Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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T Philosophy and Flirts ? ^ By Winifred Black STAID college professor has arisen in a horrified community k jf I and declares that one thing that was the matter with Har I vard students is that they don't flirt enough. 1 "That," says the staid professor, with oh, such a rog I uish twinkle in his ticked little eye, "is the reason the I V W I Vassar girl isn't just right?she doesn't flirt enough." & A ( Go on with you, professor; arrah now, it's joking ye WW ?re, and not one of us can be fooled by it. Harvard boys don't iiirt?well, you go and ask any of the merry, merry maidens in any of the scintillating sextets what they think of a Harvard boy as a giddy flirt?and you may change your opinion, professor. And as for the Vassar girls. The most outrageous flirt I ever knew in my life was class president at Vassar, and the way she could sit out under the 3tars and talk soul affinities to a little, knock-kneed, Latin professor one evening, and play the banjo and sing "Love Me Like I Likes to Be Loved" to a Harvard senior the next, was really almost a-startling. Flirt? Why, any boy or girl worth the name can flirt, and does flirt; **?at's one of the things they live for. " ^e one of those studious, calm-eyed college girls with you on a little ~*y of maiden ladies, professor. She will talk Schopenhauer and -?xr bead swims?but von tu?t nn?iA? - some little shiny-haired junior with loud socks and ?f she'd never gone beyond simple fractlK. Fn. - it's a matter of temperament. You can't kin ""'leges that eve* had a curriculum. I'm glad of it. Aren't yo^ a**********. . . . . p The Different \ of Children $ ^ Ey Eleanor E. Cutler ^ 0ARENTS engaging In eighty-six different occupations send their boys and girls to my care, but there are not eighty-six different kinds of boys and girls. There are children in whom are bred the traits of over twenty nations; but there are not as many as twenty different kinds of pupils. In fact, as I look them over, I think well of what the little Roosevelt boy said when a lady expressed surprise at the president's sending his son to a public school; she asked him if he didn't meet all sorts of boys there, and he replied; "My father says there's tall boys and short boys, and good boys and bad boys, and there ain't any other kind of boys." Thatclassification of boys I heartily accept; for girls, I should say, "There are tall girls and short girls, and silly girls and girls with sense, and there aren't any other kind of girls." Even this simple analysis, however, furnishes enough elements of danger in the various associations to which tuuurcii art- inrown in puouc scnoois, at the time when they are "first out of hand," as the expression is, and begin to take their own peaces in the social organism. Their whole training ought to be directed with reference to their ability to maintain themselves in the world as it is organized at the present time. To do this, as Dr. Washington Gladden says in speaking on the education of the people, they "must be fitted to become social integers, not social ciphers, each one trained to be a somebody with a strong personal" ?<1 nnlnlnnn of hla own nnH pnoh xhlo to molrtolr Klmonl* I~ ><? Signaling to Mars By William C. Peckham, of Ji del phi College, J Brooklyn, Af. Y. Etffft HE proposition to signal to Mars, made by an astronomer ? connected with one of our most famous observatories, has ^ X received much attention from the dally press and many of 8 x those not familiar with astronomy. It seems to the writer * that some things have been overlooked which would render mill the experiment difficult, if not Impossible. Since Mars will ? ^ opposition be above the horizon of any place only in the itt?gj night, it will be necessary to provide artificial light for the flashes to him. This in itself will be an enormous undertaking. Yet !t can be done. The atmosphere of the earth is able to absorb 40 percent of sunlight; so mat in a clear air only 60 percent of the rays of the lamps can pass beyond our atmosphere, and still less in the vapor-laden evening or night air. The effect of the refraction of the air would be to render indistinct the outline of any object, and thus to confuse the lights. One professor, not of astronomy, happily, suggests black cloth laid in a pattern on a wide plain. It raises a smile. How can black cloth be seen on a plain in the night? As I said, Mars will be above the horizon only in the night at or Bear opposition. Hence a Martian will look at the dark side of the earth nnit rpo nnli; tto v.1?1? w*?*- ? ?j u.uv.nutoo. oceiug uiacK croin under tnese circumstances would be like seeing a black man chasing a black cat in a dark cellar. Such a suggestion could not have originated with an astronomer. Prof. Moulton, in his "Astronomy," page 327, says: "When we see Mars the best, the earth is 'new,' with respect to Mars, and invisible from that direction. The newspaper talk of communication between the earth and Mars by any Imaginable means is utter foolishness." The language is strong, but seems to some to be Justified. | The Goad of Poverty f ( It Is Weeded to Drive Genius to Its I t Consummations t r By &- Demblt ^ E look before and after and pine for what is not." The life ^ t ox uie person earning only a living need not be of the dead? >., I enlng. prosaic sort, even though the work Itself may be * J jL 1J grinding and uncongenial. One must create one's own re< ? I sources, among which can be diversions both mental and \ [ i manual. These will stimulate even a halting endeavor and < > .X also even a faltering ambition, both crutches of most ap< illll > > I > i| Pr0Ted pattern to carry the gifted man up the Olympian palisades. Our friend has been cooking corned beef and cabbage for many decades; now he would prepare dishes fit for the gods. He should have had himself trained In fine cookery twenty-five years ago, but he may yet produce' a dish thkt will astound the world. Such accidents have |. The goad for genius and for the gifted is poverty. Think of what poverty K has done for the world as a stirrer up of energy! In Its guise of a boot It has awakened the dreamer, who got on the job and did things. It's poverty that makes the world go rourfd, not money. Some friendly spirits who when jwmxg were fond of scribbling are now of considerable wealth. They are enI joying Ufa to the limit. They dine sumptuously nearly every day?eony days K . they're ott the provender?but, anyway, with leisure, glad clothes galort, and yachts md automobiles, life with thga is one long, sweet paean; but they clXg** proinssd nothing by which posterity shell rank them with Shakespeare, JFagaer, sr Snghssl, and this fact docs not scent to wodry them. - ? '" - " V ' ' ' I DIES Of_PELLAGRA Wilmington Man Succumbs to Nen Disease?Upsets Mouldy Con Theory. Wilmington, N. C., Special.?J. E Heath, 27 years old, a leading younj ! business man of Waxhaw, Unioi j county, died in a hospital here Friday { night of pellagra. Mr. Heath hai been ill for a year or more and hat consulted eminent specialists a num ber of times, traveling extensively for the benefit of his health without improvement. Recently his case was diagnosed a! that of pellegra and he was broughl to the hospital here for treatment by Dr. Edward .Tenner Wood, who has made an exhaustive studv of tho disease which manifested itself in tbt case of the young man by discolora tions of the skin, soreness of th< mouth and accompanying nervoui derangements. He was in the advanc ed stages of the disease upon his ar rival here and little hope was helc out from the first. Mr. Heath had never used corr breadstuff's in any form and it ii claimed that the case strengthens tli< theory that the disease is not traceable to that source unless corn ii used as an adulterant of wheat flour Pellagra in Maryland. Baltimore, Md., Special.?Blood oi victims of pellapra, the dread diseast which, until several months apo, was "*>ratively unknown to the lay he sent to the Johns Hop here an analysis wil s at the liospita disease say tin ipiency is difficult t is now until th< patic. thoroughly inoculat ed that it. ure of the disease ii known. Careful analyses will be mad< by the experts at th* Hospital in ar endeavor to find out the origin of th< perms of pellapra. and a cure foi the disease. According to the opinion and observation of members ol It he State hoard of health, the disease is making inroads in this State Several cases of the malady have oeen reported in Charles County, anc Dr. Marshall L. Price, secretary oi the hoard, will visit that county this week to ascertain whether the report; are true. Especially rampant ha; the disease become i.i Forth Caro lina, according to dispatches. Allowed Men to Smoke. Key West, Fia., Special.?Tht coroner's jury which investigated th< dynamite explosion of last week at Itocachica on the Florida East Coasi Itailroad. which resulted in the deatl of twelve men and the wounding ol nine others, has rendered a verdict gence as denned by our statutes." Foreman Hitt, who was in charg< of the workmen, testified that he al lowed the men to smoke, having received no orders against it, and not thinking it was dangerous, notwithstanding the men were working within a few feet of a thousand poundt of dynamite. The jury decided that a match wai mrown in a dox or dynamite by some one of the workmen. Ministers Protest. Cumberland, Md., Special.?Th< Cumberland Ministerial Association has filed with the Director of the Census in Washington, a protest against the proposed appointment ol John J. St, mp, of Cumberland, as supervisor of the census for the Sixth Congressional district of Maryland, embracing the counties of Garrett, Allegany, Washington, Fred eick and Montgomery. The association met this week anc passed a protest which was carriec to Washington by one of the mem bers, and filed last week. uaoeu Hworn In. Royal E. Cabell, who has been post master at Richmond, Va., was Wzd nesday formally sworn in by the Act ing Secretary of the Treasury as com missioner of internal revenue, sue ceeding John Q. Capers, of Soutl Carolina, who relinquished the office Tuesday. Blow For Publishers. Quebec, Special.?A deputation all of the pulp and paper manufac turers and all of the Canadian own era of rights to cut timber on crowr lands in the province of Quebec, hav? called upon Sir Lomer Gonin, th< Premier, and asked the government to prohibit the export of pulp wooc to the United States. The Americans having the right to cut _timber or crown tanas, am not join. The mattei is to be submitted to tbe cabinet anc the indications are that the exportation of pulp wood will be prohibited throughout tbe Dominion. Bandit Holds Up Citizen. Lewiston, Pa., Special.?A lon< highwayman, believed to be the mat who robbed the Pennsylvania Railroad train near here several nighti ago held up a prominent eitiaen anc his family late Friday afternoon on a pablis road not far from the place where the train robbery was commit ted, and it is believed the capture ol tbe bandit is a matter of bat a fee boars. Tbe man held op was Robert F. little. .ifM* * 0 GTftN NOTES for supplying 3,487,uin>,uvu pusiui cards to the Postoffice Department during the four years j beginning January 1, 1910, was J awarded Tuesday by Postmaster Genr eral Hitchcock to the government j printing office, which submitted the j lowest bid, $934,717.95. By selecting . a stock of lighter but firmer quality, t the Postoffice Department expects to t provide for the public a better card at less expense to the eovernmcnt. , The saving will be effected in the ret duced "traveling expenses" of the r postal card, because of lighter weight j on the various journeys it makes from . the time it leaves the manufacturer , until it reaches the "ultimate conI Burner." , The Pastmaster General in all prob5 ability will change the tint of the . card as well as the color of the ink . used in printing, in order to make the I card more artistic. This, however, has not yet been determined. , The Maryland Steel Company of T> 1 - J ' j utnuivn o I Ulllt SUUlUlllCU IDC lOWeBI , bid at the Navy Department for con. strncting the naval collier authorized j by the last Congress at a cost not to exceed $900,000. The company submitted two bids, the lower being $889,600, the higher bid being 940,| 200. . Through the State Department, s Acting Secretary of the Navy Win. throp has received $1*1,000 from the . Panama government, paid by it as J money reparation in the cases involv1 ing the maltreatment of American > naval officers and seamen at th? t hands of the police of that republic. ; Of this amount $5,000 is indemnity in . what is known as the cruiser Colurat bia incident, when several officers in ; 3 11*lifnrm irnwn nwwncto/1 1 : ?*C4V UliCOlCUl lUt IVtU up UUU I j roughly handled in Colon on Juno 1, ' > 1906. The assault, it is declared, was r entirely unprovoked. One hundred dollars in bills, enf closed between two pieces of pastes board, was found in an unclaimed I . letter opened Saturday in the dead j > letter division of the Postodice De- j I partment. The envelope contained f no message or writing of any kind ! s that would disclose the name or ad- ] 5 dress of the sender. The envelope | 3 was mailed in Boston to an address ; . in New York, but the person to whom | it was addressed could not be found, j Rooseters in the District of Col- j umbia have'little to crow over. The ! fricassee is threatening them. The j local authorities have started a ' campaign to put into effect a stringent regulation having in view the banishment of this peace disturber ! and 6leep destroyer. This regulaf tion requires that a person desiring t j bors in the same square. The keep! ing of all sorts of poultry, except "' pigeons, has likewise been partially ' restricted. ' Siam's natives as students of the Bible are beginning to attract attention, as is indicated by the state1 ment of Vice-Consul-General Hansen, of Bankok, that 48.000 conies of dif | ferent parts of the Eible in the ! Siamese language were sold last year. Mr. Hansen is especially impressed with the fact that the inhabitants of Siam, as a general rule, are eager to see and learn and are i very good students. ? The Postoflfice Department will t place an additional boat in the ocean J mail transfer service in New York j harbor, because of the great increase ? in foreign mail. The steamer John - Lennox will assist the steamer Post. master-General in mak:ng the mail transfers. All South American liners as well as steamers from European 1 ports will he met at quarantine and J I relieved of their mail. State Department officials and members of the diplomatic corps in Washington are keenly interested in the revolution which has developed in Greece. Newspaper reports of confirmed official advices received at - the State Department from George Moses, the new Minister to Greece, j The census department needs three thousand clerks, stenographers and typewriters to handle the Washing-1 ton end of the new census. As the 1 result of the passage of the new ? i :? venous inn civn service exuminai ions for these positions must be held in the various States. The census bureau designated October 23 as the > day or holding the examinations for the 3,000 positions. More than $300,000 will be added i to Uncle Sara's annual income by the , collection of the tariff on foreign-1 built yachts, which became effective * Thursday. The customs division of . the Treasury Department will collect 1 the tax. I Assurance of an abundant supply r of wholesome oysters during the presI ent newly opened season is given by Dr. II. F. Moore, expert on oysters I and assistant of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, who returned Thursday from an extended and exhaustive investigation of the oyster ? beds of Maryland and Virginia, t Special arrangements have been made by the Secretary of State for i tuc reception and entertainment of I Prinze and Prineesa Kiniyoahi Kuni, i of Japan, who ar? on thoir way to ) the United States, where prince - will be the personal representative f of the Emperor of Japan, hia grandr father, at the Hnd son-Fulton eelet brat ion in New York Cit7 the latter part of September. r /. MARION HOTtLCOLLAPSES |; Ten Men O&rried Down and Cowered in a Mass of Iron, Wood and i Masonry?Three Will Probably Die. Marion, N. C., Special.?With a mighty crash that tould be beard for 2 ten blocks the middle wall of the Marion Hotel, in coarse of erection, j gave way about 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and practically all of the interior, of the building fell five stories, carrying to their probable death: Jim West, white, King's Mountain; Ambrose Stroup, white, Lowell, Gaston county; Jim Ponder^ of Rutherfordton. Jack Cecil, of Marion, badly bruised, will recover. Two negroes were slightly injured. West's skull was crushed, his ribs broken and he sustained other injuries. Stroup's ribs were broken and he suffered serious internal injuries. Podder's ribs were broker:, his head injured and he also received internal injuries. At the time of the accident ten workmen were on the fifth floor, when without a moment's warning the middle wall of the building gave way and tons of timbers, brick, stone and huge iron crirders dashpH tKom- 1 selves through lower floors to the ' cellar, five stories below. The first warning the men had was the break- 1 ing of a large timber. They started to run, but the middle wall gave way ? under a weight of four iron girders ' weighing tons. Men were pitched headlong through the air, and when 1 found were buried beneath the ruins, i Holds up Railroad Train. ^ Lewistown, Pa., Special.?One ol j the most audacious and startling hold- , ups of a railroad train in the East for years r-eur.ed on the eastern , slope of the All >ghany mountains early Tuesday when a lone highwayman stopped a Pennsylvania Railroad ] express with a dynamite cartridge ] and at the point of a revolver con> , polled the ?rew to carry thousands of dollars in ooin and bullion from an ] express car to a spot in the wilder- , ness. When tb- conductor of the r train attempted to interfere with the rnhKpr nlonc !-? . woe *?-* > vwvw ? |/iUUU A.MXJ nua Oltv/b lii If lit j hand and the bold bandit succeeded , in making good his escape. In the * darkness, however, he mistook a bag j containing ten thousand new Lincoln ^ pennies for gold coin and staggered , away with it, leaving the real gold j bullion to be recovered. The highwayman, it is said, took $5,000 in j bullion and $200 in pennies from ths j car and all of this has been found ( along the rails but $65. The express j messenger had two guns at the end ( of the car, but the robber was be ??j Park, L. I., were suffocated in a fire which destroyed a portion of the home last Monday night. There 1 were 750 children in the institution. It was supposed that all had escaped ' until the little bodies were found in the smouldering embers. Nearly all of those burned to death were under 5 years of age. The portion of the ' dormitory in which the disaster occurred was directly over the laundry, * where the fire originated. Death Roll Increases. 1 Mexico City, Special.?A special J from Monterey says that 300 bodies < were found Tuesday morning on the ontskirts of the city. Approximate- 1 ly 1,000 bodies have been recovered 1 to date, and it is hplievpft thnt i statement that the total death list will amonnt to 2,000 is well within 1 the figures. As the reports come in, it is seen that the situation at Mon- 1 terey is more serious than at first supposed. The citv lacks food and 1 water. The Federal government has sent an additional $20,000 to be e*> pended for relief. McDougall Wins Cap. Camp Perry, O., Special.?The National Guard marksmen pot the worst of it apain Tuesday at the National Rifle Association's tournament. Both of the matches Tuesday went to regalars. The handsome $1,500 cup by the rifleman making the highest scores in twenty shots at 600 and L- \ 000 yards was won bv Captain D. C. MeDougall, who has shot on the team tor four years. J I Earthquake in Panama. Panama, Special.?The isthmus of Panama experienced an earthquake shoek Sunday morning extending { over a large estent of territory. No damage was done, however, nor is it believed that the canal has been affected in any way. Lieut. Col. G. W. Goethals gave out the statement Sunday evening: "The seismographs on the isthmus at 8 o'clock a. m., recorded earth movements at Various stations across the isthmus. No damage to canal work was done." Bandits Bob Minister, Bristol, Tenn., Special.?Her. N. F. Malone, a Free Will Baptist minister, was attaeked and robbed Monday night by bandits while crossing the Holston mountains en route to his home. He was probably fatally injured. He wsa severely beaten and his body tightly bound and placed ia a sack. His skull was fractured | and several ribs brekea. His pocket* bask, containing Jfc.75, was taken. SNAPPY AND BRIEFH tems Gathered and Told While^^ You hold Your Breath. SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS [lively and Crisp as They Are Garnered From the Fields of Actiom at Home and Abroad. * China and Japan have reached an iraicable adjustment of their computations in Manchuria. New Jem juito state b t ! has )ut his theo ias rid roue ? ?rory of the f tie Inds that th nud and if uiuu is uriea tliey * ;annot hatch. Near Butte, Montana, Tuesday, a H*izzly bear carried off a little child >f a Mr. Doolittle. He pursued with lops and gun. The bear dropped the :hild little hurt, killed one dog and put the other to flight. Mr. Doolittle was thrown from the horse he was riding and had a leg broken, which put him at the mercy of the gri.?*Jy which mortally wounded him before rescurers killed the bear' In Costa Rico in the late presidential election the fight turned from ballots to bullets. * A lone bandit held up an express 'rain Tuesday near Lewistown, Pa., md robbed it of bags of money. When he sent the train away he picked up a bag of Lincoln pennies mistaking it for gold and the gold was recovered. He got very little. Washington, New York, Chicago ind St. Louis are bidding for the world's aviation congest in 1910. Mrs. Fredriea Hernsheim died in N'ew Orleans the last day of August, acking only a few months of 100 pears old. The President of France and Mine. Fallieres entertained Mrs. Roosevelt and daughter Miss Ethel, last Tuesday. a -i:<-? u *? mvuuiii^, * u., ui^i'turn > o I uu present drought is the worst for 50 years. St. Michael's Home for Children n New York, was partially destroyed sy tire Tuesday and seven children .inder five years old perished in the lames. Disciples of the "Unknown Tonrue" are disappointed at the existence of Tampa. Florida, which ac:ording to their prophet, was to inve been wiped off the face of the Jarth on September 1st. t Will! ?# ?. I.?1I ? -t.i .. ---J sliain gang. All efforts for commutation of sentence to service on penitentiary farm have been rejected by Gov. Brown. He must undergo the penalty. The Nashville, Tenn., police are worried over many cases of "drunk" from which there is no odor. They can't find out "Howcome you so." Ten deaths from cholera have ocmrred recently in Rotterdam. There are 17 cases and 74 suspects. Two masked men robbed the Mills County German Bank of $1,500 at Mineola, Iowa, Wednesday in open lay. The steamer 'Luoania of the Cunard line, which was burned and sunk near Liverpool last week, will probably not be repaired at all. \f r?o SuHnn line o orl normi a sion to have the remains of her son, Lieut. James Sutton, exhumed but she abhors the presence of the officers that she thinks are responsible for her sons death. Setien deaths from cholera are reported from St. Petersburg and 33 new cases within 24 hours. Count Zeppelin made a successful sail in his airship Sunday from Frederichshafen to Berlin. He was enthusiastically applauded. , The total number of victims of the explosion at Boca Chica, near Key West, Fla., was 20, 10 dead and 10 injured. All the injured are in n fair way to recovery except James Gallagher, whose condition is serious. His back is broken and his ribs and chest terribly crushed. Dispensaries are again open in South Carolina except several counties in dispute. In the counties where the dispensaries were voted out they will remain open til ri oil Atiro/1 olACinir I i ivu auuTTi/U iui tiuoiu^ Btock. The international cup of known also as the Gordon ' n > trophy, was won Saturday a 1' France by Glenn H. Curt f American aviator, in the aerial journey of 20 k (12.42 miles) ever aecompl man. His time, 15 minuti seconds was only 5 3-5 seconc h than that made by Bleriot over the same course. The cave-in of an old mine did arreat damage to two blocks of tbe city of Scranton, Pa., last Sunday. The surface sank from 2 to 8 feet. Many houses were injured and a few ruined. The loss is set at $300,000. The Spaniards last week set land mines for the Moores and blew up 100 While engineers were placing more mines in the night the Moores attacked and killed 50 engineers. Tbe Mahdist rebels in Arabia blew ap Lu? Turkish barracks and mounded 340 men.