Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ENGLISH LANDSCAPE. Their Roads and Bridges are Sub stantial, Enduring and Picturesque. In Comparison With American Rural Improvements They Convey The Idea That We Think But Little Of Posterity. There is an old story which will bear telling again ns it illustrates so well the disadvantages to be over-: come In a new country. It is of an American travel!ng in England who, when out walking one day stopped in front of an old English mansion to ad mire it and its surroundings. What particularly impressed him was the magnificent sweep of velvet lawn which extended without a flaw or blemish from the hedge along the roadway up to the very steps of the house. An old gardener was at work on the place and at that particular! time was pushing a lawn mower across ENGLISH COUNTRY ROAD AND BRID the sward. The American hailed him and with the usual freedom and in-it qusitiveness of his nationality asked A many questions as to the conduct of r affairs in such an establishmlenit asl i the gardener was connected with. :1 "Tell me," he said to the gardener, I "how do you make a 'lawn like this. I I have a place in Amerlea and I am t trying to make a lawn around the g house, but It doesn't seem to do well."t The old gardener scratched his headt and, looking doubtfully at the Ameri- t can, he said: "You must have a good sub'scil, and a good surface soil and the sod must be well laid. Then you1 must roll it, and cut it and water It and keep on doing this unti it's right." A CENTURY TO MAKE . LAWN. The American agreed with him 'that the process was simple, .and then 38ked, "How long will I have to do I this before the lawn is like that one?" t The old gardener again spoke doubt- 5 fully, but finally gave it as his opinion i that If his directions were foilowed for anywhere from fifty to a hundred years the results would be all that could be desired. This same idea might also apply toe the roads and bridges throughout Eng land, for much of their excellence is due to the fact that their foundations were laid scores of years ago and 1 -generation after generation of work- i 'ers has been tinkering at them ee since. In fact, the roads built by the Romans now serve as the foundatiotns 1 for some of the best known English highways, and to the south of Lon don, east and west through the beauti ful county of Srnrrey there is a road now greatly patronized ny the owners of motor cars which in its beginning was the highiway beaten hard by the sandaled feet of the early Britons a they toiled to the east const from : Wales with their back-breaking bur- I dens of tin. This same road was at terwards Improved in its texture and 'I grades beause of its being the high- f way for the pilgrims of western Erg land en route to Canterbury. It is I still shaded in places by the yew trees planted perhaps a thousand years ago to furnish bows -the sturdy British archerQ. ENGLISH ROADS VERY NARR:W. 1At the first place the English maC. I is generally narrow, so narrow. bin ONL.Y SL.OO. SPE JUST WHAT YOU W Thisi a inrre poei This Telescoe iprvide - - 'J . ~ d 'ay .r td ri-..cea Inaerr-. nT.t .h ipe TeO; -uren SunSots u ih e ~~enu~ spos onut e clo irud~ tO inhO an Sun et or Soa fere o . v m.-0 ra scope and s.ee themo. - -nt with eneb order. Ti raar oeh Tr.les or justa Send $1.00 by Reiet order, or Bank Draft payab.A to ouir order. Ir yo'u det'ire Tnteresting Booklet, entit fact, that it Is only In certain plac that one team can pass another witi out consiu'rable manoeuvering. If a the labor expended upon an America country road were to be concentrate opon a narrow track only wk enough for a farmer's wagon, grea Improvement in results would t noted, for it Is of course much cheape to lay the foundations, build up ti body, and surface a road fourtee teet wide than to put Into shape bighway which. at its narrowest poin the ambitious Americans have extent ed to forty feet. This, in Itself, Is poit which if Intelligently adopte would in many places solve the que: Lion of a practicable roadway upo which In a!! kinds of weather and a ill times of the year a single team o borses could haul a profitable load I market. The English farmer uses a cart ul !m which a single horse draws an: where from one to two tons of dea weight. The tires of the wheels a! rrom four to eIght inches in breadtl thereby cutting no ruts and each pasi Eng vehicle adds to the solidity an ;moothness of the road in that it heels serve as effective rollers. E, CROSSING RAILROAD TRACK. It is not due to any pecullar advanf age of soil, and certainly not to any dvantages of climate that Englist rads are better than American roads er it one leaves the highway In the ~nglsh country, the lanes will b4 aund, by a traveling American, t< arve a most homelike appearance 12 eir rutted condition, anid a vera reat contrast In the matter of holes zts and boulders to the highway 'lef1 ehind. No climate could he more breatening to the solidity of a road ay than the moist and changeabl4 reather of the British Isles. TURDY APPEARlANCE OF THE BRID)GES. n the matter of bridges. sollditl ees to be the purpose in view. Th4 rhes and retaining wa 's are bull f stone, approacx..s are gradual, an( rhen once the finishing touch is pu pon one of these structures, it wili rith little supervision and care out ist even to many generations th~e me: hose handiwork it is. The solid ma onry arch, the heavy stone-cappec all, and the gradual rise of the road ra to the centre of the bridge ar ntrely utilitarian in the mninds 0 be builders, but they possess a cez ai sturdy character of their ow: hich is a form of beauty welcome< y the eye. Time softens the colora ry creeps over the stones and in hort space, even if newly built, on' *f these English country road bridge akes a permanent place in the land cape giving the impression of alway aving been there and of intendini lways to remain. IHEIR VALUE TO THE TEAMS TER,. Aside from the beauty, strength an urabllty of these macadam road md stone bridges, they possess aJ onomic value which plays a larg iart in the conduct of an E~nglis: 'arm where the margins of profit ar mall, and there is no reason to bE leve but that the American farme: nspeialy in regions where the cultt ration of the land is more or less in ensive, r-e would find similar road Lnd bridges of enormous valn trough an apprec!able increase t us ability to reach his market in tb h~ortest time at the minimum ai ot nd with the ileast mtliveC powe c OIAL 6O DAY OF ANT ON SEA, FART 'fo achromat.ieTI.'npe fr Terryra adCletas I it a ajusaI f-ar Ey-h-e Wih ti d h - miuare in the lace, on. the brightest::.nd h..tt. t in he neufn at iigbl. Every ,tineb-nt. inni- or f totudythe -un in &:'irses. fit- thei rnytterious~ r appea anI isapear at intervak1 andii moveA abit - - sin. You, will regret it if you r.i-gect to 'eure th h n god Tel 'cope wasi netver 'clit for this Jpne*e befor hr ivn.- if the largest ,nrenutfttturtrs ofi Europe. me; Ia :1.2 fret in eve se~cins.nnd li4 inches; in ircurf tin. Ilro nafey tap on eac'h end in exclud - dust. ft. nitieity groundff nnd adjr'ted. Guiaranteed by the 5ake 'alsez e been vol' for from $v.00 to $10.00. 1 cnntry or at se'asidC rirorts should certr.inly 5(ecu : nrd niflrmferyhshouhl be nit netfione. Objeete m~eC 1w. atnihin~g elenirnew. Sent by exrs safely paec nail prepraid for S1.10 (ur new catalortie of Guns. (t a sn rnnd offer and you should not miss It. We wa re4, et 9 Pos Ot~r oney Order, Epress Moni Telesope by mii! add10 cents postage. Led '-escope -ral, **FR with each orde: BAD FOR COUNTFRFEITERS. 11 n d! Secret Service is Iard Pushingt this Dangerous Class of e Criminals. n Detectives Kept on Alert to Cope With a Clever and Brainy Schemes for t Passing Illegal MoE ey-The King a of Counterfeiters. This has been a bad year for crimi nals. This statement i based on data brought out at the cor.vention of the Police Chiefs Association of New Yori 0 State, an address delivered by the president of the International Associa tion of Police Chiefs and by the operations of the var ious police bureaus of the United States govern e ment. The secret service division of the Treasury alone caus ad the arrest of 0532 persons charged with serious crimes. Of those take:1. into custody forty-one were arrestel for counter feiting the currency, fif-y-two for mak ing alterations in the currency, 344 for counterfeiting coin and the remainder for various violations of the United States statutes. Of the 532 alleged of fenders, 392 were native Americans, forty-two were Italians :some of whom were naturalized) and thirteen were Austrians. The largest number of ar rests were made in Pennsylvania where those apprehended nu:nbered ninety four. New-York followed with seventy seven arrests, Ohio with thirty-five, California with twenty nine, Missouri with twenty-three and ir the remaining instances every state and territory with the exception of Alaska was represent ed. As compared with last year there was a decrease in the ariount of count erfeit currency seized by government officers and-an increase in the amount of counterfeit coin confiscated. The total face value of the ntes seized was $36,834, against $44,350 the preceding year, and of the spurious coin, $24,110 as against $13,419 the year before. The number of plates for printing counter feit bills captured by t'2e government was 1G5 and the number of dies and molds for casting and s:amping count erfeit coins was 454. Nearly all this stuff was seized by the Government before it had been placed in circula tion. Nine classes of counterfeit notes were placed In circulation and of these, in the opinion of the Treasury of ficers only four were c.everly enough executed to be called dangerous. RAISING SMALL BILLS. The feature of the work of makers of false money this year was in raising the denomination of bills. There was rather a remarkable increase in this Illicit industry and the raisers were particularly busy in circulating these altered obligations in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and other states of the middle west. It is believed by the officers of the secret service that -:he leading of fenders in this division of criminal work were captured, tho-igh there is no doubt that many altered bills are still passing from hand to haad in the chan nels of trade. Counterfeiters In the United States do not restrict their operations to the manufE.cture of Amer ican money, and one of the skillful pieces of work done by the secret ser vice men was the apprehension of three groups of coun:erfeiters who Iwere issuing fraudulent obligations of the Austro-Hungarian government. t t) g iBROCK~WAY THE "KING OF" COUNTER . FEITERS. Because of the comparative isolation g Iof Hawaii, its large foreign population D and the amount of silver in circula- e tion, it seems that thie coining in- h Idustry has been active there. Chief v -Wilkie of the Secret Service has an- c nounced that arrangements have been a made for the establishirent of a branch p Sof the service at Honolulu, "where in- p dications have pointed to the develop- fi Sment of coining enterrrises and it is Shoped that the contemr lated measures I of suppression may be effective." i Another reason why the past year r Shas been a difficult one with criminals I: ' is~ that there has been an incrcase of I' .co-operation between the police depart- o a Hint 'of the various cities, and gen- t a eral' mprovement in c riminal identl- s i fication and police work. As Richard r a Sylvester, majior and superintendent of r - the police department ur Washington, r ..D. C. and resident of the Interna- c ~ER TO INTRODUCE L1 RANCH OR IN THE WANTS AN t Gentlemen-Please send anoth'r Telscope. MoneY em nfl manyU times the money. y~, aih*o Hw~Tdn'.SUPER!OR TO A Fred Washof awaTs~nd.intarin. Canad... G,,entlei-T hiave just relin d your Tel-coj.. and niu to one whzich we have- hadl, which rost 515.0 some years ago mnore than double what It cost mea. COULD DISCERN BOATS FRC lr. C. M. Medley. of Dualuth. Ml nn.. who purebased oneo ehe expected: that 'with it hie could discern honats on the 1 weathe~r he. culd read the names of steamers and other crua WCRTH MANY TIME r-Mesrs. Kirtland Bros. & ('n. yGentleme-n-t had with me oni my recent Eastern trip observed an Eclipse of the Sun. J.t the Austrian Tyrol it wa ture or beautiful natural scenery. and places that we all should kno Among the beau Yellowstone Park: Swiss Alps; C Var; A Klondyke Camp; Famous I Cathedral. Rotterdam; MIoulin Ro Mexico City; Emperor William I Chickamauga Park; Cotton Planta World's Fair; Holiday Street Parac Well. Pekin, China; 'Lookout Mou the Mississippi: Garden of Gethsem: Capitol at Washington; The Panth at Niagara Falls; David's Judgmer Hundreds of Th for colored pictures. By a special SCOPE AND TWENTY-FOUR B are in every respect the equal of tho Now we come to our the stereoscope and tel First the Stere< aluminum, with patent folding hand ground from best quality glass and i How to get it.sE have none for sale. We are publ: and we GIVE this beautiful crystal and :4 photo-views in natural colk getting subscribers; and boys'and; themsel':es to secure the prcmium. handsomest and best 50-cent magaz printed on fine paper, inofusely illt of the rcrniarkable deve'opment gc country. especilly of the WVest, unde ful opport unities in agricultural, lines awaiting the first comners. cont: of successful men andl women. deligli useful home ieading. fashions. etc.. magazine that will readily find a w in any home. It is published month: ACT AT ONCE and address K. B.-Send~ money av safle w oal Association of Police Chiefs tly said: "If the police forces of ntry today adhered to the metl nd practices of ten years ago old not be prepared to contend'3 icriminal and disorderly clas should not be forgotten that in iod those agents of the people echosen to combat crime must n a ev-er before have a higher int ece, more accurate training, gre rage, both moral and physical er to cope with educated, cle uspected professionals who 1 ceeded the goldbrick man of< toe by. In time the bank bur it his can of powder and drill ien way to the yeggman who toglycerine; the faker who deli the citizens with cheap gold r: agiven place to the "gentlen: - sells cheap gold mines and th d monte has gone over the di n "bucket-shops" and "sure-thil rvail. The charms of rapid life I d uced embezzlers, check-raisers ~rers." t is a fact worth noting that :ig of Counterfeiters is at large, 3 nder surveillance of secret ser 2e. This old and skillful oper Win. E. Brockway, and he live! Y. Ie has done penance for ifnces against the statutes of Fted States, but though now old, ~ reat is he as a maker of countei aey that the secret service: cr lose sight of him. Brockway ke money which any banker in ntry would aceept as genuine. OUR NEW EX( CHOOL. ATlscebr HER. a. rv A e. Other was a bargain, good as ib'rum rnt 15 G LASS. nysa it surpasses4 alt exp'tations. Jt is far tup~ Just afewsights I have se!-n with it are- w MFIVE TO TEN MILES. ee Telec-eope<. says they are superior to anytl Gr'at L-akes at a dlistance of 5 to 10 miles, and inc t t a distance of crce-half mile away. STHE PRICE. The Saxon, New York, No'r. , 1905 om of your Excelsior solar Telescopes, with wh. ismlost 80 per cent. concealed. Your Solar Eye; e. cae ofTlecopsaa nd about elipses ~Around ti in 60 1 Laughal exciting - land-A absorbir beautift tal lens ALMO Hundreds of .4' vantage of decidedly inti Mfagnificently photo view~s in A most pleasa an hourjor p o great and incidents a and instruction photograph in These views places -n the v and other famoi vworld's most fa 'I' interest and pl: T~h,; et s o grat eduatinalvalue, presenting, as it i w about. tiful scenes from every band, a n Board a Russian 'Man-of- of President Diaz's Palace, Verry Depot, San Francisco; Royal Gardens, Dresden (ver uge Paris; Street Scene, fort; Moerro Castle, Havana; ,. Inspecting a Regiment; Street Scene, Cairo, Egypt; tion; On the Pike at the Japanese Royal Garden; Ice e in Havana, Cuba; Public besides comic, sentimental ntain; Steamboat Scene on nature. These are genuine ine, Palestine: The National in a most artistic manner, b H eon-at Rome; Luna Island a magnineent depth of deta t Seat, Jerusalem; Interior true to life. of people have spent many pleasant 'hours DuSandS they were compelled to pay enormous pri irrangement with the manufacturers we are able to offer the. EAUTIFUL COLORED VIEWS at the former cost of a si ;e formerly sold at 50 cents each and stereoscope at g. great specia offer. Read our pan c Is how to secue the scope and views at The Stereoscope is our world-famous "Alu )scope Genuine aluminum hood, bound with dar le. The lenses are extra fine quality, selected for clearness ar :arefully adjusted. are not in the business of ,LING steroscopes, and r Gard Dr e ei shers of P POReNITY, for; porro a e H lens, Saluminum stereoscope ne. se a genuine irs onlesie Th premiona inamstatstcmnnrr ineainAmercae. 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Tea mybte DN'Tn sento chek onppourt localhereank. > . hey gra'dually lotatdutlt est tra vr> ha Teaiehe Steraithen, srnda, les tov say, reflcte adse frothi aboint surfa ses. ofirtonvergenue toreiouscy tHere wst glar indeeda uniheygi escibdperieh air rm ra c aesd tewhle goearh fro en aoedbat tses vancihe inoe then pthethetmos stua '~rd ght heyradnsua id co tracte util soeues ings hadregclainteris of ualyan less an" ro when icahl they ad me fothaboutWh re- ea nqeexeine Tent. hr vde ofte glbeden thephemsu- thend igs" dulations, this mighty incident at theao tave Krakatoa has taught us other lessons man* and on the constitution of our atmosphere. this We previously knew little, or I might the ~ the almost say nothing, as to the condi- plt but tions prevailing above the height of days. vice ten miles overhead. We were almost ator altogether ignorant of what the wind IIn in might be at an altitude of, say, twenty menai his miles. Krakatoa drove into those Iment the winds prodigious quantities of dust. becan yet hundreds of cubic miles or air were mnusic feit thus deprived of that invisibility slowe men which they had hitherto maintained. appre can With eyes full of astonishment, men were the watched those vast voluimes of Kraka- eernet toa dust start on a tremendous .iour- der at ELSIOR SOLAR TELESI gs new brain cells into play, opens up new avenues of though is agreat thi.' Its value to ine on this occasion wa mn. tirnes gi st- -Thnnsands of otho-s ar emvine good thInges about thyse Telesco ways it n ii repay h6 ost ahunldred tun,'oser. Get onead try it. rior SECURE THIS TELESCC AND TAKE A LOOK AT OLD SOI iing lterr bfor,. ,old on any Telescope for less than $5.00 or $11 teatr sow is, aeance to seenre one for $1.00. Tii Eye-piee alone is. worth more than we charge for the entir who wish to Biehold the' Son in it. Tranqail Beauty. Removeihe sol and you have a good, practical telelccope for land ob.servaIons. A Y c KIRTLAND BROS & CO., Dept. ie world nimnutes ale, interesting ind scenes from every set of views of kg interert an aluminum, Crys stereoscope for ST NOTHING people ae daily taking ad our very liberal and restlng offer. finished and exquisitely colored place of the antiquated old-timers. nt and interesting way to spend eying around the globe. viewing !st interest, most beautiful scenery nd sights of travel. Fun, interest combined. Every view an actual natural colors, an effect never be :cepting at many times the cost. illustrate some of the most noted or!d-mountain scenery, waterfalls is natural phenomena-some of the nous buildings, places of historical ices famous for beautiful architec. loes, realistic likenesses of scenes re the following: Mexico; Ostrich Farm. Egypt; y beautiful); Palm Garden, Frank Tomb of Gen. Grant. New York; Street Scene in Venice. Italy; Cave at -agara Falls, etc., etc., and int ,:sting views of everv )leo Stereoscopic Views, executed eing a combination process, giving I and splendid color reproduction with the stereoscope, but heretofore es for views, as high as 50c. each ENTIRE OUTFIT OF STEREO ngle view. And mind, these views arefully as it describes almost no cost to you. minum Crystal Lens" Stereoscope. c rich red velvet. Frame is also d brilliancy, 1% inches in diameter, I send this beautiful Stereoscope colored views as premium, all will secure and send us .h, and 10c. for postage-41.60 in all, or ch and 35c. additional-1.35 in all; :1 50c. additional-$1.00 in all. that of some one other than the N OUTFIT AS GOOD AS THIS SBOUGHT FOR A CENT LESS ample copy to get these subscrip 'rite and we will send it by return ery family can possess one of these we will tell you how you can get ye thousands of subjects to select >rn St. Chicago. Westward the dust of Krakatoa its way. Before the occurrence it eruption no one had the slight ispicion that far up aloft, twenty over our heads, a mighty tempestI cessantly hurrying with a speed greater than that of the awful mane which once laid so large a of Calcutta on the ground and so many of its inhabitants. For ely for humanity, this new e-wind" does not come within han twenty miles of the earth's :e. We are thus preserved from earful destruction that its unin ttent blasts would produce against which no tree could and which would, in ten min do as much damage to a city as the most violent earthquake. .this great wind had become ed with the dust of Krakatoa, for the first and, I may add, for 11y time, it stood revealed to hu vision. Then it was seen that vind circled round the earth in icinity of the equator and com its circuit in about tnirteen some violin experiments in a ;erie the influence of the instru was greatest on the puma, which te much excited when lively was played, but was soothed by r melodies. Wolves showed an ~iative interest, !!ons and hyenas terrified, leopards were uncon I. while monkeys stared in won the performer. iME THE WONDER JUFEL. OF THE ABE. t and broadens the scope of the mind. eater than the entire outlay or :h Telsope pea Inumserous (.1 o-eBCks, PatenIC AAplied For. ldress A.. M. 90 CHAMBERS SREET, N. Y.