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1 DR. McCREER EYE SPECIALIST. E Office, M. & P. Dank Building. Hours, 9 fo I \ HAIR & DENT] 2 Crown, Bridgework and 1 2 Office over Mutual Dry G " 11 Humor and Philosophy j By DUNCAN M. SMITH . i PERT PARAGRAPHS. t Another lesson we en it learn from the honeybee is to keep sweet. When the eat is away the tuiee will just as like as not go snooping around nutil they tin<l a mouse trap. I The real hero is the man who enn bring home his pay elieek every week nnhrokeu. A girl who knows she is pretty likes to have her own good judgment eonlirmed hy tlie nien. Speaking of interior decorations, pie is one of the most popular we run think of at tin* present moment. Some people Just think that they think, and others think that they think they think. Von may have noticed that the ice j trust isn't subsidizing any of these north pole expeditions. _ I The real joy of labor comes regularly once a week?on pay day. If everybody who thinks lie could elevate the stage had a clianee it would at least have to be enlarged. A fisherman never carries a tape ! measure and a pair of scales along, as | they might hold distressing Joiut de- ' bates with some of his guesses. ~~ ! It is said to be easy to get in debt. but the man who is busted doesn't al- ' ways find it so. Fatal Ammunition. A eat sat on a buck yard fence And sang a cheerful song; His voice was rasping and i / Intense \| . And. for n kit- / ten. strong. ? . * lA ' A would be sleep\ \ er vainly tried v il ' A A T > snatch a lit- . x '/s,, tie rest, ^ ^VU'^IrtV And then be tluna the window ^ / wide A J/fffAJ* And made an I/"* Acy'V^' awful test. C^ - ~ ?>. His bride's first w N biscuit was at ? hand. A>>d with his pood arm stout He sent an Incurve where he planned? That cat's nine lives went out! Talking Eyes, I'oets must have about seventeen senses that tire denied to the rest of us. They talk about laughing eyes, but, as it matter of fart, if an ordinary person were to hear a pair of eyes utter a merry ha. ha! he wouldn't know whether to send for the eye doetor or eall up the bug house. When the poet said to the girl, "Speak to me only with thine eyes." it wasn't because be was tired of hearing toe sound of her musical voice, ill though the foxy gentleman might have been afraid that she was going to say "No." whereas if she talked only with her lamps he could interpret the answer any way he saw lit. Youth is romantic, and doubtless the girl thought it was a line sentiment. However, we can see where an aeeoniiill-hment like that in after life could prevent lots of suffering. Suppose a married man could get his wife to talk to him that way. He could let her go oil for a few hours and then turn out the gas and tell her to proceed and enjoy herself. Deserve* the Title. "I'a, what is a diplomat?" "A flInlfimnt niv cnt? lu r* wI*a ran live with his mother-in-law with out pnjin?^ board." Quite a Difference. "I beard that he had broken himself of the habit of drinking." "N"o; he Just broke himself at the habit." In Theory. Ho wrote about the joy of work. Hut when his weekly pay Was handed to him by the clerk He took his joy In play. Cause and Effect. "That story the old innn told was a corker." "Buy him a few driuks uud perhaps he will uucork uuotUer." I | Men tvowsiw" Y C'LYMPH, 1 yes tested fkee. Take Stairway on Main Street, and 2 to 6. H AIR, : ists. : Regulating a Specialty. oods Co., Union, S. C. * EXPENSIVE FLOWERS. The Tulip Crone In llollnti?l In the Xinctecnlh Ccnlur*. 1 Miring Hip tulip era/.e in Holland in tlic l.-ist century in one your tiio sales aggregated U>.(h>o,(h:0 llorins. Holland went tulip mad. The bulbs were ijuotod on the Stork Exchange. Ownership in them whs divided into shares. Speculators sold thciu short. At one time uiore tulips were sold than existed. At Lille a brewer sold his trade and good will in exchange for a bulb, which was thereafter known as the brewery tulip. In Amsterdam a father gave one by way of dower with his child. Thereafter the variety was known as the marriage-of niy-daughtor. At Rotterdam a hungry sailor, happening on a low, mistook 11 icii i lor onions aim ale them. The repast liorume us famous as Cleopatra's pearls ami probably exeeetletl it in cost. At The lluguo a poor follow managed to raise a black tulip. Tbe rumor of that vegetable marvel spi-jpid. Presently bo was visited by a deputation from a syndicate. For that owe lamb of bis the fieptitation offered I.imhi florins, which be refused. lie was offered 10,000 tlorlns. Still lie refused. Cascades of gold were poured before his resisting eyes. Finally, tormented and tempted, he suooutnbod. There and then the deputation trampled that tulip under their feet. Afterward it ap pea ret I that the syndicate had already grown a gem precisely similar and, unable to bear (lie idea that a rival existed, had authorized the deputation, if needful, to offer ten times the amount which It paid. TWO CLASSES OF OAKS. line *, Cor tin W'ootl. the Other Itn nrllIittncj- of ColorliiK. The great oak family might be divided" iu'o two classes?those that ripen their acorns in one season, such as the white, post and mossy cup oaks, and those which require two full years, such as tin- red, scarlet and black oaks. To (lie tirst class belong the chestnut oak and the live oak of the south. This latter tree for generations played an Important part in shipbuilding, but bus now been superseded by iron and steel. The loaf, which is an evergreen, is entirely without indentations ami is thick and leathery. The wood is very heavy and strong, lias a beautiful grain and is susceptible of taking a high polish. At m i' time this wood was so valuable that our government paid $20o,(J00 for large tracts of land in the south, that our navy might be sure of a supply of live oak limber. To the seeotid class of oaks we are largely indebted for the gorgeous colors of our autumn leaves. The red, scarlet and pin oaks, with their brilliant reds, scarlets and browns, are close competitors with the maple in giving our American landscapes the most wonderful autumn colorings lobe found anywhere in the world. These three trees have leaves which at first glance are quite similar, but by careful examination may always be distinguished.?St. Nicholas. lllnotiMCM of A ii 1 inii 1 *. Household pets are susceptible to a l'ar greater variety of diseases than most people imagine. Parrots arc known to lie susceptible to a disease sc peculiar to themselves that It is called from the Creek word for parrot, "psit tacosis." A number of fatal eases In human brings of what was at first sup posed, to he a malignant influenzal pueu nioitia were in Paris traced to the lined lus at present thought to he causative of thy parrot disease. A certain pro portion of parrots are known to die from tuberculosis. Cats are known sometimes to have tuberculosis, and that tlicy have in many cases been carriers of diphtheria and other of the ordinary in ructions directly and Indirect iy is more than suspected.--Kansas City Journal. Strangely enough, the man who can keep his temper hasn't any to keep. Somehow or other the man who plays the races can't get it through his head that he is paying all expenses of the track and bookmakers. It Is plenty of A square meals that make a j man round. A ,,r'^ ,l,uc'1 Pu* . \ iy L ' out because It ? 1H>/''* so hard to /m>. gJfr. heat a board / ? _ An automobile must have some Kense of humor, Judging from the way It turns handsprings in the hand?; of a novice. In accordance with a nice adjustment of our language the dead gauie sport is u live one. 1 ro 1 ' " it The Quarrel By KEITH GORDON Copyright, 1006, by Francos Wilson & There were two Hides to the question, of course. There always are two sides. He, being a man, saw oftiy the masculine side, while she. being every Inch a woman, could see only the feminine as- I pect of the matter that rose between them like a wall. According to his reasoning, the great pearl that beamed softly on the third finger of her left hand?his gift?was the solemn, final expression of his faith, his choice. It was the official seal affixed to his avowed belief that she was the supreme woman. In his deeper, finer moments he would ! relive the moment when he liad put It j there, when the splendor of his own destiny had sobered nnd steadied him j till his whole being had gone out in the wordless prayer, "God grant that I may | make her happy." From that moment she was the fixed star of his life. Indeed, she scarcely j seemed to him n separate entity, but rather the finest part of himself. And tills was where the trouble began. He | was dashing and debonair, and the J firmament of his life was strewn wlfh ] stars of lesser magnitude, mere pinheads beside her, but In the aggregate by 110 means without Interest and beauty. That they were feminine stars goes without saying, and If there were moments when they shone and twinkled for his especial benefit how could he do less than to acknowledge the compliment? To him it seemed 110 more than u laughing byplay, (he light, graceful variation of the grund love theme of his life. But the fixed star saw It differently?saw it with eyes that deepeu ed niul darkened with tragedy wliloh, after n few weeks of smoldering, hurst luto the tlame of uuger. Never, perhaps, had she appeared to him so superl>T~so obviously queen of the world, as at that moment when she had faced him, white with scorn, and accused him in plalu. brutal, everyday English of being a tlirt. At first sheer amazement held him silent. But from the torrent of words that rushed from her lips be was soon | in possession of the sum of his of- 1 fenses?his attentions to Miss Lincoln, his evident enjoyment of the society of Mrs. Colin Stuart, not to mention Betty Pell and Lucia Armitage! As Van Pelt listened to the cutting words of his fiancee hU first amazement gradually congealed Into something else, lie had paid some attentions to Miss Lincoln, who was a visitor and friend of his sister, and Mrs. Stuart had asked him for a dinner or so, and, as for Betty nnd Lucia, ho never missed a chance to Join them. Had tliey not been comrades since the days when tlicir nurses wheeled their perambulators to the park side by side? And, though he had frequently encountered Fin via under these circumstances, no hint of his possible displeasure had ever occurred to him. Shewas she not the only one, so near, so much a part of himself, that there was no more need for explanation than there was to his own soul? So at these encounters his eyes had leaped to meet hers without self consciousness and without apology. umi npr connnenee met his nobly. Then little gnawing doubts crept In. She wouhl have liked him to protest, for, alas, she was but a woman! And sometimes the high, white place of his soul, where lie kept her enthroned, made her shiver and long to be petted and scolded. And in place of that he made her a goddess, supposedly with the power of reading hearts. "You have?quite finished?" Ills cool, drawling voice filled her first pause with an Icy suavity, and the i steel of his eyes met the fire of hers unflinchingly. Involuntarily she caught ? her breath. Ho not oulj' showed no 1 inclination to explain, to exculpate himself, but he had the look of a man i who has received a mortal wound, wlio?e deepest feelings have been - mercilessly scoffed at, Jeered at, trampled in tlie mire. At the words her heart turned to Ice. Truth to tell, her outbursts had nothing more serious than the quick i resentment of a warm hearted, high I spirited woman at a fancied neglect from the man she adored. A pair of ' open arms and eyes that loved back, begging for tolerance and forgiveness? i that was what she wanted and expected. Rut this man with the hard glance and the Incisive, cokl voice? what had she done? I lesplte her terror, the world old battle between pride and love was raging in her heart, and It was pride that won. "Finished?" she queried bitterly, witb an inflection tliat convej'ed that if she ceased it was by no means because she bad reached the end of the list. "We will call it so at least." And with the words she drew off the ring nnd held It out to him. lie received It with n low bow. Obviously the episode was ended. But nt the door ho turned buck. "When you have thought the matter , over more calmly you may possibly have something to say to me. I give you one week to reconsider." Ills mastery of himself, his unyielding resistance to her, thrilled her through nnd through. Never had she loved him so absolutely, but there was ! no trace of her feeling In her mocking I reply. "A week's grace! So good of you!" I she laughed rather wildly. "And yet, do you know, It 1s seven days more than < I shall need. I shall never"? ( Qui he had gone. \ moment later she feenrd the street door close with nn ominous bang. She Htooil stupidly in the middle of the room trying to realize j that there was no future?nothing but j a dreary waste that belled the name \ ahead of her. Thou she looked at her left hand, now so bare, so naked, no longer n hand consecrate, but simply a woman's hand shorn of all i's sweet aignlfleanee. Its badge of den.* dependence gone. A clock struck the hour In silver : tones, fetching her back to the dull j present. Oh, yes, Mrs. Colin Stuart's tea. She must go to that whatever hnp' pened; she must go to everything and he I gay, gay, gay! Otherwise people would | say that she cared. He might even think that she did. The thought made her cheeks burn. And gas* she was, so gay Indeed that more than one of her friends turned long. Inquiring looks upon her, looks full of puzzled questioning. Once during the week of respite she met him, but nt his cold. Impassive greeting the little choking gladness that the sight of him had brought and which for a fleeting second shook her with its expectancy flickered out, lie had bowed with cold courtesy?and passed on. But one thought stood out clearly in the general confusion of her despair. She must got away. Plteously she realized that she must not run the risk of constant meetings. The Brnnhams were sailing on Saturday. Why not go with them? i At the thought she started up, her blood whirling through her veins In the old fashion. That would he tit for tat. On her Inst day of respite he should see her name on the list of out- ! going passengers. Then perhaps he would regret that he had passed her j with nothing but a perfunctory lifting of the hat. A lively ringing of telephono bells, a scurrying back and forth of passengers, and the thing was accomplished. It was Friday night. Her trunks had gone to tlio pier, and In her d!s- i mantled room she battled with the ' lassitude that follows a whirl of feel- j lng. She was dull, emotionless, ox- j hausted. The quarrel, licr flight, life i Itself, had oonsed to matter, and she dropped luto a chair. It was then thnt I her eyes fell upon the sampler. The small mottled square of brown I canvas, with Its fading letters, had In ! ?V>MV ?i.j viivui>cu un uuruilUU UI1UI ] now and remained pinned against the wall. For an appreciable time she j stared at Its alphabet and figures, its stiff tree, Its astonishingly alert birds, and at last at the inscription that always held a pensive interest for her, "Amy Castle, aged eight years, 1808." More than once sho had dreamed of that namo. Who was Amy Castle? The sampler had been found In a chest of inherited stuff, and no one could recall the owner. The small hands that had wrought those bedim mod llgures were now dust, but what had come to them before the last resigned folding? Had Amy, too, loved and suffered and lost? llad her woman's pride smiled out on the world from a face drawn with pain? Tragedy or comedy. It mattered little now. All that remained of licr passing was this small, mottled sampler. This was what it all came to In the end?this? With a swift, eloquent gesture she arose and literally ilew along the corridor to the telephone. "Quick, Central, quick!" she was urging a moment later. "It's?It's a matter of life and death!" Ilut all she could say when she got her number was a broken "Oh, Donald!" A Good Foot note. Hearing that a large boot and shoe establishment was giving away a present of a foot rule with every pair of boots or shoes It sold, a man told i his wife about the bnrgaln and said that as her shoes were nearly done he would give*her money to buy a new pair If she gave him the foot rule when she came back, as he wanted to sell it and so get back part of the money paid for the shoes. Ills wife went to the shop and after a great deal of trouble got a pair to please her. As she was leaving the shopman gave her a small box, which, he said, contained a foot rule. She went home delighted with her bargain and, seeing her husband at the door, gave hhn the box. When he opened it he found, to his disgust, Instead of the foot rule he wanted, a slip of paper on which was written, "Avoid tight shoes." IlnnRlnK In Chnln*. One ol' the last instances in England of an order being made for hanging in chains is that of a chimney sweep who in 1827 murdered a man on the highj way. The culprit was tried bj* Mr. ! Justice Host at Lincoln assizes. The I>oor wretch's body never underwent the proposed indignity. The inhabitants of llrlgg took fright and thought that the gibbet standing so near the highway would terrify people and hinder them from coming to market. I They petitioned against the judge's order being carried out, and the authorities remitted the horror. The last perI son hung in chains was a man named Cook, who suffered for the murder of a Mr. Pans. Tills occurred at Leicester in 1S3-I, the very year that the custom was put an end to by statute. The Iffiiornnt I.amlnnmn. The captain of an ocean liner was entertaining n little group of passengers with sea stories. lie said: "In Bremen one day I saw a farmer look! Ing at the shipping In the harbor. A longshoreman was explaining the shipping to him. Finally I heard the longshoreman any. 'It Is low water now, sir.' The farmer took his pipe out of his mouth und pointed It solemnly toi ward a heavily laden tramp steamer | that was passing. " 'It's a good thing for that vessel going past that It Is low water,' he ieald. Tbo water's near over the edge tof her now.'" c - ? How dparrowt Were Cauarht. Iu nil old game book published In England In 1820 appeared the follow- | lug fornutln for the lessening of the sparrow jiest: "Tuke some loos of wine nml hemlock Juice, temper thein together an 1 steep a quantity of wheat j therein for the space of one night. Theu place the same In a spot where the birds resort to feed, anil when they have eaten thereof they will <lrop down detnl drunk. Too much hemlock should ix?t he used or there will be a danger of poisoning the birds uud rendering them unwholesome food." Th.ipkprnr'it Ilont cf Ch?rMrter?. I Xotue oue who has been looking at the list of characters enumerated hi the lust volume of an edition of Thackeray's works has calculated that their number totals uti to between ".000 and 3,r?00. We have not chocked the estimate, hut, accepting it as accurate, share the discoverer's astonishment.? London 1'ost. (iuarded. A mother of four daughters, of whom one had recently married, asked a young man sitting beside her in the drawing room whom slia would like for a sonin-law, "And which of my girls do you most admireV" lie (lighting shy)?The married one. Lucky. Stubb?No. 1 can't get along with my wife. To everything 1 say she retorts "I beg to differ with you!" Tenn?You are Ireky. old man. My wife Just differs without taking time to beg. Purest ICE CREAM W ? m i (OUR OWN MAKIj.) Send Us Your Orders. Phone 73. DUKE DRUG CO. ' Under Hotel Union. Union, S. C. A MILDER CLIMATE. In Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas. Stock ranges ton to twelve months in the year, two and three crops grow in a season. Now is the time to look up a location while the land is cheap. On February 7th and 2Lst and March 7 th and 21st, Cotton Belt Route will sell round trip home-seekers' tickets from St. Louis, Thebes, Cairo and Memphis to points in above named states at rate ! of $15, or one fare plus $2 where it : makes less than $15. j One way colonist tickets, February . 21st and March 21st at half fare, plus$2. j Write for map, time table, and ask about rates to any point. L. P. SMITH, T. P. A. ! Cotton Belt Route, Atlanta, da. I i big barbecue at Lockhart July 4th. We will serve a first class barbecue and fish stew, also ice cream and lemonade at Lockhart on July 4th, 1905. Special attention to ladies and r hilHr^n J. H. Rogers & Co. I 23-4t | BOILERS AND ENQINES. Tanks, Stacks, Stand Pipes, | and Sheet Iron Work; Shafting, Pulleys, Gearing, Boxes, Mangers, etc. Mill Castings. Cast every day; work 200 hands. Lombard Foundry Machine and Boiler Work and Supply Store. Augusta. Georgia WHIPS AND POCKET KNIVES CHEAP AT J. T. SEXTON'S. T H E a Cash bargain Store 1 White Jap Silk, 24 and 36 inches wide, at 25c and 50c . j| the yard. '.jM White Lawn, 40 inches wide, . w at 10c. i Fancy Neckwear and Belts. M Collars 5c, 8c, 10c, 12ic, 15c, 25c and 50c each. . KEEP COOL! .. Open and shut Fans from lc to 50c each. i White Silk Fafis 25c and 50c each. ; Fancy Emb. Shirt Waist Patterns 98c and #1.50 each. May Manton Patterns and Catalogues all 10c each. MRS. D. N. W1LBURN. Drugs and Medicines. v. Goods always fresh and clean. Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Fancy Soaps^g, Hair and Tooth Brushes, Rubber Goods, Stationery, etc. Careful and Prompt attention given to compounding all physicians* prescription. Palmetto Drug Co., Huiet & Rcnwick, Owners. ? o From Frigid to Torrid From Coal to Ice you think, one is no mora a luxury than the other, both are a necessity I will deliver |(? at your door Buy your ticket, it is economy and saves you trouble. Jfc Ice house opposite Southern Passenger Depot. nr wv w J. D. KILHAKU5. fine Decorated TABLE WARE EREE. I have now put into effect a system that I have had in mind for years, believing that a customer who pays for his or her goods at the time C they buy them, is. entitled to a lit- ^ " tie difference in value. Bo I have hit upon this plan to give prpmiums for paid business. This you may not think will amount to much, but if you will take your pencil and figure it out, you will see that it is equal to about 4 or 6 per cent, on .d \\r Kof v/4ii Kiitr hVv uiiuv jiuu muj 1' VI VIIVW3 pit/UJlUIIlS ,'fl I have chosen a full line, of Pecorated China. I give coupon^'with each cash purchase. My pricetr^jre dL always low and usually lower than the same quality of goods can be \ Ismght elsewhere. It will not take any family long to own a fine dinner set absolutely free by confining . J their trade to my store. Remember that you do not have to wait "! until you have traded enough to get Vi a dinner set, hut can get one article at a time and as often as you have j the required nuntber of tickets. Trade here, save your coupons and 'j get a fine set of dishes free. GEO. W. GOING.