Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ m ____ DOES MAMMOTH BUSINESS. Pew Realize the Magnitude of C. F. Rizer's Business Interests. The Atsugua Week has brought to the attention of Augusta, and in short all over this country, a man in a little town within seventy miles of Augusta in South Carolina, on the Seaboard Air Line railway, who is one of the largest merchants in the interior of South Carolina and the v.largest between Charleston and Augusta, between Savannah and Columbia and Augusta and Columbia. This man lives in the little town of Olar, S. C., with a population of only a few and is mayor of that town, UUUUi vu, is a leading citizen of that town, a I leading churchman, leading merchant, the owner of a business that does $500,000 a year, the president of a bank, a steward in the Methodist church, and, in short, Mr. C. P.J Rizer is one of the leading citizens I "of Bamberg county, with a large business and hosts of friends in Barnwell, Bamberg and Colleton coun: v ties. Mr. Rizer is strictly a self-made ^nan. He was born in Colleton, S. C., in 1869, and had a high school education at Sheridan school, Orangeburg, S. C. A representative of the 1 Atsugua association not long since called on Mr. Rizer to interest him in Atsugua Week and Ford Day. Mr. I Rizer is never too busy to give au-1 fdience to a drummer or listen to a business proposition. It only took Mr. Rizer ten minutes after talking) ffe about Atsugua Week and the fire in Augusta to decide that he would work up a crowd of Fords from Bamberg county to come to Augusta and f participate in Atsugua Week and specially on Ford Day-^Wednesdav, May 10. It is too early yet to predict who will be the winners of the prizes offered for the county having , the largest number of machines in line, but it is generally conceded that the winner will have to go some to beat the aggregation that Mr. Rizer v will bring.' The manner in which Mr. Rizer has entered-the Atsugua competition is characteristic of the man. He is self made, and that he has worked well and stands high is L the concensus of opinion in and around Olar, Barnwell, Bamberg, r, , Colleton, Allendale, etc. tjr Not only is Mr. Rizer the biggest jfe-; merchant in that section, but stands jfe in the front ranks of the merchants of South Carolina. In whatever he ?y{ venters he leads, whether bank|SfW 'lag, in merchandising or public Weill*'. fare work or in church activity and |?C' :' By His Own Merit. What Mr. Rizer has accomplished &' has been done solely by his own merit and the loving help extended by a devoted wife and * helpmate. ' 1 * ~ ft# oo-a onH in f inougn oniy ^c<ns ui u?u ??? Kg;i. . ?|v . the prime of life, he towers among gte' ,\ his fellows a giant in prosperity and accomplishment, just as physically he lifts his head above the average ||Bfcf man. '' : \ $0 ' U Lack of means prevented his get$' >. ting a college education after he had /'completed the course at Sheridan high school, Orangeburg, for though i] % he longed to take the higher .branches of schooling, conditions made it necessary that he begin life's r commercial struggles without them. Fortunately he married early in life a good woman, intelligent, devoted and true, who has ever been his counsellor and assistant in his ^ ? ambitious plans. She was of a fine Carolina family, Miss Carrie Jones, j* of Bamberg, and to them have been -^born three daughters and a son who gives promise of being a worthy successor to his father. In the Million Class. Today . Mr. Rizer is doing a general merchandise business of over $500,000 annually, making him one -1 ^ of the leading mercnanis ui me South, though this is but one branch of his activities. Since 1891, when he started in this line with praetical. ly no capital and only his own great abilities as assets, he has been .steadily advancing by will, grit and determination until today he occupies an enviable position throughout this . section. As a dealer in live stock he is one of the largest in Carolina and Olar, and he is owner of two banks--? one at Olar and the other at Lodge. In agricultural implements he deals immensely, his supply store being known to farmers and planters o\er a wide area, many of whom will buy fertilizer from no other house. Immense Ford Trade. His distribution of Ford cars is an instance of how he works. Having procured the agency he went about making it the biggest of its kind. Olar is not the place the ordinary man would choose as an automobile distributing point, though it is a ' flourishing and a fine little place,, destined to great growth and prosperity. Mr. Rizer is the kind of man who makes the public beat a path to his door. Only a little over two years ago he took the Ford agency, and in that time he has sold more than 1 .100 of the busy little hustlers, and this year alone he will dispose of \ THE STORY OF GLASS How Glass is Made and What it is Used for in the Electrical Industry. Glass is older than the arts. Volcanic glass was in use in the stone age. The Cave Men made from it arrow points, spears, knives, etc., because it could be chipped to a razor cutting edge. Obsdian, or volcanic glass, was extensively used by the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru for the same purpose. Many a doughty Spaniard fell beneath th? great two-handed* wooden sword with seriated teeth of volcanic glass, in the hands of Montezuma's warriors. It is to be inferred that the eirlier civilization would act on this suggestion from nature and endeavor to make glass by the fusion of certain rocks and sands. Glass is very old. Its manufacture was common in ancient times. Chemically, any vitreous compound is called glass. Commercially, glass is a fused mixture of two or more silicates and is often named from the predominant base, as "soda glass," "potash glass," "lime glass," and "lead glass." It is usually transparent, or least translucent, and is brittle at ordinary temperatures. Sand is now generally used for obtaining the silicates which form the base of glass. The sand for the finer qualities of glass is quarried. The principal deposits of sand for glass making in the United States are in Massachusets, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Missouri, and New York. Good sand, however, is available in almost every part of the country. There are innumerable kinds of glass. Some are named for their uses, as bottle glass, mirror glass, optical glass, window glass. Others, according to the process of manurrlocc nraccoH or] Q cC IctUt U1 Cj Cld U1U W il ^ 1UOO) J^/A VkJOV/U QAMwiit/y cast glass, cut glass, ground glass. Others are named according to the localities from which they are obtained, as Biar, Bohemkan, Murano, Venetian or Venice and Saint Gobain glass. Still other names are given to glass according to finish and form, as kinked, corrugated, fluted, and spun glass. Then there is agate, marbleized, rose argentine, aventurine, favrile, bronzed, silvered and platinized glass. The commonest kind of glass, however, is flint glass, and this includes all the myriad forms of glass with the possible exception of window and bottle glass. Besides all these, there are stained, painted, colored and mosaic glass. The principal bases used for making all glasses are sodium, potassium, calcium and lead. A host of other ingredients are used in making glass, for coloring, etc., but these vary greatly with the many different glass companies and no definite information can be given as to their use. Very often colored glass is made ordinarily like any other glass, the coloring being accomplished by the addition of dyes (generally metal oxides) to the molten charge. The same metal produces several different colors at various temperatures. More often, however, colored glass is rkointo/i nr enameled, and OCaillOU) [/uiuvvw) v. when joined by strips of lead to form a pattern, is called mosaic. Character From Tongue. "Put out your tongue," is a phrase associated in most people's minds with doctors, and is usually reminiscent of minor ailments and nasty medicines; spoken by a glossomancist, however, the curt command takes on an altogether different significance. A glossomancist, it may be as well to explain, is a professor of glossomancy, a new science which consists in reading people's characters by the shape and size of their tongues. Thus, according to its votaries, the possessor of a short and broad tongue is apt to be untruthful as to words, anH unreliable as to deeds. A long tongue moderately pointed, denotes frankness, and a loving, trustful, affectionate disposition. When the tongue is long and broad, however, it is ,a sign that the owner is shallow and superficial and also a great talker. The typical woman gossip, say glossomancists, almost always shows this shape of tongue. The small .round tongue, plump and in shape like an oyster, denotes mediocre abilities, and a nature that is commonplace and colorless. A short narrow tongue goes with a nature that is at once quick-tempered and yet affectionate, strong and sudden in hate as in love. The worst type of tongue is the long, narrow, sinuous kind, what glossomancists call the "snake tongue." Its possessors are likely to be cruel, sly, vindictive and very deceitful.?Tid Bits. more than 600. The trouble is not with his selling them fast enough, but of getting them to sell. With him the demand always exceeds the suppfy, though on one occasion he received in one shipment a trainload of eighteen cars.?Augusta Chronicle. MEASLES IN YOUNG AND OLD. The Disease Often Goes Hard Wit an Elderly Person. The earlier cases of measles ar caught and isolated the fewer other they will infect. It has been founc for instance, that in children's hos pitals, where a child, brought in fo .some other disease, has suddenl broken out with the measles, if al the children exposed to him are care fully watched for feverishness, o sneezing, or itching eyes, and also fo the little spots on the inside of th lip, they can be isolated soon enoug to prevent any new or "secondary cases developing. Scarlet fever will also in som cases infect before any clear symf toms of the disease have show themselves. and the more we kno^ of these two diseases the more im portant becomes the general rule a! ready laid down in every case c feverish disturbance of health i childhood, to isolate first and decid what the disease is afterward. Yo will double the little patient's chanc of safe recovery without mark o scar, and cut at least in two, if nc in four, the risk of spreading the dis ease to others. Although measles is essentiall and chiefly a disease of childhood, i is by no means to be treated wit disrespect bv adults. If one is no quite certain of having had it i: childhood, it is best to run no risk in the way of coming in contact wit] it. For, although the risk of catch ing it in adult life is much less, if i is caught, the attack produced ma be very severe, indeed, and it seem to have a greater tendency to be fol lowed by weakness of the eyes or in flammation of the ears, or bronchitis One of the most utter pictures o woe seen by the writer on a tri through the Tennessee mountain was a strapping young mountaineei with blear eyes and tottering gail and head and neck swathed in band ages. He had been sent down to th penitentiary at Atlanta for si months as a "moonshiner," and ther had caught the measles, which ha burst his ear drums and inflamed al his glands and settled in his joint and made a temporary wreck of him Ludicrous as it sounds, small bu very troublesome epidemics o measles often break out among youn recruits in training camps, especiall if they have been brought in fror the mountains or remote, countr districts. So annoying, in fact, dii this ridiculous little disease becom among the new levies in Europe las year that the army doctors nad j special bulletin addressed to the lo cal health authorities in the^neign borhood of training camps admonish ing them to clean up and isolate al known cases of the disease in tli county. Though whether the epi demies were due to the natural am irrepressible affinity between the sol dier boy and the nursemaid and he charges, the official bulletins fail t< state.?New York American. Silk From Sawdust. Making artificial silk from sawdus and other lumber waste is the lates experiment of the United States for est products laboratory at Madison Wis. The use of artificial silk mad< directly from wood is increasing b; leaps and bounds. Originally it principal use was in the manufactur of braids and trimmings, but recent ly the manufacture of hose from ar tificial silk has become an industr; of vast importance. Other uses fo artificial silk are woven goods of al kinds, linings, tapestries, etc., neck ties, ribbons, sweater coats, etc About 5,500,000 pounds of artificia silk are used annually in the Unite States. There are several method of manufacture, but that from woo pulp is usually made by treating th wood pulp with caustic lye, afte which it is dissolved in carbon bi nn-lnVii/ln Tliip i'p f lion Yl'it O UipUiUC. 1 lllO JLO tu^u unut^u "iv more caustic lye to form a viscos* which is allowed to age for som time. It is then forced through die to form threads, which are hardene by a treatment with sulphuric aci( ammonia sulphate, and sodium b( rate, of former acid. After washin and drying the silk is ready for usi The laboratory is investigating th artificial problem as a possibility fc utilizing wood waste, and has o hand a variety of articles made froi this material.?Boston Transcript. aImit /I A IJC9li 11U91CU J v i/uui AJIIIUIU# A stranded traveler reluctant! took a room at a somewhat shabb village inn in England recently. H retired to rest, but ten minutes late came downstairs again, with angt in his face. . "I must insist on having anothc room, sir!" he informed the innkeei er sternly. "What's the matter with the oe you've got?" asked the latter. "Matter!" snapped the angry mai "Why, there are a couple of mic fighting?actually fighting?in a coi nor nf it'" "Well, sir," replied the host colc ly, "and what d'ye expect for tw shillings a night?a bull fight?" ; | "Offer | s IK Mrs. Jay McGee,of Steph- I J] I H enville, Texas, writes: * For Hi F| nine (9) years, I suffered with Ml r II womanly trouble. 1 had ter- VI y II rible headaches, and pains in KJ 11 U my back, etc. It seemed as if EJ V 1 would die, I suffered so. At r [V last, I decided to try Cardui, w r IK the woman's tonic, and it Ej e IB helped me right away. The 9] h |M full treatment not only helped WA N me? ** cured me*" M e IJ take LI I Cardui | nfw The Woman's Tonic kS u Ik Cardui helps women in time I] e IB ?* greatest need, because it 9 r |V contains ingredients which act Vi t K specifically, yet gently, on the m ' Ym weakened womanly organs. Vl | J So, if you feel discouraged, K| I blue, out-of-sorts; unable to El j L" do your household work, on U , M account of your condition, stop il \m worr>ring 311(1 ?ve a I| IE trial. It has helped thousands Ml Q IE of women,*why not you? ml h 11 ** ^ardui# ?-71 W s FACTS AND FICTION l - Experience of Bamberg uttizent Are 5* Easify Proven to be Facts. The most superficial investigation p will prove that the following states ment from a resident of Bamberg is . '? true. Read it and compare evidence from Bamberg people with testimony - of strangers living so far away you e cannot investigate the facts of the x case. - Many more citizens of Bamberg e endorse Doan's Kidney Pills. d James A. Mitchell, R. F. D. mail llj carrier, Calhoun St., Bamberg, says: s "The jar and jolting In driving was , no doubt responsible for the trou^ ble I had with my back Two boxes f of Doan's Kidney Pills, procured at | the People's Drug Store, brought me g relief. I never lost a chance to say a y good word for this remedy." Q Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't sim v ply ask for a kianey remedy?get d Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that e Mr. Mitchell had. Foster-Milburn Co* tj Props., Buffalo, N. y. - CHlUittbi Lui o rtLLS j THE DIAMOND IIHAND. A i Ladles! Ask your Druggist for /i\ 1 : S.W USu Chl-ehe?.ter?Diamond IImnd/yW PHU in Red and Gold metelllcxV/ p | bo*es. sealed with Blue Ribbon. V/ i iff ^ M Tak? bo other. Bur ofyomr ! I / ~ flf Bniffht AskforCIII-CtfES-TEHS I 2* gf DIAMOND BRAND PILL8, for 85 3 AP JO yean known as Best, Safest, Always Reliable ,| '^^SOLDHim^BEVEimMIEIIi I Best material and workman- BI ship, light running, requires 144-+1? n/vnrnv. elmnlo CQCV fft B ? . nine punci , isiuipi^, v/uuj w p :l handle. Are made in several fl 11 sizes and are good, substantial I g!B money-making machines down I to the smallest size. Write for I I catolog showing Engines, Boil- I | m LOMBARD IRON WORKS & S I SUPPLY CO. I y | I r B fl Augusta, Ga. i ^registered" e Duroc Jersey Hogs -<? e is d AS a O O D !. AS a RO w )- ? g ____ J. e >r * If you want the prettiest, fastest growing, best money-maker on v the market, see me -v at once.*. .\ [e ;r ;r I PRICE $22.00 Per Pair .e i. J G. FRANK BAMBERG i 0 it BAMBERG, S. C. j nshir i^r\ W?^ y?uth Traf/ tv^ I time to bi ffivpli^t fort [![[ I days of o I j 1^ a Bank I Don't travel tne tj the rosy road to com Make up your mind count and save a litt each pay day. Don't wait until r gin. You can start glad to help and ad' consult us.?One dol 4 per cent Interest Paid PEOPLE! Bamberg, .... rcVki ituvv ? ~* tin * dUXArCt 'iotoai mm#, _ JitoVnii o| ^ (uWiUU^maiul^; eemfc ' ? ' IClSa^fe vBb CUecuiMtmokn ^oa|ut4a|t 1 IF YOU.HAVE NEVER BEEN LET US SHOW YOU OUR INST OF IT. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW EA ACCOUNT WITH US UNTIL YOl GLADLY ADVISE YOU ABOUT 1 OF CHARGE. THAT IS OUR Bl BANK W WE PAY FOUR (A) PER C POUNDED QUARTERLY, I Farmers & Me I BHRHA.RD Long Distance calls for fi radius of several hundred "In less than one houi of flour at a total cost to t "Since then we have z\ Bell Telephone to every fe . most promauie results, rates are reasonable and t in one Long Distance Tel a dozen letters" SOUTHERN BELL TE AND TELEGRAPH C . ' . ; . v listhe^ HW/ff jild your rLV) he cloudy i Id age with I account." 4 tiorny paths of life; fort is open to you. to start a Bank ac;le of your earnings text pay day to betoday. We will be srise you if you will lar will start you. I on Savings Deposits. 3 BANK - - South Carolina ? ??J sUm I IN OUR BANK COME IN AND ! riTUTION. WE ARE PROUD ; SY IT IS TO START A BANK J HAVE "TRIED." WE WILL , rOUR MONEY MATTERS FREE ) SIN ESS. ITH US . : i' 'K< \ PkIT TUTCDCOT rr\ kX -1 CHI* ill I Lntoi, uv 1*1- n OH SAVING DEPOSITS I jrchants Bank I r, s. c. J One Experience Convinced Me I of its Value ^rin. All# M.AA. v/uw vi vui oatwo* men demonstrated the value of the Long Distance Telephone to us. He was at Huntsville, Ala., and upon his own responsibility put in ? fteen merchants within a miles. j r he had sold 2100 barrels f is of less than six dollars. pplied the Long Distance ature of our business with The service is fine, the here is more satisfaction leohone talk than in half r ? t LEPHONE dfjA\ OMPANY ' 7 %&&*'* "