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The Home Circle Column H?MMt Kveu log Itevwtf ? A Oojumn Dedicated to Tired Motb> i.m M Tliejr JoU Uw> IliMtH) Clnlo ?t Uv^uiiig Tide. IM To the young man why, hi ut no taste for rood lug, the evening bourn become loaded with temptation. It 1 * tiresome to pttt moping by the ?toy*, and be naturally drift* to the Htreet or the card table. There be find* otb?r? like himself, with vg~ cant hour* to while away and /tbu* grow up those bablte and associa tions wt'Xh soou eventuate In dia ?apation or :??d to crime. ? ? ? All that the wife can do will not make the home an agreeable one. Neither can a wife be happy with a husband who is uddlcteu to flud lpg fault with bin bread and but~ tor. She may try ever so hard to please him, yet when he sits down to meals, she lives In constant fear that some portion of the food will not suit his fastidious taste. ? ? ? He polite to your children. Po you expect them to be mindful of your welfare, to grow glad at your upproach, to bound away to do your nleasure before your request la hair spoken? Then, with all your dignity aud authority, mingle polite noss. Olvo It a niche in your house* hold temple. Only then will you you have the true secret of send ing out into the world really finish ed gentlemen and ladles. ? ? ? When wo launch our ship on the inornlngo waves of the great sea of life, lot us guide them by the light of home, with the helm of the cradle words of oilr mother. Not until we have left homo and are wanderers In the curious strange ness of a strange land, unnoticed, unheeded, lonely and weary, will wo know of a truth what a mother Is. 'l'h en we feel that she is good aud we bless her. Never can wo repay our mother's kindness. Her withered form and her silvering braids shall be defended till that day comeith when He shall, make up His jewels ? ? and then we .ween. Heaven ? will know no kinder, TiG' brighter, no purer angel than she. When the ever shining stars shall Erano in the fading of our vision, nd the noisy world will ogrow till In our sleep of death, will we forget her; not till then. Tho making of moneyand saving of monoy, as distinguished from tho miserly lovo of money which is said to be the rooc oi all evil, thould be the aim jot all young .men Who atart out In life for them aelves. They include habits of in* dustry that lead to contentment ? Often ward off dissipation, .want and future misery. It was not the gathering lu of wealjth that ha* Ient so many leading men to pri on, it w$a the . unlawful manner, in which they endeavored to reap thoir harvest. M U brother* or . aiater* err. *he Maya "Bhun th#iu; UiOH you will ?how that you di??u<i>r<>*o of the act, making an example of them/' Alaul how many example* we have of this mod* of teaching crowding the haunjta of Infamy ttoday. Once bright young Uvea, whoae pure 11m and innocent browa mother* watch ed In all tenderneM; but tremb ling feet took one false atep, ahd wo we ihruat them out of our hearts, out of our chtircbef, and would even thruat them out of hea ven, In it right, la it Juat, la it ^hrtaUikay . ? ; ? ? ? ? ? What'* the use of g etttiag into a worry and fret over goaaip that haa been aet afloat to our diaadvao tage by ac*rie meddleaome buaybody who ha? more than character. Theae thing# can't poaaibly In jure you, unless Indeed, you tafce notice of them and in combating them give them character and atand* lng. If what la said about you 1b true, set yourself right at once; if It 1m false, let it go* for what It will fetch. If a bee atinga you. Zemp's Drays When you want your Trunks hauled or any other drayi^ge4 done, Tele phone 37. Prompt and delivery guaranteed. i v ^ ?w.*f *f 1' ftth*,--'' * 8 - ;J.t5. Zemp ~ I ? V ?- ? ? ANOTHER GREAT PLAY ON ^fl NEGRO PROBLEM | THE SOUTHERN AMUSEMENT Co. George H. Brennan, Mgr. PRESENTS Thomas Dixon's Sensational ;V .1 ?? ' ^ : . . ? t . Sequel to 'The Clansman** THE TRAITOR < , r Tj i 1 1 ?, .. : =. Dramatized by Channing Pollock and Thomas Dixon Founded on Mr. Dixon's Thrilling Story of the Decline and Fall d the*KU KLUX KLAN | FOUR ThriUing AcU of Love, Ad ! ? venture, Patriotism and Treason ^Presented by a Superb Cast of Carefully Selected Players VITAL IN IT'S THEME, IT TELLS ^DELIGHTFUL LOVE STORY < i|T| z' Wednesday Evening, Dfreaaber 13 A BIG PLAY A Flty* STORY A DRAMATIC TRIUMPH _ A COMPLETE SCEMIC PROtiipTlQK, g ? "THE TRAITOR** possesses the same elements ? t>^ iucqc** "* thqjl r^ade t'ThertJ Clansman" the talk of the world. A chorus of praise swelling from Baltiriiflre, Washfag+M, Nl"" Hrl^n^ Atlanta , and echoing throughout theSoathkuKl 1 . i' ff-M Lf MM.. I PRICES ftl.SO, 7SC, SOC. Seals on s*l* Moi&r ?t F. L Zeap's Dhqr Store ' ? ?? '? ? ??* ' ' , ! ' would you go to the blve and de stroy It T Would not ft thousaud cow? upon your It In wisdom to ??y little respecting U>? Injuria* you have received. 0 0 0 We like to see tbe glancing, and cheerful light through the window of ? neighbor of ft cold ulght, or watch them, ft* o veiling deepen*, gradually creeping front the parlor to the upper stories of the bouse near u*. We .like to uratch the little children going In and out of tbe door, to play or to school. We like to eee tbe white-robed baby dancing up and down at tbe win dow In Its mother's arum, or the father reading bis newspaper there ajt evening, or any of these cheer Kl, impromptu home glimpses go make a pleasant neighbor to those who live for comfort instead of show. ? e .e ... .... We should ptrive to mftke our selves such members of tbe house hold band that our absence is like the loss of sunshine from a sum* mer day. We can do it if we en ter into the right spirit of home. The idea seems to exist amoung us that to be polite to each other in ithe family circle is foolish and like "putting on airs." We must rid ourselves of this notion and act on the principle that whatever helps to make our Intercourse pleasanter with those outside the family cir cle tfhould be brought into us there. i A cut finger is not benefitted by pulling off the plaster and expos ing It to somebody's eye. Chari ty covereth a multitude of sins. Things thus covered are cured without a scar; but, once published and carried to meddling friends, there is no end to the trouble it may caujae. Keep It to yourself. Troub|o? are transient; and, when a, Borrow Is healed and^ passed, what a comfortt It Is to say: "No omft ever knew It till It was over." Every One has to fish for what be gets. Others may possibly bait and take off (the prise from the hook and paddle the boat, but the fishing has got to be done by your own hand. Every other means you | may try will turn out a failure. A Queer Newspaper. Los Angeles, Oal. ? The queerest newspaper ever printed in southern California la last week's Issue of The Bawtelle Sentinel, which makes Its appearance without the letter I "s,' Henry Schluts, county statisti cian and editor and publisher of the paper, paakes an explanation as follows: "At the time The Thentlnel wath about half thet an evii dithpotlied thief entered thlth office and car ried away all our etheth, and for thlth reathon our thubthacrlherth will have to do the very beth they can In reading thome of the artl? cleth, which are ihpelled in the manner which they may have notic ed In thlth announcement." NEW USE FOR THE SCHOOLS HKn Is Put Forward to Utlll** Some ef the Slaty Per C?nt Waat* Tim*. Tie American school plant Is valued At more than 11,000,000,090, and M used for School purposes alone utilises Jttnt thirtjr-nlna par cant, of tlx* time wtych coti Id be given to th# need# of the community. This, according to tfee National Magasttte, repreeenta a total lose of eehool plants to tb* country of more than $30,000,000 every year. An active movement Is now taking place to torn school property, during the summer months Into children's playgrounds and places of amusement and to make them the center of recre ation, of political and social Ufa, the same a? In country place*, where tb.ey serve many purposes, oftentimes even for church services. Evening sohools, free lectures, In door sports, folk 4aP9*s, civic and ed ucational meetings and gymnastic ex ercise are among the things men* tloned for which school plants should be utilised. It le proposed by some to have the soboolhouses opened every day of the week, Sundays In cluded, so that the community may get the greateet possible benefit from them. If this movement grows pupil? will no longer find after vacation a musty smelling deserted building, but rather one which has been in use, every day In the year by those who 16ve to give the public every possible advantage of the buildings provided for public pur poses. ; WELSH HOME LIFE UNIFORM Thsre le No Upper Middle Clsss and and 8hop Ksspere Are Usually the Leaders. ? k The student of Welsh life and char actor who encountere almost any vil lage in North Wales will be able to acquire a full knowledge of his sub ject without traveling a mile further. For Welsh life has ? certain quality of uniformity which la not found in the other constituent peoples of the empire. Practically there is no upper middle olass in Wales. A few rloh middle class Welsh families there are, bat these, even If they keep hp a Welsh home, usually draw their wealth and spend It beyond the Welsh border. If, however, tho visiter .wishes to knfcw Who controls public opinion, who sits on the district and county councils, .or even who repreeenta the division in the house of commons, he had muoh better regard, the names painted over the shop fronts than try to discover the Identity of the occupants' of the ' lavish red brick villa which looks down into the village from its place on the hlllalde. The owner of the villa, as likely as not, wiU be found tp be an Englishman ? a retired Manchester, contton spinner or a ship, owner from Liverpool, Toenail Surgery. , ?" 'i most attempts mt;, manontly to remove Ingrowing nails fail is because they are not sufficient ly radical, says a New Ofrlj^t phrsi cian In the Times-Democrat. The proper procedure la to anaesthetise the patient ^pl^h ether or some other general anesthetic, then, remove, surgi cally, the entlrp aide of the nail which tends to grow Jrrongly. The anesthetic permits the surgeon to disseot out the entire section of the aall to its remotest attachments. One great dif ficulty about treating Ingrowing naffe 14 that the sufferer cannot be per suaded to wear a . sufficiently roomy shoe to permit the new nail tissue to rfrow naturally. Thus do vanity and hygiene oontend. 8 mo He or RU% Whfehf , In the early days of the London. \ Brighton & South Coast Railway the regulations against amoktag were ! 3rictly enforced. The Mechanlos' agaslne of September, 1842, records tftat "a foreign gentleman was re cently smoking a cigar in a train com> lag from Brighton to London. The guard warned him the practice waa not allowed. Nevertheless, he eontin* tied to smoke, and finished his cigar. At the next station he waa aaked for his ticket and .ordered out of the coupe; and the guard, addreaslng one of the officers on the platform, warned him that that person waa not to be allowed to proceed to London by any j train that night. So there he waa left,'* ? London Chronicle. Ate Nuta In Churoh. The Sunday before Michaelmaa day ?^w, until recent times, a curious cus tom at Klngston-Thamea. The pariah* 1 toners attended In force at the pariah church, armed with nuta, whloh they cracked and ate throughout the serv ice. "Nut cracking," however, waa o<jt peculiar to Kingston. Goldsmith io^kee his Vicar of Wakefield aay of parishioners: "They kept up the Clristmaa Carol, aent true-love Ipsota < on Valentine morning, ate ftsneeky ?t Shrovetide, and religiously cracked tw on Michaelmaa eve."? London Clronlcle. il l* ~l Two pf a Kind. * I find that my huaband has bee* having the offloe boy. call me Up every ddjy and mumble terma of endearment, nice I He's been going to the ball game." ' V How is it that you didn't catch xm tfttthe . . i if ' / ,.U ? I !*Went I'm busy at bridge every I | and I've been having the 000k an the telephone.". ? " Primitive Medlolne* Some of the early uaedloal prutlr ttonere were very limited In the qbolo* of reined lee Victor Hugo's family yhyw eteUa iim4 only and mo^ pbor in different combination*. Twp Greatest ClvlMxers. Increased wean* and Increased lela JBTe are the two clrlHiere of man.? Die r aell. ? (7 ? . ' ?; \ .'I-- ? ' ' " " r"- :TVfr A Or th? Trouo?r?. ? thorn In the bu*b I# worth two In tb? ?ofa pu?bloivr,Ju<1**> >.iL 1 ii ?I,|?I 'iiu'i. A k ? ' Not 80 Straight. H?wttt " What do you think of OruetT" 90 ofpokad that the on)/ way for bin to fat a night'* root Up to alaep 00 a spiral ?talrcasa." . '?> BIG REDUCTION ? - r ON as ? . . ? , ? V ? * * ? Hats and Ribbons THE season being so far advanced, and Having a large stock of Hats and Rib bons on hand, we are offering them to the public at greatly reduced prices. * The Misses Gerald Agents for Standard Patterns ?<V.: SaaA 9)oors SBllnda : ? .... ? m ' HAND has ? BUILDER'S that he will SUPPLY as long as this is a COMPANY for he sold them once. Get on our list and be one one of our saiisjfiedl ~ <1 ? ? ~ " customers. . If you cannot come Phone 81 or write, ? ^ ? ? ? ' -?'! i W. D. STARLING, Mgr; CAMDEN, S. C. ' ?????!??? , ? V ? It . ~ ? ' < . > . '-r . " (dumber ^AtouLdirig blaster V * t inv.-. i jj ?? . 4ti aiiik' That question wm oe asicea you almost daily .by business men Seeking your services!! f you qualify? take the Draughon Training? and show attbkion to rtse. More i) AN KERS Indorse DRAUGHON 'S Colleges than indojso. all other busi ness colleges COMBINED. 48 Colleges In 18 States. Interaatiofi*! reputation. *?=?& 2saS?!&^s ilhV m^if >JBookkeet>er8 all rwvr i H??? B" ^ ,.w_ J3ookfcepers all over theUnfted States say that Draughon's New System of Bookkeeping saves them from 25 to 50 per cent in worlc and worry. ShertkaocL Practically all U. S. offi cial Court reporters write the System qf Shorthand' Draughon Colleges teach. Why? Because they know it is the best. WWK inawiisug Ggsaiuoni. HomejStwdy. Thousands of bank c<ish\ iers, bookkeepers, and stenographers are holang good- positions as the result of taking PAughon's Home Study. * CATALOGUE. For prices on lessons BY MAIL, write J NO. P. Draughon, President1, Nashville, Tenn. For free cat-*, alogue on course A T COLLEGE, write | aiu^uv uu course si J liUJULtECrtS i write j DRAUGHON'S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE . Greenville oir Colombia, S. C, ?r Amiusta, Cm., ar NmHtIU*, T?ww r t: t jf~ RIDES alEMT; rOWM end district to-rlde end exhibit iMAmpfn Ur?t'. Model' 'bicycle furnished by us. Our asent.?n*ftry whetv nre tuaHntf it, Wrlnftr fullfmrthularmn.l //Mlltlliirtlmt, aY VkRQOUtBt) until you rocfelre anu wpproro of ,\ouf We ship to anyone anywhcro In the U, # ?<m? d.tttH fr, I th,, and allow TEN DAYS' >?nBE TWIALdurm*. a* you may ride tho bicycle and put It to ?ny Ust you wl-h. re then not portoctly satisfied or do not wish to keep '..ho ilpi?backtoji? atourexpensoand *?* uiiimi v.v mwi. wi?n vo K?ep '-J us atourexpensoand uiiiit ????**?? ??*?. Wo fnrnlsh tho highest grado bicycles It II - possible to make at ono tmnill protit aln vo actual factory eost. You savojlO to middlemen's profits by buy ling dlroctof y_s_and_hare tho minnf?Kt??"' ? -* your * ~ v. Mlvj iiuiii mnjomt St Anf lorn our nnbo^rd of /??>; ftnti ln* direct of us and hare tho mnnnr. ? middlemen's profits by bi [bicycle IK>SK>TOuVa 1 blSycle ot FmF&W??1*0 y, trh* until jrou rocelTo onr catalogues awl ????? 3 st **/ , Vfili Ibillbp ' ? "d ?' ^ miST/SEEE yo? ?H. HffiTMKSS'SSM1 ft ?omb.r on band Uk?? 7n t ZA- A* KHoWn* h?ndl? Mcond ?,???? k.-~o? . a Mnttm Pmehre-Prcf $ m an ISi5!S5KaS? A "JjjWETlOIBLEFWMPDKCTHBES f i if MI" *!?*?? ** ???* ?*1M no* let Ihtilroul.l A hundred thousand pairs *>ld last year H DESQRBPTtONc rldinsr very durable and lln?& lnriHo?wu^ I Inl^STnk.'