The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 01, 1899, Image 3
PROHIBITION IN UM TEE
The Dispensary Closed as a Result
of Election of New Dispenser.
Tbe dispensary deadlock is still unbroken,
io fact j tbe wfcole affair is in a more mixed
np and confas;ng condition than ever before.
The dispensary is closed, and the county
board of control, Dispenser Raffieid and Dis
peoser-elect Beames are camping in it while
waiting for the lawyers to unravel the legal
tangle.
The term of Dispenser Raffieid expired on
December 3ist. bet as the county board of
control could sot legally elect his successor
prior to that date, owing to the failure
of the applicants to Sie applications
ia conformity witb tbe law. he held
orer catii February lat. In the me&n
ix ta Mr J. M Reames was elected dispenser,
oat til eiectio* was coa tested by Mr. Raffieid
aad the matter was tied np, so that Hr. Raf
field held orer until March 1st. On February
25th Mr. Reames vas again elected, ami it
was expected that be would take charge of
tbs dispensary this morning, as bis appila
! lion was m conformity with the law, his
election was unanimous and his. bond was
filed and approved. Yesterday afternoon
when business waa orer for the day at the
dispensary, Messrs. Windham and Cut doo of
the county board o' control went to the dis
pensary to take stock and tnrn over the busi
ness to Dispens^r-e ect Rearaes. fir. Raffieid
ref ased to torn over the dispensary and mat
ters were at a standstill. Messrs.. Cut ti no,
Windham and Bameld camped in the dispen
sary siast night and they are etill tbere,
neither side having yat decided to yield
This morning Mr. Beames went to tbe dis
pensary to t&ke charge, bot the county board
could cot deliver possession, so he joined the
waitera sod is etil! waiting for Mr. Raffieid
to give io. The dispensary cando no busi
ness as no one knows who is dispenser, and
H has not been opened this morning. Mr.
Belfield claims, it is stated, that wben te
be2d over after bis term expired on December
31st, be was required te give a new bond and
did file a bond Tor 12 months, the bond being
accepted and approves by the county board
of control, consequently be is legally
entitled to remain in the position of dispenser
for the remainder of the year The board of
control asserts that Mr. Raffieid was required
to give bond only for the time that he held
over no til bis snccesaor could be elected, and
it was accepted and approved for that timo
and no longer Another ground that Mr.
Raffieid has for lefu&iog to yield possession of
the dispensary is that the county board of
control is not a legally organized body, one
msmfcer, Mr. Windham, beiog disqualified in
that he holds two offices, viz : member of the
county board of control and jailer, conse
quently the election of Mr. Reaa.ee was not
legal.and is null and void
Both sides are acting under the advice of
lawyers and matters will remain in statu quo
notU legal proceeding can be had to settle
the points to dispute. Purdy Reynolds
represent the cone ty board of control, and L
D Jennnings, S.-q , Las charge'of Mr. Raf
aela's case.
Chamberlain's Conga Remedy,
This remedy is intended especially for
conges, colds, creep, whooping cough and
infieesza. It has become famons for its
earea of these diseases, over a large part of
the civilised worid. The most flattering
testimonials have been received, giving ac
counts of ita gond works ; of the aggravating
and persistent congos lt baa cored ; of severe
olds that have yielded promptly to its sooth
img effects, and of the dangerous attacks of
croup it bas cared, often saving tbe life of
the child. The extensive nae of it for whoop
ing cough has shown that it robs that disease
of all dangerous consequences- It is espe
cially prised by mothers for their children,
as it never fails to effect a speedy curs, and
because they have fonod that tbere is not
the least danger io firing it, even to babies,
aa it contains nothing injurions Sold by Dr
A. J. China ''ml
.
March Ladies' Home Journal.
The March Ladies' Home Journal bas a
noteworthy feature in the page showing
'Pope Lao STU as fae Lives ia tba Vatican "
The pictures were made by the only photo
grapher who bas bean admitted to the Vatican
for a number of years, consequently they
offer the first eiese view the public bas had in
a long time of the Pope and his surround
ings. An article that wilt be widely read*
figures oct "The American Girl's Cbaoces of
Marriage," and another, "Social Life io
America's French City," gives a really
charming glimpse toto tba exclusive Creole
eircles of New Orleans. "The Most Wonder
ful Musical Festival ic America" recalls tbe
great Peace Jubilee held at Boston io 1872
with its seventeen hundred instrumentalists
and ebor ag of seventeen thousand. "Cbu ch
es Decorated for Weddings," "The Prettiest
Coantry Bornes in America," "Flowers and
Flower Beds," and "Fifteen Good Mantels
aiad Fireplaces" are abo wo from the photo
graphs submitted in tbe contest for Journal
prizes "I'J Nature's Garden" pictures and
describes our wild Sowers so tbeir identifica
tion will be easy. The article is by N eli je
B'anchan and is the erst of a series. By The
Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia.
Ose dollar per year; ten cents per copy.
PRIVATEER PERSONALS.
Privateer Tovrrehip, S. C , Feb 27, 1399
-It is probably co: ofteo that H mother acd
daughter are found teaching free sebools in
one country township, bat Privateer bes an
iostance of the kind. Mrs. Wbit6eld Wells
and Miss Una Wells are both teachers-the
fors er is filling ont the unexpired term of
. Miss Anna Easterling, who resigned to accept
a school where the session ex fended farther
into tbe year. Our free schools are closing
now, and the following school directory of
teachers and schools of Privateer Township
will interest many of your readers :
Bithel Schcol, Mrs. Whitfield WeliB ; Mel
lett, Mr. J. E. Webb ; Red Oak, Mr. Will ie
Cain, Jr. ; Ingram, Mis9 Allie Toole ; Tin
dal, Miss Una Wells ; Gilgal, Miss Victoria
Baxter ; Providence, Mis3 Lizzie Perry.
Colored schools, Cane Savanna, Bertha Sas
portes ; Enon, B.rdie Robinson ; Mooagban,
Eliza Green ; Neal, Mary Davis ; Pearson
Chapel, Charlotte Singleton ; Dwyer, Mary
Wilson, and Harrison, Rev. J. McKeneie
Barnsen.
Tbe school trustees of Privater Township
ara Messrs. Richard Tisdale, W ii lie Kolb and
Sumter Richardson, and they form a good
! board.
Among the family names fonnd. in Sonth
: Carolina which are cot common, is that of
Wbilden, some of which family, as our read
ers know, live in Privateer Township. In
looking over the American Monthly Magazine
for December we fonnd another family bear
ing this name, spelled differently, bat evi
dently pronounced the same. Io this maga
zine Mrs. Beniah Harvey Wbilldin has an
interesting and weil written article on the
Merion Chapter (Daughters of the American
Revolution) of Montgomery County, Penn.
Mrs. Whilldin is Registrar of this chapter.
A gentiem&n of this township recently re
lated to ns the following incident of Poler's
raid through what now forms Privateer
Township. A widow lady with ber yonngest
child in her arms plead with the raiders to I
spare ber property, but notwithstanding her
pleadings, the raiders took all ber work ani
mals. This lady still lives in Privtaeer
Township, and tbe child who was then a
baby, is also living here. '
Speaking of the Confederate war, the fact
may be mentioned here that there are living
in our township several near relatives of tbe
last wife of Gen. Richard H. Anderson, than
whom a braver soldier never drew a sword
in America. It is te be regretted that the
memory of one .who fought so gallantly ender
the "stars and bars'7 of the Southern Con
federacy should have faded away so. What
a theme for a biographical sketch would such
a life have presented to the glowing pea? of a
Macaulay or a Parton. Sumter County can
always feel proud that she gave birth to such
a son as gallant ''Fighting Dick" Anderson
Mrs. Frances Compton, who has lived in
Sumter for several past, bas retaraed to
Privateer Township and is liviog with her
'son, Mr. John Compton. She is among the
oldest white people of our townuhip, beiog
eighty odd. We called and had a chat with
ber not long since. Her husband bas been
dead many years. She was the mother of
twelve cbildrec, six of each sex, eleven of
whom she raised Shs can sew with glasses
and bas good hearing. Shs informed us
that she has lived in Sumter County ever
since she was grown. The old lady's mind
ie clear and we found ber in excellent
spirits.
Mr. Matt Ramsey shot a dog yesterday that
bad the appearance of having hydrophobia.
A party occurred at Mr. A. J. Pipkios's
last week.
Mr. Jesse Norton accidentally shot bis
cousin, Jim Norton, in the leg recently with
a pistol.
Mr. Joe McLeod, one of our farmers, has
never owned a pistol and never shot one
nore than half a dozen times. McD. F.
Feb. 28 -Mr. Joe Hudson died yesterday.
He was a worthy young man and *ris mar
ried aet year. McD. F.
mitam^ mm -- -
I have been afflicted with rheumatism for
fourteen years and nothing seemed to give
any relief. I was able to be around all the
time, but constantly suffering. I bad tried
everything I conld fc; ar of and at last was
told to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which
I did, and waa immediately relieved and in a
sbort time cored. I am happy to say tbat it
has not since returned.-Josh Edgar, Ger*
mao town Cal- For sale by Dr. A. J. Chios.
Rev. E. Edwaids, pastor of the English
Baptist Church at Mioersville, Pa., when
suffering with rheumatism, wes advised to
try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He says : "A
few applications of this liniment proved of
great service to me. It subdued tbe inflam
m&tion and relieved tbe pain. Should any
sufferer profit by giving Paie Balm * trial it
will please me." For sale bj Dr. A. J. China.
Paper novels, 500 new titles, many of
them never before issued ia cheap form. H.
G Usteen & Co.
The happiest ladies are those osing the
Wbitesewing machine.
The "Wbi.te" runs light. The "White'
sews right.
SMALLPOX IN BISHOPVILLE. j
An Unfounded end Unjust Charge
Against Sumter
.In Sunday's State the following corres
pondence from Bisbopville, under date of
February 24tb, appeared :
'Q uite an alarm was occasioned here on
last Saturday afterBOOD by the report that
there was a case of smal'pox on a plantation
in the suburbs cf the town in a family of ne
groes One physician who examined tbis
case pronounced ii not smallpox Dr Evans
was wired to send an expert here, and Dr.
Bacot and Health Officer Reardon came in
to-day and proceeded at once to make an ex
aaaioat!0= of th ca9es, of which at this ti ? e
there seems to be three Dr. Bacot pro
nounces it genuine smallpox, and vaccination
of all colors, age3 and conditions is now the
order of the day. It is believed by many
that if this is smallpox, it bas been here for
the past 12 months, as a great many children
suffered from an eruptive disease a year ago,
which covered their bodies from bead to foot
with sores, and which was thought at that
time to be chickenpox.
The town of Sumter has been the nursery
of smallpox from which it bas been trans
planted to different sections of tbe county for
the past year. The Sumter papers have been
gener os in publishing accounts of the
smallpox at Mayesvilie, Scottsville, Oswego
aad other places, while it is a well-known
fact that there are from 40 to 50 caaes of that
dread disease in that town, many of them
among white citizens, end yet not one word
of it was ever published "
The statements in reference to this city are
es unfounded on fact as onjost to this city
The writer of the article is not acquainted
with the facts, or else wonld not have made
the assertions that he did, for there ts no con
ceivable reason for the publication of un
founded reports that are calca! a ted to iojore
the city of Sumter. The writer knows full
well that when smallpox was epidemic in
Sumter last spring the fullest publicity was
given to the fact by all of the papers of this
city, and no effort was made to conceal any
thing connected with the epidemic. Within
the past five weeks there have been five cases
of smallpox in this city, the disease being
reintroduced into the city from other sec
tions of the couoty.
The best answer to the remarks of the
Bishopville correspondent of the State is the
following statement from Dr S C Baker,
chairman of the city Board of Health :
"When smallpox fi cst appeared io Sumter
last sommer, sometime about the 1st of Jnoe,
it was found that it was brought by a student
of Claflia ooiversty of Orangeburg. As soon
as the disease was pronounced smallpox, to
prevent the spread of the disease, compulsory
vaccination was ordered by the city authori
ties, and as far as the physicians knew every
body in the city limits were vaccinated, with
the exception of some who said they would
not be vaccinated and eluded the physicians,
saying they would "ruiner" have smallpox
than to be vaccinated. (One of these is now
enjoying bis "ratbers.") In about five weeks
from the time the frrst case appeared in
Sumter there was not a single case,
and there were no caaes from the 15th
of Joly until about 15th of January. During
that time a great many people moved into
! Sumter who bad not been vaccinated, and
: some time about the middle of January the
disease again broke out, this time a oegro by
the name of Reese Scott from Clarendon
county was found to have it. The second
case wat Fancie Singletary from Scottsville,
which is a few miles from Mayesville As to
there being 40 or 50 cases io Sumter now,
that is aosolotely without foendation, as
there are only five cases, and some of them
are the ones who are having their "ratbers."
Bat four or five of these cases will be dis
charged within three or four days and the
other in about one week. Such in the situa
tion to day.".
Geo. B. Secord, the well known contractor
of Towanda, N. Y., says : "I bave used
Chamberlain's Congh Rem dy ic my family
for a long time and have found it superior to
any other." For sale by Dr. A. J. China.
A DIRECT LHJfi TO THE PEID
MONT.
S. C. & Ga., Will Build From Gaff
ney to Spartanbnrg.
The Sumter and Wateree Railroad will be
a rather insignificant and unimportant road
tn itself, with its fifteen miles of track, begin
ning iu Sumter and ending at Middleton
junction, and on this account many persons
who are not accustomed to look below the
surface and are given to forming opinions and
drawing conclusions from what they see at
first glance, have exhibited a disposition lo
belittle the new road and to mak? light of it.
They have gone so far as to assert emphati
cally that the city would receive bot meagre
benefits from the road, and that as' the road
is but fifteen mile in length it follows neces
sarily that it cao do little for Sumter. This
sort of talk is but the vaporings of unin
formed minds and is not worth consideration.
The Sumter and Wateree alone is insignifi
cant, bot as a part of the South Carolina and
Georgia R. R.. it is of the first importance
and it will be of great and lasting benefit not
only to this city but to the entire country.
The South Carolina & Georgia RR. is a
strong, prosperous and progressive system
and is reaching out ail the time for more ter
ritory and more business. The Ohio River
and Charleston R. R. (the 3 C's) is now
owned and operated by the S C. & Ga , aed
this road will be extended in a short time
from Gaffney to Spartanbnrg This will
give this city direct connection with the cot
ton mill district of the Piedmont and will
enable the mills to buy cotton here oo an
equal footing with the export buyers who have
heretofore bad a monopoly of the market.
It is a well known fact that cotton brines
better prices in the places where the mills
have boyare, and tbe imprcvemeot of the
Sumter cotton market will not be the least of
the benefits following the completion of the
Sumter and Wateree asd the entraace of the
S. C. & Ga., into this city.
What the Charleston Post said yesterday
of the proposed extension of tbe S. C. Ga
to Spartanbnrg will be of interest :
"The Sooth Carolina and Georgia road
will soon be operating trains over its own
tracks to Spartanbnrg instead of over the
Southern.
The bill which was recently passed to allow
the South Carolina and Georgia road to
build from Gaffney a terminus of the Ohio
River and Charleston railroad to Spartanburg
eeem3 to have met with general favor both
in the up and low country.
It is not positively known when active
work will begin on the Spartanburg exten
9IOB, but there is every eeason to believe that
it will be some time within the near fotare
The coropletioQ of the road will give
Charleston a direct route to the most pros
perous towns in the Piedmont section, where
are located the big cotton mills of the South.'
It will be the means of reducing freight rates
and the wholesale men will reap the benefits
of the trade from the country merchants who
are now buying from Richmond and Balti
more because of the low rate given by the
Southern.
"Toe citizens of Spartanburg are delighted
witb the efforts being made by the Sootb
Carolina and Georgia road to get into their
town."
SWINDLED AGAIN.
Did You Buy ADy Asbstos-Bot
tomed Utensils.
About the last of January e stnootb
spoken and plausible oung man. who gave
tbe name of M. C. Hall, canvaesed tbe town
fjr orders for ao improved style of asbestos
bottomed cooking utensils. He claimed to
represent tba firm of C S Osgood & Co , of
185 Market St, Philadelphia, Pa. He ob
taioed a number of orders, collecting thc
ffi- oey as be went along, and it is said be
raked in a considerable sum of mooay. H*
promised among other things that the goods
would be delivered express prepaid without
delay. But tbere was delay-considerable
dely-for the improved cooking utensils hive
not yet arrived and those who parted with
their good mooey are now sorry they ever
aw the smooth-tongued Mr Hall. Nor will
they ever see th e as be tos-bo no a ed saucepans,
tea kettles, waffle irons and cake pans, for
Mr Hall is a fake pure and simple. One ot
the parties who gave Mr. Hall ao order for
$4 worth of his utensils and paid Jbim the
money got tired waiting for them to arrive
by enpress, prepaid, cod last week wrote to
a lawyer in Philadelphia to look up C. S.
Osgood & Go. Here is what tbe lawyer says:
"Immediately upon receipt of your letter
I sent my private secretary to see Messrs C.
S Osgood & Co., and I am sorry to inform
you that tbere is no such number as 185
Market St, io Philadelphia, no such firm in
business here aod no such name in the city
directory.".
Other housewives who are still waiting for
their aabetos-bottomed utensils to arrive
need wait no longer-they have been swin
dled again by a smooth-tongued agent, con
cern i og whom they knew nothing. It pays
io tba long run to patronise home concerns,
wbo do a straight business and are not bard
io Sad. They may not have so many im
provements on their asbestos-bottomed uten
sils a d those tbat they have may not be aa
cheap as the Hall-Osgocd variety, bot when
you pay for their's you are sure to get them.
Gov. Ellerbe's Condition.
Gov. Ellerbe as uot quite as wei
yesterday morning as be bad been tbe
day before. Tbe morning was damp,
and the humid atmosphere was quite
oppressive. However, tbere was co
startling change in bis co dition.
European and American Me
chanics.
\ -
Taken all round, the European
worker is at a disadvantage compared
with the American, as so much time
is consumed in stopping and starting,
in eating sandwiches, and in drink
ing beer and tea daring workinf
hours. It is impossible to produce
as much work in the ten boors in
this dawdling, nibbling fashion as
can be turned out in straight away
rons, nuder foil steam, with good
fuel and plenty of it Estimate the
time-wasted in one day for the break
fast hour alone, in an English woik
shop where one thousand men are
employed. Is it an exaggeration to
say that ten minutes are lost at this
time by each individual ? For one
thousand men this is, say, 1G0 hours
per day ; in a week, 960 hours The
American mechanic begins the day
with a substantial breakfast, starts
work at 7, works without stopping
till 12. has an hour for dinner, and
works again from 1 to 6 without
stopping No beer, no tea, no sand
wiches. Well fed steady working
Which bas the advantage ?-H F L.
Orcutt, in The Engineering Magazine
for March
Inharmonious Utterances.
. We killed 2.000 and wounded
2,500," said Gen Otis tn his report of
the battle of Manila. ' Oar concern
was not for territory, or trade or
empire, but for the people whose
interests and destiny, without our
willing it, had been put in our bands,"
said President McKinley in his speech
at Boston
The average merchant will get angry
if you tell him you don't believe there
are any good reasons why people should
patronize bim in preference to his com
petitors. Thus aroused, he will poor
out reasons-good reasons, too
en o cg h to fill a book. Bat it rarely
occurs to the average merchant to give
the public those reasons in his advertis
ing. He doesn't seem to realize that
such is the best sort of advertising
the only sort of advertising that is real
advertising.
The Alabama Dispensary bill has
been approved by Governor Joh o st OB
-ad it applies to tbe counties of Cham
bers, Cherokee, Coffee, Dale, Elmore,
Geneva, Pike, Russell (except Gerod)
Butler (except Greenville); Perry (ex
cept Un too town} ; Randolph (except
Roanoke) ; Cherokee beat io Colbert, to
go into effect Jan. 1st, 1900. Lowndes
to take effect immediately.
Tbe largest single order booked by
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, at
Pbiiedelpbia, was taken last week it
calls for a oontraot to build eighty-one
locomotives for the Trans- Siberian
Railroad.
Washington, Feb. 27.-The presi
dent to-day nominated Samuel T.
Pointer to be postmaster at Spartan
burg, S. O.
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A Bash Woman.
Close to the wagon we met a bush
woman, one of Indowyofca's people, re
duced by starvation to the most emaci
ated and pitiable condition. Her hus
band had been killed by lions some days
before, thongh she herself had escaped
with her life. On her back and shoul
ders were the marks where the same
lion had ripped away great strips of
flesh. Long clots of blood had dried on
her body; the wounds had not even
been washed. I gave her some meat,
which she seized upon and at once ate
ravenously. The bones were almost
through her filthy skin ; her little beady
eyes set close together under a low. re
treating forehead, her flattened nose
and large protruding lips, concealing
what little chin she possessed, gave her
a look most uncanny and repellent.
Altogether more like an animal than
a human being, she seemed to me the
lowest type of womankind that it has
ever been my fate to look on. There are
numbers of bushmen and their wives
who live in this miserable condition,
wandering through the veldt with no
other means of subsistence than such
trash as wild roots and berries. Some
of the men have guns and ammunition,
and they spend their whole time in
shooting. When they kill a buck within
reach of water-say ten miles-the
whole family congregates on the spot
sits round the body and gorges itself
zsitil every scrap of flesh and skin has
disappeared-Blackwood's Magazine
The First John Jacob Astor.
Although Mr. Astor had led a life
mainly devoted to business interests,
he found great pleasure in the society
of literary men, says Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe in The Atlantic. Dr. Cogswell
made his home with us for some years
after the closing of his famous school
but finally went to reside with Mr. As
tor, attracted partly by the latter's
promise to endow a public library in
the city of New York. This was accom
plished after some delay, and the doc
tor was for many years director of the
Astor library. He used to re ate some
humorous anecdotes of excursions which
he made with Mr. Astor. In the course
of one of these the two gentlemen took
supper together at a hotel recently
opened Mr. Astor remarked, "This
man will never succeed. "
"Why not?" inquired the other.
"Don't yon see," replied the finan
cier, "what large lumps of sugar he
puts in the sugar bowl?"
Once, as they were walking slowly to
a p" itboat which the old gentleman
Mc oartered for a trip down the har
T. Cogswell said, "Mr. Astor. I
have just been calculating that this
boat costs you 25 cents a minute. " Mr.
Astor at one hastened his pace, reluc
tant to waste so much money
Resuscitated the Pet Kitten.
A well known East End doctor tells
a story of his experimenting days when
he was at college. A girl whom, he
j knew and admired had a pet kitten
! that in frisking around broke one of its
hind legs. The fair mistress was in de
spair and in extremity asked h r med
ical student admirer to try his skill on
the pet. He consented and took his
father's messenger boy. who was used
to the surgery, to apply the anaesthetic.
The doctor made the amputation and
was sewing up the flap beautifully,
when the boy gave a yell and said the
cat was dead. Ii had been chloroform
ed to death,
The doctor knew that the demise of
the pet would kill his hopes with the
mistress. He had only one alternative,
artificial respiration, and seizing the
forepaws he set to work. In ten min
utes he saw he was saved, for the kit
ten began to breathe. It was restored,
minus one of its clawers, to the girl, who
never knew how near it came to being
buried in the back garden.-Pittsburg
Dispatch. _
Her Tong-ne.
They were talking of figures of
speech.
"Have you ever noticed, " said one,
"how fond people are of - Bgetable meta
phors when they are dealing with a
woman? Her cheeks are 'roses, ' her lips
are . cherry,' her hands are always 'lily'
hands, her mouth is a 'rosebud, ? ber
complexion is 'like a peach, * and ber
breath is 'fragrant as honeysuckle.' "
"You've forgotten one," iaid the
cynic.
"What's that?"
"Her tongue, It is a scarlet runner. "
A Considerate Lover.
Parent-Of course, as my daughter
is of age, she can suit herself as to mar
rying you, but the day she does I will
cut her off without a penny.
Suitor (after a pause)-Well under
those circumstance^, sir, we will break
our engagement I could not think of
depriving a young lady of her inherit
ance.-Harlem Life
A Wall Paper Trick.
"An old fellow came along the other
day, " says a Philadelphia restaurant
keeper, "who gave me a pointer I had
never dreamed of. He came in and of
fered to patch up all the bad places in
my wall paper and so skillfully that I
couldn't find a place after it was done
Well. 1 hadn't any patching to do, but
I bet the old chap a quartier and his
dinner that he couldn't do what he
said I tore a patch out of the wall
paper, and when he was through eat
ing he went to work.
"The first thing he did was to cut 3
piece of blank wall paper big enough to
cover the hole and paste it over Next
he took a brush and painted a ground
the same as the other paper Then, kick
me if he didn't take other brushes and
colors and paint in the design of the
paper I willingly yielded up a quarter
with the dinner and was satisfied when
I saw the alacrity and ease with which
the fellow did his work "-New York
Tribune.
The little Japs are about as free from
the vice of drunkenness as any people
in the world In fact, it is the rarest
thing in the world to see an inebriated
subject of the mikado. The native
drink, "saki," is used about as tea in
this country, and it is but little more
intoxicating
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BOARDING
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House, I am prepared to accommodate a few
.regular boarders, aod also lodging aod meals
to transient customers.
Terms reasonable.
Mas. W. B. SMITH.
Sept. g.
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