Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TORNADO IN KANSAS. Twenty-Six Lives Lost in Terrible Tornado in Kansas Tuesday. darknes fell upon thi" e V n -onight. it was Knon1 that -wenty ;ix lives had been lhe rnada that wrecked part olarquete eary zoday. and did much danage in i vicinity and that for:v- ur persns had been injured. Of the injured thirty-five were seriously hurt and some 0! them may (lie. During the day two victims died of their iuries. Several (-I the 'thers are suffering from broken limbs and internal in * ries5. Entire Families Killed. In several cases entire families have been killed. A man 'naned Switzer. a night watchman at the rail road vards. lost his three children. N. P. Nelson. with his wife and three children. were found dead. Two ot2 er children were not at home and es-. capea injury. Tonight order had pracically been brought out of the cha-tic cnditin that prevailed today and a relief c m mittee had begun dispensing aid. Among the relief from outside wer twenty-five pupils from Bethany col lege. who acted as nurses. One Hundred Yards Wide. The tornado struck the southern end of the town and cut a clean swath ioo yards in width through its entire length. Coming as it did at mid night all the people were caught without a moment's warning. A heavy rain storm had preceded the wind. When daylight broke over the town it found the entire population in a state of panic. Business was entirely suspended and every one who es caped injury turned his attention to ward aiding the wounded. The tornado seems to have formed three miles south of Marquette and did not spend its force until it had passed many miles north of the town. In Marquette the residence portiot west of Main street suffered the prin cipal damage. The houses in the course of the tornado were all, with two or three exceptions. completely wrecked. In this section there were a .amber of modern residences ot which only one was left standing. A STORY BETTER THIS N~ATUR~AL PUNCTUATION. " ow. would you punctuxate this senten,ce?" Haskced thie teaicher of grammar and rhetoric: "As John opened the -book,. three fire-dollar bills evidently place'd there by ha~ cousin flut in outr frebetw. the p&ge~s andt rere - th nk .1essori . O uwouk1 allow. me. I shoulkil at mke a dash after thie bills, ssid the pupil, promnptly. a pike of SilverDollars as lg -as yow Haveyou ever read, or do you know where there is a little story better than the above ? We will give $10,000 for LITTLE STORIES -bright savings anecdotes and short verses. We don t care where you find them - only they -mst be good. We are search ing' throug the world's literature for the best ever written-and we want you to help find them. You may have just what we want in a scrap book or it may be in your urdes of rizcs including ro piles of silver dollars as high as the first ten winners. j You have just as good a chance as anyone. Lookc or a Clippinig To-day i The only condition is that you must be a subscriber to the National Magazine. Send twenty-five 2c. stamps fet six months sub scriptionl with clipping and your name will be entered for the award. Address NATIONAL MAGAZINE. JOE CHAPPLE, Editor 946 DORCHESTER AVENUE, Doston. Mama. Many Churches Damaged. The Swedish. Lutheran and. Metho- wl dist c:mrhes were among the lrs:h .)i-i. n s so tuck and they. t-gether A I i ;I 1h 1)'a n e a< 0j nig the ieth.dist cnurch wa- en iished. N- I erdar afternoon~f was hft an aIlr Ippre.sive. LaT-e in the ev e iir t at terrilic rai s:orm br'ke over th i p :wn. Ihe rain continied to fall i, - t1orrents un'iI midnight, wlen the tor- h 2ad<> stru'k. Within lesc than ive la minutes it had wrought its terrible work and passed on. Telegraph and D telephone wires were carried down - and it was s-veral hours before the :utside world could be apprisecI ma the plight oi the city. It was not tin til 8 0'clock that physicians and sur .rewns began arriving from surround- t ing" towns. In the meantime dozens of volunteers set to work to clear Iwav the debris and extricate the dead :Lnd iniured. The Swedish Lutheran parsuniiage and several private resi (LenceS were turned into temporary h spitals. Ihe dead were taken to a 1Z. store room nearby. Dr. Lund. the Lutheran pastor. pass ed among the suffering. minis:er ing to their cimfrt. while thirty o forty other persons. working under i;s direct;in. cared for the injured at other points. Many Narrow Escapes. There were many narrow escapes from death. The infant daughter of Charles Sailon was lifted in her bed C and carried to the middle of the street receiving only a few scratches. Sail- vi on and his wife were seriously injur- " ed. b< The mattress upon which the 'baby I daughter )f the Rev. Smith lay, was tf doubled up in such a manner as to d: cover the child and protect it from falling timbers. In spite of the de- ii struction of the Smith house the en tire family escaped injury. Mr. and Mrs. Elivin were carried ai on their bed a distance of zoo feet and laid down without being seriously in jured. t From a Teacher's Journal. The tedium of grading papers is c of:en relieved by finding of some lud- - icrous blunder, a quaint remark, or an j unexpected bright saying. and a cer tain teacher makes it a point to re- S' cord all such in her journals, says a writer in Lippincott's. The following are from examinations in literature. "John Bunyan was the master of" Allegory, a beautiful Greek slave." b "Thackeray wrote about the Virgin ians and, considering he was never in America, did very well indeed."' "Dickens introduced so many char acters you may be pardoned for not L remembering them." "Poe, as his name indicates, was a poet. He wrote, 'The Raven,' 'Never more,' and several others of erratic and somber complexity." "Bryant was called the poet of na ture because he had no art." i "Robert Brow-ning's poems are so C fine you can hardly see their point."L "Many of Whittier's poems sparkle with a rock-ribbed Americanism." a "George Eliot was not a man, as T her name would make yotu think, buts a woman of the deepest dye." t "Alexander Pope, truly believing ~ that the proper study of mankind is : man, wrote an excellent essay 'on c that appendage." it "Anonymous is the author of many hi good things, but of his personal his- is tory we know little." I] -Chaucer was a good poet, but his h spelling is so bad few care to read his la works."a "Spencer wrote 'The Faerie Queen' t< at the instigation of Queen Elizabeth, F who in reality wasn't a bit fairy-like." a "Tolstoi is a crank that is hard to V turn." R "Hall Caine is a Manxman and the author of many tales. Here he dif- $E fers from a Manx cat, which is tail- b h "Alexander Dumas, the count oft Monte Cristo, married the Countess de Charny and became the father oft Alexander Dumas Fields." "The Vicar of Wakefield, under t the name of Goldsmith, wrote that L sweet poem beginning 'Swee_t Auburn, a loveliest village in Maine.' " g "Richard Brinsley Sheridan, a bril- s liant author, was educated at the School of Scandal."I "The 'Children Sour' i.; by Long fellow." "Cooper was the author of the Leather Hosiery Series, a polite de-1 lietion of the high life of that time."; -Conan Iovle has a studY In ;carlet iere he' writeS his Sherlock HlmesC Cknilien." Ruling Passion Strong in Death. )nt naiinal law -makers are c Snnda schol boy, an the' r ace BI11L 1 L' 11" di' 1llenninig's unli.v fin1'( a gu"i rinkling if them in atieiance. Oi ,rse they cl,n't be:- 'ii go to ser C POI!,ez tri-t. A certain Kentucky v-maker made the honest confw - )n that he was just compelled t, it a few plunks on a gocd horse. t." said he. -I am inot like the fel w in my state who would bet on y1thing. H e was a case-hardenea mbler. and nce when he was sick me of his friends called in a minis r to look after his spiritual needs. 'if I repent will I go to leaven?' asked the minister. Yes.' was the answer. 'And will I have wings?' Certainly. - -\\ill y g )I o Heaven. too, par 1 hope and believe I will.' - -And vou will have wings. too? ,f course.' - 'Then. parsc-n. when I get to eaven and you get there. and we e both poSsessed of wings I'll iV .1 tor a fiHtv dollar note.' Fell Down. icago Tribune. I'd be willing to work fur a meal o' ctuals. ma'am. said Eaton Jogalong, >n'y I ain't strong enough. I've en sunstruck." "Sunstruck?" echoed the woman in [e kitchen door. "What were you )ing when that happened?" "I was workin' outdoors in de blaz sun." "What kind of work?" Here his imagination failed him, id he blundered. "I was cuttin' ice, ma'am," he said. Miss Helen Gould recently enter ined at luncheon a number of little irs from a charitable institution. At e end Miss Gould showed to the ildren some of the beautiful things L her house-books, carved Italian irniture, tapestries, and marbles. "Here," she said, "is a beautiful :atue-a satue of Minerva." Was she married?" asked a little "No my child," said Miss Gould, she was the goddess 'of wisdom." rew York Tribune. THE PACIFIC MUTUAL ie Insurance Cnmnpanly of California Organized 1868 on "Old Line"~ Plan. Read what one who is recognized au iority on the subject, has to say: "Of te the magazines and daily papers ve had much to say by way of criti sm of certain Life Insura~nce Compa es, and especially with regard to the egal Organization of such Companies, ad of the manner of their control. hese CRITICISMS do not apply to el Pacific Mutual, but DEMON TRATE the Truth of the Assertion at "for POLICY-HOLDERS The acific Mutual has the BEST Legal eganization." It is not controlled by NE or Two men, having no pecuniary Lterest or responsibility save as policy alders, or recipients of salary; But it controlled by a BOAR~D of fifteen iectors, not mere dummies, but Stock lders in their own right, holding a ge amount of the Company's stock, id Policyhoners as well. The Direc rs of the Company are men of high inancial and Commercial standing, and e by LAW made RESPONSIBLE for 2e acts of the Officers of the CORPO ATION. "The Company has a capital stock of 500,000 Fully paid up in GOLD coin, xt while this Capital and the Stock ylders' responsibility afford to Policy olders the GREATEST possible Secur y, it Costs participating Policyholders OTHING, but every dollar paid into i Company by them and the ACCU [ULATION thereon, is applied to ieir BENEFIT. There is no Other IFE INSURANCE COMPANY trans :ting business in America whose Pol yholders, by Legal enactment, are so afe-guarded as are the Policyholders The Pacific Mutual." Call on or write to me, ROBERT NORRIS, GenI. Agt. for S. C., Newberry, S. C. ffie over Post Office. TRY SEVI COSTS YOU NOTHING IF BE THE BEST REME TRIED FOR AIl STOMACH, BOWELS YOUR HOME DRUGGIST This remedy is purely vegetable and easy to assimilate. The doses are small and pleasant to take. It is prepared from the original formula of Dr. Franz Gauswein, of Weisbaden, Germany. wjho was, until his death, one of the world's most successful and noted phy sicians. Thousands of families for three generations have been recn mending this wonderful preparation in tLe highest terms. If your digestion is impaired, if your liver is sluggish or blood is impure. "Seven Barks" will surely effect a speedy cure. a it cleanses,. flushes and toies up the whole digestive and drain MAYES' DF Why Rob Yourself of More Than 3 Cents per Pound On Cottola? Do you want to get from 1 C to 11 cents for cotton next fall while other cotton only brings 6 1-2 to 7 cts? Do you want to grow cotton that will bring a difference in price sufficient to more than pay for the picking and fertilizer' In fact will almost cover the en tire expense of makingithe crop'i If so, I can furnish you the seed. Every ten 'bales will bring $125 .00 to $150.00 more than other varieties. 50 bush els will plant 50 to 60 acres, should make 40 to 50 bales, put in your pocket from $500. 00 to $750.00. One year's experience with these seed will convince you that this staie ment is true. I am planting only Florodora this year. Well bred Berkshire and Poland China Pigs for Sale. J. A. BURTON. Just a OF Time, We wish to call your Spring and Summer C A dollar expended with us will i We offer the trade our best efforl best. The prices the lowest for th We offer' some dainty Mercerized in price from roc. to Soc. yd. We have nice line Knickerbock Dimities, Ducks, DeLaines and oti are dreams for waists or dresses. Riverside Plaids, Southern Silks, C Our Shoes are built to wear. 0 sell Groceries Get prices and see S. S. Bi P'rOspe3 COME SO( Whenever you start out or, a *This plan will save you man: time. if we haven't just wha We shall not urge you to buy. goods as soon as you can. It every way to make selections + MAYES' Df SN BARKS IT DOES NOT PROVE TO DY YOU HAVE EVER ,MENTS OF THE LIVER AND KIDNEYS MAKES TlE GUARAJiEE age system in a thorough manner, leav ig Nature to do the rest, which it will. We cordially invite our friends and customers to call and get a bottle of thi highly meritorious remedy. You may deposit .50 cents for a bottle of "Seven Barks" as evidence of good faith. Try it as directed, and if found unsatisfactory, we will cheerfully re fund your money. Or, if you cannot spare the small amount we ask on de posit. come anyway and we will take all the risk. What we want is to intro duce this remedy among our friends and customers where it is not known. UG STORE. Dr. R. M. Kennedy, DENTIST. Newberry, - - S. C. OVER NATIONAL BANK. Just received 2car loads of Buggies. I car load of Wagons. and a lot of up to-date and first class Harness. All to be had at REASONABLE PRICES at A T. BROWN. Minute VOUR Please. attention to our line of o double duty. Try it. s in selections. The styles are the best goods. Waistings, Skirtings, &c., ranging uitings, Brousse Stripes, Callalettes, Ler dress goods. Our Tussoh Silas ping and Summer Prints 5C 'd-o :hevits Cottonades, &c. ur men's Shirts are beauties We st les. Yours av.xions to pihas rge Co. )N AND SEE: shopping tout come here first@$ 7 urnec.;sary steps and much* t you want thb.n lonk elsewhere@i blt we do wish a o to see our will be to ynnr advantag'e in before the final rnish begin. ?UG 5TORE