Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Giving Presents that are both Ornamenta Usef ul Is what every one seeks to do, and this Happy Cmbination you will fin in the offerings here. = = = = BIGEST + STOCK to sele c from tis Christmas and at the VERY LOWEST PRICES. Inspect our = = China and, Gl1assware which contain many lovely arti= cles for Chr istmas presents. Chocolate S e i s, After=Dinner Coffees, Salad Bowls, Vases. One solid case of Japanese Vases-that are beauties. = = = A number of Toilet Sets at spe= cially attractive prices. = See our fine Lamps and Electric Lamps; make beautiful presents sure. J. W. S EIGLER. IJ. L. MIMNAUGH & CO. GREAT Departmient Store COL.UM BIA, S. C. Our Laie' aored Suit Department is one of t!.e.very 2 DEPARtTNENTS of our Mam moth Sto:.. We sao pains or expense in putting in a comaplete U~ to-aas aw Ladies' and Misses' Suits and Cloaks, Handsome~ T,Lilor~ S:. irtwai:sts, Silk Petticoats, Handsome Evening G'.vms a':d 0) raraps; also Rich Robes for balls and evening wear and T ~ ~ irts. Oar litne of IR'~: is unsurpassed for style, quality and specialva. .We emf oi a c :r (ba .'encedtailoresses to make necessary Salterationsi in gentieu s ! of us and will guarantee a per fect fit. Our Carpet Department is the largest in Columbia and second to none in the State. Our line comprises the best makes of Brussels, Yelvet and Ingrain Car pets. Fibre, China and Japanese Matting, Lace and Portiere Cur tains, Window Shades. All the different makes and sizes in Rugs. A great showing of the best Oilcloths, Curtain Poles and Fixtures in fact everytbing that is carried in an Up-to-date Carpet Store. Window Shade s made to special measurement at short notice. Send in your orders and we will gladly give you estimates. We show great 'alues of the Best Goods in all other aepart ments, such as MIELINERY, DRESS GOODS, SHOES, LINEN and WHITE GOODS, CLOTHING, HOSIERY, BLANKETS and DOMESTICS. A Great China, Glass and Crockery= ware Department. We show in this Department a wonderful array of beautiful Glassware, Crockeryware, Chinaware and Kitchenware, Lamps, Pictures, Plated Silver Tableware, Table Cutlery, fine open stock French China Dinner Sets, plain white or decorated. Hotel and Boarding House Crockery in great va.riety. We show wo;nderful values in this Department. Mail Orders Receive Our Prompt Attention. Lever i Shoe Man 16:3 Main St., comU w mA, s. c.g # ) 0IJMEN's FALL SHOES ~-V N->tiae the new feaitures in lhe style ' L)f W.> n..n's Shws? The r.ew S'ioes 1di.i1iies. The n ow last avoid all m: ranee of chnsiness. A oa -E bejust as comifortable in a trimi lo in shoe:as in a eliunsy one. * VWe' re show ing some of the prettiest W\mXn?'s She ever mainufactured. IOur Shoes at $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 are eerLtinly m->dels of style andt ~beauty. These Shoes are worth e>ming miles to see. LEVE R The Shoe Man. rnOK TO US EOR NEW THINGS. A LAND OF BLIZZARDS N THE FIERCE GALES THAT SWEEP AND WRECK SEISTAN. t These Terrific Windstorms Always Blow, as They Have Done For Ages, From the Same Direction-A Pan demonium of Noise, Sand and Daut. the~ Every one who has visited Seistan or vis .written about Seistan has mentioned of' its celebrated wind, called the -bad-i- of sad-o-bist roz," or wind of 120 days, i Anl which blows in the summer. Few of Bo these have had the misfortune to ex- da: perience it, but as we went through D two seasons of this vind we are able Ma to say something about it. It mire St atI than justifies its re;utation. It Sets in tl at the end of 'May or the middle of Soi June and blows with appalling vio- Co: lence and with little or no cessation till De, about the end of September. It always Col blows from one direction, a little west . of north, and reaches a velocity of s more than seventy miles an hur. It a creates a pandemonium of noise, sand oa and dust and for a time gets on one's an nerves, but it is In reality a blessing in bof disguise, for it blows away the insects oth which from April to Juie make life in Coi Seistan a perfect purgatory, mitigates ed the awful summer heat and clears the no country of typhus, smlallpox and other s diseases rife in the country In Mlay and tl as I June. One would think this 120 day to wind enough, but violent winds prevail for all through the winter from December esa to April, and blizzards are of constant wit occurrence. These winds always come ter, from the same direction. The winter Sal blizzards are terrible, and the wind at- So tains a terrific velocity. In a blizzard at the end of 'March the anemometers registered a maximum of 120 miles an Cai hour. The average velocity for a whole the sixteen hours was more than eighty- in I eight miles an hour. lest The extraordinary frequency and vio- toil lence of the Seistan wind and the reg. A ularity with which it blows from the ren same quarzer are very remarkable. an That it has blown from the same quar- cou ter in past ages is proved by the fact con that all the ruins of Seistan are built wa at the same angle, with their front and nes back walls at a right angle to the wind and their side walls at the same angle as the wind. No wind can blow with sich violence and frequency without leaving its mark on the coun try. Its effects are everywhere visible n Seistan. Everything looks wind swept and wind stricken. Over the greater part of the country not a single tree exists. The present villages and habitations are all built with their backs present ing lines of dead walls on the wind- - ard side. The old ruins are oriented at eactly the same angle on account of the wind. The effect of wind is ev erywhere visible on these ruins. Their bases are undercut by wind as though No by water action. The thickness of the S wails, the excellent quality of the burned bricks made and used by the C acient inhabitants for the lower ) ourses of their buildings and the ex- tha remie hardness and durability of the to t Sei.tan soil when made into the sun tr ried bricks of whic-h the ,pper por- rets ions of the ruins are composed, have L ithstood the destructive effect of the Sut ind in a wonderful manner, but in the the older ruins we often find that the vie walls facing the wind have entirely the isappeared, and only the side walls re- fle ain, while in still older ruins only Ser ne or two solitary pinnacles remain to in ark what were once large, massive nd extensive buildings. .190~ The wind has b::ri.ed large tracts of and the country under sand. Many of the of t old ruined towns are wholly or partly said uried in sand, and this burying process the oes on all the : sar and every year and beel s cover:, io p not only valuable lands, but inhabited villages. In Seistan, as elsewhere, the Invading army of sand s preceded by lines of skirmishers in the for>n of traveling "burkhans," orseshoe shaped sand hills, which steadily advance until they meet some bstacle which retards them until the reserves come up to their support and bury all before them under hills of sand. On our arrival in Seistan we found lanau, a big and flourishing village, buIlt on the south side of a high ridge -- for protection from the wind. Before e left the sand had attacked thatT rIdge, surmounted it and buried theL village, forcing the inhabitants to buildU new village elsewhere. An example f still greater rapidity was afforded t the village of Kilaikohna. Up to June, 1904, this village had a large, dcclp pond on its northern side. By September-that is, less than three months-this deep pond was converted into a sand hill some ten fea.t high. The wind, however, did not confiner its energy to burying only. While It overs some tracts deep in sand, it also 5 sweeps other tracts clear of sand, ren dering valuable land available for cul tivation and exposing long buried ruins n more to view. These are, how ever, only the,milder effects of wind action. The Seistan wind. in its more destructive moods has in places re moved not only sand from place to ' place, but has scoured away the whole face, of the country. Everywhere we find the si,es and banks of the canals which irrigated the lands en which the a wellers of the old ruins depended left J standing like walls high above the pres ent surface of the surrounding land. These banks, having been hardened by water, have withstood the action of the wind better than the surface of the land, which has all been blown awaya to a depth of several feet. This depth in places is very considerable, and we b in~d the oulnsexposed of still older canals which existed at some yet ear- 12 ier age and which must have been A buried deep in the ground when the canals above them, old as they are, were an use.---Geographical Journal. The idle always have half a mind to d do something. Long Tennessee Fight. For twenty years W. L. Rawls, of B3ells, Tenn., fought nesal catarrh. He writes: "The swel in and soreness inside my nose was fearal, till I began applin - Bucklen's Arnica Salve to the sore surface; this caused tIh e soreness and swelling ty disap pear, -never to return." Bestjce savei existence. 25e at Jno. H.'a Mcste & Co.'s. druggists. M OTICE OF APPLICA TION. tice of Application for Charter of he South Carolina Pulpik; Servive orporation, which if grante,l will 'onfer among other thin,gs, Power .o Condemn Lands and other Prop rty for all Corporate Purposes. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,' Lt under and ptirsunt to the pro ion of Article IV., Chapter XL1II1., volume 1., Code of Laws of the State South Carolina, 1902, and Acts iendatory thereto, the Undershned %rd of Corporators will on Wednes the sixteenth day of January, A. 1907, at 12 o',lock M. of that day, ke application to the Secretary of te, of the State of South Carolina, is office in the City of Columbia, in said State, for a charter for the :TH CARoLxA PUBLIC Savic1E tPORATION, ill pursiane of the :laration heretofore filed and the nm1ission issued. f the said Charter be granted, the 1 Corporation will be authorized I empowered to condemn lands and er property for its proposed Rail d or Railway tracks and stations, I landings for its proposed Steam t business or system, and for all er corporate purposes of the said -poration, as fully set forth and stat n the said Declaration and Petition V on file in the said oflIce of the ,retary of State, to which Declara 1, reference is hereby specially made part of this notice, and proposes ondemn lands and other property all of its corporate purposes, if netc Lry in the following counties, to Charleston, Berkeley, Dorche. Orangeburg, Richland, Lexington, da, Greenwood, Abbeville, Ander Greenville, Spartanburg, Chero York, Chester, Fairfield, Union, wberry, Laurens, Aiken, Colleton I Bamberg. in the State of South olina, and Mecklenburg County in State of North Carolina; and a:so ne following towns and cities: Char on, Orangeburg, Columbia, Lexing Saluda, Greenwood, Abbeville, derson, Greenville, Gaffney, York e, Rock Hill, Chester, Union, Lau 3, Newberry, Aiken and Bamberg, i other cities and towns in the uties above mentioned, and to own, struct, equip, and operate a Rail 7 or Railway system for local busi 5, within the said towns and cities Joseph J. Tirnmes, - J. C. LaVin,. Joseph A. Bill, George Fleck. Jr., John P. Bonney, Chas. R. Van Etten, John F. Timmes, John C. Lott, Joseph A. Craig, Sol Kohn, Robert H. Jennings, Lawrence M. Pinckney. Board of Corporators. >ENING OF BOOKS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ice of the Opening of the Books of ibsiription to the Capital Stock of e South Carolina Public Service orporation. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, t y virtue of a Commission issued be undersigned Board of Corpora by the Hon. Jesse T. Gantt, See ,ry of State. for the State of South olina, and dated the nineteenth (19) lay of Novembuer, 1906, Books ,of scription to the Capital Stock ofI SOUTH CAROLINA PUBtic SEa E CORPORATION will be opened, by undersigned Corporators, at the of of the said South Carolina Public vice Corporation, Edisto Butlding he city of Orangeburg, State of~ th Carolina, on Wednesday, the h, (9) tb. day of January, A. D. , at 10 o'clock a. m. of that day, will be kept open until the whole be Capitr.1 Stock, as provided in .Commission, or a sufficient part eof as required by law shall have 1subscribed. November 22nd., 1906. JToseph J. Timnmes, J. C. La Vin," Joseph A. Bill, George Fleck, Jr., John P. Bonney, Chas. RI. Van Etten, John F. Tinmmes, John C. Lott, Joseph A. Craig, Sol Kohn, Robert H. Jennings, Lawrence M. Pinckney, Board of Corporators. FA RM I sor Sale We are offering r sale at a rea= e )able price 91 res in the Lower' ork of Lexington ounty, not far -om Columbia; 45 cres in timber, a lain ce open. ine land. Fr irther particu= rs and price, adi ress, Walker, taven!& Co~ 1323 Main Street, olumbia, S. C Dade's Little Liver Pills thoroughly ,an the system, good for lazy livers, ikes clear complexions, brigh t eyes5 d happy thoughts. Sold by .Mc aser 1nrug Co. i have, you know how mean you feel itless swipe at the horse hide and it on you. Just so we feel when isiness and have you call a re missed, a good many w we are at the bat ZISTMAS TRADE. ' :ount of short crops we are going to did for Christmas. Get ready to a nice - - - , Dresser, Iron Bed, Wash be Wernicke, Book Case, pair of Springs, Mattress= e Frames, Sewing Mach Taberette, Dining Table., oking Stove and all that ;e things in Endless es. When you >wn, make place >u our line and fit ie game of EPING. ~d, Upholstering done in lachines and Stoves re-=g I on the "Old Reliable." A Specialty. Creditors.I For Sale. bted to the estate 100 acres of land, one mile from G. Douglas, wil Winnsboro. Dwelling, barn, out o the undersined. h.auses, well and springs. 40 acres uni clims against said de(t.r wiie. Also a parcel of 40 acre same~ duly attested. about one-half mile from winnsboro. CDOUGiLASS, Aply. .o WV. D. DOUGL AS, )UG LASS,i7t A itorney, s Notice. I Notice to Creditors. Shu.nting and trap- All person~s havin claims against ands owned by Joe o th Estate of E. T. Gyden, deceased, ive due notice tha~t Iwill present the same, duly attested, to or .trapping on saidd. the-undersigned at wirsboro7S. C. with to the full ex- i If not presented within the time re T. . HYNE. quired by law they will not be pad. -~ -----Administrator of the Estate- of E. T. s Notice. Gayden, deceased. re warned not toFO imber, or permit to come on any Sowned or con-CH R S M ! undersigned, or way: ~All tres roseuted. ~CA M. STEELE. Toys, Novelties, - ~llr Musical Instruments. AND TORNADO1 HOLDING A~ OP1Isra:- Fine Lamps, WITH Candies, Nuts, RTFORD, RANCE CO. Fruits 2i America ,.. TiE3NiX. ed-Atlo2TiS ith gars4 and n either of the aLbove TobaCCOS. Suretyv Bocd:-s wit -an Surety Ceir~any MER, Agn,R. A. BUCHANAN. FurniturE for Ch Did you ever play Base Ball? if yot when you make a violent, but fri have the Umpire call a strike ot -.ie make the effort at your bi strike on us. A few , we did not, and no 7FOR YOUR CHI We mean to make good, and on aci make a better strike than we ever pitch us your trade. You will need 3 piece suite of Furniture Stand, Toilet Table, Glo Wardrobe, Table, Rocker, es, a few Pictures, Pictur ine,' Washing Machines, Chiffonier, Heater and Co goes with it. - - We have all of thec Styles and Pric come to t< our YOUR HEiA i and let us show y< you for thl P urniture neatly repaire Slatest styles. Sewing A paired at our shop. Cal 0l Undertaking The Little Store Notice to All persons ind of the late Dr. TJ make payment1 )n the Corner~ 'miapsn C. H.D( the place to get yourl Trespas novelties. I have leased th ping rights on~ the XVh y Davis and hereby W y .allipersons huntin lands will be dealt t.:ut of the law. Because you can get 114 hem cheap. Other things T#res :as ~esides novelties i; beha t the same p~ac. . All persons d see; it c'.sts nomm1: huut, fish, cut o fird c-1t. their live stock part of the lan e yp r troled by the i 2. LANGL-~~ trespass in any passers will be All peisons are waruta not to ut, fish, cut timber, or penmi AGISTFR heir live stock to come on any ~\NTHl )art of the 1:ind owned or col 1ISKS mW rolled by the undersigned, or PLI rspss in any wa.y All tres i ascrs will he prosecute'i.T E R UG HIS. W YLlE, THH 1- 27-4t T HE !NSL. Expert Cleaning. of Nort -- THE F Ladies' and Gents' Garmntts earjed. pressed, dyed and 19- An ol fire-ts paired on short notice and made amy o look as good as new. Charges winl write you Icording to condition of work. three companul~is. ive me a trial and vou wji be tn iiiTh Awi pleased. -.~w ok J. W. ROSBORLOUGH, NW.PL At Cathcart's Stable. - .W A 11-7-i Ridge'