Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Attention: Farmers of South Carolina This is the year for you to return to your "first love the Old Reliable "Star Brand" Wilcox & Gibbs Guano Co's Manipulated Guano, and use it on your crops ex clusively. It has given satisfaction wherever used for over 45 years, and is acknowledged by those who use it to be the best all-round Cotton and Corn Fertilizer in the world. It gives you the Best Results for the Least Money. It is Cheap in price. High Grade in Analysis, made of the Best Materials, and has a record of 45 years which proves its Superior Value as a Crop Producer. For Economy and Best Results this is The Fertilizer for you to use. Ask your Merchant for it and insist on hav ing it. We sell all other grades of Fertilizers. If your Merchant does not handle our goods, write us direct The Macmurphy Company Successors to The Wilcox & Gibbs Guano Co. Charleston, S. C. 71 Attention Farmers am better supplied than ever before to suit you in wagons, buggies and car riages. We sell the celebrated Studekak er wagons and carry a full line of sizes. We have a large assortment of buggies in Brookway, Summers, Columbus and oth ers. Come in and see what we have. Our harness department is well stocked with sin gle and double wagon and buggy harness. Can suit any purse.. Full stock of Furni ture. We buy in large quantities direct from manufacturers and can make close prices. Full assortment of house furnish ings of all kinds. We carry a full line of stoves. Buy your wife a new stove and make her happy. It will surprise you how cheap we can sell you a good stove. UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT. In this as in all other departments we can supply any rea sonable demand. We carry a full line of sizes both in cheap coffins and higher priced cases. Our hearse responds to all calls, either day or night G. P. COBB, Johnston, S. C. rn Pianos and Organs At present we desire to call especial attention to the Adam Schaff piano, which is used exclusively in the public schools of Chicago. The factory has been established forty years, lt is a strictly high grade standard piano. Prices of uprights are from $300 to $500. Farrand Organs. We have sold over 1,500 Farrand organs and all of them are now giving satisfaction. We also car ry a line of other makes of pianos and organs. Any of our goods>.are sold on liberal terms of payment. Satisfaction guaranteed in every particular, Holland Brothers, ? Greenwood, S. C. [ WM ta a ..???8BaaBiBBSBrB!::ssiE;B3B3a^r,!:3as[:?:3si:3::cErc::??n2a;:2r2B82C!;craciBsr.3??F3B? Horses and Mules Before buying see our t Kentucky Horses and mules. Our pri?es are right. r t t & Schedules Southern Rail wa j Premier of the South Effective Dec. 3, 1911. (N.B. Schedule figures shown as information only and are not gnarteed.) Arrivals and departures Edgefield, S. C. 1:10 a. m. No. 209 daily for Tren ton, Columbia, Greenville, Spar tanburg, Asheville, Cinciinnati. Arrivals Trenton 8*30 a. m. Co , lumbia 10:50 a. m., Greenville 5:55 p. m., Spartanburg 4:10 p m. Asheville 7:34 p. m. Cincin nati 10:00 a. m. 10:5 a. m. No. 231, for Trenton, Aiken, Augusta and intermediate points. Arrive Trenton 10:40 a. m. Aiken 11:25 a. ra. Augusta 11:35 a. m. 1:30 p m No 229, dr?ly except Sun day for Trenton, Aiken, Charles ton, Columbia, Washington, N. Y. Pullman sleeping car from Trenton dining car service. Ar rive Aiken 3:05 p. ra. Charleston 9.15 p m. Columbia 6:40 p m. Washington 8:53 a m. New York 2:31 p m. 6:50 p. m. No 207, daily for Tren ton, Augusta and intermediate points. Arrive Trenton 7:10 p m. Augusta 8:35 p m. 9:00 a m. No 208 daily, from Au gusta and intemediate points. 11:00 a a.. No. 208 daily, from Augusta and intermediate points, 11:00am. No 230, daily from New York, Washington, Columbia and points East. 1:00 p m. No 210 daily except Sun day, from Aiken and intermedi diale points. 4:55 p. m. No J32 daily from Ai ken, Augusta and intermediate points. 7:40 p m. No. 20G, daily, from Cin cinnati Asheville, Spartanburg, Greenville, Columbia and inter mediate points. For detailed information call on ticket agent, or E. H. Coapman, VP&GM., Washington, D. C. J. L. Meek, AGPA., Arian ta, G. F. L. Jenkins, TPA., Augusta, Ga. Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gie Mills, Engines, Boilergy Supplies and repairs, Porta qle , Steam and Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files, Bells and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. Gins and Press Repairs. Try LOMBARD, AUGUSTA, GA. Round Trip Excursion Rates Via Augusta, Ga.,-Via Southern Railway-Premier Carrier of the South. Account Aviation Exhibitions, Au gusta, Ga., January 10, 26, Februa ry 14, 23, March 13 and 29,. 1912, by the Aviation Schools, the South ern Railway announces low round trip tickets to Augusta on the above dates, good returning the third day from, and including date of sale. For further information, call on ticket agents, or, John J.. Meek; AGPA., Atlanta, Ga. Frank L Jenkins, TPA., Augusta, Ga. Seed Irish Potatoes. We have just received one fresh shipment of eastern seed potatoes in all the popular varieties, such as Bliss, Early Rose, Goodrich, aud the celebrated Irish Cobbler. Come in to see us when you are ready to plant. Penn & Holstein. Counting Up. "Think of the golden moments you have wasted playing bridge."said the serious friend "Yes." replied Mrs Flimgilt, regretfully, "besides a lot of silver coin and paper currency." Diet of the Alligator. Alligators are said to eat nothing In winter. Their diet is almost all meat, preferably liver. In cool weath er they eat about once a week and In warm weather oftener. Healthy Old Lady. In order to celebrate her eighty first birthday Miss Sue Vorhees, an Inmate of the Old Ladies' Home In New York, skipped with a rope twen ty-one times, and was not In the least fatigued when she finished. Good Advice. Don't brag before you make good, and after you've made good you won't need to.-Life. J (Continued from Opposite P.-ige) " 'Asn't re moved?" demanded the cap tain. f "Not a muscle-" "Shammin'! 'Ere, I'll show 'im." 'O'Rourke gritted his teeth and sup pressed a groan as the toe of Hole's heavy boot crashed into his ribs. "Th' mon's nae shamming," Denni son declared. "He's fair fainted." "Fainted hell!" countered the cap tain. "Give 'is arm a twist, Denni son." The mate calmly disobeyed. The arm-twist desired by the captain re quires the use of tho twister's two hands, and stoutly as he defended his I opinion, the first officer was by no means ready to put up his revolver. He advanced and bent over the [ Irishman, who lay motionless, his up per lip rolled back to show his clenched teeth. "Heugh!" exclaimed j the first officer, peering into his face^ his tone expressive of the liveliest I concern. Without further hesitation he dropped the revolver into his pocket and-received a tremendous short-arm blow in the face. With a stifled cry he fell back, clutching at a broken nose, and sprawled at length; while O'Rourke, j leaping to his feet, deliberately put a heel into the pit of Dennison's stom ach, thereby effectually eliminating him as a factor in the further contro versy. Simultaneously he advanced upon Captain Hole. But In the latter he encountered no mean antagonist. The man-it has been said-was as tall as and heavier j than the adventurer, and by virtue of his position a competent and experi enced rough-and-ready fighter. In a breath he had lowered his head and, bellowing like a bull, launched him self toward O'Rourke. The Irishman met the onslaught with a stinging uppercut; which, nev ertheless, failed to discourage the captain, who grappled and began to belabor O'Rourke with short, stabbing blows on the.side of the head, at the same time endeavoring to trip him. The fury of his onset all but carried the Irishman off his feet. At the same time lt defeated Hole's own purpose. O'Rourke watched his chance, seized the man's throat with both hands and, tightening hi3 grip, fairly lifted him off his feet and shook him as a ter rier shakes a rat. Then, with a grunt of satisfaction, he threw the captain from him and turned to face greater odds. The noise of the conflict had brougnt the crew down upon the contestant?.. Surrounded, he was rushed to the rail.' With that to his back he drew on his reserve of strength and, poising him self, began to give his assailants per sonal and individual attention. They pushed him close, snarling and curs-/ lng, hindering one another in their eagerness, and suffering variously for their temerity. O'Rourke fought with trained precision; his blows, lightning quick, were direct from the shoulder and Very finely placed; and so straight did he strike that almost from the first his knuckles were torn and blediDg from their impact upon flesh and hone. Fight as fiercely as he might, how ever, the pack was too heavy for him; and when presently he discerned, not . in ono but in half a dczen hands, ? gleams of light-the rays of a near-by j lantern running down knit bl des-? he con cr'Jed the moment inp tn mt. when he must sever his connection-: with the Perrin. Moreover he had a shrewd suspicion that Hole was up and only \:\\\\\\:z for an opening to use his revolver. Leaping to the rail, he poised an instant, then dived far out from tho vessel's side, down into the Stygian blackness of the harbor water; a good clean dive, cutting the water with hardly a splash, he went down like an arrow, gradually swerving from the straight line of his flight into a long arc-so long, indeed, that he was well-nigh breathless when he came to the surface, a dczen yards or more from the Pelican. Spitting out the foul harbor water, and with a swift glance over his shoul der that showed him the Pelican's dark freeboard like a wall, and a cluster of dark shapes hanging over the rail at the top vaguely revealed by lantern light, he struck out for the nearest vessel, employing the double overhand stroke, noisy but speedy. That he heard no cry when he came to the surface, that Hole had not de tected him by the phosphorescence, and that he had held his hand from firing, at first puzzled O'Rourke; but he reasoned that Hole probably feared to raise an alarm and thereby attract much undesirable attention to himself and his ship. In the course of the first few strokes, however, he managed to peep again over his shoulder, and from the activity on the Pelican's decks concluded that he was to be pursued by boat; which, in fact, proved to be the case. Fortunately the Pelican rode at an chor in waters studded thick with other vessels, affording plenty of hid ing places on a night as black as that The adventurer made direct for the first vessel, swam completely around lt, and by the time the Pelican's boat was afloat and its rowers bending to the oars, he was supporting him??elf by a hand upon the unknown ship'n cable, floating on his back with only his face out of water. Under these conditions, lt was small wonder that the boat missed him so completely. At length rested, the Irishman re leased his hold and struck out for land at an easy pace. Eventually he gained the end of a quay, upon which he drew himself for a last rest and to let his dripping gar ments drain a bit ere venturing abroad in the streets. Not until then, strangely enough, did it come to him with its full force, how he had been tricked and played upon from the very beginning. And he swore bitterly when he contemplated his present position of a penniless outcast in a city almost wholly strange to him, without friends (save indeed, Danny-wherever he might be), with "The Irishman Was Upon Him-'? out a place to lay his head, lacking even a change of clothing. His kit box was aboard the Pelican and likely to remain there, for all he could do to the contrary; In his present state, to apply to the authorises or to at tempt to ledge a complaint against Captain Hole would more likely than not result in incarceration on a charge of vagrancy more real than technical. And-the Pool of Flame! He fumed with impotent rage when he saw how blindly he had stumbled into Hole's trap, how neatly he had per mitted himself to be raped of the jew el. Por in the light of late events he could not doubt but that Hole had sought him out armed with the knowl edge that O'Rourke was in possession of the priceless jewel-more than probably advised and employed by Des Trebes; assuming that he had failed to inflict a mortal wound upon that adventurer. "Aw, the divvJe, the divvle!" con> plained O'Rourke. "Sure, and 'tis a pretty mess I've made of it all, now!" Saying which he rose and clambered f.o the top of the quay-with the more haste than gocd will in view of the fact that the splashing of cars, the dimly outlined shane of a beat head ing directly fer his refuge, had sud denly become visible. Of course, it might not be the Pelican: but O'Rourke was too thoroughly im pressed with the conviction that the laws of coincidence were working against him, just then at any rate, to be willing to run unnecessary risks. Chance, too, would have it that there should be an arc-light ablaze precisely at the foot of the pier, be neath which stood, clearly defined in the white glare, the figure of a hulk ing black native representative of the municipal police, whom O'Rourke must pass ere he could gain solid earth. For this reason he dared not betray evidences of haste; his appearance was striking enough In all conscience, without any additional touches. So he thrust his hands into his pockets and sauntered with a well-assumed but perhaps not wholly convincing air of nonchalance toward the officer. The latter remained all unsuspicious until-and then the mischief of it was that O'Rourke was still a foll five yards the wrong side of tho man Hole himself leaped from the boat upon the end of the quay and sent a yell echoing after the fugitive. "Hey!" he roared. "Stop 'im! De serter! Thief! Stop thief!" / The black was facing O'Rourke in an instant, but simultaneously the Irishman was upon him and had put an elbow smartly into his midriff In passing, all but toppling the man back wards into the harbor. It had been well for him had he suc ceeded. As it was the fellow saved himself by a hair's breadth and the next minute was after O'Rourke, yell ing madly. The Irishman showed a fleet pair of heels, be sure^ but^ undoubtedly, the devil himself was in the lock that' night! Who shall describe In what manner a rabble springs ont of tho very cobbles of Alexandria's streets?; Men, women, naked children and yap ping pariah dogs, fellaheen, Arabs; Be douins from the desert, Nubians*4 Greeks, Levantines-the fugitive h?d? not covered two-score yards ero a umbr of such composition was snapping at his calves. Turning and twisting, dodging and: doubling, smiting this gratuitous ~&B~ erny full in the face, treating the next as he had the limb of the law (and' leaving both howling), he seized tho first opening and swung into a narrow back-way, leading Inland from the wa terfront. He ran as seldom he had run .be fore, straining and laboring, stumbling, recovering and plunging onward. And, by the gods, wasn't it hot! Tl? khamsin raved and tore like a spirit, of hell-fire through that narrow alley, turning it into a miniature inferno. But In the course of some minutes, the end of the tunnel came in view.;; a lighted rift between house walis, giving upon the illuminated street "be yond. The sight brought forth a fresh burst of speed from O'Rourke. "He dashed madly out of the alley, stumbled and ran headlong into "a strolling Greek, who grappled wj?a him, at first In surprise and then Ja resentment, while the clamor of tho pursuing rabble shrilled loud <uSa near and ever nearer. Exhausted as he was, the Irishman struggled with little skill before to mastered his own surprise; and m tao end saw his finis written along ?a? blade of a thin, keen knife which Che Greek nad whipped from the folds pt his garments and jerked threatening^ above his head. It was- falling when O'Rourke setw lt In another breath he had be?, stabbed. Unexpectedly the Gre* shrieked, dropped the knife as fboujp. it had turned suddenly white-hot hi his hands, and leaped back frojn. O'Rourke, nursing a broken wrist while a voice as sweet as the singiqtr of angels rang In the fugitive's earn, though the spirit of its melody wis simple and crude enough. "O'Rourke, be all th' powers! T^he masther himself! G'.ory, ye beggar, 'tis sorry I am that I didn't split tie ugly face of ye wid me sthicS! . . . This way, yer honor! Com? wid me!" Blindly enough (Indeed the worM was all awhirl about him) O'Rourke, his arm grasped by a strong and COHH dent hand, permitted himself to be ewung to the right and across the street In a thought blackness again was all about him, but the ham gripped his arm, hurrying him onward; and he yielded blindly to its guidance -without power, for that matter, Jt? question or to object; what breath he had be sorely needed. And as blind ly he stumbled on for perhaps another hundred yards, while the voice of the rabble made hideous the night ber hind them. Hardly, indeed, had .the two whipped into the mouth of tko back-way ere it was choked by a swarm of pursuers. But-"Nftrer fear!" said the voice at his side. " 'Tis ourselves that'll outwit them. . . . Here, now, yer honor, do se go straight on widout sihoppin' omCH ye come to an Iron dure in a dead w?ll at the end av this. Knock there wance, count tin, and knock agaii. I'll lead 'em away and be wid ye agjf?n in a brace av shakes!" Benumbed by fatigue and exhaus tion, O'Rourke obeyed. He was awa?e that his preserver with a wild whoop had darted aside into a cross-alley, Sit hardly aware of more. Mechanically he blundered on until brought up by a wall that closed and made a cul-de sac cf the way. With trembling hards he felt befo? him, fingers encountering the smootn, cool surface of a sheet of metal. Tbfj, then, was the door. As carefully he could he knocked, counted ten, af knocked again-while the mob had lusted for his blood trailed down the due alley in frantic purs\ of his generous preserver. And Lerr.I with a smile, the latter's shrl def! .. yells luring them further upon the false scent. "If 'tis not Danny," ga?rcd the ad venturer, "then myself's not tho O'Rourke! Bless the lad!" But as he breathed this benediction the iron door swung inwards and he stumbled across the threshold, beK faintlng, hardly conscious that he tufa done more than pass from open night to the night of an enclosed space. H? foot caught on some obstruction aad he went to his knees with a cry that was a cross between a sob and a groan; and incontinently fell fufl length upon an earthen floor, his heafl pillowed on his arm, panting as if hie heart would break. In the darkness above him someooe cried aloud, a startled cry, and thon the door was thrust to with a cl and rattle of bolts. 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