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AFTER 100 YEARS. Rev. S. T. Hallman x'ells Unusual Story. fy Rev. Dr. S. T. Hallman told a reporter of The Spartanburg Herald a very wonderful story relative to the exhumation of the body of a preacher after it had been in the grave over 100 years. The facts were supplied him by people who were thoroughly conversant with them and whom he served as preacher twenty years ago. They are persons of unimpeachable veracity. Here is the remarkable nar? rative in Dr. Hallmans own words: * "As far back as 1750 there were a few German Liutneran tuua-noo m | this state, among which was the old St. John's Lutheran church in Newberry county. The land on which the building*stood was held under a grant from George III, King of England. "These immigrants who had come here to escape the religious persecution of the old country found it very difficult to get pastors from their Fatherland. There was then in the community of St. Joihn's church a German school teacher by the name ? of Frederick ' Joseph Wallern?a < learned man, but not then an ordained preacher. This the writer was told by the very old people of that section when, years ago, he was pastor there. "T?ne peopie, m iueir uuugci 'the preached word, and for the sacrament of the church, naturally turned to their scholarly teacher and ~ plead with him to fill that sacred office. He finally consented and bes came pastor of that' church. History has not recorded the duration of his pastoral labors but he died in 1816, and had begun his services there sometime in 1787. He was buried in a wooded section near his home. Eg;.-*--- There his body reposed for one hundred and four years, a suitable inscribed stone marking his place of Sp?i; rest"Then the pastor of St. Paul's church near by, (the Rev. S. P. Koon) and officers and friends, decided to remove his remains to the church 3 cemetery where his grave would be p'.'" cerefully kept. When -his body was lfo-v' taken up the skeleton of the man was there in its entirety, the teeth ~ showing the dental work of long ago, and the arm ligaments so firm that a physician who was present could not pull the fore-arm of the elbow socket; nor were the bones separated at the f, -: - - wrists nor were any of the bones decayed. Parts of the lining of the walnut coffin remained, with the I tacks which were used. "A strange fact remains to be told. The root of a tree had made its way down on one side of his coffin bed . passed around this feet, and up on the other side, and then twining about his head, as though intended to hold the precious remains together. p ' - "iJeyoni an question nere is uie stamp of God's approval on the gospel ministry of one who surrendered the office of teacher for that of winning souls to Christ. God, who knows the end from the beginning, watches over his remains over one hundred ? years, and now suffers the silent voice jOf Rev. Frederick Joseph Wallern to speak in tones of infinite force to the age of growing skepticism." \ Doctor First. A motor car was careering down a j beautiful truly rural country lane, with millions of twists and turns, when, suddenly swinging around one of the corners, the driver found a hay wagon about two yards ahead of him. !-: . As the car was traveling at thirty miles an hour and the wagon at three miles an hour, the odds seemed on a collision. Before an honest man had time to place the bet with a bookmaker, the collision occurred. The driver on the hay wagon was thrown into the road on his head and lay there in a sem-conscious condition until the two occupants of the |?| . motor car lifted him to the side of the lane. Another rustic came up at that moment and upon inquiries the motorfin A rtAorAcf 13ia UiStu v ci CU lua L iuc houses were an undertaker's shop, two miles in one direction, and a doctor's house which they had passed, one mile and three-quarters behind them on the road they had just come along. "Shall we take him to the undertaker's shop or back to the doctor's?" asked the first of the motorists. The victim of the accident raised his head and cried: "Take me to the doctor's first, you 5fools!" ? ? i WrongOn returning home ' from school one day Jackie at once proceeded to the rabbit hut. From inside the house his mother could hear him questioning the rabbits thus: "Twice "two?" no answer. Again. "Twice two?" Still no answer. "Why on earfch are you talking to the rabbits in that fashion, Jackie?" she asked. "Well, mother, teacher told us this morning that rabbits multiply very quickly, but I thought all along she was wrong." -a. k "EMPTY" GUN SPATTERS BRAINS. With Wife Pleading; With Him, Sam Skelton Sends Bullet Through Head. Greenville, Sept. 11.?As his wife was in the act of warning him to be careful with a revolver which he held to his head, Sam Skelton, 25 years of age, bookkeeper of this city, blew his brains out at the house in which he lived on P"r'r street here this afternoon. Young Skelton had been exhibiting the pistol to some friends that were spending the day with him and had offered to sell the weapon to one of them. When he became careless in handling the pistol, he was warned to be careful. He then unbreached the pistol, and, as he thought, ail of the cartridges fell out. It was then that he held the weapon to his temple, apparently to demonstrate that there was no harm in it and, pulling the trigger, shot himself through the head with the one cartridge that remained in the chamber. w?fp bavins' heard the warn ing of his friends, stepped to the door, and as she begged him to. be careful the fatal shot was fired. Young Skelton lived about forty-five minutes after he was shot, though the bullet went clear through his head, spattered his brain on the floor and lodged in the wall beyond. He never regained consciousness, however. Mf. Skelton was bookkeeper for the Riverside Company, a concern established by his father, S. O. Skelton several years ago. FLAMES DESTROY HOME. Lightning Had Struck House Twice Previously?Barn Also Lost. Allendale, Sept. 10.?J. S. Rice, a' prominent tarmer living near nere, lost a residence with its entire contents last night. Mr. Rice and his family were not at home, having spent the night in the town of Allendale with relatives. The residence was a new one and the total loss from the fire with the furniture, amounted to perhaps $8,000, the same being a total loss, the insurance on the dwelling and contents having lapsed a few days ago. The source of the fire can not be ascertained. 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GJKTC8. 30c. | \ SCARED BY A SKELETON. \ ' Dancing Bones Caused a Real Panic on Broadway. Some one, somewhere in New York, has lost a skeleton. It is a perfectly good skeleton, all wired and with a spike in its head. It is described as a woman's skeleton, of uncertain age and when last seen was wearing a black necktie, relates a recent New York dispatch. The skeleton appeared on Bradway shortly after 9 o'clock last evening, ariri for more than an hour terrorized women, children, chorus girls and dogs, scattered restaurant patrons and interrupted traffic. Johnnie Berry, thirteen, of No. 105 West 68th street, and half a dozen companions discovered the skeleton propped against a tree in a vacant lot adjoining the College of Pharmacy at No. 115 West 68th street. The idea of the black necktie, as an ornament, occurred first to Johnnie. It was some one else who thought of a piece of rope. Then the procession moved, j Across the street it halted and the skeleton was placed on. the bottom j step of the flight leading to the door The I FOR THE PHENOI I DERFUL RE P Modern Health Rose HI Seieftifie study throi I in Eolation to Healtl the supply of Health part of the body. P: people who personal! Chiropractic theory. LET 0 NATURE I DO IT. Build up the body you would like to have. CHIROPRACTIC VERTEBRAL (ADJUSTMENT banishes disease with ease and HI economy. I BE I VIGOROUSLY HEALTHY Pains and aches go quickly. Health function in all body parts . follows ADJUSTMENTS of displaced I Spinal Bones Get the pressure off the nerves and you will be normally HEALTHY. a m*n i I IN V iiSIHiAIJi! THE SPINE IS THE VERY FOUNDATION I|oFHEMjT]^| 33 W. RUSSELL STRE Residence C; i HHrnHH % of a house. Two women, about to emerge, fled, shrieking, back indoors. Johnnie and the skeleton moved west toward Broadway. They paused at the Harbor Inn restaurant at the corner of 69 th street. The restaurant was well filled with diners. Then the skeleton appeared at the door. It moved, it danced, Johnnie and the boys danced too. Women screamed, covered their faces with their hands and rushed to the rear of the restaurant. Patrolman Schnaidle of the West 68th street station, gasped and rubbed his eyes. The transparent figure was certainly doing a dance?a dance in the altogether, and Broadway morals were in jeopardy. The patrolman acted promptly. Straight across Broadway went Johnnie. And also across Broadway, trailing at the length of a rope went the skeleton. Also across Broadway went Johnnie's companions. After them went the patrolman, who collared Johnnie. Then he collared the skeleton and next he gathered in some of Johnnie's friends. Together they started for the 68th street station. For one block down Broadway the party progressed with the boys re is HINAL GROWTH OF CHII SULTS OBTAINED BY SI< PRACTIC VERTEBI arch has disclosed the impo: igh the decades has continue* 1 and Disease, the Hmnan Sp l Energy passing from the B roof in the form of 15 Tlious; v testifv to the merit of the ( t' c WHAT EX Dr. W. H. Shumply, ' practitioner and invest] was several years ago qi per cent, of our populal kind of spinal defect, v mucli nervousness, rln ness, and many other \ r\ o o r\C ' ' cacco. Dr. Alfred Walton, jV:' president and chief of i (,K J.) hospital, and k in the land for his writ! gical formulas, says: " beings have suffered "a] pain, the cause of which stood. There are at pr ing relief which can onl pressure 01 nerves jlcsjj and this the Chiropract( LAY C "I do not know a gre of Chiropractic, but I In l-i - j* xi. results irom me wum u? Governor Eberhart, of "The development ar itv of the Chiropractic r been astonishingly raj years.'''?Rockwell Citv " Chiropractic is tlirh fers new hope for relief health methods have b< Charles J. Whalen, Spr H. Wads Office 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. on Tues i !ET. PALMER SCI ills Made in Bamberg Mond HHHHHHHHHBHB I carrying the skeleton. They paused at the next drug store, j Two girls, each with a dog, had paus- j ed to see what all the excitement was! j about. The bulldog was first to see j the skeleton. He gave one howl and! | fled. The girl's screamed, then start-1 j ed in pursuit of the dogs. The skele! ton and its bearers proceeded. The crowd increased. It numberd | several hundred by the time the sta- j tion house was reached and the skel-; eton was introduced to the lieuten-j ; ant at the desk. j He telephoned to the College ofj Pharmacy. The ownership of the skeleton was disclaimed. And at 7 o'clock this morning when the doorman of the 68th street sta-; tion arrives he will be welcomed by; the skeleton, which has been propped; temporarily against the door. The Doubter. "For a good while I've been seeing them advertisements in -the Family Advocate and Faithful Guardian of the Home and Fir^ide," grumbled i old Riley Rezzidew, of Petunia, | "about cutting your own hair by j mail. But, all the same, I'll be 1 switched if I believe it can be done!" a Rej 10PRACTIC. IT IS BECAl 3K PEOPLE AFTER TAX] IAL ADJUSTMENTS. . rtanee of the Spinal Column ;1 our basic theorv. That as ine as the organ of Nerve J rain to Individual Tissue Cell and practicing Chiropractors chiropractic work exists to coi \ < ? PERTS SAY M. D., a medical author, igator of health subjects, .loted as saving: 44Eighty tion is afflicted with some rhich is the true cause of ' iumatism, 'mental weakmw anrl dangerous dis 3"~ ~ o [. D. (Harvard 1879) late staff of the Essex countv %/ nown in all the hospitals ngs and inventions of surTT?1?1-1 .-.-. Jlli /->-P lmmoii UHlUiU illllilUllS. ujl iiliiiiaxji .1 their lives and died in having never been underesent other millions seeky }>e met bv removing the onsible for their troubles, i . ? )rs are constantlv doing." I (PINION )&t deal about the Science ave seen some mighty fine the Chiropractors."?ExMinnesota. id growth .of the popularnptlwl nf health work has )id in the past several (Iowa) Times. ring mostly because it offrom disease which other een unable to supply."? ingfield, 111. worth, D. C. Hours: .j rpt, ofnr^ OTTC Jllfciys, lilUliSUajO, WUIUWAUMIJW, IOOL GRADUATE. lay, Wednesday and Friday 1 ABDUCTION' CHARGE. ^ Men in Gaft'ney Charged With Keeping Young Girls Out Over Night. Gaffney, Sept. 11.?Warrants were issued yesterday for the arrest of two white men who are charged with abducting two little white girls under the age of 1G years, and carrying them to Cherokee Falls where j they were kept overnight against A their will. One of the girls made f| her escape early Thursday morning and when the 'other one found that she had gone, she also ran away, and i according to her statement, one of the men who had carried her and the other girl off, caught her in a lonely place and assaulted her. One of the men is under arrest at Spar tanburg and will be brought to Gaff- I ney for a hearing on the charge of * 1 abduction. The other man who is charged with the more serious crime in addition to the abduction, has not at this time been apprehended, but the officers hope to make the arrest soon. If you want to buy or sell anything use The Herald Want column. i CAn I 4UV11 | rSE OF THE WON- I 1 [NG CHIRO- I * as a Health Factor. 9 a Causative Factor H AAn+TAlo H L/IOlll^UUVLL tUiiUVIO Qfjffl s in every organ and |1 5 and thousands of || afirm the logic of the ?1 A MAN IS AS I j STPHKft AS I ' * H HIS BACK. I Tour Body has I many parts. All % are kept up by I energy from the M J BRAIN through I j the NERVES. I ^ , I locate the I cause of ailments 11 in the parts nam- I ^ ed in this section M in given places in S the spine where ga nerves are pinch- I ' ed by displaced I ] bones. Adjust- I I ment will adjust j the cause and m health will result. || Get well Nature's I j way: No drugs, n I no surgery, no I i loss of time, no m inconvenience. 1 ORANGEBURG, S. C. | J