The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, October 02, 1895, Image 1
BYCLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON.
ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2- 1895.
VOLUME XXX.- -NO 14.
HATS!
S
NEW line of HATS just opened, consisting of all the
Latest Shapes in Alpines and Stiff Hats. A good Wool
Hat for 25c, something better at 50c. Five dozen
Alpines, new shapes, best value ever offered, at only 74c.
Splendid line of Cloth Hats, in assorted patterns, for
Boys, at 25c. If you need a Fine Hat we have 'em up
to 83.00.
Neckwear.
Just in, our second shipment of Neckwear this season.
Nice line of Cravats and Bows at 25c. An Elegant line
Cravats and Bows at 50c. If you want to be in the style
you will have to come to us for Neckwear.
NEW LOTE OF UMBRELLAS.
Clothing.
We have doubled our Stock of Clothing to give a better
selection to cur steadily increasing trade. Our line of
Suits surpass anything we have ever shown.
Come in and look, as we want to show our Goods.
Fie3pectfuUy,
B. O. EVANS & CO.
If you want to see Pretty Things,
in Endless Variety drop into that
Jewelry Palace.
Next Door to Farmers and Merchants Bank.
BRIDAL PRESENTS.BIRTHDAY PRESENTS,
World without end, and at PRICES that will make you SMILE.
I have certainly boughYtho largest uiiTpiXit''eat 8tock ever opened ap in this City
No trouble to find what yoa want.
NOVELTIES BY THE'CART LOAD.
A visit to my Store will knock the bluea sky high.
ENGRAVING FREE.
No trouble to show Goods.
Eight-day Walnut Clocks $2.00.
WlXt.. R. H?BBARP.
Time and Place
for Everything!
THE time is now here to buy your Winter Foot?
wear, and the place that offers you the most advan?
tages ought to attract your patronage. We claim
to offer the following advantages over all competi?
tors :
1st?Larger variety to choose from,
all sizes and all widths.
2nd?The newest and host styles,
bought direct from the leading manu
..-.< ? ? ? ? . ? ?? - ? -. ;
facturers. ? ?-???^
3d?Lowest prices, we buy for cash
in large quantities and direct from
the makers.
Think over these things, and come and see us before buying.
THE YATES SHOE CO.,
ANDERSON, S. O. "
Chattanooga Cane Mills,
Chattanooga Galvanized Steel Evaporators,
With the Patent Cups.
Chattanooga Portable Furnaces.
Cook's Galvanized Steel and Copper Evaporators.
Cook's Portable Furnaces.
x&- We invite your attention to the above, on which we
can save you money.
SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO.
OLD BACHELORS
c
ANNOT fully appreciate the elegant assortment of Fancy and Fami?
ly Groceries, Canned Goods, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Ci?
gars, other Goods, that we are displaying on our shelves and couoters, but
we?
WANT WIVES,
And Housekeepers, especially, to come and sec the nice things we can furnish
them for their tables.
We have the goods, guarantee them to be pure and fresh, and the prices
VERY LOW.
Give us a call,
G. F. BIGBY.
Samuel Ward Stantou contributes I
I an interesting paper to Engineering I
I Magazine for September, from which I
I we take the following :
On May 29, 1819, while the little I
I schooner Contract, Captain Living-1
I stone, was sailing quietly along on the I
I Atlantic, the lookout discovered what fl
I he supposed to be a vessel ou fire, far I
I off on the horizon. The Contract was I
I headed toward the new comer, but, to I
I the surprise of those on board, she I
I passed quickly and was soon lost to I
I sight, notwithstanding all sail on the I
I Contract was spread. The conclusion I
I was then reached that the strange I
I vessel was nothing more or less than I
I a "steam packet," bound across the I
I ocean.
The vessel in question was' the I
I Savannah, a ship of some 380 odd tons, I
I and was bound to Liverpool from I
I Savannah, having left the latter place I
I on May 26. The Savannah was the I
I first transatlantic steamship. She I
I was built at Corlaer's Hook, on the fl
I East River, now part of New York I
I City, by Messrs. Crocker & Fickett, I
I and was at first intended for a sailing I
I packet, but before she was finished I
I was purchased by William Scarborough I
I and others of Savannah, Ga., and ma- I
I chinery was placed in her. The en- I
I gine?inclined direct-acting?was built fl
I by James P. Allire, and the boilers.by I
I Daniel Dodge. The paddle wheels I
? were so constructed that they could be I
I taken apart with little trouble and plac- fl
I ed on deck should occasion arise, the I
I shaft having joints for that purpose. I
I Skeleton frames of iron designed to sur- fl
I oundthe wheels, and covered with can- fl
I vas, served for wheel houses. The Sa- I
I vannah's arrival at Liverpool created a I
I small sensation; steamiDg up the har- I
I bor, with sails furled, a full head of I
I steam on, and the American fing I
I floating proudly over her, she no doubt I
I presented an inspiring sight. The fl
I trip had occupied 22 days, on 14 of I
I which steam was used. Leaving I
I Liverpool, the Savannah sailed to St. I
I Petersburg, stopping once or twice on fl
I the way, aud finally returned to Sa- I
I vannah. The machinery was afterward fl
I taken out, and she plied as a sailing fl
I packet between New York and Savan- H
I nah. She was finally wrecked on the I
Long Island coast.
Soon after the Savannah made her I
successful ocean trip, a fine large I
steamer, named Robert Fulton, of fl
750 tons, was constructed in New York fl
by Henry Eckford, for the route from I
New York to Cuba and New Orleans. I
She was a staunch vessel, constructed I
"entirely of oak, locust, and cedar, I
and Georgia pine, copper fastened." fl
She had a square, or crosshead, engine, I
of the type then in use on inland I
steamers ; there were two boilers and fl
two funnels. She left New York for I
New Orleans on her first trin April 25, I
1820, stopping en route at Charleston fl
and Havana. She was an entire sue- fl
cess, and covered the 2,225 miles be- I
tween New York and Now Orleans in I
an average of 10 days. The NTew York I
Evening Post of June 15, 1820, con- fl
taiued the following notice of her I
arrival:
"The beautiful steamship Robert fl
Fulton, Captain John Mott, arrived fl
last evening, 17 days from New Or-1
leans, via Havana and Charleston. At fl
Havana.she stopped 2and at Charleston fl
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and seventy passengers, and has been I
at sea only 10 days."
In another notice, on the return of I
this boat in January, 1821, the Pos< I
said:
> "Steamship Robert Fulton, Captain 1
Mott, arrived in New York in 8 days I
from Charleston, having been to New I
Orleans. * * * 45 days' round I
I trip to New Orleans, averaging 14} I
either way. * * * The boisterous I
season, the rough and heavy weather I
which she has experienced this trip, I
must convince even the most incredu- I
lous of the perfect practicability of I
navigating the ocean by steam. Cap- I
tain Mott gives her a decided preference I
over every vessel he ever commanded, I
both for safety and pleasantness during I
a gale of wind."
The Robert Fulton ran for three I
years very successfully ; she was then I
sold to the Brazilian Government, to I
be used as a cruiser, her machinery I
being removed.
Various small coastwise lines were I
in operation both in the United States I
and Great Britain between 1825 and I
1835. In 1835 the steamship Enter- I
"prise made the trip from England to I
Calcutta, and it is said that her com- I
maudor, Captain Johnson, received I
$50,000 for taking her out. She was I
of 470 tons burden?smaller than the I
Robert Fulton, but larger than the I
Savannah?and sailed from Falmouth I
August 16, 1S25. Like the Savannah, I
her engine was only worked when the I
weather was fine, it being used 64 out I
of the 103 days required to perform I
the passage.
A steamer of 350 tons, called the I
Curacor, built in England for a com- I
pany of merchants of Amsterdam and I
Rotterdam, ran between Amsterdam I
and the Dutch West Indies for some I
time in the later twenties. The Me- I
teor, a British steamship, ran between I
England and the Mediterranean in I
1830; she carried the mails.
Following the Savannah, the next I
steamer to cross the Atlantic was the I
Royal William, a 363 ton ship, con- I
structed in Quebec. She made the I
run from Quebec to London in some- I
thing over 40 days, leaving August 5, I
1833, and reaching Gravesend Septem- I
ber 16.
One of the most famous of the early I
steamships was the Sirius, a small, I
but staunch, vessel that was sent I
from Queenstown to New York by the I
British and North American Steam I
Navigation Company on a regular line I
that had just been established. She I
left on her voyage to New York on I
April 5,1838, with forty-six passsngers, I
and reached her destination April 23. I
Later in the same day the steamship I
Great Western arrived from England, I
and the appearance of these vessels I
in the harbor caused great excitement I
in New York. The Great Western I
had left Bristol on April 7, thusmaking I
the passage in 15} days as against the I
17 of the Siirus. The Sirius had I
originally been "built for coastwise I
service in England, but had been I
chartered in order to anticipate the I
Great Western, which was about ready I
to sail on her first trip. The Sirius I
made two round -trips in the line, and I
was then placed on the route between I
Dublin and Cork, where she continued I
plying until January 18, 18-17, when I
she was wrecked. The British Queen, I
newly built, took the place of the I
Sirius when she left the transatlantic I
route. fl
SARGE PL?NKETT.
Growing Grapes on the Old Red Hills of
Georgia.
Atlanta Constitution.
Strangers visiting the exposition
will not have to leave the city very
far to see what can be accomplished
on the lands of Georgia.
In two miles of the union depot may
be seen a little farm that speaks
stronger than words of what can be
done on Georgia lands. A few years
ago this land had gone to waste.
Ruts made it unsightly and its owner
was moving with all his energy to sell
and set off to Texas. About this time
there came to Atlanta a family of
French people to work in the factory.
This French family hailed from a little
village called Natziller, Alsace-Lor?
raine. When the war was raging be?
tween Napoleon III and the Germans
these people refugeed from Alsace
Lorraine and took up their abode in
Paris. When the war was ended and
Alsace-Lorraine fell under the govern?
ment of the Germans these people pre?
ferred to come to America rather than
to return to their conquered homes.
They landed in New York city on May
10, 1881, with only 85 cents in their
pockets, a house full of small children
and in a strange land. A visit to their
home out West Hunter street, just
two miles, and a look at their sur?
roundings will impress you of what
may be accomplished in Georgia.
It has been just fourteen years since
the old man Bernard purchased this
seven-acre lot. It was considered too
poor to sprout peas at that time, and
rough, red and unsightly, but when I
look upon it now I feel sorry for the
fool "Georgia Cracker," who sold it
for a song and spent the money mov?
ing to Texas. The whole place has
been bearing grapes for a number of
years, the Bernards are rich, good
dwellings, barns and a wine cellar
90x110 feet, three stories high and full
of wine.
As I have stated these people were
refugees from Alsace-Lorraine during
the Franco-German war. When they
landed in New York they were seen
by an agent of the Atlanta cotton fac?
tory and made a trade to come to
Atlanta. They sold everything they
had to get to Atlanta and there was
not one of them that could speak a
word of English. But they could
work, and the whole family went at
it, and they went to planning to save
and buy a few acres. By the aid of
Governor Bullock and the firm of
Elsas, May & Co., old man Bernard
was enabled to buy this seven-acre
tract and he at once moved upon it
and began planting grapes and improv?
ing the land. The children were kept
in the factories for a few years, while
the old folks staid at home and tended
the farm. For three years spades and
grubbing hoes was all they used to do
the work that our folks perform with
the plow. Pretty soon, though, the
little farm began to bloom and blos?
som and the ruts began to pass away.
They got them a cow and pigs, they sav?
ed and stinted till pretty soon they had
more cows and more pigs. A barn
was built and every sprig of grass and
every weed was cured and put in that
barn.. Then their grapes began to
bear and they ceased to raise vegeta
bles, but planted more vines and at?
tended to their grapes. Good dwell?
ings were soon built and a fine wine
cellar, and so they have progressed till
prosperity and comfort crops out in
all their surroundings and to-day they
rate their place as being worth as much
for the growing of grapes as the lands
of France or any other country.
It is a pleasure for a "goober grab
bler" like me to get with these French
people and hear them talk about that
country and their customs there.
Economy is impressed upon their
young from the very start of life.
Nothing is allowed to go to waste.
We old people in Georgia cannot un?
derstand what "saving" means with
these people. They would be horri?
fied at seeing crab-grass waist high lay
and rot upon the ground, as has been
seen by every old Georgian and is
common all over Georgia. Where
briars and bushes grow at the end of
our rows and on the ditch banks, these
people would be growing something of
profit. Their whole system of life
and of farming is different to ours and
the results prove that they are the
wisest.
They have told me much about
France that I never knew. There the
landowner builds a village, as it were,
somethingon the order of negro houses
before the war, I think, except that
the French quarters are of brick in?
stead of logs, and the people are pea?
sants instead of slaves. From these
villages the farming is carried on.
Instead of having fields there as we
have here, they have rows. No mat?
ter how large the plantation, a man's
crop runs from one side to the other.
A whole crop may be in two or thiee
rows and a row may be a mile or more
long. Everything is arranged to make
matters equal between " tenants."
Even the matter of firewood is arrang?
ed so that there is no waste of ground
or of timber. They have trees, the
Italian poplars, I suppose, growing
on the farms and each tenant is allott?
ed so many of these trees to make his
fuel. At a certain time of each year
these trees are trimmed closely and
these sprigs are tied into little bundles
and make the fuel of France. The
trees are so long and slender that they
do not shut out any sunshine nor in?
terfere with the growing crops. This
sounds strange to Georgia people, who
are used to seeing thousands of timber
rotting in the woods and log heaps
burning in every new ground. The
little twig business would not suit a
regular Georgia cracker, but there is a
suggestion of economy in it tint we
might study on and perhaps profit
from.
These French people say that
Georgia is as good a country for grapes
as France is. Anyhow, their place is
a thing of beauty and their success
should encourage us all to be satisfied.
All over Georgia are evidences of the
generosity of our old hills. They
will yield freely of many fruits if we
give them the chance. Start in any
direction from Atlanta and once in
awhile you will run .across a farm
which has been given a chance, and it
is by these farms that Georgia should
be rated. Close to where I live a
Switzerland gentleman grows as fine
clover and grain as can be grown in
any country. As a sample of his
farming, he makes fifty bushels of oats
per acre, while the native "cracker"
brags on eight and ten bushels. Near
Pecatur Colonel Crockett and George
Ramspeck have vineyards as fine as
those of the French people, and Mr.
Ramspeck raised this year thousands
of bushels of Irish potatoes among his
vines. When I say thousands of bush?
els,it sounds mighty big,but thousands
it is. lie has about forty acres in
vines, and for several years has grown
potatoes among them. Convinced that
it was no injury to the grapes to raise
the potulocs, he planted the whole
forty -icrcs this year and thousands of
bushels is the result.
All we have to do is to give the
lands of Georgia the same showing
that the lands of other countries re?
ceive and they will respond with as
generous yield as any, and of all vari?
eties. Sarge Plunkett.
A Heroine's Beward.
Editor Constitution: Having seen
from the papers that General Scho
field has visited Atlanta within the
past few days, calls to my mind an in?
cident of the battle of Jonesboro which
for the sake of history and in justice
to a true and noble soldier is worthy
of publication. My object further is
that the world may know through the
columns of your paper the true merit
of Southern womanhood as illustrated
by at least one Southern woman on
the bloody field of Jonesboro, and at
the same time show to your readers
the high esteem which this brave and
chivalrous soldier manifested towards
a true southern heroine in the dark
and dismal hour of battle.
It was on the first and second days
of September, 186*4, just a little over
thirty-one years ago, when General
Hardee, of the Southern forces, was
sent to Jonesboro from Atlanta with
a handful of 22,000 men to head off a
formidable flank movement of the
enemy which had for its purpose to
cut off southern communication and
thereby compel the cvacution of the
city of Atlanta. This flank movement
consisted of 40,000 or 45,000 men and
was commanded chiefly by Major Gen?
eral John M. Schofield together with
General Sedgwick, who was also a
corps commander, and consisted of the
best fighters of the federal army.
As the two armies confronted each
other two miles to the north and north?
west of Jonesboro, it so happened that
the little house and.farm of a poor old
widow lady was just between the two
lines of battle when the conflict open?
ed and having nowhere to go she was
necessarily caught between the fire of
the two contending lines of battle,
which were at comparatively close
range and doing fierce and deadly
work. The house and home of this
old lady was soon converted into a
federal hospital, and with the varying
fortunes she was alternately within
the lines of each contending army,
when not between them on disputed
ground. So the battle raged all day
and the wounded and dying of both
armies were carried to the humble
shelter and outhouses of this old lady
until all were full and her yard aud
premises were literally strewn with
the dead and dying of both armies.
Now, for our little story: During
the whole of this eventful day this
good and brave old woman, exposed as
she was to the incessant showers of
shot and shell from both sides, moved
fearlessly about among the wounded
and dying of both sides alike and with?
out making the slightest distinction.
She tore up every sheet and bed-quilt
she had into bandages for the wound?
ed and when all had been used and
more were needed she tore up every
undergarment she had into bandages,
and even took a portion of her cloth?
ing off of her person for the purpose.
Finally night closed the scene with
General Schofield's array corps in pos?
session of the ground and when the
morning dawned it found this grand
old lady still at her post of duty,
knowing, too, as she did, the fortunes,
or rather misfortunes, of war had
stripped her of the last vestige of
property she had except her little
tract of land, which had been laid
waste. It was at this juncture that
General John M. Schofield, having
known of her suffering and destitute
condition, sent her under escort and
arms a large wagon load of provisions
and supplies and caused his Adjutant
General to write her a long and touch?
ing letter of thanks, and wound up
the letter with a special request that
she keep it till the war was over and
present it to the United States gov?
ernment and they would repay all her
losses.
She kept the letter and soon after
the Southern Claims Commission was
established she brought it to the
writer, who presented her claim in due
form and she was awarded about $600
?all she claimed, but not being all
she lost. That letter is now on file
with the other proofs of the exact
truth of this statement with the files
of the Southern Claims Commission,
at "Washington, D. C, and should be
preserved in the archives to be read
by future generations as an evidence
of General Schofield's great big heart
and magnanimous spirit in the very
heat of battle.
Your readers will be curious to know
who is the lady. Her name was Allie
McPeek. She is dead now, but she
leaves a smaH posterity scattered about
who should be and are pround of her
memory. Yet, she is buried in an
humble country graveyard, with no
distinctive mark of her last resting
place. Peace to her ashes. She was
only a type of thousands of true, brave
Southern women.
John S. Doyal.
Jonesboro, Ga., Sept. 18th.
Corn Silk As a Rt-mfdy.
"Who would have thought that the
silk of an ear of green corn was a
powerful and efficient remedy
for dropsy, for bladder troubles, and
for the diseases of the kidneys ? In
the Louisville Medical News we find
an account of the medical properties
of corn silk and the cures that have
been effected by its use. The way
to use it is to take two double hand
fuls of fresh corn silk and boil in two
gallons of water until but a gallon
remains. Add sugar to make a syrup.
Drink a tumblerful of this thrice
daily, and it will relieve dropsy by
increasing the flow of the urine enor?
mously. Other diseases of the blad?
der and kidneys are benefited by the
remedy which is prompt, efficient and
grateful to the stomach. The treat?
ment can be continued for months
without danger or inconvenience.
? Sam Jones rises to remark that
"the whole manhood of America
is trying to hunt up a soft job." Sam
seems to have found it.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local application?, as tliey rannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one
way to cure Deafness, and that, is by constitu?
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an Inflam*
e<l condition of the mucous lining nf t'hn Eustachi
inn Tube When this tube nets inflamed you have
a rumbling sound nr imperfect hearing, and when
it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an
inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any crtfo
of D'-afncss (caused by catarrh) lhat cannot be
cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars
free.
f. J. CHENEY, & CO , Toledo, o.
?if*9o!d by Druggists, 15c,
WAYS OF RATTLESNAKES.
Common Errors Regarding Their Fight?
ing Abilities.
"Nobody was ever bitten by a rat?
tlesnake, and nobody ever will be,"
said a man who has studied them.
"And the reason is the besttbat could
possibly be. A rattlesnake can't bite.
It isn't likely that any creature that
lives and is provided with teeth and
jaws has less power of biting. The
Bnake's jaws are not hinged. They
are attached to each other by an elas?
tic cartilago. Thus the snake has no
leverage whatever in closing one jaw
against the other, and if it attempted
to inflict injury by biting, it couldn't
so much as pierce the skin. The
fangs of a rattlesnake are driven into
the flesh by a stroke, not a bite, as is
well shown by the fact that punctures
are made only by the armament of the
upper jaw. The lower jaw has nothing
to do with the act. A man striking a
boat hook into a log is an exact repre?
sentation of the manner in which the
rattlesnake bites. So whenever any
one tells you about some one else be?
ing bitten by a rattlesnake, bet him it
isn't so. You'll win. It is an
impossibility for a rattlesnake to bite.
"But, although the rattlesnak can't
bite, if you're fooling around in a
country where he is spending the
summer, you wan't to keep your eye
peeled. And there is one particular
thing you don't want to forget. It is
a common and widespread fallacy that
a rattlesnake is entirely harmless so
long as he is uncoiled. I believed
that once, and found out by a startling
personal experience that it wasn't so.
It is true that when a rattlesnake is
stretched at full length with the mus?
cles extended to the utmost, he could
not strike an inch forward, but from
that position he can strike backward
his full length, and with lightning?
like velocity. One day I dropped a
big stone on the head of a big rattler
that lay in this position, crushing the
head, the stone laying partly on the
head. After gazing for some time at
the quivering reptile, so suddenly
taken from life, I stooped down to re?
move his rattles. I had no sooner
touched his tail than his mutilated
head flew back, and almost grazing my
cheek, struck the sleeve of my coat
just below the shoulder, where both
fangs were buried, pulling out of the
jaw and remaining in the sleeve as the
snake fell back to the ground. They"
had not missed my cheek by more
than a hair's breadth. With precau?
tion I have made that test of a rattle?
snake's capacity of striking in that
way many times since then, and the
snake always struck. The instinct is
so strong in this reptile that I have
known a rattler, two hours after its
head was severed from its body, to
strike back fiercely with its bleeding
stump the instant its tail was touched.
"There is at least one case on record
where this belief that a rattlesnake
couldn't strike until it was in coil re?
sulted fatally. The man was working
in his garden, when he discovered a
rattlesnake lying with only its rattles
and two or three inches of its tail pro?
jecting from under the bottom rail of
the fence on the side next to him, the
rest of the snake being on the other
side. The man, being unable to give
the snake a blow that would kill it
while it was in that position, thought
he would seize its rattles and pull it
quickly into full view and kill it with
his hoe. He crept up and seized the
rattles, but had no sooner touched
them than the rattlesnake doubled
back over the rail and sank its fangs
in the hand that held its tail. The
man killed the snake and hurried to
the house, where he died in a short
time.
"But the typical position of the rat?
tlesnake when intenton deadly assault
is the coil. This is not always a sym?
metrical spiral, but the body is massed
in more or less regular folds, literally
an inimate set spring. From this
position the rattler can spring from
one-half to two-thirds of his length.
Before the stroke the mouth is opened
wide, the fangs falling down from their
sockets in the upper jaw and standing
firmly in their position. The head is
thrust forward, the half coils below it
being straightened out to lengthen the
neck and to give power to the strike.
There is no preliminary motion. The
stab is made with abrupt swiftness
that defies escape of the victim. There
is but one strike. The snake passes
back into its coil again with the same
swiftness that it threw itself out. As
the fangs enter the flesh the venom is
injected. If the thing struck at is be?
yond the rattler's reach, the snake has
the power of squirting its venom in
jets, which it can do for a distance of
four feet or more. Dr. Weir Mitchell
had a narrow escape once. An im?
mense diamond-back rattler he had in
his collection threw a teaspoonful of
its venom in the doctor's face from a
distance of four feet. It struck him
on the forehead. If it had fallen an
inch lower it would have entered his
eyes, certainly blinding him and per?
haps killing him.
"Sometimes a rattlesnake loses its
fangs in the flesh of the object it
strikes, but that does only temparary
damage to the deadly armory. There
arc plenty of incipient fangs lying in
the jaw, only waiting for a chance like
that to come forward and be in line
for business. They grow very fast,
and in the course of two or three days
a rattlesnake that has lost its fangs is
refitted with a brand-new pair. That
is a good thing to remember, for it is
the popular belief that a rattler is
made harmless by extracting its venom
fangs. The only way to render one of
these reptiles harmless, besides kill?
ing it, is to apply a red hot-iron to the
cavities left by the fangs. This will
destroy all the vitality of these dan?
gerous parts and new fangs will not
come in.
"The rattlesnake never pursues his
prey ; he waits. He will not go out of
his way to attack anything. He will
invariably keep on his course if not
cornered or teased. You may step
within four inches of a rattlesnake
and will not be disturbed by it if you
keep right on your way. If you stop,
the snake at once will take it for a
challenge and hit you only too quick.
It is said, as if by authority, that the
rattlesnake never sounds his rattles
until he has coiled. If that is so.
rattlesnakes I have seen must have
been freaks, for they have rattled
when lying at full length and even
when moving, as well as in their coils.
The rattler, when travelling, will cross
lakes and streams, and he swims with
his head and his rattles raised well
above the water. The force with which
a rattlesnaka can strike is such that I
once teased one into striking at a piece
of belding at least a quarter of an inch
thick, and he sent his fangs clear
through it.
"I don't know whether rattlesnakes
have the power of scent or not, but
from what I have heard, and especial?
ly from what I have seen, it would
seem to me that they not only have
that power, but have it in a most re?
markable degree. One summer in
northern Pennsylvania I killed a fine
specimen of a rattler, and carried it on
a stick for two miles to the place where
I was stopping. A native of that lo?
cality on seeing the snake, said :
".'That's a she rattlcrand you folks
around here want to watch out. Her
mate will be along looking for her to?
morrow or next day, sure !'
"I skinned the snake and took the
carcass to the hog pen and gave it to
the hogs and thought no more about
it. Next morning I heard a loud
scream from one of the women of the
family, and she came running into the
house declaring that she had seen a
big rattlesnake on the front stoop.
" 'First time,' she said 'that a live
rattlesnake has been around the house
in twenty-five years.'
"I hurried on but could see nothing
of the snake. It occurred to me then
what the native had said about the
mate of the dead snake following her.
I walked toward the hogpen and there
I discovered a rattlesnake moving to
and fro on the ground in front of the
sty, and acting as if it were looking
for a place to get in. I watched the
manoeuvres of the snake for a few
minutes and then killed it, and the
native at once declared that it was the
mate of the one I had killed the day
before. The front stoop where this
snake had just made its appearance at
the house was the first place I had
stopped with the dead snake and gone
from there to the hog pen.
"I perhaps, in spite of the circum?
stantial evidence against it, would
never have believed that this snake
was anything else but one that had
come casually to the premises, if a
similar incident hadn't occurred a
couple of days later. A man, who was
working in haying on the place lived
four miles distant and went home Sat?
urday night to spend Sunday. On his
way back Sunday afternoon he killed
a rattlesnake in the road and brought
it in. It happened tobe a female, and
warning was given that a lookout bet?
ter be kept for her mate. As a matter
of curiosity I took the dead snake
from where it had been laid in the
road near the house and took it to an
old vacant house in the field half a
mile down the road from the place
where I was stopping. I left the
snake there, and next day went back
to the old house- to see if any snake
would follow it there, keeping watch
along the road. Along in the middle
of the forenoon I saw a big snake
coming down the road and I got into a
clump of bushes. The snake came
into the field. It was a rattler, and it
made straight for the house. I fol?
lowed it. It went in at the open door.
The dead snake lay on the floor. The
live one went up to it and around it
several times, and then lay still, as if
thinking the matter over. I watched
the snake for ten minutes and he never
moved. Then I stepped inside the
door. Like a flash the snake threw
himself into a coil and faced me,
glaring fiercely, and making his rattles
sing. I didn't like his looks and shot
him with my revolver. I no longer
had any doubt that the snake of the
week before was the mate to the one I
had killed, and was satisfied that this
one was the mate of the hired man's
victim. But how had they followed
the trails of their dead wives ? That's
what has always puzzled me."?New
York Sun.
Patriotic to tbe Last.
A couple of Englishmen, en route
for Rome, were joined by an American,
whose blatant patriotism first amused,
then bored them. No matter what
was admirable, rich or rare, there was
always something in America to eclipse
it, according to our countryman. The
Britishers determined to teach the
Yankee a lesson, and taking advantage
of the chronic thirst of their companion,
they plied him with all the liquor that
he could be iuduced to absorb, and
then proposed a visit to the Catacombs.
Before they reached their destination
they were obliged to guide his errant
steps between them, and at length,
overcome by drowsiness, the American
begged to be left alone to lie flown at
ease. When sounds as of a discharge
of musketry issued at regular intervals
from the nose of the prostrate patriot,
his companions concluded that he was
dreaming of the Fourth of July, and
would, therefore, be oblivious of any?
thing nearer at hand. Producing a
sheet, purloined from their hotel and
until now carefully concealed, they
wrapped the sleeper like a mummy in
its folds, and then left him to "do"
the Catacombs on their own account.
Returning an hourlatcr, they found
him still sleeping. One of them then
drew from uuder his coat a tin fish
horn, and blew upon it a blast that
only elicted a grunt and produced a
fluttering of the eyelids of the sleeper.
A second blast, however, longer and
louder, brought him to a sitting pos?
ture, with eyes wide open and senses
all alert. A moment of bewilderment,
and then he exclaimed, joyously:
"Gabriel's trump ! Resurrection day !
First man up ! Hurray ! America still
ahead !''?Harper's Magazine.
? Some folks laugh and shake their
heads wisely when you talk to them
about the hidden typhoid germs and
other vehicles of disease that lurk in
the surface water that runs into shal?
low wells because they cannot see the
organism with their natural eyes, be?
cause the surface water often looks
the same as the deep well water. But
with all that vre are of the opinion
that much of the affliction that is at?
tributed to God comes from an almost
criminal ignorance regarding some
of the most potent laws of nature.
? The pear crop of Georgia this year
is the largest on record. It is estima?
ted by those who are in a position to
know and to judee correctly, that it
will exceed 300,000 barrels. The bulk
of the pears arc Lc Contc.
? It is estimated that getting
born costs the people of the United
States $225,000,000 annually : getting
married, $300,000,000 ; getting buried,
$75,000,000.
If Troubled With Rheumatism Read This.
Annapolis, Md., Apr. 18, 1894.?I
have used Chamberlain's Pain Balm
for rheumatism and found it to be all
that is claimed for it. I believe it to
be the best preparation for rheumatism
and deep seated muscular pains on the
market and cheerfully recommend ?*
to the public. Jxo. G. Brooks, fl'
iu boots, shoes, etc., No. 18 *" aic
ALSO READ IT i(jr{in St.
Mechaxicsville, p' ,.3.
Md.-I sold a h' jt ^'arv CWy)
Pain Balm fl of Chamberlain's
sufferiD- to aman w]|0 had been
5TCar' with rheumatism for several
. It made him a well man. A.
,. McGiU. Forsaty at 50 cents per
?f'iWitlc by 1J ill liros.
All ?ort? of Paragraylw,
? Life is half spent before we know
what it is.
? Self-love is uot so*great a sin as
self-forgetting.
? He who hath most of heart knows
most of sorrow.
? A man likes to feel that he is
loved ; a woman likes to be told.
? "What we need is the ability to
talk with God. Any hypocrite can
talk about him.
? The burden of one man is a bag
of gold, while the burden of another
is an empty pocketbook.
? There is one thing to the, credit
of the devil?he never at any time'dicT*
business in his wife's name.
? The ear that is always open to
hear slander becomes a common cess?
pool for the neigborhood.
? The American Bible Society
distributed more Bibles in China last
year than in any year during its his?
tory.
? "Pa, is it right to call a man
born in Poland a Pole ?" "Of course,
my child." "Well, then, if a man is
born in Holland, is he a Hole?"
? "What is wisdom ?" asked the
teacher of a class of small girls. A
bright-eyed little creature arose and
answered, "Information of the brain."
? Life, as a life, never can be whol?
ly right unless it is begun right. "If
you miss the first button hole you will
not succeed in buttoning up your coat," -
says Goethe.
? Cumso : "I detest Jay Smith.
He tells all he knows." Cawker: "It
is not the chap who tells all he knows
that annoys me most." "No ?"
"No; it is the one who tells all he
doesn't know."
? Hinks : "Where did you spend
your vacation?" Binks: "I didn't
spend it. My wife and daughter
spent everything else I had, and I
thought that I'd better save some?
thing."
? Gus : "How did you happen to
ask her to marry you the first time
you ever met her?" Cholly : "Well?
aw?you see I had just been intro?
duced to her, and I?ah?couldn't
think of anything else to say."
? "Do you find this weather op?
pressive ?" he asked. ".Yes," she
replied, "it's very hot and tiresome."
"Would it make matters more endur?
able if I were to propose to you ?"
"Oh, yes. Do propose ice cream, soda
water and a drive."
A lake containing fresh wator on
top, and salt water on the bottom has
been discovered on Kildin Island,
Lapland. The lake rises and falls
with the tide, and the salt water evi?
dently comes from the sea by an un?
derground channel.
? "You are intoxicated again.
What have you been doing ?" "Drink?
ing hot water, as the doctor pre?
scribed." "Nonsense ! that would
never reduce you to this condition."
"Then I suppose you will lay it on.
the innocent gin with which I flavor?
ed the water."
? "What's the matter with you and
Binks ? You used to be very chum?
my ?" "Yes. But I found him too
hard to get along with at this time of
year. When it's hot he says that this^..
infernal climate isn't fit to live>rrpand
when a cold wave comes he kicks and
says it's unseasonable."
? A rancker in Mason Valley, Nov.,
was leading two spirited horses to wa?
ter, and tied their halters togetherr
They started off in a mad gallop, and
dashed one on each side of a cotton
wood tree. THey were "brought up, so
suddenly that both their necks were
broken.
? Doctor: "I would advise you,
dear madam, to take frequent baths,
plenty of fresh air and dress in cbol
gowns." Husband (an hour later):
"What did the doctor say ?" Wife :
"He said I ought to go to a watering
place, and afterward to the mountains
and to get some new light gowns at
once."
? Her Father?The fact is you
could not give my daughter the sur?
roundings she has been accustomed to.
Her Lover?But she and I both clear?
ly understand that love-in a cottage
is all we shall want. Her Father?
And you will expect nothing from me.
Her Lover?No?er, that is, nothing
but the cottage.
? To prevent a second robbery of
his store, Benjamin E. Cross, a grocer
at Suffolk, Va., rigged up a heavily
loaded gun, with a string from its-"
trigger to a rear door. After closing
the door and forgetting about the trap
he went back for a package and had
his left leg nearly torn from his body
by the weapon's discharge. He died
from the loss of blood.
??The warning of higher prices this
fall which the retail shoe dealers received
from the manufacturers last spring, as
told in the World of April 30, has come
to pass, and from to-day on the publio
will have to pay from 25 to 50 centa, or
Qven more, a pair for shoes than has been
paid for years past. It will not surprise
the jobbers, so some of the latter say, if
during the next few weeks there'is a
further advance. This move, in which
the public is the sufferer, is directly due
to the Leather Trust, which monopolizes
the tanneries and the sole leather indus?
try of the country.?New York World.
? The Darlington, Wis., Journal
says editorially of a popular patent
medicine: "We know from experi?
ence that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy is ay that is
claimed for it, as on two occasions it
stopped excruciating pains and pos?
sibly saved us from an untimely grave.
We would not rest easy over night
without it in the house." This rem?
edy undoubtedly saves more pain and
suffering than any other medicine in
the world. Every family should keep
it in the house, for it is sure to be
needed sooner or late. For sale by
Hill Bros.
The Trials Or A Country Editor."
Whatever may be the truth or falsi?
ty of the stories that are told of the
scarcity of funds: in a country editor's
pocket or the scarcity of food in his
stomach, the stories are always told,
and neither the progress of education
nor the growth and developem.eot of
the press seems to have dTjy efteCt
upon the crop. One - TCI i_t?fit
comes from Kent- . of ^. thl
mountain editor
ops into a C- . at least rarely devel
this <mo ' ..oosus or an Apncius, and
tor. is cooccnv'ng a mountain edi
A subscriber had remembered
aim very kindly, and a day or two la
1 J a vistor called at hisjffice.
"Can I see the editor '(" ne laquncu
of the grimy little "devil" roosting
on a high stool.
"No, sir," replied the youth on the
stool. ''He's sick."
"What is the matter with him ?'
"Dun'no," said the boy. "One
our subscribers gave him a bag of flo
and a bushel of pertaters t'other d
and I r^kon ftc/s foundered."
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