The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 14, 1899, Image 4
BIG WORDS IN HIS SERMON.
Reporter Takes Down the Discourse
of a Colored Preacher.
On one occasion a reporter took
the following stenographic account,
the accuracy of which is not questioned.
Gesticulating wildly, as
described, the preacher began on the
fwvnrite theme of magnifying the
greatness of Jehovah.
"Do Lawd made de fteaben and de
yearf, and he sea an all dat tranrnographies
the atmosphere."
"Listen to Mm; listen to Mm."
"But what yo' know about what
dat means? You don't know 'cause
h?in't hpf>n 1 I'se been
'structed is de mafematics, an' I
knows."
"Yes, yo' do?'deed yo' do."
"Ef a strain of kyars could run
a million yeahs, wid steam up, dey
would not reach de circumboundary
lines of dis yearf an' yet deole moon
climbs dem hills every night and
slidc^ down de odder side jest as
easy as a black snake 'mong de
reeds, an1 de moon doan' 'quire no
steam."
"Dat's a fac,' brudda; dai's a fac."
"Dis yearf is bigger'n dat, an' I
might as well tell yo' if yo' doan
know how big it is. Hit is twentyo.
five million miles in diameter an'
eight thousand million miles across
de beam."
"Hear dat, will yo'; hear dat, honey
Lord bless us!"
And thus the discourse continued
but after some weeks of an ineffectual
effort to subsist by his deej;
learning and eloquence alone the
preacher left the county and abandoned
the hope of building up a new
congregation.
Another negro preacher on on<
occasion began his sermon as fol
i .
IKfW ?
"Rerligion tinktutabulates all fro<
de systematical anatomy ob de hu
man h'art."
Then he went on to tell what h<
knew about the Bible, mixing th<
Old and New Testaments ad libitun
and having Christ and Mosei
preaching together in the streets o
what he called Jerorushillim.
SPELLING "MAMIE."
The dear girls are ahead of ui
again.
Having trained our old fogyisl
spirit to tolerate "Mamie" beiiq
spelt "Mamye" without a shudder
we are totally unprepared for th<
shock, when, presto, change! at
anagrammatic movement takei
place, and "Mayme" is eonsideret
an fait.
Certainly, if the fashion alterin]
the orthography of names about a
often as the style in spring bonnet
continues, peace will be hard t<
maintain in many families.
For the next twist we sugges
"Maighmeigh." There's enougl
furbelow to that to last for sour
time.?Cumberland News.
This exquisite bit of verse entitle*
"Love and Life," recently appearei
in the columns of The Pall Mai
Gazette. Unhappily the name of th
author is not given, but he carina
'remain long in obscurity if he coii
tinues to write in this vein:
"Should life be nil a garland
Of sweet and thornless flowers,
Grown in a fairy far-land
? Of unbeclouded hours?
Ah! 110; let thorns together
With fragrant flowers entwine
That so I prove thfee whether
- We share the sweets together.
And all the thorns be mine.
"Should life be all an ocean
Of rapture-rippled tides.
Whereon in mazy motion
The south wind softly glides?
Ah, no; let storms togethei
With rosy calms combine;
That so in wild-windroeather,
: As we sail on together.
My heart shall shelter thine.
"Should life be all a measure
Of golden-girdled sound,
Whereon no briefest leisure
For minor ones isTound?
Ah! no; let minor meanings
- . Amid its music be,
That so Love's intervenings
May store all sadder gleanings,
And share the sweets with thee.
It's difficult to pose as an optimil
when the rent collector calls.
Happiness is very unsatisfactor
when seen, through the eyes <
^ others.
If a man can't trust himself he hf
no right to expect others to trui
him.
People who are always harping o
^sHpthtfir troubles have a lasting topic <
^^conversation.
Tne art of good living should I
carefully and intelligently eultivj
ted.
It is almost time to be layingstra
hats aside.
Love levels all things except i
own monotony.
A homely woman who is vai
doubts the accuracy of mirrors.
A wheel in the hand is worth tv\
in the repair shop.
When a woman cuts a man's a
quaintance she looks daggers at hit:
The man who has a cloven breal
is always taking something for it.
A young man seeking a quiet sp
to kiss a girl should avoid her moot
Some people's idea of a uecessai
evil is one they don't want
abolish.
Political Union of Worth America.
The area of public lands betwex
the Red river and Rocky mountaii
in Canada upon which the best hai
wheat can be successfully grow:
stated by Professor McCoun at 20(
000,000 acres, is one half as large i
that of all the rebellious states,
one fifth part of it was under cull
vation, yielding 12| bushels per ac:
?the average yield of wheat in Ma:
itoba in 1891 was 25 3-10 bushels fx
8ere?the total yield would be 50(
000,000 bushels, or in value greah
than our entire cotton crop. This
only one of many sources of weall
to be gained by the peaceful consul
mation of continental union.
The political union of the Unite
States and British North America ca
be peacefully consummated by ti
wise expenditure of less than on
tenth of 1 i>er cent, or one-thousand!
part of the cost of the civil war to dat
leaving ou?. of the calculation ti
value of the property destroyed an
? t . i* 1 A
tne destruction 01 nuinau me. a
parties agree that the preservation <
the territorial integrity of the Unic
was a necessity, and that its coi
has been justified by events since tt
close of the war.?Francis Waylar
Glen in New York Sun.
Dewey'# Coming Home.
I Ho!
Beat the tomtom!
Let there be
Hunting spread abundantly!
Fling the
Starry ensign out!
Prepare to
Yell and hoot and shout!
Let much
Patriotism flow
From New York to far
'Frisco;
Spare uot powder?no, nor steam
Let the noisy whistles
Scream!
Turn the peaceful eagle
Loose,
And watch him soar in
Pride profuse!
Deck yourselves in
Gay attire;
Ring the bells up in the spire;
Kill the fatted, juicy
Calf,
He is none too good
Ry half;
Let the festive cork let pop;
On your gladness put
No stop;
Hurl your
Bonnet in the air;
Nor your lungs a moment
i Spare;
Seek no meagre, poor excuse,
But whoop 'er up
' And turn 'er
Loose!
1 For yonder, o'er the
Rolling sea,
Comes the Olympia,
1 Speedily;
See her ploughing
' Through the
( Foam;
And, wow! She's
Bringing
Dewey
Home!
?New York Sun.
?
A CURE FOR NEURALGIA,
> I wan for some time a sufferer from Xeura
gia. I tried nearly everything I could he*
5 of, but nothing did me any good until I pu
. chatted a box of Ramon's Liver Pills Jfc loi
ic PelletH and began to uae them. They r
t lieved me at once. That wan over a yet
ago. and I have had no return of it since.Xirw.
Willie Reed. Gurley. Ala. For wale t
a Dr. A. J. China.
T- " 1?VI- I...... imnAl
it is reiiiarhauic mm tcij
tant it makes a man feel the fin
> time he sees his name in print.
A man is as old as he .feels. .
snubrette is as old as her lithograph!
? A boy doesn't have to go to war t
be a hero. He can say he doesn
3 like pie when he sees there is n<
i enough to go round.
3 The hotel with home comforl
f does not begiu to compare with on
without home discomforts.
Never buy a thing you do nc
want just because it is cheap.
The ordinary house fly lays eight
3 eggs at a clip, and it is believed tin
about 200 per cent of the same at
j successfully hatched,
r What does it benefit one to ow
the best lawn mower in the countr;
' if his neighbors keep borrowing
3 during the summer months.
1 A woman who can make good jell
s is greater than a woman who ca
i make a good speech.
Mr. Jim Jeffries is said to be qui!
versatile, but it is not believed thi
* he ever exchanged pulpits with h
8 father.
s ''Every politician has his price
o but the most of them can be bought;
cut rates.
t The smokeless French crisis
>} somewhat of an improvement ou t)
old-fashioned affair.
e
Universal peace is a dream, bi
........ ,,r tho r MtritOian nowers dar<
IM'IIC Ul WHV V... .wg
j go to sleep.
J A man may be as good as anothe
| but he usually considers himself
e little better. *
t A pun is merely a play on word
i- but it's hard work to understar
some of them.
The father of seven marriageab
daughters speaks of his parlor as
courtroom.
This may be a horseless age, b
money coutinues to make the ma
? go just the same.
The trouble is, when a man reach
the top of the ladder he seldom hi
anything to look forward to.
It's the easiest thing in the wor
to forgive an enemy who is lar|
enough to command your respect.
The average man thinks hims*
fairly good because it is so easy
find a man that he thinks is conside
ably worse.
Many a man strikes out while tr
ing to make a run of luck.
Some men are compelled to ca
for relatives for whom they dot
care.
One of the worse traits of huina
ity is insincerity.
The prettiest girl at the banquet
the dinner belle.
" Adversity often makes a vain pe
son humbler and wiser.
t Every man has his favorites, ai
he usually heads the list.
Matches kindle all kinds of flani
j ?including that of jealousy.
The Wall street "pointer" oft
8 points the way you should not go.
It runs so in the grain,
That no one can deny;
n The man who sows wild oats
^ Is far too fond of rye.
In Boston, we are told, mai
)e housewives are getting to say, n
that they have washed, butthat th
have Mondayed.
EvA when we realize that peoj
w are flattering us we feel sure th
they mean well.
ls The world was made for the p<i
man; every dollar will buy more i
in cessitics than it will buy luxuries.
Uaui'aiilw mancinnc numinf.
una ? i j uiuiioivMu
o lined with saloon rents.
It is a mighty good thing that t
c- Lord does not enforce the law as
n. did against Annatiias.
th It costs a man nothing to ha
liberal opinions. He takes a dri
nt if a man of any party treats,
h. What a pleasure it is to have
expanded notion of our itnportau
thrust by force of circumstance
{ upon some one who has been i
clined to ignore us!
When some men get a telegram
affects them as the largest strawbei
n of the season affects a farmer.
is When a man whistles all d
:d either his heart or his head is iigl
^ A man who never had the tool
ache doesn't know the bliss of i
H8 having it.
^ About the time a man's argume
ki- is exhausted he begins to lose inn
re est in the subject.
Q Atheism dethrones reason and
?r thrones folly as king.
If a godless man got into heav
-r lie would be glad to get out.
16
, Faith and zeal always outsti
" reason and eloquence.
It is true that you may find s<
. I tnons in stones, but we don't wa
** stones in our sermons.
LD Lots of people are poor becau
they buy too much they don't nef
e It's a pity the self-made man isi
;h permitted to select his own materi;
e, The man who thinks he knows
ie all doesn't know what other peoj
l(j think of him.
J] The widow's mite is the favor
jf form of charity with some peoj
who have plenty.
.t The man who strikes you for a lo
5 usually makes a short story long;.
l*j It's a wise employe whose opini
1(3 always coincides with that of I
boss.
CURRENT MISCELLANY.
More Americans are going abroad
this year than ever before. The trans
atlantic steamship agents at New York
report the largest number of outgoing
passengers the records of the companies
give an account of. Hankers
with foreign connections say that passengers
are taking more money than
usual with them. The bookings of passengers
extend well into August, and
in some cases into September. In the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, 81,
087 cabin passengers were booked for
Europe. This was less than the aver
1 J.-, rrii-nn in mnml
age llUIUUer, >\ uicu 10 ?,11 vu iu iui.u..
numbers at 100,000. It is thought the
number may increase this year to 15u.000.
While it is possible to keep tally on
the number who go abroad, it is not
possible to ascertain very closely how
much money they take with them. Estimates
vary from $ 1,000 to $500 per
capita, a range that renders estimates
little better than guesses. The lowest
amount is close upon low water mark,
which is not a popular mark with
American travelers. The time has
passed when an American could pick
his way through Europe on about the
money he would spend at home. It
would not be safe to place the total at
much less than $100,000,000. This is
about the annual contribution the United
States makes to fashion and sightseeing.?San
Francisco Bulletin.
Wanted to Make an Impression.
The chief clerk of the census bureau
at Washington, as perhaps you know,
is a man who is more than ordinarily
good to look upon, though that has
nothing whatever to do with this story,
.1- except as a fact suggested by his conir
trast to a man who wanted to see him
? one day recently. The man, of course,
wanted to help the government out of
Its difficulties by accepting a clerkship.
>y His application was on file, but he
came in person to see about it. The
r_ doorkeeper assured him that his pait
pers would receive consideration in
due time.
\ "I want to see Mr. Childs," the man
s. persisted. He was tall and lank, and
;0 he looked like a cross between Uncle
't Sam and a horrible example. The door)l
keeper was polite, but really Mr.
Childs was extremely busy. The man
ts was not to be put off.
ie "Have you any special business with
the chief clerk?" the doorkeeper,
)t wearied, at last asked.
"No," said the man, "but I want tc
y see him. I reckon," and here he dre^v
" Ll_ i.2
it himself up ana strotea ms uuuuj
"e beard with complacency, "1 reckon I'c
make an impression on him."?Wash
n Ington Post
V,
it Champion Snake Snapper.
The soil of Bridgeport is very prolific
Lv of snakes. They grow there, along the
river banks and under old, weedj
walls, in an amazing way. Childrer
te carry little ones about in their pockets
putting them in one another's lunct
18 boxes at school by way of a joke, anc
the older ones are dexterous in dis
patching snakes with hoes, clubs anc
the bare hand. Jesse Trump, a younj
dyer, is the champion Bridgeport snak<
,s slayer, and whenever he comes across
18 one of the reptiles the inhabitants
gather about to see him kill it H<
first puts his foot on it then he takes
BS it up by the tail and cracks it as a cart
er cracks a whip. There is a loud re
!ri port, and the head flies 30 or 40 fee
a away, leaving in Jesse's skilled hand t
lifeless body. No matter how larg<
is' the snake may be this young man wil
l<* not hesitate to crack it, and he has
never yet failed to snap the head of
** any snake that he has tackled.?Phila
tt delphia Record.
ut
pe ' The Lake Under London.
To London, as to almost every larg<
es city, the question of a water suppl;
a8 has been a serious problem. Londoners
now see a way to solve it. The en
Id gineer of the county council has in
formed that body, says The Goldei
Penny, that underlying London is ai
qf immense lake, in a chalk basin 2JHX
to square miles in extent.
>r- The annual rainfall that sinks to tni:
lake, 100 feet below the surface of th<
y- ground, amounts to 280,000,000,000 gal
Ions, which would give a daily yield o
re 767,000,000 gallons. An artesian wel
l't has already tapped the lake at Clap
ham, and it is pointed out that all tha
n- Is necessary to insure a water suppl;
Is to sink a sufficient number of wells
is The wonder is that London shoul<
have existed more than 2,000 year
?r- and^ never discovered that the grea
lake was beneath it
nd
Introduced the Block Signal.
es The Boston Herald says: "The lat
President Thomson of the Pennsylva
en nia railroad is credited with bavin;
Introduced the block signal system
which more than quadruples the ca
pacity of the tracks for traffic by pei
mitting trains to follow each othe
closely with perfect safety. And ye
ny we believe it is a fact that a Massa
iot chusetts railroad commissioner one
ey made a voyage to Europe to invest
gate this system. When he arrive
>le there, he was informed by the Ens
at lish railway authorities tnat he ha
better go home and investigate th
or Pennsylvania railroad, from which th
ie" Englishmen had borrowed the idea."
Calf Choked to Death on a Kitten.
A remarkable story comes from Son
erset, Ind. Scott Davis, the leadin
merchant of the village, had a fine Jei
sey calf, which he placed in a stall i
his barn and was bringing It up b
" hand, the little animal being supplie
with the best of milk for its sustt
o n
nance. A cat had a litter of kittens i
gS the manger. One night, according t
jn' the Indianapolis News, the calf ei
deavored to swallow one of the kitteu
. and was found dead In the stall nes
1 morning with the kitten fast in it
throat
ay Danger* In Mercury.
tit. Mercury is a foe to life Those wh
j,. make mirrors, barometers or thermom
ir -l .1 - ? t fV,
lot ?ters. etc.. soon ieej iue eucn w iu
nitrate of mercury in teeth, gums an
t the tissues of the body
IVin
Iceland men and women are i
every respect political equals. The na
tion, which numbers about 70,000 pet
pie, is governed by representatives elecl
en ed by men and women together.
rip A philologist estimates that of ever
100 words in the French language 1
o*. we superfluoua
Beauty Is Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. Is
is? beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Catha
id. tic clean your blood and keep it clean, t
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all ir
' . purities from the body. Begin to-day 1
ft1, banish pimples, boils, Blotches, blackhead
it and that sickly bilious complexion by takir
>le Cascarets,?beauty for ten cents. All drui
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
lje Wireless telegraphy seems to be
)Ie success, but we are a long way fror
wireless politics.
an You can flatter people in no mor
effective way than by making ther
?n believe?and it is not difficult?tha
lis you think they are what the
imagine themselves to be.
A SHOOTING STAR.
What It Really Im and WherA It
Comet From.
Sir Robert Ball, who is the world's
greatest livjpg astronomer, told a London
audience recently some interesting
facts about meteorites and shooting
stars. In describing the origin of meteorites
he said that millions of years ago,
when the earth was an infant at play
and volcanoes were giants, the meteors
were thrown upward in infant convulsions.
Some of the earth's discarded
! rocks returned at once, but those which
were flung upward at a rate greater
than seven miles a second passed beyond
the earth's gravitating influence
and sought paths of their own. no one
could tell whither.
And then, after millions of years,
they once more came within the reach
of the world, and old Mother Earth resumed
her sway, took back the rocks tc
her bosom and the astronomers said a
meteorite had fallen.
Sir Robert asked his hearers to imagine
a wrapping of some hundreds of
miles of air round the earth's surface
Now just in the same way that a gimlet,
boring its way into wood, becomes
warm, so a bullet going 20 miles a
minute would become extremely warm
in boring its way through 20 miles of
air.
And in the same way that a bullet
became warm, so a meteorite traveling
10,000 times as fast as a bullet, traveling
at this speed perhaps for hundreds
of years through realms of jspace whose
paralyzing cold was indescribable and
finding itself at last plunging through
the warm bath of the air, became hotter
and hotter and hotter.
It glowed, it became white hot, it
melted, it dissolved in a burst of gas
eous splendor, and observers on the
earth cried. "Why, there's a shooting
star!"
Particulars Wanted.
Mayor Kinney of Utica, in vetoing
a bill of $200 for the expenses of aldermen
who went to Albany to look after
legislation, wrote:
"As this bill is asking for public
money, the public would like to know
what it was spent for. Particularly as
| there is no record of the committee ever
appearing before any legislative body in
Albany and making any argument, and
as there is no charge for lobbying, what
did they do anyway that the public
should be called upon to pay this $200 ?
It may be that history is repeating it'
self, and that they can say like Caesar,
,^'We came, saw and conquered the legt
ielature and got the corporation conn-1
r eel salary bill passed.'
I "Please let the public know in what i
direction your colossal energies were di-1
rected. Of course, we know you labored
and suffered at Albany for the interests
of your constituents, but do let us know
? whether you suffered for us on canyas?
back and champagne or on corn beef
r and cabbage."
1 Singular Coin.
Dr. Harrington exhibited in our office
1 quite a singular coin which he says
' was dug up or plowed up on his place
' in this county near Girth. It is of brass
* and copper (more brass than copper)
> and about the size of our 25 cent silve>
- coin. It has on one face a United States
* flag and around it the legend "Califor'
?J- " rkn tho rovprap flidfl is a
IJJtt V/UUUtCl. vu tuv >
i United States eagle, with the arrows
3 and olive branch in his talons, aronnd
which are the words "United States of
America." It has no date. The word
counter means a "false piece of money
1 cr stamped metal, used as means of re"
coining." Another meaning is "money
in contempt." This may have been
3 made long ago by some private enterprise
for convenience and not for common
use as money.?Waynesboro True
Citizen.
Steam boa tin? on the Jordan.
B The progress of civilization has at
j last reached the Jordan, and a steam3
boat churns the water in which John
baptized. The Abbot Pachomius of the
. monastery of St. John at Jericho made
3 the first attempt at steam navigation
2 with a diminutive launch about three
3 years ago. The experiment was so successful
that a small steamer was pur3
cb..sed a year later and taken to the
B Jordan.
[_ This boat, the Prodromus, now mainf
tains a regular passenger service bej
tween the bridge near Jericho and the
h southern end of the Dead sea and is
t well patronized by the tourists and
P pilgrims.
I. A Bi? Chunk of Ice.
1 James Garrison, a farmer living in
3 Camden county, Ma, put up ice durt
ing the winter, and his crop is all in
ene piece. It measures 20 feet each
way. He constructed a box into which,
by means of troughs, he conveyed
e streams of water from a spring in the
i- hillside. The water froze, and when
g the box was filled the troughs were rei.
moved. Around this box Mr. Garrison
t- built a larger one, filling the space between
the two with charcoal and sawr
dust. He says he will drill and blast
t his huge cube of ice as fee may have oc
L* casion to nse it daring the summer.
Bride Retains Her Name.
^ There was a curious marriage at Toledo
a few days ago. The bride was
^ Miss Lydia Kingsmill Commander, and
the bridegroom the Rev. Herbert N.
Casson. By prenuptial agreement the
bride is to retain her own name?Mrs.
Lydia K. Commander; Mr. "Casson will
still be known as Mr. Casson. It is not
stated whether the futnre members of
" the family will be Cassons or Comf
manders or half and half.?New York
Tribune,
n
y
^ Keeping Up Appearances.
A "licensed pawnbroker" who does a
n great deal of work in the west end of
0 London lately gave to the writer par"
ticulars of a strange sort of pledging
[8 that has become common of late and
that often defeats men of his kind.
8 Backing up his statement with actual
names and dates, he said:
"A bailiff and I enter a showy flat,
0 say, and my accnstomed eye at once
falls on a handsome or at least a pree
tentious piano. I say to myself that
<j this piano will seli for what I require.
I go to it, but find that it is locked. I
ask for the key, and when this is relucB
tantly produced I find that there is in
reality nothing but a case. All the inv
side of the instrument is gone. The fact
l is that people in difficulties wno stin
want to ket-p up appearances can borrow
money, while still apparently re_
taining their piano, by allowing the
I lenders to take away the main part, or
inside, of the instrument. One man in
the west end in particular does a considerable
business by lending money on
>o pianos in this way.
r" "I suppose that when visitors want
to play on an insti anient of this kind
to the host pleads that the key is lost,
s, Anyhow I have in my own business had
quite 50 examples of gutted pianos dur^
ing the last two years, and I never
mark a piano down in an inventory
a now till I have closely examined it."?
n London Answers.
e Every man believes in the total
n depravity of some other man.
it
y Fame is so short-lived that it's
really not worth striving for.
?
A FEAlvLEfSS CONVICT, I,
SlHADMAN'S DARING ESCAPE FROM
SAN QUENTIN PRISON.
One of the Most Remarkable Cases of
Jail Breaking on Record?Accomplished
by a Feat Which Almost Bordered on
the Miraculous.
It is cne thing to catch a thief and it
Is another thing to hold him. Dnring a
meeting of the chiefs of police of all the
larger cities of the United States and
Canada, which occurred at Milwaukee,
there were reminiscences of remarkable
captures and of escapes which bordered
closely upon the miraculous.
"The most remarkable escape from
prison that I can recall," said William
A. Pinkertou, "was that of Frank
Steadman from the San Quentin prison.
But I'll not tell you about it, for here
is John Glass, who caught Steadman
?, ? t 1. o? i?
&QQ sent film uauii tu ouu i^ucuuu.
Chief Glass pinched the brown imperial
on his under lip reflectively for
a moment before he responded to the
looks of inquiry lieut upon him by those
not familiar with the story.
"The escape to which you refer, Pinkerton,
was made after I sent Steadniau
to San Quentin and not before. I was
not the fortunate one to get him after
that last wonderful break. And to tell
the truth, I have never taken to myself
much credit for taking him the time I
did, for it was to a considerable degree
% matter of good fortune. You see, we
were just at that time keeping our eyes
open for a bank robber by the name of
Barnes, who had gone into one of the
banks out there, covered the one man
who happened to be alone in the place
at the time, locked him up in the vault,
and then coolly walked out of the bank
and out of sight with all the funds he
could get his hands on.
"One day a man answering closely
the description we had of Barnes stepped
off the train at Los Angeles. We
took him in tow at once, but found
we did not have the bird we were after.
However, we managed to hold him
long enough to find out that he was
Frank Steadman, who had become notorious
even at that time as a successful
jail breaker. He had four or five escapes
from prison in southern Indiana credited
to him, had got away from Joliet
and had still seven years to do at the
Illinois prison; had also been at San
Quentin, and had escaped from there
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with live years unnmsnen.
"Steadman was a machinist by profession,
and a burglar by inclination.
When he was sent back to San Quentin
to finish his time, he was pat to work
with other convicts in the engine room.
It was here that an idea came into his
brain that for absolute daring and fearlessness
was typical of the man. He had
noticed that every evening at the time
the men working in the engine room
were lined up to be marched away, the
machinery was stopped at exactly the
same moment He had observed as well
that a window leading to an adjacent
roof was not far from the top of the big
driving belt of the engine. From that
roof it was possible to reach the outer
wall of the prison. Beyond the wall
was freedom. He had escaped so many
times that his mind reverted again and
again to the window high up on the
wall of the engine room. Apparently it
was beyond all possibility of being
reached. No ladder was to be obtained.
Had such a thing been even standing
in place against the wall, to break
from the line and scale it with catlike
dexterity, althoogh the work of but a
few seconds, he well knew would be
futile, possibly fatal. Bullets travel
faster than legs, and the guards were
not bad shots. But desperate deeds demand
desperate means. Some minds
may work with an ingenuity born of
despair, but Steadman's was of a different
caliber. His plans were the outgrowth
of steadfast optimism.
"One day there came to him as if by
inspiration the thought that the big belt
might be the means of carrying him to
his goal. He found that it was impossible
to count the revolutions of the driving
wheel, but there were lacings in
the broad belt, which he was able to
distinguish as a sort of blur as it passed
a given point For days and days he
oounted, and in his cell at night he
spent his time in calculations. He discovered
the exact number of revolutions
Unmwi mnriA npr minnte. He learned
UiU VTUWA
also by constant observation just bow
many times tbe belt went round after
tbe engine was sbnt down.
"One evening, when tbe line bad
been formed as usual at tbe close of tbe
day *8 work and as tbe big wheel began
to lose its momentum, suddenly a oonvict
sprang from tbe line, leaped to tbe
belt, with outstretched arms giappling
both edges of the broad leather. He bad
calculated well tbe strength that would
be required, for the terrific wrench did
not loosen bis grasp. Outward and up
ward be swung until be reached tbe
topmost point of tbe circumference. Tbe
nicety of his calculation bad reaped ite
reward. The belt stopped. He leaped to
bis feet, sprang through tbe window
and was gone before convicts or guards
bad recovered from their astonishment
He caught up a guard's coat and bat
dropped from tbe wall and got away in
tbe dusk of tbe evening. I am inclined
to believe that as a mathematical proposition
that was about as perfect a piece
of work as any man ever accomplished."
"And did be get away without recapture?"
some one asked.
"No, I am almost sorry to say, be did
not," answered the Los Angeles chief,
"for that ought by rights to be the denouement
of such a story, which combines
so much of daring and cleverness.
Steadman was taken again in a short
time and put to work at his old job.
There are bars over that high window
above the big drive belt now. Not long
after this Steadman cut and nearly killedone
of the other convicts and is now
serving out an additional sentence for
attempted murder at theFolsom prison,
which is situated some 28 miles from
Sacramento " Chicago Inter Ocean.
When a woman doesn't want to exim-qck
i,,*r nninion in words she mere
I'1 v"" v'* " r --ly
shrugs her shoulders and that settles
it.
Lives of great men remind us that
we all have our uoubles.
The embarrassment resulting from
great riches is easily overcome.
By the time a man succeeds in
reaching the top of the ladder he is
too old to enjoy the scenery.
When a man goes into business
there is always some one who wonders
where he got the money.
Every man should he capable of
keeping his estimate of his abilities
to himself.
To the average small hoy tlie best
thing about soap is the soap-box.
When a man p iys his wife a compliment,
he adds "hut?and then
says something to spoil it.
The Mauser cocktail is a mixture
of Jersey applejack and absinthe.
One hall is sufficient to kill.
The fact that stolen sweets are
sweeter of course tends in a measure
to account for the stutF that passes
for whiskey in prohibition States.
It is doubtful if any of us could
make the world much better; but
any of us could make it a little better.
j 1 TfiTifhi i_ to ? '
CRA2ED BV THS COMET.
the Prospective Arrival of lliela'tf Orb
Left Its Influence iiehlinl.
There are wise people to-day who believe
that the proximity of a comet to
the earth brings with it various diseases,
mental as well as physical disturbances.
"1 never took any stock in this comet
business,'' said a practical friend of
mine. "I've seen several comets in my
time and read ail sorts of rot about
them, very little of which 1 believed.
But this comet"
He paused and drew me away from
the crowd. Having glanced about him
uneasily, he continued:
"This comet nearly drove my wife
crazy! Yes, sir; fact! And she's nearly
driven me crazy. Do you?have you
Been anything queer about me lately?"
' * ? * ' * ? i-l I
I told hiin 1 Had not?max ne looaeu
as sane as his average fellow mortal.
"Well," he resumed, "I've run a
mighty narrow chance, 1 tell you. But
she's cured now. If this infernal comet
hadn't gone away just when it did 1
should have been locked up by this time.
"My wife is ordinarily a quiet little
woman and takes no particular interesl
in the newspapers except when there is
a mysterious murder case like the greal
Maybrick poisoning case or the Carlylo
Harris case, or something like that?
something mysterious, you know. Ther
she grabs the newspapers and reads uj
on it, and thinks about it, and talks aboul
it, and advances theories about it, anc
thoroughly masters it, hanging the de
fendant every day. She can find mor<
clews than the whole metropolitan po
lice force. She pounces down upon nn
at breakfast with her theories and clewi
and suspicions, and as these arechangec
after reading the evening papers 1 ge
another dose at night.
"But this comet! She has beei
stricken?yes, sir, stricken?by the mys
terious influence the comet is said U
have upon the human mind! it wa
manifest in her the very day she rea<
the dispatches and the differences o
learned opinion as to whose comet i
was and its probable orbit, its distance
the number of sparks in its tail, eta 1
it had been a straightforward come
and come right out where everybod
could see it and where everybody es
pected it, she would have been all se
rene. But the mystery of the thing, th
uncertainty, the disagreement of astron
omers?that settled her. She begai
reading up on the comet from the newt
papers. As every newspaper differed
and every authority in every newapape
differed with every other authority i
that or any other newspaper, she fouu
herself suddenly plunged into a whii
of excitement
"She sprang comet on me every hou
in the day and swept the heavens with
2-inch opera glass every night. Sh
had a sort of idea that redhot chunks o
iron were liable to drop into our Ha1
She went up on the roof to see the ra(
teoric shower and got locked out u
there by the janitor. If 1 hadn't misse
her she'd have been frozen to death. Sh
j got up ten times a night to look out, an
once she said she smelled sulphur. Sh
! slipped out of bed the first thing in th
| morning and read what the papers sai
about the comet, then went back to be
again. When 1 sat down to break fai
with my paper she was loaded for m<
You could see a hazy red light hangin
over the Jersey horizon from our wii
dows, and she had those windows ope
so much at night we all got colds an
snuffles. On Sunday night the sky ovc
there was bright red at intervals. Wei
she was just wild. Then she smelle
the sulphur in the air. 1 never saw
woman get so excited. She scarce!
slept a wink.
"The next morning, when she fouu
that it was the Jersey meadows on tii
and that she hadn't seen the comet t
all, she was the most disgusted woms
you ever saw. She won't touch a new
paper now. She says the newspaper
are the biggest liars?next to the astroi
omers?on earth, if 1 say 'comet' i
her now she is as mad as a hornet.
"In my opinion, it's been a confoun*
ed fraud all along. This man Biela, <
Beely, ought to get six mouths on tl
island."?New York Herald.
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Bare ueuoi useanueu.
Four of the most remarkable relit
discovered have just been found in tl
western Egyptian oasis of Theba an
sent to the Louvre in Paris for exhifc
tion. They are plaster casts bust
These busts originated during the brii
era of prosperity at the close of the Se
ond and the beginning of the Third cei
tury of our time. They are not, as
would seem, detached pieces of statue
but are complete in themselves. Tht
are masks used for a special class <
mummies, and like most of the Egy;
tian curiosities come from the grave. Tl
departed members of wealthy familii
were provided not only with sepulcher
but with a sort of armor composed <
several pieces, which completely incas*
the dead body. The feet were thru
into a pocket shaped affair like a ca
riage foot warmer, and separate piec
were made for chest and neck, as we
as the hair, with a mask for the fac
which often resembled the features ?
the dead.?St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A Yarn from Bed Bluff.
A few days ago James R. Holt wei
for a quail hunt along the banks of tl
Sacramento river. Under a cover <
brush he discovered a nice flock of bird
but when he raised his gun to have
shot they disappeared. He felt satisfa
that there were quite a number under
particular bush and he blazed awa
The noisy fluttering which followed to
him the result and he ran for his priz
and just as he was reaching out his har
to catch a wounded quail he was su
denly shocked to discover an euormoi
rattlesnake in the line of the bird.
He approached the birds again wil
his gun cocked and ready for a suddt
shot, and learned that the snake vri
dead. When he fired at the birds 1
killed the snake and six quail, althou?
none of the birds or the serpent were
view. The snake had eight rattles at
a button and was 3;.> feet in length.
Red Bluff (Cal.) News.
Hot Weather Diet.
"It is a mistake," said a physicif
during the recent period of extrec
heat, "to eat. too little in hot weathe
Just as it is a mistake to eat too mu<
and the wrong things. Extreme h
weather is in itself very exhaustin
and plenty of nourishment is needed
sustain the system. This nourishme
should bp of a simple and easily dlgej
ed kind. For myself I find that mi
and vichy taken at regular intervals
two hours, sipped rather than gulp<
down ih a single draft, gets n
through' best on a very hot day, fro
breakfast to a 6 o'clock dinner. Th*
I take care to have a fairly hear
meal."4-New York Post.
1
Imprisonment For Debt.
A curious survival of bai-barism
the fact that men are still imprison*
for debt in New York. By general col
sent this custom has been general
abandoned in other states along w!1
the flogging of criminals, but It coi
tiuues in New York in spite of repeat*
and notorious instances of its cruell
and L injustice. Governor Rooseve
might earn his highest laurels by ai
dressing himself to the abolition <
this, relic of rude times.? Kansas C11
s$?l
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IT HAS 593 STEPS.
| The Stulr?vaj' 111 the Tower of the
I'hlludeliihiu City Hall.
A novel diversion is about to be instituted
at the city hall. Within a few
weeks this noble pile, already distinguished
as being the highest municipal
building in the world, will contain the
! highest continuous stairway in the
world, and tourists who have hitherto
boasted of their muscular ability in
climbing the stone steps of the Hunker
Hill monument at Charlestown. the
U iidliiug WVU UiVUUiliVUk V4 V&4V -,.
ment to General Brock, near Queens>
town. Ont.. will tell their friends of
their feat in ascending the 398 steps
which lead from the seventh tloor of
the city hall to the lauding about the
feet of William Penu.
Tower climbing is one of the fads of
i tourists. Hitherto the Blinker Ilill
: monument, with its four hundred odd
stone steps, and the Washington moni
umeut, which has a few more, have
represented the acme of opportunity
> f#r tests of physical endurance. As- j
t cent or descent of these steps has been
5 boasted of, and, though both so cramp
t the muscles of the leg that the climb"
er for an hour afterward is hardly able
* to walk upright, the distinction has re1
quited the pain.
> The building commission is pushing
t forward the work on the tower stairl
way, and within two months it is ex"
pected that it will be in readiness for
} climbers. It will extend from the sev"
enth to the sixteenth floor and will
J contain just 598 steps of iron arranged
1 about a square central shaft, in which
1 will run an electric elevator. To reach
1 the tower stairway the climber may
mount the 245 granite stairs in the
1 hanging stairways at the northern end
of the building, thus making a total
3 climb of 745 steps.
6 John Bunker, assistant superintend1
ent of the city hall, said recently:
"Entrance to the tower has been
1 temporarily stopped because of the
!< work being done on the stairway. We
' are pushing this work, however. It is
* really surprising how many persons
y make application to ascend the tower.
" The old elevator now in the tower will
h be kept in place for the remainder of
6 the year at least to accommodate those
l' who prefer to ride, but early next year
D we expect to install an electric elel*
vator which will make the trip in less
^ than half the time required by th? anr
tiquated lift now in use. The new
u stairway will be an easy one to ascend
^ for the tourist climbers, because it will
be frequently broken by platforms.
There will then exist a continuous
r stairway for the 547 feet which the
a tower is high."?Philadelphia Press,
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^ A Remarkable Case.
Matthias Steiuberger, who is at present
living with his grandnephew,
J; Percy W. Holcoinb, near Fostodia,
is a veteran of the Mexican war.
e. In one of the charges of his regiment
( at the battle of Resaca de la Palma,
e his horse stumbled and fell, and,
? throwing him to the ground, knocked
, him senseless and paralyzed his spine.
When he was taken to the hospital,
5 he was able to tell everything that
3' took place up to the time he was hurt,
but after that everything was blank.
1 He has always maintained that he was
^ about 21 years old. He has, in fact,
been blind to all progress,
j The other day he was struck on the
^ head and lost consciousness, and when
he came to a peculiar expression was
noticed on his face, as if he had just
awakened from a long sleep. The first
j question that he asked was, "What
are all those wires up there on the
poles for?" He was greatly astonishn
ed at the electric cars and bicycles.
a He says, "I guess that the world has
gone so far ahead of me that I will
3 never catch up with it"?Toledo Cor.
t Cleveland Plain Dealer.
j Iron Felt.
A new insulating material known as
iron felt, and made In Germany, is being
extensively used In Europe for a
number of purposes. For the prevention
of vibration It is said to be quite
successful, and it Is placed between
28 engines and their foundations and also
10 between rails and sleepers. It consists
. of the larger and stouter woolen fibers
treated with a by product of petroleum
and then coated with gelatin
" and India rubber and vulcanized.
c" After pressure it is used in the form
?" of plates somewhat over two square
" feet in area, and from one-half to
8' two inches In thickness. The plates
^ are said to be extremely elastic and
imperishable, and have a surface so
P" hard as not to be cut by the sharp
10 edges of bolt heads or iron girders.?
08 Tublic opinion,
s,
^ Artificial Daylight.
** Tesla has succeeded in making artist
In h!o lnhnrfitrtrr he
LlCiai uajllguu ila wio iuvvMw.,
r* shows numerous balls of glass of different
sizes which look like miniature
suns. The balls are empty; there are
e' no wires in them nor outside of them.
They do not burn the fingers. Th6
light does not hurt the eyes as sunlight
and ordinary electric light do. A
number of leading New York and
Qt Chicago photographers will have this
artificial daylight supplied to their
studios. Tesia says: "The reason I
have chosen to introduce the new daya
light to the photographers first is that
** I believe them to be the severest crita
Ics iu the matter of light If it succeeds
with them a new light will
^ Bucceed everywhere."
e.
Indian Trick In Lnion.
The Filipinos wrap their cartridges
Js to make them fit various barrels. This
crude adaptation of means to ends
must amuse the old Indian fighters in
)n General Otis' army, to whom the prinJO
ciple is by uo means a new one. The
same trick has long been used by our
! own Indians, who wrap Winchester
iu
. cartridges with rawhide and shoot
1 them from their old 50 caliber Martinis
and Sharp's carbines.
Learning the Truth.
A school inspector was examining a
class in grammar and trying to explain
- - - - ' ' 5 V_
V the relations or adjectives anu nouns oy
" a telling example.
"Now. for instance." said he, "what
am I?"
^ That wae an easy question, and all
? the children shouted, "A man!" and
jj then looked around triumphantly, aa
^ much as to say, "Ask another."
"Yea But what else?" said the inspector.
le This was not so easy, but after a
m pause a boy ventured to suggest, "A
little man."
y "Yes, but there is something more
than that."
This was a poser for the youngsters,
but after a moment's puzzled silence
an infant phenomenon almost leaped
** from his seat in his eagerness and cried
I1" to the inspector:
y "Please, sir, I know?an ugly little
:h in
u- ??
k! It is not promised that the Lord
[j raises the wind for the shorn Iamb,
jt however.
If you want to see a strong organ>f
ization look at the liquor dealers; if
ty want to see a weak one, look at the
consumers.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR. ' J
They became acquainted on one of
the ferryboats while riding just for *
the sake of keeping cool. There happened
to be a bridal couple billing and
cooing near them, and the old gentle- 1
man from Grand Kapids had an inter- 1
nul convulsion of laughter which lasted
so long that he felt called upon to
explain. J
"That recalls my own wedding trip," 4
he began between chuckles; "It was so
different. I suppose I had about at
tm.jrh nn pynerienee as ever fell to the
lot of a new and bashful husband. I
lived In York state and was married
there. Just between ourselves, I won
the prettiest and best girl In the county.
We had a line wedding and a
I great .send off when we left for our
trip. But then the trouble began. At
the very first station people came in,
studied the appearance of each one till
they reached us, looked startled and
hastened out, the men rushing in a
group to the telegraph office.
"At the next depot there was the
same invasion. Some big voiced man
yelled, That's them!' and then there
was a scramble for the telegraph window.
By this time my new wife was
very nervous, and 1 was very mad. At A
the next stop the rush was still larger,
we were carefully looked, over, and the
usual stampede followed. I grabbed the
hind fellow in the chase, whirled . j
him around, caught him by the throat * v
and demanded an explanation. He
couldn't speak, so he gave me a handbill.
It offered a reward of $100 to any
one discovering and reporting a youth- fill
'green looking1 couple answering ,
our description. We hid for the rest
of the bridal tour over that line, and
when we reached home my best chum
aot the all flredest thrashing he ever
I ^
?Xew York Journal
His Native Soil.
"Well, Dreyfus is on his native soli
again."
"Yes, and he must notice that It is
more soiled, If possible, than ever."?
Chicago Times-Herald.
WILSON & SUMMERTON R. R. -*
i
Time Table No. 1, to take effect ?Monday,
June 13,1898.
TRAINS GOING NORTH. * *
Lv Wilsons Mill 9 10 a m
Ar Jordan 9 35am
Ar Davis Station 9 45am ' v
Ar Summerton 10 10 a m
Ar Millard 10 15 a m
i Ar Millard 10 45 am
Ar Silver 1110 am ?
Ar Packsville 11 30 a m
Ar Tindal 11 55 a m
Ar W. & S. J unction 12 27 p m
Ar Sumter 12 30p m
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Lv Sumter 2 00pm ?
Lv W. & S. Junction 2 03 p m
Ar Tindal 220pm
Ar Packsville.. 2 38pm
Ar Silver 2 50 p m
Ar Millard 3 05 p m
~ - o or ?
Ar Millard aoopui
Ar Sumnierton 3 50 p in
Ar Davis 4 20 p m
Ar Jordan 4 45 p in
Ar Wilsons Mill 5 16 p m
BETWEEN MILLARD A ST. PAUL.
Ar Millard 10 15 am 3 05pm
Ar St Paul 10 25 am 315pm
Lv St Paul 10 35 am 3 25pm
Ar Mi 1 lard 10 45 a m 3 35 p m All
trains daily except Sunday.
THOMAS WILSON, I
President.
had."?Detroit Free Press.
Xe Ploa Ultra. S
In Boston people were felicitating a
young person "upon her approaching
marriage.
"He's a fine catch!" they exclaimed *
in delicate compliment of her future
husband.
"Oh, a veritable cod!" she replied
with considerable enthusiasm and then
blushed deeply to think how very
boastful that must sound.?Detroit
Journal.
At Cross Purposes.
"Do you make much out of your apples?"
asked the visitor.
"Oh, pretty considerable," answered
the farmer; "but I've got a son up In
the town who makes more out of the
apples in a month than I make the *
whole season."
"A farmer, Is he?"
"No; he's a doctor. I'm talking about
green apples now."?Yonkers States
man. ^ Wonders
Promised.
"I'm going to organize a Filipino ~ .
w-.i OTO. 4o
Uttxi leaiii as ewu as uic nai <o uici
and star the country."
"You won't make a cent"
"I'll bet they beat everything that
comes against them. Just think what
base runners they would be."?Indianapolis
Journal.
_ *
An IneldentaL
Hibbs?See that striking looking girl ^ M
there? She married millions.
Hobbs?Who's the insignificant looking
fellow with her?
Hibbs?Oh, he's the man she married.?Philadelphia
North American.
Johnny Shows His Affllity.
"Step up, fellers, an see Willie do
his great trick of jumpin into a bar^\
4 ,
I *
"Watch him close, now!"
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