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hr Nebi1 and e MADE A GREAT SHOWING SO!E OF THE QUEER SHINGS THAT HAP PE..ND IN 1902. Love-at-tirst-Sight Record Smashed fhi One Thing - Champion Old Couples. l'heiuest Bride- -The Youngest Grandfather (New York Sun.) in diverse and curious fields th< recordbreakers were busy during the year 1902. The love attirst sight record wa ruthlessly shattered in the early springtime. when Madison Ormsby, aged O1Nwont down to Kansas City from Omaho and met Miss Jossie 1'turner, who evidently still retained irresistible charms, notwithstanding that her 45th birthday was wound up on tine's relentless reel. They met by chance and were introduced by a common friend, whereupon they hiked away to the Court House and were married just as soon as they Could get the license and line up in frotit of a Judge. "It's just thirty minutes since first we met," said Ormsby, as pleased as Punch, "and here we are with the knot tied." \Vhother the knot remained tied does not concern this history. It was in the early weeks of the year that the romance of Miss Mil dred Deenel, of 1 ihlond, Va, set a n(w mark for thoe s iu portant stages of life which most votnt reckon by yellrs. In the britef space of ten inu1ntes she wits a maid, a wife atd at Wimow. Inl a San Fratncisco hospital she he came Mrs Richard Miles Stanton while h,wr huRbanl was dying, a vie tim of feov,r ('ontracted in the service of bi rountry in the Philippines. Cl(aspein g a,ea1h othr's niands, when1 it was too lIt'ee to summltnon a minister, t he onig 1' ople took the vows of tmatrimony under a civil agreement, wh,icb wias duly witnessed by rela. tives of hth, nld i few minutes later Limnt Stantt'n was dead. Trln: 'Tvrus nuttinE. 'T'he tiniest bride of the year ap. )elred in St Louis in April, when Miss 3erthaClark, scarce 15 years old weighing only seventy five pounds, anl attired in short skirts, eloped with Frank McCoy, nearly twice hei age, and becamtne his wife. The yea was at ill young, and1( so were MIi5, Rose Masson and( her fiancee, MIich. aol TI. McGovern, wheni t hey appma r ed before thle clerk in Chicago ano eat ablished a new reco rd as yout hfu appi liat for a ma lrriage license wich they ob)tainled. T'he bride wasi 1 5 anid the bridegroomi t wYo yearn in connlection with Chiicaigo mtatri mia ,il dohings it iinay be added tha on Julne 17, at the marriage licenise windlow inl the coutty clerk's oilice more pbermiits to we were issuedo thai ever before in one daiy in the hist or of Cook County, the nunmber bein 250. Th'le entire month of Junie wn a record.bireaker in thiiis respect, 3,00 licenses being issued, which surpas I tihe record of any former Junoe < aniy similar periodl. General proi perit~y was said to be the secret. of t 1 ornsh at the marriage license wit But the miatrimionial ma irkot ha~ its EIbb1 t.ide, too, and1( t.het lowest poil of sluggishness seems to hlave hem reached at Carlisle, Pat, where LI c'ounity clerk, to at imulate busine ainounuced bargaincounter rates fi Wednesdays and Saturdays, thle I cal umarket days, when big crowds country people are wont to visit, r gular $1 license to 49) cents for ir pecunions con pies, withI ceremnon and witnesses thrown in. OLDEsT MARit:ED coUPLE,* TheO record.for the olde(st mar rit couiiple ini t he Un itedl SLttes was sa' to hamve beern madle last March by' 4 and Mrs Al.xander G)unn , of Hr{s rinigton', Kan. TIhey celebrated the diamond wedding in 1900Ot, and, t her< fore, had 77 years of wedded life heir credit. The lhsband thong! he was 114 yeatrs o1(1, while his wil wvas also liast the contury mark. 'Phe oldest record in this line, hov ever, probably belongs to Mr an Mrs John lams, of WVashingtoni Joun ty, Iowa, who, a few weeks ago, tol t.hi.' friends thlat after 74 years< married life they could look bc arid find they nmever had a dispnt, much less a quarrel. They have te children and thirlyeix grandchildre, Jnstice FrandlR,.m...iv, kno-. ft ,n -id -t.o tue "MerpnuS n knot Neverat haid d :tim-, ht umt on thi. soore does he aspire t. att pinnacle among the rorels of the year. His prondest b ost is that htis llarriage knots etay tied, and upt this distinotion he seeks a thlvte rit hon. The secret of his su oest, he think is that his form of erieony, which is all his own, is short, sw t and simple, onditting the obnoxiioeus wwerd "obey," and is generally prfaced by a recitation of the Declaratiou of Iu, dependence, which he regards as the corner stone of marriage in the Uni ted States. Divore, he dtclarts, is unknown among the couples he has spliced. SPE)VY 1i'1ORCls$. Speed records in divorce eases are not unusual or startling in these days, but when grounds and speed both are considered the cra{korjack of 190? unquestionai:y was the case of John W. Langlea, of Columbus, Ind, who obtained a decree in less than fifteen minutee, separating him from his wife, Mary. He alleged that she had a habit of taking a darning nee die to bed with her and jabbing him with it when he fell asleep. When he protested she would get out of bed, plant herself in a rocking chair in the middle of the floor, rocking violently and bringing her heels down with a bang at each rock, and for two hours would sing at the top of her voice, "Ol, Wont it be Joyful When we part to Meet No Morel" Strangely enough, it fell out that the champion office-holder, whose fame spread over the earth in 1902 was not an American, but'an English William E,ton, of Tilbrook, Hunt ingdon, holds some fifteen places, public and semipublic, rangiu-: from parish overseer to church organist, mliost of which have salraies attached. lie is not of the resigning breed, but has held oilice for half a century, and has assisted in the work of every Governmont census sinlce 1850. To a 0 orgia clergyman belongs the proudest record in the work of the Church. The Rev D. S. McCur ry, of Gainesville, who is now 72. has been doing active work in the Baptist Church for forty years. He has preached 9,800 sermons; to reach his appointments and deliver these ser mois he has travelled 50,000 miles, equal to two journeys around the earth; he has conducted 91 1 funerals, baptized 4.013 persons and married 021 couples. T1he largest pension awvarded to any old soldier (luring the last year wvas received1 by Mlajor E~ C Moder well, of Chicago, who servedl through the civil war in the 1 2thOhio cavalry. lie wvas wvounded three times, once in the abdomen, once in an arm and once in a shoulder, onme result of his disabilhty becing a part ial loss of mom ory'. It was an increased pension, from $25 to $72 a month. Who was tihe record-smashing drummerf So nmany travelling men bos fmighty exploits on thle road 'that this may seem a hard question to answer. Yet few will hesitate to ~yield the palm to Levin Lake, a citi zen of the little village of Oxford, Miss, on learning of the big things he has to his credit. MIr Lake is the oldest active travel d ling man in the United States, being it still ini the harness at 80. He rep I' resents Armour & (Jo in Missisippi, to making towns by (lay and1( night trains s, nd covering an average of 2,000 >r miles a ilmnth. For ti-irty four 1 years he has represented this single >d Chicago honse; has never madle a sale , that provedl a bad account; was a Straveller on the first railroad train y ever run in the United States; never took a drink of liquor, played a game of cards oir tasted tobacco; has not eateni more than two meals a day for d thirty years; is t he oldlest Mason~ in di the Stat e of Mlississi ppi. Ir l)urinig the year a story went. the rounds of thie press about a man who r protouided to be the cham pion smok or of the world Foir twenty years 0 o beadl smoked, he said, 1.4 pounds it of tob)acco a week, so that in thle C period nanimd he had actually re dunced to smoke an amiount of weed equal to ten times his own wveight. d A rsmarkable record, truly, but it must give wvay to that of the champ d ion smoker of the British army, a if private in the 3rd battalion, Royal k Warwickilhire regiment, who, from ', his youth up,' regularly conaumed nl I pounds of tob)acco every week, . until his regimment wa(Idrafted out to r Sonth Africa *Iiw... )y hn a witetv adw, eh boht. tdy htu in ttih t ad elting, tw med nt out a raordtbut theuw t snm it' $ti The + . t bigg aerto totabhsh'1a new; ror wat,;bs acwiscnin farmer t n'0AMed t- Wilia afnr HeM de.-X nd pAed o to N-'the ou-W Wi tr wer gre onintspoe Indamnaolis age 39, whiot belongs in tiesh nd aa lnotng. ary miaot A ng' ni but the uet stud of t ie The bigoedst ater to t'tablih a new re' or.i was a W1iso,,' nsiu ftirnteer named twilliat Hafutr. y e . voured fifty roasvhng e'ars in one day, and passed on to the unknown coun try where green corn is not supposed to be on the bill of fare. Indiana reported the youngoat grandfather, Edgar Williams, of Indianapolis, aged 39, who belongs to a family noted for early marriages. Among the novel records of the period nust be included that held by James Ste art, of Leyden, N. Y., who announces that. he has lived on earth 104 years wirthout ever having told at lie. He goes George Wash. ington one bhtter by aying that he can lie, Mst i won't. This remarkan ble centenarian used alcoholic bev erages and tobacco freely until he was 00, when lto took a new chute and swore off. The most extraordinary old per son of the year was Signora Catelina Fere, of Pasaena, Cal., who peace fully pae at the age of 117, hav ing cotingtwd her usual round of work until the day of her death. She had thived under the shadow of the San Gabriel Mission for more than 00 years. THlE LARiGESTj BABtY. FThe yargest child ever born in Illinois saw the light of day if Vau. iogan inl Jthly, when Mrs. George Catlin gave birth to a daughter weighing t w gnty-ono and a half 1otnnds. St. Louis factories eclipsed all intpotitors in the rf duction of the dainty known as a' r kraut, using for this purpose 2,700,000 cabbages and manufacturing more than 100,. 00o half barrels, which were shipped to,a3a e omten Untd childes.ro wifty as a few fromia ad Afica, inteppedurit ngAeia i o the mnho I~ The graret number eof seoragd ior aingoe month, ccoring trche htheabrmerih Bt vi,The numer bein th,word,. T1nin weaon grequircingvers in v costctiShock, was chmpintedtter inf the third Interfaiul nine Sofck Expoition, et thvied priz ian.hi MlayH was seord athaucton, bteragenit psxngets afon fori pountris aing hough cls Is1 wel asa fw fontAsi anreeas stell)e1 fot,on mercansoi foAth mt planat's argial Defiuoa ox (Ohioago hroniole. ) Wnta 4a0t PO a San Franoiaoo nan Wa in'ited to a big dinner. He *a vnt of town at the time, so the nyttation wtws aat by wirm but the teiph NMany failed to deliver the iewage in anyt.hitg like reason. Mtd tina Ue Missd the teed and 'a w oa t up over the matter that he *ned the tompany for damage., In hi rmplaint he stated that, th'untlgh the nonrecelpt of that tele. an he mi tit the exxking 'leas. nt* of oonenming one "luinrioue dinner," to his great disappointment and de%riration. On that phrasa "hnxu rions dinner" the learnod oan fel for the telegraph oompany sought to aN but alas! utterly ruined the nompany ease thereby, for in the W-st the sense of humor is aptly termed t he sixth sense. "What." queried the learned coun eel, with due solemnity, "is your idoa of a luxurious dinner?" That was a most important ques. tion-one requiring calm considers. tion--and the complainant solemnly reflected for some moments before re. plying. At length he said slowly : "A luxuriogs dinner, in my esti. mation, is one where you sit, say, two feet from the table and eat until you 86, 4 fwIe aTHE VEUE' -SUPERIOR IN QUAI TO ALL I Address SO H SAVANNA-' GA. THE Ci NOR T4,.b me T awa Fub 0 N LdImW' Bof& fleam.g. E GOLDI LINCLN. S.W H I L,teDitles,gaate.hs LINCON UPLYn-N C toach." The .iso=imjgating jury promptly gave complainant a verdict for $400, which the company paid. The. *in. nor joyously gave a "luxurious din. lt" to a crowd of his friends, inoind ing among them the lawyer who Msk ad him the question, whose athiwer inauenced the jury to return soch in unexpected verdict. Miniature tele graph poles went round the festive board, the connecting wires were of smilax, and sparkling wine was drunk from tumblers made in the form of the glass maulators that one sees on telegraph poles. The menus were written on telegraph blanks, as, too, were the invitations. Altogether it was an enjoyable and never to be forgotten occasion to all but the com pany'N lawyer, who indignantly deni. ed himself the pleasure of participat ing CUoaS DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPArTON INDIGESTION. 0iS T rC TORPID LiVER 1Ot101' rnu aoucunitsts 0 GILDER & WEEKS LT AND OURI Y ook of ~ U~V~q toulr atSF 1 S~i. i M. WOOLU , RN w,TOAL CO. t+)iI ABLE FAT LITY AND PURITY )THI:RS ,. v r ODOON UTan WT. RN.C)TTON OIL CO. OLJIAS AND GEORGIA. KWEY oTd to d bepue Lnf7-er 66. T2 Full BtlsIp$7.80. Bottesa e1. y~ backifnot s represted. Memhie YTenn. SLUt RIDE 1 RILROAD iletwN I drea alhalla. aAraot1lr "N'' - 'R>MU1U A*MIy. . "": I. . Mixed. Mixed No. 9. No.12 1tatione.. No. 11 No. I 1'.N. A. M. -P. M. A. r. MP 10 .96 56..... etn..........B. --... s 20 10 61 148 98.......nderson F. D......... 8 11 9.4% .980........ &uderson P. D... . 86 11,1 825.......WestAnderson.... 849 .. 9 09..............Denver.............; 8 60 . 902 .Atun.......... ....... 8 5.....A lun .Pendleton .4 11 8erry .. 4 >18 . 8 A ama. 421. --- -. 8 ....Jodania Junot 483 ....... ..... 825.........eneca......4 86... .8 . Unon...4 4 ....... ..... 8 08.... .W tUno ..... 6 04 .... . 800.........Walhalla. 09 ... All regnlartrafnbgion Belton to Walhal, have preoedenoo over trains of same Olas, moving In the oppouite direetton unless oth orwise e3ed by train order. Will a so stop at the follo stations t4 take on and let oU pengb : Phinney's James adSn .me aJ - , Superintendent Charlstm anC ater Carolina Rwv Ca August.eani Asevillo Short Line. S*hedule In inte July a, 1903, Leave Auguta...............10 10am 256pn Arrive Greenwood..........1S 44 p m Anderson ........... . . . 7 . L --i .o"("..-. 1 45 p m 10 80 an Greenvill,..:.........19 29 p m "9"8" ' Glenn Springs...... 4 4 p m ....nbur.......880p m 00a$" . . ............... 8 p m ... er vilie..... 6 p m Asheville................ 7 pm ...". Leave'4sheville....... 7 0p m Gpwteburg.........12 0f a n '8 II0 p" eno 8priigs......10 00a m Qreevile ....121p ""'""""" Larepis.. .....12 16 p m i"O"p"a Arrive Water"oo(U.' )...' 208 p m 8 Greenwood......,..... 9 51 p m 45 pu Leave Anderson ..... ...... 7 25 a nf Augusta................. 6Opm 11 85 a n Leave Columbia .....---.- 1190 ad CliNewberry.............. 12 42 pm Arrive renville....... 8 p partanburg..,----.. 80 pnl Glenn Springs...... 4 00 pm Leave Glenn 8prings.... 10 00 am Spartanburg------.. J201 pm Greenvll ........ 12 5 pm Arrive Clinton-........-----.. 2 22 pu Newberry.......----- 8 06 pm olumbia-.-------.-- 4 80 pm Fastest and Beat Line between lNewberry and Greenville. Spartanburg and Glenn Springs: Connections from Newbe'ry via Columbin Newberry and Laurens Railway. For any information write. ERNICST WILLIAMS, Gen. Pase. Agt. T. K. Eim; ran. Trallo Manager. C:11:41106 97 i I y R.. (Eastern Standard Time.) Southbound. Northbound. Schedule in Effect Auust 26th 1902 STATIONS, 8 40 am Lv Atlanta (s.A.L) Ar. 8 50 pm 10 50 at4 Athens 6 19 pm 11 68 am Elberton 5-17 pm 12 18 pm Abbeville 4 05 pm 1 22 pm Greenwood '8 36 )m 2 16pm Ar Clinton (Din'r) Ly. 2 45 pm (.W.o.) 10 00 am Lv Glenn springs Ar 4 00 pm 12 15 pm ipartanburg 880 pin 12 2 pm Greenville 8 25 pm (1arrs Springs) 1 12 pm Watro 5p 1 42ym -nr Laurens (Din'r) Lv 2 17 pm 53 52 P.m. PM. 202 Lv Laurens ArrI 5 209 " Parks Ar 1 42 321 ..Clinton.. 180 2 84 Goldville 117 243 ..Kinard.. 110 349 ...Gary... 108 2 54 ..Jalapa.. 100 8 10 Newberry 1246 824 Prosperity 1282 3 84 ....8lighs.... 12 28 889 L Mountain 1219 AM. 851 ...Chapin... 1209 8 67 Hilton 1202 4 01 White Rock 11 69 4 07 Ballentine 11 4 417 .....Irmo..... 1146 4 2' ..Leaphar.. 11 40 . 4 46 ArWolumbIaLv 11 20 pm a 4 65 LvColum bla (A .O.L.)Ar il 10n 6320 Sumter 9650 9 90 Ar Charleston Lv 7 00 Trais8 and 52 arrive and depat fromi WeT raia 22 nd 8frm A. C. L. freight, de'pot For Rates, Time Tables, or further Informa ion call on any Agent, or write to W. G. CH ILDS. T. M. EMIERSON, I. F. LIVINGSTON, HI. M. I'MERso N - 'nin la1t- (en' 14rt. &Pmq g. AtTLANTlC COAST L IE ! CONDENBED BOHEDILE. WIrMINGTON. N. C., T uly 238 * u 2 L'hrough Train. Charleston to Gr. nvilleo No. 52. No. 63. 7.6am...-.Lv...c101eton, 8. C...r 9.20pm 8.36 am....Lv''.. nsate-...........A r 6.?4o pm 11.10 am.....&r....lu n'ba.A r.46 pn 229am.A.....prpity. 2p 1.15 pm,...r.t'.".inton . v '26Opm *.47 pm..r......urna .L t.2 lpi 8.5pm.A........Greenville.v1.2pi A m rpartanbr ...Lv 12~ 16 Pu FROM COLUMBIA. S. C. Jo 5Arrie Sumter 6.ispi;~ereor P Ma il 9.1 p87 te lene7 n. Dan nt ta.n Ville 10.2 p in; Wi'mmigton 11.26 et; ROkM unt l.45, a;nWeido , l.5Oan - Watesi a O .6ar,; ehmond 4.12 aIr; -.....h nonn.4 ar; ork I.8pn o64Arrivo8ut- ter88j26an~;Floroc9I 6.65y amx dalngt 1..80 am; Choraw 11.46 A M m.50 at farIon 10.63 an; 1.nington n Opn 8. ayettev il 12'36 pr Rtoc y t-.rsburg 6. 4 pm; Rtohmnor d .41 pn) Washington 3.0i;New York 7.1.i am uiian_Diing Car. New Yr oSvnas Fr rates aleulee. etc ,write WJ C'I .a'g. Gden. Pas, IRt., Wilmingt T.* N. Emerson. TrafIlo Manager, Wilming.' H. n'. E .eson, Asa'tTra@o Manager, Wi. Glen Slrs Railroat Daily-Exe.pt Sunday. .....e...r...........,........... .90am krSuDartanb'urg . .'"""""'..10004a m v r-partanburg'"."""'"."""""""". 1 00a Leebuck .-"'"""''""'."''. hr Glenn Sp'rings. .'....."4 - 6 ims Presid,, -W H ISK EY-~ ALL F AL ( I N 0 S S PURPOSES, 'Special Brand" Corn Whiskey, $ 1.25 'Popular Log" Corn Whiskey. 1.50 'ouar Log," Old, Smnooth, 'Private Stock, '4.'qt. 'cs 2.00O 'Private Stock," 12qt. c. . 7.0 H!untingCreekt"Ry0l'2cae. 7.00 OlHluntihg Cree" Rye j2e- 7.. cale ....rAnd ... - - .. ' . . 10.00 -ppe-rady -.. -... .. ..2.0 Charge of 25c. for i-ga. 2ic.f5 gal., and 45c. for 8-gal, g , <n c.for d4 l-2-gal -kegs; wnen retuIrned pre ild, they will be taken back at cost. J. CO.SOERS & CO,, g\g., PA TEsvILLE. MNrt rolna SEABOARD Air Line Radway. NOlRTH: EAST : SOUTH : WEST Two DAILY PULLMAN VESTIBULE LIMITED TRAINS. UETNEEN SOUTH AND NEW YORE. First Class Dining Car Service. 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