The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, January 18, 1894, Image 2
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COAL TAR PRODUCTS.
REMEDIES THAT HAVE BECOME FA
VORITE MEDICINES.
Daring the Past Ten Venn Many New
Draft nave Been Brought Into Service
Por Dleentet and Complaints Which,
Though Common. Were Hard to Trent.
Only a few years ago coal tar was
looked upon as a "waste product.” At
the present day, however, it is no longer
treated as such, for through the almost
ceaseless activity of the German chem
ists enough new remedies have already
been obtained from coal tar to fill a good
sized pharmacopoeia.
Abont the first one of these products
to attract any considerable attention was
antipyrine, which made its appearance
some 10 years ago and became popular
ly known during the epidemic of la
grippe of several years ago. This was
soon followed by antifebrin, which, al
though it had a new name, was an older
drug than antipyrine, having lieen
known for several years as ocetanilid, a
name derived from the substances from
which it was made. It is prepared by
the action of acetic acid on anilire oil.
The acetai-ilid is now used by many
doctors in preference to antipyrine. The
principal features in its favor are small
ness of dose, lees danger of a depressing
effect on the heart and cheapness. The
pnce of acetanilid is hardly one-tenth
that of antipyrine.
Phenacetine is another drug of this
class which has met with much success
and apparently deservedly so. It has
been used with excellent results in the
treatment of influenza, the hypenesthe-
sia or soreness of la grippe and rhenma-
tism, both muscular and articular.
The drug is often combined with salol
and qninine in the treatment of the above
mentioned affections, and the results re
ported are invariably of a very satisfac
tory nature.
One of the most interesting of the coal
tar derivatives is saccharin, a substance
that is 280 times sweeter than sugar. The
medicinal properties of this drug are an
tiseptic and sweetening. As a substi
tute for sugar it is used In the dietary
of gout, diabetes and all diseases in
which saccharine foods are contraindi
cated. It has also been used to disguise
the taste of medicines for children. To
give one an idea of the sweetening power
of saccharin it is only necessary to say
that one grain of the drug.will sweeten
an ordinary cnp of coffee. If eqgar were
used at least a half ounce or a table
spoonful, would be necessary.
In the treatment of mental disease sul-
phonal is considered a very valuable
agent The drug could hardly have
achieved success had it been introduced
under Its chemical name, which contains
just two letters more than the entire al-
f abet. Diethylsulphondimethylmethan
the "jawbreaker” by which it U known
technically.
The value of sulphonal as a hypnotic
seems to be pretty well established. It
has been used with marked success in
the treatment of sleeplessness caused by
fatigue and worry. It is also said to be
of equal service in cases of acute mania.
Imbecility, melancholia, dementia, epi
lepsy, hallucinations and acute alcohol
ism. One observer stated that in every
case treated “the slumber was accom
panied by no disturbances of circulation
or respiration and lasted from* t^vo to
five hours or longer.” From 13 to 80
grains are usually given as a dose. Even
in very large doses the digestive func
tions are not disordered, and there are no
disagreeable after effects beyond a slight
drowsiness and a feeling of lassitude the
next day.
In combination with hyoscine hydro-
bromate, sulphonal is said to form a very
good treatment for the insomnia and
reetieesneea of opinm habitues. When a
coal tar product is introduced, it can al
most be taken for granted that one of the
four medicinal properties is claimed fer
It. The four properties are antipyretic,
analgesic, antiseptic and hypnotic.
Trional, which hails from Elberfeld,
Germany, is bronght forward as a candi
date for therapeutic favor. It possesses
the last named property. Brie of Bonn
has found trional of valne in treating in
somnia or hysteria and neurasthenia in
of great obstinacy and which had
failed to respond to any other treatment
In maniacal excitement and paralytic
mania, he reports excellent results in 90
per cent of the cases treated.
Salophen, although hot distinctly a
“coal tarderirative,” is partly so, as one
of its component parts, carbolic acid, is
derived from coal tar. It is said to be a
valuable remedy is the treatment of ar
ticular rheumatism. The dose is from
18 to 20 grains three or four times a day.
The very latest in the long line of coal
tar products is gallanol. It is prepared
by boiling tannin with aniline. It is in-
A BATTLE STRANGELY WON.
tgpduced as a substitute for pyrogallic
ktige of being non-
add, having the advant
toxic and nonirritant th the treatment
of skin affections it has been used with
Cazeneuve, the introducer of the drug,
reports great success in treating psoria
sis by painting the spots with gallanol
suspended in chloroform and covering
them with a solution of gutta purcha in
chloroform, called traumaticin. —New
York World. '
An Army Pat to FII(ht by On* Mas and
With the Loss of Only Ono.
It was probably one of the most re
markable battles that was ever fought.
The advance had been well planned by
the attacking force, the idea being to
surprise the enemy at the dead of night
Every detail had been carefully consid
ered. The advance would be hidden by
a wood, and the first the enemy would
know of it would be when the troops'
swept ont of the wood and carried the
eamp by storm. There were apperently
no pickets in the wood, and there seemed
to be no possibility of a failure.
The colonel in command was gloating
over his ex]>ected victory, when one of
his officers called his attention to a
bright light some distance to the left of
the advancing column.
"What is it?” asked the colonel anx
iously.
“I don’t know,” replied the officer.
It flashed np there only a minute ago.”
“Well, if any one suspected we were
here he wouldn't go along swinging a
lantern to make a target of himself," as
serted the colonel.
The column had barely begun to move
again when a light appeared on the right
and a little to the rear of the one that
had just disappeared. Another halt was
made, and the colonel was tempted to
order a volley in the direction of the
light, but of course that would betray
the exact whereabouts of the column
and would be almost suicidal.
'We are being surroundedr exclaimed
one of the officers excitedly.
Then a light appeared in the shrubbery
immediately ahead of the retreating col-
umn. The first man yslled “Rifle pit!”
and cleared the whole thing at one
bound The second man was not so for
tunate. He stumbled and fell, and as
he fell he instinctively made a reach for
the light. He was the only man killed,
bnt his death completed the panic. Ranks
were broken, and the retreat became a
wild race to get out of the wood.
And the lights seemed to dance here
and there, appearing at the most unex
pected points and adding to the confu
sion.
When the excitement was at its height,
a man climbed out of a pit some distance
in the rear of the retreating force. He
stretched himself and peered after the
fleeing soldiers.
“Hanged if I wasn’t cramped in that
hole,” he said. “I suppose I might as
well turn a cannon or two loose just to
wake the boys up and scare those foot
racers a little more.”
He lay down on the ground at theedge
of the pit, reached his hand down to
some keys on a sort of switchboard, and
In an instant cannon boomed out Then
he raised himself to a sitting posture, lit
a pipe and chuckled to himeelf.
Two or three men ruehed up and
breathleesly inquired what the trouble
was.
' “Ob, I had s little brush with the ene
my,” replied the man with the pipe
calmly. “They tried to surprise the
camp.”
“And you beat them?”
“Why, they’re running yet"
Quite a crowd from the camp had
gathered by this time, and one of them
cried, “Three cheers for the electrician!”
but the man with the pipe raised hU
hand to stop them.
“The credit is not all mine,” he said.
"Remember my able force of linemen
who ran wires through this wood and
made it possible for me to win this vic
tory.'*
Just then some of the men who had
gone into the wood after the retreating
enemy returned with the new* that one
man had been killed.
“What!" cried the electrician, jump
ing up. He hurried to the place where
the body lay.
“Too bad! Too bad!” he said regret
fully, “but then accidents will happen,
even in a battle. He had no business to
catch hold of a live wire.”
“Oh, well, there's no use feeling bad
about it," put in one of the officers. “A
victory has been won, and only one life
has been lost.”
“But why have one loetr asked the
electrician. “Of course it was tiresome
work in that pit, and when I got them on
the retreat I was glad of it, bnt I never
supposed any one was going to grab bold
of the light It’s too bad!"
And the man who had won the victory
could not be consoled. —Chicago Tribune.
Choice Woods on the Form.
There is money in the choice woods of
the farm. A letter from a prominent
New Jersey tool manufacturer offers $30
per 1,000 for beech seasoned one year and
$80 for apple wood.. Birch, maple, cher
ry, elm and hickory also sell for much
more than they are worth at the wood-
pile. The wood must be sawed in some
shape and can be sold in a great many
directions, principally for making plane
and other toed handles.—Detroit House
hold. •
Th« Goliath of Big Batin.
In Big Basin, Santa Cruz county, Cal.,
there are thousands of giant redwoods
that will measure from 10 to 28 feet In
diameter. Bnt the Titan of them all is a
giant known far and near as “the Goliath
of Big Basin.” This monstrous vegeta
ble growth is 28 feet in diameter at the
ground and is perfectly solid, a fact noted
as a rarity in these colossi of the foreet.
Goliath is a fraction over 200 feet in
height, the lower 100 feet of the trunk
being free from branches or unsightly
excrescences. Experienced woodmen de
clare that the tree would weigh more
than 100,000 tons and that it would “cut”
1,500,000 feet of clear board measure
lumber, besides 100 cords of wood that
could be gotten out of the limbs and
waste.—St Louis Republic.
Astounding Memories.
Horace Vernet is the beet example of
visual memory. He could paint a strik
ing portrait of a man, life sue, after hav
ing once looked at his model. Mozart
had a great musical memory. Having
heard twice the “Miserere* in the Sis-
tine chapel, he wrote down the full score
of It There are soloists who during 24
hours ran play the composition of other
masters withont ever skipping a note.—
M. Biuet in Revue des Deux Mondes.
Street* Terra* President*.
A little Buffalo miss, when asked by
her schoolteacher to name the presi
dents of the United States in order, be
gan glibly, "Washington, Jefferson, Mad
ison, Monroe, Adams, Watson, Kmslie"—
Here she was checked by the teacher,
who remarked that she seemed more fa
miliar with the streets of her native city
than with the presidents of har country.
-New York Times.
DECOYING FISH.
SKILLFUL INDIANS OF THE NORTH
HAVE QUEER METHODS.
Tbey Cat m Hole In the lee. Build u Hat
Over the Hole nnd Let Down « Decoy
Through the Ice—Fooling Innocent Crea
tures of the Deep Lake*.
“You have heard of shooting game by
means of decoy birds often enough no
donbt,” said an old sportman the other
day, “bnt I donbt if yon ever heard of
fishing by means of a decoy fish, where
the decoy was not used for bait. I never
saw it done myself till I visited Geor
gian bay, a part of Lake Huron, in Can
ada, one winter. There I found that the
half breed Indians erected huts on the
frozen bay and fished through hole* cut
in the ice by means of a queer decoy.
“In order to facilitate matters, some of
them had little stoves in their huts to
keep them warm while they fished. The
huts had only one opening, a door, and
when the fisherman had entered and
closed the door no light entered the hat
except what came up through the floor,
reflected throngh the ice outside and the
water underneath it. This mado it pos
sible for the fisherman to see deep down
into the water and difficult for fish to
see him in his dark hut The fisherman
has a chair or bench to sit npon, food
and drink to keep life in him during his
long watch and a little stove to prevent
chill. Now comes the decoy bnsineas.
“The half breed takes out of his kit a
queer looking stick, painted and shaped
roughly to look like a fish, he avers,
though it would hardly be breaking the
second commandment to worship it, for
it is the likeness of nothing in the heav
ens above, or on the earth beneath, on in
the water under the earth: but if the fish
think it is the main object is accom
plished. This woollen counterfeit of a
fish is loaded with lead, so that it sinks
and lies in the water the right way when
suspended from the middle of the back
by a string attached to a short fishing
pole. The Indian lets this decoy down
into the water and by means of the string
gives it a series of short, sharp jerks,
which make it a dart hither and thither
in a remarkably lifelike manner, al
though, of course, its range is exceeding
ly limited, abont a yard in any direction.
“The thing is provided with tin fins
and tail and is weighted with lead most
heavily at the head. The string is at
tached nearer the head than the tail,
upon the back, and the skill with which
these fishermen make the queer thing
shoot about in a triangle under their
feet, through a hole in the ice, is truly
remarkable. I did not succeed in ac
quiring the art myself. I should say
from trying it that it is rather more dif
ficult to learn than fly casting.
“Presently a few fish, noticing this
decoy darting about as if in active pur
suit of his food, swim that way to see if
there is not something there for them
also. They may be fresh water herring,
salmon, trout, whitefish or less valuable
game; but none of them, big or little, is
refused by the half breed. Fine fish he
sells; the coarse ones he or his dogs or his
children or bis squaw eat readily.
‘Pulling up his decoy, the fisherman
lets down a baited hook and tries bis
luck on the newcomers, seldom in vain.
These men fish with all sorts of queer
bait. I saw one man make a splendid
haul one day, using for bait only a big
white bone button without any book.
The fish swallowed It greedily, and he
would jerk them out of the water before
they could get i t out of their throats. By
and by a pike or dogfish, seeing the
shoal of fish aronnd the pole, darts after
them. They scatter in a hurry, and the
fisherman lets down his decoy again to
attract the pike.
“Now all the skill at his command
must be employed to make the decoy
work well, for if it lags in the water
long enough for the pike to suspect its
genuineness he will turn away in dis
gust. If the decoy deceives the wily
pike he dashes at it, and the fisherman
jerks it away before the pike can grab it
in his strong jaws. The pike tnrns to
pursue, and as he halts to turn the fisher
man drives at him with a long forked
spear. If his aim is accurate, the pike is
transfixed and is brought bleeding to the
surface in a jiffy.
“These men are skilled hunters and
know many carious habits of the crea
tures they pursue. They say that musk
rats, for instance, are able to swim long
distances nnder the ice in this manner:
Taking a long breath, the muskrat dives
from his pursuer and swims as far as he
can. When he can go no longer withont
a fresh breath, he comes np under the
ice, and pressing his nose against it
breathes out all the air in his longs.
This forms a big babble nnder the ice,
and the Indians say that the ice has the
power of making that bubble of air fresh
again, oxygenizes it in fact, and that the
little fellow then breathes it in again and
dives once more. This he can do half a
dozen times, the Indians say, before the
air he took with him becomes so foul
thst the ice cannot freshen it again.
“Whether this property of the ice is
true or not I cannot say, but the Indians
firmly believe it, and 1 know that musk
rats can travel a long way nnder the ice,
and I have seen them come np under the
ice, press their noses to it awhile and
then dive again. Perhaps some scientist
might explain the case.”—New Yoik
Tribune.
Th« Snnlharner at Home.
The southerner at home is prone to
neglect his headgear for the sake of hav
ing his feet well shod, and he will go
about in public place* wearing a bat
tered and soiled slouch hat, but scrupu
lously neat as to his footwear. The pe
culiarity perhaps arises from family
pride, a besetting southern sin, conpled
with the belief that aristocracy is evinced
in the shape and size of the feet. It is
worthy of note, however, that the south
ern slouch hat is often a costly article of
the finest and most durable felt. Such a
hst for winter and a costly and inde
structible Panama straw for summer are
the proper headgear for a southern coun
try gentleman.—Chicago Herald.
Kansas farmers have reaped more
wealth off the earth's surface In grain
than has been dug out dt its interior in
precious metals in the same time in all
the states and territories west at her.
Nash, s writer of the sixteenth cen
tury, says, “If a hogge loseth an eye, be
dyeth presently." Also, “Goats take
breath not at the month and nose only,
but at ye earse (ears) also.”
Turkish toweling iu pure wbite is con-
the most correct thing for the
of chairs and couches in the
The first European bank, founded at
Barcelona in 1401, issued no bank notes.
The first ones circulated in Europe wet*
from the Bank of Stockholm in 1808.
Tran Levs Sid* Tracked by an Orange.
A young lady said the other day that
she hated oranges because one had come
between her and her lover. He had
called on her one evening, and after sit
ting awhile had produced a couple of
bright Florida oranges out of his pocket
and suggested that each eat one. She
now s»ya that she cannot drive out of
her mind the sight of his nose, cheeks
and chin dripping with jnice, and he has
been whispering something horribly rim
ilar abont her. Evidently yon cannot
love a girl and a citrus aurantinm at the
same time,—Pittsburg Dispatch.
WHNTEDI
Our customers and friends throughout the county to know
that we have just opened the
Largest Stock of Goods
We have ever had the pleasure of offering to the public, and
that ti'ese goods were bought with a view to the present hard
times, which means that in order to sell this large stock, we pro
pose
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We ask the people of Darlington and adjoining counties to
sustain us by giving us their patronage and we will not disap
point them.
Remember, our stock embraces everything in the way of
Dry Goods, Clothing,
Shoes, Hats. Hardware,
And Groceries.
Respectfully,
BRUNSON, LUNN & CO.
J.D.
“The Furniture Man”
Will advertise something new in
his line
NEXT WEEK.
Jan 4—
IS NOW
A complete line of every thing usual to a first-class Hardware
Store. Also a full line of
ipltual IntySsiit!, Spun’ Sqiiits, Mitliiuj, Stun
-A.JSrr> TrETW-A-iRE,
And will sell at the very lowest prices for cash.
Tinning, Roofing & Plumbing
Oct6—tf
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To Our Customers of the Pee
Dee Section:
Castori* U Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infimts
and Children. It contains neither Opinm, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OH.
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years’ use by
Millions of Mothers. Castorla is the Children’s Panacea
—the Mother's Friend.
Castorla.
Castorla.
“Caatartalaso w»Q adopted to children that
I recomnand It aa superior toon,preacriptian
known to me.’* H. A. Aacnzn, U. D„
111 So. Oxford St., Uraokljm, N. Y.
"Tksuxncf 'Castorla* la ao unirernnl aad
IU merits to well known that it atvrna a work
of iupt.wrogatlon to endorw It. Few aro the
Intelligent famlllea who do not keep CaOorin
will: in oe oy .eai h.**
Ctooea Haktyk, D. D.,
Now York City.
Castorla cares Ootle, Canatipation,
Soar Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation,
Kin, Wonna, (ires rioap, and promotes
X«tJon,
V.'khout Injurious medication.
For aemral yean I hara rocomnandod
yoor ‘ Caaoria,* and BiaU always continue to
do no aa it baa iarariably produced b—arisl
Enwnr T. Peanut, JC. D,
h*th Street and 7th Are., New York City.
Tna Custab* Cowajtt, tj XcnaiT I
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We have decided here
after to conduct our
business in your terri
tory direct with buyers.
We can thus better as
sure you of prompt at
tention, low prices, and
clear agreements not
liable to misunderstand
ing and confusion as in
past under a different
system.
To responsible and
honorable buyers we
will make it an object
to correspond with us,
and we want to deal
with no other class.
Write us for prices on
any make or kind of
machinery you want,
and we will make an
honest effort to serve
your best interests.
W. H. GIBBES, JR., * CO.,
COLUMBIA, 8. C.
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Auiitu'i Hitice.
Auditor's Offick, i
DARUsefcoR, 8. C., Dee. 1,1898. J
T HIS office Will be open for the
porpoee of listing nil
— . , .^ — real and
personal property aad poll taxes for
the fiscal Jrefir comment ing Nov I,
1888, and ending Oct SI, 1894, from
January 1, to Febrnarv,20, inclusive,
excepting days required in fining the
Jury box and days*named below?’
id In person or by dep-
I will attend
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Philadelphia, Monday, Jan. S.
.I**®, Tneeday and Wadueaday,
Jan. $ sad 1A
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Stokeef
Lydia, L
HarisvlUe, Tuesday and Wednee-
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ad, Friday, Jan. 18.
• Bridge, Saturday, Jan. 18.
, Monday, Jan. 18.
day, Jan. 18 and \T
Antioch, Thursday, Jan. 18.
Leaveosworth, Friday. Jan. 18.
BoetstyfHlU, Thursday and Friday,
Jan. 18 and 18, by deputy.
Jaepor, Saturday, Jan. 80,'by dep-
Hill, Monday, Jan. SS.Jby'dep-
nty.
_ Meehanloaville, Tneeday. Jan. 28.
existing would eeaee. The school
fund would be inereaeed If all taxable
>Hs could be entered. Male pe r.onn
’tween the agee of 31 and I
between the agee of 81 and 60 years
are deemed taxable polls except thorn
incapable of earning a support
W. H. LAWRENC*.
Dec 7—4t “ -
Auditor D. G.
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