University of South Carolina Libraries
■WIPPi ^ I THt POWER OF ONE THEIR CHRISTMAS 11 * i EGGNOG. about tin* TrLH* of a wo S man vvbosw* husband la late jS for dinner or doesn’t come wlien he l« expcrtcd," say a tbe womau wlto luit tuol ei|HTlen<-es; “tt u .tnrioyinn enoueh at any time, but It in iiottiiiiK in a civilized country to wfi.vf It when you are off In the wilds somewhere nnd dinner and din- •er ^ettiiif sre two of the most Impor tant (tiinas In life. -When Mr. Blank took me and the i«by some years ago to try life 3D a Texas sheep ranch we found there were a good many things in the world that we had no conception of Itefore. and life took on a different aspect. It was a happy life, hut it was not an #asy one. I had lo ijp^ 1 all kinds of bounesrork. the hardest kind of hous<> work, and cooking in j house situatetl ki a Texas chaparral is not cooking as it Is thuie even in a New York flat. We lived chiefly on game which Mr. Blank stiot as we needed It. Our veg •taMist were • I 1 canned -|>ens. corn and a certain ihmuImt of thiags we always on hand. “I »ti|ipo»e I made myself a great deal tn^re work than ww« uecessary and did twice as much e<M)klng. hut I waa use«t to every!hinc In eastern •tyic. and It did not occur to me that I mold have things In snr other wav We always had dessert etery day fnt dinner I made rake, and practically we lived In the wilds of Texas exactly SB we could here. “Weii. the day wtien Mr Blank did not couu* home to dinner was .Yew Tear's There was not so much dlfftM - eaoe tod ween the days--they were all wortlng days-but I had tirepared a special dinner Mr ninuk was grdng off Iw the dipping vats, bur be wns to bo buck at » o'chick for tllniter. anti I profMreil a gtiod one It was rnbhir. I think, (list day Our nearest neighleirs were s family of Alsatian* whom we khew very well ami who had been ▼dry kbWl (o us. That iitonilug liefore been It fa at Mr. Kiattk bad ridden over there xm hualnesa of a«»ine kind. They had Mode eggnog to celebrate the day. add of ronrae he muat accept their hoapHwHty and taka a glass. “Now. a good atroog eggnog la not ex«ctl.v a before breakfast drink for a man who la not iu*ruetonied to taking It ftt that hour In the morning, and the •gguug wan a atrong on a. It was New Tsar's day. and eggnog Ingredients can be foetid la Texas when potatoes can not When Mr Blauk came home he :» jsoc. SURPRISE. IIIS yenr.*’ suit] Canwri_ i: firmly, "tbere are going to ts- no Cbriatmaa surprises in tu\ loppy home—none «»f plcas.iut little attempts at pluv :ig | Santa (Jlaus which ts-giu wbti i*.i- pense and effort and end in moriil}* .« Uou and disap|iointnient. I hiu going to take my wife downtown and let i« i pick out anything she wants wiitnn the limit of tny spending cajMi ity. aiul then I’m going to let her take me around and fix me up with a pan embroidered suspenders of gold ciiT links or any old thing she likes, aim that will make her happy. Neither ua ban quite got over the effects ot the last lirtliday season yet. “You see. we had been married Ju-u long enough Inst Christmas to wo.-tr out our first installment of furniture nod most of our wedding glft» Things were looking a little shabbv around the house, so we both agrei-o that In selecting our little remc.n brances for one another we ought t >. confine ourselves to something w hi h would be mutually useful and auric- five. Both of us had lieeti se< rvil\ longing for a morris chair, one of tb«>se mission things with big leather rush Ions that swallow you up In a delirium of comfort. Mrs. C. wanted It for the beauty o? the library and bet aft erooofl siestas, nnd I wanted It for evening recreation “Months before the Christmas sea •on I began putting by a little aiim weekly, with the monia chair in mind Two weeka before the 21th I went down to a dealer's to look at chairs. I had been looking casually for weeka before, but It was not until I came upon this particular shop that I dis covered what I wanted. It waa a beauty In the darkest and finest of weathered oak. with alt attachments and a pair of fat. greeny brown leath er cushions that fairly foil like pipe dreams, laced with leather strappings and tied to the woodwork with thong* The minute I aaw the chair 1 knew It was for me. hut the price waa rather staggering. The dealer wanted Stt> for It at last, and when I had pet him down to 980 be acted aa though be were glrtng the thing away. I thought It beet to hold out a little, so I merely requested that be give me a day’s <»p tlon on the chair nnd paid a small d<> peelt for the privilege. “Meanwhile my wife bad been sav ing every peony, cutting down on the grocery bill and keeping me on chenp moats with Cbriatmaa In view It seems that she. too, bad a monia chsir on the brain. On the afternoon of the Mine day on which 1 discovered m> prise she strolled Into the Mine simp. The Drat sight of the chair was enough for her. and the offered to bay It on the spot. The dealer waa Inconsolable. He had aold the chair, he believed, ut least be bad given a gentleman an op^ !! V Corn on Farm of VV. M, Godley, Jr., Islandton, S. C. How to produce 125 bushels of corn on one acre of land that will pro duce one bale of cotton. j Preparing the land: Cut the cotton stalks with stalk cutter; cut down the old cotton beds with disk harrow, which will level the land. Oh January 30th the land was broken seven inches deep with ten in<*h two-horse turn-plow. On March 1st it was broadcasted with fifty bushels of cotton seed, being cut under with disk harrow. On March the 2nd the cotton was up. when the disk harrow was run crosswise, cutting six inches deep. On March 28th lay off rows five feet apart, and l»ed out with one-horse turn plow, then take a Dixie plow with wing off and subsoil in the water furrow eleven inches deep, turning two furrows together with the same plow, still running deep. Planting with Hastings prolific: ' On March 31st run s hsrrow on list ahead of com planter, this will give you a good seed bed. Use plate in planter that will drop com ten inchas in drill. Cultivating: 9 • On April 15th run round with harrow; on May 1st run round with ten- inch sweep; on May 20th run round with sixteen-inch sweep; On May 25th apply 1000 pounds 9-3-3 high grade fertilizer and run out middles very t’eep with tumwlow; on June 12th apply 800 pounds kainit in middle of row and plow shallow, not over two inches deep, with twenty-inch sweep; on June 22nd apply 300 pounds top dresser in middle of row, s6w peas and plow shallow with twenty-four-inch sweep. f# 1 «* auuosv to ok aw i, nr - fonM sot eat hi* hrmikf’siit nnd only teok a feW twntlswn of coffee and ■novated hi* home and rad* nway. *T went to work aud cooked dim- to toy beat Style | lind n 111 I •• “d atom, for It wa* jlwjy* u nrn 1 «l.v.-o we were, except when • " in'n r t a me up Mverythim; *••<« to |»erfe<*- tton sod ready t . t i tUe table at 2 o'clock, hut ' r ic nk did not come. I lookial mu. i.;r i»* waa nowhere In -eight. lu*. c..,ck passed. 2:30. 3 othM-i.. nnd «itf| tie did not come. * W ..tie would have supposed that >1 w.Mild have been frightened and exnethlng bed happened to him. t'or pe ta one of the must considerate >ef men and tbit waa a moat unurual bee Strew ce But I waa not frightened. If anything had happened probably the Mien would have brought me word. I bad a gieal dinner preftared. and he did *«M c«Mue. aud «hi New Year** day. 1 grew more and nnwe angry a* the time |MMw*d. until by night I was hurd- ty In a condition to <«peak Ity and by be rode up He Aectued to feel my mood Anyway, hi* first words were: “ ’t nuppoae ymt are provoked.’ “ ’Yeu,’ I said. ‘I am.* “He was angry then, and he went off to stake out Ida hon*e without an other word It didn’t last long, how ever, and we mine to an understand ing w “tt xiocnis that that eggnog, taken the first thing In the morning, had been too much for him He had hard ly left the hou** before | u . wa» over come tvlth an irresistible desire to sleep. He aaya he never knew how he reached the dipping vals. for he slept newt of the way on his horse’s back. When he got there be found working was simply an (mpoaslhillty. The men had a little Khanty, aud he managed to crawl up there, throw himself on the ioor, and there be slept all day long without stirring until night, when he had slept off the effects of the egg- “I do not look upon eggnog now aa nocuous drink as I did atone I know there waa nerar a _ such a lang •* Mr. Mint te «■ - a a.. ■Ufa Expenses per acre 50 bushels cotton seed at 25c $12.50 2100 lbs. fertilizer 21.40 Tillage and cultivation 7.15 Seed 1.60 InnH rent 3.00 Total $45.15 124 bushels and 9 quarts at $1.00 $124.25 Fa ponses 45.15 Net profit. 0 0 A . $79.10. ■*' ax larvao ms arniiowa. -v tion on It, and the gentleman had paid a deposit, but If madam would leave her name something might be done “When my wife spelled out her cogno men for him be lifted hia eyebrows in astonishment. v That waa exactly the name and thoee were the Initials of the gentleman who had already spoken for the chair. My wife thought for a moment Then she controlled her emo tions and merely remarked that such coincidences were quite commoiT walked out without leaving hex. ad dress. “Next day l hied roe to tWr dealer,*, quickly, prepared to leave my onfcr for the chair. But the dealer did tmt seem half so Inclined to aell. A lady had been there, it seems, a lady of my owu name, with the same Initials—odd. . was it not?—who was willing to give the full price for the article Then It ! *was my turn to think. Ou the wholes 1 decided 1 did not want the cbnlr after all. If Kllen wanted to buy It I’d let her have that plensuffe. “Christmas morning we both fussed about the house expectantly. 1 won- ’ dered where on earth Ellen was kec]*- ing my morris chair. After breakfast ' I unloaded a pair of green portieres 1 had tmught for her. Aa the wrap pings came off I sawr he.- race fall. Than she went over to a corner and produced an exactly similar bundle • and unrolled another pair of green ' portieres for me. “ ‘But’ I stammered. 'I thought yon bought a morris ehalrf ”*1! Oku John, didn't yon buy M ' aftnr allf ^ thga, ta tho tight of our andor- COME AND SEE US, IT MEANS MONEY TO BOTH OF' US. We can save you money and we have the goods to do it with. We have just received a , large stock of Dry Goods, Notions and Shoes. We have what you want and will make the Prices RIGHT. It will cost >ou ’ nothing to look and it w ill give us pleasure to show you whether you buy «<r not. We handle the Celebrated Drown Shoe Bros. line of Slices. We can tit • • c» your whole family ami will give you a gu^ranr* e with each pair. Our price ,will surprise you when you figure with us. JMWITSELL SUPPLY’CO. CHHMr*n Cry rat FLETCIU'S ' GASTORIA DOTS FROM OSBORN. Onborn, L>ec. 6. Special;—There has been a petition signed by the people of this neighborhood and placed in the hands of County Com missioner Platt, for a public road to be laid out and built from Osborn Post Office to Parker’s Ferry, the Boundary line of Colleton and Dor chester Counties. This will be great improvement to our county. We are happy to state at this time that W. T. Condrey, the well- known constable of Adams Run, who was so critically hurt while on duty some time ago. is able to be out again. Miss Janie Crosby of Lodge came down on Saturday the 4th inst. to teach school near Osborn. We wish her great success. C. P. Platt of Parker’s Ferry, J. B. Cordrey of Dorchester, Miss Lila Conlrey of Adams Run and Mrs An nie Cord rev of Hickory Hill visited the home ^Agistrate W’eeks last Sunday. • W. S. W. NOBODY CURSES. Nobody curses at our house. Not Pa. nor even the boys; And the man whocurses at this house Should be considered among the toys. V The children hear it and follow suit. They think Pa does nothing wrong, And after a while they learn it, The same as you should a song. * s> , They think Papa it a big strong man. Six feet and a few indue tall. And all he says and doea is right. But in the eyes of the Lord, ha is ■nail. If there is a gray-hairad grandpa. HERE IS THE PROOF That the best body-building and strengthening tonic for Delicate Children IS yrroi 'My 9 rear old daughter was >ak, pale, and had no appetite. I ^ “My two children, who were pamy ix oak pale, and had no appetite. I and ailing, rapidly gained fleahopd gave her Vioel, and she began to •trength when I began to give them thrive at once. She gained rapidly Vinol. 1 proved that Vinol is a splao* in weight, color and strength.’* - did took fardaMinla clgdvan, - Mr».W.R GILMORE, Durand, Mich, i Mrs. C ALLEN, Naw Bedford, Masa. Vinol builds up healthy flesh and makes thin little limbs round and plump. Children love to take it. We re tun nennle’a monev without Question If docs mol act looey without question ell we claim for It. Try It, JOHN M. KLEIN, Druggist, Walterboro. M. KOHN’S Gigantic Furniture Sale Now Going on-—For 60 Days Only $6.00 Safe, at ... . 56.50 Safe, at... . - - 54.50 54.75 Bedstead, at . . • • *2-75 57.75 Bedstead, at . . . • $4?5 58.50 Bedstead, at . . ■ • 14-75 $6.00, Washstand3, now . . $4-00 52.00 Rockers, at . . • • *1-59 $3.00 Rockers, at . . . . 5 I '^9 51.50 Dining Chairs, at . . . 98c 52.50 Dinings Chairs, at • $ * *49 WE ARE NOW SELLING ti Clothing, Shoes, Hats, etc., at Very Small Margin Men’s Suits from . . . $3.50 up Youth’s Suits from . . . $2.75 up Ladies’Skirts from . . . $1.00 up Ladie's Cloaks and Hats a Specialty. ~ We can sell you a pair of Shoes for 98c Come and Get Our Prices Before Buying Elsewhere. M. k© H N ■? « "m Remarkable Story| I The story of Mrs. Matilda Warwick, of Kokomo, Ind.. as told below, proves the curative properties of that well-known female remedy, Wine of Cardui. I Mrs. Warwick says: “CARDUI It Win Help You “I suffered from pains in my head* shoulders, limbs, side, stomach Jow down, dizziness, chills, ner vousness, fainting spells and other female troubles. I was almost dead. Three doctors did not help me. At last, I took Cardui, and with the first bottle ob tained relief. Now I am cured. But for C&rdui, II would have been dead.” Try Cardui AT ALL D&ua STORES M. JAFFA OF THE NEW STORE SELLS AT THE LOWES r PRICES GENTS’ FURNISHING, SHOES, NOTIONS. ETC. WALTER ST. ' WALTERBORO, S. C. just take him down little children By telling him about his age. And now my dear little boys and girls 1 mutt drop Old Santa a line Advising him that all such houses Ha mu*t be sure and never find. OU Santa'* Friend. The best pill is DeWitt's Little Early Rtaara the safe, easy, pleasant aud sure little Hvar pills. DeWitt's Garbo- lixod Witch Haael Salve la the original. Good for cuts, buna or braisee. aad ee- pecially for piles Sold hv J M Kl eia EWfiro ■ s m£u jt i’ % \ u 1