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FREAK WALK WINS $20,000.
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Trip Backwards from Seattle is Made
in 239 Days.
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Somebody out in Seattle lost a bet
of $20,000 when Patrick Harmon arrived
at the city hall walking backward
and asked Lieut Billy Kennel
to confirm his presence. Harmon
had a reflecting mirrow contraption
strapped to his back and was accom-i
panied by W. A. Baltazor, who walked
a^ folk usually walk?face forward,
to prove that Harmon accomplished
the feat. The feat was walking
backward from Seattle to New
York in 260 days. That was the
limit set, but Harmon did it in 239
I. days, three weeks ahead of time. |
-Harmon, who is 50 years old, an-J
?nounced that two men in a Seattle
club had wagered with each other
^ that he could not walk to New York
backward in 260 days, and backed
up their opinion with $20,000 each.!
Harmon will get $5,000 for the job
and Baltazor $4 a day for being the
transcontinental watchman. Harmon I
said he had little difficulty doing the!
freak stunt, but he lost eleven days I,
, through illness and took two weeks!
to overcome dizziness due to his un~
usual method of pedal locomotion.? I
Kp v New York World. J'
The Press Meeting. 11
{! Here is what Bob Gonzales, thel ]
gifted paragrapher of the Columbia ]
State, thinks of the meeting of the i
South Carolina Press association 1
at York last week: 1
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. York is a fine, old-fashioned, homy \
sort of town, and we shall always <
Toot for it. We made quite an im- 1
pression on the people. We admit it 1
aurself. ' Col. Sparks also made quite j
| - an impression on the people, especial- <
ly the feet of the young ladies who i
heroically tried to dance with him. s
In addition Josiah made a deep im- <
pression on the following, to wit: i
Item: One 4d car, on which he in- 3
advertently stepped. Drawing itself
I to its full height, the infuriated 4d
bit Josiah savagely on the calf, but,
alas! the damage had been done. *
Item: One bed. Case diagnosed
internal injuries.
Item:- Four rockers and seven- :
teen straight chairs. Severe frac- 1
tures and other injuries.
Item: One speaking platform. ;
Though reinforced and buttressed for
the emergency, said platform now '
\ presents a truly melancholy spectacle.
The roads of this section are ,
very fine, being among the best we
If J^s- ever tasted. > ' 1 1
The association passed several de- .
lightful hours on -Thursday surround- J
ing 10,000 fried chickens, 180,000 ]
hard-boiled hen fruit, 250,000 samM
ip- handwiches and 400,000 pies, served J
P \ by the ladies of Lin wood College,
Tiheelia, the haunt of a rosier and
more radiant "rosebud garden of
w] girls" than the late Alfred ever
lamped. Somebody ascribed the 1
wonderful appetites to "the change *
of air, or sunlp'n," but we think *
|.tV * sump'n was mainly responsible. (
H There were numerous delectable fea- t
5fev I
P tures of the trip, but the one that 1
^ probably appealed most hilariously *
sg& to Rion McKissick's Scotch soul was
that the people would not let him 2
> spend anything but the day. > 1
Nothing was left undone for the
hungry guest. Even at night he *
m* %. could have a roll in bed and quench s
his thiret from the springs. (Judge, ^
? - honest to Pete, it's our first offense
ft- and if you let us off this time, honest
gte\ to Pete, we'll never do it again.) '
The single fault to be found is that 1
the entertainment committee's pro?
fnv* onf Amnhila
gramme ctiiicu uuij mi autumuunu
rides between breakfast and dinner, ?
meetings between dinner and mid-afternoon,
receptions from mid-afternoon
until supper, soirees and dances
from supper until midnight and
; poker sessions from midnight until c
breakfast. The remainder the time \
the hapless visitor was left to shuffle
for himself. ^
^ All in all, York done herself proud,
as they would say in Gastonia, and c
we want to go there when we die. a
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Density of Snow. v
The density of snow varies greatly
and by gauging its "specific lightness"
by the number of millimetres
in height that will produce one millimetre
of water, M. Mongin, the ^
French meteorologist, finds the range t
to be from 200 to 1.3. The snowfall i
on mountains is estimated in a num- \
ber of ways. One method is to meas- j
ure the height accumulated on a j
board one meter square supported
one meter above the ground, and
then sliding it into a zinc tank for .
determining the water it makes on \
melting. Another type or instrument
i is a tube, which is pushed down
through the snow, then closed at the
bottom by a shovel to retain- the con- 1
tents of the tube on withdrawal. In ]
remote places, visited only at considerable
intervals, the snow is col- i
selected
in a tank, only the snow water 1
for a stated period being measured. !
Vaseline oil in the tank covers the
water, preventing evaporation, and i
calcium chloride hastens the melting <
of the snow. ;
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HATE TO WASH DISHES.
Ways to Make Easier This Disagreeable
Task.
If you were to ask all the housekeepers
you know wrhat part of the!
housework they dislike the most, the
answer would almost invariably be,
"Dish washing." Yet if this work is
managed properly it need not be a
disagreeable task. In the first
place, one should possess the necessary
equipment for the work?a
large dish pan, plenty of hot water,
dish clothes, mops and dry towels,
j Scrape the crumbs from the dishes
before they are taken from the dining
room and stack the dishes in
piles, according to size. You will
find a tray cart a great convenience
in carrying the dishes from one room
to another, for everything can be put
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on it and taken at once, instead of
making a dozen trips, as many housekeepers
do. Put a tablespoonful of
washing powder in, stir it up, and you
will have a fine suds for washing
dishes. A dish mop will save your
hands and do the work as well as a
cloth.
Wash the glassware first, rinse in
warm water and dry with a soft towel
kept for that purpose. Wash the
china next, putting all pieces in a
draining rack which will hold them
upright and pour your poiling water
over them. They will be ready to
put away on the shelves in a few
minutes, thus dispensing with the
irying, which usually takes as much
time as the washing. The silverware
is washed next, then the cooking
itensils, which should always be filled
with cold water as soon as the
food is taken out of them. If anything
sticks to the bottom of an
iron kettle, remove it with a chain
lishrag or kettle scraper, never with
i spoon or knife. The dish towels
should be washed, rinsed and dried
5very time they are used to keep
them in good condition.?Southern
Fhiralist.
SCORES DEAD IN TORNADO.
3ver 100 Injured When Storm Swept
Over Arkansas.
Little Rock, Ark., June 5.?Fiftyline
persons are reported to have
Peen killed and more than a hundred
injured in a tornado which swept
through central and northern Arkansas
late today.
Twenty-five persons are known to
have lost their lives at Judsonia, in
White county; at Heber Springs the'
aumber of dead is estimated at from
ten to eighteen; four were killed at
Hot Springs, where the storm cut a
path through the southwestern portion
of the city; at Cabot, in White
county, five aje dead and four were
killed at Delark, in Dallas county.
Casualties are also reported at Kensett,
Morrillton and Greenland.
Special trains with physicians and
lurses left Little Rock and Memphis
jarly tonight for the storm-swept
irea. Wire communication tljrough)ut
the State is badly crippled, and
:he full extent of the storm's havoc
>robably will not be known before
omorrow.
Reports from Judsonia stated that '
tn area four blc. ks wide and twelve
v
>locks long hac! been wrecked.
Near Morrillton a negro was killea
md a negress blown away in the
itorm. She has not yet been found.
^ white woman and several children
rere hurt.
Near Fayetteville a white woman
ras fatally injured and her child is
nissing.
A score or more of persons?mosty
negroes?were injured on the outkirts
of Little Rock and towns close
o this city.
Wouldn't Be Safe.
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A pompous manufacturer of mahinery
was showing a stranger over
lis factory.
"Fine piece of work," he said
rhen they were looking at a machine.
"Yes," said the visitor, "but you
annot hold a candle to the goods we
ire turning out."
"Indeed," said the chagrined manlfacturer.
"And what is your line?"
"Gunpowder," was the reply.
Some Liar.
"I want to be excused," said the
vorried-looking juryman, addressing
;he judge, "I owe a man $5 that I
sorrowed, and as he is leaving town
for some years, I want to catch him
jefore he gets on the train, and pay
lim the money."
"You are excused," replied the
judge, in icy tones. , "I don't want
mybody on the jury who can lie like
that."
Irish Policemen.
"We have the finest and tallest policemen
in London that the world can
Droduce." said an Englishman.
"The policemen in Edinburg are so
tall that they can light their pipes
from the street lamps," said the
Scotchman.
"Sure, now, the peelers in Dublin
are that tall they have to stand in a
coal pit to have their hair cut," said
the Irishman.
A SACRIFICE TO JUSTICE.
Calf Shot in Effort to Save an Accused
Slayer.
They dressed a calf in the clothes
of a man in Longmont and made it a
sacrifice to the fight for freedom of
Rienzi C. Dickens, who is charged
with slaying his father, a wealthy
Longmont banker, by shooting him
through a window on the night of
November 30, last.
The calf became a victim of a bullet
fired by A. H. Hamilton, an expert
for the defence, who shot at
close range from a high-power rifle
such as the State contends was used
by the slayer of William H. Dickens.
The calf, attired in a waistcoat
and shirt, was led to the slaughter,
witnesses testified, for the purpose of
determining the effect of a bullet fired
from a rifle on living tissues. Seven
feet in front of the calf a window
pane was placed. A beaver board
was put 11 feet back of the calf.
Hamilton, the expert, with his rifle,
stood 10 feet from the glass and fired
through it at the sacrifice.
"We found a small piece of the
bullet between the calf's hide and
the vest it wore," Dr. A. Stradley, of
Longmont, who assisted in the test,
testified. "We did not find the rest
of the bullet."
The contention of the defence is
that a bullet with an almost mire
copper jacket fired from a high-power
rifle like that Rienzi Dickens is
alleged to have used exploded by the
heat occasioned in its firing when it
strikes living tissues.
The State claims that three pieces
of a bullet taken from the wall of
the Dickens home, where they had
imbedded themselves after passing
through the body of the aged*banker,
are pieces of a 25-calibre copper
jacketed bullet contained in a box
bought by Rienzi Dickens when he
purchased the rifle.?Boulder, Colo.,
dispatch to Kansas City Star.
Big Magnesite Deposit.
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A dazzling white chalky bluff a
few miles above St. Thomas, in Clark
county, Nevada, has-been called kaolin,
and it has been successfully tried
as a porcelain clay, but the United
States geological survey has recently
shown it to be an immense deposit
of magnesite, or magnesium carbonate.
The mass is part of a series of
regular sedimentary strata exposed
by streams cutting a low ridge of
Muddy valley. The material is described
as porcelain-white, fine-grained,
massive and remarkably free
from foreign substance, but softer
than much magnesite, and crumbling
on exposure. The deposit is thought
to be as much as a mile long, with
an aggregate thickness of the beds
of as much as J200 feet. California
supplies yearly about 10,000 tons of
magnesite, which goes mostly into
the manufacture of wood pulp paper,
but there is a rapidly increasing demand
for such purposes as cement
floors, artificial marble and tile, stucco
for exterior finish, and fire-retaxding
paint. This mineral is also a convenient
source of carbon dioxide.
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Twenty School Lunches.
To give children variety in their
lunches are the following suggestions
in the March Woman's Home Companion:
1. Graham bread with cream
cheese. Four large stuffed dates. .
2. Two baking powder biscuits
with honev. Two snow annlM
3. White bread with cold lamb.
Two oatmeal cookies.
4. Eight small crisp crackers with
peanut butter. Four stuffed prunes.
5. Graham bread and lettuce
sandwich. Twelve salted almonds.
6. White bread with roast beef.
One orange.
7. Rye flour muffins. American
dairy cheese. White grapes.
8. Boston brown bread with boiled
halibut and French dressing. Two
sugar cookies.
9. White bread with chopped
eggs. Two big figs.
10. Graham bread with cold
chicken. One banana.
11. White bread with currant
jelly. Twelve English walnut meats.
12. Graham biscuits with bits of
cold thin-sliced steak. One one-halfinch
cube maple sugar.
13. White bread with quince
marmalade. Fifteen filberts. One
orange.
14. Boston brown bread with
pimento cheese. Ten dates stoned
and rolled in sugar.
15. Biscuit with sardines and lettuce.
One frosted cup cake.
16. White bread with chopped
outs. One cruller.
17. Sandwich made with one slice
of Graham and one slice white
bread spread with blackberry jelly.
One apple.
18. Cornbread with shredded
herring. Two molasses cookies.
19. White bread with crisp bacon.
One celery heart. Two chocolate
marshmallows.
20. Boston brown bread with
shaved maple sugar. One small popcorn
ball. One tangerine.
Read the Herald, $1.50 per year.
ORANGES AT SUMMERVTLLE.
L. W. Elston di Ghilini Tries the
Fruit on a Large Scale.
A new industry for this section is
the raising of oranges on an exten
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sive scaie ana as a commercial crop.
A commercial orange grove has been
planted during the past spring at
Summerville by Mr. L. W. Elston di
Ghilini, who, in March, acquired
there a farm of about 310 acres. He
has put out twenty acres in Satsuma
oranges and is confident of the success
of the enterprise.
Mr. di Ghilini is a graduate of Rutgers
college and of the Agricultural
College of Illinois, specializing at the
last named institution in horticulture.
He is a descendant of a wellknown
Italian family, for many years
residents of this country. Other
members of his family expect to join
him at an early date, making Summerville
their permanent home.
Immediately on getting possession
of his farm at Summerville, Mr. di
Ghilini set to work ten to twenty
men daily on development work. Already
he has cleared and drained
about thirty-five acres of new land,
dug several hundred yards of drainage
ditches and made many improve- .
ments on the property. In addition
to setting out 1,850 Satsuma orange
trees, he has planted 250 Frotscher,
Mobile, and Stuart pecans, and 100
kumquat trees. A seventy-foot avenue
has been laid out through the
property ^ordered with rows of
kumquat, to be later backed up with
a double row of cabbage palmetto or
Phoenix palms.
Next year he expects to make test
plantings of Tokay grapes, various
varieties of peaches and Avacado
pears. General crops will, of course,
be cultivated. ?
It is needless to s?y that the people
of this city and vicinity are much
interested in Mr. di Ghilini's experiments,
particularly with Satsuma
oranges, and will watch closely the
success of his undertaking with this
fruit.
In connection with his observations
as to favorable climatic conditions
for Satsuma oranges growing between
St. George and Charleston, Mr.
Geo. E. Murrell, horticulturist of the
industrial and agricultural department
of the Southern 1 railway, has
this to say:
"I found several varieties of kumquat
and tangerines, which are much
more tender than Satsuma, bearing
at the tea farm at Summerville, and
at fifteen years old show no serious
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winter injury. 1 aiau iuuuu iv/o^o
and other tender plants showing less
injury up to December 18 than similar
plants showed three weeks previous
in districts where Satsuma
orange growing is an established industry."
It is learned that parties at several
points in the Charleston district
are considering experimental planting
of Satsuma trees this spring.
Cashier Doe, of the Dorchester Bank,
has placed an order for half a dozen.
Mr. M. W. Mayes, who has acquired
property and is building a brick and
tile plant at Drainland, S. C., about
two miles north of Summerville, will
plant some, as will Mr. Edmund Felder,
who has land further north. The
Satsuma, though one of the hardiest
varieties and one of the most delicious
oranges in flavor, is, nevertheless,
one of the rarest and, therefore,
brings high prices on the market.
Though just now its principal area of
production is around Mobile, the Satsuma
is grown at many points and
along the gulf coast and in Texas,
and will stand a temperature of 15
degrees above zero without winter killing.
Greatest caution should be exercised
here, as elsewhere, in all purchases
of trees to prevent introduction
of citrus canker or other citrus
diseases, so that this promising industry
may develop under the most
favorable conditions.?News and
Courier.
Rally.
During the Civil war there was a
man in Early's cavalry who always
ran away when he got the chance.
In one of the battles with Sheridan,
when things were going against the
Confederates, this man took out for
the rear as usual, riding as fast as
his horse could carry him. Every
time he passe^ a group of Confederate
troops he would wave his saber
and shout, "Rally, boys! Rally!"
and then ride on faster than ever.
tvr.n-rr rrtria thrmie-h the whole
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outfit and came to General Early,
sitting on his horse among his staff
officers. He was too much excited to
notice who they were, but still waved
his sword and shouted: "Rally,
boys! Rally!"
"Where in blazes are you going?"
"I was rallying your troops, sir;
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tne enemy cure unv 1115 uo uuvi\
"H-m-ram." The general looked
over him coldly. "Orderly, take that
man back to the firing line and give ?
him a fresh start. Any man who can
rally the whole Confederate army is
too valuable to be wasted."?St. *
Louis Globe Democrat.
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