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PERSONAL MENTION. , ,
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ft People Visiting in This City and
f at Other Points.
?Mr. Willis Herndon is at home
from the S. C. C. I. at Edgefield.
?Mrs. J. R. Bellinger, of Augusta,
is in the city on a visit to relatives. j
?Mr. R. M. McCown, nrincipal of
the Denmark school, spent Sunday in
the city.
?Messrs. D. G. Richardson and A.
P. Guess, of Denmark, were in the
city Monday.
?Misses Louise and Leonard Folk 1
came home Sunday evening from
"y Converse college, Spartanburg.
?Messrs. '"rank Hiers and J. B.
Ramsey, of Ehrhardt, were in the
city Monday evening on their way to
Pthe grand lodge meeting of the I
Knights of Pythias at Aiken.
The Fountain of Youth.
Picture to yourself a slight, greybearded
Spaniard, armed and armorI
ed, sitting in the shade of a dwelling
house in Porfo Rico?a primitive
enough house, no doubt, but enough
to furnish some protection from the
fierce, white sunlight of the tropics.
Other Spaniards are in the room, but 1
the gray bearded man, who is evident- 1
ly their chief, is paying little heed to
them. He is talking through an in- '
j]
terpreter to a number of naked In*
s
dians, and they are telling him a
story?a story too good to be true? j s
of a mysterious island somewhere in '
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the southern seas?just where they I ;
cannot well describe. And on this! L
I
island, sheltered by the palms, they |
say there is a spring or fountain bub- ^
bling from the earth, and whoso
drinks its water, lo, his years fall ^
from him like a mantle that is shed,
and the strength and the glow of his
k youth return. r
' The slender, gray-beard listens, all s
intent, leaning forward, that he may
k not miss a woxd, and there is in his
; weary eyes a certain light of hope
? that his companions have not seen for 1
? a long while. For, though the man n
is only 53, he knows that he is growt
ing old apace?his face is lined and
I tanned with thirty years' campaign- s
I ing, 30 years of warfare and struggle
against the fevers that bring old age *
a-racing in the tropics.
The man is Ponce de Leon, the
Spanish governor of Porto Rico, scar- ?
. red by old wounds that pain him 1
grievously betimes, and he is listen- v
ing to the story of the fountain of *
youth. In all the annals of discov- 1]
I]
ery it is hard to find a more picturesque
or a more appealing figure than
this old man driven by hope of youth ^
and fear of age to lead an expedition
to the wilderness at a time of life
when most men are content to bask .
\ in the setting sun, or at most sit at ^
the council table and give advice,
* leaving the active part of life to 7
younger hands.
The result of the luring story told
?
by the Indians was that Ponce de ^
Leon got ready ships and went ex
ploring into the south seas, seeking p
the spring o>f youth. They were L
P
? primitive people, these old Spanish ?
dons, and their imaginations, fed by
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stirring tales, found no miracle too
hard to believe. And Ponce de Leon
fnnnd it pasv tn believe, because he
wanted so terribly to believe, longed ^
so very much to capture the phantom ^
of his vanished youth.
The quest brought him to Florida, '
and he disembarked at the mouth of
the St. John's river, Easter Sunday, p
1513. All the world seemed young?
wealth of brilliant foliage was there,
flowers rioted among the greenery,
birds flashed bright colors-. A little t
farther north than Porto Rico it was k
tropically beautiful without the kill- i
ing heat. Here, surely, Ponce de r
Leon believed, the fountain of youth r
might be found, and so he named the
country Florida?"land of flow- 1
ers"?and went about on foot and t
on rivers, seeking the magic fountain.
* ^
Many springs he found and all he
tasted?but the fountain of youth re- *
mained undiscovered. We can fancy
the eager hope with which he must ?
have stooped to drink of each new
spring; the slow disappointment as s
he realized that the magic fountain I
was not here, the reviving hope that
fVio TlOYt bPTl d In the
J UO 1/ V/iiU, vuv ia v v wm v> -a* w? ?
river, veiled in green, the longed-for <
fountain might be hiding. 3
Doubtless there were many of his t
followers who called him an old man
gone mad, and, of course, they were
right in a measure?it was a madcap ?
venture. The very fact that Ponce de <
Leon set off on such a quest at 53 J
shows us how much of a child he
must have been at heart?still believing
in beautiful miracles.
But, of course, he never found the ]
-r> tbo niipct ptpu" nld
luumaiu, auu iu mv 0. - .. ??
* instead of young. He left Florida, 1
went to the Bahamas and to Cuba? ;
but he never found the fountain, i
Eight years later, after returning for
a while to Porto Rico, we find him <
back in Florida, his first land of hope, ]
leading a colonizing expedition. A
stout-hearted old man, this, who ;
never let his wounds keep him at <
GEORGIA SWAMP
CONCEALS AUSTIN.
Posse Hopes to Starve the
Negro Out
IDENTITY OF NEGRO
IS CERTAIN
las Held Conversations
With Several People
Who Know Him.
Sylvania, Ga., May 26.?Richard
ienry Austin, the negro wanted" for
he murder of several men in South
Carolina* is known to be about 10
niles from Sylvania in a swamp beween
Sylvania and Newington.
The posse which is hunting him
las surrounded this swamp and it is
loped to capture Austin through
tarving him out and forcing him to
urrender.
There is no doubt that the negro
~ J 1-?. ? ^ i +Viin 1 litir if
t&uieu llcls utjcu 1u tino lir^autj xjl uv
s not here now. At 1 o'clock Saturday
morning Austin went to the
lome of Marvin Jarrell, for whom he
lad worked in the past, and asked
or something to eat.
He told Jarrell that he was woundd
and sick and was ready to surender
if he could get E. K. Overtreet
or Judge H. A. Boykin to deend
him. Jarrell told him to come
iack that night and he would have
udge Boykin at the house. Austin
iromised to do so, but finding that a
nob was gathering to take him, he
rent into the swamp.
Austin saw Warren McCall in the
ame vicinity on Sunday morning.
IcCall knows the negro well. Austin
old him that he did not want to kill
nvbody else and did not want to be
illed himself. He said he had had
n opportunity to kill some of those
ooking for him several nights ago
rhen he lay within 40 or 50 feet of
hem and heard them discussing killag
his father in revenge for his killtig
the people in South Carolina.
Lustin has been seen by several men
rho know him well and there is no
oubt of his identity.
On Thursday of last week Jack
!olson and Dell Colson saw the negro
n a swamp near the dividing line of
leorgia and South Carolina. He
ranted to cross the river but they
rould not bring him over. Later
ohn Coker took him across at Hudon's
ferry.v Coker told several of
aving seen the negro and this caused
>osses to form to hunt him. Austin
5 wounded and seemed anxious to
ive up if he could secure protection,
le told some people that Edenfield
ras not dead when he left him.
He has one of Edenfield's guns with
iim. He says Edenfield gave him this
;un. Austin is one mile from the
iome of F. F. Boykin at Foley's
ord, 10 miles below Sylvania. He is
n a dense bay and it is hard to get at
iim. He killed a dog of one of the
iosse in the bay this morning.
"Lerame Go Look."
The woman left the girl arranging
he dinner table and went to the
:itchen for something. A great, hulkng
negro was sitting in the kitchen
ocker. Indignant the woman huried
back.
"Cindy," she demanded, "what
iave I told you about having your
>eaux in the kitchen?"
"Laws, miss, he ain't no beaux!
.Vhy, he's nothin' but my brudder."
Somewhat mollified, the woman
vent back to the kitchen.
"So you're Cindy's brother?" she
;aid kindly.
"Law bless yo', no', miss" he an;wered.
"I ain't no 'lation 'tall to her.
'se jes' keepin' com'ny wif her."
The woman sought Cindy again.
"Cindy," she asked sternly, "why
iid you tell me that that man was
'our brother? He says he's no rela;ion."
Cindy looked aghast.
"Fo' de Lawd's sake, miss, did he
say dat? Jes, yo' stay here a minit
m leinme go look ag'in.?Chicago
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lome. But this voyage was his last.
In an encounter with tne Indians
lie was shot in the thigh with an
arrow and died before his ship could
:ake him back to Porto Rico."
And the fountain of youth? Ponce
3e Leon found only what all men
learn if they live past middle age;
that though the heart may staj
young, the body, by and by, wean
out.?Kansas City Times.
SLEPT DURING THE BATTLE.
When Massachusetts Veteran Awoke
He Found Regiment Had Gone.
The boys in blue in the civil war
did not always face the enemy without
turning tail, thus illustrating the
old saying: "He who fights and runs
i away will live to fight another day,"
and one of the local veterans tells a
remarkable story of his own experience
in this respect at the battle of
Williamsburg on May 5, 1862.
Orders were given to advance early
on the morning of May 5, and the
army reached a point before Williamsburg
at about 7 o'clock, Hook[
er'9 division being directly in front
of Ft. Magruder, the principal fortress
in the outer line of Richmond's
defense. The fort was flanked by a
line of redoubts extending across the
' peninsular from the James river to
York river. "The ground in front of
the fort," says the Springfield man,
"was open and level, but further to
the front it was heavily wooded.
This timber had been slashed down
to impede the progress of the Union
troops and Hooker's division formed i
in line of battle in this fallen timber j
and then advanced to the edge of the \
open ground within range of the
enemy's artillery, but out of range
of their musketry. Our artillery was
posted just beyond the edge of the
timber and opened fire with the infantry
supporting it immediately in
tho rear
"Soon the enemy's shells were
hurtling among the fallen timber,
and we were ordered to lie down and
cover ourselves behind tree trunks as
well as we could. It thus happened
that only a general line was preserved,
although all were ready to fall in
at a moment's warning. I selected
a particularly large tree trunk for my
cover, some ten or fifteen yards in !
advance of the general line, and behind
this I lay down, taking off my
knapsack and using it for a pillow.
I was not fully recovered from my
wound of the year before, and was
i exhausted from the twenty-four
j hours' duty and the long march with
! the heav:< load, and after an hour or
J two I fell asleep, although the battle
was raging.
"I never knew how long I slept,
but it must have been an hour or two.
When I awoke I stood up and looked
about me. The rain had ceased, and
a heavy fog mingled with the smoke
hung over the field; but, curiously, it
did not quite extend to the ground,
and by stooping I could see under it.
None of my regiment or any other
was in sight, but out in front about
fifty yards off was the battery which
we had been supporting, several guns
I I ??nnnwooroe onH Misanrs
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wrecked and a great number of
horses lying dead on the ground.
Scattered about among the wreckage
were about twenty men with muskets
in their hands and gray overcoats
on.
"Now, my regiment and another
regiment in the same brigade were
wearing gray overcoats, and it never
occurred to me for a moment that the
men were not of these two regiments.
So I shouted 'to them, 'Do you belong
to the regiment?' and
greatly to my surprise their muskets
went up to their shoulders and they
yelled, 'Come in here, you Yankee.'|
As I have said, I was only three
months out of Libby prison, and the
only thing I thought of was the dread
of going back there, so I grabbed my
musket in one hand and my knapsack
in the other and started to run fo*
the rear.
"If the way had been open properly
I would have run in a straight
line, but in the timber I zigzagged
. oh/vn+ inmnin? over crawling under
auuut) - . ?, w
or running around fallen logs, so that
when they fired at me not a bullet
touched me. But I thought I heard
a million of them about my ears. I
was scared into a panic. I let go my
knapsack but hung to my musket,
and with my wet overcoat flapping
about my legs continued to run. utterly
demoralized and with only one
thought?to get away.- If the enemy
bad had breechloading or magazine
rifles they probably would have got
me. But as they were armed with
only muzzle loaders it took time to
load again, and this was my salvation.
"I did not realize that I had got
into a zone of safety and kept on a
half mile more, when I ran into a line
of cavalry deployed in the rear of our
line to drive up stragglers, of which
there were a great number, as always
; happens with an army?men who had
fallen out before getting to the front
1 and others who had skulkecP behind
and still others who had gone back j
to help the wounded. It seems that
^ V? ? J V% /w? en t"\_
the hattery wnicn \\c imu uccn
. porting had been put out of action
and that the enemy had turned the
; flank of Hooker's division, and my
i regiment and brigade had been hur1
ried over to reinforce the left, so
that when I awoke I was alone,
s "Officers of the cavalry had rali
lied about 1,000 men, and after getting
into an open space organized
r them into a regiment under officers
J of the cavalry and noncommissioned
officers among the stragglers. An
ONE DEAD, TWO WOUNDED.
Over 100 Shots Fired During Row at
Lancaster County Church.
Lancaster, May 27.?John Peay is
dead and George and Wash Laney are
wounded, as the result of a general
fight at Pleasant Plains, a negrc
church in the Sapps Cross Roads section
of the county Sunday afternoon.
It is said that the trouble started at
an ice cream supper Saturday night
between Peay and the two Laneys
and was renewed Sunday at the
church. Over 100 shots were fired in
tho maloo
Sheriff Hunter left immediately for
the scene and returned Monday night
with George and Wash Laney, who
were lodged in jail. Warrants have
been issued for nine other negroes
who participated in the shooting.
OCCUPATIONS THAT CURE.
Many Callings That Bring Health, Instead
of Disease, to Workers.
But few people are aware that
there are occupations that bring
health, just as there are others that
bring disease in their train. There
is, for instance, the coal tar occupation.
Tar, with its strong, clean odor,
acts as an antiseptic, and those who
work in tar are immune to epidemic
diseases. They are also .very robust.
The feeble and anaemic, taking up
this trade in its various forms?the
making of dyes, the preparation of
disinfectant?soon ^become strong.
Steel workers also profit in health
from their occupation. The molten
steel gives off certain gases that have
a beneficent effect on the lungs and
nasal passages. Though subjected to
extremes of heat, steel workers practically
never get consumption or catarrh.
Dairying is another healthful occupation.
Jenner, of smallpox fame,
discovered that dairymen never get
smallpox. It is also true that they
practically never get consumption.
Bakers, if their bakeries are but
clean and airy, follow a trade that
fatten the veriest skeletons. Butchers
are noted for their ruddy, robust
build, they, like the bakers, seeming
to absorb through their pores the nutriment
they work in. Chocolate and
cocoa makers in like manner are
stout, healthy folk.
It is well known that sealing wax
making is good for consumption?
that for incipient consumption it is,
indeed, almost a certain cure. All
sealing wax factories have on their
waiting list a number of consumptives,
anxious to try the occupational
cure.?Chicago Record Herald.
Romance of Swords.
Countless legend and superstitions
have attached to the sword since the
days when fighting was the principal
occupation or me. so nigniy was mc
sword esteemed that Mohammed, in
the Koran, declared it to be "the key
to heaven and hell."
The warrior or knight gave a name
to his sword. He vowed at the altar
never to draw it in a false cause. It
was his companion and friend and
descended from father to son for
many generations. One sword, named
"Brother of the Lightning," had a
golden hilt inscribed with magic
words. In times of peace these were
said to be illegible, but before a battle
"they glowed red as blood."
It was believed, moreover, that a
sword after long use acquired a life
of its own. Many famous swords
were said to utter cries before battle,
and after a weapon had killed five
score men it became blood hungry
and leaped from its scabbard at the
approach of a foe. Certain swords
were said to refuse to give a wound
in a bad cause. Among these was the
brand Excalibur, which was given to
King Arthur by a fairy and which
Richard Coeur de Lion professed to
own.
The family of Conyers in England
won their estates and have held them
for centuries by virtue of their possession
of an old falchion with which,
tn trflHition. thev asserted
that a knight, their ancestor, slew the
famous dragon of Wantley.
In the East superstitious reverence
is still paid to the sword. The Daimios
of Japan, when they voluntarily
surrendered their rank kept, as a
rule, the wonderful blades which had
been handed down from generation
to generation, in some cases for more
than 1,000 years, and which had
absorbed, as they believed, some of
the character and life of the men
that had owned them.?New York
Times.
officer harangued them for a few
minutes, instilling enthusiasm into
them, and then we went forward to
the battle line and there we fought
until darkness came and ended the
battle. I spent the greater part of
thp nifrht. hunting: about trying to find
my regiment, and it was nearly morning
when I discovered it. If I had
not discovered this cavalry I would
have run to the Atlantic coast."?
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SELLING A MILLION ACRES. 1
How One Man Sold Great Tract \>f
Land in Six Months.
1
Andrew D. Davidson, better known ]
in about 17 languages as "The Col- <
onel." From the boots up to his head 1
he is not very far from the ground, '
but he gets into a Pullman sideways 1
?a hroad gauge man whichever way
you look at him. 1
Ten years ago the colonel, says a 1
writer in Business, was a banker hold
writer in Business, was a banker
Vinl^i'nrr n Vior/1 tt-nn titlo oe a cfrfinf '
a uai u *r uu uu m wv*
right arm man in the commercial!!
arena. Born on an Ontario busbj'
farm, broadened in the Wisconsin j!
pineries, disciplined on a Minnesota;.3
railroad, inspired by a successful? 1
demonstration of the agricultural j
propensities of cut over timber lands,; 1
he went to Chicago to ferret out a'H
big job.
He didn't belong to the class which {
sits in the stove corner waiting for ;
opportunity to bruise its knuclee on j *
the oak veneer. He opened the door j
and went out after things. He looked j]
around for something wrong to set to 1
rights and he found it. Chicago, the 1
primary market of the world's wealth,
was neglecting a great big selling op- J
portunity.
Chicago was the centre of the most 1
active wealth producing area in the \
world, with only a little more than
the bottom half of the circle under '
development. The colonel didn't stop
to make criticisms; he was too much 1
i
of a constructive genius for that. He
started to set wrongs to rights.
Other men before him should have 1
seen that empty sentiment and an ]
imaginary line drawn across the con- '
tinent were all that separated the pri- 1
mary wheat market of the world from
a vast and prolific source of supply. 1
But he wasn't strong on sentiment if
it affected business, and he had his j
own ideas about imaginary lines. j
What the colonel did see was a
many million acre tract of the richest
wheat land in the world idling away
its time because nobody had sense ]
enough to make it work for a living, j
He had found his big job.
The colonel's idle rich acres lay on ;
the Canadian side of the 49th paral- <
lei?the Saskatchewan Valley, to be
exact. The colonel didn't exactly discover
the valley. It was a thousand
or so miles long and a few hundred ,
wide?hardly a negligible quantity in
the country's topography, but neglected
nevertheless. And out of the
other fellow's neglect, came Davidson's
opportunity. It was a valley of
vast potentialities, an era of almost i
unlimited fertility, an empire lying <
fallow without man or beast to liven 1
it.
But the colonel soon changed all <
that. The colonel's task was to overcome
prejudice, dispel ignorance and i
force quick action. He had to move
thousands of men and millions of ]
money from the comfortable homes
and interest-producing channels yi i
their own country to a new land and <
new conditions. It was a big job, but I
he did it. 1
Davidson tackled his job in a big
way from the start. He created the '
first and one of the greatest landselling
organizations that have can-1
vassed the United States. Every detail
of his plan was the finished work of
a master mind. He started the great
American invasion of Canada.
Here is the story of the record
sale. It was early in June, 1902, that (
Col. Davidson found himself in con- .
i trol of 1,500,000 acres of the Saskatchewan
Valley. He had just returned
i to Chicago from Toronto where he
had completed his deal, when he met <
at lunch with a half-dozen friends,
all of them bankers. Davidson sug(
gested that these men should go with
i^tv, and see for themselves that the
. land of the Saskatchewan Valley was
good.
Within an hour every man of the
. party had accepted the invitation and
other Chicago bankers were added to
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the list. A private car was engaged,
and at the colonel's suggestion the
bankers extended the invitation to
*. * '
their correspondents in the country.
The country bankers accepted to a
man. The one car had expanded to \
sleven by the time the returns were
all in, and the party, all bankers, left
Chicago as promised on the 16th, in a
special train of their own.
un tne way tnev were joined Dy
Pther bankers until the colonel's
quests filled so many cars that the ^
train had to run from St. Paul t6
Winnipeg in three sections. It was
the beginning of the American invasion.
Five hundred bankers from all
pver the middle western states in a
special train of three sections, the
quests of one man who was taking
them to see a country he believed in!
Nobody heard anything about buying
land. The colonel was out to
prove his contentions and hammer
tiome his conviction that the biggest
and best wheat-producing area on the
S'orth American continent had hither;o
been neglected. He knew these men
were keen and appreciative judges of
profitable opportunities if the oppor^
tunities were displayed to them plainly
enough.
The party spread out over the
prairie and read the signs for themselves.
Those country bankers knew
land when they saw it. The city bankers
promptly saw a great big opening.
The land spoke for itself. Within two
pr three days the excursion party*
without the slightest solicitation, had
pought nearly 200,000 acres. The Saskatchewan
Valley was firmly fixed on
the map of North America and Davidson's
work was well begun. Within
another six months 1,250,000
acres had been sold and the following
summer saw thousands of settlers
moving in and breaking for their
first crop.
MUST CAGE "BLIND TIGERS."
Else Uncle Sam Won't Enlarge Barracks
at Port Royal.
???
Washington May 27.?Plans to enlarge
the naval detention barracks,
at Port Royal, S. C., it is understood,
will be abandoned unless the State
authorities suppress the "blind tigers"
on which the navy department
has had complaint.
Secretary Daniels holds it as useless
to attempt reform work in behalf
of the men, when, after leaving the
reservation they "fall into the lowest
kind of environments."
Negro Lynched at Hogansville.
Hogansvile, Ga.?Sam Owensby,
the negro who Monday shot and killed
Brooks Lane, a pro-minent young
farmer, was taken from the Hogans- 1
nlle jail late Monday night and lynched
by a mob of citizens. The negro
was strung up to a tree near the jail
and his body riddled with bullets.
Lane was killed on his platation
* " ^ 4>m/vhK1a tttl-f V?
near FranKiin, ua. me uuuuic TTiWU .:
the negro is said to have been the
result of a discussion over the trading
of a cow. When news of the killing
became generally known Owensby was
taken from the Heard county jail to
Hogansville for safe keeping.
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you ever took, this store will give you
back the 50 cents you paid for it
without a question.
This guarantee that a trustworthy
druggist is glad to give on Dodson's
Liver Tone is as safe and reliable as
the medicine, and that is saying a lot.