Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"V SENATOR GRAYDOIY FALSELY ACCUSED. { He Had Paired With Senator Bass Who is at Home III. Senator (iravdon of Abb- ville j rose to a question o: personal privilege and announced that he had been severely criticised by some of tile dispensary ativo ! cates for pairing on dispensary questions with Senator l?a*> of Williamsburg, who has been absent 011 account of sickness for sev^al weeks. He had been re-! ferred to by come as a ' traitor i to the cause," and various un' . t kina remarks had been made.; He understood the custom of the senate to be that a senator! when asked to pair with anoth I er senator on any question would be'acting discourteously if he refused to do so. At the request of Senator Black, who is an advocate ot the dispensary and who was too ill last night to be present, he had secured a pair for him on any dispensary question that might come up in his absence. Mr Graydon said that while he might be persuaded in some things he desired it distinctly understood that he could not be driven an inch. Senator Graydon is highly esteemed and his friends in the senate resented the insinuations that he had acted otherwise than would be expected of any honorable member of that body. Senators Black, Hardin, Holliday, Mauldin, Brooks, Weston, RajTsor, Appelt, Walker and others exonerated Senator Graydon of the charge that he had acted traitoriousiy to the cause which he is known to represent in this discussion. Senator Hardin declared that his regard for the senator from Abbeville v?. s such that he believed he would be the last man in South Carolina who would do anything dishonorable. Mr. Graj'don did noi disclose1 the name of the me~ 'o had criticised his acti"' , but if they were present * must have regretted the " sty and ?? o ^ unwarranted reflections after hearing Senator Gra.... 's ac\ tion in this matter so generally endorsed. While u ^ members of the senate at disagree with Mr Graydr . "ill no word of reproach ha?. < v zr before been uttered against him and those who have occupied an opposite position fro * .im on matters of such imp rtunce as the dispensary question have alwaj's been his warm personal friends. Senator WestOD also arose to a question of personal privilege and explained his position in connection with his former pair with Senator Bass. He had consented to pair with Senator Bass soon after the latter went to his home. His action had been \ ^ questioned by some of his friends a few days ago and he went to *-? ^ ? /^ii? oenator Vyiirisienseu, ouc ui uie leaders of the anti-dispensary forces, and told him that there -was some question about the prosriety of the pair, inasmuch as senator Bass was absent from the chamber indefinitely. He consulted with Senator Kaysor about the matter and was ad vised by him that the pair was all right and it M-ould be perfectly right for him to continue it. When he went back to Senator Christensen to explain to him that the pair would be continued, the latter informed him that he had immediately arranged to have Mr. Bass paired with another senator after their former talk.? The State. A Million Between Them. "Yes," said Lassitudinous Luke f" he traded his battered tomato . .n for a nice fresh one from the "dcy wuz once when me an' \i New York copper had a million ?.cl!ars between us." "What?" yelled Frayed Francis. "Fact." raid Lassitudinous Luke as he fastened the string securely to his new carryall. "Y' see, I wuz in, de alley on one side uv a savings lark, an' he wuz lookin' fer me in do alley beyont."?Judge. J H" \ - ?* BERNINI'S FOUNTAINS. The Way the G.-esi Artitt Helped to Beautify Rente. In lGv'J Bernini, tlie famous Italian architect, painter and sculptor, who v j-.s one of the architects of St. !\ tor's, turned his mind to another branch of ornament for Borne. Many of the most beautiful fountains had already been constructed. In the preceding century Cardinal Ippolito d'Este had made his famous garden at Tivoli, con taining no less than 300. Many of those were on a very largo and elaborate scale, and it seems very probable that these, which in Bernini's time were still in good preservation, may have inspired him to emulate their splendor He certainly often visited Tivoli, as he was employed to report on some new waterworks constructed there, and there are the remains of one fountain which appears to have been added about this time and in which a seventeenth century porti:o is supported by columns similar to that which Bernini copied for his baldacchino. However this may be, in Borne Bernini may claim to be the creator of the monumental fountain, a feature so conspicuous in the city. Who that loves Rome but will acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the man who set the Barcaccia or open boat at the foot of the Spanish steps, who reared the dripping Triton draining his conch shell on high on the piazza of the Barberini? Who will not thark him for his gift of the famous Trevi, with it? splendid facade, its wild rea gods and plunging hor-os, its reckless prodigality of space and material, its wealth of spouting streams? For although erected many years after j the death of Bernini, still the idea and the original plans are his. and Prince Iioria possesses his sketch for the central group. At intervals all through the remainder of his life he found time to add. to their number, and Rome owes to him no" less than twi Ivc of her founts. They meet us in all parts of the city. In the' Piazza Xavona the little sea . gods blow their horn= around the | Fountain of the Moor, and the c-o| lossal forms symbolical of the Four liivers recune in sieejn graaumr. Other? ?tand in the Vatican pardens, in the Villa Mnttei, cte., and are all marked hy the same fertile invention and largeness of conception.?Fortnightly Review. The Alligator's Sleep. A man who passed himself off as an animal keeper at a zoo had one spring an experience with an alligator which cost the concern dear. The alligator had not awakened l from his winter nap when the keeper appeared on the soene at the l park. He could not understand why the saurian slept and thought it was sick. He punched the alligator and tried in many ways to wake it up. He also noticed that the creature did not eat. Finally. growing desperate for fear that he would have a death on his hands, the keeper bought ten pounds of beef, pried open the saurian's huge jaws and poked the meat down his throat with a fence rail. A few days later the thick skinned creature died. The keeper later explained that he did not know that alligators slept in the winter and did not eat anything during their long naps. Vtry Much Heavier. Church?At a recent church fair in England one of the means used for increasing the receipts was a guessing contest as to the weight of the pastor. Gotham?Before or after? Church?Before or after what? Gotham?Before or after preaching. Church?What difference would j that make ? Gotham?A good deal. Some pastors are much heavier when preaching.?Yonkers Statesman. ^ I WOOD'S SEEDS Bliss Triumph Seed Potatoes are one of the most popular kinds \ with truckers all through the South. They are extra early, prolific, fine appearance, and are largely sold in northern markets as "iWmuda Potatoes" at high prices. * We have a large stock oI this potato, extra fine quality, both Maine and Second Crop Seed. We are the largest dealers in Seed Potatoes in the South, and offer all of the best and most productive kinds. Write for prices. Wood's Descriptive Catalogue gives full information about Seed Potatoes and all Farm and Garden Seeds. Mailed free on request. T. W. WOOD & SONS, I Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. SERPENT POISON. Tho Venom of the Cobra Is Deadly Al most Beyond Belief. It was in the autumn of 180 that Calmette, while acting as di rector of the Bacteriological insti tute of Saigon, Cochin China, firs commenced his experiments on th neutralization of serpent venom i the animal system, lie had excep tional opportunities in the matte of serpent venom wherewith to cut ry out his investigations, inasmuc; * "? * ' i i J.I.. . i, as a band 01 cobras naa recently ui tacked a village in the vicinity o Baelieu, and by order of the gov error of the district no fewer tha: ninety specimens of the terrible N'a ja tripudians, or cobra de capellc were forwarded in a barrel to th institute. Forty of the reptiles arrive alive, and several were at once sac rificed to secure their venom gland: Each gland, resembling both in siz and shape a shelled almond, eon tains about thirty drops of venom and in this transparent limpid liquo is embodied a toxin of extraoi dinary strength. As is well knowr this cobra is the most dreaded o all serpents, and it is widely dis tribuled over India. Burma, Suma tra, Java, Malacca and Cochin Chi na. Until Calmette, however, se to work to systematically study th nature of this reptile's venom bu little precise or reliable informa tion had been obtained as to it character, it was, of course, ncc essarv in the first, instance to ascertain, within as narrow a limit a possible, the exact degree of toxi power inherent in the venom and t determine if possible the precis dose lethal in re^pget of each varie ty of animal experimented upon. A correct calculation of thequan tity of venom required in every ens was, however, found to he quite im possible, for so virulent is th poison that a single drop of ai emulsion produced by pounding uj eight glands in 300 grams of dis tilled water is sufficient, when in troduced into the vein of a rabbit' ear, to kill it in live minutes, aj the mammals to which Calmette ad ministered this cobra venom, sue) as monkeys, dogs, rabbits, guine, pigs and rats, succumbed more o less quickly, according to the siz of the dose.?Westminster Gazette, High Priced Bumblebees. Many years ago the farmers o Australia imported bumblebeesfron England and set them free in thei clover fields. Before the arrival o the bees clover did not flourish ii Australia, but after their comin; the farmers had no more difficult; on that score. Mr. Darwin hai shown that bumblebees were th only insects fond of clover necta rvA.-fACCAcl O T\1*AVw\GJ%i O Cllffi VT1UU1 a |/i vuvuvio u u AII ciently long to reach the bottom o the long, tubelike flowers and a the same time a body heavy enougl to bend down the clover head s< that the pollen would fall on the in sect's back and thus be carried of to fertilize other flowers of th same species. The bumblebees sen to Australia cost the farmers ther about half a dollar apiece, but the; proved to be worth the price. Th* Very Earliest Coins. No one knows exactly when o where the original coin wa "struck" or what metal wa9 used Certain passages ia Homer wouli lead to the inference that brass wa coined as early as the year 118 B. C. Tradition affirms that th Chinese had bronze coins as earl as the year 1120 B, C., but Herodo tus, the acknowledged "father o history," i= of the opinion that th Lydians "invented" coins some tim during the ninth century B. C. On of the oldest coins now known i a gold daric, coined by the Persian during the reign of Darius. Oi one side of this coin is a bust o Darius and on the other side i figure of a kneeling archer. Mugwump. "Mugwump" was an old Algon quin word for a chief, which wa used in a seventeenth century In dian Bible to translate "centurion,: "captain" or "duke" in the Englisl version. It was borrowed by th New Englanders as a nickname fo most superior persons, very- like th English "great panjandrum," am first applied 111 its special pontica sense to Republicans who desertei their party 011 grounds of principl at the presidential election of 188-1 Gum Shoo Work. "James!*' she said severely. The * butler looked up with 1 guilty flush. "James," she asked, "how is i that whenever I come into the pan try I find your work at sixes an* sevens and you sprawled out readinj the news?" "Well, ma'am," the butler an swered, "I should say it was on ac count of them old rubber soled ten nis shoes you're always wearin about the house." ^ I ii r^ /x #% i /A ^ /i I fcupic 2 Kingstree. Tlif 1 JBHIJ NE e *j Clerk's Sale. ! n ' STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, j p County of Williamsburg, IN COURT OF COMMON PLEAF. j DuRant W. Simmons, Plaintiff, s _ |agamst Norvai N. Newell, et al, Defenderts. h Under and by virtue of a decree in partition in the above stated action, granted by the eourt < f Common r Pleas on January 16th., 1:)0T, I will e sell oefore the Court House door in Kingstree, S. c., on the first Monday in March lt>07, between the hours of 11 o'clock in the forenoon and 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at public f auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, 11~ Kflff trfjpt. i)f land. [j ine lunuwuifc - situated in the county and State afore-1 said, to wit: * "All that certain piece, parcel, or n tract of land situate, lying and being rr in the county of Williamsburg and 3 State of < arolina, containing eighty . (80) acres, more or less, and Dounded J as follows, to-wit: on the North by ' e lands of J. D. Haselden; on the East r by lands of Mrs R. E. L. Hughes, the "Georgetown road" beini; the line; on ' " the South by the lands of L. L. Ard, ] f the run of Muddy Creek being the line; t and on the West by the lands of J, D. ' , Hasselden". Terms cash. Purchaser ' to pay Clerk for papers. ? H. 0. BRITTON, 1 riprW nf Court of Common Pleas, Williamsburg < ounty. J 2-14-3t. e V Color of the Bride'* Gown. It is interesting to note that the I choice of white for wedding dresses is comparatively a modern fashion, r The Roman brides wore yellow, and 9 in the most eastern countries pink I. is the bridal color. During the midI die ages the renaissance brides wore s crimson, and most of our Plantagei net and Tudor queens were married e in this vivid hue, which is still popy ular in parts of Brittany, where the ?- bride is usually dressed in crimson i? brocade. It was Mary Stuart who e first changed the color of bridal gare ments. At her marriage with Frane cis II. of France in 1553?which s took place not before the altar, but s before the great doors of Notre a Dame?she was gowned in white f brocade, with a train of pale blue a Persian velvet six yards in length. This innovation caused quite a stir in the fashionable world at that time. It was not, however, till quite - the end of the seventeenth century s that pure white, the color hitherto - worn by royal French widows, be" came popular for bridal garments L -ri i -i /-<i i. -n_i n in Jingiana.?unurcn rAuccuc. e r A Driller. , e An Irishman looking for work | J took his stand in a group at the gate ( ] of a large engineering establishI ment. By and by the foreman came 1 e up to the gate and asked: l# "Are there any drillers here?" I "Yes/* said Pat, stepping for- i : ward. He got the job at once, but he a had not been working long at the machine when it broke down. The t foreman, in anything but a pleas ant mood, then inquired: i "Where, man. did you learn drill? ing?" "In the militia." was Pat's reply. ?London Express. i j We can furnish you Tobacco Cloth 1 l' in any desired quantity. People's Mercantile Co., L 'Kingstret, S. C. , .m - m % ;& 1,000 to 1 It's a Harvard Brand Suit he is wearing. ^ < They are the kind that give satisfaction in j Wear i ISjHB The cold days are here, if you are not fitted out with a "Harvard Brand" Winter Suit, vou are f missing a good feeling that belongs to you. ni r\ r\ o\/ OLUU D I = ; Mercantile Co., , ~ - c. =37- ^?a.cle IB3r ED, SCIiDL k CO, W YORK and SAVANNAH. - ? ?? ^wvyvyvwwvywvpwVVWYVVWWVYW^ I It will be to your ad/" % t vantage to call and see I I us as we are still 1 ? SELLING AT CREATLY | |. Redn::d Prices, | I a MARCUS, 1 , ? Kingstree, S. C. ^ xmAAAAAAAAAAAAAMA1 mamawaaaaaaaaamaaaaa ^ I "A dollar saved is a dollar made"1 There is no better way to save your dollars than by dealing with - - J. L. Stuckey, the old reliable live-stock man. I have a splendid line of - Biiis, fins ill Dm, that in view of the hard times am offering at 10 per cent above cost. A nice bunch of HORSES and MULES always on hand at prices tojsuit. J. L. 5tuckey, l^c^s c. 5xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?5 Q r.AMINO V B ^ WsSlM dl)IElMMJUL9 ^ 0 Orangeburg's Old Reliable Photo Artist, 0 O Established 1880, will be at 8 8 KINGSTREE, S. C. 8. 8 From Feb, 19th to 26th. of [S Positivelyno longer. Photos taken in cloudy O ? and fair weather. Bring the baby. V 3 C. M- ORSDELL, Artist o Li