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FUGITIVE SPAR BUOYS Rescuing These Stray "Sticks" Is Perilous Work. SIGNBOARDS OF CHANNELS. How These Mariners' Guides Are An chored and How They Sometimcs Break Away and Are Hunted Dcwn by the Lighthouse Service Tenders. When the winter gales begin ti blow, the tenders of the lighthouse service turn their stews toward northirn s.as to hunt stray spar buoys. Of all the work of the coast uatrol this, perha:. is the most exrposed to danger. lull. these "signboards" out of the sea ec putting them ovet side is like "yank ing" spiles with a ton derrick or a heaving platform. Although passengers in the boats that ply the waters of New York hr bor. Long Island sound and other wa terways along the coast see many spar buoys, they give them iitle thought. With the man at the whl l it is different. Color, shape and e give him volumes of information. and he looks upon the spar buoy as an in valuable guide. In the government inventories they are listed as "sticks." although they are sometimes sixty feet long. They are anchored in the bed of a river or harbor channel, their "up ends" paint ed in such a way as to indicate to the observer the formation of the bottom. On the margin of government charts explanatory notes tell one that vessels approaching a harbor from the sea should leave red buoys with even numbers on the right and black, with odd numbers on the left side of chan nels. Black and white striped buoys, the stripes running perpendicularly, mean an obstruction in the channel. with room to get by on either side. If balls or cages ornament the "up ends" it means a turning point, the coiQr and number indicating the course. These sticks are put down with heavy iron anchors and sometimes great stone weights. One would suppose that so fixed they never could get away, but they do, and it is a, job to find them. Ice floes break their' cables and some times crush the sticks; storms pull them loose, and ships in the fog or darkness foul them and tear them from their hold on the bottom. Not infre quently ships use them as moorings, although this is forbidden. There are instances where the an chors of a spar buoy have been secure! enough to hold against ice pressure and in a narrow channel cause a dangerous jam.. But such cases are few. for when this happens the weight of the ice usually becomes so great as to force the buoy under, and the pack slides on. If the ice pack gets under the buoy so as to lift it there is only one result the parting of the cable. Then off starts the spar upon a journey maybe of thousands of miles. perhaps of only one or two. It may fetch up on the nearest shore, and it may drift to the coast of Europe or into the southern; seas. On the Irish coast today is one which traveled there in six weeks from! New York harbor. It was presented to the British government by the 'Unit edi Stato s and now fioats off the coast on which it stopped after its long At Tntic journey. If it is a long chase to find the stray buoys it is -e. -n a more difficult task to recover the anchors left behind by the fugitive spars. Tenders th'at sail out: of the harbor have a derrick and tackle rigged in front of the pilot house, with a donkey engine to lift and pull. The location of every buoy is marked on the charts to a degree. so it is not diffi cult to find the' desired position. The serious business is dragging for the! anchor and after grappling with it toI hoist It aboard ship. Here the donkey engine comes into play. Another haz ard is to pull a. spar buoysaboard. Ifa sea happens to be running the captain of the tender has to use extreme care. should a big roller get under him and suddenly tighten the lifting chains either they would give way or the weight would come up too fast. the' crew in either case being placed in jeopardy of their lives. But the risk these men run is all in the day's work. To them a job in a seaway on a lee shore is regrarded as no more monotonous task than repaint Ing a row of buoys on land.-New York Post. The Brevity of Ballarat. It was in Ballarat that Mark Twain found the local language so puzzling at first, the good people of the place deeming life too short to dawdle in their talk. The mayor called on the American humorist and laconically said "K''m." Then when Mark Twain gave him a igar he simply said "Q."' Subsequent inquiry revealed that these terms were Ballaratese for "wel comie" and "thank you."-London Chronicle. Hailed. "Does that young woman hail from Boston" "Yes." answered the western youth thoughtfully. "that expresses the idea precisely. She hails from Boston. I was never before overtaken by such a heavy downfall of intellectual ice." Man, Poor Man! Mrs. Flutter-Mrs. Crabappie sayv her husband kisses her goodhy ev. morning of his life. Mr. Flutter-I of ten wondered what gave him that sour expression.-Smnart Set. Death' hangs over thee while thou livest, while it is in thy power to be good.-Aurelius. Many little lives have been saved by Foley's B oney and Tar, for coughs. colds, croas and whooping cough. It is the only ~sare remedy for infams~i and children as it containis no opiates in other narcotme dlrugt!. and cbildren like Fole's Honev and Tar. Careful moth ers keep? a bottle in the house. IRefuse substiutes. Mean. Maud (bef,.re the laughing hyena's eage)-How provoking: Ihere we've been twenty minutes. and the hyena hasn't laughed once. Ella-Strange, and he's been eying your new hat too! His Great Love. She-Darling, do you love me? Hie (kissing her rapturously and repeated y)-Do I? I wish you were a two) headed girl. That's all I can say.-Lon don Tit-Bits. The "Leading Heavy." "What's the matter now?" "We're playin' circus parade, an' Wle's a-bein' the elephant an' the lion an' the hipp'otamus an' the calli ERRATIC SCIENCE. Some Wonderful Answers by School room Small Boys. "Mushrooms always grow in damp places, and so they look like umbrel- 1 las," wrote a small boy in the science 1 examination. Other examples of the "howler" are compiled by a writer in 1 the Scientific American: "Air is the most necessary of all the elements. If there were no such thing as air I would not be writing this es bay now, also there would be no pneu rnatic tires, which would be a sad loss. 1 "Electricity and lightning are of the I same nature, the only difference being that lightning is often several miles in length, while electricity is only a few inches. "Air usually has no weight, but found to weigh about fifteen pounds to a square inch. "The axis of the earth is an imagi nary line on which the earth is sup- i posed to take its daily routine. "The difference between air and wa- 1 ter is that air can be made wetter, but I water cannot. "Gravity is chiefly noticeable in the ] autumn when the apples are falling I from the trees. 1 "Things which are equal to each 1 other are equal to anything else. "A parallel straight line is one which if produced to meet itself does not I meet. "The blood is putrefied in the lungs by inspired air." TIPS IN SCOTLAND. An Example of How Some Servants Win Their Wages. A gentleman was invited to a shoot in Scotland at two places close to gether. He arrived at the first place. and immediately after his arrival at the first house received a telegram calling him back to town. He, how ever, determined to have one day's shooting and to proceed to town by the night mail. At the end of the day he gave the head keeper ?1 and asked him to send his gun and cartridge bag over to the other place for which he had an invi tation and where he proposed proceed- 1 ing in three or four days' time. On his arrival there after his visit to town he found his gun, etc., had not arrived, whereupon he wrote to the keeper, asking him to forward it at once, and he received a reply stat ing that when he (the keeper) had re ceived the other ?4 to which he was "entitled" the gun would be forward ed. It was detained till payment was made. The gentleman wrote to the keeper's master and received a reply that "he (the master). never interfered between his guests and his servants in the matter of tips." The gentleman as certained that the master in question paid the keeper no wages, but left him to get what he could out of the guests.-London Times. Luck In Horseshoes. The superstition about luck in horse-. shoes dates back too far for record, but it was not always confined to the horseshoe. Any piece of iron found in one's path was accounted a sign of good luck, . and as horseshoes were more commonly picked up than any other article of that metal that par ticular object at last became the standard emblem of good fortune and the supposed defense against bad luck. In Aubrey's "Miscellanies," written 200 years ago. the author mentions having seen the horseshoe nailed up in church, and he also says that "most of the houses in the west end of Lon don have the horseshoe on the thresh old." The horseshoe to pessess virtue must have been found, nct purchased or looked up. Admiral Nelson had great faith in the luck of the horse shoe, and one was nailed to the mast of his ship, the Victory. -- London Chronicle. One Thing He Could Not Have. Although there was no sort of toy which could be bought and for which Harold had expressed a desire that was not in his possession, he still had his unsatisfied longings. "I know what I wish I was, mother," he said one day when his own big brother had gone away and the little boy across the street was ill. "Yes, dear," said his mother. "Per haps you can be it, Harold; mother will help you. Is it to play soldier?" "No, indeed!" said Harold scorn fully. "I just wish I was two little dogs, so I could play together." Youth's Companion. Bouncing Betsey. There is an old fashioned flower call ed "Bouncing Betsey," which every one should love for one trait. We have no ticed that it grows on all neglected graves, as if trying to cover up the fact that some one who once lived is forgotten. It may also be found in orners of old, fashioned gardens. where it grows and blooms and pro tests against being pushed out en tirely. There are some dear old fash ioned people who suggest "Bouncing Betsey."-Atchison Globe. Her Latest Luxury. "Young man," said the heavy father,. "do you u-2derstand the style in which my daughter has been accustomed to live? She has always had every lux ury she wanted." "And now I'm the luxury she wants." murmured the suit or.-Londcn Globe. Time's Changes. "Before we were married you said you'd lay down your life for?me," she sobbed. "I know it," he returned, solemnly. "but this confounded fiat is so tiny there's no place to lay anyithing down." -Harper's -Bazar. Woods Liver Medicine in liquid form regulaJ tes the lhver reliet-es sick headache. constipa tion. stomach, kidney disorders and acts as. a gentle laxative. For chills, fever andt malania. Its tonic erects on the system felt with the uirst dose. The $1.00 bottle contaies 2% Limes as much as the 50c size. The Mannina Plharmacy. "I.hear'dnatiRanter br'okendown~in the middle of his speech the other night," said the mazn who was~kept at home by Illness. "Not exactly," -replied thegnan who was there. "The meeting broke up right in the middle'of his speech!" Needed a -Starter. One night little Margaret, on kneel ing by her mamma to-say 'her prayers, finished, "Now I lay 'me," and'.forgot. "Mamma," she said,, "you just start me, and then :I can Sgo -a-whizzing." Delineator. Qualifed Caller-Isethe lady of~the thouse dn? Waitress (whio has been..glvenl notice) She's in. but-she's no.iady!-Life. The world Is. upheld bythet~veracity THE WITCH'S CURSE. A Bucksport Legend of Colonial Days in Maine. Close by the road on the outskirts of he old seaport town of Bucksport, on he Penobscot river, is a small family emetery. Within its inclosure sleep he Bucks, the blue blooded folk who irst settled the town and bequeathed t their name and a legend. - The largest and most conspicuous nonument in the cemetery is a tali ranite shaft, which is in plain sight of he highway. On one side is the in cription: "Col. John Buck, the Founder f Bucksport, A. D. 1702. Born in laverhill, Mass., 171S. Died March 18. .795." On the other side is the single word 'Buck," and also something not rought by the marb:e worker. On .he smooth surface of the pedestal is curious outline, which can be easily magined to be a foot of normal size. Che people who say that it is a foot elieve in the legend which has oft yeen told in Bucksport. The story is that Colonel Jonathan Suck was a very harsh man and the eading spirit in his day and genera ion. He was the highest in civil au hority, and his word was law in the ommunity in which he resided. He vas an out and out Puritan, and to Lim witchcraft was the incarnation of )lasphemy. Thus, so the story goes, hen a certain woman was accused of vitchcraft, at the first clamorings of he populace Colonel Buck ordered that he be imprisoned, and later she was ;entenced to be executed as a witch. The execution. day came, and the roman went to the gallows, cursing ier -judge with such terrible words hat the people shuddered, but the nagistrate stood unmoved. All was cady, and the hangman was about to >erform his duty, when the woman aurned to Colonel Buck, and, raising me hand toward heaven, she said: "Jonathan Buck, listen to these cords, the last my tongue shall utter. :t is the spirit of the only living God hich bids me speak to you. You will goon die, and over your grave they will rect a stone, that all may know the ;pot where your bones lie and crumble :o dust. "Upon that stone the imprint of my Foot shall appear, and for all time, aft r your accursed race has vanished rom the face of the earth, will the >eople from far and near know that rou murdered a woman." She then turned to her executioners. Lnd another act transpired to make a )art of American colonial history. The witch curse" had been almost forgot :en until the monument was erected to :he founder of Bucksport. It had been in position hardly a nonth when a faint outline was discov red on It. It grew more and more dis inct, until some person made the dis overy that it was the outline of a Foot. The old legend was revived. They said that the "witch's curse" 2ad been fulfilled. An attempt was nade to remove the stain, but every sfort only tended to make it plainer' The imprint of the foot is there today is plain as ever. Amateur photogra hers have taken pictures of it, and a isit to the Buck cemetery to see the "witch's foot" is one of the pastimes of uvery summer visitor to the pretty lit. Ele town-New York World. Encouraging the Boy. "Son," remarked Mr. Erastus Pink ey, "I done heard you tali' 'bout bein i great hunter." "Dat's what I said." answered picka ninny Jim. "P's gwinter hunt lions." "An' you mentioned: bein' er ahtk explorer." "Yassir." "Well. jes' by way of practice befo you tackles any lions lemme see If you kin get de cow out'n pasture wifoui bein' hooked, an' den as de wintei comes along you kin train foh d north pole by wadin' out In de snow to de wood pile twvice a day. An' don Lemime hyah no mo' 'bout not incour agn' yoh youthful ambitions."-Wash. ington Star. The Way to His Vote./ Lord Beaconsfield's skill- in picking up stray votes was well known. Ax illustration of it Is given in a book by Henry W. Lucy. At the time that the imperial titles bill was pending there was a certait pompous little Irishman, Dr. O'Leary, who seemed manageable and was de sirable. One evening in - the lobby Disraeli laid a hand familiarly on his shoulder. "Dear Dr. O'Leary, the resemblance is most striking," he said. "I really thought I saw again my old frienc Tom Moore." The vain little gentleman was cap. tured. He Hits Back. 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Illustrative of the exasperating ease with which chickens occasionally "come hote to roost' is this story from "A Solder's Letters to Charming Nellie." U a day in June. lb;_, in the early part of th.' civil war General Hood of the Texas brigade halted each regi uent in turn and gave his orders. To the Fourth he said: "Soldiers of the Fourth, I know as little of your destination as you do. If, however. *any of you learn or suspect it, keep it a secret. To every one who asks questions answer. 'I don't know.' We are now under the orders of Gen eral Jackson, and I repeat them. to you." General Jackson also gave strict or ders against foraging. but apples were plentiful. and it was contrary to nature for hungry soldiers not to eat them. and so it came about that on the march to Staunton General Jackson came upon a Texan sitting on the limb of an apple tree busily engaged in filling his haversack with the choicest fruit. The general reined in his old sorrel horse and in his customary curt tone asked: "What are you doing in that tree, sir?" "I don't know." replied the Texan. "What command do you belong to&?" "I don't know." "Is your command ahead of you or behind you?" "I don't know." Thus it went on. "I don't know" giv en as answer to every question. Final ly Jackson asked sternly: "Why do you give me that answer to every question?'" "'Cause them's the orders our gen eral gin us this imornin', an' he tole us he got 'cm that er way straight from ole Jackson," replied the man in the tree. Disgusted with a too literal obedi ence to his own commands. but yet not caring to argue the point, General Jackson rode on. A ONE NIGHT CONVERT. Incident In the Temperance Career of Father Mathew. In 1343, when Father Mathew was crusading for total abstinence in Lon don, he created no small amusement for a large party at the hospitable mansion of an Irish nobleman by his attempts, partly playful, but also part ly serious, to make'a convert of Lord Brougham. who resisted good humor edly, but resolutely, the efforts of his zealous neighbor. The incident is re lated by Katharine Tynan in her biog raphy of Father Mathew. "I drink very little wine," said Brougham. "only half a glass at lunch eon and two half glasses at dinner. And, though my medical adviser told me I should increase the quantity, I refused to do so." "He was wrong, my lord, for ad vising you to increase the quantity, and you were wrong in taking the small quantity you do." said Father Mathew, "but I have my hopes of you." And so, after a pleasant resistance 'on the part of the learned lord. Father Mfathew invested his lordship with the silver medal ahd ribbon, the insignia and collar of the "new order of thd Bath." "Then I will keep it," said Brougham, "and take it to the house, where I shall be sure to meet old L.ord - the worse for liquor, and I will put it on him." The announcement of this intention was received with nauch laughter, for the noble lord referred to was notori ous for his potations. Lord Brougham was as good as his word, for on meeting the veteran peer he said. "Lord -, I have a present from Father MIathew for you," and passed the ribbon rapidly over his neck. "Then I tell you what it is. Brough am. I will keep sober for this night," was the peer's unexpected response. And he kept this vow, to the amaze ment .of his friends. The Fare. This is how a driver of the prison van, known as Black Maia, distin guished himself. A would. be wit on the causeway hailed him: "Got any room inside, Robert?" "There's room for one." replied the driver. "We kep' it for you." Not entirely disconcerted, the wit made another shot. "What's your fare?" he asked. The answer entirely extinguished him. "Bread and water-same as you had before!"-Pearson's Weekly. The Great Circus. The famous Coliseum in old Rome, massive as it was, was a mere toy in comparison with the great circus, which filled the valley between the Palatina and the Aventine hills. The Coliseum is said to have been able to seat S0,000 people, while the seating capacity of the great circus was, at different periods, 150,000, 250,000 and, lastly, 3S0,000 spectators. The great circus was probably the most stus pendous building ever erected for pub lic spectacles.-New York American. Wasn't a Beauty. Tired Traveler (to barber)-Spending the niuht in a sleeping car doesn't Im prove one's beauty, does it? Barber I don't k-now what you looked like when you started, but I guess you're right.-Harper's Bazar. Reasonable Enough. "What's your objiection to the farm, mister?" "The land appears to be sunken." "But thars owing to the heavy crops."-Washington Herald. 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