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' * 1 f"JT'vnr' u imm n 09099Q9.0000093 ? ICE - . | .KEEP & I Announce to O Batesburg* That 0 An Ice House a V of Whitehead's o * 0 Below Postoffh O llptf Tr?*? t? ^I fhi Q O % Jk i.1 \ ft i 1 | 1 0 ? GIVE HE A TRIAL i 1 ? C. W. HJ! e g BATESBL ????????????St RENOVATOR FOX OLD OAK. Everybody nowadays knows that to secure a bright polish on an old oak chcBt or table there is nothing to equal elbow grease. In our grandmothers' days, however, it was elbow greaao plus one of their wonderful and efficacious home-made mixtures. Half a pint each of malt, vinegar and raw linseed oil were mixed with a couple of drains of butter of antimony. This formed a polish which, after a good shaking could . be .rubbed on fhe old wood without, fear of spoiling the color while it brought about a bright and glistening result, far leas smean than the warm beer which was th< eld-fashioned farmhouse renovstoi for old oak.BAOK TO NATURE. Wilton l.ackaye, the actor-editor has a friend named Jlradv, a pre?: agent, who in summer precedes i circus, in winter goes ahead of a( opera company. lie works mostly n the west, "iteccntlv," said Mr Leekaye, "Brady was enabled to vis it his beloved New York, tho placi of his birth. Shortly after his ur rival I ran across him on Broadway 'Well, old man,' I said to him, 'J suppose you're glad to be hack ii New York again?" 'Wilton,' he an swefed earnestly, ''it's lik? a glimpsi into another world. But I've l>eer away so long that I have to rebearm to cross Broadway.' " WHALING ON PACIFIC COAST Imparts*** ?f C?tac*?n of W??t*rr Ooown Maw Racopnlgtd and Ha Will Ma Purauad. A larga whaling station is to bs erected at Sanford Point ou Grayi harbor by the owners of ihe two ste. tious now in operation on the west coast ot Vancouver island. Tin common North Pacific whale hat been loafing around the waters adjacent to Oregon. Washington aud British Columbia since tLe days ol Jonah, but it ia only in recant years that Ids value has appealed to man. Inasmuch as this species of whale attracted no attention when hundreds f Massachusetts whalers wars chasiny the sperm whales in the fa: north it 13 perhaps eminently proper that the industry us now carried on should he entirely devoid of the romance end excitement that attended the chase of sperm whales. The modern whaling steamer with bomb gun# and other modern equipment goes out from a station, the whale is killed and the en re ass is towed in and converted into oil with a total absence of any of the feature# that attended the killing and trying out process in the old days Portland Oregonian. aoosi Ft?aH. Fanner Jenkins believed the good old-fashioned idea of giving all the farm hands ami laborer# ?* r??i good feed at the festive season. ft* be determined to give them eonv*fhing to remember last year and ordered the ffa#* to atari with aoup, to be followed by gcose, roast Wf and unlimited supplies of plum pudding. The form hand# duly assembled, and having fasted all day, so as to be in good trim for the Christinas feed, were prepared to make the auppliea look foolish, lloaat goose ami l??er "l were all thev expected. "T.re, what'* this 'ere?" said a disappointed, sturdy son of toil, when a huge plate of soup was pljkwd before him. "You've forgot?. tep tUs gooao and atulli'i . I Jo;j t want all graw ' ?Judge. \ - I ' T >?????????????i . m ICE?' COOL 11 * lwk D.v.x.v 1 /vl' O i in: i ruj; 1 i" IM I Have Opened 6 f t the Old Stand a ' 11 Hai 1 road A ve. g > ee. ? 1 Se 1J t he 0 ; p Price is Right, jj O m BE ?.0P1N6ED.S o lLLMAH, |: 1 o IRG. SVC. ? 3?????????s??? ;GR0WTH OF GERMAN CITIES i Rom.-irkablo Facts Ditcloaed by Study of Figures of the Last Census. j Advance figures compiled from , census returns sho.v tha* there are now in the Herman empire -17 cities ! of more than 100,000 population. Of | these seven have more than 500,000 population. They are: Berlin , (without suburbs), 2,00-1,153 ; Ham- , burg, 930,000; Munich, 593,053; ' Leipzig, 585,743; Dresden, 540,881; ^ Cologne, 511.042, and Breflau, 510,929. Four others have more than | 300,000 population. They are Fraukfort-on-the-Main, 4 i 4,400; f Dusaeldorf, 350.733; Nuremberg, ' 332,539, and Charlottenburg ( a f suburb of 6erlin), 303,180. Twelve ; | other cities have moro than 200,000 ! 'population, and 24 others have^oopi illations ranging from 100,000 to > 1200,000 each. s Ten years ago there were but two i, cities in the empire with more than ijhalf a niillion population and only 1 j 33 wifh ijio: ?? than 100.000 uopnla. jtion. At the time of tlio lir.-t im-|perial census in 1871 there were in sj Germany only nine cities with more I than 100,000. Herlin hod reached . j the half million population in 1860, 1 but Hamburg did not reach it. until ; ? 1895. avid no other Herman city be ! fore J905. in 1>". 1 Xuremburj had I but 82,000 population; by ll'OO it t had increased to 201,081. The fig nres of the 1010 census give it 332,530. an increase of about 2? per cent. ! ring the ??*n rears. , CURIOUS PRACTICE. Robert Duiwioh. who has traveled extensively in ih< leaser known re' gion.- of the Himalaya, give* an interesting account of a native sect known the 1 harvs, who have some 1 curious pra?-tie?M The seel are wor- j ahiper? > !' the g.<t hss kali. They 1 1 be! eve e tlier in self-.le.itxuction or in the ?a< rifice of one f their fin| gets to appease the deity. Thus it conies alw.it that when ' the eldest member of a family is married the unhappy mother is ex1 peered to cut of* the f rst two joints of the last two fingers <>f imr hand. ; h Print '. v- and other "mart people ' in this remarkable see; arc allowed to offer a nhst' -ife of finger joints, mo'h'h ' _ ?!<! Knstern World. j: BRIDGE OVER PANAMA CANAL; | J i c Will Be Duilt Acron Big D.tch | at Em pire 175 Feet Above Water Level. A j**, f,vj high is t. > he t ' rown a> ;o<h the Panama canal at v l.mpire. Only tin- absolute neons-dy of maintaining uninterrupted raitrond communication across the , .?! :i in us lias led the engineers to s. notion the const ruction of any sort i l?)r an obstruction ncros^ the water- \ I way. l>et as the necessity exists the ^ jUuid Iihs decided to construct a! I bridge at that point at 1 ?.*? feet v 'above the water level. | ' j \ height of K?5 feet at high lid* is i o.usidcred sufficient for the s hri t'.cs in Xew York harbor, hut the ^ top of tit smokestacks of the two 5 ocean .riant* now building, the Olvm- 1 p'< od t itanic, will tower I "id hot ( aIkiyc the water level when those ships arc lightdia't. The Pnimnvi ' X <?nw! bridge will carry ti vail 1 >' /J covering ? width of about 1<? fe ., | roadway of about the same w.d; ij^ | ami uie or more foot walks six feet j ^ jwi ' . roadway of about the sain ^ w' 1:' ,,1(! ' >' r more foot walks six j ' **et w ' It will be of the high 4 plate g-. ler arch type.?-Washington J1!veiling Star. t rtfc ?%IBSB04U AUV >CATE, BATBS140R< t I Artfe f % | The Kind Jg Sumn t' We have just re< |j| furniture, Jyst n ?|f stylish Sine nA u * ruK^i! a Porch swings, just ro< chain, price ^ Porch Shades, Also we are exclusive d< it We give yoi p including 1 t for <P jn We will ship you a set porch suit. M( A .The ceiling net hangs f ^ , the b ?2. TP 4 SEND US YOUR OMR f SERVICE AS o Jt. V I Co i u m t * K*!K4>n*li * i S. C. HRIIMY JUNK 9. H?ll Wmfkm afta %\? JL, W ata ^ at. y/ps 7rr^ tic Sum urnitur< That Makes ler Days Plea; reived our newest th ow--we are showing a C J of porch rockers, $1.0< SEATS $S m enough for two, hangs f: 6 feet $i.5U, ? feet $2.00, 1 ealers for the old Rustic Hicl a a beautiful 3 Settee, 1 Chair = - $ of the above on approval. Yc >squetto Nets, we carry both* rom ilie ceiling, price $2.50, t ied, wood or iron bed, price $ ' ABB WE WILL GMRANT1 ERE IN THE STOW 11 mams & k> Complete home Furnishers bia, - = * ' M'W H M4? I * ? " , '-V V .+ mot* * 11IVA ^ J. " * * f m the Long H sant. |g & j ings in Summer ? very valued and ^ ) to $7.50. JH 4* - i i.00 UP. I f! rom the ceiling with a ^ $4.00. 4" f* /I* ^ A A SM.fs u ieet $.5.uu. ^ <ory, chairs - Rockers. m ~i. & piece suit, * 1 % 1 Rocker, W 18.50. | Tfr V_\ /** >u' 11 enjoy the old time :>f the best lines. ||| he palmer attaches to 1-5?. ' ^ J. yr 2E YOU JUST AS GOOD * 2 YOURSELF f * oons | ' s. c. I f.