Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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191 AFew Odd Happen! jj War.iick James Prici When tho past year was young, a farm hand near St. Paul drank a small bottle bf nitroglyc?rine on a wager. On the} pay home he was overcome by the cold, and when MB friends tried to thaw him out, he lost -hts win nings .and everything else save two buttomi. Until the first frost there were to be seen on a tree near Kingston-ou Thames, England, several semi-roast ed apples. An anio had caught fire beneath the branohes and the fi?mes had cooked the fruit while destroying the oar. Last February tue herrings came down Departure Bay, B. C., in ouch numbers that their rush through the waters sounded ?ike escaping steam. - This lasted 21 hours, st tho end of which time nearly 1,0GO tons of fish were in and near the channel, dead smothered by their own density? LIP?B'B LITTLE 1EONIE8. Gen. DoketourofiV runniog up stairs to thank the minister of war for order ing him to tho front (ho had begged to be allowed to dio a soldier's death), was claimed by heart disease on the top step. j The only essay entered for tho mby noel prizo offered by'the Parisian Academy of Moral and Political. Science?; did not receive the award as it was too illegible to he read.: Sir Alfred Harmsworth offered $500 reward for information which might lead to the arrest of a certain reckless notoriety who turned out to be Sir Alfred's brother. Dying in poverty ia a San Francisco hospital,I Lusoomb Soaroa received word that the British government had just allowed his claim of $5,000,000 arising from loases during the Boer war.. ? THE GENTLEE 8EX. ' Io October, Mrs. Ella .Goltz, of Pcrtsasouth, O., swore out a warrant for a oir?ua elephant, v?hioh had eaten her gold watch and smashed in a brand-new Paris hat; A Cologne dairymaid was arrested for bathing herself daily in th? milk she later sold. A negress, living near. Atlanta, Gs., has to haye her shoes made to order. Finished fbey a?A*23 inches, long and . -'A Jane bride entered a groo cry store at Fort FairSeld, Mo., te. bay "an empty barrel of flour that she might make a hencoop forhordog. .WHAT'S IN A NAME. To commemorate the year's yellow fever epidemic a New Orleans cou plo named ?heir baby Stegomyia Soiata Wilson, i '?O?d Tabby;^' ohief of a tribe of Utah /Indians', died in Oetober of a cataleptic fit. ^ '<'.'/?' of 3feE*s* now poetoffioes. There ars irrigation works there. At a wedding in Poplar, England, the bride's name was Wedlock, and the bridegroom's Marriage. ^ : ?otra EOUB toarvp FRIENDB. -? Baring a Manchurian engagement a Ja^aneie officer ie! wandering lost between tho oppos ing lines. It carno to; whistle and was at once aileetbnuto. Later,;when the, charge sounded, .the dpj^ started forth with hie new friend; but as it oonld tucked it under his arm and so loci his mon io;vict?^:;, A eat belonging to ^bo Duchess%of Beaufort, being taken to a country neat other : thanet beeiabcfn,; turned; baofc "?orne,'' 'af.ter 'tw'frunhappy d?ys^ovoring- the 2?? intervening miles in safety. A. v^ran^jk>ltee ?horse (Oetober 28thX0lipn^ Forty-fourth streat,;New York, and . thumped with behoofs On the door, helping arouse the Bleeping toaaeis of , An ;?u8tra?ian deteoUv? died ia Aprilr idi?iaing a ^OO? prof into six shares seeming egur^ ' hi?si^ ^^.^jisiW?: tim ?J in WT?ings, ?ilaoe? In sealed lope?, the sU hoirs drawing them wit^ no clo? to tbe.oonteats, ,S|aron Bothaehity was named solo $55?;?G? on tho principi? tba* ..' " .muit.ae<& moacy.*.*;^ The fr?ren bu . ; ?fi Wj?' tba rWrtv?s of tho depart ? , gi^^t' my tbin^ id , . ftEi> XApy; Mm <rm LAW. .. Iftl^iw*ult et AkerdWf' Washy ings of tlie 3?ast Year, a, in Columbia State. attributed to a man ??to had hired it, the court decided tho animal had com mitted suicide. Traced by the impression of iii o t*?eth in a half-eaten apple, l?i't ia a house at Basie, Switzerland, ?a bur glar has confessed and been senten ced. In May the fatuous Stevens vs. Smith "cow case" was closed in Colo rado, with a total of $1,500 attorney's fees, pius court charge. The cow, worth only $30 in the first place, hss been dead 15 year*. COMPENSATIONS-. . Rudolph Maller, a* New York oivil engineer, was uncivil enough to hug Mies Gladys Chapman, overlooking tho fact that he did not know tho lady. The magistrate . thonght the embrace worth six months "on the Island," Because a revolver, whioh he had purchased to kill himself with missed fire, Paul Sohlardrum, of San Bernar dino, brought suit against the hard ware company for the prion of the weapon. Mrs. Lawson, of Richmond, Va., owns a cow and the cow owned a calf, hut this last was drowned in a swamp. Thereupon the bereaved mother adop ted a fawn, first rescuing it from a hound whioh had ohabed it into tho pasture. JUST LOVE. Three brothers were wedded to three 'sisters and sister of the brothers toa brother cf the sisters at Durren, Eng land j last September.; In oaoh of the four cases bride and groom were of the same age, ranging from 19 to 28. A yoong and. pretty Bellevue nurse dropped her stethoscope out of tho hospital window in May. It hit the shoulder of a masculino passer-by. The two' wera married in Jone. A couple were wedded in Herta* feld. Switzerland, after a courtship c? 45 years and the exchange of 3,000 love letters; while, down in Texas, a jilted swain has sued his once fair! lady for $30,000, oharging $5,000 to oburtship expenses-at $7 a day for his time. - \ HUH0B8 ' OF LIGHTNING. Near a small town in Minnesota, ilghtnicg struck an electric auto Whose batteries had run out. The stroke reoharged the batteries and the ocoupants of the machin? ran : it ?orne. \,_ i,, ? bolt struck the home of Kellar Creagen, at Ringgold, Md., running around his straw hat to above his left ear, then down the side of his ncok to the body, tearing the shirt collar, then down his sight leg, tearing the shoe in half and splitting the great toe. His: akin was scorched but his hair was not even singed. Tao ?hats;s?T5s c? the Castle, of 1 S5==?===;;^f s.H.vvj nwj Bivuug ia VJ chair when Strock by a bolt, She wee herself uninjured??'. but on the baok of her dress was found a per? feet pioture <>f the ohatr, to ita minn test detail. }.". BTU ANO ER TUAN FICTION. At th? very hour of the aa s* a Bin a tion of the Russian Grand )>ake Ser ging his god-daughter; in ..che Alexis ?J??ace, declares; ho-_ opened the door ot her room, eorere?; with bleeding wounds, and exclaimed: "Look, young Ember Meson, who lives near In dependence City, Mo., has b?iUt hie own coffin from a treo be planted when years; iajjo; while an Irish merchant wa^bnried in the spring, hie requie m ^ng f sung from a phonograph re cord he himself had made just before ter** Wi??^?^M v ; St. Louis attorneys found in Feb ruary a missiog heiress to an estate, through the continuous cries of a pet pa^t of the deeeased "I want to see ^4;?aifeiaiore^b>by^^; was:' the clue which k? iosuceosa io the1 city 'I 7 ./ JP??IiTUr Hf GBP BOtX8. ,. ; A&r?wn^Africang???c in #orib ?t i?eborb? '-Wooi^' anissa?v.?ip owner by ptoceoi?gau egg measuring 111 inches in circumference, while a- hen in O?ev?rton, Kegiand, waa ao extrava gant AB to indeda three yo?ke ia one shell.; : ||f?'J wes ?' : fortunato, for Mamie Gaul bad if?^^i^^ ^oaavjr:.'gti- ; ifoilu^^g^wd; of/the fool she; |jgj?*^' a} ! necklace ; sb o ;ht4 &?t two ??cgtoo, Maas., has a bea which lay? , ?igam?bearipg\ii?:i?f?foiti$fi- : Ott the shell. Every time tfciir fowl ^^ii?^Lllf-.- '6 es- " nl?trik?? " - ?ath4iri^|6^ I tnoWl?tion._ ; ' ; :' . TS?.Q?tM^.'lK I4TTL?5.. ? ? MI wight ' ?a well be dead ss alive, j' I've nothing to live for." AB a tramp on the ro&d near Lehigh, England, Baid this, hewaB etruok by lightning, dying instantly. During the einging of a patho tio song, picturing "the old home" Moones, a young nan in a Chicago theatre, ehot himself. (February.) Sent to bed in punishment for a lit j tie naughtiness, which, it transpired later ho did not commit, Harry Am bler, ? H-yoar-old London boy, hung himself. At Stoke-on-Trent, England, in Septombor, a Mr. Latham assisted in oaring for a boy killed by a dray. The face was bruised beyond recognising, j but a more thorough examination- of the body showed the resouer he had been working over his own eon. KAN8A8E6QUE. A Topeka girl, Mabel Huston, saved her fathers wheat erop from a threat* coing rain by giving huge and kisses as prises to the laborers woo shocked tho moat grain. Kansas has prohibited the printing cf ?i??? cards in any language save English, i .? The worst hail storm in tho histor] of the State visited the eastern conn tieB late in July. Tho stones, flat ii tili Oy?, were many of them ?2. inohe.< across. Hogs were killed,, and horse and co wo, blinded by the missiles siampod into the wire fenoing an? were badly out up. DF7BR8 DIVORCES. Abraham Leakin, a New Yor! tailor, brought action ia Jnly for di voroe from his wife Dvosi, allegin that "oho" io a man. They had bee married ll years. A Long island gentleman, whos wife had decided to establish ros dence in Sioux Falls that she mig! divoroe him, traveled West with h< as she was unaccustomed to g?it about alono--and didn't like to an; way. A Mandi* ?*er, England, meehan applied for jparation from his wi on 'tho ground of her -"goodness "8he ' puts in so much time pray i j for me," said he, "that she has i time for housework, an* I have to < the oookinV THE OLD FOLKS. Janies Barnes, aged 84, complet in September, the walk from Ni York to Des Moines, Iowa, while that same month, E. B. Barrett e ! of Wichita, Kan., climbed Pik I Peak, making the round trip in I nOQFS. . , Tho roster of the Mississippi Aa cultural College bears the. name William Standifer, who, at 70, 1 started his collegiate education. Logan Township. Michigan, 1 produced the prise bridegroom George ^Bicton, who, at 98, and w fix grandchildren, has just wedde Miss Maud Love, aged 34. PURE CHANCE. A house in Saybrook, Cohn., ' set on fire in April by the rays sunshine focused '* on a' curtain I goldfish globe. A Canadian farmer, hurling ask hammer at a fleeing fox in June, earthed a valuable ai Wer nod ni? mine. .. Sam;Whita. or Bl f?rsi?e, Ca!., cams frb? faiu?r ?? a boy on wash ton'- birthday. Of his nine o? i 80^8 one was born on. February ggf? on April fool's day, one on j inauguration day, one on groundh dov (February 2) and one on Tba givhg. ,. ; ;'; BA?BIEB AND FUNERALS. ; Mane von Mater, a 5-year-old[? ' Yorker, ' lost a doll in Central .'j advertised for it-and received s< dolts in answer. In February, in accordance witt will, Mrs. OoQBtadoo Miller. of Rochelle, N, Y?, wa* orernatedj aches placed in a work-basket which: she' bad. been very fond, then buried tn her own yard. Babies arrived last Good Frida the homes oj? twin sisters, living ! .in;a; b?oek of ; each other oa^Qt street, ?ioui a ville There waVhi minutes difference in the heirs o births. : 0m V /At his last request, a WelOl who died ia February, was buric dial's. Sunday olothos, his sealukiu op his bead, hjs Walking stick oj side,'-his pippin, his fingers, and p of tobfeoiitt.irts pouch. No Eggs for Him. ? prominent real estate man h ?eve?it Vgood bwt,? on his list pened to meet an old German, he Iknew, hid^ by frugal me tb o living^ aOonmulate* a eiiali r^ ^ioh fee kept;fn?a^vingsbank, raal catete mau ?.ried to psrauad ^'ii?jvest';; hit' raoue^li?^Und^;* ijpeak?rig"off tho manyad van tag owning; property rfce. waxed' warr ^ilil^is '? : ? 'Aa? nsBt, egg to fall ?:'^he:old ?ermanithonghtv seri Sor a few miont?afo "Und ! do mit der broken eggs?;' h? ; t ?i?h, -^o; I':keep; mi? money i bank/'-San Franck io C hro niel p? /. .? ;ti, ..tm? ;..--. ?0M^t '$M? thinks'he ia vi? becaciso bo'.reets vicious whcR h othera ha?p>. Tho Boy Knew How. Boys often have longer heads thai they are gives credit for. Many of the world's most important inven- ! tionr are due to tho idea of some bright boy. The following incident is a good illustration of boy-aeose, and shows that oven a farm lad may know something about thu machinery and the laws of motion. Not long ago, on a Western railroad, while a -.rain was running down grade, ono of tho sido-rods on the locomotivo broke. Whoo the train was stopped at the foot of tho grade and the broken rod uncoupled, it was found that the injured rod on the other sido was ex actly "on centor," and it was impos sible to start the engine. Tho engi neer, the conductor and oSVcral pua 8dngers suggested several ways to i start the train, but without result. Ai last a farmer's boy crawled through the '??cen sod came over. p*v "Why don't you let her go 'ker-j chu uh' !" "What?" asked the conductor, not comprehending bis meaning. "Why, let her go .kerchunk' ! Un hitch the last oar and shove- her up the grade aways. Then let her como down 'kerchunk' against the train. That'll bump her along some." The railroad men smiled contempt ously, but the passengers sided with the boy, so at last it was decided to try his scheme. AU hands tamed in sod poshed the last car a little way up tho hill. Then it was sent, with in* creasiog speed, baok against the train, which it struok "kerchunk." The "kerchunk" did the work. The en gine was bumped of! conter, tho engi neer gave it enough steam to keep it slowly moving, the passengers scram bled aboard, and the one-sided engine lin: red away on its journey. Her Simple Request. "I am.going to ask a great favor of you," she said hesitatingly, i "It is already granted," he answer ed devotedly. "A very great favor," abo repeated, BO if doubtful of tho propriety of stat ing it. "You're sore you won't tbiok it presumptuous or forward of ms?" "Never," hi answered. "I glory io this' evidence of your trust and confidence. Only tell me what I can do for you." "Well," she replied with evident reluctance, "would you mind getting up off that ruBtio bench. Papa paint ed it this afternoon, and-he will be awfully provoked if be bas to do it over again. f , . Slight Stay on Speaker Joseph Gannon, in response to a toast at a recent dinner, accord ing to Suoeess, began his remarks so GD te or?ate the initial laugh whioh is so muob desired, by orators as a prep aration for weightier matter to fol low. "Astrooomers tell as," he began, "according to the gentleman who has just Gat do WD, that an express train moving a hundred miles a second would consume several million years ia reaching ? certain star." j He paused and looked toward the guest to whom be referred. "That was the statement," said tie Speaker's neighbor, nodding. "I was just thinking," . pursued Mr. Cannon, "what, a predicament I man would be in if he should mies the last train sod have to walk." -V.'W ' -- ' ' - They hear best the angel's songe who listed for earth's sighs. Too Sick to Hill. A retired colonel of tho United States army told this story between halves of that Carlisle-West Poiut football game which was graced by ibo presence of Prince Louis of Batten berg: "After tho Fort Kearny light with ho Indians I Was scut out scouting with my troop, rouuding up a baud of hostiles. Tho weok before wo left a :onsumptivo Englishman showed ur it tho post. Ho was a friend of tue jolonel's, and he was trying roughing it as a last ohanoo. He wac in a btd tay? "When my orders carno ho aekec Lo go along. He was still strong mough to ride, and wo took him. al bough rather against my judgment, 3f conreo such a thing wouldn't bc diowed nowadays, but that was OE he frontier, where rules were lax. "Hb was ono nf those hopeful con inmptives-nothing tho matter with tim-only a little trouble willi hie hroat-he was ooming along fine, Wo used to humor him and tell hiu te was looking botter every day, al hough you oould read his death sen enoo on his faco. Ho WBB grit to th? taokbone-took every hardship jut s it came and sat on his horse whei ie seemed ready to drop off at ever; olt. "We rode for a fortnight and neve ound our hostiles. But one rain tight they found us. "I remember that the Englishma ras huddled over a little oovere ampfiro when Bring started from a ides; and in ten seconds 300 Iudiai rere riding over us. They had mu lered tho outposts and sprung a su >rise. We got together, formed sot tind of a hollow square and dro hem baok. Wo loot six killed. When we had time io look abo 'or dead and wounded I thought ny English friend. He WBB nowhc n sight. I supposed, of oonrse, tl io had been killed, and I start .couto to look for bin body. "They found him lying undoi brush. The trooper who saw h Ehrst rolled him over and found t be was alive and unhurt, but c iog as though hts heart would bro " 'What's the matter?' said trooper. " 'I'm a dead man/ said tho ? lishman. "He wouldn't explain until I ba? Beosion alone with bim. It appi Lb ut he had been sitting by tho when a buck on horseback rose over him with his gun raised i fashion. The Englishman rose and faced tbs Indian- ready tc like a man. The Indian cough full view of hia faoe in the firoli " 'Ugh/ said tho -Indian in 1 lish, 'No usc. Dead man/ ant lowered his gan and passed on. "There was no heartening the Bomptive after that. Two days 1 we made a settlement and dro him off in obarge of the keeper o' stage station, and in a month ht dead." - Son are never riob enoug spurn love. - -'Sacrifice gives a heavenly to any gift. - True charity koowa nothii absent treatment.. - God bas only one sohoo sharaoter, that of daily life. -- The happiness reaped t dependo On that sown yesterday - There is no biding from poenas of the court of oooscienot - A man' does not make an o' himself by making a donkey of ol PAINFUL PERMS Life often seefnstoo long to the woman who suf fers from painful periods. The eternal bearing down, headache; backache, leucofrhea, nen .msness, dizziness, griping, cramps and similar tortures are dreadful* To make life worth living, take Woman's Relief lt quickly r?li?ves inflammation, purifies and en riches the blood, strengthens the constitution and p?wianent?y cures all diseased conditions from which weak Women stiffer; It is matchless, marvelous, reliable. At all druggists' ih $1.00 bottles. \mZ* V9 A UTTER freely and frankly, In strictest conft d?3co, tfiiifny us ali your symptoms and troubles. Wo wlU ?end free advice (ia plain seated ermslcpe). Address: La ?idles' Advisory Dept. j The Chattanooga Medidne Op., Chattanooga, Tenn. "I SUFFERED GREATLY," writes Mrs. L. E. Clevenger, of Belle view, N. C., "nt my monthly periods, all my Ufe,' t the first bottle of Car dul gi.ve me wonderful relief, and now I am in better health than I have been for a long time." . m mm 9 p?wpi m A GOOD TIME To ?ave yo?r Carriego and Boggy Unpaired and Repainted, ; so they wm be ready when you need them! We have a splen did ?tock good, ur/ Rims, Spokes, Shafts, Wheels ; also, bum* ter in the rough, at d nearly everything it takes to put, a vehicle G OOD, big 66mealy" potatoes can not be produced with out a liberal amount of POTASH in the fertilizer - not less than ten per cent. It must be in the form of Sulphate of POTASH of highest quality. "Plant Food" and "Truck Farming*' are two practical books which tell of the successful growing of potatoes and the other garden truck-sent free to those who write us for thenu Address. GURMAN KAL! WORKS, New York-93 Nassau Street, or Atlanta, Ga.-So, Broad Street. FRED. G. BROWN, Pron, and Treas. | R, F. M AULDIN, Vice Pr&aidec A. S. FARMER, Secretary. Th? Anderson Real Estate BUYERS AND SELLERS OF REAL ESTATE, STOCKS & BONDS. J. C. CUMMINGS, Sales Dep't. Our facilities for handling your property are perfect, as we are large advertisers all over the country, blight now we are having considerable inquiry for farms in this and ad oining Counties, and owners of farm lands in the Piedmont section who wish to dispose of their property will find that we are in a position to make quick and satisfactory sales. Now is the time to list your pxoperty with us, and we will proceed at once to glye attention to all properties en trusted to us. ? Address all communications to J. C. Cummings, Sales Department. KHOIBSOH BUL ESTATE & IHVESTHEHT COM. Now comes the "Good Old Summer T?:M*" when you want ene of our - - . . ? . Up-to-Daie VEHICLES for Pleasure. Carriages, Surreys, W?M??? ir?_s - - Bun-a-Bouts, BUCK board, Traps, And in fact anything voa need in tho Vehicle line you will find st our Be* positorles. A fine line of HARNESS, SADDLES, UMBRELLAS, CAN OPY SHADES, DUSTERS, &o. Call and examine for yourself, and if we cunuot suit you it will bo out fault. ,Very truly, F?ETWELL-HANKS CO., Anderson, 3. ft THE SOUTH'S GREATEST SYSTEM.! tftmxceUe? Dining Car Service Through Pullman Sieep?ng?Cars cn all trains. Convenient Schedules on all Local Truss. WINTER TOURIST RATES are now In ?fret;to a)] TJcitfa Points For full information as to rates, routes, etc., coicu|t xc&ictt ?cnthera Railway Ticket Agent, or R. W. HUNT, Dividion Passenger Agent, Charleston, a ?X BROOKS MORGAN, Aett. Gen. Par. Agent, Atlanta,Ga? 9 CD :s? ii s g : ? Is s|5l ?a S ?J < to & O r Eggs gp * ? S W M Q ? S ? 5 0 os m > m H < ONE CAR OF HOG FEED. S?T Have just received one Car Load of HOG" FEED i , (Shorts) at very close prices. Come before_they aro all gone. Now is the time for throwing LIME Around your premises to prevent a case of fever or some other disease, that will cost you very much mord than the price of a barrel of Lime ($1.00.) i We have a fresh shipment in stock, and will bo glad to send you some. If you cont?mplate building a barn or any other building, see us before buying your CEMENT and LIME, Aa we sell the veryjbest qualities'only." o: D. ANDERSONS