Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"There's a little life here?not much. Polly!" he called. This brought Mrs. Cavendish from one of the two cabins that occupied the center of the raft. When she i caught sight of Yancy she uttered a i shriek. Her cry had aroused the other denizens of the raft. Six little Cavendishes, each draped in a single garment, tumbled forth from their shelter. "I reckon we'd better lift him on to one of the beds?get his wet clothes olT and wrap him up warm," said Polly. "Oh. Dut him in our bed!" cried all the little Cavendishes. And Yancv was borne 'into the smaller of the two shanties, where presently his bandaged head rested on the long pillow. Then his wet 'Clothes were hung up to dry along with the family wash, which fluttered on a rope stretched between the two shanties. ? ** *** The sheriff had brought the Judge's eupper. He reported that the crowd was dispersing, and that on the whole public sentiment was not particularly hostile; indeed, he went so far as to say there existed a strong* undercurrent of satisfaction that the jail should have so speedily justified itsetf. Presently the sheriff went his way Into the dusk of the evening, aod night came swiftly to fellowship the judge's fears. A single moonbeam found its way into the place, making a thin rift in the darkness. The judge sat down on the three-legged stool, which, with a shake-down bed, furnished the jail. Where was Solomon Mahaffy, aiid where Hannibal? He felt that Mahaffy could fend for himself, but he experienced a moment of genuine concern when he thought of the child. Then?there was a scarcely audi- ' ble rustle on the margin of the woods, a dry branch snapped loudly. Next a stealthy step sounded in the clear- i 1ng. The judge had an agonized < vision or regulators ana lyncners. The cautious steps continued to approach. A whisper stole Into the ] jail. "Are you awake, Price?" It was Ma- < haffy who spoke. "God bless you, Solomon Mahaffy!" cried the judge unsteadily. "I've got the boy?he's with me," said Mftbaffy. "God Myg, you both!^repeated the Judge brokenly. "Take care ot him, Solomon. I feel better now, knowing he's In good hands." "Please, judge?" it was Hannibal. "Yes, dear lad?" "I'm mighty sorry that ten dollars I loaned you was bad?but you don't need ever to pay it back! It were Captain Murrell gave it to me." "I consecrate myself to his destruction! Judge Slocum Price cannot be humiliated with impunity!" "I should think you would save I your wma, .trice, uuiu juu u v?c?vidled out of danger!" Mahaffy spoke gruffly. "How are you going to get me out Of this, Solomon?for I suppose you are here to break jail for me," s?id the judge. "Well, Price, I guess all we can do in to go back to town and see If 1 can get into my cabin?I've got an old saw there. If I can find it, 1 can come again tomorrow night and cut away one of the logs, or the cleats of the door." "In heaven's name, do that tonight, Solomon!'* implored the judge. "Why procrastinate?" "Price, there's a pack of dogs in this neighborhood, and we must have a full night to movo In, or they'll pull us down before we've gone ten t miles!" "You're right, Solomon; I'd forgot-1 ten the dogs." Mahaffy closed and fastened the; 1 shutters, then he and Hannibal stole | across the clearing and entered the f woods. The judge went to bed. lie 1 was aroused by the arrival of his ' breakfast, which the sheriff brought * about eight o'clock. "Well, if I was in your boots 1 couldn't sleep like you!" remarked that official admiringly. "But I reckon, j 1 sir, this ain't the first time the peni-lfi tentiary has stared you In the lace." t It was Hearing the noon hour when I _ the judge's solitude was again in- j vaded. He first heard tho distant mur-1 mur of voices on the road and passed J -an uneasy and restless ten minutes,! ; with his eye to a crack in the door, lie was soothed and reassured, however, when at last he caught sight of the sheriff. "Well, judge, I got company for you," cried tlie sheriff cheerfully, as j he threw open the door. "A hoss- 1 thief!" He pushed into the building a man, | hatless and coatless, with a pair of i pale villainous eyes and a tobacco- j stained chin. The judge viewed the ; newcomer with disfavor. As lor the aorsfthief, he gave his con.p. i. .? ; ! misery a coldly critical stare, seated j himself on the stool, and with Quito j a fierce air devoted aJl his energy U> | - J- * ?l m IMHI mastication. He neither altered his position nor changed his expression until he and the judge were alone, then, catching the judge's eye. he made what seemed a casual movement with his hand, the three lingers raised; but to the judge this clearly was without significance, and the horse-thief manifested no further interest where he was concerned. He did not even condescend to answer the one or two civil remarks the judge addressed to him. As the long afternoon more itself away, the judge lived through the many stages of doubt and uncertainty, for suppose anything had happened to Mahaffy! Standing before the window, the judge watched the last vestige of light fade from the sky. and the stars appear. Would Mahaffy come? The "Neighbor, That Means Me!" He Cried. Buspense was Intolerable. Suddenly out of the silence sounded a longdrawn whistle. Three times it was repeated. The horse-thief leaped to bis feet. "Neighbor, that means me!" he cried. The moon was rising now, and by its light the judge saw a number of horsemen appear on the edge of the> woods. They entered the clearing, picking their way ^mong the stumps without haste or confusion. When quite close, five of the band dismounted; the rest continued on about the Jail or cantered off toward the road. "Look out inside, there!" cried a voice, and a log was dashed against the door; once?twice?it rose and, fell on the clapboards, and under: those mighty thuds grew up a wide gap through which the moonlight streamed splendidly. The horse-thief, stepped between the dangling cleats and vanished. The judge tossed away the stool.; He understood now. With a confident, not to say jaunty step, the judge emerged from the jail. "Your servant, gentlemen!" He said, lifting his hat. "Git!" said one of the men briefly, and the judge moved nimbly away toward the woods. Now to find Solomon and the boy, and then to put tho miles between himself and Pleasantville with all diligence. As he thought this, almost at his elbow Mahaffy and Hannibal rose from behind sx fallen log. The Yankee motioned for silence and pointed west. Lock for the Light. Learn to look for the light. PosIively refuse to harbor shadows and i dots, and the deformed, tho disfigired. the discordant. Hold to those hings that give pleasure, that are lrlpful and inspiring, and you will j liange your whole way of looking at i hings. will transform your character j n a very short time.?Orison Swett J darden. It's Enough. "How do you get capers? Do you ! lg "em or what?" "I've heard of cut- ! ' g em. mat's aw i Know."?wasn- j igtun Herald. i Tlie University of South Carolina. | The University of South Carolina,I a lirst class college with courses ini Law, Engineering, and Commerce and| Finance. Forty-three teachers' scholarships worth $100 in money and exemption from fees. A rare chance for an aspiring young man. The health and morals of the stu-l d-mts are the first care. Enrollment -143 students. Many improvements next session, j Entrance examinations will be held a* the Court House on Friday, July; 12th, at 0 o'clock. For catalog write to S. C MITCIIKLL, President. Columbia, S. C. I I Saved! I E "I refused to be operated H H on, the morning I heard H ?1 about Cardui," writes Mrs. I 9 Elmer Sickler, of Terre H ?j Haute, ind. "I tried Car- I 9 dui, and it helped me H ?8 greatly. Now, I do my own H U washing and ironing." |] ICARDUI The Woman's Tonic 1 Bj Cardui is a mild, tonic Bj remeay, purely vegetaoie, h E9 and acts in a natural man- H 3 neron the delicate, woman- H H ly constitution, building H EH up strength, and toning up H R the nerves. In the past 50 H H years, Cardui has helped R 9 more than a million women. R Q You are urged to try it, R H because we are sure that H H it will do you good. R At all drag stores. H ffinfflnHHi a a Politics in Edgefield County. I a At present everything points to a very sane and sober cajnpaign in this county. With the liquor question * practically eliminated by the recent } failure to have an election ordered on j the dispensary it is not likely that any . "burning issues" will be presented or discussed from the stump. A great eurprise politically came when Giles D. Mima announced officially that he has decided for business reasons to withdraw from the race for the state senate This leaves but two asplrants, B. E. Nicholson and B. B. May* boh. < One Man Shot Robert Brown, alias "Nigger Shirt," J shot and almost instantly.killed Edinborongh Lawyer on the plantation of ! H. B. Richardson, Jr., about five miles west of Summerton. Roth parties are I { negroes employed by Mr. Richardson, Brown being the foreman and Lawyer cne of the farm hands. The trou- | ? ble leading tip to the killing began I j when Brown had some trouble in the ; , field with Lawyer in regard to some j ^ work. Lawyer renewed the row when i j he was shot by Brown, it is said, in j self-defence. j, I How to Get a Change. ( When it is impossible to move a f convalescent into different surround- f Ings for the sake of a change, move the furniture and pictures of the room j t Into different places. An invalid often j r Vires of seeing the same pictures and ( ornaments in the same places week t tfter week. Change the position of th? j * furnishings, and it will seem almost j r like moving into another room. f i Regard of Merit. "I sec one of our big corporations Is ^ going to do something for its old clerks." "Good enuugh! What form jl iwill it take?" "Well, after a man has | < been with 'hem 25 years, they're go- j s ing to give him a gold stripe on his j 1 sleeve."?Louisvillo Courier-Journal. ! f 1 ^ i Hospital Service for Dogs. f A special ambulance service has j t recently been started in London for wounded dogs. It is run in connection . ?- ' I*.. I Inul i _ wnn me Annuais j-iuninim tute at Ivinnerton street, Pimlico. | When a dog is run over in the street or injured in any way, the hospital may he 'phoned and a motor ambu lance is immediately despatched. A qualified attendant always accom- ' panics the ambulance. c r c New Preservative for Wood. A solution or ten Der cent, oorax and five per cent, rosin is driven into ivood hy electricity In Franco w prolerve rt. v Revised Edition. n "Know thyself," is advice frequently a given, hut if you want to maintain 5 J our self-respect know as little of thy- s Self as possible. C a Lame back is usually caused by ' rheumatism of the musltds of the ^ hack, for which you wil find nothing t better than Chamberlains 'Liniment. v Benefit of Chera> Libr Concert by M Miss Eva 1 Assisted by ( Cheraw Gra May 31sil Mrs. McLe Reserved Seats , General Admission Tickets sold at Music Company. WELCOME TO PKESS MEN. Spartanburg Will Entertain Association This Year?Meeting Will be Held Sext Month. Columbia.?The annual gathering if the South Carolina Press Associition in Spartanburg on June 10 will ittract every South Carolina newspa>er worker who can spare the time to kitend, and indications are that the :oming meeting will be one of the nost largely attended yet held, H. L. Vatson of the Greenwood Index, preadent of the association, and John kVood, secretary of the Spartanburg :hamber of commerce, have the preparations for the meeting in hand, and kvarv Hotoii wftl he attended to ere he time for the meeting arrives. The first meeting will be held Monlay, June 10, and another session will )e held Tuesday morning. On Tueslay the annual address will be delivered by Charles H. Grasty, the p.reiilent and general manager of the Bal iiinjp?Aui. immmmmmrn* ng Siewspaper men of the United States. His subject will be "The Projressive Procession as Seen from the Newspaper Window." On Wednesday morning, June 12, he association will leave for the anlual trip over the C. C. & 0. railroad n a special train of Pullman cars, sleepers and diners. The plan is to eacs Spartanburg about 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, stop at Alta ?as3 for a couple of hours, and then ro to Johnson City and spend part of he night there in sleepers. Early Thursday morning the special will mil c?jit for Dante. Va., where the big :oal mines are. These will pe. inspected and the train will leave Dante ibout noon. At Speer's Ferry a side trip will he aken over the V. & S. W. to Natural j Tunnel, and "then back to Johnson I ^ity Leaving there Friday morning, hence to Alta Pass, and from there i o Spartanburg iu time Friday after-{ loon for the members to catch the . Mitgoing trains for their homes. A New Head is to be Built. As a result of a petition received 11 jy the Hichland county commission-1 tr a public highway will be con- h itructed from a point on the Conga- i ee road, about a mile and a half h rom the intersection. of that road i vith the Leeshurg road, to the Gar- < ier'3 Ferry road at the Baptist rhurch. The petitioners asked that : Via Viiohuv.v ha established and work-11 ?d by the county, and in considera-lj ion of this stated that they would ; ;rant to the commissioners all the and necessary for the proper contraction of the roadway, consisting ?f a right of way 20 feet wide. Wherever it may be necessary to traverse he property of any of the petitioners >y the cutting of curves, the property iwners have expressed their willlngtess to give their permission to tho :ounty to act in the matter. Files Decision in Three Cases. Judge Gary filed with the clerk of ( he court decisions on three cases on fhich motions were recently made for iew trials. The Sanders verdict gainst *he Southern railway for $12,00 was allowed to stand. In the uit of Halsall against the Atlantic 'oast Line, in which a new trial wa3 sked for by the defendant, the moion was granted. In the suit of Taner against the Phnrleston Terminal ,'ompanv, Judge Gary refused the moion expressing the opinion that the erdict of SS.000 should stand. n Garded School ary usic Class of 3. Grigsby Dhorus from dcd School , 8 P. M. an's Lawn 25 cents 15 cents firm of Cheraw ^ South Carolina New Enterprises. A commission was issued to the Realty Trust Company of Anderson, with a capital of $20,000, to do a general real estate business, the petitioners being H. A. Orr, A. Carl Lee and W. W. Sullivan The Hartsville Arcade Hotel Company of Hartsville | was commissioned with a capital "of1 $40,000, to build a hotel at Hartsville, the petitioners being J J. Lawton, M. ... S. McKinnon and A. L, Abbott. A charter was issued to the ^iakdene Compress and Warehouse Company of Charleston, with a capital of $150,000, to do a cotton compress and forwarding business, the officers being: R. G. Rhett, president; F. S. Hanckel, secretary, and William E Huger, treasurer ' . r I Interesting Politics in Georgetown. * joipnos jo; 3DUJ ey; uj eq HIM 'e;e3ujAi Ai osuisf ;sq; suiees ptrs 'bB9j3uoo jo; aosj eq; uj eq iiqs qojd him paszBH '?Sb sXsp me; s peounouus bum sy 'esue;u| ojoui qonra ;seje;ui eq; eqsui 'esanoo jo Him 'diqsaoHOHOfl eq; pun sbojSI ^ -uoo q;oq joj ptey eq; ui se;spiptr?o| -sod eq} 'e;s;s eq; ;ndq5no^^j?q!^^B esie pus eaeq seywejo insjn;?a emeig I "AOQ pus seuof eSpnf uee.wjeq ;q3m eq; qojqM ;seje;n( peqjsui eq; o; uo|;l -ipps ui pieq ueeq je.\e ssq qojqM '^;unoo 8{q; ;o sjdoed eq; o; 3ui;se -js)ui ;soui eq; ;o euo eq Xiqsqojd HIM uSisdaiBO 3u;qosoJdds eqj, GreenTille Horse Show Closed. With the exhibits Tield the sixth annual exhibtion of the Greenville Horse Show came to a close. The en tries this year eciipsea mose 01 any previous show, and the opinion was expressed by those who entered horses that the Greenville show is unsurpassed by any in the South. The weather on all three days was well suited to horse show purposes, but the crowds were disappointing. Horses were entered from South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia. lioad Work in Aiken County. The Aiken highway commission at a meeting held at tjie court house decided definitely to purchase a set of modern machinery for road work in this county. The commission ha3 had this matter under consideration for I aome time and recently made a trip ro Florence, where the members Inspected the road machinery there The commission's engineer, Mr. Ben- : son, .accompanied the commissioners. In a few days the commissioners will ;o to Greenville to inspect the ma hlnerv in use there. Sacredness of the Cow In India. The killing of animals is abhorrent . to the Hindoo. You may see the pious Jain, who carries the doctrine of the preservation of life to an absurd extreme, moving about on the Esplanade or near trees and fields with a packet of flour and sugar, in search of ants and other insects, that he may feed them from his store. In towns and villages you will occasionally come across the sacred bull, who roams about at will, and helps himself to grain and other foodstuff placed in shops as he pleases. He is a symbol of divinity. None will molest him; everybody will hold him in reverence ^ But in the case of the bull the rever- ffl ence is limited to the one who, so to ifl speak, Is born in purple. / m As for the cow, the entire species is' I sacred, and to kill it is a cardinal H sin. Whenever the pious Hindoo fl passes by a cow, he touches it with 1I his hand and salutes It 9