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OCONEE BOY KILLS WOMAN. ' Mamie Elrod, 40 Years Old, Shot Through Abdomen While Picking Cotton. Anderson, September 8.?Mayme Elrod, a while woman, about 40 year* old, died in the hospital here at o o'clock this morning as the result of a gunshot wound inflicted at the hands of Calhonn Donald, a youtu of IK. The shooting oeeiii red in the Town ville sect ion, just across lh< hue in Oconee county, and about -5 miles I'rom Anderson, yesterday moiine ami the wounded woman was broeghl here last- night. Weports conflict as to the real cause of the killing, but :i well founded re >"i'l is to I lie effect that ('alhoiiu Donald had been prompted to fire (lie s'm11 by llie continued immoral relations between his father, Marion Donald, and the woman, she lnuim.' lived in the same liouse with the elder Donald, his wife and family for some years. The ball entered the "Abdomen. the larger and several smaller intestines being perforated and hemorrhage resull in*_'. When it became known here this morning: that the woman was dead the sheriff of Oconee county was no'ified and said lie would at once send aii ollicer to I he scene, bill al a late hour tonight no arrest has been made so far as could be learned here. The shooting occurred in a lied some .'{00 yards from I he house, where l lie woman wit 11 several other-' was picking cotton. Sylvester Donald, a brother of I he man who fire* the shot, together with several other from the section, came for the body this afternoon. They said the shooting had been accidental and that no arrests had been made. Hul from the past records of both the dead woman and Marion Donald, who lived iu Anderson county until a few years ago, the cause outlined is given most credit. SMfTII THANKS TnE PEOPLE. Promises to Serve the Interests of the State Honestly and Asks for the Co-operation of the People in His Work. News ami Courier. Klorence, September K. Mr. K. D. Smith, candidate for the I'nited State-; senate, in an interview with the News and Courier's correspondent at midnight, desires to make the following statement to the people of Soul h ('arolina : 4* 11 seems, at this hour, that my election is assured. I cannot express my appreciation of this expression ot confidence on the part of the people. As 1 have honestly tried to serve the Stale in past years as a private indivdual. I shall use whatever increased powers and opportunity my ollicial position gives me lo the same end. I hope I mav ha\'e the cooperation of the entire Stale iu iiiv elVorts lo serve to the best advantage the varied interests. Allow me. |o express to you my grateful thanks lor your work iu my behalf; may you lind it a pleasure and dutv 1o continue your support of me as an ollicial. OLD SCHOOL BOOKS. The Bizarre Problems in Old Arithmetic Books. To the grammar school pupil of today it would seem impossible that there could be any interest in studying t lie wording ot arithmetic problems. I he solution of a problem generally presents <piile enough difIiculty in and ot itself without worrying as to |be nature of the language in which the figures are put. l'.ven il they fell so inclined, they could lind little of interest in such <|iieslion as ''llought 112,000 long tons ?d coal al $1 and sold the whole at the same price per short Ion. What did I gain?" Or, "What number subtracted from 80,005, 88 times will leave l:i as a remainder?" (From an arithmetic now in use in Chicago schools,) If we it ? back to an arithmetic published in our own county in 1788, however, we find problems I hat. whether or not they interested the pupils at that time, certainly are amusing now, says the Chicago News. In an arithmetic written by Nicholas Pike in the year mentioned, problems sue! as this appear: "An ignorant fop wanting to purchase an elegant house a facetious gentlemen told him he had one he would sell him on moderate terms, viz: that he should givo him ft penny for th< first door, two pence for I he second, four pence for the third and so nn double at every door, which were 3(1 in all. '1| is a bargain,' cried the simpleton, 'and here is a guinea to bind it.' Pray, what would the house V have cost hi, A?" i From books in use in 3790 arc taken soiuu even more remarkable i examples: "A man overtaking a maid driv- < ing a flock of geese said to lier: ( "How do you do, sweetheart? Where are you going with these 100 geese? j "Why, sir, said she, 'I have not 100, ] but if I had as many, half as many I and seven geese and a half, 1 should j have 100.' How many had she?" | "A person was 17 years of age 20 , years since and suppose he will be , drowned 2.'t years hence; pray, in ^ what year of his age will this hap- [ pen?" f Should these questions be put on i the present generation, probably < then1 would he more giggles tlian < answers. ( The popular question, ;'\Yhy is a s mouse when it spins?" is scarcely > more impossible than one :n "The f Scholar's Arithmetic;" of 1817: i 'When hens are 0 shillings a dozen, t what will be the pi'ice of six dozen t eggs at 2 cents for throe eggs?" No i doubt, many curly pates have been 1 given cause to wonder "why is the s lien?" Trick problems like the above s were quite the rage. Another curious- I ly worded question is: "At Sural is i a hospital for sick animals, in which I there is a tortoise that has been t'tetS ? 7.") years. What -is three-eights of c that number?" 1 The fondness of ghaslliness in the problems makes us wonder as to Ih.j 1 value of such training for childish I minds. "In 18.'M," says one problem 1 "110 persons died of drunkenness 1 in New York and 101 in Philadelphia- ( I low many in both?" 1 Again: "A man had seven child- j ren. Two of them were killed by the fall of a tree. How many had he ' left?" ' 1 "Judas, one of the twelve apostles, hanged himself. I low many were t here left ? *' "Adonibezek said: "Threescore | and ten kings having their thumbs I and iheir great toes cut otl\ gather | their meat under my table.' I low manv thumbs ami toes did Adonihe/.ek cut off?" < "A human body, if baked until all , the moisture is evaporated, is red lie- j ed in weight as 10 to 10. A body that | weighs 100 pounds when living , weighs how much when baked?" ( To a child of K or 10, with a parti- , cle of imagination, it must have been pleasant figuring out the weight of , baked bodies. , SOMETHING ABOUT TOADS. i ; Do They "Spit Venom" and Can | They Exist Without Air? The ti?:id has a broad back and can bear much ill treatment, or certainly he would not have survived among us .-ill these years. Men have always done their best, or worst, to get him | into bail odor, and even today, especially in country districts, where he is nightly engaged in doing good service at the expense of slugs and other noxious things, the toad bears an evil reputation without in the least deserving it. People of all nations and of every age have testified to the "poisonous venom" of the toad, (lilhert White gave the subject some attention. but seems to have been on the side of the toad, for he says "ducks, buzzards, owls, stone curlews and snakes eat them (toads) with impunity," and Kearton corroborates him so far as grass snakes are concerned. I lie once knew of a quack who on the occasion of a visit to Selhorne "ale a toad I.. make the country people | st a re." " But," adds our an t hor, '' a fterward he drank oil." The fact of the matter is, says the Pall Mall (Jazette, that the toad, though he is much more polite than man in the matter of spitting, does when frightened exude from his skin an acid liquid which may be some sort of protection to him when a hungry snake is contemplating toad for supper, although, as we have seen, the snake's victim cannot always make himself snlliciently unpleasant to save his own life or to endanger that of his enemy. .lust as country people will tell you today that toads "spit poison" (which is absolutely untrue), so a hundred years ago testimony was constantly forthcoming as to the calamities which befell any animal that dared to interfere with the detestable creature. A writer to the Magazine of Natural History early in the last century testified that he had so!?n the mouths of dogs "fearfully swelled worrying toads," and Dr. K. J. Clarke, a well known lecturer of the period, declared himself to be a believer in "the opinion of the vulgar that toads spit venom." To support his ideas he quoted a story, told him by a friend, concerning a cat (boh ng- | ing to a third person) which jump?-d ' at a load in mistake for a mouse, "ut-| tered a loud cry of agony and died in ' :i few minutes.'' Such wihl stories as these, which cum not hnve had uu atom of truth in them, did a good deal to preserve, the already weMsstablished prejudice aginst the "venomous toad." In other directions the unfortunite reptile has suffered much at, I he liands of man. The ch-nm-lo-Mi has iieen ignorantly credited with being ?hle to subsist on air, hut the load from time immemorial hn? been c?.niidered capable of dispensing even villi that commodity. Tin? .ift-told itories of toads being di ivovt-ved a?\v> n solid blocks of stone or coal led >ne Ilcrissant, a Frenchman, in the rear 1777, to make experiments t<> liseover how much the o;s*jion or I garden toad would endure without lying. lie shut up three toad*' in ten led boxes in plaster, and they vere deposited in (lie Academy of Science. At (he end of eighteen nonths the boxes were opened, one of lie toads being dead and the othfrv wo living. Nobody could doubt the inlhenticity of the fact.?, says the listorian, but the cxpenifienis were ieverely criticised, as well as the observations which they seemed to eo.i'irm. It was contended that some air uust have reached 'he prisoners hrough an imperceptible hole, and some probability was given to this ontention by (he researches of Dr. Sdwards, published in 18L7. The doeor observed that toads shut up in >oxes covered with plaster and apparently deprived of air lived mud; onger (ban those treated in same way ind placed under watci*. Menssant's ritics were therefore ju^:ified in sunjosing that he had faikvl to make his joxes airtight, but no one seems In lave denied the fact Miat two of the niscrable captives wern. able to livtj 'or a year and a half without f??-?.i. Dr. Buckland, father of the famous Prank, made some much , more exlaustive experiments upon toads. I'wo blocks of stone were taken, one ?f porous oolite limestone and one of i compact sillicious sandtsone. Twenty-four cells were cut in (lie stone ind in November, 18'J."i, a live toad, vhose weight had been previously as>ertained, was placed in each cell. A ?lass plate was sealed over each eavty and a slate above that, the two jlocks of stone being buried 3 feet leep in Dr. Buckland's garden. Eleven months later the stones were dug ip and examined. All the toads in the sandstone were dead, but the greater number of those in the limestone were alive. All except two, however, were much emaciated, the exceptions having actually increased in weight, but it was supposed that these might have been nourished by some insects which had crawled through a crack in the glass. The living toads were put back again and carefully resealcd, but all were dead before the end of the second year. I'\>ur others, inclosed in the trunk of an apple tree and hermetically sealed were found deadiat the end of a year. rn spite of such apparently conclusive evidence as this we find the Rev. Goo. Young in his "Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast" (published in 1828), bringing forward several instances of living toads having been found within solid blocks of sandstone. "We arc the more particular in recording these facts" he observes, "because some modern philosophers have attempted to explode such accounts as wholly fabulous." Jesse, the naturalist, also declared that he knew a man who put a toad in a flower pot, sealed it up so that no insect could get in, and buried the pot in the garden at a great depth. At the end of twenty years the flower potwas dug up. and its occupant was not only in perfect health, but had grown almost too big for his residence! There is no doubt that a toad can go longer without food or air than many, perhaps any?creatures, but thai is no reason why he should be the victim of so much gratuitous cruelty. But he always has been a much misunderstood creature, and one supposes that he always will be. Prejudice and toads die hard. VERY LOW RATES. To Denver, Colorado and Return via Southern Railway. On account of the Annual Convention, American Bankers Association, I he Southern Railway announces attractive low round trip rates to Denver, Col. Tickets to be sold daily until September 30th, 1908, good to return leaving Denver not later than October 31st, 1908. 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