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f - ' I I TO OD ifr # i WE BEG ? have sold our and Wagon business and we ask that our 2^ arrangement for thei ? than any=one. ? WE ARE CONTEM l announceraen With best wishes foi j? part, we are, ? ^ A ^ 1? t ?/ f * 4 4444444444444444 4; Just Received Another Shipment of Goot Mules and Horse* Our fast selling- plan and no foo bills added is drawing the busines. W must be giving more mule for th money than the people can get else where or they would not trade with so freely. We also have a large stock of Buggie -Wagons and Automobiles. Gregory-Condor Mule Co Columbai, S. C. Our Guarantee Means Something Saved From Awful I'orll , . . ,,, , ? rresulent Helps Orphans. 1 never felt so near my grave, | Writes Lewis Chamblin, of Manches-' "m]d1r 1- of orphans have oe tor, Ohi.. K. R. No. 3. "as when a j helped by tnc 1 resident of the ; ir-L-htful couch and lung trouble dustrial and Orphan s I"[?mo '! r.l pulled me down to 115 pounds in n;Ga who.writes: We lr.vc ; epite ot madv remedies and the best Electric hters m ii.is Ins'inm doctors. And that I am alive today !or "me years It has proved a m, is due solely to Ur. King's New excellent medicine for Stoma Discovery, which completely cured Llv" and Kidney troubles. VV. , me. Now I weigh 100 pounds and *ard as onc ?,f ?.he best fam . t v. i meihcmes on ear h. It mvu/nrai can woric narn. u aiso cureu rny , four children of croup." Infallible vital organs, purifies the bloc f?r Coughs and Colds, its the most aids d h-est ion rrta'er. ay>pc 1 certain remedy for LaCrippe, Asth- strew then .1 build up ) . !. ma, desperate lung trouble and all weak cbiklrcu ot rundown i . 01.lc bronchial affections, 50c and $1.00. . . 1} A trial bottle free. Guaranteed by has no euual. Best for fema . cot All druggists. j plaints. Only 50c at all diuggistr. v i THE BATESBURG ADVOCATE, BATETBURC. S. ???? ^ 'f-1 ^ ^ W ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ FRIENDS I ' -J - a iv tiv ir I LO A1MM Grocery, Hard' to The L. D. Cullum Co.old customers call on Th r business. We are sure tl PLATING GOING INTC t of which we will YOUR SUCCESS, and th YOURS VERY TRULY, //? c////>/7. #444444444444444* ana come again prepared tc LESSON IN DETECTIVE WORK. <* * I what I had seen on the ca How did I happen to go Into the ^ Ue S(UOj looking at nie detective lino? I was put In it by a ments appalled, then said, S ci 11 cm 111 AnlnnMAii.* T V.J - - I M "11 " ?! - n | ". .ftM.ui A iiOU ll\J U1U1U JLMWWU frvtufr CW ? I * j idea of being a detective than being helping her? , ' nr^ii ,? .? tt * j . t "I don't know Moll Bro piesident of the bunted States. I nev- ., .. , . plied, and I ni in no on< er developed any fancy for such work, jM lhis nial,er. I'm only d never read detective stories or took fun." J any interest in the methods of how "Come in here and sat real cases were managed. What I self," he said. 'lid hear of such matters they filled ' went in and found an me with a belief that this business of sweeping floors manufactuj - noticing how far a match was burn- process of making. Then ! "J ed or which cud of a cigarette was eti: vl i light first to gain a clew had nothing 1 "Moll Brown was the w j to do with tracing criminals. trietl t0 fix tho counterfeit 6 One day 1 was in a street car going Resolved to follow the homo from a bank where I was em- ' took Moll Brown s addr< ployed on a fairly good salary when mire she had got tho cour i 1 saw a man fumblo in his pocket for i fi"?m sonio one interested i ? change to pay liis fare. A few min- i or Passing it, or both, ar utes later a woman picked up a fold- refrain from getting at t j C! ?>d bill o;T the floor and handed It to ot 'h0 matter. 1 cooked u ^ him, asking lilni if lie hadn't dropped making her aequaint it. He unfolded it, cast a glance at went to see her. At this It, paled slightly and handed it back *?an some real detective wi to her in a hurry, denying the own- 'lpr confidence and told I oivhip. The woman asked one or two XV;,S looking foi some ca people sitting near If they had drop- making money. After ;t g> ped it, but they all said they thought | beating about tho bush h. they had not. I asked the woman to j ,p" mt" where I co> i let me see it. It didn't take me long, ' 'jeer to put out and backed by my banking experience, to ad?ire?s oi the man 1 had decide that it was counterfeit. I ' didn t want any hotter p This was the first time I ever show- ! vas bent on hi i cd a faculty for detective work. I ! would have included me i j noticed that no one showed any un- ' 'ier convenience. I dela i t usual emotion In lnnkino nt tin' lull . going to the man she U.itut except the man who was supposed to tinned to watch her. have dropped it; therefore there was Accident helped me. O a probability that lie was a counter- when 1 visited her a man | filter. But I said nothing, simply ber whom 1 spotted at on< ; handing it back to the woman. away, leaving him vitli | But my curiosity had been aroused, when he came out shadowe Curious to follow up the matter, when went to a place that 1 fa the man who had paled got out I got ting this and that togethei ' , out, too, and followed him at a dis- a counterfeiters. * tance. He entered a hardware store, police on to the matter, where lie purchased several articles, rounded the building whei 1 didn't know what they were, but posed den was, then < los one of them was a hammer with a ! sur0 enough, trapped a pai hig cud suitable for heating anything making spurious bills Hat. Another was a cruclblo for melt- i " woman in il.cir en niolnly, When he went out I oot been bent oi? linj u snatched the bill he had paid the thcv Inight n11 hav0 be^ [,?. salesman, expecting to see a counter- j false money to this day. ... , .. , . , was convuieu win n|1' 1 *' J: .. ... ..... m lulu 1 r?? (llsftppoiutcl. lnjurc ?< wen, r,drarrtho ,??* * * --r r?r. room at the top of a business build- 'ASI . . *h- ing. where ho had a shop. I knock- subsequent work. I never [c" e<] at the door. He opened It, but dtd cl?w, cspe< a > ' ily not bid mo enter. I told him I had Plain, of muc Wh{ Its something to say to lilm and wished Proved o >* s )tl to go Inside. He said he was making most is t ie ' , | a certain contrivance that was not those who ar u yet patented and no one was allowed standing >> ?a? *r> % > \ a\ \ a1 liable lesson 1 lo^i not "> : ? ?"?" ?? "taorotho work ,ha, Mind you, I was no detective. I important ^ pan in' was merely indulging my jjurloaJifc w'"' 'l' ' ls "" A detective would tittVb SBOe >loU Augur. " c.? C., FRIOAY, FEBRUARY, ilth, 1910. jjflfc&i Ml!-J * 5? ?H ,vr ran niCTftMPi IIW UUUiVlUUl )UNCE THA ( ware, Fertilizer, With this sale also goes o le L, D. Cull tim Co, before hey can do as well or b< ) ANOTHER LINE OF mairo in ihe near f II1U1YVJ 111 liiU lAYfUJL I lanking YOU for YOUR fe ; ;;:31 THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING. DJS4r 5, stating have given you a m r. "Shut the door, father, and go to a cottage, rich jewel: a few mo- bed; you know we must get up early instead of the love 1 "What's in the morning, and why are you yt)ur mtle feet." e you for ' lingering out there in the moon- was uVing 01 Bhlne?" flrst hours when ho wn." 1 re- The shrill-voleed woman who gave bride to his humble e's employ the command, gave the straight- when he realized t! oing it for backed chair an ugly shake as she < ()me the greatest pi passed into the house, and glanced \ovo 0f a beautiful w isfy your- angrily at the silvered head leaning an the accomplishn , wearily in the chair. end o,e inheritanc article for "All right, Jane, in a minute," he traditions, red and in answered in shaking tones, as he "Fifty years ago, lie explain- started from his reverie. w?- are no older th Jane was his eldest daughter, tall night. 1 cannot und oman who nnrl niltrnlfir nnH ncoil in fnllnir Vinr I . ?, v" .......b jane is n woman bill on me. father's house without resistance. t'nau you wero whet matter up, j she was nearing her forty-eighth bright, blue eyes f xss. I felt birthday, and the burden of the fain- and crossed your 11 iterfeit bill Uy had long hung heavily on her on your tired breasi in making drooping shoulders. hollow of your arm ul couldn't Love had passed her by, not to re- li;tie daughter who lie bottom turn, when she was acting a- moth- exact imago, p a reason er as well as elder sistei to those "Yes. Jane is a ;ance and whom a dying mother left in her care, othn are married point l be- "Father gets more childish every you left me f >r .. 1 ork. 1 got day, and he is dreaming again over pretty babe i love I tier that I that old violin." she said to herself was 80 like you to sy way ef as ho wen' ir,. ?t. rs to her own t \.. niaht n % ?od deal or rooin and, weary from her day of Jane was slceplt ! agreed to toil, sc.oti fell -!> ? p. Jn :? i c. < s*. t n. get some Out in the gold. n g'oi y of the to be -Jam i like ive me tlu bus : r moon, tli i man to'. 1 idly . ]<, you dear. J shadow d wi.li ilie violin v. ich h:ni been liis ?mi Lo Jce> not roof of hi* comfort in dart days. ba U 1. : every ,s ruin and "Fifty years ago tonight she was , nutibligl'.t is beami f it suited here, and she 1 ik? 1 this old i .ace,'' shadow fall black yed about he said to him.- f. the vines '" >d and eon- "j-L was new then, and the paint 11 is face was tut was white and the steps were even, Presence, now, am ne evening and she was my bride. "Jane docs not b< i called on "Why# i can see her yet, as she isn't that a j?>i. ? re. 1 went came down the hall, clad in that lacy, i Ins withered ' her. and shiny thing she wore when the like u boy. d him. lie preacher said tlioso solemn words; "Let us elope aga acted, put- lot mo see, ho said, 'Until death do : let's run away aga r, might be us part'?that is what he said, but ! just as wo ran awa 1 put the death didn't part us. did it, Mary?" sought to part us They sur- of late ho had grown in the habit night. That dress re the sup- ()f talking to himself (talking to year eye ar> so bi ed in and. Marv ho called ttV ? ? -x . ..... if UP m' ill UilCl 1 rty at work "l athi r i. getth.. queer," said behind hat cloud ' Jan to tli postman that eve. lug. i.o:. a! or niidrd secret had "nt. siu out on tli porch and talks wi i In ivy trca I ; rev oiige, nn,i talks." to lici father's n. on n making im, to tin aged one. sitting there shone across the he The woman j? the moonlight the presence was unoccupied. Down st, and the very real. with sullen face, ft aw the mo: t "Mary, your dress Is just as white went, at the cnrolo i ever saw. as It was 50 years ago tonight, and man who would lea ed all my your cheeck is just as smooth, while Tho chair was vac consider a your eyes sparkle Just the seme as recently her father seems very they did that night when you first heart-beats quicken til I have Raw vnlir now twinin '' TVi/in ?tin "? " k"" rmu.-1. sun liti niuici s !* '> ?t 1 rely on presence, in the white gown, seemed quite near the gat linn among to draw nearer, and the old man As she bent a >o\< crime in continued: "Stroke my hair, Mary, ing with him or \ Another jUst as you did that first night, and I ho tnrned to her wi i from the will tell you all about the beautiful exclaiming. on i plays and future we will have together." lady is now my wi crime both -How cool your hand, little one, fend het against t s not?Mer- and those tiny flngera-so small and gtep aside and let white. I am afraid vou made a ml*- Mlllicent Easter. :lj^M - -- ' j^HBI wNfett^ ^ IS&sSiHBB t ''i ^ PUSINESS, ^ ' 1 uture t H ! ivors in the ^ * * Y * > 0 ^ |l 5 .1 "^S 4$ j me rrom among ? . those who could Beggar's View on Economy. ansion Instead of Charles M. Schwab, at a dinner in s and fine clothes Pittsburg, discussed his New Yeai ! lay so gladly at economies. He said: "It is necessary to economize t< rer again those shut up some of one's houses and sc brought his city on, because of the Innumerable claims home; the hours on one. And all these claims are allat to him had | ways just, you know. Why, I never ize of earth, the saw a claimant yet who wasn't quit* oinan, possessing as sure of his rights as the Altooim tents of training beggar woman. e of old family "A beggar woman, with three tin> children, shivering beside her, stood on Mary dear, yet a windy corner in Altoona on a bittei an we were that winter day. A charity officer paused erstand it all. for beside her with a sneer, now, much older "'You,' he said, 'are begging. And t you closed your those children aren't 3'ours, at all.' or the last time ?< 'Well, sir,' the beggar woman In. ttle, white hands dignantly retorted, 'I'd have less need , clasping in the beg if they were mine, for then ) the golden-haired v?... - * '?<><"? <- ??u>? \.u jmy xv eema a uayi was to bo you: ?0 jjire them.'" woman, and the Tact, an and There is nothing like tact and* k> -you and iho | sometimes it is exhibited by those] . ; from whom it might be least expected] . . ok lu-1 S "T Iking about tact,'' said a woman] Inn wl .n . t verging on middle age,] o' . "1 . . saw one get out of a difficult] .. i\ . si: . i n> ro deftly than did a man. ; -m 1 met at a blacksmith's shop In r; N't w i'n land village I was drivln., 1 - li . (\>u through h summer. I was alone it lit",. 11 <- lanes ith my iriend, the horsePvI and .1. .ii when I noticed that he limped a bit'j and la.iv.. in ; to when e reached the next village 1 - , d at the door of the black-j .-hop. A man was holding \ lii- d< mi. i op, and to him I said: 'Wilij . .?o tell the blacksmith to conic out? I want to see him.' After the .ii.. "a.. iau-hod manner of tho village loafer, he did not stir, bat smiled sweetly at mo in. tonight, Mary; j and. lifting up his voice, cried: 'Bill in. and ho none, ' come out! There's a lady wants to y from tin .-< who pec you.' From the depths of the '. ? years ago to- ; blacksmith's rliop a volc.e roared: is so pretty and I 'Is she young, John, or old?' In tbs i lit. Ooiue, dear, i words of an old poem I looked at John iVliile the moon is and John looked at me. Then, still without moving, he called: 'Yon'II gilt Jane went . be satisfied, Bill, when you get out."' ivnlli?* liali una . . ' Retaining the Evidence. d. showim. i was An Irish soldier on sentry duty hat stairs Kite went order? to allow no one to smoke neat rumbling an she his post. An officer with a lighted s.sness of the old cigar approached, whereupon Pat vo the door op< n. boldly challenged hlra and ordered ant In which set him to put it out at once. The officer sat. and Jane's with a ge?turo of disgust, threw away ed a trifle as she his cigar, but no sooner was hb m across the path back turned than Pat picked it ux e. and quietly retired to the sentry box > hint, remonstrat- The officer, happening to look around, is careless habits, observed a beautiful cloud of mok? th a boyish laugh, issuing from tho box. He at ono# arc too late, the challenged Pat for smoking on duty fe, and I will de- "Poking, ia it, aorr? Bertad, and all comers?please I'm only keeping it lit to show to the the bride pass."? corporal grltOD bo comoe, na evident* uftto ssrcfff I