Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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,/3 * s 1. Why will you patronize the mail order houses when you can get better goods at cheaper prices from Wal- terboro merchants? 2. Why don’t Walterboro merchants advertise more and let the people know what they have to sell and what bargains they offer? 3. Why will you send off your - job work when you can get it at home just as cheap or cheaper? 4. Why will you spend money for foreign papers which contain no Colleton County or local news, when you can patronize a paper here at home that will give you more than the worth of your money and keep you pos ted on home affairs? *\ o * These are four vital questions we would like to have you answer. . Remember The Press and Standard is' here to serve you and will do your work promptly and furnish you the news of the county regularly, if you will only allow us to do so. 4 . and Standard, 0 FROM DREAM TO REALITY. 1 A-** »1 »» » I I I I I I I H-M'-MI I *< H *■! HI III t H H || H |t HI Mf * i Millinery Headquarters. [Original.] cnc*- upon a time a family, conslst- Inc of a youns man, tils wife ami two lit; V ohililivn, llve.1 In a caliin near a j:< :; r>' in I'*Tiio wife t!Id tli.- i -'kiln:, took I'are of the home aiul the children, '\hilo the husband wi r’.e 1 in the |K>ttery. KdtuotuI Si*ler a verj- v'"<hI woelnuan. He w - r.*,:!ier hu lined to study pris'esses for lal.r or of priMlucini; new and :>eful articles. Hi«. wife, who was n practical wo rn: n had to bear her share of her bus- hai. I’s handicap. She often argued wi;! hi as to the futility t»f dreatuing ah* nt new pmeesses none of which he had the ability to invent and liefng tin.- drawn fr<>tn hard work which mu'lit advance ids wages and render the family more comfortable. lint it is impossible to change [•eople's dls- posirions, and Mi lly Spier at lust gti'e up trying to change that of her husband. Mi t while there was no addition to the c uufi rts of the home. The larder wa~ no hcttcr. the furniture was get ting more shabby, and the children were ragged. What with the cooking, the housework and the patching of clothes Molly Spier was having a hat.I time of it. Hut with nil her prac ticability her amiable disposition could no more Is* changed than could her hn-i cd's proclivity to dream. Hut otic da\ rdniond came home from the fa*'c ry with a burning fever on him, and it was evident that lie was In for a pa tr.icted illness. There were no unions in those days to take care of a man when lie was ill. u d tin* Spier family sttlVi re.I great ly. Molly Spier got odd jobs to do, which helped to keep them from starv ing. IMmond applied to ids employer for !i- p The pottery owner was a cold, calculating business man and re- p!i> ! that if lie began to pay wages to one of his men while ill he tfbuld end in having to pay all under similar clr- ciimstanees. Tills killed all hope of ob taining anything from that direction. < >no day Mollj- spent what money she had on hand for some fresh pork. Having I •ought more of it than she could use in a short time because it was cheap, she determined to cure a part of it. rutting some salt in a com mon cooking vessel such ns was used In th ee days, an miglazed porous af fair. she filled It witli water and set it on the stove to heat. Then she went out t i attend to another matter. IMmond, who was now convalescent, | was in the only other room in the cab n spending hi.s time, as usual, day ' dre n ine. He begun by inventing in 1 imagination a vessel hard glazed like j glsfrv. a substance that no water could perorate and neither heat nor cold era Having invented this imaginary ves i 1. lie proceeded h> sell ids inven tion for a fabulous sum, build a house. •In - ids wife in silks an 1 satins and j the ' hildreu in eijually tine apparel. | lie Itourd something sizzling In the ! kih h n. and it o i-urrcd to Mm that lie should go in there ynd see wliat was wrong a id eor:i*i’t It. Hut at that n>«>- i men! lie was figuring up ids fo -fune, | and tiie i r*er passed out of hN ■ hid. ' ' j He was si"! dreaming win^n In* In ard j Molly g i ho > f c kiti hen and utter an excluiuati m if in.patienee. Then slit* , cann*'i :> 'v IMmond v a.s lying, I holding an empty saucepan, and fori ot, e sin .* IPs illness lost her equa-j ulmity. “All the salt I had is gone.’* she said. "I pi’t it »u a hot fire with water, wiiieli li i 'M over IVshles. jtt't look 1 at the sa’v ep'tn. There's something on the outside that won't lie rubbed off. The pan is spoiled for looks If not for uso. I do think you might have gone into the kitchen and prevented the damage." Cdniond took the saucepan lu his lia^l and examined it. Where the salt and water had boded over the vessel was glazed. He scratched it with ^ nail without effect. He t<s»k out his pocketknife and tri«*d to scrape it off. all to tu» pur]Kise. "Molly,” he said, “you've made us rich." She turned away with an expres sion of impatience. He got up and lild the saucepan under the bedclothes. Then, with a step so strong that his wife looked at him with amazement, he went out and larnght on credit a bag of salt. Before he went to be<t that night be had roughly glazed every cooking vessel in the cabin. The next day he broke up one of the vesaeia and took a piece to the owner of the pottery. "How did you do it?" asked the potter. "That's my secret," Edmond replied. “What do you want for your aecret?" “A third interest In yoor pottery." Time passed, do ring which the potter submitted the giaxlng to scientists, of fering a Urge tom to any one who would tell him how It had been ef fected. Bat none of them could tell Only Edmond and Molly Bpier knew, and Molly proved that a woman can keep a secret Besides, Edtqond goo- vlnced her of Its raloe. Weeks passed, daring which banger still made Its a bods in their cabin. Edmond was of fered a large sum for bis secret He declined. Then he was offered a quar ter interest in the pottery. But he held Arm, and Molly at last caught the Infection of his confidence till his ‘term* were complied with on condi tion that It prove practicable and not too expensive. The dreamer’s dream was realised. Only be had nothing to do with the Invention. It was Molly's. From a cabin the Spier family removed to a commodious dwelling and afterward to a palace. Molly Spier was indeed dressed In slik and satins, and the chil dren were brought up in luxury. ELINOR T, BOYD. • Ladies: My store is full to oveniowin:' with beauti ! ;; ful.spring and summer hats. I havo sold an immense ■ !! line this spring and will please and s**ll to the most care- d ful buyer. k Call and inspect and you w ill selm, buy ;; be pleased . » Respectfully, flFirs. J. S. Jones. I I I ll'lll ill I IWW4IIM I Hi I I I II I I I 1 I H»tW i t !—™ OF ALL KINDS DONE A Gbe press anfc Stanbarb. We,have just’received a new stock of letter and note paper, bill heads and statements, enve lopes of all kinds ari colors. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED : < Prices reasonable which we will gladly quote you. Blank legal forms of all kinds always carried in stock. Call and see us when in town. * 5 l * 9 fi 9 I 9 5 f «* .? J DO YOU KNOW PROF. HOLDEN.' -o The Man Whose Corn Lrcture* anj Corn T rain* Have Added More Than 1 went) Million Bushel* to the corn Crop uf Iowa. Prof. Holden ha* prepared for ua a liook whi ’h zives the cream of hia lectures on corn growing. It tells ail about *eed selection, seed testing, get ting n stand, corn Judging, corn peats, el<‘.. etc. It is a pracietu farmer’s handh tok. it is not theorv but practice, jdst ns it 1ms been worked out ou the ftirnt. T to name )f thi- work is Till’ A B (' OF CORN Cl LTl RH “MOST VAI.UABI.E HOOK OF TH° CI NTURY.'* A. I Root, the veteran agriculturist and bee man, viys: “This lH>ok is the most valuable work lublished in the 'ust cent ;ry if the farmer will take take right hold of it with enthusiasm ,u>! pur it- e-ichiugs into practice." The book la 5 1-1 by h 1-4 inches. < > .tali,* 1 '•i psge. and over 80 illus trations- Well printed, mnily bound'. want to put this book In the hands of every live tarmer and farmer* y m ihe country, and will make the price low accordingly. A njanfaniy DDIPC 51,1,1 oin • r stamps, and we DnnUAlIl rilluk- will S-Dd you the book by mail, poatpnld. If when von get it, you are not satis? - drop us a . irl m I vc n i!! return yoor money, also postage for the returr, ol' the b ok. Could anything be fairer ? Address THE SIMVIOXS I’l °)LISHIX(j COMPAX.V Puli, of Holden's Coni Hook Springfield, Ohio Occasionally a liar tells the The woman who is ambitious truth for the purpose of throw- to Locome a society leader begins ing people oil' the track. by leading her her husband The life of a woman whose husband has no bad habits must be rather monotonous. This Is what Hon. Jake Moore, State- Warden of Georgia, says of Kodol For I Dyspepsia: “E. C. DeWitt «fc Co., Chicago. IU.—Dear tMr*—I have gu fler- ed more than twenty years from indl g eat ion. About eighteen months ago I, had grown so much woise that I could not digest a Croat of corn bread aim oonld not retain anything on my stomach. I lost 25 Ibt; in fact I made up my mind that I could not live hot a abort time, when a friend of mine reoonameded Kodol. I consented to try it to please him aad was better in one day. I now weigh more than I ever did in my Hie and am In better health than for mnny years. Kodol did It. I keep e bottle constantly, and write this hoping that hnmenity may be beoeflted Yours very truly, Jake C. Moore Atlanta, _*g. 10, 1906." Bold bv Walterboro Drag Co. around Ly the nose. Even the man who'i* fond of jolly companions draws :he line at a laughing hyena. * * * Bees La vat i vs Cr ngb Syrup recom- nu tried by mothers lot yonng and old la • rompt relief f<<r roughs, colds, croup, h**ar»«-i.es-, whooping cough. Gently- iaxniive and pleasant to take. Guaian- teed. Should he kept in every hoose- hold. Sold by Walterboro Dreg Co. Bow’s This? u / We offer One Hnndred Dollars Re ward for say case of Catairh that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrf On re. F. J. CHENEY * CO., Toledo, O We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cbeney for the lest 15 years, snd believe him perfectly honorable in alt bnsinete transactk ns, and financially able to carry ent any obligations made 1 bv his firm. Wai.dixo, K inn an A Makvin, Wholesale Drnggis's, Tolerlo, O. HaU’e Catarrh Core is taken ln»er- tally, acting directly upon t be blood and mneons surfaces of the system. Toalmonlmla sent frve. Price, ?6c. per bottle bold by Call Druggists. Take Hull’s Family Pills for cenatipa- tion. There’e probably oometbing doing in the ghodt-layin line when the shade* of night begia. to fall. Wood's Liver Medicine ia fcr the je- lief of Malaria Chills and Fever and all ailments resulting from daranaad dition of the Liver, Kidneys aad der. Wood’s Liver Medicine m e to tbe Hver end bowels, headache, constipation, ney and Hver disorders gentle laxative. It is the Meal .. for fatigue and vreaknem. It's effect* on the entire system felt tbe first dose Tbe fl oo Mae cea nearly 218 timet the qaaattty of the 5oc size. In liquid form. Pleasant So take. Bold by Walterboro Drag Co. DR.KING*S NEW DISCOVERY Will Surely Step Thai Ceath. ; kid* Jnst a little Casc»*weet is all that is neceeaary to give ydjur baby when la orosa and peevish. Cue sweet contains no opiates nor harmful drags and la highly recommended by mnrtmss ev*rw» where. Confortna to the TfaitoMil PlM F hmI end Drags Law. Sold by WsMw* boro Drag Co,