Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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apple He that will not thrill at a woman’* prlaace Is ancient enough to die— But other things hint of heaven as well as a beautiful woman’s eye! And when dispirited, puttering ’round, and the skies gray shadows fling, I look to the days that soon will come with the apple blossoms of spring. There are visions of bobbing oork and line, and sunshine to linger in, And blue mists hovering about the bills that loom a leviathan’s An. And the soul leaps out and bathes Itself In the liquid songs birds sing— And ho! for the apple bloesoms that make the blush on the cheek of spring! , -Will T. Hale, in Chicago Times-Herald. — . A RACE AGAINST ODDS. f'R.a nk w. calkins. EARLY a year be fore Custer’s fatal t * * • “ ,rMl “ •» it it haa Uttle .tftVw |'l'“ e “, for He me Koaa. ai — ** weeK. tt. torrid sli „ , H-Jk*’* Book. ’•b'' surrounding tbe Black Hills was so infested with hos tile bands of In dians that it was not safe for whites to approach the mining region ex cept in large and / * I ■a-'l for speed and endurance was de- . -waavaUA AliUC WAS Cl0“ served, and he patted the neck of the little fellow as kindly as if his own soul was clear of trouble. Buckskin tossed his head with delight, and snorted, “br-r-r-rm!” as if exulting that the time had come to prove his »ky-Iinej galloping An hot) Sioux ha him. Th well mom to a Jong thing of patience. Brave 1 stoutly u ing, but pony’s Jo* stowed h: *nd dried end flung away. Soon a „ yells reached ^ Sioux had junp that his horse' They began • their utmost apt As their beaste race fresher 1 Buckskin, he r» soon come cloij him effectively, Anson drir mounted, anc rage of a bon righteously o I** 101 inch like and the itly upon lat he was lied down lew some- savage Bt held up swift rid- ighten the i blankets, le biscuit pockets, \ saddle-bag choi! io prove mi mettle as it had never been proved be .. O „„ w uoiy o» fore. his fifty-calil' . s'** ct ’P c in larg® a&d Anson, although he had not until shoulder. 1 • * well-armed par- that day had an actual fight with In- halt, but theyJ ties. Numerous narrow escapes have dians, had more than once been in wW —* ‘ , - been recorded, but many desperate ( i an g e r from them. As he had often adventures occurred no accounts of hunted buffalo, elk and antelope, he which have ever been published. . could use a rifle effectively from horse- This story. is an instance in point, back. His Winchester was of the Early in the spring of 1896 John 4 " largest calibre, and his cartridges ■ 1 '” ‘ ” were fresh. If he could secure a posi tion sheltering him on one side, he might hope to beat off the small band now hot upon his trail. But he knew that the 1896 John An- from Southern aud two small aon, a young settler Nebraska, left a wife am children at his homestead and joined a large party of miners and adventur ers who had gathered at Sidney in iue canyons and that State- -a party so formidable in “breaks” of White River, which lay cambers, and so well armed and led, j n front, were swarming with Sionx, that it came through to French Creek lying in wait for stragglers or small in safety. There John Anson parted parties of whites then making for the company with the expedition—it was “Hills.” Moreover, the agency In bound for Dead wood, which had just di an9 at R e d Cloud and Spotted Tail begun to be heard of and joined on either hand were almost as hostile some prospectors near Custer’s Gulch. an( i ag dangerous as the Sioux. He had been at work for three He had planned to lie close in the weeks when a party came from the Cheyenne valley that d** •outh, in which were two of his for- *»-- iu me anon . , , , , * ^ueyenne valley that day, and to ride drew m.r ’neighbors, who told him Zl Peril0a,, when they left, nine davs h-JU— ° diphtheria ahead. The foremc?i in seven hty* judged. Lo lay the sava ’ one hand. 1 crowd, yellin courage and white man. Anson spol less pony, pi ankle, raised' hundred yar knee. The foremd*. that Anson ci parts of his ci^n its color as about his tl ler, longer f rear. The conclnsion ing down, ponies to led rapidly. upon the lard-ridden l they might to shoot at had come! fbrnptly, dis- cool, deadly lan standing ence, brought tester to his the band to Bred out some- ponies darted |was now with- rds, as Anson eck of his pony his quirt with swarmed the up their own Itle that of the igly to the rest- lins around one -sight for four [dropped on one -•^meria was raging fcorhood; th.i hi? “* —— _ me coming night. A ap; — days before, trail with guarded stations led toward I ing in their neigh- Sidney, bat he had left it about mid- /« younger child had night for t»w» —’• other an* 1 o1 —' u ' daring the • stea<' ...u tuner and alst wife was very ill with the disease. Anson was a man of A j- , » youn » “A “>« o«h., | h tan >or ,hh moTdS •te nature. wife and child. Now he had _ — u mease. choice but to ride straight forward a man of most affection- gtop aD( i fight a t a disadvantage. Nothing had sent him As he spurred * forth from home except the hone tn I - upon., 'oM route toward / be i ‘j c no or t mar 1 I was now so near Ike out the lower ]rt and distinguish led and flattered 1 The white man [ d. Two seconds i and pony rolled oj r oeen sternlv hno.; be bad „— «‘“ u cea baq| av, «okneasthaf* g , Up ander home- / 8 * w the Indi?^ r >■*..4 } . tor ® hum-ri/v I *ato the hflfi r ' ' V 0 ^ ^'lOH " J '10air, :■& hungrily at his hold ■fpal,. ih the bed oj saw them rise wild tlu wll» of ""ij; " 0 !> lucks. >n at is So^'bi^d W1, I -O ea 5’ LUo to run many chance, o! death !or^one ■m Of . it he did skin'to his ut hope to do to the imperai.no call of his som. | the breaks Back he would go, and that same eveniag tyonr which brought him the be might hope to lio u ue ui« no. dreadful Jidings saw him on his way. counter another band. He determine ‘‘ 1 a tough, wiry to fight as he ran. So, as he rode on •• -1 * ** to run many cuauov. of escape, but his life was as nothing I )j - imperative call of his soul, th ould go jji- enemy an ^ -lie River orV canyons of the Dining Water. Tl ' to Xo if he did not en- the He was mounted on a tough, wiry t o ngm as uc i»n. _ pony for which he had given every- 0 f the valley along the slope of thing he possessed, except what the bordering high lands, he turned in his pony carried. With only the clothes saddle and fired at the squad of sav- I a pair of blankets, three a g e9 whose ponies were bobbing up ' t^^.rancta -- wiw,uil jn-ass like that he wore, a pair of blanKeis, vuiw _ days provisions, his long-range and down through the tall grass HKe Winchester and one hundred car- a lot of jack-rabbits. He judged them tridges, be started to make the trip. ^ bo nearly b alf a mile distant. for the Cheyenne^ River, ^ be j r jjggjj eye8 can g b t 9 ig b t 0 { — u: - -Wla thev He rode for tue Luejrcu..,, . thirty miles distant, as his first stage. t be puff of smoke from hi t_ 41,a **11 ffrass of the river bottom scattered and spread out, ’ ’ 1 *- * dozen white puffs rose - 1 bis rifle they fanlike. A to get h soon t quite you ev may 9? V 1 ? as - 1 PonK,,^/ bullet and the the shelter of fourth stopped tiring under his With a ccrtai for his good lo: open the lever he did not spee to kill no man Anson’s aim ■nust have Agt., -.fc an d ‘ * £• t tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit-g Orders d^clj Bread all • «ied at wL: a feeling of extreme uneasiness. There was something ominous in that sudden disappearance of the Indians. His eye roved continually over the plain on all sides of him. Had they dropped into some hidden ravine that intercepted his route? Perhaps they were gone to arouse other camps of Sionx not far distant. At any rate ho should ride faster. As the slow trot had relieved his pony, which seemed still in good condition, he sparred for ward now at a canter. Half an honr passed away and still no sign of Indians! He was now moving down the slope toward White River, and had begun to feel less alert, when his roving glance struck what seemed a little ridge not two hundred yards to his right hand. He rode to ward it and saw that it was indeed, as he had suspected, a gash in the plain, a hidden ravine, stretching, insinuat ing and treacherous, beside his lino of retreat. Now he knew what had become of the Indians. This ravine must lead back closo to the place where he had fought them; they had taken to its cover; they were hotly after him and looking for a chance to shoot him from behind the wall of the gash. He must get beyond range of its edge. An$on veered off instantly and rode to the northeast, determined to hold that direction until across White River, but he had not ridden a half- mile in the new direction before com ing upon the head of another abrupt, ditch-like ravine, which ran descending to the north. Anson halted a moment and stared warily about him. A drop in front of the general level showed the trace of still another canon, parallel to the course he had ridden that day, run ning to the valley of White River. He was between two ravines, and the Sioux were doubtless in both ot them. Anson saw no way left but to make his race down the divide; so he turned his horse directly toward White River and galloped on for dear Hie. The savages intended to catch him either while crossing one of these ravines or at the month of it. They were prob ably in advance, bat he might still get ahead by a burst of speed. The country, growing rougher as he approached the river valley, made hard running for his pony, but he kept little Bnckskin at his best pace for the next twenty minutes, and then plunged down into the broad level land with deep relief, as he had left the months of the canons on either hand. Again he felt that strange sense of having been befriended by Providence, and now his hope to A FAMOUS OIL WIZA JACOB LONG’S UNERRING FOI STICK POINTS TO THE FLUIC Rerent DUcoverles Made HU Repul National—For a Long Time Befoi Oil Fever Became epidemic H< Generally Known m tbe Water W At Jefferson, Ind., lives a mar has been famous because of his ring prediction as to the locati oil streams in the bowels of the < His name, says the St. Lonis Dispatch, is Jacob Long. Ho the trick with a forked stick. Twenty years ago, when yet i prime, Long was sought after fa near. He was known as a water v and whenever a saw-mill or pli residence was selected it was that Long was called upon to nature had made provision for i By means of a forked stick, one ; of which he held in each feaud, ai single prong pointing upward, would begiu his search for the v water. As he passed over th< the forked stick would turn hands and point downward. So unerringly ffld Long perfor work that no one thought of pi down a well in his vicinity uulea water witch was consulted. Once, about twenty years ago, Long was searching for wab forked peach limb performed sui tics that even the diviner was an When seeking to locate water tin always turned outward from hi: point'd down, but only when i ing directly over the vein of and losing the strange power w was "crossed. But on this oc the poach limb turned both iuwa outward and on any place wi several-acre tract. This phenomenon was 1 more Long could comprehend. He si about it seveial weeks and went to J. H. Dowell, a man of ing, aud inquired what else cor found in the earth. Dowell, enumerating many natural pro stated that in some parts of the try oil and gas were also found, then announced to his rural bors that under their farms la; reservoirs of gas and oil. Ho i did this seem that he w*as laug and suspicions cast upon his i Ho tried to induce some of 1: qnaintances to aid in proving sertions, but without suceess hard work he had secured a farm, and when confronted By cial difficulties he deeded ii brother, who subsequently refu it back. thers, T HIS 1 ji^Kcarefal ^ bia sky there the *Vr6 shoot- —. XX *uUer the third heavy ^’ler scurried away to ‘small mound. The Indian in the act of nimal’s neck. FElwild impulse of they shonted uetiance and tunes m another State. He ^ointment, and fired scattering Crawford County, Ohio. ^ as thfg rode along the slope of Dunntr * bluff. When he dismounted to tiswer them, they hnrried back to the mouth of the ravine. Anson rode on again, and saw no more of the savages, and he did not encounter any others that afternoon. He crossed White River, made his way safely throm/L — juiia , —through the cavernous and precipitous breaks upon the other side, and camped to rest him.—'' his —— rest himself and experienced ,an oil boom, Long and his forked stick a figure. Finding few believe in his In the tall grass ot me nvox he picketed his pony, then spread his second later, a dozen white puns rose blankets at daybreak aud was soon from their breech-loaders, and several •leening soundly; for this man was no ii tt lo spouts of dust, knocked up along own life, and no u lUa hill the ^ tlieir p 0nie8 * '-v. *nnirn. trol mot 1 valsliiis I love range, Anson threw of his fifth shot. Bat l are m bullet. He wished a * opt in defence of his ter- • * s weary pony. That night, as he had now no pro vision for a ride directly across the country, he made a detour and reached the stage road to Sidney. From there he took th* 1 | in cut who i ..uiige power and mg no money of his own, he gai services for little or nothing, worked hard to accamnlate mom put down a well for himself, but tune was reluctant to smile upon 1 He claims now to possess the seen a pool of oil three miles wide at little over a mile long in the < field, which he hopes sometime to and of which he has told no location. Whil an C on* acts necessary H e must sleep to about iveness of the United States Government had m Bleeping eounmy, ‘ d be d ia - the side hill aoouv ™ ---- rang e. i weak degenerate^ (rnm tbe A ff n( .tiveness of the rifles ^ w The Indian b< b atfets longer ,and safer n Ohio he learned that ..oc ui ms route home, which he finally reached prediction made to a neighbor i he Sioux had sprang to find that his wife and surviving, county^ twenty years x 1 were racing out of child were entirely recovered— ts ’ Youth’s r • e st nd — * the United aiamo — perate enterprise. He mum — furnished them ever, held his keep his power of riding and fighting, Had he been &t hftU th mi bt bave firing. Anson and sleep he did as if wUh iron reso- bit h i m> aml ye t he felt he must halt ® u £. then lution. ........ to shoot well and get the full benefit Urn S 10UX The stm showed that the time was ., . . “ the man was an about ten o’clock in the foienoon when f “ Qw ^ looke d P f 0 rward grimly to Jer than a carbk Anson was roused by the shrill whin- tbe end of the chase. It come to him feet without fin nymg of his pony. He sat up and saw lhat if hfl knew hiH wife aQ(i his other pony. Buckskin, with headhigh gazing to- cMld at hom0 were dead of that terri . Finding Baa wardthe western hUlj. There a num- ble disease he should delight to face “^ 9 “ aD ber of horsemen had halted upon a 8 uareIy about at once, and fight as ^‘teRiv nver ’ an,i ™ ol <>okmg lQ \ g a9 y Ufe aQ d ammunition held out. ^the But he did not know this, and so he would kee,, kept on steadily toward home. un *, . , . cou *'| 8 *—-j —imaking of S! he “° Und . W Bu in t] I not j j tsars ago had be verified, and he returned here. I predictions since then have been enrate and precise, and he is now ginning to eniov t>«» ’ _ _ • Ida lea Isti rise across the river intently in his direction. They were Indians. At first Anson guessed they must hare thought that an Indian had made a lone camp or stopped zo stalk game. — * - —later ho saw they But a moment later situation; for ho had grasped tho situation ) 1UI uv scarcely risen to his feet when they * —*- into the 3pi» V/xa Ho felt postered, goaded, fierce, but - 1" —i and warv. He would not by v , outl y> A nson almost as a dir< Still cool and wary. Re woum almo8t as a dire; auy miscalculation imperil his poo onhi>beba H. chances of reaching his wife andhtUe shotg mugt have Alice; he judgment told him he must stop aud -1.™*—then woe to the nearest of the would ruu wisely till ms In di aE3 mU8 t h aud ' down into the slloot then woe foe! . soon carried him to the spurre.u iuu«. valley toward him. Thera were thirteen r.~. of them, and his case was plaiulydes- y e in ^ porate. , The pace He was ^t a loss for some seconds high ci whether to stand and fight or to run, eeparal but as the long grass would give them ftnd White Rivers. Then he saw ior ■** ^-xiormined miles on every hand gray plains to the v>,A.,u a nf White »a , 1 hi211 cactus-sprinkled plateau whicn t ’°Se was -t a loaa tor aoma j ,/par.ted tb. r.U.jaot the ChajaMe but as tue long giao,. cover to approach him, he determined mnesou ----- „ . bv riding. Ho set right, the precipitous breaks of White which was so in frnnt looming up on the op- abou^ saddling^his pony, which was so River in front a and uneasy thatit nearly broke poeite side of its valley and tue clear- • • • — lv defined outlines of Crow Buttes far finally to escape looming up and the clear- a ay ■ When he n ad 1 ex( . those behind him. ing the cinches. Wfhen the Indians were *• * « he within mounted, the Indians weic half-mile of him, and he already faint- ft » * '* ’ -* Mb nrenaration bright 1 l _ a the day was was about noon; race for life would be His half-mile oi mm, . ly heard their yells at his preparation Dri 8“‘- . for flight. They were Sionx, and he noted by any war-parties on the plain knew they “meant business.” 8 « P 11 ® 8 - He , ^new well how He wondered grimly how many of hopeless his case would prove should n \t h* i eft to transact this »ny Indians be where they could cut - • off his advance JUkV »w —— - them would be left .. “business” when they should have — closed in on John Anson—him who He continued to scan the level Vould be defending himself in the plains anxiously, and once was star hope of reaching his wife and his lit- tied for an instant by the sight of sev tie Alice, and the grave of his dead eral crows flapping along near the baby • horizon far in front of him. It i To bis satisfaction, he found his amazing that large birds flying on the hundred yards it wonderful tha| pony had been how few marksnl curacy at such After Auson tauce, the lucl the place where watched them they dismounte selves around fallen. They s low him no fartlj be might hope that dangerous of the coming ni| After a time toward the Siou see only the bl dians had utterl; How had the Back, Anson del raviue which hi: he judged he wa middle of the Cheyenue and t' Auson jogged S1 nce then cise, ai J the I years he w English j M44U prefers German admits that aside from being al locate oil wells b* — - wVAA & — precise, and he is now b Bipfhs. ition and kept on “Two xvhoop* an’ a Holier.” ginning to enjoy the local fame he hi idrped his gun that In various parts of the country they 60 on S 8on g t. . _ a observed how far bave a way of telling distances by ) Long is sixty years old — 5 *l«t fell. Evidently “right smart piece.” '‘gunshot off,” < j or ‘ , ou *> r *i with nothing bet- “day’s journey,” and the like; but in dia ° a ’ , 6 ca ? “ Anson rose to his Southwest Florida they do it differ- „ r 1 ok . enly and and examined his ently. A party of amateur pedestrians ,, , . , . were “doing” the State, and, as often S'" ou . w ®i. 18 he 18 the , “° 8t \va unharmed, the happens with such travelers, had lost ant man 1Q th® country, being iinable • and rode on toward their way. It was near night and they read wnt «. a ad lowing little of ig-trot, hoping he were at a loss what to do. Presently th ® out8ld e world. ’lof Indians a lesson they met a countryman riding a cow. A i_-_- p-.. 'em at a distance “Can you tell us how far it is to Bos- Two t, ao 3 of lan^Z?,*,* di. them the slip. ton?” one of the party asked. The C nLLVmntt firs anll i! 4 dfe and child de- countryman looked to the right and their nrofession “Pin ^ a ive 40 f ded his escape i e ft as though seeking information t1 „ v y i* , p . apl 8 ^position of God fr0 m the palmettos and n^>- fir8t °f ® ach than a hundred - them. ’ • * in in onh Hi able tt You can’t money.” — * do? lal- -j~ so'- my money regularly.” “How do you manage it?” “It is very simple. For am teachim? a i—^ -- * ^ be — i or instance, I ■iu teaching a boy French, and on the first day of the month his folks don’t send the amount due for the ~—’ month T_ —was the reply. * uuen have to wait weeks aud ^—- ooemed to weeks before I get my pay, and some- ...ao tuis as challenging his veracity, times I don’t get it at all Y— -- “ u ‘ hl ® for he once more looked questionably well dun the parents for the hough he knew a t the palmettos and prickly pears. “Why don’t you do as I d t shoot with ac- “P’raps hit may be some furder,” he TV . 3ys „ et money b. admitted, reflectively, “but I Mow hit .*tj.— ' Iden a short dis- a i n ’t more’n two whoops an’ a holler.” ame forward to —- lad fought. He New Breadinaklng Proceaa. is shoulder, as A French inventor converts grain _ lU o previous grouped them- into dough at one operation without month. In that case I give the boy another of the miMug. The grain is soaked, and the following exercise to translate and ’ntend to fol- eQ tering one end of the machine is write out at home: ‘I have no money, le concluded crn8 t e d and disintegrated, the paste The month is up. Hast thou any ■ ® feIy °“ t oI passing on to the kneading machine money? I need money very much. e darkness at tbe 0 ther>nd of the apparatus, where Why hast thou brought uo money this , . it is aerated and kneaded into dongh, morning? Did thy father not give joked back wbiob can be preserved indefinitely thee any money? Has he no money am Tn! r ° without injury. The nutritive quali- in the pocketbook of his uncle’s great I. mein- tie8 0 f tbe grain, bran included, are aunt?’ This fetches them. Next kept. morning that boy brings the money.*' Powd— — s mil l ■*' * * have its bill of * * uage. •V. d where? Into some issed, for np on the r ®en the ■vf , ^ flyaiot Meuug No restaurant ®e with x«aMiarant in St. Petersburg will be allowed hereafter to have i*“ i : " * fare exolnaiwA'- i- 'jreign 1, > * Russian version must always be added. wa tu nave its b lare exclusively in a foreign langc By a recent edict a Rusai*>" — mn«* Bricks ~ “ ae of p Iaster- 0 f. r Cor k are now used ir; be r ' 0 ^ ari8 and , w U.3i of powder mills, they offer slight broken to stoma. _ construction In case of explosion resistance and are