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HUGE SHARK IIEAIi FOOLISHLY SWALLOWED A STICK OF DYNAMITE BAD ROAMED THE COAST A Twenty-eight Foot .Man. Eater, Which Was the Terror of the Sailors, Has lleen Killed at Last by the Explosion of Dynamite He Swallowed. A dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal., ays San Joes Joe Is dead. The dispatch say a this announcement may not be of vast importance to the people of this section of the country, but it is the best bit of news sailors on the west coast of Central America and California, between Panama and San Francisco, have heard in many years. For San Jose Joe was a shark fully twenty feet in length in death, although guesses about his size in life langed from what he really was up to forty feet. Joe's tome port was San Jose de Guatemaia, and his cruising ground fiom Cnamperico on the north to San Juan del Sur on the South. All tnai c*me to his maw on that lo.ig stretch of coast was legitimate prey. Aeeording to sailors who dreaded him, any one of their number who Happened to fall overboard when the shark was near had little chance of ever again walking a deck. In fact, everything that fell within reach of San Jose Joe belonged to him by right of might, and it was this greediness that finally cost him his life. At San Jose the succulent red snapper abounds, and every captain that makes a call at the place gets at least one mess. Seme dc it. one o. fe me another, but the captain that unwit tingly caused Joe's death and an original scheme all his own. Dynamite was what he relied on. Vie had slicks of the explosive about *wo !nch?s ir. length and of the circurato i me ofa lead pencil. To these tt iimo fuse was attaened, and when the snappers, hundreds of them, gathered close to his vessel after a meal and the leavings were dumped overboard, he would throw one into the very center of the school. The explosion that speedily followed caused a cussion that stunned the fish and caused them to float on top of the water as though dead. Then it was an easy matter to put off from the vessel in a small boat and with a net dip as many as desired. Of course, this was not sportsmanlike, hut it was highly satisfactory to a lot of hungry sailors. At the time Joe died the snappers were there?So was the captain, so was the dynamite and so were the sailors. It was soon after breakfast. The explosive had been thrown overboard and all hands were waiting for the result. Suddenly there was a great commotion in the water, a scurrying of the snappers in every direction, and directly off the port gangway appeaped Joe, his little eyes hungrily watching the sailors lining the rail. With a swish of his tail he turned over on his back, shot towards the lowly sinking piece of dynamite, opened his great jaws and swallowed It. That was his death warrant. He hardly had gotten down the stick before it exploded. There wasn't even a struggle or a gasp. As a sailor would say, "he was ripped from stem to stern," and his great bulk of a body floated on top of the water. ? Calhoun Ollicers Take Charge. The new oflicers of Calhoun County took charge on Tuesday. F. F. Hill succeeds John L. Rast as sheriff. Mr. Rast was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of O. >i. Dantzler, deceased, one year ago. John C. Muller succeeds to the office of clerk of court. J. R. Paulling has held this position since the death or J. A. Wolfe in the summer. W. J. Wise succeeds J. L. Zeigler as supervisor, and 1). F. Jumper succeeds Jack D. Antley, who dUl not offer for re-election but ran for supervisor. R. P. Furtick succeeds Jas. II. Haigler as auditor. P. L. Crider, treasurer; J. C. Redmon, probate judge, and D. S. Murph, superintendent of education, had no opposition. I Plows Head to Pieces. A suicide of extraordinary character was committed at Epernoy, France, by Gaetan Valencin, who had been disappointed in love. Valencin first placed a dynamite cartridge on bis breast and caused it to explode. He was frightfully burned, but not mortally hurt. He tnen slabbed himself twice over the heart. He then placed another dynamite cartridge in his mouth, lighted the fuse and waited for the explosion, which tore his head into fragments. The appearance of J. P. Morgan before the money trust investigation committee at Washington attended by a body guard of six of the ablest, corporation lawyers in the country was not an inspiring or reassuring sight for those who have the best interests of the nation at heart ana who believe that the great money Interests interfere with that welfare. Tribute to Seimtoi Or. W. P. Jacoos. *v\i tor Tillman in Our Month . There are two sidcb u ... man. Senator Pen Til. . subject of much news,):, cussion. The average p* on regards him only from the standpoint of his political careei, and he Is a friend or any enemy ot the Senator's just as he agrees with or differs from him in political matters. We have found Senator Tillman, however, to be kind and helpful in all our dealings with him, so ready to be of service, so sympathetic with what was worthy, and so willing to give a kind word to those who need it, that we have regarded him from the standpoint, not of the politician, but of the man, and we are prepared to testify that Senator Tillman is every inch a man. The editor of The Times and Democrat has known Senator Tillman for a good many years, and he endorses I what Dr. Jacobs says of him most heartily. Senator Tillman does not run from a fight when attacked, bur to his friends he is as gentle and kind as any man can be. The hope life of Senator Tillman is beautifu?, and we doubt if there is to be found anywhere a more devoted couple than the Senator and Mrs. Tillman, who is a most affectionate wife and mother. In his early political career Senator Tillman was unjustly abused and he never failed to hit back. This caused people to misjudge him, but to his friends he has always been what Dr. Jacobs found him to be, "every inch a man." Had it not pie against Senator Tillman, he would have been to every one just what Dr. Jacobs found him to Ire, "kind and helpful in all his dealings." He has always been this to his friends, but to those who abused him he was his other self. But even the bitterness of the past with him Is gone, and we feel sure he now feels kindly to all his former enemies. A Change in Complexions. Cosmetics and complexion naturally go together, and wonderful are the r.Cfiinta onnioHmns nroilnrod bv the lavish and artistic use of powders, creams, paints and other articles of the toilet. Has not Mrs. Oliphanr told us in her "Poor Gentleman* that "there are a great many things involved in a girl's toilet which you would never think of, the dress Is not all, nor nearly all." That Is what most people suppose as they gaze with wonder, il not with admiration, on the marvelous creations of "apple blossoms," "roses and cream," and other results of the enameling so dear to man/ feminine minds. Put fashions change. Paris, that great centre of woman's complexion and dress, has decreed that the lily white cheeks just faintly tinted must go. No longer will It bo In style for young girls, and girls not so young, to have a cheek like a fair moonbeam. The edict has gone forth that a young lady's cheek must wear a warm russet tint such as a gypsy has, or which Maud Muller had when she was making hay and charmed the judge. What cosmetics are prescribed to produce the complexion wo do not know, but a very effective simple and healthful prescription is found in plenty of pure air and water, outdoor exercise, and good sleep. This with gooo hours is warranted to produce a perfect complexion and it has the further advantage of costing but little. A complexion thus attained is far more attractive than anything that is "made up" with cosmetics. Notwithstanding the many New Year resolutions, Mr. Easy Mark will continue to buy oil stock in Texas and mining stock in Montana at ten *- - ?1 o i t t l' n nr (IawT! CPT118 (I HIIUIU ami men omuih v.v/.t.. and waiting anxiously for tho "gusher" which never comes, but when the company representative was around it needed only the addition of a little more capital to make it a record breaker; or for tho development or that rich vein of ore, which had already been discovered but needed a little more money for machinery to make all its stockholders rich. ? ! At Intervals of n few weeks it is published that Sir Thomas Llpton is again going to challenge for the America cup. Whether that game sportsman has ever said so, excepr in humorous vein, is doubtful, but i' he does his challenge will be accepted. Sir Thomas proved a good loser and while there is a natural desire to l<eep tlie cup on his side yet if eventually it. must he parted with everybody would like the noted tea merchant to turn the trick. Tn his farewell address to the Senate the other day, Senator Bailey declared that no more thorough presentation of the character of representative government ever had been made than in Governor Wilson s books. "The wonder to me," he said, "is how any man could have understood the necessity and the controlling force of counsel and discussion, without having actually been a part of a great deliberative assembly." otwl Tlr?mr?r?rnt Hones 1 IAO * 1 II I VU UUVi WW. V?v , that the year upon which wo have .hist entered will ho a Rood one for Orangeburg and Orangeburg County. May the farmers have bumper crops, the merchants splendid trade, and that peace and order will reign supreme from one end of the county to the other. Then, indeed, we will bo a happy people. \w|^r Mixson's High grade seeds gr< profits for you. Actual tests sho w Our large stock includes all varieties flv Corn, Sorghnm, Cotton, etc. Spe M freight rates. Don't fail to write fo SON'S UIUH GRADE SEEDS to-di SL W. H. MIXSON SEE CHARLESTON, S. < CLASSIHtD COLUMN Marlford's I Coupe Ciih??Ouarauteoo 50c delivered. Poultry Remedy t'o . Sneads, Fla. 1 pay highest prices for Cow Peas. Send sample. J. Lock wood Murphy, Charleston, S. C. Duroc-.Jerseys?Rich breed>ng, high quality. Moderate prices C. (?. Oakes, Assumption, 111. For Sale?Fresh Carolina Rice, meal, the best stock food. West Point Mill Company, Charleston, S. C. Cornish Indians, white and dark stock for sale. Egg orders booked now. C. T. Miller, Hartsvillo, S. C. For Exchange?Nice apples for peas, chickens, pigs, calves. What you have to offer. A. B. Dills, Sylva, N. C. White Runner Ducks of quality; stock and eggs for sale. Snow White Poultry Yards, O. O. Ray, - - T r f % .1 r-% ? 1 Manager, iyitkwouu, y?u. White Pekin Ducks?$1 each, 6 for $5; winter layed. Partridge Wyandottes, $2 each. T. S. Kittrell, 131 Church St., Henderson, N. C. Cor Sale?Black Minocr.u young ant. old stock, 75c to $1.50. White Orpington Pullets, $1.50 to $2, Cockerels, $1.50 co $3. Codes, $2 to $5. Robert L. Shirley, Lar.cnia, Ga. Cheap Farms of all sizes for sale in the corning section of South Carolina. Good stiff clay lands, where we make three money crops. Cotton, tobacco, berries. Reaves & McKenzie, Loris, S. C. Marry if you are lonely. The Reliable Confidential Successful Club has largo number of wealthy eligible members, both sexes wishing early marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs. Wrubel, Box 26, Oakland, Cal. Thoroughbred Mammoth Bronze Turkeys?Splendid markings; Standard weight; each bird sold with a guarantee of absolute satisfaction. For particulars write Terrence V. Bone, Rutherford, Tenn. Wanted?A man or woman all or anarn time to secure information for us. Work at home or travel. Experience not necessary. Nothing to sell. Good pay. Send stamp for particulars. Address 'M. S. I. A., 581 L Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Huff Orpington Ducks are the greatest layers known, small eaters, large carcass, hardy and vigorous, the coming duck. Investigate them. Eggs for hatching, breeding stock and day old duckling for sale at all times. J. H. Wendler, Lakeland, Fla. Godhey's Triumph Sweet Potatoes is ready for the table 60 days after planting. Yields twice as much as any other sort. Unsurpassed in quality. Keeps all the year around. Is absolutely Blight Proof. I grow vegetable plants of every description. Prices right. Catalogue free. II. K. Godbey, Waldo, Fla. Selected eggs for hatching?Crystal white Orpington yards. $2.50 for 15; prize pens, $5. White Leghorn yards, $1.50 for 15; Prize pen, $2.50. Cockerels for sale. Four prizes State Fair Raleigh. Beverly Poultry yards, Kittrell, N. C. Pellagra, Rheumatism, Eczema cured by Mrs. Joe Persons Remedy. Thirty years of cures recorded. Testimonials unquestionable. Best tor"' or earth. Six bottles for $5. Express prepaid. Mrs. .Too Persons Remedy Co., Kittrell. N. C. Rest kidney pi 1 is on earth, 25c postpaid. louannetN Frost-Proof Cabbage Plants?No better to be had anywhere. $1 per 1.000; 5,000 and over. 85c per 1.000. Jouannett s on rlv Giant Argonteuil Asparagus rrots, $4 per 1,000. let the bent Alfred Jouannet, Box K, Mt. Ploasani, S. C. Wan tod?Fine pieces of very old solid mahogany or veneered furniture sideboards, beds, secretaries, chairs footstools, mirrors, etc.; old pistols, relics, stamps, pewter, brass. Furniture don't have to be In good conv ditlon. Address E. R. Ollgour, 11 * West Saint Clair, Indianapolis, Ind Eggs for Hatching'?S. C. White Leghorn. $1 per 15. $5 per 100, Fawn and White Indian Runner Ducks eggs $2 r<?r 12. $12 per 100. We anil vnu eggs from prize winners We win wherever we show. Agent r llJ J J |W/al r Truck 3w largest crops and make mora V w they are best for Southern soils. I of Dean9( Cucumbers, Cabbage, M cial prices on large orders. Low r catalog and prices on MIXiy, before you forget it fer X-ray Incubator* Mi N llVh 13. Frost i'loll I r!aii? > tirst class. hard} ami io..* .< n< ?i it the snows and frost.-, sued used. .Send , 5i lor .?<* for 1,000; $3:-5 tor ;>,oou, $ . io: 5,000; $0 lor lo.ooo. CuitiwithM .suggestions and price lisi free Wakef'eld Farms, Charlotte. N. (' I'elicious II # e .Made Candies?Sent you by paicels post. Write us for prices on any of the following: Walnut creams. Cream Coeoanut, Cream Walnuts, Almond, Filbert, Walnut, 11 tternut Bars, Nut Cream Caramels, Cream Mints?all colors. Buttercups, Brilliants, Peanut Brittle, Butter Toffee, Molasses Camlv or anything that suits your r'ancv No trouble to answer inquiries. Hahn and Co., Charleston, 3. , Makers of the "Purity Ice Cream and Candies." < state paid the State nearly threeeoarters of a million dollars, which .vas set as>de by the last legislature as a Capitol fund. The building will c. st 1,040 COO. I I wrj 1 TC ^ FARM AND PECAN LANDS Dark loam, red rlay subsoil. Any size farm you wish, near railroad, schools and churches. Prices from $15 to $30 per acre. See me. Goode Price, leeiburg, Ga. For the Good of All. It is as true of the body politic as it is of the human body that it is so knit together that what affects one part affects the whole. "If one member suffers all the members suffer with it." Jn like manner if one member prospers all the others prosper with it. Thus we see that every great national enterprise of a commercial character, wisely conceived and executed, while it specially helps the particular region in wnicn it immediately operates, also helps the country at largo. Striking proof of this is seen in the large irrigation works completed in some states and the equally important drainage works in other states. In both cases the object is attained?that of reclaiming waste land and converting it into productive areas peopled by thousands of happy prosperous families and ministering to the needs of the country generally. So, too, with the "great ditch" that the national government is constructing to wed the Atlantic with the Pacific. Ever since Galvao in 1550 drew his dream of such a project has never been plan for piercing the isthmus, the absent from the minds of far-seeing men, but it remained for our government to make the dream an actuality, as it will be in two short years. The the whole nation will benefit by the completion of the canal goes without saying, and if it benefits in a special degree the southern portion of the country there can be no jealousy for what advances that region will make for the welfare of the i whole. To the states lying In the lower Mississippi valley and along the lower Atlantic and Pacific coast tho canal will prove a great boon. Much needed development will result and commerco will ho greatly stimulated, and in all that the nation will share. It is this fact that makes me whole country watch with sympathetic interest tho building of the canal and its approaching completion. No good action and no good example dies. Tho man who performs tne action or sets tho example dies and molders away so far as his physical frame is concerned, but the good he does lives on to enrich humanity from one generation to another. Therefore here on earth, to say nothing of ibo beyond, such a man gains immortality. rt NK OF i OIJWH 4 Us tpual and surplus of a >an mhined capital and surp t *TOCK "; < 's IKS OK STOCK > MKPOSITf Dl K hi I). i n rte our customers every acc will justify, anJ we M..KOUOH, L) HR8IDKNT. We continue to pay 5 pe ANNIVtKSAHY OF FIIIHT THURSDAY FIFTY-TWO YEARS AGO FIRST SHOT FIREI). riu? Cudcts of the Citadel on Morris Island Fired on United Stales Steamer on January 1>, I SO I. On January 9th, 1861, there steamed into the harbor of Charleston, S. C., a steamship bearing the United States Mag. That vessel contained reinforcements and supplies for Fort Sumter, treacherously occupied by Maj. Robert Anderson, who whilst negotiations were going on between the State of South Carolina and the United States for the peaceful transfer of property, and that under a promise not to take any steps to change the relations of the property as it stood upon the secession of the State of South Carolina, spiked the guns of Fort Moultrie and transferred his troops and supplies to Fort Sumter. Upon this course being taken by) Major Anderson, Governor F. \V . Pickens instructed the batteries, manned by the South Carolina military forces, to fire on any vessels attempting to enter the port with supplies for Fort Sumter. This the United Statesassayed to do and on the morning oi January 9th, 1861, the steamship Star of the West with troops and supplies for Fort Sumter, made bold to attempt to enter the port and harbor of Charleston, S. C. Three pieces of light artillery, manned by cadets from the Citadel Academy of Charleston, commanded , by Major P. F. Stevens, Superinten- I dent, were stationed on Morris Is- | land. Major Stevens being informed j by Capt. F. N. Bonneau, of the Itev- , enue Service, of the name of tlx craft coming into port, and the ni? ture of her mission, drew up his ai tillery on the beach, and as tlx steamship approached approached through the main ship channel, whiol passed Morris Island and got withi* range Of the guns on Morris Island Major Stevens directed that a six be fired across the bow of the vesse' as a warning to proceed no further This warning shot seemed to be unheeded, when another shot was firee directly at the vewnei. When six turned about and returned to so; | I?ort Moultrie also fired upon tlx trespassing vessel. But what of that? 'Tis a late da: to tell it, but it is history that on January 9, 1861, South Carolina, tx her independent and sovereign capac ity as a sovereign state, was the first, if not the only State, now of the United States, that dared to fire upon the United States flag, and compel the United States to turn and leave South Carolina shores. Tf should also stimulate in the hearts of the Citadel Cadets of to-day a feeling of pride, that when called upon in the early independence of the State to defend her shores from being tramped upon, responded and nobly the cadets of this institution met the demands of her mother State 10 defend her. This is given as a matter of history to the honor of the old Palmetto State. Covernor Please says he proposes to appoint no man who is not his friend politically. This is why he is cutting off the political heads of notaries public. In the main the Covernor is right, but we do not tiling he ought to extend his rule to notaries public, as that is not an office of emolument but of business convenience. Tn Milwaukee the other day a man was flngd $25 and costs for insultingly spitting on a Piblo. The great majority of people will approve the sentence for while lots or peoplo do not follow in t.heiir own lifo the teachings of the book, they reverence it and they realize that to millions it is a sacred treasure. The man who will spit on a Bible or commit sacrilege is lacking in moral sense. Tho Lancaster News thinks that "that was certainly a very kind, neighborly spirit on the part of our chief executive which prompted him to pardon convicts on condition that they leave the State. These very desirable citizens will doubtless be warmly welcomed by our nearby sister States." HOKKY, , / y> N ny bank in Horry county. Mtr*. lus of all other banks in the counye .969.000 12.600 HOLIJWR8 60.000 11 it.600 lOk^ AHDSON / W. A. JoJjiiboij, ' Will.A hfi Dittn < . L ' _L .L ommoaauon wnicn uicu auuuuw solicit your business. ?. V. KlCHAKDSON. *IU a FEK1CMAB < ? KKHIDKN1 CARHIM r cent, on yearly deposits. i Al. ? AKPh ti. VVOOO A Alio ?U(J UUUUU?lUi Ak 1^* MU "V M Ak, ft. < J ? 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 ??? ? 9V/4lUiU?M ?A f , >V Uuf ue> i <1. lH hH(M -iikifi AUli .li4t*K?vi>w l K\ W ,-i i , . < U '. Li. McCUKD, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, S. C. ? ItKNK RA VKNKI I ... U... > ?fiiiu i^III ?r,? 1114; 1 and I Mi? i mi < ? "IhIMImv 'Viimviiv, O. K WORLDS 6REATEST SEW1N6 MACHflK Am want either a Vibrating Shuttle, Roba^ iKittJeor a Single Thread [ ChainataJf^/ Sewing Machine wrlto to ' M m NOME SIWINI MACHINE MWIW Orange, Maaa. MNapeevtorr machines are made to tell reaaeAewMf gaafler, but ike Mew Xleme U made ea Oar famaty omt nee oel 41? MM SV MUImHmN Niriww j 'tt HKOUiHA t sULIASU CXK* Dnnway, A. 0. Higher Cost of Living. la (heir effort to make consumers accept without murmuring the present high cost of fivi?g some interested people give figures to show th^t forty or fifty years ago the price of certain commodities was much higher than it is now. What if it was; that was the period of inflation and suspension of specie payment arising, very largely, out. of civil war conditions. What now concerns people is the fact that while for years -ood otuoB jo ssou.iojiiq oqj .ioj uaoq past the cost of production has stoaoily decreased that of living lias steadily increased, to the very great sorrow of the consumer and to the very great enrichment of a few whose enormous profits in manufacturing explain the cause of the higher cost of living and suggest (he remedy. Congress should look into this matter and see if it cannot he remedied in some way. The man who produces what we eat don't get any more than he use to for it. But the middle man, the fellow who handles (ho enofla between (lie farmer and the retail distributor, is the man who makes the money out of the present condition. They are bonder* together In a trust. ? ? Went Through Store. At Yorkville on Monday a horse hitched to a buggy went through a store without disarranging the buggy or the goods in the store much. He entered the front door and went out the back door. Courtesy plays an Important part In life. To a large extent folks make their character aa they go along by the quiet courtesy of their manners.