Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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AUTOM Self-!Propelliag Mae! Pop Washingi It is a. fact .overlooked by many peo ple that one of the most interesting mechanical marvels of the decade has been silently stealing into popular fa vor. It is no exaggeration to make this statement regarding the horseless carriage, for there are forming all over the country clubs to make the mos?/ out of the outomobile as a means of recreation. Business men are cal culating how they can introduce the sew vehicle into their service to the best advantage to themselves, and here and there in? our city streets, few and far between, it ia true, but daily grow ing more numerous, are to be seen au tomobile cabs, automoble broughams, and last., that rare and wonderful in novation, the automobile truek. In all large cities the factories are hum ming, and in many smaller cities the * demand has caused many smaller es. tabiishments to start up and join in the rush for the horseless-carriage avenue to wealth. The demand, which at least ninety establishments throughout the'States are doing their bett to fill, is for coaches, carriages, delivery wagons, bicycles, tricycles, trucks, victorias, and numbers of oth er vehicles of no vehicles of no par i ticular names that are being built at the order cf private individuals. Nor is the demand for automobiles confined to this olass of conveyance; In Hartford, Conn., the fire depart ment has added a horseless truck to its equipment; in Chicago, a hospital inoludes a horseless ambulance among ? its rolling stock, and in England the army is being provided with motor gun carriages for the use of the light artillery. It is as certain as fate that the motor tricycle is destined to oust the bicycle at present in use, jost as the latter caused the old-time "ordinary" to be relegated to the junk heaps. The self-propelled vehicle is the vehicle of the future, and is at present only in the cradle days of its existence. As a matter of fact, it must be ad mitted that they are far ahead of us in the older countries, although we < are overhauling them fast, and shall eventually distance them without a doubt. Motor cabs have long ceased to be a curiosity in Paris and London, I and motor omnibuses are fast becom ing an object? of every-day familiarity with 4he citizens. There have been races in France between expert auto mobilists, and as the country store keepers have adopted them, the French peasant is far more familiar with the sight of the new vehicle than the average American of the rural dis tricts. The French government has been forced to take official notice of the automobile, and has done so in the usual high-handed style of the Euro . pean ruler, by numbering the vehicles and notifying the owners that in the event of France becoming engaged in war, the good patriot must rush his automobile to the nearest military de pot for the use of the French army. The French government has also adopted rules regarding the speed at which the vehicle may travel, and be fore a motorman may steer an autonio . bile through the streets of Paris, he must first show his skill by driving up ?nd down a steep road in. which are planted dummy figures, representing pedestrians crossing the roadway, .nurse-girls put with their charges, wagons, bicyclists, and the usual im pediments of a public highway. On 'the ay of his trial the motorman 'drives the automobile up and down ?this road, picking his way in and out .of this mass of obstacles and driving ?t what speed he can under the cir cumstances. If his wheel touches one of the dummy figures ever so lightly, over it goes, and the driver has proved his inability to guide the automobile through the streets with - out danger to the citizens. In England the automobile omnibus has been received with great favor, and a number of automobiles are in use by the business houses of the. large cities for the delivery of goods. There have been exhibitions of horse less vehicles in both French and Eng lish cities, and in both countries there are powerful associations, whose mem bers are interested chiefly in the im provement of the automobile and the advancement of the horseless vehicle in publie favor. A great advantage must follow the introduction of the automobile, and the general use of it in course of time. To the thorough enjoyment and utili ty of horse)ees carriage transportation, good roads are necessary. Just as the coming of the bicycle into general use caused a wave of indignation to sweep over the country regarding the bad ?tate of American roads, so will the increasing popularity of the automo bile arouae the riders to a knowledge of the faet that much, very much, re mains to be done before we shall have in this county the means of enjoying the sport of automobilism or of using the innovation to advantage ;in our business relations with each other. Road-making and road-preserving will OBILES. linee- Becoming* Very ular. lon Post. be easier undertakings when the horse is banished from the highways, for it is the pounding of his hoofs that causes .most of the damage t^> the roadway, and it is his preserce there that ne cessitates our large cities keeping a force of street cleaners always at work. With the automobile, smooth roads are a necessity, but the wear and tear caused by this class of vehicle is almost nil, for they move along smoothly on pneumatic tires, causing no more friction than a bicycle. American firms are now turning out some light vehicles that are proving a delightful revelation to those who been forced to use the ponderous ma chines that the French and English makers have been selling. There is no danger in the running of these- au tomobiles, no odor from gasolene, and no noise or vibration. The motive power is carried in a storage battery, and when it runs out it can be renew ed at any headquarters for electric lighting. Nothing could be more sim ple, more luxurious, more enjoyable than a tour in one of these vehicles. At present they are beyond the reach: of the man of small means, but, like the bicycles, they are perfected and the demand for them increases the output, the prices will drop until they are within the reach of all and become the -,ehicle for ali the world and his wife to take their rides abroad when on pleasure bent. . Gen, Nelson A. Miles is taking an active interest in the automobile trip from New York to San Francisco by Louise Hitchcock Davis and her hus band, wit'a the two-fold object of pro moting automobilism, establishing a record and securing interesting news paper material for the newspapers who are behind the enterprise. Gen. Miles recently said: "If I only had the time and opportunity, this first trans-continental trip ia jnst the sort of trip that I would like tc make my self. I consider the journey from New York to San Francisco quite fea sible. There seems to me to be no reason why this plucky newspaperwo man should not succeed. It certain ly will be a valuable demonstration to the public of what a horseless carri age can do under service conditions. In that much it will be useful in help ing to usher in the era of auto-vehicles which will be watched with widespread interest. "So far as the army is concerned, there is no question but that the au tomobile will have a field of useful ness, limited only to the character of the country over which it is to be op erated. The signal corps has already ordered some experimental vehicles. I do not know that that is quite a fair statement, either. The utility and economy of the automobile has passed the stage bf experiment. The only question that remains is to determine the best economic application of this form of machine, and also to find what form and motive power is best fitted to the needs of the ' service. "AB to how far the automobile is likely to be of service in the trans portation of artillery, especially in ac tion, is a problem. For transporta tion of artillery over fair road's, it will doubtless have its place. Its raine will be limited by swamps, deep sand, unusually bad roads and mountain work. There is quite a field of possi bility in its application to light ma chine guns. "What I consider one of the most desirable features of the prospective development of the auto-vehicle is the emancipation of man's best and most abused servant, the horse. It is de plorable to so often see a brute in the saddle or on the box and the better animal of the two under the reins. There may be a certain sentimental interest in the passing of the horse and in finding man's faithful friend of some thousand years with his occupa tion gone, but I am certain that if a vote conld be taken on the question, you would find that the strongest ad vocate of thc automobile was the horse himself. The complete revolution of hauling methods and replacing the horse drawn with the horseless carriage will be a matter of some time, owing to the large initial cost of replacing the horse with something better. But it is, so far as we oan now judge, certain to come. One of the greatest bars to the rapid introduction of the horseless age is the condition of American roads. But the horseless carriage will be a very strong factor, I think, io im provement in this direction. Good roads are a necessity of the country, and they have a very important place in the consideration of all military problems. -?? ? - -- The Best Remedy for Flux. Mr. John Mathias, a well known stock dealer of Pulaski, Ky., says: "After suffering for over a week with flux, and my physician having failed to relieve me, I was advised to try Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy, and have the pleasure of stating that thc half of one bottle cured me." For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. W. 0. T.?.DEPABTMENT. Conducted by tho ladies of thc W. C. T. U. of Anderson, S. C. Henry W. Grady on the Whiskey Traffic. To-night it enters an humble home to strike the roses from a woman's cheek and to-morrow it challenges this republic in the halls of Congress. To-day it strikes a crust from the lips of a starving child and to-morrow levies tribute from the government it self. There is no cottage humble enough to escape it, no palace strong enough to shut it out. It defies the law when it cannot co erce suffrage. It is flexible to cajole, but merciless in victory. It is the moral enemy of peace and order, the despoiler of men and terror of women, the cloud that shadows the face of children, the demon that has dog more graves and sent more souls unshrived to judgment than all the pestilences that have wasted life since God sent the plague to Egypt, and all the wars since Joshua stood beyond Jericho. It comes to ruin, and it shall profit mainly by the ruin of your sons and mine. It comes to mislead human souls and to crush human hearts under its rumbling wheels. It comes to bring gray haired mo thers down in shame and sorrow to their graves. It comes to change the wife's love into despair and her pride into shame. It comes to still the laughter on the lips of little children.g It comes to stifle all the music of the home and fill it with silence and desolation. It comes to ruin your body and mind, to wreck your home, and it knoffs it must measure its prosperity by the swiftness and certainty with which it wrecks this world. - Tho London Times says : "It is far too favorable a view to treat the money spent on alcoholics as if it were cast into the sea. It would have been better if the corn had mildewed in the ear. No way so rapid to 'increase the wealth of nations and the morality of society as the utter annihilation of the manufacture of ardent spirits, con stituting as they do an infinite waste and an unmixed evil." - The Archbishop of Canterbury, as President of the National Temper ance League, has issued from Lambeth Palace a preliminary call to the va rious cr/,ional temperance bodies for a World's Temperance Congress, to be held in London during 1900. - Between the ages of twenty and thirty, where ten total abstainers die thirty-one moderate drinkers die. Be tween the ages of thirty and forty, where ten total abstainers die forty mod?rate drinkers die. Blood Cure Sent Free. By addressing Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Georgia, any of the readers of the INTELLIGENCER may obtain a sample bottle of their famous B. B. B.-Botanic Blood Balm-the greatest, grandest, bestand strongest Blood Remedy made. Cures when all else fails, pimples, ulcers, scrofula, eczema, boils, blood poison, eating sores, distressing skin erup tions, cancer, catarrh, rheumatism. Free medical advice included, when description of your trouble is given. This generous offer is worth while ac cepting. Sample bottle sent charges prepaid. Large bottles, (containing nearly a quart of medicine,) for sale by all druggists at $1.00 per bottle. B. B. B. is away ahead of all other Blood Remedies for curing Blood Hu mors. Try B. B. B. next ti;ue you buy a Blood Purifier. - The smallest horse on this earth is the property of an Italian nobleman, the Marquis Carcano, and was bred at that nobleman's stock farm. Leo. the horse in question, is twenty-one inches high and is a well-proportioned chestnut with a tail that sweeps the ground. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures dyspep sia because its ingredients are such that itcan't help doing so. "The pub lic can rely upon it as a master reme dy for all disorders arising from im perfect digestion." James M. Thom as, M. D., in American Journal of Health, N. Y. Evans Pharmacy. - A gentleman lately dismissed a clever but dishonest gardener. For the sake of his wife and family he gave him a character, and this is how he worked it: "I herby certify that A. B. has been my gardener for over two years, and that during that time he has got more out of my garden than any man I ever employed." Kodol Dyspepsia Cure thoroughly digests food without aid from the stomach, and at the same time heals and restores the diseased digestive or gans. It is the only remedy that does both of these things and can be relied upon to permanently cure dyspepsia. Evans Pharmacy. - A Kansas man not long ago shot a dog by accident, and in showing ?he owner how it was done he shot him, and later in showing the Coroner how he had shot the man he shot the Cor- : oner. "Our baby was sick for a month with severe cough and catarrhal fever. Al though we tried many remedies she i kept getting worse until we used One Minute Cough Cure-it relieved at once and cured her in a few days." B. L. Nance, Prin. High School Bluff dale, Texas. Evans Pharmacy. ? A Snake Weed Story. The horticultural department at Clemson College is making an experi ment with the growing of a rather re markable weed which has been known though in a quiet way for years in the up-country. It is down in the liBts as "The Rattlesnake Master," and its good, properties are said to be such that a snake-might bite a man to his heart's content, and get only a jolly in return, provided the weed is used in the proper kind of way. The "master'' grows in Anderdon County, as well as in other sections, and re cently it was given care and attention by Prof. DuPre, the horticulturist at Clemson. To the beBt recollection of people who know the weed it was brought to this State from Texas, though it is more than probable that it was thriv ing here when Texas was not on the maps. Some years ago a man from the Lone Star State came this way with a weed potted and blooming, in his caravan. "It is agood thing," he told the people, "and as long as you have it about you will never need whiskey for snake bites. I discover ed it one day," he went on to say, "and I have never lost it since. Driv ing along the road once I saw a snake fight which was being bitterly con ducted by a black snake and rattler. It was fierce while it lasted, and it was a peculiar affair. The rattler was getting in some rather swift punish ment on his opponent, and every now and again the black viper would dart off, stop for a moment by a green bush, and then come back to renew hostili ties. This was kept up. Five times I saw the snake go to the weed, and then I decided to investigate. I went over to the side of it, and thc next in stant the snake ran vip and began biting viciously at the weed, and as soon as he returned to the rattler, I jerked the weed up by the roots. Three or four minutes later the snake came back for his health restorer, but it was gone. You shonld have seen its antics. The snake was wild. It jumped and darted and made terrible struggles and lunges to find the weed, but it was missing. In less than three minutes the snake, finding that its ally was gone, tumbled over and died. "In the meantime the rattler was lying quietly overcome by the fierce struggle. I thought I would try the experiment further, so 'I cut a small piece of the root; put it between the prongs of a long staff, and jabbed it toward the rattler. From bis half sleeping position he jumped up like a man shot. He was drunk, or crazy, and made a desperate effort to get away. But I headed it off. Every direction lit turned it was wet with the strange weed, and finally it thought best to give up the struggle. Then the snake deliberately twisted its head and jabbed the poisoned teeth into its neck and a moment later was dead. It was a clear case of suicide." After this wild story the weed was a welcome guest in any garden. A man from Pendleton said the other day that the facts as related must have been true, for on one occasion he took a piece of the "master" through the mountains and tantalized with it a big rattler until it died. Other sto ries say that, years ago, the Indians living in the up-country would cap ture big rattlesnakes and stand a bite for ten cents, and then escape pain and death by eating particles of the celebrated weed. It was said that this was one of the side shows at an Indian gathering, and none of the tribe seemed to fear a sting or a bite so long as the precious antidote was about. The worth of the weed has been vouched for by so many good and re putable citizens that it has been given a place in the gardens at Clemson, with a view of making its fine qualities better known in snake countries. The only drawback is that thc weed is not of any value in killing snakes seen in dreams, though it might be used as a plank in the platform of prohibition people who do not like the idea of men carrying whiskey for "snake bite," as they so often do.-News and Cou vier. Absent-Minded Men. There have been a great many stories about absent-minded men, where one forgets his house address, another what business he is in, and where an other has to refer to the mark on his handkerchief before he can remember his own name. There is a farmer named Rogers in the North, who pos sessed a Jersey cow which he used to drive, morning and evening, to and from the pasture, not far from his home. One morning as one of the neighbors was passing along the road, he met Mr. Rogers walking in the middle of the lane, his mind appa rently engrossed with some weighty question. The neighbor called out: "Good morning, Mr. Rogers. Where are you going?" "Why," said Mr. Rogers, in a sur prised way, "I'm driving the cow to pasture." And he waved his hand toward where the cow ought to have been. "Well, where is thc cow?''askcd his friend. "I suppose I forgot to let her out of the barn," answered Mr. Rogers, hum bly, as he realized his position. And he had. Ballet Shooting riants. Many common garden plants shoot bullets, not so big nor so hard as those shot from a gun, but they go quite as far and are as effective proportionate ly. If the plant which shoots them were as big as a gun, these vegetable bullets might do great damage. As it is, battles take place between plants, during which the bombardments are fierce enough while they last. The common wistaria had been known to shoot a bullet over fifty feet. This curious property is the result of nature's efforts to scatter the seeds as far as possible. Many plants have seed pods which are held, so to speak, in a state of tension. As the plants grow its fibre become stretched until when the seeds are fully developed the retaining capsule bursts open vio lently and the seeds literally are bur ied in every direction. The wistaria has seeds which in size and shape are much like a pistol bullet, and as the plant loves to grow on hillsides and on eminences, the distance these vegeta ble bullets travel before touching the ground is very great. When the num ber of plants is large and they all shoot off together, a mimic battle takes place which must be alarming indeed to the small animals in the neighbor hood. Ooe can imagine the con sternation of the squirrels and the birds during the time when the black pods are flying. If one of these bul lets were to hit a bird in a vital part it would undoubtedly injure it. The wild geranium is another plant that hurls its seeds in all directions. The story is told of an invalid who had placed some wistaria plants on a mantle near her bed and forgot them. Some time afterward, when she lay sick in bed, her family heard her scream out, and rushed into the room to find her in a nervous, frightened condition, exclaiming that a bullet had been shot into the room. She was soothed and quieted by assu rances that such a thing was impossible. But later in the day she cried out again, this time insisting that a bullet had struek the window pane and had come across the room. Sure enough the "bullet" was found at the foot of the bed. When examined it turned out to be a wistaria pod. Then she remembersd the wistaria on the man tel. They had ripened and shot their seeds. One had gone across the room and struck the window pane and bounded back to the bed. The dis tance as measured was thirty feet. Infidel Works to Bum. TOLEDO, OHIO, August 8.-On the evening of August 15, in the middle of the street in front of Memorial United Brethren Church," this city, the ele gantly bound volumes, which compose the library of Marshal 0. Waggoner, formerly one of the most pronounced agnostics in the world,Jwill be burned. He was recently converted to Christi anity, and made a pulic declaration of faith a few weeks ago, and became a member of the United Brethren Church. The library in question is valued at several thousand dollars, the volumes are the works of some of the brightest authors of the world. Nearly every author of any note who wrote in defense of infidelity and ag nosticism found a place for his-works in Mr. Waggoner's library. - When a crowd of citizens of Beechburg, Ky., enraged at the build ing of a Mormon church iu thc town were about to set fire to it, they learn ed that the edifice had just been in sured in view of this very contingency. They accordingly chopped the church to pieces, taking care that no piece of timber could be used again. Thc el ders will probably lose their insurance. Shu waa the fond mother of a fine baby. But it was a crying baby. She unclothed it and looked for pins. Nothing was hurting it. She looked to the baby's food. It waa sweet and whol esome. But the baby still cried and wailed. Then she called the doctor. He examined the child and said "starvation." "Thc child is crying for food.*' "But," said the mother, "it has all the food it -will take." "The question of starva tion" replied the doctor, "is not how much food is taken but how much is as similated and goes to nourish the body." Pain in the body is often only the out cry of starvation. You eat enough but the stomach is not doing its work, and the nervous system is starving. Put the stomach right and thc pains will cease, together with the uncomfortable conse quences of the condition. There is no medicine made which can equal Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery in the quickness of its action on the stom ach. It cures diseases of the digestive and nutritive system, increases the ac tion of the blood-making glands, and so induces a proper aud perfect distri bution of the necessary nourishment to blood and bone, nerve and muscle throughout thc whole body. There is no alcohol, opium or other narcotic con tained in "Golden Medical Discovery." " I wish to say to the world that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has proved a great blessing to me," writes M*rs. Ellen I?. Bacon, ol Shutesbury, Franklin Co., Mass., "as I firmly believe I should be in a very bad state now if 1 had not taken it. Prior to September. 1S97. t had doctored for my stomach trouble for several years, going through a course of treatment with out any real benefit. In September, t&tf. I had very sick spells and grew worse ; could cat but little. I commenced in September, 1S97, to take Dr. Pierce's medicine and in a short time I could cat and work. I have gained twenty pounds in two months." Tile Band You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of -?f - and has been made under his per sonal supervision since its infancy. ***t&ry% /<ucJieA< Allow no one to deceive you in this. AU Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes arc but Er periments that tilfle with, and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment* What is CASTOR IA Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil* Paregoric, I rops and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age Ls its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Hare Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THC CtNTAUrt COBMNT. 77 MUNHAV ?THECT. NCUV YORK CTT7. PORTO RICO ! YOU can get the GENUINE PORTO RICO MOLASSES FROM US. <VLSO, Lar?kfbrd Horse Collar, Guaranteed to prevent or cure galls or sore shouldeis. SHOES, HATS? DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, ETC, At CUT PRICES for the next thirty days in order to clean up and make room for New Goods. Big Line of Groceries of all Kinds AT LOWEST PRICES. t?&~ Try us one time. MOORE, ACKER & CO., EAST 8IDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER STORE. AT A BARGAIN ! One SOM Ii Mon Sil, Feeler ai Grim BRAND NEW. ALSO, a few Second-hand Gins. The Hall Gin is given up to be the best Gin now built. Nothing cheap about it but tho price. I still handle the BRENN Aft CANE MILL-the only Self-Oiling Mill now sold. EVAPORATORS and FURNACE8, SMOKE STACKS for Engines, &c, at bottom prices, manufactured of Galvanized Iron. CORNICE and FUNNELS, TIN ROOFING, GUTTERING and PLUMBING of all kinds. Also, GRAVEL ROOFING and STOVES of the beet makes. CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, FRUIT JARS-WHITE RUBBERS the best. TINWARE at any price to suit the wants of our customers. For any of the above will make you pri:es that you will buy of me, and ask your inspection of Goods and prices. Thanking all my friends and cus tomers for their liberal patronage, Respectfully, JOHN T. BURRI8S. P. S.-Bring your RAGS,_ FOB_ ? Fancy and * Staple Groceries, Flour, Sug;ar5 Coffee^ Molasses., Tobacco, .And Cigars, COME TO J. C. OSBORNE. South Main Street, below Bank of Andereon, Phone and Free Delivery. W. H. Harrison's Old Stand. THE YEARS COME AND GO ! AND with each successive year there also comes, amidst a flourish of trumpets, the announcement that some new GIN is born, ''another Richmond in the fields" and every time thia announcement is made, it is qualified by another and more im portant, that either one or more valuable features are patterned exactly like the Old Reliable Daniel Pratt Gin. How mauy times have you heard that "our Gin is as good as the Daniel Pratt, be cause we build one a good deal like it" No doubt some Gina are sold on tba strength of such assertions, but ask those who have bought and used them if they are the equal Of the DANIEL PRATT GIN. But still the years roll OD, the Daniel Pra; ; Gin not only holds its own but continues to add new laurels to those already won. Our GIN SYSTEMS and ELEVATORS are the most complete and up-to-date on the market. We have in stock at Anderson in our Warehouse six Car Load? of GINS, FEEDERS, CONDENSERS and PRESSES. Also, all kinds of REPAIRS Call on write to F. E. WATKIN*, Anderson, S.C. 0. D. ANDERSON & BRO. FLOUR FLOUR ! ?5??0 BARRELS. GOT every grade you are looking for. We know what you want, and we've got the prices right. Can't give it to yoe, but we will sell you high trade Flour 25 to 35c cheaper than any competition. Low grade Flout 3.00 per barrel. Car EAR CORN and stacks of Shelled Corn. Buy while it is cheap advancing rapidly. We know where to buy and get good, sound Corn cheap. OAT?, HAY and BRAN. Special prices by the ton. We want your trsde, and if honest dealings and low prices count wt will get it. Yours for Business, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. IQ. Now is your chance to get Tobacco cheap. Closing out odds and ends in Caddies.