Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'CENTRIC B?M?NYI. jE FAMOUS VIOLINIST USED TO HIDE POR YEARS AT A TIME. Malurus Fairy Story Tunt tu? tbf0?u- ro,d n I'lttl* Glpl A,t*r ?m" "j m? l'erlodlcnl Jletlreniontii fru?? ???. ot Mi*n .jol,:ird Remeuyl, the famous violin j1 was nu eccentric genius iu more V- than <>ue, and ninny odd stories ^.'tuM of llls peculiarities. He was ;,i.:itfly fond of children and . . > I -ive to them many hours al V ? hen ho might have euipl >yed I'uL^U n> greater profit. One of the vll!ij,-itk's of his nature was to loso ' about ouce so often, and when I'A world had concluded that he was t'?tl frein shipwreck or hud been eut '] i,, cannibals lie would reappear. '"..l.-m-iHl, smlliug. ilddllug. It was '.l>1 til?; story had been current for j years that he aud his ship bad . ,,. ,'iown one stormy night off the \ ^nallan const that Lc came back ti? torlea ?nd visited old Chicago Jetais, among them the very dear V..<s that he held at the Virginia hotel. ? iliis circle of friends was a little 1 who had grieved over the suppos tV browning of the tiddler because he ,1 once played for her. When he re nu il. she was delighted, aud at their ?st meeting sue begged of Remeuyi ! ;l he tell her of his adventures. I... l.?wl K.jnn v.* hat ho hud sn!' 1 -od anil how he had escaped. This ?J dio story thnt he told her: My little friend." he said, "I was wt ?iii ip wrecked. ' I was standing on . dor lc of my ship with my dear fld . nuder my arm-you know I always t ,[> ii there, even wheu I sleep-and a wind came up, nnd 1 was blown or? tito ship into tho air. I thought I v is going to drop Into the ocean and v, iiilil thereafter have to liddle for the , .-hes. but the wind was so strong that j carried right along until I came , . ,;r Wirrawilla land. You don't know wjiero that ls. but I will tell you that ?t is in Australia, and my ship was off <i/; coast of the island when I was tnk . -. hy the wind. Over Wirrawilla land 1 vent in a great hurry, still hugging :J . ?iddlo and thinking of you and the y friends who would wonder what . inn: of me. I blew past Arundel j,: in and the Turret mountains and v. ne into si great place of mountains ar. l desert. The wind suddenly slopped, but not ?i- quick but what I came gently down w earth right among a lot of people w!io were black and who were so tall tint I could scarcely see their faces I looked up. They did not un it ?stand my language, although I spuke to them in every tongue I knew, bat when I took up my liddle and <h<;\v the bow across the strings they ali smiled. I thought I would try the Willer of the Dee' on them, so I gave tl.i in a few bars, and they were quito tickled. I was quite sure they would nc* kill me or oat mo up. Anyway s. ii a little, old. bald headed man as I si.-i would not make good eating. They n.ado signs to me, and I followed them .:; luto the mountains nntil we came tc a high place on which there was a tl rune. *and on this throne sat a black ti.iiti. who. 1 afterward learned, was 18 feet and 10 Inches in height. Hy the side of this man stood a fid Ah which wns ten feet high and which !;. <l a bow nine feet and eight inch es loug. The strings on this Addle w rc as thick as your wrist, and the bridge was made of pure lvory~so nore that thc sunlight came through it ID all colors. .Thc big fellow sitting on t!.-e throne -ras a king, and I was pin? ai ? before him. Wc could not talk to . ;. h other, l>ut he tinotloned that 1 si .nhl play qn my liddle, and I did thc br>t I knew how. Never did any one ... ..i- hear me play so sweetly or so w? ll. I was very proud of my playing, i ami you know 1.have a right to think ?hat I am the best fiddler even that'I yon over bearii. When I had done, the j big king said nothing, but he got out vi his throne and, stooping down, plck <*<! nu? up and put me In it. Then he bh-ked up his bow and struck a chord on his fiddle--thc great fiddle so mon strous that its Uko exists nowhere else. Ali, I thought I could fiddle! But H at fellow. Ile made tho mountains tremble, the clouds -stopped moving, d.: sun wiggled In its course, animals i^ade no noise, and nil the land was lilied with music. When ho touched softly, you could hear the summer rain falling on the leaves, smell the flowers in tho forest, henr brooks laugh, feel U.c gentle wind. He was a monstrous P'aycr. and I, Rcmcnyl. knew that I TC s not a tiddler-not ns he. Well, he kept me there 3 years and - days; nnd we carno lo understand ?sch other, and If bc didn't enjoy my idling I did his'nnd learned many lit tle tricks, which I bavo brought back with mo and which you shall see In time. When 1 left him, I told him tho? 1 would coule back some day, and T M. but not for many years, I fear. ?.any years. But such a,fiddle as he . ..d and such a bow and such music. :'3a glad tho rest of the world does not .l iiow of ..him, dear, else they would ?' vcr caro to hear mo fiddle again." . Is lt true?" asked the little giri, her v os almost popping ont of ber head. Just ns true," said Remenyl. "as I' at - I' was shipwrecked, eaten up. .nrned at tho stake or bung."-Chicn V Times-Herald. Corn Umps Ruined. iapt. IX J. Griffith, superintendent, thu penitentiary, returned from the *late farm yesterday and tolls of a . ul stato of affairs on the bottom lands - ~ tho DeSanssure farta. Tho yoting '..rn on 250 acres haB been completely .' Htroyed by worms, bugs and. other I 'jsts. He brought back a number of specimens of stalks mined by tho dep -'-'dations of tho worm. Tho stalks arc 'ate? almost through hud tho leaves "re shredded. A few a?res on. tho Reid farm have vufcred In Uko manner and a number of neighboring farmers state that their .vottom limda have usen visited by the -eats. Tho uplands have fared better, nd for this reason Capt. Griffith thinks ac vermin germinated in the spring rcshots which flooded tho lowlands. >** State, July 0. - Worry nover. eures an ovii ; but ?i sometimes roltovcs tho monotony bf A SINGLE HAIR. li Led to the Arrest anti C'unTlcttOB of M 1'oMtnl Thief. "The le???t tiling I ever beartl ol that l?ut ti man ?ti prison was thu clew that took tue over tho road between here und New York about a dozeu times lu 187o, wheu I was au inspector lu the postal service." said an old sleuth the ot lier day to another who had just told a good story. "lt vas au old ease, lt had beeu ou the books a loug while. Four or ?vo good inen had taken a try at it, but thc fellow was too sly, and lie kept taking letters, and we could never take him. The complaints pointed pretty closely to the spot where the trouble was, but when we got there we were completely baffled. "I had myself worked ou the job a little and gone at something else, lu all these detective cases it is in niue times out of ten a mere chance that leads to success. One day I happened to take out of u pigeonhole lu my desk a buuch of decoy letters that had beeu seut over the line to catch this sharp rascal, who was robbing Washington people of their remittances to Now York. Somehow I slid ray kulfe through the sealed joints of an en velope, and there, caught in a corner, was a short black hair. The Hap of the envelope looked as if it had not Veeu meddled with. Yet it hail been ?pened, nud a dollar bill duly marked had been taken out and the envelope sealed up and put back in the mail. ' I took the hair up as carefully as if it had been a diamond I had found. 1 knew that just across Seventh street was a friend of mine, now dead, who had a powerful microscope. 1 rushed up to his office and asked him to let mo use his instrument a moment. Under the glass the hair seemed to be one from u man's mustache. I looked at it si long while, and so did my friend. We agreed that it was a whiskor, sure enough, and I was comblent it w**s a piece of the thief we wanted to catch. If we had stopped there aud gone af t??r Lim we should have failed again us completely ns ever before. To niake assurance doubly sure I went to an optician, and he put the hair under the most powerful microscope he had. Al most without hesitation he said: 'This is not a black hair, but a red oue dyed black. It is red nt the end.' "I looked for myself,and sure enough It was so. I went bnek to the office, put my desk in order, got nil the data In this case, and that night started over the line to New York once more. Wo were satisfied tho thief worked be tween Philadelphia and Now York, so I took it easy until I got to the Dela ware river. Then I got down to busi ness. I saw every man that handled through pouches from there on to New York, and I took a mental photograph of every mustache In the service be tween Philadelphia and New York. I looked for black mustaches nnd for red ones, and I was especially interested lu any that had the least sign of being dyed. At Trenton I found a red mus tache, but I went on to the end of the route still looking for another of that shade. I found none. That chap was my man. I came back home and for n week played toss and catch with him, sending through his hands perhaps 50 decoy letters, some with stamps In them, some with $1 bills and some with money orders. In less than two weeks we had him, and he went over the road for two years and eight-months, and the trouble stopped. "lt all began with my finding that one little stubby hair in the corner of that envelope."-Washington Star. Oda iii'erauu? of V. ?&?i??io. The hardest worked washerwomen lu the world are the Koreans. They have to wash about a c"->zen dresses for their husbands, and inasmuch as every man wears pantaloons or drawers so baggy that they come up to his neck ?ike those of a clown, they have plenty to do. The washing is usually done In I cold water and often in running streams. The clothes aro pounded with i paddles until they shine like a shirt ! front fresh from a Chinese laundry. The Chinese rip their garments apart j for every washing, and they iron their I clothes by spreading them on a flat board and leaning this up against the house to dry. The sun takes the wrin ? kies out of dry clothes, and some of them have quite a luster. The Japanese woman does her wash ing out of doors. Her washtub ls not more than six Inches high and Is about as big around as thc average dishpan. She sometimes uses Japaneso soap, which ls full of grease, and works away with her bare feet Thc Chinese girls do their washing in much the same way.-Kansas City Journal. An Artificial Silver Mine. in one corner of tho meltlDg room as the New Orleans mint Is a large Iron tank in which tho newly cast silver bars are dropped, hissing, to cool off. At the end of a hard day's work the surface of thc water shows a faint rainbow hued scum, like the metallic luster of stagnant poola, seen near a dyehouse. It comes in part from mi croscopic flakes of silver that have scaled off In the cooling. Tho water, wheu changed, runs down a pipe that terminates in thc bottom of a cistern, which contains a layer of mud a couple of feet deep. As thc water seeps up and through, the mud acts as a filter and catches the particles of precious sliver metal, so in time It becomes an ?artificial silver mine. Once every quar ter the stufe is scooped out and passed through n reduction process. Thc re? snit Is a silver brick, worth maybe $50. -New Orleans Times-Democrat. Her Mean Amusement. "I lovo to make visits In thc morn ing." "Do, yon?" "Yes. All the other women are busy cleaning house, and it is so funny to see them try to act glad to see me." Detroit Free Press. "I have u3cd Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my family for years ana always with good results," says Mr. W. B. Cooper, of El Rio, Cal. "For small children wc find it especially effect vc." For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - Flies seem to know that a red loosed man ?B liable to make something with sugar in it at any moment. - A man is always busy attending to his own affairs whop thoro is an un paid piece of work to be performed. Staise Fright. "I wish I could discover some practi cal cure for stag*? fright.'" remarked a member of oue ot' the dramatic compa nies now playing in this city, "I have been in the business for nearly 'Ju years, aud one would naturally suppose that anything like mere timidity in fac ing au audience would have worn off too long ago to talk about. Hut it hasn't, stud the worst of it is thai tin? j confounded panic is certain to seize mc j nt some unexpected moment. The most ; trivial-incident will bring it on. "For example, 1 was standing in the wings one night und read s. paragraph in si serstp ot' newspaper about si man who had lost his memory. It turned out to be au advertisement, but I couldn't get the story out of my mind, stud the first thin? I knew I was wondering whether 1 wasn't going to forget my lines. Thc more 1 brooded ove:* it the more anxious I became, and sit hist I worked myself into si really pitiable condition. When tho cue came for my entrance, I was HO badly seared that my knees knocked together, stud I felt persuaded that I would make si hash of all my longer speeches. Of course ?lie feeling soon wore off, stud inside ol' Ave minutes there wasn't si vestige of it left, but it was certainly agony while it lasted. "In ail ?ny experience I have never j encountered a single actor who was entirely immune ft om stag?? fright, anti some of the very best of them have it to an extent that is simply Incredible. Why, I have seen bitr. robust men shed ding tears of pure terror and declaring they would faint if they tried to go on. If some fellow would invent st panacea for the malady he would gel richer than the Rothschilds before the end of ? another season."-Heston Journal. A Wine Olil Gobbler. A farmer living in Hartford county has for many years very often Invited' the preachers of a Sunday to take din ner with him, and, of course, as all preachers are very fond of fowls, his wife would have some killed and pre pared for dinner. Ami, strsin;;e to say, but nevertheless true, all lils old gob blers and roosters by some tnestns could tell a preacher by his looks, and just as soou as a preacher drove up to the house the old gobblers sind roosters would call all their families to hide un der the big burn and stay there until the preachers left. Hut upon one oc casion two preachers drove up, anti uo turkeys or chickens could he found any where. Rut after dinner one of the preacher? left and the old rooster carno out and flopped his wings and told his family that the preachers were gone, but thc old gobbler was not satisfied and poked his head out and said, "Doubtful, doubtful, doubtful." That was the first time that I ever knew that any of the dumb creation could count, as the old gobbler was certain that two prestchers bad driven to the house.-Forest and Stream. lawn Aaalnat Beanrara. Begging was a capital offense in England in the days of Henry VIII, when the laws were very severe against beggars, and, under a statute passed In that reign, any one caught begging for the first time, being nei ther aged nor infirm, was whipped at the cart's tail. If caught a second time, his ear was silt or bored through with a hot iron. If caught a third time, he suffered death as a felon, un less some honest person having ?10 in goods or 40 shillings in land or some householder approved by tho justices would take the offender into his serv ice for two years, entering into a bond of ?10. So the law of England remain ed for CO years. First enacted by Hen ry VIII, lt continued uurepealed through tiie reigns of Edward anti Mary. Reconsidered under Elizabeth, the snme law was again formally pass ed, the two legislative houses thereby expressing their conviction that it was better for a man not to live at all than to live the life of .a beggar. Where the Compasa Came From. The earliest references to the use of thc mariner's compass are to be found In Chinese history, from which we learn how in the sixty-fourth year of the reign or Hoaug-ti (2034 B. C.) the emperor attacked Tchi-yeon on the plains of Tchou-lou and, finding his armj' embarrassed by a thick fog raised by the enemy, constructed au Instrument fer indicating thc south, se as to distinguish the four cardinal points, and was thus enabled to pursue his adversary and capture him. The power of the loadstone to com municate polarity to iron ls said to bo for the first time explicitly mentioned In a Chinese dictionary, finished in A. D. 121, where the loadstone is defined as "a stone with which an attraction can be given to the needle." The Chinese appear to have once navigated us far as india by the aid of the cam pass.-Kansas City Times. Hadrard Kipling's Error. I wrote to Kipling, telling him that a man who could write as he could should go home to England, to Lon don, where fame could be won, but he replied In a characteristic letter which may be published some day: "You ought to know better at your time o' lifo than to knock a youngster off his legs in this way. How do you expect any one will be able to hold rae after your letters? "Would you be astonished if 1 told you than I look forward to nothing but an Indian journalist's career? Why should I? My home's herc, my people are out here, all the friends I know are out here, and all the interests I have are out here. Why should I go home? Any fool can put up rhymes, and the market ls full of boys who could undersell me as soon as I put my foot in lt."-Literature. Extreme Optimism. "Pa, what is au extreme optimist'.'" "An idiot who fancies he'll find his wife asleep at 2 a. m."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. For Infants and Children. Tba KM You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of - Energy sometimes brings success, but success always brings energy. - There is only one sudden death among women to eight among men. FEMININE ABILITY WASTED. Thc "Mu h. I np, of n (loud Poker Player. Foollnu !> XenriilBlilrrt Mun. "lt has loug bera a pet theory of mile that woman is naturally a hot ter poker player than man." saiil Colo nel King. "aud as a devoted admirer of both the sex ami the game 1 feel that l am qualified t?'. express tliis opinion. 1 atn aware tliat most poker players allege timi it is ns dltficult for a woman to play poker ns to throw a stone. I eau recall two women who could Mutt tue to a standstill and nev er wink au eyelid. Men are not in ii when it comes to binding with a wo man. lt ts natural in her and acquired in us. Let me tell you a Pout my friend. .Mrs. Smith. "She would make a crackajack poker player If she wotdd only try the ?ame. She illustrates what I have said about binding, because ?lie is an Innocent lit tle thing, hardly 'JO years old, and she I hasn't hail time to acquire anything except a husband. I knew her father when bc was in my regiment, and I have kept track of her ever nineo she was 5 years o! '.. Her father was our surgeon major, and a lino fellow, with a leaning toward botany and sm h tilings. In recent yeats he has grown nearsighted. II?? will do anything for his daughter, and she works him beau tlfully. Ile and I were dining with the Smiths after their marriage last win ter, aud the major said: Ttl.\ dear, ?'ii?t lorn which you have on the table ls a disgrace. Why don't you get something really good?' '* 'Can't afford lt just now,' said Mrs. Smith suggestively. "'Well, 1 will got it for you.' said the major. "Mrs. Smith then told of a beautiful fern which she had seen at Blank's hothouse to he soltl for $12. 1 don't know anything about those things, but wheu she described the fern to the ma jor he sahl it was just what she should have, and ho gave her the money lo buy it. When he dined with Hie Smllhs again, the fern was lu the center of the table, and the major peered at it through his glasses and told her that she had ii bargain. Before he left the table Mrs. Smith put a tablespoonful of water on the fern, and the major poured ou a little more from his glass. " 'Not too much water, you kuow. and the fern will thrive,' he said. "13very night when wc dined at the Smiths the major took delight in pour ing a little water on his fern, as he called it, ami one night last week he said casually: " *It !s odd that that fern hasn't ?rown since you got it. It looks healthy, nnd it should have thrown out a new leaf or two.' " *Oh, lt has grown a lot.' sahl Mrs. Smith, and if I had not caught a sus picion of a smile on ber husband's face I would not have noticed the remark. It set me thinking. I dou't know any thing about ferns, but I have pretty good eyes. I looked closely at this one, and as we left the table I felt of it. When I had an opportunity, I said to Mrs. Smith: " 'I've ea lied your bluff.' " 'What bluff, colonel V she said, look ing as If she had never heard the word before. . ."The fein.' ?aid 1. 'Ifs artificial. and it isn't a good make believe, either. Letting your poor old father put water on lt, tot?! What are you going to do about lt?" "She showed her ha ml at this call. The a rt I tiela I tern cost her ?pl. and with the other $11 she bought gloves. " 'Don't give nie away.' she said, 'and ?iitiiOT Will ?t>l li?u'iV mfi ri'fi?rr. '"What will you do to persuade him that it is growing';' " 'I'll buy a little larger one in a few weeks.' "Wo dined there last night again, and as Mrs. Smith and tho major each generously put a little water on this ar tificial fern I thought to myself 'What a great poker plc; er that girl might become!' I hate to see such ability wasted ou fooling a nearsighted man, but perhaps Mrs. Smith wouldn't bo as interesting if she did play poker. How ever, she illustrates my theory, and there are others."-New York Suu. Prompt' Agreement. "Only a fool would agree with a wo man!*' ho asserted angrily. "Precisely!" she replied.-Chicago Post. - An immense whiskey trust, which will control?15 per cent, of the output in the United States, with a working capital of $125,000,000, has been or ganized in New York. A Wife Says: "Wehave four children. With the fini three I suffered almost unbearable pains from 12 to 14 hours, and had to be placed un def the influence of chloroform. I toed three bottles of Mother's Friend before our last child came? which is a strong, fat and healthy boy, doing my housework up to within two hours of birth? and suf fered but a few hard pains. This lini ment is the grand est remedy ever made." Mother's Friend will do for every woman what it did for tba Minnesota mother who writes the above kt? ter? Not to use it during pregnancy is a mistake to bc paid for in pain and suffering* Bother's Friend equips the patient with a ftrpng body anti dear mte?ect, which ia turo Axe imparted to th*: chili. It relaxe? the muscles and allows them to expand* Il relieves morning sickness and nervousness* it puts all the organs concerned in perfect condition tor the final hour, so that the actual labor is short and practically painless. Dan* ger of rising or hard breasts is altogether avoided, and recovery ts merely a nutter of a few days. Druggists ?ell Mothcr'a Friend for SI e hettie. Tte Bradfield Jtc^ulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. ul. Seed for oar free Utastratod book. New Methods in Advertising. Hallway companies arc adopting new j ami unique methods of advertising, as is demonstrated by thc publication in the four Track Series of the New York Central Hoad, of what is now becoming widely known and somewhat famous, "A message to (Jarcia," by Klbert Hubbard, of thc Phillistinc Magaziu?, which itself is a peculiar I and interesting publication as relating I to magazines of the present day. This article is attracting widespread attention, and has been answered by a | writer in ' The Mirror," published at St. Louis, under date of .lune 1">, 1 SI ?? ?. entitled "A Mess-age to Hubbard," which gives thc other side of the American employe. Thc Southern Hallway, the leading Southern system,spreading from Wash ington to the Mississippi Uiver, and grid-ironing the South, and the only line to ' The Land of the Sky ' section of wester.u North Carolina, has also issued a publication out of the ordi nary, in the shape of an attractive booklet entitled ''A Night on Mount Mitchell," by Henry Litchfield West, one of thc leading editorial writers of thc Washington Post, a paper widely i and favorably known for thc ability displayed in its editorial and political j columns. This story is a description j of an ascension to the very top of I Mount Mitchell, which is thc highest j mountain peak cast of thc Hooky I Mountains, and Mill feet higher then I Mount Washington, upon which has ! been erected a monument to Professor I Mitchell, after whom thc mo- ntain is ? named. The story is replete with interest, and thrilling in detailing a trip which may bc taken by any traveler for health or pleasure, and runinds one of Tal madgc'8 description of Lookout Moun tain, when he stood upon its heights and delivered the following oration, which is reproduced for its graphic description of a location famous in American history : "The carriage wound its way up. up, up. Standing there on thc tip-tip rock, I saw live States of thc Union. Scenes stupendous and overwhelming. One almost is disposed to take off his hat in the presence of what seems to be thc grandest prospect of this con tinent. There is Missionary llidge, the beach against which the red bil lows of Federal and Confederate cour age surged and broke. There are the blue mountains of North and South Carolina. With strain of vision, there is Kentucky, there is Virginia. At our feet, Chattanooga and Chicka mauga, the pronunciation of which proper names will thrill ages to come with thoughts of valor and despera tion and agony. Looking each way, and any way, from thc top of that mountain, earthworks, earthworks the beautiful Tennessee winding along through the valley, curling and coil ing around, making letter "S" after letter "S," as if that letter stood for shame, that brothers should have gone into massacre with each other, while God and nations looked on. I have stood on Mount Washington, and on thc Sierra Nevadas, and on the Alps, but I never saw so far as from the top of Lookout Mountain." Copies of this booklet and other interesting publications on "Thc Land of the c,-y" section and "Lookout Mountain" may bc obtained from W. A. Turk, General Passenger Agent, Southern Hail way, Washington, D.C. mm? m am* Mountain Lion's Feelings. "People who imagine that animals haven't got feelings don't know what they arc talking about," said the Yel lowstone Park guide as he sat cleaning his rifle. "I was cutting a trail around one of thc spoutin' springs one day. and, gettin' warmed up, 1 threw my coat over thc end of a log. By and by I went off to hunt for a drink of water, and it was perhaps half an hour before I returned to my work. "When I came up it was to see a whalin' big mountain HOB crcepin* along to spring on thc coat. It was over thc log in a way to make it look like a man stoopin' down, and thc lion was uicely deceived. Ile skulked up to within eighteen feet of the log. crouched flat for a moment and laid back his ears, and then he made two jumps of it. Greased lightnin wasn't in it with that critter. It was like a big ball of fur shot from a cannon, and as he flew he uttered a screech which brought my hair on end. If that coat had been a man he wouldn't have had time to say gum. The lion lit down on it with claws and teeth ready for business, and in five seconds thc gar ment was cut into carpet rags. "Then he realized thc cheat, and you never saw a human bein' look so foolish. His tail went down to the earth, the fire died out of his eyes, and he'd have given $40 for some ono to kick him up bill. His chagrin was B> plain that I laugbed right out, and that broke his heart. He looked at me and whimpered like a puppy, and when I asked if his mother knew he was out he fetched a sort of sob in his throat and sneaked oif like a dog caught killing sheep. If I could have run fast enough to have oaught him by the tail he wouldn't have even looked back. He knew he had made a fool of himself, and he wanted to go off and hide and Jh a ve a long think." l u reliable. The author of "Little .Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" tells a story of the Civil war, when the days dragged gloomily in anticipa tion of nows from the front and when ? grief was likely to overtake any who had boys iu the ranks. He says . One night the postmaster was read ing aloud the names of the killed at Gettysburg, and he ran down to the name of a youth he kuc\ . The boy's I father sat there on a nail keg, chew I iug u straw. The postmaster, for his j sake, tried to shuhMe over the name ! and hurry to the next. "Hi!" said thc father. . " Wha-what'.? I that you said ?" There was nothing to do but face the issue, and the postmaster repeated with a forced calmness : "Killed-Snyder, Hiram." The boy's father stood up with a jerk. Then he sat down. Then he stood up again, staggered to thc door and fumbled for the latch like a blind man. "<?od help him !" said the postmas ter, wiping his eyes with his red hand kerchief. 'He's gone to tell the old TC nu i The minister preached a funeral ser mon for the boy, and on the little pyramid that marked the family lot iu thc buryiug ground they carved thc inscription : j '"Killed in honorable battle, Hiram j Snyder, aged 10." Not long afterward strange, yellow bearded men in faded blue began to arrive, (?rcat welcomes were given them, and many a big gathering was i held in their houor. At one such gathering a ghost appeared-a lank, ' saffron ghost, ragged as a scarecrow, wearing the cape of a cavalryman's overcoat, with no coat beneath. The apparition was a youth ol' about 20, with a downy beard all over his face and a countenance well mellowed with coal soot, as he had riddemsev eral days on thc top of a freight car near thc engine. Thc ghost was Hi ram Snyder. Wc forgave him tho shock of 6iir prite he had caused us-all except tho minister who had preached his funeral sermon. Years afterward I beard thc minister remark in a solemn aud ag grieved tone : "Hiram Snyder is a man who can not be relied upon.'' An Age of Falsehood. ATLANTA, GA., July 15.-Bishop Morrison spoke from tho pulpit of the Kirat Methodist church to-day to the Freemasons of Atlanta. In the course of his sermon the bishop said : "It has seemed to me of iate that the pres ent is an age of insincerity, an age of falsehood and thc status of society and of our business life will bear me out. Thousands of mon will not tell thc truth unless they know they can make something by it Thc moral de- ? cay of the present agc is due to this disregard for truth. Lies are put up in packages, scot out in barrels and hung on hooks. Men are justifying themselves with thc fact that thoir acts arc common. "That embalmed beef scot to Cuba is uo worse than we get to-day. I be lieve that thc large death list in this country which is daily growing great er, is due directly to tho dishonest adulterations of thc food which goes io the homes of our country. The whole commercial world is honeycomb ed with untruthfulness, and the inor dinate love of money which has taken hold of our people is at thc bottom of it. "There aro men in Atlanta to-day who have been running to money so long that while their wealth is five times as great as formerly their repu tation and their influence for good in the community is more than five times as small as it was before." Sheriff Kills Ills Deputy. rou MUJA, S. <.., July ti.-At thc jail door in Union yesterday Sherift'J. G. Long, who has held that office for many years, fired both barrels of a shotgun at .). (i. Gnllnmn, his deputy sheriff anti life-long friend. Ono load of buck shot entered tho side and tho other took effect in thc throat, both tearing big holes and producing instant der There had noyer liccit any qua.n between thc mon; they had been f ric" long before Gnllnmn became dopi but it seems that tho deputy had Lu drinking, and when Sherift'Long as5 him what ho was going to do, answ?-* that it was none of his business. L> m ade some sharp response, and G y man drew his pistol. Thc sheriff, -a was standing in his door, stepped 1 and got a shotgun from" tho corie Comihtf to tho door again, with y weapon ready, ho fired both barrel d quick succession at close range. *8 It is said the deputy had a dango] temper. ,n A coroner's jury returned a ve^'? of justifiable homicide. --.~m~m- Ot DeWitt's Little Early Risers botJ? permanently. They lend gentle av ance to nature, causing no pain\ weakness, permanently curing e patton and liver ailments. I Pharmacy. ! ry. - Not ono drop of in toxica tiiffif quor is allowed to bc sold at ai to the military camps of Canada. n^ - China plates, cups and sap must never be piled up when ho the heat causes tho glaze to crack i - The fifth centennial of tho birth of Gutenberg, tho inventor of the printing press, will bc celebrated at Mainz in MOO, and tho elaborate plans for the event arc already concluded with Teutonic completencss. WINE Of CAROL I bat? demonstrated ten thousand times that lt is almost infallible FOR WOMAN'S PECULIAR WEAKNESSES. irregularities and derangements. It huH become, the loading remedy for thia class of troubles, lt exerts a wonderfully healing, strength ening and soothing innuenco upon tho menstrual organs. It cures *'whites" and falling of thc womb. It stops flooding ana rolieves sup pressed and painful menstruation. For Chango ot Lifo lt is tho best medicine made. It ls benciicial during pregnancy, and helps to bring children into bornes burren for years. It invigorates, (stimu lates, atrongtbens tho whole sys tem. This great remedy is offered to all afflicted women. Why will any woman suffer another minuto with certain rollet within reach? Wino ot Cardui only costs $1.00 per bot t lo at your drug Btore. For advice, in oases requiring special directions, address, giving symptoms, tho "Ladies1 Advlsori/ Department," Tho Chattanooga Medicino Co., Chat tanooga, Tenn. Rsv. J. W. SMITH, Camden, S.C., says: ''My wife used Wins of Cardui at homo tor tailing s? ??t) uomt md It sn??rs'j cured nor." WIME Of CAR ii ki i W. G. McGEE. SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE]-^ront ll ?ur, over Farmers and Merchants Hank ANDERSON, fe. C. Voh, (i 1898 88 THE BEST BREAD C1AN olwrtVH bo mado from that doli j eiouB Fresh Home-made Yeast ot' Mrs W. H. Simpson'*, as hundreds of ladies will testify. Can be found fresh at all times at the Afore nf Try lt. .INO M. PATKIOK. May .".1, 1S!>!' 4f> 4 FOR SALE. lOO CITY LOTS-$.-)0.00 to S'J,5lMl. Four or ?ve well located, nioely built modern Houses. I am the only up-to date Real Katata man in town. PAUL E. AYER, Beal Estate Agent. Room 4, P. O. Building. DR. J. H. BURGESS. DENTI8T. IN Pendleton every Monday, Tuesday aud Wednesday ; At Clemson College evsry Thursday, Fridav and Saturday. April 2(>,lo00_44_Gm Notice of Final Settlement. TH R undersigned, Administrator of the Estate of Mrs. 8. J. Hunt, deo'd, hereby alvan notice that he will on the 3rd day of Auguat, 1801), apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County, 8. C., for a Final Roulement of said Estate, and a discharge from bis o??oe as Administra tor. Persona having claims against the Estate should present them, and those indebted should make payment before the day of Final Settlement. W. T. HUNT, Adm'r. Jane 28, 1809 _1_ .. G rTfWn^ COPYRIGHTS AC. Anyone sanding n sketch and description ms? " nicki jr nsccrtnin our opinion freo whether am invention ls probnbly patentable. Communies, tiunsBtricMy confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free, Oldest ugency for securing patents. Patent? taken through Munn A Co. re?oive special notice, without charge, In the Scientific American. A handsomely IVnstrated weekly. Lsrireit cir culatlon of any sclentiOa Journal. Terms. S3 a year : f oar months, fl. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN seo.38"T*"* Kew York _Branch Offloe. 625 F SU Washington, D.C. CHARLESTON AND WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY. AUGUSTA ANO ASHEVILLE8BORT LIN ES In effect May 21,1809. Lv Augusta...I 9 40 ami 1 40 pm Ar Greenwood. ll CO ami.?M... &r?rj&upn....vum....Irr?- ' 610 nm There will be n Sunday School Mass coting of Starr and Iva Circuit hold Smith's Chapel, August r>-0. Public vitcd. The following is the pro am : 10 a. m.-Religious exercises. 10.15-Song service lcd by Prof. J. T. ilford. 10.80-Reports from Sunday Schoola r Superintendents. 11 a. m.-Sunday School address by an. A. C. Lu ti mer. Intermission for dinner. 2 p. m.-Singing, conducted by Prof? T. Milford. 3.80 p. m.-Relation of pastor to Sun* ,y School, by Rev. S. ll. Harper. ? p. m.-Opening of query box and neral discussion. Selection of place for next meeting? Sunday at ll a. m., sermon to Sunday hoolR by pastor, O. M. Abney, B. Dm Let all the teachers anti officers o? inday Schools be present. O. BI. ABNEY, P. C. -- A wife should never conceal any ing from her husband-except her nits.