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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-11-17

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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-11-17
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A Physiology Examination.

The following remarkable physioloG;-
ical statement occurred in the examl-
nation papers of student in west
ern school not long since: '"The human
body is divided into three parts--the
head, the chest and the stomach. The
head contains the eyes and brains, if
any. The chest contains the lungs
and piece of the liver. The stomach
is devoted to the bowels, Of which
there are fve-a, e, i, ., and some
times and y.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-11-17
Georgia Land for Sale.

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The herald., 1897-10-10

the shoulders and taper to the jeweled
belt, from which dangle more scalps;
no, more mink tails. The skirts of this
coat are quite full. 1t is lined with a
pinkish fawn silk, and there is picture
hat to go with it of brown felt, pink
ribbons and black ostrich plumes.
Caracul, astrachan, Persian lamb
etc., we have with us always. White
fox Is the favorite fur of women who
can afford it, surprising in beauty and
in value even gray fox, never more high
ly valued. A noteworthy evening wrap
Is of dark green satin, brocaded with
splendid lily blossoms in pale yellow
and white. These are relieved by black
green foliage. The cloak is made with
a great fiat collar of ermine edged with
white lace The wide sleeves have er-
mine bands and dropping lace ruffles
There is a sumptuous lining of ermine.
The muff of the season is big. It is
drawn up at the top into q satin bow
and a cascade of lace.
I have seen a few fur-trimmed
dresses, green tweed and Persian lamb
being one of the best. A theatre party
that burst into a restaurant last night
for supper brought some good gowns.
One, Of old rose silk, was slightly
trained. A band of jewelled lace inser-
tion edged the skirt behind and ran up
on either side of the front to the waist
line. Across the bottom Of the front
was line Of sable. The blouse bodice
Of old rose velvet was cut with large
square yoke of silk outlined with the
jewelled insertion. The yoke was pro-
longed into epaulettes, edged with sable
There was a high collar of unique shape
made entirely Of insertion and standing
in fiat ruffle Of old rose ribbon. The
large hat of old rose velvet was
trimmed with feathers.
A second costume was of fawn-col-
ored cloth. with the lower part of the
skirt sprinkled with irregular spots of
green velvet. A green velvet blouse,
corselet belt and sleeves of cloth and a
poke hat of brown felt, faced with green
and trimmed with outstanding feathers
completed the outfit.
A pink face cloth dress was charming
Its skirt was trimmed with bands and
bars of golden brown velvet. The bod
ice was tucked round and round and
was finished with a velvet belt and
atabbed, collar-like top of brown and
pink figured silk. This also had velvet
garnitures. ELLEN OSBORN.
The herald., 1897-10-10

In this instance he was a man, so an
cient that nothing was left of him but
a slightly animated skeleton, covered
with leathery parchment.
He lived in a lonely hut in the dense,
ss-shrouded forest, and there in the
dead of night. by the weird light of d
pine torch, old Caesar and his friends
took counsel as to what more might be
done to avert the consequences of his
unlucky blow.
The savant listened attentively, COM
mended the precautions taken, and
recommended a fetish to be worn as a
charm.
This would make him reasonably safe.
Nevertheless. he must be constantly
watchful, for it was impossible to fend
with absolute certainty against the dia-
bolical cunning of a cotton-mouth mate.
Old Caesar was somewhat comforted.
but scarcely ventured out of his cabin
until his friends had procured him the
fetish; and even then he would start
and shiver at the rustlng of a leaf. FL
nally, however, with the charm hung
about his neck, he started afield again
to work his corn and cotton, but he
carefully avoided all marshy routes,
particularly the hammock path.
This path, too, was eschewed by the
other negroes, each fearing he might
be taken for Caesar or else be struck
The herald., 1897-10-10

him to his home, and sooner or later
would get in its death stroke. He must
oppose cunning to cunning and outwit
the beast.
So, moving the body aside with his
hoe, he dug up the earth and pulled
dead leaves and forest mold over the
spot where the blood had been spilled
Then, with the utmost care that his
hands should not come in contact with
the body, he tied a string around the
creatures neck. and dragging it so that
only the unwounded part would trail
on the ground, turned from the path di-
rectly towards the river, where he
hoped the trail, both his own and the
snakes might be lost
Entering the water until it was waist
deep, he waded down stream, his vic
tim foating beside him. He would
have been only too glad to let it float
on and off with the current, but was
afraid the mate would get information
some way, or find it lodged against the
bank. So, after wading a considerable
distance. he went ashore, wrapped the
body carefully in moss, and then. keep
ing it concealed under his coat, went
through the forest to where the ham
mock Joined the pine uplands.
There, two miles from where the kill
ing was done, and as far from his home,
he climbed large live oak, and in the
The herald., 1897-10-10

ing on little hillock of chocolate col
ored earth.
The great diamond back rattler never
strikes without warning or except in
self-defense, and the deadly coral
snake, when it can, glides harmlessly
sluggish in movement, except in the
matter Of striking, makes no attempt to
get out of the way, and strikes at all
who come within reach. The stroke
itself is quick as lightning, and carries
certain death unless the treatment is
prompt and heroic. Even then life can
not always be saved.
Belonging to the moccasin family, it
is at home on land or water, but prefers
marshy ground along the margins of
streams and bayous: but wherever
found, it is ugly and dangerous, with
out one redeeming trait. The negroes,
indeed, ascribe to it a baneful intelli-
gence. even capacity to plan mischief,
remember wrongs and seek revenge
They believe that every cotton-mouth
has its mate, and that if one is killed
the other will lie in wait for days or
weeks to strike the slayer, some uner-
ring instinct guiding it as to where to
wait and whom to strike. There it will
wait, for months perhaps, until its cnos-
en- victim comes that way, and for him
the venom is concentrated and deadly.
The herald., 1897-10-10

According to the current superstition,
1t is the old snakes. like old people. that
are most inconsolable for their lost
mates. and in some parts of the South
negro will carefully avoid harming
one, rather than be burdened with con-
slant anxiety and dread.
The following story is told way
down on the Suwannee River" in Flor
ida:
An old negro, known as Uncle Caesar
had the misfortune to kill a large cot
ton-mouth. He was alone at the time,
and the emergency did not give time
for reflection.
Carrying hoe on his shoulder, he
was following narrow, bush -fringed
hammock path to a cotton field beyond,
when from under bush by the road
side he was struck at by the largest
snake he had ever seen. Deceived by
his baggy trousers, it's aim was defec-
tive, and instead of striking his leg the
long, curved fangs punctured the cloth
in front of his shin-bone, and hung for
an instant-long enough for the heavy
hoe, with almost convulsive action, to
come down with fatal effect.
Realization of what he had done came
quickly and the old man was panic
stricken. His first impulse was instant
fight, lest the avenging mate might
even then be near; but in ordinary
flight-so the belief vast would track
The herald., 1897-10-10
BEARDSLEY'S B0YH00D.
When He Was in School He Had
Pronounced theatrical As
piratiOnS-HOw Quenched.

When Aubrey Beardsley, the artist,
was a young boy he attended a schoo
near Liverpool, England the head
Usher of which was very much inter-
ested in theatrical matters So much
laken up with the stage was this man.
n fact, that he encouraged the boys to
organize amateur dramatic entertain
nents, and young Beardsley became a
iaader in this line of activity He was
ably seconded by a chap named Coch-
Jan. For long time the dramas given
were almost exclusively from the pen
1f Beardsley. They treated the most
sbstruse and intricate questions in ev-
try case. and sometimes the treatment
was truly startling. But none of them
was constructed to occupy more than
twenty minutes in the acting.
After a while, urged on by young
Cochran, Beardsley concluded to adapt
some of Ibsen's plays to their require
ments. The result must have been
queer. of course, but Cochran, who is
still young man, told the writer only
a few days ago that they used to get
enough income from their audiences to
keep the school athletic association on
its financial feet. There came a time,
however, when these theatrical per-
formances could no longer on.
Ibsen had just then put forth a new
play-one of those wonderfully strange,
and, to most persons, thoroughly dull
and heavy productions, for which he is
so famous. Beardsley and Cochran de-
termined that this play must be pro-
duced by their school-boy company. All
the other boys fell in with this notion
of their leaders, and all hands at once
went to work to prepare the scenery
and stage settings thought necessary
for an adequate production. Curiously
enough, they did all this before the
parts were studied or even distributed,
and when that portion of the prepara-
ton was attempted there was trouble
in the air.
Beardsley thought he was the only
member of the entire company compe-
tent to speak the lines. Cochran did
not dispute Beardsley's ability to take
the part fairly well, but he was sure he
tried to argue with him, but it was no
use. and while they were disputing an
other member Of the company declared
that it was his turn to take a prom
inent part. Then another came forward
to press his claim, and so on, till nearl
half the members of the company wer,
at loggerheads, each asserting that he
was the only one who could properly
be the star in that instance. 1t seems
that no one suggested the school-boy's
ordinary way out of the difficulty; that
is, by drawing cuts" and the ultimate
result was the abandonment, not only
of that play, but of the whole scheme
of amateur theatricals in that school.
That experience seems to havs per-
manently shunted Beardsley off the
theatrical scent. At all events, when
he got out of school he decided to de-
vote himself to what he calls pictorial
art, as all the world knows. Cochran
persevered in the theatrical line, how
ever. He came to America, and hopes
to open what he calls an Independent
theatre in New York this winter Coch-
ran and Beardsley are still very good
friends.
The herald., 1897-10-10

the fur all around. A very full ruffle
of real lace, as yellow as old ivory, is
set inside the fur collar and ends in a
double jabot under the chin The lining
is an exquisite pink brocade. A long
er cape reaches below the waist line. 1t
has storm collar, to be turned up or
down, and fastens al the throat with a
hook and eye in diamonds 1t is edged
all about with fringe of bushy sable
tails.
AS trimming for sealskin coats, sable
will be more highly valued than ever. 1t
will also trim and line cloth driving
coats and velvet and brocade evening
mantles. BY far the most beautiful
cloak I have seen this season was
thrown on last night after the theatre.
1t was worn by a tall woman, whose
pink and white youth was wonderfully
set off by the forgetme-not blue bro
cade, over which We're scattered clus-
ters of pale pink roses, with green
leaves. The roll collar of sable was fin
ished inside with frills of cream-col-
ored lace and was continued down the
front in long narrow revers. The lin
ing throughout was sable
The Russian blouse, or "moujik"
jacket, is as new as anything in seal
skin. A few days ago I saw one of the
handsomest cloak models in New York
try on number of these usually be-
coming garments. The ''moujik" Jacket
is pouched back and front and calls for
belt to be worn just above the short
basques that rutfle about the hips. The
most effective of those displayed was
fastened by six large oxydized silver
buttons, set with torquoise, and was
finished at the waist by torquoise and
silver belt drawn down to a Bernhardt
point in front. There were seven inches
of basque to add warmth, and there
was tabled collar. The blouse fronts
opened at will and We're likely to be
kept open most of the time, since when
turned back they gave a pretty point
de venise fropt liberty to appear,
The herald., 1897-10-10

buy rare eggs. In surprisingly short
time the ovoids were reaching him by
the dozen, and the dozen dozens, in
boxes, barrels, baskets, and crates.
For a few years prior to that time he
had been earning his living as a stem
ographer and typewriter, but since
then he has had no other occupation
than dealing in the things most de-
sired by natural history collectors.
| He now handles everything Of this
sort known to museums except bones
and insects, having long ago burst the
| narrow bounds of the birds-egg dealer.
AT his warehouse at Albion, Orleans
county, whittier he removed from Mag
ara county some time ago, you may see
| now snake-skins taken from serpents
that when living basked in tropical
climes; strange, dried fish from China
and Japan; bird-skins and stuffed
birds from the forests of Java and Aus
tralia, and the jungles of India; shells
from the Sandwich Islands and the
shores of South America; fossils from
the canyon of the Yellowstone and the
Ural mountains; besides toads, lizards,
turtles and Gila monsters galore.
Young Webb, however, is not fond
though he looks upon his shells and
his eggs, his skins and his fossils, as
so much "stock," he is through and
through naturalist; still, he does not
relish the exposures, dangers, and pri-
vations that must be encountered by
one who visits strange regions
1T is good deal easier and cheap
err" he said to the writer, ''to buy
these things than to get them, and
while there is some disadvantage in
not personally observing the habits
of strange creatures, the collectors
who bring or send them in are always
ready to turn in any information free
of charge. Besides, the life Of a COL
lector is SO irregular and uncertain
that it would be very hard to resume
business methods on returning from
trip. OF all the collectors with whom
l deal, and l deal with good many.
l know Of only one who does his work
in a business-like manner. That il
Captain D. P. Ingraham, of Elmira,
N. Y. He devotes half of each year to
collecting-usually spending the fall
or winter in Florida, which is his IA
vorite locality-and during the summer
remains at home putting his specimens
in shape and selling them. All Ameri-
can dealers in natural history curios.
as well as many in Europe, know In
graham, and like him too. and he ought
to be making money. Aside from the
men who are employed by the big nat
ural history museums, I do not know
of more than fifty Americans who
make it a business to collect spect-
mems, but they are travelling and gath
ering in every part of the world from
Borneo to Alaska.
IT get a good many specimens from
persons who do not collect regularly
men and boys mostly who have heard
of me. Whenever they find something
out of the ordinary they send it on.
knowing that If 1t il Of any value thew
will get a little money for It.
copyright 1897. b.. nsshsller, syadior>A
The herald., 1897-10-10
How He Heats His Home.

A certain professor named Morse, who
lives at Salem, Mass. believes he has
solved the problem of house heating.
All the rooms of his residence face
southwark, there being only passage
on the north. Almost the whole south
ern front of the house is made of glass;
and by means of reflectors Prof. Morse
is enabled on sunny days to heat his
whole house with sunshine alone. At
night and on cloudy days he has to
burn hearth fires but he believes that
his sun heating arrangements give him
the most wholesome heat obtainable.
The herald., 1897-10-10

Tor natures treasures. and then 1t was
not eggs but stones that were turned
to advantage. 1t so happened that al
though few varieties of fossils are In
be found in Niagara county, a certain
sort much priced by collectors is abun-
dant. The scientific name of this fos.
sil is "Singla Cuneata." 1t is dimin.
utfve shell. and is to be found literally
by the million in the debris of most Of
the stone quarries abounding in Nj
agara county. Because of its small
size, perhaps, but anyway for some
good and sufficient reason. collectors
preferred specimens of the rock con-
tanning this fossil to separate speci-
mems of the fossil itself, and the cur
rent price was five cents pound.
When young Webb found this out he
went at once to a number of quarry
owners and arranged for all the cunea-
ia bearing rock from the debris that
he could carry away, free, gratis, for
nothing. And from that day to this
he has been in receipt of a steady.
though not perhaps a very heavy in
come from it's sale.
1t was not until he was of age. or
nearly so, however, that he had much
notion of making serious business
out of the sale of specimens. Then.
needing money for some purpose, he
decided to offer his collection of birds
eggs for sale. 1t was a pretty large
one,-too large to warrant the hone
that anyone would buy it in the lump:
so the young man sent out circulars
and catalogues to a number of collect
ors with whom he had a corresponding
acquaintance. Somewhat to his sur
prise, the sale went very well; indeed,
within few weeks he had got rid Of
nearly all his eggs, while in their stead
he was in possession of about $500 in
cold cash.
Whatever uncertainty he had hither-
to felt as to the naturalist business
as a career, was quite dispelled by this
transaction, and the accumulation of
eggs was resumed at once Letters
were dispatched to well-known deal
ers and gatherers of eggs. Western
New York boys, and hundreds Of boys
in other parts of the country were
notified that Walter r. Webb would
The herald., 1897-10-10

on general principles, for, owing to the
extraordinary precautions taken by
Caesar, 1t was thought the mate, unable
to follow his trail. must be lingering
around the spot where the trace of the
dead one had been lost. and probably
had been growing fiercer and fiercer in
its grief and loneliness.
Time blunts the edge of all things.
and as the summer wore away without
any sign of the mate, the fear lessened,
until the negroes ventured again to use
the hammock path-that is, all except
Un,le Caesar
But when the path had been used for
weeks without injury to any one, even
Uncle Caesar plucked up courage, and
one day, six months after the killing
when it had grown too cold. it was
thought, for snakes to be about, he con-
cluded to go with the others, as it was
much the shortest way.
If he had asked the voodoo man he
unhappily and rashly, he went without
consulting his doctor.
The men-there were a dozen in the
party-walked in single file along the
narrow path, Uncle Caesar bringing up
the rear and in passing the fatal spot
each one made some jesting allusion to
the tragedy by way of cheering the old
man whose teeth were chattering audi
bly,. The last man in front of him even
iicked the bushes and called out, Hi
Uuc. Caesar. I doesn't blif' dat snec
had airy mate
But as he passed the spot Uncle Cae-
sar, with an awful howl, jumped high
in the air and fel, to the ground in con-
vulsions, while his terrified companions
saw the head of an enormous cotton
mouth rise above the bushes. glover at
him and strike again and again before
gliding off.
When sure that the snake was really
gone, they lifted the old man and has
tened to the voodoo man. But it was
too late; poor Caesar was past all hui
man aid, even a witch doctors, and died
on the way.
1t is needless to say that the negroes
in all that region believe religiously in
the cotton-mouth's mate, its vindictive-
ness and superlative cunning.
r. G. ROBINSON.
Copyright 1897, by Bacheler Syndicate.
The herald., 1897-10-10
SPECIMENS BY
THE MILLION.
True Story Of a Boy Who
Has Made a Fortune Out
Of Birds Eggs.
BEGAN WITH A SPANKING,
Now Does Big Business in Eggs,
Shells, Fossils, Dried Fish
and Stuffed Birds.

This is the story of boys love for
natural history, and how he was en-
abled to make it profitable in finan-
cial as well as an intellectual way, so
that he is now a prosperous man in the
naturalist business"
The boys name is Walter F. Webb
He was born in Niagara county, and
his father was a farmer. When only
five years old the lad began his career
by taking home from childish ram
BILE in the fields a birds nest full of
eggs. which he showed his father and
mother with the most intense enthusi-
asm. To his surprise. they failed ut
terly to share his feelings; worse yet
they took away the eggs and spanked
him soundly. They thought they had
thus broken him of his tendency to
rob birds nests. But, as a matter of
fact, they had only confirmed him in
the determination to collect the pretty
oval treasures. as he himself told the
writer only few days ago. Unlike most
young lads, however, he soon began to
take accurate notice of the markings
of each egg he gathered, and in short