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Headquart 1 THIS LOT 10c EACH^ j I ^^3 | i i s | I I 1 Sl?6 Jill 1 1^ i I \ I i |L% fern., ^^ iiijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiHiijijmiijyyj^^^jjjytijjjjiiiin'niiiiiJiysisjB"'^^^ Doffs! Dolls! Toys of every will exch WON S. M. RICK, JR., K. U., PI ? ? ( MR. TINKER'S FALL I v FROM GRACE \ u ? lOrUhial 1 I Tinker was his name Kvernrd l.eroy ' Tinker?ami a more spiritual inisn had never come to our city. iiis forehead was broad and high: his eyes were largo enough and blue enough and soft j enough for an angel. I believed in , htm then, and f hellevo in him now. The moment a man sets himself up to he a spiritual guide for others we immediately put him on a pinnacle of or." own from which he shall shed the light of perfection, lie is no longer a man like ourselves, hut a superior being freed from earthly passions, earthly weaknesses. Tinker was an evangelist, was lined to he an evangelist and was tine ! for , nothing else than an evangelist, lie! chose for his specialty prison, life, j When he came to us there was not l even a regular prison chaplain, none | hoing willing to take the position for the pay and the regular ministers being otherwise oceupied. Tinker walked into it of his own accord and occupied it without remuneration. I low lie got a living we never knew. That lie lived from hand to month was certain. After praying in a saloon and \varning its proprietor that he was doing the devil's work the holy man would he invited to partake of the free lunch on (he counter, and in this way ho secured many a dinner. For short periods he would occupy a sleeping room, hut the landlady did not expert him to pay from llio lirst. All she asked was that he would n?>t stand in the way of a paying lodger, and she would often have been the loser had Tinker permitted it. Iii swli way* Tinker 111:111:1 lc?m1 to oxi*t. anil so long a* lie could light sin and Rive comfort to prisoners. possibly turning thorn Inward a better life after serving their terms, lie was satisfied. He prayed Willi tlioni. lie talked with thein, he advised tiiein. hoing a repository for the conlidenee of the whole prison, lie had free access to them, and liotli guards and prisoners all knew liim. No one had ever thought of Tinker as a husband or father. When one day a woman with a scowl on her I'aee and an underjaw denoting resolution oaine along to claim him as her spouse great was our astonishment. 11? r appearance hud n paralysing effect upon Tinker. Those whom lie had extorted to stand up under calamity now endeavored to insiiil a like firmness into him. but without success. The woman went to the court, produced divorce papers with alimony and proved that 1 was due her from the delinquent Tinker. Sh" had little dllfleuity in getting an order for his arrest, and he was required to give n bond not only for the amount due, but . for the coining year, in ull about j S :ers for Sa Pianos, Organs, Guitars, Graphophones, Banjos, Violins. 7 Accordeons, Furniture, Stoves, Guns, Clocks, Wares of all kinds THIS LOT 5c EACH 8 \I i /A fTSI i 8 Ali|fev(Ji ! g 1 I /?d ^ \ ? i ?4 ??- ; AA I I Cr a ^iiiiiwiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiinillni|||1)|||(|||f|(|IJlfliiniiii&iumiiiiHHiiiiHit# ' kind. Buy the Baby P ange a large Piano for it ai DER ST? <OPR1L;TOR, 1It II I. Had any one eonfldouco that Tinker , would lie able to nuike up the amount i we might have gouo on his bond. it was, the judge sent him to the work- j house to work out the amount. Mean- I while Tinker was confined Sn the eity t jail whore he had been the self constituted chaplain. Why he had not applied for that or some other such position was now made clear. The M'oman with the square mouth and the beetling brow stood ready to pounce upon his salary before it was due. The method of obtaining a living he had chosen gave hint a freedom that must have been relatively delightful. ' 1 took it upon myself to go to Mrs. Tinker to see if 1 could soften her obdurate heart. The volley of words she poured upon me I can only liken to that of a Oat Hug gun. I retired ingloriously. at the same time resolving never again to interfere in domestic troubles. It was all up with Tinker, and he was doomed to spend a term at work for which he was by no means fitted and forego a work at which he was doing great g ? >d. We had no workhouse in our city and used that of a neighboring town. Once a week those persons who were to go there were collected, inarched to the black Maria." driven to the station, put on the train and taken to their new place of confinement. One morning nine prisoners, including Tinker, were thus driven to the train. On being unloaded they were marched inside the station mid put in care of a keeper, who was to take further charge of t hem. If is here uliere Tinker fell under temptation. Thit who less than an angel would not have fallen? On the one hand a prison to which he had been consigned by a virago, on the other liberty. At the moment he alighted from the black Maria the keeper's bne|< was turned When the official saw him ou the platform, supposing hhri to be there In his capacity as evangelist, lie said: "flood morning, Mr. Tinker." An Inspiration camo to the prisoner. Taking off Ids hat, closing Ids eyes and throwing np his head, he began to pray more lustily than lie had ever done hefore for the poor fellows who were 1 going to the workhouse. He had scarcely begun when a car was backed j up, and tbo keeper shouted. "All i aboard." The train pulled out. and Tinker disappeared In 1he crowd. A few hours Inter word came to tho jail that one of the prisoners scheduled to be turned over at the workhouse was missing, and Tinker's ruse wnt: discovered. Hut it was too late. The evangelist had but a few miles to go to get into another state. Once beyond ilie line he was safe so long as he kept out of the state In which be had been convicted. Whether or no we regard Tinker's pr.nver at the station as blasphemous, there nr? few uf lia WliO will UAt 1? nta Claus! | THIS LOT 25c EACH i &>&&&&& I IBBo iano for your little girl ny time. ^nn L/IVU, UNION, S. C orerly rejoice at oh escape. SrMNBR CHILDS. Came Natural to Htr. "Why didn't the stenographer com down to work "She had a had spoil." "Funny she should stay home fo that. She has one every day when a work." Not as One of Them. "The Russians will never warm u to Count Witte." "Why not".'" "His name is too easy to pronounce. PERT PARAGRAPHS. Matty a man has gone through lit* with a broken heart because he pre posed at the moment that the girl' corns were hurting. Apparently the only sou of an insut nine magnate would not he a had rlsl for a girl to assume. Possibly some people would he bet ter if they did not have to associat with themselves. Often imitation is the sheerest tody G,... isjui. When a thing scons too good to lx true, don't worry but what you wil wake up. Along about Christmas the father o the family has a plentiful supply o home grown frenzied finance. It may be a gratuitous knock ou tin human race to say it, but graft i usually exposed by the fellow wh< couldn't get in on It. Advocates of anlirace suicide shoult do something to break flying mncliim Inventors of tlie habit. ? (?!$) A bachelor Is generally a bachelor bj choice, but it Is sometimes the worn an's choice. No man tries moral suasion on a nine dog more than once. A man may easily get rid of a cold but chills and fever arc much harder tc shake. r ? - . m. I Tlie Last Xjonsr Sleep. | Familiarity with death Is upt to alter | oue's earliest ooneoptlouH of It. Two I ideas are very generally accepted which | experience shows to bo false. Ono Is k that the dying usually fear death and I the other that the act of dying is accompanied by pain. It Is well known to all physiciuus that when death Is near Its terrors do not seem to be fe.t by the patient. Unless the imagination is stimulated by the frightful portrayal of the supposed "pang3 of death" or of H the sufferings which some believe the 3 mnaf it f'fno < S looitltif inn if io Ii nuiil ilii*ol v*uuuiit nil .1 uio.wiiiumii u ^ rare indeed that tlie last days or hours of life are passed in dread. Most sick persons are very, very tired. Sleep? long, quiet sleep?is what they want. I have seen many people die. I have never seen one who seemed to fear death, except when It was or seemed to he rather far away. Even those who are constantly haunted while strong and well with a dread of the end of life forget their fear when that ?? end is at hand.? Scrihner's Magazine. Sincere by Mature. The pbyslelan has methods by which he determines whether or not a patient is shamming. Other people have different methods, which may sometimes he as successful as the doctor's. "Do you believe that was n real faint of Sally Ann's, or do you think she just shammed so's to look Interesting 4o Willy Lane and make him offer lo take her homo In his buggy?" asked I one of the participants in a recent picnic. "It wa'u't any sham on Sally Ann's part." said Mrs. Rlcketts, to whom the appeal was made. "I should think when you know Sally Ann wears sixe^ and that she lay there with her feet sticking right straight up for everyIlxxly to see for nearly fiftceu minutes you'd realize that 'twasn't any make believe faint." A Wonderful Bed. A very costly bed was built in Bom1 bay for a native ruler some years ago. s At the four corners wore full sized figi ures of Grecian maidens, the ones at 1 the top holding stringed instruments, " while those at the foot bore in their 1 bands huge funs. Extending the full 1 length of the bed was n music box caI pable of playing for half an hour bo| fore the repertory of tune was cx| haunted. The weight of the body set I this music box in motion, while at the ~j same time the figures at the head of the " hod fingered the strings of their instruments, while those at the foot waved their fans, a concealed motor furnishing the power that kept the fans going ? all night long. nuge task. It was a huge task, to undertake the curt of such a bad case of kidney disease, as that of C. F. Collier, of Cherol# kee, la., but Electric Bitters did it. He write*: "My kidneys were so far gone, - I could not ?it on a chair without a cushion; and suffered from dreadful backache, headache, and depression. In Electric Bitters, however, I found a cure, and by them was restored to perfect health I recommend this great tonic medicine to all with weak kidneys, c liver or stomach. Guaranteed by F C. Duke, druggist; price fiOc. * BE A STAR, If you would have things smoothly run, As placid as a brook. The way they go offhand, yon know, Just like a story book, P Am pleasant an a wed ling trip,. Without a Jolt or Jar, While favors land right in your hand, ? Be si star. If you would have the game of life Serenely run your way And joys sill up your china cup Full measure every day, o No troubles your horizon dim. No mists your landscape mar, Nor anywhere a single care, ' Be a star. If you would have the ladies smile. The men take off their caps, The duke and clown to you bow down, * The queen unbend, perhaps, The populace cry out, "Hurrah!" And run beside your car With joyful cry an you pass by, Be a star. c It's such a simple way to get Your honors ready made, I wonder why more folks don't trv To labor at that trade. There's nothing like it, though you search For soft snaps near and far. ! For wealth and fame'and high, jack, " game. Be a star. f Nature of the Beast. f We see that another flying machine has bit the dust. Flying machines have such a way of doing that when they are a not trying to scratch up all of the si gravel in the bottom of the river. > When there are such vast amouuts of room going to waste iu the air one would think they would drop up ocea1 sionally for a little exercise instead of & trying to run a line of competition wit.: automobiles and motor boats. There is no accounting for tastes, as was said when the Wisconsin man married his mother-in-law, hut it. seems strange that the flying machines should keep on heating their wings against the brick pavement when the manufactures of that kind of roadway assure us that it can't he beat. ' It seems to us that the flying machine has a superstitious regard for the law of gravitation. It appears to fear thnt If it violated that law it might get arrested aud s -nt up for thirty days. No Secret About It. It is no secret, that for Cuts, Burns, I Ulcers, Fever Sores. Sore Kyes, Boils, etc., nothing is so effective as Bucklen's Arnica Salve. ''It didn't tako long to cure a had sore I had, and it is all O. K. lor sore eves,' writes I) L. Gregory, of * Hope, Tex. 26c at F. C. Duke's drug store. r CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY EXCURSION Of RATES VIA SOUTHERN 01 RAILWAY. TH! On account of Christmas Holidays, Un . Southern Railway will sell tickets T from all points east oMhe Mississippi and south of the Ohio rivers and to St. Louis, Mo., and intermediate points at rate of one and one-third lirst class one way fares, plus twen- no ty-fivc cents for the round trip pQ (minimum rate 50 cents.) Tickets to be sold December 22nd, 23rd, 2lth, 25th, 30th, 31st, 1005, anil SU ! January 1st, 1000, with filial limit Ti< January 4th, 1006. BR I Tickets for teachers and students J of schools and colleges will ISie sold December 17th to 24th, 1005, with \ final limit January 8tli, 1000, upon presentation and surrender of certificates signed by superintendents, principals and presidents of the i various institutions of learning. I For further information apply to Ot any Southern Rail why ticket agent or 1*. \V. Hi nt, Brooks Morgan, i D. P. A., A. 0. P. A., . w ! Charleston, 8. C. Atlanta, Ga. the" perfect way a w< i n i~l c7tuita ui uhiuii rcupic cc Have Learned It. in . ca If you suffttr from backache, there is only one way to cure. The perfect way Y*is to cure the kidneys. A bad back c|-| means sick kidneys Neglect it, utinary r troubles follow. Doan's Kidney -Pills DT are in ide for kidneys Only. (jf Thomas Pedon, stock buyer and trader, living on D'.-pot "stieet Chester, Dl1 S. C , says: ''The remarkable amount j of benefit I received from the u-e of > t ' Doan's Kidney Pills has convince I me Cl( that they are a great kidney and backache remedy. For a long time my , Kick pained across the loins and although I have used many liniimnts sll and all kinds of plasters it was alwavs the same old ache until I u-ed Doan's I""! Kidney Pills The result of a brief U treatment astonished me. I have not .. had a backache since I u-ed them and Uf1 I have felt the strengthening effect in ? every way." ^ For sale hv all dealers. Price 50 cents Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents fortlie United States. ()r Remember .the name?Doan's?and i>,. take no other. Ra Dying of f amine. ;?*' Mi is. in its torments, like dying of consumption. The progress of consump- Hi tiori, from the beginning to the very Hi end, is a long torture, both to victim tt and friends. "When I had consnmp- .. tion in its first stage," writes Wm. Myers, of Cearfoss, Md., after trying Hi different medicines and a good doctor, Hi 1 in vain, I at last took Dr King's New tt( Discovery, which quickly and perfectly cured me." Prompt relief and sure cure for coughs, colds, sore throat, bron- Hi chitis, etc. Positively prevents pneu- I 1 monia. Guaranteed at F. C. Duke's pn drug store, price 50c and $1.00 a bottle. Trial bottle free. , Hi J. E\ WE SAVE YOU Iv MONEY |t BY BUYING YOUR m lir XMAS a CI GOODS tal gu AT THE Palmetto Drug Co., Huiet <fe Ren wick, Owners. Itl THE ^ 4" "* - tasn bargain More g has received a large line of Ladies Neckwear and Handkerchiefs. These collars and ? Handkerchiefs will be sold at m; wholesale prices, so it will foi pay those who wish to buy ex Collars and Handkerchiefs to ^ call at once and get first jm choice. All ladies appreciate th collars and handkerchiefs for i *?p Christmas Presents. Isn't it'cr; so? Try it and see. |pa We have an elaborate line cle of usefol Xmas Presents, such 'me asShawIs, Bibles, Wrist Bags, 'ca: ' *N,i * vjiuves, LomDS, KiDDons, va Baby Caps, Suspenders, Hos- gr< iery, etc, Buy now! bu ev .MRS. D. N. W1LBURN. q IUTHERN RAILWAY ** E SOPTH'S GREATEST SYSTEM. excelled Dining Car Service, hrough Pullman Sleeping Cars on all Through Trains?Convenient Schedule on all Loeal Trains, Winter Tourist Rates are w in effect to all Florida ints. For full information to rates, routes, etc., conIt nearest Southern Railway :ket Acrent or OOKS MORGAN, R. W. HUNT, U.T.. A'., D. P. A., \tlantn, Ga. Charleston, S. C. ...We Make... HUYLER'S | ur Chief Attraction for the Christmas T4Ade. Q e have the most beautiful le of packages ever shown candies in this town. The me HUYLER'S is a magic orcl with every twentieth ntury lady. It makes an ipression that even time nnot destroy. Young man >u cannot afford to take lances; get your girl a box Huyler's in Christmas ess. We can supply the ore matter of fact folks too ith a number of useful arti?s and at prices too that will ake them glad. Come to see us and let us iow you. Ar HJKE DRUG CO. ider Hotol Union. Union, S. C, lmas prices aligns, 25, HO and 40c. nnnas, 20c. isins, 15c, or 2 pounds for 25c. r, ovf u aim Uk/? ilaga Grapes 20c ;inz's Apple Butter, in crock 40c ;inz's Tomato Cutney 25c iinz's Stuffed Olives 30c iinz's Queen Olives 40c iinz's Olive Oil 35c iinz's Indian Ilelish 30c iinz's Largo Bottle Pickles... 35c ;inz's Mustard Dressing 25c anz's Pickled Onions 20c iinz's Prepared Mustard 10c lave Mrs. Wiggs Pickles also gle Condensed Milk 25c mc Condensed Milk 10c aporated Cream 5c Don't forget that I have a big >ck of Fire Works. V. Newell Smith, he Hole in the Wall To arrive this week the cest and most up-to-date le of Picture Framing ever town; the get up and price ill always be right. Win>w Glass, all sizes. -m IT PRICES P0R 30 DAYS \ Window Shades for store residence, any size, color, ilit-y or quantity; orders ken and prompt deliveries laranteed. Look for my on Wall Paper. The price ill make it interesting. I O I T> raoH \ r (r\f rtr>i i ^-1 m urn i vuuj iyji ai iy Jl IU <111 pairing, upholstering or attres making that comes KILLINGS, THE PAPER MAN. ur BusinessrAppeaf to Reason. The man with normal mind the all round level-headed an will weigh some things r himself. He does not pect to buy something for >thing. He does expect pendable goods for a legitlate price. This "some- ! ii. ;? ?? iiiui Homing iaea, this j >reposterous special sale" ize is a popular scheme to lm off hard $tock. New, ?an, up-to-date, reliabl^. ?rchandise bought for sh has a fixed commerciar lue. Such goods are in ?at demand with intelligent yers, as is demonstrated ery day by ' EO. W. GOING. _