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I J VALUABLE I I {INFORMATION CONCERNING Nl STORE. ;TheirXow Prices do the adver?sng after you once visit this Attractive Place. Fiieir Stock of Notions is complete, And Prices to suit the times! its, L In all the latest shades and styles ! ? ?tjbag and Outings, All'Colors! its and Shirts, > ?$vOf best make and quality?just the very thing for working men. Come and dee our Stock, fee pJo. Store is the right place to buy your? Jewelry, Musical Instruments, Crockery, Glass, Tin, . And Wooden ware, jTry Elk Baking Powder, * ? The best and cheapest in the world t Wiwn you want? / Pepper, Ginger, Cloves, Spice,^. Nutmeg, Soda, Soap, Starch, Tobacco, or any thing else! Ii i TBE OLD BEillBLf TEH CENT STORE! ? And you will be satisfied after baying that this is the "onliest" place in r^. Anderson to get everything just to your notion. Try us every time and be 'y ion'top. Yours always truly, C S. MINOR and 10c. STORE. IP&ROCER,' WITH ANY "SAND," ? WILL NOT put it in hia SUGAR, but rather intobussiness principles, ^^ore Sugar is a good tiling to ne able to ?>11. but much of it is adulterated "^eae:day*. The watchful grocer is careful what he buys- then he knows ^l?t he is soiling. This is the only way in which a reputation for reliability l^ra^bejiutli; up. -. Aa in Sugar, so with? |tea, :C?See, Flour, Confectioneries,- Tobacco, Cigars, ' Everything I keep lor public consumption. I BFr THE BSST-TH.EREFOitE, SELL THE BEST c- And ani saticfied with, a reasonable small-profit. Perhaps you know this p^a^ftdy. Certainly you do if you deal with me. Or. 23V BIGBY. STOVES, STOVES ! I 'VICTORIA DRUE VIQIL3MSX, E rw ?KU sellia* 8TOV?3 VERY CHEAP. Remember, you con buy a No. 7 Rata f<ir $0.00, and No. 7 Liberty tor $10.00. Wa also have Elm? andkIron Kins? the ben Stove on the market. jS?r* Briuj; me Jour Dry and Green Bides. JOHN T. BURPJSS. 1?Y TO THE WORLD !.RELIEF HAS COME I FOR THE HARD TIMES ! YOU CAN FIN); IT BY TRADING WITH <*THE BOYS" for ST?.PLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. When you need TOBACCO see our 26c. goods?the best In the State for the WATER BUCKETS. Only a Dime loir a good iron-bound Bucket. Seeing is belle ring, so come to BROYLES' CORNER and bo convinced. Very respectfully, "TMBO"''{RUSSELL & BREAZEALE. -money EW; JEWELRY STORE ? JOHN -M. HUBBARD, IS HIS NEW STORE. .IN HOTEL BLOCK. LOTS OF NEW GOODS. N0YELTIE3 IN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. / ONE CENT TO $100 00. ?S"TSo Charge for Engraving. ?&?ThG Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it's a pleasure to show them. . P?S??If you have Accounts with J. M. HUBBARD & BRO. make settlement with m? at above place. JOHN M. HEBBABD. ' .: ? ? . * BROWNLEE & VANDIVERS, Qfbr Special Inducements in every Department to CASH BUYERS I On3* Prices on Heavy Dry Goods, Shoes, Boots, &o., Are the Lowest, Don't Kail to see us on Flour, Coffee and Tobacco, NOW A WOBD TO THOSE WHO OWE US-We are CASH men, and if we have varied in the least from our rule, it was to ACCOMMODATE YOU, and not because we wanted to sell goods on time. So please show your appreciation of our kindness by settling up IN FULL AT ONCE. Ton? truly, BROWNLEE & VANDIVERS KEEP AN EYE ON WILL. K. HUBBAKD'Si t to Farmers and JEWELRY PALACE. Merchants Bank ! I! A look will convince you that I have the largest Stock in the City, and prices that make competition weep. 8-Day Walnut Clocks $2.00?warranted. I ripple Plated Knives and Forks $2.50. Fountain Pen $1.00 each. Brownie Scarf Pins 15c. each. Anderson Souvenir Spoon J?* Engraving Free. Promptness in everything. Get my prices be ?se von buy. I can and will save you money. "qrii.es (jroutosjt Line of Novelties in the City. WILL. R. HUBBARD, Nezt door to the Farrmwi rod Merchant* Bank. COMMERCIAL TOURISTS. They are Fond of Telling Jokes on Others. The thermometer had fallen with a dull thud, and registered 10 below zero. Around the steam radiator of the R. hotel sat a score of commercial tourists, shivering in spite of the cal? oric thrown off by the throbbing pipes. They were trying to' keep up their spirits as well as their temperature, for trade was poor, and orders, like angels' visits, few and far between. The door opened, and a clothing drummer from Chicago entered, con? tinues Milton Goldsmith in the De? troit Free Press. He wore an ulster upon his back and a look of grim de- j termination upon his face, as he pushed through the crowd and warm? ed his fingers at the radiator. When he was sufficiently thawed out to speak, he began as follows: "Of all the idiots nature ever cre? ated, man is the most completely idiotic 1" ''Speak for yourself, please," inter? rupted one of the group. "What's happened to make you feel so '.pessimistic?" said another. "Listen, and I'll tell you. I was just passing down Main street when I saw a erowd in a store. I went in, too, merely to get out of the wind. A tfellow was standing in the rear, with his head and shoulders project? ing through a hole in the partition, selling some kind of patent cough candy. In order to inorease the sales, he wrapped dollar bills wound every fourth or.fifth stick, then put yellow tissue paper around the whole, and mixed them with the rest of the sticks in a big box. Then he sold a choice of three sticks for 50 cents." "Of course you invested?" shouted one of the drummers. "No, sir; I did not; I'm not so groen. Several men did, however, and every one of them got a dollar. Why, you could see the money through the tiiisue paper. Well, after a while, he took out three $10 bills, and, handing them to me, asked me to wrap them around three sticks of candy. I did so, and after putting the tissue paper around them, I put those three sticks in the box where I could see them all the time. 'Now,1 says he, 'who'll give me $10 for a choice of six sticks?' I didn't want to do it; but the uproar became deafening around me. 'Go it!' cried one man; 'why, I can see the money from here!' 'You're good for $30, anyway.' "Well, they got me so confused that I completely lost my head. I handed up $10, picked out six sticks, includ? ing the three I had prepared, and, amid the hush of an expectant multi? tude, opened my purohase." "How much did you get?" "I got left! There was nothing in the paper but candy, and poor stuff at that. Now, will one of you gentlemen kindly coins out into the yard and kick me?" s The crowd arose unanimously, and prepared to do his bidding, when an old drummer from Cincinnati said: "Don't worry. It may be worth $10 to you as a lesson of caution. There is a sucker horn every minute, and you happened to be along just then, and-*-" "But how did he do it? I'd give $5 more to know how he did the trick." "I was fooled almost as badly last week in Philadelphia," said a shoe man from that city. "There, how? ever, the fellow was selling soap war? ranted to take the grease out of any fabric; also, as I afterward discovered, to take the money out of any sucker. He wrapped dollar bills around every few cakes of soap, and offered them at {51 for six. I selected six, two of which I knew positively contained bank notes. The faker offered to buy them back for $2. I was too smart for him, and going to a secluded spot, I opened my packages and found noth? ing but soap. ' "My experi ence was almost as bad " interrupted a drummer from Oshkosb. "I had a very red nose from drinking. That was before I reformed, ever so many years ago. One day I read an announcement in a reputable paper, that for $5 a man in Griggsville would send a sure receipt to remove the red? ness in a man's nose. I sent the money by the next mail. In due time I received this reply: 'To prevent a rod nose, keep on drinking till the nose gets blue!' " A hearty laugh greeted this story. "Soon after that I saw another ad. in another equally reputable paper. It read: 'For $10 I will send a receipt warranted to prevent drunkenness, delirium tremens, or any other ills arising from liquor. Money refunded in case directions fail to accomplish a cure.' "I sent the cash, and received in return a card bearing these words: 'Quit drinking.' Well, gentlemen, I took the advice, stopped drinking, and am to-day worth $60,000." "In your mind," added a grocery man from Indianapolis. "Be careful not to loose your mind, or you'll be a pauper!" "Talking about liquor," chimed in a Hat man from Cincinnati, "I regret to say that I was a pretty hard drink? er in my time. One day I received a circular by mail, which read some? thing like this: 'The attention of men addicted to alcoholism is called to an entirely new discovery by which the evil effect of drink is completely neutralized. No need to stop drink? ing, but drunkenness is prevented. Complete direction, $25. Money re? funded in case a cure does not follow exact obedience to instructions.' "I forwarded the money to Nash? ville, Tenn., and in due time received the following instructions: " 'Make an incision in the scalp, trephine a portion of the skull about the size of a silver dollar. Have a silver cap made to cover the opening thus produced. Whenever you feel the hilariousness produced by whisky, lift off the skull cap, thereby allowing the fumes of alcohol to escape. Should an exact compliance fail to effect the desired results, write to us and we will return your money.'" "Did you try the plan?" asked some one. "Not much. I got cured without it." "How so? Gold cure?" "No. Igotmarried. My wife took me in charge, and I swore off inside of two weeks." Everybody laughed except a gray bearded traveling man from Oklaho? ma. "Why don't you laugh?" asked the man from Baltimore. "Because I was caught that way myself once. I saw a notice in a daily, 'Send a dollar and wo will give you an easy way to double your mon? ey.' The answer was, 'Take a $5 bill and fold it in the middle. You will then have doubled it. You can readily observe it in-creases.' " "You got off easily," remarked an angel of commerce from Kankakee, "but my greenness cost me a little more. The other day an itinerant watchmaker came to my house and asked if we had any clocks to repair. He looked like a gentleman in hard luck. My $100-watch had stopped going a few days before, so he agreed to clean and regulate it for $1. 'Will you guarantee it to go?' I asked. Of course he said he would. When I came back half an hour afterward, I found a card, on which was written: 'Your watch is going. It has gone with me.' " "Yes, yes," mused the gray-bearded man from Oklahoma, "a sucker is born every minute. But these little tricks serve to make us more cautious, and I'll wager not one of you will ever be caught again!" "Fever!" "Of course not!" and other vigorous denials came from the assembled drummers. Half an hour afterward the gray-bearded man from Oklahoma brought out three cards and began an innocent little game, and every drummer in the crowd dropped from $1 to $5 in an endeavor to guess the ace from the other cards. The Elrctrlc Transmission or Energy. The complexion of the world and the phases of our existence, owing to the astonishingly rapid progress in the arts, are undergoing grave changes. The cruder animal powers are being put aside in favor of mechanical ones. A few years ago ferryboats were pro? pelled across the rivers about New York City by horse power, as com? memorated by Fitz Greene Halleck in one of his poems. To-day a horse boat, as they were called, would ap? pear as much of an anomaly and as archaic as a horse car will to our des? cendants. The introduction of the trolley has almost abolished what was perhaps the greatest single field for the employment of horses. And late? ly man has found that he can, on a bicycle, propel himself far better than any horse can. The bicycle is possi? ble simply because of the mechanical perfection of the machine. Coal is now the great source of power. A ton of coal represents eight or ten thousand man power hours, and perhaps over one thousand horse power hours. It can be produced for so small a price that in the regions of its, production it is the smallest element in the expense of power production. There would be little choice in the Pennsylvania coal regions between a steam planter a water power plant for the production of power. But given the power, the expense only begins. The turbine or steam engine is the first step that cost j; the subsequent ones involving the distribution of the power require the expenditure of mon? ey for their maintenance. Shafting and distribution apparatus in general have to be kept up, belting wears out, lubricating material has to be used, buildings must be kept in repair, and the labor and material charge for all this counts up rapidly. The phenomenal success of the trol? ley system of electric railroads is due to the electrical distribution of power, and only incidentally to any cheapen? ing in its original production. It is perfectly true that steam can be pro? duced more cheaply in large than in small units, but the soul of the trolley system is in the trolley wire. A me? chanical substitute for it, and the only one in extensive use to-day, is the cable in its subway conduit. The con? trast in simplicity between the two and in the requisite capitalization is most striking. It is fair to say that electricity depends for its greatest operations on its adaptability to sim? plify distribution of power. This being the field of electricity's triumphs, and a field as yet imperfect? ly explored, it would appear that it would give great scope to experiment and invention. The dynamo builder prides himself on turning out a gener? ator of 98 per cent, efficiency. The electric motor has its efficiency tested just as rigorously. But how much do we hear of the efficiency of the trans? mission process? An immense quan? tity of power is lost between station generators and car motors on all trol? ley lines and between the station and consumers in electric lighting systems. The price of copper is so high that a balance has to be struck between the interest charge on conductors and the loss incurred by different sizes, in order to determine how large or how small the conductors should be. The problem is made more tantalizing by the fact that with a high enough po? tential small wires could transmit a comparatively great power, while the great danger of high potentials pro? hibits their use in most cases. Accordingly the process of produc? ing power in stations by the best steam plant and of there converting mechan? ical energy into electric energy with scarcely any loss goes on, and is coin cident with the transmission of power over acircuitof resistance high enough to destroy the original economy, which, at the same time, is a circuit of high original cost and high interest charge. To reduce this cost the rails are used as a return, and a branch circuiting of the current follows, in some cases to tho injury of neighbor? ing water mains and gas pipes. In nearly all cases of electric distri? bution, although the conductors may be insulated, there is inevitable waste and a balancing of interest account on the original cost of conductors against the absolute waste of power. There is obviously a chance for some of the greatest improvements yet effected in the electrical science in the develop? ment of a radically new, or at least radically improved, system of deliver? ing electrical energy to the distant motor or lamp.?Scientific American. A Hojel Rat Poison. Enormous business has been done lately at French fairs by a man who professed to sell a rat powder that was perfectly harmless, and that struck rats dead on the spot. In order to convince the skeptical, the man first of all powdered a slice of bread with the stuff and ate a piece of it himself. Then he put the remainder under a glass case, in which a rat was kept in captivity. The rat went to eat the bread and instantly fell dead. At five pence a box the powder went off like hot rolls, and the lucky proprie? tor of the specific was in a fair way to make a fortune. But the police, who in France are very active in protect? ing the people from fraud, looked into the matter and found that the powder was nothing but ordinary sugar. They also discovered that the case was con? nected with a powerful electric bat? tery, and that the moment the rat touched the bread the current was turned on, and it was thus his death was brought about. The man was arrested at the fair of Albi. ? Probably the largest snake that was ever killed on the American con? tinent was that mentioned by Dr. Gardner in his book, "Travels in Mexico." The snake was dead when Dr. Gardner found it, and was lying in the forks of a tree with its body full of arrows, just us it had been left by the Indians who bad dispatched it. It was dragged into an opening by the aid of four horses, and was found to measure 37 feet in length. Bncklens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup rions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refund? ed. Prise 25 oonts per box, For sale by Hill Bros, A Flea for Bibbon Sngar-Cane. To the Editor of The News and Courier:. I am never anxious to in? trude my views upon the public through the columns of a newspaper. However, I have for a long time been a subscriber to and reader of your valuable paper, and I certainly appre? ciate your efforts, now and in the past, to improve the condition of our South? land. While reflecting on the very stringent times through which our country is now being called upon to pass I have concluded to write you a short article for publication, with the hope of directing attention to some? thing from which, I trust, some prac? tical good may result. There is nothing more certain than that our people cannot raise cotton at five cents a pound, notwithstanding some writers to the contrary. The man who thinks so has never raised cotton with hired labor. If these prices are to continue and our people continue to grow large crops of the staple it is only a question of time when the country will be bankrupt. This- will either be the result, or the laborers will be reduced to starvation wages. Then we will have the pauper labor of Europe here, of which some politicians are so fond of preaching. In such an emergency what are we to do? Are the people of the South not equal to the occasion ? Our farm population must farm. But if we continue to plant cotton, as in the past, as the population increases every year the acreage will be extended and the crop will be swelled in amount and prices must go lower. Then we must find some other crop. What shall it be ? I suggest that it should not be simply one or two or three things; but every citizen who has observed and studied should come forward and I contribute his experience, and out of many suggestions the country will [ sooner or late solve this problem. Have you ever thought of the rib? bon sugar cane as a substitute in part for cotton ? Hundreds of thousands of gallons of molasses are used every year throughout the cotton belt that are bought from other countries and paid for at extravagant prices with four and five cents cotton when we could raise at our homes a better grade than we buy, and at a profit besides. This, I know, is not the true home of the ribbon sugar cane. It is a child of the tropics, but it will grow here, and with intensively high manuring j will beat cotton as a money crop at j any price which cotton has brought during the last fifteen years. This is true unless all the farmers with whom I have talked during the last few years are mistake'n. This is one industry that is beginning to attract attention, but it has not received the prominence to which it is entitled. I Small areas of land during the past year on nearly every farm in some portions of Darlington County were devoted to this crop. It is also plant? ed to some extent in Marlboro and Chesterfield, and perhaps all the lower counties of the State. From inquiries made among farmers I have come to the conclusion that by inten? sively high manuring from four hun? dred to six hundred gallons and even up to one thousand gallons, may be produced from one acre of ribbon sugar cane grown upon our warm, light lands. But to do this it will require warm lands planted early and very high manuring. In fact, the manure must not be spared. But it will pay. There are thousands of farms throughout the State on which areas were devoted to the cultivation of this valuable plant during the past year. I have talked to farmers in a gener? al way wherever I found this crop cul? tivated, and from what they, told me of their experience I have, in every instance, come to the conclusion that it could be made one of the valuable crops of our State if our people could be made to realize it. I have written this with the hope of inducing your valuable journal to make a thorough investigation of the subject among the farmers of the State who have engaged in the industry. If you will do so and any good shall result from it I may in the future be tempted to write some? thing else on a similar subject. Subscriber Chesterfield, January 15, 1895. x Trne to K<?ntocliy, Kentuckians are always proud of their State in whatever departmen' of human labor they m*y hold a place. Not long ago a widow went to see a marble-cutter to get a tombstone for her late husband. She selected a plain one from his stock, and gave him an inscription to put on it. "Can't do that, ma'am," he said, politely, when he had read it. "Why not ?" shd asked, in surprise. "I'm paying for it." "Ycs'm ; but I can't put that on. I stretch my conscience a good many times in what I put on a tombstone ; but I ain't going to tell a plain lie when I know it." The widow was greatly shocked, and insisted on his explaining what he meant. "Well, ma'am" he s.:id, "you've got hero 'Gone to a better land,' and that ain't so, ma'am. There ain't any better land than Kentucky." Try Hot Water. "During dangerous weather of this sort," said the old doctor, "the most careful persons are likely to catch a cold in their chests that will extend swiftly to the lungs if not attended to. It usually makes its presence known by a constricted sensation just under the breast bone, where the flesh is thinnest. When a person experiences this feeliDg, he can rest assured he can procure almost instant relief by drinking a cup of water as hot as he can bear to take in the mouth and swallow. There is no better medicine in the world to arrest the progress of a cold than hot water; and, besides, its effect upon the stomach and the system generally is beneficial in the highest degree. And in sore throat the same remedy will be found almost a specific," ? Miss Cora Hull, of Steubcnville, Ohio, is in a sorry p'cdicament. The other morning when she awoke she threw back her head and yawned, aud at the same time something snapped and a sharp paiu shot through her head. Her mouth was stretched wide open, and she could not shut it. A physician discovered that she had dis? located her jaw, and pressed it back I to the proper place. She will have to be careful, the physicians say, how she laughs or yawns in the future, as the tendons being weakened, the acci- 1 dent is likely to occur again. ? It Is the boast of Eastern Shore Vir? ginians that a man in those parts can with a string, a piece of raw meat for a bait and a broken clam shell f ir sinker, catch iu a few minutes enough crabs to buy a complete fishing outfit; (hut .with hook and line he can Boon catch enough fish to buy a boat, and that with x boat he can in a few seasons catch enough oyst9rs to buy a farm. With a farm any Eastern Shore man is contented and in? dependent of the world. ? Ono of th? arguments advanced by a representative of a woman's committee who recently presented a plea for woman suffrage before the Legislature of a West? ern State, was that while the great men of the present are dying off, the college man of the present has degenerated to such an extent that be in unfitted to take the place left vacant by the collegeman of the past. "The university man of to? day," she said, "parts his hair in the middle and bangs it on the side." And this, she argued, shows bis effeminacy, I ? A justly incensed farmer who doesn't live a thousand miles from this place, recently posted- the follow? ing upon a fence which enclosed a cer? tain field: "If any man or woman, cow or oxen gets into these oats, his or her tail will be cut off, as the case may be. I am a Christian man and pay my tacks and darn any man that lets his critters run loose and get into these oats!" Among many ominous "signs of the times" this is a pecu? liarly characteristic one. ? An exchange speaks of four of the most stingy men on the record. The first will not drink as much water as he wants unless it comes from his neighbor's well. The second forbids his family to write anything but a small hand as it is a waste of ink to make large letters. The third stops the clock to save the wear and tear of machinery. The fourth jumps over his gate to save the wear of the hinges. They all refuse to take a newspaper on the ground that it is a terrible strain on their spectacles to read. ? A lake of "fluid asphalt" under 46,000 acres of Chickasaw county is the latent discovery in Oklahoma. It is better than a gold mine if it is true. ? Men are becoming scarcer year after year. So says a German statis? tician ; and he predicts that three thousand years hence there will be only one man to 220 women. ? "Are you doing anything for that cold ?" asked Raynor. And Shayne handed him a card inscribed as follows : "I'm taking the advice of every blamed fool that comes along with a remedy. What's yourB ?" ? Suppose a Burmese husband and wife quarrel and determine to sepcr ate. The wife?who always does all the marketing?goes out and buys two little candles of equal length, which are made especially for this use. She and her husband sit down on the floor and light them simultaneously. One candle stands for him, the other for her. The one whose candle burns out first rises and goes out of the house forever, with nothing but what he or she may have on. The one whose candle has survived the longest, even by a second, takes everything. So the divorce and the division of the property?if you can call that a divis? ion?are settled. ? It takes eighty men and women to make a postage stamp. First, the white paper is cut into sheets, each large enough for a hundred stamps. The stamps on each sheet are counted twenty-six times, to make sure the number is correct. The printer counts and passes the sheets to the gummer, the gummer gums the back, and, hav? ing counted, gives to the perforator, who divides the stamps by rows of little holes, not forgetting to count. It is surprising how quickly and accur? ately the hands can work. Seven hundred million postage stamps are made every year in the United States. New York City uses eight million a month.?American Messenger. WANTS MODERNIZING. The Naxos Emery Industry ? Must Have More Scientific Methods. Naxos, one of the largest and most famous of the Cyclades islands of Greece, has from time immemorial produced emery on a large scale, but times are changing, and unless re? sort is had to scientific engineering, the glory of the place will have fled. Two villages have had the.monopoly of emery mining, and have sent out daily about six hundred workmen, who, in the most archaic fashion, have set to work. The rock has been exclusively broken up by fire, the method being to clear a space, pile brushwood on it, light a fire, and, when the fire is dying out, throw water on the glowing rock to split it. Under such conditions only the surface strata could be utilized,. : but these are played out', and the I supply of brushwood is played out also. Experts who have been con? sulted by the Grecian government have recommended the resort to sys? tematic quarry borings, the use of powerful explosives, wire ropeways and other familiar appliances. In the meantime the Naxos industry is practically at a standstill, aud other deposits elsewhere have things all their own way, because they are properly handled. It is said that in the United States the development of large corundum beds in North Carolina is doing much to modify the state of the industry. Valued His Farm More Highly. They tell a story of a -man who came into Omaha one day and wanted to trade his farm for city lots. "All right," replied the real estate agent; "get into my buggy, and I'll drive you out to see some of the finest residence sites in the world ?water, sewers, paved streets, ce? ment sidewalks, electric light, shade trees, and all that sort of thing," and away they drove four or five miles into the country. The real estate agent expatiated upon tho beauty of tho surroundings, the value of tho improvements made and projected, the convenience of the location, the case and speed with which people who lived there eould reach town, ~nd the certainty of an active demand for such lots in the immediate future. Then, when he was breathless, he turned to his companion and asked: "Where's your farm?" "We passed it coming out here," was the reply. "It's about two miles nearer town."?Chicago Record. WONDERS IN EGGS. A chicken raiser near Rolfe, la., is the owner of a Plymouth Rock hen that is a genuine freak in her way. For weeks at a time she will regular? ly lay eggs without the least sem? blance of a covering in the shape of a shell, but with white and yolk of such firm and uuyiclding texture as to stand without flattening, as in the ordinary "skinny" egg. These eggs are as hard as the average "hard boiled," aud may be cut in two with? out danger of spilling the contents of the leathery membrane which forms the covering. That the above is "out of the ordinary" all will ad? mit, but it is only half of the queer story that is told concerning the feathered monstrosity. After laying a number of these curious shelless eggs, a period from a week to ten days will elapse in which there is a total cessation of the egg business as far as this one heu is concerned, and then the real "wonder egg" is deposited. This egg is just the opposite tu those men? tioned above, being entirely com? posed of shell material, and of about the same specific gravity as an equal bulk of common chalk. Six of these wonderful eggs have been secured up to October 1, and three of the number have been sawn asunder so as to show their composition. The Rolfe man has been offered one hun? dred dollars apiece for each of these solid eggs, and has so far refused to part with a single specimen.?Pitts A Word.for Spanish Pindars. To the Editor of the New* and Courier For the information of your Bonnoaa correspondent and others I will say some? thing more about Spanish pindars. 1. Thoy are certainly as good for ponp'o to eat as the old, common sort. Some people think they are better. I think that most of the parched pindars sold in the towns in Uarnwell County by the pindar venders aro the Spanish, as I be? lieve that morn of them uro planted in this county than tho old sort. I planted in my garden last year an ordinary s-izo garden sqnnro in the Spaoish variety, just to b??il, and that .wi nitro furnished us all and more than we could eat. and better boiled pindars I never did eat, and I have been eating thorn all my life. 1 have never met the man yet who could eat more boiled pindars, well salted, than I can, and I may say parched pindars too, as my friend Mr. J. L). Grimes, of Colston, Barnwoll County, can testify. Tho Ohio man is right. Spanish pindars aro good to eat. 2. They do not impoverish tho ground, hut improve it, even when pulled up, pindars, vine and nil, to be fed to stock. This is the experience of Capt Loroy V. Wilson, of Allendalo, who has been planting them steadily for a gond many years, and plants them in preference to the old sort. He thinks that tho reason, or one reason, that they do not hurt tho land, being *uch tremendous bf-arcr.*, is that they shade the laud so completely, which is always a great benefit to laud. When, howover, tbo pindars are not pulled up, but left in tho field for the hogs to root and fatten, tho land must be and is greatly improved by tho quantify of vegetable matter that is left in tho soil. I have never hoard any ono say that Spanish piudars aro injurious to the ground, but always tho other way. Thoro nood bo no foar of thorn on this ground. 3. Tho quantity of them that can be raised on an aero" will dopend, like other crops, on the strength, adaptability of the soil, tho seasons and the thoroughness of the cultivation. I believe that 150 bush? els to tbo aero on ordinary laud is not an overestimate. Sty seventy rows to tho acre and fifteen iuches apart on the rows would givo KiS bunches, every two of which, it may be safely said, will turu out a quart of pindars, which will givo 2ft bushels to tho row. Seventy, the number of rows in an aero, multiplied by 2? bushels, the yield of one row, would I iff XL 23 .v3 means so much more than J3 you imagine?serious and Jfatel diseases result from i" trifling ailments neglected. I Don't play with Nature 's ? greatest gift?health. Ifyon arc fee thug out of sort;;, wc;:!: , and generally c.x-' hausted, nervoe?,. have no a|ij"'.:tc and can't ViOikj begin at once tak? ing the most rclia- . ble strengthening ' medicme.which is. Brown's Iron Lit-" ters. A few bot? tles cure?benefit comes from the very first dose?it won't stain your teeth, and it's pleasant to tnke. s Dyspepsia, Kidney asiri Liver Neuralgia, Troubles, 1 Constipation, Bad Blood > Malaria, Nervous Climen*.?. \ Women's complaints. ^ :i C;-i only the genuine?it has C7CZ~-1 ?3 { <f ;::>.c3on the wrapper. All others ;?;< sub ^ L.iitttcs. On receipt of twocc. El ? ? *.vs >? J ??.:?! rend set of Ten Scautfii:: V. rv.t'a * ? V-sir Views and bcoh?free. < > T;~0\7H CHEMICAL CO. 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People wear the W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoiss AH our shoes arc equally satisfactory Thoy give the best value for the money. TBey equal custom shoes In style and fit. i Beir wearing qualities are unsurpassed. 1 at prices aro uniform,?stamped on sole. from $i to $3 saved over other makes. U your dealer cannot supply you wo can. Sold by GEtR BROS., Beiton, S. C. make 1S3 bushels to tho acre. The yield doubtless would greatly exceed tins if| say 200 pounds of some good commercial fertilizer were put on tho ground, either in tho bed or broadcast. Lot .some one who Is going to plant Spanish pindars this year go to work and see how many can ho mado on an aero of land, and report the result next winter. It will do good, and the ro-ult will ho surprising. ?1. To plant thorn lay off tho ground in three-feet rows, bed up and open tho hod with a bull-tongue plough, drop the pin? dars, shelled or unsbolled, fifteen inches in tho furrow and cover with a block. It will pay to cultivato tbcm well just as It does any other crop. 5. Tho kind of soil best adapted to them i:?, I think a light, rather sandv soil. But they may do will in a stiff, elay soil if well broken up at tho start and kept well pulverized by frequent pluughtne. l am quito certain that any of our low-country upland will mako them well. Don't forget that you cau mako two crops of thnni in the same year. 6. When your pindar crop is made turn your ho-js in and when fat and cold weather comes, kill them ami cure your bacon and blfss tho man who told you about Spanish pindars. John G. Williams. AUcndale, March 2(1, 18:?."). .- i HO- 0> - ? Germany's proposal for tho estab? lishment of international pontage stamps is being examined by the. British post office authorities. Such a stamp would ei<able correspondents to encloso return postage tor their answers which they now cannot dr.. Tho principle* has al? ready been adopted in tho international return pr>3inl card. 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You can usually lead him a mile easier than you can drive him a rod. Set that he has the proper surroundings, and a little encouragement, and It ts surprising hov readily he develops ? taste tut the best In literature. Lit tr.it ?siM be developed, and there is little daajer a fc> bis future. It was Dr. Philips brooks V/ho said; " Show me what bocks a boy reads, and I will resd y?iu bis destiny. ' How imror'ant It Is. then, that your hone should be provided wi:h books of the highost character. Fairy tales, and even, perhaps, "Boffalo Bill" stories, have their place as developers of a tar'.c for reading, a sort of literary milk, as It were, but un'ess the boy soon shows a preference for the stronger meat of practical knowledge, history, travel, etc., you may be lure that i Is mentally unsound, or that there has een something radically wrong Is tis education. The Encyclopedia Brltannlca has rightly teen termed "tho concentrated essence of the w' 'c world's wisdom." Ltf your boy rend iteresllng pages, and ho will tool toolc with disdain upon " flashy " lltcratera. eVe are continually underestimating; a bay's Sajacity for large Ideas. There Is oofhfnf (TO aftntcllve as truth. Give him the material cut of which to construct large Ideas. Put Dritannlca In the home, where he can consult It continually, end as ha attains manhood he will find no place In literary or profastloBti Li fe to which he may not aspire. Sfilie tho present opportunity to provide a Coper library for your homo. It requires aa vestment of but Ten Cents a day, If you Order .from Tub Columbia State while It may be had at Introductory prices. D O NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons having demands against the Estate of Lewis M. Aye-r, deceased, are hereby notified to present them, proper? ly proven, to the undersigned, within the time prescribed by law, and those indebted to make payment. L. P. SMITH, Executor. March 20. 1895 33 3 FRESH GARDEN SEEDS. LANDRETEI Garden S led? and Early Ruse. Potatoes. D. M. Perries' Seed*. No bsl.ter Seeds in market For sale by _A. B. TOWERS. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons having demands against the Estate of James 81. Bolt, deceased, are hereby notified to present them, prop? erly proven, to the undersigned within the time prescribed by law, and those indebted to make payment. M. E BOLT, Executrix. March 27, 1?(J5 39 3 \f L. BoNHAM. H. H. Watkins Attorneys at Law. ANDERSON. - ? - S. C. \T7 ILL practice in the State and United TT States Court. Office?Opposite Post Office. Aug 15,1894 7 3m ~FR?M M. M?RPIT, Attorney at Law, axdi:k?ox.s. c. COLLECTIONS, Commercial Law and Conveyancing yiven special atten? tion. Will practice in all tho StHt> Courts, '^ar.'-ful attention given to all business Ollice in Court Home, formerly occu? pied by Master. Jan 2, M)5 27 6n: ATLANTIC COAST LINE. Fast Line Between Charleston and Col uitibiaatid UpperS ?ut.h Carolina, Notth Caroline, and Athens and Atlanta. CON DENS EI) SCIIEDULE. 1'AS- knoI'll DKl'AItTMEKT, Wilminoton, N. C, Nov. IS, rs!?4. liOING WKKT, GOING KAST *N?i. ?i No. 53. 84H sru i) 58 11 10 B'll 12 '2'.) |>ln 12 43 p'o 1 20 |) ii 2 . 2 i i n a 02 ptn 5 us pin 7 45 pill 6.13 pm 8 .10 p:u 4 .i:< pm ? 15 pin 2 85 pin 2 26 piu 6 30 piu Lv.Charit sinn.Ar Lv. Laue-.Ar I v. mi i.icf.-Ar Ar.1 oliinibiii.Lv A r.IV. sperity.Lv Ar.>V\\ berry.Lv Ar.1 liuton..Lv Ar.?rWiiwomd.Lv Ar.Vhbcville.Lv Ar.\lh-n-.?;a.I.v Ar.Atlai.la, (is.Lv Ai.Wlnrihboro.Lv Ar.?Charlotte.Lv Ar.Anderson.Lv Ar.Greenville.Lv Ar.Spartanburg.Lv Ar.Ileiidprsonviile.Lv Ar.Asliville.Lv fi -to pni 7 06 pm :?4? p... 4 211 piu 3 12 pn 2 HO pro 2 2"> pni 1 18 pin 12 43 pm 10 41 am 8 1*> au. It SO am ?J 30 am 11 IS am 10 15 nm 'l l ") am 9 OS am 5 10 am ?Dailv. Kos. 52 and 53 Solid Trains between Charleston and Columliiii. II. M. Kstr.asos, As.Vt. Gen'l. Passenjrrr Agent J. It. Kkslkv, General Manager. T. M. Emeiison, Traffic Manager. Healtff Restored ALL RUN DOWN fto Strength nor Energy Miserable in tiik EXTREME. Hands COVERED ?with? SORES. CURED BY USINQ Ayer's Sarsaparille "Several years ago, my Mood was in bad condition, my system all run down, and my general health very much im? paired. My hands wore covered with largo sores, 'discharging all the time. I had no strengtli nor energy and my feel? ings were miserable in flic extreme. At last. I commenced taking Ayer*s Sarsa parilla anil soon noticed a change forlhe better. My appetite returned and with It, renewed strength. Kucouraged by these results. I kept on taking the Sar saparilla, till I had used six hnttles. and my health was restored."?A. A. Towns, prop. Harris House, Thompson, N. Dak. rfc The I OOnly ri Admitted AT THE WORLD'S FAIR 01 1 a i 0; a 03 O! SI o] o] Oj ? O! Oj ooocooooooooooo000000003 SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. (EASTERN SY3TEJL) Condensed Schedule in ECrecS Karon 17 in, 1805. Trclns r.m hy 75th Meridian Tims. STATIONS. Daily - No. 11. Lv (Jhnrloston. " Columbia... " Prosperity/. ArNcwbcrry. At. Clinton ....(Ex Sun). " Laurens... (Ex Sun) H 7.20 am .11.20 am .fl2.40pra ? |12.63 pm 35 p m 3.10 p M 2.00 pm 2.17 pm 3,oo p m " Nlnoty-Slx. " Greenwood., " Hodges. 1 Abbevlllo. .I 8.50 pm 1 Helton. 1 Senrc.i_ ' Atlanta., I 6.40pm .110.20 pm STATIONS. Daily No. 18. Lv. Ar. LT "tt Greenville.... Piedmont. Williams ton. Eoltor. Donald's.. 10. IB am 10.48 am 11.12 am 11.46 am 12.18 pm Abbevlllo.I li.tp am Hodges.. Greenwood. Ninety-Six . 12.32 pm 1.18 pm 1.87 pm Laurens (Ex Sun;. Clinton (ExSun).. lO.io am H.lOam Ar. Newbcrry. Prosperity..??. Columbia..... Charleston.-. Between Colombia and Ashavlll*. 2.80 pm 2.(tpm CIS pm ?.<Qpm Daily. No ly. I Rail*. 13. (No. IB. STATIONS I Dally. I Daily.. ISo. 10. |No. 14. f?5?M 6.30p.m|Lv?harleatoaArai.80ami S3S5 ? ..._i I _,; ? ^-i"_..i ? _ t . IS_I ? ? 11.; 6am 12.20pm 1.18pm 2.0f3pm 2.19 pro! 5i6a.mlLT O.lOa.m! ?7.13a.m 1.40pm| 7.50?.m ColumbLaxr. .. Alston.. Santuo.... Union. .Jon es vi lie. Pacolst. 8.13a.mi 8.Wa.m 2.50pm1 8.55ti.m)Ar 8.S0pm! O.OOa.mpLv 6 50pm,12.00 n'n'Ar Anhevllle Lvi 7.00pm] Spart'b'ir'_ ? SDart'brgAri LrllO, 10. 7. 4Sam| OOaml 3765pi 8.iopm ?fll.&Opmj 2.02pm 20pm 1.40pm 00pm 12.42pm 61pm! 12.23pm ZOpm]ll.43am lSpm|U.17am 8.00am Nos. 11 and 12 are solid trains between Charles? ton and Greenville. Trains leave Spartanburg, A. and C. division, northbound. 6.83a. m., 840 p. m., 6.18 p. m., (Ves? tibuled Limltedl; uouthbound, 1.00 a. m., 2M p. m, n.37 a. m., (Vestibuled Limited). Trains leave Greenville, A. and C. Division, northbound, 4.28a.m.,2.35 pm., and 5.27pm., (Ves* tibuled Limited); iiouthbound, 1.52a. m., 4.05 p. m., 12.28 p. m., (Vestibuled Limited). Trains leave Seneca, A. and C. Division, north? bound, 8.01 a. m. and 12.59p.m.; southbound, 3.01 a. m. and 6.01 p. m. PULLMAN SERVICE. Nos. 15 and 10 l are Pullman Sleeping oars between Ashovllle and Jacksonville. ? Pullman Paloco Sleeping Cars on Trains 86 and 36,37 and 33, on A. and O. Division. W. H. GREEN. J. 11 CULP. Geu'l Mjt'r. Eas. Sys. Tronic Mgr. Washington. D. O. E. BERKELEY, Supt., Columbia, S. C. W. A. TURK, S.H.HABDWICK, .* den. Pas. Agt., Ast Gen. Pas. Act. Eas Sya, Port Royal & Western Carolina Railway. J. B. CLEVELAND, Receiver. fW EFFECT JULY L 1894. (Trains ran by 76th Meridan Um e. BETWEEN AUGUSTA AND ANDERSON. Eastern Time. No. e Sunday, only No. 20 Mixed Daily Ex San Lv Anderso"-. Lv Lownde*ville... Lv Calhoun F?llig. Ar McCormlck....... Ar Augusta.. 12 45pm 1 45pm 2 12pm 8 20; m 6 16] m iNO. 6 1100 am 12 85 pm 117 pm 8 00 pm 616 pm iNo.lcT Lv Augusta-. Lv McCorra ick...., Lv Calhoun Falls...? Lv Lowndesville*. Ar Anderson. 2 35 pm 4 30 pm 5 39 pm 6 05 pm 7 05 pm 285 pm 4 35 pm 6 18 pm 7 00 pra 8 85 pm BETWEEN AUGUSTA. GA, AND SPABTAN BUBG, 8. C. Eastern Time. No.l Dally. Lv Augusta. Lv McCormlck.......... Lv Greenvro'id..-. Lv Lauieus.?. Ar Spartanburg. 246 pm 4 23 pm 5 23 pm 6 24 pio 8 05 pm Lv Spartanburg.... Lv Laurons. f,v Greenwood. Lv McCormlck.M... Ar Augusta.......... 1116 an 1 20 pm 2 28 pm 8 30 pra 616 pm Close connection made at Calhoun Falls with Seaboard Air Liue going north and sooth, i Through Palaco Sleeping Cars on trains Nos. 8 and 4 between Augusta and Savannah, Ga. Close connections at Augusta for all Florida points. For any other Information write orcall on W. J. CRAIG, Gen. Pass. Agt, R. L. Todd, Trav. Pass Agt. Angasta. Ga. J. E. FANT, Agent. s EABOARD A IB-LINE 8CHEDULE. IN EFFE<":T DEC. 23, 1894. ' The Atlanta Special," 8olld Vestibuled Train No Extra Fare Caarged. NORTHBOUND. SOUTHBOUND No. 38. Dally. 8 15pm 10 45pm 1153pm 1 29am 12 57pm 124pm 2 25pm 5 00pm I C 30am No 402. Daily. 6 05 pm 8 13pm 9 06pm 4 27pm 10 00pm 10 25pm 1112pm Eastern Time. Except Atlanta. No. 40?. Daily No. 41. Pally. lv...Atlanta lv...Athens....ar ar...E!berton..lv ar.Calhonn F. lv sr..Abbeville, lv ar Greenwo'd lv ar...Clinton ...lv ar j 3 0 pin 187pm 12 40am 1 87pm 11 47am 1117am 10 25am I 7 46ra I 5 CM|im 1 55am J 8 82pm 807pm I 284pm . 145pm It 50am 1 4?pm 3 12pm 5 51pm fi 50pm 11 35pm 1? 48am 3 45a'ii 6 53am 7 23pm 8 45pra 1 2oam 2 33am 4 05am 6 0"am 6 4dam 11 00am 12 0rpm 2 20pm 4 53pm iar...Chester ar...Monroe... ar...Raleigh... ar..Hendcrs'n ar...Weldon ... ar Petersburg ar Richmond ar Wash'gton ar Baltimore ar Phil'delp'a ar New York .lv 10 51am It I 9 37am 5 13am 4 10am 2 4ftam 12 55pm It 12 28pm It, 8 40pm 7 81pm 4 41pm 3 29pm 10 60pm 9 20am 850pm 1 SJ-pm 115<un 9 60un 9 05tm 4 30sm 2 50am 12 03pm 9 00pm BETWEEN ATLANTA AND CHARLESTON Nn. 34 Daily no 46. ?v.Atlanta.City tlme...ar r...Lawrcnc(?Tinp...east tjme?nr ?r.A nliurn...ar ?r.Winder....._.ar ar.Elberton.... ...... ar ar. Heardmont ... _. ar.Calhoun Falls............ ar.A bhev'lle. n r.G ree n wood...... ar I ar._Gm?* Hill......~ ar| ar. -Clinton._ lv lv.?Clinton. 6 45pm 6 2ftpm 6 05pm 6 58dm 4 01pm 3 40pm 3 Sflpm 8 07pm 2 43pm 2 13pm 1 Sf^sm 14M-m |sr.Columbia.. ar.??umt^r..., |a?.Charleston. ._.ar|ll l-ipm .at 10 00am i.lv| 716am 7 tf,.,i 9 2*pii 9 *Gnn '0 Oflnni 11 45am ?n?pm 2 Ppm 2 43nm i 1?p^ 41pn 'i Rpn ' 0pm 4 15pm 10 n m 8 40pm Trains Nos 402 and 408 a e solid vfstlhtiled Imlns with Pullman Buflit sleeping cars between Atlanta aed Washington through sUttbetween Monroe ard Portsraon h. Va , and Pullman Buffet parlor cars between Washington and New York sWplnir cars between Charlotte and Wilmlrg'on. Trslps Nos. 38 and 41 run solid ?etw> en Atjunta sr.d Norfolk .carrying Pnllmsn sleeper attached, making direct connecliop at Weld"D with Atlan? tic Coast I.lpe :'or Washington and New York.and all points north and east j at Norfolk wbb steam? ers f?r Washington. BaT Line for Baltimore. Old Dominion for New York. Tra'ns 84 and 44, solid trains between Atlanta and Coluwbla. with ? h'oiigh coaches for Charleston. Tickets for sala at Unlo" depot ? r at company's ticket office, No. 6 K\ ball House. J0115H Winc ?B.General Manager. E.STJomr V P.. Atlanta, Ga. T- J- A?PW??*?G.R A.B A.NtmOTJnv.PasS. A&^'kl . GaT