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The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

In the fall of 1862 Lieutenanr II. r
Merrill was saved from capture by ,he
Confcderates through a timely warn
ing given him by young giyA who
lived in the neighborhood. aiu wss
able to escape into the Mountains
with his detachment just ahead of his
pursucrs, and got back To the main
lines without losing man. 4 short
time ago, by some accident. Mcrriu
learned the address of his beuerac
tress. correspondence followed
and now wedding is said to be in
sight.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
THE BATTLE OF sLENHEIM.
Occurred over 900 Years Ago
at That Village.

Occurred over 900 Years Ago
at That Village.
Just a little over 200 years ago the
battle ui Blenheim was fought. That
name has been familiar To Americans
rs the home OF the Marlboroughs
since the marriage of Miss Consuelo
Vanderbilt To the present duke. The
anniversary of the fight was cclebrat-
ed Aug. Is. The original Benheim
Is a small village in Bavaria on the
left bank of the Danube, near the
town OF Hochstett The battle was
fought between the English and their
allies, commanded by the celebrated
John. first duke of Marlborough. and
the French ana Bayarians under Mar
shall Iallard and the elector of Ba-
varia. The result OF the lighting was
the utter defeat Of the latter with the
loss Of about 1900 killed and $4,000
prisoners. including Tallatd. Bavaria
became tn" pFiac or the conqucrors.
ip recognition of his brilliant service
the British parliament gave Marlbor.
ough the honor of Woodstock ana thc
hundred OF WOottun. and built for
him the splendid palace at Wood
siOck which is named after the great
victory he had just achieved Former
~ 10 COnfDiucd an almost unique col
lection of paintings and art treasures.
y fire. however. in lSC1 destroyed the
titian @sil,rl' and the pictures.
which were present from Victor
Nuadcus. king OF Sardinia, to the first
F.' { Ia a
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

4 unique feather guessing contest
was recently conducted by com.
pauy manufacturing feed for poultry.
Five hundred dollars in prizes was
offered for the best guesses as To the
number of feathers on hen. The
first prize was Sl00. Thousands OF
guesses were received, including some
amusing ones. One person. who was
probably looking for some catch"
scheme, estimated none at all"
Many estimates in the hundreds OF
thousands were received, several in
the millions the highest estimate be.
ing GOO.OG0.Ol7. The correct number
was found TO be S,l2O.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
RARE CONS ALL CORNEReD.
Old Pieces held Tightly by Some
Though Worthless.


The passion for making collections
of articles of various kinds, and par
ticularly stamps aud coins, is like
hope. 1t springs eternal in the HUMAN
hraa9st aydt,, ,,.o,,,, - o,
professional collector of coins and
stamps, Ito know how many utterly
worthless specimens are brought 10
me by persons who have perhaps
treasured them for long and then,
needing money, have come TO me, eX-
pecting to be handsomely paid for an
article that really has no commercial
value whatever.
Sometimes, indeed l have paid
good prices for worthless articles OF
no use TO me at all. to save their own
ers from the disappointment which /
could plainly see a refusal would
cause them.
why, handle on the average pret-
ty nearly 500 specimens a day, both
stamps and coins, brought in here by
people who expect them TO be literal
ly worth their weight i'm gold. Yet, in
spite of the great number of speci-
mems coming INTO my hands in this
way every year, it is only about once
in three years that l find anything OF
real value.
You see, it's this way. Hardly
any good rare coins or stamps are cir
culating at large. Almost everything
has been picked up by collectors; and
if you follow up any rare issue. YOU
can place almost every one-either
find the owner or account for the is
sue.
And YOU will be surprised, per
haps. when | tell YOU that We are in
debted TO burglars for most of what
we do find. One of the light-fngered
gentry lifts some rare old coins; he
has no sentimental fondness for them
based on age and possibly associa
tions, and he is unable TO make any
use of them.
so he rids himself of the worth
less and possibly dangerous or in
eliminating articles; and in that way
they drift into our hands"
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
PHYSICAL Oeqeneracy.

Interesting facts regarding the
question of physical dcgenerucy in
England have been furnished by old
tailor measurements. ~ firm in the
north of England has compared the
measurements for clothing made two
generations ago with those of to-day
the results going up show that chest
and hip measurements are now three
inches on the average more than they
were sixty years ago. TAe-Sa.lla-- con,
clusion is reached by the experience
of the ready-made clothiers. who. it
is said nearly always find that the
present'day wearers of clothing re.
quire distinctly larger sizes than their
ancestors.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
Saved His Life:

j w Davenport, Wineo, KY, writes
june IA 1902; 81 wont to tell ycu
believe Ballards SnO v Liniment saved
ny life; l was under the treatment
OF Two doctors and they told me one oil
my lungs was entirely gone, and the
other one badly affected. also had }
lump In my side. don't think that
could have lived over two month,
longer: 1 was induced by friend tC
Try Ballard's Snow Linimen1' The
hrst appllctions gave me great relief
two fifty cent bottles cured me sound
ana well 1t is wonderful MEDICINE
ana 1 recomend it 20 suffering human.
lty." 20c, SOC, e1.00, Sold by o. j.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
A Gift from Canada.

The Earl of Aberdeen's CONNECTIONS
with Canada-he was 1nvvstyol zen.
eral from 1899 1898, has ao4lt. appro
priatcly recognized by Tie Canadians
who have sent Lady Mario,fn |inclai.
a chain made az kioAdike gold. meas
urins siNty'tiye inches and containing
eighj links. typical OF the eight PROV
iaccs and jewcled with the precious
stones of Canada
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
usElNG PEAT FOR FUEL.
Fires Kept Burning 200 Years
with this Earthly Fuel.

Fires Kept Burning 200 Years
with this Earthly Fuel.
In this twentieth century, with its
wireless telegraph and other wonGer-
full inventions, more and more atten-
tion is beins given 10 peat as sub-
stituJe for coai. The principal scien-
tific schools, such as the Boston
School of Technology and the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin,, have devoted con
siderable time to experimental work
with view TO solving the problem.
Pliny, the Roman historian, says that
a German tribe pressed with their
hands kind of mossy earth which
they dried and burned for cooking pur-
poses and for warming their bodies
Beclman, in his History of Inven-
tions," mentions a letter OF sanction
by Abbot Ludolph. in the year 1l3, per
hitting a nunnery near Utrecht to
dig peat. The same authority in,
forms us that the words "turbo" and
"turfa" occur in certain land grants in
the years 1890 1871, l201. 1910. In
the laws of Scotland as early as ll4O
mention is made of extensive traffic in
this fuel. Charrod peat was used in
the Freyberg smelling houses in the
year 1860 and in England in the early
part of the seventeenth century.
In England to-day there are domes
tic fires burning in Yorkshire which
for centuries have never been allowed
TO so out This is particularly true
of a certain estate at Castleton, in
Whitby district, where the fires have
been burning constantly for 200 years
and farm house at Osmotherby, in
the same district, has not let its fire
go ont for 500 years.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
Wireless In Iceland.

iceland, cut OFF from the rest Of the
world save for slow mails, is TO be-
linked to other countries by means Of
wireless Geographic connection with
the Shetland islands. This is to fol.
low the action OF the Icelaudic pariia.
mont. at its last session. in voting "a
yearly subsidy OF S9,3OU for % years
for that purpose.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

In Ceylon there is uen raffed
Ewes apple tree" which Is remark
able in that the orange red fruit is
beautiful 10 look upon, yet out of each
fruit piece appears TO have been
bitten. 1t is said that the stimulation
of a fruit which has been Msten into
is perfect The fruit is poisonous.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Autumn will soon be decked in all
its glory. There is no time when the
country looks so pretty as wheu
the leaves have just been Dipped 10y
Jack frost.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
Prcsidentsl Election will make no
uow 10 cure Corns ana Gunious.

First, soak the corn or bInion ia
warm water to soften it down as close
ly as possibly without drawing blood
and apply chamberlains Pain Balm
twice daily, rubbing vigorously for
five minutes at each apPlicatIo, a
corn plaster shOul, be worn akfew days
to protect it from lhe shoe. Pam
Balm is rnequaled For sale by Tim
mons Bros and Cr0ssOn Drug Co.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

|.
60 enter Ia ii ment of some SORT
was in progress Time and time again
has this place been raided, but all efforts
have been fruitless as lar as a convic-
tiOn is concerned. 1t has been reported
that Mr., Fox said that she came here
to sell liquor and that he intended to
do 80 as long as he remained"
Is it not possible that with COM
munity like oars, that this He'll is al
lowed to remain in the midst of our
town? Is it possible that our citizens
VIII walk past this infamous place
daily and shut their eyes to what they
know to be drinking establishments
Please let our words arouse the dor
mant blood In the veins of some of
our church men so that they may try
and devise some means for the up bull
ding of the place and the ultimate up
roofing of this saloon that brings ruin
and degradation to so many. Is it
not possible that some means
cannot be taken at once to rid
the town of this puplic nuisance!
Have our Mayor and city-couucil
not the right to revoke his
mercantile and boarding hou Sc
license by doing away with the ex-
cuse that men go there for other
purposes than to drink and get drunk?
Let our citizens call mass meeting
for the suppression OF all vice of this
kind, let every man be his own detec-
tive and before many weeks roll by
not only this place Will cease to
exist, but numerous walking til
gers that are supplied from the
above mentioned place are extinct. In
conclusion let us say that Fox's is by
no means the only place iu the limits
of Batesburg where whiskey can be
bought. If it were necessary at this
writing we could name numerous
others who make living by its sale
on the quiet. One object is to rid our
selves of the largest liquor dealer and
then it will be but au easy matter to
punish tie other.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Ben Tillmau talked pretty straight
to the Chicago stock yard mon. He
may get wild but he never looses his
head, or his popularity.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
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Cures Chlls And Fever

q. w. Writ Nacogodohes, Iexes
says His daughter had cbilIs an
Ieyer ior three years ;ho could not flo
anything that would help uer till b
useo derbine. His wife will not kee
mouse without 1t. and cam say too
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
A Prominent Trainman.

The many friends of & IL. Iausan.
Engineer l. E& w. II. r.; at present
living in Lima, Ohio: |ill be plea ed
to know Of hisrecovery from thrcattni
enen kidney disease. He saws: was
cured by using Foley 'sI<idney Cure
which / aeccomed to all. especially to
trainmen, who are usually SIMILARLY
afflicted p" Sold hv Timmoms Bros
Prcsidentsl Election will make no
change.
No matter whjchcandidate is elected
Foley's Honey and Tar will remain the
peoples favorite remedy for cough
colds ann incipieut donsdm pticE.
cadcs colds quickly and prd pievenls
pneumonia, A. j. Nu>bnum. Bate.
viuc, Ind. writes: t suffer d for three
mOuths with cold \ druggist prep
AIRED mo some mcdicinc. and a bhysi-
cihn prescribed for me, yet ! dId I'M
proves. / then tried Folry's Honey
and Tar and eight doses cyred me-.
SUld 10y Timmon's Bros.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Seasons may change, but never the
unslghtly appearance of the guano
houses.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

JcWelTy DGpdT tllASAIt
in our store on or about October 18th
You are cordially invited to call and
inspect our lines consisting Of fine
gold watches, rings, chains, charms,
necklaces. buttons, pins, silverWare
and everything usually kept in a first
class Jewelry store.
Our orders havea1I been placed " Vrcif4
the most observation-disclosures IN
the business and every article we sell
hasour personal as well as the manu-
facturer's guarantee. We buy tor the
SPOT cash and handle no consignment
goods or out-of-date patterns. Prices
lower than any jewelry store.
In making this addition to business we do
not intend that any department. shall suffer-
but the contrary, evrey department has been
STRENGTHENED. Our assortments all over the store
are the most complete have ever shown--buig=
ing out and running with the biggest values
in the history of the store.
Writers
DEPARTMENT STORE,
Batesburg, . T.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
. N. Rogers bayIy. Ed. and Prop.

Oh! this liquor question it brings
SO much trouble to SO many.
Our telephone will soon be here. BE
patient little longer.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
BLIND TIGERS.

For months past ibis city has been
infested with blind tigers, both oscel-
lating or stationery. The one in par
ticular that has been doing the most
harm to our weak minded men and
boys is known as Fox's, situated nearly
opposite the Railroad depot. This place
has been indited and since last January
not less than $l65 worth of fines have
been imposed and paid. Whether it is
lack OF diligence or, criminal neglect
on the part of our Gewn's. officers or
slyness on the part Of the proprietor
OF this establishment we cannot say,
but one thing is quite sure, whiskey Is
sold every day in the week and
Sund ay too, almost openly or in a
manner that none can doubt. On Sun
warping last shortly before servi-
Hsn could be seen
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
Numbers in Early Days.

In paper read before the Philo.ogi-
cal Society of the University of Michi-
gan recently, Prof. George Hempl
commented upon the forerunners of
our present system of numeration.
Some two years ago, in seeking the
origin of the Runic letters Che first let
ters used by the Germanic races),
Prof. Hempl discovered the primitive
Germanic numeral notations. This
threw new light upon the early Ger
manic numeral system, as well as upon
the primitive Indo- European numerical
system and upon the development of
the Greek alphabet and the Greek nu-
merical notation.
The primitive Indo- European numer-
ical system was a mixture Of the deci-
NAL and the sexagesimai. The first
large number was the ''shock"-that
is, sixty-and the next large number
was the 'hund," or hundred" that is
12O. Between 60 and 12O there were
no numbers like our 20, ETC., 70 being
"a shock and TO-" and so being "a
shock and 90" The introduction Of our
present numbers between 60 and l2O
arose out of the introduction of the
decimal hund or hundred, that Is, 100,
in distinction from which the old hum
dred 02O was called the duodecinal
hundred, or the "great hundred"
which is still used in Iceland and parts
of England.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
Well, that's your lookout"
Proved Rexond a Doubt.

Middlesex, N. Y, July 25.-(Spec-
iaD-That Rheumatism can be cured
has been proved beyend a doubt by
Mrs. Betsey A. Clawson, we'll known
here. That Mrs Clawson had Rbeu-
matism and had it bad, all her ac-
quaintances know. They also know
she is now cured. Dodd's Kidney Pills
did it. Mrs. Clawson tells the story
of her cure as follows:
81 was an invalid for most five years
caused by. Infammatory Rheumatism,
helpless two-thirds of the time. The
first year could not do as much as a
baby could do; then 1 rallied little
bit and then a relapse. Then year
ago the gout set in my hands and feet.
1 suffered untold agony and in August,
1908, when my husband died could
not ride to the grave.
81 only took two boxes of Dodd's
Kidney Pills and in two weeks could
wait on myself and saw my own wood.
I dug my own potatoes and gathered
my own garden last fall. Dodd's Kid
ney Pills cured me-"
Rheumatism is caused by uric acid
in the blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills put
the Kidneys in shape to take all the
uric acid out of the blood.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
English Bard Was Right.

Dramatic critics and commentators
have long been puzzled to account for
the fact that Shakespeare placed the
scene Of "Hamlet" at Elsinore, in the
Island Of Zealand, whereas the DAN
ish prince lived and died in Jutland.
But just recently the municipal au-
thorities at Elsinore, or Helsingor,
have discovered in their archives that
an English company was acting in
their town in 1887 or 1888, and among
the names of the actors are several Of
those who were acting with Shake
speare in London in 1889.
Obviously, these actors must have
talked about their adventures in Den
mark, and so Shakespeare became well
acquainted with Elsinore, and, when
he wrote Hamlet" naturally placed
the scene in a place which he knew
by description rather than in an island
of which he knew nothing. The poet
was no great stickler for accuracy in
geographical matters and this visit of
the English actors plausibly explains
the reason why the tragedy Of Ham
let" was placed in Zealand and not in
Jutland.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
BREAD IN PARIS,

The Manner of Making 1t Takes Cour.
age to Inspect.
have never had the courage to per-
sonally inspect. I only know that in
stead OF being fabricated in the home
or in great, clean, sanitary factories as
in the United States, it is made some,
where in the bowels of the earth under
the small bake shops.
u would no more dare go down into
one Of these bread kitchens than l
would dare ask my cuisiniere' how
many times in her life she has had a
whole bath. 1 have seen enough at the
counters where bread Is sold to get the
French point of view concerning bread,
which is even worse than the French
point of view concerning literature
Just as am writing 1 glance
across the street into bakeshop oppo-
site, and I see a woman busting off a
pile of bread in the window with a
feather duster. They have absolutely
no sense of any difference between
bread and wood and coal, and they de-
liver it at ones home accordingly 1t
10 hCFCA "IdppCu, Oho III puSACd1 10
made of Stats or in great openwork
baskets it Is heaped less carefully than
wood or coal indeed, because bread is
easier to buy than wood or coal in
Paris. The carts or baskets are pushed
or carried by women wearing stout,
blue aprons covering them from neck
to knee, which aprons, like the sheets
on a French bed, are changed perhaps
as often as once month. Arrived at
a house where bread is to be delivered,
the open cart or basket stacked with
the staff of life is left in the road for
the femmes de chambre all around
merrily to shake down upon it any
thing they will, while the woman
mounts to ones apartment carrying
the days ration of petits pains bundled
up in her apron, and the two long, thin
loaves Of bread, unwrapped, of course
one under each arm."-Harper's Bazaar.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
Niistook the Motive.

An old man was sitting in the
street-car. In the aisle near him stood
a young woman. He made a move
ment to rise, says the Detroit News
as if to give her his seat.
Never mind, sir" said the young
woman. imperatively. Just keep youl
seat"
She smiled patronizingly on the old
man, who stared and looked dazed
After two blocks more he again at
tempted to rise, but the young WON
an pushed him back, explaining po.
litely, 1--WE stood so long now don'1
mind it. Please keep your seat"
81 say, young lady," cried the old
man in shrill irritation, 81 want to gil
off! You've made me go half a mile
past my street already"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
~~~~~~


Lockjaw. or tetanus, Is caused by
tetanus bacillus, germ living in the
soil in many places, especially in city
streets, round barns and stables and
in pastures. This bacillus does not
grow readily when exposed to the air,
SO there is usually little danger OF
lockjaw following large wounds. The
danger lies in the punctured wounds.
the ragged wounds, and often also the
seemingly trivial wounds which heal
rapidly, and so seal up the tetanus
germ away from the air; there it finds
the conditions most favora BILE to its
development and the manufacture of
the nerve poison which causes the
symptoms Of this terrible disease.
Such being the case, the treatment Of
little wounds from pistols. torpedoes
and crackers is to- make them bigger.
This requires some courage on the
part of the doctor. and the more cour-
age the smaller and apparently more
Insignificant is the wound, and par
ents ought not to increase his trial by
pleading against the necessity OF cut
ting deeply into the wound, opening it
widely and washing it out thoroughly
with antiseptic solutions. 1t is only in
this way that the danger Of lockjaw
can be reduced to a minimum, and
even this in exceptional cases does not
prevent the disease.
The modern treatment for this dis
ease is the injection of tetanus anti
toxin. Even this may fail If injected
simply under the skin or into the mus
cles, and the antitoxin has occasion
ally been injected into the sheath COW
ering the spinal cord, or even beneath
the membranes of the brain. so that it
may the more directly reach the nerve
centers chiefly affected by the poison.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
S1OO Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known to the
m edical fraternity. Catarrh being constltu-
tional disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Hall s Catarrh Cure is AIKEN internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing it's work. The
proprietors have SO much faith in its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list
Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
Cure for Indigestion,

Scientific investigation has discov.
cred that that troublesome disease
dyspepsia, can be cured by short in
tervals of exposure to intense cold
followed by hearty eating. NJ. Raou
Pictet, a Swiss gentleman, was ex
perimenting with low temperature
He had produced an artificial temper.
ature in a sort of pit which caused the
thermometer to sink to 40 or $50 de
grees below zero. Among other ex.
periments he exposed himself for a
brief interval to this temperature hy
lowering himself into the pit. On
emerging he found himself intensely
hungry and ate freely. The process
was repeated several times, and as q
result he found himself cured of chron-
ic indigestion, from which he had suf-
fered for years.