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'H? NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HATKE, Pres't. P. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Undivided Profits } ?110,000. Facilities of our magnificent New VanJt 'containing 410 ^afety-Locs Boxes. Differ lent Sizes are offered to our patrons and the public at ?3.00 to $10.00 per annum THOS. J ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S: C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1900. VOL. LXV. NO. 25 SIR HUMPHR They say of Slr Humphrey Gilbert - - - rphe SR{|org ha<i fear3 0f a tempast, t, . - "-For God is as near by sea us by lu And home through the dark to Eng 'j , The two ships plowed the waters, a The clouds oame over the quiet stai And through tho storm And tho dar Watched eagerly, but Sir Humph? And whenever a sudden flurry driv I think of that stout old sailor and ? ' That God is as near by sea as by lui When lato His hand my will is Rive . " -Lewis Woi r STRANGE ADVENT ' t How He had the Roma Narcissus Brown was a most esti mable young man of studious hab its. His father, a tradesman, had taken pride in giving, him a liberal education. At the age of 19 years, therefore^ . Narcissus had-'finished his education and had. become a pbilos ? opher. But youth is fickle. An ardent im agination and re stless instincts worked their way, and three months later Narcissus became a poet. "Father," saic" 'ie, one day, "I feel within me the poetic instinct. I am a poetl" "Very well, my son," said tho pa ternal Brown, "be a poet if you will. So much the better, too," he added; W'th proud fondness, "because it will vex Green, the grocer. His son is a writer, but be only writes prose." , So Narcissus became a poet. Every : clay he wandered off to the little vil lages near his native city, aud there communed, with nature. The dusty trees which lined the roadside moved him to poetry, and even the windmills stirred his soul. "Ah," he would sentimentally say, "how romantic they look! See the white sails glinting in the sun like .those of a fair galleon gliding over the waves ,to some far-off shore." ?3^%iThe sea! He hail never thought of the sea before. The idea suddenly flashed across his brain. "Ah," he mused, "the son! The ? bright, blue, boundless ocean! That is '.. the place for a poet. What is there .* poetic in this humdrum life ashore? On the ocean man struggles with na ture; he combats the clements; bo de fies theatorm. I shall go to sea." He'returned to the paternal shop ?' and declared his intention. But his father only yielded after much per suasion. At last he consented and made hp a package of fancy dry goods which he thought would sell well at the colonies. To this he added a * purse, some tears aud his blessing, and Narcissus started for the nearest seaport. There he : repaired to the ."house bf a* ^icbuaiov' a-> resident of the. place; he stated his intention aud asked for ad vice. , The cousin was well acquainted with +he captain of a brig which was abor c to sail for Martinique, and se v . cured Hnva^passage aboard of har. Narcissus experienced a slight shock when he heard the name of the yesseL; ? "ff it Vere" only a little more poet ical!" he thought. The Undine, or the Mermaid, or something like that. But the Sarah Ann!" And he asked ?he captain's name. When told it was Smith, he almost fainted. He was to sail aboard of the brig Sarah Aun, Smith, master. He would have wil lingly given a larger sum if the cap tain had had a nautical name. However, there was no help for it his passage money was paid. So the nexf day, accompanied by his cousin, he took a boat aud went on board the Sarah Ann, to see what she looked like. On the way out the water was very rough, the boat was small, and . Narcissus at once hoped and feared some accident-something romantic. But he only got seasick. When he reached the deck he cast an eager glance around upon the hardy sons of the sea. Most of them were . swabbing the deck after getting iu 1 oargo, and there were several engaged in washing and hanging out shirts upon the rigging to dry. With au ex clamation of disgust, Narcissus turned away. "They only need flatirons to be washerwomen," said he. However, he descended to the cap tain's cabin. That individual was talk ing to a Btout, thiVk-set man, and signed to Narcissus :;ud his cousin to seat themselves. They did so, and *', Narcissus immediately began to in spect the cabin. To his disgust he found it was a prosaic little room, with a carpet, chairs, table and pictures ou the walls-'-exactly like a room on ; shore. Narcissus sighed and turned his eyes upon the captain. His ideal of the man who was to brave the ele ments and command a .turbulent crew was as follows: A mariner of giant frame-at least six feet; a massive . head; -fierce eyes; a voice of awo-in spiring qualities. He looked at Cap tain Smith and saw that he was a short, thin man about 40 years of age; he was extremely polite in his manners; he wore a wig, aud he took snuff. It is impossible to describe the revulsion,of feeling that swept over Narcissus when he beheld this insig nificant personage. The individual who was talking to the captain was, as we have said, stoutly built; he was a jolly-looking, fellow, and was deeply interested in trying to beat down the rate of. pas sage. "Come now, captain," said he, .'can't you put ?t a little lower?" "I have only one price," replied the captain. ?f Narcissus thought of th^ paternal shop and shuddered. j" "Well," said theaJ*6iVt man, after much'debate, "wbat^ust be must be. Qafe condition^S^e^-ever: my boxes . -haust have air. aQ?^flampness will in .^?re them. Ymjiftnow what they con-.| tain. Bo Ijafnt yon to promise me that thej" shall not be put in the hold." "All right," said the captain; "they eball be placed on the orlop deck." "And i oane-amine them whenever I Uko?" f;,;*'*?*Whenever you like." "Well, here's your money," said J. the stout man, and be placed the sum npou ihe table, saluted sod left. "Who's that fellow?" a*ked the cousin. "Oh, it's a poor showman* He's EY GILBERT. that, sailing tba western sea, but never a fear bad he ; ind," he said with sturdy cheer, -land he bade the helmsman steor. nd the heavy night grow black, ? rs and hld them with their rack ; kness ouch ship for the other's light ly went home to God that night. es my boat before the blast, know, with the sky o'ercast, id ; and how oan I feel dismay ? a. and for Him I go or stay ! thington Smith, in Youth's Companion. -1 ORES OF ? POET. } nee Taken Out cf Him. J going to the.ee; jimios with a lot of wax figures, td exhibit them." "Wax figur?s ? Why, they'll all melt if you leave them on tho orlop deck, won't they?" "Well, that's h's business," replied the worthy captain, good-naturedly. Then, turning to Narcissus, he said: "Well, sir, I am.pleased to meet you. I shall make your voyage as agreeable as possible. You will be very com fortable-just exactly the Eame as if you were on land," ' Narcissus loft the Sarah' Ann*and did not reappear uutil the hour of bailing, such was his disgust at the unromantic character of veasol, master and crew. When he want to the pier to engage a boat to take him ont to the brig, he met the stout man whom he had seen iu the captain's cabin. This individual proposed that they should hire a boat joiutly to transport themselves and baggage to the brig, and Narcissus consented. He bade farewell to h?3 cousin and tumbled into the boat. The stout mau followed him. "Have you ever been to sea, air?" he nsk?d. "No," replied Narcissus; "and yon?" "Never, sir; this is the first time. I am going to the colouies to exhibit my wai figures. " "What do they represent?" asked Narcissus, mechanically. "That/' said he, pointing to one they .were long, narrow boxes, about six by throe-"that contains a mag nificent figure of the Emperor Napo leon; that, a figure of his holiness the Pope; that, an Albino," aud he went through the Hst. "WelLwhat do you bother me with it for?" demauded Narcissus, glad to find someone to vent his ill-humor upon. . "I only told you because you asked me, sir," replied- the man, submis sively. "Well, shut np, will youl" replied the gentle Narcissus; "you talk .too much!" . The stout man's eyes snapped an grily, but he said nothing. They reached tho vessel's side, and with nuheard of precautions tho show man had his boxe i put-aboard. He made the sa lors almost expire with laughter ut the gingerly way in which he climled the ladder, aud his calling the masts "tho poles" furnished them" fresh food for merriment. At 5 o'clock in the evening the Sarah An i weighed anchor and set out on her voyage. Narcissus re mained on deck watching the sun-set, aud thus, as ho expressed it, "re lighting the torch of poesy ia his soul." But he hadn't been there long before he became extremely seasick,. and two grinning tars took him below. Narcissus did not Bleep. As he tossed restlessly upon his pillow he invoke I the muses. "? muses nine!" quoth he, "pity me, and send us something romantic -a tempest, a shipwreck-anything. I have quitted the realms of pins, needles and tape, and abandoned my self to.the caprice of the waves, only that my life may become exciting. Pi?y me then, ye godsl Blow, old Boreas, blow! Lash thy wave?, O Neptune!" lt is doubtful whether either the muses or the gods heard him, but it is cortain that something very singular took place almcst upon the heels of his prayer. The brig was not provided with staterooms for passengers, so the apartment occupied by Narcissus con sisted only of au old sail draped around the place 'tween decks whore his hammock was swung. This can vas he could seo over, and this is what too1', plaoe. The feeble glimmer of a ship's lantern served to illumine the place without, and its rays fell upon the showman's boxes, which were lashed up against the vessel's side. Emerging from the darkness Narcissus saw the figure of the burly showman. "The base hind!" thought he, "al ways anxious for his business. Here he is examining his figures when he might be watching the stars in yon azure vault-" Narcissus paused in his poetical flight. His eyes opened widely; he almost ceased to breathe. For the showman, after carefully glancing around him, had opened one of the boxes, and a man stepped out. The newcomer exchauged a whispered word with the showman, and began to shake his numb and rigid limbs. "This is indeed romantic," muttered Narcissus. But he felt a cold sensa tion creeping up his back. The showman continued his task of opening the boxes. One by one the wax figures stopped forth, shook them selves ard felt their joints. . When the last box -yas 'opened, there were six of them, besides tho showman. Each man drew ,ont pistols and knives, lopked to tho locks, and replaced the weapons in :onvenient positions. "Well," thought Narcissus, "that is tho most wicked-looking gang of cut-throats I eyer set eyes on. This is altogether too romantic. I wish I was home." . ( But.his thoughts wero interrupted by the sound of tho showman's voice: "All ready/', said he,, in a hoarse whisper. ? "All ready, V wits the whispered re ply. , . - . "Thon, here we gol" With oat-like tread they stole away in the darkness. -Narcissus would haye called ont; his tougue clove to the roof of his month. He would bav? risen; his head seemed glued to his pillow. A cold perspiration broke ont upon bim. He bad realized the fact that the showman and his comrades were pi rates. The minutes passed on. They seemed hours to him. Then he heard an outcry; the trampling of feet on the deck over his head; the short bark of pistols, muttered corses, groans; then there was a wild yell of triumph; the sound of conversation; then he heard at interva's the pound of heavy bodies dropping into the waler-"Splash! Splash! Splashl" It was altogether too romantic, Nar cissus fainted away. When he came to his senses he had experienced a complete revulsion of* feeling. The ocean to him was dis tasteful. He was enamored of green fields and babbling brooks. Ho would have exchanged the Atlantic orean for the smallest brook that ever ran. His fevered fancy carried him to the meadows around his native city; be thought of the flowers there; of the smiling grain and--. "Boomi" "What was that? It sounded like a cannot shot. There was a crackling* sonud. The side of the vessel seemed to be burst ing in. The jianks and splintors flew, and from the midst thoro emerged a round-shot-a jolly, pudgy round shot, which came wildly skipping along the deck toward him. As it neared him it made a fipal bound, . and im bedded itself in the wood right over Ids, head. Again Narcissns lost his senses. Ho liked romance, but he was getting too muon of it at one time. When Narcissus lecovered con sciousness he found himself lying upon the deck of the brig. There weie irons upon his hands, irons upon his feet. On either ;side of him squatted a swarthy sailor, each with a cutlass, and each watching him with the most flattering attention. Narcissus turned his henri. Behind him lay his friend, the showman, in the same predicament . as himself. Hanged in symmetrical rows lay the comrades of the showman, all'ironed and guarded. Lying near the hrig waa a large man-of-war with the Span ish ting flyinir. "Sir," said Narcissus, addressing the showman, "can y.u tell me what all this means?" "Hallo!" was the reply, "why there's the little landlubber. I'd for got you completely. Certainly; I'll take great pleasure in telling you all about il. Do you see the yards of that ship?" "What are the yards?" asked Nar cissus, gravoly. "Ha! ha! Well, you see those po!e3 that mn across the masts?" .."Yes.". ".,<. - ".Do you see a man astride of one of them at the end?" "Yes." . ; '"Do you know what he is doing?" "No." ' "He's fixing a rope. " "A rope! .What for?" 1 "To hang us." 1 .-"To ha-to hang asl To hang yon, . you mean." "No-us." "Why -why-what do you mean? Yon are a pirate; I am a poet. My name is Brown-Narcissus Brown; and I live-" "Oh, well, tell them so, then. There's an officer." Assuming an air of dignity tem pered with submission, Narcissus ad dressed the officer, detailing the story of how_ljg came to be aboard the brig. The officer interrupted him curtly in Spanish, by giving an order to one of .the sailors. "Well," said the showman, "do you know what he said?" "No." "He said, 'Gag that cur.' " "Then he didn't understand what I said?" "Not a word. Neither he nor any of the others speak anything but Spanish." "But yon speak their language?" "Fluently." ??Well, then,tell him, you, that-" "My dear boy, do you remember when we came out in the boat to gether? You told me I talked too much. Now I will be silent. Really, you should have been more civil. But then you are going to be hanged in ten minutes, and it will teach you manners." Narcissus was about Jo reply, but at that moment the sailor had pre pared the gag, and his mouth was stopped. "It's no more than right," contin ued the showman, "that you should know why you're going to be hanged, so I'll tell you. I've been a pilate for 20 years and neyer been unlucky. This is my first mishap-I'm afraid, though, it'll be my last. Well, about six months ago, I boarded a Spanish mer chantman from Peru, and, of course, I had to make all the crew walk the plank. Unfortunately, a ring that the captain had took my fancy, and I've worn it ever since. Well, this meddle some fellow boarded me yesterday,and I would have got off unsuspected had it not been for the cursed ring. The captain of the merchantman had been a friend of thin officer, who had given it to him. His suspicions being ex cited, he examined the ship's papers, and thus found out my last little game. That, though, you know all about. So he's going to l*aug us all. I would have been sorrier for yon, my boy, if 'you had been a little moro civil." It was morally and physically inpos sible for Narcissns to roply; he was therefore silent. The doomed men wore taken aboard of the man-of-war. One by ono the pirates were slowly strangled at the yard's end. There remained only Nar cissus and the showman. "After you," said the latter, with a fiendish grin. "You are younger thnn I am. " The noose was placed around Nar cissus' neck. Stalwart arms swung him up to the yard. As he drew np his writhing limbs in his death agony,the showman turned away his face. "Well, it was his own fault," be muttered, " but I'm half B?rry, for -him.'* .. . .'& few moments passed, and the two men wero again together-but nA in this world. Eighty thousand, elephants oro re quired annually to supply tho world with ivory, aud most ol them come from South Africa. SPIKED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS PLA.C SOUTH AFRICA AS PART. Of ?The Biossburg "Gusher *l Greatest Oil Strike on Record. S PENNSYLVANIA'S NSW KLONDIKE. JT BIVER of oil has created a / \ second Klondike in Penn jfi^X sylvania. It has made a ? city of a mountainside hith erto sacred to rattlesnakes. It has added millions to the real estate values and made heiresses of poor farmers' daughters for many a mile arouud. Most important of all, it has proved that tho geologists were wrong when they decided, years ago, that oil would never be tapped east of the Al leghauy watershed, and it suggests tho possibility of tho world's oil mar ket being flooded to such a degree as to bring prices dowu to nest to noth ing-that is, if Mr. Rockefeller were not here to keep them up and put the difference in his pocket. Such, iu brief, are the facts concern ing thc Blossburg Oil Company's well, tho source of a river which is jealously caught and imprisoned as it gushes ironi the earth, because every gallon of it is worth money. It is pouring out wealth at tho rate of $365,000 a year-a thousand dollars a'day-and it represents only the be ginning of what may. bo-expected of a region, where land is ten thousand times more valuable to-day than it. was before the oil discoveries. This last isa literal fact. If the DELA VAN A?LESWOBTH. JOHN ATLESWOBTH. (Tho brothers who have struck oil.) mountainside had been offered at auc tion before a drill had been sunk it would not have fetched ten cents an acre. Now there is not an acre that wonld not sell for $1000, with a mob of bidders fighting for precedence. I Pine Creek, the most famous trout stream.in Pennsylvania, is the centre of this oil rush, which rivals the gold rush of Cape Nome. The big well thero are many smaller ones around it, and more are being sunk every day -is three-quarters of a mile south east of Gaines, Tioga County. It penetrates the rock for 654 feet near ?the edge of a bluff that rises 120 feet from tho bed of Pine Creek. There was a time wheu the hills for miles in every direction were cov ered with the finest pines in Pennsyl vania. But the creek has floated out billions of feet of timber, and now the region is a desolate one of stumps and brambles, repcllant alike to the agri culturist and the artist. Tho story of the "Great Gusher," as it is known in the parlance of oil men, is one of the romances of for tune, deserving a place beside the bonauza talos of California and Ne vada. Those for whom the well is pouring forth its $1000 a day are coun try merchants and professional men, formerly of moderate means, none of whom knew anything about the oil business. They are former Senator Walter Merrick, .Tohn Aylosworlh, Del. Aylcsworth, William Aylesworth, Dr. D. O. Merrick, George Clark, J. D. Connors, W. S. Scott, Mark Davis, W. H. McCarty, A. E. Botchford, H. B. Whittikcr, F. H. Stratton, W. C. Babcock, F. L. Jones and W. A. Bob orls. Tho company is not incorporated and business is carried on as a co partnership. The drilling of the Great' Gusher' wr.s a forlorn hope. Tho company had already drilled ono well on its lcns? of 155 acres and had found the saud as dry as powder. Under the lcaso a forfeit would havo to be paid if two wells were not Bunk. The forfeit would amount to about the ea'inr loss as'the drilling of a, well. Willi Ihe slenderest -'shadow of a hope-morely, in gambling parlance, io "have a run for their money"-the partners decided in favor of the well, ST WAEFAEE. ED AROUND CHtEVELEY STATION IN THE BOITI3H DEFENSES. Iii.selecting the bluff near the npper end o? the property they disregarded tho advice of experienced oil pros pectors. To drill there "was pro nounced an act of folly. ,!; To emphasize the hopelessness of the case work was begun on Good Friday, April 13. Any gambler would have laid big odds against such an unhappy combination. r For ton days the drill burrowed its way through varying strata. On Mon day, April 23, it gnawed slowly for an hour through a hard formation more than an eighth of a mile below the surface. ''She's struck sandi" shouted the driller'. ? It was only th atv tho ...drill- had. dropped into a softer formation-and the sand was likely to be as barren as Coney Island's-but force pf habit impelled this cautious man to con nect the well with the storage tank provided to save the first nish of oil. He was just in time. Before tho tools could ho withdrawn from tho hole a yellow torrent gushed forth and filled the tank with a roaring and a splashing that sung of millions. "She's struck oil!" was the shouts and it eohoed down the valley and be yond, till at every farmer's door and on into the cities were echoed tho magic words, "Struck oil!" Every telegraph wire in tho land flashed the story of the Blossburg Oil Company's Great Gusher, and capital ists began to speculate on the strange developments that might follow the discovery of a subterranean petroleum lake east of the All?gu?mes. As for the Great Gusher, it spouted forth 2200 barrels the first doy and 2500 the second day. Before noon on the third day it had repaid the partners their entire ex penses on the lease-tho investment had costihem only $5200. At the close of the fifth day they were $14,000 . Holier for the mere trouble of catching the oil. Then the Great Gusher sobered dow>n to the cheerful song of $1000 a day, and this it continues to sing, week days and Sundays, with no sign of weariness. It is the greatest well known to the : northern oil fields since 1882, when the Cherry Grove field, in Warren County, Penn., made the world ring : with tales of sudden fortune. Cherry Grove knocked the bottom | out of oil prices and ruined thousands of men engaged in the oil business elsewhere. Blossburg may do the : Bame thing if it proves to be over a big lake of oil and not merely a small pool, as was the case with Cherry Grove, which exhausted itself in a year. This important question can be settled only when test wells have boen sunk for miles around, and from the way speculators are rushing into the P4ne Creek region doubts must soon he dispelled. Tho Blossburg property is being honey-combed with drills. A well near the Great Gusher is yielding 510 bar ONABLE TO CONTItOL TUE FLOW OF OIL. reis a day, and another is productivo in a smaller degree. Just, what kind of sand the oil comes from no one knows. As soon as the tools pierced the shell tho well flowed and no sand was bailed out. Whether there is ten feet of it or fifty, whether it is brown, white or gray? no one i knows as yet. The company has been kept too busy caring for tho oil to worry about the color or thickness of the sand in which it has been stored up. The little town of Gaines Ins- ac quired some of the character of a Western mining camp. The hotel has been overflowing for three weeks and tb e proprietor has secured every vacant room in town for his guests. The telegraph and telephone havo become metropolitan in their activity. Keen men with large bank accounts roam everywhere, snapping up speculative chancos. Their talk is all of barrels and dollars, leases and wells, drills and pipe lines. The Standard Oil Company, alive to the great possibilities of the new field, is laying a four-inch pipe line across the mountain to connect with their main pipe line twenty miles away. On the lighter side of human na ture at the Pine Creek rush are ranged the clairvoyants and hazel twig magicians who infest new oil fields. One of these "oil smellers" will sell out his occult gifts as a pros pector for from $10 to $150, accord ing to the means and credulity of his client. Some of the individual cases of sadden fortunes aro full of interest. Joseph Bornauer was a poor man two years ago. His little farm on the bank of Pino Creek yielded him a liv ing and that was all. He peddled milk every morning and evening to the honsewives of Gaines. His farm proved to be right on the oil belt and his income from royalties is now over $500 a month. I THE BLOSSBURG "GUSHER.' - This discovery has made a group of country storekeepers and small farmers rich in a trice. Men whose total worldly possessions were worth perhaps $500 have been offered $125,- . 000 for their rights in this gasher. ' r^'^Moat ??enntliul' Woman IhlCtiDn. ' Senorita Silvia Alfonso y Aldama, whose portrait is here shown, has been voted the beauty queen of Cuba. The election was recently held in Havana preparatory to tho carnival to bo shortly givcu there, over which Senorita Alfonso will reign. Some SENORITA SILVIA ALFONSO. twenty well-known beauties of the island were contestants for the honor. Senora Josefina Herrara de Pnlido, the daughter of Couut Fernandina^ was the last Cuban senorita to be similarly honored.. Silvia Alfonso was born in Cnba, but was educated in Paris. She lived in New York from time to time during the past four years, during the pro gress of tho recent insurrection. She will bo the recipient of every honor during festival week and will remain supreme for two years until the next, festival is held. How tu I. i vo a Contnry. Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Hinsdale, 111., a millionaire who is making it his business to give away his money to enterprising colleges in the West, re cently mado somo very interesting statements in explanation of his con dition of hearty and hopeful health at tho age of eighty yo^rs. Ho says he expects to live until ho is a hundred, and his rules of life are worth considering. "Most men dig their graves with their teeth," he said. "My stomach is my friend and I'm happier than any other man on earth." Ho soys the DR. D. H.. PEAR- mali wno wants tolive SONS. to a ripe old age should keep cool, not overload the stomach, breathe pure air and lots of it, cat a vegetable diet, not eat late suppors, go to bod early, not fret, not go whore he'll get oxoitod, and not forget to take a nap after dinner. Though ho is a doctor himself, he throw all his medicine away years ago, and he says ho does not know whatan ache or pain is. Ho takes regular de light in his gifts to collogos, but will not allow anyone to make a hero of him, as ho hates excitement. He says a man must "keep cool" if he1 wants to livo a hundred years. "It's the worst thing in . the world," he maintains, "to get angry or cross." He gets up at 6, eats a light break fast, works till noon, eats a vegetable and fruii dinner, without tea or cof fee, takes it easy the rest of tho day and goes to bed at 8. He says he doos not want to die till ho has given away all his money. Even the rid: girl may have ar ? complexion, W. J. KU THE UFO KI). H. B. MOBBIS. 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THE PARLOR GEM action conslstoof tho Celebrated Newell Ried?, which ?re only used In t.ie high est erado instruments; fitted with llanuaond Caaplers aaa Tex Kaaans, also beet Dolce fc'ts. leathers, etc,, bcUowj ot tho bsst rubber cloth, ?-ply bellows stock dr.d finest leather In valves, THE PARLOR OEM fcfMnWgd with a lOxH beveled plato French mirror, nickel plated ne-lal frames, and every modern improvement, rt. furnish freo a handsome orgaa ?tool ud th. best organ lastrne Uon book pabll.oed. ...... GUARANTEED 25 YEARS. S*S|f8 IMUO ?. wrltt.ti binding ivyear Kuarontee, by th. terms and conditions ot which If any part gives out wo repair lt freo of ?harre. Try lt one month and wo wM refund yourmoDCV If you aro not perfectly "tljfled. 600 of th"?o organs will bc'sold lt 335.50. OED EB QUR^ELlABILITYP|SLESfABLISHED daalt with us ask your nol^bbcr about us, writ? tte publisher ol thin paper or Metropolitan National Bank, or Corn Not. Bank, of Chicago; or German Exchange Bank, hew York; or any railr' wi or express company In Chicago, wa nirrnrsplislof oier ?TOO.OCO.OO, CCCnpy entire ..m? nf the 1-rifO't burinera blocks in Chicago, ?d ?mpioy MnHy ;.ooo peonlo in our own ?^>4V?iI!^ ^OESUCK. & CO. (Inc). Fulton. Desplaines and Wayman S ; J.. CHICAGO, IP-!-. WITH ?OURMD?,cuxtnja fit out and send to ns.ond we wiU tendon OUSHIQH ' ?tto ?xnmli EmHiirURDOF, p?y special Otter Price $15.50^^***^"* yourka homo. s?nd^vrfaiwtnrft y oox ^ *7.?gf SSS c"?W?uT?5^ fa? WK CABWIT BCBD1CX U BEWARE Of IlYll I ATIUWg. WJ?0cop7oaradver . n,frrfnc- nnkaowa aneklatt under variousnames, with varlon?lc ;,V?MF.IM Btnianmi^l/ has every H0DKB5 IIVRO*MKaT, THE B?Bt?SCiv KTKRT ??0D POUT OF KTEilT HIGH ifc* W????- ? ORADR HACHIS! HADE, WITH TUB DETECTS OF K05R. Made by thc, ii S3 best makers In America, ifrowt tho beet rasteris?inoney SOUP QUARTER SAWED OAKRWtff?|Mjffl ff???tSS? a"nd?nU? awn" sewintr 4 fancy drawers. Inlett 1000 ?keleloa fran., carved, paneled, em. bowed and dworated cabinet finish, Anet nickel drawer;pulls, restsi on_ four r^ers adjustable treadle, genuineSmy?h iron stand, finen lars* Ole* Arm E?d ??? four motion feed, self threading vibrating shuttle, automatic bobbln^vinder. ndjusrjible bearings, patent tension liMrator.tmproved loose wheel a^ustablopressuro foot, Improved shuttle carrier, Patent ne^lebar, notent dre?i guan? Sc.d I. bsndson.ly decorated and ornamented .nd be^anUfnlly ?lVn H M ed C U A R A N T E E D thellsbtestrannlnr, mort darabl. and nearert ZSSSS^tXVSrtt kn.w? att.ehm.nt U fnml.hed and onr Free. Ia m?SSSSSS5kt tells just ho w anyone can run lt and do either plain or any Hnd Of fan?yf^wort A lO-Teara' Di;aInEGnarante.iB scntwith cvcrymacblne li oneTC vnil NflTUINH tt?e.a.d?iamlaelhl.machine, comparo Itwith IT COSTS YOU WUIHIW? th0 T01lr gtorokeepcr sells at 8*0.00 to _-? .- OMtS f?l,;l,l .nut tho ?1MB. 8 I. B?SS?r?k) Chicago, IU? GEO. P. COBB, JOH/NSTO/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. THE HANNIS DISTILLING CO., Fine Whiskies, PHILADELPHIA. EED LABEL MONOGRAM Sold by all Dispensaries in , South Carolina. DISTILLERIES: Hannisville, Martinsburg, W. Va., Hount Vernon, Baltimore, fid. . GRABFELDER & CO., : LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, Are Furnishing to the I South Carolina ? Dispensary S rr ii 5 SILVER BROOK XX, g ROSE VALLEY XXX, S AMERICAN MALT, 5 DUNN'S nONOGRAH RYE,