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A* *?& M well have been git About Ive year* u^o a ^Rany formed to take over tbe leclared confidently that It waa to make meerschaum plpeu out product. jour yeara we were the laugb of the trade," aald a men tbe concern the other day, "but doing the laughing ourselves gourlafced before the visitor's orders for more gross of pi pea anybody except a mathematical could count. And he ahowa a of tbe now plant which le to very soon. At present i grown to such a point t?e wall* of the email factory tbe Kast Side, New Turk, are worse every day. tbe small building they can turn ooly about tbirty-live groaa of a day. Tbla totals, however, tban 1,600,000 pipes a year, would seem enough to supply pipe smoker in the country. Hut plant will turn out 100 groaa Oao of the enters tourished preudly by the manufacturer is gross and came from a Boston la only one ether meer* aalae la the werld. At least, kaows of any ether. That one Minor and supplied the ma for all tha meerachaum pipes up to a year age. The Amer ?alae la about thirty mllea from City, N. U. REASON for blinkers tens o 1 Thousands of Her?e? Are Now Working Satisfactorily Without Them. It u ?eld that tho use tf blinkers, > blinders, aa they are called In this ouDtrr, had Its orlgla la the desire ( certain fashionable folks for * oen ?aleat place to display the family Nit. Of course, tho oosamon excuse I that they keep the horse from sky* There is no reason wky horses Should wear blinkers," says a writer the Bulletin of the S. J?. <?. JL "This ihown hy the fact tkat there are kns of thousands of korses working jatlif actor! ly without tkem, not ealy private carriages, kut la oaks, rsns td tmbulaaceB and in tewna wkere e trade is thickest. No riding horse Is ever seea wltk linkers; they would ke considered to >ok ridiculous with tkem; tke draft orses In the army do not wear them, nd the large brewers sad tke chief lllway companies have long ago die ensed with them. We recently read ia n Oerman pa er that their use had been done awny Ith by the authorities . ia Berlin, uesaeldorf, Aachen, Koealgskerg and assel. In Darmstadt they are allow only ia special cases, and Hamburg Us lately decreed that tkey shall be lermitted only if they stand well away :om the horses's eyes. "The difficulty of dispeaslng with linkers in the case of horses which ave been accustomed to them, even L^ears, Is largely imaginary. We several cases . where. the bange has been made and thero has een no dlfflculty^at all." Still His Little Wife. In a little shack at Sparkhlil, Mrs, Hen Peck, aged 82, the "confidence leen," released from Auburn penl intiary, la being guarded by her aged usband as carefuUy as though she as the best woman jri the world, "My Molly made mistakes/' said >e aged husband, "but she's come >me to me now, with her nerves lattered and her health gone. No, >u can't see her; she's suffered all le's going to, and in future I'm going shield her from the world. Why, le's the beet little woman that ever red, and I won't have anybody both lng her." . ' So great Is his loyalty that he will irmlt no one to say a word against e woman who victimized men of ore than 11,000,000 and brought dls ace to him and their children. Ihe's my little wife," he says. Estimating Power of 8es. (ho "live power" of a furious sea is mated by multiplying the mass of surge by the square of itB speed, en the surf, Impelled by the drive the broad sea, meets a solid ob icle, its pressure is thirty tons per naro meter of water. This estimate, lch la close, explains how water, en continually sapping the foot of cliff, breaks down the Land, forces ck the shore line, and little by lit t constantly and aurely, Increases sea'a domain. A Wate from 33 to feet high, and 626 feet lasi*-? suck l*ave as the sea produces every II Bonds ? represents power of about H. P.? stbam ? per square yard. A Winner. ?Joy, take these flawsm to Mtsfc ft'6 Bohoo, Room U.** |My, sir, you're the fourtfe gentle |n wot's sent her flbwets today." (What's that? Wh*t tke deuc*? ??ho sent the others?" ^ Iph, they dldn*t send any names. wr all said, ?Shell khow wbere tkey ?s froth.* M - ? '? |w?u. ? TH WiMSiliM WW [ these are from the same one, who | Pthe other three boxes." ?v. UCA I I EUS CANT EAT ELK MEAT Whon They Tried It In California a Game Warden Made a Raid. hundred ami twenty l&lka gnu* . ?red at the Bike* lodge at Ban Halael the other night to benquet on elk 1 meat, but a game warden descended upon the club, con tt seated and bore j away the auvory, uteamlng, well- i cooked elk meat, and tha Kike were forced to dine on beef. It waa to be a great celebration In honor of U, V. Douglas and John J. Deane, mighty hunters. Douglas and Deane bad brought back 67 pounda of dellcloua elk aseat from thel^ recent Wyoming elk hunt. Two hundred and fifty Invitations were sent, and the cooks converted the delicious meat Into savory steaks and roast. The banquet was scaed uled for 7 o'clock. Deputy Game Warden Hunter en tered the lodge at 1:30 o'clock, as the Elks were chuckling over the savory odor of the cooked meat which per meated the lodge. | "You may have Elks in your lodge," sa^d Hunter, displaying his badge of office, "but, my sirs, elks Is deer, and It Is closed seaaon for deer In Cali fornia, and therefore you cannot oat elk/' And forthwith he carted away the banquet food. A makeshift ban quet on beef followed, but most of tha Elks went home dlsaatlstted. ? Baa Francisco Chronicle. DULLS EDGE OF COMPLIMENT ! ? i But Amateur Muslclsn Bravely Re frained Frem Making Explanation to Youno Lady. Every evealng for three weeks twin brothers had bee* practicing for an amateur band concert. One twin, Joseph, played a cornet, and the other, Joel, operated on the violin. Meeting a young womaa, Joseph asked ker If she wpuld attend the musical (east. , "Yes," she said, "and I think it will be very nice indeed. I've hesrd you snd your brother practicing. That symphony of yours last night on the cornet was exquisite." Unfortunately the keen edge of this compliment was dulled, because Jo seph recalled that he bed not played a cornet 'on the previous nlgbt. He kad practiced on a trombone, but bravely refralaed from making an ex planation. . "And there was another piece that caught my fancy/' the young lady con tinued. "It seemed like a Wagnerian extract. Do you also play a sax6 pbeneT" ? "No, miss," was the amateur's ad mission. "I wonder what was the other instru ment I heard last night?" "I can't say positively, but if . tt was about nine o'clock, I think broth er Joel was either putting a new string on his violin or tuning the old piano." General Invitation. One morning Mies Lucy Halcomh, tke most fastidious housekeeper In Bushby, who was reported to hare washed an unfortunate grand-nephew into a decline, opened her front door, having heard strange noises on the piazza. There stood a tramp, his shoes cak ed with mud, which he was scraping off with a knife and kicking off by alternate -applications of his heel* on. her door-mat. "What are you doing?" demanded Miss Lucy, indignantly. MDoing!" echoed the tramp. "I wtl starting round to the kitchen to ask the young lady I saw hanging out your clothes if she'd hand me a bite of breakfast. Then I th<fught I didn't make a very good appearance, and I was about to go 'on to the ne*t house when I saw this mat with the Invlta-, tion, 'Please use this Mat,' right on it, so I stepped up here. In about five minutes more I'll look well enough m I can go round to the kitchen." "Well!" said Miss Lucy. "Well!" and then she closed the door, being unable to think of any appropriate re marks. ? Youth's Companion. Jewels of Indian Princes. . Some of the Indian princes possess jewels' which would put those of Ap dul Hamld In the shade. At the 190* durbar the blaze of gems surprised even the Indians themselves. The Maharajah of Darbhanga was wearing a diamond necklace which had cost ?90(000, and was considered a bar gain at that. Besides a necklace of 13 rows of perfectly matched pearls as large as filberts, the Maharajah of Owallor disported a sash depending from his left shoulder to his right knee, the material of which was com pletely hidden by similar stones. An other rajah carried a sword-hilt cut from a single emerald, and In the tur ban of the Nizam of Hyderabad was the Nteam diamond, which weighs 27T caratfc, or mora than twice a a much as the Koh-I-Noor. One-Time Tramp Reaches Honor. William H. Davies, recently placed on England's civil pension list with a pension of fifty pounds a year, is prob ably the flrst actual tramp fn the his tory aft that Country to be po honored. Pfvi** Is a Welshman by. birth and a tramp by preference having lived the ittfc for many years in tfcla country an A England. Qe Is minus a foot, the result of a stolen train ride. After 8ITTINQ BULL. A Sioux youth, knife In band. leaped ?at rid? the fallen body of a buffalo bull ha bad Just sbot. The supposedly dead bison staggered to Its feat and eat off at a lumbering gallop; the young Bloux ? Tatanka-Yo-Tanka ? still sit ting 0D Ita shoulders. At last, with his knife, the lndianx managed to slay his strange mount. Prom this adven ture be la said to have won the ntefc name of "Bitting Bull." A Bitting Bull was a "inedtjrtp* man " aa vrell aa a cblef. Medicine oven were not only doc to re, but were also eup posed to be in close communion with the Great Spirit and to he endowed with aupernatural powera. By hymna, by the rattling of druma, etc.. they atlrred their people to action; by hyp* j notlsm, "magic spells" and pretended messages from the Oreat Spirit they commanded obedience and veneration, i Sitting Bull belonged to the 17 nope pa tribe of the Bloux nation. He wga bom at Willow Creek, Dakota, In lilt. Of a little more than medium height, he waa powerfully built, waa pallid and pockmarked of face, an^? unuaunl among Indians? had rather light brown hair. From this peculiarity aroae the rumof that he was a rene gade Weat Point cadet. Aa a young man. Bitting Bull #*? Jbysd an "unsavory record as a nuur derer, home thief and frontier raider. In ltffa he led the Sioux in a eerie* of massacres on the settler* of MUfttO ?ota and Iowa. The rush of gold seekers Vo fee Black Hllla began. There Was en im etaat clash between the miners "<WC the ? local Sioux. The latter, lading \ themselves ousted from their- land*, rallied to 81tting Bull's standard end went on the warpath. The 7 ?lun dered, burned and killed; their bloody path Jying through huge districts of Wyoming and Montana. The govern ment ordered out troopa under Oeus. Terry an4 Crook to drive them baek to their reservation. Instead of PO> turning home, Sitting Bull with about 4,000 worriers retreated toward the Big Horn mountains. /With the 81oux were "hostile" Indiana from other trlbes-~Cheyonn?a, Banaoclcs, ?te. They had stolen many cattle and horses and kfc^ become dnitok with the love of freedom and bloodehed. They were In no mood to aurrender. Qss eral Custer and Major Reno were seat to find where the Slouz army wa? hiding. On the mofrning t>f June SO, 1876, they discovered Sitting BulTe camp on the Little Big Horn river. Custer, thanks to a ^clever ruse of the medicine man, was quite deceived ae to the number of hia foes. Instead of withdrawing or waiting for rein forcements, he divided hidi force to at tack the camp from different sides. At the head of one detachment? about 300 men ? Custer rode blindly into a battle? or, rather,* an ambush ? from which neither he nor one white man with him came out alive. Reno, With most of Custer's remalhing troops, was cooped up on * hill by swarms of Indians and barely escaped. Cutter's Death. It was Sitting Bull who had planned ihla death trap for Custer's soldiers. But in thfr battle itself, Gall, war chief of the Sioux, was the actual command er. Sitting Bull took no part In the fight. He sat at- the door of his tent well out of bullet range, howling hymns to the Great Spirit and working spells" of jugglery for his warriors' suc cess. Knowing the government would take swift revenge for CuSter's death, Sit ting Bull Vetreated, * fighting, before the soldiers' iadvance and kit last qui etly slipped over the border Into Can ada, where be "was safe from pursuit. There he stayed until the country's first clamor of rage had died down. Whefl he was called upon to surren der, Sitting Bull summed yp the whole Indian question ip this savage reply: "No Indian ever lived who loved the white man, and no white man ever lived who loved the Indian. The Great Spirit made me an {ndian, but he did not make me a slave to the white man, and I will not be one. Your government has made fifty-two treaties with the Sioux and has kept none of them." In 1881 Sitting Buli accepted terms of peace and came back to the United States. There he settled near the Standing Rock agency, ;1H North Da kota. He made several tours of the iBast, was on exhibition !n New York and elsewhere, and earned money sell ing his pictures and autographs. His adventurous career seemed at an end. But a few years later he was busy as of old stirring up his "nation" to dis content, advising them not to give np their remaining land to the white man, and transmitting to them fiery messages from the Oreat Spirit He was In 1889 one of the Preachers (if not the secret originator) of a doo trine that an Indian messiah was about to come to earth to btiry all the white men thirty f*et under ground and give the whole country, feaok to the savages. This sort of talk goaded the inttans to fresh revolt. And again lifting Bull was the limi figure In ft Sioux uprising. To nip the Insvrreo tlon In the bud, a squad of Indian po lice cime to hit village on December 15, 18*>, to arrest the old ehlef. He resIstedLljaad jihouted to his Irate* to rescue him. In the Ium44o-fcaa4 ight inrittVHU ofcnitiWdtfWtttfcl Buff wlft ?hot deed. We are more than pleased with our thirty days of business. If we had been told that we could have done even half as well we would have thought it a mat ter of impossibility. But figures do not fake ? we have them. In view of these facts we have decided to continue our marvelous sale of Men's Shoes and Oxfords for thirty days more, at the following prices: All Men's Shoes and Oxfords, formerly $5.00 will be sold at All Men's Shoes and Oxfords, formerly $4.50 will be sold at All Men's Shoes and Oxfords, formerly $4.00 will be sold at All Men's Shoes and Oxfords, formerly $3.50 will be sold at All Men's Shoes and Oxfords, formerly $3.00 will be sold at All Men's Shoes and Oxfords, formerly $2.50 will be sold at $3.98 $3.25 $3.15 $2.95 $2.45 $1.85 We are going to offer the entire stock of Ladies and Children's Shoes and Oxfords during the month of August at just what they cost us. Now, if you are in . need of anything in a frst class shoe ? one that you will not be ashamed to wear one that looks good and will wear better than any shoe you ever wore for the money, now is the time to buy. These goods are all of high-class stuff. No old stock, no shoddy goods. All goods are new and up to date. Come and be con vinced that such shoes were never before offered at such ridiculously low prices. We will positively close this offer after August 30th. So if you need anything / \ ? in this line and want to buy it at a real genuine bargain now is the time. . ) f 'y . r t ' .? -f i i' ? 4 ' McCASKILL BROTHERS CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA Real Estate Real Estate Farming Land FOR SALE The farming lands in Lee County have long been recognized as the best in the State, and sell Readily for $30.00 per acre. We offer for quick sale two tracts at Smith ville ? one containing >63 acres and one 10 acres at a price far below the $30.00 mark. Both tracts are ideally located, being on the public road, within a few miles of the railroad and having every advantage of the average town. 'Phone 29, or write us for ' further information. BELK & it.. , s . ; ;Real ? CAMDEN, S. C. ? ? , M