Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THAT CARLOAD OF Mares and Rock Hill Buggies IS HERE. I can please you both in price and quality. During the remainder of the' mule season I will have a full supply of - - - - HQRSE. and MULES at Ridgeway, S. C., with Mr. T. C. Boozer, who will be glad to see you and do some business with you. D. A. Crawford. See me before selling your Peas,'either in small or large quantities. BANK OF FAIRFIELD WINNSBORO, S. C. CAPITAL., $50,000 Organized and Began Business February ist, i9o6. Young, but very healthy and growing rapidly; bring your business hereand grow with us. If you have noney to deposit, we will be pleased to take proper care of it for you. If you want to borrow money, we'will be equally as well pleased to talk the mattec over with you and always hold ourselvesin readiness to extend"every accommodation and courtesy consistent with'sound banking principles. Wejpay interest on deposits In our Savings Department at 4 Per centiper Annum. w. R. RABB, J. M. JENNINGS, President; Cashier. T. w. TRAYLOR, -HUGH S. WYL TE, Vice-President Teller. *Don't You Need3 ~' A small Gasoline Engine and Wood 6 *Saw to cut your Winter Wood?- - * The Engine is a nice thing to run well U too. Cuff ie has gotten above this sort 6 * of work now, you know. - - - g * Drop us a card and we will do -the H * rest. - - - - gW. 0. McKeo.wn & Sons, Cornwells, S. C. U Xmas Good s FOR LIVE MERCHANTS. SF IR EWOR K S! Our descriptive wholesale price list of Fire works, consisting of Colored Roman Candles, Colored Sky Riockets, Whistling Rockets, Sa lutes or Cannon Crackers, Japanese Torpedoes, Fire Crackers, etc. is now ready, and may be had for the asking, or will be mailed free on application. - - - - - 1FRUITS! FRUITS!! FRUITS!!! FRUITS!!!! We are also extensive dealert in London Layers Raisins, Seeded Raisins, Currants, Citron, Mince Meat, Mixed Nuts Almonds, Walnuts, Pecans, Butter Nuts, Candies, Califor * nia Prunes, Evaporated Apples and Peaches, and other fine-Groceries for Christmas sand the Holiday trade. Write us today for prices on Fire Works to burn, and Good Things.to Eat. LORICK & LOWRANCE, Inc., Wholesa Grocers. -:- Columbia, S. C.a IN THE PERSIAN DESERT. 'urious Way In Which Water Is Pro cured For Yezd. Almost in the center of Persia lies Eezd, a city of perhaps 40,000 people, >n the great caravan route. It is a city )f the desert, says the author of "Five Eears In a Persian Town," but how :omplete that desert is and how large t is hard to realize. In going from the Caspian sea to Eezd one sees a strip of green country lhirty miles wide along the sea and mother twenty miles in diameter ound Teheran. Aside from that there s nothing but waste. The desert in Persia, however, is of nany kinds. There are places where the ground is absolutely bare except 'or the thick crusts of salt that lie ike snowdrifts, streaking the plain In very direction.. There are also places qually salt where the proximity of a ertain amount of- useless water 'pro luces a larger quantity of plant life than in the ordinary desert. For the rest there is a vast waste of sandy patches and of gravelly soil, fertile nough when water can be brought to t, sometimes flecked with dry, brown ish shrubs, sometimes quite bare. Two desert plants never touch one nother. In the most favorable places two very tiny shrubs may be found)V within twd yards -.of each other, but with *a sigle exception one does not see on the central Persian caravan route a place away from the hills with enough natural growth to modify the color of the distance. Even in the oases no seed comes up that is not purposely sown; no plant seems to have any association with the rest. One fixes the eye on each of them individually as upon a single unit, not as on a part of a field or a garden. The water for these oases is brought by the mosti difficult means imagina ble. It is found in abundance at the foot of the mountains, perhaps 300 feet underground. When a well has been sunk and plenty of water found a hunt is made for the nearest place in the desert which is lower than wa ter level in the well. Such a spot is Yezd. thirty miles from the sources which ,water -it. In a line with that place other wells are sunk thirty or forty yards.apart, each shallower than the one before, and then from the se Icted,site a tunnel is run in to the first. pit, from that to the second, and so on back to the-wells, even though they be forty miles a-way. Through this un erground-channel flows the life giving water. Sometinx-s it happens that a sudden ard rain jfalls in this desert country. [t brings jmany disasters, for the sun baked mad roofs of the dwellings are aaved In, itheir walls ane washed away, [nd other damage is done them. But, worst of' all, too much water washes 3 ut andtcaves tin these "Quanat" chan nels, and until\they are again dug out no watericomesAto town. It has happened at Yezd that a single ainy day, the water from which had dried away-orsunk into the ground be fore the nexte sunrise, has, by fillingU the hannels, caused a water famine* n the-city forithree months. KingBShers as Weathercocksf. - There is a very quaint old world superstition In connection with the? kdngfisher, which I fancy still obtainsW bere and there iniremote parts of theU countryside. The superstition is this: If a stuffed.or dried kingfisher be sus pended by a thread or string from the beam or ceiling of a room its breast will always tur.in the direction of the prevailing wind. How the notion first arose and how, Inithe light of common sense and inquiry, it has been so longN perpetuated It is 'hard to say, but it has long existed and still exists. I have a clear recollection as a young ster of going into a humble cottage in the shires and seeing a stuffed king-* fisher thus suspended as a weatherg vane-Country Life. -Japanese Finger Napkins. The Japanese have a picturesque Im provement on finger bowls. At the" conclusion of the repast a tiny basket, 0 woven of exquisite straw and in orna-3 mental design. is placed before each* guest. This basket contains a filmy, satiny, paper napkin, printed with ap-U pe blossoms, chrysanthemums, Irises or some other attractive design, andm twisted lightly Into a flower-like shapeU Before '-ring placea. in the basket the napkin has bosn slightly dampened with perfumed water. the scent cor responding with the design, and this napkin~ the guest uses Instead of dip ping the hands in water. Charles V. Liked Mechanics. Charles V. of Spain, like Louis XVI. of France, was particularly fond of timepieces and had a decided taste for - mechanics. When in Germany he In vented a carriage for his own accom modation, and after his abdication he would amuse himself in -making little puppets-soldiers performing their ex ercises, girls dancing with their tam bourines and little wooden birds that would fy in and out of the window. V A Reasonable Request,.. "Pa, Uncle James has given me his Os steamer trunk." i "Well, what of it?" "Now, pa, don't be peevish. Couldn't S you give me a trip to Europe to sort of to cund out Uncle James' present?"-th ERouston Chronicle. Too Late. "And you didn't propose to her?" I "Why?" "I was leading up to It, but suddenly g11 noted that her voice had a sort of pre riious engagement ring."-Smart Set Circumstances are beyond the con trol of man, but his conduct Is in his ,wn power.-Beaumont. )f course you pay your money. r But you get your money's worth, - foor what does money mean to you When Rocky Mountain Tea's on eat?Jno. H. McMaster & Co. D fer You must desire to improve . rour heart, and so become good. ou must desire to improve your iead, and so become well-inform But you must desire first to >eome good. That is the fir.t nd great end of life. That is what ?cod sent you into this world for. -harles Kingsley. EVIL EYE CHARMS. The True Italian Talisrnan Is In the Shape of a Tiny Hlazd. In Italy the aristocracy still protects :tself from the evil eye. and the multi tude is still devoted to the little evil eye charms to secure immunity from disaster. The true evil eye charm of the Ital ians is in the shape of a tiny band, the index and the little finger being point ed out and the third aid fourth fingers being held down by the thumb. The charm, however, is merely a represen tation of the way in , hicli the Italizn holds his hand. When pointed outward he wishes to cast the evil eye on an enemy, or when turned toward himself he thinks to protect himself from its malicious spell. This little charm can be bought in Italy of various materials. coral, tor toise shell, silver and gold being the ones in highest favor. The coral chaims are those worn by the poorer classes, since of a cheap grade of the material they can be bought for a few sous. Naturally the aristocracy prefer them of gold. In Italian money these tiny things then cost the equivalent of about $S. Sometimes they are seen exquisitely modeled, the fingers and nails being as carefully ch!seled as marble statues. Another small hand that the Italian wears as a charm is known as the Manus Panthea, a facsimile of which is to be found in the museum In Rome. It Is referred to in varigus Egyptian papyri, and indeed was worn by the ancients to prevent disease and witch craft and the evil eye from taking hold of them and to induce love and amia bility. This hand has the thumb, the index and the middle fingers held out in a straight line, while the other two are turned under toward the palm of the hauid. Instead of being smooth on its outer surface, as Is the evil eye hand. it Is covered with many mystical sym bols-a tooth. a serpent, and so on. Each of these litte signs has Its pe culiar charm and Is as well understood and heeded among the Italians today as formerly among the Egyptian magi clans. The third small hand which' the Ital ians wear for their supposed good Is the so balled Manus Pontificous, or the hand of the Holy Father. It shows the four fingers held out closely together, and the thumb alone is curved under the palm of the hand. As the Manus Panthea, It Is covered on the outside with mystical symbols. - Washington Star. FOIBLES OF LITERARY MEN. Keats liked red pepper on his toast. Dickens was fond of wearing Jew elry. Daudet wore his eyeglasses when asleep. Joaquin Miller nails all his chairs to the wall. Hawthorne always washed his hands before reading a letter from his wife. Alexandre Dumas the younger bought a new painting every time he had a new book published. Thackeray used to lift his hat when ever he passed the house in which he wrote "Vanity Fair." Robert Browning could not sit still. With the constant shuffling of his feet holes were worn in the carpet. Robert Louis Stevenson's favorite recreation was playing the flute in or der. as he said, to tune up his ideas. Darwin had no respect for books and would cut a big volume in two for con venience in handling, or he would tear out the leaves he required for refer ence, No Sweethearting In Ireland. Through a great part of Ireland pub ic opinion, molded by the clergy, sepa rates the sexes as far as possible. At the church door and wherever else they congregate men group on one side, wo men on the other. It Is not well thought of for people of opposite sexes to be seen walking along the road to gether even to a market. The position certainly of some ecclesiastics has - been made definite by the refusal of certain bishops to allow "mixed class es" in branches of the Gaelic league. On the whole, public opinion discour ages whatever gan be justly or even unjustly set down as sweethearting. Edinburgh Review. The Extinct Mamo. Perhaps the most notable native bird of the Sandwich Islands was the ma mo, which has been extinct compara tively only a few years. It had two little tufts of yellow feathers on Its wings, which were used exclusively in the manufacture of cloaks worn by the kings of those islands. The estimated value of one of the cloaks is ?200,000, and it took an almost indefinite num ber of birds to furnish the feathers. London Times. Thunder and Lightning. -Here is a Georgia youngster's defini tion of thunder and lightning: "The thunder is maw readin' a lec ture to paw, an' the lightnin' is.paw runnin' to git away from It. But I doubt if lightnin' kin beat him when he jumps the garden fence an' hits the gritl"-Atlanta Constitution. All In the Point of View. "It seems a terrible thing>to lead a dog's lif-e," panted the cur with the tin can attachment, crawlinglinto a co;' nr to rest himself. "Oh, I don't know!" contentedly an swered the. lap dog.-Chicago Tribune.. Self Esteem. Druggist-Flub! You seem to thinkr, you are the boss of this establishment, New Clerk-Oh, no, sir. Druggist Then why do you talk like -a blooming idot?-Exchange. The relief of Coughs and Colds through laxative influence, originated with Bee's Laxative Cough Syrup con taining Honey and Tar, a cough syrup containing no opiates or poisons, which is extensively sold. Secure a bottle at oce, obtain a guarantee coupon, and if not fully sat islied with results, your money will be refunded. Sold by Me Master Co's. drug store. Shop early. It means bigger stocks to select from, as well ns1 as evidence of the usual rush that prevails during the last few days 4 Anouthe;r To Emphasi2 that this is t] come. for youi WEDDING d CHRIST 4 Cut Glass and Fine' great variety. 4 ents for tIl fastidi( 2w00 For Sant Toys for all the boys field County. Fire dance to liven things Nothing lacking for' the old. -= All at prices it look like v Prese JNO. H. McMASTEEJ *EOEOE,EsesE@Isme 5PER CENT I N j NOV THI W"E F U *' TH E= A EEK = BEGINNING = NO\ ring to the overcrowded candition of our stock and tc ty goods we have ordered and now in transit, we are:i E, to move the goods Quickly. You know our met; everybody-every article marked in plain figures and n the houses who sell goods on ti e installment plan addition to our already exceed ;ly low prices, we propose tod -e 3ou 15 per cent. This Week. : you ever hear of such an of- 'This beautiful B at this season of the year? .e 225 heavs an ce t before the Holidays. $22.50 le1 prce E. M. ANDREWS I 1409 MVain~ Street, C THE STORE THAT SAN ;e the fact: Iie place to: 4 = = 'RESE2NTS.5 I'oilet Articles in ;uitable pres= ie most . >Us. aClaus. and girls in Fair works in atbun= ; up. ! I! the young and for: =e that makesE le are. giv= nts. * ( & COMPANY. ~e "RECEDENTED EMBER SA LE OF ~N IT URE AT NDREWS - STORE. EMAER = THE = 24th. imake room for the thousands of pieces of hol ~orced to inaugurate a GREAT CUT PRICE od of doing business-strictly one low price . the prices always from 25 to 35 per cent lower can afford to do business. SIn addition to our Already ex ceedingly low prices we propose to give you 15 per cent. ~'*'- ] This Week. ass Bed. Every article in the store will be ~rong. PriceI >ffered in this sale, including t. $3.37. Staple Goods. :7othing reserved ~URNITURE CO., OLU MBE3A, S. C. ES YOU MONEY.