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Rev. R. A. Rouse, county superintendent
of education, preached at
Shiloh last Sunlay morning and at
St. Paul that night. The pastor. Rev.
J. L. Tyler, was at Blenheim assisting
Rev. J. S. Beasley in a meeting.
The sermons hv Rev. Rouse were
heard by large and appreciative congregations.
Rev. J. L. Tyler is conducting a
meeting at Shiloh church, preaching
twice a day, 10.30 a. 111. and ">.00 p. in.,
The services are being held- in the
old church. The new building will
not be ready for occupancy for several
weeks, hence the lecision to have i
the meeting now.
Miss Edna Anderson, of Barnwell.
S. C.. is visiting relatives in town.
Miss Anderson attended the summer
school at the 1'niversity of Virginia
at Charlottsvillc, Va., and will likely
return to Virginia and aeeept a position
there.
The third quarterly conference for
Chesterfield circuit v/ill be hell at
Zoar church on the fourth Sunday and
Monday following. Rev. \V. A. Massebeau
will preach at Zoar at 11 a.
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lnsta:-.02s of Supreme Tests cf
Human Endurance.
Some cf the Terrible Experiences of
Those Who Have Been Shipwrecked
?Battles Fought on Raft by
Drunken Castaways.
It Is difficult to imagine the suTerings
of the boat's crew of the Columbian,
who drifted about the Atlantic
for 14 days before being picked up,
for only the strongest could stand such
exposure. Yet the annals of the sea
show instances in which men have
survived even greater hardships than
this, London Answers states.
An example was provided by the two
boats of tlie Carnarvon Castle, which
was burnt some miles from West
Wnnrl'c Trhrlp M.ir!*
! Crimson Clover
I Is Best Quality Obtainable,
j of High Tested Germination
and Purity.
Crimson Clover is a wonderful soil- j
improver; also make < sphi.did fall,
winter ami sprinir grazing, thccariitst
green feed, or a good hay crop.
A crop of Crimson Clover turned
under is equal to a irood application
of stable manure, and its value as a
soil-improver is worth ?-0. to :>o0. per
j a ore.
' Wood's Descriptive Fall Catalog
pivimr full information about
CRIMSON CLOVER, ALFALFA,
WINTER VETCH.
and all FAR" ? "
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V._L.v ?or Catalog and prices of any
Seeds required.
; T.W.WOOD & SONS.
giteS Skhmond, Va.
p. in. on the fourth Sunday.
Mr. and .Mrs. ('. P. Mangttm are
visiting frienls and relatives in and I
around Pageland.
Next Sunday at Zoar church, Rev.
J. L. Tyler, the pastor.will baptize
andr ececeive applicants for church !
membership. Fourteen persons are
to be baptized and received into the
church. i
Next Sunday night there will be r.
Layman's Missionary service at St.
Paul church. These monthly missionary
services are always very interesting
and neer fail to lraw lare
congregations.
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i Dai- T T> Ou-un i c nnna trntl in
meeting at Kbcnezer church on east
Chesterfield circuit.
Mr. J. X. Anderson, agent for the
Southern R. R. at Barnwell, S. C.,
is spending a few days visiting his
sisters, Mrs. J. L. Tyler and Mrs.
Claudia G. Kennely.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Httnley, who
have heen spending their honeymoon
in the mountains of Western North
Carolina, are expected home now
soon. Thev will occupy their pretty
IRtle bungalow on West Main street.'
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Australia on January UI, 1 The
captain said they would reach land in
seven days, but it was L'i before, by
pood luck, they chanced on the only
spot where they could land.
? v ?i"- iir>!ita lost siirht I
V>li I l*|#l Kill \ n.v U"?.w - - ?
of oik aunther. but on tin* twentyfoi'rt!:
d:;\ il e mate's cr<*w arrived at
h< tti i st i: kind, bavins had no water
for four di.ys ,m d i o meat for tin-same
time. some laving been without lor
seven days. Although they had drunk
salt wait r it did not seem to do them
any harm, and only oik* man and two
apprentices succumbed.
With clothes in rays, weak front lack
of nourishment and sleep, another day
or two would have finished then). They
bathed to eool their bodies and smoked
leather for lack of anything else. It
was said that it was largely owing to
I the captain's courage and mainteI
nance of the usual discipline and
j watches that land was readied.
Then there was the ghastly story of
: the Mignonette, which sent such a
thrill of horror through the country in
| the middle 'Ms. Sailing for Australia
j It foundered in a gale 1,600 miles from
j the cape, the captain, mate, a sailor
itrevard, X. C'. His wife is already up
in the mountains at their lovely summer
home.
Troublesome Gender.
The trouble that Latin gender gives
to American boys and girls who are
struggling with the rudiments of that
tongue should inspire in them a sympathetic
feeling for a small descendant
of the race of Attlia who found the
gender of our English nouns and pronouns
a stumbling block.
A solid little figure trudged up to
the librarian in the children's room.
"That little boy," he declared, indicating
the rest of the room vaguely
with his thumb, "be hit me."
The "liberry teacher" followed him
back across the room until the accusing
thumb halted near a table
where sat a guilty looking child about
half the size of the plaintiff.
The accuser explained: "That little
hoy. she hit me. That little boy is
<i little girl; but he has short hair,
and when I point at him, she hits me."
?Youth's Companion.
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Discoverer of the Pacific.
The discoverer of the Pacific, ocean
was Vasco Nunez de Balboa. On the
early morning of the 25th of September.
1515, Balboa, and a small party ot
men, made their laborious way up the
densely covered face of a steep ridge ;
from the summit of which they were .
rewarded with the vision of the great,
"South aea" which, up to that time, i
had never been seen by the eye of a
(white man.
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lgs department
am: a noy away in a provihiuuless
boat.
For days liny drifted, Retting weaker
and weaker, and then it was proposed
t?> draw lc.ts to determine which
' f n,. i.-iiierl. However.
I his was rejected, hut on the twentieth
day rlic boy was killed by the captain,
the survivors being picked up four
days later. The captain and mate were
tried for murder on their return, sentence
of death being commuted to six
months' imprisonment.
Perhaps one of the most ghastly
tales of shipwrecked mariners adrift
concerns some fifteen survivors of the
15" men of the French frigate Medusa,
who crowded on a badly made raft. It
occurred just a century ago. the frigate
striking a rock when sailing at full
speed.
The captain climbed into a boat and
lad soldiers and sailors crowded on to
a hastily made raft G5 by 25 feet. It
was to have b^en towed by the boats
to the nearest land, but before going
far the rope of the captain's boat broke
and the rest cut their cables. Yet
land was known to be close, and the
same evening was made by the boats.
[success must be earned
Earnest, Intelligent Effort, With Industry,
Will Set One Well on the
Pa'th to the Goal.
Most men who have amounted to
anything started with nothing but ability
and determination?a combination
which recognizes no man-made limitations.
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Any kind of work is better than idleness.
which is directly responsible for
most of the unhappiness in this world.
Idleness is a dangerous thing; it
may grow into a habit that might stick
to you after you get back in harness,
and the man who loafs on his job is
only fooling himself.
Lternai, intelligent effort is the price
of commercial growth, and where
there is no progression there is bound
to be retrogression. Business is something
like aeroplaning; to stop is to
drop and to drop is generally to bust.
Pin your faith to the law of compensation,
but don't take any stock in |
the law of chance; there's no such
thing. Waiting for something to turn
up in the belief that things are bound
to come your way eventually is throwing
dice with fate. Many a good dog
never got a decent bone until his teeth
were gone.
More Oancts for Coroners.
It is predicted that a speed of 100
miles an hour will i"1 reached by electric
nrd ?f?am railways. Then even
ircre re.sens will be reached by can'ivn
hail express and limited trolley
{ car at grade crossings.
A N C E
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On the rafts were a few casks of
wine and some biscuits, part of which
were served out the same day. When
next morning dawned it was found
that a number had been crushed to
death, while the following night many
were washed off into the sea, and the
rest trying to crowd toward the middle
to avoid a like fate several were suffocated.
Then some of the. soldiers broached
the remaining casks of wine, and in
drunken fury tried to cut the rope
binding the planks of the raft. Others
tried to prevent it. until n regular battle
raged, in wMch C>.1 were killed;
some cut down the mast and others
; threw overboard the last of the water
and two casks of wine.
On the third night more died, and
j t!io survivors turned to the bodies o!
j their comrades for sustenance, while
some fly inn fish added to their slender
resources. In the night another attempt
to destroy the raft was made,
and the madmen were thrown overboard.
Thirty only now remained alive, and
of these two died and two soldiers
found drinking some of the remaining
wine were puthed into tiie sea. The
I horrors were not at an end. Fifteen
I of the twenty-seven held a council of
war. and decided that only those who
seemed likely, to survive should be
allowed on the raft,'as their stores
were almost gone.
Three days later those still alive
) were rescued by a vessel sent out to
' search for the Medusa. ?.
Wireless telegraphy has done much
to reduce the chances of horrors such,
as these occurring.
To err is human, but it counts
against your fielding average.
j Twins generate more admiration
than envy among the neighbors.
I Many a man's idea of improving
j his time Is to tinker with his watch.
Some men are thrown in the shade
and others stand in their own light.
Some men are so contrary that
even their food doesn't agree with
them.
The Chronicle Is only SI per year
GATHERED FACTS / ';
Motor launches are to be used In
China on the River Swatow.
Germany's annual excess of birth*
over deaths is now about 800,000. . -'3#f
Rubber nails, for places where metal
ones would corrode, are a novelty
from Germany.
In the electric furnace gold boils at
2,400 degrees centigrade, ' or at 24
times the"' temperature of boiling waEnglish
locomotive works have
been so busy of late one English railway
had to order ten locomotive?
from Germany. ,/v|J
Oil instead of coal ranges will be
used on the newest United States
battleships because of its greater
cleanliness in cooking.
In France farmers are experiment- ^
lng with a prolifio potato from Uruguay,
which perpetuates itself with kflj
roots left in the soil.
After two years of experiments, the
Philippine government is about to begin
practical work In planting camphor
trees all over the islands. H H
The development of quicksilver
mines promises to make. large de-^^H^H
mands for cordwood and construction^H^^H
timbers on the Tonto national fores^^^^J^H
We are eara^^^H
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TOOK POSSESSION Cr HOUSE
Crowning Eccentricity of Englishwom- ^H
an's Life, That Was Filled With ^
Eccentricities.
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In an old book published in Paris under
the title of "Le Journal d'un Voy .ir*
mi T.pvant.'i thore is an amusing
account of the way 1c which Lady
Hester Lucy Stanhope, the eccentric
English traveler,- took possession of
i the house at Djoun, where eventually
; she made her permanent home.
S She was pleased with the house and
j its surrounding gardens, and accepted
j an invitation to dinner. As she sat af|
ter dinner, with the owner, a Christian
! merchant, he said to her that if she
| liked the place, he should be glad if
! she would stay the night. When she
said that she liked it so much that
j she would stay there the rest of her
| days, he took It as a polite figure of
; ispeech; but a fortnight later, as she
I still prolonged her visit, he suggested
| that Europe might be expecting her
| return.
"I do not intend to return," she re? ^
plied, carelessly.
"Ah, then you intend to build a palace
in the neighborhood?" said he.
"No, this house suits me very well."
"Hut I cannot let it or sell it, miI
lady."
"I do not wish to hire it or buy it,
j but I intend to keep it," was the start1
ling reply.
In this dilemma the merchant disI
patched a messenger posthaste to
! Emir Beshyr, who sent word to Lady
'{ Hester that she must give up the
i house. I*'idy Hester, however, wrote
to Constantinople, whence a courier
came to the emir, bearing the order,
P'Obey the princess of Europe in everything."
So the disgusted merchant fled, leaving
her ladyship in possession. There
for 20 years she lived the life of a
recluse, growing more and more withdrawn
from the world, and more accustomed
to dwell in a mental and
spiritual realm of her own creation,
until she died, and was buried in the
garden of the house that she had
usurped.
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