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0 v 4 FIRE, LIFE, BURGLARY, TORNADO $ ? INSURANCE!! ? ALSO SURETY BONDS $ 4 4 4 t H. C. Wannamaker i ; % I represent companies that's know to be good. ^ Give me some of your business. Written toy 9 0 t Y This house painted with Loitfe Brothers High Standard9' Paint Is Beautiful, Durable, Inexpensive C We can tell you how to make your home attractive without a big pocket book. d Ask for Color Cards, Booklets, Facts and Prices. Then see how much less the work will cost with "High Standard." THE MONITOR SELF-HEATING SAD IRON. The Monitor is a perfect Self-Heat ing Sad Iron. . Generate its own heat In the body of the iron. Always hot and you can regulate it to any tem ?peratnre desired. No fixing up the range ?you heat the house. No walking fron? the ironing table to the ?hot range to change irons and back again, therefore saving labor, work that is most disa^ereabie ojj a hot summer day. \ iu can do an iron >ing for the cost of about one cent for j fuel, saving many dollars in a year; can take your ironing tm any room in the house or out on the porch ii you choose?that which every woman lias sighed for many times. .Can iron all day without the least uncomfor tableness from the heat of the iron Can put it in your suit case or trunk and take it along when traveling tt press the muss and wrinkles out ot clothing, ribbons, etc. Oradgeburg Hardware & Furniture Co. Ner vous Women F^r n?rvous, tired women, we recommend ?ar> dui. Cardui is a woman '? medicine. It acts specifi caUy on the female organs and has a tonic, building effect on the whole system. It contains no harmful ingredients, being a pure vegetable extract. If you suffer from some form of female trouble, get .Cardui at once and give it a fair trial. Sirs. W. "W. Gardner, of Padticah, Ky., tried Cardui and writes: *I think Cardui is just gTand. I have been usir.gr it for eleven years. I am 48 years old and feel like a different woman, since i have been taking it. I used to suffer from bearing down ains, nervousness and sleeplessness, but now the pains are all gone and I sleep good. I highly recommend Cardui for young and old." Try it, AT ALL DRUG- STORES ? Copyrighted, 1903. by Associated 4? ?!? Literary Press. ?> ?*? ? fr.H"i * jt,^^*,^' I I ' H??i??H??M? lie was big and burly, a figure In bis fantastic dress to make all the little boys gigjrle and the little girls stare, half frightened. That was when he was in the ring. Cut when he was clothed in the ordi nary j;arb of a citizen he was simply a fresh faced boy who could stroll along the village streets without attracting unusual attention. lie liked the little villages where the circus stayed for a day or two and then moved on languidly down dusty roads to the ue?e? stopping [dace. "Some time." he said to the little clown, "I'd just like to stay behind in one of these little towns and turn farmer and stop being funny for awhile." The little clown was a woman. When she was dressed for the ring she wore infantile clothes, with a blue sash, and carried n big stick of red striped candy, and all the little girls ?and boys would almost go into convul sions of laughter when she shook her rattle at them. "I know," said the little clown, "how you feel. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have a little house and make bread and put the week's wash out on the green grass and have a cat and a fireplace"? Her voice trailed off dreamily. The big clown looked down at her. "I've-been funny all my life." be said. "When I wasn't anything but a baby my father used to take me in the ring with him. He was a clown, too, and I've just grown up to it." The little clown nodded sympathetic ally. "Most of us grew up to it." she said, "and then somehow we can't get away." The big clown st;>od up. It was time for him to go into tbe ring. He twirled his pointed hat in bis band and then put it ou. "I am going to get away from it." he said. "1 want a home and neighbors. I'd like to be a sheriff in some town or mayor or on the school board"? He smiled till tbe thick white paint on his face was folded into deep creases. Then he was off to the ring, and the little clown turned her attention to the contortionist, who was in shining iri descent green like a snake. "1 wish you wouldn't pay so much attention to the big clown," the contor tionist told her. "I can't ever get a raiuute with you." Tbe little clown looked at him with eyes that went beyoud him through the door of the tent to where the ap ple trees were flinging up pink branch es to a sapphire sky. "Did you ever see anything so pret ty?" she asked, and pointed to it. \ Buc the contortionist had no eyes for apple trees. "1 have never seen anything so pretty as you are." he said, "and If you will stop this clown business and marry me I will put you In an act that will give you a chance to show people how good looking you are. You could wear white aud your hair In yellow ringlets down your back and a gold crown. And I'd put on red with horns, and we'd give an angel and devil act." The little clown leaned forward eagerly. "I have always wanted to do something like that." she said. "I've wanted to have an act that would make people do something be sides giggle, and I ought to get pret ty good pay." "Well, I should say," the contortion ist bragged. "I get bigger pay now than auy one in the show, and you'd just about double it after I had taught you what to do. It would be swell business." "Yes," said the little clown, "it would." And when the contortionist had gone the little clowu sought the bearded lady. "Which would you rather do," she demauded, "have a little bouse iu a country town, with a fireplace and a cat and a husband that people looked up to, or would you mther be a head liner in the circus busiuess?" Now, the bearded lady, in spite of her masculine appearance, was a wise woman aud a sympathetic one. "I'd rather be tire wife of the man I loved," she told the little clown, "whether he was iu a country village or the circus. It isn't tbe place that makes us happy; it's the man." The little clown nodded her head. "But I'm not sure," she began, and then the bearded lady said, "Well, be sure before you decide." "How am I going to know?" ques tioned the little clown. "You'll know when the time comes." said the bearded lady sensibly. Awi after the little clown had pone away the bearded lady sat and thought and thought, and when the performance was over she sent for the big clown. "So you love the little clowu?" she said. "How did you know?" he demanded. ''Everybody kuows." the bearded lady told him. "You can't bide it." "Well. I do love her," the* big clown confessed, "and I want to ttike her away from all this and live In a little house in a Mule town and have chick ens and a eow'*? "The little clown wants a fireplace and a cat." smiled the bearded lady, "but It all amounts to the same thing." "Did she tell you?" the big clown aslujd eagerly. "Yes." said the bearded lady, "but she is not sure thai she loves you, and it's up to you lo make her sure." "But how?" demanded the big clown. ''Leave the show." was the ad Mr. Ericson's Old House. Go see it, it's a beauty. It stands out among all its neighbors, because the coloring is so bright and clear. Mr. Ericson painted with L. & M. Paint and says it cost 1-3 less than ever before. He bought only 12 gallons of L. & M. Paint and 9 gal lons of Linseed Oil to mix with it. This made 21 gallons of pure paint, and cost only $1.20 per gallcn. It's as handsome as the fipest in town, "he L. & M. is sold by J. G. Wan namaker Mfg. Co., Orangeburg, S. C. vice, "at the next village and see how she takes it." So the next night when the lights were out In the big teut and tbe tired performers were packing their belong ings into trunks and bags the big clown came to the little clown and said, "Goodby." I "But?but," the little clowu stam I mered, "1 don't want you to go!" j "I am p-oing to settle down." the big ! clown told ber. "and have a little house with a fireplace and u cat." The little clown caught her breath quickly. "And who's going to keep j house for you?" she asked wistfully. "I ffball live alone"?the big clown's voice had a note of pathos. "There is only one woman that I should care to j have sit in front of that fireplace, and. j she values fame and fortune more than j she values love." "What makes you think that?" cried j the little clown, and just then the con tortionist came in. He wore a long j fawn ulster and a high hat. "My automobile is outside." he said ! to the little clown, "and I have asked i the bearded lady to ride with us to the ! next village. It is much more pleas j ant than to go in the vans." "Thank you very much," said the little clown, and held out her hand , to the big clowu. "I hope you'll be very happy?all alone in your big house." she said to the big clown, '.'with your chickens and your cow?and your fireplace and your cat"? Her voice broke, and she ran out of the tent. The big clown took a step forward, but the bearded lady stopped him. "Let her alone," she said quietly, "Let her alone." And presently the big machine whizzed away, and the big clown was left alone beneath the stars of the spring night. He sat down on his trunk in the middle of the deserted ring and planned how on the morrow he would get his money out of the bank and build a house and begin a new life as a substantial citizen. But all the joy had gone strangely out of his plans when he could not see the face of the little clown at his ta ble or her slender figure in the big chair in front of the fireplace. And even while he yearned for her she came to him, running over the sawdust silently, so that he did not know she was there until her arms were about his neck. "I made him let me out," she sobbed. "Oh, I hate him! He is so sure of himself and of me. And the I bearded Jady got out, too, and she Is coining to play propriety, only she Is J so much slower than I am. And I want to live in a little bouse with you and have chickens and a cow"? "And a fireplace and a cat." The big clown had her In his arms, and there was deep joy in his voice. "And you shall be the mayor some day," planned the little clown. "And you shall make bread and hang your clothes on the grass," laughed the big clown. "And you'll both live happy ever after," prophesied the bearded lady, who just then came up, panting, and gave them her blessing like a very hairy godmother. The Head of the House. The baby was ill, and the doctor or dered that he be taken to the sea. This involved the closing of the bouse until the little one should be well enough to return. After the wife had secured hotel accommodations by the long distance telephone tbe man of the house went to his room and slowly and thoughtfully Spread the entire contents of his wardrobe upon his bed, that they might be convenient for his wife to pack. He stood surveying them, deep In meditation, when his wife came into the room and began to speak to him. He raised his hand rebukingly. "Don't talk to me now, Susie, don't talk to me! I have a great deal on my mind. If we are going to the sea shore day after tomorrow there are many things to be done, and I must plan." His wife, who had already tele phoned the butcher, milkman, baker, grocer, expressman and ticket office and given the maid a month's vaca tion and arranged with a relative for tbe care of the dog, gazed at him In ! silence. "A great deal on my mind," he rc . peated. Then the interrogative na j ture of his wife's silence forced him : to explain. "You see." he said, "1 have got to ' put a nail iu the cellar window and stop the newspaper." ? Youth's Com panion. A Painter Who Was a Musician. Those painters who also have the feeling and some of the proficiency of a musician reveal it in their work. They are usually colorists. with more eye for the colors and tones of nature than her shapes and forms. Such a one was Corot, fie had a good tenor voice and played on the violin. He sang at his work, and sang. too. when he was not painting, but wandering through the forest of Kontainebleau or around tbe village of VUle d'Avray, absorbing the beauty of the scene and storing up impressions for future pic j turcs. In fact, his whole long life of seveuty-nine years was to Le Pere ' Corot, as his friends loved to call him. j a song. And one feels it in his pic ! tares, at least in his later ones, by ! which lie is best known. Their color j ing is subdued, like a lullaby or tr?fe lug son;;, for it was the dawn or twi j light that he preferred to paint. It I vibrates with the hum of melody, and I here and there is an accent of effect j that, trembles like the siring of his j violin. Corot's long life v.as a remarkable Instance of a man being able to con tinue to the end the springtime of his youth ?Circle Magazine Rev. L W. Williamson's Letter. Rev. I. W. Williamson, Hunting ton, W. V., writes: This is to cer tify that I used Foley's Kidney Rem edy for nervous exhaustion and kid I ney trouhle and am free to say that i: will do all that you claim for it." Foley's Kidney Renu-dy has restored health and strength to thousands of weak, run down people. Contains ! no harmful drugs and is pleasant to take. Lowman Drug Co., A. C. Dukes. EXCURSION RATES To Asheville, X. C, and Return, Ac count Twentieth Annual Meeting National Travelers Protective As sociation of America. The Southern Railway announces very low round trip rates from all points to Asheville, X. C, and re turn for the above occasion. Tickets will be sold May 2Sth, 29th and 30th, and for trains arriving Asheville be fore 3:00 p. m. May 31st, limited good to return 3 0 days from date of sale. Round trip rates from principal points as follows: Blacksburg.$3.10 Blackville. 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That is the reason why you so often have pains in the back and groin, scalding sensation, urinary disorders, etc.?that's your kidneys. The best thinf, to do is to get some of DeWitl's Kidney and Bladder Pills right away. Take them for a few days or a week or so and you will feel all right. In this way, too, you will ward off dangerous and possibly serious ailments. They are perfectly harmless and are not only antisceptic, hut allay pain quickly by their healing properties. Send your name to, E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago, ror a free trial box. They are sold here by A. C. Dukes, M. D., and A. C. Doyle & Co. Hoarseness, broncVtis and other throat troubles are quickly cured by Foley's Honey and Tar a3 it soother, and heals the inflamed throat and bronichal tubes and the most obsti nate cough disappears. Insist upon having the genuine Foley's Honey and Tar. Lowman Drug Co., A. C. Dukes. If you want to feel well, look well and be well, take Foleys' Kidney Remedy. 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This is to certify that all druggists jit authorized to refund your money if Foley's Honey and Tar fails to cure your cough or cold. It stops the cough, heals the lungs and pre vents pneumonia and consumption. Contains no opiates. The genuine is in the yellow package. Lowman Drug Co., A. C. Dukes. Tt is a difficult matter to get a rep utation on the strength of what you are going to do some day. Many weak, nervous women have been restored to health by Foley's Kidney Remedy as it stimulates the kidneys so they will eliminate the waste matter from the blood. Im purities depress the nerves, causing nervous exhaustion and other ail ments. Commence today and you will soon be well. Pleasant to take. Lowman Drug Co., A. C. Dukes. THE BANK OF SPRINGFIELD. Officers. L. M. Mlms, President; Jno. McB Bean, V. P.; J. B. Smith, Cashier: Edith Phillips, Asst. Directors. L. M. Mlms. Jno. Bean, Joe. A. Berrv, L. B. Fulmer. W. P. Hut to. J. W. Jumper, H. A. Odom, T. L. Gleaton, O. C. Salley. All business Intrusted to us re -.elves careful, official attention. Leave your Surplus funds with tu ,f four per cent n'-erest. Undivided Profits. 12.000.Of Capital...fSO.OOO.OC Your Cotton Crop Can Be Increased It costs no more to cultivate an acre that produces two bales of cotton than an acre which produces only one-quarter of a bale. Why not see what you can do with Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers Other men have been able to double and more than double their yield per acre with a liberal application of Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers. Messrs. Lucas & Jackson of Kelsey County, Tenn., used Vir ginia-Carolina Fertilizer on about 55 acres planted with cotton, and say: "We have the finest crop of cotton we ever saw, and all the people around here think the same. We actually counted 447 bolls on one stalk. Another stalk had by actual count 409 bolls, forms, squares and blossoms. On about 8 acres we expect to make about 2 bales to the acre, and an estimate of adjoining farms not so fer tilized and under other cultural methods, will yield only 1 bale to five acres." An interesting picture of the cotton plants referred to will be found in the new 1909 Virginia-Carolina Farmers' Year Book, copy of which may be had from your fertilizer dealer, or will be sent free, if you write our nearest sales office. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Sales Offices Richmond, Va. Norfolk, Va. Columbia, S. C. Atlanta, Ga. Savannah, Ga. Memphis, Tenn. Sales Offices Durham, N. C. Charleston, S. C. Baltimore, Md. Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. Shreveport, La. An Opportunity to Secure a Useful Article. Beginning today I will give away to my customers Rayo Lamps with cash purchases amounting to $20.00. The Rayo Lamp is manufactured by the Standard Oil Company and is the best lamp for all round household purpos es; gives a clear, steady light. 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