Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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B Hi IDEAL, Upbuilding of Town and Village Upbuilds the Race. SALVATION OF THE COUNTRY. 1t Depends Upon Checking the Tend ency of the People to Gather In Congested Centers?How the Mail Order System Kills Rural Life. From an editorial article by George H. Maxwell in Maxwell's Talisman the fuHowiug pertinent extracts are taken: There are many country merchants who see their trade gradually slipping .away from them, leaving the country town and going to the great cities by the channel of the mail order trade. There are many country editors who see the prosperity of their towus de pleted and circulation and advertising income reduced for the same reason. There are very few, however, who realize that their problem'is a national one and that It is wrapped up in aud * part of the great fundamental ques tion whether this nation shall be per petuated or shall be destroyed by the physical degeneration of humanity, the social unrest, industrial discontent, moral and political corruption aud class hatred bred In the city slums and ten ements and certain to culminate in anarchistic crimes, riotous mobs and ?II destroying social upheavals as the result of Rome long continued period <>{ industrial''and commercial depres sion. The fuct Is that the upbuilding of the country towu and suburban vil lage as an antidote and safeguard .against the poisouous social, moral, physical and political consequences of herding millions of our working peo ple together in the unnatural congested life of the tenements U the one great ?ijuestiou that rises above all others in .importance as a problem that this na tion must solve. Unless it does solve :t it will suffer death from human de generacy? the fate of so many nations and civilizations that have risen in the yaat only to be destroyed. Ours will be likewise destroyed unless we take heed an time. The danger arises from the conges tion of population iu cities an'! from nothing else. The solution lies iu checking the fur ther growth of cities at the homes of industrial workers and scattering those homes into aud among suburban home ?croft villages and in country towns ?and rural settlements. To do that trade and industry must be decentralised, industries of all kinds must be established in the sub urbs of the cities or iu the towns in stead of in the congested centers. That something that requires uu organized campaign, but first it requires a cur rent of right thought in the minds of the people. It requires that everything should be -done that can be doue to hold in the -existing towns and villages the trace that now naturally centers there. Any part of it. small or large, that is di verted to any of the huge ceutral mail ?order cencerns in the big cities and 1 hereby taken away from the locality where it originates and belongs is an influence that promotes just to that ?extent the growth of the evil that is ?eating at the heart of our national life. Whatever is needed to supply the needs ?of every household iu every rural com munity should be sold over the counter of a local store and nut through ".be postofflce and the mail trade. Then 'comes the question of the growth of towns and villages. There is where the country editors and mer chants can help tnemselves. (?nee get ji into the minds of the whole Amer ican people that the salvation of the nation depends ou the upbuilding of the country towns and suburban vil lages?get the idea planted and deeply j looted so it will grow itself?and a thousand influences will euter. the Held and enlist for this great campaigl) for rural and couutry town and village development to cheek the overgrowth vf cities, with all its resultant evils. it cnnuol all be done at once. The first tbiug is to gel public toouglil ac tively aroused and turned into rigid channels. There must b<- a complete common couci-ptioii in the minds of millions of people of this- new national ideal. Then there must l>.- united, eon certed and vigorous action to realize] ihat ideal. The fnHs ami arguments to support it musl be disseminated I lirpugh a great educational campaign] entirely separate and apart from poti-1 tics. I The Card Advertisement. "Oue excellent way to keep a towu's attractions and advantages In-fore the outsi l?? world," remarked a citizen of a thriving western town, "is tin- use of ihe card advertisement. No. 1 don't mean the big card in the street ears ?carrying display type notices. 1 am not talking particularly of street car towns anyhow. 1 mean tic card used by some persons 1 know, in.?hiding my self. It is just a little smaller than The business envelopes used. On this card is printed an epitome of ihe town's attractions, (he main points |i?? ing brought out boldly. A half tone picture of tin* business center, if it lends Itself well to illustration, is a x'ood feature. You can use both sides of the card for matter booming your town. Tut one or two of these .aids in every letter you write. You will be surprised to learn bow many iminifies you wilt receive in a short time. I consider this a tine way to keep a town before tin- p.-opie outside. If every citizen would do likewise the I card advertisement would be a great thing for the town." The Httle attacks of stomach j trouble and stomach disorders will! undoubtedly lead to chronic dyspep sia unless you take something for a sufficient time to strengthen the stomaJi and give it a ehnace to get well. It* you take Kodol iu the be ginning the bad attacks of Dyspep sia will be avoided but if you allow these Jittle attacks to go unheeded ir will take Kodol a longer time to put your stomach in good condition aeain. Get a bottle of Kodol today. Sold by A. C. Dukes, M. D., A. C. Doyle & Co. ENGLISH SIDEBOARDS. Lovers of Old Furniture Searching For Sheraton Designs. There is a great fancy just now among lovers of old furniture for Eng lish sideboards of eighteenth century desigus. The main tendency of the sideboard in the late eighteenth century is toward greater storage room. Sheraton adopted the form of Ilepplewhite's sideboard, but introduced many small Innovations. For instance, he seldom introduced the perfectly straight, un broken front, as Hepplewhite fre quently did. The front was more fre quently serpentine or oval. He was also the origiuator of the hollow fronted sideboard, which be recom mended for artistic reasons, as taking off the appearance of great length, and I_??J uighteexth century ktdekoaiid with wine cicllar below. for practical reasons, as "if the side board be near the entering door the hollow front will sometimes secure the butler from the jostles of the other serVants." The butler could also reach across the sideboard more easily. The long, slender, tapering legs, like his chair legs, were often set into a rosette at the top. The bare appear ance of the sideboard top. without any decoration or finish, did uot please him, and he elaborated the device, probably borrowed from Robert Adam's de signs, of adding a rail with fine brass scroll work, often with candelabra at tached, from which fluted silk or other curtains could be suspended, thus giving a touch of color and light to the whole. This tail, Sheraton writes, was used to "set large dishes against and to support a couple of candle or lamp branches in the middle, which when lighted gave a very brilliant ef fect to the silverware." One of the Il lustrations shows the rail with its two graceful caudle branches and with a wine cooler below. The cellaret sideboard and the side board plentifully supplied with draw el's, which were novelties in Hepple wblte's time, became highly elaborate under Sheraton. The cellaret side board was provided with a partitioned place for bottles of wine. In large cir cular sideboards he tells us the left hand drawer has sometimes been fitted up as a plate warmer, having a rack in the middle to stick the plates in. and lined with strong tin all round and on english EMPIRE SIDEBOARD. the underside of the sideboard top to prevent the heat from injuring it. In "spacious" dining rooms the side boards are often without drawers of any sort, but with an ornamental brass rail, and pedestals with vases at each end, which produce, in his favorite phrase, a "grat*d effect." Sideboards for humbler apartments were some times made without either drawers or pedestals, but had generally a wine cooler hooped with brass to stand un der Iheni, and they were nearly always without the rail at the hack. These wine coolers were often in the form of a sarcophagus, "an imitation of the figure of ancient stone coltins. Some J of them' have covers; some are with- I out." Sheraton gives one design sup ported by dolphins, whose heads form the tool, while the tails curve upward. Another is supported by lions' paws and is ornamented with lions' heads. He advises rings at each end so the servants may easily lift them about. Kitihen Libraries. "Have a Hltle library in your kitch en," advises an Englishwoman. '?] al ways encourage my servants to read as much as possible In their leisure moments, for I have always found that a little light literature brings a pleas ant sense of relief to the mind after the daily worries inseparable from looking after a house. A supply of en tertaining books of lictiuu in every kitchen would do much to counteract the tendency to mental infirmities of those engaged in household work con sequent upon the inevitable monotony of their duties." An American woman who has had much trouble with incom petent servant>? retorted on hearing of the Briton's plans. "If I started such a library in my kitchen the first vol ume would be TIow to Cook.'" Boss of Her Own Kitchen. s Mrs. James S. Sherman Is noted for her thrifty ways and for the excel lence of her preserves and jellies. Her bread is famous, and many a novice in domestic mysteries has obtained her method of mixing fr*m the wife of the vice presidential candidate. Mrs. Sherman owns to having the health food hobby. She Is an export In de tecting adulteration. The storekeeper of I'tica or Washington is brave in deed if he attempts to work doctored food on the wife of the Honorable Jim. 'I'Im- Best Pills Ever Sold. "After doctoring ] '< years for chronic indigestion, and spending over two hundred dollars, nothing has done me as much good as Dr. King's New Life Pills. I consider them the besl pills ever sold:" writes It. F. Ayscue, of Ingleside, X. C. Sold under guarantee at Dr. J. (1. Wnnnamakcr, Mfg. Co., drug store. Women frequently jump at con clusions that are anything but alarm No. 246.?Divided Flowers. A male child and ground wheat. An" animal and a forest. A boy's name and a pen. A dairy product aud a small recep tacle. Roosters and a toilet implement. Confectionery and a bunch. A red berry and a kind of wine. To wed and a metal. An animal and to slide. A kitchen utensil and a letter. No. 247.?Sea Serpent Puzzle. The South American sea captain who came to port the other day with the description of a sea serpent which fol lowed the ship for days like a friendly dog says that at night the monster curled itself into a ball and. sleeping peacefully, rolled in the wake of the vessel. Here is Captain Fibb's faithful sketch of the sea serpent, and he claims that if you will cut the figure iuto two pieces of the same shape and BlA they will fit together to form a perfect ball and thus prove that the captain is no nature fakir. No. 248.?Beheadings and Curtailings. 1. Doubly behead a railroad station and leave a small cooking vessel. 2. Doubly l>ehead the human chest and leave one of the four points of the com pass. 3. Behead a number of sea going vessels and leave a domestic grain. 1. Curtail a paper model from which garments are designed and leave the sound of little children's feet 2. Cur tail an ornamental feather worn on wo men's hats and leave a small fruit. 3. Doubly curtail a fireplace utensil and leave a hundredweight. No. 249.?Curtailments. Curtail a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck and leave a blemish: a species' of earthenware and leave a part of the face; a plant common to Scot land and leave high temperature; a great Grecian poet and leave a dwell ing: a joiner's tool and leave a project; a mythological damsel, said to slug with great sweetness and leave a.fa ther: truth and leave to walk or move fast: an open passage through the wood aud leave pleased; a nymph of para dise, so called by the Mohammedans, and leave a portion of time; a sudden motion and leave a heavenly body. The curtailed letters in order spell the name of the man who construct ed the first mercurial thermometer.? Youth's Companion. No. 250.?Charades. L T first my sipfd and speed away Ti> greet tin? sun at break of day. My trusty second begins and ends Each man's estate and often lends A final part in time and pease. My third the people trust with gold. A source of wealth, and yet I'm told It sometimes fails, though often then Through one who cheats his fellow men. And of my whole? Beware of all Who justly by that name you call. II. My socond went to the side of my first And stayed through the whole for the air. There were croquet and swinging And bathing and singing And chatting with maidens fair. Riddlemeree. Why is a fly taller than most men? Because it stands six feet without shoes or stockings. What part of a tree is the most po lite? The hough (bow). What is the difference between a wo man and tin umbrella'.' The umbrella can be .shut. Key to the Puzzler. No. 23S.?Rebus: There were three jolly Welshmen, And 1 have heard ihem say Thai they would ?<> a-hunting Upon iJt. David's day. No.230.?Transposition: Hares, bears, share. No. 2-10.?Charade: Va-cat-i-on, vaca tion. No. 241.?Hidden Itivcrs In the Unit ed States: I. Ohio. ". Delaware. 3. Hudson. 4. .lames. No.242.?Five Syncopations: 1. Rouse, rose. 2. Cleaver, clever. 3. Float, flat 4. Unfit, unit. 5. Vital, vial. No. 1'43.?The Grain Problem: This problem is solved by a single equatiou with an unknown quantity. Let us call the price of a barrel of wheat "in days of yore" X. Then a barrel of rye was worth one-half of X. Wheat increases $1, so the price today is X plus SI, and the up lo date price for rye one-half of X plus 73 cents, it was stated that to day eleven barrels of wheat are worth twenty of rye, so we may express It as follows: Twenty times one-half X ylus 7," cents equals eleven limes X pi us $1. From which it is determined the plus value of X as $4. the price of wheat in the days of yore. No. 244.?Hidden Proverb: Where there is smoke there is fire. No. 245.?A diamond: it rag x e o k o b a a p i p b a it i a r j ape e Served as coffee, the new coffee substitute known to grocer's every where as Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee, will trick oven a coffee expert. Not a grain Of real coffee in it either. Pure healthful ' asted grains, malt, nuts, etc., have been so cleverly blended as io give a wonderfully satisfying coffee taste and flavor. And it is "made in a minute", too. No tonious 20 to oO minutes boil ing. A. L. Dukes. What satisfaction is a secret sor row that no oue kuows about?. *?ii IN THE COUMTRY. Suggestions For Making Farms and Rur si Hcm:s Attractive. Fiuaneiji ? irruuisfaueos arc often ;;< U :!?. : The farmer cannot adorn bis : ?..c :.;k'::. Ivo bouses, barns and uv.is l?ui Mils lack of menus should :; : discourage the average man. for Iherv is reason why his borne r :;<n:;; not be beautiful. There are v.c set' those improve ments, yet Ibpre- may he an element of ixMtiiy lacking to llursc who love liehu t.\ for beauty's sake. Cleanliness. g?nd Uiii- and a certain uniouut of I ? :?!?? must le seen or beauty will he i. ::iiig Thaw? is a lack of laste and management In some country homes to be deplored. V.C see i-uuniry homes, one after an other, aimost entirely without dowers Sometimes ?e judge it is because the women do not have time to care for ibem, but more often v.e believe It Is because of the lack of love for flowers that they are missing, says Mrs. E. V Gordon of La mar county. Tex., in the Farm and Ranch. Every home should have its flowers. One .should take time to care for a few at least. It re quires very little time to plant and enre for a hardy flower, and that flow er will afford pleasure and beauty for many days In the year. Flowers ap peal to our finer taste, and in the cul tivation of them we become mure re fined. The front yard should have good walks and well arranged flower beds, aud these should be kept clear of weeds and grass if possible. The back yard should never be neglected. It is just as important a factor, if not more so, in the everyday life of the home maker as the front yard. All weeds and rubbish should be removed and trees and flowers of value planted. It has been our lot to be thrown into some communities where the average farmer greatly neglected the appear ance of bis farm aud seemed to be pos sessed with a don't care disposition and to be endowed with very poor ideas of refinement. There is so much left undone which could be done with profit nnd added comfort. Our farms wjuid be much more attractive if all fence rows, orchards and back lots- were kept clear of weeds and grass. Gates and barn doors should be well made and hinged, not propped. Fence wires where they are loose at every other post should be stapled up. These are small things, but they mar the beauty of the farm. Our farms are often destitute of trees. This should not be. There is time wasted unthougbtfully which could be used in putting out trees around yards, lots, fences and In pastures. "In all labor there is profit" THE DRUG STORE is the one place on earth where it is unsafe to look for "Bargains." If you are satisfied with getting the worth of your money, the best Medicine it is possible to compound from the highest grade drugs, jd the services of an experienced Pharma cist you will send your Doctor's Prescription to 2,000 yds beautiful gingham dress good, 10c quality at 5c very thing for school children, ee our 10c charnbreys 6 1-4 New lot of 5c calicoes, light, navy and red 5c. 25 doz. aprons worth 35 and 50cc choice at 25. Children's half hose in black, white and tan at 10c Good handkerchiefs at 2 1-2 each. I For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of While Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is especially recommended for children, it. is. of course, just as good for adults. Children like to lake ji because it tastes nearly as good as maple sugar. Its laxative principle drives the cold from (he system by a gentle, natural, yet copi ous action of the bowels. Sold by A. C. Dukes, M. D.. A. C. Doyle & Co. IGASTORI? The Jb?nd Yon Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 80 years, has borne the signature of ?i and has been made under his per ^? jCJ&Hyi^^f. sonal supervision since its infancy* \+taf7/t t'G&AMQ Allow no one to deceive you in this. AU Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" aw but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children?Experience against Experiment? What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing' Syrups. It is Pleasant. Ifc contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms 1 and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and "Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation End Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep* The Children's Panacea?The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Sears the Signature of lie Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. - THC CCNTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY STRCCT. HtW YORK CITY. STERLING SILVERWARE Did yon know t .ior-? can place before yo-' i -ay o' dependable goods *n "rlun; Silverware? We do not toncn ?? vthing that we are not glad to ""("?a"" tee?and handle ??"*' ** hn* the output of the vuov? makers. Now, it ought to e th A good deal to you this. You need never h~r'*i about the probable quality r* "thing in this line if yon one ~e for it?because we af3U!U< U re" sponsibility, an-* i ~**ively guarantee our Steri u? ""Vv.?r? ware. There may be su' i ig a? Silverware unccitiir^j*1^ br* you couldn't get tl or ?, ac matter how badly you wanted them. H. Spahr & Son. 46 W. Russell, Street. ORANGEBURG, & O. J. STOKES SALLEY, Attorney at Law. No. 11 Barton Buildi ' T aw 3-2 7-3m Range, Orangeburg, 8. O. A man feels awfull yrich when he's got a few dollars his wife doesn't know about. Wm. V. Izlar. J. Stokes Salle) Fire Insurance. IZLAR & SALLEY We represent the The Home Insurance Co. Liverpool and London and Globe German American Continental Northern Assurance Phoenix and Georgia Home. I The Strongest Combination in the State. DOING BUSINESS FOR YOUR HEALTH. That's one of (lie tilings we ure doing business for, and of course incidentally, to get a living. In buying our drugs,&c we get those which arc pure and patent, even though they often cost us cxtra.We buy them for restoring health?yours and all our customers.' Yon may not be able to judge the quality of drugs, but our long experience en" ablcs us to discriminate. Trust US when you need medicine and your confi dence will never be mis" placed. A. Calhoun Doyk & Co. ?"THE POPULAR DRUG STORE.* Rheumatism I have found a tried and tested cure for Khan tnatisml N'otrf remedy that will stniljrhten tha distorted limbs of chronic cripples, nor turn bnnj growths back to flesh utrutn. That is impossible. But I can now surely kill tha pains and panis of this deplorable dis-ase. In Germany?with a Chemist In the City el Darmstadt?I found the last Inerodient with Which Dr. Snoop's Rhoumatic Remedy was made h perfected, dependable prescription. Without that last Ingredient, I successfully treated many, many cases of Rheumatism: but now. at last. It uni formly cures all curable cases of this heretofore much dreaded disease. Those sand-iike eranular wastes, found in Rheumatic Blood, seem todlssolvt cud pa&s away under the action of th?i remedy as freely as does sugar when added to pure water. And then, when dissolved, these poisonous wastee freely pass from the system, and the cause of Rhounmtlsin Is gone forever. There is now no real need?no actual excuse to suffer longer with out help. Wa sell, and in confidence recommnnd Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Remedy DR. J. G. WANNAMAKER. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup CONTAINS HONEY AND TAR Relieves Co!d3 by working them out of th? system through a copious and Wealthy action of the bowels. Relieves Coughs by cleansing tha mucous membranes of the throat, chaai and bronchial tubes. "As pleasant to the taste as Maple Sugar" Children Like It For BACKACHE-WEAK KIDNEYS Trj Da Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pilla ?Suro and ZiU Sold by A. C Dukes, M. D., and A. C. Doyle <fc Co. DO YOU KNOW? Do you know why our store is growing more popul?r each day? It is because we make a special study of the wonts of obi customers and save them from 10 per cent to 20 per cent om every bill they buy from us. We have a full stock of fresh and stylish Spring goods at prices that are sure to please. Give us a call and we will do yon good. THE ORANGEBURG MILLINERY PARLOR is now located at our store and Mrs. George Fairey and Mrs. Angie Wilson can supply yon in fine Millinery at prices cheaper than the very cheapest. Seeing is believing. Come and let us show yon Foreman-Rickenbaker Co. Plain Talks on Fertilizers How to Get the Greatest Possible Yield per Acre It is a well-known scientific fact that in order to produce the very greatest possible yield from any soil it must contain an actual excess over and above all demands that can possibly be made on it by the plants. Many farmers will feed their Stockas much nourishing food as they can possibly assimi late, yet will starve their crops on the mistaken notion that they are "economizing" on fer tilizer. The experiences of farmers, government experts. and agricultur alists every where confirm the fact that plants, like ani mals, need the fullest possible amount of nour ishment that they can obtain if they are to be developed to the utmost. The economy in fertilizers is not in the amount used but in the ratio of quality to cost. Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers are the best in the woi Id for the least money. More than one million tons were sold to Southern farm ers last year; and every ? year the demand be comes greater. The best results in producing corn, the good old stand-by crop of the Sout h, follow the application of 200 to 3QQ pounds of the right fertilizer. Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers will greatly "in crease your yields per acre" of corn or any other crop, even on poor land?and the most wonderful result.; are produced through its use on good land. Write today to the nearest office of the Vir ginia-Carol ina Chemical Com pany for a copy of their latest Year Book or Almanac,alargc 130-page book of the most valu able and unpre judiced informa tion for planters and farmers. VIRGINIA-CAROLINA CHEMICAL CO. Richmond, Va. Durham, N. C?^ Norfolk, Va. / Charleston. S. C. Columbia, S. C. _ Baltimore Md., j Atlanta Ga < T Columbus, (Ja. Savannah IIa. Montgomery, Ala. Memphis, Tenn. Shrevepurt, La. j Kodol whenever yoi need if. That is tin need tu take Kodol. fed that you only time you Just when you Summer complaints and other serious ailimiits common in hot weather can be traced to the sto mach nine times out of ten. Keep need it: then you will nor he trou ihc stomach in good order right now bled with sour stomach, belching, by keeping a bottle of Kodol handy gas on Ihe stomach, bloating, dya in the house all the time, bat es-.pepsia and indigestion. Sold by pecially during this month. Take 1 A. C. Dukes, M. D., A. C. Doyle & Co,