RICH MEX' OF A MOXTH.
c How Some Suddenly Acquired For
. tunes Have Reen Qickly Squan?
dered.
The sudden acquisition of unaccus?
tomed wealth is responsible for many
strange freaks on the part of the
newly enriched. Thus, a Durham col?
lier, after inheriting the sum of 20,
O00 from an-uncle wHb had emigrated
to Australia^ purchased a male and fe
' male elephant from a traveling me?
nagerie, had a large and gaudy car?
riage built, to which he harnessed
them, and then drove out with his
wife and children till stopped by the
police. He spent his money in six
months, Chiefly at race meetings, and
is now once more a humble collier,
glad of the comparatively scanty
wage that he receives each week from
the clerk in the pay shed. ^
The case of a once popular French
novelist is still > remembered in .Pari?
sian literary circles. Reaping a fci|r
. yest from two or three, capital books
that took ail Paris by storm, the au?
thor purchased a palace in Italy, a
villa on the Riviera; :a c?stle in Scot?
land and a town house on the Champs
Elysees, it seemed his-ambition, "'to
possess as many residences as a
prince of the blood. Although all
these properties were heavily mort?
gaged, the smash came within a year,
and the novelists, loaded with debts
that he would never be able to repay,
calmly disappeared and was after?
ward recognized as an Arab trader and
lord of many cravans plying between
Harrar and JibutiL
The novelist, wno had adopted a
v suitable Arab name, stood high in the
favor of the emperor Menelik. Con?
sumption cut short a career that for
variety and adventure far exceeded
any romance that the novelist himself
had ever penned.
Another "freak capitalist" was a
/ Spanish lady of Badajoz, who win?
ning 40,000 pounds in the Manilla lot?
tery, collected the money and set out
secretly for Paris, leaving her hus?
band and the children in complete
darkness.
. Eight months later she returned to
her home penniless, but accompanied
by thirty huge trunks, the contents of
which accounted for the \vanished
thousands.
On arriving in Pairs she had appar?
ently set about spending her money
with a will. Clothes of every descrip?
tion and artificial aids to beauty had
eaten up the wrhoie of her fortune.
Dresses, costly underwear, corsets,
boots, gloves and hats, all marked
with the names of the most fashiona?
ble makers, represented three-fourths
of her purchases. In the remaining
trunks were cometics, false hair, fig?
ure improvers, face creams, chin
straps, cures for obesity-in short,
every kind of article advertised by
"beauty specialists" and the quacks
who abound in all big cities. Beyond
being the best dressed woman in Ba
daioz for several seasons, she had
reaped little benefit from her good
fortune.
Hore extravagant still was the Rus?
sian gentleman who gambled away an
inheritance of 6,000,000 rubles (600,
000 pounds) within a year, and was
only saved from complete disaster by
the odd chance that he had papered
'his bed room with hundred ruble
notes. He ended by giving Russian
lessons for a small fee in Paris.
The exploits of the late Marquis
of Anglesey are papralleled and ex?
ceeded by those of the son of a
wealthy Hungarian sugar refiner. The
young man not only had a replica of
the Roman Collosseum erected on one
of his estates, but would himself de?
scend into the arent, in imitation of
?the emperors of old. Dressed as a
gladiator and armed only with the
short Roman thrusting sword, he
would engage lions, tigers and bears
in single combat, often paying as
much as 1,000 pounds for the speci?
men that furnished him and his
friends with a half hour's entertain?
ment
The Hugarian authorities put a
stop to these savage exhibitions^ and
while the remainder of his wealth
lasted he had to contend himself with j
an ordinary circus. He died dramat- j
ically, when on the verge of being de- j
dared a bankrupt, taking poison at
the close of a farewell feast, to which
he had invited his neighbors and ten?
ants. Tid Bits.
A Judicious Inquiry.
*A well known traveling man who
visits the drug trade says he has often
heard druggists inquire of customers
who asked for a cough medicine,
whether it was wanted for a child or
for an adult, and if for a child they
almost invariably recommend Cham?
berlain's Cough Remedy. The rea?
son for this is that they know there
is no danger from it and that it al?
ways cures. There is not the least
danger in giving it, and for coughs,
colds and croup it is unsurpassed.
For sale by all druggists.
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Special Advertisement of the
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Mill Supply
South Carolina.
The Following Qoods in Stock and for Sale at Jobbers Prices :
150 barrels of iron and. roof paint.
600 barrels of Whitehall Portland Cement.
500 squares of Phillip Cary's Roofing.
350 squares of the celebrated "Ruberoid" roofing
1,2 and 3 ply.
1 car bar iron-all sizes.
Painted and Galvanized Corrugated Iron.
Pure Manilla rope-all sizes to 2 inches diameter.
Pure sisal Tarred and white lath yarn.
Cotton and Wool waste-150 bales.
Ail sizes of tile best brands of canvas belting.
All sizes single and double extra short lap leather
belting to 16 inches wide.
All sizea"Bengal" Rubber Belting to 16 inches wide.
2 Drums-1500 feet each-Roebling's Plow Steel wire
rope.
2 Drums Roebling's % inch plow steel wire rope.
1 Drum 5-16 Guy rope.
Monkey wrenches, Stillson pipe wrenches, American
pipe wrenches. Combination wrenches, Engineers
wrenches, double and single end.
1000 Dozen Files-all kinds. Zinc oil cans, Brass bot?
tom oil cans, Copperized oil cans, Locomotive oilers,
Tallow cans, Locomotive torches.
Wood and iron pullies. All sizes steel shafting, Boxes,
Hangers and other power transmission machinery?
Valves and fittings to 6 inches.
Wrought Iron pipe black and galvanized to 6 inches*
Safety Valves, pop safety valves. ,
Lace Leather, cut lace leather.
Graphite in flake form.
Lubricating oils.
Little Giant stocks and dies.
Armstrongs stocks and dies for pipe and bolts.
Maleable iron pipe stocks and dies.
Machinist hand taps, pipe taps. Solid square dies.
Split pins, Machine bolts up to 24 inches long, in all sizes. Carriage bolts, Tire bolts, Set
screws, Cap Screws, Round bottom galvanized Fire Buckets, Flat Bottom galvanized buckets,
Twist Drills, all sizes up to 2 inches diameter, Emery Wheels, Emery cloth, Emery paper*
Flint paper, Sand paper, Flint paper in ro!ls=-all widths, Tubular Lanterns, Railroad Lan=
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eter, Band saws, Full Bolted Wheelbarrows, Iron Tubular Barrows, Saw Dust Barrows, Oc?
tagon Tool Steel, Machinery steel,Tore iron, Flue Cleaners, Pipe Cutters, Blacksmith's Forges.
Post Drills.
Waste Cans.
Ali kind of steam packings.
Steam Hose.
Water hose up to 2 inches diameter.
Cotton Jacketed Fire Hose.
Pipe Vises.
Anvils.
Tackle Blocks.
Wire rope blocks.
Glacier Babbitt.
Genuine Babbitt.
Bull Babbitt.
Pine Knot Babbitt.
Half and half solder.
Pitcher Mouth pumps.
Well Points.
Black and colored lumber pencils.
Hack saws.
Hack saw frames.
Nuts and washers.
Chain pipe tongs.
Proof Coil B B Chain.
Albany Grease, Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.
We Carry the best selected stock in the State, and solicit correspondence and orders, which
will have prompt attention and shipments. Our "Universal" Paint is the genuine roof
paint, and the price within the reach of all who use it.
?agrega
Yours truly,
ranter Railway & Mill Supply Company
Sumter, South Carolina.
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