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JL \ S.;- : ■ Ooodb^t Old Vear. Old wwUoif Uwo hiw waiaT . lil Tm tim* when W" miut My "Goodby" to you, *ud ulmko your hand, ; .T^tarfap*lf'youonybttrwi»y. VWiKrjike to flavour stay prolonged ^ But *tt too well we know _ S3 -•Your time (• up, the Ijptit roaobod,. And therefore you must go. You'ee been e very friendly year, CV^.t/VrtTn; 8 II things: You've jotfrneyecre itTfTWTtwd Twhaurl, - In all your wanderings. — Through dim of Motto ntjd darn of culm Yoirve alw«y§ with us gone, And oft at nignt'youw ith us watched For coming of thwdnwii. Vith you we ■ /? And heard the robins sing; - fondly gttwd upoft Tne beartfies of the sjuing. With you'we’ve seen the mi miner co.me, . ' .r In Ml ita wealth ojf bloom. And With you we hitve wmiUered through ens of i>erfunie, — With you we saw the autumn lint The leaves in colors bright; . " And you were with us when the fnist Spread wide its deadly blight. And when the winter came again It found you still our friend, Though wearjvialnt and tottering, And waiting lor the end. Twelve months ago we welcomed you. When you were young and fair, But now jtour once straight form is l owed, And whitened is your hair. The time has come for you lo go, And we can only sigh * And shake your hand, and sadly.say, “Goodby! Old Year, goodby!” The New Year. A friend stands at the door. In either tight closed hand i. Hiding rich gilts, three hundred and threescore; Waiting to strew them daily o’er the land Even ns seed the sow hr, ; Each drop he treads it in and passes by; Itcanuot i»C fruhtful till it die. Oh, good New Year, we clasp This warm shut hand of thintd Loosing forever'wilh half sigh, half grasp. That which from ours falls tiko-dead lingers twine; Ay, whether fierce its grasp lias been or gpntlf r having been, we know That it was blessed; let the old year go. winds us Oh, New Year, teach'da faith! 'fhe road of life is'hnrd: When our feet hleed and scourging scathe, t Point thou to Him whose vissage wtgs more • marred Than any mans; who saith: “Make stnughl l«ilhs lui your feet and to the opprest: "Come ye to me, mid 1 w ill give you rest. ’ Yet hang some lamp-like hope Ah«v„ the unknown way, , Kind vcwr. to give Ou'l splrifg'fsi'ar scntaV ; __ ud t to W( rk while it is And our hands strength day. But if that way must Mope Tombward, oh, t>ring before our fading eyes The lamp of life, tlje ho|>et|iat never dies. Comfort our sotila w ith love-— Love of at! human kind; Love, special, close—in which like sheltered dove Each weary heart its own safe neat may thld; And love that turns above Adoringly, contented to resign AH loves, if need be, for-the Love Divine. Friend, come thou like n friend. And whet her bright thy face j: . i. ..i. u . Or dim vv>ith clotjrht we canriot lonjprehend. We’ll hold, our |>ntieiU hands, each in his place, v And trust thee"to the end, Knowing then leadest onward to fthose s phi" res Where, there are neither days nor months nor years. —»* AEEES1ED FOR MURDER. A Whole < ,Faiiilly C’hnrKCtl With u Moat 8 rioua Crime. At RisloR Sun, Ind., In its report •of the investlKation of the assafifiina tion of Miss Elizahdth GiHespie, on December 8, the grand jury returned _ true bills of murder In the first deKree against James Gillespie, a,.twin-broth er of the murdered woman, Mrs. Belle Seward, her widowed sister, Mrs. Car rie Barbour, niece of Dr. T. A. lieamyv an eminent physician of Cincinnati, and Myron Barbour, her husband. Mre. Darbour Is a sister-in-iayyj3f-1 , r- William" •Gillespie, bfotliex” of jthe murdered* woman.' Bench ’waJrarTt.s l^«..jrere Immediately issued by Judyt* Downey, of the circuit court. The Gillespies were expecting the arrests and Dr. Gillespie drove to the house of the accused in a closed carriaKe and brought Uie Indicted persons to the court house, surrendering all of them to the court. A newspaper photographer attempted to take a snap-shot of The party and was struck by James Gillespie, who broke away — fromfiberiff Rump, and knocked tire camera from it lie hands of the photo- grapher.' The four indictments wen- read to the accu^l. The indictments charged them wiWi “feloniously 1 , ma liciously and with premeditated in tent," causing the death of Elizabeth Gillespie. A conspiracy aqpong JIIGOTNANCB. A Mew Tork Trust Lawyer Telia How Fakes Are Floated. LMIAUAfJ HOW THE LAKES ARE SHEARED I Street HigVi Financier* Bhont “All v ’ i • Stock Bold*"' Then They # . ■ •- Go Ont and Peddle It. "1 told Baron Rogniat that it was a general custom among high financiers io America when disposing of a bond issue first to announce the issue a great success, then to peddle the bonds.” The statement was made on the witness -stand in New York by C. B. Alexander, head of the law firm of Alexander A Green, general Coun sel for the Shipyard Trust in the hearing of the suit to make the re ceivership of the United States Ship building Company permanent. Mr. Alexander said he gave the Informa tion to the French millionaire in ex planation of a message the Baron had received from John W. Young, the formal promoter of the trust, in which Young had said that the bond issue was a succt ss in America. BKIBE FOB FRENCH TRESS. That fche men responsible for the French underwriting understood not only American methods, hut those in vogue In.Europe was proved by Mr. Alexander’s admission that $200,000 of the bonds had been set-aside to bribe the Paris newspapers. Tie was asked whether he had hot seen the shipyard securities «iuoted above par. He-refused to give satisfactory answer to that question. Mr. Alexander also * testified to .the eftlcaqy of the cable message which George W. Perkins ad mitted he sent to the i^aris house of Morgan, Ilarjes it Co., asking the house to give more cordial support to the bond issue. He said that under writers had received scant courtesy from Morgan, Harjes it Co. before thati hut afterward they were treated mwe pleasantly when they called. He said, that house had been designated as receiver of the uhdefwiltlug money in a cable from New York, but he re fused to say who sent the cable. the French kicked. Alexander said that Baron Calvet de Rogniat had signed the underwrit ing agreement for a million in bonds and secured sub-underwriting for $(.00,000 Mr. Alexander wouldnotadmit that he knew the Oppenheims in Paris were-soliciting underwriting on com mission. They had given him a great deal of information, however, In re gard to the underwriters, and one of the Oppenheims had accompanied him to the Bank de Roma when be tiled the securities. “ “I had an impression.” he finally said after repeated questions, “that Baron Rogniat had been interested by the Oppenheims, but there wafc noth ing definite said to me on the subject by anybody.” ' • Q. Did Rogniat complain' of the way lie had lieeu deceived by Young? A. Yes. > . . Q. Did he say that Young tele graphed that the matter was a suc cess, and he took Younu’a representa tion of Colonel A. J. McCook? A. He said that. Q. Did he say that relying hpon that statement he had notified his underwriters that they Mrere relieved of their obligation? A. Yes. Did he say he understood that all they mm had to do was to collect their underwriting commission? A. Yes. —„ (J. Did you then say to the word “success” did not mean the sale of all the bonds, "but" the sale of such a number as encouraged the Trust Company of the Republic to feel that the rest would be sold lu time? A. Yes, that is a condensa- hlorthat tion of what I said. - Q. Did you also say ft was the gen eral custom in New York to declare an enterprise a success aM then.j?ed- dle the larnds afterward? A. I be lieve I did say so. . r < J. Is that Lha. custym among high and yoiiaaid^that inaneiers? A. I believe it Is. A..,'. *“^eopT^ »ho would " WhAktM .... .. A.. ■ • • ~ ■ hers of the murdered wo’ family to kill her is charged <1 A Iiat (ftrt tfe «e»y‘ to that state- ment (Hd he express himself as sur prised? A. He dldtr'E say anything mem-1 oh the subject. -—•. J ay Gillespie, her twin-brother is the one who is charged as Tie principal, al though all are chaiged with murder lo.the first degree. Each entered a plea of not guilty. Captain Odes, at torney for the defendants, presented petitions for writs of habeas corpus on the ground that there is not enougii evidence to indict and that their liberty w^g withheld on a charge of a crime forwhic.h they \y.er6 inno cent. Judge Downey ordered the writs returnable Immediately and the petition was then heard with argu ments. A Terrible Tragedy, dispatch from Barnwell to A dispatch from Barnwell to The State says at Kleins, a station on the Southern nine miles frpm our court -house, an awful tragedy was enacted Tuesday evening when the lives of two of our best.known men, Mr. J. T Hogg and Mr. Ber> Jenkins, were snuffed out. It seems that tl>ere had been bad blood between the two men because of a suit luvolving certain lands owned by latter and Thursday evening at a school enteriaimneot at Kleins the two met, hot words were passed, when the latter drew bis pis tol and shot the former four times, when in turn the later was shot with » shotgun and instantly killed* whether by 1 the former or by others cannot now be learned. The former lived through the night. After the Governor. ’ A lunatic escaped from the sailors’ and soldiers’ home at Grand Island this afternoon, entered Gov. Micky’s office at Lincoln, Neb., and, brandisb- og a large knife, declared that Unit- States Senator Deietrich was inno cent of the charge of improperly dis posing of offloe appointments, and at- tempted to assassinate the governor. smooth words and promises the lunatic Snally was placated but be es- before the police could be called. — - these tfnderwrlters was, as to the merits of the securities as well as the property. Yon spoke of the merits of the property in connection with the GpOD OLD DAY* OF WhknOongTe—meayirom' paiflbrHa merits of the securities, did you not? A. I spoke’well of the property, but not of the securities. Q. Did you ssy ta the presence of Mr. Oppenheim to Mr. Young that be must make his peace with Rogniat snd eat humble pie? A. I refuse to answer. Oumpwtsd Mileage via Cape Horn, The Washington correspondent of _ The following letter, which wetake Q- EXCITED THE FRENCH. Did you tell them Mr. Morgan had taken some of the bonds? A. I told the. Oppenheims of a rumor that Mr. Morgan bad taken some of the Shipbuilding bonds, and that greatly excited them—that is, it encouraged them. • (l It assisted you In getting under writings? A. Well, they knew the Morgans. i t >. What promise was made to the French press In regard to the under writings? A. I don’t know. ~ Q. Do you know for what the French "press was to get $200,00(1 of these bounds? A. I ~dtd hear that there had been a remittance made for press purposes, bui for What purpose I do not know. Q. Did you ever learn that the securities of the United S.t.nt^l .Shlp- buildtng Company were quoted in New York atta premium? A. 1 decline to answer on the ground that it, was privileged. “ \ > Q. How was It privileged? A. I learned it In a privileged way. Q. Is it not a fact that such “news” was sent to and published In the Paris edition of a New York paper? A. I decline to answer. Q. Do,you remember Baron Rogniat coming toyou and saying he had been to see Ilarjes with a man who spoke English,* and that Ilarjes told him there were no actual quotations* in New York for the Shipbuilding busB ness? A. Yes, that was about July 28. Q. And about July 30 they* began to talk well-about it? A. 1 think it was said that those who went there were treated In a pleasant manner. Q. Mr. Ilarjes showed you a cable he received frfim New York about July 30? A. He sent me a cable. The cablegnftn sent by Morgan & Company on -luly 28, bespeaking cor diaTterms for r lire^bblrtWt^ in the property outside dTTbwra And’ cities which the comptroller general to the witness who Cable young Ilarjes ness was shown said it was the had shown him. Q. Didn’t Ilarjes tell you he had been prejudiced against the whole affair by Young, knowing Young as he did. he thought the whole business bad, and didn’t you in rfeply say you had not introduced Young, that he was a mere promoter such as Mr. Mor gan constantly used in New York, and that Rogniat told you he would pay yie entire call? A. He did say be would pay the entire call. 1 don't recall that 1 said Mr. Young was such a promoter as you name. These questions by Mr. Untermyer proved to be based on suppressed let ters and cablegrams between New York and Paris. Mr. Guthrie ob jected-to this method of getting these matters before the public. Q. Did you say to Mr. Harjes that you knew Young had made an ass of himself—you didn’t say that in the presence of Mr. Young, did you? A. I don’tTemember. v y. Didn’t you say to Baron Oppen heim that you could get eveh a worse report of the Shipbuilding Company than SeRgmao had given if they would ask the Huntington Shipyards and other people angry at being left out what they thought about it? A. I may have said that, but do not re member to whom. 1 may have said it to Oppenheim. OVERTURES TO ITALIANS. Q. Did you know Alexander Odcrb? A. Yes he represented a group of Italian underwriters. — Q, Did Odero ask you to explain the Kepublicus” telegram, saying ,y. That was the excuse* you gave him fur the French underwriters? A. it wks i theory I advanced. y Dih ,’<tu tell him lie had been made jldic ilous in the eyes of his sub- underwriters? A, Yes. y. Did you ask him- if a. call was made on the underwriters, would he be prepared to pay ,his part? A. I did', x . , HIS MEN WOULD “KICK.” y. Did he tell you he was afraid tliai some of his sub-underwriters, when be tuld the true situation to them, would kick? A: In substance, yes. y. Did you tell him you did not think that affecterLthe legal relation of the transaction? A. Yes. y. Did be say that legal relations were one thing and doing things courageously and in a businesslike manner was another? A. “Accurate ly” would lie more correct—otherwise the-statement is correct. * y. Did you then discuss the pres ent prospects of the combination and the character of the men in It? A. I did— - y. Did you give him a fine tribute iq regard to the future of the com pany? .A. I did, expressing my opin ion. y. How were you able, in the ab sence of any knowledge of the capital ___ of the company, or ite assets in money, Jaff a i r Its profits or debts, to fenllghten any^ underwriter? A. I, knew In a gen eral way about the combination from John W. Young. y. Did Baron Rogniat, before you got through, express himself as de lighted, and that he had a good thing? A. Yes. Q. He never look the bonds up, did he? A. Yes, $25,000 of thq$l,600,000. y. That ft the extent to which he thought it was a good thing? A. Yes. y. Attempts were made to Induce him to make good his agreement? A. Yee. Q. The question of importance to the whole matter was a success, and did you tell him what success meant according to the New York theory? A. I don’t remember. y. Do you recall an Interview with Shreyer, Sr., in which you told him that the entire million dollars of bis son’s underwriting ougbt to be paid, % last, week you Rad have taken tip his underwriting"^, but-.you had allowed him to remain because of his high character and positive statements? At that time did you have a person or persons ready to take a million of un derwriting? A. The information I have on that subject is privileged. I had a reasonable reason for believing that it would be possible to get the underwritingdone. 1 Lad no definite offer, however. ' r ■ y. Did your investigation lead you to believe that the Baron Rogniat was able to respond with $1,600,000? A. Rogniat convinced me that he had $800,000. * . y. Was he able to pay the entire underwriting? A. I think he could have paid It. ' - y. Shreyer, Jr., took a million, of the underwriting. Did be haveSk million? A. No, I think not. Anything for Sensation. ^ R. *\Y. Gaston and Miss Belle Wof ford, of Woodruff, Spartanburg coun ty, were married Wednesday after noon on the train between Woodruff and,Spartanburg, by Rev. B. L. Wof ford, a cousin of the bride. They are members of prominent Woodruff fami lies, the groom being a merchant of that place, /of considerable means. The brine iSA member of the old Wof ford family, reOated to Rev. Benjamin Wofford, founder of Wofford college. They stated that their only object in choosing this plan for their marriage was to have a unique and romantic The couple left Thursday night for Atlanta, where they will spend several days before returning to Woodruff, where they will make their home. • ' Pity Tis True. The wealth of America is controlled by two men. Not owned, mind tqu, but controlled. Thus declares Secre tary Platt in an artiele in the World’s Work -entitled, “Who Owns the United States?” He says while the wealth of the country is divided among the millions of our people it is controlled, practacally, by two men— J. Plerpont Morgan and John D. J. Plerpont the New York Tribune has tarnished bis paper with some interesting figures showing that the mileage for Congressmen has long been a fruitful source of graft. On the first day of adopted making immediately avail able the mileage money appropriated for the regular session and the mem bers drew their allowances aggrega ting 1190,000. It is a custom in con gress that an extra session carries with it a double appropriation for mileage, and members who were ques tioned on the subject intimated that precedent would he followed in deal ing with the mileage problem for the extra session just closed and they will draw their extra mileage whether they have gone home since November 9tb or not. The correspondent recalli the days when the California congressmen reached Washington by way of Cape Horn, when the allowance for mileage was 40 cents a mile each way. The distance traveled by them alHtootb ways was about 48,000 miles entitling to $38,000. Each member received about $9,500. „ a matter of fact, the four members from received almost as much money for mileage as the rest of the members of congress combined.” This was in 1850. The amount drawn by the Californians for mileage amounted to more than three-times the amount of their salaries. ' The $9,500 mileage allowance was collected by them after the construction of the Panama rail road, and even for some time after the completion of the transcontinental railroods, though the cost of the round trip by the last mentioned route was only $200^ A BIO INCREASE. The AnaeMed Property In This State Compared Wlthimn:. Comptroller General Jones has com piled some interesting-figures showing the assessed valuation of property in this State for the year 1903 as com says can be explained only by the fact that some county auditors have er roneously Included county property In cities and towns. Following are the figures: Real estate not in cities and towns, 1903 ... $68,485,962 Real estate not in cities and towns, 1902 69,021,482 —————— Decrease ' .... . r $ 535.520 Real estate In cities and towns, 1903 $ 38,855,328 Real estate in cities and towns, 1902.’.-.; ........ 38,000,108 Increase *..$' 855,220 Railroad property, 1903. ..$29,489,312 Railroad property, 1902;.. 27,705,453 Increase. , $ 1,783,859 Personal property, 1903. ..$67,575,277 Personal property, 1902... 61,049,273 Increase, Total proj Total pr ' Net incr The incr 1903. 1902. . .**fi.526,004 $6,526,004 crease of Tex Fertilizer fac Cottonseed Telephone companies; Southern Express Co, . Pullman Palace Car Co., B. & L. Associations, eslT mated .:' $204,405,679 ]95 77<E316 $ 8,629,563, in personal property of vers the In leindustrfes $1,249,191 rles. il mills d telegraph 54,830 67,485 138.597 144,488 29,303 300,000 Total $ 1,984,094 AN ILL-FATED TRAIN. The Engineer Killed and a Number of Persons Iqjursd. Second section of thorough train No. .3 of the Louisville and Nashville railruad, running one, hour and 15 minutes late, collided bead oh the Decatur accommodation train, No 8, one-fourth of a mile south of Morris, Ala., Wednesday afternoon at 4.05 o’clock, resulting in the killing of -one person and injury of 18 others. The dead: — ’ * jleury Allen, colored, mall clerk. Fatally Injured. Hollis Wright, engineer of train No. 3. „ ^ Severely tejttfedj Ike Starr, mall clerk, Nashville; broke arm, leg mashed, bruised on head. , GOOD SUGGESTION. The Formation of s Farmers Protec- ‘ Uts Assoclsflnti Adve osled. from the Greenville Mountalaeer, ex plain* itself. The author, Mr. Smith, is the same gentleman, who ran for congress in this district a few years since: Here is the letter and we hope every fanner will read it. r '~You~gare~’" to control the sale and price of cotton in a recent issue of your paper. So in terested tm I and yet was so ftprful that my plan would not work that be fore I said anything about it, l got some farmers together, to prove it. This proof of It I now wish to give along with the plan. All attempts to organize the farmers have proven futile, and I think one reason is that there was no money for the farmers in any of them. The best sticking plaster in the world Is a dollar, as it will stick a beautiful woman to a m'serable old "cuss” of a man. It will stick the farmers together, and is the best sigh, password and pledge on God’s earth, and is the basis, the spring and inspiration of all effort, both individual and corporate. Therefore'If my plan makes money for the farmers they will stick. It Is Cailfornraf as follows: In place of each farmer carrying his cotton to his local market and selling it to the local store-keeper or export agent, let all In a neighbor combine themselves Into an ograniza tion and pledge tbemseves to sell Only through their agent. Every man who handles our cotton makes something out of it, and the greater number who handle it the less there is in It for the man who sells It.-*- Therefore, my plan is to eliminate as many pf these middlemen as possBJe and bring the farmer as near a* possible to those who are the last to handle it. . At Lyncbburfgr^Sumter County, where I live and where I tried my plan we were able to get from one- eighth to one-fourtn cent per pound more than surrounding markets were giving. Oiif pledge was as followt- “We, the undersigned, pledge 'bdr selves to sell our c tton through our agent.” We then contributed enough to edable our agent to take the Nevs York report and use the telegraph. .Fllfieu_minut.es from the time I went ou the cotton ^Tatforra"we were able to get -3-8 of a cent per pound more tban was offered us by the buyers In our town. It will be seen that by this plan our agent's business is to get all he can for our cottop*.while it is the local buyer's business to get it for as little as possible. Our agent" can communicate with any exporter, and having cotton in lots can cqmmand the best prices. Another great advant age is that the farmer who has but one bale gets as much as the man who has one hundred. 1 acted as their agent this year at Lynchburg and each day the farmers would bring from 10 to 40 or 100 bales. ’By careful weighing and grading soon built up a reputation for fair dealing, and handling the cotton in such kits got better prices "than any ^market in that part of the country. T The farmers gave me 25 cents per bale as a commission, and according to the prices which prevailed at the markets just five miles away on-the same- ra lroad and nearer the seapqft -where our cotton was shipped they made from $1.50 to $2 per bale by the J. A, Williamson, expressed messen ger, Nashville; bruises all over the body. ^. The following;are more or less hurt: Warren Cummins, colored fireman of No. 3; Tom Blackwell, colored porter for the local plan. Now, every shipping point in this State to have its farmers’ selling agent. What is the use for us to allow other men to make from $1.50 to $2 per bale-on our cotton, when by little effort and concert of action we can save it. We make in South Caro lina about 800,000 bales. of cotton annually. By saving $1 per bale would make $800,000, which «%uld enable us to put a man in every seaport town within reach of this State. This would enable our local agents to have a corr^pondent at the water front who could deal ditectly with the exporters and handle the cotton from as many points as was most convenient. This sea-port agent could be on the ground to see that we were protected in weights and grades. This last is one Item where -w are “dug up.” Our cotton is graded by those who wish to make money out of it and of cou is graded as many points off as con science and circumstances allow them to do. Now, Mr. Editor, I want to from as many farmers as possible as soon as possible, so that, If they ap prove my plan, we may get as many organizations as possible before anoth ex. season. The uvea proving -out success could be given, but these will reserve for a later letter. 4 want to discuss this question of organiza tion with them. Ail the minute de tails as to handling the cash for cot ton, that is as to the local agent get ting the cash to pay for cotton^-the methods.of shipping, invoicing, etc., can be told later. ' In a word, I want us to get together and' use the of No. 8; Albert Elmore; dblored, fire** ^hods God had given to mankind man No. 8; G. P. Cockrill, Decatur; Mrs. Wv D. Saulabury, Warrior; J. S. Morgan, Warrior; Q. P. Price, Deca- ture; J. D. Morgan, Warrior; H. H. Dutton, Blount Springs, all 'passen ger son No. 8; S. N. Cummins, express messenger of No. 8; Will Crawford, flagman of No. 8; Mrs. J. J. William son, Cardiff; J. S. Humphries, Bards- town, Ky.; Mrs. Laura Voyles, Macon, 111.; passengers of No. 3 train; George Alien, engineer of No. 8. The injured were taken to hospitals in Birmingham. It is understood that the accident was caused by the second section of No. 3 disregarding its orders which provided that No. 3 should, pan the Decatur accommodation at Morris switch, near New Castle. i J Cotton in England. A dispatch from Manchester, Eng land, says Tattersall’s annual review of the cotton trade declares this-'year has been the wont in the last decade. Eighty-two spinning concerns in Lan cashire lost $180,000 during the year and the trade must adopt short time because American cotton is 45 per cent, above the price at the same time last December. A mass meeting of Lancashire cotton mlllen will be held Dec. 59 to consider the situation. 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COLUMBIA SUPPLY CO., Columbia, S. C. Lime cement, IMaeter, Terra Cotta Pipe, Roofing Paper, Car lots, small 10(4, write, Carolina, Portland Cement Co., Charleston, tt. C. Whiskey I Morphine I Cigarette I All,Drug and Tobaooo Habit, J - Habit | Habit “J-— Habits. —. Cured by Iteelejv Institute, of gLC. 1329 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 75) Columbia, S. C. Confidential oomspood* ence solicited. to be found were at work jor six months on this magnificent present. When it was finished the eyesight of three of them were~4njufed and the fourth man became blind. The en graving and carving they did were the representing of 10,000 of the stages of existence of Buddha. The card was ornamented around the edges like a frame with forty-four diamonds of the purest water, and each -the size of a • hazlenut. The cost was estimated at on pounds sterling. The lady never got her isreienti^for the potentate was arrested for tryiug to poison the English resident, and the hear Tftrd disappeared. — HIGH GRADE PIANOS, BEST ORGANS. ~ The QUALITY, TERMS PRICES will please. —Call or write— and 'to enrich them to enrich us.. I want us to mix more braid with our muscle and enjoy the greater returns from the higher forms df business. One other Item Is that we handle our ootton seed. What in the came of reasoiris the use for us to give some local mill agent, a merchant or some loafer $1.15 per ton to handle our cot ton seed, and when we excbahge for mealll per too on meal, making $2,15 per ton on meal and seed Just to see some one balance the scales and we do the loading. Now, my plan is to turn all this over to our selling agent and give him a certain per cent., and we get the $1.15 or $2.15 as the case may be. I haven't time for more now, Mr. Editor, but do hope that this subject will be taken up and that we may be able to do something for each other. In another article I want to disuss the buying feature. E. D. Smith. A Christina* Card Worth Millions. The most expensive Christmas card qver made was prepared by an Eng lish firm in Calcutta some years ago for the native ruler of Raroda, ln the East Indies, and Intended as a gift for a European lady of rank with * the great man was In love. This was a footjn length by ten inches in width and of flawless ivory, to obtain which over forty elephants were kill ed. Four of the most skillful carvers v“r> First Day of Winter. It is now winter, according to the almanacs, which specify December 22 as the day on which the autumn takes Its leave. NoTuritR Marc! 21 Is win ter is shoved out of the ftp of Spring Tuesday was the Shortest day Shortest day In tht year, "there beings just 9 hours and 59 minutes of daylight. This is a contrast to June 21 when the day lasts for over 15 hours. imoiiE’s Established 1884. Opposite Y M O A COLUMBIA; 8. C. ' 1 n n n MOTAKim n D D D BOTANIC :: D.D.D.aLOOD BALM : w placing your i 4i2jj and *’' M 1 * fslHr* * t esti ■who ar* In need of tha best medical treat ment should not fail to consult Dr. Hatha way at once, a* he U recogn tied as the leading and most suc cessful s pe c I a.l I at. You are cafe in lacing your cake In be is the eetebllshe^ and ha* the best rep utation. He enres Where others fall; there I* no patchwork or experimenting in hie treatment. Per- sonal attention by Dr Hathaway, also spe cial connsel from his associate physicians ’»hen necessary, which no other office has. If ou can not call, write for free booklets and ,ne-tlon blanks. Mention your trouble. Ev erything strictly confidential, i. Newton Ha: ha way. M. D. - DX. HATH A WAT. Th« Great Tasted Kernedy for the speedy —nt pendtoent cure of Scrofula, Rheuma- •***». Catarrh, Ulcers, Ecsema, Sore,. Erup- tioos. Weakness, Nervoutaest, aud aU .r BLOOD AND Hll DISUSES. It is hy far the best buildiag up Toaic tad Blood Purifier ever offered to the world. It makes acw. rich blood, imparts renewed vi tality, and possesses almost miraewisws VUawWf WWm Vrwffi wfl MPplICNtfOn. If not kept bv your local druggut. t$s4 $1.00 for a large bottle, or4j.ao for su bottles, and medicine will be eeat, freight paid, by BLOOD BALM 00., Atlanta, Oa. Mr. Carpenter. SEND IJS YOUR NAME. We’ve got a useful present here ready to send just as soon as you Bend us your name. There will be other presents, too, next year, some three or four of them and you will be glad to get them, yon bet. SH&ND BUILDERS SUPPLY CO* 615 Plain St ’ Columbia,SO Mullet! Mallet! Mallet! 28 Inman Building, 22* S. Broad St. ... . „ w J w _ Atlanta Ga. i all kinds of Fresh sod Salt Water CHARLES O. LESLIE, ——Wholesale Dealers in a.n(l Oysters. 18 & 20 Market St.. Charleston, 8. C. Consignments _df Country Produce Respectfully Solicited, Poultry, packed In barrels and boxes for Country trade a specialty. fish and oysters. If you are dealing in Fresh Fish or intend to deal in them aiisH * ids oo ■ H or COLUMBIA ! Columbia S. C. We ship only freehi caught fish and oar prices are as Ipw asthey can be fold at. Write at. ' Try us. and he convinced , Money laved Is Msaef Made Dr. Wm. Self, of WebaUr, N. < titioner of HMdicin* tail wt ft yoara export enco in madtoina he I saved to hla to i Remedy of i sn&sf' : vV"« .'•