Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TRADE MARK ERS B REGISTERED We are now mailing [ I manac ?J Any Planter failing to receive copy can get same by advising us by postal card. tj This Almanac is of special interest to every planter; sent free upon application. ADDRESS REQUEST TO F. S. R OYSTER C U A N O CO. Advertising Department NORFOLK, VA. ??? ?? % i f ?4? ?# ?:3o JO. Dantzler, Furniture and Hardware. 4Q1 ? * # ?> ? ?ft ? ?3? i o # * : O ? P I What Shall the Harvest Be? It depends a great deal on the MANNER OF HARVESTING; the MACHINERY reed and the disposition of the crop after it is harvested! To harvest the crop with ihe least possible waste must he the object. The three Machines shown on this sheet are absolutely necessary in succesfully har. ?fr vesting the small grain and hay crops. <-2 =========- * # # * ft # # # O 0 * } The Farmers generally have not given as much thought as they should to the matter B A LING THE HAY after it is cut. You can greatly facilitate the handling of your hay crops by investing in a HAY PRESS. The RED HIPPER HAY 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 be put upon it. DO NOT BUY any other until you get our booklet explaining its superior points; among others, how the Plunger never jams, the Box never bursts, and how pressure is re gulated by Automatic Tension. It is a Wonderful Improvement over all others. Car Load of "Red Rippers" just arrived. Agency for Red Ripper Hay Press for Orangeburg County. M. 0. DANTZL Cures Biliousness, Sick fn'i )B) )\ )\u |HJ Cleanses the system Headache, Sour Stom- f!j! Ml iL llvuUl thoroughly and clears ach, Torpid Liver and U??L?^o sallow complexions of hronic Constipation. I fivsiivA Ffflit ^Vfflfl PimPles and blotches. Pleasant to talie JUttailYC f I Uli Dji U\) It is guaranteed FjrSiebz Dr. A.C. DUKES. I Illl'S HI - \ Trials in Which Attempts Were Made to Prove Alibis. CASE OF GORTON TWINS Where Lives Have Depended Upon Accuracy ,or Inaccuracy of a Clock?Strfking Resemblance Be tween Two Persons ? Criminals' Favorite pefence. The alibi has always been a favor ite defence with calculating 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 them 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 uccused of having taken part in a murder with others, one of the murderers, after the crime was committed, made his way home as fast as possible, li was night and there was no one hi his house but a servant- Putting the clock in the hall back two hours, the man went to bed. and rising shortly atterward awoke the servant and ordered her to go down stairs and see what was tho time. The- girl did so, and once moro l Hired to her room, when the mur derer, e-tealing softly downstairs in his bare feet, once more put the clock right. The unsuspecting ' girl's evi dence that tho 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 tho Central Criminal Court two witnesses swore most per sistently to the prisoner having been in their company at the hour when the prn-ecution contended he was en gaged in the crime. "Arc you quite certain of the exact time?" asked the counsel for the proH ecution. "Certain." replied the first witness. "How aro. 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 r.ottage while her father and mother were harvesting. On their return the girl was found murdered. A 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 boots of a running man. These im pressions corresponded exactly with the'boots 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 the 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. The alibi, in spite of all the other fruspfcious circumstances against the prisoner, appeared so strong as to be 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 had been passing through a wood Richardson had requested his com rades to stop a few minutes while he mn to a smith's shop and hack. They did so, and one of the drivers remem bered that Richardson, when he re turned, had been absent half an hour 1 y hfs watch. This was ample time for him to run to the cottage, commrr. the murrler and run back again. He harl not been to the smith's shop. The ab'hi thus broke down, Richardson was found guilty, and. before his exe cution, he confessed the justice of his t;en fence. 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 frauds in the rorth of England. Ho bed a twin brother, and while he was encrasr.,! jn a robbery the twin kept himself In prominent evidence In ?another far rr-moverl place. When Horton was arrested, the persons who had met tbe twin trooped into the wh iles box. Their evfdenre was of course crlven in all honest belief that it was per fectly correct. The arrangement bro*e down at last, however, through one cf those little oversights that even the most cunning rogues will fall inot, and the Ingenious twins came to theli deserts.?Now York Sun. No Secret About It, Ids do secret, that for Cuts, Burns, Ulcers, Fever Sores, Sore Eyes, Boils, etc., nothing is so effective as Buck len's Arnica S?lve. "I>, ?iuu'ii lakni loov tocu-ca bftd auio I u&<l. ?u? iu \a all 0. K. for sore eyes, "writes D. L. Gregory, of Hope, Tex. 25c at any drutr store. For Sale, i A 000 SOFT SnELL PECAN JLU? trees. Prices from 10c to 25c I according to age and size Jude P.obinson, F-owcsville, S. C. I COTTON FROM FIRWOOD. Difficult to Distinguish the Natural from the Artificial. Cotton, which used to be born, Is now being made from firwood which has been freed from bark and knots. The fibers are broken up by a special machine, and are then placed In a lead lined copper cylinder having a capacity of 100 cubic centimeters. Into this steam is introduced for ten hours by means of a pipe in the bottom. At the end of that time 60 cubic cen timeters of soda lye are poured in and boiled for 36 hours under a pressure of three atmospheres. The material, is then washed and thoroughly crushed, after which it is bleached and dried. The pure cellulose thus obtained is treated in an autoclare containing a mixture of zinc chloride, hydrochloric acid, and nitric acid, to which a little castor oil, caseine, and glycerine are added.. The fibre, after being further reduced, is passed through a weak so lution of carbonate of soda, and then between drying rollers. The necessary firmness is given to the thread by finally putting it in a bath of diluted ammonia and then washing it with cold water. * The sub stance thus made may be easily woven and dyed. When the artificial product is compared with the natural it is said to he difficult to distinguish the differ ence, and it isj even asserted that the former may he so economically pro duced as to be able to compete with the latter.?Chicago Tribune. Chinese Porcalain. Chinamen have been exporting their porcelain to the west for at least a thousand years, and probably longer. Mediaeval Europe could make nothing like'porcelain, and therefore regarded it as a magical product endowed with uncanny powers. It was said, for in stance, that a porcelain cup would break if poison were poured into It. Travelers declared that porcelain was composed of various substances which, after being tempered, were hidden in the ground for ages before belngifit for use. Even so erudite a man as Sir Thomas Browne, writing in the later seventeenth century, was "not thor oughly resolved, concerning porcellane or china dishes, that accordlng'to com mon belief they are made of earth." The secret of the true Chinese porce lain was first discovered In Europe a generation later by the German chem ist Bottger, the inventor of what is now known as Dresden china. Unique Lighthouse. The most extraordinary of all Brit ish lighthouses is to be found on Arn ish' Rock, Stornoway Bay?a rock which is separated from toe Island of Lewis by a channel over 500 feet wide. On this rock a conical beacon is erect ed, and on its summit a lantern Is fixed, from which, night after night, Bhines a light which is seen by the fish ermen far and wide. The way in which the lighthouse Is illuminated is this: On the Island of Lewis is a lighthouse, and from a window in the tower a stream of light is projected on to a mirror in the lantern on the summit of Arnish Rock.?Exchange. Compulsory M. P.'s. ? .. The Norwegian parliament consists of 114 members, many of whom sit in the house under protest. All Norwe gians over 25 years of age who satisfy certain conditions of residence, etc., meet In the local parish church once in three years and choose one man out of every 100 present to select the mem bers of parliament for the country. The men so selected are bound to serve, whether they like the honor or not. Immediately parliament meets one fourth of the members are chosen to form the upper house, the remaining three-fourths constituting the. lower house.?l-ailadelphia Ledger. In a Glacier 28 Years. In an almost perfect state of preser vation, and easily recognizable, the dead body of a guide named Nagi, a native of Aosta, Italy, who fell into a crevice in 1877 near the Buramlt of Monta Rosa, was recently recovered from the ice... Nagi was descending the mountain in company with two Milanese Alpin ists when he suddenly disappeared, and the cord which bound him to the oth ers was cut by a sharp piece of ice. A search party made many vain attempts to recover the body.?London Mail. How Birds Doctor Themselves. Certain birds seem to possess a re markable instinct for surgery. The woodcock, the partridge and some oth ers are said to be able to dress their wounds with considerable skill. A nat uralist observes that he has shot sev eial woodcock that were recovering from wounds previously received. In every instance he found the .injury neatly dressed with down plucked from the stems of feathers and skillfully ar ranged over the wound, evidently by the long beak of the bird. In other cases ligatures had been applied to wounded or broken limbs.?Exchange. Rich Americans Abroad. A cynical highland gillie thus ex plains a certain rich American's action In paying $25,000 as a year's rental for a castle in the north of Scotland: "He pays $5,000 for the house, $5,000 for the lishing, $5,000 for the deer, $5,000 for the grouse and $5,000 for being near Balmoral, where the king occasionally visits." It appears that spies in the form of nurses have been introduced in con siderable numbers into the families of French officers by some unnamed Eu ropean power. The government has informed corps commanders about iL The largest flour mill In the British empire is in Montreal. It turns out 5,000 barrels of flour a day. SOUTH (JArtOLIiN A VI AVA Offices, S. 9, 10 Scoville Building. Hours 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Consultation Free. Ladies in attendance. Call for "Health Book' Wom20,ov> actatr, liriyiy com plexion. P ire b^oid makes h. Bir ?uo&'o Blj?d BltiSarj make; pure blood. To Be Frank you have really never eaten a time soda cracker ?ntil you have eaten The only soda cracker vhich is all good and food, protected strange hands by a dust tight, moisture NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY iSOUTHE?ME?liPil f The South's Greatest t System. Unexcelled Dining Car Service. . \ Convenient Scheao nil Local Trains. Through. Pullman Sleeping Cars on all Through Trains. AVinter Tourist Rates are now in effect to all Florida Points. For full information as to rates, routes, etc,, cousult near est Southern Railway Ticket agent, or BROOKS MORGAN, R. W, HUNT, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Division Passenger Agent, Atlanta, 6a. Charleston, S. C 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 three piece suite that is the peer of any on the market aud 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. Brass beds and Iron beds in frreat variety. Best made for the prices $2.50 and up to $40. HARDWARE AND TOOLS. "Wo 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. CO URTHOUSE' SQUARE. NEW DROP-HEAD MACHINES sold on easy payments. Good prices allowed for old Macl?nes 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. S M I T H. Market Street Opposite New Postoffice. $ Now is the Time to Get Your Seees. ^ ^ We handle nothing but pure seeds. Improved ApplUr Seed ^ Oats raised in our county My reliable farmers. Five thousand bushels Red Rust i'roof Soed Oats now in store for your in- fft spection. County liaised Rye Seed, Ited May and Purple ?fe Straw Wheat Seeds. Let ns estimate on your bill for Doors, Sash and Blinds, Onk and Mabogohy Mantels. Will sell cheap er than factories ana (jive you tirst-class material. We are ^> leaders in Hay and Grain, Rice, Flour and Bran. A large stock of lime, cement and plaster always in stock. Write or telephone us. Orders shipped same day recel 'cd. AYERS & WILLIAMS, ORANGEBURG, S. C.