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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-16
CURIOUS FACTS,

! Sidney. Australia, can now boast
the largest town hall and the largest
organ in the world.
Frogs have been raining down In
thick showers on Bizerta, in Tunis.
The largest were the size of mans
thumb.
An umbrella insurance company
has Just been organized in London.
1t will insure canes as well as uIn-
brellss.
Keen eyes of New York customs.
inspectors found in the false bottom
of trunk, the other day, 10000 glass
optics-smuggled from Switzerland.
The largest order for carpets ever
given for single hotel, it is said,
has been given for the new Astor
hotel, New York, adjoining the Wal
dorf. It has 1000 rooms.
England is now trying submerged
cannon. Oaken beams twenty-one
inches thick and the hull of ship
protected by three inches of boiler
plate were pierced by solid shot from
one.
The rapidity of the growth Of the
hair varies much in different persons
1t has been calculated that the beard
grows at the rate of one line and o
half per week, or six inches and half
in year. On the head, the growth
is much more rapid.
St. Helena is probably the best,
known of all the solitary islands in
the world. Situated in the South Att
lantic Ocean, it is 769 miles from the
nearest point of the African continent.
1t is ten and one-half miles long and
six and one-half broad.
The tail of the fish is his sculling:
oar. He moves it first on one side
and then the other, using his fins as
balances to guide his motion. II the
fish moves fast, and wants to stop, he
straightens out his fins just as the,
rover of o boat does his oars. s
Live bees are sometimes shipped
Oh Ice 50 ~ 10 hccp lucul -uoh baus
during the journey. This IS particu-
larly the case with bumblsbees, which
have been taken to New Zealand,
where they are useful in fertiliaing the
red clover that has been introduced
into the colony.
The woodchuck is great digger
His hind feet are shovels to dig the
hole where he lives, and the beaver
uses his broad, fiat tail as the mason
does his trowel, scattering and
smoothing the mud with it as he
builds the walls of his cabin, while
his sharp, powerful teeth are his saws,
with which he awsoff large branches
of trees to build his dams.
There are several wooden railways
in Canada and the United States. One
of them is in the province Of Quebec,
and is thirty miles long. The rails
are of maple, four by seven inches,
and trains are run over them with re-
markable smoothness at the rate OF
twenty-five miles an hour. This road
is used for the transportation OF TIM
ber, and the rolling stock consists Of
one engine and thirty-fye cars.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-16
HER SPECIALITY Is TWINS.
A CoIored Wife, Under Eighteen, Has
Given Birth to Four Pairs.

Not yet eighteen years old and the moth
er OF four pairs Of twins!
This is the record made by Pearly Brad
ford, a coiored woman Of East st. Louis,
Ill. The remarkable young mother asked
DR.. Woods, Supervisor Of the Poor, for
food to keep herself and children from
starving. She has been resident OF East
st. Louis five years. she says, having come
there from New Orleans, where her hus-
band is now trying to get employment.
All but three o, her children are dead. The
live ones are healthful and strong, though
quite young. -,
Mrs. Bradford is very black. She will
not be eighteen years old, she says, until
November % next, aud is again approach
ing motherhood. She was married when a
child.
DR.. Woods ade careful investigation
into the statements made by Mrs. Brad
ford and found them to be correct and the
woman honest and truthful.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-16
cHEAT DESERT OF AFRICA.
4 Occupies One.Fiith of the Entire Con.
tinent,

The desert area Of Africa is estima-
ted by Ravenstein at over $3.50, 600
square miles, all of which but a small
frat attion is contained in the tract OF
land popularly known as the Sahara,
says McClure's. Except for some
sch ool children who know better, and
sch oolteachers who are instrumental
for their doing so, the misconception
of the Sahara, which is widespread,
would be practically universal. The
average man pictures the Saharas as q
rast sea of sand, for the most part be-
low sea level, across which the camel
speeds before the poison blast OF the
simeon from oasis to oasis. Schemes
for flooding the Sahara have come be-
fore the public occasionally, and we
have read accounts of the vast inland
SEE which might be formed. rivaling
the Mediterranean in size, giving
southern sea coast to Morocco and Al
geria and admitting steamers directly
to the wealthy states Of the Soudan.
The Sahara, as known to the geog-
rapher, corresponds badly with this
conception, for, in fact, there is no
risk of the "ship of the desert" ever
being supplanted by the ships OF the
sea. Few parts are below sea level
and they are small and scattered. In
The interior the desert is a plain. high
above sea level, covered with vast
dunes of red sand in many parts; IN
others it is an elevated plateau with
lofty mountain ranges of bare rocks
intersected by stony valleys. 1t is
arid, save where a spring bubbles
up and gives rise to small oasis OF
grass and palm trees. The Sahara
proper is unknown, except for few
trade routes regularly traversed by
Arabs and occasionally by adventlr-
ous Europeans. They utilize the
oaseis as resting-places, stepping
stones, rs it were, and keep up COM
munication between the wealthy Mo-
hammedan states ronnd Lake Chad IN
the south, and Tripoli, Tunis, Algier
Or Morocco on the Mediterranean.
Between the trade routes all Is a
blank of sand or barren rock.
Exploration is only possible when
water as we'll as food can be carried,
and this condition has practically
stopped all attempts at discovery for
the present, on account of the great
expense and the purely scientific ma
ture of the possible return. A rail-
way running from the French posses
sions on the Mediterranean across
the desert to Timbuctoo. the scarcely
known trade centre near the Niger, Is
talked of. Such a line may be con-
structed in the future, but the diff
culties are enormous, much greater
than those overcome by the Russians
in the trans-C Caspian line through the
deserts of central Asia.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-16

An Athens correspondent says that
"Prince Constantine will stand much
higher in public estimation throughout
the world as soon as all the facts of his
Thessalian campaign are known" Per-
haps it is hardly fair to Judge him
from naere running accounts.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-16

1t IS a pleasure to note that even the
hiphes. class music is now within the
reach all. Paderewski says he Will
charge only $4,000 a day to pla- at pri.
yate rnusicales rext season.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-16

What Is the affinity between cheWins
gum and bicycling? If a count were
taken it would be shown that seven
out O. ten bicyclists chew gum While
on their wheels. Does it give vigor 10
the muscles of the legs, or does II pre-
vent thirst? Here are questions lo'
the sciensiSt.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-16
Mutineers Kill Fifty-Nine Men.

A mutiny has occurred among the troops
of the Congo Free State in the Toro Dis
trict Of Africa. The mutineers, it is said,
killed ffty-nine Belgian officers and men
and destroyed all the forts, committing
depredations right aud left.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-16

spinning wheel. The food is very plain,
but 1t is always we'll provided. The winters
are very cold, but are kept out by the
blankets she quilted. On Sunday, when
she appears In the village church, her
children around her. the minister looks
down and is reminded OF the Bible descrip-
tion OF a good housewife. "Her children
arise up and call her blessed; her husband
also, and he praiseth her"
Some years 60 by, and the two Oldest
bows want collegiate education, and the
household economies are severer. and the
calculations are closer, and until thosetwo
bows get their education there Is a hard
battle for bread. One OF these boys enters
the university, stands in a pulpit widely in
fluential and breaches righteousness. judg-
ment and temperance, and thousands dur
ing his ministry are blessed. The other lad
who got the collegiate education goes into
the law, and thence into legislative halls,
and after awhile he commands listening
senates as he makes plea for the down
trodden and the outcast. One OF the
Younger boys becomes merchant. start
ing at the foot OF the ladder, but climbing
on up until his success and his philanthro-
pies are recognized all over the land. The
other son stays at home because he prefers
farming life, and then he thinks he will be
able TO take care Of father and mother
when they get old.
OF the two daughters, when the wal
broke out, one went through the hospitals
of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Monroe
cheering up the diving and the homesick
and taking the last message to kindred fal
away, so that every time Christ thought oi
her he said, as OF old: "The same is my sis;
ter and mother The other daughter has
a bright home OF her own, ard in the after
noon-the forenoon having been devoted
TO her household-she goes forth to hum
up the sick and to encourage the discour
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-16


And then YOU must take into considera-
tion that the vast majority Of those who
make the dominant idea Of life money get
ting fall far short of afluence. 1t is esti-
mated that only about two out OF hun
dred business men have anything worthy
the name of success. man who spends
his life with one dominant idea Of financial
accumulation spends life not worth liy-
ing.
, So the idea Of worldly approval. II that
be dominant in mans life he is miserable.
Every four years the two most unfortunate
men in this country are the two men NOM
: mated for the Presidency. The reservoirs
of abuse and diatribe and malediction
gradually fill up, gallon above gallon. hogs
head above hogshead, and about midsnm-
mer these two reservoirs will be brimming
full, and hose will be attached to each
one, and il will play away on these two
nominees, and they will have to stand it
and take the abuse and the falsehood, and
the earicature and the anathema, and the
eaterwauling and the filth, and they will
be rolled in it and rolled over and over in
It until they are choked and submerged
and strangulated. and az every sign OF re-
turning consciousness they will be barked
at by all the hounds of political parties
from ocean to ocean. Aud yet there are q
hundred men to-day struggling for that
privilege, and there are thousands of men
who are helping them in the struggle.
Now, that is not life worth living. You
can get slandered and abused cheaper than
that. Take it on a smaller scale. Do not
be so ambitious to have a whole reservoir
rolled over on you.
But what you see in the matter OF high
political preferment you see in every COM
munity in the struggle for what is called
social position. Tens OF thousands Of peo-
pie tryiag to get into that realm, and they
are under terrific tension. What is social
I position? 1t is a difficult thing to define,
but we ali know what it is. Good morals
and intelligence are not necessary, but
wealth, or show of wealth, is absolutely
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
None too Much Gold.

In referring to the Klondike gold dis.
coveries the Chicago Tribune asserts
that there is no reason to look for a
c happening of gold. that use will be
found for all the new gold that may be
mined. And then it goes on to say that
'the United States need s5oo,ooo,ooc
more" If so, there is certainly ground
for the assertion of bimetallists that the
stock Of all gold in the world is too mar
row a basis on which to conduct the
worlds trade. That the United States is
in need of s5co,ooo,ooo more of gold, that
we have need of this much additional
gold in order to put our currency sys'
tenn on broad and safe foundation, is a
remarkable admission from a journal
t hat has denied that there is scarcity
of gold.-Colorado Springs Telegraph.
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
BOUND OVER,
ii, C, Mellor Given His Preliminary Hear.
ing Before Jnstice Ingram.

II. c. Mellor Given His Preliminary Hear
ing Before Jnstice Ingram.
AT go Justice Ingram called court
to order in the county court room for the
preliminary hearing OF H. c. Mellor,
charged with the murder of his son
ia mes Mellor,'st Quigleyville, on Mon
day, August z.
The state was represented by Guy
Duncan and the defense by Charles B.
Ward.
The witnesses called were Joseph H.
Kerr, DR.. Gillingham, Mrs. Hyatt, Cor
on er Trezise, DR.. Queal. DR.. Campbell,
ODE Hill and Sheriff Dyer. All of these
witnesses were the same as introduced
at the inquest. excepting Drs. Gilling-
ham and Campbell and Coroner Trezise
and their testimony was the same as
given on that occasion and reported in
these columns on Tuesday. The SUBJ
stance of the testimony produced by the
Ward physicians was relative to their
finding the body of the dead man, James
Mellor, lying in his cabin door. Both
b however, testified to the highly excited
condition of H. c. Mellor, when he ap-
peared to summon them. Coroner Ire
Else testified as to the condition of the
body when he took charge of the same.
No testimony was introduced by the
defense, and in his argument Mr.. Ward
confined himself principally to securing
the release of the prisoner on bail. Mr..
Ward pointed out that the constitution
makes all offenses bailable excepting
capital crime, but since the late legis.
la ture abolished capital crime in this
state at its last session, all ofenses are
bailable.
The state closed with brief argument
relative to the fixing of the sum of the
bond.
Justice Ingram then bound over the
prisoner to the October term of the dis
trict court in the sum of 81 900 bonds.
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
Tho Bait Not a. Fresh as 1t Was.

He was a crusty old bachelor of IS.
She was his niece, little tot of 8. They
had been having lots OF fun together in
the library all the afternoon, and as din
ner time drew near she was tired and
sleepy. Finally. says the Detroit Jour
nal, he took her upon his lap. She ;alk-
ed to him drowsily.
"You haven't got any little girl but me,
have you, Uncle Harry?" she said.
NO." he replied, "and if I did have
one couldn't love her any more than |
do you." "Why don't you have little
girl7" the sleepy child continued. "Why
don't you get married like Cousin Iom'
Uncle Harry1 Don't you want TOT!
"Oh, there's lots Of time" he replied.
There's lots OF time, dearest, and besides,
there are just as many good fish IN the
sea as have ever been caught
Itwas a minute or longer before the
little one spoke. Raising her pretty
yellow head she looked up at him and
said:
"But, Uncle Harry, don't you think the
bait is getting little stale?"
He didn't reply. and by and by she
fell asleep in his arms.
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
5 NEWS.
MEXICO DESPERATE.
Tho Money Brigands are Forcing That
Country to the Wall.

1ho money brlSAnQs are FOTClDS AA0S
Country to the Wall.
St. Louis, Aug. THE City of Mexico
correspondent of the Globe Democrat
paints picture of that place that reveals
desperate state of affairs. He says IN
substance, that through the fall of silver
and the high rate of exchange, the coun
try has reached point where it is
brought face to face with what may be
considered crisis Reputation he says
has an ugly sound, but under the circum-
stances something like that must inevit'
ably follow. The government policy
has been wisely directed, but at the pres.
ent time its condition is critical. The
railroads and other foreign corporations
are in identically the same condition as
the government. They have to pay gold
interest on their bonds and the money
earned is inadequate to meet the obliga-
tons. All foreign orders have been
cancelled. Exchange is at premium
of IS. and if it continues. reputation of
all debts must follow.
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
FIFTY PERSONS KILLED.
A Bulgarian Cartridge Factory Blows u
Causing Dreadful Carnage.

A Bulgarian Cartridge Factory Blows Up
Causing Dreadful Carnage.
Rustchuck, Bulgaria, Aug. IAN ex-
plosion occurred at a cartridge depot
yesterday demolishing the building and
killing 46 persons and injuring 70 others.
Many of the latter will die. The city of
Rustchuck is on the bank of the Danube,
20 miles from the capitol, Bucharis, and
has 10000 Inhabitants. The cartridge
factory was the largest in Bulgaria and
was the important industry in the city.
The cause of the explosion is not GER
tainly known, but is believed to have
been caused by carelessness of one Of
the wotkmen. The most intense excite
ment prevails in the city. The govern
ment has offered assistance to the wound
ed and destitute sufferers. The explosion
caused great damage in the city and
window glass was shattered on the other
side of the river.
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
RESULT OF MANIPULATION.
Senator Teller Describes the Fall of Silver
and Rise of Wheat as Artificial.

senator Teller Describes the Fall of Silver
and Rise of Wheat as Artificial.
Denver, Aug. IA special to the News
this morning from Senator Teller says:
mo matter how low the price of silver
may be forced, or how greatly it may
vary or fuctuate in the gold-controlled
bullion markets OF the world, it will still
remain one of the rare and valuable es-
sential and necessary money metals, not
only on account of its intrinsic usefulness
and value, and its established and hered-
itary recognition by men and govern
ments, but because there is not gold
enough, and, in all human probability
there never will be, to transact the money
affairs of men and nations, without the
concurrent recognition and use of silver.
"a great ado is made about the late
apparent steady depreciation of silver.
Its fall in price was not unexpected to
the friends and proponents of bimetal-
lism. They realize that if the interna-
tional gold trust is powerful enough to
control governments, the policies of ma
tons and the destinies of the people, the
value of silver as money metal may be
perpetually destroyed. 1t is only a
question whether the people will submit
to being made slaves to the gold power.
"The result of last falls election in the
United States, as proclaimed, was blow
to silver in Europe. The action of Japan
in adopting a gold standard initiated
against it. The extravagant account of
gold discoveries throughout the world
affects the markets for the precious met
ais, but the market quotations are largely
fictitious and not predicated upon real
values"
Mr.. Teller goes on to state that the
present price of wheat, IS cents. is the
result of manipulation, and while it will
probably go higher the price is not
stable one. He concludes by saying:
"The administration is in favor of the
Indiana polls plan, or similar one. But
the senate is neither as docile nor a.
blindly partisan as the house. We want
no gold controlled, personally appointed
commission. with a cut-and-dried plan
on hand, to instruct US what to do, and
commit this nation to policy repugnant
to the industrial producing masses.
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
sherman's Tongue Wsgging.

Washington. Aug. 7-Senator Sherman
says that the United States cannot guar
antee to Japan its expectations of de-
cree by the arbitrators on the Hawaiian
immigration question. He says if the
treaty is ratified by the senate before the
decree is given then the arbitration fails.
He doubted if the American flag is
floating over Hawaii and says that if it
is, the action was taken on account of
some overt act of Japan.
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
Collision In Indianapolis.

indianapolis, Aug. THE Chicago
express on the Pennsylvania line collld-
ed with an engine on the Monon at the
Market street crossing this morning. The
Chicago train was late and was by mis-
take switched on the wrong track.
VIM. Martin. engineer of the Monon,
was killed.
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
Jealous Husbands Desperate Deed.

Columbus, S. c, Aug. 7-Patrick Dre-
hel killed his wife and John Kane at
Louisville last night in moment of jeal.
Gus rage. He saw them talking together
and drawing a pistol shot Kane, killing
him instantly. His wife fled but he pur.
sued and shot her in the breast and then
Gu; her throat.
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
Spanish Political Prisoners Escape.

New York, Aug. 7-Delegate Tomas
E strada Palma received a cable this
m orning announcing the escape of Justo
Garcia son of Gen. Garcia, and Manuel
Planas from the Spanish penal authorit-
les at Shaferino Islands. They have
st arted on the way to Paris.
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
viii Make the Rusher Growl.

Americas brewery barons will prob.
ably regard all protests against the pro-
posed beer trust as only another form
of rushing the growler.--St. Louis Re-
public.
Daily camera., 1897-08-07
Silver Quotation.

SIiVeT 0yuOGHGIUH.
New York, Aug. 7-Silver is quoted at
567s today.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-02-14

eSpirltu,g: caussudo abat'miento
seservs, 6 infuadiendo temore
imaginsrios, sdenas d;sponen
una persona a 1rrisarse y ofenders'
pOr peQuefieoes no pudi61dose ocu
oar de ninguna elase de trabajo
Tode cato naturalmente resulta er
Ia p6rdida de tlsmpo, djnero y QC
que es sun de mayor importanois,
de nuestras bnenar relsciones COR
auestros amigos Y en- general.
a. IN pAiaolt.4iento one tien
ian teyr!b!es rasulGados oieD go l.
)uede jIamAr a&o5e como tambisn
IL renedio gas IL cnra &c puede
'omparsr con ana pspits de orc.
d'smo esta compensation no es
-Atecuada pnes qua vale el orc al
aAo de IL Aalud, que es la riqusza
ass importanre one 81 hombre p.
Sc! s.gurameate poeO mas que
la0A.
ApfovGoh6monos pues del ejem-
slO y expefiencfa de nuesuro amigo
tengamos siempre 3 q mano 81
arsba Curative da la Msdre Sci.
ssl para po2s5s't0 nsas Caando apa
asoan los plimaros si1tomas de
ma entesmedsd tan comun y da-
ina.
e J@rabe Ourativo de la Madre
ssigei eat& de vents en- todas les
Farmar as, Dregnerias. y Espsnde-
urias de mediolnss Del mundo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-02-14

Enjuicismiento civil, por salce.
10, ] tGmO.
A'y lie enjuici&n ieato civil. En,I
10 Reus, 6.tomos
Loglslac,6u Hipotecariailor Ca
epdO, 4 tomos
Ley HipCtGoaria con Reglamers
%, por Morell, l to1no.
Atarceles judiciales. para 10 ori-
mjnal.
Tactioas de Recluta.. ..4O1cts.
ldem SeOoi6n = Compani&. go cts.
1dem Battalion, 80 ctG.
Manual de CiAGes de tropa, 2 to~
saos 5 2-75.
Oodlgn de Justioia M;IItaA, 30
entaYOG.
L.DIo os para Ia Academia
preparatOria.
Ari1metica, apor .Salt-
Gas, tCmO. 21EO
Algebra, pOr ldem 2
fomo.-----...-...... 200
0eometria p0r Ofte.
"a, 2 tOmos....-.... 400
Trigronometrls, DOE
Gomez y Palette, 1 to.
11o.. .-~-.s.s.-.s... 200
G1RmAtica franCesa,
por. .Otenero, l tomo.. 500
Tsaduclcp, por Ira.
mania, l tomo.... a 2S
Aritmetaca, por Oor.
EAn&S, tomo.... 15O
AIgebrS, pOr Idem,
UOAuOs Os-e- s-e-..~s....A.e 2 80
deOmetrlS, p0E lQem
l. 7h
Geomettfa y Tngc-
aometria, por GavilanI
l NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. BEG
Arltm6tlcs, pOr Oar"
din, 1 tomo-....... 150
Algebra, poe ldem,
SVhNO &c ss~Ss aas~sosss ii OG
de0meErIa, pOr lQem
h O1<ATs o-~ssaa 40
01smstlea tFAHOeka.
JOE OhaRtreau, ] tom0 2 25
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-02-14
gESCRIBANIAR

Tambien Sc ACADIA de recibir de
las mlsmas un extens0 y variado
surtidO. Las hay de multitud de pre-.
clos, desde IS oentavos hasta 20 y
Velnte y cinco penOs, may elegantes
y luOsas. En- tinteros de cristal de
roca Sc puede escoger mucbo.