Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Filled Up on X's Xtra Big Bargains. Our store is filled from counter to ceiling with 1oods that are quoted by o hers at a higher price. Every article in our store was purchased direct from manufacturers by us for this season's busi ness and are therefore all good, clean, fresh, de sirable goods, bought for you at a fraction of cost to manufacture. Some consist of Samples sent us by jobbers, at from 30 to 50c on the dollar to you. These goods appeal to the thousands of our cus tomers because they are at a 4 Lower Price h than our neighbors, and if you have never bought of us before do so now. The result will certainly please you and surprise you. Yours for business, S. l.tTILL & CO. Levi Blo'ck. OUR MILLINERY is the talk of the town be cause we sell stylish goods at a CUT PRICE. L GREAT CLEARANCE SALE Christmas is at hand and Newv Year is coming. We have had a splendid fall trade and thank our many friends for their liberal patronage in our line. We have too large a stock to carry over for next year, and ir order to reduce our stock we will have a SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE Commencing Monday, Dec. 28, AND Ending Saturday, Jan. 2, 1904. - Everything in our store will be sold at reduced prices. W( have too many things to enumerate and quote prices on in th< limited space of a newspaper: the best way is for you to come t< our store and examine thte goods before you find out the low prices we can sell it at. Wishing you all a happy Christmas and a merry New Y ear we are always at your services. S. L. KRASNOFF, Next to Mutual Dry Goods Company. BRING YOUR Jcb Wcrk TO THE TINES OFFICE. Startling Evidence. Fresh testimony in great quantity is constantly coming in, declaring Dr. Kink's New I)iscovery for Corsumption Coughs and Cold: to be unequaled. A recent expression froi T. J.McFarland eutorVile. Va.. serves as example. He writes: "I had bronchitis for three vears and doctored all the time without beingr benefited. Theu I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery, and a few bottles wholly cured me." Equally ef fective in curing all lung and throat troubles, consumption, pneumonia and Grip. Gua'anteed by The I. B.LorVea Drug Store. Trial bottles free, regular sizes 50e and 5100. -HE QUALiTY OF GEN!US. to Practileal Abnorption of a Man's Best Faculties. To be a great lawyer is Incompatible *ith being a great poet. Nevertheless, .1hakespenze was fond of showing his little legal knowledge, and 3acon has (rritten sotue verse. There have been writers of eminence, like Walter Scott and ThacLeray, who were lawyers by profession, but they must have made law quite subordinate to literature, al though some of them, Vke Walter Scott, have got money by following the law. Hofmnan, the author of "The Pot of Gold" and other imaginative stories, was a man of genius, who was also a judge or a magistrate. I think, howev er, that his legal duties sat lightly on him. His connection with the law seems somewhat similar to that of Walter Scott. It was neither absorb ing nor permanent. Politicians turn to literature. Literary men, like Cha teaubriand and Lamartine, have held high places as politicians, but they never were real statesmen, and I should not call them men of great genius. A man of action may be great in more fields of action than one. Julius Cosar and Napoleon Bonaparte were sfatesmen and generals, but they were not and could not be poets, though Julius Cesar was a writer. Among the ancient Greeks and later Spaniards and Portuguese we find poets wh3o were soldiers and even gen erals. They, however, were not wholly military. Only a part, and sometimes a small part, of their lives was spent in service. Horace's experience of war was very short, and, although he was a military tribune, he was not a dis tinguished soldier. A man may be excellent in more ways than one, but he cannot be a man of genius in two different ways. A few Instances, such as that of Sheridan, might be given which seem to be exceptions to the rule. I doubt whether they are so. The same Inclination made Sheridan an orator and a writer of comedy. Notes and Queries. STEPS THAT BETRAY. Steps that are quick are indicative of energy and agitation. Tiptoe walking betrays surprise. cu riosity, discretion or mystery. Turned in toes are often found with preoccupied, absent minded persons. The wiser's walk is represented as stooping, noiseless, with short, nerv ous, anxious steps. The proud step is slow and measured. The tces are conspicuously turned out, the legs straightened. Slow steps, whether long or short. suggest a gentle or reflective state of mind, as the case may be. The direction of the steps wavering and following every changing impulse of the mind inevitably betrays uncer tainty, hesitation and Indecision. Obstinate people who in argument rely more on muscularity than on in tellectual power rest the feet flatly and firmly on the ground, walking heavily and slowly, and stand with the legs firmly planted far apart Box Offiee Superstition. A newspaper man was the second in line at the box office of one of the popu lar theaters on the opening night. The first man asked for four seats, and when he started to pay for them the man in the box office said: "Oh, that's all right There's no charge at all for those seats." The man looked surprised, thanked the ticket manipulator and went on. Then the newspaper man had his turn. and he said: "Please satisfy impertinent curiosity and tell me why you wouldn't take that man's money." "Well," said the treasurer, "I expect you didn't notice that that man was cross eyed. If I had sold him the first tickets we wouldn't have had a bit of luck through the whole engagement" -New York Times. Wasp's Method of Attack. Belt in his "Naturalist In Nicaragua" draws attention to the methods of at tack used by different species of wasps. One accustomed to animals and not to men takes care to crawl down the out standing hairs to the skin before in serting its sting, while others which live in the midst of human dwellings fly straight at a man's face. The first species, true to inherited instinct, when It attacks unfamiliar human beings at taches itself to their hair or their beards. But there must have been a time when the second species discov ered thait the face was the vulnerable part, and the discovery was the out come of the action of brain. Art Treasures. -- "I understand you have a naiiter of art treasures." "Any number of 'em," answered M~r. Cumirox. "Bly the way, how would you define an art treasure?'' "An art treasure, as nearly as I can figure it out, Is something that Is con sidered all the more valuable for being secondhand goods."-Washington Sta~r. Saw His Finish. "Oh, oh." exclaimed Mrs. Naggs, "I've bitten off the end of my tongue!" "Well, I certainly feel sorry for my-' self," rejoined the heartless Naggs. "Hereafter there will be no end to your tongue."-Buffalo News. A Hardware Talk. "Yes," said the nut to the nail; "It gave me a terrible wrench to part from him, but I knew It would be only a matter of a few days before he would bolt anyway." Sweet Simplicity. "Auntie, ought Bertie Wilson to have smiled so often at me in church?" "No, dear. Where was he sitting?" "Behind meb" The ILone Star State. Down in Texa-s at Yoakum is a big dry goods firm of which Mr. S. M. HaI ler is the head. Mr. Haller on one of his tipls East to buy goods said to a friend who was with him in the palace ar. "Here. take one of these Little Early Risers upon retiring and you will e upl eai'ly in the morning feeling good." F"orthe "dark brown" taste. h eadache and that logy feelingDeWitt's Little Early Rlisers are the best pills to use. Sold by The RI. B. Loryea Drug .'io R BREATHING. INHALE THROUGH THE NOSTRILS, AND NOT THE MOUTH. Normal Breathingz Will Help Mate rially to Induce iPerfect Develop inent - Without Normal freathiig Stich Development Is Impossible. That nature intended man for all ellmates is unquestio.n d, but if man live other than nature Intended be should he must be content with dire ionsequences so far as health is con erned. And why is it that certain In ividuals enjoy better- health In cer Lain climates than in others? To my mind, the reason in a major ity of cases is that they are mouth breathers and bear better the mild than tho severe cilmate Who are afflicted with chronic nose. throat and chest affections? The mouth breather always, anrd we will nev ,r stamp out such conditions as pul onary tuberculosis, together with umerous other affections of the re !piratory tract, until we, the human family, have learned to take every in spiration through the nose. I have taken the liberty to divide mouth breathers into two classes, con [rmed and moderate. The first breathes almost continually with open mouth. The second is not conscious that he breathes other than through the nor mal channels and will not admit that he does otherwise until you convince him such Is the case. It Is my custom to engage the doubting one in conver ation or have him read for me, when e will be surprised to learn that he as spoken several sentences or read many paragraphs without once closing his mouth. He It is who, after lectur ing or reading aloud or perhaps sing ing, is dry of mouth and husky of speech and wonders why. Treatment: Restore the noso to as pearly a normal condition, physiolog cally speaking, as possible, and then nsist upon your patient using it. So Long as the spray, douche and solution treatment generally are patronized just so long will we fail to get good re 5uits, for, as Dr. Leland remarks, the aose wants air and not water. Douching and spraying are contrary to nature and should never be prac ticed. When the patient is a mouth breath !r through habit, and this may be de ermined by having him breathe first through one nostril and then through the other, it is my custom to order him to breathe forcibly through his nostrils it the rate of one respiration per sec )nd for ten seconds, this to constitute e exercise, to be repeated often, per aps eight or ten times during the day. Ee will find that this more than com ensates for his spray, for having used the spray in the morning he is "filled p," as he expresses it, long before oon. His nose he can exercise at will and thus keep it free. The exercise I rescribe for all patients during the rooess of repair following operations, to e continued until they are confirm Ad nasal breathers. A mouth guard should be worn at night for a few eeks. If we are going to cure nasal catarrh and other respiratory difficulties, the respiratory tract being freed of all ob tructions and Irritable areas, the pa tient must be tauglt to breathe nor saally. I-ritable areas are not always de tected by the probe; therefore we can not depend upon that method, but must note that these patches have a characteristic appearance. They are found not only in the nose, but of ten times in the nasopharynr and pharynx as well and are of a pale, waterlogged appearance. They may be obliterated surgically or by cauterization, and if the nose thereafter is properly used like areas do not return. This may be said for all hypertrophic removals. To* bring about a permanent patency of the eustachian tube the Individual must become a nasal breather. Therefore It is absolutely essezitial to overcome or permanently Improve most varieties of ?eafness and tinnitus aurlunm that the patient breathe through the nose- at all times. The eustachian catheter Is of ten harmful, acting as a mechanical Ir ritant and thus assisting the progress of an already thickened and perhaps rritabe membrarie. The dilatation of the cheeks of the atient and the Inflation perhaps for the flrst few treatments of air medicated and thereafter with air in its purity, or Professor Politzer's method, the pa tient being careful between times to continue his breathing exercise, are vastly superior to other forms of infla tion. Air is what the thickened eusta chian orifice needs to return It to a normal state, and this applies to the thickened or collapsed eustachian tube and middle ear as well, also the acces sory nasal cavities. The oxygen treatment .is familiar, but why use oxygen artificially when air breathed normally will supply It? Your patient can go to a milder cli mate and breathe with open mouth and be benefited, but would it not be far better for him to remain at home. breathe through his nose and fully re Coramence with the babe. Make It a special point that, It breathe through the rose, if it cannot know the reason why. Certainly If the Indian mother recognized the necessity and Insisted that her babe breathe properly the civ lized mother of today should. Follow it from babyhood to childhood- Im press the necessity upon it as a child, and, barring accident, it will never breathe otherwise. If it is found fol lowing an accident from a fall or blow that the nose is not free have the fault corrected. Normal bfeathing will help materially to bring about perfect de velopment, and without normal breath Ing such development cannot be at tined.-Medca! Record. It Dependa. Floorvalker-Vas5es? Yes, ma'am. Right urp this aisle. Bargains from 25 ents up. Next Shopper-You have a display of vawses today? Same Floorwalker-VaWses? Yes, madam. Down the next aisle, please. Bargains from $25 up.--Exchange -He Needed Encouragemenlt. "Do you try to be contented with poverty, my man?" asked the rich "I'm afraid not," answered the hard up delinquent, "but just try me with riches and see how contented I'd be." Chicago Record-Herald. Quite Up to Date. Day-I find there is a $2,500 mort ggae on the property you sold me. You never said anything about It Gay-Certainly I did. Didn't I dis tinctly tell you it had all modern Im prvement ?-Ncw Yorker. The bashi-bazouk shaves his head ex cept a tuft at the crown, which is to be used by the angel to jerk him to para dise i he should be slain by his In JAMAICA'S MYSTERY. THE FINGER OF FATE IN THE FALL OF HER CAPITALS. Tragedies That Are Written In the History of Uer "Wuined Cities-TWO of Them Vani.shed Utterly From OfR the Face of the Eari'th. There exists in .hinaica, in the West I ndie, a univers:il sUperstition that a 4;urse rests upon any town chosen to be its caital. Since 1 l, hen the first hietf city vas founded. no fewer than three capitals have been ruined in mys terious and tragic ways. Two have vanished utterly from the face of the earth. Some of the more superstitious of the colonists, brooding over the strange history of their country, fear that Kingston, the present capital, a city of 70,000 inhabitants, will share the fate of its predecessors. The 1-st capital was Sevilla Nueva (New Seville), otherwise called Seville d'Oro (the Golden Seville), on account of its marvelous wealth. It was found ed by Don Juan d'Esquivel and Diego, a son of Christopher Columbus. In a few years It became the greatest Span ish city In the new world. Thither flocked the blue blooded but impecuni ous nobles of Castile, eager to rebuild their family fortunes at the expense of the poor Arnivak. Cathedrals, palaces and monasteries, rivaling those of Spain in splendor, were erected. The marble streets were crowded with gayly clad courtiers and Indian slaves, who toiled for them and brought them tribute from mine and jungle. Then, in a night, the city vanished, and no one can tell today what hap pened to it. No survivors and no rec ords were left behind to tell the tale. Today one can see, buried in tropical ungle, a mile of znarble pavement and a few broken columns and arches. Nothing else remains of the Golden Seville, once so prosperous and splen did, except a few contradictory na tive traditions. These traditions va riously ascribe the destruction of the city and its inhabitants to a mutiny of the oppressed Indians, an earthquake, a sudden visitation of millions of red ants and an attack by French buc caneers. The very memory of what was once the greatest city of the new world has almost perished. Even in Jamaica few people know anything about the Golden Seville. The Spaniards made Saint Jago de la Vega, now called Spanish Town, their second capital. Time and again It was devastated by hurricane and plague, harassed by Indian revolts or ransack ed by adventurous picaroons. Gradu ally it sank from its high estate until now It is merely a squalid village. When the English conquered the Is land they made Port Royal their real capital, though Spanish Town remain ed for some time the official seat of government. The emporium of the In dies and the Spanish main, the market for the Ill gotten gains of 10,000 buc caneers, Port Royal soon became the richest and wickedest city of the new world. At the height of its splendor and ItN vice it was destroyed within the space of two minutes by an earth quake. "The ground opening In Several Places at once," wrote an eyewitness in 1G02, a few days after the catastro phe, "swallowed up Multitudes of Peo ple together, whole Streets sinking un der water with Men, Women and Chil dren in them; and those Houses which but .1ust now appeared the Fairest and Loftiest in these Parts and might vIe with the Finest Buildings in the World were in a moment Sunk in the Earth, and nothing to be seen of them; such Crying, such Shrieking and Mourning I never heard, nor could anything in my Opinion appear more Terrible to the Eye of Man. Here a Company of People Swallowed up at once; there a whole Street tumbling down, and In Another Place the Trembling Earth opening her Ravenous Jaws, let In the Merciless Sea, so that this Town is be come a Heap of Ruins. Several Peo pe were Swallowed up of the Earth, when, the Sea breaking in before the Earth could Close. they were washed up again and Miraculously saved from Perishing. Others the Earth received up to their Necks, and then Closed upon them and squeezed them to Death, with their Heads above Ground, many of which the Dogs Eat; Multi tudes of People Floating up and down, having no Burial. The Burying Place at the Palisadoes is quite Destroyed, the Dead Bodies being washed out of their Graves, their Tombs beat to Pieces and they floating up and down; It is sad to think how we have Suf fered. "The Earth hath still-fits of Shaking, with very much Thunder and Light ning, and dreadful Weather; yet this had so little effect upon some People here that the very same Night they were at their Old Trade of Drinking and Swearing; breaking up Ware houses; Pillaging and Stealing from their Neighbors, even while the Earth quake lasted, and several of them were destroyed in the very Act; and indeed this Place has been one of the Ludest in the Christian World, a sink of all filthiness, and a mere Sodom." Old Port Royal lies buried beneath the sea. The present town of Port Royal, a place of no Importance except as a coaling station, was built after the earthquake, a fire and a landslide having destroyed the few houses left standing. Kingston was not founded until the early part of the eighteenth century, but it has already been thrice destroy ed by fire and several times ravaged by hurricanes. The inhabitants nat urally wonder what catastrophe will happen next. Thief Cleverness. A magistrate's clerk has been known to have his tie pin stolen while In court, and one in Birmingham a few years ago lost his coat In the same way, but a more remarkable example perhaps of a thief's cleverness under the very eyes of the police was that of the burglar at Clerkenwell who man aged to conceal two diamQgd rings while the police were searching him and passed one of them to his wife in the cell while the police were looking on. The rings were under his tongue, and one of them passed from his mouth to his wife's when he was kissing her goodby.-London Answers. A Lasting Lesson. "Didn't I tell you not to propose to me again?" "You said something of the kind, but of course It made no impression on "Oh, it didn't! Well, Il give you a lesson now that you won't forget. You'll never propose to me again." "What are you going to do?" "Pm going to accept you."-Cleve land Plain Dealer. Envy Is not only a great weakness. but it is a great ignorance too. No WORKING OFF A GROUCH. The Opera:ions -if a Curious Phase of l1:niin Nature. Johr was grouchy and cross and round fault with his dinner. His wife surveyed him caluily. "I know there Is some reason for your-your-what sliall I call it? Well, for your unhappy fraie of mind," she said. "Probably things have gone wrong at the ofice, but why should you come home to work off your anger on me? 'ii. not to blame In the slight ast It's a curious trait of hmrinan nature that when one las been whipped he at once wants to turn around and whip somebody else." "I suppose that trait was left out of your nature," remarked John sarcas tically. "No, indeed," replied his wife. "When things go wrong in the kitchen I am rather inclined to scold the children. [f you reprimand me for extravagance, my impulse is to fuss with the first person I meet. If I have been out calling and return home late to dinner, I feel very much inclined to rate you for coming home so early. I've watch cd this same trait in the children. When I scold Alice, she always finds occasion to shake Maud on the sly. If you spank Jim, he generally goes out and makes faces at the little girl across the way. If the children come home from school saying 'teacher was awful cross today,' I jump to the conclusion that the principal had been criticising the teacher. If you tell me I'm not economical. I know you have Just suf fered from a slump In the stock mar ket, and I suppose after you ..nd I have had a little heated disejssion you go down to the office and. nAke things unpleasant for the clerks." "To be frank with you, Mary," said John, "I do not often find you guilty of working off a grouch on me. Tell me what you do instead." Mary smiled demurely. "I wait until you go out of the house; then I run for my room, lock the door, throw myself on the couch, burrow my head in the pillow and have a good cry."-New York Press. HEALTH'S DECALOGUE. 1. Rise early, retire early and fill your day with work. 2. Water and bread maintain life; pure air and sunshine are indispen sable to health. 3. Frugality and sobriety form the best elixir of longevity. 4. Cleanliness prevents rust; the best cared for machines last the longest. 5. Enough sleep repairs waste and strengthens; too much -sleep softens and enfeebles. - G. To be sensibly dressed is to give freedom to one's movements and enough warmth .to be protected from sudden changes of temperature. 7. A clean and cheerful house makes a happy home. 8. The mind is refreshed and Invig orated by distractions and amusement, but abuse of them leads to dissipation and dissipation to vice. 9. Cheerfulness makes love of life, and love of life is half of health. On the contrary, sadness and discourage ment hasten old age. 10. Do you gain your living by your intellect? Then do not allow your arms and legs to grow stlff. Do you earn your bread by your pickax? Do not forget to cultivate your mind and to enlarge your thought-French MIedical Review. At the Dinner Party. "Surely you are not going yet, Mr. Parvy Noo?" "I must, mna'am." "But won't you stay for the feast of renison and the flow of soul?" "Tihanky, ma'am, but I reckon I've lready 'tjan' drunk all that's good for me."- 4!.,: udlaIin Dealr. Al H!is Emr In One Basket. Goodman Gonrong-We don't git nothin' at that house. I asked the wo man fur some cold vittles, a cup -of cawfey, some clothin' an' a place to sleep in the b~arn. an', by gum, she said I was com in' It a lIttle too strong, an' she shet the door In my face. Tufrold K~nut--That's wot ye git, ye blame fool, fur puttin' all yer begs in one ask it.-Chicago. TrIbune. Conuiderate. "Have you ever done~ anything to make the world happier?' asked the solemn looking person with the un barbered hair. "Sure," answered the jolly man with the double chin. "I was once invited to sing in public and dcclined."-Indian apolis Sentinel. Plenty Dropped. Flyttr-I suppose there's money to be-picked up in the stock market. Flutterer-There ought to be. Why, I myself have dropped considerable of it ther.-Boston Transcript. nures Blood Poison, Cancer, Ulcers, Eczemar Carbuncles, Etc. Medicine Free. Rloher t Ward, Afaxey's, Ga.. says: "I suffered rom blood poison, my head. face and shoulders ere one mass of corruption. aches in bones tnd1 joints. burning. itching. scatby skin. waLs il run down and discouraged.- but Biotanic lood Halm cured me perfec tly. healed all the ores and gave my skin the rich glow of health. hlood ihalm put new life into my blood and new enbition into my brain.'' Geo. A. Willhams. ioxbury. face covered with pimaples. chromic ;ore on back of head. suppuiratin:: swelling on teck, ating uler on leg:. bone pains, itching kin eured perfectly by Blotanic Blood Balm oros all healed. ilotanic Blood Balm cures all nlignant blood troubles. such as eczema. scabs ud scales. Ipimples, running sores. carbuneles. rofula. etc. Especially radvised for all ob tina.e cases that have reached the sceond or .hic .stage. lImprovecs the di:gestion: stren:gth s veak kidneyvs. Drugists. 31. To prove it :ures. sample of Blood Balm sent free and pre maid by writing U~loo'd Balm C'o.. Atlanta. Ga. esriec trouble and free medical advice sent a scaled letter. For sale by The R. II. Loryca Dru::Store. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the ;signature of , ,~~'4~Z Does Your Is Your Roof Leak? * Roof Rusty? Paint Your Roofs. WITH W. JAY McDONALD'S CELEBRATED PATENT Fire and Water-Proof Cement Roof FIFTEEN YEARS' TEST. McDonald Boot Paint Gomnpany, Sumter. S. C. Manning Hardware Co., Locali Agents. Avat Mercanti e I ompany, Wholesale Grocers, Summerton, S. C. Last Opportunity for 190 We have still on hand a good assortment of Fall and Winter Goods, in fact receiving some right along, namely: Some very fine-Ladies' Jackets just received of the latest style. Also a new lot of Ladies' Sweaters in all colors and sizes. Don't fail to get one as they are the rage. We are selling them cheaper than in any city stor?. A FULL LINE OF Dress Goods and Trimmin TO SUrr Also some more Ready-Made Walking and Dress Skirts. We promise to-save you money by getting your Suit of Clothes he" also for your boy. Come and inspect them. -M :--:L_:- _--I:N - E -- - As to this line we are still maintaining our old reputation as we tire of giving full satisfaction in workmanship and prices. - We are also opening a full line of Xmas goods which we wiih=.u to.-e come and see. We have again a beautiful line of Ladies' and Gent's fine Pure'Luieo and Fancy Handkerchiefs to be cheaper than elsewhere. Just the thin for your Christmas gifts. A full line of Faseinators. OUR SHOES only want your examinat~on. You will sure find them to your w-ish. Thanking you for past favors, and anticipating. your future wants, we beg to remain Yours very truly, D. HIR SCHMANN . Next to Postloffice. We Are It. Come to Pinewood. We are here to do business on a live and let live policy, and~i: visit to our store will convince you that we propose to build up' our section of the county making it an inducement to buy at home Come to see us and examine our stock of WE ARE~ SELLING AT ACTLJAL COOT Notions, Fancy. Goods, Gn' Furnishings, HATS, CLOTHIYG, Farmers' Supplies & Groceries, We keep everything you need at prices to meet competition. We want you to take a look at our Furniture and the best line of Buggies in the county. We keep the famous- - Rock Hlill Buggies. We-also carry a full line of Harncss and Laprobes. Come and let us show you some nice Horses and show you ho to sa- money We mean business.