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1 FEY, S. C., FEBTTAR^U^Ssr.. THE WEEKLY"!/ pa—his system wil! bp pompMc. The DELAYS ALONG THE Tampa people and his Tampa hotel quests will be only too happy to come r<i - ^ dictating 1 thus letter, my mind wer the thousands of miles I run Into the a fclost eall, and L ilf through many. itUTT, but by long odds best and toughest time w was down in Murder that night, when I lost HE EAT' Bill Aiv ilI1|M Tea. y «;oo<l to K|»t Is si AYclcoiiic °a. traveled over the various railroads r o. ? Alroad men from president to the Mach strength Wtinted inJJ Oq o^jorter of the train on which I ride. I for CiuiNiileratc way Employes iin«l ,-at to live and sonw live A X f 1 . - i ll'llf ooots and my store-bought us lM,x 1 ‘ . H . . linol . i ' . -it ill■ ihmkIs soiih'Nv mit upon brung on a night sweat it lupin" 3p with a buck ager, and se ami lpao+ * 1 upon »« anu sg and appetite depends on p<ist three j'ears in / l)own here in I' iiii'ida the varn- pe tiHth is, Rufe, I jtdl is always a woieome souiul and pi < altogether ns Wg U (. s ts gather with alaerity aromid morn in when/,- festive hoard, (’h nnge of climate H e o see the Ty^ lu | change of diet and change from .s re- light p ^vori^ | 0 play begets an appetite that some have not known for months at home. About once a week they try the scales and boast of the pounds they have gained. They have their way and then have their weigh and are happy. There is no complaining at the table, ~ ****r<v v no lorn;', liinguishiii" laces, no recital gin tlSBrovv™ 1 ^ ^S^cbU? 1 ^ o^. / th do IBiMtner* ’v' ^ nto 1 vn in % tvo"* j, i s_ L .1 ovV Jint r*. ^ o r TV bitten < union it raley seems -en growin less m-s ‘ degrees from t/w ^ f^OGOl.Ys r’^yUS. rWt threy ^'.ays pitv* 1 hajAev n d in/^ x e/iphs l r were, down I wish in my l en d a^ v ‘ ,bat you give you that stcT part^det little give it to me, L\ghty biythe “doe- ments and fancy! xf it p' is right would have somcLough^rds up his dead hours of nlraine »’ to Jl horse fimen^niy. So it "THEM BTOHEftherot that "You maybe I t ,ieQ^ an * << “ < i 11 P to Rufe,” says And! R w8 ,ar ’ and then est facts in thel c ojf a horse trade, made a full half Rl S’ 01 aceommo- Men, sir, I wol a »ore he got the and reglar till J ' h'm on the •Sc.ijaa on the P’ I hox. 1 he (.ip- f ^‘'listtlint was pntty I Id as a post and as ^lljy ^ ll( Jan Illev got foam- the hich at the same fired ; i If all' 10 and if the 1 in ot tf ,l l > *t was his place fUanfrJcd V' ,ili0 a )s t e.\;LnfA. Ill' come on home Sii y gi8'" <! th.it night, in the filch :,i sfonrs, he went back to ’ ^r4rX Vn, 'yet still that \\ lilt d in iF full set of wagon liar- togj'is and all. and then ing, fof a suddent like right > III/ 1 } 1 *' middle of the camp. U.stoi P'teliin and jilungin and dri/ ol ''i'i you ever heard tell r c-’ on ri {' r,1 t then and there. r,.j-iipsics woke up they iir horses had broke loose fj'h 1 he h.iiness on, and them f wa he up good thought the jnd of time had come, pi t.iinl\ of course a mighty r m ‘ n t ai d a general seatb poin on ni >und there lire sent t'i| ,s .v run over a wagon lukI is leg in two places. Another head foremost into a tree and of their daily pains or nightly woes, but all come with a bright good morn- ami ! never seed any of it before, and ing or a smiling noon or a grateful even- so I biled it and Idled it, butitdident ing after -eem to get done and so I made a bat-, to Clear Water for health and restand Sam Jonorj Boliovoa i M>7%, V< 5ir*coimtrw and I have nothing but sport Thom PhUosophjFVV,Side and’good will towards the While writing of what kinds Of food ^ llmnrl m. n from nrnsi(lent, to the prevails among different people, 1 am reminded of something that Gen. Phil lips told me about north Georgia, where he lives, that he enjoined me not to tell, hut 1 will. It seems that he and Mr. Kgan, of Poston, started out on a tour to locate the North Georgia rail road from Marietta. They made about 40 miles the first day and found a hum ble farmhouse, where they asked to stay over night. The good woman looked alarmed, but said yes. Mr. Egan, being a Boston Yankee, brought some Boston tea with him, and just be- for supper brought it out and asked the good woman to make him some tea. She looked at it curiously, but, asked no questions. When the humble supper was ready and they were help ing themselves to fried meat and soda hiscuit she brought in a little plate of blue batter cakes and set it down by Mr. Egan and said: ‘•You dident say how much you wanted the tea cooked and ! nevi This . the un means a n The day is done and the darkness Falls from the wings of night.” Our daily menu now includes Span ish mackerel or gulf trout and oysters, Florida beeformutton and Florida vege tables and fruits. Or we can get west ern meats when wanted. The guests eat anything and almost everything that is set before them. Chickens and eggs are abundant and we have a stall fed turkey for Sunday. The finest of oranges are sold here for dozen. Green peas aiu are in the market. Now better bill of fare ter and fried it." Egan turned red and the general V his lips and after supper they had walk a quarter of a mile away to 1 •is loud as they wanted to. N’o_ -r/ ne \t morning anybody doubts this story thei/^^/; throughout the day, leaving there better keep it to themselves. xn the afternoon and arriving at •hillips fought all through wS Orleans at one o’clock, midnight. can name a list of hundreds of men with whom l have been personally thrown, and enjoyed their company in a social way, s* di as McCollum, super intendent of the Western & Atlantic; J. W. Thomas, Jr., of the N T . & C., and by the way, t here is no better railroad man for his age in America than he; and Pograni, of t he Memphis & Charles ton; and llamn ond, of the Delaware & Hudson, of New York; and John ^-ft-end colli- Peebles, of Chattanooga, etc., besides ^ 'us a fearful hundreds of engineers and conductors on the various roads whom I know socially and love to be with. I bespeak for these men the kindly consideration of the public; or at least give them the benefit of having head and heart, and give them the benefit of doing tile best they can for all concerned under the circumstances. I am glad we have railroads and trains, and I marvel that they run so nearly on time and have so few wrecks and kill so few people. Sam P. Jones. [copyp.i “One hour late “Indefinitely k upon the bullet stations wher sometimes nounennent collision—a sion. S w reck—i the deac SometinA.% . c r ly in fT around More W. 4,a bridge gone, waitet/^- '4 ueans they have I \/%\ 'ns, aim'* v>- cyears, thousands and ^>."^68 annually. I have P ^ serious wreck. I have / ahead and just behind x few days ago I was en 4^/ <v Orleans. Our train was ’/i /■ Orleans at 7:30 next morn- % '/'ff the track. 'M * •. /er this country for "Reaving Atlanta at 4:00 p. m. , we left Atlanta three hours a were sidetracked at Bay St. TO GET RID OF SPOOKS. g, and remained Many People Believe That Water Form* an Impassable Barrier. "You have given us some interesting matters, Josh, in regard to raising cents a strawberries if there is any for the sick or the and is not a man 1o be trifled he told me that if T ever put and it got circulated up woman’s country he won and say that it was one lies. Let him do it if hi ghosts,” said Uncle Dave, when the 'rained most of the day. Our train was old-timers met again to swap stories vjkrowdrd with people; perhaps two or r. well L don’t know w here you will find j it. I wish that my wife and the folks at home had as good. There are no flies or mosquitoes here and no nets have been spread except for fish. Our old lishcrman brought in (100 pounds of beautiful mackerel this morning that he caught last night. You will have to go to the east coast for insects. A traveler told me that over there he saw the nian who drives tiie tramway mule from the hotel to the station kill 00 big flies on the way in about 1."> minutes, lie carries a paddle in one hand and knocks t liein right ami left as he goes. As every country lias its fauna and its flora, so it h;.■, its special kinds of food for man a «! 1 a: t. A friend of mine who boarded at a private boust don lor tinte montb any rice upon the tank norany hominy or anything unde of coin. 'flu* lady said .she did not know that anybody ate ri. e except the Cliine. c ani she did not know iiiat it was tit for any thing but to feed to ho, -A never promised not to ti road has been built ki creased all along tli. good women have qt Arp, in Atlanta Con/Aft ❖ 0 COSTLY ID^A r a‘ Story of a Broker/ A, 'TION. * 8 T V'the is in - d the d.—Bill st “It always tell the trut broker, “ to do othe of till the into by “I li 'em Wife ami a * A New Orleans. a.’^.ip long run to A^tced a young * ever be tempted three hundred on board. Men with their wives and children; passengers white and colored, Jew and Gentile. Of course, the rain kept us in the cars most of the day. There w as a wreck ahead of us, at the Pearl river draw bridge. I had an engagement to lecture in New Orleans (where 3,000 people had gathered, I was told the next morning,) in Artillery hall that night. There were - two other lec turers on board the train, and the arch bishop of the Catholic church, of New Orleans, who also had an engagement at ’ . i • i going to think A, I just got myself the stn# o '/VC. y, o meet my sister in m Lon- •ays he never saw »d his skull, whilst one of i.ie fainted and fell in the fire a; d •nt so hud till they don't t’oak |an recover. On tirst b!;is!i : iu* ?s took up a notion that the r 'ies had got in amongst them. a.id icy broke up camp the next day moved down on Long Crcciv. But Iho main t ime ti utli wa> iuightv:o ind to leak out. Blev Scrogg'*" fell flow dow n mean about it till In upa.i •! ^ld the naked facts in the c i.-e .i.,u five his own fool self away. Consequentially the high SliriT ?otiie out one day lust week with ; c- fpers of < oinpellmont for a man by t i • name of Scroggins. Everybody in the settlement went on Blev’s bond to kc p him at home, but he will have to tend court durin the spring 'em:, and be yond that the good Lord only knows what. A; thcr afternoon, and, as gone away for tiie day Aje servant with her, it jOme around to the house with ' • -S- 8s late in the evening when my A'Pturned home. I was smoking Jtulge Hillyer, who i re. :; :i\e!,'.! / A* r '•> the library, and she went on I'himpe las: year, and .-a vs that w^ 1e drawing-room. In a few niin- •in,i i \e are the universal cereal bread and a for corn for a i and hors tin all / THE NEWS FROM ROCKY CREEK. About the onlyest news that I can give out this week is in regards to a family log rollin they had over at Elder Newton’s one day last week The doctor was there, ami likewise joint, as ben or mutton the common im the rich and the poor. S|k aking ol London reniindf m\ friend said hr v.ent out in V* 11 I'Uh'e, and limited /j , un 1'imI n store that had Logri// c 1 ' srb. Most of lhe imrdw 1o had never heard of Bor,./- ,0 ,er 3- At Iasi he 10,1,1,1/^ < ‘ i,:,11,s S!l 'd: “Ah. yes. ther/ ? 1lis tMlt ' nianufaetiiier at Bi/? - - * ,ta11 " makes knives, etc. iir ^ k f >gers’ trade.” “Bur,” saifcjf 1 " , ' ain " ho stamps on id, kiii/ F ' t1( “ American lers to her muies/^.' - “he said: “Well, i),/ *i,d razors, *eiit- trieks of i),, i/ ” He smiled and catch the foreii/ ’ s j ,1s > one of the to her majistZjF !illd designed to little liiuie There is no cut ler make, but// I'Og'ers’ knives are a tricks o: in/er here than any other tariff littk* we know of the higiir,'ifitu trade. The firoteetivr man a H cut I cry .VI per cent, pay i/h' 11 B is in England and every hnpi^r i ver^ ■ lioy in the land helps to and still Mr. McKinley is not also two or liep. ee mihl female Ja- /y. me fishing i good now hsehold. (>n«• of our as slie came huriying back, and be- •tre I knew what had happened she be- ga.i upbraiding me in the most violent i n anner. She had picked up a strange I veil on the floor, and had immediately put the worst construction on it. As soon as 1 saw what had happened I grew red in the face, which made her only the more convinced that her sus picions were correct. Of course, the veil belonged to my sister, but there is just where the trouble lay. My wife is of an insanely jealous disposition, and her pet idea is that my sister is en gaged in an attempt to make dissension between us. “I was afraid to admit that my sister had been in the house during her ab sence and made up my mind to lie it out. It is hard enough to reason w ith a woman at any time, but even a Phila delphia lawyer couldn’t do it when she happens to be in a jealous rage. It was the first real quarrel of our mar ried life, and if she didn’t raise the old Harry it's a caution. She first stamped and cried, then said she’d g'o back to her mother, and wound up by threaten ing to sue for divorce. There was no use in assuring her that 1 knew abso lutely nothing about the confounded U>i1 ’' S1 '‘ uldn’t .genferal confusionrncnt nVs Newton ‘die had •••.me Ai babies, and both boys .n the babies are Join '--i under the H’hold. \f,. s . ^ •dm.T, o£ \f I.,., ifi'l j is h< : <7 t lit* 1 m :Um* Iiim n- tj OI , in half an hour. She was so proud “Whnishe calmed down she wouldn’ l that she wouldn't let her husi.nnd s|ii> . tk (o mt> and j was „ (h . S|) . lir . tll< 11 •' lust, when I reached thutstage that m -s«.mns of the ho 1 have narrated this incident sinqily to say that amidst the crowded cars and discomfited passengers I didn’t hear a kick or a growl. A more patient, good- natured people I never mingled w ith. I have learned long ago myself not to kick. I need the strength I see others use in kicking for better things. Then what is the use of kicking? The rail road on which the disaster occurred is A/° ( l opporf unity to talk | one of the best-managed roads in Anier- tvimily matters, so I persuad- j i^a. No more efficient men operate any road, and the executive head of that read is a marvel of executive ability. There was no defect in rail or spike or tie or bridge. Men caused the wreck. There was a draw bridge open and a freight train rushed into a watery grave, the engine and 20 cars or more all out of sight in the deep water below. President Chauncey Dopew, of the New York Central railroad, some time ago, writing for one of our reviews, said that his railroad had four tracks; one for west-bound passenger trains, one for east-bound passenger trains, one for west-bound freight trains and one for east-bound freight trams. They had, he said, almost perfect machinery, a perfect block system,and soon. “But,” said he, “we run our trains with men. Men are imperfect. If we only had angels to run our trains we would'then have no accidents.” Man’s imperfi i is written upon everything that \ n runs or touches. A failure to obeVy/mlers, a failure to give the right signal, a mistake in read ing orders, and many other things, con spire to make men unreliable and cause railroad wrecks. While a few of us missed our engage ments. this great railroad had a great loss and a fearful impediment to its traffic. Compared to our discomfort and losses the railroad lost immensely. 1 grow more sympathetic with the rail road nianairement —*• . in spite Vrcoativ ,.»'*■ £ £ ^ktaiu ot all <l>'-' ir cIto ‘ but if 1 have read ghost history aright it is my impression that the efforts of mankind have been mainly directed to the work of ‘laying’ the ghosts; that, is, ‘putting them in their little bed.' as the saying is, and keeping them there. “It was not very long ago that, at the trial of Laurie for the murder of Mr. Rose, in Scotland, Sergt. Munroe, on being asked by the dean of faculty as to the disappearance of the mur- j dered man’s boots, replied that he be lieved they had been buried on the beach at Corne, below highwater mark. This curious ceremony seems to have been adopted by the Highland police, with the intention of ‘laying’ Mr. Rose's ghost—an object which, according to tradition, might be attained by burying his boots under water. “A story is told of ‘Davy Pit,’ Shrop shire. England, a dismal pool, which was a trtuch dreaded place, because it. was said spirits were laid under the water, and might, it seems, walk abroad. This belief may be traced in various parts of the world, and ‘one, of the most striking ways.’ writes Mr. James Frazer, ‘of keeping down a dead man is to divert the course of the river, bury him in its bed, and then allow the river to resume its course.’ It is thus that Alaric was buried, and Com mander Cameron found the same mode of burial in vogue among a tribe in central Africa.’ “The idea of water as a barrier against ghosts has given rise to mam strange customs, some of which Mr. Frazer quotes in his paper on ‘The Primitive Ghost.’ Among the Mctamb.i negroes, a woman is bound hand and foot by the priest, who flings her into the water several times over with the intention of drowning her husband’s ghost, who may be supposed to be cling ing to his unfeeling spouse. A similar practice exists in Angola, and in New Zealand. Those who have attended a funeral plunge several times inlo the nearest stream. In Tabisti, oil who as sisted at a burial plunged into the sea and in some parts of west Africa, after the body has been deposited in the grave, ‘all the bearers rush to the water side and undergo a thorough ablution before they are permitted to return to the town.’ ”—Boston Herald. ami *1« I “.‘walking the o.h. “Vou C ”r.v 0n ,T"’ •- - — } UiQge ...i- >. _ them. Speak to them when I meet any of them on the street. Well, one of the girls stopped me while l was " ! — ■*!>'> other morning. She asn't in of B that bi'in- them, string 1 ust mind conjured up visions of court 1 suddenly re but carried tin all the wav home herself. Slit iisli hereafter. It is ; rors () f the divorce com i * i woman catch hsh. that the washerwoman had n f tiie day. At keel us >n expected limit i ■ Vse of the cala under (ee oi iuv. aniBy. >pbably recover. Y'Ktrs Sandeps. 0°%) RANGE. Happen to Bo V"- long alone V glorious inn lo sec a w.... but most ol them want a feller to till ie hook and put on a fresh An- tnembereu called in the course of the first my wife scouted the idea that a w oman in her circumstances could have ’ '■•* such a costly veil, but at last I tiled on her to find out if such at par mm . ~ ;o me public there is Mom a kind out walKinR lllv . _ word said of these servants of the pub- Raid . . Miss nj^hfly, your house wasn i lie. The division superintendent of the broken into last night and robbed, was railroad of which I speak was on duty j said- ‘No why?’ And she '~ U * oi the bridge, faithfully sa ; d: Tu \ g lad * to hear‘it. 1 dreamed ’ "~*««hndv had got into your A A oth‘ morn i ng a way. oi passengers so pc*.,..— muring. I am one of those who believe - i„ „„„ doing their best strang<‘ ,e of these s little jok.” y Wight. V will ' .v run if tliem want them off tl bait. The little town is looking up. nevveonier bought a lot the other and is going to build right b H ' The broad gauge has come at last and now the traveler can come from almost anywhere without a change of ears. Less than a year ago bought this narrow gauge ford to Peters- "”“*•* --- • gnn to laugh at me in a Kuo»... b „ ’- *<«n that she shared my ‘m * ’ .L taching to the delay of trains, ♦mr.e an d so ■aiiroau m Jay and night at the bridge, faitium doing bis best. It would have been a last ni g ht SO nieuuu.v „ ' n,s arduous ; house through the kitchen w indow and — mn.rxv valuable things.’ - iA f ‘“'■*'15 pleasure to him amidst his arduous tasks to have looked upoh our trainload ever so man - * messengers so patient and uniftur- Think of the ppf . sumpt i 0 n of “it! “ w TH*n.aniing about us! And the\' aren’t •—„ Tribune. r wasn’t the case. m the morning I j tka ^ ra i] roa ds are 'er all the circumstances, as between 1 public, to do “'J’he first thing in tin- ... „ hurried around to the washerwoman’s and explained the whole matter. I tk<i told her to claim the veil and slipped a 1)f Thore may dollar into her hand. Hie woman be- aad vonder • * —« in a knowing way. * •r an me e.*- the stockholder and the public, aj r be exceptions here onder. There is, of course, inconve.lieneeat- * *—;,5 C the miss- ro bur re rocked abom im sore trying *o keep his p<Tpe But now it Ins long, new cross!ies and a ii(*avy rail,, w ith spacious cars with a Pullman attached, jiiuI makes good d from, tlie main line at Trilby. gave glad wel- Dreaniing aboun uo. _ ! n our set at all!”—Chicago Tribune. I* There Water In the Sun? Prof. Janssen, the astronomer, has lecently made a visit to the observa tory on the summit of Mount Blanc, to make sure that the new telescope which has been carried there is unin- ilroad has done jured. He took the opportunity to <ick and howl search in the spectrum of the sun for -• r,r re- ■ evidence of water in our great lumi- '—.-zi ,,0 s uch evidences * —V the miss and so on, ii. oad that runs from isainw mrg. B ''is a long, slow, lilt 'Oiu' ^ was plain to see nmii, o..^ road w i ih n very light i ail and the ears wift .* s s , 1S|) i c i 0 n 8 . I was getting deeper n rocked ai out till they made an old man d dt . ‘ r jnt0 thc troub i e , and the ,n / connections, anu so ’ ix-rpendieiilar . wa . ()ut waR to int . reaS e the bribe. aft f. ^.."hen the railroad hat %A y n t nke 505 \ y and is doing its best, to kick am ' v ~ ' * ' and growl—I have no patience icct for the man who does it. *ss begets kindness. I have always me ^ been kind and considerate of railroad which the observation wan Their kindness to me everywhere the to}) of the mountain, giv es this neg ** — .ninw connected itive result much value. But it can- - - - no water in the c '^'S\ iio»h— main vA.* A All along the ine people x'LA-‘\eonie to the tirst train that greeted It will the daw 11 of a new era ne on I'unday. Had it been on her day we would have greeted ith fitting eremonies. In fact, wc it was U come on Monday and I repared some broken remarks Vnild hav- pleased Mr. Plant and ~ ” the <F uld nn tt" 0 *‘ J the > »» . At last she agreed to take $25 Weekly. BanlHluuent of Mine. De Stael. In the absence of her bogy, Mme. de Stack who said she loved the gutters of Paris better than the mountain streams of Switzerland, reappeared in the suburbs of that city. When Na poleon heard of it he grew furious and gave orders to seize her as an in- trigner, by force, if necessary, and to send her hack to Geneva. It was awful presentiment took ■*- - “»nneror that she had or re- Kind- narj’. He found no The v ery rare and dry air through ’ •♦ton was made, at men. ♦ - “ ” :;;;;^ oUS thing connect ^ ^ said that there ^ dis . is the most marvenous with my peregrinations over this coun- hot m- ocv — Railroad men are, as a rule, the iun; onlj r that none has yeti iformly kind men with whom covered in its constitution. / Where can you A Good and Sufficient try. most um Where nn,.,. — I deal and associate. consult than Milton n , ore co n rid'erate..W ? dly-ate- find a more posed man than Milton II. Smith and J. G. Metcalfe, of the L. «fc N.; Maj. Thomas and Dnnley, of, X. C. & St. L.; or the big-hearted. * 4 A Galveston ladj' who is m. man who is much older flu said to her servant. Matildp' “What do you mean bj a veterinary surgeon w doctor for ison. irried to a herself, x mo ^1. Jolly and thC t>n dow, but an awful r^ c “^hat B he had c r nny **•- ^ ; or tbe big-liean^, a vetem*—j --- he-onductor and all cop^ tiossession of the {ore boding a General Passenger Ag^nt for a doctor foi ..eonle were to shou a i,neared like einane in Cen- lc %el emithern (the other ofn- i ja nd? ^{Sddk-V'TOIO-"/ Jl...mpct.-ProI, Sloan«. ^^wV-fOnally); or -1 brioged^ rw«f” and throw flowers jvuv. . cials Cotton Belt; or\ice ^use I always ; l \v veil ii ‘vas expect- TMZ- I LeBeamne, of ^L^VSanairer Thorne, ?raD ."-Dal^ l‘I cm»« (ir. Wrenn waa expect- - — Lise and say some nice Quit*. LeBeamne, of the Cotton Belt; c (ties and kiss his hand Among the advertisements in a ier- president and General Manager Thorne, ; *s the beautiful train man paper there lately appeared the -jf t be 'jYxns & Pacific; orT. N. Camp- that I following: “The gentleman who found ^ of th( . j & (;> N . or Hardwick and in the B lumen- Ben scoter, of the Southern; or Atmore, “Yc ' ^ XT • nr DeSaussure, of the ‘don’ -*"» » cj - ^Cy WolK 4 “You,” said Vhe ‘don’t know enoug! .'*>0 ' ‘Perhaps not,” t tiad-heen-there wP’ ( do know enov -Indie , will gentleman . |ne of the Blumenstraeee request* Lo — call at his house.”—N. Y. Post.