The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 07, 1903, Image 7
LOST HIS NERVE.
Why It WasThat Bis Pete Failed to
Hit the Sheriff.
There were thirty men in the White
Wolf saloon waen the sheriff of Silver
county sauntered in to arres* big Pete
Thompson for murder. Pete was play
ing a hand in a game of poker, and
after nodding to him the sheriff stood
up at the bar and called for a drink.
His back was scarcely turned when
Pete laid down his cards, pulled his
gun and fired six shots as fast as his
finger could pulUhe trigger. The sheriff
never moyecL When the smoke had
rolled out of. the open door and we
could see, the sheriff stood in the same
position and wore the same smile. One
bullet had bizrned his cheek; a second
had grazed his ear; a third had cut
through his shirt collar under the left
esir. Big Pew was a dead shot, and
yet he had missed'his man at fifteen
? feet.
- "'Got through, Pete?" asked the sher
iff, breaking a silence that was posi
tively painful
"And you?you are not heeled!"
ga?ped Pete as his arm sunk slowly
down.
"No; come on."
"You didn't taring your guns?"
JiXo; if you are through shooting,
we'll go."
Pete, laid his two guns down on the
table before him and walked to the
door and out into the street. His horse
was tied to a post a block away. He
reached the horse, mounted and then
headed down the long street after the
sheriff, who weis giving him not the
slightest attention. In five minutes the
pair were out of sight.
"What ailed Pete?" was asked of
ike barkeeper, who had come to the
dew of the saloon.
"Lost his nerve," he brusquely re
plied.
"How do^you mean?"
> "Why, the sheriff coming without a
gun and standing there to be shot at
took all his sand away and made a wo
man of him." v
; "Suppose the sheriff had had a gnu?"
The man jerked his head towarH the
field wherein fifteen or twenty victims
had been buried and said:
"He'd :a' bin over thar."
"And will big Pete get clear?"
"Likely; but he'll have to leave here.
The hoys have already put him down
asN.G."
WAVES OF WATER.
The Nile is the only river in the
world that flows for 1,500 miles without
a tributary. "~
Off the Cape of -Good Hope waves
thirty-eight feet high from trough to
crest have been noted. ,
Prismatic lake, in the Yellowstone
National park, is the largest body of
"hot water in the world.
Three rivers' as big as the Rhine
would just equal in volume the Gan
ges,- three Gangeses the Mississippi
and two Mississippis the Amazon.
The St. Lawrence river is frozen four
months of the year, and its navigation
is so difficult that an average of one
steamer a month is wrecked in its wa
ters.
Askel Chin, in Tibet is the lake
which lies at a greater height than any
other in the world. Its level is 16,600
feet The Jowest the Dead sea, 1,200
feet below the sea level.
Xot An Reformed.
At a dinner given by a philanthropist
to the Society of Reformed Criminals a
gentleman complained to his host mid
way through the festivities that he had
lost his watch. The host-was a man of
great ingenuity. He caused all the
lights to be turned out Then he ob
served: "Some one here has a watch
that does not belong to him. If by the
time X have counted a hundred it is not
piaced on the Soor in the middle of the
room, the police will bo sent for." He
counted a hundredV aap the lights were
turned on again. Tmrty-three hand
some watches lay in the middle of the
room.
It Was Bud. *
The other day a young London street
arab, having found a bad sixpence,
was trying to make use of it at different
places, but to no purpose. At last he
went into a tobacconist's and asked for
a threepenny cigar.
Having got the cigar and also the
change, he was leaving the shop when
the man called out:
<4Come back here; it's a bad one."
"Never mind, sir," replied the young
ster. "I'll smoke it if it makes me ilL"
And he bolted out of the door.?Pear
son's Weekly.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Mercury's year Is only SS days, that
of Venus 225 days and of Mars GUI
days.
Cumulus, or thunder clouds, rarely
rise over two miles. Seven miles is
the outside height for any cloud.
The edge of the moon is so broken
by peaks, ridges and'valleys that the
length of totality during a solar eclipse
is affected by thein.
The sun's heat raises from the earth
37,000,000 tons of water a minute. To
do the same work artificially a cube of
coal 200 miles deep, wide and high
would have to be burned every second.
The archaic, wasteful "beehive" oven
process of making charcoal has been
superseded in many parts of Germany
by modern methods which save all the
ammonia, gas, tar and other products
of the wood.
. A human body contains some of the
small things of nature. The blood, for
example, is a colorless liquid in which
little red globules are floating. Every
drop of it contains about a million of
the globules, and they are susceptible
of division into smaller globules stiiL
Too Rough.
"I wish yon had broken the news
more gently," sighed the editor as the
office boy pied the first page by drop
ping the form down a flight of stairs.?
^Baltimore American.
INDIAN TRADING"
The Way to Beat tlie Red 3Ian Down
In His Prices.
"Few white men know how to trade
with an Indian," remarked a Denver
man who has made a study of Indians
for ten years past. "I once met an In
dian with a magnificent mountain lion
skin. He was willing ts part with the
ornament, but his price was too high.
I offered him $12.50, but he indignantly
refused. Later, on the same day* after
1 had learned to trade with an Indian,
I bought the skin for $1.50.
"The secret of trading with the' In
dian is to appear indifferent. The most
successful trader is the cue who goes
with a supply of the same article he is
most desirous of buying. The Indian
sees that the stranger has had experi
ence, and negotiations are carried on
upon a strictly business basis. An In
dian refused $10 for a bow and arrow.
It was bought for $1 by a man who
carried several bows and arrows in his
hand. This wily individual leased the
supply from a store in order to im
press his copper colored friends, and
he succeeded.
"The Indian," said the speaker, tell
ing of traits of character he has ob
served in his red friends, "is one of the
most faithful followers in the world
if he has confidence in you. If he takes
a liking to you, there is nothing you
can ask he will not do. If he dislikes
you, the less you have to do with that
Indian the better." ? Rocky Mountain
News.
A Knockout.
A young lawyer was engaged in a
case not long ago when a witness was
put in the box to testify to the Deputa
tion of the, place iu .question.
This witness, a stage driver; in an
swer to f.. query as to the reputation of
the place, replied, "A poor shop."
The lawyer inquired, "You say it has
the reputation of being a 'poor shopV "
"Yes, sir."
"Whom did you hear say it was a
'poor shop?'"
The witness did uot recollect any
one he had heard say so.
"What!" said the lawyer. "Ycu have
sworn this place has the reputation of
being a poor shop and yet cannot tell
of any one you have ever heard say
so?"
The witness was staggered for a mo
ment at the words of the lawyer. The
lawyer was feeling triumphant when
the witness gathered himself together
and quietly remarked, addressing the
lawyer:
"Well, you have the reputation of
being a poor lawyer, but I have never
heard any one say so."
CANiNE INTELLIGENCE.
A Dos: That Felt He Had More Sense
Than His Master.
My friend was staying one autumn
in Wales: Smoking and chatting one
evening with a local farmer, the talk
fell upon dogs. The farmer's sheep
dog lay before the fire, and the farmer
instanced his sagacity. He made an
exclamation in Welsh. At once the dog
rose and went to the door. "Xdu
might let him out," said the farmer.
" The sheep are in the corn' is what I
said to him." The dog passed eagerly
out. In a few minutes there was a
scratching at the door. The dog en
tered panting and lay down at the fire
again. Shortly afterward the farmer
repeated his Welsh remark. Again
the dog ran to the door, and my friend
let him out Again in a few minutes
was the .scratching at the door, and
again he lay down before the fire pant
ing. After an interval the farmer re
marked in Welsh, quite in the way of
conversation: "I am not easy about
those sheep. I do believe they're in
the corn." The dog, without rising,
looked up at the farmer, gave two
sharp yelps and turned round to his
sle:p agrlin. He said as plainly as
though it had been in words: "Don't
be a fool. I've been out twice and
ther're not in the corn."?London Out
look.
Adam's Staff.
The Talmudic writers tell us that
"the blessed God gave to the first man
in paradise a staff which had been
created between the stars. Adam gave
it to Enoch, Enoch to Noah, Noah to
Shem, Shem to Abraham, Abraham to
Isaac, Isaac to J icob. Jacob carried
it into Egypt and gave it to his son
Joseph. When Joseph died, his house
hold goods were taken to the house of
Pharaoh. Pharaoh took the staff of
Adam, which had descended to Jo
seph from the first man, and put it
among his special treasures."
MANY PEOPLE
Are willing to sacrifice
themselves and their chil
dren, to the prejudice of
"what people say."
Tas Fcolish Prejudice Against
th9 Use cf Glassss
By children with defective
Eyes often results in the
greatest suffering?some
times permanent disability
of one who might other
wise become a power in
the world.
E. A. BULTMAN,
Jeweler and Optician.
Dr. Z. F. Highsinith, Optician, in
charge of Optical Department.
17 S. Main Street, Samter, S. C.
Phone 194.
TEMPTED, HE ATE.
A Story of Heinrich Heine and a
Toothsome Lyons Sausage.
Returning from a journey to the
south of France Heinrich Heine met. a
friend, a German violinist, in Lyons,
who gave him a large .sausage thai bad
l5l*on made in Lyons, with the request
to deliver it to a mutual acquaintance,
a homeopathic physician, in Paris.
Koine promised to attend to the com
mission and intrusted the delicacy to
the care cf his wife, who was trav( I
ing with him. But as the post chaise
was very slow and he soon became
very hungry, on the advice of his wife
both tasted of the sausage, which
dwindled with every mile.
Arriving at Paris. Heine did not dare
to send the remainder to the physician,
and yet he wished to keep his promise.
So he cut off the thinnest possible
slice with his razor, wrapped it in n
sheet of vellum paper and inclosed ii
in an envelope, with the following
note: ?
Dear Doctor?From your scientific in
vestigations we learn that the millionth
part of a certain substance brings about
the greatest results. I beg. therefore,
your kind acceptance of the accompany
ing millionth part of a Lyons sausag?,
which cur friend gave me to deliver to
you. 7f homeopathy is a truth, then this
little piece will have the same c-ilect or
you as the whole sausage. Tour
HEINRICH HEINE.
?Ughcttfs "With Physicians 'and Cli
ents.'*
Kaid So Time
The Boy's Fatiier-Jdadam, let me
?sk if your daughter knows how to run
a house?can cook, for example, and
nurse the sick, mend clothes and, in
f3.ct, is familiar with all the multifari
ous details of domesticity V
The Girl's Mother?Certainly uot, sir!
Why, if she had learned all, these
things, her education would have beep
neglected.?Judge.
Greenville, January 1.?While on a
raid in the upper section of the coun
ty, near O'Neall, today, a party of re
venue officers and State constables cap
tured a mule, buggy and eighteeen
gallons of liquor. The driver of the
mule saw the officers in time to make
his escape, leaving the team in the
road.
Deatsville, Ala., January 1.?To
day Mrs. B. Lane, a white woman,
shot and killed a negro named John
Watkins, at the home of Mrs. Lane's
father about a mile from this place.
Watkins had entered the house, sup
posedly with the intention of robbery.
Discovered by Mrs. Lane, he fired
upon her, but missed. Mrs. Lane
then emptied both biarrels of a shot
gun into the negro's body, killing him
instantly. The dead man was a form
er convict.
MM I I II??
Ben Tillman at Columbus: "1 don't
know how this negro problem will be
solved, but one thing is as absolutely
fixed to me as that tomorrow's sun will
rise, there are not enough long-nosed
Yankees in hell, or out of hell, to keep
the white men of the South from con
trolling the South."
[ A little four-year-old was learning to
say the Lord's prayer. She said it
correctly until she came to the part,
"Forgive us our debts as we forgive
our debtors," when she said:
"Forgive us our debts as we forgive
our dentists."
T?RKEY RAISING VERY PROFITABLE.
Thousands Have Been Shipped to
Market From Virginia.
Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 31.?More
tnrkeys have been raised and shipped
to market in this section of the State
this year than probably during any
previous season, immense shipments
having been made within the past
three weeks. Over 4,000 were shipped
within a few days from Culpeper
county, and probably as many more
, from Orange county, and from
I Spotsylvpnia. This represents a large
; sum of money, which was distributed
; among many homes, as the turkeys
' would certainly average $1 each to
those who raised them.
Mr. Henry Shackleford, of Culpeper
county, shipped to the Baltimore
market a few days ago twenty-two
I head of splendid "beef cattle, which
I averaged 1,410 pounds each and sold
i for 85 per hundred pounds. Mr. J. W.
I Coons, of the same county, shipped
j twenty-one head which averaged 2,160
I pounds each, and sold at the same
I price per hundred pounds. These are
i said to have been the fattest cattle
; ever shipped from this part of the
I State.
Virginia Girl Weds Indian.
Richmond, -Va., December 31.?L.
H. Wall a full-blooded Ute Indian,
from Eufala, Ind. T., and Miss Lucy
Ramsey of Alamine, Franklin county,
daughter of Mrs. Susan Ramsey, were
married or/Christmas day and were
in Roanoke today en route to the
Indian Territory.
The marriage was the result of an
advertisement in a Chicago matrimoni
al paper. When, the Indian arrived
the young woman was disposed at first
to back out of the bargain, but she
finally decided to marry him, and
Rev. Mr. Wade pe/formed the cere
mony. The groom has ax laundry at
Eufala and seems to be in good cir
cumstances.
A Scientific Discovery
Kodol does for the stomach that which
it is nnable to do for itself, even when but
slightly disordered or over-loaded. Kodol
supplies the natural juices of digestion
and does the work of the stomach, relax
ing the nervous tension, while the inflamed
muscles of that organ are allowed to rest
and heal. Kodol digests what you eat and
enables the stomach and digestive organs
to transform all food into rich, red blood.
J S Hughson & Co.
Hon. A. F. Lever announced that
he has appointed Mr. M. E. Zeigler
to be his private secretary. Mr.
Zeigler is a resident of Orangeburg
and a graduate of N Clemson college,
class of 1901. He took a prominent
part in the aSairs of the student body
and was editor and contributor to
college publications.
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