Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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We wish to and Walking Hi -=='that is, large | Ii*F" YouCi !Come to see tree, and our pri OUR GOODS A NEW YORK CITY AS SEEN BY S. 6. TEACHER. luporccinvi; OF THE METROP was ~ j OUS TOLD IN GRAPHIC STYLE BY CLOSE OBSERVER. ! Editor County Record:? When a teacher leaves the humble school-rooms of our South Carolina rural schools and comes to the great metropolis of America.she realizes for a truth that this is a wonderful ape in which we live. A ride of eighteen hours brings us to the grand new Union Station ??f New York city, which cost,including terminals,approximatelyS50,000.0|>0. It occupies a plot 1,500 feet in j length by 52) in width, which'alone cost $8,OOO.UOO. There are 25 tracks and more than two miles of plat-1 form. The Pennsylvania railroad, instead of stopping this side in Jersey, City, now enters through a series of tunnels. The bed of the Hudson river cont sists of soft mud and clay of an oozy consistency to a great depth, making it unsuited for tunnel work; therefore stone piers were built, resting upon the solid rock beneath the river bed. These piers support a ^ bridge inclosed in an 18-foot watertight steel tube and carry the railroad track within the tube. The bed of the track under mid-stream is 100 feet below the river bed. These tubes are ventilated by the moving of the trains. When you enter the great Union station your baggage is handled aut>matically by roiling steps. When you reach the top your grip is there awaiting you. i. . Here we see the Metropolitan tower which holds the big clock. It rises to a height of 700 feet. The highest lookout is reached at the ^ balcony of the fiftieth story, from which you may obtain a view of over one-sixteenth of the homes of the entire population of the United | States. The mammoth clock is a I h wonder, claimed to be the largest f four-dial tower clock in the world. I Each dial is 26 feet, 6 inches in diameter, the figures four feet high. I he minute hand measures 17 feet ?12 feet from center to point, and . weighs 1,000 pounds. The driving power of this huge mechanism is electricity, none of the devices connected therewith requiring any manual operation, the whole thin? being automatic. The master clock,on the director's floor,not cnly controls the tower clock, but 100 other clocks, also instruments for sounding bells in other departments. The chime comprises four bells, the largest weighing 7.000 pounds. The hands are illuminated with electric , y/ghcs simultaneously with the great octagonal lantern.s feet in diameter, placed on top of the tower, from j} which powerful electric Hash-lights y marking the hour may be seen far beyond any transmission of sound.j W~ Each of the quarter hours is Hashed ; in red and the hours in white lights; one red Hash for the quarter, two for the half.three for three-quarters and i four for the hour, followed by a number of white flashes marking the ' hour. For a nickle you are taken to the * L >pecia call the attention ats for Fall and W hats, medium=size 7 anno! Afford to B us; you will be pli ices are as low as 1 ND PRICES WIL hotel districts, where board ma> be obtained to suit your pursi?from a boarding house to the Vanderbilt hotel, which, when finished, will cost over 84.0tXt.0O0. At 34th street and Park avenue is one of the most remarkable street intersections. On the surface run the 34th street cars; one flight down are the Madison avenue cars; two flights down is the rapid transit subway, and three flights down the Pennsyl vania. rauroaa tunnei?trains overhead.two and three tracks: one above the other; trains underneath, two and three tracks, below each other, with some of their stations dug out of solid rock. 110 feet below the surface. In next week's issue I want to tell my school children about the Hudson river day line steamers, the Statue of Liberty.or the "Big Girl," and the "World in Wax." Mrs R B W Dickson. New York City. August 24. WHY SO WEAK? Kidney Troubles Nay Be Sapping-Youi Life Away. Kiogstree People Have Learned Tbis Fact. When a healthy man or woman begins to run down without apparent cause, becomes weak, languid, depressed, suffers backache, headache, dizzy spells and urinary* disorders, kidney weakness may be the cause of it all. Keep the kidneys well and they will keep you well. Dean's KidJ ney Pills make sick kidneys well. Can Kingstree readers demand further proof than the following statement: Mrs H Rembert, 312 Cleland St. Georgetown, S C, says: "About a year ago I had kidney complaint and I suffered severely from dull,nagging backaches, headaches and dizzy spells. I did not rest well and mornings had strength or energy. Reading of Doan's Kidney Pills, I procured a box and it did not take them long to relieve me. I have had no backache or other trouble from my kidneys since." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Mi!burn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's? and take no other. How to Get Rid of Nut-Grass. A friend wants to know if I have conquered the nut-grass in my garden. Yes, I have nearly finished it, and this summer it is the rarest weed in my garden. Last year was the first year the garden was cultivated, as it had been lying out as a vacant lot. One end of the lot was well set in nut-grass, and I determined that it should go. I did not dig it out except whatever turned up in the plowing of the land and was raked out. Then every day 1 chopped off that nut-grass. Cut off to-day it was up to-morrow, but I knew that no plant can long survive if not allnvvpH to make green leaves above ground. So I chopped it off daily. It got thinner and thinner by frost, and as none was allowed t<> seed, I find few plants this summer and have simply been pulling them out as fast as seen, and have not even had to use the hoe on them. This is equally applicable to any persistent weed. Keep them chopped off and they must die. The same is true of sassafras sprouts. These will simply increase if dug and the roots cut, but chopped off or mown off regularly with the mowing machine they soon give up. The mower is the best implement to rid land of sprouts and briers.? The Pw/res* ire Farmer. I Am of the trade to our : inter. A veritable d hats and turban* yy Your Press or eased because we h the manufacturer's L SAVE YOU MO" J. S. S. C. POPULATION BY COLOR. j Census Bureau Issues Statistics of Whites and Negroes. Washington. D C. September 5:? 1 Prelimii arv comparative statistics of j the population of South Carolina were issued to-day by Census Director Durand. The tabulation was made under the supervision of Chief Statistician Wm C Hunt,of the Division of Population, and is the result of the first count, in detail, of the returns of the Thirteenth census. The figures are. therefore, subject to possible revision, but it is believed that the changes, if any. will not be material. The figures relate to the 11 State, the city of Charleston, the I other cities of 10,000 and over and i the counties. The total population of the State and of Charleston is distributed into white, negro and all others.and the percentage proportion of each is given, for the censuses of 1910, 1900 and 1890. The decennial percentage of increase or decrease for the same classification for the decade 1900-1910 is also stated. The 1 figures for the counties are divided into white and negro, the latter including Chinese, Japanese and Indit ans, but the number of such is so : small that they do not materially af feet the figures given for negroes. Similar statements for the other Southern States are being prepared I and will probably be issued in the [ near future. 1 South Carolina. j Numbers. 1910 1900 1890 Total pop 1,515,400 1,340,316 1,151,149 White 679,162 557,807 462,008 Negro 835,843 782,331 688,934 All other*.... 395 188 207 per cent. distribution. Total population 100.0 100.0 100.0 White 44.8 41.6 40.1 Negro 55.2 58.4 59.8 Allother*... + * Decennial Increase?State. . Percent increase 1A<\A 1A1A 19w191v. Total population 13.1 White 21.8 Negro 6.8 All other 110.1 City of Charleston. Numbers. 1910 1900 1890 Total populat'n..58,833 55,807 54.955 White 27,764 24,238 23,919 Negro 31,056 31.522 30,970 All other 13 47 66 per cent distribution. Total population 100.0 100.0 100.0 White 47.2 43.4 43.5 Negro 52.8 56.5 56.4 Allother* * 0.1 0.1 decennial increase, city of charleston. Per cent increase 1900-1910. Total population 5.4 White 14.5 Negro 81.5 All other 872.3 Williamsburg County. 1910 1900 Total population 37.626 31.685 White 11.411 ll.Slg Negro* 23.215 19,867 Chinese. Japanese anil Indians. + Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. 8 Decrease. ^Includes Chinese. Japanese. Indians. " Remember We are now in the large building fomrerly occupied by Wilkins Wholesale-Grocery Co., where we are glad to welcome our old customers as well as new ones. We keep All Kinds of Meats in season at living prices, also a choice line of Fruits, Vegetables and Canned Goods. Epps' MarKet Cr. Academy XL Mill St*. nounc superb line of Ladi wonderland of bea; ?, which are popula Walking Hat Unti ave the biggest lin i. You will becomt vJEY. ERON. ( N World Famous: The Stieff. i Such a piano as this is the result of scores of years of labor with one end only in view? the highest possible result. The Stietf of to-day resembles | very little the Stieff of sixty years ago. The models from vear to year have been many, but each* has in its day led the j world in construction. The result is to-day a piano of incomparable excellence. Come to our handsome wareroom. hear with your own ears and see with your own eyes the beautiful Stietf and many other pianos we carry in stock. Chas. M. Stieff, Manufacturer of the piano with the sweet tone. I SOUTHERN WAREROOM. 5 W Trace St. Charlotte. N C. <; H. Vt'ILMOTH. Manager. L J TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTfTTTTTTTTij | Paint Your Buggy! j i ? We can make it look like 3 j $ new. Any Buggy, Car- ^ I f riage, Wagon orotherVehicle i I can be improved One H un- 5: dred per cent in appear- ^ ance by painting. i Also Wheelwright. Horse- < | ? shoeing and General Repair 3 !? Work on short notice- d Bring Us Your Work ^ j t W. M. VAUSE & SON. 1 t i METSHONEMAR ftoiM ths cou^h and hstlt lungs FOB SALEBrick in any quantity to suit puichar er. The Best Dry Press Machine-mad* ABEICK.V Special shapes made to order. ?. orrepondence solicited before placing vou/ orders. W R Ft'NK ' Chamberlain's Cough Kemedy Cures Colds. Croup and Whooping Cough. firateirmal ?rams Kingstree CAMP NO- 27. //k *"^^' i oV\ >Mrui xrm.-e* I]) 't( ai!(1 :{r'' ^I,,n,l*, Visiting choppers cor diallv invited to comt \W > 4iup and sit on a stum) Xt O* or hang about on th? ' limbs. Philip H. Stoll, 27 12m. Con. Com #K. of IF. ' Kings tree Lodge No. 91 Knights of pythias Regular Conventions Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday nights Visiting brethren always welcome, Castle Hall 3rd story Gourd in Building. J Wesley Cook. C C. C W Boswell. K of R & S. . ??- v i.- . ?* :emen es\ Misses' and C uty and styles, t ir and in good fa^ I You Have Inspect e of hats ever sh ; our friend and be p ~ EDITOR COUNTY RE< Too much praise a Continental Fire Insur represented by the h Real Estate Co., for thi of the claims I had ag* , Jj struction of my dental brary by fire, on June I had expired when the check for full amoun slightest demurrage. Hurrah for the Kiogstree Insurance & Respectl * Kingstree, S. C., 7-4-'l 01 ~ O A WHAT n I A Bank's I Is the fund along with the C Profits that protects the d< fore the larger it is, the ? positor has. This Ban Capital Stock of......: Surplus Fund of Undivided Profits of..._.. 0 Additional Stockholder D Total This means that this Bank m of its depositors could lose 0 for you. Do business w never lost a Dollar. The Bank < D. C'. Scott, President. F *v. Fairfv, Cashier. Wm. W. Bari 01 IV- I TTTTTfTTTTTTTTTTTTfTTTTTTi I Protection < I ; I , I t sf t BANK OF WII Kingstr ? C W Stoll, President. ^ F Rhem, Vice-President. tAAAAilAAAAiAAAAAAAAAAAAA | MIST; ; ARE EASY You will not make one if 4 you want in the line of } JEWELRY, WAT< Silver and Silver Plated Wai 4 Glass and Cutlery, Spectacles 4 WATCHES AND JEWELRY I 4 Watch Inspector for Southern 1 S. THOMA ^ 257 KING CHARLESTON, S Mail order- receive prompt att? 4 graver- Stephen Thotna- Ar Brot hildren's Dress $ ^ ^ great variety ] I /or this season. * J led Our Stock. ,| iown in Kings- ,.fl convinced that * W'B I :ORDa annot be accorded the ance Co., of New York, I [ingstree Insurance & I sir prompt adjustment I linst them for the d^- I I office fixtures and li- | 6. Just fourteen days 1 y turned over to me a I t of loss without the I Continental and the Real Estate Co! fully yours, I A. M. SNIDER. fl "I a 01 iQBO I r MEANS HI 5 Surplus I Capital Stock and Undivided l jpositors from loss; there- J greater protection the dek has a $30,000.00 20,000.00 8,279.77 s' Liability 30,000.00 ^ $88,279.76 jL ust lose $88,279.76 before one IT a cent. This protection is H - i t-V. TUa Donl.- fliof VlOO O 1LU XI1C UCIim tuui nuu V >f Kingstree J. A. KELLEV.Vice Pre.-. N. D. Lesesse, A*st. Collier. <, Jk., Teller. I II- 10 of Our Safe i J ou have money about your home let 4 M *r you the protectiou of our safe and * I -places of security that are built to ^ I money where it will be out of reach 4 H glars and fire, and always ready for * I hen wanted. We want you to feel 4 9 his bank is for your use and that our 4 9 niences are for your use; to that end < | ite your account. It is our business * I ve tne people. The service we offer 4 1 e of advantage to you. Others tell * I their satisfaction. This makes us be- ^ I :hat you also will receive the same 4 J fits from a bank connection here. < ' 9 >ver the situation wuh us. whatever ^ 9 ements you may have we may be 4 9 3 supply vour demands. Why not * I day? J 9 XIAM5BURG, 4 I ee, S. C. \ 1 E C Epps, Cashier. ^ C W Boswell. Asst. Cashier. 3 9 ??? ? - J \KES f| TO MAKE I I you send to us for anything 9 X fl 3HES OR RINGS f re, Clocks and Bronzes, Cat ^ and Eyeglasses, ? REPAIRED and ENGRAVING Z Ry. and Consolidated St. R. R. t S & BRO., I STREET T OUTH CAROLINA. | 1 ention. A? Jeweler? and En- | her are Synonyms ??f Quality. A J