The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, November 09, 1911, Page PAGE THREE, Image 4
KILLED BY CONVICT' GUARD.
John H. Gaynor Shot Down in Street
in Saannan.
At Savannah, Ga.f J. H. Gaynor,
cousin of John F. Gaynor. who was
recently released from the Atlanta
Davis was drinking and the men had
penitentiary, whore he was punished
for his connection with the Savannah
harbor frauds, was shot to death on
the street Monday night by Joe Davis,
a convict guard.
Davis and Gaynor were not ac
quainted but met a few minutes be
fore the killing in a near-beer saloon.
Dais was drinking and the men had
a slight disagreement there. Gaynor,
?with two friends walked from the sa
loon, and after going probably 100
feet, turning a corner into another
street, stopped and was talking to his
friends.
Davis walked up to them and with
out a word pressed a pistol to Gay
ltor's breast and fired twice. One
ball went through Gaynor's heart. Da
vis was arrested at once. Gaynor was
about forty years of age and leaves a
ifamily.
KINDNESS BROUGHT DEATH.
A Man Wilfully Killed For Offering
Money to Strangers.
Willingness to give up his money
to prevent trouble among others ws.s
'the cause of Alexander Digiaccoma,
a tailor, losing his life Monday night
? at Chicago. He had visited an Ar
icoer Avenue restaurant, where he
Iheard three men quarreling with the
(proprietor. Thinking they were with
out money to pay their bills, Digiac
coma offered to settle the amount.
His offer was promptly resented by
the trio, who left the restaurant im
mediately. They waited until the
man came from the place, when one
of the men shot him five times, kill
ing him instantly. The three escap
ed, j
Everything in Readiness to Receive
Exhibits for the County Fidr.
j
Mail or bring in? your entry blanks
properly filled out to the Secretary.
All enties should be ade as soon
as possible, and must close Monday
Nov. 13th, at 12 A. M. Entries can
not be received after that time.
The Main Building will be ready
to receive exhibits Friday Morning
Nov. 10th., and the Superintendents
of the Field Crop, Household, Fancy
"WTbrk, Art, and Floral Depart
ments will please be on hand at the
building at that time to receive the
exhibits in those departments and
place them in the building. Exhibit
ors in those departments will please
begin to bring in their exhibits at
that time, so that when the Fair
opens on Tuesday Morning every
thing will be in its place. Dont for
get the time, the Superintendants
will be ready to receive the exhib
its for the Main Building on Friday
morning Nov. 10th.
Color of the Eye.
Brown eyea are due to a brown pig
ment laid down in the iris; blue eyes
are due to r hick of such pigment.
When both parents are bropro-eyed
the children get the tendency to form
iris pigment from both sides of tho
house, and the condition of the pig
ment is said to be duplex. M the chit
dren get the tendency from one par
ent only, they will have brown eyes,
but the condition is said to be sim
plex Two parents lacking brown In
the iris (blue eyed) will never have
children with brown eyes, but only
with blue eyea If both parents have
brown eyes simplex, then one in four
of the children will have blue eyes. If
one parent has simplex brown eyes
end the other has blue eyes, one-half
of the children will have blue eyes.
But if in bota or either one of the
parents the blue iris pigmentation it
duplex, all or the offspring wlU- bar*
brown eyes.
Education.
What Is education? Emersion says
that the greatest teacher Is. not the
teacher who supplies the pupil with
the most facts, but tbe one in whose
presence the pupil becomes a better
person. The great secret of educa
tlon lies in respecting the wants of
the pupil It Is not for us to say what
another shall know or even do. That
part of the game of life is chosen and
foreordained and the pupil alone holds
tho key to his own needs Emerson
begs us to respect the child He re
iterates his pica to respect and wait
and see tl)? new product of nature
develop We are not to be ioo much
the pupil's parent We are not to be
too often in his solitude. We are to
let him alone Give the pupil an op
portunity to exercise and express his
ivery faculty, and then?hands off!
Increase of Knowledge.
The mild mannered man was so
well Informed about past, present aud
future dates of suffragists' meetings
that some one ventured the opinion
that his wtfi must be one of tbe chief
supporters of the cause.
"You're away off there," said an
other. "That chap Isn't even mar
ried. He's a hotel clerk, and has to
add suffragist meetings to his church,
theater and political calendar for the
benefit of women travelers. Out-ol
town women who want to be up with
the procession place those meetings at
the bead of New York's attractions.
They haven't time to look up the
dates for themselves, bo tho accom
modating clerks keeD tabs for them."
D^stor's Subscription.
"I been awful siick sence I seen yo'.
Mis Saunders." announced Reginald,
the colored man, who came to shake
Mrs. Saunders' rugs tbe other day
"Seemed like I would die, sho. Ev'ry
body was a-rec'mendin' dere fav'rite
med'eine an' 1 done took all de dlTrent
kinds day tol' me 'bout, but I jes kep
on gettln' wuss tell my wife, she say
to me: 'Wot yo' foolln' wlf dem rem'
dies fo'? Yo' don' know wot's in 'em!
Go 'long an' git de doctoh to sub
scribe fo' yo'. So I went to de doctoh
an* he give me a subscription dat cure
me r-a-I-g-ht away."
EXPERIMENT A SUCCESS.
Planting Tea in Sp?th Carolina High
ly Satisfactorily.
The government's experiments in
tea farming this year were highly sat
isfactory to the department of agri
culture officials. On the 10*0 acres in
South Carolina where the bureau of
plant industry is conducting the work
there were produced this year about
12,000 pounds of tea worth fully $1
a pound. While this was not a record
yield, the season having been too dry
for that, there would have been a rec
rd, it was confidently declared by Dr.
Roney W. True, in charge of the work
if conditions had been favorable.
With the invention this year of a
tea plant pruning machine, which
worked successfully, only one pro
cess in tea growing now must be done
by hand, that Is the picking. The in
creased demand in the southern
states for this American tea has pro
duced a market for all of it within
a limited distance from the place
where it is raised.
Something New for Educational Day
at the County Fair.
In addition to the different prizes
already offered to the (Public Schools
of the County, the Fair Management
has decided to offer and present to
the school making the largest num
ber of points in all the different ev
ents, a .beautiful banner with the
following wording, "Presented by the
Orange'burg County Fair for Excel
lence in School Work and Athletics."
This banner is to be held by the
school winning same for a period of
one year, and then will be again
contested for by the schools at the
the next county Fair on Educational
Day, which will be an annual event.
All of the Schools will please take
notice. This banner will be present
ed to the winning school after the
exercises are over, on the athletic
field. It remains to be seen which
school will be the victor, and take
back with them to their school this
beautiful banner, as a reward for
their good school work, and achieve*
I ments on the Athletic Field.
Names for "Good Friday."
Perhaps no Christian festival has so
many names as Good Friday. Our
Anglo-Saxon and Danish forefathers
called it "Lonjj Friday," in allusion
to the length of the day's services and
fasting: in franee it is "Holy Friday;"
in Germany either "Stiller Freitag"
'Quiet Friday) or "Charfrpiiag," in al
lusion perhaps to the exhibition of the
crucifix for adoration afi:er being
veiled all through LtnL In the Greek
church it has been known at various
times as "The Pascha of the CroBs,"
"The Preparation, "The Redemption'
and "The Day of the Cross," antf. to
these names the Latins have added
"The Day of the Lord'B Passion," "The
? Sixth Holy Day of the Pascha," and
many others. "Good Friday" seems
to be peculiar to the English lan
guage.
Faith in Their Cause.
If they are thrice armed who have
their quarrel just, then ladies' tailors
must be the most righteous persons
wao ever irvited a lawsuit, for they
have confidence enough in iheir own
cause to employ women lawyers. At
a meeting of law cchooi graduates
who have worked up a lucrative prac
tice, four women declared that their
first clients were tailors.
"A iadlcs' tailor who does good work
pr ''ers a woman lawyer," said one.
"She has a knowledge of clothes that
no mere man can ever hupe to ac
quire, and If the ^own fought over is
a half-way decent piece of workman
ship she will be able to convince a
judge and jury of Its merits every
time. Then, there Is 6omethlDg to tie
gained In the advertising line, always
provided, of course, that the tailor Is
worthy of patronage, for the lawyer
will give him an order for her own
Buit aud recommend him to friends."
French Lawyers Went on Strike.
Over 300 years ago one of the most
unusual strikes ever recorded took
place in Paris, when ail the lawyers
walked opt, so to speak. A law or
ordonnance was Issued and promul
gated by the French king. Henry III.,
ordering all lawyers tu sign their
pleadings and to state the amount
they were charging their clients for
their services. This was done so
that the lawyers could' be properly and
sufficiently taxed on their income The
lawyers objected, and the strike, caus
ing an entire stay of judicial proceed
ings, followed Peace was restored
by the non-enforcement .of the ordoD
nance, \hcugh it was not repealed.
Dissolving Alum.
?When alum 's Intended for external
use, where Ii is purposely to callous
the flesh, as In tho case of fever blis
ters and heated oi even frost-bitten
feet, if It is disMolved in alcohol it will
be twice as effective. The alcohol
Is quickly absorbed by the flesh, car
ries some of the dissolved alum with
It, and. therefore, less applications
will be required to achieve the de
sired results.
Caution.
"Are you giving credit now?" asked
the man who had returned to his old
home. "No." answered the proprietor
of the general store." "What has be
come of that old sign you had over thG
counter. 'No Trust'?"' "I decided to
take it down. I was afraid some of
the corporations that supply me with
goods would misunderstand It and
take offense."
Immense Bird's Eggs.
The largest known bird's egg Is that
of the extinct aepyornis of Madagas
car, of which the museum of New
York has now a specimen. It has a
capacity of two gallons, measures 26
inches round the middle, and the shell
is one-eighth of an Inch thick. The
largest egg of a iivlng bird Is that of
the ostrich, which Is e^ual to about
thirty-six hens' eggs.
Keep In the Valley.
"People who make mountains out
of molehills," said the Observer of
Events and Things, "never get up on
the mountains, so to speak."
The Man Who Made First Moving
Picture.
'Considerable discussion has been
going on for some time past as to
who originated the cinema. Many
claimants to the distinction have
ccme forward, but after careful in
vestigation it would appear that the
'honor really belongs to an English
man, Edward Mi'.ybrldge, who emi
grated from -Kingston-Thames in
the 'forties, and settled in California
where later on he obtained an ap
pointment as phctographic surveyor
of the Pacific Coast.
The first moving picture which he
produced was really the outcome of
a wager made between the Governor
of California (Leland Standford) and
a friend as to wether a horse ever
has fonr legs off the ground at the
same moment whi le running.' Muy
bidge was asked to settle the point.
He placed twenty-four cameras in a
line to cover each movement of the
horse and rider, :he camera-shutters
being moved by connecting-pieces of
string whJich the animal broke as he
passed. The 'result was a series of
pictures showing each movement of
the horse. It settled the argument,
for Muybridge was able to show that,
except when jumping, the horse nev
er had all his feet off the ground at
one time.
This experiment caused Muybridge
to think what an interesting thing
it would be to present: the photos in
motion. To do :his he copied the
method made familiar to many in the
zoetrope. The toy was a pasteboard
cylinder, with slits in the upper sec
tion, and when it revolved rapidly
it produced drawings apparently in
motion.
To reproduce the effect upon a
screen, using photographs, was a
mechanical feat which was finally
conquered, the movements of the
horse being shown, but no back
ground.
This was before the introduction
of the flexible film for the camera,
and before rapid photography had
been developed. Muybridge lived to
see the wonderful moving picture of
to-day, and died in 1904 at his home
In England.?Ex.
Business House Exhibits.
All big business houses should
have exhibits at the Big Orangeburg
Fair. They will make a big mistake
if they do not snow the people of
the county what ;hey ha,ve for sale,
for practically everybody in this
county are coming to the Fair. Show
tbe people what you have. Help your
iHisIness. Help the Fair. Have your
i>pace reserved now. Do not delay
this, and regret it afterward. How
much space do you want? Fifty
thousand people tD see your exhibit.
Turn Evil Into Good.
Madagascar Is visited every year
with a plague of lccusts, which does a
vast amount of damage to the crops
but It Is an 111 wind that blows no
body good, and so these insects are
highly esteemed ?.s food by the na
tives. . The locustfi fly within two or
three feet of the *rround, and, on the
epproach of a swarm, tbe people rusb
out of their huts and strike them
down with flat baskets. Then the
women and children gather them up
from the ground in sacks, where they
are divested of wings and legB by a
severe shaking up. These extremities
are carefully winnowed out, the bodies
dried In the sun or fried In fat, and
then packed In sacks for food or sold
in the markets.
About Thimbles.
The thin ble was at first worn on
the thumb, and for that reason waB
called a thumb boll, which later be
came thumble and finally thimble. It
was Invented by the Dutch, and
brought to England in 1695.
The first thimble* were made ol
Iron or brass; later came those of sil
ver, gold, steel, horn, ivory, pearl and
glass. The Chinese make beautiful
thimbles of carved pearl, with gold
binding and ends.
One of the most gorgeous thimbles
ever seen was a bridal gift from the
king of Slam to tns queen; it was
made of gold, shaped like a lotus bud.
and was thickly studded with dia
monds, arranged 30 as to spell the
queen's name.
The Return ol the Prodigal.
Whet the elder brother of tbe Prod
igal Son came near his father's house
he heard, according to tbe Authorized
Version, "music and dancing." Dr.
Rendel Harris, in address at West
minster college, Cumbridge. says that
*he word for music in the original Is
"symphony," and that symphony
means the bagpipes. Wycliffe's ver
sion gives the word symphony, but no
other translator has done ao. Wy
cliffe also says that he heard "sym
phony and a crowd." Now, crowd Is
the Welsh crwth or harp. In view
of the two Instruments, Dr. Harris
says that the elder brother had some
Justification for getting angry.?Chris
tian Worjd.
Something About Names.
A person will grow to look like and
be like his or her name. Algernona
and Reginalds of modern times look
the part, and owe a deep debt of In
gratitude to their parents. A youns
man named Harold or Montmorency
would be justified in hiring an auto
mobile and running over his aged par
ents as they are attempting to cross
the street on the way homa from
church.?New York Times.
Myth Concerning the Salamander.
Newts and salamanders are pretty
much like frogs and toads, only they
have a tall and look like a lizard, and
then In some breeds the pair of bind
legs are small and In others lacking.
Salamanders often get Into old rotten
logs and If put on the tire run out
without being hurt in many cases, be
cause they are more or less damp and
may n*t actually pass through much
fire. ft** felk think a salamander la
right at home in the are.
Delicately Expressed.
We know a young woman of 20 sum
mers who has a twin brother 31 yean
old, but this is a very rare case?Blui
Mount (Kan.) Sun.
BIG
?AT
NORWAY, S. C.
SATURDAY, NOVELBER 11,11 A. M.
We will sell regardless of price at public auction to the high
est bidder 50 Building Lots, situated close in. Terms
of Sale to suit everybody.
All property East of Railroad will be sold to white people only, (desirable
property) but the colored will have an equal chance to buy any property
West of Railroad. This is the first chance the colored man has had to buy
real estate at auction in Norway and this property is close in and desirable,
some of which is good business sites.
Remember Norway is building rapidly, new bank and four store buildings
just completed. Contracts for others given. Real estate increasing. Now
is your best opportunity to buy.
Gold and Silver and one lot will be given free, everybody has
a chance at above whether buyer or visitor. Come!
MUSIC BY EXCELLENT BAND.
R. A. Bodeqhamer Realty and
Auction Co.
WE ARE GLAD
To welcome you to the Orange
burg County Fair. We want
you to come, leave your baggage
and feel at home with us and re
member if you have any trading |
to do you will be treated right.
The Edisto Dry Goods Co.
HAYDEN & BRIGGMAN, Managers.
Phone 128
58 W Russell St.
OUR, LINE IS < COMPLETE. ?
Every Standard Southern
Vehicle
Represented in our display at the South's Largest Vehicle
Repository on EAST RUSSIZLL STREET.
Everybody invited to call and
examine our line.
SIFLY & FRITH.
I Try Us For Your Wants
V/e carry a complete line of Clothing,
Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps,
Notions, Groceries; Furniture and Hard
ware, Etc.
suvhitzb?
JAMISON, SOUTH CAROLINA
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Did You Ever
Get Anything
of Value for
Nothing?
This modern puzzle and gift
plan of selling pianos for nothing
is beyond us,
We are legitimate piano dealer*
and believe in giving the public a
fairsquare deal.
We sell you a piano, quality
considered, cheaper than any
dealer or agent in South Carolina,
for cash, or give you plenty of time
to pay for it.
Knabe, Kranich & Bach, Lau
ber, Marchant and 12 other lead
ing makes of pianos. Putnam,
Farrand, Estey and Carpenter
Organs.
Edison Phonographs, Records
and Supplies. Better come and
take a look at our stock before
buying. Write us for catalogue.
Marchant Music Co.,
ESTABLISHED 1882.
53 E. Russell Street..i.rj .. ..- . # Orangebarg, S. 0.
Williams & Sharperson
THE UP-TO-DATE
Merchant Tailors and Dry Cleaners
First Ctass WorkrQ?^sIplp Giuxra^teed.
Special Attention to Ladles Clothes.
Suits Made to Order.
Clothes called for and delivered.
IPHOHSTE 97-L.
Under Post Office Orangeburg, S. C