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Sentinel-Jourfli. Published Weekly. PFCKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA. With Jimswinger coats vests are cut low to show shirt studs. How long will the aviators stick to their agreement not to indulge In reckless flying? America has 26 licensed aviators, and the 26 have formed a trust in order to prolong their own lives. More ink than blood was shed over -the -now famous battle of London, in which two men. stood off 200. In the matter of safety we do not see that the submarines have much ad vantage over the flying machines. The Cleveland man who sued for time lost In answering mistaken tele phone calls" must have further time to lose. New York has a musical comedy g pyhich is said to be not conic. There a uneothers, some of which are not mu alcal, either. It is no crime to steal umbrellas on 1 rainy days in New Jersey. And now C will not those who are addicted to the please go there? Vienna's birth rate has fallen enor ' nously. Evidently the stork does not 0 ove the apartment houses in which so anany Vienna families live. A navy oficer has invented a pistol for shooting fies. It ought to make opular a new summer sport, for the d game will never be lacking. Africa led all the rest of the world in gold production last year. The Af- I rican output was $175,000,000, or near * lydouble that of the United States. Russia proposes to build a $75,000, 00 fleet of battleships for the Black Sea. They will be perfectly safe there if the Russian sailors can keep them - float. The thugs who beat a policemah, took.his revolver away from him and left him lying unconscious in the street should be chidden for violating the golden rule. . f "Medlcal records show," says a nerve speialt, "that persons who are not loquacious have always been remarked for their good health." Let him ex plain that to his wife. We are inclined to be skeptical about that Alaska fire which destroyed half a town with the mercury 50 de grees below. Wouldn't the fames -lreese in, weather like that? *Talk about your western corn har vests. Capt. Drake" of Marlborough county, South Carolina, holds the world's record of 254 and a fraction bushels of the grain to the acre. More than ball the members of the senior class at Wellesley college are reported to be engaged to be married. The comments of the' girls at Smith and Vassar ought to be Interesting. If auto owners were more careful as to the kind of men they employ as chauffeurs possibly there would be tofwer joy rides. Sometimes, however, the owner sets the chauffeur a bad ex ample. t thng keep on going as they have been It-may be necessary to substitute the letter "r" for "h" in the last word -o the usual notice on the theater pro grams: "Ladies will please' remove their hats." In New York they are going to demonstrate how a child can be clothed adequately for $7 a year. Even the owner of a fashionable fat build ing should admit that a good child is worth as much as that. ' T'irelve women jurors in San Fran cisco agreed so promptly that they pronounced for a divorce without awaiting the judge's charge, but the 'lady jurors will learn In time to wrangle over verdicts just like men. It Is saddening, however, to note that the dear "Old Philadelphia Lady" who has been trying for more than eleven years to find out, through the columns of the New York Herald's C Paris edition, "how to figure the tem-k perature from Centigrade to Fahren -heit, and vice versa," has not yet suc ceeded. Maine has been one of the great sources of the eastern seaboard's Ice -supply, but even Maine, where the Ice crop seldom fails, Is ceasing to de pend upon the weather. Artificial Ice has been made for some time at the * plant of the Maine insane hospital In Augusta and now a large Ice manufac turing plant is to be established in iLewiston. A man In Missouri has just died lwho in a married life of 69 years never quarreled with his wife nor told her a lie. The great majority of husbands will refuse to believe in such super human virtue, particularly as to the last detail. Forty-five of the Brazilian sailors' wrho mutinied have died from various causes since their surrender. Twenty six succumbed to sunstroke while en gaged in compulsory government work. This form of capital Dunisb' Too . Chicado Salesman Learns Lesson Friendly of"Road" By D. A. COMPTON SALESMAN'S desire to extend his acquaintance is laudable, A but he must use judgment in the manner in which he does it. John L. Vance (which is not his name), the head sales man of a large Chicago house, had just returned the night before from a trip through Kansas. He was seated at his ,. desk dictating when two detectives from the Central station presented themselves for admission. "Are you John L. Vance ?' they asked. "I am," was the reply. "And is this - Michigan avenue?" "It is." "I am sorry," said one of the detectives, showiiag his star, "but we ill have to ask you to accompany us to the station. We have had a tele ram from the sheriff at McPherson, Kan., giving us your full name and idress, asking us to hold you on charge of fraud." Mr. Vance was dumfounded. He had only been in McPherson over ight, had failed to sell his man any goods, had paid his hotel bill, and t town the following morning. At the police station he convinced ,the def that there must be some mistake, and was released upon his promise return the following morning, at which time further details were ex ected. When Vance arrived at his office in the morning there pas a telegram i his desk from a clothing firm at McPherson which read as follows: Unless you wire money, will imprison you for obtaining goods under lse pretenses." The sender of the telegram Vance ha4 never heard of. ror did the description received from McPherson at the police station uring the day fit him. The chief was satisfied of the mistake and dis issed his suspect. Then Vance began to think. He remembered that on the train as e was nearing McPherson his companion in the smoker had been a dap er young man with whom he had exchanged cards, after a few minutes f conversation. It afterwards developei that this man had presented the ... card and obtained a suit of clothes, asking the dealer to send the bill around to the hotel the following even ing. His expense funds were expected, was the man's excuse for not paying cash. He had missed his check in the last town. The merchant consulted a "rating" book, and as Mr. Vance's firm was well rated the credit was grant ed. Needless to say, neither the dapper young man nor the suit of clothes were to be found in the hotel the following evening. The register showed that Mr. Vance had left that morning. _________________ It is nothing new for any intelligent and thinking person to be told that the average Som e prowling dog and cat is not a safe compan ion for children or a proper inmate of our Felinn dog an a i no a s S homes, but the writer begs most emphat Not .E ically to take exception to the opinion of the learned specialist who places all of D iseasethese faithful fireside companions under CarriesTke,~ for instance, the beautiful Per sian and other fine breeds of cats which Dy MS. . S.KELOGG adorn so many homes these days and also _____------____-____ are to be found in many of the fine cat teries of the city. They never see the outside of homes unless in harness or carefully iiarded; must they, perforce, be banished from the face of the earth cause the prowlers are dangerous? Will the learned doctor be a little fairer and discriminate between ose that are dangerous and those that are not? It would seem, were ese family pets to be entirely eliminated, as if there would be a lack of ie home environment of which poets have for so many years sung. Leave us a few just a little longer, doctor, for there are many among i who love dogs and cats and need them for friends. __________________ Should a woman balk at the idea of VAT.,living with her mother-in-law and carry if e's her objection so far as to part with her husband on that account? DuyShe cannot n our community, at east, to Follow maintain a valid divorce suit on the ground H erof being deserted by her husband. Recently a Denver wife asked for a Husband legal separation on the ground that her _________________ husband insisted that they make their By SAMUEL R. RcI home at his mother's. To this she would of Deve not agree, and the pair went their several ways. One of our judges before whom the uit was filed could not see the plaintiff's side and refused to grant a de ree. Instead he read the woman a lecture, saying it was a wife's duty follow her husband and make her home with him. The plaintiff instead of being deserted, had herself committed de ertion and had no real basis for bringing the action. Loudpesbefranucnthtieome Churchinsadcuc rve. Bellsthbelamaapistadontpf Annoympet nnuc hetm f ene Many Sick twste omryhd"yaou al is-Tenchurshbeswhose aingt was are wal froh acstoeed to harseet tondis-th ByO~VE LAENEMAROE peopale torancg the timeaofomeet ings n mor serimes.acoko ac is ongi ter ousmeanso, ned the synagoe caler"tha bellpese awma, a epryebrew ktnwso tpeo the templeto announcetheitimeareservice Why ot ispese ithhe ong otpenebres bnelile wh ianre Luetlyanny te ufo twn sik their formeyiate viciynggu clet hos wo wshto ttnd erice avt intod the s clock or watch **'O 'Tjve just got home from Washington.'' said Uncle Jared Green; "I Can't begin to tell YU all the splendid things I've seen But best of all, or worst of all, dependin' on the view, Was this here .incidenit which I'm about to.tell to you." Then IUncle .Jared-.bIt a chew from ofE his heavy plug And spat reflectively and set his shoulders In a shrug. "I seen our statesmen bard at work; I set there In the loft An' felt as if they'd run me In ff I so much as coughed. I realized that history was makin' down below, That here our country's future was to get Its weal or woe, When up arose a man who sneered until he showed each tooth Aa' said the other fellow was a stranger to the truth. Up Jumped the other fellow, an' his bow was most polite; He said the honored brother was a fool. An' that means ight Out here where things Is common. But the honored brother smiled An' said the other gentleman would steal gum from a child! Then up aroso anoter wlthe his hair draped in his eyes, An' be thrashed his arms an' shouted: 'Sir, both of the others lies!' "Then two-three more got up anboyelled; the foor began to shake; One man with yellow whiskers called an other man a snake; Another shook his fist and cried:: 'ly honored friend Is drunk!' 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An She o mareoras n age rarhed" ' une shll theebyher evenngen otion cnid th ugulhs.Gdde An twas linlo hat wapened; he wet itoathe roomund okiseda spell by shiv "Krsed with Galarm- er ms Anhaem eentsende."atse n n walke ousse arm I e Butrher was cnied" sht "oI con't hoe, n eelty where 'Wlahe aitpalzedt e, aln "an'her"s the soao thatsysI ha n-b And farer "yhy are' aounalit" anslin wh irwth moder tusting eyes.gig "Whin pup! wayys, thepliesthe wangst m witedoubhee waten "0, bow lnovey Thmen yast ustr "You nowi Mr.Gnd by hiss near A WE BELGR AMU buildins looming at you LONG stretch of great white through the haze is your first introduction to Ostend. As the steamer approaches near er and near to the landing stage, the outlines of column and gable, tower and minaret, balcony and arch, and the sound of distant music come to you; and then, as the buttresses of the pier absorb your view, you are greeted with a babel of French- and Flemish, and all the bustle of a for eign port. You begin to realize the delights of having arrived at the most beautiful summer city in the world Ostend. For the moment you may be be wildered with all that you see. Your dinner io being served to you in a vast chamber filled with exquisitely gown Hotel de Ville, Bruges. ed women and men, mostly in evening dress. Through the open. French win dows a great crowd is passing along the Digue, the magnificent roadway which stretches along the sea to the right and left of Ostend, to France on one , side, to Holland on the other. You hear every language, and you soon notice every type of nationality, but always the best of that national ity. Ostend is the congress ground of the aristocrat from everywhere. Every body, laughing and happy, everybody living for the moment, forgetful of the before, and -careless of the afterwards. Only Ostend, Reine des Plages, can produce such a scene; nowhere in all the world is it equalled. Then, off to the station, for you are going to see as much of Belgium as you can in your week's holiday. In half an hour you are in Biuges, the old, old City of Flanders, "The Venice 6f the North," as she once proudly called herself, when she could boast of 200,000 inhabitants, of a sov ereign's brilliant court, and of mas sive walls and a powerful army able to defy an emperor's wrath. Now Bruges has nothing but her thrilling romantic past and the inestimable treasures of art which even her con querors refrained from taking. In Ghent you must see the cathedral with its world-famous altar-piece "The Adoration of the Lamb," by the broth ers Van Eyck, and the tombs of for mer bishops, wonders in carved mar ble. Nor must you fail to pause a few minutes before the town hall, where you will' view the stone pulpit from which Jacques Van Artevelde,' "dear gossip and ally" of Edward III, ad dressed his turbulent fellow-burghers. After dinner you had better catch your train for Brussels, for you will arrive at the capital long before mid night, and you will have ample time to see something of night life In "Lit tle Paris" before you go to bed. Brussels is more or less familiar ground to everybody who has been on the continent, even if the rest of Bel gium Is not so well known. Having breakfasted, you will start early on your sight-seeing, and if you have not been to the Belgian capital before, you will begin with the town hall. This remarkable Gothic building dates from the fourteenth century, and wit nessed the execution of Counts Eg mont and De Horae by Alva. You must do the cathedral and picture galleries. Antwerp is only half an hour's train from Brussels, and you should give It a full day, at any rate; so arrive as early as you can from Brussels, and begin with the cathedral, if only to see the Rubens masterpieces. There are one or two more churches almost of e~jual interest, one of which con tains the family mausoleum of Rubens. PrintIng, with the residence of great Antwerp citizen just as he to inhabit it, and several picture gal. leries crammed with treasures. But Antwerp Is the city of pictures, and you must watch your time. You should walk along the splendid docks -there are raised stone terraces for promenading-and in the midst of the bustle of mighty commerce there is the old Steen Castle to be explored, the former fortress of the port and palace of the Marquesses of Antwerp. Here is a collection of all manner: of mediaeval marvels, musical instru ments, beds, torture-machines, and a variety of horrible dungeons in the depths below the basement. From Antwerp go to Liege, about an hour and a half's journey, but the views from the train will repay you. The old city of the prince-bishops and the birthplace of Charlemagne is sin gularly free from smoke and noxious vapors and other outward signs of its commercial activity, thanks to its sit uation. It Is built in a sort of -basin between the hills around it; on the slopes of the hills are the factories; and all the unpleasantness blows over the city. The Palace of the Bishops, the uni versity and the citadel can be done by you, with lunch between, and in the later afternoon you can cakch a train for Spa and arrive at the cele brated city of springs in time to make yourself presentable for dinner. At Spa you are again in Idst of the best continental society. the usual sprinkling-of erica '. .onalres and EnI week's holiday Yo ifindlfnd' full of amusement, for It is the sports~4 center of Belgium. You can now take the railway to Coo, where there is a: waterfall of wondrous beauty, and 70i% find yourself amid the wild seery of the Ambleve-river, and on the bor ders of Belgium's. miniature Switzer'. land, the mountainous paradise of the . Ardennes. From Coo you can take a drive to Remouchamps, a little town ship facing the Ambleve rapids ang lying in the midst of scenery of extra ordinary beauty.9 However, your week is coming to a close, and so you had best take a train from Remouchamps to Jemelle,~ on the main line again of the stats railways, and manage to reach Namur. - traveling the while through one of the most picturesque districts, not only in. Guild Houses, Antwerp. Begium, but In all Europe. Namur is the ancient fortress which has fig ured in the wars of history for more' than six centuries. Namur, indeed, Is encompassed with. the fairest charms that nature can re veal. The lovely valleys and hills of the Meuse, the Lesse and the Ourthe rivers, the grottoes of Han and Roche fort, and many other romantic attrac tions in the way of feudal ruins, pic,~ turesque cascades, fairy glens, andi {C noble forests can be made a menu of daily sight-seeing, to be prolonged or curtailed as your holiday permits. The fortress of Namur, with the ramparts and earthworks, which were so formid able in the days when William of. Orange besieged It, are now portion! of the public pleasure ground. During your week of rapid sight-see ing you will have discovered that Bel-~ - gium Is not only the country that' seems to have been the center place of the world's history ever,, since his tory began, but that every 'lc of Its territory is romantic and nstructive. Its natural beauties and pe-tt acces sibility from end t d raeit the most enjoyable to~t azi hoiay land in all Europe.