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. VOL XXV. KIMiSTRKL SOUTH CAROLINA, THURj^ VP. M j FYqu ?<> f The hardware is but a small Y m ing, but there's a whole lot of * W best builders' hardware for yo 4* mm - |H B Coffins and Caske i THINGS TO BE SEEN li r IN NEW YORK CITY, i | -? 1 PEN PICTURES OF SOME PLACES i VISITED BY OUR CORRE- j1 SPONDENT. 1 |S? M ^TEditor^County Record:? * J I must now go on and tell about 9 the "Eden Muse^L' in which are exjhibited life-size wax figures of some grju the most prominent people. At j :v? the door as you enter stands a po|[ylieeman,and he is so life-like that you j Sf"*uaagine for a moment that the eye F of the guardian of the law is upon j j I you. Go further on and there sits i the "guard off duty," snoring so 1 naturally that it startles you. Below k in the basement, the "Chamber of ^iorrors" is seen?the electrocution of the murderer of President Gar * 1*1 thp r.hristian martvrs being I tortured during the Spanish Inquisition in the dark ages, the coronation scene of King George and Queen Mary, and among the rest too numerous to mention, sits General Lee when he is about to resign, with sueh a sad expression on his face. We saw in the morning "Times" that a Chinese war vessel had arrived and that the marines would land at i dock on the Hudson river: so Jright and early we took a surface 1 * ' *1 * - - 4-^ I ? .'car and got mere just m umc tv i K^three hundred or more pouring out c L of the small boats, making their way I ] to Broptiway to take in the sights, j * We locked for their long pig-tails, ? ' but their hair was closely clipped. ^ ' The Chinese war vessel was quite a * ^curiosity,flying its yellow flag with a 1 * red dragon on it. While we were up * in that part of the city we thought ^ we would take a view of Grant's 8 ; tomb, in which Grant and his wife lie c side by side. As the gentlemen visBitors enter, a policeman at the door jBrequests them to remove their hats. % ^ t is a beautiful edifice of white f marble. B Cleopatra's Needle is an object of I interest and curiosity, when one re- r Bmembers the distance from which it v KT B came, and being the largest of the 8 lypbelisks on the Nile. k Efe The parks of New York are not 1 Bbnly ornamental but useful, especial- * I ly to the poor. The tenement houses, Ir Bin which so many thousands live, are j * ^Broyded to overflowing, and many s MGTevening we have seen old grand- k ^fciothers too old to go to the parks ^Krving to get a breath of air on the; * Bflre-escapes, with their little grand- ^ children in their arms. Men too old e to work stay in the parks day and 1 Knight. The city helps them to live, j j At one o'clock at night any one who ' Kchooses to join the bread line and { wait till his time comes will be given i |a 01 ycsiwuajr O Micau uuui 'yesterday's bakery, and in the win- | tter a cup of hot coffee is added. The i 4>read line is sometimes a mile long. ' Of course jn winter the weather is | 800 severe for any one to stay out i at night.so these old men go to the i' if . guard-houses and ask to be locked { up till morning. 1 i " ; We "took a trip to the Bronx ' Park one morning, and as we knew | j^.would be an all-day jaunt we pro- i Tided ourselves with luncheon. It!" uite a distance from our board-' ' % ? War item in the whole cost of builddifference between buying the ur home and some cheaper kind. KINGS! ts. ng-house and took us over an hour to get tnere, flying along or the elevated express. It seemed so strange j to see people in the top part of the i louses, some, just eating breakfast, j some, dentists working on their pa-1 tients' teeth, and all kinds of em- i ploymerits going on. As soon as we j reached the Bronx we went to see the flowers; from there we went to ook at the animals. The monkeys, i if which there is a great variety, tvere very interesting. They look at vou so cunningly and make so many funny gestures. The animals' cages ire kept as near like their native launts as possible. The lions have 2Treat holes in the rocks in which j they can come in and out. The white polar bears have the floors of their :ages of ice, and the snakes from \frica and India have their places artificially heated. We were told that inimals are boarded in the Bronx by iifforont />irf?ncoQ Hnrinor thp winter. When we got through taking m riost sights of interest, we were flad to get back to our boarding Mace, as we were thoroughly tired ind glad to rest. John Wanamaker, Macey and Siefel-Cooper are among the largest lepartment stores. Wanamaker emMoys fifteen hundred clerks, so you nay form some idea of what a large establishment he has. When you get ;ired walking about, just go into the jeautiful parlors, take a seat at one \f tVio Hoolrc nnrJ wrifp nn thpir <stn ionery to your friends. We went nto Tiffany's grand jewelry store md looked at the Tiffany diamond, vhich they keep to exhibit. The Hip>odrome is said to be the largest )lace of its kind in the world; it is >etween a circus and a theatre, and ias a seating capacity of five thouand. The day we were there it was xowded. One thing that pleased us in New fork was the humane manner in vhich their animals are treated, es>ecially the horses. We were anxious to walk over Brooklyn bridge, but were advised lot to do so at that time, as there vas a strike among the employees >nd it may not have been safe, there >eing a good deal of fighting among hem. We would have liked to visit J he "City of Churches," made fa- j nous by Henry Ward Beeeher, but t took up all of our two months to ee New York city,and the other will lave to be deferred till next time. It was quite amusing to see in the | he papers the letters written to Mri Jreen, son of Hetty Green, the rich-1 st woman in America. It seems! F n c? i9? k)< !( If you > at barg son's S where; S. S. At A 11 ST^anaa rznssszns The difference in cost between tance, is very small, but there's j tion. Cheap goods are a continu noyance, and it will pay you whe i come here and get the best. REE HARE WHIOI FSAI R AND 1 that the old lady made her son prom- i ise not to marry until after her j death-,which occurred some time ago. j He was literally besieged by love: letters from all over the country,1 and even from across the water. [ He has been making his home at the Waldorf-Astoria, and is about forty j years old. Our time was too short to take in New York properly, as it would take six months to go to all the places of interest. I advise any one traveling to prepare for tips. We were besieged with waiters.bel! boys and stewards,as we were nearing our journey's end and we find that that has always to be reckoned with in calculating our expenses. We were sea-sick nearly all the time, and scarcely ever went^ to the table, yet the men who stood behind our empty chairs were quite persistent about their tips. Fruit wrs the only thing we could eat, especially oranges. On the trip we passed a light ship LY MOTTO IS TO PLEASE *ONSON, Lane which is stationed at that spot in the ocean. It did seem so lonely all by itself, but it is necessary for the safety of vessels passing that way. Those who live on this Government light ship are relieved, we are told, at the end of six months by another family. Sometimes we passed a buoy, which is placed to warn the passing vessels. The bells in them, rung by the motion of the waves, sound ?d so sweet and wierd. One of the officers on board talked very interestingly to us about everything relating to the sea; he told us | that not one person in a hundred, in , case of a panic, would know how to ( strap on a life preserver, of which . every room has two, but the main | dependence is the life boats, which ] cannot sink in the roughest waves. ? In case the person understands the ] life preserver.it will hold you up unless a shark gets hold of you, of | which there are always a great many | following a ship,especially if there is , a dead body on board. The fog-horn < blew nearly the whole night, and we \ were told that fog causes a great , many disasters at sea. Sometimes it j is so dense that vessels crush into ( one another without knowing there j is another vessel near. |, Visitor, j ( Kingstree. November 1ft. 11 The boy's appetite is often the source of amazement. If you would I have such an appetite take Chamber- i Iain's Tablets. They not only create i a healthy appetite, but strengthen : the stomach and enable it to do its work naturally. For Sale by All 1 Dealers. 1 . Aron ?vant good and up-to-date ;ain prices trade at S. S. j tores, Lanes and Gourdins, ^our trade is always appreci 3od -jMzrzzizarTsssazji good and bad locks, for insi great difference in satisfaclal source of worry and ann figuring on that home to (WARE CO ricTA II HCAI CDC I /A IL, uuni.ui\u TIMETURNS BACKWAR[ IN ITS FLIGHT "POOR CONRAD" TELLS ABOU1 OLky MEN OF WILLIAMSBURG AND NEIGHBOR COUNTIES. Editor County Record:? I wish to write about more of th< old men of Clarendon and Williams bur# counties and also of those o 1 Sumter. There are not many peoph living now who knew old "Uncle* John Harrington, who lived in whal is called "The Corner," where Blacl< ? " ^-1-? r?i. n??~4.ol Ler; he could not swim and although i tall man would have drowned if son I goods t \ron- J S. C., 1 iated. m !S, ? C. J river ana rocoiangu iunv. rwuwr igo turns to the left up through the western part of Clarendon and Sum ter counties and Black river turns tc north-east, making a deep elbow called "The Corner," onoe a fin* place for deer and wild turkeys. Uncle John and his wife, Aunt Sally, lived there and in their yard stood e giant water-oak. One summer nigh I not long after Uncle John and Aunt Sally were married an owl lit in the oak with his hoo-hoo-hoo. Uncle John said: "Sallie, you understanc what the owl said?" "No, John.' "Young gal sweet like shoo goo.' Uncle John wore no socks and the coldest nights slept with bare feel uncovered and often through the night he coulc. be heard rubbing his feet together. He was a kind-heart ed man; in conversation a commor word with him was "by blood." He had several sons: Zack, Ned and John. Once he had a dispute with John which made him very angrj and, with the words, "by blood," he prave Zack a punch that broke two of his ribs. He was a powerful man. 1 spent one night with these old people when I was a boy. Old Mr Josiah Fleming, whom I have mentioned before in one of my letters, also lived down in "The Corner." He wrote my epitaph 57 years ago. Mr Fleming and his sons made it their rule to go fishing every Monday, Once upon a time going up the river (I suppose he had taken a J ram and was feeling good) where it was common to pass under a tree that had fallen across the river, he said, "Watch how active I am; I will jump over that log and land in the boat." I do not remember who was paddling the boat, but as Mr Fleming's weight left the boat it bobbed Lip and struck the log and Mr Flemng went out of sight under the wa Hardv -:.atg?XTSmBlJbJ<JM V'B'ffT.tf.g'iJ'ffa We are on the job and prepared tc builders' hardware at prices you will REMEMBER: THE HOME ( MPANY We Lead I | the other man with the boat had: > not caught him. Mr Fleming somehow thought i that the spirits of men after death passed from men into animals and I r from animals into men again. He [ said he had a faint recollection of once being an old gray mule. Mr David Epps, father of Mr D J Epps of Kingstree, was not so old as some of those I have mentioned; he ? was a jolly, fat man and had four . brothers: Ned, Jim, John and Bob. I David was a member of the Legis; lature once,as was James. Some one ? remarked on seeing what a big fat I man David was that he must be the 'hntt nf thp familv "weichinc . 335 pounds. Not so, John was much , the heaviest; all five brothers were . of aldermanic proportions. David, , Robert and one sister lived at the old j homestead together; they had many , slaves and "Poor Conrad" spent . many pleasant days and nights with them.Well does he remember the big t open fire-place in the hall where in ; the winter days "Aunt Jane" would . have a large heap of baked sweet ; potatoes in one corner of the broad ; hearth, with the sweet, sugary juice I trickling down on the hearth, and ? Conrad had an eye on them, too. ' During the warm weather all of the > little negroes that were not old t enough to do field work were kept in > i the yard in sight of the house. I ; suppose there would be 40 or 501 . suckling- babes and their nurses and ! many between those ages. They ? were all fed from the kitchen, the I happiest set of beings under the i sun, and they could sing, too; while r waiting for their meals they would , be chanting their songs and it was > melodious to hear them carry all the different parts. Their words were, while expecting to see the trays and bowls with the hot victuals coming out of the kitchen door: "Bread, come on, bread, come on," and rereverse: "On come, bread; on come, m We invite commercial check firms and companies. We refer 1 m iness with us to those who HAVI Let OUR Bank M We pay 4 per cent intere 1 FARMERS MEf 1 "ABSOLUTE! LAKE CITY, fare! j ) furnish the very best in M find entirely satisfactory. 1 DF GOOD GOODS. 1 -Others Follow. C r bread," growing louder and louder. Mr David Epps would come out on "l fhp ni?77a and shout at the tOD or his voice, "Shut up there, you d? hellions!" The voices would die down,as Major Jones would say, like the voice of a sick kitten and would soon begin to rise higher and higher. That old homestead was one of the places. After Mr David and his sister Jane were married, Robert remained at the old place. Going to "Uncle Robert's" was a joyful saywith many young folk. A more wholesouled man never lived. Gone but not forgotten, his good deeds live after him; his dear wife, "Aunt Pattie," is still alive and living with her son, Joe. and the same kind hearts are under that old roof still. "Poor Conrad" is going there before God Willing, and no doubt some of the same kind of sweet potatoes will be waiting for him in that same old chimney corner. Yours as ever, Poor Conrad. A Father'* Vengeance would have fallen on any one who attacked the son of Peter Bondy. of South Rockwood, Mich., but he was powerless before attacks of Kidney trouble. "Doctors could not help him," he wrote, "so at last we gave ?^ him Electric Bitters and he improved wonderfully from taking six bottles. It's thejjest Kidney medicine I ever saw." Backache. Tired feeling, Nervousness, Loss of Appetite, warn of Kidney trouble that ? ? J ? /Ji r\ a*? rimy enu 111 uiuyoy, umucica ?? Bright's t^sease. Beware: Take Electric Bitters and be safe. Every bottle guaranteed. 50c at M L Allen's. Few men know what is good for them until some wise woman ' has told them. "It is a pleasure to tell you that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best cough medicine I have ever used," writes Mrs Hugh Campbell, of Lavonia, Ga. "I have used it with all my children and the results have been highly satisfactory." For Sale by All Dealers. .;" '07^'?J ing accounts of individuals, M :hose wI:o have not done bus be YOUR Bank. V st on savings accounts. ? (CHAxMS id*\iNJtt, M LY SAFE,** % S. C *