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AN INTERESTING FRO! "Be it Ever So Humble, Home"?Entertainii Trip to the I Wanderer's Rest. March 1~?.? v Home, sweet home seems to be deep 1 down in the human soui, for be it t ever so humble there is 110 puace like v I home. This thought must still linger a in the memory of a man who dwells s in a little cottage painted red in a j t city not far away who has this sign s hung in front "Board and lodging, j 1 jusl like home." c Some men will get drunk and y rtnn't sppm to mind, but ashamed of i the place where they stop if it is small and unpretentious. Heard one r say not long since that if a man saw f where he was to stop would decide a that if a man was anything, had any-1 n thing, or ever expected to be or have b anything would never stop where he J v was going to get off the train. That i i' place is a pretty little town in South j t Carolina where birds sing and flow- j p ers bloom. i a An Irishman suffering with tooth j c ache called at a physician's office and s asked the doctor if he could draw ! b his tooth without pain, explaining r that he could not bear pain, no t rihnot-or niver. The doctor told him r he could, so Mike took a seat, open- r ed his mouth, and in a jiffy the tooth j was drawn, just as the tooth came J out the 'doctor had a boy to stick a pin in the calf of the patient's leg.! Said patient slapped his leg with, both hands exclaiming, "Bedad, doc,j * I niver knew the roots reached so1 ^ far." That doctor had discovered t the fact that it takes a new sorrow i p to forget an old. E There is a gin house in this State jt: that has in large letters Josh Vth j1 on it. Judging by the old man sit- i v ting on the steps if he was Josh the fifth they must have been long life a Joshes. There is a town in South i Carolina that must have derived its;s name from the appearance of the Ip traveler's eye as he strives in vain |t to find the town. Which one is it? I At White Stone we learned of the a that foil in Cherokee! ^ Uiavn. ouvn VUIAV ?? county a few days ago that turned j the ground black as it fell. Was it n not singular that we had to be at * White Stone to learn of black snow9 , f But some strange things happen. j At Carlisle, the town of classic j name, was seen an old colored man a with a very small pony hitched to an a old wagon with at least fifty pounds of red clay on each wheel. The! * wagon was old, sides of body very |r low, fore gate very tall and inscribed d on the front "Lightning Express," j in flaming colors. As he looked and e read a certain old man had to cough * 11 low and wonder what next? Eli Perkins once went to Spartan- j ^ burg to deliver an address. Said on j s i g alighting from train he saw a man's 1 v hat in middle of street, soon saw it j was moving, presently a man's head ? bobbed up, then a mule's ears, then 1 others, and to his great surprise if came out a man driving four mules ^ hitched to a loaded wagon, all safe i . : p and sound but well stained, wnat ~ would he think could he land any- J where in the old State now? Rain. ' rain, and water, mud and slush * everywhere! Uncle Sam is very tall, lean and it thin, much given to scraping his feet, pulling his hat and bowing, all the j while saying in a weak and wheezy | tone, "Yassah! yassah;" all along as, he bows and talks. Is much troubled ; with asthma. Said asthma he calls i ? | C his sickness. He is a kind of pen- j t sioner on a large plantation in South 1, Carolina, lives alone in his little r shanty, gets wood, brings water and j, does light jobs around the house! and yard. Ask him some bad rainy I morning how he feels and he always j replies: "Yassah, yassah; had a mity j bad nite las nite, yassah, yassah, my j, sickness done come down on me las , nite, yassah." Hat in hand and he bows himself out of the room to , make fire in another. Before thei? \ c new cook came, a dusky maid of 1 about thirty summers, Uncle Sam would late in the afternoons ask per- |, mission to go to his shanty to pre-! 1 pare wood for the night, saying as j j he pulled his hat and bowing very j 1 low, "yassah, it ben very cole and I i ( ole and my sickness is mity bad, yassah." Permission was always j, given, but when the new cook came wood for his#shanty was forgotten j. and no cook anywhere receives as ' i i much help and attention as that one. j ] and the boss says he reckons Uncle i < Sam is now willing to freeze. Overheard on the way: It is funny! to watch a woman shopping, always . on the lookout for a bargain, even in matrimony and afraid some other will get a better bargain by two cents ' than she. Only to-day, while lean- j i ing against a wall in a city postofficeii musing, rushed by a stylishly dress-! j ed young lady with all the marks j: of refinement stamped on her brow, j i r jr-J T* 7"? 'F*> L?. i ? LK M "OLD TIMER." There's No Place Like ig Incidents of a Jp-Ccuntry. nth rosy iips and cheeks, raven ocks and diamond rings, walked up 0 one of the clerks, asked if stamps rere* sold there, on receiving yes as 1 reply said she wanted to look at ome. "What kind?" asked the asonished clerk. "Two cent ones," he said. The clerk handed over a arge sheet of them, after looking >ver them for quite a while the oung lady said, pointing at the one n the middle, "I will take that one." Rain again to-day in torrents, tothing done on the farm and the armers are wondering where they re at. The old man has to fight uosquitoes with his hat already, and lis song of woe begun before the oice of the turtle dove cooing for ts mate is heard, makes for fever his summer, not a pleasant prospect. But the violets are all smiles nd with laughing eyes seem to say heer up sad hearts the sun will bine and an allwise hand is at the elm, all is well, things will be all ight in the end if you don't plant oo much cotton. For hope, like the ain bows of summer, brings the pomise of wealth at last. OLD TIMER. Once Rich, Now a Vagrant. The New York World says Col. Vayne Belvin, who was a vice-presient of the Northern Pacific under be Henry Villard regime, and later resident of the Port Angeles and Eastern Railway, was locked up in he West Thirtieth street police staion Tuesday night on a charge of agrancy. His arrest followed an appeal for lms to Detective Lynch of Ispector <ahey's staff. Belvin described himelf to Lieut. Mulligan as a railroad resident and gave his age as fiftyhree. Only one or two of the older men t the station house recognized Belin, although he was a conspicuous gure throughout the Tenderloin for iany years. He inherited $600,000 rom his father, and with it came rom Richmond, Va., to New York wenty-five years ago. Villard took him into his office, nd Belvin was rated as a millionire within a short time thereafter, n 1899 his luck had swung so far in he other direction that he was arested for a debt of $143 to the Wal i j ^ t. orf-Astoria, wnere ne naa maae ms ome for a long time. Belvin sued George C. Boldt for 160,000 as a result of this arrest, 'he case was never tried, but Belvin ;ot a taste for such litigation. He ued David H. Moffatt, of Denver, for 200,000, which he said was due him n some mining deals. In the course if the next few years he was arrested n Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago, or threatening like suits against irokers. James A. Patton, the wheat iroker, was one of the men he pickd as a defendant. Last December Belvin persuaded Jagistrate O'Connor to send him to he workhouse for a month on a harge of intoxication. He said then hat he couldn't afford to live at the Yaldorf any more, and that he was iappv nowhere else. Two Women Arrested. Asheville, N. C., March 12.?Two idditional arrests in connection with he Myrtle Hawkins case were made lere to-night when Mrs. Nora Brit.t md Mrs. Lizzie Shaft were arrested )y two of the sheriff's deputies, the vomen being charged with having juilty knowledge of, or being active participants in the criminal operation vhich resulted in the death of Myrtle Hawkins last September. Mrs. Britt was lodged in the Buncombe county jail, while Mrs. Shaft was :aken to Hendersonville jail pending l preliminary hearing Friday morning pefore a local magistrate. The warrants for the two women, svho have been under suspicion since :he finding of Myrtle Hawkins's body in Lake Osceola last September, were taken out on affidavits made by T. C. Brown, a local citizen, who was ?iven data for the warrants from the sheriff's office. The county authorities say they can produce a witness who will swear that .Mrs. Britt told him that she had been hired to perform the operation. Still another witness will swear that .Mrs. Britt had told him that she (Mrs. Britt) had been hired by Mrs. Shaft to perform an operation at Hendersonville. The first primary for the new county of Jasper was held on Tuesday. A .Jew officers were nominated, and a second race for the others will be held the"J2Gth. The legislators will be nominated in August. buiasi: to pbobk ly\v{nsa. G ovevu'u* Kxpros.-'cs Keg ret K"v?v i5;i:is:i?*i County A hair. j Columbia, "larch 1~?. -Governor ;}31iase said this afternoon that lie 'was going to investigate into the ! :aets sit iron n:i in g ti.e lynching of the three, negroes at Olar on Wednesday night, the coroner's jury having failed to fix the blame of the mob I of 7"> men who took the negroes from j the constables while they were 011 ! their way from Olar to the Bamberg jail, and lynched them. "1 am sorry the negroes were lynched," said Governor Blease in discussing the affair. "I am going to look into the matter closely and lay whatever evidence I may gather in the hands of the solicitor." This was the second time since Governor Blease has been in office that a lynching has occurred, the other occasion having been the lynching of a negro at Honea Path, charged with attempted assault on a white woman last year. ? Murderer is riangeu. Laredo, Tex., March 15.?J. B. Compton, who was hanged here today, murdered G. J. Levytansky, a jeweler in this city last December. Lonnie Franks was an accomplice. The murderers robbed Levytansky of $12,000 $15,000 worth of diamonds. Franks fled, but Compton remained in Laredo, being one of the first to enter the jewelry store next morning when the crime was discovered and one of the loudest in decrying the cruelty. Well acquainted with Levytansky, he went to see his friend's body at the undertaker shop, commenting on how little death had altered his visage. Keeping up his apparent unconcern two days after the murder Compton married a young woman of this city. The police, suspicious of Compton frorp the first because he had been seen near the store at about the time of the murder, arrested him three times and were twice forced to release mm iur men. of evidence. Franks was apprehended in San Ahtonio and made a confession implicating Compton. Shortly afterward Compton also made a confession. Franks was sentenced to life imprisonment. Because Compton was married so soon after his crime is believed to have turned public sentiment here against him and when he made application for a commutation of his sentence he was unsuccessful. Escaped Convicts Sought. Lincoln, Neb., March 15.?No definite trace had been found early today of the three convicts who escaped from the Nebraska State prison yesterday during a blinding snow storm after an outbreak in which the warden, a deputy warden and an usher were killed outright and a guard slightly wounded. The escaped prisoners were clad only in their prison suits. It is bev lieved they were assisted by confederates from outside the prison. The posse which pursued the men yesterday returned to the city last night exhausted by their struggle to get through the deep snow drifts. The weather was clear and cold this morning and a further pursuit of the convicts was planned. Reports and rumors that the three convicts had been seen in different parts of the country were sifted down this forenoon without result. Additional posses have joined in the hunt. The escaped convicts were bank robbers and each is said to have been an expert in the handling of explosives. They were known as Morley, Taylor and Dowd. The first named is said to have served time in Missouri for a murder. WATSOX SAFE, SAYS BLEASE. Governor Declares He will Not Name Commissioner's Successor. Columbia, March 15.?Governor Blease stated this afternoon that he had no idea of appointing anyone to the office of commissioner of agriculture, commerce and immigration, which means that Commissioner Watson will hold on until his successor is elected by the people at the next election, as provided in the ac* making the office elective. Commissioner Watson's term expired yesterday, but the go'vernor's statement means that Mr. Watson will continue J* i - J- ? - .r ^ rxz x:i 10 nil tne auues 01 uie umce uuui the election, he, of course, holding it under the law until a successor i? . appointed and qualified, and as none will be named, he will continue just as at present. This sets at rest rumors that someone else was slated , for the place. Two negro men and a negro woman were carried from Marlborc county to the State penitentiary or Wednesday for safe keeping. Thev are charged with being concerned ir the murder of two small white boys nearly two years ago. K An ad. in The Herald will bring recults. Try one and see. MISS mOTT i.vu i;Ki>. Oil Kve <>?' stalls and S-Vact'lris A most i>:i In fill accident happened to Mios Alice !licit Fridav ai'tor? . , . i noon, wmlc on nei way nonie iron ! Vv'altorboro. She walked into town. land returning, I'd I while renins over a ler.ee in t'=c path. fracturing a ie ; and dislocating "lie knee. The accident occurred near her home. lie," physician was summoned and set the injured limb. This accident is especially to be legretted as Miss Hiott was preparing for her marriage. Her fiance, Mr. Rowland, of Wavcross, Ga., came Saturday and they were to have been married Sunday and return to their future home Monday in order to be present at a big reception which had been planned in their honor. This accident necessitated a change in the date of their marriage, and Mr. Rowland returned to his home Monday. He will return in the near future to claim his bride.?Walterboro Press and Standard. Bill's Runaway With the Major. Last week I gave your readers the escapade of Shoofly Dick, and this week I chronicle an incident that happened one of those bitter cold nights last January. There were two actors in the comedy, (must I also add tragedy?) and only one, an unknown spectator. My good friend, the major, was one and his hired man, Bill, was the other. The major is all right every way; as a financier he has few equals. Some years ago he came here with only the clothing that he wore, and his first crop was male on rented land with an ox. By hard work and good management, he is now rated at over $30,000, and I have never heard any one question his honor. He owns several fine plantations which he manages splendidly, and in his own way. There he is a law unto himself. His legal procedure, as the lawyers say, is unique to say the least. He has three ways of punishing an erring tenant; by reasonable fines, by flogging, and by putting in the lock-up a day and night. For many months his man Bill had given him much trouble. He had put fine on fine against Bill's account, but Bill got worse. Forebearance, with the major, ceased tc be a virtue, so one of those cruelly cold nights last January, he went tc Bill's house, and gave him what he had long needed; a good old-fashioned whipping. After putting the lash on Bill to his entire satisfaction he tied Bill behind his buggy witt a new pair of lines, and proceeded toward the lock-up, Bill walking, 01 rather trotting behind the buggy Now, on the way a steep hill, some four or five hundred yards long, hac to be climbed, and all went well 'till the top of this hill was reached. A1 the brow of the hill the major"* horse stopped. The whip was ap pnea to tne norse, iue wuime-wet broke, so did the harness, and th? horse dashed up the road, leaving the major in the buggy with Bill tied on behind. In less time than il takes to tell it, Bill was carrying the buggy with the major in it dowr the hill at a John Gilpin speed. 01 course the road was frozen hard, anc to pull a buggy down grade was nol much pulling, but keeping out of the way of the buggy was no joke at all but Bill was on the job. For a while the major said noth' ing but seeing danger ahead, h< yelled out: "Wo Bill! Wo, I say don't you see you're going to smasl the buggy?" There was no "woing" or stopping in Bill, but faster and faster went h< down the hill, the buggy rattling like a train load of empty boxes over ai open trestle. Seeing Bill gaining speed at such a fearful rate, the ma jor held on to the buggy for dear lif< with one hand while with the othe: he was lashing Bill with a new bugg? whip. Some yards ahead, a tree wa standing near the edge of the road and Bill made a bee-line for thi: tree. The major saw at once Bill' intention and yelled out: "Gee, Bill Gee! Don't you see that tree ahead.' Rill Hiri ?pp thp tree with both eves at that, the buggy striking the tre< ' with terrific force, breaking the fet. ! ters which bound Bill to the buggy ; and he with a 1.10 clip dashed on ' ward, leaving the major to his fate ' and the major was thrown headlon; into a briar patch, some fifteen o ! more feet into the swamp, and whei he took up a hatless and moneyles ' collection of himself, he was hean ; to say: "I'll bet :dve hundred dollars tha : that darn nigger can beat Bruc Brown a mile dash any cold night.' ' I saw the major next day, and witl the exception of some dozen patche of court plaster 011 his hands, he wa | none the worse for Bill's runnini away with him down the hill. Th buggy, however, was laid up for rc pairs, and so was Bill. A. \V. BRABHAM. When contemplating private wate works investigate the Fairbanks Morse Eclipse Pumping outfit. WM H. 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