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Girdling Globe In Iron Mask. Novel Stunt of a London Pedestrian, Who Hopes to Win a Wager of $100,GOO Ottered by an "American Multimillionaire." fcu; "When the average English news paper Is looking hard for a genuine un mitigated ass. it's a plugged Canadian dime to a double eagle that it will set tle on an American millionaire." says a London correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution. "The English reading public will believe anything that can be invented by the most prolific aud imaginative of minds and expressed in the confines of a newspaper column about that mysterious individual, and. despite their boasted strict regard for the truth, the English dailies print a whole lot of stories that would be laughed ont of an American newspaper office. "The latest Instance in support of these observations goes all that have less.. There is. moreover, good evi dence that a man has been found who would take such a wager, for such au individual, with his head incased in an iron mask of the fashion of the middle ages, pushing a perambulator looking very much like the one ordered for the Spanish heir, certainly has started from Trafalgar square. London, for I saw bini'with my own eyes. But it is one thing to start and another thing to ac complish such a journey. " 'Goodby for ten years.' called the masked individual as he started in the direction of the north pole. And I could not help wondering as I beard him what security he bad that the ?American millionaire' would still be about when he got back to England In -GOODBY FOR TEN YEARS," CALLED THE MASKED INDIVIDUAL gone i,fore a good lot better. The London papers contain a story of a man in an iron mask who has started to push a perambulator around the world to win a wager of $100.000 made by a certain American multimillionaire: Furthermore, the man starts with a capital of less than $5, must earn enough to keep him alive on the way. 1b forbidden to remove the mask dur ing the journey and must obtain the signature of the mayor of every town which he visits on the way. "It cannot be said that such a feat is not worth $100.000. There are prob ably many more people in the world who would ask more than would take the year 191S. or. being about, that he would still be a millionaire and able to meet a demand for $100,000. One never can tell with these newspaper fortunes. "It appears that the 'Iron mask,' as he prefers to be called, must also find himself a wife on the way.' It is a long leap In the dark to marry a man without a look at his face, but he will probably have no difficulty in finding many who will do so, especially if there Is a good chance of his pockets being lined with a hundred thousand American dollars. Then there Is a pos sibility that he will find more takers with the mask on than with it off." Three Rats Save Woman's Life They Were In Her Hair When Hotel Elevator Fell and Broke the Force of the Shock. Three hair rats laid across her head under a luxuriant growth of golden brown hair saved the life of Miss Laura Wind, seventeen years old. of Dixon. Mo., in the Planters hotel at St. Louis. The rats served as a buffer against a heavy wire cable which came down in the wreck of an elevator. The cable crashed through the top of the car and struck the girl on the head. She was knocked Insensible, and at first it was believed she was dead. The physicians in the City hospital said that undoubtedly Miss Wind owed her life to the rats. She sustained a scalp wound and was taken, still un conscious, to the operating room In the hospital. The doctors thought her skull was fractured, but examination re vealed that little injury had been done. It is expected that the girl will be dis charged from the hospital soon. She was seen there the night of the acci dent, sitting up in a cot with the three rats on the coverlet "They saved my life, and I'll never part with them." she said. "Only the other day mother asked me to discard two of them. If I had. what would have happened today? I will never go without rats again. They're a protec tion against sudden death." The elevator dropped when descend ing from an upper floor. The safety clutches brought it to a stop, with a terrific shock, at the third floor, and an instant later the cable crashed through the roof. Miss Wind and the elevator man were the only persons In the car. The man escaped unhurt. Traded Girl For &. Job. California Railroad Man's Novel Solution of the Problem of the Man Out of Work. On the witness stand at Los Angeles. Gal., Judson H. Coe, fifty years old. admitted writing letters in which he agreed to exchange his sixteen-year old'daughter Ethel for a position with 9 railroad. According to the letters, /jie agreement was made in 1902 with O. W. Smith, who was employed by the nilnois Central at Waterloo. Ia. Coe had been summoned into court by Judge Bordwell to explain the letters which were Introduced by Mrs. Theo dora Coe In her suit for divorce. She was granted an interlocutory decree. Coe had previously been divorced from three wives, and a fourth Is dead. When he owned the letters Judge Bord well said: "I don't want to listen to an other word from you. You are a stench In the nostrils of the people." Found Gravedigger Asleep In Coffin. While digging a grave at SL Jerome cemetery in Freeland. Pa., Mike Bo aack, who had too strongly fortified himself against the cold, fell asleep, and, to save themselves from worry about his safety, his companions put Wai In the rough box In the grave and ttoen placed the lid on without fasten ings. When the funeral arrived Under taker Kieruan directed an assistant to remove the rough box lid. When he did bo Bosack sat upright and wanted to know what was doing. The mourn ers were panic stricken until the real situation was explained, and interment of the corpse was then made. Engraved Visiting Cards. FOB ALL THE LITEST STYLES AT THE VERY BEST PRICES SEE SIMS' BOOK STORE, 40 E. RusseU Street. Orangeburg, S. C. Their Occupation Is Fraught With Perils and Hardships. OF LONG EXISTANCE No Marine Industry in These Days Brings Such Hazards?Daily Dur ing the Sealing Season Hundreds of Men Risk the Dangerous tee Flows. There is a seal fishery which has had a far longer existence than the fur-seal fishery of the Pacinc, and en joys greater vitality, and tnat is the hair-seal fishery of Newfouuuland and Labrador. No marine industry in these days brings such hazards to crews and ships as this one. Daily duiing the sealing season hundreds ot men risk their liveB on the floes, and the vessels face arctic "nips" which often crush them. When the hunt op ens, stout steamers, built for this fishery and carrying 5,000 men, sail from various ports in quest of mighty floes swept south from Greenland. Somewhere amid these the herds will be found, the mothers having mounted tne ice to drop their young, which are cradled there, the parents fishing in the adjacent waters for their sud Blstence. The seal-ships must ven ture amid the floes for their quarry, and the seal-men must hunt these "pinnipeds," as scientists call them across the frozen wastes, subjected to all the perils of such a pursuit, with out tents or other shelter, fire, or the means of making any, and no chance of retreat to their ships if a blizzard besets them when they are far from the vessels, and often they go six or eight miles across tne crys tal wastes in the excitement of the hunt. The crews always start off at day break and remain out till night. They are clad in flannel underwear and can vas outer garb, but carry no over coats, that they may travel tue easier, and take along only a little food, for the same reason. Hence, when bliz azrds assail, they are ill provided to defy them, and if the storm is pro longed.-they cannot withstand the rl feors of a night on the floe, with its benumbing cold and gnawing hunger. Never a year passes but some seal ship will shelter ten or twelve hun dred men ^or a night or two, the whole assemblage on the floes making for the nearest steamer when storm or fog threatens, lest they lose their way in trying to loach their own and fall victims to the perils with which they are engirt. One of the most serious tragedies in .the annals of this industry befell the crew of the steamer Greenland on March 29, 1898. Up off Labrador at this time winter has by no meaus spent its fury, and o*i this eventful day, while her two hundred men were scattered over the floes, a blinding snowstorm began, with a startling drop in the temperature, the vessel was driven helplessly seaward, and the hapless crew were leu to their fate, no other ship being near and they being far from land. When me tempest ended, after two days an^ nights, it was found that forty-seven had perished and sixty-three were se verely frostbitten, some so severely as to be maimed for life. The story of the sufferings of the wretched par ty was appalling. A few years ago the steamer Huntsman was penned in a floe off Labrador and driven against a rocky islet, where she went to pieces, forty-two men perishing within an hour amid the contending ice, reefs, and fragments of the ves sel. The rest of the crew crossed the floes to the land; but one man, named French, had been left behind, uncon scious. As the ship struck, be was flung against the rocks, having his shoulder, two fingers and two ribs broken and his bend badly gashed. But he was wedged la a crevice, and when consciousness returned he ' crawled, with the aid of his uninjured li;:nd, to the top of the rock, where he lay for forty-two hours drenched by the spray and battcreu by chunks of ice, lacking drink and food, and agonized from the pain of his wounds, till the ice closed in solid and enabled him to make his way to the coast, which he did safely and ultimately recovered. That same man, aged 70, was seal-j.unting this year, it being his 54th consecutive season. Record For Good Cows. James Miller, of Schultzville, Lack awanna county, Pa,, has a herd of 16 cows that yielded 15,631 pounds of milk in one month, an average of al most. 1,000 pounds a cow, or about 16 quarts a day. The laws of Norway compel a man who chops down one tree to plant three saplings. By emigration Europe loses 960,000 natives every year, and in i^e same period 200,000 return. Ma's motto for framing: Keep busy and you won't have to read books on how to be happy. When a man gets away from home he can wear a blue shirt with a red necktie,?if he wants to. Some weddings are little eine than a dress suit case. A Cure For Misery. "I have found a cure for the mis ery malaria poison produces," says R. M. James, of Louellen, S. C. "It's called Electric Bitters, and comes in 50 cent bottles. It breaks up a case of chills or a billious attack in al most no time; and it puts yellow jaundice clean out of commisson.' This'great tonic medicine and blood purifier gives quick relief in all stom ach, liver and kdney complants and the misery of lame back. Sold under guarantee at Dr. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co's drug store.' "'? * "" EXPERTS ADVICE OF EATINQ. ^uthonf's Tell Us Whflt Foods W? Should Consume and Avoid. Sicero told us long ago that we should eat to live, not live to eat. and rrof. Gautier. of Paris, amplifies that wi?e pronouncement in the course of a very interesting article on "How We Ought to Eat." The professor is the sworn enemy of all culinary artifices the object of which is to stimulate taste.excite the appetite and induce a man to eat without hunger and drink without thirst. These, he says, are prejudicial to the maintenance of health. When one has an appetite for plain bread, vegetables or meat unmodified by any seasoning then and then only can one be said to be really Jiungry. Another paternal recommendation which the professor makes is the old advice of our gradmothers, that we should al ways leave the table with a slight sensation of hunger not entirely ap peased. It appears that we lose every day from 85 to 100 grams of albuminoids, corresponding to 420 or 5oo grams of murcular flesh or analogous tissue. An inhabitant of Paris, for instance, recuperates on the average to' the ex tent of 102 or 103 grams a day. As a guide to what we should eat the professor tells us that the best meat is that of animals fattened on pasture land?beef and mutton. Then comes poultry and pork fed on prod ucts of a vegetable origin, whether grain or herbaceous. One should always avoid the flesh of animals fattened to excess on mus cular flesh and also, to a certain ex tent, that of animals" which are too young. Veal is not good for either gouty or arthritic people. It is not recommended for people with fragile, irritable, eruptive skin. Fish, excellent in itself when it is quite fresh, is easy to digest, but it is not suitable to eczematous persons or those who have any other skin dis ease. Black meats' or game excite the kidneys, predispose to gravel, to he_ tatic congestions and to arterio.scle. rosis. One may live absolutely with out meat; one can not do without vegetable aliments. Eat with regularity and in accord ance with the demands of hunger such dishes as have always been regarded as innocuous and remember that, as a rule, it is neither meats nor bouillon nor wine nor spices nor coffee which poison us, but their abuse. THE SCALE TAILED CRAB. Naturalist Schaeffer Once Counted Them, and Found 1.802.604. The crab known as the scale-tailed apus was believed to have become ex tinct in Great Britain fifty years ago, the last recorded specimens being taken in the ponds on Hampstead Heath. But now it has turned up again in some numbers in two ponds on Preston Merse, near Southwick, in Kirkcudbrightshire. About two ana a half inches long, the apus bears a very striking likeness to that remark able creature the king crab, and this because the fore part of the body is covered by a great semicircular shield or carapace, while as in the king crab, it swims on its back. In the great number of its legs the scale tailed apus has few rivals, while in the number of the joints which these share between them no other creature can compare. The natunilist Srhaef fer once essayed the task of counting them and made the magnificent to tal of 1.S02.604. Latreille put down the number at a round 2,000,000. Never in the Limelight. Jesse Grant, the third son of the great general, is a quiet man, who spends most of his time in New York and is never in the limelight. He does not work, and belongs to two or three clubs. He says he is a splen did "loafer,'' and if he has a good cigar he can stare at a wall two or three hours and be quite happy. "Barefoot Brigade." In Pans a "barefoot brigade'' is trying to make converts. Their chief is a painter of talent, who believes that going barnrooted is absolutely essential to health. In his studio he wears no foot covering or any kind, and when he is out he wears specially made shoes which are perforated so as to allow free access to the air, wat er and snow. "Bob" Nearly Perfect. Gutoti Borghum, the sculptor, says that Robert Fitzsimmons is one ot the best spemimens of physical man hood in the world, and by far the most perfect representative of the fighting man that this age has pro duced. Silk Industry In Lyons. The ancient city of Lyons, the third city in France with a population of 500.000, vias with Milan is importance in the world's siik industry. No few er than 40.000 people?men, women and childien?are employed in the factories. Postcards To Dogs Now. Picture postcards are being sent to pet dogs 0n the continent. A young woman residing in one of the lead ing hoteis in Ostend introduced the fashion. Tne postcards are inscribed with the dog's name, and addressed .care of the owner. The wise man makes few promises and breaks none possible of fuL fillmemt. When the Stomach, Heart or Kid ney nerves get weak, then these or gans always fail. Don't drug the Stomach, nor stimulate the Heart or Kidneys. That is simply a makeshift. Get a prescription known to drug gists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Re storative is prepared expressly for these inside nerves, build them up with Dr. Shoop's Restorative?tab lets or liquid?and see how qiuckly help will come. Free sample test sent on request by Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis. Your health - Is surely worth this simple test. J...G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co. FACft FOR SICK WOMEN LYDIA E. PINKHAM No other medicine has been so successful in relieving; the suffering* of women or received so many gen uine testimonials as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. In every community you will find women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg etable Compound. Almost every one you meet lias either been bene fited by it, or has friends who have. In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,Mass., any woman any day may see the files containing over one mil lion one hundred thousand letters from women seeking health, and here are the letters hi which they openly state over their own signa tures that they were cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has saved many women from surgical operations. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is made from roots and herbs, without drugs, and is whole some and harmless. The reason why Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound is so successful is because it contains in gredients which act directly upon the feminine organism, restoring it to a healthy normal condition. Women who are suffering from those distressing ills peculiar to their sex should not lose sight of these facts or doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore their health. DOING BUSINESS FOR YOUR HEALTH. That's one of the things we are doing business for, and of course incidentally, to got a living. In buying our drugs,&c we get those which are pure and patent, even though (hey often cost vs extra.We buy them for restoring health?yours and all our customers.' You may not be able to judge the quality of drugs, but our long experience en ables us to discriminate. Trust us when you need medicine and your confi dence will never be mis" placed. A. Calhoun Doyle & Co. "THE POPULAR DRUG STORE." STERLING SILVERWARE Did you know t . ' "nro?"? can place before jo" ? i ?v?"' *>f dependable goods *n *"rltn??' Silverware? We do not touon mything that we are hot glad to ""rs" tee?and handle ?"??'??"?'* bv*. the output of the ? As( *~uv.>y." makers. Now, it ought to c th a good deal to you i . '? Ih'?. You need never h Vr about the probable quality o* ????fthinr in this line if you one '~e for it?because we ann:u< "1 re sponsibility, an-* t"~*if<ily guarantee our Sterl':ig ~;Jv:r? ware. There may be su *" i >{, *i Silverware uncertiirfJ*10 br* you couldn't get tl'er. ?, /ic matter how badly yoc. wantea them. H. Spahr & Son. 40 W. Russell, Street. ORANGEBURG, S. C. ?15 DOLLARS SAVED TO ORGAJV CUSTOMERS For Next 40 Days. We will sell our excellent $80 Or gans at only ?US. Our $S0 Organa for -mly ?75. Special Terms: On? thlid now, one-third Not. 1908, bal ance Not. 1909. If Interested, clip thle ad, and enclose It with your let ter, asking for catalog and price Hut. If you want tlm beat orga*1 on earth, don't delay, but write us at once a:ad saTe $15 and make nome harmoni ous. AddreBB: MALONE'S MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia, S. C. Pianos and Organi. BEAUTY AND CLEANESS are essentially the characteristics of our hrass and metal beds. For summer use there is none to be co mpared with them. Like All Our Furniture, these beds have been built right in every detail. We can rcommend them because we know their good qualities. And the price ought to recommend tiiem to you. So inexpensive arc they that you can furnish every bedroom in your house without feeling yourself extravagant. -Also everything in the Hardware lino, Stoves and Ranges &c. Orangeburg HarcKar*. & Furnfiure Co. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ THE PEOPLE^ BANK S z2? ORANGE BURG, S. C, ft Ccb CCD ^ "A Bank For All The People." ^ ^ CAPITAL STOCK.$30,000.00 A SURPLUS. 20,000.00 C?D STOCKHOLDERS LIABI- . C35 LITY.30,000.00 Q C?3 PROTECTION TO DE- . ? rgj POSITORS.$80,000.00 Q D. O. Herbert.President C?} ?B. F. Mnckenf uss.... Vice-President ,0, H. C. Wannamaker.Cashier W.M.Richardson.. . .Asst. Cashier CSD DIRECTORS. ? W. C. Crnm A. M. Salley Ccp Abial Lathrop W. Ii. GTnze czp ?G. L. Salley Robt. E. Copes D. O. Herbert B. F. Muckenfuss C?3 H. C. Wannamaker. ccp C?P Interest paid in Savings Department. C?J 4 068 * EVIDENCE of a thorough course, one that meets the demands,' I results count more than words. Read: Florence, S. C, Feb. 2nd, 1D08. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to certify that Miss Daysie Way, a graduate of the Orange burg Business College, has been In the employ of this Company as stenographer in my office for the past five months, her work has been acceptable in every respect. She is quick at transcribing dictation re markably speedy on the machine, and consdering the fact that prior to her employment with us she had had no experience in practical com mercial work, the system taught her must have been a thorough one or else she would not have been able to make good. There is no question but that Miss Way has prove a credit to her self and to the training received at the Orangeburg Business College. Respectfully, J. R. WOFFORD. Route Agent, Sou. Express Co. Our terms and prices are so liberal that no one should hesitate to enter at once. Write: ORANGEBURG, S. 0. rn\ on: new offering. A " (1) Vacant Lot Low ... St., 80x136. \'j ML (1) House and 1 ? . urner Windsor and Glover Streets. y (1) House and ..? Windsor street, $1000. 1$ (1) House ? ?! i ,ot corner Doyle St., and Sellers Avenue. (1) Hon- :i ,i Lot Peaeley Street. $750. fr] 111 TTi in . r.nH T.nt. Plielrnnn St.rpflt. nhflfln 0 % v % % (1) Housp ;i 1 ;.ot corner Doyle St., and Sellers Avenue. (1) Hon- :i ,i Lot Peaeley Street. $750. (1) F't: und Lot Dickson Street, cheap. (1) >'?? . Residence, now being erected, "Modern home." (1 ! Xew tenant houses, a paying investment. (I, Vacant Lot West Amelia St.. 80x130 "Bargain." "The King House Corner Railroad Avenue and Pine Street. The Williamson House and Lot comer Broughton and 1 ^ houn streets, "fine place." FARMS (1) Farm (123) Acres 2' miles below City, on Charleston road. (1) Farm (33G) Acres 4? miles below City, on River Road. Q) Farm (282) Acres 8\ miles West of City, near Ninety Six Road. (1) Farm (271) Acres 6 miles West of City, on Ninety Six Road. (1) Farm (35) Acres 2 miles North of City, on Road to Stilton. (1) Farm (33) Acres 2 miles West of City, on roed to Cordova. (lj^Farm (115) Acres 2 miles North of Bowman, S. vea cheap. (1) Farm (98) acres 4 miles South East of City. (1) Farm (106) Acres 9 miles north of City near Bull myCea Road. (1) Farm (54) Acres 9 miles West of City on Ninety Six Road. (1) Farm (300) Acres in several tracts in Branchvllle. S. C. 1 Farm 9 miles South East of City counting 50 Acres a Low price. The McKewa Farm one mile from City 90 Acres, finep ac good timber. Also the L. E. Riley Buggy House and Shops corner Middle on and AmeliaStreet measuring (19 feet on Midleton St tl *VX FAlREY *fc C o. Real Estate A gen t. 5 Court House Sq.