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Postcard
Romance.
Copyrighted, 1905. by Associated
Literary Press.

know it was wrong for me to ref Z
her postcards, but l sort of got in the
habit of doing it when | was walking
past those vacant lots to her home. 50
3efore knew it l was right up to the
Hit in a romance.
You see, it was this way. | caught
on to the facts from what she told me
occasionally. Oscar Reidel. her sweet
heart, who was a civil engineer, got a
job quite distance away from her
during the summer. Before he left OS-
car and Alice-her full name was Alice
G. MinOr-had a quarrel. 1t wasn't a
very bad quarrel, | guess, but anyhow
she told him he mustn't write a word
to her during the time he was away.
Well, that made him rather spunky.
and he said he'd do just as she said,
but that he could send her picture
postcards without writing word to
her, and he would send those.
Oscar was surely a SENDER" At first
the postcards came in fast and thick
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from him, and l used to wonder why it
was he sent so many of them and no
letters. That was before | knew about
their quarrel and what she had said
The girl was as happy as lark while
she was getting so many of them. be-
cause she knew the man still cared for
yher. l could see easily enough that she
liked him all right
Then one day she handed me post,
card and sort of winked at me.
81 guess he'll sit up when he gets
that" she said.
| looked at it when l got out of sight
of the house. 1t was addressed to OS-
car all right, and on the back was one
of those printed postcard kilograms
The printing said:
Am very busy. There's a new man
in town.
tell you what hated to take that
card to the office. ! knew how badly
it would make that young fellow feel
away off in the wilds where he was
But l had to take it just the same
You know you get sort of interested
in people when YOU call on them the
way do every day, and. | was anxious
to see how Oscar would take the card.
His postcards kept coming to her all
right-they were views of the place
where he was working and that sort Of
souvenir cardS-and then they stopped
all of sudden. | reasoned that he'd
quit sending them the day he got her
card
The girl was waiting for me, her face
all shining with smiles. the morning
that none of the cards showed up in
the mail for her
mo cards for you today, Miss Alice"
l said as she met me at the door
The smiles all left her face at once,
and she looked at me as though she
couldn't believe it.
mo postcards at ala" she cried
Not one" | said Maybe the party
that's been sending them to you is
hurt"
At that she cried.
Hurt. No; he can't be hurtm
81 don't necessarily mean physically
NUT, ltp!ltu. 1 mere : biucI way )
of being'h hurt than physically"
She looked at me rather strangely at
this, then tossed her head. marched
into the house and slammed the door
after her.
There were no cards for her the next
day, but l think she half expected
there would be, for | caught glimpse
of her watching me behind the cur
tains in the parlor as | walked past
The second day there were no cards,
and again | saw her at the window
From the little glimpse | caught
thought she had been crying The third
Q3ylthere was single card. and before
l thought | turned it over and looked
at it. NThen | wished | hadn't. The
card was a photograph of Oscar look
ing lovingly at some pretty girl who
In turn was looking lovingly at him
The girl, surmised, belonged in the
city where he was working, so | was
mistaken in thinking it was such a
wild place.
In the first place, had 10 business
to look at another PERSONS mail In
the second place, il got me all tangled
up worse than ever In the affairs of
that couple. After seeing the card
had the hardest kind of a time bracing
myself up to deliver it to the girl.
When | rang the Minor doorbell the
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Having Money and Not HAVING II

Well said the old philosopher, 81
don't see much difference in havin'
money an in not havin' it. When peo-
pie know you've got it they're red hot
to git it from you, an when they know
you hain't got it they're red hot to
fetch in all the bills they've got ag'm
you an try to git it anyhow. So. you
see, it's a mortal worry a-comin' an
a-gwine. Hayin' it or not havin' It.
you're 'twiXt the devil an the deep sea
six days out the week an no rest on a
Sunday. 1t amt nuthin' but printed
paper an yaller an white metal, an
yit the wOrl' almost stops turnin' round
to look at it. 1t says it'll be a friend to
you and then don't stay with you long
enough to git acquainted good. It's as
deceivin' as Satan hisse'f though
must say that jest about this time I'd
like to see the deception of it come my
way. Sich is human natur', for which
we amt responsible. "-Atlanta Constl-
tuition.
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American Business Manners
Are Capable Of Improvement
By WILLIAM ARCHER. London Critic.

AM constrained to that the whole find the Ameri-
can young whom meets in the business pain
- fully lacking in the ordinary amenities human intercourse
He apt be careless upercous determined not to
move hairs breadth of his allotted track in order service
able The hotel clerk perhaps type Young
man. but there his eXenuating
doubtless apt be much worried and peered
to keep his from becoming unconroay iumpv
GET INTO a MECHANICAL ROUTINE AND ACT AS
THOUGH HYPNOTIZED
30 oo with the ticket clerks and shopmen and hopgr the
smaller stores For the large department
One Of the MOST ELEMENTARY AND MOST OBVIOUS
PRINCIPLES OF MANNERS take it. is that when you have
refuse request you should SOFTEN THE REFUSAL as much as
possible By DECENT SHOW OF REGRETFULNESS at
your inability comply Twice recently has happened
present check American bank and be refused payment
appears that the rules here in demanding personal den-
tfcaon and dare the refusal strictly justified
But nothing could justify the of the ocain cities
mention, thousand miles apart If had been begging for
charity instead approaching them the ordinary business footing
their refusal could not have been and pelent
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-07-30
STAYS HOME
DOnS His Old Suit and Helps at
HOuSeCIeaning.
IS ANNOYED BY CALLERS.
But the Old Philosopher Attends
Strictly 10 Business and Stands Pat.
Mrs. 3. Breaks Down and Weeps
With Gratitude and Anxiety.

copyright. 19OS. by T. c McClure.I
Mrs. Bowser wanted the bathtub en-
ameled. some oilc!oth replaced and
three or four other things done. and
when she had spoken of it MI Bowser
replied:
Business at the Office is slack just
now, and l will stay home tomorrow
and fix things up"
She had not protested, but she wish
ed she hadn't spoken. She also want
ed bedsteads changed and bureaus
moved, and she had been through
many experiences with Mr.. Bowser.
He would 90 at it slambang and try
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Works Both Ways.

Cant you get the papers to say
something about me?" asked the ac-
tress impatiently.
Il might call their attention to the
fact that your diamonds haven't been
stolen this season." replied the promo
ter of publicity.
"Fine! exclaimed the actress, more
content-New York Times.
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Why, Oh, Why Can't We Have
Good Coffee and Better Bread ?
By President WooDFoRD

BY President WooDoRD
HE person who nven good coffee make his her for
tune. WHY CAN'T WE HAVE GOOD COFFEE?
49, There has been great advance field of scientific
research and intellectual study in the last twenty years
save in coffee making Recently rode from Washington Pburg
and served the buffet with the brand of coffee got
thirty Fort WORTH Tex Why OH why can't have
better cofee3
There also fortune for each of you young who
duce BREAD to the people THAT TASTES LESS LIKE
COTTON BATTING than does being bread
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-07-30
With the Kids.

Rehearsing for the baseball game.
The One on the Barrel-You don't
get enough feeling into it, Try it once
more.
"Boo-hoo! Can get off dis afternoon,
sir? Me grandmothers deadw
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-07-30
Navies as Supporters
OF Law and Order.

p lie has apologies make a certain class minds
q either for its existence its duties. The GREATEST
%< SINGLE FORCE IN THE SUPPORT OF LAW AND
ORDER today in the world the navy speaking thus
include other nave well a
There crying "Peace" where there peace The
world moves from plane to plane chiefly by commissions We
NOW RAPIDLY APPROACHING ANOTHER CONVULSIVE
PERIOD There certain before long be eadustment.
Shall this be bloody peacu The army and navy the great
arms of conservatism When you arrange revolutions by
denic discussion perhaps do without them, but yet
signs of such
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-07-30
Not Up to Reputation.

"How did you like the west?"
disappointed. Wasn't once made
to drink at the pistol point, and no.
body shot at my toes to make me
dance. Boston Herald.
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DishonOred by
Graft and Civic
Indifference.
By CHARLES F.
Church. New,
f**$9'@@>@1IIE FLAG IS DISHONORED MORE BY THE
) ~axz CORRUPT POLITICIAN of the city or nation
who debauches institutions for graft and plumber
{ THAN IT WOULD BE IF A FOREIGN FOE
: + TRAMPLED IT BENEATH HIS FEET
~*~*~@" When you prefer your selfish and
fort to discharging political duties YOU CONFESS YOUR
SELF A CREATURE OF AN INFERIOR CIVILIZATION and
unworthy of the blood from which YOU sprang.
THE MEN BEST EQUIPPED TO DO GREAT WORK IN
THE WORLD TODAY ARE NOT DOING IT
there be breakdown of democracy? one of our most
prominent writing about triumphant democracy" others
equally prominent writing about the shame city While the
star panged banner continues incident
daily life is the knowledge that run thieves WHAT
IS TT TO BE, "TBIUlIPHANT DEMOCRACYo OR "THE
SHAME OF TIE CITY, "TIIE LAND OF THE FREE AND
THE HOME OF TIE BRAVE" OR PLUMBER?
Ours is democracy such has been sun
BEFORE and there tremendous meaning in it. What to
inspire the incoming millions from lands that nor
brave from lands Of darkness and oPpreon It will be sufficient
to say that rely on education.
WHAT FORCES ARE WORK FOR RESTRAINT ON ONE HAND
AND INSPIRATION ON THE CHURCH OF THE LIv-
ING GOD, OF GOD iNCARNArE SPEAKING PEOPLE OF
TIE EVERLASTING LAWS RIGHTEOUSNESS. THE CHURCH
MUST SEE TO 1T THAT WARD POLITICS FROM
THE DEGRADATION THEY HAVE FALLEN AND MUST
LIFT POLITICAL AMBITIONS OUT SLIME AND
PETTY cHIcANERY AND POLITICAL EFFORT SOME.
THING MORE THAN WIRE PULLING LOG ROLLING
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-04-02
Very Much Mistaken.

T beg your pardon" said the
youth who had knocked at the door,
II thought this was Mr.. Mller's
house."
81 am Mr.. Miller"
"Then 1 am glad to find that
when thought that was mistaken
I was mistaken in thinking that ]
was mistaken"
"What?"
81 say when thought l was mis-:
taken l was mistaken in thinking
was mistaken, and, being mistaken
in thinking / was mistaken when |
wasn't mistaken, l was glad to find
I was mistaken when l thought !
was mistaken, because wasn't mis-
taken, or, rather, l was mistaken
when l thought ! was mistaken, and
50 I couldn't have been mistaken.
Well, at any rate, I'm glad. Looka
as if we were going to have rain,
doesn't it?"
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Oriqfn of the Doawateh.

The dogwatch on shipboard is
either of the short spells from 4 to
6 o'clock in the evening or from 6
to s to break the monotony of the
regular four hour watches, so that
the same men will not stand watch
during the same hours every day.
If, however, you should ask the mos!
nautical person of your acquaint-
>ance or, indeed, all the nautical peo.
pie you know why this is so called,
you would probably find them un-
able to tell you. The true answer
is this: Dogwatch is corruption
of dodge watch. The dogwatch was
introduced to prevent the same men
from always keeping watch the same
hours of the day; hence on these oc-
casions the sailors are said to dodge
the routine or to be doing dodge
watch.-Philadelphia Record.
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A Free Agent.

Although the old gentleman with
Q red face and choleric temper had
opened the car window five times
with much vigor, he had found ii
closed every time he walked from
his doze.
he felt perfectly sure that the
person to blame was the man be-
hind him, who gave vent to stiHcd
groan each time the window was
opened. At last the choleric gentle,
man turned in his seat.
"Sir," he said Indignantly, "you
are evidently one of those persons
who cannot bear fresh air, but may
1 ask you who controls this window.
the person beside it or the one be-
hind it,"
eff you could stay awake a few
minutes" responded his neighbor,
"you'd soon discover that nobody
can control that window, sir-not
even the brakeman or the conduct.
or."-E1change.
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0othes and Seasons.

Like the blessed wild goldfnch,
who sometimes stays with US all
winter, feel a stirring ere Febru-
ary is out to shed the gray outwaid
disguise my soul has all along been
wearing and to come forth in bright
aureate splendor of full summer
plumage. I wish to wear a green
kirtle when the grass burns emerald
and even the sunset kies assume
chrysoprase. In the wiHer were it
not for startling the good folk l
would 60 everywhere in the hibernal
attire of the wise little ermine. In
autumn no; there the analogy
stops-I would not array me in car
mine or imperial orange, though ma
ture is thus minded to do. In the
autumn, even in the late summer, a
psychic revulsion from this rule OF
sympathetic or protective coloring
is eIperienced-Atlantic
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Toast to lauohtsr.

Here's to laughter, the sunshine
Of the soul, the happiness of the
heart, the leaven of youth, the priv
ilege of purity, the echo of inno-
cence, the treasure of the humble,
the wealth of the poor, the bead OF
the cup Of pleasure. 1t dispels de-
lection, benishes blues and mangles
melancholy, for it's the foe Of woe,
the destroyer of depression, the en-
envy of grief. 1t is what kings envy
the peasants, plutocrats envy the
poor, the guilty envy the innocent:
It's the sheen on the silver OF
smiles, the ripple on the waters de-
light, the CLINT Of the gold of glad
ness. Without it humor would be
dumb, wit would wither, dimples
would disappear and smiles would
shrivel, for its glow of clean con-
science, the voice of a pure soul, the
birth cry of mirth, the swan song OF
sadness.-Life.
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Read the Farmers L Merchants
Banks ad. this issue.
age NO BAR.

Everybody in South Carolina Is
eligible.
Old people stopped with suffering,
Middle age, courageoualy fighting,
Youth protesting lmpstiently;
Children, unable to explain;
All in misery from their kidneys.
Only q little backache first.
Comes wheh you catch a cold.
Or when You strain the back.
Many complications follow.
Urinary disorders, diabetes, Bright's
disease.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure backache.
Cure every form Of kidney illa.
wv Powell, proprietor of a gen.
eral store 81 coal. wood and ice
dealer of Waverlv, living at 2010
Blanding ST., Columbia, S g, says
"A1y son has been afflicted with kid
ney and urinary trouble from child
hood, being unable to control the
secretions especially when asleep.
Since using Doan's Kidney Pills he
has entirely recovered"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster. Milburn Co, Buffa-
10, New York, sole agents for ths
United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
andstake no other.
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Regis tration Notice.

Theoffice OF the Supervisor Of Reg
istration will be opened on the frst
Monday in every month for the pur.
pose of the registering Of any person
who is qualified as follows:
Who shall have been . resident Of
the State for two years, and of the
county one year, and Of the polling pre-
cinct in which the e1ector offers to
vote four months before the day Of
election, and shall have paid, si1
months before, any poll tax then due
and payable, and who can both read
and write any section of the constitu-
tion OF 1895 submitted to him by the
Supervisors Of Registration, or who
can show that he owns, and has paid
all taxes collectable on during the
present year, property in this State
assessed at three hundred dollars or
more. J. Y. McGILL,
Clerk of Board.
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The h;stsriaR's eizs.

Mscsulay was destitute Of bodily
accomplishments. He could nsits sr tshr
swim nor ride nor driys nor skats
nor, shoot. But he viewed. has do
ficiencies with indferehee tonohA
with, humor. - -
When in attendance ct Windset
10 q cabinet minister tho historian
was informed thas q horss ~ ~
his disposal. -. '5n SG,, - ~.
"If her msjesty Wishes to - ine
ride," said be, 'Shs mast ordeR 80
An elephant" - VI ~
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Easy Bookkeepira.

A Chicago woman had served ac'
ceptably as treasurer of the club fol-
a little over year, and that was an
exceptional record.
'Don't you have difficulty in bal
ancing your books ?" they asked:
ooh, dear, mop she replied.
''Why, it's the easiest thing in the
world. l just add up what 1 have
received and subtract from that
what 1 have paid out, to show what
is due the club, and then l make my
husband give me a check for the
amount. There's really nothing
hard about keeping books when you
know how"
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FEIGNING DEATH.
A Trick Resorted TO by Animals to
Shun Their Enemies.

shun Their Enemies.
The feigning OF death by certain
animals for the purpose Of deceiv-
,Ag their enemies and thus secur-
ing Immunity is one Of the greatest
of the many evidences Of their in
telligent ratiocination. This simu-
lation is not confined to any partic-
ular family, order or species of ami
NAL, but exists in many, from the
very lowest to the highest. 1t is
found even in the vegetable king
dom. the well known sensitive plant
being an interesting example. The
action Of this plant is purely reflex,
as can he proved by observation and
experiment, and is not therefore a
process of intelligence.
An e1perimenter. writing in Wis
sen fur ALE, says that he has seen
the feigning Of death in some OF
the lowest animals known to sci
ence. Some time ago while exam
ming the inhabitants Of a drop OF
pond water under q high power
lens he noticed several rhizopods
busily feeding on the minute buds
Of an algo. These rhizopods sud
denly drew in their hairlike flaria
and sank to the bottom, to all ap-
pearances dead. The cause was
found to be the presence of water
louise, an animal which feeds on
these animalculse. 1t likewise sank
to the bottom and sater looking at
the rhizopods swan away, evident
ly regarding them as dead and unfit
for food.
This was not an accidental occur
renee, for the observer has seen
the same wonderful performance
twice since. Through the agency OF
what sense, he. asks, did these Ittis
creatures discover the approach Of
their enemy? Is it possible that
they and oAer microscopic animals
have eyes and ears 20 exceedingly
small that lenses of the very highest
power cannot make them visible, or
are they possessors Of senses utterly
unknown to and incapable Of being
appreciated by man? Science can
neither affirm nor deny either OF
these suppositions.
Most animals are slain for food
by other animals. Most Of the car
nivora and insectivora prefer fresh
ly killed food to carrion. They will
not touch tainted meat when they
can procure fresh; hence when they
come upon their prey apparently
dead they will leave it alone and go
in search Of other quarry unless
they are very hungry. Tainted
substances are dangerous to get into
the stomach. Certain ptomaines
render it sometimes very poison
ous. Long years of experience have
taught this fact to animals, and
therefore most Of them let dead OF
seemingly dead creatures alone.
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A Different Kind.

A gloomy looking wagon had
drawn up in front of the home OF
the pastors most devout and liberal
psrishioner.
"Dear me, dear me" cried the
good man who had just turned the
corner. "That looks very much like
an undertaker's vehicle. l must
hurry forward and see what the
trouble is"
And he arrived just as the fune-
real looking driver took in the beer.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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THE DAHllA.
Story Of the Plants Strange Introduce
ton Into England.


Not long ago there appeared or
the table of lady who is an en-
thusiastic gardener dish which
puzzled her palate. She could not
dscide whether it were a singularly
turnipy potato OF a remarkably po'
tatoey turnip, and whichever it was
she did not like it. She summoned
the cook, and inquiry presently re-
vealed, to her dismay, that it was
neither, but some of her choicest
cactus dahliss, innocently mistaken
for q vegetable.
The error was less disastrous thar
the famous one of the Dutch house
keeper who during the prevalence
Of the historic tulip mania acciden.
tally boiled for onions a handful ol
tulip bulbs worth a fortune. But il
was certainly vexatious as we'll ai
funny.
According to historic tradition
the original introduction of the dab
liza into England occurred through
an error exactly opposite in charac'
ter. 1t was imported for a vegeta'
Bic and turned out flower.
A little over a century ago, so ths
story runs, Lady Holland, travelling
IN the, vouth Of Europe, was RECALLED
upon a soup of delicious favor
which her hostess informed her VA
called Palestine soup" because it
chief Ingredient was the Jerusalem
aftichake.
Lady Holland, always on the
alert for interesting novelties, or.
dsred a root Of the artichoke TO be
sent to her gardener sat p Holland
House. This was done, as every
body supposed, but v the strong
shoots, thrusting up oatdly in the
vegetable garden, and, tended under
the watching eyes of gardener, COOK
and great lady, arrived at maturity
and bioomed, they bore Q new and
splendid flower. inedible, but glori-
Gus.
The plant was transferred to the
parterre and became the pride OF
the garden, although at first Lady
Hollands feelings were mixed, fol
she did not like to lose her ''Pales.
tine soup" But when a London
scotsman came to look at it and Of
fered 30 guineas for the root hel
last trace Of disappointment vanish
cd, and her husbands graceful trib'
ute, which was soon passing from
lip to lip through the fashionable
drawing rooms Of London, added
the final touch to her satisfaction
Lord Holland, who had pretty
taste in verse, wrote gallsntly:
The dahlis you brought to our Isle
Your praises forever shali speak
In gardens as sweet a. your smile
And colors a. bright az your cheek.
Youths Companion.
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Read the Farmers & Merchants
tanks ad. this issue.
Local Views.

The latest in post cards local
views, at the Peoples Mercan.
tile Cos. Following is the Sc.
rieS:
Bank of Williamsburg, Street
Scene, Academy street, Hotel
Van Keuren, Steel Bridge, Court
House, Kingstree Graded School
Building.
All in beautiful color work,
Call and see them at Peoples
Mercantile Cos. 3-l9-tt
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WiIIing 10 Exchange.

The man who had purchased some
currapt buns at bakery was dis
tressed on starting to eat one to
find that it contained Ay. Return
ing to tie bakery. he made an in
dignsnt complaint, demanding an
other bun in place Of the inhabited
one.
81 am sorry, sir" said The sales
woman. 81 can't give you another
bun, but il you will bring me back
the hy l will give you q currant for
it."-Kansss City Independent.