Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Let us .show vou the laces: fashionable color combiuauojns. S A Bfackmoo, Orangeburg, S C 1 it Any one of these especially desirable novels heretofore published sit $1.50 may now be had at the Special Price of 50 Cents per Volume The maximum of pleasure for the minimum of price. The Man from Brodney's.George Barr McCutcheon The Firing Line.Robert W. Chambers The Daughter of Anderson Crow. ..George B. McCutcheon The Lure of the Mask.Harold MacGrath The Man in Lower Ten.Mary Roberts Rinehart Lavender and Old Lace.Myrtle Reed Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farrni.Kate Douglas Wiggin The Garden of Allah.Robert Hichens The Fly on the Wheel.Katherine Cecil Thurston The Lion and the Mouse.Klein & Hornblow Rosalind at Red Gate.Meredith Nicholson In the Bishop's Carriage.Miriam Michelson Lady Rose's Daughter.Mrs. Humphry Ward The Other Side of the Door.-Lucia] Chamberlain Diana of Dobson's... .Cecily Hamilton Old Chester Tales... .Margaret Deland The Virginian.Owen Wister Gret.Beatrice Mantle Jewel.".Clara Louise Burnham The Post Girl.Edward C. Booth TheRiverman. .Stewart Edward White Together.Robert Herrick Call, phone, or write for Complete List of Titles 5ims Book Stor (Ok TrJE' L'EADI&G I/IND OF [[ypi^^ CARDS, I ? wedding mxiTmiom, i '. See our new specimen book aid | get the latest styles. Prices frc $1.50 per hundred and up. SIMS BOOK STORE Sims Book Store for the best Stationery "1 The Irresistible ?,_an?.an?an?n??????3 Ho sat with one arm on tie win dow oil!, his ears strained to eaten the sound of the waves as they lash ?d the rocks. He had bullt bis cot? ie not far fnra the edge of the sea, <iifd always, at night, would he sft thus, the dull roar of the water al most benumblnr his senses with ae llght Sometimes he heard it witb placid content, but more often, pnd particularly on stormy nights, when the thunder of the ocean deadened every other sound, be was .filled with an 'nslstent craving to breast Its dan gers on board some staunch ship. For years the sea had been his only home, and Its call was within him. To-night Its demand was upon him greater than ever. Unremittingly It came, at times gentle, coax I ing, and then, as if angered by his unrespoasiveness, it became de risive and seemed passionately to taunt him with bis inconstancy. At last. In agony, he buried his face in his arms and sobbed like a child. His wife came then?a lovely worn ?n. gentle of face?and knelt beside him. "John," she said, "you had bet ter go." Her last word was a whisper. He started up. shame and amazement struggling for mastery over htm. "Laura!" he gasped. "You knew!" "Yes. John," she sz.;d softly: "1 have known for a year that you wish ed to go back to it. but it has never been clear to me what I should do I know now. You must go, dear." ? "And you and?PaUi?" he managed to say. Her eyes closed for a l~o ment Then she looked up and smil ed. He did not notice how tightlv she gripped the arm of his chair. "I ihall bo happy knowing where you ire. John. And I suppose I shall see rou, now and then. And Paul"?sbi tried hard to keep her voice from fal tering?"is too young to miss you? sery much." The man sank back into his chair "No. no," he half groaned. "It would De cowardly. If I loved It a thousand times more. I should not leave you and the boy." f "Avi do you no longer love ua, John?" The wistfulness of the Ques tion brought rears to his syes. strug gling as he was with a temptation which seemed already to have con quered him. "It is best to speak the truth. Laura. T do love you both, but 1 am mad wich a desire to go back to the old life. Forgive me. little wom an." he broke off. his voice pregmnt with contrition, as he noted the de spair in her eyes. "Indeed, I canuot help it" Laura ro-e unsteadily. She seemed to be very tired. "There Is no other wsy, John. It is settled, and you are not to worry about us." She moved toward the doorr and paused there, clutching' the knob for support "The Jasper Lane sails to-night, John. I beard Ned Lambert say her crew was short, and you know your standing of fer with the skipper. You will have time to sea him and get a place. 1! will attend to j'cur packing." He made no response, and she disap peared Into the next room. Not fully die he realize the turn affairs had J taken, but sat in a maze, listening to her footsteps as she moved to and fro, hurriedly packing his trunk. Of her own free will she had offered to 'et bim go. Could he. as a man. do so? The Jasper Lane did not touch that part of tbe world, more than once a year. For a year he would not see her, the woman in whose ey-2s he had once aeen heaven. Kow she loved hi-j! Never, he remembered, had her devotion to him lessened, even for a moment And now he would leave her?with the boy! The thought or the latter made him wince the more. But she had said tbat Paul was too young to miss him. And they v/ouid be well provided for. Besides, he could write to Laura once a day. and then perhaps? Again she stood by his aide. "Every thing is ready, John." she announced quietly "You have but very little time now. I have wakened Paul that you might say good-by to him. Come." She laid her hand on his arm. Trem bling, he arose and followed her. Paul was sitting up in his crib, dig ging hlH little lists in his eyes to keep awake. "You goin' away on boat, faz zer?" he asked, sleepily. "Paul wants to bo a man and go away on boat, too." "You see, dear," Laura whispered. "He does not understand." The man stopped and placed' the tiny arras around his neck. "Good-by, little 6on." he said, huskily. "Take care of muzzer, won't you?" The boy nodded cheerfully, his eyes brighten ing at tbe thought of the responsibil ity placed upon him. "Oh, yea, faz ter. I will." 1-aura smiled bravely at her son and laid her hand on his bright hair. In another moment her husband held ber In his arms. "Good-by, my own gir.'Je?and forgive me." "Good-by, John." He turned hastily from her, and picking up his trunk, a small affair, which he swung with easy prace upon his broad shoulder, he left the room. At the outside threshold he stood for a moment and looked hack. Laura was kneeling beside Paul's crib, the boy's arm>? tight about her neck, his red lips pressed (o her cheek. Slowly the man opened the door e.n<l his action caused the rumble of the ocean to be beard with greater force than ever. It affected him os whip does n thoroughbred. He glanced once more at the two he was leaving In the bright, warm room, and the scene Imprinted itself Indeli bly upon his memory Then he went out into the Btorm and darkness.-* AJCNA YORKK. "rxitaailed" Pistol Kills. At Sparianburg, after an "unload ed" revolver, in the hands of WnNace Chambers, colored, was discharged an-'. Will Stevens, also colored, was killed. Chambers threw the gun to the sround and smashed It to pieces with an axe. H" then fell ornr ihr? ?ip.-id body (if his companion and cri ed piteoiisly. ? It's a poor rule that won't work both ways, but there are a lot of rules that refuse to work at all. ?> ? ? LITTLE LAUGHS ? <> $ ? Modesty and Misconception. A middle-aged Welsh market woman visited a theater for the first time in her life and was much interested in the piece which was founded on Kingsley's "Westward Ho!' "Man ' sat in a front seat in the stalls. In one scene an actor, repre senting famous old Admiral John Hawkins came upon the stage and wrathfully testified against "croak ers" concluding his speech with the old-fashicned epithet: "Marry, come up!" "No, thank eu, surr," said Marl, ri3- I ing in her seat, courtesyir 5 respect fully. "I will do famous down by here!" The audience reared and Marl gaz ed abcut in wcn?cr. Quiet restored the actor continued his vigorous ti rade against /crcakers," again con cluding with: "Marry, sneak up, I say!" ? "I can see splendid by here, surr, teank eu, surr," pretested Marl "I am asianiod to go on the platform!" The Wicked Caddie. Among Mr. Carnegie's innumerable Scctch stcries is one about a caddie of St. Andrews. This caddie's wife?so Mr. Carne gie's story gees?was much troubled by her husoand's lopse way of life. He could never have a good day on the links but he must end it with a wet night at the tavern. So, to cure him,, the woman lay in wait on the road one evening, dressed in a white sheet When her husband appeared she rose from behind a hedge an awful white figure, with outspread arms. "Who the de'll are you?" asked the intemperate caddie. "I'm Auld Nickie," said the figure, in a hcllow voice. "Gie's a shake 0' yer hand, thsn," said the tipsy caddie. "I'm married tae a sisted 0' yours. She'll be waitin' fer us up at the hcose, an' nae dec't she mak' ye welcome." Cright Bits, "Here is a little present for you? a suberp ?5,000 necklace?" "Oh! How nice of you!" "That I will let you have for ?1,600. ?Ideas. "Cheer up old man," said a man to a friend who had been contumeliously dismissed by the father of his adored one. -"Love laughs at locksmiths." "Yes, I know," replied the dejected Sw-itir. "But her father isn't a lock zmiih.?he's a gunsmith." The large, masculine-looking woman entered the big store and accosted the shop-walker in a loud tone. "I want to get something out of the ordin-.ry," she bawled, "something that cone 0" the other women are wearing, something, however, that will suit me." "Certainly, madam," was the gentle answer. "Men's clothing, third floor, front!" Woman's Way. "I hate to be contradicted," she said. "Then I won't contradict you," be returned. "You don't love me," she asserted. "1 don't," he admitted. "You're a hateful thing!" she cried. "I am," he replied. "I believe you are trying to tease the," she said. "I am," he conceded. "And that you do not love me?" "I do." "Well," she said at last. "I do hate a man who's weak enough to be led by a woman. He ought to have a mind of his own?and strength." He sighed. What else could he do? Pass the Crust. When you Were a little boy perhaps you loved the bread crust. Father loved jt too and you always looked so wistfully at the bread plate while it was being passed to him. Tou never relinquished the faint hope that some day he would forget to taue It and give you a chance. You never dream ed in those days that bread crusts would some time be plentiful enough to go around, but now, grown old and perhaps beyond the longing, you may read thin cheering sign on the wall of a certain New York-dairy restaurant: "Some customers prefer crusts; we have them."' -ij<j A Financial Epigram. "1-1. H. Hogers," said a New York broker, "always advised young men to get hold of capital. He used to point out to them that without capital a man could do nothing, nothing. He used to pack his truth into a very neat epigram. " 'Fortune,' he used to say, 'can't knock at the door of a man who has no house.' "?New York Times. Breaking Wills His Specialty. Kicks?I thought she was a woman oT unbreakable will. Wieks?-So .she was. Kicks?Yet you tell me that she is completely subservient to her hus band. Wieks?-She married a lawyer, and he broke her will. Arranging It. "1 have been on an exploring trir* through my husband's summer clothes." "And these poker chips and these racing form sheets?" "Constitute the data for my lec ture." Money in Cotton. The will of Hugh T. Inman, who for many years was one or the best known cotton traders In the South, was probated at Atlanta Tuesday and showed an estate valued at from $3, 000.000 to $5.000.000. Much of it was in real estate. The attempt to revise some of "1) > old hymns that .<re hallowed bv lei der association and cherished by multitudes who have sung them and felt their power is about as at?. .?t| as would be an attempt to rev to., one of Handel's oratorios. Labored. "Do you call mat an explanation?" said Senator Aldrich.. He referred to a brother senator's reply to a charge that he had contradicted himself in consecutive tariff speeches. "Do you call that an explanation? Why, it is as labored as the Duluth palmist's." "A Dmuth palmist," Senator Aldi ich resumed, "said, as he studied the palm of a young Duluth shipping clerk: " 'Useless to pretend that you have a long life before you. The life line, you perceive, ends right here. No, young man, you are bound to die at the age of '43.' "He babbled on five or ten minutes more. Then, forgetting what he had said first, he declared: " 'And this small line here shows that you will marry at the age of 37 and wlU have 14 children.' " 'Fourteen children?" gasped the shipping celrk. 'How the deuce car that happen when I'm to die at 40?' "The palmist, turning very rei stammersd: *' "Why?er?you see?the fact is? "His face cleared all of a sudde. and he szid glibly: " 'You'll marry a widow with ! little ones.' "?Louisville Times. What's the Difference? The dinner had net gone at all well The waiter was slow, the food wa: cold, and the cooking was bad. The guest in the German restaurant was o. naturally peevish disposition anyhow, and he comr.lained vigorously to the head waiter, and especially complain ed of the weiter at his table. As he was leaving the waiter said humbly: "If you only knew vat a nardt time us vaiters hat, you yould nicht be sC hardt." "But," said the guest, "why be 8 waiter?" "Vet else couldt I do?" asked the waiter. "Well," said the guest, "up at ttu Metropolitan Opera House they pay ? man $5 a night to play the oboe. You might try that." "Budt," said the waiter, 'I don1? know how to play dot ohce." "What is the difference?'' observec the guest as he turned away, leaving a much mystii'.ed waiter. "You don'i knew bow to wait, either; you mighi scatter your incompetence."??Jcsmo politan. Too Great a Strain. Theater Manager?Ycu say you ob ject to having real fcod on the table in the banquet scene, Mr. Greecepayni Why, the rest of the company are de lighted at it. Mr. Greecepaynt?Yes, but my part requires me to rise from the tabk after .a couple of mouthfuls and say '1 cannot eat tonight?a strange dreai comes over me; I will seen the quie. of yonder apartment for a time."? Syracuse Herald. A Safe Offset. "Luck's against me." ; "Sure of that, are you?" ' "I am." "Then you ought to increase youi advertising, old man." The Progressive Cock. Our cook has lived in some of th? best families." "Our cook has lived in all of them and is making good progress on ttu second time around." A Limited Experience. A London judge thinks there Is nc game like croquet fcr putting th< players out of humor. Probably the judge never had ar ace trumped by his partner. An Evcry-Day Philosophy. The Cyrenaic philosophy, "the mo ment for the moment's sake," is th? current philosophy of the modern man and woman. Mu.n'EY IN THAT. Self-Mode Man?After all. tlocu u pay to go tu college? Huskv Graduate?It does If the foot ball committee hunts you up and re quests you to pro. The grandmother of a little Scotch boy, who resides on South Tenth street, was packing his luncheon for him to take to school a few days ago. Suddenly looking up lu the old wo man's face he said: "Grandmother, does yer specs mag nify?" "A little, my child," she replied. "Aweel, then," said the youngster. "I wad juisi tike if ye wad tak' them nff when y'ere puckin' my lounck."? Philadelphia Times. The Physician Member's Initiation. Physician Member (after his initia tion Into the lodge)?Who was that member whose hand I grasped while be read to me ihe onto to help a brother member whenever possible. Old Member?That was Mr. CYupe, the undertaker.?New York Times. Kills Wife and .toother. At Anderson, Mid . Frank Rickets shot and killed his wife and Mrs. Xellie Kritton, with whom slit- had been living In an apartment, in the business centre of the city, iate Fri day. Rickets, who was arrested, de clares that he shot, the two woment after his wife had shot at him. ? Colder Weather Coming. The weather bureau predicts a change of weather for this week in this section. A Household Remedy i Which Works From Outside CHESTOL (Chest Ointment) Will Relieve Quickly Croup. Coughs, Colds, Pneumonia 'and all af fections of Chest and Throat Its efflclancy baa been thoroughlj established and positively ?rovcft by the large Dumber of unsolicited testimonials given by thooo vlb* *bave used thli remedy. ,\ Use Freely and]RUB! . RUB! RUB! Now sold by all medicine dealers. Should be in every Home. 25c Everywhere. CLASSIFIED COLUMN t'iip your calvtia, Dogs, ??eep, iumt>> etc., to The Parlor Market, Augu? ta. Ga., 1018 Broad Street. .'S i o Foi- n Name. Send stamp for particulars and coupons. Address P. 0. Box 98, Flushing, K. Y. For Sulo?Pure bred Barred Ply mouth Rock Cockerels. J. P.'Wim berly, Scotland Neck. N. C. Minns Post Cards?Send $1.00 for 100 and sell to your frieuds at 2 for 5 cents. Sims Book Store, Orangeburg, S. C. Kanus for Sale lu North and Soutu Carolina and Virginia. Ask foi large Mst, . State your wants. R R. Prince. Raleigh. N. C. Wanted .Managers In every JocaliLy, a good proposition for a h?stln-, small required. .1. A. Peters, 61b N. 8th Street, Richmond, Va. Wanted?Men to take fifteen daj? practical cotton course, accept good positions during the fall Charlotte Cotton Company, Char lotte. N. C. Crushed Oyster Shells for Poultry.? One hundred pounds, sixty cents; five hundred pounds, S2.50. Brcs lauer, Lachicotte & Co., Waverly Mills, S. C. Agents?$3 daily and car fare. Send 10c. silver for 25c sample with In structions. No answer unless sena money. V. Powder Co., Box 566, Scranton, Pa. Agents to handle a propersition that sells: two to six, most evtry home. Particulars free. Kentl?nd Novelty Co,, Box 24, Still Pond, Maryland. Are Your Children learning Gcogra , phy and History thoroughly? Show the Rand-McN'ally advertise ment in this paper to your trus tees and teachers. Rico Flour, 100 tons fresh. Rice Flour, Hay, Grain, Bran, Chops, ?C. S. Meal and etc., Albeit Bis choff and Co., SI Elizabeth Street, Charleston. S. C. $10,000 Yearly.?No agency. Legit imate. Small capital. We start you for 25c. Honest company. This is your chance. Suuimerlip. " Co., Nevada, Texas, Engraved Visiting Cards.?Neatest and best. Made on ideal Xmas gift. 100 engraved in scrip, $1.50. All orders filled promptly. Sims Book Store, Orangeburg, S. C. For Sale.?Fine lot of seedling Pec an Trees, from my best selected Paper Shell Nuts. Prices from 12 1-2 to 25 cents per tree. Jude Robinson, Rowesville. S. C. Women, sell guaranteed hose. 70 per cent, profit, Make $20 daily. Full or part time. Beginners in vestigate. Strong Hosiery. Box 4029, West Philadelphia, Pa. You can mtke 2 bales per 'icre by planting my Bunch system. Price $2 to land owners. $1 to renlers. Write for particulars; Gco. V. Snodgrass, Box 94, Houston, Tex. Wanted.?Names young people inter ested in Business Colleges. Send list to Southern Commercial School, Charleston, and receive as many visiting cards written by their expert penman. Alfalfa I.odg?. Yorkshires.?Best b;> con ho;:, hardy, prolific, special of fering, 50 choice registered large Yorkshire boar pigs S to 12 weeke old $10 each. John G Curtis. Box 2 72. Rochester, N. Y Cow Peas Wanted, ? AH types. Amounts, Premiums given. All ' straight, unmixed. Get our new Col tun planting seed catalogue. Willet Seed Co., Augusta, Ga. For Sale?Limited amount of New Standard 4 5 pound Arrow cotton ties at 84c per bundle, f. o. b. Charleston. Terms cash. I. M. Pearlstlen & Sons, Charleston. 3. C. I Latest Fiction?our little booklet,i "Books of the Month" contains .?I brief synopsis of all the latest j hooks. It Is free. Write for It. i Sims Book Store, Orangeburg, S. C. Kor Sale?Up-to-date Georgia Pesch. Farm; thirty thousand crates tula year. Also improved Georgia farms and farm lands. Write for par ticulads. H. F. Strohee'<ar, Macon. Ga. Wanted?to buy your hides, skJacv tallow, wool, beeswax, etc.,' at ' highest market prices and settle ment sent promptly. Telephon? 1820. Wllse W. Martin. Colum bia, S. C. Male Teachers Wanted for good vil lage and rural schools. If opentft offer write for special enrollment offer. Can place you at once Southern Teachers' Agency, Coir umbia. S. C. The High Point Detective Agency ol Columbia does a general detective business. White and colored de tectives at your convenience. Write us. W. S. Taylor, Manager* Columbia, S. .C. Cut this out?It may not appear again. How gamblers win, at Blot machines, cards, dice, etc., by se cret systems. Get wise. Circular free. Ham. B. Co., Box 1617? Hammond, Ind. Dobbs' Single Comb Rhode IslanO. Reds and "Crystal" White Orplng ns win and lay when others i ill. stock and eggs for sale, send! for mating list. C. A. Dobbs, Box B? 24., Gainesville, Ga. Wanted?Men and ladles to take S months Practical course. Expert management. High salaried por tions guaranteed. Wr.'te for cata logue now. Charlotte Telegrapk School, Charlotte, N. C. Wanted.?Men to take thirty day* practical course In our machine shops and learn automobile busi ness. Positions secured graduates 5^5.00 per week and up. Char lotte Auto School, Charlotte, N. G. North State Life Insurance Co., al ?Kingston, N. C, operates only In. the two Carolinas and has more ? Carolina lives insured, than anj other Carolina company. Agenda wanted where the company li na| now represented. Wanted Salesuteu?A few more hos? tiers on our new Standard Atlas. New census soon available. Spien? did opportunities for money mafc* ing. Excellent line for ex-teaeh? ers. Write The Scarborough Cen? pany, Charlotte, N. C, For Sale.?Sunflower long staple cotton seed at $2.50 per buia*!; just sold part of present crop at 59 1-2 cents per pound. Will make almost W BU?S afl ?boT! staple. Limited amount bf sea?L J. E. Minter. Sedalla. 3. C. in Order to Introduce ray hlgb grade Succession Flat Dutch and Wake field Cabbage Plants to those whe have not used them before I w*U give with each first order for a thousand plants at a 41.25, a dol lars worth of vegetable and flows* eeed absolutely free. W. R. Hart, Plant Grower. Enterprise, P. O, S. C. Mississippi Iielta Lands.?Why tofj your life away on the poor fannt your grandfather wore out? Com? to Mississippi Delta where one can grow more than ren can path or. I have what you waut at the right price and terras Come or writs W. T. Pitt?. Indlanola. Mia*. Wanted?Every man, woman aad child In South Carolina to know that the "Alco" brand of Saab. Doors and Blinds are tbe best and are made only hy the Augusta I umber Company, who manufac ture everything lu Lumber anil KHlwurk and whose watchword is "Quality." Write AngUSta Lurc her Company, Augusta, Georgia, for prices on any order, largo ?a small. People don't believe In fairies these days but there are lots of gooi. spirits in the world that brlgh*.<?n and bless lives and homes if allowed to entir. and the chieftest of them is Love. Now that the elections are over people can again center their thou rat on football, the Elkins-Abruzzl af fair, the doings of Pittsburg and Newport society and other important matters.