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ITHE N?T10N?L BANK OF ftUGUSTA j L. C. HATKK, Pret't P. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Und I Tided Profit? }$110,000. . Fadlltiftj of our magnificent Ne? Vault /containing 410 irnfety-Lock Boxes. Differ bnt Sizes are offered to oar patrons and I the public at ?3.00 to $10.00 por annum. THOS. J ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22. 1900. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, OA. Paye Interest on Deposita, Accounts Solicited. Li. O. HATTTE, President. W. C. WABDLAW, Cashier. VOL. LXV. NO. 3 4. How swift* atas! the year prows old! The flowers pass; the earth is cold. A holMay of nun and song: Then skies are gray and nights are long. SHE TREED ' BY EMILY . Although the little village of Olden was beginning to look bright with the green of carly spring, down here by the cove all was gray-sand, rocks, sky, even the water had the sams dreary tint Not a glenru of other color, except that of the crimson shawl which the girl, sitting on a ledge of rock, had wrapped around her. Laurence Dare, coming along the road which ran above the b?nch, saw the patch of red and paused. "That is Monica," he muttered. . He stood still a few minutes, watch ing the slender figure leaning back against a high range of rock, the shawl drawn close around her shoulders, the little black hat pushed back on the dark hair, her gaze fixed on the gray water. At sight of her Dare's heart had given a great throb of joy. It was so long, so long since he had seen her. . He made a few long strides and stood beside her. "Monica," he said softly. The girl turned her hoad with a quick movement. "Oh, Laurence," There was a displeased tone In her voice and her brows came together lu a frown as she regarded him. Ile put out 1. s hand. "Are you not going to shake hands with me. Monica? It ls so long since I have seen you!" The girl gave him her .hand with reluctant air, withdrawing it quickly from his warm clasp, and turning hoi face again seaward. After a glance of some moments, which Dare spent in devouring eager ly with his eyes every line of her pro file, he oegnn: "Monica, you are cruel; you have not let me see you once this long winter. I have boen down from the city so often, and tried again and again to see you, but each time that I called you had Just gone out. I feel sure that you saw me coming and went away pur posely. Last night it was tue some thing. But chance has been good to me; I have missed my train this morn ing, and so I have caught you; you had no opportunity to avoid me." The girl made no answer. He went on: "Last summer you gave me a faint hope that In time you would listen to me. What have you to say to me now? Have you not thought of me all these long months?" . ,She turned around to'him, her eyes full of tears. "I was wrong to let you think you might hope, Laurence, for I can't do as you wish. Don't you understand? It seems wrong for me to listen to you. Think. I belong to Allen: I was to have been his wife. He was always talking of Cousin Laurence; you seemed Cousin Laurence to me, too. Don't 'you see? I belong to Allen: I can't marry you." "But Allen is not-" She Interrupted him quickly. "Hush; we don't know; he must be living." "Monica," he said, with great gentle ness of voice, "think, it is four years; he was to have returned in ten months." "I must be faithful to him." Dare flushed. "This is nonsense. Monica," he said, half angrily. "If Allen Is living," he went on, "why have we not heard from him all these years? Are you going to waste your life In this little village and give up all chance of happiness for a fanciful idea of being bound to him? And think of me! I have loved you so long. Come to me. I shall love you so much that you must love me in return; come, l swear that you shall never regret lt, Monica !" "I ean't Laurence." "VIII you spoil both of our lives?" "I must not listen, Laurence, I wish that you did not care for me." "I can't help caring for you. I think I have loved you since the first day I saw you, and now that you are free-" "i am not free." "Monica, listen !" She stood up. "I must not. Laurence, Try to forget me. I am going home; do not come." And before he could stop her she had darted away. She went along swiftly until she knew that she was out of view from the cove. Her thoughts were in a whirl. Why should she not yield ? She knew that her happiness would be se cure with this strong, tender man. How little he guessed her struggle to resist his pleading. He thought she did not care. In the old days she bad compared Allen with him, and always to the former's disadvantage. For after the first glamour of their engage ment she had seen the shallowness and selfishness of Allen's nature, and in the close relations Into which through her engagement she was brought with Allen's cousin Laurence she bad rec ognized the strong and noble charac ter of the latter. And these last years how the tend erness of his nature had shown out. What care he had given to Allen's des olate mother. He had almost filled the place of her son. Still, at first her feeling for him bad been only a strong admiration. In spite of her recogni tion of Allen's weak nature, the fas cination of hi?? glance and soft voice bad held her captive. But now! When Allen had gone west on the pros . pecting tour, which was to occupy ten months, she had promised to marry .-him upon his return. But the ten months bad passed, and other months bad grown into years, and he bad not returned. They had no news of him after that last letter, written seven months from bis departure. Laurence had employed every means at his com mand to find some trace of him, but In vain. He appeared to have vanished utterly. The only reasonable solution of the mystery was that he was dead. His mother believed lt, but Monica did not She could not Sh'- had promised to walt for him; she dared not break IMER. A smile from if ay: rt laugh from Jnnej July's warm ray; the August moon 'Tis autumn drenr! And with a will We toil, and fear the winter's chllL rO BE TRUE. 7. WINDSOR. f that promise. .' " ' ad loved her, She must-she would-be faithful. She would not yield to Laurence! Dare did not again soe Monica, although at each visit he had made his aunt during the spring he called at the parsonage. But Monica had always been out The minister and his wife received him most cordially. They would gladly have seen their dnughter his wlfa One day In June Monica was return ing from a walk down to the cove. Uer way was in the neighborhood or Allen's mother's. As it was still early in the afternoon, she decided to go and pay her a call. She had not goue to sec her often of late, through fear of meet ing Laurence. She felt that she would run no risk of meeting him this afternoon, he having visited his aunt the previous week. On reaching the house she found the hall door open. She knocked llghtlly and without walting for a re sponse walked into the little parlor where she knew Mrs. Dare was in the habit of sitting. But at the threshold Monica paused, for there stood Laurence by the win dow, an open letter in his hand. His aunt sat near him, apparently In a state of great excitement As she saw Monica she cried out: "He lives, Monica; he lives; my boy lives; my own Allen is living. Come in and hear the letter." Then she fell to weeping, and re peating ovr and over: "My boy is liv ing." Monica looked from her to Dare In bewilderment. She had turned very white. Laurence went up to her an? drevt her to a chair. He, too. was pale. "Is It true?" gasped Monica, at length. "Yes." But he did not look at her. "When?" "I received the letter this morning, and came down by the first train." "He is well?" "Yes." "Where ls he? I dou't understand." "In California." Monica looked at him confusedly. "Why-why haven't I-but I have been out nil the afternoon. I suppose that I shall find a letter at home." Dare did not reply. His aunt was still crying. She now looked up at Laurence. "Finish the letter. Laurence. Listen, Monica; our Allen is still living." Dare had folded the letter and was putting it Into his pocket "There Is little more of importance, dear aunt." "But Monica must hear it, Laurence. Monica, dear child, we'll be happy now. Read the letter for her Laurence." "My dear aunt, you must try to calm yourself or you will be ill." Monica was puzaled by Dare's evi dent desire not to read the letter to her. She went over to Mrs. Dare and em braced her. "Laurence Is rf frat; you must try to be calm, dear Mrs. Dare." "Joy never kills, child. I must cry for pure happiness." "I shall go home now," said Monica. "Perhaps there Is a letter for me." "Well, child, but come early to morrow. We'll count the days till we sec the boy." Laurence had left the room and stood at the entrance door. "I am coming with you," he said, as Monica came out. Dare regarded the girl stealthily as they walked along. He marveled at the unimpassioned manner in which she had received the news of Alleu's being alive. She was still very white, and there was a strained look in her face-not the expression of joy he would have expected to see. She walked rapidly, paying no heed to Dare. He put his hand gently on her arm. "Do not walk so fast, Monica. You will tire yourself out." She did not reply, but went more slowly. "Monica," began Dare, hesitatingly. "I-do not think that you will find a letter from Allen." She stopped still and looked at him. "What is it Laurence? You are hiding something. What ls the mys tery? Why did you not wish to read the letter?" "Monica, I believe you are a brave girl. Call np all your pride now." She gazed at him with wondering eyes. . "Laurence, what is lt?" He looked around hastily. It was but a short distance to the rocks at the cove and the place was deserted. "Let us go down there. I cannot talk to yon here." She followed him submissively. Thoughts of their last interview at this place came to her mind. How miserable she had been then, and how miserable now. Allen was alive, and she, wretched girl, was not glad. She did not love him. It was Laurence that she loved, but she must be faith ful to Allen. Laurence must never guess what a wicked girl she was. Allen alive, and she not glnd, and what was Laurence going to tell her? Dare seated her In a sheltered position and stood looking at her, a world of compassion in his eyes. "Monica, I would give my life to spare you this. Allen is a scouudrel." He drew the letter from his pocket, opening lt ?lowly. "What is it Laurence? Why do you speak so?" Then, as he did not answer, she said with a touch of imperiousness In ' her voice: "Let rae rend lt." He gave lt to her and she read. She passed hastily over the preliminary lines. But what was this? "I shall walt until later, Laurence, old boy, to give you the de tails of these years. Briefly, the en terprlse upon which I came out herc to achieve some measure of success bo fore returning home, but one failure succeeded another. Finally I was tak en ill with rheumatic fever. The woman at whose house I was stayiwg nursed hie through it, nnd rtfcr failed. ? kept oh trying others, hoping daughter, one Of the sweetest girls lu the state, helped hen Call me all the hard names you wish, but I fell in love with her and we were married. I was a coward, I know, but she loved me to distraction, and we were very happy. Believe me, I hove not been very easy when I thought of my mother an(J Monica. But I met Melton last weeli ns he was passing through to San Francisco. He told me thut you all believed rae dead, and that Monica was reported to be engaged to you, so she ls consoled and will forgive me. That Is Avhy I am writing to disclose my whereabouts. I am fairly prosperous and shall have mother come out here immediately. I know she will forgive me, and she will find the sweetest little daughter-in-law in the country. You will suit Monica far better than I should have done. You have the same high ideals of duty and nil that sort of thing. I confess to living on a lower plane." Dare stood looking at her sadly, cursing Allen In his heart. "My darling, if I could have spared you this-" he said. Monica looked at him and said, trem ulously: "Laurence, I tried all along to be faithful to Allen, but-" "But what. Monica?" She stood up and looked Into his eyes a fleeting glance, but it was enough for Dare.-Chicago Record. ON CHOOSING A WHIP. Throe and Four Yet?rn Required to Make a First-Clans Article. "Talking about whips," sa ! the hoad of a well known firm of UJ ijro carriage manufacturers, "not ry om? who handles a whip knows "> . he has a good article in his ha Whips can be bought for a quartet a dollar. Then some whips cannot i bought for $50 and they are not sot I with diamonds, either. The best whips used in this country are im ported. Throe and four years are re quired for the turning out of n first class whip, and as they are all hand made, they're n pretty expensive arti cle after the duty and retailer's prof its are added to the English prices. "A good whip should balance ex actly at a point 12 Inches from the butt. This requirement met, tho ar ticle has seemingly little weight. The best whips have stocks made of holly, yew and thorn. The best quality of bolly stocks como from the now for ests of the Isle of Wight. Owing to government restriction for preserv ing the forests, only a certain number of the young sprouts can be cut each .venr. The sprouts are then bunuied together and seasoned for three years. Small manufacturers will bundle up .")0 sprouts, and then place them in the chimneys of their houses. The smoke and dryness of the chimney will season them thoroughly. The seasoning pro cess over, they are put in a sort of trough, where they are soaked for three months In a bath of linseed oil. In straightening the stocks they are placed lu a long vice. This step com pleted, thu bark is stripped off In or der that the knot? may show. Auer they are nicely trimmed and varnished the stocks are ready to have the leashes or knots whipped on. "As a matter of fact tho more knots on the whip stock the higher price lt will bring. Then tho bites of rabbits add to the market value of a stock. The sprouts are young and juicy. Rabbits love the tender bark, ann In their hunt for tho dainty lear" many teeeth prints on the young shoots. This effect is known as a "rabbit-bitten stock, and with a do? knee divides the fancy of the swaggerhorseinnn in the whip line. Tho 'dog-knee' stock Ts one bent at a peculiar angle 18 inches above the butt, much in the fiimm angle of a dog's hind leg.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A 10-year-old girl who died in Kan sas a few days ago of heart disease, weighed 311 pounds. At birth she weighed but five pounds. The children of tho poor In Japan are nearly always labeled in case tuoy should stray from their homos winie their mothers are engaged on domestic duties. Georgia has a quivering tree, so called because every limb, large and small, ou the tree trembles as In fear, or as a suffering animal would quiver, and this occurs when not a breath of air is stirring. The Long Point comity school in Mc Lean county, lil., ls tho latest nsplr?ht for fame, with a unique claim to the attention of the public. Its proud boast is that lt has more twins among its pupils and teachers than any other school ot equal size In the country. One of the largest works of man's hands is the artificial lake, or reser voir, in India, at Rajputana. This res ervoir, said to be the largest In the world, and known as thu great tank of Dhebar, and used for irrigating pur poses, covers an area of 20 square miles. Plant a cauliflower plant in Cuba and Instead of spreading out in a big fat head liku a cabbage, lt spindles up for all thu world like a sun Mower, three or four feet high, with big, rank leaves and a little flower at the top that you never could recognize ns a cauliflower. Joined together by their seventh ribs, a ligament of flesh and liver mat did service for both, Rosaline and ma rla, 10-year-old Brazilian sisters of Rio Janeiro, whose singular union was similar to that of the famous Siamese twins, have been successfully separated by a surgical operation, and both sisters are doing well. The sur geons severed the flesh and bone ear ly in the winter, and. walting till the patients recovered from the shock, divided the single liver between the pair recently. Ki??ing Eggs of the Gypsy ? _ ^ ?ss* <<v T^ Tbe attempt on thc part of the Sta gypsy inoth bas been generallylconsld attempts of modern economic entorno termination of a highly prolific species^ than 200 square miles. The Introductl Trofessor L. Trouvelot, the French sav ter of raising silk from native silk won escape ls not clearly known, but; the ri years from the time of Its intr?ductlo ance In the neighborhood where it had has expended In the annual appropria Bum of $1,155,000. gooooooooooooooooooooo?pog ? tack of fatash fflag j | I fJausE a World's framine 8 S Edward Atkinson's Dire Prediction, o oooooooooooobooooooooocooo Er VERY now and again some scientific Investigator, delving I I deep Into the secrets of n'apii forces, has unearthed a menac which has seemed to threaten world-1 wide disaster and destruction to vine human race, says the New York Her ald. It would he hard to tell how many acores of times the people pf the earth have been called upon to, the prospect, remote or imm?diate, of their own annihilation. They have been asked to consider the results whlcb, In some future cycle, will come from the steady cooling of the earth's surface, to prepare for mundane anni hilation through collision with some whirling comet and to give attention to dozens of other hypotheses equally unallurlng. In the multiplicity of these theories lt would seem that thc possibilities had been exhausted, but every now and then a new deduction is brought for ward to startle the world. It has re mained for Mr. Edward Atkinson, the scientist, essayist und political agita tor, to develop the newest and most surprising theory as to the nature of the embarrassments which will force themselves upon the world's Inhabit ants as the centuries roll around. Mr. Atkinson believes with Slr William Crookes and some other eminent sci entific speculators that the great diffi culty, when it arises, will come in the form of hunger-the exhaustion of the world's food supply. But be does not believe this will be reached through over-population or the taking up of all the arable land. Mr. Atkinson's suggestion, which is nique at least, is that the world famine is likely to come in the form of a potash famine through the using up of the potash in the soil, and the consequent failure of the land to produce food crops. It is safe to say that most persons never have taken potash into consid eration as one of the food essentials of the planet. It is a fact, however, AN AMERICAN FARM IF WHAT Ml that It possesses real Importance In the production of almost every foot! crop that grows. Potash is present in every part of tbe enrtb's crust, at least In every part presenting an ara rloth on a Large Elm Tree te of Massachusetts to eradicate the ered as one of the most Important logy. The conditions involve the es veil established over an area of more ion of the gypsy moth was made by ant, who was Interested in thc mat ins. The manner of their subsequent ?sult was most unfortunate. Twelve n, the moth became a serious nuls escaped. The State of Massachusetts tlons for the gypsy moth work the ble surface. Soluble potassium salts are found In quantities in all fertile soils. These salts are sucked up by the roots of plants and trees, which eagerly seek them out os necessities of life. It ls a significant fact that even where soda predominates in the soil the plants take up the potash salts in preference. After taking part In the processes of nutrition and being transformed into organic salts the potash salts may re sume their original form through com bustion. There ls a loss In quantity, however, nud in the case of plants which are used for food or in the vari ous human arts there is, of course, a nearly complete loss. The cause for concern In regard to the question of the" w.brld's future food supply-Hw In the fact that potash is not renewed in the manner of some other elements of vegetable life. It is a mineral de posit arising through the natural de composition of certain rocks. On tilled laud there ls no opportunity for re INSPECTING FOB POTASH IN ARIZONA newal In the ordinary course of rota tion. It must be supplied, if at all, from large mineral deposits. This would be a simple matter if these deposits were large nud numer ous. Inasmuch as potash is found In almost every part of the world it would seem probable that such large deposits would be of frequent occur rence. But, as Mr. Atkinson points out, exactly the reverse ls the case. In discussing the matter before the Association for the Advancement of Science he called attention to the fact that the world's entire supply ls at present being drawn from the mines of Strnssfurt, Germany, and that, while other fields equally great may possibly exist, they have not been un covered up to the present time. Practically every blt of the potash used In the United States ls imported, and the volume of these imports ls Increasing rapidly, as the constant working of the soil makes the use of fertilizers more and more necessary. At the present time these imports amount to more than $2,000,000 year ly, although the proportion of our soil requiring artificial stimulus ls rela tively very small. Potash ls not now expensive, even with the necessity of bringing lt across the Atlantic. The real danger, as Mr. Atkinson sees it, R. ATKINSON SAYS COMES TRUE. ls in the exhaustion of the source of supply when the demand grows, as it is practically certain to do in ever increasing ratio. Not even Mr. Atkinson contends that a food famine from the exhaustion of the potash supply ls imminent, but the possibilities of such a famine are in teresting to contemplate. It would come about gradually, of course, the dwindling of the supply being accom panied by a steady increase in price. The lirst result, therefore, would be to plo ce this once humble product among the precious metals. As time went on it would rank, as Mr. At kinson suggests, even above silver and gold. Before this point was reached, how ever, the rise in the value of the min eral would cause it to be sought ofter eagerly in every part of the world, would lead to the conserving of the present sources of supply and to an attempt to find new ones. Men would prospect for potash with greater zeal than they now put into the search af ter gold. The terrors of the alkali deserts would be braved and men would bore for tho precious deposits all over the burning plains of the Southwest. At the same time, efforts would be made to gather tho product from the scatered sources of -sw?ply now in ex istence in some . financially profitable manner. According to Professor Ditt mar, the very greatest of ail these sources ls the ocean, and no doubt the brains of inventors and scientists would be racked to devise a means of separating this potash from the waves. In all primitive countries where thc supply of wood is large pot ash is obtained by the lixiviation of wood ashes. This source also would be brought into use, and gradually the forest trees and such plants ns nettles, wormwood, tobacco and kelp, all of which are capable of supplying potash in consid erable quantities, would be burned to rejuvenate the impoverished soil. Men would live more and more largely upon the food plants, requiring only a small 1 nrWrjTJBfr of potashsfor their growth, and a complete change in the accepted sys tems of diet wr-ild result To pursue the unpleasant transfor mation to its final result it is neces sary to picture a world growing grad ually more and more completely de void of life, farms barren of vegeta tion, houses and cities deserted and a race of beings growlug steadily weaker and weaker, and, even in the Intermediate stages of the change, entirely different from those who now inhabit the earth. It is reassuring to note that the con census of opinion among scientists is that this extreme condition never will be realized. There ls one great prin ciple generally accepted as holding good for all the operations of nature, which scientists bring up in opposi tion to those who predict a final cat aclysm of the world In any form whatever. That ls the principle of the indestructibility of matter. At a din ner of scientists held in Washington at which the predictions of Slr Will iam Crookes and Mr. Atkinson formed the leading topic of discussion, this principle was advanced as the chief argument against their conclusions. The scientists were confident in the belief that the potash taken in a thou sand forms from the earth would in some form return to the earth, and that in some way the conversion of potash from varied sources Into shape by which it could feed the soil, would come about when necessity demanded it There is no doubt, however, that the discovery of an addition to the world's supply of potash ls a matter of real importance, and it is likely that the sensation caused by the statements of Mr. Atkinson will lend to a vigorous search for deposits in this country. If such deposits of any considerable extent are in existence In any part of the country they undoubtedly will be uncovered before the German field ls worked out Meanwhile, Strassfurt, in Saxony, enjoys a monopoly of the potnsh in dustry. The business ls a trust in the fullest acceptance of the term, for the various mines all are controlled by an organization known as the Kali Syndicate, and the output ls regulated absolutely. Under the terms of a rigid agreement each manufacturer is al lowed to put on the market only a certain fixed amount of the mineral each year. In this way the produc tion is kept down and the prices are kept up. In Salt Lake County, Utah, over 96 per cent, of the domesticated bees have been killed by the smoke from the smelters. IT. J. RUTHERFORD. R. B. MORRIS. W. J. RUTHERFORD & CO. MANUFACTURERS OF '7% JEZ3 J?T%- A Jc3k- JfF AND DEALERS IN Lime, Cement, Plaster, Hair, FIRE BRICK, FIRE CLAY, READY ROOFING, AND OTHER MATERIALS. Write ms for Prices. Cor. 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WITH YOUR OROES.out twa ava. ont and send t o usjand we wUl send y ou OUR HIGH ""- examina -??r^S^ aver '/ant - M^St^^^bM^l^W torthin DROP HUSK CAJI 13IT BUBDlCI Ia <k? m?t?t valae ever offered by nn j bouse. ?Oi??m* niaCfenflaOaaf has every SODIRS lEPROTKSK.tT, THE BlJlxPOvnt RVP.RY GOOD POINT OP ETr.ILY infill fl inafe cuxDK HAtm.NB EADE, mm THU -"""y-~* . ?niw il-^ DkTECTS 0F SO?t Hade hythe, beat makers In Amerton. rfrom the best material money can bay. sis' ni JSOUP QUARTER SAWED OAK ^lWHWL^S& closed (head dropping from tlqht)tobeused as a e?atei'Ubi?, stja4 or dea, the other open with inti length table and bead la p ace for sewinc 4 faney drawers, lateat 10OO ?keletonframe, carved,paneled..em bossed and decorated cabinet finish, linet nickel erJ^1^."rtm??, aSI caster..adjustable treadle. genuineSmy'h Iron stand. ^"?'"?."^?.S headf positive four motion iced, self threodlnp; vibrating shottlc, ?a^?"? bobD?n^?lndcr. adJuBWblo boarinKs, patent tension llberator.lmprovedlooea wheel .djunabl?i pressure foot, Improved shuttle carrier, gK'SSsaaS pa'ent dress guanf bead la hoad.omely deeorated aol ornamented aad bMatllWly uarn. nean ta nanu.omcij ?rwri?. -ua u.- --- ? - --J- r-uARANTEED isatlsaaallajeajssvaaastamsaartsasrrT~n ^3SXSum,wWff^^1^ attaeb?.nt la fcmlahrd and onr Free la DtSr??? Book tolls jnst ho* anyone can run lt and do either plain or any klT of fancy wort. A ?O-Tcar?' Binding Cnarantee is sent with ivory ro*ebine. ????^IrRt^O^K^ilr^ CMeaso. ?? . ?.?.?.?.?.I .?.?.?.fl ? ASK FOR S "White Rabbit" S S CORN ^7S7-ECISKLE3TtT S The Cleauest and Best Made. Distilled in Alabama in the good old fashioned way By He ME Distill Co., J MC>2NTTC^01Vi:E!TtY. mm There are no headaches in "White lialibit" Corn Whiskey. ^? Sold nt all Dispensaries. Caa You Afford to Do ffitliont If? ffHAT? INSURANCE. Burnett & Griffin Will place you in some of the Largest and Best companies on earth, COUNTRY BUSINESS A SPECIALTY. See Our Life Insurance Contract. .?.?.?Ol . S. GRABFELDER & CO., S 2 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, . Arc Furnishing to the H ? South Carolina S O . Dispensary SILVER BROOK XX, ROSE VALLEY XXX, AMERICAN MALT, DUNN'S nONOGRAfl RYE, rf ct ?.?.?.?.?.?.?9I