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Official Return l Fcg.-CoxGREis. t;i h District ^ j xl, r,nvrue .1 \V Ragsdaie < For Solicit >r. dr i Circuit .T B McLaughlin i Philip H Stoll t For House of Representatives f T B Gourdin ^ J S Graliam r ~ For Road Engineer J J Graham S J Singletarv For Coroner R K Gamble \V .1 Godwin The tot d given in the last column RESULT IN' WILLIAMSBURG OF SECOND PRIMARY.!]) I.L IEB BV EXECUTIVE COHMITTEE TO BE AS APPEARS BELOW. The Williamsburg Democratic j Executive Committee convened j in the court house at 11 A M,j for the purpose of tabulating I 4 the votes of the second prima-I * ry election, declaring the result ! 4 of the same., which is as follows: j * United State Senate j John Gary Evans 441 E D Smith 17t>3 ! g Superintendent Education l ? Stiles R Mellichamp 9391 ? J E Swearingen 1259 J Railroad Commissioner ?i T~ ~ n^o hi uauic^ vausici nw i p1 Banks LCaughman 72itj ti John S Graham was elected to' the legislature over T B Gour- ic din. John J Graham was elected j road engineer over S J .Single- j tary. K K (jtipble was elected corv" oner OTer W J Godwin. ^ Phillip H Stoil was elected | Solicitor for the third circuit j over J B McLaug-iin. # # # ^ ^ I New Advertisements. : 1 1 * n S Marcus?School Days Clothing:. Kingstree Dry Goods Co? Ladies* Novelties and Neckwear. Florence Steam Laundry?Announcement. Farmers & Merchants Bank, ^ Lake City?Talk to Farmers. See Reckling's samples in windows at Hotel Van Keuren. He will be here on the 15th. llow to get Strong. P J Dalv, of 1247 W Congress St., Chicago, tells of a way to be come stroDg: ne says: "My motner, who i6 old and was very feeble, is er . deriving so much benefit from Elec- at & trie Bitters, that I feel it's my duty to tell those who need a tonic and V strengthening medicine about it. B j In my mother's case a marked gain B in flesh has resulted, insomnia has been overcome, and she is steadily growing stronger." Electric Bitters S] quickly remedy stomach, liver aud kidney complaints. Sold under guarantee at D C Scott's drug store. 50c. ? ? L The editor has been sick in _ bed for the past two days. J Our good friend, Mr S P Cooper of Suttons, presented us today with a nice lot of potatoes ^ ?about as fine specimens of v< yams as we ever saw at this D( season. Many thanks. ? k ' al See his samples in the Van tl f^Keuren hotel windows and be w convinced that he does the very ^ r best work and for the very best people. He will arrive here r( next Tuesday and stay a few fi' days. M m C( Remember, free stalls and hitching m room for your stock at Farmers crt Supply Co's. w For nails and all kinds of build- e< erB' Hardware go to Farmers' Supply di Co. V- * & is of Second F TTT 7TT lis If5 j| ~ i i ; i i i r 'i IM ' I ' i t i "1 M M i - : ....I -:| j i ( | | j | - i hi i ,v ' 1 i ! is khe otlicial tabulation. Complet W / Calha/)jlget your cotton picking' isketiVAu sheets at Farmers' Supy Co's. Call.it Farmers' Supply Co's two ores tnii supply your wants ii> flrories-HiYu Hardware, Read the Farners & Merchants ank's ad. this issue. 5our Stomach No appetite, toss oi strength, nervosa tss, headache, constipation, bad bretfh, tneral debility, sour risings, and catarrh i the stomach are all due to indigestion, odol relieves indigestion. This new dlscov,7 represents the natural Juicea of digo on as they exist in a healthy stomach, ?mbioed with the greatest known tonlo nd reconstructive properties. Kodol for yspepsla does not only relieve Indigestion [>d dyspepsia, but this famous remedy sips all stomach troubles by cleansing, jrifytng, sweetening and strengthening le mucous membranes lining the stomach. Mr. S. S. Ball, of Ravenawood, W, Va.. eayarI was troubled with aour stomach for twenty year*, odol cured raw and we are bow usint X to mill rbaby." FOR BACKACHE?WEAK KtDWEYS TUT (WITTS XICKEY and BLADBER PtLLS?Sara aidStfl f?rw??r?dbyE. O.O?MftTT*CO.,Obfc?0? For Sale by W L Wallace. Where Did You j Get That ilerry Widow Hat?! i The Merry Widow Hat attracts evybody's attention. Everybody looks : it Nobody can help seeing it. Why ? Because it occupies so much space. ecause it Is a fine millinery atspiay. ecause It has graceful lines. In fact, It has LINES OF DISPLAY PACE. In the Hat lies a Hint?to wit: The advertiser who would attract erybody's attention must use many [NE8 OF DISPLAY SPACE. Thraad and Needla Traaa. Did you ever hear of the thread ad needle tree? Rather a handy ee to have in the garden, don't au think, especially when there are oys in the house, with buttons connually coining off their clothes? his strange tree grows in nearly 11 tropical countries. At the tip of le leaf there is a sharp thorn, hich is the needle. If you grasp firmly and pull it out a lone iread of fiber cornea with it, ana lere you are?with a needle al;ady threaded for your sewing. The ber thread is very strong, and the fexicans use it for weaving a jarse kind of cloth as well as for swing. The leaves of the tree they je for roofing their houses instead ? tiles, and a fine roof they make ith them, strong and waterproof -just the sort of roof that is need1 in a country where the rain pours awn in sheets. 1 >rimary Elcctic | ? j ; i ' !iiJi S ! : I _ 5 * ~ ir ~ 9 Z. t ? I s j ? i ~ , % % . E .= ^ w. 131 = 1 "" ' ' "1 i i i 1 1 1 I I j I i I ! I ! ! ; | I .. ' ill 1 I I i i 1 I I I'M ! i i i I; i ! ' I I e return; from each precinct will be TWc^AHE COINS. I Both Piec. ^ Belong to the Time -? Napoleon. N .sts have interesting ob of search in two coins that be- to the transition period betiie Frencli republic and the d empire. ic of these is an extremely rare . that was struck oil just at the .oment of the assumption of the reins of empire by Napoleon III. Only the die for the obverse or head of a new imperial coin had been completed, and by some accident, or possibly by mischievous i design, a coin was struck off that j bore tlie head of "Napoleon III., j Emperor," on one side and "French Republic" on the other. I This contradictory coin is of inter- j est to others than numismatists, i for it symbolizes in a striking way ) the sudden changes in Trench j>oli- j tics. With the other coin a singular j story is connected. While Louis ! Xapoleon was prince president, 1 just before he made himself cmper- j or, a decree was issued* ordering a j f.ve franc piece to be coined bear- i ing his image. The dies were made, and one coin | was struck of! as a sample and sent! to the prince president for ap- j proval. But some time passed before he examined it. When at last be gave it his attention he was annoyed to find that he had been represented on the coin with a love lock, or hooked lock of hair on the temple, which he actually did wear at that period, but which he thought unsuitable to so dignified and permanent a epresentation of himself as an effigy on a coin. The prince president sent for the director of the mint and ordered him to remove the love lock. Then he found that his 6ilence with re??i"1 UIO r\itica horl hoon tjlWpTl ^aiu WW liiV J/iWV uwu WVM WW ? for approval and that the stamping of the coins had begun. The work was stopped and the image deprived of its undignified lock. But the twenty-three coins that had already been struck off were not destroyed and are now regarded as of great value.?Chicago Becord-Herald. The Chinese Sun and Moon. In China the 6un and moon are brother and sister. The moon is the elder brother, who looks after his rather 6illy sister, the 6un. One day in China, so the legend runs, the sun asked the moon if she couldn't go out at night. The moon answered very sternly: "No. You are a young lady, and it would be improper for you to go out after dark." Then the sun said, "But the people keep looking at me when I go out in the daytime." So the moon told her to take the golden needles that she wore in her hair and stick them into the eyes of people when they stared at her. This is the reason why no one can look at the sun without pain. A Lucky Hairdresser. Duplan, the hairdresser to Napoleon, made himself so indispensable to the unfortunate Josephine and became so intimately acquainted with the emperor's "affairs that he was retained in the service of the imperial family when Josephine was superseded by Marie Louise. He cared for the hair of both the emperor and empress, being paid 4,000 francs a year for service to the former and 0,000 for arranging the coiffures of the latter. Ultimately he was the recipient of about 40,000 francs a year, his demands being constantly increased 1 because of Napoleon's restriction in refusing to allow the tonsorial artist to treat the hair of any other customer. In Danger. In a email village there were two , butchers who were saugar_e., dealers >n, Held Septei twf ! S- S. I ? I X | w I i o I X !r = - = = I > ~ I ; r.:. < 1 V > > I z .2 1 I .5 I ? I -r T i ! 5 I . 1 U I Hi g Sis AJ11 J I II! ; I ! ! I i i ! ! I i ! I ! i given next week. " 1 living fn the same street. "One plac-' 3 .anled his sausages at 1 shilling per ; - t 11 ? pound, and the rival prompuv , placed eightpence on his card. Xo. 1 then placed a notice in his window saying that sausages under 1 shilling per pound could not be guaranteed. Xo. 2's response to this was the j announcement, "I have supplied sausages to the king." This might have been regarded as the last word, but it wasn't. In ( the opposite window the following; morning appeared a"* extra large card bearing the w .ds, "God save , the king."?Lor>J i Scraps. FISHING UPERSTITIONS. Various Queer Notions Exist All.Over the World. In British Columbia the Indians ceremoniously went to meet the first salmon and in flattering voices tried to win their favor by calling them all chiefs. Every spring in California the Karaks.nsed to dance for salmon. Meanwhile one of their number secluded himself in the mountains j and fasted for'ten days. Upon his J return he solemnly approached the river, took the first salmon of the catch, ate some of it and with the remainder lighted a sacrificial fire. The same Indians laboriously climbed to the mountain top after ; the poles for the spearing booth, J being convinced that if they were i gathered where the salmon were watching no fish would be caught. Very widespread, in fact, is this 1 native belief of the necessity of ( caution whenever Adam is on fishing bent. In Japan among the primitive race of-the Ainos even the women left at home are not allowed to talk, lest the fish may hear and disapprove, while the first fish is always brought in through a win- ? dow instead of a door so the other fish may not see. The Eskimo women of Alaska ? never sew while the men are fish- ? ing, and should any mending be im- 1 perative they do it shut up in little tents out of sight of the sea. j Under no circumstance on the ^ northeast coast of Scotland will a c fisherman at sea mention certain r objects on land, such as "minister/' a "kirk," "swine," "dog," etc., and t the line will surelv be lost if a pig t is seen while baiting it. As on (the land chickens must not be counted until they are hatched, so at sea fish must not be counted until they are caught. It is good luck to find mice nibbling among the r nets. A horseshoe nailed to the E mast will help, and a herring <j caught and salted down will pro- I duce wonders. In the Shetland islands a cat must not be mentioned before a b man baiting his line, and among ? the Magyars of Hungary a fisher- v man will turn back and wait over a ^ tide if he meets a woman wearing r o Triiitn onrnn t u n itiiv u|yi v**? ? Every year the natives of the Duke of York island decorate a canoe with flowers and fern, fill it with shell money and cast it adrift _ "to compensate the fish for their t fellows caught and eaten." ? It was always the custom of the a Maoris, the primitive inhabitants p of Xew Zealand, to put the first e fish that they caught back into the sea "with a prayer that it might tempt other fish to come and be caught." ^ If the fish did not come 60on t, enough in British Columbia the In- ^ dians used to employ a wizard, who B| made an image of a swimming fish s and put it in the water to attract C live fish to the bait.?Los Angeles Times. His New Coat. It They had been chums for so long n that when the one gave a chafing ? dish party to some of his more intimate feminine acquaintances the other made a point of returning ^ early from the theater. In order, to ^ T / A I mber 8, 1908. ; I :!J I j 1 ll'i : "I! ?1! ? I > ? 1V c I c 1 x ? .5 , > X.; * 1 s : ? ? e s! J ! s I S = j < : - X 6 ' - h-S'll i 1 ! 'I !!t;44 j 572; I i1534! ?m8 US. i * I I 117:1 1107) jiow'i ? I7e~p7e7eht". Chum No. 2 had hardly ! made his appearance before cRum j N"o. 1, in his anxiety to chatter non- j :ense%ith the prettiest girl in the room, managed to upset a basin of beaten egg yolks down the front of ' his new tuxedo. Chum Xo. 1 was much distressed apparently, and j chum Xo. 2 hastened to his assistance. "Go into my room and take mine," lie adjured his friend gener-1 ously. "I've a brand new one; just came home tod a v." Chum Xo. 1 smiled queerly. "I, know it, old boy/' was what he said, grinning in a rather forced fashion, "fact is?well, my own looked a little shabby this evening, and I've got yours on." Acrobatic Baby. Three-year-old May had a penchant for cutting everything in sight when she could get a'pair of scissors. One day, being left alone with her curly headed baby brother, she promptly cut every curl from the back of his head. When the nurse discovered the damage she said: "Oh, May! How dare you cut babv's curls off?" "He cut them hisself." "How did he reach the back of his head?" "He stooded on the stool." ? Philadelphia Ledger. ? An Accident. "Wlisit have vrm to sav ?" asked the magistrate of a woman who was charged with breaking an umbrella j over the complainant's head. "It j was an accident, your worship." "Did you not mean to hit her, then ?" "Oh, yes, 1 meant to hit her. but I didn't mean to break my umbrella!" The Human Touch. "Janie bad a doll that would say Papa' and 'Mamma.'" "What became of It?" "Jane's mother Is an advanced per-! ion, and she said the doll was an Inez- j usably childish reminder of a grossly >enighted period." "And what did she do?" "She threw It In a dark closet where j fanle didn't dare to go. And then a 1 lay or two later she happened to step j in It In the dark and It shrieked 'Mam- j na!' so naturally that she fell over In ; i faint and bumped her head and bad ' wo buckets of water poured over her >efore she recovered consciousness."? i Cleveland Plain Dealer. An Anticlimax. Sir Henry Irving was frequently a Ictlra to the Interjections of gallery ;ods. When playing "Macbeth" one 1 tight he had reached that dramatic ooment in the banquet scene when In Ireadful fear he bids the ghost of J lanquo to vanish: "Hence, horrible shadow. Unreal mockery, hencel" ie exclaimed and, shuddering convul- j Ively, dropped to his knees, covering ils face with his robe. As the ghost anlshed a shrill voice in the gallery < i iroke the momentary silence: "Ifs all lght now, 'Enery; he's gone!"?London lellman. Achill Island. There are few people who once bavng seen the laland of Achill can foret Its beauty. The Island lies close 0 the west coast of Ireland. When he skies are blue, mountains green nd smiling, bogs clad in purple and ink heather and the whole plctur* sque island in sunshine, the place is wonderland. i Consistent. "The people who say that women are 1 constant and Inconsistent," declares cm pnuosopner or 101 j, -ore aeau rrong. A tew years ago a girl told ma ] he was Just twenty-two, and she t ticks to the same figures today."? 'levels nd Leader. In His Line. First Ball Player?I was out so late ist night that my wife wouldn't let 1 le In. Second Ball Player?Well, you re used to being "out at home."?New 1 ork Press. < We ha*e only two days to live. It Is i ardly worth our while to spend them ] 1 cringing to contemptible rascals.? 1 oltaire. ' J-- 1 A BACHELOR DINNER. It Began With Medicated Soup and Ended With Olive Tarts. One often reads of the tremblings and anxieties which accompany the first dinner parties of the young wife and housekeeper. Mr. Gerald Gordon in "Life In the Mofussil" gives a bit of experience which shows that a youthful bachelor makes his debut as an entertainer with similar feelings of trepidation. Keeling almost as nervous as a girl for the success of his initial social enterprise in India, he entered the dining room with his guests: "The table looked very well. In " j- i .'.I me comer w;is? el jar^u nu un uiciuy; with the thick rind cut into ornamental shapes. The flowers were prettily arranged. When I viewed the dining room before the arrival of {he guests I felt well contented. "The critical moment was when we sat down. I was prey to a hundred and one anxieties. These fears were not allayed by seeing my right hand neighbor only making a show of eating his son p. Then I saw the colonel take one spoonful and order the servant y take it away. My own turn urriv'iig, I found, to my horror, a strong flavor of castor oil in the concoction. On looking round the table it was clear that every I one else had discovered it. "The consumah, standing by thesideboard. was totally unconscious that anything was wrong, and I had to tell him twice to remove the soup. "Latex the horrible mystery wasexplained. It was the custom of the native cooks to strain soup through a cloth, and a clean one was provided every day for the purpose. In my establishment we burn castor oil in the lamps. The duty of straining the soup that day'was given to a wretched undercook, who took a cloth which had been used for cleaning the lamps. "This was trving, but everv one .?1.? ii.? | UlL'U lu 11 la iv u ine lfcst yi iimuvic. The dinner went smoothly after this until dessert. Among the dishes was one of greengages with a lot of fluffy cream on top. I felt rather proud of this delicacy. The colouel tasted it. "'Goodness! Olives!' he shouted. "Alas, it was too true! At the time I had given out a bottle of greengages I had also given one of fine Spanish olives. Now, for the first time, I noticed the greengages lying innocently in a cut glass dish where the olives should have been. "This was too much for the gnests' power of self restraint, and they laughed loudly and long. It was the best way to get over it, but I did not soon hear the last of those olive tarts." Stones In Queer Placet. A round stone- is found in the joints of certain kinds of bamboo. This is called "tabasheer" and is supposed to be deposited from the siliceous juices of the cone. Anoth er curiosity of this kind is the cocoanut stone, which is found im the endossperm of the cocoanut im Java and other East Indian islands. It is pure carbonate of lime and is: sometimes round, sometimes ear * shaped, while the appearance is that of a white pearl without much luster. Some of these stones are as large as cherries and as hard aa feldspar or opal. They are rarely found and are regarded by the orientals as precious stones, the lower classes using them as charms against diseases and evil spirits. Stones are also sometimes found in the pomegranate and in other East India fruits.?Chicago News. No Great Punishment. Jared Wilkins possessed no education and was even unable to read. Harold, his grandson of seven years, learned of this for the first time when he asked him to read a story in his new book. ' Can't you read?" he asked in surprise. "No, sonny." "Why can't you, grandpa?" "Because," the old gentleman replied impressively, "I was a bad boy and wouldn't go to school." "Were you a real bad boy?" "Very bad." "And now you can't read?" "Not a word." "Well," said the youngster thoughtfully, "it seems to me you ?ot off pretty easy."?Woman's nome companion. By Way of Comparison. "You were having a quarrel with the prosecuting witness, were jou not?" said the judge in an effort to? straighten out a complicated case. "Oi wor," was the reply. "And it was a very severe qaarrel ?" "It wor, an' it kep' gettin' worser m' worser." "Can you give me some idea of bow bad it was ?" "Well, your honor, at wan toime? Oi t'ink it wor most as bad as that's been goin' on bechune the lawyers in this cage." ? Harper's Weekly. V i \ \