Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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We want to do your Tin Roofing Guttering and all other work in the Tin and Sheet Iron Line We will sell you a better grade of VALLEY TIN than you have been using at the same price. Wc make anything to order out of Sheet Metal J Be sure and see our Metal Shingles before roof ing your residence. Yours for better work and material. DIVVER BROTHERS Gray Block, Sullivan St. - Laurens, S. C. Pale-Faced Women You ladies, who have pale faces, sallow complexions, dark circles under eyes, drawn features and tired, worn out expressions, you need a tonic. The tonic you need is Cardui, the woman's tonic. It is the best tonic for women, because its ingredients are specifically adapted for women's needs. They act on the womanly organs and help to give needed strength and vitality to the worn-out womanly frame. Cardui is a vegetable medicine. It contains no min erals, no iron, no potassium, no lime, no glycerin, no dan gerous, or habit-forming drugs of any kind. It is perfectly harmless and safe, for young and old to use. ? Take CARDUI The Woman's Tonic "After my doctor had done all he said he could for me," writes Mrs. Wm. Hilliard, of Mountainburg, Ark., "I took Car dui, on the advice of a friend, and it helped me so much. "Before taking Cardui, 1 had suffered from female troubles for five years, but since taking it, I am in good health. "I think there is some of the best advice in your book that I ever saw." Your druggist sells Cardui. Try it. Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept.. Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Chattanooga. Tenn., (or Special Instructions, and 64-pagc book. "Home Treatment lor women." tent Irec. The Laurens Drug Company sells Wine of Cardui. 2 Oakland Heights I Realty Company I $ With cotton selling for i | cents and increasing daily. | g there's no reason why Fanning Land shouldn't increase in Q H value in the same proportion as cotton; therefore take ad- Q Z' vantage of the bargains we arc- offering in various sections & iv of Laurens County. ? ? We offer a tract of laud one and one-half mile from Water- ? 5 loo. This is a splendid piece of property. ? has one eight I 5 loom dwelling in good condition. Three tenant houses, 1 * barn and stables; will make liberal te rms, 2.\.\ acres. ? Ninety Three acres seven mile west from Laurens, $1.200, ^ j* liberal terms, 2.|S acres in Abbeville County?three mile s ? 9 from Loitndsville, 75 acre under wire fence; 25 acre in oak ? $ timber, 75 acres in heavy pine timber. One 6 room dwell- f $ iug complete; one 4 room house, barn and stable. This Q ? place rents for 2500 lbs lint cotton, price $,\.000 rash Wc ? Shave oilier lands. We are having inquiries for small tracts A of land front 50 to IOO acre. List with us?we give our n 0 time to the handling of real estate. ? Oakland Heights Realty Co. B. A. SULLIVAN, Mgr. Sales Dept. X.Laurens, - - South Carolina. Clinton Garage and Machine Shops Will do any kind of machine work at t reasonable prices, on Engines, Qas En ]; gines, Automobiles, and all kinds of farm ; machinery- ? : Clinton Qarage& Machine Shops. Telephone 119 Clinton, S. C. ?Fl? Allere ) A pretty j oung girl, well wrapped up against the cold night, and a half grown boy carrying a large basket, wero crossing the street when an automobile swung suddenly around the corner. To save themselves, the girl and the hoy had to make a sud den retreat, and In so doing they dropped the basket and It was crushed under the wheels. There were tour young men In the automobile. They wero singing and laughing and enjoying the license of Christmas eve. They jeered at the boy for dropping the basket, and they raised their hats In mock courtesy to the girl. "Miss, I didn't go for to do It!" apol ogized the hoy, vvho had been hired as a mess >nger. and who had been told that the basket contained food for poor families In the tenement, be yond. "I know?I know," replied the girl. 1 "It wasn't your fault, hut I'm so sorry. The pick woman and her children won't have the food ami toys now, hut I have* a little change in my purse and I can still do something. You needn't go any farther; Ii I.? just across the street. Good-night to you." "Missy,'" said the boy as she was about to move away, "yotl gave me a (lime lo carry the basket. Here It Is. Give it to some kill up there who wants a mouth-organ, oh, you must take it, and if you say so I'll wail here till them fellers come back and hit 'em with a rock." I "Hut how about your Christmas, Jimmy?" the girl asked. "Oh, I can skirmish around, same as I alwa; s do. Night to you, and 1 hope that sick woman will get better." The girl crossed the street and en tered the hallway of the tenement and climbed to the third floor. Three children were waiting for her on the landing, and uttered glad shouts at ?ight of her. She had been there be fore and had promised them that she would come on Christmas eve. With In the poverty-stricken rooms called home a tick woman was lying on a bed. She smiled and was glad at sight of th? girl. She told them the Incident of the auto and the loss of the basket, and then she counted over her scanty Change and went downstairs to the nearest grocery. It was little she could buy. There would be Christmas patlng. but no feast. The little stock ings with their holes would be hung, but there would be no Santa Claus to fill them. The children stood with their faces to the wall and wept, and Ihn girl held the hand of the sick v. man and shed tears. As they sat thus the door opened md lei iu ill.- cold air from (he hall An old man stood outside, lie was ragged and unkempt, ami hunger had Riven him the face of a wolf There was not a Kofi line In It. Peering out nf hi.-- own door on the same Door, he had s< en Ihn girl come bearing pack 'Ui x. There was bread on the table before hi n The children cried out as tin y saw the look on the old man s face and the girl rose up and barred his way. "I wain bread and I'll have It!" be exclaimed norcely. "Mut yotl caul lake it from 'his diel; woman ami these helpless chil dren." "I tell you I'm hungry I want bread! Why didn't you conn- to me ill'flt? I am old; there Is no work for Die, but I will not die like a <i".; Stand aside! You will not? Then He sei/, d her by the arms and there was a struggle, The children w.u. ihoutlng tor help, ami tho man-wolf was Hearing the coveted loaves when lOmo one entered and seized him and Whirled him about and thrust him out j Into the hall, shutting the door on his Oaths and snarls. The children ceasotl their cries and the >?lrl looked lip to lee a young man standing in (be <-.? n j ter of the room, gazing around him "it Is your fault!" she half-sobbed. "You were in the auto that almost ran me down. You laughed in my tace as you raised your hat. Mut for you there would have been plenty of fowl and some presents here." "Yes. I was one of them," the man answered. "It is Christmas eve. and We were out for a lark. Yes. I looked straight Into your eyes, and In five mlnuteH I was ashamed of myself I came hack and hunted until I found the boy. When he told me that you ware a Christmas angel, and that he had given hit last dime to help out, I wan still more ashamed of myself ana ?f my friends. Can you forgive nae?" "Yen. It Is Christmas eve," she said In a voice hardly above a whisper as stte seemed to listen to the merry shouts from the street. "There ar* tens of thousands of persons on the Streets In merry mood, but what have We hers? What bars we In every room In this old rookery? Were 7011 think ing of It when you crushed the basket I was bringing??when you smiled In to my face?" "I was a brute," he answered. ' "I was bringing nsy llttls mite." she continued In a deprecatory way. "I have a widowed mother to support, and I could not spare much. I was weeks saving up to buy what was In that basket. You are rich, perhaps. It would h* ve been nothing to you." The children stood hushed and awed, and the sick woman closed her eyes and wondered at It all. The young man and the girl looked straight into each other's eyes as they talked, and her words seemed to cut him like the lash of a whip. When there had been silence for a minute, and the oiU man-woif was heard snarling as he paced the hall, the yoUng man said: "I am ashamed and sorry. Let that answer for the moment. Will you come with me?" And without tli<* slightest fear In her mind, and with a smile at the mother and her children, Bhe arose Intuition told her what was in the stranger's thoughts. He carried the bread and butter out into the hall and placed them in the hands of the fierce-faced old man. He fell to de vouring them as If he had, Indeed, been a wolf of the forest, and when another tenant, canto out and asked for crumbs he was frightened away by snarls and growls. "Now come," said the young man. , Up one street and down another for an hour, they went. Wines and jellies and fruits, they bought for the woman whoso ailment, was starvation more than disease?food to last for days and days. They selected, next, gifts and new stockings to receive them ? what ever money could buy and the two could bundle Into their arms, they picked up. And all the time, though neither one knew the name of tho Other, they talked and laughed and were like children in their delight. The return to the tenement was like the arrival of a lord and his lady. There^was something for other chil dren, too, and a policeman, pausing in "I Have a Widowed Mother to Sup port, and I Could Not Spare Much." tho lower hall, heard such shouts of pleasure and so much childish laugh ter that he glanced up the dimly lighted stairs and said to himself: "Old Santa must have changed his route this year and come among the poor." And at a late hour, when the Christ mas angel and her guardian walked downstairs together and she was put into a cab lor home, they still talked and still laughed, nor did tie .' know that they WOUid ever meet auaill. She had lashed him for bis heartlesne.ss. She wi>s hoping that be would see that she had forgiven him. lie bad been almost brutal lie was hoping that, she hu I s? ? n his belter side. No cards ?no names. "fiOod-nlght," tiny said at parting: mid when he raised his bat she know that it was in courtesy instead of Irony. I >;.ys hi tor, when the pr|r) visited lb ? o'.d tenement again, the sick woman and her children had vanished, Im' hril lei i word behind for her The man-wolf was still 'here, but Instead of growling and t-howlng his teeth, he smiled at her In another place, with light and ait and fond and comforts in abundance, th? girl found tho mother and her little one-- |t was qttlry the widow, no longer In bod, M hlspcred: \ " lie did. ii! He did it nil!" One evening, when long weeks had passed, the young man was waiting at (he honte of the girl when she came from her place of daily employment. "I hftVe been talking with the mother," he said, quietly. "She sa; s I may call What does the Christmas Angel say?" (Copyright, 1910 > A Simple Gift. When one wishes to send little more than a remembrance at Christ mas yet doet< not care to use cards, a novelty that can be made by the girl who paints Is a match scratcher In the form of a card. Have an oblong background of col ored cardboard and on It paint a quaint figure cut from fine emery pa per in aoft tonea of brown, heighten ed by gay touchee In the costume. It Is then cut out and pasted on the back, which may be left plain or painted with acenery to correspond. Sometimes theee scrstchera art done In entirely monochrome. Chil dren with huge muffs, picturesque colonial or OreUM figures, or qnalnt Dutch peasants can be copied In colors. START i% Mccmm ?KS^K IXMAS Uld- CO *cwi& (/icoounT CREATE OR CRUMBLE. Every man should create a foundation for success before old age crumbles his earning powers. A small savings account started today, NOW, will start you on the road to independence. The farther you travel on this road the less you will wish to turn aside. Make OUR Hank Y< >UR Bank. We pay liberal interest consistent with safety. Enterprise Bank Laurens, S. C. N. B. Dial, President C. 11. Roper, Cashier 1 For Sale! g m- M NJS Fred W. Green house and lot on West hy\ Main Street. Formerly owned by J. H. m ! 1 m QT One House and Lot, North Harper Street Jjj - containing one-half acre, more or less, fronting on Harper street 50 or (JO feet. ITJ $| The Harriett Mills tfft fti House and Lot m- ?3 fejM N. !'. DIAL. C. II. ItOPKR, L#U r If President. Sec. & Troas. 2rl^5 hi ? m 69 93 Home Trust Co. SR Ksj LAURKNS, SOUTH CAUOI.I fe$S V^'i^V VV^ VVV VW V VVV Wv'Vk >> ? I Special Values at | W. (1. Children's Sweaters 50c, Misses' Sweaters $1.50, Ladies' Sweaters, strictly all wool, at $2.50 and $3.50. All wool Mufflers, Togues and a complete line of Cotton and Wool Underwear, Cotton and Wool Hosiery, Blankets and Flannels. W. Q. Wilson & Co