Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A WET EVENING. flatly Day in Harvest, County Kerry.] Tho silvern circle of this summer lake. Each ripple's curia petal of mother o' pearl, Curves iron grim, since ruffling winds awake And tented mists unfurl. Tho kingly shadow of the mountain wall. That purple and gold flung down with eveiw fold Across* the crystal floor, is vanished all In grayness blank and cold. Its .lifted peak, that while- clear skies o'ershone With hyacinth crest their bluebell awning broke. Stoops faintly, grown an old wan visaged crone, Huddled in her hodden cloak, Pai-, far to seek the shining, lost and flown. As yerteroven's smoke. Yet it tomorrow beam through amber rift. Hov.- swiftly bright shall all flach back on sightV Stil) water's sheen, high slopes that glint and shift With sudden lawns of light. Oniy in small checkered fields, begun to glow Wiiji burning bloom of haulm and ear and plume. Thc glory, blurred away and stricken low, "What torch shall reillume? Stenn tangled, drenched, tossed dank on black peat mire, Poem flame of feathery gold-ah, wind and rain Thct now conspire, forbear our heart's desire, Arid, lest our year long hope lie quelled and slain; 2?o spark be quenched save that the world's hearth iii? With morn may kindle again. -Jane Barlow in Athenaeum. ! AH OHIO I i GOLCONPA i r t . . - . Mingo connty people were aghast when they learned that Graechns Ma gt?re had obtained an option on the Frobisher farm, for the story of the pride and fall of Peter Frobisher was still fresh in their minds. Only a year before the old dry goods merchant be gan to bnild what he called "the finest residence in sonthern Ohio. ' ' A storm of indignation had swept over the cotna ty when it was announced that the ?ouse would be erected upon au Indian mound. There are all kinds of uncan ny legends connected with the earth works scattered by a prehistoric race throughout southern Ohio. Not a man in Valley City could be hired to dig the cellar, and Frobisher had to send to Band Run for some of tb*; Poles. They had no scrnples, for tb* reason that t the legends of the mc^nd builders were to them sealed books. The laborers dug down eight feet to a pocket of white sand, in which they found a human sknll, various strange looking implement?, an altar of sun dried bricks and a tablet, shap ed ?ike the sounding board of a bass viol and covered with hieroglyphics. The news of the discovery spread ali over the countryside. The farmers after dark avoided the road which passed'the desecrated Indian mound. The masons, and the carpenters employ ed in building the house went away half an hour earlier than enstomary to keep from being on unhallowed ground after sunset. . All this amused Gracchus Maguire. He could have rifled 100 Indian mounds and felt no tremor of the nerves. Hie life had b*?<jn the road of the rough. He had been found 34 years before. in a basket at the railroad crossing. Around his neck were a chain of gold and a locket, which were promptly confiscat ed by the trackwalker who discovered him. The Presbyterian minister, re minded by this action of the historic remark of Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, named the foundling Gracchus. Maguir^e was the name of the last man who was killed at the crossing. Gracchus Maguire was reared in the Mingo Countj* Orphans' home. Ac the age of 14 be was taken into Peter Fro bisher's dry goods st Dre as.an errand boy. He had a taste for learning, saved his money, and with the aid of Frobisher made his way through college. He was in Valley City teaching school in order to get funds to carry him through a course of medicine. Maguire took a lively interest in ?.Vo things which were found in the an dere landmark, which he called a sac rificial mound. He even read a paper "ripon the subject before the State Archae ological society, in which he said that .the finding of the tablet amply demon strated that the mound builders had a written langnage. The symbols upon the tablet consisted of an oar, a war elnb and a rude altar, which he trans lated to mean that vengeance would f2il upon the man who disturbed the ancient sacrifice. The rendering aston ished Peter Frobisher little. He was still further surprised by a 'remarkable phenomenon which he noticed shortly before the house was completed. A black scum had been noticed from time to time upon a spring back of the old homestead. Maguire and Frobisher were standing by this spring one day when the young man lighted a cigar and tossed away the burning match. There was a slight explosion. A blue name rested over the water for a mo ment and disappeared. Frobisher paled 2: the sight. .'Do you believe itv" he exclaimed. "Do you think that this place is cursed by Injun spirits V" "Nonsense!" replied Maguire. "Come io think of it, I remember that I was r:ieaning an old coat down hero with benzine. You will have to see more than that before you can helieve all this old woman's talk about the mound builders." The new dwelling, when completed, fulfilled the fondest hopes of the Fro bisher. It conld be seen for miles over the country. At night, when the lamps in the front hall were lighted, gleams of yellow, red and cobalt shone through the colored glass on either side of the great front door. At the suggestion of Gracchus Maguire the new honse was christened "Moundmere, " on account of its site and because it was not far away from a horse pond. The Frobishers had their house warming in the form of an af ternoon reception, in deference to the prejudices of the villagers. The guests came with Trepidation. The Widow Simpkins was observed to look furtively about ber be tween the serving of the chicken salad and the "passing" of the ice cream. Miss Belinda Sommers uttered u pierc ing shriek and n?arly fainted when a fable was accidentally overturned. As evening approached *he guests hastened ?to take their departure. Sam Johnson, the nearest neighbor, was awakened shortly after midnight by some one pounding at his door. He opened it, and Rebecca Frobisher fell fainting across the threshold. Behind her. with eyes in which there was a str?nge terror, nan eiotnea. sm like a leaf, stood Peter. "The mound builder!" he < "The mound builder!" It "was several days before tLi couple could be persuaded to te their experience. Peter Frobishei that he had been awakened by one swaying the portieres in the way of the adjoining room. The pery parted, and he saw the form man clothed like the Egyptians dep in his subscription "History oi World." The intruder pointed a full, round moon, which could be from the window, and waved a we resembling a battleax. He renii for a moment and then seemed to away. The aged couple fled shrie frcm their new abode and ran f mile along the dusty road to the 1 of the Johnsons. The Frobishers deserted Mound] for all time. The stock and farr implements were sold for half i value. The rich acres became fa ground and the lawn a waste of w< Peter ?nd Rebecca moved to VJ City and made their home in thre< tie rooms over the dry goods store, i was the state of affairs when Mag obtained hh option. Astonish! grew in Mingo one morning whe curl of smoke issued from one of chimneys of the 1 Frobisher homest Investigation proved that Gracchus guire had actually made his hom the lair of the disembodied mc builder. He had transported his tri to Moundmere and carted several I of cheap furniture out to the pl The boards were taken down from windows, and the house began to again like a human habitation, rumor spread all over Valley City Gracchus Maguire had obtained mc from some mysterious source, young schoolteacher had even ta leases upon some of the adjoining fax These documents were couched in biguous language and provided that agricultural operations of the owi should not be disturbed. Packing cases arrived at the li railroad station and in the night v hauled through the village streets the old farm. There were hundred feet of iron pipe, odd looking wh and gigantic tool chests. Half a dc men alighted from the Columbus ti one evening and were driven to Mon mere. The signs "No Admission" ; "Trespassing Forbidden" were poi on all the fences. These seemed lil work of supererogation, for nob then dared to even stop his horse wit a mile of the gateway. Tho young schoolteacher withdi himself more and more from the soci of Valley City. Hardly a Sunday pas in the old days when he did not w home from church with Ellen Spen( The girl now saw him seldom. Th were several young women who secre rejoiced at that, for Gracchus Magui the learned, the affable and the co teous, was regarded as one of the m eligible young men of the town. As to the railroad crossing incide that had long been forgotten. No hij er tribute could be paid to any n than that, for in the village the arist racy was firmly founded un "famih The elect were the direct descenda of the sturdy New Englanders who 1; come to the region early in the ct tury, chopped down the trees, kil Indians and made the wilderness blossom with white churches and i schoolhouses. Ellen Spencer was descended in < direct line from the man who carri in the first surveyor's chain throu the primeval forests of Mingo. Strange stories were whispered abc Gracchus Maguire. The mothers of t whole country spoke of him as one w had obtained fabulous wealth by rc bing the mound builder dead of tin golden ornaments. There were those the village who hinted that no rig thinking young man could occupy ? house from which old Peter Frobish had been driveu by the chastening ha: of Providence. ! Valley City was filled with upro not long after this by intelligence of most alarming nature. The news cai that Gracchus Maguire had begun drill a hole into the earth in the ve j center of a circle of Indian mounds the east meadow of the Frobisher plac Coincident with this several cows di< on adjoining farms and a colt broke h leg. Behind the shelter of the turfi tombs, mysterious operations were co: ducted. A skeletonlike scaffoldii arose, the sight of which filled tho who saw it with nervous apprehensioi One day a stationary engine was set v near the structure and surrounded 1 a shed. A narrow alleyway, resemblir a rope walk, was built between the tin ber skeleton and the boiler. Before vei long the farmers noticed a rope tigh ening and sagging within the netwoi of wooden braces. Sometimes a rod < iron rose from the ground and the beard a persistent drubbing sound. The patience of Mingo county ccu] not further go. A mass meeting wt held in the town hall one night wire resulted in a committee being sent t the gates of Moundmere. A masti prevented them from going any fartbei Gracchus Maguire came down from th house. "We have come," said Boliva Wright, a lawyer and therefore th spokesman, "to protest against yon disturbing the graves of a prehigtori lace and thus bringing misfortune upo: this peaceful farming community. W have already seen Peter Frobisher turn ed from the home of his forefathers be cause he desecrated the tomb of an an cient people. We ask .von in the nairn of humanity and in thc name of al things of good report to abandon thesi drilling operations. Whether you seel coal or iron or trinkets of gold, no goof can come to you or to us by such ai impious quest." To which Gracchus Maguire repli?e in rhetoric equally well balanced thal he would do as he pleased. The coin mittee returned to Valley City, fcigi^ of greater activity were noticed abonl Moundmere after that. The operation.' of which the villagers had complained were carried on day and night. When the sun shone, the curious saw the whirling rope, and in the evening a glow hung over the engine shed. Gracchus Maguire stood at the base j of tb/! skeleton of timbers one evening ! in Jun?: watching his workmen at their task. He was thinking of the thousands of dollars which ho had sunk in a hole 'in the ground and of the returns which had yet to come. Maguire was aroused from his reverie hv a shout. The man who twirled the handle of the rope seemed nice one x sessed of an evil spirit. He had ser his time as a driller in the days wi Pennsylvania was covered with d ricks. "Bail!" he cried. "Get ont of way!" Maguire stepped back. A thin stre of black slime flowed from the iron c inder as the valve of the boiler v loosened. "It's the proper shale," growled : tool dresser, who had just come fri his forge. The drill rattled down the iron c ing. The rope tightened, and the stea beat of the polished shaft kept time the droning of the leather belting. 1 great rod was thrown from its sock It struck the side of the derrick a sent wooden braces clattering to 1 ground. Held by the rope, ii swung l out. A dull roar filled the air. A sligl ly sulphurous odor rose from the earl The driller rushed from the well wi his hands before his face. "Draw that fire!" he yelled at c of the helpers. "Draw that fire, y blockhead!" The helper irresolutely grasped t shovel and started to the furnace do< His eyes were fixed upon the swingi drill. He took another look at the d< rick and fled as fast as his legs cor carry him. Gracchus Maguire pick up the shovel which the man h dropped in his flight. "Look out!" he heard the driller sa The voice seemed to be that of o who was miles away. There were a loi report and a flash of light. Over t mud and slime a yellow trail sped frc furnace to derrick. From the welldai ed a tongue of flame. A thing of fi rolled over and over and fell into t shallow creek back of the mounc Gracchus Maguire, when he recover consciousness, was lying in a spa room of Moundmere swathed in ban ages. Through the small paned wi dows shone a brilliant light which : lumined every nook and corner cf ti apartment. A Valley City physich was bending over the young schoc teacher. "Where is the fire?" asked Maguir Then the occurrences of tho nigl crowded back upon him. He looked 01 toward the meadow. He saw a shaft < flame quivering into the air for 1( feet. It sprang above the top of tl burning derrick. Tho structure topph and fell blazing to the ground. It lt there hissing and writhing. Around the burning well swarm* Valley City's volunteer fire compan; A stream of water had been turne upon the flaming jet. The driller an his mates were trying to persuade tl firemen that their work would be of r avail. "Fools, fools I" muttered Gracchi Maguire. "They might as well try 1 stop the progress of a man who hi never said fail." He turned painfully in his bed. I that shaft cf fire he saw a dull re building, surrounded by a dilapidate fence. He beheld the faces of the idiot and the epileptics with whom he ha spent his childhood. They faded awaj and his gaze fell upon a ragged bo bending over rows of young corn. H saw the face of a white haired ma: whose smile was gentle and whose loo was kindly and benign ; then a youf sleeping beneath the counter of a dr goods store. The print laden shelve disappeared. He beheld a congregatio: coming from a little white church There were grave faced women in alpac gowns and men in suits of shiny broad cloth. "He's not family, you know," the; seemed to be saying. Then there ap peared a pretty girl, a Marguerite wit! hymnal and golden braids. She smiie< at him and passed on. Maguire leaned his head upon hi hands and looked fixedly at the darting jet which to him meant riches, pros perity and power. The sullen roar 0 the gas was to him the sweetest min strelsy. Then there came to him an over whelming sense of guilt. He saw befort him the image of a man whom he hac wronged. "I have reached the goal," he said, but at what a cost! All these years ] have worked that I might ask her to be the wife of a man who had obscured mean origin by success. Today I am ii leper in her sight and in the sight oi God!" He remembered now that while he had toiled and planned she had grown further away from him. He seemed tc hear again the words which Ellen Spencer had spoken to him months ago. They were standing beneath the old elm at the foot of Hunter street. "You are ambitious!" she was say ing. "There are times when I fear that you forget that there is no true success gained at the sacrifice of the highest ideals." Tn the light of those words all his reasoning became bare sophistry. What if he had agreed to give Peter Frobisher tho full value of his land and cf the de serted home? By whose plot had the farm become fallow ground and the new house desolate? It was true that Fro bisher would have laughed at biro if he had told him that the farm might become an Ohio Golconda. Even the state geol ogist had sneered and told him that the stratification of Mingo county's rocks made his belief utter foolishness. Whether the rock strata would per mit it or not, Gracchus Maguire had staked everything on his belief. Every cent he had in the world, every cent he could borrow, had been sunk in a hob? in the earth. "lam further from real success." said Gracchus Maguire, "than the end of that tube in the ground is from the pure air and the sunshine.'" On tin: edge of the group gathered about the well he saw a carriage. Two women walked around tho winding path toward tin; front of the house. He recognized Ellen Spencer and her mother. Gracchus Maguire leaned forward and took -a letter pad from the tab!''. With bandaged fingers lie painfully wrote. It was a brief message-a few lines huddled together with a halting signature at the end-yet they made the man who wrote them thousands ot dollars poorer than a pauper. He direct ed the note and settled back upon the pillows. "Miss Spencer wishes tn speak tu you," saidee negro mun servant who entered thc oom. "I will see ber." said Maguire. "Take this note to Mr. Frobisher and lose no time about it!" Tho door opened a moment later and WI- CJ^^.w.- -. i "I aili not worthy that yen should sec JIU-,said Gracchus Mangiri;. "I drove .-.ii old wan from his hume that I might gain the riches which lay he nea th his land. I deserve no sypmnthy. It was I. Gracchus Mangire. and nut a spirit, who exiled Peter Frobisher. I have tried te make some tardy atone ment. I have jnst surrendered the op tion on this farm." .'It seems like a dream to me." said the girl. "I only knew that you bad done wrong-that you were struggling with a temptation. I could see it in your face, in yonr every act." '.It means," replied Gracchus Ma guire very slowly, "that if I had not' surrendered all claim upon this land to day I might be a millionaire and not a beggar. It was to win a woman whose family despised me because I was a foundling that I struggled for riches and power. Do yon know her?" "You do not!" repied the girl. "If you did, you would have felt che was not capable of caring for a man meiely on account of his success. " *.***.. The present generation in Valley City knows the story of Moundmere as a tradition. The sight of hundreds of der ricks in southern Ohio calls to its mind the day when the telegraph carried the news to the whole world that two pros pectors, by the names of Frobisher and Maguire, had discovered the greatest reservoir of natural gas which drill had ever pierced, To me every derrick is eloquent of the secret of Moundmere, known for years only to Peter and Re becca Frobisher, to Gracchus Maguire and his wife, whose name was Ellen. John Walker Harrison in New York Herald. _ A XarroTv Encape. So great a speed is attained by ice yachts that they are sometimes lifted from the ice and fairly fly for yards. An incident: of this kind happened one win ter. A large yacht of the New Ham burg club went scudding down the river in the direction of Newburg. lt was the owner's intention to go to West Point if possible. He sailed there, but noth ing could induce him to make the trip again. Everything went smoothly for a time, so it ia related, the wind sending the skeleton craft along at 40 miles an hour. Just above Newburg a gale struck the sails, and the yacht attained a ter rific speed, clouds of ice spray whirling in her wake. She reared and screeched like a mad thing broken loose. The sail or's eyes were pointed ahead, but a film covered them and almost blinded him. Suddenly he heard a whistle blow right behind him, and as he looked back he saw that he had crossed the' New burg and Fishkill ferry cut, and that lie had crossed just in front of the steam boat. His hair stood on end and fairly turned gray. He landed at West Point, transacted his business, took his boat apart and shipped it home, having had enough for that season.-Outing. Two Great Ansvrer.s. "Gradually woman is coming to her own, ' ' remarks a gossiper in the Roch ester Post-Express. "Like the mills of the gods, in the familiar paraphrase, 'she grinds slowly, but she gets there just the same.' In answer to the ques tion, What ia the Salic law? put by a school inspector, this is what one girl replied, 'The Salic law was an enact ment that provided that no one descend ing from a female should ascend the throne. ' That girl must have been deep ly impressed with the wrongs of her sex. "Yon may match this heroic reply with another which comes from the same source. A Sunday school teacher, after having explained to her class that only the patriarchs were allowed to have more than one wife, went on, 'But, children, in these Christian times how many wives may a man have?' Upon which a little girl eagerly put up her hand and cried, 'Please, 'em, two only is generally necessary to salva tion!' " Ran AcroNB Her. Ned-I ran across a very pretty girl this morning. Ted-Did she flirt with yon ? Ned-No. After she regained con aciousness she had me arrested for scorching. An Inn lu Japan. The singing girls sat round and gig gled while we drank tea. They giggled and sang and giggled while we were initiated into the mysteries of a Jap anese dinner. They danced and ato sweets and sucked oranges while we had our after dinner smokes, and then, at about 9 o'clock, they dropped on their knees nt the door, touched the mats with their foreheads and shuffled away, giggling and chatting, down the stairs. What impressed us was the cleanli ness of the inn. There was simplicity about everything. No attempt was made at shoddy grandeur. The mats were unadorned, t'<o woodwork was un painted, but a hine vase in one comer, wherein was stuck a green branch, in significant though it was, gave artistic fragrance to the apartment. The food was served neatly in trim dishes, and all the dishes were arranged trimly on lacquer tray.-. It was, however, not particularly ap petizing to three hungry wheelmen. Japanese fare is scrappy and finicky. Ou a pleasant autumn afternoon, when you have been reclining in a jinrikisha, dawdling through sylvan laces, tiny morsels of fish and a cupful of rice and several curious messes seasoned with a mixture of salt, and sugar may be all right, but when the weather is cold, and there isa blood tingling breeze, and you are doing your level "ill miles a day wheeling, yon want ham and eggs and beef and pudding. We should have starved had we not every other day or so fallen in with some Japnueso who understood thu capacity of an English stomach. Then we fed like the camel. -Travel. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of (^^^f^^^^ - Silence is doubly golden when vo.i can't think of a satisfactory an swer. - Fools never rush in were theatri cal angels fear lo tread. Appendicitis Cured Without a Knife. Gnu u genuine, well authenticated, unadulterated case of appendices be cured without a surgical operation? Is there a way to reach the seat of the trouble and remove the cause without the usc of a knife? Physicians and surgeons have gene rally held to the idea that it is only by removing the troublesome vermiform appendix that the seat of the trouble can be reached and a cure effected, but here is one who thinks to the contrary and seems to have demonstrated it in one very severe ease, lie is Dr. George J. Heliner, of New York, and so re markably simple was the method em ployed by Dr. Helmer that the story of the (ure is told in the newspapers. The Press gives the details. Thc patient was a young woman about twenty years of age and a mem ber of an excellent Harlem family. At her own request her name is not given, but the facts are fully vouched for. According to these, only eight minutes elapsed from the time the physician had reached the patient until lie had completed his work, as he believes, successfully. When Dr. Helmer reach ed his patient he found her in great pa in. Sae had had similar attacks be fore and two physicians, one of them the family physician for many years anti the other a physician who liad attended her in Atlantic Highlands, N. J., had pronounced the trouble appen dicitis, and had stated positively that she would have tol>e operated "upon with a knife. The treatment of Dr. I iel mer was said to be so instantaneous in its effects and so simple and harmless in its ap plication that some physicians are in clined to wonder why it was not dis covered and made use of before. To one looking on tho operator seems only to apply one hand to the point, midway between the top of thc right leg and a point above the stomach; then bend up the right leg of the patient at the knee joint and give the leg a slight twist by mepus of a quick motion, repeated two or three times, and the operation is ended. The appendix is a rudimentary organ which in man lias no use. in some ani mals it has. Yet it is supplied with arteries and veins. The disease known as appendicitis is simply a clogging of the appendix, a little sack, by food particles, so that inflammation sets in. The pain, which sometimes is excruci ating, is caused by the clogging of the veins so that when the blood continues tobe forced into the appendix by the heart through the arteries it is pre vented by the clogging of the veins from passing out again. * The operation performed by Dr. Hel mer was nothing more nor less, as he describes it, than the forcing out of the appendix of the clogging particles that occupied it. To do this from the out side and by merely mechanical means requires the most perfect knowledge of the human anatomy and long practice, but when once understood is simple enough. Just back of the appendix is the largest muscle in the human body, known as the psoas magnus. It is at tached to the femur or big bone of the leg, and is the muscle by which one can revolve the leg as on a pivot at the heel. It is this muscle which is made to do the trick of emptying the appen dix. Using the fingers of one baud to hold the walls of the abdomen in place and to prevent a rupture of the delicate internal structures, with the other hand a spasmodic contraction of the psoas magnus is brought about, which snaps it against the appendix and forces out of that organ whatever foreign sub stances it may contain. Dr. Helmer, according to the press report, would not discuss the case at first, bat afterward, at the request of the patient who thought it might be a benefit to the public to have the facts known, did explain it. As illustration of how these foreign substances are expelled from the appendix, the doctor placed the thumb of the reporter's left hand flatly in the palm of his right hand. Then he slapped the palm of the hand smartly against the broad of tlie thumb. [ "The hand represents the psoas muscle," he said, "and the thumb the appendix. We produce a spasmodic 1 contraction of the psoas magnus, like the slapping of the palm of the hand against the thumb. This forces the foreign substance from the appendix, and relief follows immediately. It was suggested by the reporter that this hardly could bc considered a cure, as the disease might return when the appendix became clogged again. "That is true,'7 said the doctor, "But the same is true of any disease you name. No physician, in curing a dis ease, gi ves-a guarantee that it will not occur under favorable conditions. We think wc do well even to relieve in so simple and painless a manner a disease that hitherto has been regarded as a most serious and iw many cases a fatal one." - ^ . m Curious Succession of Calamities. CHICAGO; June I'S;-A dispatch to the C/ironiclc from' Arthur, 111., says that a strange chain of disasters began when thc Grand Army Post conducted tho burial on Sunday of T.P. Wells, who was asphyxiated at a hotel in Chicago on Wednesday night. While the cere mony was in progress ?t the cemetery news reached Augustus Baker that his thirteen-year-old son had just been drowned while swimming. The shock prostrated Mr. Baker and he had to be taken home in a carriage. When the news was broken to his wife she be came unconscious; Both are in a pre carious condition. While thc funeral procession was returniug from the cem etery one of the carriages ran over Mrs. William Sullivan's little t wo-year old daughter, mangling her in a horri ble manner. Miss Ola Clark, a witness to the latter accident, fainted and was carried to the nearest house, where she lay for four hours before, recovering sufficiently to be removed to her home. Killed By Lightning. liixoor.i?, Ga.. .lune lt!,-During an electrical storm yesterday afternoon William Overby was struck by light ning and instantly killed. Overby was on His way home with two mules and both of the mules were also killed by the bolt. < >verby was a bridegroom ol: one day. he having married Miss L. M. Bryson on Wednesday.-A tlanta .tour nai. - The Massachusetts ! cgislatun has passed a bill providing that after January t, 1002, wagon and carriage wheels'in that State shall have tires no less in width than one and one-half times the diameter ol' thc axle, meas ured at the shoulder, and that wagons built with hollow axles shall have tires roi less in width than the diameter of tl e axle measured at the shoulder. - Tlie beer which is consumed throughout the world, in a single year, would make a lake (I feet deep, ;! :}-<l mile.-- long, a mihi wide, or 2,310acres in are?. In this vast lake of beer we could easily drown all the English speaking people, to the number of 120, 000,000, throughout tho entire world; or wc could give a beer bath to every man, woman and child at the same : i nie in thc entire continent of America. - Thc swallow has a larger mouth, in proportion to its size, thau any other bird. ?ot thc .Voten Cnsheri. A little incident which occurred univ a few year.- hefore my hirth, in the ex treme we.st, and which I heard related by my father, who was familiar with the facts, illustrative of the slow modes of communication in those primitive times, may be worth repeating here. When tho old State bank of Missouri failed, in, I think, 1826, Sam Wiggins, a brother of the well known Billy Wiggins, held a large amount of the notes of that bank, which, for practical purposes being entirely worthless, he was so paralyzed that he moped about in a condition of despondency for three days, when he was approached by a certain Frenchman, whose name has now es caped my memory, and who was noted as a long distance rough rider, and who offered for a consideration to take the j notes, and, with a horse that he knew he could procure, well known for his pow I er of endurance as a traveler, proceed across the country to Louisville and dis pose of the paper for good money. The offer being accepted, he took the horse and rode him TO miles a day, un til he became exhausted, when he ex changed him for another, and by re peated relays reached his destination and got the notes changed four hours before the arrival of the news, brought by a steamboat which had left St. Louis on the day of the failure of the bank, nearly three days in advan -e of his own departure. How would that sound told in St. Louis or Louisville in this yeal of grace V-San Francisco Bulletin She Lo*t Her Shoe. While in Samoa Robert Louis Steven son and his wife in a great measure did as the Romans'did-that is to say, as the Samoans dill. It was Louis' custom to lie abed late of a morning and spend the remainder of the time under a tree on the hill, clad in light pyjamas, the dress of the native Kanaka. With his wife it was the same. Stays were unknown to her and a curling iron a dim recollection of a shady past. It was while Stevenson and his wife were living at Apia, in Samoa, that Mr. Hey wood was appointed consul there for this country. Shortly after his arrival in the coun try he arranged for a reception to the English, German and American resi dents of the community that they might meet him in his official capacity and be them as "citizens of Samoa." Of course an invitation was sene Rob ert Louis Stevenson and his wife. Two days before the date of the function Mr. Heywood was surprised to receive a note from Mr. Stevenson sent by courier. The note read as follows: Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson accept Consul Heywood's in vitation with pleasure and assure him that they will be present on the evening of tho 23d. if by tliat time Mrs. Stevenson linds her other shoe. Ever thine, ROBERT Loris STEVENSON. -Detroit Free Press. - A few physicians in New York make very large fees. 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V SNELGROVE, Co. Supervisor A. C, June 14, ISSI) 51 3 NOTICE. PL" USU A NT to a levy made under a Tax Execution issued against one Gad Henderson on the L'>th day of March. 18!?9, and to me directed, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, on Salesday in July next, in front of the City Hall, da ring the legal hours of sale, the following described personal property, to wit : One Table, one Bureau, one Lounge. Said sale made to satisfy the Tax Execution aforesaid, with costs and penalties, Citv Taxes. JOHN W. DILLING HAM, * June 17, 1800 Chief Police. W. G. McGEE, SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE-front K^orr, over Farmeia and Merchants Bank ANDERSON, S. C. 9.1898 33 THE BEST BREAD CANalwavsbe made from that deli cious Fresh Home-made Yeast of Mrs. W. H. Simpson's, as hundreds of ladies will testify. Can be found fresh at all times at the Store of Try it. J NO M. PATRICK. May 81, ISM 49 4 DR. J. H. BURGESS, DENTIST. IN Pendleton every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. 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