The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 13, 1906, Image 8
1 The Telegram. j
I lly Hon. Mary Oftvondlsh. ; '
"Odd hand, my Inst," remarked
?no of the bridge players. Ho was a
good-looking fair man, with an eyeglass,
who was not too much absorbed
in his game to find time to
glance at the girl in white who sat
on the opposite side of him. Sho
seemed to have a great deal to say to
the man by her side, lie looked like
a sailor, a man with a keen, alert
face, and far-seeing eyes. They
talked in low tones between the
plays. The game went on.
"What a good game!" said one of
tlio men, as they rose. He stilled a
yawn, looking at the clock.
"Yes," replied the man with the
eyeglass, absently. "Good game." He
was looking towards the girl and
fellow.
The hostess glanced suddenly at
the clock. "My dear people," she exclaimed,
"if any of us mean to hunt
to-morrow we ought to go to our little
beds. I had no idea it was so
late. George lias probably gone to
sleep in the smoking room. Evle are
you bored to death playing cards?"
The girl in white smiled demure
ly. "No, thanks, dear," she replied
prettily. She did not look bored.
They myved into the hall, where
there was a keen but silent competition
between the sailor and the man
with the eyeglass to light and hand
tho candles. Roth turned at the
same moment to the girl In white.
"Good-night,' she said Boflly and
Impartially to them both.
Tho two other men who had been
playing bridge had gone down tho
corridor to the smoking room and
their host. A whistled chorus of
"Of course I don't know, but I
guess," cain? back softly to tho two
men left In the hall. The women's
voices sounded faintly upstairs, with
the soft rustle of their frocks. Tho
Bailor's eyes suddenly met those of
the other man, and he held out his
hand.
"Good-nlglit, old man," he said;
"I'm going to turn in." Ho went up
stairs whistling.
In her own room tho girl was
reading a letter, a long letter In a
feminine hand. She road and re-read
it, and then suddenly throw it Into
tho fire. The flames curled round
tho sheet. Some words stood out
very distinctly.
"... told mo and of course ho
knows. It's quite private, and not to
bo breathed a word about, yet. Hut
ho said it's almost certain that?"
tho flames burned out the name?
"will get tho money. And such a
pile! Ho is to have a wlro to-morrow.
He sure and not hrenthA a
word" . . . The letter burned up
quickly. A fow gray ashes dropped
into the grate. Outside an owl hooted
mournfully. The girl shivered,
looking nervously over hor shoulder.
Three words still stood out distinctly
011 the charred sheet: "Such a pile"
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They all came in from hunting the
next ovening, tired and pleased with
their day. There was the usual
search on the hall table for telegrams,
or second-post letters. The
man with the eyeglass took up an
orange envelope. lie looked his tall,
straight best in pink, mud-splashed
as he was. He read the telegram,
and an eager light came into his
.eyes. He gathered up his letters,
with one quick glance at the girl,
and went upstairs.
"Oomo along, Evie, let's go and
change," said her hostess. She linked
her arm in the girl's, and they
walked together to the foot of the
-wiae staircase. iiut sue suddenly
rememberod a message to bo glvon,
and turned back into tho hall again.
Only the sailor was there as she
passed through. He was gazing at
tho staircase which the girl was ascending.
At tho top he paused,
mtooped, and picked up something It
looked like au envelope. She passed
on to her room quickly. Tho sailor's
straight brows were knit together.
Ho sat on in tho hall, staring into
tho fire, until the girl came down
again. She held a pile of letters in
her hand and was going to the post
box. Something surely fluttered
from her fingers as she passed him.
Ho stooped and picked up an orange
.envelope. A name stood out legibly.
"You dropped this?" he said Interrogatively.
She startod, coloring
violently.
"I? Oh, no." Ho looked at hor
for one puzzled moment, and her
eyes fell before his. She looked very
young and pretty. The sailor laid
the telegram on the mantelpiece, behind
the loud-tlcklng clook. Then ho
took the girl's hand. , . . "But I am
ISO very sorry," she was saying, regretfully,
a few moments later. The
soldier with th^ eyeglass was coming
downstairs, spick-and-span, and
well-brushed. The sailor left the
hall.
They drank their health that
evening at dinner, and every one
enid how pleased they were. The
Bailor, too, though his congratulations
were brief. Aftor dinner there
was another announcement to make.
The man with the eyeglass spoke.
They chaffed him, and called him
the richest commoner In England,
and said what a thing It was to have
an unknown undo who made fortunes
and then died conveniently In
the bush. And when tho sailor's
eye* next met thoso of the girl, there
was an odd look of contemptuous
pity in them. But Evl'e hostess was
aaylng to herself what a mercy it
was the girl had chosen the right
man before she knew. . . . She always
liked him best, I suppose,' she
remarked to her husband the next
4ay.
TllK GIRL AND THE FORTUNE.
Bottled the Energetic Youth Who
Thought He Won a Prize.
Senator Beverldge was condemning
a notoriously corrupt and notoriously
plausible capitalist.
"The man speaks well," said Senator
Beverldge. "He promises much.
If lie acted as ho talked, ho would be
famous for his goodness. But, alas,
he Is like the German who nearly
lost his daughter.
"This German, with his daughter,
was walking beside a deep stream on
a summer afternoon, when the
young girl, slipping on a stone, fell
In. And she would have drowned
but for the prompt bravery of a
youth. lie, slipping off coat and
shoes, plunged In, and after four or
five minutes of hard work brought
the girl safe ashore.
"The old German father was
transported.
" 'Noble minded youth,' said he,
'we do Indeed owe you a debt of
gratitude. hundred thousand
marks or my daughter's hnnd?
choose! Which shall It be?'
"The youth, who was no less wise
than brave, thought to hlmsolf that
If he took the daughter ho would
lirvmA lion cr?* Minn#... ? 1
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cordlngly without a moment's hesitation
ho made answer:
" *1 choose your daughter.'
" 'A wIbo choleo,' aald the old
father. 'I could not have given you
the 100,000 marks, for I am only a
poor cobbler, but you aball have the
girl, and that gladly. Join handn,
dear children, and receive my blessing.'
?
Foolish Man.
"I'll never discuss the weather In
that horrid Col. Grliu's presence
again, said miss Passny. "He asked
me to-day If I remember the hot
Bummer we had In 1881."
"What a ridiculous question to
ask of you," exclaimed Miss Pert.
"Wasn't It, though?"
"Of course; he should have known
you'd deny all knowledge of It."?
Philadelphia Press.
Where I# Tuft's Island?
A queer story Is reported from the
Pacific coust. A man named Tutt Is
said to have bought an Island In ths
San Juan group off the coast of British
Columbia. Whon Tutt went out
to get his Island It wasn't there.
Tutt looked all around for It. Hs
couldn't even find the hole where It
stood. It seems it was a pretty good
sized island and Tutt feels positive It
couldn't have been stolen after dark
by any ordinary sneak thief.
When Tutt went to the inun who
Bold the alleged Island to him, the
man said the Island was there the
last time he Baw It, and then he
suggested It must have been swallowed
up at the time of the San
Francisco earthquake.
Tutt Is provoked, of course. lie
doesn't swallow the story with half
the grace that the Pactllc Is said to
have swallowed his Island. But what
can unhappy T.itt do? He can express
his feelings In profane terms,
of course, but that won't help mattres.
If ho swears about tt everybody
will say, "Tut, tut!" and that
will be the end of It.?Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
An invocation.
Come, wind from the southland!
O'er green meadows creep;
Rustle the vines there
And fan me to sleep!
The world Is but weary?
I wake but to weep;
I would rest where the dreams are;
Come fan me to sleep!
Beneath me a pillow
Of what dalsieB deep;
Life Is half dreaming?
Fan me to sleep!
?Atlanta Constitution.
Giving Encouragement.
An old captain who had built a
row of villas, asked his mato what
ho should call them.
"Well," said his mate, "this being
such a difficult place to got at, I
would call them Qlbraltar Buildings.'
'
"Why?" asked the captain.
"Well," exclaimed the mate, "It
Is said Gibraltar will never be taken,
and I'll be hanged If these houses
aren't In the same boat!"
Of Course.
"It Is easy to pick out the bankrupt,"
said the unsophisticated reporter
at the creditors' meeting.
"Yes?" replied the other. "See how
shabby and careworn he looks."
"That's the principal creditor. Th*
bankrupt Is the man with the fur
/' ^nd diamonds."?Judge.
SENSITIVENESS OP MILK.
Suggestion for Bettering the Conclldition
of That lifted in Cities.
Milk responds readily to Banltary
care and handling. In fact, it ie extremely
sensitive to exposure to contamination
and its usual condition
as sold in tho large cities indicates
that certified milk is cheap at a big
advance over prevailing prices.
Monthly counts for six years of
tho bacterial contents of the milk
supply of Rochester showed the presence
of about 100,000 bacteria per
cubic centimeter in winter and five
times that number in summer. When
the milk was handled intelligently
the average of a hundred determinations
showed the presence of less
than 4,000 per cubic centimeter.
Among the suggestions offered for
tho improvement in milk supply are
that the cans after emptying ho sent
to a plant to he washed by machinery
and then capped with a cheesecloth
strained and a metal cover. A
stout canvas cover Is then placed
over all and the package sterilized
by dry heat. Tho cans upon being
returned to tho farm have tho canvas
jacket and metal covers removed
and the milk drawn directly through
the cheesecloth strainer into tho can,
which Is then removed. The metal
. caps are then replaced and tho milk
cooled by placing the cans Immediately
In Ice water. The cheeso cloth
strainers are returned to the storll
lzing plant with canvas covers.
Distinguishing Colors.
In order to prove Its power of discriminating
between colors the scientist,
Dahl, made some interesting
tests on a monkey. Ho colored some
sweets with a certain colored dyo
and some bitter substances with that
of another color. After a few attempts
the monkey learned to leave
without even tasting those articles of
food colored with the dye which indicated
bitter-tasting substances and
seized at once upon those which indicated
sweets. Varying the experiments
sutllclently ho found that the
monkey distinguished all the different
colors readily, save only dark
blue. Many savage tribes cannot distinguish
dark blue from black, and
even children distinguish this color
later than sill others.
New York Manufactures.
The Census lluroau has issued a
statement concerning manufactures
of New York State for the last llvo
years. During this period the number
of manufacturing establishments
lias increased from 35,957 to 37,194capilalized
at $2,03 1,4 59,515, an increase
of 33 per cent. The employees
number 95 4,992 and the
factory products bad an annual
value of $2,488,345,679. The principal
Industries are men and women's
clothing, flour and gristmill
products, foundry and machine shop
products, malt liquors and printing
unci publishing.
Shipping Horses for Mont.
Broken-down horses are shipped
from English ports to the continent
of Europe, where they are bought
and slaughtered for butchers' moat.
Boats continually arrive at Amsterdam
laden with miserable, sorehacked.
blind and, in many cases,
dying horses. Some of them have
been certified uh unfit for further
work underground in tho mines and,
because they are unused to tho upper
air and light, they suffer great
torture from the exposure. Their
miseries when in a rough sea are indescribable.
IIow Herring Move.
Bays a naturalist: "Tho herrings
move on the sea in unaccountable
numbers in banks that are miles in
length and width, in windrows so
vast that they perhaps keep passing
one given point in unbroken succession
for months at a time. Just so
with tho menhaden. A catch in a
purse net of 500,000 is not infrequent.
Such numbers are sufficient
to stand all tho ravages of the natural
enemy. The bass, the haddock
and tho pollock may kill to their
i heart's content and ?till the menliaden
will hold their own."
President's Salary.
Tho snlary of tho President Is
$.r)0,000, President's travelling expenses
$25,000. Secret ry to tho
President $5,000. other employees in
executive office $01,000, contingent
expenses $20,000, care and refurnishing
White House $35,000, fuel
for White House $0,000, care ef
greenhouses $0,000, repairs to
greenhouses $3,000, maintenance of
White House grounds $ 1,000, policemen
at White House $ 10,000, secrot
service men $4,000, naval yacht
Mayflower $150,000, naval yacht
Sylph $25,000, Total, $472,000.
Hard on the Ox.
A German marine disaster of an
extraordinary character Is reported.
The good ship Agathe, from Hamburg,
laden with barley, reached
Elbing, where the shipyards are, and
was beating up the Elbing river. An
ox watched tho vessel from the bank.
A sudden squall carried the ship a
little off her course, with the result
that she collided with the ox, Impaling
It on the jibboom, from which It
was removed with difficulty."
Improved Train Signal.
Tho Raymond-Philips system of
automatic signaling between tho
signal box and tho cab of a locomotive
has been tried with success on
the lines of tho North Staffordshire
Railway Company, England. The
system Is arranged to give a visual
and audible signal In tho cab of the
engine or any other portion of the
train and simultaneously to rtpeal
such signals in the signal box.
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NATION OP SALT EATERS.
Rarrcl a Year for Every Three Persons?Most
of Home Production.
The United States consumes 20,872,700
barrels of salt annually, or
a barrel for every three persons In
the land, says the Boston Transcript.
Lust year It went abroad for only
1,16 J ,133 barrels. In 1880 03.5 per
cent, of the salt used In our country
was of home production. 96 per
cent, of the product cousumed was
produced within the borders of this
country. In 1880 the consumption
In this country was only 9,384,203
barrels. Thus wo seo that the people
of the United States are using
annually three times as much salt as
they used twenty-six years ago.
Only 6,901,000 barrels were produced
in this country in 1880, and
tho consumers were forced to go
abroad for 8,4 2 7,03 9 barrels. Last
year tho total production at homo
was 25.9G0,122 barrels. Tho tariff
act of 189 1 placed salt on the free
list and the Importations Increased
to nearly 600,000,000 pounds the
following year. Tho tariff act of
1 897 returnod salt to the dutiable
list, and salt In bags, barrels or
other packages is now subject to a
duty of 1 2 centn a hundred pounds,
or 33.6 cents a barrel.
Tho chief salt producing States
are Michigan uiul New York. Statistics
recently gathered by tho Government
show that the combined
output of these two States amounts
to more than two-thirds of tho total
production of the United States.
No attempt has ever been made to
ascertain what per cent, of tho salt
consumed In the United States is
used for culinary purposes. The annual
output Is largely consumed in
the Industries of meat packing, fish
curing, dairying and the like. The
chloriuation of gold ores demands a
largo quantity, and great quantities
of salt In the form of brlno are usod
In tho manufacture of soda ash,
caustic soda and other salts. Salt is
cheap. Tho average price for 1905
was a little over 2 3 cents a barrel,
which Is lower than that reported In
any previous year. Dry salt, of
course, brings a higher prlco than
brlno. The avorago prlco for dry salt
last year was 3 1.51 cents a barrel.
Nepotism ti .Menace to Industry.
An ambitious young railway official
left a largo system to take
cnargo or a small road, says the
Electrical Railway Review. He was
asked Why he took what seemed to
his friends a backward step. His
explanation was that tho president
of the larger company had two sons
In its service, and that the general
manager had three brothers 011 the
payrolls. The young man did not
quarrel with this condition, but feeling
that blood Is thicker than water,
thought that he would fare better
elsewhere. Events proved that he
was light.
When society was less highly organized
it was natural and proper
for families to bo associated In tho
conduct of business enterprises. The
capital invested was the property of
nnly a few persons, and it was the
birthright of the son to profit by the
accident of his father's station. Under
tho feudal Idea, power as well
as property was a legitimate fruit of
heirship.
To-day the executive and the manager
lug officer is a trustee for the
directors and stockholders of tho
corporation. It may happen that It
Is the kind of corporation known a?
government, uu organization of the
body politic, which Is being administered.
Public policy and enlightened
sentiment everywhere are opposed to
such official positions paslng by dosc.ent.
Industrial organization Is more
despotic and one of Its uncorrected
abuses Is nepotism. The cornoration
may be fortunate In securing the
services in high positions of young
men, whoso natural ability and technical
training aro supplemented by
hereditary instinct for the particular
business in hand.
The narrowing margin between
success and failure does not admit of
taking such long chances. It is better
to let the inherent genius find its
outlet lu a different field. The supply
of able and trustworthy men la
uot so limited that the home corporation
will long suffer for want of
talont. To argue otherwise is to betray
a lack perspective.
Facts About Your Ikxly.
The average number of teeth Is
thirty-two.
Tho weight of the circulating
blood la nine pounds.
Tho average weight of an adult is
lf>0 pounds 6 ounces.
The brain of a man is more than
twice that of any other animal.
A man breathes about twenty
times a minute or 1,200 times an
hour.
The average weight of the brain
of a man is " V6 pounds; of a woman
2 nounds 11 ouncna
Over 54 0 pounds or one hogshead
and one and a Quarter pints of blood
pass through the heart in one hour.
The average height of an American
Is 5 feet 9 Inches; of a Frenchman
5 feet 4 Inches; of a German 5
feet 7 Inches.
There are 175,000,000 cells In the
lungs, which would cover a surface
thirty times greater than the human
body.?Chicago Chronicle.
Color of Water.
After long hesitation scientlfte
men agroe to-day In admitting that
water physically pure, seen In mass,
sky blue. This color Is that taken by
the white light of the sun when absorbed
by the water.
Open the bo well and gel the oold oat
of your system. Kennedy's Laxative
Oough Syrup opens the bowels and at
the same time alleys the lnflamatlon
of the mucous membranes, bontalns
Honey and Tar. Drives out the oold
and stops the oough. Absolutely free
from any opiates. Conforms to the
National Pure Food and Drug Law.
Pleasant to take. Sold by Conway
Drug Company.
Bnrned to Death*
On Thursiay Mrs. Chris Trowel of
Oliver, Ga., was raking and burning
some trash and leaves in her yard,
when her dress caught fire. She was
alone except her four small children,
and started to run to her husband,
who was in his blacksmith shop,
some distance from the house, but
full before she reached him. She was
ho badly burned that she only lived
about four hours. Mr. Trowel had
band* severely burned trying to save
his wife. i
It is noticeable a oold seldom comsa
on when the bowels are frsely open.
Neither can it stay if they are open.
Kennedys Laxative Cough Syrup
tastes as pleasant as maple sugar.
Free from all opiates. Contains Honey
and Tar. Conforms to the National
Pure Food and Drug Law. Conway
Drug Co.
Boy Fatally Hhot,
At Phenlx, Ala., Louis McOlain,
live yaar-old sou of Mrs. Gussie Mcwin
ahnt. f*f*11n J
, ..WW www muu van; TIUULIUCU
his playmate, Monte Mooro, aged
hIx, son of I. II. Moore, at ten o'clock
Thursday morning, with a parlor rifle.
No one saw the shooting, but It,
Is supposed to have been accidental.'
The ball entered the oenter of the
boy's forehead, shooting his brains ,
out. An operation was performed
but physicians think it useless. Both '
families are prominent and the
tragedy is a great shook.
A man with a sprained ankle will
use a orutch, rssfc the ankle and let it
get well. A man or woman with an
overworked stomaoh can't use a'
crutch, but the stomaoh must have <
rest just the same. It can be rested
too without starvation. Kodol will do
it. Kodcl performs tbe digestion work
of the tired stomach snd corrects the
digestive apparates. Kodol fully conforms
to the provisions of the National
Pure Food and Drug Laws. Conway 1
Drug Co.
(4on? to the Pen.
Ilagbart Gregerson, formerly ax
charge teller of the Milwaukee
Avenue State bank at Chicago, of
which Paul O. Stensland was president,
pleaded guilty to embeczloment
of the funds of tho bank and was .
given an indeterminate sentence In
the penitentiary. Gregerson is the ,
third official of the bank to be sent to
prison. lie said in court that he had
taken the money for the purpose of
heloing a ycurg wo man build up a
busin?86 as a ' beauty doofcor."
n. u. jjlYviu -Jo., of Chicago, at J
whose laboratory K dol is prepared,
assure us that this remarkable dlgestant
aud corrective for the stomach
conforms fwlly to all prov.sions of the
National Pure Food and Drug Law.
The Kodol labratory is a vory large
one, but if all the sufferers from Indigestion
and stomach troubles could
know the virtues of Kodol it would
be Impossible for the manufacturers
to keep up with the demand. Kodol
I sold here by Conway Drug Co.
Robt. B. Scarborough, H. L
President. Vice-P]
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Try our plan for saving your nickles i
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Our Bank, being a local instituti
buildiag of Horry County and for the
raiBg tkis policy we take pleasure in
aooommodation when consistent with
With gratitude for tke liberal j
cordially solicit your future business.
Respectful
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II ft a mistake lo use i violent
cathartic to open the bowels. gentle
movement will accomplish the
same mulls without causing distress
oTv serious oonsequenom later. De- Wit's
Little Earl; Risers are recommended
by Oonway Drug (Jo.
It takes a girl to know she can do
anything she wants with a man by
how brave he is.
For chapped and cracked hands
nothing is quite as good as an application
of DeWltt's Witch Hazel
Salve. Put it on before going to bed,
use an old pair of gloves and see what
a difference the morning will bring.
Sold by Oonway Drug Company.
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CM!AT. S. C.
Thursday, December 13, 1000.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Conway, S. C.
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