Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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! SUPPRESSING i | THE BULLETIN f | *By C. H. Wetmore % $ Copyright, 1902, by the % T S. S. McClnrc Company Y "Mr. Hudson, I believe?" "Sir to you; that is my name." And the attorney swung around from his desk. "You represent Jeremiah Selkirk?" queried the visitor who had drawn up a chair. .-"Yes, sir. I care for his legal atcrests in this city." The questioner drew a letter from his pocket, remarking as he passed it over, "This will explain why I have called/ "So," exclaimed the lawyer after reading a dozen lines. Then, rising, he slowly stepped to the side of his caller and, extending his hand, said in the usual conventional tones, "Allow me, my dear Mr.?Mr."? "Adams is the name. It is so stated in the letter, I believe." "Ah, yes?Mr. Henry Adams. I believe that I have heard of you." "Very likely. I was employed by Mr. Selkirk before he made Paris his home. It was in Paris, you have doubtless observed, that I purchased the property." "And may I ask, my dear sir"? "If I will retain your services as legal T shall he clad to do so." "Then, my dear sir, we might as well attend to the matter at once. The letter states that you are anxious to have the transfer take effect at noon on the 5th, which is this date, and as it is now 11 o'clock perhaps it would he well to visit the courthouse and have these documents placed on the records." While going the few short blocl*s the attorney asked his client if he contemplated personal control of the property. "Such is my intention," was the reply. "That is well. No matter how faithful subordinates may be, it is wise for the proprietor of a large enterprise to keep in personal touch with those who carry out his orders." The document having been passed to the clerk and the customary certificate having been received, Mr. Hudson said to his client, "Will you take luncheon "with me?" "Thank you, no. I wish that you would accompany me to the office and introduce me to the gentlemen who now^are in my employ." "I see!" exclaimed the lawyer. "You are anxious to get into harness, and I don't blame you. It must be a pleasing sensation to feel that one is at the head of a great newspaper." As they walked arm and arm down the street they were passed by several young men who were running, despite the weather, spurred on by the information gained in the recorder's office that one of the largest dailies in the United States had suddenly changed hands. ? i rx } Jbive minutes mier Air. nuusuu auu Mr. Adams stepped from an elevator I and stopped in front of an office door I which bore the legend "Editor" and from behind which came the sound of voices in eager conversation. "Come in," was the reply to their hnock, and as the portal swung it disclosed one of the reporters who had passed them on the way and who was red of face and perspiring profusely. "Here is Mr. Hudson now!" exclaimed a short, stout man, rising from a revolving chair and taking a step forward. "Perhaps you can tell me what has happened. Chalders here has run so fast that his breath has failed him." "To make a Ion" story short, I will tell you that the Evening Bulletin has been sold by Mr. Selkirk to Mr. Adams, and the latter is now in absolute control." Too astonished to speak, the editor sank back in his chair, and the silence was not broken until the new proprietor said soothingly: 'This change need not affect you, Mr. Hamilton, unless you wish to take the initiative, for I shall be well pleased to continue ycu in active charge of the news columns. Taking it for granted that you will remain, I would like to ask the hour when the next edition ?oes to press." "At 2 o'clock " "I would like to have a slight change made on the fourth page and also have an editorial put in type, and, as I wish to give some instructions concerning the typographical features, it might t>e well for me to talk with the foreman." While an office boy was hurrying downstairs for the head of the mechanical department the editor asked his new employer if he had ever been a resident of that city. "Yes, for a short time, many years ago. But I have always kept in touch with the residents, in whom I nave taken a great interest." *Mr. Sill, our foreman," said Hamilton as a man appeared on the threshold. "Here is a short editorial which I wish run in all editions today," said Mr. Adams after a hearty handshake. "Also at the top of the first column of the editorial page substitute the words 'Edited and Published by Henry James Adams' for the phrase 'Published by T/v.nmlnli ColL-ivL* Prnnriptnr ' " Ut'lCiiilaU JL 4 v^y^.vvv*. "Yes, sir," said the foreman. "Please have a proof read}- for me in an hour?by the time I return from iuneheon. There will be nothing more today, Mr. Sill. Now, gentlemen," and Mr. Adams turned as the foreman left the room, "will you be my guests across the street?" The tenderloin steaks were very tender, the mushrooms with which the meat was smothered were unusually juicy, and the wine had been well iced, so they were in no haste to depart At last, when finally they strolled past the desk, Mr. Adams stopped in front of the cashier and said, "Charge it please." The knight of the automatic register looked up in surprise; but, receiving a nod from the other two, he made a note on a tab. They found considerable excitement , at the cffice. They had no sooner taken seats than the city editor found it necessary to come in and ask about the manner a certain elopement story should be handled; then one of the editorial writers wished instruction concerning a leader for the next day's issue, the Sunday editor gained entrance to complain of a poor halftone, and cnoiofv art i tnp m n nn cprl to C V Ci-L IUC OVV.1VWJ VM4WA. pass the threshold. Meanwhile Mr. Adams, who apparently was not in the least disturbed by the interruptions, was carefully reading proof on the editorial he had written. He made a few corrections, then passed it to Mr. Hamilton, saying, "Tell me how you like it." The editor read: "Henry James Adams, having purchased the Evening Bulletin in its entirety and having decided to publish the same from today, takes this occasion to introduce himself to the citizens of St. Louis and to ask them for a continuance of their generous patronage. "It is not his purpose to make any radical departure, and the newspaper will remain independent in politics, as it always has been. As for the news service, the fact that the present publisher has decided to retain in their va rious positions the men who have given satisfaction to the former owner and to the reading public of this large city should be a sufficient guarantee that the occurrences of each day will be faithfully and accurately chronicled. "It has occurred to the publisher that there are certain reforms which might be brought about if the right force were wielded. The first of these will be the effort to have the course of the Mississippi changed so that the current will flow north and the microbes of the drainage canal will re-enter Chicago and no longer infest this fair place." "Don't you think, sir, that some persons might consider it a?a?a?joke?" stammered Hamilton. "Oh, dear, no! I have consulted with some of the most eminent engineers on the subje<?t, and only after due consideration have I decided that this shall be the first mission undertaken by the Bulletin." Then, changing the subject, he commenced a series of interrogations concerning the various members of the staff. A tremble of the building announced that the presses had started. "In here, did you say?" they heard <icL- mirl thp door was UDCere OVUl^ VUV V**.v- v ?? moniously pushed open. "Beg pardon, gentlemen, for not knocking," hurriedly said the intruder, "but I was afraid he might make 1 jr the window. You won't do that nz .v, will you, Smiley? Glad to see me? "We thought he was up to something like this," continued the newcomer, "for we found pen, ink and paper in his room, also several blank deeds, a description of this property and several letters from Mr. Selkirk, which he secured goodness knows where." "What does this mean?" asked Hamilton, jumping up suddenly like a man awakened from a sound sleep by a cry of alarm. The newly arrived tapped his head with an index finger and winked, then said: "He's been like this for five years. Thinks that he is a great newspaper publisher, and the only way we can keep him quiet is by letting him monkey with a little press which has been set up in his room. But hold on there! Don't knock a fellow over!" For Hamilton had pushed him one side and was going down the stairs two steps at a time, yelling at the top of his voice: "Stop the presses! Kill the edition!" A half hour later Mr. John G. Hudson, attorney at law, entered the restaurant across the street and paid the cashier $11.50. "Wanted. We would like fco ask, through the columns of your paper, if there is any person who has used Greeo's August Flower for the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia and Liver Trouble that has not been cured?and we also mean their results, such as sour stomach, fermentation of food, habitual costiveness, nervous dyspepsia, headaches, despondent feelings, sleeplessness?in fact, any trouble connected with the stomach or livei? This medicine has been sold for many years in all civilized countries, and we wish to correspond with you and send you one of our books free of cost. If you never tried Aueust Flower, try a 25 cent bottle first. We have never known of its failing. If so, something more serious is the matter with you. The 25 cent size hasjust been introduced this year. Regular size To cents. At all druggists. G. G. Green, Woodbury, N. J. Positive Extortion. There is a well known artist in Rending. Pa., whose work is of a high order and whose cattle pictures in particular are very pleasing and tind a ready sale, i While in the country one day last summer he sketched a tine, big bull, his object being, as lie told the farmer to whom it belonged, to make it the central tigurc of a landscape which he contemplated painting. Several weeks ago he met the farmer in town and told him that he had finished the picture and sold it for $200. "Good gracious!" exclaimed the other, "I would have sold him the bull itself for less than that."?Philadelphia Ledger. I ACCIDENTAL ? The jury returned a verdict of accidental death on the man who fell from the window ledge on which he had fallen asleep. But the death was really due to . the accident I possible. t?r~jrpr~ There are a n ~]j '' 11 II I) great many ' n ' 1 i v e s s u d~r;~ ^? denlv termi =-k^ fr- carelessness, .s=: vL^4C\JK"53BE3?5r alfVirvuerVi +Vtc>. * ^medical cerH read " heart z'r^^i When a man ry^ raj chanceswith his stomach and neglects the warning symptoms of disease, he is carelessly inviting calamity. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It enables the perfect digestion and assimilation of food, which makes strength. It stimulates the liver, cures biliousness, and removes bilious impurities from the blood. "I had been troubled with a pain in lower part of my stomach for three years, so severe I thought if would kill me in time," writes Mr. Aaron Van Dam, of (Kensington) 2549 119th St., Chicago. 111. "I could hardly work; it felt like a big weight hauging 011 me and got so bad that I had to take medicine. I used Stomach Bitters for a time, but it did no good so I wrote to Dr. R. V. Pierce for "advice, which he gave me immediately. 1 followed his directions; used two bottles of his medicine and was cured. I had a torpid liver which was troubling me instead of cramps (as I thought), so Dr. Pierce told me. I have pleasure in living now; have gained in ] j/VUUU.7 MUVV. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure conI stipation. They do not beget the pill 1 habit. ! * * She Minnnderstortd. "Henry," said Mrs. Penheckcr, "when you asked me yesterday evening for permission to go to the club what did ; you tell me was the subject you intended advocating at the meeting of the official board?" "Why/ my dear." answered Henry, "I said I was going to address the board on the advisability of women's nights." "Well." was the grim response, "next time please enunciate more distinctly. I understood you to say 'women's rights.' "?Chicago Tribune. Another Retraction Demanded. "I see that Silas is famous." said Farmer Corntossel as he stopped before the stove in the village store. "Got his picture in tbe paper fur bein' cured of rheumatiz." "Yes," answered the storekeeper. "An' Silas is that mad be can't see. He only got $2 fur givin' the testimonial, an' since it was put in the paper that he's well an' hearty all his family an' his distant relatives is after him wantin' to know why he doesn't go to work." Too Expensive. "Five dollars a minute?" said the youth who had asked the long distance telephone rate between him and the town where resided the lady fair. "Yes, sir," asserted the telephone clerk. "I guess I am not on speaking terms with her," sighed the youth, sadly counting the $4.50 which was in his purse.?Chicago Tribune. If He Only Conld. Mrs. Noorich?Isn't it grand to ride in your own carriage? Mr. Noorich?Yes, but I'd enjoy It more if I could stand on the sidewalk and see myself ride by.?Brooklyn Life. The Changing: Seasons. Pauline?I'm sorry the winter is so far gone. Penelope?So am I. I've such a becoming hat?Detroit Free Press. A Remarkable Case. Oaeof the most remarkable cases of a cold, deep-seated on the lungs, causing pneumonia, is that of Mrs. Gertrude E Fenner, Marion, Ind., who was entirely cured by the use of One Minute Cough Cure. say*-: "The coughiDg and straining so weakened me that I run down in weight from 148 to 92 pounds. I r tried a Dumber of jenedies to do avail until I used One Minute Cough Cure. Four bottles of this wonderful remedy cured me entirely of the cough, strengthened my lungB and restored me to my norma! weight, y health and strength." J. E. Kaufy mann. / WA Great Deal at St^ak." -cx/ar-J ?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Two Ways. When love's young dream was fresh and bright And life in all its glory. He told to her one fateful day The same old, simple story. And now. when homeward he returns, With dawn in a'l its glory. He tells unto his waiting wife The same old. simple story. -McLand burgh Wilson in New York Times. ANIMAL ODDITIES. Birds never eat fireflies and really seem to shun their vicinity. North American reindeer usually select an old doe for their leader. The temperature of a swallow's body is extraordinarily high, no less than 112 degrees F. Cats and beasts of prey reflect fifty t'mes as much light from their eyes as human beings. The average lake trout lays 6,000 eggs each season, and the whitefish a greater number. The female English riper does not lay eggs. She batches them Internally and brings forth her young alive. Parrots are usually vegetarians-, though the Kea parrots of New Zealand have developed a fondness for sheep. Garfish, sunfish, basking sharks and dolphins all have the habit of swimming with their eyes above the surface of the water. Your Signature. "I should be pleased to exchange cards with you, Mr. Barrow," said Charles Willips, extending his. They had met for the first time. "I'm sorry I have no cards with me," said Barrow. "Allow me to write my address in your memorandum book." "Do you know that is a very dangerous thing to do?" Willips remarked. "It cost me $24? once. I had the babit of carrying no cards and signing my name in a new friend's notebook, just as }*ou arc about to do in mine, always on a blank page. One day. after a convivial evening, I was presented with an I O U for that sum. duly signed by myself. It was impossible to dispute it. I had to pay up. But I have never since been so free with my autograph." "By George, 1 never thought of that!" cried Barrow. "Suppose you write my name down yourself."?New York Press. The Stomach Zs the Man. A weak stomach weakens the rnaD, because it caDnot transform the food he eats into nourishment. Health and strength cannot be restored to any sick man or weak woman without first restoring health and strength to the stomach. A weak stomach cannot digest enough food to feed the tissues and revive the tired and run down limbs and organs of the body. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cleanses, pun ties, sweeteDa aDd strengthens the glands ani munbraDes of the stomach, and cures indigestion, dyspepsia a'id all stomach troubles J. E. Kaufmann. Got the Worst of It. A prominent Philadelphia clergyman tells this story on himself: "It was Sunday morning, and I had started for church. The family were preparing to follow when the youngest, a hve-yearold, protested, 'I do not want to go to church.' " T don't feel much like it myself, Fred, this morning.' replied his mother, 'but we must go. Father has to go? has gone already, and he has to preach.' "'les,' said i?rea, unconvinced, out we have to listen, and that's worse.' Philadelphia Ledger. Anxioua to Know. "I find," he said, "that by studying myself I can pretty well detect and estimate the foibles of others." "But how," she asked, "do you find out about the virtues of others?'?Chicago Record-Herald. She Had Nine. Agent?Madam, I called to insure your life. Mrs. Katt?Which pag??Ngw York Times. ' ' * 3he Cooldn't WuJt. Fl:ibdubbe?When Dashitall called y)D his fiancee the other evening, he ^discovered her kissing another fellow. Pinhedde?What did he do? Flubdubbe?Apologized for being late. ?New York Herald. A Fri?^Ay Condescension. "Didn't I h!^ he cook call you by your first uame^ "Don't say a word. She only does that when she is goVl natured."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. v Others Have Been >T I*. "I nebber kin figger it o^^^'iid Uncle Eben, "how some o' de^^^ks dut talks so much about 'spisin' -^^^h kin be so willin' to borry two bits.'^^ ^sl^ ington Star. Wakeful Children. For a long time the two-year-old child nf Mr. P. L. McPhersoD, 49 N. Tenth St., Harrisburg, Pa., would sleep but two or three hours in the early part of the night, which made it very hard for her parents. Her mother concluded that the child had stomach trouble, and gave her half of one of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, which quieted her stomach and she slept the whole night through. Two boxes of these effected a permanent cure and she i* now well and stroDg. For sale by the Xaufmann Drug Co. Over=Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. All the blood in your body passes through your kidneys once every three minutes. fThe kidneys are your slocd purifiers, they filter out the waste or impurities in the blood. If t.aey are sick or out of o.'der, they fail to do their work. Pains, aches and rheumatism come from excess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected kidney trouble. Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady heart beats, and makes one feel as though they had heart trouble, because the heart is over-working in pumping thick, kidney poisoned blood through veins and arteries. It used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all constitutional diseases have their beginning in kidney trouble. If you are sick you can make no mistake by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized, it stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases and is sold on its merits Fjjf*' 11 by all druggists in fiftycent and one-dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle by mail Home of swamp-Root, free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. I Hear Tliee?Do Yon. He poured into my tired ears The burden of his woes and fears. He hit my left auricular About some love particular. And then he swatted in my right Some panacea soaked with blight. Ah! Next he danced upon my head And shrieked about the hope that's dead. TJa ?^ 1 a f f a/n An tr?Tf iiu picajtrvi tx uuivw vii Ai*j About some old forgotten throes. He gripped me by the throat and yelled Concerning sins ago I quelled. And then he yanked me from the deep; I had been talking in my sleep. ?Horace Seymour Keller in New York Herald. II a 1 IB qp a" TWO HUNDRED MU fla BBJ | L 8H young men and fl 1191 B ni ladies to qualify WW WbHWI B Sob w for paying positions. If you are Interested, write us for our handsome illustrated catalog, THE LANIER SOUTHERN BUSINESS COLLEGE, MACON. GA. VnvomKfir 1Q 1<V)e?1 v DENTAL NOTICE. DR. L. L. TOOLE, of North. S. C. will be at Swansea, S. C., on the second Wednesday oi each month, and at Gaston, S. C.. on Thnrsday loilowing. Oct. 29?6m THE ENTIRE o: 1638-1610 MA Columbia, 0 This stock is nc to the retail tr reduced o This sale will cot last very long as it convert same into cash in the oYou Know the Li ITfc It IT n A A <1 Ill J tiUlHI.V CLOTHING, SHO AND REPRESENTS ONE C STA Come Early Yours very truly, ?M, F. I Wheele & Wilson No. 9 BALL BEARING SEWING MACHINES!!! Wonderfully Light Bunning and Bapid, One-third faster; one third easier than any shuttle machine. Save about ONE DAY IN THREE. Qaiet and durable. + THREE DRAWERS. TiTirr* rvn a rrrnnn r i v Ej ur*a. \y DROP HEAD AND CABINET STYLES. ORGANS. A lot of High Grade Organs veiy low for cash. One Chaple very near cost. 1900 BALLBEARING Washing Machines and Ball Bearing Wringers These are treasures. No wet dresses and feet. Any seven or eight year old child can work it. Will cleanse the clothes in ten minuteR. Will last for years. j. n. beiesis-ST, 1604 MAIN ST., COLUMBIA, 8. C. December 3, 1932. 3m S111S hairRbalsam ; jrjfl PIhuim and bcaatifica the hah. (H Promote! a lex tenant growth. Never Faila to Bestore Gray Hair to its youthful Color. Cure* Tinniin i timmfpiuiiii UIUIUMUnU U I UT1IIIJLI1VIIIU) immm nuy. Will Practice >n all Courts9 KAUFMANS BUILDING, LEXINGTON, S O On the >8th day of October, we formed a co-partnership for the practice of law. We will be pleased to receive those having legal business to be attended to at our office in the Kaulinann building at any time. Respectfully. J. WX THUBMOND, G. BELL TIM MERMAN', October 22. 1902.?ly. Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys tones . up the stomach. . / I v 1 nifi fiTnnir I UiU MJLUUJ& . .IX STEEET, S. C. >w being offered ade at greatly prices. ? ia the wishes of all concerned to A next thirty days if possible. nes Handled are + , Notions, ES AND HATS, >F THE LARGEST IN THE r r~ I EL. and Often. 'URTICK,