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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-30
A Suicide.

%Spartanburg, Special.-Mrs. A. D.
Switzer committed suicide Sunday
morning at her home near Roebuck.
Her tragic death Is a shock to the en-
tire neishborhood. She was apparently
in the best Of health and spirits this
morning. She dressed her children and
sent them to Sunday school. Her hus-
| band was lying on the bed in the bed
chamber asleep or reading the paper.
She entered this room about 10 o'clock,
left a note on the bureau and without
his observing 1t, took a razor from the
bureau drawer. Mrs. Switzer then went
to a dilapidated dwelling near their
new home, and severed a main artery
of one leg with the razor.
II was several hours after this before
her ~lifeless body was found. Her hus-
band aroused from bed and missed his
wife. He could not find her, and sub
sequently found the note on the bureau.
The contents of the note, according to
one who read it today, were to this
effect:
Life is a failure to me. Take my
children, Dave, and do the best you
can for them. I viii take my life to-
day"
Mr.. Switzer then searched every
where, anb about noon found the body
of his wife lying in the old house.
Mrs. Switzer's maiden name was Ola
Lambright. She came OF excellent fam
lily and is related to a number Of prom.
inent people here. She was a niece OF
| Col. H. D. Floyd OF this city. She was
35 years Of age, Of stout, robust, fine
personal appearance. She left seven
| cheldren. Her domestic life was, to all
appearances happy and %contented. Her
husband is a successful planter Of Roe
buck.
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News By Wire.

Many prominent Irishmen are at
tending the meeting of the United Irish
League, at Boston.
Very Rev. p. r. Mayer, an American.
has been elected general of the Order
Of Carmelities.
A st. Louis man has left $4,000 to
Miss Eva Martin, a Chicago nurse, who
nursed him through a serious illness.
Col. Edward Butler. the St. Louis
millionaire politician, was indicted by
the grand jury on a charge OF bribery.
The national convention Of the Wo
mans Christian Temperance Union, in
session at Portland, Maine, began a cru
.sade against the display Of offensive
pictures on billboards and in advertise
merts.
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. What Results from Electricity.

Although the predictions freely
made a few years ago that the devel.
opment Of electric traction would
quickly drive horses from the field of
labor have not been fulfilled, yet the
Electrical Review cites statistics to
prove that the disappearance of the
horse is actually taking place, al.
though so slowly as not to attract
much attention. In Paris the number
of horses fell off about G per cen be.
tween 1901 and 1902. In London the
decrease in the same time was 10 per
cent. In Berlin. Vienna and st. Pc.
tersburg a similar falling off is shown
by the census of horses. In New York
it is estimated that the number of
horses has decreased SO per cent in
the last twenty years.
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hands.
to extract valuable information from
any person with whom he talked, al
though the chief Of the detective bu'
reau was one Of them.
Returning to the hospital, he went at
once to Kendalrs room. In answer to
his rap and the sound of his voice the
door was unlocked and he was admit.
ted. In passing he glanced %searchingly
at Kendall's face, which wore an e1.
preston Of extreme anxiety; then he
advanced to the table in the middle of
the room. from which he lifted q news.
paper, thus revealing the bodies Of two
little white mice.
Elmendorf regarded them with a look
Of horror.
Good Lord!" he gasped. You don't
mean it,"
Kendall nodded. Then he sat down
and rested his head on his hands for a
few seconds. while Elmendorf gather
ed breath and heart for the neXt ques-
ton.
What was in the jar-milk:"
"No," replied Kendall. 1T is a kind
of liquid food preparation. The basis
Of it is milk; but, unfortunately" be
added. looking up at the detective, lit
will keep"
Been in the room several days, you
mean?" said Elmendorf. IF it was or.
binary milk that had been doSed, we
could narrow it down to a few hours.
But this stuff-why. absolutely every.
body connected with the case has had
a chance at it."
How shall l tell her?" muttered
Kendall.
Herr"
The doctor gave a nervous start.
Miss Maclane," he said. This will
be a hard story for her to hear"
You are right" replied Elmendorf.
after all the care she's taken. the de-
votion she's shown to that poor child,
who was nothing to her-worsc than
nothing. in fact-an enemy, you might
say"
Now. look here exclaimed Ken
dali hoarsely as he got upon his feet.
"No. no" cried Elmendorf. Il don't
mean to accuse her. That would be
absurd. We mustn't waste time. What
was the ~poison?"
II don't know" replied Kendall. "Oe
course there was no time for analysis.
That's why | tried it on these small an
finals. It's some kind Of a heart de.
~preSSant-the very thing to use in a
case of this kind. where the condition is
one Of weakness and especially where
there is an injury in the region of the
organ"
But didn't these mice show any
symptoms that you could recognized"
asked Elmendorf.
"No: nothing definite I could name
several poisons that would answer all
the requirements. 1t isn't necessary to
know Immediately. The treatment
would be the same in any case. And
the danger is over, l believe"
Unless it's somewhere else," said
Elmendorf; Gin her medicines. per-
haps."
THAT wouldn't be possible without
assuming something that can't be as
sumed-not in my presence. at any
rate"
"yon mean that Miss Maclene'e
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on a tour of inspection,
and, having seen Dorothy
on a previous trip, he
had, remembering anoth-
er little girl who was very
happy on Christmas eve,
brought down a Christ
mas box for Dorothy and
so strolled along with her
father as he started home
ward, that he might give
it into the hands of the
little maiden herself. But
when they reached the
brown, hut Dorothy was
not there, and when re-
peated calls brought no
answer the two men,
alarmed, started in oppo-
site directions to seek her,
Mr.. Golden following the
almost obliterated path
up the mountain side,
where, a mile beyond, he
found the little one al
most buried in the falling
snow, and as he stopped
to lift her in his arms she
r,n11n1nn11rnd drorrcilr GOO
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jik (peasant named Kato-
ma lay dying in little village in far
away Russia.
Katoma knew that he was going to
die. 1t was Christmas eve but there
was no gladness in the season for him.
His wife, whom he had loved very
dearly, was already gone. For three
consecutive years now his crops had
failed. A few weeks before the wolves
had devoured his last COW. If he had
been entirely alone in the world he
would have said to death, Come: thou
art welcomed
But there was one other his boy
Ossip. The idea of death became ter
rible when he thought of leaving his
boy all alone with not copeck to bless
himself with.
When l tell you that it takes 100
copecks to make a ruble and that a
ruble is less than 60 cents, you will
understand how dreadfully poor Ka-
toma was.
He could not die peacefully for think
ing of Ossips future. His dim eyes
turned fondly toward the pillow by his
side, which the boys thick black hair
almost covered. Ossip lay motionless
in sleep. The sick man put one feeble
hand upon his boys smooth forehead
and silently commended him to heav-
ems care.
The house was very still. The hour
was late. Ossip's healthy, regular
breathing was the only audible sound.
Lind b0a1o, would ,o Zoo 49,, o,,o
friend for his boy out of the millions
of good people this big world swarmed
with. Katoma felt that he should not
mind how soon he was laid away I'M
der the frozen sods.
While his hand rested on Ossip's
head and his heart was filled with
these anxious thoughts the door of the
howell opened softly. The moujik
turned wondering eyes in that direc-
ton, and there coming noiselessly to-
ward him across the beaten earthen
floor, was a tall woman with soft
brown eyes full of plying tenderness.
She came close to the bed, on Ossips
side of it, and, looking down upon the
sleeping child, she muttered:
Perhaps this is the one at last"
Katoma looked at her anXiously.
"Whence came you, good mother,
and what seek you?"
Across the sleeping boy she an
swered softly:
81 have come for Ossip. They told
me in the village that thy days were
numbered and l knew that Ossip
would need a friend. l will love and
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care for him as though he were my
very own. am called Baboushka,
and keep my promises"
Then KatOma, the moujik, died hap
by, for he knew that Baboushka was
a friend to all little children, and when
she gathered Ossip close into her moth
erly arms when the end came the child
ceased weeping for his dead father.
When Baboushka and Ossip We're
well on their way to the old woman's
home, in the next village, they heard
a pitiful sound of weeping somewhere
on the tree Swallowed side of the road.
The old woman stopped at the sound.
I'VE will go and see who is in trou-
BILE, Osslp. Our eyes and ears should
always be kept well opened so that no
sign of distress may escape u.s.
Guided by the sound, they came to
a stone where. wailing and shivering
in the darkness of the winter night,
they found little girl scarcely as
large as Ossip, who was not at all well
grown for his eight years.
Baboushka knelt down by the child
and, gathering her cold little feet into
a warm clasp, muttered:
perhaps this is the child"
Then she said aloud, "What is thy
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-23
BY
EDWIN [.
SABlN

hands of little boy, sure enough, but
he wasn't allowed to hurt me. See, I
haven't a mark on me-" And he ex-
hibited himself proudly.
True, he was still in dress parade
condition.
Thunder and Marsr' chuckled the
first. "And look at me! Do you mean
to say that you never were stepped
on?"
"Oh, no." replied the second. 'T
didn't lie around on the floor. I was
put away just as soon as he was done
playing with me. His mother had
made him a very orderly little boy"
$50 you never stayed out all night
in the hall or in the middle of the sit
ting room?"
Never" said the spick and span sol
der.
And did he shoot at you with his
rubber gun ever?"
Never" said the spick and span sol
dier.
And he didn't bite you to see how
soft you were?'
Never" said the spick and span SOL
der.
"Or drag you about among the chairs
with string?"
Never" said the splck and span sol
der.
"Or sick the terrier on you?"
Never
"Or take you to bed with him and
roll on your
I oil
shelf in the closet"
"Or kick you or whack you or throw
your
Never. Watch-I can present arms
as we'll as ever"
cor kiss you and hug you with all
his might and cry for you when he
was sick through eating too much
candy?"
"Never. He used to forget me en-
tirely for days and days. Did your
boy really do all that to your"
yes, all that and more" answered
the battered soldier softly.
"And did he kiss you, you say?"
asked the spick and span soldier a bit
wistfully
Yes; he kicked me and he kissed
me-" laughed the first
"And did you enjoy it?" pursued the
second curipusly.
Il had the time of my life" declared
the other. How did you find things
up to your eXpectationsY
The spick and span soldier hesitated;
then he replied:
Possibly. | can't complain. But
but somehow l grew dreadfully en-
nuied, | almost longed at times for
more excitement. more energy. We
got tired of one another. After q day
or SO we exhausted all our programme
of proper exercises, and he was so eau
tious of wearing me out that l was
laid aside, and-and, finally. here l
am. l don't suppose he even knows
that I'm gone"
Dear me!' unused the other. "I'm
glad my little boy was not like yours.
Of course there are the knocks; but,
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THE TWO
SOLDIERS

Copyright, 1903, by Edtofn l.. Sabtn

Vt was a brilliant holiday store,
the windows and the shelves and
the cases ablaze with filigree
- and thronged with dolls and
dishes and engines and trains and
skates and sleds, and hobbyhorses
that galloped, and cows that mooed,
and mice that ran, and-and every
thing, absolutely everything, that ever
enters the most rapturous Christmas
dream.
In the center of the large show win
dows, fronting upon the gay street,
stood two soldiers. They were by all
odds the finest soldiers in the store,
much superior to the personnel COM
posing the different troops and regi-
ments and companies stationed here
and there along the aisles. The pair
were made of tin, to be sure; but they
were of heroic stature, eight inches
tall, richly uniformed in black and
yellow, and could be wound up so that
they would present arms several times
in succession.
The other soldiers, poor things, were
compelled to remain the whole time at
'carry" or a right shoulder" with
out relief.
Naturally these two soldiers were
proud and of aspirations reaching be-
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-23
HOW BABOUSHKA
FOUND THE
CHRIST CHILD
By.
JEANETTE II.
WALWORTH
Copyright, 1905,
By Jednnette
FL. WdI,gorth

name, little one, and what doest thou
here alone in the bitter nighttime?"
At which the child's tears flowed
afresh, and between her sobs she told
the kind, soft eyed woman how she
had been travelling with a great COM
pany of men and women who were
leaving their own village to seek bet
ter land across the seas our own
blessed America, / make no doubt u
and how, when they had encamped for
the night, her aunt, who was the only
relative she had in the world, had sent
her into the woods to gather fagots to
put under their soup kettle, and how
she had wandered so far that she had
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SHE TOOK THE CRIPPLED BOY IN HER ARMS.
not been able to find her way back to
the camp, and how she feared the
wolves would devour her before any
one should come to look for her. Then
she told Baboushka that her name was
Vasalissa.
Baboushka clasped the little wander
er to her great motherly heart.
"That, indeed, the wolves shall not,
my dear little Vasalissa. ! cannot give
thee back to thy aunt, for l know no
better than thou dost where this great
company of men and women may be
camping for the night But thou shalt
go home with Ossip and me. Thou
shalt share our fire and our porridge
and all that is mine thou shalt share
with Ossip. | can keep the wolves of
hunger and cold away, and if thy aunt
comes to claim thee she shall find thee
rosy and happy"
Then Vasalissa quickly dried her
tears, and with her hand clasped in
Baboushka she trudged cheerfully
forward until they came to tiny little
GOLlGlSC SCI OoNA AlOlI lIC 1Oud GlOi I
distance. In its one window a lamp
was burning brightly.
The window and the lamp belonged
to Baboushka's cottage. She pushed
its unlocked door oper, and the chill
dren entered with her into a clean
swept, well warmed room.
A large chair was drawn close up to
40 Do e-1,
glanced eagerly at this chair, and again
she muttered under her breath:
Il had hoped he might have come
while | was out"
"Good mother" Ossip asked, "why
do you leave lighted lamp in the win
dow when you go away?
$50 that" she answered, should any
one go astray in the cold and the dark
he might find his way to my poor
cottage. And now let us see if the bean
broth has Kept warm all this time.
made it before l left home in the early
morning hours so that if any wander
ers found their way hither they might
not leave my roof hungered."
The bean broth had kept warm. She
babe Ossip throw a few more fagots
under the pot and set Vasaiissa on q
stool in the warmest nook. Then she
brought three bowls, filed them with
the bean broth and put them. on the
table. Over them she asked blessing
Before her own wooden spoon haC
made two journeys from bowl to Lii
she heard a timid knock at the door
She ran quickly to answer it. A tall
pale lad stood outside. In his arms ht
carried a small mite of boy, abou
whose shoulders was wrapped a worn
and soiled woman's shawl.
The tall, pale lad looked into the fir'
lighted room with longing eyes. Hi
teeth chartered with the cold as h'
asked: Good mother, may we asl
shelter for the night? The cold bite
bitter hard, and my little brother Pc
trusha is but a sickly cripple"
Then Baboushka opened wide he
door with an eager hand and fast beat
ing heart. Perhaps. at last, this wa
the child. What she said aloud was:
''That indeed thou mayest. But VIII,
art thou abroad on such bitter nigh
with the little one?"
She took the crippled boy in he
| strong, loving arms and carried hin
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oh, our companionship was sweet!
bet he's crying for me at this instant,
poor chum! Still it is as well that
am carted to the dump. l am old and
dlsfigured and back number, and
wanted to go before he would cease to
miss me-"
The spick and span soldier was 81
lent.
Hi, yiw soliloquized the veteran,
with a sigh and with a chuckle, stiffiy
rolling over on his back. "I'm past re-
pairs. but it was sweet-aye, it was
worth it, I-have-had-t -time-of
-my-life."
And with his one eye he gazed
through chink in the debris up at the
stars.
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yond their present narrow quarters.
They pinned for a wider sphere. AS
they stood and stared with stern, fixed
gaze through the plate glass into the
gay street they talked together in toy
language, and none, not even the most
versatile linguists among the people
passing and repassing, knew that they
talked.
"Oh, to get away from this eternal
guard mount over lot of frippery"
sighed the one.
with all my heart" agreed the
other. '"The monotony is frightful."
I'D give half my solder to receive
orders to report to some little boy"
continued the first. "Oh, for change"
"But the majority of little boys are
so rough and careless" responded the
second. 81 understand they scratch
you and bend you and otherwise mall
treat you without cause, and soon
you're done for. | prefer duty of
more quiet, instructive nature, where
| may teach by means of my deport-
ment rather than by violent action"
"Well, | should enjoy hard drill
and a tussle, believe" asserted the
first
"Our organism is too fine for such
active service, my lad" indulgentlv
corrected the second. "What-scratch IS
and dents? No, no. Give me post of
more elegance, where my uniform will
be treated as it deserves"
|
Christmas day had been over and
gone month when after their separa-
ton the two soldiers again encounter
ed one another, but this time in great
heap of rubbish at the city dump
where the dump man had unwittingly
thrown them out.
"Hurrah! Hello, old chap! exclaim-
ed the first soldier delightedly.
"Hellon' returned the second, with
rather more reserve. Goodness! Been
through the Seven Years war;
Well might he put this query. The
other soldier was a perfect wreck. He
had lost an arm and foot, his head
was sharply inclined forward upon his
chest. he had only one eye. his body
was twisted askew, his gun was bro
ken, his cap was missing, his features
were battered and distorted, and as for
his uniform of black and yelloW-there
was hardly spot of paint on him!
live been having my tussle," an
nounced the first, with a cracked laugh.
But you-why, you evidently found
just what you were looking for"
YES" explained the second, 81 fell
into an excellent post. 1t was the
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-23
LOOKING FOR
SANTA CLAUS

The snow was falling on the noun
tains, hiding their tops in a misty veil,
and the air was full of whirling flakes,
which were rapidly covering the brown
earth with carpet of white and oblit-
Grating the trail up the mountain side
where trudged, or, rather, stumbled,
along grotesque childish figure in a
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mans rough jacket, the
sleeves rolled over and [H%|%E
over to let out the small 'E#=z<zzz:
brown hands, while the S5zysX5iZa
edge of the coat, on a line kaat4kkssK
with her heels, left a trail kIC'h&H
in the snow. A red hood - =:
covered the child's head, 1.Il,-vC'
dark curls peeping out -: !
around her face, and in s.,'L
the fearless, wistful eyes I az
shone new hight, for GV
Dorothy was going to find 4
Santa Claus. When her III
mother had gone to heav- +. N.
en- short time before, MEi
they had carried her up MW
the mountain, and God N6NN
and Santa Claus were al AAdksss;
ways associated together MVvNh
in the child's mind. So, VsMN
if God lived up there, San W
ia Claus could not be far M
away. Thus reasoned lit \ 'I
tie Dorothy in the hours
when her father was off
working in the mine and Ma
she was left alone with
her rag doll in the little :;
brown hut which served find
as shelter and home. Claus
Santa Claus may not come
now mother has gone" the littl,
said, land it must be near Chris
so | will find him, and perhaps h,
take me in his reindeer sleigh t
mother and God"
Little Dorothy paused in her
of sweeping the one room of
home, and, putting some potato
the ashes to bake, that her ia
supper might be ready for him, sh
wrapped herself in his old coat, d
her red hood and started out t.
Santa Claus.
1t CHANGED that day that one {
mine owners was down from tn
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over her:
Dear, good Mr.. Santa Claus, |
want
When she opened her wistful, dark
eyes again, the same kind face was
bending over her as she lay on her cot
in the little brown house, her father
holding her in his arms, while beside
her was the most beautiful doll OF
which she had ever dreamed, and,
clasping it close to her heart little
Dorothy asked with reverent joy, the
dark eyes filed to overlooking:
Dear Mr.. Santa Claus, is you God
too?"
CALLIE BONNEY MARBLE.
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[GHT was falling fast, and
the snow was piled high
against the outer walls of
the howell where a poor mou-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-06-28
No left over goods on hand
EVERYTHING NEWT
the MINING OUTLOOK.

Work in the new mineral fields
has been pushed along very nicely
this week, the weather having been
all that could be desired.
Work in the pump shaft, which
was stopped by the parties who had
the contract throwing up the job
was resumed this week by a new
company.
At the lead prospect Messrs. Hop.
per & Ray are getting along nicely
and within the next two or three
weeks will be down to the ore body,
Not 90 many drills are working
this week az have been, but one Of
the drills working 10 due to make a
wonderful strike pretty soon. The
cuttings at the time this was writ
ten were simply fine.
Our people must be patient. It
takes long time to sink shaft 50
feet through hard rock, but 1t won't
be long, now, until the shaft is COM
pleted.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-06-28
C.. l.. 8. G.

The Vincent Circle held the last
meeting of the year at Mrs. E. O.
Mobiles Friday the Goth. Roll call
answered' by quotations from
Heine.
Book review, Mrs Smith.
The work of the past year, Mrs
Brewster.
Original charades and conund.
runs on the years. work. by the
class.
After a delicious lunch each
member made short address. The
Circle then adjourned to meet Sept
IL, 1902.