Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, June 26, 1914, Image 4
Humorous department.
Black Art in Another Form.?A German
gentleman and his young son.
Fritz, were on an express train bound
for the seashore.
While Fritz was snoozing, his father.
who occupied the window seat,
snatched his cap and se< mingly threw
it out the open window.
"Aha." the joking father said "your
cap is on de outside. Never mind
Fritzy. I'll vistle und it'll come on de
inside again mit quickness."
The father whistled, and at the
same moment deftly placed the cap on
his attentive son's head. Fritz was
speechless. He pulled olT his head covering
and gazed at it in wonder and at
his paterfamilias in deep admiration
for several minutes.
As the train neared a bridge the little
chap was inspired. Leaning far out
of the open window he dropped the
cap and, turning to his dad contidentIv
oaid "Vlatlo fadder."
Willie's Confession.?Little Willie
had been very naughty?so much so,
in fact, that after having reproved
him several times, his mother was at
last forced to severely punish him.
When his father arrived home in the
evening he at once perceived that
Willie's eyes were suspiciously red.
"What's the matter, sonny?" he
cried.
"(>h, nothing." responded Willie, uneasily.
"Come, don't be frightened." said
the father, in coaxing tones. "Tell me
all about it; I want to know."
Willie remained silent for some time
and then suddenly burst out:
"Well, if you must know, I've had a
thundering row with your wife."
Appropriately Named.?Aunt Lindy
had brought around her three grandchildren
for her mistress to see. The
three little darkies, in calico smocks
stood squirming in line while Lindy
proudly surveyed them.
"What are their names, Lindy?" her
mistress asked.
"Dey's name' after flowers, ma'am.
An name em. ue o
Gladiola. De nex' one, she name* H liotrope."
"Those are very pretty," her mistress
said. "What is the littlest one named?"
"She name' Artuhflcial, ma'am."
A Challenge.?A white haired lady,
who had been awarded ?150 for the
death of her husband, applied for it to
be paid out to her in the Bow county
court.
Judge Smyly?Will you have a crossed
check to save trouble if you have
your pocket picked?
The Lady?Certainly not. I've looked
after myself all these years and
think I can do it now. (Looking round
the court)?Who is it that thinks he
can pick my pocket??London TitBits.
Did His Part.?A little boy of five
was invited to a children's party. The
next day he was giving an account
of the fun. and said that each of the
little visitors had contributed either
a song, recitation or music for the
pleasure of the rest.
"Oh. poor little Jack!" said his
mother. "How very unfortunate you
could do nothing!"
"Yes, I could, mother," replied the
young hopeful. "I stood up and said
my prayers!"
Why She Liked Him.?"I count myself
fortunate," says a Philadelphia
minister, "in numbering among my
parishioners several who invariably tell
me the truth about myself. I asked a
worthy but uneducated woman of my
flock which she liked best, my written
or my unwritten sermons.
"She reflected for a moment, and
then replied: "I like you best without
the book, because you keep saying the
same things over and over, and that
helps me to remember.""?Harper's
Magazine.
J':" One of Lord Sandwich's ancestors
went to Paris to learn dancing, but as
his lordship had an awkward, shambling
gait, his attempts at dancing were
not successful. The dancing master had
been civil, however, and the earl, as he
was taking his leave, offered to do what
he could for him in London.
"Then," said the man, bowing profoundly,
"I should esteem it a particular
favor if your lordship would never
tell anyone who taught you to dance."
"How is it?" inquired a young
bride of an older married friend, "that
you always manage to have such delicious
beef?"
"It's very simple." said the older wo
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butcher, and then T stand by him."
"You mean that you give him all
your trade?"
"No; 1 mean that I stand by him
while he is cutting the meat."
'.t' Mr. Craig was reading the evening
paper, while his wife sat near by, knitting.
"Just listen to this, Debby," he said.
"It says here in the paper that more
than r.,000 elephants a year go to make
our piano keys."
"Gracious!" cried the wife. "Ain't it
just wonderful, Dan. what some animals
can be trained to do!"?Lippincott's.
t' Dr. Arnold was paying a visit to
one of his patients?a young mother.
"You must let the baby have one
cow's milk to drink every day, Mrs.
Burell," he said.
"Very well, doctor; if you say so, of
course I will," replied the perplexed
young woman, "but I really don't see
how he is going to hold it all."?Lippincott's.
X" A little boy being taken to task by
his teacher for being late one very
slippery day during the winter, gave as
an excuse that it was so slippery that
every time he took one step forward he
slipped back two. The teacher in surprise,
asked how he got to school at all.
wnereupon me nine ieu<>? iiuhmj implied:
"Why, I just turn?d*around and went
toward home!"
Increased Weight.?They had been
married for some little time, and it
seemed to her that his love had grown
cold.
"You used to tell me." she complained.
"that I was worth my weight in
gold."
"Itut you must remember that you
didn't weigh more than half as much
then as you do now."
t The two sisters while visiting in
Ireland in Victoria's time got into con versation
one day with a tenant of
their hostess, tine of the girls, who is
quite stout asked the old woman if she
would have known them for sisters.
"Well" was the answer, "ye look
alike, but yer sister's slender, while
you, miss?well, you favor the quane."
Ittisffllanfoiis ?fadin(|.
HORSES THE SIZE OF DOGS
The Legend of the American Desert
Is an Open Secret to the Geologists
Horses. some no larger than shepherd
dops. and others so old in history
that until this year it had not been believed
they had existed on the Western
Continent once cavorted and frisked
on the Mojave Desert, and, after cavorting
and frisking, left traces that
have rewritten much in the science of
historical neology. Fossils picked up
within a twelve-month on the wastes
of the desert in Nevada tell a story of
a queer old world when animals could
gallop, unstopped by watt r, the whole
measure of the world's circumference.
In the face of rocks all the way from
France to China have been found fos
silized remains or me iamous mppurion
horse of the Pliocene Age, but
until the Mojave told its story to Prof.
John Campbell Alerriam, of the University
of California, this country was
thought to have been one of the newer
lands where pliocene animals never
roamed. The discovery gave proof to
the theory that the continents were
connected, and brought a tinge of authenticity
to the cherished legend of
the "vanished bridge of land." The
Mojave went further.
A world-wide search for the particular
species of Dobbin that ran wild
before the Hipparion had never filled
the gap in knowledge until the California
professor started digging again
in the Mojave, the Thousand Creeks,
Virgin Valley and Mina fossil fields of
Nevada. Then was discovered the
horse of the Middle or late Miocene
Age. the great-granddaddy of the Hipparion,
and proof positive that, so far
as present research can show, horses
inhabited what is now the Pacific
Coast before they trotted over the
slopes of the "older" continent.
The story of the horse, as* written in
fossils today, means that they originated
not many miles from San Krancisco,
and have roamed over a world.
This continent is no longer to be despised
as the "new" one because it was
discovered by men at a later date, but
that right here was founded the timehonored
genus Equus. It is a romantic
story unfolded after many failures and
vicissitudes, false grounds for hopes
and unexpected triumphs, and in all, a
story of hard work.
The Mojave desert, since Prof. Merriam's
visit, has taken on an international
significance as a virgin field for
research. No one knows what secrets
lie buried in the sands and, as the results
so far have been so promising, it
is certain that natives of the oil field
regions will soon grow accustomed to
"high brow" professors "digging for
bones."
The man who explores the Mojave
goes back to the time when horses had
three toes and must go with a knowledge
of the shifting sands of ages.
Centuries ago when a Hipparion hors"
sought a sheltered place in which to
die, he performed a favor to science,
for in those semi-sheltered spots the
preserving sand gently sifted in. In
years the accumulated sands and wa
ter covered the bones with a deep conglomerate,
which for storage purposes,
has had no equal, and which preserves
to this day the record of ages. It is
for this reason that deserts and mountainous
regions are the hunting
grounds for the geologists.
In addition to the horses of the Miocene,
Pliocene and Pleistocene ages.
Prof. Merriam found in the Mojave the
record of the twisted horn antelope,
likewise an evidence of the connection
of the Old World life with that of
America, for the eland and kudu of Africa
were hut first cousins to the twisted
horn.
Half of North America, then, is the
vast collecting ground for fossils which
the world of science has left to Prof.
Merriam and men who have been his
students and assistants in the University
of California. The wonder is the
field has been so long neglected. The
great basin from which many more
discoveries may come extends from
the Wasatch Mountains to the Sierra
Nevada and from San Francisco mountains
northward for 1.500 miles. This
great expanse was, when Dr. Merriam
started his explorations, with the exception
of one small area, virgin field.
The Mojave, it is predicted, will add
more to the science world.?San Francisco
World.
HEROES OF THE BIRKENHEAD
Thrilling Story of a Famous Tragedy
of the Sea.
To take your chance in the thick of
a rush, with firing all about,
iu n,.thini' ?<i had when vou've cover
to hand an' leave and likin' to
shout;
But to stand and be still to a Birken'ead
drill is a damn tough bullet
to chew,
An' they done it, the Jollies, 'Er Majesty's
Jollies?soldier an' sailor,
too!
Their work was done when it 'adn't
begun; they was younger nor
me nor an' you;
Their choice it was plain between
drownin' in 'eaps an' bein' mopped
up by the screw.
So they stood an' was still to the Birken'ead
drill, soldier an' sailor, too!
?Rudyard Kipling.
One of the old, almost forgotten
horrors of the sea which thrilled the
world some sixty years ago, arousing
no less admiration than it did pity,
was the loss of the troop ship Birkenhead
off the coast of South Africa in
February, 1S52. Last week the last
survivor of the disaster, G. A. Lucas,
died in England. The Birkenhead, a
roomy sailing vessel, had aboard 6.1S
persons. Most of them were British
soldiers bound for garrison duty in
South Africa, and there were aboard
the ship the wives and children of
many of the troopers, for those were
the days when Tommy Adkins was allowed
to take his family into foreign
parts with him.
The vessel passed Gibraltar and
steamed along down the west coast
without mishap of any sort. Indeed
to many of the troopers and their
wives it was a sort of pleasure trip,
with little to do but sit lazily on deck,
watching the sea lazily rolling under
tropic skies. Back in England there
was no such luxury as this; people
were shivering at this time of year,
and the poor huddled their nigged
cloaks around them, worse tilings in
the world than being a soldier's wife
even if it did mean exile from home
for nobody knew how many years.
Struck a Reef at Night.
The crash came at night. The Birkenhead
was cruising off Simon's Bay
well out to sea. when it struck .a sunken
reef. There were no water tight
compartments in those days, and no
one had ever dreamed of wirele?
Ships sank or swam, survived or perished.
by their own efforts; and prayers
"for those in peril on the sea"
seemed to come closer home than in
the days of great liners.
It is an old tradition that Anglo
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Saxons may usually be depended upon
to acquit themselves creditably in
time of disaster, and certainly the
soldiers and the sailors of the BirkenI
head fulfilled that tradition nobly. At
first the troopers, who formed in |
ranks on deck to receive orders at
once after the crash, were assigned to
throw overboard the cavalry horses
that were being taken out to Africa.
It was hoped that by lightening the
ship it might be saved.
But in a very little while it became
clear that that was a useless waste of
energy; the Birkenhead was mortally
wounded and wallowing to its grave.
Boats were lowered and the women
and children placed in them. They
stood a good chance of reaching the
shore, for the sea was not running
high. Then when the boats were
launched, the soldiers formed once
more in ranks on deck and stood at attention
while the ship filled and lurched.
There was a tearing, crashing
sound; the ship was breaking in two
in the middle. The captain of the vessel
shouted that it was every man for (
himself now. But the commander of j
the soldiery had a different idea. He ,
stepped forward with upraised hand.
Men Agreed to Stay.
"If you men try to reach the boats,"
he said, "you will only swamp them
and take away the women's chance c*
life. What will you do?"
"We'll stay," came the answering
shout from the ranks on the deck of i
the Birkenhead.
And so the ship went down, with
454 men standing at attention on its
careening decks, and as the vessel
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shout as of victory went out through
the night.
One or two men, unusually strong
swimmers, kept alive, through the
night and were rescued at dawn, but
of the 638 men and women who had
been aboard the vessel, only 184 lived.
And most of these were women and
children.
Twenty years ago a poem commemorating
the wreck of the Birkenhead
was written by Hattie Tyng Griswold.
This is it. Miss Oriswold, you will observe,
made use of her poetic license
to the extent of shifting the time of
the accident from February to May
for metrical purposes, swelled the passenger
list to one thousand, and
changed nigh into day, but otherwise
the description is fairly accurate:
It was forty years ago, in the merry
month of May.
That the good ship Rirkenhead off the
coast of Afric lay.
Filled with soldiers just embarked for
a distant port, they say.
And with her canvas spread swept
she from the sheltering bay.
Close to shore she softly sailed, in the
soft and spicy breeze.
And a thousand soldiers paced her
broad decks in idle ease.
Sport of Fortune, every one, common
soldiers rough and rude,
Their religion to obey, their one fortune
fortitude.
Lounging, aimless, stood they there on
the day of which we tell.
When the ship by hidden rock was
pierced through and woe befell.
Ran the sailors here and there, struggling
with the deadly leak:
Swift the captain's orders came, but
the strength of man was weak, i
And the ocean with a Mood hurried in
on every side.
And the weight of mighty waves pressing
down all skill defied.
When they saw that hope was gone (
and the ship was but a wreck.
Then the colonel formed his men in a
line upon the deck. t
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And he spoke as soldier should in a
crisis sharp as death.
With deep silence in the ranks, for
each soldier held his breath*
"Men, the ship is breaking up?boats
can reach the nearest banks.
Sailors put the women in; let no soldier
leave the ranks."
And the soldiers with one voice sent a
shout into the sky:
Never yet commander heard such a
cheerful, proud reply.
And through all the heavy strain of
the hours so fierce, so Mne. 1
When they waited there for death, not 1
a soldier left the line. i
Calmly in the ranks they stood, with 1
the colonel at their head;
And when all the ship was cleared, i
this is what the colonel said:
"In a minute we go down?do not
break the ranks." he said. '
They went down a thousand strong i
with the colonel at their head. (
Not with panic and with rout went 1
they to their bitter doom. I
Hut they gave one mighty cheer ase
they sank into their tomb. ,
And the story still is told, and it shall I
be told for aye.
How a soldier can obey, how a man
can rule and die.
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A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
The Genuine Specimen is Different '
From the Hero of Fiction.
Glamour and romance are supposed i
to surround the career of the profes- i
sional soldier of fortune. We read of
him as standing tall and erect amid i
the dust of conflict, with a 45-caliher i
revolver in his left hand and a saber i
in his right, while directing the opera- i
lions of the revolting Valutions i
through 32r. pages of popular fiction, i
and as receiving "the girl" into his he- ;
roie arms on Page 326. He is. of i
course, an American, and his name <
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es of the class of 1879 at their reunior
must be either Valentine Blood or Basil
Underwood; none of your Smiths
or Joneses or Perkinses. Conceive of
a romantic hero named Horace Perkins!
Now, in many ways Tracy Richard
son comes up to scraicn very wen. nis
name is not half so bad to begin with.
It has a good swing to it, and looks
well when prefixed by a title. Also, he
is slender, good looking and a genuine
American. But Tracy Richardson himself
is responsible 'or the ideal-shattering
assertion that being a soldier of
fortune is not all that it is RichardHarding-Davised
to be.
I met him here in Vera Cruz the
other day, a courteous, educated, mildmannered
individual, with calm, blue
eyes and a slight mustache and a habit
of talking earnestly about his mother
and sister, back in Lamar, Mo. He
had arrived not long before from Mexico
C*ity after a lot of campaigning
with Orozoco.
"I've been written up about a dozen
times by newspaper men," he said,
edging away, "and every time they
ask how many times I have been shot
and then send the papers to my home
town and scare my folks. I'm becoming
'leary.'"
"Well," I said "how many times
have you been shot?"
"About six," he grinned. "None of
'em ever amounted to anything, and I
wish you'd make that clear?because
nf Lamar, Mo., you know."
"How did you get into the game?"
"Oh, I liked adventure. I couldn't
reconcile myself to the idea of becoming
a lawyer or a doctor or a clergyman
or of selling ribbon behind a
counter. I happened to hear of the
prospect of trouble down in Honduras.
The thing was a fizzle and I was pretty
disgusted and started home. I happened
into Nicaragua and had my
tilings in ine custom uouse au iwu;
to sail. Then somebody stole the stuff
from the custom house and that was
the last I saw of my clothes and belongings.
That's how I got into it?
somebody stole my clothes.
"However, there was a revolution in
prospect in Nicaragua and I joined the
rebels. Ive been at it ever since. That
was in 1910. I saw thirteen months of
scrapping in Nicaragua and managed
to stop a bullet twice.
"Then another row started in Honduras
and my outfit having won in Nicaragua,
I slid over into Honduras
and joined the rebels there. I was a
colonel. Served under Bonilla, the
rebel leader, and when we won he became
president. I suppose I could
have had a job as long as his lasted,
but the fever had got into my blood
then and I couldn't stop.
"I heard that there was trouble
brewing in Venezuela and that the
place for me to connect with it was in
New Orleans. I went to New Orleans
and entered myself for the Venezuelan
Derby, but the truth is I never left
New Orleans in that affair, although I
drew full pay f-om the prospective
revolutionists all the time the thing
was in the wind.
"After that I came to Mexico. T was
with Orozoco in the campaign against
Madero and later I fought with Huerta's
crowd against the Carranza
people?although not under Huerta
himself. My job was shooting the big
guns. I was called colonel.
"Next you find me here, waiting a
chance to fight with my own countrymen
for the first time. If the armv
advances I hope to go ahead scouting,
because I am pretty familiar with the
country."?Vera Cruz Cor. Chicago
News.
ALASKAN WONDERLAND
Possibilities of Development Greater
Than Known Resources.
Preliminary work upon the projected
government railways in Alaska will
soon he underway. The engineers
have started and ITicle Sam will push
the work and show himself again a
great huilder as at Panama. In 1867
Alaska was purchased by the United
States for $7,200,000, and a cry went
up that it was an exceedingly bad
bargain, yet since that time over $500,ftOO.OOO
worth of products have been
taken out of the country and have
more than justified the makers of the
bargain. Now $35,000,000 will be expended
by our government in making
the beginning of a system of railways
in Alaska.
Each of the three projected routes
will connect with the great navigable
rivers of the interior, which are open
to trade for three months in each year
nnd whose waters How far north and
empty into the Bering sea.
The popular idea is that all Alaska
is forbiddingly frozen and almost uninhabitable.
As a matter of fact, its
Pacific coast is warmer than Scotland
i>r Norway. A record of temperatures
for one year in this coastal region
shows a maximum of S4 degrees and a
minimum of twelve degrees below, a
range not unlike a considerable portion
of continental 1'nited States. Beyond
the mountains in the great interior
valleys there is a climate not
lissimilar to that of Alberta and Sas
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katchewan, those provinces in Canada
to which so many good American
farmers have been immigrating and
making fortunes in the cultivation of
wheat.
In this region temperatures have
been recorded as low as 76 degrees below
zero and as high as 90 above. This
means a short, hot, luxuriant summer,
with a lonir severe winter, but neither
of these is materially different from
regions in Canada that are furnishing
homes and prosperity for hundreds of
thousands of settlers.
All this region is full of a multitude
of resources that has been but indicated
by the accomplishments of the last
decade and a half. Already gold aside
from that which has been washed out
of the sands has been regularly mined
in Alaska sufficient to furnish a
wealth of $57,000,000. Of this nearly
$5,000,000 was produced last year. Yet
this hardly compares with the placer
gold that has been washed out of the
sands at Nome and Fairbanks and
over on the Yukon and down the Susitna
rivers. Of this powdered gold
$145,000,000 has been sent out of
Alaska, and last year's production was
$12,000,000.
Though the Alaskan miner has been
interested in little else than gold, he
last year extracted 90,000,000 pounds
of copper from the ores of this region.
Here also is to be found coal in practically
unlimited quantities, and so
placed as to make it particularly easy
to get out. To be tapped by the proposed
railroads are the Bering river
region and the Matanuska fields,
which compare with the best regions
of Pennsylvania. There are gold bearing
gravels and copper deposits and
wide stretching forests to the interior,
the possibilities of which are us yet
merely a matter of speculation.
Last year $100,000 worth of potatoes
alone were raised in this part of Alaska.
Oats and barley and rye are grown
and ripened in abundance. Thrifty
farms are springing up around Fairbanks
in the far interior. The department
of agriculture reports that there
are great numbers of crops that may
be produced abundantly during the
short, warm summers and that there
are possibilities of developing certain
varieties of grains that will be peculiarly
adapted to Alaska conditions and
that may open up undreamed possibilities.
It is even hinted that these broad
acres might be made to yield of their
abundance in the short summer season
and that their owners might spend
half the year in California.
Most unique of all the known latent
resources of Alaska is that which lies
in its reindeer herds. For thirty years
the federal government has been building
up reindeer herds in Alaska with
the idea of substituting reindeer raising
for cattle raising and in grafting
it as a mammoth industry upon this
region. The government herds are now
many and large, and their numbers are
multiplying so rapidly that it is promised
that soon the ranges of Alaska
may be stocked with reindeer as were
our western plains with cattle three
decades ago.
But, according to Secretary Lane
and the Alaska railway commission
ana otnei authorities upon the development
of new regions, the possibilities
of such a country can in no way
be gauged by its known resources.
When a railroad penetrates a region
and great numbers of people follow
that road they everywhere turn up
new ideas that lead to wealth. When
the Southern Paeitic railroad, for instance.
pushed through New Mexico
and Arizona and southern California,
no human being dreamed that this
country, then called "the Great American
desert," was to become the greatest
copper producing region in the
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world. Neither did anybody dream
that the time would come when water
would be placed upon these desert
sands and they would be sold at priecs
as high as $1,000 an acre. So may
Alaska be expected t o develop many
surprises when government built railroads
carry great numbers of settlers
into that unknown region.
In speaking of the problem of Alaskan
railway construction Secretary
Lane said: "There is but one way to
make any country a real part of the
world?by the construction of railroads
into it. This has been the heart
of England's policy in Africa, of Russia's
policy in western Asia, and is the
prompting hope of the new movement
in China. Whoever owns railways of
a country determines very largely the
future of that country, the character 1
or us population, trie kiuu oi inuustries
they will engage in and ultimately
the nature of the civilization they
will enjoy. The policy of governmental
ownership of railroads in Alaska
seems to be one that will most certainly
make for her lasting welfare.
"To build these railroads ourselves
and control them may be an experiment,
but such a plan does not suggest
scandals more shameful or political
conditions more unhealthy than
many we have known in new portions
of our county under private ownership.
And in the end we will be free
to establish and maintain our own
chosen relationship between Alaska
and the rest of the United States unhampered
by threats of confiscation or
the restraining hand of any merely
selfish influences. By this act the
United States adds to itself an empire."
UNJUST TO SEMINOLES
Writer Criticizes Course of the United
States.
It was 6s years ago that the Dade
massacre took place near Fort Drane,
in Florida, writes the Rev. Thomas H.
Gregory. Major Dade and his command
of 100 men were attacked by the
Seminoles and completely wiped out,
only four of the force escaping.
The head and front of the Seminoh
war, in the course of which this "massacre"
occurred, was Osceola, as pure
a patriot and as gallant a fighter as
ever broke into historv.
The Seminoles were dissatisfied '
with a treaty that a few chiefs had
made for their emigration west of the
Mississippi, and when Gen. Thompson
was sent to remove them by force they
arose, under the leadership of Osceola,
and began fighting for the land that
had come down to them from their
fathers.
They did just what the Americans
wuuiu ceruumy nave uoue unuer similar
conditions. The United States
troops were invaders and the Seminoles
resisted them. Major Dade and
his men were the invaders and the
Seminoles killed them. The fact that
a little bunch of chiefs, assisted by
American "diplomacy" and firewater,
had made a "treaty" Riving away their
country did not seem sufficiently sa- i
cred to the red men to justify them in
submitting to the American claims.
Osceola fought like a lion for two
years against vastly superior numbers, '
and in 1837, was made a prisoner by
General Jesup, while holding a conference
with him under a Hag of tru:e,
and imprisoned in Fort Moultrie until j
his death which took place two years
later.
Ueaten in the field and bereft of
their great leader, the Seminoles re
tired to the swampy fastnesses of tlio
everglades and kept up the flght for
five years longer, successfully resisting
the onslaughts of more than 10,000
American troops. To this day the
descendants of the Seminoles are to be
found in the big Florida swamp, pre- (
serving in their features and in their j
coufage the characteristics of their <
stalwart and gamey ancestors. /
(>sceola had every cause to hate the j
white man. His wife was seized as a ^
slave, and when he protested and j
threatened revenge he was seized by J
Gen. Thompson and imprisoned for six '
days in irons. For this outrage Osce- J
ola killed Thompson, for doing which J
he was dubbed a "ferocious savage" '
and declared an outlaw. <
Great is the mystery of the white |
man's justice! It is no wonder the |
children of the forest were never able ^
to understand the ethics and religion | [
of the paleface. |
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Six Ounces of Mud.?Gardners and I
other botanical experts may like to f
know of the two following experiments 4
which illustrate very graphically the '
lavish way that nature goes about her ~
work.
One year, in the month of February,
Darwin removed from three different
parts of a small pond, th**ee tablespoon fuls
of mud, weighing in all six and
1 hree-quarters ounces.
This he placed in a breakfast cup
and kept it covered up in his study 'or
six months. By the end of that time
he had removed in all 537 plants.
Another interesting experiment was
carried out by a Scotch gentleman a
few years ago. In a patch of soil, taken
from a hedge roof of about 28 inches
long by 11 inches wide and 28 deep, he
planted a dozen acorns, and took note
of the number of plants which grew
from seed naturally contained in the
sou.
At the end of the year he had taken
out. as they came up, 155 plants! The
following year 56 more plants were removed.
and in the two succeeding years
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FOR SALE *
136 Acres?The Wells Place, the
property of R. N. Plaxco, a very fine
farm. High state of cultivation.
I have had many inquiries about the
County Home Lands?First Tract: 90
acres, on Rock Hill road; also 137 acres
join J. L. Moss. I must sell this land
At Once. .If You want it, see Me at
Once?It is a good money maker. #
County Home Farm?90 Acres, Joining
T. L. Carroll, $25.00 Acre.
140 Acres?Joining R. R. Love, J. L.
Moss and others. Magnificent bottom
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Cottage Home?Of W. C. Miller, on
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300 Acres?Property of D. A. Whlsonant,
Joins J. W. Quinn and others
Pries $16.00
40 Acres?Property of John B&rnett,
joining farm of J. R. Connolly and Wm.
Harrison Est. lands.
100 Acres?Known as the Dorster
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church and school. If sold
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sum of $20.00 an acre for it
109 Acres?Near Lowryville, $25.00
per acre.
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The Quinn estate land?On King's
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