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HELD UP BY HER LOVER.
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A niglnvaynian Losm b Itri^e Through
Uor Pluck a> a Stage Driver.
"Of course you've heard innumer
able romances of women stage driv
ers," said F. C. Olcutt of Cheyenne to
a reporter. "So have I, and most of
them are fiction, too, I have no doubt,
but I know of one in which every
word is true. The heroine of my story
was not the regular driver of the
coach which I have in mind, but dur
ing the trip I speak of she was a
^substitute for her brother, who was a
farmer, and having been reared.on
the farm she was noted for feats more
tusual to men than women. For in
stance, she was an excellent horse
woman, could ride almost any horse,
was a first rate shot and was not
afraid of anything. Often she had
driven the coach for her brother,
when from any cause he wanted to
have a day off. She did it well, too;
perfectly, in .fact, and she was the
pride of all the people roundabout.
"Now she had a lover, which was
perfectly natural and quite commend
able. Her lover lived with his par-
' puts on a neighboring farm. Ho
lacked a grout’ deal of being a model
for a Y. M. C. A. superintendent, but
yet his infractions of the ordinary
amenities of life wore not so fla
grant and glaring as to give him a no
torious character. Still, he was shift
less and inclined to wildness. He
would often go to town, bo absent
throe or four days and return very
reticent as to where ho had been or
M to what he had been doing. This
morning my heroine cracked the
whip over the stage horses for her 00
mile drive. William—she called him
that, though the rest of the people
thereabouts called him Wild Bill—
was absent from home, supposedly
in Cheyenne.
"The coach was n mail coach, of
course, and aside from the revenue
derived from the government for
carry ug the mail had a good pas
senger traific, for 10 years ago rail
roads were scarce in that country.
The coach left at 0 o’clock in the
morning and was due at its destina
tion at 8 o’clock in the evening. Ev
erything went well, the passengers
were very merry until about 4
o’clock in the evening. At just about
that hom- tivo men jumped out from
behind u bowlder in front of tho
coach and demanded ‘Hands up!’
The nervy little woman on tho box
didn't ‘hands up’ worth a cent. In
stead, she dropi*ed her lines, grabbed
a winchester and was pouring a fu
sillade of bullets into tho robbers be
fore they, in their amazement, could
comprehend what was going on.
"She so completely astonished
them that they for a second or two
didn’t know ‘straight up,’ as tho say
ing goes. Her example inspired the
passengers to courage, and they, too,
opened fire. Tho result was that all
the robbers save one tied ingloriously.
The exception was one who hud
dropped at the first shot with a
wound in his right shoulder. Well,
after tho others had lied, the girl came
down from tho box to look at the
wounded man. She stooped over him
and pulled off tho mask, revealing to
her astonished eyes the features of
Wild Bill, her lover. No, she didn’t
marry him, but she took him into
town, had his wound attended to, and
never revealed to the authorities
what had occurred. That’s a true
story."—Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette.
Alma-Ta«l«tun'a Early Efforts.
Mr. Alma-Tadema is ruthless in do- |
stroying results that do not seem to
him to lie satisfactory. I hare of 1 <*a
seen him wipe from his canvas a
beautiful figure,or a lovely object
when bo thought that by doing so
the lino of bis composition would bo
improved or that greater simplicity
would be gained by tho sacrifice.
I have heard Mr. Alma-Tadema toll
a story of tho fate of two unsuccess- ;
ful pictures of his student days. One
of them was returned unsold by the
committee of the Brussels exhibition
in 1859. The subject, I believe, was
of a house on fire, with people rescu
ing tho victims. His fellow students
were asked into the studio of the re
jected painter and were invited to
jump through tho canvas, the owner
of it leading tho way by leaping,
head first, through the oily flames.
The other story was of a large sized,
square picture which came back,
hopelessly, again and again, to tho
easel of its creator, until at last it
was cut out of its frame and was
given to an old woman to use it as a
table cover, and who remarked that
it "was much better than those com
mon oilcloth things that always let
the water through, for this one of
Mr. Tadema’s making was a good,
thick one, with plenty of paint on
it.”—Mrs. E. Gossc in Century.
THE TERRORS OF BALLOONING.
TU« Capital of WUconitiu.
Four Lakes was Madison’s original
name. That was 00 years and more
ago. In IhllO there was a struggle of
di fierceness over the location of
j territorial capital among the cit
ies ambitious to bo known as such,
these being Milwaukee, Green Bay,
Prairie du Chien, Janesville and a
dozen more. Governor Doty started
from Green Bay on horseback, ao-
•ompanied by a surveyor. The ter
ritorial governor was provided with
a green blanket and a shotgun, the
surveyor with a chain and compass.
In eight days they reached what
was then called Four Lakes, and the
governor had the surveyor make a
plat of tho place, whose sole occupant
was tho owner of a log cabin. Ho
named the place Madison, in honor
of the president of that name, pro
ceeded on to Belmont, where the leg
islature was in session, and entered
the future city of Madison as a can
didate for capital honors. To the
astonishment of competing cities,
Madison was chosen. It was claimed
at the time that when the legislature
adjourned nearly every member of
that body carried home with him the
deed to a corner lot in the new town.
—Milwaukee Sentinel.
Wl.ut IMil He Menu?
The black eyed widow look<*d un
usually meditative, and one of tho
other widows offered her a penny for
her thoughts.
"I was pondering," she said, “a re
mark that a bachelor made to me this
morning and wondering whether to
accept it as consolatory or tho con
trary.”
"What was the remark?” asked the
other widows with one voice.
"Well,” the black eyed widow con
tinued, "a theater party was made
’up in our house hist night, and at
breakfast tho bachelor asked me why
I was not of it. I repli«*d that I was
not invited—that I feared I was no
longer attractive and suspected my
self to be possee. The bachelor
aeized my hand respectfully, turned
16 gently toward the light, inspect-
* mo curiously and then exclaimed
a solemn tone, ‘Madam, go up
lirs and thank your M •Wf”
"The horrid thing!” cried all the
ier widows in a breath. “What
earth did ho mean f New York
Id.
A I.onig Lived 1*1 ke.
Ithe museum at Mannheim there
I skeleton of a pike which moos-
119 foot and had a ring around
Ith this inscription in Greek: “I
\o fish which was first of all put
[the lake by the handy of the
fie universe, Frederick
iober, mo.” Tho fish,
fciugUt in 1497, was W
►/ondon Hup.
A Description.
"Can you describe the man you
saw hnngingabout the house thoday
before the robbery?” inquired tho de
tective.
The Perkins Junction strfrcheaper,
whoso place of business had-been bro
ken into and robl d of a considera
ble quantity of plug tobacco, canne 1
tomatoes and dried peaches, together
with tho entire contents of the ca-li
drawer, amounting to £1.5/, roll ted
a moment and then asked, "D’you
know Bill Quinn ?”
“I don’t think I do.”
"Lives down in the Wallick neigh
borhood.”
"I don’t know him."
Tho merchant shifted his quid to
the other cheek, chewed it thought
fully awhile and said:
“Know Si Roberts?”
"No.”
"Auctioneer. Hang; round Thom p
son's a good deal.”
“Never hoard of him. But as to
this man you saw loafing about here
before the robbery took place- I
would like to have you describe him
as .well as you can.”
Again the storekeeper reflected.
"Well,” ho said at last, "he looks
some like Bill Quinn and some like
Si Roberts.”—Chicago Tribune.
Coinpoultion Under Dlfllcultie*.
Aletter from tho Archduke Joseph,
tho only member of the imperial
family who resides permanently in
Hungary, which has just been pub
lished, gives a pleasant pic ture of the
relations between himself and Urn it/,
Jokai. It incidentally mentions that
it was on the suggestion of the great
Hungarian author that the mvhduke
published his own work on the gypsy
language. While Moritz Jokai was
staying at the archduke’s country
house the latter remarked that his
guest was in the habit of constantly
jotting down notes on separate sibn
of paper, whether at home, out walk
ing, talking, watching the dancers,
or in tho vineyard—in short, every
where.
This excited the curiosity of his
host, who was not a little surpr's. 1
to hear in reply to his inquiry that
all these fragments were part of a
novel he was then writing and were
sent off direct to tho press. Arch
duke Joseph says that ho read the
Work with social interest, looking
attentively for any indications of the
manner in which it had been com
posed, but could not find the slightest
trace of discontinuity:—Vienna Cor.
Loudon Times.
The SprliiK on Mount Mlteli«-ll.
One of tho most singular springs I
ever saw is on the top of Mount
Mitchell. It is on the summit and
is clear and cold. It has never been
known to go dry and is seemingly
without a bottom, as lines have been
dropped down to a great depth. As
Mount Mitchell is the highest peck
on the Alleglianios a.id the nearest
mountain of greater altitude is in
Colorado, about 2,000 miles distant,
the query naturally arises as to the
source of this spring.
Tho only conclusion is that it is a
siphon spring, but if so the water
flows at least 2,000 miles and under
innumerable rivers and streams, un
der prairies and under mountains,
until it reaches the peak, where it
forces its way through a fissure to
the top. The water is remarkably
clear and pure and shows no trace of ,
its having encountered any minerals !
during its long journey, although
minerals arc found on every side of
the place where it rises to the sur- i
face. I have never heard any satis
factory explanation of tho phenom
ena.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Sporting Pnge Cure.
"To a patient afflicted with a cer
tain phase of melancholia I onco
gave an unusual piece of advice,”
said an Arch street physician. “l
asked him if he ever took any inter
est in the sporting intelligence pr *-
sonted in tho daily pajjors. He re
plied in the negative and added that
sjiorts of any kind were distasteful
to him, and some even abhorrent to
tho principles instilhsl into him from
early youth. 1 then told him he was
suffering from t’.j effects of dwell
ing too long on tho grave concerns
and problems of life, and that if he
wished to prolong his years ho must
take hold of lighter things, and that
I knew of no mental diversion so ef
fectual as to take a positive interest
in tho sporting events of the day—an
interest which he might easily create
by a little persistent reading of this
entertaining branch of news. He
followe£ 0 'Ynpd'lt|!'ioe, his morose and
suspiqljfbecuJic w.is gradually sub-
tluo fionaUe a i uL? ^ c ^ ieer ful and
a* I ever
A Woman’s KxcitlinvFall Tlirougli Space
and l>c»pi' r rom Death.
Mrs. Carl E. Myers, the parachute
jumper, told of an exciting experience
of hers at the fairgrounds at Ottawa
that, as she said, "began like a com
edy and nearly ended in a tragedy:
“It was the narrowest escape I’ve
ever hqd, and incidentally and acci
dentally Ihe first parachute descent
ever made in America. It wasn't a
regular parachute either, but 111 tell
you about that when I come to it.
The occasion was a big fair, and tho
grounds were packed with people,
the biggest and most uncontrollable
crowd I have over seen. Wo had a
funny time getting the balloon to tho
place. It was brought up on the
other side of the river in tow of a lo
comotive and was to bo towed across
by a lino of canoes paddled by In
dians. We got it fastened to the ca
noes, and it lifted tho first three into
the air, spilling their occupants out.
That was too much, even for aborig
inal stolidity. The other Indians de
camped in haste.
"They afterward said that if they
had to go upward to tho Great Spirit
they preferred to die first and have
the benefit of decent burial. Tho next
move was to fasten the balloon's guy
rope to the stern of a small steam
tug. The tug started up, a puff of
wind lift ’d the balloon a little, and
iq* e. Mie the stern of tho boat out of
tin water. The tug kept on puffing,
the serew revolved wildly, and the
crowd howled with laughter. It was
too ridiculous! It reminded mo of a
kitten held up in the air by the tail
and wildly scratching to get a foot
hold on the floor beneath.
“Finally, a bigger boat got the big
gas l ag over safely, but so densely
packed was the crowd that I had to
walk on the shoulders of the people
to the balloon. In their eagerness to
get up close the people broke the
concentrating ring, which gathers tho
balloon ropes before they are fasten
ed to the basket, and also tore a big
hole in the bag. In view of this, Mr.
Myers wanted me to give up the trip,
biit 1 insisted on going, and finally
fastened the ropes to the basket. The
rapidity with which I shot up was
alarming, and I was three miles high
befi a- • 1 stopped. Then I began to
drop pretty fast, but I know I could
stop that when I wanted to, and I
felt better. Suddenly I heard a tre
mendous ripping and tearing sound.
Tie’ airptvs.ong up as I fell had start
ed the hole made by the crowd and
had loi n three great rents clear to
the top of the bag.
“1 began to drop with frightful
rapidity, and for a minute I gavemy-
self up for lost and sank down in the
basket, been it flashed into my mind
hat I s‘ 11 had a chance if I could so
turn tl.e balloon as to bring tho torn
pa it m i: denieath, and thus keep some
of tho in the bag. It was a case
of working against time, for every
second was bringing me nearer to a
terrible death. In tho one glance
that 1 took downward I could see tho
earth leaping up, as it seemed, to
meet me. I quickly shifted all my
sand bags, and to my joy the balloon
turned so as to form a sort of para
chute, and the sliced was greatly de
creased. 1 was still dropping at a
dang< rous rate, however.
"Looking down below, I saw not
far distant a patch of spruce trees.
Toward this I directed my fall and
managed to land there. Right
through the .ves I wont, breaking
every branch that I touched, but tho
trees saved mo, for I landed on the
ground badly shaken, but unhurt. I
had traveled an actual distance of 111
inili s horizontally and three miles
downward in five minutes. My fall
had lieen slanting. That was tho
only time that I ever gave up hope
even for a moment.”—New York
Hun.
I n-omaminry uf Triulo.
Tho Freemasonry of trade appears
to bo extending all round this jolly
eroth. The time may come when it
will be possible tahuvo one’s apparel,
purehasi ' l in New York, put in order
free wherever one may happen to bo.
Hero i s a hatter who announces that
his silk hats can bo ironed free of
charge in f 'ff cities located in 27 Amer
ican stall s and territories and three
foreign countries. There does not
npp ; -ar to bo any good reason why a
man i' uld not huvo a button sewed
on bis New York shoe in Kalamazoo
or Timbuctoo, and it is by no means
improbable that ho may one day
have his metropolitan coat pressed
fivi- of charge in Yokohama or in
Mellnurno, to say nothing of Cou-
stantinopk) and Canandaigua.—New
York Sun.
A Candled Tale.
"Here,” said a Lewiston detective,
"is a queer thing to convict a man
of burglary with,” and he held up
the head of a hammer which he had
kept iu a drawer in his table It was
an ordinary hammer head, only the
striking end of it was battered in a
strange and peculiar way. One side
of it was broken off.
"A break was made in a Lewiston
home during the winter, and besides
a small lot of jewelry a bundle of
papers was canned away. The pa
pers were of a private nature and
such that the owner desired as much
to recover them as ho did the jewelry.
The robber had entered tho house
through the kitchen and while pick
ing the lock had set a hammer down
in a pan of molasses candy that had
been put into the back entry to cool
during the night. When he took up
the hammer, it had left the imprint
of its head in tho candy. I saved
that j)an and kept it on ice all sum
mer in an up town icehouse. The
next winter I was in a local junk
store and found this hammer in the
pocket of a coat in the pile of old
clothes. I knew it by the head of it
to bo the one dropped into the candy
pan.
" ‘Whom did you buy this of?’ I
asked.
"The dealer happened to remem
ber, and I took the hammer head and
went to the man’. Jouse. There I
found that ho had died during the
summer, but his widow recognized
the hammer. I asked if her husband
had left any old letters or papers, and
she brought out the lost bundle. She
knew nothing alxmt any jewelry, but
her husband had left £J()0. I took
the papers to their owner and told
him tho thief was dead.”—Lewiston
Journal.
A VOICE FROM THE TOMB.
Plain Stun ley's Eulhnr.
Bishop Stanley, tho dean’s father,
was disappointed in bis wish to be a
sailor, for which he was admirably
fitted. He ruled Alderloy exactly os
a captain rules bis ship. He gave
premiums or prizes for cleanliness
and punished parishioners by good
naturedly declining to enter a house
it it was not tidy, and turned away,
saying bo would "come back when it
was clean.” He oven got tho keepers
of the inns to p ‘ up placards in their
parlors and bars in commendation of
temperance.
I^cgrd.
A Clian^fn Self.
A young girl who was dissatisfied
with her homo life and always talk
ing of her grievances and allowing her
di: content in voice, look and manner
surprised a friend whom she mot one
day by her quick step and bright
smile and happy voice. "How are
things at home?” the friend asked,
thinking that some good nows had
made tho change. "Oh, everything
is jiir t the sumo, but I am different,’’
was tho reply.—Rum’s Horn.
The expense of each individual
telephone instr ument is larger in a
larger circuit than in a smaller one,
because the switchboard and other
connections increase in geometrical
ratio as the number of instruments '
increase. That is why rentals are
higher in u iurgfc city than irra small
one. |
•— .VI (
Their Rplnttl Stair«ase.
A most estimable ana well known
west end lady has been made tho
butt in times past of numerous well
known but not estimable stories
touching her unfamiliarity with the
queen’s English. She is reported to
have spoken of an invalid daughter
as indelicate, and of another, upon
whose education much money had
l>oeii lavished, as the most costive of
all her children. It has also been re
lated that most of tho members of
her family have lieen accustomed to
ride to Baltimore on communion
tickets. I have steadily refused to
chronicle any of these yarns, be
cause they have not really related to
this good lady. They have been
pure inventions, fastened upon her
by malicious scandal mongel’s. Nor
does tho following relate to her:
A well known society woman of
the west end, similarly unfamiliar
with the niceties of the English lan
guage, spoke at one of the delightful
teas of a spinal staircase of great
beauty which had been constructed
in tho house of a neighlior. There
was a bright girl near by who heard
this architectural or anatomical
reference. She said aside, and it
was very mean of her:
“Perhaps the lady refers to her
neighbor’s back stairs.”—Washington
Capital.
Cow roiili’* In th« Emit.
A good many of these ponies are
brought east to 1h» used as polo ponies.
They are as tough as whalebone and
as plucky ns a squaw. They show
great intelligence and will follow a
polo ball with less training than any
horse known, not even excepting
those bred in England especially for
polo purposes. This fact lias Im-ci »me
generally known among polo enthu
siasts in the east, and if you will ex
amine the ponies used either at New
port, Cedarhurst or any of tho other
crack clubs, you will find that almost
all of them bear tho brands which
arc to bo found in the registry books
of Colorado and Texas.
Tho value of these ponies increases
at a rapid rate. A fast one that costs
£18 or £20 in Texas, after six weeks
polo work at Colorado Springs or up
at Glen wood, is often sold in the New
York market at anywhere from £75
to £275, though tho cost of sending
east a carload holding 15 is only
alKiut £250. Personally, I do not see
why there is not a good chance for
hoi’scinen to make money in this
branch of their business. Western
ponies make nice driving horses for
light work.—New York Mail and Ex
press.
How He Ticratne ‘’Private” Alien.
Allen of Mississippi is everywhere
known as "Private” Allen, but it Is
not as generally known how he ob
tained this title. It was when ho
first ran for congress. • Ho stumptxl
tho district with his competitor, a
General Tucker, who opened tho
campaign with a rhetorical rhapsody
in which he alluded to his war serv
ices and particularly described a bat
tle in which ho had commanded the
Confederate side, beginning, "Fel
low citizens, I slept one night iu a
tent on the mountain side awaiting
the battle on the morrow.”
When he had finished, Allen got
«p and said: "Friends and fellow
citizens—What General Tucker told
you about his sleeping in the tent
that night before the battle is true.
I know, for I was guarding that tent
all night long in tho cold and wet.
Now, I want to say to all of you who
were generals in the war and slept
at night in your guarded tents, vote
for him. But all you fellows that
guarded the generals’ tents in wet
and cold, like me, you vote for Pri
vate Allen.” Allen was triumphantly
elected and has been "Private" since.
—Boston. Advertiser.
Growing blackberries and mush
rooms, by law, are not private prop
erty in England. Ono may be pros
ecuted for trespass on land where
they grow, but not for theft in taking
them.
"Well, no,” remarked a bare,brown
trw, shivering in its box on New
Year’s eve, ‘Til not turn over a new
loaf now, but in tho spring I shall."
II Spoke In » Dream end Told a Tale of
Gliastly Horror.
The Rev. Mr. Partridge was once
the vicar of a parish in tho suburbs
of London. He had tho misfortune
to lose a favorite son, whoso body
was interred in a vault in the church.
Two nights after the interment Mr.
Partridge dreamed that he saw his
son, habited in a shroud spotted with
blood, the expression of his counte
nance being that of a person endur
ing some paroxysm of acute pain.
"Father, father,” he cried, "come
and defend me! They will not let mo
rest quiet in my coffin.”
The apparition was so vivid that
the dreamer awoke, trembling from
excitement. He argued with him
self that it was the result of the grief
he felt on account of his son's death,
and after awhile managed to over
come his agitation and go tc sleep
again. But it seemed to him that he
scarcely lost consciousness when the
vision reappeared, beseeching more
piteously than before that his father
would come to his aid, as they were
"mangling his body at that instant.”
The tortured man slept no more that
night, and at the break of day re
paired to the clerk’s house, where the
keys of the vault were kept. Here
he was informed that the key to tho
main door had been broken and the
clerk’s son had gone to the smith’s to
have a new one made. Impelled by
the worst misgivings, tho vicar pro
cured a crowbar, by means of which
the hinges of the door were wrenched
off.
The sight that greeted him caused
the father to fall fainting to the
floor. His son’s coffin hnd been lift
ed from the recess and placed on tho
brick pavement. Tho lid lay loose
on the top. Tho body, enveloped in
its shroud, on which were several
spots of blood below tho chin, was
exposed to view. The broad ribbon
had been removed from below tho
jaw, which hung down with a most
ghastly horror of expression, and ev
ery tooth in tho bead bad been
drawn. Tho youth while living had
possosHod a beautiful set of teeth.
The clerk's son, who was l>otli a
barber and a dentist, had obtained
possession of the vault keys for tho
purpose of extracting tho teeth for
uso in his business. — Now York
Times.
The Mlnlstei-’n Diary.
The following are extracts from a
diary kept by the Rev. Mr. Emerson
of the town of Conway in 1799 and
1800:
Jan. 1, 1800—Had much company.
In the evening married a couple.
Fee, £1.25. Had a cheese give n me.
Value about £1. Deacon Ware a
present of beef, value about 20 cents.
Jan. 4—Attended to study. Bottle
rum, 50 cents.
Jan. 23—Married tliii e couple.
Fee, £0.25.
Feb. 4—Paid a woman tailor for
one day 25 cents.
July 5—Bot. rum at Bardwell’s
store, 50 cents.
Aug. 12—Two quarts rum Wil
liams’store, £1.50. Paid for killing
hog, 17 cents.
Oct. 20—Put in tho cellar for win
ter use 38 barrels of cider. Value, £32.
Deo. 29 —Lord’s day. Preached
from Samuel i, 27, “How aro tho
mighty fallen.” — North Adams
(Mass.) Democrat.
Puwn1>rnk<*iV Methotlfi.
"Have you ever noticed,” said Du
Broke, "that pawnbrokers will never
answer tho question, ‘What can I get
on this?’ They always make ono tell
what ho wants to borrow, and then
no matter how low one places tho
amount, tho broker will always go
him £1 or $2 lower. I knew of fel
low in an office who was pretty j. on
for a pawnbroker, but who 1 :d
learned this first principle.
"I had a beautiful solitaire ring,
and I needed just a fiver. So I
thought, for fuu, I would seo if this
fellow would actually try to go me
one lower on the ring.
"I asked for £G, and as lie looked
at the ring he smiled sarcastically
and said curtly, ‘£5.’ But I was ob
stinate, and slipping the ring on my
finger wont out.
"I easily got 10 plunkers on it from
another money lender.”—Philadel
phia Call.
Time ami Klchea.
"What arc you doing now?” asked
Willie Wibble’s father.
"Killing time,” replied tho young
man languidly.
"It seems to mo that you spend a
good deal of money at it.”
"Perhaps. You see, fathah, it’s
this way. Time flies, doesn’t it?”
‘T’ve heard so."
"And riches have wings?”
"I’m sure of that."
"Well, the only way I know of
killing time is to chase it with mon
ey.”—Washington Stn”.
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THE CURTAIN.
IIKVOUI
A duke/
Duke y*
lord/
’ *tyl
, r an(
ded .lis grace, the
and addressed as my
your grace, ,
Fourteen Nice I.Ktle Feet.
Tlie great importance of children
being properly shod has been fully
recognized by the German emperor
and empress, who have been most
particular that their children should
only wear hygienic boots and shoes,
sufficiently wide for the toes to have
proper development, and in conse
quence the six young princes and
their sister have perfectly normal
feet and will therefore l»e spared the
suffering from corns, bunions and
faulty nails to which most of man
kind are subject.—Lady’s Pictorial.
A Moot I’ulnt,
First Bello — Then both TIorr
Schulze and Herr Lehmann had
her an offer of marriage—which was
the lucky man ?
Second Ditto—Herr Schulze. Herr
Lehmann married her.—Olierlaudor
Bote.
The English sovereign’s sons and
grandsons, when created peers, &fo
entitled to seats ip the house of tarda
at the left of the throne, but when,
by the death of their father, they be
come only collaterally related to th<
sovereign, they ait among the dukes.
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A thrill pf raptu root applause
From every row ascend in*.
The actor gives a gracious pause.
To those before Tow bemling.
Adinireilof all Ihe lailics rare,
What compliments they utter!
How many hearts amid the fair
Are now set in a lluttor!
T|)0 play goes on. The curtain falls
t?non the act of splendor.
Each heart emotional recalls
Its incidents so tender.
Oh, sweet the glamor of the scene.
With nothing coarse to break ill
Imagination rules serene,
Ami fancy’s what wc make it.
DKH1XD.
Tho leading lady, just deceased.
Has got a fit of laughter.
The leading man, from toil released,
A sandwich has sent after.
The pasteboard rocks are put aside,
The lovely sylphs are yawning.
The dancing girls in plain clot lies hide
Ivo beaux around them fawning.
The funny men are scowling now.
And he who gold dust scattered
Upon the scene, with happy brow.
Looks doleful now and shattered.
And so it Is throughout, the days
Of this our life uncertain.
To view it truly, you must ga/.o
On bgtU sides of the curtain.
—New York Clipper.
A Question of Letters.
Mr. Labouckero gives publicity to
tho grievance of some lady who had
occasion to consult by letter a Lon
don specialist who had several times
attended her. She was much an
noyed on hearing a few days later
that in tho medico’s absence from
home her letters had been opened by
his wife in tho ordinary course, of
business. Mr. Labouchero thinks
that doctors have no right to hand
over their correspondence to third
parties, even their wives, whom
their patients may not desire to take
into their confidence. •
Well, there are two sides to tho
question, says a London paper. It is
quite right that doctors should be as
inscrutable as the Sphinx with re
gard to the privacy of their patients’
affairs, and if it were known that a
man was addicted to babbling ho
would rightly be placed under taboo.
But when a man goes away from
homo for a few days, as go be must
occasionally, his letters have to re
ceive attention.
It is quite conceivable that in
urgent cases tho delay in forwarding
a communication to tho absents
might entail serious consequences,
which could be obviated if the letter
were opened on receipt, and who,
pray, is there more likely to lie dis
creet than tho wife of the medico?
An Old Compliment.
One of tho neatest and most adroit
compliments ever turned out was
probably that of Croesus to Camby-
ses. That harebrained monarch once,
when the Persians and Croesus were
sitting with him, asked what sort of
a man they thought him compared
with his father Cyrus. The Persian^
of course, like g<Vxl courtiers, replied
that he was better than his father,
for be had all Cyrus’ possessions and
Egypt and the sea as well. Thus
spoke the Egyptians. Croesus, how
ever, not being pleased with their
opinion, spoke as follows: "Now, to
me, O son of Cyrus, you do not seem
equal to your father, for you have
not such a son ns ho left behind him
in you.”—Westminster Review.
llarlier Shop* ami Coimumptloa.
The report of a case of tuberculosis
of the bearded face will direct atten
tion to the danger of transmission of
tuberculosis through the intermedia
tion of the instruments used by tho
barljer. To prevent such an ocfcur-
rouce, each individual should have a
separate brush and cup and napkin
and razor. If ono razor is used in
common, it should not again be used
before having been placed for a short
time in boiling water and dried, while
persons who present themselves to
the barber with diseases of the beard
ed skin should bo advised to consult
medical men.—Medical News.
Tho SplICil (if Si:fiM).
Hirseh proved that a touch on the
face was recognized by the brain and
responded to by a manual signal in
the one seventh part of a second.
The scientist i .o found that the,speed
of sense dift’i red for < arent organs,
the sense of i t aring ), ig responded
to in the on. ixth of ,\ eond, while
that of sight required only one fifth
of a second to be recognized and sig
naled. In all three cases the distance
traversed was about tho same, so the
natural inference is that the image
travels more slowly than sound or
touch.—St. Louis Republic.
Sinn anil C’lainw.
A native once came to Bombay
loaded with GOO pounds of chains. Ho
said that ho had been a very wicked
young man and as a punishment hud
chained himself up from sin. His
plan did not work, however, and he
had been adding to his chains con
stantly. When he traveled by train,
ho was charged partly as passenger
and partly as freight. — Bombay
Times.
A female drunkard at the Welling
ton police court, New Zealand, was
recently discharged on account of her
exemplary condir ?* when sober. The
prisoner was 70 yeatu of age, and the
evidence showed that she was the
sole support of her father and moth
er, aged respectively 98 and 96 years.
A reader informs tho Worcester
j Gazette that the popular notion
about funerals is a great mistake.
I To meet a funeral going in the oppo
site direction is a sign of good luck,
and to see two funerals going in op
posite directions is better still.
i ho title lieutenant comes from a
wo! I signifying "holding the place.”
A lieutenant colonel holds the place
of a colonel in tho absence of the lat
ter; a lieutenant holds tho place of a
captain.
If the Hollar
take to dr
item
^actually under-
9, the first
monster
10,000.
CANAL TO CROSS MICHIGAN.
Capitalists Said to be Considering a Big
Western Project.
Fiiic too.—A stupendous canal pro
ject. which, if successful, will entire
ly revolutionize the t raffle of the great
lakes. Is said to he in contemplation
by a number of capitalists in Chicago,
New York, Boston and London. The
proposed canal is designed to render
unnecessary Die present long route
between Eastern and North western
points through the Straits of Macki
naw, Lake Huron, St. Clair River and
Lake, and thence down the Detriotto
Lake Erie.
The plan said to he under contem
plation is to construct a canal direct
ly across Mhdiigan from the western
shore to either Detroit or Toledo. O.
Capitalists are said to stand ready to
hack the project to the extent of loO,
(KKl.000, and it is also said that Eng
lish capitalists interested in the Can
adian Pacific road have shown a dis
position to render financial aid.
Worth Two of Henry.
[By George R. Scott.]
The celebrated Bill Xye informs
the public that his son Henry has re
turned home from college, and that ns
far as usefulness is concerned he has
a colored boy, named Bud Watson,
who works for £11 per month, and
who " is worth two of Henry at any
thing I ever put him at,” on the
farm. Mr. Xye claims that Henry is
not “totally worthless,” but he is a
"non-dividcnd-declaring block of
stock.” He is ready to swap for
“range cattle or nightblooming
Angora goats.”
CARROLL & STACY,
Transact a General Banking
Business.
Careful attention to collections
on all points.
Safety Deposit Boxes Inside.
Fire Proof Vault for Rent.
Your patronage Solicited.
L. BAKER,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
1>KAUKJ* IX
Sash, * Blinds, * Doors,
and all kinds of
Building Materials.
Plans and specifications for build-
in) s made on short notice.
Livery and Feed Stables.
Headquarters for drivers and Farm
ers, who want to buy.sell or exchange.
I make a Specie'! ' reeding Stock.
First-class tin reasonable
rates.
<-’.it! !e and Hogs bought and sold.
J. G. Spencer,
Pproprietor.
Having just purchased a
HERRING-HALL-MARVIN
BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE
—w,r:<—
Automatic Bolt Work
— AND—
Time Lock and Safety Deposit
Boxes,
I will he hetter prepared
than ever to take " care of
my customers funds. Safety
Deposit Boxes at moderate,
rent. County claims bought.
, Exchange bought and sold.
jy. is. wooi>,
DA % KICK,
Gaffney, - - S. C.
J. E. WEBSTER,
iYtt ornoy-A. t> lvtiw 9
Gaffney City, S. C.
Practices in ail the courts. Gnlltc
lions a specialty.
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