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CLEMSON TRUSTEES MEET. Experiment Station Located Near Charleston?Several Professors Elected. The most important matter determined at the meeting of the board of trustees of Clomson college, which adjourned on Thursday, was the separation of the experiiniental station from the .college. The are so many agricultural students at the college that the professors have been unable to give the experimental station the necessary amount od' attention. The experimental station, which will be located near Charleston, will be known as Clemson. Mr. J. 10. Wann'ajnaker, chairman of the committee of .the coast work, is empowered with authority to go ahead fit arranging Hie site for tho station. ITe will attend to the necessary draining and will have -constructed the needed buildings. A number ol* professors and assistant professors were elected, hut all of the vacancies haw not boon Tilled and "Will not lie mil il II,,. July meelin- of the board. Prof |). (). \'nrS(. VVJ|S 1 elected associate professor of animal husbandry; |>ff |.\ Ir. Calhoun. pm_ fessor of urology and mineraht^v: M. If. Power, veterinarian and Slate inspector: Newman. associate pro lessor <?f horl iculliiiv : ,J. M. Hurler. assistanl professor of agriculture: Dr. Knoch Harnette, assistant veterinarian and Slate inspector. The 'experimental station will be manned as follows: Director mid agricultural professor, J. y. Harper; professor of horticulture to he supplied later; animal husbandry to he supplied lat*r; en to"lology, l>rof. A. F. Conraddi; plants and pathology. | r. W. Bond; professor of chemistry to be supplied later: treasurer. |)r. I'. I r. Sloan; secretary, .1. X. I took; rorenian of experimental farm. Hums Oillison : foreman ol ('lemson eoasl station. \\\ (' (t.a rrison. An appropriation of $2.1(10 was made by (he board for religious purposes. The Haplist. Presbyterian, iMelbodisI ami Kpiscopalian churches are I,, r?'ceive with which to help Pii.v their miiiislers. These a (.propria- ! t niiis are made on Ihe condition llial Hie miiiislers conduct chapel services at I'he college every morning, and also d<> pastoral work on the bill. The re inaining .^100 will be expended in fuelling miiiislers of oilier deiioniinalVo.ni a distance to visit the college occasional I v. Tin- following board of visitors was elected: I). McK. l-'rost, of Charleston : -I. li. Quincv. of (.'ranileville; ,1. K. Durst, of (irccuwood. Slobo ,1. Simpson, of Saprlaiilnirg; l-'.dw MeIver. of ('hern w; J. 1,. Coker, of I lai'lsville. ami ,1. |<\ Lever, of Peak's. Air. \\ . ('. Tucker was elected head (bookkeeper. The d.air of mathematics will mil be filled mnl iI (h,. ,]M|y meeting. An annex will be built oil the Clems,,,1 rollege hotel. Mr. \. ShilliiKr. who is in charge of (be commissary dcp-irlmeiil of I'he college, was given permission to .manage (ilcuu Pr'ngs hotel this su-nwuer. provided 3| <l"es not conflict will, his duties at the college. The board a I ihe barrack-; was raised from .f(i.f>0 f , .f7,f>o iH.r month, Thornwell Orphanage. Tho Th ron well Oirpbanagv. Clin1x111. >S. ( .. has reconMy completed a cottage, the. lunfcls for whicih were presented by Dr. .1. Silliman of 1 ailesline, I'ex as, as a memorial lo his lathetr. Dr. .lames Monroe Sillima'ii formerly of York County, ?onth Carolina. The buillding is 'a gnamnte struetiiire. All the gtraniie was donated by Dr. N. G. hong of the lA*ng Blue (iranite Quarries of Klly^rtou, (!a. Tho .house is complete with all modern innprnveiiKMits and is fi'l,ling up wilh a family of lin,l(. or. phan gin-Is urnler the age of ten. This building increase the number of orphan children actually under the shelter of the Thorn well Orphanage to -?0. The care and education of this number of children is, of course a heavy draft on the Presbyterians of South <'arolina, fieorgia and Florida, who uuil,. i,, its support, but the work is a. noble one an<l is returning s lo jne Stale and to the church a splendid body of young people t hat would have otherwise grown up in ignorance. The Thorn well Orphanage was founded in IS7H, being opened lor Ihe reception of children on the 1st day ol October of tn;i<t vear. It has been wonderfully enlarged since then, (ill now there are 22 stone and brick buildings. Nevertheless Ihe demands on it are much greater than e\et lie I ore. It does not confine its benefits to Presbyterian children, but considers only Ihe fad l/hat Ihe child is a needy and deserving orphan. lis schools are on a high grade. both literary and mamin.-l and its pupils when liiey leave are thoroughly able to lake care of themselves. ft deserves ihe helping hand of all genvr<>us people in ibis great work thai il is doing so well. CHANGING STYLES IN WEAPONS The Loaded Cane and the Derringer of Fifty Years Ago. "It lias always seemed a little curious to me," said an 'ex-police official who was better known a dozen years ago tlian he is now, that the law forbidding citizens to carry concealed weapons has not been pro- , nonnccd unconstitutional. Doesn't (ha const it ill ion declare that a citizen . has a perfect right to boar arms? j "Passing over that question though, 1 did it ever occur lo you to think how ( many reputable eitizens ignore them and how the police seldom interfere , with a man for carrying a weapon ( unless the man is wanted for soma j other reasons? You Jiave thought of that? Well, did yoi ever think how j the custom began and what curious fashions I here have been at different limes in |lie style and character of ( the wen pons most commonly carried? "I should say, speaking in a gviieral way, I hat. Anu'rican citizens in y lliis pari <il IJu! country began to ' carry concealed \veapnns?as a habil .just before I lie lmginniiigp I* the last ball ?> I | be last century, and thai lire habil grew for some!liiiig like twentylive years and alter that became gradually less prevalent, until now pro- * bably no more (ban one man in ev- 1 cry ten carries a deadly weapon, v whereas forty yeans ago probably ev- " cry third man did so. ' "Two things wholly unrelated to ' each oilier happening about the sam? time gave rise to the habit. Gold was discovered in California in and | | some persons succeeded in putting a revolving pistol on the market just when the eastern men who started * J westward in the 'hope of picking np the gold decided till at it would not do ! lor them to go mil in lire wilderness . unarmed. "<M course I don'I forget the bo vie knile or the derringer which was ' be original bulldog pistol. || was L before 1 l!i ihal soii'herners vs-| j pecially. seeing I he merit of ilicL. knile Ihal < ol. Howie made Tannins, | ( adopted i|. ;nnl even net'oiv that Ibelj ugly, e<niveuietiI little big bore pis- L to| eoiild be found in (he vest pocket ' |, | of almost auy southern gentleman. II j was looked upon as a decided step in ,| the progress ol invent ion when fiese n derringers came to lie made double |, barreled. I'hey discharged tremendously heavy bullets with deadly ac- f curacy and were peculiarly effective weapons ;il short range. >. ' Hi those days I here was a n wide difference between liie north ami c s"Ulh. and I hough ttu> earryi.ig of concealed weapons was almost univer- I sal among southern gentlemen there I were lew reputable men in I lie north j who ever went armed on ordinary oe- < canons. j, " I lien came the emigration to Ihe I held and every man who went i thoughI he had I<> carry a knife ami ;i a pi^lol or two. | be old pe'pper box j t revolver was tlu> la.tesl thing' in pistols and was supposed to be the best <11 because you could shoot six times g ,u ill' it before reloading, so everv a mother's son of them bought a revoi- e nei. It was, in fact, one of the poor- t est weapons ever invented, being o eluinsy and bulky, and unreliable, n heavy, badly balanee'd and inaccurate, s 11 w.\s gross flattery to accuse one of | them *>t being a eoivcealed weapon, I for if t was put in a pocket it made n a Mi in > any one could see. 1'ho men who knew what weapons t really were, used to say sneeringly J that the only way to kill a man with y one ot these things was to throw il at him, and (he tennnrk became a v stock joke, but thousands of men knew 1 nothing about weapons, and wanting <> the best suddenly bought the worst, p because they were tire newest, and so o the inventor, oral least (ho manufac- t .hirers, got rich. Moreover the original ] idea of tihe revolving pistol was after- c ward elaborated into the wonderful | weapon ol today that is carried by j thousands of people'who are not sus- < peeled of going armed. j ''It was a dozen years after Ibat f before the civil war began, and the s habil of going armed at all times, whether it was necessary or not, was \ suddenly stimulated, but in the inter- ( val the custom bad gained ground ( even here in the east, and there were \ some curious outgrowths from it. j "1 suppose you would call the re- | voiver the national weapon lodav, i probably, but at Hint lime, as I have | explained, the revolver was far from being what i( is now, and there was even a prejudice against it. Many men wanted weapons who were not satisfied with the eld i'ashioncd single o;' ' double barreled pistol or the bowic knile. and they tried various things. 'It was ipiite a fad one time to carry a swordstick. The stick itself ; was of course merely a scabbard bid. ' li.v pressing a concealel spring the scabbard was loosened and could be I shaken off, having a naked blade 1 from six to thirty inches in length. i \ "The swordstiok 1'a.^liion did not lust long, though 1'or a time it was very prevulont. The authorities were generally very solvere in cases in whieh people were arrested for carrying these particular weapons, and there were a good many such arrests, but 1 do not think it was hccansc of the reprobation of the courts that people stopped carrying swor^sticks. I prefer to think that it was because blre American view of it was that n weapon of this sort was one tihat only a cowarl would use. Its chief value lay in the surprise it gave the oih?r fellow. "Still, as T said, there was a dcnand for some kind of small arms that ;ould be carried conveniently by the ndividunl, and the revolver had not ,'et arrived. So the next thing that lad a run was a loaded cane. "I don't mean the real gun disguis'd as a walking stick. Thera wc.'e i ,1)1111' of (hose |>111 on the market, and i few were actually carried. They fere loaded \Vit'll powder and ball and i mi could liiv them ofl' wit limit even i railing l?> remove I he ferrule tirst, ii' ; on were in a hurry, but they newr < tad any vogue. < ''Tin* loaded cane r mean was ivalv a slingshot in another form. If : nil can recall I tie time when vulcan- : zed iiulia rubber was a novelty you < kill probably rennmiber among various articles made of hard rubber the I >olishcd black walking stick. It was fiiite fashionable for a time, being a ovelty. but it seems to be forgotten. | "Von could imakc a cane out of ubher alone of couive, but it was iridic, and so they used to make : lienn with steel rods inside for trength. Thev were very flexible, nd it was not long before it was dis_ overe.l that loaded heals were put on hem they made formidable weapons 11 tin' hands of anybody who knew low lit u.-e them. "(If course these loaded sticks were ml in any 'sense of tir.' word cmiealed weapons, and there was no pr.""e.\t on which the police or the court* oulii interfere with a man's carrying me. I have sometimes thought that iiat might have been one reason rhy people didn't care to carry them, i!it although they had a short run hey are as much out of date now as he sword cane or the still less comiion umbrella with a dagger in llio landle. ''It seems strange now, but it is ,i act that more than a few reputable American citizens carried these liings right here in civilized comiiinilies forty or fifty years ago, and arried them habitually. Probably die real war and 1 lie return of imil.iudes of volunteer soldiers to civil 1 i f,? accounted for it but I don 'I j liink the laws against carrying conealed weapons had much to do with lie passing away of the custom. Pubic opinion was opposed to it ami tli'i mprovemcnt of the revolver was als-i n influence in so far as it changed i he character of the weapons tha' i /ere carried. As I said, a irreat many >ore men carry revolvers than is! enerally supposed, but Americans as rule don't carry these old fashion<1 things nowadays and more than hey do the stilettoes of the Italian r tli.' razors of the darkies. As a latter of fact the police don't try to ta.mp out I'ho custom except among he classes they fear and distrust. Yobablv they could come pretty ear it if they should try. I reme-mer what a newspaper correspondent old me once of hi.s experience in Tennphis, Tenn., some twenty-five ears ago. "It seems the town had been pretty roll stirred up over some part.icularv harrowing tragedies and a stringnt law ha<l been passed, under which eople who were caught with conceald weapons were sent to jail for tliiry days or more, not fined, and this aw was actually enforced. He, the orrespondent, had a revolver in his xieket. thinking it was only common vrndonce to go armed while he travel(1 down the Mississippi, but he put t awav in a hurry when he learned Yom a friend that no Influence would ;ave him from imprisonment if he should be caught carrying it. lie voiild not believe the statement at irsl, but oil inquiring he found that he mayor of another Tennessee city ,vas then serving time in the Memphis jail for that very offence, though he lad been ignorant of the local law ivlien lie offended the strenuous efforts hail been made in his behalf." ?New York Sun. WHAT A WATT IS. rho Elcctrical Unit and its Equivalent in Horsepower. In the electrical world one hears uid reads a great deal about "walls." The cuivnt is measurede by watts, the machinery is rated by watts and lamps burn bv watts. To the ordinary layman all this talk of walls is mystifying. The man to wliom Ave owe Hie idea of the horsepower was a Scottish inventor, .1 nines \V;att, and when I ho electric unit involving the idea of working capacity came to be formulated the name of Watt was chosen to indicate this unit, just as that of Volta has given us the term volt and Faraday the farad. Watt considered that, taking the average, a 'Ixmdon dray horse was V capable of doing the work of lifting E .'W.000 pounds through one foot of ^ gravity. The introduction of this time limit, the minute, gave the unit C of power, or rate of performing work. This or its equivalent has ever since, been called a horsepower. The electrical unit called Mic watt is capable of being represented in terms of the horsepower, and in that J form it is perhaps more intelligible to those who are familiar with mechanical rather than with electrical E expressions. The electrical wait is the product of volts multiplied by amperes, where'the volt is the unit of .electrical pressure, and the iimpeiv is the unit of measuring the len-dty. or volume, of an electrical nnvnt. ("a refill experiment.- "nave d? :u??nduitcd thai 7 Iti watts per second ire ctpial to ~?.~>0 foot pounds per sectnil. or. to slate the | m?i?in its usual form. 7-1(1 watts equal ono lorsepower. The form in which electrical power is generally sold is computed on the basis of kilowatt hours. The prefix kilo comes from the (Jreek ehilioi, 1,000. A kilowatt, written also k. aw. is therefore 1,000 watts. The kilowait hour is the performance, or work, at such a rate that 1.0000 walls per second shall be delivered continuously for one hour. The kilowatt lu ur <lias a special interest for tlie man who has his office or bourse lighted by electric lump.-, because the kilowatt hour i< the unit upon which the power and light companies base their charges.? Kled rica I lieview. 10.000! 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Spartanburg (So. Ity.) 3:40 p, m. n'. Ilendorsonville 6:25 p. m. ii\ Asheville 7:30 p. rn. v. Laurens (0. & W. C.) 2:00 p. m. n\ Greenwood 2:50 p. in. r. MeCormiek 3:55 p. m. *-m ir. Augusta 5:40 p. m'. J Note; The abovo arrivals and deartures, as well as connections with tlier companies, are given as infor- 1 lation, and aro not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, 1 Gen. Pass. Agt., m Augusta, Ga. % Geo. T. Bryan, " Greenville, S. C. Gen. Agt, t ^