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A Fire in Florence.
Florence, December 25.-The Flor?
ence Cotton Oil Mill plant, owned by
the Vi rgi ni a-Carolina Chemical Com?
pany and operated by the Southern
Cotton Oil Company, of Columbia,
together with several hundred tons of
cotton seed, cotton seed meal, halls,
several hundred cords of wood and
four freight cars, belonging to the
Atlantic Coast Line Company, were
destroyed by fire in this city at 10
o'clock tonight. The value of the mill
plant, buildings and machinery
amounts to $40,000. The value of
stock on hand, including manufactured
fertilizers, amounts to about $40,000.
The insurance on mill buildings and
machinery $16,000, on stock about $10,
000, carried in the Aetna of Hartford ;
Home of New York and Hartford of
Hartford represented here by W. R.
Barringer and Sanborn Chase. The
isolated location of the property was
one of the causes of the complete
destruction of the plant. The fire
originated in the seed room adjoining
the mill building and in a few seconds
spread itself to the whole property.
A stiff wind from the south drove the
"flames over the entire interior within
a few seconds. The fire is still burn?
ing/at ll o'clock but the destrcution
is complete. Since writing the above
it is. thought that tramps must have
started the flames.
Charleston Exposition.
Charleston, Dec. 24.-The exhibit
of live scock at the exposition here
will be the largest held in the south.
It will open on Jan. 6 and will con?
tinue until Jan. 20. Already 1,000
entries have been made and in the
competition many of the most famous
herds of the United will be represent?
ed. The entries so far made come
from 17 States. Money premiums
amounting to $15,000, which is now
on deposit at the Bank of Charleston,
will be paid to the successful contest?
ants. George F. "Weston of Vander?
bilt's Biltmore stock farm, is in charge
of the live stock department.
Big Fire in Hallsville.
Darlington, S. C., December 24.- ..
A fire at Hartsville last night destroy?
ed five buildings, viz: Hartsville Drug
Company, Central Telephone office, >
Xiawton's drug store, office of Dr. Eg- 1
gleston and the store formerly occu- i
s pied by McKinnon & Co. No details
can be obtained, owing to the destruc?
tion of the telephone office.
The passenger train from Florence
to Hartsville ran off the track last ;
night. One man was hurt and two
coaches were badly damaged. The :
wrecking train proceeded to work im- :
mediately and early this morning the !
regular schedule was operated on time.
The accident was caused by the rails
spreading.
Vatican is Hopeful.
London, Dec. 23.-The Pall Mall
Gazette publishes the following dis- i
patch from Rome today today : i
"The Vatican is becoming decidedly <
more hopeful that the United States
will yield to the Pope's great desire
and appoint a diplomatic representa?
tive to the Vatican. So anxious is the :
Pope for the success of his project
that he would be satisfied at present
with a semi-official representative in
the hope that he would be eventually
turned into a Minister or Ambasasor.
It seems that Washington is not un?
willing to discuss the matter and the
Vatican has intimated in return its
desire to meet American wishes in
Cuba and the Philippines and possibly
create another Cardinal in the United
States.
"The Pope is somewhat opposed to
the latter step while Carinal Gibbons
lives, but he may compromise the
matter by creating Archbishop Ireland
or Archbishop Corrigan Cardinal of the
Curia, entailing living in Rome."
-II ? ? ?i
Asks Them to Leave Her* Their
Skulls.
A startling request has been made of
the members of the Men's Club of St.
John's Protestant Episcopal Church,
Summit avenue, Jersey City, for they
have been asked, in the interest of
science, to leave their brains and
skulls when they die to the Institute
of Phrenology. The proposition was
submitted to the members some days
ago, but as far as can be learned ?o
one of the number has yet altered his
will so as to bequeath, his head to stu?
dents of phrenology.
7 "The Men's Club has taken up the
study of phrenology, and Thursday
last it heard a lecture by Miss Jessie
Fowler, daughter of Professor L. N.
Fowler, a leading phrenologist. When
Miss Fowler had finished her lecture
she fel~ the bumps on the heads of the
.club members, and also put the wives
of several ( for the ladies had been in?
vited to the lecture) to the test.
Miss Fowler was so well pleased with
them that she made the startling re?
quest that their owners bequeath them
to the institute. -N. Y. Journal.
A check for $10, given by President
Roosevelt in aid of the Washington
Newsboy's home at a bazaar last week,
was framed by the lady receiving it
and sold at auction'for $50.
Lord Stanmore^ who is now 72 years
old, enjoys the distinction of being the
last peer created by Mr. Gladstone.
He is the son of the Earl of Aberdeen,
who was prime minister in the 50's,
and in whose Cabinet Mr. Gladstone
held the chancellorship of the exche?
quer. He was not only private secre?
tary to his father, but he was attach?
ed to Mr. Gladstone's special mission
to the Ionian Islands.
The latest appointment of a negro
by President Roosevelt is most unfor?
tunate. H. T. Cheatham, a North
Carolina negro, who is said to be the
ablest representative of his race in the
State, and who was held in high
esteem by the white people with whom
he lived has been turned out of the
office of recorder of deeds in Washing?
ton, and John C. Dancy, the Wilming?
ton negro, who did much to precipitate
the race trouble there some time ago
and who made himself so obnoxious to
the law-abiding element of that sec?
tion that his newspaper plant was
demolished and he was given plainly
to understand even after the excite?
ment subsided that his presence in
rthat community was not desired.
A Fraud Exposed.
In their efforts to put through the
ship subsidy scheme its advocates
have based * their argument mainly
upon bold misrepresentations of the
vital facts relating to the shipping in?
terests of the United States.
This contention, or, rather this as?
sumption, was sufficiently exposed by
Senator Clay in his admirable report
on the part 'of the minority of the sen?
ate committee that considered the sub?
sidy bill at the last session of con?
gress. Recently we have had the ben?
efit of expert testimony on it from one
who certainly had no object in mak?
ing it appear that there is a hopeful
field for ship building in this coun?
try.
Sir Christopher Furness is one of
the most prominent shipbuilders in
Great Britain. He has recently spent
three months in the United States
studying several of our great indus?
tries^ especially that of shipbuilding.
Sir Christopher is part owner of
five great ship yards which last year
turned out more ships than all the
ship yards in the United States.
Heis therefore an excellent witness
on the subject, on which he testifies.
He expresses confidence that our
country is soon to re-establish its mer?
chant marine. He does not believe
that this will be accomplished by ship
subsidies or that it can be best effect?
ed by that means.
He declares that we have it in our
power to restore our merchant marine
to as high a standard as it ever had
and to make it more prosperous than
it ever was by simply taking advan?
tage of the opportunities we have in?
dependent of the United States treas?
ury or any bonus or favor of legisla?
tion.
The cheaper raw materials which
Lie close at hand are an immense ad?
vantage which our industry, ingen?
uity and ambition will turn to good
account.
Sir Christopher Furness on visiting
our ship yards was impressed by the
fact that they were all busy, most of
them so crowded with work that they
were refusing orders.
The ship building indutsry in the
United States did not impress him as
an interest that needed government
aid. On the contrary he was impress?
ed with its great opportunities and
the immense advantages it ne joys.
The argument that labor in ship
construction is dearer here than in
Great Britain and the other countries
of Europe did not impress Sir Chris?
topher forcibly because he undertsands
its fallacy.
He stated positively and based his
reputation as a builder of ships and
a man of veracity on the assertion
that the labor employed on modern
ship building is not paid one whit?
more on the average in the United
States than it receives in Great Brit?
ain. He declared and gave figures to
prove that he has scores o? men em?
ployed in his ship yards in England
that receive higher wages than, are
paid to any workers in American ship
yards. It will be interesting to see
how the subsidy seekers in this coun?
try will try to overcome the evidence
of Sir Christopher Furness. They
cannot deny the facts he states be?
cause he is as good authority as can
be summoned on the comparative con?
ditions of ship building here and
abroad. They cannot plead that the
ship builders of this country are
suffering and must have government
aid or perish, because it is an admit?
ted fact that they are all working up
to their full limit and most of them
refusing orders that would pay them
handsomely if the demands upon them
would permit their acceptance. The
subsidy seekers are whipped already
but the longer they pursue their raid
upon the treasury the more arrogant
and unjustifiable is their scheme made
to appear.-Atlanta Journal.
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When you have no appetite.
When you have a bad taste in the mouth.
When your liver is torpid.
When your bowels are constipated,
When you have a headache.
When you feel bilious.
They will improve your appetite, cleanse
and invigorate your stomach and regulate
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J China.
Washington, Dec. 26.-The civil ser?
vice commission today notified Edgar
S. Maclay, the historian recently em?
ployed in the Brooklyn navy yard,
that his removal from his position at
that point was not in violation of the
civil service act. This notification is
contained in a letter written to Mr.
Maclay by President Proctor, of the
commission, and in reply to an in?
quiry from him.
Senator McLaurin's cabinet opening
seems to be long in coming. The Post
master^Generalship and the Treasury
portfolio have both passed him by.
Maybe a mission to some South Amer?
ican republic will, after all, be his
reward.
The popular idea in this country
that there were no schools in the
Philippines until a shipload of teach?
ers was sent from the United States,
is not well founded. The report of the
United States bureau of education for
1901, now in press, contains the follow?
ing information on the subject: "The
Filipinos proper-that is to say, the
settled, civilized people whose repre?
sentative men are educated profession?
al and buisness men, the best of whom
are, as will appear, on a par with the
corresponding classes elsewhere in the
world-are descendants of those dwell?
ers on the coasts of Luzon and the
Visayas who were already advanced in
civilization when discovered by the
Spanish. . . . Probably a large
majority of the Filipinos can read and
write their own languages. . . .
Filipinos have filled chairs of chemis?
try, botany, medicine and pharmacy
at the university.Primary
education was conducted by teachers
of both sexes from the normal school.
. . . . The number of primary
schools in the whole archipelago, ac- j
cording to the statistics of 1S96, was I
2,1(57 for both sexes, there being two j
schools for each sex in every town of ?
five thousands inhabitants, three fori
each sex in towns of ten thousand in- j
habitants, and so on, the number of j
schools increasing in the ratio of one |
schoolmaster and one schoolmistress j
for each five thousand inhabitants." !
And we had not yet bought the arch- j
pelago in 1896.-News and Courier.
Saved His Life.
"I,wish to say that I feel I owe my life
to Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure," writes H C
Chrestenson, of Hayfield, Minn. "For
three years ? was troubled with dyspepsia
so that I could hold nothing on my stom?
ach. Many times I would be unable to
retain a morsel of food. Finally I was
confined to my bed. Doctors said I could
not live. I read one of your advertise?
ments; on Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and
thought it fit my case and commenced its
use. I began to improve from the first
bottle. Now I am cured and recommend
it to all." Digests your food. Cures all
stomach t rou oles.-J S Hughson <fc Co
I Washington, Dec. 26.-The navy de?
partment has taken the initial steps
toward the adoption of wireless tele?
graphy as a means of signaling be?
tween warships at sea. To this end
Admiral Bradford of the department
of equipment has asked that the
armored cruisers of the Pennsylvania
class have their masts and rigging so
arranged that the wireless system can
be introduced.
PITH AND POINT.
All people in love are conceited.
A forced laugh is a lie without speak?
ing.
The real old fashioned kind of a
thrifty person never opens the shutters
to her parlor.
The trouble is your skeleton won't
stay in a closet, but walks about the
roads and streets and talks with
people.
If you have a sore tooth or an ache
or a trouble, there is usually something
to "do" for it. And the sooner you do
it the better.
Trouble would be a great deal easier
to bear if those you dislike were not
having the best time of their lives just
when you are going through it-Atchi
?ou Globe.
Shares and Colds.
It is not generally known among men
that close shaving is apt to bring on a
cold. Barbers, however, are acquaint?
ed with this fact and it is rather on
account of it than through any desire
to bring their patrons back soon again
that they do not unless ordered to, ad?
minister close shaves.
The Successful Doctor.
The king of purgatory sent his Iictors
to .earth to bring back some skillful
Chinese physician. "You must look for
one," said the king, "at whose doo*
there are no aggrieved spirits of disem?
bodied patients." The lictor went off,
but at the house of every doctor they
visited there were crowds of wailing
ghosts hanging about. At last they
found a doctor at whose door there waa
only a single shade and cried out
"This man is evidently the skillful one
we are In search of." On inquiry, how?
ever, they discovered that he had only
started practice the day before.-Giles'
"History of Chinese Literature."
Drops of lek.
**A drop of ink may make a million
think," quoted McSwilligen.
"So I have beard," added Squildig.
"It may provoke language tod. A few
drops of ink that I inadvertently drop?
ped on my wife's new carpet brought
forth about a million words, and all
energetic words too."
Boiled Clotheslines.
When I buy a new clothesline, I boil
it for half an hour before putting it up.
This toughens it makes it last much
longer, and it does not snarl when put
up.-Good Housekeeping.
Many a man who glories In his birth?
right and thanks God for his independ?
ence is afraid to wear cheap clothes.
Chicago Herald.
Advantages of Port Cities.
The revenue New York derives from
the rental of piers to the Cunard, the
White Star, the American, the Atlantic
Transport, the French, the Leyland,
the National and other lines is nearly
$1,000.000 annually. The White Star
line pays the largest rental. ?217,000;
the Cunard line is next with $120,000
and the American line third with $88,
400-Ainslee's.
A Professor on Rowlnj.
A story is told about a well known
Oxford don who knew more about the
travels of Ulysses than about the boat
he sailed in. He went down to the
river one day to watch the eight prac?
ticing. He gazed for awhile in silence.
"Yes." he said at last, "they iook very
nice-very nice macea, 1 may say-but
how extremely awkward it must be for
them to learn to row backward."
Feeling* Br.ri Flpirer*.
A boy was asked winch was the
greater evil, hurting another's feelings
or his finger.
**Tiie reelings." he said.
"Right, my d*>ar child." said the grat?
ified questioner "But why is it worse
to burt the feelings':"
"Because you can't tie a rag round
them."
A Xlce Family Ml? lp.
A widower with a number of small
children married a widow who was
similarly blessed. In due time the
newly married couple added to the
number, nearing a voice in the y a i'd
one day. the father went out to see
what was the matter.
"Weih what was lt?" asked his wife
as be returned out of breath.
"Your children and my children were
quarreling with our children," was the
reply.-landon Answers.
A Financial Dincctasion.
Chronic Burrower-Can you lend me
$20 for a few days?
Weary Friend-Wby don't you pa wm
your watch?
"Because it is a keepsake from my
dear mother, and I don't like to part
with it."
"My money is a keepsake from my
dear father, and I don't like to part
with it, either."-Exchange.
The Kind Yon Have Always Bought, and which lias been
in use for over 30 years, lias boree the Signatare of
and lias been made under his per?
sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment.
Wh
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contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
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and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething- Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep?
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orsesiEiMules.
We took in a lot of
Good : Young : ?toek :
Which have since fattened up, and being
acclimated are really more fit for present use
than fresh ones.
The time approaches when planters are pre?
paring for the next year. Come and see them.
They will be sold worth the money.
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Qeo 18
458. 458.
NUMBER
Won the Pearl and
Diamond Crescent
The drawing was held at 6 o'clock
Christmas Eve in the presence of a large
number of holders of coupons, Miss
Aida Winn drawing the coupon from the
box.
Mrs. L P. Lide, of Beevesville, held the lucky coupon
and has presented it and received the Pin.
Thanking the public for the very lib?
eral patronage throughout the year and
particularly during the holiday season,
I am, with best wishes for a Happy
New Year, Very respectfully,
EL A* Huffman, THE JEWELER
Dec 26
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Nos ?2 and 53 .'Olid trairs between CberteS
ton and Greenville, S C.
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Le Florence 2 34 7 45 9 4C
Le Kingstree 8 46
Ar Lanes 3 38 9 04 pm ll 20
Le Lanes . 3 38 9 30 6 45 11 20
Ar Charleston 5 04 10 55 8 30 1 00
TRAINS GOING NORTH
No. No. No. Nc
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Ar Lanes
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kr Florence
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*Dail7. fDaily except Sunday.
No. 52 nins through to Columbia via Oea
rai R. R. of S. C.
Trains Nos. 78 and 32 run Tia Wilson and
fayetteville-Short Line-and nake close
connection for all points North.
T'ains on C. * D. R. R. leave Florence
iaiiv except Sunday 9 50 a o, arr ve Darling?
ton "0 15 a tu. Hartsville 9 15 a m, Cheraw
1130 a m. Wadesboro 2 25 p m.. Leave
Florence daily except Surday 7 55 p m, ar*
.-ive Darlington 8 20 p m, Bennettsville 9 IV
o m, Gibson 9 45 p m Leavs Florence
Sunday cciy 9 30 am. arrive Darlington
IC 05 a m
Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6 00
\ m, Bennettsville 7 CO a rn, arrive Darling?
ton 8 CO a rn, Isavw Darlington 8 50 a m, ar
rive Florence 9 15 am. Leave Wadesboro
l3i!y except Sunday 3 00 pm, Cheraw 4 45
p m, Hartsville 7 CC a m. Darlington 6 29
? rn, arri7e Florence 7 CO p m. Leave Dar
ington Sunday only 8 50 a m, arrive Flo
inc? 9 15 a m
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