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COWARDLY SHARK.
JExperiences in Australia with Finny
Maneater.
Australia is surrounded by a sea
which is literally seething with
sharks. It is not only along the
northern coast that they are to be
found. Even in the waters about
Hobart, says Egbert T. Russell, writing
in the Australian monthly the
Lone Hand, the shark is a common
object, and it is not so many years
ago that a fishing party was grievously
alarmed when its boat was surrounded
by a dozen or more ten
footers, which lent interest to the
proceedings by flapping their tails
against the sides of the ooat ana
snapping at frenziedly pulled oar.
Yet despite the fact that the shark
is common in every Australian sea
and exceedingly so in every Australian
estuary and that people of varying
degrees of foolhardiness bathe
in both to the number of probably
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millions yearly, shark tragedies are
so rare as to shock the entire community
when they occur. Why the
shark should hesitate to take advantage
of the enormous quantities of
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fresh human meat provided for him
? \ v is a mystery which none of the theories
advanced explain satisfactorily.
Perhaps the most feasible explanaV
tion of all is that nature has implanted
in all the lower forms of
animal life a horrible fear of man, a
fear which has a considerable amount
of reason in it and without which
there would probably be no lower
forms of life at all to-day and man
himself would be a vegetarian or a
cannibal.
During the last hundred years
thousands of boats have upset in Sydney
harbor, an area infested by
sharks, and yet not one of the
floundering yatchsmen has ever been
attacked by a shark. This goes to
indicate that the fearsome spectacle
of a huge white sail lying over the
water scared away all the sharks in
the vicinity.
* It is not so many years ago that
during a high sea a shark was washed
into the Bogie Hole at Bondi, J
just outside the baths. Next day the
:r , discovery was made and a score of
residents gathered round, each propounding:
schemes for capturing the
fish alive. In the middle of the consultation
a man in bathing costume
?either skilled in shark habits or
yearning for fame?made a cynical
remark about catching the shark
liimself while the others were talking
about it and dived with a loud
splash into the hole. The shark was
so frightened that by a supershark
, effort it scrambled rather than swam
over the ledge of rock running awash
: and escaped into the bay.
Only a few yards away within the
present year a 10 foot gray nurse
shark forgot its principles or grew
suddenly courageous and made a
dash for a bather just outside the
surf. It had not gained many feet
before the shouting and splashing of
the other bathers in the water knocked
out all of its courage and it turn
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the experience of every surf bather
on all of the beaches that though
sharks may hover about the bathing
spots they refrain from venturing
close so long as a number of bathers
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At night, when there are few
"bathers or none at all, it is possible
to catch sharks from any of the ocean
heaches around Sydney with a hook
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edge. That they are so caught is
manifest by the bodies which may
be seen lying along the beaches in
early mornings, in defiance of local
ordinances, bags of as many as a
dozen being recorded for four hours'
work. But in the daytime, when
the shallows are thick with bathers,
not a shark is to be seen, or if a fin
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does show up occasionally it gives a
wide berth to the points where the
"bathers are thick. The belief of the
surf bather that though the shark
may attack him alone it is not sufficiently
courageous to venture near
four or five or more, seems optimistic
to the person who knows not surf,
but experience seems to prove that
it has a solid foundation of fact.
While the shark is generally timid
to the verge of cowardice and has
never in one recorded instance summoned
up enough courage to pit
itself against a number of human beings
it has displayed extra audacity
on occasions. Some years back a
man on horseback, stirrup deep, on
the foreshore of South Melbourne,
was dragged from his horse and killed.
Only last year a boatman up to
his knees in the shallows of Woy
Woy as he tied up his boat was attacked
by a shark, which darted and
tore his trousers as a terrier might.
It is perhaps unfortunate that
sharks are not more given to attack
human beings. Were it so there
would be fewer tragedies. It is the
Immunity that man enjoys from
shark attack that makes him venturesome
and leads one of his number
every now and then to meet with
death or mutilation.?London Globe.
"O'Riley is coming!"
"O'Riley is coming!"
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KERR HOLDS ON ALSO.
Warrant for His Arrest Threatened
by Governor in Letter.
Greenwood, March 9.?The latest
development in the magisterial situation
at Greenwood is a letter received
this morning from the governor
by Judge Kerr. In this letter Magistrate
Kerr is told that "his successor
having been appointed, his commission
is revoked and is null and void."
Previous to this the governor had
advised his appointee, J. W. Canfield,
to go ahead transacting business as
magistrate and if at the end of 30
I days .Magistrate Kerr had not turned
i o^ er his books to him, Mr. Canfield,
it would be in order to have a warrant
sworn out for him.
The notice of revocation of Magis
trate Kerr's commission is another
move which Mr. Kerr says can not
be sustained as the cause given, the
appointment of his successor, is not
one of the three causes specified by
law upon which his commission can
be revoked.
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Blease Names Another.
Florence, March 7.?Since the publication
of the fact that the governor's
appointee on the board of * assessors
for Tans Bay township as the
sucessor to J. Sanders McKenzie,
whom the delegation recommended
for reappointment, did not reside in
the township the governor has made
another appointment not recommended
by the delegation, A. M.
Hill. Objection will probably be
made to Mr. Hill qualifying because
he was not appointed according to
law. It is probable that Mr. McKenzie
will demand to sit on the board.
The board, it is thought, will sustain
him and reelect him the member of
the State board of equalization.
Will be Tried for Crime.
Orangeburg, March 7.?The Sheriff,
A. M. Sallev, of Orangeburg county,
has been notified by authorities at
Brunswick, Ga., of the arrest of
James Evans, who is wanted in this
county for'the murder of J. T. Phillips,
a very prominent farmer of the
Norway section, on July 2, 1903. As
soon as requisition papers can be obtained
the negro will be brought to
thijS county for trial.
Mr. Phillips was shot through a
window while he was sitting in his
dining room. His daughter was also
wounded. The crime was committed
by two young negroes and a posse
pursued the criminals, catching one
and lynching him.
Where Advertising Pays.
In traveling through the country
one cannot but notice that signs,
billboards and other similar advertising
is not nearly so popular as it
was some years ago. At one time
to the great disfigurement of the
landscape, nearly every conspicuous
spot bore an advertisement extolling
the virtues of somebody's goods. It
is not so now. It has been abandoned
not for sentimental reasons, for
business pays little regard to sentiment,
but because experience proved
that that kind of advertising did not
pay.
ur an tne many Kinas or advertising
to which business men resort for
the exploiting of their trade it has
been conclusively proved to the satisfaction
of the great majority that
the kind which pays best, in bringing
immediately profitable and permanent
returns, is that which appears
in the columns of a home paper.
Olfactory Evidence.
A typical old-time "circuit rider"
died recently in Alabama?a man
whose godly, unselfish life will long
be remembered. Many were the eccentricities
of this rugged old man,
and many annecdotes are current
among the Methodist minsters of
the State concerning him. He was
noted for two things?his denunciation
of sin in no uncertain tones,
and the familiarity with which he
addressed the Lord in prayer.
On one occasion he had been
preaching in a log meeting house in
the piny woods of North Alabama.
There were several young fellows on
hand who had been celebrating by
patronizing a still hard by. After a
long, nery sermon, the preacher
made a call for mourners, and soon
the rude altar was filled mostly by
the afore-mentioned young fellows.
The old man looked them over for
a moment, and with keen intuition
felt that it was perhaps a "lark" on
the boys' parts, but he knelt to pray.
"O Lord," he began, "here's a
crowd of young fellows kneeling
round Your altar. They've been
cussin' and swearin' and drinkin'
and spendin' their time in riotous
livin,' but they've come up here
seemingly penitent. They look like
penitents, Lord, and 1 nope tney are.
They weep like penitents, Lord, and
I hope You'll forgive 'em if they
are; but, 0 Lord, I declare they don't
smell like penitents!"
No attention is paid to anonymous
communications received at this
office.
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AFRAID OF BLEASE.
Hub Evans Likely to Escape Trial
for the Present.
The Columbia correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle says the chances
are that H. H. Evans, familiarly
known as "Hub" Evans, of Newberry,
will never come to trial during
the administration of Gov. Cole. L.
REFUSES TO OBEY.
Major A. H. Kir by Will Not Give Up
His Office.
Spartanburg, March 9.?Major A.
H. Kirby has received a letter from
Gov. Blease ordering him to vacate
his office as magistrate and turn over
his records to Malcolm Bowden, the
governor's appointee.
Maj. Kirby has said that he will do
nothing of the kind.
Though the major is 83 years old,
he says he is nbt ready to retire at
this time and holds that the governor
has no right to remove him from office.
His attorneys advise him that
he can hold over, since Mr. Bowden,
whom the governor appointed to succeed
him, has not had the indorsement
of the county delegation nor
been recommended by the senate.
Both Maj. Kirby and Bowden are
transacting business. What the developments
will be is the question in
which the city is much interested.
Blease's Letter.
The following is Gov. Blease's lette
to Maj. Kirby:
"Dear Sir: Your successor having
been appointed, you are hereby notified
that your commission as magis
trate is nun ana voia.
"Yours respectfully,
"COLE L. BLEASE,
"Governor."
Major Kirby said to-night, "I have
not yet sent Gov. Blease my reply,
but I won't have much to say to
him."
He says he will continue to do
business.
Mark Twain's Sayings.
Simple ruies ior saving money: iu
save half, when you are fired by an
eager impulse to contribute to charity,
wait and count 40. To save
three quarters, count 60. To save
all, count 75.
When I reflect upon the number of
disagreeable people who I know
have gone to a better world, I am
moved to lead a different life.
Let me make the superstition of a
nation and I care not what makes
its laws or its songs either.
It takes your enemy and your
frend, working together, to hurt you
to the heart; the one to slander you
and the other to get the news to
you.
One of the most striking differences
between a cat and a lie is that
a cat has only nine lives.
It were not best that we should
all think alike; it is difference of
opinion that makes horse-races.
None of us can have as many virtues
as the fountain pen or half of
its cussedness; but we can try.
The autocrat of Russia possesses
more power than any other man on
earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.
Let us not be too particular. It is
better to have old second hand diamonds
than none at all.
A man with a new idea is a crank
until the idea succeeds.
The Largest Safe in the World.
The United States government is
now in possession of the largest and
finest safe in the world. It is located
deep under ground below the United
States treasury building at Washing
ton, and in this huge strong box it is
the intention to keep in storage at all
times not less than $500,000,000 in
currency. Of course this new governmental
depository of wealth is not
a "safe" in the ordinary interpretation
of the word, but rather a vault
nearly 54 feet in length, close to 20
feet wide and about 15 feet in height.
The exterior walls of the new vault
are of the heaviest steel construction
and the door and the portholes providing
for ventilation are closed by
heavy steel doors fitted with the
latest approved locks of the heaviest
and most intricate construction,
but the main safeguard for the subterranean
wealth lies in an electric
system that cost $9,000, and which
enmeshes the entire vault in a closedrawn
net-work of electric wires?
more than 17 miles of wire in the
aggregate?which sounds alarms at
any interference. This system is
tested every 15 minutes day and
night. The only means of reaching
the new vault is by a secret elevator,
guarded by treasury watchmen.
Off the Track.
Some amusement has been occasioned
out near Paola, Mo., by a kink
in a railroad track which pitched a
mail clerk through the door of the
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in a haystack.
This recalls the story, perhaps unrecorded,
of the brakeman who was
making his first trip on an Illinois
road which ran for some distance under
the Mississippi bluffs. The ride
was one violent wrench after another,
and the brakeman had just
about made up his mind he was lost
when the train suddenly shot out
upon a piece of straight and comparatively
smooth track across the
foot of a hollow. Leaping from his
seat he snatched up his lantern and
dashed for the platform.
"Jump for your lives!" he shouted.
"She's off the track!"
Blease. Without any official confirmation
this statement is made in
view of recent circumstances.
"Hub" Evans stands indicted for
accepting a bribe when he was chairman
of the old State dispensary
board of directors. He was indicted
at Newberry by Attorney General
Lyon and was placed out on bond
pending his trial a true bill having
been returned by the grand jury of
his home county.
Chief among the happenings that
lead to the conclusion that Hub Evans
will not soon be tried is the
commuting of the sentence of John
Black, the chairman of the dispensary
board in the years following
Hub Evans' -regime.
That Governor Blease Did not
grant a full pardon to John Black
Has been wondered at in many or me
papers of this State.
It should be recalled, however,
that when he was charged during the
campaign with the cry of "Blease
will pardon the grafters," the present
governor issued a statement
from Newberry in which it was denied
that he would pardon.
This, it is believed, is the main
reason the governor did not pardon
John Black. The commutation is
regarded as practically a pardon in
the view that the convicted man escapes
the prison, but in the eyes of
the law the person convicted admits
guilt-in accepting a commutation and
the only further act that the governor
can later do is to restore to
citizenship thus wiping out the stain
of not voting or accepting any affice
as provided by the constitution.
The very object of the convictions
in the dispensary cases is to secure
punishment by imprisonment as was
announced in Judge Ernest Moore's
sentencing of John Black. When
those who are convitced are either
to be pardoned or their sentences
commuted it is felt that it is entailing
unnecessary expense upon the
county where a trial is held and taking
up the time of all persons in
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voivea in me nearmg 01 uie wuse iu
no advantage.
For this reason, too, it is believed
that H H. Evans will not be brought
to trial during the administration of
Governor Blease. Future events may
change the situation but a bet of
1,000 to 1 m.ght be taken on the
probability that "Hub" Evans may
not soon be brought to trial.
Difference in Taste.
The taste and odor of bananas
ripened before cutting are very different
from what one finds in the bananas
cut green and ripened after
arrival in northern localities. This
fact is leading to the development of
a new industry in drying the fruit
A ^ a Tj^iiwatva
utsiuit; Buiyiiieiiu iu duiu(jc< vuccu
bananas are found to contain 80 per
cent, of starch and 3 or 4 per cent,
of sugar; the ripe fruit, 70 per cent,
of sugar?of which 40 per cent, is
saccharose, or cane sugar; and 30
per cent, invert-sugar, or honeysugar?and
only 2 per cent, of
starch; and in dried bananas neither
saccharose nor starch is found, the
remaining starch having been converted
into saccharose and the saccharose
into invert-sugar. The dried
banana powder, which can be sold at
a low price, which is especially
recommended for children, on account
of its sugar.
Something in His Pockets.
Detective Joseph Fanelli, of the
New Rochelie police force, saw a
man with pockets bulging step from
a trolley from Mount Vernon early in
the morning, and promptly arrested
him.
At police headquarters the prisoner
said he was George Evison, of
Mamaroneck, and his pockets were
found to contain needles, thread,
patches, a razor, razor strop shaving
brush and soap, a stocking full
of tea, a mirror, a paper percel containing
butter eight onions, a plug
of tobacco, several pieces of ribbon,
a whisk broom, a silver watch and
chain, a number of ladies' side
combs, a small bag of buttons, a
bunch of shoe laces, a Sherlock
Hoems pipe and tobacco, a special
policeman's shield of Suffolk county,
a small broiler made of copper wire,
a cold chicken, several pieces of
bologna sausage, a napkin, a nail
file, a half-used cake of face powder,
box of matches, a pair of scissors,
a wash cloth, a jack-knife, a
box of drawing pencils and crayons,
and a small sketch book containing
a number of rough sketches of landscapes
and street scenes.
Edison told Judge Samuel F. Swinburne
that he had been on a sketching
tramp through Westchester county,
and was allowed to go home.?
New York Times.
"O'Riley is coming!"
TOWN SHATTERED.
Dynamite Shock Wrecks Pleasant
Prairie, Wis.
Kenosha, Wis., March 9.?With a
roar that was heard for 50 miles,
a glare that was seen fully as far
and with a concussion that broke
windows more than 100 miles away,
three car loads of dynamite exploded
at the plant of the DuPont DeNemours
company shortly after 8
o'clock to-night in the village of
Pleasant Prairie, six miles west of
this city. , It will be impossible for
many hours to tell accurately the
number of dead. Nearly every house
in the village, which contains 700
residents, has been badly damaged
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Ten Miles Off.
Report? from the country 10 miles
distant are to the effect that houses
even that far from the explosion
were thrown down.
It is believed inevitable that many
people have been killed or injured
through the surrounding country. So
far as is known at present, however,
but one man, E. S. Thompson, foreman
of the glaze mill, was killed outright,
but Charles Brady, superintendent,
and Joseph Flint, the engineer,
are badly injured and may
die.
The cause of the explosion is not
known at the present time. The
plant, which covered 190 acres of
ground was completely wrecked,
only one building remaining. This
is one of the magazines, and is is
filled with dynamite.
Four Came Quickly.
The first explosion took one 6f the
magazine buildings and in quick succession
four others followed, but so
quickly that it seemed to be but one.
The force of the concussion was
terrific. Houses, barns and outbuildings
in the immediate neighborhood
were swept from their
foundations as though struck by a
torpedo. It is reported that hundreds
of cattle and horses are killed,
a telephone report from there stating
that some of them were hurled
entirely through barns and residences.
It is reported that the town of
Bristol, Wis., 10 miles distant, was
badly wrecked, but details were not
obtainable from there at midnight.
Special trains were hastily dispatched
from Kenosha carrying every
available nurse and physician. Several
of the injured..have been received
in this city, but none of them have
sustained minor injuries.
Thought It Was Earthquake.
Cleveland, Ohio, March 9.-?The
seismograph at St. Ignatious college
observatory recorded earthquake vibrations
to-night beginning at 8:45
p. m. and lasting for 25 minutes
when they began decreasing. Father
Odenbach, observer, says the records
show two distinct shocks.
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Laziness in Legislatures.
Copies of the rebuke addressed by
Governor Colquitt to the legislature
of Texas might be -sent with equal
justification by nearly every governor
in the United States to the law-making
bodies of their respective commonwealths.
It has come to be the fixed habit
of legislatures in this country to assemble
and trifle,for 30 or 40 days
and finally to carry through with a
reckless rush such legislation as is
absolutely necessary to the maintenance
of the State government and
its institutions in the closing hours
of the session.
Usually in the legislature of this
State a local bill with one member
or senator behind it and half a
dozen influential and interested citizens
of a county "in behind" him
is likely to run the gauntlet of the
committees and the two houses to
passage and ratification, unless it excites
antagonism, but the larger
measures affecting the whole State
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study if they are to be perfected,
hang fire from session to session.
Such a bill, for example, as that
relating to the remodeling of the
school laws of South Carolina introduced
in the session lately adjourned
should have had the energetic and
determined direction of half a dozen
legislators from the beginning of the
session and these men should not
have allowed its progress to lag for
a day.
The average legislature is of the
Texas type and subject to the infirmities
of the Texans. In a word, it is
an idle and indifferent body that
works most under the lure or the
goad of a lobby. Were the opposite
the case, were the legislatures bent
upon making laws for the whole people
and accustomed to give attention
and diligent study to great measures,
there would be little time available
to listen to the lobbyists.?Columbia
State.
First Wedding Guest?How happy
the bridegroom looks. Second Wedding
Guest?That' isn't the bridegroom?that's
the fellow the bride
jilted.?Philadelphia Telegraph.
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The secretions are dark, contain
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Passages are frequent, scanty,
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Backache is constant day and
night.
Headaches and dizzy spells are
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A MECGA FOR CATS. ~ S
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Pittsburg Has $1,000,000 to Stamp \
Out the Rat Plague.
A Pittsburg lawyer, according to \|rf|
the Philadelphia Ledger, makes the
assertion that $1,000,000 worth of rrO
property is destroyed every day in J
the depredations committed by rats
throughout the United States, and he
says Pittsburg is more heavily victimized
than any other cominunity.
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.tie declares?tnougn pt;ruu,pB ui? ^
assertion is not to be taken too ^
seriously?that he is authorized
to offer $1,000,000 for a rat-killing 'J
device that will do for Pittsburg
what the Pied Piper did for Hamlin. %
The mere announcement is enough .'.S
to bring upon him an inundation of
"crank" letters, models of patents,
sketches and blue prints, and his office
will be thronged with wild-eyed j|
visitors and inventors of perpetual M
motion machines, until he will rue
the day that he was born. But if Mr.
Evert seriously wishes to rid his city :
of rats, the means by which Richard "'2
Whittington became an inordinately
wealthy Lord Mayor of London suggests
itself. Let him invest $1,000,000
in cats. Just think how many * ; ^
cats that amount of money will buy. %
In a short time it is to be ex- 0;
pected that Pittsburg will resemble '
ancient Egypt, and that a cat will be
installed as the tutelary divinity of
every household. The city hall will
be a temple of Bubastes, and any
one who has a request to make about ^
street openings or sewers will bring
a propitiatory offering of fish or catAAmmlcciAnnr'Q
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has been decided in New York that
the postoffice cats are government
employees, and an appropriation is
regularly made for their maintenance.
The question is whether the
cats of Pittsburg would have to be -'jm
classified as city employees and
whether they would be compelled to
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the meantime, Mr. Evert's offer will
make Pittsburg the mecca for the
tramp cats of the entire country.
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