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» \ Tm '■ : ■ ^ i ' 1 ■ x • i v t jt, I ITv ■•' 7 x' ■'«, •^r .+ j T <«• /:.. \ • • ^ •• ! ■ 1 • ' l. ¥ « ■ * ■ ‘ ' ■ / '• • jr 1 ' * SEVERAL HUNDRED MEN OF COLLETON COUNTY USE \ LOWERY WAGONS. Doubtless xme of these men is your neighbor. Ask him which is the highest grade wagon sold in thi 1 county. will be willing to have you take his opinion. r t ' Ky P ■=. -> n. . * v-. OFFEEHT& SOME BABE BABO AIRS IN CLOTHING Men's Suits $4.50 to $12.50. Youth's Suits $3 50 to $6.50. Boys’ Suits $1.50 to $5.00. < Men's Overcoats $5.00 to $9.00. Boys’ Overcoats $2.00 to $3.00. Mackingtoshes $1.50 to $5.00. Extra Pants for men and boys 35c to $3.50. SHOES SHOES Shoes for Ladies—Shoes for Men—Shoes for Girls—Shoes for Boys, M M M SHOES FOR EVERYBODY ffg - M «H Try a pair, they are cheap, they look well, they wear well, they will give satisfaction. Dry Goods, . Notions, Hats, ~ • Neckwear, « f\ Hardware, * ® ~ Guns, t ; Crockeryware, ^ Groceries. * A full stock in every line, price and quality guaranteed. REMEMBER—I bqy all kinds ol Country Produce, and pay the highest market price for same. Bring me your Peas, Corn, etc, when you want to sell them. H. W. BLACK, Jr. START THE i < NEW YEAR ft• <•.< • “v a . s A,:..' >•" - •> ' .. v . -V i 4-\. ' f ' ir ' • 0 *•, • . v-. . / s \ t 'gtev M urn acygxAvx » f i '*£0 . ■ i>' * ifasi* .... * n - ,Jrl-A ^ m *1 m 1 m h yW A -v •r ' 1 _ l ,. At v . ■ ’* .■ i&tft .{h/ m 1" i* \jf0 : J' .• ‘ ^ r • ■' ^ v 1 ■■ t ^ ^ ■ *• ... , r^;r ■ l-¥Ji i&Jmk 1 ib-mMitrfe AhSjL! ■ : 2 ;7> , •• N ( V f ■ 1 MILLINERY GOODS GOING AT GOST! • . . r . ■ . My entire stock of millinery goods are going at and be low cost—consisting of Hats, Cloaks, Shirt Waists,. Skirts, Ribbons, Lace, and everything else in my store. This sacrifice sale is being made in order to make room ; for my new stock of goods. Now if you want a bargain coroe •’ t! ■ v. < ' r ; at once. This sale will only last fora short while. Courteous treatment to all. Yours Truly. * \ MRS. W. A BLACK. THE COFFEE PLANT. \ A Mmti'rm mt AbfvBtMia Thmt Wmm Traaaport*4 «• Arabia. The orlflB Qf coffee Is lost In the mists of antiquity, but the plant is be lieved to be. a native of Abyssinia and to have been carried thence into Arabia early in the fifteenth century,- whence the Meccan pilgrims soon carried it to all parts of the Mohammedan world. A bureau of commerce and labor pub lication notes that Burton in his “Anat omy of Melancholy” (1«21) makes this reference to it: “Turks have a drink called coffee, so named from s berry black as soot and as bitter, which they sip up hot. because they And by experi ence that that kind of drink so used helpeth digestion uud promoteth alac rity.” Although brought to Venice by s phy sician in 1501, it was only in 1G$2 that the first coffeehouse was established in London, and it only became fashion able In Paris in 1000, says the- same authority. England gradually forsook coffee for tea, but the progress of the beverage, though slower, was steadier In France. ' Until 1006, when the Dutch began to successfully grow coffee trees in Java from the Mallbnr (Indig) bean, all cof fee came from Arabia. The coffee cul ture of the West Indies and Central and South America had its beginnings. It Is said, in a slip taken from s tree In the botanic gardens at Paris, which had obtained a vigorous growth from a cutting said to have been stolen from the botanic gardens at Amsterdam. All the plantations of the eld end. new world are pr&cticnlly/derlved from the specimens taken from Arabia, first to India, thence to Java and etaewbere. inexact copying or tne marks wnien hate served since 1753 to denote the date of fabrication, and the use of chromd green, which was not discov ered until 1802, but tbe test of the burnished parts of the gilding is dir easiest for the ordinary buyer.—New York Herald. W Earrlaea. / Girls who are fond of earrings may perhaps be Interested in bearing a few facts about them. Sad it ia for the emancipated woman of the present day to learn that these fashionable or naments were originally a mark of slavery. In bygone days the slave al ways wore his master s earrings. In tbe east they were a sign ol caste ami were buried with the dead. Some an cient earrings were very elaborate, and many statues had their ears bored in readiness for votive offerings of ear rings. In England tbe earliest earrings were very cumbrous and" made of stone or wood. Tbe eighteenth century saw the glorification of the earring!* fashionable beauties outvying each oth er with the rarest uud most beautiful Jewels.—London Graphic. - - ‘V A Mew Application of Seriptnre. There was rejoicing in the village at the killing of s pig. Being dead, it was cut up. A neighbor's cat stole se cretly Into the_larder an* annexed a piece of pork, which she brought In triumph to her mistress. Nett day the dergymdn of the parish visited the old woman, who' recounted to him the re markable sagacity of the beast “It 'was quite beautiful, sir,” she said piously, “to see the way the sweet . i creature brought me tbe piece of pork. It brought to my, mind what we read In tbe Bible about BUJah and (bn ANTIQUE SEVRES. / Tm Oaa AlvnprsDtoManvkdi CbeOem- mimo hr Its Oftiatn*. * • False Sevres in tbe bric-a-brac shops is offered as genuine by “mmtable dealers” la London and Paris ae well tti in Now York. > It la old. It la tnm but only as old as tbs “rsotoratieu” In Francs, Although tbe mat cate a much earlier and The counterfeits may wually be de tected by (be surfhee of (be gilding. ®So «eel %' by meaes of metal eaBs wttl rhfch were set’ In n sloes sf “M PP I twin la H _ who dleconttaaed tbe donatiSa fceMtodU cegulariy made for a time to a*ii!»’ { •ionary society. When asked as to Us reasons bs replied: “Well. Pve traveled a WMn my thne. Pro been as (ar ns ■dagWri maiwmmy*,-: s Mack man, and I don't bettsOn l'~ any."—London Standard. — n mmm ru*T—**** 10a! been hi lbs SMraltty 'of dean Mood L : oft aO.’A ^ _ J *W, a. r &'M* i MM