Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FASTEUT SIDR5 THE IEMT. Purches of Ostriches Alwa;a Preced ed by a VAc. Chicago Chronicle. "Have you ever seen an ostrich farm?" the sailor asked. "No," said the druggist. "Then, of course, you've never seen an ostrich sale. I'll tell you a strange thing about that. When a ,dealer comes to buy an ostrich he al ways has two or three birds he likes best run a race. "The ostriches are ranged in a line. A b-nch of figs is shown to them. The man with the figs walks away about a quar:er of a mile. Then the ostriches are let off. "I tell you. the big birds run. Those long, bong legs of Lheirs put the ground bchind them in a way that is astoundin.' In the race I saw there were three os:riches and one left the others far behind him. As he ran iie kept lookin' behind him like a human racer, and when he saw that there was no chance for the others, he economized his strength by slowin' down and he reached the figs on a walk. He. bein' the winner, was, of course, the bird that the dealer bought." "Why are these birds always raced and the fastest one purchased?" said the druggist. "Because," replied the sailor, "the fastest is always the strongest and healthiest." The Duke and the Barber. In olden days an English noble en tered a barber shop, and, upon in quiring for the master, was answered by an apprentice of fourteen that he was not at home. "Do you shave, then?" asked the duke. "Yes, sir. I always do," was the re ply. "But can you shave without cut ting?" "Yes, sir, I'll try," answered the youth. "AVery well." said the duke, while seating himself and loading his pis tol. "But. look here, if you let any blood, as true as I sit here I'll blow your brains out! Now consider well before you begin." After a moment's reflection the boy began to make ready and said: "I'm not afraid of cutting you, sir," and in a short time had completed th: feat without a scratch, to the com plete satisfaction of the duke. In gentle tones his grace asked, "Were you not afraid of having your brains blown out when you might have cut me so easily?" "No, sir; not at all, because I thought that as soon as I should hap pen to let any blood I would cut your throat before you could have time to fire." The reply won from the duke a handsome reward. It need scarcely be added he never resumed his danger ous threats in a barber shop. A les son was taught him for life. The Grape Fruit. A crop which now attracts much attention in Florida, is the grape fruit. Only a few years ago there was such a limited market for this peculiar fruit that much of it rotted in the or chards. Nobody wanted it, it seemed But, of late years, northern people learned the appetizing and medicinal qualities contained in the golden spheres, and -presto!-the "market" arrived. Today, small fortunes are being made by those people who pos sess bearing groves of the grape fruit. In a recent Rochester, N. Y., paper we read an interesting account of this new industry, written by Miss Ruth Dunham, of which the following is a brief summary: The location for a successful grape fruit grove should be carefully chos en. The southeast side of the many in land lakes is a desirable site, if the land is good and the situation fairly high. Low, wet land, or too far north, is undesirable. It is no uncommon thing ofr seven year-old trees to produce $ioo worth of fruit to the acre, when properly grown and cared for; and much larg er yields come from older trees. A grape fruit looks like an orange, but is of the color of a lemon, and is as a rule as large as three or four good-sized oranges. It is of a slight ly bitter and a pleasant acid taste, and individual fruits often weigh two or three pounds each. The proper name of the grape fruit is penelo, but the former name is generally used In city markets choice speciments sell for about ten or fifteen cents apiece sometimes more. In groves the fruit sells at $4 to $8 per box, and the crop is usually sold, on the trees, to buy ers, thus relieving the grower of the trouble of marketing, etc. Well, the foregoing account has a very fascinating sound. Many of our folks may feel tempeted to jumy down to Florida at once, and start a grape fruit plantation. But we shouldn't forget that fruit-growing has its drawbacks in Florida as well as in the north. Trees must be bought labor hired. fertilizers applied.-and then there's a long wait while the trees are growing to "bearing age." Furthermore. there are scale and oth er insect enemies -0 fight-the same a . icre. with variations. Beck's Narrow Escape. David Beck. the clebrated portrait painter and pupil of Vandyke. while traveling through Germany was sud denly taken ill and to all appearances died and was laid out a corpse. His servants, sitting round the bed, griev ed heartily for the loss of so good a master, and as grief is thirsty drank as heartily at the same time. One of them, becoming more befuddled than the rest, then addressed his compan ions thus: "Our master when alive was fond of his glass. Let us out of gratitude, then, give him one now he is dead." Assent was given; the head of the d%d painter was raised up and some wine poured down or spilled about, the fragrance or spirit of which caused Beck to open his eyes, upon which the servant, who, being drunk, half forgt:tting his master was dead, forced down the remainder of the glass. The. painter gradually re vived and thus escaped a living inter ment. The Russian Naval Standard. The Russian naval standard-a blue flag with a white cross-was adopted by Peter the Great, who stayed for some months at Gaardam, near Amsterdam, working as a me chanic to gain a knowledge of ship building. During this time he took a strong fancy to a clever wcrkman named Cruys, whom he persuaded to return with him to Russia after he had he vealed to him his true name and po sition. Cruys drew the plans for the first ships built for the Russian navy, and, to show his appreciation, Peter the Great made him an admiral and gave orders that the Russian navy should thenceforth have a special flag with a white cross upon it to perpetuate the memory of his trusted associate. Cruys being an old form of the Dutch word for cross. The Horn Dance. Among the quaint oid customs and :eremonies still kept alive in English country districts there is only one "horn dance," and that is to be found at Abbots Bromley, in Staffordshire.' Every year at the village wake the dlance is still carried out. The origin of the horn dance is lo'st in the mists of history. but it has been traced back as far as the eleventh century. Until the seventeenth century it was practiced at Christmas, on New Years day and on Twelfth day. In the time of Henry VIII. the dance was performed in front of the church. every Sunday and a collection for the poor taken up from the spectators. What Constitutes an Assault. "If a man come into your house," said the Liverpool stipendiary magis trate, "and picks up a poker to strike you, you are entitled to pick up the tongs and fence with him, and if you hit him with the tongs he cannot complain of being assaulted, because he would have struck you first if he could. But if, on the other hand, you take the poker out of his hand and strike him with it you are guilty of an assault, because you struck an un armed man. That is as clmear a dis tinction as I can make." There was no "precedent" for dis covering America.-Hubbard. Dr. R. M. Kennedy, DENTIST. Newberry, - - S. C. OVENAT TIONAL BmANK.E A Wood"" savi. T6e largest Methodist chare in Georgia, calculated to use ovr ose hundred gallons of the usual kind of mixed paint in painting their church. .hey used only 32 gallons of the Longman & Martinez Paint mixed with 24 gallons of linseed oil. Actual cost of paint made was less then $1.20 per gallon. Saved over eighty ($8o.oo) dollars in paint, and got a big donation be sides. 1.VFRY CHURCH will be given a lib-r,l quantity whenever they paint Ma 1 ,ouses are w-l painted with r l of L. & M. and three gall-,ns of linseed oil mixed therewith. Wears and covers like gold. Th,,e celebrated paints are sold by the Newberry Hardware Company. Brick! Brick!! For Sale by C. H. CANNON, Business, Home, Lands or Farm, Stocks, Bonds, Mortgages or Notes, Bought and Sold. Business, home, land, stock, bonds, farm, or mortgage, no matter where located, we will buy or sell. If we did not have the facilities and ability to buy, sell or rent your pro rty, we certainly could not afford to be in busi ness. Our methods of intelligently ad vertising cost us a neat little sum. We must sell, or rent, or go out of business, but to be real frank about it, we are in the business to stay a while whether we sell or not; we have money to loan and we are making more every day. Our commissions amount to a much neater sum. Dealing through other agents or branch houses throughout the country, we place your property or wants in the hands of 3,000 energet=c men who are constantly looking out for you. We can find a purchaser for every house, lot, stock, bond, or mortgage that you may have for sale, it makes no matter where locat. d, or what it is worth. We give a partial list of property in Newberry. S. C. for sale: &6,000 Store on Main street. 300 Brick making machine. 9,000 Handsome home with six acres land. 650 Cute home for young couple. 3,500 Elegant house and lot, four blocks from town. 2,000 Entire block, two houses, right near town. 1,200 Cash. Five room house, an ideal home. 800 Four room cottage, half mile. 6,000 New house and ten acres land, one mile from town. 1,100 Will buy a nice home for newly married cou"ile. 1,400 House and h t, only two blocks from business,. We have five good families who want to rent. We have Bank stock that pays 3i semi-annually for 120. We have stocks at and below par. If there is anything under the sun you want you better consult us, we are the only people who keep in close touch with everything. Long distance telephone No. 200. Call or write today. ROWLAND G. SPEARMAN & CO. Office Lane Bldg , Newberry, S. C. The Union WAREHOUSE C0IANY OF Columbia, S. C , is Prepared to STORE COTTON' IN Standard Ware houses and to arrange Proper Cash Advances, if you desire to hold your Cott on details will be gladly supplied if you address Columbia, S. C. NOTICA. All persons indebted to the estate of Rufus M. Dean, deceased, will pay their said indebtedness, and all per sons to whom said estate may be in debted will render an account of their demands, duly attested, to the un dersigned, or to Messrs. Schumpert & Holloway, Attorneys, on or before the 25ch day of February, 1905. J. J. Dean, Administrator. Newberry, S. C., Feb. 3, 1905. Fire Insurance! We will insure your Frame D ielling for only sixty cents on the hundred dollars, (not ex posedI, or better still, one dol lar and eighty cents for five years. Good business people insure their property, why don't you? Insurance on stock and store buildings also, HOLMES & McFALL, Fire Insurance Agents. Phone 67. SHELLEY Have the largest and Furniture and House F opened in Newberry. car of Roll Foot Beds to, Big shipment of Mattin We are the cheapest i see us and get our pric( Newberry Hardware SHELLEY I Main Street, N The Sn Headquarters for C Ask any one where yc General Merchandise, a anywhers else, quality will tell you to go to Th We never advertise anything that we advertise it. For the next thirty days, at cbea goods: Shoes, Dry Goods, Notions We also have the finest assortmen ing from 20c. to 6oc. per gallon. V Seed Potatoes, Red Bliss. first and every kind. When you have a list of goods t time, for we can come nearer filling any other store in Newberry. MITTLE< . .DO Spend Your Whol Under the burden of indebtedness, 1 ready cash and find you a smaller i master.E culre_byKeeley InstitL 1329 Lady st. (or 0. Box 75,)Columbia, S Southern Lime CHARLES BuildIng MaterIal of Roofing "fl Write fc DISORDEREb STOMACHS CAN BE MADE STRONG AND ACTIVE QUICKLY AND WHEN NO CURE-NO PAY We take all the chances, but as the chances of failure are so small, we do not hesitatc for a moment in guarantee ing that "Seven Barks- will cure any case of disordered stomach, indigestion or liver complaint. Dont take our word for it. If you are ailing from any form of trouble. emanating from the stomach, bowels, liver ,r kidneys, call -t our store and we w a give you a full size bottle of "Seven A4rs " Denosit ,o ceits as :In ('videflne- of good faith then take the reidy as directed. If it doos not do all that is claimed or you are for any reason dissatisfied, bring the empty or partly used bottle back and get the 50 cents you deposited. This is certainly fair and is an excel lent opportunity for our customers to get acquainted with one of the best remedies in the world. SUMMER most complete line of urnishing Goods ever We received another day, cheaper than ever. g direct from Japan. n the State. Come to i of a Buck Stove. Co.'s old stand. I SUMMER, ewberry, S. C. iith Co. eneral MVerchandise, u can buy anything in .nd buy it cheaper than considered, and they a Smith Co. we do not have, and always sell as p prices, we will sell the following Crockery Ware and Tobacco. of Molasses in town, prices; rang Te have just received our stock of second crop, and Garden Seed of o buy come to our store and save every item, and fill it cheaper, than CORNER. N'T. . o L.ife Worrying )ut let me sell your property for the lace where you will be your owa VERETT DUFOUR, Att'y, Washington, D. C. CIarette -- All Drmg aad robss. te of South Carolina. C. c ufidental correispondence aonlcited. and .Cement Co. roN, S. C. til kinds. High Grade 'UBEROID." r Prices.