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CAPITALIZED AT TWENTY-FI 3TJ.TON DOLLARS. Believed That Company Will be A to Meet Obligations and Reo: ganization Will Follow. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 24. involuntary petition in bankrup -was filed in the federal court this ternoon against the Southern Si company, capitalized at $25,000,( The creditors seeking the bankrup order are the Birmingham Coal i Iron company, the Sayre Mining Manufacturing and the Cahaba C company. The Southern Steel c pany ows a big steel plant at Ga den, steel rod, wire and nail mills Ensley, coal mines at Altoona : Virginia City and ore mines throu out the Birmingham district as v as coke ovens and other propertie Moses Taylor of New York is pi ident and E. T. Schuyler of Birmi ham, general manager. The petition alleges that the c pany committed an act of bankrup in acknowledging in, writing its ability to pay its debts. It is i averred in the petition that the fendant compa.1ny has been insolv for six months. The petition a that it be adjudged a bankrupt that receivers be appointed. Attorneys for the petitioning ditors have gone to Huntsville, wl United States Judge 0. R. Hun( is holding court, to secure an oi naming the receivers. The filing of the petition. was surprise in the financial and in,( trigl cireles here. Some such ael had been expected for some ti though it was rumored as late as: terday that the company was ablo reoT-,amze. Vice President Schuyler said afternoon .that his company "is undantly solvent and if the credi are patient and will cooperate - us all debts of the company will paid -and the company put back its feet." Mr. Schuyler said also that the eration of the plants will go on 11: terruptedly. He attributed the: ancial emnbrassment of his comp to the tight money market in the I and other causes. Cause of Embarrassment. New York, Oct. 24.-The South Steel company, against which a p tion in bankruptey was .fi1kA foda; Birmingham, Ala., was ''long of sets and short of cash," according one of the directors in this city. said that o ng to the present col tion of the money 'market the c pany was unable to secure funds v which to meet bills and accounts, the present action was taken to eure the creditors. Of the $25,000,000 eapital stoei the comrpany, $10,000,000 is preferi and $15,000,000 common. E. Schuyler and Evans F. Jones, boti Birmingham, are the ffrst and sec vice presidents of the company,: poetively. Goosebones Foretells Long Wit< Philaodelphia Pres. According to the goosebone, ti is a hard winter ahead. The earliest prediction of the pl .ent year is made by Amos Maye2 farmer -living in the western end - the county. The front part of the -of 'the breastbone is very dark, * near the center it is white for a ( '-siderable distance. Beyond this il dotted, a:nd thien comes a long, d streak. The goosebone prophet se \ "According to the breastbone, -will have quite cold weather in 1atter part of October and for1 weeks in November. Then there be a warm spell, lasting for a: days. December will be a cold mor with an occasional snowstorm. Ja .ary will be a month of snow, hail -an occasional cold spell. "'The dark colors on the end of breastbone indicate 'that Febru -will be a very cold month, and ti will be several blizza'rds. At particular pyt of the bone it is anost black, which means that we have lots of snow and sleet. The< weather will continue way March. and we will have a very] spring." The goosebone was compared v several obtained from other birds led within the past few weeks, they seem to be marked id'entic the same. 10,0001 Agents wanted at once, previ experienee is not essential, terril is going fart, write soon if you ~ to make money facter than you did befor . Whit today. Address F. Clark, Conway, Ark. Message-The Freak Caused Tiuch Distussion Because VB: There Was no Band Playing. .be New York Herald. The many vagaries of the wireles system of telegraphy and telephon which are now installed on the vai An ious vessels of the navy are subje< tey to constant study by the electrical es af- parts who are in charge of the plantc 'eel They are of especial interest now be 00. cause of the important part that wirt tey less . -- .mnicaion will p ay in th mnd coming visit to the Pacific. Ind Durring the recent assembling c cOal the fleet in Oape Cod Bay, one of th >- operators on the Ohio, while receivin ds- a message, was suddenly interrupte at by the strains of a march soundin mnd in his ear pieces. Thinking it wa gh- the hand of the ship playing, he war vell to the officer of the deck and asked t - have the band stopped -until the meE :s- sageN was completed. The man wh ng: relieved him at the receivcr when b went to the officer of the deck con;i. >m- ued to hear the music and, consE tey quently, when the first operator rE in- turned and informed the man at th Iso receiver that the band was not pla de- ing on the ship there was consterns ent tion in the wireless office, for soun< sks ing clearly in the ear pieces was md march played by a band. The Connecticut being the on] !re- ship present on which a system c iere wireless telephones had been instal ley ed, every one was at a loss to explai der how music could be heard over tb receivers of a wireless telegraph. I no seems the band, which was head at [us- distance of over a mile, was on tb on Connecticut, and her wireless tran me, mitters were thrown in while h4 Fes- band was playing and another shi to had a wireless message interrupt by hearing this music. ~ The reas this of this freak of electricity is not y( ab- explained. bors An explaination probably lies i nith .the fact that the ear pieces of tl be wireles telegraph are very sensitiN and the wireless telephone transmi ter of the flag ship is very powerft <?P- hence t.he souAd waves of the inus " caused sufficient static electricity i hii be .taansmitted ad received by ti 81 saerial of the wireless telegrapsh. 'es As all wireless experts know, d reetors of the microphone type al irregular in their action, and, for the reason are more or less unsatisfa .er tory. While they are more sensitia eti- than the coherer, they cannot genera r at ly be used to advantage. They can I as-improved in their reliability of ai to ing a number in multiple and revol He ing the needle, which is generally idi-1 small steel piece, by clock work. Th om- causes a more or less musical sout ibh in the receiver, but the sound of a and the instruments of a band is quii ** another matter, and if will probab] be some time before the real cause < of this phenomnenon is discovered. T* Another possible explanation me~ T- lie in the fact that all wireless in 'iof strumnents have to be tuned befoi mamessages can be received. By tunit r.is meant the adjustmnent of the close and open sending and receiving ei cuits to the same wave lengthn or i r ay desired wave length within the limits. - By a wave length is mear Lee~ the length of the ec.rve of the at~mo phere which is doturbed when ti re static electricity is discha-rged frol -, a the aerial wires. This wave is of di of ferent length according to the ii ** stnunent used, and, -as it is know mnd that soun~d travels in waves, the2 Of- may have been some synchronizatic 1s between t.he length of the waves < ~~the musie made by the band and til ~id uning of the receiving instrumeni we on the ship where this occurred. the_________ to NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONA ~vill PEOPEETY. ith As I h'ave sold my farm land an n.' intend to quit farming, I will sell i md the highest bidder for cash on t1 5th day of November, 1907, at nm the late residence the following persona a property to wit: ere 5 head of good mules. one 2 buggies. al- I1 carriage. will 3 head of cattle. x>ld 13 hogs. nto 2 wagons. ate I set of blacksmith tools. 1 set of eapenter tools. rith All of my farming implements. kil. 300 bushels of corn. and 2000 lbs. fodder. ally Lot of household and kitchen fux niture. J. A. Baker, fCalks Ferry Roa.d, 5 miles belo ous Prosperity. ory 2taw-td. var Some men keep their religion loel J ed in a safe deposit vault six days< thea week. Wise Utilization of Whola Tree Wio Forestall Shortage in Southern Yellow Pine. 'In fifteen or twenty years, at the present rate of cutting, the supply. of the longleaf yellow pine of the south, Y one of America's most useful forest - trees will be nearly exhausted," say t the experts of the United States For est Service. If these pine forests are . wiped out one of the south's import ant industries will die-the produc tion of the so-called naval stores. e The lumber of the Southern yellow pine brings $15 to $35 per thousand f feet, its turpentine 56 cents per gal e lon, its rosin from $4.35 to $6.95 per 280 pounds, and its pitch $3.25 per 280 pounds. All of these prices are gradually becoming higher and higher s on account of the increased demand t and the scarcity of the products. For 0 merly, turpentine could be purchased for 30 cents a gallon. Now 56 cents 0 must be paid at wholesale. and the e consumer of gallon lots will pay at times as high as $1.00. In the face of these fast increas ing prices, pelople are still found e who say that there is yet an inex haustible supply of yellow pine in the south, and that all talk about a a famine is unwarranted. Such state ments are not justified by conditions and the yellow pine lumbering indus y try will soon be in the face of a ser ious shortage unless decided changes aie made in the present methods, and unless valuable products now go e ing to waste are utilized. The long [t leaf pine is a slow-growing tree and a doe4 not make timber with anywhere near the rapidity that it is being cut. The situation calls for making the r very best use of the present supply. P There are at present in the woods n of the south vast quantities of pine t logs and tall stumps left as a result of careless lumbering in the past. This material is rich in turpentine and could be made to yield from ten e to fifteen gallons of refined spirits e per cord. Besides this, there is a great waste at the sawmills in the form of slabs, edgings, and sawdust, Sall of which must have a value, but o at present is, for the most part, sim e pl burned to get it out of the way. In fact, not more than 60 per cent of the tree as it stands in the forest ecomes to the market in the form of t valuable materials. >In the year 1906 the reported cut e of southern yellow pine was some 12 billion board feet. A conservative es etimate of the actual amount of tur pentine alone, to say nothing of wood fiber and other materials, which ~could be produced from the waste d wood of this one year, would place ai the amount at not less than 30 mil lion gallons. This is a surprising fi gure, when it is remembered that it Srepresents an amount almost equal to the present annual production of gum spirits in this country. If this yproduct were extracted from the Lwood and sold at even the current 'price of good wod turpentine, the gross saving would be easily $14,400, 000. Men have realized for some tima that an enormous waste of valuable substances is going on, and a few have succeeded in extracting the tur Spentine and placing on the market a nmaterial of a fairly good quality. In the majority of cases, however, the article has been of an inferior grade, ndue generally to the fact that the technical methods used have been faulty. As a result of this, wood tur Spentine is at present often considered e as an adulterated material, or at best* as a poor substitute for gum spirits. It is true that in some cases these opinions are well founded, but infer. ior products have put an unnecessary damper on the whole industry. The Section of Wood Chemistry of d the Forest Service has lately been in 0 vestigating this subject, and some C valuable results have been obtained. y It has been found that for the recov iery of turpentine from wastewoodr, the steam distillation process is far superior to that of distilling the wood destructively. The crude tur pentine is in all cases more uniform, and the final refined materials are as a rul2 uof better grade and can' de mand a higher price. When proper ly made and refined, experiments have shown that the steam turpen tines are in mdny cases even more uniform in composition than the gum turpentines, and for all practical pur poses contain the identical substances. The odor often can not be distinguish ed from that of the gum spirits, but Weven if it could,- this is a small mat ter in many cases, as infinitesimal and undetectable amounts of certain impurities left in the refined product - as the result of the methods of pro f ductig can produce this slight dif Iference in odor, and the wood tuirpen ., a-'.Y. and all kinds of FRUIT'S Phone 247 and have every thing delivered promptly to you residence. We are now located on Mail street, also at the old post office. Theo. Lambr Prompt Delivery. Mr. D. N. Walker, editor of that spic tournal, the Enterprise, Louisa, Va jays: "I ran a nail in my foot last wee and at once applied Buck len's Arnic salve. No inflamation followed; tl salve simply healed the wound " Hea sores, burns and skin diseases. Guarai Seed at W. E Pelham & Son, Druggist tine should not be condemned f( practical purposes on this accoun This becomes still more evident whe it is known that the sweet odor ( the gum turpentine is not characte: istic of itself, but is due to an impu ity produced by the chemical actic of air upon it. These are important discoveri and are well worthy of consider tion. If they are true, then refin steam turpentine, properly prepare should bring at least an equal prii in this country with the gum turpe: tine., Indeed~abroad, this is oft( the case, and instances are on recoi where the refined .steam turpenti has, by virtue of its more unifor composition, brought five cents gal-lon more than the gum spirits, ai is in much greater demand. Furth, investigations along these lines w' be pushed vigorously by the Fore Service. Fair Week Excursions. Col R. W. Hunt, division passeng agent of the Southern railway, a nounces that the Southern will ri two special trains on Wednesday ai Thursday of fair week to accomm date the visitors. One of these trai1 will be run from Spartanburg < both days, the other from Belton.] addition to these special trains ti Southern has arranged to put ext: equipment on every train coming i to Columbia next week, as many six extra coaches -being ordered f certain trains. Col. Hunt says that he confident expects to handle a third more vis tors this year than last. Everywhe: the people are talking the fair at are planning to take in the great a: nual fall gathering of the state. TI other roads entering Columbia a: likewise \making extraordinary e forts to take care of the passenge: for Columbia. Returning this train will leave C lumbia eaeh day at 7 o'clock p. in., a riving at Spartanburg at 10:45. Leave Belton .... .........6:30 a. i Honea Path.. .. .......6:48 a. i Donalds ........7:03 a. I Shoals Junction .... ....7:11 a. i Hodges .. .... .......7:25 a. i Greenwood .. .... ......7:50 a. i New Market .. .... .. ..7:55 a. i Ninety-Si'r.. .... ....8:12 a. i Dyson .. .... .....'..8:28 a. r Chappell .... ........8:42 a. r Old Town .... .......8:58 a. m Silver Street'... . .....9:15 a. T Helena .. .... .......9:32 a. r Newberry .. .. ...... ..9:40 a. r Prosperity .... .. .. ....9:57 a. i Pomaria ....... .. ....10:15 a. n Peaks .... .. .... ....10:30 a. m Alston .... .... .... ..10:36 a. m Arriver Columbia .. ....11:25 a. i Returning this train will leave C< lumbia at 6:40 p. mn., arriving at Be ton at 11:40. These trains are for the special ai c'mmodation of the visitors who a not care to spend the night in Colun bia, but who want to come down f< one or more days. spend the day an return home at night. REGISTRATION NOTIJDE. Notice is hereby given that ti books of registration for the Town< Newberry, S. C., are now open, at the undersigned as Supervisor < Registration for the said town wi keep said books open every day fro 9 a. mn., until 5 p. in., (Sunday e: epted) including the 1st day of D cmber, 1907. Eug. S. Werts, Supervinr of Reistration. 1A . 1 olumbia, the C. N. & L. Rail -ip tickets October 26th to 31 st November 1st, with return .s will be provided for all trains. admission to the Fair Grounds. Prosperity $1.83 Lit. Mourtain 1.64 Chapin 1.48 Irmo 1.25 all games between the Citadel )ctober 30th, and Clemson vs. )ber 31st. Intra-State'College 1st, and Wallace Hagenback ON & Ruf 'HE & NEWS Icils, Ink, e Extracts, &c., &c. need alonk that line. I TOBACCO. on them. for Columbia Steam IM TO VISIT Exposition.4 -y dep:artment The ip-Naval Display Do not fail to go at once. -For aning maps, defcriptive matter, T. .J WHITE, Gen. Pass. Agt. 3AST LINE >gh Car Line. M RATES( ND RETURN -*Oent6nn1al Exposition A . . RAILWAY een Day Tickets on sal4 ith, to and including (40o made for MILITARY and i attending the Exposition. wed on Season, Sixty Day ime as on Summer Tour formation call on Ticket 4 :rwrte .W. Hunt Division|Pass. Agent. Charleston, S C LOW H ATi &. \ Account Annual State* Fair, C way will sell special low round t inclusive, and for morning trainc limit to Nov. 4th. Extra coachE Rates as named below include on( Laurens $3.00 r Clinton 2.75 Goldville 2.57 Kinards 2.47 Newberry 2.04 I Special feature will be Foot E and Welsh Neck, Wednesday, C A. & M. of N. C. Thursday, Oct( Track Meet, Friday, November Circus Saturday, November 2nc CA LL HERALD e1 Box Paper,. Tablets, PeU Pens and Soaps Fin aIn fact anything you nd Al CIGARS ANE Don't forget to call They are also agents Laundry. SNOW IST HET'I Jamestown It is complete in eve1 War Path-Air Sh Will interest and instruct you. beauifully illustrated folder cont list of hotels, etc., write W. J. CRAIG, P. T. M., Wilmington, N. C. A TL A"NTIC ( The Short Thr< VERY LO~ NORFOLK A A ccount Jamestown Tei ...vI SOUTHERN .Season, Sixty Day and Fift 1daily, commencing April 1 5 vember 30th, 1907. dVery low rates will also be BRASS BANDS in uniforr STOP OVERS will be allo and Fifteen Day Ticicets, s~ 1 st Tickets. d For full and complete ii SAgents Southern Railway,