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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
Lawton Once Left the Army,

1t is not generally known that Gen.
eral Lawton after his discharge from
the volunteer service in the Civil War
in 1866, was offered q commission in
the regular army, but refused it. He
had become tired Of q soldiers life
and took course at the Harvard law
school, after which he went to his
home in Indiana to practice that pro-
fession. A classmate Of General Law
ton only few days ago wrote letter
to a Washington paper stating these:
facts, and saying that he had asked:
General Lawton why he did not stay;
in the army when he had chance
The General replied that he was tired
OF soldering, and wanted to be law
yer. 1t seems that he soon wearied
of professional life also, for in 1867
ne accepted en- appointment as lieu
tenant in the regular army and by his
courage and boldness worked his way
up to the head.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
Animals That Have Disappaared.

Three centuries ago, Cadillac wrote
letter telling Of some of the animals
OF Michigan. Many of the most i'm
portant OF these have long since ceased
to exist within the borders of the
State. For instance, the buffalo, he
said, roa,ned in enormous dro7es
over the peninsula. The elk, the
moose, geese and swans unnumbered
were to be found, according to the
founder Of Detroit. All of these, ex-
eept the moose, have disappeared
l1om Michigan, but there are still
many animals in the fields and forests
OF the State; more, indeed, than we
generally realize. Many of them are
not often seen, especially by those of
us who spend most Of our lives in the
cities, end who only once a year, or
once IN two or three years, really see
the woods. Perhaps fve-serenths of
the people OF Michigan do not know
q quarter of the animals that live
within its limits, and would be urable
10 call more than that proportion of
hem by name ii they should have the |
opportunity OF doing SO. Detroit |
Free Press.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
American Ocean "rra,nn,. !.

The ocean ''tramps,' = as the freight
steamers are called that belong 20 no
regular line, aad pick up cargoes
wherever they can, are mostly under
foreign flags. The few that carry the.
Stars and Stripes are, as rule, for.
e'gn-bullt craft. But now, it appears,
IN the new development of our mer-
chant marine, there is a demand for.
American Cramps.
The tramp steamers have quite
an Important place in ocean com.
merce, and there seems to be no good;
reason why they should notsbe built
to te :, large extent ia American yards.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
Why You Want an Extra Blanket.

Bed covering is intended to gire
the body the warmth" that is lost by
reduced circulation of the blood.
When you lie down your heart makes
ten strokes minute less than when
you stand upright. This means six
hundred strokes in sixty minutes.
Therefore, in the eight hours you
usually spend in taking your nights
rest, your heart is saved nearly five
thousand strokes. As it pumps six
ounces of blood with each stroke it.
lifts thirty thousand ounces less blood
IN the night than it would during the
day. Now, you are dependent for
your warmth on the vigor of your cir
eulation, and, as the blood flows so
much more slowly through your veins
when you are lying down, the warmth
lost in the reduced circulation must
be supplied by extra covering.-An-
Bwers.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
hnishtly Deed of a Boy Hero.

AS knightly deed as minstrel.
nave sung was that of Willie Coch
rane, four years old, who gave his life
few days ago to save his baby sister.
ills doughty deed of chiyalry was
done in a crowded Brooklyn Street,
and the hospital and police reports
tell the tale.
|: Willie went to market with his
mother, Mrs. Alfred Cochrane. as
evening was falling. His little sister
Cora. two years old, had clamored to
'''go, too," and Willie held ner hand
as they crossed Myrtle avenue from
their house, at No. 263.
While Mrs. Cochrane went into g
store the children stood on the side
walk.
'Look! There's auntie!" crowed
the baby sister, and trotteG across the
street to meet Mrs. Cochrane's sister,
VINO was approaching the house.
Willie glanced up the street and stood
for heart-beat's time in horror. Al
trolley car, rushing down the steep
grade, was almost upon little Cora.
he darted like football player to
h1s sister, who was already on the
track. He pushed her aside with all
MS childish strength. She was safe,
5Et that moment the fender, with
terrified mot0rmau stgag agg!iug behind
t; bad strnes him, |
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13

Oallangry III tne
TN October Major Howard, of the
United States forces now in the
Philippines, took the Oceania
down to Arayat, in Luzon, and
from there started to slowly struggle
up stream against the swift current,
with two great cascos Of supplies. 1t
should be remembered that this boat
was unarmored. She had one Norden-
feldt five barrel rapid-frs gun Oh her,
which constantly jamued, and which
the insurgents had learned was in
effective when they had fred upon
her several times in the lower courses
of the river. There were two as in
trepid white men in charge of her as
ever fred gun-Sergeant Harris IN
command and Engineer O'Neil, who
had been one Of Young's scouts. The
rest of the crew, five in number,
were Filipinos. With Major Howard
was his civilian clerk, Chamberlain,
and two civilian blacksmiths, who
were going up to report to She cavalry
regiment. The cascos were furnished
with a guard OF twenty -arned
soldiers, but, unfortunately enough,
they were all beneath the heavy
bowed mats which cover this class OF
boat-invisible, aud useless in the
event OF au attack.
. The boat whistled as she rounded
the great bend at the mouth OF the
Rio Chico, which stretches offtoward
Tarlac, as warning to the Oeste,
less than q quarter OF mile above.
Major Howard sat in a chair at the
bow of the boat; Chamberlain sat
near him, but toward the right, and
slightly screened by the awning from
the high river bank on the left, only
seventy-fve yards away, and was
talking to one Of the b.acksmiths.
There was a binding yolley from
the nodding grass on shore. -Four
men in the boat fell-Major Howard,
shot through the great artery near the
heart; Chamberlain, thro ugh the
shoulder and arm; the blacksmith,
through the back and abdomen. and
tie pilot, in the forearm. Every man
in sight at the time had been hit.
Major Howard staggered to his
feet, ghostly white and gasping. He
moved toward Chamberlain, who lay
paralyzed by shock on tbsnleek, but
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
BILLIONS OF STORED EGGS
The Result of an Attempt by Packer
to Corner the Market.

One OF the most peculiar situations
in regard to the egg supply ever
! known exists in the United States to-
day. The situation is the result OF
storing eggs in an attempt to control
the market. There are liable to be
| two results. One is that the people
Of the country will have cold storage
eggs foisted upon them as the newly
laid product. The other is that the
people who attempted to 'tcorner" the
market will suffer heavy losses.
The beginning Of the "cornering"
effort dates back to last summer. At
that time, it is said, the Chicago
packers evolved the scheme of buying
up all the eggs that could possibly be.
gathered together and storing them
until the supply became scarce. AS,
is usual in schemes, it was anticipated
that the scarcity would send the price
sky high. Then the stored eggs.
were to be ,unloaded on the market
| and a fortune was to be made for the
packers. It is figured that 1000, 600
cases, each case containing thirty
dozen eggs, were stored away. To
the industrious hen, whose capacity
| is one egg day, this an exceed
ingly large amount.
The scheme to control tho market
fell through. There was no eal for.
the stored eggs AMI the packers begs3
to lie awake O. pights thinking. Atpres-
ent the hens ere beginning to lay fresh
eggs. glese are coming into the
market and no one wants the stored
eggs.
4 little figuring will show how
enormous the loss will be. There.
are 7,0OO,00 cases of eggs, or 2l0,-
900, 900 dozen, stored throughout the
country. These we're bought up at
fifteen cents dozen. The present.
price of eggs adozen outside Of Cleve-
land is on an average four cents less
dozen than the price at which the.
stored eggs were bought. This will I
mean loss of about SS, ACC, 900 to the{
packers. It is conjectured that there,
are 5000 cases of the stored eggs IN.
this city. The loss here will also be!
very large.
It is reported that the packers in j
this vicinity have way out OF the
dilemma. It is said that next sum-
mer when eggs are shipped here from
outlying towns, the stored eggs VIII
he mixed with fresh ones and that IN
that way the old product will be sod
tods1e unsuspecting public. oleys.
hand Plain Dealer.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
Nillie's body was hurled high in

Willie's body was hurled high in
the air and fell at one side OF the
track: The car rushed ahead for q
block before the brakes could work.
Mrs Cochrene, running wild-eyed
90 NJ the store, saw aer eldest baby
bleeding in the street. One Of his
legs was terribly crushed and his: face
was bleeding, disfgured by many
cuts. The mother-she is only TWEEN,
ty-one years old-fainted at the sight.
Willie was in the Brooklyn Hospital
when she recovered.
Then they told her she was wanted
at the hospital. The boys leg mus:
be taken of, they told her, and her
presence was necessary. Nerving her,
self for a new ordeal she FASTENED 10
the place. A nurse met her at the
door.
Your brav~ q darling tsssosuf,
fer no more, "I~she told the stf1sken
mother. "He is dead"
The shock was too much, and Mrs.
Cochrane was carried unconscious to-
another bed in the ward where her
son lay.
"You will. be proud, for all your
sorrow, to be the mother Of that boy" }"
said the house surgeon, to rouse her,
But this was her hour of lamentation,
when heroic thoughts do not comfort.
Raced Two Miles to Save Woman.
George Double, trackman on the
Hudson River Railroad, whose home
is in Poughkeepsie, saved a woman's
lie recently in heroic manner. He
was at work on the tracks at Low
Point when he saw neatly dressed
mlddle-aged woman start to cross the
river on the ice. The steamer Trem-
per had ? Just passed south, plowlng
through the chopped ice in the chan
mel. The woman walked directly to-
ward the channel, as if she meant to
try and cross it on the cakes of ice.
Double watched her until he saw
her walk into the channel and sink,
clinging to the ice foes. He ran down
the track to where train stood on
the old Troy switch. he uncoupled
the1 engine and started down the
track to where he could get row.
boat. This he got about mile south
of where he saw the woman struggling
in the ice choked channel.
He induced man who was walking
the track to accompany him ont to the
channel. Together they showed the
boat over the ice until the channel
was reached. Looking up the river,
they saw the woman apparently cling
ing to the ice and being swept along
with the current.
The men fastened to her assistance
and managed to lift her into the boat,
in which they soon brought nr 20
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
not her own, and all the tim, wore q

1OG her OWL, anu al Iho LlNiS MOIc U
brave front over q weary heart.
It happened quite unexpectedly
that Delaield Dean left his wife free
without taking the trouble to die.
The details ere not pleasant, and,
anyway, they do not matter. Let it
suffice that Janet took her liberty as
she had ser7itude, with dignity. She
went away to new town to earn her
| living, and, being a woman with a
special talent, she had little trouble in
doing it.
One month after she had started
! upon this new career tall, severe,
leep-voiced man paid her formal
call. He had travelled 500 miles to
do it, and, having done it, he took
| the train back to the mountains
| again. He did this once a month for
year. At the end Of that period he
announced the fact that he, John
Crane, was going to marry her. She
wept. She said it was not in accord
ance with her principles. She de-
clared that she would always live
alone, always work for her own bread,
alwsys lament her ruined happiness
But just the same one day in mid
winter John Crane went westward
| with the woman he loved by his side,
! and if she had lost some OF her en-.
thusiasms, be had NOT. After the
mountains We're reached at every
station he dashed out on the platform
and brought in men to meet his wife.
Half the town was down at the
depot to see John Crane come home.
There was a mountain coach with
six gray horses jangling bell-laden
harnesses to take them up the hill.
Every one seemed to think this was
quite the thing. John thought so,
too. His standards had come to be
those of his neighbors.
The path to the house door was
dug between snow banks as high as
Janet's head. And when the door
was opened, what sho beheld was her
old writing desk against the wall; her
familiar old books on the shelves; her
riding saddle and blankets on the
wall: the well-remembered mountain
lion skin upon the floor before the
fire of pine.
Then, for the first time, her heart
went out in tenderness to this patient
knight.
"My love-" she sobbed, ''you have
served long time"
:'I have my reward he said,
soberly, 81 have my Rachel. Chi
cago Tribune.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13

! car ferries -
PIT whole trains Of :@I;,ev ErAle
freight cars from one terminal of s
railway line to the other thus consti
tuting an importnaut link where
bridges would be impracticable.
Three ice challenging ferries ply the
straits OF Msckinac, the Detroit River
and across Lake Erie from the Ameri-
can to the Canadian shore. They are
huge steel-shod craft weighing sew
eraI thousand tons, and some of them
have cost more than s35O,O0O each.
Fitted with propellers at either end,
they crumble the ice by the pressure
of their great bulk as though its three
OF four feet were but a thickness of
cardboard.
Whatever else is wanting. adven-
ture is not lacking in the lives OF The
men who spend the months of snow
aboard the majestic monsters which
are to the lake tracks what the snow
plows are to the railroad lines. A few
winters since, with the thermometer
ranging from eighteen to thirty de-
gress below zero, one of the car fer
ries was caught in an immense ice
deld, on Lake Erie, and foated !
around for months with great mass |
'f ice piled mountains high around !
Ter. A portion of the crew was, of
'ourse, obliged to remain aboard, and
'ach day couple of the men made al
ttempt-not always successful-to 20
shore in order to secure provisions
nd supplies. Ofttimes this meant
long, dreary trip across the ice, and !
'equently, when yawning chasm of
water intervened between
ae shore and the edge of the icefeld,
lc foragers were not able to return
their imprisoned comrades for in
rivals of several days.-Self Culture
.agazine.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
Enlightening Her.

Mrs. Flighty-''Well, what the lat.
est war news, dear?"
Mr.. Fhghty (behind his paper)-
"Oh! Aguinaldo has warned General
Butler to keep his forces within the
limits OF Ladysmitb, or he will re-
lease all the prisoners at Prdtoria.
Otis and his brigade moved on Sulu
and gave battle TO Oom Paul. The
losses were euormous-oyer six hun.
dred and fifty Tagals and nine hun
dred and two AafiE-Boers were
slaughteredr'
Mrs. Fig lty (shudde-ingly)-"Is'nt
war perfectly horrid! ButI do lake
such so interest in it!n~Pack,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
AN OFFICERS FIRST BATTLE.
A Subject That Many Are Unwilling to
Go Into Too Closely.

Go Into Too Closely.
What are the feelings of an officer
when for the first time he leads his
men into battle9 This is q question
wL.ch the soldier himself alone can an
swer, and we suspect that good many
would be unwilling to go too closely
into the subject. The hum of riae
bullet, the shrek of g she'll, the rush
of O cannon shot must be, and always
has been, exceedingly trying to the
inexperienced warrior. A certain Brit
ish officer, who prefers on this occa-
sion to be nameless, has frankly de-
scribed his first experience in battle:
eve were advancing to the scene of
operations" he says. "On entering a
strip of wood it occurred to me that
my men, being raw recruits, would
not fight well on horseback, so [ CT
dered them tc dismount. This, of
course, stopped the whole body OF
the army behind the regiment. While
the men were leisurely tying their
horses an officer came up at furious
gait and asked peremptorily: What
have you stopped here for and blocked
the whole roal?' I saw the point in a
moment, and bade my men move out
Of the wood. In the meantime my
scabbard got itself hopelessly entan-
gled in bush, and the more I tried
to get it loose the more it stuck the
faster.' So I told my men to form at
the edge of the wood and wait for
me. Then I cut the straps and left
my broken scabbard in the bush,
while, with naked blade flashing in
hand, I rushed to the front. Not q
man could I find. They were anxious
to see the fun, and had run over the
brow of the hill and scattered along
the whole length of the line. After
infinite difficulty, many words and
more temper, I got them together
again.
eve were barely in position when
T heard distant cannon, and at the
same instant saw the ball high in the
air. As near as I could calculate, it
was going to strike exactly where l
stood, and I dismounted with remark
able agility, only to see the missile OF
war pass sixty feet overhead. I felt
rather foolish as I looked at my mec,
but a good deal relieved when saw
that they, too, had all squatted on
the ground, and none of them were
looking at me. 7 quickly mounted
and commanded them to stand up
We were ordered to charge soon after,
ard the enemy easily gave way before
us, for which I was most devoutly
thankful. We-passed some dead and
wounded, the first sad results of real
war. that 7 had ever seen. At night
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
Her First Impressions.

sMamma," said ten-year-old i'm,
migrant boy in the detention pen Of
the Large Office, 'is this Ameri; a."
1T is, my son; but keep still; the
American gendarmes are angry" she
answered, pointing at the blue-coated
CLERKS running in and out of the pen.
The boy chung to her skirts and
kept silent After little he said in
a whisper, Mamma, is it really
America?'
Hush; it is. Hush!'
IF it's America, why don't the
people walk upside dowr? Cousin
Dominica says his teacher SAYS that
the Americans is under us, and that
our feet and their feet are on opposite
sides. Is it true, mamma%'
IF a teacher says so, it must be
true; but hush, my child"
'If it's true, then they ought to
walk head downward, mamma. :"
'Hush, my child; lushr'- New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
Those Inquisitive Youngsters.

Papa, you took the scientific
course in college, didn't you?"
Yes, dear; I spent two years on
science
"When yen look i'll a mirror tho
left size of your face appears to bo
tie right side, aud the right side
seems to be the left. The looking.
glass reverses it, doesn't it,"
Yes"
"Then wE3 doesn's it reverse the
top and bottom OF your face the same
way?"
"WAy-sr-a TRAINED Mother.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13

~
Mjor, you are shot?''' The Majors
only answer, as he fell to lie silent
forever, was "For Gods sake, keen
her going, whatever you dor'
The Filipino pilot dived into the
hold. Sergeant Harris rushed for the
quick firing gun, grabbing another
Filipino on the way and placing him
at the wheel. He fred one Yolley
from the gun; then it jammed. He
took off the feed cases, pulled the
empty cartridges with hand-eiector.
reloaded it by hand and fred two vol
!eys through the canvas awning above
him, as that was the only way he could
elevate sufficiently to reach the am
bushed enemy. The second steers.
man was shot through tie back, and
third one was forced to the wheel b7
the sergeant; then the wheel itself was
shattered by bullet; but still the
launch forged ahead, and the brave
sergeant fred two parting yolleys at
three hundred yards.
O,Nell, as soon az he got his fright
ened Filipino fremen and assistants
IL the engine roon Strengthened out,
bolted on deck, grabbed rife, and |
standing exposed on the stern of the
boat. fired shot after shot where the
grass was lit up with the flashes sof
guns.
The ga]lantry OF these two men was
OF such remarkable nature as to place
heroes.
AS they rounded the bend of the
river, and came in sight of the Oeste.
the latter opened up with her re7oly-
ing cannon in the general direction of ,
he firing. Lieutenant Simmons had .
oeen afraid to fire earlier for fear he =
night strike the Oceania.
The guard on the cascos clambered .
'ut, one by one, through hole, like y
ats in trap, before the firing entirely y
eased, and answered The fire from y
he bank.
The enemy had made clever move. .
trlctly within the limits of civilized
'arfare; they had attempted to cap
ire an armed launch and their antag- IL
nlsts' subsistence supplies, which Sc
ley would have poled up the Rio tt
hico to a point near Tarlac. They u
lied, but they killed one of the best sa
lartermasters in tie army. gi
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13

The sAutiYe lampiehter was
trudsing through the dimly lighted
street, carrying 8 short ladder over
his left should lei. It was nearly one
saonr before dag rbreak, and he was
hnrrying so as 10 e1Enguish the last
lamp before dawn.
Got a busy day before me, {. he!
said to night owl acquaintance.
SCOT lots to do. Must clean half the:
lamps to-day. '':s sss.5s5.
Keep you busy, eh?''
"Yep; an it's q short day, too =
'SShort day?'' sS.ss..;,.s.
"Um, um. Got to go TO a party to-:
night, so I must light the lamps
early" He unslunk his ladder,
oropped It against alamppost, climbed
it, turned out the light, scrambled
DOWN, threw the ladderoyer his:shoul.s.
Ter again and resumed his hurried
stride. sstGot to light 'em at half
past two. We'll, so long,
York Commercial Advertiser.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
A " Way to Stretch Shoes


"Ev. .ry to stretch a shoe Will
oats?" asked q suburban friend O.
the Saunterer recently.
"So, who ever heard of such a
thing. Why, what do you mean?"
returned the Saunterer.
"Well, you know, I bought nice
new pair of shoes last week. T pnt
them on the day 1 got them, and
walked about until night, and the
right one almost killed me. That
night thought of brilliant scheme.
we had just got in some oats for the
horse, and one OF the bags got wet. I
noticed how the oats swelled, so it
struck me it would be good way to
ease my shce. So that night 1 packed
the shoe full of new oats, poured it
full Of water, and lashed down the
top securely.
"When awoke the next morning
the first thing did was to look for the
shoe, and what do you think T saw?
Why, that miserable thing had
stretched and stretched, until, from
a modest number seven it had become
large enough to hold an elephants
FOOT And it had not stretched evenly. |
1t was full of knots and punches. aud |!
such sight you never saw in all your
born days. l am looking now for a
nan whose feet will fit the two shoes.
mo, SIR" concluded the suburban
friend with a mournful air, as he
thought over his orerproductive i'm
orovised stretcher, ''next time have
my shoes to enlarge I'll ether take
hem to shoemaker, or wear 'em ius.
IS they are, in spite of corns. "-Phila-
lelphia Inquirer:
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-13
Carried Cows With Him

The special train in which the Rus.
sian emperor Travelled in his recent
German trip carried, i.aons otLe
shlngs' two COWS to supply the three
little princesses with pure, fresh milk
Fresh !ood for these COWS wes slweya
ordered ahead by telegraph,