Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Honesty I in Jewelry I ..... . | "If it came from Sentz's, you ^ know it's all right," is what one [ of our customers remarked to I another the other day. I , Wlien you "bay Jewelry, you gj generally have to take the "Jew- i Ieler's word for it" whether it is | good or not. m That's just where our reputa- I tion for hone-sty and fair dealing H 4 counts. fl And furthermore, we will [al- | ways give you. your money back fj and ask no questions any timo you are dissatisfied with a pur- D chase. 0 Special attention to mail orders, I CHARLES P. SENTZ, * JEWELER^ 1439 Main, Columbia, 8,C I CHICHESTER S PILLS - DIAMOND BRAND ' ^ Indies i "V-^r Ask yw Dnmbt for CHI-CHES-TER'9 A DIAMOND BRAND PILLS in Red and/A Coco metallic boxes, sealed with BluKw J Ribbon. Take NO OTHER. Bny ?F yo*r V/ DiawM sad uk for CHI-CHES-TfiB 8 V DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for twectr-fiTO yean regarded as Best. Safest, Always Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS TIME rVrPYWUITRP WORTH TRIED kVl.nl TvnCnb TESTED *. iKNirrrs, do1 X ? II II II -rx.J.'l ??> ' Wt-wwe ? ?-? * ij '".fl 1 5 W 2 Ofaflkk H | *J5*srt | 1 /m?'^' i ??*'SHG*e ! ^CYiW$wik&| >X ^KITER" j Our Oiwtery JJepar | fresh, reliable goods?w( | guarantee satisfaction. We pay highest prices foi hulls at lowest prices. Come | Agents for Studebaker Wagoni I Convenient wagon yard, QUALITY Too have probably bought many thi food, that cost a good price, but und< teat of service soon proved themselves w It might have been shoes that boo; the sides, caps broke down, heels gave gov* ?*? %nd sole* wer? plated, jOrti To guard ... :. . l^gysaBHR W9ar-&ad 66 i v.;^W$!f3 i ... -. v M wear your mr " : ^*, -s . * and choice sb - ; -?*? ing selections Sole agen ; 1' to $5.00. y' m a ? . Opposite Post Office, THE PEICES TELL J. B. FRII Wholesale Grocers, Fit Fet We Want the Merchants, PI Ington County to Call and & Purchases. We Can Fill J Monsy. 1823-1825 Main S1 Owners of Horses and Stock ( Attention! When your horse has colic, give it a teaspoonful on the tongue of DR. | BOYD'S SURE POP COLIC CURE, and tnen wait a few minutes and see I how quickly the animal is relieved. Price 50 cents. Dr. Boyd's Sure Pop Fever and | Cough Remedy will relieve your horse of shipping cold, pneumonia and distemper. Price 50 cents. Dr. Boyd's Eye Remedy will cure inflamation of the eyes. Price 50 cents. Dr. Boyd's Magnetic Ointment, nothing equals it for sere shoulders, cuts and scratches. Price 25 cents. Dr. Boyd's Horse Powders. This remedy is a thorough blood purifier, invigorator, digester, and a thorough worm cradicator. Price 25 cents. Dr. Boyd's Poultry Food. Aids digestion, gives strength while moulting, stimulates the hen to lay in winter when hen eggs bring the mcst. Price | 25 cents. | Dr. Boyd's Family Liniment is a great counter-irritant for all pains, and a preparation of great power when applied externally. Price 25 cents. For Sale by HARMAN'S BAZAAR, Lexington, S. O. HARDWARE Screen Doors and Windows, Icc Cream Churns, Refrigerators, all sizes, Lawn Mowers. Rubber Hose, Mantles, Tiles, Grates, Cook Stoves and Ranges, Cutlery and Tableware. Itf Q OTnilUDT n. 0. OICVTMI) 1526 Main St Columbia, S. C. WHO 5 CO. 1 ! SWANSEA, S. C. I We carry everything in Greneral Merchandise. ? , You will find our store headquarters for Shoes, clothing and f Gents' Furnishings, Dry 3 Goods and Notions, Hats, Etc. tment is always full of 8 } only handle the best and J 9 cotton seed and sell meal and to us before you sell. 5 and Buggies?Best on the market, * 9 with ample room for stock. o ? ' SHOES! ngs that looked ?r the rugged orthlees. ..jf* ' vPe ^ a run over at '^X^ Y way, sewing against tb se things, especially in fcotcoufideat of getting the best quality foot mey can buy, take advantage of the large constantly available for making pleasi at our store. X for W. L. Douglas Shoes for ir ?n, $1.50 BOYNE, Columbia, SC TEE QUALITY SELLS AT & CO., ) and Retail IU1> id and Grain. anters and Farmers of Lexze Us Before They Make 1 heir tour Wants and Save You treet, Columbia, S. C 1 BOWSER'SJLUSTEB, Bangs the Gate and Enters Home In an Accusing Attitude. FIRES WHEN HE GETS READY. Completely Routed In Every Complaint Against Mrs. Bowser's Extravagance, He Retires, but Fails to i Find Any Consolation. ( By M. QUAD. {Copyright. 1</10. by Associated Literary Press. J THE wife who catches her husband's footsteps at the gate 'and cannot tell from them his state of mind has not studied him as she ought- When the listening Mrs. Bowser heard Mr. Bowser coming down the walk the other evening she beard him striking solidly on his heels. There was note of grltn determination In his stride. There was a menace in the way he came on. The gate was kicked open with a l>?ng. Halfway between the gate and the steps he paused. Then fate ascended the steps and gave the doorknob a twist and a rattle and tbe door a bang, and Mr. Bowser was in the hall. He held in his hand the broken handle of a snow shovel, and his attitude was that of au accuser. He accused in his posture, with his eyes, with his outstretched arm. "So you are home?" she said as she reached to help him off with his overcoat. He waved her off with the haudle and removed his own coat. There was deJiberation. danger, in the removal. "Dinner is all ready." Mr. Bowser leaued the handle against the wall mid followed her down to the basemeut. but did not seat himself at the t able. 1 ustead of that, he continued down to the cellar and took a look into the coal bin. When he came up and sat down Mm. Bowser asked: "Did you think a water pipe had burst down thereT "Madam. I ghall have something to say to you after dinner." It was the voice of the judge telling the murderer to stand up and take his dose. Mrs. Bowser repeated the child's prayer of "Now 1 lay me" aud then i tups^5^? _g_ BOWSBa'S ACCUSING ATTITUDE. began her dinner. It would be time to die when the knife was at her throat. She told about a horse falling down on the street, about nu old woman being arrested, about a boy getting hit in the eye with a snowball, but Mr. Bowser was a sphinx, he was a torpedo. he was a can of dynamite, he was a volcano waiting its time to break out and devastate the country for miles around?never a word, never a change of attitude. After three-quarters of an hour on the gallows platform Mrs. Bowser arose, and he followed her up to the sitting room. There she drew a long breath and turned to say: "Well, if 1 am to be killed let the blow fali." But he was in uo hurry. He was the cat and she the mouse. He lighted 11 Mirur nnrl smoked and nared It was all of ten minutes before he went Into the halt and returned with that anow shovel handle, and. holding it up to her gaze, he hoarsely demanded: "Woman, do you see this?" "1 do." "It is the handle of a snow shovel that cost me $- only last week. You or the cook was using it on the front steps and gave it a whack that wrought this ruin. It was done to spite me." "In the first place. Mr. Bowser, there is no snow shovel costing the sum you name. One would have t<> be hand painted and nickel trimmed to cost even a dollar. In the next place, the shove! belonged to little Charley Cray. De was digging snow in our yard and broke it. You come home and find the fragments and 1 am to be slaughtered for it. Proceed with the next accusation." Mr. Bowser discovered that he had lost his wind, but lie rallied and said: "Two weeks ago I ordered two tons of furnace coal I come home tonight, thmich it is not a freezing niirht outdoors, I find the temperature of the house at least 92 decrees. I go *down to the collar and find two-thirds of the coal gone. The idea is to run me into the pocrhouse." "The temperature of the house is exactly as It was when you banged your way into it. There hangs the thermometer. It marks just CO. You say you ordered two tons of coal. On the jfr A tated. The reason is plain? I it's the. best. Insist upon I I having Scott's?it's the | 1 world's standard flesh and fe I strength builder. I | ALL DRUGGISTS I desk there is the bill. It is for one ton and receipted. I hare made a half ton last two weeks, and the other half will last as long. We will now proceed to the third accusation." Mr. Bowser was floored again, but he had not played out all his rope yet. Renews the Row. "IIrs. Bowser," he said as he whirled on her and pointed an accusing finger, "the gas bill?where is the gas bill? You have hidden It away, thinking I would not call for it I want to see your extravagance for the last month." "So you shall. It Is here in the desk. Please notice that, although last month was longer than the monfh previous, the bill calls for a dollar less. You see. I have not sold or wasted any of the gas." Mr. Bowser took the hill and stared at it for fully five minutes. It was a I witness against him. He turned purple as he realized it. and. laying it down, he thundered: "Woman. 1 discovered a broken milk bottle at the basemeut door the other moniiug! That means 20 cents out of ray pocket. How many thousand milk bottles have you broken In the last year?*' "The cook may have broken three or four bottles, but they have not cost you anything. The dairy stands the loss." Another whack on the head for Mr. Bowser. But he had something in reserve. Mr. Bowser never brings all his troops into action at once. "But what about the refrigerator?" he hissed. "Last uight I noticed that it had been knocked all to pieces. It Is your duty to notice such things. Have you done so? That refrigerator cost me $40 a year ago. It is now hardly worth 40 cents. Did you take the ax and deliberately hit and hit and hit until you made a wreck of it?" "That refrigerator." replied Mrs. Bowser, "was bought seven years ago. and the cost was $10. It is not a wreck. So one has hit and hit and hit It with an ax. In moving it out the other day to be cleaned a caster gave way. I sent the cook to the hardware store this morning for another, and it is in place. (Jo down and look at it" Mr. Bowser was now breathing like a horse after running up a long hill. Some husbands would have kicked the cat and sat down and shut up. but he refused to. He walked and walked and then said: "By thunder, but I don't wonder that some husbands are driven to drink!" "I am driving you. am I?" "There are two buttons off my vest. I discovered it on the street car this morning. I saw a man grinning at 1 me. and when I asked him the reason he whispered to mo to pull down my vest. Think of his during to say that to me?Bowser! I tel! you. Mrs. Bowser"? Routed In the Fir.ale. "Lot me see your vest." she interrupted as she approached him. "Yes. 1 thought so. It's your old working vest. There are missing burtons and paint spots. If you will get up In the morning and hunt up old clothes to put on don't blame me." "And this collar! The blamed thing has choked me all day!" "That's because your shirt is hunched up in a big wad between your shoulders. Haven't you learned to dress yourself yet?" "And my socks?great Scott, my socks!" "Holes In them?" "Why. they are all holes!" "And you have six pairs of new ones upstairs! You must have bad to look In the rag bag to find these." "Woman"? "Yes. dear." "I?I won't stand it?no. 1 won't! So. sir. I won't stand it another minute!" Aud Mr. Bowser rushed to the ha'.l tree, got into his hat and overcoat and was gone. In the darkness of the winter's night he slipped and slid and sat down and got up to walk and walk, but consolation came not to him. He had raised a row and come out second best. Commander Julius A. Pratt Post Ho. 143 Dept. 111., G. A. E. Mr. Isaac Cook, Commander of above : Post, Kewanee, III., writes: "For a long time.I was bothered with backache and paim? across my kidneys. About two mcntha ago I started taking Foley Kidney Pills aud soou saw they i were dcing just as claimed. I kept on taking them and now I am free from , backache, and the painful bladder miqi-ry is all gone. I like Foley Kidney Pills so well that I have told many of | my friends and comrades about them and shall recommend them at every opportunity." All Druggists of Lexington?Henry Drug Store Chapin S. C. / Speaking of i ffinitiec?how dearly j a stray dog loyes to wallow on our freshly planted grnden. I Foley Kidney Pills are antiseptic, tcuij aiid resforati*\? and a prompt cor votive (f all uriuoy irregularities. Refuse sulstitnt<s. All Druggists of lieKington?Henry Drug Store Ckupin S. C. FOOT1 Shoes for Comfort Shoes for Style Shoes for "Wear Low Quarters, Slippers, Sandels. / a Lever, Great Bargain: Notions ai I have a large stock of Dr that I am offeiiog at great bai U.thai tu ^LF CiOCtTUVK.) Willi/ vv/ U?UMI ery purchase. My stock of G prices will please. I manufac and pay highest prices for crur H. STEELE /lb Open . po A Saving; ^ACiOUNT WW* Parlor Ri BESJ DAVID 1320 vm ST. Op?. Palmetto I Best cooking ana finest Bcstai Special Rates by the We< Me The Palmetto COLUM WE ABE A Depository for the 1 of South Carolina the of Columbia. WE OWN $400,000 United Statej Carolina Bonds. WE SOLICIT Aoconnts of Banks, P WE PAT Four Per Cent, on dej; terest calculated quan WE PROMISE Our best efforts to tra satisfaction. PALMETTO NATIONAI CAPITAL Wilis Joxe3. President. ^ ^ ^ t S0UTHEKN_ Unexcelled DinSnj ;!v Through Pullman Sleep! ^ Convenient Schedule For full information >aw consult nearest Southern . W J. C. LUSK, D ^ J. L. MEEK, A. G. P. A, II? !! ? ra??? rn ? We have them from the :heapest to the highest Vll sizes for men, women md children. Let Your Next Pair Be A WALK-OVER E3.50 and $4.00 THE SHOE MAN, IN COLUMBIA. s In Dry Goods, nd Shoes y Goods. Notions and Shoes gains. It is needless f or you q, I can save you money on evroceries is complete, and my ture, buy and sell turpentine, ie. . Ethan. S. C. ??????????? " 11 4 [ My Lexington Friends a I am readv to serve you * tihw one of the most complete stocks of shoes to be found in the city and at money saving prices. My aim is always to give you the best for the least money. Farmers' heavy work shoes a specialty. ' Harman's Slice Store 1725 Main Street v POSTOFFICE BLOCK ) COLUMBIA, S. C. sstaurant, , Proprietors iaiional Bank CQLUMEiA, S. C. irant in Columbia. For Ladies and Gentlemen ek. jals at all Hours?Night or Day National Bank, BIA, S. C. 4 jD'fced States Government, the State County of Richland and the City i Bonds^and f100,000 State of Sooth inns, Corporations and Individual*, osits in our Savings Department, in- 4 terly. osact your business to your entire D A 1TT7 - . f!/\lnrr?T>io S f! I DillV WiUiuw*K| ? -v. i ?250,000.00 J. P. Matthews. Cashier RAILWAY. % Car Service, ... ng Cars on all Trains, $ on Local Trains. oa fn MtAc rr.nt/sa At.fi tu ivuvwwf WW \fr Railway Ticket Agent, or ^y . P. A., Charleston, S. C k "* , Atlanta, Ga. Afar vW V^'