Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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a* Red Iron Racket Cheapest House on Earth Is now almost giving away goods at prices so low you will wonder how can they do it._ _Now for the Sweeping Out Prices Have you tried our fine parched Coffee 15c per lb. 7 pounds Parched Coffee for $1.00 16 lbs. Sugar $1.00 10 lbs. tiood Coffee $1.00 Don't pay $1.00 for Standard Patent Medicines. We sell 'em for 87c, save 13c. 50c bottles 42c, save 8c We have all the Best Standard Medicines. 1 Rig Wash Pan 1 Bi<> Pie Pan 05 05 1 Set Nice White Plates 39c $1.00 Set White China Plates 50c 3 boxes Searchlight Matches 10c 15c plug Tobacco, Baby Ruth, Thorough Rred 10c ioc Bottle Lemon 01 Vanilla Kx tract 08c 5c Bottle Lemon 01 Vanilla tract 04c 5c Cake Fairy Sonp o.jc 5c Cake Ptimmo . kin .Soap 04c ioc Cake Glycerine Soap 05c Big Jar Vasolene 05c 2 Big Cakes Victory Washing .Soap 05c Special for Saturday j 6c good yard wide .Sea Island .j 1 <c 6c good Checked Homespun I '.-c 6e good Ginghams and Cham bray ? .) ;.Jc ! 6e good Calico 04c 5c and ioc Laces, Yalencines and Torchons, only 03c .Saturday will be your last day to buy these under cut prices. Buy Clothing, Hats, and Shoes 2 good Handkerchiefs 05c This week at a sacrifice. Our loss, your gain. We are sweeping out goods this week at unheard of prices. 10 Balls Thread 05c 1 .Spool Thread, Good 02c 1 Spool Best Thread 04c 25 Nut Megs 05c 12 Cakes Victory Soap 25c 50 Shirts 35c $1.00 Shirts 69c Si.39 Pants 93c $1.68 Pants $1.19 $2.25 Pants [.50 $3.00 Pants #4.00 Pauls $4.50 John B. Stetson Hat, this week $2.91 2.09 1.89 1.19 87c 79c 39C 05c #3.00 Men's Hats 2. jo " " 2.oo " " 1-25 " " 1.00 " 44 75C 2 .Straw Hats Clean .Sweep this week. Special this week only 3 Cakes Fairy and Punnno Toilet Soap for toe Hurry up and avoid the rush for they are all coming to RED IRON RACKET LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA We are making money for you.?J. C. B. & Co. 40 \\l THE COTTON CROP IS DETERIORATING. ~|cr Crops Suffering from Drought List of interesting Waterloo Personals. ? Waterloo, Aug. 18.?Owing to the continued dry spell the cotton crop in this section has been cut off 50 per cent. Tht dry weather is making cotton open early (h some sections. All forage crops are considerably cut off. Mr. L. L. Dendy, who has been in Columbia for some time, has decided to move his family there and will make th>! change about Sept. 1st. Messrs. Long & Culbertson are over hauling their ginnery here and will have the plant in splendid shape for the new crop. Mr. Marvin Wharton, of Columbia, is with his cousin. Prof. S. W. Puckett, for a few days. Me ssrs. H. D. Winn, W. H. Culbert son, W. W. Campbell and Postmaster Harris are at home from Greenville and Traveler's Host. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Fuller are at homo from a visit to Mr. John Sims and family at Central. Mrs. W. L. Hoyd and children, of Greenville, are with the family of Maj. T. B, Anderson for a few weeks. Mrs. J, Casper Smith is visiting her : i tor, Mrs. A. C. Keller, in Greenwood. Mr. Eugene Walker, of Appleton, is spending a few days bore with his sis ter, Mrs. L. L. Dendy. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Anderson, of Spartanburg, visited relatives here for several days last week. Col. James T, Harris and family, of Spartanbuog, came down last week and wore the guests of relatives forseveral days. Mr. Wilson Harris, of Clinton, is in town. Prof. Josoph Sheeley, of Townville, spent Sunday in town. Thinks it Saved His Life. Lester M. Nelson, of Naples, Maine, says In a recent letter: "I have used Dr. King's New Discovery many years for coughs and colds and I think it saved my life. I have found it a reliable rem edy for throat, and lung complaints and would m more be without a bottle than I would be without food." For nearly forty years New Discovery has stood at the bead of throat and lung remedies. As a preventive of pneumonia and healer of weak lungs it. has no equal. Sold under guarantee at Laurens Drug Co.'fl and Palmetto Drug Co.'a drug .IS. BOC. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. ' SOLVED THE PROBLEM. f"he Simple Socrct of Blowing tho Big Glass Globes. Emperor Nicholas wished to llluinl (uito tho Alexander column In n grand style. The slice of the round lamps to 1h> used for the purpose were Indicated and the glasses ordered at the manu factory, where the workmen exerted themselves In vain and almost blew the hroath out of their bodies In the endeavor to obtain the desired sl/.e. Tho Commission must be executed that was self evident?but how? A great premium was offered to the one who could solve the probl ?in. Again the human bellows toiled lid puffed. Their object seemed unattain able, when at last a long bearded Itus slan stepped forward and declared that be could do It; he had strong lungs, he would only rlnso ills mouth first with a littlo water to refresh them. Hu applied his mouth to the pipe ! and puffed to such purpose that the vitreous ball swelled and puffed nearly to tho required dimensions, up to them, beyond thorn. "Hold! Hold!" cried tho lookers on. "You are doing too much. And how did you do it all?" "The matter is simple enough," an swered tho long bear.!, "but. first, where Is my premium?" And when he clutched the promised bounty he explained. He had retained some of tho water In hia mouth, which hud passed thonce into the glowing hall and then, becom ing stoani, had rendered hhn tills good service. Idle Curiosity. "Why are you calling up the various hospitals?" "My friend Knlgglehat assured mo he'd pay mo that ?$."? today or break a leg, and I want to find out which leg ho broke."?Kansas City Journal. Easy. Lady (on street)?Do you know whero Johnny Tucker lives, my littlo boy? Little Hoy?He ain't home, but If you give mo n nickel I'll find him for you. Lady?All right. Now, whero Is he? Little Boy?Thanks. I'm him.?Judge. The Other Half la Waiting. One of the most pitiable sights in tho world Is that of people who are using only a small bit of their ability while the rest of It Is waiting to bo used. It Is still Ineffective because of tho many littlo weaknesses or peculiarities, tho bad habits or tho lack of preparation which handicaps and makes practleolly ineffective the whole life. How pitia ble to see splendid talent, tine ability, everywhere tied down by comparative ly little things! Success Magazine. MAMMOTH CAVE. It Furnished the Saltpeter For th? War of 1812. There Is nn Interesting bit of history connected with (ho cave, Few Ameri cans are aware thnt it hclpud to save the country in the war of 1812 by fur nishing saltpeter for the manufacture of gunpowder, hut such is the case. The powder used by Old Hickory in whipping the llrftlsh so handsomely at New Orleans in 1815 is said to havo been made with saltpeter from Mam moth cave. As early ns 1800 a Mr. Fowlor obtained, it Is said. 100,000 pounds of oiler from the twenty eight limestone caverns that had then been discovered In Kentucky. In 1800 l>r. Samuel Hrown of Lex ington redo a thousand miles on horse back to Philadelphia lo lay before the American Philosophical Bocloty.'ln ses sion there, the facts nbout the pres ence of niter in these caverns, saying that the deposits would be especially valuable in case of war with any for eign power, Hrown did not mention Mammoth cave by nnmo at that time, and the probability Is, as local tradi tion asserts, that It was Jlrst discov ered by whites la 1800 when a hunter named Qouchtns or Hntchlns entered It In pursuit of a wounded bear. Hay ard Taylor says It was llrst discovered In 1802, bot does not glvo his author ity. Tho only value set on It nt llrst was for the nitrous earth It contained. For this a Mr. McLean paid $-10 for the cave and 200 acres of land around Its mouth. McLean sold It to a Mr. (Jatewood; ho lo Messrs. Ora/.t and Wllklns, who dorlved n fortune from tho saltpeter made there during tho war of 1812. Tho onibargo cut us off from any other supply, and the output of saltpeter from this envo enabled our manufacturers to mako nufHclcnt pow der to carry on the war.?New York Post. A Bungler. lie was a twentieth century hustling builder, and under his auspices cottages nnd buildings seemed to spring up like mushrooms. "Please, sir," said one of his fore men, rushing up to him one morning In a state of menial collapse, "one o' tho new houses hns fallen down in tho night." "What!" ho roared. "You mean to say that one of my well built, desirable residential houses hns come to y/ttd? Ah, I suppose you took tho sen Holding down beforo you put on tho wall pa perl" "Yes, sir." "Well, what can you expect, you rank outsider? Call yourself a fore man! (Jet off the works! You're Hacked!"--London Oloho. Job Printing! Send us your next order for printing. Only the best grade of paper used and at the very lowest prices. Subscribe to The Adver tiser. Only $1.00 per year. 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