Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LABOR BEING SCARCE " Yonr best help is in Gasoline Engines. Some one to pump water to your barn It's. a Gasoline Engiue. If you want to rutn light machinery It's a Gasoline Engine. 4 If you want to saw wood t It's a Gasoline Engine. Make known your wants and we will do the rest. g W. 0. McKEOWN & SONS, Cornwell, S. C. MULES! MULES! a.V Ninety=three head on hands 1.] Bought before the rise.. Now is the time and we are the people to buy your mules from. f( GREGORY=CONDER MULE CO., Harper Stables. COLUMBIA, S. C. Plain Street. U Mr. Farmer: Cw1 Come this way for your t( at farm supplies. Everything for getting ready for plant= . ing time. IE Ploughs and Plough Hoes,.. Harness and Bridles, Collars, ol Hames, Traces, Singletrees, it fit Etc. Se K. R. McMASTER. ti th COTTON GINNERS AND MACHINERY OWNERS lt Write for prices on the following Babbit Couplings Gauges Lubricators Belt, Gundy Drills Gauge Co',cks Oil Cups Belt, Rubber Drill Press Hack Saws Oil Cans Belt, Leather Ejectors Hammers al Fittins Injectors Pipe Files Pulleys ,Laee Leather Packing all kinds, Shafting; Collars for shafting and anything Si else in machinery supplies. Columbia Supply Co, - - - - Columbia, S. C. of h( CABBAGE PLANTS, CELERY, LETTUCE, BEET AND ALL KINDS OF GARDEN PLANTS. er in We are new prepared to furnish czJ plants growxn fron the !est sced gi urchased from the most reliable salesmen in the business. \Ve h:ve tle d owing varieties: Extra Early Wakefields. C ha lestoa or large ty ye \Vaketi eld fr Henderson's Succession, Large type Flat Dutch. These plan ts a re g il ' the open air and will stand great cold. We use th4 same Ilatis in our t I -u sand acre truck farim. We have a careful imian in charge of t he plan It tit 1D meat, and will carefully pack them, we guarantee the esunt, expiress rate, wli r( be reduced thirty per cent from last season. to Prices, in small lots $1.50 per thousand, in large lots $1.00 to$.: per tL r!- t sand f. o. b. Meggetts, S. C, If cash does not accompany order gds will tr shipped C. 0. D. N.~H. BLITCH COMPANY, tl Meggetts, S. C. et ti dach Blind Headache "About a year ago," writes Mrs. Mttie Allen, of r - 1123 Broadway, Augusta, a "I suffersd with 1 blind, sick headaches and baokashe-s, an'd 4could gt no relief urtil I tried . ? I . IM Woman's-Relief I immediately commenced to improve, .and now I feel like a ne~v w oman, an'd wish~to recommerid -it, to all sick wobmen; for I e wm'rE kniow it will .cure them~as-it did i~.' US Cardui is pure, medicinal extract-of ai y~~y ~ vegetaol'e herbs, which .relieves H end fhny, de,.ring female'paias, regulates female e YOur symptoms. we il 'functions,tonesuptheOrganls ""nsid*'*ur cB an . give you free advice (in piliin sealed t rprsae&hat. eneoe. Do' eiae Ad- .Try it for your trouble. visory Dept., The Chatanooga Med- Evr drEs el'i ~n C.,Cb-tr.cgTn. mn $1.00 bfes. . ~OWN I"N A SALT MINE; NE OF Th:E WEViDEST SIGHTS TO BE FOUND IN TH E- WORLD. m Atmosphere That IExhilarates and Then Parche --orkings In Roumania That Date Bac! to the Time of the Old Roman 'mpire. There are four salt mines in Rouma a, two quite close to one anothr, at anic and Doftana. One of the nines : Slanic dates back to the time of the omans, whose methods were not so ientific as those of tieir modern suc ssors. They made bottle shaped exca tions quite close to one another, with e res-ult that the wedge of earth be ree bottles constantly threatened to ibside. Modern methods avoid any such dan r. Inst-ead of burrowlig down again to a new mine you cut horizontal gal ries into the rock, huge pillars of salt -e left standing to support the earth' id fresh caverns, are hollowed out. hus. vithout any extia amount of la )r, it ; possible to extend the mine most indefinitely and the pillars serve confirm the ecclesiastical effect of e great'suLterranean esasilica. I saw the old Roman mine from one the upper galleries, which was ached by strange, almost endless, unels illuminated with gay Chinese nt tns. A little verdure alone was e d to complete the illusions of the irdens of Aladlin. The impressions rorded by the view from this gallery ere so unique and so marvelous that besitate to attempt to describe them. Some minutes were necessary to ow aceustomed to the twilight. A w braziers containing shavings soak In petroleum were flaring up in a. e ish manner, and as I looked over to the darkness of the abyss I was inded of Dore's version of Dante oking 'into the uttermost depths of des. What struck me most was the Inse trit-y of my position. There was, of orse, no danger whatever, and the ge on which I stood was fairly -oad. But it possessed no parapet, id in order toelook down 1 was nec sary to come very near to the brink. hat Ided most to the sense of inse trity as a kind of pier or commence ent of a bridge which'projected over e abyss. I do not know whether it dated back the d'ays of the Ilomans, but at any to It was almost prehistoric in as ect. I did not need. the advice of my mpanions to discourage any attempt walking the,plank along this road to !truction, but I have seen few places pable of affording more temptation tk..a with suic':&I ieia-os SudAeiy a sTi- w-as ive] and temais beakes wexe east-dewx fropn e-reoflefjimine. iveral leug see L"s daps~eb'efere IMh 6 d, 7-t ilk e pwiA ef. sat wate'IM&63 of et 'baew. 'ke egeet was'etraer nar.*Si,rst'the gray wailsvWere ildu iated as the huge molten mass azed past them, ttien they wereever tnst with fleeting, ghistly shadows id at last plunged once more into a Lrkness which was only emphasized Sthe flickering lights abdve, Perhaps the prettiest object in this d mine was a common tub which had ten laced some years ago upon the dge to receive the drippings of salt ater. I tasted this water and found so salty that It almost: bit and solidi d my tongue. As the drops fell the e'ter part of them 4a'ediately crys lized with incredible rapidity. The original tub was :ao longer to be . It had been,cove:eed up entirely it glistening incrusta ions, which tve it the appearance ofu huge snow untain adorned with the most exqui tely artistic designs. It was now out six feet high and several feet in ickness, while a piece of stringswhich id been suspende'd above it had now ~come a rape, of molten pearls. R~eturning a~ong the tunnel, we passed little trapdoor about two feet square. fs was pulled up, and I was privi ged to look down into the new mine id beheld one of the most remarkable ghts to be "found in the world. Hjn -ods of feet below, upon a ragged id of dazzling whitene'es, suggestive the ice park in the arctic regions, rds of men. each apparently as large a 'cheese mite, moved about fever ily like the occupants of an ant heap. e and there points of electric light e like suspended stars. The gen 'al impressio'n was that of a nest of *sects viewed through a Brobdingna an magnifying glass. A hushed tinikling noise came up omn the depths. like fairy music, I ought I shou.ld never tire of- watch g the grgceful movements of these mote human insects. I almost he'gan fancy that they must belong to' an he- planet, and such was the.e aordinary fascination exercised by is marvelous sight that I found it a inful wrench to tear myself away. 'I >uld have remained crouching over tis ehole for hours, a-nd I felt qluite mnoyed with the director of the mine hen he patiently reminded me that I ill had m'uehx to see before the depar ire of my tr'ain. So we returued along tehe gallery and itered one' of thxe powerful lif-ts which e~ emplloyed to bring~ up tralcks of salt o the b:>ttm of the mine. The di 'etor a ssured me, with a smile, that I led not have any alarm about the ca icIty of the l.ift, as it was eonstructed >cary' over twenty-five hundre' Iwked, we crawled down at a snailis Stie sttruge xtura Trescoes on' lie el, Tlmed were mierely geologdlal irmiM, of Nurso, bube assa~m I the shaples hxe're of wild s'ea serpents, ere or blielt-iful de orative patterns ad eve-ry n~w :tudithen of impossib~le Waldia mi~i~nals. Dadoes on dadoes, I entally sunumed them,up. - We stepped out on to the floor of a r comhs anmd colds no remedy is unal t) Nenned''s Laxative Honey id Tar. It is dlifferenlt from all others beHar, bt c-ause it exp~els all cold from e systexm by aceting ais a cathartic on * )owlS. Afibrds immediate relief rup, (oughl-, Colds, Whooping augh, etc. (hildrcn love it. Sold by I (alers. Knicker-- So JIones holds two mnedas; what was the second ,efor? Boekr-Accepting the first. ew York Sn. titanic cathedral, a vast basimca, where armies might have knelt in pray er and where people who knew no other world might easily iaingine that this was the universe. Even the great. strong electric gbbhes could only cre ate a dim religious light in this huge edifice. The lofty- walls were marked with curly stripes of spark' ag gray and white, running u, .md down like the waves of a tempestuous sea. Along the various naves and aisles rude tram ways were laid out upon a kind of embankment of salt. Here trucks were waiting to be fed by the miners, who came up ladaers and elementary gang vays bearing loads from the salt trenches below. The atmesphere was utterly unlike any I had evei breathed elsewhere. It was very dry, very pungent, hgbhly ex hilarating, like some miner-l water turned into a gas. There was a pleas ure in quaffing it with deep breaths, but presently as you licked your lips you hsted salt, you smelt salt, you felt yourself impregnated with salt. It was almost possible*to understand the sensationis of Lot's wife. The pre vailing desire was an inordinate crav ing for the immediate consumption of beverages by the bucketful.-Herbert Vivian in Strand Magazine. THE ORGAN. Its Fitnesxs For the Form of Compo sition.Known as the Fugue. The organ as it existed in Bach's day and as in most essentials it exists new is an instrument peculiarly suggestive in regard to the realization of the fin est'and most complete effects of har mony, of modulation and that of simul taneous progression of melodies in pol-y phonic comnlination which is most com pletely illustrated In the form of com position known as the fugue. It is so for two or three reasons. In the first place, it Is the only instrument in vhich the sounds are sustained with the same intensity for any .required length of time after thqy are first emitted. How ever long a note may have to be sus tained, its full value is there till the moment the finger quits the key, a quality which is invaluable when we are dealing with long suspensions and chains of sound; secondly, the oppor tunity of playing the bass with the feet on the pedals, leaving the left lIand free for the inner parts, puts within the grasp of a single player a ull and extended harmony and a free dom in manipulation such as no ot-her instrument affords; thirdly, and in the case especially of fugie compositions, the immense volume and power of the pedal notes impart a. grandeur to the entry of the bass part in the composi tionsuch as no other medium forpro dueing music can gi-ve us. I the ti-se of Bach thi aplendid source of mausical efeet was eonfined to the realt or-gans of 'Cer"in, Ike Bagiish orgns of the dny -had in gat-al no 'pedal board, and it Is jireb aily owing te''bis fdot mere tan to ain'thing else that, fandeb'sl)pulilsed organ music 'is so light and even eph~meral in style as compared with Bach's; that h~e treated the organ, as Spitta trul-y observes,- merely like, a larger an'dmore powerful harpsichord. Without the aid of the pedal It would be rather difficult to do otherwise, and the English organ of the day was in every respect a much lighter and thin ner affair than the "huge house of the sounds," the thunder of -which was stored in the organ gallery of many a Lutheran church.-Londonl Standard. An Anecdote of General Scott. After his retirement Geniral Scott passed the summer of 1862 at Cozzens' hoel, West Point, where every even ng a party of gentlemen adjourned to the general's sitting room for their game. Being a good player, the host was usually victorious, but if he and his partner were ever beaten Scott's Ire was made manifest. One riilght it, happened that the usual party was missing. What was to be done? The general tnu'st have his whist. There appened to be staying at the hotel a judge, who was asked to do the favor of taking the fourth hand. With some protest on his part he agreed to do It. By cutting for partners the general and the judge played together and were beaten-horribly beaten. K~now ing how it iriltated the general to lose the game, the judge as he rose from the table said In his most dignified and courtly way: "I formerly played a fair ly good game of whist, but have been out of practice so long that I am some what rusty. I hope that fact may be taken as an excuse for my mistakes," Whereupon the generali arose with equal dignity and retorted, "I am glad to learn that I have been playing with latent talent and not with a natural born fool!" Mendelssohn's (ontempt For Liuzt, "You know," said Liszt on one occa sion, "that Mendelssohn, who was the most jealous musician that ever lived, always had a dislike for me, and on one occasion at a soiree at Dr. K.'s he drew a picture of the devil on a black boad playing his G minor concerto with five hammers in lieu of fingers on eah hand. The truth of the matter is that I once played his concerto in G minor f:Nom the manuscript, and as I found several of the passages rather simple and not broad enough, if I may use the term, I changed them to suit ny own ideas. This, of course, an noyed Mendelssehn, who, unlike Schw mann or 6hopia, would never take a hit or adyvce from any one. Mere v&r, MendelssehQ, who, although a re Sned pianist, w-as not a virt-uoso, n'ev er could play my compositions with any kind of efect, his technical ski.l being I:nadequate to the execution of intricate passages. So the only course open to himn, he thought, was to vilify me as a musician. And, of course, whatever Meiddelssohn did Leipsic did A lHato Be Encouraged. The mother who has acquired the habit of keeping on hand a bottle of hamberlain's Cough Remedy, saves herself a great amount of uneasmnes dn anxiety. Coughs, colds and croup, to which children are susceptible are iuickly cured by its use. It counter ects ny tendeucy of a cold to result im pneumonia, and if given as soon as the tirst symptoms of croup appear, it will prevent the attack. This remedy con tains nothiing injurious and mothe:~ give it to little ones with a feelinig "H perfect security. Sold by Obear Drug Co. and all1 medAisine als. Worth It All. The dispensary investigatin committee wants an additiona appropriation of $6,000. The in vestigation is pretty expensive but it would have been ~a heal more expensive to do without it So let her roll.- Ander-on Mai A Healing Gospel. Rev. J. C. Warien, pastor o 'haron Baptist chureh, Belai: ja., says of Electric Bitrs: "It Godsend to mankind. It curc ue of lame back, stiff joints, an -omplete physical coNapse. vas so weak it took me half a ,our to walk a mile. Two bottle f Electric Bitters have made m strong I have just walked thre ,iles in 50 minutes vnd feel lik ;alking three more. It's made . w man of me," GreatesL ren dv for weakness and all StomaeL iver and Kidney coiuplaint: old under guarantee at McMas !r Co.'s, and Jno. H. McMaste Co.'s, drug stores. Price 50 Owing to the strike of the Ne Lork printers many of the mag -ines will not be ab!e to issue thei laster iluiber this Near unt fter the first of Februar, Karsas City Star. For Bilious and Sickc Headache. Take Orino Laxative F-'ruit Syru] t sweetens the Stomachi, aids digestio .1d1 acts as a gentle stimulant on th er ana bowel, without irritatin tese organs. Orino Laxative Fru crun cures biiouzsnew and halAitus .netip-,tion. DeT not nauscate 0 -!pe an1d is nildand phv 1e-amt to tak< X1member the name Onroand refus accept any substitute. Sold by Mc ,aster Co. Senator Tillman never takes -ink of whiskey, and yit they d ' he is intempewate.-Maco -legraph. 'he seeret of sniecessfully ridding th :stenm of a oold is a thorough eVact -:ionm of the lbovel. Kenne(y's La Live Honey and Tar doestbis-Liqui hld Cure, (ives all cold out of ti: Astei. Beot for Coughs. Croup, et ')ld hv alil dealers. Tutt s 7i-h This popular remedy sever fa~s i effectua e Vur Dyspepsia, Cnstiation, Sid Headache, Biliousness And ALL DISEAi!5 Zrising froM Torpid Liver and Bad Digestio The natural result is goed appecti1 and solid flesh. Dese smial; elegn 1r sug ar coated and easy feo swaliow A Necessity~hen Traveli ng For Toothiache -And Rheumatism Price &~$1.00 AtAll Druggists Seedl Po "'c, 'i1e. n morec uniforu 0.6, a-d r. ma potato go~ r v' 'ia ximd. O::r ''oy . r:pro senteo:ti i': Vi ' ba ies. Sedid Potatz. RfCHMOE.- - VisaiA. we carry the stoc ' of Pcie toes in the Soiuth. ';:ine. Northern grown Zcczi''c 'nd ip Seed. THE "BOSS." CQITTON PRESS! S1ULEST. STiRONG, Bb.T * Vhg MustSAY GIg-NlN9 S'vgu Gins. feeders..Codens*1rs, Etc. . cGInnF9 MACHINE~RY Co. 1905 Wak( DON'T BE CAU WHILE WE ARE TO YOUR WANT 1905 HAS GOK STILL HERE A 1 SERVE YOU. INSPECT OU DURING 19061 IT PROFITABJ YOUR TRADE. L. W. C. BEAT' 1 PIANOS. The problem of selecting a piano is v simpleone. THE HOUSE t that you buy from should be one of unquestionable reputation. Ir A HOUSE that represents the pianos of standard makes. A HOUSE that is noted for fair dealing. WE CLAIM all these requisites. e WE HAVE the PIANOS to suit you. $250.00 UP will buy a good piano from us. OUR TERMS made easy to cash buyers. IF INTERESTED write us for catalogue, prices and terms. Address, INiEUES IUSIC HOURi, COLUMBIA, S. C. a Pianos and Organs. 1 SEstablished Over 20 Ye ar. J, Wilson Gibbes TYPEWRITER HEADQUARTERS 1412 Main St., Columbia, S. C. South Carolina Agent DENSMORE TYPEWRITER-The best writing machine at any price. jCHICAGO TYPEWRITFR-T h e best for the price-$35 and $50. ALL MAKES-Rented, Exchanged. Bought. Repairing on the premises by an expert. RUBBER STAMP FACTORY - Stamps made every day on the prem ises. Stencil Plates, Daters, Number ing Machines, Cheek Punches of all kinds. OFFICE SUPPLIES AND FUR NITURE-Everythinr from a Pen Point to a Roll'Top ?esk. Sectional I Ffiing Cases, Bookcases and Card In dexes a specialty, 10-18. UNDERTAKING WILL BE CONTINUED IN the future the same as in the past in the old establishment in all its departments with a full stock of Caskets, Burial Cases and Coffins Iconstantly on hand, and use of hearse when requested. Thankful for past patronage and solicitous for a share in the future, in the old stand. Calls attended to at all hours. Th~ ELIOTT GIN SHOP). J. M. ELLIOTT & CO. DR. A. L. OTT, Dentist, Ridgeway, S. C. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. - .ICMOND VA., Em Wire, M~yNetting. Wee fapues nd catalogue. Fai Imlemnents in th~e South, and can save you moe on yourprhss Wh1at ever yo~u need, get our prices be fore purchaing. SSpecial bargains in Farm Wagons -and Bagies. Best makes. Low~ Prices. TheImplement Co., I mAan SI. ricmo,, V. Up 1906 GHT NAPPING, WIDE AWAKE - S. , BUT WE ARE ND READY TO I GOODS, AND 'OU WILL FIND "E TO GIVE US COMPANY. TAX RETURN8 FOR 1906. The County Auditor's Offee will be open for the purpose of taking Tax Re turns from January 1 to February 28, 1906. This is the year for making re turns of real estate and each tract of land must be listed separately. Parties between the ages of twenty one and sixty are liable to poll tax, un less otherwise exempt, and all rsons liable to poll tax are required by law to make return of the same. Ex-Confed erate soldiers are exempt from poll tax at the age of fifty years. All returns must be made in person or by some authorized agent. There will accrue a penalty of 50 per cent. where parties fail to make return within the time mentiondd above. The Auditor or his deputy will be at the usual places for taking returns on days mentioned. These appointments are made for the convenience of the tax payers and it is hoped they will remember and take advantage of the opportunity and not be in the rush in the last days in Feb ruary. Woodwards, Tuesday and Wednes day, January 2 and 3. Whiteoak, Thursday and Friday, January 4 and 5. Winnsboro, Saturday, January 6. Ridgeway, Monday and Tuesd'y, January 8 and 9. Blythewood, Tuesday and Wednes day, January 9 and 10. Bear Creek, (M. L. Cooper), January 11 and 12. Winnsboro, Saturday, January 13. Feasterville, (Faucett's store), Tues day-and Wednesday, January 16 and 17. Crosbyville, Thursday and Friday, January 18 and .19. Buckhead, Saturday, Januar 20. C. M. Ladd's store, Monday, Jnuary 22. Monticello, Tuesday and Wednesday January 23 and 24. Jenkinsvslle, Thursday and Friday, Jannary 25 and 26. iforeb, Monday January 29. Greenbriar, Tusa, January 30. Simpson's, Wednesday, January 31. Longtown, Thursday and Friday, February 1 and 2. Winnsboro, Saturday and Monday, February 3 and 5. Gladden's Grove, (Lumnpkin's store), Tuesday, February 6. Siitford, Wednesday and Thursday, February 7 and 8. Bucklick, Friday, (Peay's store) February 9. Oakland, Saturday, February 10. Stevenson. Tuesday, February 13. Douglass, Wednesday, February 14. Albion, Thursday, February 15. EstesstorejFriday, February 16. E. F. PAGAN, 12 Auditor Fairfield County FOR ALL PURPOSES TSHIPPED EVERYWHERE. Carnations................7c'oe Roses...... .................$2.00 per dozen Lily of Valley....$1.00 to $1.50 per dozen Aster................5c. to 75c. per dozen~ Bouquets, Baskets or Boxes of pretty Mixed Flowers....1.50 up> We make a specialty of Fine Wedding~ Work. Write us when youlwish anything ina FLOWERS, PLAFTS, BULBSIOR SEEDS. ROSE EL MBKINOfSES COLUMBIA, S. C. .For sale by lM'cIaster co. --BY "The Old Reliable" Mutual Benefit Life In surance Company. ORGAM ZED IN i845 STRICTILY MUTUA L. NO STOCK HOL DERS. INSURANCE FURNISHED AT COST. Mail this card filled ini and full in 'ormation will be submittsd was born on the...day of........... Same................2 ........ .... .d dress........................................ luote rates on $............ suranee.. W. D. DAVIS, Loog Run, S. C.