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PRSPER T FARM IMPLEMENTS Syracuse Plows, Chattanooga Plcws, Huggin's Wrenchless Plow Stocks Lewis' Upwrieht Plow Stocks. Fargular Plow Stocks, Georgia Ratchet Plow Stocks, Wood and Steal Beam Dixies. Cole's Combined Corn and Cotton Planters, Cole's Corn Dropper, (One Grain to the Hill), Cole's Fertilizer Distrib tors, Blue's Rex Distributors, Spark's Victor Distributors. Gant and. Cole Side Dressers, Acme Fertilizer Distributors, Cox and Eclipse Cotton Planters. For Prosperity Farm Implements, call on - 'E MNNIG IARDWARE CO. .7, Prosperous SewYear To All. THE YOUNG RELIABLE, FOR see COFFEY& RIGBY. CYP RESS. Sash, Doors and Blinds.I Largest manufacturing stock house in the South. Special sizes on short notice: : : : - A. H. FISCHER CO.1 CHARLESTON, S. C. BRING YOUR TO THE TINES OFFICE MALAI headache, biliousness, in digestion, rheumatism, pimples, blotches,- yellow complexion, etc., are all signs of poisons in your blood. These poisons should be driven out, or serious illness may result To get rid of them, use Thedford's Black-Draught the old, reliable, purely vegetable, liver medicine. Mrs. J. H. Easier, of Spartanburg, S. C., says : "1 had sick headache, for years. I felt bad most of the time, I tried Thed ford's Black-Draught, and now I feel better than when I was 16 years old." Your druggis sells it, in 25 cent packages. InSISt on Thedford's How Gold Pens Are Made. Metallic iridium, used so extensively for the points of gold pens, is made from the powder obtained in the wet way from platinum ore by heating to a high beat in a sand crucible and then adding stick phosphorus. The iridium, which cannot be melted alone, is thus fused in the form of an iridium phos phide. To remove the phosphorus the phosphide is heated with lime, and the iridium is left in the form of a hard white mass. It is now so hard that it cannot be filed or cut and is broken up into small pieces for soldering to the points of gold pens. These small pieces are ground to the right size on a copper disk wheel with emery or carborun dum. It is said that an ounce of irid ium will make from 5,000 to 10.000 en points. . It h:u also been found that the iridium thus prepared is prac tically as hard as the ruby. No steel tools can make any impression upon it. At one time much less expensive than platinum, iridium now is worth more on account of the demand for hard plat inum, in which the Iridium is the hardening agent.-New York Press. Furniture Casters. Many furniture casters are made of leather, disks of the required size being cut oit and cemented and compressed to form the wheel. The wheel is then put into a lathe and turned rounding on Its face. Disks of metal are clamped on each side of the wheel to serve as bearings for the axle that runs through the wheel. Such casters are made for use on hardwood floors. Casters of compressed felt are also designed for this purpose. Among other styles of casters may be mentioned those of glass, designed to serve for purposes of insulation, and ball bearing casters, one style showing no wheel, but in stead a ball which, when the furniture is moved, revolves on a circle of small er balls wIthin the caster fitting. Then, too, there are caster wheels made of porcelain and of rubber, of lignum vitae and other hard] woods. Great numbers of casters are of iron and brass.-Exchange. .Corrected In Rime. Thackeray was much pestered by the autograph hunter, says Hodder in his "Recollections." He disliked above all things to write in an autograph album and often refused those who asked him to do so. sometimes rather brusquely. On one occasion the owner of an al bum, a young lady, was fortunate Thackeray took her book to his room in order to look it over. Written on a page he found these lines: - Mount Btarnc is the monarch or moun tains. They c:-owned him long ago, But who they got to put it on Nobody scems to know. ALBERT SMIH Under these lines Mr. Thackeray wrote:. A HIUMELE SUGGESTION. I know that Albert wrote in hurry To critic~se I scarce presume -But yet methinks that Lindley Murray Instead of "who" had written "whom.' W. M. THIACKERAY. Expading the Inspiration. | "Isnt inspiration ai queer thing?' "I suppose so. What about it?' "Why. a few wveeks ago I had a red ot squabble with my wire over a dremakers bill. ::nd when I came I down to thet oni-e I w::s mad enugh to I chew spi:es. Theni I sat down at my desk an~d wrote a iittle pw~tm en2 'Helpu the Erring lUrother Witu :a sinale' Kind ly Word.' .nd.-s::y. those verses. horn jI In bitterness an:d nourished by aunger. 4 ave been copied in the leading news-| papers all over the country. How's I that?" ~I "Fine. Wuy don't you improve' on the idea ?" "How?" "Why, get mad enough to heat up your wife, set fire to the house, shoot I a policeman and then write an epic I that will go thundering down the ages."|I -Cleveland Plain Dealer.Il Parnell's Apology. Mr. P'arnell. on April 1G, 1878S, char- jI cterized a statement made by Henry James as "a legal quibble" worthy of the honorable and learned member| from whom it pr'oceeded. | "I must inform the honorable mem ~er." said the speaker, "that an ex pression of that kind is unwarrantable and must be withdrawn." Mr. Parnell apologized for having used the expression. "I will say." he added. "that the statement was more 1. worthy of the ingenuity of a petty ses sions attorney than of a lawyer of the ability of the honorable and learned gentleman." Disconcerting. "What does thi:. nation need?' shout ed the impassioned orator. "What does this un2tion riequire, if she steps proud ly across t:he Pacific. if she strides i bolly acr:;ss the Pacific. if she strides boldly across the mighty ocean in her |. march of trad:'e and fr-eedom? I repeat, what does she need?' "Rubber boots." suggested the gross ly materialistie person in a rear seat. New Ornen Times-Democrat. FOLllHONEYTAR .n Easy Going Trinidad. The hotel in Trinidad is the antithe sis of the bustle of the port and the de lirium of the drive. An old darky in faded livery. "Methuselah," totters out and looks at you. Coolly clad figures in rocking chairs on the porch meditative ly absorb their drinks without even doing that. After a time a clerk ap pears and you sign the register. A while later a black boy comes and lifts your luggage from the motor. After a little longer Interval the manager has beached the point of taking you for a long, slow, rambling walk, which leads at length to the room that is reserved. It is a.huge chamber, half as large as a tennis court . A wicker couch, two big cane arm chairs, two tables, a gi gantic bed and a chest of drawers con stitute the furniture. The doors. the window shades and the walls for two feet down from the ceiling are lattice work. open to all the winds- that blow. A door in front opens into the garden facing the savanna. In the courtyard behind tame white aigrets step daintily among the palms, and a parrot and toucan screech to each other from ad joining cages. On one side is.a row of sheds containing huge bathtubs. From "The Path of the Conquista dores," by Lincoln Bates, Jr. Barnum's First Show Venture.. P. T. Barnum launched his career in the show business by exhibiting a re markable negro woman, believed to be 100 years old and said to have been a nurse to George Washington. An old bill of sale was eehibited. properly dated, concerning Joyce Heth, then aged fifty-four years, and evidence was also furnished that she was nurse to George Washington. Everything seem ed so straightforward to the young man that he was eager to become the proprietor of this novel exhibition, which he purchased for $1,000, $500 of which he paid down, selling out his in terest in the grocery business, and the other $500 he borrowed. He saw that the thing to do was to make people talk and become curious and excited ever rare spectacles.: Regardless of ex pense he advertised in New York. Bos ton and Philadelphia. and the halls were thronged until Joyce Heth died. National-Magazine. The Best Security. What security is there best suited to "the average man" possessing (1) safe ty. (2) stability, (3) profit and (4) con vertibIlity? Traveling in a circle, we come back to our original point of de parture-real estate. First mortgage bonds based on the highest class of im proved. income producing real estate in a large city with a large margin of safety and an absolute first lien return ing 5,-5% and G per cent on the invest ment are to my mind the ideal invest ment for "the average man" and in eed for all others. A century or two ago real estate first mortgages were the only safe investment. The first mortgage real estate bond is simply the modern form of the real estate mortgage. equally safe and far more :onvenient and convertible. If one can not or does not wish to own real estate be may at least own bonds based on it. -S. W. Straus in Leslie's. , The Savage Club's Founder. Sir John Hare in a diverting speech it the Savage club told this reminia eence: Of Andrew Halliday, the founder of this club, perhaps I may be forgiven f I tell you a little anecdote, which may or may not be known to you. An irew Halliday was an author, not a rery distinguished author, but an ex remely nice, charming fellow. At din er one night at the club a stranger was present, and Harry Leigh asked who was the gentleman at the head of the table. "That is Colonel Duff." 'Oh!" ~"Yes, that is Halliday's broth r." "I thought his name was Halli ay." "He took the name of Halliday is a nom de plume." "Oh! I see-posi ie Duff, comparatite Duffer, superla ie Halliday."-Iondon Standard. A Comb In the Claw. Many btrds possess a useful comb in the claw of the middle toe of the foot. rhis has been noticed in owls, night ars, herons, bitterns, cormorants, gan :ets etc. It has been explained as a neas of holding the prey securely. he comb is sometimes replaced by a urved blade with teeth, which run iong the inneir side of the claw. Such tblade is found in razorbills, wild lucks, gulls, starlings and many other irds. Where a comb is required the nner edge of this blade becomes di ided into teeth. Young nlghtjars or oatsuckers have only the blade, but ld ones have a well developed comb. The Intelligent Bohemian Life. Corot, the French landscape painter, vas a model of consistent bohemian sm ofthe best kind. When his father grid, "You shall have ?80 a year, your late at my table and be a painter or rou shall have E4,000 to start with if rou will be a shopkeeper," his choice ras made at once. He remained al rays faithful to true bohemian princi les, fully understaniding the value of esure. Doing Him a Favor. Perturbed Diner-What on earth is he matter with you this evening, wait r? First you give me the fish and ow after the fish you give me the up. Waiter (confidentially)-Well, to eli the truth, sir, it was 'igh time you ad that fish.-London Sketch. He. Does, He Does., A man tells a girl he would give all e has in the world to make her hap >y, and then he growls when she mar les him and holds him strictly to his vord.-New York Tribune. An angry man opens his mouth and huts his eyes.-Cato. 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That is the rep utation we have won; for you can depend on. what you can get as being the best, and feel sure that you will not have to pay more than the a icle is worth. D. Hirschmann. ~JUST RECEIVED AT *1ISO' ew snhpmn of Ti-dnadand Ams Alsag inewa in new SpringPatrs Also newline of* White Goods, includ Sing Ratines, Voils. Flaxons and the new crepe effects. SWe are showing the strongest line of Em Sbroidery Flouncings in town -new stylish Sgoods fresh from the mills. SWe would be pleased to have you inspect Sthese goods. R. R. JENKINSON. Larvir RrwmIm If you grow Peas a STAR PEA HULLER will pese~~-o yyou. If you use fertilizer see our Force feed Distributor, ti per Holds 100 pounds. If you plow cotton and corn. see The J. M. B. $20 Cotton and Corn Plow stock, The Ste a will not-break or bend. Write us for circulars and price. Our offer to the readers of this paper will interest yoni. Bennettsville. S. C.