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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22

driven up to the hilt in the animals
breast, causing him to halt for Sec
ond or two, but, at the same time, the
concussion sent the unfortunate sem
try reeling and partially stunned him.
The bull, though fatally wounded,
had still strength enough left to again
charge at his now disabled and de-
fenseless enemy, and doubtless this
would have been the end of "poor
Tommy Atkins" but for the timely ar
rival of the guard, who succeeded in
driving off the beast, which soon after
expired. Tommy is now quite hero
in his way, and has been dubbed by
his chums, "The Matador," though /
must relate that, like most amateurs,
in his confusion and ignorance, he
neglected to claim and appropriate
the usual insignia of victory, viz, the
bulls ear.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
Life Saved in Odd Way.

Commander Thomas, formerly of the
gunboat Bennington, had his life
saved aboard that ship by a Cingalese
mess attendant in an odd sort of way.
He was doing bit of inspecting on
the berth deck, aft, one afternoon
when the Executive Officer of the ship
came to the head of the after berth
deck ladder and shouted down below
to anybody within hearing:
SIS the Captain below there?"
Commander Thomas heard the call,
and, without making any reply to the
question, started from the pay office
for the ladder, intending to go above
to the main deck to see what the First
Lieutenant wanted. The hatch right
at the foot of the ladder had been care
lessly left open by seaman who had
gone forward for bit of gear, and it
was dark on the berth deck. The
Commander had his eyes raised to the
head of the ladder, anyhow, as he ap-
preached the ladder, and had he made
another step he would have plunged
to the bottom of the deep hatch and
been mangled to bits. He was arrest
ed by hearing a piercing voice behind
him eXclaim:
BLAST the shippers eyes! Blast
the shippers eyes!'
With his foot still raised to take the
step that would have plunged him in
to the hatch, Commander Thomas
turned his head suddenly.
who's that?" he asked.
Then the Cingalese mess attendant,
leaping out of the darkness, had the
skipper clutched by the sleeve, and
ierked him back from the open hatch
by main force. Thomas couldn't 'tquite
see into it for a second, until the Gin
galese, who had fortunately picked up
English on a British wind-jammer,
pointed to the open hatch. The Gin
galese explained in his broken dialect
that the exclamation he had used was
the first bunch of English words that
came into his head when he saw the
Captains danger. He couldn't re-
member the English equivalent Of the
word "stop" soon enough, he said,
and so he had blasted the skipper's
eyes as the best way of attracting the
officers attention.
"And so the first thing that crops
into your head is to blast your skip
pers eyes, is it?" asked Thomas of the
Cingalese. The man got all of the
best of it on the Bennington after that.
New York Sun.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
Through English Eyes.

'The Lady's Pictorial" publishes a
beautiful reproduction of Mrs. McKin-
ley's last photograph-the one in which
she is resting in her favorite chair on
the veranda, while her delicate hands
hold her favorite needlework. Accom-
panying the picture is the following
tribute:
1t is doubtful If modern times have
two women who attract so much atten-
tion as the Queen Regent who presides
at Ell Escurial and the Lady of the
White House" As a hostess Mrs.
Mckinley is unrivalled. The toilets
seen at her receptions may vie with
any in the courts Of Europe, and she
can hold her own against the wives
and daughters of the Diplomatic Corps,
being invariably neatly and tastefully
gowned. Her favorite jewels are pearls
and diamonds, of which her posses
sions are equal to those of any Queen.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
A Ouick-witted Woman.

This is the story that was brought
back bya young person who had spent
morning at hospital in Auburn.
New York:
"While I was there man and a
woman came in bringing a burned
child in blanket. 1t turned out that
the man did not know the woman, nor
The woman the man. and neither knew
the child. AS the woman was riding
on an open trolley-car on her way to
the hospital, she heard shrek, and
saw q child in a door-yard with its
dress afre.
"She jumped off the car, grabbed a
blanket which hung on clothes-line,
wrapped it around the child, and rolled
it on the ground. The child's mother
came out of the house and picked the
child up. That started the fire again.
The rescuer instantly grabbed the
child from the mother, rolled it on the
ground in the blanket some more, and
then ran with it to the car, got aboard,
and brought it to the hospital. The
man was a stranger to her, who hap
pened to be on the car, and who car
ried the child block or so from the
car to the hospital. The child was
badly burned, but will recover. Don't
you think that woman's wits were
pretty quick?"- ?"-Harper' Bazaar.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
woman.s Services Recognized.

Margherita Arliua Hamm, one of the
women war core ,pondents, has been
recommended to She war department
for special recogr tion because of the
services rendered by her to the wound
ed men of the Third cavalry at Santi-
ago. A large cartridge taken from the
belt of Trooper Armstrong, the first
man to be killed at Santiago, has been
mounted in gold and presented to her
as a medal. Before leaving for Santi-
ago she cared for the soldiers on the
way from Tampa to the Southern hos
pitals, was instrumental in securing
for them good berths, and aided greatly
in making them comfortable. She has
also received set of resolutions from
the friends of Trooper Freeman, of
Winomac, Ind, in recognition of her
services in caring for him while he was
suffering from a serious wound re-
ceived in battle.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22

women to do the work OF men, and
thought something should be done to
aid women to do the work natural to
them for generations. The truth that
all women who need to earn money and
who are unable to go outside of their
homes to do it makes it urgent that
something should be done for them to
make their tasks as pleasant as possi-
BILE, and the solving Of this economic
problem would be OF invaluable bene-
tit to womankind.
She cited the fact that nearly every
State in the Union has some woman's
industry that could be made profitable,
and that these same industries are
looked upon as drudgeries is because
their work brings so little return and
because it does not represent their best
endeavor, this being the case with the
women of the Tennessee mountains,
who spin all the coarse materials used
as clothing for their families. Silk
raising and reeling, knitting and spin
ming, were spoken Of as being suscep-
tible of great development, and, under
proper direction, becoming paying in
dustries; the Mexican drawn work also,
as having a wide sale and with the
right management being made profit
able manufacture.
She hoped that women might en-
courage this particular line of manual
and art training, thus opening new
era to their sisters who have no oppor-
tunity to become more than unskilled
household slaves.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
His Soul Was Heroic.

1t was off the Horn. Waves such as
are epcounted only there in all the
world raced irresistibly. The ship
labored nightly through the night. In
lull the cry, MAN overboard!" rang
from stem to stern. Without hesita
ton the helmsman put the wheel
''hard up" The watch peered over
the sides of the ship into the foam. All
at once man rushed up the compan-
ionway. He was in his night clothes.
Without waiting a moment, he leaped
the rail, and plunged overheard. There
was only death to be found in the boil
ing benumbing waters. By some witch
cry of Neptune, a cross sea tossed the
two men to leeward, and the ship
dipped them up. They were both un-
conscious, and the hero had his man
clutched by the hair. Even to the old
sailors used to miracles of the sea the
safety of the two was not so great a
marvel as the fact that the man had
dared to Jump at all; for he was a
timid, seasick landlubber making his
first voyage, and his seeming coward
ice had been the butt of savage scorn.
How, then, had he outdared them all
in recklessness? He was asked the
question. How could he do it?
He answered simply that he had lain
awake nights planning just what he
would do if he heard the cry, "Man
overboard" 1t was so hard for him
to overcome his instructive fear of the
water that he had mentally and system
atically schooled himself to action.
Thus, while his body cringed, his soul
was heroic. This habit of mind made
opportunity impossible to pass by.
The intuitive response to his training
swept him over the rail before he knew
where he was.-Century.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22

There is volume of instruction
on the elements that go to make up
our volunteer army in the published
report of the previous occupations of
those soldiers of the Tenth Pennsyl-
vania regiment who were ki led in the
first land battle near Manila. One
was farmer, one was country store
keeper, two were coal-miners, one
was the son of a school ol-teacher, one
was a college student who had enlist
ed on the day before the graduating
exercises of his class. This is not an
exceptional list. 1t is merely a fair
type and sample of the young men
who in every state of the Union came
forward promptly and cheerfully to
answer their country's call, comments
the New York Herald They repre-
sent all classes and conditions of citi-
zenship, dying on a common level of
military heroism as they had lived on
a common level of civic patriotism.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22

Travellers. over the line of railway
from the City of Mexico to the city
of Vera Cruz are said to be greatly
impressed with some, e,of the engines
they see in use on that route double
headers as they are termed. The
Mexican railway company has already
as many as adozen, adding them from
time to time to its stock as business
has demanded. Each of these mann
moth constructions weighs 100 tons,
and is capable of hauling 100 tons up
a four and one-half per cent. grade.
They are of Scotch manufacture, and
have now been in the service of the
road about ten years. The fact is
mentioned as somewhat singular that
these double headers are used by no
other road in North America.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22

Many of the United States senators
from Southern states come from small
towns, the policy in many parts of the
South being to recognize country
rather than city statesmen. Neither
of the representatives of Texas is
from Galveston; neither of the repre-
sentatives from Georgia is from
Atlanta; neither of the senators from
North Carolina is from Raleigh; nei-
ther of the senator's from South Caro-
lima is from Charleston; neither of
the senators from Kentucky is from
Louisville; neither of the senators
from West Virginia is from Wheeling,
and neither of the senators from Mis-
souri, is from ST. Louis. Some of the
towns represented are Marietta, Ga. ;
Bennetsville, S. c.; Tyler, Tex. !;
ScottsSille, Va; Marshall, n. c., and
Marion, Ky. Tennessee is the only
Southern state whose two senators
represent the two chief cities.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
Opportunities For Women.

In paper on cart aud Utility" read
before the delegates to the recent bien-
NAL convention at Denver, Mrs. Can
dace Wheeler, of New York City, asked
the Federation to use its endeavors to
encourage the humble women of the
land to make the most of their home
industries, and gave valuable sugges-
tions to club members to do practical
work among their fellowwomen.
She defined art in it's broadest mean
ing as being only the true and perfect
doing of things, and described the ar
tistic impulse as desire to live up to
ones best inspiration and to make real
what seems true. She called particu-
lar attention to the facI th: th.:. here ia a
constant effort being made to help
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
Farmers Can Max g Good Roads.

John Gilmer Speed, writing on
elbow to Have Good Country Roads, "
in the Ladies Home Journal, pro-
proses "that in each county there be
founded a Road Improvement Asso-
citation, which shall have a one or two
days meeting in the autumn of each
year. To the membership and to the
meetings all the farmers should be in
vited, while all those in the country
acting as road overseers, or road su-
pervisors, should be urged especially
to attend. At these meetings special,
definite, practical instruction should
be given in maintaining and repairing
dirt roads. Competent men to give
such instruction can be secured with
out cost to such societies, for the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture has Road Bureau, and this bur-
eau will always supply competent in
structor to tell the people just exactly
what they need, and how to do the
work as it should be DONE" Mr..
Speed also urges that school children
be interested in the work and taught
the rudiments of bodybuilding and
bookkeeping.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
To Make Better Roads Possible.

The electors of Arkansas will vote
at the next general election, on an
amendment to the State constitution
designed to provide for local option in
road improvements. If the electors in
any county vote in favor of public
road tax at the general election for
State and county officers, then the
county court shall have power to levy,
in addition to the county tax, an
amount not exceeding three mills on
the dollar on all taxable property as a
County Road Tax" to be used ex-
clusively for building and repairing
roads and bridges of the county.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
Caring For the Complexion.

The complexion depends largely
upon the general health, and system
ATTIC exercise, with good nourlshine
food, will do wonders toward giving 6
bright, healthful hue to the skin.
The daily bath is also one of the bes,
skin medicines. If the skin has nc
tendency to graasiness a little colo
cream or other emolient rubbed vel
into the skin, al ;er the bath, will de,
stroy the tendency to wrinkles OF
roughness.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22

As pretty an illustration as we have
vet seen of the new spirit which
marks the interchange of comment
between England and America appears
in the last Spectator to arrive by mail,
SAYS the New York Times Discus
sing the statement of the English
captain at Manila, when asked Gy the
German admiral what he would do in
case the Germans interfered with the
bonn mbardment of the city-the state
ment being that only the English cap
tain and American admiral had or
could get any information Oh that del
icate topic - The Spectator says: i:
"Hhere is something very naive in the
German admiral imagining that we
should allow him to bully Admiral
Dewey-though, as far as that goes,
there is no reason to think that the
American sailors would want any one s
help if it came to fighting the Ger
mans" The first part of this sem
tence is entirely friendly, and only a
few months ago the possibility that it
might be little irritating to Ameri-
can nerves would not have worried
the Spectator bit. But now an af-
terthough- comes, and it gets instant
expression. The words as they stand
are not exactly lesson in tact, to be
sure, but aren't they delightful. They
make the Atlantic ocean seem narrow
indeed.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
Notes of the Crusade.

A sample half-mile OF good roads is
about to be constructed on the Fork
and Kingsville road, in Baltimore
County, Maryland.
Stone roads on which earth or clay
has been used for binding" pur-
poses get very muddy with every rain.
They should be cleaned and scraped
while wet, as the mud can best be re-
moved at such times.
The series of practical articles en-
"The Value of Good Roads and How
to Make Them," lately contributed to
the press by D. F. Magee, of Lam
caster, Penn, are about to appear in
pamphlet form. They contain much
valuable matter.
- -: 1t is proposed in North Carolina
that narrow tires be taxed on heavy
vehicles, one-and-a-quarter inch to
pay $500 annually, and the amount to
be decreased down to fve-inch, which
should pay fifty cents, while six-inch
and wider ones would not be taxed
at all.
State Highway Commissioner Nc
Donald, of Connecticut, says that the
roads now being built or improved in
that State are very satisfactory, and
he predicts that in a few years the
State will have system of highways
quite up to the standard of New
Jerseys, which, he says, is the finest
in the United States.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
How to Keep the Hair.

A luxuriant head of hair has been,
and always will be, one of the most
important ornaments of feminine
beauty.
Women, as rule, know very little
about the care of the hair, with the re-
suit that they have not such attractive
looking heads as they should have. A
fine head OF hair is supposed to be a
sign of vigor and health.
The hair, to be kept in good condi-
tion, should not be irritated by too
vigorous treatment. There is as much
difference in the quality of the hair as
there is in the skin of the face, and it
needs the same careful and systematic
attention to keep it as it ought to be
kept.
Taking care of it one week and
neglecting it the next will do no good
whatever. Ar
Some women's hair is fine and Nix =
while others is coarse and bristly,
but whatever the hair may be, it re-
quires equal attention.
The scalp, like the pores of the face,
must be kept clean to be in healthy
condition. When it is dry and hard,
it requires nourishing tonic. Some
peoples hair, after being washed, will
dry more quickly than others. 1t is
not good for it to be too dry; so, when
this is the case, be sure and use
tonic.
Many people differ about how often
the hair should be washed. There
can be no rule about it, as every head
needs different treatment. For in
stance, some people wash their hair
once month only, while others find
that unless they wash it once fort
night it looks dirty and feels uncom-
Portable. Hairdressers generally ad-
wise once month, but if your hair is
dirty before that it should be washed,
as scalp that is not kept clean cannot
do the hair any good.
Fair hair, unless washed frequently,
generally has a sticky, greasy appear
ance, which is anything but beautiful.
Chicago Times Herald.
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Colored Lawn Handkerchief.

Colored linen lawn handkerchief:
have made their appearance again
Some have a white ground with queer
criss-cross and zigzag figures of pale
green, yellow, lilac, pink or blue, ol
checks or stripes of the same, while
others are of the solid colored lawn
All are edged with fine thread or Val
enciepnes lace, and are not infre'
quently scalloped or pointed. They
wash well, and appeal specially tc
schoolgirl taste.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22
Fashions Fancies.

Shaded feather boas and also coarse
white net ruches wrought in big
chenille dots are much used
In adjusting the sashes and belt
ribbons of various lengths, the smart
looking Empire bow still remains a
popular finish to the waists Of both day
and evening.
If one wishes to freshen the bodice
of a black silk or satin dress, airy
black point d'esprit draperies on the
waist and sleeves make a cool and
pretty change in the gown.
Very smart and pretty are the toilets
of rose -colored, ciel-blue, or dove
gray mohair sicilienne, trimmed with
graduated rows of Irish guipure in
sertion, with tiny frilling Of tulle at
each edge.
Cream serge is getting in its inning
now. Gowns of this material are
frequently made with plain skirt and
short sacque coat with deep sailor
collar, over which is worn another
collar of rich ecru Irish lace.
The very latest thing in millinery is
the halo. It is alarge plaque OF straw,
with the outer edge gathered Tam O.
Shanter fashion. The trimming is
placed underneath instead of on top
and usually consists Of plumes, which
hug the hair closely.
Partisan women are wearing shoes
and stockings to match their gowns.
In mastic and cream tones this will
do, but when it comes to bright
green's, red and blues the woman Of
really refined taste shudders at the
mere thought of such fad.
This notion of plain velvet band
passed through paste buckle SO
noticeable in summer millinery, has
extended to woman's arm. She now
wears piece of black velvet, fastened
esrterwise through small jeweled
buckle, as an armlet. 1t heightens
the whiteness of the arm wonder
fully.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-09-22

The inventive facilities of the Amer
ican girl seem practically unlimited.
The Atchison kan Globe says: 'By
tying sandpaper about her ankles an
Atchison girl produces the same effect
as by buying an expensive silk skirt.
The pieces of sandpaper rub together
and sound just like a Sl2 skirt. :"
Pretty rough on the dressmakers,
though.
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GOOD ROADS NOTES.
Function of the Road Service.


The function of pavement or road
surface is very imperfectly under
stood, even in sections where stone
roads have been in use for long,per-
iods. 1t is commonly supposed that
wet spot or bog will become dry if
filled in; that a good road may be
made anywhere. simply by making a
shallow trench of the desired width
and filling it with stone, and that the
surface of stone road needs to be
"protected' from wear by covering it
with loose screenings, sod, earth, or
any old stuff that is handy in hot
weather.
To these erroneous notions are due
many failures to get durability and
satisfaction from attempts at road
building. The Importance OF drain
age is not fully appreciated In most
sections, but it is at the bottom OF
successful road construction, and
neither permanence nor economy IS
possible if it is not amply provided
for. A wet spot must be thoroughly
drained before a road is carried over
it, or it will always be wet, at least IN
the wet season, no matter what else IS
done to il. Water under aroad bed
is as fatal to the life of the road as
water in mans lungs is fatal to his
existence.
The not uncommon practice of allow
ing a roadway to be lower than its
sides makes it little better than mere
drain, for water settles on the sur
face, quickly softens it and prepares
it to be cut up by every passing
vehicle. A raised and crowned road
bed which will shed water readily is
essential. A dry base with a lightly
arched cover of stone, capable OF
shedding the rain, is requisite for a
dry, permanent structure.
The stone roadway is not only to
serve as roof for the natural base
beneath, but is to take the wear of
traffic, and not to be covered with
other material as protection" to it.
In places where earth is used for
"binding" purposes, and little regular
attention is paid to the roads and
sprinkling is not done in dry weather,
the road surface breaks up rapidly
under the influence of the sun. 1t is
then that it has heaped upon it, to
"protect" it, quantities of fine screen
ings, or earth and stones, and some
times even clay and sod from the gut
ters. The result is poor road, for
months, unworthy of the name
"macadam."
If complete drainage is secured at
the outset, the road crowned and sys-
tematically cared for, with sprinhling
in dry weather, and is thoroughly
rolled as laid, without the use Of clay
to bind it, it will perform its functions
satisfactorily and prove valuable in
vestment of lasting worth. IL. A. w.
Bulletin.