Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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We are now mailing manac 9 Any Planter failing to receive copy can get same by advising us by postal card. 9 This Almanac is of special interest to every planter; sent free upori application. ADDRESS REQUEST TO F. S. ROYSTER CUANO CO. idvertising Department NORFOLK, VA. JVL 0. D?ntzler, raiture and Hardware. p - P i O * 2 The three Macl X vesting the small 4* " ? 1 <?> c& <?> <?> <?> # ??> <?> # ?<?> What Shall the HarvesfBe? It depeids a great deal on the MANNER OF HARVESTING; the MACHINERY vsed and the disposition of the crop after it is harvested. To harvest the crop with the least xiaasihla?i5^ste]Hiust be the object.' ^ ~W0 0 ? O 5 o o F77 The Farmers generk have not give, as -'^^N,!* BALING THE HA"! I after it is cut. You can greatly facilitate ine nanyui b 3 hay crops by investing in a HAY PRESS. The RED RIPPER HiVY PRESS is the very acme of practical usefulness It was in vented, improved and perfected by PRACTICAL FARMERS and meets every demand which can possibly .bepvoT, upon it. DO NOT BUY any othjer until you get our booklet explaining its superior points; among others, how the Pllunger never jams, the Box never bursts, and how pmssure is re gulated by Automatic Tjension. It is a Wonderful Improvement over all others. Car LopJ of "Red Rippers" just arrived. Agency for Red Ripper Hay Press for Orangeburg County. ? M. 0. DANTZLER., 1 _ COD CCD COD w Cures Biliousness, Sick Headache, Sour Stom ach, Torpid Liver and Chronic Constipation, Pleasant to ta&e ive Fruit Symp Cleanses the system thoroughly and clears sallow complexions of pimples and blotches. It is guaranteed For Sae by D:. A C. D?KES. II fflll'S II Trials in Which Attempts Were Made to Prove Alibis. CASE OF GORTON TWINS Where Lives Have Depended Upon Accuracy or Inaccuracy of a Clock?Striking Resemblance Be tween Two Persons ? Criminals' Favorite Defence. The alibi has always been a favor ite defence with caloulating crim inals. It has, on the other hand, In hundreds of cases, extracted the inno cent from the meshes of a net of cir cumstantial evidence which must otherwise have inevitably dragged s tnem to unmerited doom. Clocks have played an important part in these defences. Lives have depended on their accuracy or inac curacy. In the case of a man named Hardy, who was accused of having taken part in a murder with others, one of the murderers, after the crjuie was committed, made his way home as fast as possible. It was night and there was no one in his house but a servant Putting the clock in the hall back two hours, the man went to bed. and rising shortly afterward awoke the servant and ordered her tq go down stairs and see what was tho time. The girl did so, and once more letired to her room, when the mur derer, stealing softly downstairs in his bare feet, once more put the clpck. right. The unsuspecting girl's evi dence that the prisoner was in bed at the' time when the crime was com mitted secured his acquittal on his trial. The truth was made known oy a deathbed confession some years later. Witnesses who come forward to prove alibis by the clock sometimes prove very unsatisfactory. In a mur der case at the Central Criminal Court two witnesses sv/ore most per sistently to the prisoner having been in their company at the hour when the prosecution contended he was en gaged in the crime. "Are you quite certain of the exact time?" asked the counsel for the pros ecution. "Certain," replied the first witness. "How are you so sure about it?" asked the barrister. "We were in the Bear public house, and I saw the time' by the clock in the bar," replied the witness. "It was ?7 minutes past 9." "You saw that time yourself?" asked the counsel. "Yes." One of the detectives engaged in the case here whispered something to Ihe barrister, and he turned to the witness once more. "You see that clock," he said, point ing to the clock in the court. "What Is the time by it?" The witness turned ghastly pale, scratched his head, gasped, and was silent. He could not tell the time. The alibi bubble was burst. The pris oner was condemned. A young girl who lived with her parents In a lonely part of Kirkcud bright, was one day left alone in their cottage while her father and mother were harvesting. On their^return the girl was found murdered. W surgical examination revealed the fact that the injuries inflicted must have been the work of a left-handed man, and the police' discovered In the soft ground around the cottage the imprints of the hoots of a running man. These Im pressions corresponded exactly with the hoots of a young laborer named William Richardson, who was ac quainted with the dead girl, and who also was left handed. Richardson, on being asked where he was on the day of ,t.he crime, declared that he was employed the whole day in the work of his master, a farmer, some dis tance away. This fact was borne witness to by the farmer and Rich ardson's fellow servants,, and the po lice were baffled. Tho alibi, in spite of all the other f-uapicious circumstances against the prisoner, appeared so strong as to he unassailable. But the police perse vered, and at last one of the detec tives discovered that Richardson and his fellow servants had that day been employed in driving their master's carts. These carts had been driven in a direction which took them close to the scene of the crime, and while they bad been passing through a wood Richardson had requested his com rades to stop a few minutes while he ran to" a smith's shop and back. They did so., and one of the drivers remem bered that Richardson, when he re turned, had been absent half an hour ly his watch. This was ample time for him to run to the cottapo, commrr. the murder and run back again. He had not been to the smith's shop. The a!fh! thus broke down. Richardson was found guilty, and. before his exe cution, he confessed the justice of hio f-entence. An ingenious system of proving an aiibi was that, of a man named Gor ton?at least, that was one of his 20 names?convicted of various clever Irruds Ik the north of England. Ho hau a twin brother, and while he was encra^ed in a robbery the twin kept himself in prominent evidence In another far removed place. When Gorton was arrested, the persons who had met the twin trooped into the wit nes box. Their evidence was of course slven in all honest belief that it was per fectly correct. The arrangement brolte down at last, however, through one of those little oversights that even the most cuuninp ropues will fall inot, and the Ingenious twins came to theli deserts.?Now York Sun. No Secret About It. It is no secret, that for Cuts, Burns, Clcers, Fever Sores, Sore Eyes, Bolls, etc., nothing is so effective as Buck len's Arnica Salve. "It didn't take long to cure a bad sore I had, and it is all 0. K. for sore eyes, "writes D. L. Gregory, of Hope, Tex. 25c at any drugstore. For Sale, i A 000 SOFT SHELL- PECAN I 1U? trees. Prices from 10c to 25c I according to age and size. Jude Robixsow, Bowesvil IMFUh? r-oOD IN NEW YORK. Enough Destroyed Annually to Feed 5,000 Persons. The food condemned by the board of health and ? destroyed in this city in a year, if accumulated in one spot, would make a "pyramidal hill two huadred'leet broad at the base and three hundred feet high. In quantity it would be sufficient to feed 5,000 persons throughout the year, supply ing thorn with meat, fish, game and poultry, vegetables, groceries, all va rieties of fruit and confectionery. There is a ceaseless vigilance in New York to insure pure food for its inhabitants. This does not mean that thousands of tons of adulterated and harmful foods are not eaten yearly? for the channels by which they may reach the tables of rich and poor are many, and the carelessness of house keepers and cooks are responsible for much. But at the gates of the city where food is admitted by rail and by water, at the wholesale markets, at stores and among the push-cart ven ders of edibles the inspectors of the health department are always at work. During the ripe-fruit season they are most active, and their work is the heaviest. Their authority is almost supreme, and they can order the destruction of a train load or a ship load of fruit or vegetables, or a hundred head of cattle infected with dhease, Involving a loss to the own ers of thousands of dollars. In the last twelve months 7,172,347 pounds of food stuffs were con demned, seized and destroyed. Some of this?especially fruit brought in by ships?went out to sea and was dumped in the briny deep. The en tire shipload was a loss through a de la3'ed voyage in hot weather, causing fermentation to set in among the per ishable cargo. Many a shipload of bananas have gone that way. Of the more than 7,000,000 pounds of food destroyed in the last year, 4 039,090 pounds were fruit. Meat came next?more than a million pounds having been deemed unfit to use. Vegetables were a close third, 771,100 pounds. In addition to this, solid food, the amount of milk destroyed in the year has been 31,000 quarts. This, seen at once In all its bulk, is a lot of milk. It is, however, but "a spoonful" out of the great river of the liquid food' that pours into the metropolitan city. In a year 550,000,000 quarts of milk are consumed in New York, 1,500,000 quarts a day. The effort to protect the city from Impure or innutritious milk has re sulted jthrough years of legislation and careful Inspection in making the dealers careful that the milk they bring to the city mee*s the legal re quirements. These requirements in one way place a premium on poor milk while guarding the city from milk that is unhealthy or entirely worthless. The law calls for not less than 3 per cent of butter fats In all milk sold in New York. This is not a high stand afd, and many dealers avail them selves of the small percentage re q*iired to reduce the nutritive quality of their milk to this low standard. Many consumers of milk in New York pay dearly for milk that is above the legal standard of purity and nu tritiousness. It will surprise some people, to know that milk?not cream ?is sold in this city as high as 90 c^nts a quart A sworn statement ac companies this milk, as to its freeness from injurious qualities?bacteria, etc.?and as to its richness in butter fats. The cows from which this milk is taken are selected registered Dur hams and Holsteins. The sanitary arrangements for the care of the cat tle and the milk are as perfect as ex penditure of money and scientific skill can make them. The milk is kept and delivered at a proper tempera ture. Milk left uncovered in the living room of a tenement house for a few hours has been found to contain as many as 50,000,000 bacteria per cubic centimetre. The expensive milk served by the expert dairymen may contain less than 500 bacteria to the centimetre. This milk is bought chiefly for feeble and ailing children. Of the food condemned in this city by the health department but a small proportion is of adulterated food. Less than a hundred tons of groceries and confectionery have been seized in the last year because of harmful adulteration. In addition to this vast amount of food condemned and destroyed by or der of the City's health department, the people of New York are notori ously wasteful in the food they throw away?the refuse from dining rooms and kitchens that goes to the garbage barrels. This adds some hundred thousand tons to the condemned foods that find their way, in the iron tanks of the garbage boats, to Barren Isl and. Thf 1 this huge mass is "tried out," its c.s extracted and its fertil i".v ->lemcnts reduced to powder and Stj.'i. In the year 1901 half a million tons of food stuffs from the kitchens of the city and of the foods condemned by the health department were fed to the busy machinery at Barren island. Bird Skins for Hats. A London dealer last year received from India the skins of G.000 birds of paradise to adorn the hats of the feather wearing British women and to meet the export need. At the same time he got about h ' a million hum mini; bird skins, and an equal :?.u,nber of those of various other tropical birds. There is an auction room In London where such things are sold, and its recent record for a third of a year was close to 1,000,000 skins, all told, coming mainly from the East and West Icdies and Brazil. SOUTH CAROLINA VIAVA Offices, 8, 9, 10 Scoville Building. Hours 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Consultation Free. Ladies in attendance. Call for "Health Book-: Women love a clear, healthy com plexion. Pure blood makes it. Bur dock's Blood Bitters makea pure 1 Say Plainly to Your Grocer That you want LION COFFEE always, and he, being a square man, will not try to sell you any thing else. You may not care for our opinion, but What Abont fne Urited Judgment of Millions of housekeepers who have used LION COFFEE , for over a quarter of a century ? Is there any stronger proof of merit, than the Confidence of the People and ever Increasing popularly ? LION COFFEE Is carefully se lected at the plantation, shipped direct to our various factories, where It Is skillfully roasted and carefully packed Jin sealed pack ages?unlike loose coffee, which fis exposed to germs, dust, In sects, etc. LION COFFEE reaches you as pure and clean as when It left the factory. Sold only In 1 lb. packages. Lion-head on every package. Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE W00LS0N SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. "Leader" and "Repeater" SMOKELESS POWDER SHELLS Carefully inspected shells, the best com binations of powder, shot and wadding, loaded by machines which give invariable results are responsible for the superiority of Winchester "Leader" and "Repeater" Factory Loaded Smokeless Powder Shells. There is no guesswork in loading them. Reliability, velocity, pattern and penetra tion are determined by scientific apparatus and practical experiments. Do you shoot them ? If not, why not ? They are THE SHELLS THE CHAMPIONS SHOOT SOUTHERN RAILWAY. T he South's System. Greatest Unexcelled Dining Car Service. Convenient Scheao nil Local Trains. Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on all Through Trains. Winter Tourist Rates are now in effect to all Florida Points. For full information as to rates, routes, etc., consult near est Southern Railway Ticket agent, or I BROOKS MORGAN, R. W, HUNT, f Assistant Geaeral Passenger Agent, Division Passenger Agent, ? Atlanta, Ga. Charleston, 8. C ? 4 I NEW FURNITURE. We are ready to sell you now the best furniture ever brought to Orangeburg. We have been in business here long enough to understand the wants of the peo ple hereabouts and to know the kind of furniture that lasts longest and looks best. Among the new arrivals we offer a tliree piece suite that is the peer of any on the market and the best ever offered for ?30.00. Other good bed room suites at $7.75, and up to $100. Splendid Rockers, solid oak, for $1 and up to $15. Bra99 beds and Iron beds in great variety. Best made for the prices $2.50 and up to $40. HARDWARE AND TOOLS. Wa have a nery complete stock of all needed hardware and building tools and farm utensils. If you buy it from us you know you get the best to be had. We handle only the best in every line. ?THE BEST GUNS MADE.-? Orangeburg Hardware & Furniture Co. COURTHOUSE SQUARE. Searing: ]V?achines, NEW DROP-HEAD MACHINES sold on easy payments. Good prices allowed for old Machines in exchange. Second-hand Machines from $5.00 to $15.00. Also parts and attachments furnished for all standard makes. Prompt attention to mail orders. New Bicycles Sold on Easy Payments. Also Bicycle parts and sundries furnished for all standard makes. General Repair Shop for Sewing Machines, Bicycles, Guns, Clocks and Watches. Give me your work. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. H. SMITH. Market Street ? ? Opposite New Postoffice.