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Making Friends Every Day. Twis can truthfully be said of JelsO Ice Cream POWDER the new product for making the most delicious ice cream you ever ate; everything in the package. Nothing tastes so good in hot weather. All grocers are placmgit in stock. If your grocer can't supply you send 25c. fr two packa:es by mail. Four kinds: Van illa,Chocolate, Strawberry and Unflavored. Address, The Genesee Pare Food Co., Box 295, Le Roy, N.Y. WHAT PLUCK CAN DO. From London Slums Pearce Rose To Be Prince Of London Caterers There is a lesson for every Ameri can boy who has his own way to e make in the world in the career of John Pearce, the prince of London's cheap caterers, wnose i,0oo employ ees recently presented him with a handsome testimonial. They did ; this just to show that they regarded their boss as their friend, and it was an appropriate tribute to a man who in his rise from poverty to affluence 1 'has always commanded the esteem of those who have worked for him. Tall and lanky, stoop-shouldered, with features rather sad in expres sion and singularly wistful-looking h eyes, there is nothing about John Pearce that suggests the typical self made captain of industry. He would never be picked out of a crowd as a strikingly successful man or a par ticularly brilliant one in any aspect. He has been sized up wrong oftener probably than any other man in London. He was born fifty-eight years ago, in one of the slums of Hoxton. When he was a little shaver his fath er died, leaving his mother to carry on the struggle alone, with a family of hungry children on her hands. One room was all she could afford, but there she reared her brood, and besides contriving to feed and clothe c them all, -,le put right notions into their he. , so that ultimately they d all turnea out well. What a tough time they had of it may be inferred from the fact that at the age of 9 t "Johnnie" had to start working for a c living. He hired himself out to a picture frame maker for half a crown a (or 62 cents) aleek. At the age of a i8 he was working for a builder at t the princely wage of 75 cents a week, t with breakfast thown in. It was cuis tomary in those days to pay off the hands in saloons-a pera:icious prac tice to which the law long ago put a stop. On one of these occasions ( young Pearce got drunk for the first and only time in his life. It was a case of good coming out of evil. He. lost his job, hut he swore c'i and temperance was a great gainer there -j 1 by. In: the four score and one res taurants under his control, scattered, through London. not a drop of intox icating liquo'r is allowed to boe soM. After learning the lesson of sobri ety at the cost of his situa:ion, he ob tained a situation at a pastry cook's, little dreaming to what good account ~ he would be able to turn the experi- E ence in later y-ears. But the hours ~ were long and the wages small, and after two years of it he threw up the u job to seek a better paying position. He was a long time finding it. For a r. considerable period odd jobs were his only resource, and the man who has since fed millions often went hungry. But he seemed to get good out of every experience that came his way, and it was during this time of stress ~ and privation that he got religion. It was of a good practical sort too, that ~ -values works above faith. Soon after wards he struck a job as porter at Covent Garden market, the pay being $a week. It was one of the fruits - of his religion that of that sum,j small though it was, he regularly de voted one-tenth to charity. The giv ing away of a tithe of his income, whatever it might be. he has always since regarded as a sacred obligation-. In his long tramps to and from I work. Pearce observed how great was the need among casual andl other lab orers of good and cheap food. It. suggested an opportunity for him to become his own master. He hired a costermonger's barrow at 23 cents a week. bought a humble urn and a few crocks, and set ont to earn his fortune as a cheap and perambulating caterer in the city road. He did not: even dream then that he was laying the foundation of a colossal business. t developed slowly at first. At th id of six months he was able to turr is shilling-a-week barrow into wha1 ic called "a gutter hotel.' With the knowledge of carpentry n1d painting that he had learned a1 e builders and of cnoking that he ad mastered at the pastry cook's, he - the s1-1! so attractive that his ecvipts grcw until :hev sometimes va:hol S-o a day. F,-r thirtcen vears e st)(d by his "gutter hotel." at the nd wf which time he had saved $6,5oo. -ith that he bought the lease of his rs: coffee shop in the city road. t was a success from the start. He iade a speciality of beefsteak pud ings. as he has done ever since. and t this one place was soon selling a, iany as 6oo a day. Meanwhile he had fallen in love. le worshiped in bashful silence a :mely maiden who attended the iission in Blackfriars which he him lf frequented. How long he might ave gone on before he could have immoned courage enough unaided ) speak to her no one knows. But is brother, divining the situation, ivited both to take tea at his house. 'he way he introduced them was ther embarrassing. Turning from ne to the other, he exclaimed, tri mphantly: "There he is!" and "There she is!" It sufficed though. The ipe once roken. John Pearce made 'up for )S: time. Inside of six weeks he had -ooed, won and married the girl. )espite the old adage about marrying i haste and repenting at leisure, their nion turned out in every way a hap y one. They have eleven sons and ne daughter. If John Pearce should o to America and visit the white ouse. he would certainly be assured f a cordial welcome from President oosevelt. His low-priced restaurants increas d even faster than his family, and ery year sees additions tc their umber. In 1897 they were all malgamated under one company. tht ritish Tea Table company. with a apital of $1,5oo-ooo. The first year's rofits of the concern yielded a divi end of 14 per cent. Few enterprises i America pay that much. Some lea of the extent of the business iat began with a perambulating offee stall may be gained from these gures. At its eighty-one houses, the nnual consumption of fresh meat mounts to 20,16,000 pounds: of aeon. 225,000 pounds; of flour, 1,00o ns: of potatoes. 1.300 tons; of milk, 5.000 gallons and 4.250.000 eggs Pcinted Paragraphs. :hicago News. A lot of misguided individuals are rying to close up the race tracks by cinnir g all the bookmakers' money. Lois of married men are club mem ers because they dislike the idea of pending their evenings at home lone. A\ man dloes some things wvell be. anse he likes to do them, and a wo an likes to do some things because he dces them well. About the time a married womuan ets the idea into her head tha: she as a mission her husband begins to orry along on pick-up-dmner.. Sound judgment doesn't necessarily ake the most noise. Barring birthdays the society wo an tries to appear up-to-date. Special Rates Via A. C. L. Confederate Veteran's Reunion ouisville. Ky., June 14 to 16, 1903 )ne cent per mile for distance trav led, plus 25 cents. Rate from New. erry, S. C., $1o.95 via Atlanta foi he round trip. Tickets on sale June to 15. with finai limit June 19. Ex ension ot final limit to July 10, may e obtained by depositing tickets with oint Agent. Louisville, and paymenm ffee -of 5o cents on each ticket. Special train service and througi Nlman cars will be operated from~ onvient points. For other informa. ion see the agent, or consult "The Mrple Folder." \\hightsville Beach, N. C.-On ac oun: of Summer School, June 15 t 1 1905. Tickets to Wiimington. N 7.. wil! be sold June 14, to 17. with nal ilmit June 24, for one first class are, pius 25 cents, for the round trip ~ate from Newherry to Wilmington . C., and return, $7.33 For any other information write H. e.'.rson, Traffic Manager, or W. Craig. General Passenger Agent % HEAl V Parke, Davi We are on the jo delphia, and Parkt reliable houses ini sortment of their I MUCH CHI We supply them cheaperthan wher mel tablets cost 5c 100. It pays, mos pays all the time t< GILDER, TP Nine times out of ten when a man buys a horse he is sold. About the only thing that can be said in some men's favor is that they are not society favorites. W ORK BY A Newberry Steam Laundry Co Fire Insurance! We will.insure your Frame D w'ellirng for only sixty~ cents on the hundred dollars, (not ex posed), or better still, on~e dol lar and eighty cents for five years. Good buisiness people insure their property, why don't you? Insurance en stock and store buildings also, HOLMES & McFALL, Fire Insurance Agents. Phone 67. ClarltoS ai WgstBrli lara1lln fl. (Schedule in Effect April 16,31905-) No. 52. Daily. Lv. Newberry . ...... ... 12.36 p. m.1 Ar. Laurens ...... ......1.0 p. XI No. 2. Daily. L.urens ...........x.p.x. Ar. Augusta ..... .- -. - 5.20 p. m . Ar. Anderson.. .....-.. 7.10 p. mi. No. 42. Daily. A.Alxdale......... ......... . - -4 o0 p -xi Ar. Fairfax.... .......------. --.... 4.41 p mx. Ar. Charleston.. ..............-.---. 7 40 p. mi. Ar eaufort........................6. p. inm. Ar. Savannah........... ... ... ... 6.45 p. xi A. csonille... --.. -.-.-..-.. -.. - No. 1. Daily. Lv. Laureus. .. ... .. .-... ---........ 2.07 p. mi Ar. Spartanburg .. . . . . .. .-- --.- 3.20 p. m . 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SOUTH ERN THE SOUTH'S GREA TEST SYS UNEXCELLED DINING CAR Sl THROUGHIPULLMAN SLEEPIJ TR AINS. CONVENIENT SCHEDULES 01 WINTER TOURISTS' RATES a points. For full information as to rates, rou Railway Ticket Agent, or R. W HTTNT. TORS s and Pills. I & Bros., of Phila , two of the most ry a complete as [UNDRED. aining 100, much r example: Calo ozen, or 25c. per .rge quantities. It UNTER )A k-'D RAILWAY. i EAST -- WEST. abuled Limited Trains d NEW YORK. IG CAR SERVICEI te to all Eastern Cities fashington, or via rs.-To Atlanta, S, Louisville, St. v Orleans, and All est-To Savannah all points in Florida EST '.INE BETWEEN D SOUTH. rates, schedules, Pull to any agent of The Sea s. W. Stewart, Traveling S. C. H, GA. Pass. Agt.GColumbia S C RAILWAY TEM. RVICE. G CARS ON ALL THROUGKi I ALL LOCAL~ TRAINS,. re now in effect to all Florida tes, etc.; consult nearest Southero. Division Passenger Agent. Charleston. S. C.