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RIVERS AND HARBORS CONGRESS. 60VEBNGR ANSEL APPOINTS DELEGATES. MEETING TO BE 1ELD IN WASHINGTON IN DECEMBER Columbia, November 16.?Governor Ansel has appointed the following delegates to represent this State at the National River and Harbors'*Congress, which is to be held in Washington December 9 to 11, inclusive. j. rraser i-yon, Attorney ueneral; E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture and commerce; Dr. W. J. Murray, Columbia; M. S. Conner, St. George; W. D. Morgan. Georgetown; D. D. McColl, Bennettsville; O. A. Malloy, Cheraw; S. W. Davis, Marion; A. M. Lee. Charleston; S. Dibble, Orangeburg; A. C. Kaufman, Charleston; Thos. Evans. Bennetsville; J. W. Quattlebaum. Anderson; J. K. Henry, Chester; J. H. Milling, Rock Hill; T. J. Kirkland, Camden; A. B. Calvert, Spartanburg. Governor Ansel also expects to be present at the Convention, having attended last year. J. H. MANY TOURISTS EX; PECTED. ROCKEFELLER AND TAFT WILL BE DRAWING CARDS AT AUGUSTA. Augugta, November 16.?Indications are that the winter tourist season at the Bon Air Hotel will be better this year than ever before. The big hostelry will boast several "drawing cards." John D. Rockefeller, the world's richest man, has reserved accommodations, while Judge Wm. H, Taft, President-elect of the United States, will spend two months of the cold seo?on I" a tage on the sand hills, dining at the Bon Air. Among the hotel clientele are always to be found a large fol<?? >l!ri4nrr>.irn<in nfrvfllK' ,i.,! already advance ajv :" J The golf seasor ;or.i_e . tract some of ?ac Lr? * : aytvs America. At t j? (. >,u , B new uiuc-uuic bwuiov ia laid off and equipped, while the regular links of eighteen holes are in finer condition than ever before. rt Worked All Might. One day a barber's shop in Liverpool bad but ono empty chair. A man wearing a very big hat and walking with a great deal of swagger, entered, bung his hat on a peg and then, drawing n revolver, turned to the idle men and said: "I want a shave?Just a common have. I want no talk. Don't ask mo If I want my hair cut or a shampoo. Don't speak of the weather or politics. If you speak to mo. I'll hoot" He took the chair, held the revolver across his legs and was shaved with promptness and dispatch. When he got up he returned the ahooter to his pocket, put on his hat and after a broad chuckle to the cashier said: "That's the way to keep a barber quiet. lie didn't utter a (word." "No, sir; he couldn't." "Couldn't?" "No, sir; he's deaf and dumb."?Liverpool Mercury. . ^ Woary Widowhood. The death of the husband not only I lights the life of a Bengali widow, but makes tho rest of her existence a IHtato or unmitigated. misery and privations. She is required to fast on every eleventh day of the moon, when she is debarred from all sorts of food j and drink for twenty-four hours. Her sufferings from thirst on hot days ol summer aro extremely painful, but she must go through them. The widow must live on one meal a day and eschew meat and flsb. She must renounce ornaments and all sorts of luxuries. The idea of such a state of misery of his widow keeps n man from hazardous enterprises, not because ho is afraid to die, but because his death means so much misery to his wife.?Kant Indian Mirror. Naming the Picture. The artist wns of the impressionist school. He had Just giver, tho last touches to a purple and blue canvas when his wife camo into the studio. "My dear," sold he, "this is the land? scape I wanted you to suggest a title for." "Why not call It 'Home?'" she said after a long look. " nomo?* Why?" "Because there's no place like It," she replied meekly.?Glasgow Times. ? The Seme Medicine. "Doctor, do yon remember three years ago that you predicted positively that I would bo a dead man In six weoks?" "Why, yes, I""Well, I've got a friend in the next room who Is despondent about himself. Just tell him there is no hope for him, will you?' Only a 8alut*. "One of oar early lawyers had a murder case to defend," said a Montana official, "and he had a hard case. Whcu It came time to sum up he asked permission to take a recess for ten minutes, and during that ten minutes bo went over to the hotel to get an inspiration. When ho came buck be walked, out In front of the Jury and said: 'as regards to this case, this is the greatest country on which the sun ever shone. We nre the greatest people. Wo have the greatest destiny. Why, gentlemen, every time one of the ships of our glorious navy sails Into the ports of the world with the stars and stripes flying every ship of that power and every ship of every other power tires a salute from great cannou In her honor, nnd. gentlemen of the Jury, If you llrten to what the scoundrelly opposition of this man has to say you are about to Incarcerate In prison or hang by the ueck my poor. unfortunate clieut simply because he on ono occasion fired otio small revolver shot at a man who unfortunately died on that occasion."?Saturday Evening Post The Editor on Carelessness. "Yes," sahl the editor as he put his j film brush Into the Ink bottle and tried to paste on u clipping with Ills pen. , "yes, the great fault of newspaper eon ! trilnitors Is carelessness. "Indeed," be continued as he drop ped the copy he bad been writing Inte the WHstebnsket and marked "Kdlto rial" across the corner of a poem entitled "An Ode to Deuth," "contributor^ are terribly careless. "You would be surprised." said he j as he clipped out a column of fashion < notes and labeled them "Farm," "to see the slipshod writing that comes Into the editorial sanctum. "Misspelled, unpunctuated, written on both sides of the sheet, Illegible, un grammatical stuff. Contributors are terribly careless. They are"? Just then the office boy came in with that dictatorial and autocratic manner ' ho has and demanded more copy, and the editor handed him the love letter ho had just written to his sweetheart. ?Londou Globe. Queen Caroline's Pastime. Queen Caroline, wifo of King George IV. of England, with whom she was on the worst possible terms, Is described in "The Diary of a Lady In Waiting," written by Lady Charlotte Bury. The queen seems to have tried witchcraft on the kiug. Lady Charlotto writes on ono occasion: "After dinner her royal highness made a wax figure, as usual, and gave it an amiable addition of largo horns, then took three pins oui of her garments and stuck them through and through and put the figure to roast and melt at the flro. If It was not too melancholy to have to do with this t could have died of lnughlng. She Indulges In this nnnisement whenever there are no strangers nt the table, and some think her royal highness really has a superstitious belief that destroying this efJ |. * An elderly gentleman, who would rather sleep into than cat the most ai tractive breakfast, was leisurely wending his way toward the subway wln n ho was accosted by a breathless wo rnnu. "Oh, mister, a lot of toughs are beat- j lug a hurdy gurdy man to death. Can't you help?" "Where?" "Right around the coiner. Oh, j please come with me!" The Into sleeper peeied through his gold rimmed glasses at the complain- | nnt and asked: "Is ho a very big hurdy gurdy mau?" j "Oh, no. sir! Tie's a very small ; man." "Then surely, my good woman, they j eau't need any help from ino."?New , York Press. __________? Doomsday Book. Tho Doomsday Book is a British Institution. It Is a book of the gen ! Ural survey of England, commenced In tho reign of William 1 tihe ConBnepor), about 1080, some say about *080. It was intended to be a "regis i ter to determine the right iu the ten oro of estates, to discover the extent of any man's land, to fix his homage and to settle tho question of the mill tnry aid ho was bound to furnish." Won Every Time. "Have you ever loved and lost?" sighed the swnln. "Nope," responded the maiden | promptly. "I've won every breach of promiso suit I ever brought."?Cleveland Lender. Amusing. Hiram Greene?What did your sister saj' when you told her I was going to make a speech iu the town hall tonight? Willie?She didn't say nothln*. Sho Just laughed till she had hysterics! His 3weet Voice. Flo? Did you hear mo singing under ; your window last night? I hope your miner uiunt near it ? She?Yes, hn I did. But you needn't worry. He ! thought It was the cats.?Stray Stories ; Now They Don't Speak. Mary?Do you think It would be conceited for me to tell my friendH that I made this dress myself? Edith Not conceited, my dear?superfluous A wise man contents himself with doing as much good as his situation ' allows him to do.?Lord Bollngbroke Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee la crested from pure parche.l grains, malt. nuts, i etc?no r?al colfee In it. Fine in fl vor ?is "mads in a minute" No 20 to 3o j minutes te: ions boiling. Sample free.; Dreher Bros. All the News in The Advocate. Fickleness In Penmanship. Speaking of check signatures and forgery, a downtown paying teller re- ' marked: "One of the most peculiar ' points In our business is ono little com- ' ptvhended by the public. I laosn the embarrassment caused by the man whose signature Is seldom the same, or nearly so. two weeks in succession. "This fickleness Is not intentional. It 1 is in almost every case tcmpernmcn- ' tnl. The man guilty of It is generally ' nervous and not infrequently is greatly ' lacking in stability of character. At , times you, as a layman, would hardly ' believe it possible that Ills signature ou two different checks was the work of the sauic hand. "Of course wo conic to know these cases in titue. and there are always certain characteristics in a person's handwriting which the expert can detect and which go far to convince. Nevertheless the changeable signature I Is a nuisance and involves an added ' peril."- New York Globe. lMe.ivant. me, easy, saie Hale liver I'liK arc I> "Viti's 1.1 ik F,*n? Ki ors Sold o l r. F. I'. Gniiter I Mug -to e. Ne. I. Solid Oak, High Back Chair, cane #r leather seat, $1.35 each. ( Six chairs for $8.00 it. kimirs lee . . __ >15.UO | No. 2 Rocker. Solid Oak Cobble . ut-at, 98c. each" *> t it* * ,1*T* r * 4 ' s : *; \ : No. 3. ? K?x Seat Dining Chair. Polished oak. gauuiria leather seats Worth $3.SO each, special this week -.$2.48 Six Chairs for ... $14.00 12 Chairs lor \o !\4?. 4 Solid Oak ' ane or Cobhler Seal Dining Ifnoni Chair. Worth .-5 tach: for only 75c Six chairs for . .. $4 00 I 2 Chairs for $7 50 No. 5 Box Sent Minloy Moom Chair Polished Oak: Can? Seats, worth $2 25 oach; this week, only $1,65 Six ' hairs far $9 00 I 2 Chairs for $1 '< 5t We will prepaj freight on all or ders received hy Tuesday fer those i special prices Rvery chair guaranteed rntisfaclory or money cheerfully refunded, i H. A. Taylor, Columbia, S. C. foretelling the Future. _ Mr.. do style?So your baby girl I. ? . Ob..r?ng On., three week. old. My. boo time Oie?l P? n-lIow can you tell whether a Mm. Ouabusta-Ye. Just tbluk lu are marr ed or net Hotel thirty year, from now she will be heeper-If be order. two whole pertwenty-one years old.?Sphinx. <hey are not; If he orders ono J__ portion for two, they are. No Vices. ~~~ ' ~ Nell?I don't suppose Mr. Sillicus has ^ Parting Shot, my vicea? Belle?Vlees! Why. ho bo- 0roul? of Shoeblacks (In chorus)? longs to a glee club an amateur the- Shlue, s'r; shine.' boe?lj Mnshci (Ir- ' atrlcal society and writes poetry.- rltably)?No. confound you all; no. One < Philadelphia Record. of Them?Cut the frlugo off your trousers same time, sir. < Our Fall Display I I ; Now awaits your critical inspection Our store is i veritable fair of evrything of merit in the 0flgr~Furniture World, n all the fashionable styles and finishes, with a most :omprehensive choice in all lines, There are many things that will interest you at :his time--not only the Style and Furnishes, but the PRICES, which are decidedly unusual for this season 3f the year. Remember that you are always wel-1 come at our store? Always. I I 1419 Main Street Columbia, S. C. ^ ec-e- c e c ceo ee c ee !A GIANT 01 I SOUTHEASTERN I 1 f i I the % I BEST 4jm I POLICY r ^ The Best Business Men In South Carolina are insuring themselves not only because it is tli? best investm *nt they can find, that Ifilf because tliey realize it is the o:ily proper way t e"j? protect their families after tney are gone. ^ We will be glad to hear from vo'i in reference 3* to a policy. i U DIRHC'I V A. M Twlchell W. S. Mor \p .Ino It. Cleveland S. J. Simp <ip J no A. Law Aiijj. \V. S ?* FOR FURTHER l?, g Elliott Estt * Spartanburg, ^ac?9aMa9?aa?e?eeecee< A clergyman writes: "Prevcntics, Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup those little Candy Cold Cure Tablets not enly heals irritation and allays Inure working wonders In my parish," Mamtuatlon, thereby stopping ihe I'revi nties sure'y will el>eck a cold, or cough, but it moves f e bowels gently IheCrlppe. in a very few liou s. And and in that wav drives.I he cold from 1'ieveiitlcs are so safe and harmless, the system t ontains i o opiates. It In No Quinine, nothing harsh nor sick pleasant to take and children espec>ning. Fine for feverish rest'ess iaily like tlie taste, so nearly like nia hildreu. IJox o! 4S at 2V;. Sold by pie sugar. Sold by Dr. F. H. Gunter's hunter's Drugstore. Drugstore. t""""""""SATISFACTORY CLOTHES Overcoats $8.50 to $16.50 KM !^r --- ' ? <fW\ $ "LS 1 I M"<?U11. |U M. L. KINARD li jpj The Clothier Copyright 1908 by Hart Schatiner Sc Marx 1523 Main St., ( '< >111 111 I ?iil, S. (' i i I Ill IIWlll'l' ?W1 ?Hill I) lull In 1IHP?m?i jmm ii 111 iiiii iiinHiimiiBi iwiii iiniin?1111 g taiWB SELL Hd ? ?1 Pumps, f\ Roofing, 3 S Pulleys, y I'11 Plate, gj I Packing Muresco. || 1 HH WHOLESALE M H IC Q Q p| K k ^oz/Z/trrn I j/fl/fs k Jttpp/tj I ja v , H^Su (" r\ 111 vv> 1 > i ' > ^ -A. V v \ J A. X i_J X J?i X .) *- ? as p wbm?^ Mi t mm J F STRENGTH ! jfk i 'insurance co. i V . UIIIH i jgP LOWEST | RATES | & Here is Our Record. jjj Assets - $ 149,302.00 ?? Reserve to Policyholders -- 52,744.0V Surplus 96,588 00 Insurance ill force 2,35 1,775 00 Not increase since Jan. I, 1908 . 31 7,300.off V Policies in force .... ? - 1.346 to I liesc figure* were veriiled ami approved by I- II *. Ate.Ma tier, insurance commissioner, as of July I. loiih ? itgomery A, I. White son den. R. Dean SS mith X \RTICULARS WklTK to ts, President m s. c. i V to Dcc-ccccec-cec-c-ccc-coccc*^