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FALL SEI 29th ACA Beg ber the der the i Milliner Headwe different therefor, convinc ment wl into exti than an In this of buying a b lowest price. Now is the was always a u Nettles' Bujik Why the Admiral wras Better. 2 was of her uceAdmral Roe thefa1m0s racing man, of whom Laub Cardigan told the foliowing story. Mrs - Rous, it appears, was very dttorial. "An.d I remember," said Lady Cardi gan "on, day after her death calling to ingtoe how my uncle was. 'In teed, rey Iady,' said the servant, *I may ay the admiral Is a deal bette. since Mrs. Roes' death.' "-Tsondos Globe. Hlis Handicap. ~One of the penalties of approaching age is elum.sines." confessed-Merton i!orose.-on whose head the frosts of tlie have been sifting down for quite a vpeIL. "Wheii I move carelessly about a room!I knock over five things on an s'vern;:e. and when I am especially - enrefrl I knock over ten."-Judge. 5till CheerfuL ~Did - you attend Miss Seresum's birthday party?" ~Oh. yes. I was -there." "Winit kind of time did you have?" -The best ever. "Wh.-tt is~ your impression of her?" " She's a gamne loser."-Brmingham A~te-Herald. A lit1te method Is worth a gred~ deal ni tremory. When In - Sumter ! Make Our Store your Head quarters. .. Leave your packages in our care. We especially invite the ladies to visit us and rest in our ladies' room. Hlearon' s Pharmacy, 11 S. MAIN ST., SUMTER, S. 0. The Chus That Does Noet Affect The Huend Because of its tonie and lazative effect. LAXA TIVE BROM QO NN is be-thtIanodax OPENING ITEBER Lfd 30th. LTO BRAND HATS! s to announce ?9th and 30th. :areful superv MISS ANNIE ar ever displa colors, and a: e, dear ladies, .d. We must i iich- will be of -a expense of I ( of the other i )at Suits, Cloa Department you'll find soni eautiful assortment of up i prevail in this Departmeti ideal time to purchase yo elcomed place to everybo ing. " i - A Sign of Rain. An east side girl says she has come upon an infallible weather indicator. She can tell if It Is going to rain with out even glancing at the sky or cast ing her eyes over the weather fore casts in the daily papers. And It's the .simplest thing in the world-just the disappearance of all umbrellas in sight. "Umbrellas are perfectly safe in our office up to twenty-four hours before a storm," said she. explaining. "You can Teave them anywifere. Even the pearl and gold handled ones are Im mane from abstraction. Indeed, one can hardly chase them away. So If!I want to know the weather for a day ahead I must glance at the umbrella racks. If I find them becoming empty I make a bee line for the best rain shade of. those that are left and make all other necessary plans for rain." Columbus Dispatch. Soene Painting. In the past .half century and more, especially since the Improvement of the electric light, scene painting has be come very elaborate and very expen sive. Instead of being kept in Its proper place as the decoration of the drama, as a beautiful acessory of the action. It has often been pushed to the front, so as to attract attention to It self and thereby to distract attention from the play which It was supposed to illuminate. Shakespeare has been smothered in scenery. and the art of the actor has been subordinated to the art of the scene painter.-Brinder Mat thews In Scribner's Magazine. Phonetic Spelling. Phonetic spelling was evidently in ~fashionin the sixteenth century, when even Shakespease could not spell his own name consistently. There is a let ter dug from the correspondence of a lady of the sixteenth century in the book of the "Cotswold Famly"-the Hicks-Beaches. Juliana writes-It is a matter of debt between the cautious widow and "My lord a Kalder"-"My lord Amaril and your wife I honour and love, but your false swearing and promise I hoterle a pore." What she really meant was "utterly abhor." London Telegraph. Fifty-fifty. "Jinks gives his wife half his salary every week." "And what becomes of the other half?' "She still has to get that in the old way-out of the pockets of his trou sers."-Richmond Times Dispatch. Quite a Difference. "Did I understand you to say the woman Dubbins married is well of?" "No she was."-Birmingham Age Herald. The Uncomfortable Part. "Has Brown a comfortable income" "Large, but not comfortable! His wife knows just how much it is." Puck. It is an abominable thing for a man to commend himself.-Sterne. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a iGeneral Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propertiesof QUININE Iand IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up te Whore sm. n cent. MiILL THUR; THE the Millinery We are fully ision and spe THAMES, w yed in this toa [1 sorts of Tr you are cordi remind our es great interest iring an extr nillinery shop ks, Chil Cloak iethingq of interest to you. to-date styles. and prett t. Come and convince yo ur fall needs. Every man, ly. so please come on and LUFE AND LONGEVITY. Simply Prolonging One'sDays on Earth Is Not Real Living. What really constitutes life? Is it action, or is It merely existence? Who Is the more useful, the man who gives his all in energy to service or he who conserves his forces .and thereby prolongs his days? He lives most who accomplishes most. Activity In useful, productive or constructive effort is the real test ot life. Length of years may content some, but restless, energetic souls will press forward, regardless of time, striving for a goal they may nev er attain, but always strivling, and these only really live. Life Insurance presidents, being in terested In 'the prolongation of exist ence of risks, bend their efforts to the teaching of elements of living, the avoidance of excesses, exposures or unnecessary risks of any kind and In this way really serve the -world be cause they increase the productive years of man. As a result of modern methods man really lives longer and better, but this is not the allin allof lfe. To livelis to be active, to have a part In the cre ative effort of mankind, regardless of whether the span be long or short, so long as it is busy, for "an end is .an end, whether It cometh on the winged heels of a week or the dull stretch of a century."-Omaha Bee. STRUGGLES OF AN ARTIST. Story of the Peasant Painter Millet and "The Angelus." It was only after long years of strug gle and dire poverty, through which Millet was consoled and supported by his wife, that the peasant painter was able to take the three roomed cottage at Barbizon and "try to do something really good." It was then that he began to paint. that most beautiful poem of poverty, "The An..lus," which Is today one of the most valuable pictures In the world. AgaIn anud again he threw aside the picture in despair of ever finishing it to his satisfaction, and as often his wife replaced It on the easel and In duced him to continue. On one occasion he was so incensed at not being able to produce a certain effect that he seized a knife and would have destroyed the canvas and ended the matter once for all'had not his wife fortunately seized his hand and In duced him to give the picture another trial Thus it was that at last "The an gelus" found a place on the walls of the Louvre. The success it won en couraged] Millet to paint many more pictures and thus place himself among the imortals In art. The Sumter Trust Co., Sumter. S. C., announces that it is prepared to make loans upon improv ed farm lands at Six per cent. interest. Call on them for particulars. INERY OP SDAY and FRIDAY, SEP NEW IDEA Opening which takes pla prepared for this great evt cial attention of our popul; -e have put on display the p vn. Space does not allow u mmings, we -have on -disp illy invited, to attend this teemed patrons of one mo to the economizing buyer i. trimmer from north, our s. Ladies, keep this in mind :s, Etc. We had the facilities Our Shoe Depai reliable Shoe houses y shades. As. usual, the International all. urself. boys and .jir.l makes woman and child wil find something interesting i look over the beautiful things we have for you ti ( EWI 101 Newest Shapes,. Artistic Trimmings, Latest Styles, . . Moderate Prices. Does this appeal to you? We would like the opportunity of ''living up to our advertis ing" by fulrnishing your Winter Hat. The Misses Wilkes, 43 South Main St. - - SUMTE R, S. C. WORK COST YOU! We can say truthfully that, since coming to Sumter three years ago, we have made a reputation for doig -high-class dental work at the most moderate prices. Ask anyone who has been a customer of ours and he or she will tell you the sanme thing. t Remember, all our work is guaranteed. If a you need your' teeth tixed and want to save money it will certainly pay you to see SUMTER DENTAL PARLORS, C. H. COURTNEY, Proprietor, Over Shaw & McColiumn,A SUMTER, S. C. Double-Faced Deity. Dfiute fAtooy The deity Janus was represented by "si adt er h s fatl ie Romans as a man with two facesoe, " akd te stdn. " se looking backward and the other vey"rpidtecddposr ~rwrdimpyiu tht h st~d e- "The hardest thing about astre~aom) veen the -old and the new year,.ylth ivn guessng what something is afteJ E NIN r. 29-30. Co. ce on Thursd ,nt in our bu 3r and for m rettiest, Most. s to describe lay in our Mi GRAND FAI re feature in - While we e prices are ( , and save mc The Pride of -tment is the pride of our in the United States.- Th leather line for tbe who one of -the stronaest line ere. Our stock is compi is week. LA C How Italian Soldiers Behave. The Italian. soldier gets a 'very high char~Lcter from Richard Bagot In his "Italians of Today." "To see an Ital Ian r~oldicr drunk or in any way mis conducting himself in a public place Is exceedingly rare-so rare indeed that It would create a very disagreeable Im pression on the witnesses. Indeed, the men of any one of the more Importarit Italian regiments who misconducted themselves in a public place would, In addition to the severe punishment ad ministered by the regimental authori ties, undergo a very bad time of It at the hands of their own comrades." London Globe. 'Her Idea "'Ma, y~ur bank account is over drawn." "What does that mean, pa?" "Simply this. You've written checks for $13 more money than was In the bank." "The Idea! If $13 will break the bank ['d find another one to do business with. I supposed they had thousalids >f dollars on hand all the time"-De rolt Free Press. Outlawed. "How about paying me for that suit, made for you two years ago?" asked he tailor. "You surely can't expect me to pay 'or that suit," said the Impecunious ~oung man. "Why. It's all out of tyle."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Somewhere Around. "I never see her with her husband. las she lost him?" 'I don't k-now. Some people seem o think she has merely misplaced dm."-Louisville Courler-.Tournal. Worked the Wr-ong Way. "How did the accident happen?' "He got run over when he stopped to ead a .'Safety First' sign"-Houston lost. E2.50 Le' 2" $8.98 ABRAMS' IElD IRON RACKET. Studies In Orthography. The Coedc-I don't see how you can and Cha:ucer so readily. The spelling Sso queer. The lDrofessor of English -Ive ha'd lots or experIence while ex mining thte sophiomores' papers.-New 'ork Globe'. Whien Th-ales was asked what is iost unliversal lhe ainswered, "Hope. yr hope stays~ ith those who have othin t ehl.-Epictetus. 22.50 susseeia. $8.98 T1. AB3RAMS' RED IRON RACKET. I Don't Trifle With Such Subject. "I have just read a trivial sugges on as to how to keep the nec'ktie inc lace. That is a subject that ought e zt to be trified with. Somebody .. ught to do a series of articles on lt." Cynie in American Magazine. il8 Li.*e' at" uit"$6.87 , a n ane on vrmatwi I FALL. SEP" 29th c GA( PATIE ay and Frida' siness caree: any.years e2 exquisite line all the beaut llinery Depar L OPENIN( our Milliner tre not comp :onsequently iney on your j Our Store. store, puttinq in the lim e Walk;-Over Shoes for in family, and the E. C S s ever handled in this to Dte in 'evpry line. Buyin MO Adv YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE. The Custom of Dating Proclamationi by the President. ." While the president of the United States dates official documents from the year of the Declaration of Inde pendence, there is no law on the sub ject, and the custom is neither genera] nor binding, the form being used only in proclamations by the president. .It originated before the adoption of the constitution during the days of the confederacy. The original articles of confederation show they were signed by the dele gates "at Philadelphia, In the state of Pennsylvania, the 9th day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1778, and In the third year of the Independence of America." The signers dated "the In dependence of America" from the Dec laration of Independence, July 4, 1776, although the war was still young and continued several years longer. The constitution shows It was signed "the 17th day of September A. D., 1787, and of the independence of the United States of America the 12th." The first proclamation issued by Washington as president was, "Given under my hand and the seal of the United States In the city of New York the 14th day of Aulgust A. D)., 1790, and in the fifteenth year of the sov ereignty and independence of the United States."' He used the phrase "sovereignty and independence" in two proclamations and then dropped the word sovereignty. All subsequent executive proclama tions are dated from the year -of Inde endeee as beginning July 4, 1776, although the independence of the Unit ed States was not acknowledged till several years later. - Philadelphia Press. KIT-CAT PORTRAITS. Origin of the Term That Stands For Stupid Mediocrity. Several years ago an eastern art crit ic waxed sarcastic concerning a collec tion of paintings on view at one of the leading New York clubs. In the course of a vitriolic tirade he relieved him lelf of the assertion that the exhibi ion consisted chiefly of kit-cat por traits. Those who went to the club rooms expecting to see canivases adorn :g with -feline compositions were con lemned. to disappointment. There was ot a cat picture in the whole show. "What Is a kit-cat portrait?" was the Jurning question of the hour. Why, a tupid portrait, a commonplace piece >f painting that reveals no glimmer of tenius. At this stage of the explana :ion the inevitable interruption-"But ,vhy do you call it a kit-cat picture?" and not one critic out of a hundred zd the remotest Idea. The term for stupid mediocrity had ts origin in a collection of forty-two portraits of prominent, men painted be ween 1703 and 1720 by Sir Qodfrey ineler, one of the best known British ortrait painters. They were exactly he same size and were framed alike; ence the Idea of monotony which led o the idea of mediocrity. The sub ects of these portraits were members f a club that met In the tavern of a elebrated pastry cook, Christopher Cat -called Kit for short--and among them rere such men as Addison, Steele. 'alpole and .Marlborough. 1t was the' iluence of this club that placed Georae on the throne of Englanid.-Eschange. -9TQ9T nagqar aOW. ,~ OPENING rEMBER Lnd 30th. 11E. RNS! V, Septem r, and un ,Tperienced of Ladies' iful styles, tment So, and be y Depart elled to go LOWER 1eadwear. es of 'the most ien and women; cupper for our Nn. g or not, our store rris Ness, anager. Si8. Ladies' Coat Suits-Special, -8.8 - at Abrams' Red Iron Racket. Mollified. .This really happened in New York the-other day: Displeased, Parent-Molly, I find you have been buying three pairs of gloves without my permission. Why did you - dolit? Miss Molly (aged twelve)-Why, dad dy, I was obliged to have somie gloves: I hadn't apair to wear! Displeased Parent-It was very wrong ot you to buy the gloves .with out asking either your mother or Ine about it. Miss Molly-Well, never mind, daddy, dear. They won't cost anythig. had 'them charged!-New York Post *Her Conscience. In spite of scoldings, Helen persisted in running away from home. One day,. - after a longer absence than usual, her 24 [mother asked: S"Helen, dear,. does iiot 'your ,con science trouble you when yon are run ning away from mother?" explaii1ng that her conscience was a little voice' speaking within. Helen answered:, "Oh, yes, mamma; that little voice is always saying, 'Run faster, faster,*He1 en; your mother is after you!' "-Pitts burgh Chronicle-Telegraph. 'Feline Amenities. - They were discussing the newest en gagement. The fair fiancee had prevl ously made three similar announce ments, but not one had resulted in a Avedding. - -"Do you think she will really marry him?" asked her dearest friend. "I can't say, my dear," retorted the next dearest. "It.ls possible- but not customary."-Woman's Home Compan Ion. The Limit. "I shall never speak to her a.gain as long as I live. "But you've said that often before." "I know, but what else Is there to say when a person becomes, as angry :as she makes me?"--Detroit Free Press.. . Cautious. Higgs-Crooke Is a criminal lawyer, isn't he? Diggs-He's a lawyer, but ais to his being criminal. I think he's too enref'ul to quite overstep the line. New York Sun. God gives every bird its food, but does not throw It into the nest.-J. G. Holland. Men's &. Pants, all-wool, all sizes, $25 at A brams' Rled 1ron Racket. The Earth's Snadbow. The earth has a shado~ftiut very few ever see it, except in'eclipses of >N the moon, or else few recognize it when they see it. Nevertheless, many of us have noticed It on fine, cloudless > evenings in summer shortly before sunset, a rosy pink arc on the horizon opposite the sun, with a bluish gray n segment under It. As the sun sinks the arc rises until It attains the zenith and even passes It. This IS the shadow of the earth. Men's $M. Grade Shoe -S