Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, May 16, 1900, Image 1

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THE N?TlONRL BANK OF ???SUSf fi L. C. HAYNS, r^XF.-G.iTOfcb, Caanler. Capital, $850,000. Undivided JTroflia } $110,000. Facilities of our ma%nlflc?nt NOT Vault [coninir.inp 410 >afety-Lock Boxea. Differ ent Stze'j are offered to our patrons and the public at $3.00 to S10.C0('i>or annum. PLANTERS LOAN AND 'SAVINGS Pays Intorost on Deposits. Acconm-s Solicited. L. C. HATXX, President. W. C. WA EDI, AW, Cashier. TROS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR EDGEFIELD, & C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1900. VOL. LXV. NO. 20. A DAY WE If we sit down at sut of sun. ?nd count thu things that we have dono, And counting And One self-denying net. ono word That eased tho heart of him who heard ; One glanco most kind, ,/? That fell like sunshine whore it wen* w * Then 'wo may count tho day well spent. I THE S?L?INGJF^ t t A Long-Delai "?Miiiing men, assayers and the like I .will? deride and boot at yon if you I . imiMly hintto them that-theirs is a "very "romantic" business, with its big chances pro and con, its lack of cut and-driedness, and so on. And they maybe in-tho^right.for all one knows. Birt tEere was one case wherein ro mance, mining and asr.&y>.ig made a ?very homogeneoas mix-that of the great "Esperanza Gold Mines, Lim ?e&,'y*rnw which tho principal actors were. Mr. John Simpson, assayer and ore buyes, and P^?ghnrd Hadley-Benton, M. P.v'represent.ng an English bor oughnnd. something like a quarter of a rx?ltion pounds sterling, which, on ibis say-so, was invested in the. "Es peranza." * The thing had its commencement many years ago in England, and, as a matter of coarse, is traceable to ? woman. But, strange to say, this vornan was worthy of having things iiappen on her account. She was love ly Aileen Butler, the Irish beauty, who _ took London by. Storni the- very year thal .young Duncan DudLy and his chum; -Hadley-Benton, left ' Oxford. And with Miss Butler both these .?vontg men proceeded to fall violently in love, upon dist sight of her. Th s in spite of the fact that far older and richer men -wore already at her feet, ( . and she ' could even have married a ?rich and gouty old duke, had she so .desired. But Miss Butler did not so .desire, and, in truly Irish fasbiou.took no pains to hide her preference for Dudley, who was merely the third son of a poverty-stricken Scotch peer, and as thorough a detrimental ns one could lind in a day's travel. ? No..wonder that . the girl's family swore,'stormed and wept, respectively; .even Hadley-Beuton, with his rich min ing and broking father, would have b#?Bbiv>mpre-desirable parti - But,no; headstrong Miss Bntlor would have "| iione of hinynone of the nasal Yankee billionaire who wm hunting "a wife from the nobility," none of the gouty >old fluke. In short, she would marry 'the poverty-stricken Duncan Dudley, and -no one else. She did not care whether he had money, prospe ?ts, a profession or not; she loved him, and proposed- to marry him. "Which,in spite "of tears, prayers and profanity, ?Bettled the matter. Miss Butler, in j Bpite-jjfher beauty, had a will and a miad-of her bwD.-aud-there^was no use j ?whatever in disputing her. Wherefore reluctant consents were won, reluctant blessings were said, ^hn engag?ment was announced, the marriage was arranged to take place within .two months, and -the Hon.Dnni can-and his beantifnl fiancee were as happy as the day is long. The saying that "trueloveneverdoeai-nn smooth" seemed to be disproved in their case, perhaps would have remained dis proved . bn t for Mr. Richard Hadley Benton. .Hadley-Benton had been Dudley's greatest friend, both afc Kugby and Ox ford," They had for years been insep arable, and were' known afc' Oxford as Damou aud Pythias. Nothing but a .woman could have come between them, and this is just what a woman did. For, two days before accepting Dud ley, Miss Butler had somewhat con temptuously refused Hadley-Benton's hand and large fortuno. For which , refusal Hadley-Benton inconsistently blamed Dudley, instead of Miss But . 1er.: Erstwhile friendship-on his part turned to bittier envy and hate, and the rejected suitor quietly promised himself revenge when the chance came. Of all this the Hon. Duncan knew nothing and suspected less. He was busy applying for and receiving a dip lomatic under-appointment at Paris, which woulu. enable him to marry and ^.tbencef?r?r-suppoTt his wife in at least comparative luxury. That his 4'JE^unon. of PO many years was now^his S^secret enemy he would never have be lieved, their friendship seemed as strong ns ever,and the two wore quite .' as inseparable asiof yore, even travel . ing together to Paris when the exi gencies of Dudley's new appointment demanded the trip. And this is whero Hadley-Benton's : prayed-for . opportunity presented it ' self. For, whilo in Paris, secure in V his present happin-ws and soon-to-be wedded bliss, the. Hon. Duncan pro 7 " ce?ded to indulg? himself in a partic ularly foolish ihoughbrief .flirtation with a handsome American" woman. Randed aa suddenly as it began,bow eyer, for the lady was a little too much , .;w%for;?yen Duncan, who soon beat a . rapid and not too dignified retreat from gay Paris, still companioned by - his faithful Damon, and the "incident" . wasby him considered as closed. . To exultant Hadley-Benton "inci dents" were just beginning, however, and within four-iours after his return . io London, Miss Butler and Miss But .' ler's father knew all about the Paris . adventuress "incident." Hadley-Ben ton had "deemed it his duty" to im part full details, and Miss Butler's father had thanked him for so doing. A brief interview-followed; . some "in . consequent and rather pitiful excuses' ; ' were made by Dndley.br.t what excuse avails in such case?, when offered to a faithful and single-minded girl? Mr. Duncan Dudley's ring was returned, a few cold.stinging words were spoken to bimby his ex-fi*acee, an insult* or . two offered by her father, and then tho : Hon.Duncan was shown ceremonious ly to-tke door- Added to all of which, ? |Jll&flfiJ&gda?l)ad the happiness of hear ing that 'lis ex-canm and ^resent un doer, Hadley-Benton,' had again pro 1 loosed to Miss Butler-this time suc . cess.'ully. Th? marriage, said the so ciety papers,-would lake place within 30 daye. From this time . commences the I;... downfall of the Hou. Duncan Dudley. f No man?a downfall was over . more ar .'? tistically 'complete and finished. He '? -, i : was at the bottom of " degradation's ' .>hilf, a?outcast and disowned by his family, when an old uncle,from whom lt LL SPENT, ?ut if through all the livelong day We've eased no heart by yea or nay }? If through it all Wo've nothing done that we can trace That brought the sunshine to a face ; No act taost small That helped some soul and nothing cost. Thea count that day as worse than lost. THE ESPERANZA. red Revenge. he had expected to inherit, sent for him and ofsted him his choice be v ~een a pisti i and traveling expenses to A^tra'Lu Dudley chose the trav eling expenses, promising to take the next steamer,under au assumed name, for Melbourne. Two days later he purchased instead, under the name of John Simpson, a ticket for Panama. And with that purchase ends the career of the Hon. Duncan Dudley, so far as Great Britain is concerned; ends, also, our interest in Miss Aileen Butler, who soon afterward became the unhappy, and unloving wife of "Mr. Kichard Hadley-Benton- with which latter personage we have not yet finished. Begarding Mr. John Simpson, sec ond-class passenger from Liverpool on the British South American and Pan ama S. S. liner Paloma, it would be an impossible feat to follow his fortunes aud misfortunes through the next ten year?. He had logged on the Amazon, dug for gold (which, like Bachael's children, "was not") in the Guianas, gambled unsuccessfully.in Panama, and at last,' in desperation, had drifted to the Mexican border. There he had the fortune (or misfortune) to save the life of a Mexican girl, the ouly daugh ter of a ranchero, who owned ranchos and a mine or two in the western part of Meiico, just then in process of de velopment by various English and American syndicates. This girl, Anita by name, was rather pretty, though dark and chubby, as Mexican girls often are. But she was sweet, iunocent and very faithful, and she let Simpson soe that she cared for him, and would marry him if he so de sired. Strange to say? he did desire; his life had been such that the pure and unselfish love of eveu a Mexican girl meant much to him, and he swore that he would reform, once married to Anita. Not that he loved her. Love, Mr. Simpson had killed with his own hands ten years ago and more. But some men cannot live up to much of a standard without a good woman's help. Sampson was of this ilk. Where fore he married Anita, sobered up in a manner that astounded even himself, refused to accept help from his some what grumpy father-in-law, aud found a job as assistant assayer in the Mex ican mining town of Palma Sola, in the very centre of the gold and silver mining distriot which English and Americanly capital was-in process of exploiting. i In the course of time Simpson's em ployer died, -add Simpson continued the assay office on his own account, for he had learned the business dur iug his five years' apprenticeship, and chemical knowledge gained by him while at Oxford also stood him iu good stead. Besides which he had learned a great deal about mines and mining, and knew what was ore and what was not. (You may not realize it, but this last is a great attainment.) Also, in additiou to his assay o ?lice, he now had a small ore buying agency and wa*, in fact, makiug money hand over fist. Anit*\, though uow very fat and mustached, hail nevertheless proved a good and faithful wife and mother, and Simpson's lines had not been cast in the most unfortunate places after all. He bad totally reformed and lived a coutouted life, forgetful of his old es tate and old love, straight aud honest iu business, devoted to his only child and kind to his wife.. Few men in Palma Sola .were more respected than John Simpson, assayer and ore buyer. Just. about this time rumors gpt afloat in- Palma Sola that some pro moters hnd at last boomed the "Es peranza" gold prospect near by on the London market; that ons of the biggest mh;e-broking converts there had been favorably impressed-so fa vorably impressed, in fact, that the head of the concern, ? very rich man and member of Parliame1 \ was him selLou the way to make a personal in vestigation of the mine. If it "panned ont" ?? represented, the Englishmen intended to buy it and ereot costly stamp.mills for workiug the pre, with cyanide, plants for -treatment of the tailings. lu due time the rich Englishman arrived. Simpson at once recognized in tho puffy, pompous member; of Par liament, who represented the greatest combination of mining capital in Great Britain, his old chum and deadly en emy, Hadley-Benton. Needless to say the latter did not recognize in Simpson, assayer and ore buyer, the Duncau Dudley of 15 yeais agoue. In this rough, bearded, sloppy-looking westerner, whom he patronizingly ad dressed as "My good man," Mr. Had ley-Benton,M. P., saw merely a human machine which would be useful later in assaying the "Esperanza" samples, for the machine was considered the only reputable and accurate assayer in or within reach of Palma Sola. And, having engaged Simpson to make the said several assays, this pompous in dividual depavted for the "Esperanza" prospect in peace and content of mind -in which frame bf spirit he did not leave Mr. Simpson, assayer aud ore buyer. That entire night Simpson spent in fighting^ phantoms of the past, memo ries of his lost and only love, memories of home and friends, the position and happiness which might have been his but for his own folly and his traitor ous confidant, Hadley-Benton. It was a hard night and a hard fight, but Simpson went to *his office exulting next morning withplans fully thought out aud arranged, his enemy had at last been placed in his pdwer,nnd Mr. Simpson proposed that there should be a plentiful settling of old scores. When Mr. Hadley-Benton and his large number of carefully sealed sam ples from the "Esperanza" reached Simpson's assay office later that week, the latter person was entirely and deferentially nt the disposal of the lordly capitalist, only Simpson pre ferred-in fact, stipulated-that Had ley-Benton himself should unseal the samples, with his own hands, and re main in the assaying offices? that ih? entire process,from grinding the sam ples down to the weighing of the gold residue, could be carefully witnessed and overlooked by him. For, as Mr. Hadley-Benton must realize, assaying such valuable ore as that of the "Es peranz'a" was a serious matter, partic ularly where, as iii- the present case, there were no other assayers to check against, aud one man's results had to be accepted. This was "quite in order, " Mr. Had ley-Benton stated, and with his own hands he nndid the seals that he had placed on the - jute sacks containing his precious samples, and watched pompously the while Mr. Simpson heated up his furnaces, deftly ground up the samples, Weighed the pulp car? fully? ttnd then poured it i?t? the cru cibles containing his gold flux, first insisting that the Englishman test the flux itself, to prove that it was abso lutely free from gold, so that any pos sible "salting" might be prevented. With all of this Mr. Hadley-Benton declared himself "content. The final parting of the silver-gold buttons was done with the greatest possible care and slowness. And well that it was, for the resnlts given by each and every aBsay were so exceed ingly high that Mr. Hadley-Benton might have been incredulous had he not watched the process from first to last. There were 15 different assays on which each duplicate checked its original; there was no discrepancy of any sort, and the total average gave a result in gold of eleven and two-tenths ounces to the ton! Would the "Esperanza" pay to work? Mr. Simpson's results proved that question very conclusively, and Hadley-Benton fairly flew to the tele graph office, where he, after much dif ficulty and serious struggles with the Spanish tongue and telegraph clerks^ sent a cablegram to his London di rectors and stockholders, authorizing them to boom the "Esperanza Gold Mines, Limited," for all they were worth, to ship out at once the con templated stamp mill and cyanide plaut (cost one quarter of a million) and to draw upon him for any and all extra funds desired. So much for the "Esperanza Gold Mines,Limited," of London and Mex ico, and so much for poor Mr.Hadley Beutou, M. P., whose reputation aud private fortune were alike lost iu tho ven tin e. Because, long after the plant and stamp mill were installed, aud more money than I care to name irre trievably sunk in the "Esperanza," it was found that the ore of the mine ran, at very highest estimate, exactly one-tenth of au ounce iu gold, or not even high enough to pay workiug charges. Truly "poor Mr. Hadley Benton," for he had taken the sam ples, watched and approved the mak ing of assays therefrom, and he alone it was upon whom the wrath of stock holders and directors fell when it was discovered that the "Esperanza" was a dead failure, not to say the greatest 8windia of-modern-iimes^ ? No one, not even Hadley-Benton himself, can account for the matter. No one ever offered any explanations as to how such fabulous results were secured from utterly worthless ore. Even the assayer, Mr. John Simpsou, professes himself as lost in amazeineut at the way the "Esperanza" turned out. But, of course, as everyone real izes and coucedes, he had nothing to do with the matter, and cannot there fore be held responsible. But, all the same, Mr. Simpson knows-even as we do-that a hypodermic syringe can be used successfully for inore purposes thau one, and, unluckily for Hadley Bentou, chloride of gold is soluble, and may be injected through the heaviest of jute sacking.-San Francisco Argo? naut. Took It All Rieht. This rich old uncle is a bachelor and spends his summers iu a sort of hermitage on au inland lake. When he comes to spend a month or so with his brother in Detroit it is the uncle's chief delight to tell his young nephews of his boyhood escapades. He never told of a prauk that he did not close with the declaration that boys are not what they used to be and that he was convinced that it was a bad sign for the future. Uncle dreads a Ara and never re tires iu a uew sleeping place without takiug his beariugs carefully with a view to learning the speediest and surest way of escape. The nephews learned ot this and naturally decided to.show uncle that the spirit of boy hood was still existent. It happened to be the first night there was snow on the ground. At 1 a. m. the youngest nephew, not yet 8, rushed along the hallway by uncle's door, lustily yelling "Fire!" Uncle lauded in the middle of the floor with one motion, never stopped to make a toilet, threw open a window, sprang upon the roof of the veranda and was rushing to shin down a post, when the other two nephews opened a ter rific assault with snowballs. During the minute of confusion required to take in the situation he was plastered from his bald head to his bare feet, dove back through the window, went shivering back to bed and swore "scand'l'ous." His first idea was to have the boys thrashed, and thrashed plenty. As the gooseflesh began to leave and he felt the welcome glow of warmth, he chuckled, then laughed aloud. Next day he came down town and made a will. Each one of those boys will be well fixed.-Detroit Free Press. . The "W r 1 Queer. The word queer has a remarkable origin attributed to it. One night, when the performance at Drury Lane was finished, the celebrated Quin, many of whose jokes are still remem bered, offered to bet a young noble man ?500 that next morning a word would be iu universal use which had never been heard befo e. The noble man accepted the wager and left the theatre. Then Quin summoned all the "supers," who happened to be very Humorous, and gave each a large piece of chalk. He told them to go to the leading thoroughfares of Lon don and write at intervals on the flags the word "Queer." Quin's orders were faithfully carried out, and, on the following morning, of course, people were astonished-the word was in everybody's mouth. The great actor with lit*'e difficulty made his claim to the nobleman's bank note, while bequeathing a new word to thu i language. . During tb o receut sea test of the sarge, the purely American device of service firing test with remarkable-s mendous shooting power of this magniJ inconceivable. The Kearsarge is nc world. At a single broadside Ihe guj: steel from the rifles of her main bat muzzle enorgy of 83,276 foot tons. At double turrets 2700 pounds of projectij 2100 feet a second. The two twin tu oontain a pair of 8-inch rifles superimpj casemate protection between these t rifles, of which seven are in each broad J[ew York's Un?ergraun? Rapid Transit System Greatest of Three years from now New" York's.) great underground rapid transit trunk line will stand completed. From the" Postoffice at Broadway and Barclay Btreet a New Yorker will gb home', to dinner, under Broadway, under E-J-m: street, under the Bouievard:to Hwteffi? in fifteen minutes. T?is will be the "main line" of the new rapid system. But this is not all. From the "main line" another tun HOW THE OPERATION' OF TURNING THE ARCH" WILL BE CONDUCTED ON BROADWAY/. ne! road will branch off at Ninety sixth street and run across to the East Side and nuder the Harlem River to Bronx Park. Still another branch road will start from the main line at the Postoffice, rqgi under the East River and out into the far suburbs of Brooklyn. The main trunk Hue and the Bronx division will cost $35,000,000 and will be built at once. The Brooklyn branch roads will follow in time. It is the greatest engineering feat of the be ginning of the new century. The method of building the new line is interesting not ouly because of These stations will be on either side of the street, as in the* case of the present elevated stations, only passen gers will go downstairs instead of up to take the trains. The passageways leading down will be walled with white enamel brick, and lighted by electricity until it is almost as bright as day. At the Chamber street station, where the four-track system of express and local tracks begins will be a commo dious and well arranged station. To board a local train uptown one will take a car on the outer track. To take the distance it traverses aud the fact that it runs beueath crowded city streets, but because it will include in one part or another of its course al most every form of underground work. Although popularly kuown as n tunnel, it will be constructed as a tunnel proper through only a small portion of its extent, and for auother small distance it will be a viaduct or elevated structure. Throughout the Tit ANS-SECTION OF TUNNEL C Treater part of UH course, however, ino new road will be built in an-open I renell, which afterward will be covered over and will form n subway. Be tween City Hall Park and lungs HMM MI new United States battleship Kear .two-story turrets was first put to the access. The figures given of the tre icent engino of destruction are almost w tho most powerful warship in the as of the ship threw a mass of chilled tery aggregating 5750 pounds, with a each discharge of the four guns in the es were thrown out with a velocity of Preta, one fore and the other aft, each osed upon a pair of 13-inch gnus. In urrets aro fourteen 5-inch rapid-fire side. bridge and Bronx Park-the three termini of the line-almost every form "of soil will be encountered; Sand aftd silti mud and water, coarse gravel and solid rook must be removed. GREAT CITY HALL TERMINAL STATION Sewers, gas and electric mains and street car tracks must be moved into new positions, and the work must go on with as little interruption to street traffic ns possible. Thus, it will ho seen, the problem before the contract or is a complex ono and tho various portions of it must bo met with vari ous solutions. TRANS-SECTION OF FOUR-TRAC Theaccompanying illustrations will give a precise notion of the relative position of -the tunnels to the streets and rivers when completed. From tho City Hall, where the "underground" will have its southern terminus in a YLINDERS UNDER THE RIVER. great loop nbout the Postollice, four tracks will bo laid directly under Broadway, tims following thc great artery of business traille north toward the West Side suburb at Kiugsbridge, while a branch from Ninety-sixth street will extend under the Harlem River to the Bronx Park region. These secti?'ii? will thu?) be brought -within twenty or twe'rity-fiv? minutes' ride to the City Hall by, ??pre's? train"; The two central tracks are to1 bo' d?'v"Crtecl to through express trains, ih? otitef ones to local traffic. Stations will occur at about the same frequency as1 those of the present elevated railroad. The entrances will be at the level of JOHN B. M'DOH?LD. the street, consisting of neat iron and bronze framework, with glass roofs covering the descending stairways, an express train passengers will go along an intermediate gallery, which passes over tho outer local track, de scending to the express tracks, which are itt the middlf-, Electricity is to bd the" motive" force" On the now proved and practical "third-rail'* plan; At freqrient inter vals ventiiritirig Aries are'tb" b? con structed with powerful ?lec'tric fau? to preservo a circulation of air; Later on a branch tunnel is io' gd under' East River and ramify thro'?gli ih? great Borough of Brooklyn. One of the most interesting and peculiar parts of the underground system will be where the East Side section will go under the Harlem Kiver. Tho tracks will divide here and each will go under the water in a separate cast iron cylinder fifteen feet in diameter. The circular passageways will look like gigantic" water pipes and will keep the water of the river out quito as ef fectually as-genuine water pipes keep water iii. John B. McDonald^ who has undera taken this multi-million dollar con tract and will be the directing head of I OF TEE RAPID T1TAN.S? I' RAILROAD . the great work," is a native of Ireland. He was born in County Cork fifty-six years ago and caine to thia country wheu he was fifteen years old. Cardo Fur Dear Fido. "I want some very small cards en graved," said a fashionably attired woman iu a Chestnut street stationer's K TUNNEL UNDER BROADWAY. establishment. "Yes, madam," said the attendant; "about this size?" in dicating a sample card. "No, no,'* replied the woman; "much smaller than that. I want them about the size of the baby cards that mothers used to send out several seasous ago when a new baby was born." She finally-selected the size she wanted, and the attendant asked what name was to be used. * "Fido Smith," was the reply. "And, in addition to the address, I want 'Wednesday' engraved on the opposito corner." "Did you say Fido?" ask?d the young man. "Yes," said the woman; "FidoSmith. You see, tho cards are for my little dog. I don't know whether you know it or not, but it's quite the proper thing now for women who have dogs to tako them calling upon other wom en who have dogs, and, of course, you couldn't do that without leaving the cards. Wednesday is my at home day, and Fido receives -all his little, dog friends with me on that day. Now you know all aboutit."-Philadelphia Record. A Curt] of Thunk*. 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Bet fcft Sel<",l3a,s **fl?S Brr v THF PARLOR OEM dot OD conslstsof tho MebfeJ 5> -ell Reej7,"rhicU ?r7 On/y U?ed In tho hl^h eUcMrict^?rTrfnentj:fitte<l willi ManUaoad ?oaplera and voxKMM?OS^I ftflatf gfa Mt??rt.etc., bellow? or the best rubbered, s ply KMZffiS leather In valves. THE PARL?R CErV? ^ft^."> with a 10x14 hoveled plato French rn rror^nickel plat?* SANTEED 25 YEARS. B1S?W% ITsuo a written'binding 20-year guarantee, by the terms and condttlor.? of which li any part Rives out repair it free of (faurs Try it one month and *e win rotund your money it you aro not perfectly satisfied 600 OUR RELIABILITY IS ESTABLISHED don.lt with ususk yournelghborabout us, write the publisher ol thia paper or Metropolitan National Bank, or Corn Vat. nant, of Chicago; JM CT German Exchange Bank, hew York; or any jgg railroad or oxpre?? company in Chicago. w? M bete ? ?pltal of o.er ?TOO.tlW.OO, occupy entire HB one of thc lerjrtit business blocks in Chicago, nat and ?minloy nearlT S.OOO people in our own CT?ARS . 7?OE3UCK & CO. (Inc.), Fulton, Desplaines and Wayman Sta., CHICAGO, r? ?ITH YOUR 0R0|S,cut tai? ad. out and sead to us.cud wo will send y ou OUR KIOH EYER HEARD OF. p.y Sosci?l Offer Pf ?oe $15.50^ jr"??!?W?iffS?^2? Michino SSSM IS pounds and the freight will ?at??fled. We .eil - ???OTWiM_ the arrea teat value ever offered by any h ou at, BEWARE OF IMITATIONS tlsementa,otfering unknown mt eh int? under various names, with varions la doeemeata. Yfrlteaotne friend In Chleayo and learn who are rt liable, md who ar* not. wfijiwi DIIDni^ir' ha3 every BODERS I jlTROt E??KNT, U Mfe P wJ K tal I Vf l\ EVERY GOOD POINT OF EVERT Ul, li -1 ! GRADE MACHINE HIDE. WITH T!!K ? DEFECTS OF BOSE. Made by thc~? beat maker? In America. r? fro m tho best material money ,_ can buy. SOLID QUARTER SAWED OAK m^BBB^T^ closed (head dropping from sight) *.o be used as a center table, .ta.* _j. or desk, tho other open with full le">p;th table and head In place for BS" sewing. 4 faneydrawera. latest I00O skeleton frame, carved, puneled. em bosfed and decorated cabinet flni?h. finest nickel drawer pulls, rests on four casters, adjustable treadle, genuine Snivh iron stand. Hneat large High irai head, positive four motion fi-ed.seif threading vibrating shuttle, automatle bobbin winder, adjustable bearings, patent tension llbcrator.improved loo*? wheel, adjustable pressure foot, improved tttuttte carrier, patent needle bar, patent dress guard, heail ta hanil.omcly decorated and ornamented and beautifully clekel trimmed. CUARANTEED the lichtest running, moat durable aud a.arnl nol.ete.. ?.chine muir. K.rrr knoitn attachment I. raenl.hed and our Fr60 Xo> otruction Boo!c tells Just how anynno ran run lt and do either plain or any kind of fancy work. A "O-Years'Blndic? Guarantee ls sent with every machine. IT CnCTQ VON lUDTrllMfi to iee and eiamlnelhli machine, compare it with - _3 ll LOSia IOU riUin.im t?ir c v mr 9lorckeeper sells at ?40.00 to ? i.OO. and then if convinced that you are saving BUN to OIO.OO. pajr your frclpriit agent the $15.00. WF TO BETL'RN TOUB 81S.?0 If at any time wUhin three luonth" you say you are not satisfied. OHDEB TO-W. DON'T DEJoAY. (Sears, Roebuck irt thoroughly reliable-Editor.) a* . Address, SEARi?.30EBUCIC & CO. (Inc.) Chicago, Ilk' GEO. P. COBB, JOH/MSTO/N,S. C, Furniture and Household Goods, Wagons, Buggies, Harness, Saddles. Have Purchased a New and Beautiful Hearse. Calls By Telephone Promptly Answered and Attended To. Lowest Prices. HANNIS DISTILLING CO., Fine Whiskies, RED LABEL I0MB?I, PHILADELPHIA. t Sold by all Dispensaries in South Carolina. DISTILLERIES: Hannisville, Martinsburg, W. Va., Hount Vernon, Baltimore, fid. co, : LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, Are Furnishing to the I South Carolina Dispensary SILVER BROOK XX, ROSE VALLEY XXX, AMERICAN MALT, DUNN'S nONOGRAH RYE,