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Piano Contest Coupon mmm lll l ' II Vu't == a . ? % 3#f3 'V ?i re --r*? ? vVy.i; j MT' ; '-r V < : . * ' ? r M ?, Tfc* ?? * ?** <"? 4 P MR mu I mnw'imffr Mm y+ f-'*; ? rrk+ S'Sfyf ? '? '*. '? . .T<v'. . ? . ? ,, ?'? ? - , ?; ' ? ?' ' ?' %Jy v"^.> A"-' $?* *v' / a ,.v yfe IM:'::!. . ' P. o. Addraw v'.V/' -' * re, v< . ? ./i, //.- * y* ' W*A'.'- f ? ' ,1 r?# ^ f.-; ?, FiVTBl R, F. D. <sr? '/ .*?'? >r?rC?s*;'ao?- ? ?**? ?? v t ' * . f v .?vJk " ' .??? \ m f-j ? f yf * ? f %?? ''V'^-ai ?w ?V ; , ;V (Hifned) ? ? ?? ? 0 0 0 0*9 Cafi now be obtained at " --r.---- - - If >y % wholesale from H i , m Charleston, S. C. A Plain Statement of I H C Wagon Value ? OlQME farmer saves money every time an 0 I H C wagon is sold. Not^ feecause It ? costs less money to begin with, but be cause of the length of service it gives, an 1 H C wagon is the cheapest wagon you can buy. The longer a wagon lasts 'the cheaper - it is. That is why it is economy to buy the best wagon ? one that will outlast any ordinary wagon. When you buy an I H C wagon Weber New Bettendorf Columbus Steel King you invest in a wagon built of the highest v grade material which experience and care can v select or money can buy, built in the most thorough, painstaking manner, by skilled wa? inen, in factories which have modern appli ances for doing work of the highest standard at the lowest possible cost. All lumber used is air-dried in sheds with concrete floors. This insures toughness ud resiliency. All metal parts are madaof sqpSI ially prepared steel, guaranteeing tne longest service. Each wagon undergoes four laqpsc tiens before being shipped So that it reaches the purchaser in first class condition, ready to . be put to work at once, and able to carry any reasonable load over 'any road where a wagon should go. Weber and Columbus wagons have wood gears, New Bottendori* and Steel Kill hate ... steel gears. The I H C dealer knows whfcfi wagon is best suited to your Work. When you > see him get literature from him, or, write International Harvester Company of America (Inco iterated) IHCS?rvk* Burun !? purpose ot thl? Bureau it to furnish, ft trr* to an. the best Information obtainar Iter farmU^ -If you have any worthy qu< concerning soils, crops,* land dralna*?, ir . fartlliiera, etc.. make your inquiries *pecl HERTZ THE REAL DISCOVERER Marconi Made Practical 1 Menace of fee Wireless, but Waa Net First In the Pliti -? The principle of wl NUm telegi?v*>jr to easily comprehend^. Am Hi |wvk light and heat mora In wi?m wboee lengths can be measured. Thus, ths eun given ?*t In every direction light ty n aarlaa of undulating wavee which may not only ha measured, hut caa be deflected, polarised, and eg on. Bone idea of thle may be gained from the well-known fact that when a stone la thrown Into a smooth pool of war tar a aerlee of circular waves extends in all directions. If any Heating ob ject cones within thsee wares they are oeciliated. It waa the lamented Prof. Herts who discovered that electricity, like light and heat, also mores In warea which may be measured, Just precise ly how these wares pqjs through the atmosphere. U not wholly understood, but It Is bellered that they hare aom* relation to ether, which la omnipres ent and which la bellered to constitute all matter under different negative electrical conditions. In wireless tel egraphy a series of Hertsian Warea are set up by powerful electrical dynh mos or batteries, and these are dis charged from the top of thigh mast or pole. These waves extend in directions, and, unless their force is expanded by distance they excite cer tain effects In the reoelrer of wireleas telegraph instruments within the Kone, just aa the waves disturb chips on a pool. .Messages are sent and received somewhat on the plan of ordinary Morse code by wlree, In that elect rlcgi Impulses are rejpOsied so aa to spell WOtfft according Jo a coda, >, To Marconi belongs the credit of making a practical success of the dis coveries of^thers, but to Herts bo. longs the credit of making the eye tem possible. . y, ,lV PASSED AN UNQUIET tillQHT Traveler, Lost In ths-ftush, Waa Glad to Do Without ths Bleeelnfee 9f Slumber. But I had never given a thought to the course I had taken In aiy gnllop aoroaa the veldt. I kept on and pn,and before long It grew dark and some what cold. So I dismounted, and Aft er thinking It over, J know-haltered the horse and let him go, crept head first Into a large ant-bear hole tor a night's lodging, and made myself as comfort able aa possible' under the circum stances, using the blesbok hide for a blanket The plght waa dark as pitch. Sleep was out of question. I sup pose it was the hsunches and the raw Jtlde that attracted the creatures, but before long it really seeme^ as If I had settled down In a village of wild pigs send Insulted the whole Commu nity. To begin with, squealing inces santly, tliey seemed to be ractyig round and round In a circle, taking me for Its center. Then a number of jackals drawing nearer and nearer, joined in the chorus. But- I soon discovered that If 1 disliked the ijolse I fairly dreaded the silence. During the quiet spells I knew that' something * was chewing Industriously at the project ing ends of 'the raw hide in which J was enveloped, it, was hard work for me to keep from kicking incessantly, but whenever I . rebted for a minute -thn.iiliflwlng developed., into vigorous tugs, tho .significance of which ill was easy for one in my. position to appre ciate. ;? . v >??? ? However, I kicked the night through in safety, and early in the morning, to* my -delight, I found my horse a short distance away, nibbling pontentedly at his breakfast. ? Atlantic Monthly. ' /\'C , Most Popular Character. r; Charles Dlckena once received ft* Invitation to a "Walter Scott" party,, each guest being expected to attend In the character of one or another of Scott's heroes. On the eventful night, however, greatly to the astonishment of the assembled Rob Roys and tVa verleys, Dickens' turned up in ordinary evening dress and apparently wite unconcerned. At' length the host, "who was feeling uneasy, came up to the novelist and Inquired: "Pray, Mr. Dickens, ? what characjfcr of Scott's can you possibly be sup posed to represent?" "Character!" said Dickens. "Why, sir, a character you will find in afrerjr one of Scott's novels. I," he went on, smilingly, "am the 'gentle readefC^ -- Terrible Ordeal.^ "It was perfectly frightful," MtA. Chubbleigh. "There we ran at top speed around the corner, and the first thing I knew we dashed plum}> Into that grocer's wagta. I guess It must have held a hundreds dozen eggs/' '^Oh, well, that wasn't ae bad, was It?" said Hicks. "You could afford to pay for 'em, couldn't you?" "Oh, it wasd't that," aald Chubbleigh, with a shudder. "But I don't fcqjW? there waa a good egg In the whola lot1* ? Harper's Weekly. . Already Accomplished. | A reader aaked the aage for advioe, saying: "I am engaged to Kato Mui'ph/, hut my former fiancee, s. Kate threatens to sue mo for bcaa< promise. Can you advise me extricate myaelf from this cuityfcv im The reply of the aage was ?*ily dear reader, if 1 mar you aeem to have' extra-Kated Eelgjjjfrea HIS PREFERENCE FOR HOME Oliver Wendell Holmes Unable to Oft Any mil *lsas#*e In the - Vhu 1 ted "Tavern." D9?*l talk to me About tavgrosl There It Just ope genuine, clean, da cent, palatable thing occasionally to be bad In them? namely, a boiled <11 Tbe soups teste pretty food some times, but tbelr eouroes are involved In a darker mystery than that of tbe Nile. Omelettes taste aa if they bad imt'u carried la tbe waiter's bat, or fried In *n old boot. I ordered scram bled eggs ode day. It must be that they bad been scrambled for by some body, but who? who in Ike possession of a sound reason could hav* scram bled for what I had set before me un der that name? Butter I I am ponder ing why the taverns always keep It until it Is old. Fool that I am! As if the taverns did not know that If It was good It would be egten, which Is not what they want Then the waiters, with their napkins? what don't, they do with tboae napkins! Mention any one thing of which you think you can say with truth, "That they do not do." Bhrery alx months a tavern should burn to tbe ground, with all ita traps, its "properties," Its bads and pota and kettles and start #fr<;?h from Its ashes like job* PhoW-Squlbob. No; give ma boms, or a home like mine, where all is clean and sweet, where ooffee has preexisted in the har ry and tea has still faint recoMectlons of the pigtails that danglsd about tbe plant from* wblcb it was picked, where butter has not, the prevailing charac ter which Pope assigned to Deoham, whore aoup could look jou ill toe fees If It bad %*ss" (which ft bis and where the comely Alma or tkft gracious Margaret tftkee the place of these napkin bearing animals. ? Oliver Wendell Holmes. - , DISSOLVE BONE IN THROjtf * .. Use of Mmen Juice at Critical Time r J la a Thing Wbrth Keeping ----- In Mind. ' ? Sitting at a planked shad dinner 1a Yonkers, a Laughing guest draw a bona into tali throat &ud h? began to strangle. Soma one auggeated that the sufferer a wallow a fragment of dry bread. . "Oh, no," exclaimed an Oasiriing man. "Don't give him bread. It might catch the bone and it might not. Give him something that la sure to glre re lief." Beckoning to a waiter, he ftald: "Bring me a lemon, out in two." And It waa brought without delay. Taking one Motion, he offered it to the chok Ing guest and told him to , auck the Juipe and to awallow It alowly. Direc tiona were faithfully followed, and in about a quarter of a itfnute/ the gf* fljfcted one placed the half lemon on ble plate, looked into the anxioue faces around the table and # mtled. "Well, Joe," 'said one, "how about It?" "Zt'a gone," waa the reply, "the bone has alipped down." , "Not exactly thtft,"' said the Osain ing man. "The bone alipped down, all right, but it was melted first by the citric acid.* I never knew it to fqll to dissolve a fishbone. You ccui test the power of lemon julccby -dropping some on the fishbones you may have lying on you^ plate." Several dlnera tried the experiment. In each ca|p the acid reduced the bone JU>4lau Id. seJal I ne, i ; Fawn and St. Bernard as Companions. At the Uttle village of Bauma, in Switzerland, a farmer recently found a young fawn in one of his fields. Fearing that If left alone wlthotit Its mother some mischief would be fall it, he took it home and. did every.-, thing possible for ^t. Now, he hap peneu to have* a large St. Bernard dog, and this dog and -'the fawn took to r-each other. , The fawn slept In- the dog's kennel,, and when it grew ra little older and went out on its' walks abroad, . the dog accompanied it, and defended it against the attacks of other dogs. Sometimes the St. Bernard and the fawn would be absent In the woods and fields lor a whole day, but they always returned at night, the doors and gate being left open for them. The fawn la now much taller than the St. Bernard, and yat the dog still goea out with It. ? ? i i Y.: Praise Be, the Brother Waa Lying. Police oQurta are not alwaya marked by an atmoaphere of piety, but the ex ception to* the rule occurred In a court Where a very rellgloua man, against whom onf of the neighbors had made complaint, waa being tried for some trivial offense. The complaining wit neea waa called to the atandvtb relate hla aide of the atory, and the defen dant listened closely for eeveral mln utea. - Then hla peraonal feeling* over rode court etiquette and he rushed up to the Judge, fervently exclaiming? "Your honor, the brother la lying. Praia# the Lord!" ' V- ; - Jl ?: ; :/ V\ * \ ? ? * M ' ?" ? 'v > .S Limit of the Borrowing Habit. ; Uttle Margie waa frequent visitor it the Jones home, gelng there on eiv randa of borrowing many tlmea each day. On this occaaio&.ahe naked the lotn of a cooking utensil. But X~* Jones had become very much out patience at the continual T ? 1 and eent word by Margie "hnd other fish to fry." ine her aurprlae ta hef netfl you should take account of in buying clothes is the way you will look in them when you are away from home, as well as when you're here around town. :'Y -4^^ 1 Hart Schaffner $> mm ? ^ "1 styles are not local; they're, international ; the best models of English tailors, are illustra ted in the designs of these makers ; and anywhere in the . * .v ^ v, ? . : * \a. world you'll be well these clothes. Do you want to see some of our new, late fashions? In im ,Vi' ? ported and American weav?f| grays, blues, tans, browns, . *1 <- ' ? . , i cheviots; serges, homespuns, fine worsteds. % m m There are no other clofhe* made so satisfactory as these of Hart Schaffner & Marx. We can fit you any day in a fine suit at $18, $20, $25, $30, $35. / mwmm LA.- 3? ? v-til r^M