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E IETO WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, UNE 6, 1ESTABLISHED 19644 ~GIBSON GIRL WEDDED. RM. 5AKNfI SHAlW, SIST ER-13 &AW OF ARTIST, BRIDO OF WAIDORF ASTOR. One of the Five Virginia Beauties.-A Daring Horse Woman and Fond of Exercise.-Five Milion Dollar Eng. lish Estate a Wedding Present. A "Gibson Girl" is the talk of all England, for she has married a young man of that country, who is heir to an estate of more than $400,000,000. The bride is none other than Mrs. Waldorf Astor, and a sister-in-law of Charles Dana Gibson, the celebrated American artist. Mrs. Astor is one of five sisters, all natives of Virginia and belonging to a family numbered among the F.F.V's., standing high in the aristocracy of the South. She was a Miss Nannie Lang borne and later the wife of Bobby Shaw, from whom she was divorced. All of the Langhorne sisters are re markable beauties, paying particular attention to every detail of face and figure. A Virginia lady who knew them in their girlhood days stated that their rules of living were something like this: "Breakfast early and exercise briskly for an hour or two. Have a lunchebn and exercise again, this time riding. Luncheon again and then a long, vigorous tramp or a cross country ride to hounds, just for the pleasure of it, then a hearty supper, then a long walk in the southern twilight, and then SPLENDID WOMAN RIDER. With a, strong horse beneath her, and the pack in full cry, to see Nannie Langhorne riding to hounds was a sight for men and gods. In the days of her girlhood, at the Deep Run, in Virginia, she was Diana stirruped, and it is no stretching of facts when bne avows that men came from far afield. just to see her, with her pink -cheeks aglow and her fair hair loos ened to the breeze, pound the sod in a madcap abandon for the brush. Nothing daunted this young Virginian in the way of ditch or fence, hill or hollow, and at 16 she was famed as the most intrepid and brilliant horse woman in her native State. Two things won foi Mrs. Langhorne Shaw the *heir of William Waldorf Astor: the beauty of her being, when on horseback, and her bubbling ir repressible Americanism. Young As tor, when he beheld her in her glory ?~' 011. 0d1*. MRS. WALD One of the Five 0 caught his breath just as Bobby Shaw, her divorced husband, had done sev eral years ago in Old Virginia. And this was not strange. Waldolf Astor, always breathing'iln the compressed air of his father's house, timid, re tiring and studious by nature, had not much opportunity for young girls' society, and almost never that of American girls. To him Mrs. Nannie Shaw was a revelation. For seven months he wooed her, and at the end of, that time he was three-fourths American and four-fourths in love. Glowing, he followed her .across the Atlantic. It is only fair to young Astor to say that he has never been so aggressively British as his father, who spurns al most everything American, or his younger brother, John Jacob, who is an out-andout Englishman. EXCLUSIVE WEDDING SERVICE. The wedding. which occurred at London in May. was a very quiet af fair, only 17 invitations being sent out for the ceremony." The bride made the loveliest picture, standing, as it appeared, in a bed of lilies and roses near the chancel. A work of art, in deed, was her wedding gown, for it was made of the most expensive silk obtainable, adorned with rare old lace. Among the many wedding presents, the eist notable was the Sancy dia 9 - mond, given by Mr. Astor to his daughter-in-law, which later on is to be reset and worn on her presentation at court. This historic gem belonged to Charles the Bold, the Duke of Bur gundy, and fetched $100,000 at the sale of the Demidoff collection in 1865. It was secured by Mr. Astor some years ago from a millionaire parsee, Sir C. Jeejeebhay, for $170,000. Mr. Astor also gave one of the finest tiaras in London, (which cost more than $100,000), as well as the title deeds to Cliveden mansion and estates, with the many treasures he has added thereto, including a magnificent suite of old Chipperne furniture, and some wonderful French china, originally from Versailles, and once the property of Empress Eugenie. The value of this latter gift probab!y exceeds p5, 000,000. It is manderstood (that (the young people plan (to snake their 42ome at Cliveden, In 1893 Mr. Astor purchased CLIVEDN MANSION ON T3 the beautiful country house from the Duke of Westminster and paid $1, 250,000 for it. Cliveden is situated In the heart of the boating and pienicing region of the Upper Thampq. OFFENDED THE POPULACE. After acquiring it, Astor had an opportunity to show himself more ex clusive than the Duke of Westminster. That potentate and all previous owners of the estate had allowed the common ORF. ASTOR. iginal Gibson Girls. people to picnic and to walk through that part of the property lying along the river. The American millionaire thfew them out and threatened them with the utmost rigors of the law. Now that he has settled the estate on his son, the Inhabitants of Cookham and Maidenhead on the Thames surrounding hamlets-are delighted, for they believe that young Astor will at once give orders for the cancel lation of the many strict orders against trespassing made by his father-orders which turned all the riverside folk in to bitter enemies of the American millionaire. Great walls surmounted with broken glass to protect the Astor vegetable garden spoil lovely views from the public road, and anybody daring to picnic In the Cliveden woods, as in the olden days, is at one,- threatened by a keeper with Imprisonment. It is believed that young Mr. Astor, who is very popular with rowing men, will abolish these feudal and dis tasteful regulations. An Experf Opinion. "Will alcohol dissolve sugar?" "It will," replied Oalde Soaque; "it will dissolve gold, brick houses, and horses, and happiness, and love, and WARSIIPS NOT WANTED, "FIGHTNG BOB" EVAK'S SHIPS ORDERED TO LEAVE SEW YORK HARBOR. United States Battleships and Cruisers Obstructions to Naviga tion-Thousands of Gallons of Oil Released by Fouled Anchor. New York City in, its hurry and rush of business did not seem to stop for patriotic reasons to enjoy the sight of a dozen United States warships an chored in her harbor. The American fleet riding majestically at anchor in the North River, attracting the at tention of thousands of sight-seers, was requested to "move on."- The stalwart ibattleships and armored cruisers with their great length and In command of no less a personage than E BANKS OF THB THAME-. Rear Admiral "Fighting Bob" Evans were found to be in the way. Dis patches from the metropolis say that the supervisor of the harbor of New York called on Admiral Evans and served a formal notice on him that the ships were taking up too much room in the river, and were seriously interfering with navigation. While it was admitted on the United States vessels that they were well out in the usual channel taken by steamers, they could not anchor further inshore on account of the shallowness of the water. There is probably no place in the world where the great white and buff ships of the American navy show off to better advantage than in the North River. The dozen warriors strung a long at anchor at intervals of about 400 yards stretching from the foot of Riverside Drive at 72nd Street to Grant's Tomb at 125th Street and ' - yond. When Prince Louis of Batten burg hadhis British armored flyers in the New York port they were given berths in the North River and only a few weeks ago the Paul Jones French fleet was in the stream. The New York people could not be inhospitable to these fiets on account of the inter national aspects of things, but when the American ships arrived, waiting their turn to go to the repair docks, they were ordered to move away and give the tug boats and scows engaged in the Hudson River trade a chance to pass. During the short stay of the fleet In New York the battleship Illinois in dragging at anchor suddenly ripped open a Standard oil pipe line laid a cross the bed of the river. This line it seems was not che.rted and no one in authority seemed to know .just how or when it got there, but nevertheless the Standard Oil Company had been .pumping thousands of gallons into New York City through it every day for years. When the-Illinois fouled the pipe line the officers on board the ship could not imagine what the anchor had taken bold of until the surface of the river became a shining mass, bright with the hues of petroleum. Before the pipe line could be repaired more than 85,000 gallons of good AUTOMOBILE CAR OF U Standard oil went skimming down the Hudson into the ocean. There appears to be no way in which the oil company can collect for ghe petroleum thus wasted, as there is no official chart showing the location of the line in the river bed. Traversing Russia on Roller Skates A caravan which recently arrived at Beirut from Bagdad reported hav ing passed near the city of Unah about I.00 miles east from there, an American named Arthur Crawford, who left that port early last rr"-th with the intention of proceeding through Asia Minor and India on in struments which he called road sates. The ladear of the caravan says Crawford was in good health am good spirits. While Mr. Crawford was in Beir American missionaries attempted t dissuade him from entering on t: trip, and pointed out to him the grei danger of the undertaking. He wz firm in his resolve, however, and lei on January 9th. Before departing the skater left hi Itinerary with Dr. Williams, an Ame ican dentist, whose guest he was ten porarily. Crawford's intention was t strike out over the hard road to Bal dad, which is about 600 miles froi Beirut. Thence, he intends goin southeast 300 -miles to Bassorah, the mouth of the Euphrates and nea the Persian coast. He was undecide whether he woald travel by land c sea over the 1,200 miles to Belooc istan. His plans Included many excursior through Beloothistan, a j ou r n e across the Gulf to India, and a yea or more in that country. He purpos( to accomplish all this on money I may earn along the way. NEW RATL AUTOMOBILES. each Machine Runs indepencently b Its Own Motor. The craze of autoists to build pa ace touring cars for pleasure trip has caused rairoad corporations t dabble in the novelty of motor vehic] transportation. Some of the uniqu cars that patent:; have been applied fC are certainly freak products. A car that resembles a huge ste4 battering ram Las been completed L the shops of the Union Pacific rai road, at Omaha, Neb. It is a bi steel structure especially designe for climbing grades and run by it own gasolene motor, over standar gauge rails. On its trial trip it di veloped a speed of forty miles an hou: climbing, it is said, a grade of 20 p( cent. RACED THE STEAM CARS. It was given its first long-distanc trial on April 14th, when it left Omab as the second section of train No. : known as the Overland Limite The motor car gained on No. 1 to sue extent that at Fremont, 46 miles fror Omaha, the mot:)r car was held on th block six mir:utes. Owing to heavy wind and meeting trains fror this time on, No. l's schedule was nc maintained; however, the total tim of the motor car from, Omaha t Grand Island, 153.6 miles, was hours and 12 :ninutes, with delay amounting tc 40 minutes on accoun of orders, meeting trains, etc. Tb adtual running time for the 153. intles was 4 hours 32 minutes. or 3 miles per hour. There was no dela; whatever on account of the motor cai and the machinery was in almost cot stant motion from Omaha to Gran Island. On the return trip April 1 the actual running time was 4 hour 10 minutes, or 36.3 miles per houi From Elkhorn to South Omaha, distance of 24.3 miles was covered i: 36 minutes, or 42 miles per houi A maximum sped of 53 miles pe hour was attained on this trip. Railroad officials witnessing th machine's trial trip expressed mud gratification. Some of the offical go even so far as to predict that th gasolene motor will ultimately revc lutionize interurban railroad trans portation. SCHEME OF VENTILATION. This machine has several new ai rangements, the most conspicuous o which is the ventilation of the cars The windows are round, similar t port holes on steamships. and are ail water and dust proof. The cars havy entrance in the middle instead of a the end. The new method of ventilation fair ly well avoids the close and sometime; foul atmospheric conditions so ofte1 encountered in electric and other trans portation cars, sufficiently so as t< predict complete success In this di rection. The vitration and noise o the engine were largely eliminate< and mechanism of the car workei splendidly on this trial run. The cars will accommodate sixt: passengers each, with comfort. The; have every modern convenience, anm IION PACIFIC R. R. CO. will be devoted especially to tourinl parties throughout the West. The cart will be run eit'or separately or ii trains. In the latt~er case one car cai asily be fitted up as a combinatioi observation dinin~g car. Later o1 quipments for trmsfornling the car: into palace sleepet' will be installed President Believes in Exercise President Roosevelt once rathe shocked a mothers' meeting by at nouncing that a boy who wouldn't figh was not worth his salt. "He is eithe a coward or const itutionally weak. have taught my boys to take their ow: part. I do not knrow which I shoul< the more punish may boys for, cruelt; d SHERLOK. HOLMES, it 0 CREATION OF MOST WONDERFUb a AND PUZZLING OF DETECTIVE s CHARACTERS. It Sketch of Discouragements of Conan s Doyle to Break into the Field of r- Literature-Manuscript, Regularly Returned. 0 The author of "The White Com pany," "Sir Nigel," "Study in Scarlet" and other Sherlock Holmes stories Sir Arthur '.onan Doyle-was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Mar 2 1859. He comes of an artistie r family, and is the grandson of John Doyle,; the famous politicat caricaturist, Wvhose pictorial sketches appeared for more than 7 thirty Fyears under the -initials of "H. r B. without 'isclosure of the artist's s e . s S e I e SiL, A. CONAN DOYLE. L. identity. Many of these were so a famous In their day that they were 3 frequently purchased at large prices e by the British Museum. John Doyle 3 had four sons, who also became I artists. His eldest son, Charles Doyle, t was the father of the novelist, and D another son was Richard Doyle. who ) came by his nickname of "Dicky" 5 Doyle through his signature of .. "D" 5 with a little bird perched upon it, t which may yet be seen on the cover a design of Punch. 3 Conan Doyle's education began In I England, where already in his tenth r year he exhibited a wonderful pre , cocity for telling stories. But even at - the early age of six the future novelist I and creator of Sherlock Holmes was 5 anticipated in a story of terrible ad s venture, written in a bold hand on . foolscap paper, four words to the line, i and accompanied with original pen i and-ink illustrations. - "There was a man and a tiger in e it," he says of this infantile effort; "I forget which was the hero; but. it didn't matter much, for they became JUST PU A POPULARI "TH 0011 -BY CHARLE Author of " The American Citizen;' " The Spirit of]D J'HIS remarkably interesti1 been everywhere welco: tribution to the thought THERE IS IN IT TMl HICH AND PATI It sheds a new light, brigh common-sense optimismn,upon t: nation to-day. Everyone who 2 clearer vision of the future of o1 courage and faith in THE CAUSE C Theodore C. Williams, late New York, in a San Francisco pa profoundest thought with a trar that make it universally readal friend. It has the rare eloquenc The London Spectator calls:i The Bradford (England) 0, and reasonableness, says it is " a These are only a few fron mending the book for its timelin It should be read by all whc THE TREMENDOUS OF OUR Price twenty-five cents (p -postal money order, express m< to Publishers of blended into one about the time wnen the tiger met the man. I was a realist in the age of the romanticists. I described at some length, both verb ally and pictorially, the untimely end of that wayfaring man. But when the tiger had absorbed him, I found my self slightly embarrassed as to how my story was to go, on. 'It Is very easy to get people into scrapes and very hard to get them out again,' was my sage comment on the difficulty; and I have often had cause to repeat this precocious aphorism of my child hood. Upon this occasion the situa tion was beyond me, and my book, like my man, was engulfed In my tiger." At Stonyhurst, and also at Feld kirch, in Germany, Doyle's literary inclination was shown in the editor ship of school magazines.' In 1876 he returned to Edinburgh and took up the study of medicine at the univers ity there, where he remained until he obtained his diploma, five years later. In 1880 Dr. Doyle left the university to make a seven-months' trip to the Arctic seas as unqualified surgeon on board a whaler. There was very little demand for surgery aboard the Hope, and be has described his chief occu pation during the voyage as being em ployed in keeping the captain in cut tobacco, working in the boats after fish, and teaching the crew to box. He utilized his experience later in his story, "The Captain of the Polester." Two years later, In 1882, after a four-inonths' voyage to the west coast of Africa, he settled down as a med ical practitioner at Southsea, In Eng land, where he remained until 1890. Those vere arduous and trying years, in which he came to regard the calls of the profession he had adopted as interruptions in the real work 3f his life, and found that the writing of stories was a very slender prop upon which to lean for a livelihood. "Fifty little cylinders of manuscript," he says, "did I send out during eight years, which described a regular orbit among publishers, and usually ctme back, like paper boomerangs, to the place that they had started from." All this time he was writing anony mously, and during the ten years of his literary apprenticeship, he states that, in spite of unceasing aiTa untir ing literary effort, he never in any one year earned fifty pounds by his pen. Then, in 1887, appeared in B.,ton's Christmas Annual a story from his pen called "A Study in Scarlet." It is a significant point in the author's career, for In this story Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance. It was published later hi a book form, and went forth as his first novel, and im mediately began to attract attention. Under these favoring circumstances he undertook the writing of "Micah Clarke." It was completed after a year's reading and five months' writ ing, and represented the most am bitious and hopeful work the author had yet accomplished. But it came back to him from one publishing house after another, until he began to des pair of its acceptance. "I remember," he says, "smoking over my dog-eared manuscript when it returned for a whiff of country- air, and wondering Continued on second paee, colunn two. BLISHED 3DITION OF 19 PEOPLE" S F. DOLE " The Religion of a Gentlemnan;" emocracy," etc. ig and stimulating book has ned as a most valuable con >f the present day. E INSPIRATION OF tIOTIO IDEALS t, clear and convincing, in its ae conditions that confront the eads it will go forward with a JR COUNTRY and with renewed FP THE PEOPLE. W!aster of the Hackley School, per, declares that "it gives the isparent simplicity and charm le. It speaks as a friend to a a of perfect ease and clearness." .t "a healthy and virile essay." ~server, speaking of its reality very revelation." hundreds of ecomius com-. ess. feel the pressure of SOCIAL QUESTIONS TIME. ostage included). Remit by >ney order or postage stamps, j ' 143 1141 STRET ATERTOWN lASS