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Came Back From Spirit Land. I _ fi True Ghost Story?Man Killed In Buffalo Fire Appeared to His I * Brother and Told Him Where to Find His Body, , _ Which Had Been Buried in Debris. f fA correspondent of the New York Herald vouches for the truth of the following- "true ghost story." The cor respondent's brother was one of eleven men missing after the fire which de stroyed the wall paper factory of M. H. Birge & Sens In Buffalo. Remains of what appeared to be eleven corpses {were taken from the ruins, all so char red or disfigured aa to be unrecogniza ble. The remains were all Interred In lone "grave In Holy Cross cemetery. fChat was in December. [ "On the night of March 31." the Herald's correspondent 6ays, "I re ared at 10 o'clock. In spirit I bad felt tery" close to my brother that entire jvening, so I lay awake, thiuking and Repeating ovev and over a significant /ittle verse he had written ou the fly leaf of a much used book of mine: ''Should frownlne fate e'er grasp my hand And lead me far from thee. Oft call to mind when last we met ? And fondly think of me. 1 "I was aroused by sounds of tric kling water, which seemed so close and loud that I put both hands to my ears to shut out a peculiar drip. drip. drip. I then discovered that the disturbance ;was caused by unfelt tears that had poured over my cheeks, had filled the "I went down early In the mornlnc and proceeded at once to tell my moth er what I had seen and heard. She was much affected and brokenly cried: " 'God is good. He may be alive; he may come back again. I can never feel that he is among those I followed to the grave." "One member of the family remark ed. 'That was a very vivid dream.' "1 asserted that It was no dream. "My mother grew very restless and called In a neighbor, to whom she re peated what I had told. The woman turned on me and gave vent to her doubts. Nevertheless she left shortly after and spread the story of my 'queer' dream about the neighbor hood. "At 10 o'clock that morning, a few hours after I had seen my brother and while the story I told was still being discussed, workmen engaged In remov ing the bricks aud debris came upon a hotly lying ou the stone walk of the Terry street side of the ruined factory. Among the curious that gathered arouud the body was a next door neighbor of ours, who recognized the body as that of my brother and has tened to notify my mother. We hur ried to the scene, but the body had "TELL MOTHER I AM COMING BACK TOMORROW." hollows of my ears and overflowed In little streams that soaked the pillow around my. head and neck. "I sat upright and looked around. Every object in the room was plainly discernible hi the flood of mellow tnoonlight that poured In through a partly open, uncurtained window near the head of cuy bed. I looked at the clock. The time was a quarter of 12. I wiped the moisture away, turned the pillow over, lay back and was about to close my eyes when I saw the door open and close behind my brother. As he came toward me I called Iiis name and was about to spring from the bed .when he raised his right hand with a gesture that caused me to lean back. In manner and dress he looked just as ;when 'bast I saw him, but the eyes jwere dull and hollow, and the facial expression was one of extreme sad ness. He spoke my name in a perfect ly natural voice and said: i "'Tell mother I am coming back to morrow. Tel! her not to worry any more about me. I am all right. They left me there on the sidewalk all win ter, and I look bad. but don't be afraid; there Is nothing to fear. I will mot trouble you again. Goodby!' I "Before I could utter a word he had (passed through the door, which did AOt seem to open as when he entered fthe room. i "With a wildly beating heart I arose jfroni the beci and staggered to the door. It was locked and bolted as I <had left it on retlriug. Weak from ex Icitement?I was not afraid?I sank Into ja chair and remained until the painful [throbbing of my heart and temples ?passed ever. I decided not to disturb tany member of the fumily, and so I ?spent the reraaiuder of the night pac Iing the floor from door to wiudow, rwatching the full March moon serenely eall down the western sky and count Sing the lonely hours chimed by the ?lock in a nearby church steeple. been taken to the morgue, where we followed. After the first wild grief had subsided we called In an under taker and were about to make arrange ments for the burial when two women, mothers of victims of the Are, rushed in and upset our plans for the time being. After looking the body over one stoutly maintained the body was tbat of her son, who was of about the same age as my brother. Arguments and remnants of clothing which we produced in evidence of our claims were unavailing. She was positive In her belief. My poor mother was on the verge of collapse when, the coroner told her he could not allow our under taker to interfere until Identity was proved beyond a doubt. "Crushed and disappointed, we were about to leave when close to my ear there came a sharply whispered 'Why don't you tell them about my '.eethV Instantly there flashed across my mind soipething I had antirely forgotten. A few days before bis death my brother called my attention to a seeoud row of teeth that had made their appearance In the left upper jaw. I quickly turn ed to the coroner and told him, describ ing the teeth and their position as I re membered them. He and the under taker ut once proceeded to Und out if the peculiar proof was present. They opened the jaws, and there, just as 1 described them, was the Inner row of teeth. We buried him in the plot with the other victims, for his name, with theirs, was inscribed on the handsome brownstoue monument. "Should you ever have occasion to visit Holy Cross cemetery please ask an attendant to direct you to the Birge fire monument and read the Inscrlp tion thereon, reading downward. When you reach the ninth name on its east ern face kindly pause a moment, for that name perpetuates the memory of one who came back from the great un known." Sea Gulls Attack Lineman. electrician on Lofty Perch Desperately Battles With Hundreds of Winged Warriors. I John Nlxsou, lineman for the Seattle '(Wash.) Electric company, met with an ?unusual adventure while stringing a cable. Perched In his airy isolation, he ;was discovered by a sea gull, who ?fieemed to consider Nixsou so far from 5 ground an intruder on the rights of ae feathered tribe. The gull screamed and called orfc?rs of his tribe to his assistance. One followed another until [ a hundred or mure of the birds had gathered and made an attack on the man, who was completely at their mercy for a time. They swooped down upon him with their wings and tried to find a vulnerable place to pick at him. It was not until the lineman g;?t one end of the rope free that he was able to beat the birds off and get back to earth alive. CABBAGE PLANTS. For the next few weeks I will fill all orders for Cabbage Plants at the following prices; 1,000 to 4,000, $1.25; .",000 to 9,000, Si.00; 10,000 and upwards, 90 cents per I, 000. Cash with order or C. O. I), if preferred. I have all leading varieties: The Early Jersey Waketield, the most popular variety for early planting: The Charleston Wakeneld, a few days later, but a very desirable variety, for garden planting as it is a sure header and good size. In later varieties, I have the Succession and the Late Dutch, both producing large flat heads. Plants now ready for shipments. My personal attention given to all orders. W. P. CAKK, Meggctts, S. C, 1-17-6, King's Classmate In Pigpen. Man Who Went to Oxford University With Edward Vli. Dies a Pauper at Melrose, Mass. Once a classmate of King Edward at Oxford. Charles Frederick Powell, known as "Che Melrose hermit." a man of education and refinement, who, made a tramp through remorse for a blow he struck hin father, has been Identified at the Melrose (Mass.? hospi tal, where he died a pauper. Identifi cation was made by Mrs. Barbara Lynd of Dorchester, with whom be boarded up to two years ago. He was taken to the hospital from a piggery, where he was found 111 among swine. Pneumonia had him in Its grip, and from It he never rallied. In life he loathed children, and when one of them' approached the cave in which he dwelt in Middlesex fells he growled and so contorted his features that he spread terror among all those of the neighborhood. Yet but for a child he would have died among the hogs, for one of them while passing heard his groans and called assistance. No man was better known by sight to the resideuts of that section of Mel rose than "the hermit." He was not. however, known by name to any of them. When he died the hospital au thorities were obliged to do considera ble investigating before they learned who he was. His life story, which he has told In fragments to Mrs. Lynd and to Mrs. George Beckford of Melrose. was as strange as anything found in fiction. According to what he told them, he was born in Plymouth. England, fifty seven years ago and in his early life was surrounded by every comfort and luxury. He was sent to school until he reached manhood, when he matricu lated at Trinity college. Oxford. The Prince of Wales, now King Kdward VII. of England, was a member of his claat. at Trinity, where he hims?elf sang in the choir and often appeared In colas to which the young prince was a listener. He did not complete his course at Trinity, he told the women, because of trouble he got Into with the school authorities, but he later studied at a German university, whither he was sent by bis father, who at that time lived In Liverpool, and it was there that he finished his education. While he was in Germany his father married a second wife. When he returned to his home he and his stepmother had a violent quarrel. His father Interfered and took his wife's part, a fact that so enraged the son thnt he raised his iiHiul to his parent and struck a blow which felled him. For that act, he often said, he never forgave himself. He turned from his father's house, and, going at once to the docks, he took passage to America. He never afterward heard from either his father or his stepmother. That was twenty-six years ago, and when he arrived in . Is country he tried his hand at various occupations, finally becoming a sign painter. When he lived at the home of Mrs. Lynd In Dorchester he appeared like any other workingman, except that when those in the house came to know him they learned that his education was far beyond that possessed by many workers. He knew the best lit erature and could quote Virgil by the hour. He read books In Greek. In German, in French and In Italiau. He was well posted on politics both In this country and in Europe and knew the history of most public men. Loses His Appendix at Sea. Cunard Liner Pannonia Stops and Rolls In Awful Storm While Ship's Surgeons Operate on a Stoker Desperately III and Save His Life. While 853 passengers on the Cunard |-liner Pannonia were praying for deliv erance from one of the worst gales the Atlantic has ever known a stoker was operated on for appendicitis. He was able to sit out on the deck when the steamer docked at New York. It was one of those cases where the ship's surgeon had to act quickly and use all his skill to save a man's life, giving little or no heed to the possibility of the scalpel's slipping when the steamer lurched under the blow of a comber. Bob Law was the patient. He is a husky Scotchman about twenty-eight years old. The Pannonia bad just cleared Gi braltar when Bob complained of paius In the right side of his abdomen. He took from a fellow stoker a glass or two of "the mixture that never failed" and admitted he felt a wee bit better. But three days later the pain returned, and the chief engineer took fron? the medicine chest a big dose of "black draft" and gave It to Bob. That should ministered the anaesthetic, and within one hour alter he stretched out on the operating table Bob Law was able to understand what the doctors meant when they informed him that his ver miform appendix was probably float ing in the Atlantic a mile or two away. When the patient was well under the influence of the ether, Dr. Orr found it almost impossible to make an inci sion. The Pannonia plunging into heavy head seas and lurching under the stress of sudden blasts of tho gale mode it almost impossible for biro to stand on his feet. Although braced and strapped to Reep it from rolling, the big stoker's body slipped on the operating table. In desperation Dr. Orr sent word to Captain Irvine, asking him to bring the Pannonia to a dead stop for an hour or two until he could perform the operation, which Is considered a delicate one even under best condi tions. It was explained by the doctor that he would run fewer chances If THE SURGEONS OPERATED BETWEEN LURCHES. have cured the srol ? c, according to the belief in the stokehole, but it didn't, and Bob had to "turu into his bunk for keeps." Reports of the man's ill ness uever got any further than the engine room until the eighth day, when the wiseacres of the lire room thought it might be well to send for Dr. Orr. One hi'sty examination of the help less stoker was sufficient for a diagno sis, and within ten minutes Dr. Orr had the young Scotchman on a table in the steerage hospital aft. ne sent for Dr. Torok, the physician sent aboard all passenger steamers leaving Triest and Flume by the Hungarian government. He asked him to assist in the operation. Dr. Torok thought It a desperate' undertaking in such a heavy sea. but consented and attended to the duties usually assigned to a trained nurse. Dr. Orr's assistant ad the steamer got into the trough of the sea, as it was the shock and jar of plunging into head seas while under way that made the operation particu larly hazardous. Dr. Orr did not have to explain much to Captain Irvine, for the latter stupped the steamer at once. The surgeon worked cautiously, cut ting into the abdominal region between lurches, and within thirty-five minutes after the Pannonia had stopped her commander got word that the opera tion was over and Bob Law would pull through. The operation was the talk of the steamer when the Pannonia docked. The only man not wrought up to concert pitch over it was Dr. Orr. He said the operation was performed under annoying circumstances, but apart from that he did not see any thing unusual about It. Bob Law thought it was a great job. , Oysters! Oysters!! FRESH SHIPMENTS DAILY. Only the best selected Norfolk Oysters Sold. Prompt Delivery. Also Fancy Groceries, Fruit and Vegetables. 12-12-4m. J- H. ROBINSON, 11 North Middleton St. Orangoborgj S. C. Over Twenty-three Years Ago Baby had Severe Attack?Years Later Grandfather Suffered Torments with the Disease?Virulent Sores Developed from Knees to Toes. BOTH OWE COMPLETE RECOVERY TO CUTICURA "In 1884 my grandson, a babe, had an attack of eczema, and after trying the doctors to the extent of heavy bills and an in crease of the dis ease and Buffering, I recommended Cu ticura and in a few weeks the child was well. He is to-day a strong man and 'absolutely free from the disease. A few years ago I contracted eczema, and became an in tense sufferer. A whole winter passed without .once having on shoes, my ankles arid neariy from the knees to the toes being covered with virulent sores. I tried practitioners, specialists, dermatol ogists, etc., to no purpose. My daughter in-law reminded me of having prescribed Cuticura for my grandson more than twenty years ago. I at once procured the Cuticura Remedies and found im mediate improvement and final cure, till to-day, though well along in years, I am as though I bad never had that disease. I am well known in the vicin ity of Louisville and Cincinnati, and all this could be verified by witnesses. M. W. LaRue. 845 Seventh St., Louis ville, Ky., April 23 and May 14, 1907." The agonizing itching and burning of the skin, as in eczema; the frightful scaling, as in psoriasis; the loss of hair and crusting of scalp, as in scalled head; the facial disfigurement, as in acne ?all demand remedies of extraordinary virtues to successfully' cope with them. That Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills are such stands proven by testimonials of remarkable cures when many rem edies and even physicians have failed. One set is often sufficient to cure. Cuticura Soap (25c.) to Cleanse the Sktn, Cuti cura Ointment (50c.) to Heal the Skin, and Cuti cura Resolvent (50c). (or In the form of Chocolate. 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It's what you need to know for the business battles of to-morrow, next month and next year that should concern you. Remember the hare that took a nap. Remamber r.lao that just twenty years ago the Rock Hill Buggy Co. was organized and-to-day thousands of satisfied users r.re singing the praises of a bu^gy the reputation of which was made solely upon their merits and today with an annual capacity of 20,000 vehicles, the demand for this famous buggy cannot be supplied. This all has a meaning Stop and think and call at Sifley end Frith's and see the most com plete line of fine vehicles ever displayed on this market. The Orangebiirg Collegiate Institute Orangeburg, S. C. Our new building is now completed, and at the opening of the sec ond term January 2nd we will be able to accommodate about twenty live new boarding students. Catalogue and terms on request. W- S. Peterson, President.