The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, March 13, 1912, Image 7
Elam Harnlsh, known all tnrougn aim
ka as "Burning Daylight." celebrates his
30th birthday with a crowd of miners at
the Circle City Tivoll. The dance leads
to heavy gambling. In which over 1100,000
Is staked Harnlsh loses his money and
his mine but wins the mall contract. He
starts on his mall trip with dogs and
sledge, telling his friends that he will be
In the big Yukon gold strike at the start.
Burning Daylight makes a sensationally
rapid run across country with the mall,
appears at the Tlvoli and Is now ready
to Join his friends In a dash to the new
gold fields. Deciding that gold will be
found in the up-river district Harnlsh
buys two tons of flour, which he declares
will be worth its weight in gold, but
when he arrives with his flour he flnds
the big flat desolate. A comrade discov
ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich har
vest.
CHAPTER V.?Continued.
Back In Dawson, though he remained
true to his word and never touched
hand to pick and shovel, he worked as
hard as ever in his life. He had a
thousand irons in the fire, and tney
kept him busy. Heavy as were his
expenses, he won more heavily. He
took lays, bought half shares, shared
with the men he grub-staked, and made
personal locations. Day and night his
dogs were ready, and he owned the
fastest teams; so that when a stam
pede to a new discovery was on, it was
Burning Daylight to the fore through
the longest, coldest nights till he
blazed his stakes next to Discovery.
In one way or another (to say nothing
of the many worthless creeks) be
came into possession of properties on
the good creeks, such as Sulphur, Do
minion, Excelsis, Sfwash, Cristo, Al
hambra. and DooHttle. The thousands
he poured out flowed back in tens of
thousands.
.? r mnMiv fViot winter of
LJil W OUL1 glow la^iui; wmuv -
1896. Money poured In on Daylight
from the sale of town lots. He prompt
ly Invested It where It would gather
mora In fact, he played the danger
ous game of pyramiding, and no more
perilous pyramiding than In a placer
camp could be Imagined. But he
played with his eyes w<de open.
Corner lots In desirable locations
sold that winter for from ten to thirty
thousand dollars. Daylight sent word
out over the trails and passes for the
newcomers to bring down log-rafts,
and. as a result, the summer of 1897
Haw his saw mills working day and
night, on three shifts, and still he bad
logs left over with which to build
cabins. These cabins, land Included,
sold at from one to several thousand
dollars. Two-story log buildings, in
the business part of town, brought him
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irum iony tu unj luuuoauu wv?*w*?
apiece. These fresh accretions of cap
ita] were immediately invested in oth
er ventures. He turned gold over and
over, until everything that he touched
6eemed to turn to gold.
With the summer rush from the Out
side came special correspondents for
the big newspapers and magazines,
and one and all, using unlimited space,
they wrote Daylight up; so that, so far
as the world was concerned. Daylight
loomed the largest figure In Alaska. Of
course, after several months, the
world became interested in the Span
ish War, and forgot all about him; but
In the Klondike Itself Daylight still re
mained the most prominent figure.
CHAPTER VI.
It was held ,by the thousands of
oero-wurBiAiypius cuecutiquus uiat u<xj
light was a man absolutely without
fear. But Bettles and Dan MacDonald
and other sourdoughs shook their
heads and laughed as they mentioned
women. And they were right. He had
always been afraid of them from the
time, himself a lad of seventeen, when
Queen Anne, of Juneau, made open
>and ridiculous love to him. For that
matter, he never had known women.
Born In a mining-camp where they
were rare and mysterious, having no
sisters, his mother dying while he was
an Infant, he had never been In con
tact with them.
But it was left to the Virgin to give
him his final fright She was found
one morning dead in her cabin. A
shot through the head bad done it,
and she had left no message, no ex
planation. Then came the talk. Some
wit, voicing public opinion, called It a
case of too much Daylight. She had
killed herself because of him. Every
body knew thl9, and said so. The cor
respondents wrote it up, and once
more Burning Daylight, King of the
Klondike, was sensationally featured
In the Sunday supplements of the
United States. The Virgin had
straightened up, so the feature-stories
ran, and correctly so. Never had she
entered a Dawson City dance-hall.
When she first arrived from Circle
City, she had earned her living by
washing clothes. Next, she had bought
a sewing-machine and made men's
una pumas, lur capb, uuu ujuuocuiuc
mittens. Then she had gone as a clerk
into the First Yukon Bar^c. All this,
and more, was known and told, though
one and all were agreed that day
light, while the cause, had been the
Innocent cause of her untimely end.
And the worst of it was that Day
light knew it was true. Always would
he remember that last night he had
seen her. He had thought nothing ol
It at the time; but, looking back, be
was haunted by every little thing tbat
had happened. In the ligbt or the
tragic event, be could understand
everything?her quietness, that calm
certitude as if ail vexing questions ot
living had been smoothed out and
were gone, and that certain ethereal
6weetness about all that she had said
and done that had b^en almost mater
nal. He remembered the way she had
looked at him, how she bad laughed
when he narrated Mickey Dolan's mis
take in staking the fraction on Skook
um Gulch. Her laughter had beer
lightly Joyous, while at the same time
It had lacked Its old-time robustness.
Not that she had been grave or sub
dued. On the contrary, she had been
so patently content, so filled with
peace. She had fooled him, fool that
he was. He had even thought that
night that her feeling for him had
passed, and he had taken delight In
the thought, and caught visions of the
satisfying future friendship that would
be theirs with this perturbing love
out of the way.
And then, when he stood at the
door, cap in band, and said good night.
It had struck him at the time as a
funny and embarrassing thing, her
bending over his hand and kissing it
He had felt like a fool, but he shivered
now when he looked back on It and
felt again the touch of her lips on his
hand. She was saying good-by, an
eternal good-by, and he bad never
guessed. At that very moment, and
for all the moments of the evening,
coolly and deliberately, as he well
knew her way, she had been resolved
to die. If he had only known it! Un
touched by the contagious malady
himself, nevertheless he would . have
married her if he had had the slight
est inkling of what she contemplated.
And yet he knew, furthermore, that
hers was a certain stiff-kneed pride
that would not have permitted ner to
accept marriage as an act or phllan
thropy. There had really been no sav
XV M
"Pnrough It All Moved Dayligh
int* hor nft<>r all. The love-disease
had fastened upon her, and she bad
been doomed from tbe first to perlsb
of it
Six thousand spent the winter of
1897 In Dawson, work on the creeks
went on apace, while beyond the pass
es It was reported that one hundred
thousand more were waiting for the
spring. Late one brief afternoon, Day
light, on the benches between French
Hill and Shookum Hill, caught a wid
er vision of things. Beneath him lay
the richest part of Eldorado Creek,
while up and down Bonanza he could
see for miles. It was a scene of a
vast devastation. The hills, to their
tops, had been shorn of trees, and
their naked sides showed signs of gor
ing and perforating that even the
1 mantle of snow could not hide. Be
neath him, In every direction, were
the cabins or men. But not many
men were visible. A blanket of smoke
filled the valleys and turned the gray
day to melancholy twilight. Smoke
arose from a thousand holes In the
snow, where, deep down on bed-rock,
' In the frozen muck and gravel, men
1 crept and scratched and dug, and ever
built more fires to break the grip of
the frost.
Organization was what was needed,
he decided; and his quick Imagination
sketched Eldorado Creek, from mouth
to source, and from mountain top to
mountain top, In the hands or one ca
pable management. Even steam-thaw
ing, as yet untried, but bound to come,
he saw would be a makeshift. What
i should be done was to hydraulic the
valley sides and benches, and then, on
| the creek bottom, to use gold-dredges,
t There was the very chance for another
i big killing. He had wondered just
' what was precisely the reason for the
I Guggenhammers and the big English
1 concerns sending in their high-salaried
I experts. That was their scheme. Thai
was why they had approached him for
I the sale of worked-out claims and tall
I ings. They were content to let the
small mine-owners gopher out what
they could, for there would be mil
i lions in the leavlng3.
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(Copyright. 1810, by th? Now Tork Horal
(Copyright. 1010, by th? Maoillllan C
And. gazing down on the smoky In
ferno of crude effort. Daylight outlined
the new game he would play, a game
In which the Guggenhammers and tne
pflst would have to reckon with him.
But along with the delight In the new
conception came a weariness. He was
tired of the long Arctic years, and he
was curious about the Outside?the
great world of which he had heard
other men talk and of which he was
as ignorant as a child. There were
games out there to play. It was a
larger table, and there was no reason
why he with his millions should not
sit In and take a hand. So it was.
that afternoon on Skookum Hill, that
he resolved to play this last best Klon
dike hand and pull for the Outside. It
took time, however. He put trusted
agents to work on the heels of great
experts, and on the creeks where they
began to buy he likewise bought
Wherever they tried to corner a
worked-out creek, they found him
standing In the way, owning blocks of
claims or artfully scattered claims
that put all their plans to naught.
Followed wars, truces, compromises,
victories, and defeats. By 1898. sixty
thousand men were on the Klondike,
and all their fortunes and affairs
rocked back and forth and were af
fected by the battles Daylight fought.
And more and more the taste for the
larger game urged in Daylight's mouth.
Here he was already locked in grap
ples with the great Guggenhammers,
and winning, fiercely winning. Pos
sibly the severest struggle was waged
on Ophir, the veriest of moose-pas
tures, whose low-grade dirt was valu
able only because of its vastness. The
ownership of a block of seven claims
In the heart of it gave Daylight his
t, Hell-Roaring, Burning Daylight.
grip, and they could not come to terms
The Guggenbammer experts conclud
ed that It was too big for blm to
handle, and wben tbey gave blm an
ultimatum to that effect he accepted
and bought them out. The plan was
his own, but he sent down to the
States for competent engineers to car
ry It out In the Rlnkabllly water
shed, eighty miles away, be built his
reservoir, and for eighty miles the
huge wooden conduit carried the wa
ter across country to Ophlr. Estl
mated at three millions, the reservoir
lielPlaiinedF
How Sir William Hankford 500 Yean
Ago Evaded Law Against Com
mitting Suicide.
Suicides often adopt lDgenloua
methods, but the art of the felo de se
seems not to have advanced material
ly during the centuries. The modern
case of a heavily insured broker who
on a feigned hunting trip stood bare
legged In a quagmire for hours and
wilfully contracted a fatal pneumonJa
4 i L - ' i? -1 1 CAT
i? mtucuea xa cleverness uy uuo uuv
years old.
The following facts are well vouched
i for, and indeed were never ques
tioned, says the Green Bag. Sir Wil
liam Hankford, a Judge of the king's
bench in the reigns of Edward III,
Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI,
and at the time of bis death chlel
justice of England, was a man ol
melancholy temperament.
He seems to have contemplated
suicide the greater part of his long
life and during his later years the
idea became a fixed purpose. The
act was of peculiarly serious cons?
quences in those days for the reason
that the law treated it as a capita
crime. The offender was burled ai
the cross roads, with a stake driven
through his body, and all his goods
and property were forfeited to the
crown, to the utter ruin of his family
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rtft cm oa
\ uW/mv rom {src.
u v;umi?u/ii
omp?.ny,
and conduit cost nearer tour. Nor
did be stop with this. Electrlo power
plants were Installed, and hla work
ings were lighted as well as run by
electricity. Other sourdoughs, who
had struck it rich in excess of all
their dreams, shook their heads gloom
ily, warned him that he would go
broke, and declined to invest In so ex
travagant a venture. But Daylight
smiled, and sold out the remainder or
his town-site holdings. He sold at the
right time, at the height of the placer
boom. When he prophesied to his old
cronies, in the Mooseborn Saloon, that
within five years town lots In Dawson
could not be given away, while the
cabins would be chopped up for fire
wood, he was laugbed at roundly, and
assured, that the mother-lode would
be found ere*that time. But be went
ahead, when his need Tor lumber was
finished, selling out his sawmills as
well. Likewise, he began to get rid
of his scattered holdings on the vari
ous creeks, and without thanks to any
one be finished bis conduit, built his
dredges. Imported his machinery, and
made tne goia 01 upun luiuicumici;
accessible. And ne, who five years
before had crossed over the divide
from Indian River and threaded the
silent wilderness, his dogs packing In
dian fashion, himself living Indian
fashion on straight moose meat, now
beard the hoarse whistles calling his
hundreds of laborers ? work, and
watched them toil under the white
glare of the arc-lamps.
But havlDg done the thing, be was
ready to depart. And when he let the
word go out, the Guggenbammera
vied with the English concerns and
with a new French company In bid
ding for Ophlr and all its plant The
Guggenhammers bid highest, and the
price they paid netted Daylight a clean
million, it was current rumor that be
was worth anywhere from twenty to
thirty millions. But he alone knew
just how be stood, and tbat. with his
last claim sold and the table swept
clean of bis winnings, be bad ridden
his hunch to the tune of just a trifle
over eleven millions.
' His departure was a thing that
passed into the history of the Yukon
along with bis other deeds. All the
Yukon was his guest, Dawson the
? ?* Hn that nno
seal ui iuc icon v 11/ uu u..v
last night no man's dust save his own
was good Drinks were not to be pur
chased. Every saloon ran open, with
extra relays of exhausted bartenders,
and the drinks were given away. A
man who refused this hospitality, and
persisted In paying, found a dozen
fights on his hands. The veriest
chechaquos rose up to defend the
name of Daylight from such Insult
And through.it all, on moccaslned feet,
moved Daylight, hell-roaring Burning
Daylight, overspllllng with good na
ture and camaraderie, howling hlB he
wolf howl and claiming the night aa
his, bending men's arms down on the
bars, performing feats of strength, his
bronzed face flushed with drink, bis
black eyes flashing, clad In overalls
and blanket coat, his ear-flaps dang
ling and his gauntleted mittens swing*
ing from the cord across the should
ers. But this time It was neither an
ante nor a stake that he threw away,
but a mere marker In tbe game that
j he who held so many markers would
j not miss.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
AS IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS.
The man at the corner of the down
town alley was selling some kind of
cement
It was worth 25 cents a bottle, as
he explained to his hearers, but In or
I der to introduce it he was making a
I onaolol nrixn nf nno Himo trnC)l\ tdT thin
|/V^IUi pi IWO V* VUV Vk UJ V|
particular occasion only, and he guar
anteed satisfaction or money re
funded.
"Wili it mend broken china?" In
quired a lean, undersized man In the
crowd.
"It will mend anything but a broken
promise or a ruined character. Say,
my friend, here's a couple of sticks of
1 wood, fastened together at the ends.
> If you break them apart I'll make you
I a present of a bottle."
> Carelessly the undersized man took
? the Joined sticks in his hands.
Then be gave them a sudden, vlo
lent wrench.
i Bu they didn't break apart.
> It 19 saddening to have to spoil a
story in his manner, but sometimes,
in the interests of historical accuracy.
' it bas to be done.
lis Own Death
Hankford made good use of bis
wits and succeeded in accomplishing
his purpose without incurring either
unpleasant penalty. He gave open
Instructions to bis gamekeeper, who
bad been troubled with poachers in
tbe deer preserve, to challenge all
trespassers in tbe future and to aboot
> to kill If they would not stand and
give an account.
One dark night he purposely
crossed the keeper's path, and upon
i challenge made motiona of resistance
and escape. Tbe faithful servant,
failing to recognize his master, fol
lowed Instruction to the letter, aa
wa8 expected of blm, and Sir William
fell dead In his tracks. The whole
truth of the affair was common
knowledge, but It was impossible to
establish a case of suicide by legal
proof. The servant was protected by
nis instructions. Hankford had hon
orable burial and his estate passed
to those whose Interests as heirs h?
bad so wisely considered.
The Remedy at Hand.
"Is this the kind or weather you
generally have out here in OregonV
inquired the dyspeptic easterner.
"This is about the kind we've had
all summer," 6aid the hotel clerk.
"Why don't you use the reca:i od
It?"
FROM THE PALMETTO STATE
The Latest General News That Has
Been Gotten Together For the
People of the State.
Union.?Another old Confederate
soluier answered - the last roll call,
when Mr. E. T. Sims of this county
died at the home of his sister, Mrs. J.
T. Davis, where he had made his home
for the past year or two. He had
been in declining health for some time.
Charleston.?There is a rush move
ment in rertuizer smpmenis ^ui ui
Charleston now, the manufacturers
here are feeling good over the big
movement of cars which they are now
Bending out. It is the opinion of fer
tilizer men that the season as a whole
will pan out pretty well in their line,
as the demand for fertilizer is now
strong, after holding back two or three
weeks.
Hampton.?The municipal election
held here for intendant and wardens
resulted as follows: W. A. McDaniel,
55; J. W. McGowan, 52; Mr. McDan
iel elected Intendent by three voteB.
R. H. Anderson, A. F. Yarley, J. F.
Rivers and C. H. Cummings elected
wardens over C. S. Blocker, R. H.
Gibson, E. E. Folk and, E. B. Mc
5weened. Much enthusiasm w&b man
ifested.
Chester.?Gen. B. H. Teague of Alk
n, commander of the South Carolina
Jivision, United Confederate veterans,
has appointed Capt. W. H. Edwards a
member of the state pension board to
succeed William Henry Hardin, de
ceased. The pension board will meet
as soon as reports from all of the
counties are ready. Then Capt. Ed
^'3rds will formally enter upon his du
ties.
Abbeville.?After writing a letter to
his wife, telling her he was short in
his accounts and declaring "It is this
or go to the penitentiary" Postmaster
H. L. Marsh committed suicide oy tir
ing a bullet into his brain. Marsh
- ??? 71 vr?arg old and an old union sol
dier and has been postmaster here
twelve years. He leaves a widow and
five children.
Greenville.?Fire destroyed the barn
of George Freeman of Taylors, eight
miles north of Greenville. Four
mules, two horses, two cows, two
hogs, $2,000 bundles of fodder, a two
horae wagon and a buggy and numer
ous farming implements were con
sumed by the dames. The loss
amounted to some $2,000, with no in
surance. The origin of the Are is un
known.
Orangeburg.?'Quite a number of en
thusiastic business men and citizens
gathered at the Court House pursuant
to the call of President Cart, of the
Chamber of Commerce, to discuss the
matter of raising funds for the estab
lishing of a school here. The trustees
of the Orangeburg College, an institu
tion under the auspices and manage
ment of the Orangeburg County Bap
tists, were present and participated in
the discussion.
LaurenB?The opening gun in th^
campaign to raise $55,000 in Enoree
presbytery to go towards the endow
ment fuml jjor ?he tjiree colleges of
the synod was fired in the parlors of
the First Presbyterian church, when
a magnificent banquet was spread be
fore representatives of a large number
of churches In this vicinity. A speclaj
??!? n lortxa HalotroM/in 4k?
nam vuuiauuug a *?? 50 uoi?h??ivh w?.
Clinton people arrived jnst before th^
banquet began and remained over.
Florence. ? The fioreftce County
pension board held a meeting at the
Qounty Court House here, and acted
upon all applications for pensions that
was submitted to the board, and also
revised the list of those whose names
were on the list during the past year.
Several of the pensioners have died
during the year. The board is com
posed as follows: Evander M. Ervin,
chairman; C. C. Hepburn, secretary;
Dr. Peter B. Bacot, physician, and C.
Edward Jarrott.
Orangeburg.?At last there are
slight signs that the United States
Government will begin in the near fu
ture the erection of the long promised
public building for this city. More
than three years have elapsed since
the first appropriation was made for
this building, and the indications now
point to it? erection is the removal of
the small brick office building, which
occupies a portion of the lot purchas
ed by the Government for a site more
than two years ago.
Walhalla.?John Simpson was lodg
ed in jail here for killing George Sing
leton. Both are negroes and the
scene of the trouble was near Moun
DAdf ey\rv?z* 10 miloa wadf nf Wo 1
laiu ivcnl, auiuc ain^o n vut vi. w? ***
nalla.
Gaffney.?The meeting of the coun
ty commissioners of Cherokee county,
held in this city had been awaited by
Gaffney and Cherokee county people
with considerable inteerst, as it was
thought likely that they would, at this
meeting, take up the matter of the ru
ral police for Cherokee county and
take some decisive action in regard
to that matter.
Columbia. ? The Richland county
chaingang is now located as follows:
Gang No. 1 on Garner's Ferry road,
near Lykesland; gang No. 2 on Winns
boro road, near Taylor's store, gang
No. 3, near Eastover.
Saluda.?A live stock association for
this county was formed here with the
following officers: J. O. Baggott, pres
ident; J. A. Carson, vice president; C.
C. Mathis, secretary treasurer. The
purposes of the association as out
lined in talks made by W. F. Bur
leigh, assistant stato veterinarian of
Clemson College, and Dr. J. F. Fahey
of Spartanburg.
n? TU/* f nvif V\ nt?! n ry r\ f flio
ureenviiie.? l JJtT mi UICI iiife ui iiiv
Rock Hill plan for cotton acreage re
duction in this county has been placed
in the hands of I). H. Traxler, who
has appointed a committee consisting
of about 50 live, energetic farmers to
get signatures to reduction pledges.
New berry.?The buyer who bought
over 200 bales of cotton paid 10 1-2
onts all tound. instead of 10 cents as
reported. The Newberry market has
een at the very top ever since the
oiicn season began; most of the time
. the lend. There 19 a good deal of
tt -n rtill in the hands of the farm
j's or' the county.
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TO INSPECT GUARD
ADJUTANT GENERAL MOORE
WENT TO THE TOWN OF
EDGEFIELD FIRST.
ACCOMPANIED BY MCMASTER
Particular Attention Will Be Paid to
the Militia Will Be Inspected and
the Mltltia Will Be Inspested and
Report Will Be Prepared.
Columbia.?Adjt. Gen. Moore left
Bevei}ftl days ago for Edgefield where
he inspected Company F of the Na
tional Guar^- He was accompanied
on the inspection tour of the state by
Capt, George McMaster, U. S. A. Ev
ery company in the militia will be
Inonoof^ anil' o MTinrt nrpnarpfl
Particular attention will be paid to 1
the equipment. ' -K
The following is the-.. Itinerary of t
the Inspection: Darlington 14, Com- ?
pany K, Second infantxy; Hartsville, (
March 15, Company Q. Second infan
try; Bennettsvllle. March 18, Com- ,
pany E, Second infantry; Chester- (
field, March 19, Company P, First in- 3
fantry; New Broojdand, March. 20, |
Company M, Second infantry; Coram- ,
bia, March 21, 22, 25, 26, general head- j
quarters; headquarters First brigade;
headquarters Second infantry; Com
panies B. C. and D, Second infantry;
Conway, March 28, Company H, Third
Infantry; Georgetown, March 29, Com- '
pany F, Third infantry; Charleston, ,
April 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, headquarters Third i
Infantry; Companies A, B, C and D i
Third infantry; Walterboro, April 9,
Company K, Third infantry; Winns
boro, April 10, Company M, Third in
fantry; Chester, April 11, Company G,
Firts infantry; Fort Mill, April 12,
Company K, First infantry; Rock Hill,
April 15, Company H, First infantry;
Liberty Hill, April 16, Company B,
First infantry; Yorkville, April 17,
headquarters First infantry; Company
L, First infantry; Spartanburg, April
18, Company I, First Infantry; Clif
ton, April 19, Company C, First in
fantry; Union, April 22, Company M,
First infantry; Greenville, April 23,
Company A, First infantry; Williams
ton, April 24, band, First infantry;
Anderson, April 25, Company E, First
infantry; band, Second infantry; Lau
rens, April 26, Company D, First in
fantry; Camden, April 29, Company
A, Second Infantry; Aiken, April 3,
First company, Coast artillery , re
serves; Lancaster, April 5, Second
company, Coast artillery reserves.
Should Be Handling More Cotton.
Charleston.?Mayor Grace believet
that Charleston should be handling
1,000,000 bales of cotton a year instead
of under 600,000 and he proposes,
through the ?ock commisson mainly,
to* Solve what he regards as t^ blg
g2|t_gb8$acle in getting that 1,000,W0
bales, by gettin# adequate terminal
facilities. In a few days he will have
this dock commission duly organized
and down to work, and the railroads
will be required to show cause why
they are not maintaining proper ter
minal facilities at Charleston.
Freight Train Derailed.
Columbia ? A southbound freight
train on the Seaboard Air Line was
derailed at Congaree Creek, half-way
between Cayce and Dlxiana, and two
coal cars with the caboose rolled down
en embankment. The caboose caught
fire and burned up, together with the
larger part of the trestle. No one was
injured in the accident. Both north
and southbound trains were detoured
via the Southern Railway from Den
nark to Columbia.
To Select Site For College Soon.
Columbia?A matter of keen in
terest to Columbia and throughout
South Carolina is the selection of a
site for the new woman's college of
the Lutheran Church to be placed at
some point in South Carolina. The
new college will be erected at a coBt
of about $200,000, and the competition
from a number of South Carolina citiee
is spirited. The committee delegated
;*> n?i.,r?K^
tu atriout tut? ant; iucl hi v^uiuuiuiq
but no selection was made, the com
mittee reserving its decision for a la
k.er date.
Manuals For State Corn Contest.
Columbia.?The manuals for tht
state corn contest are soon to be is
sued by the department of agricul
ture. Several hundred farmers of the
state will enter the contest. This will
be the only means for entering prizes
at the National Corn show as there
will not be a state exposition. The
winners of the prizes in the state
contest will enter their exhibits at
the national show, which is to be held
here during January and February of
next year. Many members of the
>oys' clubs will enter state contest.
Fight For Tick Eradication.
Edgefield.?Dr. J. Francis Fahey 01
the Uuited States bureau of animal
industry, with headquarters in Spar
tanburg. was n Edgefield looking over
the field with a view of undertaking
active work in tick eradication in
this county. A mass meeting will be
called in a short time in order to
present the matter to the farmers and
enlist their active co-operation. A
representative of the state and one
from the bureau of animal industry
of the national government will prob
ably be stationed here early in April I
General Election at Gaffney.
Gaffney.?The general election wai
held in Gaffney and the new munici
pal officers duly elected by the voters.
The following is the list of those who 1
will govern Gaffney for the coming
term: Col. T. B. Butler, mayor; al- '
dermen, M. V. Fitzgerald, Ward 1;
P. V. Gaffney, Ward 2; J. A. Carroll.
Ward 3; C. C. K'rby. Ward 4; G. M.
Phiier, Ward 5; B. A. Holmes, Ward
6. They were inducted into office and |
a council meeting was held, at which
time the other officers for the ensu
ing term were elected.
rURNED BLIND
ALMOST FELL
flrs. Hansen Says At First Her Case
Seemed Hopeless, bat She x
Finally Won Out
' *' '
Mobile, Ala.?"For seven years,"; *
says Mrs. Sigurd Hansen, of this
:ity, "I suffered with womanly trout
es, and, at last, was operated on.
I felt better for a time, but soon I
lad the same trouble as before.
I had dizzy spells, and would turn
blind and almost fall over. I had
pains in my back and side, and ww
aot able to work.
Half the time I could not eat* any
FOR GOOD MEASURE.
breakfast, and I always felt weak and
had a headache.
One day, my husband got me a bot
tle of Cardul, and I tried It 1 felt
better, so I took some more.
Now, I am well and feel fine. My
ioctor says I am looking better than
sver. I have a good appetite and sleep
*elL
It is all due to Cardul. I only wish V
every suffering woman would tsy it
rhey would soon feel as good as I
lo."
Ton may be sure, when Cardul wOl
relieve and cure Such a serious case
is that of Mrs. Hansen, that it will,
much more quickly and certainly, help
those women who have no serious
lymptoms, but are Just weak and
fog.
Are you?
$4#':. > " - 'M
T?mmy?Say, Pop, does a
'When I
ever get something for nothing?
Papa?Sometimes, and a prison sen- >"
tence usually goes with it. . rW
Evidence.
"What makes you think our great
public men don't work as hard aitt
they used to?"
"By the photographs,"
Farmer Corntossel
young feller the big men in politics i
didn't take near as much time to git'
v
Conclusive Proof.
"That expression, a 'human dyna-.,.;
mo,' fascinates me."
"It is very apt and vivid when ap
plied to a man of boundless energy.'^ *
"Tackblttors must be a 'human
dynamo.'"
"Why do you think so?"
"No matter how cold the morninjjt, '
is, he leaps out of bed without ever ' .
stopping to think the matter over."' $
Belated Information.
Albert Morns tJagoy was oeiog con*'
gratulated at the .Waldorf-Astoria la
New York on the success of his "mu- iM
sical mornings."
"I Impute my success," he said,
the fact that I engage no talent that
I don't know thoroughly. In enter
tainment, as In matrimony, knowledge J J
is most Important."
Then Mr. Bagby smiled and said; ^
"Two ladles were talking the other ^
day about the Chinese revolution. .The Jj?
younger lady said:
" 'Isn't It dreadful In China? A
woman doesn't know her husband till -
she marries him.'
"The other lady, a divorcee, an
swered bitterly:
" 'I didn't know my husband till I.
married him, either.'"?SL Louis ffijj
Globe-Democrat. -.Va?
A WOMAN DOCTOR
Was Quick to See That Coffee Poison ' (
Was Doing the Mischief. I
A lady tells of a bad case Qf coffee
poisoning, and tells It In a way so sim
ple and straightforward that literary
skill could not Improve it
"r hod naiirnlcto headaches for 11 ff?
fears," she says, "and have suffered
untold agony. When I first began to /
have them I weighed 140 pounds, but
they brought me down to 110.
"I went to many doctors and they
gave me only temporary relief. So I
suffered on, till one day, & woman
doctor advised me to drink Postum.
She said I looked like I was coffee
poisoneti. if -
"So I began to drink Postum, and
gained 15 pounds in the first few
weeks and am still gaining, but not so
fast as at first. My headaches began
to leave me after I had used Postum
about two weeks?long enough, I ex
pect, to g'' the coffee poison out of
my system.
"Now that a few months have pasa
ed since I began to use Postum, 1 can
gladly say that I ^ever know what a
neuralgic headache Is like any more,
and it was nothing but Postum that
relieved me.
"Before I used Postum I never
went out alone; I would get bewilder
ed and would not know which way to
turn. Now I go alone and nay head
Is as clear as a bell. My brain and
nerves are stronger than they have
been for years." Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
"There's a reason," and It Is explain
ed in the little book, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read <'ie abOYt letter? A
one appears from time to time. They
re frenuine, true, and fall of ha;
Lateresb
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