The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, July 12, 1899, Page 7, Image 7
THE SPOILER
'After the manner of Rudyard Kipling.]
c r there was, and abc wrote tor the pren
* ? von or I might do).
lcid bow to cut and flt a dress,
**, (J^T to rtew many a savory mess,
J1? tho never Iud done it hf nell, I guess
?lieh ???ac ot ncr **?ders knew).
_ ,Kc licur we spent and t!ie flour we spent,
led thc sugar we wasted like sand,
.". f !i<">t of a woman who never had cooked
leJno?' ?u lnow that she never could cook),
['r'? did not imderstandl
? there was, ami she wrote right fslr
' " i or 1 might do),
,ut i f a barrel to make a chair,
cered tvitb chinta and stuffed with lair,
' ,JJ i :, rn poy parler and give it ?in air!
, .. nt tho'Jpbt tho tale waa true).
. .> iU>a.aa worked, and Llie wai s we worked
'j lammer and uw ami liack,
i -.Xii'-- a chair in which no one would sit,
t?tr wltfrh no onc could possibly sit,
. J click in lils bai-k!
rc:r?n there wai?, and she had her fun
gittff than you and 1).
twirrote out receipts, and ehe never tried one;
i, ?-rotc about children-of course alie had none
(,t told ut to do what she never had dona
/.sd never Intended to try)
ai it Isn't to toil, and lt isn't to spoil
?fut brinn thc cup ot disgrace
vi to follow a woman who didn't know bearu
i reman wno never had cooked any beans),
pd wrote and waa paid to AU space.
-Boston Congregationalist.
Is RED ra n. iy
f By Carmen Silva. , >
(Queen of Roumanie,] ^ j
c is no royal road to learning, nor ia there
road to success in literature. Many per
ro) al blood-sometimes crowned heads
tempted to achieve sncceas with the pen.
(Torts have been praised by flatteren, but,
Ie, thc public havo had no use for them,
thor of this story, the queen ot Routnania,
xception. Her stories ore current, on the
ootmg with Kurll authors as the public
cepted whether they write in a castle or a
lihnuseu Park ls a charming cor
r this earth. It ls on the slope of
sheltered from the wind. At thc
>f giguntic trees the Wied runs,
thc most ancient suspension
? in Europe, tlie Trembling bridge,
by smokes, flames and groans the
mass of the old forgo named Ras
lie place where the silence Is most
iud, In the middlo of a small prni
urrounded by gigantic oaks and
vs, rises, solitary and grandiose,
beech tree. Its branches are soin
fhe raj s of the sun make them
r purple. It would seem that the
trees had left the beech tree at n
ice, either in respect or In aver
Who could tell?
t tree is imposing, and every time
ny father said, "Let us go today
red beech," a sentiment of devo
ted our hearts aB if we were go
i church. It Is true that the place
be compared to a Pantheon,
;in the red beech would stand for
tar of sacrifice. Perhaps ii knows
t is red. I have distinctly heard it
an old chronicle, after a dispute
licit the other trees reproached lt
being a strange tree, foreign to
nd. The beech shook its somber
e and said:
day in the spring a young trav
ioming from the Rhine stopped
There was then only a wooden
across the Bach. He stood on it
untemplated the turbulent water,
ore a brown velvet waistcoat bor
with -blue fox fur, a green
e cap with a feather and carried
i on his back. Suddenly a light
red on the Bach. The traveler
^?niched it and saw.a raft formed of
?tee trunks of trees on which stood a
Hq^aid young girl. 3he guided the
Haft with a pole.
? Euc was dressed in green velvet Her
Bftt was caught with golden chains
Spat held also a brilliant dagger in
BBj^ with precious stones. A moss of
Bhrk brown braids fell on her sboul
Mcfs. She wore a large sky blue hat.
Bfttr eyebrows almost met above her
Hptte, which was fine and straight. Her
figttp eyes were blue as gentiun, and
BP Ups audaciously curved revealed
Btw and then a splendid row of pearls.
?Pong the bank of the river a young
? Hun rode on horseback. He was dress
Bi io dark blue velvet. He wore boots
Md soft leather, with long spurs that
PP dug into the horse's flanks because
?T* animal reared at the board over
Hallie young giri laughed and looked
Dick. At that moment her raft ran
HBa tlie shore exactly under the rude
fl?^Ietta!" exclaimed the traveler, wnv
BBjuo young girl looked up, and she
?"Henry von Ofterdingen!"
HT?O horseman had succeeded in taro
ng the animai. He came hear, held
jatr816108 firmly with one hand and ex
Mpded the other hand to the traveler.
fipe latter said:
?Hr?ou are tho beautiful Jotta's cousiu,
Mpaanr von Sayn, I am sure!"
?leight," the horseman replied, "and
y were having a wild race. Jetta bet
?F*8ue would reach the Rhino on her
gfcgi? before me. You see. Henry, that I
BS^uteously held back my horse."
?L?0' you are a boaster!" exclaimed^
Brttfr- She patted the horse's mane and"
WJed it hor "Selim." She said that the
Br^ was bera because she had won
Jr'Not at all/' protested Almonn. "You
wfTe not won. You had run aground."
w Because I wanted to save yon from
WjlDS." she said.
jBj was not In danger cf falling,* ho
H^oodby, Selim." said Jetta. "I sholl
yoo some other time. Come, gen
?fen. lot us go Into toe forest,"
?/ &m troubling your happiness/' said
H^o," sa?d Jerto. "Almann and I
always quarreled. I would say td
'I nm not to be your wife/ and ho
jWJto fall into toara."
m " b not so." said Almann. "I have
i B*w fallen into tears. I would reply, :
Wp ^eil, I shall take another wife/
?H^akrUo a song/*
M?? cot believe bim, Henry. He Ia
.""og." ?aid the glr% VT? here were
jgv7 Bcnry. since yb* quitted the
?J^? Oome with us to the castle of
TSP*, the new castle that my father
better than the ancient one abovu
flt* Cotmt Meiricd 08 *? ever?'
?J?, yea," replied che girl! "My
??:rcr Arnold wants to go to tho Holy
m** and my brother Friedwart thlnko
li
j ot notnin;.: out tuc hunt, ?ly brother
; G ott hold roads Latin. Ile shall be a
j priest, perhaps, and I shall be forced
; to kiss his hand. How odd!"
"And their ouly sister is still a spoil
ed child?' asked Henry.
"Terribly!" exclaimed Almann.
Henry talked of tho Rhine and the
Alp?, of Thurlngla and of Bohemia.
Alumna listened nbseutmlndely. He
was tall and strong, but not BO tall and
lltho as Henry, who resembled a cedar.
Servants came with horses to meet
them. All three went up the valley of
tho Wied-Bach iu a gallop. The water
was emerald.
A few days later Henry came down
toward Altwied on horseback. He was
j sumptuously dressed In violet velvet.
Standards were waving above tho tow
ers. Bells were ringing merrily. Jetta
was to be married to Almann von
Sayn. She wa? seated In her bed
room and was looking at herself In a
sliver mirror that a friend held.
"I hope that you will bc very, very
happy," said her maid.
"Why should I not be happy?" asked
Jetta.
"Why not? You love your betrothed
more than any one," said the maid.
"Moro tha*i auy one?" sighed Jetta.
"More than my father and my three
brothers? Oh, no; that would bo too
much!"
In the first day of their marriage no
one would disturb them In the castle
of Sayn, but they came out of it un
expectedly. Almann explained: "Jet
ta cannot llvo without her father and
her brothers. She would have been 111,
as if she hud not seen them for a
year."
"What do you do in the daytime
while your husband ls hunting?" asked
Count Mefried of his daughter.
"IV" replied the young woman,
blushing. . "I take care of the house
and read talcs of adventure."
"She is more obedient than I thought
she would be," said Almann. "I ex
pected her to be restive, but she ls
docile, ns if she knew that I could taine
her."
"Oh, I have often seen you tamo
horses and dogs!" laughed Jetta.
"Do you think of raising your chil
dren in the same way?" asked Gott
hold.
"Naturally," replied Almann.
Jetta blushed and then grew pale.
Gotthold said to her: "Do not worry.
You have no children yet, and he does
.not know what his sentiments will be
when they come."
Gotthold related all these things to
Henry. He saddled his horse and went
to thc Sayn castle ut the breakfast
hour.
Almann chided him cordially for hav
ing delayed his visit so long. Then
Almann said that he had to go hunt
ing. He said: "I am glad yoii have
come. You will talk to my wife while
I am away."
Henry took a mandolin at .letta's re
quest and began to play. Then he sang:
I wandered savage and free. Kow that I have
seen lier au ardent grief seizes me, my joy
has fled.
The world is too large for me. My native land
kept my heart, but my tan- a? a traveler ex
pelled mc from my nest.
lt was not too late yesterday. Then 1 could love
that young girl incomparjt.H beautiful.
Now thc dream bas gone by, thc ont whom 1
wished to serve has been revealed to mc too
late. I am going awsy, free as air.
At tho first verse Jetta changed col
or. At the last verse he did not doro
raise his eyes. Jetta said nothing.
At last he looked at her. She had
frowned, and her glacial look met the
young roan's. She stood before him
like an angel in anger. He did not
dare breathe. "You are doing wrong,"
she said at last, slowly. "My brother
ls a child, but you know the world.
You should not have done that."
He would have liked to throw him
self at her feet and beg her pardon,
but he lacked the courage to do that.
"I thought," he said "that my jesting
would make you laugh. It was only a
jest."
"It was lacking in taste," she said.
She said that she was awkward in
writing, and he offered to help her.
She showed him her work, and he told
ber its faults, like a pedant
The days came and went, i\nd Henry
was still bi the castle of Sayn. The
pupil progressed rapidly. At last Hen
ry had to return to Kruft. Jetta wor
ried when she found herself suddenly
alone at her work. She asked Almann
.to aid her in his turn, but he said that
was-too difficult. Then, ho bad to go
hunting. Alone, oho read or reflected
about, love. She was saying to herself
one day, "One must love enough to
forget one's self and the world entire
ly," when thero was a knock at the
gate. It was Henry. In that moment
she understood that she could not live
without Henry.
Why had Almann married her with
out loi e? He did not love her. She
knew that since she had looked inte
thf? eyes of Henry. She knew that
Henry loved her. She had tried to Ig
nore it, but he loved her madly, and
soon he would forget the world entire
for her, and then what would she do'
Then the words of her father came
back to her mind, "A spotless life, t
proud submission, a humble attitude!"
What had become of her pride'
Where was the way of duty? -When
was humility? All had disappeared
In her heart was sin, on her lips wai
untruth, If she did not confess all U
Almann. But if she confessed to Al
mann, lt would oe condemning Henrj
to certain death. She was full of an
gulsh and of remorse. Dawn brough
reason to her. It seemed to her thal
?ho might come ont of her struggle vie
torious.
The abbe cf Scmmerad?ff called ox
her. He said, "Have you nothing ti
ask of me, coy daughter? There ls dbi
quietude tn your features. Sui ls at
your door."
"Is thought a oin?" asked Jetta.
"Yes, certainly. Even thought 'is s
sin," answered the abbe.
[ Jotta fell on her knees and coverer
her face with ber bands.
"Oh, ray daughter, what would re
malo to you If you lost purity? No th
Inf? nothing. If you fell, you woul<
he leons than a servant, for you wen
better educated, and your will wa
firmer."
Almas? L?? stone out at dawn. Jel
ta saddled i her horse and gallop*
down the mountain alone. .There wa
a thick f?g. "Dishonored, Infamous!
whistled the wind tn her ears. "Dla
honored, Infamous!" cried the soil ur
der the hoofs of beor, horse. Snddenl;
she found hcroelf at the Wied, but th
tide was so low that she could hav
crossed the river on horseback. Wh;
was abe disappointed?- She galloped <
Nothhausen. Soe dismounted and fe!
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on tho yellow leaves wnicn, oauii) troiu f
the dew, covered the soil. "Dishonor
ed, infamous!" murmured the foliage.
Then sh?) took the dagger from her
belt and plunged it in her breast She
hoped to die at once, but she was con
demned to see her blood flow slowly, :
redden the blade and fall drop by drop
on the foliage. "Alas, 1 do not wish to
die!" she cried. "I want to bc cured
of my love. Am I not Almnnn's faith
ful wife? I have never deceived bim.
I wanted to struggle loyally. The ubbe
was too severe. Alas, l hope that 1 J
will not die. Rut how could I live '
without pride and without purity ?"
She plucked the dagger from the ]
wound with superhuman strength ami !
died In an instant.
Almann returned home tired, but no
one came to welcome him. ile learned
with great anxiety that Jetta had goue 1
out uloue on horseback. At thc fall '
of night he came to the Wied. In the '
bed of the river was Jetta's horse, lie
found her on the other side stretched '
on the ground, her eyes radiating a 1
dark blue light os if she were alive.
Almann was almost mad with grief. !
He thought that she had been murder
ed, because her horse had tried to :
awaken her and had trampled the
dagger into the damp soil.
Thero was no news of Henry. He
had gone away on horseback. Ile went 1
to Styrla and then to Thmingia, where 1
the court gossipers wondered at his se
riousness.
While the beech spoke it became
more and more somber. "And that ls
why," the beech said, "only a red
beech mn j' grow here. The grandfather '
explains it to his grandson in order 1
that he may know the origin of tho 1
color. Whether the events occurred as
they are related here or otherwise* no
one may tel!. One branch whispered <
it to another as a secret thal the other 1
trees need not know. It is that a wo
man preferred to die rather than to 1
have an impure thought in her heart. *
She died because, in her own eyes, she
had ceased to be as pure as the sun."
Thus spoke the red beech of Notb
hausen.
It Lost Him the Case.
"The greatest Jury orator I ever lis
tened to In my life was the late Daniel
W. VoorheeB," said a well known New
Orleans lawyer. "He had a jovial
presence, a great resonant bass voice
and a bearing so singularly compell
ing that I know of nothing except the
trite word 'magnetic' that begins to de
fine its effect. I heard him in a mur
der trial at Louisville, and bin speech
on that occasion was prefaced by a
most amusing incident It was a very
warm day, and the courtroom was
packed to suffocation.
"As Voorhees arose to begin his ar
gument he cast his eye over the jury
and discovered that one of the mem
bers had fallen asleep. Frowning with
indignation, he motioned to one of the
court officials, and in a few seconds
the slumberer was shaken rudely into
consciousness. He was a fat, timid
looking man and was so mortified and
nghast at the enormity of his offense
that he could hardly find words in
which to reply to the sharp questions
of tue judge. Finally ho managed to
blurt out that he couldn't help doz
ing off whenever lt was warm and
crowded.
" 'If- the gentleman always sleeps
where it Is warm and crowded,' said
Voorhees majestically, 'the gentleman
will no doubt enjoy himself hugely in
hades.' There was a roar of laughter,
but the retort proved rather costly.
The fat man hung the jury against
Voorhees' client"-New Orleans limes
Democrat
"Make He a Child Asroin."
"I'd like to be a boy again, without
a woe or care, with freckles scattered
on my face and hayseed in my hair.
I'd like to rise at 4 o'clock and do a
hundred chores, and.saw the wood and
feed the hogs and lock the stable
doors. And herd the hens and watch
the bees and take the mules to drink,
and teach the turkeys how to swim,
so that they wouldn't sink, and milk
about a hundred cowa and bring the
wood to burn. And stand out la the
sun all day and churn and churn and
churn, and wear my brother'o cast off
clothes, and walk four miles to school,
and get a licking every day for break
ing some old rule. And then get home
again at night and do the chores some
more, and milk the cows and feed thc
hogs and curry mules galore, and then
crawl wearily up stairs and see my lit
tle bed, and hear dad say, 'That worth
less boy-he isn't worth his bread!' I'd
like to be a boy again-a boy has so
much fun!-his life is Jost a round of
mirth from riso to set of sui1. I guecs
there is nothing pleasanter than clos
ing stable doors and herding hens and
chasing bees and doing eveningchores."
New York Mall and Express.
A Bala Proverb.
Bein before seven.
Fine before eleven.
I have always heard this proverb
with the two additional lines:
If it rains at eleven
"Twill last till seven.
And I have witnessed the truth of the
last two lines very many times, notably
on three separate occasions, on which,
being up the river for a day's punting,
when a fine day would have boen a
godsend to me, it baa rained persistent
ly during the whole afternoon, the rain
beginning between 10 and ll o'clock,
and ceaeing within a very few minutes
of 7. Thus I have had tho proverb in
delibly stamped on my mind.-Notes
and Queries.
Teetlaaoay af Ky? wita ema ea.
"While I was out weat.''said the
man in the mackintosh, 'tl'. ?aw snow
drifts more than 600 feet high."
"1 don't doubt iii** replied the man
with the cinnamon beard. "When I
waa ont there, I saw drifts that couldn't
have been less than 900 feet deep.."
"If yon hadn't been in euch a harry
to tell a bigger lie than yon thought I
could tell." rejoiced the man in the
mackintosh, "I would nave explained
that the drifts ? saw were 600 feet np
on the side of a mountain."
"That's all right," said the other.
"The drifts I saw were at the bottom
of a 000 foot gorge,"-Chicago Trlb
one.
*Looluj Saar.
A man walks half a certain distance
at the rate of foar miles an boor and
the other half at the rate of six miles
an hour. Does it take a longer or abort*
er time to return at the rate of five
miles an hour?-Chrl8t!ar? Advocate.
DEATH FOR ELOPING.
rHE SAN BLAS INDIANS PUZZLE ALL
WHO KNOW THEM.
Harrias* With White Hen Is a Capi
tal Crime Inder Their Lawn - No
8trnnger? May Ile Arthure After
Nightfall-Wealtu In Coconnati.
A strange race of people, with man*
Hers nud customs stranger still, lives
near the coast at San lilas, Colombia,
South America. Ti the few traders |
who visit the F?>ot for cocouuuts ami
vegetable ivory ?hoy ure known as tho
Sau Bias Indians. Ol' their origin and
history but little eau he discovered.
Ono things Io certain, that although
friendly to the government of the Unit
Ed States and to foreigners who may
enter or Hud themselves weather
hound iu the harbor of San Blas there
ls no record of their having ever been
conquered or subjugated by any other
tribe or power.
It is quite probable that they havo
?escended from thc ancient Toltccs,
but what vicissitudes of tribal life they
may have passed through will proba
bly never be known.
Although inclined to be friendly,
they look with most Jealous eyes upon
any effort to cultivate a closer ac
quaintance than thc necessities of
trade require. No matter how ninny
vessels may lie nt anchor in the har
bor or how much trading may have
been carried on during the day every
(vhlte man at sundown must go on
board his ship or at least quit the ter
ritory of the tribe until the following
tnorning. This is a tribe law, against
which protest is useless.
The maidens of this peculiar tribe
ire quito attractive, and many a jack
tar has risked his life in the effort to
win or capture a dusky bride. Love,
is in other lands, occasionally over
comes all obstacles, but if the unfor
tunate giri is caught or returns to her
people the punishment is death.
The yonug mate of an English bark
lying in the harbor became enamored
3f a girl whose home was near thc
beach. The mate's attentions were
persistent, and his lovo was secretly
returned.
One night, just before the ship was
to HPAI, the Indian maiden secreted her
sailor boy in the thickets until after
lark, when they stole a canoe and
started to paddle out to the vessel. But
in awful tropical storm came up,
which caused the eloping couple to lose
their bearings, and only with difficulty
lid they manage to keep afloat. When
morning dawned, they were washed
ishore, almost exhausted. The en
raged Indians seized both and made
them captives, condemning the girl to
immediate death.
The captain of the bark, anticipating
trouble, sent a boat's crew ashore with
& rescue party. A demand was made
for the prisoner, whereupon the mate
was released, but t?ie girl was held for
the death sentence.
Finding argument useless, the des
perate youth, with a few sailors at his
back, made a rush to rescue his sweet
heart and bad almost accomplished It
when he was struck down by a spear
thrust from the hand of the girl's fa
ther. She broke from her captors,
crazed with grief, and, seizing the
spear, drove the head of lt into her
own breast. The sailors managed to
carry away their wounded mate, but
were driven Into their boat and away
from the shore.
The territory held by the tribe ls
smite extensive, although its bounda
ries are not very accurately defined. It
extends from Gape San Blas far back
into the mountains.
Cocoanuts are the source of tho na
tion's wealth, which is considerable.
Probably the largest groves in the
world are just back of San Blas and
belong to these Indians.
A "kind of commonwealth or co-oper
ative system seems to exist among
them, and each member of the tribe
collects and carries each day his share
af the cocoanuts and adds it to the
enormous pyramid of them near the
shore, which is the tribe's treasury.
Bullions of nuts are thus stored and in
waiting for a profitable market. The
average price for them ls from $8 to
?10 per 1,000 in Colombian silver, or
about 55 per cent of that amount in
sold. One-half of the pay Is taken in
;asb and tho other half In merchan
dise.
The nuts are carried from the "great
pile" to the beach in palmetto bags.
The natives, with these loads, each
weighing 50 pounds, travel at a brisk
trot all day long and seemingly with
out fatigue. Although a slender, wiry
?ace, they will accomplish with ease a
ask that would kill or prostrate Anglo
Saxons. -
The Indians are excellent sailors, and
iven in the rough weather make tho
trip from Cape San Blas to Asplnwall
in boats hollowed out of logs.
A cocoanut grove is a source of nev
ir failing revenue to its owners, as the
.ree from the fourth year of its exist
ence bears indefinitely and haa few If
my enemies. The nuts Intended for
commerce are allowed to ripen and
lrop to the ground. Every ono that
'alls is worth about half a cent where
t Iles.
AU day and all night the owner of
be estate may listen to his wealth
Iropplng to the earth around him. In
'act, it la necessary to exercise care in
valking among the trees to avoid bav
ng one's skull fractured by the de
scending fruit.-Boston Globe.
?featest Aatomohlls Time.
A French Journal ia authority for the
itatement that the best record for
ipeed by an automobile bi held by the
ieantaud electric vehicle, which has
pone a kilometer In 38.45 seconds, or a
nile in 58 seconds approximately. The
>est performance for a petroleum mo
orcycle bi a kilometer in 57.35 seconds
ind ?or a petroleum carriage 1 m?nate
ind il seconds, or In the neighborhood
if a mjJe tn iy? minutes.
CASTOR IA
For Infanta ?Ad Children.
r?8 Kind Yes Have Alwajs
Bears tho
Signatura of
- With plenty of water and with?
mt solid food, a horse will live 25
lays ; with solid food osd without
tater, ho will live only five doy a.
The Horseless Carriage. '
# -
Thc automobile, or horseless car
riage, is a fixture. That fact is gen
erally settled, for to day there arc ono I
million of dollars invested in their *
manufacture.
The idea of che horseless carriage is
probably as old as thc steam engine :
but it bus only been within thc pnst
few years that practicable road ma
chines have come into general usc.
The French people have made more
headway than anybody else along this
line. Until a short time ago, they
had pretty nearly thc whole field to
themselves; but within the past six
months, or such a 'natter, the Ameri
can inventors have jiadc strides that
indicate the leadership of tho world,
in another six months, of thc same
kind of work.
Throughout Franco, the country
roads arc almost uniformly as good as
arc tho streets in the more progressive
American cities, and furnish ideal
tracks for the automobiles. Races be
tween thc machinen of different mak
ers aro quito common, and 12 miles an
hour for a distanoo of 100 miles, or
more, is not at all unusual. Up to
the present time Mr. Charron, a
Frenchman, enjoys tho distinction of
being thc leading automobile manu
facturer of the world. His machines
range in price from $1,200 to about
$12.000.
Tho motivo power for the automo
biles is generated in different ways.
Electricity and compressed air have
both proved quite satisfactory; but
the ordinary steam engine, with pe
troleum for fuel, seems to give tho
best results. Electricity and com
pressed air aro kopt io storage reser
voirs capable of holding enough power
to run the machino from 6 to 12 hours
on a stretch. There is little for the
driver to do, except to regulate speed
by keeping his hand constantly on tho
throttle. The petroleum machines ?re
also pretty nearly automatic, and
gonerally moro convenient and desira
ble, for thc reason that fuel and water
are more easily obtainable at out of
the way places.
Hundreds of automobiles are to bc
seen daily on the streets of Now York
and other Northern cities. Several
Urge companies have recently been
organized to manufacturo them, and
companies have also beon chartered
for the purpose of operating them as
common carriers in most of the lead
ing cities of the country. It is ex
pected that where the roads are at all
suitable, the automobiles will soon do
away with horse vehicles, especially
for carrying passengers.
The most improved automobiles aro
equal to the task of climbing almost
any hill that is practicable for horses
and vehicles. They oan travel, too,
over pretty rough roads; but they are
liable tc ."tick ia the mud almost any
where. They require good roads, or
it is no go.
Thomas A. Edison has lately turned
his entire attention to thc automobile.
When he gives time to anything of
the kind, surprising results usually
follow. He is reported to have said
last week chat he would bo heard from
after a few weeks moro with some in
ventions that would come fully up to
expectations. He would not give any
intimation as to tho nature of prom
ised inventions; but he did say that
to be of praotioal valuo, an automo
bile must be noiseless, easy running,
oapable of going at least 150 miles
without being re-charged, and simple
enough to bo operated by a child. Ii
is safe to assume that it is a maohinc
of this kind that Mr. Edison propose?
to produce.
Thero hus been no automobiles dowi
in this corner of the oouiitry yet. It
will be a long time, too, beforo thej
put- in their appearance. Tho roads
generally, are too bad.
- Benny, the 4-year-old member oi
the family, had been trained to be
lieve in thc deep water form of bap
tism. This is bolieved to be tho rea
son why ho wua trying to plunge th<
household cr.t into a bucket of water
The animal resisted. It howled ant
scratched and clawed and used violen
language. Finally Benny, with hi;
hands oovered with scratches and wit!
tears in his eyes, gave it up. "Dan
you !" ho said, "Go and be a Metho
diB* if you want to !"
- AD Irish man-servant was dia
covered ia a lie. On being acoused b;
his master of stating what was not th
truth, he excused himself by saying
"Please, sur, I lost my prisenoe o
mind."
- A little girl who bad been ver;
ob se vant of her parents' mode of ex
bibil.ag their charity, ?hen asks
what generosity was, answered : "1
is giviog to the poor al) the old sta
that you don't wear yourself."
- The modern method of deny io
the engagement up almoBt to the di
of marriage seems to iadioate thi
neither party in wilting to take aa
ohanoes on having it said that the
were jilted.
- To apply a mustard plaster so i
not ?o blister the ?kin, mix the mu
tard with the white of an egg instead <
water. The plaster will draw tho
oughly without Mistering the mot
delicate skin
- Thc Orcf aland whale has a hes
a yard io dietuHt.nr
rne Hardshell Preacher and Saddle
bags Smith.
Whiskey docs harm and good. In
tho long ago thc people of Henry
bounty elected an old Hardshell Bap
tist proachcr for tax collector. He
preached the doctrine that whatever
svas to bo would bc, if it never was,
ind members of his Church must
?peak tho truth and pay their just
iebts, money or no money. In those
Jays the collector went from house to
house collecting taxes. Ho had col
lected about Sl,Ul>0, and had it in a
large pair of saddlebags thrown over 1 ;
the back of his saddle, and was riding : *
leisurely along, thinking of thc next 1
Sunday's sermon.
All at ouco he missed his saddle
bags. Ho retraced his steps for miles,
but no trace of his saddlebags could
be found. His friends aud neighbors
all turned out to help the old man look
for thc lost money. But not a trace
could ever bc fouud. His property
and that of bis bondsmen was al) sold
io make the loss good. His friends
expressed great sympathy for the old
man. Among tho number was ono
named Smith, who was more sympa
thetic than all others, bidding on the.
property as it was sold to the highest
bidder. Years passed by, and the loss
had been made good and the matter
had been forgotten.
Smith was a farmer, and was con
sidered honest, sober and a man of
good habits.
But he accidently got gloriously
drunk one day in Mcdonough, going
around shaking hands with his friends.
Ile came to tho old Hardshell preacher
and got him by thc hand, giving it a
hearty shake, saying:
"Brother, Gunter, 1 know where
your money is. It is every dollar in
your saddlebags up in my loft."
His statement was found to be true,
but his neighbors never ceased to rig
him about it and to call him Saddle
bag Smith.
The old Hardshell preacher consol
ed himself by saying it was foreor
dained that it wus to bc {just that way
to prove that whiskey does good as
well as harm. For all the old Hard
shell Baptists love their morning
dram.-Atlanta Journal.
- This is the greatest dairy county
in the world, yet in some of the older
European countries two or three times
SB much milk and cheese arc consum
ed per oapita as in the United States.
- Whilo there aro a good many
kinds of toads, all of them bring sud
den death to every bug or fly which
comes within their reach. We hear
a great deal about the value of birds
as insect destroyers; but it is doubtful
if the most industrious bird devours
as many insects in a year as the toad.
They are not attractive in appearance,
but we should never destroy one of
them.
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Roora 4? P. O. Building.
Thp Sixth Plague of Egypt.
Dr Sidney L. Theard, sanitary ofli
or of tho New Orleans board of health,
as made a study of charbon, the di?
ase which has killed so many mules,
torsos and cattle in Louisiana and
outhern Mississippi during the spring
ust passed, and which still prevails
<> an alarming extent. Ile has reached
li . conclusion that thc inoculation
Pith thc serum of an imuiui izec ani
. ? il is an absolute safeguard against
?o disease. Ile also states that all
?arts of thc bodies of animals that
lave died ol' charbon are actually poi
sonous, and says cremation of thc
jodies is imperative.
<ireat care must be exercised in
Handling animals sullering from thc
liseuse, as there are a number of in
stances of human beings contracting
t in that way. Only the other day a
nan died of the poison in Charity hos
pital in New Orleans, and several
)tliors similarly afflicted have been
mccessfully treated there this season.
Nor is tho disease confined to the
iouih. It has made its appearance
icar Chicago within the last two
nonths, and reports says it is preva
cnt among the cattle in parts of Iowa
md Wisconsin and in central Illinois.
Charbon has been known under vari?
ms names from tho earliest ages, and
>nc authority declares that it was the
lixth plague sent upon Egypt as a
punishment for tho obstinacy of Pha
roh in holding tho childron of Israel
tn bondage after bs had boen ooiii
nanded by ti od to lot them go. It is
lescribed by Homer in the first book
jf the Iliad, and Ovid gives a minuto
icscription of it in thc ninth book of
dis metamorphosis.
Tho majority of cases of charbon is of
miasmatic origin; that is, the spores
jf charbon. exist in thc soil. The
transmission from soil to animal may
occur by cautaneous inoculation, and
in a few hours tho germs have multi
plied so rapidly as to throw tho afflict
ed animal into a violent fever. It be
gins as a small, dark spot on which
soon appears a pustule or vesicle. It
sloughs and spreads rupidly, causing
violent fever and speedy death.
The ravages of tho disease in Loui
siana especially have been very disas
trous. Large plantations have been
Btripped of every horse and mule with
in a day or two, aud the profits of
years swept away, while small farm
ers have been ruined. - Mkmphi*
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Mr. and Mrs. B. Lackamp, Elston,
Mo., writes: "One Minuto Cough
Curo saved the life of our little boy
when nearly dead with croup."
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Notice of Final Settlement.
THE undersigned, Administrator of the
Estate of Mrs. S. J. Hunt, dee'd, hereby
sives not!oe that he will on the 3rd day
o? August, 1899, apply to the Judge of
Probate for Anderson County, S. CT, for
a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a
discharge from his office aa Administra
tor. Persons having claims against the
Estate should present them, and those
indebted should make payment before
the day of Final Settlement.
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