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\ | ■.dMLiLJt -a,. .AM i Everything to eaL. That’s what I deal In exclusively. I look after my business .watch the markets closely, 1 and as a consequence I can always furnish my patrons with the best and freshest, of Meats, Groceries and Country Produce. West ern Steaks - choice cuts. la cents a pound. Phone St. VV. J. MANESS. BE IN THE SWIM Give me your clothes to clean, press or dye and you will always look nice and stylish. Old suits made to look like new. Experienced workmen and prompt ser vice rendered. W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. Over W. C. Telegraph Ollice. /- Williams. Hall..Ik. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. STAK THBATKE BLDG. C;. Notary Public in offlee. Prompt attention given to till business. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. Notary public. All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ONOtEAL ESTATE Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. "OfL'*e over National Hank. J. C. OTTS, Att )Rnky and Counselor. OfMce upstairs, between R. A. Jones and O&venpo.'t. OfUce and Residence .Phono. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, 1.) K T I S T Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over JThe Battery. ’Phone 82. Ninety Per Cent of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s and have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED. Glasses Fitted With|Scientific Accu racy and all the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. Building and Plastering Limp! Coal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Pans Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on Limestone Springs Lime Worts CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone CLAIMS PAID AINA — By Life-Insurance Company For Accidents and Sickness through this agency since January: W. D. Kirby, $ 32.14 W. R. Pearson, 7.50 W. H. Harrison, Jr., 127.14 A. L. Peeler, 25.00 A. W. Clary, 12.86 H. L. Spears, 70.00 H. A. Littlejohn, 75-oo Wm. T. Gaston, 27.86 L. Baker, 32.14 Why not Insure YOUR time against acci dent and sickness. For rates and other formation call on or address JONES J. DARBY. District Agt. HOW HUSBANDS SHOP. A Dionne That It Wna Certain Wonld Not I'lenae the Lady. The pleasures of shopping are as rig orously denied to “mere man” as are the advantages of whistling to fair wo man. The decree, being nature’s own. Is universal, and the attempts’made to contravene it are few and unsuccess ful. An exception, more apparent than real, was made a few days ago by an uxorious Berlin husband intent on pre senting ids better half with a new blouse. lit 1 hurriedly entered one of the first shops in the eapitnl and con fided his intention to the graceful young lady assistant. ”1 want a blouse —a good one. You understand. It must lie silk—tlie best silk.'' “May I ask what color you prefer?” inquired the superior young saleswom an, with a smile. “Oh. I'm not particular about the col or, but 1 may say that it may cost from 30 to 40 marks.” “And the cut?” “The cut? Well, I really don’t much care. After all, it comes to the same thing.” “May I ask about the lady for whom it is destined?” “Why, site is my wife, of course! Whom else did you”— “I beg your pardon. What I meant was what is her size, at least approxi mately?” “It doesn’t matter in the least. Please show me some blouses, one blouse, any blouse, and let me go, for I am in a hurry to catch a train.” “With pleasure, sir, but if you can not give me an idea of the color, cut or size or anything else to guide me how can I hope to suit you?” “Give me any blouse you like so long as the price is between 30 and 40 marks. It doesn't matter a straw what cut or color or size 1 choose, for in any case it’s certain to be changed. I told you it is for a lady!”—London Telegraph. 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Merchanta Said to lie Loalntc Trade In All Directlonn—DisaMroa* He- Nnltn of (he Einperor'a South Amer ican Experiments—He Wants to Be Known ns Europe's Leadingr “Cap tain of Industry.” A new reactionary party is steadily asserting itself in German domestic and foreign politics whose cardinal principles are those of the great Chan cellor Bismarck, says the Berlin corre spondent of the New York Post. The division between the Von Bulow min istry, as the mouthpiece of Kaiser Wil helm, and the leading Conservative party men grows from day to day. The Prussian squirearchy is taking a vig orous and outspoken attitude against the foreign policy of the kaiser. The fact is growing daily more ap parent that this policy is bringing Ger many into sore straits both commer cially and politically. From day to day the voices of those who champion a return to Bismarck’s "home concen tration” policy become louder. In the reichstag and in the columns of repre sentative party papers fears are openly expressed that Germany may run into disastrous war and is sacrificing trade prestige, for Germany has encountered rebuffs on all sides of late. When Chancellor Von Bulow arose in the reichstag to “sweep away the miscon- ceptions of Germany’s foreign policy," his address was mainly instructive be cause of what it left unsaid, for Von Bulow lias not earned the title of “hap py phrasemaker” in vain. He has a valuable knack of passing over a knot ty problem with a jest. But the conservative political and business world of Germany is not on the side of the throne in its foreign pol icy. Kaiser Wilhelm wants to be known in history not only as Europe’s greatest, war lord, but as its leading "captain of industry.” But after the recent Venezuela campaign the trade balances between Germany and South America make melancholy reading. It is plain that Germany failed miserably in getting a more secure footing in South America or in creating respect for its commercial interests there. It aroused a prejudice against the Ger man trader all over South America which is vividly reflected in the latest trade reports with Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and other republics. The Hamburg South American Steam ship company at its last annual meet ing was unable to declare a dividend, and other steamship lines trading with Soutli America presented more or less pessimistic reports. Although Kaiser Wilhelm tried to rectify the mistakes of the German offi cial policy toward the Boers, his an tagonism to England has resulted in the systematic boycotting of German merchants and goods in South Africa. German iron and steel and mechanical products were highly favored in the Transvaal states during Kruger's re gime. With the British lion on guard, the Prussian eagle is kept at a dis tance. The same is true of German trade in China and especially at Hong kong, where German merchants and shippers complain of the combination of English tradesmen, who have houses of long standing, against German goods. In the Balkan states there is growing prejudice against German cap ital and goods owing to the obvious friendship between the German mon arch and the sultan of Turkey. But Germany is making good use of that friendship to tighten its grip on the Bagdad railway and other valuable concessions. On all sides there are evidences that Germany’s forward foreign policy is interfering with trade. In South Amer ica the tide has turned against Ger man and in favor of American trade, according toi the consular reports re ceived in Berlin from the special agents sent by Germany to the various lead ing ports of South America. In Eng land the label “Made In Germany” acts as a boycott. The government tariff policy is destroying the trade witli Russia, Austria-Hungary and Italy, for Russia and Austria, although be longing to antagonistic political alli ances, are making common cause against Germany to compel the latter to modify her duties on their imports. Nor is it difficult to perceive that France is gradually but surely making herself popular once again in Italy. Another profound source of irritation is the so called slavish and humiliating policy of the kaiser toward the United States. While he is offering a statue of Frederick the Great, granting audi ences to American citizens, promising handsome contributions to the St. Louis fair or inviting the American naval squadron to visit Kiel, the foreign of fice bolds an entirely different attitude. “We don’t want statues of Frederick the Great,” said a prominent American business man here the other day. “We want Germany to admit our bogs and our California fruits.” UKiQliE NAVai TEST. Mimic Attack to Be Made on European Port. WILL BLOCKADE LISBON, PORTUGAL Vnitpil Stntpn ».'nvy to (/Ire All the Powers. n»itl Especlall)' the Kaiser, Proof of Its Kllleiency—Kenr Ad miral Barker to Command the Squadron. The plans for sending the powerful battleship squadron into Europe; n wa ters next May contemplate a moie im pressive object lesson on the growing strength of the United States navy than has been supposed, says a Wash ington special to the New York World. Behind the shield of a practice cruise with the most friendly intentions it is proposed to demonstrate the ability of this government to carry a war to the doors of any country in Europe. To prove this the port of Lisbon, Portugal, is to be “blockaded” at the end of the long trip across the ocean. Portugal was selected for this unique test because the improbability of the United States over becoming involved in war with that country is well recog nized. Representations will be made that will prevent any Portuguese suspi cion of an ulterior motive. Rear Ad miral Barker, who will command the fleet, will entertain the nobility and na val officers of Portugal in lavish style on ins flagship, and visitors will be wel comed on all of the ships. The fleet will bo grouped off Lisbon long enough to prove that United States warships can cross the ocean and take sufficient coal along to assume offensive operations on an extensive scale. Eu rope has considered, this impossible. Tito fleet will consist of the Kearsarge, Admiral Barker’s flagship: the Illinois, the Indiana, the Maine, the Iowa, the Massachusetts, possibly the second class battleship Texas, the cruisers San Francisco and Albany and colliers and supply ships. In the lee of the’Azores the fighting ships will be coaled and provisioned so they will reach Portu gal in readiness for action. The fleet will proceed its though war were actu ally on. The cruisers will scout in ad- ■ vance. and the supply ships will be pro tected by the battleships. While the operations are intended as an object lesson to all of Europe, it is known that the navy department is especially anxious to let the kaiser see just what our ships can do. When Prince Henry was in Washington last year, he asked Chief Constructor Bowles as to the relative efficiency of German and American warships. “We build our ships to carry coal as well as to fight,” replied Bowles. “They can cross the ocean, and some of them can return without recoaling. Your ships cannot do that.” The ktiiser has regarded this as mere ly a boast. He is to be shown that it is more than that. Naval attaches of European coun tries are displaying great interest in the transatlantic maneuvers, and many of them have asked to be allowed to accompany the fleet. Their requests probably will be granted, as the uavy department wants to make its ease complete. The department is constantly work ing to increase the coal capacity of the warships and extend their steaming radius. The Texas can steam only 2,000 miles without recoaling. The Kearsarge can steam more than 6,000 miles without recoaling, which is half as far again as the Iowa, Indiana and Massachusetts, while the latest addi tion, the Maine, carries 2,000 tons of coal, as compared with the 1,645 tons of the Kearsarge. The Up to Date Indian. According to the Bliss (I. T.) Breeze, because of the thieving propensities of the palefaces, the Indians have aban doned their old time burial customs of putting valuables belonging to the de ceased Into the grave with the corpse. Now they pnt the money in a bank and bury a certificate of deposit, which the departed one may cash In the happy hunting grounds. A Novel Vehicle For n Millionaire. Mounted with silver fittings an Irish jaunting car is being made in Dublin for a Boston millionaire. *• * ve r FIRST NEW FILIPINO COIN. It In a 1'eNo and War Made In the I'hllndeliihia Mint. Colonel Edwards, chief of the insular division of the war department, has Just procured from the Philadelphia mint the first of the new silver money to be used in the Philippines in the shape of a “peso,” says a Washington dispatch to the Philadelphia Press. The new coin is simple and chaste in design. On its face is an emblematic female figure representing a Filipino working out the destinies of her home on an anvil. Behind her is the smok ing cone of a volcano, and around the picture are the words “One Peso. Pili pinas.” On the reverse of the coin is a slightly modified representation of the United States coat of arms, with the words “United States of America.” Colonel Edwards hopes to supply the Islands with the mAv currency by the beginning of the fiscal year. A Seasonable Lay. Sing a song of other days, Of other thoughts than ours. Of melting snows and leaf strewn ways And newly budding flowers; Of that clear note at evening when The robin sways and swings In yonder maple tree again And sings and sings and sings. Sing a song of milder air. Of gentle, kindly rain; Of benediction everywhere^ On river, sky and plain; Of geese honk honking overhead. As. far against the sky. Through brilliant noon or sunset Nd In ragged ranks they fly. Sing a song of carpets green. Spread over every hill, Of new sprung ferns that droop and lean Along the singing rill; Of squirrels trooping through the trees, Replenishing their store; Of clouds of gnats and droning bees Aroused and forth once more. And sing a song of youthful eyes To drink In this delight And hearts not all too worldly wise. To read the spring aright. For we are busy with affairs, For life’s a weighty thing And leaves no time among Its cares To hear the songs of spring. -Janies Montague In New York Evening Journal. D mr Munr innLi Ik. TO HEAR. Remarkable Powers of a New Electrical Invention. DEVICE THAT MAGNIFIES SOUND. The “Aconstlcoe* Consists of » Transmitter, an Ear Pieee and a Buttery, All Ocenpyinff Little Sitnce—Alllicted Children in Ec stasy Over Revelation of Sonnd to Them. A new electrical device by which the deaf are made to hear and the dumb to speak, called the "acousticou," was first made known to the public the oth er day iu New York after a demonstra tion in the laboratory of its inventor, Miller Reese Hutchison, says the New York World. The most hopeless persons in the New York Institution For the Deaf and Dumb, some who had never heard a sound iu all their lives, put the little instrument to their ears and listened to Sousa’s marches, and one of them, a boy horn deal', danced to a twostep, the first music he had ever heard. Lips that had never spoken coherent words were made to speak so that ev ery syllable could be understood. A girl who lost her hearing ten years ago laughed and clapped her hands with joy when she listened to sounds almost forgotten. Women who had been invited to the laboratory to watch the experiment wept at the pathetic display of joy on the faces of the unfortunates. When it was over, Professor Van Tassel of the deaf and dumb institution praised the invention. “Every deaf person can be made to hear, and mutes can be taught to speak with the aid of the instrument,” said the professor. “Heretofore the great difficulty in teaching mutes to speak lias been .hat they could not hear their own voices and did not know how to form words. With the acousticou they can hear and so can learn to speak. “We an* going to try the instrument in the institution. It will l»e like learn ing a new language to those who have never spoken. They will have to learn the mcaniiig of each sound. I think that So per cent of the deaf mutes should be able to hear with the instru ment so tnat they could understand. It is a small device and can he carried around easily.” It was proved at Mr. Hutchison’s demonstration that persons who never had spoken could speak. Orris Benson, a hoy deaf, dumb and blind, who could not hear one sound with all the devices in use, heard words spoken in a low tone when he had the acousticou to his ear. Mr. Hutchison pronounced the word “papa” in an ordinarily low tone. The boy became instantly excited, and, turning to where be knew Professor Van Tassel, was standing, he said in rapid sign language that he had heard something, but did not know what it was. The word was repeated by Mr. Hutchison. The boy, growing more and more excited, tried to repeat the word, and his untrained voice shrilled out the two syllables “pah-pah.” Another pupil from the institution, a girl who was born blind, deaf and dumb, shrieked and laughed with de light when she beard her own voice. She repeated the words “mamma” and “papa” after Mr. Hutchison. The acousticou consists of a trans mitter, an car piece and a small electric battery, all connected with wires. Ev ery part of the instrument is carried in the pockets, out of sight, with the exception of the ear piece, which is small and easily hidden in the palm of the hand. The transmitter is a rubber disk about three Inches in diameter, in the hollowed reverse side of which are imprisoned certain gases, hermetically sealed. The composition of these gases is a secret of the inventor. The instrument magnifies sound. A whisper spoken across a room is caught up and transformed into a shout by the time it reaches the ear piece. This high ly intensified sound so stimulates the auditory nerve that hearing results, no matter how deaf a person may be. The volume of sound does not make any difference, it is the penetrating qual ity of the electric sound wave that stimulates the nerve to action. To illustrate how the invention mag nified aud transmitted sound a mega phone attached to a phonograph and connected with the battery and trans mitter was put out of a window a block away from Herald square, in New York. As the notes of the torea dor’s song from “Carmen” floated out on the air people a block away on Broadway stopped and turned to try and catch the point whence the music emanated, and men in the elevated railroad trains rnshed to the platforms, bewildered at the volume of sound and the Inability to trace it to its source. Electric Shock* For Deaf ’Walter*. There is a club in the Latin quarter of Paris composed entirely of deaf mutes, says the New York World. Not only aro the members of the club un able to speak or bear, but everybody about the place Is in like condition. In stead of summoning servants with a bell the members call them by an elec tric contrivance which gives them a slight shock. Among the members is a veteran of the Indian war in Amer ica, whose tongue was cut out by sav ages and whose deafness resulted from wounds Inflicted abont tbe head during an encounter with redskins. ll*r«onl’a Latest Scheme. Signor Marconi, the inventor of wire- leas telegraphy, is said to have discov ered a method by which oxygen may be extracted from air at a Tory alight expense. SOME QUAINT ENGLISH. l*oi-tu;!;ii<*Hf Idea of the Lamtaage la 11 Kooh of “I.enrnitiK-” A book an amusing as it is rare is in the library of a Wlssahickon student. The work is called "0 Nova Guia da Conversacao.” it is supposed to in struct the Portuguese in English con versation. and the following, a dia logue headed “For to Ride a Horse," is the kind of English conversation it sup plies: “Here is a horse who have a bad looks. Give mi another; I will not that. He not sail know to march, he is pursy, he is foundered. Don't you are ashamed to give me a jade as like? He is und- sboed, lie is with nails up; it want to lend to the farrier.” An anecdote in the book is: “A day came a man to consult this philosopher for to know at o’clock it was one to eat ‘if thou art rich, told him eat when you shall wish; if you are poor, when you may do.’ ” in tlie preface the most elegant par agraph is the following: “We expect then, who the little book (for tlie care what we wrote him, and for her typographical correction) that may he worth the acceptation of the studious persons, and especially of the youth, at which we dedicate him par ticularly.” The authors of this strange volume are Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Caro- lino. it would he interesting to know where Pedro and Jose “learned” Eng lish.—Philadelphia Record. SatlNfiiMl Hi* Cnrloaitr. The curiosity of the natives of wild countries as to everything belonging to the traveler often leads to amusing sit uations. Mr. J. W. Wells tells in “Three Thousand Miles Through Brazil” of his visit to one settlement where the only shopkeeper of tlie place proved very inquisitive. He was a frequent visitor and would carefully examine the few belongings of the traveler. His curios ity was finally punished iu a very fun ny manner. On one of his visits, writes Mr. Wells, he found my bottle of spirits of ammo nia on Hie table, and, seeing it was something he had not hitherto inspect ed, ho naturally laid hold of it aud asked of me, "What is this?” “Only a medicine," I replied, aud with a perhaps unworthy satisfaction 1 watched him hold it up to the light, look at it all round and finally remove the glass stopper and then take a good sniff. I had to rush forward to save my precious ammonia, as he staggered aud gasped for breath and ejaculated, “I am dying!" By dint of much slapping of ins back and dousing of cold water he quickly recovered, hut nevermore did lie touch any of my things. After Dinner Oratory. The fake humorous speaker has an easier career than even the fake elo quent speaker. Yet at any given din ner the orator who passes out mere elo cution to his hearers has a success al most as instant and splendid as his clowning brother, it is amazing what tilings people will applaud when they have tlie courage of each other’s inepti tude. They will listen after dinner to anything but reason. They prefer also the old speaker to new ones; they like the familiar taps of humor, of elo quence. if they have tasted the brew before, they know what they are going to get. The note of their mood is toler ance, but tolerance of the accustomed, the expected; not tolerance of the novel, tlie surprising. They wish to be at rest, and what taxes their minds mo lests their intellectual repose. They do not wish to climb any great heights to reach the level of the orator.—W. D. Howells in Harper’s. A Queer Relic. In University college, London, is a singular object that is preserved care fully in a remote gallery inside a glass case, which again is contained in a huge wooden cupboard, the doors of which are locked aud the keys in safe custody. The relic which is thus so zealously guarded is described in some notes on tlie history of the college as the “skeleton” of Jeremy Bentham, “clad iu the garments in which he lived,” while his head only is stated to have been “mummified.” It has always been understood that Bentbam’s body was embalmed, and in that case it can not be his mere skeleton which is re posing tiiere under lock aud key. <► » ♦ ♦♦ ♦ f o If anybody has a message for 4 k the people of this community he cannot deliver it to them so f effectually, so cheaply, so quick ly in any other way as through the columns of this paper. It is the business of this pa per to carry messages of one kind and another into homes. < k The message will be delivered, too, under favorable conditions, ^ ^ for few persons take up their local paper except in a pleasant * and receptive frame of mind. The sign upon the fence board f may be good, but it can be seen only by travelers who go that particular road. The message in the local paper carries itself to thousand 10 matter by which road they travel. Select your space and put ^ your message where it will do the most good. We, perhape, can help joa it job will but ask oa. i-»-+ ♦ ♦ ♦ • ♦