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NEWS OF DR. DARK. BACK SWAMP ITEMS. A FISH STORY. WHEELS AND TYPEWRITERS He Is Klecled Prluclpal «if Jbe Harrisburg, Pa , High bchool. The Newa of This Busy, BustliDg and Proa- Capt. W. H. Day in giving hia sketch of the schools yesterday re* ferred to the fact that Prof. Sam uel A. Baer was the first superin tendent. Many of our citizens remember Dr. Baer, and they will be pleased to know that he has achieved dis tinction in his northern home. He has just been elected principal of the Harrisburg, Pa., high school, a position of honor and large re sponsibility. In giving the news of his election the Harrisburg News says: “He is a gentleman of most pleating address and for many years past has stood in the front rank of educators in Penn ey l▼Auia.’ , The News says further: “Dr. Baer is a lecturer of note and has achieved a high reputation on the Vostrum as a pleasing ora tor. His evening lectures on “Environment.” “Hoiae luttu- euces,” and ‘‘Ihe Palatines in America” have been received with favor wherever he has given them.t r has also won distinction tructor at teacher's iusti- kes a specialty Dr. as aq tutes. of pri zeme nd school man- instruction to era. Among he discusses the following: ” “the What and Why Periods,” “The Reoita- “fact iur Teaelupg,” “The Art of Questioning,”' t *morals and Manners,” “U*bit and Habits,” “Schoolroom Atmosphere,” “Les sons in Patriotism,” “Teaching Think.” “Attention as 'Perception,’ y Culture,” “The Culture of Imagination,” “PhythagoraH,” “Socrates as a Teacher,” “Abe lard,” “Oomenias.'* Dr. B»er is especially skillful as ati organizer, and as a discipli narian is as good as the best. He has friends here who wish him Pupils to Think,” M every etiocesa. The Paris Kentuckian says: Mr. James McClure, of the Agricul tural Bank, tells this one: ‘One of our depositors recently gave his wife a check for $10, the check being regularly filled out aud duly signed, except that it was made payable to “sweetestof the greet.” When the lady presented the check for payment I innocently in quired : “Who is this “sweetest of the tweet?’-” “Why it’s me,” ehe replied. I told her to endorse the check, which she did and) handed it back. “But, madam,” I said, “you must eodorse it just ‘as drawn, ‘to the sweetest of the sweet.’ ” She snatched up the pen and wrote the words below the name, and I paid the money. It it the most remarkable docu ment in our possession, and will be framed and btang in the bank.’ ” Last. One gold cuff button. Reward if left at this office. l>erous tfei-tloa—Personal Notes. Mrs. A. J. W. Bacot has re turned from Saluda. I am very sorry to report her not so well. The deer hunters had fine luck this week. They killed a great many (mosquitoes,) Misses Minnie and Nellie Jarrott, of Floreace, visited Miss Edna Clarke last week. * Little Gregg Privett, son of J. E. Privett is very ill with dypthe- ria. We hope for the best for the little one. Around McCall’s X Roads is a busy time just now. Cotton pick ing, mowing hay, molasses boil- ing and ginning occupy the atten tion of the farmers from early morn until dewy eve. Mr. W. C. Flowera, Bafck Swamp’s leading merchant, haa just return ed from the marketa. Mr. Flow- era is aituated on Pine Tree Park aud will be glad to aeo hia friends whether on a visit or otherwise. He reports trade fine on Saturday nights. Advertise in the Times-Messen- gek, aud it will be good all the week. Now that the cotton and tobacco crop haft to be marketed we*re spectfully call the attention of the townshTpCommissionersto thehill at Black Creek Bridge. Yon know, a good road haa a great deal to do with where a man marketa hia crop. Good prices Mil^raod roada are what we want^HMv na good roada for yon know how you blessed the old commissioners last year. A truth-telling girl who ia known as a wit declares that she gets up her good things in advance, ia not ashamed to admit it, and thinks other successful talkers do the game thing. “Why, I should never get along,” she said, “if I just went out without the slightest notion of what I was going to say or how 1 meant to say it. No, I don’t regard it as deceptive on my part at all. It’s a legitimate means to a legitimate end, just as legitimate as it is for orators aud after-dinner speakers, and everybody knows that they think over what they are going to say. If more girls would do it it would mean more conversation aud less twaddle. With men, of coarse, it ie different. They talk well under any and all circumstances.” That last touch is artful enough 10 suggest that this talk, too, was prepared in advance. Dawn parties are a new society experiment m France, according to the Westminister Gazette. In vitations sent out from a country house at Amboise read: “The Baronne de C. requests the pleas ure of your company to drink a cup of coffee and hear the song of the lark on Saturday, at 5 o’clock in the morning. N. B—Dancing in the dew.” Many Members of the Finny Tribe are Caught in Black Creek, But the Haul Below ia a Record Breaker Mr. Goude who is attending couit this week tells of some mar velous feats performed by himself and partner at stump landing on Black creek in catching bream. Mr. Goude stands head in the army of piscatorial experts that shovel the mud in search of ample worms aloug the verdaut banks of old Black creek. The last revela tion as to size and number caught by Mr. Goude and partner is an eye opener to the uninitiated in reeling off fish yarns. Forty-five bream weighing two aud one-half pounds each he aud his partner lauded safely on the bank at the famous stump lauding on a bright sunny evening last week. Taking everything into consideration the great upheaval in our political world, the short crops and low price for cotton, such fish yarns as Mr. Goods spins naturally create a spirit ot unrest among the peo ple who live far away from the finny tribe that are waiting to be caught at the old stump landing, and it may possibly cause a panic among disappointed farmers, mer chants, lawyers and editors une- qualed by the rush tor the Klon dike mines in Alaska. We hope in the future when Mr. Goude dis tills such charming fish stories to a greedy public, he will give ii to ns in sobei tints, as the vivid coloring be spreads over them tends to demoralize the people who think they have struck a bonanza when purchasing a stale millet in the streets of Florence.. Free Exhibition. Mr. Jno. E. Chisolm, the in ventor of Chisolm’s hay press has arranged to exhibit hts press and its mnuuer of working at Mr. L. T. Barnes truck farm to-morrow afternoon beginning about 2 o’clock. All people, particularly those interested in the baling of hay. are asked to be present. ConstiI O’Hara Sends in a Report of Their Hale* in Niraragtia. Washington, September 8.— Consul O Hara at San Juan del Norte, has sent to the State De partment a lorg report of the sale of bicycles, typew. iters and other articles in Nicaragua. He says that no wooden rims are used on bicycles there, on account of the weather. Also that the roads are not very good for wheeling. Span- ish-American women have not as yet taken to the wheel. He thinks with active agents sales of ma chines could be pushed. Type writers are not in very general use. Hia Hopeh. (Harlem Life.) “I hope you appreciate the fact, sir, that in marrying my daughter you marry a large-hearted, gener ous girl.” “I do, sir,” with emotion “and I hopejhe inherits those qualities from her father.” Fifty-five years in bed is the record of Miss Clarke, of Chatter- ie, in Cambridgeshire, who died recently. She was disappoi nted iq love, and shut herself up in her bed room, which she never left alive. She was well off, and oc cupied herself with fancy needle work. Horses and Mules. The undersigned has just re turned from the Virginia horse market, and has brought back a carload of horses aud mules suita ble for all purposes. They all are Virginia raised and you can find in the lot good horses for family use. A good chance to secure a good horse or mule. s3tf. S, D. Rodgers Family Hons. Good family horse, suitable for children and ladies and first-class top buggy and harness for sale cheap for cash. $60 takes the ouh- fit. Applv at this office. —" - — LOOK! LOOK! SOLD BY F. H. Hudson. 1 BURNER, $3.25 2 BURNERS, $4.75 3 BURNERS, $6.50 Advantages we claim: It is superior to any gasoline stove, md does not endanger life or property. You can burn any nil that is refined from petroleum. Yours from time to time, F\ H. HUDSON. S«p 10-tf