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I ? ? ? ? ? ? s= 1 i7iikTr?c i minu: GOLDEN NEEDLES. They Were Used When Gallants In France Did Fancy Work. During the old regime in France, about which so much glamour re- ' mains to us, i he very men who were living and making the history of the empire of Louis passed their leisure ' time in a way that seems to us of today utterly ridiculous. lit ail the fancy work on which ladies employed themselves the men sectn to have totron nnrt ; f Poinsinet in one of his comedies represents a young marquis entering a room where two fair damsels are embroidcrir - One is working , a piece of dre-s imining, the other a Marly flounce. The hoau examines the embroidery with the eye of a connoisseur, points out here and there the specially good touches and is too polite to notice any defects. ^ He takes a little gold tube out of the pocket of hi3 richly decorated waistcoat and selects a dainty gold needle. He goes to the frame at which Cidalise is working and finishes the flower which she had begun. From her he moves to the sofa and, seizing one en^of the flounce, assists Ismene, to 9 icm he pays special attention, to complete her task. At this time it was the custom of the ladies invariably to carry their workbags with them to the evening receptions, in which they had not only their embroidery materials, but the last'novel, the popular songs, their patch boxes and rouge pots. Gentlemen also carried deftly embroidered little bags into company, which held "a whole arsenal of cutlery and fancy articles, such as boxes of different shapes filled with lozenges, bonbons, snuff and scent." At another period the fashion of the day was to cut out drawings from books and pamphlets and to paste them on screens, lamp shades, boxes and vases. The skill in this was to so arrange the drawings or parts of different drawings as to produce a curious or amusing effect. Then there came a seasoi. when all the rage was for charades and riddles, which gave a peculiarly good opportunity to exercise the light and rapid wit 60 conspicuous in the French. Every evening the drawing rooms were converted into impromptu charades. Some lady would suggest a word or phrase, and forthwith it would be converted into the subject of ?a sprightly little play. Many of the word games now current with us in America had their origin in the necessity the French salons were under in tne last century to divert themselves. In som? of the salons the fashion of keeping a daily chronicle of news, which was too often a mere chronicle of scandal, was adopted. Mme. Doublet de Persan issued bulletins which she called "nouvelles a la Emain." In her apartments two registers were kept, one of the authentic news received here and there by her guests, tiie other of floating rumors and on dits, and from these the budget of her chronicle was made up and circulated throughout JFxanoe.? Anpleton's Magazine. To avoid serious results take Foley's Kidney Kemedy at the first sign of kidney or bladder trouble, such as backaches, urinary irregularis, exhaustion, and you will soon be well. Commence taking Foley's Kidney Remedy today. D C Scott. Old papers for sale at tliis office. S wi EM "i ' immmmmmrommmmmn Ml L L 1 JTREE WlMmmUMMWWlilMWW THE ATTIC INSTINCT. Why Some Persons Cling to Thing# That Are Rubbish. The attic instinct hangs on surprisingly, and an observing eye can tell how many years a person has lived in the city by merely glancing under her bed. if there are three hat boxes one will contain letters, one scraps of. ribbons and laces?if it's a man it's newspaper clippings ?and one anything from a broken lock to old road maps. If, besides these, there are bundles of magazines and piles of newspapers, not to mention a bicycle seat and a green umbrella that one might use in private theatricals?if all these things have been placed under the bed against the protests of the familv if thev are natientlv moved every cleaning day and clung to through a moving, then their owners have the attic instinct to such an extent that there is not the slightest hope of their ever being cured. Thev will think from an attic point of view for the rest of their lives, and their family might as well become resigned. When people are willing to make themselves disagreeable over a bit of string and absolutely objectionable on the subject of stray pieces of brown paper they should not be accused of having bad dispositions, nor should they be suspected of doing it to annoy one. They are merely suffering from the attic instinct and cannot help themselves. Their characters were formed and V 1 J nave iu'w imiuciicu iui a vx life where certain things were always kept in the cellar, others in the wood shed, others in the pantry and the cupboard on the first floor, still others in the closets on the next floor, and everything and anything that overflowed from any of these places was just taken up to the attic. And now these poor dear souls live with a cellar, three stories and an attic still lodged in their minds, and, though they will in time disappear, like all unnecessary members?seventh toe, tails, an appendix?in the meantime they are having trouble with them, they are suffering and fighting for them, and it takes a serious operation to remove so much as one scrap book if the owner thinks he may like to read it over in his old age.?Harper's Weekly. Why Elsie Was Sent to Bed. While little Elsie's elder sister, May, was entertaining her latest acquisition, a most dignified and genteel vounir man, in the parlor Elsie was relegated to the dining room to plav with her doll. This particular one, the possessor of a kid body and a bisque head, had been somewhat ailing of late, owing to. the faet that its head was gradually becoming detached and its pivotal eyes refused to perform their functions of opening and closing. After considerable probing for the cause of the trouble Elsie made the discovery that there was something inside of it and finally succeeded in extracting a large roll of tightly curled hair. A moment later she burst into the parlor in a great state of excitement and shouted: "Pity sakes! No wonder Dorothy was sick! Look what was in her cfnmmirk' She must have swallow ed Sister May's rat!" ? Pittsburg Gazette. Old papers for sale at this office. REH IITE LAWNS AMBRAYS BROIDERIES BUTL 7'-' ' -?-'r : t AT_C [ N E R Y DRY UMWMMiWiliWiWillMWii: Telegrapher's Cramp. 'An interesting feature of telegraphers cramp is that certain letters are nearly always the stumbling; block. The most frequent are C: and Y?that is, the code signals I used for Ihese letters. When a I sender begins to be "conscious" about so common a letter as C his/ case soon becomes hopeless. Another form of cramp attacks the receiver of the message. It takes the form of inability to write fast' enough to take down a message quickly transmitted. This is easily understood when it is remembered that a receiver often has to write continuously to code dictation, so to speak, for hours at a time. The strain involved is enormous and leads fairly commonly to what is practically a form of nervous break-i down.?Dundee Advertiser. I The Black Sheep. "What," asked the man who had | returned to his native tpwn after an absence of many year "became of Ed Ferguson?" "Ed? Oh, he's doin .e. Got the best livery stable anywhere around here and run9 the depot hack." "Let's see! He had a younger brother, hadn't he?" "Yes?Lem. He never amounted to much. Wrote poetry and painted pictures. I guess the family kind of disowned him. At least he went away several years ago, and I dunno what ever became of him."?Chicago Tribune. When the farmers once understand the railroad companies' iuterpretaof confiscation, they will want to take a hand in that fight themselves. j Sio I ii An examination of Rc the annexed state- p ? ?- ? ment, which shows Ij lii r an increase for a, thp the past twelve months of nearly FIFTY THOUSAND _ Loans and DOLLARS Demand L< in the business of Overdrafts THE BANK OF Banking H KINGSTREE Furniture a will be found good = reading for those Checksand complaining o f hard times, as this statement shows , prosperity and ;'^P1 al growth. With a ^rpinsPu: willingness to Undmd?l 1 serve all with con- nTa**s ,a slderate. personal 1>,,e to Bai attention, we soli- ?>e^)sltf ' clt yonr farther Cashler s c * vhcidaoo uiismcaa jj CORRECT-ATTEST STATE OF Count] D. C. Scon, I, F. W. 3 R. H. K.U..HAN, John A. Kf.li.ey, Bank. Directors ^ THE BANK 0 KINQSTR D. C. SCOTT, Presideit IS. D. LESE8VE, NAN COLORE] CALICOES PIQUES ER DR .r." - ;.v ' " " - . wmmmmmmmmmmmmm ^OST! AT I uuuua Mis Great Weight. /Nothing expresses better the importance of a person?in his own or in the world'^^es?than to state it in terms relations with the physical (***' JTolme?. it will be i a^is of | n's! ^noi dis-1 rec^ ^h-! .1 X . I anon was lurneu ?. y of a certain Amen cari . ist. "AK, ..c is great man," said ; Irving, "and in his own estimation i a very great man?a man of great j weight. When !:; goes to the west the east tips up!" Not Afraid of a Ghost. In a village in England a man went running into an inn at 9' o'clock at night and cried out that there was a ghost in his back yard. There were fourteen men in the i inn, and not one of them dared to go home with the man and investigate. There was a person who dared, however, and that was the landlord's daughter, a girl of fourteen. Some of the men followed her at a distance, and she went into the yard and np to the ghost, flap pilig iu> aims auuui, auu uuw.I a man's white shirt flapping on the clothesline in a strong breeze. That's about the way all ghcsts turn out.?Exchange. There is a certain clase of fanners who speculate off the necessities of their brother farmers, and who ar opposed to organization. IB yplSL 1 port of the condit t [ OF Kir J close of business, Ap RESOURCES Discounts $ 151,474.72 ians 800.00 1,204.93 ouse 2,155.71 .nd Fixtures 1,958.78 lar.ks and ('ash on Hand.. 35,868.37 Cash Items 255.98 Total $ 193,778.49 LIABILITIES :k Paid in $ 30,000.00 nd... $ 12,000.00 Profits less Expenses and id, since January 1, 1909.. 5,451.94 nks 1,324.94 144 933.86 Checks 07.75 Total $ 193,778.49 1 SOUTH CAROLINA, / of Williamsburg, Pairey, Cashier of the above named lemnly swear that the above statei. as shown by the books of said F. W. Fa ire y, Cashier, before me this the 3rd day of May, H. 0. Britton, Cletk of C ourt. FKINGSTREE, EE, S. C F. W. FAIREV. Cashier Assistant Cashier T S ; D LAWNS BLEACHINC V GOOD "^1 ~ I i i 2 r* / ? 3 | ^ U <5 I . i 9 COMPANY|j -tin i iu>w gain I ll - '?/n" + s\ ahr lino nf ^ V> C luvuc _yuu iu uui nuv Piedmont, Durham, Goldsboro and Carolina BUGGIES AND SURREYS. f The famous and well known ! RUSSELL AND WEBER WAGONS. None better than the McCormick Mo wers and Rakes A large and select line of j HESS. SADDLES. HPS Ml SUMMER HIES. onmcc a mrs tfrms REASONABLE. 'I r niVkw na<ar _ Yours to please, Williamsburg Live Stock Co, | Kingstree, S. C. Organized, Developed and conducted on Principle of Conservative Banking Along Progressive Lines, the t* ATinr op WILLIAMSBURG I -w _ ? KINCSTREE. - 80UTH CAROLINA RESOURCES $150,000 C-w Solicits a share of your banking business, feeling confident that our ample resources and superior facilities will render asso- i. ciation with us permanently i agreeable and profitable. : C. W, Stoll, Pres. E. C. Epps, Cashier, E. L. Montgomery. Asst. Cashier, p. Rhem, V. Pres. I BIG REDUCTION j i IN > I LADIES' WAISTS, f | ON ACCOUNT OF OVERSTOCK. ? (I WE ARE OFFERING OUR EN-1 TIRE LINE OF UP-TO-DATE LINGERIES AND FINE MUS-jt 1 LINS AT COST. | J. S. ERON. I ?wwvvvvwvwvw^ \LE! =| PERCALES 8 * }S SUITINGS f) SILKS X >5 CO. | 9S96S696969SS6969S969 69S9?