Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Greatest of All SPECIAL SALES Will Begin Monday, April 6th. f THE ENTIRE STOCK OF J. C. RANSDALE'S WILL BE PUT f OX SALE AT A GREAT REDUCTION FOR TEN DAYS. This sale will be given for the b enefit of the many customers who ?are taking so much interest in the v oting contest, and to those who may care to enter. Just look what yo u will get the vast quantity of bar gains never before offered and then stand the chance of getting a valua ble prize free. Who can come ah ead of such a proposition. Let everybody come even if you do not care to enter the contest, you will be gvein the same bargains as th ose who are in the race. k * REMEMBER THE DATE and make an early start so as to get the best assortment of goods ever put before the public. Another pleasing feature of this sale will be SPECIAL DAYS. Monday will be a great day for Lawn, Linens and all wash goods. Tuesday will take the lead for Ribbons, Laces and Embroideries. "Wednesday will come in as the best day for Shoes, Slippers and Hosiery. Thursday will be given as the best day for clothing and gent's furnishings Friday will be the best day for your Hats. Caps and many useful articles too numerous to mention. Saturday ?will be the greatest of all when the whole stock will be given over to the many customers at prices never before heard of in Orangeburg. J. C. RANSDAIE. <? * J THE PEOPLE'S BANK g ORAXCEBURG-, S. C, Qc? ;?> <& j "A Bank For AH The People.'' X ?CAPITAL STOCK.$30,000.00 G% SURPLUS. 20,000.00 ^ -S? STOCKHOLDERS LIABI- ., cop jjfk LITY...30,000.00 fa 4 PROTECTION TO DE- ?fr fg, POSITORS.$80,000.0(1 fa ;7b D. O. Herbert.President x ^> ?B. F. Slacken!uss.... Vice-President fa H. C. Wannamaker.Cashier L?P W. M. Richardson.. . . Asst. Cashier cbo ? DIRECTORS. c|3 ~X - W. C. Crura A. M. Sallcy C2? Q Abial Lathrop W. L. Glaze cop fa G. L. Salley Robt. E. Copes fa D. O. Herbert B. F. Muckenfuss :..^p H. C. Wannamaker. cod A Interest paid in Savings Department. t?? OUR NEW OFFERING. (1) Vacant Lot Lowman St., 80x136. (1) House and Lot corner Windsor and Glover Streets. (1) House and Lot Windsor street, $ 1000. (1) House and Lot corner Doyle St., and Sellers Avenne. m House and Lot Peasley Street. $750. [0] (1) Honse and Lot Dickson Street, cheap. (1) New Residence, now being erected, "Modern home." (14) New tenant houses, a paying investment. (1) Vacant Lot West Amelia St., 80x130 "Bargain." "The King Honse Corner Railroad Avenne and Pine Street. The Williamson House and Lot corner Broughton an i houn streets, "fine place." FARMS (1) Farm (123) Acres 2? miles below City,"on Ch ? nd. (l) Farm (336) Acres 4} miles below City.'on River Road. (1) Farm (282) Acres 8J miles West of City, near Ninety Six Road. (1) Farm (271) Acres 6 miles West of City, on Ninety Six Road. ^ (1) Farm (115) Acres 2 miles North of Bowman, S. v ea 0 v chpap. ? (1) Farm (98) acres 4 miles South East of City. (1) Farm (106) Acres 9 miles north of City near Bull myCsa Road. (1) Farm (54) Acres 9 miles West of City on Ninety Six Road. (1) Farm (300) Acres in several tracts in Branchville. S. C. ?1 Farm 9 miles South East of City counting 50 Acres a Low A price. D ?The McKewn Farm one mile from City 90 Acres, finep ac ' good timber. ? [q. Also the L. E. Riley Buggy House and Shops corner Middle- ? ?on and AmeliaStreet measuring (19 feet on Midleton St JL H M ITA IREY & C o. ^ ?Real Estate Agents. 5 Court House Sq. JL Sewing Machines. NEW DROP-HEAD MACHINES sold on -asy payments. Good prices allowed for old Machines in exchan, 9. Second-hand Machines *rom $5.00 to $15.00. Also parts a~id attachments furnished ill standard makes. Prompt attention to mail orders. New Bicycles Sold ro Easy Payments. Also Bicycle parts and sundries furnished for all standard makes. General Repair Shop for Sewing Machines, Bicycles, Guns, Clocki d Watches. anGive me your woik. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. H. S MI t H. Market Street ? - Opposite New Postoffice. The Orangeluirg Collegiate Institute Orangeburg, S. C. Our new building is now romrle cl, and at the opening of the sec ond term January -nd we will be able to uceoramodate about twenty tve new boarding students. Catalogue and terms on request. W. S. Peterson, President. Long Island Clergyman Who Eloped With Floretta Whaley Bares His Heart to the World In a Remarka , ble Confession. Rank Foolishness. "When attacked by a c ougb or cold, or when your throat is sore it is rank foolishness to take any other niedcine tlian Dr. King's New Discov ery," says C. O. Eldridge of Empire, Ga. "I have used New Discovery for seven years and I know it is the best remedy on earth for coughs and colds, croup, and all throat and lung troubles. My children are subject to croup, but New Discovery quickly cures every .attack." Known the world over as the King of throat and wedding, she coldly informed me that she had married me simply as a step ping stone to social success and that she saw in me one who was going to rise I recognized the bitterness of my lot Only ill mated couples can under stand my position as a husband. From Baltimore I was appointed rec tor of St. George's church in Hemp stead, N. Y. The position was a good one and one that highly pleased my wife. She had there an opportunity to further her social alms. I reorganized the church; bishops dined at my house; i spoke on the same platform with the president of the United States, and 1 was promised the degree of doctor of divinity. Such things are alluring even to a minister, and the man who says he is not captivated by them Is either a lofty soul or a common liar. As a rector of St. George's I me Floretta Whaley. She was a mere child then and grew up under my eyes. Jere Knodc Cooke. former rector of a fashionable church at Hempstea?, N. Y., who left his pulpit and his wife to run away with a seventeen-year-old girl, has been located In San Francisco. He Is working as a painter and decora tor to w'n.a livelihood for his com panion and their baby. He was visited recently in his little flat by a newspa per man/ who induced him to write the story of his life. Here It is in his own words: To write the story of my shame and wrongdoing, to lay bare all the secrets which, though of sin, are sacred and. I sometimes believe, more than those of holiness and virtue; to tear aside the curtain of silence which has shield ed the love of Floretta Whaley and myself for one happy year, Is to me utterly abhorrent. Unwilling is the pen; difficult is the undertaking. I attempt no justification of my act. I walked to mine own damnation with my eyes open. The church has damned me, the world has damned mo, anil damned I stand on the isolated peak of my love?happy. When I stooped to the mire of this pit I rose to the glory of the heights. I am not weak enough to attempt to justify myself in the eyes of the world, knowing the impossibility of such a procedure. The world has set out Its path, which It declares must be trodden, and those who step from it as flagrantly and openly as 1 have done can never hope to regain the place in the line. That is lost. The ranks closed in and the world moved on. In bitterness and passion I seek the solution of the eternal and unanswer able query, Why? Why should I give up my happiness? Why should she give up her happiness? The primal laws of love and life gave us to each other. Are life and happiness nothing more than one long sacrifice? I think not. It is only the weakling who tacitly surrenders and by sacrifice obtains a mild joy and calmness which he Indo lently accepts as happiness. The man of flesh and blood and heart takes for himself and fights back, and if what he takes is worth the combat he will flght the whole world. The qnestion, however, is whether happiness lies in the beaten path which the millions follow or In the forbidden land on either side. Each must an swer the question for himself. I have answered mine by my act. On my deathbed I shall discover who Is right and who is wrung?the millions or my self. There Is no question in my mind as I write now and glance at Floretta Whaley sitting by me softly singing land pictures and knickknacks, but In COOKE'S ROMANCE. I always regarded her as a child until one day 1 awoke to the fuct that she was a woman and that I loved her. At this stage I might say that, though sixteen years of age, Floretta Whaley was one of the type that matures early. Her orphan life and surroundings had made her remarkably precocious even as a child, and at eighteen she was in her womanhood. I say this in the face of the criticism heaped on me In re gard to eloping with one so young. I wish it to be remembered that at this time I was at the height of my success. The near future promised for me all the sacerdotal world had to of fer. Like other men, I could have lived a dual existence and escaped de tection and eventually wandered down the road of life with a perfectly re spectable skeleton In my cupboard, tak ing all the world had to offer. Instead I threw aside everything and took the girl. I do not boast of it as a sacrifice, but state it as a fact and ask how many of. my fellow sinners would have done the same under similar circumstances. I threw aside everything?name, fame, honors?all. I knew exactly what the payment would be. I knew the storm that would follow. I knew I became a criminal. I knew it all, and I did it. We fled from Hempstead to Los An geles. From the pulpit I turned to the paint brush of my early days. In the west I was accepted at my worth as a painter. No one asked questions; .;i> ow> ironMed me. I was paid to il>? a certain work, and I did It There were times when we missed the little refinements of the old days, the books the song of motherhood to our child at her breast. Time might, as time has done, make many differences. Of the future no man can speak. In telling the story of my life 1 write I as a sinner to sinners. Those who are in a position to cast the flrst stone will find my position Illogical, but my knowledge of the world has convinced me that by the majority I will be un derstood. My parents died when I was very yoting, but young as I was I remember distinctly my mother making me prom ise to enter the ministry. As I grew older the calling appealed to me more and more, and I decided to enter the church. I was adopted by a man named Cooke, whom I looked upon as an uncle, and attended the public schools. When I was sixteen years of age I was apprenticed to a painter and decorator, and there I learned the trade which I am now following. The little I earned I saved and eventually bad enough to allow me to enter Yale. Life was an uphill struggle then. I had to work my way through college and on graduating was appointed cu rate of a church in Baltimore. While there I met and married the woman whom the law calls my wife. There I made my flrsl big mistake. Physical reasons forbade her marry ing, and when, three days after our | their place we were blessed with the company of men and women?real men and women, who worked for a weekly wage and treated a man exactly as he treated them. From Los Angeles we went to San Francisco, where I pursued my trade under the name of Jerry Raleolm, and after mouths of saving succeeded in having a tiny flat of our own. The sight of our own home gave me greater satisfaction than would have a degree of doctor of divinity. I was gradually living down the past, hoping that my wife would obtain a divorce so that I might marry Floretta Whaley and thus free her from the fear of arrest aa a criminal, when we were discovered by a representative of a San Francisco paper. I did write to Floretta's grandmoth er for money, as the newspapers say. I hated to do It, but our poverty over came our pride. Such is my story?no worse or bet- ! ter than thousands of others ? and now nil I ask Is to be allowed to live my life not as .Fore Knodc Cooke, un frocked pastor of St. George's church, but as Jerry Balcolm, painter and dec orator, who draws a week's wages for a week's work nnd who has learned tn believe that a dinner of herbs with love is to be preferred tu the stalled ox in the tent of the king. lung remedies. Sold under guaran tee at J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co., j drug store 50 c. and $1.00. Trial bot- I tie free. It isn't always a mean idea that strikes a man when he is down. The dealer in combs and brush's must be a man of many parts. Use DeWltt's Little Early Risers, pleasant little pills. They are easy to take. Sold by A. C. Dukes, M. D; A. C. Doyle & Co. Poehy Werth Reading. Enough. Met a little Pittsburg girl. She was tventy-one. she "aid. And she had guggles o'er tier eyes, A dust-cap on her head. "My little maid," I said, "Pray tell Me where you've spent Your tim-j." She answered, "I have toured Upon the continent." "And how was Paris?" then I asked. But vigorously she fanned Her red-rimmed eyes. It was quite plain She did not understand. "Did you see Rome?" I asked In vain. "And how was Italy?" She shook the du6t from out her clothes, And vaguely gazed at me. "Perhaps," I ventured, "Spain you saw, Madrid?a grand old place? Maybe at Monte Carlo you"? No light broke o'er her face. "Oh, little maid, don't keep it back; Tell me?just where you went." She raised her head quite haughtily, "We toured the continent. "What, more do you desire than this, Oh, Btranger? Rest content. We did not see a single place; We toured?the continent." ?Judge. His Fathers Son. Oh, my! oh, my! the year3 go by Like sheep the dogs are barryin', But late I had a lispin" lad, An' now he talks o' marry In'! Lord bless me, but he has the stnr Of one that's grand an' knows it Xo Jass so prim that looks at him But likes his cut an" shows it. An', falx, 'twould do your heart good too, To hear him at the blarney: There's ne'er a lass that sees him pass But wears a smile fcr Barney Our Barney ? A wishful smile for Uarney. Though Cupid layB cute snares these days When Barney goes phllanderln', An' all his traps holds geese, per haps, None takes this bold young gander in. Ah! none as yet, but there's a net That will, one day or other, An' her I'd name to bait the same Is one like me, his mother. Aye! sure as fate, he'll take for mate Sweet, roguish Nora Kearney, 1 Who meets his wiles with scornful smiles. As oace I did with Barney? My Barney? ,Tt,e father of "our" Barney. The Pure Food Inspector. The chile raised Its fur and yowled, the sausage yelped with glee, The potted game did much the same, as joyous as could be. For came a man of lofty mien, and mean also of face, To make report to Uncle Sam, of pure food in the place. He came and shook the chile can, and Just to make it sure, He read the label carefully before he Btamped It "Pure." He poked the sausage with his cane, and fed some to the cat. Which threw a fit, so be also as pure food labelled that. For everybody knows that food when packel In little nota Or cans or skins or other things to keep it. never rots. While no one making things to eat would ever think to rob, Or falsify?but this is mum?a man must hold his job. ?Dallas News. Taffy. A man mnv be a ginnt -f colossal Intellect Or a paragon of dignity and poise, But Just let a woman say. "Oh, how well you look to-day!" And his face will glow with pleas ure like a boy's. A woman may be cranky and can takerous at that, Just waiting her mad epithets to hurl, When a man will really ea/, "Why, how Bweet you r.re to-day!" And she'll flush and blush and stutter like a girl. ?Laura W. Sheldon In Brooklyn Life Reality. If Hfe's a dream, I'd like to know What makes the tooth Ache hurt me so. Birmingham Age-Herald. Never Until Broke While the coin Holds out to burn, Few are the sinners That return. The plan of the yacht that origin ally won the America's cup docs not seem to enter into present-day dis cussion of form at all. Ground chestnuts take the place of flour In come parts of France. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup, the new Laxative, stimulates, but does I not irritate. It Is the I st Laxative. Guaranteed or your m? aey back. A. C. Dukes. A :.ian never proioigs his life by drinkng to other people's health. Never say die! P: ' L. L. L. Buy Lowman's Liver Lifters. Take Lowman's L'.ver Lifters. Use Lowman's Liver Lifters. Try Lowman's LIrer Lifters. Harris Llthla Water. For sale by Lowman & Lowman, Big Crops Mean Bigger such garden crops as and all other vegeta and rapid growth. Big Big profits from cotton, tobacco, and com, tomatoes, cabbage, Iottuce, beets bles and fruits depend upon their uniform ger crops and quicker and larger growth are positively assured through high fertilization with Viiginia-Carolina Fertilizers That Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers are far superior to any other fertilizers Is proved by the experience of Mr. D. M. Grilfin, D. D. s. of Plant City, Fla., who says: "I was trucking on a small scale, and decided I would try a few sacks of your fertilizer, as it was cheap and said to be good. I put it un der some tomatoes by the side of some other high grnde fertilizer which cost me $15 a ton more, and in the same proportion per acre. I don't think I exaggerate in the least in saying that the yield where I used Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers was three times that of where I used the other brand of so-called high-grade fertilizer." Many valuable pointers on truck farming written by government and private authorities, will be found in our new Farmers' Year /a Book or Almanac. Get a copy at your fertilizer dealers', or write to our nearest sales office. It is Free. ail w RkhmoEit, Vs. Norfolk. V.l. Columl>u, S. C. Atlanta, Ca. ?1,1% v Virginia-Carolina Chemi //cal Co. Durham. N\ C. Charleston. S. C Baltimore, Mil Columbus, Ca. Savannah, Ca. M.ir.t,;omcry, Ala. Mesnphii, Teas, hrcvcport, La. The Edisto Savings Bank, | lORANGEBURG, S. O. Capital.8100,000 00. Surplus. 830,000.00. .1 'Im;, Preiilmt. M. Oliver, Vice Pr .3 Dinle, Viej President, m. L. Glover, Casbie DIRECTORS M O. Dantzler J. M. Oliver . R. [nvtiu W. F. r Fa'ey B. H. Moss T. C Doyle Sol Kohn J. W. Smoak Money saved is money made, and the wiy ti save Is to do^lb jou money in the savings department and draw interest on the f rsr lav" January. April, July ao^ Octooer at the rate of four per cent oe' ????r This bank's absolute safety is best attested by its capita' tock, It surplus and by the character and standing of Its officers ana board of directors. Money loaned on good security. 9999 If you art leeling outof torn, tike an NR Tablet, and you wiD led better in the morning. They will make you feel lust right. ??Notare'? Rjemedy" ?:/engthens the Stomach, Liver. Kidney* and purifies the Blood, dot* Ha work thoroughly and pleasantly, yet ft never gripe*, weaken* or aickeas-invarubly makinglhe user (mI Stronger and better. Better Than Pills Fop Liver IBs. Take HR Tablett for Indigestion. Sick Headache. Los* of Appetit*. Sauow Complexion. Liver Complaint. Skin Disease*. Pimple* and Eruption*, Chilis, .Malaria, Bltouaoeaa. Rheumatism. Torpid Lhrer or Inactive Kidney* aod aJ trouble* arWisg from the digestiv? ort*?. __________ One Table* G1VTSREL3& ra-TABLETSrN? FOR SALE BY A. C. DOYLE & CO. We have a large stock of Home made Porch Rockers, ft THE FURNITURE STORE ;o_ ft ===== ? 5 ? ft ft ft ? ? "The Kind With the Cow Hide Bottom/' and for the next two weeks they will be slaughtered. % % T Buy some for your Piazza while 1 the prices are cut. They last a T ' (* l *_ U a Lifetime. V V ft t) Wannamaker, Smoak & Co. ft