Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ATLANTIC COAST LINE. CiAwRLsTos, S. C., July 21, 1901. On and after this date the following passenger schedule will be in effect: NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD. South.Boud. '35. *23. '53. Lv Florence, 3.00 A. 7.55 P. Lv Kingstree, 3.56 9.07 Lv Lanes, 4 11 9.27 5.55 P. Ar Charleston, 5.40 11.15 7.40 North-Bound. *78. *32. '52. Lv Charleston, 6.45 A. 5.00 P. 7.00 A. Lv Lanes. 8.10 6.10 8.35 Lv Kingstree, 8.32 G.25 Ar Florence, 9.30 7.20 *Daily. t Daily except Sunday. No. 52 runs through to Colnibia via Central R. R. of S. C. Trains Nos. 78 and 32 run via Wilson and Fayetteville-Short Line--and make close connection for all points North. Trains on C. & D. R. It. leave Florence daily except Sunday 9.55 a m, arrive Dar lington 10.28 a im, Cheraw, 11.40 a m, Wadesboro 12.35 p m. Leave Fjorence daily excert Sunday, 8.00 p w, arrive Dar. lington, 8.25 P mu, Hartsville 9.2C p m, Bentnetsvilie 9.21 p, m, Gibson 9.45 p in. Leave Florence Sunday only 9.55 a im, ar rive Darlington 10.27, Hartsville 11.10 Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6.35 a u,, Bennettsville 6.59 a m, arrive Darling 'ton 7.50 a m. Leave Hartsville daily ex cept Sunday 7.00 a m, arrive Darlington 7.45 a in, leave Dailington 8.55 a in, arrive Florence 9.20 a in. Leave Wadesboro daily except Sunday 4 25 p m, Cheraw 5.15 p in, Darlington 6.29 p m, arrive Florence 7 p m. Leave Hartsville Sunday only 8.15 a i Darlington 9.00 a im, arrive Florence 9.2 a M. .1. 1.. KENLEY, JNO. F. DIVINE, Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Sup't. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. II. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent. W.C.&A. South-Bound. 55. 35. 52. Lv Wilmigton,'3.45 P. Lv Marion, 6.40 Ar Florence, 7.25 Lv Florence, *8.00 *3.00 A. Ar Sumter, 9.15 4.02 Lv Sumter, 9.15 *9.23 A. Ar Columbia, 10.40 - 10.55 No. 52 runs throngh from Charleston via Central 1.. I., leaving Charleston 7 00 a m, Lanes 8.35 a mi, Manning 9.17 a ml. North-Bountrd. 54. 53. 32. Lv Columbia, 'G 40 A. '345 P. Ar Sumter, 8.05 5.08 Lv 6'ster, 8.05 '6.24 P. Ar Florence, 9 20 7.35 Lv Florence, 10.00 Lv ,.trioui, 10.35 Ar Wilmington, 1.25 *Daily. No. 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C. via 'ential I.. R., arriving Manning 5.43 p w, Lanes, 6.28 p ui, Charleston 8.05 p ni. Trains o1 Conway 6ranch leave Chad bourn 11.50 a ut, arrive Conway 1.30 p Ln. returning leave Conway 3.40 p m, arrive Chadbourn 5 20 p w, leave Chadbourn, 535 p in, arrive at Elrod 8.10 p m, returning leave Elrod 8.40 a m, arrive Chadbeuan 11.25 a m. Daily except Sun day. J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent. - CENTIRAL 1R. R. OF SO. CAROLINA. No. 52 Lv Charleston, 7.00 A. M. Lv Lanes, 8.37 Lv Greeleyville, 8!0: " Lv Foreston, 8.59 Lv Wilson's Mill, 9.07 " Lv Manning, 8.17 Lv Alcoln, 9.25 " Lv Brogdon, 9.34" LvW. &S. Jnet., 9.48 " Lv Sumter, 9.51 .Ar Columbia, 11.13 " No. 53 Lv Columbia, 3.45 P. ?I. Lv Sumter, 5.08 " Lv.W. k s. Junet. 5.-1 " Lv Brogdon, 5.25 " Lv Alcolu,, -.5.35 ." Lv Manning, 5.43 "4 Lv Wilson's Mill, 5.55" Lv Foreston, 0 04" Lv Greeleyville, 6.14" Ar Lanes, 0.28 " Ar Charli-ston, 805 MANCHESTER & AUGUSTA R. R. No. 35. Lv Sumter, 4 02 A. M Ar Creston, 4.51 " Ar Orangeburg, 5.14" - Ar Denmark, 5.48 " Ar Augusta, 7.57 " No. 32 . Lv Augusta, 2201P. M. Lv Denmark, 4 20 " Lv Orangeburg, 4.55" -Lv Creston, 5.19 " Ar Sumter, 6.09 " T1rains 32 and 35 carry through Pullman palace buffet sleeping ears between New York and Macon via Angusta. ~Tilson and Summerton R. R. Tnts Tanns No. 3, In e~ffect Sunday, June 9th, 1901. Between Sumter and Camden. Mixed-Daily except Sunday. bouth bornd. Northbound. No. 09. No. 71. No. 70. No. 08. PM AM -AM PM 450 1000 Le..Sumt,.r..Ar 9040 420 452 1002 N-W.Junt 858 418 5 17 10 22 . ..Da!zeli.. . 8 25 3 50 533 1032 ...Berden... 800 325 60 0 10 50 . . kemblerts . 7 40 3 05 6 15 10 55 .. Ellerbee .. 7 30 2 55 -6 35 11 20 SolRyJunctu 7 10 2 40 0 45 11 30 Ar..(hamden .. Le 7 00 9 30 (S C & G. Ex Depot) PM P.\ AM PM Between Wilson's Mill and Sumter. Southbound. Northbound. No. 73. Daily except Snn day No. 72. P M Stattenis. I' M 2 00 Le.......Sumter......r 12 30 2 03 ...N W Janetion... 1227 217..........Tindal..........1155 2 30.........Packsville........11 30 3 00...........Silver..........I1105 3101 ilad10 45 310..-''''' l' ''''''''...10 15 35 00.......nimerton.... 10 10 4 30...... .... Davis...........940 445..........Jordan ... .......927 5 15 Ar..Wilson's Mills..Le 9 10 Det ween .\ 0*1i1 anid St. Paul. Sonthbound. Northbound. No 73. No. 75. No. 72. No. 74. P M A M .Stationis A M P M 3 10 10 15 Le Millard Ar 10 45 3 30i 3 15 10 25 A rSt. Paul Le 10 35 3 20~ PM AM AM PM TH OS. WILSON, President. BELL & MATHISI Engine Repairing, Wheelwrighting And All Manner of Iron Work. Special Attention Biven to Horseshoelng. We warrant satisfaction. Belowy Baptist Church, Manning, S. C. Rring naur Job Work to The Times office. AN EXPLANATION. If you'll make a diagnosis when you're feeling ad and dVary, As fou would with any everyday digape; If onu'll simply question science as to why you're glum and weary An4 everything seems dull and ill at ease. Perhaps ycu will discover, after devious calcula tions, The cause of all these symptoms which appall, And you'll smile as you reflect, in spite of various irritations, That it's nothing but the weather after all. You'll find a sigh denoting neither sorrow nor contrition; A tear drop's not indicative of care. They are products of the meteorological condi tion, Of extra moisture that is in the air. So perhaps it's not in reason fortune's chance to be reviling or to vow life's store of happiness Is small, For when the sun comes out again, again we will be smiling; It's nothing but the weather after all. -Washington Star. SPIRIT SLATE WRITING. How the Mysterious Sentences Are Prepared In Advance. Spiritualistic slate writing, If clevei'ly done, always m2.kes a marked impres sion on amagician's audiencebecause it utterly baffles their efforts to detect the trick. They see a small cabinet suspended above the stage by means of cords or ribbons. It has an open front and Is empty. The maglian turns it around so that ever part of it may be seen and taps it inside and out with his wand to show that it is hollow. On a stand near by he has a small easel, a common school slate, a bottle of india ink with a quill pen in it and a few sheets of ordinary white writing paper. All these he passes around among the audience for examination. Then he fixes a sheet of the paper to the slate by means of wafers, places the slate on the easel and the easel in the cabinet, together with the bottle of ink, the latter having the pen still in It. Having allowed the audience to see the articles thus arranged in the cabi net, he throws a large silk handker chief over It. Mysterious sounds are immediately heard, and the cabinet shakes as if some living thing had en tered It. When the sounds and the shaking cease, he removes the hand kerchief, showing an Inscription writ ten in bold black letters on the paper and the pen not In the ink bottle, tut lying on the bottom of the cabinet. He then removes the paper from the sla-te and passes it around for examination, when the writing is immediately recog nized as having been done with India Ink. The explanation of the trick Is sim ple. The writing was done In advance by the performer, the fluid used being a solution of sulphuric acid of the pur est quality. To make the solution 50 drops of the concentrated acid are add ed to one ounce of filtered wa-er. Writ ing done with this solution is invisible until exposed to heat When so ex posed, it comes out perfectly black, looking exactly like dried India ink. The heat is applied by means of an electric current running over wire with which the slate is wound. The cords by which the cabinet is suspended con ceal copper wires, which conduct the current to the slate. Black silk threads suitably attached enable the performer to make the sounds in the cabinet, to cause the cabinet to shake and to jerk the pen out of the- Ink bottle. Several sheets of paper are prepared in advance, each with a different in scription, the performer telling one in scription from another by secretly marked pin pricks.-New York Herald. Keeping sat It. There Is a very old but very good story about a boy who was engaged one winter day In putting a ton of coal Into a cellar. His only implement wasI a small fire shoveL. Noticing this, a benevolent old gentleman expressed surprise and commiseration. "My son," said the gentleman, "you surely do not expect to put in all that coal with that little shovel?" "Oh, yes, I do," replied the boy cheer fully. "All I have to do is t6 keep at it"' There is a lesson in this story for young and old, and it is exemplified in the lives of the great men of the world. It is a mistake to suppose that the best work of the world is done by people of great strength and many opportunities. "Keeping at it" is the secret of success. --Exchange. Left Handed Medicine. An Atchison druggist tells this story and declares that It is true: He had tonsilitis, but did not send for a doc tor, as he knew he would be all right as soon as the swelling "broke." But his wife was. worried and insisted on sending for a doctor. When- the doc tor arrived, he looked through his medi ine ease, and said he had nothing suitable for the patient; that the medi cine he had was for the right side, whereas the swelling in the throat was on the left side. Then he hurried away to get his left handed medicine.-Atchi son Globe. Catching a Feminine Fish. "Do you really think there are mer maids In the sea?" "Certainly," said the dime museum man. "Then why hasn't anybody besides you succeeded In catching one?" "Because nobody else was smart enough to bait a hook with the latest style of Paris hat," was the answer. Wahington Star. The Mean 'eming. Miss Passay-I dri . to think of my fortieth birthday. Miss Pert-Why? Did something un pleasant happen then.-Tit-B!ts. In a ton of Dead sea water there are 187 pounds of salt, Bed sea 93, Med Iterranean 85, Atlantic 81, English hnnel 72, Black sea 28, Baltic 18 and Caspian sea 11. To Cure A Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's sig-. ature is on each boh. 25c. In every town and village may be had, the ~4 Mica AxIe Orease ~. that makes your ~ hor. ses1ad.j CONFECTIONS FROM GRAIN. Wheat and Malt Used In the Mann facture of Candy. A manufacturing plant in New Jer sey, formerly used as ai manilla paper mill, is now operated by a corporation engaged In the unique industry of mak ing confections from wheat and malt, about the last materials in the world one would expect to find in candy. In the earlier stages of the process the grain is fanned, ground and mixed in proper proportions. Then it is cook ed to a mash, from wh!ch a thin sirup is squeezed by hydraulic presses %nd conducted to a great iron evaporator. Thence the sirup is carried in pipes to a vacuum pan. Here It is vigorously stirred and further evaporated. The thickened sirup is drawn off into huge. shallow tin pans, where it is cooled and hardened. Plain or flavored with peppermint, the mass is a rich golden brown in color. Combined with choco late it is dark as the familiar caramel in the candy shops. When a batch of goods is needed for the market, the stock in the pans is broken into pieces and put into a boiler surrounded by a steam jacket. It Is reduced by heat to the consistency of taffy at an old fashioned candy pull. Skilled workmen. shape the mass into long strips that lie like golden snakeF on a board table. They are fed to a cutting machine, a noisy little monster with an insatiable appetite for sweets. You could almost cover the machine with a hat, yet it turns out malt creamlets nearly as fast as a Maxim gun hurls a storm of bul lets. The boys who carry the cream lets from the machine to the tables where they are wrapped have little time for meditation.-Chautauqua Her ald. EDITOR STOREY'S NOTION. Theory on Which He Remitted a Fine and Raised a Salary. "I was slashing copy on old Storey's Chicago Times many years ago," said one of the guests at a reunion dinner. "We had a correspondent in an Illinois town who simply would not schedule his matter, but as he generally sent good stuff we let him run on, slashing his stuff to suit the exigencies of the night Besides, his stuff always sug gested good headlines, and that was one of Storey's hobbies. "On one occasion the correspondent sent up about 700 words which went Into 100, with nothing over. On the 100 words I constructed a headline which was right up to the mark. The next day I was instructed to tell the man who made out the checks for the coun try correspondents to knock $5 off the correspondent's pay. "When he received his cheek, he wrote to Mr. Storey saying that under ordinary circumstances he wouldn't kick about the deduction, but in this particular instance he did because the fool headline over the item made by a fool telegraph editor had infuriated the man whose name was mentioned In the dispatch and brought on a fight be tween him and the correspondent, the result of which was that the corre spodent was lined $5 in the police court. "Mr. Storey was a very just man when you got at him the right way. He instructed the cashier to send the correspondent the amount of the fue and raised my salary because the head line I wrote had caused a row. That was his way of encouraging a head line writer."-New York Sun. The Water Beetle. The great carnivorous water -beetle, the dytiscus, after catching and eat ing other creatures all day, with two mi'.te intervals to come up, poke the tips of its wings out of the water and am some air against its sph-acles be :ore descending once more to its sub aqueous hunting grounds, will rise by ight from the surface of the Thames, lift again those horny wing cases, un fold a broad and beautiful pair of gauzy wings and whirl off on a visit of love and adventure to some distant pond, on to which it descends like a bullet from the air above. When people are sitting in a green house at .night with no lamp lighted, talking or smoking, they sometimes hear a smash as if a pebble had been dropped on the glass from above. It is a dysticus beetle whose compound eyes have mistaken the shine of the glass in the moonlight for the gleam of a pond. At night some of the whIrligig bee ties, the shiny beanlike creatures seen whirling in incessant circles in cor ners by the bank, make a quite audible and almost musical sound upon the water.-Spectator. she Showed Him Her Work. The woman had her arms in the tub and was fiercely scrubbing one dirty garment after 'another. Book agents don't often penetrate to that part of Chicago, but this one did. He knocked on the front door until he was tired, and then he went around to the back door. The woman was bobbing up and down over the washboard. "Good morning, madam," said the book agent pleasantly. "Good mornin," said the woman shortly. "Pleasant day," observed the book agent, sparring for an opening. "Good enough," answered the wo man. "Excuse me, madam," said the book agent, "but I have here a work that!I would like to show you." "Have you?" answered the woman. "Well, I've got a lot of work that I'd like to show you." She took one soapy hand out of the tub and waved it at a great pile of dirty clothes. "That's my work," went on the wo man. "If your work can beat that, all right; If it can't, why, skip out" The book agent -skipped. -Chicago Tribune. Beavers' Teeth. Of the cutting power of the beaver's teeth Frank H. Risteen says In Rod and Gun: "The beaver is really a sort of porta ble pulpi mill, grinding up most any kind of wood that comes his way. I once measured a white birch tree, 22 inches through, cut down by a beaver. A single beaver generally, if not al ways, amputates the tree, and when It comes down the whole family fall to and have a tjegular frolic with the bark and branches. A big beaver will bring down a fair sized sapling, say three inches through, in about two minutes and a large tree in about an hour. "One of the queerest facts about the beaver is the rapidity with which his long, chisel shaped teeth -vill recover from an injury. I have known beavers to ~reak their teeth in biting a trap, and when 1 caught them again ten days afterward you couldn't see a sign of the break. The teeth had grown out to their former perfection in that short period." _______ ___ Men who though slight, yet reach the chest standard, are preferred as re cruits in the British army to those that are stout, the former being considered A Joke on a Professor. Among some Intensely amusing col lege scrapes told by "A Graduate" in The Ladies' Home Journal is the story of a certain professor not much liked by his pupils who was to be married. The lady lived In Cleveland. And the students that loved (?) him were not of course invited. But they determin ed that in some way he should hear from them. And he did. On the day appointed the professor took the train at 10 a. m., due to arrive at Cleveland at 12:30 p. m. About 11 o'clock Jim Townsend rushed to the telegraph of fice and sent off this dispatch: "Chief of Police, Cleveland: Man coming on train No. 0, tall, well dress ed, frock coat, silk hat, side whiskers. Escaped lunatic. Hold. Shrewd, there fore beware. Strange case. Will say name Finalli. Mistake. Thinks he !s professor in a college. Delusion. Es cort to home of friends at No. - Euc lid avenue." This message reached its destination long before train No. 6 reached Cleve land, so that when Professor Finalli alighted it was to walk straight into the custody of three detectives. They would listen to no words of reason; but escorted him out to the house on Euclid avenue, the home of his intended bride. The Earth's Bendings. Little bendings are in progrecs all the time the world over. The "immovable" bills are bowing and scraping to each other constantly. Every evening, as the dew settles in the valleys between them, they nod to one another. -So like wise do the mountains, even to a great er extent. Gravity is tugging all the time. And in London, too, where earth quake sensations are practically un known, the earth bends daily, and the buildings, like the hills and the moun tains, nod to their friends opposite when the morning traffic begins. On Sunday usually their manners take a rest excepting in such places as Petti coat lane, where business flourishes in as lively a fashion as in Paris. Heine said that even the trees made obeisance to Napoleon I when he enter ed Berlin. This, was imaginative, yet truthful, for the weight of the crowd along Unter den Linden made a tilting. sufficient for Professor Milne's pendu lums to have recorded distinctly. One might say the crust of the earth acts like a steel spring, it bends so easily. Everybody's Magazine. now to Learn to Like Pictures. The following suggestions, if you please, are not from an artist nor even from a connoisseur, the writer being nothitg more than an ordinary picture lover. In general the principle to be followed is to get as much in an atmos phere of pictures as possible. Always go to the museums when you are trav eling, and if you live near enough make occasional picture visits to Bos ton, Chicago or New York. Do not make the mistake of staying too long in a gallery. You only tire yourself. Half an hour is quite long enough. But do. not endeavor to look at every pic ture in the gallery in that time. Look long at a f'ew good ones and let those you look at be those you like or at least those which you prefer above the oth ers. Also ask yourself why you prefer them. Always get a catalogue. Some times the pictures are not marked, and you as a student want always to know the painter of your picture.-Frederie l. Smith in Woman's Home Compan ion. ,Whale Houses. At one time not very long ago there was on the Lancashire coast, near Lythan, England, a cottage and boat house that were made almost entirely from tbe remains of a score or so of whales that had been driven ashore some years before. The framewor~k of the edifice consisted wholly of whale bone, and the dried skins of the huge creatures were neatly and strongly fas tened as a covering for walls and roof. There is another building of exactly the same kind at Peterhead, in Scot land; and in this case the skulls of the whales and some of the heavier bones are used with great effect as outside ornamen ts.s In the School of Work. Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun was a man of ex tensive learning and attached great importance to col lege training, but was quick to recog nize the value of the practical educa tion that a man of good parts may pick up in this workaday world outside of university walls. A young man went to The Sun offie one day and asked to see the editor in chief. He would not be rebuffed by the subordinates and after some delay was admitted. He stated his business with out a moment's loss of time. "Mr. Dana." he said, "I believe I could be of some use on this paper, and [ want you to give me a trial. If you don't find me of any use,. you' needn't pay me any salary, and if you do I shall want a good salary. If I don't find my proper groove in a month, you en drop me out." Mr. Dana looked him over. "Young man" he said, "I like your looks. Have you ever attended any in stitution of-learning?" "Yes, sir. I am a graduate of twc newspaper offices, one a country week ly and the other a daily paper in a city of 100,000 Inhabitants." "I'll take you. Go and report to the managing editor." And Mr. Dana turned again to his work.-Youth's Companion. Tennessee's Wealth of Oak Timber. One of Tennessee's richest fields of' natural resources is in its forests. Most of her timbered land is as yet virgin. and at the top of the list of the varie ties to be found is oak. That tree is one of the most valuable that ever grew, and this state is more than usu ally rich in it. Oak timber is practically indestructi ble when not exposed- to the elements of the atmosphere. I mean that oal. timber can be submerged in the ground or buried in the water, where the at mosphere does not affect it, anad it will last for so ma~ny years that the man who had put it there is dead and for gotten by the time it has decayed. It is a growing favorite, and deserv edly so. in many ways of manufactur ing furniture and in finishing fine houses. The price on it is always firm, and every now and then it makes a, spurt and climbs up a point from which it never will fall. If the forests of this tree to be found in Tennessee today are here 90 years from now, this will be one of the richest states in the Union. Knoxville Sentinel. Bandy Things to Carry. Few people carry pocket scissors of the folding sort. Those that do never part with themn. Convenient for mani cure use, to cut a clipping from a paper at a moment's notice, a string, etc., they answer almost every purpose of the pocketknife and are mtuch more convenient to handle. Give a person accustomed to their use a knife and the pocket scissors, and he will 'part O'Donnell & Co. L .. J*A* J 1 11~ 1 ./11 The Fall of 1,901 promises to be one of the most active in the history of mercantile competition in the city of Sum ter. The lateness of the cotton crop means a short season, and every merchant will be forced to do a season's work in a few months. We do not believe there is any one better equipped for the emergenicy than we are. It is stated by those who are familiar with mercantile houses in the State, that Our Facilities are Second to None, That our building is the most modern and convenient in South Caroliva. If these statements of the knowing ones be true, then certainly ought we be satisfied-tbe only other requisite is DO THE BUSINESS ! Our customers are responsible for the erection of our new stores The building formerly occupied by us became so inadequate to intelligently and satisfactorily meet the requirements of our steadily increasing trade, that we felt it but jus tice to our friends to provide them with as comfortable a place as our means could afford, in which to patronize us. The question was frequently asked us when building, if we expected to occupy both stores, and on being assured of the fact in the affirmative, the next iuquiry was, "how do you expect to fill them?" . A glance at our present stock will answer that question. Our floor space is probably among the largest in the interior of the State, and we can say trnthfully we haven't an inch to spare. We are actually crowded, and with clean, fresh stock, bought as Cheap as Money and an Ex perience of Twenty Years Could Bay Them. Remember. all our old stock was sold at a sacrifice previous to our removal in the Spring. If our- Fall trade in creases in proportion as did the Spring and Summer, then we will have no regrets for the investment made, and no doubt as to our ability to do the business! Our Stock . Boys' anc Men's Pants If you want Boys' Pants from 25c to S1 you will find them here. Will be found in keeping with our building. Probably in no depart- A Boy's Suit from 50c to S5; Youth's Pants from 50e to S2.50 a-Yooth's ment have we made greater inprovement than in Suit from $2-o $8; Men's Pants from 50c to $7.50; Men's Suitt from-$5.50to $18. Mr. Robert Delgar has charge of this department, and from his long Our Dress Goods Deparm t. perience in this line ought to be as well ualified to supply yourw anybody. If he can't fit you from stock he will take your measuref our Order Dep:rtnent and guarantee you a-fit from $15 to $85. . Here will be found Dress Fabrics from the cheapest to the highest class Give him a call. Novelties. In connection with this department we have been for'ed to open a Shoes, Shoes. Th zma~kin.g Establish~ment- There are few exclusive shoe houses in the State that carry or more complete line than we do. Our leaders for medium grade Heretofore our lady friends who wished to buy their goods from us' Women's and Children's are the GODMAN BRAND. The Children's were forced to go elsewhere, where they could have them made. No excuse are made especially strong as well as pretty and they will be sold at for that now. Mrs. Kirk of Columbia, a lady of long experience and astab- lingly low prices. He only makes one grade of Women's Shoes, and-t lished reputation, has charge of this department, and we unhesitatingly recommend her to our friends. Her work will not be confined to material are sol wit tn akshoe. bought; from us, and her prices will be regulated to suit the character of better value put in a shoe. work required.onFor a hig-her class leader line we handle E. P. REED & CO.'S. Teple on these run from $2 to $4. They are up-to-date id style, and none bettei foi service. Ii Men's goods our leaders are THE REYNOLDS and.BAY; IhaHt dl STATE BRANDS--a team that is hard to beat. Bear in mind wegu Hats i Frnishing 4tee every pair of these brands we mention to give perfect satisfaction. We. could probably fill an entire newspaper with interest reading matter fo This stock will interest any one who may need ioything in that line. prospective purchasers, but enough for the present. .++o++o ++++000000++++0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0I + ++0++c4*+O#0+0+0+00+al* Come and see us, and if you make your bill with us we guarantee absolute satisfaction or refund your money. Our motto shall be: "Sell as Cheap as we can, not as dear as we might." O'DONEL-&CSutr . She Startedl Early. - j cr nMkn xs ~ af~.a. A martinet of a sergeant deciding to1Aaxisujctorgdetsbfe UMIW get married, some oft his men decided~i rnuelpret h selms at dO~ae that when the happy event came off' beo h eieteprtewih would be a fitting occasion to pay back o l xso h aesz utb with interest old scores, especially asnfralms egondaieadR E1 ~ Z R D* their friends decided to keep up the narosoerwycofmtonesA-I3a U k time honored odcustom th tof throwing rice etteultoby WhHens adDpac UJP p i On the eventful day when the happy hmeigtebaeadsrkn h A-Dgsswayuet pair emerged from their quarters they eg oacranwehri eto -Ti rprto ~j~~I, t were greeted with a perfect shower ofbrfeorntAaxtabrdu-R A Q gtitsnddgs llkdsf rice and old shoes, but one Tommy had igtets strw sd ob ae *IIU*~ fo.~tlelsatrle n ee silly substituted a big pair of regula- oe.Bfr h aello na si HEWIH n ~own.Teotesv tion Bluchers, which he threw with tepoe hp thsbe etdfv such unerring aim that the missile tms nldn h eprnpoes LCSIHSO. soah a aet yIssiau caught the sergeant just above the eye, adtea hncmltdhspse huad fdsetc aebe inflicting a nasty cut. truhtehnso bu 4 ok tvs up n u ae vrtiges ald I Directly the ceremony wsover themeecofwohadoesmtigppsorIwlpudonanwPmalreivgaldsreateeti& sergeant Immediately went to the has- twr efcigi.AtrpsigI-cep itn neesr.Pesz~oae pital to have the wound dressed. Theseconteaegotthgrnige-Iyonedayslrigoeiv cathl- -. doctor, after examining the swollen andprmetadfothttthpos-meacl.it ey.gu7 disolored optic,,inquired how it waserwofnsthmuoemrL l!E*ECDzT&O.(ca. done.whes "Well, sir." replica the sergeant. "Ijdinohaeishdbi.A.WtTeR'BLryaD Sre got married today, and"- - unn Hry u But was cut short by the doctor (al ar n hriae n e h a htpt nsc etsos married man) exclaiming: setvlhv utbe etda h ae "Oh, I see! That explains it; but, by nreytbefrdne.Hryse Jove, she's started early !"-London An-thrisbtoeoagonhealeW MkeT mLoke. swers. adimdaeyst pawi htW r aigaseilyo e Value of Diamonds. "hHry htacyucyn at n aoscep ngo elett-eui~,o e As to the value .of diamonds, per- fr"seak.Cm n e e ypie ilsnbetrs fetly white stones or decided tints of"BcueteeantayoagfoplseoadIgartealofm red, rose, green or blue are most high- hle"Echnewok ly prized. Fine cinnamon and salm- So ncre eo .M ens .0 tRY on or brown, black or yellow stones uceHiBlne.Sme,5-. also are esteemed. If flawless and "Jh"sadrsBiusftrheR A W HIrE without tint of any kind, they are cle a oeaa," ihyu UJ~TCE termed first water. If they possess awolntbchyubudeso. steely blue color, at times almost "htd o en ai? se ANlO .C aeoee paeigMcie opalescent, they are called blue white.MrBilsstenxtdotor.S.ARgys Such are asually Brazilian stones. Ex-"Idd'midyutelnhrtat90. wlcryte ceptionally perfect stones are termedyoweetnyrsldrhaIbt WHENYUCM gems, and for such there is no fixed yufloe tu iueltrb value, the price depending on the purl-ingI-lpotta o er 2" OTW ALA ty and the brilliancy of the stone. TheChcgTrbn.'pE S'heewal-aig"N Hm" term first water varies in meaning, ac-thbetmcieae:ls-"e cording to the class of goods carried by eHaicpoa a. HVN SAON' Ialan"Cmx"frm'8to40 the dealer using it.Popr-owehvntcrseeIsel'nnslmtEs-aen It is impossible to estimate the valuethbayytMwiewnstgiePn.Icanndrpiaykndo of a diamond by its weight.- Color,hiafacnaeotoabokbuI Vihifitdp ihn maiesorestoeyosil. brilliancy, cut and general perfection wnthv teet h'~uft ~ ~ Cl n e e of the stone all are to be taken Into Acm ~h o?__________________ account. Of two stones, both flawlessPopr-caethne'gowu and weighing ten carats, one may betobhoeya-lemdndouhaHARCTIi-T E worth $000 and the other $12,000. Ex--nis ee nwi ofal-hl-I L TLS ceptional stones often bring special dlhaPes prices. Off color or imperfect stones _________SAIGAD sell at an average price per carat re-isnw"theSHAMP01GBai ofM n ng gardless of size."Intiawuhotinr.Hnekonwt etes"n How Fortress Monroe Was Eullt. hsad Adh sdt es tu. The manner of constructing the fort "ehp, hmdi iteWlir .~MNIG .0 at Old Point Comfort 1s Interesting mmeighstobewt i ~yl and throws some light on customs and trs"ehp i iefrest lwi xele.- -. practices then in vogue. 'The work washiuprglrlkeyusdseutr. .L VLS almost wholly done by slave' who were Piaepi rs.MnigTmsBokTascsagnrlbnigb1~ brought to the place by their masters and leased to the engineers in charge. I A atIda ed~ es The slave owner received 50 cents a I aei n forIda orsPop n pca teto ie day for each slave, and the governmentajuyhdbfrtemvinctat A furnished each "laborer," as the slave cudntb naywysae.We ENEG odpstr eiigoto on was called, with two suits of worklng h ocuigsaehdbe ece. TONYA ~v eoisslctd clothes, a pair or two of shoes, rations, h olwn itrhneo ovra quarters and, occasionally a little tobac- tlftokjlebewethjugan ANIG,.C llclcinsavprmtte co. The "laborers" worked with veryhicolausiteadnsrtonf to. little clothes and generally without 51C SEHFRHMBuiesorsfm9'am.t3 shoes. They lived in barracks and were!"etmna-yoradtogvd subject to a kind of military discipline.yu edc? The owners were regular in coming in Ys"ATRNYA Am to collect the hire for their slaves, from I" htI orvrit"' M N IG .C which we may infer that the "constitu-"Oraseissitayocado___________________JSPSPO, ents" of those days knew how to appre-asyulk ihtemntatavco- . cate a good thing to a degree worthy fsebtw cutalters. W DVS .L~,- Gair of the present generation.-Leslie's "Btiitosilthtyuav ATONYTLWredn. Weekly.wegetheidre' - He Knew. She-How beautifully Miss Hleavy- fbiae. weight dances. Se doesn' seem rionesI a enfbiae? OR 7DRCO touch the floor sometimes! TISN&DRN, '.wMco, *'WB.ROX He (whose feet are still sufferingi"Edeccabefrctd. from he lat poka wih er-Sht so theonouncei uperfetuTstorhyl Amustyad doesn't!-Punch. test ihe ulty-omba Gzettee. MAoesG,.s.oAby ~