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. *■ >1 ' 0- % O ■ the press and standard, walterboro, s. c. PAGE SEVEN Why Will Yon Take THOSE'LOIKT DRIVES: « oo Postal Plussaatrlv*. An old negro rutshed frantically Into the postoffice. He was al most out of breath, for it was time for the north-bound train to arrite and he wanted—Uf When yow can go to H. D. Padgett. Jr. at Ruf fin, S. C , and get what you want and just as cheap. I deal in Groceries, Dry Goods, Furniture, Stoves, Trunks, Coffins and Caskets ALSO Get your wagon and buggy repaired and ) our horse shod. My blacksmith shop is open Six Days in the Week « * • H. D. Padgett, Jr. B J RUFFIN, SOUTH CAROLINA lillinery Notice. Come to see m** and get your Fall H its. Every thing new in Ready to-Wears for Ladies. Misses and childien. 'Also Patterns of the best dress and picture hats. Miss Maude Kelly, an experienced and competent trimmer of Atlanta, is with me and will take great pleasure in showing you our line. I aiso have a nice line of dress goods and Ladies Furnishings. Be sure you see me before you buy. Mrs. S. A. Smoak, ^ s - c - COTTON SELLING TIME When you sell your cotton you wish to buy where you are sure you can get the most for ycur money. We offer you special prices in the lines we carry, and invite you to call and inspect our g^ods. JUST RECtIVED A LINE OF FANCY DRESS GOODS FOR THE LADIES AT VERY CLOSE PRICES CAR OF WIRE FENCING TO ARRIVE. J. B. MILEY & COMPANY GENERAL merchants LODGE, SOUTH CAROLINA. ''"R | Tto Polly of Lawsuit*. Whactever/ else you do dont get Into a lawsuit even some trifling disagreement with a neighbor. The courts are full of suits which could have been settled by mutual concession or by arbitration to the great advantage of all parties ex cept the lawyers in the case. Just the other day a suit was decided after two or theer years of expense Mid worry on the part of two fam ilies. It was over a disputed line, as so many such suits are, and the land in dispute was probably not worth fifty dollars. The suit cost the winner $225, and the loser, be ing taxed with the costs, iceessar- ily had'' more to pay. It is prob- iihle that each party s||eiit at least $H>0 worth of time in monkeying wdfh the case. Another case recently noticed is where a farmer had u riglit^ to get water from a spring on a neigh bor's land. He wanted to build a spring-house, the owner objected. The first man had got aloing with out a spring-house for years, it would not have damaged the land- owner a penny, yet an injunction has been issued and a- lawsuit is on. Kach party will probably spend several hundred dollars and be no better off, and the old friendliness of the neighborhood will be a thing of the past. To begin a stilt In court, over some such trivial matter which could easily be adjusted by a little give and take, is not only the poor est sort of business policy—a* case of wc-isting certain dollars to gain possible cents,—but is also a crime against the community and a fool ish waste of the best part of life. For what shall it profit a man if he gain a needless lawsufk only to lose 'he good-will of his neOthibynt and oral thousand to attend. On Wed nesday and Thursday of fair week, the big days, special trains will be operated from Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg, Charlotte, Charleston, and Augusta. Extra equipment will be carried on* all other trains. Among the other features to the fair will be horse races and auto mobile races. In addition to the harness stakes there will be seven running races with purses aggre gating $ 1.000. More than a score of car loads of the steel auditorium. purchased from the city of Greensboro Imve i arrived in the city and the large structure which will seat 35,000 per sous will soot• be erected at the fa-ir grounds.—The State. - - j Averts Awful Tragedy. Timely advice giveta Mrs. C. Will oughby, of Marengo. W'is., < U. Nol 1 i prevented a dreadful tragedy and saved two {jves. Doctors bad j said her frightful cough was a "con sumption” cough and could do lit tle to help her. After many reme- dies failed, her aunt urged her to take Dr.vKing's New Discovery. ‘ I have been using It for some time she wrote ‘'aid the awful cough has almost gone. It also saved my lit tle boy when taken with a severe bronchial trouble.” This match less meoicine has no eual for throat and lung troubles. Price B0c and $1 on. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed to Jno. U. Klein. get a letter into the mail in time to catch it. Approaching the de livery clerk, he handed him the letter and a very wet 2-cent stamp saying: "Boss, pleassur lick die here pos tage stamp so bit'll stick on dts here letter. I done Hcked hit all de way from the cote house to the postoffice, but somehow er nuther nit won't stick fer me.” I'tilizing the- Boy’s Tonjgue. A stylishly dressed young lady with a package of leters bought 50 cents worth of stamps. Evidently not relish the idea of licking them, she called a newsboy to her and said: * "I say sonny, 1 want to rent your totgue long enough to stamp these letters.” holding up the sheet of new stamps before him and point ing to the bundle of letters which she laid \ipon a desk. "How much?” laconically asked the gamin. "Nickel.” briefly respondt-d the young lady. Make it a dime an’ it’s a. go.” replied tlie shrewd little stret ur chin. The young lady agreed to the denial d. thinking perhaps that the increased cost of living - justi fied it, and the bystanders were amused at seeing a boy's tongue utilized as a. sponge as be held it out for the >oung lady to moisten some two dozen stamps upon. Helm* AtklitjiMe*. Some amusing addresses have bfeti font d upon letters droped in to 1'ncle Sam's mail boxes but usu ally the postnu ster or sortie of the clerks are equal to the task of in terpreting them. A letter was once properly forwarded to its des tination bearing this superscription: "WC.OD. , JOHN Kansas.” The solution of this address puz zled the postoffice employes for a while, but, putting their heads together, they finally correctly de- cide-d that the letter was meant for Mr. John I'nderwood. At/iover, Kansas, and forwarded it to him accordingly. A similarly addresed letter was received at the Dallas post- office from some town in Alabama. It was addressed to: '& CO. 1 A. H.. Dallas, Tex.” It did not take much men tel ef fort to determine that the missive was intended for Messrs. A. H. Be- lo & Co., publishers of the Dallas News. A Khyniing AiklresN. A blushing country damsel In ote of the Northwestern States took a latter to the postoffice that was evidently intended for her sweet heart, explaining to the postmr.«ter that the youi?g,nian she wished to send it to was working in a timber camp near Silver City, Idaho. She asked the postmaster to direct it to Mr. Gus Jones, saytng that she did not have r. very good “hand write.” Whet. Gus got the epistle the en velope read: "Augustus Jones, The web-foot scrub To whom this letter wants to go. Is cutting crodwood for his grub At Silver City. Idaho.” The great showman, P. T. Barn- urn, once received a letter from Europe addressed simply: "Mr. P. T. Barnum. ^ United States of America. Although no postoffice and not even the State in which Mr. Barn um lived was given, the letter was promptly delivered to him at his home in Bridgeport. Conn. The persieteice with which some people insist that there “must be" letters in the psotoffice for them is sometimes both irritating end amus ing. A small boy in a small West ern town was sent to the postoffice. “Is there a letter here for John Murphy?” he naked. The delivery clerk, after running through the M* replied: “No, son; rothing for John Mur phy.” “Is there anything for Tim Mur phy*?” “Nothing for Tim Murphy.” was the answer. . • Isn't there a letter for IV* M urphy*?" “Nothing for Patrick, I'm sorry to say.” “There's surely a letter for Ter rence Murphy;?’’ the small boy in- LOiS COHEN &C0. 232 and 234 King Street and 203 Meeting Street, Charleston, S. C ♦ * „ . . . THE ARCADE DEPARTMENT STORE. The Largest Wholesale and Retail Mail Order House In the Sooth cpr /'M A I We are members of the Charles- !-• V/l "ton Refund Association, and will pay your Railroad fare to Charleston if you shop here, in addition we guarantee you better values and great er varieties to choose from than you will find outside of the Great Market Centres. CLOSING OUT SUMMER STOCK We are overstocked with Spring and Summer Mer chandise of every kind: Tailor-Made Suits, Silk and Lingerie Dresses, Children’s Dresses, Ladies Waists, Walking Skirts, Dry Goods and Notions, Floor Cover ings, Lace Curtains, Shoes, Millinery, Gents Furnish ings, Etc. THESE GOODS MUST BE SOLD QUICKLY To Accomplish this we have Placed the Entire Stock on Sale FROM A QUARTER TO A HALF LESS THAN ORIGINAL PRICE o Pay us a Visit, Write for Samples or send us an open order. We will attend to it as carefully as if you were here in person. sisted. Things were assuming a some what ludicrous aspect and the man behind the delivery window said in e- solemn manner: "I am grieved to tell you, young man, that Terrence Murphy, Michael Murphy, Gabriel Murphy, Matthew Murphy, Mark Murphy, Luke Murphy, Peter Mur phy Paul Murphy, nor indeed any Murphy, past, present, or future, male or female, native or foreign, singular or plural, civllixed'or sav age. has any mail whatever in this postoffice.” The little fellow, with a look of disappoii.-tment, started out but just r.i he reached the door he turned back and asked; , “Say, Mister, is there a letter here for Bridgett Murphy? , It Is sometimes amusing to see how persistently some people who rarely get a letter or other mail matter will visit the postoffice. Pe.r- liaps they imagine that it makes them look important to inquire for letters which they do not expeet. In a small Texas town a seedy-look- ing at:<d evidently ignorent individ ual asked for mail at the delivery window. As there was no letter for him, he asked the postmaster if lie didn’t have a paper there. After a search of the papers he was told there was nothing for him. “What paper do you taka?” the p«»stmaster asked. “Oh. 1 dpv.t take no paper at all,” was tlie reply, “but.” he :ul- ded, “I jest thought some of ’em mought have sent me a sample copy.” DIUK NAYLOR, —The Home and Farm. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. A woman recently ' shot her hus band because he was lazy. If such punishment or remedy becomes pop ular what a slaughter there will be in some communities. In this country about 70 per cent of the national income is spent in . warlike preparations and the results of war while but 30 per cent is spent for all other purposes. If the figuree were reversed! how much greater would be the comfort and prosperity of the people. And ye*t. startling as the figures are, they edmpare favorably with those of other great nations. — — « The busitess man who does not advertise has some compensations. He has plenty of time for medita tion, or to go fishing. He may also sit by his store entrance and watch people pass by to trade with his ! more enterprising competitors. In truth there is nothiin to equal j abstinence from advertising for giving the merchant ample leisure. Maty people who profess will ingness to die for their country would probably be very anxious to live if they were called upon to make the sacrifice. The men who minds his own busi ness avoids lots of trouble which would surely come to him if he concerned himself with other peo ple's affairs. The nonentity has neither friend nor foe; the strong man makes* enemies but he also makes friend ships that stands all testing and end u re. • . JL When wealthy people give way to outbursts of passior it is called nerves; when poor people do so it is called ugly temper. The man who is gettiag grey wii!t| wiwk. and nothing but work, is not a master but a slave. The one impen-tive tiling for him to do is to break the shackles by letting up on the strain and this can ticsf be done by diverting the thought to other channels and, in the sum mertime, by getting fare to face with nature. Tlie best way to learn how to tr.llc is to learn how to think Even small talk cannot lie much of a success without thought. Never was it more needful to have positive convictions as to right and wrong, and, having them, to i follow the right ifni BUILDS l r THE THIN AND WEAK ^^ e \1\ O ' G v * iil :s tifii his own friendliness ton —The Progressive FarmV them? Premium List For State Fair. Special e-ttention will be paid ♦his year by the South Carolina State Fair to be held here from | October 30 to November 3 to agri- : culturaJ , exhibits. The premium •tat for the fair was announced to- j «lay by J. M. Cantey, the secretary. The president of the fair society ta J. A. Banks of St. Matthews. He baa been working hard during the ♦mmer to make this the greatest fair in the history' of the associar- tion. At a meeting of railway officials bere several days ago it was decio- •d’to offer the usual cheap round- trip rates to the fair. Mid the In dications are that there will be sev- Kuniose Makes Thin People Fat, «n* Dr. Klein Will lU-tum Money. In Saniose are combined _ flesh- j giving food elements that soon pro duces a steady and noticeable gain in flesh. Taken after meals. Saniose mingles with the fobd. ard causes ; It^to be assimilated so that th** fat producing elements are retained in tho syjstem, and you w ill soon get good flesh, steady nerves ami a healthy body*. Dr. Klein has seen such rema-rk- able results following the use of Sa- raose that he offers to pay for the treatment if it does not make thin people plump and rosy. You run no risk whatever in buy ing Samose; it is a true flesh forming food a-nd is sold under the guarantee of one of the moat reput able business houses in Walterboro to Xffund the money if It does not give complete satisfactioo. O’Riley’s in Town By Mrs. Jos. W. Lucas, Walterboro, S. C. \ The little baby of just a year You’ll all aj'ree is a “perfect dear.” But looks will change as time pass by. And to keep “The baby” we like to try. tPr-- Located Opposite Methodist Parsonage for a Very Limited Stay—About two * ■ Weeks. So his picture we’ll tak»“ as he loot s pist now. With dimples and smile: and the curl on his brow, But this is Do news to the mothers around, As they are all busy—O’Riley’s in Towff.