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The herald., 1895-08-18

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGES ACRES
half mile southeast from town of
Winchester, surrounded by lovely alfalfa
fields; small house; free water from ditch
adjoining lands sold for $50. so per acre.
If you want this, make us any reasona-
BILE offer. cash or trade. and we can do
business. II. H. BIXBY & CO.,
10 147 s. Broadway,
The herald., 1895-08-18
FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE
Country Property
FOR SALE-NEAR POMONA
BASSETT e SMITH.

We sell the Earth.
The herald., 1895-08-18

FUN SALE AT A BAKGAIN AT GLEN-
dale-A paying fruit ranch. 35 acre
60 shares water piped, 800 bearing or
anges. 1000 bearing apricots, 500 bearing
peaches, $50 bearing prtnes, $50 French
barn, etc. This is u place that anyone can
make money on and is growing better
and more valuable all the time; will take
house and lot in the city as part pay,
balance on easy terms. A. X. Crawford,
2O5 s, Broadway. 9-13Su-Thtf
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
WEIGH WITH THEIR EYES.
Expert Dealers In Live Stock Do MOI
Often Use Scales.

Expert Dealers In Live Stock Do Not
Often Use Scales.
The dealers in live stock who buy and
sell the thousands Of cattle, logs and
sheep which are daily handled at tie
Bourbon stockyards must be expert IN
guessing the weight Of live animal at
a glance. In conversation with a we'll
known stockman few days ago he ex-
planned why this is necessary:
sit would be impossible to weigh the
cattle in many cases because Of the I'M
mense labor involved an6 the length OF
time it would take, while the market
price, which is subject to constant fuc-
tuations, might easily vary from its
highest to its lowest limit while we
were weighing the animals in one of
our big scales. For instance, today,
which has been the biggest day of the
year thus far, there have been received at
the Bourbon yards over 2, 400 head Of
cattle and about 5000 hogs. Suppose
we had to drive all of those upon the
scales to ascertain their weight? There
are dozens of old stock men who can in
spect herd Of animals and form an es-
innate of their average weight which
will be readily accepted by purchasers as
the basis of trade.
''In test case which was made some
time since man who has had life
long experience in buying and selling a
herd of cattle, after inspecting a herd
of 500 animals, guessed their average
weight within one-third of a pound OF
the actual figure ascertained by weigh
ing the cattle individually. The feat
vas accomplished by Mr.. Ben D. Offutt
of this county and is not so extraordinar
ry as it appears, because similar in
stances Of expert guessing occur here
every day. Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09

Chinese Hospitality.

every few people have any idea Of
the great hospitality Of the Chinese, y
said Pittsburg Celestial recently.
"Chinamen coming to this country re-
tain their ideas of oriental hospitality
and always keep open doors for any Of
their race who may need shelter. A
Chinaman arriving in Pittsburg without
money would never want for lodging
and boarding place He would simply
20 to the first Chinese laundry or resi-
dence, feeling assured that he would find
a welcome there. If, after staying a
couple of days, he should learn that the
circumstances of his host were such that
the latter could not well afford to keep
him, he would move away, making his
home with another Chinaman. He
would continue doing this, dividing
himself up, so to speak, until he was
able to get work and support himself.
Of course such wanderers usually en-
deavor to find the most wealthy China
men and become their guests. have
known some Of the laundries in Pitts
burg to have 10 and 10 transient visit
ors-you could not cali them boarders
to stay over night. New York Homo
Journal
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
For q Sweet Breath.

Don't expect to have clean teeth or
sweet breath while there is tlnge Of
white on the tongue. 1t is an unmistak-
able evidence of indigestion. Drink sour
lemonade, eat ripe fruit and green vege-
tables FOR purgatives, exercise freely,
use plenty of water internally and ex-
ternally. and keep up the treatment un-
til the mouth is clean, healthy and red.
Various things are suggested to coun-
teract an unpleasant breath resulting
from bad tooth, wine or garlic scented
dishes. Cinnamon, mint, creams, orrls
root, cloves, mastic rosin and spruce
gum will disguise some odors. Ten
drops of tincture Of myrrh in a glass OF
.7ater will sweeten and refresh the
mouth. A teaspoonful of spirits of cam
phor or peppermint in the same gargle
is among the very best antiseptics. and
few drops of myrrh and camphor in
the water are recommended IN case or
cold, throat trouble or any slight indls-
position which may affect the breath. -
Philadelphia Times
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Hungry Pike.

One of my sons, aged Is, went with
three other boys to bathe IN Inslemere
pond, near the Ascot race course. lie
walked into the water to about the
depth of four feet, when he spread out
his hands to attempt to swim.
At chat instant large fish came up
and took his whole hand into its mouth,
but finding itself unable to swallow it
relinquished its hold, anG the boy, turn
ing round, prepared for hasty retreat.
His companions, who saw the fish,
scrambled out Of the POND as fast as
possible.
NJ son had scarcely turned around
before the fish came up behind him, and
seizing his other hand crosswise infict-
ed some very deep wounds on the back
of it, The boy raised his free hand,
which was still bleeding, and struck the
great fish a hard blow on the head,
when it disappeared. The other boys as
sisted my son to dress, bound Up his
hand with their handkerchiefs and
brought him home.
We took him to the surgeon, who
dressed seven wounds in one hand, and
so great was the pain the next day that
the lad tainted twice. The little finger
was bitten through the nail, and it was
more than six weeks before it was well.
The nail came off, and the scar remains
to this day.-Fishing.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
New Series-VOI. XIV. No. "a.

until we reached the chapel Of Alexan-
der Nevskv, the czar monk who lies
buried here-buried in soch tomb as
no other man ever had, for it is OF solid
silver, weighing $3.50 pounds. Not
only the sarcophagus but the altar near
which it stands and also the rails which
surround it are of solid silver. \ like
ness of the great czar, who was also
monk, lies on top under sheet OF solld
gold. Diamonds and rubies CLEAN IN
the sconces that hang here and there,
and the key of Adrianople, framed IN
jewels, hangs near the silver tomb.
Strange mingling of austerity with splen-
dor is this wonderful chapel! In this
same monastery are the famous Golfers
of jewels and gold and gems untold that
were brought from Persia on camels
backs during the reign Of Alexander
Nevsky.-Cor. New York Sun.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
SHOSHONE FALLS.
Phenomena Which Give Rise to Stories
About This Wonderland.

Phenomena Which Give Rise to Stories
About This Wonderland.
Strange stories are told of phenomena
that appear ct the Shoshone falls. Some
times when the air is perfectly still the
spray arises several hundred feet above
the walls Of the canyon and can be seen
on the plains at considerable distance.
Then for days and weeks at time there
is scarcely any spray at all. Often the
whole canyon around the falls will be
filed with spray, and every bark and
rock will drip with moisture Again it
will be as clear as frosty night under
the same conditions from influences that
no one has been able to discover or ex-
plain.
Often above the monotone of the fall
ing waters weird sounds may be hearc
unlike any that were evec naraed and
can be compared to no other, and again
from time to time sudden throbDlng
is audible, measured IL regular inter
walls. like the beating Of human pulse
These, too, proceed from no apparent
cause. and science has been unable to
solve their mistery.
At the crest c: the highest rock in the
center of the Shoshone fails is the nest OF
an eagle, and for 34 years the same bird
has come regularly on tie 2eth. 9th
or 2Sth of March to repair and reoccu-
py it and raise brood of young. Char
ley Walgomet first noticed her when ne
located here in 1860. The nest was
standing then, and as long as he lived
there, until Eve years ago, he kept
record of her temperance. She never
varied more than three days IL her ar
rival. Since his time the record has
been kept by others, who testify to the
same regularity.
The spray from the falls carries
sediment which clings like frcst to the
windows of the little hotel and can be
scraped off with knife Mr.. Keller.
who keeps the place, says that they
clean the glass every spring by laying
the sashes fat and pouring upon them
solution of vinegar and salt. After they
have soaked for three or four days the
coating can be wiped OF with cloth,
but in few weeks the glass Is covered
again, as if it was frosted. The scraplngs
look like the dust of lime. The same
sediment clings to the leaves of the
trees and vegetables that are grown
around the place and can be scraped OFT
the rocks and the face OF the bare clay.
Chicago Record.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
SOME PEOPLES RELIGION.
Marion Crawford Writes Pointed Little
Lecture on Intolerance.

There are very good and devout men
and women who take the world-pres-
ent and to come-quite literally, as
mere fulfll1nent of their own Emita-
tions; who look upon what they know
as being all that need be known, and
upon what tt ey believe of God and heav-
en- as the mechanical consequence OF
what they lnow, rather than as the
cause and goal, respectively, Of exist
tence and action; to whom the letter OF
the law is thu arbitrary expression OF
despotic power, which somehow must
be looked upon as merciful; who answer
all questions concerning Gods logic
with the tremendous assertion of Gods
will; whose God is magnifed man,
and whose devil is malignant animal,
second only to God in understanding,
while extreme from God in disposition.
There are good men and women who
to use natural but not fippant
simile-take it for granted that the soul
is cast into the troubled waters Of life
without the power to swim or even the
possibility Of learning to float, depend
ent upon the bare chance that some one
may throw il; the life buoy Of ritual re-
hgion as it's only conceivable means of
salvation. and the opponents of each
particular form of faith invariably take
just such good men and women, with
all their limitations, as the only trre
exponents of that especial creed, which
they then proceed to tear in pieces with
all the ease such an undue advantage
Of false premise gives them. None of
them has thought Of intellectual mer-
cy as being perhaps an integral part OF
Christian charity. Faith they have in
abundance, and hope also not little;
but charity, though it be for mems
earthly ills, and theoretically, if not al
ways practically, for mems spiritual
shortcomings, is rigidly forbidden for
the errors of mems minds. Why: NO
thinking man can help asking the little
question which grows great in the un-
answering silence that follows it.-Mar-
ion Crawford in Century.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
THE ELECTION RETURNS.
They Make the Busiest Night of the Year
In Newspaper Office.

They Make the Busiest Night of the Year
In Newspaper Office.
There is one night in every year in
every great newspaper Office when work
is done that is the least understood Of
al, that goes on in the making of daily
paper, one night when the highest state
of fever attends the excitement and
strain of the most intense work that
fails to the lot of any men, except SOL
diers in war. That is election night.
That is the night when few men sit
down at 6 o'clock before virgin sheets
of paper, with the knowledge that be-
fore 3 o'clock the next morning they
must cover those sheets with the elec-
ton returns of a nation, digesting
mountains of figures and apprising the
public of the results in the most con-
densed forms, weeks in advance OF the
official announcements, as sparks might
be counted while they fly from the
shapeless iron on a blacksmith's anvil.
And these calculations must stand the
test of comparison with those which the
rival newspapers, working without col
laboration, as eager competitors, will
publish at the same moment.
The election figures come IN driblets
and atoms and must be put together as
the Florenti1 IS make their mosaics.
Some of it, we shall see, is plucked
from the very air-as a magician seems
to collect coins in borrowed hat-be-
gotten Of reasoning, but put down be-
side the genuine returns with equal con-
fdence and almost accuracy.
Ah, but that is work to try cool
heads and strong nerves. am quite Ger
tain 10 other men in the world include
such night Of tension and excitement.
periodically, as a fixed part Of work
aday existence No other men, regularly
once a year, feel themselves So truly in
the focus of an intense public interest,
manifesting itself in SO many ways
Scrihner's.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Bullock Teams Against Railroads.

An instance of road versus rail COM
petition occurred here on Saturday,
when three bullock teams laden with
general merchandise arrive in Casterton
from Portland for Messrs. 81. & q. Har-
ris. The goods had been brought by
steamer from Melbourne to Portland,
when they were loaded up by the well
known teamsters, Messrs. G. Humphries,
j. Taylor and A. McEachern, who drove
16 bullocks each. The drivers left Port
land on Saturday week, where they had
gone with loads of wool. They give the
roads generally good name and state
that on the route they were frequently
spoken to as to the competition against
the railway and return OF the good old
days when the bullocks held full sway
OF the roads -Casterton (Australip
News.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
FRAUDS EXPOSED.
Some of the Tricks of So Called Mind
Readers Solved By DE-. Hyslop.

Some of the tricks of So Called Mind
Readers Solved By DE-. Hysiop.
DR.. Hyslop Of Columbia college, says
writer in the Boston Herald, has help
ed to bring down several so called mind
readers who have visited New York.
The Taylors, "a man and woman who
gave exhibitions in New York two
years ago and convinced nearly every
one who saw taem of the genuineness OF
their manifestations, gave private Sc
ance for the benefit Of this Columbia
professor and some Of his scientific
friends. They found hidden objects,
they picked out cards that had been Sc
lected from pack and then shufled in
again, and all the other familiar tricks,
with more than common success, one of
taem staying in the room and being IN
the secret, and the other coming in aft
er all was ready and supposedly read
ing the partners mind.
AL went we'll until DR.. Hyslop and a
confederate took the Taylors aback by
announcing that they could do the same
things. They had found that the words
used by one of the mind readers in
calling the other into the room were
what gave the desired information. 1t
was discovered that by skillful arrange
ment of not more than six words sur
prising amount Of information could be
conveyed. This is the first time the fact
that the Taylors were not genuine mind
readers has been made public.
Another "lnind reader" exposed by
DR.. Hyslop and coinvestigators was
Guibal, who gave exhibitions in New
York recently and astonished hundreds
of persons, roost of whom suppose to
this day that his tricks, were bona hde
psychic phenomena. Guibal's assistant
was woman called Greville, who sat
on the stage, and who, so far as could
be seen for long time, gave him abso-
lutely no sign of what was in her mind.
Guibal apparently read that mind as II
it were an open book. The whole thing
was found to be a trick, and the expla-
nation is now in the archives of the So
ciety for Psy:hical Research. 1t is be-
lieved that Guibal and Greville were
the same persons whose performances
had amazed London not long before.
The woman oreathed very heavily, and
the code of signals lay in the manner Of
her breathing, messages being conveyed
by long and short breaths, something
like the dots and dashes in the Morse
telegraph code.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
THE SILENCE CURE.
A Physician Who Says Women Hurt Their
Nerves by Talking Too Much.

Nerves by Talking ZOO Mucn.
81 have two or three patients who
are i'll with nervous prostration, and
who could be cured if they would stop
talking" said a nerve specialist the
other day. "They waste their nerve It's
sue as fast as I can supply it, and they
ar, ~ the verge Of Mysteries and acute
ne. JUS pain all the time. A woman, II
she be inclined to talk too much, should
time herself just as she would take
medicine and allow herself only just SO
many minutes of talk.
"Now, the other day woman who
is troubled with insomnia came into my
Office for treatment. She had been tax
ing drugs. She told me about her trou-
bles and her tongue ran like the clap
per of farmhouse bell at dinner time.
I thought she never would let up.
Finally I stopped her.
.' DO you talk as much as that very
often, MADAME I asked.
"She drew herself up and said in an
ofende1 tone: This is no laughing mat
ter, doctor, I assure you. I am worn
out from lack of sleep, and though my
family do all things possible to divert
n.y mind and l make calls and see peo-
ple all the time I get steadily worse.
I am worn to a shadow. Why, last
summer
"And so her tongue ratified on until
I again had to stop her.
Now, listen to my prescription, l
said. Go home and keep still Don't
talk Time your tongue waggings. At
breakfast allow your husband to read
the newspaper without interruption.
After breakfast sew little in your own
room. Read as much as you please.
Walk long distances if you are strong
enough. Do not make any calls. At
dinner talk all you please, but spend a
quiet evening. If you so to the theater,
do not talk much during the play. Ex-
ercise little self denial. 1t will be
hard at first, for you are chatterer,
but if you persevere you will succeed,
and your nervous system will get rest.
"What did she say to that? Well, I
do not think she liked it. But if she
took me seriously think I can cure
her in month.
''Do have many such cases? Well,
should say I did. 1t is almost safe to
declare that there never is case Of real
acute nervousness unless the woman is
a talker. With a man it is different.
He may worry himself into insanity or
complete loss Of brain power if his bust
ness goes wrong. But the very nervous
woman is seldom a worrier. She is the
woman of leisure with small family
few in numbers, I .mean-to direct.
She buys their food, their clothing,
hires the servants and Keeps house.
She has no real worries. But does she
think she has? Oh, dear, yes! She
thinks she has more to do than any
other woman of her acquaintance.
Keep quiet few hours every day,
and you will be a well woman, is
what I tell half my woman patients.
When can persuade them to try it.
they come back and say, Why, doctor,
I haven't been nervous enough to fly
since I began to try your queer prescrip-
ton. New York Sun.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Railway Up the Jungfrau.

The Swiss authorities have at last
sanctioned the plans for a railwa: up
the Ju&gfrau The railway will, III It's
upper extremity, run IN a tunnel, us
ing il. Spirals III the interior Of the
mountain and VIII end on u little
rocky plateau OF the western side of
the summit The last portion of the as
cent viii be made painful to relate, By
something SO intensely modern as an
elevator. The narrow ridge at thc sum-
nit will be leveled by blasting for ho-
tel.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Safety In Cpeed.

In the course Of experiments with the
Maxim gun at Lydd camp bamboo
screens were the targets. The greater
the velocity obtained the less was the
effect on the screens. It was sometimes
almost impossible to see where the bull
lets passed through. The Inference IS
that if bullet struck human being in
a feshy but not vital part the injury
would be less serious than that inflicted
by projecrile of less yelocity.-Lon-
don Standard
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
SUMTER. S. c., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY g. 1895.

more potent than it was. Its infringe
ment now may mean lawsuit. It used
to be very much disregarded. There is
record of very literal man who was
arrested for infringing a sign which
read "post no bills under penalty" "
When the Judge asked him if he had
any excuse to offer, he said he had not
ssposted under penalty. He had posted
further aloYg the fence. New York
Wnrl2
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Lord Crewe's Collection.

Lord Crewe once on the occasion OF
some charitable entertainment. leaned
up against corridor wall, fast asleep
with bis hat i'll his hand. Some wild
young men started dropping cop1ers and
half crowns into the hat until the caink-
ing awakened him, wlle,., with gay hu-
nor, he pocketed ali the silve. a:id Ie.t-
ed his impertinent beneiactors with TAG
pence-London Million.
The great bell' at Moscow weighs
443, 732 pounds, is 20 feet and j inches
high and measures SO feet 8 inches
around the lower rim. The bell metal
in it is worth $500, O00.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Made Bold by His Brush.

Detaille, the French painter whose
studies are all of military life, looks ev-
ery inch a soldier. He is tall, slender
and has a martial air Detaille knows
absolutely nothing of the life Of soldier
except what he has read. At the age OF
20 he was rather timid, but his charac-
ter began to change as soon as he de-
voted his brush to military subjects
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09

The name of Lake Ontario was first
noted as Skanodairo beautiful lake.. 1t
was also. at various times and by diff
ferent men. denominated Lac de From
tenac, Lac de Iroquois. and Lac de st.
Louis. Tie Mohawks called il Cainda-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
To Cary Electric Batteries.

1t is probable that large numbers of
the German soldiers will be equipped
with portable electric batteries weigh
ing about half q pound. a small lamp
goes with it. and the invention will be
of great value to the men employed
about powder magazines. They are also
to be used for signaling from balloons
al night aaC can BIC fixed to the helmet
when the nen have to dig trenches aft
er dark. k.-Barlin Exchange
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09

Philip l of France fell out with t!ie
queen. turned her ont Of doors and mar
ried the wife Of nobleman, giving the
unique reason, Il like her better th2n i
do my VIE and can provide for her bet
ter than ner husband can.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
FUN IN BILL POSTING.

Picturesque and Mirthfu1 Effects Produced
with Paste Pot and Brush-Devils and
Angels Are Incongruousiy Mixed Cp.
.Post No BiIis. Goes.