Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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You will often I M ^ save the cost of a I #w w years' subscrip- I I tion to the I I * ENTERPRISE j -A J by consulting its I 4 advertisements. Vol. X. NEW COLUMBIA PAPER. Afternoon Eight Page With J 10,000, Capital. The Corporators.?The New Education Board Organize and Appoint Coniinittces-Holection Text Books Now Postponed. Colombia, S. O., May 5?A commission was issued to-day to y the Capital publishing company, Columbia, 8. C. The corporators are A. B. Sberard, Julius H. Wal? ker and W. J. McGhee. The cap ital stock $10,000, divided into 400 shares of $25 each. The com rany will publish an afternoon eight page paper. This is a new enterprise. The secretary of state has been notified that an application for a charter would be made for a branch road from Aiken to the Kaohan works, situated a few miles from that city. The State board of education held a meeting last night. The matter of selecting text books was postponed until Monday, September 3rd. The board in the meantime, will consider contracts from publishers who may wish to ^ ofTer bids. The 'ollowing standing committees were appointed. Examinations and regulations, Knight, Brown, Cook. Text books 1 and course of study, McCain, Cook, Archer, Banks, ltaysor. School supplies, charts, maps, etc., Brown, Archer, and Cook, Scholarships Archer, Cook and McCain. When you auk for Dr. M. A. Simmon* Liver Medicine, nee thai you get it and not some worthless Imitation. Eire In Rock Hill. Rock Hill, May 5.?At 11.30 tonight fire was discovered in the store occupied by A. Moses, dry goods, and Mrs. M. Katteree, mil-' linery. The store is in the heart of the business block which constains the post office, Sandifer's drug store, the Commercial and Maimer's bank and others on the south side of Main street. For a while things looked serious but now, at 12.30, the fire is under control. The Moses store is entirely gutted, his and Mrs. Katteree'* stock being either consumed or drenched. Loss for Moses about 14,000, with $2,500 insurance. Mr*. Katteree's stock about $1,000, about covered by insuiance. MILLIONS GIVEN AWAY. It is certainly gratiiyfng to the public to know of one concern in the land who are not afraid to be generous to the needy and fluttering. The proprietors ot I)r. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have given away over ten million trial bottles of this great medicine; and have the satisfaction of knowing it has absolutely cured thousands ot hopeless cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs are surely cured by it. Call on Craw ford Bros. Druggist, and get a free trial bottle. Regular size50c. and $1. Every bottle guaranteed, or price refunded. 3j Value ot a Newapaper. Mr. K. H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers' Record, in re viewing the industrial development nf K/tllth anva an/.h places hh Birmingham, Atlanta and Charlotte were built up by the energy of good newspapers. The people helped the newspapers and they helped the people. Their interests are identical. They are mutually dependent.' Capital helpa those who helped themselves. Mia* Florence Newman, who has been a great sufferer from muscular % rheumatism, says Chamberlain's Fain Balm is the only remedy thnt affords her relief. Miss Newman is a much respected resident of the village of Gray, N. Y., and maket this statement for the benefit of others similarly afflicted. This liniment is for sale by J. F. Mackey A Co. lNCAS " LA THE MARVELS WE HAVE WROUGHT IN ONE HUN ; OREO YEARS. By Qeoryo B. Waldron, in May Number Ladiex Home Journal (Concluded from last issue.) I Not a cast iron plow exited in , 1800. The farmer used the sickle, j the scythe and the tl-?i 1. 11m plow was homemade?of wood covered with a thin sheet of iron. Seeds | were scattered by hand ; the hoe < was the cultivator. Grain was , gathered by hand, threshed on ( the floor during the winter, and crushed beneath a stone pestle | into flour, or ground in the neigh- 1 boring flour mill. The mower, the reaper and the self binder were unheard of. To go/to New York from Philadelphia meant two days by the \ swiftest stage; to day it is done in two hours. To go from New England to Oregon it took Docror Atkinson eight months, even in 1847. To-day one can go from j New York to San Francisco in , one hundred and two hours. i There was not a mile of rail- ' road in 1800. The fir-t lino built J was the Baltimore and Ohio, in | 1800 It wn foti"toen miles long, i Three years later when the South 1 Carolina Railway line of one 1 hundred and ihirfu.oir miluo iro? finished, it wan the longest rail ( road in the world. To day in the i United States alone there are { 185,000 mileB of railroad, or more ! 7 J than a third of the milage of the ( entire world-. In 1833 there were but sixteen passenger locomotives in the United States ; to day there are 10,000. No steamboat existed in the world a hundred years ago. Sailing vessels crossed the Atlantic Ocean and it took from two to three months for the voyage. Bui let proof packet-boats, propelled by Rails, horses and poles, attended to most of the commerce be tween river towns. Passage from New Orleans to Louisville cost $125. It was not until 1807 that Robert Fulton built hia "Clermont" and the first steam-propelled boat in the world steamed up the Hudson river. The street car was unknown in 1800. The century was a third 1 over before the first horse car ap peared in New York city. The trolley car came only twelve years ago. Now we have 19,000 miles of trolley roads in America, running 00,000 cars. The newspaper had hardly star tod. Theie were about one hundred and fifty publications of all I kinds in the United States. About one-tenth of them were newspapers, and were issued .daily. Not one of them sold more than a thousand copies a day. Tc^day we have 22,000 ditrerent period- 1 icals of all kinds. Thero were 903 post-offices in 1800. To day we have 75,000? that is, in America alone. It took a letter sixteen days to go from rniiaaeiprna to l.exington, Ken tucky ; twenty.two days to Nashvil'e, Tennessee. The cheapest letter postage was eight cents, and to send a letter more than a hundred miles cost a shilling. Three million letters and paper? were then sent, in a year ; at the present time the post oflie handles about .30,000,000 pieces of mail iu a single day. The telegraph was unheard of. Not until 1844did Morse send his first telegram. When the battle of Waterloo was* fought, in 1815, unusual measures of haste were adopted to get the news to London, where it was received three days later. The guns of Dewey's fleet were hardly quiet before the result of the battle was known in New York. To-day we have 1,- i 000,000 miles of telegraph wire in America, and 70,000,000 i TEH SB.MI-W] NCASTER, S. C., WED messages are sent over them each year. There aie 150.000 miles of cable on ocean beds, bnt none of this whs laid until the century was sixty six years old. This is how the people lived in 1800. Every community was iso lated fr<?m every other cnmmn nity. N tw York was farther re moved from Philadelphia than A fries is now I fr nroa M.!? V..? . .. v, ? . a U ?t ? u non 1 cm o Day before. B >ston knew what had happened iu New York on Christmas day. There were practically no conveniences; people of those early days knew nothing whatever of comforts. And yet by the people of those days was laid the basis of the country we enjoy to day?a hundred years later. An interesting thought: What will the people of a hundred years hence think of how we lived in 1900? BRAVE /WEN FALL Victims to stomach, liver and kidney troubles as well as women *nd all feel the results in loss ol appetite, poisons in the blood, backache, nervousness, headache *nd tired, listless, run-down feeling. But there's no need to feel like that. Listen to J. VV. Gardner, Idaville, Ind. tie says: "Electric Bitters are just the thing for a man when he is all run down, ind don't care whether he lives or lies. It did more to give me new itrength and good appetite than anything I could take. I can now ?ar anything have a new lease on life." Only 50c. at Crawford Bros. Drug St'*e. Every bottle guaranteed. 3. resting Newspaper Advertising. Frank Daniel, a popular New York comruedian, made an experiment recently at Wallack's theatre in that city to test the value of different modes of advertising. lie says: "Between the acts the ushers distributed among the audience slips with a brief printed statement politely asking the recipient to indicate by a check mark in the list of various advertising forms employed as to which one had attracted him to the performance-newspapers, bill boards, window lithographs or something else. The people thus seemed to take kindly to the idea ? ? L nun llic ICBJ?UIJ?OB WBIH 111(191.111) eral. Eleven hundred slips were handed to the ushers, and of that numbers 991 had been attracted by the newspapers solely." RED HOT FROM THE GUN Was the ball that hit G. B. Stoadman of Newark, Mich., in the Civil War. It caused horrible Ulcers that no treatment helped for 20 years* Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him. Cures Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Boils, Felons, Corns, Skin Eruptions. Best Bile cure on earth. 25c. a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Crawford Bora. Druggist. 3 An exchange gives this unique order of the editor to the foreman as a sample of printing of fice phraseology. "Billey, put George Washing' >n on the galley and finish up thai murder commenced yesterday. Set up the ruins of hercules and distribute the small pox ; you needn't finish the run-away matter. Look up dell' Davis and slide Ben Butler into hell, and leave the pie alone until after dinner. But the lady's fnrm In nraaa a n rl irr\ In llin .1i I and put him to work on Deacon Fog's article on eternal punishment." W0RK!N6 NIGHT AND DAY The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Dr. King's New Life I'ills. Kvery pill is a sugar-coated globule of health, (hat changes weakness into strength, listlessness into energy, brain f?g into mental power. They're wonderful in hui'ding up the health. Only 25c. per box Sold by Crawford Bros. Drugist. 3 LRPRI )a Urn A&sofutefy Pure 8 e H "No. The Democrats who ar coming back must not expect single departure to be made fror the position taken by the part in 189(5. First, because the posi tion taken then wan right ; sec ond, it would not be wine t alienate those who were with u in 1896 in order to please thos who were then against us." Mr. Bryan stopped for a mc ment; he seemed to feel that h was making a statement tha wouid have a serious effect. Th old lion look came into his fact the look he used to have when h led the disorganized Democrac against the disciplined army o Mark Hanna in 1696. " i ne gold democrats who com backup n&iu, "car. defend the! coming on one of two grounds They can nay that they are con vinced that the position taken b the party in 1890 was right an that they were wrong, or the can say that because of the nei questions which have arisen, an which will he included in the ne1 platform, they are now willing t accept the platform as a whole. A CIIANOK FOR SILVER LKUISLATIOI And now came a questio which several of the stronget gold Democrats in New Yor have asked me to present to M: Bryan. "Mr. Bryan." I said, "the pat sage of the currency bill and it signature by Mr. McKinley tak it out of the power of the nex president to change the status c gold or silver. As the senate wi have a gold standard majority fo live years to come, it is impossi U 1 _ f : J a uiu lur nujr previuout ur >uy pal ty to establish the free coinag of silver during the next fou years. The currency queRtion ii therefore, out of the realm c practical politics for the presen or, at least, out of the sphere o either legislative or executiv action. Why should a dead issu be reincorporated into the Deri ocratic platform ?" "In the first place," said Mi Bryan. "I do not admit that th senate is Republican beyond a hope of change. We are certai to make large gains in the east i we carry the country, whether w shall secure enough to give us majority in the senate depend on the size of the victory. "If the gold Democrats reall believe that it is impossible 1 gain tbe senate, then they nee not worry about the silver planl They ought not to ask the part to abandon the silver plank o the ground that it cannot be cs rifd out. In other words the should not ask us to give up a hope of froe silver so long as the are afraid of it." ENTI ELB^KLaY. NSDAY, MAY 9, 19C WILLIAM J. BRYAN. UIVES DEMOCRATIC I)E CLARATION ON SILVER. Chicago Platform to Ho Ho n! firmed?Ratio of 16to 1 Will Stand?No Concessionh to Uold Democrats. In an interview granted t James Creelman, for the Nov York Journal, William J. Br_>ar at Port Huron, Michigan, o April 30, uttered hie opinion re gardiug the money plank .u th platform to be adopted at Kansa City, which puts an end to th differences in the party on 1h coinage question. Says Mr. Urpel man in the Journal of May Is' referring to t ie enunciation b Mr. Bryan of his opinion : " What he said, he said deliber atelv, thoughtfully, slowly, wit! i full realization of the poiitica effect his words would have. I asked him to make a definit statement on the money plank n the platform that would clear th atmosphere. I have never see him more earnest, more full of profound realization of the politi cal condition confronting hiir and I lay stress on this point n order to convey clearly the fac what Mr. Bryan said to me to da represents his unchangeable pur pOHCJ. NO CHANGE IN CHICAGO PLATFORM, "Will the Chicago platform b reaffirmed at Kansas City?" asked. "It certainly will be reaffirm ed." "Will any change be made ii the Chicago platform to concili ate the Democrats who are com ing back to the party?" I f. No inferior or ii > used in Royal for tf ing its cost; only t \ and healthful. Royal Baking 1 ,f peculiar sweetness, noticed in the fines n a etc., which expert , unobtainable by tl 1 leavening agent. > < tc > ? bt 0 ] ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO SPECIAL DECLARATION KOR 8ILVE1 CERTAIN. a "Will a specific declaration fo . the free coinage of silver ant gold at a ratio of 10 to 1 be pu e in the platform ?" a "Certainly. To drop the rati* n would be equal to dropping th y question, because no one wotili i. believe that the party was ver .. sincere in its advocacy of bimet o allium if we abandon the en] 8 ratio advocate 1 by any consider e able number of peeple." Mr. Bryan refused to discus > the relative importance of tin e three main issues?money, im perialism and trusts?saying tha e men differ aH to their relativ importance, that he thinks then e all important, and he expects t< I ll - I A 1 1 1 ? * y mxK? me ngnr an aiong rue line f This statement of Mr. Bryan i a political event of the first mag e nitude. It will bring to a pnddei r end all negotiations for an evas i. ion of the money question. Mr i- Bryan ia in a better position thai y any other man to know what th (1 position of the majority in th y Kanaaa City convention will be * and he would not have spokei d today aa he did without ful it knowledge. The man who call o himself a Democrat this year wi! " do it either because of free ailve or in spite of it. ?. TRUSTS ONE OF TIIK ORKATKST IS* n SUKS. it k Mr. Bryan's speech tonight wa r. notable because of the preaenc of so many Michigan Republican! j to whom he appealed to abando ,8 a party owned and controlled b o trusts. t He gave a long list of publi >f quefitionn on whicn the Kepubli |J can party had suddenly abandor ir ed its convictions at the dictatio t- of organized and rapaciou r- wealth, and denounced the blur a denng operations of the Wir r and Steel Trust as an example c s, the scope of the trust system ?f "The Republican party h,*i t, made ambiguous references t >f trusts in their platform thi 6 year," he said, "but the Repul 6 licans have the president, til senate and the house of repn sentatives. If ever they do 11c ' act against the trusts now, f II the beginning of a presidents? n campaign, how can we expec if them to act after the campaig ?? is over?" a la Beware of a Coughy A cough is not a disease but a sy m| J torn Consumption and brononiti '' which ars the most dangerous ar: d fatal disease, have for their first ind lc. cation a persistent cough, and if pr<>| y erly treated as soon as this cough a| pears are easily cured. Chamberlain in cough Remedy has proven wonde r fully successful, and gained its wi< (V reputation ami extensive sale by i || success in curing tiie disease whh cause coughing. If it is not henefh-i it will not cost yon a <ent. For sa by J. F, Mackey it Co. If you have any tliinp to sell advertise It III JLmu/ f tli? Enterprise. Kates reasonable. . No. 11 &ak/m&"jpsowiosjh mpure ingredients are ie purpose of cheapenhe most highly refined 3owder imparts that flavor and delicacy ;t cake, biscuit, rolls, pastry cooks declare is le use of <any other lutn is used in malting cheap baking powders. I! ju want to know the eflect of alum upon the nder linings of the stomach, touch a piece to >ur tongue. You can raise biscuit with alum iking powder, but at what a cost to health I 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. < A 06 Foot Whale Ashore. r Conway, May 4.?A mammoth i whale ban been washed ashore I near tho terminus of the Conway Seashore railroad, and President e ! Burroughs has been running exj elusions to accommodate the y crowd wishing to see the "big '* fish." It is 66 feet in length and ? 24 feet in breadth. It h?R in its side a harpoon with about 30 feet g of rope attached. The supposition e is that it was attacked by a whal* ing crew and that it escaped but, * died from the effects of itn ( wounds. To prove to those who n did not see it that this was not a i. "fish story" of the usual type, * several took snap shots of the monster.?The State. n "It ift with a good deal of pleasure and satisfaction that I recommend Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and e Diarrhoea Kemedy," says Druggist e A. W. Sawtelle, of Hartford, Conn. , "A lady customer, seeing the remedy exposed for sale on my show case, said to me: "I really believe that I medicine saved my life the past sums iner while at the shore,' and she bell came so enthusiastic over its merits that I at once made up my mind to recommend it in the future. Recently a gentleman came into my store so overcome with colic pains that he sank at once to the tloor. I gave him a dose of this remedy which helped him. I repeated the dose and in fifteen fl minutes he left my atore smilingly informing me that he felt as well as e ever." Sold by J. F. Mackey ?fc Co. y The Famine in India. c London, March 5.?The report ' that cholera is strengthening its deadly hold on famine stricken 1B India brings the pitiful condition , of that country more than ever e to the public view. About 93,>f 500,000 persons, for this is the population of the districts aflfectts ed, are sweltering their squalid s existences away amid pestilence and misery that show no signs of e abatement. Hundreds of thous?. ands of pounds in good British >t gold, good German marks and it American coin have been thrown il into the country, but judging '< from the latest advices, all this 11 charity is merely a drop in the ocean. There in more Catarrh in this section of the , country than nil other diseases put together, and until the last tew year* wan supposed to H, be Incurable. For u great ninny yearn doctors id pronounced it a local (llneanc, and prencrlbcd local remedtea, and l>y constantly filling to euro with local treatment, pronounced it in( - curable. Science lias proven catarrh to bo a a. constitutional treatment Hall's Catarrh Cure. , manufactured by F J ('honey & Co , Toledo, Ohio, is the only conntltltutlonal cure on the r market. is taken internally In doses from ten |e drops to a teunpoonful. It acta directly on the - blood and mucoun'nurfaces of the system They ' nlTi-r iinf ilt NliKKh rxd.i,Alts for ?nv case it ll fails to cure Send for circulars and teslimoaI I nlals. Address. . , I'. ,i. CHKNKY A CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, ihc llall s Family Fills are the i?cst.