The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, June 28, 1899, Page 7, Image 7

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A WET EVENING. -nih Vay I? Harvest. Comity Kerry.] . Iv? rn circle of thia bummer lake, ? ipplu's curl a petal of mother 5' pearl, . - iron ?rim, tinco ruffling winds awake ti iited mists unfurl. 1 I,;-, ,,, shadow of tho mouutuln willi. '. : tiri?l<' ?nd gold flung down wjth every lotti ti:.' crystal floor, is vanished all , uertri blank ami trold. I ' , ,1 p. ;tU, that whifn clear skies o'ershoue hyacinth crem their bluebell awning Iroke. "faintly! grown an old wan visaged crone, % iitilitl hi her hodden cloak, m -i t lc thu chining, lost and flown. 1 .', riereven'M ?moke. tomorrow beahl through amber rift, -wiftl.v bright sbull nil fluid] burk on . H||.| V sh? cn, high slopes that glint ami .Ititi \ s ?.utldcn lawn? of light, . , .niall ?h??kereii fields, begun lo glow ? . hui liing bloom of hnulni und ear nml (.Ililli**, ,, , rt. Murrell away ?uni stricken low, V ' ?ilil li >-liiill r?illutnef miightl, drenched, tossed dank on black ,,;ii mire. , (IMIIIC of feathery gold-ah, w ind aird .?lin . ;otv conspire, forbear our heart's deidre, . |< st our year long hope lio quelled und - ; ni ii. . ..i !? li? quenched ?ave thnt the world'H .(Milli Uro n . morn may kindle again. -.Tune Barlow in Atucmeum. OHIO GOLCONPA ,,..-.-?-?-?--...-?-?->???"?-?-?-?-?---?-?-(n! . iij/ii anility peoplo were aghast .. they learned that Gracchus Mu* ,rchad obtained an option on the .-lier tarni, for the story of the ;.. ?uni fall of Peter Frobisher was j; fresh in their minds. Only a year : ... the old dry nontis merchant be ? .,, build what he called "tho finest . nie in southern Ohio." A storm indignation had swept over the i-.ity when it was announced that tho ... won ld he erected ti pon an Indian ci-ml. There are all kinds of nncitu ? 'RgeuriK connected with the earth -,rk- scattered hy u prehistoric race roiighcmt Hcntherii Ohio. ;?.,t a man in Valley City could be iir?fl to dig the cellar, and Frobisher tu send to Rand Rttn for some of Pules. They had no scrnples. for |t! reason that the legends of tho ml builders were to them sealed -?.. The lu borers dug down eight TO a pocket of white sand, in which fi mud ti human skull, various ?ige looking implements, un altar ar dried bricks, and a tablet, simp le the sounding board o? a haps and covered with hieroglyphics, news of the discovery spread all . the countryside. The farmers Lft?r dark avoided the road which ^.'?.il the desecrated Indian mound, masons and the carpenters employ - fe in building the house went away half n hmr earlier than customary to keep ?OL: being on unhallowed ground after UM-t. . this amused Grucchus Maguire. t-> maid have rifled 100 Indian mounds ta? felt no tremor of the nerves. Hie bad been the road ot' the rough. He I been found 24 years before. in a [-cet ut tberailroud crossing. Around neck were u chain of gold and a locket, which were promptly amfiecat by the trackwalker who discovered a. The Presbyterian minister, re tried by this action of the historic r?iaark of Cornelia, the mother of the ?i chi.mimed the foundling Gracchus. .L'iiire was the name of tba last man J., wits killed at the crossing. . rueehus Maguire was reared in the ^.in^n County Orphans' home. At the sig'* ?if 14 he was taken into Peter Fro -.?'ipr's dry goods store as an errand boy. B:' lind a taste for learning, saved his ?ey, and with the aid of Frobisher nie his way through college. He was |- Valley City teaching school in order ^tfunds to carry him through u JoTirne of medicine. Maguire took a lively interest in lh" things which were found in the an :|'?. ut landmark, which he called a sac ral mound. He even read a paper ;pon the subject before the State Archre .Icgical society, in which he said that b' finding of the tablet amply demon ttated that the mound builders had a bitten langnage. The symbols upon be tablet consisted of an oar, a war fab and a rude altar, which he trans JiW to mean that vengeance would sil apon the man who disturbed the scient sacrifice. The rendering aston )t? Peter Frobisher a little. He was Jtiil farther surprised by a 'remarkable ftiitnouienon which he noticed shortly p ie the house was completed. A black scum had been noticed from toe to time upon a spring back of the |M homestead. Maguire and Frobisher '?re standing by this spring one day 'hen the young man lighted a cigar a*l tossed away the burning? match. 'iiiTe was n slight explosion. blue Baffle rested over the water for a mo }?nt and disappeared. Frobisher paled |~. the sight. "Do you believe it?" he exclaimed. flH) you think that this place is cursed 7 Injan spirits V "Nonsense!" replied Maguire. "Come |5 think of it, I remember that I was faning an old coat down here with knzine. You will have to see more van that before yon can believe all this B'l woman's talk abont the mound pilders." . . The new dwelling, when completed, si JplfiHed tho fondest hopes of the Fro ?tabers. It con ld be seen for miles over. Be country. At night, when the lamps the front hall were lighted, gleams yellow, red and cobalt shone through ie colored ?lass on either side of the Kat front door. At the suggestion of gracchus Maguire the new house was wistened "Moundniere," on account : its site and because it was riot far *ay from a horse pond. The Frobishers had their house farming in the form of an afternoon reception, in deference to the prejudices the villagers, s The guests came with epidation. The Widow Simpkins was ?erved to look furtively about her be 7fen tho serving of the chicken salad W tho "passing" of the ice. cream.' Belinda Sommers uttered a pierc K shriek and n&rly fainted when a. We Was accidentally overturned. As 'e3ingapproached the guests hastened, take their departure. Sam Johnson, the nearest neighbor, as awakened shortly after midnight Borne one pounding c*: bia door. He 'ped itf and Rebecca Frobisher fell ".ting across the threshold. Behind T* with oyes in which there1 was a t-trange terror, ?air ciotnea, gnamng like a leaf., stood Peter. "The monud builder!" ho cried. "The mourn builder 1" It was several day? before tLe old ton (?IP could bf persuaded to tell of their experience. Puter Frobisher said that he had beeu uwakened by some one swaying tho portieres in the door way of the adjoining room. The dra pery parted, and lie saw the form of a man clothed like the Egyptians depicted in his subscription "History of the World. " The intruder pointed at tho full, round moon, which could be seen from the window, and waved a weapon resembling a battleax. Ho remaiued for a moment and then seemed to fade away. The aged couple fled shrieking from their new abode and ran for a mile along the dusty road to the home of thc Johnsons. The Frobishers deserted Mouudmere for all time. The stock and farming implements were sold for half their value. The rich acres became fallow ground and the lawn a waste of weeds. Peter and Rebecca moved to Valley City and made their home in three lit tle rooms over the dry goods store. Such waB the state of affairs when Magnire obtained his option. Astonishment grew in Mingo one morning when a curl of smoke issued from one of the chimneys of the 'Frobisher homestead. Investigation proved that Gracchus Ma guire had actually made his home in the lair of the disembodied mound builder. He had transported his trunks to Mouudmere and carted several loads of cheap furniture ont to the place. The boards were taken down from the windows, and the house began to look again like a human habitation. The rumor spread all over Valley City that Gracchus Maguire had obtained money from Koine mysterious source. The young schoolteacher had even taken leases upon some of the adjoining farms. These documents were couched in am biguous language and provided that the agricultural operations of the owners should not be disturbed. Packing cases arrived at the little railroad .'station and in the night were hauled through the village streets to tho old farm. There were hundreds of feet of iron pipe, odd looking wheels and gigantic tool chests. Half a dozen men alighted from the Columbus train one evening and wero driven to Mound mere. The signs "No Admission" and "Trespassing Forbidden" were posted on all the fences. These seemed like a work <ii* supererogation, for nobody then dared to even stop his horse within a mile of tho gateway. Thu young schoolteacher withdrew himself more and more from the society of Valley City. Hardly a Sunday passed in tho old days when he did not walk home from church with Ellen Spencer. The girl now saw him seldom. There were several young women who secretly rejoiced at that, for Gracchus Maguire, the learned, the affable and the cour teous, was regarded as one of the most eligible youug men of the town. As to the railroad crossing incident, that had long been forgotten. No high er tribute could be paid to any mau than that, for in the village the aristoc racy was firmly founded on "family." The elect were the direct descendant): of the sturdy New Englanders who had come to the region early in tho cen tury, chopped down the trees, killed Indians and made the wilderness tc blossom witii white churches and rec schoolhouses. Ellen Spencer was descended in th( direct line from tho man who carriec in the first surveyor's chain throngl the primeval forests of Mingo. Strange stories were whispered about Gracchus Maguire. The mothers of th? whole country epoka o? min ?s ene wn( had obtained fabulous wealth by rob bing the mound builder dead of theil golden ornaments. There were those ii the village who hinted that no rigb thinking young man could ocenpy thi house from which old Peter Frobishei had been driveu by the chastening haut of Providence. * Valley City was filled with nproa not long after this by intelligence of i most alarming nature. The news cami that Gracchus Maguire had begun t< drill a hole into the earth in the ver; center of a circle of Indian monnds ii the.cast meadow of the Frobisher place Coincident with this several cows die? on adjoining farms and a colt broke hi leg. Behind the shelter of the turfei tombs, mysterious operations were con ducted. A skeletonlike scaffoldin? arose, the sight of which filled thos who saw it with nervous apprehension One day a stationary engine was set u; near the structure and surrounded b; a shed. A narrow alleyway, resemblini . a rope walk, was built between the tim ber skeleton and the boiler. Before ver; long the farmers noticed a rope tight ening and sagging within the networ of wooden braces. Sometimes a rod c iron rose from the ground and the heard a persistent drabbing sound. The patience of Mingo county conl not farther go. A mass meeting wa held in the town hall one night whic resulted in a committee being sent t the' gates of Monndmere. A mast i prevented them from going any f ur th ei Gracchus Magnire came down from th house. "We have come," said Bolt vc Wright, a lawyer and therefore th spokesman, "to protest against you disturbing the graves of a prehietori face and thus bringing misfortune upo this peaceful farming community. W have already seen Peter Frobisher turi ed from tho homo of his forefathers bi cause he desecrated the tomb of an ai cient people. We ask yon in the nam of humanity and in the name of a things of good report to abandon thee drilling operations. Whether yon see coal or iron or trinkets of gold, no goo can come to yon or to ns by such a impious quest." To which Gracchus Magaire replie in rhetoric equally well balanced thr he would do as he pleased. Tlie con znittee returned to Volley City. Sig*, of greater activity were noticed abor Monndmere after that. The operatioi of which the villagers had complaint were carried on day and night. Who the sun shone, the curious saw tl whirling rope, and in the evening glow hung over the engine shed. Gracchus Maguire stood. at the bai of tho skeleton of timbers ono evenir in Juno watching bis workmen at the task. He was thinking of the thonsant pf dollars which he had sunk in a ho 'in the ground and of the returns win?; .had yet to come. Maguire was aroused from his rever *hv a about. Tho w&n who twirled tl m M-iiirt?^ 11 ! i r ' V Iiandlt: of the rope seemen mee one iiu? Fessed ol' an evil spirit. Ho had served his time as a driller in the days when Pennsylvania was covered with der ricks. , "Bail!','he cried.. "Get ont of the way!" Maguire stepped back. A thin st iva in of black slime flowed from the iron cyl inder as the valve of the boiler waa loosened. "It's the proper shale." growled the tool dresser, who had just come from his forge. " The drill rattled down the iron eat ing. Tho rope tightened, and the steady beat of the polished shaft kept time to the droning of the leather belting. The great rod waa thrown from its socket. It struck the side of the derrick and sent wooden braces clattering to tho ground. Held by the rope, it swung far out. A dull roar filled the air. A slight ly sulphurous odor rose from the earth. The driller rushed from the well witlt his hands before bis face. "Draw that fire!" he yelled at one of the helpers. "Draw that fire, yon blockhead!" The helper irresolutely grasped the shovel and started to the furnaco door. His eyes were fixed upon the swinging drill. He took another look r.t the der rick and fled ns fast as his legs could canty him. Gracchus Maguire picked up the shovel which the man had dropped in his flight. "Look out!" he heard tho driller say. The voice seemed to bo that of one who was miles away. There wero a loud report and a flash of light. Over tho mud and slime a yellow trail sped from furnace to derrick. From the well dart ed a tongue of flame. A thing of fire rolled over and over and fell into the shallow creek back of the mounds. Gracchus Maguire, when ho recovered consciousness, was lying in a spare room of Monndmere swathed in band ages. Through the small paned win dows shoue a brilliant light which il lumined every nook and corner cf the apartment. A Valley City physician was bending over the young school teacher. "Where is the fire?" asked Maguire. Then the occurrences of tho night crowded back upon him. He looked out toward the meadow. He saw a shaft of flame quivering into the air for 100 feet. It sprang above the top of the burning derrick. Tho structure toppled and fell blazing ?o tho ground. It lay there hissing and writhing. Around the burning well swarmed Valley City's volunteer fire company. A stream of water bad been turned upon the flat ling jet. The driller and his mates were trying to persuade the firemen that their work would be of no avail. "Fools, focls!" muttered Gracchus Maguire. "They might as well try to stop the progress of a man who has never said fail." He turned painfully in his bed. In that shaft cf fire he saw a dnll red building, surrounded by a dilapidated fence. He beheld the faces of the idiots and the epileptics with whom he had sjient his childhood. They faded away, and his gaze fell upon a ragged boy bending over rows of young corn. He saw the face of a white haired man whose smile was gentle and whose look was kindly and benign; then a yonth sleeping beneath the counter of a dry goods store. The print laden shelves disappeared. He beheld a congregation coming from a little white church. There were grave faced women in alpaca gowns and men in suits of shiny broad cloth. "He's not family, you know," they seemed to be saying. Then there ap peared a pretty girl, a Marguerite with hymnal and golden braids. She smiled at him and passed on. Maguire leaned his head upon his hands and looked fixedly at the darting jet which to him meant riches, pros perity and power. The sullen roar of the gas waa to him the sweetest min strelsy. Then there came to him an over whelming sense of guilt. He saw before him the image of a man whom he had wronged. "I have reached the goal," he said, bub at what a cost! All these years I have worked that I might ask her to be the wife of a man who bad obscured mean origin by success. Today I am a leper in ber eight and in the sight of God I" He remembered now that while he had toiled and planned she had grown further away from him. He seemed to hear avain 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 yon forget that there is no true success gained at the sacrifice of the highest ideals." Tn the light of those words all hie reasoning became bare sophistry. Whnl if he had agreed to give Peter Frobisbei the fnll value of his land and cf the de serted home ? By whose plot bad th? farm become fallow ground and the nev? house desolater It was true that Fro bisher would have laughed at him if Ix had told bim that the farm might beconu an Ohio Golconda. Even the state geol ogist had sneered and told bim that th? stratification of Mingo county's rocke made his belief utter foolishness. Whether the rock strata would per mit it or not, Gracchus Maguire bac staked everything on his belief. Ever} cent he had in the world, every cent hi could borrow, had been sunk in a boh in the earth. "lam furtbar from real euccess,' said Gracchus Maguire, "than the enc of that tubo in the ground is from tin pur3 air av.d the sunshine." On Ur i edge of the group ga there? s bo Ut. the well he eaw a carriage. Tw< women walked aronnd the windin} path toward tho front of the house. H< recognized Ellen Spencr and he: mother. Gracchus Maguire leaned forwarc and took'a letter pad from the table With bandaged fingers he painfull: wrote. It was a brief message-a fev lines huddled together with a halting signature at the end-yet they mad the man who wrote them thousands o dollars poorer than a pauper. He direct ed the note and settled back upon th pillows. "Misa Spencer wishes to speak t yon," said the negro man servant wh entered the room. ''I will see her," said Maguire "Take this note to Mr. Frobisher an lose no time about it !" .% The door opened a moment later an "I um not worthy that you should soe un'." said Gracchus Maugire. "I drove -MI old mau from his home that I might gain th? riches which lay be neath his lund. 1 deserve no'.-ypmuthy. It was I. Gracchus Mau gi re, und not a spirit, who exiled Peter Frobisher. I have tried tb make some tardy atone ment. I bave just surrendered the op tion on this farm. " .'It s?'eius Uko ti ?Ire.mi to ni?'.*" sahl the girl. "I ?>i;ly kuew that you had don?? wrong--that yon were struggling with a temptation. 1 could seo it in your face, in your every net." .'It means," replied Gracchus Mu guire very slowly, -'that if I had not surrendered all cluim anon this lund to day I might Le a millionaire and not u beggar. It was to win a woman whose family despised me because I was a foundling that I struggled for riches and power. Do you know her?" ..You do not!" repied the girl. "If you did, you would have felt she was not capable of caring for a man merely on account of bis success." . . . . . . . The present generation in Valley City knows the story of Mouudmero us a tradition. The sight of hundreds of der ricks in southern Ohio calls to its mind the day when the telegraph enrried 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 Monndmere, known for years only to Peter and Re becca Frobisher, to Gracchus Maguire and his wife, whose name was Ellen. John Walker Harrison in Now York Herald._ A Narrow Escnpr. So great a speed is attained by ice yachts that they aro sometimes lifted from the icu and fairly fly for yards. An incident of this kind happened ono win ter. A large yacht of tho New Ham burg club went scudding down the river in the direction of Newburg. It was tho owner's intention to go to West Point i? possible. He sailed there, but noth ing could induce him to mnke the trip again. Everything went smoothly for a time, so it is related, the wind sending thu skeleton craft along at 40 miles an hour. Just above Newburg u 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 mud 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 be saw that he had crossed the New burg and Fishkill ferry cut, and that he had crossed just in front of the steam boat. His hair stood on end and fairly turned gray. He lunded at West Point, transacted his business, took his boat apart and shipped it home, having had enough for that season.-Outing. TITO Great Answers. "Gradually woman is coming to her own," remarks a gossiper in the Roch ester Post-Express. "Like the milla of the gods, in the familiar paraphrase, 'she grinds slowly, but she gets there jost the same. ' In answer to the ques tion, What is 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 ber sex. "You may match this heroic reply with another which comes from the same source. A Sunday school teacher, after having explained to her class that oaly the patriarchs were ullowed 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. solva tion r " _ Ran Across Her. Ned-I ran across a very pretty girl this morning. Ted-Did ebe flirt with you? Ned-No. After she regained con' Bciousness she bad me arrested for scorching. Au luit In Japan. The singing girls sat round and gig gled while we drank tea. They giggled' and song and giggled while we were initiated into thc mysteries of a Jap anese dinner. They danced and uto sweets and sucked oranges while we had our after dinner smokes, and then, nt about 0 o'clock, they dropped on their knees at 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. Thero was simplicity about everything. No attempt was made at shoddy grandeur. Tho mats were unadorned, the woodwork was un painted, but a blue vase in one corner, 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 tho dishes were arranged trimly on lacquer trays. It was, however, not particularly ap petizing to three hungry wheelmen. Japanese fare is scrappy and finicky. On a pleasant autumn afternoon, when yon have been reclining in a jinrikisha, dawdling through sylvan lanes, tiny morsels of fish and a cupful of rice and several curious messes seasoned with n mixture of salt and sugar may be all right, but when the weather is cold, and there is a blood tingling breeze, and yon are doing your level 50 miles a day wheeling, yon want ham and eggs and beef and pudding. We should have starved had we not every other doy or so fallen in with some Japanese who understood tbe capacity of an English stomach. Then wo fed like the camel. -Travel._ CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tbe Kimi You Havo Always Bought Bears the Signature of - Silence is doubly golden when you can't think of a satisfactory an swer. - Fools never rush in were thea tri cal angels fear to tread. Appendicitis Cured Without a Knife. Cau a genuine, well authenticated, unadulterated luise ot appendictis bc cured without a surgical operation? 18 there away to reach the seat ot* the trouble and remove the cause without the use of a knife? Physicians and surgeons have gene rally held to the idea that it is onlv by removing the troublesome vermiform appendix that the seat ot the trouble can be reached and a euro effected, but here is one who thinks to the ron tra ry and seems to have demonstrated it in one very severe east'. He is Dr. George J. Helniei', of Now York, and so re markably simple was the method em ployed by Dr. Helmet- that the story ot" the cure is told in the newspapers. The Pre8? gives the details. The 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 fur. According to these, only eight minutes elapsed from the time the physician bau reached the patient until he had completed his work, as he believes, successfully. When Dr. 1 (elmer reach - ed his patient he found her in great ?min. She had had similar attacks he ore and two physicians, one of them the family physician for many years and the other a physician who had attended her in Atlantic Highlands, N. J., had pronounced the trouble appen dicitis, and had stated positively that she would have to IK* operated " upon with a knife. The treatment of Dr. Helmet- was said tobe so instantaneous in its effect** and so simple and harmless in its ap plication that some physicians are in . dined to wonder why it was not dis covered and made use of before. To one looking on the operator seems only to apply one hand to the point midway between the top of the 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 mepnsofa quick mol ion. repeated two or three times, ami the operation is ended. TJieappendix is ti rudimentary organ which in man has no use, in some ani mais it has. Yet it is supplied with arteries and veins. The disease known ns appendicitis is simply a clogging of the appendix, a little sack, by food particles, so that inflammation seisin. The pain, which sometimes is excruci ating, is caused by the clogging of the veins so that when Hie blood continues tobe torced 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 thc 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 ol' the human anatomy and long practice, but when once understood is simple enough. Just back ol' the appendix is the largest muscle in the human body, known as the psoas magnus, lt is at tached to the lemur or big bone of the leg, and is the muscle by which one cnn revolve the leg as on a pivot at the heel. It is this muscle w' neb is made to do the trick of emptying the appen dix. Using the fingers of one hand 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. Helmet-, according to the press report, would not discuss the case nt first, bat afterward, at tho request of tho patient who thought it might be a benefit to the public to have the facts known, did explain it. Aa ^lustration of how these foreign substances are expelled from the appendix, the doctor placed thc thumb ot the r< porter's left hand flatly in the palra of his right hand. Then he slapped the palm of the hand smartly against the broad of the thumb. "Tito hand represents the psoas muscle," he said, "and the thumb the appendix. We produce a spasmodic contraction of the psons 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 be considered a cure, as the disease might) return when thc appendix became clogged again. "That is true," sait? tho doctor, "But the same is true of any disease you name. No physician, in curing a dis ease, gives a guarantee that it will not occur under favorable conditions./'We think wo do well even to relieve in so simple- and painless a manner a disease that hitherto has been regarded as a most serious and itv many cases a fatal one." ,.- wmm ? - Curions Succession of Calamities. CHICAGO; June i5.-A dispatch to the Chronicle from1 Arthur, 111., says that a strange chain of disasters began when tho Grand Army Post conducted the 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-at the cemetery news-reached Augustus Baker that his thirteen-year-old son had just been I drowned while swimming. The shock 1 prostrated Mr. Baker and ho had to be taken homo in*a carriage. When the news was broken to his wife she be came unconscious: Both arc in a pre carious condition. While tho funeral procession was returning from the cem etery ono of' the carriages ran over Mrs. William Sullivan's little two-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 Bf Lightning. ltiNoor.D, Ga., June 10.-During an electrical storm yesterday afternoon William Overby was struck by light ning and instantly killed. Overby was on his wav home with two mules and both of the mules were also killed by the bolt. Overby was a bridegroom of one day, he having married Miss L. M. Brvsou on Wednesday.-A Hanta .tour nai. - The Massachusetts Legislature has passed ti bill providing that after January 1, 1002, wagon and carriage wheels in that State shall have tires no less in width than one and one-half times the diameter of the axle, meas ured at tho shoulder, and that wagons built with hollow axles shall havo tires not less in width than the diameter of the axle measured at the shoulder. - The beer which is consumed throughout thc world, in a single year, would make a lako 0 feet deep, 8 3-4 miles long, a milo wide, or 3,810 acres in area. In this vast lake of beer wc could easily drown all tho English speaking people, to the number of 120, 000,000, throughout tho entire world; or we could give a beer bath to every man, woman and child at tho same timo in tho entire continent of Aiuerica. - The swallow has a larger mouth, in proportion to its size, than any other bird. ?ot ?ho Noten Canned. A little incident which occurred only n few yeu.ru before my hirth, in the ex treme went, and which I heard related by my father, who wa? familiar with the fuctH, illustr?t ive of the slow modes of communication in those primitive times, may ho worth repeating here. When tho old State bank of Missouri failed, in. I think, 1830, Sam Wiggins, u brother of the well known Billy Wiggins, held a large amount of the notes of tlint bank, which, for practical purposes being entirely worthless, ho was so paralyzed that he moped about in a condition of despondency for three days, when he was approached by a certain Frenchman, whoso 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 notes, and. with a horse that he knew he could procure, well known for his pow er of endurance nu a traveler, proceed across the country to Louisville and ?lis pose of th?? paper for good money. The offer being accepted, he took the horse and rodo him 70 miles a doy, un til he became exhausted, when be ?'.\ cbnuged him f?>r another, and by re peated relays reached his destination and got the notes changed four hours before the arrival of tho news, brought by a steamboat which had left Ht. Loni* ?rn the day of the failure of the bank, nearly three days in advance of his own departure. How would that sound told in St. Louis or Louisville in this year of graceK-San Francisco Bulletin Sile I.os? lire Mme. While in Samoa Kotiert Louis Steven sou and his wife in u great measure did UH the Romans*di?1- that is to say, as the Samoans did. It was Louis' custom to lie abed late < f a morning and spend the remainder ol the time umler a tree on tho hill, clad in light pyjama*-, the dress of the native Kanaka. With his wile il was t he same. Slays wer?! nukuown to her and a curling iron a dim recollection of a shady past, lt was while Stevenson and bis wife were living at Apia, in Samoa, that Mr. Hey wood was appointed consul tiler?! 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 ht: them as .'citizens ?if Samoa." Of course an invitation was sent Koll ert Louis Stevenson and his wife. Two days before the dat?! of tho function Mr. Heywood was snrprise?l to receive a note from Mr. Stt?venson sent by courier. The note rend UH follows: Mrs. Roheit Louis Stevenson niul Hoheit Louis Stevenson accept Consul Heywood's in vitation with pleasure mid nwmo him that they will bo present- on the evening of tho -IUI, if by tlmt time Mrs. Stevenson llmls her other shoe. Ever thine, RuilKItT L'iris HTI;VI:NHON. -Detroit Free Press. 1 Ta 11< IS! hl{ .lu ric dei Ta ssl afc Ta S < BU - A few physicians iu Now York make very large fees. There arc two or three specialists whose incomes will exceed $50,000 a year, perhaps ten make $25,000 and perhaps twenty make from $15,000 to $20,000. Ten thousand dollars a year is considered a large practice. - The secret of success is con stancy to purpose. H Word to Doctors We have the highest regard for the medical profession. Our preparations are not sold for the purpose of antagon izing them, but rather ns an aid. We lay it down as un established truth that internal remedies are positively injuri ous to expectant mothers. The distress .nd discomforts experienced during the months preceding childbirth can be al leviated only by external treatment-by applying a liniment that softens and re laxes the over-strained muscles. We make and sell such a liniment, com bining the ingredients in a manner hitherto unknown, and call it Mother s Friend We know that in thousands of cases it has proved more than a blessing to expectant mothers. It overcomes morn ing sickness. It relieves thc sense of tightness. Headaches cease, and dan ger from Swollen, Hard and Rising Breasts is avoided. Labor itself is shortened and shorn of most of the pain. We know that many doctors recom mend it, and we know that multitudes of women go to the drug stores and buy it because they are sure their physicians have no objections. We ask a trial just a fair test. There is no possible chance of injury being the result, be cause Mother's Friend is scientific ally compounded. It is sold at $i ft bot tle, and should be used during most of the period of gestation, although great relief is experienced if used only . short time before childbirth. Send for our il lustrated book about Mother's Friend. THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA, OA. Notice to Creditors. ALL persons having claims against the Estate of JesBe W. Norris, de ceased, are hereby notified to present them to the undersigned, or to Quattle baum iV Cochran, Attorney1?, properly proven, within the t.me prescribed by law, and tboBe indebted to make pay ment. JOHN W. THOMSON, W. D. SIMPSON, J. II. ANDERSON, June 14, 1*9!? Administrators. _ Notice to Creditors. ALL persons having demands against the Rat?tes or Maj. A. H. ISroyles and Mr*. M.'II. Broyles, deceased, are here by notified to present them, properly proven, to the undersigned, within tbe time prescribed by law, and those In debted to make pavment J. J. BAKER. B. FRANK CRAYT?N, Executors. .lune 14, isa? _ r.t _ 8 NOTICE. WI LL be let to the lowest responsible bidder on Thursday, the Otb day of July next, at ll o'clock a. m., at the bridge alt", the building of a Bridge over Eighteen Mile Oreek, on th- road lead ing from Pendleton to Clemson College, near Htribltng'a Brick Yard. Reserving riw.ht to reject any and all bids. Plan and specltloatlons made known at the letting. W. P SNELGROVE, Co. Supervisor A. C. June 14, 1880 51 3 NOTICE. PURSUANT to a levy made under a x Execution issued against one Gad mderson on the li>th day of Maren. .9, and to me directed, I will sell to tue ?hest bidder for cash, on Salesday in ly next, in front of the City Hall, da ig the legal hours of sale, the following acribad personal property, to wit : One ble, one Bureau, ooo Lounge. Said o made to satisfy the Tax Execution tresaid, with couta and ponalties, CItv xes. JOIiIT W. BILLINGHAM, lune 17? 18!??.* Cblof Police. ~W. Qt. McQE?! SURGEON DENTIST. 3FFICE-thront Knur, over Farinera ?J Merchante Bank ANDERSON, is. C ?*.?? ?. 1898 33 THE BEST BREAD IAN HIWBVH be inado from that deli j clous Fresh Home-made Yeast of rs. W. H. Simpson's, as hundreds of dies will testify. (Jan be found freBh alt times at the Store of Try lt. .INO M. PATRICK. May 111, 18!Kl 4<> 4 . J. H. BURGESS. DENTIST. IN Pendleton every Monday, Tuesday id Wednesday. At Clemson College ovory Thursday, ridav and Saturday. April mi, 1HW _44_ Um FOR SALE. ..OO CITY LOTS-$50.00 to &i!,f>00. mr or live well located, nicoly built ?Hiern Houses. I am tho only up-to date Real F.state an in town. ?AUL E. AYER, Real Estate Agent. Kor>m 4, P. O. Bnllding. LEGAL NOTICE. U.NtTiii? SrA I'KS or AMERICA, DISTRICT oi' BOUTIL CAROLINA, I the Circuit Court, Fourth Circuit. In Equity, rederick M. Colston, Trustee, Complain ant, VM. The Columbia & Oreenville Railroad, et al., Defendants. < nu: MATTER Ol' run Bi.tiK Ri HUI: RAILROAD. *N pursuunce of an order of this Court, dated the Kith May, 1890, notice is urehy given to all and singular the reditors ol' tho Blue Ridge Railroad to >mo in and present their claims and do lands before me, for proof of same, on r before the 1st day of July, 1899, or se be debarred from any benelU under ie Decreo to be rendered in this cause. J. E. HAGOOD, lerk U. S. Cir-mlt Court for District of South Carolina. May :;i, 1890 49 4 Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned, Executor of the 'state of Oeo. W. Manly, deceased, hore y gives notice that he will on the 8th ay of July, ISM), apply to the Judge f*Probate of Anderson County, 8. C., ir a Final Settlement of eaid Estate, nd a discharge from his o dice as Exec tor. O. K. DRE AZ KA LE, Ex'r. June 1?, 1899 51 5 For Repairing Tires viMhin V HflUlU'a -the best. In use for 3 years and stands the Test. tost?n Woven Hose and Rubber Co., Cambr?dgcport, Mass. 'OR SALE BY SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO., ANDERSON, S. C. May 10, lgflO 4<5 8 60 YEARS* EXPERIENCE PATENTS I RADE pr? Anno DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &C. Anvnnn ?encline o ultclch nnd description may quickly ascertain our opinion freo whether an in van linn is probably patentable. Communies, t tons strictly conndentlal. Handbook on Patenta mnt free. oldest nuency for securlnppaients. 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LU GUSTA A NU ASHEVILLE 8BORT LIM B ID efl oct January 8,1899. 1 40 pm v Augusta. .r Oreen wood. r Anderson. .r Laurens. r Qrconvillo. r Glenn ?pringa.... r Spartanburg.... r Salada.. r Ilcnderaonville. r Aahovlilo. v Asbevlllo., v Hpartanburg. v Glenn Springs.... v Greenville. v Laurens.-. v Anderson. v Greenwood. r Augusta.o, if Calhoun Fails.... r Raleigh.M. r Norfolk. r Petersburg. r Richmond. 9 40 am 1160 am 1 20 pm 3 00 pm 4 05 pm 3 10 pm 5 33 pm C 03 pm 7 00 pm 6 10 pm 6 59 am 1015 am 'J 00 am 8 28 am 11 45 ara 10 00 am 12 01 am 1 87 pm 4 10 pm 4 00 pm 7 80 pm 7 00 am \ 87 pmj.M..M.. 110 pm ll 10 am >v Augusta. .r Allendale........ r Fairfax. jr Yemaaseo. .r Beaufort. . r Port Royal.-..., .r Savannah. .r Charleston. 9 45 am 10 50 am 1105 am 1 00 pm 3 00 pm 3 15 pm 4 20 pm 5 20 pm S 86 pm G 15 pm G 30 pua V Cha rios ton... v Savannah.... v Port Boyal.. v Beau fort. v Yemassee... v Fairfax..;.... v Allendale... r Augusta. 1 40 pm i 55 pm 805 pm 6 18 am 5 00 am 0 45 am 6 55 am 7 65 am 8 65 am li 10 am ll 00 pm Clos? connection at Calhoun Falls for Athens Hanta and all poi o ta on 8. A. L. Close connection at Augusta for Charleston wannah and alt points. Close connections at Greenwood for all points on . A. L., and C. A G. Railway, and at 8partanl>urg Uh Southern Railway. For any Information relative to tickets, retoo, .hedulo, etc., address . W. J. CRAIG, Gen.Pass. Agent, AugnsU.G*. E. M. Nor th, 8ol. Agent. T. M. Emerson,Traffic Manager.