marble sepulcher of the Roman period Pro\fs
, . . , , own in duratio
was discovered in an island near IN a- .
minntao Irtnat ,n?
Siurch, pies. On opening the room was found
aniza- a vjaj containing a burning lamp. The . !S^0Se? ?
ntion. iamp became extinct on breaking the p Sne s ?r a !
ar^' vial and exposing the lamp to the open ?aT1}e S0.^?C
b will aIr- It was supposed that It had been ?- arfaa 1
April concealed before the Christian era, and .
those who saw it reported that the ar y 1 "e our ,?
>res. lamp emitted a splendid flame. egrees as aga n
In 1550 a remarkable lamp was +ea?h* The re*
found near Atestes. Padau, by a rus- ^lca ours n ?
Shull who unearthed a terra cotta urn srca cccen r ci
p rta containing another urn Id which was V0^?! e ?n?
ion a *amP Placed between two cylindrical *}? ern en?lsI
try. vessels, one of gold and the other of da^> s merh,
y silver. Each'was full of a very pure nter lo8 whil
liquid by whose virtue the lamp had sp_^re e ?U1(
? at 3 been kept shining upward of 1,500 , . numDf's
uested years> demic importan<
nport- Tjjis curi0US iamp was not meant to *s as Tita* .f
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ings with ^ | ' S
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(xtremely f | Jp
l to see us i , | j |g .
QPAQfiMQ ! federates had left we and destroyedwtMOU
IB O* | +Vi/n 1-vnlanna r>f tllO fonc<l Rllf?
\SKJ liUl ? v,? v|y **- i
>d. and it is not a little | *w0 kinds?those inflicted with and
precisely this possibll- without torture. The stocks and the
ns out to be -vital in pillory would rank as corporal punish- V
eonomv of the planet's ment; also mutilations and other grim
Lowell in Century. tortures when imposed not to extort
confessions, but as penalties, and the
n ;v_r,rs branding in the hand for felony, which
/J rhf; i ilAO. was not abolished until George III.'s
time.
/vend, but the Results j
Discouraging j A Permanent Place.
r many years after t'ae There was not even standing room in
Ived in Fran!: I in :i- the 0 o'clock crowded car, but one
hi? old state road, built more passenger, a young .woman,
; of railroads, crossed wedged her way along just inside the
Mrs. Samuel Ilutton, doorway. Each time the car took a
:he misfortune of hav- sudden lurch forward she fell helpprayers
answered, and lessly back, and three times she landueighbors
used to say, ed in the arms of a large, comfortable
1 again. And this hap- man on the back platform. The third
e civil war. time it happened he said quietly,
vay in the Confederate "Hadn't you better stay here?"?New
way she used to tell it, York World.
among so many brag
le northerners that one Their standard.
on my knees and pray- "Say," asked the first messenger
lern bojs to come and any. novejs ter swop?"
neighborhood, and it ,.j p00t Bill's Revenge,'"
)efore along came Gen- ,ied tbe Qther
s army, and, it being ..js jj. a i011?r story?"
whole outfit camped -Yaw! Ye kin finish it easy in two
r, confiscated all my messages."?Philadelphia Press,
bed my chicken roost
the fence rails on the , His Reasoning,
is *mg my permission, j Bobbv?I believe vou are engaged to
>w where Sam was to . Mr crooks at last, sis! Sis-What
!ic scamps Had done, makeg think so? Bobbv-Because
skmg the Lord to send , , , , T
, ? _ . 1 he s stopped giving me pennies!?Loncliase
Pan Price to the ; , ^ . .
T. * , . UOI1 upnuuu.
t?e. It was about sunwhen
I looked up the ~
ly answer coming, and $orc fSiipples and Chapped Hands.
"S Stopped at the river ^re qUjckly cured bv f.ppl ying Chamberlain's
te what food the Con- Salve! Try it; it is a success' Price 25 ce ts.
_ . ^ Ulc uaiauv,^ v*. iuv ?.v^.vw
egetative Economy of Times,
lanet's Year.
Dt an old planet cor- Soft Hearted Bill!
absence of cloud the "Ab? dearie me!" sighed the woman
of planetary develop- when Mrs. Pipkins, the sympathetic
ledge of it would have parishioner, called upon her. "Yes,
begin with, it enables there was worse men than my poor
>ermanency in place of Bill, but there, 'e's took now?gone. 'E
tures and so to time 'a^- ^is good points, 'ad Bill."
ion, by which we come T am indeed glad to hear it" said
the planet's day. This Mrs. Pipkins.
differ little from our "Poor ^eDt on tbe bereaved
n, being 24 hours 40 ^oman, "'e-well, 'e weren't exactly
tead of 24 hours, ^ext andsome, but 'e were soft 'earted
4.^ I enough to smoke like a chimbly when
lilt U1 Lilt? clA13 LL1C plane,
a relation which ever 'e tke 'ouse-"
>ns of the year. Now, <4In^eed!" broke in the visitor. "But
as well as the Martian ^ see connection between
turns out to be singu- smoking and"?
wn, being, in fact, 24 That s becos you never seed my
ist 23V& degrees for the poor Bill," put in the widow. "Bill
r of Mars, however, is weren t pretty, and 'e knowed it but
n~th which ioined to there?sooner than scare hinnercent
y&of'orbit gives it di- little chiIdren lnto a fit Bill alwaj-s 'id
seasons. Thus in the that terrible mug o' 'is in a cloud o'
)here spring lasts 199 smoke- Yes' 'e ^as soft 'earted and
183, autumn 147 and thou-htful for others- was Bil1-"e
in its southern hemi- London Answers.
is stand reversed. " "
have more than aca- Corporal Punishment.
:e, for absolute length ! Corporal punishment formerly had a
ctor in a season's in- wider significance than mere whipict
of the season itself. PinS- Henry de Bracton, chief justicirought
to pass in twice ary of England in the reign of Henry
nn' ilnx-alnn in 1 III., divided corporal punishment into