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Pnn M "^81 * hi ddii g \ P s a s. t STERLIN SILVER CUTULASS HANDRAINrEL) CHINA FINE CLOCKS and i IJRONZES A fine stock on band to selec from- and New (toons I airman daily, We have a hands me stock o 'ine Jewelry in all the I Litest ideas. Boat lay yoar presents fcetor seeini oar pods, P. h. Lachicotte | <!v company, jewelers. 1424 Main St., Columbia South Carolina. Ca( it *^UU L I 1^1 I 1 K'- ! w\y THE SOUTIPS GREATEST c 1* 9 i j, rf< v f Convenient Schedules on ail loeu trains. Winter Tourist Ratesarc now ii effect ail to Florida points. For full information as to rates routes, etc., consult nearest South ern Railway Ticket Agent, or BROOKS MORGAN, Assistant Gen. Pass. Agent, Atlanta, G; R. W. HUNT, iOlv. Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. (JA LAMAS BRO't RESTAURANT FOR LA lESand (iENTS APt >at* o ra/l \\/n r> U ington Streets, AUGUSTA, GA. SOUTHERN RAILROAD TRAIN' pass the door. Gentlemen can ge on or off right at the door. EVERYTHING THE MARKET AF FORDS SERVED by POLITE AN! ATTENTIVE WAITERS. Newly fitted up. Perfect service OYSTERS, GAflE, and all the fines meats cooked by the best cooks ii Augusta. POPULAR PRICES. When you come to igusta, let u feed you. Make our restaurant you headquarters. We will take charg of your packages and treat you in manner that will be certain to mak you our permanent customer. Come and see CALAMAS BROTHERS' RESTAURANT. Also manufacturers of all th FINEST CANDIES. Chocolates, Don-lions, Creams an Fruit Candies, put up in handsom boxes for Holiday Gifts. MAIL ORDERS HAVE PROMP ATTENTION. Order your meals by Telephone an we will be ready when the train ai rives. COR. DROAI) & W ASHINGTO STREETS. AUGU.nTA GA. hone 1244. Subscribe for I'hc \Uvo cote-*" n ;i V < it # A TELEPHOHE POEM. -r-SB VERSES WHICH WOi i PRIZE f FKOI THE BEU COMPART. f 1" r.ceot? out cm he'd in t1 ui nkmMR ' in i> ticli ih S in hern liei- l M |jr| jEfHHiL ephuue Hi d T'l.u.apli Cnuiptm. oi 11 i''l ? , , TM fi p i 'iv fre- U-h phones (o Ilk ti m K'3 tB per?..|)K ^ub'uii i tug tut be- I r?-.i " U ? W v a i t shnll'd 'm v ery li > in Ooiilim NtK-l llnr B H wc>i k no ah Apitr >>n i'< 8 ff ? ! i' " k'J '* " ' * Ati .ina< n*. n U' i.ai, won t n-p on . ?* 11 i r 'in .i i n r |i|- ? ' ? i? ? v.. o> I- -he' V- ** I h I I jWr" )* *? .mi > ner: Ml ' ' r n<i l.t' s u .no y ... ipi v . In, Wbbhhhb i f your it-iu.se - nno d ? hm-Ii on t1< li JI {rr ^ From t ie sparks iho winds hive t Y-Ut.iigii <h die laddi* > ^ In a jiIIv wit-1 a phone SWssmC. If < buiglar comes a burgli ? 1 lien you're leli ai in<ni aiuie Yo l can gei a cop t<? rnib him By reaching lor your 'phone. - 1 You can get your clothes and vlct u.i it *nd your medicines as wo I i ? Y'?u can pel just all you're w,inline I | liy the ringing-if the "Bell!*' ? Kxchuuge. MT. WILLING. buring 'lie w;?rin rain, weather na we have have had th?grtin ? :? improved very much. For sev< ral morntiiUH there wan no lire tin d?*d It seems very strange for the went he j] to be so warm in mid winter. vr. James N I>eLoach has been Fcwergallor real ?ick and missed several days ^ r- in In-* school, bu< we are glad i vl know that he is much be'tt r Mrs E'oinii H-rloeg sp?ri' nd.i COLU VIBIA, * i I > la t Vet- . t VII. il inn 1 I'l.e i ?; I I IN I" Long is L,enrtl> of Wall Pi \ ?.v * i. *li > i |> t" s "Most persons have i r soon. pieces of wall paper ar . , , one length," remarked 1 lie clay road-* are getting aim - man. "Sometimes whe impassible in plac* n t w ittntatiot ?. dors from a distance ^ 'c fact the mal imirteiH make fal??i What the patron Is fl g > d time. may get enough to pa and he may get only ha \ rural route ..spicim tlgure overeconomieally c ough this neigi.h iho' >t < ?-y < generously. Our dome mi. over a new rout e f fin i?. ? nI> eight yards to the pie< , , . France and Germany -moor the far.-I- hu-;, >> whl,e ^ Eng] . straw, cleanln. up <: ? rolls so lengthy that th< r uber.i of grou twelve yards. Then, ol ; * when lh?* grw the repeat. On some of t-? pl'-w l'oe pl;? with the smallest flgu ami eul iv.ited If I | nothing, and on sou t' * ? . ' + 0 I 11 , yll. !ut- Cnt viitf ' ? Tj " ! ' f and beard of Louis I brought on three cent SOUlHbRNR. ?hed The archbishoiJ n decreed that the Frencl IKJL.fc IN I unce, should shave am cut short. His appei Jany. 7th , I tletl and amused his Atlanta, i,a.. ; Eleanor, that she laut schedule Changes o.. sn. ?, ~nt?nptu0ualy Division, effect ive .!?? . . ?, h* ?f Anjou. after of England. The sh L?. oluiU'tia 1:the disgrace for a til Baiesburg 07 ? 8ent evidence of his x I'rein on "i '3 . P?Pe aud obtained a di Warienvllle :ll? ? then married Henry, ai \r. Mb?lTSf\ li n the rich provinces of ] j j^(1 |3| enne passed into ms made hot attacks on : v. \Uw-Usta , . .. ,, VNarr-nvllle :< devastating wars, whic Trenton ? =37 some 300 yenrs. were Kiteshurg *? of 11118 cropping of n m . r < inmhia 4 JJO 129 A Dead Rraat of Vni , ' *, ultirabla 1HI ;i Olaus Magnus, bisl . .. tells how a certain no ilatesburg btftna. saw on Aug 27 1532 Trenton, R:l5 :?. ?? of vast magnitude" \ Ar. Allyust,a 9:5 cast up on the shore Mo. 1.10. It was ninety feet lo - IjV. \ugw>ta 10:30 p. n- Ave feet in thickness, t Pass . idtn. i " whale from the mentl '..'. .Inirg 1 u holes, and the fact " t.-nt teeth "there grew to 1 m ' ' " 1,000 plates of horn, ha ) N". 7 The noble Englishmai l.v. OPuni'iiw '?:? " p. m. ha(i "three bellies like thirty throjits, whereol , Pass Batesburg ? :14 p. m great.. Qn Aug 28 l t " Trenton 6 :58 p. m'? man with business ini ? Ar. Augusta 8:10 p m. fli?bt3 of b,rds collide neur Preston that ISO No. 8. earth. lie picked tht ? thein in Preston marke Lv. Augusta 7:50 a. m s l^ass Trenton s-AO a. m Hoyai women < r " Hat sburg 9:38 a. ni Marie Antoinette v e \r. oiipnuh 10:50 a. m curds. On one oocasio: ( thlrty-slx hours at a s n<i. 4h Kx >on an intermission of a c( e "The piny at the q .v, 'HiriiiiN Pontainebleu," wrote i \r> Perry 8:20 a. it aepb n # ..waa ?ke th| gambling house?peop No. 4., Ex. ^un were there and ming p.rrv. 7-1* p., coram. Great scandal the fact that several \r. Bateaburg 8 :55 p. i . cheated." No. 50 Sunday Only. Anne Boleyn, Ileury i> . v.... u ..i n ? queen, was never qui t v Bntesburg 1!, when playing for hli ' Tiy 9.-0 a n> records of privy pun No. 49. unday Only. full of her winnings 11 v Perry 7:15 p ir spouse, for she was a e Vr. bat xl.urg 8:i5 p. m Chicago Journal. T 2uwnrvrvntfiiHtfwmnfmi5 - ^ A XortTny Li ! % If you have a| ,^ZTo,lZ ^ Hp'lHnrflP' lSIf*r= 5 xplnlnetl by some of * 1 vctudLllvj 1^1 Cl pje as follows: At the I ^5 v\rld the angels whos ? vaigine ^ scatter the soil forgot ,.-ii - this, the guardian an g: *11 it in 10 minutes. ^ Qindo ooniplaintg to For Sale at. all ^ was to be done? Imp ^ ilL'l If! QTRDPC -* the whole of the creal oH'KtSa. 4 of Norway. "Come, r 7<iiiiUiiouiuiaaiiUiUiUiUR XJf.? f conscience stricken a ,? . floor of heaven, and tt to Int Advoca found they gathered 1 I and scattered erer jock*. r IHPi 1 " ~ m mwm wyoqi , \ 1 Put a Bull Bi 1 I We call especial attention to th 2,^' m m of stay with main bars. Pajti* * M '* the essential of every WP/lh' _ Mm has a hinge joint the fence cam m *nd ?gl>t itself. All rigid stay !e '/Jim' '/ m m disappointing, as they crush dowi WmA 1 V AurniM H||WI/M/uOk HITItniUf Is made with a hioge joint, by w M secured and the fence if properly ? Vrfmr ? ?~m M nitely. With the hinge joint, no - - x/'ji , tJ M effect the connection of stay and . | y/| | J all rigid stay fences. \ We Aim Wctmwi-l > HARDWAR rs, Blinds, Paii t, Cabinet Mantels is wares iongerT,--means Devoe paintg . BROWN & 6R0., s. c. npcr Rolls. Origin of Lilac. in idea that all Both name and tree are of Persian e necessarily of origin, but came to us through Turkey. I a wall paper Tbe name means "bluish" (see Skeat) in 1 receive or- aut^ Indicates tbe color of the flower. I wonder Just treo 18 sa''* to have been brought guring on. He to Vienna by Busbecq late lu the sixper two rooms, teenth century. The first mention of If enough. Some 1110 nama I have seen in English Is lu and some over- Gerard, where it Is given as "lillach or ntic papers run Hlach" and Is said to have been applied re. Those from by ,ater physitians" to Syrlnga measure nine enerulea, or "blew pipe." by which evIsh make their Wently Gerard means the lilac. ?y contain quite "These trees," he says, "grow not ' course, there's ! Jvlhl ln England, but I have seen them the new papers growing In my garden in great plenty." res this Is next There are- as ia wel1 known, different ae others, nota- I varieties, some wliib-' some different . M ' lj V ^ von-lr Mm I rail/* -Philaicl- . e know the Bound of t '4% uiy. .?K- o.u L/C?tr LU It il I' 0 ot Honitoi., . ! " vl. are immune urles of blood- from arrest uut.. ^... evening of Rome had for wj,ue tjie i10rse fair is i? , j.civs 1 king, as n pen- arm of t^e )aw powerless. Thl I haae his linir jg ln continuation of a quaint and pic trance so star- turesque ceremonial which has bee. spouse, Queen hand<Hl (lown from the time of Heur ;bed aloud and in. When the horse fair begins tit< to flirt with the town crier. In the gorgeous dress of : ward Henry II. beadle of the last cen.ury, appears car orn king stood pyiug a pole, at the end of which is ; ne, but at last jarge gilt glove decked with ti >wer :rlevance to the Having rung 1; : h -u'leil three tin., ivorce. Eleanor tjie crier, in his ti i\ e co. t.ercd hat. a. ad as her dower nounoed: "O cz. i voi. ovez! Ti e n Poitou and CIul- | is begun; tl,,* g'.ove is u;>; no man < | nanus. lxiuis be arrested til! ilie g ovo is do*vn. ?: Normandy, and save the king." E ell sentence is < h continued for rused by the clilh lre:i stand ng n the consequence an(j nt tbe conclusion they scrnmb c t lonarch's head. nuts. The glove is taken dowu a so set. ( M*Knitndp. )Op of I.psala. Qanlltlcx Inline In the Sftfs. ible Englishman "a man is a man down to his 11 :m , "a dead beast and a woman is a woman down to h vhich lmd l>ecn little toes." writes Dr. Havelick E at Teignmouth. in his book "Men and Women." Ti; ng and twenty- is hardly a measurable quality of and evidently a sort which Is not unlike In tic Ion of its blow- sexes. Women even bti ton '1. that Instead of ments on the other side fro... th... lis palate above sen by men and choose Sunday i:. irj- on one side." of Monday as their favor'te ; a noted that it making way with the-r. ei < vast eaves and as laboratory test; go r>r ' tlve wore very that women are im no 73d, an English- perior in general tai iie Btlncts saw two probably superior iu the d.srr n.i with such force of tastes, with no advantage of tlieni fell to way In the case of the othe:- ct >m up and sold Women have better inemoriet forthwith. more rapidly, bear pain better better from wounds and serl .; Samblera. are less cliangeil by old age a ras a slave to longer. 11 she played for littillg. With but A Shot Kroui Rchlnil. >imle of lnnr? 0,,n nf !"> ? ineen's table at of the tragedy in 1STA In which K u .lie hmperor Jo- Kamehatne'ia IV. shot his secretary nt in u common .Mr. Nelson, arises front the manner ii le of all kinds which the monarch tired his revolver led without do- jH said that both men were in i was caused by room alone and were drinking beer i of the ladies The king walked over to a mante . above which was hung a large lookiup 11. s ill fated glass. He toyed with ii revolver for ite so happy as awhlle, his back to his victim, and fi stakes. The ^hen taking note of Nelson's position w expenses are opposite side of the room by run ler roya means of tlie mirror, he pointed the iu y payer revolver over his shoulder and fired. the ball striking the secretary with fatal effect.?Pacific Commercial Ad vertiser. tgend. on Norway, the Th* BoT?" ?nd Arrow, n that country Is The first mention of the bow and arthe country peo row Is found In the Book of Genesis, i creation of the where it is writteu that Iahmael, the e duty It was to *on ?r Abraham, "dwelt in the wllderNorwav. Seeing ness and tiecame an archer." "A how igel of the land shot." too, is mentioned as a measure a Creator. What ot distance. In the sculptured slates osslble to restart found at Ivhorsabad and Nineveh rep Lion for the sake fesentations of archers frequently oc ny little angels," cur> nn^ the bow seems to have been llv and perhaps a weapon In the Assyrian and Persian tt'ie earth." The armies. ngels swept the le little dust they u , , T7T, , . n their draperies Rtad Mysteries of Udolpko the Norwegian f R* - ' *' *5-sr * & :v- <*-*ys* fcjfi8E95H^H^B^^B^^^^R ,.M ' . IHB Bhind the Bars \ uts ie hinge joint at each intersection 1 Mew En - W^ to anno good wire fence. Unless the stay ? deaths b aot receive pressure from contact ^ 1st lust ? hi* uccu uusdiisiaciory %no common i and when once down, remain so. any one M FENCE)?? hich the maximum of elasticity is m stretched, remains in place indefi- M dividual > amount of strain on tne bars can . Anotht bar, while the opposite is true of m death li m should To Please. / Ss > pen to 1 invariabi expected & fit) ^ milium C CO. ? r a batter very knc Am Artist's Mlitskc. hlg Danton, the celebrated caricaturist, ?troke ^ had a wonderful power of modeling Q{ QuJd ( from memory. After one long look at gajd tQ ] his Bubject be could go to his studio fusljlon and make a bust quite perfect In its , guietiy' | resemblance. through One day a young man came to him, ume8 an saying that his sister was ill and about I ^ gjght to die and that, although the*- family 1 the lagt wished her bust modeled, they dared to tlje p, not excite her by mentioning it. turf cad Would he undertake to reproduce her 1.? ? r i mot. iimi features after seeing her once? Dan- I futile s, Ion agreed, and next day the brother , aud Bald Informed his slRter that he Intended turf you to present her with some Jewels and ^ jj0jy that a young nihn would bring some we>u py specimens for her approval. Loudon Dantou brought In the Jewels nnd, going home, modeled u bust of striking resemblance. Next year an old When gentleman, the father of the young ^j. of 8( woman, came to order a bust of the bouey ai brother, who also had died. This, too. tain6 ea was a marvelous success feet to tl The result of such p'annlng, how- her jlke ever, was not always as satisfactory tjjej. reuJ to his patrons as In these cases. A until the gentleman who could not persuade his, froiu ev( wife to sit asked Dantou to enter a UI1<lerstu. certain omnibus one day and fix in his needed fi memory the features of the lady op- jje(. Hfler poslte him. would p He did so, modeled a beautiful bust keeping ? and sent It home. It proved, however, gorged t to be not the mistress, but the maid, ahout au who had also taken the trip In the ..^old onmlbus. goes on r ... . occult ev Strength of Insects and Animals. ^ ^ A series of experiment* made to te*i the Juw force aud pulling and lifting strength of various kinds of Insects gives some curious points for study. It jn notj lino Hooti o t- " 7. , dr .v fourteen tin > hi* otvu weigh j -:se t SSe, ' v.?;r-hr a3 lplat? * ; I-i,,' JSt for welgh te?cb ofthe *urr'-,im<5 th I, aes re-s Ijr ' i ami bca lh m he itor^ , " h ig >' 1 the red iiiic, is iu us uiuiwl iu ui .? and ne w Its own weight as a "dead load." A did not s s-enlist once experimented with a lt Toda small hard shelled beetle by putting have wb him under a common table tumbler, than thre "Hie little creature, not more than one- wiue> fQi ihlrd of an Inch lu length, was ul?!c to Apollinni move the glass lu any direction. Aster gne 0id the experiment had been satisfactorily jt a merl nsade both the tumbler aud the bug sober up were weighed, whereupon It was found Louiavlll< that the little Hercules hud lifted la Ml times its own weight! He did not carry the weight, of course, but caused it The ha to tunke some lively motions. screw ti , Inch. M Fly Whn-1 Initnranrc. tendent < Fly wheel insurance is uuuusi pun? j woras, niatheinatlcs. When a wheel Is re- twelve 1 volved at u b'.gh enough speed the con This dec trlfugal force exceeds the cent ripe: a take, an iuU the wheel flies apart. Solid c.i - i to chang iou expio ics when the speed at tin of brake .Im is roughly three miles a ni.uute. a over the .hick rim explodes just as eusily as n repairs a hin one of the same material. Wood ble. explodes at a greater speed, jointed rou at a less. The underwriter allows Don) i ri 111 speed of u mile a minute, one Under .bird tlie explosion rate. n> a safe 11 of a wor :or solid iron wheels. This pertni nify the .wo foot | u \vh, , i ; -u ahbrevla tons a set ou . \ die it h.-- ;n a . .... some ont dot fly wheel d.twu to two. A jo i . thinking vheel is nilowetl >- id h The u as it mil v Iter has . dy . vlatlou eevoluuous he uu hoiize.-> un. to j. butts, m portion his premium to the sh.e of t theu, stl wheel. The larger the wheel, of cour-i an s for the more destructive its explosion.? more ths Leslie's Magazine. A Moerwchnnm Mine. ' icero "Meerschaum is mined like coal," w*10 111,11 said a pipe dealer. "It is a soft, soap- *vaB like stone, and in Asia Minor Its min- ^ut ing is an important Industry. The a^nlnst crude meerschaum is called hamtash. rentia t It ss yellowish white lu color and a against ( rod clay coat or skin envelops it. The ero blocks cost from $25 to $200 a cart load. ?'rl narr They are soft euouuh to cut with a alone un knife. These Works In summer are dried by exposure to the sun. In winter a heated room Is necessary. Fl- From unlly the meerschaum blocks are sort- 'r^en(^s 1 M Into twelve grades, wrapped In cot- j want to ton and packed in eases with the great- HF,ertaW est care. The bulk of all this meer- 8tani^R 1 schaum goes to Vienna. There the rertuln best pipe makers in the world live."? Btatemei Philadelphia Bulletin. Tl?e Reemnlon of Niagara Kalia. 1>0 R Horseshoe fall has receded more than Trtithfu 26) feet within the memory of living ' n and la now traveling toward Lake Trulh'u Irie at the rate of fully 500 feet a en ury. At present the crest of this fni'. as Its name implies, has the gen- ,, ,. fral outline of a horseshoe, and its 1 u''eroi'Tth is about 8,000 feet, but If the re ent rate of erosion continues the Starfli ugth of the crest may reach 8,000 feet cnu?l v more within the next half inillcnniin. Now the Canadian end of the ,nenta. lorseshoe fall Is a few rods upstream '^e mes ro:n the spot whence Table rock box perfect a! en Into the gorge, but the indicalot s are that thi?cnd of the cataract t>uckpt ili gradually retire toward the I>uf- I ^nie t? .'eri * Islands, leaving n bare cliff a? ,a8^a ti c apex cuts Its way upstream.?Alton cau sot b. Adams in Scientific American. Dreaarv. -? 8u Dwtk'a ?ftnnfuit ^ ot tail wfcen the custom nn ww 4uU It was customary to giaoa imm than a century' ifo once a suicide In the list of y euphemism?as, "In this city, , A. B. suddenly." It wu ao that on seeing such a notice would understand at once that need had taken his own life, ere the days when newspapers >od and respected a certain dareeerre in regard to personal whether of Joy or sorrow. In- E i had some privacy. >r euphemism In regard to i the phrase, "If anything happen." Persons speak of their will or making any daflmgement concerning their poa"In case anything should hap? them." The phrase la almost ly ?sed where death Is hourly , certain things are to be done u persons called, "IT anything happen," meaning that ono sure to happen.?Journal of a Folk Lore. The Scornful Cuddle. r pompous, self sufficient and I golfer was ouce playing ovpr course. He had as his caddie ed old Irish peasant, with a twiug twinkle In the corner of After each stroke?and each aa cruel hard ou the green turf Olreland?the vainglorious one his caddie in the most lordly "Replace ilie turf, caddie!" and patiently the caddie went the performance, thinking volid saying nothing at all until eenth was reached. Then, as duffed shot stumbled its way tttlng green and "Replace the Idle!" rang In his ears for the >. be turned with a look of tnL-orn upon blB august employer 1: "Arruh, Is It replacing the *11 be bidding me to do? By By, it'll be returfing the place all doing when you're gone I"? King. Bees as Acrobats. wax is needed a certain num>lf elected citizens gorge with id hang up in chains or curch bee clinging by her front tie hind feet of the one above Japanese acrobats, and there iain, sometimes for two days, wax scales appear pushed out ;ry pocket. It is not hard to ud that, since much honey Is or the manufacture of wax, a filling with the raw material roduce much more wax by luiet than by using any of the loney for energy In moving d working. But the necessity lng hands" while this work oust ever remain to us another ldence of the close relations In commune.?Country Life In Sober Ensland. Sing have the habits of Englemen more changed than in I if wint Time was when t-ach il ta. "* v hs enfi.i.ded, almost j Led. by an escort of w ine- I ranging from sherry to ctieiu11 tapering thence to madeira ras no good man and true who jo through the list and survive y at the great houses you may at you want, but rarey more >e glasses are visible, for white red wine and for champagne, j -is is largely In evidence. The English gentleman who made t to get drunk on port and to on claret has disappeared.? 1 e Courier-Journal. Nothlag Is a Trifle! If Inch United States standard iread has thirteen turns per r. Welsh, the original supertu>f the Westlnghouse Air Brake I usea ror tne nair men uoit j threads instead of thirteen, lslon has proved to be a mlsd the company would be glad ;e it, but the immense number equipments which are out all world, the constant call for nd extensions make it lmpossil>led Initials For Plarals. the rule that the initial letter d Is sometimes doubled to Bigplural, bb would be a proper tlon for barrels. Probably ?, unfamiliar with the.rule and the abbreviation too concise, <lit be mistaken for an abbrefor boxes, bundles, bags or ade it hbl. for one barrel, and 11 ignorant of the rule, added the plural, making it bbls. for in one.?Boston Transcript. Cicero's Wires. had a shrew named Terentia, 3e him do ns she pleased. He er groat obligations to Clodlus, >n the divorce suit of Caesar Pompilia came up for trial Te?ompelled Cicero to appear Clodlus. Tired of Terentia. Clca divorce and marrlod a rich led Ptiblllla, left her and lived til his death. Pity the Widower. the Cork Constitution: "The of a respectable young widow get Iter housekeeping in a rce widower's family. TTnderjer business." There seems a want of finesse in this latter at.?London Punch. She Told Him. ore ? Is Miss Lllllwhlte in? 1 Domestic ? She's out. I>e urn! Whom Is she out with? 1 Domestic?Out with you. u art n master, be sometimes ? a servant, sometimes deaf.? Stnrflnti. ;hes commit suickle. When one it in a net It dissolves Its eori into a dozen or so of fragnnd the pieces escape through ikes. In time each becomes a animal. To preserve the starole It must be plunged Into a of fresh water before It has take the alarm. Fresh water int death to It, and thus only 110 varieties of the starfish be bscrlbe to The Advocate. WkijJrtf y :.*& ^ on hand at this price. 1 I Mail your orders at once. 1 1313-1319 Mala Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. VANMETRES, Funeral Director I and Embalmer. Prevention Is Better Than Cure. Some times a patient diet after taking medicine prescribed "hvsicians and thinks It is the disease, iu prr--. j-.tior* it*.* - > compounded mcompetent -.t-.. This is not the case i vou have your orescr' otlons r 1 tod by T 5 m monff- Bf0?^_ H It yon want to m dollars crow, teed | your fields with V lrfrlnla-Carolina Far tllizers. They will M increase your yields per sere,** and thus brine down the cost of production, even if you use fewer teams and lees labor. Q We have thousandc -f strong testl- H h muuuuB lrom lunuerv WOO DAV6 tried other mates of fertlllaera and ?art I Yirgiiit-Carolina Fertfllzars I are by far the beat. They will glre I you cropa that will make more money for you. Buy no other,even if a mel dealer endeavors to yet you to buy some " cheap ** brand just because he may make a little more profit on that. Of course, that 'would be to his Interest ?not you ra. ' S V1RG1N1 A-CARQL!NA CHERICIL CO., 9 B Si'hmond, Vs. Borfolk, To. tar hem, 1.0. M Chorleitnn, 8 0. Baltimore, lid. Atlanta Go. B H SoTonnth, Go Montgomery, lie. Bomyhio, Toon. pi rhrtToport, It. B WAGINER \'r. and Mrs. 1 illie Bigp t vlsi'ed i h.r la si week Mies Li die l.yhrai d wl?o is atiendt eli' I in Columbia Wiih m mmoiitd rfia- in tin lie sid? 01 l?er moth>iis .1 W L>brand, who is very Ck or. Joe brown spent Sunday at bil h' me near Hopewell. Miss Minnie Larvin returned home ^lerdu^ a'ler an extended vie.it. to ci sister in Lexington. Mr. fe&unt Cato. ot Monetta, visited eiatives in town yesterday. miss j*atsy ueorge. Convent's popular teacher, v hi ted friends Id town Sunday. Mr Jerrold, who has been suffer- * mg with blood poison Id one of his fingers Is able to be out again. Mrs. Seaborn Williams and little daughter are visiting Mrs. William's parents in Columbia this week. Mrs. Hamp Fulmer and little Maggie are visiting at Mr, J. W. Lybrands ?r and Mrs. Alfred Gunter of Sand Dam spent yesterday at Mr. Haskell -ianit's Pine salve is the best salve tor sores jfljj . ,>urn?.4*.ih, letter, eczema, skin diseases and piles. Sold by Timmons Bros. I ^ ...Jrnm* ,,ii