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ga:3B>seeBBEBgQn gggggeaggggg Igrand Opening! g ....O F T H E:... B I Southern Trading Stamp Co., S Ry Bachelor Street, - - Union, S. C. j| TO jjf Nicholson Bank Building. ? 32 Every Customer Visiting Our Premium Store ? t! will be presented with a book containing XI $1.00 worth of complimentary stamps A Hi with which to- start their collection. a Remember these stamps are good until K E0 redeemed, and you can be assured of the Jj Pi fact that if von callerf Smith - - ^ W m m ? w ? VMHIV? UK fl I CllS lilt^ ^ 30 Stamps, you can exchange them for j<| Y| A GREAT VARIETY OE ARTICLES 85 useful and ornamental with which to pC 85 furnish your home. fc| J We have contracted with the follow- g jg ing merchants In Union to handle our " ^ Jp stamps, and these merchants are only Q 430 too willing to give you the benefit of the pS cash discount, if you will give them your 1 8 ^ trade, and pay cash for what you pur= g $ chase. Every person will concede the Jj . fact that they have to buy goods and Di B merchandise from some one, and if ? i?J honest they have to pay for them, and S ijj jf by paying cash and confining their g purchases to certain stores, they get the ? benefit of this cash discount, they are of < ^ ' g >. course that much ahead. g I? ARTgOOP&" ' W MILLINERY ^ Kt _ Wonder Store, Main Btroet, McLuro Mercantile Co., Main Street. (T r U ' BOOKS, STATIONERY, ETC. * Mias M. E, Tinsley, Main Street: . W H. F. Scaife, Main Street. MINERAL WATER J* CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS AND SHADES LT nion Drug Co. Main Street. |i| T. E. Bailey, 94 and 95 Main Street. PAINTS AND OILS ?? 8wS CANDIES, ETC. Go?- H. Octzel, Main Street. Vf |A| Union Drug Co., Main Street. PICTURE FRAMES M" |11 CLOTHING, GENTS FURNISHINGS, ETC T. E. Bailey-, 1)1 and 95 Alain Street, Kj' . The Bailoy-Copeland Co., Main Street. PRESCRIPTIONS Af (X AIcLure Alercantile Co., Main Street. Union Drug Co., Main Street. JSS fT| CORSETS SPORTING GOODS | X McLure Alercantile Co., Alain Street. Geo. II. Oetzcl, Main Street. T I X ~ DRESS GOOD? STOCK AND POULTRY FOOD pS i X AIcLprc Alerpantiio Co., Alain Street. Union Drug Co.. Main Street. a ft DRESS MAKERS SUPPLIES SODA WATLR AND ICE CREAM p, JL ; AJcLuro Alercantile Co,, Main-Street, Union Drug Co.. Main Stroot. T . ! f DRUGS, MEDICINES, ETC. TOILET ARTICLES pf i A ? Union Drug Co., Main Street, Union Drug Co., Main Street, i ? T v DRY GOODS UMBRELLAS fl ^ JJs AIcLure Alercantile Co., Main Street, McLure Mercantile Co., Alain Street, ft P* FANCY GOODS The Bailey-Copeland Co., Alain St. Ugj X McLure Alercantilo Co., Main Street. WALL PAPER AND DECORATIONS U ift FERTILIZERS ^ T. E. Bailey, 91 and 95 Main Street. ft v Tl Union Groocry Co., Alain Street. WATCII MAKERS AND JEWELERS. Mj ' 9*8 44 44 44 Church Street. Alias AI. E. Tinsley, Main Street. f\ [A] 4 4 4 4 4 4 Bachelor St. FURNITURE CjS (tl GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, ETC. T- E- 'V ai*d 05 Mrt!n Strcet* I* flfti Union Grocery Co., Alain Street. Wonder Store, Main Street. fjj ,4( " 44 Church Street. jS| GARDEN AND FLOWER SEED ' McCLURE MERCANTILE CO., ft JjM Union Drug Co., Alain Street. The Undersellers. y* Clll HARDWARE, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE Every customer of this store will receive ft jffj Geo* H* 0etzel? Mam 8trcet- Southern Trading Stamps for cash pur- M ul INFANTS WEAR chases only, and should the sales people, by LA AIcLure Mercantile Co., Alain Street. any oversight, fail to offer the stamps, do ft LM IRON BEDS AND BEDDING J j not hesitate to ask for them. IjS ru T. E. Bailey, 94 and 95 Alain Street. Our customers will always find in our Q JEWELRY k stock the latest of everything in Dry Goods, ft flj Miss AI. E. Tinsley, Alain Street. Millinery, Clothing, Shoes, Ilats and No- fcj Wr MEAT PROVISIONS tions at the lowest possible price. P Ml *" * Geo. S. Kirby, Alain Street. Phone 114. ?3 K y ? REMEMBER ^ | q that yqu obtain one stamp lor each 10 $ jj cents represented in a cash purchase, 0 Ai and it takes but a very short time to fill X> book, 20 pages, 25 stamps on a page. H I A Visit to Our Store Will be Worth Your While. jjj a THE SOUTHERN TRADING STAMP CO, % fl NICHOLSON HANK BUILDING. g aBaBEHEEESE? a ?aa3a3S3S33S3E ' ] Humor and Philosophy 2 By DUNCAN M. SMITH 1 I J WARM OVER THERE. 1 'Tls Bummer In Australia, \ For Bomo great, all wise plan, ? *And while wc sneeze they sit at ease ( And work the palm leaf fan \ And gather cherries from tho trees, ^ While wo must tap the can. In heat they fairly revel. S One hundred In the shade. And maybo more than that before t Tho highest point is made, 0 Tho while the natives dally o'er ' The festive lemonade. S The sun shines down so sultry . They simply cannot freeze; ^ Some special days its fiery rays J May burn up half the trees. 4 lit that and many other ways g It always strives to please. J As you may well conjecture, 3 They don't need overcoats Nor sealskin sacks to warm thilr *1 backs g Nor mulDcrs for their throats. ^ No heat tho poorest ever lacks, g Declare all foreign notes. g And are they truly grateful For all this glowing heat. The natives who may sit und stew j All day and toast their feet? Ah, no, 1 fear they'd call a fow J Good snowstorms quito a treat. 1 J| Shoveling Snow. 1 While cleaning off his front walk aft4 er a storm a man should ulwaya reJ member that no one was ever given a ^ pension from the hero fund for break3ing his back while shoveling snow. This may kccxu like a sad miscarry rlage of justice, but he may as well A look the facts In the face as they are. J Incidentally it might be lucutloncd that ? no trniu has ever broken bis back at } that useful labor, although some men have almost broken their hearts. A No man who has the cure of u famj ily on his hands, however, should take m chances. If he has a boy growing up J there Is no better exercise for tbo 3 youngster. A man always knows that, having learned it from his father. BeJ sides, it is exceedingly conducive to A peace of mind to stand in the wludow J nnd watch the boys toiling away for a 3 nickel's worth of candy they nro not going tn get. 1 A Liberal Education. {| "1 don't understand how a busy man I like you manages to keep so well postal ed," J "1 don't mind telling. I read the i street enr ads." | Poor Reward. I stood on the bridge at midnight, ^ Like the storied man of old. i It really bee mod poetic, ^ But I enught u dreadful cold. ^ Near Enough. j 9 "Guess what I urn thinking about?" 4 "Yourself." No, but you uro close to it." "1 did think of saying 'Nothing' at J first." 5 Double. When a man and woman marry, ^ Trouble, it la said, begins. J 4 And quite often some months later 9 It assumes the form of twins. 4 I PFRT PARAC.PAPUC 4 A man has faitb much larger than a 5 grain of mustard seed who buys lem4 onado at the circus. J * No matter bow strong u mau may be ^ bo cannot carry a jag gracefully. * I Money will not bring health, but It ?I will hire specialists and a trained nurse. i Even a constitutional liar can tell the ' truth when it is money in his pocket to J do so. The cbnmplou optimist is the man ? who gets married as soon as be has *} saved the price of a marriage license. ^ The man who sets out to live by his S wits must expect to miss a meal occa| sioually. A man dooa not need the aid of a memory system to help him recall the details of a transaction when money is coming to him. ^ If a man volunteers to teach a worn* an how to skate It Is a sign ho loves ( her without the addition of any weak ^ words. ^ While It is true that a iv > may be a * long time dead it may not stun long. " While beauty is only skin deep it Is Just as effective as though it was a foot thick. THE LOST PARADISE THEORIES AS TO THE LOCATION OF THE GAP,DEN OF EDEN. T/m ConncnnuN of l.<-nrnc<l Opinion Support* (lie It?-1 Irf Tliut Adam and Eve'n Original Home Wiim on Hie Ureal Babylonian Plain. Almost every rpot of the globe has hail the claim made on its bclialf that It is the site of vanished Eden. Most persons seeui agreed on the fact that paradise has disappeared from our midst. The question Is, Where >vas it slluutedV To those who deny the Biblical story of umn's genesis the question takes another form, and they perplex themselves as to the spot in which man first appeared on this earth. Some evade the difficulty by saying that man appeared in many different spots?that he did not spring from one original. If we accept the doctrine of the Darwinians we ure forced to confess that the place where man first evolved must have been anything but a garden of Eden. It must have been a haunt of mere uuimnllsut. and its food would certainly not have beeu fruit. Roughly speaking, therefore, there are two schools?those who believe that man came from a divine original, but fell away from his first estate, to which with Infinite labor he may return, and those who believe that he evolved from the beast and is still evolving to the greatness that he may ultimately attain. Setting aside these somewhat discordant theories, we may well ask. Where was Eden? The soundest scientists are agreed that mankind came from a single origin?whether a distinct creation or an evolution is beside the mark?and the original man must have had a local habitation. The geographical manuals and maps of the middle ages leave a good deal to be desired in the matter of accurate detail, but they have at least the merit of boldness, and if we go to them for an answer to our question wo may get something like n definite reply. According to an old map of the thlrtcehlli century, paradise is n circular Island lying near India. It is surrounded by a wall iu which is a e,uv*.-.? nj upcniug 10 xue west. The gate is closed and the wall quite insurmountable. Our later atlases do not locate this happy island. Other early maps would have us believe that Eden lay In central China. We can go with these ancient geographers so far as to place the probable site of man's birthplace In Asia, but the consensus of learned opinion docs not incline cither to India or China. Eminent authority supports the Idea that Edeu lay somewhere on the great Babylonian plain, watered by tbe Tigris and the Euphrates?the Peratb and Hiddekel of Genesis. Other authorities give their vote for Armenia, possibly Influenced by tbe tradition wblcb says that the Ark rested on Mount Ararat, but this tradition would only point to Artv.onhv.ns the probable first home of pos^tiluvian man.. professor Delitzscb and Professor S.iyoe favor Baby!Mi: fjleidegger favors Palestine; Media, Arabia and the upper Nile have all their supporters. Quatretages. treating tlio subject solely from a scientific standpoint, concludes that linguistic and other human types point to central Asia, but does not decide on any precise locality. With the author of Gcm$ls, as Dr. Kalisch has remarked. "Edeu is geographically described iu a manner which leaves 110 doubt that distinct locality was before the mind of the author." Even to those who think that this author was building 011 uncertain traditions it must yet lie of Interest to know what this locality was. Babylon was the most fertile land known to the ancient world; its poorest fields repaid cultivatiftu. flftyfold, its better a hundredfold. Its luxuriance of fruit and grain was so great as to be actually embarrassing. There is 110 question at nil that this district was the seat of Asia's earliest civilization and therefore why not say of the world's? The idea of man created perfect and living in n garden of fruitful loveliness has always had a fascination for poor uuuiuimy, reeoguiziug us present imperfections and the frequent distressing disuialness of Its present surroundings. Even those who knew nothing of the Bible story pictured such n spot for themselves. Every early mythology has Its fortunate isles, its Atlantis, its Ilesporides, Its Arcadia and its Golden Age. Soino persons even conjectured that paradise had not been on the earth at all. but was an island floating in the air, something like the island visited by Gulliver. They "did not wish to think that the sacred - spot could be submerged by the waters of the deluge. and by this device they raised it above any such calamity. On this Island dwelt the sacred phenlx; the well of life flowed there, the elixir of immortality; leaves never fell from the trees; the sun shone always on a perpetual summer. .Men .declined to believe that Eden had been destroyed forever. They preferred to imagine that its gates were closed to them for a season. To deem that such a spot could vanish Reciued sacrilegious. Many an early voyager and explorer had strange dreams of discovering some earthly paradise when ho set out for unknown shores?dreams perhaps | not spoken. but secretly nourished and strengthened by uncouquerable force of romantic superstition that lived In the heart of ages in other ways so dark. Kvon the Elizabethans dreamed i nlmtys of some more wonderful country to be discovered. Their tolls and perils and fightings had ever the redeeming glamour of romance. In those days wns the true poetry of travel. There was always some El Dorado, some hidden Eden, to he reached. ? Kansas City Independent. 2^Humor and Philosophy By DUNCAN M. SMITB . |N > UN APPRECIATIVE The storm has passed, the wind Is stilted $ The day breaks clear and white. A mantle wide by deft winds span. That glitters brightly In the sun. Was spreud abroad lost night. It lies as softly on the earth i As mists upon the sea; Jt covers hills and woods and town With fleecy fluff llko thistledown Or fairy filigree. It changes all unsightly things To beauty's Imagery. And now and then the west wind low Picks up a misty veil of snow And tosses it In glee. The trees clad In their robes of white Are things of beauty now; A million crystals catch the light And flash and shine and sparkle bright And gleain from every bough. But I've lumbago In my bock; Today Is washing day. Thq snow is drifted 'nc&th the linn, And wide says tho task Is mine To shovel It away. Under Difficulties. "Mrs. Ulgby always has such a look sf patient resignation when out In company." "Yes. but think how many timet th? has heard her husband's stories." A Little the Best of It. "What would you give for $1,C<XV U00?" "Real moneyV" "iJure." "Oh, about $099,000." I ' Sell Sacrificing. Oh. girl divine. My peacherlne. If you'll be mine. My pearl, my queen. For you I'll strive With earnest heart; While I'm allvo I'll do my part. I I know you've got A fortune, but. While I have not, I'll gladly cut My poor estate. If you commend. Your fortune great To help you spend. On the Safe Side. "What business Is he in?" "Mining stock." "Doesn't he know that is terribly risky?" "Oh, but he is selling it" Nothing Else Doing. Guard?What's going ou in there? Prisoners (in chorus)?Time! Just For Wages. A man may play a villain's part And liave a noble, honest heart j Because the big dramatic czar Won't let him be the star. PERT PARAGRAPHS. When' a woman is shopping she ryr. would rather lose her purse than her. "*7^ powder rag any day. -J. '"" s^ *.i. Lots of us would be willing to let ths otber fellow do the worrying if hs would only do It. X If we each got what we think we deserve. where would the other fellow come In? Some people talk ubout themselves so much that they have cause for legal action. The reason that some peor'.e dislike / to work is they fear tuat they might get In the habit of It. The man who marries a girl because she Is pretty will have something nice to look at when lie bus dyspepsia. It Is easier to frive tlinn It la m ceive. for then you do not have any notes of acknowledgment to write. Wheu trouble gets scarce Satan goes slioppiug with the wouiun who has Just been looking over her best friend's wedding presents. The more feather brained a woman la the more distinctly feminine and desirable some learned gentlemen think her. ... I K f It is true that n little lenrning in a <1;i ngerous thing if it is in the art uf handling tirearms. 1 ? Some men appear to go about huntlug trouble that they may drown it in . i drink. a ,