The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 29, 1897, Image 2
THE COUNTY RECORD
_ KINGSTREE, S. C.
jtOI^S J. BBISTOW, Kd. & Prop'r,
(
r Philadelphia is a veritable Eden, at
least to the street car traveler. One
road at least runs its cars every minute,
and limits the passengers to the
%e - number of seats.
?
Sir Walter Besant estimates that the
Jiving descendants of the pilgrim
fathers in the United States number
* ' /VAA 1 * * * t ? A AAA 1
atxmt 10, wu, aunougn noi iu,wu, xm
r- thinks, know tho relationship.
??.
The supreme court of Georgia has
>\ Recently declared that when a ruan
has reached sixty-eight years of age
he is "an aged man" in the eyes of
the law. The law thus snips off four
years from the allotted span of threescore
years and ten.
Speaker Gully of the British House
?f Commons, has just cast his deciding
rote for the first time since as??*
naming office, there being a tie fote
for the second reading of an
unimportant bill. It is thirty years
I Since the speaker has voted.
According to the latest statistics
published by the Mexican government,
the population of the city of
.? Mexico at the end of 1896 numbered
330,698. The death rate daring the
^ear, exclusive ef infants still-born,
^ : iraa 47 per 1000 of the population.
I I According to Dr. Flint of Scotland,
the great creeds of Christendom are
unifying rather than dividing forces.
Tbia is a true, admits the Sew York
Observer, though not perhaps a familiar
aspect of the case. The great
creeds assert more, and more important
things in common than many people
are aware.
Swiss children are obliged to attend
acheol six to eight years, fines being
imposed on their parents in case of
mnexcused absence. Bat as many
parents are too poor to provide food
and clothing for their children not a
few of the cantons have undertaken to
prdride assistance, and it is estimated
that last year 40,000 children were
Ohm aided hv the lists.
I ? :
??, Mains has decided to celebrate the
(jj birth of Guttenberg on midsummer
dhj, 1900, in order not to interfere
El with Leipaig's -celebration of the same
event in 1899. to the exact year of
|;> the iisnterdl printing's birth is not
. too? the difference of a year or two
In the shew a au ao of the 600th anni?
fwpij will sot shock historical ao' *
The National Educational association
r . toe decided in favor of reformed spelling
to the extent of 22 words, andin the
twparte of the proceedings of the association
heaea&ar the simplified epelli-y
inge viB he employed. The department
of superintendence of the -association
voted to submit the selection of
the emended spellings to a committee
of tfciwq ?f which Dr. William T.
Harris, United States Commissioner of
K Education, waa chairman, and the committee
decided en the following list of
words: TW?(though); catalog?(catalogue);
program?(programme); decalog?(decalogue)Aharo?(thorough);
nlthe?(although) tthorofare?(fisorooghfare)
; Ant? (through); thruout
| ?(throughout^; prolog? (prologue) ;
demagog?(demagogue); pedagogic
(pedagogue).
The bicycle has probably done mors
to develop the mechanical genius of
the people of today thaa any other
agency, remarks the Washington Star. ;
With the old wheel, the ordinary, while
" - a repair kit was carried, it was seldom
needed, for the whole machine was
J built for wear, weighing two and three
' * times as much as the modern safety,
and having tires almost unbreakable.
' The only danger was from a loosened
tire. Later on the narrow tire and
then the cushion tire came in, each
requiring more care, and with them
eame the sprockets, chains and adjustable
saddles and handle bars that required
some skill to manipulate. Bat
fv it jr*s with the advent of the eighteen
to .tKenty-one-ponml pneumatic that
skill was really called for, and today it
is hard to find an owner of a wheel
who is unable to take his machine
apart, or who does not thoroughly
|V understand its make-up. Good evidence
of tlws is to be ha.l at any of the
& cycle shows, or even in the regular
f . sales rooms. At the former it is a
coo a dMnn 1
F. lAnuiuva *v vvv ? ? vw?? ?%. .
some new inodeJ, everyone?man or)
woman, young or old?seemingly possessed
of gecnrate knowledge nuu capable
of weighing carefully the a l\au
GOTHAM'S^UMMER DAY&
GLIMPSES OF FASHIONABLE LIFE AND
ATTIRE IN CREATER NEW YORK.
I
Hrlfn Gould and Her Simple Gown?Sonic
?w Costumed Worn by Prominent j
j Women?The Latest Ideas in Hats and
Trimmings ? A Jewel of Femininity, j
(Special New York Letter). I
New York has changed! So says
the elderly beau of fifty years ago, and
he sighs as his thoughts wander back
into the mist of bv-gone years. Perhaps
after all he is right, and yet as I
stood before the full length portrait of
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe at the
Metropolitan Museum I thought that
every uecade had its philanthropists
and Miss Helen Gould is the Good
Samaritan of to-day. I saw Miss
Gould on Broadway last week. She
was decorous, quiet, self-possessed,
although many eyes followed in her
direction. Stately as] always, wellgroomed
and well-togged, her simple
gown of rich blue checked cloth made
with an open front jacket, with which
a [front of soft crepe du chene was
worn looked verv attractive on a dull
day.
Speaking of new gowns, quaint
Katherine Florence of the "Never
Again Company," who has not yet
packed off to ! "urope, occupied a l>ox
at Keith's Monday afternoon. Miss
Florence looked smart in a short Eton
jacket with revered fronts. She had
on a soft shirt front with high turndown
collar and cravat a la "My
Friend From India." Miss Shannon,
who is like some fragile bit of delicate
china, accompanied her. I noticed
her gown of green whipcord fitted her
trim figure closely, and was ornamented
with black braid across the
front and on the skirt Her hat was
trimmed with berries, leaves and ribbon.
||There is such a variety in hats that
one knows not what to choose. In
the window of a shop on Fifth avenue
I saw a round hat made of fine straw
which is worn cocked. The brim rolls
slightly at the right side and the flat
tPLSIN FROCK 'OT CHOCOLATE CHE^
wrown -was surmounted by a ehaplet o
aroses of the Louis XVI period. Th<
left side was ornamented with a bow
of ecru lace and two white ostricl
plumes stood upright is the centre ol
the bow.
The profusion of fichus, Tests and
herthee is simply fascinating. Thej
juce made in silk, mulls, organdies and
COWX OF GREEN' WHIPCOF.D.
n a in cook ami trimmeil with Talenciennes
ami Mechlin laces.
Greua lines?gossamery in "web and
delicate in texture' are legion in d?;
-'? - - : ...
sign. No wardrobe is complete with- .
out one gown at least.
Leather trimming is still much in j
vogue, particularly the white kid |
GOWN OF HICH BLUE CHECK CLOTH WITH
AH OPEN FRONT JACKET.
elaborately embroidered. The latter
is used to a vast extent for boleros,
caffs, collars, etc.
Gowns of to-day?snch as those used
for golfing, tennis, boating and the
like must have a strict tailor finish to
i be correct.
"Reggy" Arnold and his fair fiancee,
i Miss Yiolet di Zerega, have been the
; recipients of many congratulatory din
riOT. SHORT ETON JACKET SUIT.
f tiers of late. They are both popular in
) the jonnger set, and Miss di Zerega is
r so fair to look upon, that one can well
t understand all "this fussin 'round" as
1 Aunt Jane would say. Miss di Zerega
stood at the counter near me At Tiffl
any's the other day. She was "exr
changing gifts," and her flushed face
[ and perplexed brow made her a very
. attractive picture. She wore an exceedingly
plain frock of chocolate
cheviot, consisting of a well hanging
skirt and blazer jacket, which displayed
a soft front of pink mull and a crush
collar of ribbon and lace. Her hat was
a "dream," but the sunshine of her
face put everything else in shadow,
and I sincerely congratulate Mr. Arnold
nrwin Mmnsincr this eiiuisite
~ o
jewel of femininity.
The costumes illustrated herewith
were designed by The National Cloak
Co., of New York.
.
Indian AcricnlturUta.
The Indians on the Shoshone reservation
have to the present time this
season sown 125,000 pounds of grain,
and it is expected they will sow as
much more before the close of the
planting season. The Department is
not giving the seed to t ie Indians this
year as heretofore, but is loaning it
and expects the Indians to repay it
when they harvest their crops. The
pupils of the Indian school are farming
extensively under the direction of
the Indian agent, Captain "Wilson, and
the teachers of the school. They
have put out 12,000 cabbage pl&nti
and have a model garden. A test will
be made on the farm with sugar beet
seed, the Department having furnished
a large quantity for experiment. Under
the present management of Indian
affairs the Indians of the Shoshone
reservation are improving rapidly in
condition, and the majority of the
tribe will soon become self-supporting.
Great interest is being taken by
the Indians in school work, and th^J
I agency school is^having a very sue*
i c?ssful term.?Omaha (Nety.) Bee,
A WONDERFUL REPTILE.
Caught by a James River Fisherman
| an<l Just the Shape of the River.
A New York traveling man recently
arrived at Norfolk from a trip through
Yirgiaia and tells of a remarkable discovery
which was recently made by
fishermen up the James river near City
Point a few days ago.
"I bad heard a good deal about the
scenerv along the river," said he, "and
wanted to visit two or three of the battle
grcunds of the late war, so I finished
up my business at Petei sburg an 1 we it
over :<> City Point. General Graut's old
headquarters. A great many of the
darkies get their living up that way by
net fishing. The morning after I
ron/died Pitv Point. a man told I
rae some of the fishermen had
caught a strange animal, and if I
\<ent an to Peter Jackson's shanty I
eoulc. see it. Accordingly, I got into a
boat and paid one of the old Uncle Tom
darkies a quarter to row me npto the
place. He had heard of the discovery
and sf.id it was some "wonderful beast"
that 11 d one in those parts had ever seen
before. Fully a hundred colored brethren
of all sizes and descriptions had
gathered around by the time we had arrived.
The night before, while Jack-.
sou and his brother had been hauling
their :^et. there was an unusual commotion.
and, after dumping the fish, they
were astonished to find a remarkable
looking reptile, a little less than three
feet in length. It at first made a lively
fight, bu*. was finally laid out by a blow
from an oar. The superstitious negroes
were almost afraid to row ashore
with it, but curiosity finally
overcame their fear. I do not
wonder that the darkies were so scared.
It had fourteen or fifteen claws attached
to short legs something like an alligator,
also an enormous mouth, which
had been pried open and was lined with
nnrii- vwro nf t*pth. The tail was shaped
like that of a whale and the web-footed
claws showed that it belonged to a species
which conld swim. Its color was
dark green, the claws being red, also
port.ons of the tail and the inside of the
month as well. It had-one large eve,
and a long slim tongne like that of a
snake. Iam frank to say that I never
saw anything like it before, and if I
had been ont with the boys any dnring
the week, would have thought sure that
I 'had 'em,' but I had been sober as a
judge for months before.
" I'he thing wae taken up to Richmond,
and from there sent North to
some naturalist I believe. It was sent
on the steamer Virginia, of the James
rirer route of the Old Bay Line. I
crme along on the same trip, and the
officers of the boat had quite a discussion
about the animal or reptile. We
spread it out on a piece of paper, and
one of the pilots while examining it,
suddenly made on exclamation. Before
we could ask him what was the
matfer he hastened out and came back
with a map of the James river. Wonderlul
to say, the shape of the thing
was almost similar to the many curves
in the stream. The Chickahominy and
other rivers which flow into the James
river, corresponded with the legs of the
animal, and where the river was largest
it was broadest J*he tail was located
near Richmond, and its mouth when
opened was very similar to the shape of
the Hampton Roads between Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk. The officers of
the steamer were so impressed with the
likeness that one of them made a drawing
of it, I believe, and sent it to the
headquarters of the Baltimore Steam
Packet Company, which operates the
James River Line of steamers between
1 Baltimore and Richmond.
I should think that the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington wonld like
very mncb to obtain this Cariosity. It
majr have been a Southern alligator,
which had gotten out of his latitude
and into the James, but I have never
see:i an alligator before which had a red
tail and tongue and was of such a vivid
greanish tint"
BIGGEST SEESAW IN THE WORLD I
J
Ton Can See More than Ton 8a*s from
the Ferris Whc.I.
Visitors to the Tennessee centennial
exposition at Nashville may be tossed
In the air and from a dizzy height
cat:b a fleeting glimpse of the show
around them. In an attempt to get
up a feature which would rival the
FeiTis wheel the management has constructed
an Immense see-saw on the
familiar principle of the board laid
i across a Dile of lumber on which chll
drer. bare played since time Immemorial.
The affair Is of bridge construction
anr made of wrought Iron and steel.
A t>eam 160 feet long carrying at either
end a carriage which will hold twentyflvo
persons is erected upon a tower
seventy-five feet high. When the car
Is at its highest point the passengers
art 150 feet from the ground. Electrhrity
furnishes the motive power and
llgats the structure at night. The cars
being evenly balanced do not require
FERRIS WHEEL OF TENNESSEE FAIR.
much power. The engineers in charge
of the affair declare it is perfectly safe
and no fears need be entrtained of its
collapse. At the base of the tower is
j an inelosure given up to cafes, dancing
j plai.forijja and refreshpieoi booths. I
V
BILL ARP'S WEEKLY LEnER.!
? I
THE WRITINGS OF INFIDELS AND
ATHEISTS CONDEMNED.
SHOCK WILLIAM'S SENSIBILITIES.
The Great Mysteries of Nature Refute
Their Agnosticism and Ordinary
Mortals are Satisfied.
These modern agnostics, skeptics,
atheists and infidels are having a lively
time in the New York papers. The
columns are open to them and it keeps
our Christian and God-fearing people
busy in replying to their assaults upcn
the Bible and Christianity. No 1wo
of them seem to have the same faith
or to be fighting under the same general,
but thfy are all engaged instorminc
the citadel, some on one side and
some on another and with different
weapons of warfare. They are pnlldowners
instead of bnild-nppers. . One
Ret assaults the miracles and seem to
have a special spite at Jonah and the
whale. Another set denounces Jephtha
for sacrificing his daughter and denounces
God for permitting it. They
are equally indignant against David
for having Josiah slain and against
Samuel for ordering Saul to slay the
women and children and cattle of the
Amalekites. They declare that all these
stories are fakes or, if trne, that God
is a brute for allowing such outrages.
Some believe in the New Testament,
but not in the old, while others ridicule
the miraculous conception of the
virgin Mary and pronounce it a
woman's trick to hide her shame.
Some write from a medical standpoint
and assert that man is by no means a
perfect creature physically, but could
be improved on in many particulors?
for ir stance, the calf of the leg should
have been in front and there should
have been one eye in the back of the
head and the elbow joint should have
had a back action, so that a man
could scratch his back and a woman
button her dress or fasten her skirt
more conveniently. They declare that
a perfect man should be built to run
like u horse and swim like a fish and
fly like a bird, and Shakespeare they
say, was only indulging in a little
taffy when he wrote "what a piece of
work is man. How noble in season;
how infinite in faculties; in form and
moving; how express and admirable; in
action how like an angel; in apprehension
how Uke a god!"
Some of these writers talk ab9nt sacred
and divine things with the most
shocking contempt and intimate that
notxdy bat cowards and lunatics believe
in them. They would make Voltaire
and Tom Payne ashamed of themselves.
Now, if a man has doubta
Iva mifaolaa fka A irin ifvr A# I
OLA/i K UiO tuuavivo vi vuv UA* ui*y vt
Christ and is really seeking after the
truth and expresses himself in language
that shows respect for the faith
of h s fellow men, it is all right; but
we s re too helpless to be vain or conceit*
d. If I knew where I came from
or i . here I was going or what would
be ;ny future state or if I could prolong
my existence or could foresee the
cala nities of life and prevent thera, I
conl 3 afford to strut around and play
Sir i)racl<5. But I feel my helplessness
more and more every day, and
like a child in trouble I want to go to
my 1 ather. Whether there be a God
or not, all the good people I have
ever known or read about believed
ther b is, and it is disrespect to them
to take His name in vain.
Addison says that Sir Robert Boyle,
who was the greatest naturalist that
England ever produced, had the most
prof ound veneration for the Supreme
Beiiig and never mentioned the name
of Cod without a pause?a visible stop
in l is discourse. No well-bred man
is e1 er profane or speaks the name of
God irreverently. I cannot understand
how medical men who have
studied the anatomy of the human
bodf?this complex and wonderful
mac line?should ever be skeptical
about God's existence. If I knew how
my sill, which is immaterial, controls
my nuscles, which are material, and
make me extend my hand or my foot
or c ose my eyes and open my mouth,
I u iaht boast of a little knowledge;
bat as it is, the raising of my arm or |
the writing with this pen is a greater
miriicle than Jonah living three days
in t le whale's belly. Every seed that
geminates and makes a flower is a
miricle to me. Sometimes I wonder
if I had a glass that wonld magnify a
million times could I see the embryo
oak in a little acorn; could I see the
orar ge tree in the seed of the fruit.
A 1 nature is full of miracles. Winding
ip the canes in front of my veranda
are madeira vines that climb one
way and hop vines that climb the
other way and jasmine vines that
cliirb both ways. Every plant has its
own laws, and they are unchangeable.
Jusi sq with the beasts and birds and
inserts, and I almost envy them in
thei: happy ignorance of death and a
future state. Hundreds of katydids
are unging in the grove while I w. ?ie.
The males are making music for their
nnn nsical mates. They will sing on i
and be happy for three mouths and j
thei. die. The form and structure of
their little bodies is a miracle, for the
utmost ingenuity of man could not
mate one. The two little drums that'
eveiy cicada carries for sounding
boa ds and the tiny frets on their
win ;s that scrape each other with in
conceivable rapidity make a musical
not?- that can be heard half a mile on
a st: 11 and quiet night. And then their
sen: e of hearing is so wonderfully
acu- e! For what child has not tiptoed
to he tree and touched it ever so
gea ly and closed the orchestra. Dr.
Holmes calls the katydids "this testy ; #
little dogmatist," for they never tire
of faying "katy did" and "katy Bat
about this improved man and J8
v.'oman that these skeptics would make > :M.
if they coald. Sometimes a man does " J[ ,
fall over a wheelbarrow in the night 3
and braise his shins, and I remember '
well ho\J many hard licks we boys got
when we played shinny at the old ?9
schoolhonse on top of the hill, bat the )j *
sores got well and no bones were broken.
* If the calf was in front the '{a
braise woald be as bad and it woald ; jgj
make a man's pants bag at the calf 4J&
instead of the knee, and a woman's
calf when riding a bike would look
~ ?1 1 1 linn f fVittt iKifd PVA in the
onxuii auvuv vu??
back of the head, it would very much vg|
interfere with our sleeping position f-vflj
and give no room for a woman's back ?*
hair and utterly paralyze her devotion* " /
in chnrch. If we are to have a third
eye the optical nerves and musclea
should be so arranged that when, the
two in front are open the one in the M
rear should be shut, and vice versa.
But this third eye would of course
necessitate a larger cerebellum to hold
the machinery, and that would give a
man the big head. As to a doublejointed
elbow for scratching purposes,
I've no particular objections, though
ou a pinch a man can do like Sidney }l
Smith's pigs: He can rub up against
a post or the edge of a door and get
relief. As to that Munchauson business
of running and swimming and /'<
dying, it is folly to discuss. Man has *f
no need of such powers, and if he had
four legs like a horse and fins like a
fish and wings like a bird he wouldn't ' ]
be a man, but a sort of quadruples ,**|j
amphibious aerole, too smart for this
world and not good enough for the .*91
Good gracious! what a world of new
theories about man and the creation
these modern thinkers have got up.
They can't fool the old folks, but 1. /
'??? a*\ /Iama*e 1 i70 anm a nf tliftl'jOsSAI
1COX IUCJ UV VtWlAaV?* HtlMV ? _ ? ^
young. Young man, stop and think 1*8
before you desert the faith of the fath- -. ,
ers. It is safe to say that such great T
and good men as Calvin and Luther ijEyJ
and Knox and Wesley and Whitfield ^lf
and Sir Isaac Newton and Addison >3
and Pope and hundreds of others who ,
lived and died in the faith were not
mistaken. Wait until these agnostics i
j and skeptics all agree on a religion >)l
that will give comfort in adversity
and peace in the hour and article of .4jl
death. No, don't wait, for they have jj
had time enough and offered nothing.
-Bui A hp, in Atlanta Constitution.
KILLED ABOUT A SCHOOL.
Two Neighbors Quarrel and a Fatal
Affray Results. . ffl
Wahee secticn, about eight mile* .-JaB
west of Marion, was on the 20th the' .*1
scene of a bloody and fatal affray be- ^
tween Wallus H. Altman and Phillip
Bullard, in which the former was killed. *3 .
The two men lived on adjoining farms. 'jSM :
For some time past they have disagreed I
as to the management of the neighborhood
school, each having his favorite 5fl
candidate for the principal ship.
They met in a neia near nuuara ?
honse when, it ia said, they quarreled \:l#S
again over the matter. Bullard claims 3 ^
that Altman struck him first with the
rod of a sorreyors compass which he ',-M v
was carrying, and chased him in sight * A ~
of his house, beating him over the heed. *
and body, when he called for his gun,
which was brought by bis lit* /*?
tie daughter. He then shot Altman,
*when the latter turned and
seized the gun. In the struggle which
followed the gun was broken, and Billlard,
seizing the barrel, struck Altaian. Jgj
with it, dealing him- his death blow.
The gun that Bullard used was loaded
with bird shot, some of which struck
Altman in the back of the head and un- ?
der the shoulder blade. It was tha
blow that killed him. Bullard has been
arrested by the Sheriff
The affair is greatly deplored by tha v
people of that section, as both men had
many friends. Altman was a Mormon,
and it is said that he has had the body 1
of his deceased wife locked up in hie yjB
house for some time past, intending to *
shin the same to Utah for interment ? * JH
The State.
ANNUAL REUNION
Of the Confederate Veterans at
Greenville.
The following order has been issued: -J
Chablestok, 8. C., July 15, 1897.
General Orders No. 29. ?
1. The annual reunion for 1897 of <
this division will be held at Greenville,
S. C., commencing at 10 a. m. August it
25th. The low railroad rate of 1 cent
per mile, which will be given from all
points within the State, will allow a v
largo attendance of delegates. All comrades
of the division are earnestly invited
to be present. Whether delegates
or not they have a right to be in the J
convention. Confederate Veterans who
have not jet joined the U. U. V. are jg
cordially asked tD join their former ' w
comrades in this grand reunion.
The division now has nearly one him- /
dred camps, and this reunion is apt to ' y
be the largest ever held of ex-Confederates
in this State.
The good people of Greenville are .
making every arrangement for the entertainment
of the veterans, and we
be sure of the most hospitable and loV- '?Ja
ing reception and care.
2. Each camp will appoint one young
lady as sponsor, whose duties and place
at the reunion will be designated in
subsequent orders. j
3. As soou as further details of the Aw
arrangements are fixed, they will be
communicated to the division.
By command of Major General C. Irvine
Walker. %
Jas. G. Holmes,
Adjutant General, Chief of Staff*
*
Dobell's solution, a mixture that is v.- /
much in favor with nasal catarrh sufferers,
should be used with an atomizer
several times daily. Any person can ^
prepare it on the following formula: - ?
Take one-half dram of pure carbolic , v-j
acid, two drams of bicarbonate of soda,
two drams of borax, one-half ounce of
glycerine and enough distilled water
to make one pint M