Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I BuyReli I Our I | CATHERWOOD'S Three Feathers Rye Whlj key, Four Bottles $8*01 I Express Prepaid. X ! JACK CRANSTONE Famous Georgia Cocktail* Four Bottles $ 5 I Express Prepaid. CATHERWOOD'S | Keystone Rye Whiskey Four Full Quarts $4-01 j Express Prepaid. ! ? I "Orders Positive 113-115 MERCE nnimanMtmaHmnMAuHnHBnai TAHITI?A PARADISE IN THE etc SOUTH SEAS. ,ires (Continued from page six.) stvl stream. The streets are swept ami rubbish !U( hauled off every week clay. Bicycles 1112 are common, and (here are a few au-j"!'' tomobilcs, for which the good roads' maintained by the colonial govern-1 ment. are well adapted. i Wu" "The town water system is abun- Im,> dantly supplied from a pure mountain J' 1 ''The market, which is under lliej supervision <>| a food inspector, is i supplied with an abundance of fresh M"" meals and a great variety of fish,'"'"1 vegetables and fruits. Bread, milk :l1"' and ice are delivered by carts daily. j "Owing to freight rales and ens-'1'10 lorns duties, almost all imported ar-, tiules of food, including flour, bacon, j "pxv : lard and canned meats, salmon, butter, vegetables and fruits, cost from .">() to <)Vo /.) per ctent. more in Tahiti than in sl/,<> the United States. Kisli of various "'',1 colors, though plentiful in the sea, j are often dear in market. Yegeta- M',(> hies, grown by Chinamen, are cheap,)*'0 and so are fruits, which grow almost ,,,,m jf without cultivation and which form \ 'he principal food of the natives. In- l,!,rt eluding nuts about 10 kinds of fruit ',M'' grow in Tahiti, the principal fruits ; u ''' } being cocijanuts. bread fruit, bananas ' '>:,1' | (all the year round), mangoes, pine-: , apples, guavas. papayas, alligator i , n>" pears, cantaloupes, watermelons, feii j n':M' (;i sort ot wild banana, much eaten ,:,n| cooked by the natives), custard up- ' pies, oraniscs, limes, etc. On the M1"ri & whole living costs about ."><) per cent. P more in Tahiti tlian in America. r,M" The Island of Paradise. : ?dos< "The climate is warm but health-j 'lll<>1 |j| I'd. Tahiti, which is called 'the is-j <,r('s w: land paradise, is a land of perennial!'"" Uf spring ami summer, the mercury j V rarely going below (>(i degrees. ex-M'*'1 a'i; eopt the mountains, and seldom m,MI above H8 degrees in summer, which comes in your winter months, the ''lu' season being reversed after crossing j||: Ibe equator. In the summer season '),,;,u ' < in Tahiti, especially in December, and February, we have a A />V good deal of rain, but it is warm rain Mi. h .y and we have -carcely anv mud even i:s i ' a ft er our heaviest rains. It is strange i* a 'jjf that in this warm climate there by ^ are no snakes and scarcely ,anv flies, once 'M, AVe have some mosquitoes. The wild New lj|animal of Tahiti is quite limited, our ^I'l'liere are very few birds " once Dr. Drehcr has a number of inter- co, '.\ ii<'st!ng ohotii'jraphs >|iowiug the dress of ll gjja^vorn n,\ the residents. ' i,;im 'Climate, as you know, governs to "ut I Mh large extent the question of cloth- 'v-' 'jjfi.j'lug," he said. ''In Tahiti ladies gen^ferally wear imloors, and some on the Drel ;'y>^treets also, loose flowing gowns, worn fflPomething after (he style of 'Mother <lxpe i|||Hubbnrds,' but made in an attractive how ^^y'e iusertings, new able G< Stronges W HIS K I E CATHERWOOC 3- Upper Ten Rye Whi B Four Bottles $? Express Prepaid 3 JACK CRANSTO 3- Dlodora Corn Whl ) Four Full Quarts $4 Express Prepaid CATHERWOOE Brunswick Club Rye > [J key, Four Bottles $4 Express Prepaid ily Filled Sarr ?R STREET llllll IIIPIIBHIIIBIII I lllllll IB ? Some ladies have their fin vses made in this com fori a ??. Men in the official and up] ises wear white eottou or lii k suit?, the coats made with sla: collars and buttoned all the v so that undergarments may arded at pleasure." From what ynn have told nu ild think liiat your life in Tal t he quite eomfortahle." snggi he reporter. The Consul's Home. Well." replied !iie consul, "l iate is del ight I'm! *. we like i >ieal fruit-: we have l.iud friei excellent servants: wi; have I 1 health, and we en.j ?y most comforts of eivili/.ation. WI s greatly to our comfort is i American consulate, erected 1 . a heautiful frame building stories -wit.h eight rooms of g< and five smaller ones. Tt is led as the best and handsom lence in Tahiti, and it lias most modern conveniences, -o that not wish for a better or m< Portable home. The consulate i - near the busiix of i he town, lite "-iveniiiu dinus ainl the p' . >! llice. a lilt inn feet of the fine bay eele. We have so much bret I frequently have to close t it door of my office. From t of the house we 1 iol: out on t ;es of mountains, vising .just ha he town, the hiuhe-t point bei i* than n.niin feet above the si front is the beautiful bay a im?dions harbor of 1'apeete, < d by the coral reef wi.ieh is 01 i| by the ever-shifting whi led surf of the ocean waves brer and roarima on thereof. r,o< towards the west, we see at nice of t.-:i miles t lie beantil ntainous island of Moorca, whi eets its rugged and .jagged 01 sharply asiainst the liori'/.on. It jet her a scene of wonder I tv.'' The Land of No News. ; |o t he mail facilities of Tal e said : '" We l::-ve let ter carric own who i'..-e !lit-\rle-. aiid tin 1;ii 1 \ mail t .' _.out the isla laues. (>ijr f.'Vciu'M mails coi every '_\S day-, fr >\> Aucklai Zealand. 2.miles. which nearest available cable office, a every ."i(i days from San Franc miles, by the S. S. Maripe te < ceanic company. I wonder how you uei along wit papers and letters more fre(|uet I am not surprised," -aid Conn let*. 41 to hear your remark. V lered. too, before we made t' riment ; but we were surpris soon we inljusleri ourselves to o condition. After the first t\ BBHBWHMBBBlBlMBWIllHliUMUHIMJUMUIIIIUyi Dods fron t Assets A s. )'s JACK CRANSTON Iskey, Private Stock Rye Whisk | QQ Four Full Quarts $4?J Express Prepaid. JACK CRANSTON j^j,g Private Stock Bourbon Wh key, Four Full Qts. $4-1 Express Prepaid. t.&Q XXXX Corn Whisk( Four Full Quarts $3-2 Express Prepaid. rs ^hls" Cabinet Rye Whisk* 1-00 Four Full Quarts ' $3.J Express Prepaid. ^|jj| ie Day Receivedm K * os( or three periods of days it seer bio natural to wait so long for our An |)cr ican mail. And now we enjoy j0n quiet, easy-going life so much t ml- W(l ('an read of transcontinental lilt ,-5(V ed trains with their reading nx he supplied with all I he daily papers ; j telegraphic bulletins of the lat , I | news without envying in the least ,iti j people who live in the 'hur,ry anil h .s(_ tie ??f this all-too-rapid Amerii life. P?ut this does not mean t ! we arc not deeply inlercsled in Air I]u* ican atVair>. llu, "It is pcopo-ctl to conned ids j various groups ol' islands in the soi i;i,I Pacific by a system of radio-ti of , p'apliy. When fhi> is aecomplisl iat i Tahiti will be placed in telegrap []1(. j connect ion with the world by way llsj j Auckland. of! "With the exception of the sn IO(|! sheets issued by missionaries, then ,>c- only one newspaper published regul 0st I ly, the weekly ollieial journal, whiel of ' devoted mainly to odieial matters si we ! announcements of all sorts. Besii >! (>' the government printing establi j ment there ar?* three small job otli i.Ss ' in Papeete. All publications lit in French and Italian or in both 1 nd linages. of j The Population. ze I "'fhe total populat ion uf the c"?l' li,? ! is nearly i'.l.onn. More than 27.i he are of the native race; about he are Wrench and .about 1 are of <-k other nationalities, mainly I'riti tig- Chinese and Americans. these th i>a. I ranking nuinerically in the on nd J named, early two-tliinls of the po] Mi- ilalion live in the Society inlands, i ill-' '/roup nu?st advanced in civili/.ati t(?. I The inhabitants of most of the i<I:?i ik-' have had more or less contact w 1 ik- j civilized people for a century. \ a ions denomination- !iave churches fid the principal settlements in the Ian cli j islands. The native Protestant c< it-I yregsition of Papeete recently dedic la | ed a stone ami concrete edifice wh 'ul j cost about $21,000, contributed alac entirely by the natives themselv I The government maintains sclm l,j. I throughout the colony. rs 1 "'fhe natives ;>>'< usually -poken >re I as a !ii;e type of P dyne-ians. Ti ml ;ire near!) the coin'1 of ?.ur Americ net Indians and have fine. lonis. -1 ra i _ id. ; ?r wavy black hsiii*. They are a vi is kindly people; thev greet you \vi ml I -anile- ami the salutation 'ioran is-I which seems to have various me; -sa | in us. More for Soap Than Shoes. "" " Thev are a eleanly people a d" t he colon\ spi?iids I Wo ami a h; l times as much for soap as for sho ul I>ut I should sold that nearly all t ^'e natives go barefooted. Vmi see \\ he men walking the streets in we od laundered, lowing Tahitian gowns a ur underneath handsomely embroider vo underskirts their feet, a la natu n a Knowr re Our Pleas "I \ i Three Feathers Whiskey, per ease . . . 'Si' Upper Ten Whiskey, per ease i Jack Cranston's Private Stock, per case . sy 1' | Keystone Whiskey, per case >0 Diodorn Corn Whiskey, per case Jack Cranston's XXXX Corn Whiskey, ]> Jack Cranston's Famous Georgia Cocktai Imported Goods?Our Own Ir ?o ^ ' Rouyer, Gillet & Cie. Cognac, per ease. . ll3- Bulloch, hade & Co., Distillers Scotch, ] " II Byass & Co., (Jerez) Special SI ij# case | Gonzalez, Byass Co., Amontillado Shcr |j Gonzalez, Hvass & Co., Gonzalez Sherry, ' Plainly liros & Co., Fine Old Maderia, p Blandy Bros & Co., Fine Old Maderia, pi Tatupieray Dry Gin per Case ;?i2.oo ?U j| Should you wish full case of above l'i jj Fxpress, add $1.50. Should yon wish a full case of above l'i !| Freight, add 85c. 1 We have in Stock a full line of Ilennes: ^ ii tard Dupey it Co., Ilrandies, IMyinouth C liani and Dewars Scotch Whiskies; but \v< I is nothing on the market superior to j! Ol'U OWN iMi>ORT.\Tior> -Takes Less Than ? < ? < * > IMMBBMBMBMlBMrWBWBBaMWWBESaMamBBM nej Hut (hey walk with a natural case, ( u.f. sjrace and dignity almost impossible' 1 our I"1' high-born dames of fashion in hat 1 '-h( corsets and high-lieeled shoes. ; 1 ,iit- ^M,l men. women ami children walk ] )ins erectly with shoulders thrown back 1 and chests expanded, stooping, round 1 est shoulders, so common in America, be- j the I'arcly seen among the natives ol' ] us- Tahiti. Indeed, the native.-, like tints? | i*an Samoa, are noted for their fine , hat physical development. One sees , ,er- I anions them an unusual number of j i huge. tall, strong men and women, t (||t. 1 I lie people of I lie colony are peaceable . nth ! ami law-abiding and there are only | j three lawyers fur Itl.OlH) inhabitants. | it-il There are fewer murders and other.; hie crimes in proportion to population j of than in the I'nileu States." 1 Commerce of the Islands. I mil In reply to an inquiry as to the ( . is principal exports and imports. Dr. 1 ar- 1)reher said : I 1 is "The principal products exported ind arc copra, the dried kernel of the les cocoauut, used for making oil and | sli-1 butter: vanilla beans for making ex- s ces I tracts and essences; and motlier-of- I ;ire' pearl shell for making buttons and 1 mi- other articles, ('ocoanuts and oran- I u'cs sire also exported and sea island 1 (cotton in small (inutilities. Native ( my i suu'ar and coffee are generally used I '""'in the colony, though not exported. ? !'>' | " I lie principal imports are fabrics n II j.and clotliini;. flour, ccrenl I Is. can- v >!i. hied meats, salmon, lard and butter, c ree ; lumber, hardware. rope and cord. ' v lei* I kerosene oil. paints, soap, wines, spir- | >u- its. etc. 1 ''"'I "The 1 nitcd S| a I e-does about half 1 the business in exports and imports. ' I''"'We receive mainly copra and vanilla 1 " 'land ship to Tahiti flour, fabrics and 1,1 I eh>|hiii'j. lumber, cereal foods and I ,M j '.M'aius, hardware, canned salmon. ' '''' | rape and corn, woodenware. w ines and ' ,n* beer, macliinery. paints and oil>, lard, i''" I slmcs. medicines and chemicals, canj lied and fresh vegetables, tools and ' implements, etc. in llic order named. ' j The business of the colony will be p | considerably increased by the develop-' I ment of phosphate deposits of |(),- f of . (toil,lion |(iii> or more on Makatea, an ! ' ev ! "lev alcil fos-illi feroiis l ime-lone i~- b an .laud. I'-M> miles from Papeete. In this :hl ! increase our country will have its , v r\ full share. I A Paradise of Cocoannt Trees. M !1, ''Have you traveled about much ]' m*|a:nony the islands?" the consul was 11 |a>kci1. j "No. I have not. I'e-'ule- Tahiti I ml | have visiled only tiiree other i-lanrU. J ' ill My wife and I went in a 1 1-ton i es. schooner to the beautiful inland of lie I iiaiatea, abou! 1.>D miles from Tahiti. o- There we hired a little cutter. 'Jil feet! v II- long and 10 feel wide, on which our l ^ ndhnrty of five sailed 1."? miles to I Jura j ed Mora, another very mountuiiiuus is-! f 1 re. land of the Society group. In t!iel>; i Reliable >ed Custom* V H I SK 1 E S . .... fis.oo All Shipment .... I 2.OO .... II.OO .... io.oo Cabinet Rye in Drums, eon .... 9.50 <jai)iu0t Rye in Drums 200 er ease . S.00 v , . ... .. Cabinet Rye in Drums, eonli I . . . . 1J.OO Cabinet Rye in Drums, eon nportation. v same quantitn * fI^*?? XXXX Corn, same<|uautiti >er ease . 15.00 lorry, per FREIGHT '6.00 The Fatuous Catherwood rv, case . 13.00 but we also handle Whisk it per ease 10.00 i?r ease. . 16.00 well known brands of Walt -'f ease. . ij.oo tester, Hume, Hunter, (Jib toga, Maryland Club, Old epaid by Cordials and Liquors. repaid by We will ship anything 011 either by the case or in pa iy, Martell, On- bottles. Jin, King Wilis l elieve there Shm,M >',m favor us witl remit in N. V. lixchange, t 'S. Orders. nnHHnHBBnHMnaHaBnMBBi 20 Hours?Baltinr : : : BAL ruller we went some l<> miles further in lo visit Tupai. a perfect atoll island, Di with a eireular lagoon of exquisitely I*'i lieautiful pale green water, eneireled be !?y the dark green border id' eoeoanut in I rees on I lie narrow strip ol' eoral- in lormed laud. We crossed the lagoon lli II a hi rye dug-out canoe. On t'liis is- T: and people live only a lew weeks in he year to make copra. On the day >f our visit I could not help thinking >f what Hooker Washington is re- ! mpfed In have said about pulling all In- negroes on a reservation by themselves: * 11' you do that you would / lave to I> 11 i111 ;i wall around il to, / <eep the negroes in and six walls irouml il to keep the while men out f there was anything inside the ivliile man wauled.' Kor on I hat "ar-away atoll on that day were two \mericans who were competing in heir efforts to buy the copra from he natives! Watching an Eclipse. "One of the most interest inn ex>eriences of our stay in the South eas was a trip to Hint. Island, a ^ ?ri11 sh possession some |()(t miles lor I h of Tahiti. We went there on lie I nileil Stale- 'juuhont Annapolis 'roni Samoa as the vilest- of the f 'rocker-1 <icl< ohserval??ry expedit ion 0 observe the total eclipse of the sun >n .lanuarv I!MIS. During our stay if five days on that eoeoanut inland U' lived ill a little green i 1111 built of ^ ocoanul leaves especially for us. 11 ras most interesting to .sec I lie pre- m arations made under the snperinendeiice of Dr. \\ . \\". Campbell. 1 iector of 1 he l.ick observatory, and b\ ('. <J. Abbot of the Smithsonian | iisiitulioii. and their associate.-., who v , ad none to Flint Island on the Anna- 1 ,. | . . . da 'olis early m Oeccmlicr lo get every- .(i hiii'j in readiness in observe the In. clipsc. . 11 11 All the instruments were in place ml we were in time to go through he dozen or more rehearsals prepara- ? 1 ?ry lo the great event. A certain arl was assigned to each member of lie expedition. and al-o to Mr-. 'amphell and Mrs. Dreher. the only idles in the party. In spite of a rief -bower jn-l as Lie cdip-c he imv total, about !."> photograph- ol 1 .. , 1 . ien arums ifhases o| the eclipse were ikon and I lie results of the expedition ' . roved successful. Il would lake a " ?ng article lo describe in detail the " dere-ting metho?|s of observing the . 0 idip-e. An ille-traled accoiuil of il 1 . 1- been puhli-hcd bv 11, A-I l oiioini- '' ' 11 Sociel v of t i;e I 'aci fie in Sail .. 100 ranci-eo. r>v. Drel.cr'- vi-i! i- necs-arilv <. I < , Sol inited in lime, allrHMiyh lie has not r>e?i hick to the l ulled Slates in vn years. ' Our plan-." said he, "are |,? leave I oin Columbia on the "JStii inslanl, I )Pnd -.onie days in Washington and . f WU f JU11 House irs \ Is Guaranteed. l'cr Drum. itaining 100 pints . . . $28.00 ' pints 28.00 lin'g 50 pts. ,v ick) )i pis. 28 ix) itaiuiug 50 full quarts . 28.00 :s ns above 28.00 ies as above 25.00 PREPAID. Whiskies are our leaders, >s bottled in bond, and the ers' Maker's Kye, Old l'or- B son, black l.abel, Old SaraCrow, Sherwood W hiskies, our list assorted to suit you, ekages, containing four (4) 1 your valued orders, voli can g [1 >r Kx press or Postoflice Money B f i lore to S. C. I TIMORE, MD. J Reranlon, I'a.. |lu? home of Mrs. relier s parents, and sail from San aneiseo on October 17. We .shall due In arrive <>11 I lie 2!Hli ol' that; oiilh, exactly two years from the truing when our eyes first beheld e lair oul line ol the mountains of iliili." ~X) WOOD'S SEEDS. I Best qualities obtainable. ' Winter or i Hairy Vetch makes not only one of Mm largestyielding and best winter feed and forage crops you can grow, but is also one of the. best of noil-improvers, adding moro nitrogen to the soil than anyiothcr winter crop. Wood's Descriptive Fall Catalogue gives full information about this valuable crop; also ^about all other Farm 6 Garden Seeds > for Kail planting. Catalogue / *' mailed free 011 request. Write / for it. II T. W.WOOD & SONS, J/ REGISTRATION NOTICE. No| iee is hereby "iveii thai III'.' i?ks ii|' resist rat ion for tin1 town of. wherry. S. ('.. w ill he open on Tue-y. September S| h, I DOS. ami the 1111rsigncd as Supervisor of h'e'^i^t rail for I lie said town, will keep said iks open every day from nine A. until five I'. M. (Sunday except ed) 111 rli 11the lirsl dav of l)eeet ..her, 1H. Kugene S. Werts, Supervisor of Ifc/ist rat ion. It Can't Be Beat. I lie lie.-1 ol all teacher- i- ex >< ' ee. ('. M. Ilarden, of Si I \ 1* <*itv, rlli ''arolina. says: "I iiml Klee 1 >il I ers does all that's elaimeii it. l''or stomach, liver and kidney tildes il can't be heal. I have tried md find it a nio<l excellent medies ; 11 ? 11 fur weakliest, lame back, I all I'Mii dow n condition-. I ? *-.; for ehilU and malaria. Sold 111 '.'iiarantee at \V. K. I'eJham and 1 "s durg .-lore. ;"i()e. E I'.roaddus & KutV'.s Toilet Soap, lox I'aper, Taleum Powder, Dental 'owder, Tooth Itru.slicx, etc., heore you buy.