Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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bam ml .11 llic t'ostutlfcc tit Sumter, S. ?. , gg Um odd t i?iMMIffi i'i;ii>o \ iL - . M S J. W. hink and chihln n. u| .\or.\o d. \. CM and MIm Llllle I.?nl r, are visaing Mrs. f.. C. Wal lace. > i?r. m. s. Meere, ot Chariest n, and Mr>. Scriv.n Moore, of Wedge field, wer.- In the eil > Wnln sday, >!?>?? Pauline l>avK who has been vmtlng Mrs. tleo. L.' Kicker, has re? turned 10 her home in Charlotte. N e Mien Laura Olllesple ls visiting I" I I -i ? ii' e and Kow land. N. t'. )? l'r ink Kelly, Ks.' .. of |hsho|, vllle, passed through the city Friday morn ng on his wa> homo from Co? lumbia where he has been attending a meeting of the dispensary winding up i oinnit.^slon. Miss Mahel Kowman left on Friday for Ashevllle. f N. ? C to Join her parents at that pfuee. Mrs. It. A. Krand. of Wilmington. N. C. left for Ihtrllngt ?n on Friday, after \lsiting relatives in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Ii. I. Manning went to Hoykln Friday. M. Alfred tlrier Is at home after having*completed an electrical cours ? In Sehen..? (ad> . N. Y. Mr. Arthur ttreen\ of Wisoky, spent Saturday in town. Mr. J. Q K. Wild, r left Saturday night for LHUs Kock. Ark to at? tend tie convention of the Confed? erate veterans at that place. Mr. J. V. Wils .,,, of Columbia, was In the city on business Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Koykin and Miss, h M ittn .nid \I t i l'.oykln. of Pahtell. were In town Monday. Mr. II. 8. Cunningham, if Uishop ville. was in the city Monday. Mrs. M. P. Cordes left Saturday for Charleston t.# visit her sister. Mrs. Hugh Fr?ser. Kev. W. II. l.arn%ell ,of Statehurg, passed through the city on .Monday on his way home. Miss Maid. II-' ih.atwright of tie College for Women in Columbia, was In the city Monday, Kev. 1). M. Mela ,,d left o:t M uiday for Fayettsville, N. C. Mr. Charles Oaillard. of Cal/ell. was in fhe city M inlay. Mr. and Mrs. W. Hogers Scar? borough and children passed ?hrough the city on Monday on thelt wa> from Colurnbi i M I Mshopvllle. Mrs. W. c. Kane, ans) child . en, of Fort Motte, passed through the city today on her way to visit relatives in Summerton. lira Ale\. Fioughton returned home on Mondayy after having visit? ed relatives In Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. K. L Butts aro In the city after their wedding trip. lb W.bun, of Manning, spent the day In the city on his return from Hon m . , where he preached Sunday. Mr. J. C. Kaskln. of lllshop.ille. passed through the city Monday on his way to Oklahoma where he will spend some time. Mr. and Mrs. ('. II. Singleton left on Monday for a frlp to Arkansas, from which place they will go to Texas to visit Mrs. Singleton's I,roth? er, Mr. Walsh. \i 44 Kmma Bruner of Florence, i t Isgeaay in USS city with frb nds. f?r. lairkln Jen tlnus, of Kish ?pvilb\ ? P? ni Si.i.d.i v i th. city on I \ IsAt to hsi to >? her. Mr. J W. i?. ? s. .a* Wedgeleld. was ? n the city M-.nday. Mr. W. i. mhii-i.'I < and duugll'ir, Mis.* Virginl' <a mders. wer? 'n tb? elty f..r gl bile Monday. I?r Warren liurgess lias n turned home from ifharb >ton where he his been attending the incdicol college, See the S. M. PterSOa Company be? fore you purchase your binder twine. 5-ll-tt?W. Ml MIM nil K IK II \F>I, don.i sanfes imaj surgeon Bnccceds Pr, Williams Catumbln, May If,?I ?r. J. Adams llaytie, a surgeon of the t'nlted Matt - armv. mealed .?i Fort i?. a. Run sll, Wyoming^ * aarlve South Carolinian ami form, r resident of Greenville, ? irly this mornini- was elected Slate health officer and secretary of tin State board of health to succeed Dr. C. Fr? d William*. He will Some to Columbia in a ffl divs to assume his r work, lb- has bean In the arm) ff*r two years, having gggsi Special sanitation work In the Pan,mi i < anal gSSJMi The po.s'tion ,i ?alary of $ J, - 500 a y??ar. Se?< th s \! IM'rson Company be? nder Uvtn??. Work of the Locomotive Fireman. To a husky young imin shovelim; twenty |0M ??f coal I day may uot sound like a terrible undertaking, but that Is because he fails tu appreciate tht difference betweeu shaveling 11 * s ? i quantity in the course ??f .1 ten hour day. standing OH ? Ptendj ft ting and pausing for a moment whenever be fools like it to gate at the scenery or light a cigarette and trying lo keep his balance 00 I jolting. Jerking, blung? ing steel deck which tries ceaselessly to pitch him head first into the side of tho cab. While with legi spread wide apart he humps over a scoop shovel, working with frantic energy to igel coni into the firebox faal enough to keep Steam up. While the engine is running the tireman mtist be straddled OQt on the ?leck, working continually to tho limit of his strength, for ordi nartly he will have to get from two and a half to three tons of coal Inter**]) ? grebOX every hour. Three and a half tons 1- generally regarded as ihe limit of a fireman's capacity, hut this has been greatly exceeded on the fastest trains. -Technical Wo|ld Magazine. Tho Music of Birds. Birds are usually accounted the uiost gURfllcgl of animals, yet it is very much of I task to set their notes to music. The reason Is that birds are utterly negligent of the laws of har? mony. There is not one of them. It Is safe to say. that knows the difference igt Ween a major third and a dominant chord. This deficiency in musical knowledge is rather surprising when we consider DOW beautifully the birds ?lug and may be used as an argument to show that a theoretical knowledge is a humbug. P.tit if bird* knew more about harmony their songs could all be set down and quite a decent revenue derived from the sale thereof. A not h er reason why it is ditllcult to put the melody of the song birds into DOtei is that the quality of th" (,,nc is tinlike nuy musi< al Instrument. This is time of all birds except the thrush, whose song des, ends for the first three notes In perfect seconds and with much purity of tone - From Old Scrap Book. Tickling a Hippo. ?Tome here and 1*11 scratch your tongue, Caliph." a visitor to the Cen? tral park menagerie heard the keeper say to the young hippopotamus. The visitor hadn't expected that the hippo understood English, hut appar? ently he did. lie came up to the edge of the tank, opened his jaws a yard or so and waited. The keeper put his hand Into the open mouth and titil? lated the animal's x tongue with the ends of his lingers. "That's the way to make a hippo love you," said the keeper. "They like to 1k> tickled, just as a cat likes to have you stroke its hack. Caliph wouldn't close his mouth on my arm. and 1 know I am taking no risk. They are the most amiable big beasts In the world, nnd 1 would trust them more than I would an elephant."? New York Sun. Force of Light. Light has an actual mechanical pressure and can he measured in the laboratory. It has been found that the sun's light in Itself presses against the earth with a force some? thing like 70,000 tons. As the surface of a sphere varies as the square of the radius, and as the volume or mass vurles as the cube of the radius, and as the mechanical pressure of light on the whole surface varies as that sur? face, and as the force of gravity varies as the mass, if a sphere Is made smaller and smaller It Is easily seen that the pressure of light does not de? crease so fast as thd force of gravity, so l>odios beyond a c ertain minuteness could not reach the sun, but would l>e repelled by the mechanical force of its light -Chicago Itecord-IIerald. Dear Denial. "I have hoard the late Archbishop Ryan tell of two plump gourmets who were discussing during Lent their fa? vorite fast dishes." said I Philadel? phia!). " 'Trout, said the llrst. with a sigh, 'has gOM up. thanks to the high c ost of living and the lauten demand.' "'Yes,* said the other. "Isn't it ter? rible? Oysters, terrapin, teal duck, wine, caviar everything Is dearer. In? deed. I often wonder these days where one is to get the money to fast with.*" OHice of ths Footman. "I don't believe there is anything in that talk about Marlow being hard up." said Little Blake. "Why. he's just btcaaomed forth with a footman 00 his motor.*1 "Footman!*4 echoed Jlnklnson deri? sively. "Footman is good! That isn't a footman. It's a deputy sheriff in charge of the car." Harper's Weekly. Unappreciative. "C> rlyle was a great thinker. You can't turn to a single page without hading BOBbC gem of thought. Here, for instance, he say; that there is strength in cheerfulness." "So there is in choose."-Exchange, Sydney Smith's Wit. As Lord Brougham one day rode by In his carriage, on the panel of which Was a large B, Sydney Smith Is said to have remarked. " There goes a carriage with a B outside and a wasp within." Vice Versa. TtaCher?1 Would like some one tn tho class to define the meaning of vice versa. Bright Boy It's sleeping with your feet lOWard the head of the bed Good Advice. Ascuui What In your opinion Is the best business to which a young man can gtre Ms attention? Teilt! His own Rosten Transcript g ? latof Tiilm says that ids ' kith 4 Improving end thai be will Things Are Chmg:d New. The Fourth of Julj. tue da} uf ? ur arrival at Albany, wua the annlversary of th?- Declaration of llldt'pi ade i e. and ou our arrival we wen? lold thai great preparations were making for Its celebration. Our landlord, as soon as he found out who wo wore. Immediately cuuie to us to request thai we would excuse the confused state In which ins house was, as this was lhe anniversary day (?f '?American Independence." or, as some ludeed more properly cull it. "American repentance." We were all of us not a little surprised at this ad? dress, ami from such a person. In stances, however, are not wanting of people openly declaring that they have lever enjoyed so much quiet and hap? piness in their own homes since the Revolution as they did when the states were tin' colonies of Great Britain. Among the planters of Virginia 1 have heard language of this sort more than once.-From "Travels Through the States of North America." by Isaac Weld, Jr.. 17?5. A Wedding Hoax. There have been many foolish hoaxes since the days of Theodore Hook, hut few so cruel as one mentioned by Brain Stoker in his hook. "Famous Impostors." "A young couple were about to he married in Birmingham when those officiating were startled by the delivery of a telegram from Lon? don with tiie message: 'Stop marriage at once. His wife and children have arrived in London ami will come <?n to Birmingham.' The bride fainted, , and the bride-room was frantically perturbed at thus summarily being provided Wrah a wife and family. But It was useless the unhappy man had to make the best of Iiis way through an exasperated crowd, full of sympa? thy for the wronged girl. Inquiry, however, showed her friends that the whole thing was a "hoax possibly worked by some revengeful rival of I the man whose happiness had been so ! unexpectedly deferred." Found tho Word. The late Thomas Lowry of Minne? apolis was a great wit and a great story teller as wall as a great finan? cier. He needed $1,000.000 one time for one of his railroad enterprises, and he went to New York to get it. On the morning of Ids arrival a friend met J him at the hotel and asked, "What are I you doing. Tom?" "I am going downtown to get $1,000, 000." "Can you do it?" "My boy." said I/Owry impressively, "In the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail." That night Lowry came hack to his hotel after a hard day. The same friend met him. "Did you get the mil? lion?" he asked. "No," replied Lowry. "I didn't. * opened that bright lexicon of youth, and the word was in It."?Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. Anecdotes of Richter. Dr. Richter will forgive us. we are sure, for telling two rehearsal stories about him. Madam X. was singing at a rehearsal and was decidedly out of tune. Dr. Richter stood it sis long as he could, then turned to her. "Madam," he said, "will you kindly give the or? chestra your A?" At another rehearsal one of the in? strumentalists made a mistake. "No," said Dr. Richter; "It goes so (hum? ming) ? rum-tum-tarum!" The same player made another mistake. "No, no ?ntm-ttim-taruin:" At the third mis? take Dr. Richter momentarily lost pa? tience and cried. "Why do you make so many mistakes, Mr. ??" Then quickly recovering his habitual good humor, "Ah, I know why it is-you like to hear me sing!"?Manchester Guard? ian. The Old Sod. At the breaking of ground for one of the new buildings for the Catholic university at Washington the late Archbishop Ryan was present, and Cardinal Gibbons was officiating. The cnrdinal turned over a large piece of grass covered earth when It was dis? covered that there had been a hitch in the ceremony. "Well." said the cardinal. "I sun DOSe that we \Vill have to dig another sod." "Oh. no, no!" said Archbishop Ryan. "Never go back on tin? old sod!"?Phil? adelphia* Times. The Retort Caustic. "No, indeed." said the conceited young puppy who had beeu asked whether he had attended a certain ?elect dance, "I aw only associate with my equals, you know." "ReaJly?" responded ? witty young lady. "You should aim higher than that!" ,London Telegraph. The Proof. "If your w ife is gueh a terribly good cook why don't you eat more dinners at home?" "Gee! How would I know how good she could cook if I didn't eat some? where else?*' Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Matinee Idol. "He's a stickler for realism." "Yes, hilt he carries it to eXCCSS. In the second scene he is supposed to be severely wounded, and he has a sur geon ISSUe bulletins between the acts." Plttsburg Post. Large Order. "Your own baby. If you have one." advertised the enterprising photogra? pher, "?an be enlarged, tinted and frai.I for $0.78 a dozen."- Blue Bull If you would abolish avarice you must abolish lhe parent of if. luxun Cicero an to Washington *f hin pi nee I* n edeel in the Sena salkm school ( i .( >Si . timropiiate I Ai ivi?i ? Mark I iual Kvenl ni Siuwssful Year. Salem, May iThe patrom and ir'ends ?i the teachers and scholars <f Salem school were entertained in an exceptional manner In the large oak grove surrounding the school hou3e on Saturday, the 13th, ;<t Ihe closing event of a pleaant and euc cesful term of school. Music, songs and games were participated In dm1- | ing the fore noon, and al midday the crowd was assembled to the turn* of < the old familiar Bchool bell to do the necessary justice to a repast ; composed of the good things to be found In a progressive country com- ! i m unity. i Borne <?f the lads, who pal- > lantly played the Don Quixote act during the early part of the day as hall players and tree climbers, were noted to look particularly abashed I and to grow rial around tin- ears when ushered to the table, coupled with the pretty maids, fair hut Hush? ed fnun the exercise of the games. | In the afternoon straw rides and boating were the amusements also a ' few tine Ash were taken, and it is the I writer's belief that angling for hearts, was an order of the day, and tis |hought that some were entangled. The teacher Miss Nora Jackson, of j Dalsell, is one of unusual merit. She is a first honor graduate of the Col? lege for Women, of Columbia, it is the earnest hope of pupils and pa-' Irons that she will not be enticed to go to another neighborhood the com? ing Call. j Looking back over the winter now j safely passed, it is a conservative opinion that the winter was a r< asom aide one. We do hope President Ida/, win soon retire and allow us to re-lnveM in some of those tempting Mexican mining stocks. A 'possum has been caught in the middle of one of Macon's streets. Ma con evident y wanted to go Atlanta one better on the hces that swarmed at Five Points. j The Sunday school of the ESplscO j pal Church will hold its regular an? nual picnic on next Saturday, May 20, to which all of the children and ! parents are invited. The picnic will he held at Pocalla. |,<>ST?T.arge white pointer dog, or? ange colored head and spots on side. Answers to name of Jack, j Liberal reward for return. C, P. Cxum. 5-16-ltW'. FOR SALE?At unco, 22 head of tine mules. Sohl cheap for cash. , Apply to E. P. Pitts, or phone 3S4. 1 DR. N. G. OSTEEN, JR., DENTIST. 18 W. Liberty St. -:- Phone No. 5u. ?OFFICE HOURS 3 TO 1. 2 TO 6. DON'T WHIP YOUR HORSE If he appears restless and nervous, the chances are he is being tor? mented by Hies or some other bit? ing insect. This hot weather your horse certainly needs some sort of protection from this nuisance. SHEPHERD'S FLY =z=. GUARD = is highly recommended to keep flies, mosquitoes, etc. at a distance. The directions are very simple, you, simply spray the Guard on the ani? mal and these pests will look for something else to worry. The Guard can also be used as a lini? ment for sore back, galls and old sores. Better Trv 9 Rntrle. Onlv 25 Cents O'DONNUL ? CO. WE contracted with some of the foremost Shirt Manufac? turers m the United States to make out Spring Shirts. We have a showing of carefully chosen fabrics that will please the most fastidious dresser. We don't know where the M in we can't please with a Shirt will ^o to find a Shirt to suit him. All Sizes and all Sleeve Lengths. Attached or Detached Collars, 50c to $2.00. The new Negligee Shirt [with soft detached collar will be a very popular Shirt for hot weather wear with swell dressers. We nave them it their best, in handsome new shades. l>i ingjhere any particular shirt requirement you" may] have, Sit, and see how well we can meet it. mi: D. J. Chandler Clothing Co. Tin-: iiomi: or <.<><>i? clothks. * _ ^JjaV1**** Phone (>6. Sumter, S. C.