The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 12, 1900, Image 3
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It:r.^ forth votir tri?iE nfr bo!U,
JTiM earth shall learn tin* storv;
s>weot N tb?? new* y nr musio It lis,
lie lives,the Kim; of Glory!
Tbo L*un?>. who was for sinner? slain,
^ Oomos fcrtu from death in uii^lu to reign.
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He lives the rae? of man to bless,
? To bioisli e-are ami sa Iness,
Ail Kritifi to l?-ai. nil wro'itr* re lro?--.
To illl the earth wbh idness.
The Lamb, w 10 wis for sinners slain,
oth no s fur man's redemption rei^n!
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I THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED CIRL ?
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O A Child's Easter Story. O |
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J, OMEover here, said
Olivia, ami I will
. tell yon an Easter
tale. There w a s
onee a woman who
Sv\ ' had au only dangh\y
jf-fc ter that was very
t ^V/l small ami pale ami
I (/--J altogether s o m e)
jkS'vL what different from
?1'/' H ot her children.!
& ' * -' tl\ When she took the
tiUj, *!*"- ^ little one ont for a
Tvalk the people stood an ' looked at
Ac child aud whispered a .long themselves.
Whea the little girl u?ked her
mother why the people looked at her
so strangely the mother always replied,
"it is because you have on such
a beautiful new dress." Thereupou |
the little oue was contented. As soon, i
however, as they returned home the
mother would clasp her little daughter
in her aiyus, kias her again aud
again and say: ' Ton sweet little augel,
what would become of you if I were ;
to die? No one, not even your father,
uows what a dear little angel you
%,e!"
Some titr.a afterward the mother be- j
came suddenly sick aud she died on
the ninth day. Thereupon the father }
of the little girl threw himself iu despair
ou the deathbed aud asked to be
buried with bis wife. His friends,
however, spoke to him and comforted
Ilia, and so bo leit bis wne s uouy,
and a year later be took unto himself
another wife,who was lovelier, younger
auil richer tliau his first wife, but
by no meaus as good.
1 And from the clay that her mother
died th3 little girl spent her whole
time from morning till evening seated
at the window sill iu the sitting room,
since thero was no one who would
take hei out for a walk. She had become
uvea paler thau before and she
/tad not grown at all during the latter
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* ye^r.s.
. When her new mother came to the
house she said to herself: "Now I will
o it walking again in the city and
<>n the beautiful promenades where
the sun shines so brightly, where
lliere are so many lovely shrubs and
tlowers and where there is such a
crowd of handsomely dressed people."
For she lived in a narrow little alley,
in which the sua seldom shoue, and
when she sat on the window sill she
jaw only a little bit of the blue sky
i bit net larger than a pocket handkerchief.
Her new mother went out
uearly every day in the forenoon and
afternoon, and each time *be wore a
very beautiful dress, much more (
beautiful than any dress the first
mother had ever owned. But she
never took the little girl with her.
Finally the child took heart, and
ene day she earnestly begged her new
mother to tako her ont with her. The
mother, however, refused bluntly,
saying: "You are not smart enough.
What would the people think if they
were to see me with you? You are a
little humpback. Humpbacked children
never go walking, but always
stay at home."
Thereupon the little girl became very
quiet, and as 6oon as her uew mother
had left the houee she got on a chair
I kUm
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Jfo
LOOKED IN THE JJIEBOE AND SAW SHE
WAS HCMTBACKEP.
aud looked iu ft mirror and saw
that indeed she was humpbacked,badly
humpbacked. Then she sat again ou
the window sill and looked out into
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Behold. from winter's thrall sot free.
The lilies fair are sprincing;
T ieir radiant bloom, in hoiv cleo
Tne waking earth is hriiiKin^,
A tribute to the Lamb or.ee td'niu.
Now rai.-ed in endless tniitht to rel^n.
Come forth ve souls. In clad n? w life,
This blessed Easter morning;
W'itli Moo in of low ami Iv-auty rife.
His Brace bo your n lorniiiB:
Tito Lamb, who once tor you was slain.
Doth bid you rido with hitu and relBu.
! tho street ami thought of her good old
mother, who, in spite of her huiupl>aek,
had taken her out walking every
day. The she thought again of her
hump.
VISIT OF THF. AX6EL MOTHER. | 1
"What is inside of it, I wonder!" : ]
she said to herself. "There must be ! 1
something inside of such a hump as 11
this is." ' s
Many a strange fancy entered her , y
little head and mauv an hour she ]
wiled away in wondering why her
back, instead of being straight like
the backs of other children, was distorted
out of all shape by such an tig- f
ly hump. The stories of fairies w hich i
.7. <mrCb,
Cupid tp As h;/little bcpj*7
And tT? It lip^'itil care,
A knot ck ribbon here, feu know)
A b^hkrps there!
Jyppr'his curls a doaihct
Hh elfish care lie shades
hubby hand-~ilpr/iio.-fc
tc beads and^yayprfbedi
ly i To cburchjhp/pastes wl
I I And bows devoutly c
?/iLi- msw.,n/J
WOO lovetl lilt! nuunuiuc a<iii ..v..
ers bettor tliau she, ami yet auxoug i i
them all was there one who saw so |
little of the sunshiue and the flowers [ i
! as she did? From her seat by the ;
j window sho saw the little ones play- j i
' iug ia the narrow street, and as their
j frequent peals of merry laughter came
to her ear, her question, "Why am I
! not like other children?" became ever
more urgent.
So tho summer passed, and when |
winter came the little girl was still j
pale and she had become so weak that !
she could no longer sit on her window J
sill, but was obliged to remain lyiug ;
in bed, and, just wben the snowdrops i
were begiuuiug to peep above grouud, !
' t he good old mot tier cuuie 10 uci vuc :
uight and told her how glorious and !
I beautiful it was iu heaveu.
The following morning the child j
| was dead.
"Don't weep, father" said her new j
mother; "it is best for the poor child." |
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WtlCTC SOYCiy luu.s*
In Bitter hat and gox
1 J) e7es orc c
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I J / f^yr And. ere he fl
' [j Full many a
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her dear mother had told her came i
I back to her memory, and in childish <
j fashion she sometimes prayed that i
I some good fairy would come aud take
away the burden that threatened to
j blight her wholo life. i
Ob, if she were only like other j
I children! Was there one of theni i
' 1 1 5 L* on/1 tllU flrtW.
Ami the girl's father answered ne
word, hilt simply nodded his head.
The little girl was buried, but ou
Easter morn au angel with large white
wings like a swan He w down frou:
heaven, seated himself beside the
grave ami knocked t km eon, as though
gm ^ j m
tut: transformation.
it were a door. And soou tho little
;irl came forth from the grave and the
mgel told her that ho had eorao to
:ako her to her mother in heaven.
Fhen the little girl asked in a trerubing
voice whether, even humpbacked
diildren could enter heaven. She
jould not conceive such a thing possible.
Yet'the angel answered, "You dear,
jood child, you are no longer hurnp acked,"
aud with those words he
lassed his white hand over her back
md the ugly old hump fell oft' like u
rreai hollow shell, and this left her a
ransformed being.
And what was in it? Two beautifnl
white angel wings! The child spread
hem out, as though she Lad always
cuowu how to fly, and she flew with
lie angel through the dazzling sunight
up'iuto the blue sky. On the
oftiest seat in heaven sat her good
>ld mother awaiting her with oatitretehed
arias, and the child flew
itiaigh, into her lap. New York
Ieraid.
Oricln of Ki??tor linliblt*.
()ne of the quaiut and interesting
eatnres of our modern Easter caruiva
s the appearance in shop windows,
> Easter ' ?
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-r stroke- ' ,
iakcs. wytg J
hen sweet belts peal) ^ J
'own v J.'/^~- (c
f matron kneel w>-' jJ
vn. jJ3
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n Ais prayer bcrekrgrave, t /
thoughts are^cnti ^
its the tricksy jkhayc /(?
i heart is rentljy <r.-j /?*
mm ft/ /
id sly twtxt pra ycfand,-ban/is
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ply his arqhpryy'
is those Easter? rpfiidS^nd'Dan
wee to *wrtns'4tyc/nie.
gJ4kty!tEW?mEllELL
'm0r)
side by side with the emblematic colored
ejrar, of a pert tall-eared rabbit,
inrl tlioso who ranuot understand why
bunny should have a place iu our
Easter decoratious shrug their shoulders
and think it a trick to please the
children. But the legend of the
Easter rabbit is one of the oldest in
mythology, and is mentioned in the
early folklore of South Germany.
Originally, it appeirs, the rabbit was
a bird, which the ancient Teutonic
goddess Ostara goddess of the east
or of spring transformed into a
rjuadruped. For this reason the rab
bit or bare is gratetul, anci in remembrance
of its former conditiou as a
bird and as a swift messenger of
spriug, and of the goddess whom it
served, is able to lay colored Easter
eggs on lier festival in the spring
time, the colors illustrating the theory
that when it was a bird the rabbit laid
colored eggs, and an egg has always
been a symbol of the resurrection,
and, therefore, used as au illustration
at Easter.
The natives of the Philippines
manufacture a very gauzy, transparent
fabric for ladies' dresses from
fibres of the pineapple loaf. It is
called pina cloth.
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|A BIO DAM BREAKS.]
Austin, Texas, Swept by a Raging'
Flood. I
SIMILAR TO JOHNSTOWN HORROR. |
liLctric Light and Power Plant With
Operatives (jo Down Full Damage
Hard to Estimate,
Austin. Tex., Special. This city is in !
pitch darkness with a raging river one j
mile wide and swollen far beyond its ;
l">tlir;?i hanl/o rnarinn nnH onr?ltii? I
through all the lower por;ions of the
town, having spread destruction and
death in its wake. In addition to the
vast loss to property interests, it is calculated
that between 110 and 40 lives
have been sacrificed, and the reports
coining in from the tributary country j
do not tend to improve matters. The I
{toed is not unlike the disastrous Pohn- I
ptown flood, some years ago, in that a
|aging river, already swollen far beyond
its capacity, bore too 'heavily
upon an immense dam spanning the
river here, breaking it and letting loose
a reservoir cf water 30 miles long, half !
a mile wide and sixty feet deep, to all j
in carrying destruction down the valleys
of the Colorado river. The great
j dam in the Colorado river gave way
1 from the enormous pressure of water
j and debris and with a rear and era.-h
j swept the valleys below the city, wreck
i in? tne immense ngnt ana power plant, j
J and drowning eight workmen. Follow-,
' in.g is a iist of the known dead, including
those killed in the power house: j
Frank I'incet. Frank Kinney, Walter '
Flower. Walter Johnson, Alfred John- j
son. Frank Fitzgerald. Walter Blo-i
som, Joseph Newman. D;rk Morris
j (colored): John Proes, Chas. Burchard. ;
[ Six negroes.
Last Wednesday night it began to
rain very hard at this place, the storm 1
extending north of hero along the wat- |
er sheds of the Colorado river. The ;
precipitation continued until the down- j
fall aggregating six inches. All this j
vast quantity of water along the water
theds of the Colorado river rapidly j
swelled the current until the river, j
which had been rising steadily was a
raging torrent, having risen 40 feet
within ten hours.
After daylight it became evident that
the situation was serious. The river
began to rise so rapidly that it was
evident that the immense dam and all
the power houses and contents, costing
$1,300,000, were in imminent danger.
To add to the terror of the situa
tion, small frame house?, v trees and j
debris of every description in varying ,
quantities began descending the river !
and piling up against the upper face
of the dam.
This weight was augmented every
moment until by 10 o'clock there was
a mass of.debris lodged against the!
dam which threatened the safety of!
the structure. In addition, millions of
gallons of water, muddled from its!
long journey, was whirling and plung- j
ing to the sixty foot fall, and it was
evident that, no wall could withstand 1
the immense pressure. The crisis came !
.shortly after 11 o'clock, when sudden- i
ly with a report like the roar of the!
ocean, the (lain hut served to add to \
j the horror of rolled out of the centre!
i sfif.Mnti nf Hir dam down the face of
(hp fit) foot dcp.h into the rjver below, j
This left a yawning gap in the very j
middle of the dam through which the j
debris and water fiercely poured while!
the flood, already raging, was threatening
everything in its path. This sudden
breaking of the dam. hut served
<0 add to the horror of the catastrophe.
The released water poured into the
power house, catching eight employes
at work there, drowning all of them i
instantly. The breaking of the dam j
caused wild excitement in the city, i
The telegraph' companies at once j
wired to places below here to look out I
for the great wave and runers were,
dispatched on horses to notify those I
living in the valleys below the city. !
The telegraphic messages served as a i
timely warning to many, but the rush- i
ing waters outstripped the horsemen i
and many houses were picked up and j
swept away before the occupants could j
get together their valuables.
Within a short time all the valleys
to the south and west of Austin were
filled to overflowing with water and
the southern part of the city tributary
to the river was inundated.
Large crowds collected on the river
banks and several persons were swept
into the river when the dam broke,
but all were saved by boatmen. A
crowd of white people numbering
?hMnf sn llvinz iust below the dam. in
tents, were seen at their habitations
just before the dam broke and have not
been crounted for since. It is generally
believed that all of them were
swept away.
Bishop Jackson Resigns.
New York. Special. The Protestant
Episcopal house of bishops has been
called to meet in special session in this
city on April 19. It is usual for tho
bishops to meet half yearly, but at the
present time there are several important
matters which bring them together.
The resignation of the bishop coadjutor
of Alabama, will be received,
and it is said, accepted. Charges were
circulated in his diocese against the
character of Bishop Jackson to such an
extent that the bishop felt his usefulness
impaired and a resignation the
best soltrtior
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Premative Hardships- <
Lillian What awful, awful hardshis
our forefathers must have experienced.
Blanche Yes, just think, they didn'l
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Taught by Experience.
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thing.
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Jones Yes, Indeed; I met one thLs
morning, and he cost rue $5. Detroit
Free Press.
Last year 4,700.000 cubic yards of material
was dredged out of the DuluthSuperior
harbor.
The mzcs ot Prunes.
Prunes arc sold in three sizes. The
Inreesf size is called the thirtv to for
(ies. This means that thirty to forty
of these prunes make a pound. The
medium size is forty to fifty, and the
small size fifty to sixty. The largest
prunes are of "course the most valuable.
The average price the growers get for
their prunes is three and three-fourths
cents a pound. An.orchard of 250 trees
will give a grower an average profit
of $400 a year. An acre will grow
about one hundred trees, planted with
the proper distances between them.
The trees boar the third year after
planting, ami live from ten to twenty
years. French prunes pay the best.
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