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. ' THE FIRST RUBBER SHOES. They Melted In Summer and Became Brittle In Winter. India rubber ?hjcs were first manufactured in Eosbiiry, Mass., in 1833, and verily they were "fearfully and wonderfully made." They really bore no resemblance whatever to a shoe. Thev had the ap. pearanee of having been run into f molds or blown, the same as glass 1 , bottles are made. They were ftade ^ of pure rubber gum. No attempt was made to imitate the shape of the shoe or foot they were intended to cover. In shape they were hollow tubes, tapering toward the toe. ^ At the place where the opening to pull on the overshoe should be was an irregular hole, without shape, just as they came from the mold. The hole was enlarged with a sharp pair of shears to fit the instep or cut high or low to suit the taste or caprice of the customer. The work was done by the .salesman after the buyer had selected, according to his requirements, heavy or ligh t, thick or thin. Men's sizes -were very heavy, the soles being frequently from one-fourth to a /hall inch in thickness. They were tied in pairs and stuffed with straw or hay to keep them in shape for shipment. A lady's foot, incased in such a huge, ill shaped mass of india rubber gum, weighing at least a pound, presented a clumsy appearance indeed, particularly when compared with the light and truly artistic appearance of the present styles. ?V The first attempt at making overshoes of india rubber did not prove %a success, a large amount of capital being sunk in the experiment, as ell as all the unsold stock. They answered the nurnose in cold weath or, but would not stand the heat, melting into 'a disgusting mass. Experiments to remedy this difficulty resulted in reaching the opposite eitrenie, the * cold weather freezing them brittle, so they could not be drawn over the shoe until they were thoroughly warmed, and this obstacle to success was not overcome until Charles Goodyear discovered his process of vulcanizing rubber, which has rendered his name immortal. Rapidly following this era of imf movements, the india rubber shoe a oegan to assume beauty of proportions and practical utility. ? St. Tah I'A 1 Some Pocket*. "Most people know what a 'poacher's pocket' is, but how many have heard of a music pocket?" said a tailor. "Many professional singers have their overcoats fitted with such j a receptacle. Usually they are placed in the back of the coat just above the waist line and will hold half a dozen pieces of music without crushing. Some detectives, too, have their business suits fitted with a handcuff pocket in the sleeve. The special advantage of this is that the manacles can be withdrawn unseen. When an obstreperous prisoner sees the officer's hand seeking a pocket he knows what is coming and acts accordingly.. But with the special pocket the 'bracelets' are out and snapped on his wrists before he can resist. "One of my customers makes a point of having his trousers lined with leather from the knee down ward. Why? because a (log once bit him severely in the calf, and he \ - doesn't want it to happen u.ce."?| London Answers. Building Walls'With Bags. The practice of constructing breakwaters and the submerged parts of piers with concrete enclosed in bags has been largely developed in Scotland. The concrete is prepared a* near as possible to the place where it is to be used. It is inclosed in bags to protect it temporarily from the effects of contact with the sea water while it is lowered into place. The bags are placed in a box suspended directly over the spot where they are to lie. The touching of a trigger opens the box oll/Mra a Kfltr to dron out. A OUU ttAAVV**# M wwp vv line of bags having been deposited, the longer axis of each bag in the ? next series is so arranged that the ' meeting edges of two of the bags in the lower row will be covered. Thus .-jOF a regular wall is built up, and as the ^-^eoncrete hardens it becomes solid \and immovable. Tho Scot's Gratitude. 1 An old farmer coming home from the Paisley market lost his pocketbook, containing a considerable sum of money, in the station. He looked for it, but could not find it, and had given up all hopes when a newsl>oy said to him: "Here, mon. A've fun' yer book." The guidman was overflowing with gratitude and expressed himself thus: "Thank ye, ma lad. If L ve happen tae be pascin' oor farmhouse, step in, an' A'll gie ye a guid drink o' soor milk."?Dundee Advertiser. i CORN AT $18 UN EAR. Oar Id Iowa t^ey Raise thai Kind and Boy it in Themselves. Ten dollars seems a pretty big- price to pay for just one ear of corn, but out in Iowa they raise corn which brings even more than that. It is not uncommon for a man out there to raise corn v. hich he cannot afford to own. Improbable as this sounds, it is true, and the explanation is that prize ears of seed corn became the property of the agricultural courses where they are exhibited. They are then sold at auction and the man who raised them does not always feel that he can afford to bid them in. That was precisely what happened to an Iowa farmer named McCullough not long ago. He entered a good many ears of corn in the competition held at Marshalltown under the management of the State Agricultural College. Over 3,000 ears were entered and one of McCullough's won first prize. The prize was a $150 water supply system, so the farmer rwohahiv felt that he could af ford to bid in the prize ear for til 50. But when it came to buying back eighty other ears which he had entered he had to let them go to others. Those eighty ears brought $204.50. so that, provided he could have sold the eighty-one ears of corn tor what they actually brought, $216, he could have bought his prize water supply system and had $66 left. G F Howard won $100 with a single ear of corn in the same competition and paid $10 for the ear to get it back. For ten other ears which he entered he had to bid up to $41.75 for the lot in order to get them. Thirteen bushels of the corn that was entered orougru an average of $30.50 a bushel. Iowa farmers have waked up to the importance of improving their crops by improving the seed. The consequence is that Iowa raises the finest corn in the country and is constantly improving the quality and the quantity to the acre. Kodol For Dyspepsia has helped thousands of people who have had stomach trouble. This is what ooe man says of it: "E C DeWitt & Co., Chicago, 111.?Gentlemen?In 18971 bad a desease of the stomach and bowels. I could not digest anything I ate and in the Spring of 1902 I bought a bottle of Kodol aud the benefit I recieved from that buttle all tfie gold in Georgia could not buv. I still use a little occasionally as I find it a fine blood purifier and a good tonic. May you live long and prosper. Yours verv truly, C N Cornell. Roding. Ga., August 27, 1006 Sold by W L Wallace. Nice line of silks just recieved. Suesine silk at 47 l-2c Taffeta 9S and $1.37 l-2c. People's Mercantile Co. aoTno bar. Everybody in South Carolina is eligible. Old people stooped with suffering, Middle age, courageously lighting, Youth protesting impatiently; Children, unable to explain; All in misery from their kidneys. Only a little backache first. Comes when you catch a cold. Or when you straiu the back. Many complications follow. Urinary disorders, diabetes, Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills cure backache. Cure every form of kidney ills. J W Powell, proprietor of a general store and coal, wood aud ice dealer of Waverly, living at 2010 Blanding St., Columbia, S C, says: "My son has been afflicted with kidney and urinary trouble from childhood, being unable to control the secretions especially when asleep. Since using Doan*3 Kidney Pills he nas entirely recovered.'' For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, New York, sole agents for tha Uuited States. Remember the name?Doan's? and'take no other. Just received, a beautiful line of Blaster post cards. People's Mercantile Co. GALAX IS LOYAL Tht Plant Will Grow Only In Contain Sactiona of the South. - Many persons whose interest is attracted daily by the wreaths of dark green or bronze foliage labeled "galax leaves" at the doors of the florists' sliops probably do not know that the plant from which these leaves are picked is one of the most loyal and truly American to be found. In fact, the galax root refuses to grow in any oilier soil than that of the United States. Not only is the galax Americau. but i; is burn and bred southern, li will no more flourish outside of Dixie than in an alien soil. Kewj plants are restricted in growth to so narrow an area. In a small section of rugged country in the Appalachian mountain range, where the c> rners of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee run up together, the galax clusters grow in profusion. They are indigenous to this region, elevated many thou? * +--1. -i ? i i j sanas 01 icei aoove. sen ie>ei, auu, although many attempts have been made to introduce the plants in other parts of the United States and in foreign lands as well, the experiments have always proved futile. Neither will the galai thrive in the hothouse. Only the rare air and mountain loam of its native 6oil seem adapted to its growth. Accordingly 9ince the discovery of the value of galax leaves for decorative purposes hundreds of tons of them have been sent to the northern markets from their native corner in the mountains, where during certain seasons whole families devote themselves to gathering and packing them for shipment. There are many points in favor of the use of the galai in decorative schemes. A dark green during the summer months and a rich bronze after being touched by the frost, the leaves retain their hues for weeks after they are gathered, furthermore, they are very hardy, permitting rough and ready packing, which renders their shipment inexpensive. They retain their freshness and colAP fnr a lontr time without beinfif kept in water. Possessing these qualities, it was only natural that the galaz should have come at once into favor for the brightening of rooms and the decoration of tables. Carloads of the leaves are shipped into the north not only for sale in New York, Philadelphia and other centers, but also to be transferred to steamships and carried abroad.?New York Sun. The Agrf*of Birds. Birds of very small size and slendor build not only live to a very old age, but in their old age are freer from accidents and sign of senility than is always the case among animals. It used to be said that crows and carrion crows lived over 100 years. If this statement seems rather exaggerated, there is 110 question that well known naturalists speak of crows of fifty, sixty and even seventy years old. Eagles, horned owls and herons attain similar ages, and .Mr. Gurney, the English naturalist, cites a condor of fifty-two years old, a horned owl of sixty-eight and a royal eagle that died in its fiftysixth year. But the record of longevity undoubtedly belongs to the parrot. M. Abrahams declares an Amazon parrot reached the ripe old age of 102 years, and a Frenchman, M. Lepaillat, *ells us of a parrot, Jacko by name, that had lost its memory at sixty, its sigm ui umc^ and had died at ninety-three.?Paris Matin. He Could Be Trusted. A train from the north polled into the station at Charlottesville, Ya. An elderly man thrust his head out of a window of a day coach and summoned a little colored boy. The following colloquy ensued: "Little boy, have you a mother?" "Yassuh." "Are you faithful to your studies ?" "Yassuh." "Do vou go to Sunday school ?" "Yassuh." "Do you say your prayers every night?" "Yassuh." "Can I trust vou to do an errand for me?" "Yassuh." "Well, here's 5 cents to get me a couple of apples."?Success Magazine. Pay Only For What You Take. Au old Scotsman, not feeling well, called upon a doctor. The doctor gave him some verbal instructions a3 to how to regulate his diet, advising him, among other things, to drink no spirits for a time. The Scotsman rose to leave when the doctor said: "I am in the way of charging for my advice. I will trouble you for half a crown/' "Oh, maybe," said the patient, "but I'm nae gaun to tak' yer ad-; fice!"??London Telegraph. / Thera la an Order Higher Still. You are set in an age when the | material civilization of the world' , has been piled up to a gigantic i ! height, to testify that there is an order higher still; that as the soul is more than the body and eternity than time, so the moral order is above the material; that justice is above power; that justice may suffer long, but must reign at last; that the power is not right; that no wrongs can be sanctified bv success, nor can the immutable laws of right and wrong !>e confounded.?Cardi- , I nal Manning. I Audible Conscience. | i lionter?Excuse my yawning. 1 ^ didn't get a wink of sleep last night. dupp?Toothache? Bontor?No. A woman asked me < for some money yesterday, and I re- 1 fused her. Well the tones of her i voiee rang in my head all night. I ] couldn't close an eye. Jupp?Conscience stricken, eh? ( Was it a deserving case, do you < think? i Bonter?It was ray wife. ] Pain, anywhere, can quickly stopped by one of Dr Sboop's Pink Pain Tablets. Pain always meaus con- J eestion?nn natural blood pressure, t L)r Shoop's Pink Pain Tablets simply coax congested blood away from < pain centers. These Tablets?"known i by drnggipts as Dr Sboop's Head- 1 ache Tablets?simply equalize the blood circulation and then pain always departs in 20 micntes. 20 ' Tablets 25 cents. Write Dr Shoop, Racine, Wis,for free package. Sold < by D C Seek 4 < t Disappoint*^. At one of the sideshows in a cer- J tain fair the principal performer I was a knife thrower, who made a J specialty of throwing knives al { around a lady into a board at the i back' of the stage. The partner of J this artist was a middle aged, stout ' and?well, very plain, and when she j came on the audience gasped. They i had not thought it possible for any t one to be?well, so plain and live t through it. The man arranged her 1 to the board and at the critical moment threw the knife. It flew through the air and struck, quivering, in the board. Voice from the back: "Great Scott! You've missed her!"?Modern Society. Thtir 8il?nc?. "I am glad you were there, my boy," said Mrs. Stormington Barnes ' in exultation. "I am glad you were there. I had the audience spellbound, didn't I?" , "Why?er?it seemed to me that 1-~J u ?? inev aiQQ l appiuuu vexjr uiuvu. "That's jlst it. I had 'em so interested in what I was saying that they didn't even dare applaud for fear they'd miss some of it."?Exchange. ] j Tired mothers, worn out by the j peevish, cross baby have found Cascasweet a boon and a blessing. Cas sasweet is for babies and children, and is especially good for ills so com- . inon in cold weather. Look for the ingredients printed on the bottle. Contains no harmful drugs. Sold i by W L Wallace. j Notice to Creditors. ' All persons having claims against the estate of W S Moore, deceased, will present the same, duly attested, to the undersigned and all persons owing said estate will make payment to L. 0. Holloway, Administrator. 1 Kingstree 1 CAMP NO-27. | //Mr imclai hbnuai j \l l?t and 3rd Mondaj If ]] Mights In each | t&Tall month. PS/3JI Visiting choppers cordlallyjnylted to corae WFl' up ?UU Oi? UU U OIUUi|; or hang about on the < ^ limb6. ? PHILIP STOLL, I 9 27 12m. Con. Com. j BUHJMNG ! DONE I At | Your j Own | Price, j C. E. HARRIS, | General Contractor { and Builder - - - { Greeiyvllie, South Carol! na j % jr Consumption is less d< o Certain relief and usi V will result from the follow o Hope, rest, fresh air, t Emulsion. X ALL DRUGGISTS; 50 Hereafter we Dositivelv re fuse to publish any communication received at this office later \ than Tuesday, noon, except lo:al and personal items, which : willjnot be available later than ( Wednesday, noon, for the current week. By trying to be ac- j :ommodating we are thrown late ivery week and we are tired of j, t. This notice applies to EVERY BODY. ' 4-25-tf. 1 FOB SALE. , Jriek In any quantity to suit purchas sr. The Best Dry Press Machine-made X 33XBXC2C. v ipecial shapes made to order. Corre. >ondenee solicited betore placing veur , >rdera. W. R. FUXK, Weak Kidneys spent* laorssaM Mil m4 water ia tee prebe Meddar. Tksrsfore when tu ESm iioifiilmwl hI?m> Oiym leebl* to partem (Ml work Ntwlt, Mi Ba .la9m beck.ufiaawuum oftfitMadde* >m a riser? disorders ars tea resell It is ^SSsa&ifMK luswS WW. Kldaqr wrf BMfcr Klb woaptlr ellalaata polsoas fwtttnkw *d ittln mum ttsa* mek* the kldas/s w*U isd stroaf. For Weak Kldnsys. BaaUehs, inlammaioa of the t>tedder ena ell irinarr trouble# De Witt's Kidney ind Bladder Fill# are uaaurpasaed. A Weck'c Tritlnint far 25c. Money besa If they hIL For Sale by WL Wallace. Don't Wait! O TILL YOUR PROPERTY IS DESTROYED, BUT INSURE NOW, Against Loss By Fire or Cyclone. If you want the best, get your [nsurance in a strong- "Old Line" company. 1 represent several of the largest Fire and Cyclone Insurance Companies. L. H. FAIREY At Bank of Kingstree. r-24-tf. Always That I can save Remember you money on SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS AND OTHER BUILDING MATERIALS.' Wholesale Prices, Direct from Factory. Everything Guaranteed to come up to Specifications. D. J. EPFS, Kingstree, S. C. Representing Cberaw Door i Sash Co. f Tur DCCT DIIWT j > inc uliii i/iiiii j r Applied by skilled mechanics 3 r is worth a fair price. Cheap j f mixtures slopped on by cheap J paiuters are dear at any price. 3 We expect ^o receive a reason- j able equivalent for onr labor. J But we give aa honest dollar's r worth for every dollar we get, f and we endeavor to permanent- 3 lv satisfv our customers. ^ j ALFRED WELLS, j f Painter and Paper Hanger, } ; KINGSTREE, S. C. i '* Leave orders with } | Kingstree Hardware [Co. j eadly than it used to be. Y tially complete recovery o ring treatment: Y , and?Scott's gjfek c. AND Sl.oo. Jhl|f =f HOWE'S GREAT LONNH SHOWS What Brain and Mosey Will DeAcknowledged By CoaptlRtrs To Be Worthy Their laltafiai. Acts, many and novel, have beed added to the repertoire of Howe's , ftreat Loudon Shows this seasoQ, and as the management registered a vow to e-inal miv touted show, the result i* :i pk-ihant of attractions Stted to e>okc an enthusiasm from ft performance where hundreds of skilled perfnrmers vie with each other in friendly contests for supremacy aud public appreciation. So successful has this effort been that visitors from other shows acknowl- JH edge that a competitor has eutered the lists that demands their recognition. Although this has cost a^ lot ot money, the public are the gainers, and Howe's Great Loudon, Shows will be classed at the outset ataong names more familiar to circus goers in the past. This great show will visit as,with all its attractions, U please and edncate the old and yonng alike. In case of inclement weather the water-proof tents insnre perfect pro- J! tection and comfort. Don't forget the date, Kingstree Tuesday, April 21. A^lBtinUUU If UblUC* 7 Theoffice ot tbe Supervisor of Beg istration will be opened on tbe first ' ' '' Monday in every montb for th^ parpose of the registering of any persoir who is qualified as follows: Who shall have been a resident of tbe State for two years, and of tbe county one year, and of the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote four months before the day of election, and shall have paid, six months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who can both read and write any section of the constitution of 1995 submitted to him by the Supervisors of Registration, or who can show that he owns, and has paid all taxes collectable on during the present year, piopertj in this State assessed at three hundred' dollars or more. J. Y. McGILL, C.lerk of Board. ^ Ftm aoVica, bow to obUln pMM trad* mark* oopyrigtxta, ?tc.. (N ALL COUNTRIES. . Business direct -with Washington saves tims.W money and often the patent. K Patent and Infrlngamant Practice Exclusively. I ' Wi Wrtt? or com to oj at B n rate im. opp. trait* iuu* ntmt oa**.B / ?I | insurance. I -|| ' J | H Fire Insurance, Tornado Insurance, | Plate Glass Insurance \ Life Insurance, j Health Insurance, ; Accident Insurance, j Burglary Insurance. I We represent only I Companies of unques- S j tioned^ reliability^and a policy is as good as a gold bond. We'll 'J Bond You.. As Cashier, Treasurer or any position of trust in any of the largest companies in America. The Williamsburg Insurance & Bonding Agency, OFFICE OVER L STACKLEY'S STORE, ?' jj Kingstree, - S. C. a