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THE BIG THICK Region "Where l^resid New Yo Orange, Tex., March -t.-The Big j Thicket of Texas, into which the j Texas hosts of Presideut Roosevelt are arranging to take their guest on a j bear hunt during his coming visit to the Lone Star State, is thc queerest streak of country in the way of thick et to be found anywhere in thel'uion. Although it lies in one of the most thickly settled parts of the State, it has no population save bears, wild cats, wolves and other wild beast* an i odd winged and creeping crea tures. The Big Thicket is from five to fif teen miles wide and seventy miles long, lt extends from the Sabine Uiver, the boundary between Texas and Louisiana, twelve miles north of Orange, to the Trinity River region, almost due west. It lies between thc vast long leaf pino belt of Texas, and the loblolly or short leaf pino re gion. With the exception of scattered dwarfed pines, red oaks, gums and other varieties of trees which have succeeded in getting root room in the density of tho thickets, prevailing undergrowth, and somo of which have come to a sizo sufficient for a bear to climb, there is no timber in the Big Thicket. The black haw is found in its depths, and the wild peach and the wild plum arc aruoug the growths that provide sustenance to thc sweets lov ing bear. The growth that gives distinctive character to thc Big Thicket, and aid ed by wild grapevines, the rattan vine, the scrambling briars and other growths, makes thc fastness almost inaccessible to man, is a variety of oak that stands as thick almost as cane in a brako and grows but little larger. Matted and woven ar.ong tho OIOBC standing ranks of those bamboo like oaks arc the vines and briars. Thc bottom of the thicket is soft and in the rainy season is covered in many places deep with water. Hunters or others who venturo into the Thicket far enough te be beyond the hearing of companions on the out side do .no at the risk of being lost. Native guides familiar with the intri cacies of the groat swamp, build camps frequently far in the dopths, generally on ?ho ohores of small lakes that abound th; re. The only way the bear cnn bo hunt ed successfully in tho Big Thicket, plentiful, as gamo is, is with dogs trained to the chase. The dogs can maka their way through the denso growths of the thioket with more facility than the bear can, aod thoy soon bring bruin to bay. The hunters know from the char acter of the barking of their dogs when that situation is come. They squeeze and out their way to the spot where the bear has made his stand, nu??C-ti?jG? with ma buuk against a tree, sometimes io the tree. If against I_g._. For Thin Fat is of great account to a baby ; that is why babies are fat. If your baby is scrawny, Scott's Emulsion is what he wants. The healthy baby stores as fat what it does not need immediately for bone and muscle. Fat babies are happy ; they do not cry ; they are rich ; their fat is laid up for time of need. They are kappy because they are comfortable. The fat sur rounds their little nerves ^nd cushions them. W hen they are scrawny those nerves are hurt at every ungentle touch." They delight in Scott's Emul sion. It is as sweet as wholesome to them. Send for free sample. De aura that this picture ta the firm of a Ubo! Is oaths wrapper of every bottle of Emulsion you buy Scott Bowne Chemists 409*413 Peart Strtrot Mew York S0c.and51.C0 A All Drvgelsto j :ET OF TEXAS. ent May Go Hunting. rk Sun. a tree it ia more than likely the hunt ers will ti nd a dog or two lying dead among the briars, victitnH of tho bear's rage. A rifle bullet usually ends thc hum. Upon miles and miles of the Big Thicket's area no mao has ever set foot. Ten feet in from ? ither edge of the Thicket a person is as completely lost to view as if the earth bad opened and engulfed bim. During the Civil war the l?g Thick et was the refuge of many deserters from thc Confederate Army. These were usually men who dwelt in the vicinity of tho Thicket. To capture them in their retreats was impossible, except by following those who carried food to them. There were instances of deserters remaining hidden thus in tho Big Thicket until the end of the war, and many feuds resulted from the resent ment deserters felt toward provost marshals or their assistants for their persistent efforts to hunt them down. Some of these animosities were kept up for years after thc war, and fami lies of both the men who were bunted and tho men who hunted them lost more than one innocent member be fore thc vengeance seemed to bc satis fied. One instance is cited of a man who was a conspicuous citizen of thc local ity where he lived, but who chose to shut himself up in the fastness of the Big Thicket rather than answer tho call of his Government and undergo tho dangers and hardships ot thc camp and field. Ho was two years in hiding. Tho provost marubal of the district was persistent in his efforts to capture thia particular deserter and bring him to punishment, bul without success. Tho war was no sooner over than thia deserter came from his retreat in the Thicket, and once set out to hunt down tho mau who had so long sought to do tho same thing to him. Ile found his man, with the result that, after escaping all thc daggers of a sol dier's life and enduring for years the hardships and anxieties of that of a fugitive in the depths of the Big Thicket ho was shot dead a few hours after he was fveo to come and go as he pleased. There are many small bodies .of water in the innermost depths of the Big Thioket, where that curious big bird, tho water turkey, otherwise known as the anake bird, which swims and diveB, like a duok, although not web footed, and has a long sinuous neck which, when it is swimming, gives it tho appearance of a snake, abounds and rears its young. At tho eastern extremity of the Thicket one of these lakes has connec tion with Sabine Uiver in timo of high water, ?ind many years ago this connection [must have been a navi gable channel, for in that lake the rot ting hulks of two schooners, one of which must havo been a boat of seven ty-five tons and the other one of forty tons, lie half embedded in the soft bottom. ^ Just? o when these . schooners wcio moored in that lake ?B not known, and their mission -there can only be sur mised^ They worb there seventy-five years ago, then in a state of good pres ervation. It is supposed they ?carno up the Sa bino Ki ver from the Gulf cf Mexico with cargoes of negroes obtained from some slave ship in the Gulf, or some where ulong the Atlantio coast. Texas was then pert of Mexico, and the sup position is that the negroes were taken over into Louisiana and sold there into slavery, the Sabine River being a safe channel for the carrying on of that trtffio.?, Why tho schooners were abandoned at their moorings in tho lake, is of course, ?part of tbe mys tery. E. From tbe skeleton of one of .them bangs a {portion cf a chain almost eaten up by'iiust. On thc shore near by tome other rusty links He against tbe trunk of >'a tree. They are a con tinuation of the|fchain that moored the schooner to the? tree when it was abandoned, the part of it that went around the tree ?now bcirg a foot or more beneath the surfac. of the trunk, the growth of many jeers having long ago covered it from eight. Thc bears of the Big Thicket are said to be large-'aud of a disposition .jaiculated to stand little trifling. Jim Simpson, an'.Orange County bear bunter, killed ten bears in this coun ty's part of iba\,Thicket during the past year. : The wildcats that bold forth in lue great wasto areobigger than those in the Open woods or prairie, according? to native [authority, and are inclined to be ugly and aggressive. Oliver Clark, of Orange County, killed the biggest ever known to be brought from the swami's depths, f Thc cat attacked bim after he bad thrown a lighted pine koot at it while it was stealing upon him at his camp io the Thicket. Clark supposing thc falling brand would frighten the beast away. Instead of doing that it seem ed to arouae the wildcat's fary and it leaped upon the hunter. It sank its fangs deep into Clark's left arm. As it was gnashing furiously away at thc arm, Clark drew bia knife from his belt, thrusting it beneath bia arm, plunged the blade into the cat's vitals and won the fight. It broke up bis camp, though, for his arm was chewed nearly in two and he could not use it for a loog time. In the waters of the great swaaip fish of marry varieties abound. Dur iug the summer the alligator, the moccasin snake, the rattler pud other cheerful representative:; cf reptile aod iaaect life disport themselves there. Taking it all iu all the Big Thicket is unique as a game cover and preserve for wild things. Slaves of Economy. It is difficult for women living in largo cities or progressive American towns to realizo the condition of thousands of their sex in more remote country places. In spite of tho prodigality of Mr. Carnegie in the way of libraries, and in spite of the penny daily newspa pers, which penetrate into distant nooks and corners of our land, whole communities of American women exist .today in woful ignoranco of anything ! beyond their own neighborhood. vVorse still, these women aro well to do in worldly goods and amply ablo to procure books and periodicals did they not consider the saving of a penny of more importance than tho cultivation of their minda. There was a woman who worked in her own home for more than a score of years from dawn until i> o'clock at night in order to help her husband accumulate enough money to build a new house and furnish it better than thc houses of their neighbors. Never was there a book taken ic her hand other perhaps than her Bible Never was she known to journey farther than the neighboring village. She grew ill and needed rest, but tho new home was already planned, and she would not employ help, though amply able to du so, because the habit of saving had become a dis ease. She lived to see tho new house erec ted and to die in the "spare room." Eighteen months afterward a young wife took possession of tho homo which cost her life. Visit the interior of almost any State and you will find women occu pying floe houses who are utterly ig norant of the literature of the world, and who do not even take the time to read a monthly magazine or a news paper. These womon look old enough to be the mothers of city women of their age. Potty worries, petty cares, petty ambitions have eradicated all beauty and youth from their faces. A visitor from a larger world assisted such a woman in her' work one day and urged ber to take an hour of rest in thc afternoon. But thc poor stavo io eoonomy said it would ve a "bad habit" to form, as she mif ut want to rest another day. So sha remained awake and talked about'.tke money she was Saving for tho futuro. And what is thc benefit of money saved at auch a sacrifice? During a joumov to tho St. Louis Exposition thc writer saw ? pathetic illustration of thc results of such eoonomy. A woman who has worked indoors and out for a lifetime, and who has not been beyond the limits of her farm for twenty-years, occupied a com partment in tho sleeping oar. She was perhaps 50 3 ears cf age, to judge by tho appearance of her husband, but her face was as old as that of many townbred women of 70. Her body was stiff and awkward; her clothing, bought for the occasion, worn with evident discomfort. She was ill at ouse in the oar, yet anxious to inform her chanco associates of her wealth. ? "My husband has often traveled io his business," she said, "but I hive always stayed at homo and looked ofter things.?; Now weare nell off - rich, in fact-and I moan to seo n little of the world." But how much better bad she seen a little of. thc world as she went along and aoous tomed herself to Us ways and ideas. Ella Wheeler Wilcox io St.. ?Louis Republic . - Eternal vigilance is thc price of not getting found out.! . -\ - Education is all the thiers you don't learn when you go to college. - It's queer how long it takes a man's wife to get over the idea tl at his lap was made to sit io. - The man . who shouts Halleluia tho loudest, frequently does so just tu dr)wn his.misery. * ---Take all thc trouble ont o' the world and wo'd get tired dancing, for Joy. - Instead of trying to whip jh? ?Sevil round the ?tump, the safest pW in tho world ia io climb a tree W?.> 3 pu see him coming. Romance of the Bank. A ragged little newsboy entr?-cd a j 'ittsburg bank one day and bolo . in aded the private office of the preai ent. "Say, mister." he said, "can I pat ome money in this balk?" "Certainly you can," ?ho president oBwered; ''how much do you want to eposit?" "A quarter!"' exclaimed the young ter, pulling a handful of pennies and ickle? out of his pocket. The bauk r took him over to the receiving tell r aud introduced him with all the tference that he would have shown o a millionaire. The boy left the city soon after ipeniog thc account, hut kept adding o bin deposit from time to time, and, s ho was naturally bright, and shrewd, verything lie undertook prospered. lc is hackle Pittsburg now. thc head f a successful manufacturing concern nd one of the hank's most valued ustomera. A year ago a proud young father ?tat in Michigan sent twenty-five dol ara to open an account for his first lorn then less than a week old. "The .oy'll need it some of these days," ie wrote, and we may as well begin to ave for him right off." Six months atcr a tear-dimmed letter came, ask Dg to withdraw the money, to pay he little fellow's funeral expenses. A working woman in a little town o New York sent a dollar bill in the lame of her daughter, six years of ige. "She'll be marrying by and by," dio said, "and ought to have some .hing to start life on." That was aearly two years ago, and almost ivory week since a dollar bill has been added to thc account. There'll be a snug little marriage portion for tho young lady some day if nothing happens. Not long ago a woman living in Illinois sent five dollars, with explicit instructions not to let her "old man"' know about it, aa "he'd be ufter epond ing every cent cf it for drink."-Suc cess. _ A Ring in Seme One's Midst. South Orange, N. J., March 9. Mr. and Mrs. William Graves, of Centre street, gave a birthday party for their seven-year-old son, Leo Graves, on Tuesday. There was a magnificent birthday oake with seven candles cn tcp and inside cf it a pret ty ring. Some people think it was ai opal ring. The cake was out and t'ie youngsters present attaoked it with enthusiasm. When it was all disposed of-ti te wait was not long -the hostess Piked: "Well, now, which of you children has the ring?" There was no answer. There were hasty inquiries, but none of the chil dren oould remember swallowing any thing bard. "Well, I certainly put the ring in the cake," exclaimed the compounder of the confection. This increased the consternation. The children went homo. Their mothers were worried. Physicians were bidden to be on instant oall and Dptions were scoured on X-ray ap paratus. Nose cf thc children has leveloped appendicitis yet.-Ne? York Sun. Signing the Petitions Spartenburg; March li):-Petitions IT6 in circulation at-ki cg the super visor to order an election on "dispen sary," or "no dispensary." It is laid that few voters refuse to sign tho petitions. It will rc quire 1.500 to 1,800 names cf qualified voters to de nand the ordering of aa cleo ti DO. It viii not bc a difficult matter to seoure hat number of signers. The people mderstand that, if the dispensary is roted out, prohibition will prevail, or there is"no statutory provision for he lioensed s ile of whiskey by private udividuals. The net profits from the isle of beer and whiskey are more han $2 OOO a tuon?h. H would per laps reach $2(ij)00a year. - When two persons taokle a duet t lookti a-t if they mgbt ?o sieg it in alf the tim-j one lould- hut they an*t. ^^^^^?^9 G1IB?S i? BEKSfiHS THE I M?HllB?MP^iff|irT ATHRBe-P^iA ?fSMSDV teen tite?** da *ao? fi ? JS?^S?iav? H!?5 ^reliable remedy With perfect confidence ?nd I success for 62 years, because they know just what it contains, f f i _ formula consista of Buchu, Hydrangea, laaaa^ke, Yellow Bock. 1 . r^ndeKou, Sarsaparilla, Gentian. Senna and J^?e^K^nni. ^ I -Any doctoror druggist Will tell you that this ia ? scientific ?md reliable i ?MJS^ - 0P T ^eat ?tnt for a?l aseases hiving their origi* in the Liver, I. S?S?^r '^T??'-M After years of experience and patieut ecpetiment, Br! 1 T?achers? perfe^ed the process of manufacture, that it never TaUs to hrinir S * ^?*I*cted relief when taken according to directions. , I fulSbSfoTSSlL?? ?neS *? Whom Ufe 5??? a busden have written grate-1 i ? I .aire sufercd^.^ fi . JF?^&?**. ir-?lt Hkelw.iijMKklnriro heavy toad' ?d/&aaea?Utf tihauatcd ua*n il j&?^i?&??&J> ?i"* *od one-half bottles 1 felt lifc??dT?eren*&n?Md^^koew^Sat ? Speed indicators Unpopular. "You may talk about tbe desire of tbe American publie for fast travelling, but there's such a thing as bringing speed too prouiioeuily before their eyes," said George J. Charlton, gen eral passenger ageut of tbe Chicago and Alton, reflectively gaziog at the automatic speed indicator io his pri vate car as he went south at seventy miles an hour at the rear of the new "Newspaper Special." "The travelliog public wants trains that will get them to their destination in thc shortest possible time, but they dislike to he told actually how faust they are being hurled through space at any given point on the trip. "For instance, a few mouths ago the experiment was made of placing speed indicators in some of the regu lar coaches on a certain railroad. "Did tbe passenger* like it? I should say not. When that indicator commenced to creep up to sixty-five miles an hour, went on to sixty-eight, passed seventy and commenced, its climb to eighty, thu women grew pale, men looked out of the windows uo cabiiy and one old lady became hysteri cal. "The indicators raised bedlam, aod had to be abandoned. Yet passengers will be perfectly oootented on fast trains so long a?, they don't realize in snob concrete, form just how fast they are moving. "Givo thc public speed, but don't prove it to them hy the indicator, and you arc all right. So are they." Chicago Kecord-Herald. Low Excursion Rates. Tbe Southern Railway will sell tickets to the following points on tho dates named: iv -mi'HM Citv, Mo.- Southern Baptist Convention, May lO.h 17, 1005. Kate, one First-ClBBH Fare Plus 50 cents for round trip, $27.50. Tickets on sale May 7 to ll, inclnsive, ?nal limit May 23d, 1905. S?. Louis, Mo.-National Baptist Anni versary, May 10 24, 1905. Kate, one First-Cissa Fare Pius 25 cents tor round trip, $22.05 Tickets on sa'e May 14tb 15ib, lOib, with Anal limit May fc7tb 1905. Asheville, N. C.-South Atlantic Mia sionary Conferonoe, May 17-21st, 1905 Kate one First-Glasn Fare plus 25 cents for the round tri p? $4.50 Tickera on sale May loth, 17lb, final limit May 23rd 1005. Fort Worth, Texas- General Assembly Southern Presbyterian Church, May 18-20-h, 1005. Rate oife first-class fare pica $2 00 f?T round trip-$32.25. Tick ets on ?ale May 15tb, 16tb, mb, final limit May 3.1st, li 05. Toxont>, Oct-International Eunony S mool Association, June 20-27, 1905. One first-class fare plus 50 coots tor murd trip-$20 60. Tick PIS on sale June 19 h, ?0 h? 22a?, 23rd, 1905, limited June 80. h, 1005. Hot Springs, Va.--Sinthern Hardware Jobbers Association, June 6-9, 1905. Rate one first-class fare plus 25 cents for round trip-$15.60. Tickets on sale Jane 3rd, 4th, 5.b, final limit Juno 13 b, 1905. Savannah, Ga.-National Travelers Protective Association of America, May 16 - 23, 1005 Rate one 'first-class fare plus 50 cento for round trip-$7.60. Tick ets on sale May 13:h-14th, final limit M ny 20th, 1905. Savannah, Ga.-Fourth Arnual Tour nament Southern: Golf Association. May 9-IS,-1905. Rate one first-class fare t>lus twenty-five cents for round trip- $7.35. Tickets on sale Mav 7tb, 8.h, 9ib, 1905, limited May 15tb, 1905. The Southern Railway is the moat dh ec* line to all of the obove points, operating Pullman f" ?ping cars, higo back Vestibule Cc V with ttuperb Dining Car Ger viet. For detailed inf. reflation apply to any Ticket Agpnt or B. W. HONT, Division Pa-nenger Agei't, Charleston, S?, '. NOTICE. The stockholders of the Riverside Man nfsctnrl^K Company are hereby notified to meet tt the office of said Corporation a* Andereon, 8.. C., on Thursday. April 20 1905, at 12.30, noon, to COL sid- -r a resolution pa?std by the B ard of Direc tors on March 17. 1005, to increase the capital ft'.ch of .?aid Riverside Mannfao* turing Cnn ivy ton maximum amount ot Two Hundred and Twenty-fiveThons and ($2.'5 00OJ Dol?ais. By oidor of the Board of Dlrfctore. D P MoBRWER* P.e?. c. M. MCCLURE, seo March 22,1905 . 40 4. Meeting of Stockholders. The Annual Meeting of tho Stock-, holders of the Riverside Manufacturing Company will be held at the office of the Company, lu Anderson, 8. C. on Thurs day, April 20ib, 1005, at 12.80 o'clock. D. P. MoBKAYBR, President. March 22,1905 40 4 Iiotico to Creditors. AU perenna having demands .against the Katata of ?W. S. < Erod, de* esos**!, are b<r*hy notified to present thom, properly proven, to the Undersign *dv within, the tithe prescribed by law, and those ind*?v?t*>d to mike t aVroent. MRS. ANN?;M; ELRO'?^M :': March 22,1005 .??\\X '40;' ? ? a?J- III III ll.IMH-?wm ~~ f New Cure for Dysentery. Washington, D. C., March ll.-By miiizing tho despised vermiform sp' pendix to introduce quinine solution iireotly into the intestinee, the sur geons at Washington Barracks Hospi tal believe they have found a sure method of curing tropical dysentery, the scourge of the American navy in the Philippines. The new treatment is remarkable in many respects, not ably in the curious use made of the appendix. This mysterious organ is reached by means of an incision in the walls of thc abdomen. It is then drawn out through the incision. Thus exposed, the tissue is allowed to heal about it. This process completed, the next stop is to inject through the appendix into the large intestine a solution of qui nine, Hushing thc lower intestines with a germicidal and healing stream without affecting the stomach or inter fering with its functions. The treatment has been employed successfully in the case of Sergt. Mould of the engineer corps, who is recovering in tho Barracks Hospital here from a severe attack of dysentery, contracted while in the Philippines. He was nearly dead when the opera tion was tried and is now able to walk. Thc idea of utilizing the appendix for introducing medicine directly inte the intestines was first suggested bj Dr. Wyotb, of Now York, but nevei before applied in praotice.-Philadel phia Record. Old Story Fitted to New Kerr. Senator Hale met Sooator Spooner one day last week wheo there was te be a, night session of the Senate. "Spooner," said Halo, "I suppose* you will be at the night 6CBS ion?" "I don't see how I oao," , Spooner ? replied. "I have a dinner engage ment." "Spooner," remonstrated Senator Ht'.o, gravely, "that isn't the right spirit. We have an enormous quanti ty of work to do, and ve must give np? the pleasures at times for the duties our constituents have intrusted to na to perform. We are needed here at our desks." Senator Spooner thought it over and telephoned Mrs. Spooner that he? could not get to dinner beoause of th? night session of the Senate. He told Mrs. Spooner to go aud have a good time, and he remained at his desk until the Senate adjourned. When Senator Spooner roached home that night he asked Mrs. Spoon er if she-had a good time. "Oh, delightful,'* Mrs. Spooner re plied. "Who. took you out to dinner?"" asked Spooner. "Senator Hale," MrB. Spooner re plied._ - There is no use in borrowing,, trouble when people will give it to? you outright. - Aman will always be better off for believiog that he "could be worse off than he is. 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