The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, March 13, 1908, Image 4
HOW ABOUT THE WELL
What Sort of Water Are You
Drinking This Year.
I? it Pure, Uso Plenty of it Inside
and Out and You Will Feel and
Look Better.
"What sort of waler aro wo going
to drink this year," is a question that
concerns every reader of this paper,
for upon the water wo aro going to
drink depend tho heal Hi and even
tho lives of very many of us. We
commend the following extracts from
a letter written to tho Progressive
Farmer by Dr. H. K. Freeman on the
subject of drinking water:
"Tho water we drink goes to make
moro than two-thirds of tho blood
which Hows through, our veins. The
blood has about four functions to
perform. This stream ol blood is
tho medium which re?oives from the
outer world the different matters
which go to make us well or sick.
As it pnssos through every part of
tho body, tho various tissues ol' the
body take out of this ruddy stream
the materials necessary for their
nutrition and health, lt is tho med
ium which takes up or asorbs tho
dead or refuse matters from tho var
ious tissues and carries this poison
ous or dead matter to tho various or
gans whose business it is to throw
Off and put of the I ody tills (h ad ma
terial, lt warms, moistens and in
vig?rales the whole uod> when
healthy.
"Now you soo the need of pure
water, for tho waler yoij dunk is
makin two-thirds of tho blood from
w hich so many fever and ague germs
come. Mow about your drinking
water? ls it pure? Many hundreds
?d' cases ol' sickness and death have
been trac i directly lo contaminated
waler. A . yoi! concerned about it?
Do you I low I hat this water you
drink is carrying hito your blood
tho germs which it contains? That
is just what is being done. And if
lt. were U< 1 for nal ure's I'm ces while
strong am vigorous, you would soon
be sick. Hut let some of t hes nat
ural forces get wrong, a sere' ">ose
or a tap off, and you aro sn .v at
once and i lu* doctor has to come and
tighten things up and set these forces
lo going again. This costs more,
thou?h, than it does for von tn H???in
uitu run In from all tho llttlo water j
drains and especially through those
nearest the top of the ground, and |
ninny time? il gets in from the top
of tho ground. Now this rush of
water from the to]) and through tho
earth's pores carries along with it
all tho impurities in reach. Many
times tho death germ is taken into
tho well this way. Now whim you
draw all this water from the well
when it is full, you bring out the
gonna carried in by this rush of wat
er. We drew all ours out a few
days ago and lett a pure stream of
water rushing in near tho bottom.
(Mean up about your well and raise
the earth around it so Hie water will
run off. Don't have pig holes and
Chicken lades about the well.
"I know of an incident or two
which happened not so far from hore
A tenant had a nice horse when he
moved to a place where the well
Water was bad. This horse soon af
ter bogan to look bad and to Kel
in bad condition generally. This
continued during tho .var, ?md the
man moved lo a place whero the wal
er was wholesome and good. The
horse soon gol back to his old self
and remained so afterwards. This
was true also ol' the family.
"My friends, when your cow,
hors?', pigs, or chic liens are nul doing
well, examino your water supply, and
make sure that is is all right. 1 was
called to see a sick member of a
larrie f nv:lly\ t at oboe iulvdiiod ? Im
man lo (?eau up Uroi!till his home
and lill up the puddle holes. He paid
no attention to this advise. Several
or the family wore sid; and one died
during, that summer and fall.
"If you feel bad and look had, ask
yourself what kind of waler you are
drinking. Have you done anything
for the last three or live years to
supply your family and stock with
pure, sweet Mater? There are a
great many families who look palo
and bad all the time. Mindi of this
is caused by bad, germ laden drink
ing waler. All ol' yon readers who
have not been in Hie best ol' health
now for sometime, just look into tho
condition of your drinking water.
Then after yon know it is pure, uso
0 plenty of il inside and ont and \ou
will feel and look botter."
bares Deduced.
The Atlantic Coast Hine and South
ern Railway liaVO decided to reduce
their passenger fare to :i 1-'.! cent;;
a mile to go Into operation A pi il I.
These roads, we are glad to stale
have made this red ucl ion voluntarily
in South Carolina Which will make
the Having all the more thankfully
recd ved by the people. It is always
far better for tho rail roads and the
people to work In harmony because
what lu for the interest of ono should
|>o for tho intorcat of tho othor.
TUB PRESENT HOT SPELL.
Is a Record Hrettker AN Ute Record
WUl Show.
Tho high temperature of Sunday
wim a record breaker for thc first
tiende ? Mareil, having ripen to
Hb degrees. Tim previous highest
temperature for thc same decade of
tvlaroh waa 84 degrees on thc 3d and
Ith in 1899. This was followed In
about two days by a minimum tem
perature of 31 degrees, causing what
greenness that had appeared to turn
to withered black.
The highest Mareb temperatures
in tlie last 21 years occurred on tho
2 2d and 23 in 189-1, followed on tito
24th by a minimum temperature ol'
2 4 degrees. Tho trees were groot!
with tender fotingo, which was com
pletely destroyed. Roses were' in full
bloom and tho rare spectacle was pre
BOUtod ol' rilli blown roses encased
in a half inch covering of clear Ice,
rain having fallen when the surface
temperature was below freezing, in
that year fruit was largely destroyed
and many forest trees in which thc
sap had risen burst their hark and
died from the effects ol' the Hap hav
ing frosen^beneath the hark.
The present hot spell ls not gener
al, the temperature in the upper
.Mississippi valley having been from
/.ero to ix degrees below zero Sun
day and the line of freezing temper
atures carried along the Rockies lo
the Mexican border Routh of Arizona.
The entire colton boll shared in tho
unusually high temporal urea during
the last few days.
COL. RANKS HONORED.
Presented With a Loving Cup Ry His
< 'om m il ( ee.
Thc1 Stale says om; of tho
pleasant Incidents of the pres
ent session ot i he general as
sembly was the presentation Thurs
day ol' a handsome silver levin?; blip
to Representative ... A. Ranks ol' Or
nngoblirg, the- chairman ol' the ways
timi means committee hy the other
members of that committee. Mr.
Ranks has worked hard to make a
record while in charg? ol' Ibis, one
ol' most, important parts of tho gen
eral assembly, and his committee has
been an unusually harmonious one.
Rut Mr. Ranks had not an inkling
ol' the pleasant surprlso in store for
him when the committee mel Th irs
day morning.
I Mr. Dick was selected to make the
1 nroconioftnn ?nt?ech nnd iu a few
of his friends, ?bat be would on ac
count of businosH reasons, hardly ask
for legislativo recognition from tho
baby county, "Calhoun." However,
the other members of tho committee
state that Mr. Ranks must come back,
even if it is necessary to elect bim
State senator and send him to tho
upper branch of the general assem
bly.
The eu|) is a handsome one and is
engraved with tho date und the en
time membership of tho commit
I tee. '
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THE USUAL CONTESTS.
Filed Ry Dnntzlcr, Meyers ami Prio
leavi for the Fees.
March 24 is tho day Axe fot hear
ing the contests filed for tho seals Ol
Mess. Legare, Patterson ami Lever
hy the lb roo negroes, win; claim ;<?
have been elected to congress. Aaron
P. Prloleau, who has been figuring
Homo in the prints ol' bite, and who
once figured in jail for robbing the
mails, is contesting the scat ol Lo
gare. Isaac Myers from som evy he e
about Aiken, is contesting the .-.cat
ol' Patterson, while A. I >. I Klutzier
contests Lever's seat. All three of
these negroes have contested before,
:uid. finding it profitable, have done
it again. They each get $2,000 al
lowed hy congress to any one who
liles a comest. Tlie wond'M is t lt it 1
there are not a dozen negroes over>
time, instead ol' one in each district.
All they have to do is to get up ami
run, then (ile a notice that they were
rightfully elected and cheated out of
it. ll is md necessary to gel votes
at ail. The election committee of
the house, which will hear the con
lestants, will have some fun ont ol'
Hu- negrooH who appear before them
and then vote unanimously to throw
their cases away as being without
any justification.
Doing a Hood W'ock.
Mr. .lames Henry Rice, te; repre
sentative of the Audubon Society, is
doinc, a gootl work which nughl io
he encouraged by all who believe in
protect lin; our miine ?ind other birds,
The wanton Slaughter of game hirds
hy huniers and tho killin: of song
hirds hy the small hoy should he
Stopped at all hazards. There are
not so many mocking birds as there
were twenty years ugo, and every
thing should he d<me io encourage
the nesting and raising of young
hirds by these sweet singers which
luive always been one of I he chorms
(d' our Southland.
Don't Ho Pooled.
No gentlemen, don't flatter youi'
self that Sining bas come to slay,
because she has not. There h> some
more cold weather to com? yet.
8WINDLKH AJUIKSTEI).
"J. W. Bnynrd," Wanted In Aiken,
Located in Philadelphia.
J. W. Bayard who went to Aiken in
tho g\liso of n "tourhit" a fow weeks
ugo. i; nd, : "cpi cseu (in ; hlm-'olf w> bo
tho close personul friend of Mrs. Mat
tie J. Brown, of Philadelphia, secur
ed $120 from Mr. 0. T. Holley, ot
Aiken, upon a worthless check drawn
upon tho Wilklnsburg National Bank
and then skipped, has been located
in Philadelphia, after considerable
effort on tho part of the Aiken au
thorities.
Looted n Bunk.
A telegram from Chihuahua, Mex
ico, late Wednesday afternoon says
that the Banoo de Minero, owned hy
Ambassador ('recd has been robbed
of $2115,OOO ll) Mexican money. No
persons have been arrested.
FRANK H. Hitchcock has resigned
as first assistant post mat;) cr general.
He will bc succeeded by Charles P.
Cranfield of Missouri. Mr. Hitch
cock will take charge of the Taft
boom, and seo that the colored bro
ther is kept in lino for his man.
A WASHINGTON leitet to the Au
gusta Herald says "there is no get
ting around the fact that Senator
Tillman is a very popular mar
arnon? thc people at large, If ora
may believe one-half of what lu
hears concerning the South Carolin,
senator from men who arc gathcroi
in Washington from all parts of tin
country during the sessions cd* cori
gross.
IN a speech ti ado by Bryan at
Jackson. Mi is.; Said day, thc Ne
braskan declared that money is being
used by interests representing tho
trusts and thc railroads to secure
the election of delegates to the Dei -
ver eonvt niions opposed to his nom
?nation for president.
IT is a pity that the work of tl c
dispensary commission has 1 eon in
terrupted by the Ul i ted States
Court, and We hope that the matter
can yet be amicably arranged so as
the good work being done by the
commission ean bc continued.
er eminent "defender of Liu; nation
al honor" ?snow engaged in a tus
sel with the sheriff and a bunch of
legal wits. The idols continue to
fal I. _
TllK three most popular and most
thoroughly trusted men by the mas
ses in the United States today are
William Jennings Bryan, Theodore
Roosevelt and benjamin Ryan Till
man.
SPEAK KR Cant en's little pri siden
tial boomlet |has met with great
encouragement by being endorsed
by the republican committee of Guil
ford county, N. C, Mr. Cannon
was born in that county.
SOMK papers are finding fault be
cause too many candidates are com
ing out, This is a free count , and
every man who feels like it caa run
for o (lice, and we don't think the
gentlemen of the press should ob
ject,
A white man was acquitted in
Barnwell ?>n the charge of murder
but, The State says "now he is in
real trouble, being charged willi at
tempting td steal from the treasury.
Murderers ami scientific grafters
need not worry, but the while thief
is frowned upon."
THE Houston Pest says ''the anti
Taft leaders who are expecting a
boll in Texas ought to understand
that our colored patriots do not
whereas, resolute and bolt on hot
air." The colored patriots of Tex
as need not fear, (he Taft barrel will
bo tapped on tho last sound up,
THE News and Courier says " The
difficulty of the situation is thal the
independent Democrats have reach
ed the point that (hey absolutely re
vel in 'party treachery' 'p< t ildy'
'assistant Republicanism,' etc, etc."
Thal is (rue and yet Tho New: and
Courier wants tho party to fie eon
trolled by that gang.
THE Newberry Observer sava
"who shot up Brownsville, 'f'Vxas?
lats become tis lamons a ((ties ti on as
Who struck Hilly Patterson? or Who
killed Cock Robin?" We do not
know who hit Hilly, but the Spar
row confessed that he killed Cock
Robin with his little bow and arrow,
and wo aro sure Brownsville was
Bhot up by the negro soldiers.
BENEATH GROUND.
In a British Columbia Gold Mine.
Whon tho manager ot a gold mino
at Roseland of*>red to biko us down
wo accepted rt. Illy, aud it was only
when w*> vrr< invited *o "step hi"
ll,,.; wv it ... . I . ...-.bl bulli lill'. I
UUKS WhlC.1 U.i - Ol ..J VACJI'Olg.
We had lett t; boat at ..obson and
come on to uo ?land to learn some*
thing of lb >t VJ t minorai wealth up
on which, wil i .umber and fisheries
and fruit gi nv. . .. the commercial and
industrial i itu: . of British Columbia
is lo he built. ' ' tin" Contre Star tho
sl.inl of th shaft is olio of about HO
degrees anu t i.> \t. .dy ol Hie skip slopt ?
back to th rn M s upon which it tails
Into the depth* Which means that
when tho ei di; t us are pin ned le.'.it
ly in the liiuoc* its who nave entered
first lind then sd vos tilted on Liiotr
heels, their ba? i upon the cold, wet,
rusty iron, ami held Mst oy tho ov
erlying si nita ut human avoirdupois
which fibs thc .ip
lt was ai ll ' third door window
that the nun stood who heard thc Op
timist, j'.urryh by oil his long fall
from th' root of thu twenty story
skyscrai r, murmur to himself thai lt
was "Al! rigi? -o far," lt ls at about
that sta; ! Of h's downward journey,
probably thal ae man who dcsccnuS
a mine : ?: Hie flrsi time hogans l.o
take thc rim ;1 view. His earlier
mind ls <. mi elusive and dilllcult
of unaly: .s. b ; at any rate if is nol
cheerful. Sudden blackest darkness;
the feelil of f "inc, out of Olio's hair;
the will ting .eldo that, may snap;
tho eugine mau .vh? may lot e control;
an upwind .du '.eilig of tho soul IO lill
befendint' l'o\\ ra; and then oblivion
--an ph i ti e'-iVoh as it weie "i
pas! thc i.|i nit. :- , one I. low Hi'? oth
er, Of tho < .. I: Ut j. tll.n ?c.. itt d' op
er ?md (iee; et; 'oVOl> IMP' " in slack
cps -?pied .-i . . hu r'd'il h dy foi' a
liioineilt a: ll II conn s to a stand
and wc st ci out
"You'll \ a ii j ?niidles," sayi| thc
manager, ai ! on the threshold of I his
new world o ' t Hu m proid?atOrr
Hy, as upon m i It'll', lt isa wot id ol
gray. Tile va !s before us and tho
roof above, ipi id by lingo timbering,
are gray. 1 lit d only al a neater
view by th? I . uer of fho Imprison
ed metals. ,'l tileries thal extend
to righi ant h he ears walch pass
us laden aita Ht men who neild be
hind them ere t ray as the ore which
they dump Iel ween the rads into a
chamber ht >*A The electric lamps
which linc : .ie roofs of tho galleries
burn fray, a il ?'.?eme, and the. very
air is gray, o : ho mountain above
tho Kim ls ilv-' "? and thank Goo
him.iclf with 1> own particular can
dle.
In a moment wo are In the gallorv.
As wo ni?M Hin sharp current of ?lr
the hot wax cutters over onto otu- fin
gorg and we slant the candles hack lo
the horizontal.
Ai tho omi of a long gallery, where
a second shaft descends, wo como out,
penetrate a gloomy, narrow pa-sago
In which heaps of oro li? walting to
be trucked away, und crone...ng oater
from below a lit Ho chamber, some 8
by S feet, blasted III the rock
Hero, where thc air ls still full of
tho odor of gelignite, is n driller at
work with his machine. Wo squeeze
ourselves Hat and bend lew against
ibo slop 11^ walls and watch
The heavy iron arm ?hoots out and
In, striking the face of thc nick full
srpiuro perhaps fifty times a minuto,
every blow falling with thc weight
of 1.000 pOHIlds, twist lu:; as il strike?
as if lo bore through what il cannot
break away. Tin? mau behind tho
drill turns on un an impassive face
No one .speaks or would bo hoard "or
the echoes of the (ll ll Rf and Hind and
the vibration ol' lb,, machine We
wonder thai beneath such blows ami
amid such din tho sleeping mast< rs ot
gray underworld should not a-.\ 'le
arn! bring the foundations down up
on us.
Al tho bottom of Hie shat! wo wait
willie the men of the night shift Hash
by u-', skip after skip, to ,.ieir work
In tho low<r depths, and then wo
a : o d rn wu out of ile- \ o .; ns we caine,
London Daily News.
Bread in Sixty Minutes.
Reaping beean on a flelu of wh*al
at liSoculey, in Worcestershire, ai ;?
o'clock In the morning and was sol v
ed as broad lust DO minut?: after
The 'coon hunters of Throe Springs
Huntington county Ibis state, recoil I
ly treed a 'coon, shot it. atm then had
a dog light under tho tree, and all the
fun and excitement bolong!ng to a
genuino "coon hunt, only lo lind lalor
that it was Homebody's tabby cat.
There are now in (?oriminy l lt;
cities witli Special ?cllOOls for hai li.
ward children. The total number ot
I lioso schools is 203, end tue number
of pupils is 13,100. Berlin lots ?i ol
these ace: U.VO? \ schools.
If you an' prosperous you will bo
envied and if poor despised ; gel in Hm
middle of Hu road lind turn mi steam.
-Cuero Ile.ord.
"How fast docs your automobile
go?"
"I CAn't nay," replied the motorist.
"lt all depends on how many sher
iffs we meet on t he rout c."
Many a girl ?urroiulfiiB at tho plano
furto.
fltaould^Ho Instructed.
Herman Kidder, editor of a New
York paper, recently traveled
through the South urging, BO the
the New Orleans Times-Democrat
says, the Democrats of this section
to KC to it that Mr. Bryan is not
i ? nm ; H <i ; I ? i > ( I ?I. ii; ,nti r
vk.w with the Times-Demociat Mr.
Kidder says: "I am convinced that
Mr. Bryan can not carry a northern
state, und 1 would like to suggest to
our southern friends that they
should not instruct their delegates
for Mr..Bryan, hut that they should
go to Denver uninstructed, so that
tho Democrats all over the country
moy consult and advise together in
regard to the best man to put at the
hoad of the ticket. Perhaps hy
i that time Mr. Bryan himself will
come to the conclusion that by his
public utterances he has made him
self impossible and will agree with
the other Democrats in nominating
a winning ticket."
But why should the rank and tile
of democracy leave to their repre
sentatives the duty of doing what
the rank and file should do? Tho
men whom Mr. Kidder represents
would,according to the Philadelphia
Press, he satisfied with "anybody
but Bryan." Why not trust the
rank and file to say what the party's
course shall be' So far as Mr. Bry
an is concerned he has not asked
und will not ask for the vote of any
man or of any state. He does say,
however, that it is the duty of Dem
ocrats m precinct, county and state
convention to instruct their dele
gates as lo thc choice for the Dem
oci ntie nominee.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
puts it well winn in referring to Mr.
Riddcr's "no instiucticn plan" it
'pays; "We (bir k that the will of the
constituencies can not he made too
plain. An ur.insti u< t <! convention
would present boundless i ossibililh s
of chicane. No candidato should be
considered, unless his record will
stand the pro! o of popular scrutiny.
Under our primary system, we have
can < d to jvdge ear du au s on their
hierits and have forever foregone
t he assistance of the middlemen who
used to pack conventions and thwart
tho people's will. We once labored
under the delusion that United
States senators could not be choosen
without days and weeks of wrang
ling in state legislatures. But, hap
pily, all that hus been changed and
we can not see why the democracy's
standard-hearer should not he se
lectee; in like fashion. Whatever is
done, let it be done in the open.
The dark horses should he kept in
.? ."?.,_ ""A ort olinnlrl the lock
. )\-' ? ai o ?m iii ho' (he I
ii Tu?iuS la .' <. V. Shaw
The Washington Herald says this
obvious truth, uttered by the recent
secretary of the treasury, and refer
ring especially to thc republican sit
uation in Iowa, is equally applicable
to the country at large. Barty lines
are broken everywyere. All well
informed republicans like Mr. Shaw
keenly appreciare that no "walkov
er" is in prospect for 190K.
Dissensions are the rule, not the
exception. A great party is work
ing at cross-purposes. It is at log
gerheads as to mon, wide apart as
to mensures; uncertain, undeter
mined, and afraid.
It is as a house divided against
itself.
Six months before Harrison's ov
erwhelming defeat in 1892, possibly
party conditions were as bad as they
are today, hut certainly no worse.
Roosevelt ism is almost, if not
quitcas strong as ever it was, in
spite of adverse material Conditions;
but Rooseveltism, as everybody
knows, is hot republicanism, and
the only republican who, apparently
can keep alive thc whole of this
Rooseveltian sentina nt- - Roosevelt
himself-has eliminated himself
fr< m ti. j ie? UN niial i quain n.
Mr. Shaw i nts it mildly enough
when he .-a\. "w< are i.<>t likely lo
have a walkover in HHS." Repub
licans of somewhat less prominence
are saying, "We shall be lucky if we
escape def eal." They are fast com
ing to believe, m fact, that but one
of their number-Hughes, of New
York-cen safely insure the party'
salvation, aral Hughes, of New
York, strange to say, is not to bc
permitted to have the nomination,
if ?tie administration can prevent it.
Hence the clouds now hovering
over the g. o. p.
If the democratic party is really
lacking in optimism al this momen
tous juncture, as it. seems to bo, we
can account for it only upon ono of
two theories-either it does not read
tho signs of the time aright, or made
sick at heart by hope long deferred,
its pessimism is become chronic.
And the most hopeless type of nessi*
mist, we may add, is thal, still too
ubiquitous democrat who obstinate
ly refuses to seo in William Jennings
Bryan tho mun of the hour-the
democrat of all democrats to whom in
1908the presidential nomination will
be least likely to provo a forlorn
hope.
If Rooseveltian! passes, be prepar
ed for Bryanism.
Their Occupation ls Fraught
With Pcrib una i ut?6 (Ly*.
OF LONG EXIST ANCE
No Marine Industry in These Days
? rings Such Hazards-Daily Dur
ing the Scaling Season Hundreds
of Men Risk thc Dangerous Ice
Flows.
There lb a Beni fishery which has
had a far longer existence thad the
fur-seal ilshery of the Paclltc, and en
joys greater vitality, and mat is tho
hair-seal fishery of Newfounuland and
Labrador. No marine industry in
these days brings such hazards to
crows and ships us this om:. Haily
during the Sealing season hundreds ot
men risk their livos on tho hoes, and
tho vessels face arctic "nips'' which
often crush them. When the hunt op
ens, stout steamers, bunt tor thia
Ilshery and carrying ?.000 men, sall
from various ports in quest of mighty
Hoes swept south from Greenland.
Somewhere andu these tho herds will
bo found, tho mothers having mounted
tue Ice to drop their young, which
aro cradled there, thu parents lishlug
lu tho adjacent wales for their BUD
Blstcnce. The seal-ships must ven
ture amid the dots for tholr quarry,
and tho seal-men must hunt these
"pinnipeds," as scientists call them
across Iho frozen we e s, subjected to
ail ibo ?n i lit; of -sich ti pursuit, w ith
out lents or other sie io r. lire, or
thc m.ans cd' making ?my, and no
chame o:' retreat to (heir ships il a
blizzard besets the n win n they :uo
far from ike vessels, ami ofti ll they
go six or eight miks across tue crys
tal wastes in tho excitement ol tho
hunt.
The crews always start off at day
break and remain out nil night. They
are clad in flannel underwear and can
vas outer garb, but carry no over
coats, that they may travel tuc easier,
and take along only a little food, for
tho same reason. Heme, when bliz
azrdH assail, they ?ru ill provided io
defy them, and If th? storm ls pro
longed, they cannot withstand tho ri
gors ot a night ou the Hoc, with Its
benumbing cold and guawlng hunger.
Never a year passas but some seal
ship will shelter tau or twolvo hun
1l4i.il two tn?
? I bf) ?Ovt) un' U i II,;
; Wi . st nail
f*! i M'y {{?fif? lliotf
.;.!.. tv dr owe ..'ri
w '< ?. with .viech
? m MI fe
.'';.* .O. OCj'l, .
t \ ,v ?v i, es'
to* ll;rei!A?'
the annals of this industry befell tao
crow of tho steamer Greenland on
Much 29, 189?. Dp off Labrador at
this tim* winter has by no means
spent itu fury, and on this evontrul
day, while her two hundred mon wero
scattered over the floes, a blinding
snowstorm began, with a startling
drop lu the temperature, the vessel
was driven helplessly seaward, and
the hapless crew weie lou to tholr
fate, no other ship being near and
they hoing far from land. When tue
tom post ended, after two days and
nights, it w;is found that forty-seven
had perished and sixty-three were se
verely frostbitten, some so severely
as to be maimed for life. The story
of tho sufferings of the wretched par
ly was appalling, A few years ago
the steamer Huntsman was penned
in a Hoe oft' I jil brader ami driven
against a rocky islet, where she weill
to pieces, forty two men perishing
within an hour amid the contending
he, leds, and fragments of the ves
sel. The rest of the crew crossed tin?
Hoes to ihe html; hut one man, named
French, had laen h it behind, uncon
scious. As Hie ship Struck, he was
Hung against the rocks, having hi?
shoulder, two Angers and two nhs
broken ind his head bailly gashed.
Kui he was wodgi d in a crevice, ?ind
when consciousness returned ho
crawled, with the aid of his uninjured
hand, to the top of the rock, where
lc ia;, for forty-two 'mars drenched
hy thc spray and hnttereu by chunks
of 'ce. lacking drink and food and
agonised from the pain of his wounds,
till the ice closed in solid and enabled
him to malo his way to the coast,
which he did safelv and ultimately
recovered. That same man, aged Vt?,
was seal-,.tinting this year, it being
his ict'li consecutive season.
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Record For Good Cows,
.lames Miller, ol' S. hult/.ville, Lack
awanna county, l'a., litis a beni of li?
cows that yielded 15,631 pounds of
milk In one month, an average of al
most loco pounds a cow, or about ll?
quarts ?1 day.
Thc law s of Nih way
who chop?: down one
tinco saplings.
compel a man
tree to plant
Tty emigration IO uro po loses 060,000
natives every year, and lu k.io samo
period 200,000 rot lim.
Ma's motto for framing: Keep busy
and you won't have to read bookit
on how to bo happy.
When a man gets away from homo
he can wear a bluo shirt with a red
necktie,- if ho wants to.
Some weddings aro little also than a
drews ault cayo.