Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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KHp Goldsmith'? Aotor. / Lord Nugent was one evening v f eloquent to Goldsmith In praise of / (i bed actor). "But, ray lord." s J Goldsmith, "you must allow he Ire the atage very 111?he waddles." "Waddles7*' said Lord Nugent. "Yes, he waddles like a goose. W yon know we call him Goose M. M and then, you know, when he ?ad< ora to express strong passion he lows." "BellowB?" said Lord Nugent. "To be sure he does?bellows Ilk bull. Why, we call him Bull M. W Then," continued Goldsmith, pursu his trltrmph, "his voice breaks, and croaks." "Croaks 7" said Lord Nugent. "Why, the fellow croaks like a fi We call him Frog M." "But M. Is a good actor." "Why, yes," said Goldsmith, "t ring the goose and the hull and frog and a few other things I co mention, and, not wishing to speak of my neighbors, 1 will allow M. 1 good actor."?"Memoirs of the Karl Nugent." The Gypsy Life. "Just as soou as my husband an hiivn tfWl a O VA/1 l?l% K/vnL1?? - * ? . ~ TWV OUIVU up UVB1UC? VUI 1 we are going back to England," s a woman player. "Then we are Ing to buy one of thuso gypsy wng< they have over there. They are awfully Jolly for words, don't j know. They are quite wide, hi bunks, a cunning little kitchen i sitting room. You wander throi the country all day; then at nlglit : stop, cook your supper, sit under trees uud sleep out In the open or the wagon, Just as you choose. Mi of my artist and theatrical frlei have them and just wander fi place to place. It Is an Ideal way live; bents houseboats or bungnlo If you have ever slept out in the 01 and watched the stars over your li< you feel smothered In a bedroom, played through Australia, and went from place to place in a 1 wagon, sleeping out of doors at nlgl ?New York Times. Ballooning Among the Clouds. It has been my lot to see in aw regions some hundreds of thousai ?>f icebergs close at hand, and I hi ulways believed them to be the m beautiful objects on curth, but clouds of the sky, close at hand, almost as beautiful. If you mot above one of these majestic tblti awiftly overtopping ono by one folds and wreaths, and if remember how high it is you look down and : only small green patches of ea through boles in the cloud carpet low, you have a little thrill of c ceptlon of how lonely a man wot feel falling away down there and i being able to see the spot where must alight. It Is a safe little tht LiTTCTCr. YcT2 Vtv>?- thnt vou Jire I going to fall. Such dizziness as so persons feel In standing near gri heights on the eurth is almost i known in ballooning.?Albert Wb Vorse in Success Magazine. Six His Limit. To the man who has a horse to i considerable leeway Is allowed in matter of setting forth the uuinu merits. "I've got the very horse 3 want," said Gideon Lane, the Bust livery stable keeper, to one of summer residents. "lie has no bad tricks V" queried gentleman. "Safe for the family?" "Lauzec, yes," returned Mr. Lt heartily. "Any lady cas drive h and half a dozen children could get his back and he'd never notice '< Not a trick to his name." "Ah," said the summer resident, don't wish a horse without any splr "8pirit!" echoed Mr. Lane. "\V you Just ought to see him ou ein day, that's all. And I'll tell you c fldentlally 'twouldn't be well for niany people to get ou that horse once."?Youth's Companion. The Jews and Thirteen. Commenting on tbe thirteen sup sdtlons In the Oesterelchisbe Woch schnift, Jacob E. Ehrlich, a Jew writer, says: "The number thirteen surely not a bad oue for us. 1 holy writ tells of tbe thirteen at I bates of the Most High, ami we hn thirteen feast days in each year. C great arch enemy, llamau, was hai ed on the 13th of Abas. The thirteei birthday of our sons is a day of because on that day the child beeon u member of the religious communi The dream of Joseph was of thlrtt ?the sun, the moon and eleven star tBd-Jhcob had thirteen children." He Might. iflM* Golf Professional?Na, ye'll mbC A gowffer. Ye've begun o\ and ye've owor uruckle pot (But tfs julst possible if yc pr-rncl $ftrrd, verrn hnrrd, for twu-three yc ah* micht-? Jones (expectantly)?Y Professional?Ye micht begin to hn (burner that ye'll never ken the r-ri tbents o' the game.?London Sketch Upward. '"ip.Mike Clancy here?" asked trfcHnr to the quarry after the prer ture explosion. "No, sir," replied Costlgan "H gone." "For good?" n mi, aw, UB Willi in TXlill ClireOUO Sarcastic. liU'.'St (impatiently)? I say, wait bow Ion# have you been employ here? Walter ? 'Rout n week, i Oueat-Oh, Is that all? Then I in have given my order to gome ot waiter. U is tm ftard to find a man with fttflt as a fish without n backbom Arobytoh. A Dull Letter. "The only news I have to tell yo wrote the Blllvlllo citizen, "is that ' river has rlz an' drowned all yer cat an' yer uncle has broke jnll; likew the wldder woman you waiz goln' marry has mimed off with a b< agent. Outside of these hcer things air all a?doln' well."?Atlanta Con flitfoa. ?-? - + tr ery Political "Roma" The fight is ilrnwlug to Its close, aid The noise will soon be goue. There at|s but remains the lust up|H>ul that's due from More Anon, u few brief words ^ from You Know Who us friend speaks .)tt -jj_ unto friend, Justllln throws u Unal tit. .1 teU* and we have the end. A "Note ? of Warning" there may be from Old ^1. Subscriber's pen, und Constant Heud- <>er er may emerge one moment from his den. Vox Topull may raise u wall B a that pierces heaven's vault. Insisting j, eU that the time has come when we An lUg should call a halt, and One Who _g ho Knows may yet. perchance, his stormy ^ voice uplift and ask of all the uul- * verse, "Ah, whither do we drift?" og But all tho lighting has been done. [v There Is no longer strife. So let us cut out politics und lead the higher >ar- l,fe"??mPorta (Kan.) Gazette. A the 'on u)(| Most Important Wars. HI Perhaps the most important wars, s from the standpoint of civilization and ( j . ? progress, were, tirst, the Greek I'or- 1 slim war of 400 B. lu which (lie oriental wave was prevented from * deluging Europe; second, the struggle !-l j j, between the Franks ami Mw?rs arc which ended at the buttle of Tours a(j wltb the defeat of the Moors, thus savlug Europe from Mohammedanism and yns Its stagnation; third, the Napoleonic t(H( wars, which sh.M.k up Europe, destroy. >u Ing the remnants of feudalism and m, paving the way foi modern demo.-racy, und the American war of 1S01-U5, jjjlj which preserved the Integrity of the rou 8lvat republic and so made It poasltlie ble for the Fulled States to work out j in Its splendid destiny among the nations 1 inv of the earth,?New York American. ads ,ollJ Motion Denied. tu A man arrested for murder was aswa signed a counsel whose crude appearK,u auce caused the unfortunate prisoner ,n(j to ask tho Judge: I "Is this my lawyer?" we "Yes," replied the Judge. I^lg "Is he going to defend me?" it." "Yes" "If he should die, could 1 have an otucrv" | IN*. "YCH." i C) 'tic "Can I see lilui alono in the back | ^ tids room fur a ^ow minutes?"?-I'lek-Moivo "P ost (jjC Public Penance. are In former tunes persons gutlty of unt grievous uml notorious offenses were ; lgSi required to innkc ojien confession and. Ikj further, to make satisfaction for tbe i Ing scandal given by their bad example bx 1 see doing penance publicly in a white sheet rth In their parish eliurch. The sheet whs jje. used to show clearly to every ono ou_ which was the offender. The last time | uld that public penance was done In an > not English church was on Sunduy even- I lug, July 30, 1882, when a man named ; HI Hurt roe, in the church of All Saluts, I [jot East Clevedon, ins do an open coofsB Slou Ol ltlilliuiuiil^ uiii, jiciultSru * *' eat perforin the penance thus imposed on uu. him by tho vicar No white sheet was iq used on this occasion. The last case In which one was used appears to have No. been one In St. Bridget's church, Chostor. In 1851, but on that occasion the penance was not public, the church tjje door l>elng locked. In the previous il's yoar' however, public penance In a .0* white sheet was done in a country j . church In Essex, and a similar thing ! the ocourro^ *n DItton church, near Onmtrldge, iu 1840.?IStrnv Stories. tbe Trek ling tight C uiehs, chu b" surly and quickly loosened with a prrlne script ion lirucgists arc dlspi nsh-g ini, even win re as l>r. i hoop's Cough on Remedy. And it is so \er>, vciy diHsui. orent lban commo . cmgli medii-hus. No Opium, no eh orolorm, absolutely nothing harsh or unsafe. The le"dt r leaves of a harmless. lung lu alii e mountainous shrub, gives thecuiative oa- properties to I>r. Shoop's Cough Rpm too e:!J Those leaves have the power to at calm the most distressing C ugh and No. to soothe and heal the most sensit ive is bronchial membrane. Mothers should for safety's sake alone, always demand ? ier" Dr. Shoop's It c.in with perfect ^n" freedom be given to even the youngIs 11 j est babes 'IVst it yourself! and ?ee. 'he Sold by GuiUim-'h Drug Sore lV0 rVio Tricksters. >ur "Political tricksters always give themselves away," said a congress jjjj man. "Their methods remind me of j0y the two men who wanted to sell their 1<>S corpses for dissection. These two men, jv miserably clad, called on the dean of | a medical college in New York. 8_. "'We are botli on the verge of star vatlon, sir,' the spokesman said. 'We are well on in years and it is clear that we haven't inu-di longci to live. _ Would you care t*? purchase our bodies ver for your dissecting room?' Ue "The dean liesltate<l. jco " 'It is au odd proposition, he miliars ,cr?'d. ''Hut it is occasionally done,' said y ,t the spokesman In an eager voice. ltjj. " 'Well,* said the dean 'we might j ^ arrange it. What price do yon askV I " 'Over In 1'hilndelpliiu,' said thu spokesman, "they gave us $40' New ! York Tribune. the Read t be pain f-nniila on .? box c f , , Pink Pain Table . 'I hen a?k >0111 [0 8 Doctor if there is a bet ie? one Pain, means congest ion?Mood pn ssure | n." somewhere Dr Shoop's Piok Pain Table's check lead pains, unmanly i . . .. - |/ainn> |min hii)wii?i?: i r* 01". J ler, sec! 20 for 2.">e. Sold by (liinh r'?. rin.i. j red store. sir. uat Uico. Bki.i. I I m mkk v * ? J. W'M. Tilt r.MOMi Thurmond & Tinman out g.? ATTORNBYK-A l -I.A W Will p*actioH iii a 11 t-'if SfHf'- ??? 1 No. J* '/Ourtn. ?j Citizens Bank tsldg., Bateshurg S C j ? S tho I tie, Bruises, scratches. sores ai d iiu:nsj V ise that other things have failed to cuic I ^er *Pr will heal <|oickly and completely wi en i '<iP|C you use DeVVitt a ? arholi/eri Witch j tor Hazel Halve. It Is especially good for piles Sold by I>r f\ B. Gunter'ft j Drug Htore. (Jo MU? <v?s*iri^L>i 'Im surprised ut you. ^ ^ w What*, the matter now? h. Iotm ine mor 'Why, your wife tells mo you've in- M . oil the grocer and butcher to your . toarue tied i rty toulght!" ^ Well, whut of ltV" Dr. Shoop's Ilea Think of what you owe society." from pure parched Yes. but think what I owe my gro- etc?no real coffee and butcher!"?Judge. _j8 ,.made a m Cheap minutes te lous l>< 'ut?This Is a great counthry, Mary *)rc*R>r Bros. u. Mary Ann -And how's that? Pat hure. and the paper says yea can f u tlve dollar money ordher at tho itoffloe for only y clnts. O'lui oflf her one now, wld the J clnts yea e ine for the soap.?1'athtlnder I TM< V KA HS experience mill- ^ wot user* of L \ M JOINTS, m f -A-% im: Ki?s".l v%ear?? )<> 11 y?ra? W m M .Mill, it only cists $ 1,2o a ir'Imii? Ird, ii? l.e be-' they have ver I Fn.ir ?. tixi>"ii ihoinooil h?sc? 1 hi lie si lacs H "in-ill in ' li ve ('i.. tluteshipg I., fit t'O ' ? t eiits a Now await ^fjjP J a veritable fa |r| hi al* the fasl I U comprehensi " i There are r I.-Solid Oak, High Back Chair, this time--rii ane or leather seat, $1.35 each. noiTCC ix chairs for $H.OO. 1 KI^CO, Will v> 2 - Rocker. Solid Oak (Gobble i-at, OSc. each. z 3.- Max Seat Dining Chair. Pollied oak, genuine leather seats i'orth $3.50 each, special this eek ... - $2.48 Q ix C hairs for $14.00 2 Chairs for $27 50 4 Solid Oak ane or Cobbler . ^ ent Dining l?oom Chair. Worth I x V25 each; for only 75c i Iff ix chairs for ... $4 00 ^ 2 Chairs for $7 5 '.' 7"f 5 ?Box Seat Dining Room Chair j olished Oak; Cane Seats, worth j 2 25 each; this week, only $1.65 lx liairs f jr - $9*00 j si# 2 Chairs for $17 50 ?> Ve will prepay freight on all or ; s received by Tuesday fei these i fcial prices ^ very chair guaranteed ratisfac- /CTj y or money cheerfully refunded X H. A. Taylor, ^ llunbia. S. C . </ to T#(I Paint Ready for U?e. ^ you think Mr. Snlf- L. & M. l'URF. PAINT srmi-mlxtd th< tbat >? sold for tl 05 per Kallon. Linseed ?? o thau toniuo ctn ,biow ?I dare aay n"' ' ^''d from the barrel for taii-mls 1 r rou know. a gallon. Buy 4 gallons L A M PUItK LJ" ?? Pa I NT and mix with it it Ka'loiiH Iiit ''n Ithc olfee Is created see(j uj|t anfj you t|le? make 7 ptllons grains, malt, nuts, 0j pa|nt a C()St of (,n|y ;i .?? ,^;i|_ enl In it. Hue in flavor jon i one in t minutes Mol n ?n- r'd inutc" No 20 to 3o Cu|jum Hdwr. C..., Bateahurtf L. JL M. Gu dlinR. Sample free. ,,alnl A|fents. _ | 1 Fall Display ! c / / # li s your critical inspection Our store is ir of everything of merit in the Furniture World, hionable styles and finishes, with a most ve choice in all lines, natiy things that will interest you at ot only the Style and Purnishes, but the ich are decidedly unusual for this season f H sr that you are always wel- || come at our store? n Always. I jpkjji r\ w ? I i it & 111 *** 1 \J 111 1 1 y ^ t?;gt urntture of Quality. I a Street Columbia, S. C. ? i A GIANT OF SOUTHEASTERN LI the best policy tru The Best Business Men In South Carolina are insuring themselves not only A because it is the best investni ?nt the> can find, that because they realize it is the only | roper way t? j, protect their families after tney are go.ie. N We will be glad to hear from von in reference '' to u policy. I o DIRKCTOI A. 11 Twichell W. S. Montk Jno. II. Cleveland S. J. Simpsoi .Ino. A. Law Aug. W. Smi FOR FURTHER PA* Elliott Estes Spartanburg', \ clergyman writes: 'Preventlos, Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup jse little Candy Cold Cure Tablets not enly heals Irritation and allays ini working wonders in my parish." ttammatlon, thereby stopping tke eventics surely will check a cohl. or cough, but it moves toe bowels gently i Grippe. In a very few hours. And and in that wav drives the cold from eventics are so safe and harmless, the system. Contains i o '. plates. It is Quinine, nothing harsh nor sick pleasant to take and children especng. Klne for feverish rest'ess 'ally like the taste, so nearly like maldren. Box of 48 at 21c. Sold by pi* sugar. Sold by l?r. F. B. Guntcr's nter's Drug Store. Drug Store. EE2ESi*!5KmSS3SS - jy.l A v PSL^i Kail Hals, N? 'ck w a r and riHlcfwcai'. < I;i< I ! ? slmw Eml .v??" through. Ill M. L. KINARD The Clothier Copyright 1908 by Hart Schaffncr & Marx 1523 Main St., ( "t >1 tin 11 ?ia, S. (' ism WK SELL SH gj Pumps, PV Roofing, g| , Pulleys, Tin Plate, R j Packing Muresco. I WHOLESALE ? 1* Q Q Q pi I 1outnenn ^ l/rt/rs 1 I jo W | M M rv/ V i Columbia. S. C. * 1 PLUMPING SUPPLIES I MACHINERY SUPPLIES. 1 ' STRENGTH I I IFE ! INSURANCE CO. 1 m s . THE I i LOW 1?S 1" I * RATHS 1 ? f Here is Our Record. Jc ? Xfi >ssets $ 140,302.00 ^ leserve to Policyholders S2,744.IIM i?i pin 96,558 00 i.turance In force -- 2,351.775 00 lot Increase since Jan. I, I^Ox 3< >7, Joo.uO ^ 'ollcies in force I 34o W*/j These figures were verified and approved by I 11 Tjj, \cMa?ter, Insurance commissioner, as of July 1. IdcM *S: & ornery A, I. White n (ieo. k. Dean tli ^ O'lCULARS WRITH y President ?? . u I x B?e6 6666666?6666 . m~. ?