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LOT OF ^1 J /* _ 11 ..... AM AM M A 1 1 rt 4" suit a Die ior an purposes, aim an ai right prices. Come quick and make your choice. MATTHEWS 8 BOUKNIGHT, LEESVILLE, S. C. . / *.' \ gg==5= 1 ?=== Odd that so many women are willing When you feel a cranky spell coming ts lower themselves to an eqnallty on go out and tarn a grindstone. , with mere man. The best capital for a man to begin There seems to be no complaint in !ife on ,, a capital wi{6j So ,ay9 a this section because of the high price womailt x of cotton. Common sense seems to be very on- Many a woman has found her widowcommon in this day and time. hood so bad that she refused to keep it. * < aaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? I i toolsI Knowing the great importance of these tools, we make it a | ? i point to carry the best of every tool known to the blacksmith- ? | ing art. Whether fpr the shop or the farm, we are prepared > i to serve you. You will find our p*ices hammered down fo the J lowest reasonable figure on everything you need. * > Anvils $5.00 and up. Blacksmith's Vises $5.50 to 57.50. ? Lorick & Lowrance, ! INCORPORATED. j | COLUMBIA, - - S. C. | <i Ui tys si is ;|| 1730 mm STREET, OOLU^BiS, $? S. I ;>! Is where you eau find one of the best stocks of j| | "" OF ALL KINDS ^ ^ ij DOORS, SASH, F BLINDS <fc GLASS j | LIME AND CEMENT, ij CABINET MANTLES, f jj Call or write for Prices. jj! Imy 1912.... jjgf i ' FALL and WINTER m I rf*? \ ....SHOES J j J'J \ We have a full and com- Sr; I i/r&z plets stock of (all leather) ^ * 1/f' i! >* 1 stylish shoes for our LexingI ? .::/y I ton friends to inspect. We ?% it ./ y Ji know we are selling the best ^ ' if sj?'' solid leather shoes for less hgg I money tlian any one in the jw^ shoe business, come in and I yZxsee *or y?urself. thai g . /[ prove it. A pleasure to wait jpSjj I yl on yon and give you ou-r g prices. We can lit the fanvly, I men, women and children. itf Farmers' Medium and Work Shoes a Specialty gp 1 E. P. & F. A. DAVIS | H 1710 NA5M STREET. COLUfVlBIA, S. C. ^ '.. ;.-.e ^ . .. ' . : -fi the fertilize that will furnish a balanced ration to of the soil. To do this the fertilizer POT; as Phosphoric Acid. Our note bo< in farmers' meetings and plenty of s that you hear. Let us send one to A supply of these is furnished by requesi We will be glad to send a supply delivered or Farmers' Club Officer on request. It co: German Kali Works, Inc., 4 Monadnock Block, Chicago Whitaey Bank Bid;.,! HONEST ABE, y.S,M| I He Feund Where Advice Was ' Needed and Gave It. > FARMER SCCTT GOT MARRIED. i fU Sixty He Took a Wife of Twentytwo?He Tried Love and Kindness, < ?R?n Thnmnsan and ( OUl iv 11V /-??a>I I His Wife Parted Over Jonah. By M. QUAD. [Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary Press.] poetry today, Abe," said the 1^1 postmaster as I started out 1 ^ the other morning to make my trip. "No?" "Cut it out. They are getting jealous of you down in Washington." "Can I help being a poet?" "No, but what you write for the next two weeks send to the heathen of Africa." I took the .tip and drove off. When I got down to Farmer Scott's he was HADE FOI: THE BAEX. ( nt the gate and looking1 so (lownheart- ( ed that i asked him if any of the fain- . I ily was iii. I 1 "It's wuss than tliat, Abe, a heap j ^ wuss," he solemnly replied. "You ; * know I was married about six months ! 1 ago." i I "Yes." "Sixtv rears old and went and rnnr * ? rioil a gal ot" twenty-two! Folks said j I was an old fool, but I went right ! (< ahead. They told me that the gal had { ? a bad temper, but 1 didn't mind it. I I thought I could baby her up if she got j " mad." j ' "And has anything happened, Uncle ! ^ Abe?" I 1 "Heaps of things, Abe, and I want I ? your advice. I've tried love and kind- ! 5 ness and all that, but it won't do no ! good. Only an hour ago my wife flung ( a stick of wood at iny head. She's a ( regular wildcat, Abe. She flies mad * about the least thing, and it's no use for me to say a word. If I started to jaw back she'd set the house afire. Lord, but what a fool I was!" * "And what do you want my advice i about?" I asked. ^ "She's got one of her tantrums on 1 now, and I believe I ought to go in and I box her ears, same as if she was a ? * 3 Y* h - ? >/! iUnf r?AmA ' SUiKy CU11Q. I've Iieuiu UJtii, auiuc i wives jest ached to be bossed and was j i all the better for being cuffed around. < What do you think about it?" 1 "You might try it for a change." ? "I believe I'll do it I believe the 1 best way is to mingle love and cuffs together. Yes, I'll go in and tell her she's got to walk chalk or take cuffin,' and you might hang around a few minutes and see how it turns out." 1 Widow Incites Jealousy. I waited, but not for long. Uncle 1 Zeb hadn't been in the house five min- 1 utes before I heard screeching, and next minute he banged the door open and jumped out and made for the barn. Ilis wife, having the broom in her hand, was close after him, and from the sounds of thumps and whacks I think she overhauled him in the barn i and let him know that she was stil! i 1 boss of the roost. Two miles farther J on, at White's Corners. I found Jim [ Blackburn. White's hired man. ami j old mail Wilkins jawing away at a j lively rate. Both of 'em wanted to j tell me all about it as soon as 1 came up. it was a case of jealousy. Hoth j of 'em were paying attention to the j 1 Widow Skinner, and she hadn't decided ; whi? h she would marry. "Jest think." J rs' meeting should be [ :t formula the crop and keep up the fertility should contain at least as much A CS O 3k has condensed facts essential pace to record the new things "ah mur Tnstitntf* t to ever}- institute held in several states, free of charge to every Institute, Grange ntains no advertising matter. [*2 Broadway, New York New Orleans Bank k Tnut Blfc., Savannah reus Jim as he kicks' the' frozen mud ibout?"jest thihk of an old codger vbo's had three wives and has one foot n the grave wantin' to marry ag'in." "And think of the impudence of the Ikes of him darin' to look at the Wldler Skinner.1" howls the old man as le dances around. "Why, he's got 'leyen children!" "And he couldn't buy shoes for a wife!* "Go home and take catnip tea!" "And you go to grass!" By and by, when they had calmed iown a little, I suggested that the wid>w was the one to decide between hem and they had 1 etter walk along :o her house m company and have it wer with. "I'll go, of course," says Jim, "but she'd never marry no old crowbait ike him!" "And she'll set the dog on you!" re Jiorl thp nlri man Wilkins as he nulled )ff his coat for about the twentieth rime. They didn't have to take a walk. As 'hey were still jawing each other the cvidow come driving along in her one lorse wagon, and it was agreed that [ should state the case for both. "Widow Skinner," says I as I met ler a few rods away, "here's two men is is ready to die for love of you." "How beautiful!" laughs the witlcw. "Each loves you with all his soul, ind if you marry one the other will ook for a mud pudd\i deep enough to Irown himself." "It's really romantic!" she laughs igain. , "But what are you going to do about ,t? Tears te me you ought to settle t one way or the other." "So I will," she says, and she beck)ns 'em both forward and smilingly told 'em she'd been married to Joe SVheeler two weeks ago and was just etting out the news. Then she bid js goodby and drove away to look >ver her shoulder and laugh, and after i long time old man Wilkins leans igainst the fence and says: "Waal, by thunder!" Then Jim Blackburn gets a brace 'or his wabbling knees and whispers: "Who'd a-thnnk it?" ease of the Thompsons. And I heard later that they stood there looking at each other without ?peaking a word for a full hour. I Irove on, thinking of various things connected and disconnected with the costal laws, and had just turned into the Two Mile read when I overtook Ben Thompson's wife and offered her i i lift. I saw that she had been ween- j ng, but I asked no questions, and she j presently said: "Abe, I've left my old man!" "Shoo?" says I. "Yes. I've left him at last, and I'm joing to stop with my sister Polly for i few days." "What's the matter this time?" "Same thing. Abe: same thing that's :een the matter for twenty long years, ['ve stood it and stood it, but my palience is gone at last. I don't believe my other woman on earth would have stood it half as long as I have." "But what burden have you been callid upon to bear?" I asked, not having jver heard of any trouble between hem. Jonah Caused Their Troubles. "Jonah and the whale, Abe?Jonah md the whale," she solemnly replies. 'The day we was married Ben asked ne if I believed the whale swallowed T Mm T rluln'f TTp Said I UUttll. X IU1U AJAIXt 4 UiMM v. ~ le did and that 1 ought to belipve with lim. He's kept it up ever since. He's *ot up in the morning and asked me, md when he comes in at noon and light he asks me, and there has bin lays at a time when he wouldn't speak :o me. I'm a determined woman, Abe, ind I never would give in that the tvhale swallowed Jonah." "But why not?" "I dunno, but I jest wouldn't." "But I'd do it if I were you." "Do you believe that Jonah was swallowed ?" "Can't say, but I wouldn't dispute lbout it and break up my home. I'd go right back and cave in." "It would never do, Abe," she says, with a decided shake of her head. "But why? If you'd give in he'd say no more about it." "That's the trouble, Abe. There's where the whole thing lies. If I gave up about Jonah. Ben would laugh and cackle for about half an hour, and then he'd come to me with the children of Israel crossing the Bed sea and with Daniel in the lions' dep., and I'd never have another minute's peace. I might as well go now on Jonah's account as to wait ami go on Daniel's. This is (ho house, ami there is my sister, and I know she'll say I've done right. (Ji oil bv. Abo!" o "Ami shn!i 1 say anything to i I meet him V" I asks. "No?yes; you might say that I'; vi-iliinyr to admit that Jonah was throw overboard and that the whale made grab for him. but as for anything mo) I'll stick out if 1 die for it. and he ca got somebody else to make his so; scap this year!" Not Agreeable Husbands. 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" j J?" j THE JEWELER 1508 Main St., Columbia, S. C. REPAIRS J WATCHES , ^ AM' U-! ?L? r* f tl.?. mmss s 85stii uocu ss new d i MEDALS ^ ASD ? BADGES le 8t , l'i Manufactured in Our Own 11 Ships for Schools and in Other Purposes >n AVERY, The Jeweler >n 1508 Main St., Columbia, S. C. AM MASTER OF THE > OPTICAL BUSINESS My motto is painstaking consci^ entious Optical service. I have ^ one of the most completely ? equipped optical offices, in Goi lumbia. Let me do your opti? cal work and show you how I p wm can serve you. Spectacles and Eye-glasses repaired and lenses ? matched in 30 minutes. J Three gradu ite opticians of many years experience to serve you and we can promise you the highest degree of accuracy, reliability and satisfaction in all cases entrusted to me. Come and see U9, we make no charge for our examination. 8, H. Bsrkman ESTABLISHED 1879. 1418 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA. S. C. ' BEAR IN MIND - G. D. Kenny Go. !) Is Headquarters for Sugar, Coffee, Teas, Rice, Etc. 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