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?A LADY PASSENGER. How She Travels in a Sleeping Car. A Monologue. "Thank you, porter. Yee, you may I open that other window. It's BO stuffy in here. It always is in sleep ing oars before they start. Can you get me a fan ? I forgot mine at the last minute. Yes, that will do nice 1 ly. Thank you." To newsboy: "No. No magazines I never read on the train, , particular ly at night. I knew a man who went _blind, and they said it waa because f ifiye read BO muoh while he waa travel I ' ling, so I've been afraid to look rt a book since except when I was per fectly stationary." "You needn't offer me any oAndy, either. I am on a diet, and the doe tor doesn't allow me any sweets. I would like tome chocolate pepper mints, though. Wsit a minute, you may give.me a half .pound box. 1*11 eat the peppermint for the sake of my digestion and try to forget the chocolate." (Toconduotor): "Both my tickets? 1 thought you wauted only my rail way ticket. But I always forget. You know I've travelled so little alone. Now here's my railway ticket, and where did I put the other one? I 1_ thonght it was in the same envelope. ? Dear me ! I wonder if I've lost it ? Oh, no, here it is. It looks so like that last preemption that I haven't had filled that I overlooked it. I wonder what I've done with the pre scription now ? You don't see it any where on the floor, do you ?" (To porter): "Whose suit case ie that? BeloDgs to the person in the upper berth ? Oh, dear ! I hope it's a lady, though I do feel norry for any woman who has to risk her life in one of those things. A man, you say; well,now, isn't that a nuisance ? Men are so apt to snore awfully loud, and then 1 like to have the npper berth to spread my skirt and waist out in. You couldn't pos sibly give him another berth, could you?" (To women aoross the car): "Verj warm in here, isn't it? Are yoi going all the way to Chioago ? Yes, J thonght so; you remind me some thing of a Chioago woman I met las1 summer." "No, you don't look like her exaot ly, but she had a suit and a hat some thing like yours. Probably the] came from the same place." "You've never been to Chioago Well, now that's funny ; neither hav< I. I am going ont to see my brother' family. They've wanted me to com< for a long time, but I didn't want t> take suoh a long trip. I don't like ra; sister-in-law very muoh, ruyhow." "I just dread this night, i neve sleep a wink on a sleej r, do yon ? don't like io take all my clothes ol for fear there'll be a wreck, and won't be decently presentable, and i I leave some of them on I get s warm that I almost suffocate." "Yes, and then I can't help woo dering who slept in the berth last Of course it don't do any good t wonde:. You'll never know, and it' a great comfort to remember the they olean oars with compressed ai these day?. There's less danger c germs and all sorts of things, bc when you can't sleep, you know, yo - really can't help borrowing troublt BP Sometimes I think I might just ? well sit up all night. I'd be quite ? comfortable as smothering to deat behind those awful curtains." (To porter): "Yes, you make up m berth now. Don't forget to put screen in the window, and there's blanket, I suppose, and make the be with my head-now which way is it Oh, yes, with my head to the engin I never can remember, though, I bi lieve some people like it one way an I .some like it the other, don't they ?" "Be sure and put the number i plain sight. I have a perfect horn of making a mistake and trying 1 get into the wrong berth. I heai once-" (To conductor:) "Oh, conduoto you won't forget te give my tick baok to me in the morning ? Ye know it's a round trip tioket, and don't want to lose it. Oh, yes, know, but I was afraid we migl possibly change conductors before am up in the morning, and y< might oarry it off in your pooket." (To other women in dressir room): "Oh, no, you are not in n way at all. I have plenty of room you have. Is there any hot watoi I might know there wasn't. It's ? ; ?lllel*^? ways Buch a farce to mark the fau cet? hot and oold when the water is invariably cold. I alway? wash my faoe in hot water before putting, on my complexion food, but I Buppote I'll have to let it go to-night. It'? a nuisance, too, for railroad dust al way ? make? yoi look grimy and years older than you really are." "Do you use that skin tonio V I tried it once, but I don't caro for it. It seemed to make my ?kin hard and dry. I like this better than anything I've tried yet. Yon ought to get some.** (To porter): "Call me at 7, please, porter. Though I don't expect to close my eye? all night. But if I don*t get to |* the dressing room ahead of them I neve: will get dressed in time to get my breakfast. It takes so long to dress In such cramped quarters. You haven't forgot to put the Boreen in, have you? Now, don't fail to wake me."-New York Mail. Our Homicidal Mania. In the twelve years that 1 have known America at all intimately I only recollect one instance in which the criminal law worked with any thing approaching the English stan dard of swiftness and precision. That was in the oase of the man who shot President McKinley. Publio opinion insisted on a speedy trial and a speedy exeoution, and publi'j opinion had it? way. Had the victim been a man of les? promi nence, the odds would have been over 70 to 1 against his assassin ever being brought to the chair. The oddB I have quoted are not to be taken as a mere figure of speech. They are a literal and appalling fact. Since 1885 thero have heen 181,951 murders and homicides in the United States, and but 2,286 executions. In 1885 the ' number of murders wa? 1,808; in 1904 it had risen to 8,482. In 1885 the number of executions wa? 108; in 1904 it wat 116. There was nothing that I am aware of to make 1904 a year of peouliar criminality. Indeed, the figures for 1905 and 1806 tell an even more sinister tale-Amerioans seem now to be killing one another at the rate of more than 9,000 a year. Look ing over the statistics of the last twenty years, one finds, roughly speaking, that while executions have remained virtually stationary, mur ders and homicides have multiplied five-fold. There are over five times as many murders committed in the United State ?er million inhabitant? as in Australia, mote than fourteen time? a? many as in Japan, nearly ten times as many a? in Canada, and about twenty-five times a? many a? in Germany. Only one European country, Italy, ha? ever shown in this respect a worse record ; only one country in the world to-day, Mexico, exceeds the Amerioan average; and the United States ha? the further distinction of being the only country where the proportion of murders to population is positively on the increase.-Lon don Mail. Mosquitoes and White Stockings. The recent discovery that army posts are thriving places for mos quitoes because these insects breed in old oannon and in the piles of old cannon balls may be supplemented by another discovery which women attaoh to these posts made in the Philippines with regard to mosqui toes. An officer's wife at Fort Slo cum told about it the other evening when some men visitors wearing low shoes and blaok hose were slapping their shins. "If you were here long you would notice," she said, "that every woman around here wears white hose. It isn't beoause it is the fashion, but because mosquitoes rarely bite through white stockings. We learned that in the Philippines. Black hose seem to attract these pests. There is something about white that repels them. Tell your women folks that whew they visit an army post in mosquito time and expect to be out of doors to be sure to put on white stockings.Si It will save them a good deal of annoyance. A woman rub bing her ankles together beoause of the misery of mosquito bites is not altogether attractive."-New York Sun._ A building at Broadway and 58th streets, New York, occupied by an automobile garage, collapsed last Tuesday. Several persons were buried in the ruins. HA J I I-f r. AM) KING SNAKE. . Story of Strange Battle to the Death on au Arizona Desert. One of the fiercest and moat san guinary battles to the death between a large rattlesnake and kingsnake ever witnessed took place in the edge of the great palm forest south of Xucoa, Ariz., a few weeks ago. Jv. P. Wheeler, superintendent of the Big Sandy Mining Company, and two companions were driving from Signal to Caetenada's Well and found the snakes in fierce combat in the road, according to the Mohave Miner, For more than an hour they watched the tide of battle -vith un usual interest. The sn ?kv . fought wearily, seeking advantage, like a flash the kingsnake gripped the rat tler close to the head and was fold ing itself, coil after coil, around the body of its antagonist. Near the middle of the rattler the kingsnake had formet, a running knot cv ita body like a figure 8, and in its oreepy folds was soon crushing out the other's life. With u desperate effort the rattler freed its head from the grip of the kingsnake and, like a flash of light, was sinking its deadly fangs into the other's body. Time after time the rattler's head quivered and flashed as it struck its poison-flecked fangs against the sides of the writhing kingsnake, until at last they became fastened in its body, requiring an effort to loosen the hold. During all this time the snakes were writh ing and beating up the sands of the road into euob a cloud of dust that their movements could soaroely be followed. Soon it developed that it was but a matter of a little time until the kingsnake crushed out the life of the rattler, as he agaiu had him in bis deadly folds and again gripped him clo BO to the head. The hour being late in the afteruoou Mr. Wheeler and companions placed the snakes, still locked in their deadly coils, into a box and took them to Caetenada's Well, where they were dumped out and the fight continued. Within an hour the rattler was crushed into an inert mass. ? The kingsnake, realizing that bis foe was dead, proceeded to investi gate and smelled bis old enemy over carefully from bead to tail. One of the men had removed tue rattles from the rattlesnake toward the last of the battle and the etump was still bleeding. AB the kingsnake oame to the bleeding stump his body writhed aud swelled and bis head raised and swayed from side to side and then descended on the luckless tail with an angry swish. Then, without further ceremony, he pro ceeded to swallow his late enemy in the most approved cannibalistic manner. The bard-fougbt battle bad boen won, and the victor, having disposed of the spoil, sluggishly and wearily dragged its battered and bleeding frame into a nearby bush, there to digest the dinner it bad so hardly won. Four hours had been con sumed in the battle and deglutition of the vanquished rattler. ? Quick Relief for Asthma Sufferers. Foley's Honey and Tar affords imme diate relief to asthma suffers in the worst stages and if taken in time will effect a cure. Sold by Dr. J. W. P \u The Marvel of Distance. The distance to the nearest Axed star is BO tremendous that, like many of the facts of astronomy, lt is be yond the grasp of the human imag ination, though not beyond the reach of mathematical demonstrator Light, which travels at a speed of 186,000 miles in a single second of time, takes over four years to reach us from the nearest star. The thread spun by a spider ls BO exces sively fine that a pound of lt would be long enough to reach around the earth. It would take ten pounds of it to reach to the moon and over 3,000 pounds to Btretch to the Bun. But to get a thread long enough to reach the nearest star would require half a million tons. If a railroad could be built to this star and tho fare Axed at a cent a mile the tc'al cost of the Journey would bo $250, 000,000,000, or more than sixty times the whole amount of coined gold in the world. Farmers' Mutual Association Meeting Notice is hereby given that the an nual meeting of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Association will be hold at the Court HotiBe, at Walhalla, on Tuesday, August 6th. All mem bers are urgently requested to be prosont. J. B. Pickett, president. J. D. Isbell, Secretary. Th? m icket Guard. "All quiet along the Potomac," they say, "Except now and then a stray picket, Ie shot, as he walks on his boat to and fro, By a rifleman hld in the thicket. 'Tis nothing; a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the news of the battle; Not an officer lost-only one of the men. Moaning out, all alone, the death rattle." All quiet along the Potomac to night, Where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming; Their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon, Or the light of the watch-fires, are gleaming. A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night wind Through the forest leaves softly ls creeping; While stars ur above, with their glit terir n ye? Keep gua d- -for the army is sleep ing. , There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread, AB he tramps from the rock to the A fountain, Ab he thinks of the two in the low trundle bed Par away in the cot on the moun tain. His musket falls slark; his face, dark and grim, Grows gentle with memories tender As he mutters a prayer for the chil dren asleep, For their mother-may heaven de fend her! The moon seems to shine Just as brightly as then The night when the love, yet un Bpoket, Leaped up to his Ips-when low murmured vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken. Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes He ua8hes off tears that are well ing, And gathers his gun closer up to its place, As if to keep d-wn the heart swelling. He passes the fountain, tho blasted pine tree The footstep is lagging and weary; Y'H onward he goes, through the broad belt of light, T.tv ard the shade of the forest so dreary. Hark! was it the night wind that rustled the leaves? Was it the moonlight so won drously flashing. It looked like a rifle. "Ha! Mary, good-by!" And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. All quiet along the Potomac to Right No Bound eave the rush of the river; While soft falls the dew on the face 01 the dead The picket's off duty forever. CLEVER, BUT TROUBLESOME. Characterstics of the Red Ants that Invade the Pantry. The small red ant, the peat of the pantry in country or town, is as clever as she is bothersome, says a writer in the New York Tribune. Many a time a despairing wife has I marked a path around the legs of her tables or refrigerators, to find next day that the engineering corps had bought grains of sand to build a bridge ever the tar and that the workers were merrily carrying off the sugar, syrup, or whatever they had decided to store away for winter. Once when sand was lacking lt was found that the workers had returned to their village and had brought over a drove of their cows and had stuck them in the tar, cheerfully sacrific ing them to the urgent needs of com merce. Learning that chalk lines drawn on the floor would keep the ants away the acid in the chalk being too strong for the 8enstive ant nose, a man once drew a thick line around a party of ants that was foraging across his kitchen floor. He kept them several days, as none would cross the line. Finally, feeling sorry for them, he chopped up some fine grass and dropped lt In the circle, that they might eat and keep them from starv ing. Eat? Not they. They simply seized the bits of grass, bore them, piece by piece to the chalk line, built a pyramid and when it was high enough, pushed it over the line, thus makiug a green bridge over which they paBsed. Nolloe to Confederate Veterans. The Confederate veterans will meet at their usual places in each township on Saturday, August 3d, at ll o'clock a. m., and elect one of their number, who is not an applicant for a pension, nor/ now on the pension list, as a delegate to me*t at Walhalla Court Honse at ll o'clock a. m. on Monday, September 2d, to elect u pension board for the county to serve the ensuing year. J. W. Hoileman, Chairman Pension Board. EES Li CONTAINS HONEY i An Improvement c system of a cold bs satisfaction or mon? SOLD BY J. W I The Rind Ton Have Always 1 in use for over 80 yean? All Counterfeit?, Imitations Experiments that trifle wit) Infant? and Children-Bxpe What is C Castoria is a harmless .Trihi Corie, Drops and Soothing contains neither Opium, M< substance. Ito age is its gu and allays Feverishness* It Colic. It relieves Teething 1 and Flatulency* It assimili Stomach and Bowels, givin] The Children's Panacea-Tl GENUINE CASI Bears the The Kind You Ha In Use For O TH? OINYAUK ?MMN*, VT ?1 Monkey Preen His Master. A full-grown monkey sat so judge in the oriminal oom t at Jersey City re cently, and acquitted his master of the charge of playing a hand organ without a license. Tony Marsella had been hauled to court because Mr. Monk had bitten the finger of a man who offered him a bread orumb. Bince the complainant didn't appear, however, that accusation waa qw>ahed, bun Tony was held by Judge McCarthy io." failure to pay a lioense fee to the city treasurer. While Tony garbled forth excuses, the monkey jumped over the court bar, and perched upon tho arm of the jurist. When the latter begrn a sentenoe in whloh he meant to impose a fine, the monk began chattering uproariously. "He says he wants me to suspend sentence," an nounced Justice McCarthy, "which II hereby do, so that there won't bo any \ dissension in the court." Then he handed his fellow-judge a nickel, whiob tho monkey slipped into his pocket with j a tip of his oap.-New York American. Dr. and Mrs. William Mann Irvine, of Mercersburg, Pa., have an nounced the engagement of Mrs. Irvine's Bister, Miss Florence Louise Hart, to Archibald Hamilton Rut ledge, of Santee, 8. C. Miss Hart and Mr. Rutledge are both lineal descendante of signers of the De claration of Independence, and both belong to noted Southern families. PINE-ULES for th? KHMVt SQ DAYS' TBEAl MSHT FPU Si.OP* BLUE RIDGE RAILWAY CO. BKTWKKN HULTON AND WALHALLA. Time Table No. 14.-In Effect May ?, 19*7. EASTBOUND 12 LvWalhalla. LvWest Union. ArSeneca. LvSeneoa. LvMordanla Junction Lv*Adams. Lv*Cherry. LvPendleton. Lv*Antun. LVDeuver. Lv*WeBt Anderson - Ar Anderson--FassDep LvAnderson-Pass I > o \ > Lv'Anderson-FrtDep ArlSelton. A M 8 80 8 40 8 58 9 00 9 16 9 18 9 80 9 88 9 46 10 00 10 05 10 08 10 19 10 r M 2 27 2 82 P.M. 1 46 2 01 2 60 2 63 3 08 8 ll 3 23 3 31 8 39 8 61 3 66 4 00 4 25 4 40 4 46 6 08 6 12 6 45 6 00 6 15 0 36 6 46 20 18 AM PM 8 30 8 33 9 06 7 00 7 03 7 86 WJWTBOUXD LTltelton. Lv* Anderson-Fr't De Ar A grierson-Pass De LvAi..tenon-Pass De Ly?Wert Anderson.... Lv'Denver. I.VA Hi lill. LvPendleton. Lv*Cherry. Lv'Adams. Lv*Jordania Junction, ArSeneca. LvSeneoa. LvWest Union. ArWalhalla. ll I 9 j 7 j 19 I 28 PM 4 30 4 67 5 no 5 06 5 20 5 28 5 36 r> ? fi Bl 0 01 A M 6 07 1 6 25 2 0 301 2 8 20 8 80 8 60 0 06 9 85 9 60 9 65 10 20 10 26 11 26 11 65 12 06 AM. 10 48 11 22 ll 26 PM 680 7 02 7 05 . Flag suttons. Will also stop at the following stations to talc? on and let off passengers : I'lilnney's, James's and Sandy Springs, Toxaway, Welch. Noe. 9,10, fl and 12, first class passenger,dally: Nos. 7 and 8, dally except Sunday; Nos. 18,19, 20 and 23, mixed, daily. I A. B. ANDREWS, President, i J. B. ANDERSON. Superintendent. RINGS DYSPEPSIA TABLETS Relieve Indigestion and Stomach Trouble?. LXATIVE COI IND TAR. CONFORMS TO NATIO iver many Cough* Lung and Bronel f setlni ss s cathartic on the bowe ry refunded. Prepared by PINEULB . BELL, Walhall?. W. J. 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By a clubbing arrangement with the Charleston Semi-Weekl} News and Cou rier we are offering that paper and The Keowee Courier for 11.50 per year. The Keowee Courier is recognized not only as the best paper in Oooneo county, but it is rated among the best oounty papers in South Carolina. Tho Semi-weekly News and Courier is an excellent Jour nal, published on Wednesdays and Satur days, gives the detailed news of South Carolina as a special feature, and oarriea tho full Associated Press dispatches from all over the world. The combina tion of the two papers at $1.50 gives our present readers, as well as new sub scribers, an opportunity to secure two of the best papers in the State (three papers a week) for 50 cents moro than the regu . lar prioe of either. Let us send you two of the very best papers in South Carolina for almost the prioe of one. Notice, Sens ant Daughters et tho Confederacy The officers of the Coonee Monument Association aro asking for the names of all soldiers from Oooneo oounty who were killed or died from the effects of the war before the surrender. Any one having suoh a record, or any one whose kinsman died in tho cause, will please take notice. This is important, as the names will be used in the monument. J. W. Holleman will receive all letters or communications regarding the matter. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tbl Kind Yw Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of B. A. BENTLEY, I R. T. J A YNES, Manager. Attorney. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO collections in the County. Try us. Address all communications to B. A. LC.7TLEY, Manager, Walhalla, 8. C. ManZan Pile Remedy RELIEVES WHEN OTHERS FAIL KILLTHI COUGH AND CURB THI LU^C8 WITH Dr. King's New Discovery FOR C8?ST *ai? ""ROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES, u TEED SATISFACTORY! BY REFUNDED. | GUARAN OR, MONEY Buchten'? 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