Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WHAT OF Tt ?ome Hopes of the \ Wm. Rittenhoi If In the year 1800, any man had gazed prophetically forward into the nineteenth century, and prcdioted the triumph of telegraph and telephone, ironclad and monitor, railroad and trolley, who would have believed him, or thought him anything but crazy? All these inventions were then tho unbalanced ideas of a f JW visionaries, so the world thought. The twentieth century public begins the century in a different attitude of mind. Wo seo so many wonderful things being done every day that nothing appears too marvelous to hope for in the next hundred years. The young people who read these linea may live to see a world so different from oura that we can hardly fancy ita everyday lifo, any moro than tho lads and lasses of 1800 could have realized traveling from Washington to Boston in a day, telephoning or telegraphing home On their arrival, riding from the station in the trolley, and going to bed by electric light. Talco wireless telegraphy, for in stance. It is only in ita beginning, yet the other day a game of oheBS was played by two men on different ocean steamers, each telegraphing his move ment by the Marconi method to his adversary. When we start the cen tury with suoh an Arabian Nights' fairy tale as this would have seemed ten years ago, what may not follow? A prominent telephone company bought up, at onoe, in 1901, Professor Pupin's discovery of telephoning across the Atlantic. By his Dimple device of inserting coils of wire at short distances along the conductor, thus "loading the current" and pre serving its original force unspent, it ip quite possible that in the future a man may "speak ronnd the world, and hear his own voice, like an eoho, a moment after he speaks, it having 1 traveled round the globe on ita jour- 1 ney from his lipa to hie ear." 1 The submarine boat io another marvel whose development (no one can foreseo. We all know the value ' of tho submarine war vessels, with . which every nation is experimenting ' nowadays; but there are other inven tiona for submarine work to be used in peace, not war. An Italian inventor has constructed a submarine boat for 1 the recovery of treasure from the bot- 1 tom of the sea, and is said to be mak- 1 ing his fortune out of it. Two per sons can work in it for twelve boura at ' a time, though it is only three meters 1 in diameter. It has windows of a apo- \ nial crystal, so that every object lying ] in the rea is seen distinctly. It oan ] rise or descend with great speed, re- * main immovable and in equilibrium at * any depth, and when on the sea bot tom, walks aeroBS it, so to speak, by 1 means of a wheel. Besides this boat, 1 the same inventor has patented a "hy } droscope," whioh illuminates the wa- ' ter for fifteen hundred meters around 1 it, from a.boat on the surface, so that ' objects on the bottom are plainly 1 seen, and enables photographs of such ' objects to be o!?*r!y taken. There is 1 certainly any amount of treasure 1 waiting in the sea for such a subir, i- ' rino cruiser-the warship Bl ach. Prince ' for example, whioh sank during the { Crimean war An the bay of Balaklava, wi'h eight millie? dollars aboard, and the vessel lost in the Straits of Magel lan years ago with one hundred and twenty-five millions' worth of gold in gots ns cargo. If the inventor makes ] his fortuno by redeeming suoh vast amour ts from the hungry ocean bo will certainly deserve all ho gets. , It was Swift who said that "the man who makes two blades of grass or , ?wo ears of ?orofgrow where one grew ? before, does more essential service to ais country than the whole race of politicians put together." Tho in SBtiYO growers of corn and wheat in e American West are planning to grow double harvests by the end of i tho century, and have airea ly a record of eight to ten bushels an acre over the old wheat orops, and ten to fifteen j bushels per acre over the previous corn yields. Chemistry tends its aid, . in some of the pncoessfol experiments with corn, and produces com with smaller ^ larger percentages of oil, protein ?, at will. No youngman, reading or these wonderful experi ments in tho Minnesota and Illinois , schools of agriculture, can'-longer, call farming "dull." Tho wheat and corn are studied like living beings;^draw ings of toot and blade and oar, at >every stage oj growth, aro made by skillful observers; record bl&nka are kept for each new variety; and the f sot that ono great manufacturing es v tablishment. using eighteen million bosheir a year, offers already to pay ftvy co?te, a bushel more for oom for ?aah one per cent i ncr caso in oil in the kennels, shows the practical value of this twent?oth century inve^?io?. : , .The recent troubles of the conn tri/ IE FUTURE ? ISveiitietli Century. isein Forward. thc hopea of the century with respect to new sources of power. Uaruossiog Niagara, vast as the achievement seems, is not so high a hope as har nessing tho waves of tho ocean, tho winda that sweep the continent, or the mighty sun itself. Tho heat and power wc get from coal, it muBt be remembered, aro only tho heat and power drawn from tho sun, ages ago, by the vast forests that h."ve become coal coal in their long burial under ground. In burning coal, we IOBO much in smoke, gas and abb cir, where as, if a man can h itch bis wagon to tho sun direct, he will get illimitable power, with no waste whatever. TOB la has thia hope of drawing power from tbe sun. Whether it will remain only a hopo, or be realized before the century ends, no mau ono tell. The windmills on the western plains al ready harness tho wind to a marvel ous extent, and perhaps some larger scheme will one day gather and con centrate the powers of the air-who knows? The air ship, so far, io a failure. It oannot be steered, and is not prac tically useful. But it has been a hope so long, and so many are working on it, that if it is possible at all, the twentieth century will probably put it into operation. Perhaps, like the philosopher's stone, a dream of so many centuries, it may fade at last, unrealized. Santos Dumont has suc ceeded, to some extent, in propelling his air ship against the wino1, and mili tary balloons are being more and more used in war. But "Darius Green, And his flying maohine," that did not fly, still rematas the type of aerial navigators, so far. The oitics of the later twentieth oentury aro likely to be much more Qomfortable than our present crowded and dangerous one?. Elevuted sice walks, moving st regulated speed, and protected from sun and rain under graceful arcades, arc tho plan for the pedestrians of the future. Lightning expresses will run safely io tunnels beneath asphalted streets where horses will bc replaced by the electric motor, used oh bicycle, carriage, and dray alike. Elevators will take the place of stairs, and typhoid, consumption,. md diphtheria will be prevented by perfeot oity sanitation. If this pro gramme seems too rose-colored, we need only think of the development of bhe department store, the office build ing, and the hotel and apartment, dur ing the nineteenth century, to realise that change ia already busy in every 3 i ty in the land. The long-distance gun, and the mammoth ship are becoming day by lay more amazing in their develop ment. The world today is a tremes lously interesting place, if we ke=? ayes and ears open, and see tho march jf progress. What we will see before the century is over no.man oan guess; and it m ti y he that some bright-eyed reader of this page shall give tho world, before thc year 200U, some wonder as unexpected and even un dreamed of now, as the wireless tele graph would have been in the days of Waterloo. - in ? ?i The School of Experlaoce. "Daughter, you ought not to wear those high heeled shoes. They will make corns on your feet." "How do you know, mamma?" "By experience. I used to wear them when I waa a girl." "Did grandma tell yes they would j snake ooma on your feet if you wore j )hem1 ..'Yes," "How did abe know?" "She found,out by experience just 19 I did." ''Hadn't ?bc any tu amma to warn ber against wearing them?" "Oh, yes." "Bui she wore them Ju*r, the ?smer "To be sure." "And you dirt tobr" "TBS. That f* what I was telling yon." "Well, if I ever have any daughters ? ought to be able to give them a warning against high heeled shoes from my own experience, oughtn't ??" -Chicago Tribune. . _-:-? ' 4t ? m -: ' '* v to Care a Cold lo Ono Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund tho money if it fails to oure., E. W. Grove's signa ture ia on oaoh box. Prion 25o. -' Tho Good Spirit no vcr antedates. He ?ever sivcs^ia today wbaji we shall need tomor?o^|^??0?80n* ' j -. -AP a ?ale the orator vlho uses tho biggie words has tho letti to say. - ?verything in na?ortfiloea by law and not by tock. Wbat <We ar??r ' A CLEVER SWINDLE. fTho Sharp Trick That Waa Played on a London Jeweler. There ia ono firm of jewelers in London which has tho best of rea sons for remembering how efficient a detective may bo in certain cir cumstances. An.American bishop entered the shop and asked to bo permitted to seo some jewelry, noth ing very expensive, which he could not afford, but something that he might ask his wife to accept, say ?70 or ?80. Charmed, of course, the obliging shopman displayed his wares, and the bishop, with his car riage at the door, did not hurry, but was persuaded eventually to take a bracelet at ?100. Ho produced a note for ?100. That happened to be all the money ho had with him. It seemed all right to thc shopman, but thc good bishop, a stranger to the linn, was scrupulous. "Send it along to the bank and have it ex amined while I wait," he said. "I should prefer it/' Nothing sim pler. An assistant was dispatched to thc bank and returned to say thc note was ono of the very best, and everything was very satisfactory. Tho bishop took thc bracelet, the man behind tho counter popped cut to usher him into his carriage, when up strode an unmannerly varlet of a policeman in uniform and tapped the bishop on the shoulder. "Hello, Jim!" lie exclaimed fa miliarly to the good man in the shovel hat and gaiters. "Hello! Up to youi old tricks again, are you? You'll just come along with ine." So saying, he roughly han dled thc pc or bishop back again into the shop. The proprietors said' that there was a very grave mis take herc. The gentleman upon vdiom the constable had laid banda had just bought a bracelet for ?100 and paid for it with a note whose excellence had been duiy attested by thc bank authorities. "Just let me look at that note, sir," said the constable, unconvinced. Ho scru tinized it closely. "Ah, just as I thought !" he exclaimed. "This note ie one of a particularly clever batch of forgeries which are very difficult to detect, and the man is no more a bishop than you are. We will go off to tho police station at once. I will take the note and go on with the prisoner in the carriage, and you must send your men in a cab to meet us and give evidence." So the policeman took his prisoner and the note and the necklace and whirled away in the carriage. Neither the bishop, the policeman, thc note nor thc bracelet has ever been seen or heard ci since.-St. James Gazette. Sister Hostesses. It cannot bc denied that sisiers make charming hostesses whenever one finds them keeping house to gether and hospitably inclined. For one thing it is a gain to have two hostesses instead of one, and sisters are accustomed to ono another and can understand each other without a word and instinctively feel what is going on. They can talk together of quite different things and yet keep tune. Many a sisterly shrine must occur to each one of us, with warming hearth and pleasant words of welcome. It matters not whether it is in Brighton or in London, past or present, or in the murky Man chester or on a Cornish crag or by some distant Cumberland lake Bide. One always seems to be at ease where reflected kindness lights up the friendly hours of companionship and rest.-Mrs. Richmond nitchie in Cornhill. _ Was a Man of His Word. When the old navy yard was at the foot of Federal street one of the employees opened a boarding house in the vicinity. Ono day a young man applied and on learning the terms said he would come with his trunk that night. When bedtime caine the boarding house keeper and his family retired, but the new boarder had not put in an appear ance. Next morning they found the house had been robbed during the night, a.id on the table in thc dining room was a note from tho young man saying ho had arrived according to promise; but, not lik ing the looks of things, he .would hot be back,--Philadelphia Ledger. Mrs. Newlywed"-Sb? \.tg?t say that I think muchj&f^tny new sew ing machinev ?tisc?sappointing. Mrs. Oldg&l-Why, it is a very good make. What seems to he the trouble? ??ra, Newlywed--I don't know ex actly, hut when I tried to sew some huttons on Mr. Newlywed's shirts yesterday it broke every last one of them.-Cincinnati Times-Star. * i Powerful Argument. Kate-You know Nellie has -al wey* said that ?he would never mar ry Tom, and yet when ho brought around that solitaire diamond ring that she is wearing now she accept ed h im right away. ' Mildred-Yes; she told me tho next day that his argument tljat night had a very convincing rinj?-? Somerville JournaL - i m ? ^ All new Fchoola ia Switserlai d have a portion of the ground floor ap propriated for baths. VI A ch cl as H bathes about occe a fortnight, sum mer and Winter. Soap ia un ed, and a Wirra bath is followed hy a cooler one. Sick children and those having t,kin diseases are excluded. ?- To dp good simply bcoauso it is good to dolt andno.iu the hopa of reward is the evidence of C Winter Lasted all Year. While everyone is speaking of thc* preseut bcason as being remarkable in its characteristics I have gathered for your readers some reliable facts of thc year 1816, known as "tho year with out a summer." Few persons now living can recollect it, but it was thc coldest ever known throughout Eu rope and America. Tho following is a brief abstract of tho weather during each month of J.ho year: January was mild, so much so as to render tires almost needless ir? par lors. December previous was very cold. February was not very cold; with the exception of a few days it was mild, like its predeeesuor. March was cold and boisterous dur ing the first part of it; the remainder was mild. A great freshet on thc Ohio and Kentucky rivers caused a great loss of property. April began warmer, but grow cold er as the month advanced and ended with snow and a temperature more like winter than spriug. May WQB more remarkable forfrowns than smiles. Buds and fruit were frozen; ice formed half an inch thick; oom killed and thc fields again and again replanted, until deemed too late. , Juno was the coldest ever known in this latitude. Frost, ice and snow were common. Almost every green thing was killed. Fruit nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten inches in Vermont, several in Maine, three in the interior of New York, and also in Massachusetts. Considerable damage was done at New Orleans in consequence of the rapid rise of the river. Tho suburbs were covered with water and the roads were only passable with boats. July was accompanied with frost and ice. On the 5th ice was formed of the thickness of a oommon window glass throughout New England, New York end some parts of Pennsylvania. Indian corn was nearly all destroyed; ?iooe favorably situated fields escaped. This was true of some of the hill farms of Massachusetts. August was more cheeriest?, if pos sible, than the summer months al ready passed. Icc waa formed half an inch thick, indian corn was so frozen that the greater pari nf it was cut down and dried for fodder. Al most every green thing was destroyed, both in this country and io Europe. Papers received from England sta?o "that it would be remembered by th? present generation that the year 1816 was a year in which there was no sum mer." Very little corn ripened in the New England and Middle States. Farmers supplied themselves from oom produced in 1816 for the need of the spring of 1817. . Il sold at from $4 to $5 a bushel. September furnished about two week? of the mildest weather of the season. Snon after the middle it be came very cold and frosty; ice formed a quarter of an inch thick. Oct.boy produced more than its share ai .-old weather; frost and ice common November WZH cold and blunter ing. Snow fell so as to make good sleighing. December was mild and comfort able. - Sew York Tribune. - ? -i - A woman has about as much faith in her iuhtinot us tho weather predictions of tho chore boy. - Beware of the mau who never did anything wroog. An Experience Meeting. "Speaking of New England hospi tality," observed the parson as he combed his sido whiskers with his lingers and looked thoughtfully at tho dosign in the tablecloth, "I am es pecially impressed, because I've just come from up there. The recollec tion of thc night I passed with a dear brother in a small Massachusetts town is still fresh upon me. "After a frugal supper and family prayers," continued the parson, "I was piloted upstairs and shown my room. The loom was unheated, and it was six degrees below zero outside with the north wind blowing a gale. My room was a north ronni and the wind which rattled the windows blew thc curtains out from the gla*s. With chattering teeth and tho gooscflesh standing out like hives, 1 jumped un der a crazy-quilt and lauded between two clammy sheets. I drew my knees up under my chin and hugged them with both arms all nightlong. When merciful sleep came to mo in six and seven minute snatches I dreamed that ' I was a turkey in coli storage and an ! Arctic explorer adrift on an ice-pan. j Again, my ice-packed body was be ? ing shipped to sorrowing friends in I the South. My teeth chattered so : hard and so long that I woro them j down an eighth of au inch. "At tive o'clock in the moruiug j thero came a timid tapping on my chamber door. 'Conic iu,' I shouted. "Tho cook with a lamp iu her hand opened tho door. 'Excuse mo, doc tor,' she said, 'but I want to get tho butter. Wo always keep it in here I beeauso this is the coldest room in tho i house.' " "Out in Montana last summer," be gan the girl, who had listened most attentively to the good doctor's win ter's night tale, "we stopped late one afternoon at a equaw-man's house and were invited to stay all night. As wo had been riding all the day wo gladly aooepted the invitation. "It was a two-roomed log house, the sitting room being also the bedroom. After supper the equaw brought fresh bhects and made up tho double bod. " 'This certainly is like tho gener ous west,'wc said one to the other, j 'lt is most kind ai/d hospitable for j these p?'onie to give up their own bed i ta total strangers,' uu? we felt some what oonsuien n-?mitten at permitting it. though tho hquaw iu her broken English insisted. After the light was out we began to get restless. We tossed and turucd aud could not sleep. At last 1 ?aid, 'Mary, some thing is biting me.' " 'Me too,' said Mary viciously. "We lighted the lamp, and there they were-dozens of them-running for cover. I never put in such a night in my life. We fought them all night, but when one perished a dozen came to bury him. We. didn't close our eyes. "At daylight the squaw opened the I door and stood at the foot of the bed facing us expectantly. " 'Sleep pooty goot?' " 'N-o, not very,' Lreplied. " 'Bugs pooty bad'ff " 'Mighty bad.' " 'Sa.' nodded the fquaw, 'dat's why we don't sleep here oo more sleep in corn crib.' "-Chicago Nows. -.^mwr* f - According to the Chicago law d rcctury for 1903. thom are 4,702 : attorneys in that oily. I - Only ouo nut of every 1000 mar ried couples live to celebrate their Holden wedding. jtSt^*^ EVERY PAIL**W^ 0F COTTOLENE ^^^^ A?rAr is securely sealed. There's no chanco 'or ^e Pr?duc*' to absorb the odor of things ^^^^ W/f that surround it in the grocery store, such as cod w/W fish, kerosene and soap. Lard, on the contrary, usu fffkf ally comes in bulk and is subject to all these odors. Stop \% m^ff to think of this and you'll never use another pound of lard \ % ff toilet ?oe \\ . S ? Cottolene comes in three sizes of palls-small, medium, largs-branded ll ? I as shown here-tho pail in white with red label and band. In the cen- ? * ?m ter of the label is our trade-mark-a steer's head in cotton plant wreath, ?s M AW good grocers sell Cottolene-the perfect shortening. '? Hi AFTER THIS DATE -?WM We Will Not Retail Fertilizers And Acid Phosphate to Any One, We ?io tliia for tho reason that we aro represented here by Merchants,, and it will he much hotter for all of tho retail business to pasa through their hands, thereby Baying a lot of confusion. We therefore respectfully ask'our friends to call on OSBORNE & PEARSON, OR DEAN & RAT Ll F FE* Or any other ono of our representatives hero or any adjacent town. JWe'ares represented at every Town in the up-country, and hope to mevk your (coa ti nu ed lib irai patronage. OUR GOODS ARE FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT And the results show that there is nono superior in quality. iiincDcpu punQDUiTC issi Pdf fis anuLiijun rnudrnait AMI UIL lu. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. We ofter for sale the followingftdesirable property, situi1 ated in this and surrounding Counties.? I Nearly, all of th?se? places have good improvements on them. For full] particn* ular?* as to terms, location, &c, call at my office. 50 acres, two milos from city, un improved, c House and Lot, 6 sores, near city limit?, very desirable. 74 sores in Rook Mills township, on Richland Creek, good dwelling. Half aero City Lot, front on Main Street, no improvements. 1 acre, with now dwelling, in city limits. ll? acres, noar city limits, olearod, no improvements. 200 aores in Fork township, on Tug aloo River, two dwellings. 100 aores in Williamston township, improved, on Bcaverdatn oreek. 400 acres in Oaklawn township, in Greenville Co., half iu cultivation. 5 .tenant dwellings, 5u acres of thia is in bottom land. 700 acres in Hopewell township, on Six and Twenty Oreek, 300 acres in cultivation, 2 good residences, 0 ten ant dwellings, 40 acres in bottom land. 01 acres in Garvin township, on Three-and-Twenty Creek, good dwell ing, barn, &o. 6G aores in Maoon Co., N. C., 20 miles abovo Walhalla, on road to Highlands._ Berry placo, V?rennos-, 87?}.acree. 437 aores, Pendleton township, tenn ant houses and dwelling. 145 aores, Evergreen piar;*, Snvwn? nah towns) ip. 00 acres in Fork township 150 acres in Savannah ... .v?M,<.., well timbered, no improvement*. 400 acres in Center township, ?ec~ nco County, 100 cleaved, balance weill timbered, well watered, good mill sites with ample water power. 65 acres in PiekcnB County.. 174 acres in Hopewell township: 130 aorcB in Broadway township?, improved. 230 acres in Fork township, on Sen ora Hiver, good dwellings, &o. 50 acres in VateDnca township, soar city limits. SOO acres in Anderson County, ora Savannah River. .JG acres in Lowndcsvillo township,, Abbovillo County. 84 acres in Corner township. 75 acres in Oooneo County. 75 acres in Piokens County. 152 aores in Rook Mills township*, on Sonooa River, 2 dwellings. 700 aores in Fork township. All tho above aro desirable Lands, and parties wanting good homes, ak< low pricnB, oan seleot from the above and call for further particulars. Now is the time to seonre "our homes for another year. OS. J, FRET WELL, ANDERSON, S. C* S ? 0 2$ ? s ?tad MP-, 0 W ? fcd 2 ? < H H ? O ? M O > < > Sd M Kj O p a ? s 1 F > S 2 g B > ag MOVED I WE have movtd our Shoji and office below Peoples' Bank, in..front of: Mr. J. J. Fretwell's Stables. We respectfully ask all our friends that need; any Roofing done, or any kind ol Repair work, Engine Stacks, Evaporators,, or any kind of Tin'or Gravel Roofing to call on us, ns we are prepared todo* it promptly and in best manner. Soliciting your patronage, we are. _Respectfully, _BURRISS & DIVVER._ This Establishment has been Selling IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. Daring all that time competitor** have como and gono, but we have remained right here We have always sol?. Cheaper than any others, and during those long years \?o have not had one dis satisfied customer. Mistakes will sometimes occur, and if at any timo wej found that a oustomer waa dissatisfied we did not rest until we had made bink, satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made UB friends, true and last ing, and v:e can say with pride, but without boasting, that we have the confi dence of the people of this section. Wo havo a larger Stock of Goods thisr season than we have ever had, and wo pledge you our word that we have never Bold Furniture at as close a margin of profit as we are doing now. This is ? proven by the faot that wo are selling Furniture not only all over Anderson? County but in every Town in tho Piedmont section. Come and see us. Yow parents saved money by buy inp, from us, and you and your children can sav?' money by buying here, too. Wo oarry EVERYTHING- in the Furniture line?. C. F. TOLLY & SON. Depot Street. The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers 1 HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF CORN, Slightly damaged, and oan sell you at 50c. per bushel. V have a lot of it orad^p for hog andS chicken feed at P price.4 See me for OLD DOMINION CEMEN AND v,BEST HiiEIMIIED