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NEW SWINDLING GAIrE. A Nzgro S 1arper His Gr--ild and Engages Board for an Army of La borers and Collecis Bonds as Guarantee. Greenville has been invaded with a small army of flim-flam artists for some time. but the game work ed by Vill Brown, colored, among members of his own race Saturday and Sunday is per'aps the slickest and most daring in this midst. says the Greenville correspondent of the Columbia State. Brown struck this town Saturday and went immediately to work, en gaging lodging for colored la or ers of the Western Union Tele graph company, whom he stated would soon be in this vic;nity on a big job of work. Enormous prices were paid by the company, he sta ted. for board for the men and that a bond was required of all who took these men. The bond was fixed at $25. Several. negro boarding houses were caught by Brown's scheme, and the bond money was paid in advance. He went from one house to an other collecting money on his scheme until a shrewd colored wo man in Oscar street "smelt a rat" and notified the police department. Of course the Western Union. had no such: man employed to secure boarding places for its men and no work is in progress in this vicinity yway-. The. matter was placed io*e hands of officers and they had the maia aVTery.. few hours.. He y4s givena hearing before Mayor -1 -Aonad sentenced to .the works jor 150 days, the extreme penalty ofthe law. 9ayor Mahon says he is the sickest negro he has ever had be fore him. He secured money from half a dozen good colored people, who were innocently taken in by his slick trick. FORTUNES IN STAMPS Some ot the World's Greatest Collections. The Prince of Wales an Enthusiastic Philatelist. London Express. Few people outside the ranks of a.rdent philatelists have any idea of the enormous growth of the post age-stamp collecting craze during recent years. It is a story full of romance, the financial side of which bristles with figures representing fhuge fortunes sunk in the tiny scraps of paper which speed the world's correspondence. Both as. a hobby and as a busi ness stamp collecting has reached proportions which give it a very im portant.place among mundane pur suits. There are many private col d ections .worth from $i0,o00 to $i pooo. and the capital 'sunk in the stamip traffic is estimated to be well over $5,o0,00. The financial importance of the trade is illustrated by the amalga mation last February of two Lon don firms with a capital of over $585 .0oo. It wvas the autctioneering department of this firm wvhich sold Mr. Smith-Ryland's small private collection a few days ago for $12, oo a price which was considlered to be very good for an auctio1i sale especially as the collection off ered contained comparatively few great rarities. But even here there were one or two prices obtained for particular stamps-.which at once show the keepness of the collector and the business importance of the traffic. For' instance; a Saxony stamp of iS89, witir an error of paper, real ized $t8o; a penny red and blue British Central Africa stamp sold for $235; and a penny blue Cape of Good Hope for $Igo. Very often far higher prices than these are obtained for single stamps though it may be a long time be fore a stamp realizes anything like the $7,250 paid by the Prince of Wales last year for a 2d blue Mau ritius. THE PRINCE'S SPECIALTY. The Prince of Wales is well known to be a very enthusiastic philatelist; but it is not common knowledge that he is a specialist, collecting o.nly the stamps of Great Britain and her colonies. His starnns are worth many thousands sciceof or stamlps. and has cleared 1 up several doubtful points thlrouigh t information gathered in his phila- I telical researches during his colon ial tour. t Two of his sons, Prince Edward t and Prince George, have already < caught the stamp fascination. Prince Edward is specially inter-. ested in the Prince Edward Island stamps. of which he owns a com plete set. Recently a philatelic journal ask ed its readers their chief reasons for collecting stamps, offering a prize for the best reply. A large majority gave "as an investment" as their first answer. and it is in- 1 deed true that postage stamps are not only a safe, but also highly profitable investment. Experts say that British Colon ial stamps are the best from the investor's point of view, especially those of colonies which have small populations, and therefore print 1 comparatively few stamps. TEN PER CENT. It is stated to be only a moderate estimated that the earning value of stamps is 1o per cent. As instances of earning value may be mentioned the 1os Lagos, which was sold in 1903 for $3,000 and is now worth $20, and the i pound Southern Ni geria, whose market price three!"' years ago was $6.25 but is now $40. Mr. W. Hughes Hughes' collec tion. made during thirty'-seven years, at a cost altogether of only $34. was sold for $15,o0o. An other collection, that of the late 1 Mr. Pauwels, of Torquay, which originally cost $1,800 was sold, af- I ter being put aside for twenty seven years, for $20,ooo. No collection of valuables occu pies such a little space as postage I stamps. The small strong room at< one representative firm's head iuarters contains more than $375, ooo worth of stamps. There are 40,000 names of cus-* tomers in all parts of the world on Ithe books of one firm, the Prince oft Wales, with a standing order for all] new colonial issues, being among I the most important. For these cus-i tomers albout 12.000 catalogues of I British and 10,000 of foreign ( stamps are prepared annually. The I stamps) sold in a year run into mil lions. and the albums to at least 30000- C RARE STAMPS. I Rare stamps, such as some of the Sandwich Island. Mauritius, andj Australian issues. valued at about $2,0oo each, are constantly coming into the markets, and are never kept more than a week. , As collectors are increasing an nually, especially in the public 1 schools. and prices and takings are t always rising, the traffic generally I must be considered to be in a very c flourishing condition. But one does not wonder at. this wvhen it is stated that many wealthy collectors spend from $5,000 to $50oo a year on their hobby. and I that one-Philippe la Renotiere, of .I Paris, the greatest collector in the world-has spent $1,oo,ooo smnce i 1870. His stamps are wvorth nearly $ 500.000, and his annual expen diture with one firm alone averages t from $13,000 to $20,000. He em- '3 plos secrataries, one to look after his stamps and the other the post cards, envelops and wrappers.i Mr. H. J. Duvene, of New York. has a collection valued at $40,000:' Mr. W. B. Avery. of Birmingham, owns stamps wvorth $250,ooo; Mr. M. P. Castle; vice president of the Philatelic society, sold his stamps five years ago for $150,ooo; andj3 several American collectors have' stamps worth from $1 50,000 to $250,000- t In Russia the most important collector is Mr. F. Brietfus, of St. Petersburg, who has been collect ing for forty-five years, and is said1 to possess the third finest collection in the world. Italy's most famous collector is Prince Doria Pamphilj, and philatelic place of honor in Germany is occupied by Herr Mar tin Schroder, the Leipsic merchant., The Earl of Crawford and Bal carres is an example of a collector( who, once smitten with the fascina tion of stamps, has pursued the obby with such keenness that in a t I I I' V he stamps of the British Epire. he United States and the Italian ;tates, and his remarkable collec ion is all the more interesting from he fact that it is based on histori :al lines. ANCIENT LIGHTHOUSES. leacon Lights For Mariners Coeval Wiht; the Earliest Commerce. Beacon lights to guide the wave :ossed mariner to a safe harbor nust have been almost coeval with :he earliest commerce. There is )ositive record that lighthouses ere built in ancient times, though ew evidences now remain to us rom old writers or in crumbled uins. This is not strange, for ight towers, never the most stable rchitectural form, were exposed o the storms of sea and war. The Greeks attributed the first: ighthouses to Hercules, and he was onsidered the protector of voyag rs. It is claimed by some that omer refers to lighthouses in the; ineteenth book of the "Iliad." Virgil mentions a light on a tem )>e to Apollo which, visible far out t sea, warned and guided mariners. rhe Colossus at Rhodes, erected Lbout 3oo B. C., is .said to have hown a signal light from its uplift d hand. The . oldest towers known were )uilt by the Libyans in lower Egypt. rhey were. temples also, and the! ightkeeper priests taught pilotage, iydrogra-phy and navigation. The amous tower on the isle of Pharos t Alexandria, built about 285 B. ., is the first lighthouse of un Ioubted record. This tower, con tructed by Sostratus, the architect, vas square in plan, of great height' nd built in offsets. An open bra ~ier at the top of the tower contaiu d the fuel for the light. At Dover nd Boulogne, on either of the. nglish channel, were ancient light iouses built by. the Romnans. PBut he lighthouse at Coruna. Spain. uilt in the reign of Trajan and re :onstrctedl in 1634. is believed to >e the oldest existing lighthouse. A clerical correspondent of one f the London church papers re ates that a certain prelate had ~reat difficulty in suppressing his' aughter at the consecration of a hurch the other day owing to the levice on one of the school banners vhich were carried in the process on before the service. This banner vas adorned with a very fierce ooking lion, with terrible claws and eeth, wvhile underneath him was the egend, "Suffer little chidren to ome unto me." Roosevelt's Late t Ambition. The first intimation President oosevelt has given of the plans i mar have formed for the time .ftr he retires from the Presidency ras afforded a few days ago in~ -onversation with a friend at the ,hite House. The p)residlent said hat it was his present intention to 'isit Central Africa as soon as pos .ible after his retirement from ffice. on March 4. 1909. for the urpose of hunting~ tigers and ele >hants. Mr. Roosevelt has hunted every :nd of big game in this country, Lnd expressed a desire to try his 1and at the larger and fiercer ani~ nals, which abound in Africa and :ndia. An Afghan is bound by custom o grant a stranger who crosses his hreshold and claims protection any avor he may ask, even at the risk f his own life. Yet apart from this ec is cruel and reve'ngeful, neve~r orgiving a wrong and retaliatin: it the first oppo-tunity. "He's bragging that he doesn't )w a cent to any man in the vorld." "Well. lie needn't brag that he oes not owe me." "Whv not ?" "I'm doing the braggmig~ for Pt"-maha News. f T' ,)\-ef 1j 1))on;ipartc. Napoleoii \va: then commanding the arn iI [taly and regrets his absence from yiis dear little Josephine. The tonc Df the whole letter is warm and pas sionate. It is not explained how the doc ument found its way to l'erlin where it has been purchased foi $625. It is described as having been in the Meyer Cohen collection State of South Carolina. County of Newberry. Court of Common Pleas. Caroline Jones. Plaintiff. Against Jason Jones, et al. Defendants. Complaint for Partition. By virtue of an order of Cour herein, I will sell at public auctior before the Court House at Newber ry, S. C., on Salesday in February 1906, all that lot or parcel of land of which the late Joseph Jones die( seized and possessed, lying and be ing in that part of the Town o: Newberry, S. C., known as "Grave Town," and bounded by lands o: Guilford Snowden, Dr. James Mc Intosh and the Southern Railwai Co., fronting 63 feet on -Stree a plat of which will be exhibited or day of Sale. Terms of sale: One half cash an( one half on a credit of twelvo months, with interest from day o: sale with a bond of the purchase1 and a mortgage of the premises with leave to purchaser to antici pate the payment of the credit por tion in whole or in part. The build ing on said lot to be insured an< the policy assigned to the Master The purchaser to pay for paper, and recording same. H. H. Rikard, Master. Master's Office, Jan. 11, 1906. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Assessment of Real Estate an< Personal property' for year, 1906. I, or an authorized agent, will be a the following places named below, foi the purpose of taking returns of rea estate and personal property for th< year, 19o6. At Newberry January 1st to 14th At Whitmire Monday, January 15. At Maybinton Tuesday, January 16 At Glymphville Wednesday, Jan. 17 At Walton Thursday, January 18. At Pomaria Friday, January 19. At Jolly Streetc Monday, January 22 At Little Mountain Tuesday, Jan. 22 At O'Neall Wednesday, January 24 At St. Luke's Thursday, January 25 At Prosperity Fri. & .Sat. Jan. 26, 25 At Longshore's Monday, January 25 At Chappells Tuesday, January 30 And at Newberry until February ?oth after which time a penalty of 5C er cent will be added against parties ailing to make returns. While on the rounds my office wil' se open each day for the purpose o1 receiving returns there. The law requires a tax on all notes mortgages and moneys, also an in :ome tax on gross incomes of $2,50C nd upwards. There shall be a capitation tax o: io cents on all dogs, the proceeds tc >e expended for school purposes. Dogs not returned for taxation shall ot be held t#be property in any o: :he Courts of this State. All males 'between the ages of 2] md 6o years except Confederate sol liers, or those persons incapable 0: ta.rning a support by being maimed 3r from any other cause are liable tc >oll tax. Real Estate is to be reassessed thi: year. Each tract or lot of land must be assessed separately, also state tc assessor if you have bought or sold any real estate since last year. All property must be assessed "al its true value in money" which is con trued to mean "the sum of mone for which said property under ordi nary circumstances would sell foi cash." Don't ask that your property b< taken from books the: same as lasi year. All property must be lisred or proper blank and sworn to. Name of township and school dis trict must be given. WV. W. Cr omer, Auditor Newberry County. Brick! Brickf For Sale by C. H_ CANNON. Presi The place to buy youi mas Presents is Pelham's Relial Cut Glass, Chinaware, Lamps, Huyler's Candy, Our Prices are Correct. Our Goods are Right Call Eary, Call Often, and Wm, E. Pel RELIABLE R STATE Of the condition of the Exchange Ba business, December 30, 1905. Publishl General Assembly. RESOURCES. 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