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The Home Circle Column JMraMtut E veiling lievorie* ? A (Column Dedicated to Tired Motli t rk um They Join tiw HoujO Circle ml Kveii L.g Tide. The first duty of a man It* to his hoiitu, to hi* wlf? and his chil dren, if he 1h ho fortunate a* to have them. * ? ? r? . Wo believe many II v?? are wreak ed, not as inuch^hy the storms of life, iih by drifting with the tide uud striking these rocks and com ing in contact with the hidden sins and danger** along the shore. Push out on the deep water, head your bark up thu Htream, none but laay indolent people drift with t lie tide. ? ? ? In the family relation everyone nhould always be at hit* bent. The home ought to he a heaven. It v<iight to be ?as nearly heaven an 1h possible on earth. . There should bo no purposely withered flower# about the hearthstone and no pur posely clouded sunbeams. Selfish ness alone ought to be (sufficient to make home conduct exemplary. Cer tainly all want a pleasant home. Certainly all want unities Instead of frowns. ,, , ? ' ? f Do not alfc. and. ponder over trou ble; you cannot dispel It by malt ing yourself miserable. Never look Into the future with despair; you cannot cross a bridge until you <01110 to it. IJon't harrow your '.iilnd over things that cannot be helped. Livd" confiding in the pru nujit. The past cannot now* be rem edied, and you have yet to try the future. Half the marriages In the world <ire nothing but bubbles and barter. A man wants a wife. llo casts "bout for an oven exchange. In a year ho is tired of his bargain. In five years lovo Is dead, and cold browed tolerance Inherits love's gar anents. In twenty years tolerance is at its grave and hate reigns su preme. The wife is uaggy and prickly and peckish. The husband is dogmatical and reticent and mean. But there thoy hang togeth er on the boUgh, like two gnarled and frosted apples, until the winds of death dislodge them and away they go. Tho only way to be rid of bubble, , marriage ? marriages that turn out ompfiiiPSB with one drop of water as tho resldum, and thai drop a tea/ ? Is to educate our boys and girls to something hlghor thnn playing v/ith pipes and soapy water. Qive them something nioro turnout to do and aee that they do It. Compel man and women to choose their life companions with at least a tithe of the solemuHy they bring to the selection of a Carriage horset or a ribbon. ? " e ? Laughter Is, day and sobriety 1m bight, uud a smile Is the. twilight that hovers gently between both, uud more bewitching than cither, e ? ? Many a child goes astray, not be cause there Is a want of prayer or virtue at home, but simply because home laclfs sunnhlne. A child needtt smiles as much as floweru needs sunbeams. \ homestead without h palf of old folks-^'Tlme's doting tihrouU* clou" - seated contentedly In the chimney corner, would hardly he a homestead at all. If they are In tho picture, it Is complete. There you may find them, day In and day out, In all sorts of weather ? - steadfast to their places and to one another. When the eaves drip, in the middle of the winter forenoons, ,the old man with head of silver abandoned his post and newspaper to .make the accustomed touif of the kitchen offices, tho shed, or the barn, lingering by the way to throw down a handful of grain ?for the pinched poultry. With what min uteneHH he Is cautioned by grand mother not to. go out insufficiently clad, and with what a single-heart <d Joy she welcomes him when he comes to her again. - ? ? ? Parents, through lack of recog nition of tho individuality of chll dm, oftn try to force their minds uh a burglar opens a safe, using the jimmy of parental command or tho dynamite of punishment. It Is so much easier, so much more nat ural, so much more effective, to find tlie combination of the safe, ? the individuality of the child that Is tho key to Its mental and moral 1 procepses .and peculiarities! Then 1he .mind opens to truth .naturally, hlmply, automatically: A hud . does not become a flower by irreverent flugerB forcing Its delicate petals apart; it requires merely self reve lation, self development through solf activity, natural unfolding, nor rial growth in harmony with its en vironment. ?. . t ? ? ? We know from sad experience it I* very Inconvenient to be. poor, but no man in poor who bu a happy bow* and - It does not require lace curtain* or velvet carpeta to make a home happy. ' ?/ ? ? e The mother who radiates peace, radiates strength also. The reet> letntnoes the noise, the rush of the life of today, make It all the more necesnary to maintain within the home an atmosphere of serenity and sweetness so that, the threshold once crossed, the outslda nolae and clatter and strife are . left securely behind. This In, perhaps, an old fashioned conception of home. If ope desires to Improve in man ners be can never do so except by mingling witb the refined and good. Diffidence often keeps back those who have in early life but few so cial advantages. The only way to overcome this painful difficulty is to plunge In. It Is one of tbe moot easily cured of all maladies, A bath In the bracing ocean of so cial life will enable a person to keep his footing bravely. OUT MOHB MONEY. Are you satisfied that your pres ent position is equal to your, ability, or do you think you are capable of something bigger? Many a man hang* on to a small position when a little training of the right sort would show him Just how t^> make the change to more money and brighter prospects. Tbe first step toward getting better equipped and a better position is to write for a catalogue of Draughon's Practical Business College, at Columbia or Greenville, 8. C., or Augusta, Qa., 6r Nashville, Tenn. KINDKItUAKTKN TO OPBNv Mlisea Lucia Yates and L#oVlna Kldredge will open their Kinder garten on October 9th, at the Rec tory, on Rectory Square. 9-J58-6tl . -? J. H. MOORE Contractor and Builder Camden, 'S. C. Estimates furnished on fell, classes of work. Wood '-or Brick. Satisfaction Guaran?/, teed. Don't Wait to look for a man. but 'Phone 187.-. I. H. C. SPREADERS c L O - V E R L E A F G O R N K I N G KEMP Are you sending a man to tho field with a FORK to THROW AWAY $4 8.00 of your crop grown on every ten acres of land EACH YEAR? ? _ l>o you flguro the u)an with the FORK and TEAM worth 12.60 per day? if you have been figuring It that, way, you have Just boon FORKING AWAY about 1100.00 ? YEAR on every^lOO loads of - manure you have been putting1 on your land. Ono Man Ono Fork Ono Wagon 100 loads of Manure lonavH^ $28.00 16.66 2-3 Wages saved 94.88 *"1-8 Ono I. H. C. Spreader 100 loads of Manure 20 Acres One Crop *480.00 400.00 Wloo 8.:tn l -a 88.88 1-3 Spreader l*r?fit . . Wages Saved . . Total Profit . . Ono Man One I. H. C. Spreader 100 loads of Manure 6 2-3 Days I10.M One Fork One Wagon s 100 loads of Manure ? ?20 ' Acres Ono Crop 9400.00 The abovo Is what one farmer made in a year on 20 acres of land; and 100 loads of ma nure by using an I. H. C. Spreader. You are as good a business man as ha, if you are Farming for Profit. * * Take a Corn King, Clovorleaf ;or . Kemp Spreader home with you. Use It a Year. Then Yrite .and tell us just how much It improved your crop over last year. In other word?, HOW MtJCH CLEAR MONEY Y0U M\DE by IN/VB8TING IN AN I. H. C. 8PREADER. Those spreaders ore mado In sizes to" spll the FARMER. Small, Medium and Large. . Wo have a CATALOGUE READY to MAIL, you which gl /es a complete deecriptlon .of theee .Spreaders. All It will cost Is the ASKING. Drop us a card and. we will forward It by Re turn. Mall. - \ J r ; ^ INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO., of America. COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. - THJC COUNTY N KW HP A PKIUi. *j, i\ ?* .??""?* .. . Modern l^rtwr - Hftvbg AppLUm*** Make Better Paper*. , < In the quit* recent past a nuin aer of the oouuty newspapers, which Issued weekly or seml'week W, have Installed higher grade ma chinery and larger type stock* ? better facilities enabling them to ?et about the- inaug uratlon of desir able Improvements. Lack of enjoy went of certain practical devices has retarded tl^e , prpuj-opu of some of thee* paper*, the publishers? of which apply intelligence and enter prise to .their efforts at bringing satisfaction to their readers. Sev eral of the papers. It is only fair to remark, have been getting out excellent' issues, being located In the more densely populated sections where the, field Is also more fertile through (he higher standards of education than obtained In some other sections. Since.', they have equipped their ahOPs with time and labor aaving machines,, these papers have com menced , to discard the stereotyped "plate-matter," which does , not car ry enough of the home flavor and has other serious faults which are difficult of correction, .although it Ebuut be* confessed that they have served , 'worthy purposes in their day. Tfee space occupied in the past by this matter of relatively small Interest and importance is being given over to products of the editors and their assistants, there, being an increasing quantity of de sirable \ matter where previously nearly' all Individuality Vas effect ually obscured, the same news be ing served to ~a- large number. ? These evidences of enterprise and of laudable deslrte to furnish a su perior article strongly Indicate that the newspapers are securing a stronger purchase In their tenrlto vy and that th&tr subscribers are calling for helpful changes of the jystem. ' The educative value of the news paper la great and it Is an encour aging; Bign and a promise o t gen uine betterment that argurs well ?for the commonwealth when the qualify of the county press is im proved. In this really helpful change, the general government has c6ntributed itB share, in the exten sion of the rural free delivery sys tftra and In other ways of yielding .better' mall facilities for the resl -of the country districts. Pro B?esi^ of the press, as exhibited in riiore assiduous cultivation pf the home .'field with attendant exploita t&>n?df resources and produots and In effort to serve more lnfor P'/atlon of. an Improving nature, is '?? true index to the progress of the "jfeople. i? . very agreeable to chronicle these helpful things. f More ijoWer to the "country ed tyroV peh!? Charleston Post. . He Killed a Barber. This atory Is. blamed on Scamp Montgomery at the Friar's club. Mr. Montgomery alleges that the story as he relates it actually happened. Mr. Montgomery's statement is of i fefe<V withput. prejudice: ; ? I ??;. "A' man had Juat been released form. "khe penitentiary," paid Mr. AJontgoftiery, ''and^tjbs first, plfttte he hemled"for -w4fc -a barber ahop. Me wanted to traces of hlB prison madf cut * rubbed down smooth. T|nj fcyfcpr spotted him in a minute. "Just out, hey? "fold the bar ber. ' . ' 'T^ i . t "Yes/.* said the customer. 'And I'm in a hurry. Give me a halrout and a shave, and do it Quiok." "How long have you been In?" "Pour years,' said the former pri soner. "Hurry!" "How did you like it?" "Pretty good. Hurry 1" "Have to work hard?" "Never Mind. Hurry I" "Four years," said the barber ? pausing to look romantically out of the window. "And me at liber ty every blame minute, goin' hith er and yon, as you might say, and stayln' up all night if I wanted to and running downtown to take in a show. Qee! Four years. That's sure tough luck. What was you in for?"' "For killing a Jackass of a bar ber!" .howled the customer. "And I'm on my way back." ---Cincinnati Star. \ WANTED ? Good Housekeeping Magsriix requires the service* of a representative In Camden to look af ter. subscription renewal* and to ex tend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually suo? eeesful. Salary and oomiwt? ton Previous experience desirable, bat not ?** sntlal. Whole time or spare time. Address, with reference*, J. F. Fairbanks, Good Housekeeping Magaslne, 381 Fourth At*., N*w York, City. , For Bale m Jtept. 4 room cottage on Fair *tr**t Apply to J**. R. DeLoaohe. U:-* * *t- "Si < ' * ? * - v V' 'f% 4 - > r %Y . * IMPORTANT ! Yes, it is very important for you to know when you go ?hopping where is the "best store"? the one that will give you the Most for your Money and the fairest treatment. COME TO THE GUT EDGE STORE And See for Yourself. New Arrivals BIG LOT OF RUGS # c / ; ' And Art Squares, marked down close for quick sellers. BEAUTIFUL UNE Ladies9 Neckwear, Belts, Velvet andJLeather Hand Bags, Etc. BIG UNE MER cerized Poplins, Souissetts, Etc., in Light Mid Dark colors, just the cloth for fall dresses. CHILDREN'S Ready-Made Dresses. These are great for the busy mothers ? any size from 2 years to 14 years. Price from 50c up. Some Bargains in Wool Dress Goods. All of our 52 inch Broad Cloths at Cut Prices. Special Cut Prices Table Damask and FynuturQ Covering. SHOES! SHOES! Ladies', Children's, Men's and Boy's Button and Lace Goods Shoes for the whole family. A Lot Linoliom in thort lengths at only 35c per yard, Butterick Patterns We have taken the agency for these cele brated Patterns. Good stock just in of all the newest styles. Get a style book. Pat terns FREE with each book. Also agents for the Delineator. Make our store your stopping place. We have a ladies wait ing room up stairs with lava tory and Toilet. You are al ways welcome. ? ; ? t, T. V1LLEPIGUE, Proprietor, Cundtn, S. C.