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IC K F-.,.j AX SPI K NS_SE3TINELJOURN Entered A pril 23, 1903 at Plckens, S, C. as second class matter.6ander act ofVCgress of March 3, 1879 39th Year PICKENS. S. C., AUGUST 12, 1909. Number 12 State News Al ti L Nes fro m A commission has been issie to the James T. Williams Hard ware companv of Greenville The capitaIl of the company 1: $15,000. Th petitioners of th Co1mpany are S. J. Hunt, G. H Carter and J. S. Stiles. Th( companv wili do a wholesalh and retail ha,dware bosiness. A negro IIame( John Wallace living over the Laurens lill wn,s arr-ed .v-sterday by conl stable b,Williams on a warran sworn mit befomre Magistratt Chappell, cIhr:111mig him wit forgin!g ihe o::uee of lIomt Byn to an 0nhrI f 'I an expres package of linor ht Kinads an( then selling the liquor. As a result of a decision b the roalroad commission, a greal reduction has been made in ex. Press iIonev rate.- moveing be tweei points within the state 01 South Carolina. The decisior will go) into effect on Septembei 1. The decision was made a the resllt of several complaints made to the coIIImission. Zach Mfhee, th: Washin,(ton correISponj1denjt of the Columbia State will sail fron New York on S ay - "eenstown Moor three months travel foreign lands. Mr. Mc(rY purpose in time is to write a series of letters to home papers on the working of the tariff in Europe. He may be gone three or four months. York county is just now en gaged in building a fine mac adam road from R-ock Hill tc the Chester county line, and Chester is showing a dispositio to meet it with one as good. Ir fact, this feeling is growing verN general in that section, and is being made more enthusiastic by the great inter-state high way movement. It can be said tha1 York's roads are being great]3 improved each year. T1he seven niew stores5 On Main street in Johnson are very nearly completed and will beC occupie( by following merchants: John ston Drug company. A. C. Mob ley & Son, J. P. Bartley, J. C. Lewie, P. Shade, Lagrone Bro thers, Lott & Walker, Mrs. B.T Adanms, Mrs. M. E. Morais Johnstone now has as pretty i block of brick buildings as any place its size and it does credi to her citizens. The first regiment of state mi ilitary, in! (amp at G.ecenville, enigage'd in a sham battle or Paris ?d lunta in. Mr. Samue Welchel, who is operating a golh mine on a smnali scale on lands belnging to the Gatiney Lam and Imnrovemnen t company this week took out'a nugget o: gold which is worth $4:. Mr WVhelchel has taken a numibe of valuable nuggets from thi: mine. Arrangements will soor b)e made to operate the mine or a large scale, as the owners fee sure that it will pay to p)ut ii machinery and a large force o: handls. The question of building ai electric rail way fromt Snartan burg to Glenn Springs ani thence to Union is being ('OnSid1 ered by the Electric Manufac tutring and Power compatny 0: Spa rtanbI urg. Vie Presiden and General Manager F H. Knox of the Power Co. witi .J. B. Lee, president of the Glenr Springs Hotel company. and A. L. White, presidenht of the Mer chants' and Fa rmers' Bank anm a large stockholder in the Glein Springs 'omp)janly, made a tril through the country over the proposed route. 3Mr. Knox ex pressedl himself as being highlh pleasedl with the c'ountry, stains that the road coulid be construct ed without great cost, as ther< will be no heavy grades orheava trestling to be done. Paragraphed. cry soction of lat cro.in, I Numbers of farmers have been heard to say that there are hundreds and hundreds of acres of cotton on sandv lands in Newbery county that will not make a bale to five acres, some that will make nothing worth speaking of. A wholesale :tore robbing took place in Leesville Saturday night. It is said that three stores-the Matthew-Bonknight company, J. C. Kinard & Co. and Cooner Pros.-were broken into and a lot of stuff stlcn. 'There is no clue as to who flie rol)bers were. THE C$, C. & 0. RAILROAD WORK IS BEING PURSED VERY RAPIDLY NOW. Construction Trains are Running from Pacolet River to Spartanburg. Twelve Miles. Constructions trains are being operated on the Carolina, Clinch field & Ohio road from Spartan burg to Pacolet river the laying of rails having been completed to that point, according to the Spartanburg Journal. At this point the trestle gang is at work erecting a splendid steel trestle supported by concrete piers. across the river. Just as soon as the trestle is comleted track laying will be resumed to Broad river. The total distance of trackage that has been laid at this end of the road is about 12 miles. The track is as smooth and regular as that of a railroad that has been in operation for a score of years. As a rule all new tracks are irregular and rough. but not so with the C. C. & 0. for the rails are perfectly even and the joints fit perfectly. The track has not as yet been bal lasted. This will be done in the near future, after which the road will be open for the oper ation of trains b)etween Spar tanb)urg and Bostic. There are double tracks on the road between Spartanburg and Lawson's Fork, one of which is used for storing cars loaded 'with bridge materials and steel rails. Many cars of rails and heavy steel beams and braces are now standing alon g the tracks out beyond Beau mont mill village to be hauled to Pacolet river by the construc tion trains. In order to deliver the material, several trips have to be made each (lay between Spartanburg and Pacolet river. Terails are laid by a steam engine, especially constructed fo htpurpose. The rails are laid ahead of the engine andlthe -spiking is done behind the en gine. The old way w'as to do "both the laying of rails and spiking ahead of the engine by hand, a slowv process. The 'method employed by the C. C. & .'is byV machinery and is very fast. Another interesting feature in connection with the construc tion of the C. C. & 0. road is the riveting of the steel beams l and trusses, which is d one by -compressed air. After a steel bridge is thrown across a stream and the bolts set to their pro per place a big steam engine, fitted up with a large air tank, is us 'd. Fronm the engine and air tank extend( long rubber hose at the end of which is a hamimerlike nozzle. The engine is put in motion and the compressed air shoots through the rubber hose and the hammer does the work of riveting the bolts. It is an -interesting process. A force of -men are now engaged atwork on the bridge across Lawson's Fork, riveting the bolts with compressed air. Bucklen's Arnica Salve The Best Salve In The World. AFTER YEARS OF SEARCHING SON FOUND FATHER STRANGER IN STRANGE LAND WITHOUT FRIENDS OR FUNDS. A SEARCH MADE FOR MAN IN MANY STATES Ed Taylor, Thirty-Three-Years Old Has His Diligence Reward After Scouring the Country For Many Years.--Help Given Him. .\ ragrinl aI -tr:mlov landl, wi oiFriend(1sm-rfunlds, EddHie laylo ae-d thirt y-three years, ( G rand Bend. 11 c in., is stranded in Greenville, and unless the good-hearted citizens of the city come to this stranger's assistance he:will have to wend his way through the foothills and valleys on foot until he reaches the little hamlet of 0-rand Bend. In 1875 David Taylor, a big, handsome chap of twenty-two years, hailing from Mitchell, Ind., wvent into Arkansas tolive. In Pike county of that State he met and wed Frances P$arker, a pretty little blond girl of the foothills of old "Arkansaw." A marriage license was issued and they were married. o1'o this un ion was born a son-Eddie Tay lor. After living happily with his bride for I wo vears, David Taylor mivsteriouslv disappear ed. Frances Parker struggled on in hopes that sonif day her sweetheart would return, think 'ing all along that something had happened to keep them apart. But the years rolled away and she struggled for existence work ing to support her bov and give him a good education. 'I he bat tle was indeed a hard one, but the victory over circumstances was sweet and her son was edu i cated. He then began to work and make money to support his niother. When twenty-one years of age his mother related to him the storyv of howv his fath er, handsome and strong, had drifted into that county and how they were married. Then young Taylor swore by all that was sacred that he wvould locate his father if it toc,k the rest of his life in doing so. The first clew he came across was in a pic ture album where he found a nicture of John Taylor, David Tayvlor's brother. The address given on the back of this picture was Mitchell, Indlia.na. On go ing on the train to Mitchell young Taylor found out some thing ahout his father's brother, but none of his people knew what had ever became of David Traylor. Going back home young Tarf. gave up the hunt tem Iporarily, and( several yeairs elapsed before he again took up the search. Boardling a train again he decided to goto Mitchell, ILndiana. On the train he met a drummer who knew the Ta lors and something of them. At IMitchell he found out that his father had mysteriously dis appeared. Some said they thought he had gone into Vir ginia. Hlefollbowed the trail like a slueth a way up into Virginia and WXest Virginia, into Illinois and for two years he wvent all Over America. Away in the West he found a niece of his father's who told him the last she heard of her uncle that he was living near Roanoke, Va. Then Eddie Taylor w-ent b)ack to Virgina, and after fruitless ef forts he was told that his father was a wealthy farmeri and plant er, living in Greenville county, South Carolina, near the little tow-n of Princeton, which is in Laurens c-ounty. Going back home he gave the news to his mother, anid then he came to Greenville. He arrived in Green ville Monday and after getting some information from Sheriff Poole he drove through the coun try to Princeton. There he found his father, living with an other woman, and the father of nine children by her. Taylor has found out that af ter his father left his mother in Arkansaw that he went into Kentucky where he met a Miss Powers. They were married and are now living in the lower part of this county. Taylor in telling his story said that when he arrived in Princeton that his father's wife was expecting him as she had corresponded with him. He found that his father had lived a while in Greenwood and had moved back to this coun tv. His father would not agree to meet him at his home, but gave him an audience in the big road near his place. This was done to keep the tidings away from the nine children by his second wife. Taylor said his father would not at first believe his story, but when he reached into the deep inside pocket of his coat and pulled from it a crum pled piece of paper-a marriage license in Arkansaw, he turned pale and walked away. Taylor said that he had spent every dollar on earth he possess ed to trace his father down, and since finding him he is satisfied. He says that his mother is well cared for at his home in Grand Bend, Kans., and he traveled this distance to see if his father really possessed much property. "I found him absolutely pennir less, and he can be of no assis t-mce to my mother. Had I found him wealthy I would have taken steps to make him provide formymother. SinceIfindhim poor, I shook his hand for the first and last time, told him good bye like I would an ordinary stranger and came back to Green ville. I am penniless now my self, having spent every dollar that I possessed to find my fath er and I will have to find employ ment of some nature here in Greenville to make enough mon ey to get back home, unless the good people of Greenville can assist me." Sheriff Poole wrote out a letter of introduction to a well-known bank, stating the circumstances briefly in the case, and signed for a certain amount. Mr. J. J. McSwain, a prominent attorney of the City, also put his signa ture to the letter and when Tay lor gets the names of several oth ers who will agree to stand good for a few dollars he will give his note to a bank with the signa ture of Greenville citizens to it, to pay his way back home. Daily Piedmont. MAKDNG BUTTER ON THE FARM. Two Prime Essentials to Success in This Branch of Dairying. There are two prime essentials In making better on the farm a profitable business. In the first place, cae must plenty of pure, cold water; and then a good enough grade must be turned out to make anid hold custom ers. The trouble with nine out of every ten farm homes is they are not equipped to take care of milk and cream. When one goes into this work to make money, better put up a milk room, where pure water may be had from pumping or from a spring, Con crete floor and walls may now be built as cheaply as with lumber, and it is a great deal better than lumber. Don't stop here. A barrel churn and a but ter maker will be necessary in turning out a uniform product. It looks easy -simply separating the cream, churn ing till the butter comes, and salting and the trick is done. That is where so many fail. The cream must be churned at the right temperature; it must be neither too sweet nor too sour. Working and salting butter to secure uniform color and flavor is a very nice art. Don't try to learn to do it infallibly in two or three weeks, but by all means don't practice on your cus tomers. That means loss. It is better to wait two or three months, until you are sure of your quality before you seek customers. And before you ship, find out how your commission man or private customers prefer to have their butter put up. Sometimcs the pack age means a difference of two or three cents a pound. Pigeons in Italian Army. In the Italian army all cavalry regi ments are supplied with carrier pig eons, which are used for the transmis sion of information during all their military maneuvers in camp. Young cavalry officers go through a course of instruction on the ~training of pig' eons for military purposes at tM Pigneral~ college. HE LEADS IN DIVORCES NEW YORK MAN HAS ALL REC ORDS BEATEN TO AFRAZZLE, He is Paying Alimony to Four Women, and :Now a Fifth Sets Up a Claim. New York. Aug. 9.-Up to Monday afternoon there maY have been some question as to, whether Joseph C. Cohen, a cor set manufacturer who has twen ty stores in New York and Brook lyn, held the record in this town for acute matrimonial disturb ances, but when his record is made complete with the happen ingsof the last 48 hours. Cohen walks off with the ch;jmpi0n ship belt. Being ii I udIow street jail because he happ,nos Io fall behind in paying damages to another woman's h usbanid for alienation when he is al read v paying $40 a week alimony to his third wife and then 1:aving a court order to pay 120 a week alimony to his fourth wife shr ed through the bars at him puts Cohen in a class by himself. So much has happend to Co hen recently that one may skip lightly over his difficulties up to two years ago, by which time wives No. 1 and No. 2 had been divorced from him and gone to Europe to live. At that time Celia Cohen held office as his wife and there were seven child ren, four boys and three girls, all by the third marriage. Then the third Mrs. Cohen brought divorce proceeding and the wife of Hyman Rappaport testified for her on the trial. With the assistance of Mrs. Rapp'aport, Mrs. Cohen got a decree giving her the three girls and $75 a week alimony and Co hen the four boys. Mrs. Cohen also got the house at 402 East 48th street, with the stipulation by Justice-Leventritt that if Co hen ever onsted her he would have to pay $100 a week. It was also provided that if Cohen didn't take ,ood care of the boys Mrs. Cohen could have them and get a further increase of alimony. After Mrs. Cohen moved into the house she found that the roof leaked and many of the window panes were gone, and when Cohen declined to repair the house Mrs. Cohen moved out and took the additional 825 a week alimony. Cohen was then living in a house he had bought at 604 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn. It was now Mr. Rappaport s move, and on the strength of the testimony at Mrs. Cohen's divorce suit he sued Cohen for alienating Mrs. Rappaport's af fections. He got a judgment for $5,000, which Cohen had arran ged to app'eal from when the law yers got together and effected a compromise. By this arrange mient Cohen was to pay $676 in cas'h and given fourteen notes for $150 each, payable one on the 10th of every nmonthi for fourteen monthus. Coh)enl hand ed over the $676 and mde goodl on three of the pa yments. w hieh took him un to July 10th last. The fourth Mrs. Cohen joined the family circle about a year ago. Cohen had announced one afternoon that he was complete ly disgusted with tryving to pick out a wife who woul suit him and that marriage w as on ly a gamble any ho w. so he was going to marry the first woman he met. The Cohen hir,id girl had left that day and the corset manufacturer wenit down to) see one of his friends who had an employment agency. When h e got there the head of the agen cy was talking to Miss Minnie Kaufman, a music teacher, who had dropped in for a visit. Co hen and Miss Kaufman were in troduced; Cohen invited her to go to Manhattan Beach and it wasnt' long before they were married. That was a year ago and the fourth Mrs. Cohen is now suing for a separation, al leging that Cohen and his child ren locked her out of the hous and treated her cruely in man] other ways. Cohen is fightin the suit and says Mrs. Cohei wouldn't care for her children As to the alienation paymen that was due on July 10, whicl is responsible for Cohen's incar ceration, lawyers for both side told their stories to Supremi Court Judge Brady yesterda: on an application by Cohen' lawyers to have him released. Rappaport's lawyer said tha he sent the July note to th bank for collection and got i back with the notice that Cohei had withdrawn his account On 20th the note was sent then again and the same word wa! returned. Then the lawper go a property execution against Co hen, and the Kings County De putySheriff who served it re ported that Cohen's house at 60 Eastern Parkway was empty The lawyer said he went t< see Cohen last Saturday after noon and Cohen said he haA formed a corporation to tak over his corset business and hai transferred the $20,000 st'ck h held in it to his creditors. Th lawyer asked if ne didn't regari Rappaport as a director and re ported that Cohen declared tha he wouldn't pay Rappapor another cent. So he got a bodi exeution for Cohen and hai Deputy Sheriff Poges take hin to Ludlow street jail on Mondai afternoon. Cohen's lawyers, who got at order yesterday morning to sho cause why Cohen shouldn' be released, which was re turnable at noon before Justic Brady, declared that Cohen hai been locked up through spite He said that Cohen's busines affairs were in such shape tha he didn't have the $120 hand on the 10th, but that he ha( since tendered the money on th 16th an the 19th to Rappaport, lawyer over the telephone. Rappaport's lawyer said h couldn't see how these stat( ments could be true, because h was in Sullivan county from th 16th tor the 21st and he kneN that Cohen was in the sami county on the 19th. Justic Brady reserved decision and de clined to parole Cohen in th custodly of his lawyer. It was just after Justice Brad: heard the case that the lawye for Mrs. Cohen the fourth gc an order awarding her $20 al mony, which order was immE diately served on Cohen at th jail. Disease Checks Egg Laylng, I bought 25 pullets which had bee exposed to contagious diseases. TII was unknown to me at the time, bi I have found out sir.ce, When tl, birds came in they looked perfect] healthy, but after they were here tw weeks I noticed some developin chickenpox, and we have had a batti royal with two pens for some tim4 There are some individual hens in th pens that laid probably 18 eggs a mont] but there are some that have not i any eggs. They lay for a time an then they get a touch of a disease an stop Spread of Block Signals. It is said that out of a total mileag on the Pennsylvania railroad's ean ern lines of 6,032 miles of track moi than 1,500 additional miles have wit1 in the last three years been equippe with block signals. The signal repo: shows that the company now hn every mile of its main lines protecte by block signals, and of the entit mileage of the lines east only abot 500 miles are not equipped with bloc signals. Most of the latter, howeve are short industrial lines or brant lines, on which traffic is so light at or such a character as to rendi the block signal unnecessary. -- gineering. Doing a Good Work. In addition to the Pennsylvan Railroad company's superannuatic and pension disbursements the late reports of the company's relief fw shows that since the organization, this department in 1886 the hez ficiaries of employes have been pa In death claims $6,815,409.77, and th members have received on accou of disablements $9,880,433.92, or a 1 tal of $16,695,843.69. Railroads In British India. The length of 'railroads in operati in British India was appreciably tended during the decade ending i 1906, .inclusive; the length of 11 working at the close of 1906 bel 29,097, and the progress uflade durd the decade 7,980 miles, NO RULE TO GUIDE L OFICIAL TITLES A DIFiCULTY FOR THE UNINITIATED, Changes Made In the Forms of Ad dressing the President and Oth ers In High Position-"Con gressman" Not Used. "Should I address him as 'Your Ex , cellency,'. as 'Mr. President' or as just 'President'?" "I'm sure I don't know. Just mur mur 'President,' and I guess he won't know the difference." This conversation, overheard at one of the White House receptions, is in L dicative of the difficulty with titles encountered by visitors to the na tional capital. Nor Is there any print ' ed guide to follow. These things must 3 be learned from well-posted friends, b or mistakes will be madet In ye olden times no one ever thought of addressing the chief ex ecutive of the United States less for - mally than as "Your Excellency," but that expression is now relegated to the list of things that were. "Mr. Presi - dent" is the correct form, both in speaking and writing. Mr. Roosevelt has even eliminated "The Executive Mansion" as the name of the presi dent's offlcial residence, and his sta tionery bears the .imple inscription: "The White House." It is not only w:th the title of the chief executive that the uninitiated ' And difficulty, for there are many forms to be learned. For instance, cabinet officers are not addressed as "Secretary Root," or "Secretary Gar t field," but as "Mr. Secretary." On the other hand, senators are addressed by their titles, as "Senator Lodge," "Sen ator Hale." A few people prefix "Mr." aying "Mr. Senator," but it Is not considered as necessary, and by some is pronounced an affectation. Polite usage requires, invariably, the prefix to the titles of members of the supreme court. For instance, one ad dresses the chief justice as "Mr. Chief Justice," and the associate justices as "Mr. Justice," although in making an - introduction one would add the name, as: "Mr. Justice White." The rule which' applies to the presi dent applies also to the vice-president and to foreign ministers, who are ad dressed as "Mr. Minister," but in the S case of ambassadors the form "Your Excellency," Is used except where one Is reasonably well acquainted, when the simpler "Mr. Ambassador" is adopted, and In every instance one B or the other ot these terms is used 3 instead of the diplomat's persona ti. te of baron, count, or whatever It may be. B Throughout the government. ser vice there are officials who are ad dressed by their titles with the prefix e "Mr.," such as the civil service com missioners, the interstate commerce 7 commissioners, the controller of the treasury, and It Is always safe when In doubt to so address a man who B holds a public offce. -.-WIth members of the house the Bsimple "Mr." should be used, and not "Congressman," which is regard ed as provincial, despite the fact that President Roosevelt is apt to use that form. There are some members of the lower house of congress who like to tbe addressed as "Congressman," and It is probably In deference to such preference that the president has adopted that expression. The speaker e of the house Is always addressed as "Mr. Speaker.". Army and navy circles also present no little confusion because of the con a ~filct between offcial titles and social a usage. For instance, those who know t never address socially a lieutenant e -by his title, despite the fact that he is so designated In the army register, o and Is so addressed by his brother g offcer when on official business. He e Is simply "Mr. Smith," or whatever ,his name may be, and receives h~is title in the social world only when . he reaches the grade of captain. But, g you may object, every one refers to d and addresses the leader of the Ma g rine Band as "Lieutenant Santelmann." Very true, and that is because Lieu tenant Santelmann is not a commis-. sioned offier. He receives the title *. by virtue of his position as leader t- of the Marine Band, which carries * with it the rank of lieutenant, and 1- therefore every offcer, whether speak d Ing socially or offcially, is punctilious -t to use the title. And so, too, is the .s same care exercised by every omfoer, d should he have occasion socially to e ispeak to or communicate with an en t listed man of any arm of the military k service, to address him by his rank r, alone, as: "Sergeant," "Corporal," h "Private." 4 ,Cat with Knowledge of Music. -At a meeting of a Washington short story club the other evening a young woman from the northeast section, whose mind is said to run to innova la tions, produced from her handbag a in roll of manuscript written on the at daintiest of ecru-tinted paper delicate Ld ly perfumed with violet, and read at her literary offering. It proved to be ,an account of the wonderful doings Id of her pet pussy cat, "Sweet Pea," as at she had named the animal. She read at how she had trained- the cat to sing "Auld Lang Syne," "Annie Laurie" and other venerable al-e In the high falsetto voice for w' the feline family is noted. Then the young wo a pan related how, In the balmy sum -mer nights, in the romantic moon th light, her pet cat would station itselt asomo neighboring fence and sud g'dny 11teneighborhood with, g "strins of umio Iastead of the usual antaemnung tat Is pruednns hw'-m