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? ? ? ? ?? j| Full now yt( .? up-to-date or vari @ ? i For Ladies: @ @ is ? IV ? :?:?:?.?:?:@:?:?:?:@. NEWS AT LAKE CITY ! AND VICINITY. AFTER BLIND TIGERS - THE CARNIVAL? ENGINE JUMPED TRACK AND BLOCK ED TRAFFIC-RUNAWAY ACCIDENT Lake City, October 27:?Mr Dallas L Jones, now of Charleston, delighted his old friends with a visit last week. No former resident of this town is more welcome th?n he. Though Christmas is only two months off the mocking birds -lfoctill cincrinfr. On this Oc s>- ? - tober 25 the writer listened ' to a magnificent concert of the famous Southern songsters. Mr C S Lucas spent Sunday in Florence. Is that the only day one can spend peacefully in Florence? Sheriff Graham was in town a short while Monday. It has been reported to the Sheriff that an alcoholic drink was being sold by a certain person in town and that it was being sold on Sunday as well as on week days. We understand that the claim is made that the drink is not iutoxicating. The revival services at the Methodist church, which were carried on during last week, are being continued this week. The pastor, Rev W L Waite, js conducting the meeting without assistance. The Maryland Amusement Co., No 1, is exhibiting in Lake City this week, and the carnival is attracting large crowds. A C Davis, Esq., an attorney of Goldsboro, N C\, was in town j one day last week. Mr 0 S Baldwin has gone to Falcon, N C., to attend a school at that place. Late Friday afternoon an engine while shifting jumped the track at the switch in front of Sauls-Baker Cos store and blocked traffic for something like three hours. This is the second time within a few weeks an engine has been derailed at the same spot, but whether in the same manner we do not know. However, if eye- i witnesses are to be belie\ed, the first mishap was due to no defect in the road but to the manner in which the switch was operated. Thursday afternoon Mr Wardie Carter and his brother : drove their mule up to the fountain in front of Messrs ( Stewart & Floyd's store, which i is something like a hundred t* arar/lc frnm Ilia aiiu U1 V > ii VU4 fcuv. 1UU road crossing-. The young ' 1 1 v"C? I LA =S C >ck just arrived, (ir ied stock of scliool sho< We are agents f Queen Quality INGSTRE ?:?:?:?:?:@:?:@:?:?:? brother got down and slipped < ! j the blidle to permit the mule 1 to drink, while Mr Wardie re 1 inained in the buggy. From 1 some unaccountable cause the'1 mule took frig-lit, and running!] directly towards the railroad.,] dashed full speed against a Hat;' car ol a moving train. Mr < Carter was hurled from the ] buggy and almost directly be- ? tween the wheels of the car, ? but, with rare presence of < mind, he rolled out of danger 1 and escaped with some bruises. ' The mule, however, was fearful- 1 ly wounded. The upper arm of one shoulder was broken into j1 splinters and the point of the j1 shoulder blade shattered. j' Our good friend, Mr Jno B ' Davis of Lambert writes us that "The ancient tombstone" is a : myth. His letter is so well written and so interesting that 1 we take the liberty of quoting 1 a large part of it. He says: ' "Some years ago a friend of J mine living near the Belin 1 church informed me that there ' was an old gravestone in the ' Belin burial ground with an i inscription on it no one had j been able to decipher. He stat- 1 ed further that the stone had ' been ploughed up in a field 1 over fifty years ago by one of Mr Cleland Belin's slaves, Dock Gaillard by name, and been placed in recent years at the ! base of the tombstone over Mr ' C Belin's grave as a prop to hold the tomb-stone erect. I walked over to the graveyard from Mingo bridge the same i afternoon 1 got my information j1 and examined the stone. It 1 was a flat piece of sandstone 1 such as abounds in that region ' and was in its natural shape, 1 and the following lettering was ;1 in plain English, and the |' numerals such as we use now, |' and the inscription as follows:!] Yon Woo aged 34 mo ] Died October 1168 P My opinion of the mutter ( is that some old resident of 1 Willstown cut this inscription i1 on the soft sandstone either' ^ for a joke or for a pastime, j ^ The date was a good many! years before the discovering of1 c America and a good many: t years before our present numerals were used." 1 It has been suggested that s possibly the date intended is i not the year 1168 but October 11.1S68. Some would write the date thus: October U'68 or 11,68. The character ' or , may have been cut so shallow as to ic have disappeared. Mr W A J Moore, of Moore's | -LillDIEc N ALL THE LATEST SH/ DIES' SHO] -s^HEN'S, OF s. >:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:@:? HOOL eat variety for boys a pis to select from thai or the following vv V' :e dry :@:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:g :ross roads, about four miles j from here, made a corn crop this year which several of us J I think deserves mention. 'I lie j records ot Drake. Tyndale and j perhaps others for a single prize acre were not broken, but amount of fertilizers, :haracter of land and average yield lor the entire crop being considered, Mr Moore's suc:ess must be regarded as excellent. The land is not rich bottom land, but is what is known as ordinary upland, reclaimed from the flat pine - A . woods, and hai.' been under cultivation several years, producing the ordinarv crop of corn, cotton, tobacco, potatoes, etc. Neither did he select his best acre and "pet" it up several years for a prize contest. He simply planted an entire field with the object of making a good crop at reasonable cost. The field contains sixteen acres. All ol it was prepared in the same way and planted, manured and cultivated in the same manner. About five acres of the corn were a little better than the remaining eleven. In this five acres he staked off one acre and gathered the coin LLiCi ci i vjiii scpai a lci \ fully shelled and measured it. The yield from this acre was seventy-nine bushels and five quarts (79 bus and 5 qts). The yield of the entire field of sixteen acres averaged seventy bushels. In other words Mr Moore gathered from the sixteen acres eleven hundred and twenty bushels (1120) of prince white corn. The fertilizers used cost about $15.00 the acre, [tot including some stable manure which was produced without any outlay of money. Mr Moore says that the fodder and pea-vine hay produced along with the corn will just about pay for the fertilizers. This leaves him 1120 bushels of :orn net, which is worth $1,120, tnd this from sixteen acres! Is tot this right good farming on :he "poor flat lands of Wiliamsburg?" We have heard of some )ther big corn crops in the sur ounding country, notably Mr 1 E Godwin's and Mr Alex niton's. It is hoped that we hall be able to give particulars lext week W L B. If in need of a first class horse >r mule, call on It B Cannon, 10-21-2t at Scranton, S C. MOST UP-TO.I r tailo: \DES AND STYLES. QU EtT AND EEX UPTO-DAT YOUTHS' AT? ALL THE LATEST SHAI n a r ?>:?'?.?:@:?:?:?:?:?:?:c _ SHO lid girls. Wide rang 1 ours. EVERY PAI ell=kno\vn standan For Men: How; GOODS Investor Davy and Love. Sir Humphry Davy, the inventor of I the Davy lamp, found love something: of a delusion, if not a snare. Writing i to his mother, he said, 'iCTx<hc happiest of men in the hope of a union with a woman equally distinguished ; for virtues, talents and accomplish men is." And in a letter to bis brother he expresses his rapture thus: "Mrs. Apprece has consented to marry me. and when the event ta'tes place I shall not enry kings, princes or potentates." j The widow must have been a person possessed of great powers of fascination, for Sir Henry Holland makes . mention of her as a lady who made snch a sensation In Edinburgh society 1 that even a regius professor did not think It beneath his scholarship to go ' down on his knees In the street to fasten her shoe. The sequel need not be , dwelt upon farther than to add that J the marriage turned out to be altogether a mistake. Fergusson and the Rabbit*. Robert Fergusson, the poet, was first i matriculated at St Andrew's universi- i t ty In the session of 17G4-.7. It was the custom at this time for each bursar to take his turn in Invoking 'blessing" at the meals. The college table having ! been surfeited with an unbroken diet I of rabbits in various forms of cookery. Fergusson, on being called to say grace, repented what are now celebrated lines: For r&bblta young and for rabbita old. For rabbita hot and for rabbita cold, For rabbits tender and for rabbits tough Our thanks we render, for we've had enough: It may be added Fergusson was not sent down, but the rabbits were "rusticated." They Were Changed. While serving as commandant of a district in India tJem-ral t'reagh had on one occasion presented the prizes at the garrison sports and was rather surprised w htfn one of the prize winners?a pr! ate in an infantry regiment? appf inched him a few days later and pegged to know if he would i be allowed to change his prize for I something more useful. "What was your prize?' asuea toe general. In reply the man produced a long case from under his arm and showed a handsome can ing set. "Very nice. 1 am sure." said General Creagh. "What do you want to change them for?" "Well, yon see. sir," replied the man, ( "I find them rather difficult to use at mealtime, and if it is all the same to the committee, sir. I would rather have a knife and fork of the size to eat moat with." Nature. He who knows the most, ho who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens and how to come at these enchantments. is the rich and royal man. Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid can they reach the height of magnificence.?Emerson. How to Make a Noiae. Harry, the highlander. was tent on being a successful Scot. He was bent on making a splash. Ocb, aye! But be was going to make those daft gowks (Scottish for "silly idiots") In England sit np. But how was narry to achieve bis aim? He sought advice of a great friend? i a Scotsman who had already made bLs 1 mark In shipbuilding circles. "Tell me," pressed Highland Harry, "hoo can I mak a noise in the warld?" The famous Bcotsman gazed at him steadily for a few moments and then, laying a hand on the inquirer's shoulder, bellowed: "Hoot, mon"' | -1 DATE LINE OF es-1v?^:D:E ARANTEED TO FIT. ALT :TRcV long E LINE OF ID BOYS' CL )ES. YOURS TO PLEASE, :cus. p'\ ftfgl ''-m ,# 2*?j| ??????????? ?? fc -A 5>:?.?:?.?:?:@:?:?:?;?:?:?:?:?:?.?:@.@:@:@:@ M E S || o in numbers. Yon cannot find a more ? v K SUM!) liJDATHriK. g i makes of shoes: 5 @ fl ard & Foster and Stetson. conpany |l j>:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?.?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:? 9 I mm 9iiii mrniin liUllUUU UUU lllUJJJJU. I Second Carload of fesh s!ock will arrive this week. I 11 Fancy Driving Horses, I Combination Horses, I Good Work Horses. IM Any and all sizes of I vjj| Nice, Sleek Farm Mules I jfl Ill ptf.113 Ul OllI^lC. Call and see us before buying or trading. V Yours to please, Williamsburg Live StockCo. J Kingstree, S. 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